Re: cx88 teletext not yet implemented -was- Re: Linux-2.6.13-rc6: aic7xxx testers please..

2005-08-11 Thread Gene Heskett
On Thursday 11 August 2005 11:38, Michael Krufky wrote: >Gene Heskett wrote: >>I can also report that teletext decoding has ceased to work >>here. But I'm not sure what kernel version killed it. Currently >>running 2.6.13-rc6. But my card is cx88 based, a pcHDTV-3000. But >>attempting to

cx88 teletext not yet implemented -was- Re: Linux-2.6.13-rc6: aic7xxx testers please..

2005-08-11 Thread Michael Krufky
Gene Heskett wrote: I can also report that teletext decoding has ceased to work here. But I'm not sure what kernel version killed it. Currently running 2.6.13-rc6. But my card is cx88 based, a pcHDTV-3000. But attempting to switch it on/off doesn't seem to generate any output indicating it

Re: Linux-2.6.13-rc6: aic7xxx testers please..

2005-08-11 Thread Philipp Matthias Hahn
Hello Michael! On Thu, Aug 11, 2005 at 02:37:20PM +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > >I got the following OOPS from running "alevtd -F -d -v /dev/vbi0" with > >my Siemens-DVB-C on a Dual-i686-600. I'm able to reproduce this even > >running a 2.6.12-rc6 without the nvidia module tainting the

Re: Linux-2.6.13-rc6: aic7xxx testers please..

2005-08-11 Thread Gene Heskett
On Thursday 11 August 2005 08:37, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >Hello Philipp, > >> I got the following OOPS from running "alevtd -F -d -v /dev/vbi0" >> with my Siemens-DVB-C on a Dual-i686-600. I'm able to reproduce >> this even running a 2.6.12-rc6 without the nvidia module tainting >> the kernel. >

Re: Linux-2.6.13-rc6: aic7xxx testers please..

2005-08-11 Thread hunold
Hello Philipp, I got the following OOPS from running "alevtd -F -d -v /dev/vbi0" with my Siemens-DVB-C on a Dual-i686-600. I'm able to reproduce this even running a 2.6.12-rc6 without the nvidia module tainting the kernel. So you're using the analog tuner of the card to watch analog cable tv

Re: Linux-2.6.13-rc6: aic7xxx testers please..

2005-08-11 Thread Johannes Stezenbach
On Thu, Aug 11, 2005 Philipp Matthias Hahn wrote: > PS: MAINTAINTER lists http://linuxtv.org/developer/dvb.xml which is > dead. Thanks for reporting. --- Fix DVB URL. Signed-off-by: Johannes Stezenbach <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Index: linux-2.6.13-rc6/MAINTAINERS

Re: Linux-2.6.13-rc6: aic7xxx testers please..

2005-08-11 Thread Philipp Matthias Hahn
Hello! On Sun, Aug 07, 2005 at 11:47:53AM -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote: > Apart from some reverts and the aic7xxx performance regression fix, > there's arm and ppc updates, and some PCI resource allocation updates that > hopefully will reduce the number of machines (especially laptopns) that >

Re: Linux-2.6.13-rc6: aic7xxx testers please..

2005-08-11 Thread Philipp Matthias Hahn
Hello! On Sun, Aug 07, 2005 at 11:47:53AM -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote: > James and gang found the aic7xxx slowdown that happened after 2.6.12, and > we'd like to get particular testing that it's fixed, so if you have a > relevant machine, please do test this. I just tried 2.6.13-rc6 after my

Re: Linux-2.6.13-rc6: aic7xxx testers please..

2005-08-11 Thread Philipp Matthias Hahn
Hello! On Sun, Aug 07, 2005 at 11:47:53AM -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote: Apart from some reverts and the aic7xxx performance regression fix, there's arm and ppc updates, and some PCI resource allocation updates that hopefully will reduce the number of machines (especially laptopns) that have

Re: Linux-2.6.13-rc6: aic7xxx testers please..

