Love-sources 2.6.0-test9 - Late but great

Dinini · Apprentice Joined: 11 Jun 2003 Posts: 236

Well, I have tested ftp://ftp.suse.com/pub/people/stepan/bootsplash/kernel/bootsplash-3.1.1-2.6.0-test9.diff on 3 different machines using kernels 2.6.0-test9, 2.6.0-test9-mm1, 2.6.0-test9-mm2 with over a dozen configuration files and:

It only works when I use the LILO bootloader!

If I use grub then I get to see tux and then see the "no good signature" found message.

Sample config for lilo and grub shown in https://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic.php?p=641255 which were as close as I got to having them match and tossing out anything that didn't affect it. 4 days on this is enough, waiting for the next patch before trying again.

sindre · Guru Joined: 01 Nov 2002 Posts: 315 Location: Norway

With the same config bootsplash works on 2.6.0-test5-love3, but not on 2.6.0-test9-love2. I'm using grub. The bootsplash stuff does eventually appear as the bootsplash init script is run on test9-love2.

Dinini · Apprentice Joined: 11 Jun 2003 Posts: 236

Just to clarify, the *initial* bootsplash image (verbose or silent) only works for me when using lilo, the background image from the /etc/runlevel/default script will appear on all the test9 flavors I've tried using both grub and lilo.

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bssteph · l33t Joined: 26 Feb 2003 Posts: 652 Location: Wisconsin

watersb · Posted: Tue Nov 11, 2003 9:34 pm Post subject:

I think you need root=/dev/ram0 to boot from an init ramdisk on 2.6 kernels.

I posted an example in the Bootsplash support thread:
https://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic.php?p=642338#642338

Random Task · Apprentice Joined: 31 Mar 2003 Posts: 171 Location: Canada

hey guys,
seeing as I've never patched my kernel before... How do you do it?

I downloaded the patch but I'm not sure how to do it!

Please advise!
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nephros · Posted: Tue Nov 11, 2003 11:27 pm Post subject:

It's in this thread, a few posts up.
Uh, and did you notice there is an ebuild, linked to from the first post?
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Random Task · Apprentice Joined: 31 Mar 2003 Posts: 171 Location: Canada

Oops, I breezed through the post, searched the forums but I guess i didn't pay enough attention :oops:

and I did try to do the ebuild, however figured the patch would be just as easy to install.

My mistake

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Gibberx · Apprentice Joined: 20 Oct 2002 Posts: 217 Location: UMBC

Are we going to be putting Supermount-ng back in the patchset? Or, will it patch against the current love-sources? I guess I'll give it a shot soon.

Peaceable Frood · Posted: Wed Nov 12, 2003 12:42 am Post subject:

Supermount doesn't patch against mm-sources. I've tried.
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Gibberx · Apprentice Joined: 20 Oct 2002 Posts: 217 Location: UMBC

Oh yeah, and love-sources are based off of mm-sources... bummer. No big deal though, I'm no stranger to the "mount" command. Used it a lot in my Debian days...

Random Task · Apprentice Joined: 31 Mar 2003 Posts: 171 Location: Canada

I must say this patchset works like a charm! Thank you guys I have my bootsplash back!!
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Lovechild · Posted: Wed Nov 12, 2003 9:36 am Post subject:

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sindre · Guru Joined: 01 Nov 2002 Posts: 315 Location: Norway

Earlier I noticed that the hdparm results of recent mm-sources and love-sources have been quite a bit lower than on vanilla development-sources. However I ran a bonnie++ test on 2.6.0-test5-love3 (hdparm about 47MB/sec), and 2.6.0-test9-love2 (hdparm about 34MB/sec). The results didn't differ much so I think it's just the hdparm report being wrong, unless of course I interpreted the results of bonnie++ wrongly.

2.6.0-test5-love3: bonnie++ -f

Sgaduuw · Posted: Wed Nov 12, 2003 8:28 pm Post subject:

just writing in to confirm that my computer with test9-love 2 with ACPI enabled will shutdown properly after I've unpatched the kexec patch with

bssteph · l33t Joined: 26 Feb 2003 Posts: 652 Location: Wisconsin

Sorry for the utter lack of communication, it seemed like everyone was answering everyone else well enough that I could clam up. ;)
It's tenth week here, which means it's the week before finals, which means I've been very busy doing all the things I should have done the past nine weeks. I dunno when I'll have time to screw around with the patches again (haven't even touched LILO yet), but yeah...
I'm less busy during exams week than this week, doesn't that rule? ;)

sindre: I want to say that i read somewhere (maybe LKML) that hdparm's been acting strangely on 2.6, but I can't remember where I saw that ATM...

norvillebarnes · Posted: Wed Nov 12, 2003 10:40 pm Post subject:

I just thought I chime in and say that lilo may indeed be the answer to the bootsplash problems. I've had no problems at all with bootsplash but I use lilo (never tried grub to be honest). With the exception of a couple of the mm patches I've had (vesa) framebuffer working in every 2.6 kernel by simply having vga=791 in my lilo global options. From there it was just a matter of adding initrd=/boot/initrd-1024x768 to lilo.conf, and presto it works great. I wish I could be of more help because it's awesome having bootsplash working with 2.6, but I have no experience with grub.

A problem that I have noticed is that with test9-mm2 or love2 (not sure about mm/love1) the kernel fails to load my agpgart module, leaving me without dri. I have an Intel 845G chipset that uses i830. Agpgart and drm are compiled into my kernel. Vanilla test 9 loads without any errors. Has anyone else with onboard video noticed this?

GoinBald · n00b Joined: 19 Apr 2003 Posts: 39 Location: Canada

Hello Again,
Thank You bssteph, Lovechild and all!
I just got back from vacation and they are piling it on again

soo short n' sweet.
Was one of those seat sales in the middle of the week.
Love is Grand! The best yet.
Anyone tried the cfq prio v2 patch yet?

For removable media, I use http://submount.sf.net
Works great!

Thanks again,
Loyal lover,
Baldy

Random Task · Apprentice Joined: 31 Mar 2003 Posts: 171 Location: Canada

I know vesa supports up to 1280x1024, but is there a way to get higher resolutions with the framebuffer, or any other framebuffer for that matter?

My notebook has a default resolution of 1600x1200, yeah its crazy but I love it for the desktop realestate!

Is it possible to have a framebuffer do 1600x1200 or am I just being too picky?

Thanks people!
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paulisdead · Guru Joined: 10 Apr 2002 Posts: 510 Location: Seattle, WA

This may have cropped up since 2.6-test7, since I didn't use test 8 much, and haven't tried burning a DVD+R in vanilla test 9, and also haven't tried the mm-sources for test9, but my DVD+R will only burn at around 1.4-1.5x. Unfortunately, I used up my last DVD+R, and probably won't be able to get more till pay day next week to do more testing with DVD+R burning with the different kernels.
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PrakashP · Posted: Thu Nov 13, 2003 8:27 am Post subject:

So, impatiently waiting for love3, as mm3 has been released.

antisthenes · Tux's lil' helper Joined: 06 May 2003 Posts: 89

-test9-mm3

Looks like more IO fixes from Andrew, but no mention of the problems some people were having with DAO cd burning in -test9-mm2.

Looks easy enogh to -love up.