[OT] high precision hardware (was Re: [PATCH] i386: Selectable Frequency of the Timer Interrupt)

2005-07-15 Thread Paul Jakma
do (eg looked at some ARM microcontrollers, which still have several usec of interrupt latency - even with no OS, still likely cant use timers and interrupts.). regards, -- Paul Jakma [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Key ID: 64A2FF6A Fortune: The church saves sinners, but scie

[OT] high precision hardware (was Re: [PATCH] i386: Selectable Frequency of the Timer Interrupt)

2005-07-15 Thread Paul Jakma
looked at some ARM microcontrollers, which still have several usec of interrupt latency - even with no OS, still likely cant use timers and interrupts.). regards, -- Paul Jakma [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Key ID: 64A2FF6A Fortune: The church saves sinners, but science

Re: Ethernet driver link state propagation to ip stack

2005-01-15 Thread Paul Jakma
ays, dont think there was a unified way to report these events to userspace either. Sincerely, Jyri Põldre. regards, -- Paul Jakma [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Key ID: 64A2FF6A Fortune: Sailors in ships, sail on! Even while we died, others rode out the storm.

Re: Ethernet driver link state propagation to ip stack

2005-01-15 Thread Paul Jakma
to userspace either. Sincerely, Jyri Pldre. regards, -- Paul Jakma [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Key ID: 64A2FF6A Fortune: Sailors in ships, sail on! Even while we died, others rode out the storm.

Re: problem found (was Re: [PATCH] Single user linux)

2001-04-25 Thread Paul Jakma
hi imel, On Tue, 24 Apr 2001 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > problem is you guys are to unix-centric, try to be user-centric a little. with all respect: the problem is that you do not listen. as people keep trying to point out to you: - you can have your single-user centric user environment (no

Re: problem found (was Re: [PATCH] Single user linux)

2001-04-25 Thread Paul Jakma
hi imel, On Tue, 24 Apr 2001 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: problem is you guys are to unix-centric, try to be user-centric a little. with all respect: the problem is that you do not listen. as people keep trying to point out to you: - you can have your single-user centric user environment (no

Re: [linux-lvm] Re: [repost] Announce: Linux-OpenLVM mailing list

2001-04-19 Thread Paul Jakma
consider the lobbying that went on to try persuade l-k that LVM should go in. > Cheers, Andreas obHiddenCode: lm-sensors... used to use this a long time ago. regards, -- Paul Jakma [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] PGP5 key: http://www.clubi.ie/jakma/p

Re: [linux-lvm] Re: [repost] Announce: Linux-OpenLVM mailing list

2001-04-19 Thread Paul Jakma
the lobbying that went on to try persuade l-k that LVM should go in. Cheers, Andreas obHiddenCode: lm-sensors... used to use this a long time ago. regards, -- Paul Jakma [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] PGP5 key: http://www.clubi.ie/jakma/publickey.txt

Re: uninteruptable sleep (D state => load_avrg++)

2001-04-04 Thread Paul Jakma
On Wed, 4 Apr 2001, christophe barbe wrote: > From me, a POV without technical reasons is not a philosical one > but more certainly an historical one. there may be (and indeed probably are) good technical reasons, however i am not well enough informed to say what they are. > Process that will

Re: uninteruptable sleep (D state => load_avrg++)

2001-04-04 Thread Paul Jakma
On Wed, 4 Apr 2001, christophe barbe wrote: > The sleep should certainly be interruptible and I that's what I > said to the GFS guy. But what the reason to increment the load > average for each D process ? from a philosical POV: they are processes that will be runnable as soon as the kernel

Re: uninteruptable sleep (D state = load_avrg++)

2001-04-04 Thread Paul Jakma
On Wed, 4 Apr 2001, christophe barbe wrote: The sleep should certainly be interruptible and I that's what I said to the GFS guy. But what the reason to increment the load average for each D process ? from a philosical POV: they are processes that will be runnable as soon as the kernel

Re: uninteruptable sleep (D state = load_avrg++)

2001-04-04 Thread Paul Jakma
On Wed, 4 Apr 2001, christophe barbe wrote: From me, a POV without technical reasons is not a philosical one but more certainly an historical one. there may be (and indeed probably are) good technical reasons, however i am not well enough informed to say what they are. Process that will be

Re: Serial, 115Kbps, 2.2, 2.4

2001-04-02 Thread Paul Jakma
.. should be) Try hdparm -u on all your IDE disks... should improve things. > Later, > Tom regards, -- Paul Jakma [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] PGP5 key: http://www.clubi.ie/jakma/publickey.txt --- Fortune: What I want is all of the

