2.6 stable kernel is out!!!

raylpc · Posted: Thu Dec 18, 2003 4:17 am Post subject: 2.6 stable kernel is out!!!

It's just released in www.kernel.org

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frippz · Guru Joined: 22 Aug 2002 Posts: 460 Location: Sweden

Before Xmas even. What a gift from the devs...!

ikaro · Advocate Joined: 14 Jul 2003 Posts: 2527 Location: Denmark

Yup

someone just told me on irc , 1h 20 minutes ago

So x-mas aint going to be so bad afterall , thx !
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noff · Posted: Thu Dec 18, 2003 4:38 am Post subject:

I already have it installed and runs great.
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Tasslehoff · Posted: Thu Dec 18, 2003 4:41 am Post subject:

I now know what I am doing tonight

Stormy Eyes · Posted: Thu Dec 18, 2003 4:57 am Post subject:

Hella-farking-yeah, baby! Looks like I've got something to do during my vacation after I get back from eating my relatives out of house and home. I wonder if the love-sources will be updated to handle 2.6-stable; I've been meaning to try them instead of the mm-sources.

CDLM · Posted: Thu Dec 18, 2003 5:02 am Post subject:

Joy to the World, stable has come,
the latest kernel tree.
old 2.4 is gone,
2.6 still lives on,
compile it with glee,
compile it with glee,
compile, compile, compile with glee.

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xgecko · n00b Joined: 02 Feb 2003 Posts: 48 Location: Seattle, WA

When it gets to portage will it be under vanilla-sources? And has there been any word on when it will be added to portage? Also I've noticed people saying we need to update the module tools, what would that intell in Gentoo?

noff · Posted: Thu Dec 18, 2003 5:09 am Post subject:

Now that it is "stable" will the portage tree be changed to sys-kernel/26-sources and sys-kernel/24-sources or something like that (because those are horrible names). I don't want to run development-sources if the kernel is stable.

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Stormy Eyes · Posted: Thu Dec 18, 2003 5:09 am Post subject:

Stormy Eyes · Posted: Thu Dec 18, 2003 5:22 am Post subject:

I'm hoping that FARK accepts my headline submission:

Admiral LSD · Posted: Thu Dec 18, 2003 5:27 am Post subject:

You'll need to install module-init-tools but that shouldn't be a problem on Gentoo as the ebuilds have been listing that as a dependency for virtually the entire time it's been in development so I can't see why the new vanilla-sources ebuild would be any different.
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CDLM · Posted: Thu Dec 18, 2003 5:47 am Post subject:

finally, Transgaming better get working on the cd-protection errors with 2.6 and diablo 2 now...

- Dave -

ikaro · Advocate Joined: 14 Jul 2003 Posts: 2527 Location: Denmark

got it running ... somethings arent working yet ..
nvidia drivers are up, vmware is up , sensors urmm .. where the heck is that , framebuffer hmm not working .. alsa ..oss ermm no sound.

and the terms lockup when I type the password for 'su' or type exit from an already started su session.
This only happens ~5 minutes after ive booted.

mayber later today i'll have this fixed.
:lol:

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Mnemia · Guru Joined: 17 May 2002 Posts: 476

I noticed that glxgears and glxinfo + other assorted random apps segfault on me when running under the 2.6 kernel but not under 2.4. Do I need to upgrade/recompile glibc or something?

Mystilleef · Guru Joined: 27 Apr 2003 Posts: 561 Location: Earth

Compiling the 2.6 kernel is a little different from compiling the 2.4 kernel. The most evident difference is the need to compile dev pts into the kernel. I'm not on my linux box at the moment so I can't give the exact name of the feature.

Also, if you don't have any SCSI disks, you don't need to compile any of the SCSI modules including ide-scsi!

Lastly, sound in 2.6 is different. Now the kernel uses the ALSA feature natively. So no need to for OSS. There is a 2.6 Alsa howto on the gentoo multimedia forums, it will guide you through the process of setting up sound for 2.6.

That's all I can remember for now.
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petrjanda · Posted: Thu Dec 18, 2003 9:01 am Post subject:

there better be a LiveCD with kernel 2.6 stable soon and with documentation on the website.

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Cossins · Posted: Thu Dec 18, 2003 9:18 am Post subject:

Ian Goldby · Posted: Thu Dec 18, 2003 9:19 am Post subject:

Almost no one who is already running 2.6.0-test11 will need to 'upgrade' to 2.6.0-final. That's because the devs did such a great job on the release process that there was almost nothing to fix in the final iteration.

Here's the change log. Unless there's something in there that was breaking 2.6.0-test11 for you, don't bother recompiling.

lightvhawk0 · Guru Joined: 07 Nov 2003 Posts: 388

Yay I'm trying to make it work in genekernel I for some reason enjoy working hard at bein lazy.
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robostac · n00b Joined: 26 Aug 2003 Posts: 34

frekiR · n00b Joined: 15 Dec 2003 Posts: 42 Location: Sweden

great! time for some compiling