bvc Posted November 26, 2003 Report Share Posted November 26, 2003 you're rt, I see that now....and we use to have the contrib, I think. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
iphitus Posted November 26, 2003 Report Share Posted November 26, 2003 I have been using 2.6 for a while. I have found it excellent This is my /etc/modules: #network card tulip #USB core usbcore #im not sure -- depended on for my SD card reader uhci-hcd #i think its double of above uhci #USB storage -- for my Sd card reader usm-storage #Mouse device driver -- it helps mousedev #Ps/2 Mouse -- no more! #psmouse #USB mouse -- i use this now usbmouse The modules for USB are pretty obvious, add usbcore then add other device drivers as needed. iphitus Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Peppercorn Posted November 26, 2003 Author Report Share Posted November 26, 2003 Call me dumb, but I cannot find it on any mirror site. Can someone give me a link please?? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest kuchwas Posted November 26, 2003 Report Share Posted November 26, 2003 (edited) Call me dumb, but I cannot find it on any mirror site. Can someone give me a link please?? Did you look at the cooker mirror list at the bottom of the Cooker site I posted above? Or use Easy urpmi and add them to your urpmi resources. Kernel 2.6.0 in in contrilbs, not main, I'd recommend a cooker plf feed as well.... Edited November 26, 2003 by kuchwas Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bvc Posted November 26, 2003 Report Share Posted November 26, 2003 I went to 3 mirrors from mandrakes cooker page and didn't find it either. Downloading SuSE9 rt now. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Peppercorn Posted November 26, 2003 Author Report Share Posted November 26, 2003 Yea I finally found it but gees, it's not that straight forward is it??? Thanks kuchwas. I'll give it a go and report back. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest kuchwas Posted November 26, 2003 Report Share Posted November 26, 2003 Yea I finally found it but gees, it's not that straight forward is it??? Thanks kuchwas. I'll give it a go and report back. Cooker is not meant to be easy, when my machine breaks, noone will tell us how to get it back. It's what we do that gives users a (hopefully) easy setup when it's all done. Half of what comes through in cooker is not even rpms to install. Many are patches to apply, rebuild the app, and try, try, try again. I've just spent the last hour and a half finding out what I installed today that kept Moz-Firebird from loading after the last boot. Gaaaaaaa! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Peppercorn Posted November 26, 2003 Author Report Share Posted November 26, 2003 Can you tell me this??? I can't install the 2.6 kernel because it says it needs "Udev" I can't install Udev because it says that I have the wrong kernel version installed!!!! How can I break this circle?? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bvc Posted November 26, 2003 Report Share Posted November 26, 2003 as kuchwas said, use urpmi :D Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest kuchwas Posted November 26, 2003 Report Share Posted November 26, 2003 Can you tell me this??? I can't install the 2.6 kernel because it says it needs "Udev" I can't install Udev because it says that I have the wrong kernel version installed!!!! How can I break this circle?? Besides Udev, you will need Sysfsutils, libsysfs, module-init-tools to meet all dependencies! as kuchwas said, use urpmi Exactly. The only way to avoid dependency hell.... B) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Peppercorn Posted November 26, 2003 Author Report Share Posted November 26, 2003 (edited) Kuchwas, I'll try and find a mirror from plf that has one where I can upgrade my urpmi. Edited November 26, 2003 by Peppercorn Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest kuchwas Posted November 27, 2003 Report Share Posted November 27, 2003 Well, I have to tell you, this is really rock and roll! USB works for everything, thanks to udev and the newest hotplug patches. Clie, Zaurus, memory card reader (without supermount or manual mount/umonut). Have the nVidia binary driver working, thanks to the minion.de patch for the kernel driver, had to switch YANC to nvidia agp driver from kernel agp driver.... ASLA 9.7 driver in kernel. I have been able to install ALSA 1.0.0pre3 on kernel 2.4.22-21.tmb.2 and 2.4.23-0.1, but not 2.6.0-0.1. Building modules is very different right now than for 2.4 kernels. Next try is to get the bttv .9 drivers to compile if I can. It is in the 2.4.23-0.1 kernel is really makes TVTime and XawTV tremendously cleaner. Only thing so far on my box that does not work is the PC speaker. I think I can live without it... :D Tim Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Peppercorn Posted November 27, 2003 Author Report Share Posted November 27, 2003 Kuchwas, I have tried nearly all day for an urpmi site which has the new kernel. I have got a big fat ZERO. I can find it on ftp but that's all. Can you direct me please to what to type in to update my urpmi?? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest kuchwas Posted November 27, 2003 Report Share Posted November 27, 2003 Bookmark this site! Easy URPMI Again, MAKE A BACKUP! You might make your computer unusable by adding this kernel and all required dependencies! I highly recommend Partition Image http://www.partimage.org; You can dowload a recovery iso there and make a CD. Now, make an image of your drive and burn it to bootable CDs, before you start. JUST IN CASE! I got these by filling in the Easy Urpmi site choosing "cooker" as the distro. MandrakeSoft is in Paris, and I've found this feed most reliable and quickest for cooker rpms: Type these into a terminal as root: urpmi.addmedia COOKmain ftp://ftp.club-internet.fr/pub/unix/linux...6/Mandrake/RPMS with ../base/hdlist.cz urpmi.addmedia COOKcontrib ftp://ftp.club-internet.fr/pub/unix/linux...el/contrib/i586 with ../../cooker/i586/Mandrake/base/hdlist2.cz urpmi.addmedia COOKplf ftp://ftp.club-internet.fr/pub/linux/plf/...mandrake/cooker with hdlist.cz Then "urpmi kernel-2.6.0-0.1mdk" Tell it yes to all the dependencies or your machine may not boot! "urpmi hotplug" or your usb stuff may not work! This kernel supports frame buffer, so the default lilo setup should be fine. Reboot to the kernel, cross your fingers and pray! B) MAKE SURE YOU HAVE A WAY TO RECOVER IF SOMETHING GOES WRONG! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest slr Posted November 27, 2003 Report Share Posted November 27, 2003 If it works like any other rpm install of the kernel for mandrake then even if something goes wrong you should be able to boot to your old kernel by making sure that you have the right entries at lilo or grub... Unless it does drastical changes and you have no way of recovering... What was your experience kuchwas??? Did the update keep the old vmlinuz and initrd in the boot dir??? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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