Re: [Linux-fbdev-devel] [RFC] fbdev & power management

On 13 Mar 2001 22:25:29 +0100, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote: > I'm working on improving some aspects of Power Management on the > PowerBooks, and among other things, I have a problem with fbdevs. > > Currently, each fbdev registers a power management callback to sleep/ > wakeup the device. We han

Re: (struct dentry *)->vfsmnt;

On Tue, 13 Mar 2001, Andreas Dilger wrote: > On AIX, it is possible to import a volume group, and it automatically > builds /etc/fstab entries from information stored in the fs. Having the > "last mounted on" would have the mount point info, and of course LVM > would hold the device names. Wa

DPT Driver Status

I have searched the archives, hunted through the adaptec site, tried multiple patches, compilers, revisions. I have a DPT/Adaptec DPT RAID V century card. This has been a topic of much discussion in the past on this list. What I have found is that almost every file I find has a patch that

Re: (struct dentry *)->vfsmnt;

Al, you write: > On Tue, 13 Mar 2001, Andreas Dilger wrote: > > "/mnt" from the first mount. If it comes to the point where I can get > > that, then I will start to worry about "mount --bind". > > > > This is to store in the ext2 on-disk superblock, which is currently always > > (from dumpe2fs -

Re: ln -l says symlink has size 281474976710666

John Lenton writes: > burocracia:~# debugfs /dev/hda2 > debugfs 1.19, 13-Jul-2000 for EXT2 FS 0.5b, 95/08/09 > debugfs: stat <404176> > Inode: 404176 Type: symlinkMode: 0777 Flags: 0x0 Generation: 2457884131 > User: 0 Group: 0 Size: 281474976710666 > Fast_link_dest: imlib-b

Re: (struct dentry *)->vfsmnt;

On Tue, 13 Mar 2001, Andreas Dilger wrote: > Yes, I know you _can_ do all sorts of tricks like this, but most people > don't really do it. In any case, I would be happy if I could even get Ugh. That sounds like a work for mount(8), not mount(2), then. BTW, userland (mount(8)) looks like the o

[PATCH] HP Vectra XU 5/90 interrupt problems

I propose a patch of mpparse.c (patched against 2.4.2) to fix the Vectra XU interrupt problem. By the time we get to construct_default_ioirq_mptable(), we know we have an ISA/PCI machine without any IRQ entries in the MP table. At this point the kernel would just set up all the IRQ entries as

Re: (struct dentry *)->vfsmnt;

Al writes: > > How about the first one? The one that calls the "read_super" method. > > AFAICT, only the first mount calls down to the FS anyways (the rest > > is VFS internal). > > And what should that be after > > mount -t ext2 /dev/sda1 /mnt > mount --bind /mnt /tmp/foo > umount /mnt Yes, I

Re: ln -l says symlink has size 281474976710666

On Tue, Mar 13, 2001 at 02:47:16PM -0700, Andreas Dilger wrote: > ls -i (path)/imlib1; ls -i (path)/fd # record inode numbers > debugfs /dev/hdX > stat # '<' and '>' are required burocracia:~# ls -i /usr/share/doc/|grep \ imlib1$ 404176 imlib1 burocracia:~# ls -

Re: (struct dentry *)->vfsmnt;

On Tue, 13 Mar 2001, Andreas Dilger wrote: > You write: > > > What about if I want to know the mountpoint (inside the filesystem) > > > when it is mounted? > > > > Which mountpoint? There can be a lot of them (quite possibly - some > > of them out of the chroot jail you are in, so "any" is unl

2.4.2-ac20 build fails with some pcmcia option

Hello, make bzImage gives this: ld: cannot open drivers/net/pcmcia/pcmcia_net.o: No such file or directory with the following .config: # # PCMCIA network device support # # CONFIG_NET_PCMCIA is not set CONFIG_PCMCIA_NETCARD=y I'm not sure how the 'CONFIG_PCMCIA_NETCARD=y' got set as my `mak

Re: (struct dentry *)->vfsmnt;

You write: > > What about if I want to know the mountpoint (inside the filesystem) > > when it is mounted? > > Which mountpoint? There can be a lot of them (quite possibly - some > of them out of the chroot jail you are in, so "any" is unlikely to > do you any good). How about the first one? Th

