2.6.8.1-nitro5 "it cleans your breath while it cleans y

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seppe · Post by **seppe** » Tue Aug 24, 2004 12:16 am

Damn, the version line is too long for the topic title

2.6.8.1-nitro5 "it cleans your breath while it cleans your teeth" is here!

applied patches (applies on the 2.6.8.1 kernel)

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# start of CK4 patches
from_2.6.8.1_to_staircase8.0.bz2 
schedrange.diff 
schedbatch2.4.diff 
schediso2.5.diff 
sched-adjust-p4gain
mapped_watermark.diff 
defaultcfq.diff 
config_hz.diff 
1g_lowmem_i386.diff 
akpm-latency-fix.patch
9000-SuSE-117-writeback-lat.patch 
cddvd-cmdfilter-drop.patch 
cool-spinlocks-i386.diff 
bio_uncopy_user-mem-leak.patch
bio_uncopy_user2.diff
ioport-latency-fix-2.6.8.1.patch 
supermount-ng204.diff.bz2 
fbsplash-0.9-r5-2.6.8-rc3.patch.bz2
make-tree_lock-an-rwlock.patch.bz2 
invalidate_inodes-speedup.patch 
2.6.8.1-mm2-reiser4.diff.bz2 
2.6.8.1-ck4-version.diff 
# end of CK4 patches
vesafb-tng-0.9-rc4-2.6.8.1.patch
lirc-2.6.5-mm1-20040406
menuconfig-NAME-v1.0.patch
squashfs2.0-patch
gcloop-2.6-20040527.patch
kernel-events-rml-2.6.8-rc2-6.patch
2.6.8-nitro1-write-barriers
lufs-0.9.7-2.6.0-test9.patch 
iteraid_1.44.diff
omnibook-2.6.8-rc2-bk2.diff
config-nr-tty-devices.patch
cdfs-2.6.3a.diff
packet-2.6.8.patch
orinoco-0.13e-patch.diff
cflags-selection.patch
ipw2100-2.6.8-patch
vesafb-fix
# snapshot (the bz2 file) ends here
acx100-2.6.8-rc2-bk2.diff

ebuild at http://www.sepi.be/nitro/2.6.8.1-nitro5 ... -r5.ebuild

Con Kolivas did some great work on Staircase8, it gives my system a huge performance boost (apps start up even faster than before).

Oh, and as you see, software suspend 2 is out, but dryre is working on an addon patch.

Talk to use at #nitro-sources (irc.freenode.net) if you need more help or if you have suggestions.

Good luck!

Dale_uk · Post by **Dale_uk** » Tue Aug 24, 2004 12:26 am

Downloading the ebuild right now, I'll let you know how I get on, as I haven't had any success with love

pardon the pun

Looks good

AustrianCoder · Post by **AustrianCoder** » Tue Aug 24, 2004 12:52 am

Updatet portage pf gentoo.de - a lot of fun with a nitro-boost

Robin79 · Post by **Robin79** » Tue Aug 24, 2004 1:01 am

ill try it

CK again love ck

edit. how do i get it in portage? edit.

luqas · Post by **luqas** » Tue Aug 24, 2004 1:06 am

Here is the swsusp2 patch. I don't use it, so I can't test it to see if it works correctly. I did test compile scenarios and didn't have a problem. Just apply it on top of nitro5 if you need it.

patch-2.6.8.1-nitro5-swsusp2

Robin79 · Post by **Robin79** » Tue Aug 24, 2004 1:07 am

Dryre wrote:Here is the swsusp2 patch. I don't use it, so I can't test it to see if it works correctly. You shouldn't have a problem, but swsusp can be weird sometimes. Just apply it on top of nitro5 if you need it.

patch-2.6.8.1-nitro5-swsusp2

What is swsup2 good for anyway?

luqas · Post by **luqas** » Tue Aug 24, 2004 1:07 am

Strictly an updated version of software suspend. It has more functionality than the one build into the kernel.

Dale_uk · Post by **Dale_uk** » Tue Aug 24, 2004 1:10 am

Working GREAT

Good job, man

I can actually scroll around and resize my browser window without XMMS jumping like crazy

Thanks!

rush_ad · Post by **rush_ad** » Tue Aug 24, 2004 1:40 am

i'll probably stick with my nitro1 which is very stable as of now.

AustrianCoder · Post by **AustrianCoder** » Tue Aug 24, 2004 1:43 am

How to use portage of gentoo.de in connection with the official portage:

Methode I:
SYNC="rsync://rsync16.de.gentoo.org/gentoo-merged"
into your /etc/make.conf.

Methode II:

1. echo "app-portage/gentoolkit-dev ~ARCH" >> /etc/portage/package.keywords

ARCH... set your arch.

2. emerge gentoolkit-dev

3. /etc/gensync/gentoo-de.syncsource:

id="gentoo-de"
description="gentoo.de Portage Overlay"
rsync="rsync://rsync.gentoo.de/gentoo-de-ebuilds"
// !!! set overlay for your needs !!!!
overlay="/root/overlay/"

4. run gensync gentoo-de

You have now the portage from gentoo.de in the overlay dir.
Also run this command to update the portage.

