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Originally Posted by SCerovec
gentleman!!!
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Whats the pro/con for the new 3.x kernel?
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I have recently purchased/replaced numerous laptops. All of them sandy bridge second generations with the hd 3000 series video cards (on board). I have i3/i5 and i7. Remember these are only one year old (give or take) processors.
While the kernel in slackware 13.37 does support the processors and video at a basic level of functionality.
Without the 3.0+ kernel you do not get hdmi audio, any of the numerous bug fixes to intel video since that uses kvm.
The 3.0+ kernels also support the intel_backlight for laptops. The stock kernel in Slackware wouldn't allow me to control screen brightness.
Furthermore, the alsa modules for many of these computers are only partly implementing controls for these devices.
Example, intel cougarpoint hd has no ability to toggle on the pc speakers with headphone connect/disconnect.
Also there is numerous wireless drivers added to the 3.0 series especially for broadcom and the realtek. They actually work in the 3.0+ series.
I could give alot more examples why the 3.0+ kernels are needed for anyone with a sandy bridge 2nd gen. Basically anyone with intel across the board will see improvements.
I find graphics performance better on my old intel atom netbooks as well.
Sadly, I have to have the desktop effects off on the sandy bridge computers, as resume from hibernate is not reliable. About 9/10 resumes is a complete lockup. The xorg in slack needs a bump. As I've built new libdrm, latest intel it seems that there must be some underlying $app somewhere in the graphic stack that needs a bump. Most likely the mesa but I haven't gotten around to that yet.
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Originally Posted by SCerovec
I really can't see this much of improvement?
Will Slackware ship again with a rich F2 boot screen?
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I hope Slackware does not have a boot screen. In an attempt to see if a computer was worth purchasing or not, I tried live cd's from Fedora and Ubuntu 11.10 as they ship with 3.0+ kernels.
And all I can tell you is, that it's ironic that distro's that patch the heck out of their OS because of their prior fiddle futs patching needs a bootsplash to hide all the errors that their distro has.
FWIW my Slack 13.37 with 3.2 kernel and alien bob's kde 4.6.5 runs better than ubuntu 11.10 and Fedora.
Just wish I could take advantage of the fast vid card for desktop effects, but I'm willing to wait for Pat to come back and "hit it hard"
So if you want to try them distro's out just to test a laptop then that's wise. But don't bother running them. There's too many patches for the sandy bridges and them distro's are fundamentally broken for second gen intels.