Linux-Development-Sys Digest #376, Volume #6 Thu, 4 Feb 99 21:13:53 EST
Contents:
Re: Linux on ARM7 ?? (Michael Williams)
unresolved symbols with 2.2.0 (Frederik Arbeiter)
Re: fsck.ext2 Problems During Boot (Joseph Sarkes)
Re: ppp and 2.2.1 (Dr. Henrik Seidel)
Re: 2.2.1 ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: 2.2.1 Mysterious crashes ("Richard Payne")
Re: use theramin as input device (Jehan Sappideen)
extremly slow reboot with 2.2.1 (Olof Wolgast)
Re: ppp and 2.2.1 (Paul Flinders)
Re: ppp and 2.2.1 (Joe Pfeiffer)
Library Problems (Matthew W Miller)
Re: NT mouse frenzy related to mouse type? (was: Modest next goal for Linux) ("Earl
Malmrose")
Re: disheartened gnome developer (Matthias Warkus)
Bug in 2.0.35 NFS (Jay Thorne)
Adaptec 2930 SCSI adapter (Glen Morrell)
Re: NT mouse frenzy related to mouse type? (was: Modest next goal for Linux)
NFS Server howto (Florian Erhard)
Re: K6-2 and Linux, Are there any Bug? ("Richard Sugg")
Re: Notif-0.1 (Matthias Warkus)
Re: use theramin as input device (steve mcadams)
I want to be a PPPserver ! (YANG Tong)
Re: FAT32 problems ("Michael E. Guo")
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Michael Williams)
Crossposted-To: comp.sys.arm
Subject: Re: Linux on ARM7 ??
Date: 4 Feb 1999 11:43:54 GMT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
Kevin Bracey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>Is that true? Surely a standard MOVS PC,R14 (or whatever) will do the job?
>It should restore the Thumb bit from the SPSR to the CPSR. The offset in
>R14 is the same whether in Thumb or ARM mode to facilitate this.
You are correct.
Mike.
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From: Frederik Arbeiter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: unresolved symbols with 2.2.0
Date: Thu, 04 Feb 1999 13:04:20 +0100
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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I wrote a device driver for an AD Card. It worked well with v2.0.x, but
now with v2.2.0 I get a lot of unresolved references (printk, put_user
and other quite essential functions )when I try to 'modprobe' it.
Does anybody know what changed? And how to get things working again?
--
Frederik Arbeiter
mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
http://www.uni-karlsruhe.de/~ualy
fax:+49 89 66617 18736
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/lib/modules/2.2.0/misc/pacp12.o: unresolved symbol request_region
/lib/modules/2.2.0/misc/pacp12.o: unresolved symbol get_user
/lib/modules/2.2.0/misc/pacp12.o: unresolved symbol __udelay
/lib/modules/2.2.0/misc/pacp12.o: unresolved symbol unregister_chrdev
/lib/modules/2.2.0/misc/pacp12.o: unresolved symbol register_chrdev
/lib/modules/2.2.0/misc/pacp12.o: unresolved symbol release_region
/lib/modules/2.2.0/misc/pacp12.o: unresolved symbol check_region
/lib/modules/2.2.0/misc/pacp12.o: unresolved symbol printk
/lib/modules/2.2.0/misc/pacp12.o: unresolved symbol put_user
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Joseph Sarkes)
Subject: Re: fsck.ext2 Problems During Boot
Date: Thu, 04 Feb 1999 14:05:41 GMT
K Lee ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
: Hello,
: When I rebooted, the error message I got while it was performing fsck.ext2
: was "unresolved symbol..._bzero..ladi ladi la..". So it dropped me to a
: maintenance shell.
the fsck was being done because the filesystem(s) weren't unmounted
properly before the last shutdown. The startup shell scripts try to
do this automatically during startup. If they come across a major
problem, you drop into the shell to fix it manually. At this point,
root is mounted read only, and no other filesystems are mounted.
