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Linux 2.2.0 pre4 125

Posted by sengan from the inching-slowly-closer dept.
Prothonotar writes "Kernel 2.2.0 pre4 is out." www.kernel.org being overloaded use a mirror. Mirrors are expressions of the form ftp.country.kernel.org or www.country.kernel.org, such as ftp.us.kernel.org.
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Linux 2.2.0 pre4

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  • Dont the virge cards have a 1.2 and not a 2.0 vesa. If you go to the s3 home page, there is a TSR you can download to give you vesa 2.0.
    If you load the TSR and then use loadlin. You can get the framebuffer working.
  • 6x86L works fine with me
  • As far as I can tell its right before the kernel prints "Sound initialization started" durring the bootup sequence (for me, right after it says "lp0: using parport0 (polling)."). Once it gets to this position it wont continute. Only a cold boot (reset button) lets me get by this part. I've had this problem since I've started using devel kernel (starting with 2.1.130). Anyone know whats going on?
  • The problem with tons of errors reported in net connections is with an old ifconfig. The solution is to go up to net-tools 1.49.
    Anyway, this goes back to 2.1.9x, when something in /proc changed. I ran for months without upgrading my net-tools and everything always worked fine.
    Though, if anyone out there is running pppd 2.3.5 and wants to try the new kernel, upgrade first... (actually, RTFM and do ALL the required upgrades)

    ---

  • This looks like Alan Cox writing (the message to which I'm replying), but it's not identified as such - better restore your Slashdot cookie, Alan..
  • Looks like the FAT32 fix is in there, along with what looks like a major NTFS change, some changes for parallel port zip drives and zip plus. Some swap code changes, and a new ksymoops seem to be the highlights from my brief look at it...
  • Posted by BEEPO!!:

    Like a flicking candle in a breeze, BEEPO's joke makes a dance like gesture at slapdash, before being darkened by the moderators moistened thumb and forefinger:

  • Posted by Pepi:

    Report the problem to the linux-kernel@vger.rutgers.edu. It's important that
    we get a chance to fix these things before 2.2 gets out the door. Either that, or mail the maintainer. Does it oops for you? Enabled debugging in scsi driver/cdrom.c?

    Contact me privately, if need any help.
  • Posted by Moritz Moeller - Herrmann:

    I just noticed that xfstt hangs with linux 2.2.0pre3
    Is it just me? Or anyone else, too?
  • I would assume the FAT32 was fixed.. I'm compiling now. LinuxHQ, (since edge.linuxhq.com is lagging) has a nice patch browser [linuxhq.com] so you can at least see where things were changed.
    ---
    Don Rude - AKA - RudeDude

  • NFS (Score:1)

    by On Lawn ( 1073 )
    Or you can get linux-nfs.0.4.22.i386.rpm and use the kernel nfs daemon. I think linuxhq had the best tutorial on how to do this.
    ^~~^~^^~~^~^~^~^^~^^~^~^~~^^^~^^~~^~~~^~~^~
    ABORTED effort:
    Close all that you have.

  • NFS (Score:1)

    by On Lawn ( 1073 )
    Or you can get linux-nfs.0.4.22.i386.rpm and use the kernel nfs daemon. I think linuxhq had the best tutorial on how to do this.

    And don't forget to get a samba with smbmount compiled in it. I had to make my own.
    ^~~^~^^~~^~^~^~^^~^^~^~^~~^^^~^^~~^~~~^~~^~
    ABORTED effort:
    Close all that you have.
  • ...he is, only it is sick to think about it.
    ^~~^~^^~~^~^~^~^^~^^~^~^~~^^^~^^~~^~~~^~~^~
    ABORTED effort:
    Close all that you have.
  • Serious recommendation guys:

    Get your huge tarball now and get the patches one at a time, even if you don't recompile in between. The netload of a few hundred thousand people trying to get a 12-meg tarball all at the same time is going to be like nothing the internet has ever seen before. Get the major download over with now, get the patches as they come out, and then when the final patch-2.2.0.gz comes, apply it and recompile. This is going to be huger than the IE 4.0 release, mark my words. Let's show we know how to be better prepared than MS was.

