A new kernel is in Cauldron, that might behave better with respect to the i915 driver bug that crashes my main machine.
"There is now a kernel-5.5.4-1.mga8 in testing," accordind to Thomas Backlund on Mageia's Bugzilla.
Is there any known reason I should not download and install it?
Mixing versions is not ideal, but neither is my machine crashing when I
try to use the 5.4 kernels provided for mga7. If it works in Cauldron, I expect it will be ported back to Mga7, so I could wait to see how others
fare with it...
Cheers!
jim b.
On 2/15/20 8:42 AM, Jim Beard wrote:
A new kernel is in Cauldron, that might behave better with respect toThomas has let QA know that a 5.5 series kernel should be ready for
the i915 driver bug that crashes my main machine.
"There is now a kernel-5.5.4-1.mga8 in testing," accordind to Thomas
Backlund on Mageia's Bugzilla.
Is there any known reason I should not download and install it?
Mixing versions is not ideal, but neither is my machine crashing when I
try to use the 5.4 kernels provided for mga7. If it works in Cauldron,
I expect it will be ported back to Mga7, so I could wait to see how
others fare with it...
Cheers!
jim b.
testing for Mageia 7 soon, but new nvidia drivers need to be tested and pushed first. That is proceeding, so far without incident.
When Thomas believes the kernel is ready for testing, it will be listed
at http://madb.mageia.org/tools/updates.
You are more than welcome to help us with testing it, as the more tests
we have on more varieties of hardware, the better.
(This is for any lurkers thinking about trying this) But of course,
because it hasn't gone through the testing process yet it could break
your system. You are advised to try it on something other than your main production install until testing is complete.
A new kernel is in Cauldron, that might behave better with respect to the i915 driver bug that crashes my main machine.
"There is now a kernel-5.5.4-1.mga8 in testing," accordind to Thomas Backlund on Mageia's Bugzilla.
Is there any known reason I should not download and install it?
Mixing versions is not ideal, but neither is my machine crashing when I
try to use the 5.4 kernels provided for mga7. If it works in Cauldron, I expect it will be ported back to Mga7, so I could wait to see how others fare with it...
Cheers!
jim b.
On Sat, 15 Feb 2020 09:21:49 -0500, TJ wrote:
On 2/15/20 8:42 AM, Jim Beard wrote:
A new kernel is in Cauldron, that might behave better with respect toThomas has let QA know that a 5.5 series kernel should be ready for
the i915 driver bug that crashes my main machine.
"There is now a kernel-5.5.4-1.mga8 in testing," accordind to Thomas
Backlund on Mageia's Bugzilla.
Is there any known reason I should not download and install it?
Mixing versions is not ideal, but neither is my machine crashing when I
try to use the 5.4 kernels provided for mga7. If it works in Cauldron,
I expect it will be ported back to Mga7, so I could wait to see how
others fare with it...
Cheers!
jim b.
testing for Mageia 7 soon, but new nvidia drivers need to be tested and
pushed first. That is proceeding, so far without incident.
When Thomas believes the kernel is ready for testing, it will be listed
at http://madb.mageia.org/tools/updates.
You are more than welcome to help us with testing it, as the more tests
we have on more varieties of hardware, the better.
(This is for any lurkers thinking about trying this) But of course,
because it hasn't gone through the testing process yet it could break
your system. You are advised to try it on something other than your main
production install until testing is complete.
The 5.5 kernel for mga7 is available, though Mageia Control Center will
not yet show it. I installed it and the devel rpm package for it, and
had to allow removal of dkms-virtualbox-6.0.16-1.mga7.noarch for them to install.
Now I will see if the crashing continues. If not, then I will worry
about virtualbox.
Cheers!
jim.b
On 2/15/20 8:42 AM, Jim Beard wrote:
A new kernel is in Cauldron, that might behave better with respect toThomas has let QA know that a 5.5 series kernel should be ready for
the i915 driver bug that crashes my main machine.
"There is now a kernel-5.5.4-1.mga8 in testing," accordind to Thomas
Backlund on Mageia's Bugzilla.
Is there any known reason I should not download and install it?
Mixing versions is not ideal, but neither is my machine crashing when I
try to use the 5.4 kernels provided for mga7. If it works in Cauldron,
I expect it will be ported back to Mga7, so I could wait to see how
others fare with it...
Cheers!
jim b.
testing for Mageia 7 soon, but new nvidia drivers need to be tested and pushed first. That is proceeding, so far without incident.
When Thomas believes the kernel is ready for testing, it will be listed
at http://madb.mageia.org/tools/updates.
You are more than welcome to help us with testing it, as the more tests
we have on more varieties of hardware, the better.
