Linus Git tree - xfs.o broken?

2005-09-08 Thread Alejandro Bonilla Beeche
Hi, I keep posting these messages in LKML because I get no answer from someone to not do it, or cause I dunno what to do with them. This is from Linus git tree - Current as per 6PM PDT. CC fs/xfs/linux-2.6/xfs_lrw.o CC fs/xfs/linux-2.6/xfs_super.o CC

RE: IPW2100 Kconfig

2005-09-08 Thread Alejandro Bonilla
> AFAIK hotplug looks for firmware in /lib/firmware and not > /etc/firmware. > > On 9/8/05, Pavel Machek <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hi! > > > > > I checked the IPW2100 in the current git from > linux-2.6 and the menuconfig > > > help (Kconfig) says you need to put the firmware in >

RE: Git broken for IPW2200

2005-09-08 Thread Alejandro Bonilla
> IPW2200 requires a different ieee80211 stack, this can be had at > ieee80211.sourceforge.net Joe, The stack is already in mainline in Linus Git. I should not need to download the ieee80211 from any place but compile with the one in the kernel. .Alejandro > > > Al

RE: Git broken for IPW2200

2005-09-08 Thread Alejandro Bonilla
IPW2200 requires a different ieee80211 stack, this can be had at ieee80211.sourceforge.net Joe, The stack is already in mainline in Linus Git. I should not need to download the ieee80211 from any place but compile with the one in the kernel. .Alejandro Alejandro Bonilla Beeche

RE: IPW2100 Kconfig

2005-09-08 Thread Alejandro Bonilla
AFAIK hotplug looks for firmware in /lib/firmware and not /etc/firmware. On 9/8/05, Pavel Machek [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi! I checked the IPW2100 in the current git from linux-2.6 and the menuconfig help (Kconfig) says you need to put the firmware in /etc/firmware, it

Linus Git tree - xfs.o broken?

2005-09-08 Thread Alejandro Bonilla Beeche
Hi, I keep posting these messages in LKML because I get no answer from someone to not do it, or cause I dunno what to do with them. This is from Linus git tree - Current as per 6PM PDT. CC fs/xfs/linux-2.6/xfs_lrw.o CC fs/xfs/linux-2.6/xfs_super.o CC

Re: Git broken for IPW2200

2005-09-07 Thread Alejandro Bonilla Beeche
On Wed, 2005-09-07 at 22:18 -0400, Jeff Garzik wrote: > Alejandro Bonilla Beeche wrote: > > Wanna post a URL to your .config? Jeff, Sorry, I did not paste it in the ML because this has always worked for me, but hell, maybe I got something wrong! :| Attached... .Alejandro >

Git broken for IPW2200

2005-09-07 Thread Alejandro Bonilla Beeche
Hi, Where does one report this? I was building Linus Git tree as per I updated it at 09/07/2005 7:00PM PDT and got this while compiling. Where do I report this? Debian unstable updated at same time. it looks like ipw2200 is thinking that ieee80211 is not compiled in, but I did select

Git broken for IPW2200

2005-09-07 Thread Alejandro Bonilla Beeche
Hi, Where does one report this? I was building Linus Git tree as per I updated it at 09/07/2005 7:00PM PDT and got this while compiling. Where do I report this? Debian unstable updated at same time. it looks like ipw2200 is thinking that ieee80211 is not compiled in, but I did select

Re: Git broken for IPW2200

2005-09-07 Thread Alejandro Bonilla Beeche
On Wed, 2005-09-07 at 22:18 -0400, Jeff Garzik wrote: Alejandro Bonilla Beeche wrote: Wanna post a URL to your .config? Jeff, Sorry, I did not paste it in the ML because this has always worked for me, but hell, maybe I got something wrong! :| Attached... .Alejandro Jeff

[PATCH Linus Git] README.ipw2200 does not contain firmware information.

2005-09-06 Thread Alejandro Bonilla Beeche
is already in the Documentation/networking/. I'm still spamming everyone cause I have not been told where to send this directly. :-) Signed-off-by: Alejandro Bonilla <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Pasted and attached. debian:~/linux-2.6# diff -usr Documentation/networking/README.ipw2200~ Documentation/netw

RE: [PATCH] wrong firmware location in IPW2100 Kconfig entry (Was: IPW2100 Kconfig)

2005-09-06 Thread Alejandro Bonilla
> > Who should I send the "patch" to? Or can someone simply change that? Jesper, Thanks. I also had a question. To whom is this patch sent to? Netdev or LK? How does one determine? .Alejandro > > Firmware should go into /lib/firmware, not /etc/firmware. > >

IPW2100 Kconfig

2005-09-06 Thread Alejandro Bonilla
Hi, I checked the IPW2100 in the current git from linux-2.6 and the menuconfig help (Kconfig) says you need to put the firmware in /etc/firmware, it should be /lib/firmware. Who should I send the "patch" to? Or can someone simply change that? Thanks, .Alejandro - To unsubscribe from

