| View previous topic :: View next topic |
| Author |
Message |
PrakashP
Veteran
Joined: 27 Oct 2003
Posts: 1249
Location: C.C.A.A., Germania
|
 Posted: Thu Nov 13, 2003 9:57 am Post subject: |
 |
|
| Hihi, I never would have thought that starting that thread at lkml would create that much noise. At least it led to a minor fix in the as scheduler I posted and made its way into mm3. |
|
| Back to top |
|
 |
Dinini
Apprentice
Joined: 11 Jun 2003
Posts: 236
|
| Posted: Thu Nov 13, 2003 5:03 pm Post subject: |
|
|
| Random Task wrote: | | Is it possible to have a framebuffer do 1600x1200 or am I just being too picky? |
[EDIT] You should be able to do this. (I haven't tried it in a long while so please let me know if it still works.)
It has to do with setting custom modes for your card and that varies so there isn't a magic number I can hand you, basically it's safest to base it off a working xwindows modeline and then modifying the append line for the kernel to match.
http://www.tldp.org/HOWTO/Framebuffer-HOWTO-18.html
[/EDIT]
Last edited by Dinini on Thu Nov 13, 2003 5:19 pm; edited 1 time in total |
|
| Back to top |
|
|
watersb
Apprentice
Joined: 04 Sep 2002
Posts: 297
Location: take a left turn in Tesuque
|
| Posted: Thu Nov 13, 2003 5:05 pm Post subject: New Reiser4 |
|
|
From the reiserfs-list:
I am not in any particular hurry for this, but FWIW...  |
|
| Back to top |
|
|
watersb
Apprentice
Joined: 04 Sep 2002
Posts: 297
Location: take a left turn in Tesuque
|
| Posted: Thu Nov 13, 2003 5:07 pm Post subject: |
|
|
| asimon wrote: |
No, the root kernel parameter should contain your true root filesystem, not /dev/ram0. The initrd code uses /dev/ram which is hardcoded in init/do_mounts_initrd.c. There's no need to specify it in a kernel parameter. To use an initrd you have to tell the boot loader about it, that's all. Here an example for GRUB:
| Code: |
title=Gentoo GNU/Linux 2.6.0-test9-mm1
root (hd1,0)
kernel /bzImage-2.6.0-test9-mm1 root=/dev/main_vg/root_lv hdb=ide-scsi hdd=ide-cd
initrd /initrd-lvm-2.00.07-r1.gz
|
|
Once again, asimon fixes my erroneous posts! Thanks! |
|
| Back to top |
|
|
watersb
Apprentice
Joined: 04 Sep 2002
Posts: 297
Location: take a left turn in Tesuque
|
| Posted: Thu Nov 13, 2003 5:13 pm Post subject: |
|
|
| Random Task wrote: |
Is it possible to have a framebuffer do 1600x1200 or am I just being too picky?
|
My laptop is a Dell Inspiron 8000 with 1600x1200 and I love it; I use anti-aliasing on the fonts and have a very nice display.
I use vga=792.
Here is my 1600x1200 framebuffer setting in GRUB:
| Code: |
default=0
timeout=3
title SCSI Recovery Console AOC
root (hd0,0)
kernel /boot/vmlinuz root=/dev/hda2 init=/linuxrc hdb=ide-scsi vga=792 video=vesa:mtrr,ywrap rw SCHEME=aoc pci=noacpi acpi=off elevator=cfq
initrd /boot/initrd
|
|
|
| Back to top |
|
|
Dinini
Apprentice
Joined: 11 Jun 2003
Posts: 236
|
| Posted: Thu Nov 13, 2003 5:48 pm Post subject: |
|
|
| watersb wrote: | | I use vga=792. |
decimal 792 = hexadecimal 0x318 ... Isn't that 1280x1024x24
1600x1200x24 would be hexadecimal 0x31F = decimal 799, (vesa 2.0+ card required to accept that code).
vesa 2.0 mode chart (vesa modes were frozen with 2.0, any additional modes are by manufacturer and can vary wildly) http://www.tldp.org/HOWTO/Framebuffer-HOWTO-5.html#ss5.3
I had better luck editing the modeline than using the 1600x1200 vesa mode codes directly (probably due to older video cards being used in the linux systems) see earlier post. |
|
| Back to top |
|
|
Dinini
Apprentice
Joined: 11 Jun 2003
Posts: 236
|
| Posted: Thu Nov 13, 2003 6:11 pm Post subject: |
|
|
New framebuffer patch for 2.6 ftp://ftp.suse.com/pub/people/stepan/bootsplash/kernel/bootsplash-3.1.2-2.6.0-test9.diff
Grub boots and the initial bootsplash image is loaded!
