Adaptec 2100S DPT I2O SmartRAID and 2.2/2.4

2001-02-09 Thread Jens Hjalmarsson
Hello, I have been looking around the internet for drivers for my RAID card. I found drivers for 2.2, and a patch against "vanilla 2.2.x". However, when trying to boot with that patch, I get an oops. (Got it to work with 2.2.5.. rather old for me) But, I want to run 2.4, and cannot find anything

Re: epic100 in current -ac kernels

2001-02-09 Thread ARND BERGMANN
On Fri, 9 Feb 2001, Francois Romieu wrote: > ARND BERGMANN <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> écrit : > > On Thu, 8 Feb 2001, Francois Romieu wrote: > > > > > > > > > > Working epic100 drivers: > > > > - 2.4.0 > > > > - 2.4.0-ac9 > > > > > > Could you give a look at ac12 (fine here) ? > > > > > No, does

Re: [preview] VIA IDE 4.0 and AMD IDE 2.0 with automatic PC

2001-02-09 Thread Andre Hedrick
On Fri, 9 Feb 2001, Petr Vandrovec wrote: > On 9 Feb 01 at 16:58, Vojtech Pavlik wrote: > > > Unfortunately the PCI speed measuring code needs help from the chipset > > itself, so it isn't possible to implement in generic code. Maybe a > > callback could be added to the chipset-specific

Re: [PATCH] to deal with bad dev->refcnt in unregister_netdevice()

2001-02-09 Thread Thomas Hood
> > Here is a patch which may not solve the underlying > > This does not. refcnt cannot be <1 at this point. The refcnt shouldn't be less than 1, but it is in fact less than 1. (As I'm sure you understand.) > > assuming that the latter messages aren't serious? > > They are fatal. Machine

Re: compiling 2.4.1 with binutils-2.10.1.0.7

2001-02-09 Thread Garst R. Reese
Albert Cranford wrote: > > I got tired of the warnings myself, so I applied the attached > patch. I've been testing newer binutils since last November with it. > Later, > Albert Thanks Albert, I'll test it an let you know if I have any problems. Have you sent it to Linus? Have you also tried

Re: [ANNOUNCE] Animated framebuffer logo for 2.4.1

2001-02-09 Thread Nick Papadonis
Maybe if you hold down a key at bootup, you can change to verbose output? Werner Almesberger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Miles Lane wrote: > > Since, as Christophe mentions, the boot messages would > > still be accessible via CTRL-ALT-F2, I don't see what > > the problem is with at least

Re: bttv problems in 2.4.0/2.4.1

2001-02-09 Thread Matthew Gabeler-Lee
Disabling ACPI (all of power management, really. SMP so no APM) seems to have made it work in 2.4.1 for me. On Fri, 9 Feb 2001, Dr. Kelsey Hudson wrote: > Do you have framebuffer console compiled into your kernel? I noticed > similar behavior on my system when I had framebuffer console

Re: 2.4.1: unresolved symbol with nfsd as a module

2001-02-09 Thread Keith Owens
On Fri, 9 Feb 2001 17:56:37 +0100, Jean-Luc Fontaine <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: ># insmod ./kernel/fs/nfsd/nfsd.o >./kernel/fs/nfsd/nfsd.o: unresolved symbol nfsd_linkage ># fgrep nfsd System.map >c01f3f60 ? __kstrtab_nfsd_linkage >c01f8b90 ? __ksymtab_nfsd_linkage >c01fedc8 D nfsd_linkage

Re: Mucho timeouts on USB

2001-02-09 Thread John Cavan
Greg KH wrote: > > On Fri, Feb 09, 2001 at 07:22:54PM -0500, John Cavan wrote: > > > > Current config: > > > > Dual P3-500 w/ 512mb of RAM > > Tyan Tiger 133 mobo with VIA chipset, onboard USB > > Kernel 2.4.1-ac9 compiled with egcs-1.1.2 > > This motherboard does not currently work with USB in

Re: bidirectional named pipe?

2001-02-09 Thread Doug McNaught
"David L. Nicol" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > According to the Understanding the Linux Kernel book I > plowed through yesterday afternoon the EXT2 file system > has a defined file type "socket," distinct from fifo. > > How does one set up a named socket in a file system? Is it > a legacy

Panics from 2.4.2-pre2 kernel - ksymoops output

2001-02-09 Thread Stephen Carr
I sent this message earlier but it does no seem to have got on the mailing list - I now suspect I have a hardware problem since I reverted to the 2.2.16 kernel which was previously stable and also got a panic of the type Welcome to Linux 2.2.16. elizabeth login: Kernel panic: Attempted to

Re: Mucho timeouts on USB

2001-02-09 Thread John Cavan
Greg KH wrote: > > On Fri, Feb 09, 2001 at 07:22:54PM -0500, John Cavan wrote: > > > > Current config: > > > > Dual P3-500 w/ 512mb of RAM > > Tyan Tiger 133 mobo with VIA chipset, onboard USB > > Kernel 2.4.1-ac9 compiled with egcs-1.1.2 > > This motherboard does not currently work with USB in

