Re: Microsoft and Xenix.

2001-06-24 Thread Chris Meadors
On Sun, 24 Jun 2001, Rob Landley wrote: > I know the geos had nothing to do with digital, it started as a windowing GUI > for the commodore 64, if you can believe that... Not only can I belive it, but I was going to bring it up the first time GEOS was mentioned. Having only used Macs (in

Re: Microsoft and Xenix.

2001-06-24 Thread Chris Meadors
On Sun, 24 Jun 2001, Rob Landley wrote: I know the geos had nothing to do with digital, it started as a windowing GUI for the commodore 64, if you can believe that... Not only can I belive it, but I was going to bring it up the first time GEOS was mentioned. Having only used Macs (in school)

Re: PROBLEM: compiling with gcc 3.0

2001-06-19 Thread Chris Meadors
On Tue, 19 Jun 2001, Simone Piunno wrote: > I was trying to compile 2.4.5 with gcc 3.0 but there is a problem > (conflicting type) between kernel/timer.c and include/linux/sched.h > Apparently the problem solves with this oneline workarond: > > --- linux/include/linux/sched.h Tue Jun 19 17:00:03

Re: PROBLEM: compiling with gcc 3.0

2001-06-19 Thread Chris Meadors
On Tue, 19 Jun 2001, Simone Piunno wrote: I was trying to compile 2.4.5 with gcc 3.0 but there is a problem (conflicting type) between kernel/timer.c and include/linux/sched.h Apparently the problem solves with this oneline workarond: --- linux/include/linux/sched.h Tue Jun 19 17:00:03 2001

Re: 2.4.2 - Locked keyboard

2001-05-16 Thread Chris Meadors
On Tue, 15 May 2001, Anuradha Ratnaweera wrote: > > On Thu, 10 May 2001, Jorge Boncompte [DTI2] wrote: > > > After the reboot, the keyboard was working 5 minutes and then it > > locked. The console was working. I rebooted the machine again and has > > been working for 2 days, that the keyboard

Re: 2.4.2 - Locked keyboard

2001-05-16 Thread Chris Meadors
On Tue, 15 May 2001, Anuradha Ratnaweera wrote: On Thu, 10 May 2001, Jorge Boncompte [DTI2] wrote: After the reboot, the keyboard was working 5 minutes and then it locked. The console was working. I rebooted the machine again and has been working for 2 days, that the keyboard gets

Re: Linux 2.4.3-ac7

2001-04-16 Thread Chris Meadors
On Mon, 16 Apr 2001, Alan Cox wrote: > VIA users should test this kernel carefully. It has what are supposed to be > the right fixes for the VIA hardware bugs. Obviously the right fixes are not > as tested as the deduced ones. I saw no mention of the ACPI idle problem I see on my Athlons. Is

Re: Linux 2.4.3-ac7

2001-04-16 Thread Chris Meadors
On Mon, 16 Apr 2001, Alan Cox wrote: VIA users should test this kernel carefully. It has what are supposed to be the right fixes for the VIA hardware bugs. Obviously the right fixes are not as tested as the deduced ones. I saw no mention of the ACPI idle problem I see on my Athlons. Is the

Re: [lkml]Re: [PATCH] matroxfb and mga XF4 driver coexistence...

2001-04-12 Thread Chris Meadors
On Thu, 12 Apr 2001, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Of course, but if we can fix the problem by making the kernel smaller, > what possible motive could you have for opposing it other than 'but it > doesn't solve _my_ problems!' ? Agreed. The only thing I was thinking, was if the kernel is doing

Re: [PATCH] matroxfb and mga XF4 driver coexistence...

2001-04-12 Thread Chris Meadors
On Thu, 12 Apr 2001, Rafael E. Herrera wrote: > > But only users using matroxfb complains to me and/or to linux-kernel ;-) > > You know, it worked last week, but it does not work anymore today. And > > only thing I changed was kernel. So it must be in kernel... I thought I had seen at least one

Re: [PATCH] matroxfb and mga XF4 driver coexistence...

2001-04-12 Thread Chris Meadors
On Thu, 12 Apr 2001, Rafael E. Herrera wrote: But only users using matroxfb complains to me and/or to linux-kernel ;-) You know, it worked last week, but it does not work anymore today. And only thing I changed was kernel. So it must be in kernel... I thought I had seen at least one other

Re: [lkml]Re: [PATCH] matroxfb and mga XF4 driver coexistence...

