Kernel26-2.6.32.2-2 woes

Upgrading to kernel26-2.6.32.2-2 killed KMS and xorg on my laptop (Dell 710m, Intel 855GM graphics)
Booting with KMS enabled and the screen blanks during initial boot (presumably when KMS kicks in...)
Booting without KMS enabled and the screen blanks while loading slim
It does appear as tho the system is still loading as the HD is still spinning away, I can even log in blind and hear my WM loading, but the screen stays blank.
My temporary solution was to manually downgrade packages until I found the offender (which was kernel26-2.6.32.2-2).

Is this post similar to your problem:
http://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=86357

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It's Tuesday, and I am having terrible problems with my Mac. But then, why should Tuesday be different from any other day of the week.
Here is a typical day for me. The computer appears to be working OK. I need to watch a DVD for my work. I turn on DVD player, and put one in. The machine can't read the disc. It clicks and whirls, but the icon does not show up on the desktop. Meanwhile, so distressed is the machine that it freaks out. What was up until now was a fluidly operating machine suddenly reverts back to its old ways (i.e., its ways of two days ago). The hold ups and spinning pinwheels begin to eat of hours of my work day. (Remember the old days when computers made life easier?) The machine becomes sticky, gummy. Oh, I can move the curser and it seems to work for a second but then gets stuck in the dock, which explodes in icons and then freezes for five minutes. Yes. Five minutes.
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Of course, FQ usually works on Safari. I have never just "quit" Safari. It always requires Force Quit, otherwise I can't turn off my computer. It stalls shut down.
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In the old macs, there used to be a pin hole you could stick a needle into ... can't find one on my flatpanel iMac.
I bought my Apple flat panel iMac in August of 2002. Yes, I know that that is a long time to have a computer, but I am not rich nor attached to a corporation that can splurge on computers. The first weekend I had the machine, I had three kernal panics.
Among the other problems I have documented are the following: the dock hiding itself unbidden and other features checking and unchecking themselves (Aug 2002); bus errors connected with OS 9 (Sept); some problems that inspired the tech person (Eric)) to talk me through deleting my user i.d., resulting in the loss of two months worth of e-mail (Thursday, 12 September); Preview problems (September); a bizarre box with an unmovable and undeletable red stop sign in it that no tech person or other Mac user I know had ever hear of (Monday 30 September); printing problems; computer won't shut down, numerous disconnection errors, which turned out to be caused by an OS X update (beginning December, 2002, or later); Kernel panics (Feb); computer won't shut down (March); Faxstexx problems, program won't allow me to set it up, finally just deleted the software (April); keys like "V" freeze and repeat endlessly (May 21); DVD Player freezes (May); Safari and Mail begin quitting unexpectedly (May); cursor begins to blink and fade out, plus odd sounds come out of the speakers, a constant error beeping (Sept 9); DVD Player problems (Oct 4).
I called AppleCare while I had it about once a week (the total between August 2002 and the time it ran out was about 155 calls). Naturally, some of these calls are motivated by user error. On the other hand, many of the issues I have called about were unprecedented as far as the Tech person was concerned, such as the blinking mouse, the red stop sign, and the DVD Player woes.
Things improved with Panther, but in Tiger many of the same old issues have returned.
I have been having so many problems with my Mac that I once wrote a letter to the company asking when do I qualify for a new replacement machine. I never received an answer, but I felt better for about a day. Then I turned on my Mac again.

The spinning ball of death as we used to call it is often caused by a lack of RAM, it is hard to be sure as I am not working on your machine, but sometimes things can be improved with additional RAM, it makes it seem like a whole new computer.
A lot of your problems sound like stuff that can be fixed easily enough, and although frustrating things happen here and there with updates. It sounds like you are in fairly good spirits with it all, I would suggest just researching a bit more into maintenance you can do to help maintain the computer and educate yourself a bit more (sounds like you already have learned quite a bit along the way) and you will find a lot of these issues take you a few seconds to rid yourself of. I would start by making sure you are repairing permissions regularly and running the most up to date software. If a lot of problems persist, try creating a second user that is a "test" user to see if the problem is replicated on that user (don't delete your other one, but if you do find the problem not on the other user, you might have a corrupt user, however you don't have to lose all your emails there are plenty of ways to back it up and import it in, or even just bring the entire Mail folder from your library over to the new user). Another thing you can do if you find a lot of system problems is archive and install the OS, it takes a bit of time, but doing it overnight shouldn't be an issue, and you won't lose any of your stuff.

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could all my newfound ax woes be due to the fact i am adding it to his network? i had no issues at all when i created my own one with my internet and airtunes.....
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EDIT: let me ask this then...when i am streaming music from my mbp to the ax, am i doint it dorectly or am i using his network?
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Hp Warranty Woes & Hard Drive Heartache

