Re: Arch specific/multiple Configure.help files?

2001-04-05 Thread Giacomo Catenazzi
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > I went ahead and implemented the change last night anyway and I > will submit the patches and see if it will be accepted or not. > The idea is that it first check in arch/$ARCH/Configure.help > and if the file or the help is not found there, > check Documentation/Conf

Re: 2.2.19 + ide 2.2.19 03252001 patch problem

2001-04-05 Thread Andre Hedrick
On Fri, 6 Apr 2001, Willy Tarreau wrote: > Quoting "Robert A. Morris" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > [snip] > > Apr 5 18:15:14 ryoko kernel: hdb: task_no_data_intr: status=0x51 { > > DriveReady SeekComplete Error } > > Apr 5 18:15:14 ryoko kernel: hdb: task_no_data_intr: error=0x04 { > > DriveStatusErr

Re: 2.2.19 + ide 2.2.19 03252001 patch problem

2001-04-05 Thread Willy Tarreau
Quoting "Robert A. Morris" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: [snip] > Apr 5 18:15:14 ryoko kernel: hdb: task_no_data_intr: status=0x51 { > DriveReady SeekComplete Error } > Apr 5 18:15:14 ryoko kernel: hdb: task_no_data_intr: error=0x04 { > DriveStatusError } > Apr 5 18:15:14 ryoko kernel: hdb: Write Cache

sorry about that (Old email address)

2001-04-05 Thread Patrick McLean
Sorry about that, that last email had an old address on it, this address should work for replies/cc's: [EMAIL PROTECTED] - 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/majordo

lockup/crash in 2.4.3 (kernel BUG at exit.c:458!)

2001-04-05 Thread Patrick McLean
After I installed 2.4.3, my system would seemingly randomly hadn, about once a day. It hung at least 3 times, but it looks like theres only entries in my syslog for 2 of those times, my system is an AMD Thununderbird 1Ghz, 256MB RAM, VIA KX133A chipset (Abit KT7A), if there's any other info you

Re: Arch specific/multiple Configure.help files?

2001-04-05 Thread johan . adolfsson
I went ahead and implemented the change last night anyway and I will submit the patches and see if it will be accepted or not. The idea is that it first check in arch/$ARCH/Configure.help and if the file or the help is not found there, check Documentation/Configure.help. I believe there is an adv

Re: [PATCH] Revised memory-management stuff

2001-04-05 Thread Andreas Dilger
You write: > Can you copy me your reply(s) to my post? For some unknown reason, I am > getting very few messages from the list, and I saw your reply in the > archives. So far I haven't even got my own post back... That's because the last time I replied to your email, it bounced. Something bad

Re: syslog insmod please!

2001-04-05 Thread Ion Badulescu
On Thu, 5 Apr 2001, Andreas Dilger wrote: > Why do it from user space? Simply add a printk() to sys_init_module() or > similar. Agreed, but at that point the solution has absolutely nothing to do with insmod anymore. :-) Besides, as you said, I don't really see the point. It certainly doesn

Re: syslog insmod please!

2001-04-05 Thread Andreas Dilger
Ion writes: > Andrew Daviel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Is there a good reason why insmod should not call syslog() to log > > any module that gets installed ? > > Simple: you'll have quite a bit of a problem if you are trying to insmod > the module with support for AF_UNIX sockets. :-) Why d

Oopsen everywhere in open_namei, kernel 2.4.3

2001-04-05 Thread Steven Walter
Right after a boot, I got 5 oopsen within about 8 minutes. There are only two unique ones, which are attached. Each one occured at least twice. Someone know what's going on? -- -Steven Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two equals four. ksymoops 2.3.4 on i586 2.4.3. Options used

PROBLEM: OOPS report for L2 cacheable size setting at 512MB on TD5TH dual P200

2001-04-05 Thread idalton
[1.] One line summary of the problem: OOPS report for L2 cacheable size setting at 512MB on TD5TH dual P200 [2.] Full description of the problem/report: My system board BIOS has two settings for L2 cacheable size: 64MB and 512MB. Previous kernels would lock when initialising the framebuffer. Th

Re: [CHECKER] 3 kmalloc underallocation bugs

2001-04-05 Thread Ben Pfaff
Dawson Engler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > enclosed are three bugs found in the 2.4.1 kernel by an extension > that checks that kmalloc calls allocate enough memory. It examines all > callsites of the form: > p = [kv]malloc(nbytes); > and issues an error if > sizeof *p < nbytes [..

