From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from honk1.physik.uni-konstanz.de (honk1.physik.uni-konstanz.de [134.34.140.224]) (using TLSv1 with cipher EDH-RSA-DES-CBC3-SHA (168/168 bits)) (Client did not present a certificate) by ozlabs.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 43DC467B34 for ; Sun, 17 Apr 2005 19:42:20 +1000 (EST) Received: from localhost (localhost.localnet [127.0.0.1]) by honk1.physik.uni-konstanz.de (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9C2652BC46 for ; Sun, 17 Apr 2005 11:19:40 +0200 (CEST) Received: from honk1.physik.uni-konstanz.de ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (honk [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id 08855-04 for ; Sun, 17 Apr 2005 11:19:36 +0200 (CEST) Received: from halley.zuhause (B0cf5.b.pppool.de [213.7.12.245]) by honk1.physik.uni-konstanz.de (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6A5352BC41 for ; Sun, 17 Apr 2005 11:19:35 +0200 (CEST) Date: Sun, 17 Apr 2005 11:18:52 +0200 From: Wolfram Quester To: linuxppc-dev list Message-ID: <20050417091851.GE4981@halley.zuhause> References: <1113184854.9567.522.camel@gaston> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="7LkOrbQMr4cezO2T" In-Reply-To: <1113184854.9567.522.camel@gaston> Subject: Status report for 2.6.12-rc2 List-Id: Linux on PowerPC Developers Mail List List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , --7LkOrbQMr4cezO2T Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Hi, I use debian on my Powerbook6,2 and recently upgraded from kernel 2.6.10 with the patch Guido G=FCnther provides at [1] to 2.6.12-rc2 with ben's tumbler/snapper patches applied. So far I've seen the following issues: 1. I tried the new nvidiafb - just because I'm curious and the help says=20 "This driver supports graphics boards with the nVidia chips, TNT and newer. For very old chipsets, such as the RIVA128, then use the rivafb." The kernel crashed during boot when it tried to switch to nvidiafb. I could see the messages that appeared before this stage until I switched the computer off. Booting with video=3Dofonly went well and using the traditional rivafb works fine. This situation reminds me to crashes I had sometime ago when I was testing Guido's patches for rivafb when he tried to get proper support for NV30 into rivafb. 2. Sometimes the machine crashes on suspend to disk. It only happens when I= work in X and it seems to freeze in the process of switching to a virtual terminal. The screen shows a distorted image of the previous screen (as if I had 8Bit colour depth with oversized pixels). I never had such freezes with 2.6.10 and this is the issue which annoys me most ATM. I don't have a way to clearly reproduce the freeze. It happend in two out of perhaps 20 suspends. It only seems to happen on the first suspend after boot. The suspend itself is much much faster than with 2.6.10 however. 3. I configured sound to use snd-powermac. Before I used dmasound-{pmac,core} and it works mostly. After a suspend-resume-cycle I have to kill xfce4-panel, which accesses /dev/mixer0, rmmod snd-powermac, wait a second and reinsert the module.=20 4. Something that is quite annoying but harmless is that after wakeup the machine sometimes suspends again immediately. I had something like this before. On resume the PMU seems to be some kind of irritated and gives wrong information about remaining runtime. If this remaining time is 0 pbbuttonsd suspends the machine again. Thanks, Wolfi 1. http://honk.physik.uni-konstanz.de/~agx/linux-ppc/kernel/2.6.11.6-agx0= =2Ediff --=20 --7LkOrbQMr4cezO2T Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name="signature.asc" Content-Description: Digital signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.0 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFCYin7H0o2mefAfsQRAjC/AKCS+oRsAcWLZBxJyX5VE/6Mhe+VNwCeOBJ5 n7uLevIOGZC/XGiqNesngpc= =MVvD -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --7LkOrbQMr4cezO2T--