Re: Where is kernel 2.2.0?

1999-02-09 Thread Anthony Campbell
On 08 Feb 1999q, Joey Hess wrote: > Anthony Campbell wrote: > > don't - in fact, I've even wired my speaker through the turbo switch so > > it's off most of the time! > > Hm, do you dislike beeps or what? It's pretty trivial to patch the kernel to > disable beeps, I could make a loadable module th

Re: Where is kernel 2.2.0?

1999-02-09 Thread Joey Hess
Anthony Campbell wrote: > don't - in fact, I've even wired my speaker through the turbo switch so > it's off most of the time! Hm, do you dislike beeps or what? It's pretty trivial to patch the kernel to disable beeps, I could make a loadable module that disabled kernel beeps while it was loaded i

Re: Where is kernel 2.2.0?

1999-02-03 Thread Nathan E Norman
On Wed, 3 Feb 1999, Anthony Campbell wrote: : On 02 Feb 1999q, Gary L. Hennigan wrote: : > : > 'Fraid I can't help you with that. I usually just download the raw : > kernel source and use make-kpkg to get a kernel-image*.deb. I've never : > had a need to build the kernel-source and kernel-h

Re: Where is kernel 2.2.0?

1999-02-03 Thread Anthony Campbell
On 03 Feb 1999q, E.L. Meijer Eric" wrote: > Anthony replied: > > What is the point of doing this? I've always compiled my own kernels from > > source, in both RedHat and Debian, and never felt the need to use either > > .rpm or .deb versions. Perhaps it's because I don't use lilo but prefer > > loa

Re: Where is kernel 2.2.0?

1999-02-03 Thread Oliver Thuns
>What is the point of doing this? I've always compiled my own kernels from >source, in both RedHat and Debian, and never felt the need to use either >.rpm or .deb versions. Perhaps it's because I don't use lilo but prefer >loadlin. Compiling a kernel is not a problem, but I only installed the base

Re: Where is kernel 2.2.0?

1999-02-03 Thread E.L. Meijer \(Eric\)
> On 02 Feb 1999q, Gary L. Hennigan wrote: > > > > 'Fraid I can't help you with that. I usually just download the raw > > kernel source and use make-kpkg to get a kernel-image*.deb. I've never > > had a need to build the kernel-source and kernel-headers > > packages. You'll have to rely on one of

Re: Where is kernel 2.2.0?

1999-02-03 Thread Anthony Campbell
On 02 Feb 1999q, Gary L. Hennigan wrote: > > 'Fraid I can't help you with that. I usually just download the raw > kernel source and use make-kpkg to get a kernel-image*.deb. I've never > had a need to build the kernel-source and kernel-headers > packages. You'll have to rely on one of the maintai

Re: Where is kernel 2.2.0?

1999-02-02 Thread Oliver Thuns
>The kernel-source is available as debs from ftp://ftp.netgod.bnet/linux/v2.2 . >I don't know if they are official packages, but at least they're debs. I installed the kernel-image*.deb, but there are many modules missing (vfat, hpfs, hisax,...). If I compile the kernel-source deb, could I compile

Re: Where is kernel 2.2.0?

1999-02-02 Thread Jim Crumley
> *- On 2 Feb, M.C. Vernon wrote about "Re: Where is kernel 2.2.0?" > > On 2 Feb 1999, Gary L. Hennigan wrote: > > > >> Mike Garfias <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > >> > >> | M.C. Vernon spoke forth with the blessed manuscript: >

Re: Where is kernel 2.2.0?

1999-02-02 Thread Bob Nielsen
On Tue, 2 Feb 1999, M.C. Vernon wrote: > On 2 Feb 1999, Gary L. Hennigan wrote: > > > Mike Garfias <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > > | M.C. Vernon spoke forth with the blessed manuscript: > > | > I saw the uploaded message days ago, and sunsite still doesn't have the > > | > kernel-source or k

Re: Where is kernel 2.2.0?

1999-02-02 Thread servis
*- On 2 Feb, M.C. Vernon wrote about "Re: Where is kernel 2.2.0?" > On 2 Feb 1999, Gary L. Hennigan wrote: > >> Mike Garfias <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> >> | M.C. Vernon spoke forth with the blessed manuscript: >> | > I saw the uploaded mes

Re: Where is kernel 2.2.0?

1999-02-02 Thread Gary L. Hennigan
"M.C. Vernon" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: | On 2 Feb 1999, Gary L. Hennigan wrote: | | > Mike Garfias <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: | > | > | M.C. Vernon spoke forth with the blessed manuscript: | > | > I saw the uploaded message days ago, and sunsite still doesn't have the | > | > kernel-source or

Re: Where is kernel 2.2.0?

1999-02-02 Thread M.C. Vernon
On 2 Feb 1999, Gary L. Hennigan wrote: > Mike Garfias <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > | M.C. Vernon spoke forth with the blessed manuscript: > | > I saw the uploaded message days ago, and sunsite still doesn't have the > | > kernel-source or kernel-headers packages available yet :( > It's usu

Re: Where is kernel 2.2.0?

1999-02-02 Thread Gary L. Hennigan
Mike Garfias <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: | M.C. Vernon spoke forth with the blessed manuscript: | > I saw the uploaded message days ago, and sunsite still doesn't have the | > kernel-source or kernel-headers packages available yet :( | > | > ftp.debian.org doesn't either | > | > Matthew | >

Re: Where is kernel 2.2.0?

1999-02-02 Thread Mike Garfias
M.C. Vernon spoke forth with the blessed manuscript: > I saw the uploaded message days ago, and sunsite still doesn't have the > kernel-source or kernel-headers packages available yet :( > > ftp.debian.org doesn't either > > Matthew > > [snip] Try ftp.kernel.org

Where is kernel 2.2.0?

1999-02-02 Thread M.C. Vernon
I saw the uploaded message days ago, and sunsite still doesn't have the kernel-source or kernel-headers packages available yet :( ftp.debian.org doesn't either Matthew -- Elen sila lumenn' omentielvo Steward of the Cambridge Tolkien Society Selwyn College Computer Support http://www.cam.ac

Re: Using kernel-2.2.0 with debian2.0?

1999-02-01 Thread Allens
Feb-99 Jan Krupa wrote: > > > > Is there somebody using the kernel 2.2.0 with debian2.0 ? > > Hamm has some programs that are not new enoufg for 2.2.0. You need to get > slink. > > -- > Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null

RE: Using kernel-2.2.0 with debian2.0?

1999-02-01 Thread Shaleh
On 01-Feb-99 Jan Krupa wrote: > > Is there somebody using the kernel 2.2.0 with debian2.0 ? Hamm has some programs that are not new enoufg for 2.2.0. You need to get slink.

Using kernel-2.2.0 with debian2.0?

1999-02-01 Thread Jan Krupa
Is there somebody using the kernel 2.2.0 with debian2.0 ? It seems that the compilation process is finished successfully. I copied the new zImage and System.map to /boot/vmlinuz-2.2.0 and System.map-2.2.0 and changed the link of /vmlinuz to /boot/vmlinuz-2.2.0. Next invoked 'lilo'

Re: kernel 2.2.0

1999-02-01 Thread Anthony Campbell
On 01 Feb 1999q, Helge Hafting wrote: > > > Those of you who have moved to 2.2.0---have you noticed serious > > improvements in performance over the 2.0.xx kernels? > > You won't see much improvements in performance for a machine > that runs a light load only. This is typical for the home/hobby

Re: kernel 2.2.0

1999-02-01 Thread Phillip Deackes
Lawrence Walton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I have found almost miraculous performance gains. Me too. I find that apps which took a while to load, like Applix, Netscape etc. now load at least twice as fast. The increase in speed cannot entirely be attributed to UDMA transfers since I have used pa

Re: kernel 2.2.0

1999-02-01 Thread Philip Thiem
My roommate and I noticed that it booted up much faster. Probablly because of the new PCI ide driver, and the bus mastering support but my chipset VIA is still under experimental :( [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > |> 2.2.0 will be available in deb packages, Real Soon Now (tm), > |> I'm sure.

Re: kernel 2.2.0

1999-02-01 Thread Lawrence Walton
I have found almost miraculous performance gains. *--* Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] *--* Voice: 425.739.4247 *--* Fax: 425.827.9577 *--* HTTP://www.otak-k.com/~lawrence/ -- - - - - - - O t a k i n c . - - - - - On Sun, 31 Jan 1999 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > >

Re: kernel 2.2.0

1999-02-01 Thread Helge Hafting
> Those of you who have moved to 2.2.0---have you noticed serious > improvements in performance over the 2.0.xx kernels? You won't see much improvements in performance for a machine that runs a light load only. This is typical for the home/hobby machines that many people have. Try pushing it wi

Re: Kernel 2.2.0 on a 486DX2/66

1999-02-01 Thread Carey Evans
"Ralf G. R. Bergs" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > This is strange -- I too had a mysterious lockup with the same symptom you > describe, but with 2.2.0 (the release version.). I'm running a 5X86-133 (this > is > a 486 from AMD) on an ASUS PCI/I-SP3. OK, so it might not have been the one-off I t

Re: kernel 2.2.0

1999-02-01 Thread Bob Nielsen
I haven't seen any big differences in performance yet, but there are several differences in how things are done in many cases. Read Documentation/Changes. 2.2.1 is now out with a few bug fixes. Bob On Sun, 31 Jan 1999 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > |>2.2.0 will be available in deb packages,

kernel 2.2.0

1999-01-31 Thread mcclosk
|> 2.2.0 will be available in deb packages, Real Soon Now (tm), |> I'm sure. Since slink is now in 'frozen' status, the kernel will |> show up in potato, not slink, I think. Thanks to the many people who responded to my earlier question about things to watch for in compiling and installing

Re: kernel 2.2.0

1999-01-31 Thread Ed Cogburn
Robert Rati wrote: > > The 2.2.0 kernels were released recently, but I don't see them in the > slink distribution. Are they in potato, or have they not been packaged > yet? > 2.2.0 will be available in deb packages, Real Soon Now (tm), I'm sure. Since slink is now in 'frozen' status,

kernel 2.2.0

1999-01-31 Thread Robert Rati
The 2.2.0 kernels were released recently, but I don't see them in the slink distribution. Are they in potato, or have they not been packaged yet? Rob === [EMAIL PRO

Re: kernel 2.2.0

1999-01-30 Thread Anthony Campbell
FWIW, I've compiled 2.2.1 without problems and it seems to be running perfectly under hamm on both a desktop Cyrix DX486/100 and a laptop Toshiba 4000CDT. The only change I had to make, following on another message in this list, was to change my /etc/printcap to use /dev/lp0 instead of /dev/lp1.

Re: Kernel 2.2.0 on a 486DX2/66

1999-01-30 Thread Ralf G. R. Bergs
On Sat, 30 Jan 1999 18:14:27 +1300, Carey Evans wrote: >Philip Thiem <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > >> ARe you using 2.2.0 with IDE? I found a message on dejanews listing >> severals bugs on include freezing and corruption of certain IDE >> drives. > >Actually, I'm now running 2.2.1 with IDE drive

Re: Kernel 2.2.0 on a 486DX2/66

1999-01-30 Thread Carey Evans
Philip Thiem <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > ARe you using 2.2.0 with IDE? I found a message on dejanews listing > severals bugs on include freezing and corruption of certain IDE > drives. Actually, I'm now running 2.2.1 with IDE drives. I had one mysterious lockup with -pre8, where new programs

Re: kernel 2.2.0

1999-01-29 Thread Anthony Campbell
On 29 Jan 1999q, Bob Nielsen wrote: > On Thu, 28 Jan 1999, Anthony Campbell wrote: > > > I was afraid that would be the answer. There is actually a more compressed > > version, with a bz suffix; it is *only* about 10 Meg. But how do you > > decompress this? > > Use bunzip2 (in the bzip2 package)

Re: kernel 2.2.0

1999-01-29 Thread Bob Nielsen
On Thu, 28 Jan 1999, Anthony Campbell wrote: > I was afraid that would be the answer. There is actually a more compressed > version, with a bz suffix; it is *only* about 10 Meg. But how do you > decompress this? Use bunzip2 (in the bzip2 package). And get 2.2.1 instead of 2.2.0. For future upd

Re: kernel 2.2.0

1999-01-29 Thread Helge Hafting
> I was afraid that would be the answer. There is actually a more compressed > version, with a bz suffix; it is *only* about 10 Meg. But how do you > decompress this? Get bz2cat/bunzip/bzip2, from the bzip2 package. bz2cat will decompress to stdout, much like zcat. Useful for patches and compr

Re: kernel 2.2.0

1999-01-29 Thread Anthony Campbell
On 28 Jan 1999q, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > On 28 Jan, Anthony Campbell wrote: > > On a slightly different theme, will there be patches available to upgrade > > 2.0.36 to 2.2.0, or do we have to start afresh? As this would be a 12 Meg > > download, it would take a long time and be expensive :( > >

Re: Kernel 2.2.0 on a 486DX2/66

1999-01-29 Thread Philip Thiem
ARe you using 2.2.0 with IDE? I found a message on dejanews listing severals bugs on include freezing and corruption of certain IDE drives. BTW: I just salvaged my config part ways my source code completely and am re partioning my usr and root directories now. Philip Thiem Carey Evans wrote: >

Re: Samba and kernel 2.2.0

1999-01-28 Thread servis
*- On 28 Jan, Odin wrote about "Samba and kernel 2.2.0" > > > Any ideas? I have seen a special samba mounter for kernels 2.1.x, is > there something similar for 2.2.x? > You need to install the smbfsx package which has the smbmount compiled against the 2.1.x(which is

Re: kernel 2.2.0

1999-01-28 Thread servis
*- On 28 Jan, Gary L. Hennigan wrote about "Re: kernel 2.2.0" > > So if slink is frozen, meaning nothing but bug fixes can be put into > the distribution, how can putting 2.2.x into it be justified? Please > don't read this as negative or sarcastic, I'm genui

Re: kernel 2.2.0

1999-01-28 Thread Gary L. Hennigan
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: | On 28 Jan, Anthony Campbell wrote: | > On a slightly different theme, will there be patches available to upgrade | > 2.0.36 to 2.2.0, or do we have to start afresh? As this would be a 12 Meg | > download, it would take a long time and be expensive :( | | I'm afraid tha

Samba and kernel 2.2.0

1999-01-28 Thread Odin
I have recently compiled kernel 2.2.0 and am having some samba difficulties now. This is the sort of thing I get with smbmount [EMAIL PROTECTED]:[~]# smbmount //alpha/LAAS /mnt Password: mount error: Invalid argument Please look at smbmount's manual page for possible reasons smbclient

Re: kernel 2.2.0

1999-01-28 Thread stephen . p . ryan
On 28 Jan, Anthony Campbell wrote: > On a slightly different theme, will there be patches available to upgrade > 2.0.36 to 2.2.0, or do we have to start afresh? As this would be a 12 Meg > download, it would take a long time and be expensive :( > > > Anthony > > I'm afraid that enough has cha

Re: kernel 2.2.0

1999-01-28 Thread Anthony Campbell
On a slightly different theme, will there be patches available to upgrade 2.0.36 to 2.2.0, or do we have to start afresh? As this would be a 12 Meg download, it would take a long time and be expensive :( Anthony -- Anthony Campbell - running Linux Debian 2.0 [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.ac

Re: Kernel 2.2.0 on a 486DX2/66

1999-01-28 Thread Carey Evans
Richard Kaszeta <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: [snip] > The kernel builds fine, but when it boots, it stops at > 'Starting kswapd v 1.5' and the machine hangs. It might be the next thing _after_ kswapd causing the problem. The next kernel message I get after this line is 'Detected PS/2 Mouse Port.

Re: Problem with AudioPCI (ES1370)/ kernel 2.2.0

1999-01-27 Thread Chris Frost
esterday, I got > Kernel 2.2.0 and it seem to be working; but not 100%. Support for the Ensoniq chipset cards is new in 2.2 kernels (it's been in 2.1 for a while). > When I try cat something.au > /dev/dsp, I do get some > sound, but the volume is TOO low. I have to practically >

Problem with AudioPCI (ES1370)/ kernel 2.2.0

1999-01-27 Thread Ramesh Natarajan
Hi, I have a Creative Ensoniq AudioPCI that used to work with Windowss NT. I installed Debian 2.0 couple of months back and had not made any attempts to get sound to work. Yesterday, I got Kernel 2.2.0 and it seem to be working; but not 100%. I enabled CONFIG_SOUND_ES1370 as module while

RE: kernel 2.2.0 upgrade diary

1999-01-27 Thread Hogland, Thomas E.
Wow... I've been running a nice, solid, stable pair of 2.0.34 and 2.0.36 systems. Decide to upgrade to 2.2.0 kernel. Download, see warnings on versions of required packages. Test versions, lots out of date. Change dselect from dists/stable to dists/unstable, . Change to dists/frozen (yeah, I forgot

Re: kernel 2.2.0

1999-01-27 Thread Ben Collins
On Wed, Jan 27, 1999 at 04:59:04PM +, Mark Brown wrote: > > What does it mean when there is and question mark (?) in front of the file > > instead of the other symbol? > > Pass. This is to do with the FTP site you get your files from. Actually I think this has more todo with the Netscape bro

Re: kernel 2.2.0

1999-01-27 Thread Mark Brown
urations. Things may stop working every now and then in the development kernel - new features sometimes mean new bugs. > Is kernel 2.2.0 stable or dev? Stable. > What is the different between 2.2.0.tar.bz2 and 2.2.0.tar.gz? One is compressed with bzip2, the other with gzip. While the .bz2 f

Re: kernel 2.2.0

1999-01-27 Thread Kirk Hogenson
Scott J. Geertgens wrote: > > Tam Ma wrote: > > > How come all I hear about is kernel 2.0.36 and kernel 2.2.0, what > > the following version in between, are they not working > > > > linux-2.0.4.tar.gz 08-Jul-1996 00:00 5.7M >

Re: kernel 2.2.0

1999-01-27 Thread servis
*- Tam Ma wrote about "kernel 2.2.0" > Hi, > > Can someone tell me what is the different between the > "developement" version from the "stable" version of a kernel? A developement kernel is one that is currently being modified and updated and co

Re: kernel 2.2.0

1999-01-27 Thread Bob Nielsen
d to be very stable. When Linus feels that the current development kernel is 'ready', he releases it as a 'stable' version. At that point, the only changes allowed are bug fixes (it's not quite that simple, however0. > > Is kernel 2.2.0 stable or dev? If the second nu

RE: kernel 2.2.0

1999-01-27 Thread pat
On 27-Jan-99, Tam Ma took time to write : > Hi, > > Can someone tell me what is the different between the > "developement" version from the "stable" version of a kernel? > > Is kernel 2.2.0 stable or dev? is stable, as are all kernels with 0,2,4

Re: kernel 2.2.0

1999-01-27 Thread Scott J. Geertgens
an occasionally do nasty things. The stable version is of course, stable, and is one that is no longer in development and has been more rigrously tested. > Is kernel 2.2.0 stable or dev? 2.2.0 is part of the stable line. 2.2.1, 2.2.2, 2.2.3, etc will be minor bug fixes, but still considere

kernel 2.2.0

1999-01-27 Thread Tam Ma
Hi, Can someone tell me what is the different between the "developement" version from the "stable" version of a kernel? Is kernel 2.2.0 stable or dev? What is the different between 2.2.0.tar.bz2 and 2.2.0.tar.gz? What does it mean when there is and question mark

Re: Kernel 2.2.0 on a 486DX2/66

1999-01-27 Thread Richard Kaszeta
Rafael Kitover writes ("Re: Kernel 2.2.0 on a 486DX2/66"): >Are you using hamm? slink? "kswapd" is part of the util-linux package, and >according to docs needs the newest version for 2.2, you should get the >util-linux package from potato. (this may or may not be the

Kernel 2.2.0 on a 486DX2/66

1999-01-26 Thread Richard Kaszeta
Well, I've already used 2.2.0 with success on two of my pentiumII machines, so I figured I'd try it out on my 486DX2/66 that I am setting up as a home machine for my janitor. I'm building custom kernels with kernel-package 6.03, and using pristine 2.2.0 source. I've made sure I've built with with

sd_mod in kernel 2.2.0-pre6

1999-01-09 Thread Hamish Moffatt
The sd_mod module in 2.2.0-pre6 doesn't seem to work for me; lots of missing symbols. Anyone else experienced this? Not serious since my Zip drive is all that's affected here, but annoying because otherwise everything works well. Hamish -- Hamish Moffatt VK3TYD [EMAIL PROTECTED], [E

kernel 2.2.0-pre3 and ppp

1999-01-09 Thread Brandon Mitchell
Ok folks, I just finished updating my slink system (it was a bit out of date before). However, I still can't get ppp working with a 2.2.0-p3 kernel I recently compiled. The symptoms are: Jan 9 00:18:20 cnhobbes chat[280]: Password Jan 9 00:18:20 cnhobbes chat[280]: -- got it Jan 9 00:18:20

Re: Hamm to Kernel 2.2.0

1999-01-08 Thread Carey Evans
Ruud de Bruin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > a) It seems that the initailisation of the COM ports is changed. I saw a > message during boot that something was wrong. Install the new version of "setserial" from slink or potato. > b) I could not find a way to access my ZIP drive (parallel). It seem

Re: Hamm to Kernel 2.2.0

1999-01-07 Thread Mike Deal
I have basicly the same question but differnt problems. Everthing works on my server except ip aliasing. Ie Only one of my web sites show up. Do I need a new ifconfig or such? Would it be easier to just upgrade to slink? --- Mike Deal - [EMAIL PROTECTED] - www.zonenet.net / www.northwestext

Hamm to Kernel 2.2.0

1999-01-07 Thread Ruud de Bruin
I've downloaded yesterday from an Debbian mirror in the US a 2.2.0-pre1 kernel for Debian in .deb format. I've installed the kernel with dpkg to give it a try. The system booted up, but I've received a number of errors. a) It seems that the initailisation of the COM ports is changed. I saw a mess