Re: 2.2.16 SMP: mtrr errors

2000-12-12 Thread Boszormenyi Zoltan
On Tue, 12 Dec 2000, Petr Vandrovec wrote: > That's wrong. They must first register MTRR and then split it to > 24+8, as they cannot register 24MB range. They can split it > 16+16, or (16+8)+8, but at cost of 1 (or 2) additional MTRR entries - > and there is very limited number of possible MTRRs.

Re: [patch] I-Opener fix (again)

2000-12-12 Thread Andre Hedrick
Basically if the setting of * "hdx=flash" : allows for more than one ata_flash disk to be * registered. In most cases, only one device * will be present. fails then I will look into this but, the breaking of laptops that

17 month late patch for Linux v2.2.x

2000-12-12 Thread John Fort
Alan, this is identical to the patch that was in patch-2.3.10 of Jul 5 1999 except a line number difference of one. It is only needed if you build your v2.2.x kernel for the Initio 1060p LVD SCSI controller using a later compiler than 2.7.2.3 and then are stupid enough to ignore any compiler

/dev/cpu/*/(cpuid, msr) unhappy as modules - OOPS!

2000-12-12 Thread Chris Rankin
Hi, I have just compiled Linux 2.2.18 (UP) and Linux 2.4.0-test12 (SMP, devfs), and in each case I compiled the msr and cpuid drivers as modules. However, when I tried to read from the devices (using "cat"), I got oopses from both 2.2.18 and 2.4.0-test12. Neither the msr.o nor the cpuid.o modules

Re: USB mass storage backport status?

2000-12-12 Thread Frédéric L . W . Meunier
On Tue, Dec 12, 2000 at 08:08:40PM -0800, Matthew Dharm wrote: > Depending on the type of device you have and how you use it, it can either: > (1) Work properly > (2) Corrupt your data > (3) Crash the driver > (4) Crash your system The reboot was about Iomega's Zip Drive under 2.2.18pre21:

wake_up and wait_event

2000-12-12 Thread Sourav Ghosh
Hi, I have two questions: 1. Is it ok to make a "wake_up_process()" call from an interrupt handler? In my work, there is a kernel thread that sleeps under "sleep_on()" and wakes up by the "wake_up_process()" by an interrupt handler. My system is crashing and I just wanna make sure if this is

test12: innd bug came back?

2000-12-12 Thread Anton Petrusevich
Hi folks. Today I saw well-known "innd bug"(truncate(tm)), and my brother said he had seen it with -test12-pre7. I don't know about -test12-pre3, neither I nor my brother hadn't noticed it since -test10. But we could miss it with -test12-pre3, and I didn't try any -test11 kernels. Thus possibly

RE: Signal 11 - the continuing saga

2000-12-12 Thread Mike Galbraith
On Wed, 13 Dec 2000, Rainer Mager wrote: > Thanks for the info... > > > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Jeff V. Merkey > > > So, is this related to the larger signal 11 problems? > > > > There's a corruption bug in the page cache somewhere, and it's 100% > > reproducable. Finding it

Re: USB mass storage backport status?

2000-12-12 Thread Matthew Dharm
Depending on the type of device you have and how you use it, it can either: (1) Work properly (2) Corrupt your data (3) Crash the driver (4) Crash your system It's allready labeled EXPERIMENTAL. Perhaps it should be labeled DANGEROUS, also, but how many labels can you put on things to warn

Re: 2.2.18pre21 oops reading /proc/apm

2000-12-12 Thread Neale Banks
On Wed, 13 Dec 2000, Alan Cox wrote: > > (3) modifies the output of /proc/apm when power status reporting is > > disabled - on reflection, maybe this wasn't such a smart thing to do > > (could royally stuff anybody who is automagically parsing /proc/apm?) > > Please dont - it correctly reports

USB mass storage backport status?

2000-12-12 Thread Frédéric L . W . Meunier
What's the real status of the mass storage backport to 2.2.18? Some people report it can corrupt your data, another that it rebooted his computer while doing a large trasnfer, and so on. If it's not good, shouldn't it be removed or labeled DANGEROUS? BTW, where can I see a list of what's

Re: Signal 11 - the continuing saga

2000-12-12 Thread Linus Torvalds
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Jeff V. Merkey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >On Wed, Dec 13, 2000 at 09:22:55AM +0900, Rainer Mager wrote: >> I have a tiny bash script that launches a Java swing app. If I run my >> script from an xterm (or gnome-terminal or whatever) then it starts up fine. >>

Re: [BUG] raid5 crash with 2.4.0-test12 [Was: Linux-2.4.0-test12]

2000-12-12 Thread Linus Torvalds
On Wed, 13 Dec 2000, Neil Brown wrote: > > Yes... you are right. Alright, I can't escape it any other way so I > guess I must admit that it is a raid5 bug. > > But how can raid5 be calling b_end_io on a buffer_head that was never > passed to generic_make_request? > Answer, it snoops on the

via82cxxx_audio - bad latency

2000-12-12 Thread Paul Jakma
hi, i think somethings gone wrong with via82cxxx_audio. Playing anything through it seems to cause massive latency in apps like xmms, esd, asmixer, etc.. anything to do with playing or mixer levels suddenly takes a minute or more to respond. It didn't always do this, and when it started

Re: National Semiconductor DP83815 ethernet driver?

