OK, You gues are going to love this one.  I'm not the world greatist
programmer; but I have been a Sys-Admin for quite some time and never seen
anything like this ...

We have three Dell machines.  Two PowerEdge 1600's with the stock ATI Rage
XL onboard video and a PowerEdge 1400SC with a Matrox G450.

A stock install of RedHat 9.0 drops the 2.4.20-8(smp, accordingly) kernel on
the box.  If I do the RedHat up2date, I'm still good.  However, if I upgrade
the kernel manually, I'm toast -- X is dead.

I have to upgrade the kernel becuase of the unique hardware/software
combination that my company uses.  We have a custom built 2.4.20 that works
great on the PE 1400SC, PE1600, PE2600 and PE4400 with RedHat 7.3.  Also on
RedHat 7.3, I can upgrade/downgrade the kernel to my hearts content with no
problems.

But on RedHat 9.0, if try and use any other kernel than what RedHat
distributes, I'm toast.  X trys to start and fails.  I've tried the
2.4.20-custom that we make and the 2.6.0-test9 to no avail.  After I upgrade
to a new kernel, the RedHat kernel (or X) is modified in some way which
causes X to no longer run with the stock RedHat 2.4.20-8 kernel.

Either the installer or something I'm doing is terribly breaking X or the
kernel drivers.  I've also seen this problem on different non-Dell machines
with RedHat 9.0.

Has anyone seen a problem similar to this?  What am I doing wrong?

Thanks,

-brian



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