Re: Realtime Preemption, 2.6.12, Beginners Guide?

2005-07-06 Thread Alistair John Strachan
On Wednesday 06 Jul 2005 18:27, Ingo Molnar wrote: > * Alistair John Strachan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > great! Do the softlockup warnings still occur? > > > > Yes, but in no greater a number. > > could you apply the patch below, so that we can see wh

Re: Realtime Preemption, 2.6.12, Beginners Guide?

2005-07-06 Thread Alistair John Strachan
On Wednesday 06 Jul 2005 22:02, Ingo Molnar wrote: > * Alistair John Strachan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > This is a completely unrelated question, but now we've got everything > > under control.. how do I make "quiet" actually do something on the RT > &g

Re: Realtime Preemption, 2.6.12, Beginners Guide?

2005-07-06 Thread Alistair John Strachan
lly do something on the RT patchset? Currently I flag it on the kernel cmdline, but I still get everything spewed to my primary VT. -- Cheers, Alistair. personal: alistair()devzero!co!uk university: s0348365()sms!ed!ac!uk student:CS/CSim Undergraduate contact:1F2 55 South Clerk Street,

Re: Realtime Preemption, 2.6.12, Beginners Guide?

2005-07-06 Thread Alistair John Strachan
m not convinced they're gone forever. I'll let you know how it goes. -- Cheers, Alistair. personal: alistair()devzero!co!uk university: s0348365()sms!ed!ac!uk student:CS/CSim Undergraduate contact:1F2 55 South Clerk Street, Edinburgh. EH8 9PP. - To unsubscribe from

Re: Realtime Preemption, 2.6.12, Beginners Guide?

2005-07-06 Thread Alistair John Strachan
On Wednesday 06 Jul 2005 12:57, Alistair John Strachan wrote: [snip] > Which debugging options are most useful for testing purposes? Is what I've > selected enough? Also, I got a few unexpected messages in dmesg on bootup. I decided to just enable everything, as I got a lockup within 5 m

Realtime Preemption, 2.6.12, Beginners Guide?

2005-07-06 Thread Alistair John Strachan
ers, Alistair. personal: alistair()devzero!co!uk university: s0348365()sms!ed!ac!uk student:CS/CSim Undergraduate contact:1F2 55 South Clerk Street, Edinburgh. EH8 9PP. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a mess

Realtime Preemption, 2.6.12, Beginners Guide?

2005-07-06 Thread Alistair John Strachan
-timer/0-3|#0): new 1001 us maximum-latency wakeup. Which is presumably a good sign. -- Cheers, Alistair. personal: alistair()devzero!co!uk university: s0348365()sms!ed!ac!uk student:CS/CSim Undergraduate contact:1F2 55 South Clerk Street, Edinburgh. EH8 9PP

Re: Realtime Preemption, 2.6.12, Beginners Guide?

2005-07-06 Thread Alistair John Strachan
On Wednesday 06 Jul 2005 12:57, Alistair John Strachan wrote: [snip] Which debugging options are most useful for testing purposes? Is what I've selected enough? Also, I got a few unexpected messages in dmesg on bootup. I decided to just enable everything, as I got a lockup within 5 minutes

Re: Realtime Preemption, 2.6.12, Beginners Guide?

2005-07-06 Thread Alistair John Strachan
. -- Cheers, Alistair. personal: alistair()devzero!co!uk university: s0348365()sms!ed!ac!uk student:CS/CSim Undergraduate contact:1F2 55 South Clerk Street, Edinburgh. EH8 9PP. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line unsubscribe linux-kernel in the body of a message

Re: Realtime Preemption, 2.6.12, Beginners Guide?

2005-07-06 Thread Alistair John Strachan
it on the kernel cmdline, but I still get everything spewed to my primary VT. -- Cheers, Alistair. personal: alistair()devzero!co!uk university: s0348365()sms!ed!ac!uk student:CS/CSim Undergraduate contact:1F2 55 South Clerk Street, Edinburgh. EH8 9PP. - To unsubscribe from this list

Re: Realtime Preemption, 2.6.12, Beginners Guide?

2005-07-06 Thread Alistair John Strachan
On Wednesday 06 Jul 2005 22:02, Ingo Molnar wrote: * Alistair John Strachan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: This is a completely unrelated question, but now we've got everything under control.. how do I make quiet actually do something on the RT patchset? Currently I flag it on the kernel

Re: Realtime Preemption, 2.6.12, Beginners Guide?

2005-07-06 Thread Alistair John Strachan
On Wednesday 06 Jul 2005 18:27, Ingo Molnar wrote: * Alistair John Strachan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: great! Do the softlockup warnings still occur? Yes, but in no greater a number. could you apply the patch below, so that we can see what kind of time gap the softlockup detector

Re: Realtime Preemption, 2.6.12, Beginners Guide?

2005-07-06 Thread Alistair John Strachan
On Wednesday 06 Jul 2005 18:01, Ingo Molnar wrote: * Alistair John Strachan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm beginning to understand the issue, and I see why you think the proposed patch fixes it. I'll compile and boot V0.7.51-05 now. Indeed, this seems to have fixed it. ( softirq-timer

Re: Realtime Preemption, 2.6.12, Beginners Guide?

