Re: can't build small enough zImage for floppy

2001-01-12 Thread alex
ough there are problems accessing the floppy after the initial boot without USB drivers, of course) I will look into building a 2.4.0 floppy-bootable kernel on my Z505 and see if I can reproduce the problems you're having. -alex - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscr

Re: can't build small enough zImage for floppy

2001-01-14 Thread alex
zImage you would have had the same results. My advice is to try using SYSLINUX (http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/utils/boot/syslinux/) to load the kernel instead of writing it straight to the floppy, as this is known to work on the Z505 and is more flexible anyway. -alex - To unsubscribe from this li

[patch] I-Opener fix (again)

2000-12-11 Thread alex
disk is primary, and a flashdisk is secondary, the detection code (wrongly) disables the primary disk that it had already previously detected. I would like to see this make it into the official source as it's a very small change that fixes some obviously wrong behavior.. -alex --- drivers/i

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

2000-12-13 Thread alex
eady_performed_ detection of hda in this way. Basically, as is, the kernel finds hda (traditional IDE device), configures it normally, then finds hdb (flash), and clobbers all the correct info it already detected for hda. This seems just plain wrong. -alex - To unsubscribe from this list: send th

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

2000-12-13 Thread alex
ter and no slave, and don't handle slave accesses well (right?). It should be noted that my patch does _not_ break these cases at all. -alex - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/

Re: Probably Off-topic Question...

2001-01-24 Thread alex
#x27;s probably exposed via ACPI or something similar. Any ACPI folks got thoughts on this as a possibility (and how one might find out)? I have to admit I haven't played with it much. -alex - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/

Re: named streams, extended attributes, and posix

2001-01-25 Thread alex
uch less likely to conflict with normal filesystem namespaces. This also has the advantage of being extendable (using strings other than "...") for other applications or future additions. -alex - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/

Re: Undoing chroot?

2001-01-26 Thread alex
robably want to do is fork(), then do a chroot() in the child and do whatever you want to do there, when you're done with the CD, exit the child, and have the parent eject it. -alex - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/

Re: hotmail can't deal with ECN

2001-01-25 Thread alex
ue is. 3) Apparently already being aware that a problem exists, if perhaps mistaken about solutions available. I have to say that in my experience, this is a helluva lot more on the ball than what you'd get from most places, and indicates to me that there may be hope yet for getting this fi

Re: Recommended swap for 2.4.x.

2001-01-29 Thread alex
If in doubt, go for the larger number. After all, with an 8.1GB drive, how much are you going to miss a puny 0.25GB (256MB) chunk of it? -alex - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/

Re: Recommended swap for 2.4.x.

2001-01-30 Thread alex
s than or equal to RAM is now effectively pointless? -alex - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/

Re: Recommended swap for 2.4.x.

2001-01-30 Thread alex
f most of your programs > fit in memory and you're hardly using swap, nothing changes. I think I'm confused.. are you saying that it's useful to have swap which you can't use? (What I'm hearing is "if you try to use it it won't work, but if you don't use it

Re: VIA VT82C686X

2001-01-31 Thread alex
nd not something I'd rely on for anything too important. -alex - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/

Re: spelling of disc (disk) in /devfs

2001-02-01 Thread alex
it either way. The one thing I would like to point out is that "disk" is the standard industry convention, and thus if anything I think it should have more weight behind it solely because of that (it's good to be consistent with what everybody else in the industry is doing, even if it is something as minor as spelling of terms.) -alex - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/

Re: [reiserfs-list] Re: ReiserFS Oops (2.4.1, deterministic, symlink

2001-02-02 Thread alex
ltiple places different developers have put in different checks for the thing they're trying to do. Perhaps a "Kernel Hacking" configuration option (or just something in a documented .h file) for "Allow compiling with buggy GCC 2.96" which would turn off all such check

Re: [PATCH 2.4.5-ac12] New Sony Vaio Motion Eye camera driver

2001-06-12 Thread Alex Deucher
ke it. Also there is some work on a new XvMC interface that would allow for extended DVD acceleration. Alex -- On Mon, 11 Jun 2001 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > On 10 Jun, Linus Torvalds wrote: > > > I've not figured out why the ATI Xv stuff fro

