Re: Mac USB keyboards (Was: USB Keyboard errors with 2.4.5-ac)

2001-07-01 Thread Joseph Carter
c enable string be sent to make them use certain unusual keys in the manner you would expect. Any chance of that in the USB arena? I'm just grasping at straws here, but I suppose it's possible. -- Joseph Carter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Free software developer OH

Re: Mac USB keyboards (Was: USB Keyboard errors with 2.4.5-ac)

2001-06-30 Thread Joseph Carter
tirely. This is, of course, just wild speculation at the moment. I actually have no idea if I am on the right path or going the wrong way down a one way street. I can assume then that if you see me running back this way fast as I can go, the one way street has it.. ;) Thanks for the refere

Mac USB keyboards (Was: USB Keyboard errors with 2.4.5-ac)

2001-06-29 Thread Joseph Carter
n more than one machine, no luck even with showkey. MacOS likes the keys just fine, naturally. -- Joseph Carter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Free software developer * TribFurry only gets spam mail from ucsd... I used to get email from myself but I decided I didn't lik

Re: [Emu10k1-devel] Re: Buggy emu10k1 drivers.

2001-06-17 Thread Joseph Carter
ant, I may have to try building fresh CVS to be sure. I don't know for sure if that's why Alan hasn't applied the new driver, but it was an issue that would have broken the patch he was given which is supposed to be fixed now. I'm thinking Rui has gotten busy in the meantime sinc

Re: VIA KT133A Northbridge bug reported

2001-05-29 Thread Joseph Carter
going again, power must be cut to the main supply for a few seconds first. Thankfully my PSU has a real switch. -- Joseph Carter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>Free software developer I sat laughing snidely into my notebook until they showed me a PC running Linux. And oh! It was as though the

Re: FIC AD11(AMD 761/VIA 686B) AGP port not supported [fixed]

2001-05-18 Thread Joseph Carter
is to avoid accelleration for now. Since you have an AMD chipset, it appears the problem is not limited to VIA. That's too bad, I was considering upgrading to an AMD board to get around this problem (and several others too..) -- Joseph Carter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>Free software developer Steal this tagline. I did. PGP signature

Re: PROBLEM: 2.4.4ac7 oops, locks in init on boot

2001-05-11 Thread Joseph Carter
eded to work around it and its now in the tree. Ah, thanks Alan. I may need to consider the AMD boards seriously if I can't get the Radeon 64 working on the KT7A in the next few weeks. I'm hoping -ac7 will fix that. -- Joseph Carter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>Free sof

Re: PROBLEM: 2.4.4ac7 oops, locks in init on boot

2001-05-11 Thread Joseph Carter
The prefetch to far effect > explained the old athlon locks (step 1) people reported on all chipsets. It > didnt really seem to explain the problem with a few via chipset boards but I > was hopeful. I'm considering it, but for AGP weirdness reasons. Have the USB bugs been worked o

Re: REVISED: Experimentation with Athlon and fast_page_copy

2001-05-04 Thread Joseph Carter
uggested a bunch of things to try on dri-devel - thanks guys!) I'll post to that list what fixed it since I know I am not the only person seeing this kind of problem. I think some of the guys are looking into improving the docs a bit, so maybe if I find it soon the problem and workaround

Re: REVISED: Experimentation with Athlon and fast_page_copy

2001-05-04 Thread Joseph Carter
it KT7A) and don't experience anything resembling disk corruption unless the box crashes for some other reason. I do seem to be experiencing AGP problems in spades, but my disks at least are fine. -- Joseph Carter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>Free software developer <_Anarchy_

Re: [Semi-OT] Dual Athlon support in kernel

2001-04-24 Thread Joseph Carter
ce suggests you consider agcc in the same class as gcc 3.0 at the moment - experimental. Hopefully the k7 optimizations that work well will find their way into a nice athlon subarch options in standard gcc and agcc won't be necessary. -- Joseph Carter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

USB fails in 2.4.3-ac6

2001-04-22 Thread Joseph Carter
ff into the kernel as I do not have legacy input devices on this system (and am proud of it! hehe) -- Joseph Carter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>Free software developer you are not a nutcase You obviously don't know me well enough yet. => PGP signature

Re: ATA 100 & VIA and linux-2.4.3ac8

2001-04-18 Thread Joseph Carter
ype: 40w 40w My primary cable is detected as a 40w too, and it's most certainly not. -- Joseph Carter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>Free software developer Given some of the recent threads, the interactive discussions might need to be conducted on

Re: usb-uhci.c problems in latest kernels?

2001-04-16 Thread Joseph Carter
with a module parameter. That sounds like a good idea actually, under kernel hacking perhaps? It seems to me that the messages do indicate some kind of non-fatal problem (that may not be true?) but I agree it is murderous to /var on a small system. Given that I now consider a small system one with a

Re: usb-uhci.c problems in latest kernels?

2001-04-15 Thread Joseph Carter
other key fixes the keyboard and my old fashioned USB ball mouse ;) works fine. > Some people suggest to switch to uhci instead of usb-uhci, > which helps precisely because it does not have a corresponding > printk. I've seen similar suggestions for people with AMD-based syst

Re: natsemi.c (Netgear FA311 card) probmlems??

2001-04-13 Thread Joseph Carter
h updated the natsemi driver. I have a '311 in a P200 which worked fine before. This is an AMD box, but I suspect the problem was the '312, not the AMD. -- Joseph Carter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>Free software developer "This is the element_data structure for elements

Re: goodbye

2001-04-09 Thread Joseph Carter
On Tue, Apr 10, 2001 at 01:00:08AM +0300, Matti Aarnio wrote: > Dave said "remove DUL", I did that. > > VGER uses now RBL and RSS, no others. Thank you, I don't believe there is anyone on this list who is likely to object to these lists. -- Joseph

Re: goodbye

2001-04-08 Thread Joseph Carter
ill indiscriminantly forward their users' mail to other people. Of course if someone uses them to deliver spam they usually don't get to keep their account long, but it's our own fault for using a relay which has been used to send spam right? Let's see, ORBS takes out the ISP

Re: goodbye

2001-04-07 Thread Joseph Carter
ek on average for false positives. The rule that catches the most? * ! ^TOknghtbrd - perhaps the oldest spam detector ever and it catches almost all spam without keyword match or anything else. Okay, end of rant, please think about it, etc. -- Joseph Carter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

Re: asm/unistd.h

2001-04-05 Thread Joseph Carter
s. This doesn't follow in my mind. I can't think of a case where a { ... } would fail, but a do { ... } while (0) would succeed. The former would also save a few keystrokes. -- Joseph Carter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>Free software developer // Minor lesson: don't fu

Linux 2.2.17 broken with initrd

2000-09-13 Thread Joseph Carter
o work right, how are distributions coping with the inability to use /linuxrc? Documentation other than that in the kernel tree which was written in 1996 seems to be scarce. -- Joseph Carter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> GnuPG key 1024D/DCF9DAB3 Software developer, Progeny Linux Systems 20