Re: Strange problem with tty layer

On Fri, Jan 26, 2007 at 09:06:52AM -0600, Paul Fulghum wrote: > ioctl(TIOCSETD/TIOCGETD) sets/returns an integer identifier > that can be compared agains the N_XXX macros. If you are > not explicitly setting this then is is probably the default N_TTY. Yes it is N_TTY (value 0). I never set it. >

Re: Strange problem with tty layer

On Fri, Jan 26, 2007 at 08:51:02AM -0600, Paul Fulghum wrote: > You can eliminate the tty buffering altogether > by observing what gets passed to the line discipline. I will have to find where in the code that is happening. > I assume you are using the default line discipline N_TTY. > > Look at

Re: Strange problem with tty layer

On Thu, Jan 25, 2007 at 10:16:39AM -0500, Lennart Sorensen wrote: > I am now trying this, which so far seem to help (I had a printk in there > earlier and managed to trigger that). > > --- ori/drivers/char/tty_io.c 2007-01-24 18:02:48.0 -0500 > +++ new/drivers/char/tty_io.

Re: Strange problem with tty layer

On Wed, Jan 24, 2007 at 03:20:53PM -0600, Paul Fulghum wrote: > In 2.6.16 the tty buffering pushes data to the line > discipline without regard to tty->receive_room. > If the line discipline can't keep up, the data gets dropped. > I observed this data loss at higher speeds when > placing the system

Re: Strange problem with tty layer

On Wed, Jan 24, 2007 at 03:20:53PM -0600, Paul Fulghum wrote: > In 2.6.16 the tty buffering pushes data to the line > discipline without regard to tty->receive_room. > If the line discipline can't keep up, the data gets dropped. > I observed this data loss at higher speeds when > placing the system

Re: Strange problem with tty layer

On Wed, Jan 24, 2007 at 03:19:53PM -0600, Kilau, Scott wrote: > There are a couple interesting things I would do here. > > 1) The tty "flip" buffer stuff was changed in 2.6.16+. > > Maybe you could try going downwards to 2.6.15 or below and see if the > problem > still exists. That looked like a

Strange problem with tty layer

I am seeing a very strange problem which seems to be in the tty layer. I am using an exar 17D154 based PCI card (like the digi neo style card) using the jsm driver. Kernel version 2.6.16.25. My test involves connecting two ports together with a cross over cable and then sending a test pattern of

Re: 2.6.20-rc5: known unfixed regressions (v3) (part 2)

On Wed, Jan 24, 2007 at 05:38:01PM +0100, Adrian Bunk wrote: > Was the removed > setCx86(CX86_CCR3, ccr3); > without any effects? I didn't think that was ever checked in. I thought the patch was still being discussed. The line missing will not as far as I can see cause any problems, it will le

Re: 2.6.20-rc5: known unfixed regressions (v3) (part 2)

On Wed, Jan 24, 2007 at 04:47:25PM +0100, Adrian Bunk wrote: > Subject: fix geode_configure() > References : http://lkml.org/lkml/2007/1/9/216 > Submitter : Lennart Sorensen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Caused-By : takada <[EMAIL PROTECTED]&g

Re: PROBLEM: KB->KiB, MB -> MiB, ... (IEC 60027-2)

On Mon, Jan 22, 2007 at 06:36:19PM +, Alan wrote: > K is Kelvin, k is kilo- K is a unit is Kelvin, k/K as a prefix is kilo. > See ISO 31. There is a standard for this stuff which is used worldwide > and only bits of the computing industry appear incapable of following it. -- Len Sorensen - T

Re: PROBLEM: KB->KiB, MB -> MiB, ... (IEC 60027-2)

On Mon, Jan 22, 2007 at 05:58:42PM +0100, Jan Engelhardt wrote: > For "F"s sake, when you gotta use abbreviations, then just use k=1000 and > K=1024 already, b for bits and B for bytes. Problem gone. And for 10^6 vs 2^20? > kegs perhaps? :) Hmm, Mega -> Megs, Kilo -> Kils? -- Len Sorensen - To

Re: PROBLEM: KB->KiB, MB -> MiB, ... (IEC 60027-2)

On Sun, Jan 21, 2007 at 12:10:00PM +0100, Eduard Bloch wrote: > And I cannot seriosly believe that you are cappable of reading his > examples. Megabananas are a ridiculous demonstration becase of the > object beeing counted itself, but if you take stuff from real life then > I doubt that you expect

Re: PROBLEM: KB->KiB, MB -> MiB, ... (IEC 60027-2)

On Sun, Jan 21, 2007 at 10:12:55PM +0100, Jan Engelhardt wrote: > Same lie like with harddrives. It's around 80, not 100. > But it depends on how you look at it. 80 for Layer3, possibly > a little more for Layer2/1. Strange, I tend to get about 95 for layer 3. -- Len Sorensen - To unsubscribe fro

Re: fix typo in geode_configre()@cyrix.c

On Wed, Jan 17, 2007 at 01:38:35AM +0900, takada wrote: > You are right. I agree to your comment. These variables are needless. > I made a patch again. > > diff -Narup linux-2.6.19.orig/arch/i386/kernel/cpu/cyrix.c > linux-2.6.19/arch/i386/kernel/cpu/cyrix.c > --- linux-2.6.19.orig/arch/i386/kern

Re: fix typo in geode_configre()@cyrix.c

On Wed, Jan 17, 2007 at 01:38:35AM +0900, takada wrote: > You are right. I agree to your comment. These variables are needless. > I made a patch again. Of course there are also lots of "magic numbers" around, but I must admit I don't personally really feel like going through the data sheet and nam

Re: Choosing a HyperThreading/SMP/MultiCore kernel ?

On Fri, Jan 12, 2007 at 10:38:43PM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > amd64 will only work on a core2duo if it's a T7200 or higher - the > lower numbers are 32-bit-only chipsets. I admit not knowing what > exact variant the Mac has. The Core Duo had 32bit only (being a Pentium M), but the Core 2 D

Re: Choosing a HyperThreading/SMP/MultiCore kernel ?

On Fri, Jan 12, 2007 at 06:55:32PM +0530, Sunil Naidu wrote: > There are 2 cases:- > > #1 Intel Pentium 4 Workstation with HyperThreading > > Since kernel takes HT as 2 processors, I did say in KConfig as: > > CONFIG_SMP= y > CONFIG_NR_CPUS=2 > CONFIG_SCHED_MC=not set > CONFIG_MPENTIUM4=y (Or sh

Re: SATA/IDE Dual Mode w/Intel 945 Chipset or HOW TO LIQUIFY a flash IDE chip under 2.6.18

On Wed, Jan 10, 2007 at 06:56:05PM +0100, Prakash Punnoor wrote: > Intel wants you to buy hw with ICH8R. ICH8 isn't get the advanced features > for > free But the BIOS has AHCI mode as an option. I don't want their fake raid, just ahci. That isn't an advanced feature, it is native mode. :)

Re: SATA/IDE Dual Mode w/Intel 945 Chipset or HOW TO LIQUIFY a flash IDE chip under 2.6.18

On Wed, Jan 10, 2007 at 10:25:52AM -0700, Jeff V. Merkey wrote: > No doubt part of the Wintel (intel + Microsoft) strategy to perpetually > break non-windows platforms with new incompatible > hardware like the switch over from the e1000 MT adapters to e1000 GT > which are not backward compatible

Re: SATA/IDE Dual Mode w/Intel 945 Chipset or HOW TO LIQUIFY a flash IDE chip under 2.6.18

On Wed, Jan 10, 2007 at 06:29:28PM +0100, Prakash Punnoor wrote: > You can install the Intel Matrix driver after "adjusting" the inf file... Hmm, I guess a good question is: Why should I have to edit the inf file? Is it an issue of them making it only install if your hardware is already set to ahc

Re: SATA/IDE Dual Mode w/Intel 945 Chipset or HOW TO LIQUIFY a flash IDE chip under 2.6.18

On Wed, Jan 10, 2007 at 09:58:21AM -0500, Jeff Garzik wrote: > Enhanced mode means separate SATA and PATA. > > (I recommend avoiding the "IDE" acronym, it is largely meaningless and > confusing these days) Good idea. > We're talking about Linux here. Linux regularly supports hardware > before

Re: SATA/IDE Dual Mode w/Intel 945 Chipset or HOW TO LIQUIFY a flash IDE chip under 2.6.18

On Tue, Jan 09, 2007 at 07:25:00PM -0500, Jeff Garzik wrote: > Combined mode is a technical term. Judging from your answers, you are > not using combined mode. I would have thought 'sata 3.0 + IDE' sounded a lot like combined mode, unless it means seperate sata and ide. > Judging from your answ

Re: Gaming Interface

On Tue, Jan 09, 2007 at 06:02:20PM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > When it's installed on 95% of the computers, it's a de-facto standard. And "de facto" does not make it a real one. opengl is installed on more machines that directx. If installation numbers is what decides it, then opengl will

Re: SATA/IDE Dual Mode w/Intel 945 Chipset or HOW TO LIQUIFY a flash IDE chip under 2.6.18

