2.6.1_rc2-love1 "String Cheese"

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steel300 · Post by **steel300** » Wed Jan 07, 2004 3:24 pm

After much toying with kerberos and Iowa State, I have managed to upload the latest patches. Get them here:

http://www.public.iastate.edu/~jpcox/li ... rc2-love1/

Radeon IGP should be working now. I found a new patch to test out. Everythin else cane be found in notes.txt.

With the proper naming scheme now, you're going to have to remove the rest of your ebuilds and start over. If you want to have the older ebuilds, download them from:

http://www.public.iastate.edu/~jpcox/li ... /2.6.1_rc1

Good Luck and Happy Compiling!

@Wedge_
It doesn't include your minor reiser4 patch, just the fixes to make it compile. See my last post on the previous thread.

Redeeman · Post by **Redeeman** » Wed Jan 07, 2004 3:31 pm

i see you have forgot the nvidia patch? or was that included in rc2? i never remember

Wedge_ · Post by **Wedge_** » Wed Jan 07, 2004 3:32 pm

The nvidia patch should now be back in the kernel proper, according to the -rc2 changelog. See http://bugme.osdl.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1521

steel300 wrote:@Wedge_
It doesn't include your minor reiser4 patch, just the fixes to make it compile. See my last post on the previous thread.

Yeah, I didn't know the compiler would take care of those. It seems to be working fine now, except for unmounting. I'm trying to figure out why at the moment.

Redeeman · Post by **Redeeman** » Wed Jan 07, 2004 3:34 pm

hmm i dont think its this one, but we'll see, if its not there my system becomes highly unstable

MrNugget · Post by **MrNugget** » Wed Jan 07, 2004 3:35 pm

Yes! That's what i've waited for! Now i can test the CFG schedueler, do i have to compile something in?

Wedge_ · Post by **Wedge_** » Wed Jan 07, 2004 3:44 pm

MrNugget wrote:Yes! That's what i've waited for! Now i can test the CFG schedueler, do i have to compile something in?

IIRC you don't need to compile anything in, the different schedulers should be available without anything extra needing to be selected.

If you add "elevator=cfq" to your boot options, it'll use cfq as the IO scheduler on all your drives. To change it while running, do

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echo <scheduler type> > /sys/block/hda/queue/io_scheduler

Wedge_ · Post by **Wedge_** » Wed Jan 07, 2004 3:46 pm

Redeeman wrote:hmm i dont think its this one, but we'll see, if its not there my system becomes highly unstable

Did you mean the APIC fix?

MrNugget · Post by **MrNugget** » Wed Jan 07, 2004 4:00 pm

Ok, i'm just compiling

But, what was that:

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choice[1-19]: 11
Generic x86 support (X86_GENERIC) [N/y/?] n
4 GB kernel-space and 4 GB user-space virtual memory support (X86_4G) [N/y/?] n
HPET Timer Support (HPET_TIMER) [N/y/?] n
Symmetric multi-processing support (SMP) [Y/n/?] y
  Maximum number of CPUs (2-255) (NR_CPUS) [8] 8
Preemptible Kernel (PREEMPT) [Y/n/?] y
Machine Check Exception (X86_MCE) [Y/n/?] y
  Check for non-fatal errors on AMD Athlon/Duron / Intel Pentium 4 (X86_MCE_NONFATAL) [Y/n/?] y
  check for P4 thermal throttling interrupt. (X86_MCE_P4THERMAL) [Y/n/?] y
Toshiba Laptop support (TOSHIBA) [N/m/y/?] n
Dell laptop support (I8K) [N/m/y/?] n
HP Omnibook Support (OMNIBOOK) [N/m/y] (NEW) n
/dev/cpu/microcode - Intel IA32 CPU microcode support (MICROCODE) [N/m/y/?] n
/dev/cpu/*/msr - Model-specific register support (X86_MSR) [N/m/y/?] n
/dev/cpu/*/cpuid - CPU information support (X86_CPUID) [N/m/y/?] n
BIOS Enhanced Disk Drive calls determine boot disk (EXPERIMENTAL) (EDD) [N/m/y/?] n
High Memory Support
> 1. off (NOHIGHMEM)
  2. 4GB (HIGHMEM4G)
  3. 64GB (HIGHMEM64G)
choice[1-3]: 1
Math emulation (MATH_EMULATION) [N/y/?] n
MTRR (Memory Type Range Register) support (MTRR) [Y/n/?] y
Boot from EFI support (EXPERIMENTAL) (EFI) [N/y/?] n
*
* Linux InfraRed Controller
*
Linux InfraRed Controller (LIRC_SUPPORT) [N/m/y] (NEW) n

I used my old .config file, and after that it just compiled right, and just had to answerd the last 2 questions.

I'm compiling with "make && make modules_install"

Wedge_ · Post by **Wedge_** » Wed Jan 07, 2004 4:07 pm

MrNugget wrote:I used my old .config file, and after that it just compiled right, and just had to answerd the last 2 questions.

