I think I recall seeing something reported like this on the list(?):
sr: ran out of mem for scatter pad
Kernel panic: scsi_free: bad offset
Regardless, I've seen this on 2.4.5, aha1542, 40MB, mount /dev/scd0 after
a fresh reboot and spark, pop, fizz, plop...
Seems there is a bug in
On Tue, 29 May 2001, Jeff Garzik wrote:
> > On Tuesday 29 May 2001 00:10, Jakob Østergaard wrote:
> >
> > > > > Mem: 381608K av, 248504K used, 133104K free, 0K shrd, 192K
> > > > > buff
> > > > > Swap: 255608K av, 255608K used, 0K free 215744K
> > > > > cached
> > > > >
> > > > > Vanilla 2.4.5
> On Tuesday 29 May 2001 00:10, Jakob Østergaard wrote:
>
> > > > Mem: 381608K av, 248504K used, 133104K free, 0K shrd, 192K
> > > > buff
> > > > Swap: 255608K av, 255608K used, 0K free 215744K
> > > > cached
> > > >
> > > > Vanilla 2.4.5 VM.
>
> > It's not a bug. It's a feature. It only
> George France <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >Here is a trivial patch that will make ksymoops work again on Alpha.
Cleaner patch.
diff -urN linux-2.4.5-ac3-orig/arch/alpha/kernel/traps.c
linux-2.4.5/arch/alpha/kernel/traps.c
--- linux-2.4.5-ac3-orig/arch/alpha/kernel/traps.c Thu May 24
On Tue, May 29, 2001 at 01:46:28PM +0900, G. Hugh Song wrote:
> Jakob,
>
> My Alpha has 2GB of physical memory. In this case how much swap space
> should
> I assign in these days of kernel 2.4.*? I had had trouble with 1GB of
> swap space
> before switching back to 2.2.20pre2aa1.
If you run a
Hi, James!
> So as you can see even USB keyboards depend on pc_keyb.c. So their is
> no way around this.
Perhaps redefining kbd_read_input() will help. It's cruel, I know :-)
> You can a few nice tricks with it like plug in two PS/2 keyboards. I
> have this for my home setup. The only thing is
Jakob,
My Alpha has 2GB of physical memory. In this case how much swap space
should
I assign in these days of kernel 2.4.*? I had had trouble with 1GB of
swap space
before switching back to 2.2.20pre2aa1.
Thanks
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Hi,
I am developing a driver which reads some data from the serial port in the
raw mode. For doing the same i do a call to which fails. The call to
our_ioctl for get serial data fails with return value -14 which is EBADADDR.
The same read works if we send a direct read request from an
> I'm trying to run Linux on a broken motherboard that is constantly
> producing random noice on the AT keyboard port. I'm going to use a USB
> keyboard, but I cannot get Linux to ignore the AT keyboard port.
Not that I know. The current way it works is:
1) Current 2.4 way for AT keyboards:
On Tue, May 29, 2001 at 11:32:09AM +0900, G. Hugh Song wrote:
>
> Jeff Garzik wrote:
> >
> > Ouch! When compiling MySql, building sql_yacc.cc results in a ~300M
> > cc1plus process size. Unfortunately this leads the machine with 380M of
> > RAM deeply into swap:
> >
> > Mem: 381608K av,
Anyone have any good tips on getting tags to generate nicely?
I'm having some problems with some tags for macros and such being
declared in several places since ctags doesn't honour any CPP #if'ing.
I've currently got my Makefile doing this, which seems to give me some
sanity as the
Go to http://www.svgalib.org. The developement svgalib drivers support
fbdev and since their is a ati 128 driver :-)
On Fri, 25 May 2001, Android wrote:
> Are there any plans for including support for the ATI Rage 128 chipset into
> svgalib?
> The VESA setting does not work. Causes any
Arthur Naseef wrote:
>
> All:
>
> I have been diagnosing kernel panics for over a week and I have
> concerns with the use of tq_scheduler for which I was hoping I
> could get some assistance.
