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Linux 2.2 Released
Ladies and Gentleman its that time again. Grab the shot
glasses, or the champagne or a beer or a can of jolt and
drink to Linux v2.2. Take that drink when you type 'make zImage'
(or bzImage if you are so moved) and remember all the hackers
that made it happen.
What a great day!
Will distros like Redhat and Slackware come out
with software updates to update packages that are required to be updated for the 2.2 kernels? I know i'm too fucking lazy to upgrade it all myself. I'll download the kernel and compile it myself, but I need someone else to do the dirty work of finding the other stuff and compiling it for me.
This should give you some Idea about all the other upgrades you might need to do. http://www.linuxtoday.com/stories/2291. html
Looks like Bill Gates isn't going to get any sleep tonight...
:-)
Congratulations to Linus, Alan Cox, and all the other people who helped put this together. I'd help hack the kernel or code if I didn't have to take classes. I take Operating Systems next semester. Grrrr...
Now the waiting game turns to Transmeta.
drivers/sound/sound.a(sb_ess.o): In function `ess_init':
sb_ess.o(.text+0xde2): undefined reference to `esstype'
sb_ess.o(.text+0xe77): undefined reference to `esstype'
make: *** [vmlinux] Error 1
It worked in pre9...
(This is a sb64awe card)
Sorry...
ftp.kernel.org is full!!!
you can't compile until i've downloaded my copy, that's unfair!
i'll post here when i've got it, ok?
goto kernel.org and download the kernel.
/usr/src/linux
/boot or /
;)
t ml
put it in your tree somewhere like
/usr/src/linux
cd
make config
or
make xconfig
make
make install
make modules
make modules_install
make zImage
copy the new kernel to somewhere like
don't forget to update you Lilo settings
or you could read the Kernel HOW-TO at
http://metalab.unc.edu/LDP/HOWTO/Kernel-HOWTO.h
Max
My new computer tomorrow, guess what I'm going to do with it.
Great week in perspective.
Download from the mirror sites:2 .2
/usr/src and uncompress
ftp.[us|ca|de|fr].kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v
Put it in
Check for software versions:
/usr/src/linux/Documentation/Changes
Configure: make menuconfig
Compile: make clean; make dep; make; make zlilo
Modules: make modules; make modules_install
Everyone get down and do the 2.2 penguin dance.
woooooooohooooo!!!!
while you twits chatter
bill stock has had a 2 for 1 split
no wonder he is taking over
the competition are a bunch of slackers
Wouldn't it be a good idea if people would
hold it for a while so that places like
metalab and such could mirror it?
Like everyone else... I have to have it NOW! :)
So does anyone know of any mirrors carrying 2.2 yet?
Finally we can get the new kernel of our beloved OS! Sweet!
No, no, it's 'make boot', at least it is for those of us who have Alphas!
somebody put the sources on [xoom|geocities|etc] and let's /. them to death.
:) I agree!
I may actually do it 2morrow...
hey, :) anyhow Im sure you get my point by now (grin)
Actually I had a small email conversation with him and he was pretty nice. I asked about glibc2 and he was very nice about it and explained the reasons why (mainly.. there are a few bugs left in glibc2 that should be resolved shortly.. I agree Ive actually come across a few of these and Its understandable) (dont flame me unless you have experiance with glibc2, and I dont mean from the user standpoint... like most people come from, I wont take the time to respond) Ive used slackware for many years, and I must say.. one of the reasons I continue to use it was how nice the author was to my emails. Heck before he started posting the changelogs he emailed me some of them (I asked).. nice big file... but ehh he didnt mind
ehh minor? have you even tryed to follow up on the changelogs threw out the entire devel series? Heck look at the new memory/vm stuff... just to start :P
weird.. I kept looking in ftp.us.kernel.org
guess I didnt figure that they keep there http accessable stuff seperate from the ftp stuff.. (shrug)
still not on ftp.us.kernel.org.. but atleast I can get it from www.us.kernel.org (shrugs again)
Hooray.
Everyone that checks this should put their own post here. What great fun
i can't get the kernel to compile w/ sound.
here's the error i get:
drivers/sound/sound.a(sb_ess.o): In function `ess_init':
sb_ess.o(.text+0xde2): undefined reference to `esstype'
sb_ess.o(.text+0xe77): undefined reference to `esstype'
make: *** [vmlinux] Error 1
Read the X11amp FAQ on www.x11amp.org. It has to do with skins support. If you aren't using skins you shouldn't be getting that message I believe.
I think I speak for everyone when I say this:
WWWWWAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHOOOOO!!!
Good job Linus, and all you hackers out there.
-Da Goose
WTF is wrong with you people? So he released another kernel version. Just because it is a "release" doesn't make it much different than any of the pre-2.2 kernels or even most of the later 2.1.x kernels! This isn't going to solve world hunger, you're still going to have to pay taxes, YES you are still impotent, and you're going to die. Linux 2.2.0 is NO BIG F'ING DEAL! If you really NEEDED any of the stuff that's in 2.2.0 you would've been running the 2.1.x kernels anyway. What's next now? Shall we begin whining and asking Linus when 2.4 is coming out!?
Is there a way to check easily if the kernel I downloaded is the real one and not one someone modified? I admit what I did was download two versions from two places and diff them (sorry!) but I couldn't think of a better way.. call me paranoid. I was thinking maybe if someone put a CRC-type thing up somewhere that was secure, I don't know where that would be though, and we could check it against that..
I downloaded rpms of kernel 2.2.0 from rawhide.redhat.com -
Cheers
I have used just about every 2.1 kernel (including the 2.2pre kernels.. same thing..) yah 2.2 isnt that big of a change from the last pre kernel.. actually Im not even sure if there actually WAS any change.. the point is... the final product is DONE... a year of hard work has been put into 2.2, and the name it self stands for a lot of this. Its not whats in 2.2, but the fact that developers now have a time to look back on all there hard work and reflect on what has changed... Review everything and start up a new devel series... :)
Its just the (sorta) end to the development cycle... many alpha, beta, pre versions... then FINALLY the actuall product. Even if a beta version was about the SAME as the final product... The fact remains... its time to start developing the next big version... (2.4) And blah... if you dont get what Im saying by now you must be blind
Or maybe you're just jealous that some of us actually have something to be happy about...
Exactly when -did- you realise that no one will miss you when you die?
Here's a link for you, if you're tired of seeing stuff about Linux.
Patrick was so f#@$%^& nice to me!!!!!! he emailed me several times right away explaining what I was asking
change:
extern int
to
int
You type "make install" and the kernel will be /boot.
copied over to
The sound blaster drivers don't like to be installed into the kernel. I had to change it to a module and it compiled fine. But believe me, I am not happy about it.
I have to update the mod utils on my RedHat 5.2
system to get things working.
Nothing works, it complains about ioctls on bootup, x11amp crashes, none of the mixer programs work and the module support (kmod and kerneld) is fucked up, etc.
tools/build bootsect setup compressed/vmlinux.out CURRENT > zImage
:)
Root device is (8, 17)
Boot sector 512 bytes.
Setup is 3416 bytes.
System is 502 kB
worked for me
I've emailed Pat twice that I can remember, and on each occasion he has responded both promptly and politely. Perhaps "fucking idiot bitching about a new libc" was simply your interpretation of his reply.
I just can't imagine him being that rude.
-jake
NUTTYX has been a lifesaver for me. Compiled in a breeze and is super stable! Hats off to Nutty Industries for getting this release out the door so fast.
BTW, the Win32 shell is a work of art.
Transarc will be supporting AFS for Linux 2.2.0
Is it just me that's having a problem with dhcpcd?
I run dhcpcd, it reports nothing to syslog, but yet when I do an ifconfig it doesn't have an entry, only one for loopback.
works fine in 2.0.36 and I didn't notice anything in the CHANGES file, all my other utilities are in compliance with the CHANGES.
Adeas appreciated, thanks.
as of initscripts-3.67-1 the new bits in /proc
/var/lock/subsys/kerneld ] && exit 0
/proc/sys/kernel/modprobe ]; then /proc/sys/kernel/modprobe indicates built-in kmod instead /proc/sys/kernel/modprobe
/var/lock/subsys/kerneld /var/lock/subsys/kerneld
;;
that indicate the built-in kerneld replacement
are checked in rc.sysinit, but not in init.d/kerneld You can just make analogous changes
to init.d/kerneld like:
diff -u --recursive --new-file kerneld.orig kerneld
--- kerneld.orig Sun Jan 3 10:45:24 1999
+++ kerneld Sun Jan 3 13:16:59 1999
@@ -14,11 +14,17 @@
start)
[ -f
- echo -n "Starting kerneld services: "
- daemon kerneld
+ if [ -f
+ #
+ echo "/sbin/modprobe" >
+ echo -n "Not starting kerneld, using kmod: "
+ else
+ echo -n "Starting kerneld services: "
+ daemon kerneld
- echo
- touch
+ echo
+ touch
+ fi
stop)
echo -n "Stopping kerneld services: "
and then the system will happily (as far as I can
tell in about 3 weeks) boot to either 2.0.x or 2.2.0
That's nice of you, but look out when you get a call tomorrow from your net admin asking why your PC was using 95% of the bandwidth last night
Alright folks, you know we've got to make sure that this article has more comments than any slashdot article ever before. I mean, stuff about microsoft regularly brings in 300+ comments; let's hear your support for the penguins!
2.2.0 is great in my Pentium box.. but has anyone tried compiling on a Sparc..? I get this error:
/usr/src/linux/include/linux/slab.h:14, /usr/src/linux/include/linux/malloc.h:4, /usr/src/linux/include/linux/proc_fs.h:5,
In file included from
from
from
from init/main.c:15:
/usr/src/linux/include/linux/mm.h:357: dereferencing pointer to incomplete type
/usr/src/linux/include/linux/mm.h:359: dereferencing pointer to incomplete type
init/main.c: In function `start_kernel':
init/main.c:1180: dereferencing pointer to incomplete type
make: *** [init/main.o] Error 1
--
Any ideas? Broken include file, methinks
It hanged my pc and siad something like:
It can't detect cpus and keyboard does not response.
2.0.36 SMP runs fine.
I used debain frozen version.
Thank
Well, those cable modems must be really cheap ...
in C.A.
The 2.2.0 kernels will work with the RH5.2 stock rpms. If you dont upgrade to the RH5.2 rpms you'll /var/log/messages. I think I found it in the contrib directory on a redhat mirror.
have problems, some things like ppp wont work.
Also you may want to get the sysklogd 1.3.28 because without it you'll get "cannot find map file" in
The 2.2.0 kernels are much faster.
THIS IS MY FIRST POST TO SLASHDOT!
DOES THIS MEAN IM OFFICIALLY A GEEK???
LINUX RULZ !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!11111111111111111111111111 11
:):):):):):):):):):):):):):):)
Red Hat is meant to be '2.2 ready' this means
that all you have to do is install the new sources
and recompile, and install. Which means that
upgrading to 2.2 from 2.0.36 should be no harder than say upgrading from 2.0.35 to 2.0.36.
Red Hat 5.1 has extra problems because some shared
libraries are not compatible with the new kernel.
I must admit I have not yet tried this... I have just taken RH's word for it.
Remember a few weeks ago when zdnet told everyone that linux has support now and that it is a great viable os for bussiness. Now they claim that its not true and that it has no support. Read these 2 artices http://www.zdnet.com/smallbusiness/tma_19990125.ht ml
, 4413,2190985,00.html
http://www.zdnet.com/devhead/stories/articles/0
The second article calls open source counter productive and I love his silly saying "Why run a unix variant or linux when you can run windows NT) . He sounds like he is a marketer for microsoft who wants no other os except windows in the market place. Tell me what you think
Put me down in the Slashdot archives as officially saying, "Woo woo" :)
It's 1:49 AM. As soon as I finish the download, it's compile time. Woohoo!!
Thanks Linus!!!!! Alan!!!!! and all the other kernel hackers. Take a well-deserved break.
Question: Are there 2.0.36 -> 2.2.0 diffs up yet? (I'm not sure if the file size would justify it.) I have a few machines at other locations to upgrade. I hate to waste the bandwidth grabbing the whole tarball if I don't need to.
WOOHOO!! download complete... bye
+ Coda: an Experimental Distributed File System
...and... credit is given" and "rights to redistribute these changes without encumbrance" clauses are big no-nos for GPL codebases. It was released under GPL (implicitly when submitted for inclusion in the kernel codebase) and as such this new verbage is invalid.
+ Release 4.0
+
+ Copyright (c) 1987-1999 Carnegie Mellon University
+ All Rights Reserved
+
+Permission to use, copy, modify and distribute this software and its
+documentation is hereby granted, provided that both the copyright
+notice and this permission notice appear in all copies of the
+software, derivative works or modified versions, and any portions
+thereof, and that both notices appear in supporting documentation, and
+that credit is given to Carnegie Mellon University in all documents
+and publicity pertaining to direct or indirect use of this code or its
+derivatives.
...
+Carnegie Mellon encourages users of this software to return any
+improvements or extensions that they make, and to grant Carnegie
+Mellon the rights to redistribute these changes without encumbrance.
Um... I'd call the GPL a *big* encumbrance. I don't think they can do this. The "notices appear
Comments from the peanut gallery?
For developing so good GNU/GPL (*free* not only open, *free for _freedom_*) software.
Why didn't they use gpg you think? From what I understood of the pgp licence, using pgp in any sort of transaction involving money or government would be in violation of the licence. Course who's gonna know, but I didn't want to risk it since there is a perfectly good Gnu version.
Course using PGP makes it possible to use either for checking. Not everyone is goinbg to use gpg over pgp and pgp can't decode gpg afaik.
I guess we can't all have as much to live for as you. How childish of us to have resorted to groundless jubilation when we could be working to cure your impotence. Hope you can get it up someday.
Or check out:
2 .0.diff
ftp.kernel.org:/pub/linux/kernel/davem/sparc-2.
Enjoy...
-DaveM
seemed appropriate...
One of the most important parts of journalism is to report in an unbiased fassion. The fact that they can have articles which show that linux has all this support, and then turn around and seemingly contradict what they said, only shows me that maybe they take this aspect of journalism seriously.
Fact is, those articles were probalbly written by different people expressing thier own findings and oppinions. I doubt it has any bearings on the oppinions of the editors or executives of zdnet.
Well, it takes longer to compile, but....
Upon upgrading (rebooting), the Real Audio clients behind my masqerading gateway had buffered enough audio to not miss a beat (so to speak) as the server re-booted.
Try that shit with NT and watch it stink...
I don't get it. :(
And this comment has score 2.
Must be something good I am missing.
Wow! I new I got one of those cable modems for a reason. Pity it won't compile that fast.
