I'm running 2.3.99-pre3 (is there a newer one? where?), and my main
problems so far, in order, are :
1 - not everything that compiles as a module will work that way, I get
symbol referencing errors and the modules won't load. This seems to be
slowly getting better, but it still seems to be quite a few - but if
someone wants a list, I'll be more than happy.
2 - Somewhere along the line, DRI broke. I use the 3dfx/banshee driver
with Xfree 4.0 (tried a pre-compiled and compiled it myself). The
kernel's tdfx module gives symbol referencing errors. I also get some
errors with mesa in general. So all my 3D stopped working, not sure
when, if anyone has any ideas, I'm all ears.
3 - The LinkSys LNE100TX card with the WOL connector is a bit different
than the older card (same model number). It won't negotiate the line
speed and the link light just flashes. The driver from LinkSys works,
but that only compiles for 2.2.x kernels, and I have no clue how to patch
it to 2.3.x - if someone wants the linksys driver, its GPL and based on
one of Donald Becker's older tulip.c drivers. Network card support is a
big issue for linux.
4 - The 3dfx frame buffer driver has recently been giving me a large
white box, like it tries to clear the screen to white or something, but
only a small portion of the screen (I use 1120x832 - the NeXT
resolution, hacked it into the modedb.c file so I can the see the system
boot with my NeXT monitor) - its a bit annoying - is it supposed to fill
the screen with white?. Instead of a mode table in the kernel, would it
be better to have an option to list the mode timings directly on the
kernel command line? Otherwise, I have to hack the kernel to see it
boot, or change modes after the filesystems are mounted.
5 - the bttv driver used to ALMOST work with the radio tuner on my TV
card - the frequencies were off. It doesn't work at all now. Anyone
know whos supporting the bttv driver? I ultimately want to get the TV
and Radio tuners working, and if my dvd card is ever supported (possible,
I have the docs on the card), then I could use the remote from my TV card
to control the DVD player, and fast forward through advertisements -
neither of which is possible with Windblows. I think multimedia support
is going to be an issue for Linux acceptance.
If anyone has help or info on any of these issues, drop me a line, and
I'm very pleased to see that 2.4 is not released yet - I'd rather have a
bug free release than an early one. People are gonna rake 2.4 over the
coals when it hits an official release. Expectations are already too
high - and lots of silly bugs and problems, especially any drivers that
worked in 2.2 that don't work in 2.4 are going to look really bad.
The good news is, almost everyone I know has a Linux partition now and
can't wait for the day when they can finally throw Windows in the trash.
If the lawsuit against microsoft actually makes them open the API and the
source, the Wine folks could make Windows a thing of the past. I know -
just wishful thinking.
Thanks,
Evan Langlois
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