On 07.04.2014 12:27, Chuck Forsberg WA7KGX wrote:
I have now tried Rawhide 3.15 on three machines.
The Three Little Pigs(PCs), and A Big Bad Wolf(Debug Kernel)? :)
A Core Duo E8500 (which only reports one core) runs fine.
An I5-3550 is somewhat unstable. Interestingly, it fails Test 7
on Memtest86+ 5.01 in SMP mode. Others have reported
the same problem with various machines. The memory test
passes without SMP mode.
An I7-3770K runs in 3.15 text mode but immediately freezes when
X is started. Anaconda 21.31-1 works but in rather low resolution.
I tried it without the Nvidia card, using the on chip Intel gaphics
and got the same freeze.
With a debug kernels, if you don't test the video modules per se,
/etc/X11/xorg.conf
Section "Device"
Identifier "video0"
Driver "modesetting"
EndSection
is a must-have.
Check for yourself a "Stats for nerds"/dropped frames with 1280/1920 on
YouTube. Within the Xfce of course. :)
Point is the '[xorg-x11-drv-]modesetting' ain't "accelerated", and
this
is what pulls down the "real" modules as 'nouveau' & Co., within a
debug
kernels.
This machine runs Win7 and Heisenbug without crashing.
This machine ran Memtest86+ 5.01 in SMP mode without issues.
I will leave Memtest running for a while to make sure it is stable.
Regarding the Memtest86+, literally every test should pass, there is no
middle ground. Use a compatible RAM sticks.
poma