Kernel 2.4.20 is out, changelog and please try to use a mirror.
Lots of USB fixes in this one plus support for some of the newer VIA chipsets.

Oh man! That is so sweet!! Thanks

Cool

Yaaay!!
I can't wait to get home to build it

RefriedBean

Damn, I will scoop you on a kernel release some day Aussie!!! I just passed 18Mb of 32.39... come on baby daddy need a compile!

Cheers,

Finegan

hmm, i really can't understand how anyone can "yay" abuot a new kernel... hehe, nevermind

Cynic!

I never enjoy playing around with unstable, for one thing, I couldn't get my scsi cd-rom to work until around 2.5.40-something.

Aside from some Matrox stuff I suspect was in 2.4.19, I didn't get much new cool niftiness.

New register specific support for tulip cards, that was cool, no kidding Aussie about the USB-festival, but none of that really matters to me.

One odd one though, they cranked some really bizarre new support into my cheap little soundcard, the CM8783, like using the line-in jack as a bass speaker!!! so I went and grabbed a spare set of speakers and I'm getting a bass booster tomorrow from somewhere, this is unreal loud!!! Heck, Kewp can probably hear this.

Still no new HPT 37x or PDC 2027xx support. I could have sword that they had backported that in from 2.5.x, guess I was reading the wrong log Well, back to telling the raid kiddies in Hardware they still need to get their juice directly from promise.

Cheers,

Finegan

Heh,heh....I like the 8130too and reiserFS tweaks, and since my printer, scanner and webcam are all USB devices the USB fixes are always welcome :-)

I can't get near the any of the mirror sites - does anyone know what issues this release deals with? (The question being do I really need it)?

Cheers
Bert

I think one of the first rules in the kernel compiling how-to is that you should never update your kernel "just for kicks", which is of course exactly why I do it, every time!

Mail me if you can't find a fast mirror within the next hour or so, I'll stick the source somewhere public... although the outgoing from my ADSL line is still only 30k/sec so it'll take about an hour to get the whole thing from here.

Cheers,

Finegan

Thanks Fin,

I'm not in a hurry tho. If it ain't broke, I'll crack on with fixing the broken stuff on my system!

Appreciated tho.
Bert