Phoronix Forums http://phoronix.com/forums/ Phoronix is the leading source for GNU/Linux hardware reviews and has been serving the alternative OS community since 2004. Phoronix also covers GNU/Linux news, editorials, and Solaris. These are the Phoronix Forums. en Sat, 21 Nov 2009 07:10:09 GMT vBulletin 60 http://www.phoronix.com/forums/images/cnome_misc/rss.jpg Phoronix Forums http://phoronix.com/forums/ PTS Git: pts-core: Only process a PTS... http://phoronix.com/forums/showthread.php?t=20382&goto=newpost Sat, 21 Nov 2009 04:10:11 GMT *Phoronix Test Suite* *Git Commit:* pts-core: Only process a PTS... pts-core: Only process a PTS module API call to a module if it... Phoronix Test Suite
Git Commit: pts-core: Only process a PTS...

pts-core: Only process a PTS module API call to a module if it actually hooks into that method

http://www.phorogit.com/index.php?p=...3e27081464f3ea ]]> Phoronix Test Suite - Developments phoronix-test-suite http://phoronix.com/forums/showthread.php?t=20382 PTS Git: pts-core: Drop support for SH... http://phoronix.com/forums/showthread.php?t=20381&goto=newpost Sat, 21 Nov 2009 03:40:22 GMT *Phoronix Test Suite* *Git Commit:* pts-core: Drop support for SH... pts-core: Drop support for SH PTS modules, since it was rarely used... Phoronix Test Suite
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pts-core: Drop support for SH PTS modules, since it was rarely used and just added overhead to pts-core module architecture

http://www.phorogit.com/index.php?p=...0b0493d0c2e4d7 ]]> Phoronix Test Suite - Developments phoronix-test-suite http://phoronix.com/forums/showthread.php?t=20381 Phorogit Turns Two, Happy Birthday http://phoronix.com/forums/showthread.php?t=20380&goto=newpost Sat, 21 Nov 2009 00:10:16 GMT *Phoronix: Phorogit Turns Two, Happy Birthday* Today marks the two-year anniversary of the creation of Phorogit.com. Phorogit is the Git... Phoronix: Phorogit Turns Two, Happy Birthday

Today marks the two-year anniversary of the creation of Phorogit.com. Phorogit is the Git repository that is sponsored by Phoronix Media to house the development of a few free software projects.The two most prominent projects currently housed at Phorogit are the ATI Catalyst Linux driver packaging scripts (fglrx-packaging.git) and the Phoronix Test Suite (phoronix-test-suite.git)...

http://www.phoronix.com/vr.php?view=NzcyNg ]]> Phoronix Articles / RSS Feeds phoronix http://phoronix.com/forums/showthread.php?t=20380 OSS Radeon Drivers in Debian Testing are a letdown http://phoronix.com/forums/showthread.php?t=20379&goto=newpost Fri, 20 Nov 2009 23:41:51 GMT Finally got around to testing out the OSS Radeon drivers. I started with the defaults in Debian Testing (Squeeze) with kernel 2.6.30 and radeon... Finally got around to testing out the OSS Radeon drivers. I started with the defaults in Debian Testing (Squeeze) with kernel 2.6.30 and radeon 6.12.3.1 and my Radeon HD4600.

While it did worked out of the box (mode setting, video), 3D was non-existent and 2D was rather slow.

I see there is 6.12.4 ddx driver release, but it didn't seem to express any big changes for 2D or anything for 3D.

I went back to fglrx for now, since it has been working great for me for a few releases, but wanted to know if this was me (Debian is known to be a little conservative) or things just aren't there yet.

P.S. - I had to reboot after installing fglrx, something was preventing the module from loading properly. I didn't see anything else drm related via lsmod and was also under the impression that fglrx and the OSS drm could be loaded at the same time now. While this was marginally annoying (kwin4 has more dependencies and needs more of the video stack working) it may suggest a bigger issue. ]]> Open-Source AMD/ATI Linux Tillin9 http://phoronix.com/forums/showthread.php?t=20379 PTS Git: pts-core: Calculate download... http://phoronix.com/forums/showthread.php?t=20378&goto=newpost Fri, 20 Nov 2009 22:10:17 GMT *Phoronix Test Suite* *Git Commit:* pts-core: Calculate download... pts-core: Calculate download speeds for each test file download, to... Phoronix Test Suite
Git Commit: pts-core: Calculate download...

pts-core: Calculate download speeds for each test file download, to provide estimations on future downloads for how long it may take to download

http://www.phorogit.com/index.php?p=...f62792e0440d98 ]]> Phoronix Test Suite - Developments phoronix-test-suite http://phoronix.com/forums/showthread.php?t=20378 Truly bad: gnome-settings-daemon + pulseaudio causing laptop HDD death http://phoronix.com/forums/showthread.php?t=20377&goto=newpost Fri, 20 Nov 2009 20:55:35 GMT Hi all,

I'm using fedora 11 x64 with all updates on place.
I'm really pissed off because I found that my laptop hard disk is parking the heads every 10 seconds circa, and gnome-settings-daemon is trying to start pulseaudio daemon every 10 seconds circa.

