Roundup:Kernels with JMicron support (JMB363, 361, 360, 36x)

kernelOfTruth · 2.6.19

Hi !

This thread should give you JMicron-plagued guys / girls a roundup,
which kernels work with the JMicron chipset built on (Asus) P5B, P5W and other Boards & which settings are needed

It primarily addresses IDE/ATAPI-Problems since a lot of you have a DVD-Burner/CD-Drive connected to it & can't even install gentoo :!:

Since I don't actually have additional SATA-(hard)drives I can't tell you if SATA/Raid/Native mode of the controller works with these kernels, you'll have to find out for yourselves...

I can only say / report the experience I make with my own configuration (P5W DH Deluxe, Bios 1402):
* Raid0 connected to the EZ-Backup (Hardware-Raid)
* 2 IDE-Harddrives connected to the JMicron-Controller (JMB361-part (IDE), JMB363 should be the SATA-part)
* DVD-Burner connected to the Intel ICH8R

Here are some infos for you S-ATA-drive users:

gentoo-wiki.com HARDWARE SATA

The first candidates are:

no-sources (by cheater1034 & eremini )
they feature:
* related to the spirit of -love's (love sources) original -mm base and featureset
* performance patches by con koliva
* mm-patches
* gentoo-specific stuff (vesafb-tng, fbsplash)
* fixes

1) 2.6.18-rc4-no2 "To be..." | (Super Fix/Stability Attempt?) this release is highly recommended, since it supports loads of hardware (including Jmicron & Intel ICH8/R; besides that my livecds are based on it)
here a download-link to it, for direct download:
download 2.6.18-rc4-no2

2) (Removed / offline) 2.6.18-rc4-no4 "Hands Up!" | (mm-3, UNOFFICIAL) this works fine for me, however it was removed due to cheater's request (unofficial no-sources release & naming issues)

3) to be continued ...

The second are:

emission-sources / viper-sources (by vipernicus )
It's based on a stable kernel, so it might be interesting for those, who don't like rc*-releases & still want their newest hardware to be supported ...

1) 2.6.17-emission8: TIE Fighter Tango! you need to apply the Hotfix / reverse patch of 025-patch-2.6.17-ide1 in order to work with ICH7, ICH8 ...

2) 2.6.18-viper1: Mutatis Mutandis this kernel shows random lockup for me (all kernels vanilla-2.6.18 based), but perhaps you have luck)
you probably need to append "irqpoll" to grub

3) 2.6.18-emission1: Pathological Euphoria
This kernel is based on stable 2.6.18 & has some fine performance & responsiveness enhancements
it works without any problems on x86 & amd64 => now you can use AHCI / Raid / Basic Mode in Bios for JMicron (P5W DH Deluxe) without any problems
you have to add

wynn · Advocate Joined: 01 Apr 2005 Posts: 2421 Location: UK

Here is a list of the AHCI controllers supported by 2.6.18-rc6-mm2. It has been compiled by taking the entries in

kernelOfTruth · Posted: Fri Sep 15, 2006 4:42 pm Post subject:

yes, it is! Thank you wynn

the only line I get concerning JMicron is:

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belgique · n00b Joined: 26 Dec 2005 Posts: 14

I use 2.6.18-rc4-mm2 (many thanks for your install cd).
Works good for me. I also tried 2.6.18_rc6-r2 which includes complete support in the SATA section. As I remember, it was working fine (devices hde) but incompatible withe nvidia drivers.
I have one big problem which is not kernel related: I'm not able ton use grub. It gives me an error 21 at boot. Lilo works fine. My config: 2 PATA device on the Jmicron: a cd player and my boot disk. Is anyone launching grub from the PATA controller?

Strowi · l33t Joined: 19 Aug 2003 Posts: 656 Location: Bonn

hi,

i'm not sure i understand this... are you saying, that i might get SATA-RAID1 working my Asus A8R-MVP Mainboard (atm it doesn't with dmraid).
the chip is a ALI/Uli m5288..
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kernelOfTruth · Posted: Mon Sep 18, 2006 9:41 pm Post subject:

belgique · n00b Joined: 26 Dec 2005 Posts: 14

ProTech · Posted: Wed Sep 27, 2006 10:01 am Post subject:

Is the official 2.6.18 kernel works with JMicron, or you need mm-sources? I don't want to use reiser4 currently.

kernelOfTruth · Posted: Wed Sep 27, 2006 11:19 am Post subject:

2.6.18 didn't work for me,

2.6.18-mm1 works with "irqpoll" boot-option, if you don't want reiser4, just deselect it :wink:

I think there won't be any performance decrease of your system then ...

my settings:

ProTech · Posted: Thu Sep 28, 2006 12:03 pm Post subject:

I currently don't have a motherboard with JMicron chip, but I want to buy a new one with this controller soon (ICH8 + JMicron). So I searching the forums to know what to expect.