>
> Is it considered acceptable for functions in the tq_scheduler
> task list to call schedule? Is it
J Brook wrote:
> I see exactly the same (broken!) behaviour here. The last kernel
> that
> works for me in 2.4.4-ac6, which I'm running at the moment. All
> subsequent -ac kernels and 2.4.5-pre4 and above are broken. I
> reported
> the bug last week. Quick system summary: RH7.1, Duron, KT133,
Jeff Garzik wrote:
>
> Ouch! When compiling MySql, building sql_yacc.cc results in a ~300M
> cc1plus process size. Unfortunately this leads the machine with 380M of
> RAM deeply into swap:
>
> Mem: 381608K av, 248504K used, 133104K free, 0K shrd, 192K
> buff
> Swap: 255608K av, 255608K
Michal Jaegermann wrote:
> I mentioned that before but this should be stated clearly. As far
> as I am concerned "Linux Tulip driver version 0.9.15-pre2 (May 16,
> 2001)", as used in 2.4.5 - and other kernels - is totally buggered.
> It comes up, and ethernet interfaces can be configured, but
> = Alan Cox
>> = [EMAIL PROTECTED]?
>>> = ??
>>> AFAICS, the firmware is just a file served up to the device as needed
>>> - no more a derivative work from the kernel than my homepage is a
>>> derivative work of Apache.
>>
>> Indeed. But if you compiled your home page, linked it into Emacs
Richard Gooch wrote:
>
> How about having a helper function for interrupt handlers which queues
> characters to be sent to the console? kconsoled anyone? Blocking
> interrupts is quite distressing, so we need to be consoled ;-)
I don't think we need it, Richard. These writes to tty
devices
Jeff Garzik wrote:
>
> Ouch! When compiling MySql, building sql_yacc.cc results in a ~300M
> cc1plus process size. Unfortunately this leads the machine with 380M of
> RAM deeply into swap:
>
> Mem: 381608K av, 248504K used, 133104K free, 0K shrd, 192K
> buff
> Swap: 255608K av,
Ouch! When compiling MySql, building sql_yacc.cc results in a ~300M
cc1plus process size. Unfortunately this leads the machine with 380M of
RAM deeply into swap:
Mem: 381608K av, 248504K used, 133104K free, 0K shrd, 192K
buff
Swap: 255608K av, 255608K used, 0K free
On Mon, May 28, 2001 at 03:49:28PM +0100, Anton Altaparmakov wrote:
> At 14:08 28/05/2001, Yuri Per wrote:
> >Anton Altaparmakov wrote:
> >
> >>Does anyone know what NTFS version the NT 3.1 / 3.51 volumes had? If I
> >>know I can make sure we don't mount such beasts considering we know the
>
Kurt Roeckx wrote:
> You should never "return" from userspace to kernelspace. The
> only way to go from user space to kernel space should be by using
> a system call.
That does actually happen on x86. The kernel puts a small code fragment
called the "trampoline" on the user mode stack, which
Daniel Phillips <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said:
> On Sunday 27 May 2001 15:32, Edgar Toernig wrote:
[...]
> > you break UNIX fundamentals. But I'm quite relieved now because I'm
> > pretty sure that something like that will never go into the kernel.
> OK, I'll take that as "I couldn't find a piece
On Tue, 29 May 2001, Jens Axboe wrote:
> This is bull shit. If IDE didn't muck around with the request so much in
> the first place, the info could always be trusted. Even so, we have the
> hard_* numbers to go by. So this argument does not hold.
Maybe if you looked at the new code model as a
I've tried on two separate machines to test out 2.4.5 through the "make
bzdisk" boot floppy, and it fails on both (the compile succeeds, but
boot never gets to LILO, it simply gives "400" and a repeating list of
AX, BX, CX, and DX registers). Both are scsi aic7xxx, but use different
controllers,
James Sutherland wrote:
> Note the "derived work"; there is no way on this earth (or any other) that
> you could regard the device's firmware as being a "derived work" of the
> driver!
The same is true if you add another completely new and separately
written .c source file: the new file is not a
On Tue, May 29, 2001 at 01:30:30AM +0200, Kurt Roeckx wrote:
> You should never "return" from userspace to kernelspace. The
> only way to go from user space to kernel space should be by using
> a system call.
If you were able to return to kernel space, it already means
you're running as kernel
Marcelo Tosatti <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Just to confirm this is what happening in your case: Can you please try
> 2.4.4-ac5 and see if the _swap usage_ is still as badly?
2.4.4-ac5 seams to use the swap about as much as 2.4.4, which is less than
2.4.5-ac2. In my simple "freesly boot
> "John" == John Lenton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
John> I found to my dismay that it's extremely easy to crash 2.4.4 if
John> it has a Live! in it. I have no way of getting at the oops, but
John> somebody out there probably has both this soundcard and a
John> serial console (or
On Mon, 28 May 2001, Jakob Østergaard wrote:
> Please see the Beowulf mailing list (www.beowulf.org) - a dual athlon system
> was tested there about a month ago, and various tests were collected and run.
http://www.beowulf.org/pipermail/beowulf/
Archives for March and April conveniently
I mentioned that before but this should be stated clearly. As far as I
am concerned "Linux Tulip driver version 0.9.15-pre2 (May 16, 2001)",
as used in 2.4.5 - and other kernels - is totally buggered. It comes up,
and ethernet interfaces can be configured, but does not matter how I am
playing
On Mon, May 28, 2001 at 11:43:38PM +0200, Vadim Lebedev wrote:
> Please correct me if i'm wrong but it seems to me that i've stumbled on
> really BIG security hole in the signal handling code.
I don't think there's problem, unless I'm missing something.
> The problem IMO is that the signal
On Tue, May 29, 2001 at 12:30:03AM +0200, Vadim Lebedev wrote:
> Kurt,
>
> Maybe i'm missing something but it seems that during execution of the signal
> handler, user mode stack contains kernel mode context...
> Hence the security hole
It's rather complicated how things work.
Both the user
On Tue, May 29, 2001 at 12:56:37AM +0200, Meelis Roos wrote:
> LM> For what it is worth, in the recent postings I made about this topic, you
> LM> suggested that it was bad cabling, I swapped the cabling, same problem.
> LM> I swapped the mother board from Abit K7T to ASUS A7V and all cables
Alan Cox wrote:
> > I'm wondering if anyone knows/has a fix for memory past 64mb not
being
> > detected (unless you use append="mem=...M" in lilo) on the Via VT8371
> > [KX133] North bridge. (Please CC any replies since I'm off kernel list
> > atm.)
>
> Consult your BIOS vendor
LM> For what it is worth, in the recent postings I made about this topic, you
LM> suggested that it was bad cabling, I swapped the cabling, same problem.
LM> I swapped the mother board from Abit K7T to ASUS A7V and all cables worked
LM> fine.
Similar info about KT7 - changing cables (both 30 and
On Tue, 29 May 2001, André Dahlqvist wrote:
> André Dahlqvist <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> > I agree. Kernels after 2.4.4 uses a *lot* more swap for me, which I guess
> > might be part of the reason for the slowdown.
>
> Following up on myself, here are some numbers:
>
> Freshly booted
>
> Hi folks,
>
> Please correct me if i'm wrong but it seems to me that i've stumbled on
> really BIG security hole in the signal handling code.
> The problem IMO is that the signal handling code stores a processor context
> on the user-mode stack frame which is active while
> the signal
Where do I get this basic info on ATAPI? Will I benefit from the IDE
standards document? Where can I get that?
Thanks for your help
- Original Message -
From: "Alan Cox" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Cc: "Alan Cox" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Monday,
Kurt,
Maybe i'm missing something but it seems that during execution of the signal
handler, user mode stack contains kernel mode context...
Hence the security hole
Vadim
- Original Message -
From: "Kurt Roeckx" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "Vadim Lebedev" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Cc: <[EMAIL
Philip,
The point is the panic will be executed in KERNEL and NOT user mode.
Unless i'm missing something the sigcontext contains kernel mode and not
user mode context.
Vadim
- Original Message -
From: "Philip Blundell" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "Vadim Lebedev" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Cc:
On Mon, May 28, 2001 at 11:43:38PM +0200, Vadim Lebedev wrote:
> Hi folks,
>
> Please correct me if i'm wrong but it seems to me that i've stumbled on
> really BIG security hole in the signal handling code.
