Re: [OT] Major Clock Drift

2001-02-03 Thread Manfred Bartz
Josh Myer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I know this _really_ isn't the forum for this, but a friend of mine has > noticed major, persistent clock drift over time. After several weeks, the > clock is several minutes slow (always slow). Any thoughts on the > cause? (Google didn't show up anything

Re: ATAPI CDRW which doesn't work

2001-02-03 Thread patrick . mourlhon
Be happy, it was not that simple. ;-) On Sat, 03 Feb 2001, Bob_Tracy wrote: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > mount atapi cd writer outpu > > > > Line:/mnt/home/pmo# mount /dev/hdb /cdrom > > /dev/hdb: Input/output error > > mount: block device /dev/hdb is write-protected, mounting read-only

Re: ATAPI CDRW which doesn't work

2001-02-03 Thread patrick . mourlhon
You were my best hope, cause i did something similar for a Hp 720c on parallel port, and it worked. I did excatly what you've just said. But the whole thing still doesn't work properly. I finally could mount the device, then read the first root directory. But couldn't get more... always got

Re: "kaweth" usb ethernet driver in 2.4?

2001-02-03 Thread Michael Rothwell
On 03 Feb 2001 14:22:02 -0600, Eric Sandeen wrote: > The driver is included with the USB stuff for 2.2, but not in 2.4. That's because we stopped fooling with 2.4 around the middle of the pre-test-ac series of releases. We'll probably pick it back up around 2.4.7 or so. > It also doesn't

Re: [patch?] RAMFS

2001-02-03 Thread Mike Galbraith
On Sat, 3 Feb 2001, Mike Galbraith wrote: > Hi, > > With the patch below... However, tmpfs appears to cover the functionality provided by ramfs. Are there any uses for ramfs which can't be handled by tmpfs? The only thing I could think of was "what if you don't have a swap device up and

Re: Every Make option ends in error.

2001-02-03 Thread Rusty Russell
In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> you write: > Or even better, if you are going to patch, do a 'cp -rl', and your new ITYM cp -al, and the main benifit (for me) is that diff -urN takes ~10 seconds (cold cache), rather than minutes. Rusty. -- Premature optmztion is rt of all evl. --DK - To

Re: Promise PDC20265, VIA KT133 and corruption

2001-02-03 Thread Nathan Walp
Petr Vandrovec wrote: > > Hi Andre, > if you remember, last week I complained that Promise corrupts data > when I copy them from hdh to hde. Today I did some more experiments > (running 2.4.1-ac1) and found: > > 1) Debian sid's 'cmp' prints incorrect offsets when files differ >in more

[OT] Major Clock Drift

2001-02-03 Thread Josh Myer
Hello all, I know this _really_ isn't the forum for this, but a friend of mine has noticed major, persistent clock drift over time. After several weeks, the clock is several minutes slow (always slow). Any thoughts on the cause? (Google didn't show up anything worthwhile in the first couple of

2.4.2-pre1

2001-02-03 Thread Linus Torvalds
Mainly a number of small details and some driver updates. The socket datagram handling one is important, and has already been posted separately here on linux-kernel. The VIA driver update is rather important if you have one of the newer VIA chipsets. Linus -pre1: - XMM:

Re: PS hanging in 2.4.1 - HAPPENING NOW!!!

2001-02-03 Thread Shawn Starr
Ok, ive added change. Im starting the applications that were running at the time of the hang. XMMS, gnomeicu, a few consoles etc. Let's see what happens. Shawn. Shawn Starr wrote: > Adding now.. I just applied 2.4.1-ac2 and now i'll add this code snipet to the >source. It might take 4 days

Re: PS hanging in 2.4.1 - HAPPENING NOW!!!

2001-02-03 Thread Shawn Starr
Adding now.. I just applied 2.4.1-ac2 and now i'll add this code snipet to the source. It might take 4 days or so for the bug to show itself. At least, unless it triggers eariler (?) Restarting... Shawn. Linus Torvalds wrote: > On Sat, 3 Feb 2001, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > >Feb 3

Re: [reiserfs-list] ReiserFS Oops (2.4.1, deterministic, symlink related)

2001-02-03 Thread John Alvord
On Sat, 03 Feb 2001 00:57:45 -0800, David Ford <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >How about a simple patch to the top level makefile that checks the gcc >version then prints a distinct message ..'this compiler hasn't been approved >for compiling the kernel', sleeping for one second, then continuing on.

Re: PS hanging in 2.4.1 - HAPPENING NOW!!!

2001-02-03 Thread Linus Torvalds
On Sat, 3 Feb 2001, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > >Feb 3 17:57:08 coredump kernel: gnomeicu S CD17 0 9338 1 >(NOTLB)9340 9332 >Feb 3 17:57:08 coredump kernel: Call Trace: [search_by_key+203/3232] >[search_for_position_by_key+170/916] [make_cpu_key+57/64]

Promise PDC20265, VIA KT133 and corruption

2001-02-03 Thread Petr Vandrovec
Hi Andre, if you remember, last week I complained that Promise corrupts data when I copy them from hdh to hde. Today I did some more experiments (running 2.4.1-ac1) and found: 1) Debian sid's 'cmp' prints incorrect offsets when files differ in more than one place if distance > cmp buffer

Re: Fix dependencies for radio-miropcm20

2001-02-03 Thread Robert Siemer
Hi Jocelyn! You wrote: > I made a very little patch to avoid > people complaining that the kernel doesn't compile > properly when trying to use radio miropcm20 driver. > (I've seen some of this in french newsgroups...) > -dep_tristate ' Miro PCM20 Radio' CONFIG_RADIO_MIROPCM20 >

Re: [ANNOUNCE] Linux-NTFS project, first public release

2001-02-03 Thread Michael B. Trausch
On Sat, 3 Feb 2001, Matthew Fredrickson wrote: > > And just as darkness covers the entire earth, a light comes from the > clouds. A voice says, "Behold, this is my beloved son, hear him" > > And then the people didn't need Microsoft anymore. > > :-) > Linux is the way, the truth, and the

Re: [ANNOUNCE] Linux-NTFS project, first public release

2001-02-03 Thread Matthew Fredrickson
On Sun, Feb 04, 2001 at 01:51:43AM +, Anton Altaparmakov wrote: > At 02:42 04/02/2001, you wrote: > >Hell will freeze, and the US will break off from the continental mass and > >sink into the oceans before I think MS will ever endorse Linux > >officially. I could be wrong, but I doubt it. >

Re: [ANNOUNCE] Linux-NTFS project, first public release

2001-02-03 Thread Anton Altaparmakov
At 02:42 04/02/2001, you wrote: >Hell will freeze, and the US will break off from the continental mass and >sink into the oceans before I think MS will ever endorse Linux >officially. I could be wrong, but I doubt it. Well there is that. But why not think positive. You never know. Miracles

Re: [ANNOUNCE] Linux-NTFS project, first public release

2001-02-03 Thread Jeff V. Merkey
On Sun, Feb 04, 2001 at 01:43:54AM +, Anton Altaparmakov wrote: > At 02:02 04/02/2001, Jeff V. Merkey wrote: > >On Sun, Feb 04, 2001 at 12:37:16AM +, Anton Altaparmakov wrote: > >I am noticeable impressed with your ability to address these issues. > > (-: > > >Microsoft would be much

Re: [ANNOUNCE] Linux-NTFS project, first public release

2001-02-03 Thread Anton Altaparmakov
At 02:02 04/02/2001, Jeff V. Merkey wrote: >On Sun, Feb 04, 2001 at 12:37:16AM +, Anton Altaparmakov wrote: >I am noticeable impressed with your ability to address these issues. (-: >Microsoft would be much happier I am certain with a pure Linux solution >for this problem. They have been

Re: PS hanging in 2.4.1 - HAPPENING NOW!!!

2001-02-03 Thread Marko Kreen
On Sat, Feb 03, 2001 at 08:06:08PM -0500, Shawn Starr wrote: > Wasn't on shutdown though ;-) The 'shutdown' as in 'process shutdown' ? _Not_ machine shutdown. > > I was just about to receive a message when things started to lock up slowly. > Then everything else followed. > > Marko Kreen

Re: [ANNOUNCE] Linux-NTFS project, first public release

2001-02-03 Thread Jeff V. Merkey
On Sun, Feb 04, 2001 at 12:37:16AM +, Anton Altaparmakov wrote: Anton, I am noticeable impressed with your ability to address these issues. Microsoft would be much happier I am certain with a pure Linux solution for this problem. They have been incredibly tolerant in allowing me to help

Re: PS hanging in 2.4.1 - HAPPENING NOW!!!

2001-02-03 Thread Shawn Starr
Wasn't on shutdown though ;-) I was just about to receive a message when things started to lock up slowly. Then everything else followed. Marko Kreen wrote: > On Sat, Feb 03, 2001 at 05:48:36PM -0500, Shawn Starr wrote: > > [root@coredump spstarr]# killall -9 gnomeicu > > > > ... waiting... >

Re: PS hanging in 2.4.1 - HAPPENING NOW!!!

2001-02-03 Thread Marko Kreen
On Sat, Feb 03, 2001 at 05:48:36PM -0500, Shawn Starr wrote: > [root@coredump spstarr]# killall -9 gnomeicu > > ... waiting... Could you try it on 2.4.2ac2, I guess its this item: o Fix datagram hang on shutdown (Alexey Kuznetsov) -- marko - To unsubscribe from this

Re: ATAPI CDRW which doesn't work

2001-02-03 Thread Marko Kreen
On Sat, Feb 03, 2001 at 11:05:44PM +0100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Hi, > > I've never could make this CDRW ATAPI to work, if someone could > provide me any clue about the baby. I just said that people on the > kernel mailing list may care of its but. It looks like the baby didn't > even

Re: [reiserfs-list] Re: VM brokenness, possibly related to reiserfs

2001-02-03 Thread David Ford
Chris Mason wrote: > > On Thursday, February 01, 2001 02:16:43 PM -0200 Rik van Riel ><[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> About the system hanging completely, I wonder if it goes >> away by pressing sysrq-S (sync all disks). If it does, >> maybe Reiserfs was blocking all the pages in the inactive

Re: Better battery info/status files

2001-02-03 Thread Albert D. Cahalan
>> The units seem to vary. I suggest using fundamental SI units. >> That would be meters, kilograms, seconds, and maybe a very >> few others -- my memory fails me on this. > > There are lots of SI units, one for each physical dimension > that can be measured. Some of the ones that might apply

Re: [ANNOUNCE] Linux-NTFS project, first public release

2001-02-03 Thread Anton Altaparmakov
At 01:16 04/02/2001, Jeff V. Merkey wrote: >To date, I have provided tools to 7,000+ folks who use this driver that >trash their NTFS partitions. TRG will discontinue distribution of these >tools at this point since Anton has a Linux based version. > >Please do not email me for any more NT based

accept

2001-02-03 Thread Mathieu Dube
What does it typically mean when accept returns 0 and that the perror outputs "Interupted system call"?? Thanks -Mat -- Mathieu Dube Mondo-Live - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line

Re: [ANNOUNCE] Linux-NTFS project, first public release

2001-02-03 Thread Jeff V. Merkey
On Sat, Feb 03, 2001 at 06:14:33PM -0600, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > Thank goodness, it's about time. :-) To date, I have provided tools to 7,000+ folks who use this driver that trash their NTFS partitions. TRG will discontinue distribution of these tools at this point since Anton has a

[SoftwareRAID in 2.4.1] md_import_device() returned -22

2001-02-03 Thread Art Boulatov
Hi, Could anybody please help me to resolve why this error is returned? (md_import_device() returned -22) I'm trying to setup software RAID0 on Asus CUR-DLS (dual channel ULTRA2 SCSI - sym53c896). kernel is pure 2.4.1(SMP), with devfs, sym53c8xx and raid0 support linked in. raidtools are

Re: [ANNOUNCE] Linux-NTFS project, first public release

2001-02-03 Thread Jeff V. Merkey
On Sat, Feb 03, 2001 at 06:14:33PM -0600, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > Thank goodness, it's about time. :-) > Amen. Jeff > On Sat, Feb 03, 2001 at 07:08:44PM +, Anton Altaparmakov wrote: > > This is to announce the first public release of the Linux-NTFS project > > hosted on

Re: [ANNOUNCE] Linux-NTFS project, first public release

2001-02-03 Thread lists
Thank goodness, it's about time. :-) On Sat, Feb 03, 2001 at 07:08:44PM +, Anton Altaparmakov wrote: > This is to announce the first public release of the Linux-NTFS project > hosted on sourceforge. The project page, where you can download the source > code tar ball or rpm as well as

Re: Better battery info/status files

2001-02-03 Thread Jonathan Morton
>The units seem to vary. I suggest using fundamental SI units. >That would be meters, kilograms, seconds, and maybe a very >few others -- my memory fails me on this. There are lots of SI units, one for each physical dimension that can be measured. Some of the ones that might apply here are: -

Re: Better battery info/status files

2001-02-03 Thread Russell King
Albert D. Cahalan writes: > The units seem to vary. I suggest using fundamental SI units. > That would be meters, kilograms, seconds, and maybe a very > few others -- my memory fails me on this. iirc, SI comes from France, and therefore it should be "metres" [flames to /dev/null please] ;) --

Re: Adding PCMCIA support to the kernel tree -- developers needed.

2001-02-03 Thread Miles Lane
Jeff Garzik wrote: > > On Fri, 2 Feb 2001, Miles Lane wrote: > > I asked David Hinds to write up an outline of the things that > > will be needed to get PCMCIA support cleanly and completely > > integrated into the kernel tree. > > > > David has expressed that he'll not be able to participate in

Re: [reiserfs-list] Re: ReiserFS Oops (2.4.1, deterministic, symlink

2001-02-03 Thread Albert D. Cahalan
Alan Cox writes: > [Albert Cahalan] >> David Woodhouse writes: >>> -a "$CC" = "gcc" >> >> Not worth it; they should upgrade the local gcc too. >> If anything, they are getting a reminder that they need. > > The local gcc has no bearing on the compiler. The local > compiler might not even be

RAID autodetect and 2.4.1

2001-02-03 Thread Chris
> Hi, > I have a server with RAID1 partitions with linux 2.4.1 (stock, > self-compiled) installed. It was easy to create the RAID partitions > but when booting, no auto-detection is successful. The kernel says > that autodetect is running, then done, but nothing is auto-detected. > My devices

Re: PS hanging in 2.4.1 - More interesting things

2001-02-03 Thread Shawn Starr
Ok, I rebooted the system, then syslogd was using 100% cpu? it seems like perhaps reiserfs is causing this problem?? - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/

RAID autodetect and 2.4.1

2001-02-03 Thread Jean-Eric Cuendet
Hi, I have a server with RAID1 partitions with linux 2.4.1 (stock, self-compiled) installed. It was easy to create the RAID partitions but when booting, no auto-detection is successful. The kernel says that autodetect is running, then done, but nothing is auto-detected. My devices are IDE

Re: [reiserfs-list] ReiserFS Oops (2.4.1, deterministic, symlink related)

2001-02-03 Thread Felix von Leitner
Thus spake J . A . Magallon ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > > How about a simple patch to the top level makefile that checks the gcc > > version then prints a distinct message ..'this compiler hasn't been approved > > for compiling the kernel', sleeping for one second, then continuing on. This > >

Re: Better battery info/status files

2001-02-03 Thread Albert D. Cahalan
> This fixes units, and makes format tag: value. Please apply. The units seem to vary. I suggest using fundamental SI units. That would be meters, kilograms, seconds, and maybe a very few others -- my memory fails me on this. Power meter applets will be eternally buggy if you force them to deal

PS hanging 2.4.1 - Isolated

2001-02-03 Thread Shawn Starr
[root@coredump /proc]# cd 9338 [root@coredump 9338]# ls Feb 3 17:57:08 coredump kernel: gnomeicu S CD17 0 9338 1(NOTLB)9340 9332 Feb 3 17:57:08 coredump kernel: Call Trace: [search_by_key+203/3232] [search_for_position_by_key+170/916] [make_cpu_key+57/64] [$ Feb 3

Re: [BUG?] ISA-PnP and 3c509 NIC won't work together

2001-02-03 Thread Keith Owens
On Sat, 03 Feb 2001 18:54:44 +0100, Viktor Rosenfeld <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >With ISA-PnP compiled in, and 3c509 support compiled as module: ># modprobe 3c509 >/lib/modules/2.4.1/kernel/drivers/net/3c509.o: invalid parameter parm_io >/lib/modules/2.4.1/kernel/drivers/net/3c509.o: insmod

Re: PS hanging in 2.4.1 - HAPPENING NOW!!!

2001-02-03 Thread Shawn Starr
Here's more info with the SYSQ in kern.log, This is the only info I have that the kernel reports right now. Shawn. Shawn Starr wrote: > [root@coredump spstarr]# killall -9 gnomeicu > > ... waiting... > > spstarr 67 -bashread_chan > root68 /sbin/mingetty t read_chan >

system call sched_yield() doesn't work on Linux 2.2

2001-02-03 Thread Mohit Aron
Hi, the system call sched_yield() doesn't seem to work on Linux 2.2. Does anyone know of a kernel patch that fixes this ? Attached below is a small program that uses pthreads and demonstrates that sched_yield() doesn't work. Basically, the program creates two threads that alternatively

setting cpu speed on crusoe

2001-02-03 Thread Andrew Tridgell
Junichi Morita and I have worked out how to access the crusoe "longrun" settings on the crusoe based VAIO. This allows you to enable power saving mode and slow the cpu down. It should help battery life a lot. the following will enable power saving and set the cpu to the slowest speed: setpci

PS hanging in 2.4.1 - HAPPENING NOW!!!

2001-02-03 Thread Shawn Starr
[root@coredump spstarr]# killall -9 gnomeicu ... waiting... spstarr 67 -bashread_chan root68 /sbin/mingetty t read_chan root69 /sbin/mingetty t read_chan root73 inetddo_select root74 xfs do_select spstarr 83 -bash

ATAPI CDRW which doesn't work

2001-02-03 Thread patrick . mourlhon
Hi, I've never could make this CDRW ATAPI to work, if someone could provide me any clue about the baby. I just said that people on the kernel mailing list may care of its but. It looks like the baby didn't even noticed. ;-) kernel is 2.4.1, but never worked even before this release. Never

Re: SMP problem with 2.2.19pre8

2001-02-03 Thread Shane Wegner
On Sat, Feb 03, 2001 at 02:07:27PM -0800, Shane Wegner wrote: > Hi, > > I just built this SMP system and am getting some weird > errors from kern.log. The system will run smoothly but > after about a half hour running the distributed.net RC5 > client, the following errors show up. > > Feb 3

SMP problem with 2.2.19pre8

2001-02-03 Thread Shane Wegner
Hi, I just built this SMP system and am getting some weird errors from kern.log. The system will run smoothly but after about a half hour running the distributed.net RC5 client, the following errors show up. Feb 3 04:40:18 continuum kernel: stuck on TLB IPI wait (CPU#0) Feb 3 04:40:23

Re: [BUG?] ISA-PnP and 3c509 NIC won't work together

2001-02-03 Thread Brian Gerst
Viktor Rosenfeld wrote: > > Hi kernel hackers, > > I have troubles getting both ISA-PnP and the driver for my 3c509 NIC > working together. > > I can only get my NIC to work when I leave ISA-PnP completely out of the > kernel. When I have ISA-PnP activated, the card will not show up in >

Re: [BUG?] ISA-PnP and 3c509 NIC won't work together

2001-02-03 Thread Russell King
Viktor Rosenfeld writes: > With ISA-PnP compiled in, and 3c509 support compiled as module: > # modprobe 3c509 > /lib/modules/2.4.1/kernel/drivers/net/3c509.o: invalid parameter parm_io > /lib/modules/2.4.1/kernel/drivers/net/3c509.o: insmod > /lib/modules/2.4.1/kernel/drivers/net/3c509.o failed >

Re: [patch] tmpfs for 2.4.1

2001-02-03 Thread J . A . Magallon
On 02.03 H. Peter Anvin wrote: > Christoph Rohland wrote: > > > > "H. Peter Anvin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > > > > Mm, does this mean that mounting /dev/shm is no more needed ? > > > > One step more towards easy 2.2 <-> 2.4 switching... > > > > Yes, it is no longer needed. You

Re: one of the most useless patches you'll ever see

2001-02-03 Thread Guest section DW
On Sat, Feb 03, 2001 at 05:36:06PM +0100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > This copies the sun 12x22 font to a 12x20 font. > Readability on a 21" monitor remains very high @ 1600x1200, but you get > 60 lines instead of 55. Wouldnt it suffice to do setfont -h20 sun12x22 ? [With a setfont from

RE: Need for more ISO8859 codepages?

2001-02-03 Thread Nerijus Baliunas
> About 18 months ago I patched fs/nls/ to include support for the > Celtic character set, ISO8859-14. I notice that there are still gaps > in nls, specifically in ISO8859 codepages 10 to 13. > > The missing codepages are for Nordic/Icelandic (ISO8859-10), Thai > (ISO8859-11), and Baltic Rim

Re: [BUG?] ISA-PnP and 3c509 NIC won't work together

2001-02-03 Thread Viktor Rosenfeld
Jeff Garzik wrote: > > Victor, > > Can you respond to your recently-sent linux-kernel e-mail, and provide > the output of 'dmesg' after all your experiments? 'dmesg' program > displays the kernel logging buffer, and should give us much additional > information. Of course, here it comes. BTW,

Re: Serious reproducible 2.4.x kernel hang

2001-02-03 Thread kees
Hi, What is related in /proc w.r.t. sysrq? Kees - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/

Re: [Kiobuf-io-devel] RFC: Kernel mechanism: Compound event wait/notify + callback chains

2001-02-03 Thread Linus Torvalds
On Thu, 1 Feb 2001, Stephen C. Tweedie wrote: > > On Thu, Feb 01, 2001 at 09:33:27PM +0100, Christoph Hellwig wrote: > > > I think you want the whole kio concept only for disk-like IO. > > No. I want something good for zero-copy IO in general, but a lot of > that concerns the problem of

Re: [patch] tmpfs for 2.4.1

2001-02-03 Thread H. Peter Anvin
Christoph Rohland wrote: > > "H. Peter Anvin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > > Mm, does this mean that mounting /dev/shm is no more needed ? > > > One step more towards easy 2.2 <-> 2.4 switching... > > Yes, it is no longer needed. You will need for POSIX shm, but there > are not a lot

Fix dependencies for radio-miropcm20

2001-02-03 Thread Jocelyn Mayer
I made a very little patch to avoid people complaining that the kernel doesn't compile properly when trying to use radio miropcm20 driver. (I've seen some of this in french newsgroups...) This driver always needs the ACI mixer, so this feature should be enabled when we select the miropcm driver.

Re: [reiserfs-list] ReiserFS Oops (2.4.1, deterministic, symlink related)

2001-02-03 Thread J . A . Magallon
On 02.03 David Ford wrote: > How about a simple patch to the top level makefile that checks the gcc > version then prints a distinct message ..'this compiler hasn't been approved > for compiling the kernel', sleeping for one second, then continuing on. This > solution doesn't stop compiling and

"kaweth" usb ethernet driver in 2.4?

2001-02-03 Thread Eric Sandeen
I'm wondering about the status of the "kaweth" Kawasaki LSI KL5KUSB100 USB to Ethernet Controller driver for 2.4. According to http://www.hiru.aoba.yokohama.jp/%7eura/USB/usbether.html, this chipset is used in the 3Com USB Network Adapter, Linksys USB10T, D-Link DSB-650, SMC 2102USB, Netgear

Re: [PATCH] minor ne2k-pci irq fix

2001-02-03 Thread Linus Torvalds
On Thu, 1 Feb 2001, Jeff Garzik wrote: > > > Probably I've missed this because the last time I hit such a thing was > > when my ob800 bios mapped the cardbus memory BAR's into bogus legacy > > 0xe area. Hence there was good reason to read and correct this before > > trying to enable the

Re: System unresponsitive when copying HD/HD

2001-02-03 Thread LA Walsh
I've noticed less responsive disk response on 2.4.0 vs. 2.2.17. For example -- I run vmware and suspend it frequently when I'm not using it. One of them requires a 158Mb save file. Before, I could suspend that one, then start another which reads in a smaller 50M save file. The smaller one

[ANNOUNCE] Linux-NTFS project, first public release

2001-02-03 Thread Anton Altaparmakov
This is to announce the first public release of the Linux-NTFS project hosted on sourceforge. The project page, where you can download the source code tar ball or rpm as well as precompiled RPMs for RedHat Linux 7.0 (i386 architecture only), is:

[patch?] RAMFS

2001-02-03 Thread Mike Galbraith
Hi, With the patch below, ramfs will withstand make -j20 (binutils) even while an iozone is running, and cp /dev/zero zero. These fail as is. The problem seems to be in the way writepage() is called.. ClearPageDirty(); writepage(). That screws up ramfs's beancounting and makes it wipe pages

Re: xirc2ps_cs driver timeouts/errors

2001-02-03 Thread dilinger
A few minutes ago, I got the following: Feb 3 13:09:10 pea kernel: UDP: short packet: 0/58 .. and the driver hung. I had to reinsert the card to get networking back. This is after 10 hours of uptime, using the patch i sent previously against 2.4.1's xirc2ps_cs. So the answer is, yes, it

Re: vaio doesn't boot with 2.4.1-ac1, stops at PCI: Probing PCI hardware

2001-02-03 Thread Linus Torvalds
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Ookhoi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >Hi Alan, > >> > Here it hangs hard. It used to boot with 2.4.0 and 2.4.1-prex Should I >> > try to determine which patch made the fatal change? Should I send my >> >> That would be great. >> >> Firstly however does 2.4.1

Re: Secure Linux

2001-02-03 Thread Michael H. Warfield
On Tue, Jan 30, 2001 at 06:47:18PM +, Dale Amon wrote: > Has anyone else signed up on the NSA's secure Linux > discussion list? The idea of NSA backing the development > of a secure GPL'd linux is one I find intriguing. 1) It is not "Secure Linux", it is "Security Enhanced Linux".

mailing list for application

2001-02-03 Thread news news
Hi Everyone, I am looking for a good mailing list covering discussions/issues about "application development" on Linux/Unix platform. Could you give me some suggestions? Additionally if you know any good Linux/Unix users group in Bay area, it would be great. Many thanks, Mike.

RE: 2.4.1 eats RAM or /proc/meminfo bug

2001-02-03 Thread Ricardo Galli
> you should give up thinking there's any real relation between 2.2 > and 2.4. yes, they're both Linux, but their behaviors are essentially > unrelated. > > > total used free sharedbuffers >cached > > Mem:255340 232444 22896 0

Re: DFE-530TX with no mac address

2001-02-03 Thread Jonathan Morton
>You can always try writing all the registers with "good" values. No good - nothing actually changes except 16 bits at 0x6C, and that doesn't change to anything useful. >> Is there a reset 'thing' for thses chips, that sets them back to >> factory tests (like switching them off)? >[snip] >>

Re: low memory

2001-02-03 Thread Alan Cox
> - kernel image (2.2.5-15) : 301 KB (I can`t make it smaller). > > "install" program executes "mke2fs /dev/hda1" where /dev/hda1 partition > has 500MB. > So in the step: "Writing inode tables: 6/63" the system hang. Known problem with older 2.2 kernels. There are some VM things involved where

Re: [BUG?] Unix Domain sockets in 2.4 series ?

