Re: Shutdown problem on Tyan S2875 opteron SMP

2006-10-24 Thread garrone
On Mon, Oct 23, 2006 at 02:03:52PM -0400, Don Hayward wrote: > Hey garrone -- I finally got around to shutting my system down. > Confirming that your discovery worked perfectly. > > On Mon, 2 Oct 2006, garrone wrote: > > >On Fri, Sep 15, 2006 at 04:40:02PM -0400, Don Hayw

Re: writing dvd problem

2006-10-10 Thread garrone
harp <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >On Mon, Oct 09, 2006 at 11:50:09PM +1000, garrone wrote: > >> Hi, > >> Writing to dvd's appears to work as normal, but reading them back > >> fails, with the following appearing from dmesg > >> > >>

Re: writing dvd problem

2006-10-10 Thread garrone
On Mon, Oct 09, 2006 at 01:00:30PM -0700, Andrew Sharp wrote: > On Mon, Oct 09, 2006 at 11:50:09PM +1000, garrone wrote: > > Hi, > > Writing to dvd's appears to work as normal, but reading them back > > fails, with the following appearing from dmesg > > > &

writing dvd problem

2006-10-09 Thread garrone
he console: :-( Unable to anonymously mmap 33554432: resource temporarily unavailable. I normally use the command $ growisofs -dvd-compat -Z /dev/dvd= but the gnome dvd creator fails also. So if anyone has any ideas here, would be grateful Peter Garrone -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECT

lirc modules needing complete kernel source

2006-10-03 Thread garrone
Peter Garrone -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

mythtv daemon shutdown

2006-10-02 Thread garrone
I am trying to get mythtv to do its automatic shutdown/wakeup for recording of favorite television program. In the debian multimedia package, it's backend daemon is set to run with user (called mythtv) privileges. Debian shutdown refuses to shutdown if the user is not the superuser. Is there anyw

Re: Shutdown problem on Tyan S2875 opteron SMP

2006-10-01 Thread garrone
On Fri, Sep 15, 2006 at 04:40:02PM -0400, Don Hayward wrote: > On Sat, 16 Sep 2006, garrone wrote: > > >Shutdown problem on Tyan tiger s2875 dual opteron system. > > > >The command "shutdown -h" does not completely poweroff the system > >for kernels 2.6.11

Re: Compiz + AIGLX + Nvidia HOWTO

2006-10-01 Thread garrone
I can't wait for the next kernel upgrade to see what happens. Peter Garrone -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Shutdown problem on Tyan S2875 opteron SMP

2006-09-19 Thread garrone
On Mon, Sep 18, 2006 at 06:34:45PM -0800, Greg Madden wrote: > On Sun, 17 Sep 2006 19:16:34 +1000 > garrone <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > On Sat, Sep 16, 2006 at 07:30:14PM -0400, Don Hayward wrote: > > > > > > > > > On Sat, 16 Sep 2006, Martin

Re: Shutdown problem on Tyan S2875 opteron SMP

2006-09-17 Thread garrone
On Sat, Sep 16, 2006 at 07:30:14PM -0400, Don Hayward wrote: > > > On Sat, 16 Sep 2006, Martin Jambor wrote: > > >On 9/16/06, garrone <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >>On Sat, Sep 16, 2006 at 11:57:44AM +0200, Martin Jambor wrote: > >>> Hi, > >>

Re: Shutdown problem on Tyan S2875 opteron SMP

2006-09-16 Thread garrone
On Sat, Sep 16, 2006 at 11:57:44AM +0200, Martin Jambor wrote: > Hi, > > On 9/16/06, garrone <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> >The command "shutdown -h" does not completely poweroff the system > >> >for kernels 2.6.11, 2.6.12, and 2.6.1

Re: Shutdown problem on Tyan S2875 opteron SMP

2006-09-16 Thread garrone
On Fri, Sep 15, 2006 at 04:40:02PM -0400, Don Hayward wrote: > On Sat, 16 Sep 2006, garrone wrote: > > >Shutdown problem on Tyan tiger s2875 dual opteron system. > > > >The command "shutdown -h" does not completely poweroff the system > >for kernels 2.6.11

Shutdown problem on Tyan S2875 opteron SMP

2006-09-15 Thread garrone
Shutdown problem on Tyan tiger s2875 dual opteron system. The command "shutdown -h" does not completely poweroff the system for kernels 2.6.11, 2.6.12, and 2.6.16. However 2.6.8 does turn off as it should! I did track the problem in the 2.6.12 kernel, writing to the mainboard LED and concluding t

Re: s2875 tyan kernel memory problem

2006-09-11 Thread garrone
sarge stable. I imagine this is a kernel bug fixed somewhere between 2.6.8 and 2.6.11. So thanks for the help. On Sun, Sep 10, 2006 at 12:14:22PM -0500, Stephen Olander Waters wrote: > On Sun, 2006-09-10 at 15:41 +1000, garrone wrote: > > On Sat, Sep 09, 2006 at 09:38:27PM -0700, Max A. wro

Re: s2875 tyan kernel memory problem

2006-09-09 Thread garrone
p 10, 2006 at 03:41:42PM +1000, garrone wrote: > On Sat, Sep 09, 2006 at 09:38:27PM -0700, Max A. wrote: > I have updated it to 3.3 > The bios with discrete mtrr and enabled software memory hole > does work with ubuntu 2.6.11 locally compiled kernel. > I see all the memory. It doesnt

Re: s2875 tyan kernel memory problem

2006-09-09 Thread garrone
. > On 9/9/06, garrone <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >Thanks. The message you refer to mentions > >1) setting the mtrr to discrete > >2) enabling the software memory hole > >3) disabling the hardware memory hole > > > >I was doing steps 1 and 2, causing a ke

Re: s2875 tyan kernel memory problem

2006-09-09 Thread garrone
Thanks. The message you refer to mentions 1) setting the mtrr to discrete 2) enabling the software memory hole 3) disabling the hardware memory hole I was doing steps 1 and 2, causing a kernel crash. But I can't find the bios option to disable the hardware memory hole. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email

s2875 tyan kernel memory problem

2006-09-08 Thread garrone
Memory/disk Problems with s2875 Tyan dual-processor motherboard I have 4 gig of ram. If, in the bios, I enable the memory hole so as to get all 4 gig of ram in the kernel, and run a stress test as follows: stress -d 1 -t 10 Then I get a kernel crash almost immediately and have to de-power to re