Re: manipulating FPU rounding modes on alpha

it this way was the solution to a lot of pain in the form of random SIGFPEs). -- Tyson Whitehead (-twhitehe at uwo.ca -- MC-) Computer Engineer Dept. of Applied Mathematics, Graduate Student- Applied Mathematics University of Western Ontario, GnuPG Key ID# 0xF7666BFF

Re: gnumeric issue since libc6.1 upgrade

on the hardware more). Not that it matters I guess. Later! -Tyson -- Tyson Whitehead (-twhitehe at uwo.ca -- MC-) Computer Engineer Dept. of Applied Mathematics, Graduate Student- Applied Mathematics University of Western Ontario, GnuPG Key ID# 0xF7666BFF

Re: gnumeric issue since libc6.1 upgrade

(and specifically checking to see) that it cannot generate NaNs. -- Tyson Whitehead (-twhitehe at uwo.ca -- MC-) Computer Engineer Dept. of Applied Mathematics, Graduate Student- Applied Mathematics University of Western Ontario, GnuPG Key ID# 0xF7666BFF

Re: Soundconfig with etch

directory with a line in like options driver [options] See the man page for modprobe and modprobe.conf for more details. -T PS: On my machine (that uses the snd-es18xx driver) I have: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ cat /etc/modprobe.d/tyson_misc options snd-es18xx isapnp=0 [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ -- Tyson

Re: floor() broken on EV4?

option didn't exist before, or maybe Debian kernels just used to compile it in by default. -Tyson -- Tyson Whitehead (-twhitehe at uwo.ca -- MC-) Computer Engineer Dept. of Applied Mathematics, Graduate Student- Applied Mathematics University of Western Ontario

Re: floor() broken on EV4?

to always return zero. I wonder if it is the same thing that is effecting the EV4. Could all kernel math fixups be MIA due to the same thing? Later! -T -- Tyson Whitehead (-twhitehe at uwo.ca -- MC-) Computer Engineer Dept. of Applied Mathematics, Graduate Student

Re: GCL/maxima/axiom/acl2, denormalized floats, and alpha

IEEE Math Completion (everything is zeroed!?!) at http://lists.debian.org/debian-alpha/2006/06/;) That long and the short is that we figured out that it was busted somewhere between 2.4.27 and 2.6.16, but no solutions were purposed. Later! -T -- Tyson Whitehead (-twhitehe at uwo.ca -- MC

Re: RES: State of XOrg in testing/unstable

@ 0x09 00/24, 0x0a803000/12, I/O @ 0x8400/8, BIOS @ 0x8000/17 Good luck! -T -- Tyson Whitehead (-twhitehe at uwo.ca -- MC-) Computer Engineer Dept. of Applied Mathematics, Graduate Student- Applied Mathematics University of Western Ontario, GnuPG Key ID

Re: Kernel IEEE Math Completion (everything is zeroed!?!)

On Wed June 14 2006 22:48, Tyson Whitehead wrote: I've also apt got kernel-image-2.4.27, but the reboot will have to till I'm actually physically present (for sure either the qlogic driver or udev will require manual intervention and a few boots to get straight). : ) Okay. I went down

Kernel IEEE Math Completion (everything is zeroed!?!)

, I'm stuck at 2.6.15 or greater due to new udev requirements (and only 2.6.16 is available), but is there anyone else out there running an older kernel (maybe even 2.4) that could give this a try? Thanks! -Tyson -- Tyson Whitehead (-twhitehe at uwo.ca -- WSC-) Computer Engineer

Re: Kernel IEEE Math Completion (everything is zeroed!?!)

correctly in hardware? Maybe my memory is just bad and the Linux kernel's idea of a floating point fixup has always been to just zero the registers? Thanks for checking! -T -- Tyson Whitehead (-twhitehe at uwo.ca -- WSC-) Computer Engineer Dept. of Applied Mathematics

Re: Kernel IEEE Math Completion (everything is zeroed!?!)

