Re: setting up pppd dial-in on linux

2000-11-24 Thread J Sloan
"Jeff V. Merkey" wrote: > Anyone out there a whiz at setting up a pppd dialin server? I am > trying to put together an RPM for pppd dialin configurations > that will support default Windows NT and Linux dial in clients > without requiring the poor user to learn bash scripting, chat > scripting,

[NSOTON] Voice modem/speakerphone drivers/software?

2000-11-24 Thread Mike A. Harris
My new 56k internal modem has speakerphone jacks, etc, and voice recording capabilities allegedly. AOPEN 56k. Although it works fine (but not at 56k) for dialin, I'm wondering if I can actually use the speakerphone and voice recording features in Linux. The .INF file that came with it contains

Re: CS4630

2000-11-24 Thread David Ford
Charles Peterman wrote: > Thanks, I had to putz with the gain to get sound out of it without > turning my amp to 11, but yes it works. Do you know if anyone is > putting in the effort to make the six channel useful? > > Thanks again, Dunno about that, I use gmix for my mixer and it sounds

setting up pppd dial-in on linux

2000-11-24 Thread Jeff V. Merkey
Anyone out there a whiz at setting up a pppd dialin server? I am trying to put together an RPM for pppd dialin configurations that will support default Windows NT and Linux dial in clients without requiring the poor user to learn bash scripting, chat scripting, mgetty and inittab

Re: Patch(?): isapnp_card_id tables for all isapnp drivers in 2.4.0-test11

2000-11-24 Thread Adam J. Richter
Keith Owens <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >"Adam J. Richter" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> Note that this is not a "final" version. I plan to go >>through all of the changes and bracket all of these new tables >>with #ifdef MODULE...#endif so they do not result in complaints >>about the table

Re: silly [< >] and other excess

2000-11-24 Thread Albert D. Cahalan
Russell King writes: > Albert D. Cahalan writes: >>> they are not only references to >>> kernel functions, but also kernel data and read only data within >>> the kernel text segment. >> >> 1. this is harmless >> 2. this is useful (you might get a variable's name) > > Wrong. Op-codes on this

Re: Can't mount SCSI CDROM in 2.4.*

2000-11-24 Thread Roland Orre
Doug Gilbert wrote: > Roland, > Assuming "sr" is a module and 'lsmod' doesn't > show it as loaded then what does 'modprove sr_mod' > report? Thanks Doug, sometimes I'm totally blind it seems like. Of some reason (probably mine fault...) it seems as the flag CONFIG_BLK_DEV_SR=y which I've had

PIIX4 BX Errata for DMA errors.

2000-11-24 Thread Andre Hedrick
Anyone having DMA errors that are dmaproc: error 14, there is not a clean workaround yet. Also the Intel erratas state that only a bus reset will clear the hang, but the details are loose. Regards, Andre Hedrick CTO Timpanogas Research Group EVP Linux Development, TRG Linux ATA Development -

Re: ext2 filesystem corruptions back from dead? 2.4.0-test11

2000-11-24 Thread Andre Hedrick
On Fri, 24 Nov 2000, Mike Ricketts wrote: > On Fri, 24 Nov 2000, Ion Badulescu wrote: > > > So I'm asking the same question, to all those who have seen unexplained > > filesystem corruption with 2.4.0: are you using IDE drives? If the answer > > is yes, can you check the logs and see if, at

Re: 2.4.0-test-11: K7 compile error: `current' missing in string macro.

2000-11-24 Thread Tom Leete
Ishikawa wrote: > > 2.4.0-test-11: K7 compile error: `current' missing in string macro. > > Symptom: > 2.4.0-test11 won't compile with K7 if we choose it for CPU. > > The compile error is attached at the end. > > The same config except for CPU (AMD K6) works. > The diff of config is shown

Re: LKCD from SGI

2000-11-24 Thread Keith Owens
On 24 Nov 2000 16:40:50 -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Eric W. Biederman) wrote: >Peter Samuelson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > >> [Matt D. Robinson] >> > Any way we can standardize 'make install' in the kernel? It's >> > disturbing to have different install mechanisms per platform ... >> > I can

Re: Patch(?): isapnp_card_id tables for all isapnp drivers in 2.4.0-test11

2000-11-24 Thread Keith Owens
On Fri, 24 Nov 2000 15:37:33 -0800, "Adam J. Richter" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Note that this is not a "final" version. I plan to go >through all of the changes and bracket all of these new tables >with #ifdef MODULE...#endif so they do not result in complaints >about the table being

Re: Fasttrak100 questions...