And here is the link to the WebCVS: http://www.gentoo.de/viewcvs/gentoo-x86/

NOTE: WebCVS needs some time to sow the fresh ebuilds, i think about 30 minutes.

mcoulman · Post by **mcoulman** » Tue Aug 24, 2004 4:55 am

Dryre wrote:Here is the swsusp2 patch. I don't use it, so I can't test it to see if it works correctly. I did test compile scenarios and didn't have a problem. Just apply it on top of nitro5 if you need it.

patch-2.6.8.1-nitro5-swsusp2

I can verify that swsusp2 works. Thanks for the patch. Also,

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media-gfx/splashutils

works as advertised too.

Thanks for the kernel patch set.

Isaiah · Post by **Isaiah** » Tue Aug 24, 2004 5:30 am

Looking good (and fast) here seppe - thanks

d0nju4n · Post by **d0nju4n** » Tue Aug 24, 2004 7:49 am

compiling now...cant wait

HecHacker1 · Post by **HecHacker1** » Tue Aug 24, 2004 7:56 am

this kernel is working great, better than the mm based sources. The ck's are just much more responsive and way faster at loading, starting up. I turned off Pre-emptive and I think it helps even more.

BUT! Nvidia-driver is broken with this release, and the last release too. When I do a startx I get only a black screen. On the last release I even tried patching it with the Nvidia-diff patch.

The default Xorg NV is holding me off for now, but I want to play UT2004. Anyways, you have converted me from Love to Nitro!

fro5tbite · Post by **fro5tbite** » Tue Aug 24, 2004 8:17 am

hmm.. im experiencing something weird here.. when i first rebooted, the mem used is very little and instead the swap is used heavily. I dunno what might causes this. After 15 min of use, the system starts to crawl

i reboot back to my old kernel 2.6.8-nitro1 , and everything goes normal. swap is not used at all and instead the memory is being use. anyone have any ideas ?

scoobydu · Post by **scoobydu** » Tue Aug 24, 2004 9:43 am

Getting better all the time! Working here on amd64, and a noticable speed improvement!

Thanks guys

-Sarbian- · Post by **-Sarbian-** » Tue Aug 24, 2004 9:51 am

HecHacker1 wrote: BUT! Nvidia-driver is broken with this release, and the last release too. When I do a startx I get only a black screen. On the last release I even tried patching it with the Nvidia-diff patch.
!

Dis you try to add "pci=routeirq" to your kernel start line ?

teutzz · Post by **teutzz** » Tue Aug 24, 2004 9:59 am

not only that is broken but it won't even load on boot-up (and yes i have pci=routeirq in my lilo append line)

phranzee · Post by **phranzee** » Tue Aug 24, 2004 10:27 am

any chances to get win4lin working with this release ?

maxulanhot · Post by **maxulanhot** » Tue Aug 24, 2004 1:00 pm

When compiling reiser4 error occured, told me set 4k stack off ?

Anybody has idea?

zerojay · Post by **zerojay** » Tue Aug 24, 2004 1:25 pm

maxulanhot wrote:When compiling reiser4 error occured, told me set 4k stack off ?

Anybody has idea?

Yeah, go into Kernel Hacking and turn off the 4k stack.

maxulanhot · Post by **maxulanhot** » Tue Aug 24, 2004 1:44 pm

DarkStalker wrote:
maxulanhot wrote:When compiling reiser4 error occured, told me set 4k stack off ?

Anybody has idea?
Yeah, go into Kernel Hacking and turn off the 4k stack.

But I thought the nvidia-kernel 6 serial need 4k stack.

zerojay · Post by **zerojay** » Tue Aug 24, 2004 1:49 pm

maxulanhot wrote:
DarkStalker wrote:
maxulanhot wrote:When compiling reiser4 error occured, told me set 4k stack off ?

Anybody has idea?
Yeah, go into Kernel Hacking and turn off the 4k stack.
But I thought the nvidia-kernel 6 serial need 4k stack.

I don't know anything about Nvidia stuff, but I do know that if you want to use Reiser4, you have to turn off the 4k stack.

luqas · Post by **luqas** » Tue Aug 24, 2004 1:49 pm

I don't know about Nvidia, but with the newer reiser4 snapshots you cannot compile it with 4k stacks.

Merlin-TC · Post by **Merlin-TC** » Tue Aug 24, 2004 1:51 pm

I have the same problem as fro5tbite.

It seems that it loads everything to the swap partition so the hd is busy all the time even though I have lots of free mem left.

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merlin@seele ~ $ free
             total       used       free     shared    buffers     cached
Mem:       1036136     171020     865116          0       5620      63512
-/+ buffers/cache:     101888     934248
Swap:       506036      80676     425360
merlin@seele ~ $