2000-12-12 Thread root
>From searching Google, I know some sort of driver exists. In July, Adam J. >Richter ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) posted a 2.2.16 driver he obtained from Dave >Gotwisner at Wyse Technologies. And Tim Hockin mentioned that he was using >an NSC driver, but had made some minor modifications. This one has a

Re: 2.2.18pre21 oops reading /proc/apm

2000-12-12 Thread Alan Cox
> (3) modifies the output of /proc/apm when power status reporting is > disabled - on reflection, maybe this wasn't such a smart thing to do > (could royally stuff anybody who is automagically parsing /proc/apm?) Please dont - it correctly reports 'dunno' right now - To unsubscribe from this

Re: 2.2.16 SMP: mtrr errors

2000-12-12 Thread David Wragg
" Paul C. Nendick " <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Shall I submit this to Matrox as a bug then? The "bug" is in the XFree86 core, so telling Matrox might not do a lot of good. The driver code just says "I want to map a framebuffer of this size at this physical address" (or actually "with these

Re: National Semiconductor DP83815 ethernet driver?

2000-12-12 Thread Tim Hockin
> >From searching Google, I know some sort of driver exists. In July, Adam J. > Richter ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) posted a 2.2.16 driver he obtained from Dave > Gotwisner at Wyse Technologies. And Tim Hockin mentioned that he was using > an NSC driver, but had made some minor modifications. We're

RE: Signal 11 - the continuing saga

2000-12-12 Thread Rainer Mager
Thanks for the info... > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Jeff V. Merkey > > So, is this related to the larger signal 11 problems? > > There's a corruption bug in the page cache somewhere, and it's 100% > reproducable. Finding it will be tough Ok, granted this will be tough but

Re: 2.2.18pre21 oops reading /proc/apm

2000-12-12 Thread Neale Banks
On Tue, 12 Dec 2000, Neale Banks wrote: [...] > New diff to follow, hopefully tomorrow. New diff against unmolested 2.2.18pre24 (appears to apply cleanly to 2.2.18 also) is attached. Main points: (1) adds a configure item for buggy BIOS (i.e. that can't be automagically detected). (2)

Re: Linux 2.2.18 release notes

2000-12-12 Thread Mark Hahn
> > - metrics -- L1 cacheline size is the important one: you align array ... > Anyone can give me some pointers on how this is done runtime ? (name of > the .c file is fine). kernel/sched.c:aligned_data. as mentioned elsewhere, the correct alignment is not necessarily L1 linesize. - To

Re: All INNOMINATE linux-list feeds are now killed...

2000-12-12 Thread Matti Aarnio
On Wed, Dec 13, 2000 at 02:09:31AM +0100, Marco d'Itri wrote: > On Dec 06, Rik van Riel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> We deeply regret this and apologize honestly, but also would > >> like to resubscribe... > >Could you make it a one-way list this time? > > If vger postmasters do not mind,

Re: Possible patch for reiserfs-3.6.22 against 2.4.0-test12

2000-12-12 Thread Adam Sampson
Steven Cole <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Your patch will probably let journal.c get compiled, but it might be > dangerous to use considering what Chris said. I've just tried it and got filesystem corruption, so no, it doesn't work. I'll wait for someone else to provide a patch that works. --

Re: Signal 11 - the continuing saga

2000-12-12 Thread Jeff V. Merkey
On Wed, Dec 13, 2000 at 09:22:55AM +0900, Rainer Mager wrote: > Hi again, > > Ok, I just upgraded to 2.4.0test12 (although I don't think there was any > work in 12 that directly addresses this signal 11 problem). When compiling > the new kernel I chose to disable AGPGart and RDM as

Re: Possible patch for reiserfs-3.6.22 against 2.4.0-test12

2000-12-12 Thread Steven Cole
Adam Sampson wrote: >The latest reiserfs patch on ftp.namesys.com causes compilation errors >against test12 due to the task queue changes. Does this look correct? [patch snipped] > >It does at least compile with these changes, but I haven't yet tested >it. Looking at run_task_queue, it would

Re: All INNOMINATE linux-list feeds are now killed...

2000-12-12 Thread Marco d'Itri
On Dec 06, Rik van Riel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> We deeply regret this and apologize honestly, but also would >> like to resubscribe... >Could you make it a one-way list this time? If vger postmasters do not mind, next week I'm going to unidirectinally gate linux-kernel (and maybe other

scsi_unregister_device

2000-12-12 Thread skinbits
Hello all, As part of our final year project, we are implementing a network based on SCSI to use as a cheap fast eth link. This module is made of two parts: -sn: A scsi device that talk with the scsi mid layer -scsinet: A network device driver that talks with sn. We made a

Re: National Semiconductor DP83815 ethernet driver?

