Re: [Fwd: United States Patent: 6,862,609]

2005-03-03 Thread Trever L. Adams
On Thu, 2005-03-03 at 08:48 -0700, Jeff V. Merkey wrote: > Patent law in the US is based on section 113 of the United States > Constitution, and patents > are not going away. Merkey aren't you supposed to be a lawyer? Unless you do some funky concatenation of articles and sections you can't

Re: [Fwd: United States Patent: 6,862,609]

2005-03-03 Thread Trever L. Adams
On Thu, 2005-03-03 at 08:48 -0700, Jeff V. Merkey wrote: Patent law in the US is based on section 113 of the United States Constitution, and patents are not going away. Merkey aren't you supposed to be a lawyer? Unless you do some funky concatenation of articles and sections you can't find

Re: OpenOffice crashes due to incorrect access permissions on /dev/dri/card*

2005-01-30 Thread Trever L. Adams
(as in my case). Trever On Sat, 2005-01-29 at 12:57 -0700, Trever L. Adams wrote: > For the record, this has nothing to do with my crash. Mine still crashes > all the time if I try to save a new document. > > Trever > > On Sat, 2005-01-29 at 14:25 -0500, Jon Smirl wrote: >

Re: OpenOffice crashes due to incorrect access permissions on /dev/dri/card*

2005-01-29 Thread Trever L. Adams
For the record, this has nothing to do with my crash. Mine still crashes all the time if I try to save a new document. Trever On Sat, 2005-01-29 at 14:25 -0500, Jon Smirl wrote: > On Sat, 29 Jan 2005 13:02:51 +, Richard Hughes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Sat, 29 Jan 2005 12:49:16

Re: OpenOffice crashes due to incorrect access permissions on /dev/dri/card*

2005-01-29 Thread Trever L. Adams
For the record, this has nothing to do with my crash. Mine still crashes all the time if I try to save a new document. Trever On Sat, 2005-01-29 at 14:25 -0500, Jon Smirl wrote: On Sat, 29 Jan 2005 13:02:51 +, Richard Hughes [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sat, 29 Jan 2005 12:49:16 +,

Re: [Bug 4081] New: OpenOffice crashes while starting due to a threading error

2005-01-27 Thread Trever L. Adams
I didn't look at the trace. My only problem is in saving new files. I can copy an old one, rename it and start, empty it and save fine. I just can't save new ones. Anyway, I hope this gets fixed. I am running pure rawhide Fedora Core, just so you know... latest of everything. Trever On Thu,

Re: [Bug 4081] New: OpenOffice crashes while starting due to a threading error

2005-01-27 Thread Trever L. Adams
I am seeing crashes in FC4 rawhide with the 2.6.xx kernel in FC4 rawhide as well. However, I only see it if I start, and then try to save the document (without or without changes).. i.e. saving a new document... I may see this under saving as as well, but I rarely do that so I don't know. (AMD

Re: [Bug 4081] New: OpenOffice crashes while starting due to a threading error

2005-01-27 Thread Trever L. Adams
I am seeing crashes in FC4 rawhide with the 2.6.xx kernel in FC4 rawhide as well. However, I only see it if I start, and then try to save the document (without or without changes).. i.e. saving a new document... I may see this under saving as as well, but I rarely do that so I don't know. (AMD

Re: [Bug 4081] New: OpenOffice crashes while starting due to a threading error

2005-01-27 Thread Trever L. Adams
I didn't look at the trace. My only problem is in saving new files. I can copy an old one, rename it and start, empty it and save fine. I just can't save new ones. Anyway, I hope this gets fixed. I am running pure rawhide Fedora Core, just so you know... latest of everything. Trever On Thu,

md and RAID 5 [was Re: LVM2]

2005-01-21 Thread Trever L. Adams
Thank you all for having been so kind in your responses and help. However, there is one more set of questions I have. Does the md (software raid) have disk size or raid volume limits? If I am using such things as USB or 1394 disks, is there a way to use labels in /etc/raidtab and with the tools

md and RAID 5 [was Re: LVM2]

2005-01-21 Thread Trever L. Adams
Thank you all for having been so kind in your responses and help. However, there is one more set of questions I have. Does the md (software raid) have disk size or raid volume limits? If I am using such things as USB or 1394 disks, is there a way to use labels in /etc/raidtab and with the tools

Re: LVM2

2005-01-20 Thread Trever L. Adams
PV = the device VG = groups of them (the RAID5 array?) LV = what? the file system? So, from what you are telling me, and the man page, 2.6.x with LVM2 can have basically any size of PV, VG, and LV I want. Am I flawed in my understanding? Thank you, Trever On Thu, 2005-01-20 at 22:02 +,

