Linux-Development-Sys Digest #741, Volume #6 Mon, 24 May 99 16:14:40 EDT
Contents:
Mustek ScanExpress 12000P scanner driver (SW091078)
Re: Workgroup (Erik de Castro Lopo)
Re: Linux-2.2.8, 2.2.9 and update - What's the story? (Torsten Poulin)
Bug with fs/select.c in 2.2.5 kernel causes Informix databases to fail (Kumar
Srinivas)
Re: Registry in Linux ??? (Christopher B. Browne)
mkinitrd error (LMarshall)
[Q] scheduler function 'schedule()' ("Soohyung Lee")
Re: [Q] scheduler function 'schedule()' (Arun Sharma)
help: looking for MATROX G 200 drivers for REDHAT ("..Luca T..")
ext2fs (Wolfman)
data acquisition, please help me to run away from windows ("aZZa amarela")
Linux on an IBM Thinkpad 560E (John Ioannidis)
Mounting an Atari-Partioned Disk-drive on an i386 System (Jan Barte)
Re: LINUX ability to handle large beowulf clusters (Joachim Zobel)
Re: Mounting an Atari-Partioned Disk-drive on an i386 System (Shawn D'Alimonte)
Re: LINUX ability to handle large beowulf clusters (Chris Frost)
Re: C Header files (David T. Blake)
Re: IBM PS/2 Microchannel SCSI device driver ? (selious)
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (SW091078)
Subject: Mustek ScanExpress 12000P scanner driver
Date: 23 May 1999 19:43:35 GMT
Hello everyone!
Could anyone tell me if there is a scanner driver (in whatever stadium or
release) for the Mustek ScanExpress 12000P? The trouble about this scanner is
that it's a parallel port scanner. Its SCSI-pendant is supported by sane, but I
can't get it working with that interface. I tried all the ports given in the
sane manual, but there's no reaction, neither by the scanner nor by sane, when
running scanimage.
Does anyone know something about a driver possibly available for Linux? I would
write it myself, but firstly I don't have much experience in programming Linux,
especially system calls etc., and secondly I don't have enough technical
information about that scanner.
If someone knows anything, please tell me!
Thanks, SW
P.S.: I'm collecting important links to web sites related to Linux and Hacking
at http://members.aol.com/ShadowHQ. If you feel like suggesting a site or
anything else (about the homepage, too), please do so.
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From: Erik de Castro Lopo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Workgroup
Date: Mon, 24 May 1999 07:41:56 +1000
Nix wrote:
>
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Wolfman) writes:
>
> > Recently I have created a homepage for linux development and now I still
> > need a few visitors to join the projects and give me feedback! Please
> > come to my small but nice page!
> > Have a short look at my sponsors to keep my services free!!!
>
> Vertical spamming idiot.
Be sure to complain to his ISP. I did.
Erik
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Erik de Castro Lopo [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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"Windows NT - How to make a 100 MIPS Linux workstation perform like
an 8 MHz 286" -- Christopher B. Browne
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From: Torsten Poulin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Linux-2.2.8, 2.2.9 and update - What's the story?
Date: Mon, 24 May 1999 01:29:31 +0200
Nix <$}xinix{[email protected]> skrev:
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Juergen Heinzl) writes:
>
> .... and it turned out to have problems so was removed from 2.2.9.
>
> update is still needed.
>
> (It may be gone from the development kernels when Zack gets back from
> holidays so can debug it...)
I got a request from Zack for having update(8) exit silently when running
a kernel that returns an error on calling bdflush(1,0). It was trivial
to change the behavior to this and it has just been uploaded to metalab
as /pub/Linux/system/daemons/updated-2.11.tar.gz. This should make the
transition period more painless for the user, I hope.
-Torsten
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From: Kumar Srinivas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Bug with fs/select.c in 2.2.5 kernel causes Informix databases to fail
Date: Mon, 24 May 1999 01:01:58 GMT
I wish to report a bug with fs/select.c in the 2.2.5 kernel
(used with Redhat 6.0, Caldera 2.2 etc.)
Someone has changed the code for fs/select.c
- especially the code segment in the function sys_select:
if (n < 0 || n > KFDS_NR)
goto out_nofds;
The previous code in fs/select.c in the same function read:
if (n < 0)
goto out;
if (n > NR_OPEN)
n = NR_OPEN;
I just wish that they had tested this kind of change before putting it
in
production!