Celebrating by eating a 1foot candycane!
The early bird may get the worm, but the geek who stays up WAAAY to late gets the kernel source.
Dave, *THE* Dave!
make menuconfig, make config (*hate*) make xconfig, configure it as you please..then "make dep clean (b)zlilo modules modules_install" oughtta do it :)
so why ruin it?
Only getting errors or lost in ftp-trees...
if you get a bad reference to blah_blah_jumber[] in the ext2/balloc.c file, just edit it to blah_blah_number[]. It's pretty obvious in the context of the surrounding code.
/usr/src -print | xargs -i grep jumber {}
if you do a
$find
or some similar thing, you'll see what I mean.
You still have to update some userspace tools to get 2.2 running and to get the most out of it.
The only distro I know is 2.2 ready is SuSE 6.0 (which is should be released in the US shortly)
to Linus, Alan, and all the thousands of people around the world who contributed to Linux 2.2.0!
(Grabbed it from the US kernel mirror (about 2 minutes woohoo!), went back for the sig and couldn't get in doh!)
Will I be able to junk isapnp and still be able to use my pnp-soundcard now?
Well, I'd like to mount my stupid Solaris 2.6 partition but I can't seem to get it right. Support is compiled in the kernel but mount gives me a "wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on /dev/hdb1, or too many mounted file systems" error. fdisk (2.9g) does not give me the option to identify this partition as a UFS type (not in the list of possible partition ID's).
Has anyone pulled this off? How?
Since Solaris 2.6 relies on UUCP for its dialup stuff, I need to stick PPPD etc. on there so I can get Soalris running. For what that's worth.
"supposedly" better for multithreading is right... the version included with Red Hat 5.0/5.1 has serious bugs which make many multithreaded programs unusable :(
Isdn4linux utils worked perfectly until the 2.2-pre releases.
Now when I connect it just hangs up after a few seconds.. anybody now what might cause this?
To make Linux attractive to MS users I believe there are three features missing:
/var/log/messages should cause the kernel to display a blue screen with som random incomprehensible out-of-context line from the log. Give the user two buttons: "Reboot" and
1. Any error messages to
"Ignore at your own peril".
2. Rename single user mode to "fail safe" mode and randomly (0.02 chance) boot up in "Fail-safe" mode requiring the user to reboot again.
3. Implement a probability function in the kernel that depends on uptime, starting at 0 and then smoothly becomes asymptotically close to 1 as uptime becomes larger than 6 hours. This controls the probability of generating random oops from the kernel and displaying on a blue screen with a disabled keyboard.
These slight changes will make a Windoze user feel more at home than creating new apps. I guess the
linux version could be called linuw or linux00 (Y2K compliant linux for windows users) so that any serious user would be tricked ionto using it....
"The meek shall inherit the earth, 2 by 6 feet, 6 feet down"
Hey!
The long wait for 2.2.0 is over... Did you get this message while building your kernel:
sb_ess.o(.text+0xdfe): undefined reference to `esstype'
Well then edit drivers/sound/sb_ess.c and remove external from line 165, and it should compile.
Happy compiling!
As of 5.0, coda is GPL
Which 4?
A week back, I checked the '2.2 ready' list and it looked like RH 5.2 was there. This is going to be a FAQ, just like >64MB of RAM. The list and location of RPMs for 5.2+2.2 should be made commonly available before the noise starts.
Yeah I read it - no help. The only sound program it mentions is realcrap; nothing about mixers or x11amp. Also kmod/kerneld will not work even after reading the docs.
I always love it when a new flavor comes out it tickles my taste buds. Thanks to everyone who made it possible.
http://www.isdn4linux.de?
Another drone from the Gates Collective enters our territory:
YOU WILL BE ASSIMILATED
SPECIES NeRD, YOUR LINUX CODEBASE WILL BE EMBRACED AND EXTENDED
YOUR WEAPONS ARE USELESS AGAINST OUR FUD
RESISTANCE IS FUTILE!
Wow. Once I came home realy late from raging a little too hard, and put on "The Song Remains the Same" I fast forwarded a little and stopped to see where I was in the video and it was at the part where Jimmy Page was regressing to a fetus and all that demonic stuff is going and the tape counter was at 666!!!
Carengie Mellon is _requesting_ that you give them
the right to redistribute the code without
encumberance, it is not requiring it. Basically
it;s a BSD-like license without the obnoxious
advertising clause and a request that anyone
making mods donate them back.
RH 5.2 is closer to ready, but for either version what you should do is get the distribution, un-tar it to /usr/src/linux, go to /usr/src/linux/Documentation and read the Changes file. This will give you the list of libraries and tools that must be up-to-date. I had no trouble upgrading them on RH 5.2, but YMMV with 5.1.
Then (and in my case only then) will you be able to do the make config, make dep, make clean, make bzImage, make modules, make modules_install, make install, mkinitrd commands to get the thing going.
I love it.
I really love it.
I'm in love.
Andrew File System?
That's CMU, not MIT. It's named after the founder and first president of CMU (or carnegie tech as it were) Andrew Carnegie.
I came home from a Barry Manilow concert once and
had 666 burned into my forehead! I shit you not!
I once went to a party with a bunch of people I knew from a BBS that I was running. One of the people who was there was a religious zealot which myself and several other people I know had been arguing with online. That day I happened to be wearing a black "Slayer" t-shirt (a band whose logo consists of a red circle with swords making a pentacle). By some strange coincidence my pizza order ticket number happened to be '666'. To this day I don't know if that was coincidence or if the person behind the counter purposely gave me that ticket (I suspect the latter). Anyway, the religious zealot turned white and had a look of terror on his face when "Number 666, your pizza is ready" was announced over the PA and I stood up and went to the window...
According to some posting on slackware.net P Volkerding said 4.0 will be glibc based, and due this summer.
Well ladies and gentlemen, a momentous day is upon us - the 2.2.0 kernel has been released.
:)
Those who are not familliar with the kernel development process are probably very curious about what makes this event so important. The average Linux user might well ask "What's in it for me?"
And at the end of the day, the features provided by the new kernel won't cook your breakfast for you or tuck you in at night. It's faster (X got a nice speedup on my machine back around 2.1.12x), it supports more devices, and there are many other improvements under the hood, but installing the 2.2.0 kernel won't improve your love life or feed your cat.
So what then?
The release of the 2.2.0 kernel means that all the work of thousands of people through nearly 150 releases of the development tree has solidified to the point where it can be considered "production" code. That which was, by definition, flaky and unstable is now solid and stable, and is ready for use by the general population.
Oh, it's not perfect yet. The prior "stable" tree saw 36 subsequent releases and there's no reason to not expect the new stable tree to require more work too. Bugs will be found, and they will be fixed, just as before.
But now the development tree, which had been frozen these last few months in preparation for this day, is free once more to add new features, wander off in strange new directions, and again explore the outer reaches of possibility.
In time, the successes of this new development tree will be rolled into a new stable tree, and the cycle will repeat.
Today, ladies and gentlemen, we provide further proof that the system we have developed works. Today we have closed the gap between our OS and those that are not Libre. Today, we are again free to pick the next shortfalls and missing features to add and improve.
(USB and DVD anyone? Coming soon to a 2.3.x kernel near you.
Today, we can and should take the opportunity to thank all those who made this day possible - ourselves. If you ever reported a bug, submitted a patch, posted a question in a public forum that was answered for all, or even built a 2.1 series kernel, then you are a Linux developer and have contributed in some way, however small, to this event.
