2.5.70

paulisdead · Guru Joined: 10 Apr 2002 Posts: 510 Location: Seattle, WA

It seemed very fast, but some stuff didn't get along quite as well on my system. I need USB support, HID, and EHCI and OHCI all as modules for my nforce2, and OHCI won't load (has to be modules or it'll lock up, at least with my experience with 2.4.20-gaming-r3). I prefer OSS over ALSA for sound, for compatiblity reasons, and the emu10k1 driver with the kernel doesn't want to send sound to my left speaker (I double checked the balance with aumix). If you're wondering why I don't use onboard nforce2 sound, the nvaudio OSS driver won't give me permission to /dev/dsp to play games, though it's set correctly in devfsd.conf and xmms and xine work fine. Alsa with the i8x0 driver won't send anything to my left speaker as well. And there's not bootsplash with the frame buffer, so back to the gaming-sources I go. I was using 2.5.70-mm1 if anyone cares.

silverter · Guru Joined: 10 Apr 2002 Posts: 491 Location: Ulm, DE

I just switched from CFQ to AS on my 2.5.70-mm1 and I still get a hard lockup in X, but this time only when I try to compile something. I had it locked up twice while doing emerge sync and emerge -up --world. Without any compilation going it's stabel (well it seems stable), but it's definatelly more stable than CFQ, at least in 2.5.70-mm1.

darktux Still waiting for your .config file in order to get some diffs on mine to see If I have an option bugging me. Thanks

And for those having xmms to skip, try to change the output plugin (I was using esd) to something else. I tried the builtin OSS and alsa-xmms as output plugin and the skipping while browsing the network disapeared. Try it and post your results here...

hope this helps

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Lovechild · Posted: Wed May 28, 2003 10:03 am Post subject:

there's an interview with Nick Piggin (the guy who wrote the AS scheduler) on kerneltrap.org - it well worth a read if you want to understand how the three schedulers work.

he also mentions the possiblity of combining CFQ and AS - which just made my mouth water...

silverter · Guru Joined: 10 Apr 2002 Posts: 491 Location: Ulm, DE

Thanks for that info LoveChild.. will check that out ASAP...

regards,
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dolbz · Posted: Wed May 28, 2003 10:49 am Post subject:

yay. i'm running 2.5.70-mm1 and it's running perfect and seems quicker than 2.4.20. I have finally managed to lose my network card transmit timeout errors and having unreadable kernel logs because they are plagued with the bloody things

. Looks like 2.6 is going to be very nice. Linux keeps getting more and more perfect

Dolbz

cyfred · Retired Dev Joined: 23 Aug 2002 Posts: 596

For those that wanted the patch for xargs here is a link
http://www.volutin.net/~andrew/GENTOO/findutils-4.1.7-r5.tar.gz

Just stick that ebuild into your overlay directory and emerge -u findutils

Silverter: Where is this directory 2.5.70-mm1/broken that you speak of? I cant find it anywhere. Even locate *synaptic* found nothing...

silverter · Guru Joined: 10 Apr 2002 Posts: 491 Location: Ulm, DE

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idl · Posted: Wed May 28, 2003 3:08 pm Post subject:

I've never been able to completely get rid of xmms jumps

I'm using OSS, settings are as follows:

Buffser size: 3000 ms
Pre-buffer: 25%

Any recomendations for alterations?
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Lovechild · Posted: Wed May 28, 2003 3:33 pm Post subject:

idl · Posted: Wed May 28, 2003 3:36 pm Post subject:

jimlynch11 · Posted: Wed May 28, 2003 3:37 pm Post subject:

Lovechild · Posted: Wed May 28, 2003 3:40 pm Post subject:

that's because you buffer so much that you can cover up for xmms' bad design - it's basically the same way they used to "shock proof" portable cd players. That's a bad solution, but it's good enough to cover up the combined badness of esd and xmms - when I'm streaming I prefetch 2048kb and I buffer at least ½ of that in the decoder, esd is set up buffer 6 secs and it virtually never skips but I use a lot of ram that way.

Lovechild · Posted: Wed May 28, 2003 3:41 pm Post subject:

Baad3r · n00b Joined: 07 Apr 2003 Posts: 22

17:45:36 up 1 day, 0 min, 6 users, load average: 3.61, 3.07, 2.72

2.5.70-mm1 with AS. No lockups. Its rock-solid here.

idl · Posted: Wed May 28, 2003 3:48 pm Post subject:

jimlynch11 · Posted: Wed May 28, 2003 3:58 pm Post subject:

charlieg · Posted: Wed May 28, 2003 4:02 pm Post subject:

TheCoop · Posted: Wed May 28, 2003 6:21 pm Post subject:

thats why its nearly up to the 2.6test kernels!

i just love linux, i would like to see microsoft get a new kernel version, bugfree and with all the upgrades the 2.4 kernel has got out in ~1 year
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Lovechild · Posted: Wed May 28, 2003 8:01 pm Post subject:

cyfred · Retired Dev Joined: 23 Aug 2002 Posts: 596

I tried reversing the synaptics patch as suggested above and my touch pad mouse still cannnot be clicked by tapping the pad. Anyone got anymore suggestions?

On the other topic, I cleaned the sources and have mousedev compiled as a static and there is no module loading problems...

Exner · Posted: Thu May 29, 2003 9:59 am Post subject: with gcc-3.3 ?

A few people are saying they can compile/run 2.5.70-mm1 without problems... Are any of you compiling the kernel with gcc-3.3 ?

Twice i've compiled 2.5.70-mm1 but it won't boot. The config file is not much changed from my current one (2.5.69-mm2).
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