Screen blanking still seems to leave the image displayed. And I'm now getting annoying splash usage error message in verbose mode from the time the root is mounted read/write until the init.d/bootsplash script sets all the consoles with the new image. Message reappears at shutdown. |
|
| Back to top |
|
|
coreutils
n00b
Joined: 16 Oct 2003
Posts: 25
|
| Posted: Fri Nov 14, 2003 4:14 am Post subject: |
|
|
| Great this new patch works for me as opposed to the first bootsplash patch for 2.6-test9. |
|
| Back to top |
|
|
warlord89
n00b
Joined: 19 Feb 2003
Posts: 3
|
| Posted: Fri Nov 14, 2003 6:40 am Post subject: |
|
|
Hi i'm a newbie please don't hurt me for this question
i love this sources but how do I aply this diff patch ??
And does anybody get a ISDN fritzcard running with these lovesources ??
Ty |
|
| Back to top |
|
|
nephros
Advocate
Joined: 07 Feb 2003
Posts: 2139
Location: Graz, Austria (Europe - no kangaroos.)
|
| Posted: Fri Nov 14, 2003 12:45 pm Post subject: |
|
|
| warlord89 wrote: | Hi i'm a newbie please don't hurt me for this question
i love this sources but how do I aply this diff patch ??
And does anybody get a ISDN fritzcard running with these lovesources ??
Ty |
The Forums and the Internet in general have a nice feature called search. Please consider using it.
The answer to your first question is in this thread a few posts back (twice), as well as in the Kernel-HOWTO among other places. It goes somewhat like this:
untar the kernel source
cd into source dir (e.g. /usr/src/linux-2.6.0-test9)
patch -p1 < /path/to/patch.diff
As for the Fritz! cards I remember there being a seperate driver module for those? If so, it may or may not work depending on wether the developers of the module have switched to the new module interface in the 2.6 kernels.
_________________
Please put [SOLVED] in your topic if you are a moron. |
|
| Back to top |
|
|
bssteph
l33t
Joined: 26 Feb 2003
Posts: 652
Location: Wisconsin
|
| Posted: Fri Nov 14, 2003 4:34 pm Post subject: |
|
|
Awesome @ mm3
Awesome @ reiser4
Awesome @ new bootsplash
I can work on the patches tomorrow for sure. Perhaps tonight, but I make no promises. |
|
| Back to top |
|
|
Vidar
Apprentice
Joined: 09 Apr 2003
Posts: 239
Location: Washington, USA
|
| Posted: Fri Nov 14, 2003 7:28 pm Post subject: |
|
|
I'm not sure what happened, but I think love-sources killed my system. My parition is reiser3, and basically, I never noticed it, but in test9-love2 at startup it would always say the drive was NOT cleanly unmounted. Shutdown messages appeared normal, so I didn't give it a second though. Well, yesterday when I tried to boot, reiser finally checked the tree this time and it found some errors (unfixable). It won't let me finish booting without going into "maintance" mode.
I never had any problems like this with any other sources even with test9-love1.
Nothing important was lost, so I'm not mad or anything... all my data is on a seperate drive. I'm just kind of frustrated now, that this weekend, I have to re-do everything.
Anywone else experience this? What could have casued this?
_________________
"Vidar, Odin's mighty son, he will come to slay the wolf
The sword runs into the heart of Hverdrungs son
So he avenges his father" -- Amon Amarth - Burning Creation |
|
| Back to top |
|
|
monotux
l33t
Joined: 09 Sep 2003
Posts: 751
Location: Stockholm, Sweden
|
| Posted: Fri Nov 14, 2003 7:43 pm Post subject: |
|
|
I've just spent a hour reading about bootsplash, and I finally got it working with test9-love2.
But I would like to have something better than 60Hz@1280 - I just can't stand when my eyes bleeds 
I read some on that link a few topics earlier - but I couldn't find any nvidia-based cards in the list that was there (it felt a bit out of date  ).
is it even possible with vesa?