Re: a quest for a better scheduler

2001-04-05 Thread Christopher Smith
--On Thursday, April 05, 2001 15:38:41 -0700 "Timothy D. Witham" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Database performance: > Raw storage I/O performance >OLTP workload You probably want to add an OLAP scenario as well. --Chris - To unsubscribe from this list: send th

2.2.19 + ide 2.2.19 03252001 patch problem

2001-04-05 Thread Robert A. Morris
I recently upgraded my desktop machine to 2.2.19 plus the ide.2.2.19.03252001.patch available from kernel.org so that I may use DMA with my VIA 82C686A controller. Now, when I attempt to mount or otherwise access /dev/hdb, I get the following error: Apr 5 18:15:14 ryoko kernel: hdb: task_no_data

Re: kernel BUG at page_alloc.c:75! / exit.c

2001-04-05 Thread Ben LaHaise
On Thu, 5 Apr 2001 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > "Albert D. Cahalan" wrote: > > > > > I'm running the 2.4.3 kernel and my system always (!) crashes when I try > > > to generate the "Linux kernel poster" from lgp.linuxcare.com.au. After > > > working for one hour, the kernel printed this message: > >

Re: gcc-2.95.3

2001-04-05 Thread Mike Castle
On Fri, Apr 06, 2001 at 08:49:51AM +0800, Jeff Chua wrote: > > Does anybody have bad experience with gcc-2.95.3? > > I'm using gcc-2.95.2 with linux 2.4.3 and have no problem with it. I've built and using 2.4.2 with 2.95.3 with no issues. [I should say, with no more issues than I have normally

2.4.2-ac18 Severworks AGP

2001-04-05 Thread Marvin Justice
I have a Tyan S1867 (Server Set III HE) for which I'd like to have AGP support. Here's the relevant output of lspci -v : 00:00.0 Host bridge: ServerWorks CNB20HE (rev 22) Flags: fast devsel Memory at fa00 (32-bit, prefetchable) [disabled] [size=32M] Memory at feafb00

Problems with serial driver 5.05, kernel 2.4.3

2001-04-05 Thread Steven Walter
I'm getting some interesting behavior with the 2.4.3 serial driver and agetty. This system uses the onboard serial port (ttyS0) for a serial console (console=ttyS0,38400) along with the VGA port. If I try to start an agetty on this line (agetty -L ttyS0 38400), it gets as far as outputting "Debi

Re: ov511 problem

2001-04-05 Thread Mark McClelland
ov511 supports compression, but it doesn't always work yet. Even with compression, you will only get 12-15 FPS at 640x480 at most. USB just can't do better than that with this type of compression algorithm. If you want to try compression, use the "compress=1" and "ttpp=1" parameters with the ov51

2.4.3 fails to boot with initrd - solved

2001-04-05 Thread Bill Davidsen
PROBLEM: kernel 2.4.3 will not boot on systems with initrd files DESCRIPTION Building kernel 2.4.3 and attempting to boot it failed. The problem turned out to be in the modutils-2.4.5 rpm for i386. DETAIL After building the 2.4.3 kernel and moving the boot modules to the initrd image, i

Re: syslog insmod please!

2001-04-05 Thread Ion Badulescu
On Thu, 5 Apr 2001 17:57:48 -0700 (PDT), Andrew Daviel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Is there a good reason why insmod should not call syslog() to log > any module that gets installed ? Simple: you'll have quite a bit of a problem if you are trying to insmod the module with support for AF_UNIX s

Re: gcc-2.95.3

2001-04-05 Thread Shawn Starr
You should be ok :) On Fri, 6 Apr 2001, Jeff Chua wrote: > > Does anybody have bad experience with gcc-2.95.3? > > I'm using gcc-2.95.2 with linux 2.4.3 and have no problem with it. > > > Thanks, > Jeff > [ [EMAIL PROTECTED] ] > > - > To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe li

Re: [WISHLIST] Addition of suspend patch into 2.5?

2001-04-05 Thread Mikulas Patocka
Hi! > > Any idea if suspend/hybernation will be in future kernels? > > I'd like it included, too. Some toshiba laptops support sleep but not > suspend, and battery runs out within few hours if it was low before > suspend. That's bad. > > And the patch was pretty clean last time I checked. >

syslog insmod please!

2001-04-05 Thread Andrew Daviel
Is there a good reason why insmod should not call syslog() to log any module that gets installed ? I know things like bttv get very verbose in the module itself, and I tried patching insmod to log the first argument and it seemed to work for me. I was looking at the knark LKM rootkit and wonderi

gcc-2.95.3

2001-04-05 Thread Jeff Chua
Does anybody have bad experience with gcc-2.95.3? I'm using gcc-2.95.2 with linux 2.4.3 and have no problem with it. Thanks, Jeff [ [EMAIL PROTECTED] ] - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info a

RE: a quest for a better scheduler

2001-04-05 Thread Torrey Hoffman
Timothy D. Witham wrote : [...] > I propose that we work on setting up a straight forward test harness > that allows developers to quickly test a kernel patch against > various performance yardsticks. [... (proposed large server testbeds) ...] I like this idea, but could the testbeds also inc