(This is for any lurkers thinking about trying this) But of course,
because it hasn't gone through the testing process yet it could break
your system. You are advised to try it on something other than your main production install until testing is complete.
Fingers crossed, but I think my machine may be in good order. Not sure
what to do about the extra testing rpms installed. If anything starts
giving problems I will provide notice here or on bugzilla, but do not
plan to deliberately try to exercise any of the "extra" packages
installed.
On Sat, 15 Feb 2020 09:21:49 -0500, TJ wrote:
On 2/15/20 8:42 AM, Jim Beard wrote:
A new kernel is in Cauldron, that might behave better with respect toThomas has let QA know that a 5.5 series kernel should be ready for
the i915 driver bug that crashes my main machine.
"There is now a kernel-5.5.4-1.mga8 in testing," accordind to Thomas
Backlund on Mageia's Bugzilla.
Is there any known reason I should not download and install it?
Mixing versions is not ideal, but neither is my machine crashing when I
try to use the 5.4 kernels provided for mga7. If it works in Cauldron,
I expect it will be ported back to Mga7, so I could wait to see how
others fare with it...
Cheers!
jim b.
testing for Mageia 7 soon, but new nvidia drivers need to be tested and
pushed first. That is proceeding, so far without incident.
When Thomas believes the kernel is ready for testing, it will be listed
at http://madb.mageia.org/tools/updates.
You are more than welcome to help us with testing it, as the more tests
we have on more varieties of hardware, the better.
(This is for any lurkers thinking about trying this) But of course,
because it hasn't gone through the testing process yet it could break
your system. You are advised to try it on something other than your main
production install until testing is complete.
I had no luck finding the kernel I wanted, but decided to "go whole hog."
I used mcc to add all the testing repositories for mga7, and then did an urpmi for pieces of rpm names I thought would get what I wanted if it
were available.
Seventy-eight rpm packages downloaded and installed. I think I over-
achieved. The machine seems to work, the 5.5.4 kernel is installed, and
I am no longer having the hang on rcs0 nor is opera providing error
message Receiver for unknown channel-associated interface: chrome.jojomBouncer or some such.
Virtualbox did not work at that time. (late last night) A few minutes
ago I used mcc to find a install a couple of virtualbox rpms with the new release numbers, and now that too is working.
Fingers crossed, but I think my machine may be in good order. Not sure
what to do about the extra testing rpms installed. If anything starts giving problems I will provide notice here or on bugzilla, but do not
plan to deliberately try to exercise any of the "extra" packages
installed.
Cheers!
jim b.
On 2020-02-16, Jim Beard <jim.beard@verizon.net> wrote:
On Sat, 15 Feb 2020 09:21:49 -0500, TJ wrote:
On 2/15/20 8:42 AM, Jim Beard wrote:
A new kernel is in Cauldron, that might behave better with respect toThomas has let QA know that a 5.5 series kernel should be ready for
the i915 driver bug that crashes my main machine.
"There is now a kernel-5.5.4-1.mga8 in testing," accordind to
Thomas Backlund on Mageia's Bugzilla.
Is there any known reason I should not download and install it?
Mixing versions is not ideal, but neither is my machine crashing when
I try to use the 5.4 kernels provided for mga7. If it works in
Cauldron,
I expect it will be ported back to Mga7, so I could wait to see how
others fare with it...
Cheers!
jim b.
testing for Mageia 7 soon, but new nvidia drivers need to be tested
and pushed first. That is proceeding, so far without incident.
When Thomas believes the kernel is ready for testing, it will be
listed at http://madb.mageia.org/tools/updates.
You are more than welcome to help us with testing it, as the more
tests we have on more varieties of hardware, the better.
(This is for any lurkers thinking about trying this) But of course,
because it hasn't gone through the testing process yet it could break
your system. You are advised to try it on something other than your
main production install until testing is complete.
I had no luck finding the kernel I wanted, but decided to "go whole
hog."
I used mcc to add all the testing repositories for mga7, and then did
an urpmi for pieces of rpm names I thought would get what I wanted if
it were available.
All the testing was a bit of overkill. Just core/update_testing would
have been sufficient.
and urpmi -y kernel-desktop-5.5 would probably have been enough.
Or just download the one kernel-desktop-5.5.4-1.mga7-1-1.mga7.x86_64.rpm
from and http or ftp repository and install it from your machine would
also have probably been enough.
The problem with testing is that the stuff in there has not been tested except on maybe one or two systems,
and might, in some situations and on some machines (yours?) have a bad
bug that crashes your system. Mind you even if it has gone through
testing, it has only been tested on a few machines or machine types and
might still crash your particular system.
