[patch] 2.4.1, 2.4.2-pre3: APIC lockups

2001-02-13 Thread Maciej W. Rozycki
Hi, After performing various tests I came to the following workaround for APIC lockups which people observe under IRQ load, mostly for networking stuff. I believe the test should work in all cases as it basically implements a manual replacement for EOI messages. In my simulated environment I

Re: 2.2.19ac-pre9 lo interface Broke

2001-02-13 Thread Gordon Sadler
I have some further info here. I performed strace on ifup -a and ifdown -a. They aren't more than 4Kb each, but I'll cut and paste what appear to be most relevant: ifup.strace: fork() = 17974 wait4(17974, [WIFEXITED(s) && WEXITSTATUS(s) == 0], 0, NULL) = 17974

Re: [PATCH] starfire reads irq before pci_enable_device.

2001-02-13 Thread Ion Badulescu
On Tue, 13 Feb 2001 07:06:44 -0600 (CST), Jeff Garzik <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 12 Feb 2001, Jes Sorensen wrote: >> In fact one has to look out for this and disable the feature in some >> cases. On the acenic not disabling Memory Write and Invalidate costs >> ~20% on performance on some

Linux 2.2.19pre11

2001-02-13 Thread Alan Cox
This is basically just a resync point for the ISDN maintainers, but if anyone wants to run it go ahead 8) 2.2.19pre11 o Corrected version of ipc/shm.c fix (Christoph Rohland) o Update/cleanup starfire (Ion Badulescu) o Update isdn makefiles

Re: 2.4.x SMP blamed for Xfree 4.0 crashes

2001-02-13 Thread Aaron Dewell
BTW, same result on sparc32 smp+X. xfs segfaults, so does X itself. It doesn't even get to trying to start. I didn't even think of trying to go back to a UP kernel. I'll have to try that now. Aaron On Tue, 13 Feb 2001, Rogerio Brito wrote: > On Feb 13 2001, Alan Cox wrote: > > Yeah I've

Re: DNS goofups galore...

2001-02-13 Thread Henning P. Schmiedehausen
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (James Antill) writes: >"Henning P. Schmiedehausen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> % telnet mail.bar.org smtp >> 220 mail.foo.org ESMTP ready >> >> >> This kills loop detection. Yes, it is done this way =%-) and it breaks >> if done wrong. > This is humour,

Re: 2.4.x SMP blamed for Xfree 4.0 crashes

2001-02-13 Thread Rogerio Brito
On Feb 13 2001, Alan Cox wrote: > Yeah I've seen this claim repeatedly. XFree 4.0.2 crashes for me in similar > ways on 3dfx and matrox cards and it happens with 2.2 kernels as well. I thought that I was going crazy or that it was just my inability to configure things correctly,

Re: Problem with Ramdisk in linux-2.4.1

2001-02-13 Thread Mike Galbraith
On Tue, 13 Feb 2001, Jaswinder Singh wrote: > Dear Mike and others , > > I am using compressed ramdisk , i can not turn off cramfs . (ok.. really is compressed) > my error messages are very strange and irreregular . > > i am getting 3 different kind of error messages :- > > invalid

Re: Selects on dirs/files.

2001-02-13 Thread N. Jason Kleinbub
Manfred Spraul wrote: > "N. Jason Kleinbub" wrote: >> People, >> >> Not sure where to go from here but >> >> ( Yes I have read the FAQ )= >> >> For practical reasons, I have created some modification to the >> Linux kernel. These changes were to make our implementation

kiobuff

2001-02-13 Thread Sourav Sen
Hello, Can someone please give me some initial info or pointer regarding kiobuff, what is it all about and its purpose etc.. regards sourav - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe

Issues with parport/parport_pc/lp

2001-02-13 Thread Mircea Ciocan
Hi all, Yesterday I see a request for help from the cups printing system mentainer: http://linuxtoday.com/news_story.php3?ltsn=2001-02-12-009-04-OS-CY-HW Basicly it ask you to read the options from the PJL enabled printer you may have by running this small shell script:

Re: 2.4.1 swaps hardware addresses for ethernet cards

2001-02-13 Thread al goldstein
On Tue, 13 Feb 2001, Andrew Morton wrote: Thanks Andrew, I appreciate your note. I'll try it again with 509 as a module. I had forgotten about linkage order problems. > al goldstein wrote: > > > > I have 2 ether cards 59x (eth0) and 509 (eth1). I have been adding 509 > > at boot in lilo.conf.

