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10-08-2003, 02:48 PM
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Registered: Sep 2003
Distribution: Slackware 9-ish
Posts: 30
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2.6-testX troubles....
Greetings all,
After having upgraded my 9.0 to 9.1 w/ swaret(r00l!) I was tempted to try a 2.6 kernel to squeeze the last bit of performance out of my aging rig. Well, I first tried a vanilla 2.6-test5. I did a make menuconfig and such and everything went fine with compiling, copied the kernel, system.map, and .config over, and rebooted. The kernel booted up fine, finding all my hardware and everything, so I logged in, did a startx, and then a few seconds after X was loaded, lock. A hard damn lock. No keyboard response, no mouse, no nothing.
I thought maybe it was just some remaining oddity with 2.6-test5 so I went out and got a shiny new 2.6-test6 and applied the mm1 patch to it. Redid all the steps, and when I rebooted, the same thing happened. It just hard locks after running for 30 or so secs.
I followed roughly, this post: http://www.linuxquestions.org/questi...989#post507989
to do all the compiling and such. I'm fairly familiar with the process, so I must ask, what am I doing wrong? I don't have any crazy hardware, and I compile everything built into the kernel with no modules(although I do the modules steps anyways.)
Anyone have any suggestions? I'm at a loss, but need the speed for my poor old computer.
Thanks everyone,
-Flecko
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10-08-2003, 03:08 PM
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Registered: Apr 2003
Location: Sweden
Distribution: Slackware
Posts: 242
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Hmm, sounds similar to what happened to me...I had just installed Slack 9.1, and after configuring the firewall and such I (naturally) went on to compile a custom kernel. I used version 2.4.22, and used the same config I had used for 2.4.22 in Slack 9.0. Rebooted - everything went fine. Fooled around in the CLI for a while, configuring some more things - everything went fine. Started up XFree86 - and after about 30 secs, boom. Hard lock.
I still have no idea what caused this, I'm looking for an answer as much as you do (my current compilation of 2.4.22 works all right though). I'm just saying that your problem is not necessarily 2.6-specific...have you tried compiling a 2.4.22 kernel, and if so, did it go smoothly?
Very odd, indeed. 
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10-08-2003, 03:13 PM
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Member
Registered: Sep 2003
Distribution: Slackware 9-ish
Posts: 30
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Yup, i hand upgraded to 2.4.22 before I even put slack 9.1 on here. The odd thing is, if I don't copy my .config over, 2.6 runs great, albeit without any devices such as net card or USB mouse. I'm trying to narrow it down....but I'm pretty stumped.
Keep'm coming
-Flecko
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10-17-2003, 05:24 AM
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Member
Registered: Jun 2003
Location: Reading, UK
Distribution: Debian 3.0, LFS
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The odd thing is, if I don't copy my .config over, 2.6 runs great, albeit without any devices such as net card or USB mouse
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Are you copying your old kernel configuration over to the 2.6 one? I read somewhere that you shouldn't do that, and that copying configs from 2.4 to 2.6 would cause trouble. You should just set every option by hand.
If you can't remember them, just do both in X terminals, and set the options on the 2.6 as similar to those on the 2.4 that you can.
Guy
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10-17-2003, 09:01 AM
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Registered: Sep 2003
Distribution: Slackware 9-ish
Posts: 30
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No, I wiped my old kernal src dir and everything. The 2.6.x src is the only kernel src on my HD.
I'll have to try again with 2.6-test7.
Thanks for the suggestion though,
-Flecko
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10-17-2003, 09:53 AM
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LQ Newbie
Registered: Mar 2003
Location: Finland
Distribution: Slackware
Posts: 28
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I did have the same problem with 2.6-test7-mm1, so I did fall back to 2.6-test6-mm4 and everything seems to work now...
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