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PostPosted: Fri Apr 04, 2003 8:36 am    Post subject: Patches for mm-sources 2.5.66r3 Reply with quote

Hello,

I emerged mm-sources 2.5.66r3 and find out that there are 113 patches for this kernel in ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/akpm/patches/2.5/2.5.66/2.5.66-mm3/broken-out

Should I install all of them before compiling?

In ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/akpm/patches/2.5/2.5.66/2.5.66-mm3 there is a file ( 2.5.66-mm3.bz2 ). Does this file regroup all patches ? If so, how to use it ?

Thanks
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PostPosted: Fri Apr 04, 2003 8:50 am    Post subject: Re: Patches for mm-sources 2.5.66r3 Reply with quote

dreambox wrote:
I emerged mm-sources 2.5.66r3 and find out that there are 113 patches for this kernel in ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/akpm/patches/2.5/2.5.66/2.5.66-mm3/broken-out

Should I install all of them before compiling?

No, unless something doesn't work.

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In ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/akpm/patches/2.5/2.5.66/2.5.66-mm3 there is a file ( 2.5.66-mm3.bz2 ). Does this file regroup all patches ?

Yes, but they are already applied to your kernel. mm-sources are just a vanilla kernel with that set of patch applied.
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PostPosted: Fri Apr 04, 2003 9:06 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

So, in that case I have some troubles... :?

I emerged mm-sources 2.5.66r3, and after rebooting, the system hangs when trying to clear /var/lock and /var/? ( I'm at work, I don't remember the second one ).

make dep seems to be obsolete now, make dep says it is unnecessary.
Before the system hangs, I get a message saying no dep found in /usr/lib/modules. In fact, when compiling the kernel, i just did :

make

make install

I didn't compile modules nor installed them. Could it be the reason of the system hang?

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PostPosted: Fri Apr 04, 2003 10:17 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Hey dreambox,

I think before you install modules, you have to emerge module-init-tools.

The 2.5.* kernels use this toolset now instead of modutils.


Good luck.


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PostPosted: Fri Apr 04, 2003 11:14 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Thanks for the info :)

I'll try to install modules to check if system hang comes from there...
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PostPosted: Fri Apr 04, 2003 5:19 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

these are the steps I took to install the mm-kernels..
mount /boot

make menuconfig
make install
make modules
make modules_install

or you can:

make menuconfig
make bzImage
make modules
make modules_install
cp System.map /boot/System.map-2.5.66-mm3
ln -s /boot/System.map-2.5.66-mm3 /boot/System.map
cp arch/i386/boot/bzImage /boot/bzImage-2.5.66-mm3
ln -s /boot/bzImage-2.5.66-mm3 /boot/vmlinuz

edit your /boot/grub/grub.conf or /etc/lilo.conf.
reboot and pray that it works! :D
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PostPosted: Sat Apr 05, 2003 1:07 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

I did just that and it doesn't boot 8O

I get the grub message
Uncompressing Linux kernel .... (or something like that)
Booting Linux Kernel

and nothing else, it just stops there.

Is there anything I could have forgotten? I have support for IDE hard disks and reiserfs built directly in the kernel, so it's not that.
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PostPosted: Sat Apr 05, 2003 1:08 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

btw I think a "make install" will automatically install some files to your /boot directory. Those files include System.map, config, vmlinuz and a few other things.
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PostPosted: Sat Apr 05, 2003 2:03 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Does anyone know if there exists patches for nForce2 (nVidia and 3COM NICs) networking with the 2.5.66 kernel? Also I'm having problems initializing the nVidia graphics driver with X, perhaps I need to remerge GLX?
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PostPosted: Sat Apr 05, 2003 3:03 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

I do not know about a patch for nforce2 but I may help you with the nvidia driver, you need to be more specific though.
The nvidia graphics driver you are talking about is the driver provided by Nvidia or by X?

