Re: [PATCH] console palette fix

2000-10-09 Thread James Simmons
> I've seen the problem on both of my computers with Creative Riva TNT2. On > this card the palette turns darker. On other cards the palette turns to > rubbish or corrupted in another fashionable ways. It's a bug in those > cards - switching to video mode and back to text mode doesn't preserve th

Re: [PATCH] Link order of drivers outside drivers/scsi

2000-10-09 Thread Torben Mathiasen
On Mon, Oct 09 2000, Linus Torvalds wrote: > > > On Mon, 9 Oct 2000, Alan Cox wrote: > > > > Link scsi as a whole before i2o ? > > Yup. > > Also, we should really finalise the host order thing in scsi/Makefile. If > it's true that aha17xx must come before aha1542, it's wrong as it stands >

Re: destroyed shm segments in 2.2

2000-10-09 Thread Alan Cox
> Could we change the behaviour in 2.2 like we did it in 2.3 and make it > more compatible with other UN*Xes? The attached (untested) patch > should implement the 2.4 behaviour. Maybe, but not for 2.2.18 - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a me

Re: [PATCH] Link order of drivers outside drivers/scsi

2000-10-09 Thread Linus Torvalds
On Mon, 9 Oct 2000, Torben Mathiasen wrote: > > > > Link scsi as a whole before i2o ? > > > > Yes, that can be done pretty easy, but Then I2O will link > > core - hosts - upper - I2O and I'm not sure this is okay. Think modules. Remember how it has always worked. The above is pretty much

Re: usb and smp problems with 2.4.0-test9/2.2.18-pre15

2000-10-09 Thread Greg KH
On Mon, Oct 09, 2000 at 12:36:46PM -0400, Pete Toscano wrote: > any more information i can provide to help? Yes: What kind of timeout errors are you seeing? Kernel debug logs would be helpful. What devices are you trying to use? What is your .config file? What is your BIOS setting for MPS (if it'

Re: [PATCH] Link order of drivers outside drivers/scsi

2000-10-09 Thread Linus Torvalds
On Mon, 9 Oct 2000, Alan Cox wrote: > > Link scsi as a whole before i2o ? Yup. Also, we should really finalise the host order thing in scsi/Makefile. If it's true that aha17xx must come before aha1542, it's wrong as it stands now. Any other gotchas that were caught in 2.2.x?

Re: [PATCH] Link order of drivers outside drivers/scsi

2000-10-09 Thread Linus Torvalds
On Mon, 9 Oct 2000, Torben Mathiasen wrote: > > My point exactly. The ordering of driver in drivers/scsi is done now, > but I don't see a clean way of doing I2O without moving upperlayers > into a seperate dir. Why? People would tend to use the i2o ones as modules anyway, so they _have_ to wo

Re: [PATCH] Link order of drivers outside drivers/scsi

2000-10-09 Thread Linus Torvalds
On Mon, 9 Oct 2000, Alan Cox wrote: > > SCSI has real ordering requirements for drivers. > > You have to do Buslogic and AHA17xx before AHA15xx or you get a wrong driver > and in the 17xx case data corruption risks Hmm.. The current order is the same as in 2.2.x, and puts aha17xx _after

Re: (OT -- Partition Magic for Linux?) Re: Newer motherboards / CPU's/ hardware with Linux

2000-10-09 Thread Andreas Dilger
Miles writes: > Is this the kind of information required to build an application > like Partition Magic? It sure would be nice to have a native > version of Partition Magic or an Open Source work-alike. > Is anyone aware of a project to implement such an Open Source > alternative? The GNU parted

Re: [PATCH] VM fix for 2.4.0-test9 & OOM handler

2000-10-09 Thread Ingo Molnar
On Mon, 9 Oct 2000, Marco Colombo wrote: > [...] > > They are niced because the user thinks them a bit less > > important. > > Please don't, this assumption is quite wrong. I use nice just to be > 'nice' to other users. I can run my *important* CPU hog simulation > nice +10 in order to let oth

crash 2.2.17 2.4.0-test9

2000-10-09 Thread Lars Callenbach
Hallo, I only want to make a few remarks concerning crashes under 2.2.17 and 2.4.0-test9. My smp-system sometimes hangs - even the NMI under 2.4 doesn´t work, no response to magic sysrq-key. So that´s not so interesting - there are a lot of messages of this type. More interesting (for me): the