:09 UTC 2005 gcc (GCC) 3.3.5 (Debian 1:3.3.5-13) cpu model : EV56 cpu variation : 7 It does look like things indeed used to work... I'll send another email once I have a chance to boot an older kernel. Thanks! -T -- Tyson Whitehead (-twhitehe at uwo.ca -- WSC

Re: Xorg upgrade: 6.9.x to 7.0.x

packages page, it looks like stable is running xfree... -- Tyson Whitehead (-twhitehe at uwo.ca -- WSC-) Computer Engineer Dept. of Applied Mathematics, Graduate Student- Applied Mathematics University of Western Ontario, GnuPG Key ID# 0xF7666BFF

Re: apt and kernel updates

, and so on). Later! -T -- Tyson Whitehead (-twhitehe at uwo.ca -- WSC-) Computer Engineer Dept. of Applied Mathematics, Graduate Student- Applied Mathematics University of Western Ontario, GnuPG Key ID# 0xF7666BFF London, Ontario, Canada

Re: Xorg upgrade: 6.9.x to 7.0.x

driver ii xserver-xorg-video-ati 6.5.8.0-1 X.Org X server -- ATI display driver -- Tyson Whitehead (-twhitehe at uwo.ca -- WSC-) Computer Engineer Dept. of Applied Mathematics, Graduate Student- Applied Mathematics University of Western Ontario, GnuPG Key

Re: updated kernels / miata sound

-- creates an image from the current directory). You can do similair stuff with the other initrd builders (include possibly just having to editing the configuration file). -T -- Tyson Whitehead (-twhitehe at uwo.ca -- WSC-) Computer Engineer Dept. of Applied

Re: updated kernels / miata sound

. However, 2.6.16 gives me the inconsistent page stuff when aplay /usr/share/sounds/KDE_Startup.wav finishes for both eh snd-es18xx and the snd-sb8 drivers. -- Tyson Whitehead (-twhitehe at uwo.ca -- WSC-) Computer Engineer Dept. of Applied Mathematics, Graduate Student

ALSA and Sounds on the Alphas

some 2.6.16 packages. -- Tyson Whitehead (-twhitehe at uwo.ca -- WSC-) Computer Engineer Dept. of Applied Mathematics, Graduate Student- Applied Mathematics University of Western Ontario, GnuPG Key ID# 0xF7666BFF London, Ontario, Canada

Re: updated kernels / miata sound

is download whitehead.apmaths.uwo.ca/~tyson/linux-image-2.6.14-2-alpha-generic_2.6.14-4_alpha.deb and dpkg -i. Then we would know for sure that there are no other variables and what works for me doesn't work for you guys. -T PS: I guess it is also possible that something changed -- Tyson

Re: updated kernels / miata sound

in the code. It looks like if you change that to a #define REG_DEBUG you get some extra printks. -- Tyson Whitehead (-twhitehe at uwo.ca -- WSC-) Computer Engineer Dept. of Applied Mathematics, Graduate Student- Applied Mathematics University of Western Ontario, GnuPG

Re: updated kernels / miata sound

2.6.14 as that was the earliest release for which all the udev issues were finally sorted out. I haven't tried anything newer as I have not needed to. Let me know how it goes! -Tyson -- Tyson Whitehead (-twhitehe at uwo.ca -- WSC-) Computer Engineer Dept. of Applied

Re: swriteboot vs debian installer wrt Tru64 disklabel

doesn't require this. Maybe something is screwy between this. Later! -T -- Tyson Whitehead (-twhitehe at uwo.ca -- WSC-) Computer Engineer Dept. of Applied Mathematics, Graduate Student- Applied Mathematics University of Western Ontario, GnuPG Key ID# 0xF7666BFF

Re: Smaller?

problem with the ext2 utilities, I also managed to get around that by manual downloading and installing one or both of the packages that were causing the loop (if you are doing a manual install with dpkg there is a --force option you can use to cause it to ignore dependancies). -T -- Tyson

Re: DS20 Worth trying ?

bug report. https://bugtrack.alsa-project.org/alsa-bug/view.php?id=1246 It would be nice to know why the code was ifdefed out in the first place... -T -- Tyson Whitehead (-twhitehe at uwo.ca -- WSC-) Computer Engineer Dept. of Applied Mathematics, Graduate Student

Re: Which video card is supported for a DEC Alpha?

