Linux-Development-Sys Digest #432, Volume #6 Fri, 26 Feb 99 08:14:19 EST
Contents:
booting problems with 2.2.x (Johnny Bravo)
Re: problem with creating ramdisk: kernel loads, but hangs when it tries to mount
ramdisk (Villy Kruse)
Re: failed gcc build (Mircea)
Re: sound card IRQ conflict (Mircea)
Re: Problems compiling linux-2.2.2 (Peter Samuelson)
remote debugging support (Stefan Bjarni Sigurdsson)
Re: Overclocking (was: Re: K6-2 and Linux, Are there any Bug?) (Christopher)
Re: PROOF: Jesus *is* Lord of the Sabbath! (Mark Tranchant)
PCI Bus master -- help please (Albrecht Dreß)
Re: help!! AF_PACKET socket program example ... (Mike Jagdis)
Re: KDE 1.1 doesn't compile with glibc 2.1 ("Thomas T. Veldhouse")
Re: ATX Power Off problem (star)
Has anybody compiled a 100% glibc-2.1 and kernel2.2 based system? ("Thomas T.
Veldhouse")
Re: Will 2.2.x support removable medias better? (Horst von Brand)
Re: Raw writing to PCMCIA SRAM cards ("Mark Smith")
Re: Java 2 (Robert Harley)
Automatically determine irq etc of soundcard like oss does? (Rainer Krienke)
Re: Problem with autofs and local /home (H. Peter Anvin)
Re: PROOF: Jesus *is* Lord of the Sabbath! ("Découvertes Tropicales")
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From: Johnny Bravo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: booting problems with 2.2.x
Date: Fri, 26 Feb 1999 10:13:51 +0100
Hi,
I'm having trouble booting the 2.2.x-kernels (latest I've tried is
2.2.2)
If I install it on the harddisk, it stops right after the message "Ok,
booting the kernel", nothing reacts anymore. If I boot it from a disk it
loads the kernel and starts displaying
AX: xxxx
BX: xxxx
CX: xxxx
DX: xxxx
over and over again. ('xxxx' says some hexadecimal number)
I have a RedHat 5.2 installation, I upgraded to the latest packages for
2.2 (ipchains, net-tools etc). But that shouldn't matter because the
kernel doesn't even come close to start using them. This is what cpuinfo
says with the 2.0.36 kernel:
cpu : 586
model : Pentium 75+
vendor_id : GenuineIntel
stepping : 6
fdiv_bug : no
hlt_bug : no
f00f_bug : yes
fpu : yes
fpu_exception : yes
cpuid : yes
wp : yes
flags : fpu vme de pse tsc msr mce cx8
bogomips : 29.90
Does anyone have any ideas?
Thanks.
J.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Villy Kruse)
Subject: Re: problem with creating ramdisk: kernel loads, but hangs when it tries to
mount ramdisk
Date: 26 Feb 1999 10:23:46 +0100
In article <C6tB2.2875$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
Oscar Stiffelman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>Hi,
>
>I built a ramdisk root partition for redhat 5.2, but it seems to crash as
>soon as the kernel jumps to the ramdisk.
>The last message I see is:
> VFS: Mounted root (ext2 fileseystem).
>
>I built the ramdisk according to the instructions in docs/bootdisks
>(followed it precisely)
>
>I then unmounted /mnt and copied the contents of /dev/ram to a file with a
>dd if=/dev/ram of=rootfs bs=1k
>It said there was a read/write error at this step. Not sure what caused the
>error.
>
Probably tried to put too much information into the ramdisk. Not sure
if the limit is 2Meg or 4Meg.
Villy
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From: Mircea <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: failed gcc build
Date: Wed, 24 Feb 1999 14:07:17 -0500
I have recently (days ago) installed egcs-1.1.1 on Slackware 3.6
(libc5.4.46) and on Debian 2.0 (libc6 2.0.7), both witk kernel 2.2.1;
'make bootstrap' went like a dream, no problem whatsoever. Sorry, I
don't have a solution to your problem, just wanted to let you know it
can be done.
