Mark Hill wrote:

> On Wed, 16 Jun 2004 17:24:18 -0400,
> weevil <doctorwu23@yahoo.ca> wrote:
>
>>is there anything special i have to do to install the testing, 2.6.6
>>kernel?
>
>
> Firstly, it might be a good idea to check that your hardware/system
> setup is currently supported in 2.6. This link has some info:
> <http://www.linux.org.uk/~davej/docs/post-halloween-2.6.txt>
>
> AFAIK, (I have no personal experience), there isn't much that's needed
> to be done to make 9.1 run a 2.6 kernel. The necessary versions of
> module-init-tools and the like are already in place, but maybe you'll
> need the alsa-driver package from /testing/packages/, if you're not
> compiling your own.
>
>
>>will the official release use the 2.4.26 kernel as the default
>>(if i'm uderstanding this correctly) thanks.
>
>
> I think it's very likely that a 2.4 kernel will be the default. Perhaps
> the 2.6 package will make it out of /testing and in to /extra or be made
> as a second kernel option, like 8.1.
>

thanks for clearing that up for me.