Re: starfire NIC driver on alpha
On Sat, 2007-03-10 at 01:33 -0800, Steve Langasek wrote: Norbert said he was going to contact the upstream maintainer of the driver, but there's no information about what came of that. Unfortunately I never got a reply. Norbert -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Alpha SMP status
* James Andrewartha wrote: Thanks again to the alpha maintainers, and extra thanks if you can sneak a fix for bug 402253 in before etch (I even included a patch ;-). Patch added, thanks. Norbert -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Failed installing linux-image-2.6.17-2-alpha-smp
* acon wrote: scsi_transport_fc: Unknown symbol scsi_target_block scsi_transport_fc: Unknown symbol scsi_is_target_device scsi_transport_fc: Unknown symbol scsi_target_unblock scsi_transport_fc: Unknown symbol scsi_queue_work scsi_transport_fc: Unknown symbol scsi_is_host_device scsi_transport_fc: Unknown symbol scsi_scan_target scsi_transport_fc: Unknown symbol scsi_flush_work scsi_transport_fc: Unknown symbol scsi_remove_target This bug was fixed in 2.6.18-2, upgrade and try again. Norbert -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Bug#397139: ftbfs alpha + ia64
* Falk Hueffner wrote: This updated patch instead of alpha-no-ev4-directive.patch should help: Are you going to add this patch to the next gcc-4.1 upload? Norbert -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: testing wanted: debian-installer, now with 2.6.15
* Norbert Tretkowski wrote: * Jay Estabrook wrote: Tried the netinstall CD from 02/07/06 on LX164, and found the following: 1. installer used 2.6.15 kernel with LEGACY_START option 2. installed kernel 2.4.27 with LEGACY_START option Neither of those will boot on DS15/DS25/ES45 (among others) because of the LEGACY_START. AFAIK, all SRM console machines will boot kernels without LEGACY_START. Yupp, my fault. This was discussed a while back already, but I forgot about it. I'll disable LEGACY_START for the -generic flavour next weekend... Only MILO-based machines require LEGACY_START. ... and introduce a new flavour for MILO-based machines. http://people.debian.org/~nobse/kernel/linux-2.6/ The -generic and -alpha flavours have LEGACY_START_ADDRESS disabled, the -legacy flavour enabled. Norbert -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: testing wanted: debian-installer, now with 2.6.15
* Jay Estabrook wrote: Tried the netinstall CD from 02/07/06 on LX164, and found the following: 1. installer used 2.6.15 kernel with LEGACY_START option 2. installed kernel 2.4.27 with LEGACY_START option Neither of those will boot on DS15/DS25/ES45 (among others) because of the LEGACY_START. AFAIK, all SRM console machines will boot kernels without LEGACY_START. Yupp, my fault. This was discussed a while back already, but I forgot about it. I'll disable LEGACY_START for the -generic flavour next weekend... Only MILO-based machines require LEGACY_START. ... and introduce a new flavour for MILO-based machines. Norbert -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: 2.6 kernel on pws433au
* Patrick Caulfield wrote: Has anyone got a recentish 2.6.x kernel to work on a pws433au box? Yes. All the latest Debian kernels get as far as identifying the SCSI disks then start kicking out IO errors and SCSI reset messages. ISP1040? To make matters worse they seem to corrupt the superblock of the root FS too so I have to boot the installer (which runs 2.4 and seems to be fine) and e2fsck it before it will boot off that disk again. That's with the the Debian kernels 2.6.10 2.6.11. When I tried to compile my own 2.6.14.4 kernel it failed to link :( There's 2.6.15 in unstable, which has a known problem with XFS, but works fine else. Norbert -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: 2.6 kernel on pws433au
* Wouter Rademaker wrote: # Patrick Caulfield sprak: Mine has no USB, an Qlogic ISP1020 SCSI card (which I think is the problem, cos the drivers for that card have always been a bit dodgy IME) ISP1020 was a bit problematic with kernels = 2.6.9, but since 2.6.10, the driver for the ISP1280 supports the ISP1020 too, and works fine. 2.6.8 from sarge had a backport of the ISP1280 driver too. Norbert -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Re: 2.6.14 kernel build attempt
* Freels, James D. wrote: I am not sure if the error message I am receiving is because it can't find the root, but it could be. It sounds to me like it can't find the console? Because /dev/console is on your root filesystem. Norbert -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Re: 2.6.14 kernel build attempt
