2.6.9-nitro2 "Now with wings"

fimbulvetr · n00b Joined: 03 Feb 2004 Posts: 51 Location: South Dakota

eean, not sure what you're running, but I can vouch for a substantial speedup. Especially in firefox/apollon and even copying files.
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Clent · n00b Joined: 03 Nov 2004 Posts: 3

Hi, i'm not sure if this problem has already been submitted, but my Xorg won't start with this kernel (switching from 2.6.8.1ck7) : i got a black screen when X tries to launch gdm after startup, i can't kill anything, just got a black screen. Thus, i don't think i can give you a log :/

I use a firegl9000 with the built-in radeon drivers and xorg 6.8.0r2, which worked fine with my old kernel. Framebuffer works well though...

Please ask me if you need details, thx !

ryceck · Apprentice Joined: 13 Jan 2004 Posts: 195

Anyone here who already has the win4lin patch that can mirror it?
Cuz the site mentioned in the startpost appears to be down :/

Thnx in advance

Many thanx to jdkbx who supplied the patch
The patch is now mirrored at:

http://files.ryceck.com/nitro/2.6.9-nitro2-win4lin.patch.bz2

If seppe would be so kind to include that in the openingpost then the patch can be use/downloaded again

Robin79 · Posted: Thu Nov 04, 2004 12:38 am Post subject:

I am trying Ivman and getting this error message!! Can anyone tell me what i should do or not should do please

stalcair · n00b Joined: 07 Aug 2003 Posts: 57

are the problems you have like this?

At random times (but perhaps from spikes of system, memory and disk usage, your system will begin to eat itself up.

A process ( grep -iR something, or find . -type f -exec grep -i something {} \; ) will quickly increase in its CPU usage if you monitor top, until it reaches 99.8 to 99.9.
At that time you can't log in via ssh
the mouse and screen are frozen
no keypresses are registered (including <ALT><CTRL><BACKSPACE>)
kswapd0 just happens to also be chugging along at 99.9 % CPU utilization
*important part* You CAN NOT KILL the defunct process(es) yet they are of stat R. Kill 9 does not work, and looping through until you can kill it does not work either.
Not everytime, but sometimes well before the crash, dmesg showed output of "CFQ Baddness"

If so then this is what I have found:
acpi=off and/or pci=noacpi does not help
elevator setting of "as" or "noop" does not help
renicing the reiser4 kernel processes to -10 or -15 does not help
NOT mounting the reiser4 partitions at boot does not help

This problem manifests with or without SMP (and SMT with it). I have not tried turning off preempt, but it doesn't sound like that is the problem either.

Since I have this problem without any reiser4 partitions mounted (but I have yet to recompile the kernel WITHOUT reiser4 support compiled in) then I am guessing that even though it happens more often with Reiser4 partitions mounted that this is merely a result of it hogging more resources. (e.g. given a boat with a hole in the bottom, you cannot blame heavy cargo for causing the problem... it just makes the boat sink faster)

sibov · Posted: Thu Nov 04, 2004 3:13 pm Post subject:

eean

ryceck · Apprentice Joined: 13 Jan 2004 Posts: 195

Win4Lin works like a charm, but the kernel wont compile with both win4lin and swsusp2 in the kernel.

So Softwaresuspend has beenpurged from my kernel

Thnx to the dude who created the Win4Lin patch anyway

Clent · n00b Joined: 03 Nov 2004 Posts: 3

pestilence · Posted: Thu Nov 04, 2004 6:40 pm Post subject:

Please in a new release could you also include this fixes:
https://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic.php?t=235398&highlight=
cdc_acm is broken in all the versions (at least for my modem, which is a common PTT provided modem).
After applying the patch everything works ok.
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p-i · n00b Joined: 20 Apr 2004 Posts: 8

enzobelmont · Posted: Thu Nov 04, 2004 11:05 pm Post subject:

ryceck · Apprentice Joined: 13 Jan 2004 Posts: 195

jdkbx · n00b Joined: 03 May 2004 Posts: 40

frankjr · n00b Joined: 13 Sep 2002 Posts: 55

After upgrading from 2.6.8.1-nitro6 to 2.6.9-nitro2, the "less" utility quit working for me causing it to fail and return 1. Anyone else having this problem?

devsk · Posted: Fri Nov 05, 2004 1:31 am Post subject:

seppe, does the gnome-settings-daemon die after resume in your setup? it gets killed on resume on two of my nitro2 installs.

Apexman · Tux's lil' helper Joined: 07 Apr 2004 Posts: 141

randomguy · n00b Joined: 17 Oct 2004 Posts: 14

Don't know if this is a known issue.

When I try to boot with nitro2 the process just stops at a random time...
It won't reach gdm.

randomguy · n00b Joined: 17 Oct 2004 Posts: 14

can anyone help me with this?

sibov · Posted: Fri Nov 05, 2004 5:37 pm Post subject:

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

randomguy · n00b Joined: 17 Oct 2004 Posts: 14

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

randomguy · n00b Joined: 17 Oct 2004 Posts: 14

randomguy · n00b Joined: 17 Oct 2004 Posts: 14

Changed that, now it gets stuck at "Calculating module dependencies"...

... help.