Informix passes 4096 which causes problems now!
Changing NR_OPEN and some of the others (FD_SETSIZE, OPEN_MAX)
etc. to 5120 just causes more problems!
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Christopher B. Browne)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.misc
Subject: Re: Registry in Linux ???
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Sun, 23 May 1999 05:03:31 GMT
On 22 May 1999 09:30:52 +0100, Nix <$}xinix{[email protected]> posted:
>"Selious" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
>> But can be the difference between linux and LINUX !!
>
>Er, no, the only difference between linux and LINUX is capitalisation.
...And that can be taken at least two ways...
--
"There are two types of hackers working on Linux: those who can spell,
and those who can't. There is a constant, pitched battle between the
two camps." --Russ Nelson (Linux Kernel Summary, Ver. 1.1.75 -> 1.1.76)
[EMAIL PROTECTED] - "What have you contributed to free software today?..."
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (LMarshall)
Subject: mkinitrd error
Date: Mon, 24 May 1999 03:11:34 GMT
I got 2.2.9 to compile correct one time .. but forgot to turn on the ppp
went back to 2.0.36 and redid the entire process until
I typed in mkinitrd /boot/initrd-2.2.9.img 2.2.9
this time I got this error:
mount: the kernel does not recognize /dev/loop0 as a
block device (maybe 'insmod driver'?)
it worked the first time, but I have cleared it all out and redid it from
the start 3 times and get the same error message ... can someone
give me idea why it dies at this point?
thanks
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From: "Soohyung Lee" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: [Q] scheduler function 'schedule()'
Date: Mon, 24 May 1999 14:52:07 +0900
There is a scheduler function 'schedule(void)' in kernel/sched.c.
What I want to know is exactly when this function is called.
I wanna know every point at which this function is called.
Can anybody help me?
Thanks in advance .
- Lee -
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Arun Sharma)
Subject: Re: [Q] scheduler function 'schedule()'
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Mon, 24 May 1999 06:28:38 GMT
On Mon, 24 May 1999 14:52:07 +0900, Soohyung Lee <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
> There is a scheduler function 'schedule(void)' in kernel/sched.c.
> What I want to know is exactly when this function is called.
> I wanna know every point at which this function is called.
> Can anybody help me?
(a) Return from syscalls/interrupts (arch/i386/kernel/entry.S)
(b) When a process voluntarily relinquishes the CPU
(kernel/sched.c -> entry.S)
(c) Device drivers (grep in drivers/*/*.c) when they start doing some
lengthy operation that requires them to block.
-Arun
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From: "..Luca T.." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: help: looking for MATROX G 200 drivers for REDHAT
Date: Mon, 24 May 1999 12:50:53 +0200
Where can i find the MATROX G 200 drivers for REDHAT?
I tried to configure the X-server with XF86Setup and with Xconfigurator, but
i wasn't able to do it because or the server didn't start or the resolution
was so low that i wasn't able to work with it.
Please help me!
Luca Tamburrano. ( [EMAIL PROTECTED] )
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Wolfman)
Subject: ext2fs
Date: Mon, 24 May 1999 13:23:02 +0200
Where can I get a complete up to date documentation about the extendet 2
filesystem?
--
Visit my Homepage @ http://Linux.XPage.nu
and have a short lock at my sponsors!!!
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From: "aZZa amarela" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: data acquisition, please help me to run away from windows
Date: Mon, 24 May 1999 14:34:23 +0100
hello
i can't find a pcmcia card to do data acquisition of a 24 bit digital signal
under linux.
i've searched .. and searched ... with no luck at all.
the card manufacters still keep forget linux, i wonder if someone knows of a
card i could use.
if i can't find a suitable card i will have to go back to windows.
any help is welcome.
TIA all
azza amarela
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Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.help,comp.os.linux.misc,comp.os.linux.setup
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (John Ioannidis)
Subject: Linux on an IBM Thinkpad 560E
Date: Mon, 24 May 1999 13:07:05 GMT
I'm trying to set up Red Hat 6.0, upgraded to the 2.2.9 kernel, on my
old Thinkpad 560E. I don't seem to be able to get the sound to work,
either using the out-of-the box kernel, or using the recompiled 2.2.9
kernel with all the relevant sound modules enabled.
Any hints will be appreciated.