, medium devsel, latency 255, IRQ 44 Memory at 0900 (32-bit, prefetchable) [size=16M] I/O ports at 8400 [size=256] Memory at 0a801000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=4K] Expansion ROM at 0a00 [disabled] [size=128K] -T -- Tyson

Re: hdc : lost interrupt ????

the ide_generic module. It works for me on 2.6.14. I stopped using the cmd64x module quite a while ago. It enabled DMAing, which resulted in random corruption on my backup IDE harddisk. Maybe enabling it has some sort of interupt problem as well. -T -- Tyson Whitehead (-twhitehe at uwo.ca

Re: DS20 Worth trying ?

(a specially patched alsa driver) with the Debian unstable distribution. I have an ATI 3D Rage Pro 215GP (rev 5c) PCI card in my 500au running in 24 bit color mode (32 bits in the frame buffer). No problems with any KDE applications (or Gnome either for that matter). -T -- Tyson Whitehead

Re: no link beat found on digital alpha-station 255

kernel versions export all the information required by the latest udev to user space). -T -- Tyson Whitehead (-twhitehe at uwo.ca -- WSC-) Computer Engineer Dept. of Applied Mathematics, Graduate Student- Applied Mathematics University of Western Ontario, GnuPG Key

Re: multiple 2.6.8-2 issues

with udev and the kernel on how the kernel event's socket interface coexists with its /proc/sys/kernel/hotplug interface -- events get dropped). -- Tyson Whitehead (-twhitehe at uwo.ca -- WSC-) Computer Engineer Dept. of Applied Mathematics, Graduate Student

Re: multiple 2.6.8-2 issues

PS: My machine is as PWS500au. -- Tyson Whitehead (-twhitehe at uwo.ca -- WSC-) Computer Engineer Dept. of Applied Mathematics, Graduate Student- Applied Mathematics University of Western Ontario, GnuPG Key ID# 0xF7666BFF London, Ontario

Re: Debian 3.1 kde problem

would naively guess something along the lines of gamma correction screwing up. Possibly differences in QT's and GNOME's gamma handling results in the one tripping up on something specific with this setup one but not the other? -T -- Tyson Whitehead (-twhitehe at uwo.ca -- WSC-) Computer

SIGFPE

integer or trapped and 'FAIL' otherwise. -- Tyson Whitehead ([EMAIL PROTECTED] -- WSC-) Computer Engineer Dept. of Applied Mathematics, Graduate Student- Applied Mathematics University of Western Ontario, GnuPG Key ID# 0x8A2AB5D8 London, Ontario

Re: SIGFPE

in the first place. Sorry about that folks. *sigh* Guess everything should sort itself automatically as stuff is rebuilt. Thanks to all for the quick replies! Later -T -- Tyson Whitehead ([EMAIL PROTECTED] -- WSC-) Computer Engineer Dept. of Applied Mathematics

Re: fakeroot causing package building problems?

the build without fakeroot. If you've got root on your machine, maybe you could take that route The.man page pkg-buildpackage also suggests sudo, super, or really. Later! -T -- Tyson Whitehead ([EMAIL PROTECTED] -- WSC-) Computer Engineer Dept. of Applied

Re: Finished threads remain as zombies on 2.6?

: -Fix broken pthread_cleanup_push on Alpha. (Closes: #197988) The proc weirdness issue (not differentiating between threads and processes), still exists when using the earlier libraries. I wonder if that is a pthreads issue or a kernel one? -T -- Tyson Whitehead ([EMAIL PROTECTED

More Alpha Proc Issues (wchan entries)

/kallsyms). -T -- Tyson Whitehead ([EMAIL PROTECTED] -- WSC-) Computer Engineer Dept. of Applied Mathematics, Graduate Student- Applied Mathematics University of Western Ontario, GnuPG Key ID# 0x8A2AB5D8 London, Ontario, Canada

Re: Finished threads remain as zombies on 2.6?

assumed they were all using it by now. -T -- Tyson Whitehead ([EMAIL PROTECTED] -- WSC-) Computer Engineer Dept. of Applied Mathematics, Graduate Student- Applied Mathematics University of Western Ontario, GnuPG Key ID# 0x8A2AB5D8 London, Ontario

Re: Finished threads remain as zombies on 2.6?

the different proc accounting though. -T -- Tyson Whitehead ([EMAIL PROTECTED] -- WSC-) Computer Engineer Dept. of Applied Mathematics, Graduate Student- Applied Mathematics University of Western Ontario, GnuPG Key ID# 0x8A2AB5D8 London, Ontario, Canada

Re: Finished threads remain as zombies on 2.6?

