2.6.11-rc2-nitro1: The Bear Necessities

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Tiger683 · Post by **Tiger683** » Sat Feb 05, 2005 1:46 pm

which nitro version? (the normal or the one with USE="want-realtime" while emergin? )

Merlin-TC · Post by **Merlin-TC** » Sat Feb 05, 2005 1:52 pm

The normal one, the only use flag I used was to create the symlink automatically.

Tiger683 · Post by **Tiger683** » Sat Feb 05, 2005 1:57 pm

ok, now let's see,

I saw a few warnings and errors that are fixable, but i'd need you to do one thing:

send me the firegl_public.c file via email, I'll send you the fixed one,
my mail is Tiger683<AT>gmx.net.

cheers,

Tiger

PS: post as soon as you sent it so i will check my mail....
EDIT:
I have a radeon myself, but because of the fuss with new nitro-rt didn't even install the module source, that's why i need the firegl_public.c
EDIT2:
It might take a little longer than you expect, but i assume it'll be today though, and the fix will probably remain valid for next nitro release, and this time i will also test fglrx with the nitro-rt

Merlin-TC · Post by **Merlin-TC** » Sat Feb 05, 2005 2:34 pm

Ok, mailed it to you.
And take your time, it's already 9:30pm here so I guess I'll wait until tomorrow

Then again...that Chinese tea can keep you awake for quite some time LOL

den_RDC · Post by **den_RDC** » Sat Feb 05, 2005 3:25 pm

Just a question, does this kernel also carry the Darckness Seal of Approved AMD64 64bit goodness? (i'll find out soon anyway, but i don't know how futile my effort will be)

Merlin-TC · Post by **Merlin-TC** » Sat Feb 05, 2005 3:45 pm

One question tiger, I just started my brain and wondered why I sent you the file.
I mean all you have to do is emerge ati-drivers or am I missing something important here?

MrApples · Post by **MrApples** » Sat Feb 05, 2005 4:26 pm

den_RDC wrote:Just a question, does this kernel also carry the Darckness Seal of Approved AMD64 64bit goodness? (i'll find out soon anyway, but i don't know how futile my effort will be)

to my knowledge this kernel works fine on 64bit

venquessa2 · Post by **venquessa2** » Sat Feb 05, 2005 4:47 pm

Hi guys,

I checked this out the other day, build went well, booted first time, but after I battled with the NVidia module for a while and got it to compile, my X display was corrupt, half of the screen elements were not drawn and all the desktop icons had echoes. Was completely unusable.

Is this a unique problem or something someone has come across before.

Thanks.

Tiger683 · Post by **Tiger683** » Sat Feb 05, 2005 4:51 pm

@merlin-TC
If you think i will send you spam , no, i won't....
I would emerge if i had gentoo, but i run enhanced lfs system on my private comp
and nitro-rt is the main branch of kernel i develop for a new distro we make with few more
people...

Cheers

momerath · Post by **momerath** » Sat Feb 05, 2005 5:04 pm

Its all working beautifully for me this time round (non-rt). Thanks darckness!

Merlin-TC · Post by **Merlin-TC** » Sat Feb 05, 2005 5:52 pm

I am not afraid of spam don't worry.
I get so much already LOL

I sent you the file already, you got it?

Tiger683 · Post by **Tiger683** » Sat Feb 05, 2005 5:57 pm

Ja, ich hab's bekommen

J0rus · Post by **J0rus** » Sat Feb 05, 2005 7:51 pm

I threw together a portage overlay of the latest ati-drivers that work on my system running this kernel. Simply uncompress the archive in /usr/local/portage then emerge ati-drivers. If you don't have portage overlay setup yet, it's an option in /etc/make.conf.

Here's the link:
ATI drivers overlay

If all you need is the diffs, here's a link to that. For patching purposes, this applies against original agpgart_be.c and firegl_public.c files as included with fglrx release version 8.8.25.

NOTE: I haven't tested my patch against AMD64 arch as I don't have one. I can however say the above works GREAT on my Athlon XP 3000+ system with an ATI 9800 Pro. I played couple hours of ET and Doom3 after installing this.

Cheers,
J0rus

Tiger683 · Post by **Tiger683** » Sat Feb 05, 2005 8:26 pm

saves me work... thx...