On Tue, Jan 09, 2007 at 01:46:42PM -0700, Jeff V. Merkey wrote: > I just finished pulling out a melted IDE flash drive out of a Shuttle > motherboard with the intel 945 chipset which claims to support > SATA and IDE drives concurrently under Linux 2.6.18. > > The chip worked for about 30 seconds

Re: fix typo in geode_configre()@cyrix.c

On Tue, Jan 09, 2007 at 06:41:56PM +0900, takada wrote: > In kernel 2.6, write back wrong register when configure Geode processor. > Instead of storing to CCR4, it stores to CCR3. > > --- linux-2.6.19/arch/i386/kernel/cpu/cyrix.c.orig2007-01-09 > 16:45:21.0 +0900 > +++ linux-2.6.19/ar

Re: Gaming Interface

On Tue, Jan 09, 2007 at 04:16:51PM +1000, Trent Waddington wrote: > We're totally off topic now, but what the hell.. You wanna encourage > ports? Write a step by step guide on how to most easily port a modern > game from Windows to Linux. My suggestion would be to use winelib and > include all th

Re: Gaming Interface

On Tue, Jan 09, 2007 at 08:14:13AM +0100, Dirk wrote: > I tried to get WoW installed with Cedega 5.2.9 for two days now. > > Cedega is not a replacement for ports. And it does not encourage ports. > It seems more like an excuse offered to game companies for not writing ports. And then there are

Re: Gaming Interface

On Tue, Jan 09, 2007 at 08:22:20AM +0100, Dirk wrote: > If there is no problem with Linux gaming I should shut the hell up and > start buying all these Linux games I keep hearing about and seeing in > those TV commercials. There is no problem with linux gaming. There is a problem with game deve

Re: fix typo in geode_configre()@cyrix.c

On Tue, Jan 09, 2007 at 06:41:56PM +0900, takada wrote: > In kernel 2.6, write back wrong register when configure Geode processor. > Instead of storing to CCR4, it stores to CCR3. > > --- linux-2.6.19/arch/i386/kernel/cpu/cyrix.c.orig2007-01-09 > 16:45:21.0 +0900 > +++ linux-2.6.19/ar

Re: wireless Q

On Thu, Jan 04, 2007 at 09:48:36PM -0500, Gene Heskett wrote: > Possibly in the future John. I took the Belkin back and got a Netgear > WG311T for another $35. Staples let me open it there and based on the > fact that the cd has some drivers on it that start with ATHE_* (the > chipset has a ti

Re: Binary Drivers

On Fri, Dec 15, 2006 at 09:59:43PM +, Alan wrote: > 3DFx invented SLI many years ago. The SLI programming information for the > 3DFx cards is public. Nvidia are a bit late to the party except on the PR > front. Well they do work differently. 3Dfx just did alternate line rendering, while nvidi

Re: data corruption with nvidia chipsets and IDE/SATA drives // memory hole mapping related bug?!

On Wed, Dec 13, 2006 at 08:57:23PM +0100, Christoph Anton Mitterer wrote: > Don't understand me wrong,.. I don't use Windows (expect for upgrading > my Plextor firmware and EAC ;) )... but I ask because the more > information we get (even if it's not Linux specific) the more steps we > can take ;)

Re: 64-bit app on 32-bit kernel supported?

On Fri, Dec 08, 2006 at 09:06:06PM +0530, Srivatsa Vaddagiri wrote: > Somebody was asking this : "Does any 32-bit Linux kernel support running > 64-bit > app on top of it (in a 64-bit platform that is)?" > > AFAIK its not supported, but wanted to make sure .. You can run 32bit programs on many

Re: How to go about debuging a system lockup?

On Fri, Nov 17, 2006 at 09:29:28AM -0500, Lennart Sorensen wrote: > Wow, that looks really neat. I will have to go read up on that tool. OK, I have now tried connecting with firescope to just follow the dmesg buffer across firewire. Works great, until the system hangs, then firescope repo

Re: How to go about debuging a system lockup?

On Fri, Nov 17, 2006 at 02:43:36PM +0100, Stefan Richter wrote: > If the PCI bus itself isn't brought down, you could debug from remote > using Benjamin Herrenschmidt's Firescope on the remote node and a > FireWire card in the test machine. Once the ohci1394 driver was loaded, > the FireWire contro

Re: How to go about debuging a system lockup?

On Thu, Nov 16, 2006 at 04:01:03PM -0600, Protasevich, Natalie wrote: > If you can't drop in kdb, or no sysreq, then your interrupts are > disabled. I used to be (with older systems anyway) that NMI button was > on the system, so one could send an NMI and make the handler to print a > trace. Newer

Re: How to go about debuging a system lockup?

