FYI, 2.6.0-test2 is 100% stable on my desktop system (ext3). I use sylpheed, MozillaFirebird 0.61 with plugins including mplayer, OpenOffice, CUPS, xterms (aterm), and nvidia kernel and glx support.
A few notes: 1) The default kernel config now omits PC speaker support. It's buried pretty deeply. You need to go to Input devices -> Misc -> PC speaker(NEW). Without this option, you will notice the absence of beeps for duplicates when you invoke bash filename completion. 2) One of the many free gratis configuration changes that the good kernel folks threw my way is ACPI. It works like a champ, but it tooks some digging to find where it is enabled. The major category (power management, or whatever category they call it) gives no indication that power management has been enabled, but if you drill down to the ACPI section, there it is. Needless to say, this was not in the 2.4.x kernel config that I used for the original make oldconfig! 3) Patches are available for the nvidia kernel and glx support. I'm using 1.0.4496 but I'm told that 1.0.4363-r3 will also work. 4) Most users of the new built-in alsa support report success, but I can't get the alsa-ens1371 drivers to work for my SB 16 PCI card. Works fine using the deprecated OSS driver. 5) Reported by various gentoo users: "ut2003-demo has heavy sound distortions and browsing some pictures with kuickshow locks up the computer after some minutes." Personally I have used mplayer to view film trailers (no lockups), but the sound quality varies quit a bit. I don't know whether to attribute this to the new kernel, the fact that I am using OSS driver, or just poor recording quality at the source. "anyone know what happened to the davicom drivers in the 2.5.75 and 2.6-0-test2 kernels? - Its under the Tulip sub-category in the Network Cards section." "Here the matroxfb does not switch to the correct resolution. It remains at [EMAIL PROTECTED] The Documentation doesn't say that anything has changed." "The bubblemon WindowMaker dockapp often crashes with a floating point exeption." -- Collins Richey - Denver Area if you fill your heart with regrets of yesterday and the worries of tomorrow, you have no today to be thankful for. _______________________________________________ Linux-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe/Suspend/Etc -> http://www.linux-sxs.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-users