Good luck,
MST
Paul Bristow wrote:
>
> Has anyone managed to bootstrap gcc or egcs under 2.2.1? I have a RedHat
> 5.1 system that has recently been upgraded to kernel 2.2.1. I had
> problems compiling some other compilers so I decided to bootstrap egcs and
> then when that failed I tried gcc instead. They both crash because of a
> missing file xgcc. I could find no reference to this in the INSTALL file.
> I assumed this should point to the current C compiler - i.e. a starting
> point to bootstrap from. Hence I did a clean and then set xgcc to point
> to my current egcs installation. This gave a Signal 11: Internal compiler
> error both with egcs and gcc. This is not a hardware error - I've tried
> it on several machines with the same setup and specification.
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From: Mircea <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: sound card IRQ conflict
Date: Wed, 24 Feb 1999 14:11:53 -0500
Oh, it's a windoze blurb for some kind of virtual device that reserves
IRQs for devices on the PCI bus. Don't worry, it won't affect Linux any
time soon :)
MST
Chris Mahmood wrote:
>
> what's "IRQ holder for PCI steering"?
> -ckm
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Peter Samuelson)
Subject: Re: Problems compiling linux-2.2.2
Date: 24 Feb 1999 19:36:32 -0600
Reply-To: Peter Samuelson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
[Friedhelm Hinrichs]
> > gcc -D__KERNEL__ -I/usr/src/linux/include -Wall -Wstrict-prototypes
> > -O2 -fomit-frame-pointer -pipe -fno-strength-reduce -m486
> > -malign-loops=2 -malign-jumps=2 -malign-functions=2 -DCPU=586 -c
> > -o loopback.o loopback.c
[Robert Schiele <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>]
> Is it correct that you have a kernel version different from 2.2.2 in
> /usr/src/linux?
> If this is the fact, you should make sure that the following symlinks
> are changed to:
Notice the compile line -- in particular -I/usr/src/linux/include . In
the Makefile that is actually -I$(TOPDIR)/include where TOPDIR gets
defined automatically. In any case, for compiling the kernel you don't
need /usr/include at all, let alone any symlinks in it.
Now things *will* break if you rename the Linux source directory after
you run `make dep'....
--
Peter Samuelson
<sampo.creighton.edu!psamuels>
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From: Stefan Bjarni Sigurdsson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: remote debugging support
Date: Wed, 24 Feb 1999 19:30:52 GMT
Is it possible to remotely debug the 2.2 kernel running on an Intel box?
If so, can anyone give me any pointers to configuration instructions?
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From: Christopher <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To:
alt.os.linux.slackware,comp.os.linux.hardware,comp.os.linux.misc,comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Re: Overclocking (was: Re: K6-2 and Linux, Are there any Bug?)
Date: Thu, 25 Feb 1999 10:45:19 -0600
BL wrote:
>
> : the only chips i hear of that can be is celeron but besides that.... the
> : chip is not made to be over clocked..... if it was supposed to be over
> : clocked it would RUN at THAT SPEED not 50-100 MHz slower
>
> ever hear of "Marketing"?
>
> do you think that simply marking numbers on a chip is enough for gullible
> consumers to believe that that's all the chip was -designed- to do?
>
> sometimes the markings are accurate (technically) and sometimes not.
>
> don't accept blanket statements about o/c-ing. it all depends on the
> particular chip. check the net first before taking such a hardline on the o/c
> issue... a lot of people can o/c the celeron, whereas other chips may
> actually be at their marked limits. it all depends.
My friend is overclocking dual PII300Mhz.(350 actually) at 450Mhz. He hasn't had a
problem. I'm running a
PII266 at 300/75Mhz fsb. I'm going to drop in a 350 and push it to 450. So the chip
might die sooner, By
then I'll be buying a new one anyway. Try to find a PII300Mhz these days. It's
possible but hard. Because
everyone was buying them, because the could atleast clock it to 350/100 fsb. or
faster. Intel realized
this because no one was buying 350's. Why pay for a 350 when you can overclock a
300(350).
Chris
--
Jupiter Server running Lucas-Lehmer Formula (MPRIME) 24/7 on Linux 2.0.35
In search of a new Mersenne Prime number(GIMPS)
http://www.mersenne.org/prime.htm
-->> Don't waste idle CPU time! Put it to good use. <<--
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From: Mark Tranchant <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To:
alt.society.underwear,comp.sys.mac.misc,comp.sys.amiga.hardware,fr.rec.voyages
Subject: Re: PROOF: Jesus *is* Lord of the Sabbath!
