Well, 3D-Hardware-Acceleration will not work until NVIDIA provides an updated driver. Apart from that, the kernel-included "nv" driver seems to work without problems (tested on GeForce 5200FX).There's lots of "use 2.6" messages here, but does anyone have a list of what doesnt work/needs work list for general desktop machines before I take the leap?
e.g, is older hardware supported (PIIX - since they removed the tuning
option from 2.4 this has been a disaster for me)
nvidia keeps cropping up
I cannot get rp-pppoe (ADSL), version 3.5, running on 2.6, too. Seems like a change in a kernel interface broke it. Strangely enough, ADSL via SuSE's smpppd did continue to work (I switched to Gentoo only recently).
XFree looks like it has problemsVersion 4.3.0 works fine under 2.6.1 on my machine. YMMV.
XFS and some other (unspecified) file systems have problemsWell, if you've heard these have problems and use those file systems, I would advise caution until these things are worked out. Testing a scanner is one thing, wasting an FS another...
In any case, if you want to try 2.6.x, make sure you install it alongside the one you're using now so you can easily switch back if you experience problems. The system responsitivity under heavy I/O load ("tar xjf"...) was greatly improved, so personally I hope these 2 things that prevent me from switching, non-working Hardware OpenGL and ADSL, are fixed soon...
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