Dana J. Laude wrote:
On Tuesday 12 October 2004 20:13, Paul W. Abrahams wrote:
I'm wondering what functionality one loses by running the latest kernel from kernel.org versus the latest one from SuSE. And SuSE also has some unofficial test kernels available too, don't they?
I seem to remember that at one time SuSE had some kernel support for SuSE splash screens that wasn't in the standard kernels. Is that still the case?
I really don't think that you actually "lose" functionality on a hand rolled kernel vs a SuSE provided one. I used to do that back in the 5.1 days, you just have to configure things that you want. I'm personally just using the stock 9.1 kernel now, since it works for my hardware on my personal computer.
Splash screens are just that... spiffy graphic stuff. You do have to enable a few features in the kernel, (can't recall off hand) but it's possible.
In debian I almost "always" do a custom kernel, but thats for servers and such. That's really the cool thing about linux though... you always have the options available to you! :)
Dana
The SuSE kernels support most things, but there are some specific things that you may need to add to the config if needed, then rebuild. The kernel-of-the-day gets close to the latest stuff available. There are 2 main reasons why I use the kernel.org stuff, one is that there are extra functionality and performance enhancements and secondly, I can test these kernels, report problems and give feedback to the developers as I may hit a problem that no one else has experienced yet. On the kernel mailing list you will see reportsand fixes from people who are running servers and want to eek out the best performance, so even people who are running enterprise servers, large SGI/IBM ones, are using these kernels. Back in about 8.2, I tried patching a kernel.org kernel to get the SuSE splash screen, but it didn't appear, I haven't looked at it since. The splash screen stuff in the .config is under "Logo Configuration", it may be possible to use the SuSE logo, check kernel linux-<version>/Documentation/logo.txt and svga.txt. Regards Sid. -- Sid Boyce .... Hamradio G3VBV and keen Flyer =====LINUX ONLY USED HERE=====