HP – Warranties Woes & Hard Drive Headaches.
Dear Internet Community (I.C)
I need your help.
I would like to know if I’m being unreasonable in my expectations or is Hewlett Packard (HP) not living up to its both moral & legal obligations as a good corporate citizen & what it alleges to be – a Customer Focused Global Computer Services company.
Apologies if this is a little long winded but in the interests of fairness I need to put as many HP comments in as possible – to give you a clear picture.
So bear with me, you will not be disappointed & there are a couple of questions you might like to answer & feedback to the appropriate parties.
Keep in mind at all times we are talking about approximately a $200 (NZD) fix – less than the lost profit on one lost sale for an HP PC ( you might think twice about HP products after reading this).
There are two parts to this problem :
Part 1 :
I purchased an HP Touch Smart a few years ago, I registered the product & warranty with them & over the years have received have received numerous emails stating “buy this, upgrade now”.
But I don’t recall ever receiving an “WARNING – Critical Failure Issue (CFI) apply attached patch immediately” email while under warranty. Why is this relevant?
Ø Seagate makes Hard Drives – in this case a Barracuda 7200.11
Ø HP buys said HD’s from Seagate
Ø Seagate finds a problem with firmware in HD’s & advises HP & supplies a fix
Ø HP knows which Customers have these HD’s, because you know what goes into your machines – right ? - see below
Ø HP FAILS to send email to Customers with the fix (a simple email with attachment would solve problem) or issue recall.
Ø HP even offers previously to fix problem FOC & puts fix on its Website - but only if the Customer knows somehow of the problem.
Ø Should the Customer intuitively& telepathically know of problems in HP Products in advance before it fails, because of course HP is not telling their Customers.
Problem or Outcome: My HD has bricked itself & will not operate as I never received notice of the firmware fix at any time either in or out of warranty.
Paul Boshoff - G M -Personal Systems Group- HP NZ (PB- GMPSG) says
“It would be very difficult, if not impossible, for any computer vendor to proactively notify it’s customers of component-level updates”
“Failures of the kind you’ve experienced are usually related to a specific batch of serial numbers and often those component serial numbers aren’t available when the user is registering that particular computer.”
Now let me know if you think I’m wrong, but it sounds like HP does not know what goes into its machines or at the very minimum does not keep track of this.
HP, a Global Computer Services company cannot possibly be expected to track what goes into its machines. HP apparently does not record or match the serial number of the HD with the machine it goes into.
If Ford & Toyota can track & record what tyres go on which make & model of their cars which are in the millions each year & can recall cars dating back 8-10 years just case of a manufacturers component malfunction why can’t HP link & record the HD details.
I can just hear it now “I’m sorry we don’t know which engine we put in your car”.
And let’s be real clear here – we are not talking about some small screw at the back of a PC – Along with the CPU & the RAM, the Hard Drive is pretty much up there in the top 3 of important components of any computer.
I.C – Do you feel
ü That fills you with confidence in HP products & services ?
ü Should HP be required to tell its customer of CFI’s with its products – particularly while under warranty?
ü Has HP tried to limit their liability & cost by directly NOT telling Customers of CFI’s while under warranty?
Part 2 :
When your HD bricks itself – apparently all is not lost – some very clever person has found a solution so you can get the HD going long enough to apply the firmware fix & then your HD is a good as new – Here is the link that spells it out with pics http://www.overclock.net/t/457286/seagate-bricked-firmware-drive-fix-with-pics)
You’ll see the relevance of this shortly.
After much messing about I received the following email from PB- GMPSG : “I have escalated your issue and have just received the go-ahead to repair your unit at our cost. We will be utilizing our own, authorized service provider to re-install the original hard-drive and to run the software fix on that unit.” (This guy most likely earns a six figure salary & isn’t able to sign off $200 fix).
NOTE : it does not limit or restrict what type of fixes will be used & also at this time HP was aware of both the Seagate fix & above fix.
I delivered the PC & bricked HD into the HP Authorised Repair Centre (ARC) as requested –their ticket instructions read “do firmware update…HP to incur costs. NO COST to customer”.
Obviously it’s not rocket science but you need the HD going before you can apply any firmware fix including this one – HP knew that to get the HD going they would need a special fix to enable them to apply the Seagate fix.
After all this is not an isolated case & I did point out to HP that they would need the fix I supplied (or something similar HP approved or designed if that made them more comfortable) prior to their offer of fixing the HD.
HP said their ARC’s had all the right software for fixing their machines. In addition I have been told on several occasions, the ARC’s are the bee’s knees, the cat pajamas, the whiz kids of the PC service world “The first port of call for the repair centre agent is to download all the latest service advisory notices and updates. This is a very fundamental part of the repair process and one that we spend a great deal of time emphasizing with our authorised repair centres” Keep this in mind.
A week later I received a call from Peter Gasporaratos, HP CS Melbourne (poor guy – caught in the middle) & stated “there is nothing else we can do for you”. When I asked if they had applied the fix he said “its not our responsibility.. its not part of our guidelines.. the ARC does not practice unauthorised methods..& this ARC will not go down this path”
Ironically the day before, Barry from the ARC said “we can attempt it, but we will charge you too”. So HP’s own ARC will do it, but there will be a cost – but hang on a minute, didn’t PB- GMPSG say “to repair your unit at our cost. We will be utilizing our own, authorized service provider to re-install the original hard-drive and to run the software fix on that unit” & HP CS put on the instructions “HP to incur costs. NO COST to customer”.
I.C – Do you feel
ü HP have said they will fix it at NO COST to me, regardless of what the fix entails ?
ü Should HP honour this commitment ?
ü Would you do business with a company that says one thing & does another & does not honour its commitment ?
ü That given the bricking fault did not need to happen if HP had been proactive in letting their customers know of the firmware issue & this is not an isolated case– shouldn’t they then be responsible in finding or developing a fix for getting the HD going long enough to apply the firmware fix if they are not going to use other recognised fixes.
Abstract
So that’s it – what do you think I.C. ?
Would you want HP computers & servers controlling the Traffic Lights, Air Traffic Control, Patient records & Medications at Hospitals knowing that HP will not tell these organisations that there is CFI with their products & they could suddenly lose everything. All dead while they try to find a back up computer with all the data – god forbid if President Obama’s “football” is powered by an HP – Nuclear War before we know it.
But seriously – I would love your feedback – Am I being unreasonable in asking them to honour their commitment for a $200 fix ?
And of course HP being a Customer Focused Global Computer Services company, would welcome your feedback.
Here are a couple of the players contact details who would love to hear from you :
ü Keith Watson – CEO –HP NZ -I initially contacted him & he thanked me for bringing it to his attention, then nothing.
Email : [email protected]
ü Paul Boshoff - G M -Personal Systems Group- HP NZ – well of course you now know who he is now – he would love feedback.
Email : [email protected]
ü Jessica Rangi – She’s the Spokes person/PR/Marketing for HP NZ & has just help launch HP new PC range in NZ – She would love your feedback as it might impact on her marketing & she is quoted as having helped out in warranty situations before & has worked at HP head office.
Email : [email protected]
ü Meg Whitman - President and Chief Executive Officer of HP Global
Email : [email protected]
They would all like to hear from you J
I.C
J Thanks for being patience & reading through to the end – now it’s up to you
L buy HP Products & Services or not.
L Do HP deserve your hard earned money if you now believe they aren’t going tell you about problems with their Product & Services.
Be kind to one another & take care.
Regards
Smithie
P.S - I sent this blog to HP for fact & quote checking prior to uploading (I gave them over a week to reply) – the silence was deafening from HP.

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I doubt the hard drive would be covered by buying an extended warranty after the fact. There is also no reason to buy a new hard drive from HP. Almost any 2.5" hard drive on the market will work in your computer. You will need your personal HP Recovery Disc set to return the computer to a factory like state. If you didn't create these discs, you will need to order a set.
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Pacman says i need kernel26-2.6.13.4-3 even tho i have .....

Ok so i did today my daily pacman -Syu and with some other packages that it says i need to update also is listed kernel26-2.6.13.4-3 even tho im running arch with kernel26-scsi-2.6.13.4-3 , i have no idea why this his happening but something tells me it isnt rite and if i update to that package my system will get bad .
So i my guessing is this needs to be reviewed maybe somo bad dependency or some like that
Cheers
[root@bulletproof rdoggsv]# pacman -Syu
:: Synchronizing package databases...
:: current is up to date
:: extra is up to date
Targets: mono-tools-1.1.9-2 gtk-sharp-2-2.5.92-1 libgdiplus-1.1.9.2-1
man-pages-2.11-1 kernel26-2.6.13.4-3 mono-debugger-0.10-2
monodevelop-0.8-1 openssh-4.2p1-2 openssl-0.9.7h-1 shadow-4.0.13-2
Total Package Size: 28.1 MB
Proceed with upgrade? [Y/n]
Added
Ok so i started updating package by package until i got to the mono-debugger wich is the package that is asking for the kernel26, maybe this will help more to see the problem. dependency check on mono-debugger ??
[root@bulletproof rdoggsv]# pacman -S mono-debugger
Targets: kernel26-2.6.13.4-3 mono-debugger-0.10-2
Total Package Size: 16.1 MB
Proceed with upgrade? [Y/n] n
Added-2
I installed mono-debugger omiting dependency check and also monodevelop and now im fine, pacman doenst ask anymore for the kernel update.

tomk wrote:
I think it's more likely that kernel26-scsi should have
provides=('kernel26')
in its PKGBUILD, which it does not at present.
Regardless, no packages should depend on the kernel. That's part of the design (at least according to Xentac).

