[PlanetCCRMA] Re: 2.6.7 ccrma kernel and usb / nvidia support

[Shayne O'Connor]

On Wed, 2004-11-24 at 09:18, Rick B wrote:

> Sorry Shayne, but I'm running out of ideas, but I'll go ahead and throw 
> my last few at you. Have you looked at the gnomad2 homepage? 
> (http://gnomad2.sourceforge.net/) The part I'm talking about is at the 
> top where it says something about needing to use the CVS version of 
> libnjb to get certain functionality from gnomad2.

yeah, i've installed from cvs yesterday, but no go ... i think that
documents a little old, as the gnomad2v2.5 rpm gives all the
functionality of the cvs now anyways ... i'm almost positive that this
is entirely an issue with the planetccrma kernel (when i boot into the
stock fc2 kernel, my irq's are fine, and so is gnomad2).

>  I'm basically using 
> the same setup as you, a A7N8X-Del. mobo that's Nforce2 based, but I've 
> never tried to get something like the zen touch to work on my machine, 
> if you want to send me one I'll give it a try (just joking). I've looked 
> at my dmesg output and I don't see anything about disabling irq10, as a 
> matter of fact that's what my video card is using. One difference is 
> that I'm using a planetedge kernel (2.6.8.1-1.520.1vR9.ll.rhfc2.ccrma) 
> so maybe you should give that a try. Here's the repo link you need to 
> add to your /etc/apt/sources.list if you decide to try it:
> 
> rpm http://www-ccrma.stanford.edu/planetccrma/apt fedora/2/i386 planetedge
> 

ok, i'm downloading this now with apt - a couple of questions though -
is it only the alsa-module that i need to install to go alongside this
kernel? will it use the jack and other stuff i already have installed
for my previous ccrma kernel (as well as realcap)? 

on a short positive note, i have been able to get my nvidia card working
with this version of the driver: 


> NVIDIA-Linux-x86-1.0-6106-pkg1.run

is that the same one that you said you were using? in any case this brings up another 
question - i'll probly need the source code for that planetedge kernel to compile the 
driver module, but i couldn't see it listed in apt ... will i need it to compile the Nvidia driver?



>   One thing I've read is that you can disable the irq disabling code by 
> adding "noirqdebug" to the kernel boot line in grub.conf. Evidently 
> there is some bug that still hasn't been worked out, with how the 2.6 
> kernel handles irq issues. I've also read that disabling apic (not 
> acpi!) helps and as you have the same bios as I do, I know that there is 
> an option in the bios to turn of apic support. I don't have apic enabled 
> so this might be another difference between our setups.

ok, i'll check this out ... keep getting confused between apic and acpi
(so there IS a difference!) ... but, yeah - i don't hold much hope here,
i'm more hoping that the later kernel will sort it all out :|

>  I know this is 
> all a pain but you have to remember that the 2.6 kernel is new and still 
> has some bugs in it. Hope some of this info helps.

yeah, linux is fun, but a pain also - dammit, i just want to USE my
computer :)  but, it will all be worth it if i never have to boot into
windows again!!!!

as for your help - you've been an absolute hair-saver!!! even if things
don't resolve on this one, it's sure a lot better to have someone
helping than for me to just go quietly insane :)

thanx again, and i'll let you know how my final attempts pan out ...

shayne