Re: [PATCH 2.4.5-ac12] New Sony Vaio Motion Eye camera driver

2001-06-13 Thread Alex Deucher
I'm not sure of the exact specs. Check out the Xfree CVS. Or ask on the [EMAIL PROTECTED] ML. Alex [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > On 12 Jun, Alex Deucher wrote: > > > Also there is some work on a new XvMC interface that would allow for > > extended DVD accele

Re: [PATCH 2.4.5-ac12] New Sony Vaio Motion Eye camera driver

2001-06-13 Thread Alex Deucher
I actually heard from one of the xfree developers last night that the merge of the the YUV stuff at least is in progress. As I recall I think XvMC was for general media controls, but I could be wrong, it's been a while. Alex Linus Torvalds wrote: > > On Tue, 12 Jun 2001, Alex De

APM, ACPI, and Wake on LAN - the bane of my existance

2001-06-14 Thread Alex Deucher
using APM, but perhaps acpi is required for this to work properly. As far as why it does this when the 3 pin WOL connector was not used, I'm not sure, maybe something to do with PCI 2.2. Any thoughts? This is driving me nuts. Alex Please CC: me in your reply. - To unsubscribe from this lis

Re: [Acpi] APM, ACPI, and Wake on LAN - the bane of my existance

2001-06-15 Thread Alex Deucher
Thanks, I'll try to take a look at the source if I get a chance next week. Any tulip developers out there know off hand if this is enabled? Or can be disabled? Thanks, Alex David Christensen wrote: > > Alex, > > Looking at the back of a Linksys EtherFast 10/100 manual

Re: Âèçû.Ïàñïîðòà.Ãðàæäàíñòâà.Ïðîáëåìû.=?ISO-8859-1?Q?=D0=E5=F8=E5

2001-06-15 Thread Alex Belits
: RT-CLNT-MMTEL > descr:Moscow Long Distance and International Telephone > > Anyone want to fire the nuclear larts? Me! 1. It's a spam. 2. It's in the dreaded windows-1251 charset. 3. The text in the h

Re: APM, ACPI, and Wake on LAN - the bane of my existance

2001-06-18 Thread Alex Deucher
ds. The 3 pin wire is for backwards compatiblity with old cards. > -- > Philips Velo 1: 1"x4"x8", 300gram, 60, 12MB, 40bogomips, linux, mutt, > details at http://atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz/~pavel/velo/index.html. Thanks for you input, Alex - To unsubscribe from this list: sen

Upgrading a 2.2.14-5.0 kernel to 2.2.16-3 kernel

2000-08-29 Thread Alex Buell
RAID driver which is loaded through initrd. Will upgrading the kernel to 2.2.16-3 affect the initrd image? Or will I have to reinstall the initrd image with it? It's particularly important because if the MegaTrend driver isn't correctly installed we will have a dead server! Cheers, Alex. -

Re: Upgrading a 2.2.14-5.0 kernel to 2.2.16-3 kernel

2000-08-30 Thread Alex Buell
d to do - I'll be sorting the server out tonight. One does learns something new every day.. Cheers, Alex. -- Lovely day isn't it? http://www.tahallah.clara.co.uk - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PRO

Re: IrDA and PCMCIA

2000-09-02 Thread Alex Romosan
nstead of writing anything to the text console. > i have exactly the same problem if i reboot (also on a dell latitude). if i shutdown the computer and then start again it boots just fine. this is happening only under 2.4.0-test8-pre1. the other pre kernels were fine. also running 2.2.18p

Re: [patch] 3c59x.c

2000-09-02 Thread Alex Romosan
h0) Sep 2 07:22:14 prospero kernel: cs: cb_disable(bus 35) Sep 2 07:22:14 prospero kernel: cs: cb_release(bus 35) Sep 2 07:22:14 prospero kernel: cs: cb_free(bus 35) --alex-- -- | I believe the moment is at hand when, by a paranoiac and active | | advance of the mind, it will be possible (simul

Re: [ANNOUNCE] Withdrawl of Open Source NDS Project/NTFS/M2FS for Linux

2000-09-05 Thread Alex Buell
m >for some reason... I just wish he'd get off the booze and skin up a nice spliff instead. Cheers, Alex. -- This message has been ROT-13 encrypted twice for extra security. http://www.tahallah.clara.co.uk - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kerne