2005-07-06 Thread Alistair John Strachan
On Wednesday 06 Jul 2005 17:24, Ingo Molnar wrote: * Alistair John Strachan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: (generally i try to mark every message in the -RT kernel that signals some sort of anomaly with a 'BUG:' prefix - that makes it easy to do a 'dmesg | grep BUG:' to find out whether

Re: Realtime Preemption, 2.6.12, Beginners Guide?

2005-07-06 Thread Alistair John Strachan
On Wednesday 06 Jul 2005 17:37, Alistair John Strachan wrote: [big snip] could you try the patch below (or the -51-05 patch that i just uploaded), does it fix this latency? Ingo I'm beginning to understand the issue, and I see why you think the proposed patch fixes it. I'll

Re: Realtime Preemption, 2.6.12, Beginners Guide?

2005-07-06 Thread Alistair John Strachan
On Wednesday 06 Jul 2005 17:28, Ingo Molnar wrote: * Alistair John Strachan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wednesday 06 Jul 2005 14:39, Ingo Molnar wrote: * Alistair John Strachan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Then it continues to boot. I'm getting periodic lockups under high network load

Re: Realtime Preemption, 2.6.12, Beginners Guide?

2005-07-06 Thread Alistair John Strachan
On Wednesday 06 Jul 2005 14:39, Ingo Molnar wrote: * Alistair John Strachan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Then it continues to boot. I'm getting periodic lockups under high network load, however, though I suspect that might be the ipw2200 driver I compiled against the realtime-preempt kernel

Re: Realtime Preemption, 2.6.12, Beginners Guide?

2005-07-06 Thread Alistair John Strachan
is nuking them, it needs to be fixed. -- Cheers, Alistair. personal: alistair()devzero!co!uk university: s0348365()sms!ed!ac!uk student:CS/CSim Undergraduate contact:1F2 55 South Clerk Street, Edinburgh. EH8 9PP. preemption latency trace v1.1.4 on 2.6.12-RT-V0.7.51-02

Re: formatting CD-RW locks the system

2005-04-10 Thread Alistair John Strachan
s there any way to use the > packet writing with the CD-R/DVD-R discs, > or is it supposed to work only with the > -RW discs? You probably don't have DMA enabled on the drive. Please check this. CDRW formatting works fine here with cdrecord blank=all -- Cheers, Alistair. personal:

Re: formatting CD-RW locks the system

2005-04-10 Thread Alistair John Strachan
with the -RW discs? You probably don't have DMA enabled on the drive. Please check this. CDRW formatting works fine here with cdrecord blank=all -- Cheers, Alistair. personal: alistair()devzero!co!uk university: s0348365()sms!ed!ac!uk student:CS/CSim Undergraduate contact:1F2 55 South

Re: OSS Audio borked between 2.6.6 and 2.6.10

2005-03-13 Thread Alistair John Strachan
c/oss (I gleamed the above from google.com, you might need to modify it slightly). The intel8x0 driver is probably one of the most widely used ALSA drivers, so I'd hope it wasn't broken! My laptop uses the driver, it is superb. -- Cheers, Alistair. personal: alistair()devzero!co!uk un

Re: OSS Audio borked between 2.6.6 and 2.6.10

2005-03-13 Thread Alistair John Strachan
widely used ALSA drivers, so I'd hope it wasn't broken! My laptop uses the driver, it is superb. -- Cheers, Alistair. personal: alistair()devzero!co!uk university: s0348365()sms!ed!ac!uk student:CS/CSim Undergraduate contact:1F2 55 South Clerk Street, Edinburgh. EH8 9PP

Re: Any way to get larger fonts in XCONFIG ?

2005-03-12 Thread Alistair John Strachan
0,0,0,0 > font=Sans Serif,14,-1,5,50,0,0,0,0,0 > > Changes from 10 point to 14 point font. That or run "qtconfig", where you can change all the font properties in a GUI. -- Cheers, Alistair. personal: alistair()devzero!co!uk university: s0348365()sms!ed!ac!uk student:CS

Re: Any way to get larger fonts in XCONFIG ?

2005-03-12 Thread Alistair John Strachan
font. That or run qtconfig, where you can change all the font properties in a GUI. -- Cheers, Alistair. personal: alistair()devzero!co!uk university: s0348365()sms!ed!ac!uk student:CS/CSim Undergraduate contact:1F2 55 South Clerk Street, Edinburgh. EH8 9PP. - To unsubscribe

Re: [ACPI] Re: Call for help: list of machines with working S3

2005-02-18 Thread Alistair John Strachan
On Wednesday 16 Feb 2005 14:25, Kjartan Maraas wrote: > tir, 15,.02.2005 kl. 17.42 +, skrev Alistair John Strachan: > > On Tuesday 15 Feb 2005 16:16, Lorenzo Colitti wrote: > > [snip] > > > > > Ok, here is the output from dmidecode (Debian package) and from lsp

