Re: NFS v2 attribute problem with 2.2.18?

2000-12-12 Thread Jens-Uwe Mager
It would help a lot more if you ran tcpdump with "-s 1500" or some similar large number. As Neil points out truncated packets do not help, so the trace again with -s 1500 as an argument to tcpdump: 13:48:05.395685 ramses.helios.de.1693569633 ans.nfs: 132 lookup fh 9,65537/2147693539 "xxx"

how to capture long oops w/o having second machine

2000-12-12 Thread Mohammad A. Haque
What's the best way to capture (manually or otherwise) a rather long oops that scrolls off my console without having a second machine? I'm gonna try to compile in a framebuffer and use a high resolution and see if that'll hold it all when I get back later today. --

PROBLEM: cdrom doesnt work anymore with 2.4

2000-12-12 Thread Matthias Czapla
Hi. I have a quite old cdrom drive, called Cyberdrive 240D. With linux 2.2.17 it worked with soemtimes odd behavior, but it worked. With 2.4.0-test11 I can mount cdroms in it but if I want to access it (eg. ls, cd...) I get messages like: _isofs_bmap: block = EOF (1096810496, 2048) or

Re: PROBLEM: cdrom doesnt work anymore with 2.4

2000-12-12 Thread Chmouel Boudjnah
Matthias Czapla [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Hi. I have a quite old cdrom drive, called Cyberdrive 240D. With linux 2.2.17 it worked with soemtimes odd behavior, but it worked. With 2.4.0-test11 I can mount cdroms in it but if I want to access it (eg. if you use the kernel-rpm you report it

2.4.0-test12 unresolved SCSI symbols

2000-12-12 Thread Bob_Tracy
Someone else mentioned the problem in a different context, so this report isn't exactly new... LOTS of unresolved symbols in several SCSI modules. Here's the list for "st.o": scsi_unregister_module scsi_block_when_processing_errors scsi_release_request scsi_do_req scsi_allocate_request

Re: how to capture long oops w/o having second machine

2000-12-12 Thread Xavier Bestel
What's the best way to capture (manually or otherwise) a rather long oops that scrolls off my console without having a second machine? I'm gonna try to compile in a framebuffer and use a high resolution and see if that'll hold it all when I get back later today. shift+pageup ? Xav - To

Re: how to capture long oops w/o having second machine

2000-12-12 Thread Tigran Aivazian
On 12 Dec 2000, Xavier Bestel wrote: What's the best way to capture (manually or otherwise) a rather long oops that scrolls off my console without having a second machine? I'm gonna try to compile in a framebuffer and use a high resolution and see if that'll hold it all when I get

Re: how to capture long oops w/o having second machine

2000-12-12 Thread Mohammad A. Haque
No go. Xavier Bestel wrote: shift+pageup ? -- = Mohammad A. Haque http://www.haque.net/ [EMAIL PROTECTED] "Alcohol and calculus don't mix.

Re: kernel error

2000-12-12 Thread Erik Mouw
On Tue, Dec 12, 2000 at 12:53:33PM +0100, jordi wrote: I try to upgrade my 2.2.5-17 kernel to 2.4-test11 but when I put make modules_install and it is in pcmacia module the make crash because it put -F option. when I see the syntax not appear this option and I don't have a answer? You

Re: [PATCH] remove warning from drivers/net/hp100.c (240-test12-pre7)

2000-12-12 Thread Rasmus Andersen
On Mon, Dec 11, 2000 at 06:09:31PM -0600, Peter Samuelson wrote: [Rasmus Andersen] How about this patch? It moves the offending struct to the __init function where it is used and inside an existing #ifdef CONFIG_PCI. H, if you're messing around with the pci device table, why not

ds problem ?

2000-12-12 Thread Maciej Bogucki
HI! I have IBM NETFINITY 5100 server with 2.4.0-test12-pre8 . When I run it I got : After : "NET4: Unix domain sockets 1.0/SMP for Linux NET4.0." i have get : "ds: no socket drivers loaded!" I don't think it is serious problem . Regards Maciej Bogucki, Network Administrator --- 3dart.com /

PROBLEM: USB (MS Intellimouse specifically) does not work with SMP Linux 2.2.18.

2000-12-12 Thread Laramie Leavitt
[1.] One line summary of the problem: USB (MS Intellimouse specifically) does not work with SMP kernel 2.2.18. [2.] Full description of the problem/report: When trying to install a Microsoft Intellimouse Explorer (USB) to a SMP kernel, I get the following error multiple times: usb.c: USB device

Re: UP 2.2.18 makes kernels 3% faster than UP 2.4.0-test12

2000-12-12 Thread Mike Galbraith
On Tue, 12 Dec 2000, Rik van Riel wrote: On Mon, 11 Dec 2000, Steven Cole wrote: Building kernels is something we do so frequently and this test is so easy to reproduce is why I performed it in the first place. I think it may be as good a test of real performance as some of the more

Re: how to capture long oops w/o having second machine

2000-12-12 Thread Mohammad A. Haque
Someone gave me a really awesome idea about possibly using a palm pilot to capture the oops. Anyone know if it will be a problem using /dev/ttyUSB0 as the serial port? Baiscally if I want to duplicate the environment in which I'm getting the oops, I need to be dialed out. That takes out COM1. I

Build failure in 2.2.18

2000-12-12 Thread root
I've just patched and reconfigured to 2.2.18 (from 2.2.17 on an i686-linux-gnu[2.2]). make bzImage fails with: make[1]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/linux-2.2.18/arch/i386/lib' cc -D__KERNEL__ -I/usr/src/linux/include -E -C -P -I/usr/src/linux/include -imacros

followup: 2.4.0-test12 unresolved SCSI symbols

2000-12-12 Thread Bob_Tracy
The quick (not necessarily correct) fix is to back out that portion of the linux/drivers/scsi/Makefile patch that moves "scsi_syms.o" from line 33 to line 126. "It works for me." (tm) -- Bob Tracy[EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: UP 2.2.18 makes kernels 3% faster than UP 2.4.0-test12

2000-12-12 Thread Steven Cole
Helge Hafting wrote: Steven Cole wrote: [...] Simple question here, and risking displaying great ignorance: Does it make sense to use make -jN where N is much greater than the number of CPUs? No, but it makes sense to have N at least one more than the number of cpus, if you have the memory.

[BUG] raid5 crash with 2.4.0-test12 [Was: Linux-2.4.0-test12]

2000-12-12 Thread Jasper Spaans
On Mon, Dec 11, 2000 at 06:52:55PM -0800, Linus Torvalds wrote: Ok, there it is. Noticeable changes from pre8 are mainly (a) new tq list compile fixes and (b) the NetApp snapshot thing. - final: - Neil Brown: raid and md cleanups Hmm, while doing some not-so-heavy things with a

Re: PROBLEM: cdrom doesnt work anymore with 2.4

2000-12-12 Thread Guest section DW
On Tue, Dec 12, 2000 at 02:17:04PM +0100, Matthias Czapla wrote: I have a quite old cdrom drive, called Cyberdrive 240D. With linux 2.2.17 it worked with soemtimes odd behavior, but it worked. With 2.4.0-test11 I can mount cdroms in it but if I want to access it (eg. ls, cd...) I get

[PATCH] make config w/ Pentium-II

2000-12-12 Thread Matthew Wilcox
I built 2.4.0-test10 for my laptop and got caught out by `make config'. When I typed `Pentium-II' for my CPU type, it selected Pentium-III and my kernel wouldn't boot. To prevent errors of this type, please apply this patch. As a bonus, `Celeron' will now work as an answer too. Please apply.

Re: ANNOUNCE: Linux Kernel ORB: kORBit

2000-12-12 Thread Michael Rothwell
josef höök wrote: What about implementing 9P instead That would rock. Plan9 is unix done the right way -- i.e., the fully consistent way. I'd love to see 9p in Linux. We're heading that direction anyway, with procfs, devfs, etc. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe

Re: how to capture long oops w/o having second machine

2000-12-12 Thread Wakko Warner
What's the best way to capture (manually or otherwise) a rather long oops that scrolls off my console without having a second machine? I'm gonna try to compile in a framebuffer and use a high resolution and see if that'll hold it all when I get back later today. Tried using a printer?

Swapping-over-nbd deadlock fixed?

2000-12-12 Thread Jeff Garzik
I see in the 2.2.18 release notes that a deadlock, related to swapping over a network via nbd, was fixed. Is this bug present in 2.4.x-test? -- Jeff Garzik | Building 1024 | These are not the J's you're lookin' for. MandrakeSoft| It's an old Jedi mind trick. - To

Re: how to capture long oops w/o having second machine

2000-12-12 Thread Petr Vandrovec
On 12 Dec 00 at 13:31, Tigran Aivazian wrote: I'm gonna try to compile in a framebuffer and use a high resolution and see if that'll hold it all when I get back later today. shift+pageup ? the problem with Shift-PgUP is that all the framebuffer drivers I tried (matrox, ati, vesa)

Re: Swapping-over-nbd deadlock fixed?

2000-12-12 Thread Marcelo Tosatti
On Tue, 12 Dec 2000, Jeff Garzik wrote: I see in the 2.2.18 release notes that a deadlock, related to swapping over a network via nbd, was fixed. Is this bug present in 2.4.x-test? The bug is not related to swapping via nbd. The problem happens because the allocation code (kmalloc) which

Re: Swapping-over-nbd deadlock fixed?

2000-12-12 Thread Rik van Riel
On Tue, 12 Dec 2000, Jeff Garzik wrote: I see in the 2.2.18 release notes that a deadlock, related to swapping over a network via nbd, was fixed. Is this bug present in 2.4.x-test? It _should_ be fixed in 2.4 as well. Then again, I don't know if there are any other deadlocks left .. ;)

[PATCH] generic_serial's block_til_ready

2000-12-12 Thread Patrick van de Lageweg
Hi Linus, This patch renames the block_til_ready of generic serial to gs_block_til_ready. it helps when other modules have a "static block_til_ready" defined when used older modutils. Patrick diff -r -u linux-2.4.0-test10.clean/drivers/char/generic_serial.c

[NEW DRIVER] New user space serial port driver

2000-12-12 Thread Patrick van de Lageweg
Hi Linus, Please consider including this user space serial driver. It was writen for the Perle 833 RAS Server but can also be used for other serial devices more appropriately driven from a userspace program. Patrick diff -u -r --new-file

[NEW DRIVER] firestream

2000-12-12 Thread Patrick van de Lageweg
Hi Linus, This is the driver for the Fujitsu Firestream atm cards (fs50 and fs155). Please consider including this driver in the tree. Thanks Patrick diff -u -r --new-file linux-2.4.0-test11.clean/Documentation/Configure.help linux-2.4.0-test11.fs50/Documentation/Configure.help ---

PROBLEM: Inode0 in /proc/net/unix (2.2.16)

2000-12-12 Thread sigmunds
[1.] Inode0 in /proc/net/unix (2.2.16) [2.] I found that Inode in /proc/net/unix often is less than zero on a debian system with a 2.2.16 kernel. If I understand correctly, this should not happen. I haven't found any mention of this anywhere. The corresponding values in the filesystem and in

Re: [PATCH] ide-pci.c: typo

2000-12-12 Thread Matthew Kirkwood
On Mon, 11 Dec 2000, Frédéric L . W . Meunier wrote: I disagree with the patch. The bug is in printk No problem. So, it's a bug report instead. I have no clues, and just thought it'd be a fix :) Not sure if 2.2.17 reported the double %% from syslog. I usually look at my dmesg. If it

Re: [PATCH] generic_serial's block_til_ready

2000-12-12 Thread Nick Holloway
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Patrick van de Lageweg) writes: This patch renames the block_til_ready of generic serial to gs_block_til_ready. it helps when other modules have a "static block_til_ready" defined when used older modutils. Do you mean older than the version specified as being required

[PATCH] unresolved symbols in ext2.o (2.4.0-test12)

2000-12-12 Thread raubitsj
Below is a patch i need to fix two unresolved symbols when ext2 was compiled as a module. -jeff --- linux-2.4.0-test12/kernel/ksyms.c Tue Dec 12 11:19:17 2000 +++ linux/kernel/ksyms.cTue Dec 12 11:18:57 2000 @@ -252,6 +252,8 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL(lock_may_read);

Re: [PATCH] generic_serial's block_til_ready

2000-12-12 Thread Jeff Garzik
Nick Holloway wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Patrick van de Lageweg) writes: This patch renames the block_til_ready of generic serial to gs_block_til_ready. it helps when other modules have a "static block_til_ready" defined when used older modutils. Do you mean older than the version

OOPS on i586 2.4.0-test9

2000-12-12 Thread Thilo Mezger
Hi, i've just discovered this oops in my logs. it's a plain red hat linux 7 system with all updates applied (incl. glibc 2.2). the kernel running is a stock 2.4.0-test9. i have no idea what could have caused this oops but i'm running an onstream di-30 tape streamer with the ide-tape.c driver.

Re: how to capture long oops w/o having second machine

2000-12-12 Thread Greg KH
On Tue, Dec 12, 2000 at 09:34:30AM -0500, Mohammad A. Haque wrote: Someone gave me a really awesome idea about possibly using a palm pilot to capture the oops. Anyone know if it will be a problem using /dev/ttyUSB0 as the serial port? Baiscally if I want to duplicate the environment in

Re: 2.4.0-test12 not liking high disk i/o

2000-12-12 Thread Niels Kristian Bech Jensen
On Tue, 12 Dec 2000, Mohammad A. Haque wrote: Any one else experiencing problems when they do lots of disk activity in test12? Yes, I've had some complete freezes (nothing working at all) in test12-pre8 and test12. They can be triggered by e.g. Netscape. test12-pre7 seems to be stable. --

Re: 2.4.0-test12 not liking high disk i/o

2000-12-12 Thread Petr Vandrovec
On 12 Dec 00 at 17:43, Niels Kristian Bech Jensen wrote: On Tue, 12 Dec 2000, Mohammad A. Haque wrote: Any one else experiencing problems when they do lots of disk activity in test12? Yes, I've had some complete freezes (nothing working at all) in test12-pre8 and test12. They can be

PROBLEM: SMP, SCSI and test11,12 cause repeatable oops

2000-12-12 Thread Aron Rosenberg
Hello All, this is my first bug report so bear with me (I'm trying to follow the directions.) This was sent to linux-smp, linux-scsi, but no answer Alright, I hope this helps everybody! Aron Rosenberg [EMAIL PROTECTED] Video Conferencing for Linux http://cu30.sourceforge.net begin Bug report

Re: [linux-usb-devel] PROBLEM: USB (MS Intellimouse specifically) does not work with SMP Linux 2.2.18.

2000-12-12 Thread Greg KH
On Tue, Dec 12, 2000 at 02:07:59PM -, Laramie Leavitt wrote: [1.] One line summary of the problem: USB (MS Intellimouse specifically) does not work with SMP kernel 2.2.18. [2.] Full description of the problem/report: When trying to install a Microsoft Intellimouse Explorer (USB) to a

Re: 2.4.0-test12 not liking high disk i/o

2000-12-12 Thread ferret
Can you tell us what controller chipset you have (output of lspci should be fine) and if your hard drive has DMA or uDMA enabled? There have been a few other reports of oopsen and fs corruption during periods of high interrupt activity. Mine seems to occur whenever I saturate my local network

Re: [linux-usb-devel] PROBLEM: USB (MS Intellimouse specifically) does not work with SMP Linux 2.2.18.

2000-12-12 Thread Johannes Erdfelt
On Tue, Dec 12, 2000, Laramie Leavitt [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [1.] One line summary of the problem: USB (MS Intellimouse specifically) does not work with SMP kernel 2.2.18. [2.] Full description of the problem/report: When trying to install a Microsoft Intellimouse Explorer (USB) to a SMP

Still eth0: trigger_send() called with the transmitter busy in 2.4.0-test12

2000-12-12 Thread Juan
Hi! This error exists since 2.4.0-test10preX or so. It occurs when the network interface is activated. I'm using RedHat 7.0 and my ethernet card is a "Kingston EtheRx KNE20 Plug and Play ISA Adapter". I'm unable to access the Internet because the ethernet card doesn't work :-(. Besides, the

Re: 2.4.0-test12 not liking high disk i/o

2000-12-12 Thread Pete Toscano
well, i hate to be piling on here, but i just encountered this (i think it's this) this morning. i was printing a 145+m file (to /dev/lp0) from an ide drive and it locked up. just before the lockup, i noticed it was very sluggish, as if it were under very heavy load (which is really wasn't).

[PATCH] local APIC and NMI watchdog on UP P6 systems

2000-12-12 Thread Mikael Pettersson
An updated version of the UP-APIC patch for Intel P6 processors is now available at: http://www.csd.uu.se/~mikpe/linux/upapic/ The current version is intended for 2.4.0-test12 final. This version is based on Ingo Molnar's upapic-2.4.0-test9-F8 patch, with add-on patches from Maciej W.

2.4.0-test12 won't boot in my Pentium 100Mhz,32MB RAM, SIS motherboard computer

2000-12-12 Thread Juan
It hangs after "Booting the kernel.ok" Bye!!! -- D. Juan Piernas Cánovas Departamento de Ingeniería y Tecnología de Computadores Facultad de Informática. Universidad de Murcia Campus de Espinardo - 30080 Murcia (SPAIN) Tel.: +34968367657Fax: +34968364151 email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] PGP

A workload to detect fs corruption?

2000-12-12 Thread Lorenzo Allegrucci
http://www.eecs.harvard.edu/~keith/usenix96/aging.tar.gz It's a good and 100% reproducible workload, I think. BTW, does test12 solve the fs corruption once and for all? -- Lorenzo - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL

Re: [linux-usb-devel] PROBLEM: USB (MS Intellimouse specifically) does not work with SMP Linux 2.2.18.

2000-12-12 Thread Pete Toscano
what mobo/chipset are you using? i and a bunch of other people have been having very similar problems with this and the 2.4.0-test kernels. we all use the tyan tiger 133 mobo with the apollo pro 133a chipset. i believe that the 2.2.18 usb support has been pulled from the 2.4.0-test source, so

Re: 2.4.0-test12 not liking high disk i/o

2000-12-12 Thread Mohammad A. Haque
i440BX is consistent with mine as is running the drive at UDMA33. It happened when I decided to copy old 18GB IDE disk to new 40GB IDE one (both UDMA33, one (18GB src) as primary master, one (40GB dst) as secondary master; i440BX). --

Re: how to capture long oops w/o having second machine

2000-12-12 Thread Andreas Bombe
On Tue, Dec 12, 2000 at 09:34:30AM -0500, Mohammad A. Haque wrote: Someone gave me a really awesome idea about possibly using a palm pilot to capture the oops. Anyone know if it will be a problem using /dev/ttyUSB0 as the serial port? The driver itself has to provide support for serial

Re: UP 2.2.18 makes kernels 3% faster than UP 2.4.0-test12

2000-12-12 Thread Steven Cole
On Monday 11 December 2000 11:46, Alan Cox wrote: Its an interesting demo that 2.4 has some performance problems since 2.2 is slower than 2.0 although nowdays not much. Results for SMP 2.2.18 vs SMP 2.4.0-test12 are in. I repeated my earlier tests on a much faster dual P-III machine.

[OOPS] 2.4.0-test12 with heavy file manipulation

2000-12-12 Thread Olivier Cahagne
(please CC me when replying as I follow this list on the Web) [1.] One line summary of the problem: 2.4.0-test12 non-fatal oops while copying files or doing shell file name completion. [2.] Full description of the problem/report: With 2.4.0-test12, I got a non reproducible oops after having

Re: 2.4.0-test12 not liking high disk i/o

2000-12-12 Thread Niels Kristian Bech Jensen
On Tue, 12 Dec 2000, Mohammad A. Haque wrote: i440BX is consistent with mine as is running the drive at UDMA33. It happened when I decided to copy old 18GB IDE disk to new 40GB IDE one (both UDMA33, one (18GB src) as primary master, one (40GB dst) as secondary master; i440BX). My system

NFSv3 Bugreport

2000-12-12 Thread Dennis Johannßen
NFSv3-Kernel-Server: Debian potato linux-2.2.16 mount-2.10f NFSv3-Kernel-Client(-Support) Debian woodylinux-2.4.0-test10 mount-2.10q There is a Bootwarning message, when the /etc/init.d/mountnfs.sh script

Re: [BUG] raid5 crash with 2.4.0-test12 [Was: Linux-2.4.0-test12]

2000-12-12 Thread Linus Torvalds
On Tue, 12 Dec 2000, Jasper Spaans wrote: On Mon, Dec 11, 2000 at 06:52:55PM -0800, Linus Torvalds wrote: Ok, there it is. Noticeable changes from pre8 are mainly (a) new tq list compile fixes and (b) the NetApp snapshot thing. - final: - Neil Brown: raid and md cleanups

Re: Bad behavior of recv on already closed sockets.

2000-12-12 Thread kuznet
Hello! It would be better to understand the issue f.e. trying to restore the history of this descriptor. How to do this? I mean what should I do to provide you with more information? I do not know exactly. It depends on curcumstances, frequency of the stalls and... your luck. 8)

2.2.16 SMP: mtrr errors

2000-12-12 Thread Paul C. Nendick
Please cc: any responses to my email address [EMAIL PROTECTED] My setup -A standard install of RedHat 7.0 with the 2.2.16smp w/ hand compiled X 4.0.1 to support xinerama -Tyan tiger 133 s1834 motherboard (VIA Apollo Pro133A Chipset) -256mb PC133 RAM -Two 800 Mhz PIII eb Slot-1 CPU's -Matrox

Re: [BUG] raid5 crash with 2.4.0-test12 [Was: Linux-2.4.0-test12]

2000-12-12 Thread Jasper Spaans
On Wed, Dec 13, 2000 at 06:56:22AM +1100, Neil Brown wrote: Guilt by association :-) What this bit of code (complete_stripe/raid5_end_buffer_io) is doing is observing that it as completed some I/O request that was made of the raid5 device and is calling the b_end_io on the buffer_head that

Re: 2.2.16 SMP: mtrr errors

2000-12-12 Thread John Cavan
kernel: mtrr: base(0xd400) is not aligned on a size(0x180) boundary last message repeated 2 times and finally: %cat /proc/mtrr reg00: base=0x ( 0MB), size= 256MB: write-back, count=1 reg01: base=0xd000 (3328MB), size= 64MB: write-combining, count=1 reg02:

Re: UP 2.2.18 makes kernels 3% faster than UP 2.4.0-test12

2000-12-12 Thread Steven Cole
On Tuesday 12 December 2000 11:40, Linus Torvalds wrote: On Tue, 12 Dec 2000, Steven Cole wrote: Executive summary: SMP 2.4.0 is 2% faster than SMP 2.2.18. I ran X and KDE 2.0 during the tests to provide a greater though reproducable load on the tested kernel. You might want to do the

Re: 2.2.16 SMP: mtrr errors

2000-12-12 Thread Paul C. Nendick
See my answers inline below. /paul Mark Hahn ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) said: kernel: mtrr: base(0xd400) is not aligned on a size(0x180) boundary X is trying to set an mtrr for the framebuffer. the odd thing is that its trying to set a 24M mtrr, which is pretty strange. what does

Re: [PATCH] mdacon.c cleanup

2000-12-12 Thread David Woodhouse
[EMAIL PROTECTED] said: Both MODULE_PARM and __init are removed by precompiler when not compiler as module, so no need for ifdefs. 2.4.0-test12pre8 -#ifdef MODULE_PARM MODULE_PARM(mda_first_vc, "1-255i"); MODULE_PARM(mda_last_vc, "1-255i"); -#endif That was #ifdef MODULE_PARM not #ifdef

Re: UP 2.2.18 makes kernels 3% faster than UP 2.4.0-test12

2000-12-12 Thread Linus Torvalds
On Tue, 12 Dec 2000, Steven Cole wrote: Task: make -j3 bzImage for 2.4.0-test12-pre7 kernel tree. Actually, do it with make -j3 'MAKE=make -j3' bzImage A single "-j3" won't do much. It will only build three directories at a time, and you'll never see much load. But doing it

Re: how to capture long oops w/o having second machine

2000-12-12 Thread Mohammad A. Haque
Nope, this didn't fly. Would have been neat if it did work. Maybe it can be made to work for future use? On Tue, 12 Dec 2000, Greg KH wrote: I don't know if /dev/ttyUSBX would work, but I think it would. People have successfully run consoles through the usb-serial drivers, but I'm not sure

Re: 2.2.16 SMP: mtrr errors

2000-12-12 Thread Petr Vandrovec
On 11 Dec 00 at 14:00, Paul C. Nendick wrote: -Matrox g450 32MB RAM dual-heal AGP video card w/ hand compiled X driver from matrox Make sure you do not use either matroxfb or XFree's driver... Same chip ID, but different ramdac :-( and immediately after starting X: kernel: mtrr:

2.2.18: Configuration documentation

2000-12-12 Thread Riley Williams
Hi Alan. I've just done a comparison of the configuration variables listed in the config.in files against those listed in the Configure.help file. I have enclosed the bash script I wrote to perform this analysis, and would like to submit it for inclusion with the kernel as the file...

2.2.18: Patch to SysRq code

2000-12-12 Thread Riley Williams
Hi Alan. The enclosed patch deals with two problems relating to the Magic SysRq function, as follows: 1. One of my pet peeves with SysRq as implemented is the apparently random order theoptions as listed in the SysRq help list. This patch sorts that list into case-insensitive

Re: pdev_enable_device no longer used ?

2000-12-12 Thread David S. Miller
Date: Tue, 12 Dec 2000 20:17:21 +0100 (CET) From: Gérard Roudier [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Mon, 11 Dec 2000, David S. Miller wrote: Tell me one valid use of this information first :-) SCRIPTS. Have a look into my kind :-) response to Martin. Ok, this I understand. b) If you

Re: PATCH: linux-2.4.0-test12pre8/include/linux/module.h breaks sysklogd compilation

2000-12-12 Thread Frank van Maarseveen
On Mon, Dec 11, 2000 at 07:53:05PM -0600, Peter Samuelson wrote: [Mohammad A. Haque] Wasn't there discussion that user space apps shouldn't include kernel headers? Oh, it's been discussed, many times. Here is my executive summary of why nobody needs to use kernel headers in userspace

Re: how to capture long oops w/o having second machine

2000-12-12 Thread Miles Lane
Try reading: http://www.linuxhq.com/kernel/v2.3/doc/oops-tracing.txt.html It mentions: Patch the kernel with one of the crash dump patches. These save data to a floppy disk or video rom or a swap partition. None of these are standard kernel patches so you have to find

Re: 2.2.16 SMP: mtrr errors

2000-12-12 Thread John Cavan
Petr Vandrovec wrote: kernel: mtrr: base(0xd400) is not aligned on a size(0x180) boundary last message repeated 2 times For some strange reason X thinks that you have 24MB of memory on the G450. You can either create 32MB write-combining region at 0xd400, or teach X that your

Re: 2.2.16 SMP: mtrr errors

2000-12-12 Thread Alan Cox
Petr, the Matrox card splits the memory between the two video screens when running in a multi-head configuration and "pretends" that it is two distinct cards. Thus, a 32 mb card will register an mtrr for 24mb and for 8mb seperately when in this mode. That is a driver bug. The intel

Re: ANNOUNCE: Linux Kernel ORB: kORBit

2000-12-12 Thread Chris Lattner
On Sat, 9 Dec 2000, Mohammad A. Haque wrote: It was just an example. Basically, you'd be able to do in with just about any language that has ORBit bindings. Ben Ford wrote: Why would you *ever* want to write a device driver in perl??? Precisely... but also, there could be a case where

Re: PROBLEM: cdrom doesnt work anymore with 2.4

2000-12-12 Thread Matthias Czapla
On Die, Dez 12, 2000 at 04:15:44 +0100, Guest section DW wrote: On Tue, Dec 12, 2000 at 02:17:04PM +0100, Matthias Czapla wrote: I have a quite old cdrom drive, called Cyberdrive 240D. With linux 2.2.17 it worked with soemtimes odd behavior, but it worked. With 2.4.0-test11 I can mount

Re: pdev_enable_device no longer used ?

2000-12-12 Thread Gérard Roudier
On Tue, 12 Dec 2000, David S. Miller wrote: Date: Tue, 12 Dec 2000 20:17:21 +0100 (CET) From: Gérard Roudier [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Mon, 11 Dec 2000, David S. Miller wrote: Tell me one valid use of this information first :-) SCRIPTS. Have a look into my kind :-)

Re: pdev_enable_device no longer used ?

