Moving to a more recent linux base, when?

[Alexander Leidinger]

Quoting Michal Varga <varga at stonehenge.sk> (from Thu, 23 Aug 2007  
23:05:34 +0200):

> On Thu, 2007-08-23 at 15:16 -0500, Sean C. Farley wrote:
>> Out of curiosity, would setting LD_ASSUME_KERNEL=2.4.2 allow Enemy
>> Territory to work on -CURRENT?
>>
>> Sean
>
> It won't be that easy:
>
>
> Without LD_ASSUME_KERNEL=2.4.2:

> But I have linux_base-fc6-6_2 installed, it isn't supposed to work with
> 2.4 kernel, isn't it?

LD_ASSUME_KERNEL is an userland switch, so it is targeted at the  
behavior of the FC6 libs.

> And, one more bad news, Heroes of Might And Magic 3 (Loki's version) too
> doesn't start (as with Enemy Territory, I noticed that not long after
> 2.6 switch, but didn't have much time for games back then and soon
> forgot about it. I just assumed that this will be fixed later with more
> 2.6 progress and didn't care much then. Well, it still doesn't work).

Without reports there's probably no fix. Run the programs within  
"ktrace -i". Then download linux_kdump from  
http://www.leidinger.net/FreeBSD/ (i386 version for an old version of  
-current...) or compile it yourself. Use it to decode the ktrace dump.  
The resulting text may help to find the cause.

Bye,
Alexander.

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