Re: ksymoops versioning

2001-02-09 Thread Keith Owens
On Sat, 10 Feb 2001 00:59:52 +0100, "J . A . Magallon" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >Just a little mismatch in versions. >ksymoops packaged as 2.4.0 still says it is version 2.3.7: Known mistake, human error, just ignore it. The version number will be fixed in the next ksymoops, once I have

VA-CTCS 1.3.0pre1

2001-02-09 Thread Jason Collins
It's been far too long, but a new development branch of VA-CTCS (VA Cerberus Test Control System) is finally available. VA Linux has heard my pleas for increased manpower in my area so ... expect both minor and major releases to turn over faster than the glacial pace of the last six months.

Re: Mucho timeouts on USB

2001-02-09 Thread Greg KH
On Fri, Feb 09, 2001 at 07:22:54PM -0500, John Cavan wrote: > > Current config: > > Dual P3-500 w/ 512mb of RAM > Tyan Tiger 133 mobo with VIA chipset, onboard USB > Kernel 2.4.1-ac9 compiled with egcs-1.1.2 This motherboard does not currently work with USB in SMP mode, unless you boot with

Re: Mucho timeouts on USB

2001-02-09 Thread Johannes Erdfelt
On Fri, Feb 09, 2001, John Cavan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Just got a D-Link USB radio (R100) and I'm seeing lots of timeouts with > it. I've seen this through the last few 2.4.1+ and -ac+ kernels. > > Current config: > > Dual P3-500 w/ 512mb of RAM > Tyan Tiger 133 mobo with VIA chipset,

Re: bttv problems in 2.4.0/2.4.1

2001-02-09 Thread Matthew Gabeler-Lee
On Fri, 9 Feb 2001, Dr. Kelsey Hudson wrote: > Do you have framebuffer console compiled into your kernel? I noticed > similar behavior on my system when I had framebuffer console compiled in, > ACPI or APM (cant remember which, probably ACPI) compiled in, and bttv as > modules. System would

Re: Mucho timeouts on USB

2001-02-09 Thread J Sloan
I'm seeing a similar usb timeout message here with an HP 5200C usb scanner, e.g: usb_control/bulk_msg: timeout usb_control/bulk_msg: timeout usb_control/bulk_msg: timeout My config: AMD-K6 450 on ASUS P5 mb 256 MB RAM, Ali chipset Red Hat 7.0 updated, kernel 2.4.1-ac8 jjs John Cavan wrote:

Re: spelling of disc (disk) in /devfs

2001-02-09 Thread Dr. Kelsey Hudson
On Thu, 1 Feb 2001, Alan Chandler wrote: > I accidentally built my 2.4.1 kernel with /devfs so had a interesting > few minutes looking round it to see what it was doing. > > The thing that struck me most was the spelling of disc with a 'c'. As > an Englishman this is the correct spelling for

Re: bidirectional named pipe?

2001-02-09 Thread David L. Nicol
According to the Understanding the Linux Kernel book I plowed through yesterday afternoon the EXT2 file system has a defined file type "socket," distinct from fifo. How does one set up a named socket in a file system? Is it a legacy constant that has never been supported or what? "David

Re: Request: increase in PCI bus limit

2001-02-09 Thread Dr. Kelsey Hudson
On Wed, 31 Jan 2001, Scott Laird wrote: > On Wed, 31 Jan 2001, George wrote: > > Also account for anything else funny in the system. > > > > Then panic on boot if they're wrong (sort of like processor type). > > Where do cards with PCI-PCI bridges, like multiport PCI ethernet cards, > fit into

Mucho timeouts on USB

2001-02-09 Thread John Cavan
Hi, Just got a D-Link USB radio (R100) and I'm seeing lots of timeouts with it. I've seen this through the last few 2.4.1+ and -ac+ kernels. Current config: Dual P3-500 w/ 512mb of RAM Tyan Tiger 133 mobo with VIA chipset, onboard USB Kernel 2.4.1-ac9 compiled with egcs-1.1.2 The only thing

Re: seti@home and es1371

2001-02-09 Thread Dr. Kelsey Hudson
You might also want to run setiathome with the -nice option...for instance i *always* run it with -nice 19 so that it lays in the background consuming otherwise idle cycles. anything wanting cpu time will then take it from seti. On Wed, 31 Jan 2001, Alex Deucher wrote: > Rainer, > > I'm

Re: bttv problems in 2.4.0/2.4.1

2001-02-09 Thread Dr. Kelsey Hudson
Do you have framebuffer console compiled into your kernel? I noticed similar behavior on my system when I had framebuffer console compiled in, ACPI or APM (cant remember which, probably ACPI) compiled in, and bttv as modules. System would power off when ACPI was loaded. Other times it would do

ksymoops versioning

2001-02-09 Thread J . A . Magallon
Hi, everyone. Just a little mismatch in versions. ksymoops packaged as 2.4.0 still says it is version 2.3.7: werewolf:~/soft/kernel/ksymoops-2.4.0# ./ksymoops -V ksymoops 2.3.7 on i686 2.4.1-ac9. Options used -V (specified) -k /proc/ksyms (default) -l /proc/modules (default)