2.4.1 loopback bug

2001-02-13 Thread John Langford
There seems to be a heisenbug embedded in the 2.4 loopback driver. The symptom is that at some point a kernel call just fails to return. I've tried to reduce this to the simplest possible example and came up with the following trace for a generic 2.4.1 kernel. [root@crush jl]# ls -l bigrandom

Re: Problem with Ramdisk in linux-2.4.1

2001-02-13 Thread Jaswinder Singh
Dear Mike and others , Sometimes i also get :- incomplete literal tree OR incomplete distance tree along with invalid compressed format (err=1) OR invalid compressed format (err=2) OR crc error And it is very strange because for the same ramdisk , linux2.4.1 shows me all the error messages .

Re: Problem with Ramdisk in linux-2.4.1

2001-02-13 Thread Jaswinder Singh
Dear Mike and others , I am using compressed ramdisk , i can not turn off cramfs . my error messages are very strange and irreregular . i am getting 3 different kind of error messages :- invalid compressed format (err=1) OR invalid compressed format (err=2) OR crc error I am using gzip 1.2.4

Re: BUG in sched.c, Kernel 2.4.1?

2001-02-13 Thread Martin Rode
Manfred Spraul wrote: > Martin Rode wrote: > > > > > > > > Run this oops message through ksymoops please. It will make debugging > > > it alot easier. > > > > > > > > > > Since I did not compile the kernel myself, ksymoops is not too happy with > > what is has to analyse the dump. I

Re: LDT allocated for cloned task!

2001-02-13 Thread Simon Kirby
On Tue, Feb 13, 2001 at 06:22:26PM +, Alan Cox wrote: > > LDT allocated for cloned task! > > > > I'm seeing this message come up fairly often while running vanilla > > 2.4.2-pre3 on my dual Celeron system. I don't think I saw it before > > while running 2.4.1, but I may have just missed

Re: BUG in sched.c, Kernel 2.4.1?

2001-02-13 Thread Martin Rode
Re-ran ksymoops: ; Martin kernel BUG at sched.c:714! invalid operand: CPU: 0 EIP: 0010:[] Using defaults from ksymoops -t elf32-i386 -a i386 EFLAGS: 00010282 eax: 001b ebx ecx df4f6000 edx 0001 esi: 001cffe3 edi db5eede0 ebp dc0e9f40 esp dc0e9ef0 stack: c01f26f3 c01f2856

Re: Kernel panic: Ththththaats all folks

2001-02-13 Thread Ishikawa
> My system: > Pentium-II, 350 MHz, 64MB > Adaptec AHA-2940A (-> aic7xxx.o) > kernel: 2.4.0 > patch: SGI-debugger (kdb-v1.7-2.4.0) > > Some more details: > My jukebox consists of a picker device (sg.o) and some MO-drives (sd_mod.o) > The sg.o attaches to all these devices, while sd attaches to

Re: 2.4.1-ac10 compile error

2001-02-13 Thread Pavel Roskin
Hello, Keith! I also noticed this error when I upgraded from ac9 to ac11. My understanding is that if "make depend" is run on the sources that have already been compiled, then names.o depends on devlist.h (with full path) is ".depend". If I run "make clean" first, then everything is fine. But

Re: How to install Alan's patches?

2001-02-13 Thread Russell King
Alan Cox writes: > cd linux > patch -p1 <../patchfile patch -p1 -i ../patchfile means that patch won't read the whole patchfile into a temporary file first, which it will do if patch reads from stdin. -- Russell King ([EMAIL PROTECTED])The developer of ARM Linux

Re: [Patch] correct tmpfs link count for directories

2001-02-13 Thread Alan Cox
> The attached patch makes tmpfs behave more like other fs's. Apparently > perl expects this. A few apps assume this. All of them are buggy. I'll apply the patch. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More

Re: LDT allocated for cloned task!

2001-02-13 Thread Alan Cox
> LDT allocated for cloned task! > > I'm seeing this message come up fairly often while running vanilla > 2.4.2-pre3 on my dual Celeron system. I don't think I saw it before > while running 2.4.1, but I may have just missed it. Are you running wine or dosemu ? - To unsubscribe from this list:

Re: [LK] Re: lkml subject line

2001-02-13 Thread Mike A. Harris
On Tue, 13 Feb 2001, Timur Tabi wrote: >> Which is retarded. The subject line is for the subject. Other >> headers exist for letting one know where they came from. > >There's only one problem with this. It assumes that for every >mailing list you are on, you will have a folder into which all

Re: [?] __alloc_pages: 1-order allocation failed.

2001-02-13 Thread Rahul Jain
On Tue, Feb 13, 2001 at 10:59:57AM +0100, Krzysztof Rusocki wrote: > > Hi, > > Here's what i've found today in logs: > > Feb 13 02:10:41 main kernel: __alloc_pages: 1-order allocation failed. > Feb 13 02:10:42 main last message repeated 143 times > Feb 13 02:10:47 main kernel: ed. > Feb 13

[RFC][PATCH] block ioctl to read/write last sector (New! Improved!)