Re: [ANNOUNCE] Withdrawl of Open Source NDS Project/NTFS/M2FS forLinux

2000-09-05 Thread Alex Buell
s and printk statements you put in where... the hope > is with more intelligent debugging aids I can glean more information > for each reboot. If you have two machines, it does get a little easier. Cheers, Alex -- This message has been ROT-13 encrypted twice for extra security. - To unsubscribe fr

Re: [patch] 3c59x.c

2000-09-09 Thread Alex Romosan
0: Tx Ring full, refusing to send buffer. and so on. --alex-- -- | I believe the moment is at hand when, by a paranoiac and active | | advance of the mind, it will be possible (simultaneously with | | automatism and other passive states) to systematize confusion | | and thus to help to discr

Re: [patch] 3c59x.c

2000-09-09 Thread Alex Romosan
_reset = 1; > i am not sure what i am supposed to see. i ran the test first with the old driver and the machine didn't lockup. i tried it again with the new one and again no lockups. another problem i saw is that i wasn't able to remove the 3c575_cb from the kernel. i had to reboot the

Re: [PROBLEM] - Kernel 2.4.0-test8 panics (addendum: rebooted suddenly while writing about the "panic" problem .. this is my second attempt)

2000-09-09 Thread Alex Romosan
.0-test8. suddenly the laptop just rebooted and there were no messages in syslog. --alex-- -- | I believe the moment is at hand when, by a paranoiac and active | | advance of the mind, it will be possible (simultaneously with | | automatism and other passive states) to systematize confusion | |

sb.o in 2.4.0test8

2000-09-15 Thread Alex Deucher
detect the card. I'm using modutils 2.3.16. I updated from 2.3.15 because 2.3.15 had trouble finding the dependencies for usb modules. everything else works fine. Any thoughts? Alex Please send responses to me directly as I'm not subscribed to this group. Thanks. - To unsubscribe

Re: 2.4.0-test9-pre2: pcmcia 3c59x doesn't work

2000-09-18 Thread Alex Romosan
8]: + modprobe: Can't locate module memory_cs Sep 18 11:36:59 prospero cardmgr[6838]: modprobe exited with status 255 Sep 18 11:36:59 prospero cardmgr[6838]: module /lib/modules/2.4.0-test9/pcmcia/memory_cs.o not available it looks like the pcmcia daemon is really confused (pci=biosirq didn

[PATCH] Fix for I-Opener IDE problems

2000-09-30 Thread Alex Stewart
The attached patch (against 2.4.0-test8) adjusts the code to only mark the slave not present if a flashdisk is master, not vice-versa. -alex --- drivers/ide/ide-probe.c.origSat Sep 30 13:38:36 2000 +++ drivers/ide/ide-probe.c Sat Sep 30 13:40:37 2000 @@ -161,8 +161,8 @@ * Pr

Re: [PATCH] Fix for I-Opener IDE problems

2000-09-30 Thread Alex Stewart
Andre Hedrick wrote: > > On Sat, 30 Sep 2000, Alex Stewart wrote: > > > The attached patch (against 2.4.0-test8) adjusts the code to only mark > > the slave not present if a flashdisk is master, not vice-versa. > > So are you saying that the master is flash and sl

Re: Possible bug with poll syscall

2001-03-10 Thread Alex Baretta
Alex Baretta wrote: > > Alex Baretta wrote: > > > > I am using poll with the POLLIN flag to wait for connection > > requests on a set of listening sockets in a server process. > > Although clients attempt to connect to those sockets, poll does > > returns zero

5Mb missing...

2001-03-14 Thread Alex Baretta
computer hasn't crashed once since I installed it. Now, though, I have a curious though fairly irrelevant problem. My kernel apparently sees less RAM than I have. [alex@localhost /home]$ free -m total used free sharedbuffers cached Mem: 25

Re: 5Mb missing...