2000-12-12 Thread Jeff Garzik
Torrey Hoffman wrote: > > I am wondering about the current status of a driver for the NS83815 ethernet > chip. > > >From searching Google, I know some sort of driver exists. In July, Adam J. > Richter ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) posted a 2.2.16 driver he obtained from Dave > Gotwisner at Wyse

Possible patch for reiserfs-3.6.22 against 2.4.0-test12

2000-12-12 Thread Adam Sampson
Hiya. The latest reiserfs patch on ftp.namesys.com causes compilation errors against test12 due to the task queue changes. Does this look correct? --- fs/reiserfs/journal.c.orig Wed Dec 13 00:13:00 2000 +++ fs/reiserfs/journal.c Wed Dec 13 00:40:52 2000 @@ -1762,7 +1762,7 @@

Re: 2.2.18-25 DELL Laptop Video Problems

2000-12-12 Thread Jeff V. Merkey
On Wed, Dec 13, 2000 at 01:34:46AM +0100, Dominik Kubla wrote: > On Mon, Dec 11, 2000 at 11:11:41AM -0700, Jeff V. Merkey wrote: > ... > > Then this is the vga=271 stuff? > > > > Jeff > > No, that's just selecting the VGA resolution. I am referring to the > video parameter: > >

National Semiconductor DP83815 ethernet driver?

2000-12-12 Thread Torrey Hoffman
I am wondering about the current status of a driver for the NS83815 ethernet chip. >From searching Google, I know some sort of driver exists. In July, Adam J. Richter ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) posted a 2.2.16 driver he obtained from Dave Gotwisner at Wyse Technologies. And Tim Hockin mentioned that he

Re: 2.2.18 vs Inspiron

2000-12-12 Thread James Simmons
> There was some discusion lately re: Dell Inspiron FB probs. The bad news > is the ATI Mach64 display support is still broken but just selecting > VESA VGA graphics console is working fine. > > The patient is a Dell Inspiron I7500 1050x1450 display, vga = 794. Ah the infamous Rage Mobility

RE: Signal 11 - the continuing saga

2000-12-12 Thread Rainer Mager
Hi again, Ok, I just upgraded to 2.4.0test12 (although I don't think there was any work in 12 that directly addresses this signal 11 problem). When compiling the new kernel I chose to disable AGPGart and RDM as suggested by [EMAIL PROTECTED] I will report later if this makes any

Re: [BUG] raid5 crash with 2.4.0-test12 [Was: Linux-2.4.0-test12]

2000-12-12 Thread Neil Brown
On Tuesday December 12, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > On Wed, 13 Dec 2000, Neil Brown wrote: > > > > Could you add this test to the top of md_make_request as well, because > > requests to raid5 don't go through generic_make_request. > > Sure they do. Everything that calls ll_rw_block() or

Re: Linux 2.2.18 release notes

2000-12-12 Thread Igmar Palsenberg
> - metrics -- L1 cacheline size is the important one: you align array > elements to this size when you want a per-cpu array, so that multiple > CPUs do not share a cacheline for accessing their "own" structure. > Proper alignment avoids "cacheline ping-pong", as it's called, > whenever

Re: Dropping chars on 16550

2000-12-12 Thread Igmar Palsenberg
> > Use handshaking > > Heh...do what I did. Go on eBay and pick up a Hayes ESP card. Hmm.. High speed comm is fine here, as long is I use handshaking. If I don't, I'll loose chars. > I have a fairly weak system by todays standards, and I found that > even with a 16550 serial port, I'd get

2.2.18 vs Inspiron

2000-12-12 Thread Bob Lorenzini
There was some discusion lately re: Dell Inspiron FB probs. The bad news is the ATI Mach64 display support is still broken but just selecting VESA VGA graphics console is working fine. The patient is a Dell Inspiron I7500 1050x1450 display, vga = 794. Bob - To unsubscribe from this list: send

Re: Build failure in 2.2.18

2000-12-12 Thread Keith Owens
On Tue, 12 Dec 2000 09:39:31 -0500, root <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >I've just patched and reconfigured to 2.2.18 (from 2.2.17 on an >i686-linux-gnu[2.2]). make bzImage fails with: >ld:/usr/src/linux/arch/i386/vmlinux.lds:73: parse error > /* Stabs debugging sections. */ > . > stab 0 : {

Re: [BUG] raid5 crash with 2.4.0-test12 [Was: Linux-2.4.0-test12]

2000-12-12 Thread Linus Torvalds
On Wed, 13 Dec 2000, Neil Brown wrote: > > Could you add this test to the top of md_make_request as well, because > requests to raid5 don't go through generic_make_request. Sure they do. Everything that calls ll_rw_block() or submit_bh() will go through generic_make_request. Neil, you're