Re: Serial, 115Kbps, 2.2, 2.4

2001-04-02 Thread Paul Jakma
be) Try hdparm -u on all your IDE disks... should improve things. Later, Tom regards, -- Paul Jakma [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] PGP5 key: http://www.clubi.ie/jakma/publickey.txt --- Fortune: What I want is all of the power and none

Re: Larger dev_t

2001-03-27 Thread Paul Jakma
oesn't start then i still have a fully functional /dev. but anyway... there seems to be loads of scope to do lots of different things with devfsd, plus NIS support. :) regards, -- Paul Jakma [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] PGP5 key: http://www.clubi.ie/jakma/publickey.txt -

Re: Larger dev_t

2001-03-27 Thread Paul Jakma
ional /dev. but anyway... there seems to be loads of scope to do lots of different things with devfsd, plus NIS support. :) regards, -- Paul Jakma [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] PGP5 key: http://www.clubi.ie/jakma/publickey.txt --- Fortune: Premature op

Re: [PATCH] Prevent OOM from killing init

2001-03-23 Thread Paul Jakma
good and all. :) > Szaka regards, -- Paul Jakma [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] PGP5 key: http://www.clubi.ie/jakma/publickey.txt --- Fortune: The optimum committee has no members. -- Norman Augustine - To unsubscrib

Re: [PATCH] Prevent OOM from killing init

2001-03-23 Thread Paul Jakma
x does not have the accounting to cover it... solution according to more knowledgable folks than i, sysadmin, is better accounting so that vm_enough_memory can be more accurate rather than developing an all-seeing oom_killer(). > Andries regards, -- Paul Jakma [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL

Re: [PATCH] Prevent OOM from killing init

2001-03-23 Thread Paul Jakma
On Fri, 23 Mar 2001, Szabolcs Szakacsits wrote: > About the "use resource limits!". Yes, this is one solution. The > *expensive* solution (admin time, worse resource utilization, etc). traditional user limits have worse resource utilisation? think what kind of utilisation a guaranteed

Re: [PATCH] Prevent OOM from killing init

2001-03-23 Thread Paul Jakma
On Fri, 23 Mar 2001, Guest section DW wrote: > But yes, I am complaining because Linux by default is unreliable. no, your distribution is unreliable by default. > I strongly prefer a system that is reliable by default, > and I'll leave it to others to run it in an unreliable mode. currently,

Re: [PATCH] Prevent OOM from killing init

2001-03-23 Thread Paul Jakma
On Fri, 23 Mar 2001, Guest section DW wrote: But yes, I am complaining because Linux by default is unreliable. no, your distribution is unreliable by default. I strongly prefer a system that is reliable by default, and I'll leave it to others to run it in an unreliable mode. currently,

Re: [PATCH] Prevent OOM from killing init

2001-03-23 Thread Paul Jakma
On Fri, 23 Mar 2001, Szabolcs Szakacsits wrote: About the "use resource limits!". Yes, this is one solution. The *expensive* solution (admin time, worse resource utilization, etc). traditional user limits have worse resource utilisation? think what kind of utilisation a guaranteed allocation

Re: [PATCH] Prevent OOM from killing init

2001-03-23 Thread Paul Jakma
not have the accounting to cover it... solution according to more knowledgable folks than i, sysadmin, is better accounting so that vm_enough_memory can be more accurate rather than developing an all-seeing oom_killer(). Andries regards, -- Paul Jakma [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] PGP5

Re: [PATCH] Prevent OOM from killing init

2001-03-23 Thread Paul Jakma
it. it is a last resort. default, use the /proc/sys/vm/oom_killer interface"? As I said before there are also such patch by Chris Swiedler and definitely not a huge, complex one. uhmm.. where? And these stupid threads could be forgotten for good and all. :) Szaka regards, --

Re: Running Bind 9 on Redhat 7

2001-02-19 Thread Paul Jakma
On Mon, 19 Feb 2001, Ansari wrote: > Hi !! > > I am configuring Bind 9 on Redhat 7 but unable to start the named. > Here is my /var/log message log: you have a config problem i think. > Feb 20 09:49:58 ns2 named[2005]: loading zones: no ttl you need to put: $TTL at the beginning of each

Re: [LONG RANT] Re: Linux stifles innovation...

2001-02-19 Thread Paul Jakma
On Mon, 19 Feb 2001, Henning P . Schmiedehausen wrote: > So, is it legal to put changes to a twin licensed driver in the Linux > kernel tree back into the same driver in the BSD tree? IANAL, but AIUI: if the changes are made the copyright holder then they may do whatever they want. (release

Re: [LONG RANT] Re: Linux stifles innovation...