Re: [Problem] 3c90x on 2.4.3-ac3

2001-04-05 Thread Prasanna P Subash
On Thu, Apr 05, 2001 at 11:40:36AM -0700, Grover, Andrew wrote: > I'm confused. 3c59x.c has a little acpi WOL stuff, but that's it. I tried "#ifdef 0"-ing the set_WOL function body( empty function ) in 3c59x.c and enabled acpi and built another kernel and I still have the problem. So its NOT a

Re: [CHECKER] 3 kmalloc underallocation bugs

2001-04-05 Thread Jeff Golds
André Dahlqvist wrote: > > Dawson Engler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > enclosed are three bugs found in the 2.4.1 kernel by an extension > > Why are you guys running these tests against an already old kernel? > I would suggest running it against at least Linus' latest version, or > preferably Ala

Re: [CHECKER] 15 potential pointer dereference errors in 2.4.3

2001-04-05 Thread Jeff Garzik
Andy Chou wrote: > [BUG] > /u2/acc/oses/linux/2.4.3/drivers/net/tokenring/tmsisa.c:274:tms_isa_probe: >ERROR:NULL:273:274: Using > unknown ptr "card" illegally! set by 'kmalloc':273 fixed > [BUG] > /u2/acc/oses/linux/2.4.3/drivers/pcmcia/rsrc_mgr.c:199:do_io_probe: >ERROR:NULL:191:199: Using

Re: [CHECKER] 3 kmalloc underallocation bugs

2001-04-05 Thread André Dahlqvist
Dawson Engler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > enclosed are three bugs found in the 2.4.1 kernel by an extension Why are you guys running these tests against an already old kernel? I would suggest running it against at least Linus' latest version, or preferably Alan's -ac tree. -- André Dahlqvist <

Re: "linux" terminal type

2001-04-05 Thread Guest section DW
On Thu, Apr 05, 2001 at 08:36:27PM +0200, Ralf Baechle wrote: > Somebody reminded me in private email that we finally have a reasonable > console documentation in console_codes(4). To me "finally" sounds as if this happy state was achieved only recently. But console_codes.4 is from Mon Oct 31 22

Re: a quest for a better scheduler

2001-04-05 Thread Hubertus Franke
Exellent idea Assuming that you have set up these environments already, what would be a real treat is to get the average runqueue length at a given time, for instance every second or so, while running some of these more sophisticated server oriented applications that you mention. >From that

Parport probe

2001-04-05 Thread Jakob Kemi
Hi all. Ok, maybe this isn't the right list for this question. In 2.2.x the parport_probe module extracted the ieee1284 device id correctly and added to the proc fs. However this doesn't seem to work for me in 2.4.x I only have one device to test it on and since I know there have been some diffic

Re: ufs fs at 2.2.x and 2.4.x

2001-04-05 Thread Andrew T. Scott
Why is it that 2.2.x UFS write support is considered (experimental)? -Andrew On Sun, 17 Sep 2000 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > FWIW, I downloaded install 'floppyC28.fs' from openbsd web site. > > > > OK. So did I. > > > > % md5sum floppyC28.fs > > 2ae3c61008df5accdfb132f20e744bfb floppyC28

APIC errors ...

2001-04-05 Thread Kurt Garloff
Hi, lately having upgraded my DUal-BX motherboard to two PIII-850 CPUs, I run into some trouble. FIrst, I had had an assymetric configuration (iPIII-850 + iPII-350) , which Linux did not support; I created a fix and sent it to LKML. It worked perfectly, i.e. without the problems described below.

[CHECKER] 3 kmalloc underallocation bugs

2001-04-05 Thread Dawson Engler
enclosed are three bugs found in the 2.4.1 kernel by an extension that checks that kmalloc calls allocate enough memory. It examines all callsites of the form: p = [kv]malloc(nbytes); and issues an error if sizeof *p < nbytes I think they're all currently harmless because of kmal

Re: a quest for a better scheduler

2001-04-05 Thread Timothy D. Witham
I have been following this thread and thinking that everybody has some truth in what they are saying but with the absence of a repeatable test environment there really isn't a way of arriving at a data driven decision. Given the following conditions. 1)The diversity of the problem sets that

Re: how to let all others run

2001-04-05 Thread Ion Badulescu
On Thu, 5 Apr 2001 12:52:28 -0400 (EDT), Richard B. Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Only an observation: > > > main() > { >nice(19); >for(;;) >sched_yield(); > } > > does... > [...] > > It consumes 99.1 percent CPU, just spinning. And, umm, what *exactly* would you ex

Re: Arch specific/multiple Configure.help files?

2001-04-05 Thread Rogier Wolff
Rogier Wolff wrote: > I'm not sure if Larry's CML2 has the help for the options near the ^^ ehhhm. That's Eric. Sorry. Roger. -- ** [EMAIL PROTECTED] ** http://www.BitWizard.nl/ ** +31-15-2137555 ** *-- BitWizard writes Linux device drivers for any device you may have! -

Re: Arch specific/multiple Configure.help files?

2001-04-05 Thread Rogier Wolff
Erik Mouw wrote: > On Thu, Apr 05, 2001 at 07:28:33PM +0200, Johan Adolfsson wrote: > > Would it be a good idea to have support for multiple Configure.help > > files in the config system? > > The main advantage would be that arch specific settings could > > have an arch specific help file as well.

RE: 2.4.3 (and possibly 2.4.2) don't enter S5 (ACPI) on shutdown

2001-04-05 Thread Grover, Andrew
> From: Trever L. Adams [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > I do have a question that you might be able to answer. > > Since I left the 2.2.x series of kernels, my harddrives never > spin down > now. I do not know what else doesn't sleep. This is the > case with APM > (on a box that doesn't crash

Re: 2.0.39 oopses in sys_new(l)stat

2001-04-05 Thread David Weinehall
On Thu, Apr 05, 2001 at 06:09:28PM +0300, Ville Herva wrote: > I wonder if there might still be a bug in 2.0.39 sys_new(l)stat. > Today, one of my trustworthy servers crashed (see details below), and > it has actually given me two slightly similar looking oopses before. > > While this might be a

Re: ov511 problem

2001-04-05 Thread Erik Gustavsson
On Thu, 5 Apr 2001, Thomas Speck wrote: IIRC the driver doesn't support compression, and there is no way you can get 640x480 uncompressed at 30 fps over USB... /cyr > > Hi > > I am trying to get working a Spacec@m 300 (USB) by Trust. I tried this > under 2.2.18 and 2.4.3. In order to get the

Re: how to let all others run

2001-04-05 Thread Richard B. Johnson
On Thu, 5 Apr 2001 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > Doesn't even show on `top`. Further, it gets the CPU about 100 times > > a second (HZ). This is normally what you want for something that > > polls, buts needs to give up the CPU so that whatever it's waiting > > for can get done as soon as possible

Re: Groups maximum

2001-04-05 Thread Jeff Garzik
Stephen Burns wrote: > > Hey all, > > I have checked out the archives, and I found an old post regarding this. > The solution in the post, however, did not work for me. I am attempting to > raise the maximum 32 group per user limit on my 2.4.2 kernel. I patched > both linux/include/linux/limit

Re: [CHECKER] 15 potential pointer dereference errors in 2.4.3

2001-04-05 Thread Andy Chou
Here's one more potential bug for 2.4.3. -Andy [BUG] /u2/acc/oses/linux/2.4.3/drivers/isdn/hysdn/hysdn_net.c:309:hysdn_net_create: ERROR:NULL:302:309: Using NULL ptr "dev" illegally! set by 'kmalloc_Rsmp_93d4cfe6':302 Start ---> if ((dev = kmalloc(sizeof(struct net_local), GFP_KERNEL))

Re: how to let all others run

2001-04-05 Thread Oliver.Neukum
> Doesn't even show on `top`. Further, it gets the CPU about 100 times > a second (HZ). This is normally what you want for something that > polls, buts needs to give up the CPU so that whatever it's waiting > for can get done as soon as possible. Hi, first of all I want to do this in kernel. I n

Re: 2.4.3 (and possibly 2.4.2) don't enter S5 (ACPI) on shutdown

2001-04-05 Thread Trever L. Adams
Grover, Andrew wrote: >> From: Trever L. Adams [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] >> 2.4.3 no longer shuts down automatically with S5. >> >> [2.] Full description of the problem/report: >> >> 2.4.3 no longer shuts down automatically with S5. I have an Athlon >> based system using the FIC-SD11 motherb

Re: Config printk buffer size

2001-04-05 Thread Thomas Dodd
Alan Cox wrote: > > Looks ok to me but given the ability of the average kernel hacker to read > help texts I;d rather it was a choice menu of say OK, I guess I gave too much credit :) This gives 4 options, 4K, 8K, 16K, and 32K. 4K is for the embedded guys, but they might want even less. 32K is

Re: [SOLVED]Re: 2.2.19 && ppa: total lockup. No problem with 2.2.17

2001-04-05 Thread Juan
Tim Waugh escribió: > > On Wed, Apr 04, 2001 at 12:59:33AM +0200, Juan wrote: > > > I have the same problem in two different machines but they both are UP. > > However, my kernel configuration has SMP support enabled. > > Could you build a kernel without SMP support and see if the problem > sti

Re: kernel/sched.c questions

2001-04-05 Thread Steven Walter
On Wed, Apr 04, 2001 at 04:52:32PM -0300, Sarda?ons, Eliel wrote: > switch (prev->state) { > case TASK_INTERRUPTIBLE: > if (signal_pending(prev)) { > prev->state = TASK_RUNNING; > break; >

Re: Contacts within AMD? AMD-756 USB host-controller blacklisted dueto

2001-04-05 Thread Thomas Dodd
Alan Cox wrote: > > Since we expect to get errata docs very soon Im not that worried. As an > implementation I'd rather a module option of 'ignore_blacklist' or similar > so that it is runtime This seamed to work here. -Thomas diff -u --new-file --recursive linux-2.4.3-ac2.orig/drivers

RE: 2.4.3 (and possibly 2.4.2) don't enter S5 (ACPI) on shutdown

2001-04-05 Thread Grover, Andrew
> From: Trever L. Adams [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > 2.4.3 no longer shuts down automatically with S5. > > [2.] Full description of the problem/report: > > 2.4.3 no longer shuts down automatically with S5. I have an Athlon > based system using the FIC-SD11 motherboard. In 2.4.1 and possibly

Re: How to embed linux into a board based on QED rm5230 mips cpu?