> The problem IMO is that the signal handling code stores a processor context
> on the
>Suppose the signal handler modifies this context frame for example by
>storing into the PC slot address of the panic routine
>then when handler will exit panic will be called with obvious results.
You can't execute panic() - or any other kernel function - in user mode.
The application can
Can you explain what this meas? Fake an SCSI device and use the SCSI driver
to drive my CDROM? But what about the I/O port regions of memory, and the
IRQ? Aren't they different?
I am new to device drivers, I don't understand what I have to do. I know
that I need to provide a service so I can
- Original Message -
From: "Alan Cox" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "Mark Hahn" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Cc: "Jens Axboe" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>;
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Monday, May 28, 2001 5:12 PM
Subject: Re: [patch]: ide dma timeout retry in pio
> >
André Dahlqvist <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I agree. Kernels after 2.4.4 uses a *lot* more swap for me, which I guess
> might be part of the reason for the slowdown.
Following up on myself, here are some numbers:
Freshly booted 2.4.4 with X and Mozilla running, 'free' outputs this:
Hi folks,
Please correct me if i'm wrong but it seems to me that i've stumbled on
really BIG security hole in the signal handling code.
The problem IMO is that the signal handling code stores a processor context
on the user-mode stack frame which is active while
the signal handler is running.
Marcelo Tosatti <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> It did not fixed any interactivity problem.
I agree. Kernels after 2.4.4 uses a *lot* more swap for me, which I guess
might be part of the reason for the slowdown.
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> I'm wondering if anyone knows/has a fix for memory past 64mb not being
> detected (unless you use append="mem=...M" in lilo) on the Via VT8371
> [KX133] North bridge. (Please CC any replies since I'm off kernel list
> atm.)
Consult your BIOS vendor
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> If anyone on the kernel list has written a driver for a CDROM please send me
> mail about how you went about it, did you approach the manufacturer for the
> documentation on the device, if I made a mistake could I ruin my hardware?
> and stuff like that.
For IDE CD-ROM there is a standard. Its
I'm wondering if anyone knows/has a fix for memory past 64mb not being
detected (unless you use append="mem=...M" in lilo) on the Via VT8371
[KX133] North bridge. (Please CC any replies since I'm off kernel list
atm.)
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Here is a trivial patch that will make ksymoops work again on Alpha.
--George
diff -urN linux-2.4.5-ac3-orig/arch/alpha/kernel/traps.c
linux/arch/alpha/kernel/traps.c
--- linux-2.4.5-ac3-orig/arch/alpha/kernel/traps.c Thu May 24 17:24:37 2001
+++ linux/arch/alpha/kernel/traps.c Mon
Hi.
The patch below fixes what I believe is a bug in hysdn_net.c.
I cannot see how we can proceed under _any_ circumstances
after the kmalloc fails. Applies against 245ac1.
--- linux-245-ac1-clean/drivers/isdn/hysdn/hysdn_net.c Sun May 27 22:15:22 2001
+++
On Mon, May 28, 2001 at 03:15:04PM -0400, Ricky Beam wrote:
> PS: I really hate it when people break "functional" things in the "stable"
> tree. (functional and stable are both open to debate.)
I was under the impression that it really wasn't functional.
mrc
--
Mike Castle
>Actually, it broke at 2.4.3. Go look at the first change to buz.c from
>that patch.
None at all. It didn't break at 2.4.3, it just didn't compile at all anymore
in 2.4.3. It was already kind of broken before that.
>PS: I really hate it when people break "functional" things in the >"stable"
On Mon, 28 May 2001, Leeuw van der, Tim wrote:
> The VM in 2.4.5 might be largely 'fixed' and I know that the VM changes in
> -ac were considered to be but still broken, however for me they worked
> better than what is in 2.4.5.
The VM changes in 2.4.5 fixed a very serious performance problem.
On Mon, May 28 2001, Mark Hahn wrote:
> > request, when we hit a dma timout. In this case, what we really want to
> > do is retry the request in pio mode and revert to normal dma operations
> > later again.
>
> really? do we know the nature of the DMA engine problem well enough?
> is there a
(Forgot l-k again... :<)
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Hi.
The following patch removes two superfluous initializations
from aironet4500_proc.c, making the .o ~12K smaller in
size. It applies against 245ac1 and was discovered by Adam
Ritcher some time
On Mon, 28 May 2001, Jens Axboe wrote:
> Hi,
>
> One minor bug found that would possibly oops if the SCSI pool ran out of
> memory for the sg table and had to revert to a single segment request.
> This should never happen, as the pool is sized after number of devices
> and queue depth -- but
Hello,
I'm having problems with 2.4.5 and my pppoe connection.
The kernel compiles fine, and works fine too, until I reboot, at which
time it decides it no longer wants to work, and any time I attempt to
call my start-pppoe script, i get:
May 28 15:54:28 rocket pppd[3091]: pppd 2.4.1 started by
I saw a report on AMDZone of another VIA chipset bug. The original source
is:-
http://www.chip.de/news_stories/news_stories_163106.html
The claim from AMDZone's translation is that:-
" According to the report KT133A boards with chipset codes of 1EA0 and
1EA4 can have the bug which causes your
On Mon, May 28, 2001 at 07:00:39PM +0200, Nico Schottelius wrote:
> I am having problems with loading modules:
> I always get the unresolved symbols message.
> I didn't find any documentation for that, can you help me ?
You did read question 8.8 from the linux-kernel mailing list FAQ?
Hello Kernel Hackers,
Bloody Minix doesn't have a CDROM driver for my CDROM, a Creative Quad
speed. I'm dual booting between Linux and Minix. Linux uses my CDROM no
problems. I am thinking a "generic" CDROM driver might fit the bill for this
CDROM (the system is an old 486DX2/66, 20MB RAM, 500MB
All:
I have been diagnosing kernel panics for over a week and I have
concerns with the use of tq_scheduler for which I was hoping I
could get some assistance.
Is it considered acceptable for functions in the tq_scheduler
task list to call schedule? Is it acceptable for such functions
to wait
On Sat, 26 May 2001, Jan Sembera wrote:
>i've got a problem compiling drivers/media/video/buz.c as module. When
>i'm trying to compile, i get couple of errors:
...
Actually, it broke at 2.4.3. Go look at the first change to buz.c from
that patch.
--Ricky
PS: I really hate it when people
>From: Alan Cox <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>Subject: Linux 2.4.5-ac3
>Date: Mon, 28 May 2001 17:49:23 +0100
Huh? What mail-address is this from? "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"? Guess I
missed something? It's a nice one anyway ;-)
Jonathan Brugge
On 28-May-2001 Mike Castle wrote:
> On Mon, May 28, 2001 at 11:26:31AM -0700, Davide Libenzi wrote:
>>
>> On 28-Jun-2001 Anil Kumar wrote:
>> > hi,
>> > How do i read file within the kernel modules. I hope we can't use the FS
>> > open... calls within kernel.
>>
>> You can access fs methods
On Mon, May 28, 2001 at 11:26:31AM -0700, Davide Libenzi wrote:
>
> On 28-Jun-2001 Anil Kumar wrote:
> > hi,
> > How do i read file within the kernel modules. I hope we can't use the FS
> > open... calls within kernel.
>
> You can access fs methods directly.
But generally you don't want to.
Hi,
We have the current problem of ide dma possibly tossing out a complete
request, when we hit a dma timout. In this case, what we really want to
do is retry the request in pio mode and revert to normal dma operations
later again.
This patch catches the dma timout. It clears the dma engine,
On 28-Jun-2001 Anil Kumar wrote:
> hi,
> How do i read file within the kernel modules. I hope we can't use the FS
> open... calls within kernel.
You can access fs methods directly.
Look at this newbie article :
http://www.linux-mag.com/2000-11/gear_01.html
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Is there any way to delete the key of an existing loopback encrypted
device, and have it block, until a key is reloaded?
Of course any cached pages would need deleted, and dirty ones flushed
first.
