On Sun, 2004-02-29 at 15:24, Harold Crouch wrote: > SP> This goes away with 2.6 kernels for the most part. (Things like > SP> ide-tape are still broken enough that ide-scsi will probably work > SP> better, unfortunately, but CD-RWs and similar devices won't need > SP> ide-scsi anymore.) > > Today's upgrade to Kernel 2.6 has gone reasonably smoothly; only 20 or > 30 landmines were encountered. :-) > > The vast majority of 2.6 error messages disappeared when I cleaned out > /etc/modules. (And the same error messages no longer appear during > 2.4 startup!) I don't quite see the reasoning behind /etc/modules; > Linux doesn't seem to have any problems auto-detecting hardware all by > itself. > > The CD-R was dead until I remembered to go into into /etc/fstab and > switch "scd" back to "hdc." > > Under 2.6, Grip isn't detecting audio CDs when I insert them in the > CD-R. I might not have this new ALSA system correctly configured. > Then again, maybe Grip uses OSS instead of ALSA. I'll just have to > futz with it a little longer. > > I still get error messages telling me that modules cannot be located > and it is assumed that the fuctionality is rolled into the kernel. In > fact, the modules *are* rolled directly into the kernel! Why doesn't > the kernel see that? (That was a rhetorical question.) > > I'm not yet burnt out; maybe I'll see if I can make cdrecord work. Harold, The attached zipfile contains the three released parts of a five-part white paper on migrating to the 2.6 kernel. They're in HTML format. They might be helpful. --Doc
Migrating_to_Linux_kernel_2.6_Parts_1-3.zip
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