* Freels, James D. wrote: This patch allowed the 2.6.14 kernel to compile and build for me on my first alpha. However, when it tried to boot, it got midway into the process and first a warning message that there is no initial console, then right after that, a kernel panic - no syncing: No init found. How do I correct this issue ? The kernel can't access the root filesystem, make sure you have support for your IDE/SCSI controller and the filesystem used for your root filesystem into the kernel (or added to the initrd if you're using one). Norbert -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: 2.6.14 kernel build attempt
* Freels, James D. wrote: Here is the error message below. Does anyone know how to correct this problem? Use this patch, which is part of 2.6.14-2 from unstable: --- 2.6.14-rc5-git6/include/asm-alpha/barrier.h Wed Oct 26 14:43:16 2005 +++ linux/include/asm-alpha/barrier.h Wed Oct 26 15:03:47 2005 @@ -1,6 +1,8 @@ #ifndef __BARRIER_H #define __BARRIER_H +#include asm/compiler.h + #define mb() \ __asm__ __volatile__(mb: : :memory) This patch was posted on the kernel mailinglist two days before 2.6.14 got released, not sure why it wasn't added to the final release. Regards, Norbert -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Netapp-Filer F720
* Thomas Brunner wrote: i am wondering if a netapp-filer F720 will run with Debian or some other Alpha-compatible operating System? No idea for alpha based filers, but a friend of mine booted a linux kernel on an x86 based netapp cacher by accident a while ago, and it worked. Norbert -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Installing kernel 2.6
* Loic Domaigne wrote: However, I wasn't sucessfull so far to find out how I tell d-i to install the 2.6.8 kernel instead of the default 2.4.27 kernel. Can perhaps someone enlight me? Not possible. Install the system with 2.4.27, and then upgrade to 2.6.8. Norbert -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: 2.6.11?
* Carlos Rodrigues wrote: So, I just wanted to know if there is going to be a 2.6.11 kernel image or something like that, and if so, if it will be soon or not. Not that it's important, just want to know. :) http://people.debian.org/~nobse/kernel/alpha/kernel-image-2.6.11-alpha/ Norbert -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: 2.6.11?
* Carlos Rodrigues wrote: So, I just wanted to know if there is going to be a 2.6.11 kernel image or something like that, and if so, if it will be soon or not. Not that it's important, just want to know. :) I think I'll find time during next week to finish and upload 2.6.11 kernel images. Norbert -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: booting from CD on Alphastation 255
* Steve Langasek wrote: On Sat, Apr 02, 2005 at 02:04:12PM +0200, Uwe Schindler wrote: The only problem with 2.6.8 and 2.6.10 here was a problem with irq handling. In idle mode the kernel crashes sometimes in function handle_IRQ_event (not in a driver!). Looking into the code I find out that alpha was the only platform where this function diffs from all other architectures (relict from 2.4.x?). After replacing the C code in this function with the x86 code the kernel runs fine (file: arch/alpha/kernel/irq.c). Ah, that sounds like the crash I was seeing, though it triggered only when running hotplug. Do you have a patch for this that could be sent to the Debian kernel maintainers? Uwe sent me that patch already, unfortunately I had no time to take a closer look at it. Norbert -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Debian Net Install - how to start expert mode / 2.6 Kernel from SRM
* Matt Simis wrote: Norbert Tretkowski [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote * Steve Langasek wrote: There are no 2.6 kernels available for the current version of debian-installer. I'm currently working on linux-kernel-di-alpha-2.6. Any idea on when this installer will be available? It will definitely take some more time, I have quite less spare time currently. Norbert -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Debian Net Install - how to start expert mode / 2.6 Kernel from SRM
* Steve Langasek wrote: On Tue, Feb 15, 2005 at 11:30:39PM -, Matt Simis wrote: Wondering how exactly one starts expert mode and or pass the linux26 command (Kernel 2.6) for the Alpha Net Installer. I need to do this as I want to boot from a IDE drive but install on a SATA drive on a DP264 (SRM) There are no 2.6 kernels available for the current version of debian-installer. I'm currently working on linux-kernel-di-alpha-2.6. Norbert -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: ES40 fails to boot daily build net-install
