From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 16181 invoked by uid 1002); 23 Jan 2003 19:22:18 -0000 Mailing-List: contact gentoo-dev-help@gentoo.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-dev@gentoo.org Received: (qmail 20474 invoked from network); 23 Jan 2003 19:22:18 -0000 From: Peter Ruskin To: gentoo-dev@gentoo.org Date: Thu, 23 Jan 2003 19:16:43 +0000 User-Agent: KMail/1.5 References: <200301232105.50700.gentoo@dewet.org> In-Reply-To: <200301232105.50700.gentoo@dewet.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-15" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200301231916.43581.aoyu93@dsl.pipex.com> Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Gentoo-sources vs "stock" kernels X-Archives-Salt: d7402dda-5e48-4065-9f84-5de8e2ef57ac X-Archives-Hash: b331b7eb206e25aa102c75c9ab2b18e0 On Thursday 23 Jan 2003 19:05, Dewet Diener wrote: > Hi all > > I'm wondering what the general status of gentoo-sources is compared to > the more "stock" kernels, like vanilla and -ac? Is it being used in > production-class setups without hitches? I've had only one problem > with gentoo-sources so far, and it seemed to have been > grsecurity-related (random processes getting killed at boot time, from > init onwards), which disappeared as soon as I disabled it from > building. > > I'm preparing to switch a RedHat production-class system over to > Gentoo, and have everything running in a chroot. The only thing I > haven't been able to test is the kernel... > gentoo-sources, xfs-sources and lolo-sources do not have this option: CONFIG_ACPI_BUSMGR: The ACPI Bus Manager enumerates devices in the ACPI namespace, and handles PnP messages. All ACPI devices use its services, so using them requires saying Y here. Without that my USB devices are not detected, so no modem and no printer. So I use win4lin--sources or vanilla--sources. Peter -- Gentoo-1.4.2.8 Unstable. KDE: 3.1.0 (RC6) Qt: 3.1.0 AMD Athlon(tm) XP 1900+ 512MB. Kernel: 2.4.20-win4lin-r1-pnr. GCC 3.2.1 Linux user #275590 (http://counter.li.org/). up 1 day, 5 h, 27 min -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list