On Tuesday 19 August 2003 07:40, Ulrich Plate wrote: > I'm trying to go with the flow and do some 2.6 testing on my Vaio > PCG-R505R/GK, and I'm experiencing a number of things I don't know what > to make of. In no particular order:
I've got a Vaio PCG-FR33. > * The console lost the | character, no matter how hard I hammer on that > key on my Japanese 106 keyboard. Works fine in X, though. Exactly the same deal here. It's frustrating, isn't it? > * cardmgr moans about being unable to get dependency info for eth1 (my > WLAN card) and suggests running depscan.sh, but this apparently > doesn't have any influence on the card - it's running perfectly. I get several errors about modules, including some from cardmgr. However, as with you, everything is working fine so I haven't taken the time to find the source yet. > * The mouse pointer in X all of a sudden whirls around the screen like > it's on amphetamines, MUCH faster than before (pretty much the same > behaviour as in W2K on the same machine) In the kernel configuration, it asks you to specify the screen resolution. This is because the kernel now includes automatic scaling. I run in 1024x768 but find that it scales too much for my liking and so tell the kernel that I'll be running in 800x600. I find that to be more usable. > * My jogdial (really a wheel in the touchpad) has finally started to > ackknowledge it's a middle mouse button! I can now paste highlighted > text by pressing on that wheel - but of course sjogdial comes up, > too... That's a good thing, right? > * KWifimanager crashes with SIGFPE (never had a problem with that in > 2.4.20) This is a strange one. SIGFPE - what's that? Floating Point Exception, maybe? That would more likely be glibc than the kernel. But I can't really give any insight for this one. > * Plugging in (and mounting) a USB flash memory stick works fine, > unplugging it, even after umounting, well: I've attached the dmesg > output... If you check the forums, there's a thread for each test of the 2.6 kernels. All of them, including the one for test3, show many people having problems with device drivers for newer technology - including ones that are working properly in the 2.4 series. Device class '2:0:0:0' does not have a release() function, it is broken and must be fixed. Badness in class_dev_release at drivers/base/class.c:201 Heheh, I love Linux error messages. > Hope I'm not annoying anyone with this not very systematic approach to > debugging... :) Any comments warmly welcome. Not at all! Regards, Jason -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
