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maillog: 11/05/2004-17:37:39(-0400): Kevin types |
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> On Tuesday 11 May 2004 15:38, Paul de Vrieze wrote: |
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> > On Tuesday 11 May 2004 20:55, Kevin wrote: |
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> > > |
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> > > Thanks for your reply, Greg. Although what you say here may be |
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> > > true in some circumstances, I think you're wrong in this case. You |
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> > > may have stopped reading after the above paragraph, but in the rest |
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> > > of my post, I describe how a SuSE9 distro installed on this same |
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> > > hardware has no problems doing all of the things that failed in |
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> > > Gentoo. That's a pretty strong indication that there are no |
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> > > hardware problems, isn't it? |
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> > |
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> > Do you also have errors when you run a vanilla kernel? |
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> Yes, I mentioned that in my first post. Or by vanilla do you mean a |
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> kernel from kernel.org (as opposed to the Gentoo vanilla-sources |
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> kernel---that's the one I tried; isn't that identical to the kernel |
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> from kernel.org?) |
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You didn't try development-sources, according to your original post. You only |
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mention 2.6.5 gentoo-sources. What about a vanilla 2.6.5 (2.6.6 already)? |
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> > What if you |
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> > take the kernel from SUSE, |
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> I haven't tried installing Gentoo with my SuSE kernel running. Huh... |
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> what a concept. With all the modularity of those default distro |
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> kernels, would that even work? Maybe I'd need the kernel, the |
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> System.map, and the /lib/modules/`uname -r` directory? |
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You don't even need the System.map. |
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