). Weired. Is pthread implemented significantly different on the Alpha (i.e., spawning full process instead of light weight ones), or is the kernel just messed up? Later -T PS: compile with gcc -o threadtest threadtest.c -lpthread -- Tyson Whitehead ([EMAIL PROTECTED] -- WSC-) Computer

Re: modules.conf maintenance

driver loaded. - -- Tyson Whitehead ([EMAIL PROTECTED] -- WSC-) Computer Engineer Dept. of Applied Mathematics, Graduate Student- Applied Mathematics University of Western Ontario, GnuPG Key ID# 0x8A2AB5D8 London, Ontario, Canada -BEGIN PGP

Re: ISA and ES18XX Patches for Alpha

this to this list because someone on it a while ago was asking about the second patch and the AWE card (an ISA issue -- the above ISA comments apply). - -- Tyson Whitehead ([EMAIL PROTECTED] -- WSC-) Computer Engineer Dept. of Applied Mathematics, Graduate Student- Applied

Printing in KDE Broken?

an update to the latest unstable this morning -- that didn't help)? Thanks! -T - -- Tyson Whitehead (-twhitehe at uwo.ca -- WSC-) Computer EngineerDept. of Applied Mathematics, Graduate Student- Applied MathematicsUniversity of Western Ontario, GnuPG Key ID# 0x8A2AB5D8

Re: Kernel upgrade

system)... - -- Tyson Whitehead ([EMAIL PROTECTED] -- WSC-) Computer Engineer Dept. of Applied Mathematics, Graduate Student- Applied Mathematics University of Western Ontario, GnuPG Key ID# 0x8A2AB5D8 London, Ontario, Canada -BEGIN PGP

Re: Please test new kernel-image-2.6.10-alpha packages

for the work. It's great to feel like your SCSI controller is being supported again. *grin* - -T - -- Tyson Whitehead (-twhitehe at uwo.ca -- WSC-) Computer EngineerDept. of Applied Mathematics, Graduate Student- Applied MathematicsUniversity of Western Ontario

ES18XX

- -- Tyson Whitehead (-twhitehe at uwo.ca -- WSC-) Computer EngineerDept. of Applied Mathematics, Graduate Student- Applied MathematicsUniversity of Western Ontario, GnuPG Key ID# 0x8A2AB5D8 London, Ontario, Canada -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version

Re: loadmodules file in initrd.img contains 'modprobe qlogicisp' - WAS: Please test new kernel-image-2.6.10-alpha packages (fwd)

the initrd file). - -T - -- Tyson Whitehead (-twhitehe at uwo.ca -- WSC-) Computer EngineerDept. of Applied Mathematics, Graduate Student- Applied MathematicsUniversity of Western Ontario, GnuPG Key ID# 0x8A2AB5D8 London, Ontario, Canada -BEGIN PGP

Re: New Installer ReiserFS

2.4.20-pre4/ext3: Fix truncate restart error o 2.4.20-pre4/ext3: Performance fix for O_SYNC behaviour o ext3 __FUNCTION__ usage in 2.4 - -- Tyson Whitehead (-twhitehe at uwo.ca -- WSC-) Computer EngineerDept. of Applied Mathematics, Graduate Student- Applied

Re: USB Hardware

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Thanks for all the USB info responsesl Have a good X-Mas all! - -T - -- Tyson Whitehead (-twhitehe at uwo.ca -- WSC-) Computer EngineerDept. of Applied Mathematics, Graduate Student- Applied MathematicsUniversity

USB Hardware

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Does anyone have some advice about what type of USB PCI card to get (so I can expect it to work under Debian on a PWS500au). I recall someone saying a while ago that USB under Alpha was not so well supported? Thanks! - -T - -- Tyson Whitehead

Re: updated kernels / miata sound?

version (2.6.8 and greater I think) you also have add an include line into one of the files to get it to compile (I think it was '#include linux/mm.h' in pcm_native.c or '#include asm/io.h' in pcm_memory.c -- that's really stretching the memory though). Later! - -T - -- Tyson Whitehead

Re: ES18xx with alsa-sound and kernel-2.6.x ?

