New kernels

[Roland]

Yesterday I made several attempts to download the final for 6.5. Every time I got an error message,
gzip: stdin: not in gzip format
tar: Child returned status 1
tar: Error is not recoverable: exiting now

The same thing happens when I try to download the new 6.6. Very frustrating.

Have you tried to download and extract the kernel packages via AmigaOS? Does the same problem appear there, too?

[kilaueabart]

No. I don't know how I would do it on AmigaOS, but I will give it a try in a few minutes. I wasn't very impressed with the browser there the last time I tried to use it.

[kilaueabart]

Odyssey works a little better than I remembered. I now have a spare sealion tar.bz. I forgot it was a kernel that I wanted.

I tried email while I was there. Odyssey downloaded 31 kB(?) of 32 of gmail.hawaii.edu and quit. The browser wouldn't do anything. I rebooted, tried again. Same result.

I'll spend a little more time on it tomorrow and see if it can do anything I need it to do besides open these Message Boards. And download the kernel I meant to get.

[Roland]

Odyssey works a little better than I remembered. I now have a spare sealion tar.bz. I forgot it was a kernel that I wanted.

Downloading files works usually ok with Odyssey.

I tried email while I was there. Odyssey downloaded 31 kB(?) of 32 of gmail.hawaii.edu and quit. The browser wouldn't do anything. I rebooted, tried again. Same result.

Most mail services don't work anymore with Odyssey, so please do not waste your time there . With the latest beta of 'YAM' you can still download mail from some services (e.g. Posteo and GMX), but Gmail may not work, or you need at least some additional security step to use it.

I'll spend a little more time on it tomorrow and see if it can do anything I need it to do besides open these Message Boards. And download the kernel I meant to get.

I wish you succeed to get the kernel. In the 'SYS:Utilities' drawer there should be 'Archiver' or the older 'Unarch' which you can use to extract files from packages, But you can use them only for archives which are smaller than the available RAM: memory. Sould work ok for kernel and browser packages, but disk images are usually too large.

[xeno74]

Hi All,

Here is the third alpha of kernel 6.6 for testing.

New:

• ATA updates (Remove old and unused remnants of the ide code in arm, parisc, powerpc, sparc and m68k architectures and associated drivers)
• virtio_net: merge dma operations when filling mergeable buffers
• SCSI updates
• Linux Git log
• Phoronix articles, reviews and news stories covering Linux 6.6

Download: linux-image-6.6-alpha3-X1000_X5000.tar.gz



Please test the kernels.

Thanks,
Christian

[kilaueabart]

It seems to work. I tried again to load a screenshot but I still get "Sorry, the board attachment quota has been reached." Once when that happened I went to User Control Panel and deleted all my earlier attachments and then was able to post what I wanted to, but today it's
____________________________________________________________
This is a list of attachments you have made in posts to this board.

You have posted no files.
____________________________________________________________

Actually, I have posted a lot over the years...

OK, maybe I have started to figure out the right way to use imgbb: https://ibb.co/72w43TT

[xeno74]

It seems to work.

Thanks a lot for testing and thanks for the screenshot!

[kilaueabart]

That screenshot works well in Eolie, where I always have to log in to Hyperion Message Boards because it never remembers me.
In SeaLion, where it always remembers me, it opens a very small version of the screen shot with ads popping up around it then the machine crashes and I have to hold the power button down and reboot.

[xeno74]

FYI because of the BTTV issue:

One fix that worked for me was to adjust the "OverScan" configuration in tvtime so that it is at least 3.5. The /etc/tvtime/tvtime.xml configuration file recommends even higher at 8.0. Christian, please try adjusting the overscan value to see if that is a possible solution as well.

It works!

I adjusted the OverScan configuration to 3.5 today (.tvtime/tvtime.xml) and this solved this issue.

[Skateman]

Kernel 6.6 Alpha3 up and running on my AmigaOne X5000 and so does BillyFrontier 1-1-1



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