Hi again,
After quite a few stability problems with CentOS 4 and my laptop I have decided to go back to Centos 3.
I installed it and got everything working alright, apart from the wireless network card. I need to use ndiswrapper and so require a newer kernel (2.4.26 at least), so I downloaded the kernel source 2.4.30, copied the right configuration (config-i686), made oldconfig and installed the kernel.
Everything boots alright but X complaints about invalid checksum in the video bios. Searching for this error message it mentions that I should enable agpgart and support for my card (i852 or so) in the kernel, but it is already supported (I have tried it as a module and compiled right in).
Anyone got any suggestions on how to get X working again? Do I need to get any extra RHEL patches before I can compile the code?
Any help will be greatly appreciated.
Gabriel
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On 5/7/05, first last prelude_2_murder@yahoo.co.uk wrote:
I installed it and got everything working alright, apart from the wireless network card. I need to use ndiswrapper and so require a newer kernel (2.4.26 at least), so I downloaded the kernel source 2.4.30, copied the right configuration (config-i686), made oldconfig and installed the kernel.
Everything boots alright but X complaints about invalid checksum in the video bios. Searching for this error message it mentions that I should enable agpgart and support for my card (i852 or so) in the kernel, but it is already supported (I have tried it as a module and compiled right in).
Anyone got any suggestions on how to get X working again? Do I need to get any extra RHEL patches before I can compile the code?
Yeah, the reason this doesn't work is because CentOS 3 requires NPTL support in the kernel. A stock 2.4 kernel doesn't support this (RH backported NPTL into their 2.4 kernel). You would either need to patch the 2.4.30 kernel w/ the NPTL patches (not sure how plausible this is), or compile your own stock 2.6 kernel (this is doable but not trivial on CentOS 3). Search around the forums of the list archives for pointers on running a 2.6 kernel on CentOS 3 if you are interested.
-Ryan
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