2.5.70

cyfred · Retired Dev Joined: 23 Aug 2002 Posts: 596

Exner all of my systems use GCC 3.3 and my kernel boots fine.
Can you post a error message as such or does the kernel just stop loading?

Lovechild · Posted: Thu May 29, 2003 11:18 am Post subject:

http://www.ussg.iu.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/0305.3/1285.html

mm2 is out, have at it.

Exner · Posted: Thu May 29, 2003 11:36 am Post subject:

jimlynch11 · Posted: Thu May 29, 2003 12:01 pm Post subject:

rather than me rsync'ing 10 times today waiting for mm2 to be in portage, would someone post here when they see an ebuild has been submitted? dont wanna bog down the servers now do i :wink:

Lovechild · Posted: Thu May 29, 2003 12:12 pm Post subject:

darktux · Posted: Thu May 29, 2003 1:36 pm Post subject:

But, it is already in portage

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Lovechild · Posted: Thu May 29, 2003 1:39 pm Post subject:

nephros · Posted: Thu May 29, 2003 2:27 pm Post subject:

fca · Guru Joined: 22 Feb 2003 Posts: 346 Location: Netherlands

OK, I've managed to compile 2.5.70-mm1, with gcc 3.3. It works fine, except I've seen that my harddrive performance is down?

Lovechild · Posted: Thu May 29, 2003 3:47 pm Post subject:

I found a way to remove even more of that nasty laggy sound behavior

edit kernel/sched.c and set max_timeslice to less than or equal to 40 instead of 200 as it is now. that took care of most of the jitter for me. It has been suggested that even as low as 10 might be good for desktop usage.

Exner · But 2.5.70-mm2 says

Exner · Posted: Thu May 29, 2003 4:51 pm Post subject:

idl · Posted: Thu May 29, 2003 5:25 pm Post subject:

Lovechild · Posted: Thu May 29, 2003 5:34 pm Post subject:

It seems the the problem might be the interactive changes ingo and linus made - they seem to be slow at adapting to changing conditions.

idl · Posted: Thu May 29, 2003 5:43 pm Post subject:

sebgarden · Guru Joined: 21 Dec 2002 Posts: 353

I finally get rid of these annoying ext3 problems with mm-sources-2.70-r2 (didn't try 2.70-r1). With 2.69-mm9, I couldn't even wrote on ext3 (my boot partition) without causing a kernel hang-on. Very disappointing ! Fortunately, this seems to be fixed in this version. No problem so far.

Sébastien.

bssteph · l33t Joined: 26 Feb 2003 Posts: 652 Location: Wisconsin

Regarding everyone's audio talk, I have a similar issue.

Nothing makes ALSA skip a millisecond under normal conditions, -except- when a new song starts playing. For the first couple seconds of a song, if I do something substantial in galeon or nautilus, like going back or forward (but not loading a new page, perhaps due to slow modem speed), the sound pauses a bit. This is a global issue, not just in XMMS. I can play an ogg in ogg123 and i'll get the same skip for the same amount of time. Again, this is only the first couple seconds.

Due to nature of what it is i'm doing (very fast reads of the browser cache), do you think this is a story of the AS scheduler gone wrong? (I think I had the same results with really short timeslices, too) I don't remember when this first turned up but it's been a while... maybe since I started using mm-sources.

Negated Void · l33t Joined: 25 Dec 2002 Posts: 672

Alright: Here are my issues with my newly compiled 70mm2 kernel.
1) Wheres supermount?
2) When i ctrl-alt-f1 from kde, it gives me a yellow blocky screen with a white bar thgouh it and freezes the computer
3) Alsa dosn't have a PCM channel, or support 'unmute' on my via82xx.

handsomepete · Posted: Fri May 30, 2003 2:22 am Post subject:

Negated Void · l33t Joined: 25 Dec 2002 Posts: 672

wow.. just tried alsamixer - much easier than amixer

it appears i'm just using 'dummy' how do i get the thing to load my card?

handsomepete · Posted: Fri May 30, 2003 3:18 am Post subject:

stefanwa · Tux's lil' helper Joined: 09 Dec 2002 Posts: 140

No real problems so far, except that damn ALSA again...

alsasound script loads the driver but doesn't create the /dev entries. Manual loading of the modules does, but I have to set the mixer settings after every reboot.
Any idea to get alsasound create the /dev/dsp entry?

Edit: alsasound script worked fine in 2.5.69...

Lovechild · Posted: Fri May 30, 2003 8:35 am Post subject:

Negated Void · l33t Joined: 25 Dec 2002 Posts: 672

Alright

i've got sound working (pesky dummy driver mainly)

Anyways, now my only real issue is the console thing i mentioned. When i go into X, i *can't* return to a real console - doing so just freezes the box with some graphic wierdness that just sits there. Even if i do a restart computer in kde, it goes to the console and dies.

any ideas?

thanks!
-Matt

Lovechild · Posted: Fri May 30, 2003 10:28 am Post subject:

I noticed that when I click a link in epiphany, the cpu usage goes to 100% in a short spike and that causes my sound to skip. There must be some kind of unfairness in the system.

2.5.70-mm2 running deadline.
soundblaster Live 5.1 (emu10k1) running hard compiled ALSA in kernel.
1600+ Athlon-XP
GeForce TI-4280 - running latest driver set
Gnome 2.3.2

I'm pretty certain that the skips are casued by the interactive changes being slow at adapting to changing conditions. Thus it skips like crazy when you wiggle a window around, but after a while it settles down. Kinda like it learns to cope, sadly it's WAY to slow.