Re: [Cooker] Re: kernel 2.6 with bootsplash and fixed IDE

[Svetoslav Slavtchev]

> Quoting "\"Andrey Borzenkov\" " <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
> 
> > 
> > 
> > > 
> > > What would you like to have in next release ?
> > > 
> > 
> > dxr3 driver :)
> > 
> > 
> 
> 
> The tulip driver to work properly
> 
> DVB, Speedtouch and Bluetooth (Not sure if these are already added or not)
> 

IIRC all of them are in vanilla 2.6 

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Re: [Cooker] Re: kernel 2.6 with bootsplash and fixed IDE

[Svetoslav Slavtchev]

> On Friday 14 November 2003 17:32, Svetoslav Slavtchev wrote:
> > > > will upload now nosrc.rpm /patches tarball :-)
> > >
> 
> remove BS02-kobject-oops-fixes.patch, it is already fixed (differently) in
> 
> -test9. should not be in current -mm either
> 
> 

OK,
thanks :-)

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Re: [Cooker] Re: kernel 2.6 with bootsplash and fixed IDE

[Michael Lothian]

Quoting "\"Andrey Borzenkov\" " <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:



> 
> What would you like to have in next release ?
> 

dxr3 driver :)




The tulip driver to work properly

DVB, Speedtouch and Bluetooth (Not sure if these are already added or not)

Re: [Cooker] Re: kernel 2.6 with bootsplash and fixed IDE

[Andrey Borzenkov]

On Friday 14 November 2003 17:32, Svetoslav Slavtchev wrote:
> > > will upload now nosrc.rpm /patches tarball :-)
> >

remove BS02-kobject-oops-fixes.patch, it is already fixed (differently) in 
-test9. should not be in current -mm either

Re: [Cooker] Re: Kernel 2.6 cutover?

[FACORAT Fabrice]

Le ven 14/11/2003 à 15:39, Juan Quintela a écrit :
> > "svetoslav" == Svetoslav Slavtchev <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> svetoslav> :(
> svetoslav> so far no one (officialy)  stated anything about 2.6 and mdk-10.0, am i
> svetoslav> wrong ?
> 
> Humm, I told in previous message what I thought.  But as always, it is
> my opinion :)  Not sure what is Mandrake official opinion about the
> issue (but I guess it should be near mine :)

if i were mdksoft and as there will be the last one in desktop env, I
will delay 10.0 in order to include gnome 2.6 ( the new fileselector i'm
for during more than ... 3 years for gnome ! ), kde 3.2 and kernel 2.6.
You will have many many many people wanting to try this one. All the new
and long awaited stuff in one distro ! mdksoft will have to provide more
mirrors, for sure !
For server -> 2.4 and so you may have a fork between the desktop distro
and the server distro with the server with a longer release time

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Re: [Cooker] Re: Kernel 2.6 cutover?

[Svetoslav Slavtchev]

> > "svetoslav" == Svetoslav Slavtchev <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> 
> Hi
> 
> svetoslav> :(
> svetoslav> so far no one (officialy)  stated anything about 2.6 and
> mdk-10.0, am i
> svetoslav> wrong ?
> 
> Humm, I told in previous message what I thought.  But as always, it is
> my opinion :)  Not sure what is Mandrake official opinion about the
> issue (but I guess it should be near mine :)
> 
> svetoslav> me too,
> svetoslav> but a lot of external drivers/ features are missing
> 
> svetoslav> anyone having url's of projects that are porting their drivers/
> features to
> svetoslav> 2.6 ?
> 
> If someone got that list, I am also interested :)
> 
(out of the box == compiles without troubles)

mostly wlan stuff

(out of the box)
http://at76c503a.berlios.de/
http://prism54.org/
http://acx100.sf.net
hostap (can't remmember the url)

wlan-ng / prism2.5 
 (
usb broken, the rest compiles on up, but not on smp
actually i had to patch it a bit, could you take a look in the patch
i tried to contact the ml , but they don't like my web mail :(  
) 

qc-usb needs small fixes
http://qce-ga.sourceforge.net/
http://warder.ath.cx:81/projects/2.6_qc-usb_cvs-fix.patch

ov511
http://alpha.dyndns.org/ov511/
(
needs i2c fixes, i've patched it,
a bit(compiles)  but it probably needs more,
have to split my chages from the tarball
)

packet writing (out of the box)
http://w1.894.telia.com/~u89404340/patches/packet/2.5/

lufs (out of the box)
http://lufs.sourceforge.net/lufs/

lirc (serial/ sir broken on smp)
http://warder.ath.cx:81/projects.php

dxr3 
(
unofficial patch,
couldn't find the url in the history :(
)

best,

svetljo

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Re: [Cooker] Re: Kernel 2.6 cutover?

[Cory Meisch]

My opinion would be we can have 2.6 kernel for workstation installs and
2.4 for server installs. I have been running 2.6 on my laptop and every
thing is working so far, save for the PCMCIA. I have not done any
investigation into that yet. I would like to have an RC or beta type
kernel by or around Jan. Then I can exercise it and find any defects
laptop related... 

my $.02

Cory

On Fri, 2003-11-14 at 07:39, Juan Quintela wrote:
> > "svetoslav" == Svetoslav Slavtchev <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> 
> Hi
> 
> svetoslav> :(
> svetoslav> so far no one (officialy)  stated anything about 2.6 and mdk-10.0, am i
> svetoslav> wrong ?
> 
> Humm, I told in previous message what I thought.  But as always, it is
> my opinion :)  Not sure what is Mandrake official opinion about the
> issue (but I guess it should be near mine :)
> 
> svetoslav> me too,
> svetoslav> but a lot of external drivers/ features are missing
> 
> svetoslav> anyone having url's of projects that are porting their drivers/ features 
> to
> svetoslav> 2.6 ?
> 
> If someone got that list, I am also interested :)
> 
> Later, Juan.
 Cory 
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Re: [Cooker] Re: Kernel 2.6 cutover?

[Svetoslav Slavtchev]

Hi,

> > "robert" == Robert Fox <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> robert> Just wondering, what is the rough development plan for Cooker?
> robert> Specifically, at what stage will the kernel 2.6 series be the
> focus and
> robert> the 2.4 go to contribs?
> 
> No.  Just finishing a 2.6 kernel code (based on the one in contribs),
> and a 2.4.23-rc1 kernel.

could you publish your 2.6 work somewhere on the net?  :-)

> I don't have a crystal ball, but I guess that for 10.0, 2.6 is not
> going to be ready for everybody.  My guess is that situation will be
> similar to 8.0, where we used 2.2 and 2.4.  Here with 2.4 and 2.6.
> For some configurations 2.4 will be better, for other 2.6.
> 
> robert> Is it a stated goal that the 2.6 kernel (not withstanding and
> "critical"
> robert> show stopper) will be the main kernel for Mandrake 10.0 (due
> roughly
> robert> next March?)
> 
> As I stated, I don't think that it will be ready, but it will be an
> option for sure.

don't we need device-mapper in the main kernel then ?-)
(of course Luca's lvm packages & changes should also go in main too )

> robert> The sooner we get kernel 2.6 into the mainstream Cooker - the more
> robert> testing will take place . . . or is it too soon?
> 
> I hoped to have it ready this week, but bttv + new alsa + new
> grsecurity +  in 2.4.23-rc1 took all my energies.  I hope that it
> will be there during next week.

have you included packet writing ?
(
i've some updated, splitted patches
http://varna.demon.co.uk/~svetlio/cook/for_tmb/
((DC39 + FU01))
)

best,

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[Cooker] Re: Kernel 2.6 cutover?

[Juan Quintela]

> "svetoslav" == Svetoslav Slavtchev <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:

Hi

svetoslav> :(
svetoslav> so far no one (officialy)  stated anything about 2.6 and mdk-10.0, am i
svetoslav> wrong ?

Humm, I told in previous message what I thought.  But as always, it is
my opinion :)  Not sure what is Mandrake official opinion about the
issue (but I guess it should be near mine :)

svetoslav> me too,
svetoslav> but a lot of external drivers/ features are missing

svetoslav> anyone having url's of projects that are porting their drivers/ features to
svetoslav> 2.6 ?

If someone got that list, I am also interested :)

Later, Juan.


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[Cooker] Re: Kernel 2.6 cutover?

[Juan Quintela]

> "robert" == Robert Fox <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:

Hi

robert> Just wondering, what is the rough development plan for Cooker?
robert> Specifically, at what stage will the kernel 2.6 series be the focus and
robert> the 2.4 go to contribs?

No.  Just finishing a 2.6 kernel code (based on the one in contribs),
and a 2.4.23-rc1 kernel.

I don't have a crystal ball, but I guess that for 10.0, 2.6 is not
going to be ready for everybody.  My guess is that situation will be
similar to 8.0, where we used 2.2 and 2.4.  Here with 2.4 and 2.6.
For some configurations 2.4 will be better, for other 2.6.

robert> Is it a stated goal that the 2.6 kernel (not withstanding and "critical"
robert> show stopper) will be the main kernel for Mandrake 10.0 (due roughly
robert> next March?)

As I stated, I don't think that it will be ready, but it will be an
option for sure.

robert> The sooner we get kernel 2.6 into the mainstream Cooker - the more
robert> testing will take place . . . or is it too soon?

I hoped to have it ready this week, but bttv + new alsa + new
grsecurity +  in 2.4.23-rc1 took all my energies.  I hope that it
will be there during next week.

Later, Juan.


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Re: [Cooker] Re: kernel 2.6 with bootsplash and fixed IDE

[Svetoslav Slavtchev]

> 
> 
> -Original Message-
> 
> > 
> > > 
> > > 
> > > > 
> > > > What would you like to have in next release ?
> > > > 
> > > 
> > > dxr3 driver :)
> > > 
> > 
> > will upload now nosrc.rpm /patches tarball :-)
> 
> URL, please? :)
> 

as always http://varna.demon.co.uk/~svetlio/cook/2.6/
:-)

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Re: [Cooker] Re: kernel 2.6 with bootsplash and fixed IDE

["Andrey Borzenkov"]

-Original Message-

> 
> > 
> > 
> > > 
> > > What would you like to have in next release ?
> > > 
> > 
> > dxr3 driver :)
> > 
> 
> will upload now nosrc.rpm /patches tarball :-)

URL, please? :)

Re: [Cooker] Re: kernel 2.6 with bootsplash and fixed IDE

[Svetoslav Slavtchev]

> 
> 
> > 
> > What would you like to have in next release ?
> > 
> 
> dxr3 driver :)
> 

will upload now nosrc.rpm /patches tarball :-)
(see the last line of  4mdk )
%changelog
* Thu Nov 13 2003 Svetoslav Slavtchev
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>ruby2.6-2.6.0-0.test9.4mdk
- test9-bk17 (for now it works :-) )
- more 3rdparty fixes/ splits,
  add CLEAN_COMPILE && BROKEN_ON_SMP magic
- agpgart is module
- enable optimize for size
- fix source build (3rdparty)
- ov511 compiles, but ...(no hardware to test)
- dxr3

* Thu Nov 13 2003 Svetoslav Slavtchev
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>ruby2.6-2.6.0-0.test9.3mdk
- changelog later
  mostly 3rdparty hacking
  lirc/prism25/prism54/

* Mon Nov 03 2003 Svetoslav Slavtchev
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>ruby2.6-2.6.0-0.test9.2mdk
- test9-bk7
- ruby with multiple VT support
- lufs
- latest supermount
- batch scheduler
- autoswap v5
- bunch of experimental wlan drivers
  acx100, hostap,
  atmel (berslios driver with intersil support)
- update dm and addon's
- remerge latest v4l2/bttv/saa7134 stuff
- probably missed some of the new stuff,
  we'll readd later :-)

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[Cooker] Re: kernel 2.6 with bootsplash and fixed IDE

["Andrey Borzenkov"]

> 
> What would you like to have in next release ?
> 

dxr3 driver :)

Re: [Cooker] Re: kernel-source bug in 9.2

[Sharrea]

Re-posting this sorry.  Having email problems.

On Fri, 31 Oct 2003 00:05, Juan Quintela wrote:
> 22mdk compiles ok with gcc-2.96.
>
> It is still compiling on cluster (will be in mirrors at the end of
> today).
>
> Only module that don't compiles in cx88*.  You need to disable it.
>
> 23mdk/24mdk will have a --with gcc296 option that will do it
> automagically.
>
> Later, Juan.
>
> PS.  Yes, my memory is bad, if you don' tsee it working there, send me
> report again :p

Hi Juan
Firstly, thanks very much for looking at this issue.

Sorry its taken so long to get back to you.  My email has been down for a 
week and I just go your email from 31/10/03!  Still can't compile a kernel 
from source. I downloaded & installed kernel-source-2.4.22-24mdk.i586.rpm.

(Note: Athlon 1 GHz CPU, 1024 MB SDRAM, Soltek SL-75KAV mobo)

Using the .config file that I copied before doing make mrproper - with the 
following parameters (can't remember whether I changed any of the APIC, 
MTRR or MATH_EMULATION options so I include them here):
# CONFIG_M586 is not set
CONFIG_M686=y
# CONFIG_NOHIGHMEM is not set
CONFIG_HIGHMEM4G=y
# CONFIG_HIGHMEM64G is not set
CONFIG_HIGHMEM=y
CONFIG_HIGHIO=y
CONFIG_MATH_EMULATION=y
CONFIG_MTRR=y
# CONFIG_SMP is not set
CONFIG_X86_UP_APIC=y
CONFIG_X86_UP_IOAPIC=y
CONFIG_X86_LOCAL_APIC=y
CONFIG_X86_IO_APIC=y
# CONFIG_X86_TSC_DISABLE is not set
CONFIG_X86_TSC=y
#CONFIG_CX2388X is not set

I get the same error as follows:

init.c:463: parse error before `_Bool'
init.c:464: warning: function declaration isn't a prototype
init.c: In function `one_highpage_init':
init.c:465: `bad' undeclared (first use in this function)
init.c:465: (Each undeclared identifier is reported only once
init.c:465: for each function it appears in.)
init.c:466: `pfn' undeclared (first use in this function)
init.c:467: `page' undeclared (first use in this function)
init.c:471: `bad_ppro' undeclared (first use in this function)
init.c: In function `free_pages_init':
init.c:529: `_Bool' undeclared (first use in this function)
init.c:529: parse error before `bad'
init.c:530: `bad' undeclared (first use in this function)
make[2]: *** [init.o] Error 1
make[2]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/linux-2.4.22-24mdk/arch/i386/mm'
make[1]: *** [first_rule] Error 2
make[1]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/linux-2.4.22-24mdk/arch/i386/mm'
make: *** [_dir_arch/i386/mm] Error 2

[root]linux# gcc --version
2.96

Any advice? TIA

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Re: [Cooker] Re: kernel-source bug in 9.2

[Sharrea Day]

On Fri, 31 Oct 2003 00:05, Juan Quintela wrote:
> 22mdk compiles ok with gcc-2.96.
>
> It is still compiling on cluster (will be in mirrors at the end of
> today).
>
> Only module that don't compiles in cx88*.  You need to disable it.
>
> 23mdk/24mdk will have a --with gcc296 option that will do it
> automagically.
>
> Later, Juan.
>
> PS.  Yes, my memory is bad, if you don' tsee it working there, send me
> report again :p

Hi Juan
Firstly, thanks very much for looking at this issue.

Sorry its taken so long to get back to you.  My email has been down for a 
week and I just go your email from 31/10/03!  Still can't compile a kernel 
from source. I downloaded & installed kernel-source-2.4.22-24mdk.i586.rpm.

(Note: Athlon 1 GHz CPU, 1024 MB SDRAM, Soltek SL-75KAV mobo)

Using the .config file that I copied before doing make mrproper - with the 
following parameters (can't remember whether I changed any of the APIC, 
MTRR or MATH_EMULATION options so I include them here):
# CONFIG_M586 is not set
CONFIG_M686=y
# CONFIG_NOHIGHMEM is not set
CONFIG_HIGHMEM4G=y
# CONFIG_HIGHMEM64G is not set
CONFIG_HIGHMEM=y
CONFIG_HIGHIO=y
CONFIG_MATH_EMULATION=y
CONFIG_MTRR=y
# CONFIG_SMP is not set
CONFIG_X86_UP_APIC=y
CONFIG_X86_UP_IOAPIC=y
CONFIG_X86_LOCAL_APIC=y
CONFIG_X86_IO_APIC=y
# CONFIG_X86_TSC_DISABLE is not set
CONFIG_X86_TSC=y
#CONFIG_CX2388X is not set

I get the same error as follows:

init.c:463: parse error before `_Bool'
init.c:464: warning: function declaration isn't a prototype
init.c: In function `one_highpage_init':
init.c:465: `bad' undeclared (first use in this function)
init.c:465: (Each undeclared identifier is reported only once
init.c:465: for each function it appears in.)
init.c:466: `pfn' undeclared (first use in this function)
init.c:467: `page' undeclared (first use in this function)
init.c:471: `bad_ppro' undeclared (first use in this function)
init.c: In function `free_pages_init':
init.c:529: `_Bool' undeclared (first use in this function)
init.c:529: parse error before `bad'
init.c:530: `bad' undeclared (first use in this function)
make[2]: *** [init.o] Error 1
make[2]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/linux-2.4.22-24mdk/arch/i386/mm'
make[1]: *** [first_rule] Error 2
make[1]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/linux-2.4.22-24mdk/arch/i386/mm'
make: *** [_dir_arch/i386/mm] Error 2

[root]linux# gcc --version
2.96

Any advice? TIA

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[Cooker] Re: kernel-source bug in 9.2

[Juan Quintela]

> "juan" == Juan Quintela <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:

> "sharrea" == Sharrea Day <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
sharrea> Hi
sharrea> Not sure if this is the right place to ask/report ??  Is this a bug?