PATCH: ALSxxx soundcard documentation update

2000-12-12 Thread Jonathan Woithe
Hi Linus Here is a minor update to Documentation/sound/ALS which covers the PnP issues with a little more clarity than is currently done. It is for the 2.4.testXXX series and made against the ALS file from test10. Regards jonathan --- linux-2.4.test10-orig/Documentation/sound/ALS Wed

Re: VM problem (2.4.0-test11)

2000-12-12 Thread J . A . Magallon
On Wed, 13 Dec 2000 00:25:25 Jussi Laako wrote: > Marc Mutz wrote: > > > > Just to not miss the obvious: You know about ulimit(3)? > > Yes, but it doesn't stop deadlocks caused by kernel's VM system going > wild... I think that no matter what user process does, root should be always > able to

Re: Still "eth0: trigger_send() called with the transmitter busy" in 2.4.0-test12

2000-12-12 Thread Gnea
On Tue, 12 Dec 2000 18:46:42 +0100, Juan blurted forth: > Hi! > > This error exists since 2.4.0-test10preX or so. It occurs when the > network interface is activated. > > I'm using RedHat 7.0 and my ethernet card is a "Kingston EtheRx KNE20 > Plug and Play ISA Adapter". I'm unable to

Re: how to capture long oops w/o having second machine

2000-12-12 Thread Mohammad A. Haque
Wouldn't you know it. I've patched my kernel with kdb and now I can't get it to throw up. Maybe it'll do it once this mail gets sent out like it did last time. I'd prefer a dumper also. I went and grabbed LKCD but it didn't patch cleanly against test12 so I decided against it. dean gaudet

Re: VM problem (2.4.0-test11)

2000-12-12 Thread Jussi Laako
Marc Mutz wrote: > > Just to not miss the obvious: You know about ulimit(3)? Yes, but it doesn't stop deadlocks caused by kernel's VM system going wild... I think that no matter what user process does, root should be always able to stop it. User process should never be able to render whole

Re: how to capture long oops w/o having second machine

2000-12-12 Thread dean gaudet
i've always been curious why none of the crash dump patches are default. an oops dumper alone would seem to be most useful. (i know anything more would be unacceptable 'cause linus isn't into debuggers ;) -dean On Tue, 12 Dec 2000, Miles Lane wrote: > > Try reading: > >

Re: [BUG] raid5 crash with 2.4.0-test12 [Was: Linux-2.4.0-test12]

2000-12-12 Thread Neil Brown
On Tuesday December 12, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > On Tue, Dec 12, 2000 at 11:06:07AM -0800, Linus Torvalds wrote: > > > > To get better debug output, could you please do something for me? > > > > In fs/buffer.c, get rid of "end_buffer_io_bad" completely, and replace all > > users of it with

[PATCH] timer.h obsolete comments

2000-12-12 Thread Pavel Rabel
Hi Linus, Are the old static timers gone completely? Some comments are either obsolete or out of place. Pavel Rabel --- include/linux/timer.h.old Tue Dec 12 22:07:35 2000 +++ include/linux/timer.h Tue Dec 12 22:09:28 2000 @@ -5,13 +5,9 @@ #include /* - * This is completely

Re: VM problem (2.4.0-test11)

2000-12-12 Thread Marc Mutz
Jussi Laako wrote: > > Hello, > > Would it be possible to implement some VM CPUtime/bandwidth limitation? > Just to not miss the obvious: You know about ulimit(3)? man 3 ulimit help ulimit (when in bash). Marc -- Marc Mutz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://EncryptionHOWTO.sourceforge.net/

Re: pdev_enable_device no longer used ?

2000-12-12 Thread David S. Miller
Date: Tue, 12 Dec 2000 21:28:18 +0100 (CET) From: Gérard Roudier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> You can be as dump as you want with PCI, but not that much. :-) Your point is well taken. Btw, unlike the person, that proposed it, that will be able to test peer-to-peer unability only, my

Re: [BUG] raid5 crash with 2.4.0-test12 [Was: Linux-2.4.0-test12]

2000-12-12 Thread Jasper Spaans
On Tue, Dec 12, 2000 at 11:06:07AM -0800, Linus Torvalds wrote: > > Dec 12 14:04:50 spaans kernel: invalid operand: > > Dec 12 14:04:50 spaans kernel: CPU:1 > > Dec 12 14:04:50 spaans kernel: EIP:0010:[end_buffer_io_bad+85/92] > > > > Dec 12 14:04:50 spaans kernel: Call Trace: > >

2.4.0-test12 doesn't start under vmware

2000-12-12 Thread Thomas Kotzian
I compiled linux-2.4.0-test12 without any problems: it does: Lilo: loading v240t12 . Uncompressing Linux... Ok, booting the kernel. then it is in an endless loop i think because vmware uses all cpu-power. First I start in Grub, from there i start Lilo and then the kernel. - maybe there's