To enable things like deleting keys from memory, before suspend-to-disk,
or forcing users of
Hi folks,
It took me quite some time to recognize what has changed between 2.4.4
and 2.4.5 and why my CD drives were not accessable: Somehow the sequence
of SCSI devices has been changed.
For 2.4.4 the IDE SCSI emulation was scsibus0, my Adaptec 39160 was
scsibus1 and scsibus2.
Suddenly with
On Monday 28 May 2001 13:45, Jay Thorne wrote:
> Problem solved, thanks to the rawhide patch from Richard Henderson
> ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) posted on Sunday. Performance is ~10megs/second both
> directions, using tulip, de4x5 or via-rhine.
Well Done, Richard.
>
> Using 2.4.4-ac15 it works fine.
Hello!
When I look at the source about route in linux,I find the definition of main_table
and local_table. What is the difference between them.
Thanks!
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Problem solved, thanks to the rawhide patch from Richard Henderson
([EMAIL PROTECTED]) posted on Sunday. Performance is ~10megs/second both
directions, using tulip, de4x5 or via-rhine.
Using 2.4.4-ac15 it works fine. I'm now trying 2.4.5
Andrea, 2.4.5aa1 oopses just after probing the scsi
The ISO639 registrars call it "Belarusian". See
http://lcweb.loc.gov/standards/iso639-2/langhome.html
under "English Name of Language".
Against 2.4.5-ac2:
--- Configure.help.orig Mon May 28 19:23:18 2001
+++ Configure.help Mon May 28 19:31:50 2001
@@ -12838,7 +12838,7 @@
only, not to
Hello!
I tried to load thie aha152x modules:
modprobe aha152x io=0x140 irq=9 (which is correct)
entries in /proc/scsi are generated,
but the modprobe hangs and is unkillable.
aha152x reports scsi discs to the kernel messages,
although there are none connected to it.
I tried to use a scanner,
Hello!
I am having problems with loading modules:
I always get the unresolved symbols message.
I didn't find any documentation for that, can you help me ?
What I did:
compiled 2.4.4; installed modules.
depmod -ae -F /usr/src/linux/System.map 2.4.4 runs fine,
depmod -a doesn't run fine
ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/alan/2.4/
Intermediate diffs are available from
http://www.bzimage.org
In terms of going through the code audit almost all the sound drivers still
need fixing to lock against format changes during a
Oops, that was wrong. The proper patch is:
--- Documentation/kernel-docs.txt.old Mon May 28 12:06:43 2001
+++ Documentation/kernel-docs.txt Mon May 28 12:37:26 2001
@@ -333,7 +333,8 @@
* Title: "The Kernel Hacking HOWTO"
Author: Various Talented People, and Rusty.
-Original Message-
From: Alan Cox [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Monday, May 28, 2001 12:20 PM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: Linux 2.4.5-ac2
> But the claim was that 2.4.5-ac2 is faster than 2.4.5 plain, so which
> changes are in 2.4.5-ac2 that would make
> But the claim was that 2.4.5-ac2 is faster than 2.4.5 plain, so which
> changes are in 2.4.5-ac2 that would make it faster than 2.4.5 plain? Also, I
> don't know if 2.4.5-ac1 is as fast as 2.4.5-ac2 for Fabio. If not, then it's
> a change in the 2.4.5-ac2 changelog. If it is as fast, it is one
The problem reported here before was switching from X to the console.
The video signal would be lost and the computer would hang.
The responses pointed out the it was the switch of video modes; XFree
would change the internals of the video controller which the frame
buffer could not cope with.
On Mon, May 28, 2001 at 05:57:12PM +0200, Axel Thimm wrote:
> What is the status of the support for this chipset, found for example in an
> ASUS A7A266? Judging from
> http://www.acerlabs.com/eng/support/faqlnx.htm
> one gets the impression that ALi is respectfully treating the Linux
Em Sex 25 Mai 2001 20:05, Alan Cox escreveu:
> > Why there are two different kernel trees? There is always the official
> > release, provided by Torvalds, and then Alan provides a patch merging
> > Linus's stuff, and adding (?) tons of bug fixes.