Re: 2.4.2-pre3

2001-02-09 Thread Shawn Starr
haha thats funny, I just compiled 2.4.2-pre2 ;-) oh well...time to patch again. Linus Torvalds wrote: > Nothing too radical here.. > > Linus > > > -pre3: > - Jens: better ordering of requests when unable to merge > - Neil Brown: make md work as a module again (we cannot

2.4.2-pre3

2001-02-09 Thread Linus Torvalds
Nothing too radical here.. Linus -pre3: - Jens: better ordering of requests when unable to merge - Neil Brown: make md work as a module again (we cannot autodetect in modules, not enough background information) - Neil Brown: raid5 SMP locking cleanups - Neil Brown:

Re: [PATCH] starfire reads irq before pci_enable_device.

2001-02-09 Thread Alan Cox
> > For non routing paths its virtually free because the DMA forced the lines > > from cache anyway. > > Are you actually sure about this? I thought DMA from PCI devices reached > the main memory without polluting the L2 cache. Otherwise any large DMA > transfer would kill the cache (think

Re: [PATCH] starfire reads irq before pci_enable_device.

2001-02-09 Thread Ion Badulescu
On Fri, 9 Feb 2001, Alan Cox wrote: > > It's amusing that a full receive copy is added without any concern, in > > the same discussion where zero-copy transmit is treated as a holy grail! > > For non routing paths its virtually free because the DMA forced the lines > from cache anyway. Are

Re: [BUG] Using loop driver on 2.4.2-pre2 with loop4 patch

2001-02-09 Thread Jens Axboe
On Fri, Feb 09 2001, David Welch wrote: > Hi, > > I received the following oops when using the loop driver on kernel > 2.4.2-pre2 patched with Jens Axboe's loop4 patch. I believe it occurs > because in loop.c, lo->lo_tsk is only assigned to by the loop thread when > it starts up but it is

[BUG] Using loop driver on 2.4.2-pre2 with loop4 patch

2001-02-09 Thread David Welch
Hi, I received the following oops when using the loop driver on kernel 2.4.2-pre2 patched with Jens Axboe's loop4 patch. I believe it occurs because in loop.c, lo->lo_tsk is only assigned to by the loop thread when it starts up but it is possible for block requests to be sent to the loop

FA-311 / Natsemi problems with 2.4.1

2001-02-09 Thread Tom Popowski
Please CC me, as I don't follow the list. Please also forgive me if I'm stepping on toes. I'm in user-space. I have had similar problems (network server not responding) with both a Netgear FA311 (DP83815) and a Macronix (tulip) card when using Donald Becker's drivers under 2.2.x kernels

Re: [beta patch] SSE copy_page() / clear_page()

2001-02-09 Thread Doug Ledford
Linus Torvalds wrote: > > In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, > Manfred Spraul <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > >* use sse for normal memcopy. Then main advantage of sse over mmx is > >that only the clobbered registers must be saved, not the full fpu state. > > > >* verify that the code doesn't

Re: Linux 2.4.1ac9

2001-02-09 Thread Alan Cox
> I've noticed that -ac9 comes with the "Disable PCI-Master-Read-Caching > on VIA" patch that Peter Horton posted a while back. I don't know > whether it was applied in Linus' or your tree first, but is it > actually verified to fix anything? Not yet. As the story becomes clear it can either be

Re: [PATCH] starfire reads irq before pci_enable_device.

2001-02-09 Thread Donald Becker
On 9 Feb 2001, Jes Sorensen wrote: > > "Jeff" == Jeff Garzik <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Jeff> Donald Becker wrote: > >> On Tue, 16 Jan 2001, Jeff Garzik wrote: > * IA64 support (Jes) Oh, > >> and this is completely bogus. This isn't a fix, it's a hack that > >> covers up the real

Re: Linux 2.4.1ac9

2001-02-09 Thread Udo A. Steinberg
Hi, Alan Cox wrote: > > ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/alan/2.4/ > > 2.4.1-ac9 > o Merge with Linus 2.4.2pre2 I've noticed that -ac9 comes with the "Disable PCI-Master-Read-Caching on VIA" patch that Peter Horton posted a while back. I don't know whether it was

re: [preview] VIA IDE 4.0 and AMD IDE 2.0 with automatic PCI clock detection

2001-02-09 Thread Philip Langdale
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Vojtech, I've tried out your new via driver and it appears to have solved the problem with the mis-detected ls-120 drive, but the ata66 drives are still being run at 33. More interestingly, the pci-clk

Re: [beta patch] SSE copy_page() / clear_page()