/mm.h' in pcm_native.c or '#include asm/io.h' in pcm_memory.c -- that's really stretching the memory though). Later! - -T - -- Tyson Whitehead (-twhitehe at uwo.ca -- WSC-) Computer EngineerDept. of Applied Mathematics, Graduate Student- Applied Mathematics

Re: new guy again

-reconfigure xserver-xfree86' to redo your X configuration. - -T PS: A 'cat /var/log/XFree.0.log' will give you more info on why the X server failed. - -- Tyson Whitehead ([EMAIL PROTECTED] -- WSC-) Computer Engineer Dept. of Applied Mathematics, Graduate Student

Re: audio playback with 2.6.8 kernel....

... - -T - -- Tyson Whitehead ([EMAIL PROTECTED] -- WSC-) Computer Engineer Dept. of Applied Mathematics, Graduate Student- Applied Mathematics University of Western Ontario, GnuPG Key ID# 0x8A2AB5D8 London, Ontario, Canada -BEGIN PGP

Re: reiser4 kernel patch....

the resulting drivers though, so don't know about runtime. Maybe you want to try that. I also have a vague recollection, from reading newsgroups, about something about needing to having to have the new 8K stacks enabled (or something like that) -- don't know any details. - -T - -- Tyson Whitehead

Re: reiser4 kernel patch....

the the mm4 solution, ifdefing it out, may result in Reiser4 filesystems created on 64bit platforms not being compatible with those on 32bit... Yur __attribute__((packed)) would be the correct solution in this case. - -T - -- Tyson Whitehead ([EMAIL PROTECTED] -- WSC-) Computer Engineer

Re: Re: Re: Miata

something to do with isapnp that's brings down your box (i.e. maybe it will load without crashing your box if you do a 'modprobe es18xx isapnp=0')? - -T - -- Tyson Whitehead ([EMAIL PROTECTED] -- WSC-) Computer EngineerDept. of Applied Mathematics, Graduate Student- Applied

Re: Miata Kernel 2.6.x

with out it crashing), but you then get play back looping, I have a patch. - -- Tyson Whitehead ([EMAIL PROTECTED] -- WSC-) Computer EngineerDept. of Applied Mathematics, Graduate Student- Applied MathematicsUniversity of Western Ontario, GnuPG Key ID# 0x8A2AB5D8

Re: kernel-image-2.6.6-1-generic problems

thing (i.e. one version of it was not stripped). If that's the case, just do an update. - -T - -- Tyson Whitehead ([EMAIL PROTECTED] -- WSC-) Computer Engineer Dept. of Applied Mathematics, Graduate Student- Applied Mathematics University of Western Ontario

Re: Strange SCSI controller

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On June 21, 2004 20:59, Steve Langasek wrote: On Wed, Jun 16, 2004 at 04:47:36PM -0400, Tyson Whitehead wrote: Now if we can get whatever patch is stopping my CMD IDE controller from working revoked as well, and my ALSA patch for the ES18xx

Re: kernel-image packages for alpha in need of testing

) described by a 21142 Serial PHY (2) block. tulip0: Index #4 - Media MII (#11) described by a 21142 MII PHY (3) block. tulip0: MII transceiver #5 config status 784d advertising 01e1. eth0: Digital DS21143 Tulip rev 48 at 0x9000, 00:00:F8:75:A3:EE, IRQ 24. - -T - -- Tyson Whitehead ([EMAIL

Re: kernel-image packages for alpha in need of testing

source of interest and download a corresponding stock copy from kernel.org as well. Copy 'arch/alpha/kernel/core_cia.c' from the stock kernel to the Debian kernel and build away. - -T - -- Tyson Whitehead ([EMAIL PROTECTED] -- WSC-) Computer Engineer Dept. of Applied

Re: Miata Kernel 2.6.x

kernel images to boot. Root and the rest of my system is reiserfs. PPPS: I did have problems with the CMD646 controller (on the motherboard) corrupting my IDE drives. - -- Tyson Whitehead ([EMAIL PROTECTED] -- WSC-) Computer EngineerDept. of Applied Mathematics