Re: VM: do_try_to_free_memory failed for XXXX, 2.2.17, 2.2.18pre3

2000-10-09 Thread Andrea Arcangeli
On Mon, Oct 09, 2000 at 04:03:46PM +0100, Alan Cox wrote: > > The situation persists, we have had two crashes on those servers today. > > > > The machines are usually very heavily loaded, 5-50. > > > > Please help. > > Are there any patches to fix this behaviour ? > > You might want to try Andr

Weird IP options

2000-10-09 Thread BERNARD Sebastien
Near the test3-4 kernel, I was not able to reach www.linuxtoday.com. After some debug, I find that is because my linux box is emitting syn packet with some really strange options (description of packet follows). Can anyone tell me if this behaviour is normal or not ? Here is the dialog from linux

Linux 2.2.17 Not Recognizing all LUNs on a CD Tower

2000-10-09 Thread Post, Mark K
At work we recently acquired a used SCSI CD Tower from somewhere else in the company. I want to hook this up to my Slackware Linux system, but I'm having a problem with it. It's being detected by the system, but only partially. There is also a CDR drive on the SCSI chain that is being detected

Re: [PATCH] Link order of drivers outside drivers/scsi

2000-10-09 Thread Torben Mathiasen
On Mon, Oct 09 2000, Alan Cox wrote: > > > You have to do Buslogic and AHA17xx before AHA15xx or you get a wrong driver > > > and in the 17xx case data corruption risks > > > You must do scsi before i2o_scsi or AMI Megaraids break > > > > > > > My point exactly. The ordering of driver in driver

Re: [PATCH] Link order of drivers outside drivers/scsi

2000-10-09 Thread Alan Cox
> i2o_block.c: you don't need EXPORT_NO_SYMBOLS (yes, I know it was there > before) I put it there intentionally. It exports no symbols. I dont want the module stuff therefore exporting everything in that file. Alan - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in th

Re: (OT -- Partition Magic for Linux?) Re: Newer motherboards / CPU's / hardware with Linux

2000-10-09 Thread Mike Castle
On Mon, Oct 09, 2000 at 02:08:55AM -0700, Miles Lane wrote: > like Partition Magic? It sure would be nice to have a native > version of Partition Magic or an Open Source work-alike. > Is anyone aware of a project to implement such an Open Source > alternative? ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/parted --

Re: [OOPS] unloading ns558 driver in Linux 2.4.0-test9

2000-10-09 Thread Vojtech Pavlik
On Sat, Oct 07, 2000 at 12:42:16PM -0400, Brian Gerst wrote: > "Forever shall I be." wrote: > > > > I got this OOPS while unloading the ns558 module.. I don't think it did > > this in 2.4.0-test8, but I don't recall ever unloading it in test8.. > > > > I've attached the ksymoops output.. > > >

Re: usb and smp problems with 2.4.0-test9/2.2.18-pre15

2000-10-09 Thread Pete Toscano
oh, btw, i also tried an asus p2b-ds mobo with the intel bx chipset with the same results. pete On Mon, 09 Oct 2000, Pete Toscano wrote: > hello, > > i haven't been on lkml since vger died, but just subscribed and looked > at the archives and was unable to find anything on this... > > i'm run

Re: [PATCH] Link order of drivers outside drivers/scsi

2000-10-09 Thread Alan Cox
> > You have to do Buslogic and AHA17xx before AHA15xx or you get a wrong driver > > and in the 17xx case data corruption risks > > You must do scsi before i2o_scsi or AMI Megaraids break > > > > My point exactly. The ordering of driver in drivers/scsi is done now, > but I don't see a clean w

Re: No SCSI burning problem - ZIP reading problem

2000-10-09 Thread Zdenek Kabelac
Andre Hedrick wrote: > > > Something like this? > > Close but now there is no select. > > --- /opt/kernel/linux-2.4.0-test9/drivers/scsi/ide-scsi.c Sat Sep 23 I'm having some serious problems with parallel port ZIP with latest 2.4.0-test9 kernel Oct 9 16:57:23 dual kernel: Detected scs

usb and smp problems with 2.4.0-test9/2.2.18-pre15

2000-10-09 Thread Pete Toscano
hello, i haven't been on lkml since vger died, but just subscribed and looked at the archives and was unable to find anything on this... i'm running 2.4.0-test9 and 2.2.18-pre15. for both of these kernels, if i enable usb and smp, i get a lot of usb device timeout errors. if i recompile, just