Sound problems with Asus K7V board using the via82cxxx drivers (2.4.3-pre 3/4)

Hi there, I am not sure if this is a kernel problem or an operator problem but for some reason or other my sound is no longer working. More specifically when I run gmix it reports no mixers being found. I verified that the via82cxxx driver is compiled in (it worked before) and everything seems cos

Re: APIC usb MPS 1.4 and the 2.4.2 kernel

On Tue, Mar 13, 2001 at 12:49:54PM -0500, Pete Toscano wrote: > Very interesting. I had not heard about this. Are there any SMP boards > with a VIA chipset that does work well with Linux and USB? I have an > old P2B-DS that I had replace with this board as I needed more PCI > slots. Heck, for

Automatically load winmodem modules?

I have a Conexant RS6/SP-PCI modem.Its driver must be loaded manually after boot. How to load automatically on boot, such as add a entry in /etc/modules.conf? - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo inf

Re: system call for process information?

On Wed, 14 Mar 2001, Martin Dalecki wrote: > Not the embedded folks!!! The server folks laugh histerically all > times they go via ssh to a trashing busy box to see what's wrong and > then they see top or ps auxe under linux never finishing they job: That's a separate issue. I guess the pagefau

Re: VM problem with 2.2.18 ?

On Tue, 13 Mar 2001, James Stevenson wrote: > VM: do_try_to_free_pages failed for ypbind... Known problem. It is fixed in 2.2.19-pre3 and newer. regards, Rik -- Virtual memory is like a game you can't win; However, without VM there's truly nothing to lose... http://www.surrie

Re: another Cyrix/mtrr problem?

[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Normally the answer would be "Closed driver, complain to nVidia", > but just in case.. Glad you were open-minded enough to consider that it *might* be "our" code. > Can you verify that.. > > a. You have MTRR support compiled into the kernel. yes > b. You have a /p

KERN_ERR for missing codecs?

Hello! The following piece of code from drivers/sound/ac97_codec.c would print a kernel error message: if ((audio = codec->codec_read(codec, AC97_RESET)) & 0x8000) { printk(KERN_ERR "ac97_codec: %s ac97 codec not present\n", codec->id ? "Secondary"

Re: Alert on LAN for Linux?

Alert on LAN makes the system up from power management type sleep when there are packets to be processed. Why you would ever have sleep mode on a server is beyond me. To get wake on lan to work you will probably need the drivers from Intel. They are supposed to be freely available on their site.

Re: (struct dentry *)->vfsmnt;

On Tue, 13 Mar 2001, Andreas Dilger wrote: > What about if I want to know the mountpoint (inside the filesystem) > when it is mounted? Which mountpoint? There can be a lot of them (quite possibly - some of them out of the chroot jail you are in, so "any" is unlikely to do you any good).

Re: Can't get driver to work: D-Link DFE-570TX (de4x5.o) on Linux2.4

On Tue, 13 Mar 2001, Avi Green wrote: > > Dear folks, > > I apologize for bothering you, but if by any chance this is an easy > question for you to answer (wishful thinking, huh?) I'd be very grateful > if you would.* > > I have some new Hawk PCs (Pentium-III) with D-Link DFE-570TX Fast > Ethe

Can't get driver to work: D-Link DFE-570TX (de4x5.o) on Linux 2.4

Dear folks, I apologize for bothering you, but if by any chance this is an easy question for you to answer (wishful thinking, huh?) I'd be very grateful if you would.* I have some new Hawk PCs (Pentium-III) with D-Link DFE-570TX Fast Ethernet 4-port server adapters. When I build the machines u

Re: poll() behaves differently in Linux 2.4.1 vs. Linux 2.2.14 (POLLHUP)

Jeffrey Butler writes: > I've noticed that poll() calls on IPv4 sockets do > not behave the same under linux 2.4 vs. linux 2.2.14. > Linux 2.4 will return POLLHUP for a socket that is not > connected (and has never been connected) while Linux > 2.2 will not. > The following example pro

poll() behaves differently in Linux 2.4.1 vs. Linux 2.2.14 (POLLHUP)

Hi, I've noticed that poll() calls on IPv4 sockets do not behave the same under linux 2.4 vs. linux 2.2.14. Linux 2.4 will return POLLHUP for a socket that is not connected (and has never been connected) while Linux 2.2 will not. The following example program demonstrates the problem when it'

Re: system call for process information?

