2.6.12-rc1 report

2.6.12-rc1 report

[Gene Heskett]

Greetings;

Usually I come looking for a bone when I post here, but today its with 
verbal flowers in hand.

I just built 2.6.12-rc1 and I'm pleased to report that the ieee1394 
problems that required the bk-ieee1394.patch previously are 
apparently alleviated.  Kino worked as expected, including the audio 
from the cameras microphones.

tvtime, with my pcHDTV-3000 card, had a miss-cue due to the wrong 
modprobe statement in my rc.local, so I cleaned out those modules 
that it had loaded, and reloaded them with the 'modprobe cx88_dvb' 
statement, which brought that up with working video but raw noise for 
audio at about +40db!  Going into its menu's for tv standards I chose 
to 'restart with new values' without changing anything which restored 
the audio to normal.  Thats happened before, and Jack tells me there 
will be another coding session this weekend so there will no doubt be 
more patches for that.  This FWIW, was without actually installing 
either version of his drivers, so this is nice progress.

My scanner works normally. As does the spca5xx stuffs that I did 
install again after the boot.

This just plain feels good under my fngertips, even kmails curser 
motions are as expected, but that lag comes and goes according to the 
number of bees around the crocus's in the front yard, or some such 
mysticly quasi random control.  I don't have any idea about how much 
faster the machine is in fact, but it sure feels snappier, a lot 
snappier.

So, a smart tip of the hat to all the patchers, this is seeable, 
feelable, progress.

-- 
Cheers, Gene
"There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty:
 soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order."
-Ed Howdershelt (Author)
99.34% setiathome rank, not too shabby for a WV hillbilly
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Re: 2.6.12-rc1 report

[Bill Davidsen]

Gene Heskett wrote:
> Greetings;
> 
> Usually I come looking for a bone when I post here, but today its with 
> verbal flowers in hand.
> 
> I just built 2.6.12-rc1 and I'm pleased to report that the ieee1394 
> problems that required the bk-ieee1394.patch previously are 
> apparently alleviated.  Kino worked as expected, including the audio 
> from the cameras microphones.
> 
> tvtime, with my pcHDTV-3000 card, had a miss-cue due to the wrong 
> modprobe statement in my rc.local, so I cleaned out those modules 
> that it had loaded, and reloaded them with the 'modprobe cx88_dvb' 
> statement, which brought that up with working video but raw noise for 
> audio at about +40db!  Going into its menu's for tv standards I chose 
> to 'restart with new values' without changing anything which restored 
> the audio to normal.  Thats happened before, and Jack tells me there 
> will be another coding session this weekend so there will no doubt be 
> more patches for that.  This FWIW, was without actually installing 
> either version of his drivers, so this is nice progress.
> 
> My scanner works normally. As does the spca5xx stuffs that I did 
> install again after the boot.

What distro are you using with this? Before I report problems I want to 
eliminate distro errors of the type you describe.

-- 
    -bill davidsen (davidsen@tmr.com)
"The secret to procrastination is to put things off until the
  last possible moment - but no longer"  -me

Re: 2.6.12-rc1 report

[Gene Heskett]

On Monday 21 March 2005 17:34, Bill Davidsen wrote:
>Gene Heskett wrote:
>> Greetings;
>>
>> Usually I come looking for a bone when I post here, but today its
>> with verbal flowers in hand.
>>
>> I just built 2.6.12-rc1 and I'm pleased to report that the
>> ieee1394 problems that required the bk-ieee1394.patch previously
>> are apparently alleviated.  Kino worked as expected, including the
>> audio from the cameras microphones.
>>
>> tvtime, with my pcHDTV-3000 card, had a miss-cue due to the wrong
>> modprobe statement in my rc.local, so I cleaned out those modules
>> that it had loaded, and reloaded them with the 'modprobe cx88_dvb'
>> statement, which brought that up with working video but raw noise
>> for audio at about +40db!  Going into its menu's for tv standards
>> I chose to 'restart with new values' without changing anything
>> which restored the audio to normal.  Thats happened before, and
>> Jack tells me there will be another coding session this weekend so
>> there will no doubt be more patches for that.  This FWIW, was
>> without actually installing either version of his drivers, so this
>> is nice progress.
>>
>> My scanner works normally. As does the spca5xx stuffs that I did
>> install again after the boot.
>
>What distro are you using with this? Before I report problems I want
> to eliminate distro errors of the type you describe.

FC2, more or less.  I've quite a list of stuff thats home built here 
though, and xorg-6.8.1 is one of them, the full KDE-3.3.0 for 
another, along with virtually anything to do with printing, cups is 
1.1.22, gimp-print is now gutenprint-5.0beta2.  The list goes on, 
usually triggered by whatever itch needs scratched.

That statement in my modprobe.conf that I had to nuke, not mentioned 
in this message, may have been a leftover from trying to install the 
original, on the cd, drivers.  I didn't put it in there, and having 
looked at my modprobe.conf fairly often, I don't recall seeing it 
till someone asked me to do a general recheck on things in /etc.

The modprobe statement in my rc.local file had been installed to 
preload the 1.6 drivers, wrong for the current crop and that was 100% 
my doing.  You probably wouldn't recognize my rc.local file as 
haveing anything to do with redhat or fedora, its been hacked to add 
this or that many many times over the years.  Mainly to get stuff 
going even if I don't log in and start them, Like for instance, 
setiathome gets launched in there as does the boinc client, env vars 
for heyu, and all my audio stuff gets loaded or started in there.
So I see a lot of stuff go flying by before the login prompt comes up, 
another 15 seconds of delay in doing all that I expect.

But nothing that was there originally has been removed either.

Does this answer, or puzzle?  Puzzle clues available :)


-- 
Cheers, Gene
"There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty:
 soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order."
-Ed Howdershelt (Author)
99.34% setiathome rank, not too shabby for a WV hillbilly
Yahoo.com and AOL/TW attorneys please note, additions to the above
message by Gene Heskett are:
Copyright 2005 by Maurice Eugene Heskett, all rights reserved.