Linux 6.9 Released With Faster Intel Core Ultra Performance, Larger Console Fonts Option

[Mthw]

~~My only expectation from the 6.9 kernel is that they fixed the (probably AMD GPU related) system freezes that plague everything from 6.6 to 6.8. So far the RCs have been treating me well.~~
EDIT: Well, it crashed again today, after multiple weeks of working well. https://imgur.com/a/NU1H5l6

[Mthw]

My only expectation from the 6.9 kernel is that they fixed the (probably AMD GPU related) system freezes that plague everything from 6.6 to 6.8. So far the RCs have been treating me well.

Nevermind, the same day I decide to post about this being potentially solved I get another crash. https://imgur.com/a/NU1H5l6

[dragorth]

Having just installed Bazzite Linux using a 4K TV, and needing to try and figure out why every other reboot would stall indefinitely, I discovered the wonderful world of tiny default console fonts and my poo eyes screamed.

Can't wait to see this in use asap.

[timofonic]

Nevermind, the same day I decide to post about this being potentially solved I get another crash. https://imgur.com/a/NU1H5l6

Did you submit and official bug report with all the requirements? Please put the url here when you have it. That information is required for developers to research in that bug. Thanks in advance!

[Mthw]

Did you submit and official bug report with all the requirements? Please put the url here when you have it. That information is required for developers to research in that bug. Thanks in advance!

It's this issue: https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/mesa/mesa/-/issues/10851

[mrg666]

Nevermind, the same day I decide to post about this being potentially solved I get another crash. https://imgur.com/a/NU1H5l6

That looks like a hardware problem. I have 4 AMD GPUs (7900XT, 7800XT, 6800XT, 7600XT) and there are no crashes/corruptions here, neither 6.7 nor 6.8. I just tested 6.9, it works great too. I use Plasma 6 and Wayland in FC40. No HDR though.

[timofonic]

It's this issue: https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/mesa/mesa/-/issues/10851

Oh, I see! Please ask devs if you can help them in some way to ease their work, they appreciate that a lot. Maybe they have an IRC, Matrix, Discord, Slack, whatever for chatting too.

I remember old days when my pro gamer Radeon had a bios bug that caused the issue, they had to workaround it at driver level with some AtomBios patching or whatever weird workaround but stable. They were the IRC days before FreeNode fiasco and Sourceforge wss a nice place to get software and explore thousands of projects.

[mrg666]

Btw, Xe driver is building fine this time. I have not tried on the Intel GPU yet. Will do hopefully tomorrow

[varikonniemi]

It would be nice if phoronix did a larger filesystem benchmark with bcachefs included in the bunch, there was some significant performance optimization (or rather bug fixing related to performance, especially DIO) work in the last two releases.

[zaps166]

Mediatek Bluetooth is crashing on 6.9 (with new firmware file):

Bluetooth: hci0: Failed to write uhw reg(-110)
Bluetooth: hci0: Failed to read uhw reg(-110)
Bluetooth: hci0: Failed to write uhw reg(-110)
Bluetooth: hci0: Failed to read uhw reg(-110)
Bluetooth: hci0: Failed to read uhw reg(-110)
Bluetooth: hci0: Failed to read uhw reg(-110)
Bluetooth: hci0: Reset timeout
Bluetooth: hci0: Can't get device id, subsys reset fail.
usb 3-2: device descriptor read/64, error -110