So, if you run into problems make sure you report them to bugs.mageia
Seventy-eight rpm packages downloaded and installed. I think I over-
Were they all from the testing repositories or were some from the normal repositories-- eg dependencies in some of the new packages.
Did you do it from the gui or from a terminal?
And what were the "pieces of rpm names" you used.
achieved. The machine seems to work, the 5.5.4 kernel is installed,
and I am no longer having the hang on rcs0 nor is opera providing error
message Receiver for unknown channel-associated interface:
chrome.jojomBouncer or some such.
Sounds hopeful.
Virtualbox did not work at that time. (late last night) A few minutes
ago I used mcc to find a install a couple of virtualbox rpms with
new release numbers, and now that too is working.
Fingers crossed, but I think my machine may be in good order. Not sure
what to do about the extra testing rpms installed.
A new kernel is in Cauldron, that might behave better with respect to the i915 driver bug that crashes my main machine.
"There is now a kernel-5.5.4-1.mga8 in testing," accordind to Thomas Backlund on Mageia's Bugzilla.
Is there any known reason I should not download and install it?
Mixing versions is not ideal, but neither is my machine crashing when I
try to use the 5.4 kernels provided for mga7. If it works in Cauldron, I expect it will be ported back to Mga7, so I could wait to see how others
fare with it...
Cheers!
jim b.
A new kernel is in Cauldron, that might behave better with respect to the i915 driver bug that crashes my main machine.
"There is now a kernel-5.5.4-1.mga8 in testing," accordind to Thomas Backlund on Mageia's Bugzilla.
Is there any known reason I should not download and install it?
On 16/2/20 12:42 am, Jim Beard wrote:
A new kernel is in Cauldron, that might behave better with respect to the
i915 driver bug that crashes my main machine.
"There is now a kernel-5.5.4-1.mga8 in testing," accordind to Thomas
Backlund on Mageia's Bugzilla.
Is there any known reason I should not download and install it?
Mixing versions is not ideal, but neither is my machine crashing when I
try to use the 5.4 kernels provided for mga7. If it works in Cauldron, I
expect it will be ported back to Mga7, so I could wait to see how others
fare with it...
A new kernel is in Cauldron, that might behave better with respect to the i915 driver bug that crashes my main machine.
"There is now a kernel-5.5.4-1.mga8 in testing," accordind to Thomas Backlund on Mageia's Bugzilla.
Is there any known reason I should not download and install it?
On Sat, 15 Feb 2020 13:42:18 -0000 (UTC), Jim Beard wrote:
A new kernel is in Cauldron, that might behave better with respect to
the i915 driver bug that crashes my main machine.
"There is now a kernel-5.5.4-1.mga8 in testing," accordind to Thomas
Backlund on Mageia's Bugzilla.
Is there any known reason I should not download and install it?
It is no longer in testing,
$ uname -r 5.5.6-desktop-2.mga7
is working on all of my three systems.
On 16/2/20 12:42 am, Jim Beard wrote:
A new kernel is in Cauldron, that might behave better with respect toThe "TMB" kernels were for people who know what they are doing, so I
the i915 driver bug that crashes my main machine.
"There is now a kernel-5.5.4-1.mga8 in testing," accordind to Thomas
Backlund on Mageia's Bugzilla.
Is there any known reason I should not download and install it?
Mixing versions is not ideal, but neither is my machine crashing when I
try to use the 5.4 kernels provided for mga7. If it works in Cauldron,
I expect it will be ported back to Mga7, so I could wait to see how
others fare with it...
Cheers!
jim b.
never touched them.
On Sun, 01 Mar 2020 02:59:19 -0600, Bit Twister wrote:
On Sat, 15 Feb 2020 13:42:18 -0000 (UTC), Jim Beard wrote:
A new kernel is in Cauldron, that might behave better with respect to
the i915 driver bug that crashes my main machine.
"There is now a kernel-5.5.4-1.mga8 in testing," accordind to Thomas
Backlund on Mageia's Bugzilla.
Is there any known reason I should not download and install it?
It is no longer in testing,
$ uname -r 5.5.6-desktop-2.mga7
is working on all of my three systems.
http://mageia.jameswhitby.net/distrib/7/x86_64/media/core/updates_testing/ kernel-desktop-latest-5.5.4-1.mga7.x86_64.rpm provided a 5.5.4-1 version
I installed on 16 February. My tale of accidentally installing 78
"testing" packages resulted from that.
The other 78 updates testing packages likewise seem to be working, but I
have not made any attempt to use anything just to see if it works. Some
may have been replaced by now with rpms from the usual repositories.
kernel-desktop-devel-5.5.6-2.mga7 was available and installed last night.
It like 5.5.4-1.mga7 has worked flawlessly, so far as I can tell.
Cheers!
jim b.
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