2.6.8-rc3-nitro1 "Speedy Gonzalez"

HecHacker1 · Apprentice Joined: 26 Jun 2003 Posts: 213 Location: UCSD

wow, this is the best kernel I have used so far. This version eliminated my problems with the 4k stack (X and Nvidia are working nicely). It's very snappy.

JinxterX · n00b Joined: 19 Apr 2004 Posts: 59

Fixed my FAT32 problems, great kernel, very responsive.

PovMan · Guru Joined: 30 Sep 2002 Posts: 375 Location: Australia

i think i've done something wrong... i've been using love-sources for ages and just switched over
I have something compiling on one desktop, and firefox on another desktop. if i don't touch it for a minute, i think all the cpu time goes to the compile, but it takes a while for other things to start working. firefox is slow for about 15 seconds then it goes normal. meh, maybe i haven't enabled some kernel option (i remember there being a low-latency option in love-sources, what happened to that?)
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snekiepete · Guru Joined: 07 May 2003 Posts: 306 Location: WISCONSIN

Schizoid · Apprentice Joined: 11 Apr 2003 Posts: 267

Well I just compiled this to give it a whirl.

Works fine on my athlon64 (even though there is no ~amd64 arch in the ebuild

) but I had to completely disable any sort of frame buffer support.

Raku · Posted: Sun Aug 08, 2004 10:19 am Post subject:

cato` · Posted: Sun Aug 08, 2004 11:00 am Post subject:

Nice

But I realy look forward to the next release with bootsplash, acpi and swsusp2h support...
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ed0n · Posted: Sun Aug 08, 2004 3:12 pm Post subject:

It's the first time I try this patchset, I used ck before and manualy patched reiser4 against.

It's working good, thank you

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_Adik_ · Posted: Sun Aug 08, 2004 6:04 pm Post subject:

can anyone tell me why when I emerged this kernel, emerge wants
to emerge kernel 2.4.26? how to fix this?
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Guest · Posted: Mon Aug 09, 2004 1:02 am Post subject:

Just want to say great kernel patchset. I've been using a reiser4 patched mm kernel for a while, well after each mm release, and this nitro feels snappier. The name certianly is fitting.

Great job!

koara · Posted: Mon Aug 09, 2004 3:48 am Post subject:

Works great for me. I have definitely noticed how much more responsive my desktop is. Keep up the good work!

floam · Posted: Mon Aug 09, 2004 6:15 am Post subject:

Nitro-sources? And people say Gentoo users aren't ricers, I say "haw!".
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Dolio · l33t Joined: 17 Jun 2002 Posts: 650

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Merlin-TC · l33t Joined: 16 May 2003 Posts: 603 Location: Germany

Working fine here.
Me likes them

I guess I will install them on my laptop later because its a little bit older (600Mhz P3) so it is easier to feel real speed improvements.

But thanks again, working really nice and I hope there will be many future versions.

fro5tbite · n00b Joined: 28 Apr 2004 Posts: 27

hmm. im experiencing keyboard glitches from nitro-sources-rc2-nitro4 onwards.. the problem is when I pressed CTRL + T on firefox, it opened like hundreds of the tabs.. im now expriencing this on nitro-sources-2.6.8-rc2-nitro3, which is what im using now. Anyone have any clues ?

im using the wireles logitech mouse and keyboard, and NEVER i had this problem before up until now.
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fro5tbite · n00b Joined: 28 Apr 2004 Posts: 27

umm forgot one other thing, fat32 seemed to have problem with nitro-sources-2.6.8-rc3, it was mounted read-only for some reason.. and it was mounted fine with other nitro-sources
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PovMan · Guru Joined: 30 Sep 2002 Posts: 375 Location: Australia

yep, i'm getting this problem. when i change desktops with ctrl-tab, the konsole on the desktop i switch to starts hammering in tabs until i press the tab key again. this kernel doesn't have the iriver patch either (i think it's a patch...), so i've stopped using it. love-sources seemed faster to me anyway.
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Merlin-TC · l33t Joined: 16 May 2003 Posts: 603 Location: Germany

I didn't experience any keyboard problems and there is no problem with the FAT filesystem
All you have to do is addings some new options to your fstab because of a change in the kernel.
Put this as option into your fstab and you can mount it as read/writeable again: codepage=437,iocharset=iso8859-1

y0zza · n00b Joined: 30 Jul 2004 Posts: 68

No problem with FAT32 volumes here, but I had some issues with vesafb. Kernel would oops on bootup when trying to initialise the frame buffer. Disabling vesafb and using radeonfb worked, however.

It would also hang when initialising USB devices during the bootup. Setting the RC_PARALLEL_STARTUP to "no" didn't help. However, compiling UHCI support as a module instead of built into the kernel resolved this.

I currently have preempt enabled in my kernel. Should this be disabled? I remember Con Kovilas said that it doesn't make much difference in 2.6 kernels, but the comments in menuconfig suggest to leave enabled for desktop systems.

The system doesn't feel noticeably faster than 2.6.7-gentoo-r11, I upgraded a few other things at the same time, including new ati-drivers 3.11 which seem to be causing a few problems... glxgears has plummeted to around 300 fps too :roll:

I will keep testing

butters · Posted: Tue Aug 10, 2004 12:29 am Post subject:

I've run many patchsets on Gentoo, including -ac, -mm, -ck, -love, and -xx; I've read all their respective threads full of users claiming a religious increase in desktop snappiness; and universally I've found them to be OK--to get the job done as I expect.

This patchset, however, is something else. I think the magical combination of Reiser4 and the staircase scheduler hits the spot to the point of perfection. I've never used a desktop OS that responds so quickly and so smoothly as my Nitro+Reiser4+NPTL+4K setup I'm running now. The only way to describe it is to say it makes GNOME 2.6 with a scaled vector theme feel faster than Fluxbox on the -mm patchset.

Outstanding work, seppe, this is just about perfect.
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chucksaysword · n00b Joined: 30 Dec 2003 Posts: 12

First time -nitro user here. For some reason, the kernel did not make /dev/dsp. I could listen to music through XMMS but UT2003 complained that there was no /dev/dsp and played no sound. I need sound so I went back to -love for the time being. This patchset does look promising however and I plan to give it another shot soon.

pilla · Posted: Tue Aug 10, 2004 2:05 am Post subject:

I just had a weird problem burning a CD with k3b and cdrecord.... it crashed my Xorg-x11 and had a very high load. It never happened before, then I just booted a vanilla 2.6.8-rc2 and I burnt a CD without problems.

I dunno if it's just a problem with the patchset or something else.

My CD-Recorder is a Thinkpad T23´s Matsushita (IDE burning)
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fro5tbite · n00b Joined: 28 Apr 2004 Posts: 27

@Merlin-TC : thanks my fat32 problem is resolved now

However Im still having problem with the keyboard, is it because of my wireless logitech keyboard ? i think i need to see if i can get another keyboard..

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Merlin-TC · l33t Joined: 16 May 2003 Posts: 603 Location: Germany

Sorry I cannot help you with your keyboard problem but I don't have it so I guess it would be a good start to try it with another one.
Is it USB or PS2

Also I had some problems burning a DVD but I guess its not the fault of the nitro sources but that my HDD was not fast enoug and even so there should be something like burnproof most of the stuff on the DVD cannot be read.
Guess I will try it with cdrecord pro.