22mdk compiles ok with gcc-2.96.

It is still compiling on cluster (will be in mirrors at the end of today).

Only module that don't compiles in cx88*.  You need to disable it.

23mdk/24mdk will have a --with gcc296 option that will do it
automagically.

Later, Juan.

PS.  Yes, my memory is bad, if you don' tsee it working there, send me
report again :p

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Re: [Cooker] Re: Kernel and Samba

[Thomas Backlund]

Norman Zhang kirjoitti viestissään (lähetysaika Torstai 30 Lokakuu 2003 
06:08):
> Hi Buchan,
>
>  My Samba box stalls after some usage, mapped drives disappear and
>  users can't write or read from drives. The stalls happen randomly.
>  I'm running 2.4.19-16mdksmp and Samba 2.2.7a-9.2mdk. May I ask is
>  this a kernel bug or Samba bug? Does anyone know a fix for it? I
>  checked the memory from BIOS, they didn't report any errors.
> >>>
> >>> BIOS memory check is (mostly) useless. Use memtest86 or similar.
> >>
> >> I ran memtest and found no error. Do you have other suggestions that
> >> I can further troubleshoot this? There are no cards plugged to the
> >> system. The system just runs software RAID. Thus it seems to be
> >> either XFS, md or samba bug.
> >
> > I would guess XFS. You may want to try a more recent kernel? (Thomas
> > hinted that earlier kernels may have had some issues with XFS). But I
> > think I'm running on XFS on the only production Winbind box I have at
> > present (running 8.2 still!), with no problems. But the only box I
> > have running XFS with an smp kernel runs 9.1.
>
> I did upgrade samba to 2.2.8a-2mdk, but problem still persists. I now
> upgraded kernel-smp-2.4.19-35mdk-1-1mdk as per MDKSA-2003:074. I will
> report back on my findings. BTW, how do I find out what XFS revision is
> included in kernel-smp-2.4.19?
>

#dmesg |grep xfs

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[Cooker] Re: Kernel and Samba

[Norman Zhang]

Hi Buchan,

 My Samba box stalls after some usage, mapped drives disappear and
 users can't write or read from drives. The stalls happen randomly.
 I'm running 2.4.19-16mdksmp and Samba 2.2.7a-9.2mdk. May I ask is
 this a kernel bug or Samba bug? Does anyone know a fix for it? I
 checked the memory from BIOS, they didn't report any errors.
>>>
>>> BIOS memory check is (mostly) useless. Use memtest86 or similar.
>>
>> I ran memtest and found no error. Do you have other suggestions that
>> I can further troubleshoot this? There are no cards plugged to the
>> system. The system just runs software RAID. Thus it seems to be
>> either XFS, md or samba bug.
>
> I would guess XFS. You may want to try a more recent kernel? (Thomas
> hinted that earlier kernels may have had some issues with XFS). But I
> think I'm running on XFS on the only production Winbind box I have at
> present (running 8.2 still!), with no problems. But the only box I
> have running XFS with an smp kernel runs 9.1.

I did upgrade samba to 2.2.8a-2mdk, but problem still persists. I now
upgraded kernel-smp-2.4.19-35mdk-1-1mdk as per MDKSA-2003:074. I will report
back on my findings. BTW, how do I find out what XFS revision is included in
kernel-smp-2.4.19?

Regards,
Norman

Re: [Cooker] Re: Kernel and Samba

[Buchan Milne]

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Norman Zhang wrote:
> Hi Buchan,
>
>
My Samba box stalls after some usage, mapped drives disappear and
users can't write or read from drives. The stalls happen randomly.
I'm running 2.4.19-16mdksmp and Samba 2.2.7a-9.2mdk. May I ask is
this a kernel bug or Samba bug? Does anyone know a fix for it? I
checked the memory from BIOS, they didn't report any errors.
>>>
>>>BIOS memory check is (mostly) useless. Use memtest86 or similar.
>>
>>Sure I will test it with memtest86 and report back. I have been
>>running LM9.0 with Samba on this box for 3/4 year now. The problem
>>only arose in the last 2 months by random. I swapped brand new
>>Crucial Micron ECC DDR266 SDRAM, but the problem still presists. BTW,
>>the BIOS memory check is quite extensive (Intel claims to scan it
>>block by block). It takes about 1 to 2 minutes for it to scan the
>>memory. Not sure how this compares to memtest86. I guess I will wait
>>after hours before I can run a memtest86.
>
>
> I ran memtest and found no error. Do you have other suggestions that I can
> further troubleshoot this? There are no cards plugged to the system. The
> system just runs software RAID. Thus it seems to be either XFS, md or
samba
> bug.

I would guess XFS. You may want to try a more recent kernel? (Thomas
hinted that earlier kernels may have had some issues with XFS). But I
think I'm running on XFS on the only production Winbind box I have at
present (running 8.2 still!), with no problems. But the only box I have
running XFS with an smp kernel runs 9.1.

> Maybe I could try upgrading samba to 2.2.8a-2mdk from your web server.

I would prefer if you used on of the samba FTP mirrors, you can get
setup easily at http://plf.zarb.org/~nanardon/?minor=1 (choose a "Samba"
medium).

> Are there potential gotchas that I should watch out for?

Not that I know of. In fact, I had reports that Squid authentication via
winbind works with these but not the version you have.

Regards,
Buchan

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[Cooker] Re: Kernel and Samba

[Norman Zhang]

Hi Buchan,

>>> My Samba box stalls after some usage, mapped drives disappear and
>>> users can't write or read from drives. The stalls happen randomly.
>>> I'm running 2.4.19-16mdksmp and Samba 2.2.7a-9.2mdk. May I ask is
>>> this a kernel bug or Samba bug? Does anyone know a fix for it? I
>>> checked the memory from BIOS, they didn't report any errors.
>>
>> BIOS memory check is (mostly) useless. Use memtest86 or similar.
>
> Sure I will test it with memtest86 and report back. I have been
> running LM9.0 with Samba on this box for 3/4 year now. The problem
> only arose in the last 2 months by random. I swapped brand new
> Crucial Micron ECC DDR266 SDRAM, but the problem still presists. BTW,
> the BIOS memory check is quite extensive (Intel claims to scan it
> block by block). It takes about 1 to 2 minutes for it to scan the
> memory. Not sure how this compares to memtest86. I guess I will wait
> after hours before I can run a memtest86.

I ran memtest and found no error. Do you have other suggestions that I can
further troubleshoot this? There are no cards plugged to the system. The
system just runs software RAID. Thus it seems to be either XFS, md or samba
bug. Maybe I could try upgrading samba to 2.2.8a-2mdk from your web server.
Are there potential gotchas that I should watch out for?

>>> /var/log/kernel/warnings
>>> 
>>> Oct 27 09:19:12 smbserver kernel: xfs_force_shutdown(md(9,5),0x8)
>>> called from line 1039 of file xfs_trans.c.  Return address =
>>> 0xe08ae312
>>> Oct 27 09:19:12 smbserver kernel: Corruption of in-memory data
>>> detected. Shutting down filesystem: md(9,5)
>>> Oct 27 09:19:12 smbserver kernel: Please umount the filesystem, and
>>> rectify the problem(s)
>>
>> This seems to point quite strongly to either hardware (most likely
>> memory) or kernel (xfs driver or md driver, it seems you are running
>> software raid?) If the kernel has problems with a filesystem, there's
>> nothing much samba can do about it ...
>
> I'm using software RAID. Do you know if there are recent updates to
> the Mandrake kernel that may fix bugs in XFS and md drivers? Funny
> thing is that only Samba dies. SSH and others still work.
>
>>> /var/log/kernel/errors
>>> --
>>> Oct 27 10:36:44 smbserver kernel: Unknown bridge resource 2:
>>> assuming transparent
>>> Oct 27 10:36:44 smbserver kernel: PCI: Unable to handle 64-bit
>>> address space for
>>> Oct 27 10:36:44 smbserver kernel: PCI: Unable to handle 64-bit
>>> address space for
>>> Oct 27 10:36:44 smbserver kernel: Unknown bridge resource 2:
>>> assuming transparent
>>> Oct 27 10:36:44 smbserver kernel: PCI: Device 00:1f.1 not available
>>> because of resource collisions
>>
>> You need to give some more information on the hardware on this
>> machine, but something does not look right ... what's in
>> /proc/interrupts ?
>
> I'm using Intel SE7500WV2S Server Board. BIOS Version: 2.01 Build
> 0483. My /proc/interrupts are as follows. I have seen the boot screen
> complaint about resources collision, but couldn't find out the cause.
> I've disabled all unecessary ports in the BIOS (e.g., USB).
>
>CPU0CPU1CPU2CPU3
>   0:1385866   0   0   0  IO-APIC-edge  timer
>   1:  7   0   0   0  IO-APIC-edge  keyboard
>   2:  0   0   0   0XT-PIC  cascade
>   8:  1   0   0   0  IO-APIC-edge  rtc
>  12:197   0   0   0  IO-APIC-edge  PS/2 Mouse
>  15:  5   0   0   0  IO-APIC-edge  ide1
>  30: 677193   0   0   0 IO-APIC-level  eth1
>  31: 923339   0   0   0 IO-APIC-level  eth0
>  49:  38985   0   0   0 IO-APIC-level  aic7xxx
>  50: 16   0   0   0 IO-APIC-level  aic7xxx
> NMI:  0   0   0   0
> LOC:1385678 1385677 1385676 1385676
> ERR:  0
> MIS:  0

Regards,
Norman

[Cooker] Re: Kernel and Samba

[Norman Zhang]

Hi,

>> My Samba box stalls after some usage, mapped drives disappear and
>> users can't write or read from drives. The stalls happen randomly.
>> I'm running 2.4.19-16mdksmp and Samba 2.2.7a-9.2mdk. May I ask is
>> this a kernel bug or Samba bug? Does anyone know a fix for it? I
>> checked the memory from BIOS, they didn't report any errors.
>
> BIOS memory check is (mostly) useless. Use memtest86 or similar.

Sure I will test it with memtest86 and report back. I have been running
LM9.0 with Samba on this box for 3/4 year now. The problem only arose in the
last 2 months by random. I swapped brand new Crucial Micron ECC DDR266
SDRAM, but the problem still presists. BTW, the BIOS memory check is quite
extensive (Intel claims to scan it block by block). It takes about 1 to 2
minutes for it to scan the memory. Not sure how this compares to memtest86.
I guess I will wait after hours before I can run a memtest86.

>> /var/log/kernel/warnings
>> 
>> Oct 27 09:19:12 smbserver kernel: xfs_force_shutdown(md(9,5),0x8)
>> called from line 1039 of file xfs_trans.c.  Return address =
>> 0xe08ae312
>> Oct 27 09:19:12 smbserver kernel: Corruption of in-memory data
>> detected. Shutting down filesystem: md(9,5)
>> Oct 27 09:19:12 smbserver kernel: Please umount the filesystem, and
>> rectify the problem(s)
>
> This seems to point quite strongly to either hardware (most likely
> memory) or kernel (xfs driver or md driver, it seems you are running
> software raid?) If the kernel has problems with a filesystem, there's
> nothing much samba can do about it ...

I'm using software RAID. Do you know if there are recent updates to the
Mandrake kernel that may fix bugs in XFS and md drivers? Funny thing is that
only Samba dies. SSH and others still work.

>> /var/log/kernel/errors
>> --
>> Oct 27 10:36:44 smbserver kernel: Unknown bridge resource 2: assuming
>> transparent
>> Oct 27 10:36:44 smbserver kernel: PCI: Unable to handle 64-bit
>> address space for
>> Oct 27 10:36:44 smbserver kernel: PCI: Unable to handle 64-bit
>> address space for
>> Oct 27 10:36:44 smbserver kernel: Unknown bridge resource 2: assuming
>> transparent
>> Oct 27 10:36:44 smbserver kernel: PCI: Device 00:1f.1 not available
>> because of resource collisions
>
> You need to give some more information on the hardware on this
> machine, but something does not look right ... what's in
> /proc/interrupts ?

I'm using Intel SE7500WV2S Server Board. BIOS Version: 2.01 Build 0483. My
/proc/interrupts are as follows. I have seen the boot screen complaint about
resources collision, but couldn't find out the cause. I've disabled all
unecessary ports in the BIOS (e.g., USB).

   CPU0CPU1CPU2CPU3
  0:1385866   0   0   0  IO-APIC-edge  timer
  1:  7   0   0   0  IO-APIC-edge  keyboard
  2:  0   0   0   0XT-PIC  cascade
  8:  1   0   0   0  IO-APIC-edge  rtc
 12:197   0   0   0  IO-APIC-edge  PS/2 Mouse
 15:  5   0   0   0  IO-APIC-edge  ide1
 30: 677193   0   0   0 IO-APIC-level  eth1
 31: 923339   0   0   0 IO-APIC-level  eth0
 49:  38985   0   0   0 IO-APIC-level  aic7xxx
 50: 16   0   0   0 IO-APIC-level  aic7xxx
NMI:  0   0   0   0
LOC:1385678 1385677 1385676 1385676
ERR:  0
MIS:  0

>> /var/log/samba/log.winbindd
>> ---
>> [2003/10/27 10:37:23, 0] nsswitch/winbindd.c:process_loop(626)
>>   process_loop: Invalid request size (1701996389) sent, should be
>> (1304)
>
> Some winbind users have reported winbind in 2.2.8a works a bit
> better, you can find packages on the samba FTP mirrors for all
> supported releases (hmm, except ldap-enabled packages for 9.2 ... I
> must do this still ...).

Thanks. I will wait for your updates. BTW, http://ranger.dnsalias.com/ is
one of my mostly watched site. Too bad Samba 3.0 had some nasty bugs.
Otherwise, I would love to upgrade and test it out.

Regards,
Norman

[Cooker] Re: kernel-source bug in 9.2

[Juan Quintela]

> "sharrea" == Sharrea Day <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:

sharrea> Hi
sharrea> Not sure if this is the right place to ask/report ??  Is this a bug?

sharrea> Trying to compile a kernel with gcc-2.96 using:
sharrea> kernel-source-2.4.22-18mdk
sharrea> config from current install of kernel-i686-up-4GB-2.4.22.18mdk-1-1mdk
sharrea> Soltek SL-75KAV motherboard
sharrea> AMD Athlon 1GHz
sharrea> 1024 MB SDRAM
sharrea> nVidia 64MB GTS Pro graphics

sharrea> I get the following error:

sharrea> make[1]: Entering directory `/usr/src/linux-2.4.22-18mdk/arch/i386/mm'
sharrea> make all_targets
sharrea> make[2]: Entering directory `/usr/src/linux-2.4.22-18mdk/arch/i386/mm'
sharrea> gcc -D__KERNEL__ -I/usr/src/linux-2.4.22-18mdk/include -Wstrict-prototypes 
sharrea> -Wno-trigraphs -O2 -fno-strict-aliasing -fno-common -pipe 
sharrea> -mpreferred-stack-boundary=2 -march=i686   -nostdinc -iwithprefix include 
sharrea> -DKBUILD_BASENAME=init  -c init.c -o init.o
sharrea> init.c:463: parse error before `_Bool'
sharrea> init.c:464: warning: function declaration isn't a prototype
sharrea> init.c: In function `one_highpage_init':
sharrea> init.c:465: `bad' undeclared (first use in this function)
sharrea> init.c:465: (Each undeclared identifier is reported only once
sharrea> init.c:465: for each function it appears in.)
sharrea> init.c:466: `pfn' undeclared (first use in this function)
sharrea> init.c:467: `page' undeclared (first use in this function)
sharrea> init.c:471: `bad_ppro' undeclared (first use in this function)
sharrea> init.c: In function `free_pages_init':
sharrea> init.c:529: `_Bool' undeclared (first use in this function)
sharrea> init.c:529: parse error before `bad'
sharrea> init.c:530: `bad' undeclared (first use in this function)
sharrea> make[2]: *** [init.o] Error 1
sharrea> make[2]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/linux-2.4.22-18mdk/arch/i386/mm'
sharrea> make[1]: *** [first_rule] Error 2
sharrea> make[1]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/linux-2.4.22-18mdk/arch/i386/mm'
sharrea> make: *** [_dir_arch/i386/mm] Error 2

sharrea> Do I need to report this as a bug to MandrakeSoft Bugzilla?
sharrea> I need this kernel compiled with gcc-2.96 for my satellite internet 
sharrea> connection card driver.  Tried the newbie list but nobody seems to know.

g, BadRAM patch again.

22mdk should fix it.

Sorry about it, I didn't test kernel with 2.96.

later, Juan.