On Tue, Mar 13, 2001 at 07:52:41PM -0300, Rik van Riel wrote: > On Tue, 13 Mar 2001, Albert D. Cahalan wrote: > > > Bloat removal: being able to run without /proc mounted. > > > > We don't have "kernel speed". We have kernel-mode screwing around > > with text formatting. > > Sounds like you migh

Re: 2.4.x: Netfinity 4500 SMP freezes without any trace

Sorry for quoting the whole message. Obviously I need some fresh air :-) Tim -- Tim Wright - [EMAIL PROTECTED] or [EMAIL PROTECTED] or [EMAIL PROTECTED] IBM Linux Technology Center, Beaverton, Oregon Interested in Linux scalability ? Look at http://lse.sourceforge.net/ "Nobody ever said I was c

Re: (struct dentry *)->vfsmnt;

Al, you write: > If you have the pair (mnt, dentry) - p = d_path(mnt, dentry, buf, buflen); > will put the path into buf and set p pointing to its beginning. > > dentry alone is not enough - it simply doesn't describe a unique point > in the namespace. It does describe the unique point in the fil

[2.4.3-pre2] Crash (Perhaps reiserfs?)

Hi! A few minutes ago, my system crashed on Linux 2.4.3-pre2. I attach the log of the crash and what ksymoops says about it. My computer: marvin:~ # cat /proc/cpuinfo processor : 0 vendor_id : CyrixInstead cpu family : 6 model : 2 model name : 6x86MX 2.5x Core/Bu

Re: system call for process information?

Rik van Riel wrote: > > On Tue, 13 Mar 2001, Albert D. Cahalan wrote: > > > Bloat removal: being able to run without /proc mounted. > > > > We don't have "kernel speed". We have kernel-mode screwing around > > with text formatting. > > Sounds like you might want to maintain an external patch >

[PATCH] USB Support for Casio QV Digital Still Cameras, kernel 2.4.2-ac20

The following patch adds USB support for the Casio QV series of digital still cameras by adding an entry to the list of unusual devices of the USB mass storage driver. The patch applies to kernel 2.4.2-ac20. --- linux-2.4.2-ac20-vanilla/drivers/usb/storage/unusual_devs.h Wed Mar 14 01:04:39 200

Re: another Cyrix/mtrr problem?

On Tue, 13 Mar 2001, Bob_Tracy wrote: > System is a Tyan S1590S motherboard (Apollo MVP3 chipset) with > Cyrix MII 300 processor, NVIDIA GeForce2 MX AGP video card, 2.4.2 > kernel, XFree86-4.0.2, and the NVIDIA 0.9-6 driver. Normally the answer would be "Closed driver, complain to nVidia", but j

Re: VM problem with 2.2.18 ?

> i had a small problem with a program i was running > which got stuck in a loop allocing memory by the time i > found out it was doing it these were appearing > > VM: do_try_to_free_pages failed for ypbind... > ... > etc.. etc.. for many more processes > then it all ended in a hangup Patch to

Re: VM problem with 2.2.18 ?

On Tue, 13 Mar 2001, James Stevenson wrote: > Hi > > i had a small problem with a program i was running > which got stuck in a loop allocing memory by the time i > found out it was doing it these were appearing > > VM: do_try_to_free_pages failed for ypbind... > VM: do_try_to_free_pages failed

Re: Linux 2.4.2ac20

> David Balazic wrote: > > > > Nathan Walp ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote : > > > > > Also, sometime between ac7 and ac18 (spring break kept me from testing > > > stuff inbetween), i assume during the new aic7xxx driver merge, the > > > order of detection got changed, and now the ide-scsi virtual hos

RE: APIC usb MPS 1.4 and the 2.4.2 kernel

:: AFAIK, the option to compile w/o APIC is only for UP systems. If you :: want to use both of your processors, you have to compile in APIC :: support, but just disable it when loading the kernel (ie. for lilo, :: 'append="noapic"') I haven't seen the beginning of the APIC/VIA/Tyan thread, but i

