best 2.6 kernel

G|N| · Posted: Thu Oct 21, 2004 8:51 am Post subject: best 2.6 kernel

i heard a lot of bad things about the 2.8.1 kernel so my question to you is what do you think is the best 2.6.* kernel?

and would it be better to download the gentoo-development-sources then the development-sources?

if i want the 2.6.7 development-sources, how do i download them?
i think the standard development-sources is 2.6.8.1

miqorz · Posted: Thu Oct 21, 2004 8:54 am Post subject:

Uh, 2.6.9 is out.

Right now I'm using 2.6.8.1-ck9 and I find it very good.

G|N| · Posted: Thu Oct 21, 2004 9:02 am Post subject:

Anarcho · Advocate Joined: 06 Jun 2004 Posts: 2970 Location: Germany

I'm running fine with gentoo-dev-sources 2.6.8-r10.
They have the vesafb-tng and a few other nice patches like the burning patch.
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miqorz · Posted: Thu Oct 21, 2004 9:19 am Post subject:

Muso · Posted: Thu Oct 21, 2004 9:27 am Post subject:

2.6.9 so far ...

been using it for 2 days now.
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G|N| · Posted: Thu Oct 21, 2004 9:32 am Post subject:

and how do i emerge for example the 2.6.9 kernel?

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miqorz · Posted: Thu Oct 21, 2004 9:34 am Post subject:

Muso · Posted: Thu Oct 21, 2004 9:37 am Post subject:

Or make your own ebuild with the patches you like and stick it in your portage overlay so you don't have to sync to get the newer kernels

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Deranger · Veteran Joined: 26 Aug 2004 Posts: 1215

2.6.9-rc4-nitro2

...until 2.6.9-nitro1 comes

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rc2-love4....the best that i have ever used.
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blue.sca · Posted: Thu Oct 21, 2004 12:37 pm Post subject:

2.6.7-love7, the best, most stable and matured kernel i've seen since its release. all those newer kernels and patchsets cannot compete against its perfectness...
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codergeek42 · Posted: Thu Oct 21, 2004 3:22 pm Post subject:

2.6.9-ck1. Very responsive, and some very excellent and awesime kernel hacking done by Con Kolivas.
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teutzz · Guru Joined: 22 Apr 2004 Posts: 333 Location: .ro

when mm-sources for 2.6.9 stable si out
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codergeek42 · Posted: Thu Oct 21, 2004 4:55 pm Post subject:

teutzz · Guru Joined: 22 Apr 2004 Posts: 333 Location: .ro

i was refering to mm-sources for 2.6.9 stable (as in final, not a rc)
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codergeek42 · Posted: Thu Oct 21, 2004 6:03 pm Post subject:

Raffi · l33t Joined: 17 Mar 2003 Posts: 731 Location: Moscow, Id.

So has anyone else noticed that 2.6.9 is very broken when it comes to NFS?

I also had trouble with the aacraid driver. I have backed down to 2.6.7 to try to make things better.

vcetina · n00b Joined: 27 Sep 2004 Posts: 16

Hi guys i have a few questions, what do i need to run nitro sources?, do i need develoment-sources installed? and after that apply the nitro patchset?.

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dblaci · n00b Joined: 05 Oct 2004 Posts: 30

piewie · Guru Joined: 26 Sep 2002 Posts: 494 Location: old Europe

2.6.7-x completly was a really good release.
2.6.8 was to buggy and 2.6.9 begins buggy again.
It seems that a new kernel releases brings a set of new bugs to the users.

What is this for a strategy, when a new piece of hardware is supported and for excample parallel printer support disappear? There regulary are problems with cdrecord - this is not necessary. Why must normal user patch the kernel, when someone needs new hardware support? So let the person with the new hardware patch the kernel and give us a stable version with full cdrtools and nvidia support.

Tom

dblaci · n00b Joined: 05 Oct 2004 Posts: 30

I agree.
I have to use 2.6.7 because it really works...
I tried all (i mean really almost all) releases, rcs, patchsets, but non of them were working perfect.
Problems were some of these:

vmware dies. (i know about the 1GB lowmem etc. it's not the problem)
cd writing (at least as user) .......... in vmware too. (i have scsi rescorder)
ati-drivers emerge fails. (i made patches for the mm series by hand, and from forums)
OR/AND
unstable...

why am i keep trying new releases?
well: they are really faster (i feel it with X)
that's all.