Re: 2.4.x and SMP fails to compile (`current' undefined)

2001-01-30 Thread Tom Leete
David Ford wrote: > > Mhm. Is it worth the effort to make a dependancy on the CPU type for SMP? > > > > -d > > Stephen Frost wrote: > > > * David Ford ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > > A person just brought up a problem in #kernelnewbies, building an SMP > > > kernel doesn't work very well,

Re: WOL and 3c59x (3c905c-tx)

2001-01-30 Thread Tobias Ringstrom
On Wed, 31 Jan 2001, Tobias Ringstrom wrote: > Would it be enough to port the acpi_wake function to 2.4? If so, I can do > that myself. In fact, I think I'll try that right away. Who needs > breakfast anyway? :-) Ok, I tried it, and it works. I can now start my computer using WOL packets

Re: [linux-audio-dev] low-latency scheduling patch for 2.4.0

2001-01-30 Thread george anzinger
Joe deBlaquiere wrote: ~snip~ > The locical answer is run with HZ=1 so you get 100us intervals, > right ;o). Lets not assume we need the overhead of HZ=1 to get 100us alarm/timer resolution. How about a timer that ticks when we need the next tick... On systems with multiple

Re: VT82C686A corruption with 2.4.x

2001-01-30 Thread David Raufeisen
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 drives on my VIA (only..) IDE

Error compiling 2.4.1/2.4.0 with pcmica and no SMP

2001-01-30 Thread Bjerkeset
Hi, When compiling either 2.4.1 or 2.4.0 without SMP support on a Compaq Armada E500 running RH 7.0 (yes I do use kgcc) I get the following error: ld -m elf_i386 -T /root/linux/arch/i386/vmlinux.lds -e stext arch/i386/kernel/head. o arch/i386/kernel/init_task.o init/main.o init/version.o \

Re: VT82C686A corruption with 2.4.x

2001-01-30 Thread Vojtech Pavlik
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. 2) In your original message you suggest bs=1024M, which isn't a very good idea, even on a 768 MB system. Here with bs=1024k it seems to run fine. 3) You sent

Re: gprof cannot profile multi-threaded programs

2001-01-30 Thread Mohit Aron
> http://opensource.corel.com/cprof.html > > I haven't used it yet, myself. > I have. cprof is no good - extremely slow and generates a 100MB trace even with a simple hello world program. - Mohit - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a

Re: WOL and 3c59x (3c905c-tx)

2001-01-30 Thread Tobias Ringstrom
On Wed, 31 Jan 2001, Andrew Morton wrote: > The code was broken, so I disabled it. Because of the loss of state bug with Cyclone, and the "missing" acpi_wake workaround, right? > I "fixed" WOL in the 2.2.19-pre candidate driver. It's > at

Re: 2.4.x and SMP fails to compile (`current' undefined)

2001-01-30 Thread Peter Samuelson
[David Ford] > Mhm. Is it worth the effort to make a dependancy on the CPU type for > SMP? Yes. 'make config' should not allow unsupported configurations, at least where convenient. So - are any of the other chip types also incompatible with SMP support (the Winchips, maybe)? Peter ---

Re: 2.4.1 -- Unresolved symbols in radio-miropcm20.o

2001-01-30 Thread Miles Lane
Thanks Keith, I don't get any errors if I add these lines to my .config file: CONFIG_SOUND_OSS=m CONFIG_SOUND_ACI_MIXER=m Ruurd, are you maintaining this driver? If not, is anyone else willing to hack the config scripts to enforce this dependency? This is not my area of

Re: 2.4.X inode cache bug

2001-01-30 Thread Quim K Holland
In <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > Excuse me for the lack of patch in this mail,... > In 2.4.x, linux/fs/inode.c has a hash() function with a small > slip-up. The inode hash-value is initialized with "unsigned > long tmp = i_ino | ((unsigned long) sb / L1_CACHE_BYTES);". > ...

Re: OT: mount/umount doesn't track used resources correctly?

2001-01-30 Thread Peter Samuelson
[Miles Lane] > I think the problem may be due to usermode tools not handling the new > "mount multiple devices to a single mount point" feature, but I'm not > sure. Yes, quite possibly. Rumor has it that util-linux has recently acquired some wisdom in this area. (I can't confirm or deny.)