-- 
In theory, practice and theory are the same, but in practice they 
are different -- Larry McVoy

Re: [Cooker] Re: kernel install - no build link

[Paul Misner]

On Tuesday 26 August 2003 10:26 pm, Paul Misner wrote:
> On Tuesday 26 August 2003 07:12 am, Juan Quintela wrote:
> >
> > My understanding is that when one package replaces other, this is
> > enough:
> >
> > Obsoletes: kernel-utils
> > Provides: kernel-utils
> >
> > I think that the problem was the _manual_ installation of
> > installkernel after bootloader-utils.
> >
> > Fred, do I need to add a Conflicts tag, or removing kernel-utils from
> > the repository should be enough?
> >
> > Later, Juan.
>
> My only manual install of kernel-utils was when it was broken out some time
> back, since urpmi --auto-select --auto --no-uninstall didn't install it at
> that time.  That was when everyone was seeing no mkinitrd.
>
> Evidently I wasn't the only one to see an issue, but it may have been a
> transient condition on the cooker (or my mirror) that allowed it to happen.
> Since I generally update every evening, I tend to experience more than my
> share of those.
>
> As long as it's not a widespread problem, I've uninstalled kernel-utils,
> and installed bootloader-utils again (with a rpm -ivh --force), so
> hopefully I won't be seeing that problem again.  Thanks for clarifying
> things.
>
> Paul Misner

Another note on this issue.  With the following packages installed:
[EMAIL PROTECTED] log]# rpm -q kernel-utils
package kernel-utils is not installed
[EMAIL PROTECTED] log]# rpm -q bootloader-utils
bootloader-utils-1.3-1mdk

I still get the error message
--
ln: invalid option -- o
Try `ln --help' for more information.
--
when installing the 2.4.22-1mdk kernel release.  As you can see, I have the 
proper tools installed now, at least as far as I can determine.  Someplace in 
the install process a bad command line is getting sent to ln.  

It appears that it is removing all of the existing /lib/modules/2.4.XXX/build 
links, for the previously installed kernels, and not putting the proper link 
on the current kernel being installed, almost like kversion in the scripts 
was being set to a wildcard (if that would even work, I'm not knowledgable on 
perl).

Any knowledge about what might be happening or how I might find out would be 
appreciated.  Right now my network connection is really bad (hopefully fixed 
this Saturday), so I don't know when I'll get this email transmitted.  If I 
could, I'd download the latest ISOs, but my connection is very intermittent.

Paul Misner

Re: [Cooker] Re: kernel-2.4.22-0.7, compiled with gcc 3.3.1 causes hard locks on my machine

[Thomas Backlund]

Juan Quintela kirjoitti viestissään (lähetysaika Torstai 28. Elokuuta 2003 
12:40):
> > "john" == John Allen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
> Hi
>
> john> This probably explains what the problem is then; I'm getting UDMA100
> with the john> 2.4.22-0.8, and this is probably the source of the problem.
>
> Please, check that you have a real 80 pins cable. It appears that for
> some reason, the cable is misdetected.
>

It's not misdectected... It's not detected at all...
The driver uses a simple logic for theese chipsets...,
if it finds a harddisk that supports >= udma66 it will
automatically assume that the system owner is smart 
enough to have used a real 80 pin cable...

Theese asumptions in the driver are added because of the 
lack of public documentation over the ide chipsets / registers...,
and in some cases poorly implemented m/b design...


> john> I've also put the 2.4.22 kernel on my other machine (NF7-S V1.2,
> which is john> normally very stable), and X crashed after 3 hours, with
> console video john> knackered.
>
> not here, could you try a serial console to see the hang?
>
> Later, Juan.

There has been some recent discussion on the fact that some
of the chipset revisions has had more problem than other, and 
considering the fact that nVidia themseleves have problems with
their WindowsXP/2000 IDE-drivers stability (or the fact that there is
no IDE SW driver at all in latest nForce chipset drivers), it may still take 
some time before the problem is fixed

And there is not many people that actually have access to the nVidia
NDA documentations (I know of only 2) ...

Thomas

Re: [Cooker] Re: kernel-2.4.22-0.7, compiled with gcc 3.3.1 causes hard locks on my machine

[John Allen]

On Thursday 28 August 2003 10:40, Juan Quintela wrote:
> > "john" == John Allen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
> Hi
>
> john> This probably explains what the problem is then; I'm getting UDMA100
> with the john> 2.4.22-0.8, and this is probably the source of the problem.
>
> Please, check that you have a real 80 pins cable. It appears that for
> some reason, the cable is misdetected.
>

I used the cable that came with the mobo; I also have another cable I ordered 
with the system (currently on the CD drive), I will switch them around to see 
if there is any difference.

> john> I've also put the 2.4.22 kernel on my other machine (NF7-S V1.2,
> which is john> normally very stable), and X crashed after 3 hours, with
> console video john> knackered.
>
> not here, could you try a serial console to see the hang?
>
> Later, Juan.

-- 
John Allen,  Email:  mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
MandrakeClub Silver Member.

Re: [Cooker] Re: Kernel 2.4.22.1mdk fails to install

[Serge Pluess]

On Thursday 28 August 2003 02:14 am, Juan Quintela wrote:
> > "serge" == Serge Pluess <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
> serge> Hi
> serge> when installing the kernel-2.4.22.1mdk-1-1mdk.i586.rpm both with
> urpmi or rpm serge> -ivh I get the following error message :
>
> serge> ln: invalid option -- o
> serge> Try `ln --help' for more information
>
> This is very weird, because:
> a- it works here (tm)
>
> quintela$ sudo rpm -ivh /RPMS/kernel-smp-2.4.22.1mdk-1-1mdk.i586.rpm
> warning: /RPMS/kernel-smp-2.4.22.1mdk-1-1mdk.i586.rpm: V3 DSA signature:
> NOKEY, key ID 70771ff3 Preparing...   
> ### [100%] 1:kernel-smp-2.4.22.1mdk
> ### [100%] quintela$ rpm -qa
> bootloader-utils
> bootloader-utils-1.3-1mdk
>
>
> b- I can't find a ln with -o argument in the whole
> bootloader-utils/kernel spec file.
>
> Could you paste the full log, just if I can make any sense of it :(
>
> Later, Juan.

Hi

I ran rpm -ivvh and captured that output to a file. Find that attached. I 
looked around for any other log file that would give more information but so 
far no luck. Even tried the urpmi with the --bug option and checked the files 
in there and again no useful log information in there.
Is there another log that more details about the rpm operation is listed? I'd 
be happy to send you that. Hope this one helps

Serge


rpm.log.gz
Description: GNU Zip compressed data

[Cooker] Re: kernel-2.4.22-0.7, compiled with gcc 3.3.1 causes hard locks onmy machine

[Juan Quintela]

> "john" == John Allen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:

Hi

john> This probably explains what the problem is then; I'm getting UDMA100 with the 
john> 2.4.22-0.8, and this is probably the source of the problem.

Please, check that you have a real 80 pins cable. It appears that for
some reason, the cable is misdetected.

john> I've also put the 2.4.22 kernel on my other machine (NF7-S V1.2, which is 
john> normally very stable), and X crashed after 3 hours, with console video 
john> knackered.

not here, could you try a serial console to see the hang?

Later, Juan.


-- 
In theory, practice and theory are the same, but in practice they 
are different -- Larry McVoy

[Cooker] Re: Kernel 2.4.22.1mdk fails to install

[Juan Quintela]

> "serge" == Serge Pluess <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:

serge> Hi
serge> when installing the kernel-2.4.22.1mdk-1-1mdk.i586.rpm both with urpmi or rpm 
serge> -ivh I get the following error message :

serge> ln: invalid option -- o
serge> Try `ln --help' for more information

This is very weird, because:
a- it works here (tm)

quintela$ sudo rpm -ivh /RPMS/kernel-smp-2.4.22.1mdk-1-1mdk.i586.rpm 
warning: /RPMS/kernel-smp-2.4.22.1mdk-1-1mdk.i586.rpm: V3 DSA signature: NOKEY, key ID 
70771ff3
Preparing...### [100%]
   1:kernel-smp-2.4.22.1mdk ### [100%]
quintela$ rpm -qa bootloader-utils
bootloader-utils-1.3-1mdk


b- I can't find a ln with -o argument in the whole
bootloader-utils/kernel spec file.

Could you paste the full log, just if I can make any sense of it :(

Later, Juan.



-- 
In theory, practice and theory are the same, but in practice they 
are different -- Larry McVoy

[Cooker] Re: kernel-2.4.22-0.7, compiled with gcc 3.3.1 causes hard locks onmy machine

[Juan Quintela]

> "john" == John Allen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:

Hi

>> That is very, very weird.
>> 
>> If I remembered correctly You told me that for you 2.4.21 is faster
>> than 2.4.22.  (~50MB/s vs ~20MB or something like that).
>> 

john> Nope, its the other way around; 50 for 2.4.22, and 27 for 2.4.21

Oh, that makes much more sense

>> 
>> You have in _both_ dmesg messages acpi disabled (that means that acpi
>> can't be related with that).
>> 
>> What is more strange is that in 2.4.21 your disk is recognized as UDMA33
>> one, instead of UDMA100.
>> 
>> Could you check that your cable is UDMA100 really?
>> 
>> -hda: 156301488 sectors (80026 MB) w/8192KiB Cache, CHS=9729/255/63,
>> UDMA(33) +hda: 156301488 sectors (80026 MB) w/8192KiB Cache,
>> CHS=9729/255/63, UDMA(100)
>> 
>> This are the relevant lines.  If I remembered rigth, you can't get
>> 50MB/s with UDMA33.
>> 

john> This probably explains what the problem is then; I'm getting UDMA100 with the 
john> 2.4.22-0.8, and this is probably the source of the problem.

>> 
>> hdparm -i output with both kernels should be more interesting.
>> 
>> And could you please send me the dmesg output with apci=on (i.e no
>> pci=noacpi neither acpi=off).
>> 

john> I trying to do a clean re-install, but current cooker (locally generated ISO) 
john> is not installable.

john> I've also put the 2.4.22 kernel on my other machine (NF7-S V1.2, which is 
john> normally very stable), and X crashed after 3 hours, with console video 
john> knackered.

john> Will keep everyone posted.

Ouch :(

Later, Juan.


-- 
In theory, practice and theory are the same, but in practice they 
are different -- Larry McVoy

Re: [Cooker] Re: kernel install - no build link

[Paul Misner]

On Tuesday 26 August 2003 07:12 am, Juan Quintela wrote:
> > "buchan" == Buchan Milne <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
> CC'd flepied, that is supposed to be the rpm master.
>
> buchan> Paul Misner wrote:
> >> The way to manually correct this has been discussed on the cooker
>
> buchan> list, but it
>
> >> is surprising to find this problem still present.  Is it associated
>
> buchan> with the
>
> >> conflicts between kernel-utils and bootloader-utils?
>
> My understanding is that when one package replaces other, this is
> enough:
>
> Obsoletes: kernel-utils
> Provides: kernel-utils
>
> I think that the problem was the _manual_ installation of
> installkernel after bootloader-utils.
>
> Fred, do I need to add a Conflicts tag, or removing kernel-utils from
> the repository should be enough?
>
> Later, Juan.

My only manual install of kernel-utils was when it was broken out some time 
back, since urpmi --auto-select --auto --no-uninstall didn't install it at 
that time.  That was when everyone was seeing no mkinitrd.

Evidently I wasn't the only one to see an issue, but it may have been a 
transient condition on the cooker (or my mirror) that allowed it to happen.  
Since I generally update every evening, I tend to experience more than my 
share of those.

As long as it's not a widespread problem, I've uninstalled kernel-utils, and 
installed bootloader-utils again (with a rpm -ivh --force), so hopefully I 
won't be seeing that problem again.  Thanks for clarifying things.

Paul Misner

[Cooker] Re: kernel install - no build link

[Frederic Lepied]

Juan Quintela <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:

> > "buchan" == Buchan Milne <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> 
> CC'd flepied, that is supposed to be the rpm master.
> 
> buchan> Paul Misner wrote:
> >> The way to manually correct this has been discussed on the cooker
> buchan> list, but it
> >> is surprising to find this problem still present.  Is it associated
> buchan> with the
> >> conflicts between kernel-utils and bootloader-utils?
> 
> My understanding is that when one package replaces other, this is
> enough:
> 
> Obsoletes: kernel-utils
> Provides: kernel-utils
> 
> I think that the problem was the _manual_ installation of
> installkernel after bootloader-utils.
> 
> Fred, do I need to add a Conflicts tag, or removing kernel-utils from
> the repository should be enough?

It should be enough to remove it.
-- 
Fred - May the source be with you

[Cooker] Re: kernel install - no build link

[Juan Quintela]

> "buchan" == Buchan Milne <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:

CC'd flepied, that is supposed to be the rpm master.

buchan> Paul Misner wrote:
>> The way to manually correct this has been discussed on the cooker
buchan> list, but it
>> is surprising to find this problem still present.  Is it associated
buchan> with the
>> conflicts between kernel-utils and bootloader-utils?

My understanding is that when one package replaces other, this is
enough:

Obsoletes: kernel-utils
Provides: kernel-utils

I think that the problem was the _manual_ installation of
installkernel after bootloader-utils.

Fred, do I need to add a Conflicts tag, or removing kernel-utils from
the repository should be enough?

Later, Juan.

-- 
In theory, practice and theory are the same, but in practice they 
are different -- Larry McVoy

[Cooker] Re: kernel-2.4.22-0.7, compiled with gcc 3.3.1 causes hard locks onmy machine

[Juan Quintela]

> "john" == John Allen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:

Hi

  Just send reply to list also, if somebody has similar problem.

john> Please find attached, dmesg, and hdparm outputs from 2.4.21-0.18mdk, and 
john> 2.4.22-0.8mdk

john> Tried 2.4.22 with all possible combos of acpi=off, noapic, pci=noacpi to no 
john> avail.

john> I will tried installing the WD drive in an NF7-V1.2 board later, and a Maxtor 
john> in the 2.0 board, to see if it is hard disk related, or mobo related.


That is very, very weird.

If I remembered correctly You told me that for you 2.4.21 is faster
than 2.4.22.  (~50MB/s vs ~20MB or something like that).


You have in _both_ dmesg messages acpi disabled (that means that acpi
can't be related with that).

What is more strange is that in 2.4.21 your disk is recognized as UDMA33
one, instead of UDMA100.

Could you check that your cable is UDMA100 really?

-hda: 156301488 sectors (80026 MB) w/8192KiB Cache, CHS=9729/255/63, UDMA(33)
+hda: 156301488 sectors (80026 MB) w/8192KiB Cache, CHS=9729/255/63, UDMA(100)

This are the relevant lines.  If I remembered rigth, you can't get
50MB/s with UDMA33.


hdparm -i output with both kernels should be more interesting.

And could you please send me the dmesg output with apci=on (i.e no
pci=noacpi neither acpi=off).

Thanks, Juan.

-- 
In theory, practice and theory are the same, but in practice they 
are different -- Larry McVoy

[Cooker] Re: kernel-2.4.22-0.7, compiled with gcc 3.3.1 causes hard locks on my machine

[John Allen]

On Tuesday 26 August 2003 13:06, Juan Quintela wrote:
> > "john" == John Allen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
> Hi
>
>   Just send reply to list also, if somebody has similar problem.
>
> john> Please find attached, dmesg, and hdparm outputs from 2.4.21-0.18mdk,
> and john> 2.4.22-0.8mdk
>
> john> Tried 2.4.22 with all possible combos of acpi=off, noapic, pci=noacpi
> to no john> avail.
>
> john> I will tried installing the WD drive in an NF7-V1.2 board later, and
> a Maxtor john> in the 2.0 board, to see if it is hard disk related, or mobo
> related.
>
>
> That is very, very weird.
>
> If I remembered correctly You told me that for you 2.4.21 is faster
> than 2.4.22.  (~50MB/s vs ~20MB or something like that).
>

Nope, its the other way around; 50 for 2.4.22, and 27 for 2.4.21

>
> You have in _both_ dmesg messages acpi disabled (that means that acpi
> can't be related with that).
>
> What is more strange is that in 2.4.21 your disk is recognized as UDMA33
> one, instead of UDMA100.
>
> Could you check that your cable is UDMA100 really?
>
> -hda: 156301488 sectors (80026 MB) w/8192KiB Cache, CHS=9729/255/63,
> UDMA(33) +hda: 156301488 sectors (80026 MB) w/8192KiB Cache,
> CHS=9729/255/63, UDMA(100)
>
> This are the relevant lines.  If I remembered rigth, you can't get
> 50MB/s with UDMA33.
>

This probably explains what the problem is then; I'm getting UDMA100 with the 
2.4.22-0.8, and this is probably the source of the problem.

>
> hdparm -i output with both kernels should be more interesting.
>
> And could you please send me the dmesg output with apci=on (i.e no
> pci=noacpi neither acpi=off).
>

I trying to do a clean re-install, but current cooker (locally generated ISO) 
is not installable.

I've also put the 2.4.22 kernel on my other machine (NF7-S V1.2, which is 
normally very stable), and X crashed after 3 hours, with console video 
knackered.

Will keep everyone posted.

> Thanks, Juan.

