On Wednesday 04 February 2004 00:48, William Kenworthy wrote: > There's lots of "use 2.6" messages here, but does anyone have a list of > what doesnt work/needs work list for general desktop machines before I > take the leap? I recently upgraded from gentoo-sources-2.4.22-r5 to development-sources-2.6.2. Everything works great in my case (or, to answer your question: nothing doesn't work=).
Well, guess my hardware is pretty standard: * Intel 815 board, Celeron2 1200MHz (kernel compiled w/PentiumIII as CPU-type) * GeForce2 MX 400, using nvidia binary drivers (1.0-5336, using kernel agpgart). OpenGL performance increased notably from 2.4/nvidia-1.0-4496. (glxgears from ~900FPS to ~1000FPS, just a quick test, window at standard size, of course. Think this is pretty OK considering the hardware.) * USB mouse worked nicely * Two audio cards: ens1371 and i810_audio (I use OSS because I'm lazy and have no need for ALSA). Works perfectly. * VESA console framebuffer works. * Keyboard with NOrwegian setup works both in console and X (heard something about problems with the 2.6 non-US keyboard support, but have not noticed any in 2.6.2) * IDE controller (intel PIIX) works nicely w/DMA enabled for all connected devices (UDMA-100) * CD burning with ide-scsi works. Upgrading didn't require any dramatic system changes, nor any re-compiles of installed packages. I am a very happy user of a snappy new 2.6 kernel on my desktop machine. Guess this is another "use-2.6" message. One thing worth noting: You should enable the devpts pseudo file system in the 2.6-kernel series (gentoo-install guide recommends to turn it off for 2.4-kernels). Without it I was unable to open terminals in X/KDE (konsole, xterm, ...). OT-PS. Don't use gentoo-sources-2.4.22-r5 if you use EXT3 as file system. (some EXT3 bug(s), triggered by portage in perl-installs/upgrades, file system gets corrupted (not destroyed)). -- < �yvind Stegard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> < University of Oslo, Dept. of informatics < http://www.stegard.net/ < 0x2B | ~0x2B - Hamlet -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