2001-02-13 Thread Michael E Brown
To address the concerns of Andi Kleen, with a good suggestion from Richard Johnson, I have revised my previous patch attempt. Please check this out and comment. Changelog: 1) use get_gendisk() instead of walking array manually 2) pass in struct instead of guessing.. + struct { +

Re: APIC problems

2001-02-13 Thread Maciej W. Rozycki
On Mon, 12 Feb 2001, David D.W. Downey wrote: > I can see that the error codes are actually the values of ESR both before > and after the apic_write() call. I see that the codes are the modulus'd > value before and after the apic_write call. What I'm not understanding is > how to translate that

LDT allocated for cloned task!

2001-02-13 Thread Simon Kirby
LDT allocated for cloned task! I'm seeing this message come up fairly often while running vanilla 2.4.2-pre3 on my dual Celeron system. I don't think I saw it before while running 2.4.1, but I may have just missed it. My system has been up around two days and has 11 of these messages in the

[Patch] correct tmpfs link count for directories

2001-02-13 Thread Christoph Rohland
Hi Alan, The attached patch makes tmpfs behave more like other fs's. Apparently perl expects this. Greetings Christoph diff -uNr 2.4.1-ac10/mm/shmem.c 2.4.1-ac10-nlink/mm/shmem.c --- 2.4.1-ac10/mm/shmem.c Mon Feb 12 15:01:47 2001 +++ 2.4.1-ac10-nlink/mm/shmem.c Tue Feb 13

Re: setting cpu speed on crusoe

2001-02-13 Thread Linus Torvalds
On Sat, 10 Feb 2001, Pavel Machek wrote: > > > Junichi Morita and I have worked out how to access the crusoe > > "longrun" settings on the crusoe based VAIO. This allows you to enable > > power saving mode and slow the cpu down. It should help battery life a > > lot. > > There is no

RE: PCI bridge handling 2.4.0-test10 -> 2.4.2-pre3

2001-02-13 Thread Zink, Dan
Does it make sense to try and keep up with the latest and greatest in chipsets when there is a hardware independent way of doing things? You may be able to get information on current chipsets, but every time something changes, the kernel may be broken for a time. If we rely on the BIOS, the

Re: [LK] Re: lkml subject line

2001-02-13 Thread Timur Tabi
** Reply to message from "Mike A. Harris" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> on Tue, 13 Feb 2001 03:53:13 -0500 (EST) > >I disagree, and while I may be in the minority on this list, I am certainly > >not in the minority across the board, given that virtually every mailing list > >I am subscribed to DOES

Re: PCI bridge handling 2.4.0-test10 -> 2.4.2-pre3

2001-02-13 Thread Jeff Garzik
On Tue, 13 Feb 2001, Tim Wright wrote: > I believe that, in general, we want working fixup routines so the we don't > have to rely on the BIOS. That said, it's apparent that the ServerWorks > routines are broken. Fixing them is going to be troublesome, given ServerWorks > attitude towards

Linux 2.4.1ac11

2001-02-13 Thread Alan Cox
ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/alan/2.4/ 2.4.1-ac11 o Hack the setup code to do the right thing for (me) Cyrix processors. Cpuid on cyrix should now work o Change sigmatel codec inits (Jeff Garzik) o Revised TLB shootdown

Re: [patch-2.4.1-ac10] unsetting TASK_RUNNING

2001-02-13 Thread John Levon
On Tue, 13 Feb 2001, Tigran Aivazian wrote: > Hi Alan, > > The only case in schedule_timeout() which does not call schedule() does > set tsk->state = TASK_RUNNING explicitly before returning. Therefore, any > code which unconditionally calls schedule_timeout() (and, of course > schedule()) does

Re: 2.4.x SMP blamed for Xfree 4.0 crashes

2001-02-13 Thread David Howells
I had problems with XFree86 4.0 and 4.0.1 locking solidly up under Linux 2.4.x after about 10mins until I upgraded to XFree86 4.0.2. Now it seems rock solid. XFree86 3.3.x was always okay. I've got a Dual-PII machine and an NVidia GeForce. David - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line

Re: PCI bridge handling 2.4.0-test10 -> 2.4.2-pre3

2001-02-13 Thread Tim Wright
I believe that, in general, we want working fixup routines so the we don't have to rely on the BIOS. That said, it's apparent that the ServerWorks routines are broken. Fixing them is going to be troublesome, given ServerWorks attitude towards releasing specs. It's on my list of things to try to

Re: PCI GART (?)

2001-02-13 Thread Benjamin Herrenschmidt
>> I have RTFM but on the matter of enabling DRI for the >> ATI Mobility video chipset, which on that notebook is >> a PCI model, there is practically nil information. The >> DRI website mentions using PCI GART, but there is no >> option for that in the kernel. How do I enable this? > >You need

RE: USB mouse jumping

2001-02-13 Thread Dunlap, Randy
> From: Elmer Joandi [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > > On Tue, 13 Feb 2001, Dunlap, Randy wrote: > > > If USB mice had serial numbers (like some USB storage devices > > do), then we could tell that it's the same mouse on the > > same connector and not change from mouse0 to mouse1. > > Currently

[patch-2.4.1-ac10] unsetting TASK_RUNNING

2001-02-13 Thread Tigran Aivazian
Hi Alan, The only case in schedule_timeout() which does not call schedule() does set tsk->state = TASK_RUNNING explicitly before returning. Therefore, any code which unconditionally calls schedule_timeout() (and, of course schedule()) does not need to set TASK_RUNNING afterwards. I have seen

RE: USB mouse jumping

2001-02-13 Thread Elmer Joandi
On Tue, 13 Feb 2001, Dunlap, Randy wrote: > > If USB mice had serial numbers (like some USB storage devices > do), then we could tell that it's the same mouse on the > same connector and not change from mouse0 to mouse1. > Currently it looks like a new device attachment. > > One possible

RE: USB mouse jumping

2001-02-13 Thread Dunlap, Randy
> From: Elmer Joandi [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > > I dont know, if it is bug or feature, but, > > USB mouse jumps around (between) /dev/input/mouse0 and mouse1 > when taken out and put back in(to same connector), 2.4.0 kernel. > > Annoys, should not be the default behaviour, IMHO. If USB

Kernel panic: Ththththaats all folks

2001-02-13 Thread Ralf Oehler
Dear mailing-list, Currently I'm working on a device-virtualizing robotic driver for HP jukeboxes (magneto-optical media) an a WORM filesystem for linux. Both work really nice now, but it seems there are some weak spots in the SCSI subsystem which I cannot work around. The worst situation I

Re: race in autofs / nfs

2001-02-13 Thread Olaf Hering
On Mon, Feb 12, Olaf Hering wrote: > On Mon, Feb 12, H. Peter Anvin wrote: > > > Olaf Hering wrote: > > > > > > The autofs4.o is the culprit, it works perfect with autofs.o. > > > > > > What would happen if I stick with autofs.o now? > > > The docu recommends autofs4 in modules.conf. > > > >

Re: BUG in sched.c, Kernel 2.4.1?

2001-02-13 Thread Manfred Spraul
Martin Rode wrote: > > > > > Run this oops message through ksymoops please. It will make debugging > > it alot easier. > > > > > > Since I did not compile the kernel myself, ksymoops is not too happy with > what is has to analyse the dump. I tried compile the Mandrake kernel myself > but there

Re: 2.4.x SMP blamed for Xfree 4.0 crashes

2001-02-13 Thread Pete Toscano
i have been running 4.0.2 on my smp system using the 2.4.1 kernel. the one thing is, i was using the xfree out of precision insite's cvs with the g400 binary-only hal lib dri module loaded. every-so-often, especially when closing windows or switching virtual desktops, the kernel would crash.

Re: How to install Alan's patches?

2001-02-13 Thread bradley mclain
from linux (/usr/src/linux) directory, if the patch is up a level (/usr/src): patch -p1 <../patch-2.4.1-ac9 hth, bradley mclain ps -- probably a google search with the string 'how to install ac patches' will find some instructions for you. --- Thomas Foerster <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi

Re: How to install Alan's patches?

2001-02-13 Thread Alan Cox
> |+++ linux.ac/CREDITS Fri Feb 9 13:19:13 2001 > -- > File to patch: > [root@space src]# > > Do i have to create linux.vanilla and linux.ac, or what's the magic?! :-) Calling it linux.ac is one answer. Another one is cd linux patch -p1 <../patchfile - To

Re: BUG in sched.c, Kernel 2.4.1?

2001-02-13 Thread Martin Rode
> > Run this oops message through ksymoops please. It will make debugging > it alot easier. > > Since I did not compile the kernel myself, ksymoops is not too happy with what is has to analyse the dump. I tried compile the Mandrake kernel myself but there seems to be something

Re: 2.4.x SMP blamed for Xfree 4.0 crashes

2001-02-13 Thread Tony Gale
On 13-Feb-2001 David Woodhouse wrote: > The crashes got less frequent when I started running X against > glibc-2.1 > (note _running_ against glibc-2.1, not just compiling against it > and running > against glibc-2.2). But they were still happening. I'm running RH6.2 with glibc-2.1.3-22 > >

Re: How to install Alan's patches?

2001-02-13 Thread Tigran Aivazian
Alan's patches are installed like this: # cd /usr/src # tar xIf linux-2.4.1.tar.bz2 # cd linux # patch -sp1 < ../patch-2.4.1-ac6 # chown -R root:root . Note the "-sp1" and that you need to be _inside_ the tree. Also, you don't need to waste another process ("cat") and create a pipe, just use

Re: How to install Alan's patches?

2001-02-13 Thread Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo
Em Tue, Feb 13, 2001 at 04:03:02PM +0100, Thomas Foerster escreveu: > Hi folks, > > sorry for the silly question, but i can't get it to work : > > I have linux-2.4.1 unpacked, configured and installed. > Now i want to apply Alan Cox patche (linux-2.4.1-ac9), but i always get > these errors : >

How to install Alan's patches?

2001-02-13 Thread Thomas Foerster
Hi folks, sorry for the silly question, but i can't get it to work : I have linux-2.4.1 unpacked, configured and installed. Now i want to apply Alan Cox patche (linux-2.4.1-ac9), but i always get these errors : [root@space src]# cat /home/puck/patch-2.4.1-ac9 | patch -p0 can't find file to

NFSD die with 2.4.1 (resend with ksymoops)

2001-02-13 Thread Jean-Eric Cuendet
Hi all, I have a machine with kernel 2.4.1 . It exports some volume via NFS (installed with RedHat 7.0 + custom 2.4.1 kernel) NFSD dies unexpectedly with a Oops (see below). At the beginning, I have 8 NFSD processes, but suddenly, they all die. I can't see why it happens, because the machine is

Re: PCI GART (?)

2001-02-13 Thread Mike A. Harris
On Tue, 13 Feb 2001, Michèl Alexandre Salim wrote: >This might not be the proper place to ask - my >apologies - but since it pertains to the Sony >Picturebook (C1VE - Crusoe) that people have been >discussing on this list anyway, I hope people don't >mind too much :) > >I have RTFM but on the

Re: Selects on dirs/files.

2001-02-13 Thread Manfred Spraul
"N. Jason Kleinbub" wrote: > > People, > > Not sure where to go from here but > > ( Yes I have read the FAQ ) > > For practical reasons, I have created some modification to the > Linux kernel. These changes were to make our implementation of > software more convenient (elegant).

Re: PCI bridge handling 2.4.0-test10 -> 2.4.2-pre3

2001-02-13 Thread Adam Lackorzynski
On Tue Feb 13, 2001 at 12:20:14 +0100, Jan-Benedict Glaw wrote: > On Tue, Feb 13, 2001 at 12:38:15AM +0100, Adam Lackorzynski wrote: > > On Mon Feb 12, 2001 at 14:04:20 +0100, Jan-Benedict Glaw wrote: > > > I've got a "Bull Express5800/Series" (dual P3) with a DAC1164 RAID > > > controller. The

Re: 2.4.x SMP blamed for Xfree 4.0 crashes

2001-02-13 Thread David Woodhouse
[EMAIL PROTECTED] said: > >This is a long-standing problem with 2.3 and 2.4 SMP kernels. I > believe it is a kernel bug and isn't the XFree86 project's problem. > The problem does not exist on 2.2 SMP kernels nor on 2.3/4 UP kernels. > The symptoms are random segfaults in perfectly fine

Re: 2.4.x SMP blamed for Xfree 4.0 crashes

2001-02-13 Thread Zdenek Kabelac
Alan Cox wrote: > Yeah I've seen this claim repeatedly. XFree 4.0.2 crashes for me in similar > ways on 3dfx and matrox cards and it happens with 2.2 kernels as well. What > makes me suspicious its XFree triggered is that there isnt really anything > XFree does that would trigger mm bugs on x86

[PATCH] cache directory position in dcache for ext2

2001-02-13 Thread Manfred Spraul
ext2_find_entry is quite expensive for directories with lots of entries - what about caching the block and offset in the dcache? Each dentry contains 2 values reserved for the filesystem: dentry->d_fsdata dentry->d_time ext2 doesn't use them - yet. I've written a small patch that caches the

Support for maximal supported mode

2001-02-13 Thread Ingo Oeser
Hi Andre, hi lkml, I need to add support for a maximum transfer mode selection on drives and channels. Reason: I have an ata flash disk as boot & root disk, that can only sucessfully do pio2 and it takes several minutes (5-10) until it will use pio2. This is not acceptable for embedded

Re: BUG in sched.c, Kernel 2.4.1?

2001-02-13 Thread Brian Gerst
Martin Rode wrote: > > After upgrading to kernel 2.4.1 my box locked hard after starting the > regular arkeia backup. I had previously problems with MM on kernel > 2.2.18 and > 2.2.19pre2. My report a few days ago is still unanswered. > > I would be glad if someone would be comment this time. >

Selects on dirs/files.

2001-02-13 Thread N. Jason Kleinbub
People, Not sure where to go from here but ( Yes I have read the FAQ ) For practical reasons, I have created some modification to the Linux kernel. These changes were to make our implementation of software more convenient (elegant). Essentially, I have modified the select()

BUG in sched.c, Kernel 2.4.1?

2001-02-13 Thread Martin Rode
After upgrading to kernel 2.4.1 my box locked hard after starting the regular arkeia backup. I had previously problems with MM on kernel 2.2.18 and > 2.2.19pre2. My report a few days ago is still unanswered. I would be glad if someone would be comment this time. Here's the typed crash

Re: Problem with kernel-module version mismatch

2001-02-13 Thread Richard B. Johnson
On Tue, 13 Feb 2001, Marcus Ramos wrote: > Hello, > > After compiling files "ttime.c" and "ttime.h", I try to load them into > the kernel using the command /sbin/insmod ttime.o. However, the > following message suggests that a version conflict has prevented the > loading to be performed

Re: 2.4.x SMP blamed for Xfree 4.0 crashes

2001-02-13 Thread Tony Gale
On 13-Feb-2001 Alan Cox wrote: >> Having experienced a number of crashes with Xfree 4.0 with 2.4 >> kernels, that I wasn't getting with 2.2 kernels, a quick search on >> the xfree Xpert mailing list reveals this: > > Yeah I've seen this claim repeatedly. XFree 4.0.2 crashes for me in > similar

Re: gzipped executables

2001-02-13 Thread Xavier Bestel
Le 13 Feb 2001 07:58:56 -0600, Matt Stegman a écrit : > Hello, > > Anything in 2.4 isn't an option right now. I'm using, and am really happy > with, the ext3 journalling patch. I'm not planning on a 2.4 upgrade until > ext3 has been ported. Damn shame I don't have the skill to do that >

Re: LILO and serial speeds over 9600

2001-02-13 Thread James Sutherland
On Tue, 13 Feb 2001, Russell King wrote: > James Sutherland writes: > > If the kernel starts spewing data faster than you can send it to the far > > end, either the data gets dropped, or you block the kernel. Having the > > kernel hang waiting to send a printk to the far end seems like a bad > >

Re: gzipped executables

2001-02-13 Thread Matt Stegman
Hello, Anything in 2.4 isn't an option right now. I'm using, and am really happy with, the ext3 journalling patch. I'm not planning on a 2.4 upgrade until ext3 has been ported. Damn shame I don't have the skill to do that myself... ext2 compression would be great. First off, though, I'm

Re: [?] __alloc_pages: 1-order allocation failed.

2001-02-13 Thread Andi Kleen
On Tue, Feb 13, 2001 at 10:59:57AM +0100, Krzysztof Rusocki wrote: > > Hi, > > Here's what i've found today in logs: > > Feb 13 02:10:41 main kernel: __alloc_pages: 1-order allocation failed. > Feb 13 02:10:42 main last message repeated 143 times > Feb 13 02:10:47 main kernel: ed. > Feb 13

Re: Linux 2.2.19pre10

2001-02-13 Thread Christoph Rohland
Hi Alan, On Tue, 13 Feb 2001, Alan Cox wrote: >> Yes, I understand that. But I never got any note that my fix is >> broken and I still do not understand what's the concern. > > Unless Im misreading the code the segment you poke at has > potentially been freed before it is written too. Oh yes I

Re: LILO and serial speeds over 9600

2001-02-13 Thread Russell King
James Sutherland writes: > If the kernel starts spewing data faster than you can send it to the far > end, either the data gets dropped, or you block the kernel. Having the > kernel hang waiting to send a printk to the far end seems like a bad > situation... It can actually be useful. Why?

Problem with kernel-module version mismatch

2001-02-13 Thread Marcus Ramos
Hello, After compiling files "ttime.c" and "ttime.h", I try to load them into the kernel using the command /sbin/insmod ttime.o. However, the following message suggests that a version conflict has prevented the loading to be performed correctly: "kernel-module version mismatch. ttime.o was

2.4.2pre3 panic with nfsd

2001-02-13 Thread Brian Grossman
This is a crash from nfsd on 2.4.2pre3. Cpuinfo below ksymoops output. Top state at crash below ksymoops. Exported disks are 3 partitions of one scsi disk device. All three filesystems are ext2. Scsi adapter is buslogic. Two tulip network cards. Two heavy use write-mostly nfs clients. gcc