    On a side note, has anyone else noticed incredibly huge numbers of TCP checksum errors when trying to FTP something? I'm talking to Alan about this, but I'm sure we could use a few more case studies if anyone else has noticed the same problem.
  • linux/arch/i386/kernel/smp.c line 1055:

    if(!cpu_hz) cpu_hz = 150000000;
  • Well, I have this controller, but I have to admit I haven't used my CD in a while. ;-) I'll test it out for you.
  • Well I have hardly any. :-) I've had no problems with FAT32 nor UP/SMP configs... mind you pre3 had a blank /proc/cpuinfo on SMP.

    The only gripe I have is that kernel support for Esoniq 1370 is busted. I can use the commercial OSS drivers just fine except that my card sounds like someone's drowning for the first few seconds, then resumes the watery behaviour on heavy disk activity (no IRQs are shared). 2.1.130+ did this too. Using the kernel 1370 drivers loads, but gives a blank /dev/sndstat. modprobing with the kernel GUS Max drivers works though.

    Any ideas there?

    I figure when 2.2.0 is officially released I'll try the switch to glibc too... Perhaps I am a bit masochistic. :-)

    oh yeah -- remove the spambusters from the email if you could help me out in any way. :-)
  • Pardon my ignorance, but....
    I didn't think Cyrix' supported SMP. Is smp.c always compiled in?
  • Compile
    read slashdot
    Compile
    read slashdot
    Compile
    read slashdot
    damm

  • Well, we'll see how much got fixed. I've read through the patch, but not being a coder menas I'll wait till one of the patch summaries goes up to see what I've missed. A lot of it looks like the Cyrix and TCS stuff, along with just simple doc fixes.
  • does pre4 not work with cyrix 6x86? pre3 worked fine with it, but not pre4. i did everything the same, but, i got a divide by zero and synching error on boot. im going to try again, but i dont think it will work. any other cyrix users out there having trouble? email me!

    --
  • ok, after putting my cyrix as 586 instead of a 486/Cx86, it worked. everything seems to be running smoothly now. if any of you fellow cyrix users out there have any questions, mail [mailto] me.

    --
  • Anyone else have problems with the kernel dying when using SCSI cdroms and an 7880? Ive been running 2.1.x since .99 and this is the first time ive had a problem..
    But pre 1-4 have been crashing hard on me..

  • Oops... 'linux/include/asm-alpha/ipc.h' was not
    provided with this patch, even though 'linux/ipc/util.c' now needs it.

  • Just wondering. I'd test it my self, except my 5.1 gig drive died Friday night. Life kind of sucks right now w/o it & linux.
  • As of this message, the only place I was able to find it was via http directly to www.kernel.org. Go to www.linuxhq.com and hit the http link. The mirrors (ftp.us.kernel.org and ftp.tux.org are the only ones I tried) don't have it yet and the main ftp site is too overcrowded. Http doesn't deny anonymous users ;-)
    --
    Aaron Gaudio
    "The fool finds ignorance all around him.
  • Again, I have a Cyrix P150 (first generation) and have compiled and booted on 2.2.0 pre4 fine (I applied the ac1 patch to get ntfs to compile). I have disabled SMP (and also changed HZ to 1024 in param.h).
    --
    Aaron Gaudio
    "The fool finds ignorance all around him.
  • Have you upgraded everything it said in the Changes file?

    Also, are you upgrading to glibc from a libc5 system? That's a tricky endevour as I tried that once and got a lot of core dumps from glibc programs as my reward.
    --
    Aaron Gaudio
    "The fool finds ignorance all around him.

  • no! (Score:1)

    by akharon ( 4824 )
    I finally get the new kernel up and running, and they go and release a new one...at least it sounds like linus got the user base he was requesting...
  • I got Pre1 when it first came out...

    I haven't had any real trouble with it, Is it worth me getting Pre4, patching and compiling it?
    or will Pre5 be out tomorrow? :-)

  • D'oh! (Score:1)

    by aXi ( 6533 )
    Compiled every version since pre1, ie pre2 pre3 and now almost pre4
  • I downloaded pre-2 and patched to pre-3. Patches are tiny downloads; people should use them!
  • Try finger @linux.kernel.org...
  • And I only compile -pre3 like 20 mins ago... haven't even rebooted yet! d'oh!
  • The README changes still leave things like

    gzip -cd linux-2.1.XX.tar.gz | tar xfv -

    in there though.