If it is from Nvidia :
What version do you have?
What does Modprobe say?
Do you have Option "NvAgp" "3" in your XF86Config?
What does the logs of Xfree say about it?

By the way, I was checking the nvidia support forum for linux few days ago and I remember some people were talking about nforce2, you may want to take a look there.
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PostPosted: Sun Apr 06, 2003 2:42 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

dob I had the same problem once. Do you still hear your system booting?

Make sure you enabled "Character Devices->Virtural Terminal" and " Support for console on virtual terminal".

It might have something to do with APM bios and framebuffer. If you're not using a laptop turn off "Power management options -> Advance Power Management BIOS support". Or you can set "apm=off" in your grub.conf or lilo.conf kernel commandline.

If you are using a laptop disable framebuffer support and see if that works.
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PostPosted: Sun Apr 06, 2003 8:25 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

mischief wrote:
dob I had the same problem once. Do you still hear your system booting?

Make sure you enabled "Character Devices->Virtural Terminal" and " Support for console on virtual terminal".

It might have something to do with APM bios and framebuffer. If you're not using a laptop turn off "Power management options -> Advance Power Management BIOS support". Or you can set "apm=off" in your grub.conf or lilo.conf kernel commandline.

If you are using a laptop disable framebuffer support and see if that works.

To get the option to enable VT you have to enable 'input' in the kernel, not as module.
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PostPosted: Sun Apr 06, 2003 9:43 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

barlad wrote:
I do not know about a patch for nforce2 but I may help you with the nvidia driver, you need to be more specific though.
The nvidia graphics driver you are talking about is the driver provided by Nvidia or by X?

If it is from Nvidia :
What version do you have?
What does Modprobe say?
Do you have Option "NvAgp" "3" in your XF86Config?
What does the logs of Xfree say about it?

It is the latest nVidia driver in the portage tree, theres no problem at all inserting the module. Just that X fails, perhaps a glx recompile is what I should've done. I don't have the NvAgp option set, what does it do?

Quote:

By the way, I was checking the nvidia support forum for linux few days ago and I remember some people were talking about nforce2, you may want to take a look there.

Thanks, seems there is an nvnet patch for 2.5.6.3 at least, maybe I'll give it a shot.
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PostPosted: Sun Apr 06, 2003 11:08 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

I installed successfully the kernel for a Toshiba Tecra 8200 laptop after the 5th try :lol: ( I almost gave up ! ). I had to desactivate support for FrameBuffer.
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PostPosted: Sun Apr 06, 2003 8:44 pm    Post subject: Sound and net can't work! Reply with quote

I compiled the 2.5.66r3 kernel but I was so sorry that it could not bring my ethernet and sound card up. My system is Epox 8RDA+ which is a nfoce2 based mb. I used an pc2000 net card and compiled the support in the kernel and the kernel found it. But when the system boots there is a message: SIOSIFFLAGS: Function not implemented.
I tried to compiled the alsa support but got no sound . I tried to emerge alsa-driver but always failed . Installing the official driver would faile too.It seemed that irq was wrong in the kernel.

The 2.5.66r3 kernel has nice nforce2 ide support and I found the performance greatly improved. I am eager for the stable 2.6 kernel.
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PostPosted: Mon Apr 07, 2003 12:06 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

mischief wrote:
dob I had the same problem once. Do you still hear your system booting?

Make sure you enabled "Character Devices->Virtural Terminal" and " Support for console on virtual terminal".


Yep thanks it worked :)

Actually, I thought it would be a good idea & a good time saver to get the .config for my current 2.4 kernel and run make oldconfig. But I ended up with a 2.5 kernel that supported neither ttys, nor a vga console, nor a keyboard :roll:

I re-started a setup from scratch and now it boots and works quite well. Unfortunately, the for my pci adsl modem doesn't compile with 2.5, and a computer without access to the net is a bit... boring, so I didn't toy with it much and I'm back on 2.4 for now.
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