Re: amd64 agpgart aperture base value

2006-12-14 Thread Daniel Drake
Dave Jones wrote: On Wed, Dec 13, 2006 at 10:47:32PM -0500, Daniel Drake wrote: > In amd64-agp.c, would it be dangerous to remove the "aperture base > 4G" > thing and instead simply only read the rightmost 7 bits to ensure the > aperture base is always in range

Re: amd64 agpgart aperture base value

2006-12-14 Thread Daniel Drake
Dave Jones wrote: On Wed, Dec 13, 2006 at 10:47:32PM -0500, Daniel Drake wrote: In amd64-agp.c, would it be dangerous to remove the aperture base 4G thing and instead simply only read the rightmost 7 bits to ensure the aperture base is always in range? (This is coming from someone

amd64 agpgart aperture base value

2006-12-13 Thread Daniel Drake
Hi Dave, I'm working on a solution for http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=6350 Certain BIOSes are screwing with the K8 aperture base value. However, these systems work after booting into windows and then rebooting into Linux. It originally appeared to be a bug specific to asrock

amd64 agpgart aperture base value

2006-12-13 Thread Daniel Drake
Hi Dave, I'm working on a solution for http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=6350 Certain BIOSes are screwing with the K8 aperture base value. However, these systems work after booting into windows and then rebooting into Linux. It originally appeared to be a bug specific to asrock

Re: RFC: PCI quirks update for 2.6.16

2006-12-07 Thread Daniel Drake
Adrian Bunk wrote: Daniel Drake (1): PCI: VIA IRQ quirk behaviour change Please drop this one, Alan isn't 100% on it and is working on getting a better fix into mainline Daniel - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of

Re: RFC: PCI quirks update for 2.6.16

2006-12-07 Thread Daniel Drake
Adrian Bunk wrote: Daniel Drake (1): PCI: VIA IRQ quirk behaviour change Please drop this one, Alan isn't 100% on it and is working on getting a better fix into mainline Daniel - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line unsubscribe linux-kernel in the body of a message to [EMAIL

Re: [PATCH] kbuild: Write astest files to $(KBUILD_EXTMOD) directory

2006-12-04 Thread Daniel Drake
Andrew Morton wrote: What's the relationship between this patch and the fixes in this area in -mm? I was unaware of those. The first patch in -mm is obviously broken but is fixed by the 2nd one. The combination of both looks OK to me. I'm happy for either approach to be merged, it will make

Re: [PATCH] kbuild: Write astest files to $(KBUILD_EXTMOD) directory

2006-12-04 Thread Daniel Drake
Andrew Morton wrote: What's the relationship between this patch and the fixes in this area in -mm? I was unaware of those. The first patch in -mm is obviously broken but is fixed by the 2nd one. The combination of both looks OK to me. I'm happy for either approach to be merged, it will make

[PATCH] kbuild: Write astest files to $(KBUILD_EXTMOD) directory

2006-12-02 Thread Daniel Drake
if an external kernel module is being built. The behaviour in other situations is unmodified. Signed-off-by: Daniel Drake <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Index: linux-2.6.19/scripts/Kbuild.include === --- linux-2.6.19.orig/scripts/Kbuild.include +++

[PATCH] kbuild: Write astest files to $(KBUILD_EXTMOD) directory

2006-12-02 Thread Daniel Drake
if an external kernel module is being built. The behaviour in other situations is unmodified. Signed-off-by: Daniel Drake [EMAIL PROTECTED] Index: linux-2.6.19/scripts/Kbuild.include === --- linux-2.6.19.orig/scripts/Kbuild.include +++ linux

Re: regarding VIA quirk fix

2006-11-17 Thread Daniel Drake
Tejun Heo wrote: Hello, Alan. We've been getting bug reports from sata_via users for quite sometime now. The first IRQ driven command (IDENTIFY) times out and thus device detection fails. The following patch seems to fix it for many users.

Re: regarding VIA quirk fix

2006-11-17 Thread Daniel Drake
Tejun Heo wrote: Hello, Alan. We've been getting bug reports from sata_via users for quite sometime now. The first IRQ driven command (IDENTIFY) times out and thus device detection fails. The following patch seems to fix it for many users.

