Linux-Development-Sys Digest #377, Volume #6 Fri, 5 Feb 99 10:13:59 EST
Contents:
M-Systems' Disk On Chip 2000 Driver ("Gai, Feng")
K6-2 and Linux, Are there any Bug? ("Javier Pulido")
Re: 2.2.1 (Mircea)
Re: Installing kernel modules at Boot (Chun-Chung Chen)
dir structure in tarball (azra)
Re: use theramin as input device (Rik van Riel)
Re: Unix/Advanced Computing People ("Wesley W. Garland")
Re: disheartened gnome developer (Christopher Browne)
Re: Debugger ? (Michael Powe)
Video 4 Linux hang ups (Phill Edwards)
How do I do a mknod in kernel space? (Abraham Grief)
Re: include directories (Martin Recktenwald)
2.0.36 compile error: Help! (Thomas Simonson)
Re: 2.2.1 (Daniel Bruce)
Re: 2.2.1 Mysterious crashes (Mike Dowling)
Re: ppp and 2.2.1 ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: use theramin as input device (Harald Arnesen)
Re: LM79 support? (Peter Steiner)
NFS - client cache (Leszek Gryz)
Re: NT mouse frenzy related to mouse type? (was: Modest next goal for Linux) (Chris
Green)
Process shared semaphores (Pthreads) ("D. Emilio Grimaldo Tunon")
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From: "Gai, Feng" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: M-Systems' Disk On Chip 2000 Driver
Date: Tue, 2 Feb 1999 15:01:16 +0800
Does anyone know if an appropriate driver is available for DOC2000 ?
If so where can I get it?
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From: "Javier Pulido" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To:
alt.os.linux.slackware,comp.os.linux.hardware,comp.os.linux.misc,comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: K6-2 and Linux, Are there any Bug?
Date: Fri, 5 Feb 1999 01:12:17 -0000
��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: Mircea <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: 2.2.1
Date: Thu, 04 Feb 1999 22:16:11 -0500
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
I have exactly the same problem, and it's not the first time it happens,
it did the same in pre9. Weird enough, 2.2.0 was fine. It stops at
"loading Linux", unless I boot from the floppy. For reference, see my
posts on comp.os.linux.setup, last Saturday, subject:"good ol'boot
problem's back!"
MST
Me wrote:
>
> after a few attempts of compling a new kernel it still will not boot
> it goes to loading linux then locks up tight..
> any ideas?
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From: Chun-Chung Chen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Installing kernel modules at Boot
Date: Thu, 4 Feb 1999 20:14:06 -0800
On Wed, 3 Feb 1999, Frank McGirt wrote:
> Would someone please list for me the files to be changed for kernel
> driver modules to be installed at boot time rather than later with an
> insmod command. Or better yet point me to where this procedure is
> documented.
If you just want to load certain modules during the booting process,
you can put insmod in the booting scripts. They are files mentioned
in /etc/inittab. If you need certain modules before you can mount
your root file system then you should look into the initrd document.
It's in the kernel source distribution:
/usr/src/linux/Documentation/initrd.txt
. Chung .
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Date: Thu, 04 Feb 1999 11:20:21 -0700
From: azra <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: dir structure in tarball
anyone else loose thier most current /usr/src/linux as the new archive
is not in /usr/scr/linux2.2.1 like I figured it would be (my bad for not
checking ) but overwrote my copy of 2.0.35 as that's where the symlink
/usr/src/linux was pointing
just wondering if I'm the only one.
AZRA
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From: Rik van Riel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.development.apps,comp.os.linux.misc
Subject: Re: use theramin as input device
Date: Fri, 5 Feb 1999 03:03:45 +0100
On 4 Feb 1999, Jehan Sappideen wrote:
> In comp.os.linux.development.system Eric Miller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> : Wouldn't that be making the easy, difficult? Most theramins I've seen
> : are bigger than a mouse and keyboard, and would require two hands to use
> : (unlike a mouse). A novel idea, but just plain silly.
>
> No, actually, it is possible to make a very small simple theremin
> for under $10, that (with the exception of the antenna) would
> _easily_ fit into a mouse casing.
What kind of interface will it use to the computer,
serial, joystick or something else?
Or, to put it another way: what kind of an interface
would it need to be useful to us?
> I've also seen a few with midi outs (try www.bigbriars.com) - you
> could write software drivers to work with existing midi hardware.
> Totally useless of course, but *interesting*.
Totally useless. We want to use the theramin as a
generic computer interface.
Seriously. We really want to. :-|
Rik -- If a Microsoft product fails, who do you sue?
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From: "Wesley W. Garland" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To:
comp.unix.programmer,comp.unix.advocacy,comp.unix.misc,comp.os.linux.misc,comp.os.linux.development.apps
Subject: Re: Unix/Advanced Computing People
Date: Fri, 5 Feb 1999 01:10:20 -0500
Lakshmi;
>I live in lower Westchester county, New York. I have got Linux on my PC
>and
>have been studying Richard Stevens' APUE as well as Bach's The Unix
>Operating System. I am interested in Unix system programming,
>administration, OS kernels, network programming, parallel processing
>[ed: etc..etc..etc]
Get a copy of Operating Systems: Design and Implementation. Very good
book to provide food for thought for theoretical grounding. It is by
Tanenbaum and the ISBN is 0-13-637406-9. You'll thank me for it.
Cheers,
Wes
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Christopher Browne)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.advocacy,comp.os.linux.development.apps,comp.os.linux.x
Subject: Re: disheartened gnome developer
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Fri, 05 Feb 1999 03:40:10 GMT
On Thu, 4 Feb 1999 17:56:36 +0000, Matthias Warkus
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>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 run the one posted every couple hours... It doesn't examine multiple
streams of cookies; were I to do so, I'd probably do a run through each
cookie file and then pick between them based on a RNG.
My point would be that it's pretty easy to write such a program in any
number of languages. My *old* script was written in Perl, FYI.
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From: Michael Powe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.development.apps,comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: Debugger ?
Date: 04 Feb 1999 22:52:22 -0800
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>>>>> "Kintug" == Kintug <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>> I don't know adb but the combination of gdb and ddd will do the
>> job.
Kintug> Yeah, GUI is cool... :-) But I'm interesting in something
Kintug> like adb's -w switch which allows you to modify the code
Kintug> in memory and adb will keep disk file in sync with your
Kintug> changes.
- From the gdb manual:
Patching programs
=================
By default, GDB opens the file containing your program's executable
code (or the corefile) read-only. This prevents accidental alterations
to machine code; but it also prevents you from intentionally patching
your program's binary.
If you'd like to be able to patch the binary, you can specify that
explicitly with the `set write' command. For example, you might want
to turn on internal debugging flags, or even to make emergency repairs.
mp
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From: Phill Edwards <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Video 4 Linux hang ups
Date: Fri, 5 Feb 1999 07:22:09 +0000
Hi,
I am running RH5.2 with a 2.2.1 kernel and trying to get video working
for a Hauppauge card. I have a Mach64 Rage video card at 32 bpp.
I can get video working - I used the external 0.5.22 and 0.6.2 packages
and not those in the kernel source. The trouble is that once the video
capture is on my dual PII, 256M RAM machine runs very slowly.
Sound is intermittent or non-existent. The system sometimes hangs
up completely. A hang up is guaranteed if I do a
rmmod bttv
Any ideas as to how I should proceed ?
Thanks in advance
Phill
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Abraham Grief)
Subject: How do I do a mknod in kernel space?
Date: Fri, 05 Feb 1999 02:21:10 -0800
I am making a modularized device driver that justs
reads and writes memory, and I am following the Rubini
book.
In the book, they use the mknod command to create their
pseudo-devices. However, I would like to create the
device when the module is loaded. Essentially, I want
to do the equivalent of a mknod(2) in my module, but I
can't, because I'm operating in kernel space. How do I
do a mknod in kernel space? Or the equivalent of any
system call for that matter? Any advice is
appreciated.
Thank you,
Abe Grief
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From: Martin Recktenwald <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: include directories
Date: 05 Feb 1999 11:07:28 +0100
bossung@{remove_this}gmx.de (Sebastian Bo�ung) writes:
> the compiler complained it could not find iostream.h. I figured that
> this
> is because of the file not being in a directory that is searched for
> header files. I found iostream.h in /usr/include/g++/ and added the
> directory
> to the path (using the -I option of gcc). The compiler now complains
> about
> a ton of errors (probably having to do with iostream.h being in a
> differen
> directory). How do I fix this? Do I have to copy all the *.h into the
> /usr/include directory (gcc can see the file there)?
How did you call the compiler? Many distributions currently use gcc as
default C compiler but egcs as default c++ compiler. You should use
"g++" to compile your C++ programs, not "gcc" with special options.
(If this is not your problem, your gcc installation is broken. Try
reinstalling it. Moving around include files without exactly knowing
what you're doing will likely create more problems.)
Martin.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Thomas Simonson)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: 2.0.36 compile error: Help!
