System is a DEC PWS 433au (Miata) running "Sarge". The 2.4.27-2 kernel
works fine in all aspects as near as I can tell.
Since I run 2.6 kernels on my non-Alpha hardware, I decided to give the
2.6.8-2-generic package a try. The experience wasn't a *complete*
disaster :-), but I ran into the following issues:
(1) PS/2 mouse not working
Fixed this one quickly thanks to the blurb in the accompanying
documentation about needing to load the "psmouse" module.
(2) hardware clock not being accessed correctly to set system time
The hours/minutes/seconds seem to be correct, but the year is
thought to be 2053 (!).
(3) cdrom drive not found/detected
Saw a bit of discussion of this topic on some of the other
non-Alpha Debian lists, but didn't find anything I thought
might be applicable. Here's what I see during boot with
the 2.4.27-2 kernel:
Uniform Multi-Platform E-IDE driver Revision: 7.00beta4-2.4
ide: Assuming 33MHz system bus speed for PIO modes; override with
idebus=xx
hda: TOSHIBA CD-ROM XM-6202B, ATAPI CD/DVD-ROM drive
ide0 at 0x1f0-0x1f7,0x3f6 on irq 14
hda: attached ide-cdrom driver.
hda: ATAPI 32X CD-ROM drive, 256kB Cache
Uniform CD-ROM driver Revision: 3.12
...and here's what I see with 2.6.8-2:
Uniform Multi-Platform E-IDE driver Revision: 7.00alpha2
ide: Assuming 33MHz system bus speed for PIO modes; override with
idebus=xx
/etc/modules contains ide-cd, ide-detect, ide-disk, and sd_mod
in that order. The second (ide-detect) is bogus for 2.6, but
I don't think that's a show-stopper.
There might be some other "gotchas" lurking in the background, but if
I can get past (2) and (3) I'll be happy 2.6-on-Alpha user for now :-).
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