2001-02-03 Thread Alan Cox
> I only tried that little code remotely so i do NOT know > what's system reaction on console ... > > Anyway socket interface goes bye bye after this... Fixed in 2.4.1-ac2 - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

low memory

2001-02-03 Thread Javi Roman
Hi: I don´t know if this is a suitable forum where I must ask this question, sorry. I´m attempting develop a install proccess from a PCMCIA memory card in a 4MB RAM pc. My problem is the RAM memory, it`s very low for this purpose. I have the following: - kernel image (2.2.5-15) : 301 KB (I

[BUG?] Unix Domain sockets in 2.4 series ?

2001-02-03 Thread Krzysztof Rusocki
I ain't kernel developer .. just poor little user, but i think you might want to look at this stuff below... I only tried that little code remotely so i do NOT know what's system reaction on console ... Anyway socket interface goes bye bye after this... I tried it on 2.4.1-XFS and 2.4.0-XFS

[BUG?] ISA-PnP and 3c509 NIC won't work together

2001-02-03 Thread Viktor Rosenfeld
Hi kernel hackers, I have troubles getting both ISA-PnP and the driver for my 3c509 NIC working together. Here are the error messages I get: Kernel 2.4.1 with ISA-PnP and 3c509 support compiled in, on boot time: # /etc/init.d/networking start SIOCSIFADDR: No such device eth0: unknown

Re: [reiserfs-list] Re: ReiserFS Oops (2.4.1, deterministic, symlink

2001-02-03 Thread Alan Cox
> David Woodhouse writes: > > > -a "$CC" = "gcc" > > Not worth it; they should upgrade the local gcc too. > If anything, they are getting a reminder that they need. The local gcc has no bearing on the compiler. The local compiler might not even be gcc - eg if they are cross building off non

Re: [PATCH] POSIX timers for 2.4.1

2001-02-03 Thread Linus Torvalds
On Sat, 3 Feb 2001, Jamie Lokier wrote: > Robert H. de Vries wrote: > > Hi Linus, > > c. setitimer() can be used only once in a given process, you can have > >up to 32 (configurable) POSIX timers at the same time in your process. > > Why is there a limit? With such a small limit, any

Re: DFE-530TX with no mac address

2001-02-03 Thread Urban Widmark
On Sat, 3 Feb 2001 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I noticed that the mac address was stored in the registers and > eprom. I guess it would not be as easy as just writing the mac > back in the blank eprom and registers? What my changed via-diag tries to do is to tell the chip to reload things from

Odd behaviour on / filesystem and SCSI removable media

2001-02-03 Thread John Cavan
Hi, I noticed an odd thing about my / file system: du -hx reports 74mb used df -h . reports 236mb used The same behaviour does not show on other mounted filesystems... I'm not sure which to believe... I've seen this with 2.4.1 and 2.4.1-ac1, the filesystem is ReiserFS and the kernel was

Re: [reiserfs-list] Re: ReiserFS Oops (2.4.1, deterministic, symlink

2001-02-03 Thread Albert D. Cahalan
David Woodhouse writes: > -a "$CC" = "gcc" Not worth it; they should upgrade the local gcc too. If anything, they are getting a reminder that they need. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Please read the FAQ

Re: [reiserfs-list] Re: ReiserFS Oops (2.4.1, deterministic, symlink

2001-02-03 Thread David Woodhouse
On Fri, 2 Feb 2001, Alan Cox wrote: > if [ -e /bin/rpm ]; then > X=`rpm -q gcc` > if [ "$X" = "gcc-2.96-54" ]; then > echo "*** GCC 2.96-54 will miscompile Reiserfs. Please update your >compiler" > echo "See

Re: DFE-530TX with no mac address

2001-02-03 Thread T . Stewart
On 3 Feb 2001, at 14:02, Urban Widmark wrote: > This is intresting. Your card reports that it is stopped while the > other report show normal values on most things. Does this change if > you try and send something (like a ping)? Common to both reports is > that the transceivers don't respond. >

Re: ATAPI CD burner with cdrecord > 1.6.1

2001-02-03 Thread Jocelyn Mayer
> Kernel version is 2.4.1. For versions of cdrecord later than 1.6.1 > (1.8.1 through the latest 1.10 alpha verified), attempting to burn a > CD results in a SCSI error of some kind. Here's some representative > output from a "dummy" burn session with cdrecord-1.9: > As I recall, things work

[patch] Zerocopy 2.4.1 rev3 patch against 2.4.1-ac2

2001-02-03 Thread Ingo Molnar
On Fri, 2 Feb 2001, David S. Miller wrote: > Some people have asked me about making a patch against the AC patches. > It is doable, but would be quite a bit of work for me. i've done this for TUX anyway, so here is the 2.4.1-rev3 patch against the 2.4.1-ac2 tree:

Re: ECN: Clearing the air (fwd)

2001-02-03 Thread Michael H. Warfield
On Wed, Jan 31, 2001 at 06:02:17PM +, Alan Cox wrote: > > No. ECN is essential to the continued stability of the Internet. Without > > probabilistic queuing (i.e. RED) and ECN the Internet will continue to have > > retransmit synchronization and once congested stay congested until people get

one of the most useless patches you'll ever see

2001-02-03 Thread thunder7
This copies the sun 12x22 font to a 12x20 font. Readability on a 21" monitor remains very high @ 1600x1200, but you get 60 lines instead of 55. On request, a 2.2.x version is also available. Jurriaan -- For who are we to question her Who stands among the stones Big Country - The Seer

Re: digiboard support in linux

2001-02-03 Thread Martin Laberge
Kenneth Yeung wrote: > Hello Martin > > Thanks for the info, I'm having a little trouble getting the ports > configured. On my system, it looks like half the ports are on irq 2 and > the other half are on irq 5. and looks like they have been configured the > right way? But i can't

Re: DFE-530TX with no mac address

2001-02-03 Thread Urban Widmark
On Sat, 3 Feb 2001, Jonathan Morton wrote: > Do you want me to try this again, after first setting the card into > non-working condition? Yes, the idea was to start from non-working, test -I and then ifconfig down/up. Getting the working card to work is a much simpler problem :) /Urban - To

Re: DFE-530TX with no mac address

2001-02-03 Thread Jonathan Morton
>The attached patch for the via-daig program plays with a few registers. > >Run it as 'via-diag -aaeemm -I' then do a 'ifconfig eth0 down; ifconfig >eth0 up' and see if anything happens. OK, after a little trouble applying the patch, here's what I found: Starting with the card in working

Re: [patch] tmpfs for 2.4.1

2001-02-03 Thread Christoph Rohland
"J . A . Magallon" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I did not get the chance to deal too much with it, but apart from moving > functionality from userspace (ipcs) to kernel (ls), what were/could be the > benefits of /dev/shm ?. Can you create a shared memory segment by simply > creating a file

[test patch] reliable apic lockup with one enable/disable_irq()

2001-02-03 Thread Manfred
I found a sequence that reliably locks up my 82093AA ioapic with just one disable/enable_irq. I've attached a patch for the tulip driver. (tested with a pnic card) * focus cpu must be enabled. * Gerard's mask sequence: disable_irq() only sets IRQ_DISABLED, mask_and_ack masks the ioapic entry if

Re: [PATCH] POSIX timers for 2.4.1

2001-02-03 Thread Jamie Lokier
Robert H. de Vries wrote: > Hi Linus, > c. setitimer() can be used only once in a given process, you can have >up to 32 (configurable) POSIX timers at the same time in your process. Why is there a limit? With such a small limit, any library that wants to use its own private timers is going

PROBLEM: RAMDISK larger than 778000 KB halts system

2001-02-03 Thread Ole Tange
[1.] One line summary of the problem: Running badblocks on a ramdisk larger than 778000 KB halts system [2.] Full description of the problem/report: I have setup a ramdisk of 1 GB. When I run badblocks on the RAMdisk, it halts the total system when reaching app. 778000 KB I

Re: bidirectional named pipe?

2001-02-03 Thread Jamie Lokier
Alan Cox wrote: > > /dev/spx". I experiemented with socket-based pipes under Linux, but I > > couldn't gain access to them by open()ing the name. Is there help? I > > AF_UNIX sockets are bidirectional but like all sockets use bind() and > connect(). And that's because sockets don't behave

Re: [patch] tmpfs for 2.4.1

2001-02-03 Thread Christoph Rohland
"H. Peter Anvin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Mm, does this mean that mounting /dev/shm is no more needed ? > > One step more towards easy 2.2 <-> 2.4 switching... Yes, it is no longer needed. You will need for POSIX shm, but there are not a lot of program out there using it. > In some

IDE PROBLEM 2.4.0 and 2.4.1

2001-02-03 Thread Lourenco
hi! i am getting an error every time i try to copy a big file from my cdrom to one of my harddrives... my hardware: P2 333 128 MB Ram ONLY IDE BOARD BX i had run dmesg. here it goes: (...) pty: 256 Unix98 ptys configured block: queued sectors max/low

2.4.1 eats RAM or /proc/meminfo bug

2001-02-03 Thread Ricardo Galli
I noticed in my server that the memory consumption with 2.4.1 it much higher than 2.2.18 and it gets worse over time. Free was reporting up to 140MB of RAM with no user/X session (50-60MB with 2.2.18, same software). I've upgraded to procps 2.0.7, but the problem persists. After few minutes of

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