Re: [PATCH] via82cxxx IDE: Support multiple controllers

2005-09-09 Thread Daniel Drake
Bart, any word on this? I know you're busy but it would be much appreciated if you could comment, even if it is hurling abuse ;) Thanks. Daniel Drake wrote: Hows this? I don't have any hardware with two VIA controllers, however I have tested this on a pc which has a single vt8233a controller

Re: [PATCH] via82cxxx IDE: Support multiple controllers

2005-09-09 Thread Daniel Drake
Bart, any word on this? I know you're busy but it would be much appreciated if you could comment, even if it is hurling abuse ;) Thanks. Daniel Drake wrote: Hows this? I don't have any hardware with two VIA controllers, however I have tested this on a pc which has a single vt8233a controller

[PATCH] via82cxxx IDE: Support multiple controllers

2005-09-01 Thread Daniel Drake
hardware with two VIA controllers, however I have tested this on a pc which has a single vt8233a controller. --- Support multiple controllers in the via82cxxx IDE driver Signed-off-by: Daniel Drake <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --- linux/drivers/ide/pci/via82cxxx.c.orig 2005-08-31 01:32:05.0

Re: 2.6.13-rc7-git2 crashes on iBook

2005-09-01 Thread Daniel Drake
Hi, Stelian Pop wrote: Confirmed on an Apple Powerbook too. For reference, the (already reverted) patch which needs to be applied is below. Signed-off-by: Stelian Pop <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Index: linux-2.6.git/drivers/pci/setup-res.c

Re: 2.6.13-rc7-git2 crashes on iBook

2005-09-01 Thread Daniel Drake
Hi, Stelian Pop wrote: Confirmed on an Apple Powerbook too. For reference, the (already reverted) patch which needs to be applied is below. Signed-off-by: Stelian Pop [EMAIL PROTECTED] Index: linux-2.6.git/drivers/pci/setup-res.c

[PATCH] via82cxxx IDE: Support multiple controllers

2005-09-01 Thread Daniel Drake
hardware with two VIA controllers, however I have tested this on a pc which has a single vt8233a controller. --- Support multiple controllers in the via82cxxx IDE driver Signed-off-by: Daniel Drake [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- linux/drivers/ide/pci/via82cxxx.c.orig 2005-08-31 01:32:05.0 +0100

Re: Very strange Marvell/Yukon Gigabit NIC networking problems

2005-08-31 Thread Daniel Drake
Stephen Hemminger wrote: You have a version of the Marvell Yukon that was affected by a fix in 2.6.13. skge addr 0xfeaf8000 irq 19 chip Yukon-Lite rev 9 Both the skge and sk98lin driver were fixed to check for this. Without the fix, the chip will be in the wrong power mode. The version

Re: Very strange Marvell/Yukon Gigabit NIC networking problems

2005-08-31 Thread Daniel Drake
Stephen Hemminger wrote: You have a version of the Marvell Yukon that was affected by a fix in 2.6.13. skge addr 0xfeaf8000 irq 19 chip Yukon-Lite rev 9 Both the skge and sk98lin driver were fixed to check for this. Without the fix, the chip will be in the wrong power mode. The version

[PATCH] Add VIA VT6410 support

2005-08-30 Thread Daniel Drake
this, and Sergey Vlasov recently asked the same question on LKML. If the patch isn't acceptable then please at least say _something_ :) Thanks! -- From: Mathias Kretschmer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Add VIA VT6410 IDE support Signed-off-by: Daniel Drake <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> diff -Naru a/dri

Re: Very strange Marvell/Yukon Gigabit NIC networking problems

2005-08-30 Thread Daniel Drake
Forwarding on, please reply-to-all in future. Steve Kieu wrote: Hi all, I have "fixed" the problem in a very wierd way.Reading your post I thought maybe when removing the driver itself it set some bit incorrectly. Then I decided to do: Boot with init=/bin/bash so bypass all other things.

Re: Very strange Marvell/Yukon Gigabit NIC networking problems

2005-08-30 Thread Daniel Drake
Hi Stephen, This looks like an issue I reported previously. After you use a recent skge, you can't use any older drivers or the windows driver, but skge still works fine every time. http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=linux-netdev=112268414417743=2 The Gentoo bug report is here:

Re: Very strange Marvell/Yukon Gigabit NIC networking problems

2005-08-30 Thread Daniel Drake
Steve Kieu wrote: Are you using skge or sk98lin? sk98lin thanks Can you test the new skge driver instead? If that one is broken then we probably have more chance of getting it fixed :) Thanks, Daniel - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body

Re: Very strange Marvell/Yukon Gigabit NIC networking problems

2005-08-30 Thread Daniel Drake
Steve Kieu wrote: Ok it sound wierd enough to assume that the latest kernel 2.6.13 ethernet driver has done something wrong with the NIC and sustain the condition after reboot or turn off the machine. Here is my configuration. Laptop Asus A4500d. dmesg shows: eth0: Yukon Gigabit Ethernet

