On Thursday 11 July 2002 23.20, Rowan Reid wrote:

It's worth your wild to master this. Just download a stable 2.4.19 or Greater kernel. If I'm not mistaken even numbers are stable releases.

Just to be clear, it's the middle number (in this case 4) that determines the stable/non-stable status of the kernel. As you say, an even number indicates 'stable' and an odd means 'for developers and testers only'. //Anders

On Friday 12 July 2002 04:20, Rowan Reid wrote:

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I wonder if the only way I can get the kernel 2.4.19 is by self-compiling?

It's worth your wild to master this. Just download a stable 2.4.19 or Greater kernel. If I'm not mistaken even numbers are stable releases. Just download extract. Then

Where should I download this? the http://www.kernel.org? Is there a more SuSE specific site? If my memory correct, using a non-SuSE kernel can sometimes lead to a some 'not-working' things?

Make menuconfig Make dep Make clean Make modules Make modules_install.

On Friday 12 July 2002 05:25, Rowan Reid wrote:

If you running a generic system hardware wise (chip, mem, PCI bus, IDE,SCSI controllers) If you Do have funky hardware just get the kernel patch and install it prior to compiling your kernel.

Could you tell me how to get the kernel patch? Is kernel patch mean I still use the 2.4.18 and then patch it so it can support my hardware (the funky i845G/ICH4)?

On Friday 12 July 2002 04:36, Anders Johansson wrote:

2.4.19 hasn't been released yet. The latest version is 2.4.19 release candidate 1. Check http://www.kernel.org for details.

yes, I mean 2.4.19-rc1. I see in the changelog that's 2.4.19 support i845G/ICH4. So I can have DMA turned-on with this kernel and integrated graphics have a driver rather than using the slow frame buffer.