ide-scsi detecting CDR as "CD-ROM" in 2.2.19

2001-06-24 Thread safemode
I'm using the ide patch "ide.2.2.19.05042001" for 2.2.19. In 2.4.5 this cdr wsa detected as a cdr. here it's detected as: Vendor: CREATIVE Model: CD-RW RW8438ERev: FC03 Type: CD-ROM ANSI SCSI revision: 02 Cdrecord says this. cdrecord: Invalid

anyway to stop dma timeouts in 2.2.19?

2001-06-24 Thread safemode
I never got dma timeouts running 2.2.19 before installing my promise ata66 card and CDRW. Now i get them whenever disk usage is up and what ends up happening is none of my drives running in dma mode. Is this some effect of enabling the UDMA features of the promise card ? If i compiled the

anyway to stop dma timeouts in 2.2.19?

2001-06-24 Thread safemode
I never got dma timeouts running 2.2.19 before installing my promise ata66 card and CDRW. Now i get them whenever disk usage is up and what ends up happening is none of my drives running in dma mode. Is this some effect of enabling the UDMA features of the promise card ? If i compiled the

ide-scsi detecting CDR as CD-ROM in 2.2.19

2001-06-24 Thread safemode
I'm using the ide patch ide.2.2.19.05042001 for 2.2.19. In 2.4.5 this cdr wsa detected as a cdr. here it's detected as: Vendor: CREATIVE Model: CD-RW RW8438ERev: FC03 Type: CD-ROM ANSI SCSI revision: 02 Cdrecord says this. cdrecord: Invalid argument.

cd writer problems with 2.4.5ac17

2001-06-23 Thread safemode
I'm thinking that this is a kernel scsi emu problem rather than a CDR problem due to the past scsi emulation mails i've seen about previous kernels. I've been forced to move to 2.4.x because i want to use my promise ata66 ide controller and the 2.2 promise drivers dont work for it. My CDR

cd writer problems with 2.4.5ac17

2001-06-23 Thread safemode
I'm thinking that this is a kernel scsi emu problem rather than a CDR problem due to the past scsi emulation mails i've seen about previous kernels. I've been forced to move to 2.4.x because i want to use my promise ata66 ide controller and the 2.2 promise drivers dont work for it. My CDR

Re: lowlatency 2.2.19

2001-06-04 Thread safemode
this is just a general question about low latency patches on 2.2, I remember hearing about low latency patches for 2.4 not playing well with X 4.x, is this true for 2.2 low latency patches as well? - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a

Re: lowlatency 2.2.19

2001-06-04 Thread safemode
this is just a general question about low latency patches on 2.2, I remember hearing about low latency patches for 2.4 not playing well with X 4.x, is this true for 2.2 low latency patches as well? - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line unsubscribe linux-kernel in the body of a

incorrect CPU usage readings in 2.2.19prex?

2001-03-08 Thread safemode
Is there something generally wrong with how linux determines total cpu usage (via procmeter3 and top) when dealing with applications that are threaded? I routinely get 0% cpu usage when playing mpegs and mp3s and some avi's even (Divx when using no software enhancement) ... Somehow i doubt that

Everything working fine here.

2001-02-26 Thread safemode
As a departure from just about every other post talking about something wrong. I just want to say 2.2.19pre14 is working perfectly. I can't say anything about latency because i haven't found much in the area of timing patches for 2.2.19 yet, it is very responsive and fast and handles quite well

Everything working fine here.

2001-02-26 Thread safemode
As a departure from just about every other post talking about something wrong. I just want to say 2.2.19pre14 is working perfectly. I can't say anything about latency because i haven't found much in the area of timing patches for 2.2.19 yet, it is very responsive and fast and handles quite well

Re: VIA chipset problems with 2.2?

2001-02-15 Thread safemode
"Michael B. Allen" wrote: > Hello, > > What's the nature of the VIA chipset problems? I want to get a new system > this weekend but I read on kernel traffic that VIA has problems? I > wan't to use Hendrick's ide patches on 2.2.18. What board should I > get? Help, I've searched through usenet and

Re: VIA chipset problems with 2.2?