2001-04-12 Thread Chris Meadors
On Thu, 12 Apr 2001, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Of course, but if we can fix the problem by making the kernel smaller, what possible motive could you have for opposing it other than 'but it doesn't solve _my_ problems!' ? Agreed. The only thing I was thinking, was if the kernel is doing the

Re: [PATCH] matroxfb and mga XF4 driver coexistence...

2001-04-11 Thread Chris Meadors
On Wed, 11 Apr 2001, Petr Vandrovec wrote: > Hi, >Alan, Linus, please apply this patch to matroxfb. It fixes complaints > from people that screen is black after they exit from X back to console. > Matrox driver does not know that it should return hardware state back to > initial state after

Re: [PATCH] matroxfb and mga XF4 driver coexistence...

2001-04-11 Thread Chris Meadors
On Wed, 11 Apr 2001, Petr Vandrovec wrote: Hi, Alan, Linus, please apply this patch to matroxfb. It fixes complaints from people that screen is black after they exit from X back to console. Matrox driver does not know that it should return hardware state back to initial state after

Re: New directions for kernel development

2001-04-01 Thread Chris Meadors
On Sun, 1 Apr 2001, David Riley wrote: > Linus Torvalds wrote: > > Uhm, yeah... I don't know who wrote this, but it came from Washington > state and was written with MS Outlook... Something tells me that this > April Fool's joke wasn't Linus'. :-) Yeah, the quality of these jokes has

Re: New directions for kernel development

2001-04-01 Thread Chris Meadors
On Sun, 1 Apr 2001, David Riley wrote: Linus Torvalds wrote: Uhm, yeah... I don't know who wrote this, but it came from Washington state and was written with MS Outlook... Something tells me that this April Fool's joke wasn't Linus'. :-) Yeah, the quality of these jokes has really

Re: Hardware problem detection? Linux 2.4.3-pre4 lockups.

2001-03-15 Thread Chris Meadors
On Thu, 15 Mar 2001, Nathan Black wrote: > I am at a total loss, But I have found some interesting anomalies with my > hardware. That is about how I was feeling when I had similar problems. > My Current Setup: > Supermicro S370DE6 (Serverworks Chipset) > Dual PIII 866 > 2 x 256 MB PC133 ECC

Re: Hardware problem detection? Linux 2.4.3-pre4 lockups.

2001-03-15 Thread Chris Meadors
On Thu, 15 Mar 2001, Nathan Black wrote: I am at a total loss, But I have found some interesting anomalies with my hardware. That is about how I was feeling when I had similar problems. My Current Setup: Supermicro S370DE6 (Serverworks Chipset) Dual PIII 866 2 x 256 MB PC133 ECC SDRAM

Quotas not updating.

2001-02-01 Thread Chris Meadors
I'm running 2.4.1 (had been using 2.4.0 since it was released) with quota 2.00 on an ext2 filesystem mounted as /home. When a file is created or deleted from the file system the quota usage is not updated. If I run a "quotacheck -a" everything gets updated, but quickly after as mail is

Quotas not updating.

2001-02-01 Thread Chris Meadors
I'm running 2.4.1 (had been using 2.4.0 since it was released) with quota 2.00 on an ext2 filesystem mounted as /home. When a file is created or deleted from the file system the quota usage is not updated. If I run a "quotacheck -a" everything gets updated, but quickly after as mail is

Re: hotmail not dealing with ECN

2001-01-26 Thread Chris Meadors
On Fri, 26 Jan 2001, Daniel Chemko wrote: > Microsoft are bad for dropping ICMP because of security.. .I mean try pinging > microsoft.com... It's down, ha ha, Microsoft is down! I'm joking of course. But you don't know how many times my techs have told me that. It's either that, or something

Re: hotmail not dealing with ECN

2001-01-26 Thread Chris Meadors
On Fri, 26 Jan 2001, Daniel Chemko wrote: Microsoft are bad for dropping ICMP because of security.. .I mean try pinging microsoft.com... It's down, ha ha, Microsoft is down! I'm joking of course. But you don't know how many times my techs have told me that. It's either that, or something

Re: Delay in authentication.gy

2001-01-15 Thread Chris Meadors
On Mon, 8 Jan 2001, Alan Cox wrote: > And have identical bad problems with auth failures. Right now I've given up > trying to make 2.4 and YP mix because my RH setup assumes NIS auth will fail > fast during boot up scripts and it doesnt. > > Unfortunately for the quickfix folks, Dave is right

Re: Delay in authentication.gy

2001-01-15 Thread Chris Meadors
On Mon, 8 Jan 2001, Alan Cox wrote: And have identical bad problems with auth failures. Right now I've given up trying to make 2.4 and YP mix because my RH setup assumes NIS auth will fail fast during boot up scripts and it doesnt. Unfortunately for the quickfix folks, Dave is right about

Re: Delay in authentication.