[Solved] Massive bootproblems with kernel26 2.6.38

I don't know what's wrong with my computer, so I post it here:
Every kernel before 2.6.39 worked fine with 'irqpoll' as kernel parameter.
'Irqpoll' is needed, otherwise the boot hangs somewhere and I have to press Enter several times to continue.
The problem is now: current kernels refuse to boot, I just get a blinking monitor or errormessages.
I've read that 2.6.39 got a different IRQ handling, maybe that is the 'problem'.
Bios version in the latest, I tried everything. Disabled HPET, changed Bios IRQ settings, kernel parameter (irqpoll irqfixup noacpi noapic nolapic erst_disable hest_disable) ...
acpi=off is the only option which works fine.
Today I fixed my DSDT (produces 0 error and warnings now) and compiled it into kernel26-mainline (3.0-rc3) -> same problem.
Last edited by Radioactiveman (2011-06-15 15:30:59)

I've found out that disabling C1E in the Bios helps.
After searching the forum I read this solution again -> https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=92801
'irqpoll' is also no more necessary.
More information:
https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=15289
https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=28612
Last edited by Radioactiveman (2011-06-15 15:30:18)

Upgrade kernel26-firmware to linux-firmware report with some problem

Just now I upgrade my system from kernel26-firmware to linux-firmware, in X (Awesome WM).
After press Y and pacman start downloading, I'm afk for a while (take a bath), when I'm come back
My system freeze and proses show that system still make mkinitcpio for fallback.
I hard reset, and boot. Boot failed in 10 seconds message because it can't detect my filesystem.
Follow suggestion that I need add some parameters I can boot.
Then I check with pacman -Syu, and you can guess there's still db.lck. Then I remove it, and invoke pacman -Syu again, pacman failed because there's already file from linux-firmware on disk.
I try to downgrade, but failed with the same reason. Then I remove all folder and file that conflict, and install kernel26-firmware then upgrade to linux-firmware, now I have linux-firmware on my system.
Learn a lot from that problem, any thought guys ?! Maybe some of you have a better way to solve something like that ?!
regards,
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Edit:
After I read pacman man, there's a force option (-f). Can I used that just in case (maybe) I have the same problem again ?
Last edited by igndenok (2010-06-21 15:11:27)

All I can say is that when the linux-firmware package got into [testing], I switched without problems on my laptop. I 'migrated' to the linux-firmware package on my server a few hours ago and it went smoothly too. I don't really think your problem has anything to do with the firmware package, since that doesn't trigger an initcpio rebuild, nor are there any file conflicts between both firmware packages.

[solved] Errors in ugrading to kernel26-2.6.38.5-1, Opera involved?

While upgrading kernel to kernel26-2.6.38.5-1 i get some error messages and some Opera related output.
Opera related output is like this:
:: Generating module dependencies
This script installs Opera 11.00 build 1156 for Linux on x86_64.
Copyright (c) 1995-2010 Opera Software ASA. All rights reserved.
Options:
--text Select plain-text user interface.
--unattended Ask no questions. Implies --text.
The --prefix option becomes mandatory.
--quiet Ask no questions and don't show progress.
Implies --text.
--prefix /P Specify installation directory. Opera will be
installed into /P/bin, /P/share and /P/lib.
--user Install for the current user. Default for non-root.
Alias for --prefix /root/.local.
--system Install for everybody. Default for root.
Alias for --prefix /usr/local.
--suffix S Append -S to the names of installed files and
directories. This allows to install several
versions of Opera side by side.
--force Ignore all kinds of errors and try to continue.
--repackage R Special mode for package maintainers. Extract files
into the staging directory R as if it were the
installation prefix, but prepare them to be
installed under the actual prefix. In this mode, no
finalizing actions, such as registration of menu
entries, are performed. Sanity checks are disabled.
Implies --unattended.
--version Show Opera version.
--help Show this message.
and this repeats many times and ends with errors:
This script installs Opera 11.00 build 1156 for Linux on x86_64.
Copyright (c) 1995-2010 Opera Software ASA. All rights reserved.
Options:
--text Select plain-text user interface.
--unattended Ask no questions. Implies --text.
The --prefix option becomes mandatory.
--quiet Ask no questions and don't show progress.
Implies --text.
--prefix /P Specify installation directory. Opera will be
installed into /P/bin, /P/share and /P/lib.
--user Install for the current user. Default for non-root.
Alias for --prefix /root/.local.
--system Install for everybody. Default for root.
Alias for --prefix /usr/local.
--suffix S Append -S to the names of installed files and
directories. This allows to install several
versions of Opera side by side.
--force Ignore all kinds of errors and try to continue.
--repackage R Special mode for package maintainers. Extract files
into the staging directory R as if it were the
installation prefix, but prepare them to be
installed under the actual prefix. In this mode, no
finalizing actions, such as registration of menu
entries, are performed. Sanity checks are disabled.
Implies --unattended.
--version Show Opera version.
--help Show this message.
WARNING: Couldn't open directory /tmp/mkinitcpio.7lAdxO/lib/modules/2.6.38-ARCH: No such file or directory
FATAL: Could not open /tmp/mkinitcpio.7lAdxO/lib/modules/2.6.38-ARCH/modules.dep.temp for writing: No such file or directory
ERROR: file '/tmp/mkinitcpio.7lAdxO/lib/modules/2.6.38-ARCH/modules.dep' does not exist
ERROR: file '/tmp/mkinitcpio.7lAdxO/lib/modules/2.6.38-ARCH/modules.alias' does not exist
ERROR: file '/tmp/mkinitcpio.7lAdxO/lib/modules/2.6.38-ARCH/modules.symbols' does not exist
:: Generating image '/boot/kernel26.img'...SUCCESS
==> SUCCESS
==> Building image "fallback"
Full output from
pacman -S kernel26
is in http://pastebin.com/TweKjxaA
This is the second machine that i try to upgrade and the first machine had similar output and does not want to boot anymore
What should i do to get kernel to upgrade without errors?
Last edited by mjones (2011-05-09 03:58:07)

I had the Opera binaries untarred to a folder in my path and it seems that somehow Opera interfered with the kernel upgrade. Temporarily renamed the Opera folder (thereby removing it from the path) and kernel upgrade succeeded flawlessly. Case closed