IPW2100 Kconfig

2005-09-06 Thread Alejandro Bonilla
Hi, I checked the IPW2100 in the current git from linux-2.6 and the menuconfig help (Kconfig) says you need to put the firmware in /etc/firmware, it should be /lib/firmware. Who should I send the patch to? Or can someone simply change that? Thanks, .Alejandro - To unsubscribe from

RE: [PATCH] wrong firmware location in IPW2100 Kconfig entry (Was: IPW2100 Kconfig)

2005-09-06 Thread Alejandro Bonilla
Who should I send the patch to? Or can someone simply change that? Jesper, Thanks. I also had a question. To whom is this patch sent to? Netdev or LK? How does one determine? .Alejandro Firmware should go into /lib/firmware, not /etc/firmware. Found by Alejandro Bonilla

[PATCH Linus Git] README.ipw2200 does not contain firmware information.

2005-09-06 Thread Alejandro Bonilla Beeche
is already in the Documentation/networking/. I'm still spamming everyone cause I have not been told where to send this directly. :-) Signed-off-by: Alejandro Bonilla [EMAIL PROTECTED] Pasted and attached. debian:~/linux-2.6# diff -usr Documentation/networking/README.ipw2200~ Documentation/networking

Re: Brand-new notebook useless with Linux...

2005-09-04 Thread Alejandro Bonilla Beeche
On Sat, 2005-09-03 at 18:58 -0400, Chuck Ebbert wrote: > I just bought a new notebook. Here is the output from lspci using the latest > pci.ids file from sourceforge: > > 00:00.0 Host bridge: ATI Technologies Inc RS480 Host Bridge (rev 01) > 00:01.0 PCI bridge: ATI Technologies Inc: Unknown

Re: Brand-new notebook useless with Linux...

2005-09-04 Thread Alejandro Bonilla Beeche
On Sat, 2005-09-03 at 18:58 -0400, Chuck Ebbert wrote: I just bought a new notebook. Here is the output from lspci using the latest pci.ids file from sourceforge: 00:00.0 Host bridge: ATI Technologies Inc RS480 Host Bridge (rev 01) 00:01.0 PCI bridge: ATI Technologies Inc: Unknown device

Re: [OT]Linus trademarks Linux?!!

2005-08-20 Thread Alejandro Bonilla Beeche
On Sat, 2005-08-20 at 11:06 +0400, Alexey Dobriyan wrote: > On Sat, Aug 20, 2005 at 12:45:46AM -0600, Alejandro Bonilla Beeche wrote: > > OK, now I would like to see a more official statement about this. Does > > the linuxjournal.com pay $5000? > > Counting someone else mon

Re: [OT]Linus trademarks Linux?!!

2005-08-20 Thread Alejandro Bonilla Beeche
On Fri, 2005-08-19 at 22:13 -0700, alan wrote: > On Sat, 20 Aug 2005, Kernel Hacker wrote: > > > Friend, > > What fact is behind this article > > http://www.theinquirer.net/?article=25529. > > The article is also wrong. > > Try this one instead... > >

Re: [OT]Linus trademarks Linux?!!

2005-08-20 Thread Alejandro Bonilla Beeche
On Fri, 2005-08-19 at 22:13 -0700, alan wrote: On Sat, 20 Aug 2005, Kernel Hacker wrote: Friend, What fact is behind this article http://www.theinquirer.net/?article=25529. The article is also wrong. Try this one instead...

Re: [OT]Linus trademarks Linux?!!

2005-08-20 Thread Alejandro Bonilla Beeche
On Sat, 2005-08-20 at 11:06 +0400, Alexey Dobriyan wrote: On Sat, Aug 20, 2005 at 12:45:46AM -0600, Alejandro Bonilla Beeche wrote: OK, now I would like to see a more official statement about this. Does the linuxjournal.com pay $5000? Counting someone else money? I'm not counting anyone's

RE: [Hdaps-devel] Re: HDAPS, Need to park the head for real

2005-08-19 Thread Alejandro Bonilla
> On Fri, Aug 19 2005, Jon Escombe wrote: > > For hard disk protection, I prefer the idea of the userspace code > > thawing the drive based on current accelerometer data, rather than > > simply waking up after x seconds (maybe you're running for > a bus rather > > than falling off a table)... > >

RE: [Hdaps-devel] Re: HDAPS, Need to park the head for real

2005-08-19 Thread Alejandro Bonilla
On Fri, Aug 19 2005, Jon Escombe wrote: For hard disk protection, I prefer the idea of the userspace code thawing the drive based on current accelerometer data, rather than simply waking up after x seconds (maybe you're running for a bus rather than falling off a table)... To get

Re: [PATCH] [Fwd: Console locking and blanking]

2005-08-16 Thread Alejandro Bonilla Beeche
On Tue, 2005-08-16 at 23:44 -0400, Steven Rostedt wrote: > On Wed, 2005-08-17 at 13:29 +1000, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote: > > On Wed, 2005-08-17 at 11:41 +1000, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote: > > > > > (I'm blind and I use a braille display. I use those functions to blank > > > my laptop's