This causes a deleterious parking/unparking job on the heads and raising the infamous Load_Cycle_Count HDD smart parameter. There was a famous issue with this counter (ubuntu people should remember this): manufacturers tell you that you disk is gonna die when it reaches a value between 300k-600k.

How I found the issue?
Installed atop, I saw that kjournald was invoked every 10 seconds, so I did:

Code:
> echo 1 >/proc/sys/vm/block_dump
This command enables dumping of writes on block devices that you can see invoking dmesg. So I was able to identify that gnome-settings-daemon is writing periodically to a file (pulse-shm-xxxxxx).
I got tons of lines like this:

Code:
gnome-settings-(11959): dirtied inode 188241 (pulse-shm-2392701627) on tmpfs
Nice to see, pulseaudio is back...

I killed gnome-settings-daemon and FINALLY got no periodic writes to disk.
Now I want to ask everyone, gnome devs, pulseaudio devs, and normal people, how the hell I can sort this thing out? Can I finally disable pulseaudio? I dunno why PackageKit wants to tore my system apart if I try to uninstall pulseaudio.

Bad bad bad guys, really bad. ]]> Desktop Linux blackshard http://phoronix.com/forums/showthread.php?t=20377 libvdpau, libva Both Updated Today http://phoronix.com/forums/showthread.php?t=20376&goto=newpost Fri, 20 Nov 2009 20:20:07 GMT *Phoronix: libvdpau, libva Both Updated Today* In hopes of pushing VDPAU beyond just being a NVIDIA Unix driver technology and to make it an open... Phoronix: libvdpau, libva Both Updated Today

In hopes of pushing VDPAU beyond just being a NVIDIA Unix driver technology and to make it an open standard for Linux video driver developers wishing to provide HD video acceleration on Linux via the GPU, NVIDIA released a standalone VDPAU library back in September and have been trying to push some VDPAU bits for DRI2.Today NVIDIA has updated its standalone VDPAU library, libvdpau, which is now at version 0.3. This library update supports versioning to the drivers, configurable install directory support, libvdpau_trace, and documentation updates...

http://www.phoronix.com/vr.php?view=NzcyNQ ]]> Phoronix Articles / RSS Feeds phoronix http://phoronix.com/forums/showthread.php?t=20376 <![CDATA[PTS Git: pts-core: Support using PHP's...]]> http://phoronix.com/forums/showthread.php?t=20375&goto=newpost Fri, 20 Nov 2009 20:00:05 GMT Phoronix Test Suite
Git Commit: pts-core: Support using PHP's...

pts-core: Support using PHP's cURL library for handling downloads when available

http://www.phorogit.com/index.php?p=...e2fc2b42b6c43d ]]> Phoronix Test Suite - Developments phoronix-test-suite http://phoronix.com/forums/showthread.php?t=20375 ATI driver features http://phoronix.com/forums/showthread.php?t=20374&goto=newpost Fri, 20 Nov 2009 18:31:08 GMT Hi all ! My laptop is dead and I will have to buy a new one. But almost all laptops are using ati graphics. I have been using nvidia drivers for... Hi all !

My laptop is dead and I will have to buy a new one. But almost all laptops are using ati graphics. I have been using nvidia drivers for a long now and was really happy with what had been done with vdpau and ease of installation. So Ihave a few questions to determine if I can switch on ATI.

- I have read that XvBA what finally doing something. But is it already as efficient and easy to use as vdpau? Ismplayer supported. I mostly watch x264 1080p. Is this codec supported ?

- What about video sync and tearing. I had a desktop with ati and experienced a lot of problems of that kind. Is it fixed ?

- I am planning to keep my kubuntu with KDE4. Are 3Deffects well supported by the driver ? I remember the time where these effects where hard to get working with the ATI driver.

- And last question : what about the open-source driver ? Where is the developpement heading to and what can be achieved as of now with this driver ?


