Re: 2.6.15rc kernel packages for FC4.

[William John Murray]

> On Fri, Dec 16, 2005 at 01:53:28PM +0000, Mike Cohler wrote:
> > Once 2.6.15 final is released and an FC4 package is prepared I presume
> > that this will provide native SATA drive support?
>
> I assume you mean SATA ATAPI support ? If so, yes.
> > In that case does anyone know if the smarttools package with SATA
> > support will be available via either "-d sata",
> > or via the "-d ata" (libata) library ?
>
> SMART over SATA is still not working I believe.
> Dave

Hello there. was hoping this would mean I could enable DMA support
on the DVD, but no luck with 2.6.14-1.1768_FC4 or  2.6.14-1.1767_FC4.
 I have
options ide hdc=noprobe
options libata atapi_enabled=1
in /etc/modprobe.conf
and have re-made the initrd as thinkwiki suggest, but the drive remains
as /dev/hdc (I THINK it should move, am I correct?) and no DMA

Any ideas please?
     Thanks,
   Bill

2.6.15rc kernel packages for FC4.

[Dave Jones]

On Sat, Dec 17, 2005 at 10:06:57AM +0000, William John Murray wrote:
> Hello there. was hoping this would mean I could enable DMA support
> on the DVD, but no luck with 2.6.14-1.1768_FC4 or  2.6.14-1.1767_FC4.
>  I have
> options ide hdc=noprobe
> options libata atapi_enabled=1
> in /etc/modprobe.conf
> and have re-made the initrd as thinkwiki suggest, but the drive remains
> as /dev/hdc (I THINK it should move, am I correct?) and no DMA

it will stay as hdc if your bios is set to 'legacy' or 'combined' mode.

both those options should be unnecessary (the 2nd one is also pointless
as libata isn't a module, and that option is on by default in this kernel).

file a bug, with the contents of your dmesg.

Dave

2.6.15rc kernel packages for FC4.

[Bernd Bartmann]

On 12/17/05, Dave Jones  wrote:
> On Sat, Dec 17, 2005 at 10:06:57AM +0000, William John Murray wrote:
> > Hello there. was hoping this would mean I could enable DMA support
> > on the DVD, but no luck with 2.6.14-1.1768_FC4 or  2.6.14-1.1767_FC4.
> >  I have
> > options ide hdc=noprobe
> > options libata atapi_enabled=1
> > in /etc/modprobe.conf
> > and have re-made the initrd as thinkwiki suggest, but the drive remains
> > as /dev/hdc (I THINK it should move, am I correct?) and no DMA
>
> it will stay as hdc if your bios is set to 'legacy' or 'combined' mode.
>
> both those options should be unnecessary (the 2nd one is also pointless
> as libata isn't a module, and that option is on by default in this kernel).
>
> file a bug, with the contents of your dmesg.

kernel-2.6.14-1.1768_FC4smp works fine here. Even SMART on my SATA hdd
is now working.

Best regards,
Bernd.

2.6.15rc kernel packages for FC4.

[Daniel Roesen]

On Sat, Dec 17, 2005 at 10:06:57AM +0000, William John Murray wrote:
> Hello there. was hoping this would mean I could enable DMA support
> on the DVD, but no luck with 2.6.14-1.1768_FC4 or  2.6.14-1.1767_FC4.
>  I have
> options ide hdc=noprobe
> options libata atapi_enabled=1
> in /etc/modprobe.conf
> and have re-made the initrd as thinkwiki suggest, but the drive remains
> as /dev/hdc (I THINK it should move, am I correct?) and no DMA

Add "hdc=noprobe" to the kernel command line in /etc/grub.conf, adding
to modprobe.conf is not enough (you can remove it there).

Regards,
Daniel (just installed his new Thinkpad R52 and now trying to find out
how to get any suspend-to-ram/disk working with FC4... pain++)

2.6.15rc kernel packages for FC4.

[Rahul Sundaram]

Hi
> Regards,
> Daniel (just installed his new Thinkpad R52 and now trying to find out
> how to get any suspend-to-ram/disk working with FC4... pain++)

It is a pain. However the current development tree as well as FC5 test 1 
has support for software suspend. If you are interested in that, check out

https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-devel-list/2005-August/msg00143.html

gnome-power-manager also in the development tree provides a nice 
interface to use this capability.

regards
Rahul

2.6.15rc kernel packages for FC4.

[Daniel Roesen]

On Sun, Dec 18, 2005 at 05:24:52PM +0530, Rahul Sundaram wrote:
> It is a pain. However the current development tree as well as FC5 test 1 
> has support for software suspend.

Thanks, but /if/ I'm going down the "special kernel" route, it will be
an uptodate FC4 kernel with suspend2 applied. From all I read about this
topic, I won't go down the in-kernel suspend path.

Best regards,
Daniel

2.6.15rc kernel packages for FC4.

[Rahul Sundaram]

Daniel Roesen wrote:
> On Sun, Dec 18, 2005 at 05:24:52PM +0530, Rahul Sundaram wrote:
> > It is a pain. However the current development tree as well as FC5 test 1 
> > has support for software suspend.
>
> Thanks, but /if/ I'm going down the "special kernel" route, it will be
> an uptodate FC4 kernel with suspend2 applied. From all I read about this
> topic, I won't go down the in-kernel suspend path.

Well thats your choice. The in-kernel path is whats going to tested and 
integrated in Fedora unless the suspend2 patches get into the upstream 
kernel. If you want a solution that works out of the box in Fedora for 
now it makes better sense to test out the current integration in the 
development and test releases of Fedora Core 5 and make sure it works 
well for your systems or send feedback through bugzilla otherwise.

-- Rahul

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