2001-02-09 Thread Linus Torvalds
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Manfred Spraul <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >* use sse for normal memcopy. Then main advantage of sse over mmx is >that only the clobbered registers must be saved, not the full fpu state. > >* verify that the code doesn't break SSE enabled apps. >I checked a sse

cli and timer/other interrupts

2001-02-09 Thread hiren_mehta
Hi on UP system, if we call cli(), then after that what all interrupts can occur ? Does the timer interrupt also get blocked when we call cli() ? I read that, cli() disables all non-maskable interrupts. Thanks -hiren - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in

Re: problem in BOGOmips

2001-02-09 Thread Prasanna P Subash
the bogomips algorithm changed between kernels. Now it uses the tsc register. Your bogomips should typically be about 2*processor mhz. On Sat, Feb 10, 2001 at 02:35:05AM +0530, Ashish Gupta wrote: > Hi, > I want to use bogomips as the indicator of CPU capability for > different

[beta patch] SSE copy_page() / clear_page()

2001-02-09 Thread Manfred Spraul
I wrote a kernel patch that replaces the standard copy_page()/clear_page() functions on Pentium III and Pentium IV with SSE instructions. If you have access to a Pentium 4 it would be great if you could download the user space test apps from http://colorfullife.com/~manfred/sse/ and run them.

Re: [PATCH] maestro3 still oopses?

2001-02-09 Thread dilinger
I'm running it now, looks good. :) On Fri, Feb 09, 2001 at 11:51:48AM -0500, Zach Brown wrote: > > > The maestro3 driver, included in 2.4.2-pre2 (which I assume is the > > same as maestro3-2.4-20010204.tar.gz, I haven't bothered to try it; > > I'm perfectly happy w/ my patch), oopses upon

Re: [PATCH] starfire reads irq before pci_enable_device.

2001-02-09 Thread Ion Badulescu
On 9 Feb 2001, Jes Sorensen wrote: > Manfred> What about changing the default for rx_copybreak instead? > Manfred> Set it to 1536 on ia64 and Alpha, 0 for the rest. tulip and > Manfred> eepro100 use that aproach. > > Inefficient, my patch will make the unused code path disappear during >

Linux 2.4.1ac9

2001-02-09 Thread Alan Cox
ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/alan/2.4/ 2.4.1-ac9 o Merge with Linus 2.4.2pre2 o Highmem bounce fixes(Ingo Molnar) o Fix cosa driver kfree (Jan Kasprzak) o Clean up pdoc202xx driver sleeps

Re: [RESOLVED]: kernel hangs on CD-R HP8100i if compiled w/ VIA IDE

2001-02-09 Thread Vojtech Pavlik
On Fri, Feb 09, 2001 at 10:18:05PM +0100, Henryk Paluch wrote: > Shortly: kernel (2.2.x, 2.4.x) hangs on CD-R HP8100i, VIA KT133 chipset > (w/ ATA100 support) if kernel is compiled with VIA IDE chipset support. > Please, see my previous post from 21 Jan 2001 for full description. > > After

Re: 2.2.19pre9 Kernel panic aic7xxx

2001-02-09 Thread Doug Ledford
Mario Vanoni wrote: > > 1st correction in drivers/scsi/hosts.c (Shane Wegner), > see lkml, otherwise does not compile. > > Hand written, may not be 100% correct: > > Detected CD-ROM sr1 at scsi0, channel 0, id 5, lun 0 > (scsi1) BRKADRINT

Re: [PATCH] starfire reads irq before pci_enable_device.

2001-02-09 Thread Jes Sorensen
> "Manfred" == Manfred Spraul <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Manfred> Ion Badulescu wrote: >> > > +#if defined(__ia64__) || defined(__alpha__) > > +#define >> PKT_SHOULD_COPY(pkt_len) 1 > > +#else > > +#define >> PKT_SHOULD_COPY(pkt_len) (pkt_len < rx_copybreak) > > +#endif > >> [snip] >> >>

Re: [PATCH] starfire reads irq before pci_enable_device.

2001-02-09 Thread Jes Sorensen
> "Jeff" == Jeff Garzik <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Jeff> Donald Becker wrote: >> On Tue, 16 Jan 2001, Jeff Garzik wrote: > * IA64 support (Jes) Oh, >> and this is completely bogus. This isn't a fix, it's a hack that >> covers up the real problem. >> >> The align-copy should *never* be

Re: No sound on GA-7ZX (2.4.1-ac6, via audio)

2001-02-09 Thread Jeff Garzik
Martin Braun wrote: > I can not get sound working on a computer with a Gigabyte > GA-7ZX mainboard (KT133 chipset). Is this a known problem? > I have attached some config info. Mail me for further details. Can you download and run via-audio-diag as described in the documentation? That will

Re: problem in BOGOmips

2001-02-09 Thread Brian Gerst
Ashish Gupta wrote: > > Hi, > I want to use bogomips as the indicator of CPU capability for > different architectures. I have found following values from /proc/cpuinfo > for different CPUs. > > MHz bogomips version > 233 intel 233 2.2.9, 2.0.36 >