(at least in my experience.) Normally what I do is run fsck manually
and fix the problems. Afterwards, or if necessary, you can mount the
filesystems yourself (although you may get complaints if they aren't
clean) and do whatever maintenance you need to. In your case, just
do a "mount -a" and you should get unclean filesystem warnings, and
then be able to update whatever you need to. Then, after fixing whatever
files you are missing or need to update, cd to / and do unmount -a
and reboot. Hopefully your new fsck will do the job for you.
: But since I can't upgrade or re-install e2fsprogs when in that mode,
: telling me I can't write to disk, what am I supposed to do in this case?
: When I do 'df -h', it only shows hdb1 even though I have hdb2 and hdb3 as
: well.
: Will booting into Linux with "linux single" allow me to mount and use the
: floppy drive and re-install e2fsprogs? I was thinking I could download
: and save it on a floppy, then copy it over to my HD and then re-install
: it.
: What would some of you do in this case? Any help or tips would be greatly
: appreciated. Thank you very much in advance.
: Best,
: Steve
--
Joseph Sarkes mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Dr. Henrik Seidel)
Subject: Re: ppp and 2.2.1
Date: 4 Feb 1999 13:55:50 GMT
[Posted and mailed]
In article <f2r997.uv.ln@debian>, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
writes:
> Hi,
>
> I have a strange problem with a new compilied Kernel 2.2.1: when I use
> ppp via my ISP, the connection is about a quarter slower as it is with
> a standard (Debian-)Kernel out of the box (you see, I use a Debian
> system 2.1). The
If you compiled the ppp kernel driver as a module, you might want to set
the following aliases in /etc/conf.modules:
alias ppp-compress-21 bsd_comp
alias ppp-compress-24 ppp_deflate
alias ppp-compress-26 slhc
Regards
--- Henrik
--
Dr. Henrik Seidel, http://www.mpimg-berlin-dahlem.mpg.de/~seidel/
Max Planck Institute for Molecular Genetics
14195 Berlin, GERMANY, Ihnestrasse 73
tel: ++49-30-8413-1613 fax: ++49-30-8413-1384
see my home page for my public PGP key
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: 2.2.1
Date: 4 Feb 1999 14:13:06 GMT
Roy Jackson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
: Uncompressing Linux...... Ok, booting the kernel...
: locks hard
I got the same problem when I first compiled my 2.2.0. I made a 'make
zImage', but the system became to big, so the compilation did not succeed,
but instead suggested I do a 'make bzImage'. Well, I did that, but did not
do a 'make clean' before, so it basically just re-linked the kernel. I
installed it, booted and it locked up... After a real clean compilation,
it went ok and booted. Lesson was to make sure all sources got rebuilt
after the faulty compilation.
--
=====================+======================================================
Jan 'Chakie' Ekholm | CS at �bo Akademi University, Turku, Finland
Linux Inside | I'm the blue screen of death, no-one hears you scream
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From: "Richard Payne" <payner at timken dot com>
Subject: Re: 2.2.1 Mysterious crashes
Date: Thu, 4 Feb 1999 09:46:44 -0500
Joseph Sarkes wrote in message ...
>I have been running 2.2.1 on a dec multia for a week or so. It seems
>to crash regularly with NO info as to what happened. I end up back in
>the srm boot prompt and even that latches up so i have to power cycle
>the machine.
>
>Is there any particular thing I can do to try to have some state data
>available to track down the problem? Generally it occurs during a
>compile of egcs or other large package.
>
>I do not see any way of enabling any extra debugging methodology or
>logging. All I see is a dead period in /var/log/messages from when
>the machine stopped dead to when I power cycled it. One time I found
>the machine with a page of data which I had no hope of copying down
>but that is once in 20 crashes or so.
Are you sure the machine is really dying? Can you get to it from another
machine on the network?
Multia's are well known for heat, is it getting proper ventilation? I know
of some people who remove the top cover and use a large fan to blow
air through to keep it cool.
You may also want to post on comp.os.linux.alpha.
--
Rich Payne
(Speaking for myself, not my employer)
payner at timken dot com
Looking for Alpha-Linux info?
http://www.alphalinux.org
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From: Jehan Sappideen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.development.apps,comp.os.linux.misc
Subject: Re: use theramin as input device
Date: 4 Feb 1999 13:56:30 GMT
In comp.os.linux.development.system Matthias Warkus <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
: No. He means the wailing thing that goes "wee-ooo-wee-ooo" in
: _Good_Vibrations_ by the Beach Boys.
