On Fri, Apr 29, 2011 at 6:54 PM, mike cloaked <mike.cloa...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Thank you for those very clear steps to build the kernel from source. > I used these steps to build the same kernel (built as > 2.6.39-0.rc5.git0.0.fc14.i686.PAE, with associated kernel-PAE-devel, > kernel-headers and perf rpms) on my f14 laptop. The build needed > about 8GiB of available hard drive space and took about an hour and 20 > minutes on this core duo machine. > > This is a Dell laptop with nvidia graphics and this kernel works > beautifully for me - I am using the newly built kernel as I type - and > have no problems on this hardware at all. > > Shame that there are no test builds available for updates-testing for > the same version! This looks like a lovely kernel and way snappier > than the current f14 kernel in updates. Hmm - I have now had a chance to run this kernel for a while and I do have some problems with it - I am getting some loss of dns at random - and getting kernel panics which are locking up X - so I guess I need to test more and perhaps look at building the next available kernel source when it comes out.... -- mike c -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines
