Kernel Question
 

Can someone tell me if its possible to use the 2.4.x kernel in either ubuntu or suse. Or if there is a current distro out there besides slackware that is still using 2.4.x. Thanks

I’m quite sure you can use any kernel with your distro as long as you compile your own.

I could be wrong(I haven’t tried every situation). I do know debian will work fine with 2.4.x & would be surprised if ubuntu didn’t as it is based on debian.

any links or advice on how to go about that?

http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v2.4/

go the above address and download the kernel version you need, once you have extracted it read the README file & it explains the rest.

just out of curiosity why do you want to use a 2.4 kernel.

because whenever i try to use the 2.6 kernel, it hangs on boot because of my video card for some reason and I have to go through all kind of hoops just to get it going. but when I used knoppix with 2.4.7 it ran no problems. so i wanted something besides knoppix and slackware.

what kind of video card do you have and does it give you an error message of any kind?

i have a geforce mx4000. no theres no error, in ubuntu it just hangs when it is saying detecting hotplug subsystem and in suse and knoppix 4 its just during the startup. With suse, I managed to get it to work partially, but what i was having to do was set the card in bios to onboard, and then switching it to the video card in suse itself which was a hassle. all 3 would just freeze and refuse to boot unless i set the default card to onboard in bios.

in all the distros you have tried do they all boot in graphical mode like ubuntu does? it could be the framebuffer device.

yes they all do boot in graphical mode. but even when ubuntu would try to boot in safe mode or text only mode it would still freeze, this is where i would get an actual error code.