On Thu, Nov 16, 2006 at 09:49:06PM +0100, Jesper Juhl wrote: > Well, I have a few ideas that are hopefully useul. > > - If you have not done so already, then go in to the "Kernel Hacking" > section of the kernel configuration and enable some (all?) of the > debug options and see if that produces a

Re: When is the kernel moving to GPLv3? (probably feeding a troll :)

On Thu, Nov 16, 2006 at 09:56:44AM -0700, Jeffrey V. Merkey wrote: > /"Red Hat has slammed the door shut > on any possibility > of entering into a patent protection deal similar to the one Microsoft > recently announced with Novell, eWeek is

How to go about debuging a system lockup?

We have a router with a Geode SC1200 cpu, with 4 AMD 972 ethernet ports (pcnet32) behind a PLX 6152 PCI-PCI bridge, which quite regularly locks up completely if we try to do simultanius traffic on all 4 ports (our test case sends data from port 1 to port 2, and back and from port 3 to port 4 and ba

Re: Brand-new notebook useless with Linux...

On Thu, Sep 08, 2005 at 03:19:32PM -0400, Chuck Ebbert wrote: > What fun is that? I have learned that HP/Compaq is hostile to Linux, > for one thing, which was interesting (my system is a Compaq Presario > V2312US.) Well they may be hostile but so far no problems with a compaq r3240. Well the si

Re: Surround via SPDIF with ALSA/emu10k1?

On Sat, Aug 27, 2005 at 05:47:08PM -0400, Lee Revell wrote: > For the best S/N ratio and dynamic range all mixer controls SHOULD be at > 100%, assuming the volume control in your driver only attenuates > signals. This is the case for the emu10k1 which implements all mixer > controls via DSP progra

Re: Surround via SPDIF with ALSA/emu10k1?

On Sat, Aug 27, 2005 at 08:18:59PM +0200, Thomas Zehetbauer wrote: > I have now been told that SPDIF cannot support more than 2 channels > except with AC3 compression. Given the fact that we can send 580MBit/s > over USB2.0 I would not have even remotely considered this to be the > problem and find

Re: The Linux FAT issue on SD Cards.. maintainer support please

On Wed, Aug 24, 2005 at 06:48:20PM +0530, Mukund JB. wrote: > My controller itself alone handle FOUR device at a time (u mea these > should be (tfa, b , c d) > But how do I represent if I have more than one such controller i.e. it > is more 4 devices each with more parttions again. Well the scsi a

Re: The Linux FAT issue on SD Cards.. maintainer support please

On Wed, Aug 24, 2005 at 02:03:16PM +0530, Mukund JB. wrote: > Dear Lenneart, > > One good news > I have implemented the partition support in the driver. > I am able to mount the partition of the individual device. > I partition them using the fdisk and mounted them. > The architecture this some th

Re: [Alsa-devel] Re: [Alsa drivers] Creatives X-Fi chip

On Tue, Aug 23, 2005 at 09:41:11PM +0100, Peter Zubaj wrote: > This is too expensive card to be only able use it as simple card. > My advice buy something else. > I don't think fight with creative can bring anything good to linux. > Leave Creative as is. There is plenty of other hardware from other

Re: PROBLEM: Incorrect RAM Detected at kernel init

On Sun, Aug 21, 2005 at 11:27:51PM -0400, Terry wrote: > Not sure if I have provided enough info, or to much info, but here it goes: > > [1.] One line summary of the problem: > Not Detecting all the memory installed in the system. > > [2.] Full description of the problem/report: > I have Linux Ke

Re: [PATCH] Posix file attribute support on VFAT (take #2)

On Mon, Aug 22, 2005 at 01:46:29PM +0200, Pavel Machek wrote: > Unfortunately, it makes sense. If you have compact flash card, you > really want to have VFAT there, so that it is a) compatible with > windows and b) so that you don't kill the hardware. VFAT is plenty good at killing hardware. It's

Re: The Linux FAT issue on SD Cards.. maintainer support please

On Fri, Aug 19, 2005 at 05:09:06PM +0530, Mukund JB`. wrote: > To handle it in a similarly in Linux we need to support this driver with > partitions. There looks a loop hole in the driver. > I will verify and fix it today. I suggest having a look at how other drivers use the add_disk call, since

Re: The Linux FAT issue on SD Cards.. maintainer support please

On Thu, Aug 18, 2005 at 06:21:39PM +0530, Mukund JB`. wrote: > Dear all, > > I have few updates in this issue. > I have attached the Images as well as the mount-log to this mail. > Please see the comments inline. > > I think, fdisk it trying to portray that n/o cylinders 448. So, it also > takes