2001-02-15 Thread safemode
"Michael B. Allen" wrote: Hello, What's the nature of the VIA chipset problems? I want to get a new system this weekend but I read on kernel traffic that VIA has problems? I wan't to use Hendrick's ide patches on 2.2.18. What board should I get? Help, I've searched through usenet and asked

/proc/meminfo displays incorrect memory sizes

2001-02-05 Thread safemode
I personally have no way of knowing if it's giving incorrect numbers for cache and buffers and used and such .. but as for total memory, something is wrong. lm sensors tells me i have 288MB of ram, the bootup messages say i have 288MB of memory with 4MB being used by the kernel and my bios says

/proc/meminfo displays incorrect memory sizes

2001-02-05 Thread safemode
I personally have no way of knowing if it's giving incorrect numbers for cache and buffers and used and such .. but as for total memory, something is wrong. lm sensors tells me i have 288MB of ram, the bootup messages say i have 288MB of memory with 4MB being used by the kernel and my bios says

Re: VT82C686A corruption with 2.4.x

2001-02-01 Thread safemode
Vojtech Pavlik wrote: > On Thu, Feb 01, 2001 at 01:20:00PM -0500, Byron Stanoszek wrote: > > > > On Thu, Feb 01, 2001 at 11:46:08AM -0500, Byron Stanoszek wrote: > > > > > > > Yeah, by bios does the same thing too on the Abit KT7(a). > > > > > > Ok, I'll remember this. This is most likely the

Re: VT82C686A corruption with 2.4.x

2001-02-01 Thread safemode
Vojtech Pavlik wrote: > On Wed, Jan 31, 2001 at 08:52:58PM -0500, safemode wrote: > > > My KA7 can go over 160Mhz FSB > > Yes i know about memory speed limitions ..that's why you are able to choose > > HW clock - PCI so at those high speeds it's actually say 120

Re: VT82C686A corruption with 2.4.x

2001-02-01 Thread safemode
Vojtech Pavlik wrote: On Thu, Feb 01, 2001 at 01:20:00PM -0500, Byron Stanoszek wrote: On Thu, Feb 01, 2001 at 11:46:08AM -0500, Byron Stanoszek wrote: Yeah, by bios does the same thing too on the Abit KT7(a). Ok, I'll remember this. This is most likely the cause of the

Re: VT82C686A corruption with 2.4.x

2001-01-31 Thread safemode
Byron Stanoszek wrote: > On Wed, 31 Jan 2001, safemode wrote: > > > yea i know. . same mode i also had a big problem with DMA timeouts on > > 2.4 so .. i dont know what's up with 2.4 and my motherboard ...2.2 > > hasn't shown a single irq or DMA er

Re: VT82C686A corruption with 2.4.x

2001-01-31 Thread safemode
Tobias Ringstrom wrote: > On Wed, 31 Jan 2001, safemode wrote: > > > I'm wondering... Perhaps it's a problem motherboard specific. I'm > > using the KA7 and saw pretty bad problems (extreme fs corruption) > > and bad latency. Perhaps the K7V and the KT7's dont have this

Re: VT82C686A corruption with 2.4.x

2001-01-31 Thread safemode
Alan Cox wrote: > > better than i ever got with 2.4 even when only one drive was on a channel. > > Right now my k7-2 750 is at 849mhz with a FSB of 114Mhz and PCI at 34Mhz. > > Hint: people who overclock machines get suprising odd results and bad stuff > happens. Please dont waste developers

Re: VT82C686A corruption with 2.4.x

2001-01-31 Thread safemode
Mark Hahn wrote: > >From what I gather this chipset on 2.4.x is only stable if you cripple just about >everything that makes > > it worth having (udma, 2nd ide channel etc etc) ?does it even work when all >that's done now or is > > it fully functional? > > it seems to be fully functional

Re: VT82C686A corruption with 2.4.x

2001-01-31 Thread safemode
David Raufeisen wrote: > On Wednesday, 31 January 2001, at 08:36:42 (+0100), > Vojtech Pavlik wrote: > > > Hi! > > > > 1) You don't seem to have any drives on the VIA controller. If this is > > true, I don't think this can be a VIA IDE driver problem. > > > > Hi, Are you referring to Mark or me?

Re: VT82C686A corruption with 2.4.x

2001-01-31 Thread safemode
David Raufeisen wrote: On Wednesday, 31 January 2001, at 08:36:42 (+0100), Vojtech Pavlik wrote: Hi! 1) You don't seem to have any drives on the VIA controller. If this is true, I don't think this can be a VIA IDE driver problem. Hi, Are you referring to Mark or me? I have

Re: VT82C686A corruption with 2.4.x

2001-01-31 Thread safemode
Mark Hahn wrote: From what I gather this chipset on 2.4.x is only stable if you cripple just about everything that makes it worth having (udma, 2nd ide channel etc etc) ?does it even work when all that's done now or is it fully functional? it seems to be fully functional for some