2001-04-05 Thread Dan Hollis
On Thu, 5 Apr 2001, J . A . Magallon wrote: > On 04.05 Miao Qingjun wrote: > > Can anybody help me? > > How to embed linux into a board based on QED rm5230 > > mips cpu? > http://www.uclinux.org/ rm5230 isnt a microcontroller. -Dan - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe lin

Groups maximum

2001-04-05 Thread Stephen Burns
Hey all, I have checked out the archives, and I found an old post regarding this. The solution in the post, however, did not work for me. I am attempting to raise the maximum 32 group per user limit on my 2.4.2 kernel. I patched both linux/include/linux/limits.h and the asm-i386/param.h, replac

Re: Arch specific/multiple Configure.help files?

2001-04-05 Thread Erik Mouw
On Thu, Apr 05, 2001 at 07:28:33PM +0200, Johan Adolfsson wrote: > Would it be a good idea to have support for multiple Configure.help > files in the config system? > The main advantage would be that arch specific settings could > have an arch specific help file as well. I don't see why this woul

Re: st corruption with 2.4.3-pre4

2001-04-05 Thread Geert Uytterhoeven
BTW, my 2.4.3-pre8 kernel just said | sym53c875-0:0: ERROR (81:0) (3-21-0) (10/9d) @ (script 8a8:0b00). | sym53c875-0: script cmd = 1100 | sym53c875-0: regdump: da 10 80 9d 47 10 00 0d 00 03 80 21 80 01 09 09 00 30 4e 00 08 |ff ff ff. | sym53c875-0-<0,*>: FAST-20 WIDE SCSI 40.0 MB/s (50

Userspace TCP sequence number control?

2001-04-05 Thread Jeremy Jackson
Hello, If there's a forum more specifically dedicated to 2.4 networking, please point me in the right direction, otherwise please consider the following. (I'm on lkml so you don't need to CC: me) Is there a way to set the sequence number sent in the SYN response to an incoming connnection reque

Re: How to embed linux into a board based on QED rm5230 mips cpu?

2001-04-05 Thread J . A . Magallon
On 04.05 Miao Qingjun wrote: > Hi, > > Can anybody help me? > > How to embed linux into a board based on QED rm5230 > mips cpu? > http://www.uclinux.org/ -- J.A. Magallon # Let the source mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] # be wi

2.4.3 (and possibly 2.4.2) don't enter S5 (ACPI) on shutdown

2001-04-05 Thread Trever L. Adams
[1.] One line summary of the problem: 2.4.3 no longer shuts down automatically with S5. [2.] Full description of the problem/report: 2.4.3 no longer shuts down automatically with S5. I have an Athlon based system using the FIC-SD11 motherboard. In 2.4.1 and possibly 2.4.2 the system used to

2.4.3 Easy to make Mozilla go into D State

2001-04-05 Thread Trever L. Adams
[1.] One line summary of the problem: Mozilla and other programs easily get in D State [2.] Full description of the problem/report: Mozilla is easy to get into D State. Simply start it 2001040414 build. This is not the only program that I have doing this. It is just the easiest to make do

How to embed linux into a board based on QED rm5230 mips cpu?

2001-04-05 Thread Miao Qingjun
Hi, Can anybody help me? How to embed linux into a board based on QED rm5230 mips cpu? How can I do step by step? Its configuration is rm5230 cpu galileo controller rom flash ram nvram/rtc uart Thanks in advance. __ Do You Yahoo!? Get email a

Re: kernel BUG at page_alloc.c:75! / exit.c

2001-04-05 Thread ernte23
"Albert D. Cahalan" wrote: > > > I'm running the 2.4.3 kernel and my system always (!) crashes when I try > > to generate the "Linux kernel poster" from lgp.linuxcare.com.au. After > > working for one hour, the kernel printed this message: > > I'd guess you have a heat problem. Check for dust, a

Re: st corruption with 2.4.3-pre4

2001-04-05 Thread Geert Uytterhoeven
On Thu, 22 Mar 2001, Geert Uytterhoeven wrote: > On Tue, 20 Mar 2001, Gérard Roudier wrote: > > On Tue, 20 Mar 2001, Geert Uytterhoeven wrote: > > > On Tue, 20 Mar 2001, Geert Uytterhoeven wrote: > > > > On Mon, 19 Mar 2001, Jeff Garzik wrote: > > > I did some more tests: > > > - The problem als