[Cooker] Re: kernel-2.4.22-0.7, compiled with gcc 3.3.1 causes hard locks onmy machine

[Juan Quintela]

> "john" == John Allen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:

john> I have an Abit NF7-v2.0, and a Western Digital Caviar 80GB. This locks hard 
john> with the aformentioned kernel. (current in cooker). It works fine with 
john> 2.4.21-0.16 compiled with gcc 3.2.2.

john> The system will work for a period, but then just locks, usually with the hard 
john> disk light on solid.

john> hdparm -t says I'm getting 54MB per sec with 2.4.22, and 27.33 with 2.4.21, 
john> hope this provides a clue. I'm personally thinking its a gcc problem.

please, try booting with (in order) to see if the crash stop:

i- noapic
ii- pci=noacpi
iii- acpi=off

sending output of dmesg of 2.4.21 & 2.4.22 could also try to give a
clue.

Thanks, Juan.


-- 
In theory, practice and theory are the same, but in practice they 
are different -- Larry McVoy

[Cooker] Re: Kernel panic when plugging usb webcam

[Brian Tyndall]

On Tue, 29 Jul 2003 15:59:55 +0200, Tomasz Chmielewski wrote:

> Tof wrote:
> 
>  >> I experienced systematic crash of the kernel
>  >> (kernel-2.4.21.3mdk-1-1mdk, kernel-2.4.21-0.rc1.1mdk-1-1mdk and
>  >> kernel-2.4.21.6mdk-1-1mdk) when I plug a usb webcam Logitech
>  >> Quickcam 3000 pro.
> 
>  > You don't say what driver you're using. Have you consulted the
> generic > Quickcam site  or that for
>  > Philips-based webcams (AFAIK yours is) at
>  > ?
> 
> 
> 
> I have experienced the same situation (kernel panic) with my Philips
> Vesta PVC675K USB webcam (kernels up to kernel-2.4.21.6mdk-1-1mdk).
> However, as far as I remember, this wasn't happening with the kernel
> from Mandrake 9.0.
> 
> There is a quick remedy though: when I used
> kernel-multimedia-2.4.21.0.18mdk-1-1mdk - everything is just fine, usb
> webcam works, no kernel panics etc.
> 
> 
> (...)
> Jul 29 15:31:20 mic /etc/hotplug/usb.agent: Setup pwc for USB product
> 471/307/6
> Jul 29 15:31:20 mic kernel: usb.c: registered new driver Philips webcam
> (...)

I have the same problem although a bit different hardware (pvc740), but it
uses the same module (pwc)

Could it be because it (kernel or pwc module) now autodetects the need for
snd-usb-audio? (save your work before loading that module).

With kernels from 9.0 -> current cooker loading the pwc without the webcam
attached actually works (no freeze). While loading snd-usb-audio always
crashes on me.

The kernel-multimedia-2.4.21.0.18mdk-1-1mdk worked with the webcam plugged
in, but it did not load snd-audio-usb. Trying to load that module manually
crashed the kernel.

The current cooker kernel does not work with the webcam plugged in (from
boot or hotplug).

Frej Rasmussen

> Regards,
> 
> -- T.

[Cooker] Re: Kernel panic on 9.2 beta 2 shutdown...

[Juan Quintela]

> "mark" == Mark Watts <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:

mark> Just caught this on my laptop. Bootsplash let me hit F2 and this was there 
mark> (typed by hand):

mark> NB: Filesystems are all ext3..




mark> Splash status on console 0 changed to on
mark> Got silent jpeg.
mark> Unable to handle kernel paging request at virtual address 7ad0103b
mark> printing eip:
mark> d89f33c3
mark> *pde = 
mark> Oops: 
mark> radeon i810_audio ac97_codec soundcore nfsd ds yenta_socket pcmcia_core 
mark> af_packet sr_mod floppy 3c95x supermount ide-cd cdrom ide-scsi scsi_mod 
mark> udb-uhci usbcore rtc ext3 jbd
mark> CPU:0
mark> EIP:0010:[]Not tainted
mark> EFLAGS: 00010286
mark> EIP is at E journal_blocks_per_page_R776ce4b4+0xcd03/0xb440 [jbd]
mark> eax: d3b25f54   ebx: d3d5b220   ecx: d3d5b220   edx: d74b13c0
mark> esi: d5919220   edi: d37ed840   ebp: d74b13c0   esp: d3d25f50
mark> ds: 0018  es: 0018  ss: 0018
mark> Process rm (pid: 4772, stackpage=d3d25000)
mark> Stack: fffe d7416168 fff0 d5919220 d591929c d3d5b220 c014f1f1 d5919220
mark> d3d5b220 d3d5b220 d07be000 d3d5b220 d3d25f90 c014f2ee d5919220 d3d5b220
mark> d7d94720 c142f420 d07be011 0009 fbc2cce6 0010  0004
mark> Call Trace:
mark> [] vfs_unlink+0x131/0x1a0 [kernel]
mark> [] sys_unlink+0x8e/0x100 [kernel]
mark> [] system_call+0x33/0x40 [kernel]

mark> Code: f7 74 7c 6b ff ff ff 7a 3f f0 7b b1 fe 00 00 f6 80 80 00 00
mark> /etc/rc0.d/K00linuxconf: line 31: 4772 Segmentation faultrm -f 
mark> /var/lock/subsys/linuxconf

Arghh, to make things more complicated, stack trace is just broken,
great :(

/me will try here. Just strange, as I use ext3 also here.

Will insntall kde and test with it (/me is just a real men and use
fvwm2 :)

Later, Juan.

-- 
In theory, practice and theory are the same, but in practice they 
are different -- Larry McVoy

[Cooker] Re: kernel 2.4.22.0.7mdk

[Thomas Backlund]

From: "Juan Quintela" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>
> Hi
> all tmb patches of 5mdk.1tmb are integrated except:
> - ps2_sypnatics (it just hangs my machine during harddrake if that
>   patch is enabled)

known :-(
will need some rewriting to see if I can get it to work...

> - acl's for ext2/3: it failed to patch, and it were very late in the
>   morning.
>

Well there will be rediffed patches in my 7.1tmb, if you don't beat me to
it...
(hopefully I get them tested tonight, and uploaded and built on klama.)

I have some more updates for the mod_dvb that will "kickstart" Nova-T cards,
since acording to the linúx-dvb ml it's needed for now...
and then some other things... that I don't remember right now...


Thomas

Thomas

Re: [Cooker] Re: kernel-tmb-2.4.22-0.5.2tmb_mdk

[Steffen Barszus]

Am Donnerstag, 21. August 2003 11:32 schrieb Juan Quintela:
> > "thomas" == Thomas Backlund <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
> thomas> Ok,
>
> Hi thanks a lot for the good work.
>
> thomas> I didn't have time to add more features at this time,
> thomas> or to fix the psaux, so that will have to wait for my next
> thomas> kernel, I just rebuilt the whole set so people can use it...
>
> psaux make my SMP system crash here, I just removed the patch (as
> told in other mail).
>
>
> Looking at your 2tmb patches.
>
> thomas> %changelog
> thomas> * Mon Aug 18 2003 Thomas Backlund <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> 2.4.22-0.5.2tmb_mdk thomas> - drop psaux synaptics patch until I have
> time to fix it thomas> - fix mod_dvb patch to use new build framework
>
> I also fixed mod_dvb compat.c features, as it was interfering with
> correct modules :(
>
> Later, Juan.

Ok will try it out, as fast, as it hits my mirror. 

Steffen

[Cooker] Re: kernel-tmb-2.4.22-0.5.2tmb_mdk(dvb-core needed by net devices?)

[Juan Quintela]

> "steffen" == Steffen Barszus <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:

Hi
answering to the last mail of the thread just if somebody
didn't saw my first answer.

I found this problem, and it should be fixed in 2.4.22.0.7mdk
just released.

Thanks, Juan.

steffen> Am Mittwoch, 20. August 2003 02:24 schrieb Svetoslav Slavtchev:
>> Quoting Steffen Barszus <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
>> > Am Dienstag, 19. August 2003 23:39 schrieb Svetoslav Slavtchev:
>> > > Quoting Steffen Barszus <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
>> > > > Am Dienstag, 19. August 2003 22:55 schrieb Svetoslav Slavtchev:
>> > > > > Quoting Steffen Barszus <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:

>> > > can you may be post your modules.conf & devfsd.conf changes ?
>> >
>> > I have done this allready. Maybe the mail didn't came trough and it
>> > was not in this thread. So here they come:
>> >
>> >
>> > REGISTER ^dvb/adapter[0-9]+/[^/]+$   PERMISSIONS root.video 0660
>> > REGISTER ^ost/video[0-9]+$   PERMISSIONS root.video 0660
>> > REGISTER ^v4l/[^/]+[0-9]+$   PERMISSIONS root.video 0660
>> >
>> > Thats what I have, but
>> >
>> > REGISTER ^dvb/adapter[0-9]+/[^/]+$   PERMISSIONS root.video 0660
>> > REGISTER ^v4l/[^/]+[0-9]+$   PERMISSIONS root.video 0660
>> >
>> > would be enough I think.
>> 
>> only for managing permissions? no symlinks? modload ?

steffen> dvb/adapter doesn't need links for compatibility, /dev/video is 
steffen> elsewhere in the devfs config. If parts of the modules.conf can be put 
steffen> in devfs config it would be fine too, but I don't understand the devfs 
steffen> magic really ;)

>> > And my modules.con entries:
>> >
>> > probeall /dev/dvb dvb-ttpci
>> > alias /dev/dvb/* /dev/dvb
>> > below dvb-ttpci alps_bsrv2 alps_tdmb7 alps_tdlb7
>> > add below dvb-ttpci grundig_29504-401 grundig_29504-491
>> > add below dvb-ttpci stv0299 ves1820
>> 
>> do you really need all frontends?
>> am i missing smth or a single frontend should be sufficient for a
>> single dvb card ? ( or more, you don't have diffrent kinds right?)

steffen> Well. This works for all cards with Vendor Id 1131 and Prod Id 7146. Why 
steffen> make it more difficult and trying to distinguish on Subvendor and sub 
steffen> product Id which frontend is used ? 

>> > I can take that out and see if i can reproduce it here if one or
>> > both, or parts of it are taken out. Will do so tomorrow morning and
>> > post results
>> 
>> i'll check it here with your config addjustments
>> let see what will hapen :)

steffen> Ok :)

steffen> Steffen


-- 
In theory, practice and theory are the same, but in practice they 
are different -- Larry McVoy

[Cooker] Re: kernel-tmb-2.4.22-0.5.2tmb_mdk(dvb-core needed by net devices?)

[Juan Quintela]

> "svetoslav" == Svetoslav Slavtchev <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:

svetoslav> Quoting Thomas Backlund <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
>> %changelog
>> * Mon Aug 18 2003 Thomas Backlund <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 2.4.22-0.5.2tmb_mdk
>> - drop psaux synaptics patch until I have time to fix it
>> - fix mod_dvb patch to use new build framework
>> 
>> * Sat Aug 16 2003 Thomas Backlund <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 2.4.22-0.5.1tmb_mdk
>> 
 
svetoslav> Hi Thomas ,

svetoslav> not a real complain (because i added my test dev-mapper patches),
svetoslav> but it seems a bit strange:
svetoslav> 
svetoslav> i2c-proc8052   0  [w83781d eeprom]
svetoslav> via-rhine  15632   1 
svetoslav> 8139too16904   1 
svetoslav> mii 3800   0  [via-rhine 8139too]
svetoslav> dvb-core   51832   0  [via-rhine 8139too]
svetoslav> af_packet  14856   0  (autoclean)
svetoslav> radeon103036   3 

svetoslav> i don't have any dvb hardware
svetoslav> how can this happen ?

Different fix on 2.4.22.0.7mdk.  Basically there is a compat.c
file/module that "provides" crc32 for 2.4 kernels, but our kernel
already has crc32 modules.  I found in one of my machines a module
named compat.o (loaded) that as an asside tainted the kernel and
thought that my machine had been craked :p  After further
investigation found the problem.

Later, Juan.



-- 
In theory, practice and theory are the same, but in practice they 
are different -- Larry McVoy

[Cooker] Re: kernel-tmb-2.4.22-0.5.2tmb_mdk

[Juan Quintela]

> "thomas" == Thomas Backlund <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:

thomas> Ok,

Hi thanks a lot for the good work.

thomas> I didn't have time to add more features at this time,
thomas> or to fix the psaux, so that will have to wait for my next
thomas> kernel, I just rebuilt the whole set so people can use it...

psaux make my SMP system crash here, I just removed the patch (as told
in other mail).


Looking at your 2tmb patches.

thomas> %changelog
thomas> * Mon Aug 18 2003 Thomas Backlund <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 2.4.22-0.5.2tmb_mdk
thomas> - drop psaux synaptics patch until I have time to fix it
thomas> - fix mod_dvb patch to use new build framework

I also fixed mod_dvb compat.c features, as it was interfering with
correct modules :(

Later, Juan.

-- 
In theory, practice and theory are the same, but in practice they 
are different -- Larry McVoy

[Cooker] Re: kernel-2.4.22-0.3mdk make xconfig fix

[Juan Quintela]

> "tim" == Tim Lee <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:

tim> On line 1150 in scripts/tkgen.c, increasing the "limit" on
tim> tot_menu_num allows "make xconfig" to run fine. Like so:

tim> if ( ++tot_menu_num >= 150 )

well, it is a good idea  to change the size of the arrays to 150 also
:)

Fixed.

tim> A separate problem is that all the symlinks in the net/ipsec/alg/lib*
tim> directories are bad. I think in each Makefile.alg_*, there is a rule
tim> to re-symlink those directories.

Working on that for 5mdk.

Later, Juan.



-- 
In theory, practice and theory are the same, but in practice they 
are different -- Larry McVoy

[Cooker] Re: Kernel panic when plugging usb webcam

[Frej Rasmussen]

On Tue, 29 Jul 2003 15:59:55 +0200, Tomasz Chmielewski wrote:

> Tof wrote:
> 
>  >> I experienced systematic crash of the kernel
>  >> (kernel-2.4.21.3mdk-1-1mdk, kernel-2.4.21-0.rc1.1mdk-1-1mdk and
>  >> kernel-2.4.21.6mdk-1-1mdk) when I plug a usb webcam Logitech
>  >> Quickcam 3000 pro.
> 
>  > You don't say what driver you're using. Have you consulted the
> generic > Quickcam site  or that for
>  > Philips-based webcams (AFAIK yours is) at
>  > ?
> 
> 
> 
> I have experienced the same situation (kernel panic) with my Philips
> Vesta PVC675K USB webcam (kernels up to kernel-2.4.21.6mdk-1-1mdk).
> However, as far as I remember, this wasn't happening with the kernel
> from Mandrake 9.0.
> 
> There is a quick remedy though: when I used
> kernel-multimedia-2.4.21.0.18mdk-1-1mdk - everything is just fine, usb
> webcam works, no kernel panics etc.
> 
> 
> (...)
> Jul 29 15:31:20 mic /etc/hotplug/usb.agent: Setup pwc for USB product
> 471/307/6
> Jul 29 15:31:20 mic kernel: usb.c: registered new driver Philips webcam
> (...)

I have the same problem although a bit different hardware (pvc740), but it
uses the same module (pwc)

Could it be because it (kernel or pwc module) now autodetects the need for
snd-usb-audio? (save your work before loading that module).

With kernels from 9.0 -> current cooker loading the pwc without the webcam
attached actually works (no freeze). While loading snd-usb-audio always
crashes on me.

The kernel-multimedia-2.4.21.0.18mdk-1-1mdk worked with the webcam plugged
in, but it did not load snd-audio-usb. Trying to load that module manually
crashed the kernel.

The current cooker kernel does not work with the webcam plugged in (from
boot or hotplug).

Frej Rasmussen

> Regards,
> 
> -- T.

Re: [Cooker] Re: kernel 2.6

[Michael Lothian]

Oh yes as default could you set the kernal to probe for multiple scsi luns

It makes life easier when I'm using my 6 in 1 usb card reader

Chears cos this gave me a major headache when I didn't know what was wrong

Mike

Levi Ramsey wrote:

On Sat Jul 26 20:16 +0400, Andrey Borzenkov wrote:
 

On Saturday 26 July 2003 00:41, Warly wrote:
   

Anyone with a kernel 2.6 can upload it.

Of course the Andrey supermount patch included would increase
significanly its sex appeal.
 

sorry but to avoid rumors - "its sex appeal" refers to me or to kernel? :)
   

Both, perhaps.  Who wouldn't find you even sexier for having your
supermount patch included in the Mdk 2.6 kernel?
 

Re: [Cooker] Re: kernel 2.6

[Levi Ramsey]

On Sat Jul 26 20:16 +0400, Andrey Borzenkov wrote:
> On Saturday 26 July 2003 00:41, Warly wrote:
> > Anyone with a kernel 2.6 can upload it.
> >
> > Of course the Andrey supermount patch included would increase
> > significanly its sex appeal.
> 
> sorry but to avoid rumors - "its sex appeal" refers to me or to kernel? :)

Both, perhaps.  Who wouldn't find you even sexier for having your
supermount patch included in the Mdk 2.6 kernel?

-- 
Levi Ramsey
[EMAIL PROTECTED]   [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Take due notice and govern yourselves accordingly.
Linux 2.4.21-3mdk
 21:48:00 up 35 min,  5 users,  load average: 0.05, 0.08, 0.02

[Cooker] Re: kernel 2.6

[danny]

On Sat, 26 Jul 2003, Andrey Borzenkov wrote:

> On Saturday 26 July 2003 00:41, Warly wrote:
> > Anyone with a kernel 2.6 can upload it.
> >
> > Of course the Andrey supermount patch included would increase
> > significanly its sex appeal.
> 
> sorry but to avoid rumors - "its sex appeal" refers to me or to kernel? :)
> 
ROFL!!