Re: VT82C686A corruption with 2.4.x

2001-01-31 Thread safemode
Alan Cox wrote: better than i ever got with 2.4 even when only one drive was on a channel. Right now my k7-2 750 is at 849mhz with a FSB of 114Mhz and PCI at 34Mhz. Hint: people who overclock machines get suprising odd results and bad stuff happens. Please dont waste developers time

Re: VT82C686A corruption with 2.4.x

2001-01-31 Thread safemode
Tobias Ringstrom wrote: On Wed, 31 Jan 2001, safemode wrote: I'm wondering... Perhaps it's a problem motherboard specific. I'm using the KA7 and saw pretty bad problems (extreme fs corruption) and bad latency. Perhaps the K7V and the KT7's dont have this problem. I dont see any

Re: VT82C686A corruption with 2.4.x

2001-01-31 Thread safemode
Byron Stanoszek wrote: On Wed, 31 Jan 2001, safemode wrote: yea i know. . same mode i also had a big problem with DMA timeouts on 2.4 so .. i dont know what's up with 2.4 and my motherboard ...2.2 hasn't shown a single irq or DMA error yet since going back to it. currently

Re: More on the VIA KT133 chipset misbehaving in Linux

2001-01-29 Thread safemode
Adrian Cox wrote: > Dylan Griffiths wrote: > > The VIA KT133 chipset exhibits the following bugs under Linux 2.2.17 and > > 2.4.0: > > 1) PS/2 mouse cursor randomly jumps to upper right hand corner of screen and > > locks for a bit > > This happens to me about once a month on a BX chipset PII

Re: More on the VIA KT133 chipset misbehaving in Linux

2001-01-29 Thread safemode
Adrian Cox wrote: Dylan Griffiths wrote: The VIA KT133 chipset exhibits the following bugs under Linux 2.2.17 and 2.4.0: 1) PS/2 mouse cursor randomly jumps to upper right hand corner of screen and locks for a bit This happens to me about once a month on a BX chipset PII machine here,

Re: 2.4 Cpu usuage (display oddities more than anything)

2001-01-28 Thread safemode
Linda Walsh wrote: > Some oddities w/kapmd(2.4.0)... If I sit in X and do nothing other than run top or > "vmstat 5", I get down to as low as 60% idle and 40% in system -- with kapmd getting > 'charged' for the 40%. > > Then I go and run 'freeamp' and the CPU usage goes to 100% idle, presumably

Re: 2.4 Cpu usuage (display oddities more than anything)

2001-01-28 Thread safemode
Linda Walsh wrote: Some oddities w/kapmd(2.4.0)... If I sit in X and do nothing other than run top or "vmstat 5", I get down to as low as 60% idle and 40% in system -- with kapmd getting 'charged' for the 40%. Then I go and run 'freeamp' and the CPU usage goes to 100% idle, presumably

Re: Via apollo KX133 ide bug in 2.4.x

2001-01-20 Thread safemode
Peter Horton wrote: > On Thu, Jan 20, 2000 at 08:38:12AM +, Peter Horton wrote: > > > > I think I'm suffering the same thing on my new Asus A7V. Yesterday I got a > > single "error in bitmap, remounting read only" type error, and today I got > > some files in /tmp that returned I/O error

Re: Via apollo KX133 ide bug in 2.4.x

2001-01-20 Thread safemode
Peter Horton wrote: On Thu, Jan 20, 2000 at 08:38:12AM +, Peter Horton wrote: I think I'm suffering the same thing on my new Asus A7V. Yesterday I got a single "error in bitmap, remounting read only" type error, and today I got some files in /tmp that returned I/O error when

Via apollo KX133 ide bug in 2.4.x

2001-01-19 Thread safemode
I'm sorry I can't be more descriptive than that, but there aren't any errors ever displayed. What happened was after about a day of uptime, I began seeing IO errors when trying to access files. I realized that the IO errors occurred on any file I had created. I rebooted since the computer

Via apollo KX133 ide bug in 2.4.x

2001-01-19 Thread safemode
I'm sorry I can't be more descriptive than that, but there aren't any errors ever displayed. What happened was after about a day of uptime, I began seeing IO errors when trying to access files. I realized that the IO errors occurred on any file I had created. I rebooted since the computer

