Wanted: FireWire testers

[Andrew Farris]

Jarod Wilson wrote:
> Mike Chambers wrote:
>> On Sat, 2008-01-12 at 23:43 -0800, Andrew Farris wrote:
>>
>>>>> Its built.
>>>>>
>>>>> http://koji.fedoraproject.org/packages/kernel/2.6.23.13/106.fc8/
>>> I tried the koji kernel linked above and this boot panic problem I was having 
>>> seems to be fixed with that new kernel.  If anyone has had issues with firewire 
>>> drives when booting kernels in F8 take a look at:
>> I tried that kernel, it booted fine, but when it starting the x server,
>> going into gnome or whatever, it shows a weird jibberish display and
>> locks up hard, nothing works. You can boot to run level 3 and startx
>> locks it up.  Hope this update isn't coming through testing/updates for
>> F8.
> 
> Hrm... Nothing I added to that kernel should have any impact whatsoever on
> X... I believe 104.fc8 or 105.fc8 did go into updates-testing though. Would
> certainly be curious to hear if those *don't* cause the problem that 106.fc8
> does, but I'd be quite surprised if the firewire update was the case.
> 
> FWIW, 106.fc8 runs without a problem on all of my boxes I've installed it on
> thus far.

I haven't seen 104 or 105 in updates-testing, and no kernel at all is in the 
repo today.  I will see if 104 and 105 both fix my firewire drive issue though.

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