Re: problem in BOGOmips

2001-02-09 Thread Richard B. Johnson
On Sat, 10 Feb 2001, Ashish Gupta wrote: > Hi, > I want to use bogomips as the indicator of CPU capability for > different architectures. I have found following values from /proc/cpuinfo > for different CPUs. > In a nutshell, you can't! There is the requirement for some small delays

[RESOLVED]: kernel hangs on CD-R HP8100i if compiled w/ VIA IDE

2001-02-09 Thread Henryk Paluch
Hi folks! Shortly: kernel (2.2.x, 2.4.x) hangs on CD-R HP8100i, VIA KT133 chipset (w/ ATA100 support) if kernel is compiled with VIA IDE chipset support. Please, see my previous post from 21 Jan 2001 for full description. After little tweaking via82cxxx.c driver I found, that the cause is

Comparatively minor problem with via ide.

2001-02-09 Thread Philip Langdale
Hi, I've just upgraded to an Athlon+KT133 from a P3+pro133 setup. For the old motherboard which had a 596b southbridge I got perfect udma66 support form my hard drives. After I switched over, and without changing anything except switching from p3 to athlon optimisations, the driver reports my

Re: problem in BOGOmips

2001-02-09 Thread Mathieu Chouquet-Stringer
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Ashish Gupta) writes: > Hi, > I want to use bogomips as the indicator of CPU capability for > different architectures. I have found following values from /proc/cpuinfo > for different CPUs. You got your answer. Try pronounce bogomips and you will hear bogo like in

Re: No sound on GA-7ZX (2.4.1-ac6, via audio)

2001-02-09 Thread braun
Matthias Andree wrote: > > On Thu, 08 Feb 2001, Martin Braun wrote: > > > I can not get sound working on a computer with a Gigabyte > > GA-7ZX mainboard (KT133 chipset). Is this a known problem? > > "Works for me" on 7ZXR, 2.2.18, ens1371 driver. R == additional Promise > PDC20265R Thanks for

problem in BOGOmips

2001-02-09 Thread Ashish Gupta
Hi, I want to use bogomips as the indicator of CPU capability for different architectures. I have found following values from /proc/cpuinfo for different CPUs. MHz bogomips version 233 intel 233 2.2.9, 2.0.36 166 intel 331 2.2.9

VIA DMA slowdown

2001-02-09 Thread Stephen Clark
Anybody else experience a DMA slowdown going from stock 2.4.1 to either 2.4.2pre2 or 2.4.1ac8. My hdparm -t numbers dropped from 15mb+ to around 10mb. Linux version 2.4.1-ac8 ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) (gcc version egcs-2.91.66 19990314/Linux (egcs-1.1.2 release)) #9 Fri Feb 9 15:41:34 EST 2001

Re: [PATCH] Re: UP APIC reenabling vs. cpu type detection o

2001-02-09 Thread Maciej W. Rozycki
On Fri, 9 Feb 2001, Petr Vandrovec wrote: > > Why do you need to mask NMI at all? > > Because of you must provide some function which handles NMI, and as > you cannot switch IDT and CR3 atomically together, NMI handler has > to be on same address in both address spaces - at least temporary.

Re: booting the 2.4.1 linux kernel... tada,nada

2001-02-09 Thread Duncan Gauld
hi, a couple of things to check here. a) when compiling the kernel, did you remember to select the proper CPU in the kernel config? b) if you are using (for example) an ATI Rage 128 you need to go into character devices and say Y to DRI X and ATI Rage 128. (I found that the latter idea fixed the

Re: booting the 2.4.1 linux kernel... tada,nada

2001-02-09 Thread Manfred Spraul
Lindsey Simon wrote: > > [1.] Once I get the loading the kernel message from Lilo I hard crash > without any error messages. > Could you double check that you've set the correct cpu type? -- Manfred - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body

booting the 2.4.1 linux kernel... tada,nada

2001-02-09 Thread Lindsey Simon
[1.] Once I get the loading the kernel message from Lilo I hard crash without any error messages. [2.] I had no trouble making the bzImage and have installed it made it and installed it three different times from scratch, once using debian's make-kpkg tool, but still I get the same outcome - a

2.4.1ac3 vs 2.4.1ac8

2001-02-09 Thread Michael Merhej
Basic Machine configuration: SMP Supermicro board 2 gigabytes of ECC Registered ram Adaptec AIC-7892 eepro100 onboard nic The machine has been running as a database server with no MySQL crashes for several months and has run fine with kernels 2.2.18 and 2.4.1ac3. We have seen a HUGE

Re: [PATCH] drivers/media/radio/radio-maxiradio.c - 2.4.1-ac8

2001-02-09 Thread Francois Romieu
Jeff Garzik <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> écrit : [...] > Patch looks ok. Further change: move pci_enable_device above the > request_region call. request_region calls pci_resource_start(), which > may not return a proper value if called before pci_enable_device. ---

Re: [PATCH] starfire reads irq before pci_enable_device.

