Re: kernel 2.4.x: The Mother of all the questions
Wow...I wish more older people were as tech savvy as you. I haven't been
able to get my mother at age 43 to even adapt to Windows9x.
I am using a "vanilla" Linux 2.4.5 kernel asides from making the necessary
updates on my potato distro. The good news is this. You can update
whatever distro you are using and use both 2.2.x and 2.4.x kernels. As far
as I can tell really because I had some initial problems with my sound
card and switched back to 2.2.x before I sorted them out. (Wish the
drivers didn't have to be a module but, oh well...) As far as I can tell
2.4.x runs on this Pentium 75 at 133mhz for days without a hiccup. I've
loadtested the box too and it does just fine under pretty heavy load. I
wouldn't be afraid to take the leap. Just include your old kernel in LILO
in case you decide that you wish to switch back for some reason. :)
-z-
On Mon, 9 Jul 2001, olgnuby wrote:
> Victor wrote:
> >
> > Having a wonderfully stable debian 2.2r3 box with kernel 2.2.19
> > compiled & tailored to my laptop's needs, I wonder if it is worth my
> > while upgrading to kernel 2.4.5.
> >
> > My specific focus is on stability.
> >
> > What's your experience on this?
> >
> > Ciao
> > Vittorio
>
> I've seen two or three takes on this this morning. About all I can do is
> echo the sentiments of the respondents to the previous and share my own
> experience.
>
> It's going to be dependent on your own personal needs and wants.
>
> On this AMD 1.2 gig machine, running 2.2r3 I run the 2.4.5 with the ac18
> patch and a patch for the Lexar JumpSHOT flash memory card reader. The
> ac18 patch is the only practical way I could figure out to get the se401
> driver I need for my Kensington vidcam unless I run a 2.4.3, or write my
> own patch or what ever and I'm not quite that advanced yet. I've also
> run into problems getting my particular flavor of sound to work properly
> on the earlier kernels without some gymnastics with alsa.
>
> Don't try to compile and run a vanilla kernel from kernel.org unless
> you're a hell of a lot more advanced than I am. The upgrades at
>
> ../people.debian.org/~bunk
>
> are necessary, but are simple using dselect if that, like me is, your
> method. They do the necessary upgrades on modutils, ppp, etc, that you
> would normally have to do on all the other distros I've tried, puts your
> kernel sources in place and then you can do your config, compile and
> install from there.
>
> As someone said a posting or two back, unless you need a lot of exotic
> usb stuff etc. You would more than likely be best off with the generic
> kernel.
>
> Me, hell, I'm 60 retired and not dependent on my computer for much other
> than a toy, so I can afford to blow it out and be down if I screw it up.
> ;-)
>
> Charlie
>
>
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