On Sun, Aug 10, 2003 at 01:17:36PM -0500, Rthoreau wrote:
> Also on a side note tell us how your testing of the new kernel is
I'm having fun. I've compiled quite a few options into my kernel so
the image is 2MB but I'll probably drop some when 2.6 proper gets
released. I'm using ALSA for sound with OSS emulation. Works great
and I'm very happy with it. 2.4 just got a taste of 2.5s ACPI which
is nice stuff. My only problems with it is that it doesn't detect
my batter status at the moment but I've filed a bug on that.
Also, unlike under 2.4, with 2.5 if I hotswap my battery in my laptop
for my dvd-rom it can be nudged to detect it. It has a new framebuffer
subsystem which is actually half-decent under the plain VESA driver.
I'm using the kernels inbuilt PCMCIA stuff and that was really well
now. Did have a few problems for a while but they all got sorted for
me. Under 2.4 it wouldn't work at all.
And, AFAIK it has a better IPv6 implementation which is good for me cos
I'm dabbling in it. Aaannnd.... *ego boost mode on ;)* it lets you specify
tmpfs size as a percentage of avail ram+swap cos of a patch I submitted
(which was fixed up by the maintaner but still ;)
There's more but that's all I can think of off the top of my head. All
up I've only had minor problems and I've been with it since it 2.5.59
(which was when I could backup my laptop and they stopped seriously
screwing about with the IDE subsystem) and I've only experienced minor
issues and no dataloss.
> getting on, I would like to hear a little more than , its faster I
> would like to get some fine details.
More like what? If you ask a specific question I might be able to
answer it. I'm no expert though. I've just been using it for a wee
bit.
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