Mixed feelings about Linux Kernel 2.6.30
Oct. 8th, 2009 07:27 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
elfsI upgraded to the Linux Kernel 2.6.30. There's one super-duper advantage to it: I now have instant-on, instant-off service a'la Apple Powerbooks. There's one major disadvantage: the kernel didn't support the ATI series 8 driver, and the ATI series 9 driver doesn't support my card, so I had to use the Radeon driver. The Radeon OpenGL subsystem fails its regression test badly. Halo no longer runs.
Still, going from ~2 minutes to ~2 seconds of serviceability during my commute? I think I'll keep it.
Still, going from ~2 minutes to ~2 seconds of serviceability during my commute? I think I'll keep it.
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Date: 2009-10-08 04:03 pm (UTC)See, I recently switched to KUbuntu Jaunty, on both my desktop and laptop. I used to use Fedora, and always compiled my own kernels. I'm not familiar with the ins-and-outs of custom kernels on Ubuntu.
Can you use the stock upstream source? Or do you have to grab a src package, pull out the patches, and apply them to the stock upstream kernel?
(My laptop is an old IBM-era Thinkpad X40, so there are several thing I like and must fine-tune for it.)