There are, of course, giants in our midst that desrve special thanks, men like Linus and Alan, but ultimately, that which is Linux is a group effort. We, all of us, deserve a standing round of applause for making it to this day.
Well done, everyone. Another baby step towards World Domination is complete.
Today, we may rest.
Tomorrow, we start 2.3.1
DG
the following posting is quoted from P volkerding:
;-)
quote:
From: "Patrick J. Volkerding"
To: Brian M Dial
Date: Mon, 21 Dec 1998 14:39:43 -0600 (CST)
Thanks! Well, at this point the -current tree is the 3.7 track. I'm also working on 4.0 based on glibc2... I'm shooting for around March to have a 3.7 come out with the 4.0-beta attached as an extra, but anything could happen.
Best regards,
Pat
Unquote.
Now could everyone keep their cools about slack going libc 6, it is about to happen.
Slack just tends to be somewhat cautious about major changes.
Way_out
wayout@wayout.iae.nl
Happy to see 2.2.0 btw
Somebody's drinving around w/ a virginia plate- 2112 AD.
You can use PGP to verify that the file is valid (you'll have to download the linux-2.2.0.tar.gz.sign signature file).
The odd thing is that they used PGP/RSA to generate their key. Why not use GnuPG instead?
It was a joke, bud.
That won't fix anything, but it will compile. Just don't try and use your sound card if you do that. Try compiling it as a module instead, or better, get the 2.2.0-ac1 patch.
Feel free to ask for help in english.
Unlike you american guys, most germans
speak at least two languages.
KP
What pizza place?
Was this in Oregon?
I did this too, in addition to upgrading the XFree stuff to support my G100, but I had to do that with the stock tarballs from ftp.xfree86.org
I have noticed a significant size increase in this kernel. I understand some stuff like isdn takes some size, but I think they should have severeal version fo releases, a striped down one with everything but isdn, pnp, ham, etc. and then one with everything. I know splitting them up would take time, but these are getting huge!!!!
How did you determin it was 10% faster?
Err, before CONFIGURING and building. And make
that "assembler", too.
Why not just compile it without those things? Same with any drivers you will never need.
... the 'international' crypto version on ftp.kerneli.org. Free Open Source crypto on a decent OS. Hurrah!
That is why we compile kernels... If you are worried about the size of the d/l.. let your friend d/l it on a cable modem and compile a dinky small kernel for you.
The power must be really stable where you live.
You got that mother fucker on a UPS I assume...?
Your computer should be a model for a linix ad, try leaving MSWINDBLOWS up for 1800 days...not gonna happen...and probably never will knowing microsloth.
Hmm, you could start a new guiness world record for longest linux uptime...
Nope, definitely not worth the trouble. Well, I don't need to do the upgrades right away. I'll wait a week or so for everyone to get it.
Curious. I did a 'make bzImage' and when I went
/boot/vmlinuz. I repeated (make clean, etc.) this a few times and got the same result.
to boot the new kernel, it died with a "out of memory" error as it was uncompressing the kernel.
Odd. It worked fine with all the -pre versions. I rebuilt it using 'make zImage' and that boots.
Odder still, the bzImage is not that much smaller than than the zImage file.
Has anyone else seen this or am I (probably) doing something stupid? Oh, yes, I did double-check to be sure I copied the correct image to
Well, I guess it doesn't matter too much. My soundcard is working without a glitch using isapnp.
But what about USB? That's another PnP beast we must make sure to support in Linux.
The Linux OS: So proud, potent, and erect that nine cats can't scratch it! Bravo Linus!
Should put a hXd server up and send it via hotline. Hotline's a little faster than ftp (from what I can tell) too. heh.
Well, I don't have anything substantive to say other than I'm using 2.2.0 and it works (and I even reported a couple of bugs!). I feel great to have participated in this "movement" even though I'm just a download-compile-reboot monkey!
So now the new kernel is out, are there any plans to start moving to a new system such as Bikeeper?
http://www.bitmover.com/bitkeeper/Hey there,
So I configured my shiny new kernel. And as I was pumped and ready to go. So typed...
make dep
And to my dismay, the output:
gcc -Wall -Wstrict-prototypes -O2 -fomit-frame-pointer -o scripts/mkdep scripts/mkdep.c
scripts/mkdep.c: In function `do_depend':
scripts/mkdep.c:446: `PROT_READ' undeclared (first use this function)
scripts/mkdep.c:446: (Each undeclared identifier is reported only once
scripts/mkdep.c:446: for each function it appears in.)
scripts/mkdep.c:446: `MAP_PRIVATE' undeclared (first use this function)
make: *** [scripts/mkdep] Error 1
Any ideas?
Jeff
Oh yeah? Well Halloween Day of '97 in Wisconsin the "Pick 3" drawing (lottery) was "666". No joke.
About 3,000 people won the lottery that night.. I think they each won 1/4 million bucks.
Other day I picked up a pack of cigs a candy bar and a bottle of beer and it was $6.66 now is that weird, I almost thought about quitting but my father didn't raise a quitter. By the way the tax goes to help kids stay away from smoking (Ha Ha)so I'm doing it for the kids....
Innsanity is just one's interpritation of another's creative thinking...
Got it to work now..
the real culprit is the video card:
No. Nine Revolution 3d..4 Meg SGram pci.
I put the original video ( S3 trio 64V+) back
into the computer and YeaHHHHH 2.2 finallyy..
Man this dude speaks the truth!! Gee, lets start with the biggest feature - a market 10 times as large! Hmmmm..
tookycat@nconnect.net
when i boot up to 2.2, i get an error 'hda: lost interup', anyone know what this could be from? my hard drives fine, because i can still use 2.0.36....its a maxtor 3.8....
no. if you don't have the space to compile it, get a friend to compile it for you, or wait for one of the distros to package it for you. compiling the kernel has a significant entry requirement - you want a Pentium or better to compile it, at least 32MB RAM, at least 100MB free disk space, and most important of all, a fast link to download the damn thing in the first place.
actually, 2.3 is supposed to be coming pretty soon. linus mentioned a target date of mid-2000 for 2.4.
great website, very educational
eat a dick
so?
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With so many mirror sites, I pray none of the
trojan tcp-wrapper type of stuff happens with
the Linux kernel. All that would be needed is
one insecure ftp server. I'm glad that there is
atleast a pgp signature with the new kernel.
All of us with any ability to read code and write English (or the humaniod language of your choice, no discrimination here) need to start writing documentation. Nothing but praise for the LDP and everybody else who is working on it; it's just that we need more and better, and always will.
I do not claim the ability to read code nor write any language, myself.
...congratulate Linus et. al.
Good work.
I heard somewhere that the kernel got large enough that you can't use "make zImage" anymore, only "make bzImage". Can anyone confirm this?
Hey everyone! I got Linux 2.2.0 from ftp.linuxberg.com--really fast site IMHO. make xconfig works great, which is good because I heard that it didn't work so well in 2.1 and 2.2-pre. Got the ipchains, PnP support (is that working?), joystick drivers, AWE32 synth, the whole works. The compiling is doing great so far.
I'll be writing a quick article on the release of Linux 2.2, along with some of the new features, and my experiences on 32 Bits Online (www.32bitsonline.com). I hope people will be able to get some useful information out of that. 32BO will also be hosting the kernel, although it'll probably be slow like most of the other servers. C'est la vie!
