Ok Laptop died (water not good) SO I when to the old standbye (K7 mobo)

Decided to try out the 2.6 kernel so here is my story & thoughts.

For me its works pretty good. Took me about 3 compiles to get a good working kernel. Compiling is easy:

Old way:
..
make dep
make clean bzImage
make modules
make modules_install
(can differ depending ones likes)

New Way:
make
make modules_install
or
make && make modules_install

Like that :!: "make" command now takes the place of make dep & make bzImage & and make modules. Actually I think make dep is not needed anymore. Im no 2.6 wizard. In the 2.6 kernel I did alot of built in kernel options (less modules) For example by chipset, sound card (ALSA), network card at all built into the kernel(1.8mb)

Things I like so far:
ALSA for es1371 built into the kernel
Alot more options

Things odd:
My BaldursGate Game under Winex now is at a crawl. So much its unplayable. Ill try a reinstall

Thinks I found on the 2.6 kernel:

made a /sys directory
then added to my fstab:
none /sys sysfs defaults 0 0
found at:
http://thomer.com/linux/migrate-to-2.6.html
**note not sure if it was need but it does load the /sys directory with data on boot.

NVIDIA does not support 2.6 kernel but I found out how to get it working at:
http://www.minion.de/

alot of good info at
http://kerneltrap.org/node/view/799

Well Ill post more if I find more.

likely your gaming issues are due to the fact that your wine is build and optimized with a different kernel. you could try rebuilding from source.

Just did that. Worked well. So far no 2.6 issues but its on cooker so not to sure if a lockup is from the kernel or cooker. It did lock up a bit prior to kernel 2.6.

Im trying to get the &¤ bit drivers working with 2.6.3-13mdk

but everthing is dogged by
this is an urpmi'd kernel-source, the only change (after the same error) was I manually edited the Makefile to change the stupid -extraversion thing MDK tag on

This is similar to the problems I had in 9.2 trying to get the nforce drivers working with the enterprise kernel. Alghough mandrake seem to have eventually acknowledged people might want a gig of RAM in the standard kernel for AMD64

/bump ....


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anyone?