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PostPosted: Sat Oct 23, 2004 3:16 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

I have been using the nitro sources for a while and I think that they are very cool. I have a question though. Has there been any discussion over whether nitro sources should go into portage, or whether there should be a svn site or a rsync site to download it?

Thanks for creating a sweet kernel patchset.
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PostPosted: Sat Oct 23, 2004 3:28 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

I guess it will never make it to portage, just like love-sources never will. Custom kernel patchsets like nitro-sources and love-sources are just way too risky and unstable to make it to the portage tree.
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PostPosted: Sat Oct 23, 2004 3:28 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

While I don't remember this type of discussion about nitro-sources, there has been an extensive one about love-sources, and the general consensus is that patchets of this type are way too experimental for portage.
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PostPosted: Sat Oct 23, 2004 4:07 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Get this when running make
Code:
  CHK     include/linux/version.h
make[1]: `arch/x86_64/kernel/asm-offsets.s' is up to date.
  CHK     include/linux/compile.h
dnsdomainname: Unknown host
  CC      kernel/fork.o
kernel/fork.c: In function `do_fork':
kernel/fork.c:1241: error: structure has no member named `xcs'
make[1]: *** [kernel/fork.o] Error 1
make: *** [kernel] Error 2

Don't really know where to go now...
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PostPosted: Sat Oct 23, 2004 5:09 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

:D
first i want to thank you seppe, great work.

2.6.9-nitro1 run stabel and fast on my hardware.

gensplash works
fbsplash works
cedega hanging is away and runs faster than ever

only thing is, the same as every 2.6.9-xxx kernels my system isn't able to
shutdown with powering off.

I think that's a general 2.6.9 and or MSI problem, but if anybody got a clue please
report :wink:
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PostPosted: Sat Oct 23, 2004 5:57 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

this is the very first nitro on by box, and it made me switch from love. you got me on your side, thanks a lot !
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PostPosted: Sat Oct 23, 2004 7:05 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

I get constant hardlocks under heavy load (ie emerge sync). I've tried with and without SMT, preempt, and BKL preempt. I'm using Reiser4, and I get the following warnings while compiling:

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fs/reiser4/as_ops.c: In function `reiser4_clear_page_dirty':
fs/reiser4/as_ops.c:78: warning: passing arg 1 of `_read_lock_irqsave' from incompatible pointer type
fs/reiser4/as_ops.c:87: warning: passing arg 1 of `_read_unlock_irqrestore' from incompatible pointer type
fs/reiser4/as_ops.c:92: warning: passing arg 1 of `_read_unlock_irqrestore' from incompatible pointer type
fs/reiser4/as_ops.c: In function `reiser4_set_page_dirty':
fs/reiser4/as_ops.c:111: warning: passing arg 1 of `_read_lock_irq' from incompatible pointer type
fs/reiser4/as_ops.c:123: warning: passing arg 1 of `_read_unlock_irq' from incompatible pointer type
fs/reiser4/as_ops.c: In function `reiser4_releasepage':
fs/reiser4/as_ops.c:573: warning: passing arg 1 of `_write_lock_irq' from incompatible pointer type
fs/reiser4/as_ops.c:579: warning: passing arg 1 of `_write_unlock_irq' from incompatible pointer type

fs/reiser4/page_cache.c: In function `set_page_dirty_internal':
fs/reiser4/page_cache.c:536: warning: passing arg 1 of `_read_lock_irq' from incompatible pointer type
fs/reiser4/page_cache.c:552: warning: passing arg 1 of `_read_unlock_irq' fromincompatible pointer type
fs/reiser4/page_cache.c: In function `capture_reiser4_inodes':
fs/reiser4/page_cache.c:597: warning: passing arg 1 of `_read_lock_irqsave' from incompatible pointer type
fs/reiser4/page_cache.c:603: warning: passing arg 1 of `_read_unlock_irqrestore' from incompatible pointer type

fs/reiser4/repacker.c:400: warning: 'wait_repacker_completion' defined but notused
fs/reiser4/repacker.c:595: warning: 'init_repacker_sysfs_interface' defined but not used
fs/reiser4/repacker.c:612: warning: 'done_repacker_sysfs_interface' defined but not used


Any suggestions? (P4/2.8GHz with hyperthreading)
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PostPosted: Sat Oct 23, 2004 7:40 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

I found v4l not patched but if I try to patch with bzcat it say "already patched, assume -R"
....???!?
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PostPosted: Sat Oct 23, 2004 10:57 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Very nice release ;) Thanks! works a treat here ....

