Gene Heskett wrote: > On Saturday 23 August 2008, Mikkel L. Ellertson wrote: >> I am not sure I am reading this correctly - are you building your >> own kernels, and not using the Fedora ones? > > Yes Mikkel, been doing that for years, probably from about 2 weeks after I > installed RH5.1 all those years ago. I tried the fedora kernel again as a > test for something about 2 weeks ago, the test still failed and its scheduler > is _still_ broken. Pauses as long as 5 seconds while it does something else. > > It got better early in the 2.6.26-rc series and has stayed good. I usually > build and install it about as quick as I see the notice from Linus of a > new -rcX patch on lkml. > > I wrote a couple of scripts to unpack and apply the patches and do the 'make > oldconfig' (from the previous kernels .config), and another to do the build > and install, leaving me with 2 minute session with vim to setup grub.conf and > reboot. Simple, painless, & maintains my local configuration choices. > Highly recommended by Dr. Gene. :) > Someone with more knowledge of the differences between the stock kernel and the Fedora will have to comment on it, but I wounder if there is an option missing in your compile, or a patch that Fedora makes, that is giving you problems with Pulse Audio? PA is supposed to be a user-space daemon but maybe it needs hooks into the kernel for information, or operation... I used to build all my own kernels, but lately I have gotten lazy and used the Fedora kernels, except for a couple of old RedHat servers and an old Sparc Station II. Mikkel -- Do not meddle in the affairs of dragons, for thou art crunchy and taste good with Ketchup!
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