2.5.73 is out

handsomepete · Posted: Tue Jun 24, 2003 5:08 pm Post subject:

I don't know if I did something different or if things have changed that much, but this round feels very noticably snappier on the desktop for me (changing to 1000HZ). I can't even get xmms to skip. Yay!

Imrahil

Trying out 2.5.73mm1. Big improvement in performance for me so far, sound output is great even under full load. The odd thing is that responsiveness is much better than 2.5.72. I tracked down a few issues. With 2.5.72mm1, Xfree refused to use NVAGP (I find AGPGART to be unstable on my system)

wilburpan · l33t Joined: 21 Jan 2003 Posts: 977

One thing I noticed with the last few 2.5.xxx kernels is that some of the drivers I had been using are missing. To run my Xircom PCMCIA NIC I had been compiling the xircom_cb module (I'm primarily running 2.5.69-mm8), but I can't find it anywhere in 2.5.72 or 2.5.73. The one option I find for a Xircom PCMCIA card generates xircps2_cs, but that doesn't seem to work with my card.

I tried copying over the xircom_cb module over to the /lib/modules/2.5.72 tree, but that didn't help me out either.

tekM · n00b Joined: 25 Jun 2003 Posts: 29 Location: Tucson, AZ

Got mm-sources 2.5.73.r1 rocking. Everything compiled great. Everything loads perfect with minor exception. Heres a quick overview followed by some issues:

System boot and modules load Good
Nvidia kernel drivers emerge Good
Running Xfree Good so far
KDE Good
ALSA Sound Good
XMMS and MPlayer Good
Mozilla Firebird Good
Just about everything other app Good

Things that dont work for me:

vmware 4 doesnt work. vmware-config.pl screws the pooch when it attempts to build vmnet modules. This is a big buzzkill for me, though I expected as much from vmware.

Konsole wont run. Gives me error "Unable to open suitable terminal device" Not sure what on earth that means.

FileManager SuperUser mode (Konqueror su) doesnt work. Prompts you for root pass then errors stating that "program su cannot be found" weird.

All in all this sucker is pretty damn beautiful. I was thinking about remerging KDE to fix the last 2 issues, but I have a feeling Im SOL on vmware. Anyone have any ideas on the issues I listed?
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tekM · n00b Joined: 25 Jun 2003 Posts: 29 Location: Tucson, AZ

That should about do it for me. You rule. And just in the nick of time too, cause now that Im back in 2.4 it seems like half the speed

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tekM · n00b Joined: 25 Jun 2003 Posts: 29 Location: Tucson, AZ

Ok, its official now. Thankyou AlterEgo for those links. Both fixed the three probs I had. I now have ZERO issues with this kernel.

kick_ass

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ConcreteLake · n00b Joined: 08 Jun 2003 Posts: 2 Location: Cologne

I cant believe it!
Im runnung dozends of apps, do en emerge -e world and recompile my new 2.5.73-mm1(just for the kicks), switch between desktops, have glxgears running, do whatever and XMMS DOES NOT SKIP!!
I surely cant believe it :-).
And my clock does not run slower anymore. This kernel-version surely rocks.

teilo · Posted: Wed Jun 25, 2003 9:29 pm Post subject:

Unlike all of you, I CANNOT get this kernel to boot, no matter what.
Tried everything. I get kernel panic at various places.

I'm using mm-sources latest. (.73-r1). It compiles just fine. I've tried compiling it with both 3.3 and 3.2.3.

I'm not doing anything radical. Anything particularly unstable in this kernel that could be causing this? I've got premptible enabled. Tried disabling ACPI. Tried disabling CPU SpeedStep stuff. Tried disabling framebuffer.

Very frustrating.

ac-sources compile and boot just fine for me.
Also, 2.5.72-mm-r3 booted just fine for me as well.
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krazo · Tux's lil' helper Joined: 19 Oct 2002 Posts: 90

Hey..
I know this may sound ridiculous but here goes.. ever since 2.5.72-mm2, X will die with signal 11 if I run my mouse cursor over my Terminal icon in my panel. Even if I boot 2.4 and remove it X will still crash under 2.5 if I run over it in the app-menu.. any ideas or is anyone having the same issues?

BTW: Only happens with my user not root.
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Freak_NL · Posted: Thu Jun 26, 2003 8:49 am Post subject:

I'm going mad here.. I was running 2.5.69 before this one, and for some unknown reason my system started to crawl recently.. It seems my IO-Wait is thru the roof on just about any action that involves /dev/hda.

I suspect something isn't configured right, like a system where DMA is turned off. Only it is on here..

ptman · n00b Joined: 25 Dec 2002 Posts: 24 Location: Finland

Has anyone got usermode linux compiled from development-sources or mm-sources. I think that UML has been merged to the main tree since 2.5.2something. All I could get was a bunch of errors early in the process.
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Gaenya · Tux's lil' helper Joined: 03 Apr 2003 Posts: 81

Does the modems works for anybody???, cause mine dials but when it checks the user and password it hangs, but if i reboot and try with 2.5.72-mm3 it works fine.

