home bbs files messages ]

Just a sample of the Echomail archive

Cooperative anarchy at its finest, still active today. Darkrealms is the Zone 1 Hub.

   LINUX      Torvalds farts & fans know what he ate      8,232 messages   

[   << oldest   |   < older   |   list   |   newer >   |   newest >>   ]

   Message 6,208 of 8,232   
   Alan Ianson to Maurice Kinal   
   life ?   
   03 Dec 19 16:00:18   
   
   REPLY: 1:153/7001 5de6f4ae   
   MSGID: 1:153/757 5de6f9f3   
   CHRS: UTF-8 2   
   TZUTC: -0800   
   TID: hpt/lnx 1.9.0-cur 2019-11-24   
   Hello Maurice,   
      
    AI>> I just updated my laptop with kernel 5.4.1 and it solves a   
    AI>> problem I had on the desktop.   
      
    MK> Huh?  What problem on the desktop?   
      
   This is on my laptop. It runs Slackware 14.2 wonderfully but WiFi doesn't work.   
    I can see my own and neighbors APs, I can see various signal strengths and   
   connect to my own AP but I get no internet connection so I need to plug in a   
   cable. That works well but there isn't always a wire available so I installed   
   Slackware-current.   
      
   Everything worked well with Slackware-current until somewhere around the 5.0   
   kernel. On Slackware 14.2 the radeon module is used and works well. With the   
   newer kernels the amdgpu module is used.   
      
   Everything boots up fine and I can run startx and all looks good. When I run   
   some apps like firefox I don't see anything on the screen. I have to switch   
   away to   F6 or somewhere and switch back to   F7 then I   
   can see firefox on the screen.   
      
   All seems to be good with the 5.4.1 kernel though, so onwards and upwards.. :)   
      
    Ttyl :-),   
            Al   
      
   --- GoldED+/LNX 1.1.5-b20180707   
    * Origin: The Rusty MailBox - Penticton, BC Canada (1:153/757)   
   SEEN-BY: 1/123 15/2 57/0 90/1 103/705 153/250 154/10 203/0 220/70   
   SEEN-BY: 221/0 227/114 229/354 426 452 616 1014 240/5832 249/206 317   
   SEEN-BY: 249/400 250/3 267/800 280/464 5003 292/854 310/31 317/3 322/757   
   SEEN-BY: 342/200 396/45 423/120 633/280 712/848 770/0 1 100 330 340   
   SEEN-BY: 772/0 1 210 500 2452/250 5020/545   
   PATH: 153/757 250 770/1 280/464 229/426   
      

[   << oldest   |   < older   |   list   |   newer >   |   newest >>   ]


(c) 1994,  bbs@darkrealms.ca