Kernel Question

killiansdlight · 12-15-2005, 05:50 PM

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

joelkeeble · 12-15-2005, 05:55 PM

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.

killiansdlight · 12-15-2005, 06:12 PM

any links or advice on how to go about that?

joelkeeble · 12-15-2005, 06:26 PM

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.

doralsoral · 12-15-2005, 07:20 PM

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

killiansdlight · 12-15-2005, 09:08 PM

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.

doralsoral · 12-15-2005, 09:14 PM

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

killiansdlight · 12-16-2005, 10:16 AM

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.

doralsoral · 12-16-2005, 12:02 PM

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

killiansdlight · 12-24-2005, 09:01 AM

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.