Re: The Linux FAT issue on SD Cards.. maintainer support please

On Wed, Aug 17, 2005 at 10:32:03PM +0530, Mukund JB`. wrote: > A have a new fining here. > > fdisk -l -u /dev/tfa0: > debdev1:~# fdisk -l -u /dev/tfa0 > > Disk /dev/tfa0: 14 MB, 14680064 bytes > 2 heads, 32 sectors/track, 448 cylinders, total 28672 sectors Units = > sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes

Re: The Linux FAT issue on SD Cards.. maintainer support please

On Tue, Aug 16, 2005 at 07:04:34PM +0530, Mukund JB. wrote: > I have bought a "entermultimedia" USB 2.0 21-in-1 card. > There are no Linux driver support in the CD provided. > Can u suggest me what is best bug (USB card reader) with Linux driver > support in the Market. Load usb drivers and usb-s

Re: The Linux FAT issue on SD Cards.. maintainer support please

On Tue, Aug 16, 2005 at 06:54:40PM +0530, Mukund JB. wrote: > Yes, I agree. My sentence formation was wrong. > > My question here is: > > If I have NO multiple partition support implemented in the driver, will > it effect mounting the first partition on the device? Yes. If you have no partition

Re: fdisk & LBA

On Fri, Aug 12, 2005 at 10:29:13PM +0300, Nanakos Chrysostomos wrote: > Hi all,i want to retrieve the partition table of a primary extended > partition. > My MBR partition table ,says that the LBA Partition Start sector for the > extended partition is 10281600.It is the same that i find with my C c

Re: The Linux FAT issue on SD Cards.. maintainer support please

On Fri, Aug 12, 2005 at 09:16:56PM +0530, Mukund JB. wrote: > When I said mount, I guess FAT will read sector 0 to get the partition > info. And is it due to lack of partition support in the driver that will > affect the FAT layer reading the device. > Please update? No, the kernel read the partit

Re: The Linux FAT issue on SD Cards.. maintainer support please

On Fri, Aug 12, 2005 at 07:52:31PM +0530, Mukund JB. wrote: > I dumped the 0th sector of SD when formatted on > 1) CAM & > 2) Windows > The partition table exists on both. > But, the Master Boot Code is NOT present on the CAM formatted SD but is > available on windows formatted SD card

Re: NCQ support NVidia NForce4 (CK804) SATAII

On Thu, Aug 11, 2005 at 07:38:12PM +0200, Michael Thonke wrote: > I have a ASUS A8V Deluxe too, and can't use the AMD X2 processor on > it...this is a feature..right? > Supposed to run with DualCore but don't post..hm. Well according to Asus you can if you run BIOS 1013 or 1014 on the board. Any

Re: NCQ support NVidia NForce4 (CK804) SATAII

On Thu, Aug 11, 2005 at 07:44:49PM +0200, Michael Thonke wrote: > AMD X2 DualCore? If you buy me one I will try it. :) > Yes, Marvell, Silicon Image no problem as they provide OpenSource drivers. > On a normal setup is nearly everything okay. > > I hold up a hardware testlab to find b** *feat

Re: NCQ support NVidia NForce4 (CK804) SATAII

On Thu, Aug 11, 2005 at 01:20:56PM -0400, Jeff Garzik wrote: > What specifically does not work, on VIA+AMD64 combination, under Linux? > > My Athlon64 with VIA chipset works great. Mine does too. Asus A8V Deluxe. No problems so far. Everything on the board I have tried just works. Can't say m

Re: The Linux FAT issue on SD Cards.. maintainer support please

On Thu, Aug 11, 2005 at 10:57:14AM +0530, Mukund JB. wrote: > I am Linux driver programmer. > > I have a FAT12 issue on my SD cards. I have got these addresses from the > fs-lists as the maintainer support mail IDs for FAT-FS. > > I am using the 2.6.10 kernel, X86 like systems. > > I am NOT abl

Re: Partitioning problems on x86_64 (fwd)

On Thu, Aug 11, 2005 at 03:32:14AM +0100, Ken Moffat wrote: > Apologies if these are known problems, but I don't recall seeing them > mentioned recently. > > I'm running an athlon64 with 2.6.12.3, in the middle of rebuilding it > to run 64-bit. The main drive used to be in an i686 machine for >

Re: NCQ support NVidia NForce4 (CK804) SATAII

On Wed, Aug 10, 2005 at 01:53:47PM -0700, Allen Martin wrote: > Likely the only way nForce4 NCQ support could be added under Linux would > be with a closed source binary driver, and no one really wants that, > especially for storage / boot volume. We decided it wasn't worth the > headache of a bin

Re: SATALink Sil3112 and Linux woes

On Mon, Aug 08, 2005 at 11:45:22PM +, Shaun Jackman wrote: > I have a Silicon Image SATALink Sil3112 PCI card connected to two 200 > GB SATA Seagate drives. I'm running into many problems with this > setup. Is this card well supported under Linux? If it's a black sheep, > could someone please

Re: Where's the list of needed hardware for donating?

On Sun, Jul 31, 2005 at 10:06:38PM +, Richard Hubbell wrote: > Ok, here's the list: > > Adaptec AHA-1510A > (ISA, centronix-style external connector with terminator, one internal > ribbon cable, > I probably have some centronix-style external cables around too, this > card doesn't have it's ow

Re: Unable to mount the SD card formatted using the DIGITAL CAMREA on Linux box

On Mon, Aug 01, 2005 at 05:01:00PM +0530, Mukund JB. wrote: > Dear all, > > Below are my driver messages logged at initialization time & sfdisk call > time. > > when module is initialized > > TIFM INFO | TI init Routine Invoked! > ReportMediaModel: ( SD card Details) > Size

Re: Unable to mount the SD card formatted using the DIGITAL CAMREA on Linux box

On Fri, Jul 29, 2005 at 11:05:50PM +0530, Mukund JB. wrote: > camera formatted info > -- > Disk /dev/tfa0: 448 cylinders, 2 heads, 32 sectors/track > Units = cylinders of 32768 bytes, blocks of 1024 bytes, counting from 0 > >Device Boot Start End #cyls#blocks Id

Re: Unable to mount the SD card formatted using the DIGITAL CAMREA on Linux box

On Fri, Jul 29, 2005 at 08:02:14AM -0400, linux-os (Dick Johnson) wrote: > Execute linux `fdisk` on the device. You may find that the > ID byte is wrong. > > Also, why do you need a special block device driver? The SanDisk > and CompacFlash devices should look like IDE drives. SD usually is secur

Re: Helpme WitCh Cpu Scaling. Hi People

On Thu, Jul 28, 2005 at 03:56:49PM +0200, gabri wrote: > I have 2.6.12.3 and 2.6.8 too > I hace amd mobile sempron 28000 What brand and model is the laptop. Certainly the error says it is a bios error, so most likely the maker of the laptop has to fix their mistakes in the PST table. I guess mob

Re: Helpme WitCh Cpu Scaling. Hi People

On Thu, Jul 28, 2005 at 04:20:10PM +0200, gabri wrote: > In windows i have a driver that regulate the mhz of amd mobile sempron but > in linux i can not load any module for amd. The laptop is "supratech > xpert2601"and procesor is amd mobile sempron Well the website for the company sure looks us

Re: RFC: Raise required gcc version to 3.2 ?

On Thu, Jul 28, 2005 at 02:39:12PM +0200, Krzysztof Halasa wrote: > Compilation speed? Don't know, using 3 (4?) years old Athlon 2000 > it's not a problem unless I need full build 30 times a day. > > But people on 266 MHz ARM5 may notice. Hmm, an a 400Mhz PXA 255 I found using gcc 3.x meant I cou

Re: Helpme WitCh Cpu Scaling. Hi People

On Wed, Jul 27, 2005 at 11:33:36PM +0200, gabri wrote: > It is the first mail that I write. I call gabri and I am 18 years old. I am > Spanish. I want to comment that me program does not work ningun to regulate > the Mhz of the processor. " Cpufreq, cpuydn, powernow ". I do not manage to > load nin

Re: nVidia stuff again

On Thu, Apr 21, 2005 at 08:15:02AM -0400, Doug Ledford wrote: > Ha! That's the whole damn point Dave. Use your head. Just because ATI > is getting more complex with their GPU does *not* mean nVidia is. Go > back to my original example of the aic7xxx cards. The alternative to > their simple har

Re: /proc/cpuinfo format - arch dependent!

On Tue, Apr 19, 2005 at 10:00:12PM +0200, Nico Schottelius wrote: > Can you tell me which ones? top for example would probably break. Maybe not but I suspect it would. mplayer probably would since it uses it to find the cpu type and features that cpu supports. > And if there are really that many

Re: GPL violation by CorAccess?

On Tue, Apr 19, 2005 at 05:57:43PM +, Karel Kulhavy wrote: > I have seen a device by CorAccess which apparently uses Linux and didn't find > anything that would suggest it complies to GPL, though I had access to the > complete shipping package. Does anyone know about known cause of violation by

Re: /proc/cpuinfo format - arch dependent!