[Cooker] Re: kernel 2.6

[Warly]

Andrey Borzenkov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:

> On Saturday 26 July 2003 00:41, Warly wrote:
>> Anyone with a kernel 2.6 can upload it.
>>
>> Of course the Andrey supermount patch included would increase
>> significanly its sex appeal.
>
> sorry but to avoid rumors - "its sex appeal" refers to me or to kernel? :)

For sure including you in the distribution will make it work on far more
hardware...

Ah ! Dolly...

-- 
Warly

[Cooker] Re: kernel 2.6

[Andrey Borzenkov]

On Saturday 26 July 2003 00:41, Warly wrote:
> Anyone with a kernel 2.6 can upload it.
>
> Of course the Andrey supermount patch included would increase
> significanly its sex appeal.

sorry but to avoid rumors - "its sex appeal" refers to me or to kernel? :)

[Cooker] Re: kernel question (ATMEL wlan driver)

[David Walser]

David Walser wrote:
> Has anybody put in a request to have the code at
> http://atmelwlandriver.sourceforge.net/downloads.html
> put in our kernel?  A friend of mine says it contains
> a fastvnet_cs module needed for his 3com 3CRSHPW696
> wireless NIC card.

Does anybody have any knowledge about this?

[Cooker] Re: kernel rebuild

[Svetoslav Slavtchev]

2.4.21-2 and gcc-3.2.3(i think) under MDK-9.1

rpmrebuild --target=athlon
manual build too

CPU=athlon

on boot :
decompressing the kernel, blank screen and after several seconds reboot.

Epox 8k9a3+
KT400+ vt8235
athlon-xp 2700
radeon AIW 7500(AGP) & TNT2 M64(PCI)
hpt374 & lvm over soft-raid on 4 IBM deskstar 80GB

any interest for lspci ?

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[Cooker] Re: [kernel] Coloured words remains on screen after screen blanker kicks in in nonfb mode with i845

[Levi Ramsey]

On Thu Jun 05  9:41 -0400, [tvignaud] wrote:
> http://qa.mandrakesoft.com/show_bug.cgi?id=4025
> 
> 
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Re: [Cooker] Re: kernel-multimedia-2.4.21.0.18mdk-1-1mdk

[James Sparenberg]

On Sun, 2003-04-06 at 19:04, Austin wrote:
> On 2003.04.06 21:05 Brian J. Murrell wrote:
> > On Mon, Apr 07, 2003 at 01:36:09AM +0100, Adam Williamson wrote:
> > >
> > > Yes - can we please decide exactly what this kernel is for? At first it
> > > was simply the stock kernel with a couple of patches for music editing.
> > 
> > Well, I saw it as more "multi-media" than just "music editing".
> > Multi-media, whether it be audio or video (or both) have much the same
> > requirements.
> 
> Yes.  It is called the multimedia kernel, not the music editing kernel.
> 
> > > Now it seems to have turned into a test bed for features that have
> > > nothing to do with "multimedia" (wireless driver patches?)
> > 
> > This I will agree with.
> 
> Well, we're in a bit of a predicament, because it has been recently very 
> difficult to achieve effective communication from the kernel team, so I 
> certainly don't blame Danny for fixing things that are obviously broken - be 
> they multimedia or not.  That's not to judge whether it's right or wrong, but 
> you have to understand that it's very frustrating telling staff that 
> something's broken for MONTHS and not having it fixed.
> 
> > > And now you
> > > want it to provide stuff for doing PVR.
> > 
> > I agree that it should be the stock kernel + multimedia needs (ONLY!).
> > I don't want it to be a "hackkernel" either.
> 
> In my mind, the multimedia kernel is used when desktop functionality is more 
> important than security.  There are security risks involved with the 
> pre-emptive patch, and even moreso with the capabilities patch, but someone 
> making videos doesn't care... he wants his editing done as fast and 
> efficiently as possible.
> 
> So I'd suggest this:
> The multimedia kernel is not just for audio/video editing, it is for boxes 
> which are more concerned with advanced USABILITY than with security, 
> stability, support, or official status.
> Thus supermount fixes are fine.  They enhance usability greatly, with a small, 
> potential loss to stability and/or security.
> 
> That's just my take on it.  I don't feel volunteers should just go adding any 
> patch they want... there must be a significant benefit.  However, this is a 
> way that:
> 1. Mandrake can come to terms with a more community oriented infrastructure... 
> and see that it works.
> 2. Purely desktop users can get fast, easy useability.
> 3. Mandrake won't have to assume resposability for potentially risky patches.
> 
> Hope that puts some of your minds at ease.
> I'm far from the autoratative voice on this subject though...
> 
> Austin

One question though... why does the kernel have a dependency on
shorewall?  

Re: [Cooker] Re: kernel-multimedia-2.4.21.0.18mdk-1-1mdk

[Andi Payn]

On Sunday 06 April 2003 18:05, Brian J. Murrell wrote:
> I agree that it should be the stock kernel + multimedia needs (ONLY!).
> I don't want it to be a "hackkernel" either.

Maybe there should be a "kernel-hack" in contrib.

There are probably people who are using (or would use, if they knew about it) 
-mm who aren't doing any multimedia, just because they want some of these 
patches (like supermount). That's fine, but those people shouldn't be arguing 
for patches to go into the next version of -mm. And if they had a separate 
-hack kernel where they could get the patches they wanted, they wouldn't be.

If, as Austin Acton suggests, you broaden the definition of "multimedia" to 
mean something like "pure desktop computing," that still leaves out plenty of 
patches that have nowhere else to go, and the broader definition will only 
make people more likely to try to get them crammed into -mm.

The obvious question is, who is the hack kernel for? Nobody's going to want to 
turn on every patch in the world, right? Well, I know quite a few people who 
configure and rebuild kernels all the time but never patch them. (With 
FreeBSD, even beginners are expected to configure and rebuild their kernel, 
but only experts are supposed to patch it)

Re: [Cooker] Re: kernel-multimedia-2.4.21.0.18mdk-1-1mdk

[Austin]

On 2003.04.06 21:05 Brian J. Murrell wrote:
On Mon, Apr 07, 2003 at 01:36:09AM +0100, Adam Williamson wrote:
>
> Yes - can we please decide exactly what this kernel is for? At first it
> was simply the stock kernel with a couple of patches for music editing.
Well, I saw it as more "multi-media" than just "music editing".
Multi-media, whether it be audio or video (or both) have much the same
requirements.
Yes.  It is called the multimedia kernel, not the music editing kernel.

> Now it seems to have turned into a test bed for features that have
> nothing to do with "multimedia" (wireless driver patches?)
This I will agree with.
Well, we're in a bit of a predicament, because it has been recently very 
difficult to achieve effective communication from the kernel team, so I 
certainly don't blame Danny for fixing things that are obviously broken - be 
they multimedia or not.  That's not to judge whether it's right or wrong, but 
you have to understand that it's very frustrating telling staff that 
something's broken for MONTHS and not having it fixed.

> And now you
> want it to provide stuff for doing PVR.
I agree that it should be the stock kernel + multimedia needs (ONLY!).
I don't want it to be a "hackkernel" either.
In my mind, the multimedia kernel is used when desktop functionality is more 
important than security.  There are security risks involved with the 
pre-emptive patch, and even moreso with the capabilities patch, but someone 
making videos doesn't care... he wants his editing done as fast and 
efficiently as possible.

So I'd suggest this:
The multimedia kernel is not just for audio/video editing, it is for boxes 
which are more concerned with advanced USABILITY than with security, 
stability, support, or official status.
Thus supermount fixes are fine.  They enhance usability greatly, with a small, 
potential loss to stability and/or security.

That's just my take on it.  I don't feel volunteers should just go adding any 
patch they want... there must be a significant benefit.  However, this is a 
way that:
1. Mandrake can come to terms with a more community oriented infrastructure... 
and see that it works.
2. Purely desktop users can get fast, easy useability.
3. Mandrake won't have to assume resposability for potentially risky patches.

Hope that puts some of your minds at ease.
I'm far from the autoratative voice on this subject though...
Austin

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[Cooker] Re: kernel

[Thomas Backlund]

Guillaume Cottenceau wrote:

> Danny Tholen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> 
>> On Friday 04 April 2003 01:09, Guillaume Cottenceau wrote:
>> > Danny Tholen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>> > > - on some videocards/mobo's there is a panic when using framebuffer
>> > > if you have above 1GB memory. Booting vga=normal tends to work well
>> > > for these people.
>> >
>> > known at least since #3198 :(. I think this will be a problem in
>> > 9.1, but I don't know what to do. we couldn't reproduce here, to
>> > add more problems :(.
>> Yes its a strange problem. There is a thread on club about it. Some
>> people have it, some people do not. Perhaps it is related to some bios
>> option. In anycase, the workaround should go into the errata?
> 
> I've sent a mail to Vincent accordingly. Will appear soon.
> 


Could someone head over to 

http://www.iki.fi/tmb/Cooker/

and try my boot & fix disks

And note the part about framebuffer fix parameter !


Thomas

[Cooker] Re: kernel

[Thomas Backlund]

[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

> On Fri, 04 Apr 2003 11:10:53 -0800 (PST), Danny Tholen wrote:
> 
>> 
>> On Friday 04 April 2003 01:09, Guillaume Cottenceau wrote:
>> > Danny Tholen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>> > > - on some videocards/mobo's there is a panic when using framebuffer
>> > > if you have above 1GB memory. Booting vga=normal tends to work well
>> > > for these people.
>> >
>> > known at least since #3198 :(. I think this will be a problem in
>> > 9.1, but I don't know what to do. we couldn't reproduce here, to
>> > add more problems :(.
>> Yes its a strange problem. There is a thread on club about it. Some
>> people have it, some people do not. Perhaps it is related to some bios
>> option. In anycase, the workaround should go into the errata?
>> 
>> d.
> 
> Look at bugs 2048 and 2324.  During the install, if you hit F1, and then
> linux
> mem=880m, you can install using the normal installer.  I believe this is
> the
> real solution to the problem many people have during installation.  For
> the normal system boot, vag=normal is necessary, but works fine.
> 
> Adrian Golumbovici (see 2324) isolated the problem on his system, and I
> can confirm that using mem=880m enables me to use the standard installer.
> 
> I think this is a really important item to get into the errata for 9.1. 
> I'm assuming the issue is 1G (actually 880M) or more of memory, which
> causes problems with the NVIDIA TI series of cards, and many high end ATI
> cards as
> well.  I'm afraid we may be in danger of not connecting up several issues
> relating to the kernel used during installation and some particular
> hardware items.
> 
> Paul Misner

Could you try with my fixed boot images on http://www.iki.fi/tmb/Cooker/

Thomas

Re: [Cooker] Re: kernel-source rejected to CD4

[Olivier Thauvin]

Le Vendredi 14 Mars 2003 21:05, Seth Zirin a écrit :
> On Thu, 2003-03-13 at 22:12, Warly wrote:
> > Quel Qun <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> > > Hu ho.
> > >
> > > After making the isos tonight, I noticed that the kernel-source rpm had
> > > been rejected to CD4.
> > >
> > > Just thought I would send a warning to make sure it is included in the
> > > final edition. Here's the line I used:
> > >
> > > $COOK/misc/MakeCD --discsize 73400 --nodeps -a --noisolinux $COOK
> >
> > This is the auto mode, I do not use this mode to build the distro discs.
>
> Warly,
>
> Can you post the exact command(s) you do use to build the official
> ISOs?  I always FTP install from my cooker mirror, but the newbie in me
> would like to be able to duplicate the creation of pseudo-official CDs.
>
> Thanks,
> Seth
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]

It is not only a command, take a look to misc/doc/ at top of distro tree, 
config file is here.
You'll have to rewrite all path and find all piece on mirror.
Of course you can't have non free package which are on powerpack or prosuite.

I am working on plf iso, I will post here when all will be done my config all 
with some comment.

Good luck :)

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Re: [Cooker] Re: kernel-source rejected to CD4

[Seth Zirin]

On Thu, 2003-03-13 at 22:12, Warly wrote:
> Quel Qun <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> 
> > Hu ho.
> >
> > After making the isos tonight, I noticed that the kernel-source rpm had
> > been rejected to CD4.
> >
> > Just thought I would send a warning to make sure it is included in the
> > final edition. Here's the line I used:
> >
> > $COOK/misc/MakeCD --discsize 73400 --nodeps -a --noisolinux $COOK
> 
> This is the auto mode, I do not use this mode to build the distro discs.

Warly,

Can you post the exact command(s) you do use to build the official
ISOs?  I always FTP install from my cooker mirror, but the newbie in me
would like to be able to duplicate the creation of pseudo-official CDs.

Thanks,
Seth
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[Cooker] Re: kernel-source rejected to CD4

[David Walser]

Buchan Milne wrote:
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Uh oh, that's an important package!!!



I would agree, probably many production servers have the related
hardware attached ...
As well as many end-user desktops and workstations.

Re: [Cooker] Re: kernel-source rejected to CD4

[Buchan Milne]

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>> discsFiles: 4
>> MandrakeLinux-Cooker-4.i586 apcupsd-3.10.5-1mdk.i586
>
> Uh oh, that's an important package!!!
>

I would agree, probably many production servers have the related
hardware attached ...

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[Cooker] Re: kernel-source rejected to CD4

[Warly]

Quel Qun <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:

> Hu ho.
>
> After making the isos tonight, I noticed that the kernel-source rpm had
> been rejected to CD4.
>
> Just thought I would send a warning to make sure it is included in the
> final edition. Here's the line I used:
>
> $COOK/misc/MakeCD --discsize 73400 --nodeps -a --noisolinux $COOK

This is the auto mode, I do not use this mode to build the distro discs.

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[Cooker] Re: kernel-source rejected to CD4

[David Walser]

Quel Qun wrote:
On Thu, 2003-03-13 at 19:29, scott wrote:

Quel Qun wrote:


Hu ho.

After making the isos tonight, I noticed that the kernel-source rpm had
been rejected to CD4.
Just thought I would send a warning to make sure it is included in the
final edition. Here's the line I used:
$COOK/misc/MakeCD --discsize 73400 --nodeps -a --noisolinux $COOK


That commandline is gonna make 700 mb ISO's, but I think Mandrake is 
going to have 650 mb iso, right?  So space is going to be even more 
limited h

I wonder what else won't make it on the 3 cd's... (I'm already mirroring 
cooker locally, so I'll probaby just use the final of that make my CD's) 


This is what I get on CD4 and rejected if I make 650MB isos. Apart from
kernel-source, I cannot see any big miss:
discsFiles: 4
MandrakeLinux-Cooker-4.i586 apcupsd-3.10.5-1mdk.i586
Uh oh, that's an important package!!!

Re: [Cooker] Re: kernel-2.4.21.0.pre4.3mdk-1-1mdk.i586.rpm failsin no /dev/loop

[Curtis Hildebrand]

> >> 
> rolf> I ran into this 'could not find any device /dev/loop#' and similar
> rolf> failure to mkinitrd on a kernel install once.  Seems what I did was
> rolf> modprobe loop and mkinitrd to solve.  Don't know why this was needed.
> 
> Just that my aes.o module got in the middle and broke.
> 

Your _what_ got in the middle and broke. :)


Sorry, couldn't help replying to that one.  Maybe it'll help lighten the
arguments appearing lately. :)

[Cooker] Re: kernel-2.4.21.0.pre4.3mdk-1-1mdk.i586.rpm fails in no /dev/loop

[Juan Quintela]

> "rolf" == Rolf Pedersen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:

rolf> guran wrote:
>> Hi
>> [root@localhost Documents]# urpmi
>> kernel-2.4.21.0.pre4.3mdk-1-1mdk.i586.rpm
>> kernel-BOOT-2.4.21.0.pre4.3mdk-1-1mdk.i586.rpm
>> kernel-doc-2.4.21-0.pre4.3mdk.i586.rpm
>> kernel-doc-2.4.21-0.pre4.3mdk.i586.rpm
>> kernel-secure-2.4.21.0.pre4.3mdk-1-1mdk.i586.rpm
>> Some package requested cannot be installed:
>> kernel-doc-2.4.21-0.pre4.3mdk.i586
>> do you agree ? (Y/n)
>> installing kernel-2.4.21.0.pre4.3mdk-1-1mdk.i586.rpm
>> kernel-doc-2.4.21-0.pre4.3mdk.i586.rpm
>> kernel-secure-2.4.21.0.pre4.3mdk-1-1mdk.i586.rpm
>> kernel-BOOT-2.4.21.0.pre4.3mdk-1-1mdk.i586.rpm
>> Preparing...
>> ##
>> 
>> 1:kernel-2.4.21.0.pre4.3mdk##
>> mke2fs 1.32 (09-Nov-2002)
>> mount: could not find any device /dev/loop#
>> mke2fs 1.32 (09-Nov-2002)
>> mount: could not find any device /dev/loop#
>> There was an error when generating initrd try to do a :
>> /sbin/mkinitrd /boot/initrd-2.4.21pre4-3mdk.img 2.4.21pre4-3mdk
>> and see the errors
>> look like there was a problem, the default vmlinuz version is not the same
>> of the initrd
>> which mean you have a mdk kernel and not a mdk initrd you may go in trouble
>> 2:kernel-doc ##
>> 
>> 3:kernel-secure-2.4.21.0.pre4.3mdk##
>> mke2fs 1.32 (09-Nov-2002)
>> mount: could not find any device /dev/loop#
>> mke2fs 1.32 (09-Nov-2002)
>> mount: could not find any device /dev/loop#
>> There was an error when generating initrd try to do a :
>> /sbin/mkinitrd /boot/initrd-2.4.21pre4-3mdksecure.img 2.4.21pre4-3mdksecure
>> and see the errors
>> look like there was a problem, the default vmlinuz version is not the same
>> of the initrd
>> which mean you have a mdk kernel and not a mdk initrd you may go in trouble
>> 
>> 4:kernel-BOOT-2.4.21.0.pre4.3mdk##
>> [root@localhost Documents]# /sbin/mkinitrd
>> /boot/initrd-2.4.21pre4-3mdk.img 2.4.21pre4-3mdk
>> mke2fs 1.32 (09-Nov-2002)
>> mount: could not find any device /dev/loop#
>> Can't get a loopback device
>> regards
>> guran
>> 
rolf> I ran into this 'could not find any device /dev/loop#' and similar
rolf> failure to mkinitrd on a kernel install once.  Seems what I did was
rolf> modprobe loop and mkinitrd to solve.  Don't know why this was needed.