Re: Linux 2.4.2ac20

I've just noticed with 2.4.2-ac20 that /proc/sys/fs/binfmt_misc is no longer being created. I have CONFIG_BINFMT_MISC=y in my .config. This was working fine in 2.4.3-pre4. Wayne - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROT

Re: APIC usb MPS 1.4 and the 2.4.2 kernel

On Wed, 14 Mar 2001, Juha Saarinen wrote: > Greg, > > :: It seems that the APIC on this motherboard does not have most of the > :: pins connected, so that even if we could get the USB interrupt to work > :: properly (which we couldn't) there would be no benefit to run in APIC > :: mode. I was

Re: Linux 2.4.2ac20

Michal Jaegermann wrote: > > On Tue, Mar 13, 2001 at 04:36:18AM +, Alan Cox wrote: > ... > > > > 2.4.2-ac20 > ... > > o Fix Alpha build (Jeff Garzik) > > Now I see (at least on Alpha) a constant wailing: > > /linux-2.4.2ac/include/linux/binfmts.h:45:

VM problem with 2.2.18 ?

Hi i had a small problem with a program i was running which got stuck in a loop allocing memory by the time i found out it was doing it these were appearing VM: do_try_to_free_pages failed for ypbind... VM: do_try_to_free_pages failed for syslogd... VM: do_try_to_free_pages failed for klogd.

Re: Linux 2.4.2ac20

On Tue, Mar 13, 2001 at 04:36:18AM +, Alan Cox wrote: ... > > 2.4.2-ac20 ... > o Fix Alpha build (Jeff Garzik) Now I see (at least on Alpha) a constant wailing: /linux-2.4.2ac/include/linux/binfmts.h:45: warning: `struct mm_struct' declared inside pa

Re: Linux 2.4.2ac20

On Tue, Mar 13, 2001 at 02:24:54PM -0500, Nathan Walp wrote: > David Balazic wrote: > > > > SCSI adapters are enumerated randomly(*) , relying on certain numbering > > will get you into trouble, sooner or later. > > There is no commonly accepted solution, AFAIK. > > The same thing can happent to

Re: system call for process information?

On Tue, 13 Mar 2001, Albert D. Cahalan wrote: > Bloat removal: being able to run without /proc mounted. > > We don't have "kernel speed". We have kernel-mode screwing around > with text formatting. Sounds like you might want to maintain an external patch for the embedded folks... regards, Rik

Re: 2.4.x: Netfinity 4500 SMP freezes without any trace

Reboot with 'nmi_watchdog=0'. That will "fix" it for now. Still chasing this. I'll announce when I find out root cause. Tim On Tue, Mar 13, 2001 at 08:43:01PM +0100, Hartmut Holz wrote: > > Hello, > > our Netfinity 4500 SMP seems to be running ok on the 2.2.x series, but > on the 2.4-x series

Re: [PATCH] 2.4.3-pre3 add PBG4 native LCD mode to modedb.c

On Tue, Mar 13, Jeffrey W. Baker wrote: > The attached patch adds the a new mode to the modedb, used by the ATI, > 3Dfx, and Amiga frame buffer devices. The new mode is the native, > slightly wide resolution of the new Apple laptops. It isn't obvious how > popular a mode has to be before it goe

Re: new generic content schemes popping up everywhere...

>Indeed. The whole concept is fatally flawed; probably the biggest >challenge facing a cracker attacking this system is choosing which of the >many avenues to start with :-) > >1. The drivers. I really like displaying audio and video via my hard >drive, so I use drivers which do that... Or you co

Re: system call for process information?

Nathan Paul Simons writes: > On Tue, Mar 13, 2001 at 04:05:13PM -0500, Albert D. Cahalan wrote: >> Bloat removal: being able to run without /proc mounted. >> >> We don't have "kernel speed". We have kernel-mode screwing around >> with text formatting. > > Or calculating things that really s

Re: APIC usb MPS 1.4 and the 2.4.2 kernel

On Tue, Mar 13, 2001 at 12:25:13AM -0500, Pete Toscano wrote: > Well, I can't speak for the consequences of noapic (I've wondered as > much myself), but I know that there's been a problem with SMP 2.4 > kernels (even the 2.4 test kernels) and USB running on VIA chipsets for > a while now. I'm tol

