[expert] Where are the Cooker GPG keys
After a 2 months without a working machine I've come to update my cooker install. It however keeps complaining of bad GPG keys. I currently have the following: [EMAIL PROTECTED] rpms]# gpg --list-keys /root/.gnupg/pubring.gpg pub 1024D/9B4A4024 2000-01-06 MandrakeSoft (MandrakeSoft official keys) <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>sub 1024g/686FF394 2000-01-06 pub 1024D/22458A98 2000-07-10 Linux Mandrake Security Team <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> sub 1024g/6F3F9BC6 2000-07-10 pub 1024D/70771FF3 2002-03-13 Mandrake Linux <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> sub 1024g/75223F49 2002-03-13 pub 1024D/CABA22AE 2002-05-27 Penguin Liberation Front (PLF Official Keys) <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> sub 2048g/AD46FD8F 2002-05-27 Are there meant to be others? The link to the keys on the Cooker pages desn't work. -- Alex, homepage: http://www.bennee.com/~alex/ Have a nice day! Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[expert] Equivilent to Debians net-install iso?
Hi, Following the heat death of my server and desktop I'm in the process of building new machines. I run debian on my servers and used a nice bootable ISO that quickly installs a minimum networkable system and I can just apt-get the rest. Does anyone know of an equivilent bare bones bootable ISO for mandrake (i.e. not just using a existing 1 disk install) that will install a basic kernel and networking leaving it ready to urpmi the rest as required? -- Alex, homepage: http://www.bennee.com/~alex/ You got to be very careful if you don't know where you're going, because you might not get there. -- Yogi Berra Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[expert] Installing Mandrake on a Laptop with nothing but wireless network + floppy
I've just got my hands on an old laptop with a wireless Orinoco card and a floppy drive. I can get it to boot via tomsrtboot and hapilly partition up the disk. So my question: Is it possible with just floppies to do a wireless network install of 9.1 without setting up your own nfs server? Alla Debian style install but using urpmi instead? -- Alex, homepage: http://www.bennee.com/~alex/ What would Brian Botano do? Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
RE: [expert] mandrake source kernel
On Tue, 2002-12-17 at 09:43, Alex Fudio wrote: > It should have been, but we couldn't find it > > I was trying to install some software and this software asked me for the > location of the .h files > > In mandrake 9 they seems to be in /usr/include but according the software I > was trying to install they belonged to a different version of the kernel > 2.4.19 rather than the one installed 2.4.18. Generally as far as apps needing kernel headers (which should be libraries which make syscalls and other hw interfaces) the version of kernel headers (within a stable series) doesn't make too much difference (the binary ABI is usually stable). > This is after a fresh installation of mandrake 9. > We were then trying to locate these files but couldn't find them anywhere > else. > So we tried looking for the kernel source files but couldn't find them on > the cds of mandrake 9 (download version) Have you got the kernel-headers package installed? Thats what its there for. > Still today the software wont install > > -Original Message- > From: James Beam [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: 17 December 2002 09:33 > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject:Re: [expert] mandrake source kernel > ><< File: message.footer >> www.kernel.org > --- Jim C <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Should also be one on your distro CDs. > > > > > > Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? > Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com -- Alex Bennee Senior Hacker, Braddahead Ltd The above is probably my personal opinion and may not be that of my employer Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Damnable RPM building...any way to continue?
On Thu, 2002-12-12 at 15:09, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > On Thu, 12 Dec 2002, Praedor Atrebates wrote: > > > > > > Building an RPM should NOT be dependent upon noncritical issues like documents > > or other nonintegral froo-froo. Perhaps Mandrake could FIX Redhat's broken > > RPM by making it more fault tolerant so that rpm builds can be completed > > inspite of missing or failing a noncritical portion (like doc generation)?! > > > > I dunno if I can agree with that. One thing I like about RPM is that > it makes it easy to reproduce an identical package from the SRC rpm. If > it continued then there's too much room for error when publishing an > RPM. Shouldn't the requirements/deps for building the src rpm generate an a warning before it starts building. Alternativly you can install the source rpm and do a "rpm -bp specfile.spec" and build from the tarball as per normal. -- Alex Bennee Senior Hacker, Braddahead Ltd The above is probably my personal opinion and may not be that of my employer Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Find command
On Wed, 2002-12-11 at 10:55, Robin Ballantine wrote:
> On Tuesday 10 December 2002 4:23 pm, Brian York wrote:
> > I have some log files that have a bunch of crap in them. I need to extract
> > all of the email addresses in them and put them in a file. Does anyone
> > know how I might be able to do this?