_________________
Computer science is no more about computers than astronomy is about telescopes. |
|
| Back to top |
|
|
AtomicDog
n00b
Joined: 03 Jan 2003
Posts: 40
Location: Connecticut, USA
|
| Posted: Fri Nov 14, 2003 9:28 pm Post subject: |
|
|
| Vidar wrote: | | I'm not sure what happened, but I think love-sources killed my system. My parition is reiser3, and basically, I never noticed it, but in test9-love2 at startup it would always say the drive was NOT cleanly unmounted. Shutdown messages appeared normal, so I didn't give it a second though. Well, yesterday when I tried to boot, reiser finally checked the tree this time and it found some errors (unfixable). It won't let me finish booting without going into "maintance" mode. |
I get the same error msg using reiserfs3.6 with test9-mm2 concerning partitions not being cleanly unmounted. I have yet to experience any data loss or corruption, however. |
|
| Back to top |
|
|
Vidar
Apprentice
Joined: 09 Apr 2003
Posts: 239
Location: Washington, USA
|
| Posted: Fri Nov 14, 2003 10:57 pm Post subject: |
|
|
I would worry about it, seriously. I think as soon as it passes 22 boots in a row (or something like that) it forces the fsck to scan the drive. And then if you're unlucky like me, it'll be unfixable errors and no more booting. If its not just me, then I really think this issue needs to be addressed.
_________________
"Vidar, Odin's mighty son, he will come to slay the wolf
The sword runs into the heart of Hverdrungs son
So he avenges his father" -- Amon Amarth - Burning Creation |
|
| Back to top |
|
|
Dinini
Apprentice
Joined: 11 Jun 2003
Posts: 236
|
| Posted: Sat Nov 15, 2003 1:16 am Post subject: |
|
|
Still newer bootsplash patch (newer than the one above or listed at bootsplash.org) ftp://ftp.suse.com/pub/people/stepan/bootsplash/kernel/bootsplash-3.1.3-2.6.0-test9.diff
This one does clear the image when the screen blanks. Now to find the source of the annoying splash usage error messages that start appearing right after devfs is loaded and don't stop until the stupid console is reset with tthe /etc/init.d/bootsplash script during start up. |
|
| Back to top |
|
|
Safrax
Guru
Joined: 23 Apr 2002
Posts: 422
|
| Posted: Sat Nov 15, 2003 3:05 am Post subject: |
|
|
| This has probably been posted before, but I'm too lazy to search and I haven't been keeping up with the latest kernel stuff for a while.. I'm having issues with my usb intellimouse explorer 3.0 on my laptop. It's insane. It moves uncontrollably at the slightest touch. My laptop's stick thing works fine but the touchpad (non synaptic) moves painfully slow. Is this an issue with the kernel or is there something else I should go looking at? |
|
| Back to top |
|
|
bssteph
l33t
Joined: 26 Feb 2003
Posts: 652
Location: Wisconsin
|
| Posted: Sat Nov 15, 2003 4:50 am Post subject: |
|
|
| Safrax wrote: | | This has probably been posted before, but I'm too lazy to search and I haven't been keeping up with the latest kernel stuff for a while.. I'm having issues with my usb intellimouse explorer 3.0 on my laptop. It's insane. It moves uncontrollably at the slightest touch. My laptop's stick thing works fine but the touchpad (non synaptic) moves painfully slow. Is this an issue with the kernel or is there something else I should go looking at? |
USB mice are predictable for me. In fact I have the same mouse on here, but I wouldn't go blaming the mouse. Check for cranked up xfree/wm settings? |
|
| Back to top |
|
|
antisthenes
Tux's lil' helper
Joined: 06 May 2003
Posts: 89
|
| Posted: Sat Nov 15, 2003 8:41 am Post subject: |
|
|
The kexec patch's refusal to poweroff properly is I think the cause of the reiserfs errors (I have both, before I had neither), because maybe it doesn't finish unmounting. Maybe remove it, or default it to off? I'll try if I get the same stuff with kexec off in .config--just to make sure, are we getting the same messages? I get /proc/cmdline not found and /dev/console not found errors, and then it prompts me for maintenance mode/Ctrl+D.
What are youse guyses splash usage errors? I get a whole bunch or runlevel_start and runlevel_stop not found errors. Any workarounds? (even redirecting to /dev/null would help--but what/where to redirect?)
It seems that the progress bar goes away at runlevel 3. Why? I'd like it to do it for the whole boot/init process.