2000-11-24 Thread Andre Hedrick
NO! Doing so VIOLATES the terms and agreement that you obtained the BINARY Soft-Raid Engine and the GPL terms of the kernel. On Fri, 24 Nov 2000, James Lamanna wrote: > So, I have a system that has 2 45GB IDE drives connected > up to a Promise Technologies Fasttrack 100. > Promise

2.4.0-test-11: K7 compile error: `current' missing in string macro.

2000-11-24 Thread Ishikawa
2.4.0-test-11: K7 compile error: `current' missing in string macro. Symptom: 2.4.0-test11 won't compile with K7 if we choose it for CPU. The compile error is attached at the end. The same config except for CPU (AMD K6) works. The diff of config is shown immediately below. (I saved the old

Re: LKCD from SGI

2000-11-24 Thread Eric W. Biederman
Peter Samuelson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > [Matt D. Robinson] > > Any way we can standardize 'make install' in the kernel? It's > > disturbing to have different install mechanisms per platform ... > > I can make the changes for a few platforms. > > 2.5 material, already on the todo list.

Re: Booting AMD Elan520 without BIOS

2000-11-24 Thread Eric W. Biederman
Ronald G Minnich <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Fri, 24 Nov 2000, I+D wrote: > > > I'm trying to boot an AMD Elan520 board without bios > > with kernel 2.4.0-test10 configured for i486 and PCI direct access. > > This kernel boots correctly from HD using the bios provided with the > >

Re: [patch] O_SYNC patch 3/3, add inode dirty buffer list support to ext2

2000-11-24 Thread Eric W. Biederman
"Jeff V. Merkey" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Cool. ORACLE is going to **SMOKE** on EXT2 with this change. Hmm I don't see how ORACLE is going to **SMOKE**. Last I looked ORACLE would need a query optimizer that always would find the best possible index and much less overhead to **SMOKE**.

Re: [PATCH] blindingly stupid 2.2 VM bug

2000-11-24 Thread Chip Salzenberg
According to Rik van Riel: > Luckily my patch fixes some of the suspect areas in > VM-global [...] Would you say that the below patch is just the try_to_free_pages bug fix, then? Index: mm/vmscan.c --- mm/vmscan.c.prev +++ mm/vmscan.c Fri Nov 24 15:17:59 2000 @@ -401,4 +401,5 @@ int

[PATCH] Re: [PATCH] Latest preemptible kernel (low latency) patch available

2000-11-24 Thread Roger Larsson
Hi, I got compilation errors due to use of START / STOP definitions (zlib.c, ppp?) This little additional patch should fix it. They were not used in any other place of the patch... I am still compiling... /RogerL --- spinlock.h.preemt Sat Nov 25 00:31:38 2000 +++ spinlock.h Sat Nov 25

Problems with D-link DFE550TX in 2.4.0-test10

2000-11-24 Thread rob
Hi At boot, I get the following messages: eth0: OEM Sundance Technology ST201 at 0xc880, 00:50:ba:14:de:30, IRQ 10. eth0: No MII transceiver found!, ASIC status 62 it works a bit, but it freezes every so often. The card is plugged into a 10/100 switch. When it freezes, I get the following

Re: Oops on 2.2.18-23 as pppd dial in server

2000-11-24 Thread Jeff V. Merkey
I always type too fast. Yes, it's "slocate". Jeff "Mohammad A. Haque" wrote: > > solcate? .. you sure you don't mean slocate? > > "Jeff V. Merkey" wrote: > > process solcate pid: 1109 nr: 45 stack=c17f9000 > > -- > > = >

Patch(?): isapnp_card_id tables for all isapnp drivers in 2.4.0-test11

2000-11-24 Thread Adam J. Richter
I have made added isapnp_card_id table to all isapnp drivers. This is the isapnp equivalent of the pci MODULE_DEVICE_TABLE declarations. They allow a user level software agent to know which modules correspond to your hardware configuration and to load them. One such implementation

Re: Oops on 2.2.18-23 as pppd dial in server

2000-11-24 Thread Mohammad A. Haque
solcate? .. you sure you don't mean slocate? "Jeff V. Merkey" wrote: > process solcate pid: 1109 nr: 45 stack=c17f9000 -- = Mohammad A. Haque http://www.haque.net/

Oops on 2.2.18-23 as pppd dial in server

2000-11-24 Thread Jeff V. Merkey
Alan, Was able to reproduce this Oops, but it took several days. Oops occurs against 2.2.18-23. I had to copy this info from the console -- the system was hard hung after the oops and even ksymoops was locked solid. Jeff unable to handle kernel paing request virtual address 90C16C24

Re: Address translation

2000-11-24 Thread Andreas Bombe
On Thu, Nov 23, 2000 at 10:04:18PM +0100, Bjorn Wesen wrote: > On Thu, 23 Nov 2000, Andreas Bombe wrote: > > > I may be wrong on this, but I thought that copy_{to,from}_user are > > > only necessary if the address range you are accessing might cause a > > > fault which Linux cannot handle (ie.

