Stephan, Thanks for testing. The 0.6.x branch is considered stable and won't be getting any major upgrades like the kernel. It's a HUGE undertaking which will break many many things. Also, we've not seen the same problems with most systems. We realize that 2.6.20 is getting older which is why we've upgraded that in our SVN trunk version. This will be released as 0.7.x at some point in the not yet determined future (best answer is "when it's ready").
There are some additional changes/updates that need to happen to trunk before we can recommend trunk to anyone other than developers. I'm pretty sure that recent kernels support the RealTek chip you mention below. I don't have the hardware you mention, but after we tidy things up a bit more in trunk, we'll have images available for you to play with. Regards, Darrick monettes wrote: > > Hi, > > After playing with AstLinux 0.6.2, I'm finding problems with RTC and the > ztdummy module. When I execute the zttest command, I get really bad > results running on an Intel Atom 1.6 motherboard (always in the 99.98% > or less!) > > Just to make sure I was chasing the right issue, I compiled > AstLinux-Trunk with kernel 2.6.26.8 and the same zttest command prints > out much better results (always over 99.99%). > > After reading a bit on the web, I found that the RTC and the High > Resolution Timers are screwed up in kernel 2.6.20 and the author > recommends to upgrade at least to 2.6.24. > > How can we cleanly upgrade the kernel on Astlinux 0.6.2 or do we need to > wait for the next release? > > We also need to replace the r8169 network driver for the RealTek 1Gbps > ethernet card to the r8168_n network driver (downloaded from RealTek). > Many new MSI boards use the new RealTek ethernet chip. > > I'm no expert on building kernels, but let me know how I can help. > > So far, I was able to get AstLinux running well on my cheap Wind PC > system by updating the ethernet driver and by enabling the HD audio with > the alsa tools. I also got my CrystalFontz 635 LCD display running well > by enabling the USB_SERIAL and USB_SERIAL_FTDI_SIO in the kernel. But I > had to add this line: "hpet=disable" in the astlinux-0.6.2.run.conf file > in order to run properly. I just need to fix this High Resolution Timer > problem in order to have a perfect AstLinux system. > > Thanks. > > Stephan Monette > Unlimitel Inc. > TollFree: 1-877-464-6638 > Fax: 613-482-1077 > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > _______________________________________________ > Astlinux-users mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/astlinux-users > > Donations to support AstLinux are graciously accepted via PayPal to > [email protected]. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ _______________________________________________ Astlinux-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/astlinux-users Donations to support AstLinux are graciously accepted via PayPal to [email protected].