Re: ip_conntrack locks up hard on 2.4.0 after about 10 hours

2001-01-06 Thread safemode
to me since i wouldn't be able to recode the client anyway.  I'm sure there are setiathome developers (at least one) paying attention to this list.  The client is broken.       safemode wrote: It seems that for one reason or another, ip_conntrack totally locks (not removeable) after about 10 hours

ip_conntrack locks up hard on 2.4.0 after about 10 hours

2001-01-06 Thread safemode
It seems that for one reason or another, ip_conntrack totally locks (not removeable) after about 10 hours of continued use. All i found were these messages in my dmesg output Jan 6 06:18:10 icebox kernel: reset_xmit_timer sk=c17fd040 1 when=0x5d9e, caller=c01a6bf1 Jan 6 06:18:10 icebox kernel:

ip_conntrack locks up hard on 2.4.0 after about 10 hours

2001-01-06 Thread safemode
It seems that for one reason or another, ip_conntrack totally locks (not removeable) after about 10 hours of continued use. All i found were these messages in my dmesg output Jan 6 06:18:10 icebox kernel: reset_xmit_timer sk=c17fd040 1 when=0x5d9e, caller=c01a6bf1 Jan 6 06:18:10 icebox kernel:

Re: ip_conntrack locks up hard on 2.4.0 after about 10 hours

2001-01-06 Thread safemode
since i wouldn't be able to recode the client anyway. I'm sure there are setiathome developers (at least one) paying attention to this list. The client is broken. safemode wrote: It seems that for one reason or another, ip_conntrack totally locks (not removeable) after about 10 hours of continued

Re: ACPI in Via Apollo (vt82C686) broken badly in 2.4.x ?

2001-01-05 Thread safemode
"Grover, Andrew" wrote: > > From: safemode [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > > > Well, it seems the only way to look at sensor readings with > > lmsensors is > > to activate acpi in linux for my motherboard. > > Can you please send me the output from dm

Re: ACPI in Via Apollo (vt82C686) broken badly in 2.4.x ?

2001-01-05 Thread safemode
"Grover, Andrew" wrote: From: safemode [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Well, it seems the only way to look at sensor readings with lmsensors is to activate acpi in linux for my motherboard. Can you please send me the output from dmesg, as well as /proc/interrupts? I don't thin

ACPI in Via Apollo (vt82C686) broken badly in 2.4.x ?

2001-01-04 Thread safemode
Well, it seems the only way to look at sensor readings with lmsensors is to activate acpi in linux for my motherboard. According to the docs, my motherboard is supposed to be supported and is detected when linux boots, the problem comes when i try to move the mouse (in console and X). It

ACPI in Via Apollo (vt82C686) broken badly in 2.4.x ?

2001-01-04 Thread safemode
Well, it seems the only way to look at sensor readings with lmsensors is to activate acpi in linux for my motherboard. According to the docs, my motherboard is supposed to be supported and is detected when linux boots, the problem comes when i try to move the mouse (in console and X). It

Re: Abysmal RAID 0 performance on 2.4.0-test10 for IDE?

2000-12-27 Thread safemode
Ruth Ivimey-Cook wrote: > > On IDE, you don't. IDE never supports hot-swap, RAID or no. If you want > that, use SCSI. That's not necessarily true. There is work in linux to support Tri-stating the ide devices with the help of a custom card that will allow one to cut power to a specific ide

Re: Abysmal RAID 0 performance on 2.4.0-test10 for IDE?

2000-12-27 Thread safemode
Ruth Ivimey-Cook wrote: On IDE, you don't. IDE never supports hot-swap, RAID or no. If you want that, use SCSI. That's not necessarily true. There is work in linux to support Tri-stating the ide devices with the help of a custom card that will allow one to cut power to a specific ide

Re: lockups from heavy IDE/CD-ROM usage

2000-12-21 Thread safemode
Zdenek Kabelac wrote: > Problem: When i am using my harddrive and cdrom, my computer will freeze. > It freezes in two different ways.. sometimes just the harddrive access > will freeze (can still do things in X as long as they dont require the > harddrive), and then everything freezes within a

Re: lockups from heavy IDE/CD-ROM usage

2000-12-21 Thread safemode
Zdenek Kabelac wrote: > Problem: When i am using my harddrive and cdrom, my computer will freeze. > It freezes in two different ways.. sometimes just the harddrive access > will freeze (can still do things in X as long as they dont require the > harddrive), and then everything freezes within a

IDE bugs for intel 440LX chipset in Test12?

2000-12-13 Thread safemode
All I can say right now is that enabling DMA on a 440LX chipset with 2.4.0-test12 or any other kernel I can remember has caused DMA timeout and ide-reset problems. Disabling dma on the harddrives doesn't help that much either, I still get ide resets. What I'm looking for right now is some

IDE bugs for intel 440LX chipset in Test12?