* Michael Galloway wrote: was wanting to play with current builds on one of me ES40 boxes and find it fails to boot. was using the netinstall image from: http://cdimage.debian.org/pub/cdimage-testing/daily/alpha/current/ and booting from SRM console with boot dqa0 -flags 0 boot process hangs at the starting kernel line. Sorry, that was my fault. In a moment of insanity I changed the kernel configurations so ext2fs support was built as module. Fatal, because d-i uses ext2fs initrds. I'll upload new kernel-image-2.4.27-alpha and linux-kernel-di-alpha packages soon. Norbert -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: ES40 fails to boot daily build net-install
* Norbert Tretkowski wrote: * Michael Galloway wrote: was wanting to play with current builds on one of me ES40 boxes and find it fails to boot. was using the netinstall image from: http://cdimage.debian.org/pub/cdimage-testing/daily/alpha/current/ and booting from SRM console with boot dqa0 -flags 0 boot process hangs at the starting kernel line. Sorry, that was my fault. In a moment of insanity I changed the kernel configurations so ext2fs support was built as module. Fatal, because d-i uses ext2fs initrds. Duh... I should read mails more carefully before answering... your problem doesn't look like the described ext2fs problem. Steve said on IRC that we may have some problems with booting our kernels on Tsunami-class machines, not just on Titan-based machines (see http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=265831 for some details). Norbert -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: hung DS10 - WAS: Please test new kernel-image-2.6.10-alpha packages
* Toni L. Harbaugh-Blackford [Contr] wrote: ERROR: SCSI host `isp1020' has no error handling ERROR: This is not a safe way to run your SCSI host ERROR: The error handling must be added to this driver fc00015d7df8 fffc0038c500 fffc0035e920 fffc0035e920 fc003fe0c000 fffc0035e920 fc003fe0c000 fc00 fc00015d7e40 fc00015d7e40 fc003fe0c000 fc5a4500 fc003fe0c000 fffc0035208c fffc0035e920 fc5a4500 fffc0035e920 fffc002ec04c fffc0035e920 fc5a4500 fffc0035e9f0 fc5a4500 fc5a48e8 Trace: [fc34e0c4] sys_init_module+0x284/0x3e0 [fc310b34] entSys+0xa4/0xc0 Could you please retry it again with the qla1280 driver? This should fix that problem. Norbert -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Please test new kernel-image-2.6.10-alpha packages
* Uwe Schindler wrote: if ext3 is working without oops I could make a test when I have time. It's working without oops on my machines, and I already got positive feedback about the new kernel-images. Norbert -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Built 2.6.8 kernel without ext3 bug and working qlogic driver
* Norbert Tretkowski wrote: I'll take a closer look at your patch next weekend. OK... using the qla1280 backport from 2.6.10 _and_ the printk line in fs/ext3/super.c seems to fix the problem. I'll add these two patches to kernel-source-2.6.8. Packages of the next kernel-image-2.6.8-alpha upload with those two patches applied: http://people.debian.org/~nobse/kernel/alpha/kernel-image-2.6.8-alpha/ (Still uploading...) Norbert
Re: Built 2.6.8 kernel without ext3 bug and working qlogic driver
* Uwe Schindler wrote: What about the problems with initrd after switching to the new kernel without qlogicisp? Or does the new kernel contain both drivers? It contains both drivers, but I think we'll change the driver from qlogicisp to qla1280 with the next initrd-tools upload. Norbert
Re: Built 2.6.8 kernel without ext3 bug and working qlogic driver
* Uwe Schindler wrote: [...] After building the kernel and restarting I had no problems and no warnings with error handling. Hmm, interesting... I already prepared kernel-images with that patch from Christoph Hellwig, but I got replies that it also doesn't work. I already gave the qla1280 driver from 2.6.10 a try, but it seemed broken too, at least on one of my machines. I'll take a closer look at your patch next weekend. Norbert
Re: 2.6.8-1-generic kernel on Alphastation 500/500 still without EXT3, mm/slab.c bug, no LVM
* Uwe Schindler wrote: Is there a kernel image of 2.6 available without this bug? Unfortunately, no. Norbert
Re: ext3 module loaded, but can't mount ext3? WAS - Re: any 2.6.x kernel for a DS10?
