2.6.35 released!

Army · 2010-08-05 13:04:52

The first thing I noticed was the higher ram usage with 2.6.35 compared to 2.6.34 and those before. Usually my setup needs 41mb after boot, now it needs 49mb. I know that's not much, but still I wonder where it comes from. Any ideas?

korpenkraxar · 2010-08-05 22:42:18

pawels64 wrote:

How to use power management on radeon cards with this kernel? According to this link:
http://www.overclock.net/linux-unix/731 … river.html
it's enough to: echo dynpm > /sys/class/drm/card0/device/power_method
but there's no such thing like power_method in my kernel - 2.6.35-ARCH

What does you grub boot line look like for that kernel?

I just have the normal boot stuff, with this added:

kernel [...] i915.modeset=1 radeon.modeset=1

(btw my laptop has both an Intel and an ATI graphics chip, hence I specify both here, although only one can be use at a time)

Then in rc.local I put this, which just works:

echo profile > /sys/class/drm/card0/device/power_method
echo mid > /sys/class/drm/card0/device/power_profile

The mid profile works very well for me. GPU temp at 52 degrees C and a CPU at 44. Much cooler than the default profile and Kwin is still as "smooth" as before.

korpenkraxar · 2010-08-05 22:47:24

By the way. Is anyone else have problems resuming from suspend on Thinkpads or other laptops with R600 ATI chips with 2.6.35? I often, but not always, get stuck with a blinking cursor at the top left. I also suffer from being kicked out from X occasionally...

GogglesGuy · 2010-08-05 23:13:40

Can an updated lirc package put in Testing as well?

KlavKalashj · 2010-08-06 00:16:58

I'm having problems with my elantech touchpad. It moves alright, but tap-clicking and two-finger scroll is gone, and every time I touch the pad, the cursor moves randomly. Quite unusable. Anybody else?

kfgz · 2010-08-06 10:11:21

pawels64 wrote:

How to use power management on radeon cards with this kernel? According to this link:
http://www.overclock.net/linux-unix/731 … river.html
it's enough to: echo dynpm > /sys/class/drm/card0/device/power_method
but there's no such thing like power_method in my kernel - 2.6.35-ARCH

For 2.6.35 you should put radeon.dynclks=1 instead of radeon.dynpm=1 as a kernel parameter.

pawels64 · 2010-08-06 14:26:44

kfgz wrote:

For 2.6.35 you should put radeon.dynclks=1 instead of radeon.dynpm=1 as a kernel parameter.

I tried this and it didn't help. According to dmesg Power management isn't initialized at all.

korpenkraxar wrote:

What does you grub boot line look like for that kernel?
I just have the normal boot stuff, with this added:
kernel [...] i915.modeset=1 radeon.modeset=1
(btw my laptop has both an Intel and an ATI graphics chip, hence I specify both here, although only one can be use at a time)
Then in rc.local I put this, which just works:
echo profile > /sys/class/drm/card0/device/power_method
echo mid > /sys/class/drm/card0/device/power_profile
The mid profile works very well for me. GPU temp at 52 degrees C and a CPU at 44. Much cooler than the default profile and Kwin is still as "smooth" as before.

I tried with radeon.modeset=1 and with radeon.dynclks=1, but it's the same. Before, I had video=1024x768 only. I also tried without it.

Last edited by pawels64 (2010-08-08 22:20:50)

zephyr · 2010-08-10 15:03:25

[I have problems with suspend-to-ram/sleep with the new kernel from testing. Laptop enters suspend successfully (pm logs OK, orange power led OK etc.) but on wakeup it immediately reboots.

Laptop is a vaio with an nvidia 330m card and binary driver.

SleepyFloyd · 2010-08-11 12:12:05

KlavKalashj wrote:

I'm having problems with my elantech touchpad. It moves alright, but tap-clicking and two-finger scroll is gone, and every time I touch the pad, the cursor moves randomly. Quite unusable. Anybody else?

Not the same problems, but my touchpad has been behaving weired too. Stutters as if the CPU was maxed out, which is obviously not the case. Don't know how else to describe it. Cursor jumps around and is always 1-2 seconds behind the movement.

Nothing in the Xorg logs... don't know what's happening. Tried 2.6.35 yesterday for a few hours, downgraded back to the kernel in the core repos.

Laptop is a Acer Extensa 5635z with a pretty generic touchpad. Never had problems with it before.

KlavKalashj · 2010-08-11 12:51:56

SleepyFloyd wrote:

KlavKalashj wrote:
I'm having problems with my elantech touchpad. It moves alright, but tap-clicking and two-finger scroll is gone, and every time I touch the pad, the cursor moves randomly. Quite unusable. Anybody else?
Not the same problems, but my touchpad has been behaving weired too. Stutters as if the CPU was maxed out, which is obviously not the case. Don't know how else to describe it. Cursor jumps around and is always 1-2 seconds behind the movement.
Nothing in the Xorg logs... don't know what's happening. Tried 2.6.35 yesterday for a few hours, downgraded back to the kernel in the core repos.
Laptop is a Acer Extensa 5635z with a pretty generic touchpad. Never had problems with it before.

My problem suddenly got solved by... doing nothing. I installed xf86-input-synaptics (please don't ask why ) and restarted X, and it worked. Haven't been bothered by it since then. It has been just like before, even after several reboots.

