Dave, Sounds like you had great success! So, we now know at least that Hz patch can be added to the already heavily patched Mandrake kernels. Could you please post some info on the two minor patch failures, and how you fixed them?
The only benchmarking tools I know of for Linux are one called bonnie and glxgears, but there must be more. I haven't really investigated those things since I switched to Linux a year ago. I did run the Sandra benchmarks pretty often when I used Windows, and was learning how to tweak win98 and XP to the max. Robert On Monday 30 June 2003 18:07, Dave Sherman wrote: > Robert Crawford wrote: > > Waiting sounds wise- no use in messing up your current setup. > > > > However, if you really wanted to see if it will apply, what you could try > > is copying your stock MDK kernel sources directory from /usr/src to it's > > own directory in /home. (Compiling there is much safer than doing it as > > root in /usr/src, especially for people like me still learning).Then make > > a backup of your .config file, and cd in a console (as user) to the new > > directory in /home where you copied the MDK kernel sources to, and run > > mrproper. Then, try applying the Hz patch. If it applies OK, do a make > > xconfig and load the copy of your stock .config file into xconfig., Then > > change the value of the Hz line to =1000Hz, and save and exit. > > > > VERY IMPORTANT:Check the makefile extra version line at the top of the > > file to see if it added the -ck2 extra version when the patch applied, > > otherwise if you do choose to install this kernel and the name (version) > > is the same, it will overwrite your original modules directory, and not > > create a new -ck2 version. In your case, that would be a disaster. > > > > Then you can (as user) do: > > > > make dep > > make clean > > make bzImage > > make modules > > > > If you get through these with no error outs, you are probably OK, and > > will then know the patch probably didn't cause any problem. Up to this > > point, nothing you have done could possibly affect your current kernel > > setup. > > > > If you want to actually install, su to root and do: > > > > make modules_install > > > > This will put a new modules directory in /lib/modules with the new -ck2 > > version name, leaving the original untouched. > > > > I never do the usual final "make install" to call the kernel script after > > that if I'm not compiling in /usr/src. I did that once, and had huge > > problems. I manually copy System.map and bzImage to /boot, naming them to > > reflect the extra version, like System.map-2.4.21-ck2, and > > bzImage-2.4.21-ck2. I then edit lilo, and since I don't use an initrd > > file for the new kernel, I delete the initrd line in the new kernel's > > lilo stanza, so it looks like: > > > > image=/boot/bzImage-2.4.21-ck3 > > label=2421ck3 > > root=/dev/hda10 > > append="devfs=mount hdc=ide-scsi acpi=off quiet" > > vga=788 > > read-only > > > > Then save, and run lilo as root. > > > > Of course there's no way to know if doing all this will actually increase > > system response in a noticable way, even if the patch applies on the MDK > > kernel, without actually doing it. I can report that all the ck patches > > I've applied seem to work great on the vanilla 2.4.21. > > Well, I was following this thread over the weekend, and so today I went > ahead and followed your directions. I installed the multimedia kernel > and source, then booted into the Mandrake multimedia kernel to make sure > it worked - it did, at least as good as the stock Mandrake kernel. > > So, I went ahead and downloaded the patch, and patched the mm kernel > source, which I had copied and chowned into $HOME/src/. The patch had > two minor failures, which I was able to manually fix (I've never even > patched a kernel before, let alone had to manually patch some source > code because the patch failed - but it was easy). > > I check the Makefile, and sure enough I also had to edit the > extra-version info to indicate 'ck2' so I wouldn't blow away my existing > multimedia kernel modules. > > Everything compiled without errors, so I went ahead and installed the > modules and kernel. I am running the patched mm kernel right now, and it > performs at least as well as the stock kernel and (unpatched) mm kernel. > Not sure how to do any performance benchmarks, but at least nothing is > broken!
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