I'm compiling with "make && make modules_install"

If it asked you to select any of the options there it probably just means that they weren't in your old config but appear this kernel version, so it forces you to make a choice, rather than guessing if you want them selected or not.

ewan.paton · Post by **ewan.paton** » Wed Jan 07, 2004 4:15 pm

what exactly is new/shiny/good about the CFG scheduler ive seen mention of it but no real explanation

Wedge_ · Post by **Wedge_** » Wed Jan 07, 2004 4:18 pm

There's some information on it in this article. If you Google around and/or search the forums you should find more.

ewan.paton · Post by **ewan.paton** » Wed Jan 07, 2004 4:20 pm

thanks i did google for CFG scheduler but was getting loads of totaly unrelated results, some even about windows 9x

MrNugget · Post by **MrNugget** » Wed Jan 07, 2004 4:23 pm

So, just rebootet, but no way without nvidia agp patch.
The same freezing error like with dev sources and no patch. Do you fix it or do i have to fix
it manually?

But thanks to you steel and wedge

Good work and great help

dizzogg · Post by **dizzogg** » Wed Jan 07, 2004 4:27 pm

It's the CFQ scheduler, not CFG.... Try searching for that, and you should get a lot of stuff. I can say that I noticed a difference when using the CFQ scheduler instead of the default 2.6.0 one. It's much better suited for desktop use.

neenee · Post by **neenee** » Wed Jan 07, 2004 4:34 pm

grabbing it now

*update* it works fine, as expected.

i am trying to test how the as scheduler
is now, as compared to cfq.

steel300 · Post by **steel300** » Wed Jan 07, 2004 4:35 pm

MrNugget wrote:So, just rebootet, but no way without nvidia agp patch.
The same freezing error like with dev sources and no patch. Do you fix it or do i have to fix
it manually?

But thanks to you steel and wedge Good work and great help

I'm putting the nvidia-agp patch back in right now. Just waiting for the diff to finish, then it'll be up and ready for you to redigest and emerge once more.

Wedge_ · Post by **Wedge_** » Wed Jan 07, 2004 4:36 pm

MrNugget wrote:So, just rebootet, but no way without nvidia agp patch.
The same freezing error like with dev sources and no patch. Do you fix it or do i have to fix
it manually?

It's definitely mentioned in the ChangeLog for -rc2:

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<davej@redhat.com>
	[AGPGART] Merge missing chunk of NVIDIA nForce agpgart driver.
	This bit has been in the 2.4 driver since it appeared, but I dropped
	it (partly deliberatly), and then forgot all about it.
	Turns out that some systems really need this stuff, as their BIOS hasn't
	set up the IORRs.
	
	http://bugme.osdl.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1521

but you're right, it doesn't seem to be there. If you want to apply the patch yourself, here it is.

Quick Reiser4 status report: reading and writing seem to work fine now. Mounting hasn't failed once as far as I can remember. Unmounting can still be hit and miss. It might work a dozen times without any trouble then it'll oops for no clear reason.

Redeeman · Post by **Redeeman** » Wed Jan 07, 2004 4:51 pm

looks like steel300 is uploading the new version with agp patch right now! the file size on the site isnt stable

gmichels · Post by **gmichels** » Wed Jan 07, 2004 4:56 pm

Does anyone know why do I get 100% artsd cpu usage with this kernel?

Btw this is my first love- kernel so I can't tell any past experiences. All I can tell is that I never had such a problem while using mm-sources and lately 2.6.0 final.

Redeeman · Post by **Redeeman** » Wed Jan 07, 2004 4:59 pm

i dont experience that, but probably your alsa system thats wrong.

is you artsd configured to alsa or oss? maybe if its hooking up the oss emulation its taking alot cpu

though it shouldnt

gmichels · Post by **gmichels** » Wed Jan 07, 2004 5:02 pm

It's running the same setup as before, autodetect.

No clue what could be happening...

EDIT: weird enough, changed from autodetect to ALSA and it seems to be ok now.

Pink · Post by **Pink** » Wed Jan 07, 2004 5:08 pm

Another perfect compile, I wonder if i'll have time to test this one before an update! Great job Steel

Drago: I had a similar problem and turned off aRts soud server in Kcontrol. I am using ALSA as well.

steel300 · Post by **steel300** » Wed Jan 07, 2004 5:09 pm

I'm trying to upload the patch with nvidia-agp included, however, the ftp client that I have to use keeps stalling. I apologize for the incosistent and incomplete files. Hopefully, It'll be up soon.

DarwinianCoeus · Post by **DarwinianCoeus** » Wed Jan 07, 2004 5:20 pm

if it makes you feel any better, im sitting sick in bed, watching comedy central, and waiting for you to upload it so i can spend some time compiling

steel300 · Post by **steel300** » Wed Jan 07, 2004 5:26 pm

DarwinianCoeus wrote:if it makes you feel any better, im sitting sick in bed, watching comedy central, and waiting for you to upload it so i can spend some time compiling

/me has big grin

I'm glad to help with the boredom. Comedy Central is funny, but it gets repetitive.

On a side note, I hate the computer people at Iowa State.

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