No modules found in kernel26 package compiled via ABS

Hi,
I have been experiencing problems building kernels recently. I've used ABS and AUR pkgbuilds to build kernels since 2.6.30, mostly to enable the proper USB scheduler for my hub and to try outside kernel patches, see kernel26-ck. However, since the release of 2.6.35.2, more likely a mere coincidence, I've been compiling small kernels (~4MB) from the default .configs without any modifcations to the PKGBUILDs or the config files. Looking at the compiled packages, I noticed the omission of the kernel modules that are normally located in /lib/modules/[kernelname]/kernel. The missing kernel modules obviously causes my machine to be unable to boot (https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php … 15#p872215). My makepkg.conf is below. Any explanation on what is going on? Thanks
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DLAGENTS=('ftp::/usr/bin/wget -c --passive-ftp -t 3 --waitretry=3 -O %o %u'
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'https::/usr/bin/wget -c -t 3 --waitretry=3 --no-check-certificate -O %o %u'
'rsync::/usr/bin/rsync -z %u %o'
'scp::/usr/bin/scp -C %u %o')
# Other common tools:
# /usr/bin/snarf
# /usr/bin/lftpget -c
# /usr/bin/curl
# ARCHITECTURE, COMPILE FLAGS
CARCH="x86_64"
CHOST="x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu"
#-- Exclusive: will only run on x86_64
# -march (or -mcpu) builds exclusively for an architecture
# -mtune optimizes for an architecture, but builds for whole processor family
CFLAGS="-march=x86-64 -mtune=generic -O2 -pipe"
CXXFLAGS="-march=x86-64 -mtune=generic -O2 -pipe"
LDFLAGS="-Wl,--hash-style=gnu -Wl,--as-needed"
#-- Make Flags: change this for DistCC/SMP systems
MAKEFLAGS="-j2"
# BUILD ENVIRONMENT
# Defaults: BUILDENV=(fakeroot !distcc color !ccache)
# A negated environment option will do the opposite of the comments below.
#-- fakeroot: Allow building packages as a non-root user
#-- distcc: Use the Distributed C/C++/ObjC compiler
#-- color: Colorize output messages
#-- ccache: Use ccache to cache compilation
BUILDENV=(fakeroot !distcc color !ccache)
#-- If using DistCC, your MAKEFLAGS will also need modification. In addition,
#-- specify a space-delimited list of hosts running in the DistCC cluster.
#DISTCC_HOSTS=""
# GLOBAL PACKAGE OPTIONS
# These are default values for the options=() settings
# Default: OPTIONS=(strip docs libtool emptydirs zipman purge)
# A negated option will do the opposite of the comments below.
#-- strip: Strip symbols from binaries/libraries in STRIP_DIRS
#-- docs: Save doc directories specified by DOC_DIRS
#-- libtool: Leave libtool (.la) files in packages
#-- emptydirs: Leave empty directories in packages
#-- zipman: Compress manual (man and info) pages in MAN_DIRS with gzip
#-- purge: Remove files specified by PURGE_TARGETS
OPTIONS=(strip docs libtool emptydirs zipman purge)
#-- File integrity checks to use. Valid: md5, sha1, sha256, sha384, sha512
INTEGRITY_CHECK=(md5)
#-- Options to be used when stripping binaries. See `man strip' for details.
STRIP_BINARIES="--strip-all"
#-- Options to be used when stripping shared libraries. See `man strip' for details.
STRIP_SHARED="--strip-unneeded"
#-- Options to be used when stripping static libraries. See `man strip' for details.
STRIP_STATIC="--strip-debug"
#-- Manual (man and info) directories to compress (if zipman is specified)
MAN_DIRS=({usr{,/local}{,/share},opt/*}/{man,info})
#-- Doc directories to remove (if !docs is specified)
DOC_DIRS=(usr/{,local/}{,share/}{doc,gtk-doc} opt/*/{doc,gtk-doc})
#-- Directories to be searched for the strip option (if strip is specified)
STRIP_DIRS=(bin lib sbin usr/{bin,lib,sbin,local/{bin,lib,sbin}} opt/*/{bin,lib,sbin})
#-- Files to be removed from all packages (if purge is specified)
PURGE_TARGETS=(usr/{,share}/info/dir .packlist *.pod)
# PACKAGE OUTPUT
# Default: put built package and cached source in build directory
#-- Destination: specify a fixed directory where all packages will be placed
#PKGDEST=/home/packages
#-- Source cache: specify a fixed directory where source files will be cached
#SRCDEST=/home/sources
#-- Source packages: specify a fixed directory where all src packages will be placed
#SRCPKGDEST=/home/srcpackages
#-- Packager: name/email of the person or organization building packages
#PACKAGER="John Doe <[email protected]>"
# EXTENSION DEFAULTS
# WARNING: Do NOT modify these variables unless you know what you are
# doing.
PKGEXT='.pkg.tar.xz'
SRCEXT='.src.tar.gz'
# vim: set ft=sh ts=2 sw=2 et:
Last edited by ssri (2011-01-15 05:56:17)

Ran linpack and noticed that my CPU temp peaked at 74C, well below the critical threshold of 100C (according to intel). Usually, my CPU runs at arounr 48-55C unless I am doing some CPU-intensive task. When that happens, it will run up to the upper 70s.
~ $ cat /etc/lininput_xeon64
Sample Intel(R) LINPACK data file
Intel(R) LINPACK data
1 # number of tests
21000 # problem sizes
21000 # leading dimensions
20 # times to run a test
4 # alignment values (in KBytes)
# Change the problem sizes and leading dimensions to suite your free physical memory
# Memory use = 8 x (problem size)^2
# or
# Problem size = sqrt (memory use / 8)
# For 1 GB use a problem size and leading dimensions of 7000
# For 2 GB use a problem size and leading dimensions of 13700
# For 4 GB use a problem size and leading dimensions of 21000
# For 8 GB use a problem size and leading dimensions of 29600
~ $ cat lin_xeon64.txt
Fri Dec 31 21:30:38 PST 2010
Intel(R) LINPACK data
Current date/time: Fri Dec 31 21:30:38 2010
CPU frequency: 1.800 GHz
Number of CPUs: 1
Number of cores: 2
Number of threads: 2
Parameters are set to:
Number of tests : 1
Number of equations to solve (problem size) : 21000
Leading dimension of array : 21000
Number of trials to run : 20
Data alignment value (in Kbytes) : 4
Maximum memory requested that can be used = 3528424096, at the size = 21000
============= Timing linear equation system solver =================
Size LDA Align. Time(s) GFlops Residual Residual(norm)
21000 21000 4 666.408 9.2659 3.591869e-10 2.884103e-02

[FIXED] kernel26-lts for Intel driver's conflict with KMS in kernel26

Hi,
I am running on a GM965/GL960 Intel video card. During the install (and later use) of Arch, I had to add i915.modeset=0 on the kernel line in grub when booting to get to a visible terminal; otherwise I used to get a blank screen after udev loaded. However, taking a leaf from Ubuntu on same laptop (and since most fixes for this issue recommended downgrading the kernel), I installed kernel26-lts. This works quite well with the latest xorg (1.9) and intel driver (2.12.0-3).
kernel26 - 2.6.35
kernel26-lts - 2.6.32-23
1. Are desktop users recommended to use the LTS kernel?
2. For certain components (Broadcom wi-fi), where I intend to install drivers from the AUR - will they work on LTS kernel?
3. Is this a good strategy? I intend to keep kernel26 also on my machine and when the Intel issue gets fixed, I will switch back to kernel26.
Last edited by rohit_b (2010-10-01 02:00:30)

1. If it works for you, use it.
2. There are -lts versions of some packages and compiling others against any supported kernel should be fine.
3. Seems nice and simple.
You can also try .34 version or the regular kernel.

