Comment 338 for bug 541511
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(In reply to comment #192)
> @Andrej Podzimek & Szabo, Akos :
> Did you actually try the patch or are you both just being objective?
In my case, the v9 patch improved the situation. Instead of freezing the whole kernel (beyond magic SysRq) right after X.org startup (which is what the mainline kernel + current X.org does), I could "only" see the well-known X-server freeze immediately after login. (I saw it the second my mouse cursor touched an icon on the desktop. Highlighting the icon obviously triggered the freeze.) But there was nothing that could be called a usable desktop.
Furthermore, testing the patches is *extremely* difficult for me, since all the Intel laptops I care about use the Reiser4 file system. Reiser4 patches are available for mainline kernels only. So in fact I had to give up testing most versions of the patch. (The mainline kernel was so different that patching it manually was simply impossible for someone unfamiliar with the code.) That said, it is well possible that I applied the patch incorrectly and caused some other problems due to a typo...
To sum up, one of the following would help:
1) A patch against the mainline kernel (such as 2.6.34.1) to which Reiser4 could be applied as well.
2) A live distro that would use the patch, just to test it. (Does it exist?)