Re: 3c59x: Using bad IRQ 0

2000-11-24 Thread Jeff Garzik
Linus Torvalds wrote: > > On Tue, 21 Nov 2000, Jeff Garzik wrote: > > > > A caveat to this whole scheme is that usb-uhci -already- calls > > pci_enable_device before checking dev->irq, and yet cannot get around > > the "assign IRQ to USB: no" setting in BIOS. I hope that is an > > exception

Re: [PATCH] removal of "static foo = 0" from drivers/ide (test11)

2000-11-24 Thread J . A . Magallon
On Thu, 23 Nov 2000 12:01:53 Rusty Russell wrote: > > What irritates about these monkey-see-monkey-do patches is that if I > initialize a variable to NULL, it's because my code actually relies on > it; I don't want that information eliminated. > What I understood from the previous answer from

Re: Recent ide patches and DMA

2000-11-24 Thread Kafu Nagai
440BX with PIIX4 on BP6 >On Thu, Nov 23, 2000 at 01:09:35PM -0800, Kafu Nagai wrote: >> With recent ide patches, the ide driver seems to try to use DMA mode even for a >drive which dosen't support it. CONFIG_IDEDMA_PCI_AUTO is enabled but even so with >the stock kernel this dosen't happen.

Re: changing BIOS setting

2000-11-24 Thread Jeff Garzik
Andrew Park wrote: > Is there a way to change BIOS setting (like boot sequence) > from the kernel space? Any pointers would be appreciated. Yes. All the BIOS does is configure your hardware. Get docs on your hardware, and you can do anything that BIOS does. For example, if your parallel port

Re: [PATCH] 2.2.18pre21: DRM update

2000-11-24 Thread Ed Tomlinson
Alan Cox wrote: > I'll look over it. It may be worth doing the fixing for 2.2.18, since > 2.2.17 doesnt have DRM anyway. As posted it doesnt build against vanilla > 2.2.18pre but I can see why so not a problem This patch enables a G400 to use DRI using debian woody. Without this its 2.4 time.

changing BIOS setting

2000-11-24 Thread Andrew Park
Hi, Is there a way to change BIOS setting (like boot sequence) from the kernel space? Any pointers would be appreciated. Thanks -A. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Please read the FAQ at

Fasttrak100 questions...

2000-11-24 Thread James Lamanna
So, I have a system that has 2 45GB IDE drives connected up to a Promise Technologies Fasttrack 100. Promise Techonologies currently has a driver that you can compile against a 2.2 kernel into a module, but it also includes one proprietary object file. During my linux installation I was able to

2.2.18pre23 Oops

2000-11-24 Thread f5ibh
Hi, I was running a packet radio (hamradio) program whose name is tnt. (We can see it is the oops and he disapeared during the oops). The OOps occured as I was loading the modules for a ppa ZIP parallel port ZIP drive. This is the raw Oos without processing it with ksymoops :

Re: About IP address

2000-11-24 Thread Mike A. Harris
On Fri, 24 Nov 2000, J. Dow wrote: >Date: Fri, 24 Nov 2000 14:15:41 -0800 >From: J. Dow <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >To: [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] >Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >Content-Type: text/plain; >charset="iso-8859-1" >Subject: Re: About IP address > >From: "John Crowhurst" <[EMAIL

Re: OOPS on bringing down ppp

2000-11-24 Thread Marc Heckmann
On Fri, Nov 24, 2000 at 10:55:39AM +, Mark Ellis wrote: > Hi all, consistently getting the following when pppd is terminated. Happens > in 2.4.0-test11, fine in 2.4.0-test9, don't know about test10. Same happens > for pppd 2.4.0b4 and 2.4.0, both recompiled for test11. Is this related to >

Re: About IP address

2000-11-24 Thread J. Dow
From: "John Crowhurst" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > For example, Class B address range is 128.1.0.0 ~ 191.254.0.0 > > > > Why 128.0.0.0 and 191.255.0.0 can't use ? > > > > I can't understand it > > This is because its the network and broadcast addresses of a Class A address > range. Simple answer

Re: [PATCH] removal of "static foo = 0" from drivers/ide (test11)

2000-11-24 Thread Vojtech Pavlik
On Thu, Nov 23, 2000 at 10:01:53PM +1100, Rusty Russell wrote: > In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> you write: > > > On Tue, 21 Nov 2000 22:25:01 Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz wrote: > > > > > > > > Quick removal of unnecessary initialization to 0. > > > > Quite the contrary. The patch seems correct

Re: iBCS2 and 2.4.0-11 Can we make soup yet?

