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Re: 2.6.14 kernel woes



On Sunday 27 November 2005 19:24, you wrote:
> 2.6.14 in Sid won't allow DMA to be turned on for my diskdrives. As
> you can imagine, ext3 with a 5 second commit means that for every 5
> seconds, the machine locks up for a full second to do it's disk
> transfers.
>
> Very nasty.

This problem, I did not have. Thankful for that much.

>
> 2.6.12 worked very well indeed. I'm a little bit concerned that the
> Debian kernel maintainers are also "waiting on 2.6.15".

2.6.12 was fine except that snd-mpu401 would not load. Never fixed.

> I do want to thank them for including frame buffer support in
> 2.6.14-2, which wasn't working in -1 because of the new yippi (or
> whatever) initrd build system.
>
> If 2.6 ever stabilizes, maybe then there will be time to take care of
> details.
>
> I wonder if the "stock" kernels are having the same problems?
 

>--
>September 11th, 2001
>The proudest day for gun control and central 
>planning advocates in American history

Yeah, if I had my 22, those planes would not have gotten near those 
buildings :-)



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