I finally installed 2.6.test1 (recompiled Arjans SRPM) on my home computer and want to share some of my findings. Generally, it works great. Feels more responsive. I also was able to use all my hardware, including my digital camera, which never worked in linux before. I recompiled Nvidia drivers with patches from www.minion.de and they work fine. Occasionally, I see the warnings in /var/log/messages about calling sleeping functions in illegal context in nvidia module. I finally installed ALSA drivers (the old OSS ones were working great and with improved performance, too), and acpid and both worked for me. The odd things: I'm unable to use CDROMs unless I manually insert ide-cd module. I could not find any error messages in the logs, that could explain why. When I try to mount cdrom, I just get an error message saying that /dev/hdc is not a valid block device. My US Robotics ISA modem, didn't work. To make it work I had to add pci=noacpi to kernel boot parameters. It looks that sometimes kernel can't find the required modules without alias statements in /etc/modprobe.conf file. For example it couldn't add a loop device, with a message that block_major_7 module was not found. This never happened in 2.4 kernels. Also, CD burning without SCSI emulation doesn't work. Both my CD-RW and DVD drives are identified as Adaptec ACB 5500. Pavel. -- Shrike-list mailing list Shrike-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/shrike-list