    Jonathan
  • I can't get the ntfs code to compile... errors below. It seems a new version of this code was added numbered '990102'...

    > gcc -D__KERNEL__ -I/usr/src/2.2.0pre4/include -Wall
    > -Wstrict-prototypes -O2 -fomit-frame-pointer
    > -pipe -fno-strength-reduce -m486 -malign-loops=2
    > -malign-jumps=2 -malign-functions=2 -DCPU=686
    > -DNTFS_IN_LINUX_KERNEL -DNTFS_VERSION=\"990102\"
    > -c -o inode.o inode.c
    > inode.c: In function `ntfs_decompress_run':
    > inode.c:421: `ntfs_s16' undeclared (first use this function)
    > inode.c:421: (Each undeclared identifier is reported only once
    > inode.c:421: for each function it appears in.)
    > inode.c:423: `ntfs_s32' undeclared (first use this function)
    > make[3]: *** [inode.o] Error 1
    > make[3]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/2.2.0pre4/fs/ntfs'
    > make[2]: *** [first_rule] Error 2
    > make[2]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/2.2.0pre4/fs/ntfs'
    > make[1]: *** [_subdir_ntfs] Error 2
    > make[1]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/2.2.0pre4/fs'
    > make: *** [_dir_fs] Error 2

    Jonathan

  • I'm having a weird problem with the development kernels. (2.1 as well as 2.2)

    My system is sending out packets all the time, just a little bit like when you're pinging someone (but without the reply's) and every once in a while a large peak (3-4k/s).

    I can't figure out what it's doing and I can't find it in any of the logfiles.

    Does anybody know what this is?

  • I'm still guessing, because tcpdump didn't really help, not everything shows up in tcpdump.

    And it doesn't send packets when I stick a firewall between me and the outside world, so it looks like it's reacting to some incoming stuff.

    FWIW, My machine's an AMD K6-2 300 with a NE-2000 clone card. It has done this in 2.2pre as well as 2.1.*, but not in my regular 2.0.35 kernel. And I noticed this because I have the wmnet dockapplet running, which shows incoming and outgoing packets in a graph.

  • Since noone has actually posted it here, and several people have asked for it... Here is the announcement off of the linux-kernel mailing list.
    If you are interested in the mailing list check out http://www.tux.org/lkml/ [tux.org]
    Ok, you know the drill by now. This fixes:

    - yes, people told me about the new and improved ksymoops. Much better,
    no need for C++, and this one actually seems to compile and work
    reliably.
    - ntfs fixes
    - the vfat thing _really_ works now
    - NFS fix for deleting files while writebacks active.
    - ppa/imm driver updated
    - minor mm balancing patches
    - Alan took the gauntlet and cleaned up some CONFIG_PROC_FS stuff.

    More on Monday,

    Linus
  • pre-4 isn't on the US mirror yet and ftp.kernel.org is full...

    Wonder how long it takes to replicate (if it's out)...

    Justin
  • I got into ftp.kernel.org!!! Woohoo!!

    Then you're part of the fucking problem, asshole.

  • ... (Score:1)

    by Jello ( 11089 )
    What packages do I have to upgrade on RedHat 5.0 system inorder to get the 2.2pre* kernels to work.

  • anyone else having problems with DHCP and RedHat 5.2?
  • This went across linux-kernel a while back. Can't wait to see it actually implemented. When it was discussed, plans were made to include it in 2.3 kernels. Sounds like fun to me!
  • How can you release the source for a card without giving away the information about the specs? It is somewhat trivial to figure out how a card works by reading the source.
  • Oh, good. I was looking into this problem myself,
    but got tired and went home for a long weekend instead. (I'm building it on my desktop workstation at work, which is faster than my home machine.) I got as far as determining that the b_size (blocksize) parameter was set to 0, causing the error. The piece of code looked entirely new; I was tempted to comment it out. :-)

    Does anyone know offhand what the fix was? Was it just an uninitialized data structure?
  • Has anyone been succesful with ip masquerading using any of the 2.2.0 kernels?
    I've pre1,pre2, and pre3, and non have worked for me. I'm going from the instructions in Ip-masquerading-howto, which worked perfect in 2.0.35.
    Is there something special which has to be done in these kernels?
  • i'm at ftp://ftp.us.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v2.1/
    it says latest is pre1 and i don't see pre4 anywhere.

