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On Thu, 7 Apr 2005, Zhang Weiwu wrote:
Jeremy Huddleston wrote:
On Wed, 2005-04-06 at 17:37 +0100, Ciaran McCreesh wrote:
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Err, thank you for the warning, now I wish to know: I am running UltraSparc 2 with two CPU, does that mean I should avoid using 2.6.x?
I think I have enough trouble with my ultrasparc 2.4.27 kernel, and I am not even sure if I upgrade to 2.6 kernel I will get more problems or less. Maybe I should not use sparc as desktop at all.
I use an untra-2(SMP) as a desktop with no problems, kernel-2.4.27-sparc-r1. For me, on this system, kernels 2.6.x are so unstable as to be unusable.
1) keyboard vs kbd problem in xorg, took me one day to discover;
Sorry. It's a bug in xorg, and I never have pushed it very hard because I keep thinking that kernel-2.6.?? should become stable on these systems *almost any day now*. But that was my thought last December, and I might revisit this.
I have tried as hard as I can to publicize the problem; I know that it is noted in the sticky xorg-x11 forum thread and on my d.g.o/~fmccor site.
2) sound behave strangely. Sometimes it just hangs. I try not to watch any video on that box, usually it gets suddenly silent after watching 20 minutes
Can't comment; don't use sound at all.
3) video behave strangely. With xorg-x11 6.8.0-r3 anything use SDL have wrong color, I have vlc compiled with "ggi" and if I enable "ggi" output, play video == restart X. I thought this is solved in xorg-x11 6.8.2 but upgrade to 6.8.2 only require me add "cfb" module, SDL is still wrong.
Same comment about publicity. Please review the xorg-x11 tracking bug 79467 at https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=79467,
get the patch, do what comment 6 says (except that it should now read
patch -p0 -b -z- < {path-to-xorg-x11-6.8.1.904-sparc.patch}
and rebuild xorg-x11. This will fix SDL problems for you.
4) xscreensaver seems ignore keyboard interaction / only notice mouse movement. If I write a long email, I'll be interrupted several times.
Can't comment. My screen saver is "dpms off"
If I upgrade to 2.6
* above 1) and 2) may get solved * I may get extra SMP problem * I may get extra SCSI problem * above problem 2) may get even worse
Conclusion: looks like I should not upgrade...
I wouldn't upgrade. I would apply the patch and rebuild xorg for getting SDL right. There is information around on sound support on U2, but I don't have it. You might check #gentoo-sparc IRC or maybe the forums for information.
Hope this helps, Regards, Ferris
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