I rule . . . for trivial versions of rule.

[zotz]

Well, adding a couple of lines to /etc/modules and commenting out a surplus line in XF86Config is what it takes to get X running under 2.6.0

In theory this is already fixed. Or, at least, I got the information from the mailing-list archives which also say it's been fixed. Oh well.

Still, this means I have 2.6 running. Now for some sound . . .

Comments

[tals.livejournal.com]

Bah! Although I've coaxed it to work, it's a real pain running it on a Sony Vaio. Beautiful graphics and sometims sound... until you try to reboot!

[zotz]

I'm impressed you made it that far. Laptops sound like a lot of work.

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[yehoshua.livejournal.com]

Laptops are the Achilles heel of Linux installers. Red Hat seems to do an okay job of it, but Debian and SuSE reduced two of my students to tears. One caved and moved to RH, the other went completely insane and beat OpenBSD into submission on his old Toshiba, an accomplishment which inspires an equal mix of awe and Apocalyptic doom in all the people I know who've ever had to get OpenBSD running.

This is why I shelled out the $$$ for a Mac for my laptop needs. Once I git gcc installed, I was able to build pretty much whatever else I needed and turn it into a decent unix system, but with better graphics and sound.