[ltp] A warning - don't install Mandrake 10.1

[Greg Meyer]

On Monday 08 November 2004 03:42 am, Nick Bower wrote:
> I found out what the problem was - Mandrake included early ipw2?00
> drivers as modules, but when these loaded during boot-time, for all
> kernels, the system would crash.  It took my whole weekend to find this
> as the culprit.

Perhaps because the firmware was not present?  I did not run into this since I 
have a Cisco MPI350, which thanks to Fabrice Bellet's fine work, works out of 
the box now.
>
> > Sorry, I can't disagree with you more.  I have 10.1 on a T41 and it the
> > most stable distro I have ever had on it.  Everything works beautifully,
> > except for having to recompile the kernel without local APIC support to
> > get a complete shutdown, because, as you discovered, the nolapic boot
> > parameter doesn't work anymore.  This is a pretty widly known bug in
> > 2.6.7mm and later kernels.  Whatever patch that was in the 2.6.7-mm that
> > caused this problem was merged into 2.6.8, so now it doesn't work in the
> > mainline kernel either.
>
> Eh?  I was running a custom 2.6.8.1 in which it worked nolapic worked
> fine (and in fact was essential to for a complete shutdown).
>
Sorry, you may be right about the vanilla 2.6.8.1.  The problem may strictly 
be related to the mm patches that Mandrake includes in their kernels.  It has 
been awhiloe since I have done my testing.  This is a prety widly reported 
problem though.


> > xorg gets an excellent framerate with the Mobility Radeon 9000 and the
> > Cisco wireless card is finally stable and automatically detected.
>
> For the same config file, XOrg produces a frame rate of about 325 fps,
> about a third I think of that from XFree86 4.3.  I'm using the exact
> same config file in each and DRI seems to start up fine from looking at
> the logs.
>
I am getting just over 1200fps with glxgears here.
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/g