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. -- MailScanner is like deodorant... You hope everybody uses it, and you notice quickly if they don't!!!!