Re: SCSI problems with v2.2.16 (as shipped with Redhat v7.0)

2000-10-09 Thread Douglas Gilbert
Graham Leggett wrote: > > > all attempts to access the scanner, including running the xsane program, > > > or even probing for attached scanners with "scanimage -L" cause the box > > > to run extremely slowly. CTL-C the program accessing the scanner and the > > > system responsiveness returns to

Re: [PATCH] VM fix for 2.4.0-test9 & OOM handler

2000-10-09 Thread Kurt Garloff
On Mon, Oct 09, 2000 at 12:12:02PM +0200, Marco Colombo wrote: > On Fri, 6 Oct 2000, Rik van Riel wrote: > [...] > > They are niced because the user thinks them a bit less > > important. > > Please don't, this assumption is quite wrong. I use nice just to be > 'nice' to other users. I can run my

Reiserfs + 2.2.18 + alpha noritake

2000-10-09 Thread Wakko Warner
Anyone tried this combination? I had one small compile problem in the driver (which was a return code, something about HASH, I forget now, but it's only defined for i386) After that, mkfs and attempted to mount didn't work. the driver couldn't find a valid fs on the drive. I have successfully

Re: Updated 2.4 TODO List

2000-10-09 Thread Shane Shrybman
> * RTL 8139 cards sometimes stop responding. Both drivers don't >handle this quite good enough yet. (reported by Rogier Wolff, >tentatively reported as fixed by David Ford.) 2.4.0-test9 Spontaneous reboots under network load with this driver. Sorry, no more

Re: 53C1010-33 Linux 2.2.17 driver

2000-10-09 Thread Kurt Garloff
On Mon, Oct 09, 2000 at 01:05:10PM +0200, Andre Tomt wrote: > The sym53c8xx driver handles this card nicely in u160scsi mode using > kernel 2.4testX, but I don't want that kernel on this machine. 2.2.17 does > not detect the card, and looking at the source, the chip, nor the speeds > are not suppo

Re: [PATCH] Link order of drivers outside drivers/scsi

2000-10-09 Thread Torben Mathiasen
On Mon, Oct 09 2000, Alan Cox wrote: > > At this point, I would prefer that we just leave the ordering alone - I > > don' tknow of any actual problems with it, and I don't think it's worth > > re-organizing things to make it the exact same thing it used to be.. > > SCSI has real ordering requirem

Re: qestion about tcp_v4_hash

2000-10-09 Thread valery brasseur
Andi Kleen wrote: > > On Mon, Oct 09, 2000 at 02:51:28PM +0200, valery brasseur wrote: > > Andi Kleen wrote: > > > > > > On Mon, Oct 09, 2000 at 09:47:43AM +0200, valery brasseur wrote: > > > > I have a Oops in the kernel which say's "tcp_v4_hash: bug, socket state > > > > is 1" > > > > can someo

Re: page->mapping == NULL recreated without vmware...

2000-10-09 Thread Petr Vandrovec
On 6 Oct 00 at 19:25, Petr Vandrovec wrote: > Hi, > month ago I informed here that VMware causes oops on exit. > After some time, and tons of tweaking I was able to recreate > it without vmmon... 2.4.0-test9, no special patches, no > vmware modules loaded... > > Machine is dual PIII/450, 256

RAMFS ressource limits

2000-10-09 Thread Ingo Oeser
Hi there, there has been a patch, which limits the amount of RAM used by ramfs. I didn't find this in the archives (neither public ones nor private). And no, I do NOT think I just dreamed about it ;-) TIA & Regards Ingo Oeser -- Feel the power of the penguin - run [EMAIL PROTECTED] :x - To

Re: 2.2.18pre* + raid +ide patches ??

2000-10-09 Thread Darron Froese
on 10/8/00 4:23 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I am looking for a solution for the following problem. > We have installed some new promise 100 cards and ibm ata 100 disks > on some of the servers, assembled the 2.2.17 + ide + raid kernel. > Since then we had several crashes o

Re: Updated 2.4 TODO List

2000-10-09 Thread Guest section DW
On Mon, Oct 09, 2000 at 12:19:26AM -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > Linux 2.4 Status/TODO Page > >* 2.4.0-test2 breaks the behaviour of the ether=0,0,eth1 boot > parameter (dwguest) This has been fixed. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubsc

Re: Updated 2.4 TODO List

2000-10-09 Thread Alan Cox
> 4. Boot Time Failures > > * IBM Thinkpad 390 won't boot since 2.3.11 (See Decklin Foster for >more info) Add Palmax PD1100 hangs during boot since 2.4.0-test9 > 6. In Progress > * Finish I2O merge (Intel/Alan) Assume this is done for 2.4.0. There are things to look at but i

Re: [PATCH] Link order of drivers outside drivers/scsi

2000-10-09 Thread Alan Cox
> At this point, I would prefer that we just leave the ordering alone - I > don' tknow of any actual problems with it, and I don't think it's worth > re-organizing things to make it the exact same thing it used to be.. SCSI has real ordering requirements for drivers. You have to do Buslogic and

Re: MIME QP encoded good/bad ...

2000-10-09 Thread Alan Cox
> I do use PINE, and I still think QP is buggy and a stupid excersize. Mail > delivery should have been cleaned up, not the user agent. You could have > done the equivalent of QP inside sendmail, and none of the stupid QP > issues would ever ever have happened (sure, people with old sendmails > wo

Re: VM: do_try_to_free_memory failed for XXXX, 2.2.17, 2.2.18pre3

2000-10-09 Thread Alan Cox
> The situation persists, we have had two crashes on those servers today. > > The machines are usually very heavily loaded, 5-50. > > Please help. > Are there any patches to fix this behaviour ? You might want to try Andrea Arcangeli's further vm patches > - To unsubscribe from this list: sen

Re: SoundFusion/Cirrus Logic CS4630 sound chipset support

2000-10-09 Thread Alan Cox
> disregard, it must have been operator error. i rebuilt it as a module and it's > working fine albeit it seems to have pretty weak sound output and degenerates > to garble when the volume is turned up. add external_amp=1 to the insmod line Also let me know what your card vendor/card subsystem

Re: ext3 and Software RAID

2000-10-09 Thread Alan Cox
> "Right now 2.2 doesnt support journalling over software raid so that would > stop you using reiserfs and ext3." > > http://kernelnotes.org/lnxlists/linux-kernel/lk_0008_05/msg9.html > > Is this still true? I was going to use 2.2.17, with ext3-0.0.3b, and Ingo It is true for all 2.2 cases,

Re: [linux-usb-devel] OOPS with test9 when plugging an Philips Webcam

2000-10-09 Thread Norbert Preining
On Mon, 09 Okt 2000, David Brownell wrote: > You might want to try the attached patch ... it fixed memory > corruption problems for me (a double free, as it turned out), > which appeared with about that same timing. It's on that > plug-in-devices path, and caused a variety of Oopses. Bingo! Even

Re: 2.4.0-test9: minixfs causing oopsen when out of inodes

2000-10-09 Thread Horst von Brand
Daniel Phillips <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: [...] > It would be nice if we could return a struct consisting of the error and > result. I'm not sure if this is allowed in C now or not. It didn't > work when I tried it with gcc: it seems to consider a struct-valued > function to be a void-valued.

Re: [linux-usb-devel] OOPS with test9 when plugging an Philips Webcam

2000-10-09 Thread David Brownell
> It seams to me that when I plug the webcam there is a heavy corruption > of memory. Because although the oops is from netscape, it is not > always netscape. The next prog with heavy memory usage will produce > an oops when starting. > > The first time I experienced the problem was with test8.

Re: Window Scale Option broken in 2.2.x

2000-10-09 Thread Lawrence MacIntyre
>You need to set your /proc/sys/net/core/{w,r}mem* values large enough >for the window scale to have any reason to have a non-zero value. > >Later, >David S. Miller >[EMAIL PROTECTED] OK. That worked. Thanks! It is worth noting that the 2.4.0-test9-pre9 kernel doesn't care about the {r,w}mem_m

2.4-9 kernel: APIC error on CPU

2000-10-09 Thread Lars Callenbach
Hallo, I´m trying the 2.4-9 kernel and sometimes it crashes. I haven´t found any hint for the crashes but I´ve got messages like the following one in /var/log/messages: >> Oct 5 19:34:01 localhost kernel: APIC error on CPU1: 00(02) Oct 5 19:34:01 localhost kernel: APIC error on CPU0: 00(02

Re: Calling current() from interrupt context

2000-10-09 Thread John Levon
On Sun, 8 Oct 2000, Mitchell Blank Jr wrote: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > Looking at the code, I don't see any places where "current" is not valid. > > Got some examples? > > It's not that its invalid, it just doesn't make much sense. It points to > whatever task happened to be running when

