Old posts from the morph-sources thread

TheNull · n00b Joined: 10 Aug 2004 Posts: 37

Hi,
is the lowmem patch applied in morph?

I just installed 2.6.10-rc1-morph5 and torsmo is still showing my maximum memory as 884M.

Or is there something special I have to do to activate the patch?

yardbird · l33t Joined: 20 Apr 2002 Posts: 689 Location: nl.leiden

TheNull · n00b Joined: 10 Aug 2004 Posts: 37

Thanks very much =)
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seringen · Posted: Thu Dec 30, 2004 2:20 am Post subject:

rommel · Posted: Thu Dec 30, 2004 2:22 am Post subject:

well thanks for the kernel... it seems to be working very well for me... i just added mouse polling , that was all that wasnt in it that i wanted.

bollucks · l33t Joined: 27 Oct 2004 Posts: 606

Robin79 · Posted: Thu Dec 30, 2004 6:58 am Post subject:

But nitro uses alsa 1.0.7? and i cant find the azx driver there either... Also that driver sucks for azx so i have compiled the latest development 8.rc1 and on that one i can use mixers couldnt that with 1.0.7 o when i get home i will hope i have sound so i can skip wintendo xp...
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silverter · Guru Joined: 10 Apr 2002 Posts: 491 Location: Ulm, DE

Great kernel patch so far. My applications start faster than with my last kernel (mm-sources). But I've got a couple of issues with this patchset:

When emerge ist running or something is compiling in the background, my system is almost unusable. I can't use the command line because the responsiveness ist so slow, and mplayer or rhythmbox stutters like hell. I'm using the same .config as with my last kernel (mm-sources) and with mm-sources I didn't have these issues. I might habe missed something in my config. Can someone provide me with some help on this.

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bollucks · l33t Joined: 27 Oct 2004 Posts: 606

RogerWilco · n00b Joined: 30 Dec 2004 Posts: 29

This is to confirm, that the morph5 patch works fine on a slackware-current box. Win4Lin is running nicely (worth noting, that the patch from netraverse did not apply cleanly, but no problem with morph5)

I seem to miss two patches that I applied manually - lufs (needed if you want captive-ntfs working) and cdfs. Any chance of including those in the next release?

http://lufs.sourceforge.net/lufs/

http://www.elis.UGent.be/~ronsse/cdfs/

blaster999 · Posted: Thu Dec 30, 2004 12:37 pm Post subject:

And what about the message saying "Warning: the latest version of cdfs will crash if you read audio CDs with kernels>2.6.3" on the cdfs website?
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JBerro · Posted: Thu Dec 30, 2004 1:06 pm Post subject:

Well, well now the kernel is compiling without trouble on my 32 bits gentoo.
So just give me a couple of minutes to try another compilation of the kernel on my 64 bit gentoo.
So I reboot and I will be back with the result.

See you.

RogerWilco · n00b Joined: 30 Dec 2004 Posts: 29

JBerro

So to be short:
Compile ok with x86 platform.
Compile ok with x86_64 platform if monoprocessor
Compile ko if x86_64 platform and SMP.

I trapped the errror messages as follow.