Re: HDAPS, Need to park the head for real

2005-08-16 Thread Alejandro Bonilla Beeche
On Tue, 2005-08-16 at 22:07 +0200, Jens Axboe wrote: > On Tue, Aug 16 2005, Alejandro Bonilla Beeche wrote: > If I were in your position, I would just implement this for ide (pata, > not sata) right now, since that is what you need to support (or do some > of these notebooks come wit

Re: HDAPS, Need to park the head for real

2005-08-16 Thread Alejandro Bonilla Beeche
On Tue, 2005-08-16 at 11:34 -0400, Lee Revell wrote: > On Tue, 2005-08-16 at 09:25 -0600, Alejandro Bonilla Beeche wrote: > > We are currently almost there with hdaps. We are thinking how we should > > make things and have made most of the decesions. We still need help

Re: HDAPS, Need to park the head for real

2005-08-16 Thread Alejandro Bonilla Beeche
On Tue, 2005-08-16 at 11:34 -0400, Lee Revell wrote: On Tue, 2005-08-16 at 09:25 -0600, Alejandro Bonilla Beeche wrote: We are currently almost there with hdaps. We are thinking how we should make things and have made most of the decesions. We still need help from anyone that might know

Re: HDAPS, Need to park the head for real

2005-08-16 Thread Alejandro Bonilla Beeche
On Tue, 2005-08-16 at 22:07 +0200, Jens Axboe wrote: On Tue, Aug 16 2005, Alejandro Bonilla Beeche wrote: If I were in your position, I would just implement this for ide (pata, not sata) right now, since that is what you need to support (or do some of these notebooks come with sata?). So

Re: [PATCH] [Fwd: Console locking and blanking]

2005-08-16 Thread Alejandro Bonilla Beeche
On Tue, 2005-08-16 at 23:44 -0400, Steven Rostedt wrote: On Wed, 2005-08-17 at 13:29 +1000, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote: On Wed, 2005-08-17 at 11:41 +1000, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote: (I'm blind and I use a braille display. I use those functions to blank my laptop's screen so

RE: Kernel panic 2.6.12.4

2005-08-10 Thread Alejandro Bonilla
lease try 2.6.8, I'm almost sure that it should work. And anyway, this ML is not really a user support list, try asking in a debian mailing list, if they think that it's something wrong with the kernel, then come back and let us know. .Alejandro > > Alejandro Bonilla wrote: > > &

RE: Kernel panic 2.6.12.4

2005-08-10 Thread Alejandro Bonilla
> Hi, > >I am in need of some help! > I have installed Debian which has 2.6.8-2 kernel on it. After a fresh > install I downloaded the 2.6.12.4 kernel and went to upgrade. After > making the necessary changes in menuconfig I rebuilt the kernel and > install it. It boots up until I get: >

RE: Kernel panic 2.6.12.4

2005-08-10 Thread Alejandro Bonilla
Hi, I am in need of some help! I have installed Debian which has 2.6.8-2 kernel on it. After a fresh install I downloaded the 2.6.12.4 kernel and went to upgrade. After making the necessary changes in menuconfig I rebuilt the kernel and install it. It boots up until I get: Modules

RE: Kernel panic 2.6.12.4

2005-08-10 Thread Alejandro Bonilla
2.6.8, I'm almost sure that it should work. And anyway, this ML is not really a user support list, try asking in a debian mailing list, if they think that it's something wrong with the kernel, then come back and let us know. .Alejandro Alejandro Bonilla wrote: Hi, I am in need of some help

Re: Wireless support

2005-08-08 Thread Alejandro Bonilla Beeche
On Tue, 2005-08-09 at 01:29 +0200, Adrian Bunk wrote: > On Mon, Aug 08, 2005 at 03:06:58PM -0400, Lee Revell wrote: > > On Mon, 2005-08-08 at 12:56 -0600, Alejandro Bonilla wrote: > With NdisWrapper, the hardware manufacturer can say: > "Our hardware is supported thr

RE: Wireless support

2005-08-08 Thread Alejandro Bonilla
> > > Any idea how much hardware is out there that needs > ndiswrapper to work? > > > > No real idea but an educated guess: too much... > > > > I like the idea of blacklisting anything with a native driver (even a > partially working one), but leaving alone the stuff that is completely >

RE: Wireless support

2005-08-08 Thread Alejandro Bonilla
Any idea how much hardware is out there that needs ndiswrapper to work? No real idea but an educated guess: too much... I like the idea of blacklisting anything with a native driver (even a partially working one), but leaving alone the stuff that is completely unsupported. Lee

Re: Wireless support

2005-08-08 Thread Alejandro Bonilla Beeche
On Tue, 2005-08-09 at 01:29 +0200, Adrian Bunk wrote: On Mon, Aug 08, 2005 at 03:06:58PM -0400, Lee Revell wrote: On Mon, 2005-08-08 at 12:56 -0600, Alejandro Bonilla wrote: With NdisWrapper, the hardware manufacturer can say: Our hardware is supported through the open source NdisWrapper

