Radu-Cristian FOTESCU skrev 16.7.2011 13:47:
tmb, I hate you.
making kernel-desktop-latest to point to
kernel-desktop-3.0.0-0.rc7.2.1.mga2 instead of
kernel-desktop-devel-2.6.38.8-5.mga2 was a big mistake.
Nope. It was intended, planned, tested and announced before:
https://www.mageia.org/pipermail/mageia-dev/2011-July/006681.html
there should have been something like kernel-desktop-latest3 for a
while, to let people test that 3.0 thing (rc, right? I know this is
cauldron, but I'd still prefer a kernel that works) while still having a
2.6 kernel.
You still have the 2.6.38.8 kernel installed so you can boot it if 3.0
does not work.
this 3.0 kernel is a piece of crap. my acer laptop behaves hectically
(now I have a mouse, now it's frozen, now the system claims it will
reboot, now I have to press the power button for 5 seconds to shutdown
it), bcm4311 doesn't work even with the correct firmware in
/lib/firmware/b43, a fully-fledged pita.
Have you filed bugreports here or upstream ?
reverting to 2.6.38.8-5 brought back the joy (and the wireless internet).
but I suppose there won't be any update to the 2.6.38.8 kernel, right?
Nope.
even for an unstable thing like cauldron this is rather wrong, because
3.0.0 is not a released kernel as of yet. and a working kernel is a
precondition to a working distro.
Well it works here. (and for many other Cauldron users).
and both i586 and x86_64 kernels were tested on a i7-860 workstation and
on a Acer TravelMate 5720 laptop before submitting to the buildsystem...
forcing an rc-something as the current kernel is... unbenevolent
dictatorship.
There is no forcing...
the old kernel is still installed so you can use it if you need.
And if you dont like automatic kernel upgrades, uninstall kernel-*-latest
yeah, I know, fedora rawhide and kubuntu 11.10 also have this
3.0.0-rc7-crap sort of thing. so you can't have the latest packages
(including the latest kde) w/o having a broken kernel. sigh.
but my message stands. tmb, I hate you for pushing this kernel as a
forced update via kernel-desktop-latest.
Thanks
its always good to know my work is appreciated...
--
Thomas
