Re: Music stutters during startup of programs
On Wed, Mar 01, 2006 at 01:33:37AM +0100, Gabor Gombas wrote: 4 SATA disks using sata_nv, md/RAID5, and bonnie causes warning: many lost ticks kernel messages even in single user mode, and audio skips under the normal desktop environment. Previously I had 2 PATA and 2 SATA disks configured as 2 md/RAID1 arrays, and did not have any lost ticks messages. md/raid5 uses a LOT of cpu. That would certainly explain why it takes a lot of cpu to access those drives. I would call that perfectly expected bahaviour. If you want low cpu use, stick to raid1 or use a hardware raid controller (like the 3ware or areca). Len Sorensen -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Kernel 2.6.15-1-XXX: Some Questions
Hello all, I saw lots of patches in /usr/src/kernel-patches. How do I have to understand this ? - Are the original debian-kernel-sourcen already patched or do I have to patch a kernel myself ? - Is this syntax correct (i.e. debianlogo): make-kpkg --append-to-version -1-amd64-k8 --added_patches debianlogo kernel_image or must I give the absolut path like this: make-kpkg --append-to-version -1-amd64-k8 --added_patches /usr/src/kernel-ptches/debianlogo kernel_image ? Another question is: I found a configuration point using make menuconfig, where I can add the version. If I enter there -1-amd64-k8, Isuppose, I can leave the --append-to-version option. Is this correct ? If I use a patched kernel (the example with debianlogo) , I always have to build a new kernel, whenever Debian has released a new one, do I ? Thanks for your infos ! Best regards Hans -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Music stutters during startup of programs
On Wed, Mar 01, 2006 at 09:31:59AM -0500, Lennart Sorensen wrote: md/raid5 uses a LOT of cpu. The CPU load is not significant, that's not the problem. Also, the kernel tells that something is disabling interrupts for too long (I don't have the exact log at hand), and raid5 does not do such things. That would certainly explain why it takes a lot of cpu to access those drives. I would call that perfectly expected bahaviour. If you want low cpu use, stick to raid1 or use a hardware raid controller (like the 3ware or areca). Actually HW raid is usually slower than SW raid. The real benefit of HW raid is the reduced I/O bandwidth usage, which makes quite a difference if you only have a single PCI bus. PCI-Express has more bandwidth (at least in theory) so it should be less of a problem nowadays (you need more disks to saturate the bus). Gabor -- - MTA SZTAKI Computer and Automation Research Institute Hungarian Academy of Sciences - -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
nvidia-driver out of date ?
Hi list, I have a Nvidia GPU and now I have installed the driver in the version 1.0.7174-3. Isn't there a newer driver for debian? I'd like use one from the porttree and not the one from the nvidia homepage. There is the newest version : Linux Display Driver - AMD64/EM64T Version: 1.0-8178 Operating System: Linux AMD64/EM64T Release Date: December 22, 2005 ( http://www.nvidia.com/object/linux_display_amd64_1.0-8178.html ) Or is there a method to install this one easely with dpkg ? Thanks Alex -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: nvidia-driver out of date ?
On Wednesday 01 March 2006 15:40, Alexander Jede wrote: Hi list, I have a Nvidia GPU and now I have installed the driver in the version 1.0.7174-3. Isn't there a newer driver for debian? I'd like use one from the porttree and not the one from the nvidia homepage. There is the newest version : Linux Display Driver - AMD64/EM64T Version: 1.0-8178 Operating System: Linux AMD64/EM64T Release Date: December 22, 2005 ( http://www.nvidia.com/object/linux_display_amd64_1.0-8178.html ) Or is there a method to install this one easely with dpkg ? Try these lines in your sources.list. ## Nvidia drivers for unstable deb http://people.debian.org/~rdonald/nvidia unstable nvidia-graphics-drivers deb http://people.debian.org/~rdonald/nvidia unstable nvidia-xconfig deb http://people.debian.org/~rdonald/nvidia unstable nvidia-settings deb http://people.debian.org/~rdonald/nvidia unstable nvidia-kernel-common I believe they will work with stable instead of unstable in the lines as well if you run that. You probably going to need to use =1.0-8178-1 on the end of the package name to tell it which specific driver/source packages to install. Thanks Alex You welcome, Stephen -- Debian the choice of a GNU generation GPG Public Key: http://users.eastlink.ca/~stephencormier/publickey.asc pgpBWCxNMzEud.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: kernel config for MSI K8N Neo4 Platinum?
Thanks to everyone for your replies. In answer to Len and Gabor's comments, I build my own kernel _and_ use an initrd, in part because I use EVMS to manage my storage. I also like running a slimmer kernel, and knowing my hardware well enough to customize it. Andrew. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: chroot instructions
Jo Shields wrote: Install Sarge, not Sid. Sid is rarely installable. You can try a dist-upgrade later. Thanks, that worked great. I even got the thing working with wine... mostly. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: nvidia-driver out of date ?
On Wed, 2006-01-03 at 20:40 +0100, Alexander Jede wrote: Hi list, I have a Nvidia GPU and now I have installed the driver in the version 1.0.7174-3. Isn't there a newer driver for debian? I'd like use one from the porttree and not the one from the nvidia homepage. There is the newest version : Linux Display Driver - AMD64/EM64T Version: 1.0-8178 Operating System: Linux AMD64/EM64T Release Date: December 22, 2005 ( http://www.nvidia.com/object/linux_display_amd64_1.0-8178.html ) For now look here: http://people.debian.org/~rdonald/nvidia/dists/unstable/nvidia-graphics-drivers/binary-amd64/ -- Randall Donald [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: nvidia-driver out of date ?
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Alexander Jede wrote: | Hi list, | I have a Nvidia GPU and now I have installed the driver in the version | 1.0.7174-3. | Isn't there a newer driver for debian? | I'd like use one from the porttree and not the one from the nvidia | homepage. There is the newest version : | Linux Display Driver - AMD64/EM64T | Version: 1.0-8178 | Operating System: Linux AMD64/EM64T | Release Date: December 22, 2005 | ( http://www.nvidia.com/object/linux_display_amd64_1.0-8178.html ) | | Or is there a method to install this one easely with dpkg ? Go and look out for the nvidia-update package ;-) http://v0n0.altervista.org/ | Thanks Alex | | Cya Lars - -- - - TU Graz, Institut für ComputerGraphik WissensVisualisierung Tel.: +43 316 873-5405 E-Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] PGP-Key-ID: 0xB87A0E03 -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.2 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Thunderbird - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFEBfwGmWhuE0qbFyMRAhPfAJ4vHkg0mcCLwdXsLJtJlVOkYgpjQQCfQ3EQ rDjFUFHgfOVLInOeOhffqSY= =3iAI -END PGP SIGNATURE- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: nvidia-driver out of date ?
Am Mittwoch, den 01.03.2006, 11:46 -0800 schrieb Randall Donald: ... For now look here: http://people.debian.org/~rdonald/nvidia/dists/unstable/nvidia-graphics-drivers/binary-amd64/ .. Thanks it works fine. But why they aren't in the official debian-tree? Had I missed any announce? Alex -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