2000-12-13 Thread safemode
All I can say right now is that enabling DMA on a 440LX chipset with 2.4.0-test12 or any other kernel I can remember has caused DMA timeout and ide-reset problems. Disabling dma on the harddrives doesn't help that much either, I still get ide resets. What I'm looking for right now is some

Re: 'holey files' not holey enough.

2000-11-29 Thread safemode
On Wed, 29 Nov 2000 17:36:12 Marc Mutz wrote: > kernel 2.2.17, '/' being a 1k blocksize ext2fs: > > root@adam:/ > dd if=/dev/zero of=holed.file bs=1000 seek=5000 count=1000 > 1000+0 records in > 1000+0 records out > root@adam:/ > ls -l holed.file > -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 600 Nov

Re: 'holey files' not holey enough.

2000-11-29 Thread safemode
On Wed, 29 Nov 2000 17:36:12 Marc Mutz wrote: kernel 2.2.17, '/' being a 1k blocksize ext2fs: root@adam:/ dd if=/dev/zero of=holed.file bs=1000 seek=5000 count=1000 1000+0 records in 1000+0 records out root@adam:/ ls -l holed.file -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 600 Nov 29 23:33

Re: (iptables) ip_conntrack bug?

2000-11-15 Thread safemode
On Wed, 15 Nov 2000 16:19:23 Guus Sliepen wrote: > On Wed, Nov 15, 2000 at 03:46:03PM -0500, safemode wrote: > > > I was DDoS'd today while away and came home to find the firewall unable > to > > do anything network related (although my connection to irc was still > &g

(iptables) ip_conntrack bug?

2000-11-15 Thread safemode
I was DDoS'd today while away and came home to find the firewall unable to do anything network related (although my connection to irc was still working oddly). a quick dmesg showed the problem. ip_conntrack: maximum limit of 2048 entries exceeded NET: 1 messages suppressed. ip_conntrack: maximum

(iptables) ip_conntrack bug?

2000-11-15 Thread safemode
I was DDoS'd today while away and came home to find the firewall unable to do anything network related (although my connection to irc was still working oddly). a quick dmesg showed the problem. ip_conntrack: maximum limit of 2048 entries exceeded NET: 1 messages suppressed. ip_conntrack: maximum

Re: (iptables) ip_conntrack bug?

2000-11-15 Thread safemode
On Wed, 15 Nov 2000 16:19:23 Guus Sliepen wrote: On Wed, Nov 15, 2000 at 03:46:03PM -0500, safemode wrote: I was DDoS'd today while away and came home to find the firewall unable to do anything network related (although my connection to irc was still working oddly). a quick dmesg

Re: IDE disk slow? There's help...

2000-10-20 Thread safemode
On Fri, 20 Oct 2000 15:34:04 Dmitry Pogosyan wrote: > safemode wrote: > > > That's what i was thinking, but 30MB/s seems to be quite an > exaggeration. > > On my > > Intel Corporation 82371AB PIIX4 IDE (rev 01), ide chipset my master > (10.2GB > > maxtor 72

Re: IDE disk slow? There's help...

2000-10-20 Thread safemode
That's what i was thinking, but 30MB/s seems to be quite an exaggeration. On my Intel Corporation 82371AB PIIX4 IDE (rev 01), ide chipset my master (10.2GB maxtor 7200rpm UDMA66) drive i get ~15-16MB/s and on my slave (same interface, 20.1GB maxtor 7200rpm UDMA66), i get ~13MB/s. This goes

Re: IDE disk slow? There's help...

2000-10-20 Thread safemode
That's what i was thinking, but 30MB/s seems to be quite an exaggeration. On my Intel Corporation 82371AB PIIX4 IDE (rev 01), ide chipset my master (10.2GB maxtor 7200rpm UDMA66) drive i get ~15-16MB/s and on my slave (same interface, 20.1GB maxtor 7200rpm UDMA66), i get ~13MB/s. This goes

Re: IDE disk slow? There's help...