Re: Very strange Marvell/Yukon Gigabit NIC networking problems

2005-08-30 Thread Daniel Drake
Steve Kieu wrote: Are you using skge or sk98lin? sk98lin thanks Can you test the new skge driver instead? If that one is broken then we probably have more chance of getting it fixed :) Thanks, Daniel - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line unsubscribe linux-kernel in the body of

Re: Very strange Marvell/Yukon Gigabit NIC networking problems

2005-08-30 Thread Daniel Drake
Steve Kieu wrote: Ok it sound wierd enough to assume that the latest kernel 2.6.13 ethernet driver has done something wrong with the NIC and sustain the condition after reboot or turn off the machine. Here is my configuration. Laptop Asus A4500d. dmesg shows: eth0: Yukon Gigabit Ethernet

Re: Very strange Marvell/Yukon Gigabit NIC networking problems

2005-08-30 Thread Daniel Drake
Hi Stephen, This looks like an issue I reported previously. After you use a recent skge, you can't use any older drivers or the windows driver, but skge still works fine every time. http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=linux-netdevm=112268414417743w=2 The Gentoo bug report is here:

Re: Very strange Marvell/Yukon Gigabit NIC networking problems

2005-08-30 Thread Daniel Drake
Forwarding on, please reply-to-all in future. Steve Kieu wrote: Hi all, I have fixed the problem in a very wierd way.Reading your post I thought maybe when removing the driver itself it set some bit incorrectly. Then I decided to do: Boot with init=/bin/bash so bypass all other things.

[PATCH] Add VIA VT6410 support

2005-08-30 Thread Daniel Drake
this, and Sergey Vlasov recently asked the same question on LKML. If the patch isn't acceptable then please at least say _something_ :) Thanks! -- From: Mathias Kretschmer [EMAIL PROTECTED] Add VIA VT6410 IDE support Signed-off-by: Daniel Drake [EMAIL PROTECTED] diff -Naru a/drivers/ide/pci/via82cxxx.c b

ppp_mppe+pptp for 2.6.14?

2005-08-29 Thread Daniel Drake
Hi, If there are no known issues it would be nice to push this for inclusion in 2.6.14. The relevant patches from -mm are named ppp_mppe-add-ppp-mppe-encryption-module.patch and ppp_mppe-add-ppp-mppe-encryption-module-update.patch Judging by the feedback I get from Gentoo users, there is

Re: Bad page state on AMD Opteron Dual System with kernel 2.6.13-rc6-git13

2005-08-29 Thread Daniel Drake
Tim Weippert wrote: As this is an Server, i don't even use cpufreq on this machine. So it think this isn't the same problem ... Maybe you could post your experiences here: http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=5133 Daniel - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line

Re: Bad page state on AMD Opteron Dual System with kernel 2.6.13-rc6-git13

2005-08-29 Thread Daniel Drake
Tim Weippert wrote: As this is an Server, i don't even use cpufreq on this machine. So it think this isn't the same problem ... Maybe you could post your experiences here: http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=5133 Daniel - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line

ppp_mppe+pptp for 2.6.14?

2005-08-29 Thread Daniel Drake
Hi, If there are no known issues it would be nice to push this for inclusion in 2.6.14. The relevant patches from -mm are named ppp_mppe-add-ppp-mppe-encryption-module.patch and ppp_mppe-add-ppp-mppe-encryption-module-update.patch Judging by the feedback I get from Gentoo users, there is

Re: Bad page state on AMD Opteron Dual System with kernel 2.6.13-rc6-git13

2005-08-27 Thread Daniel Drake
Hi, Tim Weippert wrote: i have read some postings concerning the following Kernel Messages: Aug 26 18:04:01 montdsnsu3 kernel: grep[11619] general protection rip:2aaaed43 rsp:7f9c0740 error:0 Aug 26 18:08:02 montdsnsu3 kernel: ping[14867] general protection rip:2aaaed43

Re: Bad page state on AMD Opteron Dual System with kernel 2.6.13-rc6-git13

2005-08-27 Thread Daniel Drake
Hi, Tim Weippert wrote: i have read some postings concerning the following Kernel Messages: Aug 26 18:04:01 montdsnsu3 kernel: grep[11619] general protection rip:2aaaed43 rsp:7f9c0740 error:0 Aug 26 18:08:02 montdsnsu3 kernel: ping[14867] general protection rip:2aaaed43

Re: irq 11: nobody cared

2005-08-23 Thread Daniel Drake
Nigel Rantor wrote: Who should I be talking to wrt to the irq 11: nobody cared issue? I'm happy to provide as much info as possible but need to know what info is required. I'm happily running 2.6.7, tried the latest and greatest (2.6.12) and found the problem, then started by looking at