Re: Request: increase in PCI bus limit

2001-01-30 Thread Peter Samuelson
[Bernd Eckenfels] > May even decrease the kernel for systems < 4 busses. Be careful, though. Users may set this thinking "I have a generic system with only one PCI bus" without realizing that AGP, cardbus and some motherboard devices are all counted. Pad the CONFIG option by about 4 busses

Re: VIA VT82C686X

2001-01-30 Thread Andre Hedrick
You system did something funny or the new VIA code did it. But because you observed this pattern the new feature that on Linux has kicked in and hopefull recovered the system for you. On Wed, 31 Jan 2001, [iso-8859-1] Frédéric L. W. Meunier wrote: > Me too. But I couldn't get UDMA 66 after

Re: VIA VT82C686X

2001-01-30 Thread Andre Hedrick
On Tue, 30 Jan 2001, David D.W. Downey wrote: > > Woohoo! Just found out that ATA66 on the VIA aint too great. > > I set the kernel boot options idebus=66 ide0=ata66 enabling ATA66 Sorry but you are not right in this world ... Where in you manual does is "QUOTE" you can drive the ATA/IDE

Re: Ruined boot sector on X20/W2K

2001-01-30 Thread Peter Samuelson
[Richard B. Johnson] > Then, simply: > cp /boot/boot.0800 /dev/whatever Ah, but that reverts the partition table, which may have been changed since first installing lilo. To avoid this, just type 'lilo -U', which does much the same thing but without touching the partition table. Peter -

VFAT access times in 2.4.1 kernel

2001-01-30 Thread Brian J. Conway
Hello, I just switched to 2.4.1 from 2.2.18 and have the kernel set up in generally the same manner in terms of functionality. I've found that VFAT access is incredibly slow in directories with a large number of files. I have a single directory with approximately 1500 items, all 3-5MB apiece,

Re: Version 2.4.1 cannot be built.

2001-01-30 Thread Peter Samuelson
[Richard B. Johnson] > Bob Tracy found the problem: the second ':' really needs to be > escaped even though newer versions of make allow what was written. > -$(MODINCL)/%.ver: CFLAGS := -I./include $(CFLAGS) > +$(MODINCL)/%.ver: CFLAGS \:= -I./include $(CFLAGS) No, that's a workaround in that

Re: gprof cannot profile multi-threaded programs

2001-01-30 Thread Dan Kegel
See http://opensource.corel.com/cprof.html I haven't used it yet, myself. - Dan - 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 http://www.tux.org/lkml/

gprof cannot profile multi-threaded programs

2001-01-30 Thread Mohit Aron
Hi, I'm using Linux-2.2 and discovered a problem with the profiling of a multi-threaded program (uses Linux pthreads). Basically, upon compiling the program with '-pg' option, running it and invoking gprof on the gmon.out file only shows the profile information corresponding to the

Re: [Off-Topic?] Mixer device and controls (/dev/mixer)

2001-01-30 Thread Peter Samuelson
[Michael B. Trausch] > > I've noticed that with some audio devices, I have a Bass and Treble > > setting that I can play with (and usually do, becuase it makes > > things sound MUCH better). Why don't I have that in some devices, > > and is there a way (through the kernel, or through a

Re: 2.4.0+ipchains+sparc 450= CRASH!

2001-01-30 Thread David S. Miller
Rusty Russell writes: > Oops. Thanks to Anton for testing and touching up this patch. > > The 2.0/2.2 setsockopt code used to do the copy_from_user for you... I've applied this to my tree, thanks a lot. Later, David S. Miller [EMAIL PROTECTED] - To unsubscribe from this list: send the

Re: VIA VT82C686X

2001-01-30 Thread David D.W. Downey
On Tue, 30 Jan 2001, Byron Stanoszek wrote: > (unless you're overclocking). Setting it to 66 will cause the VIA driver to > believe your PCI bus is running at 66MHz and will program the IDE controller to > run at half the speed to maintain 33MHz. In reality, your controller now runs > at 16. I

[PATCH] vma limited swapin readahead

2001-01-30 Thread Marcelo Tosatti
Hi, The current swapin readahead code reads a number of pages (1 >> page_cluster) which are physically contiguous on disk with reference to the page which needs to be faulted in. However, the pages which are contiguous on swap are not necessarily contiguous in the virtual memory area where

Re: 2.4.x and SMP fails to compile (`current' undefined)

2001-01-30 Thread David Ford
Mhm. Is it worth the effort to make a dependancy on the CPU type for SMP? -d Stephen Frost wrote: > * David Ford ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > A person just brought up a problem in #kernelnewbies, building an SMP > > kernel doesn't work very well, current is undefined. I don't have more >

