From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S269151AbTGUBmt (ORCPT ); Sun, 20 Jul 2003 21:42:49 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S269169AbTGUBmt (ORCPT ); Sun, 20 Jul 2003 21:42:49 -0400 Received: from skamp.net1.nerim.net ([62.212.117.209]:1152 "EHLO tatooine") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S269151AbTGUBmr (ORCPT ); Sun, 20 Jul 2003 21:42:47 -0400 Message-ID: <3F1B47F3.60309@laposte.net> Date: Mon, 21 Jul 2003 03:54:59 +0200 From: Guillaume Cocatre-Zilgien Reply-To: guillaume.cocatre-zilgien@laposte.net User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.5a) Gecko/20030704 Thunderbird/0.1a X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: user feedback on 2.6.0-test1 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Hello, I've been testing the new kernel for a few days, so I thought someone could use my feedback about it. I installed it on my Dell Latitude C400 laptop, which has a jp-106 keyboard; see the output of lspci at the end. http://www.cse.unsw.edu.au/~chak/linux/c400.html Problems: - the "pipe" key is not responding anymore in text mode (init 3), although it works in xterm. Pressing the key doesn't print out anything. - music is skipping when using xmms under CPU load, only during the first seconds of each track (until the entire file is cached?). xmms NEVER skipped with kernel 2.4.20, even under heavy CPU load. My hard drive has DMA enabled. - the cursor under XFree86 4.3.0 gets "jumpy" under CPU load; as with xmms, it never did that with kernel 2.4.20. - monitoring ACPI status (with WM dockapps) is overly CPU intensive: it takes from 5% to 35% of the CPU!!! I did not test ACPI with the stable kernel, and I couln't tell if the problem lies in user-land applications... Improvements: - ripping audio CD's with cdparanoia and the new ide-cd driver is waaaay faster now, as expected (jumped from 2 - 3x to 10x and up). I didn't manage to get cdda2wav to work with that driver, though. - XFree86 loads faster. - glxgears shows 260 FPS now, versus 150 FPS with the older driver, with my i830M chipset (I assume I have to thank the new driver for that?). Quake III Arena didn't gain from it though, I don't know why. I've switched back to kernel 2.4.21, mainly because I know better how to handle it than the new one. I'm eager to see the stable version of linux 2.6.0. I didn't subscribe to the ML, but I read the newsgroup, so there's no need to CC me. lspci: 00:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corp. 82830 830 Chipset Host Bridge (rev 03) 00:02.0 VGA compatible controller: Intel Corp. 82830 CGC [Chipset Graphics Controller] (rev 03) 00:02.1 Display controller: Intel Corp. 82830 CGC [Chipset Graphics Controller] 00:1d.0 USB Controller: Intel Corp. 82801CA/CAM USB (Hub #1) (rev 01) 00:1e.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corp. 82801BAM/CAM PCI Bridge (rev 41) 00:1f.0 ISA bridge: Intel Corp. 82801CAM ISA Bridge (LPC) (rev 01) 00:1f.1 IDE interface: Intel Corp. 82801CAM IDE U100 (rev 01) 00:1f.5 Multimedia audio controller: Intel Corp. 82801CA/CAM AC'97 Audio (rev 01) 00:1f.6 Modem: Intel Corp. 82801CA/CAM AC'97 Modem (rev 01) 02:00.0 Ethernet controller: 3Com Corporation 3c905C-TX/TX-M [Tornado] (rev 78) 02:01.0 CardBus bridge: Texas Instruments PCI1410 PC card Cardbus Controller (rev 02) Best regards to the kernel hackers, -- Guillaume Cocatre-Zilgien http://www.skamp.net/