2.6.10-nitro4: The Kernel Formerly Known As Hercules

BlinkEye · Posted: Wed Feb 09, 2005 10:06 pm Post subject:

have you yet tried different version of ipw2200?
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J0Ba · n00b Joined: 15 Jan 2005 Posts: 17

SWSUSP2 causes create_workqueue to take 2 arguments, the second having something to do with suspend (I think it's a sync property if my memory serves me right). The code basically depends on SWSUSP2 being configured in the kernel, and a simple #ifdef CONFIG_SWSUSP2 (or something like that) toggles the call to create_workqueue between one argument and two. Using an earlier version of the driver would have no effect, unless you use a really early version which would cause it to not work at all with SWSUSP2

Someone could quite easily make a patch to make this driver work with nitro (I made one earlier but tossed it), but the best alternative in my mind is still to use SWSUSP2 due to its usefulness on a laptop. If you really dont' want to use it, you can always to the ctrl+z-edit ipw2200.c-`fg` trick during emerge. You just need to go about 3/4 through the code and look (or search) for create_workqueue being surrounded by the aforementioned ifdef. Just comment out the ifdef stucture leaving the two-argument create_workqueue in there.
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Gentree · Posted: Tue Feb 15, 2005 9:18 pm Post subject:

I am struggling to get dmix to work.

I see from the first post that this kernel has alsa-1.0.7 , I have the following installed

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Gentree · Posted: Fri Feb 25, 2005 6:03 am Post subject:

So KDE without the kruft is less of a slug, although looking at your list of exclusions I wonder what it still does have

I use xfce4 and it comes up in about 1.5s , no cruft , out of the box.

I am back to running nitro4 with portage on R4 and its so fast I cant even catch a glimps of what te compiler output is.

This is a vintage kernel.

Thanks Darckness/Seppe/

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Gentree · Posted: Fri Feb 25, 2005 9:56 am Post subject:

Maybe I'm just lucky enough not to have worked on solaris, but I like a no-frills approach :wink:

I might give KDE another look if it can be lightened up that much. I always found it was such a dinosaur, and my aversion was that it reminded too much of another OS that has wound me up beyond measure in the past :evil:

Everyone has thier own phobias I suppose

PS I've just had a closer look at your spec. Well, your disk IO is about 2.5 to 3 times faster than mine so that must make an enormous boost (but my Baracuda is all but inaudible).

This DONT COMPILE thing is interesting , I almost got temped but I couldnt bring my self to weigh down a nice new clean gentoo with even a KDE-lite. I have 1G5 on / and 2G7 for portage.

It still needs some finishing but its mostly there.

Without turning this into a ricer's thread , how many bogmips to you get in /proc/cpuinfo ?
I've never had a Pentium it would just be interesting to see a ballpark figure you get from those bus speeds. My althon gives : 4456.44 on FSB=180.@2.2GHz

Now to see if I can achieve a low-latancy with this nitro so that I can do more serious sound work that listening to mp3s all day.

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Gentree · Posted: Sat Feb 26, 2005 10:14 am Post subject:

Thanks , that's interesting, nearly 80 % faster than mine on the face of it but cliocked at twice the speed and 4x more cache.

At the end of the day it seems your 6.2s startup time is more due to your impressive hardware setup than tuning KDE, although that must help a bit as well.

Thanks for your posts, its useful to compare. Always good to raise the head from time to time .

Regards.

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Phlogiston · Posted: Sun Feb 27, 2005 10:06 pm Post subject:

BTW:
this kernel seems to be quite stable:

rush_ad · Posted: Wed Mar 02, 2005 5:50 am Post subject:

what does it mean to disable 4K stacks? how do i do that and enable 4K stacks? can i run reiser and reiser4 on two differnt partitions? how do i creat reiser4 partition, what would be my fstab entry?

Gentree · Posted: Wed Mar 02, 2005 11:39 am Post subject:

4k stacks is a kernel hacking option

reiserfs and reiser4 are compleltely independant and different fileing systems , mix them as you would ext3 and any other.

mkfs.reiser4

example :

/dev/sda1 /usr/portage reiser4 noauto,noatime 0 0

You will have big problems if you mix 4k stacks and R4 as it says in big letters in the first post of this thread!

HTH
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rush_ad · Posted: Wed Mar 02, 2005 3:50 pm Post subject:

i dont see any stacks oprtion in kernel hacking. do i need to apply any patch? wondering when the nitro for 2.6.11 official is coming out.

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rush_ad: Please post in only one thread. There should not be any further response to you in this thread.

Thank you.
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rush_ad · Posted: Wed Mar 02, 2005 4:41 pm Post subject:

sorry, wont happen again. i though one thread was more active, so posted in both.

Gentree · Posted: Mon Mar 07, 2005 7:57 am Post subject:

I've read in one of the nitro threads that R4 and staircase dont work reliably together.

Are the other scheduler options safe with R4?

Is it poss to change the scheduler on a running system or can this only be set for the bootloader.

TIA

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Gentree · Posted: Mon Mar 07, 2005 9:26 am Post subject:

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fallow · Posted: Mon Mar 07, 2005 9:55 am Post subject:

Gentree · Posted: Mon Mar 07, 2005 10:24 am Post subject:

thanks for all the replies, its obviously less of an issue that I thought.

So finally how do I find the right values to set in grub.conf ?

Unless it has changed , I used to add elevator=cfq to the kernel line.

could you give a code ex. for nickshed , what is the O(1) option you refer to?

once I have a few more important issues sorted out , like cdrecord broken again (grr) I am going to move to 2.6.11-nitro.

Thanks again.
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fallow · Posted: Mon Mar 07, 2005 10:37 am Post subject:

Gentree · Posted: Mon Mar 07, 2005 10:56 am Post subject:

Duh, seems like I am confusing the task scheduler and the IO-scheduler

Well in that case I can confirm that my 2.6.10-nitro4 seems OK with R4 on staircase.

What I then should have asked was how to change the IO-shed.

I selected all the option in the config and the help seemed to suggest that deadline may the best for my usage.

How do I select that, or are you going to tell me that's what I am using already?

Thx

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whabee · n00b Joined: 08 Mar 2005 Posts: 42

I am running Gentoo 2004.3 on a P4 intel motherboard system with a gforce fx 5600 video card, and I have kernel-2.6.10-gentoo running perfect. I am a huge gamer so I thought I would give the nitro kernel a try I followed the steps and emerged nitro 2.6.10 and recompiled nvidia-kernel and nvidia-glx all went well there. I set all the things it told me to in xorg.conf then I rebooted my machine and the nvidia splash screen came up went away came up again and did this about 3 times, then I got am error that the GUI could not load because my mouse wasnt configured right, I am thinking humm whats the mouse got to do with it, any way I booted back into my normal 2.6.10 kernel and gnome loaded right up so I tried the nitro 2.6.11 kernel and got the same mouse error and crash as 2.6.10, anyone got any ideas?