ACPI is still broken... Had to turn it off. Well apart of some hangups with "aviplay", and probably due to its raw alpha status, I have not seen any serious problems. I tested NFS, NCP and SMB connections, kicking a few gigs in and out. Games work ok, both OpenGL & SDL based. There seems to exist some loose in performance on what concerns such things like AVI and MPG in relation to some hackernels ago. Things got slower by 20% on framerate. At least the test-6 based performed relatively better. Music seems to work at all levels. Both drivers, OSS & Alsa do not seem to create any serious troubles. On 0.1 I have observed a few source rpms breaking on building due to compiler/linker errors. For the moment I have not noted this on 0.2 but note that these phenomena is quite random. There is only a warning point. During 2.4.0 kernels I have noted that the kernel drops some messages about APIC with the following format: "APIC error on CPU# @@@" @@@ means the following codes: 08(08) 08(02) 02(02) 04(02) 02(04) The frequency of these errors varies from build to build. On 0.2 it seems that they mostly restrict to CPU0 and are much less frequent than on earlier hackkernel builds. These messages seem to have relation to some incongruencies on my motherboard's design (an Abit BP6). At least, during 2.3 tests, I had noted several errors with a more specific "human-readable" content that showed this situation. However, now, these codes are only numeric and I'm too lazy to search for them. The general preformance has not suffered with these errors and SMP works much more stable than 2.2. Well to finalize. I tested the machine in a more user desktop environment. As a server supporter I don't know how well the kernel would preform. Anyway I think that it is pretty usable. Compiler gcc 2.96 Last rpm packages for kernel building System working with glibc 2.2 Ektanoor