2001-03-14 Thread Alex Baretta
> > The kernel reserves 4m for hilself. The off by one error is a rounding > bug. Sounds pretty reasonable. I have actually tested the memory card with memtest, just to make sure that it was all there and working properly, and the test succeeded, so it must really be the kernel eating away

Re: floppy programming

2001-03-19 Thread Alex Baretta
to look for what you need. If it's anything close to reasonable, you have a nine out of ten chance that someone, somewhere, has already done it for you. If you actually find it, send me a link to its URL, please. Alex - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kern

file system clustering

2001-03-20 Thread Alex Huang
Dear Sir, Is linux VFS support cluster for file system type "MSDOS " now ? Thanks ALEX - 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.

a question about mount MSDOS filesystem

2001-03-23 Thread Alex Huang
Hi, When I mount a storage device using the command as follow mount -t msdos /dev/xxx /mnt/xxx -o blocksize=1024 This command will cause error on kernel linux2.4.2 When I remove the option , " -o blocksize=1024", it's OK. But on the kernel version 2.2.17, with the option blocksize=1024, it wor

tmpfs: a way to get your system down

2001-03-24 Thread Alex Riesen
Hi, all, just hit by tmpfs on 2.4.2-ac20 mount -t tmpfs mnt dd if=/dev/zero mnt/tmpfile resulted in hardly slowed system and lockup, and not in "No space left on device", as expected. Alex Riesen - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel&qu

ACPI power-off doesn't work on Asus CUV4X (VIA Apollo 133)

2001-03-24 Thread Alex Riesen
Hi, dear all As i recompiled 2.4.2-ac20 with ACPI support the system cannot switch itself off. With APM it work without any problem. I get a message "Couldn't switch to S5" if try to call reboot(2). At load it shows that the mode is supported. Alex Riesen P.S. Motheboard As

Re: ACPI power-off doesn't work on Asus CUV4X (VIA Apollo 133)

2001-03-26 Thread Alex Riesen
On Mon, Mar 26, 2001 at 10:35:33AM -0800, Grover, Andrew wrote: > > > > As i recompiled 2.4.2-ac20 with ACPI support > > > > the system cannot switch itself off. > > > > I get a message "Couldn't switch to S5" if > > > > At load it shows that the mode is supported. > > > > > > Same with AMR P6BAP

Re: ACPI power-off doesn't work on Asus CUV4X (VIA Apollo 133)

2001-03-27 Thread Alex Riesen
Hi, BTW, ACPI in ac20 doesn't work for me either :( Alex On Mon, Mar 26, 2001 at 10:35:33AM -0800, Grover, Andrew wrote: > > From: Ingo Oeser [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > > > > As i recompiled 2.4.2-ac20 with ACPI support > > > > the system cannot switch

Swapping wierdness on SparcStation 4 w/ 2.2.19

2001-04-02 Thread Alex Buell
0 131120 Bootup: Sun Apr 1 23:45:56 2001Load average: 1.00 1.00 1.00 3/40 19021 Here's the output from swapon -s: [alex@sparc4]/home/alex > swapon -s FilenameTypeSizeUsedPriority /dev/sda2 partition 131120

a question about block device driver

2001-04-03 Thread Alex Huang
Hi Thank you very much for your help. In the linux kernel version 2.4.X, Does anybody mount a hard drive with MSDOS type file system ?? When I mount this hard drive using the command : mount -t msdos /dev/hda1 /mnt/hd -o blocksize=1024 After mounting a hard disk, I read a file , and th

Re: 2.4.2-pre2 ext2fs corruption

2001-02-13 Thread Alex Romosan
me kind of scsi setup but what interfaces ? > sorry. intel piii, with an adaptec AHA-294X Ultra2 scsi adapter. the disk in question is a 9gb IBM disk Model: DNES-309170W Rev: SA30. is this what you need? do you need more? --alex-- -- | I believe the moment is at hand when, by a paranoiac and active

Re: Patch for file fs/partitions/check.c

2001-02-21 Thread Alex Davis
ccessed. --- check.c.saveWed Feb 21 17:50:54 2001 +++ check.c Wed Feb 21 19:49:20 2001 @@ -9,6 +9,10 @@ * contained. * * Added needed MAJORS for new pairs, {hdi,hdj}, {hdk,hdl} + * + * Alex Davis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> + * Added code to keep /proc/partitions in sync with + * r

Major system crash 2.2.14 HELP!!!

2001-03-07 Thread Alex Baretta
_attempt_ to recover by inspecting the cadaver (logs and the like that help a guru or two figure out what happened? Please, help me urgently. I am in such distress! Alex - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED

R: Major system crash 2.2.14 HELP!!!