2001-02-19 Thread Paul Jakma
On Mon, 19 Feb 2001, Henning P . Schmiedehausen wrote: So, is it legal to put changes to a twin licensed driver in the Linux kernel tree back into the same driver in the BSD tree? IANAL, but AIUI: if the changes are made the copyright holder then they may do whatever they want. (release the

Re: Running Bind 9 on Redhat 7

2001-02-19 Thread Paul Jakma
On Mon, 19 Feb 2001, Ansari wrote: Hi !! I am configuring Bind 9 on Redhat 7 but unable to start the named. Here is my /var/log message log: you have a config problem i think. Feb 20 09:49:58 ns2 named[2005]: loading zones: no ttl you need to put: $TTL ttl, eg 1D at the beginning of

Re: [LK] Re: lkml subject line

2001-02-15 Thread Paul Jakma
On Tue, 13 Feb 2001, Mike A. Harris wrote: > If the above procmail filter doesn't work (untested) let me know > and I will MAKE it work. Windows users - tough luck - procmail > is open source - hire someone to port it... and even windows users can filter properly. netscape allows you to add

Re: [LK] Re: lkml subject line

2001-02-15 Thread Paul Jakma
On Tue, 13 Feb 2001, Mike A. Harris wrote: If the above procmail filter doesn't work (untested) let me know and I will MAKE it work. Windows users - tough luck - procmail is open source - hire someone to port it... and even windows users can filter properly. netscape allows you to add

Re: [OT] Re: 2.4.x, drm, g400 and pci_set_master

2001-02-08 Thread Paul Jakma
replying to myself.. On Fri, 9 Feb 2001, Paul Jakma wrote: > why put in mga specific code? last time i asked why 2x74x hardware iommu wasn't supported i was told something along the lines of cause generic kernel driver interfaces wouldn't support it. so support for the alpha hardware wo

Re: [OT] Re: 2.4.x, drm, g400 and pci_set_master

2001-02-08 Thread Paul Jakma
On Thu, 8 Feb 2001, Alex Deucher wrote: > There is preliminary support for pcigart in the dri tree. I believe > some people have had some success with it. but there doesn't need to be. DEC 2x17x Alpha chipsets have an IOMMU for hardware scatter-gather support. (ie generic agpgart for the PCI

Re: [OT] Re: 2.4.x, drm, g400 and pci_set_master

2001-02-08 Thread Paul Jakma
On Thu, 8 Feb 2001, Alex Deucher wrote: There is preliminary support for pcigart in the dri tree. I believe some people have had some success with it. but there doesn't need to be. DEC 2x17x Alpha chipsets have an IOMMU for hardware scatter-gather support. (ie generic agpgart for the PCI

Re: [OT] Re: 2.4.x, drm, g400 and pci_set_master

2001-02-08 Thread Paul Jakma
replying to myself.. On Fri, 9 Feb 2001, Paul Jakma wrote: why put in mga specific code? last time i asked why 2x74x hardware iommu wasn't supported i was told something along the lines of cause generic kernel driver interfaces wouldn't support it. so support for the alpha hardware would

Re: [reiserfs-list] NFS and reiserfs

2001-02-06 Thread Paul Jakma
cond pipe patch. will give it whirl. thanks neil. > NeilBrown > > regards, -- Paul Jakma [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] PGP5 key: http://www.clubi.ie/jakma/publickey.txt --- Fortune: Overflow on /dev/null, please empty the bit bucket. (

Re: [reiserfs-list] NFS and reiserfs

2001-02-06 Thread Paul Jakma
. will give it whirl. thanks neil. NeilBrown regards, -- Paul Jakma [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] PGP5 key: http://www.clubi.ie/jakma/publickey.txt --- Fortune: Overflow on /dev/null, please empty the bit bucket. (how does my random

Re: [reiserfs-list] NFS and reiserfs

2001-02-05 Thread Paul Jakma
ues. IME if you have a good network connection and you don't need IRIX to be diskless hanging off a Linux NFS server then NFSv3 works extremely well. regards, -- Paul Jakma [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] PGP5 key: http://www.clubi.ie/jakm

Re: [reiserfs-list] NFS and reiserfs

2001-02-05 Thread Paul Jakma
a good network connection and you don't need IRIX to be diskless hanging off a Linux NFS server then NFSv3 works extremely well. regards, -- Paul Jakma [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] PGP5 key: http://www.clubi.ie/jakma/publickey.txt --- Fortune