2001-02-09 Thread Jeff Garzik
Ion Badulescu wrote: > ... and use both SET_MODULE_OWNER and STAR_MOD_*_USE_COUNT. It's along the > lines of what I was thinking -- though I don't think it's very clean. It's about the best you can do, considering the 'no ifdefs in raw' axiom.. Better suggestions are certainly welcome. > And

Re: [PATCH] starfire reads irq before pci_enable_device.

2001-02-09 Thread Ion Badulescu
On Fri, 9 Feb 2001, Jeff Garzik wrote: > For 2.2, define SET_MODULE_OWNER to null. > > Define STAR_MOD_INC_USE_COUNT and STAR_MOD_DEC_USE_COUNT. For 2.4, > these are null. For 2.2, these point to MOD_{INC,DEC}_USE_COUNT. ... and use both SET_MODULE_OWNER and STAR_MOD_*_USE_COUNT. It's along

Re: [PATCH] drivers/media/radio/radio-maxiradio.c - 2.4.1-ac8

2001-02-09 Thread Jeff Garzik
Francois Romieu wrote: > --- linux-2.4.1-ac8.orig/drivers/media/radio/radio-maxiradio.c Fri Feb 9 15:55:03 >2001 > +++ linux-2.4.1-ac8/drivers/media/radio/radio-maxiradio.c Fri Feb 9 15:56:55 >2001 > @@ -376,9 +376,7 @@ > > int __init maxiradio_radio_init(void) > { > - int

Re: [PATCH] starfire reads irq before pci_enable_device.

2001-02-09 Thread Jeff Garzik
Ion Badulescu wrote: > On Fri, 9 Feb 2001, Jeff Garzik wrote: > > BTW, I would suggest looking at Jes' acenic.c as an example of a 2.4 > > driver that is clean but also [hopefully!] works under 2.2. > > The *only* thing I couldn't solve cleanly is the MOD_{INC,DEC}_USE_COUNT > vs

[PATCH] drivers/media/radio/radio-maxiradio.c - 2.4.1-ac8

2001-02-09 Thread Francois Romieu
Dimitromanolakis Apostolos <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> écrit : [...] > Your patch had some problem in the maxiradio_radio_init function as > pci_register_driver returns the number of devices found and not 0 when > succesful. I fixed it and here is my patch against the original driver. Patch-o-the-month

Re: [PATCH] starfire reads irq before pci_enable_device.

2001-02-09 Thread Ion Badulescu
On Fri, 9 Feb 2001, Jeff Garzik wrote: > I would prefer that zerocopy code remain out of all official kernels > until zerocopy itself is in said kernels. It's experimental code that > simply cannot work in its present form, due to lack of infrastructure in > the general kernel. And being based

compiling 2.4.1 with binutils-2.10.1.0.7

2001-02-09 Thread Garst R. Reese
bbootsect.s:253 warning indirect lcall without * ld cannot open binary: no such file or directory binutils-2.10.0.33 works, but gives lots of similar warnings elsewhere. just a headsup. Garst - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to

ACPI driver overhaul (was: Thermal monitor)

2001-02-09 Thread Grover, Andrew
Hi Dale, Thanks! Applied. I feel I must mention that while I (and you, and others) have been working on improving the current codebase, other people here have been working on a totally different design. In general, the new codebase has better ACPI functionality, is more modular, etc. My hope is

harmless trigraph warning in ac8

2001-02-09 Thread J . A . Magallon
Hi. Building latest 2.4.1-ac8, I got the following warning (it is harlmess, but if you want to make the compiler cleanly silent...): gcc -D__KERNEL__ -I/usr/src/linux/include -Wall -Wstrict-prototypes -O2 -fomit-f rame-pointer -fno-strict-aliasing -pipe -mpreferred-stack-boundary=2 -march=i686

2.2.19pre9 Kernel panic aic7xxx

2001-02-09 Thread Mario Vanoni
1st correction in drivers/scsi/hosts.c (Shane Wegner), see lkml, otherwise does not compile. Hand written, may not be 100% correct: Detected CD-ROM sr1 at scsi0, channel 0, id 5, lun 0 (scsi1) BRKADRINT error (0x4): Illegal Opcode in

Re: [PATCH] starfire reads irq before pci_enable_device.

2001-02-09 Thread Jeff Garzik
Ion Badulescu wrote: > On Thu, 8 Feb 2001, Jeff Garzik wrote: > > The #ifdef ZEROCOPY code you added is a classic example of the kind of > > code I -remove- from the kernel tree. > > It's an issue of maintainer convenience vs. esthetics. And (last but not > least) it's also about other people's

Re: No sound on GA-7ZX (2.4.1-ac6, via audio)

2001-02-09 Thread Matthias Andree
On Thu, 08 Feb 2001, Martin Braun wrote: > I can not get sound working on a computer with a Gigabyte > GA-7ZX mainboard (KT133 chipset). Is this a known problem? "Works for me" on 7ZXR, 2.2.18, ens1371 driver. R == additional Promise PDC20265R - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line

book review: Understanding the LINUX Kernel

2001-02-09 Thread David L. Nicol
Understanding the Linux Kernel Daniel P. Bovet and Marco Cesati O'Reilly, 2000 Book web site (including a sample chapter) is here: http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/linuxkernel/ Developed and tested as lecture notes for university classes in which the 2.2 kernel was examined, the new

2.4.1 oops.