: SCNR
As a point of trivia.... I read somewhere recently that it wasn't
actually a true theremin making that sound... just a hardware emulation -
maybe they'll sue ;). The guts were the same, but it was just a guy
twiddling a knob to get the sound.
Jehan
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From: Olof Wolgast <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: extremly slow reboot with 2.2.1
Date: Thu, 04 Feb 1999 18:00:10 +0100
I use a redhat 5.2 system, with some changes, for example a 2.2.1
kernel. The compiling of the new kernel was error-free, and everything
works ok. But when I try to reboot the machine using shutdown, reboot,
or ctrl-alt-del, it takes very long time. Up to five minutes. After the
execution of the shutdown-scripts, then the kernel hangs for about five
minutes, before saving random seed and unmounting filesystems. I have a
P100 with 24Mb of ram, so the hardware cant be the problem.
Any hints?
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From: Paul Flinders <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: ppp and 2.2.1
Date: 04 Feb 1999 16:40:44 +0000
Joe Pfeiffer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Dr. Henrik Seidel) writes:
> >
> > alias ppp-compress-21 bsd_comp
> > alias ppp-compress-24 ppp_deflate
> > alias ppp-compress-26 slhc
>
> Where are these aliases documented? I've had to work a few out, and
> it's always been by guess. I've looked through the modules
> documentation, and haven't been able to find any sort of comprehensive
> list...
I'm not sure they are. However if you read the source code you can see
that it's ppp-compress-<proto> where <proto> is the CCP number for the
compression scheme. 21 is bsd, 24 is documented as MVRCA in
ftp://ftp.isi.edu/in-notes/iana/assignments/ppp-numbers (but I did hear
somewhere that assignment isn't used) and 26 is deflate.
I use
alias ppp-compress-21 bsd_comp
alias ppp-compress-24 off
alias ppp-compress-26 ppp_deflate
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From: Joe Pfeiffer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: ppp and 2.2.1
Date: 04 Feb 1999 09:07:50 -0700
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Dr. Henrik Seidel) writes:
>
> alias ppp-compress-21 bsd_comp
> alias ppp-compress-24 ppp_deflate
> alias ppp-compress-26 slhc
Where are these aliases documented? I've had to work a few out, and
it's always been by guess. I've looked through the modules
documentation, and haven't been able to find any sort of comprehensive
list...
--
Joseph J. Pfeiffer, Jr., Ph.D. Phone -- (505) 646-1605
Department of Computer Science FAX -- (505) 646-1002
New Mexico State University http://www.cs.nmsu.edu/~pfeiffer
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From: Matthew W Miller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.unix.questions,comp.os.linux.misc,comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Library Problems
Date: Thu, 4 Feb 1999 15:07:51 -0500
Hello,
This is for a RH linux 5.2 system; when trying to install libpcap, i get
numerous errors which require me to force the uncompress and it also
breaks the tar pipe when the -v flag is set. After sloshing through the
install process, i still get numerous errors and programs won't recognize
that the library was installed.
Have any patches been released, or does anyone know how to fix this?
apparently it is something generic with all redhat systems.
thanx in advance
~matt
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From: "Earl Malmrose" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.advocacy
Subject: Re: NT mouse frenzy related to mouse type? (was: Modest next goal for Linux)
Date: Thu, 4 Feb 1999 12:16:59 -0800
Per Olsson wrote in message <79ajpi$s67$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>...
>I didn't notice raised CPU load earlier. I must have done the test only
with
>the mouse pointer inside an application window then. If I do the test with
>the mouse pointer on the desktop (background) the CPU load goes to 100%
with
>the PS/2 mouse also.
This is cool. I have NT 4 Workstation, with a PS/2 mouse, on a PII-300.