Re: [reiserfs-list] Re: ReiserFS Oops (2.4.1, deterministic, symlink

2001-02-02 Thread Paul Jakma
On Fri, 2 Feb 2001, Jakub Jelinek wrote: > You can do: > if [ "$CC" = gcc ]; then > echo 'inline void f(unsigned int n){int >i,j=-1;for(i=0;i<10&<0;i++)if((1UL< > test.c > gcc -O2 -o test test.c > if ./test; then echo "*** Please don't use this compiler to compile kernel"; fi > rm -f

Re: [reiserfs-list] Re: ReiserFS Oops (2.4.1, deterministic, symlink

2001-02-02 Thread Paul Jakma
th 2.96-70. regards, -- Paul Jakma [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] PGP5 key: http://www.clubi.ie/jakma/publickey.txt --- Fortune: One person's error is another person's data. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe

Re: routing between different subnets on same if.

2001-01-27 Thread Paul Jakma
On Sat, 27 Jan 2001, Miquel van Smoorenburg wrote: > What about /proc/sys/net/ipv4/conf/*/rp_filter ? Should be zero > for the 192.* interface(s), I think. > i already have that enabled for security purposes helaas. > Mike. regards, -- Paul Jakma [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMA

Re: routing between different subnets on same if.

2001-01-27 Thread Paul Jakma
't, but i don't see what i'm supposed to do with the 'ip' command? different scope or realm? or ... ?? > Mike. regards, -- Paul Jakma [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] PGP5 key: http://www.clubi.ie/jakma/publickey.txt --- Fortune: "Nuclear

Re: routing between different subnets on same if.

2001-01-27 Thread Paul Jakma
t'd make no difference. regards, -- Paul Jakma [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] PGP5 key: http://www.clubi.ie/jakma/publickey.txt --- Fortune: The greatest productive force is human selfishness. -- Robert Heinlein - To unsubscr

routing between different subnets on same if.

2001-01-27 Thread Paul Jakma
i'm trying to get linux to do routing between 2 different subnets that are on the same physical interface, because windows hosts don't seem to accept the redirects. how do i do it? how do i get linux to fully route between these subnets on behalf of clients? turn send_redirects off doesn't work,

Re: routing between different subnets on same if.

2001-01-27 Thread Paul Jakma
make no difference. regards, -- Paul Jakma [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] PGP5 key: http://www.clubi.ie/jakma/publickey.txt --- Fortune: The greatest productive force is human selfishness. -- Robert Heinlein - To unsubscribe from

Re: routing between different subnets on same if.

2001-01-27 Thread Paul Jakma
see what i'm supposed to do with the 'ip' command? different scope or realm? or ... ?? Mike. regards, -- Paul Jakma [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] PGP5 key: http://www.clubi.ie/jakma/publickey.txt --- Fortune: "Nuclear war can ruin your

Re: routing between different subnets on same if.

2001-01-27 Thread Paul Jakma
On Sat, 27 Jan 2001, Miquel van Smoorenburg wrote: What about /proc/sys/net/ipv4/conf/*/rp_filter ? Should be zero for the 192.* interface(s), I think. i already have that enabled for security purposes helaas. Mike. regards, -- Paul Jakma [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] PGP5

Re: Is this kernel related (signal 11)?

2001-01-22 Thread Paul Jakma
On Mon, 22 Jan 2001, Russell King wrote: > Evidence: I recently had a bad 128MB SDRAM which *always* failed at byte > address 0x220068, and X is likely to be the biggest process by far on a box, so statistically will be the process that hits this bad byte the most. no? regards, -- Paul

Re: Is this kernel related (signal 11)?

2001-01-22 Thread Paul Jakma
On Mon, 22 Jan 2001, Russell King wrote: Evidence: I recently had a bad 128MB SDRAM which *always* failed at byte address 0x220068, and X is likely to be the biggest process by far on a box, so statistically will be the process that hits this bad byte the most. no? regards, -- Paul Jakma

Re: 2.4 and ipmasq modules

2001-01-20 Thread Paul Jakma
re. I'm half in the middle of porting ip_masq_icq, > but it's one hideously ugly kludge after another. Such is life. > uhmm... ICQ seems to work fine through connection tracking for me, so is there a need for a special ip_masq_icq module? > d regards, -- Paul Jakma [EMAIL PROTECTED] [

Re: 2.4 and ipmasq modules

2001-01-20 Thread Paul Jakma
in the middle of porting ip_masq_icq, but it's one hideously ugly kludge after another. Such is life. uhmm... ICQ seems to work fine through connection tracking for me, so is there a need for a special ip_masq_icq module? d regards, -- Paul Jakma [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] PGP5 key: http

Re: [linux-lvm] Oops in 2.4.0 (@ LVM)

