kernel26-one-dev development thread

rasteenb · 2009-08-12 11:53:21

Tera wrote:

I'm glad to hear you solved it
I'm in fact in progress of rolling out a new release soon. I have already a working PKGBUILD ported for kernel version 2.6.31-rc5-git7. I'm in the progress of Q/A'ing it but don't expect me to release it anytime soon as there's one major issue with it which I'm working with.
The biggest change from the last release is that acerhdf is now part of the official vanilla kernel so I'm dropping the acerhdf patch from it, as there is no need for it anymore.

Well - it's not entirely solved...it cropped up again this morning, but it is definitely less frequent. I'm experimenting now with different ways of bringing the system down to see if it has an effect on subsequent boot ups.

Thank you for all the work you've done and are doing on the kernel. I only discovered iyour version after I'd abandoned Arch earlier in the year. (I'm a relative newbie and I'd been frustrated with some of the configuration problems I had - returned to Ubuntu for awhile). Your work has allowed me to give Arch another chance and I'm having fun & learning.

Cheers,
Rob

kaola_linux · 2009-09-15 04:03:00

Hi tera, just started using your kernel once again, unfortunately I didn't have much luck upon starting it properly compared to the stock kernel. I'm using kdemod 4.3.1. Upon starting to boot using your kernel, my system can't start kdm and immediately puts me to a terminal session. I've tried to restart hal but it just fails. Then, I've also tried doing

startx

as root and suprisingly it made me reach my desktop with my mouse not moving and keyboard not working though...:/

Maybe some workaround?

Thanks in advance...

EasyTarget · 2009-09-15 09:12:42

Kaola,

RE: Hal not starting.. I have had numerous problems with Hal or Xorg updates breaking and leaving me with no keyboard/mouse once X has started, and no options except the big red button. If either hal or dbus fails you are foobaa'd once X starts.

Usually, a single reboot resolves it, and hal/dbus works next time.

But sometimes I have had to exterminate a Hal cache:

sudo rm /var/cache/hald/fdi-cache

(Taken from http://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=68943.)

I found this by starting in single user mode (add 'single', (lowecase, no quotes) to the end of the boot line in grub, boot that and enter the root password when prompted). Then try to start hal manually.. and look at the logs. I then googled the error (arch hal segfault); there are lots of reports of hal failing to start in this forum now..
- I now have a separate grub boot entry for single user mode because this happens so frequently.

As a last resort I have once or twice had to deinstall/reinstall Xorg and Hal. I think that what this really achieves is to re-run their relevant installer scripts again.. clearing any corrupt data.

sudo pacman -R hal xorg-servers ; pacman -S hal xorg-servers

kaola_linux · 2009-09-16 02:03:41

Did what you've said by deleting the fdi-cache but it still didn't work. Also it does not support reiserfs which I need since I have my /var formatted as reiserfs. Starting hal still fails using the custom kernel for me...

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EasyTarget · 2009-09-16 10:50:51

Kaola,

Humm.. well, not having /var available will screw hal (and a bunch of other stuff) quite nicely.. Are you saying that hal works with the stock kernel but fails with the latest one-dev kernel?

If so: either recompile with reiserfs support..
or fire up that system rescue CD bootable usb stick, and convert /var to a ext4 filesystem, there is just no reason to use reiserfs on an aspire except for the novelty value, you'll get a better user experience from ext2/3/4.

kaola_linux · 2009-09-17 02:58:54

EasyTarget wrote:

Kaola,
Humm.. well, not having /var available will screw hal (and a bunch of other stuff) quite nicely.. Are you saying that hal works with the stock kernel but fails with the latest one-dev kernel?
If so: either recompile with reiserfs support..
or fire up that system rescue CD bootable usb stick, and convert /var to a ext4 filesystem, there is just no reason to use reiserfs on an aspire except for the novelty value, you'll get a better user experience from ext2/3/4.

I don't use an SSD, I already have a sata drive on my AA1 that's why I'm using reiserfs..Was it stated tha reiserfs is good for the /var? Yes you are right, stock kernel works. The problem only shows on the kernel26-one-dev..:)

EasyTarget · 2009-09-17 09:59:48

don't use an SSD, I already have a sata drive on my AA1

Ah-Ha, Well, that still means you need to get reiserfs working on one-dev in order to have a usable system, it's not too difficult to do (edit the config, update the checksum in the PKGBUILD and then recompile+install). I agree with Tera about removing this and JFS from the one-dev kernel by default, if you want to use reiserfs then there will be a price..

I'd still recommend getting rid of any reiserfs filesystems and standardising on ext4 for everything.. (Ok, XFS for the left MMC card). Mixing and Matching filesystems on a system just increases the overhead and gives hardly any benefit except for specialist situations/setups.
- I used to do this on my desktop with Gentoo, I'd carefully selected the 'best' (as recommended by various internet FAQ's and postings) filesystem for each part of the filesystem. It always caused irritating problems, I had to keep lots of different toolchains installed and updated, and had problems with gparted etc not supporting all operations equally on all filesystems. I gave it up in the end and just went the ext3 route.

