[Hoary] using the Warty kernel ?

Bob Nielsen nielsen at oz.net
Sun May 8 04:13:43 UTC 2005


On Sat, 2005-05-07 at 20:54 +0200, Vincent Trouilliez wrote:
> > Your first message mentioned you were doing this to try to make a TV
> > card work that worked fine under Warty. Does Hoary work WITHOUT the
> > card installed? (I ask this because I filed kernel bug 8813 and it
> > ultimately turned out to be a conflict with an old ISA modem. I bought
> > a Lucent "winmodem" supported by the lt_modem driver for US$5.)
> 
> Doesn't look like it's the same problem. Hoary works fine with and
> without the card, and I do'nt have any ISA card. It's just that there is
> a problem with the SECAM norm, each and everytime I want to
> switch/change channel/station, I have to select PAL then SECAM again. If
> I just leave it on SECAM (as it should be, and as is specified in
> the .xawtv conf file), the tuner is unable to switch channel, it keeps
> displaying the current/same channel over and over. A bit weird...
> Still, it may well be a kernel bug too, albeit another one. Hence why I
> am trying to retro-fit the Warty Kernel, to try to narrow it down...
> 
> 
> > I am NOT an expert, but it seems like you might also have the problem
> > you describe if you copied the kernel but did not copy all the kernel
> > modules. Did you install the kernel using APT or Synaptic? If you did
> > not, you will want to go back and use them to install the kernel
> > package because it will save you LOTS of headaches.
> 
> Ah, looks like I did it wrong then. Can I really install the Warty
> kernel in HoOary with Synaptic ? Will it not screw up the whole system ?
> Well I have nothing to lose, I will try...
> I will also get rid of the RAID0 device, to try to make things as simple
> as possible.

I'm running an older kernel on hoary without any problems.  It's
actually self-compiled from the warty linux-source-2.6.8.1 patched for
my HD-3000 card (which should work without the patch when 2.6.12 is
released) and also patched for win4lin.

Bob






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