2000-10-20 Thread safemode
On Fri, 20 Oct 2000 15:34:04 Dmitry Pogosyan wrote: safemode wrote: That's what i was thinking, but 30MB/s seems to be quite an exaggeration. On my Intel Corporation 82371AB PIIX4 IDE (rev 01), ide chipset my master (10.2GB maxtor 7200rpm UDMA66) drive i get ~15-16MB/s and on my

Re: ide-scsi works now "used to be On ide-scsi recorder failure

2000-10-15 Thread safemode
I think my confusion came from the fact that i didn't need to reference a specific device before the kernel upgrade. As for telling it to use /dev/sg1 or sg0 ... I cant really tell anymore, i'm no longer using that kernel. It probably was an incorrect usage of cdrecord, so i'm sorry for the

ide-scsi works now "used to be On ide-scsi recorder failure

2000-10-15 Thread safemode
Everything seems to be working great now... i'm using a patch Andre Hedrick gave me and everything works like normal again. Thanks again for everyone's help. Back to burning cds. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL

Re: On ide-scsi recorder failure

2000-10-15 Thread safemode
Unfortunally i compile in all the scsi stuff and make ide-cd modular, so i dont know what was compiled in anymore since that kernel tree is gone. I did however recieve a patch to test10-pre3 which seems to be working, will test the actual record part in a bit (and this kernel i know for a fact

Re: On ide-scsi recorder failure

2000-10-15 Thread safemode
this is cdrecord -v -debug -scanbus note that i symlinked pg0 to scd0 since the device didn't exist anyway and cdrecord insists that is the /dev equivilant to 0,0,0. well dev: (NULL POINTER) speed: -1 fs: -1 Cdrecord 1.10a04 (i686-pc-linux-gnu) Copyright (C) 1995-2000 Jörg Schilling TOC Type:

Re: On ide-scsi recorder failure

2000-10-15 Thread safemode
ead of the dev=/dev/ form? > I'm > told by the cdrecord maintainer that it's more reliable that way, and > that > the /dev/ format should not be used. > > What does cdrecord -scanbus show? > > Matt > > On Sun, Oct 15, 2000 at 01:57:24AM -0400, safemode wrote:

Re. On ide-scsi recorder failure

2000-10-15 Thread safemode
Oops on one thing, /dev/sr0 is merely a symlink to /dev/scd0, sorry it's pretty late. these are the attributes of /dev/scd0 brw-rw1 root cdrom 11, 0 Sep 10 01:02 /dev/scd0 - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to

Re. On ide-scsi recorder failure

2000-10-15 Thread safemode
Oops on one thing, /dev/sr0 is merely a symlink to /dev/scd0, sorry it's pretty late. these are the attributes of /dev/scd0 brw-rw1 root cdrom 11, 0 Sep 10 01:02 /dev/scd0 - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to

Re: On ide-scsi recorder failure

2000-10-15 Thread safemode
=/dev/ form? I'm told by the cdrecord maintainer that it's more reliable that way, and that the /dev/ format should not be used. What does cdrecord -scanbus show? Matt On Sun, Oct 15, 2000 at 01:57:24AM -0400, safemode wrote: Alright, first off let me say that this cdrecord

Re: ide-scsi works now used to be On ide-scsi recorder failure

2000-10-15 Thread safemode
I think my confusion came from the fact that i didn't need to reference a specific device before the kernel upgrade. As for telling it to use /dev/sg1 or sg0 ... I cant really tell anymore, i'm no longer using that kernel. It probably was an incorrect usage of cdrecord, so i'm sorry for the

Re: On ide-scsi recorder failure

2000-10-14 Thread safemode
Alright, first off let me say that this cdrecord was working fine with 2.4.0-test8. The recorder is on /dev/scd0 and also on /dev/sr0. maybe this has something to do with it? i'm not sure, but cdrecord keeps saying the stats for it are -2,-2,-2when it should be 0,0,0. Does anyone know

Re: Weird device out-of-space error

2000-10-14 Thread safemode
ok. first this is what df -i gives me FilesystemInodes IUsed IFree IUse% Mounted on /dev/hda41822720 135002 16877188% / so it's not the inode problem. this is what tune2fs -l /dev/hda4 | grep ^Reserved gives me tune2fs 1.19, 13-Jul-2000 for EXT2 FS 0.5b,

Weird device out-of-space error

2000-10-14 Thread safemode
cvs server: cannot rewrite CVS/Entries.Backup: No space left on device These are the sort of errors i'm getting from cvs but this is what df -m tells me on the partition i'm downloading on /dev/hda4 6865 4899 1610 76% / I'm not sure how to test this on a diff program

Am I the only one with scsi-ide CDR problems?

2000-10-13 Thread safemode
I'm just wondering if I'm the only person who has had problems with 2.4.0-test9 recording on ide-scsi cdr's? Nobody has posted anything about it and the test10-prex changefiles don't mention it. cdrecord reports very weird results when scanning the scsi bus whereas dmesg shows what one would

Am I the only one with scsi-ide CDR problems?