2000-11-24 Thread Mohammad A. Haque
Check this thread http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?t=9714970441=2=1 "Jeff V. Merkey" wrote: > > I noticed that iBC2 support no longer builds against 2.4.0-11. I also > found that 11/98 seems to be the last version of iBCS2 posted. 2.4.0-11 > does have a MISC binary loadable option, but I

2.4.0-test5 bug: invalid "shmid_kernel" passed to "shm_nopage_core"

2000-11-24 Thread Kevin Buhr
I've been chasing after a bug in 2.4.0-test5 that I can't quite nail down. I don't see anything obvious between test5 and test11 that leads me to believe it's been fixed. I encountered a lockup on my SMP box. One CPU got stuck in a spinlock via the following call trace. There were enough args

[PATCH] asm-ppc/elf.h error (fixed patch)

2000-11-24 Thread David Riley
Oops, I included the wrong diff. Perhaps I should check them better next time. Here's one that should work. elf.h.diff

asm-ppc/elf.h error

2000-11-24 Thread David Riley
In asm-ppc/elf.h, is not included. This breaks compilations of anything that compiles it (e.g. binutils) because the vector registers for Altivec aren't defined elsewhere. Included is a quick diff. I didn't know which PPC maintainer to send this to, so I posted it to the linuxppc-dev list.

[patch] 2.2.18pre23: user access checking in pipe_read/pipe_write

2000-11-24 Thread Tim Waugh
Here is an untested patch intended to fix the following behaviour: $ cat a.c #include int main (int argc, char **arghhh) { int fd[2]; pipe (fd); write (fd[1], NULL, 1); } $ gcc -o a a.c $ strace -ewrite ./a write(4, NULL, 1) = 1 $ Tim. */ ---

Re: Jens Axboe's blk-11 causing problems

2000-11-24 Thread Jens Axboe
On Fri, Nov 24 2000, Boszormenyi Zoltan wrote: > Hi! > > I tried 2.4.0-test11 (plain, +ac1/2) with and without > Jens' blk-11 patch. This indeed performs (much) better > when there is only high disk activity but cdrecord > starts up _very_ slowly if the kernel was compiled with > blk-11. It

Re: More info about de USB HP 8230e and problems]

2000-11-24 Thread Jens Axboe
On Fri, Nov 24 2000, Drizzt wrote: > I have using the next software: > > a) test11 + storage checkout from linux-usb at sourceforge ( without >this checkout fails too). > > b) cdrecord 1.10a6 > > If I start to burn a CD at x4 speed, I have always the next error from > cdrecord: > Track

Re: 2.4.0, test10, test11: HPT366 problem

2000-11-24 Thread Nathan A. Ferch
I have similar problems with an IBM-DTLA-305020 and the HPT-366 on a ABIT BP6. I'm not sure what the BIOS version is, i'll check it once i return home. Changing to udma3 seems to fix the problems. However i can always pass partition check fine. On Tue, Nov 21, 2000 at 01:29:51PM +, David

iBCS2 and 2.4.0-11 Can we make soup yet?

2000-11-24 Thread Jeff V. Merkey
I noticed that iBC2 support no longer builds against 2.4.0-11. I also found that 11/98 seems to be the last version of iBCS2 posted. 2.4.0-11 does have a MISC binary loadable option, but I did not see iBCS2 in the tree. Is there something more recent, or is iBCS2 something that's basically no

Re: AIC-7xxx oops

2000-11-24 Thread Jens Axboe
On Mon, Nov 20 2000, KELEMEN Peter wrote: > Hello. > > I've been experiencing SCSI-related oopsen since 2.4.0-test6. > Couple of minutes ago I tried with test11 final, no luck still. > When I attempt to play an audio CD using cdplay from the cdtool > package, I'm rewarded with the following oops

Re: [PATCH] removal of "static foo = 0" from drivers/ide (test11)

2000-11-24 Thread Rusty Russell
In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> you write: > > On Tue, 21 Nov 2000 22:25:01 Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz wrote: > > > > > > Quick removal of unnecessary initialization to 0. > > Quite the contrary. The patch seems correct and useful to me. What do you > think is wrong with it? (Linus accepted

[PATCH] G450 support for matroxfb

2000-11-24 Thread Petr Vandrovec
Hi, if there are unhappy owners of Matrox G450, I have gift for them. Patch below is for 2.4.0-test11, and works on my dualhead G450, 16MB, DDR. Because of there are no specs for this piece of hardware, currently: (1) BIOS have to initialize hardware. Although chip presents itself as

PROBLEM: kernel oops at bootup (2.2.17, Mandrake 7.2)

2000-11-24 Thread Wouter Verheijen
Hello, I just bought Linux Mandrake 7.2. The problem described applies to (at least) the kernel used to boot the installation. It OCCURS just after the detection of the buses and harddisks: hda: hdc: hdd: Unable to handle kernel NULL pointer

