Kernel 2.6.37-desktop problems

[glistwan]

Hi,

I’m running 11.3 32bit most of the packages from official openSUSE repos except some packman packages, KDE and kernel. I’m running this version to try and solve my full screen flash problem :

grzes@opensuse:/usr/local/sbin> uname -a
Linux opensuse.local 2.6.37-desktop #1 SMP PREEMPT 2011-01-06 01:25:27 +0100 i686 i686 i386 GNU/Linux

It’s from the repo Index of /repositories/Kernel:/HEAD/openSUSE_Factory

So the full screen flash seems to work better with this kernel, however I get some fixme problems at boot which I don’t get with the standard openSUSE kernel and these are :

grzes@opensuse:/usr/local/sbin> sudo cat /var/log/boot.msg | grep fixme
<3>    2.671901] [drm:intel_panel_get_max_backlight] *ERROR* fixme: max PWM is zero.
<3>    2.927180] [drm:intel_panel_get_max_backlight] *ERROR* fixme: max PWM is zero.
<3>    2.929063] [drm:intel_panel_get_max_backlight] *ERROR* fixme: max PWM is zero.
<3>    2.929068] [drm:intel_panel_get_max_backlight] *ERROR* fixme: max PWM is zero.

What is more tapping on the touch pad doesn’t work with this kernel and it works perfectly fine with the standard openSUSE kernel.
Thanks for help in advance.

Best regards,
Greg

[consused]

Did you ever try a 2.6.36 kernel to solve the Flash full screen problem?

I’m on 64bit versions with intel graphics driver 2.12.0. I was able to solve that using kernel-desktop 2.6.36-90.1 from Kernel:Head. However, since then I moved to a newer and more stable 2.6.36.2-3 from openSUSE Tumbleweed project. Details and repo are on that page. It’s been running smoothly for about a week now. Given the project’s goals and founder, it should be closer to the standard openSUSE kernel than the bleeding-edge 2.6.37 new in Kernel:Head.

[glistwan]

Thanks for the suggestion I will be sure to try it out and report back.

Best regards,
Greg

[joonpy]

@consused

Did you ever try a 2.6.36 kernel to solve the Flash full screen problem?

I’m on 64bit versions with intel graphics driver 2.12.0. I was able to solve that using kernel-desktop 2.6.36-90.1 from Kernel:Head. However, since then I moved to a newer and more stable 2.6.36.2-3 from openSUSE Tumbleweed project. Details and repo are on that page. It’s been running smoothly for about a week now. Given the project’s goals and founder, it should be closer to the standard openSUSE kernel than the bleeding-edge 2.6.37 new in Kernel:Head.

Speaking of the Kernel from the Tumbleweed repo, do you have problems with suspend? I updated to the kernel 2.6.36.2-3 and my machine does not go to suspend mode … it comes back alive whenever I try.

[consused]

@joonpy

Speaking of the Kernel from the Tumbleweed repo, do you have problems with suspend? I updated to the kernel 2.6.36.2-3 and my machine does not go to suspend mode … it comes back alive whenever I try.

Yes, but I had problems with suspend (to RAM) with 11.2 and 11.3 standard release! “Comes back alive”? Shhh…, you are lucky indeed. My m/c never wakes up from suspend2ram.

[joonpy]

@consused

Yes, but I had problems with suspend (to RAM) with 11.2 and 11.3 standard release! “Comes back alive”? Shhh…, you are lucky indeed. My m/c never wakes up from suspend2ram.

Oops … I never had this problem before. (I did clean update form 11.2 to 11.3). I did have problems when I try to hook up an external monitor after waking up though (the machine freezed pretty much everytime). Now whenever I try the suspend, it seems like going to to the sleep mode and then immediately comes back alive as if I press the power button.

[glistwan]

@consused

Did you ever try a 2.6.36 kernel to solve the Flash full screen problem?

I’m on 64bit versions with intel graphics driver 2.12.0. I was able to solve that using kernel-desktop 2.6.36-90.1 from Kernel:Head. However, since then I moved to a newer and more stable 2.6.36.2-3 from openSUSE Tumbleweed project. Details and repo are on that page. It’s been running smoothly for about a week now. Given the project’s goals and founder, it should be closer to the standard openSUSE kernel than the bleeding-edge 2.6.37 new in Kernel:Head.

Just tried it and it behaves pretty much like the 2.6.37 kernel. Full screen flash works better but still sometimes it’s problematic and taping doesn’t work so I’m back to the stock openSUSE kernel. Thank for help anyway.

Best regards,
Greg

[eng-int]

Tapping touchpad. This is an Xorg and KDE config file issue – not down ro the kernel.

Try this:
/etc/X11/xorg.conf.d/50-synaptics.conf

Section “InputClass”
Identifier “touchpad catchall”
Driver “synaptics”
MatchIsTouchpad “on”
MatchDevicePath “/dev/input/event*”
Option “TouchpadOff” “0”
Option “HorizScrollDelta” “0”
Option “TapButton1” “1”
EndSection

this will enable tapping before logging into a KDE session. If the deprecated /etc/X11/xorg.conf exists it will take precedence.

/etc/kde4/share/config/synaptiksrc

[Scrolling]
CoastingSpeed=15
HorizontalEdgeScrolling=true
HorizontalScrollingDistance=108

[Tapping]
OneFingerButton=LeftMouseButton
RightBottomCornerButton=RightMouseButton
ThreeFingerButton=MiddleMouseButton
TwoFingerButton=RightMouseButton

the settings in ~/kde4/share/config/synaptiksrc will take precedence.

P.S. KDE-4.5.5 has been released and is in the KDE:Release:45 repositories.

[consused]

@glistwan

Just tried it and it behaves pretty much like the 2.6.37 kernel. Full screen flash works better but still sometimes it’s problematic and taping doesn’t work so I’m back to the stock openSUSE kernel. Thank for help anyway.

Thanks for letting us know. Not spent any time with Tapping on my notebook, although it worked in W7, but not something I really need. I noticed a Tapping tab in “Touchpad” settings tool at the bottom of KDE System Settings (under a “Lost and Found” section maybe since updating to KDE 4.5.4). That allows me to set tapping options.