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[Kirk Bocek]

On 1/16/2012 9:47 PM, Raymond Wagner wrote:
> On 1/17/2012 00:33, Kirk Bocek wrote:
>>
>> On 1/16/2012 9:20 PM, Jean-Yves Avenard wrote:
>>> On 17 January 2012 15:56, Kirk Bocek<t004 at kbocek.com>    wrote:
>>>> Unfortunately, for MythTV there are whole slew of kernel modules that
>>>> would need to be compile along with the custom kernel: nvidia, alsa,
>>>> lirc. Maybe some others. I think the effort involved would outstrip the
>>>> benefit.
>>> other than nvidia (which is trivial to install); all new kernels
>>> include all the modules you listed.
>> Really, lirc? I thought that was special. Learn something new every day.
>> Thanks.
>>
>> You piped in on my GT-430/CentOS 5. Regardless, that is a symptom of the
>> kind of problem that will only get worse as time goes on and the
>> developers of the various subsystems only develop for newer kernels.
>>
>> Figuring out my problems with CentOS 6 is going to be a better use of my
>> time.
>
> LIRC became part of the 2.6.36 kernel some 15 months ago.  CentOS 6 runs
> the 25 month old 2.6.32 kernel.

See! It wasn't my imagination! :)

Beats the heck out of 2.6.18 in CentOS 5.