2.5.65

paulisdead · Guru Joined: 10 Apr 2002 Posts: 510 Location: Seattle, WA

Just wondering, has anyone else been having clock scew problems under 2.5.65? I left my computer on all day and it was 2 hours fast when I got home.

Ari Rahikkala · Guru Joined: 02 Oct 2002 Posts: 370 Location: Finland

cpwins · Posted: Wed Mar 19, 2003 11:56 am Post subject:

Lovechild · Posted: Wed Mar 19, 2003 12:04 pm Post subject:

Lovechild · Posted: Wed Mar 19, 2003 12:11 pm Post subject:

2.5.65-mm2 is out.

http://www.uwsg.indiana.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/0303.2/0688.html

mostly fixes, but should now work with iptables again... also AS updates (yay).

Lowspirit · Posted: Wed Mar 19, 2003 12:59 pm Post subject:

Does it still cause mplayer movies to halt after awhile? And was it in mm1 or mm2 the cpu starvation in the lingo interactivity patch was fixed? That patch alone I'd like to get my hands on if possible.

They seem to have focused too much with xine as test example (andrew morton apparently use it) so mplayer now frameskips for some reason, but Totem doesn't work with NPTL so I'm kinda stuck with mplayer until the kernel or mplayer are fixed or someone tell me how to fix (.64 had no problems).

charlieg · Posted: Wed Mar 19, 2003 2:29 pm Post subject:

Carlos · Posted: Wed Mar 19, 2003 3:36 pm Post subject:

idl · Posted: Wed Mar 19, 2003 4:05 pm Post subject:

I got most of my problems ironed out, but one I cant fix is that my NIC wont ping anything apart from itself, eth0 comes up fine I just cant reach anything. I have a tulip based card

red_over_blue · Guru Joined: 16 Dec 2002 Posts: 310

I don't know about your ethernet problem, but I am also have some problems with my network card. The via-rhine module won't compile at all and complains about unresolved symbols.

Does anyone know what I should do to solve this? I really want to try a development kernel. I emerged the straight 2.5.65 development kernel.

Ari Rahikkala · Guru Joined: 02 Oct 2002 Posts: 370 Location: Finland

OK... I managed to get 2.5 running. It took some figuring out to get EVMS to work under 2.5 (my root filesystem is under EVMS, so I need an initrd image for volume discovery). However...

- my root filesystem, which is ReiserFS v3, wouldn't mount read-write. Both /proc/mounts and /etc/mtab claimed it was mounted read-write, and IIRC trying to remount it resulted in a message telling that / wasn't mounted.
- iptables-load didn't appear to work
- startx didn't do a thing (I didn't check whether it went into an infinite loop or something else, though)
- and a great many other things were broken... something about the RTC device, something about something or something other, etc...

So... I think I'll wait a couple of months for things to get fixed before I try a 2.5 kernel again

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mglauche · Posted: Wed Mar 19, 2003 6:10 pm Post subject:

i'm using lvm2 with 2.5.64 right now (and just compiling 2.5.65-mm1

you need the lvm2 and device-mapper tools from the lvm main site (sinista?). Both are aviable as anon-cvs and they work fine here. only the gentoo-init scripts need some love bc they check for /proc/lvm which does not exsist anymore in the 2.5 kernels ...

idl · Posted: Wed Mar 19, 2003 6:22 pm Post subject:

I found the error "ds: no socket drivers loaded!" in my dmesg output, I'm pretty sure its the cause of my problem, but google doesnt offer any solutions

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Ari Rahikkala · Guru Joined: 02 Oct 2002 Posts: 370 Location: Finland

No socket drivers loaded? IANA kernel developer, but the first thing I'd look at is Networking support -> Networking options -> TCP/IP Networking.
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narensankar · Tux's lil' helper Joined: 04 Nov 2002 Posts: 109

Just thought to document some stuff to get vmware running. Vmware out of the box will not work on 2.5.65. The reason for this is twofold-

1. modversions.h is no longer supported nor is needed. So you should untar vmmon.tar and vmnet.tar in the /opt/vmware/lib/modules/source directory, and in the source files remove all references to modversions.h or better yet condition these with the kernel version.

