F-10 kernel upgrade

Orion Poplawski orion at cora.nwra.com
Thu Apr 16 18:03:40 UTC 2009


Denis Leroy wrote:
> I'm seeing a lot of regressions with the 2.6.29 update to F-10 here. GDM 
> doesn't always log me in (it hangs after the password is entered, 'top' 
> doesn't show any stuck process), and when it did I had Xorg eat 100% CPU 
> with little useful info in the log files.
> 
> What is the reasoning for pushing a 2.6.29 kernel to Fedora 10 (a stable 
> release about half-way its lifetime) ? Was there something fundamentally 
> wrong with the 2.6.27.x kernel ? Why introduce some much instability ?

Works well here and fixes a number of intel graphics driver issues for me.

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