Kernel 2.6.0 is officially out ..

wiraone · 12-18-2003, 01:34 PM

Anybody has it working with Fedora Core 1? I haven't try my hands on it yet .. but if you've experience in compiling the test version before, do tell on what precaution that we should be aware of. Any indication the official release date from Fedora team?

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update:

Seems the official support won't be in until FC2 which will be released next Apr 2004. Anyhow, here is the place to download the RPM if you're interested to test drive the new kernel, but surely .. do at your own risk ..

http://people.redhat.com/arjanv/2.5/RPMS.kernel/

and here too:

http://people.redhat.com/davej/FedoraCore2/

frontier1 · 12-18-2003, 07:07 PM

Once I download the following, kernel-2.6.0-1.1.103.i686.rpm
How do I compile and install it? I know there are other topics on this, just wondering if there are any Fedora specific instructions?

arthur1968 · 12-18-2003, 07:13 PM

For what is worth, and maybe this is madness, I simply ran

# rpm -ivh kernel ...

And there it went, all the way to my grub.conf file.

Sadly, my mouse went dead, so bye-bye 2.6 for now (this is my desktop box).

Cheers and good luck

Arthur1968

frontier1 · 12-18-2003, 09:27 PM

I'm trying out the new kernel and it is noticeably faster. I get this error message when trying to run sndconfig, can this be fixed?

You don't seem to be running a kernelith modular sound enabled.

robbyt · 12-18-2003, 10:38 PM

Quote:

Originally posted by frontier1
I'm trying out the new kernel and it is noticeably faster. I get this error message when trying to run sndconfig, can this be fixed?

You don't seem to be running a kernelith modular sound enabled.

rip out all of the old OSS stuff and install ALSA.

google it

r3dhatter · 12-18-2003, 10:40 PM

hey arthur, what kind of mouse were you using(USB ?)? Also, how stable is this kernel? I am thinking about upgrading to it for the speed increase, but if I will lose everything...then no thanks.

robbyt · 12-18-2003, 10:41 PM

Quote:

Originally posted by arthur1968
For what is worth, and maybe this is madness, I simply ran

Sadly, my mouse went dead, so bye-bye 2.6 for now (this is my desktop box).

sounds like a usb issue, is your mouse usb?

rename the /etc/sysconfig/hwconf,/etc/modprobe.conf, and /etc/modules.conf to something else (like .backup), and reboot. Let kidzu re-detect your hardware.

Maby try using the usb/ps2 adapter that came with your mouse?

rusty0412 · 12-18-2003, 10:52 PM

I fixed this, go to /etc/modules.conf and look for alias usbcontroller, the linux kernel dev. team changed the name of the module. It is now uhci-hcd or ohci-hcd (one for USB 2.0, the other for USB 1.1, I don't remember which one is which).

wiraone · 12-19-2003, 11:05 AM

Do you guys installed the updated kernel utilities and some of those rpms found in the 1st link? Are those rpms backward compatible with the current 2.4 kernel?

rusty0412 · 12-19-2003, 11:08 AM

I compiled my own kernel...

wiraone · 12-19-2003, 11:31 AM

Found this wiki page which is useful ..

http://www.freax.be/wiki/index.php/F...nel%202.6-test

Going to upgrade my desktop right now

r3dhatter · 12-19-2003, 04:46 PM

kernel-2.6.0-1.104.i686.rpm
kernel-2.6.0-1.104.src.rpm
kernel-2.6.0-1.104.x86_64.rpm

which one do I need for i386?

I already got the kernel-source one.

thanks

rusty0412 · 12-19-2003, 04:53 PM

Kernel 2.6.0 is the first kernel I have compiled, and it isn't that dificult, I recommend you to compile it yourself, download the code and do make xconfig to configure the kernel (what you wanna include or no), then make bzImage, make modules, make modules_install and finally make install. Make modules_install will install the modules in /lib/modules/2.6.0 and make install will install the vmlinux in /boot, configure your grub.conf and make your initrd. Reboot your system and configure it just as the kernel in the RPM

dsfh24 · 12-20-2003, 07:40 PM

If your using APT add this repository which is the same one as the Redhat link. Enjoy !

# Arjan's 2.6 series kernel repository
rpm http://people.redhat.com arjanv/2.5 kernel
rpm-src http://people.redhat.com arjanv/2.5 kernel

wiraone · 12-22-2003, 05:36 AM

Finally, got 2.0.6 running though still having some teething problem with gpilotd, everything else should be running smoothly now. Tried to use the rpm packaged by Arjan but NVidia driver won't work correctly even after few time I recompiled them .. finally fount out that you need to disable few features which are compiled into the kernel by Arjan.