2001-01-10 Thread Paul Jakma
gt; Cheers, Andreas > regards, -- Paul Jakma [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] PGP5 key: http://www.clubi.ie/jakma/publickey.txt --- Fortune: Blessed are the young, for they shall inherit the national debt. -- Herbert Hoover

Re: [linux-lvm] Oops in 2.4.0 (@ LVM)

2001-01-10 Thread Paul Jakma
On Wed, 10 Jan 2001, Andreas Dilger wrote: > You should also get the LVM user tools from CVS (with TAG LVM_0-9-patches) > to solve this problem. There will hopefully be a new LVM release soon. any word on when the kernel fixes are going to linus? -- Paul Jakma [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [linux-lvm] Oops in 2.4.0 (@ LVM)

2001-01-10 Thread Paul Jakma
On Wed, 10 Jan 2001, Andreas Dilger wrote: You should also get the LVM user tools from CVS (with TAG LVM_0-9-patches) to solve this problem. There will hopefully be a new LVM release soon. any word on when the kernel fixes are going to linus? -- Paul Jakma [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL

Re: [linux-lvm] Oops in 2.4.0 (@ LVM)

2001-01-10 Thread Paul Jakma
s, Andreas regards, -- Paul Jakma [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] PGP5 key: http://www.clubi.ie/jakma/publickey.txt --- Fortune: Blessed are the young, for they shall inherit the national debt. -- Herbert Hoover - To unsubs

Re: Abysmal RAID 0 performance on 2.4.0-test10 for IDE?

2000-12-27 Thread Paul Jakma
On Tue, 26 Dec 2000, Ian Stirling wrote: > The PCI bus can move around 130MB/sec, in bursts yes, but sustained data bandwidth of PCI is a lot lower, maybe 30 to 50MB/s. And you won't get sustained RAID performance > sustained PCI performance. > Anyway, in clarification, Rik mentioned that two

Re: Abysmal RAID 0 performance on 2.4.0-test10 for IDE?

2000-12-27 Thread Paul Jakma
On Tue, 26 Dec 2000, Ian Stirling wrote: The PCI bus can move around 130MB/sec, in bursts yes, but sustained data bandwidth of PCI is a lot lower, maybe 30 to 50MB/s. And you won't get sustained RAID performance sustained PCI performance. Anyway, in clarification, Rik mentioned that two

reliable oops in test12: kswapd: submit_bh

2000-12-21 Thread Paul Jakma
symbol Code; 0007 Before first symbol 7: 68 7f 03 00 00push $0x37f Code; 000c Before first symbol c: 68 a2 f9 1d c0push $0xc01df9a2 Code; 0011 Before first symbol 11: 68 05 f7 00 00 push $0xf705 -- Paul Jakma [EMAIL PROTECTED

reliable oops in test12: kswapd: submit_bh

2000-12-21 Thread Paul Jakma
7f 03 00 00push $0x37f Code; 000c Before first symbol c: 68 a2 f9 1d c0push $0xc01df9a2 Code; 0011 Before first symbol 11: 68 05 f7 00 00push $0xf705 -- Paul Jakma [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] PGP5 key: http

Re: via82cxxx_audio - bad latency

2000-12-13 Thread Paul Jakma
the gnome mixer, as is asmixer. (ie everything to do with esd or /dev/sound). soon as i SIGSTOP the playing app all the other apps come back to life. regards, -- Paul Jakma [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] PGP5 key: http://www.clubi.ie/jakma/publ

Re: via82cxxx_audio - bad latency

2000-12-13 Thread Paul Jakma
yed all apps that are holding any /dev/sound/ devices open become unresponive. xmms, asmixer, mpg123, esd, etc.. etc.. > Nils > regards, -- Paul Jakma [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] PGP5 key: http://www.clubi.ie/jakma/publickey.txt --- Fortune: Mar

Re: via82cxxx_audio - bad latency

2000-12-13 Thread Paul Jakma
that are holding any /dev/sound/ devices open become unresponive. xmms, asmixer, mpg123, esd, etc.. etc.. Nils regards, -- Paul Jakma [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] PGP5 key: http://www.clubi.ie/jakma/publickey.txt --- Fortune: Marvelous! The super-user's

