[arch-dev-public] Kernel 2.6.29 series moved to testing

[Eric Bélanger]

On Wed, Mar 25, 2009 at 11:27 AM, Pierre Schmitz <pierre at archlinux.de> wrote:
> Am Mittwoch, 25. März 2009 11:47:08 schrieb Tobias Powalowski:
>> It seems the 2.6.29 kernel has a network issue, which will be fixed in
>> .29.1 http://article.gmane.org/gmane.linux.kernel/811417
>> At the moment keep an downgrade kernel in your cache if you will be
>> affected by this bug.
>
> I want to underline this. I have serious problems on two different computers.
>
> * the intel xorg driver just produces garbage
>  (tested UXA and EXA; vesa works fine)

I am also experiencing this problem (on i686). I'm using XAA. I
haven't tried UXA and EXA. I'll just downgrade to the kernel26 in core
for now.



> * forcedeth stops working after a few minutes
> * ipw2200 does not work (it does not find any networks)
> * on every boot it complains about broken superblock features and wants to run
>  a fs check (ext4; different hds; totally random) -> make backups ;-)
> * s626 has to be blacklisted; otherwise udev will take a long time and a
>  modporbe process keeps hanging and cannot be killed
> * there might be a problem with the nvidia graphics driver
>
> So you better shouldn't use it unless you don't need network access or you
> have backups of all your data. :-)
>
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