2001-02-09 Thread CHARLIE ROOT
One-line Summary: Denied services on the machine. Lack of responsiveness Detailed Summary: Server remained responsive but did not provide service. I was able to ping the machine and telnet to open ports but no data was sent back on these open ports. As far as current connections were

*** ANNOUNCEMENT *** LVM 0.9.1 beta4 available at www.sistina.com

2001-02-09 Thread AJ Lewis
The following message is from Heinz Mauelshagen, who unfortunately cannot send it out himself today. Message follows -> Hi all, a tarball of the Linux Logical Volume Manager 0.9.1 beta4 is available now at

Re: [OT] Re: 2.4.x, drm, g400 and pci_set_master

2001-02-09 Thread Alan Olsen
On Fri, 9 Feb 2001, David Woodhouse wrote: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: > > If open source people knew how it worked they might do horrible evil > > things like TV-out with the macrovision turned off. Thats basically > > the root of all this - yet again its the US movie industry > > Er... have

Re: [PATCH] maestro3 still oopses?

2001-02-09 Thread Alan Cox
> the maestro3 snapshot in 2.4.2pre2 is not up to date. I imagine it came > from alan, who got the jan30 patch, but didn't get the trivial feb 04 > patch that fixes the oops you're seeing. -ac is up to date, its down to rate of feeding stuff to Linus issues - To unsubscribe from this list: send

2.4.1: unresolved symbol with nfsd as a module

2001-02-09 Thread Jean-Luc Fontaine
Please CC me. Platform: redhat 7.0 with kgcc. # insmod ./kernel/fs/nfsd/nfsd.o ./kernel/fs/nfsd/nfsd.o: unresolved symbol nfsd_linkage seems the code: #if defined(CONFIG_NFSD_MODULE) struct nfsd_linkage *nfsd_linkage = NULL; ... from filesystems.c did not get in, although: # fgrep nfsd

Re: [PATCH] maestro3 still oopses?

2001-02-09 Thread Zach Brown
> The maestro3 driver, included in 2.4.2-pre2 (which I assume is the > same as maestro3-2.4-20010204.tar.gz, I haven't bothered to try it; > I'm perfectly happy w/ my patch), oopses upon shutdown. the maestro3 snapshot in 2.4.2pre2 is not up to date. I imagine it came from alan, who got the

Re: [preview] VIA IDE 4.0 and AMD IDE 2.0 with automatic PC

2001-02-09 Thread Vojtech Pavlik
On Fri, Feb 09, 2001 at 05:29:52PM +, Petr Vandrovec wrote: > > Unfortunately the PCI speed measuring code needs help from the chipset > > itself, so it isn't possible to implement in generic code. Maybe a > > callback could be added to the chipset-specific drivers, though ... > > > > I do

Re: [ANNOUNCE] Animated framebuffer logo for 2.4.1

2001-02-09 Thread Mike Porter
On Fri, 9 Feb 2001, Miles Lane wrote: > Helge Hafting wrote: > > christophe barbe wrote: > >> Moreover there is no need to be ignorant. With LPP, messages are displayed during >the boot process and if something goes wrong an little picture inform you. And you >can switch to the classic console

Re: [preview] VIA IDE 4.0 and AMD IDE 2.0 with automatic PC

2001-02-09 Thread Petr Vandrovec
On 9 Feb 01 at 16:58, Vojtech Pavlik wrote: > Unfortunately the PCI speed measuring code needs help from the chipset > itself, so it isn't possible to implement in generic code. Maybe a > callback could be added to the chipset-specific drivers, though ... > > I do have some plans with

ISA-PnP and Passing options to non-modules

2001-02-09 Thread Jonathan Morton
I have two questions: 1) ISA-PnP detection in the kernel doesn't work properly on my Abit KT7 (the card in question is a SoundBlaster AWE64), but userspace ISA-PnP works fine... 2) I'm trying to pass options to the SoundBlaster driver using LILO - it's built into the kernel - but can't figure

aironet4500_card (2.4.1-ac8), The PCI BIOS has not enabled this device!

2001-02-09 Thread Ookhoi
Hi, When I insmod aironet4500_core and aironet4500_card, the last one disables the pci342 nic (the leds go out). root@tilde:~# uname -r 2.4.1-ac8 root@tilde:~# insmod aironet4500_core Using /lib/modules/2.4.1-ac8/kernel/drivers/net/aironet4500_core.o Warning:

Re: [preview] VIA IDE 4.0 and AMD IDE 2.0 with automatic PCI clock detection

2001-02-09 Thread Vojtech Pavlik
On Fri, Feb 09, 2001 at 10:05:44AM -0500, Byron Stanoszek wrote: > > I've decided that too much trouble has been caused by a wrong PCI clock > > specified to the IDE drivers (which in turn compute wrong IDE timings). > > > > I've made the VIA and AMD drivers detect the PCI clock automatically.

