2.6.9-nitro3 "Brain over - insert coin"

Isaiah · Guru Joined: 25 Feb 2003 Posts: 359

2.6.9-nitro3 does the trick for yours truly - ET runs great with this baby (and with the new nvidia drivers)

desertstalker · Apprentice Joined: 18 Sep 2004 Posts: 209

grab the .12rc1 version of ndiswrapper from their site
http://ndiswrapper.sourceforge.net

abciximab · n00b Joined: 04 Oct 2004 Posts: 33

I have a weird problem since installing nitro3. It seems that everythink works fine but very very often if I press keys in a console or xterm I got the wrong characters. Also if I press Cursor-Up (or Down) I get 2B2B or 2A2A2A and so on!
Its annoying and I want to know if I am the only person who recognizes this problem and if there is a workaround without changing to an other kernel?

Greetings!

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smg · Posted: Sat Nov 13, 2004 4:17 pm Post subject:

nice one seppe

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ConVicTioN · Posted: Sat Nov 13, 2004 7:05 pm Post subject:

Thanks for the workaround.
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Trevoke · Advocate Joined: 04 Sep 2004 Posts: 4099 Location: NY, NY

I'm installing Gentoo with NPTL support on an IBM Thinkpad R51 (laptop). Pentium-M ... I'm installing nitro-sources to get Reiser4 support.

When I make , I get

wdreinhart · Guru Joined: 11 Jun 2003 Posts: 569 Location: 4QFJ12345678

I can't get reiserfs4 support to build. The actual code is there, in /usr/src/linux/fs/reiser4 but menuconfig gives me no option to enable it. What am I doing wrong here?

chunderbunny · Posted: Sat Nov 13, 2004 9:47 pm Post subject: Re: Wherefor Reiser Four?

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Tronic · Posted: Sun Nov 14, 2004 12:08 pm Post subject:

COiN3D · Posted: Sun Nov 14, 2004 12:27 pm Post subject:

Hello guys,

dont you have any problems with this new kernel?

Since nitro-2.6.9-r2 i cant type anything on the keyboard because it seems he does power off USB at booting the kernel. As already said, i have this problem just since r2 ... i wasnt able to determine the problem so far...
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garlicbread · Apprentice Joined: 06 Mar 2004 Posts: 182

hmmm
having a minor sound glitch / stutter when the number of channels used goes over a certain limit with snd-intel8x0
(ut24K on multiplayer when a lot of action is going on)
I've experianced this before on other 2.6 kernels sometimes (even with love), it's a bit pot luck as to which kernels it happens with so I don't think it's a nitro issue

I'm not sure if it's this kernel, the fact that I've set elevator to deadline or the new nvidia driver, but the graphics performance now kicks ass

Also I used to have Option "AutoRepeat" "500 5"
set in the xorg.conf to compensate for the keyboard repeat being too fast under X for a toshiba laptop, but I've found this is no longer required (as it has the opposite effect of making it too slow)

I was having issues with a USB mouse
a load of these messages were showing up in dmesg

racoontje · Veteran Joined: 19 Jul 2004 Posts: 1290

y0zza · n00b Joined: 30 Jul 2004 Posts: 68

SATA appears to be broken with my ICH5/i875P motherboard

Works in 2.6.8-nitro5 and 2.6.9-gentoo-r4.

lobster_mm · n00b Joined: 08 May 2003 Posts: 1 Location: Vancouver

I've tried different kernel patchsets - mm, ck6, klak, redeeman, and nitro basically anything that supports reiser4. Now I am staying with nitro since no matter which patchsets I used, I get hard lockup every 2 to 3 days of use, but at least nitro gives my laptop the performance boost that I could enjoy.

I am starting to think that it might be a configuration issue that's causing the hard lockup. I have a T30 laptop which is a pentium 4 laptop with a 60G 5400 rpm harddrive. Most of my non-critical partitions are in reiser4 except for /home, /boot, and /storage. I could post my kernel .config file but basically I have reiser4 and preempt enabled, and internal timer freq. set to 1000.

Anyway, my question is whether anybody else have experienced similar lockup with reiser4? Or, is this a reiser4/preempt/new scheduler related issue?

Thanks a bunch!
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Phlogiston · Posted: Sun Nov 14, 2004 8:47 pm Post subject:

Tronic · Posted: Sun Nov 14, 2004 9:25 pm Post subject: Bugs, bugs and ...

Nitro2

#1: Flooding kernel log with messages about unknown scancode 00 being received. Note: the value is 00, and it gets flooded all the time (at pretty random rate), so it is not one of those multimedia keys in my keyboard or anything. And it happens even if the keyboard cable is disconnected.

#2: When using cursor keys in X, they randomly spit out numbers instead (about 30 % of keystrokes, or repeats, are incorrect) - as if I was using the equivalent keys on NUMPAD! Of course this is not the case and I'm using those keys that are between the main part and the numpad. Turning Num Lock off is a "workaround". I'm sure it still misdetects the keys as numpad, but with Num Lock disabled they perform the function I'd expect.

#2b: #2 does not occur in console, but the keyboard sometimes seems to be dropping lots of all keystrokes there. I think this might be related to #2 so that when keystrokes aren't received normally, console misses them completely, but X manages to grab them anyway, but does that somewhat incorrectly and thus the numbers.

#3: Keyboard crash (i.e. keyboard no longer works at all, not in console nor in X, but mouse, copy&paste and programs do), sometimes followed, few hours later, by entire system crash.

#4: Sound skipping a lot, with every sound card I have tried, but that I get with other kernels too. It seems that PC is not designed for 16 HDDs (or perhaps Linux RAID-5 or Reiser4 are badly implemented, causing high latencies).

Nitro3

#5: It gets errors trying to detect some of my IDE HDDs on boot (I am not sure, but I think these are the ITE8212 disks, not the NVIDIA CK8S ones). Update: this happens with the IDE version of the driver. The SCSI/SATA one (wtf would an IDE controller do there, I have no clue) still works fine.

All the old bugs are still here as well :/

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I do not get those keyboard or crash problems with 2.6.9-cko2, but it doesn't support ITE8212 at all.
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Deranger · Veteran Joined: 26 Aug 2004 Posts: 1215

2.6.9-nitro3 works pretty well, but it's a bit sluggish. I patched 2.6.9-ck3 with Reiser4 (from 2.6.9-mm1 broken-out) and it's noticable faster. Sad to say goodbye to nitro

I don't need half of the patches and they just makes kernel more unstable...

Tronic · Posted: Mon Nov 15, 2004 12:32 am Post subject:

Nitro3 on HP OmniBook Xe4500 - haven't found any bugs here yet :)

EDIT:
Software Suspend 2 won't resume. Hangs on "Loading old kernel (no status - this is sensitive!)" or whatever.
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Tronic · Posted: Mon Nov 15, 2004 6:10 pm Post subject:

The kernel is registering a lot of IRQ#1, even though there really isn't any. This must be causing the messages about unknown scancodes... Another odd thing is that ERR is not zero. What causes this?