Kernel 2.6.38 released

archman-cro · 2011-03-17 11:04:51

I also have this alsa restore levels error when booting up with 2.6.38. Anyone else?

combuster · 2011-03-17 11:35:10

Yep... Run alsaconf as root and alsamixer later, setup desired volume levels and do alsactl store

archman-cro · 2011-03-17 11:56:09

Strange. I ran 'alsaconf' as root (without listening to mpd or something) and it failed to find the sound interface. I rebooted after that, and the restore was good. Heh.

agapito · 2011-03-17 12:43:48

My gigabyte ethernet (r8169) don't work with .38

Gusar · 2011-03-17 14:22:23

agapito wrote:

My gigabyte ethernet (r8169) don't work with .38

Works fine here. Which card exactly do you have? Mine is:

02:00.0 Ethernet controller [0200]: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. RTL8111/8168B PCI Express Gigabit Ethernet controller [10ec:8168] (rev 03)

DIDI2002 · 2011-03-17 17:41:45

2.6.38 freezes my system after 10 to 15 seconds. Same with kernel26-mainline from AUR, so it's probably an upstream issue.
I can watch the cpu-usage in htop, it's getting red on all 4 cores before the system stops responding.

Anyone else on Asus P7P55D + Intel i5 ?

Last edited by DIDI2002 (2011-03-17 18:01:06)

sironitomas · 2011-03-17 18:32:11

2.6.38 from [testing] is working well for now in my AAO-D260

agapito · 2011-03-17 19:11:01

Gusar wrote:

agapito wrote:
My gigabyte ethernet (r8169) don't work with .38
Works fine here. Which card exactly do you have? Mine is:
02:00.0 Ethernet controller [0200]: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. RTL8111/8168B PCI Express Gigabit Ethernet controller [10ec:8168] (rev 03)

I have the same. Is a firmware needed?

ANOKNUSA · 2011-03-17 20:01:59

ngoonee wrote:

abraxas88 wrote:
Is "the patch that does wonders" included in stock Arch release?
I think it should be, was slated to come out in 2.6.38. I'm not sure you'll actually feel much difference though, depending on your workload. There was another discussion about it some time back, you could check out the (very good) links on that thread, especially the Lennart/Linus arguments.

I think the patch was supposed to have kinks worked out an be switched on by default. Thing is, the "wonders" it performs are only gonna be felt by those under above-average workload using multiply tty's (or that's my understanding); Linus thinks the patch is fantastic because he can go about his business while compiling testing kernels in the background. Someone simply using a few apps on a desktop from tty7 won't notice any real difference.

o1911 · 2011-03-17 20:43:17

ANOKNUSA wrote:

ngoonee wrote:
abraxas88 wrote:
Is "the patch that does wonders" included in stock Arch release?
I think it should be, was slated to come out in 2.6.38. I'm not sure you'll actually feel much difference though, depending on your workload. There was another discussion about it some time back, you could check out the (very good) links on that thread, especially the Lennart/Linus arguments.
I think the patch was supposed to have kinks worked out an be switched on by default. Thing is, the "wonders" it performs are only gonna be felt by those under above-average workload using multiply tty's (or that's my understanding); Linus thinks the patch is fantastic because he can go about his business while compiling testing kernels in the background. Someone simply using a few apps on a desktop from tty7 won't notice any real difference.

I thought that each invocation of a shell spawned a new tty, and thus each shell essentially will take advantage of this multitasking functionality (see http://kernelnewbies.org/Linux_2_6_38).

Grinch · 2011-03-20 16:12:27

DIDI2002 wrote:

2.6.38 freezes my system after 10 to 15 seconds. Same with kernel26-mainline from AUR, so it's probably an upstream issue.
I can watch the cpu-usage in htop, it's getting red on all 4 cores before the system stops responding.
Anyone else on Asus P7P55D + Intel i5 ?

Yes, happened to me aswell, although not as immediatly as 10 to 15 seconds. Also using a core i5. I upgraded straight from 2.6.35 (rock solid for months) to 2.6.38 so I can't say if this was introduced in .38 or in 36 or 37. Needless to say I'll be sticking with .35 for a while longer while 38.x hopefully fixes this.

lutherus · 2011-03-20 16:19:28

archman-cro wrote:

Strange. I ran 'alsaconf' as root (without listening to mpd or something) and it failed to find the sound interface. I rebooted after that, and the restore was good. Heh.

i had the same error with 2.6.38 kernel on slackware.
to solve it i removed alsa and kompiled it by hand from source

rabinhood · 2011-03-30 09:23:35

archman-cro wrote:

I also have this alsa restore levels error when booting up with 2.6.38. Anyone else?

1. "alsactl store" as root
2. overwrite "/etc/asound.state" with "/var/lib/alsa/asound.state"

I have this problem after every kernel version change. These steps solve the issue.

brebs · 2011-03-30 12:21:21

rabinhood wrote:

overwrite "/etc/asound.state" with "/var/lib/alsa/asound.state"

Woo, upstream finally made that change - in under 4 years, too

$ tar -xf alsa-utils-1.0.24.2.tar.bz2
$ find -type f | xargs grep asound.state
./alsa-utils-1.0.24.2/alsactl/alsactl.c:#define SYS_ASOUNDRC "/var/lib/alsa/asound.state"

trapanator · 2011-04-03 06:19:30

upgrading from 2.6.38.1 -> 2.6.38.2:

on my system resume from hibernation doesn't work anymore.

Downgrading all is working fine.

My system is an AMD MV-40 with Radeon HD 3200 (KMS and open drivers)

Ramses de Norre · 2011-04-03 11:20:29

trapanator wrote:

upgrading from 2.6.38.1 -> 2.6.38.2:
on my system resume from hibernation doesn't work anymore.
Downgrading all is working fine.
My system is an AMD MV-40 with Radeon HD 3200 (KMS and open drivers)

Known bug, the commit that did this is known upstream and it will probably be fixed in .3.

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