Re: Linux 2.4.2ac20

David Balazic wrote: > > Nathan Walp ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote : > > > Also, sometime between ac7 and ac18 (spring break kept me from testing > > stuff inbetween), i assume during the new aic7xxx driver merge, the > > order of detection got changed, and now the ide-scsi virtual host is > > host0

Re: system hang with "__alloc_page: 1-order allocation failed"

From: "Chris Evans" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > I thought (on Intel) there was a 4092 hard limit? > That's the 2.2 limit, it's gone. The new limit is total memory and pid space. The pid's are intentionally limited to 15 bits, the remaining bits are reserved. In the worst case one running process can

RE: APIC usb MPS 1.4 and the 2.4.2 kernel

Greg, :: It seems that the APIC on this motherboard does not have most of the :: pins connected, so that even if we could get the USB interrupt to work :: properly (which we couldn't) there would be no benefit to run in APIC :: mode. I was going to run some crude benchmarks on the box with and :

another Cyrix/mtrr problem?

Since I've seen a few other posts on the subject, I might as well poke my head out of the foxhole long enough to get shot at :-). System is a Tyan S1590S motherboard (Apollo MVP3 chipset) with Cyrix MII 300 processor, NVIDIA GeForce2 MX AGP video card, 2.4.2 kernel, XFree86-4.0.2, and the NVIDIA

[PATCH] reiserfs patches for 2.4.3-pre4

Hello ! The Reiserfs development team resubmits five revised Reiserfs patches for the version after Linux 2.4.3-pre4. Their descriptions are: 1. "prealloc.diff" --a fix for possible preallocated blocks leakage after a system crash Reiserfs blocks preallocation for big files in the same m

[PATCH] reiserfs patches for 2.4.3-pre4

Hello ! The Reiserfs development team resubmits five revised Reiserfs patches for the version after Linux 2.4.3-pre4. Their descriptions are: 1. "prealloc.diff" --a fix for possible preallocated blocks leakage after a system crash Reiserfs blocks preallocation for big files in the same m

2.4.x: Netfinity 4500 SMP freezes without any trace

Hello, our Netfinity 4500 SMP seems to be running ok on the 2.2.x series, but on the 2.4-x series it freezes after sometime. A real nice freeze - The Console looks like it is running, but its completely dead. The system freezes when its idle after a day. Some how I suspected the Adaptec SCSI

Re: APIC usb MPS 1.4 and the 2.4.2 kernel

Pete Toscano wrote: > > Very interesting. I had not heard about this. Are there any SMP boards > with a VIA chipset that does work well with Linux and USB? I have an > old P2B-DS that I had replace with this board as I needed more PCI > slots. Heck, for that matter are there any SMP boards th

Alert on LAN for Linux?

Alert on LAN seems to have some useful functionality, if I understand things correctly they have enhanced Wake-on-LAN to allow you to do things like reset the machine, update the BIOS and such by sending magic packets which are interpreted by the network card. Or maybe I am reading too much into

Re: new generic content schemes popping up everywhere...

On Tue, 13 Mar 2001, Thomas Dodd wrote: > Andre Hedrick wrote: > > >From siliconvalley.com's GMSV column today: > >self-destruct if it's tampered with. The utility is enabled > >with 11 layers of security defenses, all of which must be > >successfully navigated to disable the system.

Re: system call for process information?

On Tue, Mar 13, 2001 at 04:05:13PM -0500, Albert D. Cahalan wrote: > Bloat removal: being able to run without /proc mounted. > > We don't have "kernel speed". We have kernel-mode screwing around > with text formatting. Or calculating things that really should be taken care of in user spa

Re: Linux 2.4.2ac19

Alan Cox wrote: > > ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/alan/2.4/ > > Intermediate diffs are available from > > http://www.bzimage.org > > (Note that the cmsfs port to 2.4 is a work in progress) > > 2.4.2-ac19 It does not build anymor

Re: Dumping memory of a running process?

