drshdw Posted December 29, 2003 Share Posted December 29, 2003 which 2.6 kernel should i download? and how do i update mandrake 9.2 with the new 2.6 kernel? thanks Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Iguana Posted December 29, 2003 Share Posted December 29, 2003 Download this one. You won't acutally be "updating" MDK, rather adding another kernel, and keeping the current one. That is always a good idea, just in case something goes wrong with the new kernel. Just compile the kernel, and then modify your bootloader .conf file accordingly to include the 2.6.0 kernel. Hope that helps. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
neowin_hipster Posted December 29, 2003 Share Posted December 29, 2003 You'll definently want to add the supermount patch for it. There is a sf project and its also found in Con Kolivas patches. Mandrake uses the patch by default. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
drshdw Posted December 29, 2003 Author Share Posted December 29, 2003 iguana, i'm new to linux, so i dont know how to exactly do all this stuff? i downloaded the kernel, but i don't know what to do. also, how do i get my ati radeon 7000 to have opengl acceleration while using kde. and when i do mandrake update, it gives me a lot of "bad signatures" for the downloaded stuff, should i still go ahead and install it, or no? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MG-Cloud Posted December 29, 2003 Share Posted December 29, 2003 I think the link he gave you is slightly wrong ... AFAIK it is a patch against 2.6.0-test11. I would try getting the full kernel - this way you don't need to learn how patch works (yet) :D http://kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v2.6/linux-2.6.0.tar.bz2 <- the full kernel sources for linux-2.6.0 (~30-40MB) As root, tar xvjpf linux-2.6.0.tar.bz2 ... then mv the directory it created to /usr/src cd /usr/src/linux-2.6.0 If you want to add in supermount, get it from sourceforge and apply the patches (as outlined on the site). Then: Configure the kernel: make menuconfig Compile the kernel: make bzImage modules modules_install HTH, and good luck Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MrStaticVoid Posted December 29, 2003 Share Posted December 29, 2003 Don't forget to symlink /usr/src/linux to /usr/src/linux-2.6.0 (ln -s /usr/src/linux-2.6.0 /usr/src/linux) so that driver compilations like the nvidia drivers will work. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
neowin_hipster Posted December 29, 2003 Share Posted December 29, 2003 Also, it would hurt updating /etc/modules.autoload.d/kernel-2.6 with whatever modules you created. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
drshdw Posted December 29, 2003 Author Share Posted December 29, 2003 oh, ahh thats confusing, lol. does linux support mounting dynamic ntfs drives? cause apparently i can't see my 120gig =\ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
drshdw Posted December 29, 2003 Author Share Posted December 29, 2003 (edited) how do i get sound to work, i'm using an ac'97 on the kt133 chipset, but no sound =\. sorry if i sound new, because i am and also, how do i update kde to 3.1.4? i downloaded all the components, but i have no idea how to install or use kconstruct. Edited December 29, 2003 by aznx Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MG-Cloud Posted December 30, 2003 Share Posted December 30, 2003 Yep, NTFS is supported. However, you can only read files (or write to a file with the exact same filesize as before). Just enable NTFS support in your kernel (under File Systems). To get sound to work, there is a section under Device Drivers - I'd recommend using ALSA over OSS (making sure to use OSS emulation in the ALSA section). Also, make sure you use alsamixer to unmute your sound channels. As for KDE, no idea ... I'm more of a Gnome person. You're using Mandrake right? AFAIK, it should handle something like that for you if they have the packages... but I've never used Mandrake before. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
aldo Posted December 30, 2003 Share Posted December 30, 2003 Just wait for Fedora Core 2 which won't be long off and will have Linux kernel 2.6 built in. Kernel compilation is probably the hardest thing you can do on Linux, so wait for someone to do it for you :p. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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