4K-stacks is an option in the kernel when you compile it. I think it also got backported to 2.4 so both 2.4 and 2.6 are "affected".
4KSTACK has nothing to do with Gentoo. Even more, I think Gentoo-users are more likely not to be affected as with a regular Gentoo-installation, you have to compile your kernel yourself. Most users I've seen that have problems are Fedora users as the default kernel in Fedora uses 4K-stacks. So it really doesn't matter which distro you are running; as long as your kernel isn't compiled with 4K-stacks (by distro or by yourself), you'll not be affected by this. Initially I tried the 0.3.2x drivers for my PVR-150 with 4K-stacks and it paniced. Since I went back to 8K-stacks, the driver's been running stable. N. On Wed, 09 Feb 2005 13:44:25 +0100, Morten R�nseth <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I see a lot of mention about '4KSTACK' problems using Gentoo. Is this a 2.6 > kernel issue, or does it apply to the 2.4 kernel as well? > > > Cheers, > > > -Morten > > > > Greg Woolsey wrote: > I have a Via Epia M10000 board, and wanted to use the unichrome driver for > native MPEG decoding. However, docs on it say it is hard to line up it's CVS > with 2 other projects that are moving targets also. Finding current versions > that all play nice sounds like a bit of a trial and error. I wanted to use > prebuilt RPMs that have worked for other people to be safe, as I'm not good > enough at that stuff to solve a conflict in a reasonable amount of time. > I'll wait for that, though, in order to get the 150 working. The cpu can > handle decoding one stream in memory for now. Next problem is finding free > time to work on it - the day job and kids are a handful :-) On Wed, 9 Feb > 2005 01:46:58 -0500, Ram Yalamanchili <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > hmm.. what "modules" are you talking about? if its about ivtv, i just > compiled from source. it takes hardly 10 secs to compile from source... and > i would recommend it to you it thats the biggest problem. -r On Tue, 8 Feb > 2005 20:22:03 -0800, Greg Woolsey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I tried the linuxant kernels, but then apt/rpm didn't like the kernel name > and wouldn't install additional modules via RPM any more, seeing "stk" > instead of "FC" at the end of the installed version. Anyone have a > workaround for that? > On Tue, 8 Feb 2005 19:33:29 -0500, Ram Yalamanchili <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: > hey, I had no trouble in getting video working (no audio however) in > fedora. The problem which causes the hang-up while loading ivtv modules is > the 4k stack kernels which are defautly shipped/maintained by fedora. You > will need to disable the 4k stack option in the kernel and re-compile. or > just get the binaries from linuxant's website: > http://www.linuxant.com/driverloader/wlan/full/downloads-fc3-kernel-i686.php > They only have 32-bit (smp and non-smp versions available), but for 64-bit > support, you might have to look elsewhere or just recompile. -- R On Tue, 08 > Feb 2005 19:09:58 -0500, Zed Shaw <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Jim, Being "stuck" with Fedora as well, I was wondering if you had some > instructions on how you did this exactly? I tried Gentoo today but it choked > on the GCC 3.4.3 build. Sigh. Any happy Debian users out there? Zed On Tue, > 2005-02-08 at 04:43 -0600, James L. Reese wrote: > On Tue, 08 Feb 2005 08:40:49 +0100 Morten R�nseth <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: > > Hi all, I've just recently aquired a 150 MCE card which I will be > installing shortly. However, before I do so, I'd like to ask this community > which Linux distro will most likely be a success with the 150 card in > conjunction with ivtv/mythtv? I was originally thinking of Mandrake (or > maybe Debian as Mythtv is developed under Debian) but I've seen a lot of > good folks here use Gentoo. If you all could share your experiences with me, > both positive and negative, I'd be much obliged. Feel free to mail me off > this list as well. I have had no trouble with both Fedora 2 and 3 as long as > you recompile the kernel without REGPARM, 4KSTACKS and pre-emption. ----- > Jim Reese, WD5IYT [EMAIL PROTECTED] > ------------------------------------------------------- SF email is > sponsored by - The IT Product Guide Read honest & candid reviews on hundreds > of IT Products from real users. 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