[arch-general] Kernel 2.6.32

[Xavier]

On Tue, Dec 22, 2009 at 12:35 AM, Frank Hale <frankhale at gmail.com> wrote:
> I was using the testing kernel 2.6.32 without an issue but then when
> the kernel went to core my system would no longer boot. It would start
> to boot half way then just go dead. I don't have any error messages to
> post because the screen went blank. Grub was working fine as far as I
> can tell. I had to use the Arch live CD to revert kernels back to an
> earlier version. Has anyone been having issues with the stable kernel
> 2.6.32? Like I said, 2.6.32 from testing worked fine.
>

Uh ? It is the same package that moves from testing to core. The move
cannot break anything.
When you use testing, and a package gets moved, you cannot even notice
it, because pacman -Su won't do anything : you already have the latest
packages.
Maybe you want to be a bit more specific about which version exactly
you were using ?
If you don't know, you can check pacman logs.
The changes to kernel26 can be seen here :
http://repos.archlinux.org/wsvn/packages/kernel26/trunk/?op=log&rev=0&isdir=1
There has apparently been one revision for each stable kernel release so :
2.6.32-1
2.6.32.1-1
2.6.32.2-1

2.6.32.2 contains 5 radeon patches :
http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v2.6/ChangeLog-2.6.32.2
If you can actually confirm that this is what broke your setup, this
narrows down the issue extremely.
The list of changes between 2.6.31 and 2.6.32 is likely awfully huge.