Also (this may be critical) with -love2, hdparm is not working very well. When setting DMA etc, it gets DriveReady SeekComplete DataRequest and errors, and eventually prints a stack trace (although DMA etc. work fine). I have a standard SiS5535 chipset. |
|
| Back to top |
|
|
PrakashP
Veteran
Joined: 27 Oct 2003
Posts: 1249
Location: C.C.A.A., Germania
|
| Posted: Sat Nov 15, 2003 9:15 am Post subject: |
|
|
| I am not sure whether kexec problem is with reiserfs, beacue I have no reiserfs partition. My main installation uses xfs and the boot partition ext2. |
|
| Back to top |
|
|
Corp.Nobbs
Tux's lil' helper
Joined: 02 Oct 2003
Posts: 112
Location: Reading, UK
|
| Posted: Sat Nov 15, 2003 10:59 am Post subject: |
|
|
| antisthenes wrote: | The kexec patch's refusal to poweroff properly is I think the cause of the reiserfs errors (I have both, before I had neither), because maybe it doesn't finish unmounting. Maybe remove it, or default it to off? I'll try if I get the same stuff with kexec off in .config--just to make sure, are we getting the same messages? I get /proc/cmdline not found and /dev/console not found errors, and then it prompts me for maintenance mode/Ctrl+D.
What are youse guyses splash usage errors? I get a whole bunch or runlevel_start and runlevel_stop not found errors. Any workarounds? (even redirecting to /dev/null would help--but what/where to redirect?)
It seems that the progress bar goes away at runlevel 3. Why? I'd like it to do it for the whole boot/init process.
Also (this may be critical) with -love2, hdparm is not working very well. When setting DMA etc, it gets DriveReady SeekComplete DataRequest and errors, and eventually prints a stack trace (although DMA etc. work fine). I have a standard SiS5535 chipset. |
If you want to cure the power-off problem, you will need to get the kexec patch that bssteph used in love2 (he posted links earlier in this thread, and then reverse patch the kernel source (patch -p1 -i <patchname> -R), then re-compile. I did this to cure my box not powering off.. However, I doubt the power-off stall should effect the unmounting of reiserfs, as by this point in the shutdown sequence, your filesystems should have already been unmounted.
If your seeing alot of runlevel_* errors, I would suggest you investigate these a bit further; I'm inclined to think that here may be your problem.
I have been running reiserfs ever since switching to Gentoo, and I've yet to see a problem..
edit: Oh, and strange hdparam results are apparently to do with 2.6 in general, not love patches..
_________________
Asus A8V
AMD64 3500+
1GB XMS3200C2 Pro
120GB Barracuda SATA
Geforce 3
Last edited by Corp.Nobbs on Sat Nov 15, 2003 11:01 am; edited 1 time in total |
|
| Back to top |
|
|
Sgaduuw
Tux's lil' helper
Joined: 17 Sep 2002
Posts: 133
Location: Rotterdam, Netherlands
|
| Posted: Sat Nov 15, 2003 11:01 am Post subject: |
|
|
| antisthenes wrote: | | I get /proc/cmdline not found and /dev/console not found errors, and then it prompts me for maintenance mode/Ctrl+D. |
I'm getting this as well... Don't think this is caused by kexec though, I removed that patch to make my system shut down properly with ACPI.
But it doesn't happen all the time, I think it's about 50-50 chance that I get this error.
_________________
my website |
|
| Back to top |
|
|
bssteph
l33t
Joined: 26 Feb 2003
Posts: 652
Location: Wisconsin
|
| Posted: Sat Nov 15, 2003 4:35 pm Post subject: |
|
|
Alright, good news and bad news.
Good news: I'm working on the patches.
Bad news: mm3 and nick's scheduler patches don't get along.
v18 fails in places I can't fix, and v17a fails in places I can attempt to weasel the code into, but I'm not very confident about. And I haven't even compiled yet... |
|
| Back to top |
|
|
PrakashP
Veteran
Joined: 27 Oct 2003
Posts: 1249
Location: C.C.A.A., Germania
|
| Posted: Sat Nov 15, 2003 5:08 pm Post subject: |
|
|
| v19a should work, as it was designed for mm3. |
|
| Back to top |
|
|
bssteph
l33t
Joined: 26 Feb 2003
Posts: 652
Location: Wisconsin
|
| Posted: Sat Nov 15, 2003 5:15 pm Post subject: |
|
|
Oh, hell. Thanks!
The last sched Nick has a link for on his page is v18, and I hadn't gone to LKML yet, so I just assumed that was the latest. |
|
| Back to top |
|
|
|
Unsupported Software