[SOLVED] kernel26-selinux "ugly" release string

I am maintainer of kernel26-selinux in AUR. Recently I noticed that built kernel sais (uname -r) 2.6.35-selinux-gd4918f4-dirty instead just 2.6.35-selinux, which I would expect. I found option CONFIG_LOCALVERSION_AUTO which I think should solve it if set to no, but in that case the release string is actualy 2.6.35-selinux+ (note the plus symbol).
Would someone kindly tell me, what to change, so that uname -r would show just 2.6.35-selinux? Or give some arguments why the other way is better, in case it is?
PS Here is link for up-to-date tarball, as AUR doesn't yet support splitpackages: http://profi.edisk.cz/stahnout-soubor/1 … 1.9KB.html
PPS I am quite new to building kernel stuff, so please speak slowly to me.
Last edited by Nicky726 (2010-08-19 17:49:14)

Nicky726 wrote:
Well the sed line used in kernel26-ice is in fact wrong.
instead of:
sed 's/head=$(git rev-parse --verify --short HEAD 2>\/dev\/null)/0/' \
${srcdir}/linux-${_basekernel}/scripts/setlocalversion > \
${srcdir}/linux-${_basekernel}/scripts/setlocalversion
there should be:
sed -i 's/head=$(git rev-parse --verify --short HEAD 2>\/dev\/null)/0/' \
${srcdir}/linux-${_basekernel}/scripts/setlocalversion
as the former deletes contents of whole file.
EDIT:
And the contents of the if to be changed by the sed did changed too. So hopefully last modification of the hack is:
sed -i -e "s/head=\`git rev-parse --verify --short HEAD 2>\/dev\/null\`/0/" \
${srcdir}/linux-${_basekernel}/scripts/setlocalversion
Yes, if you read the comments I commented that I'd already fixed that, but in git. The maintainer just hasn't gotten around to updating my fix to the AUR PKGBUILD.