> > Is there a way to dump the memory of any process without stopping, or > modifying it? > > Obviously normally stopping it would be the right thing to do, but > is it possible, and if so, is there a handy tool? fork() and raise(SIGABRT) in the child does the trick. Of course this only works

conexant modem

i have Conexant HCF v90 usb modem but can't install if possible help me to install it __ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! Auctions - Buy the things you want at great prices. http://auctions.yahoo.com/ - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscrib

Re: ln -l says symlink has size 281474976710666

John Lenton writes: > as the subject says: > > lrwxrwxrwx1 root root 281474976710666 Jan 27 20:50 imlib1 -> imlib-base > > it isn't the only one, for example > > lrwxrwxrwx1 root root 281474976710669 Jan 27 14:43 fd -> /proc/self/fd > > i.e. 2**48 + what it should b

Fix to khubd oops, hellooo?

Is my fix to khubd going anywhere? Randy, David? I have an actual, reproducible bug that I need to close. Here's my message to linux-usb-devel with explanations: http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=linux-usb-devel&m=98411157628404&w=2 -- Pete diff -ur -X ../dontdiff linux-2.4.2-ac12/drivers/usb/hu

Re: cdfs

On Tue, Mar 13, 2001 at 08:45:07PM +0100, you [J . A . Magallon] claimed: > > On 03.13 Ville Herva wrote: > > > > Below is one response to a similar question from the l-k archive: > > > > From: David Balazic <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > Date: Thu, 13 Jan 2000 12:08:39 -0800 > > Subject: Re: CD-ROM

[OOPS] 8139too

Hello LKML! i686 2.4.2 UP+kdb+lm_sensors+pcmcia after APM laptop suspend to disk 8139too is build-in, not pcmcia I often get hangups after suspend-to-disk if I'm connected to a hub/switch. This is the first oops I've actually seen and copied it by hand: Unable to handle kernel NULL pointer deref

Re: IDE on 2.4.2

On Mon, 12 Mar 2001, Steven Walter wrote: > The big man himself, Andre Hedrick, has stated that the SiS5513 should > work in UDMA/66 mode, as is evidenced by my setup. right, but depending on the chipset that provides the SiS5513 function > SIS5513: chipset revision 208 > SIS5513: not 100% nati

[PATCH] 2.4.3-pre3 add PBG4 native LCD mode to modedb.c

The attached patch adds the a new mode to the modedb, used by the ATI, 3Dfx, and Amiga frame buffer devices. The new mode is the native, slightly wide resolution of the new Apple laptops. It isn't obvious how popular a mode has to be before it goes into modedb.c. -jwb --- drivers/video/modedb

kernel panic on 2.2.16

Hi, I was running 2.2.14 and compiled 2.2.16. I turned all the hacking options on. While booting 2.2.16 it said the following: VFS: Cannot open root device 03:03 Karnel Panic: VFS : Unable to mount root fs on 03:03 I am unable to understand whats going wrong. Plz

Re: system call for process information?

Nathan Paul Simons writes: > On Mon, Mar 12, 2001 at 09:21:37PM +, Guennadi Liakhovetski wrote: >> CPU utilisation. Each new application has to calculate it (ps, top, qps, >> kps, various sysmons, procmons, etc.). Wouldn't it be worth it having a >> syscall for that? Wouldn't it be more optim

Re: Linux kernel - and regular sync'ing?

On Mon, Mar 12, 2001 at 02:27:02PM -0500, Mark Shewmaker wrote: > It's probably very much worth it for you to keep your /etc/fstab as you've > edited it, but I did want to warn you that the noatime option can > still unexpectedly break programs that make quite reasonable assumptions. Easy workaro

Re: new generic content schemes popping up everywhere...

Andre Hedrick wrote: > >From siliconvalley.com's GMSV column today: >self-destruct if it's tampered with. The utility is enabled >with 11 layers of security defenses, all of which must be >successfully navigated to disable the system. These layers >range from a series of forced r

Dumping memory of a running process?