Explorer is the app that goes to 100% when the mouse is down on the desktop.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Matthias Warkus)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.advocacy,comp.os.linux.development.apps,comp.os.linux.x
Subject: Re: disheartened gnome developer
Date: Thu, 4 Feb 1999 17:56:36 +0000
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
It was the Thu, 04 Feb 1999 00:50:25 GMT...
..and Christopher Browne <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
[Scheme script]
Thank you for posting this, but I'd rather have a demon that calls
fortune(6) every three minutes or so and writes a cookie to my
signature file.
I have written such a thing - it takes 90% cookies from my
~/signatures cookie jar and 10% cookies from the /usr/share/fortune
database. But the demon is rather primitive, and I wonder whether
there's a better solution out there, maybe written in Perl or
something (I'd like something that can be called in the .profile and
forks off to the background only if there isn't a copy running already
- like fetchmail).
mawa
--
The Bundeswehr? I don't have any problems with the Bundeswehr. After
all, what possible harm could an army do where soldiers don't need to
have their hair cut and where they play _Sailing_ for the Grand Tattoo?
-- mawa
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From: Jay Thorne <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Bug in 2.0.35 NFS
Date: Thu, 04 Feb 1999 22:07:49 GMT
I'm trying to mount an nfs export from one machine to another.
When I call rpcinfo -p servermachine from the root account of
clientmachine, it never returns. Strangely enough, it does work perfectly
if you call it from a user account
information:
client machine:
Kernel 2.0.36
libc5.4.46
mount from util-linux 2.7e
rpcinfo from slack 3.2 dist
Server machine
kernel 2.0.36
RH 5.0 w/all current patches
w/ portmap updates
nfs updates
glibc updates
etc.
With tcpdump I never see any packets arriving on the server machine.
rpcinfo from any other machine (all redhat 4.2 or higher) works fine
--
Jay Thorne [EMAIL PROTECTED] KE Software
http://www.kesoftware.com
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From: Glen Morrell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Adaptec 2930 SCSI adapter
Date: 4 Feb 1999 19:46:26 GMT
Hello,
Does anyone know about the Adaptec 2930 SCSI adapter,
specifically, how it differs from the 2940 and whether there is a
driver that works for linux?
Thanks in advance,
Glen Morrell
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ()
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.advocacy
Subject: Re: NT mouse frenzy related to mouse type? (was: Modest next goal for Linux)
Date: 4 Feb 1999 23:43:01 GMT
On Thu, 4 Feb 1999 12:16:59 -0800,
Earl Malmrose <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>Per Olsson wrote in message <79ajpi$s67$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>...
>>I didn't notice raised CPU load earlier. I must have done the test only
>with
>>the mouse pointer inside an application window then. If I do the test with
>>the mouse pointer on the desktop (background) the CPU load goes to 100%
>with
>>the PS/2 mouse also.
>
>This is cool. I have NT 4 Workstation, with a PS/2 mouse, on a PII-300.
>Explorer is the app that goes to 100% when the mouse is down on the desktop.
>
>
This wouldn't surprise me; it's the *shell* on Windows 95 (at least as
of IE 4, anyway). So guess who's managing the so-called
"Active Backdrop", or whatever it's called?
----
[EMAIL PROTECTED] -- and no, it's not Netscape...
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From: Florian Erhard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: NFS Server howto
Date: 4 Feb 1999 21:07:58 GMT
I'm looking on information on how to write a NFS-Server
for Linux and on NFS itself. If anyone know some
good book, articles, web-pages, faqs, etc. on this
topic, I would appreciate an email or a reply in
this group.
Thanks in advance,
Florian
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From: "Richard Sugg" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To:
alt.os.linux.slackware,comp.os.linux.hardware,comp.os.linux.misc,comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Re: K6-2 and Linux, Are there any Bug?
Date: 5 Feb 1999 00:45:09 GMT
I have Red Hat 5.1 running with an AMD K6-2 350, 64MB PC 100 RAM, and FIC
2013 board. I don't know about your board, but I think AMD is ok.
Javier Pulido wrote in message <79dcer$ifd$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>...
>��SOS!!
>
>Problems with the booting of linux in a computer AMD K6-2 (300 MHz) with
>i430TX (no AGP) and 128 MB, two hard drives and 1 CDROM. Can you help me?