Re: Linux 2.4.1-ac7

2001-02-13 Thread Rik van Riel
On Tue, 13 Feb 2001, Mike Galbraith wrote: > On Mon, 12 Feb 2001, Marcelo Tosatti wrote: > > > Could you please try the attached patch on top of latest Rik's patch? > > Sure thing.. (few minutes later) no change. That's because your problem requires a change to the balancing between swap_out()

Re: Linux 2.2.19pre10

2001-02-13 Thread Christoph Rohland
Hi Alan, On Tue, 13 Feb 2001, Alan Cox wrote: >> No, I do not think that it's minor. We had to bring down running >> application servers to be able to start another one, because the >> new one couldn't create or attach the systemwide os-monitoring >> segment and thus refused to start. That's

Re: Linux 2.2.19pre10

2001-02-13 Thread Alan Cox
> Yes, I understand that. But I never got any note that my fix is broken > and I still do not understand what's the concern. Unless Im misreading the code the segment you poke at has potentially been freed before it is written too. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe

Re: lkml subject line

2001-02-13 Thread Mohammad A. Haque
Some people keep telling me that the way mutt handles headers is 'broken'. I've looked at it myself and don't see anything wrong and no one explains their accusations. Anyone know anything about this or are they blowing hot air? Alan Cox wrote: > > I've played with both pine and mutt. mutt is

Re: 2.4.x SMP blamed for Xfree 4.0 crashes

2001-02-13 Thread Richard B. Johnson
On Tue, 13 Feb 2001, Tony Gale wrote: > Having experienced a number of crashes with Xfree 4.0 with 2.4 > kernels, that I wasn't getting with 2.2 kernels, a quick search on > the xfree Xpert mailing list reveals this: > > >

Re: [UPDATE] zerocopy patch against 2.4.2-pre2

2001-02-13 Thread Andrew Morton
"David S. Miller" wrote: > > Andrew Morton writes: > > Changing the memory copy function did make some difference > > in my setup. But the performance drop on send(8k) is only approx 10%, > > partly because I changed the way I'm testing it - `cyclesoak' is > > now penalised more heavily by

Re: 2.4.x SMP blamed for Xfree 4.0 crashes

2001-02-13 Thread Alan Cox
> Having experienced a number of crashes with Xfree 4.0 with 2.4 > kernels, that I wasn't getting with 2.2 kernels, a quick search on > the xfree Xpert mailing list reveals this: Yeah I've seen this claim repeatedly. XFree 4.0.2 crashes for me in similar ways on 3dfx and matrox cards and it

Re: gzipped executables

2001-02-13 Thread Padraig Brady
You might consider UPX (http://upx.tsx.org) Very cool. The beta version supports compressing the kernel and "direct-to-memory" compression. I think it still has the disadvantage of not sharing segments between many instances of the same program. Is there any way of fixing this? (probably would

Re: [PATCH] starfire reads irq before pci_enable_device.

2001-02-13 Thread Jeff Garzik
On 12 Feb 2001, Jes Sorensen wrote: > > "Gérard" == Gérard Roudier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Gérard> In PCI, it is the Memory Write and Invalidate PCI transaction > Gérard> that is intended to allow core-logics to optimize DMA this > Gérard> way. For normal Memory Write PCI transactions

2.4.x SMP blamed for Xfree 4.0 crashes

2001-02-13 Thread Tony Gale
Having experienced a number of crashes with Xfree 4.0 with 2.4 kernels, that I wasn't getting with 2.2 kernels, a quick search on the xfree Xpert mailing list reveals this:

Re: PCI GART (?)

2001-02-13 Thread Alan Cox
> I have RTFM but on the matter of enabling DRI for the > ATI Mobility video chipset, which on that notebook is > a PCI model, there is practically nil information. The > DRI website mentions using PCI GART, but there is no > option for that in the kernel. How do I enable this? You need to get

Re: Linux 2.2.19pre10

2001-02-13 Thread Alan Cox
> > Possibly but its a minor item that doesnt really matter anyway so leaving it > > is fine > > No, I do not think that it's minor. We had to bring down running > application servers to be able to start another one, because the new > one couldn't create or attach the systemwide os-monitoring >

[PATCH] Via audio users please test...

2001-02-13 Thread Jeff Garzik
Attached is a patch against 2.4.1-ac-XX which changes the initialization of SigmaTel audio codecs. All recent reports of "no sound at all" with Via audio have been users with this codec. With the Via audio driver, you can find out if you have one of the problematic Sigmatel codecs like so: >

Re: lost charaters -- this is becoming annoying!

