New kernel in F12

[Kevin DeKorte]

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On 10/26/09 16:10, Bruno Wolff III wrote:
> On Mon, Oct 26, 2009 at 13:30:13 -0700,
>   Adam Williamson <awilliam at redhat.com> wrote:
>> Just a note that the kernel build in F12 was updated over the weekend,
>> from 56 (which shipped in beta) to 96. This has quite a few changes
>> queued up, so if all F12 testers can please reboot and make sure the new
>> kernel works, that'd be great.
> 
> 96 is old news now, but I did run it for a bit. The kernels starting on Friday
> seem to help with some crashes I had been having that I suspected of being
> KMS / ATI related. The 97 kernel seems to be working well as well.
> 
> One odd thing I have been seeing lately is a timeout while trying to
> detect one of my two disks. Things work OK afterwards, but I didn't used
> to see those messages. Usually it is ATA3 that gets the warning, but I think
> I also got it for ATA4 a couple of times. The disks are old, so it could
> be a change in the status of the hardware rather than the kernel.
> 


I have to agree that the -97 kernel appears to be a better choice than
- -96 for r6xx users. If fixes the corruption issues in flash and qemu and
also does not need the pcie_aspm=off kernel option (as far as I can tell).

Kevin

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