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Re: kernel problems in sid



On Sun, Jul 04, 2010 at 11:49:47PM +0200, Dirk Linnerkamp wrote:
Date: Sun, 04 Jul 2010 23:49:47 +0200
From: Dirk Linnerkamp <dirk_linnerkamp@vodafone.de>
To: debian-laptop@lists.debian.org
Subject: Re: kernel problems in sid

Hi Gerard,

Am Samstag, den 03.07.2010, 00:17 +0200 schrieb Gerard Robin:
Hello,
currently I use the kernels 2.6.26-2-amd64 (from lenny) or the kernel 2.6.30-bpo.1-amd64
on my laptop acer aspire wlmi 5102 but on sid now is only the kernel
2.6.32-5-amd64 (2.6.32-15)  and on experimental, there is the kernel 2.6.34-1-amd64
With the kernel 2.6.30-bpo.1-amd64 all works almost fine but the package
linux-image-2.6.30-bpo.1-amd64  doesn't exist and so I tried the kernel
2.6.32-5-amd64 (2.6.32-15) but with this kernel many things doesn't work
well:
If all works fine with the backport-kernel on your lenny system why want
you use a squeeze kernel?
And what do mean by currently running a 2.6.30-bpo.1-amd64-kernel but
that no linux-image of this kernel exists? If you run this kernel there
must be a linux-image of it.

Sorry if my message isn't clear, but I use sid. Yes there was a linux-image of 2.6.30-bpo.1-amd64 but now in sid
there'is only the package linux-image-2.6.32-5-amd64 (2.6.32-15) which
does not properly handle my video card:
ATI Technologies Inc RS482 [Radeon Xpress 200M]


vlc displays the image in black an white and is reduced to a quarter
horizontally.
cheese doesn't work well.
cdcd works but I can't hear the sound.
hibernation freezes my box
....

I tried the kernel  2.6.34-1-amd64 (experimental)
With this kernel vlc and cheese work fine but cdcd doesn't and
hibernation freezes my box too.

Does anybody know why the kernel 2.6.32 produces all these problems?
Am I alone in this case?


....the problem might be because you use the lenny versions of the
software (vlc player cheese etc) together with a squeeze (sid) kernel.
If you want stick to the 2.6.32 kernel try the vlc, cheese, acpi etc
packages from the squeeze repo instead of the lenny repo.

As I mentioned earlier, I use sid, and all my dependencies are correct.
The module gspca is loaded (I need it for cheese and linphone too).

What surprises me is that the experimental package linux-image-2.6.34 correctly
handles my video card and not the 2.6.32 ? vlc, cheese ... work fine with the kernel 2.6.34.

Thank you to all those who helped me.

--
Gérard

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