Just that my aes.o module got in the middle and broke.

It is working back in new 2.4.21-pre4q4.

If you really don't want to reboot your machine in one old kernel for
installing new one:
- install new kernel (it will fail in the same way than this one)
- insmod /lib/modules/2.4.21pre4-4mdk/kernel/drivers/misc/aes.o
- insmod /lib/modules/2.4.21pre4-4mdk/kernel/drivers/block/loop.o

urpme new kernel
urpmi new kernel and everything should work again :p

(this is from memory, you should have to fix the right patch for your
type of kernel )

Later, Juan.

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Re: [Cooker] Re: kernel-source-2.4.20-0.1mdk & acpi

[Joan Tur]

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Es Dimarts 03 Desembre 2002 18:07, en Juan Quintela va escriure:
> > "joan" == Joan Tur <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
> joan> Hallo!
> joan> Compiled, installed and boot fine, but no /proc/acpi/processor nor
> joan> /proc/acpi/thermal_zone appeared, so I've returned back to
> 2.4.19-19mdk...

With 2.4.20-2mdk they do appear.

> Pleaes, try
> modprobe ac
> modprebe battery
> modprobe button
> modprobe fan
> modprobe processor
> modprobe thermal
I use to compile the above into the kernel instead of as modules, and so they 
were in my example.

> and if you feel still more brave, try cpufreq support:
>
> cpu from   module to modprobe
> -
> via longhaul
> intel   speedstep
> amd k6  powernow-k6 (please report me if it works
>  for you, I don't have a k6
> anymore) athlon/duronpowernow-k7
>
> Then you go to:
> cd /proc/sys/cpu/0/
>
> and play with the values of speed/speed-max/speed-min
I've compiled speedstep into the kernel, but no cpu directory under /proc/sys/ 
appears... is that right or should I compile it as a module?  8-?

> Later, Juan.
Thanks!  ;)
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[Cooker] Re: kernel-source-2.4.20-0.2mdk rpm is missing

[Juan Quintela]

> "tim" == Tim Lee <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:

>> it's probably there in a short time, just was'nt at the time when
>> other mirrors rsync'ed

tim> well, i checked on the primary cooker mirrors, uninett.no and
tim> sunet.se, and also lip6.fr, 'kernel-source-2.4.20-0.2mdk.i586.rpm' is
tim> not there. however, 'kernel-source-2.4.20-0.1mdk.i586.rpm' is present.

Hi
should already be there by now (I mean that now should be
2.4.20-1mdk :)

Just that rpmlint is more strict now, and kernel has a lot of
exceptions :p

Later, Juan.

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[Cooker] Re: kernel and gcc3.2, a good match?

[Juan Quintela]

> "lonnie" == Lonnie Borntreger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:

lonnie> On Wed, 2002-11-20 at 16:00, Edward Tandi wrote:
>> On Wed, 2002-11-20 at 21:42, Lonnie Borntreger wrote:
>> > On Wed, 2002-11-20 at 14:55, Edward Tandi wrote:
>> > > I too had problems with gcc3.2 on my twin Athlon MP system. The kernel
>> > > warns about:
>> > > 
>> > > kernel: Advanced speculative caching feature present
>> > > kernel: Disabling advanced speculative caching
>> > 
>> > I'm running kernel-2.4.19-16 on a dual XP box, compiled with gcc3.2 with
>> > total stability.  Of course, I always grab the kernel src.rpm and
>> > recompile it for athlon.
>> 
>> This is good to know. Of course, the problems might be driver specific.
>> What motherboard are you using? Any additional I/O cards?

lonnie> Details:
lonnie> ASUS A7M266-D
lonnie> on board ATA-100 controller
lonnie> on board CM8738 audio (no mic in - alsa driver related)
lonnie> USB2.0 card (no USB devices)
lonnie> nVidia TNT2 AGP (nVidia drivers)
lonnie> Hauppage WinTV/Radio/IR

Try:
a) without nvidia drivers, or
b) with acpi=off

It appears that there is some problem with nvidia drivers and acpi
kernel :(

Later, Juan.


lonnie> Any issues I have/had are due to recently switching from self compiled
lonnie> kernel.org kernels with OSS sound, and no devfs.  The devfs is still
lonnie> giving me issues with trying to get some things working, but the kernel
lonnie> itself is perfect.

lonnie> TTFN, 
lonnie> Lonnie Borntreger




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[Cooker] Re: kernel and gcc3.2, a good match?

[Juan Quintela]

> "edward" == Edward Tandi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:

edward> I too had problems with gcc3.2 on my twin Athlon MP system. The kernel
edward> warns about:

edward> kernel: Advanced speculative caching feature present
edward> kernel: Disabling advanced speculative caching

This is not a gcc bug.  It is a kernel bug for Athlons, and this is
just showing you that it is applying a workaround for it :)

Believe me, you don't want to know the details :)

edward> So, it might just work now, but at the time, it crashed for me under I/O
edward> load and sometimes while using X.

edward> Like yourself, I went back to using an earlier kernel. I still use
edward> 2.4.18-pre9 compiled with gcc 2.96 and it is solid. It's my main server
edward> and I worry about newer kernels, so I don't touch.

edward> I know kernel developers have been improving things by porting bits of
edward> the kernel with reported problems to work with gcc 3.2, but I still
edward> think it's not the official build compiler. I look forward to when it is
edward> because gcc 3.2 has some good performance optimisations.

Humm, I haven't had any problems with gcc since gcc 3.1.1 or something
like that.  Could you told me if you still have problems?

Later,, Juan.

-- 
In theory, practice and theory are the same, but in practice they 
are different -- Larry McVoy

[Cooker] Re: kernel-source-2.4.20-0.1mdk & acpi

[Juan Quintela]

> "joan" == Joan Tur <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:

joan> Hallo!
joan> Compiled, installed and boot fine, but no /proc/acpi/processor nor 
joan> /proc/acpi/thermal_zone appeared, so I've returned back to 2.4.19-19mdk...

Pleaes, try
modprobe ac
modprebe battery
modprobe button
modprobe fan
modprobe processor
modprobe thermal

and if you feel still more brave, try cpufreq support:

cpu from   module to modprobe
-
via longhaul
intel   speedstep
amd k6  powernow-k6 (please report me if it works
 for you, I don't have a k6 anymore)
athlon/duronpowernow-k7

Then you go to:
cd /proc/sys/cpu/0/

and play with the values of speed/speed-max/speed-min

Later, Juan.

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are different -- Larry McVoy

Re: [Cooker] Re: kernel-2.4.20.0.2mdk-1-1mdk

[Brian J. Murrell]

On Thu, Nov 21, 2002 at 10:34:36PM +0100, Luca Olivetti wrote:
> 
> Good! This one passes my vcr crash test.

Good.

> >>  * update bttv 0.7.100 (tv) 
> 
> 
> maybe this one fixed it.

If you are doing any serious bt8x8 card work you should be using the
0.8.x (0.8.46 is the latest) series anyway.  I have _always_ replaced
the bttv driver in Mandrake's kernel with the latest 0.8.x driver for
my PVR.  Funny enough I forgot to in my most recent kernel build and
my captures have been sucking since about then.

I am about to go upgrade to 0.8.46 now and see if that makes it all
better.  I suspect it will.

b.

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[Cooker] Re: kernel-2.4.20.0.1mdk-1-1mdk acpi THERMAL and PROCESSOR seems not working as modules...

[Franco Silvestro]

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In dmesg-acpi-working I usedACPI: Subsystem revision 2002 and only 
2.4.20-rc1

In dmesg-acpi-not-working there is  ACPI: Subsystem revision 20021022 (last 20-mdk)

much time to compile kernels on my old Inspiron 7500;o(

cuand good work...;o)

On Wednesday 20 November 2002 22:59, Juan Quintela wrote:
> > "franco" == Franco Silvestro <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
[...]
> franco> ac and battery works as modules but thermal and processor seems
> that needs building inside kernel (at least it works for me...;o)
>
> Send dmesg output after doing all the insertions, please.
>
> Later, Juan.

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Current Linux uptime: 2 hours 49 minutes.
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/proc/acpi/thermal_zone/THRM/temperature: 53 C
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Linux version 2.4.20-0.1mdk ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) (gcc version 3.2 (Mandrake 
Linux 9.1 3.2-3mdk)) #1 Wed Nov 20 12:01:15 CET 2002
BIOS-provided physical RAM map:
 BIOS-e820:  - 0009f800 (usable)
 BIOS-e820: 0009f800 - 000a (reserved)
 BIOS-e820: 000ea000 - 0010 (reserved)
 BIOS-e820: 0010 - 1fff (usable)
 BIOS-e820: 1fff - 1c00 (ACPI data)
 BIOS-e820: 1c00 - 2000 (ACPI NVS)
 BIOS-e820: fff8 - 0001 (reserved)
511MB LOWMEM available.
On node 0 totalpages: 131056
zone(0): 4096 pages.
zone(1): 126960 pages.
zone(2): 0 pages.
ACPI: RSDP (v000 DELL   ) @ 0x000f71c0
ACPI: RSDT (v001 DELLI 7500  01540.0) @ 0x1fffb01a
ACPI: FADT (v001 DELLI 7500  01540.0) @ 0x1b65
ACPI: BOOT (v001 PTLTD  $SBFTBL$ 01540.0) @ 0x1bd9
ACPI: DSDT (v001 DELLI 7500  01540.0) @ 0x
ACPI: BIOS passes blacklist
ACPI: MADT not present
Dell Inspiron with broken BIOS detected. Refusing to enable the local APIC.
Kernel command line: BOOT_IMAGE=linux ro root=349 devfs=mount
Initializing CPU#0
Detected 651.487 MHz processor.
Console: colour dummy device 80x25
Calibrating delay loop... 1300.88 BogoMIPS
Memory: 515904k/524224k available (1277k kernel code, 7932k reserved, 486k data, 140k 
init, 0k highmem)
Dentry cache hash table entries: 65536 (order: 7, 524288 bytes)
Inode cache hash table entries: 32768 (order: 6, 262144 bytes)
Mount-cache hash table entries: 8192 (order: 4, 65536 bytes)
Buffer-cache hash table entries: 32768 (order: 5, 131072 bytes)
Page-cache hash table entries: 131072 (order: 7, 524288 bytes)
CPU: L1 I cache: 16K, L1 D cache: 16K
CPU: L2 cache: 256K
Intel machine check architecture supported.
Intel machine check reporting enabled on CPU#0.
CPU: Intel Pentium III (Coppermine) stepping 01
Enabling fast FPU save and restore... done.
Enabling unmasked SIMD FPU exception support... done.
Checking 'hlt' instruction... OK.
POSIX conformance testing by UNIFIX
mtrr: v1.40 (20010327) Richard Gooch ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
mtrr: detected mtrr type: Intel
ACPI: Subsystem revision 20021022
PCI: PCI BIOS revision 2.10 entry at 0xfd9ae, last bus=1
PCI: Using configuration type 1
ACPI: Interpreter enabled
ACPI: Using PIC for interrupt routing
ACPI: System [ACPI] (supports S0 S1 S3 S4 S5)
ACPI: PCI Root Bridge [PCI0] (00:00)
PCI: Probing PCI hardware (bus 00)
ACPI: Embedded Controller [EC0] (gpe 9)
ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKA] (IRQs 3 4 5 6 7 9 10 *11 14 15)
ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKB] (IRQs 3 4 5 6 7 9 10 11 14 15, disabled)
ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKC] (IRQs 5 7, disabled)
ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKD] (IRQs 3 4 *5 6 7 9 10 11 14 15)
schedule_task(): keventd has not started
PCI: Probing PCI hardware
ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKB] enabled at IRQ 10
ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKC] enabled at IRQ 5
PCI: Using ACPI for IRQ routing
PCI: if you experience problems, try using option 'pci=noacpi' or even 'acpi=off'
PCI: Cannot allocate resource region 4 of device 00:07.1
Limiting direct PCI/PCI transfers.
isapnp: Scanning for PnP cards...
isapnp: No Plug & Play device found
Linux NET4.0 for Linux 2.4
Based upon Swansea University Computer Society NET3.039
Initializing RT netlink socket
apm: BIOS version 1.2 Flags 0x03 (Driver version 1.16)
apm: overridden by ACPI.
Starting kswapd
VFS: Disk quotas vdquot_6.5.1
devfs: v1.12c (20020818) Ri

Re: [Cooker] Re: kernel-2.4.20.0.1mdk-1-1mdk acpi THERMAL and PROCESSORseems not working as modules...

[Pascal Terjan]

Juan Quintela wrote:


franco> .there isn't no /thermal_zone and neither /processor...

franco> in lsmod there is:
franco> [...]
franco> thermal		7136		0	(unused)
franco> processor		9112		0	[thermal]
franco> [...]
 

same here


Send dmesg output after doing all the insertions, please.

Later, Juan.


Removing and modprobing again the modules made nothing appear in dmesg 
but I joined it if you can see something else ...

 

Linux version 2.4.20-0.1mdk ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) (gcc version 3.2 (Mandrake 
Linux 9.1 3.2-3mdk)) #1 Wed Nov 20 12:01:15 CET 2002
BIOS-provided physical RAM map:
 BIOS-e820:  - 0009f800 (usable)
 BIOS-e820: 0009f800 - 000a (reserved)
 BIOS-e820: 000e3000 - 0010 (reserved)
 BIOS-e820: 0010 - 17ff (usable)
 BIOS-e820: 17ff - 17fffc00 (ACPI data)
 BIOS-e820: 17fffc00 - 1800 (ACPI NVS)
 BIOS-e820: fff8 - 0001 (reserved)
383MB LOWMEM available.
ACPI: have wakeup address 0xc0001000
On node 0 totalpages: 98288
zone(0): 4096 pages.
zone(1): 94192 pages.
zone(2): 0 pages.
ACPI: RSDP (v000 HP-MCD ) @ 0x000f6c70
ACPI: RSDT (v001 HP-MCD FA RSDT  00272.0) @ 0x17ff59dc
ACPI: FADT (v001 HP-MCD FA FACP  00272.0) @ 0x17ff5a08
ACPI: BOOT (v001 PTLTD  FABFTBL$ 00272.0) @ 0x17fffbd8
ACPI: DSDT (v001 HP-MCD FA DSDT  00272.0) @ 0x
ACPI: BIOS passes blacklist
ACPI: MADT not present
Kernel command line: BOOT_IMAGE=acpi ro root=308
Local APIC disabled by BIOS -- reenabling.
Could not enable APIC!
Initializing CPU#0
Detected 696.983 MHz processor.
Console: colour dummy device 80x25
Calibrating delay loop... 1389.36 BogoMIPS
Memory: 386188k/393152k available (1277k kernel code, 6576k reserved, 486k data, 140k 
init, 0k highmem)
Dentry cache hash table entries: 65536 (order: 7, 524288 bytes)
Inode cache hash table entries: 32768 (order: 6, 262144 bytes)
Mount-cache hash table entries: 8192 (order: 4, 65536 bytes)
Buffer-cache hash table entries: 32768 (order: 5, 131072 bytes)
Page-cache hash table entries: 131072 (order: 7, 524288 bytes)
CPU: L1 I cache: 16K, L1 D cache: 16K
CPU: L2 cache: 256K
Intel machine check architecture supported.
Intel machine check reporting enabled on CPU#0.
CPU: After generic, caps: 0383f9ff   
CPU: Common caps: 0383f9ff   
CPU: Intel Pentium III (Coppermine) stepping 0a
Enabling fast FPU save and restore... done.
Enabling unmasked SIMD FPU exception support... done.
Checking 'hlt' instruction... OK.
POSIX conformance testing by UNIFIX
mtrr: v1.40 (20010327) Richard Gooch ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
mtrr: detected mtrr type: Intel
ACPI: Subsystem revision 20021022
PCI: PCI BIOS revision 2.10 entry at 0xfd99d, last bus=1
PCI: Using configuration type 1
ACPI: Interpreter enabled
ACPI: Using PIC for interrupt routing
ACPI: System [ACPI] (supports S0 S1 S3 S4 S5)
ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKA] (IRQs *10)
ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKB] (IRQs *10)
ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKC] (IRQs 15, disabled)
ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKD] (IRQs *5)
ACPI: PCI Root Bridge [PCI0] (00:00)
PCI: Probing PCI hardware (bus 00)
ACPI: PCI Interrupt Routing Table [\_SB_.PCI0._PRT]
ACPI: PCI Interrupt Routing Table [\_SB_.PCI0.AGP_._PRT]
ACPI: Embedded Controller [EC0] (gpe 0)
PCI: Probing PCI hardware
ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKC] enabled at IRQ 15
PCI: Using ACPI for IRQ routing
PCI: if you experience problems, try using option 'pci=noacpi' or even 'acpi=off'
Limiting direct PCI/PCI transfers.
isapnp: Scanning for PnP cards...
isapnp: No Plug & Play device found
Linux NET4.0 for Linux 2.4
Based upon Swansea University Computer Society NET3.039
Initializing RT netlink socket
apm: BIOS version 1.2 Flags 0x03 (Driver version 1.16)
apm: overridden by ACPI.
Starting kswapd
VFS: Disk quotas vdquot_6.5.1
devfs: v1.12c (20020818) Richard Gooch ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
devfs: boot_options: 0x0
vesafb: framebuffer at 0xf500, mapped to 0xd881, size 8128k
vesafb: mode is 1024x768x16, linelength=2048, pages=4
vesafb: protected mode interface info at c000:5010
vesafb: scrolling: redraw
vesafb: directcolor: size=0:5:6:5, shift=0:11:5:0
Looking for splash picture found (1024x768, 37885 bytes).
Console: switching to colour frame buffer device 80x16
fb0: VESA VGA frame buffer device
pty: 256 Unix98 ptys configured
Serial driver version 5.05c (2001-07-08) with HUB-6 MANY_PORTS MULTIPORT SHARE_IRQ 
SERIAL_PCI ISAPNP enabled
ttyS00 at 0x03f8 (irq = 4) is a 16550A
Applicom driver: $Id: ac.c,v 1.30 2000/03/22 16:03:57 dwmw2 Exp $
ac.o: No PCI boards found.
ac.o: For an ISA board you must supply memory and irq parameters.
Uniform Multi-Platform E-IDE driver Revision: 7.00alpha2
ide: Assuming 33MHz system bus speed for PIO modes; override with idebus=xx
PIIX4: IDE controller on PCI bus 00 dev 39
PIIX4: chipset revision 1
PIIX4: not 100% native mode: will probe irqs late