2005-08-11 Thread Johannes Stezenbach
On Thu, Aug 11, 2005 Philipp Matthias Hahn wrote: PS: MAINTAINTER lists http://linuxtv.org/developer/dvb.xml which is dead. Thanks for reporting. --- Fix DVB URL. Signed-off-by: Johannes Stezenbach [EMAIL PROTECTED] Index: linux-2.6.13-rc6/MAINTAINERS

Re: Linux-2.6.13-rc6: aic7xxx testers please..

2005-08-11 Thread hunold
Hello Philipp, I got the following OOPS from running alevtd -F -d -v /dev/vbi0 with my Siemens-DVB-C on a Dual-i686-600. I'm able to reproduce this even running a 2.6.12-rc6 without the nvidia module tainting the kernel. So you're using the analog tuner of the card to watch analog cable tv

Re: Linux-2.6.13-rc6: aic7xxx testers please..

2005-08-11 Thread Philipp Matthias Hahn
Hello! On Sun, Aug 07, 2005 at 11:47:53AM -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote: James and gang found the aic7xxx slowdown that happened after 2.6.12, and we'd like to get particular testing that it's fixed, so if you have a relevant machine, please do test this. I just tried 2.6.13-rc6 after my last

Re: Linux-2.6.13-rc6: aic7xxx testers please..

2005-08-11 Thread Gene Heskett
On Thursday 11 August 2005 08:37, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello Philipp, I got the following OOPS from running alevtd -F -d -v /dev/vbi0 with my Siemens-DVB-C on a Dual-i686-600. I'm able to reproduce this even running a 2.6.12-rc6 without the nvidia module tainting the kernel. So you're

Re: Linux-2.6.13-rc6: aic7xxx testers please..

2005-08-11 Thread Philipp Matthias Hahn
Hello Michael! On Thu, Aug 11, 2005 at 02:37:20PM +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I got the following OOPS from running alevtd -F -d -v /dev/vbi0 with my Siemens-DVB-C on a Dual-i686-600. I'm able to reproduce this even running a 2.6.12-rc6 without the nvidia module tainting the kernel. So

cx88 teletext not yet implemented -was- Re: Linux-2.6.13-rc6: aic7xxx testers please..

2005-08-11 Thread Michael Krufky
Gene Heskett wrote: I can also report that teletext decoding has ceased to work here. But I'm not sure what kernel version killed it. Currently running 2.6.13-rc6. But my card is cx88 based, a pcHDTV-3000. But attempting to switch it on/off doesn't seem to generate any output indicating it

Re: cx88 teletext not yet implemented -was- Re: Linux-2.6.13-rc6: aic7xxx testers please..

2005-08-11 Thread Gene Heskett
On Thursday 11 August 2005 11:38, Michael Krufky wrote: Gene Heskett wrote: I can also report that teletext decoding has ceased to work here. But I'm not sure what kernel version killed it. Currently running 2.6.13-rc6. But my card is cx88 based, a pcHDTV-3000. But attempting to switch it

Re: Linux-2.6.13-rc6: aic7xxx testers please..

2005-08-10 Thread John Stoffel
Hi James, Dropped back to 2.6.11.1 and it hung again. I was able to get the drive back by power cycling it and then doing the scsiadd to drop and re-add the drive. I then used the bacula 'btape' tool to run some tests. It seems to be just fine with regular files, but when it hit EOM, all hell

Re: Linux-2.6.13-rc6: aic7xxx testers please..

2005-08-10 Thread John Stoffel
James> Well, I suspect the tape is hanging the bus, from which no card James> can recover. Blech, not going to be fun to fix this sucker. James> Just to test this, can you try sending a bus reset with sgutils (from James> the debain package sg3-utils): James> sg_reset -b /dev/sg3 James> Then

Re: Linux-2.6.13-rc6: aic7xxx testers please..

