Anybody on Kernel 2.6.15?

vharishankar · 02-22-2006, 10:17 AM

Anybody has installed Kernel 2.6.15 which is in Etch? Please provide your feedback and opinion on it.

I would be interested to know how the upgrade went and how it performs compared to earlier versions.

rickh · 02-22-2006, 10:40 AM

I have both the 32 & 64 bit versions installed. I'm not really tecnical enough to evaluate performance issues, but with minor tweaking and a few questions addressed here (at LQ), everything works.

Xorg 6.9 get's a big thumbs-up, too. A few more adjustment issues than the kernel, but a BIG improvement im my display.

or1onas · 02-22-2006, 04:07 PM

I just upgraded to 2.6.15 and it seems to be working fine. No probs here :-)

swordwielder · 02-23-2006, 11:10 AM

No problems on Kanotix 32 bit.

norobro · 02-23-2006, 01:10 PM

I hadn't upgraded my Sid (custom 2.6.14.3) in a couple of months because I like how everything is set up, so I did a net-install of Etch on another partition. I then did a dist-upgrade to Sid. No errors and everything seems to work fine.

deepclutch · 02-23-2006, 03:05 PM

I run Sarge 3.1r1 with backports.org apt-pinned,with linux-image-2.6.15-1-smp
.only problem-udev-0.084-4bpo1 removes hal..

johnMG · 02-24-2006, 02:44 PM

I'm running just a standard Etch setup. The 2.6.15 seems to boot faster than the 2.6.12 (which I previously had). Everything's fine with it here.

Note, on my system, apt removed hotplug, and installed udev. After the install was over and I rebooted, I did a "dpkg --purge hotplug".

leiavoia · 02-24-2006, 04:44 PM

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Originally Posted by johnMG

on my system, apt removed hotplug, and installed udev. After the install was over and I rebooted, I did a "dpkg --purge hotplug".

My system told me to **** PURGE HOTPLUG **** after i was done upgrading everything. Is that something i should still do now? Will it possibly effect anything?

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Back on topic: i upgraded to 2.6.15 yesturday and all is well. It's actually the first kernel i've been able to install myself without any problems. APT made it too easy this time :-)

The only gotcha is my wacom tablet isn't pressure-sensitive like it should be. But it wasn't before either. I had to compile and install a special driver for it under 2.4 kernel. So that's my next job for today.

BillyGalbreath · 02-24-2006, 04:57 PM

Debian Sarge 3.1r1 on a Gateway MX6425 Notebook with the 2.6.15.4 custom kernel. This was in fact my first attempt at a kernel compile, and I'd say i went through rather easily. I did however had to recompile about 5 times, but thats my fault for not knowing what to enable.disable in the 'make menuconfig'.

The default 2.6.8-2-386 kernel ran on this notebook really slow (2-3x slower than it should be) and the cpu usage was always at 50% or higher, even at idle... With this new kernel, no probs at all.

vharishankar · 02-24-2006, 08:45 PM

Removing hotplug has had no visible effect as far as I can see.

johnMG · 02-27-2006, 02:04 AM

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My system told me to **** PURGE HOTPLUG **** after i was done upgrading everything. Is that something i should still do now? Will it possibly effect anything?

I don't think you need any extra hotplug files hanging around, so you should probably follow the advice and do the "dpkg --purge hotplug". Though, as Hari pointed out, I didn't see any effect either except for maybe getting rid of some files that are no longer being used for anything.

Oh, BTW, turned out I had a problem with audio after the upgrade. I'd been using the oss drivers, and I needed to install some alsa packages and run alsaconf. After that all was well again.