Donn aka n5xwb Washburn wrote:
Hey Group;
Great news on moving away from 8.2 is the ability to compile a new kernel that runs. I have been building kernels for about 8 years and under 8.2 all failed. However, alsa went just fine. Under 9.0 and SuSE's stock kernel alsa-drivers would not compile at all due to the kernel version and linux/include files. I replaced the SuSE source and kernel with 2.4.22 and now even alsa is compiling. Great news!
GCC 3.# seems to be fixed and now even the kernel and kernel drivers (alsa, nvidia and etc) should work.
Hmmmm. I would like to know about this alot more. I am glad that 9 worked out so well for you. I thought I would not consider 9 because it looked like there were more problems than what I could handle right now. I am running 8.2 pro on my Athlon 1600+ xp 512 megs of ram and everything was fine except usb would not work. Once I upgraded to the 2.4.21-108-athlon then my usb worked fine including my "officially" unsupported HP 4300c scanner. However, after 2 weeks some issues developed which I posted into another thread here. Someone said they thought I had file corruption so I did the reiserfsck and that seemed to help most but not all of the problems. I am considering upgrading my kernel to this 2.4.22, but it sounds like it would not work well on 8.2? In other words the best route would be to get 9 then upgrade the kernel? Is it worth a try on my 8.2 and does anyone know how I could get this to run smoothly and well with 8.2? Is there a usb fix for athlon's on 8.2 that anyone knows about that would not need upgrading a kernel? Any thoughts or suggestions will be greatly appreciated. Thanks, Marcia