F-10 kernel upgrade

drago01 drago01 at gmail.com
Fri Apr 17 16:55:09 UTC 2009


On Thu, Apr 16, 2009 at 6:49 PM, Denis Leroy <denis at poolshark.org> 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?

It works fine here, resume from suspend is much faster and my webcam
is now supported.




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