Re: [PATCH] drivers/usb/Config.in

2000-10-09 Thread Miles Lane
Matthew Dharm wrote: I'm not sure this is correct -- the options that this if conditional controls are the Keyboard and Mouse _Boot_Protocol_ support, which is separate form the regular HID support -- I believe it's for motherboards which can boot from a USB keyboard. Can somone on the

Re: [linux-usb-devel] RE: Updated 2.4 TODO List

2000-10-09 Thread Matthew Dharm
On Mon, Oct 09, 2000 at 04:17:01PM -0700, Dunlap, Randy wrote: . OOPS in usb-storage from the error-recovery handler. {CRITICAL} (Matthew Dharm; [EMAIL PROTECTED]) This is fixed as of test9. Matt -- Matthew Dharm Home: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Maintainer, Linux USB

Re: [PATCH] drivers/usb/Config.in

2000-10-09 Thread Miles Lane
"Dunlap, Randy" wrote: snip Then if you select USB HID support, that builds the hid driver, which handles mice, keyboards, joysticks, gamepads, speaker buttons, any-old-kind-of buttons, toaster buttons, etc. OTOH, if you want just some basic USB mouse keyboard support, you don't have to

Re: 2.4-9 kernel: APIC error on CPU

2000-10-09 Thread Gnea
On Mon, 9 Oct 2000 15:29:53 +0200, Lars Callenbach blurted forth: 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: [snip] Perhaps someone can explain what happens,

Re: Updated 2.4 TODO List

2000-10-09 Thread Decklin Foster
Mitchell Blank Jr writes: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 4. Boot Time Failures [...] * IBM Thinkpad 390 won't boot since 2.3.11 (See Decklin Foster for more info) I _highly_ suspect that this is not a 2.4 bug but is instead user error. I've seen it several times. snip You are

[OT] Linux running on an AMD Duron-700Mhz

2000-10-09 Thread Graham TerMarsch
First, my apologies for an OT request here. We recently upgraded one of our machines here to a Duron 700Mhz running on a QDI mainboard, and haven't been able to get a few recent Linux distros to install reasonably on it. RH6.2 installs but chokes constantly whenever we exit the X-server

Re: [PATCH] drivers/usb/Config.in

2000-10-09 Thread Harold Oga
On Mon, Oct 09, 2000 at 05:19:37PM -0700, Matthew Dharm wrote: I'm not sure this is correct -- the options that this if conditional controls are the Keyboard and Mouse _Boot_Protocol_ support, which is separate form the regular HID support -- I believe it's for motherboards which can boot from a

When do release linux-2.0.39

2000-10-09 Thread Seiichi Nakashima
Dear. I use linux-2.0.39-pre8, and work fine. I wait for releasing linux-2.0.39, when do relese linux-2.0.39?

Re: When do release linux-2.0.39

2000-10-09 Thread David Weinehall
On Tue, Oct 10, 2000 at 10:08:13AM +0900, Seiichi Nakashima wrote: Dear. I use linux-2.0.39-pre8, and work fine. I wait for releasing linux-2.0.39, when do relese linux-2.0.39? Well, I'm still investigating some problems that some users are experiencing. However, if I can't resolve those

Re: [OT] Linux running on an AMD Duron-700Mhz

2000-10-09 Thread Michael Meding
Hi there, redhat 6.2 will (should) install on this system. Maybe you have to use the upgraded driver / update disk and maybe you have to use text install. However, the installed kernel will fail during boot because it tries to disable the cpuid serial number on your system (of course there isn't

Re: 3dfx voodoo5 framebuffer patch...(w/actual patch this time)

2000-10-09 Thread Aaron Botsis
whoops. Here's a resend with the actual patch attached. :) one of those days I guess? Attached is a patch to include 3dfx voodoo5 framebuffer support. Looking for comments. Doesn't do much other than check for the voodoo5 device id. It also doesn't do anything voodoo5 specific. (voodoo5 is

Re: The case for a standard kernel debugger

2000-10-09 Thread richardj_moore
Hence, yes I can provide an interface from the kernel to log a trace event with a variable length buffer, but I don't think that taking away the statically defined trace points is the right thing to do. (I might have gotten this completely wrong, though ... My presumption about your suggestion

Re: linux-2.4.0-test9

2000-10-09 Thread David S. Miller
Date: Fri, 6 Oct 2000 00:19:20 -0700 From: Richard Henderson [EMAIL PROTECTED] Seems to me that if you want to play games and be sure that they stay played, that you'd have to put all the variables into a struct. Indeed, I've hacked this up and will send the fix to linus. Later,

Oops with USB mouse

2000-10-09 Thread Adam Huffman
This has suddenly started happening tonight. Also happens with test9 and test10-pre1 but they lock-up hard, to the extent that Atl-SysRQ+B is needed, box doesn't respond to pings etc. The only thing that's changed recently is the addition of a new PS/2 keyboard. My first Oops report so