Re: Panic in 2.2.2-pre2 SMP several panics

2001-02-09 Thread basiltiK
Mark Hahn wrote: >> I'm currently running Linux amethyste 2.4.1-ac2 #1 Mon Feb 5 20:38:39 > > > there are well-known problems on SW boards with most recent 2.4 kernels. What are these well-known problems? > > >>-Does the glibc version has an impact on the kernel' stability? > > >

Re: paging question

2001-02-09 Thread Jeff Hartmann
Daniel Stodden wrote: > hi. > > i desperately hope this is not too stupid. > > i'm trying to write a driver which depends on giving pci devices > access to somewhat larger amounts of pysical memory. let's say, a > megabyte of contiguous ram. Your unlikely to get 1 MB of contigous ram unless

Re: Panic in 2.2.2-pre2 SMP several panics

2001-02-09 Thread basiltiK
Hi all, I don't really now if my problem is related with this one, and I (unfortunetly) don't have any Oops output to show - sorry 'bout that. I'm even not sure this report will be helpful but... anyway I'm currently running Linux amethyste 2.4.1-ac2 #1 Mon Feb 5 20:38:39 CET 2001 i686 on a

Re: [preview] VIA IDE 4.0 and AMD IDE 2.0 with automatic PCI clockdetection

2001-02-09 Thread Byron Stanoszek
> I've decided that too much trouble has been caused by a wrong PCI clock > specified to the IDE drivers (which in turn compute wrong IDE timings). > > I've made the VIA and AMD drivers detect the PCI clock automatically. > Because this is a very significant change, I've upped the major release

Re: [PATCH] eepro100.c, kernel 2.4.1

2001-02-09 Thread Peter Lund
Alan Cox, Thu Feb 08 2001 - 02:42:52 EST: > > It's the printk that gets it wrong, although that's harmless. > > Intel's documentation states that the bug does NOT exist if the > > bits 0 and 1 in eeprom[3] are 1. Thus, the workaround is correct, > > the printk is wrong. > > So why does it

ctags

2001-02-09 Thread John Levon
On the system here, ctags is called ctags-exuberant. Against 2.4.1ac8 thanks john --- Makefile.oldFri Feb 9 14:24:29 2001 +++ MakefileFri Feb 9 14:06:08 2001 @@ -33,6 +33,7 @@ STRIP = $(CROSS_COMPILE)strip OBJCOPY= $(CROSS_COMPILE)objcopy OBJDUMP

Re: IDE DVD ROM & 2.2.18 & UDMA = random freeze

2001-02-09 Thread Gábor Lénárt
Erghh ... Sorry I forgot to attach the mentioned piece of my log file. Fixed in this release of my mail ;-) -- --[ Gábor Lénárt ]---[ Vivendi Telecom Hungary ]-[ [EMAIL PROTECTED] ]-- U have 8 bit comp or chip of them and it's unused or to be sold? Call me! ---[ +36 30 2270823

IDE DVD ROM & 2.2.18 & UDMA = random freeze

2001-02-09 Thread Gabor Lenart
Hi, I've just bought a DVD ROM drive to do something with our player (mplayer), namely developing a css module for it. The problem is that after random time of massive usage of drive, my computer freeze. It's most likely to freeze when I'm copying large amount of data, but with only playing mp3

2.4.1 oops at boot

2001-02-09 Thread Pierfrancesco Caci
I get this kernel panic on an Olivetti netstrada 7200. It happens also with 2.4.0. With 2.2.18 I can boot normally. Unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at virtual address 003b c019dcab *pde = Oops: CPU:0 EIP:0010:[] EFLAGS: 00010202 eax: ebx:

Re: paging question

2001-02-09 Thread Rik van Riel
On Fri, 9 Feb 2001, Daniel Stodden wrote: > i desperately hope this is not too stupid. Only if the hardware is so stupid that you need this ;) > i'm trying to write a driver which depends on giving pci devices > access to somewhat larger amounts of pysical memory. let's say, a > megabyte of

Re: BUG in 2.4.1 (dcache.c)

2001-02-09 Thread bart11
Hi, I have then same problem no my box, Pentium2 233 64 meg ram RedHat 7.0 and Linux 2.4.1 Very strange BaRT > Hi all, > After 1 day of running, 2.4.1 produced 'kernel BUG at dcache.c:134!' and > Oops > during regular RedHat cron job > (tmpwatch + slocate): > Feb 1 04:27:21 cs865114-a

Bonding driver

2001-02-09 Thread Chris Chabot
A few bugs still show up in the 2.4.x series with the bonding (drivers/net/bonding.c / bonding.0) driver. Ive tried all the below situations in both 2.4.0 and 2.4.1 (both clean/final versions), and on redhat's default 2.2.16enterprise kernel. the 2.2.16 kernel doesnt have any of the bugs

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