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mailman1175 · 2010-01-12 03:26:57

I'm trying to install this kernel, but the 2.6.32-sched-bfs-311.patch is returning a 404... Anybody know what's up?

Tera · 2010-01-12 11:02:20

Open up the PKGBUILD and edit the patch URL to "http://ck.kolivas.org/patches/bfs/2.6.3 … -313.patch", also edit in the build section "2.6.32-bfs312-311.patch" to "2.6.32-bfs312-313.patch". Should compile now.

mailman1175 · 2010-01-12 17:21:26

Tera wrote:

Open up the PKGBUILD and edit the patch URL to "http://ck.kolivas.org/patches/bfs/2.6.3 … -313.patch", also edit in the build section "2.6.32-bfs312-311.patch" to "2.6.32-bfs312-313.patch". Should compile now.

    2.6.32-bfs312-313.patch ... FAILED
==> ERROR: One or more files did not pass the validity check!

*scratches head*

Do you have an updated md5sum for the patch?

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thayer · 2010-01-12 18:02:06

mailman1175 wrote:

*scratches head*
Do you have an updated md5sum for the patch?

It's very easy to do this on your own:

$ makepkg -g

For more info:

$ makepkg -h

mailman1175 · 2010-01-12 18:09:45

thayer wrote:

mailman1175 wrote:
*scratches head*
Do you have an updated md5sum for the patch?
It's very easy to do this on your own:
$ makepkg -g
For more info:
$ makepkg -h

Thanks. I'm learning.

patrickthebold · 2010-02-05 22:16:02

So right now and for the past while, if I put my aspire one to sleep and wake it up the screen flickers now and again and eventually turns to a solid color. There was a mention of something similar in the 2.6.32 series and a patch, but that did not actually work for me. Right now I have the newest kernel (Thank you Tera) and x86-intel-newest from aur. I have now xorg.conf. Is anyone else having these problems? Anyone find a fix. Google has only led me to some similar, but old problems, and the patch that tcw mentioned didn't work for me.

see: http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=14781 for the bug I'm refering to.

Zom · 2010-02-08 18:44:01

What you need to do is to disable kernel modesettting. Add i915.modeset=0 to the kernel line in your grub config.

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patrickthebold · 2010-02-09 01:03:25

Zom wrote:

What you need to do is to disable kernel modesettting. Add i915.modeset=0 to the kernel line in your grub config.

X did not like that. Maybe the newer intel driver requires KMS. I'll try and downgrade tonight.

Zom · 2010-02-11 12:10:18

patrickthebold wrote:

Zom wrote:
What you need to do is to disable kernel modesettting. Add i915.modeset=0 to the kernel line in your grub config.
X did not like that. Maybe the newer intel driver requires KMS. I'll try and downgrade tonight.

Yeah, apparently the 2.10 intel driver dropped support for UMS, so now it's KMS all the way. Will be interesting to see how they solve this.

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Zom · 2010-02-12 00:12:37

New fix, just add i915.powersave=0 in your grub config instead. It'll fix the issue while still enabling KMS.

patrickthebold · 2010-02-12 16:28:48

Zom wrote:

New fix, just add i915.powersave=0 in your grub config instead. It'll fix the issue while still enabling KMS.

Thanks Zom. That seems to have worked perfectly.

crocowhile · 2010-04-26 20:19:58

Will this kernel work with AOD150?
(At the moment I am using arch default kernel with broadcom-wl and dm_mod)
Thanks!

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bananabrain · 2010-05-07 13:57:48

> /dev/null

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patrickthebold · 2010-06-29 02:30:13

I might be having trouble with this kernel and udev. With the stardard arch kernel, I plug in my ipod and I get a /dev/sdb and a /dev/sdb1, the latter I can mount and it works fine. With this kernel I get /dev/sdb but no /dev/sdb1. Any ideas how to fix this?

Tera · 2010-06-29 16:07:48

patrickthebold wrote:

I might be having trouble with this kernel and udev. With the stardard arch kernel, I plug in my ipod and I get a /dev/sdb and a /dev/sdb1, the latter I can mount and it works fine. With this kernel I get /dev/sdb but no /dev/sdb1. Any ideas how to fix this?

Hey, you are probably better with the stock arch kernel. All the necessary features and patches are included in the stock kernel as of today.. and it's more up to date.

EDIT: Plus, I'm not maintaining kernel26-one-dev anymore, so it's terribly out of date

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patrickthebold · 2010-06-29 16:24:23

Tera wrote:

patrickthebold wrote:
I might be having trouble with this kernel and udev. With the stardard arch kernel, I plug in my ipod and I get a /dev/sdb and a /dev/sdb1, the latter I can mount and it works fine. With this kernel I get /dev/sdb but no /dev/sdb1. Any ideas how to fix this?
Hey, you are probably better with the stock arch kernel. All the necessary features and patches are included in the stock kernel as of today.. and it's more up to date.
EDIT: Plus, I'm not maintaining kernel26-one-dev anymore, so it's terribly out of date

Right, Thanks for your work.

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