2.6.0-love1 (and 2.6.0-love2)

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neenee · Post by **neenee** » Wed Dec 24, 2003 8:18 pm

oh i see. a hum which you can even hear
without any sound playing? that hum seems
no longer there now.

floam · Post by **floam** » Wed Dec 24, 2003 8:51 pm

Steel: You forgot to change UTS_RELEASE in version.h. Still says love1.

ed0n · Post by **ed0n** » Wed Dec 24, 2003 9:56 pm

so we need a new love with the version on Makefile

and reiser4 in menuconfig. I saw that the files exist under fs/reiser4/ .

and I was asking too about Nick Piggin's patches?

gaio · Post by **gaio** » Wed Dec 24, 2003 11:21 pm

OK... didn't get an answer to my last post so i'll check again... what is the correct method of building this kernel using the gentoo tools... downloaded the .ebuild file to usr/local/portage and edited my make.conf to point to that dir... tried to run

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ebuild love-sources-2.6.0-r2.ebuild digest

which is saw someone said to run but that did nothing... sure i could download the 2.6.0-love2.patch.bz2 file manually and patch the gentoo-2.6 sources manually but i'd like to know how to do it the gentoo way... so pls... could someone tell me what to do up to make menuconfig or so...

Want that bootsplash...

at_chaos · Post by **at_chaos** » Wed Dec 24, 2003 11:37 pm

gaio wrote:downloaded the .ebuild file to usr/local/portage and edited my make.conf to point to that dir...

you should have a directory index as in original portage.. you said your dir is /usr/local/portage. You have to put the ebuild in

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/usr/local/portage/sys-kernel/love-sources

then the digest thing

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ebuild <love-sources.ebuild> digest

after that you can do a

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emerge love-sources

correct me if I'm wrong

hephooey · Post by **hephooey** » Thu Dec 25, 2003 12:43 am

I have a strange problem when I try to modprobe ppp_generic, It always failed with a message about module already in kernel, and I've found that in order to insmod ppp_generic, it need to insmod slhc first, but after slhc was loaded, kernel seem to think that is the ppp_generic module, then ppp_generic cannot be insmoded, if I compile ppp_generic into the kernel, then there is no problem. It happens to both vanilla-2.6.0 and love-sources. does anyone have the same problem? I use module-init-tools-0.9.14, gcc-3.3.2-r2. any suggestion will be appreciated

TPC · Post by **TPC** » Thu Dec 25, 2003 12:47 am

What about the notes files? you stopped doing those?

glennj · Post by **glennj** » Thu Dec 25, 2003 12:59 am

teilo wrote:Ok. I am up and running on 2.6.0-love2. Good work, Steel300.

However, my DRI is really wacked. It's a Radeon Mobility 7500.

Anything with GL basically works, except that nothing gets erased from the screen. As objects are redrawn, the old version of the objects remains visible, thus causing a "trail" effect. This would seem to have something to do with buffering, I'm guessing. All the XScreensaver GL's screens are effected.

The glxgears program shows the same effect.

My previous kernel (2.6.0-Test11-love2) was fine, so it has to be something new here.

Anyone else noticing this?

I am. I have a Radeon 9100. I see the same problem with 2.6.0-mm1 as well so it seems to be something in the -mm tree. I did not have the problem with 2.6.0-test10-mm and I skipped over 2.6.0-test11-mm so I am not sure exactly when this problem crept in. I wonder if it is just with Radeon cards.

tatesworld · Post by **tatesworld** » Thu Dec 25, 2003 8:13 am

Is it just me, but I left my computer on overnight twice with this kernel
and in the morning both times it locked up, was rinning xscreensaver

Also on first boot it hangs sometimes Initialising Init 3, I thought it was to do with some cdrom stuff I had in my fstab, but it still does it.