Anyway, I'd like to thank everyone in Linux development for taking their time (especially the volunteers) to work on Linux 2.2.
After replying nicely to 90 emails that day about how patrick should move to libc6, you'd be pissed off, too. He gets angry about people emailing him to include qmail, too... he can't do it (licesning issues), and gets a zillion requests, and so gets rather angry.
-- Erich
Slashdot reader since 1997
...
get(a_life);
...
Seriously, there are a few of us out here who don't have time to keep up with kernel development and can't afford the effort involved keeping up with all the versions. We trust the stable version.
I need the fixes to the st driver's handling of EOD/EOT (hopefully it's fixed) so I can get some tape code working right.
slashdot broke my sig
linux-2.2.0.tar.bz2 for you all who can't find a mirror that has it or a site that's not saturated.
The instant I finish upgrading to KDE 1.1pre2, kernel 2.2 comes out! And boy, that Magic SysReq looks like it will save me from asking my roommate if I can borrow his computer to telnet in and kill X.. :) What a glorious day...
- A.P.
--
"One World, One Web, One Program" - Microsoft Promotional Ad
"Remember when the U.S. had a drug problem, and then we declared a War On Drugs, and now you can't buy drugs anymore?"
Linux is a nice operating system, and this is an important release!
:)
L DMAN i386
Remember, FreeBSD 3.1-RELEASE on Feb. 15th 1999!
And heck, everyone else is including theirs:
FreeBSD green.dyn.ez-ip.net 4.0-CURRENT FreeBSD 4.0-CURRENT #19: Mon Jan 25 21:15:50 EST 1999 green@green.dyn.ez-ip.net:/usr/src/sys/compile/FE
Brian Fundakowski Feldman
anyone know of a mirror that has the diff? all the mirrors I've looked on had the tarballs of the source, but no patches. also, a ChangeLog?
.
ahh.. 2.2.0 and Dilbert blowing up a strip mall in the same night.. life is good.
Yes, Slackware 3.6 does have a package included in the distribution for glibc. I know this because I have a clean installation of it and it has glibc installed right on it. The only difference is that everything is still compiled against libc5, it's done as a compatibility measure (sort of like including libc4.. it's there in case anyone needs it).
The world is neither black nor white nor good nor evil, only many shades of CowboyNeal.
Nobody better pick up the damn phone and kick me off. I need to move someplace where I can get a cable modem or ADSL (or is that ASDL, I'm too lazy to check). But if anyone's having troubles getting on the US mirrors like I was, I tried the Swedish mirror and got through pretty quick and have a decent connection (2.9K/s) for my modem.
I'll check versions tomorrow to see if I need to upgrade anything else before compiling and installing the new kernel. I hope things go smooth.
Blastit, I can't seem to find any mirrors that have it... Guess I'll have to wait until tomorrow when everthing gets updated...
DOES THIS MEAN IM OFFICIALLY A GEEK???
Not until you get a First Commet :P.
DOES THIS MEAN IM OFFICIALLY A GEEK???
Not until you get a First Comment :P.
I compiled 2.2 last night on my RH 5.2 system with few extra RPMs (I threw in KDE) and everything worked fine. Didn't have to upgrade anything. But for some reason I can't get the fb working...
Cool...got me some ADSL action happening at home now. The whole source took me about 5 min. to download. Woohoo! 2.2 bliss here I come!
:(
Damn! No beer! *sigh* I can't do a kernel without brews. Guess I'll have to wait till tomorrow.
Oh well...Happy Kernel Day everybody!!!
VENI! VIDI! VICI!
I would put it on my xoom space, if I can get the damned thing. Mirrors are rather bogged of late.
Posted by Bill, the Galactic Hero:
It really happened. After years of waiting, it really happened.
Thanks to Linus, Alan, Dave, Ingo, etc. for putting so much work into it. I hope Linux goes up another 212% because of it.
And you beat NT 5.0 !
Posted by e7k:
:) *gulp* :)
It's 5:30 in the morning here in Poland and I'm drinking a toast with a glass of pure "dobrawa" mineral water. Long live Linus and the people, who made it happen! Long live Linux!!!
Posted by OGL:
Note:
The patch described on this thread is not good. The REAL patch is on this site, as described on the linux-kernel mailing list.
Happy compilations!
-W.W.
Posted by jonrx:
:)
Hello! He was referring to the 'magic' number 666. Go to your local videostore and rent Omen, for a clue!
-Jón
Posted by Coogar:
;-)
I'm happily running SuSE 6.0 in an English language installation. Don't want to second-guess the meaning of error messages that are totally clear in English...
The printed documentation is in German, though.
Glibc has substantially better built-in threading support, among other things. Most importantly of all, it's portable.
Did you upgrade all the programs you're supposed to? Did you read the x11amp FAQ on that subject? Did you read about kmod? Or did you just spout off without thinking? "Nothing works" - what a sad joke you are. In the words of the ancient wise men: RTFM
Linux pussywillow.cs.unr.edu 2.2.0 #1 Mon Jan 25 20:58:58 PST 1999 i686 unknown
Umm.. isn't kernel size kind of variable?
:)
Well, that depends on what you mean by variable. Varying over time is certainly not something good.
What drugs are you on? Yes, pgcc is experimental. So is egcs. If you demand proven, tested stability, stay with 2.7.2.3. But I've used pgcc-compiled kernels for over six months now without a hiccup. If you want to comment, try to do so without all-caps, stupid abbreviations, and general h4x0r-d00d-sp34k. And non-x86 people can use pgcc, but patching to it from egcs is a complete waste of time as it will have no effect on anything that will be used on those architectures.
I remember once going on a trip to Washington, DC to hang out with friends. Total trip mileage at the end: 666 :)
retrorocket.o not found, launch anyway?
I swear the Red hat site is designed to keep people from finding the packages they need....
/dev/brain /dev/brain: No such file or directory
# find
find: cannot open
What is your Slash Rating?
Thanks :)
/dev/brain /dev/brain: No such file or directory
# find
find: cannot open
What is your Slash Rating?
You should submit a bugreport (and a patch) til the linux-kernel mailing list.
TedC
no joke:
:)
~$ uptime
7:25pm up 37 min, 3 users, load average: 1.02, 1.04, 0.91
thats from compiling and rebooting to pre9, as I was out of town till yesterday night. now this. good news is that I got to it before the herds did.
Where are they?
Redhat 5.2 is supposed to be kernel 2.2 ready meaning that it has all the updated packages and is just waiting for you to install the new 2.2. Anyway if it didn't its very little trouble to go and get the new ones anyway. They are all listed in one of the documentation files.
In Republican America phones tap you.
Hmm. Wonder what IBM did to their box? I'm typing this on a Dual PPro-166 generic clone box running 2.2.0-pre6 and it had no problems at all.
Democrat delenda est
Fine. Me too.
The upgrade to 2.2 requires a good few changes to other programs and libraries, not just the kernel.
I for one just can't be bothered, and I'll be waiting 'til a 2.2 based full distribution arrives.
It can even vary with time on a running kernel. Never heard of modules?
axolotl
I opened up a beer!
Sweatness... when is 2.3.x going to be out? =)
Time to reboot with a new kernel... =)
Thanks GNU community!
Personally, I've mailed Volkerding myself a few times, and he seemed quite nice. But I wasn't complaining about glibc2 (personally, I don't understand the attraction, and if I want glibc2, I can add it myself).