Re: Strange SCSI controller

(rev 01) - -- Tyson Whitehead ([EMAIL PROTECTED] -- WSC-) Computer EngineerDept. of Applied Mathematics, Graduate Student- Applied MathematicsUniversity of Western Ontario, GnuPG Key ID# 0x8A2AB5D8 London, Ontario, Canada -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE

Re: Strange SCSI controller

a search on google and you will see people being constantly referenced to it). The company/link seems to have gone under though. - -T - -- Tyson Whitehead ([EMAIL PROTECTED] -- WSC-) Computer Engineer Dept. of Applied Mathematics, Graduate Student- Applied Mathematics

Re: kernel-image packages for alpha in need of testing

ago. Did an update the other day, and the current version (unstable) seems to be stripped again (18MB-1MB). - -T - -- Tyson Whitehead ([EMAIL PROTECTED] -- WSC-) Computer Engineer Dept. of Applied Mathematics, Graduate Student- Applied Mathematics University

Re: Alpha Miata IDE disk problem

controller. - -T - -- Tyson Whitehead ([EMAIL PROTECTED] -- WSC-) Computer Engineer Dept. of Applied Mathematics, Graduate Student- Applied Mathematics University of Western Ontario, GnuPG Key ID# 0x8A2AB5D8 London, Ontario, Canada -BEGIN PGP

Re: Recent kernels and DMA/Interrupt problems

them by custom compiling a kernel without my specific chipset support (i.e. just generic IDE support). I guess the IDE controller (a CMD646) is pretty buggy and removing support for it from my kernel stops the enabling of anything other than the most generic features. - -T - -- Tyson

Monitoring Files

[3380]: New DirWatch for /tmp (802 e459) famd[3380]: New FileWatch for 802 e459 famd[3380]: told dnotify to monitor /tmp = dev 8/2, ino 58457 famd: Event.c++:119: char Event::code() const: Assertion `code != '?'' failed. Aborted - -T - -- Tyson Whitehead ([EMAIL PROTECTED] -- WSC-) Computer

Re: How to handle the -mieee SIGFPE problem in normal Debian packages

. If the code only does finite math, and you wish to generate (potentially) more optimized code specify - -ffinite-math-only. (if code that requires support for NaNs and infs is being compiled with - -ffinite-math-only, then it is time for a bug report *grin*) - -T - -- Tyson Whitehead ([EMAIL

Re: How to handle the -mieee SIGFPE problem in normal Debian packages

in the testing distribution has already been patched (a patched gcc is easily identified by checking the gcc man page for a DEBIAN SPECIFIC part under -mieee). - -- Tyson Whitehead ([EMAIL PROTECTED] -- WSC-) Computer EngineerDept. of Applied Mathematics, Graduate

IEEE Floating Point on Alpha

. This code sets the FPU to map denormals and underflows to zero (i.e. code compiled with -ffast-math does not SIGFPE over denormals). - -- Tyson Whitehead ([EMAIL PROTECTED] -- WSC-) Computer EngineerDept. of Applied Mathematics, Graduate Student- Applied Mathematics

Re: SIGFPE resolution?

at the GCC source level) -- Tyson Whitehead ([EMAIL PROTECTED] -- WSC-) Computer EngineerDept. of Applied Mathematics, Graduate Student- Applied MathematicsUniversity of Western Ontario, GnuPG Key ID# 0x8A2AB5D8 London, Ontario, Canada

Re: Rookie questions

instead it works very fine) Emacs defaults to no mouse wheel. You can turn it on. M-x customize Pick Environment. Pick Mouse. Toggle Mouse Wheel Mode. Pick Save for Future Sessions and Set for Current Session. -T -- Tyson Whitehead ([EMAIL PROTECTED] -- WSC-) Computer Engineer

Re: boot time order of scsi disks

If you compile the drivers as modules you can probably determine the order they appear in by setting the order in which you load the drivers. Doing this will probably require editing your /boot/initrd.img-2.4.xx image. -T -- Tyson Whitehead ([EMAIL PROTECTED] -- WSC-) Computer Engineer

Re: Debian alpha install with reiserfs support

the second partition and then use resize_reiserfs to extend the file system to fill it up. -- Tyson Whitehead ([EMAIL PROTECTED] -- WSC-) Computer EngineerDept. of Applied Mathematics, Graduate Student- Applied MathematicsUniversity of Western Ontario, GnuPG Key ID