Date: Fri, 26 Feb 1999 07:48:58 +0000
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Jonathan Guyer wrote:
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> > On Wed, 24 Feb 1999 08:10:43 -0800, Pablo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >
> > >I wonder what kind of Mac God uses?
> >
> > The Amiga is GOD!
>
> God is dead? 8^)
>
Nietsche wrote that if God is dead, a universal madness would sweep the
earth - MS Windows?
;-)
Mark.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Albrecht Dreß)
Subject: PCI Bus master -- help please
Date: Fri, 26 Feb 1999 10:52:29 GMT
Hi all,
I am currently writing a kernel driver for ver. 2.0.36, but I have some serious
problems with PCI bus master dma mode (btw, the PCI chip is an AMCC S5933).
In some cases, data transfer via bus master dma simply hangs the complete
kernel, that is: no reaction to keyboard or any other input, no kernel message
at all (e. g. oops), ... This behaviour is highly sensitive to the setting of
the PCI_LATENCY_TIMER register (although I could not find a setting which does
not produce any crashes). Could anybody explain the meaning of this register's
value? And what value should be used? Where to find some more info?
Thanks in advance, Albrecht.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Mike Jagdis)
Subject: Re: help!! AF_PACKET socket program example ...
Date: 26 Feb 1999 10:54:31 GMT
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>
>Does anybody know how to write Client/Server code using AF_PACKET family
>socket in the LINUX OS ??
Yes.
:-)
Oh, all right. Get the latest diald from http://diald.unix.ch. It uses
AF_PACKET sockets. It's pretty straight forward really.
Mike
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From: "Thomas T. Veldhouse" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: KDE 1.1 doesn't compile with glibc 2.1
Date: Wed, 24 Feb 1999 13:53:02 -0600
Just try recompiling egcs-1.1.1. That is what is REQUIRED for glibc-2.1
(until the political guru's change it to force the inferior gcc-2.8.1 or
something).
Thorsten J. Domsalla wrote in message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>...
>John and Lucy Hayward-Warburton schrieb:
>> Hmm... didn't your egcs-1.1.1 come with libstdc++.so.2.9.0 ? I don't
>> know if that's what's stopping your compile, though.
>
>It didn't make it before installing libstdc++ 2.8* either. It's the
>glibc 2.1, which seems to make problems with c++. I have to wait for
>the egcs 1.1.2.
>
>T. J.
>
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (star)
Subject: Re: ATX Power Off problem
Date: 26 Feb 1999 11:14:13 GMT
¡° ¤Þz¡m"Quiney, Philip (EXCHANGE:HAL02:HM10)¡n¡G
: star wrote:
: > Hi everyone!
: > One big problem is that whenever we have a power loss
: > and when the power is back, the server doesn't power on. I have to
: > go right ahead to the machine and press the power button to wake it up.
: > I have play with the BIOS setup and it doesn't have any item
: > concerning this problem.
: > This is a big headache to me because I want it to be a 24-hour ready
: > server.
: > Is there any software or hardware solution to this problem
: > or should I drop this motherboard away?
: You could invest in a UPS (Uninterruptible Power Supply). That would
: give you a better chance of 24 hour availability. Check out the UPS
: HOWTO for related links. I have found APC UPSs (http://www.apcc.com)
: work fine with Linux (and were easily available in the UK).
: Note that leaving the screen powered up will reduce the time the battery
: can hold up the machine (load goes from 51% to 24% when switching it
: off). The hold up time will have to be selected to be longer than your
: average power outage - the price goes up as well ;-)
: When the battery gets to 40% (default) capacity the box begins an
: automatic shutdown with a 2 minute delay. This will cancel if the power
: should return but guarantees a restart without any file system
: corruption.
Thank you Phil, I indeed am considering buying a UPS, but my problem
might still remain: after Linux give a shutdown command, will
the machine goes up automatically when the power is back?
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From: "Thomas T. Veldhouse" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Has anybody compiled a 100% glibc-2.1 and kernel2.2 based system?
