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I'm putting together four MPEG encoders (PVR-250s on P4-3.0GHz) with 2.6.0-test11 for a work project. I needed the 2.6 kernel for it's SATA hard drive support.<BR>
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I had some problems getting X to start with the geforce2 MX/400 cards I have in these boxes, but I found out that I needed to 1) disable nvidia riva framebuffer support and 2) enable /dev/pts filesystem support in my kernel. I use Gentoo, BTW.<BR>
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After I did those two things, presto. X is running. The 2.6 kernels aren't as big a deal as I thought they'd be from an installation standpoint, but then again, I'm installing fresh.<BR>
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My next quest is to get ivtv support working with these 2.6 boxes. My positive outlook may change in a few hours.<BR>
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Gregg<BR>
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On Thu, 2003-12-18 at 22:03, Albert Santoni wrote:
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<PRE><FONT COLOR="#737373"><I>Oh man, I just finished installing 2.6.0 on Mandrake 9.2.
It was a crapload of work, and it wasn't worth it, but it's sure cool to
say I'm running 2.6.0...
For anyone thinking about making the jump, here's 3 invaluable links:</FONT>
<A HREF="http://kerneltrap.org/node/view/799"><U>http://kerneltrap.org/node/view/799</A>
<A HREF="http://www.mathcs.concord.edu/~ik/">http://www.mathcs.concord.edu/~ik/</A>
<A HREF="http://thomer.com/linux/migrate-to-2.6.html">http://thomer.com/linux/migrate-to-2.6.html</U></A>
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... and yes, you have to download a hacked Nvidia driver to make X work
in 2.6... yay! (I can't get it to load at startup... but it works after
I insmod it)
... and once you go to 2.6, you can't go back (after you install the new
modutils thingy... )
Oh, and before today, I had never recompiled a single kernel. Now I'm a
kernel expert (uhh... not really)... but if you think Myth is hard, this
is also a nice challenge.
Oh, and does anyone know how to use the new /etc/modprobe.conf instead
of /etc/modules.conf? I have no idea...
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