T

linux_on_the_brain · Post by **linux_on_the_brain** » Sun Feb 06, 2005 6:09 am

no luck for me with these kernel sources, the kernel compiles but on reboot I run into several issues.
- no splash
- pcmcia problems, I have 2 microdrives, during boot up i get an error, ide_cs
not found but I have it compiled into the kernel
- networking doesnt work using r8169, when I execute /etc/init.d/net.eth0
restart it hangs the session
- ifconfig hangs the session
- removing modules hangs the session
- reboot isnt successful, have to power off

I get the same results when trying to use the latest vivid sources as well.

A bit about my system, should it be needed.
Sager 8890 laptop, p4, 1GB ram, ati mobility 9600 I believe, gigabit ethernet -Realtek.

Any thoughts on this

seriousmoose · Post by **seriousmoose** » Sun Feb 06, 2005 7:32 am

I too have problems with nvidia based sound.

> SND_INTEL8X0

Does anyone know how to fix this? -- I think it's the new RC. I'll just revert back until it's sorted. That aside, this is probably the best kernel I've ever used so far.

KpR2000 · Post by **KpR2000** » Sun Feb 06, 2005 7:48 am

I have the same problem with SND_INTEL8X0.
It exists only as normal users. => Sound is woking fine as root

Alsamixer as normal user:

alsamixer: function snd_ctl_open failed for default: Permission denied

discomfitor · Post by **discomfitor** » Sun Feb 06, 2005 9:24 am

linux_on_the_brain: which version are you using? If it's the rt version, try the other one.

People with intel8x0 issues: New release is in final stages of testing and should be out later today.

Tiger683 · Post by **Tiger683** » Sun Feb 06, 2005 9:42 am

*LURK*

Andrew Morton, I HATE YOUUUUUU!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

predatorfreak · Post by **predatorfreak** » Sun Feb 06, 2005 10:29 am

Tiger683 wrote:*LURK*

Andrew Morton, I HATE YOUUUUUU!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

uh......... ok............ neeways, its looking to me like 2.6.11 is going to break quite a few things, heh, I'l likely end up being the last person to move to 2.6.11. Also, on a side note, dark6 testing is going good and as3 has proven to be quite nice.

KpR2000 · Post by **KpR2000** » Sun Feb 06, 2005 10:56 am

J0rus wrote:
Here's the link:
ATI drivers overlay

Driver is working till I want to log out of xorg.Then it freeze

Is there another fix out there?

discomfitor · Post by **discomfitor** » Sun Feb 06, 2005 11:00 am

Tiger683 wrote:*LURK*

Andrew Morton, I HATE YOUUUUUU!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

HAAAAAAAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA

predatorfreak: 2.6.11* works perfectly (I'm actually running the latest nitro here to test stuff before I release it

). Tiger683 and I are simply angered by Mr. Morton's patchset because it's broken and we want it to work.

seriousmoose · Post by **seriousmoose** » Sun Feb 06, 2005 11:51 am

lol, this is for those of you that like to laugh at other's demise:

I actually don't need nvidia audio fixed anymore, because, I was vaccuming, and I got the headphones cord stuck in the bottom of the vaccume. After I unraveled the cord from the vaccume and let my room air out from the smell of burning rubber, I noticed that the headphone back is broken off inside of the computer.

Luckely, I have an old monster sound MX2 I'm going to put in because there's no way I can get the headphone jack out (without maybe using a drill, and breaking my motherboard), so I'll let you know if the vortex 2 drivers are broken

P.S. I have no idea how to spell vaccume.

Tiger683 · Post by **Tiger683** » Sun Feb 06, 2005 12:26 pm

predatorfreak wrote: its looking to me like 2.6.11 is going to break quite a few things, heh, I'l likely end up being the last person to move to 2.6.11.

2.6.11 is not the prob, it is the mm patchset that contains so many stuffbreaking patches, that i'll probably start doing my mm-reloaded and after thorough testing put it into some patchset... As darckness said, we had EXACTLY the same probleam yesterday evening at testing the nitro-e and nitro-rt : complete lockup at boottime ide-probing. I still believe i'll be able to fix it, but i guess darckness already gave up all hopes for regular e version.

ZiffyWombat · Post by **ZiffyWombat** » Sun Feb 06, 2005 1:05 pm

Exactly how does the realtime scheduler differ from the previous schedulers? (cfq,anticipatory,noop,deadline)