On Mon, 27 Oct 2003 17:27:03 +0000 Jonathan McDowell noodles@earth.li wrote:
On Mon, Oct 27, 2003 at 05:14:50PM +0000, Keith Watson wrote:
Anyone on the list using the 2.6 kernel? if so what's the general opinion of it?
I've been following the -test kernels on my laptop (running Debian testing). The main thing I'm interested in it for is better power management; it's only since -test7 that suspend-to-disk has started working for me. I can't say aside from that I've noticed anything wonderfully better, but then the laptop doesn't get stressed that much.
Finally got round to downloading the 2.6.0.test9 Debian kernel source packages.
Everything went like a dream and compiled just like it was supposed to.
The only 2 problems I had were; 1) the proprietary Nvidia drivers need a separate patch applied before you can use them and 2) the Lucent Linmodem drivers aren't available for any kernel after 2.4.x.
(1) isn't really a problem as I found the XFree86 4 NV driver was just as good (for my purposes) as the proprietary ones. (2) was a showstopper for me as I haven't yet got round to buying a 'proper' external modem.
Actually I'm dithering with the modem as I'm also dithering over getting broadband, in which case I'd want at least an ADSL modem.
So it looks like 2.4.20+ for the time being (suits you sir!) :o)
Keith