Re: Kernel 2.2 Upgrade questions
ZIP drive support is under SCSI (it is a SCSI low-level driver).
Why not upgrade to 2.2.9, I believe there were sound issues in 2.2.1.
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On Tue, 25 May 1999, Nadarajah, Dinesh wrote:
> Date: Tue, 25 May 1999 08:09:35 -0500
> From: "Nadarajah, Dinesh" <Dinesh_Nadarajah@tri.sbc.com>
> To: debian-user@lists.debian.org
> Subject: Kernel 2.2 Upgrade questions
> Resent-Date: 25 May 1999 13:19:21 -0000
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> I downloaded the source files for Kernel 2.2.1 from the Debian site. I
> currently am running Slink (2.0.36) and was hoping to upgrade to 2.2 (good
> idea???). As I was going through the configuration menus (using make
> menuconfig) and found that some of the configuration options available under
> slink are not there. For example "Parallel port Zip drive support". Is there
> a "Kernel-HOWTO" for the new 2.2 kernel? I would like to find out what
> options are available and what needs to be turned on and what to be turned
> off. I also found that some of the option with regard to sound were not the
> same. When I selected Sound Blaster sound card, there was no prompt or place
> to enter the IRQ, DMA, etc. info. for the card. I would like to learn a
> little more about the new kernel and why there is such a big difference in
> configuration options.
>
> I heard that the new kernel is very modular. Does this mean I can have a
> lean mean kernel and include only the modules I need? Is SMP turned on by
> default? If so would it make sense to turn it off for single processor
> systems so as to get better performance?
>
> Thanks.
>
> -D
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