I disagree here. Once you bastardize a perfectly good potato system there's no easy turning back. If it is running smoothly (and there's no reason it shouldn't) then I think you should let it keep doing well what it does well (everything). You'll notice no real difference to 2.4 unless you're running a server, and I doubt your laptop qualifies in that category! The only reason you might be compelled to do so is to gain USB support, if you need that sort of thing. For me, I've found that my fancy new logitech trackball works just as well with the provided PS/2 adaptor, which has been supported since the dawn of time (plus or minus). Vineet * ktb (ktb@nixnotes.org) [010704 12:06]: > On Wed, Jul 04, 2001 at 04:03:59PM +0000, Victor wrote: > > I've a wonderful debian 2.2r3 laptop, almost perfectly set up and > > working greatly and stable. > > > > The present kernel is 2.2.19 and I compiled to tailor it (usage of > > memory, needless devices, etc.) to my needs. It's all OK! > > > > My simple question is: > > > > Is there any advantage to upgrade my box to kernel 2.4.5? > > If you're happy with what you have now then I would say there is no real > reason to. OTOH you could install a 2.4.x kernel and try it out and > still keep your old kernel around to fall back on, if you don't like > 2.4.x. You just have to edit /etc/lilo.conf to point to both kernels. > Run /sbin/lilo. On boot hit "tab" and pick your kernel. > hth, > kent > > -- > From seeing and seeing the seeing has become so exhausted > First line of "The Panther" - R. M. Rilke > > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-request@lists.debian.org > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmaster@lists.debian.org >
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