Hello Cliff, Wednesday, 03 October 2001, you wrote: CS> On Tue, Oct 02, 2001 at 09:41:14PM -0400, Karol Pietrzak wrote:
On 2 Oct 2001, Cliff Sarginson wrote:
Hello, I have been experimenting with 2.4.9 but it appears to have a number of serious bugs (ide/scsi emulation seems not to work), certain programs won't run anymore..and so on.
Anyone have any opinion on the stability of 2.4.10 ?
I am talking about the mantel Suse versions.
What exactly do you mean by the "mantel SuSE versions"? I
CS> Oh sorry. The Suse'ified kernels between releases are to be CS> found by ftp (I don;t have the address to hand) under a CS> directory called "mantel" who I presume is someone who CS> works for Suse. They seem to be referred to as "mantel" CS> versions ! They are of course not official releases, just CS> there for the curious.
recently downloaded and installed the clean 2.4.10. 2.4.9 sucked for me: the hard drive would thrash when ripping a CD with cdda2wav (but with cdparanoia) and when burning a CD with cdrecord. Trying to do something beside CD burning would result in *filesystem corruption*. 2.4.4 (default SuSE 7.2) would cause cdrecord to freeeze the entire computer at random times.
2.4.10 fixed _all_ of these for me. I can burn an audio CD at 12X, run setiathome (uses 16MB of RAM), and run another terminal, all on a 233MHz with 32MB of RAM. It also raised my hard drive throughput by ~0.5MB :)
CS> Ok. That sounds promising. I wasted some hours on 2.4.9 and it is CS> something of a nightmare, the kernel was reporting bugs in itself in CS> the syslog amongst other things. CS> I have heard/read elsewhere that 2.4.10 fixes a large number of kernel CS> problems. I am not normally chasing the latest kernels but I have a new CS> fairly high spec. PC and it seems to be under-performing under 2.4.4. so CS> I want to see if it can be chided along by an O/S version that may CS> have improvements in it. Trruthfully though I suspect it may be X11 that CS> is the problem, but a long email I sent a week ago about this elicited CS> no replies ... *sigh*. CS> Thanks for the reply. I've got 2.4.20 running on 2 boxes. One Dell box that I couldn't get 2.4.7-9 running on (SCSI problem) runs fine with 2.4.10/SuSE 7.2. The SCSI stuff seems a lot better... HTH Mark