[Cooker] Re: kernel-2.4.20.0.1mdk-1-1mdk acpi THERMAL and PROCESSOR seems not working as modules...

[Juan Quintela]

> "franco" == Franco Silvestro <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:

franco> Inserted ac,battery,button,fan,processor,thermal in /etc/modules
franco> in /proc/acpi/ there are only:

franco> /ac_adapter
franco> /battery
franco> /button
franco> /embedded_controller
franco> alarm
franco> dsdt
franco> event
franco> fadt
franco> info
franco> sleep

franco> .there isn't no /thermal_zone and neither /processor...

franco> in lsmod there is:
franco> [...]
franco> thermal 71360   (unused)
franco> processor   91120   [thermal]
franco> [...]

franco> ac and battery works as modules but thermal and processor seems that needs 
building inside kernel (at least it works for me...;o)

Send dmesg output after doing all the insertions, please.

Later, Juan.

-- 
In theory, practice and theory are the same, but in practice they 
are different -- Larry McVoy

Re: [Cooker] Re: kernel-2.4.19-17 is definately broken

[Gary Greene]

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On Tuesday 29 October 2002 01:59 pm, Juan Quintela wrote:
> > "mcleod," == Mcleod, Ian <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
> mcleod,> I am using the stock standard Mandrake 9.0 kernel - I have lost
> XMMS sound mcleod,> (could be unrelated though) - are we advised to upgarde
> our kernel?
>
> This should work, no idea why it is borken :(
> Will look at it.

I can confirm this. Sound was working with 2.4.19-16mdk. Then, when I updated 
the kernel to 2.4.19-17mdk, the only sound I was getting was the output from 
my line-in that I use for my electric guitar effects processor for recording. 
All other sounds were gone untill I grabbed the tarball from kernel.org and 
built my own. As I stated in an earlier post, my sound card is a Creative 
Labs Sound Blaster AWE 64 value ISA-PnP. If you need any further information 
about my system, don't hesitate to ask.

> BTW, this kernel is still not aimed as 9.0 upgrade.  ACPI works in all
> my machines (except in one and it uses old code automatically just
> well), but I _know_ that it don't work in all people machines :(
>
> 9.1 will have ACPI kernel by default and everybody that complains
> until then will have acpi fixed or their system blacklisted to use
> the old code.  Problem is that basically all the new laptops & PIV
> requires or need ACPI to function well.

Also can confirm this. My Compaq Presario 700RSH won't shutdown or reboot 
correctly without ACPI functionality.

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RE: [Cooker] RE: kernel-2.4.19-17 is definitely broken

[Mcleod, Ian]

Why isn't it enabled by default of have an option on installation?

At least it is easy to install just by installing the prism2-utils package
(and then it is enabled?)

> -Original Message-
> From: Adam Williamson [mailto:aw280@;cam.ac.uk]
> Sent: Wednesday, October 30, 2002 9:34 AM
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: Re: [Cooker] RE: kernel-2.4.19-17 is definitely broken
> 
> 
> On Tue, 2002-10-29 at 22:51, Mcleod, Ian wrote:
> > I have heard that the prism2-utils package installs and 
> sets to run the
> > wlan-ng driver for PRISM2 cards..  The wlan_cs driver is obsolete?
> 
> No. The wlan-ng drivers are already in stock Mandrake kernels. The
> prism2-utils package includes some basic utilities necessary for
> actually using these drivers. wlan_cs is an older driver, somewhat
> obsolete, but still used by some. wlan-ng and the orinoco_cs 
> driver are
> the more up-to-date drivers.
> -- 
> adamw
> 
> 

Re: [Cooker] Re: kernel-2.4.19-17 is definately broken

[Danny Tholen]

Juan,
when making a preempt kernel for mandrakeclub I think I noticed some errors in 
the kernel spec and tried to correct them:
- fixed a nesting case in the spec which would not work on 8.2 boxes
- fixed a gcc 2.96 (also on 8.2 boxes) compile error in an atm driver
- fixed a place were a mv errored out because it couldn't overwrite 
directories (this always happened to me, do not know why it seems to work for 
others, perhaps because of my config options ). Changed it in to a cp -R and 
rm -rf
- fixed a link that seems to point to the wrong place
- 2 mandrake readme's were put in  %{target_source} but %doc only finds them 
when they are actually in %{_builddir}/%src_dir. As Buchan pointed out, 
errors of the doc macro are not fatal and you have to be watching to notice 
that something goes wrong.

If you feel any of these changes (see diff) are completely wrong, please let 
me know so I can make changes to the club rpms.

Also I included 3 patches from Andrey Borsenkov. One which fixes a spinlock 
which you forgot to unlock in supermount, a supermount NLS patch and the 
other fixes a scsi timeout issue.
Sadly the supermount spinlock patch only helps people on smp in theory, 
although for some reason I cannot reproduce the losing of files on mounted 
media with these patches applied, but I can without (maybe just good luck).

I attach a diff of my kernel spec against 2.4.19-17 my spec here. All preempt 
changes are preceeded by ###, so they disabled by default and you can quickly 
remove them after doing the diff. But I left them in because maybe you want 
to include them at one time? As far as testing goes: I had 27 downloads for 
9.0 and 29 downloads for 8.2 and nobody reported any problems. The downside 
is current included XFS is bugged (doesn't unlock spinlocks) and I had to 
disable it. But I hear cvs XFS is better.


Danny


--- kernel-2.4.spec.orig	Tue Oct 29 20:10:10 2002
+++ kernel-2.4.spec	Tue Oct 29 20:10:45 2002
@@ -57,12 +57,14 @@
 %ifarch %{ix86}
 %define build_secure 1
 %define build_BOOT 1
+###%define build_preempt 1
 %endif
 
 
 # End of user definitions
 %{?_without_up: %{expand: %%define build_up 0}}
 %{?_without_smp: %{expand: %%define build_smp 0}}
+###%{?_without_preempt: %{expand: %%define build_preempt 0}}
 %{?_without_secure: %{expand: %%define build_secure 0}}
 %{?_without_enterprise: %{expand: %%define build_enterprise 0}}
 %{?_without_BOOT: %{expand: %%define build_BOOT 0}}
@@ -78,6 +80,7 @@
 
 %{?_with_up: %{expand: %%define build_up 1}}
 %{?_with_smp: %{expand: %%define build_smp 1}}
+###%{?_with_preempt: %{expand: %%define build_preempt 1}}
 %{?_with_secure: %{expand: %%define build_secure 1}}
 %{?_with_enterprise: %{expand: %%define build_enterprise 1}}
 %{?_with_BOOT: %{expand: %%define build_BOOT 1}}
@@ -220,6 +223,12 @@
 Patch1: patch-%{pre_version}.bz2
 %endif
 
+###Patch101: preempt-kernel-rml-2.4.19-2.patch.bz2
+Patch102: 2.4.18-18mdk.scsi-error-timeout.patch.bz2
+Patch103: 2.4.18-18.supermount-NLS.patch.bz2
+Patch105: supermount-spinlock.patch.bz2
+###Patch106: supermount-preempt.patch.bz2
+###Patch107: preempt-config.patch.bz2
 #END
 
 
@@ -243,12 +252,21 @@
 Obsoletes: alsa, hackkernel
 Provides: alsa, hackkernel
 BuildRequires: libbinutils2-devel, bison, perl
+
+#Fix nesting (doesn't work on 8.2):
+%if !%build_82 && %{build_doc}
+BuildRequires: docbook-utils-pdf
+%endif
+
 %if %{build_doc}
 # welcome to make htmldocs psdocs pdfdocs
 BuildRequires: ghostscript sgml-tools jadetex
-%if !%build_82
-BuildRequires: docbook-utils-pdf
-%endif
+
+# nesting wouldn't work on 8.2:
+#%if !%{build_82}
+#BuildRequires: docbook-utils-pdf
+#%endif
+
 # yes, we need both
 BuildRequires: docbook-dtd41-sgml docbook-dtd41-sgml
 BuildRequires: tetex-dvips tetex-latex transfig 
@@ -312,6 +330,24 @@
 and other appropriate items.
 
 #
+### # kernel-preempt:  a preemptible kernel
+### #
+
+###%package -n kernel-preempt-%{mdkversion}
+###Summary: A preemptible Linux kernel, which reduces the latency of the kernel. 
+###Group: System/Kernel and hardware
+###Provides: %kprovides
+###Prereq: %prereq
+###Requires: %requires
+###Url:  http://www.tech9.net/rml/linux/
+
+###%description -n kernel-preempt-%{mdkversion}
+###This kernbel allows processes to be preempted even if in kernel mode. The design used
+###is to allow a task to be preempted anywhere within the kernel, using spinlocks
+###as markers for non-preemptibility regions. The resulting system response is
+###greatly increased, with measured average latencies under 1ms.
+
+#
 # kernel-boot: BOOT Kernel
 #
 
@@ -417,6 +453,23 @@
 ./%{patches_ver}/scripts/apply_patches -v ./%{patches_ver}/patches
 
 
+###Danny: I do my work separatly
+###%patch101 -p1 -b .preempt
+###%patch107 -p1 -b .preemptconfig
+
+%patch102 -p1 -b .scsitimeout
+%patch103 -p2 -b .supermountandrey
+%patch105 -p1 -b .spinlock
+
+###%patch106 -p1 -b .supermountpreempt
+
+#gcc 2.96 workaround (yes I know 

Re: [Cooker] RE: kernel-2.4.19-17 is definitely broken

[Adam Williamson]

On Tue, 2002-10-29 at 22:51, Mcleod, Ian wrote:
> I have heard that the prism2-utils package installs and sets to run the
> wlan-ng driver for PRISM2 cards..  The wlan_cs driver is obsolete?

No. The wlan-ng drivers are already in stock Mandrake kernels. The
prism2-utils package includes some basic utilities necessary for
actually using these drivers. wlan_cs is an older driver, somewhat
obsolete, but still used by some. wlan-ng and the orinoco_cs driver are
the more up-to-date drivers.
-- 
adamw

[Cooker] Re: kernel 17mdk NVidia

[Quel Qun]

On Tue, 2002-10-29 at 13:14, Juan Quintela wrote:
> > "quel" == Quel Qun <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> 
> quel> --- Original Message ---
> quel> From: rcc <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> quel> To: Cooker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> quel> Subject: [Cooker] kernel 17mdk NVidia
> 
> >> 
> >> 
... 
> quel> It looks like the whole acpi thing is quite flaky. Why are the
> quel> files in /proc/acpi when all the doc show them in /proc/sys/acpi? 
> 
> quel> acpid looks for the rules in /etc/acpi/events and fails to start
> quel> because this folder does not exist. Where is acpictl?
> 
> Long story, basically:
> 
> - acpid is obsolete & ospmd is very alpha :(
> 
> - I am packaging ospmd (first need software suspend to work).
> 
> - ACPI code in kernel is very old and buggy, new code is _way_ better,
>   but perhaps still not perfect.
> 
Thanks for answering, any piece of information is always welcome.
=o=
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[Cooker] RE: kernel-2.4.19-17 is definitely broken

[Mcleod, Ian]

I have heard that the prism2-utils package installs and sets to run the
wlan-ng driver for PRISM2 cards..  The wlan_cs driver is obsolete?

> -Original Message-
> From: Juan Quintela [mailto:quintela@;mandrakesoft.com]
> Sent: Wednesday, October 30, 2002 5:29 AM
> To: Mcleod, Ian
> Cc: 'Gary Lawrence Murphy'; Mandrake Cooker
> Subject: Re: kernel-2.4.19-17 is definately broken
> 
> 
> > "mcleod," == Mcleod, Ian <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> 
> mcleod,> I am using the stock standard Mandrake 9.0 kernel - 
> I have lost XMMS sound
> mcleod,> (could be unrelated though) - are we advised to 
> upgarde our kernel?
> 
> This should work, no idea why it is borken :(
> Will look at it.
> 
> BTW, this kernel is still not aimed as 9.0 upgrade.  ACPI works in all
> my machines (except in one and it uses old code automatically just
> well), but I _know_ that it don't work in all people machines :(
> 
> 9.1 will have ACPI kernel by default and everybody that complains
> until then will have acpi fixed or their system blacklisted to use
> the old code.  Problem is that basically all the new laptops & PIV
> requires or need ACPI to function well.
> 
> mcleod,> BTW - when will the wlan-ng (as opposed to wlan_cs) 
> wireless kernel drivers
> mcleod,> be included by default?
> 
> 
> /lib/modules/2.4.19-18mdksmp/kernel/3rdparty/prism25/cs/prism2_cs.o.gz
> 
> This driver should be the one that you are searching for, or I don't
> know what wlan-ng are you talking about :(
> 
> Later, Juan.
> 
> 
> -- 
> In theory, practice and theory are the same, but in practice they 
> are different -- Larry McVoy
> 

[Cooker] Re: kernel 17mdk NVidia

[Juan Quintela]

> "quel" == Quel Qun <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:

quel> --- Original Message ---
quel> From: rcc <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
quel> To: Cooker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
quel> Subject: [Cooker] kernel 17mdk NVidia

>> 
>> 
>> the driver builds but when first used the whole machine crashes
>> 
>> and it crashes hard: no response at all, black screen, network
quel> is dead,
>> no magic keys, all logs only contain garbage
>> 
>> has anybody build nvidia on the new kernel? Maybe my
quel> post-install script
>> screwed up somewhere.
>> 
>> I'll test some more.
>> 
quel> Two different machines:

quel> 1. A Dell dimension with a TNT2. The machine boots but crashes as
quel> above when I try to start X. Booting with the pci=noacpi option,
quel> the machine runs fine.

quel> 2. An ASUS-7N266 with Athlon 1700, embedded GeForce2, the machine
quel> does not even start booting unless acpi=off is passed on the
quel> command line.

quel> It looks like the whole acpi thing is quite flaky. Why are the
quel> files in /proc/acpi when all the doc show them in /proc/sys/acpi? 

quel> acpid looks for the rules in /etc/acpi/events and fails to start
quel> because this folder does not exist. Where is acpictl?

Long story, basically:

- acpid is obsolete & ospmd is very alpha :(

- I am packaging ospmd (first need software suspend to work).

- ACPI code in kernel is very old and buggy, new code is _way_ better,
  but perhaps still not perfect.

Later, Juan.

-- 
In theory, practice and theory are the same, but in practice they 
are different -- Larry McVoy

[Cooker] Re: kernel-2.4.19-17 is definately broken

[Juan Quintela]

> "mcleod," == Mcleod, Ian <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:

mcleod,> I am using the stock standard Mandrake 9.0 kernel - I have lost XMMS sound
mcleod,> (could be unrelated though) - are we advised to upgarde our kernel?

This should work, no idea why it is borken :(
Will look at it.

