Anyone have luck with 2.5.50 kernel?

Jamon · Apprentice Joined: 03 May 2002 Posts: 173

Hello! After several recent developments, I really would like to try out the current development kernel, in particular 2.5.50. It's such a round number, don't you think?

Also, I downloaded it via my 56k, so I'd like to get it to work if possible.

Anyone have luck? It seems like it should work, but I cannot get any modules to load. Are there any tricks to this? Thanks!

Jamon
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JeroenV · Posted: Sat Nov 30, 2002 1:27 pm Post subject:

I bet you have the QM_MODULES: function not implemented error :?:

Get the new modultils at http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/rusty/modules/
That should do the trick. Good luck :!:

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Jamon · Apprentice Joined: 03 May 2002 Posts: 173

Thanks! A few questions though - do you have to apply Rusty's kernel patch? And do you use the inittools? Or the modutils-2.4.21-5.src.rpm? Thanks a lot for your help so far.

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JeroenV · Posted: Sat Nov 30, 2002 4:19 pm Post subject:

Don't worry about these.... I suppose they're for Mandrake/RedHat etc...
I just got modutils and a vanilla 2.5.50 kernel, worked fine....
If you want to go back to 2.4.x , just re-emerge modutils
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Jamon · Apprentice Joined: 03 May 2002 Posts: 173

Hey! Thanks for your help so far. I modified the modutils ebuild and came up with this simple ebuild I call module-init-tools-0.9a.ebuild. Here is the text of the ebuild:

# Distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License v2

S=${WORKDIR}/${PN}-0.9-alpha
#SLOT="0"
DESCRIPTION="Beta kernel module utilities"
SRC_URI="http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/rusty/modules/${PN}-0.9-alpha.tar.bz2"
HOMEPAGE="http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/utils/kernel/modutils/"

KEYWORDS="~x86 ~ppc ~sparc ~sparc64 ~alpha"
LICENSE="GPL-2"
DEPEND="virtual/glibc
sys-kernel/development-sources"

src_compile() {
myconf=""
# see bug #3897 ... we need insmod static, as libz.so is in /usr/lib
#
# Final resolution ... dont make it link against zlib, as the static
# version do not want to autoload modules

#myconf="${myconf} --disable-zlib"

econf \
--prefix=/ \
${myconf} || die "./configure failed"

emake || die "emake failed"
}

src_install() {
einstall prefix="${D}" || die "make install failed"

dodoc COPYING CREDITS ChangeLog NEWS README TODO
}

It seems to work ok, except for one problem: some modules load, and others do not. I can't remember the exact error message, but something like invalid module. Does this happen to you too? Let me know, thanks!

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JeroenV · Posted: Sun Dec 01, 2002 12:13 am Post subject:

I didn't have similar problems... are you sure it's kernel specific? Or is it just that you're missing a module some others depend on?

Btw, I dumped the new kernel, because it behaved actually a little strange under heavy load (my mouse generated strange events when I moved it while compiling). Also xosview and E-MemWatch.epplet stopped working under 2.5.50. All in all I think I'll stick to stable kernels for now...

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Jamon · Apprentice Joined: 03 May 2002 Posts: 173

Thanks for your testimonial.

I was hoping to play with it because it had a few driver improvements I was hoping to play with. Oh well

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JeroenV · Posted: Sun Dec 01, 2002 11:33 am Post subject:

I think the problems I had don't necessarily have to be the same for you... I've heard some people are actually using > 2.5.47 kernels happily.
So it still might be worth to try it for you, since these problems could be highly hardware-dependent.

Enjoy

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Jamon · Apprentice Joined: 03 May 2002 Posts: 173

One more question I have before I attempt this... Do you use the NVIDIA binary drivers? If so, did you get them to work? I followed the instructions for 2.5.x kernels from this forum post:
http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic.php?t=23987&sid=e051eb1a93a3fe175f4222663b352660
And I followed the last link, and applied the first patch on this page:
http://www.minion.de/nvidia.html
without success. I guess I can try the second patch as well, hmm.. Well anyhow, let me know if you had luck (or not use an NVIDIA card at all). Thanks!

Jamon

P.S. I might try it again, but I better finish my C++ homework first..

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JeroenV · Posted: Sun Dec 01, 2002 6:20 pm Post subject:

Sorry, I have a Matrox :wink:

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Jamon · Apprentice Joined: 03 May 2002 Posts: 173

Ok - Thanks for your help anyhow. I will give you updates if I have any success.

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IamtheOne · Apprentice Joined: 27 Sep 2002 Posts: 157 Location: Iowa

Hey you guys, I've created an ebuild for module-init-tools using version 0.8 until 0.9 final is released, you can check it out at BUG 11288.

Please tell me if you have an problems with it, or notice anything awry.

Tony

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