Hello! Yesterday I tried to install Debian Sarge with an offical cd image, but I wasn't able to use the 2.6 kernel since it couldn't detect my dvd drive. The model is from Plextor. Was released in december last year I think?
Anyway, I decided to use the 2.4.27 kernel instead. Since I need a 2.6 kernel, I have tried the precompiled kernel which comes with Debian, none of them work!! I've tested the 386 optimised version and the P4 optimised version. Well, both boots up my system and detect a lot of hardware but it stops after a while and then it complains about that the: /dev/console doesn't exist. I think this is a serious BUG i Debian!! Not being able to use the 2.6 kernel in the installation and not even being able to upgrade to this kernel at a later time. When I install a precompiled kernel package, the Debian installer should install all the packages which is needed by the system, but apparently that's not the case! :-( I am confused however. I managed to set up a 2.6 kernel with Sarge unstable just a few months ago, so this is strange indeed. And maybe I'm the BIG BUG here. 8-( Can someone help me with this? Currently, the sound is not working. According to Alsaconf it can't find my soundcard: creative audigy zs. So I guess this kernel don't have suitable sound drivers for my system. The 3D graphics is VERY VERY slow, so I think I need to rebuild the FireGL module and edit a textfile somewhere where I need to change a number in line 452. The file is called: make.sh. I don't know if this last thing really makes any sense nowadays, but it did improve my 3D graphics on my Debian Woody system(my old system) by at least 50 times, or something? (I don't know exactly... but it was fast as hell! ;-)) Greetings Björn
