2.6.8.1-nitro1 "The kernel with hair on its balls"

seppe

Here is the new nitro-sources for the 2.6.8.1 kernel!

Applied patches:

Plastic · l33t Joined: 24 Mar 2004 Posts: 649

Great work! Nitro has replaced love on my system.

thedumbkid · n00b Joined: 13 Dec 2003 Posts: 72

thanks seppe!
was just about to apply write-barrier to 2.6.8 nitro
might as well grab this instead

chucksaysword · n00b Joined: 30 Dec 2003 Posts: 12

I get

Moloch · Posted: Mon Aug 16, 2004 4:50 am Post subject:

Does this happen to have the barrier patches? I noticed somethings look like they could be it, just under a differnet name.

Martigen · n00b Joined: 04 Mar 2003 Posts: 59

I'm probably wrong since you've managed to apply them, but I thought the nforce2 patches were now mainstream? I've certainly experienced no more lockups after enabling halt for the last few kernel versions now.

petrjanda · Posted: Mon Aug 16, 2004 7:42 am Post subject:

Ok, this was my first 2.6.8 series emerge, however, I used to have a nice bootsplash image in framebuffer in the console, now it's just black (without any picture in the background), how do I fix that? (vesagb option in the kernel is set to 1024x768@75 and framebuffer is compile in the kernel as well)
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petrjanda · Posted: Mon Aug 16, 2004 10:17 am Post subject:

Back to 2.6.7-ck5.
I dont know whether it is a 2.6.8 overall issue, or just the patchset issue, it made my system unstable. ie: opening files in mplayer would freeze the system.
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charlieg · Posted: Mon Aug 16, 2004 11:10 am Post subject:

Running very smoothly here. Nothing more to report, Cap'n.

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luisfeser · Posted: Mon Aug 16, 2004 11:31 am Post subject:

I have a little problem.
When i boot, lilo say:
"you passed an undefined mode number:
Press <return> to see modes or <space> to continue"

I press space and during two seconds the fonts are big and ugly, and after it become well as always.
It only happens with nitro sources, i think it is for the vesafb patch.
I put 1024x768@85 in kernel, but with the default values it fails too.

This is my lilo options:

petrjanda · Posted: Mon Aug 16, 2004 12:55 pm Post subject:

that vga line is not needed anymore, comment it and then it will work.
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Moloch · Posted: Mon Aug 16, 2004 1:17 pm Post subject:

Martigen · n00b Joined: 04 Mar 2003 Posts: 59

Zordas · n00b Joined: 10 Jun 2003 Posts: 19

Just tried the nitro sources for the first time and I'm getting this error during the compile.

DaMouse · Apprentice Joined: 18 Jul 2003 Posts: 233

meh, I've ported Reiser4 before, next time I get some spare minutes I'll hack you one up seppe

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Martigen · n00b Joined: 04 Mar 2003 Posts: 59

Just to reply to myself, since this is clearly the done thing, further on nforce2 fixups:

* It is mainstream, and can be found in arch/i386/pci/fixup.c
* This is, after seeing the code and remembering a discussion months ago on the topic, the preferred method over the 'ioapic' and 'c1halt' patches.

So Seppe, a request: drop the nforce2 patches please

Great patchset btw, moved over to nitro from xx and love.

luisfeser · Posted: Mon Aug 16, 2004 2:59 pm Post subject:

Cagnulein · Posted: Mon Aug 16, 2004 3:19 pm Post subject:

all works fine on my toshiba m30-801.

Raistlin · l33t Joined: 17 May 2004 Posts: 691 Location: Boston, MA

<ot sorry="yes"> i was offline for some days (due to a storm :roll:

) and what see my tired eyes: is it a new kernel naming scheme? or could anybody explain to me what the 1 after the 8 in 2.6.8.1 should mean?
</ot>

cheers, raist. :wink:

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luqas · Posted: Mon Aug 16, 2004 5:44 pm Post subject:

2.6.8 had a serious nfs bug, so they fixed it and just named the new version 2.6.8.1.

AustrianCoder · Posted: Mon Aug 16, 2004 5:49 pm Post subject:

I added nitro-sources to portage of gentoo.de, they should be ready via rsync in about 20 minutes, because the rsync server updates with the cvs very 30 minutes.

You only need to add
SYNC="rsync://rsync16.de.gentoo.org/gentoo-merged"
into your /etc/make.conf.

WebCVS: http://www.gentoo.de/viewcvs/gentoo-x86/

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Cagnulein · Posted: Mon Aug 16, 2004 6:01 pm Post subject:

i'm thinking about a rss system for the new version of nitro-sources...bad idea?

AustrianCoder · Posted: Mon Aug 16, 2004 6:12 pm Post subject:

Other mehtode to get the ebuilds fomr gentoo.de:

1. echo "app-portage/gentoolkit-dev ~ARCH" >> /etc/portage/package.keywords

ARCH... set your arch.

2. emerge gentoolkit-dev

3. /etc/gensync/gentoo-de.syncsource:

id="gentoo-de"
description="gentoo.de Portage Overlay"
rsync="rsync://rsync.gentoo.de/gentoo-de-ebuilds"
// !!! set overlay for your needs !!!!
overlay="/root/overlay/"

4. run gensync gentoo-de

You have now the portage from gentoo.de in the overlay dir.
Also run this command to update the portage.