Testing latest -intel in Ubuntu

[tormod]

I have uploaded xserver 1.6 beta 2 (1.5.99.2) to the PPA. It has DRI2 enabled and whatnot. As can be seen on the PPA page (which you have to check before you install anything from the PPA, every time) the new xserver needs rebuilt drivers. For now I uploaded -intel 2.5.1. It's older than the "2.4.97" that was there before, but having one "known-good" version can make sense at this point.

Anyway, xserver 1.6 should arrive officially in Jaunty next week...

[sezal]

Currently i'm on Intrepid.

Under
https://edge.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+s.../+build/804746 I see huge list of binaries. Is it enough to install only these 2:

http://launchpadlibrarian.net/20218479/linux-image-2.6.28-2-generic_2.6.28-2.3_i386.deb

http://launchpadlibrarian.net/20218480/linux-headers-2.6.28-2-generic_2.6.28-2.3_i386.deb

btw, it there a way to install 2.6.28 kernel via PPA ?
if not, when it'll be possible?

[tormod]

btw, it there a way to install 2.6.28 kernel via PPA ?
if not, when it'll be possible?

These kernels are in the main jaunty repository. You can add jaunty lines to your /etc/apt/sources.list and only upgrade the kernel, then remove the jaunty lines. But get yourself a jaunty partition instead.

[Peter_Cordes]

These kernels are in the main jaunty repository. You can add jaunty lines to your /etc/apt/sources.list and only upgrade the kernel, then remove the jaunty lines. But get yourself a jaunty partition instead.

You can also use /etc/apt/preferences to make the jaunty versions of things not be preferred to the Intrepid versions:

Package: *
Pin: release a=jaunty
Pin-Priority: 400

read apt_preferences(5)
Anyone reading this who's still confused/lost should probably not do this...

apt-cache policy shows what apt thinks about the various Packages files it has, and what the Release files say about them.


Big warning: Ubuntu, unlike Debian, doesn't support mixed versions. e.g. I once reported that Edgy testing's libc6 broke Dapper's gcc, so they should add a versioned Conflicts: dependency. The answer was: don't mix versions; we're not going to do anything about it.

BTW, Jaunty's 2.6.28-2-generic broke NFS (client and server) on my machine. I'm going to boot to my Jaunty chroot and see if it works again with updated user-space.

[tormod]

I have uploaded 2:2.5.97.0~git20081208+xf86-video-intel-2.6-branch.6ca0d7e6-0ubuntu0tormod2 (no less!) to the PPA. This is the WIP of what will be the 2.6 version. It should have DRI2, and probably a lot of bugs, since this is unreleased stuff.

[bouazza]

Hello !

Well, I've installed the 2.6.28-rc7 kernel using KernelCheck, and the packages from the xorg-edgers repository ( but, I don't know exactly which packages to upgrade, so I selected only the xorg server and the intel drivers ), but, I can't move the cursor with my touchpad, and my keyboard was in QWERTY, so, I've reinstalled totally Ubuntu 8.10 ( it takes only 30min, it's better than spending hours to find the source of the problem ) .

Actually, I've only installed the new kernel, but for the xorg packages, can someone here give me the exact names of the packages I need to upgrade on my Acer Aspire 2920Z notebook ( Synaptics Touchpad ) ?

Thanks !

PS : sorry for my bad English, used some Google traduction .

[shirish]

Hi all,
I compiled and got drm-modules-2.6.28-2-ub-generic

Upgraded everything and rebooted. I get the login screen this time around but can't use the mouse and it sorta hangs. The Xorg.0.log from the session is at http://pastebin.com/m408dd439 . Don't see any way to attach the same here.

[shirish]

Hi all,
Looking at the output generated from /var/log/Xorg.0.log the starting lines were interesting

(II) Cannot locate a core pointer device.
(II) Cannot locate a core keyboard device.
(II) The server relies on HAL to provide the list of input devices.
	If no devices become available, reconfigure HAL or disable AllowEmptyInput

Googled up the last keyword "AllowEmptyInput" and hit with one of the first few results of ubuntuforums.

http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=982009

There one of the posters asks for the output of

hal-device and ls /usr/share/hal/fdi/policy/10osvendor/

For hal-device I get this output

hal-device

error: dbus_bus_get: org.freedesktop.DBUS.
Error: FileNotFound: Failed to connect to socket
/var/run/dbus/system_bus_socket:
No such file or directory.

The only way to get this ouput was to boot into single-user mode and get it.

While this is the output I get from Intrepid Ibex.

http://pastebin.com/f5f6fcf1d

(Its quite long 2057 lines)

The ls /usr/share/hal/fdi/policy/10osvendor/ however is good.

http://pastebin.com/f12219cae

The only difference of the output given in 10osvendor between the one
on Jaunty given above and Ibex is Jaunty has entries on ntfs-3g while
this doesn't.

$ ls /usr/share/hal/fdi/policy/10osvendor/
10-cpufreq.fdi
10-dell-laptop-brightness.fdi
10-dockstation.fdi
10-fuse-permissions.fdi
10-hal_lpadmin.fdi
10-imac-backlight.fdi
10-input-policy.fdi
10-keymap.fdi
10-laptop-panel-mgmt-policy.fdi
10-macbook-backlight.fdi
10-macbookpro-utils.fdi
10-power-mgmt-policy.fdi
10-rfkill-switch.fdi
10-smartcardreaders.fdi
10-tabletPCs.fdi
10-usbcsr-mice.fdi
10-x11-input.fdi
10-x11-keymap.fdi
11-x11-vmmouse.fdi
15-storage-luks.fdi
20-acl-management.fdi
20-storage-methods.fdi
30-wol.fdi
debian-storage-policy-ignore-fixed-crypto-drives.fdi

Looking forward for suggestions and directions on the same.

[tormod]

When installing the xorg-edgers xserver 1.6 beta package:
For the moment it is important to install ("downgrade" to) the -evdev and -synaptics from the PPA, not the ones from the main archive which are built for the old xserver.

[mroberts]

Could someone test a 3D intensive application to check for the presence of bug #120834? On machines with intel 965 cards, lockups have always occurred when running applications that use a lot of 3D.

edit: heres bug #120834. https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/ha...sa/+bug/120834
It has been open for almost 2 years.