Comment=
# 8
on bug 97055<=
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from =
Tom
> Not insane enough yet to try a bina=
ry kernel, ever, even from a more
> reputable source than some site in a language I don't even understand.=
Okay, understand that. I tried to find it on some reliable site but they ju=
st
delete old packages without anything like ALA. Maybe 4.5rc6 vanilla kernel
would work but I'm not sure whether they used some patches etc. BTW the pag=
e is
in English (and other languages), there's a flag in the top right corner to
change language.
> I don't understand what this means. Do you let =
it sit in the bootloader for
> 2 minutes, or what?
Yeah, I have 2 minute timeout in bootloader and wait. Then it works.
> The official kernels are stable for me, once the=
display comes up and stays
> up for more than a minute. Most of the time, this involves doing a qu=
ick
> boot with power management enabled, starting X, then rebooting normall=
y,
> with power management disabled. Sometimes this does not work, which d=
oesn't
> surprise me, since this is basically just blindly throwing shit at the=
wall
> until something sticks.
The magical kernel just works without reboot cycles, changing parameters et=
c.
It doesn't need any user interaction.
> In related news, 4.8-rc1 still doesn't work. Ac=
tually, it's worse, in that
> X won't start at all (something about unable to schedule ib on the TOP=
AZ).=20
> I'm pretty sure that's a different issue, though, so I won't elaborate=
(or
> report, until this bug is fixed first).
Same here.