/ji
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From: Jan Barte <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.m68k
Subject: Mounting an Atari-Partioned Disk-drive on an i386 System
Date: Mon, 24 May 1999 15:55:24 +0200
Hello.
Kernel: 2.2.9, Pentium II 350, 2 SCSI-Disk (sda->linux/i386,
sdb->linux/m68k|home)
I tried to mount an atari-formated SCSI-disk on a new installed i386
system.
It failed with the error:
sdb: Dev 08:10 sun disklabe: bad magick number 0001
unknown partition table
I dived into the code and found a Configuration Option
CONFIG_ATARI_PARTITION.
Set it by hand and tried to make a new kernel:
* There ist a bug in drivers/block/genhd.c:1084
#include <asm/atari_rootsec.h>
must be
#include <linux/atari_rootsec.h>
After this, the compilation succeeded but the error still exists.
Then i tried some simple debugging (printk("Yann was here\n"); in the
function
atari_partition but nothing to see. I tried to change the order of the
function
calls in check_partition, but the error was still there.
Today i looked in the m68k sources(2.2.8) - there the whole thing
differs.
Can someone help me?
May i use the linux-2.2.8-native.diff.gz to get this work?
Bye, Jan
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Joachim Zobel)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.networking,comp.os.linux.advocacy
Subject: Re: LINUX ability to handle large beowulf clusters
Date: Mon, 24 May 1999 13:59:08 GMT
Jon Roberts <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>I was talking with a friend who is researching a supercomputer design
>that may become one of the top 10 machines in the world. I mentioned
>Beaowulf Linux clustering and the response was that Linux is good but
>can't support more than about 300 nodes in a cluster (and they plan on
>being larger than that). Is this true? If there IS a way around this
>limitation I'd like to know so I can make further recommendations for
>Linux to him.
If you want to run that many nodes on pc hardware availability will be
a problem. How does beowulf handle this? If you have 300 nodes and the
whole system is down if one fails there might not be much uptime.
Hth,
Joachim
--
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From: Shawn D'Alimonte <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.m68k
Subject: Re: Mounting an Atari-Partioned Disk-drive on an i386 System
Date: 24 May 1999 16:00:54 GMT
In comp.os.linux.development.system Jan Barte <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
: I dived into the code and found a Configuration Option
: CONFIG_ATARI_PARTITION.
: Set it by hand and tried to make a new kernel:
Isn't there also a 'Foreign Partition table support option' that you
have to turn on? Try 'make menuconfig' and look around.
--
Shawn D'Alimonte - [EMAIL PROTECTED]
"Faster processors are nice, but they are not truly revolutionary. And
neither are colors." - Jim Collas, Amiga Inc.
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From: Chris Frost <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: LINUX ability to handle large beowulf clusters
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.networking,comp.os.linux.advocacy
Date: Mon, 24 May 1999 10:04:35 -0500
In comp.os.linux.development.system Joachim Zobel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> If you want to run that many nodes on pc hardware availability will be
> a problem. How does beowulf handle this? If you have 300 nodes and the
> whole system is down if one fails there might not be much uptime.
For the clusters which I have setup we've always done things so that no
one box is essential (except for one cluster where we only had one box
which controlled everything, but then it would only be that one box which
was essential). Maybe the person who asked is doing it a different way,
but you may want to see what could be done so as to rid whatever makes you
dependent upon every box being up.
--
- Chris
-- Visit Me at http://www.frostnet.advicom.net --
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (David T. Blake)
Subject: Re: C Header files
Date: 24 May 1999 08:46:54 -0700
neil <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>Hi there all !
>I have a small problem .I installed redhat 5.2 okay now i want to
>test my gcc . but it says cannot fiond <stdio.h>
Should be in /usr/include
If not, install glibc development RPMs
--
Dave Blake
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: selious <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: IBM PS/2 Microchannel SCSI device driver ?
Date: Mon, 24 May 1999 21:51:25 +0200
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Thomas Hassel wrote:
> Is there anyone who had Linux installed on a IBM Server 9585-XXX ? I'm
> searching for the driver to use the built-in SCSI Microchannel-Adapter with
> Hard-disk and cd-rom.
I have the model 76i, it uses the same SCSI card...
Use the standard Future Domain TMC-16x0 SCSI driver !!
It is supported on the Debian 2.0/2.1 installation floppy, and should
auto-probe !!
Good Luck !!
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