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

[Eric Bélanger]

On Thu, Mar 26, 2009 at 6:08 PM, Eric Bélanger <snowmaniscool at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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.

I forgot: I'm getting this problem for both  kernel26 2.6.29-2 and -3.


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>> * 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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>> Pierre Schmitz
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