2.6.12-nitro5 "Make my day"

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1U · Post by 1U » Fri Sep 16, 2005 4:28 pm

I've had a nitro-sources machine up for 90 days once, but then something crashed. Not sure what. It ran the 2.6.12-rc2-nitro1 or whatever that was.

Thetargos · Post by **Thetargos** » Fri Sep 16, 2005 7:51 pm

Anthaus wrote:I'm interested in testing. I'm a gamer, most of the time. But I usually leave my computer on doing calculations (Matlab) and whatnot at night. My average uptime is 10 days, but the majority of experimental kernels I've tried fail after 4 days (except nitro!)
Athlon XP 3000+, 1 GB RAM, GF 6800 GT, nForce 2, Alsa 1.0.10rc1 (emu10k1), Fedora Core 4 (shame on me), 2.6.13-ck4 (not too fast).

Hey, nitro on FC4 is sweet (as it is on Gentoo

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Cinder6 · Post by **Cinder6** » Fri Sep 16, 2005 11:28 pm

Can't wait

WerK · Post by **WerK** » Sat Sep 17, 2005 9:45 am

Me niether, nitro is just ass-kicking patchset

cocoliso · Post by **cocoliso** » Sat Sep 17, 2005 11:36 am

whohoooo another nitro coming!

andrew_wiggin · Post by **andrew_wiggin** » Sat Sep 17, 2005 6:17 pm

I can't wait anymore. 2.6.12 is way too stable

seppe · Post by **seppe** » Sat Sep 17, 2005 6:53 pm

It's out, see in this thread. Please note that it's still under testing status. Reiser4 is still untested and so it's always possible that 2.6.13.1-nitro1 will totally b0rk up your Reiser4 partition. Watch the thread for updates .. when the "STATUS: TESTING" leaves in the threadtitle, then it should be safe to use Reiser4.

Have fun

Lenz · Post by **Lenz** » Tue Nov 01, 2005 10:24 pm

I have to say that this still is my favorite nitro release.

Works perfectly since July.

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lenz@sulphur ~ $ uname -a
Linux sulphur 2.6.12-nitro5 #1 Sat Jul 16 15:57:01 CEST 2005 i686 AMD Athlon(tm) XP 2000+ AuthenticAMD GNU/Linux

baeksu · Post by **baeksu** » Tue Nov 01, 2005 11:26 pm

Lenz wrote:I have to say that this still is my favorite nitro release. Works perfectly since July.
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lenz@sulphur ~ $ uname -a
Linux sulphur 2.6.12-nitro5 #1 Sat Jul 16 15:57:01 CEST 2005 i686 AMD Athlon(tm) XP 2000+ AuthenticAMD GNU/Linux

Ditto here. I used newer kernels for a while but I came back to this. This one just works so well!

Gnufsh · Post by **Gnufsh** » Wed Nov 02, 2005 12:21 am

Me too.

b3cks · Post by **b3cks** » Wed Nov 02, 2005 7:26 pm

Yes, this is one of the best nitro releases so far.
Hope there will be a release as good as this in "near" future.

1U · Post by 1U » Wed Nov 02, 2005 11:35 pm

Hasn't anyone looked at acid-sources by Tiger yet? It's on the forums and my laptop is faster after upgrading to it. Everything works nicely.

Lenz · Post by **Lenz** » Thu Nov 03, 2005 6:37 am

1U wrote:Hasn't anyone looked at acid-sources by Tiger yet? It's on the forums and my laptop is faster after upgrading to it. Everything works nicely.

Yes I had, but I got extreme hangups during high harddisk io and/or cpu load, which I never got with nitro. So I switched back to this goodie here.

Tiger683 · Post by **Tiger683** » Thu Nov 03, 2005 10:35 am

Lenz wrote:
1U wrote:Hasn't anyone looked at acid-sources by Tiger yet? It's on the forums and my laptop is faster after upgrading to it. Everything works nicely.
Yes I had, but I got extreme hangups during high harddisk io and/or cpu load, which I never got with nitro. So I switched back to this goodie here.

__NEVER__ use acid with a siply copied-over nitro config , this helps out with most issues...

mayday147 · Post by **mayday147** » Thu Nov 03, 2005 12:59 pm

Tiger683 wrote:
Lenz wrote:
1U wrote:Hasn't anyone looked at acid-sources by Tiger yet? It's on the forums and my laptop is faster after upgrading to it. Everything works nicely.
Yes I had, but I got extreme hangups during high harddisk io and/or cpu load, which I never got with nitro. So I switched back to this goodie here.
__NEVER__ use acid with a siply copied-over nitro config , this helps out with most issues...

What's wrong on using the old config from the old kernel, whatever it is that old kernel?

Tiger683 · Post by **Tiger683** » Thu Nov 03, 2005 2:06 pm

config options present in both will
get selected like in the old one and stuff compiled because of this might interfere with other things ONLY in the new one, which would also get selected/not selected by user/defconfig.
Ever wondered if single patches from ck would act the same as in a fully ck-based kernel? This is another aspect and the answer is NOT ALWAYS.

cheers

T

1U · Post by 1U » Thu Nov 03, 2005 6:19 pm

I didn't copy my config, but I had boot mounted which had nitro-sources configs in it and acid sources took the settings. Is that just as bad or did it adjust them? Things seem to be running smoothly for me.

smithjd15 · Post by **smithjd15** » Sun Nov 06, 2005 4:49 am

Use the old config. Just run 'make oldconfig' before you run make.

chronophobic · Post by **chronophobic** » Mon Nov 07, 2005 11:26 pm

I've been using this kernel since it first came out until this afternoon. I changed it for 2.6.14-gentoo, since there was a weird kernel panick resulting from an amarok + external hdd combination while using nitro. If I used xmms instead of amarok, it was fine, but using amarok for a while caused a hardlock (as hard as they get...). After the 10th time or so, I decided to try to change the kernel rather than the player... Amarok's been playing for an hour and a half now and it seems fine... Keeping fingers crossed...
Sorry that this post isn't horribly informative, but I don't understand what happened either and I don't really want to continue reproducing the issue. Btw, that's the only issue I've had with this nitro release.

baeksu · Post by **baeksu** » Tue Nov 08, 2005 12:07 pm

chronophobic wrote:I've been using this kernel since it first came out until this afternoon. I changed it for 2.6.14-gentoo, since there was a weird kernel panick resulting from an amarok + external hdd combination while using nitro. If I used xmms instead of amarok, it was fine, but using amarok for a while caused a hardlock (as hard as they get...). After the 10th time or so, I decided to try to change the kernel rather than the player... Amarok's been playing for an hour and a half now and it seems fine... Keeping fingers crossed...
Sorry that this post isn't horribly informative, but I don't understand what happened either and I don't really want to continue reproducing the issue. Btw, that's the only issue I've had with this nitro release.

I have a similar setup (amarok+external hdd), and I've never had lockups (well, amarok locks up quite frequently...)

Alas, I had to move to a 'nother kernel version, as this one didn't allow lirc to work with my my 5-dollar cheapo remote that I found. Also, not having a new enough inotify for new versions of beagle and kat was kinda sad.

I've been using 2.6.14-archck3 since this morning, and it's almost as good as this nitro ever was.

2.6.12-nitro5 "Make my day"

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