> > Find > emails.file
> > Thanks
> > Brian
>
> If your logfile is a normal text file and your mail addresses are between
> angle brackets, you could use grep on it to extract the lines containing them
> and then pipe the output through sed to remove the chaff either side and then
> finally through sort and uniq. eg;
>
> grep "<.*@.*>" your-logfile | sed 's/^.* s/?.*>/>/; \
> s/mailto://; \
> s/>.*$/>/' | sort | uniq > emails.file
>
>
Or the perl way:
grep "@" log | perl -e 'while (<>) { m/.*<(.*@.*)>.*/; print $1,"\n";}'
The grep is just being lazy to only pass lines containing email
addresses to the perl script. The print $1 prints the result of the
captured bit of text in the ()
If your comfortable with regex's you can do a fair bit of stuff with
variations on the theme (
http://www.bennee.com/~alex/wiki/index.php/One%20Line%20Scripts)
--
Alex Bennee
Senior Hacker, Braddahead Ltd
The above is probably my personal opinion and may not be that of my
employer
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Re: [expert] Disable power-managment hi-jacking ofCtrl-Alt-Backspace?
On Mon, 2002-12-02 at 17:21, Alex Bennee wrote: > Hi, > > Until today my box (MDK 9.0) had been running fine. Now it locks up hard > at random points during the day requiring a power-cylcle to get it out > of this state. I suspect that apmd may be the culprit but its hard to > tell as I get no indication in the logs. One thing I have noticed though > is the Ctrl-Alt-Backspace sequence that is usually reserved to kill X > seems to put my machine into an halted state. Upgrading to 2.4.20 seems to of cured my problem for the time being. Or at least I've not had any freezes for a while. > The doesn't seem to be any way of disabling power managment from the > BIOS and I have uninstalled apmd and apm-scripts and am still getting > the same problem. Is there any way to stop this hi-jacking going on? > Who's trapping it and killing my system? According to lkml their is an issue with some SiS chipsets and the Ctrl-Alt-Backspace causing a power down. There is allegedly a kernel patch to disable this behavior but I have yet to get hold of it and try it out. > -- > Alex Bennee > Senior Hacker, Braddahead Ltd > The above is probably my personal opinion and may not be that of my > employer > > > > > Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? > Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com -- Alex Bennee Senior Hacker, Braddahead Ltd The above is probably my personal opinion and may not be that of my employer Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
RE: [expert] NFS permissions
> > > > > > Operation not > > > > > > permitted > > > > > > > > > > > > The line in /etc/exports says: > > > > > > > > > > > > /data (rw) > > > > > > > > > > > > Permissions and ownership of the directory are as > > > > > > they were and > > > > > > identical with other exported filesystems. All the > > > > > > other are working. > > > > > > > > > > > > The security level here is Standard (this is mdk > > > > > > 9.0) > > > > > > > > > > > > Any ideas out there on where to look? > > > > > > > > > > > > TIA > > > > > > Brian > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > Want to buy your Pack or Services from > > > > > MandrakeSoft? > > > > > > > > > > > > Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > = > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > __ > > > > > Do you Yahoo!? > > > > > Yahoo! Mail Plus - Powerful. Affordable. Sign up now. > > > > > http://mailplus.yahoo.com > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > __ > > > > > > > > > > Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? > > > > > Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com > > > > -- > > > > Brian Parish <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > __ > > > > > > Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? > > > Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com > > -- > > Brian Parish <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > > > > > > > > > Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? > Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com -- Alex Bennee Senior Hacker, Braddahead Ltd The above is probably my personal opinion and may not be that of my employer Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Disable power-managment hi-jacking ofCtrl-Alt-Backspace?
On Wed, 2002-12-04 at 12:45, James Sparenberg wrote: > On Wed, 2002-12-04 at 03:33, Alex Bennee wrote: > > > > Can't get the memtest tools to compile under Mandrake, failing to link > > to the maths library for some reason (and the make needs to be run as > > root which is bad). > > Can't remember if this is true but if memtest is c++ then I've heard > rumor that it is causing problems with some of the older programs that > haven't been updated to gcc3.02's differences. Witness the fact that > mozilla is compiled under 2.96 for MDK. That could be the trouble. My bad, brain fart. I meant the badmem tools (which are required to build a badmem enabled kernel). Memtest indead needs to be compiled with gcc2.x which it is on Mandrake. I even added the badmem suggested patch to it without any problems. -- Alex Bennee Senior Hacker, Braddahead Ltd The above is probably my personal opinion and may not be that of my employer Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Disable power-managment hi-jacking ofCtrl-Alt-Backspace?
On Tue, 2002-12-03 at 19:27, James Sparenberg wrote: > This is one point I do have to give to M$ they do seem to be able to > dynamically map around bad blocks on HDD's and ram a lot better than > Linux or FreeBSD. I don't know if Windows actively maps round bad memory (and in my case its only a single bit). However it could be the difference in distribution of kernel-mode structures. If windows keeps them all in one place but Linux keeps them all over memory it could make Linux more susceptible. After all corrupt memory in user-mode is never a problem - you just lose the one process. It would of had to been a kernel structure getting clobbered to cause the hang, I'm guessing a pageing request or something like that rather than a syscall. > As for the badmem tools I've never been able to get > them running nor have I really taken a hard run at it. (I cheated and > swapped memory with my wifes windows box) Can't get the memtest tools to compile under Mandrake, failing to link to the maths library for some reason (and the make needs to be run as root which is bad). > The other thing I have seen > is that sometimes running mem at a slower speed works as well. (bad bit > at 133 but not at 100). As for DDR memory... haven't got any so don't > know. After spending a good hour on the phone to PC world who siad they can't diagnose the problem unless I'm running windows I swapped the sticks. Hopefully this should solve the problem. My college will find out how well Windows will cope soon. > > James > > On Tue, 2002-12-03 at 08:50, Alex Bennee wrote: > > On Tue, 2002-12-03 at 13:05, Alex Bennee wrote: > > > > > > bit can cause the machine to lock up completely and mess with > > > X windows Ctrl-Alt-BS. I'll re-run memtest tonight and see if the > > > results are consistent in failing. > > > > I know i've got a memory problem but the Ctrl-Alt-Backspace is not > > related. Its seems to be a power save feature (it works even in Grub) > > but Windows seems to disable it by the time it boots. I've tried both > > noapic and apm=off kernel options but I still cannot disable it. I can't > > help feeling the two may be related, although I did seem to be able to > > kill X without killing the machine once its hardly consistent. > > > > -- > > Alex Bennee > > Senior Hacker, Braddahead Ltd > > The above is probably my personal opinion and may not be that of my > > employer > > > > > > > > > > > Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? > > Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com > > > > > > Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? > Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com -- Alex Bennee Senior Hacker, Braddahead Ltd The above is probably my personal opinion and may not be that of my employer Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Disable power-managment hi-jacking ofCtrl-Alt-Backspace?
On Tue, 2002-12-03 at 13:05, Alex Bennee wrote: > > bit can cause the machine to lock up completely and mess with > X windows Ctrl-Alt-BS. I'll re-run memtest tonight and see if the > results are consistent in failing. I know i've got a memory problem but the Ctrl-Alt-Backspace is not related. Its seems to be a power save feature (it works even in Grub) but Windows seems to disable it by the time it boots. I've tried both noapic and apm=off kernel options but I still cannot disable it. I can't help feeling the two may be related, although I did seem to be able to kill X without killing the machine once its hardly consistent. -- Alex Bennee Senior Hacker, Braddahead Ltd The above is probably my personal opinion and may not be that of my employer Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Disable power-managment hi-jacking ofCtrl-Alt-Backspace?
