On Mon, Jan 08, 2001 at 01:33:50PM -0500, Alexander Viro wrote:
On Mon, 8 Jan 2001, Stefan Traby wrote:
On Mon, Jan 08, 2001 at 01:22:49PM -0500, Alexander Viro wrote:
Here's another one: suppose that /foo is a mountpoint and you have
no read permissions on it. Try to open the
On Mon, Jan 08, 2001 at 01:33:50PM -0500, Alexander Viro [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
And prefix would be what? "/"? Besides, I said that you don't have
read permissions on /foo, not search ones.
You do not need read permissions on /foo to make pathconf on it. This
makes sense: you are not reading
Hi folks,
I have following problem:
when I make big load on my PC, my monitor starts blinking in XFree 4.0.2 (precompiled
binaries from xfree86.org), and does not stop until reboot.
It has been blinking on 4.0.0, so I upgraded to 4.0.1 and then to 4.0.2, and problem
persists.
I have first
On Mon, Jan 08, 2001 at 07:26:01PM +0100, Ookhoi wrote:
3) Having drivers as modules means that you can remove them and
reload them. When I was working in an office, I had one scsi
controller that was a different brand (Adaptec) than the main scsi
controller (TekRam),
On Mon, 8 Jan 2001, Marc Lehmann wrote:
On Mon, Jan 08, 2001 at 01:33:50PM -0500, Alexander Viro [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
And prefix would be what? "/"? Besides, I said that you don't have
read permissions on /foo, not search ones.
You do not need read permissions on /foo to make
Al Viro writes:
No, it doesn't. s/$/while(bh != head);/, indeed. Sorry about that -
cut-and-waste when I did rediff to 2.4.0. Corrected patch follows:
diff -urN S0-AC4/fs/ext2/super.c S0-AC4-fixes/fs/ext2/super.c
--- S0-AC4/fs/ext2/super.cMon Jan 8 08:46:18 2001
+++
For some reason shared memory is not being enabled on my system running kernel
v2.4.0 (on RedHat v6.2, with all updates applied).
Per the documentation I have this line in my /etc/fstab:
none /dev/shm shm defaults 0 0
Yes, I have created this subdirectory:
# ls -l /dev | grep
Hello,
I've built a module I'm trying to run on various (2.2.x) levels of the
kernel. I compiled the module against a 2.2.18 Source Tree. I strip out
the __module_kernel_version symbol and re-link the module on the target
system to get the __module_kernel_version symbol in it. My problem is
Greetings.
When suspending my laptop (Toshiba Satellite 1605CDS; BIOS set to
suspend to disk) with Debian 2.2r2's 'apm -s', the screen blanks
and then the system locks up hard (not even the power button works).
In 2.2.17, 'apm -s' works properly, first blanking the screen (maybe
twice),
I've been on vacation
Nope, no snapshots.
Well, I couldn't get my orginal volume group visible under both
lvm 0.8 and 0.9. I don't know why. So I grabbed a big empty hard disk,
created a new volume group that was visible under both, dded all the logical
volumes over to it, updated fstab
HY HY
I have a Xircom R2BE-100, RealPort2 CardBus Ethernet 10/100.
With RH6.2, 2.2.17 and pcmcia-cs-3.1.19 everything was fine.
With RH7, 2.2.18 and pcmcia-cs-3.1.23 the Card did not work. With ifconfig
-a it was displayed, but it doesn't work.
With 2.4.0-ac2 and Kernel-PCMCIA the same
On Mon, 8 Jan 2001 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
For some reason shared memory is not being enabled on my system running kernel
v2.4.0 (on RedHat v6.2, with all updates applied).
Per the documentation I have this line in my /etc/fstab:
none /dev/shm shm defaults 0 0
Yes, I
I've been on vacation
Nope, no snapshots.