Edit:

==> Software upgrade (new version) :
testing/kernel26 2.6.35-2 -> 2.6.35.1-1

Hm? What's new?

Last edited by KlavKalashj (2010-08-11 12:55:06)

jac · 2010-08-11 15:41:30

KlavKalashj wrote:

Edit:
==> Software upgrade (new version) :
testing/kernel26 2.6.35-2 -> 2.6.35.1-1
Hm? What's new?

The -number is the version of the PKGBUILD, look at the version of the kernel: 2.6.35 vs 2.6.35.1

That being said, I have no idea what changes happened to the actual kernel, if that is what you were asking.

Last edited by jac (2010-08-11 15:43:16)

KlavKalashj · 2010-08-11 15:43:54

jac wrote:

KlavKalashj wrote:
Edit:
==> Software upgrade (new version) :
testing/kernel26 2.6.35-2 -> 2.6.35.1-1
Hm? What's new?
The -number is the version of the PKGBUILD, look at the version of the kernel: 2.6.35 vs 2.6.35.1
That being said, I have no idea what changes happened to the actual kernel, if that is what you were asking.

Yeah yeah, I know But new kernel version and no announcement...

lucke · 2010-08-11 15:50:34

KlavKalashj wrote:

Yeah yeah, I know But new kernel version and no announcement...

http://lwn.net/Articles/399441/

cookiecaper · 2010-08-12 00:26:33

I compiled this kernel the first night it was out because something in .34 prevented my MacBook Pro 2,2 (Radeon video) from resuming. It has worked fine and my laptop now resumes without issue. I didn't do anything to enable kernel Radeon power management, so maybe it was just a fix that made it into the driver and not the new thing, but I had assumed until now that it was the new thing.

FabioAreia · 2010-08-18 23:25:38

KlavKalashj wrote:

I'm having problems with my elantech touchpad. It moves alright, but tap-clicking and two-finger scroll is gone, and every time I touch the pad, the cursor moves randomly. Quite unusable. Anybody else?

I have exacly the same problem.

Onyros · 2010-08-20 00:43:19

I'm having a few strange problems on my laptop (Acer 1410), other machines I updated had no problems whatsoever.

I suppose it's related to Xorg, xf86-video-intel and the 2.6.35 kernel. Strangely enough, I only noticed a few hours after updating, because during that time I had only a vim session open, mutt and rtorrent.

I went to check Engadget (Chromium browser) and all of a sudden I noticed something was wrong when I was typing in vim with hiccups between key presses, same kinda hiccups happened with scrolling on the browser. Opened up htop and saw CPU spikes coming from X.

First time it happened I tried to change TTY, to see if it was getting logged and TTY changes took about 10 seconds. I decided to quit X... took forever. When I finally made it, restarted it... took forever. Decided to reboot? Yep, took forever.

I tried it a few times, (different browsers, too) and it always happened, especially after browsing sites on the heavier side. Downgraded and I have no problems whatsoever.

Any ideas? I've looked around and there doesn't seem to be any similar reports.

combuster · 2010-08-20 00:47:21

2.6.35.2 here (custom though), GMA965 - no problems at all (everything else is from core+extra+community).

Inxsible · 2010-08-20 01:55:38

2.6.35-2 is in the core repo now. This thread has served its purpose. If issues arise due to this kernel version please open new threads in the appropriate sub-forum.

webmasteryoda · 2010-08-22 14:35:06

Well I managed to install Kernel 2.6.35 after deinstallation of Catalyst 10.5-2 from catalyst-10.5 repo, but now I have an old problem.

The thing is that I have some strange black squares around some windows and often in web browsers with flash player running. I solved this earlier after installing Catalyst 10.5-2, but now this problem appeared again.

Now, if I try to install it back I have this error:

warning: downgrading package catalyst (10.7-4 => 10.5-2)
resolving dependencies...
warning: cannot resolve "kernel26<2.6.35", a dependency of "catalyst"
:: the following package(s) cannot be upgraded due to unresolvable dependencies:
catalyst

So, what now ? Is there some other version of this Catalyst or I am finally doomed with open source ATI which overheats my laptop ? Does new kernel fixes this issue with powersaving the GPU ?

Tnx inadvance

flamelab · 2010-08-22 15:41:46

webmasteryoda wrote:

Well I managed to install Kernel 2.6.35 after deinstallation of Catalyst 10.5-2 from catalyst-10.5 repo, but now I have an old problem.
The thing is that I have some strange black squares around some windows and often in web browsers with flash player running. I solved this earlier after installing Catalyst 10.5-2, but now this problem appeared again.
Now, if I try to install it back I have this error:

warning: downgrading package catalyst (10.7-4 => 10.5-2)
resolving dependencies...
warning: cannot resolve "kernel26<2.6.35", a dependency of "catalyst"
:: the following package(s) cannot be upgraded due to unresolvable dependencies:
catalyst

So, what now ? Is there some other version of this Catalyst or I am finally doomed with open source ATI which overheats my laptop ? Does new kernel fixes this issue with powersaving the GPU ?
Tnx inadvance

Are you using the unofficial (user) repository [catalyst] repo ?

For your problem:

aticonfig --set-pcs-str=DDX,ForceXAA,TRUE

(run it as root)

Inxsible · 2010-08-22 16:55:12

https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php … 92#p812092

Closing...

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