On Tue, Apr 19, 2005 at 02:15:30PM +0200, Nico Schottelius wrote: > When I wrote schwanz3(*) for fun, I noticed /proc/cpuinfo > varies very much on different architectures. > > Is it possible to make it look more identical (as far as the different > archs allow it)? > > So that one at least can c

Re: DVD writer and IDE support (solved)...

On Sat, Apr 16, 2005 at 08:26:38PM +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Through a very painful procedure I got w98 installed and bumped my > firmware revision. The filename of the installation binary was > duw1608_r108.exe suggesting R1.08 but the windows screen mentioned > that the bumping was from

Re: Kernel Rootkits

On Fri, Apr 15, 2005 at 06:15:37PM +, Allison wrote: > I got the terminology mixed up. I guess what I really want to know is, > what are the different types of exploits by which rootkits > (specifically the ones that modify the kernel) can get installed on > your system.(other than buffer overf

Re: DVD writer and IDE support...

On Thu, Apr 14, 2005 at 06:25:39PM +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > On Thu, Apr 14, 2005 at 03:35:22PM +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > Well there is a cdwrite mailing list hosted on lists.debian.org which is > > a great place to figure out what weird errors are and such, and the > > authors

Re: DVD writer and IDE support...

On Thu, Apr 14, 2005 at 12:02:14PM -0300, Jeremy Muise wrote: > > > It's an AOPEN DUW1608/ARR > I just thought I should chime in because I have the same burner running > under a 2.6.11 kernel, and using ide-cd. The drive burns just fine, linux > support was good, but I did run into two problems: >

Re: DVD writer and IDE support...

On Thu, Apr 14, 2005 at 03:35:22PM +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > It's an AOPEN DUW1608/ARR > http://usa.aopen.com/products/dvd+rw/DUW1608ARR.htm > > Should I consider changing it? (I got an 'if this doesn't run on Linux > I can trade it in' warranty at the shop) Well there is a cdwrite mai

Re: DVD writer and IDE support...

On Wed, Apr 13, 2005 at 10:59:49PM +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Nope. No go. The kernel log getsb these 4 lines: > Apr 13 22:08:30 tippex SCSI error : <0 0 0 0> return code = 0x802 > Apr 13 22:08:30 tippex sr0: Current: sense key: Medium Error > Apr 13 22:08:36 tippex SCSI error : <0 0 0 0

Re: DVD writer and IDE support...

On Wed, Apr 13, 2005 at 09:07:56PM +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > It's with 2.6.11.7 Probably close to the 2.6.11 kernel I run on Debian-pure64/sarge. > Dunno yet. What's the fastest way to dump a file to a (fs on) a blank > 4.7 GB DVD RW? As I said this is not my home turf so I have to read

Re: DVD writer and IDE support...

On Wed, Apr 13, 2005 at 08:14:21PM +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I've just gotten myself a new DVD burner which triggers some > interesting events in the kernel. From the log: > > hdc: ATAPI 48X DVD-ROM DVD-R CD-R/RW drive, 2048kB Cache, UDMA(33) > Uniform CD-ROM driver Revision: 3.20 > hdc:

Re: Exploit in 2.6 kernels

On Wed, Apr 13, 2005 at 09:26:28AM -0500, Eric Rannaud wrote: > On Wed, 2005-04-13 at 09:02 -0400, Lennart Sorensen wrote: > > modprobe nvidia || m-a -t prepare nvidia && m-a -t build nvidia && m-a -t > > install nvidia && modprobe nvidia > > Somethin

Re: Exploit in 2.6 kernels

On Wed, Apr 13, 2005 at 03:06:46PM +0200, Lars Marowsky-Bree wrote: > On 2005-04-13T08:59:21, Lennart Sorensen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > It is becoming harder and harder to find supported cards it seems. > > Finding a card with decent 2D drivers for X can still be

Re: Exploit in 2.6 kernels

On Tue, Apr 12, 2005 at 10:32:59PM +0100, John M Collins wrote: > I'll do that - trouble is round where I am they dish out Nvidia cards > like confetti, I've got them in the machine I use most and another 2 and > you have to do all that gyrating with running the script to FTP down and > build the s

Re: Exploit in 2.6 kernels

On Wed, Apr 13, 2005 at 11:47:46AM +0200, Helge Hafting wrote: > You're not. Complain to nvidia - using both email and snailmail. > If everybody with such problems did that, chances are they see > the light someday. Oh, and complain to the guy handing out > nvidia cards like confetti, state your p

Re: How's the nforce4 support in Linux?