2001-01-09 Thread Chris Meadors
On Mon, 8 Jan 2001, Scott Laird wrote: > > Is syslog running correctly? When syslog screws up, it very frequently > results in this sort of problem. > I would guess that syslog is okay. I'm getting plenty of entries in my various logs, along with a few boxes remote logging into this server.

Re: Delay in authentication.

2001-01-09 Thread Chris Meadors
On Mon, 8 Jan 2001, Scott Laird wrote: Is syslog running correctly? When syslog screws up, it very frequently results in this sort of problem. I would guess that syslog is okay. I'm getting plenty of entries in my various logs, along with a few boxes remote logging into this server.

Re: Delay in authentication.

2001-01-08 Thread Chris Meadors
On Mon, 8 Jan 2001, Igmar Palsenberg wrote: > check /etc/pam.d/login No pam. > Could be kerberos that is biting you, althrough that doesn't explain the > portmap story. So no kerberos. I just rebuilt the shadow suite (where my login comes from) to be on the safe side. But the problem is

Re: Delay in authentication.

2001-01-08 Thread Chris Meadors
On Mon, 8 Jan 2001, David S. Miller wrote: > This definitely seems like the classic "/etc/nsswitch.conf is told to > look for YP servers and you are not using YP", so have a look and fix > nsswitch.conf if this is in fact the problem. What I have never gotten, is why on my machines (no specific

Re: Delay in authentication.

2001-01-08 Thread Chris Meadors
On Mon, 8 Jan 2001, David S. Miller wrote: This definitely seems like the classic "/etc/nsswitch.conf is told to look for YP servers and you are not using YP", so have a look and fix nsswitch.conf if this is in fact the problem. What I have never gotten, is why on my machines (no specific

Re: Delay in authentication.

2001-01-08 Thread Chris Meadors
On Mon, 8 Jan 2001, Igmar Palsenberg wrote: check /etc/pam.d/login No pam. Could be kerberos that is biting you, althrough that doesn't explain the portmap story. So no kerberos. I just rebuilt the shadow suite (where my login comes from) to be on the safe side. But the problem is still

Where to get quota.

2001-01-02 Thread Chris Meadors
Perhaps the help text for disk quotas needs to be updated, or at least the howto for quotas. The help text for disk quotas says to see the Quota mini-HOWTO. The howto says to get the quota source from: ftp://ftp.funet.fi/pub/Linux/PEOPLE/Linus/subsystems/quota/all.tar.gz That doesn't exist

Where to get quota.

2001-01-02 Thread Chris Meadors
Perhaps the help text for disk quotas needs to be updated, or at least the howto for quotas. The help text for disk quotas says to see the Quota mini-HOWTO. The howto says to get the quota source from: ftp://ftp.funet.fi/pub/Linux/PEOPLE/Linus/subsystems/quota/all.tar.gz That doesn't exist

feature flags set on rev 0 fs

2000-12-31 Thread Chris Meadors
I'm seeing a new warning with the 2.4.0-prerelease (could have been introduced in -pre11 or 12): EXT2-fs warning: feature flags set on rev 0 fs, running e2fsck is recommended Well I've run e2fsck (version 1.18) twice, and looked at the options for tune2fs. Is there an easy way to change the

feature flags set on rev 0 fs

2000-12-31 Thread Chris Meadors
I'm seeing a new warning with the 2.4.0-prerelease (could have been introduced in -pre11 or 12): EXT2-fs warning: feature flags set on rev 0 fs, running e2fsck is recommended Well I've run e2fsck (version 1.18) twice, and looked at the options for tune2fs. Is there an easy way to change the