Re: LVM2

2005-01-20 Thread Trever L. Adams
It is for a group. For the most part it is data access/retention. Writes and such would be more similar to a desktop. I would use SATA if they were (nearly) equally priced and there were awesome 1394 to SATA bridge chips that worked well with Linux. So, right now, I am looking at ATA to 1394. So,

Re: IEEE-1394 and disks

2005-01-20 Thread Trever L. Adams
By bridge chips I mean IEEE-1394 to IDE. Also, is it possible to set spin down time for these IDE disks through 1394? i.e. if they are inactive for 1 hour, I would like them to spin down. Is this possible? Trever On Thu, 2005-01-20 at 12:53 -0700, Trever L. Adams wrote: > I have a few questi

IEEE-1394 and disks

2005-01-20 Thread Trever L. Adams
I have a few questions: How stable is firewire (running at 800Mbps or faster, if any is available yet)? How stable is the Linux subsystem, especially for firewire disks? Is there any particularly 800Mbps bridge chips that should be avoided or used? How stable is the subsystem when the chain is

LVM2

2005-01-20 Thread Trever L. Adams
I recently saw Alan Cox say on this list that LVM won't handle more than 2 terabytes. Is this LVM2 or LVM? What is the maximum amount of disk space LVM2 (or any other RAID/MIRROR capable technology that is in Linus's kernel) handle? I am talking with various people and we are looking at Samba on

LVM2

2005-01-20 Thread Trever L. Adams
I recently saw Alan Cox say on this list that LVM won't handle more than 2 terabytes. Is this LVM2 or LVM? What is the maximum amount of disk space LVM2 (or any other RAID/MIRROR capable technology that is in Linus's kernel) handle? I am talking with various people and we are looking at Samba on

IEEE-1394 and disks

2005-01-20 Thread Trever L. Adams
I have a few questions: How stable is firewire (running at 800Mbps or faster, if any is available yet)? How stable is the Linux subsystem, especially for firewire disks? Is there any particularly 800Mbps bridge chips that should be avoided or used? How stable is the subsystem when the chain is

Re: LVM2

2005-01-20 Thread Trever L. Adams
It is for a group. For the most part it is data access/retention. Writes and such would be more similar to a desktop. I would use SATA if they were (nearly) equally priced and there were awesome 1394 to SATA bridge chips that worked well with Linux. So, right now, I am looking at ATA to 1394. So,

Re: LVM2

2005-01-20 Thread Trever L. Adams
PV = the device VG = groups of them (the RAID5 array?) LV = what? the file system? So, from what you are telling me, and the man page, 2.6.x with LVM2 can have basically any size of PV, VG, and LV I want. Am I flawed in my understanding? Thank you, Trever On Thu, 2005-01-20 at 22:02 +,

Re: NWFS Submitted to Alan Cox

2001-06-30 Thread Trever L. Adams
> I am doing very well with my consulting projects, but to be honest, > my family has sufferred horribly in the past four years fighting with > Novell every other week, and there's a very strong chance I will be > moving shop to either New Mexico or Arizona, since they own the > local courts

Re: NWFS Submitted to Alan Cox

2001-06-30 Thread Trever L. Adams
I am doing very well with my consulting projects, but to be honest, my family has sufferred horribly in the past four years fighting with Novell every other week, and there's a very strong chance I will be moving shop to either New Mexico or Arizona, since they own the local courts here

cramfs

2001-06-08 Thread Trever L. Adams
I hate to ask this, however here goes. I am doing some remote upgrading and some other really funky stuff to some boxes I keep up. Part of these are total system upgrades and I need to move data out of the way while still having a working box. I decided that cramfs may be the way to do

cramfs

2001-06-08 Thread Trever L. Adams
I hate to ask this, however here goes. I am doing some remote upgrading and some other really funky stuff to some boxes I keep up. Part of these are total system upgrades and I need to move data out of the way while still having a working box. I decided that cramfs may be the way to do

Re: 2.4.5 VM

2001-05-31 Thread Trever L. Adams
Christopher Zimmerman wrote: > > I've found that with the latest kernel release (2.4.5) VM performance has > been greatly improved. kswapd and bdflush no longer use 200% of my cpu > cycles when simply doing a dd bs=1024 count=8388608 if=/dev/zero > of=test.file. All of my test systems remain

2.4.5 VM

2001-05-31 Thread Trever L. Adams
In my opinion 2.4.x is NOT ready for primetime. The VM has been getting worse since 2.4.0, I believe. Definitely since and including 2.4.3. I cannot even edit a few images in gimp where the entire working set used to fit entirely in memory. The system now locks in some loop (SAK still

2.4.5 VM

2001-05-31 Thread Trever L. Adams
In my opinion 2.4.x is NOT ready for primetime. The VM has been getting worse since 2.4.0, I believe. Definitely since and including 2.4.3. I cannot even edit a few images in gimp where the entire working set used to fit entirely in memory. The system now locks in some loop (SAK still