Re: [RFC] New ideas for the OOM handler

2000-10-09 Thread Byron Stanoszek
On Tue, 10 Oct 2000, Jochen Striepe wrote: Hi, a question regarding the OOM process killer... Hmm, sometimes daemon-like processes (e.g. web servers) only need root privileges to open a network port1024 - you may start them as non-root if they do not need such a privileged port. Might be

Re: [RFC] New ideas for the OOM handler

2000-10-09 Thread Matthew Dharm
On Mon, Oct 09, 2000 at 09:25:38PM -0400, Byron Stanoszek wrote: On Tue, 10 Oct 2000, Jochen Striepe wrote: What about a user-defined list of "wishes"? The administrator should be enabled to enforce that specific processes are to be terminated only as a last resource (syslogd), or that

Re: [RFC] New ideas for the OOM handler

2000-10-09 Thread Byron Stanoszek
On Mon, 9 Oct 2000, Matthew Dharm wrote: On Mon, Oct 09, 2000 at 09:25:38PM -0400, Byron Stanoszek wrote: echo "init" /proc/sys/oom-ignore echo "httpd" /proc/sys/oom-ignore echo "parallel-fft" /proc/sys/oom-ignore etc... I'd be concerned with the security implications of this

Re: When do release linux-2.0.39

2000-10-09 Thread Seiichi Nakashima
Dear. I use linux-2.0.39-pre8, and work fine. I wait for releasing linux-2.0.39, when do relese linux-2.0.39? Well, I'm still investigating some problems that some users are experiencing. However, if I can't resolve those within a reasonable time, I'll release v2.0.39.

Re: [RFC] New ideas for the OOM handler

2000-10-09 Thread lamont
how about registering the full path (or inode number of the executable?), the owner, and an optional high water mark of memory consumption, over which the process is considered to be leaking memory and gets added to the algorithm of processes to kill? this is because while normally i want to

Re: [RFC] New ideas for the OOM handler

2000-10-09 Thread Byron Stanoszek
On Mon, 9 Oct 2000 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: how about registering the full path (or inode number of the executable?), the owner, and an optional high water mark of memory consumption, over which the process is considered to be leaking memory and gets added to the algorithm of processes to

RE: [PATCH] drivers/usb/Config.in

2000-10-09 Thread Dunlap, Randy
Then if you select USB HID support, that builds the hid driver, which handles mice, keyboards, joysticks, gamepads, speaker buttons, any-old-kind-of buttons, toaster buttons, etc. OTOH, if you want just some basic USB mouse keyboard support, you don't have to use the hid driver, you

[PATCH]: fixing swapon memory leak against 2.4.0-test10-pre1

2000-10-09 Thread Juan J. Quintela
Hi Linus I just resend this patch (the first time I forgot to put the [PATCH] field). It fixes a leak in swapon reported by marcelo quite time ago. Later, Juan. "marcelo" == Marcelo de Paula Bezerra [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Hi sorry for the delay (this problem has been

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

2000-10-09 Thread Philipp Rumpf
(but I'd be curious if somebody actually manages to trick the OOM killer into killing init ... please test a bit more to see if this really happens ;)) In a non-real-world situation, yes. (mem=3500k, many drivers, init=/bin/bash, tried to enter a command). Since the process in question

spurious 8259A interrupt?

2000-10-09 Thread Daniel Lange
Periodically, I get the following error with the 2.4.0test9 kernel: spurious 8259A interrupt: IRQ7. I did not receive this error with the 2.0.36 kernel that came stock on my slack installation. However, 2 things have been changed; I configured the PAS16 to use IRQ7 (I don't recall its exact

RAID setup

2000-10-09 Thread Anil kumar
Hi, I want to setup RAID. I am working on kernel version 2.2.12. I am using RAID patches available. I create a RAID configuring file called /etc/raidtab #mkraid /dev/md0/*md0 is the device I am selecting*/ After this when I check /proc/mdstat , I find

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

2000-10-09 Thread Andreas Dilger
Rik van Riel wrote: How about SIGTERM a bit before SIGKILL then re-evaluate the OOM N usecs later? And run the risk of having to kill /another/ process as well ? I really don't know if that would be a wise thing to do (but feel free to do some tests to see if your idea would

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

2000-10-09 Thread David S. Miller
Date:Tue, 10 Oct 2000 02:21:48 +0200 From: Bernd Eckenfels [EMAIL PROTECTED] We will see who feels responsible for adding it to the kernel source. Alexey? Andi? Davem? Alan? I have applied the fix, and will send it to Linus. Later, David S. Miller [EMAIL PROTECTED] - To

Re: MAX iso9660 size?

2000-10-09 Thread H. Peter Anvin
Followup to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] By author:Andre Hedrick [EMAIL PROTECTED] In newsgroup: linux.dev.kernel Is there a limit? I keep getting barfs on an iso9960 image 4,592,353,280 of this size. Basically I am burning DVD's at 4.7GB tests before patching the kernel before 2.4 for expanded

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