Arne Vogel wrote:
William Kenworthy wrote:
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
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).
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 problems
Version 4.3.0 works fine under 2.6.1 on my machine. YMMV.
XFS and some other (unspecified) file systems have problems
Well, 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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Ummmmmmm. I am running the latest NVIDIA drivers (5336-r1) on a FX5200
board with OpenGL and it runs just fine. In fact, it runs America's Army
faster and with higher framerates than the same hardware under Windows.
Yes it does taint the kernel, but I am fine with that for the
performance. The biggest issue I have with 2.6.x is the problem with
using KVM's. I have to plug my mouse directly into my desktop for the
mouse to work correctly with the 2.6.x kernels. Sound and performance
have been great otherwise. As with anything else, use caution when
making the switch. Keep a copy of your current kernel around until you
are sure that 2.6.x is for you. Good luck!!
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