Re: Wireless support

2005-08-07 Thread Alejandro Bonilla Beeche
On Sun, 2005-08-07 at 21:20 -0400, Lee Revell wrote: > On Sun, 2005-08-07 at 18:39 -0600, Alejandro Bonilla Beeche wrote: > > On Sun, 2005-08-07 at 15:22 -0400, Lee Revell wrote: > > > Is the Linksys WUSB 54GS wireless adapter (FCCID Q87-WUSB54GS) > > >

Re: Wireless support

2005-08-07 Thread Alejandro Bonilla Beeche
On Sun, 2005-08-07 at 15:22 -0400, Lee Revell wrote: > Is the Linksys WUSB 54GS wireless adapter (FCCID Q87-WUSB54GS) > supported? > > TIA, > > Lee Normally, linksys doesn't care much about Linux and they won't even release info for a driver. Yeah, they have some open info for the WRT's but the

Re: Wireless support

2005-08-07 Thread Alejandro Bonilla Beeche
On Sun, 2005-08-07 at 15:22 -0400, Lee Revell wrote: Is the Linksys WUSB 54GS wireless adapter (FCCID Q87-WUSB54GS) supported? TIA, Lee Normally, linksys doesn't care much about Linux and they won't even release info for a driver. Yeah, they have some open info for the WRT's but the

Re: Wireless support

2005-08-07 Thread Alejandro Bonilla Beeche
On Sun, 2005-08-07 at 21:20 -0400, Lee Revell wrote: On Sun, 2005-08-07 at 18:39 -0600, Alejandro Bonilla Beeche wrote: On Sun, 2005-08-07 at 15:22 -0400, Lee Revell wrote: Is the Linksys WUSB 54GS wireless adapter (FCCID Q87-WUSB54GS) supported? TIA, Lee Normally

Re: About Linux Device Drivers

2005-08-05 Thread Alejandro Bonilla Beeche
On Fri, 2005-08-05 at 22:18 +0200, Alejandro Cabrera wrote: > Hi > I'm new in the list and I'm interested in lkm, I have the Linux Device > Drivers 2ed. And I use the 2.6.8-2 kernel, and the modules that I create > I don't test in my workstation. Exist any way to run the examples > exposed in

Re: About Linux Device Drivers

2005-08-05 Thread Alejandro Bonilla Beeche
On Fri, 2005-08-05 at 22:18 +0200, Alejandro Cabrera wrote: Hi I'm new in the list and I'm interested in lkm, I have the Linux Device Drivers 2ed. And I use the 2.6.8-2 kernel, and the modules that I create I don't test in my workstation. Exist any way to run the examples exposed in this

RE: [Hdaps-devel] Re: IBM HDAPS, I need a tip.

2005-08-01 Thread Alejandro Bonilla
> >>Thanks to development of the driver from some nice guys, we > are able to > >>get data from the accelerometer. There is one problem. How do we > >>calibrate the values that are outputed from the userspace? > All PC's get > >>a different value, and we can't really find the best > solution. What

RE: [Hdaps-devel] Re: IBM HDAPS, I need a tip.

2005-08-01 Thread Alejandro Bonilla
Thanks to development of the driver from some nice guys, we are able to get data from the accelerometer. There is one problem. How do we calibrate the values that are outputed from the userspace? All PC's get a different value, and we can't really find the best solution. What is the

Re: IBM HDAPS, I need a tip.

2005-07-31 Thread Alejandro Bonilla Beeche
Second Try... ;-) Anyone? .Alejandro On Sun, 2005-07-31 at 19:53 -0600, Alejandro Bonilla Beeche wrote: > Hi Guys, > > I hope you all aren't sick about the topic. I have a quick question... > > Thanks to development of the driver from some nice guys, we are able to

IBM HDAPS, I need a tip.

2005-07-31 Thread Alejandro Bonilla Beeche
Hi Guys, I hope you all aren't sick about the topic. I have a quick question... Thanks to development of the driver from some nice guys, we are able to get data from the accelerometer. There is one problem. How do we calibrate the values that are outputed from the userspace? All PC's get a

IBM HDAPS, I need a tip.

2005-07-31 Thread Alejandro Bonilla Beeche
Hi Guys, I hope you all aren't sick about the topic. I have a quick question... Thanks to development of the driver from some nice guys, we are able to get data from the accelerometer. There is one problem. How do we calibrate the values that are outputed from the userspace? All PC's get a

Re: IBM HDAPS, I need a tip.

2005-07-31 Thread Alejandro Bonilla Beeche
Second Try... ;-) Anyone? .Alejandro On Sun, 2005-07-31 at 19:53 -0600, Alejandro Bonilla Beeche wrote: Hi Guys, I hope you all aren't sick about the topic. I have a quick question... Thanks to development of the driver from some nice guys, we are able to get data from

Re: PROBLEM:Machine hangs on pulling out USB cd writer on laptop.

