2.5.74 released.

idl · Posted: Wed Jul 02, 2003 11:30 pm Post subject: 2.5.74 released.

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Lovechild · Posted: Wed Jul 02, 2003 11:48 pm Post subject:

Nothing of interest - the most interesting thing on lkml right now is Con Kolivas' lastest insane hacks O1int and time gran. (the latter is in pfeifer sources now I think).

Also Mike has an idea for a general framework to boost priorities during special sitiuations like audio and video access, sounds very promising for us poor desktop users.

RedBeard0531 · Guru Joined: 21 Sep 2002 Posts: 415 Location: maryland

Actualy, it looks like it fixes the xfs problems I was having. Each reboot, it would fail log replay, now I know why.
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abracadaver · Tux's lil' helper Joined: 03 Feb 2003 Posts: 125

i'm using the vanilla and there's really no noticeable differences from what i was using before , which was .73-bk6, Rhythmbox skips a little less with each release though, but direct alsa with xmms has been unshakeable as of the later revisions of 73

i do, however, have kind of a general kernel question, about the cfq and as schedulers, are they available in all kernels or just mm? and is there a way to tell for sure if you have it enabled, or are you just to assume because you put the parameter in your kernel line that it worked?

RedBeard0531 · Guru Joined: 21 Sep 2002 Posts: 415 Location: maryland

broschi · Posted: Thu Jul 03, 2003 3:38 am Post subject:

Nothing interesting, what about:

pens · Posted: Thu Jul 03, 2003 5:00 am Post subject:

<greg@kroah.com>
I2C: add i2c-ali1535 bus driver

Ported from the i2c cvs tree.

Hopefully this will allow my laptop to finally read sensors data...

/me rushes off to compile...

idl · Posted: Thu Jul 03, 2003 12:29 pm Post subject:

mm1 is out

Safrax · Guru Joined: 23 Apr 2002 Posts: 422

.74-mm1 seems to have gotten rid of that annoying bug that was randomly "losing" processes.. It feels sooooo smooth too..

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

Lovechild · Posted: Thu Jul 03, 2003 4:20 pm Post subject:

.74-mm1 is much better but far from prefect - Con has he might have some tricks up his sleeve yet to aid the crappiness of the scheduler.

idl · Posted: Thu Jul 03, 2003 4:43 pm Post subject:

Moving and resizing windows performance has greatly decreased for me, windows can't keep up with the mouse... looks funny, windows moving on their own.

hmmm, think it could be related to min_timeslice 1 ?
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Lovechild · Posted: Thu Jul 03, 2003 4:53 pm Post subject:

handsomepete · Posted: Thu Jul 03, 2003 8:42 pm Post subject:

2.5.74 nuked ACPI for me. Had to boot with ACPI=off. Other than that, seems nice. I haven't locked up yet, still getting the badness errors. *shrug* If anything I feel like I should always reply to these threads just to bookmark them.

idl · Posted: Thu Jul 03, 2003 8:47 pm Post subject:

@Lovechidl, changing min_timeslice solved it.

handsomepete · Posted: Thu Jul 03, 2003 9:06 pm Post subject:

I know this is veering off topic, sorry. Doesn't "watching" the topic just send you e-mails? I'm not even sure I used a real e-mail address to sign up for these forums. I usually just login here, view my posts then view posts since my last visit and that's how I track. *shrug* It's probably the stupid way to do it, but since I mostly browse at work it's virtually the only way. I don't leave my email open all day (or check it that often, really).

So, does anyone know what the Badness in pci_find_subsys at drivers/pci/search.c:128 errors are all about? Someone mentioned that they're not volitile, but they do line up with processes stalling on my system (which seems less frequent with .74).

togge · n00b Joined: 17 Mar 2003 Posts: 14

I get compiling error when i enable APM in the kernel

Anyone else have the same problem, or is it just me ?

Freak_NL · Posted: Fri Jul 04, 2003 9:15 am Post subject:

Well.. finally figured out what was going PANIC all the time something was compiling.. XFS' page buffer apparantly did. Finally figured that out after setting my console font a little smaller (more lines)

..so now I'm back with a ReiserFS root.

I'll see about cloning this partition to a XFS setup for a bugreport. (I love tar; Linux: the cloneable OS)

Vanilla 2.5.74 seems to like my desktop computer though.

Now on to the laptop.. 2.5 series means losing my touchpad (nothing special, it's just like a PS/2 mouse) and losing network.. My onboard Realtek gives a garbage HWaddr in ifconfig and happily transmits stuff who knows where, but doesn't receive a single bit.

-leliel- · Posted: Fri Jul 04, 2003 10:39 am Post subject:

got it working after a few hours ...

but it seems to be very slow with my wm (kahakai/waimea) and X ...

so long

thubble · Posted: Fri Jul 04, 2003 7:38 pm Post subject:

ck's O2int patch has been released! It's apparently an improvement on O1int, and it patches against 2.5.74-mm1. Also, his granularity patch is available, which apparently makes desktop performance smoother but decreases throughput. Both are available at http://members.optusnet.com.au/ckolivas/kernel/2.5/

Going to go patch and recompile 2.5.74-mm1. I'll let you know how it goes.

bart · n00b Joined: 13 Apr 2002 Posts: 60

Like Freak_NL I've some troubles with my laptop since 2.5.73.
My mouse (normal ps/2 synaptics) doesn'r do anything.
In 2.5.73 there was a "psmouse compile fix". I'm afraid that this fix broke more than it fixed

Lovechild · Posted: Fri Jul 04, 2003 9:23 pm Post subject:

idl · Posted: Sat Jul 05, 2003 2:14 am Post subject:

I'm not realy noticing any improvements with the O2 sched patch

As for window movement, why don't I just turn opaque off? :lol:

EDIT: Wireframe is what I mean :wink:

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robmoss · Posted: Sat Jul 05, 2003 2:48 am Post subject:

This is the second 2.5 kernel I've tried - but the first one I tried doesn't really count, it was very early (2.5.4 or something like that, I think) and didn't boot. So, right now, I'm able to post on here using a 2.5 kernel. Largely, all is going well!

However, I have a fairly major problem, or two. The first (and most serious) is that gnome-terminal is now completely and utterly shafted. It doesn't segfault - I could probably fix it if it was doing that. No, this is far worse. I start gnome-terminal, and am presented with nothing but a box and a flashing cursor. I don't get a prompt - just a cursor. It won't accept any input. Has anyone else had this problem? More to the point, if so, has anyone managed to fix it yet?!

The second problem is that on all consoles apart from tty1, the cursor disappears entirely. This is also really annoying, as it means that I have to guess where the cursor is when I'm trying to edit previous lines, unless I keep it at the end of the line by deleting everything (not exactly preferable).

So apart from a fairly drastic lack of a usable command-line environment, I am, on the whole, very happy indeed with this new kernel.

Someone please help me out - I don't want to go back to a 2.4 kernel simply because I've lost my command line!!

Cheers,

Rob

[EDIT: I found the alsactl store thingy, so never mind about the muting thing...]

floam · Posted: Sat Jul 05, 2003 3:37 am Post subject:

robmoss2k: Go into kernel config and turn on Unix98 PTS support to get your terminals working.