I did an xfs_repair but that was ok, nothing in lost+found, I use xfs for /

I see the 'volatile' love sources patches got a mention on latest weekly gentoo newsletter. should it be in portage discussion.

gaio · Post by **gaio** » Thu Dec 25, 2003 10:02 am

at_chaos wrote:
gaio wrote:downloaded the .ebuild file to usr/local/portage and edited my make.conf to point to that dir...
you should have a directory index as in original portage.. you said your dir is /usr/local/portage. You have to put the ebuild in
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/usr/local/portage/sys-kernel/love-sources
then the digest thing
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ebuild <love-sources.ebuild> digest
after that you can do a
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emerge love-sources
correct me if I'm wrong

Cool... Worked like a charm this time around... thanks for the help... unfortunately i wont have the time to work/install the new kernel now... jumping on a train in an hour visiting my fiancees family in southern sweden... which mean no computer and no gentoo for the next 5 days...

THE INHUMANITY OF IT ALL

One more thing...

Someone wrote that we should use elevator=cfq as kernel config. What exactly does this do? And is there any readme explaining what patches have been applied to the kernel and what they do? The bootsplash i understand, but would like to know what the mm optimizations do exactly..

Thanks again for the help...

ares · Post by **ares** » Thu Dec 25, 2003 11:04 am

Hi.....my compile reiser4-> error

In file included from fs/reiser4/debug.c:8:
fs/reiser4/context.h: In function `get_context':
fs/reiser4/context.h:175: error: structure has no member named `fs_context'
make[2]: *** [fs/reiser4/debug.o] Error 1
make[1]: *** [fs/reiser4] Error 2
make: *** [fs] Error 2

asimon · Post by **asimon** » Thu Dec 25, 2003 11:25 am

gaio wrote: Someone wrote that we should use elevator=cfq as kernel config. What exactly does this do?

There exists different strategies how the kernel could schedule the Input/Output. No single strategy is better than all others in every situation, therefore there exists different such strategies. With elevator= you can select a specific io-scheduler for the kernel to use.

CFG stands for Complete Fair Queuing is one such strategy. There is also the deadline and the sfq (Stochastic Fair Queuing) IO-schedulers.

CFG is optimized for the worst-case, i.e. in average or best-case it's not as good as the others but it's worst-case is better. From Andrew Morton: CFQ is made for multimedia desktop usage only, you want to be sure mplayer or xmms will never skip frames, not for parallel cp reading floods of data at max speed like a database with zillon of threads.

Thus cfq is good for your desktop but not for your database server.

I think a Google search will bring more details (especailly kerneltrap articles) if you are interestet.

And is there any readme explaining what patches have been applied to the kernel and what they do? The bootsplash i understand, but would like to know what the mm optimizations do exactly..

Andrew Morton's announce text lists all patches which are in mm1. There is no description of every single patch, but it's a start, and the names of the patches are often a good indication. To get to know what each single patch does exactly, it is recommended to follow the linux kernel mailing list (some patches are discussed there) and to read of course the source.

BTW, isn't CFQ the default with love-sources?

EDIT: To answer my question: nope default is of course Nick Piggin's anticipatory io scheduler, not cfq! IIRC love-sources started as a testbed for reiserfs4 and Nick Piggin's as-scheduler.

PrakashP · Post by **PrakashP** » Thu Dec 25, 2003 11:43 am

Just booted up 2.6.0-love2. So far so good.

Nice work, steel300!

PrakashP · Post by **PrakashP** » Thu Dec 25, 2003 12:23 pm

I mailed steel300 a htpc patch, which gives support for dxr3/hp+ card and lirc.

chrisyu · Post by **chrisyu** » Thu Dec 25, 2003 3:44 pm

PrakashKC wrote:I mailed steel300 a htpc patch, which gives support for dxr3/hp+ card and lirc.

Cool. I'd like to make my gentoo box with love-sources as my htpc server!!

PrakashP · Post by **PrakashP** » Thu Dec 25, 2003 3:53 pm

@asimon

Nope, you have to differentate between's Nicks as io scheduler and his CPU scheduler.The latter one was "core" of love sources (not yet inside this release) replacing Con's scheduler, but his as scheduler became default of mainline 2.6.

BTW, the htpc patch is rather for a client, not a server...

asimon · Post by **asimon** » Thu Dec 25, 2003 4:19 pm

PrakashKC wrote:@asimon

Nope, you have to differentate between's Nicks as io scheduler and his CPU scheduler.The latter one was "core" of love sources (not yet inside this release) replacing Con's scheduler, but his as scheduler became default of mainline 2.6.

