I've been using 2.6-test11 primarily for the last couple of weeks. For the desktop user I think the most noticeable change are the new sound drivers, ALSA. The old OSS still exists, as well as an OSS compatibility layer for ALSA. My experience with ALSA is that it gives me a little too much power. In my experience with my Sound Blaster Live! emu10k1 card, by default, no sound was coming out. I opened up alsamixer and fixed that. But it sounded kind of flat and voices were quiet in comparison to other sounds. I fiddled around with the literally dozens of options now in alsamixer and now it works fine. I hope now with ALSA in widespread use there will be some develop of a just-make-it-sound-good auto config thing. The commercial distros will probably write scripts to setup it up right.
Though I haven't done blind test trials, I think ALSA sounds better. More full. But its hard to say.
I'm currently having trouble with test11 and CDs. For some reason, I have to load the ide-scsi module for the DVD and CD-R to work at all even though I specifically configured the kernel with not having to do that in mind (the ide-scsi module being in bad-taste according to Linus.)
Untarring...
Ian
Benjamin Story wrote:
Linus released the first official 2.6.0 kernel today. Go to the usual places and download your copy today.
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