2005-08-10 Thread James Bottomley
On Wed, 2005-08-10 at 11:28 -0400, John Stoffel wrote: > Is there any more info I can provide here for you? dmesg output? > Here's the latest output from dmesg with the lockup of the drive, > which takes a power cycle to clear now. Well, I suspect the tape is hanging the bus, from which no card

Re: Linux-2.6.13-rc6: aic7xxx testers please..

2005-08-10 Thread John Stoffel
Hi James, As a test, I dropped back to 2.6.12.1 and the drive hung again last night while trying to do backups, so I suspect that I might have controller or tape drive problems of some sort. I'll also try to go back to 2.6.12-rc6 as well and see how that works out. My next step is to try and

Re: Linux-2.6.13-rc6: aic7xxx testers please..

2005-08-10 Thread John Stoffel
Hi James, As a test, I dropped back to 2.6.12.1 and the drive hung again last night while trying to do backups, so I suspect that I might have controller or tape drive problems of some sort. I'll also try to go back to 2.6.12-rc6 as well and see how that works out. My next step is to try and

Re: Linux-2.6.13-rc6: aic7xxx testers please..

2005-08-10 Thread James Bottomley
On Wed, 2005-08-10 at 11:28 -0400, John Stoffel wrote: Is there any more info I can provide here for you? dmesg output? Here's the latest output from dmesg with the lockup of the drive, which takes a power cycle to clear now. Well, I suspect the tape is hanging the bus, from which no card can

Re: Linux-2.6.13-rc6: aic7xxx testers please..

2005-08-10 Thread John Stoffel
James Well, I suspect the tape is hanging the bus, from which no card James can recover. Blech, not going to be fun to fix this sucker. James Just to test this, can you try sending a bus reset with sgutils (from James the debain package sg3-utils): James sg_reset -b /dev/sg3 James Then remove

Re: Linux-2.6.13-rc6: aic7xxx testers please..

2005-08-10 Thread John Stoffel
Hi James, Dropped back to 2.6.11.1 and it hung again. I was able to get the drive back by power cycling it and then doing the scsiadd to drop and re-add the drive. I then used the bacula 'btape' tool to run some tests. It seems to be just fine with regular files, but when it hit EOM, all hell

Re: Linux-2.6.13-rc6: aic7xxx testers please..

2005-08-09 Thread James Bottomley
On Tue, 2005-08-09 at 16:12 -0400, John Stoffel wrote: > Thank you for looking into this with me, I really appreciate it. I'm > kinda stumped why this suddenly started happening, but it could be > hardware related of course... Well ... there's something going on that your posted dmesg's don't

Re: Linux-2.6.13-rc6: aic7xxx testers please..

2005-08-09 Thread John Stoffel
> "James" == James Bottomley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Thank you for looking into this with me, I really appreciate it. I'm kinda stumped why this suddenly started happening, but it could be hardware related of course... James> So basically the problem is on scsi1 with the tape device,

Re: Linux-2.6.13-rc6: aic7xxx testers please..

2005-08-09 Thread James Bottomley
On Tue, 2005-08-09 at 15:35 -0400, John Stoffel wrote: > Attached devices: > Host: scsi0 Channel: 00 Id: 00 Lun: 00 > Vendor: COMPAQ Model: HC01841729 Rev: 3208 > Type: Direct-AccessANSI SCSI revision: 02 > Host: scsi0 Channel: 00 Id: 01 Lun: 00 > Vendor: COMPAQ

Re: Linux-2.6.13-rc6: aic7xxx testers please..

2005-08-09 Thread John Stoffel
Hi Linus & James, I've still got problems under 2.6.13-rc6 with my DLT7000 drive on an AIC7880 builtin controller. Here's the message I got in dmesg. My system is a heavily upgraded Debian/unstable with dual 550mhz Xeon processors and 768mb of RAM, dual SCSI busses. The annoying problem is

Re: Linux-2.6.13-rc6: aic7xxx testers please..