Thanks a lot for all your answers, I am anxious at the idea of leaving nvidia. ]]> AMD/ATI Linux Guilo http://phoronix.com/forums/showthread.php?t=20374 PTS Git: pts-core:... http://phoronix.com/forums/showthread.php?t=20373&goto=newpost Fri, 20 Nov 2009 18:30:10 GMT *Phoronix Test Suite* *Git Commit:* pts-core:... pts-core: Fixes ... Phoronix Test Suite
Git Commit: pts-core:...

pts-core: Fixes

http://www.phorogit.com/index.php?p=...7cd2dcb42f071f ]]> Phoronix Test Suite - Developments phoronix-test-suite http://phoronix.com/forums/showthread.php?t=20373 Intel Linux Graphics Shine With Fedora 12 http://phoronix.com/forums/showthread.php?t=20370&goto=newpost Fri, 20 Nov 2009 15:20:08 GMT Phoronix: Intel Linux Graphics Shine With Fedora 12

Intel's Linux graphics driver stack is often at the forefront of X.Org / Mesa innovations, from Intel being the first driver having in-kernel video memory management to being the first driver with mainline kernel mode-setting support to even being the driver that often first receives support for new OpenGL extensions in Mesa. The Intel Linux driver stack can be attributed with many firsts, but continually pushing this driver while putting out quarterly timed releases has led to some pains. Earlier this year in fact the driver stack was rather buggy -- especially in Ubuntu 9.04 -- that impaired many users with stability issues, performance problems, and other headaches. Most of the regressions from overhauling the Linux driver stack have been resolved, but where is the driver stack at now? The Intel stack in Ubuntu 9.10 is performing rather well, but where it's more important is its status within Fedora as more of the bleeding-edge graphics packages are pulled into this release that often don't make it into other distributions until months later when they roll out their next releases. To see where the Intel Linux graphics are at in Fedora 12, we ran the same set of benchmarks in the Fedora 10, 11, and 12 releases with an Intel G43 IGP.

http://www.phoronix.com/vr.php?view=14388 ]]> Phoronix Articles / RSS Feeds phoronix http://phoronix.com/forums/showthread.php?t=20370 Fedora 13 May Support Btrfs System Rollbacks http://phoronix.com/forums/showthread.php?t=20365&goto=newpost Fri, 20 Nov 2009 14:20:20 GMT *Phoronix: Fedora 13 May Support Btrfs System Rollbacks* Fedora 12 was just released this week, but features for Fedora 13 have been in planning... Phoronix: Fedora 13 May Support Btrfs System Rollbacks

Fedora 12 was just released this week, but features for Fedora 13 have been in planning long before this release made it out the door. In fact, it was last month that we began talking about features for Fedora 13...

http://www.phoronix.com/vr.php?view=NzcyNA ]]> Phoronix Articles / RSS Feeds phoronix http://phoronix.com/forums/showthread.php?t=20365 X Server 1.7.2 RC2 Released With 15 Fixes http://phoronix.com/forums/showthread.php?t=20364&goto=newpost Fri, 20 Nov 2009 13:20:04 GMT *Phoronix: X Server 1.7.2 RC2 Released With 15 Fixes* X Server 1.7.2 is scheduled to be released a week from Friday, so in preparations for that,... Phoronix: X Server 1.7.2 RC2 Released With 15 Fixes

X Server 1.7.2 is scheduled to be released a week from Friday, so in preparations for that, Peter Hutterer has just pushed out the second release candidate for this minor point release. X Server 1.7.2 RC2 is made up of 15 fixes (mostly for XQuartz) since the RC1 release that arrived earlier this month. There's nothing real exciting in this release beyond addressing bugs as most developers are now focused on X Server 1.8, which will be released in March...

http://www.phoronix.com/vr.php?view=NzcyMw ]]> phoronix http://phoronix.com/forums/showthread.php?t=20364 Where to start? http://phoronix.com/forums/showthread.php?t=20363&goto=newpost Fri, 20 Nov 2009 13:07:31 GMT So I finally did it, I abandoned nVidia and bought myself a HD 5850 to use as a Wintendo and to see what I can do with the open source drivers. For... So I finally did it, I abandoned nVidia and bought myself a HD 5850 to use as a Wintendo and to see what I can do with the open source drivers. For the latter:

a) Is it possible to get any development done using a R800 now?
b) If so, what distro/repos should I use?
c) Any suggestions for good intro beyond the AMD tech docs?

Something tells me I'm being ambitious compared to my C skills, but we'll see... ]]> Open-Source AMD/ATI Linux Kjella http://phoronix.com/forums/showthread.php?t=20363 PTS 2.2 fails to download php-5.2.9 http://phoronix.com/forums/showthread.php?t=20362&goto=newpost Fri, 20 Nov 2009 11:57:06 GMT I just downloaded PTS 2.2 and tried "install compilation". During that, it tries to download php-5.2.9.tar.bz2. This fails (probably because PHP 5.2.11 is the current stable 5.2 release, and 5.2.9 is no longer downloadable).

How can I change the version to download (short of replacing any string "5.2.9" in the suite files)?

Thanks

Martin ]]> Phoronix Test Suite Emme http://phoronix.com/forums/showthread.php?t=20362