On Thu, 04 Dec 2003 at 23:15 GMT, Thanasis Kinias penned: > 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 ;)
I didn't mean to imply that you were =P > 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... > Hrm. Okay, well, I don't know what AFS is (though now I'm thinking I should find out), and I don't use sound at the moment, so I probably just have to worry about the "couple others" =P Actually, I don't think I'll be using 2.6 till it's considered pretty solid, but I like to pay attention to what's going on, anyway. -- monique -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