On Wed, Mar 30, 2005 at 05:00:23PM +0200, Tomasz Torcz wrote: > It an glaring example, dmix is unsufficient in one third of my sound > uses (other two beeing movie and music playback) > But you advertise dmix like it was silver bullet. An emu10k1 is a silver bullet. :) Len Sorensen - To unsubsc

Re: [OT] Re: How's the nforce4 support in Linux?

On Thu, Mar 24, 2005 at 10:33:03AM +, Asfand Yar Qazi wrote: > No, but I do need NCQ Perhaps a stupid question... but: Why do you _need_ NCQ? If you need it that badly (not sure why anyone would), you could always get SCSI or a 3ware controller. NCQ is a nice feature, but hardly essential.

Re: How's the nforce4 support in Linux?

On Thu, Mar 24, 2005 at 10:00:46AM +, Asfand Yar Qazi wrote: > http://www.neoseeker.com/Articles/Hardware/Previews/nvnforce4/3.html > > You're right there - some semi-hardware support combined with drivers > apparently result in lower CPU usage that software firewalls. Apparently. > > Actua

Re: How's the nforce4 support in Linux?

On Thu, Mar 24, 2005 at 04:30:32AM -0500, Jeff Garzik wrote: > Well, let's cut through the B.S. ;-) > > * Even when the SATA core is updated to support NCQ, nForce will not > support it under Linux. No hardware info. Hmm, either that or someone will figure it out anyhow, like they did with force

Re: [SATA] sata-via : bug?

On Mon, Mar 21, 2005 at 04:18:16PM -0600, Jay Roplekar wrote: > I have a brand new Western Digital sata drive, VIA KT600 based ECS > motherboard on which I am trying to install various distros (with installers > based on 2.4.26, 2.6.7, 2.6.8, 2.6.11 etc) all of them fail to detect the HD > (

Re: [PATCH] DM9000 network driver

On Fri, Mar 18, 2005 at 08:41:52PM +0530, Hong Kong Phoey wrote: > Sacrificing readibility a little bit, you could do something useful. > Instead of those ugly switch statements you could define function > pointer arrays and call appropriate function > > switch(foo) { > > case 1: >

Re: Devices/Partitions over 2TB

On Wed, Mar 16, 2005 at 12:16:57PM +, Stephen C. Tweedie wrote: > For LVM, the lvm2 package contains all the necessary tools. I know > Alasdair did some kernel fixes for lvm2 striping on >2TB partitions > recently, though, so older kernels might not work perfectly if you're > using stripes. >

Re: [PATCH] Support for GEODE CPUs

On Fri, Mar 11, 2005 at 11:02:33AM +, Alan Cox wrote: > Either revert it or make it Geode GX and correct the options set. I've > no problem with a Geode option that sets the right options 8) Maybe it should say GX1 unless someone is sure the GX1 and GX2 (now GX [EMAIL PROTECTED] it seems) like

Re: binary drivers and development

On Thu, Mar 10, 2005 at 12:24:15PM -0500, John Richard Moser wrote: > I've done more thought, here's a small list of advantages on using > binary drivers, specifically considering UDI. You can consider a > different implementation for binary drivers as well, with most of the > same advantages. >

Re: [PATCH] Support for GEODE CPUs

On Wed, Mar 09, 2005 at 09:59:26PM +, Alan Cox wrote: > If you build 486 it will still use the TSC because it is available (The > PIT is buggy but the kernel knows about that anyway and handles it). Hmm, I thought that was the whole point of the different cpu type choices in the kernel. Then

Re: [PATCH] Support for GEODE CPUs

On Wed, Mar 09, 2005 at 05:01:09PM +, Alan Cox wrote: [snip] > And I have each time pointed out it is wrong over time because > > a) "Geode" (Geode GX) runs -m486 code faster than -m586 > b) "Geode" as a name also includes AMD Athlon "Geode NX" processors > c) Geode GX does not need OOSTORE be

Re: ide-scsi is deprecated for cd burning! Use ide-cd and give dev=/dev/hdX as device

for doing such things. It has been so long I can't even remember if it was using ide-scsi or ide-cd. For burning I use ide-cd with cdrecord and growisofs, and so far it has worked great. Flashing firmware on the plextor still requires ide-scsi though. Lennart Sorensen - To unsubscribe from

Re: Banging my head on SATA / ATAPI DMA problem. Help?

On Tue, Jan 25, 2005 at 07:57:58PM -0800, Rick Bressler wrote: > I've played with a lot of hardware since the Linux 1.0.9 days but not > yet run into something quite like this. Alan has been talking a lot > lately about ATA/SATA patches, and while I mostly lurk on this list, > thought this one mig

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