Well, I couldn't get my orginal volume group visible under both
lvm 0.8 and 0.9. I don't know why. So I grabbed a big empty hard disk,
created a new volume group that was visible under both, dded all the logical
volumes over to it, updated fstab
error is initialised twice
Pavel Rabel
--- kernel/printk.c.old Mon Jan 8 19:16:12 2001
+++ kernel/printk.c Mon Jan 8 19:17:54 2001
@@ -125,9 +125,8 @@
unsigned long i, j, limit, count;
int do_clear = 0;
char c;
- int error = -EPERM;
+ int error = 0;
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
# cat /proc/meminfo
total:used:free: shared: buffers: cached:
Mem: 130293760 123133952 71598080 30371840 15179776
This is not SysV/POSIX shared memory. This used to mean the memory that
was shared between processes (from
On Mon, Jan 08, 2001 at 01:11:19PM -0600, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
[snip]
No complaints are seen at startup, yet I still have no shared memory:
# cat /proc/meminfo
total:used:free: shared: buffers: cached:
Mem: 130293760 123133952 71598080 30371840
Try 'ipcs' and you'll see your shared mem segments info...
On 2001.01.08 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
For some reason shared memory is not being enabled on my system running kernel
v2.4.0 (on RedHat v6.2, with all updates applied).
Per the documentation I have this line in my /etc/fstab:
Hi,
Is there anyone maintaining defxx these days?
The defxx driver does a null pointer derefence if a system is short on
memory. This happens repeatably on a 32MB machine if fsck is run just
befor loading the driver (not an unusual event upon startup and a quite
nasty one).
The driver
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Has anyone got either 2.2.x or 2.4.0 booted on the above motherboard?
This board has an integrated Promise Fasttrack ATA/100 controller - I
know that to support the hardware RAID I need the binary only drivers
from Promise but I'd rather not use these if software RAID works as
there's no
Hi!
Hi, I would like to know whether following limits are right for kernel
2.4.x:
Max. N. of CPU: 32 (SMP)
Max. CPU speed:2 Ghz (up to ?)
Max. RAM size:64 GB (any slowness accessing RAM over 4 GB
Hi!
Being able to shut down by hitting the power switch is a little luxury
for which I've been willing to invest more than a year of my life to
attain. Clueless newbies don't know why it should be any other way, and
it's essential for embedded devices.
Clueless newbies (and
Hi!
1. setup the power switch so it doesn't actually turn things off (it
issues the shutdown command instead)
Evil. Devices that are powered off should stay powered off, and there
should be big mechanical switch to do that, so that no EMI or power
glitch can make them power up.
Also thing
On Mon, 8 Jan 2001, Tim Sailer wrote:
What is the round-trip time on the WAN?
Packet loss?
101 packets transmitted, 101 packets received, 0% packet loss
round-trip min/avg/max = 109.6/110.3/112.2 ms
Packet loss and RTT can be greatly affected by how much data you're
sending through a
On Sat, Jan 06, 2001 at 09:40:51PM -0500, Rich Baum wrote:
Here's a patch that fixes more of the compile warnings with gcc
2.97.
-case FORE200E_STATE_BLANK:
+case FORE200E_STATE_BLANK:;
Is this really a kernel bug? This is common idiom in C, so gcc
shouldn't warn about it. If it
On Tue, Jan 09, 2001 at 02:24:07AM +0900, Hisaaki Shibata wrote:
Hi!
I tried to use USB-SERIAL converter shown in
http://www.century.co.jp/products/usb_serial1a.html
that uses Prolific chip.
Prolific USB2SERIAL is not supported yet,
so I tried to "generic".
Then I found typo in the
On Sun, Jan 07, 2001 at 07:21:08PM +0100, Blizbor wrote:
I have found something weird in kernel 2.2.17.
After installation on the Pentium PRO equipped machine,
I have moved hard disk to another one, but equipped
with AMD-K5 and after encountering problems I moved again
this disk to machine
On Mon, 8 Jan 2001, Andreas Dilger wrote:
Actually, this is wrong. The ext2 inode limit is 2^32 512-byte sectors,
not 2^32 blocksize blocks. Yes this is a wart and Ted wants to fix it, as
??? Where? Oh, wait... -i_blocks? I'ld rather refuse to grow past 2^32 -
sparse files can
@@ -2709,7 +2709,10 @@ static void dfx_rcv_init(DFX_board_t *bp
struct sk_buff *newskb;
bp-descr_block_virt-rcv_data[i+j].long_0 = (u32)
(PI_RCV_DESCR_M_SOP |
((PI_RCV_DATA_K_SIZE_MAX / PI_ALIGN_K_RCV_DATA_BUFF)
-case FORE200E_STATE_BLANK:
+case FORE200E_STATE_BLANK:;
Is this really a kernel bug? This is common idiom in C, so gcc
shouldn't warn about it. If it does, it is a bug in gcc IMHO.
It's not valid in current ISO C. So gcc warns about it
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Bjorn Wesen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
in fact, 0 and 500 are the ONLY ones who let a filesystem op through after
the setfsuid call. all other cause an EACCESS error on the open (or any
other fs op). and yes, the actual filepermissions on /etc and /etc/passwd
are
Hello,
I am trying to compile the
rtl8139 driver for my SMC
10/100 NIC. I have turned on all 10/100
devices (i.e. 3Com
cards -n- such); however, I can not get the rtl
driver to show
up as an option in my menuconfig. What to I
need to do to
compile this driver as a module. Am I missing
On Mon, Jan 08, 2001 at 03:36:23PM -0200, Rik van Riel wrote:
I have not taken^Whad the time to check the kernel tree
and see if the RSS counting has indeed been made safe
everywhere.
I have posted the one below a couple of times without it making
it in. If you like ot please fold it into
Andi Kleen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Sun, Jan 07, 2001 at 09:29:29PM -0800, Wayne Whitney wrote:
package called MAGMA; at times this requires very large matrices. The
RSS can get up to 870MB; for some reason a MAGMA process under linux
thinks it has run out of memory at 870MB,
On Mon, Jan 08, 2001 at 12:58:20PM -0500, Alexander Viro wrote:
It's a hell of a pain wrt locking. You need to lock the parent, but it can
This is a no-brainer and bad implementation, but shows it's obviously right
wrt locking. (pseudocode, I ignored the uaccess details and all the other not
On Mon, Jan 08, 2001 at 01:04:24PM -0500, Alexander Viro wrote:
Racy. Nonportable. Has portable and simple equivalent. Again, don't
bother with chdir at all - if you know the name of directory even
../name will work. It's not about the current directory. It's about
the invalid last component
On Sun, Jan 07, 2001 at 02:37:47PM -0200, Rik van Riel wrote:
Once we are sure 2.4 is stable for just about anybody I
will submit some of the really trivial enhancements for
inclusion; all non-trivial patches I will maintain in a
VM bigpatch, which will be submitted for inclusion around
On Mon, 8 Jan 2001, Alan Cox wrote:
@@ -2709,7 +2709,10 @@ static void dfx_rcv_init(DFX_board_t *bp
struct sk_buff *newskb;
bp-descr_block_virt-rcv_data[i+j].long_0 = (u32)
(PI_RCV_DESCR_M_SOP |
((PI_RCV_DATA_K_SIZE_MAX
Al Viro writes:
Andreas Dilger wrote:
Actually, this is wrong. The ext2 inode limit is 2^32 512-byte sectors,
not 2^32 blocksize blocks. Yes this is a wart and Ted wants to fix it, as
??? Where? Oh, wait... -i_blocks? I'ld rather refuse to grow past 2^32 -
sparse files can legitimately
On Mon, 8 Jan 2001, Ingo Oeser wrote:
On Sun, Jan 07, 2001 at 02:37:47PM -0200, Rik van Riel wrote:
Once we are sure 2.4 is stable for just about anybody I
will submit some of the really trivial enhancements for
inclusion; all non-trivial patches I will maintain in a
VM bigpatch, which
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Timothy A. DeWees wrote:
Hello,
I am trying to compile the rtl8139 driver for my SMC
10/100 NIC. I have turned on all 10/100 devices (i.e. 3Com
cards -n- such); however, I can not get the rtl driver to show
up as an option in my
At 15:22 08/01/2001 -0500, Timothy A. DeWees wrote:
Hello,
I am trying to compile the rtl8139 driver for my SMC
10/100 NIC. I have turned on all 10/100 devices (i.e. 3Com
cards -n- such); however, I can not get the rtl driver to show
up as an option in my menuconfig. What to I need to do
Yes I have.
Have you turned on:
[EISA, VLB, PCI and on board controllers] in
[Ethernet (10 or 100Mbit) ---] which is in
[Network device support ---] ???
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This was done.
Just enable 'Prompt for development and/or incomplete code/drivers' in
'Code maturity level options', the first item in the setup menu...
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Hi kernel hackers,
okay possibly my HD is the problem and I will try to check the disc
with a Seagate tool (damned, i.e. reinstalling Windows) or even
reformating I everything else goes wrong.
Nevertheless I checked the partition with my old SuSE 2.2.16 kernel
and it gave a different error
Nevertheless I checked the partition with my old SuSE 2.2.16 kernel
and it gave a different error message:
hda: read_intr: status=0x59 { DriveReady SeekComplete DataRequest Error }
hda: read_intr: error=0x40 { UncorrectableError } LBAsect = 2421754, sector
210048
end_request: I/O error,
Is syslog running correctly? When syslog screws up, it very frequently
results in this sort of problem.
Scott
On Mon, 8 Jan 2001, Chris Meadors wrote:
On Mon, 8 Jan 2001, Igmar Palsenberg wrote:
check /etc/pam.d/login
No pam.
Could be kerberos that is biting you, althrough that
why `rmdir .` is been deprecated in 2.4.x?
`rmdir .` makes perfect sense, the cwd dentry remains pinned
You think that it fails with EBUSY. That would be allowed but not required:
[EBUSY]: The directory to be removed is currently in use by
the system or some process and the
On Mon, Jan 08, 2001 at 06:16:25PM +0100, Andi Kleen wrote:
Hallo Linus,
The following patch fixes an oops in 2.4.0 RAID5 initialisation when the kernel
was configured without CONFIG_X86_FXSR but is booted on a CPU supporting SSE.
The problem is that without the FXSR config the OSFXSR
On Mon, 8 Jan 2001, Andrea Arcangeli wrote:
On Mon, Jan 08, 2001 at 01:04:24PM -0500, Alexander Viro wrote:
Racy. Nonportable. Has portable and simple equivalent. Again, don't
bother with chdir at all - if you know the name of directory even
../name will work. It's not about the current
On Mon, 8 Jan 2001 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
For some reason shared memory is not being enabled on my system running kernel
v2.4.0 (on RedHat v6.2, with all updates applied).
Per the documentation I have this line in my /etc/fstab:
none /dev/shm shm defaults 0 0
Yes, I have
At 01-01-08 21:09, you wrote:
On Sun, Jan 07, 2001 at 07:21:08PM +0100, Blizbor wrote:
I have found something weird in kernel 2.2.17.
After installation on the Pentium PRO equipped machine,
I have moved hard disk to another one, but equipped
with AMD-K5 and after encountering problems I moved
On Sun, Jan 07, 2001 at 07:57:42PM -0800, Brian Macy wrote:
Anyone get this working? If so please tell me the version of you APM utilities
and what Power Management options you have on in the kernel.
Ever since I started trying 2.3.x, as soon as the box gets a change in it's
power status
On Mon, 8 Jan 2001, Rik van Riel wrote:
How does 2.4 perform when you add an extra GB of swap ?
OK, some more data:
First, I tried booting 2.4.0 with "nosmp" to see if the behavior I observe
is SMP related. It isn't, there was no difference under 2.4.0 between
512MB/512MB/1CPU and
On Mon, Jan 08, 2001 at 11:09:00AM +0100, Giacomo Catenazzi wrote:
Thus the older Celerons should be compiled with CONFIG_M686 (Pentium
Pro),
but the Celeron Coppermine can be compiled with CONFIG_M686FXSR (Pentium
III), right?
Yes.
In this case we should update the files Configure.help
On Mon, Jan 08, 2001 at 09:56:18PM +0100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
You think that it fails with EBUSY. That would be allowed but not required:
[EBUSY]: The directory to be removed is currently in use by
the system or some process and the implementation
considers this to be
Calling pathconf with a symlink is not defined.
The Austin draft requires pathconf to follow symlinks.
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Hi!
Very clever. Invent new naming scheme of patches every couple of
weeks, so that as many people as possible damage their trees.
All other patches are called patch-VERSION. This one has to be called
prerelease-to-final. And applying it over test12 if you missed the
fact -prerelease exists
...compared to 2.2.18pre19.
I use the IDE patch for my CMD648 card, and also 0.90 RAID.
