On Thursday 11 October 2007 11:18, Gene Heskett wrote: > On Wednesday 10 October 2007, Ric Moore wrote: > >On Wed, 2007-10-10 at 20:44 +0200, Rudolf Kastl wrote: > >> 2007/10/10, Rohan Kulkarni <rohan.sjce@xxxxxxxxx>: > >> > Hi, > >> > Not really.I am a Linux newbie.I just want to check out if there > >> > is better hardware support.for ex for SATA hard disks etc. > >> > >> read the changelog then. if you are new to linux you probably should > >> look into other things before wasting your time with kernel builds. > >> > >> regards, > >> Rudolf Kastl > > > >I agree completely Rudolf, and would actually warn him not to dink with > >a kernel until you really know just what the heck buttons you are > >pushing. Red is never a good color to push. and the kernel is fulla > >Shiny Red Buttons (SRBs)! > > > >Back in the day, when you needed only serial, parallel, ppp, network > >card, mouse and sound card support (oh yeah, atapi for your CD) rolling > >a kernel was a piece of cake and the order of the day. I put it all into > >kernel space and didn't even dink with modules. I had 32 megs of memory > >which was just gobs of space then. I got speed improvements that were > >noticeable, as compared to the stock kernels included at install time. > >"$ Rolling your own"="$ manly stuff" back when. > > > >Today?? With all the "STUFF!" to consider and actually know lots about, > >I wouldn't touch it with a ten foot pole. Especially if you are new to > >Linux. ESPECIALLY then. Just think "Shiny Red Buttons", ...and decide. > > > ><evil cackles> Ric > > It's not a problem here <smirks>, Ric. Uptime on a 2.6.23 kernel here is > 21h04m ATM. Its stable for me so far, and possibly a few percent faster > when busy, but that's a bit hard to quantize. I have been running the > current Linus development kernel here for about 3, maybe 4 years now. With > lots of modules, not builtin. I haven't been bitten more than 2-3 times in > that same period. Stock, as in distro, kernels have bitten me many times > more than that. > > -- > Cheers, Gene Gene. If you've enabled sound, and alsa in the 2.6.23, what alsa driver version is it showing. cat /proc/asound/version Nigel.
