On Fri, Dec 31, 2004 at 04:01:08PM -0800, Florin Andrei wrote: > Yeap, i thought about that, but the problem is that the developers of > the patch (driver) may ignore bug reports from people not using the > vanilla kernel. I know that the Fedora kernel is not too bastardized > (it's pretty close to vanilla, like Arjan said) but... <shrug> IME the vanilla kernel (2.6.9 anyway; I haven't tried 2.6.10 yet) works well enough with Fedora. FWIW, if you end up going with 2.6.9, then after you get vanilla 2.6.9 working, you may want to try a 2.6.9-ac kernel (e.g. 2.6.9-ac16). IIRC 2.6.9-ac is more up-to-date in terms of security fixes than vanilla 2.6.9, and the ac patches are less invasive than the Fedora ones so it's easier to merge them with 3rd-party patches. (At least, that's my experience.) -Barry K. Nathan <barryn@xxxxxxxxx>