2005-08-09 Thread John Stoffel
Hi Linus James, I've still got problems under 2.6.13-rc6 with my DLT7000 drive on an AIC7880 builtin controller. Here's the message I got in dmesg. My system is a heavily upgraded Debian/unstable with dual 550mhz Xeon processors and 768mb of RAM, dual SCSI busses. The annoying problem is

Re: Linux-2.6.13-rc6: aic7xxx testers please..

2005-08-09 Thread James Bottomley
On Tue, 2005-08-09 at 15:35 -0400, John Stoffel wrote: Attached devices: Host: scsi0 Channel: 00 Id: 00 Lun: 00 Vendor: COMPAQ Model: HC01841729 Rev: 3208 Type: Direct-AccessANSI SCSI revision: 02 Host: scsi0 Channel: 00 Id: 01 Lun: 00 Vendor: COMPAQ

Re: Linux-2.6.13-rc6: aic7xxx testers please..

2005-08-09 Thread John Stoffel
James == James Bottomley [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Thank you for looking into this with me, I really appreciate it. I'm kinda stumped why this suddenly started happening, but it could be hardware related of course... James So basically the problem is on scsi1 with the tape device, which James

Re: Linux-2.6.13-rc6: aic7xxx testers please..

2005-08-09 Thread James Bottomley
On Tue, 2005-08-09 at 16:12 -0400, John Stoffel wrote: Thank you for looking into this with me, I really appreciate it. I'm kinda stumped why this suddenly started happening, but it could be hardware related of course... Well ... there's something going on that your posted dmesg's don't seem

Re: Linux-2.6.13-rc6: aic7xxx testers please..-deadlock

2005-08-08 Thread Andrew Morton
"art" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > kernel 2.6.13-rc1-git7 to 2.6.13-rc5 transfer 72MB/s on aha19160 with 15k > rpm seagate with reiserfs3 but possible deadlock in heavy IO - rsync > ~5-small files from /mnt/seagate15k/a to /mnt/seagate15k/b ends in > middle with deadlock of rsync (3

Re: Linux-2.6.13-rc6: aic7xxx testers please..

2005-08-08 Thread Jesper Juhl
On Sunday 07 August 2005 20:47, Linus Torvalds wrote: > > James and gang found the aic7xxx slowdown that happened after 2.6.12, and > we'd like to get particular testing that it's fixed, so if you have a > relevant machine, please do test this. > I'm using the aic7xxx driver, and although I

Re: Linux-2.6.13-rc6: aic7xxx testers please..-deadlock

2005-08-08 Thread art
kernel 2.6.13-rc1-git7 to 2.6.13-rc5 transfer 72MB/s on aha19160 with 15k rpm seagate with reiserfs3 but possible deadlock in heavy IO - rsync ~5-small files from /mnt/seagate15k/a to /mnt/seagate15k/b ends in middle with deadlock of rsync (3 instances), pdflush, and gam_server all of them

Re: Linux-2.6.13-rc6: aic7xxx testers please..

2005-08-08 Thread Danny ter Haar
Linus Torvalds <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >James and gang found the aic7xxx slowdown that happened after 2.6.12, and >we'd like to get particular testing that it's fixed, so if you have a >relevant machine, please do test this. with me, rc6 lasted 18 hours: reboot system boot 2.6.13-rc6

Re: Linux-2.6.13-rc6: aic7xxx testers please..

2005-08-08 Thread Theodore Ts'o
On Mon, Aug 08, 2005 at 12:14:43AM +0300, Dumitru Ciobarcianu wrote: > ??n data de Du, 07-08-2005 la 11:47 -0700, Linus Torvalds a scris: > > Luming Yu: > > [ACPI] revert Embedded Controller to polling-mode by default (ala 2.6.12) > > [ACPI] CONFIG_ACPI_HOTKEY is now "n" by default > > IMHO

Re: Linux-2.6.13-rc6: aic7xxx testers please..