2005-07-25 Thread Alejandro Bonilla
Puneet Vyas wrote: Alejandro Bonilla wrote: Puneet Vyas wrote: PS : I am not even sure if I am "allowed" to pull out the writer like this. Am I supposed to "stop" the device first or something? You are supoused to unmount the volume. Try it. umount /de

Re: PROBLEM:Machine hangs on pulling out USB cd writer on laptop.

2005-07-25 Thread Alejandro Bonilla
Alejandro Bonilla wrote: Puneet Vyas wrote: Hi, My Dell 600m has a CD writer attached as a USB device. I need to use the same slot to connect my floppy drive. After pulling out the CD writer , the machine completely hangs and only hard boot works. I am new to reporting bugs so I attached

Re: PROBLEM:Machine hangs on pulling out USB cd writer on laptop.

2005-07-25 Thread Alejandro Bonilla
Puneet Vyas wrote: Hi, My Dell 600m has a CD writer attached as a USB device. I need to use the same slot to connect my floppy drive. After pulling out the CD writer , the machine completely hangs and only hard boot works. I am new to reporting bugs so I attached all info as according to

Re: PROBLEM:Machine hangs on pulling out USB cd writer on laptop.

2005-07-25 Thread Alejandro Bonilla
Puneet Vyas wrote: Hi, My Dell 600m has a CD writer attached as a USB device. I need to use the same slot to connect my floppy drive. After pulling out the CD writer , the machine completely hangs and only hard boot works. I am new to reporting bugs so I attached all info as according to

Re: PROBLEM:Machine hangs on pulling out USB cd writer on laptop.

2005-07-25 Thread Alejandro Bonilla
Alejandro Bonilla wrote: Puneet Vyas wrote: Hi, My Dell 600m has a CD writer attached as a USB device. I need to use the same slot to connect my floppy drive. After pulling out the CD writer , the machine completely hangs and only hard boot works. I am new to reporting bugs so I attached

Re: PROBLEM:Machine hangs on pulling out USB cd writer on laptop.

2005-07-25 Thread Alejandro Bonilla
Puneet Vyas wrote: Alejandro Bonilla wrote: Puneet Vyas wrote: PS : I am not even sure if I am allowed to pull out the writer like this. Am I supposed to stop the device first or something? You are supoused to unmount the volume. Try it. umount /dev/cdrom ? Make sure

Re: [cpufreq] ondemand works, conservative doesn't

2005-07-23 Thread Alejandro Bonilla
Sven Köhler wrote: Hi, currently, i'm using the ondemand governor. My CPU supports the frequencies 800, 1800 and 2000 MHz (AMD Athlon64 Desktop with Cool). The simple bash commands In my case, I have a Pentium M 1.8ghz 400 FSB. In powersave, it goes to 1.19ghz, in conservative, it goes to

Re: [cpufreq] ondemand works, conservative doesn't

2005-07-23 Thread Alejandro Bonilla
Sven Köhler wrote: Hi, currently, i'm using the ondemand governor. My CPU supports the frequencies 800, 1800 and 2000 MHz (AMD Athlon64 Desktop with CoolQuiet). The simple bash commands In my case, I have a Pentium M 1.8ghz 400 FSB. In powersave, it goes to 1.19ghz, in conservative, it

Re: Giving developers clue how many testers verified certain kernel version

2005-07-22 Thread Alejandro Bonilla
Linus Torvalds wrote: On Fri, 22 Jul 2005, Lee Revell wrote: Con's interactivity benchmark looks quite promising for finding scheduler related interactivity regressions. I doubt that _any_ of the regressions that are user-visible are scheduler-related. They all tend to be disk IO

Re: Giving developers clue how many testers verified certain kernel version

2005-07-22 Thread Alejandro Bonilla
Lee Revell wrote: On Fri, 2005-07-22 at 21:15 -0500, Alejandro Bonilla wrote: OK, I will, but I first of all need to learn how to tell if benchmarks are better or worse. Con's interactivity benchmark looks quite promising for finding scheduler related interactivity regressions

Re: Giving developers clue how many testers verified certain kernel version

2005-07-22 Thread Alejandro Bonilla
Lee Revell wrote: On Fri, 2005-07-22 at 20:07 -0500, Alejandro Bonilla wrote: I will get flames for this, but my laptop boots faster and sometimes responds faster in 2.4.27 than in 2.6.12. Sorry, but this is the fact for me. IBM T42. Sorry dude, but there's just no way that any

Re: Giving developers clue how many testers verified certain kernel version

2005-07-22 Thread Alejandro Bonilla
Blaisorblade wrote: Adrian Bunk stusta.de> writes: On Thu, Jul 21, 2005 at 09:40:43PM -0500, Alejandro Bonilla wrote: How do we know that something is OK or wrong? just by the fact that it works or not, it doesn't mean like is OK. There has to be a process for any user to be a

