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I've compiled a new kernel on a few occasions, really for no reason other than to find out how and learn a bit about the kernel. Really though Pat's kernels are more than fine for my fairly old machine (3 years+), but, that said, I may well switch to 3.9.x from 3.8.6 (on 14.0) when that comes out.
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I always stick with the -current kernel unless there is a good reason to run a different one
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I've got a server running in my living room running 14.0 which will be keeping the default kernel until the hard drive gives out..
However on my day to day laptop I tend to get the itch now and then and compile a new kernel.. There are a bunch of bug fixes and such between 3.2.29 and 3.2.44, which I figured would be good to get.. However when I tried to run a later 3.2.x series kernel I was getting hard lock ups, so I've jumped to 3.4.37, which is running great. |
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I try to stay with the stock kernel but I just saw that 3.9 has been released so here we go again....
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I use the default generic kernel plus initrd. I've only tampered with the kernel once: before Slack64 came out, I enabled HIGHMEM64 (or whatever) to get the full benefit of my RAM.
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Usually I use the kernel that comes with Slackware. For my experiments I use the latest stable kernel.
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I try to keep with the latest stable kernel, but don't upgrade every time there's an update because compiling the kernel is very time consuming on my hardware. I tend to just download the full kernel source - because patching has never gone well for me...
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The kernel developers being the experts, I upgrade as soon as they release to STABLE.
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Can't go past 3.4
Anything past 3.4.x breaks my video (ATI Radeon X2300)
Something to do with how it detects the monitor in KMS, if I replace the code for the radeon-kms from 3.4 kernel it works. |
3.2.29-huge-smp has been working almost perfectly on my laptop thus far, so I haven't needed Kernel fiddling. Though I compiled 3.4.8 on my test install and it worked great but with udevd hiccups, may be my fault.
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I usually stick with what is shipped with slackware. I'll use other kernels to fix driver problems which of late have involved ati/nvidia video cards problems.
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