2000-12-12 Thread Gérard Roudier
On Tue, 12 Dec 2000, Martin Mares wrote: Hello! It is the bar cookies in pci dev structure that are insane, in my opinion. If a driver needs BARs values, it needs actual BARs values and not some stinking cookies. What a driver can do with BAR cookies other than using them as

Re: pdev_enable_device no longer used ?

2000-12-12 Thread Gérard Roudier
On Mon, 11 Dec 2000, David S. Miller wrote: Date: Mon, 11 Dec 2000 23:07:01 +0100 (CET) From: Gérard Roudier [EMAIL PROTECTED] So, if you want to fix this insane PCI interface: 1) Provide the _actual_ BARs values in the pci dev structure, otherwise drivers that need

Re: how to capture long oops w/o having second machine

2000-12-12 Thread Greg KH
On Tue, Dec 12, 2000 at 06:13:39PM +0100, Andreas Bombe wrote: On Tue, Dec 12, 2000 at 09:34:30AM -0500, Mohammad A. Haque wrote: Someone gave me a really awesome idea about possibly using a palm pilot to capture the oops. Anyone know if it will be a problem using /dev/ttyUSB0 as the

Re: 2.2.16 SMP: mtrr errors

2000-12-12 Thread Paul C. Nendick
Shall I submit this to Matrox as a bug then? /paul Alan Cox ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) said: Petr, the Matrox card splits the memory between the two video screens when running in a multi-head configuration and "pretends" that it is two distinct cards. Thus, a 32 mb card will register an mtrr

Re: UP 2.2.18 makes kernels 3% faster than UP 2.4.0-test12

2000-12-12 Thread Steven Cole
On Tuesday 12 December 2000 13:38, Linus Torvalds wrote: On Tue, 12 Dec 2000, Steven Cole wrote: Task: make -j3 bzImage for 2.4.0-test12-pre7 kernel tree. Actually, do it with make -j3 'MAKE=make -j3' bzImage A single "-j3" won't do much. It will only build three directories at a

VM problem (2.4.0-test11)

2000-12-12 Thread Jussi Laako
Hello, Would it be possible to implement some VM CPUtime/bandwidth limitation? We have server used by multiple developers. Problem is when someone happens to implement memory hole to application the system goes wild swapping and ALL other activity stops. No response to keyboard/mouse events nor

EMU10K1 not working under 2.2.18 (fwd)

2000-12-12 Thread kees
Hello, I have a SMP mobo MSI 694D with (2xPIII667MHz). Under 2.2.18 the EMU10K1 *is* recognised (var/log/boot) 6Creative EMU10K1 PCI Audio Driver, version 0.6, 18:26:49 Dec 6 2000 6emu10k1: EMU10K1 rev 8 model 0x8027 found, IO at 0xe400-0xe41f, IRQ 18 But produce no mixer device for instance.

Re: [PATCH] mdacon.c cleanup

2000-12-12 Thread Pavel Rabel
On Tue, 12 Dec 2000, David Woodhouse wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: Both MODULE_PARM and __init are removed by precompiler when not compiler as module, so no need for ifdefs. 2.4.0-test12pre8 -#ifdef MODULE_PARM MODULE_PARM(mda_first_vc, "1-255i"); MODULE_PARM(mda_last_vc,

2.4.0-test12 doesn't start under vmware

2000-12-12 Thread Thomas Kotzian
I compiled linux-2.4.0-test12 without any problems: it does: Lilo: loading v240t12 . Uncompressing Linux... Ok, booting the kernel. then it is in an endless loop i think because vmware uses all cpu-power. First I start in Grub, from there i start Lilo and then the kernel. - maybe there's

Re: [BUG] raid5 crash with 2.4.0-test12 [Was: Linux-2.4.0-test12]

2000-12-12 Thread Jasper Spaans
On Tue, Dec 12, 2000 at 11:06:07AM -0800, Linus Torvalds wrote: Dec 12 14:04:50 spaans kernel: invalid operand: Dec 12 14:04:50 spaans kernel: CPU:1 Dec 12 14:04:50 spaans kernel: EIP:0010:[end_buffer_io_bad+85/92] Dec 12 14:04:50 spaans kernel: Call Trace:

Re: VM problem (2.4.0-test11)

2000-12-12 Thread Marc Mutz
Jussi Laako wrote: Hello, Would it be possible to implement some VM CPUtime/bandwidth limitation? snip Just to not miss the obvious: You know about ulimit(3)? man 3 ulimit help ulimit (when in bash). Marc -- Marc Mutz [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://EncryptionHOWTO.sourceforge.net/

[PATCH] timer.h obsolete comments

2000-12-12 Thread Pavel Rabel
Hi Linus, Are the old static timers gone completely? Some comments are either obsolete or out of place. Pavel Rabel --- include/linux/timer.h.old Tue Dec 12 22:07:35 2000 +++ include/linux/timer.h Tue Dec 12 22:09:28 2000 @@ -5,13 +5,9 @@ #include linux/list.h /* - * This is

Re: pdev_enable_device no longer used ?