[i]
kernel/intermodule.c:179: warning: `inter_module_register' is deprecated (declared at kernel/intermodule.c:38)
kernel/intermodule.c:180: warning: `inter_module_unregister' is deprecated (declared at kernel/intermodule.c:79)
kernel/intermodule.c:183: warning: `inter_module_put' is deprecated (declared at kernel/intermodule.c:160)
fs/reiser4/debug.c: In function `print_clog':
fs/reiser4/debug.c:701: warning: cast from pointer to integer of different size
fs/reiser4/debug.c:701: warning: cast from pointer to integer of different size
drivers/char/agp/backend.c: In function `agp_add_bridge':
drivers/char/agp/backend.c:281: warning: `inter_module_register' is deprecated (declared at include/linux/module.h:577)
drivers/char/agp/backend.c: In function `agp_remove_bridge':
drivers/char/agp/backend.c:301: warning: `inter_module_unregister' is deprecated (declared at include/linux/module.h:578)
In file included from drivers/net/wireless/orinoco.c:448:
drivers/scsi/aacraid/commctrl.c: In function `aac_send_raw_srb':
drivers/scsi/aacraid/commctrl.c:562: warning: cast to pointer from integer of different size
drivers/scsi/aacraid/commsup.c: In function `aac_handle_aif':
drivers/scsi/aacraid/commsup.c:783: warning: unused variable `hw_fib'
drivers/scsi/aic7xxx/aic79xx_osm.c: In function `ahd_linux_register_host':
drivers/scsi/aic7xxx/aic79xx_osm.c:2106: warning: ignoring return value of `scsi_add_host', declared with attribute warn_unused_result
drivers/scsi/aic7xxx/aic7xxx_osm.c: In function `ahc_linux_register_host':
drivers/scsi/aic7xxx/aic7xxx_osm.c:1744: warning: ignoring return value of `scsi_add_host', declared with attribute warn_unused_result

sound/core/memory.c: In function `copy_to_user_fromio':
sound/core/memory.c:270: warning: passing arg 2 of `memcpy_fromio' discards qualifiers from pointer target type
net/ipv4/netfilter/ipchains_core.c:1:2: warning: #warning ipchains is obsolete, and will be removed soon.
net/ipv4/netfilter/ipfwadm_core.c:1:2: warning: #warning ipfwadm is obsolete, and will be removed soon.
kernel/built-in.o(.text+0x22186): In function `smp_suspend':
: undefined reference to `__smp_suspend_lowlevel'
make: *** [.tmp_vmlinux1] Error 1
[/i]

Hope this will help, it's really tiny but this the only info i got.

So most likely something wrong with SMP code for x86_64.
Anyway the patchset is really fast and working fine on x86.
Hopefully this issue will bwe solved in the next release.
Again many thanks for the work done.

Cheers

COiN3D · Posted: Thu Dec 30, 2004 3:27 pm Post subject:

What about adding chmp-patch for changing a usb mouse' polling rate ?
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blaster999 · Posted: Thu Dec 30, 2004 5:40 pm Post subject:

If I am not mistaken you can set PORTAGE_NICENESS in make.conf to something like +5 or even +10 to make portage and tools called by portage (gcc, make and so on) use less cpu when there are other tasks running.
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bollucks · l33t Joined: 27 Oct 2004 Posts: 606

yardbird · l33t Joined: 20 Apr 2002 Posts: 689 Location: nl.leiden

For those interested 2.6.10-morph6 is out. There are some news:

- added mouse polling patch,
- added many patches frome gentoo dev-sources (thanks to dsd for the great job in collecting these patches!),
- updates from Con Kolivas: new version of his scheduler and a small security fix.

NOTE: it seems like the way to change mouse polling rate is now to specify a parameter when loading the usbhid kernel module. This means that you will not find an option in the kernel config to set polling rate (like it was before). Follow the link for more info on that.

Regarding the patches from dev-sources I included only those of them that are bugfixes. I left out the massive sparc updates, for example.

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JBerro · Posted: Fri Dec 31, 2004 2:34 am Post subject:

Hi yardbird,

The patchset is working fine with performances and features improvement on the x86 architecture.
This my main system I use for my daily home activity.
So as I said it is already very nice to have it running on my main system.
I just tried the morph6 on x86_64: same result.
Feel free to tell me to do some testing if you want, no problem.
Provided of course I undertstand what to do.
I am living in Singapore and I spend a couple of hours every night on my system.
So you can expect a daily feedback plus some additonal time zone delay ( Singapore is 7 hours ahead of Europe right Now.

See you then.

feld · Guru Joined: 29 Aug 2004 Posts: 593 Location: USA

OK new morph sources are pretty good except you need to do as they are doing in the new gentoo-dev-sources (r2) that should be released any moment. remove the following patch:

Removed: 1900_umem_catch.patch

because it causes tons of probs. For GL games and it also doesnt allow TeamSpeak to run for me, and for others it crashes after a min or two. Its just messed up....

Thought u should know.

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