Re: Ugly sarge upgrade -- kernel 2.4.27-2 > 2.4.27-6
Just wondering if anyone has an 'official' timeline on how this will be
'officially' fixed? ... I got bit with the ALSA thing too (though I'm on
SID) and compiling isn't going so well ... different versions of source,
the new kernel, always wanting pcmcia ... just icky.
I'd like to just have apt-get upgrade fix it ;) ... though looking at
the bugs posted on the bugs site it looks like this has been kicking
around since about 12/5 ... that's a long time.
I'm not whining by any means ... this is one of the ugly parts of
running sid and I know it.
On Mon, Dec 27, 2004 at 10:37:23AM +0100, Jonathan Kaye wrote:
> Michael Murphy wrote:
>
> >>Hi Michael,
> >>I guess you didn't notice my posting on this list dated 24/12/04
> >>with the subject alsa mismatch... Anyway as Thomas Hood pointed out
> >>this is known as kernel bug #284356. I would suggest the following:
> >>1. apt-get update then apt-get upgrade then apt-get dist-upgrade
> >>until you have the latest versions of your packages.
> >>2. Get the source for the alsa drivers module and compile it and
> >>then intall it.
> >>This worked for me and my alsa and the rest of sarge is purring like
> >>a kitten.
> >
> >
> >Thank you, Jonathan. I had missed the post and the pointer to bug
> >#284356. I guess I'm going to have to learn how to build packages
> >the 'debian way' sooner than I'd guessed ;)
>
> At this point let me suggest aptitude as a substitute for apt-get.
> Running aptitude (just that command) from the command line gets you into
> the aptitude gui which I personally hate but most people seem to like
> it. It has a number of advantages over apt-get which you can google if
> you're curious.
> If you're using kde, try kpackage also. Gnome has synaptic but I prefer
> kpackage. I find it quite useful so see what's going on. I then use
> aptitude to do the actual installations.
> >
> >You mention doing an apt-get dist-upgrade. Again, I'm new to debian,
> >but wouldn't this be necessary only if I were going from one release
> >(stream) to another? I installed sarge using the netinst cd and have
> >only sarge repos in my sources.list. Thus far, I've been using
> >dselect and currently have the kernel packages on hold.
> dist-upgrade is a bit more agressive than upgrade. It will remove
> unneeded packages but always asks you first. It's for the same stream;
> not a new one. I use it to make sure that all my current packages are
> absolutely upto date.
>
> >You say that you rebuilt the source for the alsa drivers *after* you'd
> >upgraded the kernel? Does this mean that you *didn't* experience the
> >extreme slow-down that I did? Were I to upgrade, I don't think that
> >my computer would be able to build anything (in under a week's time,
> >that is).
> No, changing 2.4.27-2 to -6 didn't (noticeably) effect the performance.
> No slow-downs extreme or otherwise. I'm mystified by your problem but
> maybe wiser heads than mine on this list can answer that.
> Cheers,
> Jonathan
>
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