Date: Wed, 24 Feb 1999 14:03:55 -0600
Has anybody compiled a 100% glibc-2.1 and kernel2.2 based system? Are there
any patches I need to be aware of? What are the system packages that should
be used? I am not happy with any one distribution out there, and would like
to build my own. I am waiting because last time I tried, imported packages
failed miserably during the compile. I don't recall which ones off hand.
Should I start with a basic distribution like Slackware and build on top of
it?
Tom Veldhouse
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Horst von Brand)
Subject: Re: Will 2.2.x support removable medias better?
Date: 18 Feb 1999 23:34:34 GMT
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Sami Tikka wrote:
>You say that vold is a majestic pain in the ass if you want to access
>the raw device. Could be. But some people rarely need to access the
>raw device. And that would be even less the case with cdroms.
I need it often: tarfiles written on raw floppies, formatting floppies, ...
[...]
>The point is that it should be unnecessary to mount/umount a removable
>media if the OS is capable of detecting insertion/ejection of media.
Can't be done in general, due to the extremely clever PC architecture.
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Casilla 9G, Viña del Mar, Chile +56 32 672616
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From: "Mark Smith" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.hardware,comp.os.linux.misc,comp.os.linux.portable
Subject: Re: Raw writing to PCMCIA SRAM cards
Date: Fri, 26 Feb 1999 11:31:16 -0000
Hmmm, I'm not so sure that your qualified to answer this question ... do you
have any experience in this subject ?
;-)
Seriously though, I take it I would could just copy my program to the memory
card ie. "dd if=test.bin of=/dev/mem0c0c" or is there a nice pre-made
program that will do it for me ?
Regards
Mark
David Hinds wrote in message <7b445b$ghl$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>...
>Mark Smith ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
>: Hello,
>:
>: With the PCMCIA drivers under Linux is it possible to write a binary to
an
>: SRAM card ?
>
>Absolutely.
>
>-- Dave Hinds
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From: Robert Harley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Java 2
Date: 26 Feb 1999 13:02:51 +0100
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Reality is a point of view) writes:
> I believe Java2 is 'Community Source', though it may also pass
> whatever 'Open Source' test is in current fashion . . .
No, not even close.
Rob.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Rainer Krienke)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.misc
Subject: Automatically determine irq etc of soundcard like oss does?
Date: 26 Feb 1999 11:35:50 GMT
Hello,
I am using kernel 2.2.2 with soundcard support coplied in using the oss
module.
What I would like to know if anyone knows a way how to determine the
parameters to load the soundmodule automatically. When I was was still
working with Kernel 2.0.36 I tried the oss software that had a way of
autodetecting the soundcard. For me it worked. Since I have to
install many linux systems it would be great if there was a way to find
out what interrupt, dma channel and I/O base adress a card has.
Does anyone know how this could be done, or the basic priciples behind
the autodetection the "old" oss software used ?
Thanks Rainer
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (H. Peter Anvin)
Subject: Re: Problem with autofs and local /home
Date: 14 Feb 1999 20:09:14 GMT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (H. Peter Anvin)
Followup to: <7a4mpm$47l$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
By author: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Craig J Copi)
In newsgroup: comp.os.linux.development.system
> >
> > "pwd" is a bash built-in, so it knows how you got there. "su", or "rsh"
> > don't have that information.
> >
> > -hpa
>
> So does this mean I'm stuck? On the nfs server I have to keep the
> home directories in /home, export them from here, and not use autofs if I
> want to maintain similar looking directory structures across multiple
> machines? Is there a simple work around for this that I'm missing? This
> would seem like a big problem if I were using nis maps for autofs.
>
You're stuck. There is no simple workaround.
-hpa
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are, and will be, large numbers of applications available for it."
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From: "Découvertes Tropicales" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To:
alt.society.underwear,comp.sys.mac.misc,comp.sys.amiga.hardware,fr.rec.voyages
Subject: Re: PROOF: Jesus *is* Lord of the Sabbath!
Date: Fri, 26 Feb 1999 13:29:00 +0100
I DON T THIK THIS IS THE RIGHT PLACE FOR YOUR MESSAGES
I LOVE JESUS BUT YOUR MESSAGES HAVE NOTHING TO DO ON THIS FRENCH TRAVEL
NEWS
THANKS AND GOOD BYE
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