2005-08-08 Thread John Stoffel
Linus> James and gang found the aic7xxx slowdown that happened after Linus> 2.6.12, and we'd like to get particular testing that it's Linus> fixed, so if you have a relevant machine, please do test this. This might explain why my DLT7000 has been dropping off the bus at times and requiring a

Re: Linux-2.6.13-rc6: aic7xxx testers please..

2005-08-08 Thread John Stoffel
Linus James and gang found the aic7xxx slowdown that happened after Linus 2.6.12, and we'd like to get particular testing that it's Linus fixed, so if you have a relevant machine, please do test this. This might explain why my DLT7000 has been dropping off the bus at times and requiring a full

Re: Linux-2.6.13-rc6: aic7xxx testers please..

2005-08-08 Thread Theodore Ts'o
On Mon, Aug 08, 2005 at 12:14:43AM +0300, Dumitru Ciobarcianu wrote: ??n data de Du, 07-08-2005 la 11:47 -0700, Linus Torvalds a scris: Luming Yu: [ACPI] revert Embedded Controller to polling-mode by default (ala 2.6.12) [ACPI] CONFIG_ACPI_HOTKEY is now n by default IMHO you really

Re: Linux-2.6.13-rc6: aic7xxx testers please..

2005-08-08 Thread Danny ter Haar
Linus Torvalds [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: James and gang found the aic7xxx slowdown that happened after 2.6.12, and we'd like to get particular testing that it's fixed, so if you have a relevant machine, please do test this. with me, rc6 lasted 18 hours: reboot system boot 2.6.13-rc6

Re: Linux-2.6.13-rc6: aic7xxx testers please..-deadlock

2005-08-08 Thread art
kernel 2.6.13-rc1-git7 to 2.6.13-rc5 transfer 72MB/s on aha19160 with 15k rpm seagate with reiserfs3 but possible deadlock in heavy IO - rsync ~5-small files from /mnt/seagate15k/a to /mnt/seagate15k/b ends in middle with deadlock of rsync (3 instances), pdflush, and gam_server all of them

Re: Linux-2.6.13-rc6: aic7xxx testers please..

2005-08-08 Thread Jesper Juhl
On Sunday 07 August 2005 20:47, Linus Torvalds wrote: James and gang found the aic7xxx slowdown that happened after 2.6.12, and we'd like to get particular testing that it's fixed, so if you have a relevant machine, please do test this. I'm using the aic7xxx driver, and although I

Re: Linux-2.6.13-rc6: aic7xxx testers please..-deadlock

2005-08-08 Thread Andrew Morton
art [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: kernel 2.6.13-rc1-git7 to 2.6.13-rc5 transfer 72MB/s on aha19160 with 15k rpm seagate with reiserfs3 but possible deadlock in heavy IO - rsync ~5-small files from /mnt/seagate15k/a to /mnt/seagate15k/b ends in middle with deadlock of rsync (3 instances),

Re: Linux-2.6.13-rc6: aic7xxx testers please..

2005-08-07 Thread Dumitru Ciobarcianu
În data de Du, 07-08-2005 la 11:47 -0700, Linus Torvalds a scris: > Luming Yu: > [ACPI] revert Embedded Controller to polling-mode by default (ala 2.6.12) > [ACPI] CONFIG_ACPI_HOTKEY is now "n" by default IMHO you really need then to make acpi_specific_hotkey the default or at least mention

Re: Linux-2.6.13-rc6: aic7xxx testers please..

2005-08-07 Thread Lee Revell
On Sun, 2005-08-07 at 13:50 -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote: > > On Sun, 7 Aug 2005, Lee Revell wrote: > > > > It looks like CONFIG_4KSTACKS has gone away (IOW 8K stacks are no longer > > an option). But now I get this ominous warning when I compile > > ndiswrapper: > > It's still there, and it

Re: Linux-2.6.13-rc6: aic7xxx testers please..