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btw: Any chance of the latest bluetooth patches getting added to any future release :wink: (http://www.bluez.org/redirect.php?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.holtmann.org%2Flinux%2Fkernel%2Fpatch-2.6.9-mh1.gz)


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PostPosted: Sat Oct 23, 2004 11:25 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Nice. Latency is at least as good as rc3-nitro2 was (which is pretty damn good), and I enabled preempt, though I'm not seeing many effects whether positive or negative.
Also, vesafb-tng *finally* works. Is there any way I can find out what resolution it's using once I have it running, other than by looking at it? The reason I ask is I have a suspicion for what's causing the problem with nVidia drivers where if you switch to a different console after you've started X once, the screen blacks out/powers down. You see, previously it did this, but now that both the consoles and X are (theoretically, which is why I'd like some way to confirm it) running at the same settings (1024x768-32@85), it doesn't. So my theory is basically that the bug in the nVidia drivers is somehow related to switching resolutions when switching to consoles, and if you don't have to switch resolutions it doesn't surface.

EDIT - one problem though is that on the consoles, the text starts 0.5-1cm (~1char) to the left of where the screen does, meaning I can't see it. Any way to change this?
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PostPosted: Sun Oct 24, 2004 3:05 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

which file should i use to get nvidia working???
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PostPosted: Sun Oct 24, 2004 5:51 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

hmm nvidia wont compile...

Code:

idia.mod.o
NVIDIA: left KBUILD.
x86
>>> Test phase [not enabled]: media-video/nvidia-kernel-1.0.6111-r2
x86

>>> Install nvidia-kernel-1.0.6111-r2 into /var/tmp/portage/nvidia-kernel-1.0.6111-r2/image/ category media-video
man:
>>> Completed installing into /var/tmp/portage/nvidia-kernel-1.0.6111-r2/image/

Segmentation fault


any thoughts on this ? it seemed it compile fine, but dropped out when installing..

UPDATE= its not nvidia which causing this.. i cant emerge anything 8O 8O 8O
it always give me the segmentation fault :evil:

2nd Update = Dang.. its psyco.. removed it.. everything is normal :P
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PostPosted: Sun Oct 24, 2004 8:37 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Hi there.

2.6.8-nitro1 -stable
2.6.8-nitro2 -unstable
2.6.9-nitro1 -unstable

Damn... i just sooo wanted 2.6.9 nitro...
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PostPosted: Sun Oct 24, 2004 8:40 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

This new nitro is stable as hell! I ran several hours my system under ~10.0 load average and not a single lockup or crash ;)
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PostPosted: Sun Oct 24, 2004 8:55 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

My system hanged when i compiled or was just browsing the web with firefox.

I don't know why it's doing that to me... maybe staircase 9.0 related problem ?
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PostPosted: Sun Oct 24, 2004 9:28 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Genkaku wrote:
My system hanged when i compiled or was just browsing the web with firefox.

I don't know why it's doing that to me... maybe staircase 9.0 related problem ?


