Re: RedHat 9 and 2.5.x support

[Antonio Vargas <wind@cocodriloo.com>]

On Wed, Apr 16, 2003 at 08:32:34PM +0200, Felipe Alfaro Solana wrote:
> On Wed, 2003-04-16 at 18:54, Antonio Vargas wrote:
> > I've just installed RedHat 9 on my desktop machine and I'd like
> > if it will support running under 2.5.65+ instead of his usual
> > 2.4.19+.
> 
> I'm running on RHL 9 with 2.5.67-mm3 (plus Russell King PCMCIA/CardBus
> patches) and updated modutils + procutils + nfs-utils. It works
> flawlessly, although I needed some tweaking for "/etc/init.d/rc.sysinit"
> which insists in setting the module and hotplug helper binaries to
> "/sbin/true" due to missing "/proc/ksyms".

I managed to avoid some of these things:

1. I compiled everything in-kernel and disabled modules, thus no modules
   related problems (*)

2. RH9 procutils _seems_ to work fine: I can do "vmstat 1" whereas the older
   gentoo image from summer I used to test boot 2.5 didn't.


(*) RH9 detected my elitegroup motherboard integrated sound and unsed the i810
    module, but now with everything in it seems I can't have sound any ideas?
    Hmm, yes I _did_ compile i810 support in-kernel ;)

I'm also having another problem: gnome-terminal is freaking out when i run
"make menuconfig" on it, very strange....