Re: [PATCH] mdacon.c cleanup

2000-12-12 Thread Pavel Rabel
On Tue, 12 Dec 2000, David Woodhouse wrote: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: > > Both MODULE_PARM and __init are removed by precompiler when not > > compiler as module, so no need for ifdefs. 2.4.0-test12pre8 > > -#ifdef MODULE_PARM > MODULE_PARM(mda_first_vc, "1-255i"); > MODULE_PARM(mda_last_vc,

EMU10K1 not working under 2.2.18 (fwd)

2000-12-12 Thread kees
Hello, I have a SMP mobo MSI 694D with (2xPIII667MHz). Under 2.2.18 the EMU10K1 *is* recognised (var/log/boot) <6>Creative EMU10K1 PCI Audio Driver, version 0.6, 18:26:49 Dec 6 2000 <6>emu10k1: EMU10K1 rev 8 model 0x8027 found, IO at 0xe400-0xe41f, IRQ 18 But produce no mixer device for

Re: UP 2.2.18 makes kernels 3% faster than UP 2.4.0-test12

2000-12-12 Thread Steven Cole
On Tuesday 12 December 2000 13:38, Linus Torvalds wrote: > On Tue, 12 Dec 2000, Steven Cole wrote: > > Task: make -j3 bzImage for 2.4.0-test12-pre7 kernel tree. > > Actually, do it with > > make -j3 'MAKE=make -j3' bzImage > > A single "-j3" won't do much. It will only build three

VM problem (2.4.0-test11)

2000-12-12 Thread Jussi Laako
Hello, Would it be possible to implement some VM CPUtime/bandwidth limitation? We have server used by multiple developers. Problem is when someone happens to implement memory hole to application the system goes wild swapping and ALL other activity stops. No response to keyboard/mouse events nor

Re: 2.2.16 SMP: mtrr errors

2000-12-12 Thread Paul C. Nendick
Shall I submit this to Matrox as a bug then? /paul Alan Cox ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) said: > > Petr, the Matrox card splits the memory between the two video screens > > when running in a multi-head configuration and "pretends" that it is two > > distinct cards. Thus, a 32 mb card will register an

Re: how to capture long oops w/o having second machine

2000-12-12 Thread Greg KH
On Tue, Dec 12, 2000 at 06:13:39PM +0100, Andreas Bombe wrote: > On Tue, Dec 12, 2000 at 09:34:30AM -0500, Mohammad A. Haque wrote: > > Someone gave me a really awesome idea about possibly using a palm pilot > > to capture the oops. Anyone know if it will be a problem using > > /dev/ttyUSB0 as

Re: 2.2.16 SMP: mtrr errors

2000-12-12 Thread John Cavan
Alan Cox wrote: > > to fall through, but is this correct? I've inserted a break at the end > > of the Intel switch before and have not had problems, but I left it out > > Lucky Wouldn't be the first time... - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of

Re: PROBLEM: cdrom doesnt work anymore with 2.4

2000-12-12 Thread Matthias Czapla
On Die, Dez 12, 2000 at 04:15:44 +0100, Guest section DW wrote: > On Tue, Dec 12, 2000 at 02:17:04PM +0100, Matthias Czapla wrote: > > > I have a quite old cdrom drive, called Cyberdrive 240D. With linux 2.2.17 > > it worked with soemtimes odd behavior, but it worked. > > With 2.4.0-test11 I can

Re: pdev_enable_device no longer used ?

2000-12-12 Thread Gérard Roudier
On Tue, 12 Dec 2000, David S. Miller wrote: >Date: Tue, 12 Dec 2000 20:17:21 +0100 (CET) >From: Gérard Roudier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > >On Mon, 11 Dec 2000, David S. Miller wrote: > >> Tell me one valid use of this information first :-) > >SCRIPTS. Have a look into my kind

Re: ANNOUNCE: Linux Kernel ORB: kORBit

2000-12-12 Thread Chris Lattner
On Sat, 9 Dec 2000, Mohammad A. Haque wrote: > It was just an example. Basically, you'd be able to do in with just > about any language that has ORBit bindings. > > Ben Ford wrote: > > Why would you *ever* want to write a device driver in perl??? > Precisely... but also, there could be a

Re: 2.2.16 SMP: mtrr errors

2000-12-12 Thread Alan Cox
> Petr, the Matrox card splits the memory between the two video screens > when running in a multi-head configuration and "pretends" that it is two > distinct cards. Thus, a 32 mb card will register an mtrr for 24mb and > for 8mb seperately when in this mode. That is a driver bug. The intel

Re: 2.2.18 vanilla on SMP, latency WORKAROUND

2000-12-12 Thread Mario Vanoni
Mario Vanoni wrote: > > Same latencies as 2.2.16 and 2.2.17 vanilla, > over 75 seconds to wait on an other screen! > And top(1) on a serial VT510 freezes. > > Machine loaded with 2 setiathome and > Doug Ledford's memtest. > > ASUS P2B-DS Dual PIII550 1024MB memory, > only SCSI devices (no

