problems with gentoo-dev-sources-2.6.8

pengu · Posted: Thu Aug 26, 2004 9:23 am Post subject:

HMM, no go.

2.6.9-rc1:
it isn't possible to burn a CD as normal user.
cdrecord complains about an error mentioned in another thread
https://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic.php?t=207088&highlight=cannot+allocate+memory+cdrecord

2.6.8-gentoo-r2:
seems to work except for audio cds.
The memleak is still there because 2.6.8 is used not 2.6.8.1
or have I missed something?

Now, I'm using 2.6.7-gentoo-r14 and everything works fine :-)

beesea · Apprentice Joined: 07 Mar 2003 Posts: 273

This is supposedly fixed in gentoo-dev-sources-2.6.8-r3

AnXa · Apprentice Joined: 06 Apr 2004 Posts: 250

dsd · Posted: Sun Sep 05, 2004 1:52 pm Post subject:

syadnom · Guru Joined: 09 May 2002 Posts: 531

for the cdr issue

are you guys using the kernel boot param

hdc=ide-cd #!where hdc is your cdrw device like /dev/hdc

or are you using

hdc=ide-scsi #!this is depreciated and may not be functional
#!you do NOT need scsi emulation with ide-cd

for vfat issues, try compiling vfat as a module....also set the 'gui=' or 'uid=' and even 'users' in fstab so users can access data..

Dutchie · n00b Joined: 07 Nov 2003 Posts: 70 Location: NL

I have vfat compiled in the kernel and so not as module
and it works great here

gcasillo · Posted: Wed Sep 08, 2004 8:16 pm Post subject:

dsd · Posted: Wed Sep 08, 2004 10:51 pm Post subject:

dsd · Posted: Wed Sep 08, 2004 11:05 pm Post subject:

on a related note, for gentoo-dev-sources i'm considering setting the TCP default window scaling back to 0 by default in order to fix the network problems that people (including myself) are running into from a default configuration.

see : http://lwn.net/Articles/92727/

i'd be interested to hear how many people this has affected, so responses would be appreciated:
did you notice big network performance degradation after upgrading to 2.6.8? did you not notice anything? or did you notice a performance increase?
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gcasillo · Posted: Sat Sep 11, 2004 10:53 pm Post subject:

dsd, thanks for your work on all of this stuff. Efforts like yours make Gentoo Linux rock.

Yeah, CD/DVD handling in Linux is a mess, and I second your opinion.

Network issues have definitely been a problem lately. Not limited to kernel or kdelibs for me either. My DSL line was recently upgraded from 768k to 1.5M, and I had to conference together my ISP and telco to get the telco to fix my line that they botched. :roll:

Sometimes the road is uphill.

sub_zero · Apprentice Joined: 12 Sep 2004 Posts: 169

I don't know if this is already widely known or has been posted somewhere else, but I'm going to try to fix the vfat mounting problem. It seems that most people have been having trouble with this because of the native language support in the kernel. To be able to mount vfat, you must have a default nls codepage and a default iso-8856 standard. You must also make sure that under Native Language Support, you have BOTH compiled in. I've always had a codepage but I've never had the iso standard, so once I compiled those both in and set the defaults to match them, I had no problem mounting VFAT partitions whatsoever. I hope this helps other people.

Demoniac_LL · Posted: Wed Sep 15, 2004 1:24 am Post subject:

Well I just emerged gentoo-dev-sources kernel 2.6.8 and well let me see no sound (Sound Blaster 5.1!) can't mount ? why ?
I just switched from 2.4.26 to 2.6.8 can some one give me some lights please little lost

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