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Quoting Andrew Gaffney <agaffney@g.o>: |
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> M. Edward (Ed) Borasky wrote: |
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> > I'm still testing some things, but there are some bugs in the NVidia |
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> > "sata_nv" part of the AMD64 Linux kernel that have showed up in the |
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> > Debian bug archives. Apparently it worked in older kernels and got |
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> > broken "recently". I haven't found any differences with or without |
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> Uhh, how recent? I've been running a 2.6.20-gentoo-r4 kernel for at least 37 |
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> days (current uptime) on my dual-core athlon64 box with nvidia sata (nforce4) |
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> without any problems. |
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> Andrew Gaffney http://dev.gentoo.org/~agaffney/ |
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> Gentoo Linux Developer Installer Project |
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> gentoo-releng@g.o mailing list |
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I'll have to go check Google for the exact entry. Meanwhile, I've found a couple |
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of things and the system is almost stable now with both Fedora 2.6.20 and Gentoo |
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2.6.21. I can't get it to stay up with any Debian 2.6.18 kernel. |
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1. The AMD64 install "suggests" the doscsi option on the kernel boot command. It |
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doesn't seem to be necessary and it may have been causing problems.I'm running |
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now without it. |
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2. The default kernel configuration on the AMD64 2007.0 LiveDVD in |
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/usr/share/genkernel/x86_64/kernel-config-2.6 is for 2.6.17 and may not be |
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right for my hardware. I started with the configuration I get from booting the |
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LiveDVD. |
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3. The install suggests a GCC "march" value of "athlon64" and the Gentoo |
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documents recommend "k8". I looked at the GCC docs and they appear to be |
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identical in function, but I can't be sure which one is for Athlon64 X2 |
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processors. I am still using "athlon64". |
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Once I get the "atlas" library built, which requires turning off the CPU |
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frequency adjustment logic in the kernel, I'm going to re-enable that and see |
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if things are more stable that way. But for now, at least I can boot it up, |
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send and receive email, do genkernels and emerges without constant panics, |
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crashes, freezes, hangs, oopses and choruses of "your hardware's b0rked" on all |
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the forums that I've looked in for kernel help. :) |
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