2000-12-12 Thread David S. Miller
Date: Tue, 12 Dec 2000 21:28:18 +0100 (CET) From: Gérard Roudier [EMAIL PROTECTED] You can be as dump as you want with PCI, but not that much. :-) Your point is well taken. Btw, unlike the person, that proposed it, that will be able to test peer-to-peer unability only, my

Re: [BUG] raid5 crash with 2.4.0-test12 [Was: Linux-2.4.0-test12]

2000-12-12 Thread Neil Brown
On Tuesday December 12, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, Dec 12, 2000 at 11:06:07AM -0800, Linus Torvalds wrote: To get better debug output, could you please do something for me? In fs/buffer.c, get rid of "end_buffer_io_bad" completely, and replace all users of it with NULL.

Re: how to capture long oops w/o having second machine

2000-12-12 Thread dean gaudet
i've always been curious why none of the crash dump patches are default. an oops dumper alone would seem to be most useful. (i know anything more would be unacceptable 'cause linus isn't into debuggers ;) -dean On Tue, 12 Dec 2000, Miles Lane wrote: Try reading:

Re: VM problem (2.4.0-test11)

2000-12-12 Thread Jussi Laako
Marc Mutz wrote: Just to not miss the obvious: You know about ulimit(3)? Yes, but it doesn't stop deadlocks caused by kernel's VM system going wild... I think that no matter what user process does, root should be always able to stop it. User process should never be able to render whole system

Re: how to capture long oops w/o having second machine

2000-12-12 Thread Mohammad A. Haque
Wouldn't you know it. I've patched my kernel with kdb and now I can't get it to throw up. Maybe it'll do it once this mail gets sent out like it did last time. I'd prefer a dumper also. I went and grabbed LKCD but it didn't patch cleanly against test12 so I decided against it. dean gaudet

Re: Build failure in 2.2.18

2000-12-12 Thread Keith Owens
On Tue, 12 Dec 2000 09:39:31 -0500, root [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I've just patched and reconfigured to 2.2.18 (from 2.2.17 on an i686-linux-gnu[2.2]). make bzImage fails with: ld:/usr/src/linux/arch/i386/vmlinux.lds:73: parse error /* Stabs debugging sections. */ . stab 0 : { *(.stab)

2.2.18 vs Inspiron

2000-12-12 Thread Bob Lorenzini
There was some discusion lately re: Dell Inspiron FB probs. The bad news is the ATI Mach64 display support is still broken but just selecting VESA VGA graphics console is working fine. The patient is a Dell Inspiron I7500 1050x1450 display, vga = 794. Bob - To unsubscribe from this list: send

Re: Dropping chars on 16550

2000-12-12 Thread Igmar Palsenberg
Use handshaking Heh...do what I did. Go on eBay and pick up a Hayes ESP card. Hmm.. High speed comm is fine here, as long is I use handshaking. If I don't, I'll loose chars. I have a fairly weak system by todays standards, and I found that even with a 16550 serial port, I'd get tcp/ip

Re: Linux 2.2.18 release notes

2000-12-12 Thread Igmar Palsenberg
- metrics -- L1 cacheline size is the important one: you align array elements to this size when you want a per-cpu array, so that multiple CPUs do not share a cacheline for accessing their "own" structure. Proper alignment avoids "cacheline ping-pong", as it's called, whenever two

Re: [BUG] raid5 crash with 2.4.0-test12 [Was: Linux-2.4.0-test12]

2000-12-12 Thread Neil Brown
On Tuesday December 12, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, 13 Dec 2000, Neil Brown wrote: Could you add this test to the top of md_make_request as well, because requests to raid5 don't go through generic_make_request. Sure they do. Everything that calls ll_rw_block() or submit_bh()

RE: Signal 11 - the continuing saga

2000-12-12 Thread Rainer Mager
Hi again, Ok, I just upgraded to 2.4.0test12 (although I don't think there was any work in 12 that directly addresses this signal 11 problem). When compiling the new kernel I chose to disable AGPGart and RDM as suggested by [EMAIL PROTECTED] I will report later if this makes any

Re: 2.2.18 vs Inspiron

2000-12-12 Thread James Simmons
There was some discusion lately re: Dell Inspiron FB probs. The bad news is the ATI Mach64 display support is still broken but just selecting VESA VGA graphics console is working fine. The patient is a Dell Inspiron I7500 1050x1450 display, vga = 794. Ah the infamous Rage Mobility

National Semiconductor DP83815 ethernet driver?

2000-12-12 Thread Torrey Hoffman
I am wondering about the current status of a driver for the NS83815 ethernet chip. From searching Google, I know some sort of driver exists. In July, Adam J. Richter ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) posted a 2.2.16 driver he obtained from Dave Gotwisner at Wyse Technologies. And Tim Hockin mentioned that he

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