Linux-Development-Sys Digest #660
Linux-Development-Sys Digest #660, Volume #8 Sat, 21 Apr 01 08:13:12 EDT
Contents:
Re: 82559 Intel Network Chip Driver
2001 USENIX Annual Technical Conference (Becca Sibrack)
Re: type of hard disk ("Cameron Kerr")
lspcmcia
Thoughts on printing best practices?? recommendations?? (David Sims)
Re: Thoughts on printing best practices?? recommendations?? ("Cameron Kerr")
Re: Can Linux kernel ported on supercomputer (using 16 processor) ("Steven J.
Hathaway")
Re: howto properly access serial devices in Perl or C (Jonadab the Unsightly One)
Re: Can Linux kernel ported on supercomputer (using 16 processor) (Lew Pitcher)
Re: Can Linux kernel ported on supercomputer (using 16 processor) ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: A Linux emulator for Linux, does this exist? (Jonadab the Unsightly One)
Re: lspcmcia (Trevor Hemsley)
Re: IO system throughput ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: IO system throughput ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: Can Linux kernel ported on supercomputer (using 16 processor)
([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: Can Linux kernel ported on supercomputer (using 16 processor)
([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: IO system throughput (Alexander Viro)
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: 82559 Intel Network Chip Driver
Date: Fri, 20 Apr 2001 17:13:17 -0700
I'll add a little spice to the broth. I have a situation where eepro100.c
(the driver for the 82559) prints out a KERN_ALERT of "eepro100:
wait_for_cmd_done timeout!" and I go thru the source and find that
wait_for_cmd_timeout is waiting on the port it was called with, which is
always called with the argument ioaddr + SCBCmd where SMCCmd is 2 which
maps to the command register in the 82559. There is a status register in the
82559 (SBCStatus at 0), but it is *never* checked to see if the command unit
status is idle (meaning the command is executed). I further see that this
driver works *most* of the time and only fails when transferring a large
file across a 100baseT local LAN. This means, I think that the
non-functional wait_for_cmd_done is timing out (with its hard coded count
down from 1000) is loosing it with a fast processor and a fast network.
So..Gentlemen, my question is "Am I diagnosing the problem correctly with
the eepro100.c driver?".
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From: Becca Sibrack [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: 2001 USENIX Annual Technical Conference
Date: Fri, 20 Apr 2001 17:15:07 -0700
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From: "Cameron Kerr" [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: type of hard disk
Date: Sat, 21 Apr 2001 14:21:13 +1200
You know, its funny, in a lot of linux programs (in my
case libpcap, I think), a lot of this information is
found/set by reading/writing values in the /proc filesystem.
(fscanf is really useful for this, so is popen)
You will probably want to look in /proc/devices,
or check the existence of /proc/ide and /proc/scsi, but
beware that (on my system anyway) that /proc/scsi will
not exist until I load my zip drive module, even though I
have a CD-Writer, which uses the scsi-generic module.
(This may well be because the sg module is autoloading.)
--
Cameron Kerr
Linux-Development-Sys Digest #660
Linux-Development-Sys Digest #660, Volume #6 Wed, 28 Apr 99 19:13:58 EDT
Contents:
Re: redhat 6.0 GNOME show stoppers. ("Bob Taylor")
Re: redhat 6.0? (Des Herriott)
Re: Spontaneous reboots on a PII (Mikko Hyvarinen)
Re: redhat 6.0 GNOME show stoppers. ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
How can I fix linux buffer cache size? (Jun-young Cho)
Help with GCC! (Brady Bonnette)
Productivity Apps ("Rob Potts")
Re: physical Memory (Martin Recktenwald)
Re: Productivity Apps (Peter Verthez)
Kernel 2.2.6 problems ("Ruslan O. Nesterov")
Is Linux Y2K compliant? ("cn")
Re: Kernel 2.2.6 problems (David L. Bilbey)
Re: compiling glibc2 (Hal Duston)
login (Sean Godsell)
Extending LILO - booting over serial port? (Adrian 'Dagurashibanipal' von Bidder)
login command source code (Sean Godsell)
Re: login command source code (Jerry Peters)
Re: Why so long to mount big ext2 filesystems? ("Stefan Monnier "
[EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: redhat 6.0 GNOME show stoppers. ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ("Bob Taylor")
Subject: Re: redhat 6.0 GNOME show stoppers.
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.advocacy
Date: Wed, 28 Apr 1999 09:00:46 GMT
In article 7g67s7$bkc$[EMAIL PROTECTED],
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Just installed redhat 6.0 last night and... My Gnome pager does not bring a
window to the front when I click on its button. WAah. Oh well.
There are also various other subtleties, but this is the most annoying. -Rich
Curious. What is the version of gnome-core on 6.0?
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| Bob Taylor Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] |
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| Gnome certainly is (serious competition to the Mac or Windows) |
| ... I get a charge out of seeing the X Window System work the |
| way we intended..." - Jim Gettys |
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Des Herriott)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.advocacy
Subject: Re: redhat 6.0?
Date: 28 Apr 1999 08:58:35 GMT
On Tue, 27 Apr 1999 07:00:07 GMT, Bob Taylor [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
What are the show stopper bugs in Gnome?
The one I dislike the most is upon login the swallowed apps fail and
cannot be restarted. I use multiple desktops and areas (3x3 and 4 desktops).
Without the pager life is difficult. So far logging out then back in
resolves the error. However I must redo the swallowed apps. Gnome-terminal
segfaults (IIRC).
My major gripe with GNOME is its incredible slowness as soon as you
enable any kind of pretty theming, in either Gtk or Enlightenment. Am
I missing something? I haven't seen anyone else complain, but I've
tried it on two fairly high-end machines, and glacial is about the best
way I can describe it.
The other thing I dislike about the default Red Hat (5.9) distribution
is the fact that E is not as nicely integrated as one might like - E
places a row of icons over the panel, in the bottom right of the
screen. That's a pretty minor cosmetic issue, to be fair, but first
impressions count, and that's not a good first impression.
Sort the speed out, and GNOME will be extremely nice. Until then, I
just can't use it.
--
Des Herriott, Oracle Corporation UK Ltd.
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
- speaking for myself, not my employer.
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From: Mikko Hyvarinen [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.hardware
Subject: Re: Spontaneous reboots on a PII
Date: Sun, 25 Apr 1999 16:26:06 +0300
Rowin Andruscavage wrote:
(clip)
We installed from RedHat5.2, and added GNOME and linux 2.2.6 . He has
a Matrox G100 AGP card and some OPL3SA2 sound card. I've upgraded to
XFree86 3.3.3.1 without much effect (besides, it's even rebooted under
the console once, though admittedly I was using the linux FB console at
that time). My current theory is that it has something to do with the
motherboard, which appears to be a BX something (windoze reports 82443BX
controllers). I've tried different combinations of kernels(2.0.36,
2.2.3, 2.2.6) with and without support for MTRR, different
windowmanagers (WM and E), with and without GNOME, and with various
system loads. What next?
(clip)
It might be hardware related. A friend of mine had an Abit BX6 Pentium
II board that had a broken PCI slot. If there was a card in that slot,
using it sometimes caused spontaneous reboots. You could try using
another motherboard to see if possibly the AGP slot is faulty.
-Mikko Hyvärinen
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.advocacy
Subject: Re: redhat 6.0 GNOME show stoppers.
Date: Wed, 28 Apr 1999 05:55:20 GMT
Just installed redhat 6.0 last night