2001-02-13 Thread Tigran Aivazian
On Tue, 13 Feb 2001, Andrew Morton wrote: > Well, an external keyboard in a Dell Latitude works just fine here. > Perhaps you should remove it from the docking station and test > with an external keyboard? yes, I can try that. In the meantime you can see for yourself -- just plug into the

Re: [LK] Re: lkml subject line

2001-02-13 Thread Mike Harrold
> > On Mon, 12 Feb 2001, Mike Harrold wrote: > > >> Those would all be your problems and I would suggest using a different account > >> for mail then. > > > >Out of interest, how would that solve anything? So I use an ISP instead. > >Then I have to download all my mail to home to read it. Talk

Re: lost charaters -- this is becoming annoying!

2001-02-13 Thread Tigran Aivazian
Hi Alan, I am now running 2.2.19-pre9 and it is working fine. Also, just in case, I retyped this same message in pine in xterm and on the console. No character loss whatsoever. Also, licq stopped losing characters as well. I will continue using 2.2.19-pre9 until the evening and report anything

Re: Linux 2.2.19pre10

2001-02-13 Thread Christoph Rohland
Hi Alan, On Mon, 12 Feb 2001, Alan Cox wrote: >> First, I'm glad I wasn't hallucinating, and that the mail did >> indeed get seen by someone. >> >> Second, instead of reverting, can't we simply move those two lines >> up a bit: > > Possibly but its a minor item that doesnt really matter anyway

Re: shared memory problem

2001-02-13 Thread Christoph Rohland
Hi Admin, On Mon, 12 Feb 2001, Admin Mailing Lists wrote: > > I've been using the 2.2.x series successfully, latest i used was > 2.2.19pre7. Today i upgraded to 2.4.1-ac9 and noticed that shared > memory shows 0. I searched the list archive briefly and someone > said the stats have been

PCI GART (?)

2001-02-13 Thread Michèl Alexandre Salim
Hello, This might not be the proper place to ask - my apologies - but since it pertains to the Sony Picturebook (C1VE - Crusoe) that people have been discussing on this list anyway, I hope people don't mind too much :) I have RTFM but on the matter of enabling DRI for the ATI Mobility video

Re: gzipped executables

2001-02-13 Thread Ingo Oeser
On Tue, Feb 13, 2001 at 08:40:31AM -, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > On Mon, 12 Feb 2001 23:09:39 -0600 (CST) Matt Stegman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >Is there any kernel patch that would allow Linux to properly recognize, > >and execute gzipped executables? > > Perhaps you could put it in the

Re: lost charaters -- this is becoming annoying!

2001-02-13 Thread Andrew Morton
Tigran Aivazian wrote: > > Ok, I decided to write this email inine on the console and... see? the > "inine" was supped to be "in pine" (not to mention the "supped" :) > Well, an external keyboard in a Dell Latitude works just fine here. Perhaps you should remove it from the docking station and

Re: lost charaters -- this is becoming annoying!

2001-02-13 Thread Tigran Aivazian
Ok, I decided to write this email inine on the console and... see? the "inine" was supped to be "in pine" (not to mention the "supped" :) Yes, I do lose characters when working in pine on the console! So, it is not X-specific. Now, what I was going to write this email about was -- I get the

Re: ACPI idle

2001-02-13 Thread Umbra
Hi On Mon, 12 Feb 2001, Meelis Roos wrote: I also tried 2.4.1-ac10, but without acpi=no-idle, my machine crashes. Part of the output is bellow: ACPI: Core Subsystem Version [20010208] ACPI: Subsystem enabled ACPI: System firmware supports: C2 C3 ACPI: plvl2lat=10 plvl3lat=20 ACPI: C2

Re: lost charaters -- this is becoming annoying!

2001-02-13 Thread Alan Cox
> > When you say 2.2.x works does that include 2.2.18. > > no, I meant the plain 2.2.x as of Red Hat 7.0 which is labelled as > "2.2.16-22". Can you try 2.2.18/2.2.19pre. Those if my first guess is right will behave like 2.4 does to you. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line

Re: lost charaters -- this is becoming annoying!

2001-02-13 Thread Tigran Aivazian
Hi Andrew, Keyboard internal, but... you are right -- this _only_ happens when the laptop is plugged into the docking station... that could be an extra clue (i.e. two PS/2 controllers simultaneously -- maybe the docking station one needs to be somehow explicitly disabled). How come I can't

Re: lost charaters -- this is becoming annoying!

2001-02-13 Thread Tigran Aivazian
On Tue, 13 Feb 2001, Alan Cox wrote: > > PS. This only happens on this Dell latitude CPx (notice lost shift in > > Latitude?) H450GT. > > > > PPS. No, my laptop is fine -- rebootingnto 2.2.x makes it type without > > loosing characters... > > 2.2 and 2.4 handle keyboard error cases quite

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