2.6.6-love1 aka "Welcome to the real world"

Gentree · Posted: Thu May 13, 2004 1:24 am Post subject:

PS Good news (esp for me) it works !!

I now have nvidia xorg love-kernel.

I really have to get some sleep here but here's my <a href="http://www.piments.com/.config">.config</a> if you want to compare notes.

I used the ~x86 nvidia-kernel and glx versions.

More specifics tommorrow.

Let us know how you get on and post more hardware and system details if you dont get anywhere and I'll tell you more detail of what I did to get it working.

Good luck, good night.

PS if you like chillis , have a look at the site.

sawanv · Apprentice Joined: 05 Dec 2002 Posts: 238

Hey guys.....do you reccommend using the x.org server with love-sources? Havent really had time to try out that stuff yet, but if you say its worth while then will make an effort.....is there a slight/significant performance increase?

Sawan
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Pink · Veteran Joined: 24 Jul 2003 Posts: 1062

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@ OneofOne or Steel:

There are some updated patches for win4lin if you are interested.

here

They include a newer mki-adapter (1_3_5) and a 2.6.6 kernel patch.

HTH

gungholady · Guru Joined: 19 Oct 2003 Posts: 392

Do these Win4Lin patches work with these love-sources? I've never been able to use love-sources because the Win4Lin patches would fail.

Pink · Veteran Joined: 24 Jul 2003 Posts: 1062

Love has win4lin in it - it works fine here (they have been using the 2.6.5 win4lin patches and so they might want the updated ones for the next love release).

Love has had them for a couple of releases now, have you tried this latest version? Apart from that, if you want to do it by hand, there were a few rejects that needed sorting out by hand but now all that hassle has been taken away by OneofOne and Steel.

Let us know some more details if its not working properly in this release as it should do and does here

Gentree · Posted: Thu May 13, 2004 8:47 am Post subject:

Gentree · Posted: Thu May 13, 2004 8:59 am Post subject: Where my DMA gone ??

First of all thanks for a great release.

I dont know what changed but I now have working GeForce Ti4200 glx etc with 3800 fps on glxears. Brilliant.

Slight downside tho' , I no longer have DMA on my VIA chip set and no loing see the option for this chip set.: VIA8322

[EDIT] Found it. PCI IDE was off and I could not see the options. Seems certain things are now turned off as default due to some dodgy h/w issues. They just need reactivating. The thing that threw me was the heading PCI IDE , this is nothing to do with PCI cards for IDE which also exists, it is IDE on PCI based systems .

Devs: Renaming this more clearly may be helpful eg PCI motherboard IDE.

I was going to bin this post but some others may get caught out as well so I'll leave the answer in.
[EDIT]

this was all working fine on all love* upto now.

Has this chipset option been accidentally cut from menuconfig? Or am I just not seeing it .

Thanks to anyone that can point me in the right direction, otherwise this might need fixing.

boroshan · l33t Joined: 16 Apr 2003 Posts: 730 Location: upside down

@gentree

Thanks for posting the config - the major diff seemed to be that you had kernel AGP configured. So I set mine, changed NvAGP from 1 to 3 and... voila!

It's been working patchily over the last few love releases and I wasn't sure why it kept breaking. Hopefully this will sort it out.

MSI KT4V mobo and GeForce 4 MX440 BTW, not so far from your setup
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Gentree · Posted: Thu May 13, 2004 9:59 am Post subject:

Glad to hear youre working, at least provisionally.

It will be interesting to see what you get from the GF4MX, I have read some fairly harsh reviews that say it was a bit of a con calling it s GF4 and its spec and core is really a GF3.

In anycase these a pretty powerful cards and I get the feeling that like me youre not a avid gamer.

For comparison I get 3800 fps off my card and last night I took to the air for the first time with fightgear. The gx are not mind blowing but it was good and smooth (and I didnot crash- too hard.)

Glad I could help.

asimon · Posted: Thu May 13, 2004 10:56 am Post subject:

PrakashP · Posted: Thu May 13, 2004 11:04 am Post subject:

But won't then all processes started by X have also that priority?

asimon · Posted: Thu May 13, 2004 11:17 am Post subject:

Gentree · Posted: Thu May 13, 2004 11:37 am Post subject:

how did you generate the process heirachy? Looks useful.

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asimon · Posted: Thu May 13, 2004 11:59 am Post subject:

MadEgg · l33t Joined: 06 Jun 2002 Posts: 678 Location: Netherlands

Or try 'pstree' for something that strongly resembles what he typed.
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Gentree · Posted: Thu May 13, 2004 1:13 pm Post subject:

Not sure how the fsck I should pronounce that one but it did the trick.

Thanks, nice one.

boroshan · l33t Joined: 16 Apr 2003 Posts: 730 Location: upside down

Now here's a pretty thing:

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Nate_S · Guru Joined: 18 Mar 2004 Posts: 414

I think that's the first error message I've ever seen with a turtle. That's awesome.

boroshan · l33t Joined: 16 Apr 2003 Posts: 730 Location: upside down

Regarding the GF4MX, it is indeed somewhat lacking. It makes 650 FPS under glx gears and the latest love, and though I've had it as high as 1200, never much over that. Certainly nowhere near 5000. I've sometimes wondered what I was doing wrong. Oh well, it was part a barebones bundle, and I'm still happy with the overall system.

And just so not to be totally off topic, the turtle is on a couple of bootsplash related threads on the forum. It seems to be nvidia related though, and this defnitely only occurs when I try and insert the nvidia module.

I couldn't find it on google though.
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sawanv · Apprentice Joined: 05 Dec 2002 Posts: 238

Gentree · Posted: Thu May 13, 2004 5:30 pm Post subject:

Nice turtle! Never seem that one before. Probably should be a penguin shitting itself really . Maybe he could not do penguins.

I did have dumps a bit like that on modprobe nvidia at one stage.

IF I recall correctly it was because I had not recompiled nvidia after each kernel rebuild. Apparently this module (which is inappropriately named nvidia-kernel) is static-linked to the kernel binary. So pretty much any change to the kernel will require at least relinking nvidia module.
(and I assume -glx)

In short do yourself an alias like:

boroshan · l33t Joined: 16 Apr 2003 Posts: 730 Location: upside down

All jolly sensible ideas. I have the recompile convered, kernel and glx, unstable versions of each. And I checked that 4K was off

Didn't realise the register arguments option was a potential cause of trouble - I don't remember setting it, but it seems nevertheless to be set in the config files for both systems, including the one that works. I suppose it may go some way to explaining why things have seemed so unstable.

I'm trying a build now based upon my desktop config with only necessary changes. I'll report back.
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