Date: 5 Feb 1999 10:44:13 GMT
I get an error when trying to recompile
the kernel (2.0.36) (for SMP) on a dual
PII 400 MHz machine:
make config
make clean
make dep
make clean
make zImage ..... compiles happily for 3-4 minutes, then:
gcc -I/usr/src/linux/include hexify.c -o hexify
hexify.c: In function `main':
hexify.c:5: warning: return type of `main' is not `int'
ld: cannot open crtbegin.o: No such file or directory
make[1]: *** [hexify] Error 1
make[1]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/linux-2.0.36/arch/i386/kernel'
make: *** [linuxsubdirs] Error 2
I'm logged on as root; can't find any reference to
crtbegin in hexify.c or any other file below /usr/src/linux.
OS was built from an RH5.2 CD; gcc also.
Is there something obviously wrong with my root environment?
A kernel patch I should know about?
Help much appreciated!!!!
Tom
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From: Daniel Bruce <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: 2.2.1
Date: Fri, 05 Feb 1999 02:41:34 -0800
My problem is with: ifconfig eth0 172.16.2.8 on EE100B
As soon as I run the ifconfig Linux 221 locks tight. With no network
it appears stable.
ifconfig eth0 displays the device which appears as though its tere
and correct (everything works with 2.0.36).
I have updated the NetTools to the latest. Took SMP out of the
kernal and no modules for networking, What else?
The eth0 is a EE100B which is pretty standard.
Me wrote:
> after a few attempts of compling a new kernel it still will not boot
> it goes to loading linux then locks up tight..
> any ideas?
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Mike Dowling)
Subject: Re: 2.2.1 Mysterious crashes
Date: 5 Feb 1999 10:47:32 GMT
On Wed, 03 Feb 1999 21:16:54 GMT, Joseph Sarkes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>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.
I have found 2.2.1 to be reliable. The only thing I observed was that, on
my home computer, it did issue a kernel panic message on shutting down. It
apparently succeeded in unmounting my partitions. Since it happened while
re-booting, I only had a glimpse of the message for a fraction of a second
before the screen went blank.
Cheers,
Mike
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: ppp and 2.2.1
Date: Thu, 4 Feb 1999 13:56:46 +0100
> Thanks in advance. Andreas.
I have now built up a really huge kernel with nearly everything in it.
Time by time i remove something to see, whether it still works. Also I have
added three lines to conf.modules as it was told me and it works.
I don't know why, but it does. So thank you very much.
Greetings,
Andreas.
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From: Harald Arnesen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.development.apps,comp.os.linux.misc
Subject: Re: use theramin as input device
Date: 05 Feb 1999 13:14:22 +0100
Rik van Riel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> With a bit of software support and practice, this has the
> potential to become _the_ gaming device. Could mean a
> killer-app for Linux :))
Yeah - imagine a sword-and-sorcery game, where a practised wizard
could zap his enemies with the right wave of a hand.
Or a networked boxing game. Just don't smash the screen...
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Peter Steiner)
Subject: Re: LM79 support?
Date: 5 Feb 1999 02:19:41 +0100
In article <79arl2$tjt$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Ricardo Manuel Pacheco
Salgado wrote:
>My question is: does v2.2 support this chip? will it ever support it?
It comes as an independend module:
http://www.netroedge.com/~lm78/
Ciao,
Peter
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Leszek Gryz)
Subject: NFS - client cache
Date: 5 Feb 1999 13:12:23 GMT
Hi,
Do you know if linux has implemented NFS client cache?
Leszek Gryz
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From: Chris Green <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.advocacy
Subject: Re: NT mouse frenzy related to mouse type? (was: Modest next goal for Linux)
Date: 05 Feb 1999 08:32:20 -0500
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Jonathan A. Buzzard) writes:
>
> In article <79ajpi$s67$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
> "Per Olsson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> > 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.
> >
>
Here's another easy way to peg an NT machine at 100% cpu:
Bring up the control panel.
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From: "D. Emilio Grimaldo Tunon" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Process shared semaphores (Pthreads)
Date: Fri, 05 Feb 1999 15:11:13 +0100
Hi *,
Anybody knows when on earth Linux's PThreads (LinuxThreads/glib)
is going to support process-shared semaphores and p-s
condition variables? I am looking for 'drop-in' replacement for
the pthread_mutexattr_setpshared() and pthread_condattr_setpshared()
functions.
Also, these functions are Optional in the POSIX standard, but
they are required in the Unix98 standard, since kernel 2.2 is
supposed to have some (most? all?) Unix98 conformance, I wonder
if 2.2 does support these two problem-makers?
TIA,
Emilio
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