i tried the test1 and found it fine stability wise, however i do have a couple of gripes:
1. nowhere did i find anything telling me i should be using module-init-tools rather than modutils. i had to spend the extra 10 seconds typing QM_MODULES into google.
2. devfs/devpts weirdness. not really sure what this is about, but devfs doesnt seem to be creating /dev/pts/ttyp?? entries as it should despite my having disabled devpts. reenabling devpts fixed this - the devfs docs in the Documentation dir said to turn it off, go figure...
Its been pretty solid here. (P3, IDE) There have been a couple problems with peripheral support. I needed to patch the 1394 code to get firewire working. I've had a couple kernel oopsen, but nothing that brought down the whole system. At worst a module would oops on load and then unload itself.
BTW, the VM is significantly better than 2.4. Makes running big apps in 128MB quite a bit more comfortable.
Hardware that works: 440BX mb chipset, PIIX4 IDE controller, PIIX4 USB controller, usb_storage (scsi over usb), SB AWE32 (ISA, PnP) (works with kernel PNP only, not isapnptools; ALSA works, OSS didn't), tulip NIC, Firewire IEEE 1394 VIA controller, lmsensors i2c_piix4 & w83781d, tdfx DRM.
Hardware that I havn't tested yet: usbserial/visor, ide cdrom, ide_scsi, floppy, serial 8250, parport
Looking good so far, running on my primary desktop at home.
I have it on my old compaq armada laptop. Dead stable.
However, if I eject and re-insert my pcmcia network card
(generic ne2k thingy) several times (say four or five) it
then starts to think that the card is a memory card and
refuses it install the right modules. Have to reboot it fix it.
Using Debian Woody + mod-init-tools from source.
Hmm, I should be posting this to lkml, but I'm feeling lazy +
I'm playing with this new forum thing :)
Anyone with similar beheavior?
I am currently running 2.6.0-test1 and it is awesome. I haven't had any stability problems and it seems much more responsive. My only gripe is that the nvidia driver that I compiled doesn't automatically load for some reason. I don't know much about the kernel but it worked fine in 2.4.X Now I have to 'modprobe nvidia' before I can start the X server. Other than that (it might even be a nvidia problem) great work!
I have dealing with lots of options on the kernel while compiling the 2.6.0-test3, it's quite stable, though it was painful to get networking, also MozillaFirebird Freezes after trying to type and URL, Gnome dosen't starts (though i'm using a dev version 2.3.5), but so does KDE (3.1.1), only icewm and xpde works well. Some apps sems to don't start but they do after moving a bit the mouse. I don't know if all this stuff is because the changes in bdflush ro pdflush, and other changes with threads...
I've tried 2.6.0-test[1,4,5,5-mm1,5-mm2], and every time I've hit two major showstoppers:
1. The earlier kernels had FUBARed USB input core support; which meant that when I started the system my mouse would lock up and CPU usage would fly through the roof;
2. swapon -a breaks because of the new swsusp code. Whenever I run swapon -a the computer livelocks. Ugh.
I'm going to try a new -mm or maybe a new -bk to see if these bugs are fixed, becuase I really want to run 2.6.
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/me wants money for an Ub5r 3l33t G@M1nG RiG
2.6.0-test
i tried the test1 and found it fine stability wise, however i do have a couple of gripes:
1. nowhere did i find anything telling me i should be using module-init-tools rather than modutils. i had to spend the extra 10 seconds typing QM_MODULES into google.
2. devfs/devpts weirdness. not really sure what this is about, but devfs doesnt seem to be creating /dev/pts/ttyp?? entries as it should despite my having disabled devpts. reenabling devpts fixed this - the devfs docs in the Documentation dir said to turn it off, go figure...
Changes
Documentation/Changes describes the modutils version requirements. Not sure about devpts.
try both
Yai, devfs is now splitted from devpts (or the other way round). Both have to be activated.
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2.6.0-test1
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Its been pretty solid here. (P3, IDE) There have been a couple problems with peripheral support. I needed to patch the 1394 code to get firewire working. I've had a couple kernel oopsen, but nothing that brought down the whole system. At worst a module would oops on load and then unload itself.
BTW, the VM is significantly better than 2.4. Makes running big apps in 128MB quite a bit more comfortable.
Hardware that works: 440BX mb chipset, PIIX4 IDE controller, PIIX4 USB controller, usb_storage (scsi over usb), SB AWE32 (ISA, PnP) (works with kernel PNP only, not isapnptools; ALSA works, OSS didn't), tulip NIC, Firewire IEEE 1394 VIA controller, lmsensors i2c_piix4 & w83781d, tdfx DRM.
Hardware that I havn't tested yet: usbserial/visor, ide cdrom, ide_scsi, floppy, serial 8250, parport
Looking good so far, running on my primary desktop at home.
-molo
Laptop PCMICA weirdness
I have it on my old compaq armada laptop. Dead stable.
However, if I eject and re-insert my pcmcia network card
(generic ne2k thingy) several times (say four or five) it
then starts to think that the card is a memory card and
refuses it install the right modules. Have to reboot it fix it.
Using Debian Woody + mod-init-tools from source.
Hmm, I should be posting this to lkml, but I'm feeling lazy +
I'm playing with this new forum thing :)
Anyone with similar beheavior?
2.6.0-test1
I am currently running 2.6.0-test1 and it is awesome. I haven't had any stability problems and it seems much more responsive. My only gripe is that the nvidia driver that I compiled doesn't automatically load for some reason. I don't know much about the kernel but it worked fine in 2.4.X Now I have to 'modprobe nvidia' before I can start the X server. Other than that (it might even be a nvidia problem) great work!
Here too
I have dealing with lots of options on the kernel while compiling the 2.6.0-test3, it's quite stable, though it was painful to get networking, also MozillaFirebird Freezes after trying to type and URL, Gnome dosen't starts (though i'm using a dev version 2.3.5), but so does KDE (3.1.1), only icewm and xpde works well. Some apps sems to don't start but they do after moving a bit the mouse. I don't know if all this stuff is because the changes in bdflush ro pdflush, and other changes with threads...
Anyways, good luck ya'll with those kernels.
My luck with 2.6
I've tried 2.6.0-test[1,4,5,5-mm1,5-mm2], and every time I've hit two major showstoppers:
1. The earlier kernels had FUBARed USB input core support; which meant that when I started the system my mouse would lock up and CPU usage would fly through the roof;
2. swapon -a breaks because of the new swsusp code. Whenever I run swapon -a the computer livelocks. Ugh.
I'm going to try a new -mm or maybe a new -bk to see if these bugs are fixed, becuase I really want to run 2.6.
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/me wants money for an Ub5r 3l33t G@M1nG RiG