2001-03-07 Thread Alex Baretta
rom from the CD. I'll then have to reinstall and rebuild a few things (gcc, kernel, x ...) and then hopefully all will be well... Greetings and thanks to all list members who have patiently born this thread without flaming me. I greatly appreciated everybody's help and indulgence. Alex -

Possible bug with poll syscall

2001-03-10 Thread Alex Baretta
should be woken up by connection requests and should signal them with a POLLIN. But, then again, I might have misunderstood the specification. Would anyone please shed some light on this issue? Thank you very much. Alex Baretta - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-k

Re: Possible bug with poll syscall

2001-03-10 Thread Alex Baretta
Alex Baretta wrote: > > I am using poll with the POLLIN flag to wait for connection > requests on a set of listening sockets in a server process. > Although clients attempt to connect to those sockets, poll does > returns zero after the expiration of the timeout. The very same t

Re: Chipsets, DVD-RAM, and timeouts....

2001-01-03 Thread Alex Deucher
x 2.2/2.4. I don't think Maxtors should be blacklisted. Alex On Tue, 2 Jan 2001, David Woodhouse wrote: > It's a combination of chipset and drive that causes the problems. I've > been using ata66 with the same controller on a different drive > (FUJ

Re: Journaling: Surviving or allowing unclean shutdown?

2001-01-03 Thread Alex Belits
their file i/o being done in some manner that has atomic (from the application's point of view) operations other than system calls -- heck, even make(1) does that. -- Alex -- Excellent..

Re: Journaling: Surviving or allowing unclean shutdown?

2001-01-04 Thread Alex Belits
he same files and has any data consistency requirements beyond the piece of data in the chunk sent in one write(). -- Alex -- Excellent.. now give users the option to cut your hair you hippie!

Re: Anybody got 2.4.0 running on a 386 ?

2001-01-09 Thread Alex Buell
e that point, move it back half way, after that point, move it forwards half way. Iterate until you find the place. Cheers, Alex -- If PacMan had affected us as kids we'd be running around in dark rooms, munching pills and listening to electronic music. http://www.tahallah.clara.co.uk

APM, ACPI, WOL, Oh My!

2001-01-16 Thread Alex Deucher
utdown and power off. then it stays off. AFAIK, WOL is software independant. The only thing I can figure it that it is somehow tied into apm or acpi and some state that the machine is left in after a shutdown. Sorry if this is somewhat off topic. Thanks, Alex - To unsubscribe from this list

Re: APM, ACPI, WOL, Oh My!

2001-01-16 Thread Alex Deucher
:p > > > AFAIK, WOL is software independant. The only thing I can figure it that > > it's certainly not. It's not? But you can wake your PC remote with a WOL NIC regardless of the OS. Shutting the PC down again is another issue. Thanks, Alex - To unsubscri

2.4.4 pmd_alloc/pte_alloc used with too many (3) args with mm/memory.c

2001-05-09 Thread Alex Buell
: assignment makes pointer from integer without a cast memory.c:1415: warning: implicit declaration of function `pmd_populate' make[2]: *** [memory.o] Error 1 make[2]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/linux-2.4.4/mm' make[1]: *** [first_rule] Error 2 make[1]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/

DMA support for toshiba IDE controllers

2001-05-18 Thread Alex Deucher
y stingy, but I heard they have recently opened up of lot of their doc's, like the oboe IR controller for instance. Thanks, Alex __ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! Auctions - buy the things you want at great prices http://auctions.yahoo.com/ - To unsubs

Re: DMA support for toshiba IDE controllers

2001-05-18 Thread Alex Deucher
Just to clarify, this is a custom Toshiba chipset. It includes IDE, PCI controller, etc. I believe the IDE controller may be on the ISA bus as it does not show up with lspci, etc. I'm not sure of the exact chip, perhaps someone with a better knowledge of toshiab products does. Thanks,

missing poll(2) for semaphores

2001-04-19 Thread Alex Riesen
nts = POLLIN|POLLOUT); fds[0].fd = sem; fds[1].fd = server_sock1; fds[2].fd = cmd_sock2; while ( poll(fds, countof(fds), -1) >= 0 ) ... Thank you in advance Alex Riesen - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL

Re: missing poll(2) for semaphores

2001-04-19 Thread Alex Riesen
help to port the applications using that api. On Thu, Apr 19, 2001 at 11:46:46AM +0200, Alex Riesen wrote: Hi, all i am missing a good (i think) feature of unix descriptors in SysV semaphores - to be poll(2)-able. Have someone an idea to somehow achieve the goal ? something like this

Re: Cache Kernel Doubt

2001-04-21 Thread Alex Ramos
an that? > As Rik from Conectiva stated, don't ask here anymore, please! Why don't you try going to www.google.com/linux instead? Search Cache Kernel there... You'll see that it really has nothing to do with the Linux Kernel. Alex -- home page: http://members.fortunecity.co

init_rwsem redefinition warning in usbdevice_fs.h

2001-04-24 Thread Alex Riesen
rw_semaphore semaphore #define init_rwsem init_MUTEX <<<<<<<<<<<<<<<< here #define down_read down #define down_write down #define up_read up #define up_write up Should it be fixed? And, maybe the other define's around should be fixed too? Alex Rie

Re: [OFFTOPIC] Re: [PATCH] Single user linux

2001-04-24 Thread Alex Riesen
l Isn't this a good thing to have spam filtered out before it will be written in spool? Alex Riesen - 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.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/

Re: gcc 2.95.2 and kernel 2.2.18

2001-04-28 Thread Alex Ramos
I used Peanut Linux (debian based from ibiblio.org/peanut), and gcc 2.95.2 to compile the 2.2.19 kernel I run now. No problems here. -- home page: http://members.fortunecity.com/fretburn1 AIM: GhiZzard ICQ: 34778276 (When I'm on those things of course! :)) _

How can do to turn off the L1 cache in linux

2001-05-01 Thread Alex Huang
Dear All, How can do to turn off the L1 cache in linux ? Are there some commands or directives to turn off it ?? Thanks Alex èº{.nÇ+‰·Ÿ®‰­†+%ŠËlzwm…ébë§²æìr¸›zX§»®w¥Š{ayºʇڙë,j­¢f£¢·hš‹àz¹®w¥¢¸ ¢·¦j:+v‰¨ŠwèjØm¶Ÿÿ¾«‘êçzZ+ƒùšŽŠÝ¢j"ú!¶iO•æ¬z·švØ^¶m§ÿðà nƊàþY&—

How can do to disable the L1 cache in linux ?

2001-05-01 Thread Alex Huang
Dear All, How can do to disable the L1 cache in linux ? Are there some commands or directives to disable it ?? Thanks Alex èº{.nÇ+‰·Ÿ®‰­†+%ŠËlzwm…ébë§²æìr¸›zX§»®w¥Š{ayºʇڙë,j­¢f£¢·hš‹àz¹®w¥¢¸ ¢·¦j:+v‰¨ŠwèjØm¶Ÿÿ¾«‘êçzZ+ƒùšŽŠÝ¢j"ú!¶iO•æ¬z·švØ^¶m§ÿðà nƊàþY&—

How can do to disable the L1 cache in linux ?

2001-05-01 Thread Alex Huang
Dear All, How can do to disable the L1 cache in linux ? Are there some commands or directives to disable it ?? Thanks Alex N‹§²æìr¸›yúèšØb²X¬¶Ç§vØ^–)Þº{.nÇ+‰·¥Š{±‘êçzX§¶›¡Ü¨}©ž²Æ zÚ&j:+v‰¨¾«‘êçzZ+€Ê+zf£¢·hšˆ§~†­†Ûiÿûàz¹®w¥¢¸?™¨è­Ú&¢)ߢf”ù^jÇ«y§m…á@A«a¶Úÿ 0¶ìh®å’i

2.4test kernels, hpt366, sg devices

2000-10-31 Thread Alex Deucher
fine. Any ideas are much appreciated, Thanks, Alex - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/

pppd and 2.4.0pre10

2000-11-04 Thread Alex Buell
tahallah[alex]:/home/alex > ppp-on tahallah[alex]:/home/alex > /usr/sbin/pppd: This system lacks kernel support for PPP. This could be because the PPP kernel module could not be loaded, or because PPP was not included in the kernel configuration. If PPP was included as a module, try