2000-10-13 Thread safemode
I'm just wondering if I'm the only person who has had problems with 2.4.0-test9 recording on ide-scsi cdr's? Nobody has posted anything about it and the test10-prex changefiles don't mention it. cdrecord reports very weird results when scanning the scsi bus whereas dmesg shows what one would

has anyone fixed 2.4.0-test9+ ide-scsi cd recording?

2000-10-11 Thread safemode
The only reason I'm asking this is because nobody has mentioned it and it seems to have gotten put on the back-burner .. i have heard a lot about 2.2.x ide-scsi fixes but nothing about 2.4.0 ... what's the status of this? - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel"

has anyone fixed 2.4.0-test9+ ide-scsi cd recording?

2000-10-11 Thread safemode
The only reason I'm asking this is because nobody has mentioned it and it seems to have gotten put on the back-burner .. i have heard a lot about 2.2.x ide-scsi fixes but nothing about 2.4.0 ... what's the status of this? - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel"

Re: On ide-scsi recording failure

2000-10-08 Thread safemode
On Sun, 08 Oct 2000 16:37:03 safemode wrote: > I know this passed by the list before but i missed it. How do you get > ide > - scsi cdrecording to work again? or is this a cdrecord incompatibility > issue now? This worked a couple sub-versions ago in test8. anyone > k

On ide-scsi recording failure

2000-10-08 Thread safemode
I know this passed by the list before but i missed it. How do you get ide - scsi cdrecording to work again? or is this a cdrecord incompatibility issue now? This worked a couple sub-versions ago in test8. anyone know? - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe

On ide-scsi recording failure

2000-10-08 Thread safemode
I know this passed by the list before but i missed it. How do you get ide - scsi cdrecording to work again? or is this a cdrecord incompatibility issue now? This worked a couple sub-versions ago in test8. anyone know? - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe

Re: [Xpert] Re: Current CVS version of X does indeed break wrt SHM

2000-09-24 Thread safemode
Keith Packard wrote: > > Odd, Isn't 777 insecure for shared memory segments? > > Yes; Enlightenment does have it's own little set of features... > > [EMAIL PROTECTED]XFree86 Core Team SuSE, Inc. > I recieved a bunch and bunch of these messages when i run out of shm

Re: [Xpert] Re: Current CVS version of X does indeed break wrt SHM

2000-09-24 Thread safemode
Keith Packard wrote: Odd, Isn't 777 insecure for shared memory segments? Yes; Enlightenment does have it's own little set of features... [EMAIL PROTECTED]XFree86 Core Team SuSE, Inc. I recieved a bunch and bunch of these messages when i run out of shm segments. The

Re: Problem with 2.4.0-test9-pre6 seems to be SHM

2000-09-23 Thread safemode
safemode wrote: > Mark Hahn wrote: > >> this has nothing to do with the linux kernel. >> X itself does not use shm for anything. apps may use >> an X extension (XSHM) which uses shm segments to exchange >> image data without copying through a socket, but that's

Re: Problem with 2.4.0-test9-pre6 seems to be SHM

2000-09-23 Thread safemode
Mark Hahn wrote: this has nothing to do with the linux kernel. X itself does not use shm for anything.  apps may use an X extension (XSHM) which uses shm segments to exchange image data without copying through a socket, but that's an extension, not inherent to X. > Ok, compiling using a cvs of X

Re: Problem with 2.4.0-test9-pre6 seems to be SHM

2000-09-23 Thread safemode
Alan Cox wrote: > I have about 16 after 2 days. Thats a fairly typical desktop (gnome panel, > gfm and everything else is a terminal window) Whoa now?! 16 shm segments?if that's true something is terribly wrong with either X or the kernel's handling of shm that's scary. this is

Re: Problem with 2.4.0-test9-pre6 seems to be SHM

2000-09-23 Thread safemode
safemode wrote: > Ok, compiling using a cvs of X i got a couple hours ago, I'm just > wondering what the average segment number is for SHM on an X session > that has been up for a while i'll get back with any sort of info > on if the SHM problem has been solved with thi

Re: Problem with 2.4.0-test9-pre6 seems to be SHM

2000-09-23 Thread safemode
Ok, compiling using a cvs of X i got a couple hours ago, I'm just wondering what the average segment number is for SHM on an X session that has been up for a while i'll get back with any sort of info on if the SHM problem has been solved with this latest CVS or if it continues to look like

Re: problem with 2.4.0-test9-pre6 seems to be SHM

2000-09-23 Thread safemode
David Ford wrote: > safemode wrote: > > > i'll get back about the latest xfree86 in about 2 hours .. but if anyone has any >other ideas > > or info i can give ...it's not problem. test8 seems stable enough to keep itself >up until > > i'm ready to reboot. >