OgRo · Posted: Fri Sep 29, 2006 3:32 am Post subject: Asus P5B

Hey

My friend is switching from windows to gentoo linux and he is facing a problem with his ICH8 RAID controller.

He managed to install gentoo using the 2006.1 amd64 liveCD in a SATA driver without any problems. But gentoo can't find his RAID controller. Do you guys know what kernel options should be enabled?

AFAIK this card has ICH8 RAID and SATA controller and JMicron IDE controller.
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OgRo · Posted: Fri Sep 29, 2006 3:41 am Post subject: lspci

btw, that's his lspci:

kernelOfTruth · Posted: Fri Oct 06, 2006 2:44 pm Post subject:

OgRo, you could try vipernicus' new stable emission sources 2.6.18-emission1: Pathological Euphoria

set up:

OgRo · Posted: Fri Oct 06, 2006 2:53 pm Post subject:

thx kernelOfTruth, I'm gonna try that
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kernelOfTruth · Posted: Fri Oct 06, 2006 3:09 pm Post subject:

oh, I forgot: you have to use

OgRo · Posted: Fri Oct 06, 2006 3:24 pm Post subject:

Per Wiklander · Posted: Mon Oct 16, 2006 12:20 am Post subject:

Hi,

I managed to boot the "small gentoo", amd64-release without problems (SATA and network working) on my P5B-VM with a core 2 duo. My problem now is that I want to use VServer to create virtual hosts on this box. To do that I need a special kernel, vserver-sources. I haven't tried to boot that kernel yet (I haven't even installed anything yet) but I guess it will have the same problems with the JMicron controller as other Gentoo kernels.

So, how can I get 2.6.18-mm1 with the vserver patches?

kernelOfTruth · Posted: Mon Oct 16, 2006 8:09 am Post subject:

Hi Per Wiklander,

glad the CD worked for you

try out the following:

* vanilla-2.6.18
* vserver-patch provided from phreak
* libata-git patch from vipernicus' emission1 release 2.6.18-emission1
emission1 patches

alternatively:

*2.6.18-m1
*vserver-patch

you have to activate JMicron & Intel ICH support in S-ATA

hope that helps ...
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kheisler · n00b Joined: 15 May 2006 Posts: 10

I'm using the no-sources 2.6.18-rc4 "To be.." kernel. Everything seems to be working fine except that the system clock is running 2-3 times faster.

Has anyone else run into this issue?

The clock was running fine on the livecd, and I've removed all the ACPI stuff from the kernel, but still no luck

system time to fast

Per Wiklander · Posted: Tue Oct 24, 2006 4:07 pm Post subject:

hunphi96 · n00b Joined: 01 Nov 2006 Posts: 21 Location: London, UK

A word of warning to any JMicron users who are thinking of emerging the vanilla 2.6.19-x kernels.

The header file, config.h is now deprecated and so ebuilds compiled against the kernel will almost certainly fail.

Builds compiled against the kernel can also cause sandbox violations.

Both these problems can be resolved using diff patches, but it's probably easier to use a patched 2.6.18 kernel, as described in previous posts.
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kernelOfTruth · Posted: Wed Nov 01, 2006 9:08 pm Post subject:

@hunphi96: thanks & welcome to gentoo

well I didn't notice that since I patch the kernels by myself :wink:

but good that you reported it, this will save gentoo-newcomers a lot of trouble

the 2.6.19-branch shouldn't be used (especially not yet the mm-branch) since various things still don't work (frequency-switching e.g. is broken in conjunction with P5W DH Deluxe & Conroe, ...)

besides that frequency-switching of

hunphi96 · n00b Joined: 01 Nov 2006 Posts: 21 Location: London, UK

I also patched the vanilla kernel cause I wanted to avoid an experimental kernel:

bubbl07 · Posted: Fri Nov 10, 2006 4:09 pm Post subject:

Does anyone know if gentoo-sources-2.6.18-r2 supports PATA on the JMicron controller?