Re: Recent patch to cfi.h screws MTD CFI layer

2000-11-24 Thread David Woodhouse
On Fri, 24 Nov 2000, Russell King wrote: > The recent patch in 2.4.0-test11 causes MTD to oops the kernel: Fixed in my tree. That and other things will be fixed when I flush the latest CFI code to Linus - probably quite soon. The inter_module_ stuff has introduced link order dependencies too.

do_initcalls bug

2000-11-24 Thread Pavel Machek
Hi! static void __init do_initcalls(void) { initcall_t *call; call = &__initcall_start; do { early_printk("[%lx]\n", call); (*call)(); call++; } while (call < &__initcall_end); } In case there are no initcalls to

2.4-test11 does not compile

2000-11-24 Thread mkloppstech
The following .config does not compile under 2.4-test11. Reason is the choice of the Athlon. If taking P-Pro/P II it compiles correctly. # # Automatically generated by make menuconfig: don't edit # CONFIG_X86=y CONFIG_ISA=y # CONFIG_SBUS is not set CONFIG_UID16=y # # Code maturity level

Re: [patch] O_SYNC patch 3/3, add inode dirty buffer list support to ext2

2000-11-24 Thread Andrea Arcangeli
On Thu, Nov 23, 2000 at 01:01:25PM -0700, Jeff V. Merkey wrote: > On Thu, Nov 23, 2000 at 12:01:35PM +, Stephen C. Tweedie wrote: > > Hi, > > > > On Wed, Nov 22, 2000 at 11:54:24AM -0700, Jeff V. Merkey wrote: > > > > > > I have not implemented O_SYNC in NWFS, but it looks like I need to

Recent patch to cfi.h screws MTD CFI layer

2000-11-24 Thread Russell King
The recent patch in 2.4.0-test11 causes MTD to oops the kernel: diff -u --recursive --new-file v2.4.0-test10/linux/include/linux/mtd/cfi.h linux/include/linux/mtd/cfi. h --- v2.4.0-test10/linux/include/linux/mtd/cfi.h Tue Jul 4 10:12:34 2000 +++ linux/include/linux/mtd/cfi.h Tue Nov 7

Re: ext2 filesystem corruptions back from dead? 2.4.0-test11

2000-11-24 Thread Linus Torvalds
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Guest section DW <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >(But I described the situation where the data on disk was correct >and the date in core was not - almost certainly this is not an IDE problem.) Ehh.. It only means that it would have been a read failure instead of a

Re: linux-2.2.18-pre19 asm/delay.h problem?

2000-11-24 Thread Jeff Epler
On Fri, Nov 24, 2000 at 11:15:50AM -0600, Oliver Xymoron wrote: > You could still change it to > __bug__module_is_using_a_delay_thats_too_large__please_report().. I thought that's where we started? Can we somehow use the GNU linker trick which permits a warning about e.g. gets at link time?

Re: linux-2.2.18-pre19 asm/delay.h problem?

2000-11-24 Thread Oliver Xymoron
On Wed, 22 Nov 2000, Alan Cox wrote: > > > |> > > #define __bad_udelay() panic("Udelay called with too large a constant") > > > |> > > > |> Can't we change that to : > > > |> #error "Udelay..." > > > > > > No. > > > > ?? I think I'm missing something here. > > preprocessor stuff is done too

Re: Why not PCMCIA built-in and yenta/i82365 as modules

2000-11-24 Thread Oliver Xymoron
On Wed, 22 Nov 2000, Matti Aarnio wrote: > On Tue, Nov 21, 2000 at 11:34:45PM +0100, Tobias Ringstrom wrote: > > The subject says it all. Is there any particular (technical) reason > > why I must have both the generic pcmcia code and the controller support > > built-in, or build all of them as

Strange IP-Connection

2000-11-24 Thread "Rüegg, Peter H."
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi, I encounter quite a lot of strange connection on a very busy server here. tcpdump -S -n on the firewall in front of it reports as follows: 16:13:03.531896 eth0 > 193.8.109.35.4870 > 212.27.173.35.www: S 1693092819:1693092819(0) win 16384

Problems with 2.4.0test11 and PCI bridges

2000-11-24 Thread John Thorp
I have just tried to move to the 2.4.0-test11 kernel from the kernel supplied with Redhat 7. With the Redhat 7 kernel I can see all the PCI slots fine. However, when I try with the 2.4.0test11 it no longer seems to be able to find some of the PCI buses. Is there something I can do to get the

