Slackware 10.2
Well I discovered today the reason why my kernel recompile was not behaving as expected.
Here is what I was doing, first I was taking the config.gz that is located in /proc folder and moving that to /usr/src/linux and ungzip, then rename to .config. If the kernel was a different build than the current one in use I would use the command make mrproper,make distclean, and then make silentoldconfig and set everything that differed to default setting. Then I do a make, followed by an hour of passing time, then make install, then make modules_install. Chase all that with a lilo and shutdown -rf now.
I have discovered that when one installs the linux 2.6.13 kernel from /testing section of the SlackWare 10.2 DVD, they are installing the kernel, and all the modules. I was under the assumption that the modules that were installed from /testing were only the ones that the kernel (and the kernel’s config) had set to build (either as module or internal). Apparently this is not the case, the kernel config doesn’t include sound, i2c, some file systems, etc. So I simply had it build everything under sound as a module, and set the applicable sis stuff under graphics to internal build, not module, this enabled me to utilize more console/graphics modes from bootup.
I did try slackpkg to update/upgrade my slackware packages, boy did this thing fuck things up, it removed the modules to kernel 2.6.13 (the one I was using), and installed the source to 2.4 kernel. So I restarted and noticed no support for ntfs, iso9660 (cdrom/dvdrom), and no ethernet modules to load. So my poor linux box was for a while totally cutoff from the world. But I booted the slackware dvd and installed the 2.4 kernel, rebooted again into linux and reinstalled the 2.6.13 kernel and modules, followed by recompiling the kernel with sound, and sisfb and accellerations.
I did try KDE 3.5, received a few Xorg errors and noticed no improvements that would warrant continuation for the time being.
Another good note is that I do have Samba working with our intranet, so file sharing is again functional.