Re: qestion about tcp_v4_hash

2000-10-09 Thread Andi Kleen
On Mon, Oct 09, 2000 at 02:51:28PM +0200, valery brasseur wrote: > Andi Kleen wrote: > > > > On Mon, Oct 09, 2000 at 09:47:43AM +0200, valery brasseur wrote: > > > I have a Oops in the kernel which say's "tcp_v4_hash: bug, socket state > > > is 1" > > > can someone explain me what's wrong ? > >

Re: Calling current() from interrupt context

2000-10-09 Thread Francis Galiegue
On Sun, 8 Oct 2000, Kenn Humborg wrote: > > I'd just like to confirm that it's illegal to call current() > from interrupt-handling code. > > I'm working on the VAX port and the reason I ask is that the > VAX has separate stack pointers for user, kernel and interrupt > contexts. Therefore, the

Re: [PATCH] ISA PnP (2.4.0-test9)

2000-10-09 Thread Jaroslav Kysela
On Mon, 9 Oct 2000, Keith Owens wrote: > On Mon, 9 Oct 2000 12:55:28 +0200 (MEST), > Jaroslav Kysela <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >I fully understand your point, but I don't want to have a special > >case for ISA PnP. What about this change: > > > >#define MODULE_GENERIC_TABLE(gtype,name)

Re: qestion about tcp_v4_hash

2000-10-09 Thread valery brasseur
Andi Kleen wrote: > > On Mon, Oct 09, 2000 at 09:47:43AM +0200, valery brasseur wrote: > > I have a Oops in the kernel which say's "tcp_v4_hash: bug, socket state > > is 1" > > can someone explain me what's wrong ? > > Hard to say when you don't send the decoded (=run through ksymoops > with cor

Assembler error (2.4.0t9 gcc-2.97)

2000-10-09 Thread nbecker
linux-2.4.0-test9 gcc-2.97 CVS configured for Athlon binutils-2.9.5.0.22-6 Do I need an updated binutils maybe? as --version GNU assembler 2.9.5 [...] gcc -D__KERNEL__ -I/usr/src/linux-2.4.0-test9/include -Wall -Wstrict-prototypes -O2 -fomit-frame-pointer -pipe -mpreferred-stack-boundary=2 -m

Re: IEEE 1394 "Firewire"

2000-10-09 Thread Richard B. Johnson
On Sun, 8 Oct 2000, David Riley wrote: > "Richard B. Johnson" wrote: > > > > Hello! > > > > Has anybody written a driver for the Western Digital (or similar) > > PCI / Firewire adapter? > > > > If not, I'm going to have to write one. If it doesn't exist yet, should > > the device be a block de

Re: qestion about tcp_v4_hash

2000-10-09 Thread Andi Kleen
On Mon, Oct 09, 2000 at 09:47:43AM +0200, valery brasseur wrote: > I have a Oops in the kernel which say's "tcp_v4_hash: bug, socket state > is 1" > can someone explain me what's wrong ? Hard to say when you don't send the decoded (=run through ksymoops with correct System.map) oops. -Andi - To

Re: SCSI problems with v2.2.16 (as shipped with Redhat v7.0)

2000-10-09 Thread Graham Leggett
Alan Cox wrote: > > all attempts to access the scanner, including running the xsane program, > > or even probing for attached scanners with "scanimage -L" cause the box > > to run extremely slowly. CTL-C the program accessing the scanner and the > > system responsiveness returns to normal. > > W

Re: compiling kernel and modules issues

2000-10-09 Thread Alan Cox
> make xconfig > make dep > make clean [make bzImage] you need the kernel image here > make modules > make modules_install > edit /etc/lilo.conf and add lilo header. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Please re

Re: SCSI problems with v2.2.16 (as shipped with Redhat v7.0)

2000-10-09 Thread Alan Cox
> all attempts to access the scanner, including running the xsane program, > or even probing for attached scanners with "scanimage -L" cause the box > to run extremely slowly. CTL-C the program accessing the scanner and the > system responsiveness returns to normal. What scsi controller card are

