A wrap up of my experiences trying to get [Linux 2.6.0-test4 >http://www.cincomsmalltalk.com/userblogs/mls/blogView?showComments=true&entry=3240155373] to run on my system.
Basically. I've got it all working now. Even though my friend David has dropped it, I'll have to use it for a week to see if I have any major problems - I expect none.
Like every major kernel upgrade, you find yourself delving in to the unknown many times. For me it was getting alsa working properly - I had to upgrade my alsa-base, which overwrote the real 2.6 alsa drivers. It was also my usb keyboard and mouse, which I discovered could be added to a /etc/default/modutils or something along those lines as 'always load' modules.
Heck, I even managed to get the closed source nvidia driver running using instructions I found via google. All in all, the upgrade experience isn't as bad as 2.2 to 2.4 was.
Having said that! Let me just say that the three things that stumped me the most were:
- Debian's failure to install the package correctly (this was what made me give up the first time)
- The screwy defaults make xconfig gave me (this is probably the worse)
- The make xconfig UI.. wow! talk about bad UI design. How do you go backwards from what you had before in a dated system? - well, for hints, try grabbing this kernel and starting up make xconfig. It's pathetic. UI states that are inconsistent, broken metaphors, sparsely placed relevant information.. yuck!