Dale <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> at Wednesday 23 July 2008, 19:09:45 > Kevin O'Gorman wrote: > > I run gentoo x86 stable, so that I usually avoid this sort of thing. > > > > This kernel, however, looks balky to me, because it's reporting > > warnings and other oddities during compilation. I don't like warnings > > at any time, and with the kernel's make wrappers cleaning up the > > output they tend to stand out. > > > > Here's what I get: > > -- various type/attribute warnings > > -- reports of deprecated elements > > -- a report of "section mismatches", and instructions to use "make > > CONFIG_DEBUG_SECTION_MISMATCH=y" to find details. > > > > All that being said, the compilation completes, and I can boot it. I > > don't know the cause, but I have been unable to get vmware-server > > running on it, and I'm going back to the previous kernel for that > > reason. > > << SNIP >> > > You are not alone if having "issues" with this kernel. When I tried to > run it recently, I noticed a serious slow down in KDE, especially when > logging into KDE. My usual login time is about 7 to 8 seconds but with > this kernel, try about 30 seconds. My mouse was "jerky" and even > Seamonkey was very slow to switch tabs. Nothing changed but the > kernel. I didn't test to long because it was so annoying.
Don't forget to mention, that sun darkened and rain was coming, once you had
booted 2.6.25 ...
Compile issues are one thing, but putting all these "application issus" on
the kernel seems a bit unfair, especially, when admitting, that "you didn't
test long".
I have seen my KDE login or tab switching in firefox delayed, too, but not
because of any kernel upgrade, but because "updatedb" was taking action
right when I was logging in, or because a forgotton compile process on TTY1
took CPU power away.
I for my part didn't have any problems with 2.6.25-r6, neither at compile
time nor at runtime
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