Although I use Red Hat, I don't use the Red Hat kernel unless I
specifically need one of their mods. I use a stock generic kernel from
kernel.org.
Unless you need some specific functionality in the mdk kernel, get the
stock kernel. Then you have no problems with w4l support, and many
other patches work better as well.
Unfortunately, linux requires a lot more nuts and bolts knowledge than
windows; it's a better system but the learning curve is steeper.
Compiling a custom kernel is what gives linux its power; it also is
technically more demanding than just sticking in the CD.....
--Yan
Tim Fairchild wrote:
>
> On Saturday 07 April 2001 20:09, you wrote:
>
> > Interesting. I've never had any problems patching the kernels, and my
> > kernels are heavily patched for all sorts of things - ipsec, pptp, raid,
> > etc. I am running right now on a 2.2.17 kernel with various patches.
> > Except for the very first release, when then-Trelos released a
> > dos-formatted patch file, I never had a problem with patching the
> > kernels.
>
> The Mandrake 7.2 kernel needed a couple of mods not supplied by netraverse.
> Had to get the info and files elsewhere...
>
> And secondly I'm not a kernel guru. I'm just a farmer who uses a computer to
> do real stuff in the real world. If you are making a product for linux it
> should be quick and easy to install in one of the more common distros. If it
> wasn't for help from this list and the info put together privately by others
> on their web sites, then I wouldn't even have win4lin v2 running.
>
> Atthe moment I'm going to remove win4lin from this machine and put it on
> another... But that means finding the various patches, headers and modified
> .c files I need and compiling the kernel...
>
> And soon we have a whole new bunch of problems with v3.0, no doubt...
>
> Yes, nice product, just not sure it's worth the effort for me at the moment.
>
> tim
>
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