Kernel 2.6.0-test1 released

Mooses · Tux's lil' helper Joined: 16 Jul 2002 Posts: 128

Oh f***!

Having tested 2.6-test1 I thought I also give the here so often mentioned 2.6-test1_mm1 O7 patched a try. And I really have to say, I never ever saw my system that increadibly fast and responsive (even when performing an emerge -u word while compiling LaTEX)

A very astonished

Mooses

tturktime · Posted: Sat Jul 19, 2003 4:05 pm Post subject:

Vagabond · Apprentice Joined: 19 Jan 2003 Posts: 192

Hmm, it looks like I've made some headway on the lockup problem I've been having. I disabled the AMD specific stuff in the character devices (actually the whole AGPART thing) and in the Atapi and IDE section and it seems to have solved the problem. I'm not sure which of them is the problem. I'm leaning towards the AGPART because it seems to crash only when X is running.

I'll do more experimenting and see what I find.

BTW, does anyone else have problems with the nvidia module and the mm1+07int patch? The module works for vanilla 2.6-test1 but not for mm1-07int.

Vag

datrix · n00b Joined: 08 Jun 2003 Posts: 26

I've been *trying* to use 2.6.0-test1 for the past 3 straight days without success. The kernel fails with :

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watersb · Posted: Sun Jul 20, 2003 12:07 am Post subject:

watersb · Posted: Sun Jul 20, 2003 12:12 am Post subject:

Ian · Posted: Sun Jul 20, 2003 4:40 am Post subject:

One thing I just noticed...

I use gKrellm2 as a system monitor, and to take up space on my desktop (2 monitors means i have space to waste :p). I noticed that over the past few days, in which I've been running 2.6.0-test1, that I'm getting no readings on my hard drives, at all. I don't know what this means, but probably that I forgot to add something, or that gKrellm2 doesn't work with 2.6 (entirely).

Any ideas?

butters · Posted: Sun Jul 20, 2003 5:52 am Post subject:

gkrellm2 works for me on 2.6.0-test1. Check your gkrellm configuration by right clicking almost anywhere on it.
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Starborn · Posted: Sun Jul 20, 2003 6:06 am Post subject:

Just to let you guys know, 2.6.0-test1-mm2 has been released. Its got the O7 patch applied, but it looks like theres a pretty nasty bug in ext3 - can't emerge anything because of oopses during heavy disk IO - i've had to go back to mm1 with O7.

Edit: get it here - also it doesnt compile if software suspend is enabled. Theres a patch on lkml for it.

Edit2: Heres the patch for the ext3 bug i mentioned:

butters · Posted: Sun Jul 20, 2003 7:28 am Post subject:

Just grabbed the mm1 kernel and patched with O6, O6.1, and O7
When I then tried applying the softrr patch, I got some errors saying that 3 out of 9 chunks failed. When I tried compiling the resulting kernel, it failed on sched.o, obviously because of the bad patch. So I reversed the patch and now it compiles cleanly with O7. A lot of you have O7 + softrr working. What have I done wrong?
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ValKov · Posted: Sun Jul 20, 2003 9:59 am Post subject: nvidia drivers probs

Hi, all
Yesterday installed system with kernel 2.6.0-test1, everything seems working, exept nvidia drivers... I used the latest patch for Linux-2.5 and there was no errors, but when I try to run X with nvidia drivers, I have this error:
(II) Loading extension GLX
(II) LoadModule: "nvidia"
(WW) Warning, couldn't open module nvidia
(II) UnloadModule: "nvidia"
(EE) Failed to load module "nvidia" (module does not exist, 0)
(II) LoadModule: "mouse"
(II) Loading /usr/X11R6/lib/modules/input/mouse_drv.o
(II) Module mouse: vendor="The XFree86 Project"
compiled for 4.3.0, module version = 1.0.0
Module class: XFree86 XInput Driver
ABI class: XFree86 XInput driver, version 0.4
(EE) No drivers available.

Fatal server error:
no screens found

Can anybody help ?
Tnx.

maor · Guru Joined: 28 Aug 2002 Posts: 323

vericgar · Posted: Sun Jul 20, 2003 10:34 am Post subject:

I'm running it, and I haven't had too many problems and the responsiveness is s much better.... here's the problems I did have:

1) ALSA wasn't working on bootup for some reason. I did a simple modprobe snd_es18xx and it works. I added this to modules.autoload so that I wouldn't have to modprobe it every time. This seems hackish though, is there a better way?