Kernel26-icc compiled with Intel's compiler instead of gcc

I'm working on kernel26-icc, it's the kernel26 but compiled with Intel's compiler. Can't seem to upload it to AUR ("Invalid name: only lowercase letters are allowed.")
http://www.linuxdna.com/
So far I've this:
PKGBUILD
# Maintainer: Mathias Burén <[email protected]>
pkgname=('kernel26-icc' 'kernel26-icc-firmware' 'kernel26-icc-headers') # Build icc kernel
_kernelname=${pkgname#kernel26-icc}
_basekernel=2.6.33
pkgver=${_basekernel}
pkgrel=1
arch=(x86_64)
license=('GPL2')
url="http://www.linuxdna.com/"
source=(ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v2.6/linux-$_basekernel.tar.bz2
# the main kernel config files
config.x86_64
# standard config files for mkinitcpio ramdisk
kernel26-icc.preset
http://www.linuxdna.com/dna-2.6.33-intel64.patch)
makedepends=('icc')
md5sums=('c3883760b18d50e8d78819c54d579b00'
'5c91374d56f115ba4324978d5b002711'
'a4fd3c59751194bc118c70d1348436ab'
'a307beb562eb7e68a6f3e2fb5fc216a3')
build() {
cd ${srcdir}/linux-$_basekernel
cat ../config.x86_64 >./.config
patch -p1 < ../dna-2.6.33-intel64.patch || return 1
if [ "${_kernelname}" != "" ]; then
sed -i "s|CONFIG_LOCALVERSION=.*|CONFIG_LOCALVERSION=\"${_kernelname}\"|g" ./.config
fi
# get kernel version
make prepare
# load configuration
# Configure the kernel. Replace the line below with one of your choice.
make menuconfig # CLI menu for configuration
#make xconfig # X-based configuration
#make oldconfig # using old config from previous kernel version
# ... or manually edit .config
# stop here
# this is useful to configure the kernel
#msg "Stopping build"
#return 1
yes "" | make config
# build!
make bzImage modules || return 1
package_kernel26-icc() {
pkgdesc="The Linux Kernel and modules built with ICC"
backup=(etc/mkinitcpio.d/${pkgname}.preset)
depends=('coreutils' 'kernel26-icc-firmware>=2.6.33' 'module-init-tools' 'mkinitcpio>=0.5.20')
install=kernel26-icc.install
optdepends=('crda: to set the correct wireless channels of your country')
KARCH=x86
cd ${srcdir}/linux-$_basekernel
# get kernel version
_kernver="$(make kernelrelease)"
mkdir -p ${pkgdir}/{lib/modules,boot}
make INSTALL_MOD_PATH=${pkgdir} modules_install || return 1
cp System.map ${pkgdir}/boot/System.map26${_kernelname}
cp arch/$KARCH/boot/bzImage ${pkgdir}/boot/vmlinuz26${_kernelname}
# # add vmlinux
install -m644 -D vmlinux ${pkgdir}/usr/src/linux-${_kernver}/vmlinux
# install fallback mkinitcpio.conf file and preset file for kernel
install -m644 -D ${srcdir}/kernel26.preset ${pkgdir}/etc/mkinitcpio.d/${pkgname}.preset || return 1
# set correct depmod command for install
sed \
-e "s/KERNEL_NAME=.*/KERNEL_NAME=${_kernelname}/g" \
-e "s/KERNEL_VERSION=.*/KERNEL_VERSION=${_kernver}/g" \
-i $startdir/kernel26.install
sed \
-e "s|source .*|source /etc/mkinitcpio.d/kernel26${_kernelname}.kver|g" \
-e "s|default_image=.*|default_image=\"/boot/${pkgname}.img\"|g" \
-e "s|fallback_image=.*|fallback_image=\"/boot/${pkgname}-fallback.img\"|g" \
-i ${pkgdir}/etc/mkinitcpio.d/${pkgname}.preset
echo -e "# DO NOT EDIT THIS FILE\nALL_kver='${_kernver}'" > ${pkgdir}/etc/mkinitcpio.d/${pkgname}.kver
# remove build and source links
rm -f ${pkgdir}/lib/modules/${_kernver}/{source,build}
# remove the firmware
rm -rf ${pkgdir}/lib/firmware
package_kernel26-icc-headers() {
pkgdesc="Header files and scripts for building modules for kernel26-icc"
mkdir -p ${pkgdir}/lib/modules/${_kernver}
cd ${pkgdir}/lib/modules/${_kernver}
ln -sf ../../../usr/src/linux-${_kernver} build
cd ${srcdir}/linux-$_basekernel
install -D -m644 Makefile \
${pkgdir}/usr/src/linux-${_kernver}/Makefile
install -D -m644 kernel/Makefile \
${pkgdir}/usr/src/linux-${_kernver}/kernel/Makefile
install -D -m644 .config \
${pkgdir}/usr/src/linux-${_kernver}/.config
mkdir -p ${pkgdir}/usr/src/linux-${_kernver}/include
for i in acpi asm-{generic,x86} config linux math-emu media net pcmcia scsi sound trace video; do
cp -a include/$i ${pkgdir}/usr/src/linux-${_kernver}/include/
done
# copy arch includes for external modules
mkdir -p ${pkgdir}/usr/src/linux-${_kernver}/arch/x86
cp -a arch/x86/include ${pkgdir}/usr/src/linux-${_kernver}/arch/x86/
# copy files necessary for later builds, like nvidia and vmware
cp Module.symvers ${pkgdir}/usr/src/linux-${_kernver}
cp -a scripts ${pkgdir}/usr/src/linux-${_kernver}
# fix permissions on scripts dir
chmod og-w -R ${pkgdir}/usr/src/linux-${_kernver}/scripts
mkdir -p ${pkgdir}/usr/src/linux-${_kernver}/.tmp_versions
mkdir -p ${pkgdir}/usr/src/linux-${_kernver}/arch/$KARCH/kernel
cp arch/$KARCH/Makefile ${pkgdir}/usr/src/linux-${_kernver}/arch/$KARCH/
if [ "$CARCH" = "i686" ]; then
cp arch/$KARCH/Makefile_32.cpu ${pkgdir}/usr/src/linux-${_kernver}/arch/$KARCH/
fi
cp arch/$KARCH/kernel/asm-offsets.s ${pkgdir}/usr/src/linux-${_kernver}/arch/$KARCH/kernel/
# add headers for lirc package
mkdir -p ${pkgdir}/usr/src/linux-${_kernver}/drivers/media/video
cp drivers/media/video/*.h ${pkgdir}/usr/src/linux-${_kernver}/drivers/media/video/
for i in bt8xx cpia2 cx25840 cx88 em28xx et61x251 pwc saa7134 sn9c102 usbvideo zc0301; do
mkdir -p ${pkgdir}/usr/src/linux-${_kernver}/drivers/media/video/$i
cp -a drivers/media/video/$i/*.h ${pkgdir}/usr/src/linux-${_kernver}/drivers/media/video/$i
done
# add docbook makefile
install -D -m644 Documentation/DocBook/Makefile \
${pkgdir}/usr/src/linux-${_kernver}/Documentation/DocBook/Makefile
# add dm headers
mkdir -p ${pkgdir}/usr/src/linux-${_kernver}/drivers/md
cp drivers/md/*.h ${pkgdir}/usr/src/linux-${_kernver}/drivers/md
# add inotify.h
mkdir -p ${pkgdir}/usr/src/linux-${_kernver}/include/linux
cp include/linux/inotify.h ${pkgdir}/usr/src/linux-${_kernver}/include/linux/
# add wireless headers
mkdir -p ${pkgdir}/usr/src/linux-${_kernver}/net/mac80211/
cp net/mac80211/*.h ${pkgdir}/usr/src/linux-${_kernver}/net/mac80211/
# add dvb headers for external modules
# in reference to:
# http://bugs.archlinux.org/task/9912
mkdir -p ${pkgdir}/usr/src/linux-${_kernver}/drivers/media/dvb/dvb-core
cp drivers/media/dvb/dvb-core/*.h ${pkgdir}/usr/src/linux-${_kernver}/drivers/media/dvb/dvb-core/
# add dvb headers for external modules
# in reference to:
# http://bugs.archlinux.org/task/11194
mkdir -p ${pkgdir}/usr/src/linux-${_kernver}/include/config/dvb/
cp include/config/dvb/*.h ${pkgdir}/usr/src/linux-${_kernver}/include/config/dvb/
# add dvb headers for http://mcentral.de/hg/~mrec/em28xx-new
# in reference to:
# http://bugs.archlinux.org/task/13146
mkdir -p ${pkgdir}/usr/src/linux-${_kernver}/drivers/media/dvb/frontends/
cp drivers/media/dvb/frontends/lgdt330x.h ${pkgdir}/usr/src/linux-${_kernver}/drivers/media/dvb/frontends/
cp drivers/media/video/msp3400-driver.h ${pkgdir}/usr/src/linux-${_kernver}/drivers/media/dvb/frontends/
# add xfs and shmem for aufs building
mkdir -p ${pkgdir}/usr/src/linux-${_kernver}/fs/xfs
mkdir -p ${pkgdir}/usr/src/linux-${_kernver}/mm
cp fs/xfs/xfs_sb.h ${pkgdir}/usr/src/linux-${_kernver}/fs/xfs/xfs_sb.h
# add headers vor virtualbox
# in reference to:
# http://bugs.archlinux.org/task/14568
cp -a include/drm $pkgdir/usr/src/linux-${_kernver}/include/
# add headers for broadcom wl
# in reference to:
# http://bugs.archlinux.org/task/14568
cp -a include/trace $pkgdir/usr/src/linux-${_kernver}/include/
# copy in Kconfig files
for i in `find . -name "Kconfig*"`; do
mkdir -p ${pkgdir}/usr/src/linux-${_kernver}/`echo $i | sed 's|/Kconfig.*||'`
cp $i ${pkgdir}/usr/src/linux-${_kernver}/$i
done
cd ${pkgdir}/usr/src/linux-${_kernver}/include && ln -s asm-$KARCH asm
# add header for aufs2-util
cp -a ${srcdir}/linux-$_basekernel/include/asm-generic/bitsperlong.h ${pkgdir}/usr/src/linux-${_kernver}/include/asm/
chown -R root.root ${pkgdir}/usr/src/linux-${_kernver}
find ${pkgdir}/usr/src/linux-${_kernver} -type d -exec chmod 755 {} \;
# remove unneeded architectures
rm -rf ${pkgdir}/usr/src/linux-${_kernver}/arch/{alpha,arm,arm26,avr32,blackfin,cris,frv,h8300,ia64,m32r,m68k,m68knommu,mips,microblaze,mn10300,parisc,powerpc,ppc,s390,sh,sh64,sparc,sparc64,um,v850,xtensa}
package_kernel26-icc-firmware() {
pkgdesc="The included firmware files of kernel26-icc"
cd ${srcdir}/linux-$_basekernel
make firmware || return 1
make INSTALL_MOD_PATH=${pkgdir} firmware_install || return 1
kernel26-icc.preset
# mkinitcpio preset file for kernel26-icc
# DO NOT EDIT THIS LINE:
source /etc/mkinitcpio.d/kernel26-icc.kver
ALL_config="/etc/mkinitcpio.conf"
PRESETS=('default' 'fallback')
#default_config="/etc/mkinitcpio.conf"
default_image="/boot/kernel26-icc.img"
#default_options=""
#fallback_config="/etc/mkinitcpio.conf"
fallback_image="/boot/kernel26-icc-fallback.img"
fallback_options="-S autodetect"
kernel26-icc.install
# arg 1: the new package version
# arg 2: the old package version
KERNEL_NAME=-icc
KERNEL_VERSION=2.6.33-icc
post_install () {
# updating module dependencies
echo ">>> Updating module dependencies. Please wait ..."
depmod $KERNEL_VERSION
# generate init ramdisks
echo ">>> MKINITCPIO SETUP"
echo ">>> ----------------"
echo ">>> If you use LVM2, Encrypted root or software RAID,"
echo ">>> Ensure you enable support in /etc/mkinitcpio.conf ."
echo ">>> More information about mkinitcpio setup can be found here:"
echo ">>> http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Mkinitcpio"
echo ""
echo ">>> Generating initial ramdisk, using mkinitcpio. Please wait..."
/sbin/mkinitcpio -p kernel26${KERNEL_NAME}
post_upgrade() {
pacman -Q grub &>/dev/null
hasgrub=$?
pacman -Q grub2 &>/dev/null
hasgrub2=$?
pacman -Q lilo &>/dev/null
haslilo=$?
# reminder notices
if [ $haslilo -eq 0 ]; then
echo ">>>"
if [ $hasgrub -eq 0 -o $hasgrub2 -eq 0 ]; then
echo ">>> If you use the LILO bootloader, you should run 'lilo' before rebooting."
else
echo ">>> You appear to be using the LILO bootloader. You should run"
echo ">>> 'lilo' before rebooting."
fi
echo ">>>"
fi
if grep "^[^#]*/boot" /etc/fstab 2>&1 >/dev/null; then
if ! grep "/boot" /etc/mtab 2>&1 >/dev/null; then
echo "WARNING: /boot appears to be a seperate partition but is not mounted"
echo " This is most likely not what you want. Please mount your /boot"
echo " partition and reinstall the kernel unless you are sure this is OK"
fi
fi
if [ "`vercmp $2 2.6.13`" -lt 0 ]; then
# important upgrade notice
echo ">>>"
echo ">>> IMPORTANT KERNEL UPGRADE NOTICE"
echo ">>> -------------------------------"
echo ">>> As of kernel 2.6.13, DevFS is NO LONGER AVAILABLE!"
echo ">>> If you still use DevFS, please make the transition to uDev before"
echo ">>> rebooting. If you really need to stay with DevFS for some reason,"
echo ">>> then you can manually downgrade to an older version:"
echo ">>>"
echo ">>> # pacman -U http://archlinux.org/~judd/kernel/kernel26-scsi-2.6.12.2-1.pkg.tar.gz"
echo ">>>"
echo ">>> If you choose to downgrade, don't forget to add kernel26-scsi to your"
echo ">>> IgnorePkg list in /etc/pacman.conf"
echo ">>>"
echo ">>> (NOTE: The following portion applies to uDev users as well!)"
echo ">>>"
echo ">>> If you use any DevFS paths in your GRUB menu.lst, then you will not"
echo ">>> be able to boot! Change your root= parameter to use the classic"
echo ">>> naming scheme."
echo ">>>"
echo ">>> EXAMPLES:"
echo ">>> - change root=/dev/discs/disc0/part3 to root=/dev/sda3"
echo ">>> - change root=/dev/md/0 to root=/dev/md0"
echo ">>>"
fi
# generate new init ramdisk
if [ "`vercmp $2 2.6.18`" -lt 0 ]; then
echo ">>> --------------------------------------------------------------"
echo ">>> | WARNING: |"
echo ">>> |mkinitrd is not supported anymore in kernel >=2.6.18 series!|"
echo ">>> | Please change to Mkinitcpio setup. |"
echo ">>> --------------------------------------------------------------"
echo ">>>"
fi
# updating module dependencies
echo ">>> Updating module dependencies. Please wait ..."
depmod $KERNEL_VERSION
echo ">>> MKINITCPIO SETUP"
echo ">>> ----------------"
if [ "`vercmp $2 2.6.18`" -lt 0 ]; then
echo ">>> Please change your bootloader config files:"
echo ">>> Grub: /boot/grub/menu.lst | Lilo: /etc/lilo.conf"
echo "------------------------------------------------"
echo "| - initrd26.img to kernel26${KERNEL_NAME}.img |"
echo "| - initrd26-full.img to kernel26${KERNEL_NAME}-fallback.img |"
echo "------------------------------------------------"
fi
if [ "`vercmp $2 2.6.19`" -lt 0 ]; then
echo ""
echo ">>> New PATA/IDE subsystem - EXPERIMENTAL"
echo ">>> ----------"
echo ">>> To use the new pata drivers, change the 'ide' hook "
echo ">>> to 'pata' in /etc/mkinicpio.conf HOOKS="
echo ">>> The new system changes: /dev/hd? to /dev/sd?"
echo ">>> Don't forget to modify GRUB, LILO and fstab to the"
echo ">>> new naming system. "
echo ">>> eg: hda3 --> sda3, hdc8 --> sdc8"
echo ""
echo ">>> piix/ata_piix (Intel chipsets) - IMPORTANT"
echo "----------"
echo ">>> If you have enabled ide/pata/sata HOOKs in /etc/mkinitcpio.conf"
echo ">>> the 'ata_piix' module will be used."
echo ">>> This may cause your devices to shift names, eg:"
echo ">>> - IDE: devices from hd? to sd?"
echo ">>> - SATA: sda might shift to sdc if you have 2 other disks on a PIIX IDE port."
echo ">>> To check if this will affect you, check 'mkinitcpio -M' for piix/ata_piix"
echo ""
fi
echo ">>> If you use LVM2, Encrypted root or software RAID,"
echo ">>> Ensure you enable support in /etc/mkinitcpio.conf ."
echo ">>> More information about mkinitcpio setup can be found here:"
echo ">>> http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Mkinitcpio"
echo ""
echo ">>> Generating initial ramdisk, using mkinitcpio. Please wait..."
if [ "`vercmp $2 2.6.19`" -lt 0 ]; then
/sbin/mkinitcpio -p kernel26${KERNEL_NAME} -m "ATTENTION:\nIf you get a kernel panic below
and are using an Intel chipset, append 'earlymodules=piix' to the
kernel commandline"
else
/sbin/mkinitcpio -p kernel26${KERNEL_NAME}
fi
if [ "`vercmp $2 2.6.21`" -lt 0 ]; then
echo ""
echo "Important ACPI Information:"
echo ">>> Since 2.6.20.7 all possible ACPI parts are modularized."
echo ">>> The modules are located at:"
echo ">>> /lib/modules/$(uname -r)/kernel/drivers/acpi"
echo ">>> For more information about ACPI modules check this wiki page:"
echo ">>> 'http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/ACPI_modules'"
fi
post_remove() {
rm -f /boot/kernel26${KERNEL_NAME}.img
rm -f /boot/kernel26${KERNEL_NAME}-fallback.img
Then there's of course the config, it's based on kernel26 at the moment,.
I'm building it now, to test. I had to install icc manually because the AUR package for icc didn't work for me. I had to install icc manually (run the installer), but that wasn't enough. Before makepkg, you have to add the icc to $PATH e.g.
PATH=$PATH:/opt/intel/Compiler/11.1/064/bin/intel64
and execute iccvars_intel64.sh which is in that folder.
Last edited by Fackamato (2010-02-25 23:43:38)