Re: irq 11: nobody cared

2005-08-23 Thread Daniel Drake
Nigel Rantor wrote: Who should I be talking to wrt to the irq 11: nobody cared issue? I'm happy to provide as much info as possible but need to know what info is required. I'm happily running 2.6.7, tried the latest and greatest (2.6.12) and found the problem, then started by looking at

Re: [git] libata-dev queue updated

2005-08-19 Thread Daniel Drake
Hi Jeff, Jeff Garzik wrote: I finally got around to creating something that has been missing since BitKeeper disappeared, and something that Andrew has been wanting from me for a while: an amalgamation of all the libata-dev branches that I maintain internally. You are missing two

Re: [git] libata-dev queue updated

2005-08-19 Thread Daniel Drake
Hi Jeff, Jeff Garzik wrote: I finally got around to creating something that has been missing since BitKeeper disappeared, and something that Andrew has been wanting from me for a while: an amalgamation of all the libata-dev branches that I maintain internally. You are missing two

Re: IT8212/ITE RAID

2005-08-14 Thread Daniel Drake
CaT wrote: 1. Alan Cox's IDE driver that was included in his ac patchset, which seems to have died at 2.6.11ac7. Alan's driver has been merged into 2.6.13. You can get the up-to-date Wooo! patches here:

Re: IT8212/ITE RAID

2005-08-14 Thread Daniel Drake
CaT wrote: 1. Alan Cox's IDE driver that was included in his ac patchset, which seems to have died at 2.6.11ac7. 2. A brief visit from a SCSI IDE driver in Andrew Mortons mm patchset. It lived a brief but noted life before being taken out without any reason (that I spotted) in

Re: IT8212/ITE RAID

2005-08-14 Thread Daniel Drake
CaT wrote: 1. Alan Cox's IDE driver that was included in his ac patchset, which seems to have died at 2.6.11ac7. 2. A brief visit from a SCSI IDE driver in Andrew Mortons mm patchset. It lived a brief but noted life before being taken out without any reason (that I spotted) in

Re: IT8212/ITE RAID

2005-08-14 Thread Daniel Drake
CaT wrote: 1. Alan Cox's IDE driver that was included in his ac patchset, which seems to have died at 2.6.11ac7. Alan's driver has been merged into 2.6.13. You can get the up-to-date Wooo! patches here:

Re: captive-ntfs FUSE support?

2005-08-11 Thread Daniel Drake
Joseph Fannin wrote: I haven't seen any real changes in NTFS support in the kernel since the mid-2.5 series. Is there somewhere else I should be looking? The development tree is here: http://www.kernel.org/git/gitweb.cgi?p=linux/kernel/git/aia21/ntfs-2.6-devel.git;a=summary Right now, I

Re: captive-ntfs FUSE support?

2005-08-11 Thread Daniel Drake
Joseph Fannin wrote: I haven't seen any real changes in NTFS support in the kernel since the mid-2.5 series. Is there somewhere else I should be looking? The development tree is here: http://www.kernel.org/git/gitweb.cgi?p=linux/kernel/git/aia21/ntfs-2.6-devel.git;a=summary Right now, I

Re: captive-ntfs FUSE support?

2005-08-10 Thread Daniel Drake
Kristoffer wrote: why?: Since LUFS is no longer maintained and FUSE is. since to use the LUFIS bridge you have to install LUFS, This is not true. lufis is a compatibility layer on top of FUSE which provides the same API as lufs (thereby allowing you to load lufs modules into fuse). It does

Re: captive-ntfs FUSE support?

2005-08-10 Thread Daniel Drake
Kristoffer wrote: why?: Since LUFS is no longer maintained and FUSE is. since to use the LUFIS bridge you have to install LUFS, This is not true. lufis is a compatibility layer on top of FUSE which provides the same API as lufs (thereby allowing you to load lufs modules into fuse). It does

Re: irqpoll causing some breakage?

2005-08-09 Thread Daniel Drake
Alan Cox wrote: What do the other reports look like ? Here's one: http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t-361718-highlight-irqpoll.html This possibly suggests that the irqpoll patch actually caused a "nobody cared" which wasn't there previously. (Now that I have looked closer at the patch, I

Re: irqpoll causing some breakage?

2005-08-09 Thread Daniel Drake
Alan Cox wrote: Without the parameters it has exactly zero effect on the operation of the kernel, the algorithms and the behaviour. So something odd is afoot if its causing gentoo breakages. Thats what I thought, yet it seems to be the difference between mouse and no mouse in this case.

Re: irqpoll causing some breakage?

