On Mon, 2003-03-24 at 10:42, Warren Togami wrote:
> I had success with 2.5.65 on Phoebe3 after hacking modutils to include
> module-init-tools, the new mini-tools required for handling kernel
> modules. I have a test SRPM here but I don't feel comfortable releasing
> it yet because it needs to be upgraded to Red Hat's latest bugfixes
> first. If you use a replacement modutils RPM it also requires a small
> change to mkinitrd or subsequent 2.4 kernel installation will fail.
Well, Rusty has already an SRPM in place with module-init-tools which is
also backwards compatible with 2.4 kernels. I have downloaded and
compiled it. When running on 2.5, new module semantics are used, but if
I boot my old 2.4, the old modutils are used instead.
> I'm currently running 2.5.65-ac3. I'm totally amazed by the speed and
> interactivity improvements in the scheduler, it seems that the desktop
> is very smooth even during heavy load. I can't wait for this to be
> standard and shipped with distros in 2.6.x kernels. =)
Well, there are still interactivity problems, e.g. process starvation
under heavy loads. With vanilla 2.5.65, playing music with XMMS and
simply dragging a window over the screen, causes serious sound skips and
halts. 2.5.65-mm4 incorporates patches that implement scheduler tunables
that allow adjusting min/max timeslices and this helps greatly.
> I managed to get everything working in 2.5.65 for my Sony Vaio FXA36
> Athlon laptop except alsa kernel modules wont load automatically despite
> my entires to /etc/modprobe.conf (replacement of /etc/modules.conf).
> This kernel version also seems to handle Athlon ACPI throttling and
> PowerNow for the first time. Finally Linux is viable on my laptop
> during battery operation.
Please, make sure "/proc/sys/kernel/modprobe" is pointing to
"/sbin/modprobe" (or wherever you've got your 2.5-compatible modprobe).
In some cases, the rc.sysinit script sets "/proc/sys/kernel/modprobe"
pointing to "/sbin/true" thus avoiding dynamic kernel modules loading.
Thanks!
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Felipe Alfaro Solana
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http://counter.li.org
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