Ashren wrote:So there is a significant performance gain with ICC? Compilation time wise or?
icc kernel compiles in similar time as gcc kernel, or if there any differences these may be negligible. To be honest I was not really interested in compiling times (was doing somethig else as it takes ~12 min on my system to finish kernel compilation), but rather with overall kernel performance. This is not the same as OS performance, but I am planning to compile firefox with icc and maybe some other stuff (if I am bored enough).
If you have 32-bit OS (I have no idea how it will work on 64-bit), try it. I can't post PKGBUILD for 32-bit icc kernel because I don't use PKGBUILD for kernels or nvidia as I have found it limiting/cumbersome/unnecessary (while PKGBUILDs work great for anything else on Arch).
The only part really annoying is intel server speed. Downloading icc sources (710MB for 32-bit only) tahes two hours. If you try to get 32/64bit sources even longer (1GB download).
32-bit icc PKGBUILD package requires only one modification related to Release Notes otherwise makepkg will fail. Once installed export icc path, edit kernel Makefile and change one line related to compiler: change gcc to icc. You can also add some compiling optimizations.
Pretty easy if you did compile kernel before.
note added:
actually combination of icc and zen seems to have nice effect on desktop responsiveness (this is 2.6.33)
Last edited by broch (2010-02-26 19:54:57)