Re: Giving developers clue how many testers verified certain kernel version

2005-07-22 Thread Alejandro Bonilla
Blaisorblade wrote: Adrian Bunk bunk at stusta.de writes: On Thu, Jul 21, 2005 at 09:40:43PM -0500, Alejandro Bonilla wrote: How do we know that something is OK or wrong? just by the fact that it works or not, it doesn't mean like is OK. There has to be a process for any user

Re: Giving developers clue how many testers verified certain kernel version

2005-07-22 Thread Alejandro Bonilla
Lee Revell wrote: On Fri, 2005-07-22 at 20:07 -0500, Alejandro Bonilla wrote: I will get flames for this, but my laptop boots faster and sometimes responds faster in 2.4.27 than in 2.6.12. Sorry, but this is the fact for me. IBM T42. Sorry dude, but there's just no way that any

Re: Giving developers clue how many testers verified certain kernel version

2005-07-22 Thread Alejandro Bonilla
Lee Revell wrote: On Fri, 2005-07-22 at 21:15 -0500, Alejandro Bonilla wrote: OK, I will, but I first of all need to learn how to tell if benchmarks are better or worse. Con's interactivity benchmark looks quite promising for finding scheduler related interactivity regressions

Re: Giving developers clue how many testers verified certain kernel version

2005-07-22 Thread Alejandro Bonilla
Linus Torvalds wrote: On Fri, 22 Jul 2005, Lee Revell wrote: Con's interactivity benchmark looks quite promising for finding scheduler related interactivity regressions. I doubt that _any_ of the regressions that are user-visible are scheduler-related. They all tend to be disk IO

Re: Giving developers clue how many testers verified certain kernel version

2005-07-21 Thread Alejandro Bonilla
Martin MOKREJŠ wrote: Hi, Mark Nipper wrote: I have a different idea along these lines but not using bugzilla. A nice system for tracking usage of certain components might be made by having people register using a certain e-mail address and then submitting their .config as they try out

Re: Giving developers clue how many testers verified certain kernel version

2005-07-21 Thread Alejandro Bonilla
Martin MOKREJŠ wrote: Hi, Mark Nipper wrote: I have a different idea along these lines but not using bugzilla. A nice system for tracking usage of certain components might be made by having people register using a certain e-mail address and then submitting their .config as they try out

RE: how to be a kernel developer ?

2005-07-18 Thread Alejandro Bonilla
> Hi > > I want to join the Kernel community and help in developing Linux > kernel, I'm good in C,Perl and not that good in C++ > > is there any How-To page in how to help or how to join ? since I want > to start in basic things I can tell you one thing for sure. And that is that you will need

RE: how to be a kernel developer ?

2005-07-18 Thread Alejandro Bonilla
Hi I want to join the Kernel community and help in developing Linux kernel, I'm good in C,Perl and not that good in C++ is there any How-To page in how to help or how to join ? since I want to start in basic things I can tell you one thing for sure. And that is that you will need to read

RE: Open source firewalls

2005-07-13 Thread Alejandro Bonilla
> Are there other open source firewall implementations > other than snort? > > I would apprecitate it if you could let me know. > Thanks, > Vinay > I might be wrong and this might be a stupid answer but... How about iptables? iptables blocks everything incomind, allows, deny and forwards, so I

RE: [Hdaps-devel] Re: [ltp] IBM HDAPS Someone interested? (Userspace accelerometer viewer)

2005-07-13 Thread Alejandro Bonilla
> On Sun, 3 Jul 2005, Alejandro Bonilla wrote: > > PLEASE read the following article, it has the data of a guy > that made a > > driver in IBM for Linux and he described the driver he made. > > http://www.almaden.ibm.com/cs/people/marksmith/tpaps.html > > Yesterda

RE: [Hdaps-devel] Re: [ltp] IBM HDAPS Someone interested? (Userspace accelerometer viewer)

2005-07-13 Thread Alejandro Bonilla
On Sun, 3 Jul 2005, Alejandro Bonilla wrote: PLEASE read the following article, it has the data of a guy that made a driver in IBM for Linux and he described the driver he made. http://www.almaden.ibm.com/cs/people/marksmith/tpaps.html Yesterday evening, I used my time here

RE: Open source firewalls

2005-07-13 Thread Alejandro Bonilla
Are there other open source firewall implementations other than snort? I would apprecitate it if you could let me know. Thanks, Vinay I might be wrong and this might be a stupid answer but... How about iptables? iptables blocks everything incomind, allows, deny and forwards, so I think

Re: IBM HDAPS things are looking up

2005-07-07 Thread Alejandro Bonilla
Bodo Eggert wrote: Clemens Koller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Well, sure, it's not a notebook HDD, but maybe it's possible to give headpark a more generic way to get the heads parked? I remember my old MFM HDD, which had a Landing Zone stored in the BIOS to which the park command

Re: IBM HDAPS things are looking up (was: Re: [Hdaps-devel] Re: [ltp] IBM HDAPS Someone interested? (Accelerometer))