Re: [linux-fbdev] Looking for a card with working TV-out in linux

2001-04-05 Thread Petr Vandrovec
David Balazic wrote: > > Requirements : > - working TV-out ( S-Video or composite-video ), I mean really working >and supported in linux, not "it works if the BIOS initializes it and >Linux doesn't touch it" G400 (not G450, TVout on G450 is not supported and maybe never will). But you

RE: [Problem] 3c90x on 2.4.3-ac3

2001-04-05 Thread Grover, Andrew
I'm confused. 3c59x.c has a little acpi WOL stuff, but that's it. What specifically is ACPI doing to break things? Are ACPI and the NIC sharing any resources? Regards -- Andy > -Original Message- > From: Prasanna P Subash [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Thursday, April 05, 2001 11:12

Re: kernel bug in 2.4.2-ac28, patched with 6.1.8 aic drivers

2001-04-05 Thread John Jasen
On Thu, 5 Apr 2001, John Jasen wrote: > got this on booting up 2.4.2-ac28: > Apr 5 09:36:37 grim kernel: kernel BUG at slab.c:1244! > Apr 5 09:36:37 grim kernel: invalid operand: errr ... belay that one. a) I said I didn't get it in 2.4.3-ac3, which was only about 30% correct. (I've gott

Re: "linux" terminal type

2001-04-05 Thread Ralf Baechle
On Wed, Apr 04, 2001 at 08:42:32PM -0700, James Simmons wrote: > Also take a look at http://www.vt100.net . Since linux tries to emulate > the Dec vt100 at this site you will find the vt100 manuals. They are quite > good and the esc codes are well described in them. > > MS: (n) 1. A debilitating

Re: pcnet32 (maybe more) hosed in 2.4.3

2001-04-05 Thread Petr Vandrovec
Carsten Langgaard wrote: > > Petr Vandrovec wrote: > > Current Linux driver switches them to 16bit mode in pcnet_probe1: > > > > pcnet_dwio_reset(); // reset to 16bit mode when in 32bit, ignore in > > 16bit mode > > pcnet_wio_reset(); // device is for sure in 16bit mode, but reset it > > again

PROBLEM: buz.c, 6pack.c use nonexistant KMALLOC_MAXSIZE in 2.4.3

2001-04-05 Thread Mark W. Eichin
[1.] One line summary of the problem: buz.c, 6pack.c use nonexistant KMALLOC_MAXSIZE in 2.4.3 [2.] Full description of the problem/report: buz.c:2837: `KMALLOC_MAXSIZE' undeclared (first use in this function) in kernel-source-2.4.3: $ find . -name '*.h' | xargs grep KMALLOC_MAXSIZE $ find . -

Re: [Linux-fbdev-devel] Re: fbcon slowness [was NTP on 2.4.2?]

2001-04-05 Thread Eric W. Biederman
"Maciej W. Rozycki" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Thu, 5 Apr 2001, Geert Uytterhoeven wrote: > > > > 32bit writes on a bus with a word size of 64 or more bits. By the way > > > does anyone know who didn't implement MTRR's or the equivalent on > > > alpha so we can shoot them? > > > > People

Re: [Problem] 3c90x on 2.4.3-ac3

2001-04-05 Thread Prasanna P Subash
Thats right. ACPI was what made 3c90x not work :( With APM it works perfectly. Thanks Marcus. On Thu, Apr 05, 2001 at 10:14:56AM +0200, Marcus Meissner wrote: > In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> you wrote: > > > hi lkml, > > I just built 2.4.3-ac3 with my old 2.4.2 .config and somehow networki

Re: AIC7xxx in Kernel 2.4.3

2001-04-05 Thread Justin T. Gibbs
> >Hi > >This driver seems to be pretty broken, the way it is. It does not compile. >The new author, Justin T. Gibbs, has been careful in avoiding to mention >his e-mail address in his code :-( I actually don't believe in putting email address in code. They become stale far too easily. If you e

AIC7xxx in Kernel 2.4.3

2001-04-05 Thread Peter Rottengatter
Hi This driver seems to be pretty broken, the way it is. It does not compile. The new author, Justin T. Gibbs, has been careful in avoiding to mention his e-mail address in his code :-( Hence the post to this list. As the first problem, the compile stops in aicasm_gram.c because in aicasm_gram.