2. The socket structure has changed in 2.5.65. So in order to build vmnet, edit bridge.c in the vmnet-only directory and at line 619, change the code from

bridge->sk->dead = 1;

to

bridge->sk->flags |= SOCK_DEAD;

These changes are for vmware workstations 3.2 only.
The best way to make these changes is to change the files in the vmmon-only and vmnet-only directory and then create new tar files vmmon.tar and vmnet.tar and then use the config script to build these. That way you can keep up with newer kernels.
With this vmware works and runs fast. The performance is much better, I believe because of the new scheduler patches.

A big problem with these changes is that they change vmware such that they it will no longer work with version 2.4.xx of the kernel, as well as older 2.5 kernels i.e. before 2.5.65. So keep copies of the old binary builds of the modules just in case or condition the changes with the kernel versions.

Hope this helps someone.

Naren Sankar

azote · Guru Joined: 17 Sep 2002 Posts: 415

I was having that problem with vmware ....!

thank you narensankar ill give it a try!
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idl · Posted: Wed Mar 19, 2003 8:37 pm Post subject:

aswell as my net problem, i cant get X to behave.
I installed module-init-tools, remerged the nvidia drivers, ran modprobe nvidia (It doesnt give the tainted warning btw, not sure if this means anything) and then ran opengl-update nvidia. startx loads, the screen goes black and I get a corrupt yellow fuzzy scratches at the bottom of the screen - the system also hard locks.

I'm using 2.5.65-mm2 btw - I dont think I missed anything...

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noff · Posted: Wed Mar 19, 2003 8:37 pm Post subject:

I just installed it and it seemed to work fine except it has not dri. I haven't tried to much since I barely got dri working in 2.4.20. I have a radeon compiled as a module.

glxinfo gives

Jeff Binder · Posted: Thu Mar 20, 2003 3:35 am Post subject:

modal · Apprentice Joined: 02 Oct 2002 Posts: 277

I'm so excited for the 2.6 kernel to be released, 2.5.65 has been good to me so far. It is soooo f*ing fast. I really had no clue. They should have a song released along with 2.6, just like OpenBSD does.

weijia · n00b Joined: 14 Sep 2002 Posts: 57

I have had a few issues with the 2.5 kernels which have prevented me from using them. I was hoping that someone here could help me with these before I give the new kernel another shot. The main issue is with the pcmcia-cs and hotplug packages:

The pcmcia-cs package appears to be compatible with the 2.5 kernel in the documentation. However, whenever I try to compile it while running the 2.5 kernel it would always give me an error message. I don't have the message handy, but I was wondering if anyone has had success with the pcmcia-cs package and the new 2.5 kernels.

The hotplug package seems to simply not be compatible with the 2.5 kernels. Supposedly the new kernel has a completely new kernel loading system...and hotplug does not seem to be compatible with it. I use hotplug mainly for USB devices. Does anyone know how to get hotplug working (or whether this package is even needed), and how USB hotplugging should be set up in this new kernel? Thanks

Weijia

heijs · Posted: Thu Mar 20, 2003 7:52 am Post subject:

I get random crashes (big kernel OOPSes), but most of the time, it works perfectly for me, and fast!

Ussually something X related causes the crashing (e.g. emacs)... I don't know why...

daen1543 · Posted: Thu Mar 20, 2003 8:35 am Post subject: Awesome!

I've just upgraded from 2.5.64-ingo-linus.patch to 2.5.65, and I should tell you, it's absolutely beautiful! Everything that I use works well, and dragging windows under KDE has finally improved to Windoze-comparable performance! :twisted:

cpwins · Posted: Thu Mar 20, 2003 9:28 am Post subject: Re: Awesome!