[oops] pppd in kernel 2.4.0-test11-pre7

2000-11-19 Thread Alex Romosan
%edx,4) let me know if you need more information. --alex-- -- | I believe the moment is at hand when, by a paranoiac and active | | advance of the mind, it will be possible (simultaneously with | | automatism and other passive states) to systematize confusion | | and thus to help to discredi

Re: [oops] pppd in kernel 2.4.0-test11-pre7

2000-11-19 Thread Alex Romosan
Alex Romosan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > i forgot to bring up eth0 before attempting to connect to my dsl > provider using ppp over ethernet and i got the following oops: > i hate it when i do this. the correct oops follows: ksymoops 2.3.4 on i686 2.4.0-test11. Optio

Re: "No IRQ known for interrupt pin A..." error message

2000-11-19 Thread Alex Romosan
Martin Mares <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > During boot, I get the message: > > > > PCI: No IRQ known for interrupt pin A of device 00:00.1. Please try > > using pci=biosirq. > > Can you send me 'lspci -vvx' output, please? > i am not the original poster, but i get the same message (save fo

Re: "No IRQ known for interrupt pin A..." error message

2000-11-19 Thread Alex Romosan
and what is going on here (chances are i won't understand the code anyway, so that's why i'm asking). --alex-- -- | I believe the moment is at hand when, by a paranoiac and active | | advance of the mind, it will be possible (simultaneously with | | automatism and other pas

Re: Alan Cox's e-mail address is hosed?

2000-11-22 Thread Alex Buell
ist of addresses known to be good. You'll need to post to the list to be seen by him. Cheers, Alex -- Run away! http://www.tahallah.clara.co.uk - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Please

Re: uname

2000-11-22 Thread Alex Belits
On Thu, 23 Nov 2000, J . A . Magallon wrote: > Little question about 'uname'. Does it read data from kernel, /proc or > get its data from other source ? uname(1) utility calls uname(2) syscall. -- Alex --

Re: 2.2.18-23 w/Frame Buffer (LEVEL IV)

2000-11-28 Thread Alex Buell
nto mode 274. Is this what's supposed to > happen? Have you ever used a box with more than one processor? Looks like you have four processors on that box. Cheers, Alex -- Tie me up, tie me down! http://www.tahallah.clara.co.uk - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "uns

Re: Linus's include file strategy redux

2000-12-15 Thread Alex Buell
el (if not beyond) as Red Hat 6.2 but the kernel headers structure is still slackware 3.1! Cheers, Alex -- The truth is out there. http://www.tahallah.clara.co.uk - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECT

2.2.18 ide-scsi & scsi generic modules

2000-12-17 Thread Alex Buell
the kernel, it works. Perhaps somone can backport the fixes? It would be nice to change 2.2 so it can accept "hdx=scsi" for compatiblity with 2.4. Cheers, Alex -- The truth is out there. http://www.tahallah.clara.co.uk - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-

Re: OS Software?

2000-12-21 Thread Alex Belits
> Outlook > PowerPoint > Access > FrontPage > Publisher > Small Business Tools > PhotoDraw Is it a new tradition among spammers -- spam linux-kernel ML with offers of software, most hated among the subscribers? Can'

Re: The NSA's Security-Enhanced Linux (fwd)

2000-12-22 Thread Alex Buell
On Fri, 22 Dec 2000, Mike A. Harris wrote: > The result is available for download at the above URL as well. Has > anyone here toyed with it already ? I'd eyeball the sources for backdoors, if I were you. Cheers, Alex -- Here, have some homemade chocolate bisc

Re: The NSA's Security-Enhanced Linux (fwd)

2000-12-22 Thread Alex Belits
> hear someone come up with a conspiracy theory about it on slashdot, > but I have never heard anyone mention it. Actually I have seen it mentioned there today -- maybe conspiracy theory is being developed right now ;-) -- Alex - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubsc

Re: OS & Games Software

2000-12-23 Thread Alex Belits
Unless, of course, some unintelligent person got linux-kernel address in a list of prepackaged "n millions email addresses for sale" (and then he must be not moron*2, or moron^2, but at least e^moron). -- Alex -

