Hi Guys My experience with 7.1 was similar. When installing using kernel 2.2.18 I was able to configure Xfree to work with my HP laptop. When I got clever and decided to install 2.4 I couldn't get a working X configuration. Reinstalled (fresh Install) 2.2.18 and got my GUI back, no problem. However this could also be my limited knowledge of Linux and if I understood the issues with 2.4 there may have been a simple fix. But, as they say, If it aint broke, don't fix it. Regards Mark A.
Eh? You can install both kernels? Doesn't that mess up modutils and the like? How stable is that?
As for the problems Ben experienced, I can't say too much. I was already trying to fix a problem with my X restarting. So I didn't have a known good system to start with.