*Shrug*
Even if Slackware dies at 3.6, I'll continue using it because I like it. But this thread shouldn't turn into a distrib war (which it isn't yet, but I KNOW someone will go that route), but rather a celebration for a new era of sorts.
Ok, bigot was the wrong word... I guess evangelist or something... You get the idea..
I'm not a developer or anything, and using Slack3.5, I have yet to run into a package I can't compile against libc5... I admit I don't compile much, and never have I tried anything blatantly glibc2 specific.
I don't get it I guess. Is there any real technical flaws in libc5 that makes glibc2 a better choice, other than libc5 has been abandoned? Or is glibc2 just "Better, Faster, More"?
Oh well... Maybe someday I will switch over to Debian, RedHat, Caldera, or one of the other glibc2-based distribs.
For Linux 2.2.0 hits the streets.
I can't wait for a Slacware upgrade based around it (It's time for Slack4.0, featuring glibc2 [I'd like to see it, just to shut the glibc2 bigots up]).
/me types make bzImage, hits enter, and takes a long drink from his Mountain Dew.
All the same, I think I'll wait a day or two for the inevitable 2.2.1. Even if it doesn't come out, it'll take that long just to get into one of the servers; even the Slashdot Effect pales in comparison to what this is likely to be :)
More important that being unbiased it to tell the truth. If some of the journalists had done even some basic research rather than base their opinions on what they heard their mate say after a few pints, then their work might actually be worth reading. Journalists shouldn't be expressing "their own opinions", just facts. Columnists are different, but even then you'd expect good research.
The problem with the ZDnet editors is that they don't seem to have any quality control in place, so that blatantly unresearched, personal flames get published as though they were proper stories, and that's a shame. Some of their stories have been good, but they mix it in with such rubbish that it's hard to give them any credit.
Thanks a lot. Saves me a lot of effort of having to hack a fix.
My Slashdot account is old enough to drink...
At last, after 141 patches and more than two years, it's finally there. Now, should I stick to the 2.2 series or start using 2.3? Anyway, thank you all kernel hackers for a great job!
Erm.
Bigotry has got nothing to do with it.
Simply, libc5 was a library chain with a non-portable structure that was abandoned by its developers (a long time ago). Slackware, (my first distro), unwisely continued to build against this obsolete library long after its effective demise.
BTW, I still keep my first Slackware CD's and my old Atari800 as momentos. I just don't use them.
/* MAGIC THEATRE
ENTRANCE NOT FOR EVERYBODY
MADMEN ONLY */
If you have to ask this upgrade to 5.2 .
IANALBIPOOGL (I am not a Lawyer, but I play one on GrokLaw.)
It really depend on how much you put in it. I haven't gotten a 2.0.x kernel to compile as a zImage for 6 months. The SMP support generally kills you. It's default in 2.2.0 .
I tend to compile in to many filesystems and everything I might ever use as a module.
IANALBIPOOGL (I am not a Lawyer, but I play one on GrokLaw.)
/usr/bin/host -l kernel.org | grep us
You can always substitute the "grep us" for "grep au" or whatever country you live in or remove it all together.. I do suggest grepping through, there are over 1400 sites listed.
My 386SX has over 1800 days uptime. It takes to long to compile a kernel, nearly 12 hours, so I don't want to upgrade.
Wouldn't it be alot faster if the big kernel releases were released via mail to a large number of mirrors first...or posted to newsgroups (although that might be kinda slow).
:-)
or put it up on slashdot
Marriage is the "pseudo-ethics" that cloaks the messy truth of sexuality in the raiment of propriety -- it's "Don't Ask,
I bought a meal at Pizzeria Unos once and it totaled to $14.57.
I gave the waitress a $2.25 tip.
It was 1.5 miles from Circuit City.
I am 19 years old.
Coke costs 1.99 at basketball games.
upisdedowncak
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"Colors blind the eye
Desires wither the heart."
-- Lao Tsu, "Tao Te Ching"
kernel.org was busy, so I got it from nic.funet.fi, just like the old days. 'Cept it went at 200k/s stead of 28.8kbps, I don't miss the dialup at all (I love college...).
:) or risk screwing myself over and dump it on top of the old bootfloppy. prolly a bad idea.
Of course, everything is whacked now. I'll need to reinstall egcs (I'm now gcc2.8.1 for computer game compiling reasons, grrrr) or gcc2.7 to build it.
ooof.
And find another working floppy (have yet to fix my lilo, too much trouble
glibc2 is supposedly better for multithreading. Although you can patch libc5 to do it, it won't be as solid or as fast. I've heard people say glibc2 is faster in other aspects as well. Other than that, it's just more modern and up-to-date and actively developed. Being libc5-only has been starting to cause me problems in the past few months, and I expect the problems will mount until I cave. Mixed systems have their own problems, though, so I'm gonna start over with a Debian system.
fish and pipes
Don't forget the ipchains package if you do IP Masquerade. I couldn't find it anywhere obvious on redhat's site or rpmfind.net. So, I downloaded the Slackware 3.6 ipchains source and compiled it myself.
YEEEEEHHHAAAAAAAAA....
Now we can add 2.2 party to the agenda next month at Long Island Linux Users Group.
Novel theory: Modern Man evolved from psychopath
It is not. Check Documentation/Changes for full information. Also note that if you enable APM power-off that is triggered separately from a halt, and you need a newer SysVinit to do that.
The .sign file is right there... you can use it to verify with PGP or GPG. Disclaimer: I haven't verified anything yet (never felt the need before,) but with the recent trojan stuff, you can bet I'll figure out how to do that before this gets installed.
:(
What sucks is how anxious I am to see if my sound card works now (didn't w/2.1.125,) but I gotta wait till I get this done. Damn crackers.
;-)
Thanks Linus and all the comunity of hackers (not crackers) that give us this great kernel for free!
Yea!
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Mmmmm.
:-)
Linux and single malt Scotch.
Two great tastes that taste great together
"Hey...you've got weasels on your face" -- Weird Al
"Yes. It really happened."
Brian
My friend has an Alabama license plate that says THX-1138...
We are the music makers. We are the dreamers of the dreams.
What happens if you make a bzImage when you should use a zImage?
ie.
what happens if you make a bzImage on a small kernel?
it's coming soon . Supposedly there's a beta floating around. I got sick of using rh4.2 just for afs. I've been in version 5 for a couple of years now, and it's worlds ahead of the afs version.
---- I like compilers
My wording was a bit confusing there.
:)
What I meant was I have an installed, working copy of Redhat 5.1 - with that I need no help.
What I meant to ask was how do I get Linux 2.2, compile it under Redhat, then replace the Redhat 5.1 build of Linux (Whatever version that is) with the newly compiled Linux 2.2?
I take it to be easy, I am just a bit unclued
Thanks in Advance!
I have a working install of Redhat 5.1. What do I need to do to obtain, compile and install it?
:(
Sorry, a bit of a clueless newbie here.
i'd just like to give another thanks to all the kernel hackers who worked towards 2.2, and all the slashdot readers who've been there. it's been a pleasure to learn linux with you all!
later,
ian
13:51:33-borut@/usr/src>ls -l diff.out
-rw-r--r-- 1 root src 54837626 Jan 26 13:51 diff.out
13:55:33-borut@/usr/src>du linux-2.2
57088 linux-2.2
So, you really gain nothing...
w00t!
I got the same error and recompiled after changing the sound/sb_ess.c as oer your suggestion. This time it compiled fine but system sounds is real choppy. The speed of the box seems better though.