Re: 2.4.5 VM

2001-05-31 Thread Trever L. Adams
Christopher Zimmerman wrote: I've found that with the latest kernel release (2.4.5) VM performance has been greatly improved. kswapd and bdflush no longer use 200% of my cpu cycles when simply doing a dd bs=1024 count=8388608 if=/dev/zero of=test.file. All of my test systems remain

[OT]: Multicasting

2001-05-21 Thread Trever L. Adams
I know this is off topic. I am not sure where else to go. All of my google searches lead me to very dead and very old information on multicasting. I am sure most of it is not useful, though some of the basics are. If people have a problem answering on list, please answer off. My questions:

[OT]: Multicasting

2001-05-21 Thread Trever L. Adams
I know this is off topic. I am not sure where else to go. All of my google searches lead me to very dead and very old information on multicasting. I am sure most of it is not useful, though some of the basics are. If people have a problem answering on list, please answer off. My

[OT]: Multicasting

2001-05-21 Thread Trever L. Adams
I know this is off topic. I am not sure where else to go. All of my google searches lead me to very dead and very old information on multicasting. I am sure most of it is not useful, though some of the basics are. If people have a problem answering on list, please answer off. My questions:

[OT]: Multicasting

2001-05-21 Thread Trever L. Adams
I know this is off topic. I am not sure where else to go. All of my google searches lead me to very dead and very old information on multicasting. I am sure most of it is not useful, though some of the basics are. If people have a problem answering on list, please answer off. My

2.4.4 sucess

2001-04-29 Thread Trever L. Adams
I would like to thank all of those who worked on 2.4.4. Mozilla no longer gets lost in D state. Things seem to be much snappier. I have yet to see the memory disappearing problems or sound corruption problems people have seen. My system is a 800 Mhz Athlon classic with 128 meg of ram, via

2.4.4 sucess

2001-04-29 Thread Trever L. Adams
I would like to thank all of those who worked on 2.4.4. Mozilla no longer gets lost in D state. Things seem to be much snappier. I have yet to see the memory disappearing problems or sound corruption problems people have seen. My system is a 800 Mhz Athlon classic with 128 meg of ram, via

Re: Crash: XFree86 4.0.3 and Kernel 4.0.3

2001-04-21 Thread Trever L. Adams
Juri Haberland wrote: > > Hi Trevor, > > I have the same problem with almost the same combination (RH 7.0 instead of > RH 7.1). Did you compile the XFree server yourself and if so, did you > optimize it for i686? The reason why I'm asking is that I did that and > suspected the optimazions to

Crash: XFree86 4.0.3 and Kernel 4.0.3

2001-04-21 Thread Trever L. Adams
I hate to report this again, I saw some reports that it was fixed with 4.0.3 of XFree86, so I tried XF86 4.0.3 with RedHat 7.1. Any time it tries to turn the monitor off, it crashes. I get no oopses. Nothing. Has anyone figured out why it crashes? How can I fix it besides remove the power

Crash: XFree86 4.0.3 and Kernel 4.0.3

2001-04-21 Thread Trever L. Adams
I hate to report this again, I saw some reports that it was fixed with 4.0.3 of XFree86, so I tried XF86 4.0.3 with RedHat 7.1. Any time it tries to turn the monitor off, it crashes. I get no oopses. Nothing. Has anyone figured out why it crashes? How can I fix it besides remove the power

Re: Crash: XFree86 4.0.3 and Kernel 4.0.3

2001-04-21 Thread Trever L. Adams
Juri Haberland wrote: Hi Trevor, I have the same problem with almost the same combination (RH 7.0 instead of RH 7.1). Did you compile the XFree server yourself and if so, did you optimize it for i686? The reason why I'm asking is that I did that and suspected the optimazions to cause

Re: 2.4.3 (and possibly 2.4.2) don't enter S5 (ACPI) on shutdown

2001-04-05 Thread Trever L. Adams
Grover, Andrew wrote: >> From: Trever L. Adams [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] >> 2.4.3 no longer shuts down automatically with S5. >> >> [2.] Full description of the problem/report: >> >> 2.4.3 no longer shuts down automatically with S5. I have an Athlon

2.4.3 (and possibly 2.4.2) don't enter S5 (ACPI) on shutdown

2001-04-05 Thread Trever L. Adams
[1.] One line summary of the problem: 2.4.3 no longer shuts down automatically with S5. [2.] Full description of the problem/report: 2.4.3 no longer shuts down automatically with S5. I have an Athlon based system using the FIC-SD11 motherboard. In 2.4.1 and possibly 2.4.2 the system used

2.4.3 Easy to make Mozilla go into D State

2001-04-05 Thread Trever L. Adams
[1.] One line summary of the problem: Mozilla and other programs easily get in D State [2.] Full description of the problem/report: Mozilla is easy to get into D State. Simply start it 2001040414 build. This is not the only program that I have doing this. It is just the easiest to make