Re: boot a newer kernel than a 2.2.x

The 500au's have a pretty buggy IDE controller (the CMD646). You might want to try a kernel that has not been compiled generic IDE support to stop automatic enabling of DMAs, etc. I know stock 2.4.21 dies if I compile in CMD support. -T -- Tyson Whitehead ([EMAIL PROTECTED] -- WSC

Re: Bug#212912: gcc-3.3: [alpha] Linux linker/loader does not support -mieee-conformant

, but from what I have seen, the OVERRIDE_OPTIONS macro looks like it might do what you are looking for. Possibly someone with could code this up as an additional patch. In the meantime, you can always specify -mno-ieee. Later -T -- Tyson Whitehead ([EMAIL PROTECTED] -- WSC-) Computer

Re: No sound on PWS500au (miata)

developer group a few months ago, but don't know if anything was ever made of it. Possibly it could also be of some relivance to anyone interested in 2.5/2.6 kernels (didn't Linus make ALSA the official sound system somewhere in the 2.5 releases) on the PWS500's. -T -- Tyson Whitehead ([EMAIL

Re: How to stop boot in SRM ??

starts to load the kernel image, you still have a chance. Ctrl+p (if I recall correctly) will get aboot to abort and give you back control... -T -- Tyson Whitehead ([EMAIL PROTECTED] -- WSC-) Computer EngineerDept. of Applied Mathematics, Graduate Student- Applied

Re: SRM_ENV Module Question

On Friday 01 August 2003 02:39, Jan-Benedict Glaw wrote: On Thu, 2003-07-31 12:47:01 -0400, Tyson Whitehead [EMAIL PROTECTED] Does anyone know how to clear/unset SRM variables using the SRM_ENV module? What machine is it? What SRM version do you have? A PWS500au. SRM version 7.0-11

Re: Konqueror and Javascript

. For example: Package: kdelibs-bin Pin: version 3.1.1-1 -T PS: Pinning a package overflows to other packages through package dependencies. -- Tyson Whitehead ([EMAIL PROTECTED] -- WSC-) Computer EngineerDept. of Applied Mathematics, Graduate Student- Applied Mathematics

Re: evolution , mozilla, -segfaults with -unstable update?

(unstable) a working version would once again appear on my system. It's been quite a while now. Am I mistaken in this assumption? -T -- Tyson Whitehead ([EMAIL PROTECTED] -- WSC-) Computer EngineerDept. of Applied Mathematics, Graduate Student- Applied Mathematics

Re: Konqueror and Javascript

responded (July 23): BEGIN: Tyson Whitehead (1) This has been the status quo on alpha since the beginning of time. Not just with GCC, but with DEC C as well. Why change now? Default IEEE vs default non-IEEE compliance isn't a big deal if the OS supplies both IEEE conformant

Re: Miata MX, can't boot past 2.4.18

back and forth *grin*). Later -T -- Tyson Whitehead ([EMAIL PROTECTED] -- WSC-) Computer EngineerDept. of Applied Mathematics, Graduate Student- Applied MathematicsUniversity of Western Ontario, GnuPG Key ID# 0x8A2AB5D8 London, Ontario, Canada

SRM_ENV Module Question

Does anyone know how to clear/unset SRM variables using the SRM_ENV module? The only thinking I could think of, 'echo -n /proc/srm_environment/named_variables/boot_osflags', doesn't seem to work... Thanks Later -T -- Tyson Whitehead ([EMAIL PROTECTED] -- WSC-) Computer Engineer

Re: Kernel trouble again, 2.6.0-test

think 'make help', or something like that, will give you the options) Later -T -- Tyson Whitehead ([EMAIL PROTECTED] -- WSC-) Computer Engineer Dept. of Applied Mathematics, Graduate Student- Applied Mathematics University of Western Ontario, GnuPG Key ID

Re: artsd on alpha

to be recompiled with -mieee. See the eariler thread on SIGFPE and -mieee (starts in June) on lists.debian.org/debian-alpha for more info. Later -T -- Tyson Whitehead ([EMAIL PROTECTED] -- WSC-) Computer EngineerDept. of Applied Mathematics, Graduate Student

