tkh’s blog

Linux 2.6.9

I compiled and installed as usual, but when the kernel tries to load the nvidia’s kernel module, it fails to load because the symbol __VMALLOC_RESERVE is undefined. So I applied the following patch to linux-2.6.9/arch/i386/mm/init.c and rebuilt the kernel.

— init.c.orig 2004-10-19 21:19:18.000000000 -0600
+++ init.c 2004-10-19 05:08:12.000000000 -0600
@@ -41,6 +41,7 @@
#include <asm/sections.h>

unsigned int __VMALLOC_RESERVE = 128 < < 20;
+EXPORT_SYMBOL(__VMALLOC_RESERVE);

DEFINE_PER_CPU(struct mmu_gather, mmu_gathers);
unsigned long highstart_pfn, highend_pfn;

Everything seems to be working fine.

Presidential Debate

I watched the second presidential debate in this evening. Bush acted more strongly in this time, but as Kerry pointed out in the debate, Bush was just attacking Kerry because he has no strong plans. Also when Kerry said that the US should put back allies to Iraq, Bush responded by saying that we have allies from 30 countries. But hey, you should mention that most of 30 countries sent their troops to Iraq only for symbolic reasons (to kiss Bush’s ass) and most of their citizens object to sending troops to Iraq.

Kerry looked little bit weak when he talked about abortion and stem cell research, but all in all, I think he did really well.

Comment Spam

I’ve been getting increasing number of comment spam. I use MT-blacklist to block comments containing blacklisted URLs, but spammers keep changing them. I can remove comments efficiently with MT-blacklist, but I wonder if there are more clever ways to block comment spam. MT 3.x implements the TypeKey authentication for comments, but I’ve heard that MT 3.x users still get comment spam.

Doom 3 Linux Client

Finally id released the linux client. I used BitTorrent to download the archive since the ftp.idsoftware.com was too busy. Then I installed it, and copied the pak files from the windows partition. You don’t even have to enter the cdkey and nocd is required to run Doom 3. I played the first level and noticed that the heat wave and window refraction effects which use fragment shaders look very ugly. Probably it’s nvidia’s Linux driver’s problem, but it’s dissapointing. So you need to disable the advanced effects option. Everything else is working fine. I hope all these problems would be fixed in the next release of nvidia’s driver.