2) I can't get an aterm, xterm, anything that includes a shell to open in XWindows. As suggested above when someone else was having similiar probems I checked for UNIX98 and Pseudo Terminals and they were both enabled. Any ideas? I was able to lauch aterm in a way so that I could see the output, and I'm finding that both aterm and xterm are Segfaulting.... researching now how to find out more what the source of the problem is..... Update: FIXED! Went reading through the kernel help messages in make menuconfig and found out that I needed to do a mount -t devpts devpts /dev/pts for pseudo terminals to work. Everything works flawlessly on that now!

3) My mouse now moves *way* too fast for my liking. I remember I adjusted the speed up of it quite a while ago, but I don't remember how I did it and I can't seem to find the thread that I got the tip from. Anybody know how to slow down my mouse?

Other then that, I'm loving it. More testing to ensue, I'll let ppl know if I have any further problems, and I'm going to see how high I can get my uptime on a "test" kernel

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ValKov · Posted: Sun Jul 20, 2003 11:37 am Post subject:

maor wrote
what is the printout of lsmod?
vk root # lsmod
Module Size Used by
nvidia 1610056 0
tuner 14404 0
tvaudio 20352 0
bttv 101568 0
video_buf 16512 1 bttv
v4l2_common 3840 1 bttv
videodev 8320 1 bttv
sg 29132 0
sr_mod 13792 0
cdrom 33632 1 sr_mod
sd_mod 11808 0
usb_storage 27200 0
hid 23232 0
?

eta · n00b Joined: 04 May 2003 Posts: 43

neenee · Veteran Joined: 20 Jul 2003 Posts: 1786

hm.. i am now running the 2.60-test1-mm2 kernel, in the hope
that the slowness would be fixed with the mm2 patch. i had no
such luck though; it seems to me that the nvidia kernel is very
slow; on the desktop windows are laggy and the first time i run
startx, my background can be actually *seen* building up from
top to bottom; not with hitches, it goes smooth, but still.. before
with kernel 2.4.21 (with con kolivas patch and without) my
wallpaper would appear near-instantly with no visible build-up.
and when i run a game such as unreal tournament (not 2003),
the first moments the sounds are messed up; lots of hitches in
them as if there's trouble loading sounds or something is hogging
the system in a terrible way. and when in the game itself playing,
when i press a key, the action happens as if lagged. i do not
know why this is happening, i just know it is quite annoying while
i was hoping 2.6 (even though being a test version) would show
me some nice improvements in responsiviness and general
performance.

apart from the lag and accompanying (at least i think it is part of
the same problem) sound problem, there's another problem.

it seems the 2.6 test kernel doesn not process /etc/X11/
XF86Config in the same manner the 2.4.21 kernel did; my wheel
of my mouse does not work, and the cursor moves as if using
a low refresh rate - i can not actually see it skip, but i can see
that it is quite a bit less smooth than before.

oh.. i am running slackware 9, which might be part of the problem,
but i doubt this, since i have used gentoo kernel patches before,
which seemed to work just fine. i am posting in these forums since
i have noticed there are many people here who know what they
are talking about.

any suggestions are greatly appreciated.

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neenee · Veteran Joined: 20 Jul 2003 Posts: 1786

thank you for your prompt reply. i will
however not try it, since i need to be
able to use my mouse-wheel.

Vagabond · Apprentice Joined: 19 Jan 2003 Posts: 192

Okay I've found the cause of my lockups, its SCSI ATAPI emulation. I've done extensive testing and I've concluded that enabling SCSI ATAPI emulation will gurantee a system lockup within a few minutes while with it disabled I've had the 2.6 kernel run flawlessly for 11 hours straight.

So with that issue resolved 2.6 seems to be a great kernel and quite stable too. I also posted a message to the lkml since I hadn't seen a similar bug reported to the mailing list.

Maybe this info will help someone else.

Vag

kali · n00b Joined: 30 Sep 2002 Posts: 39 Location: Rome, Italy

handsomepete · Posted: Sun Jul 20, 2003 2:34 pm Post subject:

neenee · Veteran Joined: 20 Jul 2003 Posts: 1786

kali - yes; i am using reiserfs, but not as my root.