So who here is running the "testing" 2.6.32 kernel? How's it going?

[MaddogF16]

Work is being done to help some Intel issues,but looks mainly to be i915 fixes.

http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v2.6/ChangeLog-2.6.32.4

[MaddogF16]

Interesting that the .32 kernel is slated to see 2-3 yrs worth of updates, found this during some reading:

Three stable kernels released (2.6.32.4, 2.6.31.12, and 2.6.27.44)
[Kernel] Posted Jan 18, 2010 19:06 UTC (Mon) by jake
The -stable team has announced three new stable kernels: 2.6.32.4, 2.6.31.12 , and 2.6.27.44. There are less than ten patches each for .31 and .27, but the .32 release has 52 patches, all over the tree. There seem to be security issues fixed in each, however, so users are strongly encouraged to upgrade—as usual. Barring "something really odd", this will be the last 2.6.31 stable release, but Greg Kroah-Hartman did "pre-announce" his plan for 2.6.32 to be maintained for a longer term (a la 2.6.27)—a more "official" announcement is coming Tuesday.

Update: The announcement came a day early and, among other things, notes that 2.6.27 is becoming less viable though he plans to keep maintaining it for another 6-8 months. 2.6.32 is slated for 2-3 years of updates.

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[AndrzejL]

Work is being done to help some Intel issues,but looks mainly to be i915 fixes.

http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v2.6/ChangeLog-2.6.32.4

UH OH UH I want this ME ME I want this

[andrzejl@WISHMACER ~]$ lspci | grep Graphic
00:02.0 VGA compatible controller: Intel Corporation Mobile 915GM/GMS/910GML Express Graphics Controller (rev 03)
00:02.1 Display controller: Intel Corporation Mobile 915GM/GMS/910GML Express Graphics Controller (rev 03)
[andrzejl@WISHMACER ~]$

Andy

[Texstar]

Work is being done to help some Intel issues,but looks mainly to be i915 fixes.

http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v2.6/ChangeLog-2.6.32.4

UH OH UH I want this ME ME I want this

[andrzejl@WISHMACER ~]$ lspci | grep Graphic
00:02.0 VGA compatible controller: Intel Corporation Mobile 915GM/GMS/910GML Express Graphics Controller (rev 03)
00:02.1 Display controller: Intel Corporation Mobile 915GM/GMS/910GML Express Graphics Controller (rev 03)
[andrzejl@WISHMACER ~]$

Andy

Soon my friend soon...
[texstar@localhost ~]$ uname -a
Linux localhost 2.6.32.4-pclos1 #1 SMP Thu Jan 21 04:02:01 CST 2010 i686 AMD Athlon(tm) 64 X2 Dual Core Processor 4200+ GNU/Linux

[AndrzejL]

Work is being done to help some Intel issues,but looks mainly to be i915 fixes.

http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v2.6/ChangeLog-2.6.32.4

UH OH UH I want this ME ME I want this

[andrzejl@WISHMACER ~]$ lspci | grep Graphic
00:02.0 VGA compatible controller: Intel Corporation Mobile 915GM/GMS/910GML Express Graphics Controller (rev 03)
00:02.1 Display controller: Intel Corporation Mobile 915GM/GMS/910GML Express Graphics Controller (rev 03)
[andrzejl@WISHMACER ~]$

Andy

Soon my friend soon...
[texstar@localhost ~]$ uname -a
Linux localhost 2.6.32.4-pclos1 #1 SMP Thu Jan 21 04:02:01 CST 2010 i686 AMD Athlon(tm) 64 X2 Dual Core Processor 4200+ GNU/Linux

OMG !! Yieeeehaaaaaaaaaaaaaawwwwwwwwww!! Thanks Buddy !! You rock!!

Andy

[Flappy]

Anyone testing this kernel find out if it supports some USB digital tv dongles? (LeadTek, DigitalNow) Texstar said that might but didn't know for sure.

I tried booting the testing kernel and it dropped to shell and I left it at that for now as I don't know what I am doing.

[MaddogF16]

Anyone testing this kernel find out if it supports some USB digital tv dongles? (LeadTek, DigitalNow) Texstar said that might but didn't know for sure.

I tried booting the testing kernel and it dropped to shell and I left it at that for now as I don't know what I am doing.

