[Gllug] FC2 with 2.4 kernel rpms?

Garry Heaton garry at heaton6.freeserve.co.uk
Sat Aug 28 17:27:16 UTC 2004


Rob Crowther wrote:
> Garry Heaton wrote:
> 
>> I had it working fine on FC1 but it won't be supported after mid-Sept. so
>> I'm wondering if I can run 2.4 within FC2? Anybody have any experience of
>> this? What are the gotchas?
>>
> I've not really got much in the way of help, but you will be able to get
> support (in the way of RPMs for security fixes) from the Fedora Legacy
> project (www.fedoralegacy.org) for at least 6 months after the official
> FC1 EOL date.  I have a RH9 machine at work that I update this way.  It
> won't resolve your problem, but it might allow you to run FC1 long
> enough that the driver issues with the 2.6 kernel get resolved?
> 
> Rob

Resolved this by going with 2.6 and forgoing 3D acceleration. There's only
Tux Racer that needs this and I'd rather have a generally quicker system
with up2date software.

Garry

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