• Mga8 new kernal in testing; Usable for Mga7 suffering the i915 driver

    From Jim Beard@2:250/0 to All on Sat Feb 15 13:42:18 2020
    Subject: Mga8 new kernal in testing; Usable for Mga7 suffering the i915 driver
    problems?

    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.

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  • From TJ@2:250/0 to All on Sat Feb 15 14:21:49 2020
    Subject: Re: Mga8 new kernal in testing; Usable for Mga7 suffering the i915
    driver problems?

    On 2/15/20 8:42 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...

    Cheers!

    jim b.

    Thomas has let QA know that a 5.5 series kernel should be ready for
    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.

    TJ

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  • From Jim Beard@2:250/0 to All on Sat Feb 15 15:25:25 2020
    Subject: Re: Mga8 new kernal in testing; Usable for Mga7 suffering the i915
    driver problems?

    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 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.

    Thomas has let QA know that a 5.5 series kernel should be ready for
    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

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  • From William Unruh@2:250/0 to All on Sat Feb 15 17:01:47 2020
    Subject: Re: Mga8 new kernal in testing; Usable for Mga7 suffering the i915
    driver problems?

    On 2020-02-15, Jim Beard <jim.beard@verizon.net> 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.

    It is also in mga7 updates_testing/kernel-desktop-5.5.4-1.mga7-1-1.mga7.x86_64.rpm


    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

    No need.

    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.


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  • From James Kerr@2:250/0 to All on Sat Feb 15 18:52:52 2020
    Subject: Re: Mga8 new kernal in testing; Usable for Mga7 suffering the i915
    driver problems?

    On 15/02/2020 15:25, Jim Beard 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 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.

    Thomas has let QA know that a 5.5 series kernel should be ready for
    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


    vbox needs fixes for 5.5
    https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=26199





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  • From Jim Beard@2:250/0 to All on Sun Feb 16 16:19:48 2020
    Subject: Re: Mga8 new kernal in testing; Usable for Mga7 suffering the i915
    driver problems?

    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 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.

    Thomas has let QA know that a 5.5 series kernel should be ready for
    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.

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  • From David W. Hodgins@2:250/0 to All on Sun Feb 16 19:59:19 2020
    Subject: Re: Mga8 new kernal in testing; Usable for Mga7 suffering the i915
    driver problems?

    On Sun, 16 Feb 2020 11:19:48 -0500, Jim Beard <jim.beard@verizon.net> wrote:

    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.

    If you want to figure out what you have installed from the testing repos, disable them and then use "urpmq --not-avail" to list all rpm packages installed, but not currently available on any enabled repository.

    Regards, Dave Hodgins

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  • From William Unruh@2:250/0 to All on Sun Feb 16 21:19:06 2020
    Subject: Re: Mga8 new kernal in testing; Usable for Mga7 suffering the i915
    driver problems?

    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 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.

    Thomas has let QA know that a 5.5 series kernel should be ready for
    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 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.


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  • From Jim Beard@2:250/0 to All on Sun Feb 16 23:24:37 2020
    Subject: Re: Mga8 new kernal in testing; Usable for Mga7 suffering the i915
    driver problems?

    On Sun, 16 Feb 2020 21:19:06 +0000, William Unruh wrote:

    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 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.

    Thomas has let QA know that a 5.5 series kernel should be ready for
    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.

    They were all from testing. I used David Hodgins' urpmq --not-available
    to get the list, and the 78 found matched the 78 that installed. Yes, I
    had used a little script that keeps a record of everything installed.

    Did you do it from the gui or from a terminal?

    Terminal. Looking for the new kernel in mccc/gui had not found it.

    And what were the "pieces of rpm names" you used.

    I think it was urpmi kern, box, or something, but it was late and since I
    was going "whole hog" (and really did not expect it to find much) so I
    did not pay much attention to my "wild card" details. I was thinking I
    would need the virtualbox stuff for the new kernel, and wanted that.

    I still do not know what I did that brought in the flood, or how.
    Presumably regular expression matching of some sort plus dependencies.

    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 bunch of the rpms are test versions of things on my system. I am disinclined to try to downgrade them, so I will just leave things as they
    are. If I run into problems, I have two lists to search for the names installed, and perhaps I will be able to identify the problem rpms.

