2.5.68

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AlterEgo · Post by **AlterEgo** » Sun Apr 20, 2003 8:20 am

2.5.68
Patch
Changelog
Source tarball
Or just emerge development-sources.
Nice opportunity to start a new thread

TheCoop · Post by **TheCoop** » Sun Apr 20, 2003 8:38 am

fine then

problems with it:
1. i2c doesnt work. complains about not having /proc/i2c, looked everywhere but I still cant find the module setting in the dir or the kernel config
2. snd-pcm-oss doesnt load automatically on startup. Ive done a quick hack of the line in init.d/alsasound but its messy and me-specific

any solutions?

floam · Post by **floam** » Sun Apr 20, 2003 9:15 am

heres a fix to lots of stuff not working in 2.5.67-mm4, 2.5.68, and 2.5.68-mm1, its mostly terminals and the likes not really working: compile the psuedo terminal stuff (pts) (im sure thats not what the s stands for, but its 3:15 am and i forget.) into kernel and add this line to your fstab,

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devpts				/dev/pts		devpts	defaults		0 0

then mount devpts

TheCoop · Post by **TheCoop** » Sun Apr 20, 2003 9:19 am

aaaaah, thats what the problem is

someone add this to the ebuild...

floam · Post by **floam** » Sun Apr 20, 2003 9:28 am

someone add this to the ebuild...

I dont think it'd be good to have ebuilds just sort of blindly adding stuff to peoples fstab's, maybe a message after emerge telling people to do so would be better

TheCoop · Post by **TheCoop** » Sun Apr 20, 2003 10:03 am

thats what i meant

floam · Post by **floam** » Sun Apr 20, 2003 10:10 am

if someone wants to submit this to gentoo's bugzilla go ahead, im way too lazy tonight to do it. if noone has by sometime tommarow i guess ill step up and do it

sepp · Post by **sepp** » Sun Apr 20, 2003 10:11 am

floam wrote:compile the psuedo terminal stuff (pts) (im sure thats not what the s stands for, but its 3:15 am and i forget.) into kernel and add this line to your fstab,
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devpts				/dev/pts		devpts	defaults		0 0
then mount devpts

I don't think you need this. just enable devfs support and devfs automount on boot support. the help for devpts itself says that devfs is the more general thing. correct me if I'm wrong

floam · Post by **floam** » Sun Apr 20, 2003 10:15 am

You are wrong. From linus's post about 2.5.68:

Linus Torvalds wrote:Oh, and the devfs stuff by Christoph means that devfs users should beware:
in particular, devfs users now need to mount the pts filesystem like everybody
else does, that duplication got killed.

sepp · Post by **sepp** » Sun Apr 20, 2003 10:43 am

floam wrote:You are wrong. From linus's post about 2.5.68:
Linus Torvalds wrote:Oh, and the devfs stuff by Christoph means that devfs users should beware:
in particular, devfs users now need to mount the pts filesystem like everybody
else does, that duplication got killed.

yeah, /me just found it now too. strange tough. will a "mount -t devpts" in /etc/conf.d/local.start do the trick?

TheCoop · Post by **TheCoop** » Sun Apr 20, 2003 11:01 am

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mount -t devpts devpts /dev/pts

should work

Lowspirit · Post by **Lowspirit** » Sun Apr 20, 2003 11:11 am

Have anyone that experienced the degradation from the "interactivity" patch that got in 2.5.65 tried .68? I could only spot one possible changelog entry that could be related to perhaps fixing it.

2.5.64 and 2.5.65+ multitasking performance is like day and night for me, apparently not everyone is experiencing it but some are. Con removed the interactivity patch that he backported into his ck kernel because alot complained about heavily decreased performance.

It did work OK on my work computer, but the notion of having to wait a couple of seconds for stuff to get responsive (getting proper interactivity boost) doesn't really fit my description of being responsive.

I'm stuck on .64 until it get fixed

sepp · Post by **sepp** » Sun Apr 20, 2003 11:19 am

TheCoop wrote:
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mount -t devpts devpts /dev/pts
should work

works like a charm. something else. any of you guy got /etc/init.d/alsasound to work with 2.5.x kernel? I'm just annoyed of unmuting the mixer on every single startup

TheCoop · Post by **TheCoop** » Sun Apr 20, 2003 11:32 am

no problems with alsasound for me...

sepp · Post by **sepp** » Sun Apr 20, 2003 11:41 am

TheCoop wrote:no problems with alsasound for me...

it doesn't load the drivers for me

CoronaLover · Post by **CoronaLover** » Sun Apr 20, 2003 12:40 pm

Lowspirit wrote:Have anyone that experienced the degradation from the "interactivity" patch that got in 2.5.65 tried .68? I could only spot one possible changelog entry that could be related to perhaps fixing it.

2.5.64 and 2.5.65+ multitasking performance is like day and night for me, apparently not everyone is experiencing it but some are. Con removed the interactivity patch that he backported into his ck kernel because alot complained about heavily decreased performance.

It did work OK on my work computer, but the notion of having to wait a couple of seconds for stuff to get responsive (getting proper interactivity boost) doesn't really fit my description of being responsive.

I'm stuck on .64 until it get fixed

the interactivity patch is gone since 2.5.67 IIRC.

nepenthe · Post by **nepenthe** » Sun Apr 20, 2003 2:19 pm

When I try to open a terminal I get
"Can't open pseudo-tty -- no such file or directory"And it only happened after I upgraded the kernel so I'm assuming this is the reason, I hope. Any ideas?

I added

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devpts            /dev/pts      devpts   defaults      0 0

To fstab but no change in error

nepenthe · Post by **nepenthe** » Sun Apr 20, 2003 2:46 pm

okay scratch that did work, just had to reemerge eterm afterwards, and it worked.
Thanx

floam · Post by **floam** » Sun Apr 20, 2003 3:31 pm

the interactivity stuff/anticipatory scheduler is in mm-sources I believe.

darktux · Post by **darktux** » Sun Apr 20, 2003 6:40 pm

Hi!

I am using 2.5.68-mm1, anyone has tried it using framebuffer?

Mine doesn't work if I append vga= to grub, the screen just stays black, but it boots fine (without FB), if I remove that bit from grub.conf.

Anyone experiencing the same problem?

silverter · Post by **silverter** » Sun Apr 20, 2003 6:49 pm

Hello darktux,

I've got Framebuffer running. What does your .config file look like?
But I must say, I just got the vesafb running. I have an ATi video card and I've nerver succeded to get accelerated FB support on it, but the vesafb works perfect.

regards,

TheCoop · Post by **TheCoop** » Sun Apr 20, 2003 7:04 pm

have you got the right number after vga=?

For me its vga=0x317 for a 1024x768 16bit console

silverter · Post by **silverter** » Sun Apr 20, 2003 7:07 pm

I use vga=788 for 800x600x16 in vesafb...

[/elBASTRON] · Post by **[/elBASTRON]** » Sun Apr 20, 2003 8:14 pm

I've got a little problem that I don't know how it is caused, however, it has not appeared to me before 2.5.68. Where do the new kernels make their modules? I do make bzImage && make modules, but in /lib/modules their is not created any 2.5.68-mm1 directory or such. Any ideas?

cipher · Post by **cipher** » Sun Apr 20, 2003 8:16 pm

those using a yamaha pci sound card might find that they get better performance compiling the driver as a module rather than into the kernel.

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