2005-07-07 Thread Alejandro Bonilla
Jon Escombe wrote: Jens Axboe wrote: Note on that - if the util says it parked, you can be very sure that it actually did as the drive actually returns that status outside of just completing the command. It's worth noting that you'll need the libata passthrough patch to make this work on

RE: IBM HDAPS things are looking up (was: Re: [Hdaps-devel] Re: [ltp] IBM HDAPS Someone interested? (Accelerometer))

2005-07-07 Thread Alejandro Bonilla
> Hello, > > Just for the records > - > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ ./headpark /dev/hda > head not parked 4c > - > > HDD is a desktop Maxtor Diamond MaxPlus 9 120GB > on a Promise Ultra133 TX2 IDE Controller. > > Well, sure, it's not a notebook HDD, but maybe it's possible > to give headpark

RE: Head parking (was: IBM HDAPS things are looking up)

2005-07-07 Thread Alejandro Bonilla
> --- Pekka Enberg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > On 7/7/05, Martin Knoblauch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Interesting. Same Notebook, same drive. The program say "not > > parked" > > > :-( This is on FC2 with a pretty much vanilla 2.6.9 kernel. > > > > > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] tmp]# hdparm

RE: IBM HDAPS things are looking up (was: Re: [Hdaps-devel] Re: [ltp] IBM HDAPS Someone interested? (Accelerometer))

2005-07-07 Thread Alejandro Bonilla
Jens, Thanks for this util. :-) It will make things easier for us and do part of the Job we are looking for. I will post this script in the hdaps.sf.net for people if it's ok with you. Thanks again, .Alejandro > > #include > > #include > > #include > > #include > > #include > >

RE: IBM HDAPS things are looking up (was: Re: [Hdaps-devel] Re: [ltp] IBM HDAPS Someone interested? (Accelerometer))

2005-07-07 Thread Alejandro Bonilla
Jens, Thanks for this util. :-) It will make things easier for us and do part of the Job we are looking for. I will post this script in the hdaps.sf.net for people if it's ok with you. Thanks again, .Alejandro #include stdio.h #include unistd.h #include fcntl.h #include

RE: Head parking (was: IBM HDAPS things are looking up)

2005-07-07 Thread Alejandro Bonilla
--- Pekka Enberg [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 7/7/05, Martin Knoblauch [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Interesting. Same Notebook, same drive. The program say not parked :-( This is on FC2 with a pretty much vanilla 2.6.9 kernel. [EMAIL PROTECTED] tmp]# hdparm -i /dev/hda

RE: IBM HDAPS things are looking up (was: Re: [Hdaps-devel] Re: [ltp] IBM HDAPS Someone interested? (Accelerometer))

2005-07-07 Thread Alejandro Bonilla
Hello, Just for the records - [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ ./headpark /dev/hda head not parked 4c - HDD is a desktop Maxtor Diamond MaxPlus 9 120GB on a Promise Ultra133 TX2 IDE Controller. Well, sure, it's not a notebook HDD, but maybe it's possible to give headpark a more

Re: IBM HDAPS things are looking up (was: Re: [Hdaps-devel] Re: [ltp] IBM HDAPS Someone interested? (Accelerometer))

2005-07-07 Thread Alejandro Bonilla
Jon Escombe wrote: Jens Axboe wrote: Note on that - if the util says it parked, you can be very sure that it actually did as the drive actually returns that status outside of just completing the command. It's worth noting that you'll need the libata passthrough patch to make this work on

Re: IBM HDAPS things are looking up

2005-07-07 Thread Alejandro Bonilla
Bodo Eggert wrote: Clemens Koller [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Well, sure, it's not a notebook HDD, but maybe it's possible to give headpark a more generic way to get the heads parked? I remember my old MFM HDD, which had a Landing Zone stored in the BIOS to which the park command would

RE: IBM HDAPS things are looking up (was: Re: [Hdaps-devel] Re: [ltp] IBM HDAPS Someone interested? (Accelerometer))

2005-07-05 Thread Alejandro Bonilla
> Alejandro Bonilla wrote (ao): > > If you check the IBM software in Windows, it shows 2 things. > > First, when it pauses the HD and when it stops the HD. It all > > depends on how hard you hit the PC. In one we suspend the drive > > and in

RE: IBM HDAPS things are looking up (was: Re: [Hdaps-devel] Re: [ltp] IBM HDAPS Someone interested? (Accelerometer))

2005-07-05 Thread Alejandro Bonilla
> > As Lenz already suggested, you both pretty much seem to be describing > laptop mode. See the documentation. > > -- > Jens Axboe > Jens, Yes, I know about laptop_mode, I always use it, but HD APS does not automatically starts laptop_mode currently. That's why I was spitting out that

RE: IBM HDAPS things are looking up (was: Re: [Hdaps-devel] Re: [ltp] IBM HDAPS Someone interested? (Accelerometer))