Re: Trashing ext2 with hdparm

2000-12-06 Thread Chris Meadors
On 6 Dec 2000, H. Peter Anvin wrote: > > Please don't use the path /var/shm... it was a really bad precedent > set when someone suggested it. Use /dev/shm. > And I'll ask again... If this is now the recommend mount point, can we have devfs create this directory for us? -Chris -- Two

Re: Trashing ext2 with hdparm

2000-12-06 Thread Chris Meadors
On 6 Dec 2000, H. Peter Anvin wrote: HARP Please don't use the path /var/shm... it was a really bad precedent set when someone suggested it. Use /dev/shm. /HARP And I'll ask again... If this is now the recommend mount point, can we have devfs create this directory for us? -Chris -- Two

Re: Dual XEON - >>SLOW<< on SMP

2000-11-02 Thread Chris Meadors
On 2 Nov 2000, Ulrich Drepper wrote: > I'm seeing this as well, but only with PIII Xeon systems, not PII > Xeon. Every single timer interrupt on any CPU is accompanied by a NMI > and LOC increment on every CPU. > >CPU0 CPU1 > 0: 146727 153389IO-APIC-edge

Re: Dual XEON - SLOW on SMP

2000-11-02 Thread Chris Meadors
On 2 Nov 2000, Ulrich Drepper wrote: I'm seeing this as well, but only with PIII Xeon systems, not PII Xeon. Every single timer interrupt on any CPU is accompanied by a NMI and LOC increment on every CPU. CPU0 CPU1 0: 146727 153389IO-APIC-edge timer

Re: Question about signals

2000-09-20 Thread Chris Meadors
On Wed, 20 Sep 2000, Adam Watson wrote: > I am working to get Diald up and running and with both 2.2.16 and the 2.4.0 > series kernels I have been getting SIOCSIFMETRIC Operation not supported. > I've looked through the kernel docs and include files but couldn't find a > reference to that

Re: Question about signals

2000-09-20 Thread Chris Meadors
On Wed, 20 Sep 2000, Adam Watson wrote: I am working to get Diald up and running and with both 2.2.16 and the 2.4.0 series kernels I have been getting SIOCSIFMETRIC Operation not supported. I've looked through the kernel docs and include files but couldn't find a reference to that

2.4.0-test8 scsidrv.o can't link without modules

2000-09-11 Thread Chris Meadors
I just tried to build 2.4.0-test8 on a machine where I don't use modules at all, and thus have them disabled in the config. The kernel compile just about finishes, but scsidrv.o contains "scsi_register_module" and "scsi_unregister_module", so the link fails. -- Two penguins were walking on an

2.4.0-test8 scsidrv.o can't link without modules

2000-09-11 Thread Chris Meadors
I just tried to build 2.4.0-test8 on a machine where I don't use modules at all, and thus have them disabled in the config. The kernel compile just about finishes, but scsidrv.o contains "scsi_register_module" and "scsi_unregister_module", so the link fails. -- Two penguins were walking on an

Re: [OT] Re: Availability of kdb

2000-09-08 Thread Chris Meadors
Now that is what I want on a t-shirt. ;) On Thu, 7 Sep 2000, Peter Samuelson wrote: > [Now, centuries-old theological arguments may well be of supreme > importance in some ways -- an undeniably subjective and personal > judgment -- but in terms of Linux kernel development they are usually >

Re: [PATCH] devfs support for LVM

2000-09-06 Thread Chris Meadors
On Tue, 5 Sep 2000, Richard Gooch wrote: > > Yes. The userlevel tool can't handle other things without recompiling. > > Don't worry about that. I can add a rule to devfsd so it creates > appropriate compatibility entries. But the userlevel tool needs fixed too. Recompiling is fine, as long as

Re: [PATCH] devfs support for LVM

2000-09-06 Thread Chris Meadors
On Tue, 5 Sep 2000, Richard Gooch wrote: Yes. The userlevel tool can't handle other things without recompiling. Don't worry about that. I can add a rule to devfsd so it creates appropriate compatibility entries. But the userlevel tool needs fixed too. Recompiling is fine, as long as it

Re: [PATCH] 2.2: /proc/config.gz

2000-08-31 Thread Chris Meadors
What about those of us who don't have modules enabled. "make modules_install" complains. I'm still like the idea of /lib/kernel or /lib/linux. Keep /lib/modules for modules. Or on my machines I won't even have to create /lib/modules. On Thu, 31 Aug 2000, Robert Greimel wrote: > It would be