VM: do_try_to_free_memory failed for XXXX, 2.2.17, 2.2.18pre3

2000-10-09 Thread Krzysztof Sierota
Hi, I recently changed the kernel from 2.2.15 to 2.2.17 and added new promise 100 card. During 3 days 2 production servers crashed 4 times and had several lockups when there was zillion messages like VM: do_try_to_free_memmory failed for XXX we then changed the kernel to 2.2.18pre3 + ide + raid

Re: kernel 2.2.16 in redhat 7.0

2000-10-09 Thread Alan Cox
> The kernel provided with the redhat 7.0 cannot be compiled with ip = > masquerading on & icmp masquerading on (using gcc and kgcc, I got the = > same error). > I could not found any information about that. > Anyone can help ? Can you put the report in Red Hat bugzilla rather than the main kerne

Re: Newer motherboards / CPU's / hardware with Linux

2000-10-09 Thread Mike A. Harris
On Mon, 9 Oct 2000, blizbor wrote: >> On Mon, 9 Oct 2000, Andre Tomt wrote: >> >> The fastest ATA drives out that are not public yet are in 39-42mB/s. >> Also SCSI can not sustain rates much better than maybe 60mB/s. > >Andre, how are you benchmarking drives ? > >In context you wrote, I've got r

Re: [PATCH] ISA PnP (2.4.0-test9)

2000-10-09 Thread Keith Owens
On Mon, 9 Oct 2000 12:55:28 +0200 (MEST), Jaroslav Kysela <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >I fully understand your point, but I don't want to have a special >case for ISA PnP. What about this change: > >#define MODULE_GENERIC_TABLE(gtype,name)\ >const struct gtype##_id * __module_##gtype##_tab

Re: [PATCH] VM fix for 2.4.0-test9 & OOM handler

2000-10-09 Thread Byron Stanoszek
On Mon, 9 Oct 2000, Marco Colombo wrote: > On Fri, 6 Oct 2000, Rik van Riel wrote: > > [...] > > They are niced because the user thinks them a bit less > > important. > > Please don't, this assumption is quite wrong. I use nice just to be > 'nice' to other users. I can run my *important* CPU h

2.2.17: CPU features bug for AMD?

2000-10-09 Thread Ulrich Windl
Browsing patch-2.2.17.gz I found this: linux/arch/i386/kernel/setup.c: Isn't here an "else" or "break" missing? Otherwise ``x86_cap_flags[16] = "pat"'' is always the case, and extended AMD features are always present. @@ -1029,17 +1130,22 @@ case X86_VENDOR_AMD:

Re: (OT -- Partition Magic for Linux?) Re: Newer motherboards / CPU's / hardware with Linux

2000-10-09 Thread David Weinehall
On Mon, Oct 09, 2000 at 02:08:55AM -0700, Miles Lane wrote: > Andre Hedrick wrote: > > > > > They may be a way to test and create drive profiles that are stored and > > reloaded to the kernel that will add the missing supercharge on Andrea's > > elevator. Basically creating a physical LBA sect

53C1010-33 Linux 2.2.17 driver

2000-10-09 Thread Andre Tomt
I'm still looking for a 2.2.17 driver for my Tekram DC390U3W dual channel scsi card. I found drivers for 2.2.16 and below on the lsi and tekram ftp-sites, but applying them causes rejects, and manually fixing the driver makes sg going into an infinite loop during boot. My C knowledge is very broke

Re: Newer motherboards / CPU's / hardware with Linux

2000-10-09 Thread Andre Tomt
On Mon, 9 Oct 2000, Andre Hedrick wrote: > Recall that I told you that there is a physical limit of getting stuff off > the drives. The platter density is to low and the rpm's are to slow to > get there yet. Remember it took second genration ATA66 drives to fill > the ATA33 bandwidth. Yes, y

Re: [PATCH] ISA PnP (2.4.0-test9)

2000-10-09 Thread Jaroslav Kysela
On Mon, 9 Oct 2000, Keith Owens wrote: > On Mon, 9 Oct 2000 12:29:19 +0200 (MEST), > Jaroslav Kysela <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >On Mon, 9 Oct 2000, Keith Owens wrote: > >> Modutils and the kernel are compiled from different headers, none of > >> this #include business in modutils. So you mu

Re: [PATCH] ISA PnP (2.4.0-test9)

2000-10-09 Thread Keith Owens
On Mon, 9 Oct 2000 12:29:19 +0200 (MEST), Jaroslav Kysela <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >On Mon, 9 Oct 2000, Keith Owens wrote: >> Modutils and the kernel are compiled from different headers, none of >> this #include business in modutils. So you must never >> assume that the structures in modutils

Re: [PATCH] ISA PnP (2.4.0-test9)

2000-10-09 Thread Jaroslav Kysela
On Mon, 9 Oct 2000, Keith Owens wrote: > On Sun, 8 Oct 2000 23:50:43 +0200 (MEST), > Jaroslav Kysela <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > this patch contains following fixes and enhancements to export ISA > >PnP IDs outside the kernel module: > > > >* module.h - added MODULE_GENERIC_TABLE > >* isa

Re: [PATCH] VM fix for 2.4.0-test9 & OOM handler

2000-10-09 Thread Marco Colombo
On Fri, 6 Oct 2000, Rik van Riel wrote: [...] > They are niced because the user thinks them a bit less > important. Please don't, this assumption is quite wrong. I use nice just to be 'nice' to other users. I can run my *important* CPU hog simulation nice +10 in order to let other people get mo

Re: Newer motherboards / CPU's / hardware with Linux

2000-10-09 Thread Andre Hedrick
On Mon, 9 Oct 2000, Andre Tomt wrote: > Using a newer ATA66 IBM 7200rpm drive, on a VIA chipset, I can sustain > 24-25mB/s in both UDMA33 and ATA66 mode. This is a Athlon Asus This okay, the drive has a physical data IO limit for sustained, not burst. Thus getting 24-25mB/s in both UDMA33/ATA66

Re: Calling current() from interrupt context

2000-10-09 Thread Roman Zippel
Hi, > The m68k port which has a interrupt stack solves the problem by > loading current into a global register variable on all kernel entries. Not all m68k cpus have an interrupt stack and it can be turned off, so we don't use it. bye, Roman - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "uns

Re: will ip 6 in ip4 tunnelling be fixed anytime soon ?

2000-10-09 Thread Jorg de Jong
> But you are right, here is a bug nobody reported before. I will take care of > it. > Hmm, your just a bit off here, I believe Gerhard has posted this bug a number of times, further more I have submitted a fix for this bug, but has still not been accepted. Neither has there been any feedback o

[Bench] Slow tiotest read in Kernel 2.2.16+

2000-10-09 Thread Robert Cohen
Ive been seeing poor read results from tiotest in recent 2.2 kernels since 2.2.16. The performance is fine with 1 thread but slows right down with 8. I include the tiotest results here but I see similar results with iozone -t. Kernel 2.2.15 [robert@testmac25 robert]$ tiotest -f 30 -t 8 -r 0 Tio

Re: Newer motherboards / CPU's / hardware with Linux

2000-10-09 Thread Andre Tomt
On Mon, 9 Oct 2000, Andre Hedrick wrote: > You are doing Ultra-66 speeds my friend. > The fastest ATA drives out that are not public yet are in 39-42mB/s. > Also SCSI can not sustain rates much better than maybe 60mB/s. Actually, my other IBM UDMA33 drive did 20mB/s on a 600mB IDE to SCSI trans

Re: The case for a standard kernel debugger

2000-10-09 Thread Karim Yaghmour
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > Completely agree - co-operation+integration is the order of the day. Cool :) > They > other thing I didn't mention was that the GKHI was substantially coded > before we discovered your hook capability. Part of the GKHI is also to > allow hooks to be dynamicaly defin

(OT -- Partition Magic for Linux?) Re: Newer motherboards / CPU's / hardware with Linux

2000-10-09 Thread Miles Lane
Andre Hedrick wrote: > They may be a way to test and create drive profiles that are stored and > reloaded to the kernel that will add the missing supercharge on Andrea's > elevator. Basically creating a physical LBA sector profile. > > Trust that this will be painful to create because this is

Re: Newer motherboards / CPU's / hardware with Linux

2000-10-09 Thread Andre Hedrick
On Mon, 9 Oct 2000, blizbor wrote: > Andre, how are you benchmarking drives ? Direct access below the driver without any file-system getting in the way. No reorder of requests because of linear seeks. These are kernel level tests because timers get set upon the execution of the command block an

Re: Calling current() from interrupt context

2000-10-09 Thread Kenn Humborg
On Mon, Oct 09, 2000 at 03:54:21AM +0200, Andi Kleen wrote: > On Mon, Oct 09, 2000 at 02:45:54AM +0100, Kenn Humborg wrote: > > On Mon, Oct 09, 2000 at 02:21:09AM +0100, Kenn Humborg wrote: > > > On Mon, Oct 09, 2000 at 02:20:27AM +0200, Andi Kleen wrote: > > > > 2.4 TCP code relies on current bei