Re: deadlock on 4way machine

2000-11-24 Thread Oliver Xymoron
On Tue, 21 Nov 2000, Tigran Aivazian wrote: > On 21 Nov 2000, Jes Sorensen wrote: > > > > "Tigran" == Tigran Aivazian <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > > Tigran> Hi, Some processes get stuck in page fault handler for ages > > Tigran> (like for 10 minutes!). The machine still has plenty

Re: gcc-2.95.2-51 is buggy

2000-11-24 Thread Matthew Vanecek
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > so the reason why it did not show up in the gcc you picked up from > > ftp.gnu.org is that you have compiled it so that it defaults to -mcpu=i686 > > Yes, you are right. > > So 2.95.2 fails for i386, i486, i586 and does not fail for i686. > RedHat 7.0's gcc

2.4.0-test10 FAT oops

2000-11-24 Thread Samuli Kaski
I have had at least 2 similar (maybe even identic) oopses with 2.3/2.4 kernels in the past. Either there is still something wrong with FAT or it's my hardware. Nevertheless, here it is. Samuli Nov 24 18:30:37 vortex kernel: Unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at virtual

Re: [PATCH] Re: PROBLEM: kernel 2.4.0-test11-ac1 hang with usb-uhciand emu10k1

2000-11-24 Thread Linus Torvalds
On Thu, 23 Nov 2000, Michael Elkins wrote: > > On Thu, Nov 23, 2000 at 03:53:27PM -0800, Linus Torvalds wrote: > > Try changing the thing around a bit: make the above place say > > > > /* disable legacy emulation */ > > pci_write_config_word (dev, USBLEGSUP, 0); > > > > and then

RE: Booting AMD Elan520 without BIOS

2000-11-24 Thread Ronald G Minnich
On Fri, 24 Nov 2000, Joan Bertran wrote: > I think so, because I've read somewhere the kernel needs interrupts > configured, but as kernel configures i8259 I don't know what is necessary, > the IDT with interrupt service routines ?, sommething special about the chipset ? I put the following

Re: Booting AMD Elan520 without BIOS

2000-11-24 Thread Ronald G Minnich
On Fri, 24 Nov 2000, I+D wrote: > I'm trying to boot an AMD Elan520 board without bios > with kernel 2.4.0-test10 configured for i486 and PCI direct access. > This kernel boots correctly from HD using the bios provided with the > evaluation board but kernel 2.4.0-test8 and previous hang > after

Re: Can't mount SCSI CDROM in 2.4.*

2000-11-24 Thread Roland Orre
Douglas Gilbert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Fri Nov 24 wrote: > Roland, > What does 'cat /proc/scsi/scsi' output on your machine? > Which SCSI adapter do you have? > Doug Gilbert My scsi adapter is adaptec 7880 on one machine and 7890 on the other, i.e. driver is aic7xxx This is what 'cat

RE: Booting AMD Elan520 without BIOS

2000-11-24 Thread Joan Bertran
> -Mensaje original- > De: Jon Burgess [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Enviado el: viernes 24 de noviembre de 2000 16:40 > Para: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Cc: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]'; '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' > Asunto: Re: Booting AMD Elan520 without BIOS > > > > I've seen this on a board with a BIOS

Re: gcc 2.95.2 is buggy

2000-11-24 Thread Bernd Schmidt
On Fri, 24 Nov 2000, Tom Rini wrote: > Well, now that there is a testcase, has anyone sent this on to the relevant > gcc lists? (The CCs I saw haven't) Yes. I've just sent a fix to gcc-patches. Bernd - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a

Re: Booting AMD Elan520 without BIOS

2000-11-24 Thread Jon Burgess
>The last message I see is "Calibrating delay loop" >(I see this thaks to the Jtag debugger for Elan520 because >I haven't configured the VGA board yet). I've seen this on a board with a BIOS problem. I think it is caused because the Kernel is in a loop waiting for a timer interrupt to

Re: gcc 2.95.2 is buggy

2000-11-24 Thread Tom Rini
On Thu, Nov 23, 2000 at 11:47:04PM -0500, Alexander Viro wrote: > > > On Thu, 23 Nov 2000, Gregory Maxwell wrote: > > > On Fri, Nov 24, 2000 at 02:57:45AM +0100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > but in the meantime there is good confirmation. > > > This really is a bug in gcc 2.95.2. > > > >

alpha: small PCI fixes (test11-ac3)

2000-11-24 Thread Ivan Kokshaysky
Just out of curiosity I tried S3 Sonic Vibes sound card, which has only 24 address lines connected, on sx164. This revealed two bugs in the pci code: - dma mask 0x00ff (24 bits) exactly fits the ISA scatter-gather window, but was rejected by pci_dma_supported() due to off-by-one bug. -

The Birthday of the Year!!

