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Re: 6.6.28 64bit LOW-LATENCY Kernel NON-USRMERGE Aufs/Overlayfs
@ozsouth :-
Excellent work, Dave. This one looks to be a 'good'un'.
I'm presently trialling this in my customised Xenialpup64.....and so far, everything's 100% 'on the green".
Having an nVidia card, many of my Pups have had the "official" driver installed. That said, this card is no longer supported, and I've noticed that the last supported driver is becoming harder & harder to compile with many newer kernels, so.....those with the driver, I'm just leaving as they are.
I do like to be able to try out newer kernels, however, so when I re-built Xenialpup64 recently I made the conscious decision to leave it running on the standard "nouveau" kernel driver. That lets me upgrade kernels without the hassle of having to keep recompiling the driver every time.
(jrb's 'lite' spin on Barry's Quirky 'April' is the other main one still running nouveau. There's always been an OpenGL issue with that, so the official driver never would compile...)
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The re-vamped Xenialpup64 has been using Fossapup64's glibc 2.31 - up from the original 2.23 - and until today, FP64's original k5.4.53 and matching fdrv. It's been running like a top.
With the new k6.6.28, I'm still using FP64's original fdrv, 'cos everything just works with that.....so since these are kernel-agnostic, I saw no point in changing it.
I'll be trying this out with Quirky as well, but here in Xenialpup64 this is definitely looking like a "keeper". Nicely done, sir!
Mike.
(EDIT:- Works like a dream with Quirky as well.....and webcam usage seems that bit smoother, too!)
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Re: 6.6.28 64bit LOW-LATENCY Kernel NON-USRMERGE Aufs/Overlayfs
Quick trial here in Bookworm64 10.0.6, structure usrmerge adjusted. Clean dmesg, good idle resource use, good glxgears FPS. Daily use snappy but none of that pushes the low latency. In a brief side-by-side look at CPU temps and fan run-time on the Fujitsu S761 laptop (has a crummy hair trigger fan algorithm), I can't tell any difference between the BW64 install running this and the same install running a non-low latency 6.6.25 kernel. No hitches, no glitches seen. I'll trial it (slackware version) in my slackware derivs later.
Thanks,
A bit later: Checked in my LxPupSc64 23.01 +6 install. All seems good there also. Clean boot and dmesg, good snappy normal daily function.
My pups: LxPupSc64 and Voidpup64 with LXDE ydrv & synaptics touchpad drivers, both using savefiles. Ydrv based Jammypup64 (JWM), Bookworm64, Fossapup23 & FossapupFire (LXDE/PCManFM). No savefiles, no fdrvs there.
Re: 6.6.28 64bit LOW-LATENCY Kernel NON-USRMERGE Aufs/Overlayfs
mikewalsh wrote: ↑Fri Apr 19, 2024 11:45 am@ozsouth :-
Excellent work, Dave. This one looks to be a 'good'un'.
I'm presently trialling this in my customised Xenialpup64.....and so far, everything's 100% 'on the green".
Having an nVidia card, many of my Pups have had the "official" driver installed. That said, this card is no longer supported, and I've noticed that the last supported driver is becoming harder & harder to compile with many newer kernels, so.....those with the driver, I'm just leaving as they are.
I do like to be able to try out newer kernels, however, so when I re-built Xenialpup64 recently I made the conscious decision to leave it running on the standard "nouveau" kernel driver. That lets me upgrade kernels without the hassle of having to keep recompiling the driver every time.
(jrb's 'lite' spin on Barry's Quirky 'April' is the other main one still running nouveau. There's always been an OpenGL issue with that, so the official driver never would compile...)
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The re-vamped Xenialpup64 has been using Fossapup64's glibc 2.31 - up from the original 2.23 - and until today, FP64's original k5.4.53 and matching fdrv. It's been running like a top.
With the new k6.6.28, I'm still using FP64's original fdrv, 'cos everything just works with that.....so since these are kernel-agnostic, I saw no point in changing it.
I'll be trying this out with Quirky as well, but here in Xenialpup64 this is definitely looking like a "keeper". Nicely done, sir!
Mike.
(EDIT:- Works like a dream with Quirky as well.....and webcam usage seems that bit smoother, too!)
Maintaining older Nvidia hardware on newer systems can be challenging, especially regarding webcam driver support. Upgrading to glibc 2.31 in Xenialpup64 may boost performance but can also affect webcam compatibility. Fossapup64's original fdrv offers advantages, including improved kernel compatibility across various versions, benefiting webcam functionality as well.