Is there a way to dump the memory of any process without stopping, or modifying it? Obviously normally stopping it would be the right thing to do, but is it possible, and if so, is there a handy tool? - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a mes

Re: cdfs

On 03.13 Ville Herva wrote: > > Below is one response to a similar question from the l-k archive: > > From: David Balazic <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Date: Thu, 13 Jan 2000 12:08:39 -0800 > Subject: Re: CD-ROM Driver Design > > There are already two file-systems for CD-audio on Linux : > - cdfs at

Re: system hang with "__alloc_page: 1-order allocation failed"

On Tue, 13 Mar 2001, Manfred Spraul wrote: > * bugfixes for get_pid(). This is the longest part of the patch, but > it's only necessary if you have more than 10.000 threads running. If you > have enough memory: launch a forkbomb. If ~ 32760 thread are running the > kernel enters an endless loop

[RFC] fbdev & power management

I'm working on improving some aspects of Power Management on the PowerBooks, and among other things, I have a problem with fbdevs. Currently, each fbdev registers a power management callback to sleep/ wakeup the device. We handle HW related things (shutting the backlight off, putting the chip to

Re: system hang with "__alloc_page: 1-order allocation failed"

> > Maybe it would be good to lower the default threads-max to > about 10% or less of physical memory ? > And MIN_THREADS_FOR_ROOT should be reintroduced: the define is still there, but the actual code is missing. I've attached an older patch that: * reintroduces MIN_THREADS_FOR_ROOT (or remo

short doc on kernel symbols and modversions

Hi, after quite a bit of pain in the past figuring out how this all works and some questions on the kernelnewbies list recently I decided to do my best to document it. http://www.skynet.ie/~mark/home/kernel/symbols.html any comments are welcome.. Cheers, Mark - To unsubscribe from

Re: APIC usb MPS 1.4 and the 2.4.2 kernel

On Tue, Mar 13, 2001 at 12:49:54PM -0500, Pete Toscano wrote: > > Very interesting. I had not heard about this. Are there any SMP boards > with a VIA chipset that does work well with Linux and USB? I have an > old P2B-DS that I had replace with this board as I needed more PCI > slots. Heck, f

new generic content schemes popping up everywhere...

>From siliconvalley.com's GMSV column today: No one expects the Spanish Inquisition, "the white screen of death"" A small Texas venture with roots in the intelligence community has developed a digital copy protection scheme that it says is nearly unbeatable. Infraworks' InTether ut

Re: APIC usb MPS 1.4 and the 2.4.2 kernel

On Tue, 13 Mar 2001, Greg KH wrote: > On Tue, Mar 13, 2001 at 12:25:13AM -0500, Pete Toscano wrote: > > Well, I can't speak for the consequences of noapic (I've wondered as > > much myself), but I know that there's been a problem with SMP 2.4 > > kernels (even the 2.4 test kernels) and USB runn

Re: APIC usb MPS 1.4 and the 2.4.2 kernel

On Tue, Mar 13, 2001 at 12:25:13AM -0500, Pete Toscano wrote: > Well, I can't speak for the consequences of noapic (I've wondered as > much myself), but I know that there's been a problem with SMP 2.4 > kernels (even the 2.4 test kernels) and USB running on VIA chipsets for > a while now. I'm tol

Re: Linux 2.4.2ac20

Nathan Walp ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote : > Also, sometime between ac7 and ac18 (spring break kept me from testing > stuff inbetween), i assume during the new aic7xxx driver merge, the > order of detection got changed, and now the ide-scsi virtual host is > host0, and my 29160N is host1. Is this

Re: Kernel 2.4.3-pre3 not recognizing some SCSI CD drives

On Tue, 13 Mar 2001 06:51:30 -0700, you wrote: >>Just installed 2.4.3-pre4 same problem :( > >It might help to know what controller you are using. I am using the Adaptec 29160 controller. Jens - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a messag

Re: cdfs

On Tue, 13 Mar 2001, J . A . Magallon wrote: > Hi, > > Recently I read the BeOS www page, and answerd a question in other mailing > list. Both things have remind me of a pretty file system: 'cdfs'. > > Anybody knows if there is a port of 'cdfs' (Audio CD File System) for Linux ? > Which fs now

Re: cdfs

In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> you wrote: > Hi, > > Recently I read the BeOS www page, and answerd a question in other mailing > list. Both things have remind me of a pretty file system: 'cdfs'. > > Anybody knows if there is a port of 'cdfs' (Audio CD File System) for Linux ? There is a cdfs, bu