BTW, this kernel is still not aimed as 9.0 upgrade.  ACPI works in all
my machines (except in one and it uses old code automatically just
well), but I _know_ that it don't work in all people machines :(

9.1 will have ACPI kernel by default and everybody that complains
until then will have acpi fixed or their system blacklisted to use
the old code.  Problem is that basically all the new laptops & PIV
requires or need ACPI to function well.

mcleod,> BTW - when will the wlan-ng (as opposed to wlan_cs) wireless kernel drivers
mcleod,> be included by default?


/lib/modules/2.4.19-18mdksmp/kernel/3rdparty/prism25/cs/prism2_cs.o.gz

This driver should be the one that you are searching for, or I don't
know what wlan-ng are you talking about :(

Later, Juan.


-- 
In theory, practice and theory are the same, but in practice they 
are different -- Larry McVoy

[Cooker] Re: kernel-source-2.4.19-16mdk fails to build

[Brian J. Murrell]

On Sun, Oct 06, 2002 at 04:47:59PM -0400, Stew Benedict wrote:
> 
> I did:
> 
> make mrproper

I thought the Mandrake kernel-source package was distributed so that
"make mrproper" did not need to be done.  Perhaps I was mistaken.  But
indeed, performing the make mrproper did indeed enable the kernel to
be built.

Thanx,
b.

-- 
Brian J. Murrell



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[Cooker] Re: kernel-source not world-readable

[Juan Quintela]

> "buchan" == Buchan Milne <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:

buchan> Is there a good reason the kernel-source is not totally world
buchan> readable? I am truing to build a win4lin kernel SRPM/RPM for current
buchan> cooker, and it copies the entire source tree, patches it, and then
buchan> compiles. Step 1 fails until I chmod it while not building as root
buchan> (which I would refer not to do). Would be nice if this wasn't
buchan> necessary.

buchan> Seems 99.9% of the source is, just not these files:


Should be fixed in -14mdk, thanks for the support.

Later, Juan.

buchan> + mkdir -p /home/bgmilne/rpm/BUILD/Mandrake-patched-2.4.19-11mdk
buchan> + cp -Rapd
buchan> /usr/src/linux-2.4.19-11mdk/. 
/home/bgmilne/rpm/BUILD/Mandrake-patched-2.4.19-11mdk/.
buchan> cp: cannot open
buchan> `/usr/src/linux-2.4.19-11mdk/./3rdparty/acecad/acecad.c' for reading:
buchan> Permission denied
buchan> cp: cannot open
buchan> `/usr/src/linux-2.4.19-11mdk/./net/ipsec/libdes/asm/perlasm/x86asm.pl'
buchan> for reading: Permission denied
buchan> cp: cannot open
buchan> `/usr/src/linux-2.4.19-11mdk/./net/ipsec/libdes/asm/perlasm/cbc.pl'
buchan> for reading: Permission denied
buchan> cp: cannot open
buchan> `/usr/src/linux-2.4.19-11mdk/./net/ipsec/libdes/asm/perlasm/readme'
buchan> for reading: Permission denied
buchan> cp: cannot open
buchan> `/usr/src/linux-2.4.19-11mdk/./net/ipsec/libdes/asm/perlasm/x86ms.pl'
buchan> for reading: Permission denied
buchan> cp: cannot open
buchan> `/usr/src/linux-2.4.19-11mdk/./net/ipsec/libdes/asm/perlasm/x86unix.pl'
buchan> for reading: Permission denied
buchan> error: Bad exit status from /home/bgmilne/rpm/tmp/rpm-tmp.96490 (%prep)

buchan> Buchan

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are different -- Larry McVoy

[Cooker] Re: kernel-2.4.19-8mdk changelog?

[Juan Quintela]

> "götz" == Götz Waschk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:

götz> Hi,
götz> does anyone have the changelog of Cooker's latest kernel? It seems to
götz> be missing from the spec file, so what's this new package good for?

* Fri Aug 30 2002 Juan Quintela <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 1-1mdk
- 2.4.19-q8.
  * fix ov511 unresolved symbols. why depmod -u didn't fail is
still a mystery.
- 2.4.19-8mdk. 

It should be there.

Later, Juan.

-- 
In theory, practice and theory are the same, but in practice they 
are different -- Larry McVoy

[Cooker] Re: kernel-2.4.18.8.1mdk and prism2 - why no prism2_cs?

[Juan Quintela]

> "gary" == Gary Lawrence Murphy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:

gary> I'm curious, and especially curious because I can find /no/ mention of
gary> anyone having asked this before on any of the Mandrake user support
gary> sites, lists, errata, newsgroups or forums:

gary> The rpm CHANGELOG reports only /updated/ 3rdparty/prism2_* modules
gary> in the 8.2 update kernel RPM, and still includes /only/ the
gary> PCI-based prism2 modules, with no PCMCIA prism2_cs module.

gary> Why?  Is that module incompatible with Mandrake? Did I miss something?

gary> Is there some other source for a binary prism2_cs module or is
gary> recompiling the kernel, pcmcia and linux-wlan kits the only way to get
gary> one?  

gary> I can't believe I'm the first person to ask (although I also didn't
gary> notice this omission until I'd accidentally destroyed the prism2_cs
gary> I'd built from sources pre-8.2 ;)


Sorry for the delay answering.  I have included the prism2_cs in the
cooker kernel for some time now.  Could you test that the card works?

Thanks, Juan.



-- 
In theory, practice and theory are the same, but in practice they 
are different -- Larry McVoy

[Cooker] Re: [kernel] USB not working on Compaq EVO 511

[Planel Nicolas]

The real problem is that usb modules are not load at startup.

For the moment, I doesn't looking this as near as possible


Le jeu 22/08/2002 à 12:16, Nicolas Abraham a écrit :
> Connecting a device doesn't change anything for lspcidrake because
> nothing appears.
> I tested with a Logitech mouse (from HP), a Trust webcam and a Iomega
> burner.
> 
> On Don, 2002-08-22 at 11:35, Thierry Vignaud wrote:
> > Nicolas Abraham <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> > 
> > > Hello,
> > >
> > > It seems that none usb devices are working on Compaq Evo 511 though I
> > > tried to load the kernel option "noacpi" at lilo boot. Nicolas Planel
> > > told me that usb modules weren't loaded while a device is wired.
> > >
> > > Here is the lspcidrake :
> > > agpgart : Intel Corporation|82845 845 Chipset Host Bridge (MCH)
> > > Card:Intel 845  : Intel Corporation|82845 CGC [Chipset Graphics
> > > Controller]
> > > usb-uhci: Intel Corporation|82801DB USB Controller
> > > usb-uhci: Intel Corporation|82801DB USB Controller
> > > ehci-hcd: Intel Corporation|82801DB USB Enhanced Controller
> > > unknown : Intel Corporation|82820 815e (Camino 2) Chipset PCI
> > > unknown : Intel Corporation|82801DB 845G/GL Chipset ISA Bridge
> > > (ICH4)
> > > unknown : Intel Corporation|82801DB 845G/GL Chipset IDE
> > > Controller
> > > i810_audio  : Intel Corporation|ICH4 845G/GL Chipset AC'97 Audio
> > > Controller
> > > eepro100: Intel Corporation|EtherExpress PRO/100
> > 
> > so there's no connected usb devices as shown by lspcidrake
> > 
> > as for "Unknown bridge resource XX: assuming transparent" errrors,
> > there's just warnings you can ignore
> > 
> -- 
>  Nicolas ABRAHAM
>  Hardware Service
>  Mandrakesoft
> 
> 
-- 
Nicolas PLANEL
Hardware/Software Certification Engineer
Mandrakesoft Labs
[EMAIL PROTECTED]

[Cooker] Re: kernel panic at first boot - DrakX(?)

[rcc]

On Fri, 2 Aug 2002 16:37:43 +0200
rcc <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> cooker is today's
> 20020806-1300GMT

a hole in the space-time-continuum

today is, of course, 20020802

greetings from the future

- Mark

[Cooker] Re: kernel smbfs (Re: samba)

[Juan Quintela]

> "buchan" == Buchan Milne <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:

buchan> Yura Gusev wrote:
buchan> | I have a strange problem with samba (latest cooker version) i displays
buchan> | 8bit char in directory listsing but it does not show any file.
buchan> | Error message from /var/log/messages
buchan> | Jul 31 22:18:01 himling kernel: smb_proc_readdir_long: name=\\204 \204
buchan> ~  ^^

buchan> | \222\*, result=-2, rcls=1, err=2Jul 31 22:18:04 himling kernel:
buchan> smb_proc_readdir_long: name=\\204 \204
buchan> ~  ^^

buchan> | \222\*, result=-2, rcls=1, err=2
buchan> |
buchan> | Maybe patches from http://www.hojdpunkten.ac.se/054/samba/index.html can
buchan> | help?
buchan> |

buchan> This is a kernel smbfs issue, not a samba issue (samba is only involved
buchan> when smbmount negotiates the connection).

buchan> Mount options for that share and kernel version (uname -a) etc would
buchan> probably be useful for first look.

not enough info, then I guess:

- you are using 8.1 kernel
- you are using a local NLS for samba (where local mean anything that
  is not English), the \204 suggest that it is a problem with charsets
  that require more than 1 byte for encoding.

The good news are that the kernel for 8.2 update (or any cooker
kernel), should have fixed that.

Later, Juan.

-- 
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are different -- Larry McVoy

Re: [Cooker] Re: kernel ?

[Oden Eriksson]

On fredagen den 12 juli 2002 17.01 Geoffrey Lee wrote:
> > >try rpm -qi kernel-2.4.18.21mdk
> >
> > Yes, I know, but I don't know why it doesn't provide "kernel". It would
> > be solved with a "Provides: kernel" in the spec file. Is there a clever
> > reason that it don't provide "kernel" that I'm unaware of?
>
> actually, it's there:
>
>
> $ cat kernel-2.4.spec | grep kprovides
> %define kprovides kernel = %{realversion}, alsa
> Provides: module-info, %kprovides
> Provides: %kprovides
> Provides: %kprovides
> Provides: %kprovides
> $
>
>
> It's just that -qi  only works for a real package name.

Hmm..., strange.

-- 
Regards // Oden Eriksson
Deserve-IT Networks -> http://d-srv.com

Re: [Cooker] Re: kernel ?

[Je'ro^me UZEL]

Geoffrey Lee wrote:
>>>
>>>try rpm -qi kernel-2.4.18.21mdk
>>
>>Yes, I know, but I don't know why it doesn't provide "kernel". It would be 
>>solved with a "Provides: kernel" in the spec file. Is there a clever reason 
>>that it don't provide "kernel" that I'm unaware of? 
>>
>
> $ cat kernel-2.4.spec | grep kprovides
> %define kprovides kernel = %{realversion}, alsa
> Provides: module-info, %kprovides
> Provides: %kprovides
> Provides: %kprovides
> Provides: %kprovides
> $
> 
> 
> It's just that -qi  only works for a real package name.

So the next question would be why is kernel the real package name.

I am not aware of the historical reason but i may try a guess...
When you install a new kernel, you don't want to delete the previous
one... just in case you were not able to boot the new one, it's better
to keep the previous configuration working.
So, in the rpm framework, you do not want to upgrade the kernel.
It would work that way if the name were something like "kernel".
With a name like kernel-2.4.*, kernel rpm are considered as distinct
and there's no problem anymore.


Regards.

Re: [Cooker] Re: kernel ?

[Geoffrey Lee]

> > 
> >
> >try rpm -qi kernel-2.4.18.21mdk
> 
> Yes, I know, but I don't know why it doesn't provide "kernel". It would be 
> solved with a "Provides: kernel" in the spec file. Is there a clever reason 
> that it don't provide "kernel" that I'm unaware of? 
> 


actually, it's there:


$ cat kernel-2.4.spec | grep kprovides
%define kprovides kernel = %{realversion}, alsa
Provides: module-info, %kprovides
Provides: %kprovides
Provides: %kprovides
Provides: %kprovides
$


It's just that -qi  only works for a real package name.


-- G.

[Cooker] Re: kernel ?

[Oden Eriksson]

Jérôme UZEL writes: 

> Oden Eriksson wrote:
>> 
>> The kernel package does not provide "kernel" ??? 
>> 
>> [root@cooker /]# rpm -qi kernel
>> package kernel is not installed 
>> 
>  
> 
> try rpm -qi kernel-2.4.18.21mdk

Yes, I know, but I don't know why it doesn't provide "kernel". It would be 
solved with a "Provides: kernel" in the spec file. Is there a clever reason 
that it don't provide "kernel" that I'm unaware of? 

 --
Kindest regards // Oden Eriksson 

Re: [Cooker] Re: kernel-secure - back to UP/non-enterprise?

[Charles A. Shirley]

On Sun, 28 Apr 2002, Leon Brooks wrote:

> On Sunday 28 April 2002 11:10, Levi Ramsey wrote:
> > On Sun Apr 28  9:51 +0800, Leon Brooks wrote:
> >> Running Mandrake 5.2 in front of me is a dual PPro-200 system on a TD6NF
> >> mobo. One example does not a statistic make, but...
> 
> > Am I just being stupid, or aren't PPro's i686's?
> 
> It could be me being stupid, but IIRC they didn't make the multi-CPU stuff 
> entirely happy until very late in the series.
> 
> > IIRC, the chip architecture in the PPro's is the P6, which is the basis
> > of everything up to the P4.
> 
> I'm guessing that `basis' != complete feature set.
> 
> Cheers; Leon

As I recollect, P-II was electrically the same as the P-pro, but had MMX.
In fact, www.Powerleap.com will sell you an accellerator for your UP P-Pro
machine using a coppermine celeron processor past 700 MHz, and a PPGA
celeron up to 533 MHz for Dual processor systems.  So, as long as i686
optimization doesn't include MMX, etc, I think making the SMP kernels i686
optimized is a good move.  I think i486 had better SMP support than
classic Pentium, and none of the Pentium clones had any.

Best Regards,
Chuck Shirley

Re: [Cooker] Re: kernel-secure - back to UP/non-enterprise?

[Leon Brooks]

On Sunday 28 April 2002 11:10, Levi Ramsey wrote:
> On Sun Apr 28  9:51 +0800, Leon Brooks wrote:
>> Running Mandrake 5.2 in front of me is a dual PPro-200 system on a TD6NF
>> mobo. One example does not a statistic make, but...

> Am I just being stupid, or aren't PPro's i686's?

It could be me being stupid, but IIRC they didn't make the multi-CPU stuff 
entirely happy until very late in the series.

> IIRC, the chip architecture in the PPro's is the P6, which is the basis
> of everything up to the P4.

I'm guessing that `basis' != complete feature set.

Cheers; Leon

Re: [Cooker] Re: kernel-secure - back to UP/non-enterprise?

[Levi Ramsey]

On Sun Apr 28  9:51 +0800, Leon Brooks wrote:
> Running Mandrake 5.2 in front of me is a dual PPro-200 system on a TD6NF mobo. 
> One example does not a statistic make, but...

Am I just being stupid, or aren't PPro's i686's?

IIRC, the chip architecture in the PPro's is the P6, which is the basis
of everything up to the P4.

-- 
Levi Ramsey
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
[EMAIL PROTECTED]

When it comes down to desperation,
You make the best of your situation.
Linux 2.4.18-11mdk
 11:01pm  up 6 days, 57 min,  7 users,  load average: 0.01, 0.13, 0.15

Re: [Cooker] Re: kernel-secure - back to UP/non-enterprise?

[Leon Brooks]

On Saturday 27 April 2002 18:51, Juan Quintela wrote:
> Making SMP versions to work only in i686 & upper is a good move
> because Pentium support for multiprocessing is quite bad, and anyways,
> there is almost no i586 SMP boards (comparing with i686/athlon boards).

Running Mandrake 5.2 in front of me is a dual PPro-200 system on a TD6NF mobo. 
One example does not a statistic make, but...

Cheers; Leon

Re: [Cooker] Re: kernel-secure - back to UP/non-enterprise?

[Peter Ruskin]

On Saturday 27 Apr 2002 16:20, Alexander Skwar wrote:
> »Juan Quintela« sagte am 2002-04-27 um 12:51:01 +0200 :
> > - i586
> > - i686
> > - i686SMP
> > - i686-4GB
>
> Hm, are there any disadvantages in the -4GB part compared to the plain
> kernels?  If not, then why not build every kernel with high mem support
> and drop the non -4GB ones?
>
> Alexander Skwar

Some things don't work with high memory support -- for example Win4Lin
-- 
Peter Ruskin, Wrexham, Wales.  AMD Athlon XP 1600+, 512MB RAM.
Registered Linux User 219434.  Mandrake Linux release 8.3 (Cooker) 
Kernel 2.4.18-12mdk,  XFree86 4.2.0, patch level 9mdk.
KDE: 3.0.1 (CVS >= 20020327).  Qt: 3.0.3.  Up 22 hours 45 minutes.

Re: [Cooker] Re: kernel-secure - back to UP/non-enterprise?

[Alexander Skwar]

»Juan Quintela« sagte am 2002-04-27 um 12:51:01 +0200 :
> - i586
> - i686
> - i686SMP
> - i686-4GB

Hm, are there any disadvantages in the -4GB part compared to the plain
kernels?  If not, then why not build every kernel with high mem support
and drop the non -4GB ones?

Alexander Skwar
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