Re: manipulating FPU rounding modes on alpha

2007-09-10 Thread Tyson Whitehead
this was not the original default and getting it this way was the solution to a lot of pain in the form of random SIGFPEs). -- Tyson Whitehead (-twhitehe at uwo.ca -- MC-) Computer Engineer Dept. of Applied Mathematics, Graduate Student- Applied Mathematics Univers

Re: gnumeric issue since libc6.1 upgrade

2007-08-28 Thread Tyson Whitehead
one doesn't (possibly because it relies on the hardware more). Not that it matters I guess. Later! -Tyson -- Tyson Whitehead (-twhitehe at uwo.ca -- MC-) Computer Engineer Dept. of Applied Mathematics, Graduate Student- Applied Mathematics Universit

Re: gnumeric issue since libc6.1 upgrade

2007-08-27 Thread Tyson Whitehead
s far as I can tell, is that since your upgrade, something is now caring (and specifically checking to see) that it cannot generate NaNs. -- Tyson Whitehead (-twhitehe at uwo.ca -- MC-) Computer Engineer Dept. of Applied Mathematics, Graduate Student- Applied Mathema

Re: gnumeric issue since libc6.1 upgrade

2007-08-27 Thread Tyson Whitehead
ce the math library is being implicated here... This comment might not be that relevant depending on what you are running, but what if you load the kernel math fixups (modprobe math-emu)? -- Tyson Whitehead (-twhitehe at uwo.ca -- MC-) Computer Engineer Dept. of App

Re: Soundconfig with etch

2007-05-02 Thread Tyson Whitehead
misc options snd-es18xx isapnp=0 [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ -- Tyson Whitehead (-twhitehe at uwo.ca -- MC-) Computer Engineer Dept. of Applied Mathematics, Graduate Student- Applied Mathematics University of Western Ontario, GnuPG Key ID# 0xF7666BFF London, Ont

Re: floor() broken on EV4?

2007-02-20 Thread Tyson Whitehead
guess it was split off sometime on the road to 2.6. Maybe the config option didn't exist before, or maybe Debian kernels just used to compile it in by default. -Tyson -- Tyson Whitehead (-twhitehe at uwo.ca -- MC-) Computer Engineer Dept. of Applied Mathe

Re: floor() broken on EV4?

2007-02-11 Thread Tyson Whitehead
ite behaviour is to also to always return zero. I wonder if it is the same thing that is effecting the EV4. Could all kernel math fixups be MIA due to the same thing? Later! -T -- Tyson Whitehead (-twhitehe at uwo.ca -- MC-) Computer Engineer Dept. of Applie

Re: GCL/maxima/axiom/acl2, denormalized floats, and alpha

2006-10-18 Thread Tyson Whitehead
s had been broken in later kernels. (see the thread "Kernel IEEE Math Completion (everything is zeroed!?!)" at "http://lists.debian.org/debian-alpha/2006/06/";) That long and the short is that we figured out that it was busted somewhere between 2.4.27 and 2.6.16, but no solutio

Re: RES: State of XOrg in testing/unstable

2006-10-13 Thread Tyson Whitehead
logies Inc 3D Rage Pro 215GP rev 92, Mem @ 0x09 00/24, 0x0a803000/12, I/O @ 0x8400/8, BIOS @ 0x8000/17 Good luck! -T -- Tyson Whitehead (-twhitehe at uwo.ca -- MC-) Computer Engineer Dept. of Applied Mathematics, Graduate Student- Applied Mathematics Univ

Re: Kernel IEEE Math Completion (everything is zeroed!?!)

2006-06-18 Thread Tyson Whitehead
On Wed June 14 2006 22:48, Tyson Whitehead wrote: > I've also apt got kernel-image-2.4.27, but the reboot will have to till I'm > actually physically present (for sure either the qlogic driver or udev will > require manual intervention and a few boots to get straight). : ) Oka

Re: Kernel IEEE Math Completion (everything is zeroed!?!)

2006-06-14 Thread Tyson Whitehead
(Debian 1:3.3.5-13)) #1 SMP Tue Nov 22 21:17:09 UTC 2005 gcc (GCC) 3.3.5 (Debian 1:3.3.5-13) cpu model : EV56 cpu variation : 7 It does look like things indeed used to work... I'll send another email once I have a chance to boot an older kernel. Thanks! -T --

Re: Kernel IEEE Math Completion (everything is zeroed!?!)

2006-06-14 Thread Tyson Whitehead
CPU might be an EV6 (or later), and so on your box it is being done correctly in hardware? Maybe my memory is just bad and the Linux kernel's idea of a floating point fixup has always been to just zero the registers? Thanks for checking! -T -- Tyson Whitehead (-twhitehe at uwo.ca

Kernel IEEE Math Completion (everything is zeroed!?!)

