From: Voicu Liviu <pacman@mscc.huji.ac.il>
To: Jan Rychter <jan@rychter.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: 2.4 vs 2.6
Date: Sun, 14 Dec 2003 09:05:16 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <3FDC0BAC.8020909@mscc.huji.ac.il> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <m2r7z8xl2o.fsf_-_@tnuctip.rychter.com>
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Jan Rychter wrote:
|>>>>> "Marcelo" == Marcelo Tosatti
|>>>>> <marcelo.tosatti@cyclades.com> writes:
|
| [...] Marcelo> 2.6 is already stable enough for people to use it.
|
| Yes, that's an old post I'm responding to, but I've just given 2.6
| a try on my desktop machine, and the above statement seems even
| more annoying. I hit the following problems:
|
| -- I had to wrestle ATI drivers into compiling, they finally did,
| but the kernel prints scary-looking warnings with call stacks,
| about "sleeping function called from invalid context at
| mm/slab.c:1856, -- modules don't autoload for some reason (though
| I'm sure that could be solved), -- bttv does not compile, so no
| video input for me, -- drivers for my telephony card (from Digium)
| are not 2.6-ready, so no telephony support for me, -- I have just
| frozen the machine hard by copying files over NFS and doing a
| simulation write to an ATAPI CD-RW at the same time.
|
| I haven't even gotten to VMware and user-mode Linux, which I also
| need, and I'm not even dreaming about getting my scanner to work.
| Not to mention that on my laptop there would be an entirely
| different set of issues, and software suspend in 2.6 is, well,
| still lacking.
|
| So, as for me, 2.6 is a definite no-no. I see no advantage
| whatsoever in running it, it caused me nothing but pain, and there
| is no improvement that I could see that would justify the upgrade.
|
| So please be careful when making statements like that. 2.6 is *NOT*
| stable enough nor ready enough for people to use it, unless those
| people have a narrow range of hardware on which the 2.6 kernel has
| actually been tested (translation: they have the same hardware as
| the main developers do).
|
| --J.
My specs:
Cpu:Athlon XP 2500+ BARTON {10x190}
Mobo:EPOX 8RDA3 + NFORCE 2
Ram:Corsair TWINX 512 3200LL{dual channel/11-3-2-2.0}
Fan:Cooler Master +7
Video:Hercules 3D Prophet 9600 PRO Radeon 128MB
My Hercules 3D Prophet 9600 PRO Radeon simply freezes my comp. with
ati-drivers from ati.com so I need to press reset!(so I only can run
console)
My sound (nvidia on board) works very shitty and I have no control on
it (level sound I mean).
I was running 2.4.23 vanilla + lvm1 so I moved to 2.6 vanilla+lvm2 and
now I can not move back
These are my biggest problems with 2.6.
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2003-12-14 7:06 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 57+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2003-12-01 6:20 XFS for 2.4 Nathan Scott
2003-12-01 9:24 ` Jens Axboe
2003-12-01 9:44 ` Stefan Smietanowski
2003-12-01 9:45 ` Jens Axboe
2003-12-01 14:06 ` Marcelo Tosatti
2003-12-01 22:10 ` Nathan Scott
2003-12-01 22:20 ` Larry McVoy
2003-12-02 0:23 ` Nathan Scott
2003-12-02 11:22 ` Marcelo Tosatti
2003-12-02 18:05 ` Austin Gonyou
2003-12-02 19:55 ` Stephan von Krawczynski
2003-12-02 20:05 ` Marcelo Tosatti
2003-12-02 20:16 ` Lawrence Walton
2003-12-03 19:01 ` bill davidsen
2003-12-03 20:45 ` Willy Tarreau
2003-12-03 21:17 ` bill davidsen
2003-12-03 21:48 ` Joel Becker
2003-12-03 22:17 ` bill davidsen
2003-12-03 22:08 ` Ed Sweetman
2003-12-04 5:21 ` Willy Tarreau
2003-12-04 0:34 ` Clemens Schwaighofer
2003-12-04 5:33 ` Willy Tarreau
2003-12-04 10:13 ` Clemens Schwaighofer
2003-12-02 11:18 ` Marcelo Tosatti
2003-12-02 11:48 ` Marcelo Tosatti
2003-12-02 15:34 ` Russell Cattelan
2003-12-02 15:50 ` Marcelo Tosatti
2003-12-02 16:10 ` Darrell Michaud
2003-12-02 16:21 ` Austin Gonyou
2003-12-02 16:28 ` Jeff Garzik
2003-12-02 16:57 ` venom
2003-12-02 17:41 ` Stefan Smietanowski
2003-12-02 18:01 ` Russell Cattelan
2003-12-02 16:13 ` Jeremy Jackson
2003-12-02 0:51 ` Clemens Schwaighofer
2003-12-02 1:26 ` Marcos D. Marado Torres
2003-12-14 1:08 ` 2.4 vs 2.6 Jan Rychter
2003-12-14 1:01 ` Roberto Sanchez
2003-12-14 11:23 ` Måns Rullgård
2003-12-14 18:09 ` Daniel Gryniewicz
2003-12-14 1:53 ` Daniel Gryniewicz
2003-12-14 2:01 ` coderman
2003-12-14 20:23 ` tabris
2003-12-14 7:05 ` Voicu Liviu [this message]
2003-12-14 16:01 ` Roberto Sanchez
2003-12-14 17:32 ` Voicu Liviu
2003-12-15 7:23 ` Harry McGregor
2003-12-15 7:51 ` Voicu Liviu
2003-12-14 11:24 ` Frederik Deweerdt
2003-12-01 21:00 ` XFS for 2.4 Dan Yocum
2003-12-01 21:50 ` Bryan Whitehead
2003-12-01 22:01 ` Jeffrey E. Hundstad
2003-12-01 22:13 ` Gerardo Exequiel Pozzi
2003-12-02 2:54 ` Joshua Schmidlkofer
2003-12-02 11:02 ` Maciej Soltysiak
[not found] <fa.iaibikf.1l5injd@ifi.uio.no>
[not found] ` <fa.m5245vp.h0ukb5@ifi.uio.no>
2003-12-15 10:56 ` 2.4 vs 2.6 Anssi Saari
2003-12-15 17:25 ` David Ford
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