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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.

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  • 7 months later...

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

 

but everthing is dogged by

ERROR. The kernel header file
'/lib/modules/"2.6.3-13/build/include/linux/modversions.h' does not exist.  
The most likely reason is that the kernel header files in /lib/modules/2.6.3-13/build/include' have not been configured

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

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