Thanks for your help anyway
Help fight continental drift.
Umm.. isn't kernel size kind of variable?
Yeah. Been waiting. Time to compile.
There goes my uptime. Shit. A whole 3 days.
Darn, as long as its stable and can give me a nice clean, fast kernel. Been using 2.2.0pre3 for a little over three weeks now without a burp, but I just gotta have the latest of everything, you know?
Good job guys. Next month, I'll buy you all a drink.
Get the kernel src here.
I got both tar.gz n' bzipped.
Get em' while they're hot.
Avoid the usual places.
I am not a complete mirror.
c a l x
BTW, although not as slow as a modem, I am on a high traffic network. (A dorm to be precise.) ie. don't expect 256k/s d/l
Another, faster, smaller mirror
cheers,
c a l x
When can we get K2.2 in source RPM?
You don't exist. Go away. --SysVinit Halt
Congrats, cheers too.
I should hope Linus will have *some* PnP support there. Between his charmingly antique theories on SMP (the BFL) and disdain of PnP yet wanting to take on the desktop, Linus sure seems to be a conflicted fellow.
Maybe PnP can be a module. Have system calls to get the resources (IRQ, DMA) a device needs, and the module can use isapnp.conf or on the fly PnP or what have you. Of course this is pretty useless if it doesn't come with any distro, since no end-user is going to recompile their kernel if even modular support isn't included.
I've finally had it: until slashdot gets article moderation, I am not coming back.
read the thread futher up!!!
theres been a patch for this problem..
also, If you dont have such a soundcard, then why not just use the config to remove the option of compiling it? (200x faster than opening a source file and deleting code!)
People who have been running through the 2.1.x series and following the trend shouldnt feel a big change with 2.2.x - thats true...but its the final released 'stable' version that will now go out with the dist. CD's.
The *big* deal is the massive change between 2.0.x and 2.2.x, theres a HUGE number of great changes - my production Linux boxes are still running 2.0.36
and it'll be great to get them up onto the
2.2.x - but I'll do that properly with a full working distribution.
At home, on the other hand, I will be upgrading
my Amiga LinuxPPC to 2.2.x from its nice hacky 2.1.x
the point being that without the work put into
2.1.x development, I wouldnt be running LinuxPPC
on my Amiga - THATS why 2.2.x is great news
PS more people got excited by Win98 release - I dunno why, *they're* the saddos!
so does anyone have Linus' post to linux-kernel announcing this? I get the digest, but it wasn't on the one I got a few mins ago yet...
i just took a quick look at the diffs... some APIC changes for SMP, some driver updates, the vfat rename bug looks fixed, and one of the small mm diffs from linux-kernel got added (the one that said to bring mm performance back to 2.1.132 levels). now time to compile and run it :)
couldn't have said it any better myself :)
The PGP signature info is available from
.sign files are from this signature. .sign file will work, so if you don't trust your good ol' local mirror, just grab a reliable .sign from another mirror.
http://www.kernel.org/signature.html
All the
Any mirror's
Peter
I know I will probally sound like a complete fool, but what the heck is NUTTYX-2.2.0 and which 2.2pre whatever was it derived from? Other than changes to the documentation and some measures to fool uname, it would seem to be the linux kernel version 2.2 or so. If you have no idea what I'm talking about, information (well, very little) is at http://www.yellow5.com/nuttyx/. And yes, it does seem to have something to do with the ever popular Pokey the Penguin.
It compiles and runs just fine, BTW...
> get linux-2.2.0.tar.gz
Receiving file: linux-2.2.0.tar.gz
100% 0 ==========================================> 13080195 bytes. ETA: 0:00
linux-2.2.0.tar.gz: 13080195 bytes received in 1984.30 seconds, 6.44 kB/s.
666K kernels. 1984 seconds to download. Be afraid. Be very afraid.
Dodge
I didn't see the quote you mention above. The second article refers to a way of running Linux software under Windows NT.
In my view, this misses the point completely. The reason Linux fans love the system is that (i) it's far more reliable then NT, and (ii) it's open source. Running Linux on top of NT would appear to totally eliminate both advantages.
But then again, okay, I have a reason it might be useful. I have a machine running NT for consulting jobs. So if I want to browse the web, and look over my consulting work at the same time, I have to browse the web on the NT machine, something I consider to be very Politically Incorrect. With this product, in theory at least, I could put up a little X-session on my NT box and run Linux Netscape to browse the web while working in Word. Cute.
Unfortunately, it costs almost $ 600 for the X11 version, which is about the price of a complete additional machine to dedicate to Linux. Oops.
Worse yet, there's no downloadable demo (which I probably would have tried).
D
any rumors from MIT land?
<^>_<(ô ô)>_<^>
Installing Glibc2 on Slackware is actually a lot easier than it sounds... as long as you follow the documentation and HOWTO's, and don't try anything funny (remember, the guys who wrote the documentation know a hell of a lot more about it than you do, so if you disagree with them, chances are they're right), it should work without any problems. The only strange thing that happens to me is that I get messages from ldconfig about libraries linked against multiple libc's (though when I run ldd, it only mentions libc6...), anyone know what that's all about?
-"One machine can do the work of fifty ordinary men. No machine can do the work of one extraordinary man." -EH
In driver/sound/sb_ess.c, change the "extern int esstype" to "int esstype" and it should make OK.
Hey, has anyone had any serious touuble with the new kernel in a stock RH 5.2 system?
(I'm trying to decide if I have enough free time to upgrade today...heh.)
Thanks,
wb
It was a long time coming, but what we have now is perhaps one of the single greatest human achievements since walking on the moon :) Seriously, lets not bring the mirrors to their knees yet :)
I did exactly what you did and it went exactly as you describe it. I followed the HOWTO and everything works perfectly, except the noise ldconfig now makes: /usr/lib/libgmodule.so appears to be for multiple libc's :o)
ldconfig: warning:
People out there who complaint that Slackware should use glibc2 should simply install it.
AFC.
FWIW, here's the md5sum on the version I just pulled from ftp.aq.kernel.org:
:)
# md5sum linux-2.2.0.tar.bz2
f03f54fcb774751f68f13df80af91256 linux-2.2.0.tar.bz2
Mind you, I haven't verified the signature, but if you got it somewhere else and compared, we'd be doing better than nothing.
When Redhat 6.0 (Along with all the other distros) come out with 2.2.x, Gnome 1.x, E15 or better( KDE included), and the whole bag of tricks, we'll be ready for the desktop
Go, Linux!
Just wait till the Expo :)
Great; now I can run it on my K6-2 333MHz that
gets 666 Bogomips (well, if you measure it with "bogomips", not the kernel).
I had breakfast after a Rush concert once that rang up to 21.12
When _you_ fix one? :)
I got some undefined references in an ess file
..
so if any of you use ESS sound cards dont expect it to compile in. I hope this isnt indicative of the new kernel
talking windows users is where I draw the line
Tis better to be silent and thought a fool, than to open your mouth and remove all doubt --Abraham Lincoln
I remember there was some work being done on it -did it go out? Media Blitz! I want to see this on the front page of the NYT and WSJ tomarrow! ;)
I think we all should go out and become "Linux Witnesses".
On earth be done, thy linux will come...
-wilkinsm
ass
Or better, is there some site where you can see change log (not the source diff) between two arbitrary revisions (e.g. between 2.0.30 and 2.2.0)?