2006-06-14 Thread Tyson Whitehead
ndering if something has changed in the IEEE floating point fixup code in newer kernels. Unfortunately, I'm stuck at 2.6.15 or greater due to new udev requirements (and only 2.6.16 is available), but is there anyone else out there running an older kernel (maybe even 2.4) that could give this a

Re: Xorg upgrade: 6.9.x to 7.0.x

2006-06-10 Thread Tyson Whitehead
could see on the Debian packages page, it looks like stable is running xfree... -- Tyson Whitehead (-twhitehe at uwo.ca -- WSC-) Computer Engineer Dept. of Applied Mathematics, Graduate Student- Applied Mathematics University of Western Ontario, GnuPG Ke

Re: Xorg upgrade: 6.9.x to 7.0.x

2006-06-09 Thread Tyson Whitehead
0.4-3 X.Org X server -- mouse input driver ii xserver-xorg-video-ati 6.5.8.0-1 X.Org X server -- ATI display driver -- Tyson Whitehead (-twhitehe at uwo.ca -- WSC-) Computer Engineer Dept. of Applied Mathematics, Graduate Student- Applied Mathema

Re: apt and kernel updates

2006-06-09 Thread Tyson Whitehead
command "b [parition]/ initrd=" (there are other commands for listing files, and so on). Later! -T -- Tyson Whitehead (-twhitehe at uwo.ca -- WSC-) Computer Engineer Dept. of Applied Mathematics, Graduate Student- Applied Mathematics University of Weste

Re: updated kernels / miata sound

2006-06-06 Thread Tyson Whitehead
image ("find . | cpio -o | gzip > " -- creates an image from the current directory). You can do similair stuff with the other initrd builders (include possibly just having to editing the configuration file). -T -- Tyson Whitehead (-twhitehe at uwo.ca -- WSC-) Computer Engineer

Re: updated kernels / miata sound

2006-06-06 Thread Tyson Whitehead
module has recently been superceeded by the qla1280 module (the more robust qla1280 was recently extended to handle the qlogic chips, as the qlogic driver was lacking [at least] proper error handling). -T -- Tyson Whitehead (-twhitehe at uwo.ca -- WSC-) Computer Engineer

Re: updated kernels / miata sound

2006-06-05 Thread Tyson Whitehead
mages (2.6.16). They are available on my box ("whitehead.apmaths.uwo.ca/~tyson"). The patched "snd-es18xx" works for me. However, 2.6.16 gives me the inconsistent page stuff when "aplay /usr/share/sounds/KDE_Startup.wav" finishes for both eh "snd-es18

ALSA and Sounds on the Alphas

2006-06-02 Thread Tyson Whitehead
to talking over net sockets). PS#2: I resolved the dependency requires/conflict problem in the 2.6.14 kernel package on my box. Unfortunately, the latest version of udev now appears to require 2.5.15 or higher (which is why my box didn't come back up from my last remote reboot) -- I&#x

Re: updated kernels / miata sound

2006-05-28 Thread Tyson Whitehead
me doesn't work for you guys. -T PS: I guess it is also possible that something changed -- Tyson Whitehead (-twhitehe at uwo.ca -- WSC-) Computer Engineer Dept. of Applied Mathematics, Graduate Student- Applied Mathematics University of Western Ontario, Gn

Re: updated kernels / miata sound

2006-05-26 Thread Tyson Whitehead
rementing relatively quickly and everything else staying pretty much stable (except the clock of course)? Before I came up with my patch it used to stay fixed. -T PS: I see there is also an "#undef REG_DEBUG" in the code. It looks like if you change that to a "#define RE

Re: updated kernels / miata sound

2006-05-25 Thread Tyson Whitehead
river with the "isapnp=0" option. As to kernel versions I would not recommend anything earlier than 2.6.14 as that was the earliest release for which all the udev issues were finally sorted out. I haven't tried anything newer as I have not needed to. Let me know how it goes! -T

Re: swriteboot vs debian installer wrt Tru64 disklabel

2006-03-14 Thread Tyson Whitehead
the other entries). Linux doesn't require this. Maybe something is screwy between this. Later! -T -- Tyson Whitehead (-twhitehe at uwo.ca -- WSC-) Computer Engineer Dept. of Applied Mathematics, Graduate Student- Applied Mathematics University o

Re: Smaller?

2006-02-11 Thread Tyson Whitehead
ering about some circulair dependency problem with the ext2 utilities, I also managed to get around that by manual downloading and installing one or both of the packages that were causing the loop (if you are doing a manual install with dpkg there is a --force option you can use to cause it to

Re: DS20 Worth trying ?