2.4.3 Easy to make Mozilla go into D State

2001-04-05 Thread Trever L. Adams
[1.] One line summary of the problem: Mozilla and other programs easily get in D State [2.] Full description of the problem/report: Mozilla is easy to get into D State. Simply start it 2001040414 build. This is not the only program that I have doing this. It is just the easiest to make

2.4.3 (and possibly 2.4.2) don't enter S5 (ACPI) on shutdown

2001-04-05 Thread Trever L. Adams
[1.] One line summary of the problem: 2.4.3 no longer shuts down automatically with S5. [2.] Full description of the problem/report: 2.4.3 no longer shuts down automatically with S5. I have an Athlon based system using the FIC-SD11 motherboard. In 2.4.1 and possibly 2.4.2 the system used

Re: 2.4.3 (and possibly 2.4.2) don't enter S5 (ACPI) on shutdown

2001-04-05 Thread Trever L. Adams
Grover, Andrew wrote: From: Trever L. Adams [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] 2.4.3 no longer shuts down automatically with S5. [2.] Full description of the problem/report: 2.4.3 no longer shuts down automatically with S5. I have an Athlon based system using the FIC-SD11 motherboard

Re: Serial, 115Kbps, 2.2, 2.4

2001-04-01 Thread Trever L. Adams
Mark Hahn wrote: >> There may be a possibility this is machine specific, because if it is >> meant to forward the packet to the internal net and I slow the machine >> down (external cache off) it works fine, turn the cache back on and it >> is a problem. > > > where's the serial port?

Serial, 115Kbps, 2.2, 2.4

2001-04-01 Thread Trever L. Adams
I am trying to find out if I am the only one who has pppd drop packets as bogus when the port is set at 115Kbps. I only get it at that speed. It causes stall outs etc. There may be a possibility this is machine specific, because if it is meant to forward the packet to the internal net and

Serial, 115Kbps, 2.2, 2.4

2001-04-01 Thread Trever L. Adams
I am trying to find out if I am the only one who has pppd drop packets as bogus when the port is set at 115Kbps. I only get it at that speed. It causes stall outs etc. There may be a possibility this is machine specific, because if it is meant to forward the packet to the internal net and

Re: Serial, 115Kbps, 2.2, 2.4

2001-04-01 Thread Trever L. Adams
Mark Hahn wrote: There may be a possibility this is machine specific, because if it is meant to forward the packet to the internal net and I slow the machine down (external cache off) it works fine, turn the cache back on and it is a problem. where's the serial port? (isa, pci?)

Tulip

2001-02-08 Thread Trever L. Adams
I have had great success with the 2.4.x series of kernels so far. I am using 2.4.1. However, with 2.4.0 and 2.4.1 (haven't tried the pre for 2 yet), I have been having tulip networking cards up the wazoo. I turn my switch off and back on and that seems to help. Is this a hardware problem or

Tulip

2001-02-08 Thread Trever L. Adams
I have had great success with the 2.4.x series of kernels so far. I am using 2.4.1. However, with 2.4.0 and 2.4.1 (haven't tried the pre for 2 yet), I have been having tulip networking cards up the wazoo. I turn my switch off and back on and that seems to help. Is this a hardware problem or

Re: Total loss with 2.4.0 (release)

2001-01-23 Thread Trever L. Adams
ere you want to install and the source from where > you want to install, then select just the lilo configuration (bootconfiguration > I mean), complete that step and reboot your machine, lilo will'be there again. > > P. > > On Tue, 23 Jan 2001, Trever L. Adams wrote: I hate to t

Re: Total loss with 2.4.0 (release)

2001-01-23 Thread Trever L. Adams
Mike A. Harris wrote: > On Mon, 15 Jan 2001, Trever Adams wrote: > > I don't see how Windows 9x can be at fault in any way shape or > form, if you can boot between 2.2.x kernel and 9x no problem, but > lose your disk if you boot Win98 and then 2.3.x/2.4.x and lose > everything. Windows does

Re: Total loss with 2.4.0 (release)

2001-01-23 Thread Trever L. Adams
Mike A. Harris wrote: On Mon, 15 Jan 2001, Trever Adams wrote: I don't see how Windows 9x can be at fault in any way shape or form, if you can boot between 2.2.x kernel and 9x no problem, but lose your disk if you boot Win98 and then 2.3.x/2.4.x and lose everything. Windows does not

Re: Total loss with 2.4.0 (release)

2001-01-23 Thread Trever L. Adams
to install and the source from where you want to install, then select just the lilo configuration (bootconfiguration I mean), complete that step and reboot your machine, lilo will'be there again. P. On Tue, 23 Jan 2001, Trever L. Adams wrote: I hate to tell you this, but you couldn't be more