scripsit Monique Y. Herman: > On Thu, 04 Dec 2003 at 21:46 GMT, Thanasis Kinias penned:
> > OK, I recompiled and enabled that... (Aside: Lots of possible > > gotchas switching to 2.6...) > > Please elaborate! Well, I didn't mean to be melodramatic ;) The biggest one for me is that OpenAFS is apparently completely unusable with a 2.6 kernel, so my machines with AFS home directories have to stay with 2.4 for now... The others have to do with ALSA, the new module format, and the default config. I never used ALSA before, so I had to do a bit of learning there to get sound working. The new module format means that modconf is unusable, and I haven't got my head quite around how the /etc/modprobe.d differs from /etc/modutils, for example. It's not a big problem, it just requires taking the time to read a bit. Finally, the default config of Sid's 2.6.0-test9 has a lot of things disabled that I didn't expect, so I had do do a few recompiles before I got a usable kernel. Unloading modules, as came up here, was one; sound support was another. There were a couple others as I recall, but I didn't keep notes and deleted the useless kernels that resulted from my flailing about... -- Pax vobiscum; pax cum omnibus. Thanasis Kinias tkinias at asu.edu Doctoral Student, Department of History Arizona State University Tempe, Arizona, U.S.A. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
