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On Fri, 7 Mar 2008 08:49:27 +0000, Tom Potts <tompotts@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Thursday 06 March 2008 23:25, Neil Stone wrote: >> Tom Potts wrote: >> > Ok its a fairly shabby suse9.2 with ff1.5.0.7 but I've just managed to >> > convince myself that the download manager screws up when the > screensaver >> > pops on. >> > I cant find the problem on a bug report - not that I've looked that >> > hard! Just wondering if anyone else has noticed this? >> > Tom te tom te tom >> >> step 1, update.. > I cant 'safely' - the later versions of ff use a libc6 which is > incompatible > with suse9.2. The laptop it runs on works for enuf stuff not to want to > try > upgrading it - I just have to remember to wget anything big! > I'm not a great believer in upgrading willy-nilly. Apart from drivers > theres > very little of use to me (other than bug/security fixes) in most upgrades > since Kernel 2.0. What about later versions of your screensaver? > On a tangent here - has anyone heard of a kernel configuration tool that > can > look at your current configuration - ie tell what modules you've got > loaded > and then use that to compile the kernel so you dont have anything you dont > need in it without running through 20,000 options some of which require a > PhD > in computing or a pan galactic gargle blaster to make sense of? > Tom te tom te tom Not heard of one, but that would be nice. :) I thought there was a file somewhere (I figured /proc, but I couldn't find it) that was essentially a duplicate of your current-kernel's config. Or maybe I'm thinking of something else. Anyway, if you build your own kernels isn't there a way to keep your current kernel config and do "make menuconfig" and only have it show you the things that have changed since? I'm sure I remember that too... having said that, it's been a while since I rolled my own. Grant. -- The Mailing List for the Devon & Cornwall LUG http://mailman.dclug.org.uk/listinfo/list FAQ: http://www.dcglug.org.uk/linux_adm/list-faq.html