Re: 2.2.16 SMP: mtrr errors

2000-12-12 Thread Petr Vandrovec
On 12 Dec 00 at 16:07, John Cavan wrote: > Petr Vandrovec wrote: > > > kernel: mtrr: base(0xd400) is not aligned on a size(0x180) boundary > > > last message repeated 2 times > > > > For some strange reason X thinks that you have 24MB of memory on the G450. > > You can either create 32MB

Re: Big IDE HD unclipping and IBM drive

2000-12-12 Thread Dr. Kelsey Hudson
Yeah, get yourself one of those nifty add-in IDE controllers that CAN see drives greater than 32GB. S'What I did and it works fine. On Fri, 8 Dec 2000, Matan Ziv-Av wrote: > > Hi, > > > I have an IBM drive, DTLA-307075 (75GB), and a bios that hangs with > large disks. I use a jumper to clip

Re: 2.2.16 SMP: mtrr errors

2000-12-12 Thread John Cavan
Petr Vandrovec wrote: > > kernel: mtrr: base(0xd400) is not aligned on a size(0x180) boundary > > last message repeated 2 times > > For some strange reason X thinks that you have 24MB of memory on the G450. > You can either create 32MB write-combining region at 0xd400, or > teach X

Re: how to capture long oops w/o having second machine

2000-12-12 Thread Miles Lane
Try reading: http://www.linuxhq.com/kernel/v2.3/doc/oops-tracing.txt.html It mentions: Patch the kernel with one of the crash dump patches. These save data to a floppy disk or video rom or a swap partition. None of these are standard kernel patches so you have to find

Re: PATCH: linux-2.4.0-test12pre8/include/linux/module.h breaks sysklogd compilation

2000-12-12 Thread Frank van Maarseveen
On Mon, Dec 11, 2000 at 07:53:05PM -0600, Peter Samuelson wrote: > > [Mohammad A. Haque] > > Wasn't there discussion that user space apps shouldn't include kernel > > headers? > > Oh, it's been discussed, many times. Here is my executive summary of > why nobody needs to use kernel headers in

2.2.18: Patch to SysRq code

2000-12-12 Thread Riley Williams
Hi Alan. The enclosed patch deals with two problems relating to the Magic SysRq function, as follows: 1. One of my pet peeves with SysRq as implemented is the apparently random order theoptions as listed in the SysRq help list. This patch sorts that list into case-insensitive

2.2.18: Configuration documentation

2000-12-12 Thread Riley Williams
Hi Alan. I've just done a comparison of the configuration variables listed in the config.in files against those listed in the Configure.help file. I have enclosed the bash script I wrote to perform this analysis, and would like to submit it for inclusion with the kernel as the file...

Re: 2.2.16 SMP: mtrr errors

2000-12-12 Thread Petr Vandrovec
On 11 Dec 00 at 14:00, Paul C. Nendick wrote: > -Matrox g450 32MB RAM dual-heal AGP video card w/ hand compiled X driver > from matrox Make sure you do not use either matroxfb or XFree's driver... Same chip ID, but different ramdac :-( > and immediately after starting X: > > kernel: mtrr:

Re: UP 2.2.18 makes kernels 3% faster than UP 2.4.0-test12

2000-12-12 Thread Linus Torvalds
On Tue, 12 Dec 2000, Steven Cole wrote: > > Task: make -j3 bzImage for 2.4.0-test12-pre7 kernel tree. Actually, do it with make -j3 'MAKE=make -j3' bzImage A single "-j3" won't do much. It will only build three directories at a time, and you'll never see much load. But doing it

Re: how to capture long oops w/o having second machine

2000-12-12 Thread Mohammad A. Haque
Nope, this didn't fly. Would have been neat if it did work. Maybe it can be made to work for future use? On Tue, 12 Dec 2000, Greg KH wrote: > I don't know if /dev/ttyUSBX would work, but I think it would. People > have successfully run consoles through the usb-serial drivers, but I'm > not

Re: pdev_enable_device no longer used ?

2000-12-12 Thread David S. Miller
Date: Tue, 12 Dec 2000 20:17:21 +0100 (CET) From: Gérard Roudier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> On Mon, 11 Dec 2000, David S. Miller wrote: > Tell me one valid use of this information first :-) SCRIPTS. Have a look into my kind :-) response to Martin. Ok, this I understand. > b) If

Re: [PATCH] mdacon.c cleanup

2000-12-12 Thread David Woodhouse
[EMAIL PROTECTED] said: > Both MODULE_PARM and __init are removed by precompiler when not > compiler as module, so no need for ifdefs. 2.4.0-test12pre8 -#ifdef MODULE_PARM MODULE_PARM(mda_first_vc, "1-255i"); MODULE_PARM(mda_last_vc, "1-255i"); -#endif That was #ifdef MODULE_PARM not

Re: 2.2.16 SMP: mtrr errors

2000-12-12 Thread Paul C. Nendick
See my answers inline below. /paul Mark Hahn ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) said: > > kernel: mtrr: base(0xd400) is not aligned on a size(0x180) boundary > > X is trying to set an mtrr for the framebuffer. the odd thing > is that its trying to set a 24M mtrr, which is pretty strange. > what

