On Mon, 18 Feb 2002 12:41:21 +0100 (CET) Holger Rauch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hi Ron! > > Thanks for your reply! > > On Mon, 18 Feb 2002, Ron Johnson wrote: > > > On a workstation, after the installer defaulted to 2.2.20, I downloaded > > kernel-source-2.4.17 & kernel-headers-2.4.17-k7, then built my own > > kernel, choosing "Athlon". No problems... > > Ok, a few questions: > > 1. Did the 2.2.20 kernel work with your Athlon XP? Or, put in > different words, is an Athlon XP backwards-compatible with a > "regular" Athlon so that an older 2.2.x kernel can be used as well? (I'm > asking because to me it seems not obvious why you switched to 2.4.17.) 2.2.20 is built for i386... > 2. Were you able to use the new features of the Athlon XP? Don't quote me, but I think that the difference between the Athlon XP and Athlon are all in hardware (i.e., no new OS-accessable features) > 3. What Debian distro are you using (Woody or Potato)? Woody > 4. Where did you get kernel-source-2.4.17 & kernel-headers-2.4.17-k7 from? $ apt-cache search 2.4.17 |grep ^kernel |grep 17-k7 kernel-headers-2.4.17-k7 - Headers for Linux kernel version 2.4.17 on AMD K7 kernel-image-2.4.17-k7 - Linux kernel image for version 2.4.17 on AMD K7 $ apt-cache search 2.4.17 |grep ^kernel-source kernel-source-2.4.17 - Linux kernel source for version 2.4.17 kernel-source-2.4.17-ia64 - Linux kernel source for version 2.4.17 on IA-64 $ sudo apt-get -u install kernel-source-2.4.17 kernel-headers-2.4.17 -- +------------------------------------------------------------+ | Ron Johnson, Jr. Home: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | | Jefferson, LA USA http://ronandheather.dhs.org:81 | | | | 484,246 sq mi are needed for 6 billion people to live, 4 ! ! persons per lot, in lots that are 60'x150'. | ! That is ~ California, Texas and Missouri. ! ! Alternatively, France, Spain and The United Kingdom. | +------------------------------------------------------------+