[BUG] 2.4.1 Detects 64 MB RAM, actual 192MB

2001-01-30 Thread Adam Schrotenboer
2.4.1 detects 64 MB, but 2.4.0 detects 192 (Maybe 191, not sure). dmesg attached. Linux version 2.4.1 (root@tabriel) (gcc version egcs-2.91.66 19990314/Linux (egcs-1.1.2 release)) #9 Tue Jan 30 15:35:21 EST 2001 BIOS-provided physical RAM map: BIOS-88: 0009f000 @

[2.4.1] mkreiserfs on loopdevice freezes kernel

2001-01-30 Thread Bernd Eckenfels
Hello, if I run mkreiserfs on a 32megablocks /dev/loop0 it will lock up while generating the journaling information. Sometimes at 20% sometimes at 60%. Since mkreiserfs is not using the kernel module i guess this is a loop device problem in 2.4.1 kernels. There is no dmesg message at the

Re: [PATCH] 2.4.1 find_page_nolock fixes

2001-01-30 Thread Marcelo Tosatti
On Tue, 30 Jan 2001, Rik van Riel wrote: > Hi Linus, > > the patch below contains 3 small changes to mm/filemap.c: > > 1. replace the aging in __find_page_nolock() with setting >PageReferenced(), otherwise a large number of small >reads from (or writes to) a page can drive up the page

Re: 2.4.0+ipchains+sparc 450= CRASH!

2001-01-30 Thread Rusty Russell
In message <01013014063301.15042@Petete> you write: >     I use kernel 2.4.0 + ipchains compatibilty. I use ipchains 1.3.9 >   >  This code: >   >  ipchains -A input -p tcp --dport 80 -s 192.168.0.35 -j REDIRECT 81 Oops. Thanks to Anton for testing and touching up this patch. The 2.0/2.2

2.4.1 doesn't boot on athlon

2001-01-30 Thread Nadeem Riaz
Hi, Compiled 2.4.1 with the same options as 2.4.0, it hangs right after "Freed kernel memory: 228k". If needed: Kernel config avaible @ http://nriaz.resnet.rutgers.edu/~bleh/kernel-config-2.4.1.gz Computer config @ http://nut.dhs.org/mycomputer.php3 Thanks in advance. -- Nadeem - To

2.4.1 with pppd 2.4.0: log problem

2001-01-30 Thread Frédéric L. W. Meunier
Hi. It worked without any problems with 2.4.0. Now with 2.4.1 I don't get anymore the usual messages in /var/log/messages (like pppd start and local and remote IP). The only change was the addition of devfs, but I don't think it's causing this problem. Any hints? I didn't change anything on my

user-mode port 0.38-2.4.1

2001-01-30 Thread Jeff Dike
The user-mode port of 2.4.1 is available. I added support for attaching file descriptors and pts devices to UML serial lines and consoles, plus specifying input and output channels separately. 'no-xterm' can now be duplicated with 'con0=fd:0,fd:1 con=pty'. There is now page dirty and access

Re: Disk is cheap?

2001-01-30 Thread John R Lenton
On Tue, Jan 30, 2001 at 06:58:22PM -, mirabilos wrote: > I accept donations in IDE and SCSI, as well as parport devices. I have a parport device (one of the few things left from my XT). I can send it to you if you pay shipping. -- John Lenton ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) -- Random fortune: Saints

Re: VIA VT82C686X

2001-01-30 Thread Frédéric L. W. Meunier
Me too. But I couldn't get UDMA 66 after changing my BIOS settings and booting. With 33 it's very stable (what I used with 2.4.0). A diff: -hda: 30015216 sectors (15368 MB) w/2048KiB Cache, CHS=1868/255/63, UDMA(33) +hda: 30015216 sectors (15368 MB) w/2048KiB Cache, CHS=1868/255/63, UDMA(66) ...

