> box: Tibook 1GHz G4, ATI radeon 9000M, 10/100/1000 > ethernet, orinico airport card(not extreme), > cd-rw/dvd-r, and a winmodem (nothing is perfect). > > i have a 2.4.21-ben2 kernel, and want to upgrade to > 2.6 series, so i have some questions before to make > the change: > > 2.6.4 has all the powerpc stuff?(no need of ben tree?)
I still see Ben submitting some patches for some sleep stuff, so I'm going to stay on his tree for now. > I need to upgrade from modutils to module-init-tools? > (for module stuff) Yes, definitely. Before you boot your new 2.6 kernel. > ide-scsi emulation no longer needed? So they say, but I haven't tested it yet. > As far as i know hfsplus is not supported (yet) in the > 2.6 series, is this true? Yes, unfortunately. > i need to install alsa? If you go with that, which is recommended. You can still select the old OSS stuff in the kernel config. For alsa I think you need at least alsa-base and alsa-utils. > can i steel have 3d accel?(dri-trunk of daenzer? comes > included with the kernnel?) It works for my radeon 7500 using unstable. I need to use the lcd_hack program from Ben sometimes. There is a conflict between the radeon driver in DRI mode and some real-time programs like qjackctl and rosegarden4 (if you're into that). So I don't load DRI in that case. > I need kernel-headers-2.6.4-? (to recompile mol and > modem)Where can i get those? Have not seen a package for this (yet). > Can i have cpufreq? or still causes the box turn off > and clock reset to dec 31 1969? (by openfirmware > <upgrade) cpufreqd is still supported. You don't need the /proc support any more in the kernel options, it can use the new /sys interface (which you'll want to mount in /etc/fstab). One of my only issues with 2.6 is that I don't get segment violations anymore, but a kernel oops. Rather ugly. But that may be fixed in 2.6.4, I'm still on 2.6.3-something. Good luck! Martin