* Steve Langasek wrote: Jan-Jaap van der Heijden wrote: Is there a special reason that ext2 is not a module? Yes, ext2 is frequently used as the fs type for initrds themselves (at least by debian-installer). Any plans for a 2.6 d-i flavour for sarge? If not, we could build ext2 as module in the 2.6 kernel-images. Norbert
Re: ext3 module loaded, but can't mount ext3? WAS - Re: any 2.6.x kernel for a DS10?
* Toni L. Harbaugh-Blackford [Contr] wrote: Why would I not be allowed to mount an ext3 filesystem when the modules are loaded? As I said already, this sounds like bug #261893. http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=261893 Norbert
Re: any 2.6.x kernel for a DS10 with NCR 53C895 and QLogic ISP10x0 ?
* Toni L. Harbaugh-Blackford [Contr] wrote: I just installed sarge on this box using the alpha rc1 netinst image. But I had to use the 2.4.26-1-generic kernel because the 2.6.6-1-generic failed on the reboot. There are kernel-images for 2.6.8 in testing, please try these, this sounds like a known bug. Norbert
Re: sarge scsi timeout
* Sebastian Außenhofer wrote: just tried to install sarge from cd on my PWS500au. Installation went fine but after reboot there is still a scsi timeout. Is there a workaround for this problem? i used the sarge iso from 7th aug 04. Using a newer snapshot will probably help. Norbert
problem with kernel-images
Hi, I tried to use Herbert's precompiled kernel-images on my pws 433au, but booting failed with the following messages: , | RAMDISK: cramfs filesystem found at block 0 | RAMDISK: image too big! (4968/4096 blocks) | VFS: Cannot open root device sda2 or unknown-block(0,0) | Please append a correct root= boot option | Kernel panic: VFS: Unable to mount root fs on unknown-block(0,0) ` This happens with 2.6.0-test9-1-generic and 2.6.0-test11-1-generic, but not with my own compiled kernels. The root= boot option is correct, and the initrd option is also added to the aboot config file. Any hints? Norbert
Re: Debian Install Compaq Alpha XP1000
* Marcio Gustavo Di Vernieri Cuppari [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I am trying to install debian in a Compaq ALpha XP 1000. I am booting through the SRM console using a CD made with jigdo. This machine has 2 SCSI disks and the systams freezes when probing SCSI hardware. Which kernel are you using? -- - nt
Re: Alpha Tempurature
* Zachary Giles [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Is there any way to get cpu tempurature monitoring of the alpha, and if so, what would an acceptable tempurature be for an alpha? I don't know such a tool, I only recognized that the CPU from my 433au is very hot. It's only passive cooled, and I thought about an additional fan for the CPU. I know the acceptable tempurature for an intel-like chip is around 40C. Perhaps It's different for alpha? My workstation's CPU temperature (AMD Duron 850 MHz) is about 40C, it ascends up to 60C under high load.
Framebuffer for TGA2
Hi, I have a 433au, with a DEC TGA2 Graphiccard. Is it somehow possible to use framebuffer with this card? Kernel documentation says, that TGA2 is not supported, but that file is dated from 2000. Regards, Norbert
