[WBEL-users] X problems with 2.4.26 kernel

[William Hooper]

Bevis.Peters@ftid.com said:
> I tried rebuilding the Intel 855 drivers from source, but no change.
> The last line in the XFree.0.log it shows is:
> (II) I810(0): Primary V_BIOS segment is: 0xc000
> whereas the working version with the 2.4.21 kernel gets past that to: (II)
> I810(0): VESA BIOS detected
> ...
> 
> 
> unfortunately i'm somewhat out of my depth here.  I don't know how to
> find out if my kernel has NPTL, or how to compile it in if it doesn't!

If you got it from kernel.org and it is 2.4, it doesn't have NPTL.  You would have to do a lot of work to get Red Hat's NPTL patches to integrate.  I think it would be safe to argue that going to a 2.6 kernel would be easier.  At that point, though, you have to ask yourself if you really want WBEL or a more "leading edge" distro.

To ammend my first response, I meant to say that "another possiblity is NPTL", not the "only" other possiblity.  I do know that RHEL is heavily geared toward NPTL, so other things will most likely break even if you do get a kernel.org 2.4 kernel to work with X.


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William Hooper