What I have now (2.2.19pre6aa1+ide-1221):
[root@iq /root]# hdparm /dev/hd[aceg]
/dev/hda:
multcount= 16 (on)
I/O support = 1 (32-bit)
unmaskirq= 1 (on)
using_dma= 1 (on)
keepsettings =
Hi,
The following patch fixes in 2.4(-ac*) :
- endiannes problems with BSD/SOLARIS disklabel (in msdos a partition)
and OSF partition support on big-endian mashines,
- SOLARIS disklabel support on 64-bit machines (it was silently assumed
in the on-disk structures that "long" is 32 bit...)
Matching Keith's modutils update, here's a a package of
hotplug scripts ... not yet as neatly packaged! And
also, not (yet) handling with the older file format for
the "modules.usbmap" files associated with 2.4.0 test (and
prerelease) kernels. It "ought" to behave with the usb
hotplug support
Michael Meissner writes:
Quoting from drivers/scsi/scsi.c:
/*
* Usage: echo "scsi add-single-device 0 1 2 3" /proc/scsi/scsi
* with "0 1 2 3" replaced by your "Host Channel Id Lun".
* Consider this feature BETA.
* CAUTION: This is not for hotplugging
On Mon, 8 Jan 2001, Linus Torvalds wrote:
Please show them, anyway. What does "ls -ld / /etc /etc/passwd" say?
Heh... /etc and /etc/passwd were allright... but / was fscked (or not,
maybe :)
drwx- 500 0 both locked from other users and 500 as owner..
99% says that one of the
On Mon, Jan 08, 2001 at 06:16:25PM +0100, Andi Kleen wrote:
This patch just makes the SSE2 code conditional on ...
Pedanticly, this is SSE1 code.
r~
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On Mon, 8 Jan 2001, Szabolcs Szakacsits wrote:
AFAIK newer glibc = CVS glibc but the malloc() tune parameters work
via environment variables for the current stable ones as well,
Hmm, this must have been introduced in libc6? Unfortunately, I don't have
the source code to MAGMA, and the binary
On Mon, Jan 08, 2001 at 12:58:20PM -0500, Alexander Viro wrote:
Shell equivalent is rmdir `pwd`. Also portable.
Very portable - not.
rmdir "`pwd`" !!!
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Stefan
" ( cd /lib ; ln -s libBrokenLocale-2.2.so libNiedersachsen.so ) "
Stefan Traby
On Mon, Jan 08, 2001 at 04:08:58PM -0500, Alexander Viro wrote:
Andrea, fix your code. Linux-only stuff is OK when there is no
BTW, "rmdir `pwd`" is not portable either.
portable way to achieve the same result. In your situation such way indeed
exists and is prefectly doable in
(please cc me if you reply - thanks :)
I probably missed a message or note or something about this, but when I went
from 2.2.17 to 2.2.18, my sound card (SB Live!) stopped working. It seems
that in 2.2.18, it gets detected TWICE:
kernel: Linux version 2.2.18
On Mon, 8 Jan 2001, Szabolcs Szakacsits wrote:
AFAIK newer glibc = CVS glibc but the malloc() tune parameters work
via environment variables for the current stable ones as well, e.g. to
overcome the above "out of memory" one could do,
% export MALLOC_MMAP_MAX_=100
% export
Err, I should have mentioned that the configs I used for .17 and .18 are
identical, too. Machine is a dual celeron 450 on a asus p2b-ds (Adaptec
aic78xx SCSI), via-rhine ethernet, and nvidia tnt2 ultra.
Thanks, again
-Taner
On Mon, Jan 08, 2001 at 01:56:29PM -0800, Taner Halicioglu
OK, I built XFree86 4.0.2 and DRI seems to be working for me now under
2.4.0-ac4. (Starting with 2.4.0, it wouldn't, this is with an ATI XPert 2000
AGP).
BUT - although /var/log/XFree86.0.log documents the startup of DRI, DRM and AGP,
and states the info about their initialization and stuff so
Michael D. Crawford ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) said:
This makes me suspect it's not really working, or else my build of the Mesa-3.4
library wasn't configured right - but note that if I disable DRI, one of the
Mesa demos will comment that it's not available.
