[mythtv-users] mythBuntu problems 9.04 Alpha 2

Jos Hoekstra joshoekstra at gmx.net
Tue Jan 20 20:40:08 UTC 2009


jedi schreef op 20-1-2009 19:57:
> On Tue, Jan 20, 2009 at 01:28:40PM -0500, John Drescher wrote:
>>>> I upgraded my laptop to 9.04 a few weeks back to have ext4 support
>>>> without rolling my own kernel and I have found that this has been a
>>>    Building your own kernel is a lot less trouble than messing with
>>> an alpha version of your distribution. Just grab your .config file
>>> from your current kernel headers directory and work from there.
>>>
>> Thanks.
>>
>> I have built a kernel several hundred times on gentoo but I was not
>> sure how ubuntu handled out of kernel drivers (virtualbox, vmware ...)
> 
> ...well, of course if you stray from the reservation you will have
> to rebuild those yourself. Still I think that would be less trouble
> then what you're bound to run into with a new alpha of Ubuntu.
> 
>> so I thought upgrading would be safer since I had 8.10 on my laptop
>> months before the release and all was well. I guess 8.10 was beta by
>> then and not alpha though. Lesson learned.

Wouldn't that be where DKMS would come in usefull? Then it rebuilds the 
modules for you :)

Jos


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