Now running 2.5.40-bk4
Bob Raymond
guarneri
Mon May 17 11:38:33 PDT 2004
On Sat, 2002-10-05 at 23:51, Keith Antoine wrote:
> On Sun, 6 Oct 2002 07:01, Bob Raymond wrote:
> > I finally got 2.5.40 compiled, by applying the BK4 patch. It's
> > definitely different from 2.4.19. Sound quality is definitely better (I
> > have a Turtle Beach Santa Cruz), and I like having Alsa part of the
> > kernel now. It seems somewhat slower, though, and hogs my memory. I'll
> > admit to using bloatware, but as soon as KDE gets fired up, I check
> > free, and it reports about 400mb of RAM in use, whereas I only used
> > about 150 to 200mb with 2.4.19. I don't think my data's about to get
> > lost, so I'd say if you're feeling up to a new kernel, try this one.
> >
> >
> > Bob Raymond
>
> I am stuck with 2.5.40, so what is a BK4 patch when its at home ?
BK4 patch is latest from the BitKeeper tree. I needed it to get XFS to
compile. I'm not terribly happy with the kernel, as it's messed up USB
printing slightly- getting that sorted out right now.
Bob Raymond
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