Two problems with kernel26-2.6.39.1-1

hi,
I just upgraded system, and i found two problems with kernel26-2.6.39.1-1
first one is that i cannot use "reboot", the screen was black.
second, i cannot use " openconnect" to connect the vpn. and the error is
CSTP connected. DPD 30, Keepalive 20
Error: either "to" is duplicate, or "ipid" is a garbage.
Connected tun0 as XXX.XXX.XXX.XXX, using SSL
Continuing in background; pid 1661
DTLS handshake failed: 2
after i downgraded the kernel to kernel26-2.6.38.8-1, both problems were solved. so, i think, there should be something wrong with kernel26-2.6.39.1-1

thanks for replies.
" poweroff" was ok. but "reboot" didnt work (kernel26-2.6.39.1-1).
after i run "reboot",
the xorg was first killed,
then some words showed on the screen line by line,
finally, as far as i remenber, it stopped at "waiting for XXXXXX" or "XXXXXsignalXXXX".
im sorry i forget the exact words. but i think they are the last words we can see if we run "reboot"

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Ok, I'm pretty saavy when it comes to most things computer related but maybe I'm missing something on this one. I bought my Intel mini with the stock 512mb of RAM and decided I wanted to upgrade to 2gb. The price of RAM is fairly steep right now so I decided I would do this one stick at a time. I purchased my 1GB stick to get me going from Crucial (due to their reputation). I used their memory advisor to make sure I was ordering the correct memory for my machine and verified the memory matched what I ordered before it was installed. I installed the 1gb stick with one of the original 256mb sticks thinking I would maximize what I had available until I was able to purchase my second stick. After doing so I had nothing but problems. I kept getting spontaneous shutdowns and when booting up it would reboot itself sometimes 2 or 3 times before I could finally get to the desktop. So, I'm stumped. I've gone through and double checked that the memory was seated right, ran TechTool Pro 4, ran the Apple hardware test, reset my pram, reset my smc and even took out my 256mb stick to see if having an unmatched pair could be the issue. Everything looked fine and all tests passed. According to Crucial's website it is not "necessary" to have a pair of sticks in the mini to run properly. It even says I should be able to run different speeds and chip capacities. I was still getting the same result just the 1gb Crucial stick by itself. I have since put my 2 original 256mb sticks back in and all seems to be well. I know there is a possibility that I got a bad stick of RAM but I definitely have my doubts based on Crucial's reputation. I know how to handle computer components so I also highly doubt that I damaged the RAM. Is there something I'm missing? Do I need to have a matching pair of sticks (size and speed)? I'm racking my brain on this one, hopefully someone will be able to shed some light on my dilemma.

Okay, new problem... I'm starting to think now that maybe my RAM woes were not RAM woes at all. I'm beginning to think that perhaps I have a failing hard drive. Right away after purchasing my Mac mini I took the original 80GB hdd out and replaced it with a brand new 120GB 5400rpm Seagate hdd. I started having these random shutdown problems and then yesterday after having my new 2GB's of RAM installed for about a week or so (and working flawlessly), I got the screen that tells me that I need to hold down the power button to restart my computer. I do so and it goes to this terminal type screen and runs through all kinds of command lines. I restarted and desktop came back up so I did a couple software updates (1 Airport update, 1 Security update). After that finishes the mini restarts and it hangs at the grey screen w/the apple. So, I shut the computer down and restarted and this time it gets to the 'OS X starting up' screen and hangs when the status bar reaches the end. So, I shut it down and restart yet again. It goes on and on like this and finally ends up getting to the desktop after roughly 6 restarts. I quickly back up everything on my computer and try a few more restarts to see the progression of the problem and try to troubleshoot. At one point I heard the hard drive click 2 times. After another round of numerous restarts I get back to the desktop and by this time alot of my programs were getting the beachball when opened and would never function (i.e. - Disk Utility, System Profiler & Safari). I put my Mac mini OS X install disc in and restarted to wipe everything out and see if my OS got messed up somewhere along the way and was causing my problems. As soon as it boots from the disc I got an error box informing me that It cannot install the OS but allows me to access Disk Utility. I erased and did a 1X pass zero out. I restarted my machine and yet again it hanged at the grey screen with the apple. I restarted a couple more times and now it just tells me it can not install the OS and shuts itself down within a few seconds of this message.
So, this is where I'm at now... Can anyone else confirm that this sounds hard drive related vs. RAM related? The only variable that has changed recently has been the RAM and I refuse to believe that I got bad RAM twice in a row from a company as reputable as Crucial.
Help me AndyO, you're my only hope! (yes, that was a nerdy Star Wars reference)

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