2005-08-07 Thread Linus Torvalds
On Sun, 7 Aug 2005, Lee Revell wrote: > > It looks like CONFIG_4KSTACKS has gone away (IOW 8K stacks are no longer > an option). But now I get this ominous warning when I compile > ndiswrapper: It's still there, and it (still) depends on DEBUG_KERNEL. Nothing should have changed afaik..

Re: Linux-2.6.13-rc6: aic7xxx testers please..

2005-08-07 Thread Lee Revell
On Sun, 2005-08-07 at 11:47 -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote: > James and gang found the aic7xxx slowdown that happened after 2.6.12, and > we'd like to get particular testing that it's fixed, so if you have a > relevant machine, please do test this. > > There are other fixes too, a number of them

Re: Linux-2.6.13-rc6: aic7xxx testers please..

2005-08-07 Thread Heikki Orsila
Linus Torvalds wrote: > In general, anybody who has reported regressions since 2.6.12, please > re-test with -rc6 and report back > ... > Herbert Xu: > tcp: fix TSO cwnd caching bug The tcp_output panic bug seems to be fixed. I'm referring to: http://lkml.org/lkml/2005/8/7/63 --

Linux-2.6.13-rc6: aic7xxx testers please..

2005-08-07 Thread Linus Torvalds
James and gang found the aic7xxx slowdown that happened after 2.6.12, and we'd like to get particular testing that it's fixed, so if you have a relevant machine, please do test this. There are other fixes too, a number of them reverting (at least for now) patches that people had problems

Linux-2.6.13-rc6: aic7xxx testers please..

2005-08-07 Thread Linus Torvalds
James and gang found the aic7xxx slowdown that happened after 2.6.12, and we'd like to get particular testing that it's fixed, so if you have a relevant machine, please do test this. There are other fixes too, a number of them reverting (at least for now) patches that people had problems

Re: Linux-2.6.13-rc6: aic7xxx testers please..

2005-08-07 Thread Heikki Orsila
Linus Torvalds wrote: In general, anybody who has reported regressions since 2.6.12, please re-test with -rc6 and report back ... Herbert Xu: tcp: fix TSO cwnd caching bug The tcp_output panic bug seems to be fixed. I'm referring to: http://lkml.org/lkml/2005/8/7/63 -- Heikki

Re: Linux-2.6.13-rc6: aic7xxx testers please..

2005-08-07 Thread Lee Revell
On Sun, 2005-08-07 at 11:47 -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote: James and gang found the aic7xxx slowdown that happened after 2.6.12, and we'd like to get particular testing that it's fixed, so if you have a relevant machine, please do test this. There are other fixes too, a number of them

Re: Linux-2.6.13-rc6: aic7xxx testers please..

2005-08-07 Thread Linus Torvalds
On Sun, 7 Aug 2005, Lee Revell wrote: It looks like CONFIG_4KSTACKS has gone away (IOW 8K stacks are no longer an option). But now I get this ominous warning when I compile ndiswrapper: It's still there, and it (still) depends on DEBUG_KERNEL. Nothing should have changed afaik..

Re: Linux-2.6.13-rc6: aic7xxx testers please..

2005-08-07 Thread Lee Revell
On Sun, 2005-08-07 at 13:50 -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote: On Sun, 7 Aug 2005, Lee Revell wrote: It looks like CONFIG_4KSTACKS has gone away (IOW 8K stacks are no longer an option). But now I get this ominous warning when I compile ndiswrapper: It's still there, and it (still)

Re: Linux-2.6.13-rc6: aic7xxx testers please..

2005-08-07 Thread Dumitru Ciobarcianu
În data de Du, 07-08-2005 la 11:47 -0700, Linus Torvalds a scris: Luming Yu: [ACPI] revert Embedded Controller to polling-mode by default (ala 2.6.12) [ACPI] CONFIG_ACPI_HOTKEY is now n by default IMHO you really need then to make acpi_specific_hotkey the default or at least mention it in