2000-11-24 Thread Davide Piana
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Re: 2.2.16: How to freeze the kernel

2000-11-24 Thread Douglas Gilbert
Ulrich Windl wrote: > > Hello, > > this is for your interest, amusement, and for "what not to do": > > I managed to freeze the kernel (2.2.16 from SuSE Linux 7.0) in a way > that I could not even switch virtual consoles. Completely silent > eberything... > > It all started when Windows/95

Re: ext2 filesystem corruptions back from dead? 2.4.0-test11

2000-11-24 Thread Mohammad A. Haque
I get the following followingon every reboot once. Nov 23 01:14:37 viper kernel: hdb: drive_cmd: status=0x51 { DriveReady SeekComplete Error } Nov 23 01:14:37 viper kernel: hdb: drive_cmd: error=0x04 Nov 23 01:14:37 viper kernel: hdb: drive_cmd: status=0x51 { DriveReady SeekComplete Error } Nov

Re: 3c59x: Using bad IRQ 0

2000-11-24 Thread Erik Mouw
On Tue, Nov 21, 2000 at 05:26:06PM -0800, Linus Torvalds wrote: > On Tue, 21 Nov 2000, Jeff Garzik wrote: > > > > A caveat to this whole scheme is that usb-uhci -already- calls > > pci_enable_device before checking dev->irq, and yet cannot get around > > the "assign IRQ to USB: no" setting in

Booting AMD Elan520 without BIOS

2000-11-24 Thread I+D
Hi, I'm trying to boot an AMD Elan520 board without bios with kernel 2.4.0-test10 configured for i486 and PCI direct access. This kernel boots correctly from HD using the bios provided with the evaluation board but kernel 2.4.0-test8 and previous hang after "Ok booting the kernel".

Re: lseek patch for 2.2.18pre23

2000-11-24 Thread kernel
On Fri, 24 Nov 2000, Andrea Arcangeli wrote: > And in LFS (that means also 2.4.x) the >> 32 doesn't make any sense in lseek > and should be removed: Actually, the >> 32 part was there to avoid doing the long long comparison on x86. Granted, that probably doesn't matter. -ben

Re: Recent ide patches and DMA

2000-11-24 Thread Vojtech Pavlik
On Thu, Nov 23, 2000 at 01:09:35PM -0800, Kafu Nagai wrote: > With recent ide patches, the ide driver seems to try to use DMA mode even for a >drive which dosen't support it. CONFIG_IDEDMA_PCI_AUTO is enabled but even so with >the stock kernel this dosen't happen. older patches didn't have this

Re: lseek patch for 2.2.18pre23

2000-11-24 Thread Andrea Arcangeli
On Thu, Nov 23, 2000 at 10:15:24PM -0800, H . J . Lu wrote: > 2.2.18pre23 allows lseek to negative offsets in ext2 and has no checks > for proc. Here is a patch. As just said your patch is wrong for vanilla 2.2.18pre23. The right fix for that problem in 2.2.18pre23 (2.2.x vanilla doesn't

Re: About IP address

2000-11-24 Thread John Crowhurst
> For example, Class B address range is 128.1.0.0 ~ 191.254.0.0 > > Why 128.0.0.0 and 191.255.0.0 can't use ? > > I can't understand it This is because its the network and broadcast addresses of a Class A address range. Simple answer :) -- FyreMoon Under the moon, the dragon flies. - To

Re: [PATCH] linux/drivers/media/radio check_region() removal

2000-11-24 Thread Alan Cox
> attached patch removes all check_region() calls from /linux/drivers/media/r= > adio > drivers. Most changes are obvious, except radio-cadet.c which needs some= > =20 > maintainer's attention.=20 Please check the -ac tree. I've already done them - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line

Re: OOPS on bringing down ppp

2000-11-24 Thread Alan Cox
> Not my area, but I don't think exec_usermodehelper() should assume > that current->files is always valid. > > Al, is this correct? If so, does daemonize() also need this test? > If not, then how did this thread get (current->files == NULL)? exit_files() will leave it NULL yes. You may want

Re: Cardbus bridge problems

2000-11-24 Thread Tobias Ringstrom
On Thu, 23 Nov 2000, Linus Torvalds wrote: > That bus setup is horribly wrong, and says that the CardBus bridge no bus > numbers, which is obviously not correct. It somehow got through the bridge > scanning without being fixed up.. > > Now, the reason for why it seems to be so unhappy is

Re: [bug] set_pgdir can skip mm's

2000-11-24 Thread V Ganesh
> From ganesh Fri Nov 24 18:08:15 2000 [ set_pgdir() blah blah blah ] damn. I was looking at test9 and as usual after shooting my mouth off on l-k I go look at test11 and find it's fixed there, at least in i386, thanks to the vmalloc_fault: stuff in do_page_fault. but a lot of other