You can still use zImage. bzImage is recommended, though. You generally get better compression, anyway. Makes no difference to lilo.
-- Blame any errors on your own stupidity. All wrongs reserved.
I'm at work and my Zip drive is at home. Maybe there's a blank CDR in my car, gotta go check. Nope, no blanks. Looks like I get to d/l via modem from home. Wonder how long that's gonna take!
"O wad some Pow'r the giftie gie us; To see oursels as others see us!" -- Robert Burns
Thanks for the tip!
Bastid
Thanks !
-Master Switch, one more element in the machine
BTW, the dhcp package packed with 5.2 does not work, grab the one out of the RawHide directory...
---- Dave
Im fuckin' bored! Now it's no more -testing kernel every 5th day-!!! Damn! Time to get a life maybe?
;=
Whe compiling 2.2.0 on a slackware 3.6 system, I get:
ake[2]: Entering directory `/usr/src/linux-2.0.35/arch/i386/lib'
gcc -D__KERNEL__ -I/usr/src/linux-2.0.35/include -Wall -Wstrict-prototypes -O2 -
fomit-frame-pointer -pipe -fno-strength-reduce -m486 -malign-loops=2 -malign-jum
ps=2 -malign-functions=2 -DCPU=586 -c -o checksum.o checksum.c
checksum.c:200: redefinition of `csum_partial_copy'
checksum.c:105: `csum_partial_copy' previously defined here
{standard input}: Assembler messages:
{standard input}:188: Fatal error: Symbol csum_partial_copy already defined.
make[2]: *** [checksum.o] Error 1
make[2]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/linux-2.0.35/arch/i386/lib'
make[1]: *** [first_rule] Error 2
make[1]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/linux-2.0.35/arch/i386/lib'
make: *** [_dir_arch/i386/lib] Error 2
Anybody have any ideas why?
Man(s), I gotta tell ya, this is a sweet birthday present fo' me. tres kewl.
Why not? What else is bandwidth for?
I not only downloaded the kernel, but the source for glibc2.0.7pre6 (required) and some other required updates.
I twice downloaded entire distros (the first time at 14,400!)
Source and binaries at netgod.net/linux/, summed and signed by a Debian developer.
The 2.2.x kernel seems to work fine on both 2.0 (hamm) and 2.1 (slink), though we're not ready to officially declare them "2.2 ready."
The bzImage on this one is 666kB, which is kind of eerie....
Yes it does, if you use the one from Potato or the one installed into Slink (the upcoming Debian 2.1) last Friday. It's a great way to keep those highly-customized experimental kernels consistent across multiple machines. :-)
Does anyone know where I can get a tar.gz or rpm for the NFS update >= 2.2beta40
Thanks In Advance
Is there anyone who can help me...
/usr/src/linux-2.0.36/.. and if so why is it using these refs?? What can I do about this???
I'm pretty sure I followed the README file to the letter but I'm getting a problem when I
# make zImage
the output I get at the end is
checksum.c:200: redefinition of `csum_partial_copy'
checksum.c:105: `csum_partial_copy' previously defined here
{standard input}: Assembler messages:
{standard input}:188: Fatal error: Symbol csum_partial_copy already defined.
make[2]: *** [checksum.o] Error 1
make[2]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/linux-2.0.36/arch/i386/lib'
make[1]: *** [first_rule] Error 2
make[1]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/linux-2.0.36/arch/i386/lib'
make: *** [_dir_arch/i386/lib] Error 2
is this something to do with all the references to
Ok, Ok I know I did something very stupid, I realised what I'd done 15min after the post...
But thanks very much for the help!!
So when will major distributions (Red Hat, Slackware, Debian) start shipping with the 2.2 kernel?
Red Hat + 2.2 = Red Hat 6.0??
getting a compile error when making zIMage... /include/lib I get a checksum error....any Ideas, or workarounds??
just as soon as it enters
Than probaly it is not worth score=2.
How is the score set anyway?
I could not find it in FAQ.
I can see AC=0, nick=1, but 2?
I thought Slackware 3.6 was 2.2 ready?
-- Cheers!
Cool, I have tried compiling the kernel 2.2 with pgcc with mcpu and march optimizations and it worked, the result is an even faster kernel.
I have compiled it with amdk6 optimizations and the result was a 10% faster kernel, try it cause if you thought the kernel 2.2 was fast with pgcc it gets even faster
I was just trying to say that the it is possible to compile the kernel 2.2 with pgcc, cause as you might know it was'nt possible to do it with the 2.0.xx kernels, without apllying patches.
Talking about stability I have a kernel 2.2pre9 compiled with amdk6 optimization, running without
problems in a non-suported Super7 motherboard for one week now, this of courser is no proof of stability but it is a beggining I believe.
MySQL for example runs perfectly and 12 % faster compiled with pggc.
I know it is still very experimental, but as far as all the tests go pgcc makes faster code than egcs.
And of course I know faster does'nt mean more stable, although I have'nt had any stability problems with pgcc compiled programs.
The only problems that I have faced till now are with Mesa 3.0 and kernels of the 2.0.xx, those yes, I can't even compile them with pgcc.
Using the BYTE benchmark program on a 2.2 kernel compiled with gcc, and another one compiled with pgcc. The 10 % number increase was the average on FPU operations, on Integer operations the performance increase was slightly lower.
Of course this was on the specific case of the AMD K6 processor, I don't know if the same percentage could be applied to other cpu's, although I think that the optimizations should even work better on pentium II and on the Pentium Pro using the -march option.
Hi folks.
When I try to compile the new kernel I get the following error:
gcc: Internal compiler error: program cc1 got fatal signal 11
make[3]: *** [floppy.o] Error 1
make[3]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/linux-2.2.0/drivers/block'
make[2]: *** [first_rule] Error 2
make[2]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/linux-2.2.0/drivers/block'
make[1]: *** [_subdir_block] Error 2
make[1]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/linux-2.2.0/drivers'
make: *** [_dir_drivers] Error 2
[root@otherland linux]# cpp: output pipe has been closed
...
What's this supposed to mean ? I get it in various places...
I'm too unsmart to understand why this happens
All right. I figured that was a possibility, yeah. So, I "downclocked" my system to what the processor supposed to run (P150), and yeehaw, it compiled just nice and dandy.
Then to problem #2, that happened right after I did the normal "post-compiling-kernel-steps". When it boots with the new kernel, I get the following message (just about):
kernel panic: uable to load root system VFS on 03:00.
Now, how do I get around THIS ??
Thanks to all the kernel developers for 2.2.0... :)
Cheers!
I'm getting it off of ftp4.us.kernel.org (no diffs) at 265k/s. Pretty good!
Ok, from where I sit, going from 2.0 to 2.2 is categorized as a minor change. When do we get hit with 3.0? Lets shake this place up!!
PDG--"I don't like the Prozac, the Prozac, likes me"
"Where is my mind?"
To quote a certain someone:
Whoa.
I was wondering if anyone out there has a IDE CD-R and has been having problems with thier config..
Anyone get it working with 2.2?
-- four
mine was 470K. not nearly as cool. although, once i got a burger and fries and medium drink at a roy rogers on the jersey turn-n-puke and it rang up as $6.66!
Oh yeah? My yuppy parents have a white GMC suburban and a white volvo... the suburban is VA "GRT WHYT" and the volvo is VA "LTL WHYT". I of course get to drive the volvo. It's better than nothing, but you should see the looks i get from black people. I fear for my life.
-parcel