2005-08-09 Thread Daniel Drake
Alan Cox wrote: What do the other reports look like ? Here's one: http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t-361718-highlight-irqpoll.html This possibly suggests that the irqpoll patch actually caused a nobody cared which wasn't there previously. (Now that I have looked closer at the patch, I

Re: irqpoll causing some breakage?

2005-08-09 Thread Daniel Drake
Alan Cox wrote: Without the parameters it has exactly zero effect on the operation of the kernel, the algorithms and the behaviour. So something odd is afoot if its causing gentoo breakages. Thats what I thought, yet it seems to be the difference between mouse and no mouse in this case.

irqpoll causing some breakage?

2005-08-08 Thread Daniel Drake
Hi, I recently added the irqpoll patch to Gentoo's 2.6.12 kernels, using this patch: http://dev.gentoo.org/~dsd/genpatches/trunk/2.6.12/2700_irqpoll.patch Since then, I've had a few reports of minor breakage, but this is the first one I've been able to get full info on. Hans-Christian

irqpoll causing some breakage?

2005-08-08 Thread Daniel Drake
Hi, I recently added the irqpoll patch to Gentoo's 2.6.12 kernels, using this patch: http://dev.gentoo.org/~dsd/genpatches/trunk/2.6.12/2700_irqpoll.patch Since then, I've had a few reports of minor breakage, but this is the first one I've been able to get full info on. Hans-Christian

Re: [OT] util-linux 2.13-pre1

2005-08-04 Thread Daniel Drake
Adrian, Adrian Bunk wrote: util-linux 2.13-pre1 is available at ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/utils/util-linux/testing/util-linux-2.13-pre1.tar.gz Any comments on the mount patch I sent to you? Attaching it again now. Please apply. Thanks, Daniel From: Daniel Drake <[EMAIL PROTEC

Re: [OT] util-linux 2.13-pre1

2005-08-04 Thread Daniel Drake
Adrian, Adrian Bunk wrote: util-linux 2.13-pre1 is available at ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/utils/util-linux/testing/util-linux-2.13-pre1.tar.gz Any comments on the mount patch I sent to you? Attaching it again now. Please apply. Thanks, Daniel From: Daniel Drake [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: Driver for sata adapter promise sata300 tx4

2005-08-01 Thread Daniel Drake
Otto Meier wrote: My question is also are these features (NCQ/TCQ) and the heigher datarate be supported by this modification? or is only the basic feature set of sata 150 TX4 supported? NCQ support is under development. Search the archives for Jens Axboe's recent patches to support this. I

Re: Driver for sata adapter promise sata300 tx4

2005-08-01 Thread Daniel Drake
Otto Meier wrote: This card use the sata chip pdc 40718 (as of my card) the lastest sata_promise kernel with sata promise patch driver doesn't recognise this card. I added the following line to static struct pci_device_id pdc_ata_pci_tbl[] in sata_promise.c: {

Re: Driver for sata adapter promise sata300 tx4

2005-08-01 Thread Daniel Drake
Otto Meier wrote: This card use the sata chip pdc 40718 (as of my card) the lastest sata_promise kernel with sata promise patch driver doesn't recognise this card. I added the following line to static struct pci_device_id pdc_ata_pci_tbl[] in sata_promise.c: {

Re: Driver for sata adapter promise sata300 tx4

2005-08-01 Thread Daniel Drake
Otto Meier wrote: My question is also are these features (NCQ/TCQ) and the heigher datarate be supported by this modification? or is only the basic feature set of sata 150 TX4 supported? NCQ support is under development. Search the archives for Jens Axboe's recent patches to support this. I

percpu_modalloc oops when loading netfilter modules

2005-07-29 Thread Daniel Drake
Pete, Rusty, I found a snippet of a previous discussion of yours here: http://www.ussg.iu.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/0408.3/2901.html http://www.ussg.iu.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/0409.0/0768.html Did anything become of this issue? A Gentoo user has reported what appears to be the same

percpu_modalloc oops when loading netfilter modules

2005-07-29 Thread Daniel Drake
Pete, Rusty, I found a snippet of a previous discussion of yours here: http://www.ussg.iu.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/0408.3/2901.html http://www.ussg.iu.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/0409.0/0768.html Did anything become of this issue? A Gentoo user has reported what appears to be the same

Re: driver for Marvell 88E8053 PCI Express Gigabit LAN

2005-07-28 Thread Daniel Drake
Hi Alexander, Alexander Fieroch wrote: Alexander Fieroch wrote: http://dlsvr01.asus.com/pub/ASUS/lan/marvell/8053/8053_others2.zip Oh, that driver is very old. Here is the latest one which is working with the current kernel:

Re: driver for Marvell 88E8053 PCI Express Gigabit LAN

2005-07-28 Thread Daniel Drake
Hi Alexander, Alexander Fieroch wrote: Alexander Fieroch wrote: http://dlsvr01.asus.com/pub/ASUS/lan/marvell/8053/8053_others2.zip Oh, that driver is very old. Here is the latest one which is working with the current kernel:

Re: [PATCH] forcedeth: TX handler changes (experimental)

2005-07-20 Thread Daniel Drake
Manfred Spraul wrote: Autsch. Yes, you are right. Sorry for that, I should have reread the patch once more. No problem :) I've been running v0.38 since my last mail. No problems at all. Thanks for your continued work on the driver. Daniel - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line

Re: [PATCH] forcedeth: TX handler changes (experimental)

2005-07-20 Thread Daniel Drake
Manfred Spraul wrote: Autsch. Yes, you are right. Sorry for that, I should have reread the patch once more. No problem :) I've been running v0.38 since my last mail. No problems at all. Thanks for your continued work on the driver. Daniel - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line

Re: Promise TX4200 support?

2005-07-19 Thread Daniel Drake
Martin Povolný wrote: For me it works with 20319, but I don't understand the difference between different settings. 20319 is 4 port SATA. 2037x is 2 port SATA, optionally with 1 PATA port 20619 is 4 port PATA So I believe 20319 is the correct option. Jeff, the chip on the TX4200 is actually

Re: Promise TX4200 support?

2005-07-19 Thread Daniel Drake
Martin Povolný wrote: For me it works with 20319, but I don't understand the difference between different settings. 20319 is 4 port SATA. 2037x is 2 port SATA, optionally with 1 PATA port 20619 is 4 port PATA So I believe 20319 is the correct option. Jeff, the chip on the TX4200 is actually

Re: Promise TX4200 support?

2005-07-18 Thread Daniel Drake
Hi Martin, Martin Povolný wrote: We are succesfully running patched sata_promise with 3 disks in a raid5/raid1 setup. (Patched against ubuntu linux-image 2.6.11-1-686 package.) Could you please either send in your patch, or tell me which board_ setting (2037x/20319/20619) the device ID table

Promise TX4200 support?

2005-07-18 Thread Daniel Drake
Hi, I recieved an email from someone claiming to be stuck with Linux 2.4, due to relying on a Promise TX4200 disk controller (using the fdsata driver from promise's website, which is 2.4-only): :01:09.0 RAID bus controller: Promise Technology, Inc.: Unknown device 3519 (rev 02)

Promise TX4200 support?

2005-07-18 Thread Daniel Drake
Hi, I recieved an email from someone claiming to be stuck with Linux 2.4, due to relying on a Promise TX4200 disk controller (using the fdsata driver from promise's website, which is 2.4-only): :01:09.0 RAID bus controller: Promise Technology, Inc.: Unknown device 3519 (rev 02)

Re: Promise TX4200 support?

2005-07-18 Thread Daniel Drake
Hi Martin, Martin Povolný wrote: We are succesfully running patched sata_promise with 3 disks in a raid5/raid1 setup. (Patched against ubuntu linux-image 2.6.11-1-686 package.) Could you please either send in your patch, or tell me which board_ setting (2037x/20319/20619) the device ID table

Re: [PATCH] forcedeth: TX handler changes (experimental)

2005-07-16 Thread Daniel Drake
Daniel Drake wrote: After applying the v0.38 patch, I can't get any network at all. DHCP fails to get an IP. v0.37 works fine. Tracked it down. (sorry for linewraps) +#define DEV_NEED_TIMERIRQ 0x0001 /* set the timer irq flag in the irq mask */ +#define DEV_NEED_LINKTIMER 0x0002

Re: [PATCH] forcedeth: TX handler changes (experimental)

2005-07-16 Thread Daniel Drake
Hi, Manfred Spraul wrote: Attached is a patch that modifies the tx interrupt handling of the nForce nic. It's part of the attempts to figure out what causes the nic hangs (see bug 4552). The change is experimental: It affects all nForce versions. I've tested it on my nForce 250-Gb. Please

Re: [PATCH] forcedeth: TX handler changes (experimental)

2005-07-16 Thread Daniel Drake
Hi, Manfred Spraul wrote: Attached is a patch that modifies the tx interrupt handling of the nForce nic. It's part of the attempts to figure out what causes the nic hangs (see bug 4552). The change is experimental: It affects all nForce versions. I've tested it on my nForce 250-Gb. This

Re: [PATCH] forcedeth: TX handler changes (experimental)

2005-07-16 Thread Daniel Drake
Hi, Manfred Spraul wrote: Attached is a patch that modifies the tx interrupt handling of the nForce nic. It's part of the attempts to figure out what causes the nic hangs (see bug 4552). The change is experimental: It affects all nForce versions. I've tested it on my nForce 250-Gb. This