2006-02-10 Thread Tyson Whitehead
I guess I should probably open a seperate bug report. https://bugtrack.alsa-project.org/alsa-bug/view.php?id=1246 It would be nice to know why the code was ifdefed out in the first place... -T -- Tyson Whitehead (-twhitehe at uwo.ca -- WSC-) Computer Engineer Dept.

Re: Which video card is supported for a DEC Alpha?

2006-02-09 Thread Tyson Whitehead
ags: bus master, stepping, medium devsel, latency 255, IRQ 44 Memory at 0900 (32-bit, prefetchable) [size=16M] I/O ports at 8400 [size=256] Memory at 0a801000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=4K] Expansion ROM at 0a00 [disabled] [size=128K]

Re: hdc : lost interrupt ????

2006-02-03 Thread Tyson Whitehead
t that is as buggy as I'll get out. Maybe try the ide_generic module. It works for me on 2.6.14. I stopped using the cmd64x module quite a while ago. It enabled DMAing, which resulted in random corruption on my backup IDE harddisk. Maybe enabling it has some sort of interupt problem as

Re: DS20 Worth trying ?

2006-02-01 Thread Tyson Whitehead
specific problem. I'm running an almost stock 2.6.14 (a specially patched alsa driver) with the Debian unstable distribution. I have an ATI 3D Rage Pro 215GP (rev 5c) PCI card in my 500au running in 24 bit color mode (32 bits in the frame buffer). No problems with any KDE applications (or Gnom

Re: "no link beat found" on digital alpha-station 255

2006-01-24 Thread Tyson Whitehead
our kernel (only the very latest 2.6 kernel versions export all the information required by the latest udev to user space). -T -- Tyson Whitehead (-twhitehe at uwo.ca -- WSC-) Computer Engineer Dept. of Applied Mathematics, Graduate Student- Applied Mathematics

Re: multiple 2.6.8-2 issues

2005-12-23 Thread Tyson Whitehead
s recent a kernel as 2.6.12 there seems to be a disagreement with udev and the kernel on how the kernel event's socket interface coexists with its /proc/sys/kernel/hotplug interface -- events get dropped). -- Tyson Whitehead (-twhitehe at uwo.ca -- WSC-) Computer Engineer

Re: multiple 2.6.8-2 issues

2005-12-22 Thread Tyson Whitehead
orrupts random data on my IDE harddisk). Later! -T PS: My machine is as PWS500au. -- Tyson Whitehead (-twhitehe at uwo.ca -- WSC-) Computer Engineer Dept. of Applied Mathematics, Graduate Student- Applied Mathematics University of Western Ontario, GnuPG Key

Re: Debian 3.1 kde problem

2005-12-08 Thread Tyson Whitehead
ow. That sounds very odd. I don't know what is going on, but I would naively guess something along the lines of gamma correction screwing up. Possibly differences in QT's and GNOME's gamma handling results in the one tripping up on something specific with this setup one but not th

Re: SIGFPE

2005-10-07 Thread Tyson Whitehead
ch with -u2 in the first place. Sorry about that folks. *sigh* Guess everything should sort itself automatically as stuff is rebuilt. Thanks to all for the quick replies! Later -T -- Tyson Whitehead ([EMAIL PROTECTED] -- WSC-) Computer Engineer Dept. of Appli

SIGFPE

2005-10-07 Thread Tyson Whitehead
ch program and its libraries 'OKAY' if the math is all integer or trapped and 'FAIL' otherwise. -- Tyson Whitehead ([EMAIL PROTECTED] -- WSC-) Computer Engineer Dept. of Applied Mathematics, Graduate Student- Applied Mathematics University of W

Re: fakeroot causing package building problems?

2005-08-31 Thread Tyson Whitehead
u'ed to root and completed the build without fakeroot. If you've got root on your machine, maybe you could take that route The.man page pkg-buildpackage also suggests sudo, super, or really. Later! -T -- Tyson Whitehead ([EMAIL PROTECTED] -- WSC-) Computer Engineer

Re: Finished threads remain as zombies on 2.6?

2005-08-29 Thread Tyson Whitehead
n zombie threads. It does produce the different proc accounting though. -T -- Tyson Whitehead ([EMAIL PROTECTED] -- WSC-) Computer Engineer Dept. of Applied Mathematics, Graduate Student- Applied Mathematics University of Western Ontario, GnuPG Key ID# 0x8A2A

Re: Finished threads remain as zombies on 2.6?

