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brain0

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From: Aachen - Germany

Registered: 2005-01-03

Posts: 1,382

Re: Kernels, kernels, kernels

kernel26mm 2.6.19-rc6-mm2 is there (just now that 2.6.19 final is out). It broke my NIC, so I couldn't do much testing. Also fglrx doesn't compile and I have no idea why right now, so it comes without it. If you want to try it anyway, have fun.

philefou

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Registered: 2006-05-23

Posts: 15

Re: Kernels, kernels, kernels

Hi brain0, do you have now any idea how to make fglrx works? I have the same problem with kernel 2.6.19..
Thanks

philefou

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Registered: 2006-05-23

Posts: 15

Re: Kernels, kernels, kernels

I updated ati-fglrx and now everything works fine

ks1

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From: Atlanta, Georgia

Registered: 2006-03-26

Posts: 62

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Re: Kernels, kernels, kernels

I have installed kernel 2.6.19 and added pata support for my Intel piix. Changed Grub entry. Everything is working fine over here.

$ echo /dev/sd*
/dev/sda /dev/sda1 /dev/sdb /dev/sdb1 /dev/sdb2 /dev/sdc /dev/sdc1 /dev/sdc2 /dev/sdd /dev/sdd1

$ echo /dev/hd*
/dev/hd*

benplaut

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Registered: 2006-06-13

Posts: 383

Re: Kernels, kernels, kernels

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Last edited by benplaut (2021-06-25 12:32:10)

brain0

Developer

From: Aachen - Germany

Registered: 2005-01-03

Posts: 1,382

Re: Kernels, kernels, kernels

You don't have to switch. You can force initramfs to load "piix" first and stay with the ide subsystem (ata_piix ide support is still not stable). You can achieve this by either setting MODULES="piix" in mkinitcpio.conf or appending earlymodules=piix to your kernel commandline.

benplaut

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Registered: 2006-06-13

Posts: 383

Re: Kernels, kernels, kernels

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Last edited by benplaut (2021-06-25 12:32:00)

Ibex

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Registered: 2006-03-02

Posts: 135

Re: Kernels, kernels, kernels

Hm, seems like shfs is broken again. When I try to rebuild shfs myself using abs, it sais that some .diff file isn't found.

Can somebody fix the shfs package please? I need that for work, so for now I have to use the 2.6.18.

swiergot

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From: Kraków, Poland

Registered: 2005-01-08

Posts: 145

Re: Kernels, kernels, kernels

shfs no longer builds with 2.6.19. I'm yet to figure out how to fix this.

Romashka

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Registered: 2005-12-07

Posts: 1,054

Re: Kernels, kernels, kernels

shfs no longer builds with 2.6.19. I'm yet to figure out how to fix this.

I've always had problems with shfs. Even when it worked I was gettig  errors during unmounting very often.
So I just switched to sshfs (fuse-based).

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Fackamato

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Registered: 2006-03-31

Posts: 579

Re: Kernels, kernels, kernels

Thought that I'd just add some feedback; I have an i875 chipset (ich5 southbridge), and the new PATA drivers work well (I have both S-ATA and P-ATA HDDs).

Neuro

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From: Poland

Registered: 2005-10-12

Posts: 352

Re: Kernels, kernels, kernels

Got an Asus A6JC with an ICH7 pata ide controller. Running kernel26beyond-2.6.19beyond2. Everything works well, even my burner with which I had problems before. Only hdparm is complaining about wrong ioctl's.

rev

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From: Russia

Registered: 2006-12-01

Posts: 10

Re: Kernels, kernels, kernels

I've just noticed hdparm quirk too, trying to get some info about my PATA HDDs. Oh well...

brotheris

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Registered: 2006-01-17

Posts: 23

Re: Kernels, kernels, kernels

Tried new PATA here. Everything worked fine until I've tried to burn few test cdrw's. Got error, here's from syslog:

Dec 19 20:49:26 brotheris end_request: I/O error, dev sr0, sector 0
Dec 19 20:49:26 brotheris Buffer I/O error on device sr0, logical block 0
Dec 19 20:49:26 brotheris end_request: I/O error, dev sr0, sector 0
Dec 19 20:49:26 brotheris Buffer I/O error on device sr0, logical block 0
Dec 19 20:49:26 brotheris end_request: I/O error, dev sr0, sector 0
Dec 19 20:49:26 brotheris Buffer I/O error on device sr0, logical block 0
Dec 19 20:49:26 brotheris end_request: I/O error, dev sr0, sector 0
Dec 19 20:49:26 brotheris Buffer I/O error on device sr0, logical block 0
Dec 19 20:49:26 brotheris end_request: I/O error, dev sr0, sector 0
Dec 19 20:49:26 brotheris Buffer I/O error on device sr0, logical block 0
Dec 19 20:49:26 brotheris end_request: I/O error, dev sr0, sector 0
Dec 19 20:49:26 brotheris Buffer I/O error on device sr0, logical block 0
Dec 19 20:49:26 brotheris end_request: I/O error, dev sr0, sector 0
Dec 19 20:49:26 brotheris Buffer I/O error on device sr0, logical block 0
Dec 19 20:49:26 brotheris end_request: I/O error, dev sr0, sector 0
Dec 19 20:49:26 brotheris Buffer I/O error on device sr0, logical block 0
Dec 19 20:49:26 brotheris end_request: I/O error, dev sr0, sector 0
Dec 19 20:49:26 brotheris Buffer I/O error on device sr0, logical block 0
Dec 19 20:49:26 brotheris end_request: I/O error, dev sr0, sector 0
Dec 19 20:49:26 brotheris Buffer I/O error on device sr0, logical block 0
Dec 19 20:49:26 brotheris end_request: I/O error, dev sr0, sector 0
Dec 19 20:49:26 brotheris end_request: I/O error, dev sr0, sector 0
Dec 19 20:49:26 brotheris end_request: I/O error, dev sr0, sector 0
Dec 19 20:49:26 brotheris end_request: I/O error, dev sr0, sector 0
Dec 19 20:49:26 brotheris end_request: I/O error, dev sr0, sector 0
Dec 19 20:49:26 brotheris end_request: I/O error, dev sr0, sector 0
Dec 19 20:49:26 brotheris end_request: I/O error, dev sr0, sector 0
Dec 19 20:49:26 brotheris end_request: I/O error, dev sr0, sector 0
Dec 19 20:49:26 brotheris end_request: I/O error, dev sr0, sector 0
Dec 19 20:49:26 brotheris end_request: I/O error, dev sr0, sector 0
Dec 19 20:49:26 brotheris end_request: I/O error, dev sr0, sector 0
Dec 19 20:49:26 brotheris end_request: I/O error, dev sr0, sector 0
Dec 19 20:49:26 brotheris end_request: I/O error, dev sr0, sector 0
Dec 19 20:49:26 brotheris end_request: I/O error, dev sr0, sector 0
Dec 19 20:49:26 brotheris end_request: I/O error, dev sr0, sector 0
Dec 19 20:49:26 brotheris end_request: I/O error, dev sr0, sector 0
Dec 19 20:49:26 brotheris end_request: I/O error, dev sr0, sector 0
Dec 19 20:49:26 brotheris end_request: I/O error, dev sr0, sector 0
Dec 19 20:49:26 brotheris end_request: I/O error, dev sr0, sector 0
Dec 19 20:49:26 brotheris end_request: I/O error, dev sr0, sector 0
Dec 19 20:49:26 brotheris end_request: I/O error, dev sr0, sector 0
Dec 19 20:49:26 brotheris end_request: I/O error, dev sr0, sector 0

kernel26beyond, 00:11.1 IDE interface: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82C586A/B/VT82C686/A/B/VT823x/A/C PIPC Bus Master IDE (rev 06), LG HL-DT-ST DVDRAM GSA 4167B

Burning same cdrw works with ide hook.

Romashka

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Registered: 2005-12-07

Posts: 1,054

Re: Kernels, kernels, kernels

AFAIK some problems with CD/DVD-recorders are fixed with

modprobe sg

but I dunno about external firewire drive.