>
>After many attempts of booting with several kernels (2.0.29, 2.0.30,
2.1.48,
>2.0.35, 2.0.36) through a boot-disk, LILO or LOADLIN (Symbol of System,
>option F8 of Windows95), I realize only procedure that was operating:
>
> 1. I Start Windows95/98 (graphic environment)
> 2. I restart in MSDOS-Mode
> 3. C:> loadlin zImage2_2 root=/dev/hdc3 mem=128M no-hlt
>
>If I don�t use option no-hlt, the system starts but is hung in little
>minutes, and it shown me all the processor registers, the stack and the
>message "idle task may not sleep".
>
>In the attempts rest of starting were remained hung when was ending the
>load kernel in report: Loading linux ....... (!!stop!!)
>
>My system crashes while it�s booting. I
>
>I only can boot linux in three steps:
>
> 1> loading Windows95
>
> 2> Restart in MSDOS MODE
> 3> loadlin kernel2.2 /dev/hdc3 no-hlt (root in /dev/hdc3)
>
>
>
>
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Matthias Warkus)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.advocacy,comp.os.linux.development.apps,comp.os.linux.x
Subject: Re: Notif-0.1
Date: Thu, 4 Feb 1999 21:32:12 +0000
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
It was the Fri, 29 Jan 1999 22:33:30 GMT...
..and Joseph H Allen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I have been working on a new freeware widget library for X/Linux. If you
> are unsatisfied with Qt, Lesstif, Tk and GTK, try Notif!
>
> ftp://virek.vwis.com/pub/jhallen/notif-0.1.tar.Z.
Have you announced it everywhere appropriate, i.e. Freshmeat,
comp.os.linux.announce?
Perhaps you should put it up in some FTP incoming directories, too,
like sunsite etc.
(IF YOU HAVE ALREADY DONE SO, IGNORE THIS ADVICE)
mawa
--
Unix drives the net, why can't it drive a personal computer.
-- Tony Austin
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (steve mcadams)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.development.apps,comp.os.linux.misc
Subject: Re: use theramin as input device
Date: Fri, 05 Feb 1999 01:48:43 GMT
[Snipped for brevity, quoted material marked with ">"]
On Tue, 02 Feb 1999 13:51:00 -0800, Eric Miller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
>. A novel idea, but just plain silly.
I love this; the ultimate pointing and typing device called silly. <g>
Hello, wake up and take a breath of fresh future! Relax, pretend you
are thinking instead of just posting!
Whaddya wave around to make the threamin whistle? Your hands.
Whaddya work the mouse with? Your fingers.
Whaddya type the keyboard with? Your fingers.
What pisses you off more than having to constantly switch back and
forth between the mouse and the keyboard? (in my case damn little)
With an appropriate theramin array (as in 20 or so tiny theramins,
appropriately spaced) and appropriate software (that could recognize a
finger movement from its theramin channelt) we are talking about a
device that would let you type on thin air, point to your selections,
and exercise your fingers at the same time.
Sorry man, I don't see the ultimate combined keyboard, mouse,
ttouchscreen, and lightpen as "silly". You just said that because you
thought it was a great idea and wanted to provoke discussion, right?
-steve
========================================================
so what? - http://www.codetools.com/showcase
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From: YANG Tong <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: I want to be a PPPserver !
Date: Thu, 04 Feb 1999 22:25:34 +0000
Hello !
PPP is very difficult to configure when I want to use it as server !
I found some articles and tips about it but ... not good !
So, if it possible to have a perfect script for :
- use mgetty program
- My modem is a USRobotics Sportster Message Plus
- I want that the PPP client use an CHAT identification and not
an PAP !
In fact, I search a script similare to "Internet providers" !!!
Please...and Thanks !
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From: "Michael E. Guo" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: FAT32 problems
Date: Tue, 2 Feb 1999 22:30:19 +0800
Matthew Bloch wrote in message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>...
This problem is only in 2.2.0-preX but not in 2.2.0 or 2.2.1, to fix
the damaged FAT32 partition, just run the Scandisk on it.
-Michael
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