Re: [PATCH] forcedeth: TX handler changes (experimental)

2005-07-16 Thread Daniel Drake
Hi, Manfred Spraul wrote: Attached is a patch that modifies the tx interrupt handling of the nForce nic. It's part of the attempts to figure out what causes the nic hangs (see bug 4552). The change is experimental: It affects all nForce versions. I've tested it on my nForce 250-Gb. Please

Re: [PATCH] forcedeth: TX handler changes (experimental)

2005-07-16 Thread Daniel Drake
Daniel Drake wrote: After applying the v0.38 patch, I can't get any network at all. DHCP fails to get an IP. v0.37 works fine. Tracked it down. (sorry for linewraps) +#define DEV_NEED_TIMERIRQ 0x0001 /* set the timer irq flag in the irq mask */ +#define DEV_NEED_LINKTIMER 0x0002

Re: 2.6.12: yukon2 nics still not supported...

2005-07-14 Thread Daniel Drake
Ludovic Drolez wrote: > I recently had to boot a brand new system using a Marvel Yukon2 NIC > (sk98lin) driver which is not supported by the latest kernel (pci ids = > 11ab:4361). > > So I compiled the GPLed driver available from Syskonnect, >

Re: 2.6.12: yukon2 nics still not supported...

2005-07-14 Thread Daniel Drake
Ludovic Drolez wrote: I recently had to boot a brand new system using a Marvel Yukon2 NIC (sk98lin) driver which is not supported by the latest kernel (pci ids = 11ab:4361). So I compiled the GPLed driver available from Syskonnect,

Re: SysKonnect ethernet support for Asus A8VE Deluxe Motherboard?

2005-07-13 Thread Daniel Drake
Hamish Marson wrote: > I just installed Gentoo distribution on a new PC for a friend who's > new to Linux, and discovered that although SysKonnect kindly provide > full source code drivers for their various products on their website, > that even the latest released kernel sources (i.e. 2.6.12)

Re: SysKonnect ethernet support for Asus A8VE Deluxe Motherboard?

2005-07-13 Thread Daniel Drake
Hamish Marson wrote: I just installed Gentoo distribution on a new PC for a friend who's new to Linux, and discovered that although SysKonnect kindly provide full source code drivers for their various products on their website, that even the latest released kernel sources (i.e. 2.6.12) still

Re: 2.6.12 netfilter: local packets marked as invalid

2005-07-12 Thread Daniel Drake
Patrick McHardy wrote: > We decided to revert the responsible change because it caused problems > in other areas as well. This patch should fix your problem. Thanks, it works. If you decide to revisit this in the future, feel free to send me a patch and I will help test it. Daniel - To

Re: 2.6.12 netfilter: local packets marked as invalid

2005-07-12 Thread Daniel Drake
Patrick McHardy wrote: We decided to revert the responsible change because it caused problems in other areas as well. This patch should fix your problem. Thanks, it works. If you decide to revisit this in the future, feel free to send me a patch and I will help test it. Daniel - To unsubscribe

Re: ns558 mis-detects gameport

2005-07-09 Thread Daniel Drake
Neil Darlow wrote: > Hi Vojtech, > > On Friday 08 Jul 2005 22:24, Vojtech Pavlik wrote: > >>In the current input GIT tree there is a patch to reverse the order of >>probing (PnP first) for exactly this reason. I expect 2.6.13 should have >>the fix. > > > Daniel, is it worth backporting this

Re: ns558 mis-detects gameport

2005-07-09 Thread Daniel Drake
Neil Darlow wrote: Hi Vojtech, On Friday 08 Jul 2005 22:24, Vojtech Pavlik wrote: In the current input GIT tree there is a patch to reverse the order of probing (PnP first) for exactly this reason. I expect 2.6.13 should have the fix. Daniel, is it worth backporting this fix for

Re: 2.6.12 netfilter: local packets marked as invalid

2005-07-08 Thread Daniel Drake
Patrick McHardy wrote: > You could confirm this theory by logging invalid packets in LOCAL_OUT > and in PRE_ROUTING - only PRE_ROUTING should trigger. I'm going to > think about a solution meanwhile. You'll have to forgive my lack of netfilter knowledge, I set up my firewall ages ago and haven't

2.6.12 netfilter: local packets marked as invalid

2005-07-08 Thread Daniel Drake
Hi, Some Gentoo users have reported very long application startup times in 2.6.12. This seems to be because the applications are attempting to connect to local ports such as sunrpc/portmap (where these services are not running), but some packets are being dropped, so the application load just

