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Linux 2.6.9 Released
An anonymous reader writes "Linux 2.6.9 has been released. Read Linus's official announcement, and go get it!" Better yet, if you hanker for the upgrade, use one of the mirrors instead.
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The notes you just glanced at only show the minor changes between 2.6.9-rc4 and 2.6.9. There were a lot of changes between 2.6.8[.1] and the 2.6.9 release.
There are a bunch of important looking fixes for ppc64 and amd64, a fix for a swapd lockup, fixes for xfs and ext3.. most people should probably upgrade fairly quickly, I'd say.
you have to peruse the nvidia linux forum for the fix. I forget what it was exactly, but you have to put a #include in some kernel file, recompile the kernel, reboot, and then the nvidia installer will work.
the real fix will require nvidia to release an update for their driver.
I>I'm going to compile this after work tonight with GCC 3.4 - wish me luck ;-)
:-| I might see if I can use the old .config
.config based on your old one.
Selecting all my settings again in make menuconfig is going to take a while
ever heard of make oldconfig? It creates a new
Bittorrent is only really useful if the initial distributor has very limited bandwidth and/or a poor mirroring system. Neither is true for kernel.org, so just download it from ftp..kernel.org and be happy, no need for a torrent.
There are no stable and development branches anymore. For kernel 2.4 the development branche was 2.5 but there will be no 2.7 development branch for 2.6
2.6 build automatically picks up your running kernel config (from /boot/config-2.6.x) so you don't have to configure everything.
I too have had many problems with the 2.6 kernel series and 2.6 and 2.8 ssh versions, specifically pertaining to samba authentication, pam modules, and X forwarding, amoungst other inconsistencies. Not always problems with kernel or openssh per se, but it's the little stuff that gets you.
;)) unless it's stuff that we can't ourselves can't answer.
If you'd like some help head over to ##linux (yes, that's two pound signs) at freenode.net irc and ask me (same nick), or anybody. We tend to be very helpfull, and try to keep the "google that" and "RTFM" to a minimum (with some exceptions
IRC is the best linux help out there as far as I'm concerned. E-mail lists and forum sites aren't very condusive for troubleshooting because of their non-realtime nature. Stop by.
Why, o why must the sky fall when I've learned to fly?
You might want to read this discussion. It seems the old way of doing things, using even sub-versions for stable and odd for testing is no longer going to be done. So, a 2.7 kernel is not going to happen for quite some time.
I have discovered a truly remarkable sig which this margin is too small to contain.
If you use the propietary nvidia drivers.... Forget it, DONT UPGRADE to 2.6.9 ! Its very very broken :(
This works ... I grabbed it out of a patch file...
... Why the hell on kernel.org is 2.2.19 the latest stable... lol
Add this to arch/i386/mm/init.c
On line 43 right below unsigned int __VMALLOC_RESERVE = 128 20;
add this line...
----- Begin -----
EXPORT_SYMBOL(__VMALLOC_RESERVE);
----- End -----
nVidia drivers WILL work. I'm using 2.6.9 and 6111 nvidia drivers right now.
Btw... http://tuxq.com/~tuxq/wtf.jpg