2.6.0-test2 stable for me

[Collins Richey]

FYI,

2.6.0-test2 is 100% stable on my desktop system (ext3).  I use sylpheed,
MozillaFirebird 0.61 with plugins including mplayer, OpenOffice, CUPS,
xterms (aterm), and nvidia kernel and glx support.

A few notes:

1) The default kernel config now omits PC speaker support.  It's
buried pretty deeply.  You need to go to Input devices -> Misc -> PC
speaker(NEW).  Without this option, you will notice the absence of beeps
for duplicates when you invoke bash filename completion.

2) One of the many free gratis configuration changes that the good
kernel folks threw my way is ACPI.  It works like a champ, but it tooks
some digging to find where it is enabled.  The major category (power
management, or whatever category they call it) gives no indication that
power management has been enabled, but if you drill down to the ACPI
section, there it is.  Needless to say, this was not in the 2.4.x kernel
config that I used for the original make oldconfig! 

3) Patches are available for the nvidia kernel and glx support. I'm
using 1.0.4496 but I'm told that 1.0.4363-r3 will also work. 

4) Most users of the new built-in alsa support report success, but I
can't get the alsa-ens1371 drivers to work for my SB 16 PCI card.  Works
fine using the deprecated OSS driver.

5) Reported by various gentoo users:

"ut2003-demo has heavy sound distortions and browsing some pictures with
kuickshow locks up the computer after some minutes." 

Personally I have used mplayer to view film trailers (no lockups), but
the sound quality varies quit a bit.  I don't know whether to attribute
this to the new kernel, the fact that I am using OSS driver, or just
poor recording quality at the source.

"anyone know what happened to the davicom drivers in the 2.5.75 and
2.6-0-test2 kernels? - Its under the Tulip sub-category in the  Network
Cards section."

"Here the matroxfb does not switch to the correct resolution. It remains
at 640x480 at 60Hz. The Documentation doesn't say that anything has
changed." 

"The bubblemon WindowMaker dockapp often crashes with a floating point
exeption."


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Collins Richey - Denver Area
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