Re: via82cxxx_audio - bad latency

2000-12-13 Thread Paul Jakma
, as is asmixer. (ie everything to do with esd or /dev/sound). soon as i SIGSTOP the playing app all the other apps come back to life. regards, -- Paul Jakma [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] PGP5 key: http://www.clubi.ie/jakma/publickey.txt

via82cxxx_audio - bad latency

2000-12-12 Thread Paul Jakma
hi, i think somethings gone wrong with via82cxxx_audio. Playing anything through it seems to cause massive latency in apps like xmms, esd, asmixer, etc.. anything to do with playing or mixer levels suddenly takes a minute or more to respond. It didn't always do this, and when it started

via82cxxx_audio - bad latency

2000-12-12 Thread Paul Jakma
ide1 NMI: 0 ERR: 0 the via is sharing an interrupt, though normally the buslogic is not being used. (the interrupt sharing has been there a lot longer than this problem) i don't have the /proc/driver/via files that the docs mention. regards, -- Paul Jakma [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: Enviromental Monitoring

2000-12-11 Thread Paul Jakma
On Tue, 12 Dec 2000, Alan Cox wrote: > No idea on the sensors stuff i'll go nag them again. :) regards, -- Paul Jakma [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] PGP5 key: http://www.clubi.ie/jakma/publickey.txt --- Fortune: You will lose an import

Re: Enviromental Monitoring

2000-12-11 Thread Paul Jakma
ing it as obscure as possible... (i remember someone posted to l-k that they'd started a sensors project, and had code for the LM80. he wasn't at all aware of lm_sensors!). regards, -- Paul Jakma [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] PGP5 key: http://www.clubi.ie/jakma/publickey.

Re: Enviromental Monitoring

2000-12-11 Thread Paul Jakma
uch rather keep themselves and their code isolated in some god forsaken CVS server rather than submit their code to Linus. fscking shame. -- Paul Jakma [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] PGP5 key: http://www.clubi.ie/jakma/publickey.txt --- Fortune:

Re: Enviromental Monitoring

2000-12-11 Thread Paul Jakma
rather keep themselves and their code isolated in some god forsaken CVS server rather than submit their code to Linus. fscking shame. -- Paul Jakma [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] PGP5 key: http://www.clubi.ie/jakma/publickey.txt --- Fortune: Ten

Re: Enviromental Monitoring

2000-12-11 Thread Paul Jakma
it as obscure as possible... (i remember someone posted to l-k that they'd started a sensors project, and had code for the LM80. he wasn't at all aware of lm_sensors!). regards, -- Paul Jakma [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] PGP5 key: http://www.clubi.ie/jakma/publickey.txt

Re: Enviromental Monitoring

2000-12-11 Thread Paul Jakma
On Tue, 12 Dec 2000, Alan Cox wrote: No idea on the sensors stuff i'll go nag them again. :) regards, -- Paul Jakma [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] PGP5 key: http://www.clubi.ie/jakma/publickey.txt --- Fortune: You will lose an important

Re: Serial Console

2000-12-05 Thread Paul Jakma
On Tue, 5 Dec 2000, Steve Hill wrote: > On Tue, 5 Dec 2000, PaulJakma wrote: > > > how? symlink to /dev/ttyS0, or with console=ttyS0 boot option? > > console=ttyS0 > > Nope, /dev/console *does* block. very weird.. the reason i replied to you, even though i have no direct experience of serial

Re: Serial Console

2000-12-05 Thread Paul Jakma
On Tue, 5 Dec 2000, Steve Hill wrote: > > I'm building boxes with the console set to /dev/ttyS0. how? symlink to /dev/ttyS0, or with console=ttyS0 boot option? > However, I can't > guarantee that there will always be a term plugged into the serial > port. If there is no term on the port,

Re: Serial Console

2000-12-05 Thread Paul Jakma
On Tue, 5 Dec 2000, Steve Hill wrote: I'm building boxes with the console set to /dev/ttyS0. how? symlink to /dev/ttyS0, or with console=ttyS0 boot option? However, I can't guarantee that there will always be a term plugged into the serial port. If there is no term on the port,

Re: Serial Console

2000-12-05 Thread Paul Jakma
On Tue, 5 Dec 2000, Steve Hill wrote: On Tue, 5 Dec 2000, PaulJakma wrote: how? symlink to /dev/ttyS0, or with console=ttyS0 boot option? console=ttyS0 Nope, /dev/console *does* block. very weird.. the reason i replied to you, even though i have no direct experience of serial console,

Re: IP fragmentation (DF) and ip_no_pmtu_disc in 2.2 vs 2.4

2000-12-01 Thread Paul Jakma
On Fri, 1 Dec 2000, Alan Cox wrote: > > Intel PXE uses tftp to download boot images and discards IP packets with > > the DF bit set; so a tftpd server on 2.4 with the default > > Then Intel PXE is buggy and you should go spank whoever provided > it as well as doing the workarounds. Supporting