Looking for a card with working TV-out in linux

2001-04-05 Thread David Balazic
Hi ! I am looking for a gfx card to purchase for use with Linux. Requirements : - working TV-out ( S-Video or composite-video ), I mean really working and supported in linux, not "it works if the BIOS initializes it and Linux doesn't touch it" - video support ( in HW and linux-SW ) is de

Re: asm/unistd.h

2001-04-05 Thread J . A . Magallon
On 04.05 Andreas Schwab wrote: > > Try this and watch your compiler complaining: > > #define foo() { } > #define bar() do { } while (0) > void mumble () > { > if (1) foo(); else bar(); > if (2) bar(); else foo(); > } > Perhaps it is time to USE gcc, yet the kernel can be built

Arch specific/multiple Configure.help files?

2001-04-05 Thread Johan Adolfsson
Would it be a good idea to have support for multiple Configure.help files in the config system? The main advantage would be that arch specific settings could have an arch specific help file as well. Anybody who knows: Would it be a easy to add support for this if this is considered a good idea?

Re: 2.4.3 + aic7xxx-6.1.9 doesn't boot

2001-04-05 Thread Justin T. Gibbs
>The latest aic7xxx-6.1.9 doesn't boot, I can see something like: > >scsi1:0:0:0: Attempting to queue an ABORT message >scsi1:0:0:0: Command found on device queue >aic7xxx_abort returns 8194 Either disable the initial bus reset in SCSI-Select or lower the bus settle delay from 15000ms to somet

Re: [QUESTION] 2.4.x nice level

2001-04-05 Thread Tor Arntsen
LA Walsh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I was running 2 copies of setiathome on a 4 CPU server >@ work. The two processes ran nice'd -19. The builds we were >running still took 20-30% longer as opposed to when setiathome wasn't >running (went from 45 minutes up to about an hour). This mac

Re: how to let all others run

2001-04-05 Thread Richard B. Johnson
On 5 Apr 2001, John Fremlin wrote: > "Richard B. Johnson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > On 4 Apr 2001, John Fremlin wrote: > > > > > > Hi Oliver! > > > > > > Oliver Neukum <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > > > > > is there a way to let all other runable tasks run until they block > > > >

Re: tulip (was RE: Kernel 2.4.3 fails to compile)

2001-04-05 Thread Jeff Garzik
"Manuel A. McLure" wrote: > > Jeff Garzik wrote: > > On Fri, 30 Mar 2001, Manuel A. McLure wrote: > > > It looks like the tulip driver isn't as up-to-date as the one from > > > 2.4.2-ac20 - when is 2.4.3-ac1 due? :-) I got NETDEV > > WATCHDOG errors shortly > > > after rebooting with 2.4.3, altho

PCI address space collision

2001-04-05 Thread Jani Monoses
Hi, is this something to worry about ? in dmesg: PCI: Address space collision on region 9 of device VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82C686 [Apollo Super ACPI] [8080:808f] I know it might be unrelated with ACPI being experimental but if the kernel is compiled with ACPI instead of APM the machine (Pre

Re: ERESTARTSYS question.

2001-04-05 Thread Bjorn Wesen
On Thu, 5 Apr 2001, Jani Monoses wrote: > On Thu, 5 Apr 2001, Bjorn Wesen wrote: > > ERESTARTSYS is a part of the api between the driver and the > > signal-handling code in the kernel. It does not reach user-space (provided > > of course that it's used appropriately in the drivers :) > > As an e

Re: ERESTARTSYS question.

2001-04-05 Thread Jani Monoses
On Thu, 5 Apr 2001, Bjorn Wesen wrote: > > ERESTARTSYS is a part of the api between the driver and the > signal-handling code in the kernel. It does not reach user-space (provided > of course that it's used appropriately in the drivers :) As an example sound/via82cxxx_audio.c returns ERESTAR

Re: /dev/loop0 over lvm... leading to d-state :-(

2001-04-05 Thread Heinz J. Mauelshagen
On Thu, Apr 05, 2001 at 05:54:30PM +0200, Jens Axboe wrote: > On Thu, Apr 05 2001, Heinz J. Mauelshagen wrote: > > > Where? Calling buffer_IO_error would be ok, but there are no such calls > > > in 2.4.3. I just stated elsewhere that submit_bh should probably be > > > clearing the dirty bit, not l

Re: cannot compile kernel

2001-04-05 Thread David Woodhouse
[EMAIL PROTECTED] said: > compiler (gcc --version): pgcc-2.95.2 > I hope i have included enough information for you and that you will be > able to solve my problem. grep --context pgcc Documentation/Changes See also http://www.tux.org/lkml/#s8-9, #s8-5 and indeed most of the rest of §8. --

Re: how to let all others run

2001-04-05 Thread John Fremlin
"Richard B. Johnson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On 4 Apr 2001, John Fremlin wrote: > > > > Hi Oliver! > > > > Oliver Neukum <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > > > is there a way to let all other runable tasks run until they block > > > or return to user space, before the task wishing to do

