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[Erick Brunzell <lbsolost@xxxxxxxxx>]

On 07/23/2013 06:06 PM, Phill Whiteside wrote:
> Hi Lance,
>
> I'd be most interested to know if the new kernel has made things
> better, or worse. If there is a regression, then caught soon enough;
> it can be flagged as one. Leave it too long and they will not look
> into it.
>
> The new kernel for everyone was released today.... strike while the
> iron that forges the kernels is still hot!!! Full "it worked on this
> kit (hardware profile) at THIS time, it failed on kernel update at
> THIS time.
>
> Having your full profile, if you have not already done so, is a really
> important thing for the devs. Apart from giving them all the
> information that they need, it shows willing. 
>
> What started out as the lubuntu PPC area is now requested by all
> testers across all
> flavours.... https://wiki.ubuntu.com/QATeam/Hardware Perfect it is
> not, but as it says... it is the best (read as ONLY) thing we have.
>
> Regards,
>
> Phill.

It's almost certainly a kernel problem. I just need to spend several
hours pouring over the kernel changelogs to find out if this is
intentional. Be patient and give me time, but I wouldn't be surprised if
they dropped support for that hardware as it's gotten a bit more buggy
for quite some time.

ATM this just increases the test-load for everyone else because what I
had set up will not work now for the i386 images. And my other test box
has extremely limited disc space due to a network storage failure.

When it rains it pours ;^/

Right now I wish I hadn't crammed my Intel hardware into such a small
case because if it was still in a normal tower I could swap some drives
very quickly.

>
> On 23 July 2013 23:39, Erick Brunzell <lbsolost@xxxxxxxxx
> <mailto:lbsolost@xxxxxxxxx>> wrote:
>
>     First of all I do NOT expect anyone to try and figure out why this
>     isn't
>     working before the release of our Alpha 2!
>
>     But a large part of my i386 test suite is set up on this old hardware:
>
>     VIA C7 CPU @ 1500MHz
>     VIA CN700/P4M800 Pro/P4M800 CE/VN800 Graphics [S3 UniChrome Pro]
>     (rev 01)
>     VIA VT8233/A/8235/8237 AC97 Audio Controller (rev 60)
>     Ethernet controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT6102 [Rhine-II] (rev 78)
>     1GB DDR2 RAM
>
>     The problem seems to be that recent changes to the kernel dropped
>     support for that hardware (I just can't boot to a working screen) so
>     I'll be unable to complete a lot of the tests I'd planned on.
>
>     We can look into the why and where for much later but please expect
>     decreased testing from me.
>
>     I'll certainly adjust to this prior to Beta 1 but there is simply not
>     sufficient time for me to rebuild a box ATM.
>
>     Lance
>
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