2.6.12 netfilter: local packets marked as invalid

2005-07-08 Thread Daniel Drake
Hi, Some Gentoo users have reported very long application startup times in 2.6.12. This seems to be because the applications are attempting to connect to local ports such as sunrpc/portmap (where these services are not running), but some packets are being dropped, so the application load just

Re: 2.6.12 netfilter: local packets marked as invalid

2005-07-08 Thread Daniel Drake
Patrick McHardy wrote: You could confirm this theory by logging invalid packets in LOCAL_OUT and in PRE_ROUTING - only PRE_ROUTING should trigger. I'm going to think about a solution meanwhile. You'll have to forgive my lack of netfilter knowledge, I set up my firewall ages ago and haven't

Re: Problem with inotify

2005-07-04 Thread Daniel Drake
Anton Altaparmakov wrote: > )-: I have addressed the only things I can think off that could cause > the oops and below is the resulting patch. Could you please test it? Yeah!! After removing I_WILL_FREE stuff, that fixed both the oops *and* the hang. Everything works nicely now. Thanks a

Re: Problem with inotify

2005-07-04 Thread Daniel Drake
Anton Altaparmakov wrote: )-: I have addressed the only things I can think off that could cause the oops and below is the resulting patch. Could you please test it? Yeah!! After removing I_WILL_FREE stuff, that fixed both the oops *and* the hang. Everything works nicely now. Thanks a

Re: ALSA Oops (triggered by xmms)

2005-04-15 Thread Daniel Drake
Christian Kujau wrote: > oh, this sounds good. strange though, that my 2.6.11-gentoo-r5 (whatever > they've patched in there) *never* oopsed the days ago but all of a sudden > started to oops yesterday Probably because you changed alsa-lib versions. By the way, it is fixed in

Re: ALSA Oops (triggered by xmms)

2005-04-15 Thread Daniel Drake
Christian Kujau wrote: oh, this sounds good. strange though, that my 2.6.11-gentoo-r5 (whatever they've patched in there) *never* oopsed the days ago but all of a sudden started to oops yesterday Probably because you changed alsa-lib versions. By the way, it is fixed in

Re: ALSA bugs with 2.6.12-rc1

2005-04-04 Thread Daniel Drake
David Ford wrote: > It seems that 2.6.12-rc1 introduced an ALSA bug generating an oops for a > null pointer. > > codec_semaphore: semaphore is not ready [0x1][0x300300] > codec_read 0: semaphore is not ready for register 0x2c > Unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at virtual address >

Re: ALSA bugs with 2.6.12-rc1

2005-04-04 Thread Daniel Drake
David Ford wrote: It seems that 2.6.12-rc1 introduced an ALSA bug generating an oops for a null pointer. codec_semaphore: semaphore is not ready [0x1][0x300300] codec_read 0: semaphore is not ready for register 0x2c Unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at virtual address

Re: [Bug] invalid mac address after rebooting (kernel 2.6.11.5)

2005-04-03 Thread Daniel Drake
Peter Baumann wrote: On Wed, Mar 23, 2005 at 06:52:25PM -0800, Andrew Morton wrote: Peter Baumann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I'm hitting an annoying bug in kernel 2.6.11.5 Every time I _reboot_ (warmstart) my pc my two network cards won't get recognized any longer. Following error message appears

Re: [Bug] invalid mac address after rebooting (kernel 2.6.11.5)

2005-04-03 Thread Daniel Drake
Peter Baumann wrote: On Wed, Mar 23, 2005 at 06:52:25PM -0800, Andrew Morton wrote: Peter Baumann [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm hitting an annoying bug in kernel 2.6.11.5 Every time I _reboot_ (warmstart) my pc my two network cards won't get recognized any longer. Following error message appears on

[PATCH] procfs: Fix hardlink counts for /proc//task

2005-04-02 Thread Daniel Drake
his doesn't work out correctly when a PID has more than one child task, which is quite often the case. This should fix it up. Signed-off-by: Daniel Drake <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --- linux-2.6.11-gentoo-r5/fs/proc/base.c.orig 2005-04-02 20:47:10.0 +0100 +++ linux-2.6.11-gentoo-r5/fs/pr

[PATCH] procfs: Fix hardlink counts for /proc//task

2005-04-02 Thread Daniel Drake
quite often the case. This should fix it up. Signed-off-by: Daniel Drake <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --- base.c.orig 2005-04-02 20:47:10.0 +0100 +++ base.c 2005-04-02 20:51:43.0 +0100 @@ -1337,6 +1337,8 @@ static struct inode_operations proc_tgid_attr_inode_operations; #endif +static

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