Re: [2.4.3] PPP errors

2001-04-05 Thread Manfred H. Winter
On Wed, 04 Apr 2001, Jean Paul Sartre wrote: > On Wed, 4 Apr 2001, Manfred H. Winter wrote: > > > Apr 4 02:05:21 marvin pppd[1227]: Couldn't set tty to PPP discipline: Invalid a > > rgument > > Apr 4 02:05:21 marvin pppd[1227]: Exit. > > Did you load the 'ppp_async.o' module? > Sorry,

Re: /dev/loop0 over lvm... leading to d-state :-(

2001-04-05 Thread Jens Axboe
On Thu, Apr 05 2001, Heinz J. Mauelshagen wrote: > > Where? Calling buffer_IO_error would be ok, but there are no such calls > > in 2.4.3. I just stated elsewhere that submit_bh should probably be > > clearing the dirty bit, not ll_rw_block, in which case the b_end_io > > is fine. But buffer_IO_er

Re: /dev/loop0 over lvm... leading to d-state :-(

2001-04-05 Thread Heinz J. Mauelshagen
On Thu, Apr 05, 2001 at 05:37:31PM +0200, Jens Axboe wrote: > On Thu, Apr 05 2001, Heinz J. Mauelshagen wrote: > > > Irks, another one. lvm_make_request_fn also needs to call b_end_io > > > if a map fails. > > > > This is wrong. > > > > In case of an io error we do already call buffer_IO_error()

Re: uninteruptable sleep

2001-04-05 Thread Christian Pernegger
> Its a kernel bug if it gets stuck like this. You need to provide more info > though - what file system, what devices, how much memory. Also ps can give you > the wait address of a process stuck in 'D' state which is valuable for debug Let's see if I'm getting this right, processes in D state sh

Re: asm/unistd.h

2001-04-05 Thread David S. Miller
Steve Grubb writes: > It would seem to me that after hearing how the macros are used in practice, > wouldn't turning them into inline functions be an improvement? This is > something gcc supports, it accomplishes the same thing, and has the added > advantage of type checking. > http://gcc.gn

Re: asm/unistd.h

2001-04-05 Thread Bart Trojanowski
On Thu, 5 Apr 2001, Steve Grubb wrote: > It would seem to me that after hearing how the macros are used in practice, > wouldn't turning them into inline functions be an improvement? This is > something gcc supports, it accomplishes the same thing, and has the added > advantage of type checking. >

Re: /dev/loop0 over lvm... leading to d-state :-(

2001-04-05 Thread Jens Axboe
On Thu, Apr 05 2001, Heinz J. Mauelshagen wrote: > > Irks, another one. lvm_make_request_fn also needs to call b_end_io > > if a map fails. > > This is wrong. > > In case of an io error we do already call buffer_IO_error() on 2.4 in > lvm_map(). Where? Calling buffer_IO_error would be ok, but t

Re: 2.4.3-ac3 XIRCOM_CB only working as module

2001-04-05 Thread Pau
On Thu, 5 Apr 2001, Alessandro Suardi wrote: > It looks like the new xircom_cb driver only works as module - if built > in kernel there is no sign of eth0 setup. Built as a module works beutifully :) No need to "ifconfig -promisc" to make it work after a suspend. Anyway, you still have to unlo

cannot compile kernel

2001-04-05 Thread R . van Dijk
Hello, since kernel-version 2.4.1 I am not able to compile the kernel for my system (currently I run version 2.4.0). This is in my point of view due to a not included function but since i do not know if this is correct I send the output of the linking part of the kernel: -- start output -- ld

Re: ERESTARTSYS question.

2001-04-05 Thread Bjorn Wesen
On Thu, 5 Apr 2001, Jani Monoses wrote: > although the comments in errno.h say that ERESTARTSYS should not be seen > by userland,many drivers seam to return it from their > file_operations.Should glibc convert this errno so that the user program > sees something meaningful?Because it does not.Is E

Re: /dev/loop0 over lvm... leading to d-state :-(

2001-04-05 Thread Heinz J. Mauelshagen
Jens, thanks for the b_dev hint you provided. On Thu, Apr 05, 2001 at 04:49:42PM +0200, Jens Axboe wrote: > On Thu, Apr 05 2001, Jens Axboe wrote: > > To the LVM folks: you can't use b_dev or b_blocknr inside your > > make_request_fn, it destroys stacking drivers such as loop. And > > is just p

Re: asm/unistd.h

2001-04-05 Thread Steve Grubb
It would seem to me that after hearing how the macros are used in practice, wouldn't turning them into inline functions be an improvement? This is something gcc supports, it accomplishes the same thing, and has the added advantage of type checking. http://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/gcc-2.95.3/gcc_4.ht

Re: 2.4 kernel on LH4

2001-04-05 Thread gianpaolo racca
On Thursday 05 April 2001 16:57, you wrote: > At some Kernel release between 2.4.2 and 2.4.3 I succeeded to install > Mandrake Cooker (Devel-Tree) out of the box. > However, we have switched to another SCSI RAID controller as the AMI > MegaRAID driver in conjunction with I2O seems to be very bugg

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