Help: FC4 crashing regularly

[Timothy Murphy]

Arthur Pemberton wrote:

>>>It is a cdrw drive which was workign perfectly in FC3.
>>
>>Surely this is a question of the kernel,
>>not the distribution.
>>Couldn't you compile and run an older kernel?
>>(Or just get it - together with modules and initrd -
>>from an FC3 box?)
>>
> Well yes I could just get an older kernel. However I've come to accept
> that being part of Fedora is taking a few hits for the team in the name
> of testing. I don't think it helps anyone but myself to go to an older
> kernel.

I must say I don't regard the kernel as part of the distribution.
The two seem orthogonal to me.
It's nice to have a kernel that's supposed to work,
but I always compile one as soon as I can.

In your case, I would have thought that running another kernel 
would be very likely to help diagnose the problem.

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