[arch-general] Kernel 2.6.32

[Frank Hale]

This is what my video card shows when I do lspci

01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc RV610 video
device [Radeon HD 2400 PRO]


On Tue, Dec 22, 2009 at 10:32 AM, Ignacio Galmarino
<igalmarino at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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
>
>