gcasillo at ket
Dec 18, 2003, 8:52 PM
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I'm putting together four MPEG encoders (PVR-250s on P4-3.0GHz) with
2.6.0-test11 for a work project. I needed the 2.6 kernel for it's SATA
hard drive support.
I had some problems getting X to start with the geforce2 MX/400 cards I
have in these boxes, but I found out that I needed to 1) disable nvidia
riva framebuffer support and 2) enable /dev/pts filesystem support in my
kernel. I use Gentoo, BTW.
After I did those two things, presto. X is running. The 2.6 kernels
aren't as big a deal as I thought they'd be from an installation
standpoint, but then again, I'm installing fresh.
My next quest is to get ivtv support working with these 2.6 boxes. My
positive outlook may change in a few hours.
Gregg
On Thu, 2003-12-18 at 22:03, Albert Santoni wrote:
> Oh man, I just finished installing 2.6.0 on Mandrake 9.2.
> It was a crapload of work, and it wasn't worth it, but it's sure cool to
> say I'm running 2.6.0...
>
> For anyone thinking about making the jump, here's 3 invaluable links:
> http://kerneltrap.org/node/view/799
> http://www.mathcs.concord.edu/~ik/
> http://thomer.com/linux/migrate-to-2.6.html
>
> ... and yes, you have to download a hacked Nvidia driver to make X work
> in 2.6... yay! (I can't get it to load at startup... but it works after
> I insmod it)
>
> ... and once you go to 2.6, you can't go back (after you install the new
> modutils thingy... )
>
> Oh, and before today, I had never recompiled a single kernel. Now I'm a
> kernel expert (uhh... not really)... but if you think Myth is hard, this
> is also a nice challenge.
>
> Oh, and does anyone know how to use the new /etc/modprobe.conf instead
> of /etc/modules.conf? I have no idea...
>
>
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