It sounds as if you're using a Mesa lib
Not very portable at all...
hpux = HP/UX 10.2
hpux:~$ mkdir foo
hpux:~$ cd foo
hpux:~/foo$ rmdir "`pwd`"
rmdir: /home/blc/foo: Cannot remove mountable directory
hpux:~/foo$ rmdir .
rmdir: cannot remove .. or .
hpux:~/foo$ rmdir /home/blc/foo
rmdir: /home/blc/foo: Cannot remove mountable
On Mon, 8 Jan 2001, Russell King wrote:
so my take is unless you explicitly use hotplug devices (I wasn't), that
it is much safer to unload the driver, unattach/attach scsi devices, and
then reload the driver (which will scan the scsi bus for devices), which
you need modules for.
I don't
On Mon, Jan 08, 2001 at 02:00:19PM -0800, Wayne Whitney wrote:
I'd ask if this jives with your theory: if I configure the linux kernel
to be able to use 2GB of RAM, then the 870MB limit becomes much lower, to
230MB.
It's because the virtual address space for userspace tasks gets reduced
from
Dan Hollis writes:
On Mon, 8 Jan 2001, Russell King wrote:
I don't believe that is what it's trying to say. There have been instances
in the past where unplugging a SCSI device from a powered on SCSI bus can
result in blown terminator power fuses and the like. Whether this still
I have had no luck finding a bigmem patch for the 2.0.x kernel. I am in
the situation where I would rather not update the kernel, do I have
any options?
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Hi,
following happened on my well-known SMP VIA based GA6VXD7 motherboard.
Last week on Thursday I decided to connect printer to the box. To do that
I had to switch parallel port mode from ECP to Normal (because of I
had problems with that printer). Today I found, that since that time
(Thu
Hi Keith,
NET4: Unix domain sockets 1.0 for Linux NET4.0.
insmod: /lib/modules/2.2.19pre6/misc/unix.o: cannot create
/var/log/ksymoops/20010106112242.ksyms Read-only file system
man insmod, look for /var/log/ksymoops. If you define this directory
then it is expected to be writable when
On Mon, Jan 08, 2001 at 03:11:08PM -0700, Benson Chow wrote:
Not very portable at all...
hpux = HP/UX 10.2
hpux:~$ mkdir foo
hpux:~$ cd foo
hpux:~/foo$ rmdir "`pwd`"
rmdir: /home/blc/foo: Cannot remove mountable directory
hpux:~/foo$ rmdir .
rmdir: cannot remove .. or .
hpux:~/foo$
On Mon, 8 Jan 2001, Russell King wrote:
Seriously though, you can't depreciate a term for referring to a type of
bus without providing some other term to describe said bus.
You need to distinguish between SCSI-the-protocol and
SCSI-the-physical-layer. The term "SCSI" alone is simply too
On Mon, Jan 08, 2001 at 07:18:53PM +, Todd M. Roy wrote:
I've been on vacation
Nope, no snapshots.
Well, I couldn't get my orginal volume group visible under both
lvm 0.8 and 0.9. I don't know why. So I grabbed a big empty hard disk,
created a new volume group that was
From: Andrea Arcangeli [EMAIL PROTECTED]
But in fact it fails with EINVAL, and
[EINVAL]: The path argument contains a last component that is dot.
I can't confirm. The specs I'm checking are here:
http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/007908799/xsh/rmdir.html
That
On Mon, Jan 08, 2001 at 06:35:43PM +, Michael D. Crawford wrote:
OK, I built XFree86 4.0.2 and DRI seems to be working for me now under
2.4.0-ac4. (Starting with 2.4.0, it wouldn't, this is with an ATI XPert 2000
AGP).
BUT - although /var/log/XFree86.0.log documents the startup of DRI,
This is a little OT for linux-kernel, but I'll take a swing at it
since I'm running 2.4 and Xfree 4 with a voodoo 3.
After upgrading to Red Hat 7.0, I noticed 3D screensavers
and Quake 3 Arena were dog slow - in the end, I basically
had to make sure the mesa libs didn't get found before the
real
On Mon, 8 Jan 2001 23:30:12 +0100,
f5ibh [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Ok, I knew that, the problem is why unix.o is loaded so early ? I've not found
where it is requested / loaded (I've kmod enabled).
