2.4.6-pre4 tulip driver still mashed with 21041

2001-06-22 Thread J Brook
I have been following the development of the tulip driver with some interest because my hardware requires it! I have described the hardware setup I use before, but I can post it again if necessary. I will only be able to test new versions/fixes until Tuesday morning (UK) because then I lose my et

Re: Current tulip driver from 2.4.5 is plain broken

2001-05-28 Thread J Brook
Michal Jaegermann wrote: > I mentioned that before but this should be stated clearly. As far > as I am concerned "Linux Tulip driver version 0.9.15-pre2 (May 16, > 2001)", as used in 2.4.5 - and other kernels - is totally buggered. > It comes up, and ethernet interfaces can be configured, but doe

Re: tulip driver BROKEN in 2.4.5-pre4

2001-05-21 Thread J Brook
> Could you post the output of > > #tulip-diag -mm -aa -f > > with the broken driver? > Some code that's required for Linksys Tulip clones was moved > from pnic specific part into the generic part, perhaps that > causes problems. Here is the output from the kernels I've tested to try to get the

tulip driver BROKEN in 2.4.5-pre4

2001-05-20 Thread J Brook
Okay, so Jeff Garzik already knows about this - I told him last week - but seeing as how the code has made it to a Linus pre-release without a fix I thought I'd better post the breakage description to l-k! The symptoms are: In 2.4.5-pre4 (and 2.4.4-ac8 and above - note: I didn't try -ac7) system

Re: Matrox G400 Dualhead

2001-03-31 Thread J Brook
> I have a similar problem with my G450, booting into the framebuffer, > then loading xdm and working in X, and then switching back to the > console. I may have another detail to add in that when I switch back > to the console from X, my monitor blanks and displays the warning > that the frequen

Re: Matrox G400 Dualhead

2001-03-30 Thread J Brook
> Does anyone know why fualhead is not working anymore? > I just get a screen with rubbish on the second head. > Also when kernel loads and and registers fb1 I lose signal > on the second head. ... >With 2.4.2 it was working just fine. I have also noticed problems with the 2.4.3 release. I hav

Re: Matrox G450 problems with 2.4.0 and xfree

2001-01-31 Thread J Brook
Dear Petr, I think I might have something to add to this discussion, but then again you probably know this already! On Tue Jan 30 2001 Petr Vandrovec wrote: > > > > Installed a Matrox G450 on my linux system. Now it has > > > > problems booting. The kernel is compiled with framebuffer > > > > s

Re: Oops when vim exits, and connection problems

2000-09-24 Thread J Brook
On Sun 24 Sep 2000 Derrik Pates wrote: >- I am unable to connect to several sites, including >cisco.netacad.net and www.hotmail.com. I always receive a "connection >refused". It seems weird, but with 2.2.18pre10, I could connect, and >with 2.4.0-test8, I can't. I get similar behaviour on my box

Re: [Oops] Unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference

2000-09-21 Thread J Brook
John [EMAIL PROTECTED] Martin Diehl wrote: > On Wed, 20 Sep 2000, J Brook wrote: > > > >>EIP; c01527b9<= > > Trace; c015357b > > this is the quota issue for which I've posted a fix some days ago. > It's (as of 2.4.0-t9p5) waiting on

[Oops] Unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference

2000-09-20 Thread J Brook
Hi, I ran into some trouble while compiling the pspell library that the new version of Balsa requires - okay, so perhaps I was asking for it :-) I ran the configure script fine, but a kernel oops occurred a few lines into the "make" process. I gather that it might be something to do with dod