2005-08-29 Thread Tyson Whitehead
s to using NPTL? I had assumed they were all using it by now. -T -- Tyson Whitehead ([EMAIL PROTECTED] -- WSC-) Computer Engineer Dept. of Applied Mathematics, Graduate Student- Applied Mathematics University of Western Ontario, GnuPG Key ID# 0x8A2AB5D8

More Alpha Proc Issues (wchan entries)

2005-08-29 Thread Tyson Whitehead
/proc/kallsyms). -T -- Tyson Whitehead ([EMAIL PROTECTED] -- WSC-) Computer Engineer Dept. of Applied Mathematics, Graduate Student- Applied Mathematics University of Western Ontario, GnuPG Key ID# 0x8A2AB5D8 London, Ontario, C

Re: Finished threads remain as zombies on 2.6?

2005-08-29 Thread Tyson Whitehead
s some bugs that are marked as fixed-upstream: -Fix broken pthread_cleanup_push on Alpha. (Closes: #197988) The proc weirdness issue (not differentiating between threads and processes), still exists when using the earlier libraries. I wonder if that is a pthreads issue or a kernel one

Re: Finished threads remain as zombies on 2.6?

2005-08-28 Thread Tyson Whitehead
/). Weired. Is pthread implemented significantly different on the Alpha (i.e., spawning full process instead of light weight ones), or is the kernel just messed up? Later -T PS: compile with "gcc -o threadtest threadtest.c -lpthread" -- Tyson Whitehead ([EMAIL PROTECTED] --

Re: modules.conf maintenance

2005-06-20 Thread Tyson Whitehead
eah. The boot scripts also load all the modules listed in "/etc/modules" on start up. This is useful if you don't have hardware detection and/or want something other than the default driver loaded. - -- Tyson Whitehead ([EMAIL PROTECTED] -- WSC-) Computer Engineer

Re: ISA and ES18XX Patches for Alpha

2005-06-07 Thread Tyson Whitehead
e nice debs you can just install with "dpkg -i". Zap "kernel-image-" to recover your disk space. Later & Good Luck! -T (email me if you have any more questions) PS: I CCed this to this list because someone on it a while ago was asking about the second patch an

Printing in KDE Broken?

2005-06-01 Thread Tyson Whitehead
(I did an update to the latest unstable this morning -- that didn't help)? Thanks! -T - -- Tyson Whitehead (-twhitehe at uwo.ca -- WSC-) Computer EngineerDept. of Applied Mathematics, Graduate Student- Applied MathematicsUniversity of Western Ontario, GnuPG Key

Re: Kernel upgrade

2005-03-08 Thread Tyson Whitehead
system)... - -- Tyson Whitehead ([EMAIL PROTECTED] -- WSC-) Computer Engineer Dept. of Applied Mathematics, Graduate Student- Applied Mathematics University of Western Ontario, GnuPG Key ID# 0x8A2AB5D8 London, Ontario, Canada -BEGIN PGP

Re: Still X - problems

2005-03-07 Thread Tyson Whitehead
thing comes with a 2.6 kernel and the ps_mouse module. You appear to be running a 2.2 (you may want to update that *grin*), so I'm guessing you want a different mouse device (such as /dev/psaux for a PS/2 mouse or /dev/ttyS0 [or ttyS1] for serial mouse, etc). - -T - -- Tyson Whitehea

ES18XX

2005-02-08 Thread Tyson Whitehead
". Thanks! -T - -- Tyson Whitehead (-twhitehe at uwo.ca -- WSC-) Computer EngineerDept. of Applied Mathematics, Graduate Student- Applied MathematicsUniversity of Western Ontario, GnuPG Key ID# 0x8A2AB5D8 London, Ontario, Canada

Re: Please test new kernel-image-2.6.10-alpha packages

2005-02-08 Thread Tyson Whitehead
Fast-wide SCSI (rev 05)). Thanks for the work. It's great to feel like your SCSI controller is being supported again. *grin* - -T - -- Tyson Whitehead (-twhitehe at uwo.ca -- WSC-) Computer EngineerDept. of Applied Mathematics, Graduate Student- Applied Mathemat

Re: loadmodules file in initrd.img contains 'modprobe qlogicisp' - WAS: Please test new kernel-image-2.6.10-alpha packages (fwd)

2005-02-04 Thread Tyson Whitehead
;MODULES=dep" in "/etc/mkinitrd/mkinitrd.conf" (disables auto determination of the modules) and then reinstall the kernel image (i.e., rebuild the initrd file). - -T - -- Tyson Whitehead (-twhitehe at uwo.ca -- WSC-) Computer EngineerDept. of Appl

Re: New Installer & ReiserFS

2005-01-17 Thread Tyson Whitehead
able on the Alpha at one time (2.4.18 and earlier to be specific). That was quite a while ago though, so it would be good to know if anyone has had any problems since then. Thanks! - -T - -- Tyson Whitehead (-twhitehe at uwo.ca -- WSC-) Computer EngineerDept.

Re: New Installer & ReiserFS

2005-01-17 Thread Tyson Whitehead
-pre4/ext3: Fix out-of-inodes handling o 2.4.20-pre4/ext3: fsync optimisation o 2.4.20-pre4/ext3: Fix truncate restart error o 2.4.20-pre4/ext3: Performance fix for O_SYNC behaviour o ext3 __FUNCTION__ usage in 2.4 - -- Tyson Whitehead (-twhitehe at uwo.ca -- WSC-) Computer Engineer

Re: New Installer & ReiserFS

2005-01-13 Thread Tyson Whitehead
entioned ISO. ReiserFS went on no problem. That new partitioning system is sure slick! PPS: On another positive front, after reading the maillists, I would have to say that the new amd64/em64 stuff is really doing a lot for pushing for 64bit cleanliness... - -- Tyson White

New Installer & ReiserFS

2005-01-13 Thread Tyson Whitehead
there should be a note somewhere in the guide that says you (or at least I had to) to pass "root=/dev/ram ramdisk_size=16384 devfs=mount,dall" in the flags when booting off a network device to do a bootp/tftp install... - -- Tyson Whitehead (-twhitehe at uwo.ca -- WSC-) Computer Eng

Re: USB Hardware

2004-12-09 Thread Tyson Whitehead
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Thanks for all the USB info responsesl Have a good X-Mas all! - -T - -- Tyson Whitehead (-twhitehe at uwo.ca -- WSC-) Computer EngineerDept. of Applied Mathematics, Graduate Student- Applied MathematicsUniversity of

USB Hardware

2004-12-05 Thread Tyson Whitehead
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Does anyone have some advice about what type of USB PCI card to get (so I can expect it to work under Debian on a PWS500au). I recall someone saying a while ago that USB under Alpha was not so well supported? Thanks! - -T - -- Tyson Whitehead

Re: updated kernels / miata sound?

2004-11-26 Thread Tyson Whitehead
out this patch, it just endlessly plays the first 0.5s of sound). After a certain version (2.6.8 and greater I think) you also have add an include line into one of the files to get it to compile (I think it was '#include ' in pcm_native.c or '#include ' in pcm_memory.c -

Re: ES18xx with alsa-sound and kernel-2.6.x ?

2004-10-28 Thread Tyson Whitehead
to get it to compile (I think it was '#include ' in pcm_native.c or '#include ' in pcm_memory.c -- that's really stretching the memory though). Later! - -T - -- Tyson Whitehead (-twhitehe at uwo.ca -- WSC-) Computer EngineerDept. of App

Re: new guy again

2004-10-23 Thread Tyson Whitehead
ci cards you have. Do a 'dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xfree86' to redo your X configuration. - -T PS: A 'cat /var/log/XFree.0.log' will give you more info on why the X server failed. - -- Tyson Whitehead ([EMAIL PROTECTED] -- WSC-) Computer Engineer

Re: audio playback with 2.6.8 kernel....

2004-10-10 Thread Tyson Whitehead
figure xfree86-common" would help... - -T - -- Tyson Whitehead ([EMAIL PROTECTED] -- WSC-) Computer Engineer Dept. of Applied Mathematics, Graduate Student- Applied Mathematics University of Western Ontario, GnuPG Key ID# 0x8A2AB5D8 Londo

Re: reiser4 kernel patch....

2004-09-09 Thread Tyson Whitehead
I'm thinking the the mm4 solution, ifdefing it out, may result in Reiser4 filesystems created on 64bit platforms not being compatible with those on 32bit... Yur __attribute__((packed)) would be the correct solution in this case. - -T - -- Tyson Whitehead ([EMAIL PROTECTED] -- WS

Re: reiser4 kernel patch....

2004-09-09 Thread Tyson Whitehead
actually try the resulting drivers though, so don't know about runtime. Maybe you want to try that. I also have a vague recollection, from reading newsgroups, about something about needing to having to have the new 8K stacks enabled (or something like that) -- don't know any de

Re: Re: Re: Miata

2004-07-02 Thread Tyson Whitehead
sibly it's something to do with isapnp that's brings down your box (i.e. maybe it will load without crashing your box if you do a 'modprobe es18xx isapnp=0')? - -T - -- Tyson Whitehead ([EMAIL PROTECTED] -- WSC-) Computer EngineerDept. of Applied Mathemati

Re: Miata & Kernel 2.6.x

2004-06-22 Thread Tyson Whitehead
-T PS: If that works (i.e. the module loads with out it crashing), but you then get play back looping, I have a patch. - -- Tyson Whitehead ([EMAIL PROTECTED] -- WSC-) Computer EngineerDept. of Applied Mathematics, Graduate Student- Applied MathematicsUniversity

