Slackware upgrade woes

[Ralph W. Reid]

Did you change the reference in /etc/lilo.conf to point to the new
kernel (2.4.29)?  Did you install the speakup.s kernel from the
kernels directory?  Am I way off track because it is too late/early
here for my brain to function properly?

Hopefully something in these questions proves helpful, and have a nice
day :) .

On Tue, Apr 05, 2005 at 10:53:01AM -0400, Chuck Hallenbeck wrote:
> I have been sitting on this SW 10.1 distro for a few weeks, and
> yesterday decided to upgrade my SW 10.0 distribution to the new release.
> I chose to do it like Adam described, following the procedure Patrick
> recommends in the file "upgrade.txt" on disk 1, and everything seemed to
> go okay, except for the kernel. My old kernel (2.4.26) remained in
> place, although the 2.4.29 source tree was put in place. Before
> rebooting I copied the speakup.s kernel to /boot, but not replacing the
> original yet, and made a new entry in /etc/lilo.conf, then ran lilo.
> 
> Well, speakup.s (2.4.29) more or less worked, but my sound drivers were
> not working, and my networking did not work.
> 
> So being a big boy and all, I patched the 2.4.29 source tree from my
> checkout script, fixed a couple of things, then compiled and installed
> the new kernel. Still no sound, but now networking works. I have mail,
> my firewall is intact, web access is okay, but my sblive is not
> detected.
> 
> Being superstitious, I used "removepkg" to drop all the alsa packages,
> then installpkg to reinstall them again, still nothing.
> 
> Grrrrr...
> 
> I have three choices I am willing to make, and will be obsessing over
> them for a few hours.
> 
> 1. Do a clean install of SW 10.1, which will be a pain in the OS to say
> the least.
> 
> 2. Wave bye bye to Slackware and give Debian a whirl. I have Shane's
> installation disk ready to go here.
> 
> 3. See if I can get on board with Gentoo, which seems to be getting
> noticed lately.
> 
> Meanwhile, patching 2.4.29 with the current speakup from CVS gives me a
> crippled mark/cut/paste feature. Marking works fine, but cutting locks
> up my system tighter than a drum. Not good. I cannot live without
> mark/cut/paste any more.
> 
> Bummer.
> 
> Chuck
> 
> 
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