Re: Updated 2.4 TODO List

2000-10-09 Thread Tigran Aivazian
On Mon, 9 Oct 2000 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > * Writing to tapes > 2.4G causes tar to fail with EIO (using >2.4.0-test7-pre5; it works under 2.4.0-test1-ac18 --- Tigran >Aivazian) this has now been working since test8 and certainly in test9. Why it failed on test7-pre5? Proba

[OOPS][BUG] with 2.4.0-test9

2000-10-09 Thread Richard Guenther
Hi! The following BUG related oopses caused my machine to die (well, X didnt survive...) while just compiling a little program. I dont know if these issues are fixed yet within one of the floating patches, so here goes the report (dmesg stripped a little). Richard. -- Richard Guenther <[EMAIL P

OOPS with test9 when plugging an Philips Webcam

2000-10-09 Thread Norbert Preining
Hi there! FIRST: I did NOT load the pwc-driver from nemosoft! (I hope anybody is satisfied now ;-) I got the following kernel oops when plugging the webcam. There wis NO driver installed! Just plugging in. I attach the output form messages send through ksymoops, the USB relevant part of my .con

Re: Updated 2.4 TODO List

2000-10-09 Thread Udo A. Steinberg
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > 8. Fix Exists But Isnt Merged > * 2.4.0-test8 has a BUG at ll_rw_blk:711. (Johnny Accot, Steffen >Luitz) (Al Viro has a patch) Said patch has already been merged in the test9-pre and -final series and the bug can be considered fixed. -Udo. - To unsubsc

Re: Newer motherboards / CPU's / hardware with Linux

2000-10-09 Thread blizbor
Andre Hedrick wrote: > > On Mon, 9 Oct 2000, Andre Tomt wrote: > > The fastest ATA drives out that are not public yet are in 39-42mB/s. > Also SCSI can not sustain rates much better than maybe 60mB/s. Andre, how are you benchmarking drives ? In context you wrote, I've got rather curious result

Re: aaaah! complete lockup 2.4.0-test9 SPARC32

2000-10-09 Thread Joshua Uziel
* Anton Blanchard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [001004 21:31]: > > I just had my box completely lock up under 2.4.0-test9. I had insmodded > > the dbri.o audio driver, which for some reason was refusing to work, at > > all. So I rmmodded it, and at that point, the screen flickered once and > > wham, comple

qestion about tcp_v4_hash

2000-10-09 Thread valery brasseur
I have a Oops in the kernel which say's "tcp_v4_hash: bug, socket state is 1" can someone explain me what's wrong ? as far as I can see removing # turns TCP timestamp support off net.ipv4.tcp_timestamps = 0 # turns SACK support off net.ipv4.tcp_sack = 0 # turn TCP window scaling support off net.

Re: the new VM

2000-10-09 Thread Christoph Rohland
Rik van Riel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Hmmm, could you help me with drawing up a selection algorithm > on how to choose which SHM segment to destroy when we run OOM? > > The criteria would be about the same as with normal programs: > > 1) minimise the amount of work lost > 2) try to protect

Re: Hard lock with Raid 0.90 on buslogic flashpoint SCSI card

2000-10-09 Thread Diamon
- Original Message - From: Jakob Østergaard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Diamon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Sunday, October 08, 2000 10:51 AM Subject: Re: Hard lock with Raid 0.90 on buslogic flashpoint SCSI card > On Sat, Oct 07, 2000 at 09:00:15PM -0500, Diamon wrote:

Newbee : Error booting kernel 2.40-pre8

2000-10-09 Thread Nguyen Binh
Hi list, Sorry to ask this , I had compiled the source to binary , but when I make it release ,means that I copy it to /boot and add it to lilo boot image, my machine fails to boot the error is: Cannot find root on 307 (the boot = /dev/hda7 on lilo.con is corrected , because I'm using that

Re: Newer motherboards / CPU's / hardware with Linux

2000-10-09 Thread Andre Hedrick
On Mon, 9 Oct 2000, Andre Tomt wrote: > > patches is ok, but I just want to know that I'm going to get more > > than 10M/s out of the drives, and not fry them. Those are my It will not fry your drives, if your drives got fried, I want to know. I want serial numbers and the maker and when/where

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