[arch-general] Kernel 2.6.32

[Ignacio Galmarino]

On 12/22/2009 05:37 AM, Paul Ezvan wrote:
> Le mardi 22 décembre 2009 à 09:49 +0100, Xavier a écrit :
>    
>> 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.
>>      
> It seems that 2.6.32.2 is broken with r600 chips :
> http://old.nabble.com/-stable--Regression-in-2.6.32.2:-radeon-KMS-hangs-system-p26864854.html
> and
> http://old.nabble.com/-PATCH--stable---drm-radeon-kms:-fix-crtc-vblank-update-for-r600-p26869892.html.
>
> Paul
>
>    
Yes ... it does not work here (KMS + Radeon Mobility HD 3670). Works 
fine with "nomodeset"

Ignacio