Ahh ... thanks for making this clear, I did think of those as one and the same. Guess, I have to do some more reading on these things...

slarti` · Post by **slarti`** » Thu Dec 25, 2003 4:32 pm

Can't wait for supermount-ng to be implemented.. incredibly useful if you have a USB mass storage device of some kind, particularly jukeboxes.

MrNugget · Post by **MrNugget** » Thu Dec 25, 2003 10:56 pm

Yeah! I've got it working and it just rocks! The only thing is PWC ( Webcam ) and if i do "uname -a" it shows me love1, but i've patched with love2

chrisyu · Post by **chrisyu** » Thu Dec 25, 2003 10:59 pm

PrakashKC wrote:
BTW, the htpc patch is rather for a client, not a server...

Yes, you are right. Hope this patch could be added. Thank you anyway~~

Regor · Post by **Regor** » Fri Dec 26, 2003 12:08 am

MrNugget wrote:if i do "uname -a" it shows me love1, but i've patched with love2

Yeah, Steel300 forgot to update EXTRAVERSION (again

).

Edit the toplevel Makefile and 4th line down you'll see it. Change to love2, recompile, and boot to new kernel and it'll be updated.

infirit · Post by **infirit** » Fri Dec 26, 2003 12:28 am

When i try to setup my drive for packted writing it segfaults

, below is the error message. The rest of the kernel is awesome, good work

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Unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at virtual address 00000024
 printing eip:
c0162e3b
*pde = 00000000
Oops: 0000 [#1]
PREEMPT
CPU:    0
EIP:    0060:[<c0162e3b>]    Tainted: PF  VLI
EFLAGS: 00210246
EIP is at set_blocksize+0x3b/0x90
eax: 00000000   ebx: 00000800   ecx: 00000200   edx: de794244
esi: de794200   edi: de794040   ebp: d6a83eb4   esp: d6a83ea8
ds: 007b   es: 007b   ss: 0068
Process pktsetup (pid: 6249, threadinfo=d6a82000 task=dd32e040)
Stack: d6a83ebc de794200 dfa31cc0 d6a83ed0 e1983a0b de794200 00000800 00000000
       dfa31cc0 de794040 d6a83f0c c0163a96 de794040 d7600bc0 c0163370 c0163390
       d6a83efc d6a82000 de79404c d6a83f0c e1988080 00000000 d7600bc0 d7600bc0
Call Trace:
 [<e1983a0b>] pkt_open+0xeb/0x120 [pktcdvd]
 [<c0163a96>] do_open+0x156/0x460
 [<c0163370>] bdev_test+0x0/0x20
 [<c0163390>] bdev_set+0x0/0x20
 [<c0163e42>] blkdev_open+0x32/0x80
 [<c015a73a>] dentry_open+0x15a/0x230
 [<c015a5d6>] filp_open+0x66/0x70
 [<c015aa83>] sys_open+0x53/0x90
 [<c02f64c3>] syscall_call+0x7/0xb
 
Code: 75 08 8d 83 00 fe ff ff 3d 00 0e 00 00 77 07 8d 43 ff 85 d8 74 0d b8 ea ff ff ff 8b 5d f8 8b 75 fc c9 c3 8b 46 40 b9 00 02 00 00 <8b> 40 24 85 c0 74 10 0f b7 80 8e 01 00 00 0f b7 d0 66 85 c0 0f

GentooBox · Post by **GentooBox** » Fri Dec 26, 2003 12:48 am

I'm going to test 2.6.0-love2. - never tryed any of the patches in love-sources.

should i disable the other schedulers before the kernel uses the CFG scheduler ?

chrisyu · Post by **chrisyu** » Fri Dec 26, 2003 3:51 pm

My sound card has some problem with Love2' alsa.
How could just reverse alsa from love2 to love1?

Thanks!

petrjanda · Post by **petrjanda** » Fri Dec 26, 2003 4:05 pm

Anyone knows how to make the volume controls not resetting on every reboot? I have the love2 source and i compiled also drivers into the kernel.

2.6.0-love1 (and 2.6.0-love2)

packet writing broken