2.4.0-test11: es1371 mixer problems

2000-11-24 Thread Dick Streefland
2.4.0-test11 introduced a problem with the mixer device of my SB128 soundcard (es1371 driver). When I start a mixer application like xmixer or aumix, only a small subset of the mixer devices are available. With 2.4.0-test10, using the same .config, all devices are available. I've looked through

Bug in date converting functions DOS<=>UNIX in FAT, NCPFS and SMBFS drivers

2000-11-24 Thread Igor Yu. Zhbanov
Hello! I have found a bug in drivers of file systems which use a DOS-like format of date (16 bit: years since 1980 - 7 bits, month - 4 bits, day - 5 bits). There are two problems: 1) It is unable to convert UNIX-like dates before 1980 to DOS-like date format. 2) VFAT for example have three

Re: gcc-2.95.2-51 is buggy

2000-11-24 Thread Mikael Pettersson
On Fri, 24 Nov 2000, Jakub Jelinek wrote: >so the reason why it did not show up in the gcc you picked up from >ftp.gnu.org is that you have compiled it so that it defaults to -mcpu=i686 >where the bug does not show up. Indeed. I just ran some tests, and I can confirm that gcc 2.95.2 vanilla

[PATCH] ACPI interpreter on ACPItableless systems

2000-11-24 Thread Andrey Panin
Hi all, this patch makes ACPI poweroff possible on ACPI capable systems without BIOS provided ACPI tables. I sent this patch to LKML some month ago, but didn't get an answer :( I will be out of this list for some weeks, so happy hacking and good bye, Andrey -- Andrey Panin

Re: e2fs performance as function of block size

2000-11-24 Thread Stephen C. Tweedie
Hi, On Wed, Nov 22, 2000 at 11:28:12PM +0100, Michael Marxmeier wrote: > > If the files get somewhat bigger (eg. > 1G) having a bigger block > size also greatly reduces the ext2 overhead. Especially fsync() > used to be really bad on big file but choosing a bigger block > size changed a lot.

[patch-2.4.0-test11] various small fixes

2000-11-24 Thread Tigran Aivazian
Hi Linus, This patch does: a) cleans up the show_mem() function on various architectures wrt page_count() macro and the 'free' variable b) corrects the comment above paging_init() about 0-8M page tables c) changes the name of kflushd to bdflush. All kernel data structures around this thread

Re: OOPS on bringing down ppp

2000-11-24 Thread Keith Owens
On Fri, 24 Nov 2000 10:55:39 +, Mark Ellis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >Hi all, consistently getting the following when pppd is terminated. Happens >in 2.4.0-test11, fine in 2.4.0-test9, don't know about test10. Same happens >for pppd 2.4.0b4 and 2.4.0, both recompiled for test11. Is this

[PATCH] linux/drivers/media/radio check_region() removal

2000-11-24 Thread Andrey Panin
Hi all, attached patch removes all check_region() calls from /linux/drivers/media/radio drivers. Most changes are obvious, except radio-cadet.c which needs some maintainer's attention. I hope it will be usefull. Best regards, Andrey -- Andrey Panin| Embedded

Re: gcc-2.95.2-51 is buggy

2000-11-24 Thread Andries . Brouwer
> so the reason why it did not show up in the gcc you picked up from > ftp.gnu.org is that you have compiled it so that it defaults to -mcpu=i686 Yes, you are right. So 2.95.2 fails for i386, i486, i586 and does not fail for i686. Andries - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line

About IP address

2000-11-24 Thread Su Hwan Hwang
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[PATCH] Generalize disk_name in fs/partitions/check.c

2000-11-24 Thread Brian Kress
This is a patch that generalizes the code in fs/partitions/check.c for the disk_name() function. With the way the code is right now, it has a big if/then/else block that requires generic code to know specific things about drivers. This patch makes it so the driver can supply the code

Kernel Oops on locking sockets via fcntl()

2000-11-24 Thread Igor Yu. Zhbanov
Hello! One fine day accidentally I have opened an Xserver's socket placed in /tmp with my favourite text editor "le". I have got a message from the kernel similar to this: Unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at virtual address 0038 current->tss.cr3 = 0336f000, %cr3 = 0336f000

[bug] set_pgdir can skip mm's

2000-11-24 Thread V Ganesh
set_pgdir() needs to modify all active mm's to include the new entry. what it really does is for_each_task(p) { if (!p->mm) continue; *pgd_offset(p->mm,address) = entry; } however, there could be a lazy-tlb thread on

RFC: Security fix for demand loading of filesystem and network interface modules

2000-11-24 Thread Adam J. Richter
I want to slightly change the way filesystems and network drivers are demand loaded via request_module. Currently, querying a nonexistant network interface named, say, "eth0" results in a result_module call for "eth0". I want to change that to "if-eth0". This will make it

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