> Erik, would you perhaps explain therefore to me why almost 60% of the > hardware in my laptop ceases to function if I run a 2.4 kernel, but work > flawlessly with a 2.2 kernel (2.2.20 basline debian is my currently > version).
This might be an interesting point! Me neither, I've never succeeded to run a 2.4 series kernel succesfully on a laptop (this is only my second one, so it is hard to generalize:-). Some more details for the interested readers :-)... My previous laptop was a Toshiba Satellite 1640CDT. I tried several versions and configurations of the 2.4 series, but none of them ran smoothly on the hardware. Always crashes, never found anything in the logs, never got a ksymoops :-( My new one is a Dell latitude C810. I got _everything_ out of the 2.4.17 kernel, until I stayed with the bare necessities, tried with or without apm, with or without acpi, but nothing worked out :-(. Even the event of plugging the laptop from battery to AC and vice versa got me a crash everytime, with all of the above configurations... Yesterday evening I decided to patch the good old 2.2.20 with ext3, and since then, no more problems... I know the information above is too succint to be able to diagnose the problem, but I've read through many of the kernel's Changelogs to figure out what could be the problem and never found anything that I presumed to be responsable for the "phantom"-crashes. I wonder whether there are people with the same (or contrasting :-) experiences with 2.4 kernels on their laptops. klaas -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
