2.6.9 Released -- Feedback Thread

for the framebuffer prob, try compiling for ur video card as a module and compiling the VGA and VESA directly into the kernel. This worked for my system.

I compiled it from scratch and have been using it for the last few days and it seems to work really well on my system. I don't know about K3b as a normal user, but burning data and audio CD's using sudo or kdesu works fine for me with good results.

Installed it just yesterday, after some problems with modules (all my faults), it works fine. Just two flaws:
1. Something asks fos ide_scsi module = FATA: ide_scsi module not found - I just thought I compiled everything around ide and sata into kernel. But I will chceck that later, maybe it is just my fault again :-)
2. less works the interesting way, or better, does not work. When I type "less something" or "anything | less" it just shows the first page and quits. No error, no log, just quits. I does only with this kernel, using 2.6.8* and default vmlinuz it works fine. Deos anyone encountered any problem like that? More and most seem to work ok.

Originally posted by brodieman Hello all. had a couple problems with slack 10. after the patch to 2.6.9 from 2.6.8.1, uname identified it as still a 2.6.8.1 and couldn't ssh out(got a "ssh_askpass: exec(/usr/libexec/ssh-askpass): No such file or directory" error) or use cat. I compiled from full source, and took care of the identification problem but the other two were still there. installed 2.6.6 and all is fine. I used the same .config from the 2.6.8.1 except minus a few net drivers. I tried looking through the config but didn't see anything that looked relevant to ssh. any ideas? thanks.

go to
Device Drivers/Character devices/
and turn off
[ ] Legacy (BSD) PTY support (CONFIG_LEGACY_PTYS=n)

recompile kernel and your problem is gone.

Well, there is a problem viewing man-pages, seems to be in slackware.

But this could be corrected just by opening the file:
/etc/udev/rules.d/udev.rules

locating a line that looks like
KERNEL="tty[p-za-e][0-9a-f]*", NAME="tty/s%n", SYMLINK="%k"

and if found change "tty/s%n" to "pty/s%n".

Easy done!

I'm not even sure if this is directly related to the kernel but the problem appeared when I went from 2.6.8.1 to 2.6.9 (recompiling the source, not patching since the patch doesn't work on 2.6.8.1) on Slackware. Also when I tried to go back to the old 2.6.8.1-kernel the problem was gone. But it works now anyway.

/MezzyMeat

Originally posted by dizzutch Hmm, when i'm trying to compile 2.6.9 i get this during make bzImage dolphy:/usr/src/linux# make bzImage /bin/sh: Syntax error: Unterminated quoted string make: *** [include/linux/version.h] Error 2 not sure what's up with it, and not sure what include/linux/version.h is meant. /usr/include/linux/version.h looks fine, and /usr/src/linux/include/linux/version.h doesn't exists. If anyone has an answer, that would be highly appreciated -JSS

I think you tryed to use an invalid character such as single quotes (') in the "Local Version" option.

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Some time around 2.6.7 there was a talk about making the even branch essentially "unstable" by sticking all new "unstable" things in the tree and letting the distros sort this mess out. There was lotsa whining about this but Linus and the rest of the gang stood the ground.

Well, I guess we'll have to wait till Pat finds time/desire to bake a Slackware-specific, hopefully stable source tree.

Alright, I noticed that many commented about their 2.6.9 compilation getting crapped out.

I'd assume that you ran the diff patch on your 2.6.8.1 sources. I've read somewhere (I really can't recall the source), that the patch was meant to be applied on the 2.6.8 sources.

So this might be the source of your problem. I'd recommend that those who are having problems compiling to download the full source of 2.6.9.

Might be hell for dialup folks though

go to Device Drivers/Character devices/ and turn off [ ] Legacy (BSD) PTY support (CONFIG_LEGACY_PTYS=n)

Be warned that with this setting you may get some difficulties to open terminal windows in X

Originally posted by cccc828 I think you tryed to use an invalid character such as single quotes (') in the "Local Version" option. cccc828

the only version.h i have is /usr/include/linux/version.h and it looks like this:

#define UTS_RELEASE "2.6.0-test7"
#define LINUX_VERSION_CODE 132608
#define KERNEL_VERSION(a,b,c) (((a) << 16) + ((b) << 8) + (c))

Thanks tazdevil77.

You were right it was enabled, but editing the /etc/udev/rules.d/udev.rules file took care of it. I tend to use the CLI alot and if disabling the legacy bsd pty support is going to cause problems opening terminals in X , as cedrik pointed out, I think I might leave as it is.

dizzutch> try to download another kernel tree because this file should be inclued in it ( in the include/linux subdirectory )

hmm..... it appears that usb doesn't work... and I did enable it... I'm working to figure out what I did wrong as I really don't think it was just broken for my chipset... though it is a distinct possibility.
if it is I'm definitely reverting to the stock 2.4.27 kernel.

well... that was a fun romp in kernel development... but I think I'm reverting to the ol' 2.4 series.. I'll try the next release but currently I've found that two much stuff doesn't work.. and much of it isn't in my realm of ability to fix..
I think I'll wait until the 2.6 kernel matures a bit more.

Originally posted by dizzutch the only version.h i have is /usr/include/linux/version.h and it looks like this: #define UTS_RELEASE "2.6.0-test7" #define LINUX_VERSION_CODE 132608 #define KERNEL_VERSION(a,b,c) (((a) << 16) + ((b) << 8) + (c))

I do not think this file has anything to do with it. What I mean is, the option "Local Version -- append to kernel release" which can be found as first option in the "General Setup" (at least using make menuconfig). This feature allows you to append a string to the version number of the kernel. But if this string contains single quotes it will cause this error.

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