Re: Strange SCSI controller

2004-06-21 Thread Tyson Whitehead
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On June 21, 2004 20:59, Steve Langasek wrote: > On Wed, Jun 16, 2004 at 04:47:36PM -0400, Tyson Whitehead wrote: > > Now if we can get whatever patch is stopping my CMD IDE controller from > > working revoked as well, and my ALSA patch

Re: kernel-image-2.6.6-1-generic problems

2004-06-21 Thread Tyson Whitehead
too. Probably you have the 18MB libc thing (i.e. one version of it was not stripped). If that's the case, just do an update. - -T - -- Tyson Whitehead ([EMAIL PROTECTED] -- WSC-) Computer Engineer Dept. of Applied Mathematics, Graduate Student- Applied M

Re: kernel-image packages for alpha in need of testing

2004-06-20 Thread Tyson Whitehead
142 Serial PHY (2) block. tulip0: Index #3 - Media AUI (#2) described by a 21142 Serial PHY (2) block. tulip0: Index #4 - Media MII (#11) described by a 21142 MII PHY (3) block. tulip0: MII transceiver #5 config status 784d advertising 01e1. eth0: Digital DS21143 Tulip rev 48 at 0x9000, 00:00

Re: kernel-image packages for alpha in need of testing

2004-06-19 Thread Tyson Whitehead
t the Debian kernel source of interest and download a corresponding stock copy from kernel.org as well. Copy 'arch/alpha/kernel/core_cia.c' from the stock kernel to the Debian kernel and build away. - -T - -- Tyson Whitehead ([EMAIL PROTECTED] -- WSC-) Computer Engineer

Re: Miata & Kernel 2.6.x

2004-06-18 Thread Tyson Whitehead
artition to hold kernel images to boot. Root and the rest of my system is reiserfs. PPPS: I did have problems with the CMD646 controller (on the motherboard) corrupting my IDE drives. - -- Tyson Whitehead ([EMAIL PROTECTED] -- WSC-) Computer EngineerDept. of App

Re: Strange SCSI controller

2004-06-16 Thread Tyson Whitehead
hnology Inc) PCI0646 (rev 01) - -- Tyson Whitehead ([EMAIL PROTECTED] -- WSC-) Computer EngineerDept. of Applied Mathematics, Graduate Student- Applied MathematicsUniversity of Western Ontario, GnuPG Key ID# 0x8A2AB5D8 London, Ontario, Canada ---

Re: kernel-image packages for alpha in need of testing

2004-06-12 Thread Tyson Whitehead
ils about it a while ago. Did an update the other day, and the current version (unstable) seems to be stripped again (18MB->1MB). - -T - -- Tyson Whitehead ([EMAIL PROTECTED] -- WSC-) Computer Engineer Dept. of Applied Mathematics, Graduate Student- Ap

Re: Strange SCSI controller

2004-06-12 Thread Tyson Whitehead
ver you could get (just do a search on google and you will see people being constantly referenced to it). The company/link seems to have gone under though. - -T - -- Tyson Whitehead ([EMAIL PROTECTED] -- WSC-) Computer Engineer Dept. of Applied Mathematics

Re: Alpha Miata IDE disk problem

2004-05-05 Thread Tyson Whitehead
stem or a different IDE controller. - -T - -- Tyson Whitehead ([EMAIL PROTECTED] -- WSC-) Computer Engineer Dept. of Applied Mathematics, Graduate Student- Applied Mathematics University of Western Ontario, GnuPG Key ID# 0x8A2AB5D8 London, Ontario

Re: Recent kernels and DMA/Interrupt problems

2004-04-24 Thread Tyson Whitehead
ll (PWS500au). Got around them by custom compiling a kernel without my specific chipset support (i.e. just generic IDE support). I guess the IDE controller (a CMD646) is pretty buggy and removing support for it from my kernel stops the enabling of anything other than the most generic features.

Monitoring Files

2004-04-07 Thread Tyson Whitehead
80]: opened pipe famd[3380]: New DirWatch for /etc (802 6c1) famd[3380]: New FileWatch for 802 1e191 famd[3380]: told dnotify to monitor "/etc/mtab" = dev 8/2, ino 123281 famd[3380]: Setting groups to: 501 famd[3380]: Setting egid to 501 famd[3380]: Setting euid to 702 famd[3380]: ex

Re: How to handle the -mieee SIGFPE problem in normal Debian packages

2004-02-11 Thread Tyson Whitehead
t know what gcc is used on the boxes used to compile the packages, but gcc-3.3 in the testing distribution has already been patched (a patched gcc is easily identified by checking the gcc man page for a DEBIAN SPECIFIC part under -mieee). - -- Tyson Whitehead ([EMAIL PROTECTED] -- WSC-) Comp