Gaenya · Tux's lil' helper Joined: 03 Apr 2003 Posts: 81

Does the modems works for anybody???, cause mine dials but when it checks the user and password it hangs, but if i reboot and try with 2.5.72-mm3 it works fine.

qubex · Posted: Fri Jun 27, 2003 3:41 am Post subject:

sepp · Guru Joined: 11 Jul 2002 Posts: 330

Hi,
just tried 2.5.73 out but for me having a smp machine it really sucks. preempt makes my system very slow. is preempt maybe just designed to work on non-smp-machines? would using 2.5.73-mm maybe help me?

Freak_NL · Posted: Fri Jun 27, 2003 7:54 am Post subject:

I'm very much afraid that my HDD is indeed dieing, hdparm is agreeing with me on the fact that DMA and the likes are "on", so I'll pop off to the hardware shop in a moment for some fresh HDD action. Then I'll submit this one to some more rigorous testing. I'm almost done saving my precious Gentoo install.

The PCI errors mentioned above popup here aswell, nothing to worry about as far as I can tell.

silverter · Guru Joined: 10 Apr 2002 Posts: 491 Location: Ulm, DE

Has anyone got 2.5.73-mm1 and 2.5.72-mm3 working with pcmcia? Whenever I boot with my PCMCIA network card in the slot, it hangs after initializing the card (a 3c574 3Com Etherlink NIC). If I remove the card from the slot, it boots fine and I can work without any hitches. But as soon as I insert the NIC in the PCMCIA slot, all the system hangs. even removing the card does not help at all, I have to hard reboot the machine....

vanilla 2.5.72 and 2.5.73 are fine, and the last working mm-series was 2.5.762-mm2. Can anyone tell me what change after this ? What patches can I revert in order ot narrow down the problem before reporting the bug at kernel.org...

Thanks alot and regards
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qubex · Posted: Fri Jun 27, 2003 2:28 pm Post subject: Re: preempt problems

handsomepete · 2.5.73-mm2

2.5.73-mm2

sindre · Guru Joined: 01 Nov 2002 Posts: 315 Location: Norway

Sequentious · Posted: Sat Jun 28, 2003 4:40 am Post subject:

I am quite impressed with the latest kernel offering. I'm using 73-mm1 (i see mm2 is out, but i didnt grab it on my sync apparently).

Is anybody else using the cdread plugin for xmms? I'm noticing that every time i do (almost) anything, my cd playback skips. Almost anything includes clicking a link in mozilla-firebird, or launching balsa, for example.

(note that this is not the regular cd plugin that just spins the drive). I suspect this may be a xmms-cdread problem, and not a kernel problem, but I figured I'd ask anyway as nobody on irc seems to have an idea.
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Sequentious · Posted: Sat Jun 28, 2003 4:40 am Post subject:

Now, to answer some questions:

handsomepete · Posted: Sat Jun 28, 2003 12:32 pm Post subject:

So I've been playing around with this, wanted to see if anyone has any ideas where to start looking. I'm getting some bizarre locks that are new with 2.5.73, mostly due to emerging and any mozilla (any non-Moz browser does not cause this problem). Unfortunately, the only stable thing in the equation is portage (using Mozilla nightlies from 6/26 now, used a couple other nights before that). I'm also getting the Badness in pci_find_subsys errors as listed above. A new one spits out everytime I:
*) Have mozilla open
*) Attempt to emerge mozilla/moz-firebird/etc. while mozilla is open
*) The result of trying to do this is mozilla and the terminal process lock up. I am almost always unable to kill either process to unlock the other, but on the occasions where I can, the other usually frees up. Sometimes closing another window frees up one of the processes, but not always. The entire system becomes unstable at this point usually necessitating a reboot.
*) So far this _only_ happens when trying to emerge a mozilla browser. If I never start X, I've been able to emerge mozilla with some success.
*) Software involved:
- mm-sources 2.5.73-r2 (currently)
- gcc 3.3
- mozilla nightly
- xfree 4.3-r2

So, with this situation and a fair amount of "unstable" software, is it even worth filing a bug on it? Is there something I can do to provide more information to them? Can anyone else reproduce this (or is having similar problems)? When I get home I'm going to turn on all the debugging options in the kernel and see if I get anything exciting - I want to try and hunt this down before I fall back to an older 2.5 kernel. I suppose I should also try the vanilla dev sources to see if it's an -mm patch. Any other suggestions?

sindre · Guru Joined: 01 Nov 2002 Posts: 315 Location: Norway

mm2 gave me a freeze in X when I was logging in through gdm. mm1 feels so much better than 2.5.72*. I don't know if this is all imagination or not. My mouse cursor even feels smoother.