2.6 test10

PrakashP · Posted: Mon Nov 24, 2003 6:07 pm Post subject:

Hmm, just to be sure, do you have a SiI3112A or without the A? I have the A version. Perhaps that is the major problem. I also have to uncomment an error warning in siimage.c otherwise it would flood dmesg. Probably time for a note at lkml...

Something else: Did you try the siimage SATA driver in the SCSI section? Do you know to get it work? I don't know much about it...

AresTheImpaler · Tux's lil' helper Joined: 27 Feb 2003 Posts: 143

I have a question about this release.. I'm using test 9 and the problem is that my clock keeps getting behind. Was this a problem with the relases or was it only my computer? also, if it was a bug is it now fixed?

Thanks,

Rigo

b0fh · Guru Joined: 16 Jun 2003 Posts: 426

Kesereti · Guru Joined: 07 Nov 2002 Posts: 520

...where's 2.6.0-test10-love??

Hehe, just teasing, I'm sure bssteph will have something forthcoming whenever it's done...^_^

nepenthe · Guru Joined: 14 Jul 2002 Posts: 317 Location: Sanford, ME

Kesereti · Guru Joined: 07 Nov 2002 Posts: 520

The news about the SilImage3112A SATA controller getting better performance is definitely making me want to try the vanilla sources...but...it seems that once you've gone Love, you never want to go back ^_^

discomfitor · l33t Joined: 21 Feb 2003 Posts: 927 Location: None

yodermk · Posted: Mon Nov 24, 2003 9:56 pm Post subject:

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sepp · Guru Joined: 11 Jul 2002 Posts: 330

IntergalacticWalrus · Posted: Mon Nov 24, 2003 11:08 pm Post subject:

Hmm... Due to known issues with kernel preempting, do you guys think it's really worth it to upgrade from test9 to test10?

yodermk · Posted: Mon Nov 24, 2003 11:16 pm Post subject:

Thanks for that bit of info. I'll try test10 later today or tomorrow and if the mouse seems broken, will try that XFree change.

Regarding preempting, by Linus' wording I was under the impression that it's not a regression, so it shouldn't be any worse than previous test releases. Just stuff they haven't fully debugged yet. But maybe I'm wrong.

Anyone know if there's a regression?

If so, you can always turn preempting off.

Jazz · Posted: Tue Nov 25, 2003 12:20 am Post subject:

Well the matter of fact is that i'm already running the test10 and its great !!

Only had problems with the inbuilt patch for frambuffer..but got it fixed it the hard way !

My spec's are P4 2.4 (533), DDR 512MB (333), Intel 845GEBV2 mobo..
80GB barracuda 7200 HDD...

I have heard lots of this mm sources.. but dont understand the exact differences between the gentoo-dev-sources and mm-sources !!

Perhaps some one cud be kind enough to make me understand which one's better for me and why !!

Thanks,
Bye,
Jassi

Ian · Posted: Tue Nov 25, 2003 12:23 am Post subject:

I was using test8-mm1, but wow, just, amazing...

I have 320 MB of RAM, GKrellm2 says 312 MB (stupid manufacturers using different number schemes...), and I used to have about 100 or so MB free, under normal usage (Firebird, Gaim, BeepMP, Gkrellm2, XFce4).

With test10 vanilla though, I have 178 MB free, swap isn't even touched. This is quite an impressive increase in memory usage, unless I just forgot to start some huge program that I normally have running in the background :p.

I've noticed that the system seems slightly more responsive, boots a bit faster, and just seems to be a bit happier, but that's probably due more to my perception than anything else.

No mouse issues, I'm using a PS/2 mouse.

Haven't tried USB or anything CPU or I/O intensive yet, but at this rate, it's all looking good.

gralves · Posted: Tue Nov 25, 2003 12:37 am Post subject:

watashiwaotaku7 · n00b Joined: 26 Mar 2003 Posts: 70

im using a synaptics touchpad this is the first time i tried it since probly about test2 and it now works well as opposed to before

has anyone else gotten software suspend to work im using

echo 4 > /proc/acpi/sleep (or something like that) and it shuts down just fine but using "linux resume=/dev/hdc6" at the lilo prompt doesnt work for me is this user error or is this still not working completely?

SaFrOuT · Apprentice Joined: 08 Jul 2003 Posts: 256 Location: Egypt

i have a small question plz,

what is the difference between the normal kerle and the vanilla and the love ones

is the difference only in more drivers for more hardware or the diff is in performance or what?

manywele · l33t Joined: 12 Jul 2003 Posts: 739 Location: Inside

Hey, what happened to the i2c-isa module? My sensors don't work any more.

glennj · n00b Joined: 23 Oct 2003 Posts: 18

It is really frustrating to read all of these glowing reports about the 2.6 kernels when I can not get one to boot up on my system. I have tried configuring it myself and then thinking I must be doing something wrong, I copied the config from the 2.6 live CD and rebuilt.

Without fail, the 2.6 kernels fail while starting up processes in /etc/init.d. Here is what is started up (in order):

metalog cupsd eth0 portmap fam named netmount nscd ntp-client ntpd postfix samba spamd upsd upsmon vcron xfs gdmIt will usually hang while launching postfix but sometimes it will get past postfix and hang while launching samba.

Is anyone besides me seeing this? Does anyone have an idea about what the problem might be?

Thanks.

Peaceable Frood · Posted: Tue Nov 25, 2003 2:55 am Post subject:

I'm putting together Frood1, not that it's so famous but here's what I've patched it with already,

2.6.0-test10-libata1.patch

x86_64-handle_signal().patch

supermount-2.0.2a-2.6.0-test8.patch

bootsplash-3.1.3-2.6.0-test9.patch

scsi_scan_cleanups.patch

r8169-8110S-11122003.patch

prism54_wlan_2003-11232003.patch

bcm5700_broadcom_gigabit_drvr.patch

NVIDIA_forcedeth_v18.patch

2.6.0-test9-amd64-acpi-compilefix.patch

many of the gentoo-dev-sources patches have been added, and more to come!
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Felgerkarb · Posted: Tue Nov 25, 2003 3:26 am Post subject:

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

Is anybody using ELPP (Enhanced Linux Progress Patch)? I tried patching test9 with ELPP and supermount-ng, but it wouldn't boot. So, I gave up.

It *would* be nice to have that progress bar with about 5 lines of fading verbose output underneath.... ah well. Bootsplash is nice too.

Beekster · Apprentice Joined: 26 Nov 2002 Posts: 268 Location: Sydney

Uptime: 15:41:43 up 14:41, 1 user, load average: 921.69, 596.17, 269.52
Gentoo Linux - Kernel 2.6.0-test9-bk27

Just tried that stress test - wow.

The system stuttered quite a bit while making the processes (forking?)... and then got smooth. Scary shit for the proprietary software companies out there.

My timing sucks - test9-bk27 became test10. I ran test7-bk5 for 35 days, and test9-bk24 for a few days and found it to be a very noticeable improvement. Test10 is about the same as 9-bk24 was in feel. Very happy.

Anime_Fan · Posted: Tue Nov 25, 2003 6:34 am Post subject:

hutu · n00b Joined: 23 Feb 2003 Posts: 18

I did try.
boot up with no error.
but elpp only copes with redhat's init script, on gentoo, it can't show the real init process steps. I hope somebody could modify a gentoo version of the elpp.