On Mon, 2002-12-02 at 17:50, James Sparenberg wrote: > Alex, > >Had a box myself that started doing this a couple of months ago. > Turned out I had a bad block (sector? Transistor? not sure of the term) > appear in my memory but it was high up in the list. > Yep, turns out to be bad memory. Having said that the error address was quite high (single bit stuck, around 110M mark). It seems odd that just one (high) bit can cause the machine to lock up completely and mess with X windows Ctrl-Alt-BS. I'll re-run memtest tonight and see if the results are consistent in failing. I had a go at building the badmem tools and kernel patch but to no avail. Has anybody got experience with the badmem patches on Mandrake? -- Alex Bennee Senior Hacker, Braddahead Ltd The above is probably my personal opinion and may not be that of my employer Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[expert] Disable power-managment hi-jacking of Ctrl-Alt-Backspace?
Hi, Until today my box (MDK 9.0) had been running fine. Now it locks up hard at random points during the day requiring a power-cylcle to get it out of this state. I suspect that apmd may be the culprit but its hard to tell as I get no indication in the logs. One thing I have noticed though is the Ctrl-Alt-Backspace sequence that is usually reserved to kill X seems to put my machine into an halted state. The doesn't seem to be any way of disabling power managment from the BIOS and I have uninstalled apmd and apm-scripts and am still getting the same problem. Is there any way to stop this hi-jacking going on? Who's trapping it and killing my system? -- Alex Bennee Senior Hacker, Braddahead Ltd The above is probably my personal opinion and may not be that of my employer Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] grip
On Sat, 2002-11-30 at 10:14, villoing wrote: > How can I make informations contained in each track of a cd > recognizeable by grip ? > IIRC it should work out of the box. Otherwise check you DiskDB settings actually have cddb server to contact. You may want to change the command line to encode Oggs by default as well. > > > Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? > Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com -- Alex Bennee Senior Hacker, Braddahead Ltd The above is probably my personal opinion and may not be that of my employer Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] traffic control
On Tue, 2002-11-26 at 08:06, Martin Fahrendorf wrote: > It is realy a version mismatch. I grabed the tc-patch from > http://luxik.cdi.cz/~devik/qos/htb/ and replaced the patch in the src.rpm > with it and after a rebuild it runs like a charme. So it seems to be a bug > in the iproute2 package. Do you have any pointers to replacing patches for rebuilding src rpms? I've been meaning to try deviks connbytes patch but I wanted to do it in the context of the MDK RPM's without manually extracting source and patches and building from scratch. -- Alex Bennee Senior Hacker, Braddahead Ltd The above is probably my personal opinion and may not be that of my employer Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[expert] Reproducing supermount errors at will
I can now reliably break supermount by simply doing a I/O heavy copy of files from a CD sub directory which when finished leaves the directory I just copied accessible but the other disappeared. If if any of the kernel hackers want extra debug info then feel free to give me a shout. At the moment dmesg gives no hints. -- Alex Bennee Senior Hacker, Braddahead Ltd The above is probably my personal opinion and may not be that of my employer Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Avifile player
On Tue, 2002-11-12 at 02:22, Gary wrote: > Hi all, > > I just changed the video card to a nVidia NV11 (gforce 2 mx) 32mb and trying > to install avifile. > Could anyone who has installed avifile with this card let me know what files > you installed on Mdk9. > > [root@sandy avifile-cooker]# rpm -i avifile-player-0.7.18-1mdk.i586.rpm > error: failed dependencies: > libfontconfig.so.1 is needed by avifile-player-0.7.18-1mdk > [root@sandy avifile-cooker]# rpm -i libfontconfig1-2.0-4mdk.i586.rpm > error: failed dependencies: > fontconfig >= 2.0 is needed by libfontconfig1-2.0-4mdk > [root@sandy avifile-cooker]# rpm -i fontconfig-2.0-4mdk.i586.rpm > error: failed dependencies: > libfontconfig.so.1 is needed by fontconfig-2.0-4mdk > > Now am I or it confused?? This can happen with rpm (dependency hell). Make sure your urpm sources are correctly set up and do a "urpmi avifile-player" and let it sort it all out for you. Alternatively you can install all 3 packages at once "rpm -i pkg1 pkg2 pkg3" -- Alex Bennee Senior Hacker, Braddahead Ltd The above is my personal opinion and probably not the opinion or policy of my employer Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Quick fixes for problems in 9.0
On Wed, 2002-11-06 at 21:30, James Sparenberg wrote: > For all of those small but extremely annoying little problems that keep > coming up on this list. Someone has put together a page of "Quick > Hacks" to solve them. Thought others might me interested in it as well. > (Thanks to pclinuxonline.com I found this page.) > > http://www.pythonzero.org/ The anti-alias defaults fixed the occasional half-line fault I was seeing on my display (I guess you could call it smudging). I hope Mandrake tweak the default for 9.1. -- Alex Bennee Senior Hacker, Braddahead Ltd The above is my personal opinion and probably not the opinion or policy of my employer Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Problems with supermount?
