Em Fri, 22 Feb 2013 07:51:58 -0800 Hans Verkuil <hverkuil@xxxxxxxxx> escreveu: > On Friday, February 22, 2013 07:17:42 Andy Walls wrote: > > On Thu, 2013-02-21 at 22:32 -0500, Andy Walls wrote: > > > Ron Andreasen <dlanor78@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > > > > >I've been having trouble getting distros that have any kernel above the > > > >3.5 > > > >series to boot (only tried 64-bit). I get a black screen with a bunch > > > >of > > > >text and the boot process goes no further. I don't know if this is > > > >usually > > > >okay, but I'm posting a link to a picture I took of my monitor with my > > > >cell > > > >phone. It's a bit blurry but hopefully it's still okay: > > > > > > > >http://imgur.com/viP1kWk,3YJXKbG > > > > > > > >The distros I've had this problem in are Kubuntu (I've tried several of > > > >the > > > >daily builds) which uses the 3.8.? (can't boot far enough to see) > > > >kernel, > > > >Cinnarch which uses the 3.7.3 kernel, and openSUSE 12.3 and I don't > > > >remember what version of the kernel that one used. > > Please note that any 3.8 kernel is terminally broken with ivtv/cx18 and will > crash during boot as long as this patch is not applied: > > http://git.linuxtv.org/media_tree.git/commit/cfb046cb800ba306b211fbbe4ac633486e11055f > > It can be worked around by renaming ivtv-alsa.ko, as Andy mentioned. > > I hope to get this patch into the 3.8 stable series as soon as possible. > I have to wait until it is merged into mainline first, though. The patch got merged upstream yesterday: http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git;a=commit;h=cfb046cb800ba306b211fbbe4ac633486e11055f As it was tagged with: Cc: stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx # for 3.8 I expect that it will be available for 3.8.1 after the end of the merge window. Regards, Mauro -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-media" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
