Hm... I installed 2.4.4 successfully from ftp.kernel.org without any problems, including their mod-utils. What sort of problems should I anticipate for doing this? I wanted to upgrade as soon as possible because 2.4.4 has the fix for the VIA Southbridge bug on Athlon mobos. Regards, Lew Wolfgang On Wed, 2 May 2001, Brooklyn Linux Solutions CEO wrote:

On 2001.05.02 13:11:15 -0400 Just Another SuSE User wrote:

Do I need to upgrade mod-utils?

Yes

and only the one from Suse.

* Mads Martin Jørgensen (mmj@suse.com) [010502 11:05]: }=}* Lewie Wolfgang [May 02. 2001 11:06]: }=}> Hm... I installed 2.4.4 successfully from ftp.kernel.org without }=}> any problems, including their mod-utils. What sort of problems }=}> should I anticipate for doing this? }=} }=}None -- it's fine. I thought this VIA bug was a bios issue..not a kernel issue. Is this a work around that the kernel guys came up with? -- Ben Rosenberg mailto:ben@whack.org ----- If two men agree on everything, you can be sure that only one of them is doing the thinking.

So, can I safely use mod-utils from SuSE (doing the force install since it conflicts with another package) and use the kernel src from kernel.org (2.4.4)? Thanks, CC

On Wed, 2 May 2001, Ben Rosenberg wrote:

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I thought this VIA bug was a bios issue..not a kernel issue. Is this a work around that the kernel guys came up with?

Apparently VIA posted a workaround on their web site. I say apparently because I could never find it myself. The Alan Cox (ac) kernels have had the workaround for a couple of weeks, but I could never get them to work correctly. 2.4.4 claims to have the fix installed and boot.msg contains:

<6>Applying VIA PCI latency patch.

Regards, Lew Wolfgang

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