Re: problem with 2.4.0-test9-pre6 seems to be SHM

2000-09-23 Thread safemode
David Ford wrote: > safemode wrote: > > > One more little complaint.. why doesn't vger replace the FROM to > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] like any other sane mailing list ... i > > keep going to Reply and not sending to the list. At least add a > > reply-to tag like the p

Re: problem with 2.4.0-test9-pre6 seems to be SHM

2000-09-23 Thread safemode
2.4.0-test8-vm3 seems quite stable with this CVS of X After running xawtv and gqmpeg ...which would quickly die due to shm being maxed .. it still works and shows ~ 839 segments ..not really moving from it And after 20 min with all the apps i had open before, still not in swap. Which on test9,

Re: problem with 2.4.0-test9-pre6 seems to be SHM

2000-09-23 Thread safemode
David Ford wrote: > safemode wrote: > > > It seems to me that test8-vm3 handles this fine. in test9 upon loading X i was > > already using swap and down to 10MB ... here i have netscape loaded and some other > > stuff along with gaim and i've got 36MB free still.

Re: problem with 2.4.0-test9-pre6 seems to be SHM

2000-09-23 Thread safemode
t and post your comments there. There is another > gentlemen with a similar problem. I'm changing pace here, I believe the kernel is > fine and it is an X issue as it occurs on 2.2 as well. Visit the tail of: > http://www.xfree86.org/pipermail/xpert/2000-September/thread.html. > > -d

Re: problem with 2.4.0-test9-pre6 seems to be SHM

2000-09-23 Thread safemode
. David Ford wrote: > I think it's time to get Christoph on the line and see what he has to say. The > 4096 number is a limit to the system, you can have a max of 4096 shared memory > segments systemwide. Do you know offhand which programs are using(abusing) > shm? > > -d

Re: problem with 2.4.0-test9-pre6 seems to be SHM

2000-09-23 Thread safemode
David Ford wrote: > No, those two are often empty. Does the total of the first group's bytes > column match the used column of df? > > -d The sum of the Bytes used in the 4096 entries ipcs shows is WAY off from the bytes used in df if that's what you wanted to know.df shows 109K in use...

Re: problem with 2.4.0-test9-pre6 seems to be SHM

2000-09-23 Thread safemode
David Ford wrote: > safemode wrote: > > > xawtv will still work but gqmpeg cannot run. shget returns no memory > > available on any app trying to access it. Well, hope that tells > > someone something because i'm stumped .. something in shm seems > > br

Re: problem with 2.4.0-test9-pre6 seems to be SHM

2000-09-23 Thread safemode
David Ford wrote: > safemode wrote: > > > xawtv will still work but gqmpeg cannot run. shget returns no memory > > available on any app trying to access it. Well, hope that tells > > someone something because i'm stumped .. something in shm seems > > br

Problem with 2.4.0-test9-pre6 seems to be SHM

2000-09-23 Thread safemode
In running xawtv i stumbled upon a very interesting message shmget: No space left on device yet df -m shows shm 8192 108 8084 2% /var/shm I'm not sure what's going on here, /var/shm shows a BUNCH of files in it.. and none of my partitions are even close to

weird mem crap in test9-pre6

2000-09-23 Thread safemode
I'd like to start out by saying Rik's latest patch to test8 was working GREAT except that deadlock problem which after 7 days of uptime in X finally occurred. So, I thought, updating to the latest normal kernel should have that and it fixed. Obviously I was wrong. The kernel is displaying

weird mem crap in test9-pre6

2000-09-23 Thread safemode
I'd like to start out by saying Rik's latest patch to test8 was working GREAT except that deadlock problem which after 7 days of uptime in X finally occurred. So, I thought, updating to the latest normal kernel should have that and it fixed. Obviously I was wrong. The kernel is displaying

Problem with 2.4.0-test9-pre6 seems to be SHM

2000-09-23 Thread safemode
In running xawtv i stumbled upon a very interesting message shmget: No space left on device yet df -m shows shm 8192 108 8084 2% /var/shm I'm not sure what's going on here, /var/shm shows a BUNCH of files in it.. and none of my partitions are even close to

Re: problem with 2.4.0-test9-pre6 seems to be SHM

2000-09-23 Thread safemode
David Ford wrote: safemode wrote: xawtv will still work but gqmpeg cannot run. shget returns no memory available on any app trying to access it. Well, hope that tells someone something because i'm stumped .. something in shm seems broken.. or the vm is. what does 'ipcs

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