    I am now an ignorant "tester" of the 78 rpms. If I find problems, I will
    try to identify them and report, though the flood of new stuff may have interactions that could negate usefulness.

    So far,so good.

    Cheers!

    jim b.

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  • From Doug Laidlaw@2:250/0 to All on Sat Feb 29 23:18:54 2020
    Subject: Re: Mga8 new kernal in testing; Usable for Mga7 suffering the i915
    driver problems?

    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...

    Cheers!

    jim b.

    The "TMB" kernels were for people who know what they are doing, so I
    never touched them.


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  • From Bit Twister@2:250/0 to All on Sun Mar 1 00:56:24 2020
    Subject: Re: Mga8 new kernal in testing; Usable for Mga7 suffering the i915
    driver problems?

    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?

    I find it handy to have a separate partition for cauldron.
    I use the network install iso and do clean installs.
    Downloading the latest cauldron network install as I type this.

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  • From William Unruh@2:250/0 to All on Sun Mar 1 07:00:57 2020
    Subject: Re: Mga8 new kernal in testing; Usable for Mga7 suffering the i915
    driver problems?

    On 2020-02-29, Doug Laidlaw <laidlaws@hotkey.net.au> wrote:
    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...

    It was released for Mga7 about 10 days ago. It is in updates.


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  • From Bit Twister@2:250/0 to All on Sun Mar 1 08:59:19 2020
    Subject: Re: Mga8 new kernal in testing; Usable for Mga7 suffering the i915
    driver problems?

    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.

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  • From Jim Beard@2:250/0 to All on Sun Mar 1 14:45:28 2020
    Subject: Re: Mga8 new kernal in testing; Usable for Mga7 suffering the i915
    driver problems?

    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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  • From Jim Beard@2:250/0 to All on Sun Mar 1 15:12:23 2020
    Subject: Re: Mga8 new kernal in testing; Usable for Mga7 suffering the i915
    driver problems?

    On Sun, 01 Mar 2020 10:18:54 +1100, Doug Laidlaw wrote:

    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...

    Cheers!

    jim b.

    The "TMB" kernels were for people who know what they are doing, so I
    never touched them.

    I used them for a time. My understanding is that Thomas experimented
    with them, as a personal test and evaluate project, often involving the scheduler or other fundamental components that affected machine
    performance.

    The tmb kernels did provide superior performance, but my newest main
    machine's hardware performs so well that differences in the kernel make
    little or no difference for my purposes.

    A quad-core Intel i7-6700K 4.00GHz/4200.00 MHz, 32GB of DDR4 memory,
    two Samsung 250GB SSD, and a pair of 2TB Western Digital hard drives
    provides more speed and capacity than I have any need for.

    The speed provided me by Verizon FIOS at basic price has likewise
    increased over the years.


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    UNIX is not user-unfriendly, it merely expects users to be computer-
    friendly.

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  • From TJ@2:250/0 to All on Sun Mar 1 18:28:36 2020
    Subject: Re: Mga8 new kernal in testing; Usable for Mga7 suffering the i915
    driver problems?

    On 3/1/20 9:45 AM, Jim Beard wrote:
    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.

    Kernel 5.5.4-1 would not work with the antiquated Radeon graphics of my 17-year-old Dell Inspiron 5100 laptop, and others of around the same
    vintage. Upstream had no fix as yet, so tmb added a patch to the 5.5.6-2 kernel that took care of it for mga users. There were a couple of other relatively minor changes from 5.5.4, but not much.

    TJ

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  • From faeychild@2:250/0 to All on Mon Mar 2 11:38:11 2020
    Subject: Re: Mga8 new kernal in testing; Usable for Mga7 suffering the i915
    driver problems?

    On 1/3/20 7:59 pm, Bit Twister wrote:
    uname -r


    it is running here too
    as of this morning
    all fine so far

    --
    faeychild
    Running plasmashell 5.15.4 on 5.5.6-desktop-2.mga7 kernel.
    Mageia release 7 (Official) for x86_64 installed via Mageia-7-x86_64-DVD.iso


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