Re: 2.2.16 SMP: mtrr errors

2000-12-12 Thread John Cavan
> kernel: mtrr: base(0xd400) is not aligned on a size(0x180) boundary > last message repeated 2 times > > and finally: > > %cat /proc/mtrr > reg00: base=0x ( 0MB), size= 256MB: write-back, count=1 > reg01: base=0xd000 (3328MB), size= 64MB: write-combining, count=1 >

Re: UP 2.2.18 makes kernels 3% faster than UP 2.4.0-test12

2000-12-12 Thread Steven Cole
On Tuesday 12 December 2000 11:40, Linus Torvalds wrote: > On Tue, 12 Dec 2000, Steven Cole wrote: > > Executive summary: SMP 2.4.0 is 2% faster than SMP 2.2.18. > > > I ran X and KDE 2.0 during the tests to provide a greater though > > reproducable load on the tested kernel. > > You might want

Re: pdev_enable_device no longer used ?

2000-12-12 Thread Gérard Roudier
On Mon, 11 Dec 2000, David S. Miller wrote: >Date: Mon, 11 Dec 2000 23:07:01 +0100 (CET) >From: Gérard Roudier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > >So, if you want to fix this insane PCI interface: > >1) Provide the _actual_ BARs values in the pci dev structure, otherwise > drivers

Re: [BUG] raid5 crash with 2.4.0-test12 [Was: Linux-2.4.0-test12]

2000-12-12 Thread Jasper Spaans
On Wed, Dec 13, 2000 at 06:56:22AM +1100, Neil Brown wrote: > Guilt by association :-) > > What this bit of code (complete_stripe/raid5_end_buffer_io) is doing > is observing that it as completed some I/O request that was made of > the raid5 device and is calling the b_end_io on the buffer_head

2.2.16 SMP: mtrr errors

2000-12-12 Thread Paul C. Nendick
Please cc: any responses to my email address <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> My setup -A standard install of RedHat 7.0 with the 2.2.16smp w/ hand compiled X 4.0.1 to support xinerama -Tyan tiger 133 s1834 motherboard (VIA Apollo Pro133A Chipset) -256mb PC133 RAM -Two 800 Mhz PIII eb Slot-1 CPU's -Matrox

Re: pdev_enable_device no longer used ?

2000-12-12 Thread Gérard Roudier
On Tue, 12 Dec 2000, Martin Mares wrote: > Hello! > > > It is the bar cookies in pci dev structure that are insane, in my opinion. > > > > If a driver needs BARs values, it needs actual BARs values and not some > > stinking cookies. What a driver can do with BAR cookies other than using > >

Re: Bad behavior of recv on already closed sockets.

2000-12-12 Thread kuznet
Hello! > > It would be better to understand the issue f.e. trying to restore > > the history of this descriptor. > > How to do this? I mean what should I do to provide you with more information? I do not know exactly. It depends on curcumstances, frequency of the stalls and... your luck. 8)

Re: [linux-usb-devel] PROBLEM: USB (MS Intellimouse specifically) does not work with SMP Linux 2.2.18.

2000-12-12 Thread Stephen J. Gowdy
Hi, Have you tried setting MPS to 1.1 in your bios (instead of 1.4)? This seems to be needed for 2.2.x kernels but not 2.4.x. regards, Stephen. --

Re: [BUG] raid5 crash with 2.4.0-test12 [Was: Linux-2.4.0-test12]

2000-12-12 Thread Linus Torvalds
On Tue, 12 Dec 2000, Jasper Spaans wrote: > On Mon, Dec 11, 2000 at 06:52:55PM -0800, Linus Torvalds wrote: > > > > Ok, there it is. Noticeable changes from pre8 are mainly (a) new tq list > > compile fixes and (b) the NetApp snapshot thing. > > > - final: > > - Neil Brown: raid and md

NFSv3 Bugreport

2000-12-12 Thread Dennis Johannßen
NFSv3-Kernel-Server: Debian potato linux-2.2.16 mount-2.10f NFSv3-Kernel-Client(-Support) Debian woodylinux-2.4.0-test10 mount-2.10q There is a Bootwarning message, when the /etc/init.d/mountnfs.sh script

Re: 2.4.0-test12 not liking high disk i/o

2000-12-12 Thread Niels Kristian Bech Jensen
On Tue, 12 Dec 2000, Mohammad A. Haque wrote: > i440BX is consistent with mine as is running the drive at UDMA33. > > > It happened when I decided to copy old 18GB IDE disk to new 40GB IDE one > > (both UDMA33, one (18GB src) as primary master, one (40GB dst) as > > secondary master; i440BX). >

Re: UP 2.2.18 makes kernels 3% faster than UP 2.4.0-test12

2000-12-12 Thread Linus Torvalds
On Tue, 12 Dec 2000, Steven Cole wrote: > > Executive summary: SMP 2.4.0 is 2% faster than SMP 2.2.18. Note that kernel compilation really isn't a very relevant benchmark, because percentage differences in this range can be basically just noise: things like driver version differences that

