On Sunday 21 December 2003 08:19 pm, Joe wrote:
> Decided to try the 20031217 cooker iso. Got some pretty mixed
> results. Did the upgrade from 9.2 and it had some error
> relating to the rpm database.
New version of glibc, gcc, XFree.... I think the encouragement
to contribute to Mandrake is to test, not use (upgrade). Either
use 10.0 separately, or be adventurous. oh well, see below
> Yet it installed the new version
> of XFree and voila! Direct rendering is enabled on my videocard
> for the first time under linux. Now i can play the Gl version
> of quake2 but... Its slow, and checking top tells me xinetd is
> using somewhere between 90 and 98% of my cpu. This happened
> again after a reboot. Suggestion as to why this may be and how
> to fix it?
>
> TIA.
>
> Joe
That's a pretty big jump. Not so much from 9.2 to 10.0 cooker.
Yeah I know they're still goin out of their way to provide an
'upgrade' path. But I would'a done a fresh install savin my /home
partition. The bigger jump was to the 2.6 kernel. An yeah I know
Linus turned it loose, but it's still not ready for consumption.
Even the Mdk version for cooker. Probly won't be for months after
10.0 final in March. (actually schedualed for 2/15). 2.4.23 will
be the 10.0 kernel.
Try'n install the current cooker stable kernel,
2.4.23-0.rc5.2mdk, but IME, you'll still have a 2.6 tainted
system. Either that or re-install 9.2, and/or like me follow the
cooker ml's, includin the changelog list
http://www.mandrakelinux.com/en/cookerdevel.php3 and the lkml
http://www.tux.org/lkml/ You might suspect, as do I, that the
2.6 utils, sysfs udev and mod-utils-init, are a problem. Hard to
revert from.
I've been usin cooker for years, but never tried to upgrade to
it with the installer. Doin it 'by hand' is neccessary' IME.
Sometimes cooker gets just too flakey tho, what with substantial
daily updates over the course of months. A re-install sometimes
is needed, and a re-sync to current cooker. I use 9.2, urpmi
urpmi, then get current. Recent 2.6 experience can be attributed
to last weeks re-install. Runnin cooker is not just to
experience the latest an greatest, it's also to provide testing
an feedback. IE, comes with some obligation.
Run 'top' then <Shift+P> to see what's eatin on the cpu.
Consider usin an app like lm_sensors and gkrellm to monitor cpu
use. Almost a must to use cooker. Ya just never know when an app
might go wild or refuse to quit. Sort'a reminds me of an old
long time girlfriend....... wish I had her back.
Anyhow, my recent experience with 2.6 kernels is that apps
were very likely to go wild, refuse to quit, even cause panics.
YMMV, many do. In any event look for 10.0 in March, look for 2.6
sometime next summer. If you choose, an I encourage you to,
stick with cooker, subscribe to the ML's and add cooker urpmi
sources. You'll need to update daily. I believe there's several
besides myself that'll help off list to get you goin. At least I
will. For the others you'll just have to see if they volunteer.
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