> 1) loading the X11 session manager takes helluva time.. i wud like 2 knw
> whether this is due to the kernel being sluggish or some thing else ?
Did you reinstall the nvidia drivers? The same for all the other
external drivers. The nforce drivers, alsa drivers (if you're using
external alsa drivers), blah blah. You would need to do that for your
new kernel. Cant say that this is the source of the problem, but could
be. Your old nvidia drivers are most definitely not being used. A
snippet of the X log could help.
> 2) the cdrw drive does not work.. there is no device that can be pointed to..
> /dev/sr0, /dev/sg0, /dev/scd0, /dev/sc0, although the scsi driver gets loaded
> during boot and i can see that in the dmesg logs. this happens irrespective
> of whether i pass the 'hdc=ide-scsi' parameter to the kernel at boot. earlier
> (with 2.4.26) my cdrw was at /dev/hdc and with scsi emulation it became
> /dev/sr0. i have compiled the kernel with the option of "scsi" as a loadable
> module.
With 2.6, you dont need to use ide-scsi (I haven't used ide-scsi with
2.6, so cant comment on what happens if you do). Therefore, no need to
pass that parameter at boot time. ('hdc=...').
> so what is the verdict, is the new kernel some thing that shud not b used, at
> least for ppl who do not hav the time 2 keep bangin their heads on da
> keyboard ?
> this statement can be said to be supported by the fact that slackware 10.1
> even has kernel 2.4.29 as base and 2.6.10 for testing.
Well, the distributions which are most concerned about rock solid
stability are the only ones still sticking to 2.4. I think debian
still uses 2.4 as the default, but I'm not sure.
All desktop distros (stuff like fc, mandriva, suse, gentoo, blah blah) use 2.6.
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Sagar Gokhale
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