On 4 May 2001, Norman Walsh wrote: > I'd like to experiment with some USB stuff that requires the 2.4.4 > kernel. I've built 2.4.4 on top of a 2.2/potato desktop system using > the ~bunk updates and everything seems to be working ok. > > But my laptop is really my production system, so before I go making a > mess of it :-), I thought I'd ask and see if anyone else has tried and > experienced success or failure?
I apt'ed my laptop to woody, then compiled up a 2.4.3-ac14 kernel, so far my thinkpad a20p seems fine. [I would have compiled 2.4.4, but the patch wouldn't apply cleanly, and I couldn't be bothered to sit through another download] I know not of these '~bunk' updates that you earth people speak of, but it's worth noting that apm didn't compile cleanly as a module for me, I had to compile it in monolithically, and I have not yet tried devfs+devfsd. The XFree86 3.6 -> 4 upgrade was not a problem for me, because I was already running an Xfree86 4 release I'd compiled myself: I just saved the config file [to another machine, just to be paranoid], hosed the non-debian XFree installation, and then did the apt-get dist-upgrade, apt-get install [various xfree packages]. I haven't tested the USB support yet, but seeing as I've just fiddled with the usb hid driver to get my joystick to work, I suppose I could actually test it, now that I have a known working device with which to do so... -- Nobody wants constructive criticism. It's all we can do to put up with constructive praise.
