Is there an API or other means to determine what video
card, namely the chipset, that the user has installed
on his machine?
Thanks,
Paul
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I'm attempting to reset a CDROM using the CDROMRESET
ioctl. The reset command only seems to reset the
device if the device is not mounted. If the device is
mounted, the reset command seems to have no effect.
With the device unmounted, sending the reset command
causes the drive to become active
This is a followup question to my previous question
"Why isn't init at PID 1."
Previoulsy I was calling init from within linuxrc.
Linuxrc was a sash script, so the sash script
supposedly had PID 1. Now I've removed the script and
have a C program for linuxrc.
I'm still not running at PID 1 but
Hello,
I have a bootable linux CD that runs a custom init.
Under most versions of linux init runs as process ID
one. Under my bootable CD, it runs as process ID 15.
I need it to run as PID 1 so that I can execute a
kill(-1,15) without killing init.
The boot CD uses and initrd image to load dr
Hello,
I am trying to eject my bootable CD-ROM after the user
is finished using it. The problem is that something
has locked the CD-ROM and every command I send fails
with a "resource busy" error.
I use a custom init program to mount and chroot to the
CD. I then start X-windows and my applicat
Hello,
I have a linux bootable CD which executes a custom
init. The job of init is to figure out on which
device the CD is located. After finding the CD, init
mounts the device and executes a CHROOT to set the
root directory to the CD.
After I'm done I'd like to umount the CD and then
eject it
Our driver is trying to allocate a DMA buffer to flash
an adapter's firmware. This can require as much as
512K ( of contiguous DMA memory ). We are using the
function __get_free_pages( GFP_KERNEL | GFP_DMA, order
) . The call is failing if 'order' is greater than 6.
The problem is seen on system
Hello,
I am running an unmodified RedHat 6.2 kernel
(kernel version 2.2.14-5.0)
I am trying to redirect the linux startup messages to
the serial port. I've added the 'console=' parameter
to my lilo.conf file. I've tried several iterations
such as
'console=ttys0','console=cua0','console=ttys0,
Hello,
I have created a trimmed down /dev directory to be
used with my custom bootable Linux CD. I've run into
a problem where I can't start an xterm. I get the
error...
xterm: no available ptys
I'm not sure which device I'm missing in /dev. I'm no
expert on how the tty's and stuff work so
Hello,
I am attempting to move all of the root files and
folders into a single directory /linux on the root
file system. I then use the kernel parameter
init=/linux/sbin/init to get things rolling but the
kernel panics.
When I boot linux, everything seems to work ok until
the kernel tries to ex
We are using Linux as a bootable CD for system
configuration. We would like to keep all the
information displayed at bootup hidden. The main
reason for this is because our users see words such as
"error" and "failed" and it bothers them (though there
is nothing wrong).
Anyone know how other tha
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