>
> Well it started by accident but it turns out
Hi all,
I think I've found some incorrect helptexts in 2.2.19:
I've compared the netlink config options for 2.2.19 with 2.4.5.
1. CONFIG_NETLINK - Enabling netlink
The help in 2.4.5 seems correct to me.
2.2.19 raves about nodes under /dev with major 36. (BAD)
2. CONFIG_RTNETLINK -
Hi,
One minor bug found that would possibly oops if the SCSI pool ran out of
memory for the sg table and had to revert to a single segment request.
This should never happen, as the pool is sized after number of devices
and queue depth -- but it needed fixing anyway.
Other changes:
- Support
What is the status of the support for this chipset, found for example in an
ASUS A7A266? Judging from
http://www.acerlabs.com/eng/support/faqlnx.htm
one gets the impression that ALi is respectfully treating the Linux community.
Although VIA is the most popular chipset vendor, its
Alan Cox wrote:
> > Performance is back to that of 2.4.2-ac26, and stability is a lot >
better. Under
> > heavy FS pressure 2.4.5-ac2 is about 5-10% faster than vanilla 2.4.5, >
the aa1,2
> > kernels have the same performance of vanilla 2.4.5.
> >
> > Which one of your changes affected
Has anyone managed to get this motherboard's (tyan tsunami AT) on board
usb to work? I'm currently using an add on pci card to use the usb devices
I have but would _love_ to free that PCI slot up.
Specifics:
Tsunami MB (AT Form factor)
Single processor:
model name : Pentium II (Deschutes)
At 14:08 28/05/2001, Yuri Per wrote:
>Anton Altaparmakov wrote:
>
>>Does anyone know what NTFS version the NT 3.1 / 3.51 volumes had? If I
>>know I can make sure we don't mount such beasts considering we know the
>>driver would fail on them... - I am aware of only one person stil using
>>NT
On Sunday 27 May 2001 15:21, Richard Gooch wrote:
> Akash Jain writes:
> > in fs/devfs/base.c,
> > the struct devfsd_notify_struct is approx 1056 bytes, allocating it
> > on a stack of 8k seems unreasonable. here we simply move it to the
> > heap, i don't think it is a _must_ be on stack type
Alan Cox wrote:
>
> > Yeas it is stil the same as 2.4.5-ac1, but did not
> > happen with 2.4.5; You can try running pppd in the
> > console (tty1) without any argument.
>
> Looks like an interaction with the newer console locking code. The BUG() is
> caused when the ppp code tries to write to
Hi,
is there support for such a beast available ?
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kernel is the latest 2.4.5 !
TIA,
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Anton Altaparmakov wrote:
> Does anyone know what NTFS version the NT 3.1 / 3.51 volumes had? If I
> know I can make sure we don't mount such beasts considering we know
> the driver would fail on them... - I am aware of only one person stil
> using NT 3.51 and he doesn't believe in the
This bug is fixed in 2.4.5
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On Mon, 28 May 2001, Martin Josefsson wrote:
> On Mon, 28 May 2001, Andris Pavenis wrote:
>
> > On Sunday 27 May 2001 02:34, Alan Cox wrote:
> [snip]
> > > Can you try 2.4.5 with the 8139too.c file from the 2.4.3-ac3 that works for
> > > you and report on that
> >
> > Done.
> >
> > Seems
On Mon, 28 May 2001, Andris Pavenis wrote:
> On Sunday 27 May 2001 02:34, Alan Cox wrote:
[snip]
> > Can you try 2.4.5 with the 8139too.c file from the 2.4.3-ac3 that works for
> > you and report on that
>
> Done.
>
> Seems that taking 8139too.o from 2.4.3-ac3 fixes the problem.
>
>
Hello,
Just got following:
Unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at virtual address 003c
Oops, translated oops and kernel config follows...
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At 12:10 28/05/2001, Martin von Loewis wrote:
> > >That would not work: NT would split individual runs across extends
> > >(i.e. split them in the middle). Did I misunderstand, or do you have a
> > >solution for that as well.
> > >
> > Are you sure that it's true? My NTFS resizer interprets parts
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