Re: [ACPI] Re: Call for help: list of machines with working S3

2005-02-18 Thread Alistair John Strachan
On Wednesday 16 Feb 2005 14:25, Kjartan Maraas wrote: tir, 15,.02.2005 kl. 17.42 +, skrev Alistair John Strachan: On Tuesday 15 Feb 2005 16:16, Lorenzo Colitti wrote: [snip] Ok, here is the output from dmidecode (Debian package) and from lspci. I don't have acpidmp and I don't

Re: [ACPI] Re: Call for help: list of machines with working S3

2005-02-15 Thread Alistair John Strachan
s involved modprobing the USB HCD modules, which still allowed me to suspend/resume, but my USB mouse was non-functional on resume. -- Cheers, Alistair. personal: alistair()devzero!co!uk university: s0348365()sms!ed!ac!uk student:CS/CSim Undergraduate contact:1F2 55 South Clerk Street,

Re: [ACPI] Re: Call for help: list of machines with working S3

2005-02-15 Thread Alistair John Strachan
below a diff of my dmidecode output versus Lorenzo's. Nothing much to call home about. [alistair] 17:40 [~/dmidecode-2.5] diff -Nudr -U3 lorenzo dmiout --- lorenzo 2005-02-15 17:37:36.091770768 + +++ dmiout 2005-02-15 17:40:08.801555352 + @@ -1,13 +1,13 @@ # dmidecode 2.5 SMBIOS

Re: [ACPI] Re: Call for help: list of machines with working S3

2005-02-15 Thread Alistair John Strachan
On Tuesday 15 Feb 2005 12:12, Lorenzo Colitti wrote: > Alistair John Strachan wrote: > > On Monday 14 Feb 2005 21:11, Pavel Machek wrote: > >>Table of known working systems: > >>Model hack (or "how to do it") > >>[...] > &

Re: [ACPI] Re: Call for help: list of machines with working S3

2005-02-15 Thread Alistair John Strachan
On Tuesday 15 Feb 2005 12:12, Lorenzo Colitti wrote: Alistair John Strachan wrote: On Monday 14 Feb 2005 21:11, Pavel Machek wrote: Table of known working systems: Model hack (or how to do it) [...] HP NC6000 s3_bios (2) The above report is incorrect. On 2.6.11

Re: [ACPI] Re: Call for help: list of machines with working S3

2005-02-15 Thread Alistair John Strachan
dmidecode output versus Lorenzo's. Nothing much to call home about. [alistair] 17:40 [~/dmidecode-2.5] diff -Nudr -U3 lorenzo dmiout --- lorenzo 2005-02-15 17:37:36.091770768 + +++ dmiout 2005-02-15 17:40:08.801555352 + @@ -1,13 +1,13 @@ # dmidecode 2.5 SMBIOS 2.3 present. 31

Re: [ACPI] Re: Call for help: list of machines with working S3

2005-02-15 Thread Alistair John Strachan
, which still allowed me to suspend/resume, but my USB mouse was non-functional on resume. -- Cheers, Alistair. personal: alistair()devzero!co!uk university: s0348365()sms!ed!ac!uk student:CS/CSim Undergraduate contact:1F2 55 South Clerk Street, Edinburgh. EH8 9PP

Re: Call for help: list of machines with working S3

2005-02-14 Thread Alistair John Strachan
(6.8.2 RC 4) > | Release Date: 2 February 2005 > | X Protocol Version 11, Revision 0, Release 6.8.1.904 > | Build Operating System: SuSE Linux [ELF] SuSE > > as present in SUSE 9.3preview3. > > (***) To be tested with a newer kernel. > > () Not with S

Re: Call for help: list of machines with working S3

2005-02-14 Thread Alistair John Strachan
Operating System: SuSE Linux [ELF] SuSE as present in SUSE 9.3preview3. (***) To be tested with a newer kernel. () Not with SMP kernel, UP only. -- Cheers, Alistair. personal: alistair()devzero!co!uk university: s0348365()sms!ed!ac!uk student:CS/CSim Undergraduate contact:1F2

Re: Idea: Encryption plugin architecture for file-systems

2001-04-21 Thread Alistair Riddell
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Re: Idea: Encryption plugin architecture for file-systems

2001-04-21 Thread Alistair Riddell
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RE: binfmt_script and ^M

2001-02-27 Thread Alistair Riddell
On Tue, 27 Feb 2001, Heusden, Folkert van wrote: > But; it's not that much of hassle to run it trough some awk/sed/whatsoever > script, would it? Imho there should be as less as possible code in the man fromdos (on most linux systems anyway) -- Alistair Riddell - BOFH IT Support Depa

RE: binfmt_script and ^M

2001-02-27 Thread Alistair Riddell
On Tue, 27 Feb 2001, Heusden, Folkert van wrote: But; it's not that much of hassle to run it trough some awk/sed/whatsoever script, would it? Imho there should be as less as possible code in the man fromdos (on most linux systems anyway) -- Alistair Riddell - BOFH IT Support Department

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