Probably syslog().
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Hi all!
At the moment there are two power management drivers in the linux
kernel (AFAIK). They each have different userspace interfaces --
/proc/apm and /dev/apmctl and /proc/sys/acpi/events or something. This
is not altogether bad, but as they do the same thing, it might be nice
to unify
On Mon, 8 Jan 2001, Dan Hollis wrote:
On Mon, 8 Jan 2001, Russell King wrote:
Seriously though, you can't depreciate a term for referring to a type of
bus without providing some other term to describe said bus.
You need to distinguish between SCSI-the-protocol and
In message 3A585D9F.21907.1452FA04@localhost you write:
I've noticed that my Linux boxes take quite a hit in terms of
packets per second rate when I define ipchains rules with
2.2.X kernels. Does the netfilter replacement found in 2.4
kernels improve this performance?
Not really. What are
I have gotten this semi-reproducable bug three times already under the same
circumstances. The bug happens at approximately the same time as I kill
xterms after user-mode linux has crashed and I am cleaning up what it has
left behind. User mode linux is using a 1 gig file on a 6 gig
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED] you wrote:
Also thing about cases where powerplant fails, or when electricity in
the house fails. I've seen places where electricity failed 5 times a
day, because someone put 10A fuse and we were using just about 2kW...
Especially evil is a power failure, and then
For some reason shared memory is not being enabled on my system
running kernel
v2.4.0 (on RedHat v6.2, with all updates applied).
You are confusing System V shared memory (IPC) with VM shared memory. The
'0' for shared in /proc/meminfo means the system can't easily tell you how
much
On Mon, Jan 08, 2001 at 11:50:44PM +0100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
From: Andrea Arcangeli [EMAIL PROTECTED]
But in fact it fails with EINVAL, and
[EINVAL]: The path argument contains a last component that is dot.
I can't confirm. The specs I'm checking are here:
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED],
Andrea Arcangeli [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Mon, Jan 08, 2001 at 01:04:24PM -0500, Alexander Viro wrote:
Racy. Nonportable. Has portable and simple equivalent. Again, don't
bother with chdir at all - if you know the name of directory even
../name will work. It's
On Mon, Jan 08, 2001 at 03:22:44PM -0800, Wayne Whitney wrote:
I guess I conclude that either (1) MAGMA does not use libc's malloc
(checking on this, I doubt it) or (2) glibc-2.1.92 knows of these
variables but has not yet implemented the tuning (I'll try glibc-2.2) or
(3) this is not the
Can anybody shed some light on this?
Thanks,
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Unable to handle kernel paging request at virtual address e6d94ba1
current-tss.cr3 = 07211000, %cr3 = 07211000
*pde =
Oops:
CPU:0
EIP:0010:[c016faa5]
Using defaults from ksymoops -t elf32-i386 -a i386
EFLAGS:
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED],
Andrea Arcangeli [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Mon, Jan 08, 2001 at 04:08:58PM -0500, Alexander Viro wrote:
Andrea, fix your code. Linux-only stuff is OK when there is no
BTW, "rmdir `pwd`" is not portable either.
Indeed. Avoid it if you can.
But at least
Although I haven't been involved for over 8 years, it us unlikely that
the word "SCSI" has been given up as some generic aspirin. SCSI still
means the stuff specified in the 519 Page document copyrighted by
ANSI, called "SMALL COMPUTER SYSTEM INTERFACE - 2", Dated May 20, 1991,
and the first
Alan,
I haven't found Randy Gobbel's e-mail, please apply.
- Arnaldo
--- linux-2.4.0-ac3/drivers/net/bmac.c Tue Dec 19 11:24:51 2000
+++ linux-2.4.0-ac3.acme/drivers/net/bmac.c Mon Jan 8 19:55:30 2001
@@ -6,6 +6,8 @@
*
* May 1999, Al Viro: proper release of /proc/net/bmac
This doesn't seem to be the case with HomePNA 2.0 which makes me suspect
that Broadcom has a patent on some critical piece of technology. I
Quite possible. Search for 'broadcom intel patent lawsuit' on google - there
are other outstanding things.
can't think of any other reason how they
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