Re: IP fragmentation (DF) and ip_no_pmtu_disc in 2.2 vs 2.4

2000-12-01 Thread Paul Jakma
On Fri, 1 Dec 2000, Alan Cox wrote: Intel PXE uses tftp to download boot images and discards IP packets with the DF bit set; so a tftpd server on 2.4 with the default Then Intel PXE is buggy and you should go spank whoever provided it as well as doing the workarounds. Supporting received

Re: problem with hp C1537A tape drives

2000-11-26 Thread Paul Jakma
On Sun, 26 Nov 2000, Phil Randal wrote: > Ah, have you tried cleaning the tape heads? > the drive gets a run of a cleaning tape on a weekly basis. > far more frequently than you'd expect. I've found it needs > two cleaning tape passes to clear this one. > uhmmm ok. I've now done multiple

Re: problem with hp C1537A tape drives

2000-11-26 Thread Paul Jakma
Ooops.. yes.. that info might have been useful. :) The box is a Compaq PL3000. Chipset is the onboard Sym 53c876, driven by the ncr53c8xx driver. Drive is external. Kernel is RH6.2 default 2.2.14-5.0smp. On Sun, 26 Nov 2000, Mr. James W. Laferriere wrote: > > Hello Paul , Could you add

problem with hp C1537A tape drives

2000-11-26 Thread Paul Jakma
em with SCSI tape drives? or with HP DDS-3 drives? What does the kernel error message mean? (it's all 0's so not much i guess). What is a "Data Phase error"? thanks in advance, Paul Jakma. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body

problem with hp C1537A tape drives

2000-11-26 Thread Paul Jakma
tape drives? or with HP DDS-3 drives? What does the kernel error message mean? (it's all 0's so not much i guess). What is a "Data Phase error"? thanks in advance, Paul Jakma. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a messag

Re: problem with hp C1537A tape drives

2000-11-26 Thread Paul Jakma
Ooops.. yes.. that info might have been useful. :) The box is a Compaq PL3000. Chipset is the onboard Sym 53c876, driven by the ncr53c8xx driver. Drive is external. Kernel is RH6.2 default 2.2.14-5.0smp. On Sun, 26 Nov 2000, Mr. James W. Laferriere wrote: Hello Paul , Could you add a

Re: problem with hp C1537A tape drives

2000-11-26 Thread Paul Jakma
On Sun, 26 Nov 2000, Phil Randal wrote: Ah, have you tried cleaning the tape heads? the drive gets a run of a cleaning tape on a weekly basis. far more frequently than you'd expect. I've found it needs two cleaning tape passes to clear this one. uhmmm ok. I've now done multiple

Re: crash @ 64 day's of uptime

2000-11-10 Thread Paul Jakma
20 [paulj@berkman paulj]$ rpm -q redhat-release redhat-release-6.2-1 you don't have a cleaner coming in every 64 days do you? :) groetjes, -- Paul Jakma [EMAIL PROTECTED] PGP5 key: http://www.clubi.ie/jakma/publickey.txt --- Fortune: Never ask two

Re: crash @ 64 day's of uptime

2000-11-10 Thread Paul Jakma
@berkman paulj]$ rpm -q redhat-release redhat-release-6.2-1 you don't have a cleaner coming in every 64 days do you? :) groetjes, -- Paul Jakma [EMAIL PROTECTED] PGP5 key: http://www.clubi.ie/jakma/publickey.txt --- Fortune: Never ask two questions

Re: [ANNOUNCE] Generalised Kernel Hooks Interface (GKHI)

2000-11-09 Thread Paul Jakma
On Thu, 9 Nov 2000, Michael Rothwell wrote: > Well, then, problem solved. > :) > > afaik linus allows binary modules in most cases. > > And since an "Advanced Linux Kernel Project" wouldn't be a Linus kernel, > what then? Would they have the same discretion as Linus? Would Linus' > exception

Re: [ANNOUNCE] Generalised Kernel Hooks Interface (GKHI)

2000-11-09 Thread Paul Jakma
On Thu, 9 Nov 2000, Michael Rothwell wrote: > Why? I think the IBM GKHI code would be of tremendous value. It would > make the kernel much more flexible, and for users, much more friendly. > No more patch-and-recompile to add a filesystem or whatever. There's no > reason to hamstring their

Re: [ANNOUNCE] Generalised Kernel Hooks Interface (GKHI)

2000-11-09 Thread Paul Jakma
On Thu, 9 Nov 2000, Michael Rothwell wrote: Why? I think the IBM GKHI code would be of tremendous value. It would make the kernel much more flexible, and for users, much more friendly. No more patch-and-recompile to add a filesystem or whatever. There's no reason to hamstring their efforts

Re: [ANNOUNCE] Generalised Kernel Hooks Interface (GKHI)

