[Gloucs] 2.6

[Rob Saunders]

I've been running 2.6.0 (on RH9) for about 6 weeks and find it "better" 
than the previous versions of 2.4.20/21/23 that I had been running. That 
said, in upgrading I had some fun with:

- I needed to upgrade some of my Gtk/glade libs (I seem to recall) so 
that the make xconfig/gconfig configurators would work. - No big deal 
it's fairly obvious what you need when it fails.
- the old rpm issue - rpm won't read the database and needs to be 
rebuilt, only you can't 'cos rpm doesn't work... (a quick google will 
get you around this)
- update the modprobe, lsmod, etc... with the module-init-tools (0.9.14).
- You might need to hack your /etc/rc.sysinit script or equivalent (the 
old one will work, but one or two subtle tweaks for hotplugging/usb 
won't go amiss)
- You might want to add an entry for /sys in your fstab file for the sysfs.
- Getting sound to work with the ALSA OSS emulation was fun, but I don't 
know if that's important to you - again a quick google should sort you 
out depending on what soundcard you've got.

Here are a couple of links in migrating to 2.6.0:

http://thomer.com/linux/migrate-to-2.6.html

http://www.linux-sxs.org/upgrading/migration26.html

HTH

Rob


Iain Calder wrote:
> Guy Edwards wrote:
> 
>> Just a short question....
>>
>> Any success stories with upgrading to kernel 2.6 in the LUG yet? Anyone
>> running it?
>>
>> Guy
>>  
>>
> Been running it since it was released, on a Debian unstable box.  No 
> problems apart from converting /etc/modules.conf to /etc/modprobe.conf.
> 
> Can't say I've noticed a huge speed increase for general desktop use, 
> but my machine boots a few seconds faster and CD/DVD writing seems to 
> work much better with no system load apparent even at very high speeds.  
> You don't need to use ide-scsi emulation any more and can write straight 
> to devices e.g. /dev/hdb
> 
> Iain
> 
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