Re: [Gnewsense-dev] Linux-libre 2.6.30.9

[Frederique W. Piccart]

On Sun, 1 Nov 2009 17:52:00 +0100, Christophe Jarry
<address@hidden> wrote:
> On Sun, 01 Nov 2009 16:48:35 +0100
> Sam Geeraerts <address@hidden> wrote:
> 
>> Robert Millan schreef:
>> > Hi,
>> > 
>> > I packaged a deblobbed derivative of Linux 2.6.30.9 from Lemote's
>> > loongson branch.
>> 
>> When I plug in a FAT formatted USB device I get an error that it
>> can't be mounted. dmesg says:
>> 
>> FAT: IO charset GBK not found
> 
> GBK is a chinese charset, fonts may not be available for you.
> 
> Christophe
> 
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So far my experience:

Bad pointers:
- Still have to press Fn + F5 to make wireless active each time I boot.
- When the screen goes to rest (blank), it just covers the screen with
black, while it's still on. I have to press Fn + F2 to actually make the
screen blank (shut it off). It would be nice if it would do this
automatically.
- When browsing with Epiphany (just starting it and it begins to load),
when on wireless, the kernel will panic. This will not happen for example
when I'm running a stream on Rhythmbox, nor does any of this happen when I
just use an Ethernet connection.
- I got a few minor errors when installing the kernel, I believe samgee
already reported those at the very beginning.
- Still no WPA/WPA2 listing in network-admin application, only WEP Hex and
ASCII.
- Would have been nice if the package information of the kernel and
wireless driver was properly filled in.
- Don't know if it's in an issue, but with the new wireless driver, for
some reason during kernel boot, it renames the wireless connection to
wlan1, each time.
- Whenever I (re)boot, the brightness level is one value before the highest
value. It seems then when you shutdown/reboot the system sets it to this.

Awesome pointers:
- Battery indicator out of the box! Yay!
- When you press Fn + F2 now, the screen actually shuts off. Before it
seemed as if it just blackened it and put the brightness on lowest point.

What I have yet to test:
- See if webcam compatibility with different applications improved (such as
Ekiga).
- See if I still get a kernel panic when plugging in my Openmoko Neo
Freerunner.
- See if I can only allow one application to have audio at the time. For
example, when having Rhythmbox on, I won't be hearing Gajim sounds. But
don't know if this is kernel related, I doubt it. 

And a general question, a gnubie question really. Is there anyway to apply
updates, without rebooting to have them in use? Sometimes I read on
websites boasting about how GNU/Linux systems can even update the kernel,
without having to reboot.

- Fred