Here's a section from a build of 32.4 that shows DVB adapters:

 DVB/ATSC adapters (DVB_CAPTURE_DRIVERS) [Y/n/?] y
    *
    * Supported SAA7146 based PCI Adapters
    *
    AV7110 cards (DVB_AV7110) [M/n/?] m
      AV7110 OSD support (DVB_AV7110_OSD) [Y/n/?] y
    SAA7146 DVB cards (aka Budget, Nova-PCI) (DVB_BUDGET_CORE) [M/n/?] m
      Budget cards (DVB_BUDGET) [M/n/?] m
      Budget cards with onboard CI connector (DVB_BUDGET_CI) [M/n/?] m
      Budget cards with analog video inputs (DVB_BUDGET_AV) [M/n/?] m
      AV7110 cards with Budget Patch (DVB_BUDGET_PATCH) [M/n/?] m
    *
    * Supported USB Adapters
    *
    Support for various USB DVB devices (DVB_USB) [M/n/?] m
      Enable extended debug support for all DVB-USB devices (DVB_USB_DEBUG) [N/y/?] n
      AVerMedia AverTV DVB-T USB 2.0 (A800) (DVB_USB_A800) [M/n/?] m
      DiBcom USB DVB-T devices (based on the DiB3000M-B) (see help for device list) (DVB_USB_DIBUSB_MB) [M/n/?] m
        Support faulty USB IDs (DVB_USB_DIBUSB_MB_FAULTY) [N/y/?] n
      DiBcom USB DVB-T devices (based on the DiB3000M-C/P) (see help for device list) (DVB_USB_DIBUSB_MC) [M/n/?] m
      DiBcom DiB0700 USB DVB devices (see help for supported devices) (DVB_USB_DIB0700) [M/n/?] m
      HanfTek UMT-010 DVB-T USB2.0 support (DVB_USB_UMT_010) [M/n/?] m
      Conexant USB2.0 hybrid reference design support (DVB_USB_CXUSB) [M/n/?] m
      Uli m920x DVB-T USB2.0 support (DVB_USB_M920X) [M/n/?] m
      Genesys Logic GL861 USB2.0 support (DVB_USB_GL861) [M/n/?] m
      Alcor Micro AU6610 USB2.0 support (DVB_USB_AU6610) [M/n/?] m
      Nebula Electronics uDigiTV DVB-T USB2.0 support (DVB_USB_DIGITV) [M/n/?] m
      TwinhanDTV Alpha/MagicBoxII, DNTV tinyUSB2, Beetle USB2.0 support (DVB_USB_VP7045) [M/n/?] m
      TwinhanDTV StarBox and clones DVB-S USB2.0 support (DVB_USB_VP702X) [M/n/?] m
      GENPIX 8PSK->USB module support (DVB_USB_GP8PSK) [M/n/?] m
      Hauppauge WinTV-NOVA-T usb2 DVB-T USB2.0 support (DVB_USB_NOVA_T_USB2) [M/n/?] m
      Pinnacle 400e DVB-S USB2.0 support (DVB_USB_TTUSB2) [M/n/?] m
      WideView WT-200U and WT-220U (pen) DVB-T USB2.0 support (Yakumo/Hama/Typhoon/Yuan) (DVB_USB_DTT200U) [M/n/?] m
      Opera1 DVB-S USB2.0 receiver (DVB_USB_OPERA1) [M/n/?] m
      Afatech AF9005 DVB-T USB1.1 support (DVB_USB_AF9005) [M/n/?] m
        Afatech AF9005 default remote control support (DVB_USB_AF9005_REMOTE) [M/n/?] m
      DvbWorld & TeVii DVB-S/S2 USB2.0 support (DVB_USB_DW2102) [M/n/?] m
      Terratec CinergyT2/qanu USB 2.0 DVB-T receiver (DVB_USB_CINERGY_T2) [M/n/?] m
      Anysee DVB-T/C USB2.0 support (DVB_USB_ANYSEE) [M/n/?] m
      AME DTV-5100 USB2.0 DVB-T support (DVB_USB_DTV5100) [M/n/?] m
      Afatech AF9015 DVB-T USB2.0 support (DVB_USB_AF9015) [M/n/?] m
      Intel CE6230 DVB-T USB2.0 support (DVB_USB_CE6230) [M/n/?] m
      Friio ISDB-T USB2.0 Receiver support (DVB_USB_FRIIO) [N/m/?] (NEW)     Technotrend/Hauppauge Nova-USB devices (DVB_TTUSB_BUDGET)