[plug] debian woody and kernels

[Anthony J. Breeds-Taurima]

On Fri, 7 Feb 2003, sol wrote:

> Hi again,
> 
> I followed Tony and Carl's advice and made my laptop unbootable. 8-) But I'm 
> pretty sure this has something to do with APM support for Vaios. I did some 

Use ACPI not APM.

> more trolling around for info on vaio install and found that they don't like 
> 2.4 kernels < 2.4.17 which is what I'm using and higher is better seems to be 
> the verdict. 
> 2.4.18 (which is actually 2.4.17)  is the highest version of kernel source in 
> the debian package directory. I was wondering if there are any pitfalls in 
> getting non-deb kernel sources and compiling (specifically 2.4.20)???

one of my prouctions boxes:
cat /etc/debian_version ; uname -a
3.0
Linux danish.canningcollege.wa.edu.au 2.4.20 #4 Tue Feb 4 14:51:02 WST 2003
i686 unknown

> I did this once some time ago and got my fingers singed....

None, follow the instructions you had from before but insert a "unpack
tarball" before :)


Yours Tony.

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