[Frugalware-devel] Question about backporting packages

[Russell Dickenson]

On 6 August 2010 01:31, pete <pete at teamlupus.hu> wrote:
> On Thu, 5 Aug 2010 21:41:20 +1000, Russell Dickenson
> <russelldickenson at gmail.com> wrote:
>> On 5 August 2010 18:36, Miklos Vajna <vmiklos at frugalware.org> wrote:
>>> On Thu, Aug 05, 2010 at 08:41:37AM +1000, Russell Dickenson
>>> <russelldickenson at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>> I am currently running 1.2 because I have a problem with 1.3 (AKA
>>>> 'current') where X freezes after random periods of time.
>
>
> hi,
>
> probably you suffer from some intel bug, i had it too.
> with the updated kernel i have no issues, you should try that or better,
> try 1.3 and treat it as a bug if does not works. many ppl have intel video
> chips, so this is not an isolated problem. afaik latest kernel releases
> included many intel video fixes.
>
> --
> Péter


Over the past few days I again installed 1.3rc1 (?)  on my MSI Wind
U200. Since kernel 2.6.35 had already been merged, my installation
included it. I again found that the wireless chipset would not work
unless I created a symlink to "trick" the driver into loading the
firmware available in the ralink-firmware package. I was nervous at
first but on Saturday and Sunday I successfully connect to my wireless
access point at my home and X has not frozen once. As you suggested,
pete, maybe there was a driver conflict which has been resolved?

I'll keep using the wireless, of course, and report any issues in the BTS.


May you always be Frugal,

Russell Dickenson (AKA phayz)