I've seen similar odd oppses/panics on bootup, and so on, for 2.4.22, on other lists (debian-laptop, I think ma-linux, and others). Again, though, I have no way of knowing the skill level of those users. Luke On Fri, 14 Nov 2003, Gregory Nowak wrote: > I think I could exclude the possibility that it's a configuration > problem, since when going back to 2.4.21, I just did a make oldconfig > using my config file from 2.4.22 with no other changes. I am also not > basing my opinion of 2.4.22 on this single machine, since I've tried > installing it on 2 other machines, both of which froze while booting, > and before getting to the login prompt. I remember someone else > reported that same problem on the list a while back, so I know I'm not > the only person who experienced that particular problem. > > Greg > > > On Fri, Nov 14, 2003 at 07:16:28AM -0500, Kirk Reiser wrote: > > Well, it's kinda difficult to say for sure what you mean by crap. > > Certainly we've seen that Greg has had problems with it for whatever > > reason. He didn't actually figure out what his problem was so whether > > it is a kernel code problem or a configuration problem would depend on > > him hunting down the difficulty which he may not bother doing now that > > he's got his system working reliably once again. > > > > For my part I have not made any concerted effort to move to 2.4.22 but > > I do have three machines out of about a dozen using it with no > > difficulties so far. I would say that 2.6.xx is considerably more > > flakey than 2.4.22 at this stage and that's taking into consideration > > that there are major configuration differences between the 2.4.xx and > > 2.6.xx code lines. > > > > So in my opinion 2.4.22 is not particularly scrap. > > > > Kirk > > -- > > > > Kirk Reiser The Computer Braille Facility > > e-mail: kirk at braille.uwo.ca University of Western Ontario > > phone: (519) 661-3061 > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Speakup mailing list > > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup > >
