On Sat, 15 Feb 2003, Christian Walther wrote: > My experiences with the two new kernels on an 867MHz TiBook (Radeon > Mobility 9000): > > > kernel-2.4.21.0.pre4.5mdk-1-1mdk.ppc.rpm > > Doesn't work very well. Sound seems to work (no error message at >
Thanks. Looks like benh will be the better option on the newer machines. > > kernel-benh-2.4.20-5mdk.ppc.rpm > > Works fine. To be exact, exactly as fine as benh-2.4.20-3mdk. X display > Good, I'll issue a new kmods against it shortly, as well as the Mandrake kernel. > Another thing: Recently, I'm frequently having freezes at startup, > sometimes at the black screen before X comes up, sometimes at the blue > X startup screen before any windows appear. Mouse is frozen, no > reaction to any key presses (including screen brightness, which works > from very early on with the benh kernels). This is independent on which > kernel I use. I'm having the impression that it starts when switching > from one kernel to another, then comes again for the next few restarts, > and once a startup finished successfully, it doesn't return until I > switch kernels again - but I'm not completely sure about this. I > suppose it's one of the things that continue getting started in the > background while X comes up. Any ideas on what it could be, or how I > could narrow it down? A depmod is run with a new kernel, not sure what else might be going on in the background. You could try to boot into runlevel 3 and see if you can see more of what's going on. (append "3" to your yaboot choice, ie: 2320-benh 3) Stew Benedict -- MandrakeSoft PPC FAQ: http://www.linux-mandrake.com/en/ppcFAQ.php3 IRC: irc.freenode.net #cooker-ppc Archives: http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=mandrake-cooker-ppc&r=1&w=2