Re: cdfs

On Tue, Mar 13, 2001 at 04:23:41PM +0100, you [J . A . Magallon] claimed: > Hi, > > Recently I read the BeOS www page, and answerd a question in other mailing > list. Both things have remind me of a pretty file system: 'cdfs'. > > Anybody knows if there is a port of 'cdfs' (Audio CD File System

cdfs

Hi, Recently I read the BeOS www page, and answerd a question in other mailing list. Both things have remind me of a pretty file system: 'cdfs'. Anybody knows if there is a port of 'cdfs' (Audio CD File System) for Linux ? Which fs now in kernel would be good as a template to start ? I am alway

PATCH: pci_enable_device fixes for sound/* and block/cpqarray and block/cciss

Hi Alan, linux-kernel, This moves all pci_enable_device()s before any resource usage in sound/*.c,sound/*/*.c and block/cciss.c, block/cpqarray.c. I have NOT tested them except the es1370, but they should be correct as is. Note that it was missing in nm256_audio.c. Ciao, Marcus --- linux/dri

Re: make: *** [vmlinux] Error 1

On 03.12 Krzysztof Halasa wrote: > "J . A . Magallon" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > If you are using pgcc, try getting a real less-buggy compiler, like > egcs1.1.2 > > or gcc-2.95 (even 2.96 willl work). > > ... not always. I've had problems with gcc "2.96" from RH-7.0 > - the compiler was

Status of the i2c driver in 2.2.xx

Can anyone tell me what the status of the i2c driver in the 2.2.xx kernels are ? As far as I can see the only two ways of compiling the kernel with i2c support is to have CONFIG_ARCH_TBOX which is arm specific or have CONFIG_VISWS set which is specific to the SGI visual workstation. Happy hack

Re: 2.2.18 IDE tape problem, with ide-scsi

Thank you again, so much! Take care, Khalid Aziz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > 11,3 is "Multiple read errors". You can find all of the ASC and ASCQ > listed in any SCSI spec document. You can find the SCSI-2 specs at > . > > -- > Khalid > > Camm Ma

Re: Kernel 2.4.3-pre3 not recognizing some SCSI CD drives

>Just installed 2.4.3-pre4 same problem :( It might help to know what controller you are using. -- Justin - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.ht

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Re: Issues with disk block devices

On Tue, Mar 13, 2001 at 02:36:09AM -0600, Doug Siebert wrote: > This note is sort of a half question half bug report. [devices are accessed in blocksize-size units, and this unit is changed upon a mount, and is 1024 to start with; this gives problems if one wants to access the last few sectors o

Re: system hang with "__alloc_page: 1-order allocation failed"

On Tue, 13 Mar 2001, Mike Galbraith wrote: > (A workaround is to lower max_threads to 25% of memory.. works, but is > really cheezy. OTOH, allowing half of memory to be allocated in task > structs is a bit cheezy looking too. That means that these tasks > can't be big enough to be doing real wo

Re: 2.4.2-ac16 PIIX4 ACPI getting wrong IRQ?

Alan Cox wrote: > > So the ACPI function of the PIIX4 is now being given > > IRQ 9. I don't want this. I was using IRQ 9 for a > > PCMCIA device. > > It was always being given IRQ 9, now we correctly handle this. Okay, but. IRQs are scarce. With previous kernels I was able to use IRQ 9 for

Re: system call for process information?

every process under Linux is assigned a *task_struct* structure which has all the info about that process eg. scheduling, accounting, I/O and others. rajiv Guennadi Liakhovetski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> on 03/12/2001 10:38:46 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] cc:(bcc: Rajiv Majumdar/CAL/NOTES) S

Re: APIC usb MPS 1.4 and the 2.4.2 kernel

Pete Toscano wrote: > > Well, I can't speak for the consequences of noapic (I've wondered as > much myself), but I know that there's been a problem with SMP 2.4 > kernels (even the 2.4 test kernels) and USB running on VIA chipsets for > a while now. I'm told by the linux-usb maintainers that it'

FYI: [comp.protocols.time.ntp] announce: Linux PPS support for Kernel 2.4.2

FYI, a copy... --- Start of forwarded message --- From: Ulrich Windl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Newsgroups: comp.protocols.time.ntp Subject: announce: Linux PPS support for Kernel 2.4.2 Date: 13 Mar 2001 08:04:56 +0100 Organization: University of Regensburg, Germany Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED

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