Re: AW: installing kernel-image

file on the first partition. Use 'abootconf /dev/sda 2' to change that to the second partition. You will have to change the /dev/sda bit to your correct boot device. -T -- Tyson Whitehead ([EMAIL PROTECTED] -- WSC-) Computer Engineer Dept. of Applied Mathematics

Re: AW: installing kernel-image

as the second paramater. The program modifies the configuration info in the aboot image that resides on the first several sectors of the drive. -- Tyson Whitehead ([EMAIL PROTECTED] -- WSC-) Computer EngineerDept. of Applied Mathematics, Graduate Student- Applied

Re: PWS500au Mic

, and they're set properly. If you are using the ALSA drivers (don't know about OSS) you have to turn on capturing on the right line. Run alsamixer and press space on the line you want to capture (in your case, probably either Mic or Line). -T -- Tyson Whitehead ([EMAIL PROTECTED] -- WSC

Re: SIGFPE and -mieee

gcc, shortly. Comments? Suggestions? Thanks -T PS: Incidentally, I checked both LAPACK and BLAS (on which ATLAS is based). They are currently both being compiled with -mieee. -- Tyson Whitehead ([EMAIL PROTECTED] -- WSC-) Computer EngineerDept. of Applied

Re: SIGFPE and -mieee

the package maintainers. *grin* -- Tyson Whitehead ([EMAIL PROTECTED] -- WSC-) Computer EngineerDept. of Applied Mathematics, Graduate Student- Applied MathematicsUniversity of Western Ontario, GnuPG Key ID# 0x8A2AB5D8 London, Ontario, Canada

Re: SIGFPE and -mieee

(on which optimization, etc, are performed) and the final translation into actual machine specific assembler. Later -T -- Tyson Whitehead ([EMAIL PROTECTED] -- WSC-) Computer EngineerDept. of Applied Mathematics, Graduate Student- Applied MathematicsUniversity

Re: Konqueror and Javascript

. -- Tyson Whitehead ([EMAIL PROTECTED] -- WSC-) Computer EngineerDept. of Applied Mathematics, Graduate Student- Applied MathematicsUniversity of Western Ontario, GnuPG Key ID# 0x8A2AB5D8 London, Ontario, Canada

Re: 2.4.21 on alpha

with a newline on the end (the other ones don't seem to care). Maybe you should try: echo -n BOOT /proc/srm_environment/named_variables/auto_action Later -T -- Tyson Whitehead ([EMAIL PROTECTED] -- WSC-) Computer Engineer Dept. of Applied Mathematics, Graduate

Re: 2.4.21 on alpha

: So far 2.4.21 (with CMD64X disabled) hasn't corrupted any data for the IDE drives yet... (course I'm mostly using a SCSI drive now) -- Tyson Whitehead ([EMAIL PROTECTED] -- WSC-) Computer Engineer Dept. of Applied Mathematics, Graduate Student- Applied Mathematics

Re: 2.4.21 on alpha

image, it's easiest just to compile in the drivers for your SCSI/IDE system and not use initrd. -- Tyson Whitehead ([EMAIL PROTECTED] -- WSC-) Computer Engineer Dept. of Applied Mathematics, Graduate Student- Applied Mathematics University of Western Ontario

ES18xx and IRQ problem

in the alsa drivers guys and gals (or at least the es18xx driver -- I haven't looked at the rest *grin*). I'm impressed. Great job! PPS: The alternative code seems to handle the mixer as well (or, at least, I can still change my mixer settings and hear the results). :-) -- Tyson Whitehead

Re: SIGFPE and -mieee

or one of the libraries it depends on (or both) that has to be compiled with -mieee. This makes for a very time consuming cycle of recompilations. -- Tyson Whitehead ([EMAIL PROTECTED] -- WSC-) Computer EngineerDept. of Applied Mathematics, Graduate Student- Applied

Re: SIGFPE and -mieee

are supported and not work by chance. That sounds like a good reason. :) Later -T -- Tyson Whitehead ([EMAIL PROTECTED] -- WSC-) Computer EngineerDept. of Applied Mathematics, Graduate Student- Applied MathematicsUniversity of Western Ontario, GnuPG Key ID# 0x8A2AB5D8

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