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The 2.6.39 kernel is outThe 2.6.39 kernel is outPosted May 20, 2011 0:49 UTC (Fri) by tetromino (subscriber, #33846)In reply to: The 2.6.39 kernel is out by job Parent article: The 2.6.39 kernel is out >There is no 3D support for Nvidia, unless you put yourself in the same situation with proprietary drivers again. The day Nvidia decides to stop supporting your hardware a few years from now you can never upgrade your system again. True, when using any proprietary driver, you run the risk of the vendor refusing to support your hardware at some point down the road. However, judging by past performance, Nvidia is reasonably good at keeping up with kernel and X API changes, and by the time the binary driver drops support for your video card, it's likely to be many years obsolete (Nvidia's current Linux driver still supports the GeForce FX series, released 8 years ago). > If you're shopping for a laptop, go with Intel graphics. It's supposed to be much improved with Sandy Bridge anyway.Bad advice. By all accounts, Sandy Bridge is rather unstable under Linux, and is thoroughly broken in 2.6.39.
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The 2.6.39 kernel is out Posted May 20, 2011 1:18 UTC (Fri) by dlang (✭ supporter ✭, #313) [Link]
umm, did you miss the problems a few years ago when major distros were delaying updates to x.org because nvidia hadn't updated their drivers?
right now we have a situation where the AMD drivers don't work with a kernel released about 24 hours ago
wait and see how quickly (or slowly) the drivers get fixed before you start getting upset.
The 2.6.39 kernel is out Posted May 20, 2011 17:12 UTC (Fri) by luto (subscriber, #39314) [Link]
>> If you're shopping for a laptop, go with Intel graphics. It's supposed to be much improved with Sandy Bridge anyway.
> Bad advice. By all accounts, Sandy Bridge is rather unstable under Linux, and is thoroughly broken in 2.6.39.
Victory! :(
It's my change that "thoroughly" broke it in 2.6.39, because without it my system (which was perfectly stable on 2.6.38) hangs immediately upon starting Gnome.
I imagine that this stuff will be fixed in a -stable release soon.
Also, if you're using Sandy Bridge, try installing more up-to-date x86-video-intel. Just build from -git and put this in xorg.conf:
Section "Files"
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