2.6.2-love1 aka "Shiny Techno Dancy Guys"

PrakashP · Posted: Sun Feb 08, 2004 10:05 pm Post subject:

For the people how haven't read it:

Good news for alsa users with intel8x0: The finally fixed that bugger. I think it is already in CVS, no the resampler works again, so I have hope that quake3 works again...

crahen · n00b Joined: 11 Jan 2004 Posts: 51

Any luck w/ vmware under this patchset? Last time, the memory related patches kept the 4.0.5 modules from building for me...

fca · Guru Joined: 22 Feb 2003 Posts: 346 Location: Netherlands

OK, I got succes for now, with and A7N8X nforce2 motherboard, with updated BIOS (1007) and with the apic patches reversed, the system stayed stable under heavy IO load (copying a 650 MB file from cdrom to hd, and running updatedb at the same time). All this with APIC in the kernel.

So it seems the nforce2 patches are not necessary for all nforce 2 chipset owners anymore.

PrakashP · Posted: Sun Feb 08, 2004 10:53 pm Post subject:

Unfortunately my Abit mobo is still unstable in APIc mode without the patches...

What about your CPU Temps? Have they changed?

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bisho · Posted: Mon Feb 09, 2004 12:14 am Post subject:

With 2.6.2-rc2-love4 (I know is not the latest, I have to upgrade one of this days) I notice huge laggines in responsivity with the cfq io_scheduler. When I'm compiling big things, the mouse sometimes stops moving for a couple of seconds, everything stops...

echo "deadline" > /sys/block/hda/queue/io_scheduler

Makes things work well as always, you can compile an use the system at the same time without noticing anything.
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ktech · Guru Joined: 12 Apr 2003 Posts: 340

OFF-TOPIC:

Prakash, how are you getting those speeds? Are you on S-ATA? I have the same motherboard you have with a seagate 80 gb (barracuda IV, I think) and I cannot go up of 33 MB/sec. Any tip?

ashibaka · Tux's lil' helper Joined: 11 Jan 2003 Posts: 107

Oh wow, this sped up my boot time considerably. It's whining about some modules.dep not found, but it doesn't seem to be a problem

Also it fixed my problem with VFAT not recognizing Japanese, but that might have been my fault for not seeing the kernel options...
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sklettke · Guru Joined: 05 Nov 2002 Posts: 352 Location: Madison, WI

tdb and I are having some trouble with love-sources and usb-storage. I don't want to repeat everything here so please read about it at https://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic.php?p=848372#848372

I'm switching over to 2.6.2-mm1 (in which usb-storage works) until this issue is resolved.

Thanks a lot!

Scott
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PrakashP · Posted: Mon Feb 09, 2004 10:12 am Post subject:

Yes I am using SATA. Seagate are a porblem right now if youo have SATA. Then you need a very recent driver otherwise it might be penalized even if it is not one of the buggy ones. If it is one of the buggy (mod15 bug, IIRC) ones currently you don't get much speed out of it.

ed0n · Posted: Mon Feb 09, 2004 10:25 am Post subject:

well 2.6.3-rc1-mm1 is released now, waiting for love to patch it.

neenee · Veteran Joined: 20 Jul 2003 Posts: 1786

oops. sorry :wink:

Taloon · n00b Joined: 16 Jan 2004 Posts: 5

charlieg · Posted: Mon Feb 09, 2004 2:03 pm Post subject:

neenee · Veteran Joined: 20 Jul 2003 Posts: 1786

i noticed this as well. i also noticed,
that my swap seems to be used du-
ring those times.

tdb · Posted: Mon Feb 09, 2004 5:19 pm Post subject:

CFQ gives every process equal access to the HD. (the "F" stands for Fairness) So when you have something churning the HD, it's going to have an effect. The trick is to renice the chruninig process to a lower priority. (This happens with updatedb, I renice it to 19 and all is fine.)
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infirit · Posted: Mon Feb 09, 2004 5:22 pm Post subject:

The new love sources has been released
2.6.3_rc1-love1 aka "Solar Power Is A Pipe Dream"
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Beholders_Eye · Posted: Mon Feb 09, 2004 7:53 pm Post subject:

I know someone pulled something about aRts and JuK in this post. I've tried the "thread open sound system" option, and arts simply freezes.
With Alsa or Oss, it keeps consuming 40 to 60% CPU load.

I'm using 2.6.2-love1, I think it's the latest. I have an A7N8X Deluxe motherboard, with nforce2 audio, and uses intel8x0 alsa module. With 2.4.20-gaming-r7 from gentoo I've never had such strange problem.

Taloon · n00b Joined: 16 Jan 2004 Posts: 5

Had problems compiling the IA32 emulation, compiles fine when disabled,
and 2.6.2 base works without a hitch.