On Wed, 2002-11-06 at 08:50, Mark Williamson wrote: > On Wed, 2002-11-06 at 18:32, James Sparenberg wrote: > > On Tue, 2002-11-05 at 12:21, Todd Lyons wrote: > > > > As I've been following this problem and in one and only one case do I > > have this problem I've noticed that it seems to be hardware specific. > > I've got 4 boxes running 9.0 without problems of this sort. 2 with > > samsung CD's one with a mitsumi slimline and One with an Asus CDRW. > > But, on my laptop with the compaq cdrom... it happens. What I'm > > wondering is if it is hardware related specifically to older or specific > > brands of cd drives? Maybe I'm barking up the wrong tree... > > > > Yes I have found this to be true as well, this works for me, as I am > running crap hardware.. First I pass ide=nodma using lilo and the > append line, then when booting up I use hdparm just to switch DMA on > just for the hard drive "hdparm -d1 /dev/hda" and this seems to work > quiet well.. > > I have tried other tricks through LILO like ide1=nodma but this not > work, and the fault remained..only through totally switching off the > IDE DMA and switching back on for the hard seems to work me... Is it not possible to turn DMA off with hdparm? > Has anyone else tried anything like this? I'll give it a try and see if it makes a difference. I too don't want to go through the hassle of manually mounting stuff, after all supermount is meant to be a differentiating feature right? I can supply my drive info if any supermount hackers want to work with me to find a better cure. According to the thread http://www.mail-archive.com/expert@;linux-mandrake.com/msg59783.html there is not much point reporting it to lkml. -- Alex Bennee Senior Hacker, Braddahead Ltd The above is my personal opinion and probably not the opinion or policy of my employer Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[expert] Problems with supermount?
I've been finding problems with supermount'ed CDROMs where it seems to forget media is inserted - or at least cannot find *some* of the files on it. This usually manifests itself by XMMS skipping a load of tracks that are there. An ls of the directory will list the files but with a "not found!" error message at the end. A dump of dmesg gives: UDF-fs DEBUG lowlevel.c:57:udf_get_last_session: XA disk: no, vol_desc_start=0 UDF-fs DEBUG super.c:1426:udf_read_super: Multi-session=0 UDF-fs DEBUG super.c:415:udf_vrs: Starting at sector 16 (2048 byte sectors) UDF-fs DEBUG super.c:442:udf_vrs: ISO9660 Primary Volume Descriptor found UDF-fs DEBUG super.c:445:udf_vrs: ISO9660 Supplementary Volume Descriptor found UDF-fs DEBUG super.c:451:udf_vrs: ISO9660 Volume Descriptor Set Terminator found UDF-fs: No VRS found ISO 9660 Extensions: Microsoft Joliet Level 3 ISOFS: changing to secondary root end_request: I/O error, dev 02:00 (floppy), sector 0 sr0: CDROM not ready. Make sure there is a disc in the drive. cdrom: open failed. sr0: CDROM not ready. Make sure there is a disc in the drive. cdrom: open failed. sr0: CDROM not ready. Make sure there is a disc in the drive. cdrom: open failed. sr0: CDROM not ready. Make sure there is a disc in the drive. cdrom: open failed. sr0: CDROM not ready. Make sure there is a disc in the drive. cdrom: open failed. end_request: I/O error, dev 02:00 (floppy), sector 0 sr0: CDROM not ready. Make sure there is a disc in the drive. cdrom: open failed. sr0: CDROM not ready. Make sure there is a disc in the drive. cdrom: open failed. sr0: CDROM not ready. Make sure there is a disc in the drive. cdrom: open failed. sr0: CDROM not ready. Make sure there is a disc in the drive. cdrom: open failed. sr0: CDROM not ready. Make sure there is a disc in the drive. cdrom: open failed. UDF-fs DEBUG lowlevel.c:57:udf_get_last_session: XA disk: no, vol_desc_start=0 UDF-fs DEBUG super.c:1426:udf_read_super: Multi-session=0 UDF-fs DEBUG super.c:415:udf_vrs: Starting at sector 16 (2048 byte sectors) UDF-fs DEBUG super.c:442:udf_vrs: ISO9660 Primary Volume Descriptor found UDF-fs DEBUG super.c:445:udf_vrs: ISO9660 Supplementary Volume Descriptor found UDF-fs DEBUG super.c:451:udf_vrs: ISO9660 Volume Descriptor Set Terminator found UDF-fs: No VRS found ISO 9660 Extensions: Microsoft Joliet Level 3 ISOFS: changing to secondary root Which doesn't tell me much. Any ideas? Where does the the sr0 come from, my CD-Burner is a different drive? -- Alex Bennee Senior Hacker, Braddahead Ltd The above is my personal opinion and probably not the opinion or policy of my employer Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Created rml's preempt patch for Dolphin (9.0)
On Mon, 2002-11-04 at 15:11, Jack Coates wrote: > On Mon, 2002-11-04 at 06:32, Alex Bennee wrote: > > > Does anyone know if Mandrake are intending to add this patch to their > > 2.4 kernels at a later date? > There are preempt-enabled kernels in testing at Mandrake Club, not sure > about MDK's intentions but I would expect that they're watching the club > to see what happens. Indeed, I'm now running the Mandrake Club preemptable kernel with the low latency patch. I think they also removed XFS due to a potential problem. I can still cause jerkiness with high disk IO though ( nice -n +19 cp -a /usr/src/linux .) which is a shame considering I'm running on a 2.something GHz machine with loads of memory. -- Alex Bennee Senior Hacker, Braddahead Ltd The above is my personal opinion and probably not the opinion or policy of my employer Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[expert] Created rml's preempt patch for Dolphin (9.0)
Hi, I was getting annoyed with xmms skipping badly when ever I was doing anything heavy with my machine (kernel compile or copying from CDROM). I suspect heavy I/O load. I've applied Robert Loves preemptable kernel patch to the stock Dolphin (9.0) kernel (2.4.19-16mdk). The only differences where: * non-mandrake arch specific changes are omitted * added include to supermount/dentry_operations.c so spin_locks correctly defined Be *warned* I have had one oops on shutdown so there may be some interactions with Mandrake patches that are undesirable. On the other hand responsiveness is *much* better even under heavy load. YMMV, its your kernel and your machine so don't blame me if this hoses it, however feedback appreciated if anyone can re-create the oopsen. Does anyone know if Mandrake are intending to add this patch to their 2.4 kernels at a later date? The diff can be found at http://www.bennee.com/~alex/software/patches/ Regards, Alex. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Problems with ethernet on startup?
On Mon, 2002-11-04 at 12:48, Mikko Lipasti wrote: > Hello Alex, > > What's the device at the other end of the RJ45 cable? According to > mii-tool manpage, some passive devices (such as one-speed hubs) don't > understand anything about auto-negotiating, which might confuse the nic > or the driver. I'd try hooking up with another hub or perhaps to > yourself w/ a crossover cable (you have two NICs, right?) Its a LinkSys 10/100 5 port Etherfast hub. I expect it probably is something to do with it but it *should* auto-sense. I've noticed the lights are on from as soon as the PC boots so it could be the driver is missing something by the time it loads? I will give it a go with another hub when I get a chance. Alex. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[expert] Problems with ethernet on startup?
Has anyone else been experiencing problems with ethernet on boot? Basically I have been unable to get DHCP based configuration working, probably because the network card doesn't start cleanly. I can resolve the problem by doing a: mii-tool -r -v mii-tool -R and waiting 60 seconds or so. Eventually the ethernet shows it is recieving packets. The weird thing is this lock up occurs on both the in-built rtl8139 ethernet and the PCI DP83815 (natsemi.o) so I'm unsure if this is entirely driver related. Any ideas before I just hack the mii-tool resets into the networking scripts? Alex. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
