How do I test kernel patches on 12.1?
I just bought a new Asus U46E-BAL5 notebook with an Elantech touchpad. There's a kernel bug that forces the touchpad to come up as a PS/2 mouse, and none of the built-in or optional touchpad tools even see that there's a touchpad installed. So only pointing and the buttons work, and I can't turn it off when there's a USB mouse connected. I filed a bug in openSUSE Bugzilla for this on both 11.4 and 12.1. The first reporting of this bug seems to have been for Samsung notebooks on Ubuntu 11.04: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux/+bug/681904 but there's an entry there that implies to me that it's the same problem I have: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/xserver-xorg-video-intel/+bug/6819... I also tried Fedora 15 and it has the same problem. There are some patches in the Ubuntu bug report, though, and I'd like to test them on 12.1 Milestone 5. If I have the devel_kernel pattern installed, what else do I need to build and test a kernel / initrd? BTW, kernel.org seems to be down at the moment, so I can't verify the kernel bug tracker entry for this. -- http://twitter.com/znmeb http://borasky-research.net "A mathematician is a device for turning coffee into theorems." -- Paul Erdős -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-testing+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-testing+help@opensuse.org
-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Am 10.09.2011 18:54, schrieb M. Edward (Ed) Borasky:
I just bought a new Asus U46E-BAL5 notebook with an Elantech touchpad. There's a kernel bug that forces the touchpad to come up as a PS/2 mouse, and none of the built-in or optional touchpad tools even see that there's a touchpad installed. So only pointing and the buttons work, and I can't turn it off when there's a USB mouse connected.
I filed a bug in openSUSE Bugzilla for this on both 11.4 and 12.1. The first reporting of this bug seems to have been for Samsung notebooks on Ubuntu 11.04:
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux/+bug/681904
but there's an entry there that implies to me that it's the same problem I have: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/xserver-xorg-video-intel/+bug/6819...
I also tried Fedora 15 and it has the same problem. There are some patches in the Ubuntu bug report, though, and I'd like to test them on 12.1 Milestone 5. If I have the devel_kernel pattern installed, what else do I need to build and test a kernel / initrd?
BTW, kernel.org seems to be down at the moment, so I can't verify the kernel bug tracker entry for this.
you could try to checkout the openSUSE kernel from OBS, then add the patch to the kernel-default.spec (both as PatchXXX: and below %patchXXX -p1) and run osc build openSUSE_Factory This will pull build deps into a discardable chroot in /var/tmp/build-root . Also, if the problem is known to happen with other distributions as well, upstream bugtracker https://bugzilla.kernel.org/ would have been better (if it was not down since the kernel.org breakin) Ciao Bernhard M. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.18 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org/ iEYEARECAAYFAk5u4vsACgkQSTYLOx37oWS/wACfQOyvG/91HnT7iUa/kHkVpRcD /zEAn3AAnA4It5Hx9nODIThaLtCIR2Mk =HmYe -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-testing+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-testing+help@opensuse.org
On Mon, Sep 12, 2011 at 9:58 PM, Bernhard M. Wiedemann <bernhardout@lsmod.de> wrote:
you could try to checkout the openSUSE kernel from OBS, then add the patch to the kernel-default.spec (both as PatchXXX: and below %patchXXX -p1) and run osc build openSUSE_Factory This will pull build deps into a discardable chroot in /var/tmp/build-root .
Yeah - I need to read the wiki and learn how to build kernels from source anyhow. I used to do it all the time when I was a Gentoo user, of course. ;-)
Also, if the problem is known to happen with other distributions as well, upstream bugtracker https://bugzilla.kernel.org/ would have been better (if it was not down since the kernel.org breakin)
Any word on when kernel.org will be back in operation? There's a link to the upstream bug on the Ubuntu site. I'd love to have at least some workaround on my own machine by the time the first 12.1 beta comes out. I haven't seen any other bugs on that machine with either 11.4 or 12.1, so I'm hoping to run 12.1 on it for the rest of the test cycle.
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