F-10 kernel upgrade

Nathanael D. Noblet nathanael at gnat.ca
Thu Apr 16 18:43:29 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 ?
> 
> I can understand there are people maybe waiting for new hardware support 
> brought by this kernel, but woudn't they be better off with F-11 anyways?
> 
> 

I've been using koji builds of 2.6.29 on my machine here for what feels 
like months... The first reason I upgraded was to get a webcam working, 
then I found some issues with USB hadn't gone away, one more update and 
now I have a working webcam, and usb transfers at 7-15M/s instead of 
600K and bringing my machine to a standstill for hours. When did .29 hit 
fedora 10 stable? I could stop using koji builds... ;)

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