2.6.9-nitro1 "Gentlemen, start your engines!"

rm · Tux's lil' helper Joined: 25 Oct 2004 Posts: 87

Being on a Shuttle SN41G2 with an 2500+ I got the following with hdparm:

UB|K · Posted: Tue Oct 26, 2004 8:50 am Post subject:

Matteo Azzali · Retired Dev Joined: 23 Sep 2004 Posts: 1133

Just make a little tryout you who have via onboard sound.
If you have loopback cable for tv-card try to pull it out and check if
the noise is here again. I think is a problem with the line-in input,
I can be wrong (but when my card is on TV I hear no more noises).

Matteo Azzali · Retired Dev Joined: 23 Sep 2004 Posts: 1133

hugh, I forgot to point... I found the All-in-one v4l patch2.6.9-rc4 was not applied to the kernel....... (just cause it was missing my tv card,
Empire_PCI_TV_Radio_LE , for wich I wrote the settings)
for this I repatched with the original gz file.

sibov · Posted: Tue Oct 26, 2004 3:07 pm Post subject:

this kernel-sources kicks ass

on my notebook all stuff works fine

but if somebody get a problem with vesafb-tng on radeon mobility 9600
on 1400x1050 resolution

this option get some problems with vesafb-tng on my radeon mobility
video=vesafb:ywrap,pmipal,1400x1050@60
at the point of fbcon initialisation the screen stay black with the last kernel output
and freez, system starts normal but console screen cannot be used.

try vbetest to get the correct modnumber for your boot options

Phlogiston · Posted: Tue Oct 26, 2004 3:29 pm Post subject:

I'm using this nitro now and it works great. Good job done... sepe, thanks a lot.

PS: My video config line is: ideo=vesafb:ywrap,mtrr,1280x1024-32@85
But i think that it does not switch the refresh rate... any hints?
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ricce_n · Tux's lil' helper Joined: 01 Jul 2004 Posts: 130

emoll · n00b Joined: 09 Jul 2004 Posts: 18

Hello,

I seem to have stability issues with this kernel :-(

My system is a P4 SMP HT and the system hangs under some form of medium load (nothing major, e.g. emerging some software). I will post my .config if anyone is willing to help. The "only" thing I could see is that I had to change PCI Access to "Direct" instead of "Bios" (or "Any") because otherwise my ps2 mouse and keyboard would not work with acpi=on.
Could anyoen with a similar system possibly post their .config ????

Thanks,

Emmanuel

Kurse · Posted: Tue Oct 26, 2004 4:44 pm Post subject:

emoll,

I have a P4 SMP HT running on an Intel 875PBZ board. I will post the config for you tonite when i get home from work.

emoll · n00b Joined: 09 Jul 2004 Posts: 18

Brilliant !!! Thanks a lot. When you compile a kernel for your machine what are your typical "yes yes" options and "no no" options???

HecHacker1 · Apprentice Joined: 26 Jun 2003 Posts: 213 Location: UCSD

i had to disable all of the API sequencer stuff in order to get it to compile. Also, my USB 2.0 doesn't work. I had to lower it to USB 1.1 in order for the kernel to find my keyboard and mouse (i didn't have this problem in Love-mm).

Otherwise, this kernel feels very responsive and fast. Thanx

sobers_2002 · Veteran Joined: 16 Mar 2004 Posts: 1128

semaphore · n00b Joined: 12 Nov 2002 Posts: 6 Location: Blacksburg,VA

emoll · n00b Joined: 09 Jul 2004 Posts: 18

Hey Semaphore,

I have the same issues of stability under load, sould you tell me what you changed to get a stable version???

Thanks !!

dpst · n00b Joined: 04 May 2004 Posts: 22 Location: Bulgaria

Hello guys, first I want to state that this is my first nitro kernel, so maybe I'm not doing something right thus resulting the problems I have. I've installed it following this method. So far it's really stable and fast, but I have 2 issues I can't resolve. The first thing is, that the nvidia module (/lib/modules/2.6.9-nitro1/video/nvidia.ko) does not autoload. Tried reemerging several times, but no luck. Manual loading still works though through insmod. I have "nvidia" in /etc/modules.autoload.d/kernel-2.6, so that's not a problem, also after every reemerge of the driver i run modules-update. This technique worked with every kernel I've used before.

The second issue I have is with hdparm. Although I've added it to boot runlevel (rc-update add hdparm boot), and configured it in /etc/conf.d/hdparm with

Gentree · Posted: Sat Oct 30, 2004 8:51 pm Post subject:

For your hdparm try adding it to default rather than boot , it may be getting called before some service it needs is running.

I have nvidia gx card but never had to do it the way you do.

after making a new kernel (unless it's a rebuild with minor mods) you will need to rebuild the nvidia-kernel module (misleading name because it is NOT a kernel at all) . I have an alias to do it.

Seabeast · n00b Joined: 30 Oct 2004 Posts: 25

I'm getting quite the same problem as dpst with the nvidia module.

Got that first when updated to 2.6.9 gentoo-dev-sources, and fixed modifying that packages.mask file.
Maybe that's something i'm forgetting to compile on kernel? Dunno, the stack size, MTRR and stuff seems fine. It's my first experience with nitro, seems nicely fast by the way, and the nvidia it's the only problem i've found.

Thanks.

Gentree · Posted: Sat Oct 30, 2004 11:40 pm Post subject:

If it helps reassure you , this is my second nitro with nvidia gx card and I never even had to change a thing:

dpst · n00b Joined: 04 May 2004 Posts: 22 Location: Bulgaria

Gentree · Posted: Sun Oct 31, 2004 12:01 pm Post subject:

tomm73 · n00b Joined: 19 Jan 2004 Posts: 37

I just want to say THANK YOU for this great patchset!!! Keep up the good work.

dpst · n00b Joined: 04 May 2004 Posts: 22 Location: Bulgaria