2000-11-09 Thread Paul Jakma
On Thu, 9 Nov 2000, Michael Rothwell wrote: Well, then, problem solved. :) afaik linus allows binary modules in most cases. And since an "Advanced Linux Kernel Project" wouldn't be a Linus kernel, what then? Would they have the same discretion as Linus? Would Linus' exception apply

Re: Persistent module storage [was Linux 2.4 Status / TODO page]

2000-11-06 Thread Paul Jakma
On Mon, 6 Nov 2000, Alan Cox wrote: > Its called modules.conf. It has all these nice preload directives in it cool.. doesn't seem to be documented though in modutils 2.3.17. what exactly does it do? regards, -- Paul Jakma [EMAIL PROTECTED] PGP5 key: http://www.clubi.ie/ja

Re: Persistent module storage [was Linux 2.4 Status / TODO page]

2000-11-06 Thread Paul Jakma
On Mon, 6 Nov 2000, Alan Cox wrote: > Which is part of what persistent module data lets you do. And without having > to mess with dont_screw_with_mixer (which if you get it wrong btw can be > fatal and hang the hardware) > the sound card case for persistent modules is contentious i think.

Re: Persistent module storage [was Linux 2.4 Status / TODO page]

2000-11-06 Thread Paul Jakma
On Mon, 6 Nov 2000, David Woodhouse wrote: > No. You should initialise the hardware completely when the driver is > reloaded. and it is. just that 'mixer levels' are subjective - different users have different tastes. in what way does: - init to mute - user set to liking fail people?

Re: Persistent module storage [was Linux 2.4 Status / TODO page]

2000-11-06 Thread Paul Jakma
On Mon, 6 Nov 2000, Alan Cox wrote: > If the sound card is only used some of the time or setup and then used > for TV its nice to get the 60K + 128K DMA buffer back when you dont need it > especially on a low end box > so unload it then - aiui most soundcards will continue passing through the

Re: Persistent module storage [was Linux 2.4 Status / TODO page]

2000-11-06 Thread Paul Jakma
On Mon, 6 Nov 2000, David Woodhouse wrote: > * Sound module is autoloaded again, default to zero levels. so you use the 'post-install' option of modules.conf to run your mixer-level setting script. > This time it is _NOT_ fine. User is rightly pissed off :) > even better: is there any

Re: Persistent module storage [was Linux 2.4 Status / TODO page]

2000-11-06 Thread Paul Jakma
On Mon, 6 Nov 2000, David Woodhouse wrote: * Sound module is autoloaded again, default to zero levels. so you use the 'post-install' option of modules.conf to run your mixer-level setting script. This time it is _NOT_ fine. User is rightly pissed off :) even better: is there any

Re: Persistent module storage [was Linux 2.4 Status / TODO page]

2000-11-06 Thread Paul Jakma
On Mon, 6 Nov 2000, Alan Cox wrote: If the sound card is only used some of the time or setup and then used for TV its nice to get the 60K + 128K DMA buffer back when you dont need it especially on a low end box so unload it then - aiui most soundcards will continue passing through the TV

Re: Persistent module storage [was Linux 2.4 Status / TODO page]

2000-11-06 Thread Paul Jakma
On Mon, 6 Nov 2000, David Woodhouse wrote: No. You should initialise the hardware completely when the driver is reloaded. and it is. just that 'mixer levels' are subjective - different users have different tastes. in what way does: - init to mute - user set to liking fail people? (sound

Re: Persistent module storage [was Linux 2.4 Status / TODO page]

2000-11-06 Thread Paul Jakma
On Mon, 6 Nov 2000, Alan Cox wrote: Which is part of what persistent module data lets you do. And without having to mess with dont_screw_with_mixer (which if you get it wrong btw can be fatal and hang the hardware) the sound card case for persistent modules is contentious i think. what

Re: Linux-2.4.0-test10

2000-10-31 Thread Paul Jakma
On Tue, 31 Oct 2000, Alan Cox wrote: > Less Critical: > Does autofs4 work yet has been apparently working fine for me for a while on 2.4test and 2.2+patch. (while==not noticed any major problems in last couple of months) > Alan regards, -- Paul Jakma [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: scsi-cdrom lockup and ide-scsi problem (both EFS related)

2000-10-31 Thread Paul Jakma
, pure ATAPI drive will > work just fine. > so once the scsi cdrom is fixed then ide-scsi should work too? > rmmod ide-scsi ; insmod ide-cd > mount, etc > rmmod ide-cd ; insmod ide-scsi > burn > didn't think this was possible. will try that. thanks. > regards, -- Pa

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