Re: How to handle the -mieee SIGFPE problem in normal Debian packages

2004-02-11 Thread Tyson Whitehead
f the code only does finite math, and you wish to generate (potentially) more optimized code specify - -ffinite-math-only. (if code that requires support for NaNs and infs is being compiled with - -ffinite-math-only, then it is time for a bug report *grin*) - -T - -- Tyson Whitehead ([

IEEE Floating Point on Alpha

2004-01-09 Thread Tyson Whitehead
h.o to be linked into the resulting executable. This code sets the FPU to map denormals and underflows to zero (i.e. code compiled with -ffast-math does not SIGFPE over denormals). - -- Tyson Whitehead ([EMAIL PROTECTED] -- WSC-) Computer EngineerDept. of Applied Math

Re: SIGFPE resolution?

2003-11-20 Thread Tyson Whitehead
/lib/gcc-3.x.x/specs file... *grin* (for the curious, the patch doesn't work this way, as I couldn't figure out how to do it in an architecture clean way at the GCC source level) -- Tyson Whitehead ([EMAIL PROTECTED] -- WSC-) Computer EngineerDept. of Applied M

Re: Rookie questions

2003-11-11 Thread Tyson Whitehead
;t work ( In KDE 3.0.1 instead it works very fine) Emacs defaults to no mouse wheel. You can turn it on. M-x customize Pick Environment. Pick Mouse. Toggle Mouse Wheel Mode. Pick Save for Future Sessions and Set for Current Session. -T -- Tyson Whitehead ([EMAIL PROTECTED] -- WS

Re: boot time order of scsi disks

2003-11-04 Thread Tyson Whitehead
If you compile the drivers as modules you can probably determine the order they appear in by setting the order in which you load the drivers. Doing this will probably require editing your /boot/initrd.img-2.4.xx image. -T -- Tyson Whitehead ([EMAIL PROTECTED] -- WSC-) Computer Engineer

Re: boot a newer kernel than a 2.2.x

2003-10-28 Thread Tyson Whitehead
The 500au's have a pretty buggy IDE controller (the CMD646). You might want to try a kernel that has not been compiled generic IDE support to stop automatic enabling of DMAs, etc. I know stock 2.4.21 dies if I compile in CMD support. -T -- Tyson Whitehead ([EMAIL PROTECTED] -

Re: Debian alpha install with reiserfs support

2003-10-28 Thread Tyson Whitehead
o the console, resize the second partition and then use resize_reiserfs to extend the file system to fill it up. -- Tyson Whitehead ([EMAIL PROTECTED] -- WSC-) Computer EngineerDept. of Applied Mathematics, Graduate Student- Applied MathematicsUniversity of Weste

Re: Bug#212912: gcc-3.3: [alpha] Linux linker/loader does not support -mieee-conformant

2003-10-06 Thread Tyson Whitehead
that's the case, the patch would be OK with me, > since actually also very little code needs high floating point > performance. I don't have time right now to look at any more GCC code, but from what I have seen, the OVERRIDE_OPTIONS macro looks like it might do what you are lo

Re: No sound on PWS500au (miata)

2003-10-02 Thread Tyson Whitehead
o the ALSA developer group a few months ago, but don't know if anything was ever made of it. Possibly it could also be of some relivance to anyone interested in 2.5/2.6 kernels (didn't Linus make ALSA the official sound system somewhere in the 2.5 releases) on the PWS500's. -T --

Re: How to stop boot in SRM ??

2003-09-25 Thread Tyson Whitehead
to get into SRM and aboot starts to load the kernel image, you still have a chance. Ctrl+p (if I recall correctly) will get aboot to abort and give you back control... -T -- Tyson Whitehead ([EMAIL PROTECTED] -- WSC-) Computer EngineerDept. of Applied Mathematics, Gradu

Re: SRM_ENV Module Question

2003-09-08 Thread Tyson Whitehead
On Friday 01 August 2003 02:39, Jan-Benedict Glaw wrote: > On Thu, 2003-07-31 12:47:01 -0400, Tyson Whitehead <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > Does anyone know how to clear/unset SRM variables using the SRM_ENV > > module? > > What machine is it? What SRM version do you have? A

Re: Konqueror and Javascript

2003-09-04 Thread Tyson Whitehead
en version to stop apt-get from replacing them on you. For example: Package: kdelibs-bin Pin: version 3.1.1-1 -T PS: Pinning a package overflows to other packages through package dependencies. -- Tyson Whitehead ([EMAIL PROTECTED] -- WSC-) Computer EngineerDep

Re: Konqueror and Javascript

2003-08-27 Thread Tyson Whitehead
- indeed, I *intend* for it to be difficult. r~ END: Richard I responded (July 23): BEGIN: Tyson Whitehead > (1) This has been the status quo on alpha since the beginning of time. > Not just with GCC, but with DEC C as well. Why change now? Default IEEE vs d

Re: evolution , mozilla, -segfaults with -unstable update?

