2.6.18-rc4-no2 "To be..." | (Super Fix/Stability Attempt?)

cheater1034 · Veteran Joined: 09 Sep 2004 Posts: 1558

2.6.18-rc4-no2 "To be..." | ...My attempt at more stability
this is a testing release
If you have a problem please report it, otherwise I can not help you with it

Release
- A very solid release coming up into the mix, Based off of 2.6.18-rc4-mm1 but including
several important and not so important fixes, some being from -mm2. Nothing real experimental
was pushed into this release, just a ton of fixes and the new version of -mm. I'm really
opt about the stability of this release in comparison to 2.6.18-rc4-no1, I went out of my
way to assure it as stable as possible this release. (marked unstable due to -rc release only)

Patchset
- No-sources is the "successor" of love-sources, This kernel is for "power users", those who like living on the bleeding edge. It contains many experimental patches that can be slightly volatile at times, make your [soda||pop] real bland, etc.

- No-sources is a kernel patchset based on Andrew Morton's -mm patchset. It contains
numerous user-requested features, other things gathered from various sources, and
some of our own items/patches to make it no-certified.

"No-sources was founded during the end of love-source's reign by JasonF and myself.
Our intention was to create a patchset that would be able to continue on regardless
of maintainer and still live in the spirit of -love's original -mm base and featureset.
Given there have been numerous changes throughout the releases, including different
maintainers, but I believe through this philosophy a useful patchset can continue to be made."
-joecool

Changelog > 2.6.18-rc4-no1
* Based off of a stable -mm release (2.6.18-rc4-mm1)
* Fixes intellimouse broken support found in all .18-rc kernels.
* Includes about 46 misc. fixes/cleanups for the -mm patchset, some including major fixes
* Dropped lockless pagecache from this release because it still has bugs. (We'll wait for
some fixes to the direct data port from Nick Piggin first)
* NoSched series re-done into 11 patches
* Added the max_delay schedstat from nicksched to ingosched and staircase
* Added a second patch to fix ati drivers.
* Re-did the squashfs 3 port, moved a few things for statfs. It still gives a warning, but
the warning should not be anything fatal.
* Deadline is default again
* Made a new improved version of the config-nr-tty-devices patch
* ACPI DSDT seems to have been dropped, probally by accident. Apply manually if needed from
the 2.6.18-rc2-no1 broken-out.

Patches

mb.Tab · n00b Joined: 07 May 2006 Posts: 44 Location: /home/mb.Tab

**installing** Will be back for a report !

PS.: Thanks for doing all this work

/E kernel performces really well and the problem with my freeezing mouse is gone, too

So thanks again cheater

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mbar · Veteran Joined: 19 Jan 2005 Posts: 1990 Location: Poland

yeah

*subscribes*

Nick C · Posted: Sun Aug 20, 2006 7:16 pm Post subject:

will update and give it a try when i get home, got a couple of things to test but will report back if the dvd reading problem i had with the last release is fixed or not.

wrc1944 · Posted: Sun Aug 20, 2006 7:51 pm Post subject:

Compiles, boots, and runs fine here on my wireless ide ATA100 box. No longer hangs at shutdown like rc4-no1 and rc4-viper1 did, as I described on the viper thread. No sense in repeating all that here.

Don't know what fixed the problem.
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azdruid · Tux's lil' helper Joined: 19 Feb 2006 Posts: 75

Compiles and boots perfectly. Tested with NVidia binary drivers and madwifi-ng.

Seems to be quite stable as well. Thanks for the excellent release, cheater.

freigeist · Posted: Sun Aug 20, 2006 10:05 pm Post subject:

madwifi-ng now working here too...bootimes are still 15 seconds longer than with other patchset...
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cheater1034 · Veteran Joined: 09 Sep 2004 Posts: 1558

a7thson · Posted: Mon Aug 21, 2006 12:40 am Post subject:

I must have bad luck... 2.6.18-rc4-no2 failed in a number of ways on this system... after successfully drawing most of a window, Xserver locked hard and the system had to be manually shut off. firewire support and sbp2 failed and the SATA-based cdrw/dvd was inaccessible. a quick check of Xorg.log revealed that ati-drivers apparently loaded fine, so that is probably not the issue.

in general then, here are the problems so far:
1) IEEE1394 subsystem produces strange error messages and is nonfunctional
2) SATA CDRW/DVD is detected and recognized by udev but creation of special devices fails and the dvd player is inaccessible
3) ati-drivers (8.27.10-r1) appear to load fine but system hard-locks X server after drawing a partial screen (mouse initially works, and within a few minutes this locks as well. no other input seems to have any effect and it is not possible to kill the x server)

what did seem to work:
1) framebuffer support under vesafb-tng widescreen resolution (1440x900) whoohoo! :-)

2) external USB hard drives were detected and mounted properly
3) XFS modules loaded, external drive mounted and I was able to access filesystem

I copied the exact config from 2.6.18-rc4-viper1 and noticed a large number of config options were no longer present when I was configuring no-sources, including this entire subsystem:

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bigbob73 · Posted: Mon Aug 21, 2006 12:47 am Post subject:

working here :wink:

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a7thson · Posted: Mon Aug 21, 2006 1:11 am Post subject:

broch · Tux's lil' helper Joined: 09 Jul 2005 Posts: 94

is xfs fixed in -mm already? It was badly broken (and reported as such). So i could not test your previous patch.

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a7thson · Posted: Mon Aug 21, 2006 2:27 am Post subject:

irondog · Posted: Mon Aug 21, 2006 9:48 am Post subject:

Why do all these newer kernels make the boot process more verbose? Every time the system loads the nvidia kernel module the kernel begins spitting out kernel messages in the console. Why?
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vipernicus · Posted: Mon Aug 21, 2006 11:36 am Post subject:

irondog · Posted: Mon Aug 21, 2006 11:55 am Post subject:

Phlogiston · Posted: Mon Aug 21, 2006 12:34 pm Post subject:

irondog · Posted: Mon Aug 21, 2006 12:55 pm Post subject:

I found it in the source of the kernel. The kernel devs have decided to turn on all debug messages when the kernel is tainted somehow. This will be the default behaviour in kernel 2.6.18-torvalds if we don't act now.

I solved it by commenting it out.

irondog · Posted: Mon Aug 21, 2006 1:50 pm Post subject:

Here it is for 2.6.18-rc4-vanilla:
http://tienstra4.flatnet.tudelft.nl/~gerte/2.6.18-rc4-tainted-printk.patch.txt
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zxy · Posted: Mon Aug 21, 2006 2:32 pm Post subject:

My keboard goes nuts with this kernel. I can hardly type. I press once and get 2,3,4,5, ore more same keystrokes.
Looks like its something with time going wrong. I hardly login. 60s pass by in 10 or 15 s. Like time is running faster for the computer.

It is the same in console and in X.

Any ideas?
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cheater1034 · Veteran Joined: 09 Sep 2004 Posts: 1558