Messages in this thread |  | | | Date | Thu, 23 Mar 2006 06:00:18 -0600 | | From | Rodney Gordon II <> | | Subject | Re: [ck] 2.6.16-ck1 |
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On Thu, Mar 23, 2006 at 10:40:17PM +1100, Con Kolivas wrote: > Rodney Gordon II writes: > > >Good job Con, on your patches.. As far as the kernel in general, I'd > >like to post some warnings: > > Thanks. > > >Adaptive readahead: I had probs with this before, and I still do.. On > >a desktop if you have odd problems (nothing responding for SECONDS, > >very slow disk I/O during heavy I/O, etc..) disable it. > > I was concerned about that myself which is why the only reason I included > it was because it came in a configurable form where you could choose to > enable it, and the default was off, and the config option even said > suitable to _servers_, not desktops.
Yea, just thought I would try it again sighting the improvements in the ? docs in menuconfig, was just disappointed again.
> >The new Yukon2 "sky2" driver: This one really pissed me off. It had me > >thinking apache2 AND my linksys router we're on the brink. For some > >unknown reason at least for me, in FF it would only half-load some > >pages, including ones on localhost AND my router (10.1.1.1) ... I > >dunno what the hell is up with this one. I have to stay with the > >syskonnect.com sk98lin patch, which.. doesn't work with 2.6.16 so I am > >back to 2.6.15 at the moment. > > > >nVidia drivers: Broken. I posted a ftbfs bug on the debian bts, here > >is a current patch that works against the current release: > >http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi/nvidia-kernel-source_1.0.8178-2.diff?bug=357992;msg=15;att=1 > > Luckily none of these are my fault.
Yep, just warnings in general.
> >All in all, my experience sucked for the first time on this kernel. > > /me does the "not my fault" look.
LOL, I know, just warnings in general like I have said.
> >Good luck with this new one.. > > Heh. No new one in the works just yet, but I'm actually not planning on > changing anything. Turn adaptive readahead off, and you're left with out of > kernel tree, or worse, binary driver problems.
Turned it off, disk probs are gone.
Meant to say "Good luck with this new mainline one.."
Your patches are great.. Thus, why I started this post with "Good job Con, on your patches.." ;)
-r
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