2005-07-05 Thread Alejandro Bonilla
As Lenz already suggested, you both pretty much seem to be describing laptop mode. See the documentation. -- Jens Axboe Jens, Yes, I know about laptop_mode, I always use it, but HD APS does not automatically starts laptop_mode currently. That's why I was spitting out that it could

RE: IBM HDAPS things are looking up (was: Re: [Hdaps-devel] Re: [ltp] IBM HDAPS Someone interested? (Accelerometer))

2005-07-05 Thread Alejandro Bonilla
Alejandro Bonilla wrote (ao): If you check the IBM software in Windows, it shows 2 things. First, when it pauses the HD and when it stops the HD. It all depends on how hard you hit the PC. In one we suspend the drive and in the other we park the drive. This is not true

Re: IBM HDAPS things are looking up (was: Re: [Hdaps-devel] Re: [ltp] IBM HDAPS Someone interested? (Accelerometer))

2005-07-04 Thread Alejandro Bonilla
Pavel Machek wrote: Actually, "spin disk down and keep it down" would be nice for other reasons. Taking computer for a jog playing mp3s from ramdisk is something I'd like to do... Pavel This is exactly what I wanted to do. hdparm suspend which would send

Re: IBM HDAPS things are looking up

2005-07-04 Thread Alejandro Bonilla
Jens Axboe wrote: That's madness, we can't add a kernel thread for every single little silly thing. You don't need to stop any io, you just want to make sure that your park request gets issued right after the current io has finished. HI, For me, the heads have to park so fast. That I

Re: IBM HDAPS things are looking up

2005-07-04 Thread Alejandro Bonilla
Jens Axboe wrote: That's madness, we can't add a kernel thread for every single little silly thing. You don't need to stop any io, you just want to make sure that your park request gets issued right after the current io has finished. HI, For me, the heads have to park so fast. That I

Re: IBM HDAPS things are looking up (was: Re: [Hdaps-devel] Re: [ltp] IBM HDAPS Someone interested? (Accelerometer))

2005-07-04 Thread Alejandro Bonilla
Pavel Machek wrote: Actually, spin disk down and keep it down would be nice for other reasons. Taking computer for a jog playing mp3s from ramdisk is something I'd like to do... Pavel This is exactly what I wanted to do. hdparm suspend which would send

Re: Linux 2.6.12-rc3

2005-04-20 Thread Alejandro Bonilla
Patrick McFarland wrote: On Wednesday 20 April 2005 09:09 pm, Alejandro Bonilla wrote: Why is kb not used anymore? What happened? Linus decided that keyboards are out, and voice activation is in. Remember to use a high quality microphone! Ohh _G_ Is that Why!? I thought it was cause

Re: Linux 2.6.12-rc3

2005-04-20 Thread Alejandro Bonilla
Linus Torvalds wrote: Ok, you know what the subject line means by now, but this release is a bit different from the usual ones, for obvious reasons. It's the first in a _long_ time that I've done without using BK, and it's the first one ever that has been built up completely with "git". It's

Re: Linux 2.6.12-rc3

2005-04-20 Thread Alejandro Bonilla
Linus Torvalds wrote: Ok, you know what the subject line means by now, but this release is a bit different from the usual ones, for obvious reasons. It's the first in a _long_ time that I've done without using BK, and it's the first one ever that has been built up completely with git. It's

Re: Linux 2.6.12-rc3

2005-04-20 Thread Alejandro Bonilla
Patrick McFarland wrote: On Wednesday 20 April 2005 09:09 pm, Alejandro Bonilla wrote: Why is kb not used anymore? What happened? Linus decided that keyboards are out, and voice activation is in. Remember to use a high quality microphone! Ohh _G_ Is that Why!? I thought it was cause

Re: 2.6 upgrade overall failure report

2005-04-16 Thread Alejandro Bonilla
I usually never complain, or give negative motivation, but this is a reality. Now, what's wrong with that ? Well, the fact is that new hardware is only supported by latest kernel, so at the end, you have to upgrade, and so you get more and more complexity whether you like it or not. As an

Re: 2.6 upgrade overall failure report

2005-04-16 Thread Alejandro Bonilla
I usually never complain, or give negative motivation, but this is a reality. Now, what's wrong with that ? Well, the fact is that new hardware is only supported by latest kernel, so at the end, you have to upgrade, and so you get more and more complexity whether you like it or not. As an

Re: Linux support for IBM ThinkPad Disk shock prevention update...

2005-04-14 Thread Alejandro Bonilla
05-04-14 at 16:58 -0400, Shawn Starr wrote: We just need to figure out to get the specs from IBM Best bet is probably reverse engineering it... Lee, I know this is far from easy... but, What do we need to do this? I haven't seen such a cooler feature in a Thinkpad like the HDAPS.

Re: IBM Thinkpad T42 - Looking for a Developer.

2005-04-14 Thread Alejandro Bonilla
This is located in my home PC, Won't be the fastest downloads... http://wifitux.com/finger/ Under what terms did you obtain these documents and from where? Are they completely freely distributable or are there strings attached? I emailed the guys and they told me, "Hey, here

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