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Izuil

Member

From: Sweden

Registered: 2006-10-07

Posts: 162

Re: Kernels, kernels, kernels

I'm not sure if I've got this right.

Arch has 5 kernels:

stock
beyond
ck
suspend2
mm

Is that right?

And now to the actual question.

What's the differance with all those kernels and what version are they at?

byte

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From: Düsseldorf (DE)

Registered: 2006-05-01

Posts: 2,046

Re: Kernels, kernels, kernels

Just see their respective PKGBUILDs. Either in /var/abs/kernels and /var/abs/extra/kernels or on http://cvs.archlinux.org

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Izuil

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From: Sweden

Registered: 2006-10-07

Posts: 162

Re: Kernels, kernels, kernels

Just see their respective PKGBUILDs. Either in /var/abs/kernels and /var/abs/extra/kernels or on http://cvs.archlinux.org

The PKGBUILDs won't say much to me I' pretty new to this.

Those 2 I'm interested in is CK and Beyond.

Beyond:

The Linux Kernel and modules, with the Beyond patchset

What is the Beyond patchset and what is it good for?

CK:

The Linux Kernel and modules (Con Kolivas high performance ck-patchset with specific emphasis on the desktop)

This I might have understod. If I'm running a desktop computer then this is the recomended kernel?

oseb

Member

From: Busan, Korea

Registered: 2005-05-26

Posts: 31

Re: Kernels, kernels, kernels

default kernel + desktop patch = ck
default kernel + ck + suspend + fbsplash + etc = beyond

i recommend beyond patched kernel.

Namru

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From: Hamburg (Germany)

Registered: 2006-10-18

Posts: 13

Re: Kernels, kernels, kernels

on this wiki you can found the informations about the features, including links to the official pages from the dev how made the patches
http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Kernels

Izuil

Member

From: Sweden

Registered: 2006-10-07

Posts: 162

Re: Kernels, kernels, kernels

Okey, thanks to byte, oseb and Namru for helping

jinn

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From: Gothenburg

Registered: 2005-12-10

Posts: 506

Re: Kernels, kernels, kernels

Yesterday kernel 2.6.20 was released. And i guess soon it will be in arch repos. I have one request, and that is to add this patch for that kernel when its released. Its for the bcm43xx module. right now I am running a custom kernel with the patches applied, but would like to use the arch kernels with these patches.

I hope this will be added both to kernel26 and kernel26ck.

This is from Broadcom Linux <bcm43xx-dev@lists.berlios.de>

As you probably know, kernel 2.6.20 was released on Sunday (As Linus said "A Super Kernel for the
American Football Super Bowl Sunday. - I paraphrased a little.). For most people, that version will
run without problems other than the usual ones. There are, however, some changes that may be needed
for certain hardware and/or conditions. The recent changes/bug fixes that will not appear until
2.6.21 are:

1. The fix for DMA with > 1 GB RAM.
2. The code change to operate the radio LED for systems with a switch.
3. The changes to get proper scaling for rates and frequencies in iwlist.
4. The fix for the oops that occurs in hwrng_unregister on resuming. By the definitions used to
control the changes in a stable release, this is a BUG and should be fixed in 2.6.20.1.

If you wish to patch your source for all of the above, you should download
ftp://lwfinger.dynalias.org/patches/2.6.20_combined.

ftp://lwfinger.dynalias.org/patches/2.6.20_combined

Thanks
Jinn

Last edited by jinn (2007-02-05 08:34:18)

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swiergot

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From: Kraków, Poland

Registered: 2005-01-08

Posts: 145

Re: Kernels, kernels, kernels

FYI, shfs works again. Well, almost - it transfers only 8192 bytes of file. You can try it yourselves, I'd be happy to hear I'm the only one who has this problem.

skr

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From: Netherlands

Registered: 2004-12-29

Posts: 11

Re: Kernels, kernels, kernels

Why isn't posix acces control list enabled for NFS? I gues it would be possible to enable it...?