2003-08-27 Thread Tyson Whitehead
cle (unstable) a working version would once again appear on my system. It's been quite a while now. Am I mistaken in this assumption? -T -- Tyson Whitehead ([EMAIL PROTECTED] -- WSC-) Computer EngineerDept. of Applied Mathematics, Graduate Student- Applied Mat

Re: Miata MX, can't boot past 2.4.18

2003-08-21 Thread Tyson Whitehead
py a couple of files back and forth *grin*). Later -T -- Tyson Whitehead ([EMAIL PROTECTED] -- WSC-) Computer EngineerDept. of Applied Mathematics, Graduate Student- Applied MathematicsUniversity of Western Ontario, GnuPG Key ID# 0x8A2AB5D8 London, Ontario, Canada

SRM_ENV Module Question

2003-07-31 Thread Tyson Whitehead
Does anyone know how to clear/unset SRM variables using the SRM_ENV module? The only thinking I could think of, 'echo -n >/proc/srm_environment/named_variables/boot_osflags', doesn't seem to work... Thanks & Later -T -- Tyson Whitehead ([EMAIL PROTECTED] -- WS

Re: Kernel trouble again, 2.6.0-test

2003-07-24 Thread Tyson Whitehead
lation. (I think 'make help', or something like that, will give you the options) Later -T -- Tyson Whitehead ([EMAIL PROTECTED] -- WSC-) Computer Engineer Dept. of Applied Mathematics, Graduate Student- Applied Mathematics University of Western O

Re: artsd on alpha

2003-07-17 Thread Tyson Whitehead
ies it depends on needs to be recompiled with -mieee. See the eariler thread on SIGFPE and -mieee (starts in June) on lists.debian.org/debian-alpha for more info. Later -T -- Tyson Whitehead ([EMAIL PROTECTED] -- WSC-) Computer EngineerDept. of Applied Mathematics,

Re: AW: installing kernel-image

2003-07-15 Thread Tyson Whitehead
ion number is given as the second paramater. The program modifies the configuration info in the aboot image that resides on the first several sectors of the drive. -- Tyson Whitehead ([EMAIL PROTECTED] -- WSC-) Computer EngineerDept. of Applied Mathematics, Graduate St

Re: AW: installing kernel-image

2003-07-15 Thread Tyson Whitehead
that your newly installed aboot is configured by default to look for your /etc/aboot.conf file on the first partition. Use 'abootconf /dev/sda 2' to change that to the second partition. You will have to change the /dev/sda bit to your correct boot device. -T -- Tyson Whitehead ([EM

Re: PWS500au Mic

2003-07-14 Thread Tyson Whitehead
've checked > the volumes, and they're set properly. If you are using the ALSA drivers (don't know about OSS) you have to turn on capturing on the right line. Run alsamixer and press space on the line you want to capture (in your case, probably either Mic or Line). -T -- Tyson W

Re: SIGFPE and -mieee

2003-07-05 Thread Tyson Whitehead
expert) a very clear break in the compiler between the intermediate RTL code (on which optimization, etc, are performed) and the final translation into actual machine specific assembler. Later -T -- Tyson Whitehead ([EMAIL PROTECTED] -- WSC-) Computer Engineer

Re: SIGFPE and -mieee

2003-07-05 Thread Tyson Whitehead
package maintainers. *grin* -- Tyson Whitehead ([EMAIL PROTECTED] -- WSC-) Computer EngineerDept. of Applied Mathematics, Graduate Student- Applied MathematicsUniversity of Western Ontario, GnuPG Key ID# 0x8A2AB5D8 London, Ontario, Canada

Re: SIGFPE and -mieee

2003-07-05 Thread Tyson Whitehead
rt against gcc, shortly. Comments? Suggestions? Thanks -T PS: Incidentally, I checked both LAPACK and BLAS (on which ATLAS is based). They are currently both being compiled with -mieee. -- Tyson Whitehead ([EMAIL PROTECTED] -- WSC-) Computer EngineerDept.

Re: Konqueror and Javascript

2003-07-03 Thread Tyson Whitehead
round the KDE metaclass build problems. -- Tyson Whitehead ([EMAIL PROTECTED] -- WSC-) Computer EngineerDept. of Applied Mathematics, Graduate Student- Applied MathematicsUniversity of Western Ontario, GnuPG Key ID# 0x8A2AB5D8 London, Ontario, Canada

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