Re: mouse still losing sync and thus jumping around

2005-02-24 Thread Anthony DiSante
ot; > /sys/bus/serio/devices/serioX/drvctl I.e. substitute "driver" with "drvctl" as now "driver" is a symlink to a currently bound driver that is set up by driver core. Ah, sweet, thank you. This should all be documented somewhere! For now I've been keeping m

Re: mouse still losing sync and thus jumping around

2005-02-23 Thread Anthony DiSante
t works. I'm currently running 2.6.10-gentoo-r6. -Anthony DiSante http://nodivisions.com/ - 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: uninterruptible sleep lockups

2005-02-22 Thread Anthony DiSante
t of work and the overhead involved just are not realistic. Again, that was one of my earlier questions, since some people here were saying "impossible" while other were saying "really hard." -Anthony DiSante http://nodivisions.com/ - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line &q

Re: uninterruptible sleep lockups

2005-02-22 Thread Anthony DiSante
"require a lot of bookkeeping" to "fix" permanently-D-stated processes... which is completely different than "impossible." -Anthony DiSante http://nodivisions.com/ - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a

Re: uninterruptible sleep lockups

2005-02-22 Thread Anthony DiSante
cesses. Regardless of whether the bugs get fixed or the kernel finds a way to work around them, my dislike has nothing to do with the overhead or "ugliness" of stuck processes; I dislike them because they render my system useless for 75% of the things I use it for. -Anthony DiSante

Re: uninterruptible sleep lockups

2005-02-22 Thread Anthony DiSante
eek on multiple systems with different hardware, some HW-related driver/process gets stuck, then immediately cascades its stuckness up to udevd or hald, and then I can't use any of my hardware anymore until I reboot. -Anthony DiSante http://nodivisions.com/ - To unsubscribe from this list: send t

Re: uninterruptible sleep lockups

2005-02-21 Thread Anthony DiSante
, neither of which ever seems to say anything useful when this happens. Kernel bugs are not acceptable. That's a nice-sounding ideal, but the truth is that kernel bugs exist and are not uncommon. -Anthony DiSante http://nodivisions.com/ - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsu

Re: uninterruptible sleep lockups

2005-02-21 Thread Anthony DiSante
ually timing out, except the timeout code isn't there? -Anthony DiSante http://nodivisions.com/ - 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 P

Re: uninterruptible sleep lockups

2005-02-21 Thread Anthony DiSante
ee how that isn't preferable to guaranteeing that people will always need to reboot their linux systems when they get new hardware that puts processes into the D state permanently. -Anthony DiSante http://nodivisions.com/ - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-ker

Re: uninterruptible sleep lockups

2005-02-21 Thread Anthony DiSante
y hardware perhaps? It's been covered before, look in the lkml archives for details. Thanks, I'll do that. But could you give me a more specific pointer? Searching lkml for "uninterruptible" returns ~2000 results. Thanks, Anthony DiSante http://nodivisions.com/ - To unsubscrib

uninterruptible sleep lockups

2005-02-21 Thread Anthony DiSante
igher up in the kernel, that watches for hung processes like this and kills them? Don't get me wrong, I love rebooting every couple days... but I have a Windows system for that. -Anthony DiSante http://nodivisions.com/ - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-ke

two Oopses on 2.6.10

2005-02-15 Thread Anthony DiSante
dules/2.6.10-1.12_FC2smp/ -m /boot/System.map-2.6.10-1.12_FC2smp oops.02 >ksymoops.02 Please let me know if there's any other information I need to provide. -Anthony DiSante http://nodivisions.com/ ksymoops 2.4.5 on i686 2.6.10-1.12_FC2. Options used -V (default) -K (specified)

Re: Has anyone dumped udev for devfs?

2005-02-03 Thread Anthony DiSante
ot a single piece of hardware; sometimes it's USB, sometimes Firewire, sometimes a CDROM, that causes hald to take a nap, permanently. -Anthony DiSante http://nodivisions.com/ - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL