Re: which 2.6 kernel will be in sarge?
I have narrow the problems down to i845 (intel graphics chip) and drm
bugs in the kernel. note I say the kernel and not X drivers. This is
because the same X driver works well with a 2.6.8 kernel and 2.6.9,
but it locks sporadically with 2.6.10 and 2.6.11-rc3!!
I don't know what the problem is exactly. I have followed the
recommendations that I have found so far by Googling a lot about the
only errors i get to see during boot. The main recommendation is to
increase the VRAM allowed in the BIOS to 8mb (which I have done).
After that the system keeps locking up anyway when X starts. And you
can't get to see any messages on the screen.
If i boot with no X, in dmesg there are interesting errors about DRM
and how agpgart detected 8mb of memory "stolen". Go figure.
I'll try to file bugs as soon as I understand better what the problem
actually is (X problem, driver problem, kernel module problem or the
kernel itself...)
On Fri, 11 Feb 2005 03:17:42 -0500, Andres Salomon <dilinger@voxel.net> wrote:
> On Mon, 07 Feb 2005 19:59:02 -0500, Luis M wrote:
>
> > For the record, 2.6.10 is a lemon. It has serious problems with
> > intel-agp driver. If you have a computer that uses such driver for agp
> > (a lot of us do) all you have to do is leave the computer running for
> > a number of days and you will know what i mean.
> > If you look at the changelog for 2.6.11 you will see what the root of
> > the problem lies. Please do not use 2.6.10. Wait for 2.6.11 or use
> > 2.6.9, which is probably the best so far. (Xandros 3 is using 2.6.9
> > and so do other distros). (And yes I know Xandros is debian-based).
> >
> >
>
> I don't see a bug report at all for this, for 2.6.10. Please report
> bugs. We can backport driver fixes like this pretty easily. 2.6.11
> will most likely introduce lots of instability; that's how the new kernel
> dev model works.
>
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