Kernel Upgrade.
Yes, finally I upgraded my kernel (I was using 2.6.8!) [1]
Well, the kernel migration went perfectly:
#apt-get install linux-image-2.6.14-1-k7 linux-headers-2.6.14-1-k7 linux-source-2.6.14
#vim /boot/grub/menu.lst (organized the entries, adding a vga=791 at the end of each kernel line, so I get a usable terminal at boot time)
reboot
OK.
uhm, lirc is not working, neither is X.
Lirc is expected to break everytime something changes the kernel (because, frankly speaking, lirc is a mess[2] of integration of kernel, deamon, device, and userspace binary)
Uh, X is not working, It may be a buggy driver, so I downloaded the driver from Nvidia's site (http://download.nvidia.com/XFree86/Linux-x86/1.0-7676/NVIDIA-Linux-x86-1.0-7676-pkg1.run). Executed it and went smoothly (I heard the old versions doesn't work with kernel 2.6.14)
Now getting back to lirc: I spend some 4 hours trying to make it work in several ways, with different sources, packages, methods and so on, but what I learned is that I need to get the last version of everything[3].
Now I just have to reinstall vmware, the rest seems to be working very well (remembered another thing, my USB is still using 1.1, because it is corrupting my thumbdrive every now and then, I have to update my BIOS and try with the new kernel)
[1] For reasons I may tell in the future.
[2] I'm no kernel specialist, but I find very frustrating trying to make lirc work, is it really necessary to integrate lirc and kernel so tightly?
[3] I will post a lirc installation soon (I Already wrote it, but I need to test again and see if the procedure is ok).
Well, the kernel migration went perfectly:
#apt-get install linux-image-2.6.14-1-k7 linux-headers-2.6.14-1-k7 linux-source-2.6.14
#vim /boot/grub/menu.lst (organized the entries, adding a vga=791 at the end of each kernel line, so I get a usable terminal at boot time)
reboot
OK.
uhm, lirc is not working, neither is X.
Lirc is expected to break everytime something changes the kernel (because, frankly speaking, lirc is a mess[2] of integration of kernel, deamon, device, and userspace binary)
Uh, X is not working, It may be a buggy driver, so I downloaded the driver from Nvidia's site (http://download.nvidia.com/XFree86/Linux-x86/1.0-7676/NVIDIA-Linux-x86-1.0-7676-pkg1.run). Executed it and went smoothly (I heard the old versions doesn't work with kernel 2.6.14)
Now getting back to lirc: I spend some 4 hours trying to make it work in several ways, with different sources, packages, methods and so on, but what I learned is that I need to get the last version of everything[3].
Now I just have to reinstall vmware, the rest seems to be working very well (remembered another thing, my USB is still using 1.1, because it is corrupting my thumbdrive every now and then, I have to update my BIOS and try with the new kernel)
[1] For reasons I may tell in the future.
[2] I'm no kernel specialist, but I find very frustrating trying to make lirc work, is it really necessary to integrate lirc and kernel so tightly?
[3] I will post a lirc installation soon (I Already wrote it, but I need to test again and see if the procedure is ok).
posted by Eduardo at 5:26 AM
2 Comments:
thanks for the info. i will be glad to hear when you get vmware to work with kernel-2.6.14.
thought-provoking, mootable pv. just my thoughts, well anyways gl & be chipper is what i say
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