[OOPS] 2.4.0-test12 with heavy file manipulation

2000-12-12 Thread Olivier Cahagne
(please CC me when replying as I follow this list on the Web) [1.] One line summary of the problem: 2.4.0-test12 non-fatal oops while copying files or doing shell file name completion. [2.] Full description of the problem/report: With 2.4.0-test12, I got a non reproducible oops after having

Re: UP 2.2.18 makes kernels 3% faster than UP 2.4.0-test12

2000-12-12 Thread Steven Cole
On Monday 11 December 2000 11:46, Alan Cox wrote: > > Its an interesting demo that 2.4 has some performance problems since 2.2 > is slower than 2.0 although nowdays not much. Results for SMP 2.2.18 vs SMP 2.4.0-test12 are in. I repeated my earlier tests on a much faster dual P-III machine.

Re: how to capture long oops w/o having second machine

2000-12-12 Thread Andreas Bombe
On Tue, Dec 12, 2000 at 09:34:30AM -0500, Mohammad A. Haque wrote: > Someone gave me a really awesome idea about possibly using a palm pilot > to capture the oops. Anyone know if it will be a problem using > /dev/ttyUSB0 as the serial port? The driver itself has to provide support for serial

Re: 2.4.0-test12 not liking high disk i/o

2000-12-12 Thread Mohammad A. Haque
i440BX is consistent with mine as is running the drive at UDMA33. > It happened when I decided to copy old 18GB IDE disk to new 40GB IDE one > (both UDMA33, one (18GB src) as primary master, one (40GB dst) as > secondary master; i440BX). --

Re: [linux-usb-devel] PROBLEM: USB (MS Intellimouse specifically) does not work with SMP Linux 2.2.18.

2000-12-12 Thread Pete Toscano
what mobo/chipset are you using? i and a bunch of other people have been having very similar problems with this and the 2.4.0-test kernels. we all use the tyan tiger 133 mobo with the apollo pro 133a chipset. i believe that the 2.2.18 usb support has been pulled from the 2.4.0-test source, so

A workload to detect fs corruption?

2000-12-12 Thread Lorenzo Allegrucci
http://www.eecs.harvard.edu/~keith/usenix96/aging.tar.gz It's a good and 100% reproducible workload, I think. BTW, does test12 solve the fs corruption once and for all? -- Lorenzo - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL

2.4.0-test12 won't boot in my Pentium 100Mhz,32MB RAM, SIS motherboard computer

2000-12-12 Thread Juan
It hangs after "Booting the kernel.ok" Bye!!! -- D. Juan Piernas Cánovas Departamento de Ingeniería y Tecnología de Computadores Facultad de Informática. Universidad de Murcia Campus de Espinardo - 30080 Murcia (SPAIN) Tel.: +34968367657Fax: +34968364151 email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] PGP

[PATCH] local APIC and NMI watchdog on UP P6 systems

2000-12-12 Thread Mikael Pettersson
An updated version of the UP-APIC patch for Intel P6 processors is now available at: http://www.csd.uu.se/~mikpe/linux/upapic/ The current version is intended for 2.4.0-test12 final. This version is based on Ingo Molnar's upapic-2.4.0-test9-F8 patch, with add-on patches from Maciej W.

Still "eth0: trigger_send() called with the transmitter busy" in 2.4.0-test12

2000-12-12 Thread Juan
Hi! This error exists since 2.4.0-test10preX or so. It occurs when the network interface is activated. I'm using RedHat 7.0 and my ethernet card is a "Kingston EtheRx KNE20 Plug and Play ISA Adapter". I'm unable to access the Internet because the ethernet card doesn't work :-(. Besides, the

Re: 2.4.0-test12 not liking high disk i/o

2000-12-12 Thread Pete Toscano
well, i hate to be piling on here, but i just encountered this (i think it's this) this morning. i was printing a 145+m file (to /dev/lp0) from an ide drive and it locked up. just before the lockup, i noticed it was very sluggish, as if it were under very heavy load (which is really wasn't).

Re: [linux-usb-devel] PROBLEM: USB (MS Intellimouse specifically) does not work with SMP Linux 2.2.18.

2000-12-12 Thread Johannes Erdfelt
On Tue, Dec 12, 2000, Laramie Leavitt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > [1.] One line summary of the problem: > USB (MS Intellimouse specifically) does not work with SMP kernel 2.2.18. > > [2.] Full description of the problem/report: > When trying to install a Microsoft Intellimouse Explorer (USB) >

Re: 2.4.0-test12 not liking high disk i/o

2000-12-12 Thread ferret
Can you tell us what controller chipset you have (output of lspci should be fine) and if your hard drive has DMA or uDMA enabled? There have been a few other reports of oopsen and fs corruption during periods of high interrupt activity. Mine seems to occur whenever I saturate my local network

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