Building kernel-2.6.31-0.190 rawhide in F11

[Markus Kesaromous]

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> From: remotestar at live.com
> CC: fedora-kernel-list at redhat.com
> Subject: RE: Building kernel-2.6.31-0.190 rawhide in F11
> Date: Fri, 4 Sep 2009 20:04:35 -0700
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>> From: pebolle at tiscali.nl
>> To: remotestar at live.com
>> Date: Fri, 4 Sep 2009 10:38:44 +0200
>> CC: fedora-kernel-list at redhat.com
>> Subject: Re: Building kernel-2.6.31-0.190 rawhide in F11
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>> On Thu, 2009-09-03 at 22:08 -0700, Markus Kesaromous wrote:
>>> Build, instal and boot went fine, except radeon driver does not work.
>>> Radeon works just fine in 2.6.29.6-217.2.16.fc11.i586, but not
>>> in 2.6.31-0.190...
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>> That could be some sort of mismatch between that Rawhide kernel and the
>> F11 X Server you seem to use (Rawhide currently uses X.Org X Server
>> 1.6.99.1). I'd try one of the following kernel command line options:
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>> nomodeset
>> radeon.modeset=0
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>> Those could be used to work around some issues with Rawhide's Radeon
>> kernel driver (or Rawhide's Radeon X module, or whatever) a few weeks
>> back. (It' s just a guess though. I hardly know anything about the way
>> the kernel and the X Server interact.)
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>> Paul Bolle
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> Thank you Paul.
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> nomodeset was accepted as a boot arg. radeon.modeset=0 was not recognized as a valid boot arg.
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> However, nomodeset did the trick. I now have X up under the auspices
> of kernel-2.6.31-rc8.fc11.i586
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> Other observations:
> after I edited the boot args and added the nomodeset radeo.moseset=0
> and pressed b to boot, it took almost 3 minutes to get the login prompt.
> Even after logging in, it took more than 1 minute to populate the screen with all my icons: about 55 of them.
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> Also, starting up Firefox and thunderbird also took considerably longer.
> Sorry for not providing an objective time value in terms of how much
> slower they started - should have timed them !
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> To provide some comparison with other kernels:
> 2.6.29.6-217.2.16.fc11.i586 boots to the login prompt in 1.5 minutes.
> 2.6.29.5.191.fc11.586 booted to login prompt in 38 seconds.
> On same dual boot machine, Windows XP boots to login prompt in
> 30 seconds.
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> Cheers,
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> MK

I  timed the boot to login prompt duration again for kernel-2.6.31-0.190
and this time it took only 84 seconds. First timing may have been affected by
other factors - fsck???

MK

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