[KLUG Members] 2.4.22 On The Verge

[Adam Williams]

> > > Did you get the RH RPM's running on something anyway (without LVM)?
> > I don't have anything that doesn't use LVM, except in VMware, and I
> > don't think VMware is self-hosting. :)
> I installed the 2.6-test4 RPM on my laptop and gave it a try. 
> (non LVM)   I also upgraded all the other packages in 
>   http://people.redhat.com/arjanv/2.5/RPMS.kernel/
> Upon boot there were a ton of errors about USB.  Testing shows my USB
> mouse worked in X, but usb-storage does NOT work (w/USB memory stick).
> Log seems to show that hotplug is not working.

That stinks, use USB storage all the time.

> Then there is an error that it can't mount my reiserfs partition -
> reiserfs not supported in this kernel (non critical, so it continued).

Strange.  But reiserfs is always strange.

> XF86 fired up fine.  (going back to original XF86 Nvidia driver, not 
> the custom one downloaded from nvidia.com)
> Gnome couldn't load the (APM) battery applet.

What!

> I played a wav file, and was pleasantly surprised to see my former
> 2.4-ALSA setup worked fine, without anything extra needed by 2.6.
> (the only good thing I found)

Nice.

> Then I tried running vmware-config.pl ... LOL!  :-)
> It hangs trying to UNLOAD VMware (making sure it's not running).
> According to "ps", it's hanging on a "modprobe -r parport_pc".
> No problem, I'll just kill the modprobe and let it continue.
> Well, "kill" doesn't work, either does "kill -9"!  
> In fact, after that, a "lsmod" hangs cannot be killed with a "-9"!
> After that, shutdown fails and requires a power-off.

Right, in 2.6.x you can't unload modules anymore; at least not by
default.  So it may take awhile for VMware to retool for it.

> Then I went into my laptop's BIOS.  The parallel port was turned off, so
> I turned it back on and tried again.  Then vmware-config.pl worked as
> expected - it didn't hang and aborted trying to compile modules.  :-)

But this time module unload completed?  Although they probably never
loaded int the first place.

> (error in structures with missing members)

Of course.

> Not looking good!  :-)

Nope.

>     I'll bring it tonight if you want to see.

Won't be there, unfortunately.