hiya, folks.

I'm not sure if this is the correct forum to post in, but here goes:

I've put up 2 kernel tarballs for download at:

http://www.cornernet.com/~coax/knoppmyth-kernels/

These kernels are compiled with no SMP or Local APIC support, so they fix the NFORCE2 lockup problems.

1 tarball includes IVTV 0.1.9 (Vanilla), the other includes IVTV 0.1.9-ng-ck48.

Please don't use these kernels for anything other than an Athlon/NFORCE2 system. If there is a need for a 386 "generic" kernel (I sincerely doubt it as i'm not sure that there is an NFORCE2 chipset for anything but athlon processors) please let me know and i'll build one and put it up for download.

I've included with the tarballs my .config file should you choose to tweak and build your own from this config. Also, there is a README file. Please, read it - even if you've done this a zillion times before.

Please let me know how these work for you, if you use them!

Coax

how can i install it? Knoppmyth uses another kernel version as far as i know. how to get the kernelsources? and build the kernel ?

Hiya!

The tarballs include a kernel that is already built.. You just need to install the binary version of the kernel, copy over the associated modules tree, and make sure that lilo.conf includes the right stuff. Refer to the README file inside the tarballs for more info on that.

In case you'd like to build your own kernel with my kernel source as a base, my kernel source is available at the same url.. it is a big tarball, however, as i include all my .o's and dependancies and such - so that folks that want to install nVidia drivers have all they need to do so. If you'd like to rebuild my kernel, however, a 'make distclean' in the source directory will get rid of all that. (make sure to copy the .config file to config.keep, though, if you want to keep my config as a base - and then copy it back over after the distclean, and run 'make oldconfig' to reconfig the kernel based on my configs. then, a 'make menuconfig' will allow you to modify said config.)

Hope this helps!

Will this fix the onboard Nforce-1 networking problems?

Rob

Probably not. The kernel was designed to fix the DMA problem with NFORCE2 motherboards.

Does it have the forced stuff ?

http://www.hailfinger.org/carldani/linu ... forcedeth/

Rob

No. But thats an interesting idea.. I'll have to look into that a bit and release a new one with those drivers, maybe.. (Especially if it reproduces the functionality of nvnet.o)

Take care!

Chad

the forced driver does reproduce the functionality of the nvnet driver, but it is opensource and does a much better job, while using less cpu.

Include working pchdtv support

(that is if you are bored one day *LOL*).

Rob

These are both great ideas!

Plus, honestly, the NFORCE2 opensource drivers would probably benefit MY myth box as well! *g* (I just rebuild nvnet.o every time I build a new kernel for my Myth system..)

It also appears that the kraxel patch (available from bytesex.org) will probably add your pcHDTV-2000 support..

Maybe tomorrow I'll get some time to work on it? If not, next week sometime maybe..

R4V3 will hopfully be out by the end of the week and will include the above!

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cesman

When the source is open, the possibilities are endless!

Oh thank god! *g* The new installers will be *MUCH* happier with this!!

I'll probably do some reproducing of this same patchset you did, so that R4V2 (and other distros being used with Myth) people can make use of the same functionality.

Just gotta find the devel time. Yeesh. Time is PRECIOUS!

I just posted a 2.4.25 kernel with both the kraxel patch as well as the forcedeth drivers.

For any of you folks downloading this, please disable your 'nvnet' module in /etc/modules - and add 'forcedeth'. Your ethernet should come up just the same, only using the forcedeth.o open source driver.

It is available at:

http://www.cornernet.com/~coax/knoppmyth-kernels/

There are 2 versions posted. 1 version comes with 0.1.9 vanilla ivtv drivers. The other comes with 0.1.10-pre2-ck35 drivers. (I am running this version currently.)

It seems to be doing fine over here - but if any of you guys have problems with this, please feel free to ask..

Coax

CESMAN/COAX> THANK YOU THANK YOU!

I appreciate all the hard work you guys are doing. I eagerly await the next release. Even with the occasional problem, this really is a fun piece of software.

Rob

P.S. I've actually got a 2nd PVR-250 MCE box coming and 2 , 250 GB hard drives