Porteus-v09 64bit Edition 2.6.37 - alpha test: Passed!

[fanthom]

Just compiled 2.6.37 kernel for upcoming Porteus-v09 'middle-January' kernel update (as scheduled in the roadmap). Same set of patches: aufs-2.1, squashfs4-lzma, con kolivas, bootsplash.

screenshot:
http://img404.imageshack.us/img404/1142 ... salpha.jpg

No problems so far

Stay tuned!

[Tonio]

@fanthom

Will you email us(users & testers) if new testing iso is out?

Had not checked forum, & did not know about new name But thanks to jay(brokenman), he posted the new link to the website , I would not have found out about porteus
Does the performance in the desktop is noticeable? or the new 2.6.38 kernel will have this only?

Thanks,

Tonio

[brokenman]

I'll leave the link there for another few days and then just replace it with a redirect to here.

For everyone else, the new address is: http://forum.porteus.org

PS: I would also like to release an alpha but there just isn't enough done to release one yet.

[fanthom]

@fanthom
Will you email us(users & testers) if new testing iso is out?

sorry but rather not, some people may be not happy with spamming their private mailboxes. I have done it once - when voting about new name took place, but it was extremely important poll and it was an exception.
I'm not planing to do it in the future - you just need to visit us from time to time
If you dont want to visit us - just have a look on the roadmap in 'Announcement' section and you should get approximate date for next release.

@brokenman
no worries - Porteus-v09 is just a new name + new kernel + some other small changes (bugfixes). It's mainly done for purpose of getting use to the new name (and paths as /slax/base will be replaced with /porteus/base, etc).

It's a FAKE release.
The real one will be Porteus-1.0 with bunch of new features

[ponce]

I got small problems with alsa

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# lspci -vv
...
00:1b.0 Audio device: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) HD Audio Controller (rev 03)
        Subsystem: Toshiba America Info Systems Device ff00
        Control: I/O- Mem+ BusMaster+ SpecCycle- MemWINV- VGASnoop- ParErr- Stepping- SERR+ FastB2B- DisINTx+
        Status: Cap+ 66MHz- UDF- FastB2B- ParErr- DEVSEL=fast >TAbort- <TAbort- <MAbort- >SERR- <PERR- INTx-
        Latency: 0, Cache Line Size: 64 bytes
        Interrupt: pin A routed to IRQ 42
        Region 0: Memory at f6600000 (64-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=16K]
        Capabilities: [50] Power Management version 2
                Flags: PMEClk- DSI- D1- D2- AuxCurrent=55mA PME(D0+,D1-,D2-,D3hot+,D3cold+)
                Status: D0 NoSoftRst- PME-Enable- DSel=0 DScale=0 PME-
        Capabilities: [60] MSI: Enable+ Count=1/1 Maskable- 64bit+
                Address: 00000000fee0300c  Data: 4181
        Capabilities: [70] Express (v1) Root Complex Integrated Endpoint, MSI 00
                DevCap: MaxPayload 128 bytes, PhantFunc 0, Latency L0s <64ns, L1 <1us
                        ExtTag- RBE- FLReset-
                DevCtl: Report errors: Correctable- Non-Fatal- Fatal- Unsupported-
                        RlxdOrd- ExtTag- PhantFunc- AuxPwr- NoSnoop+
                        MaxPayload 128 bytes, MaxReadReq 128 bytes
                DevSta: CorrErr- UncorrErr- FatalErr- UnsuppReq- AuxPwr+ TransPend-
                LnkCap: Port #0, Speed unknown, Width x0, ASPM unknown, Latency L0 <64ns, L1 <1us
                        ClockPM- Surprise- LLActRep- BwNot-
                LnkCtl: ASPM Disabled; Disabled- Retrain- CommClk-
                        ExtSynch- ClockPM- AutWidDis- BWInt- AutBWInt-
                LnkSta: Speed unknown, Width x0, TrErr- Train- SlotClk- DLActive- BWMgmt- ABWMgmt-
        Kernel driver in use: HDA Intel
        Kernel modules: snd-hda-intel

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$ aplay -l
**** List of PLAYBACK Hardware Devices ****
card 0: Intel [HDA Intel], device 0: ALC268 Analog [ALC268 Analog]
  Subdevices: 1/1
  Subdevice #0: subdevice #0

[fanthom]

@ponce
what's wrong exactly?
looks ok for me.
(and why are you referring to version which is not announced yet? did you steal it from the server? )

[ponce]

that is my card datas with the working kernel

the 2.6.37-ck1 is available here: gonna try to manually build alsa-driver-1.0.23 with that

FYI: on lkml.org I read about some regression with intel graphic chips too.

[fanthom]

@ponce
1) is your sound card ok with kernel compiled without ck1?
2) bad luck with intel drivers in recent kernel releases
hope that will be sorted out before 1.0...

[ponce]

I might have screwed something in kernel config, false alarm for alsa