On Thu, 5 Aug 2004, jeem machine wrote:
On Thu, 5 Aug 2004 19:21:25 +0100 (BST), M A Young m.a.young@durham.ac.uk wrote:
On Thu, 5 Aug 2004, Duraid Abbas wrote:
I just installed fedora core 2 release and I want to change the kernel to version 2.4. How do I do that? And will that cause any problems?
Just find the latest FC1 kernel and install it (rpm -ivh --oldpackage). The only thing that is at all difficult is getting the mouse to work as 2.6 tends to use /dev/input/mice which doesn't work in 2.4.
Michael Young
I think FC! uses /dev/mouse but I am not sure
But /dev/mouse is usually a symbolic link to whatever the real mouse device is. On FC2 machines this might be /dev/inputs/mice which doesn't get you anywhere. You have to work out what device your mouse really is, /dev/psmouse IIRC is common (standard ps/2 mouse) but it depends on your hardware.
The FC1 update kernels are available from http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/fedora/linux/core/updates/1/i386/ or your favourite Fedora mirror.
Michael Young