Netgear FA311

2000-12-23 Thread Alex Buell
orted for this card on the 2.2.x series? If not, where can I find documentation on converting 2.0.x drivers to 2.2.x? Thanks. Cheers, Alex -- I stand in my undergarments and hurl inventive in your general direction. http://www.tahallah.clara.co.uk - To unsubscribe from this list: send the

Re: Netgear FA311

2000-12-23 Thread Alex Buell
ith the netgear fa311, but the only linux sources on it was for 2.0.36! Cheers, Alex -- I stand in my undergarments and hurl inventive in your general direction. http://www.tahallah.clara.co.uk - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body o

Re: Netgear FA311 (follow-up)

2000-12-23 Thread Alex Buell
On Sat, 23 Dec 2000, Alex Buell wrote: > I recently bought a Netgear FA311 which does 10/100Mb/ethernet for my > first home network. I've looked and found driver sources which > apparently works only for 2.0.36. Ulp! Before I start cracking my > knuckles and working my deep m

Netgear FA311

2000-12-25 Thread Alex Buell
those messages, all seems OK, but I'm just wondering why it's getting those messages - what does those mean? Cheers, Alex -- Huffapuff! http://www.tahallah.clara.co.uk - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAI

Re: Netgear FA311

2000-12-25 Thread Alex Buell
e hub that one is shown on 10, my machine is shown as 100). I think this explains the throughput problem. When I get another 4 way power socket, I'll put my other machine (which has a 100 megabit card in it) on the network and see if that makes a difference. Cheers, Alex -- Huffapuff! ht

Re: www.crucial.com won't talk to 2.4.0-test7 system

2000-09-02 Thread Alex Buell
this with him. Cheers, Alex -- This message has been ROT-13 encrypted twice for extra security. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/

[PATCH] STRIP support for new Metricom modems

2000-10-06 Thread Alex Belits
I have made changes in STRIP address handling to accomodate new 128Kbps Ricochet GS "modems" that Metricom makes now. There is no official maintainer of STRIP code (maybe I should become one, however folks at Stanford who work on the original project probably will be more appropriate), so I am

TRACED] Re: "Tux" is the wrong logo for Linux

2000-10-19 Thread Alex Buell
mailing lists. Cheers, Alex. -- M-x global-thermonuclear-warfare http://www.tahallah.clara.co.uk - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/

Re: WOL and 3c59x (3c905c-tx)

2001-01-30 Thread Alex Deucher
being turned off. The only way to make it stay off is to boot linux and shut it down. I'm using 2.4.0 with apm in kernel. Same behavior in the 2.4test kernels. It's not too bothersome since I rarely run win98, but it is strange... Alex -- When shutting down m

Re: PPP broken in Kernel 2.4.1?

2001-01-31 Thread Alex Belits
d Upgrade ppp to 2.4.0b1 or later -- it's documented in Documentation/Changes. -- Alex -- Excellent.. now give users the option to cut your hair you hippie! -- Anonymous

Re: seti@home and es1371

2001-01-31 Thread Alex Deucher
ormance of one or the other process will suffer from time to time. Alex Hi, I hope you can help me. I have a problem with my on board soundcard and seti. I have a Gigabyte GA-7ZX Creative 5880 sound chip. I use the kernel driver es1371 and it works goot

Serial device with very large buffer

2001-02-01 Thread Alex Belits
ructure, and is used as a high speed interface * between the tty driver and the tty line discipline. */ -#define TTY_FLIPBUF_SIZE 512 +#define TTY_FLIPBUF_SIZE 640 struct tty_flip_buffer { struct tq_struct tqueue; --->8--- -- Alex - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line

Re: Serial device with very large buffer

2001-02-01 Thread Alex Belits
l, and > > not everyone will agree that it's worth the trouble: > > Going to a 1K flip buffer would make sense IMHO for high speed devices too 1K flip buffer makes the tty_struct exceed 4096 bytes, and I don't think, it's a good idea to change the allocation mechanism for i

Re: Serial device with very large buffer

2001-02-01 Thread Alex Belits
On Thu, 1 Feb 2001, Joe deBlaquiere wrote: > Hi Alex! > > I'm a little confused here... why are we overrunning? This thing is > running externally at 19200 at best, even if it does all come in as a > packet. Different Merlin -- original Merlin is 19200, &quo

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