Re: Testing 2.4.x or 2.6.x kernels on Amiga
On Sun, Aug 29, 2004 at 09:56:51PM -0500, Peter Krummrich wrote:
>
> apt-get install kernel-image-2.4.27-amiga.
>
> The result was that apt did not find the package. So far, I had only the six
> CDs from Woody R2 in my sources.list. I guessed that the package may be
> present in the testing distribution on debian servers. So I added the
> following line to my sources.list to include the testing distribution:
>
> deb http://debian.tu-bs.de/debian/ testing main non-free contrib
>
> After this, I tried to update the list of available packages by typing:
>
> apt-get update.
>
> Unfortunately, the scripts had problems with merging the lists of available
> packeges. The following error messages were displayed:
>
> Reading Package Lists... Error!
> E: Dynamic MMap ran out of room
> E: Error occured while processing xtel (NewVersion1)
> E: Problem with MergeList
> /var/lib/apt/lists/debian.tu-bs.de_debian_dists_testing_main_binary-m68k_Packages
> E: The package lists or status file could not be parsed or opened.
>
> Did I run out of memory/swap space or is this a problem with the programs
> involved in the merging process? I have 64MBytes of RAM and a swap
> partition of 200 MBytes. Are these package files really that big?
Some tips for /etc/apt/apt.conf
--- schnipp ---
// set the default release to testing
APT::Default-Release "testing";
//APT::Default-Release "stable";
// show all files that are to be upgraded (-u option)
Apt::Get::Show-Upgraded "true";
// avoid "dynamic MMap ran out of room" problem
APT::Cache-Limit 10000000;
--- schnapp ---
The third one is what you need here. The first helps you with distribution
pinning, for which you also need /etc/apt/preferences
--- schnipp ---
Package: *
Pin: release a=testing
Pin-Priority: -1
Package: *
Pin: release a=unstable
Pin-Priority: -2
--- schnapp ---
Now you can _add_ entried to your sources.list for stable, testing, and
unstable, or if you prefer woody, sarge, sid. No need to delete anything
from sources.list anymore. And you do want to upgrade to testing, but you
will have to download a lot... unless you have DSL, maybe you prefer to stay
with woody.
> Anyway, in order to circumvent this problem, I deleted the six CDROM entries
> in my sources.list, just keeping the line with the internet address and
> redid apt-get update.
>
> This time, the scripts terminated without error.
>
> Next thing I typed was:
>
> apt-get install kernel-image-2.4.27-amiga.
>
> I was told again that apt-get did not find the package.
It is not yet in testing. Once you have set up pinning, try
apt-get install kernel-image-2.4.27-amiga/unstable
In case a package needs more from unstable and you don't want to type in all
the dependencies, do apt-get -tunstable install ...
> So I tried kernel-image-2.4.26-amiga. This worked. I managed to copy the
> kernel image to my Amiga partition and to reboot with the new kernel.
Told you so :-)
> I mainly observed two things - the first beeing that the new kernel indeed
> comes with a different version of clgen - 1.9.9.1, that is. Unfortunately,
> I got the same problems as with the old clgen (v1.4 ?). Scrolling still
> inverts pixels in the lines that are scrolled in some cases. The problem is
> especially severe when changing to a different resolution (I tried
> 1024x768-70 using fbset). In this mode, all scrolled lines are completely
> messed up. It is no problem with my monitor - the bottom line is still
> fine.
I think something like that came up recently on the list, please search the
archives. I might remember this wrong, maybe somebody was just trying to
change resolution with fbset and it did not work?
> Another thing I observed was that the new kernel did not load the Ariadne2
> module (did not find it). The 2.2.20 kernel does not have this problem. The
> Ariadne2 module works fine with my X-Surf ethernet card, so I don´t want to
> miss it.
The driver has been renamed, from my /etc/modules
--- schnipp ---
ariadne2
# starting with 2.4.23 use this instead:
8390
zorro8390
--- schnapp ---
> So I decided to go back to kernel 2.2.20, which gives me a better
> performance so far.
Please try 2.2.25, available in sarge/testing. I am not sure if the clgen
driver is newer there, but this is the latest 2.2 kernel for debian.
> clgen: Driver for Cirrus Logic based graphic boards, v1.4 ?
> clgen: Picasso II board detected; RAM (2 MB) at $200000, REG at $ec0000
> clgen: This board has 2097152 bytes of DRAM memory
> Console: switching to colour frame buffer device 80x30
> fb1: Amiga ECS frame buffer device, using 640K of video memory
>
> Maybe someone with experience with clgen can take a look at them and tell me
> if he sees something strange. I am still wondering what I can do to get
> around the problems with the graphics driver. Seems to be a software
> problem, as the same hardware works perfectly under AmigaOS (no flickering
> pixels, no inverted pixels when text is scrolled,...).
2MB is not a lot of memory, are you sure your video mode fits in there? With
1024x768 you can not go higher than 16-bit. Other than that, no idea, I do
not have a clgen card. Actually, I have no (working) video card in my A2k
anymore...
Christian
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