2.6.18-no2 "Freeze Sucka!" | Suspend2!,Lockless!,FF Fixed!

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

I have run into the same R4 error with other kernels also, strange that it happens only when compiling gcc 4.1.1.

kfiaciarka · Posted: Fri Oct 20, 2006 8:19 am Post subject:

Who really need R4 ;-)

kernelOfTruth · Posted: Fri Oct 20, 2006 9:01 am Post subject:

If you have enough ram (at least 1.5 GB), you can "solve" this by creating a temporary ram-drive:

kfiaciarka · Posted: Fri Oct 20, 2006 9:38 am Post subject:

Gentree · Posted: Fri Oct 20, 2006 10:44 am Post subject:

kernelOfTruth · Posted: Fri Oct 20, 2006 2:53 pm Post subject:

@kfiaciarka:
perhaps you should use tmpfs in conjunction with screen, the emerge --quiet, and

zatalian · Posted: Sat Oct 21, 2006 11:44 am Post subject:

I'm unable to recompile the vmware modules for this kernel. Is this normal? I can't find anybody mentioning the use of vmware...

kfiaciarka · Posted: Sat Oct 21, 2006 1:01 pm Post subject:

Try vanilla/gentoo sources instead

You can always have 2 kernels :>

BeteNoire · Veteran Joined: 25 Sep 2005 Posts: 1827

This *sources seems to be a very nice patchset. Unfortunately I experienced very nasty freezes when... using USB mouse on my laptop. Nothing helped besides hard reset (power cut off).
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f0rk · Apprentice Joined: 15 Nov 2004 Posts: 273 Location: Moscow

What do staircase and PREEMPT_RCU really give?
I try to use 2.6.18-no2 with PREEMPT_RCU, but there are too many "freezes" anywhere.
I'm compiling kdepim in Konsole, hearing music in xmms and also gaim + opera loaded.
Compiling kdepim goes too slow, and I have to wait about few minutes when I swich between Konsole -> Opera -> Gaim / Thunderbird...

With kernel 2.6.18-suspend2 all work fine!

pengu · Posted: Mon Oct 23, 2006 10:37 pm Post subject:

Great! since nerly 2 months I'd some problems with my sata disks
So I tried this patches and yeah success!

Azzazzazz · n00b Joined: 10 Nov 2005 Posts: 14

Great release!
Crazy fast on my dual core

Just have to find why x crash when I am using xine+this patchset

Updates :

the problem was the "ati-drivers ~amd64" when I use the stable one it work

pengu · Posted: Tue Oct 24, 2006 10:21 am Post subject:

albyjr · n00b Joined: 24 Aug 2005 Posts: 31

has anyone solved or found a patch to get the 2.6.18 kernels to play dvd's ?
I had to back down to 2.6.17 to be able to play dvd's

pengu · Posted: Wed Oct 25, 2006 1:03 am Post subject:

Allan K · n00b Joined: 29 Oct 2006 Posts: 7

Hi

I've found this to be an excellent kernel for low latency audio work, however this version seems to have a problem with the realtime-lsm.
I have compiled it with the inbuilt realtime-lsm as a module and static, in both cases jackd (ebuild name:jack-audio-connection-kit), refuses to run as a normal user. I have even tried to use the realtime-lsm ebuild and get the same results. I have not had these sorts of problems before. Error messages below. (FYI I'm using a 32-bit install on an AMD 3500+ for VST compatibility)

This is the message from the latest testing version (~x86)
JACK compiled with System V SHM support.
cannot use real-time scheduling (FIFO at priority 10) [for thread -1210083664, from thread -1210083664] (22: Invalid argument)
cannot create engine.

This is the message from the latest stable version
JACK: unable to mlock() port buffers: Cannot allocate memory
cannot use real-time scheduling (FIFO at priority 20) [for thread -1228600416, from thread -1228600416] (22: Invalid argument)
cannot use real-time scheduling (FIFO at priority 10) [for thread -1236993120, from thread -1236993120] (22: Invalid argument)

Any hints, or is this a bug (I'm more than happy to test patches with a little guidance on the patching process)

cheers

Allan K
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Gentree · Posted: Sun Oct 29, 2006 7:56 pm Post subject:

since a little while back I have noticed "serial failed to start" coming up several times in the boot console.

looking into it , this seems to be the serial port support which I was not even aware I had in rc-update (maybe I just never noticed because it was nice and quiet).

the error is caused because the module misc/serial.o is missing.

Has this been moved / renamed on 2.6.18 ? I can find nothing similar anywhere in gentoo or globally on google.

Can I really be the only persion in the world with this oddity?

TIA

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prester_john · n00b Joined: 08 Sep 2006 Posts: 17

Bitchin' Kernel

Boot-up time has been sliced in half since all my reiser partitions are now mounted much faster. The Kernel also performs great under heavy load.

I used Staircase Scheduler = Low Latency Desktop, no kernel preemption whatsoever and PREEMPT_RCU = Classic, on my ~amd64 machine this resulted in better performance than using any kind of preemption.

The only problem I encountered so far is the fact that I can not emerge vmware-modules, it would be nice if that issue was resolved sometime in the future, for now I can live without it:)

Thanks for the outstanding work, Conrad:)

prester_john · n00b Joined: 08 Sep 2006 Posts: 17

_BLooDy_ · n00b Joined: 21 Oct 2006 Posts: 13 Location: Germany

Hi.

When doing "emerge no-sources" I get an strange error.
emerge tells, that it cannot locate

Gentree · Posted: Mon Oct 30, 2006 6:10 pm Post subject:

Houdini · Posted: Mon Oct 30, 2006 7:54 pm Post subject:

prester_john · n00b Joined: 08 Sep 2006 Posts: 17

_BLooDy_ · n00b Joined: 21 Oct 2006 Posts: 13 Location: Germany

Thank u.

But I found another way to handle this. My box seemed not to handle the ebuild right! Even fetching a new one didn't help. On "emerge no-sources" it just fetched the 2.6.18-no2 but didn't recognize it after fetching and put out a confusing error, that it can't fetch the file, because its allready fetched.

Just tried a bit around and put "2.6.18-no2" instead of "${VK}" in the no-ebuild. Don't ask me why, but it works.

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Kollin · Posted: Tue Oct 31, 2006 12:45 pm Post subject:

I can`t download the ebuild: