Olaf Mueller spake the following on 4/28/2007 3:55 AM:
Ioannis Vranos wrote:
Olaf Mueller wrote:
Jim Perrin wrote:
Upstream has removed nearly all support for ISA devices in the kernel. It was added back into the centosplus kernel for centos4, I'm not sure if it was/will be added to the centosplus kernel for c5.
What a pity. I have installed CentOS on my server and it works very well. So I would like to have it also installed on my notebook with a isa soundcard. Maybe I should give kubuntu a try. But I would prefer the long term support CentOS gives.
Perhaps you may add the ISA support to the kernel yourself, and recompile it? Someone may provide more info on this.
Yes, this could be a way. Initially I have chosen CentOS 5 for my admittedly very old but also nice notebook toshiba tecra 8000 cause of the long term support that CentOS has. This notebook has seen all the fedora core versions from 1 to 6. And after each new upgrade something get wrong, usually the isa sound card stops the work. My hope was to install CentOS once and getting all the things run, yum will do the rest and I get peace for a few years. But if I had to build my own kernel, I will get no peace.
I am completely happy with CentOS 5 on my server. It would be great to have such a nice system also on my notebook.
regards Olaf
Did the laptop work OK with core 3? If so, you might be able to install Centos 4. It still has several years of support left.