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July 14, 2004

2.6.7, part II

Got tired of make install failing, so finally I just created an entry next to the other ones for grub and rebooted.

2.6.7 boots, but with some failures. X of course does not work, because of my on-board Nvidia graphics support. I even hosed my 2.4.21 nvidia.o impatiently letting the Nvidia module builder overwrite the old module. On-board Ethernet didn't work either, so there I was stuck without even web access.

By then I was flustered and had to calm down for a while before managing to think naturally and debug the problem. Guess it's time to read up on 2.6 before I try to go further.

Some of the dmesg makes good copy:

...
ehci_hcd 0000:00:02.2: irq 5, pci mem f881c000
ehci_hcd 0000:00:02.2: new USB bus registered, assigned bus number 1
irq 5: nobody cared!
Stack pointer is garbage, not printing trace
handlers:
[] (usb_hcd_irq+0x0/0x70)
Disabling IRQ #5
...

Why change the kernel, anyway? That's a good question. Maybe if you're not good enough to fix things that are broken, you naturally start trying to fix things that aren't.

Posted by Mark at July 14, 2004 10:02 PM