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Re: 6.6.28 64bit LOW-LATENCY Kernel NON-USRMERGE Aufs/Overlayfs
@vanre :- to the "kennels"!
Re: webcam operation. In my case, this isn't such an issue.
I don't use a laptop; my main rig is an HP Pavilion desktop, so there IS no "built-in" webcam. For this, it's a case of having to use a USB webcam. After experimenting with cheaper cams for a while - and doing plenty of research - I eventually obtained my long-wanted 'ultimate' cam.....a Logitech c920 HD 'Pro'. Despite being a decade-old design, it's still the best-selling all-round cam in the world today. Which just goes to show how spot-on Logitech were with features/capabilities & design, all those years ago.
And most importantly of all, with the c920 Logitech provided built-in compatibility with the UVC driver (Usb Video Class) right from the very beginning.......thereby guaranteeing platform-agnostic compatibility with any OS that supports it. Which these days, is pretty much all of 'em.
And Linux has supported UVC in the kernel for many years. So the c920 is pNp (Plug'n'Play).......ya just plug it in, and start using it immediately. Easy-peasy.
Works for me!
Mike.
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Re: 6.6.28 64bit LOW-LATENCY Kernel NON-USRMERGE Aufs/Overlayfs
Downloaded and installed.
On a first run everything seems to work fine in my Bionic64 Derivative.
Will use this now to do some music and other stuff to be used by the computer.
Will return, if anything goes wrong.
Thanks.
Edit:
But still my Motorola Smartphone wasn't detected when connecting to the computer.
Bionic Puppy 64bit.
Won't use another one.
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Re: 6.6.28 64bit LOW-LATENCY Kernel NON-USRMERGE Aufs/Overlayfs
@Tippe :-
I've always found Motorola to be a bit "iffy" with this sorta thing.
Mine's an old Nokia Asha 'dumbphone'; good for calls & texts, and not much else (but then, I don't really WANT anything else when I'm out & about, thank you very much). I hook this up to the 'puter via a micro-USB cable, and the micro-SD card is immediately detected as a 'data' drive, and auto-mounted.
Which is all I ask of it, so.......I'm not complaining.
Mike.
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Re: 6.6.28 64bit LOW-LATENCY Kernel NON-USRMERGE Aufs/Overlayfs
My old phone was a Huawei phone.
It connected fine and it could be used for internet via usb-tethering when connected to the computer.
But its phones functions broke.
The Motorola had the lowest price that I could find in my area.
For some months now I have the first cabled DSL internet in my life.
It's a combi-pack that includes mobile-phone, cabled internet plus internet TV.
I decided to purchase this, as my cable TV wasn't very good.
When the weather was bad there was almost no reception (only a few channels with crappy contents) and otherwise it has constant sound and picture interruptions.
So, I'm just uploading my files from phone to my google drive account. After that I'm downloading from google drive to my computer.
Works for me, I'm fine with that.
Bionic Puppy 64bit.
Won't use another one.
Re: 6.6.28 64bit LOW-LATENCY Kernel NON-USRMERGE Aufs/Overlayfs
I'm looking for advice on whether incorporating a 64-bit 6.6.28 2018 KIT LOW-LATENCY NON-USRMERGE kernel, equipped with Overlayfs and Aufs, could improve responsiveness, particularly when utilizing a webcam. I'm also curious about its compatibility with Ubuntu and Slacko flavors, as well as its interaction with Jammypup64 and later versions.
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Re: 6.6.28 64bit LOW-LATENCY Kernel NON-USRMERGE Aufs/Overlayfs
@Tippe
To swap in the 6.6.28-lolat kernel into a KLV down load the 00modules-6.6.28-lolat.sfs
and vmlinuz
files and replace the ones in your KLV with these.
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Re: 6.6.28 64bit LOW-LATENCY Kernel NON-USRMERGE Aufs/Overlayfs
@wadu - Welcome! For fossapup64/bionicpup64, you would use the Ubuntu flavour. For s15pup64/ScPup64 you would use the Slacko flavour.
For Jammypup64 you need a USRMERGE kernel - or to run (at least) the Ubuntu flavour kernel-modules file through a converter as in middle of 1st post. My kernel 6.6.25-aoum-lolat (aufs/overlayfs/usrmerge low-latency) is in the forum Kernels section.
Bookwormpup64 has a different setup again, needing a USRMERGE Ubuntu flavour kernel with kbuild needing to be deactivated if you use a non-standard kernel (I add .no to end) & it has it's own ucode, activated via its fdrv. With my kernels, both Jammy/Bookworm also need punionfs=overlay specified in the grub command line unless you want to use aufs.