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I got bit by the 6.1.49 AMD video issue. There are two boot process: first the Penguin Page, then the framebuffer page before /etc/rc.d/rc.local and login. My HP Pavilion with a Ryzen 7 went blank upon completion of the Penguin Page and stayed that way until reboot displayed the BIOS again. I installed the 6.1.50 kernel, issue vanished. Thanks again, folks!
Distribution: Slackware64-current with "True Multilib" and KDE4Town.
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Year 2023, Round 47
Another batch of updates has been scheduled for release on Saturday, 2 September 2023, at approximately 11:00, GMT. If no problems are found while testing the release candidates, they might be available sometime on Friday (depending on your time zone).
Kernel updates 6.5.1, 6.4.14, 6.1.51, 5.15.130, 5.10.194, 5.4.256, 4.19.294, and 4.14.325, are now available at, https://www.kernel.org/
The change logs,
EXT4 Lands A Nice Performance Improvement
For Appending To Delalloc Files
Code:
With the EXT4 file-system updates for Linux 6.6
there is mostly some code clean-ups and other bug fixing.
But one change in particular stands out for its performance impact.
Custom Kernel 6.1.52 installed and no hurdles seen.
6.5.2 does not work as well. The DVB drivers (for tv tuner) don't work. Though I guess it's the same problem also in 6.1.52, as the same patch is there "modules: only allow symbol_get of EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL modules". The fix is in the process: https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/ZPwndqu...Vzt@kroah.com/
Distribution: Slackware64-current with "True Multilib" and KDE4Town.
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FWIW: Built and installed the 6.6-rc1 kernel and encountered the same problems as with the 6.5.y series and that is, dosemu (not dosbox) and WINE do not work. Everything else, such as, LibreOffice, VLC, XnView, VirtualBox, Firefox, Thunderbird, etc., work as they should. And, as previously mentioned, dosemu and WINE work just fine with the kernel series 6.1.y through 6.4.y.
While I think about it, both the 6.1.51, and 6.1.52, kernels have worked perfectly. Not a single cough, hiccup or sneeze.
Last edited by cwizardone; 09-10-2023 at 08:52 PM.
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