Here it also randomly locks up, switching back to 2.6.8-r6 once more...
Too bad the nitros are so unstable most of the time :(
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PostPosted: Sun Oct 24, 2004 10:05 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Illissius wrote:
Also, vesafb-tng *finally* works. Is there any way I can find out what resolution it's using once I have it running, other than by looking at it? The reason I ask is I have a suspicion for what's causing the problem with nVidia drivers where if you switch to a different console after you've started X once, the screen blacks out/powers down. You see, previously it did this, but now that both the consoles and X are (theoretically, which is why I'd like some way to confirm it) running at the same settings (1024x768-32@85), it doesn't. So my theory is basically that the bug in the nVidia drivers is somehow related to switching resolutions when switching to consoles, and if you don't have to switch resolutions it doesn't surface.

Update: I rebooted, and now it's buggy again. vesafb-tng seems to be working still, but can't switch from X to a console without the screen powering down. So, I'm puzzled. The amount of things that have changed between when it worked and when it doesn't is approximately zero. :?
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PostPosted: Sun Oct 24, 2004 11:25 am    Post subject: Nitro blew up... Reply with quote

Hi Seppe,

Compiled nitro1 booted & runs real fast ....

then I got kswapd error ... not nitros fault but I thought I would warn people to watch for it...


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PostPosted: Sun Oct 24, 2004 11:54 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

works like a charm for me, expect when running games (such as nwn or jedi academy trough wine) kswapd goes to 50% cpu usage and you can imagine that the game isn't quite playable...
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PostPosted: Sun Oct 24, 2004 1:28 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Hi,
jblechert wrote:
works like a charm for me, expect when running games (such as nwn or jedi academy trough wine) kswapd goes to 50% cpu usage and you can imagine that the game isn't quite playable...

Maybe you want to have a look at this thread:
https://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic.php?p=1685690#1685690
nxsty posted a link with a patch.
Please let us know if this patch fixes the issue for you.
I've run about 6 test runs using doom3 timedemo right now and kswapd didn't go wild.

Greetings,
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PostPosted: Sun Oct 24, 2004 2:17 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

ryceck wrote:
Genkaku wrote:
My system hanged when i compiled or was just browsing the web with firefox.

I don't know why it's doing that to me... maybe staircase 9.0 related problem ?


Here it also randomly locks up, switching back to 2.6.8-r6 once more...
Too bad the nitros are so unstable most of the time :(


You're pushing things to the limit with these experimental kernels , dont expect it to always works out of the box. Maybe you need to try a different scheduler or something.

By my experience and most posts here seppe has done a great job on this release.

I#ve just rebuild half my system and only had one glitch during qt build . That was NOT due to nitro . I had just pushed my o/c a knotch higher than my "summer" settings and it looks like a it was a tad too far.

I pulled the FSB back from 180 to 178 and all went beautifully.

Hat's off to seppe! 8)

Cant get gensplash to work, but it never has, that's another story. :?
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PostPosted: Sun Oct 24, 2004 2:30 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Hey, -nitro sources made it to Con Kolivas homepage!

http://members.optusnet.com.au/ckolivas/kernel/
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http://sepi.be/nitro.php - Nitro patches (based on ck).


congrats seppe =)
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PostPosted: Sun Oct 24, 2004 2:58 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

seppe wrote:
I guess it will never make it to portage, just like love-sources never will. Custom kernel patchsets like nitro-sources and love-sources are just way too risky and unstable to make it to the portage tree.


Wrong... i will update today the ebuilds for nitro in the portage of gentoo.de!
http://www.gentoo.de/viewcvs/gentoo-x86/sys-kernel/nitro-sources/

If you need a doc, how to emerge a mixed portage (ebuilds form gentoo.org and gentoo.de) i will post it.
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PostPosted: Sun Oct 24, 2004 4:11 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

rc wrote:
Please let us know if this patch fixes the issue for you.
I've run about 6 test runs using doom3 timedemo right now and kswapd didn't go wild.

Greetings,
rc


I played nwn around 15 minutes and it works flawless, normaly the cpu usage would go high after about 5 minutes so I think we're in the clear
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PostPosted: Sun Oct 24, 2004 4:18 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

sobers_2002 wrote:
which file should i use to get nvidia working???


try media-video/nvidia-kernel-1.0.6111-r2
that should work fine

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