phunni Posted January 21, 2004 Report Share Posted January 21, 2004 I've been wondering about whether or not to go for 2.6 now that it's in stable release, but I have heard that the setup involves some configs that might confilct with a 2.4 installation. Obviously, I'd still want to use 2.4 until I had 2.6 up and running without problems, so I would need them to happily co-exist with each other. Are there any issues with compatability? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bvc Posted January 21, 2004 Report Share Posted January 21, 2004 issues? conflicts? whaa? Links? lm_sensors is all I can think of and supposedly can be made to work. Sure if you truely go 2.6 by using udev/sysfs insead of devfs you may have de3vice setup issues. D/k what they could be though. I'm not having any issues. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
iphitus Posted January 22, 2004 Report Share Posted January 22, 2004 I have had both coexisting for months, all the way since test3. however i am on debian. But you should have no problems as the new modutils (includes modprobe and them) is still compatible with the older 2.4 kernel. You got nothing to lose by trying, so long as you keep 2.4 in lilo in case 2.6 barfs. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
phunni Posted January 23, 2004 Author Report Share Posted January 23, 2004 Cool - my only concern was that if there were conflicts then I might be left with a dodgy 2.6 and a broken 2.4 - but it doesn't sound like that's the case Cool. I did read something about conflicts regarding ALSA - anyone using ALSA and 2.6 able to confirm/deny this? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bvc Posted January 23, 2004 Report Share Posted January 23, 2004 alsa is included in 2.6 ....about time! No, no prob here. You still obviously need utils and libs but not the alsa-driver.rpm. They're in the kernel. Oh, the 0.9.7 or whatever, I think, hmm have to look when I get home.....but how do ya know? In the kernel docs? So I guess if you have 1.0.0 or whatever for utils and libs there could be a prob. Someone that has looked into this will have to comment until I can dig. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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