  • YES (Score:1)

    by Ween ( 13381 )
    Use these 3 lines in a startup script .. changing the appropriate things

    #ipchains -P forward DENY
    #ipchains -A forward -j MASQ -s 192.168.0.0/24 -d 0.0.0.0/0
    #echo 1 > /proc/sys/net/ipv4/ip_forward

    without the #'s of course ...


    If anyone here has managed to get ipmasqadm working I need some help. I cant get it to forward any ports and I did it exactly as the man file reads .. this is an example thats not working

    ipmasqadm portfw -a -P tcp -L 192.168.0.1 6112 -R 192.168.0.2 6112



    talking windows users is where I draw the line ..
  • Cyrix 6x86MX 200 at 2x75 booted fine with pre4

    I just swapped out an ATI card for a S3 Virge and my frame buffer device just stopped working. Anyone have any idea on that?


    talking windows users is where I draw the line ..
  • ok, I found a little tidbit in the ipchains howto that helped me enough to figure it out .. im gonna show you my working network file and you can see how it works between .36 and 2.2pre


    ###### 2.0.X ######################
    #ipfwadm -F -p deny
    #ipfwadm -F -a m -S 192.168.0.0/24 -D 0.0.0.0/0
    #ipautofw -A -r tcp 113 113 -h 192.168.0.2
    #ipautofw -A -r tcp 2000 2010 -h 192.168.0.2
    #ipautofw -A -r tcp 1034 1035 -h 192.168.0.2
    #ipautofw -A -r udp 1034 1035 -h 192.168.0.2
    #ipautofw -A -r tcp 6112 6112 -h 192.168.0.2
    #ipautofw -A -r udp 6112 6112 -h 192.168.0.2
    #ipautofw -A -r udp 7070 7070 -h 192.168.0.2
    #ipautofw -A -r udp 7071 7071 -h 192.168.0.2
    #ipautofw -A -r tcp 26029 26029 -h 192.168.0.2
    #ipautofw -A -r udp 26029 26029 -h 192.168.0.2
    ###### 2.2.X ######################
    ipchains -P forward DENY
    ipchains -A forward -j MASQ -s 192.168.0.0/24 -d 0.0.0.0/0
    echo 1 > /proc/sys/net/ipv4/ip_forward
    ipmasqadm portfw -f
    ipmasqadm autofw -A -r tcp 113 113 -h 192.168.0.2
    ipmasqadm autofw -A -r tcp 2000 2010 -h 192.168.0.2
    ipmasqadm autofw -A -r tcp 1034 1035 -h 192.168.0.2
    ipmasqadm autofw -A -r udp 1034 1035 -h 192.168.0.2
    ipmasqadm autofw -A -r tcp 6112 6112 -h 192.168.0.2
    ipmasqadm autofw -A -r udp 6112 6112 -h 192.168.0.2
    ipmasqadm autofw -A -r udp 7070 7070 -h 192.168.0.2
    ipmasqadm autofw -A -r udp 7071 7071 -h 192.168.0.2
    ipmasqadm autofw -A -r tcp 26029 26029 -h 192.168.0.2
    ipmasqadm autofw -A -r udp 26029 26029 -h 192.168.0.2






    talking windows users is where I draw the line ..
  • Whenever I try to place the line

    video=vesa

    inside of lilo.conf and run lilo I get

    Syntax error near line 8 in file /etc/lilo.conf

    is there anywhere special I need to put it or anything or does it not even belong in lilo.conf

    I really need this to get ywrap working for scrollback


    talking windows users is where I draw the line ..

  • Peace to my homies If you don't like it you can suck it.

    www.espn.com [espn.com]
  • buy a monitor which can do 3000x3000 (suggested by Alan Cox) ;-)
  • I was just curious how I would go about submitting a document I wrote on how to get the kernel drivers working with an ESS1869 soundcard to be included with the kernel...??

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