2009/5/13 George <nutn...@comcast.net> > -----Original Message----- > From: Patrick Wiseman [mailto:pwise...@gmail.com] > Sent: Wednesday, May 13, 2009 9:43 AM > To: debian-user@lists.debian.org > Subject: Re: Why is the kernel in testing so far behind what's current? > > On Wed, May 13, 2009 at 7:41 AM, Nate Bargmann <n...@n0nb.us> wrote: > > * Patrick Wiseman <pwise...@gmail.com> [2009 May 12 23:06 -0500]: > >> According to the Linux Kernel Archives: The latest stable version of > >> the Linux kernel is: 2.6.29.3. So why is the latest kernel in > >> testing 2.6.26? > > > > In my experience, there is no point in bringing in a more recent > > kernel package until 2.6.30 is released which includes drm and video > > driver fixes required by the latest Xorg packages although the latest > > 2.6.2902 package enabled 3D rendering again in the latest Xorg > > packages in Sid, at least for the Radeon chipset. > > >The reason I asked is that network-manager has been freezing my system and > the maintainer, who believes it's a kernel problem, >asked me to test it > against the latest kernel. But I really don't want to get ahead of, or out > of sync with, where testing is. > > >Patrick > > You can build the latest kernel the debian way and will be selectable from > the boot manager. Do your testing and once you are done you can always > uninstall it like a normal package. There are a few good how to's on the > debian forums regarding building your own kernel the debian way.
+1 I build kernel from vanilla sources every time a new RT patch is released. It's really easy, just take care to the latest changes in kernel-package regarding --initrd option. -r