Re: Crash using DRI with 2.4.0 and 2.4.1

2001-01-30 Thread Bill Crawford
This is fixed in the -ac series against 2.4.0, from I think -ac2. I don't think the fix made the mainstream kernel yet. -- /* Bill Crawford, Unix Systems Developer, ebOne, formerly GTS Netcom */ #include "stddiscl.h" - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in

Re: VIA VT82C686X

2001-01-30 Thread Byron Stanoszek
On Tue, 30 Jan 2001, David D.W. Downey wrote: > > Woohoo! Just found out that ATA66 on the VIA aint too great. > > I set the kernel boot options idebus=66 ide0=ata66 enabling ATA66 > according to dmesg. The HDD is a WDC UDMA100 30.5GB drive. I retried the The 'idebus=xx' parameter doesn't

Re: 2.4.x and SMP fails to compile (`current' undefined)

2001-01-30 Thread Stephen Frost
* David Ford ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > A person just brought up a problem in #kernelnewbies, building an SMP > kernel doesn't work very well, current is undefined. I don't have more > time to debug it but I'll strip the config and put it up at > http://stuph.org/smp-config They're

Kernel 2.2.18: Protocol 0008 is buggy

2001-01-30 Thread Ivan Passos
Hello, I have a customer who's getting tons of these msgs in his LOGs: kernel: protocol 0008 is buggy, dev hdlc0 kernel: protocol 0608 is buggy, dev hdlc0 The msg comes from net/core/dev.c, and this device is using the Cisco HDLC protocol in drivers/net/hdlc.c . However, AFAIK, 0008 and 0608

VIA VT82C686X

2001-01-30 Thread David D.W. Downey
Woohoo! Just found out that ATA66 on the VIA aint too great. I set the kernel boot options idebus=66 ide0=ata66 enabling ATA66 according to dmesg. The HDD is a WDC UDMA100 30.5GB drive. I retried the dd if=/dev/hda7 of=/tmp/testing2.img bs=1024k count=2000 on one VT, ran renice -20 on the dd

2.4.x and SMP fails to compile (`current' undefined)

2001-01-30 Thread David Ford
A person just brought up a problem in #kernelnewbies, building an SMP kernel doesn't work very well, current is undefined. I don't have more time to debug it but I'll strip the config and put it up at http://stuph.org/smp-config -d -- There is a natural aristocracy among men. The grounds of

Re: unresolved symbol in 2.4.1 depmod.

2001-01-30 Thread Keith Owens
On Tue, 30 Jan 2001 18:27:40 -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> you write: >> On Tue, 30 Jan 2001 14:15:20 -0600 (CST), >> Jason Michaelson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >Greetings. I've just procured myself a copy of 2.4.1, and tried to build >> >it. At the tail

Re: Multiple SCSI host adapters, naming of attached devices

2001-01-30 Thread Andreas Dilger
Michael Pacey writes: > But it looks like I can change the order in driver/scsi/hosts.c, though > this is not an elegant solution :( You can compile the "primary (rootfs)" adapter into the kernel, and load the second adapter as a module. This is supposed to work. Cheers, Andreas -- Andreas

Re: Still not sexy! (Re: sendfile+zerocopy: fairly sexy (nothing todowith ECN)

2001-01-30 Thread Rick Jones
> > How does ZC/SG change the nature of the packets presented to the NIC? > > what do you mean? I am _sure_ you know how SG/ZC work. So i am suspecting > more than socratic view on life here. Could be influence from Aristotle;-> Well, I don't know the specifics of Linux, but I gather from what

Re: Multiple SCSI host adapters, naming of attached devices

2001-01-30 Thread Michael Pacey
On Wed, 31 Jan 2001 01:05:51 Andreas Dilger wrote: > > If you are using ext2 filesystems, you don't care which is which, because > you can mount by filesystem UUID or LABEL, so just ignore the device > names. > The same is true with LVM. Well, I tried changing the order of driver loading in

Re: bttv problems in 2.4.0/2.4.1

2001-01-30 Thread Matthew Gabeler-Lee
On Tue, 30 Jan 2001, adrian wrote: >I have a bt848 based video capture card, and get near the same results: > 2.4.0-test10 through 2.4.1 all lock when i2c registers the device. The > card has its own interrupt. With 2.2.18, the card initialized and the > kernel continued to boot.

Re: VT82C686A corruption with 2.4.x

2001-01-30 Thread David D.W. Downey
OK, just completed the upgrade to 2.4.1-pre12 + via82c.diff. SYSTEM SPECS CHANGES === Shut off ACPI Shut off 2nd IDE controller in BIOS Shut off APM Disabled UDMA support in BIOS Removed 256MB RAM (768M total RAM) * Everything is running stabler now. Here's what I've got

2.4.X inode cache bug

2001-01-30 Thread jukka . santala
Excuse me for the lack of patch in this mail, but I'm currently suffering some connection-troubles... Please Cc replies to me. In 2.4.x, linux/fs/inode.c has a hash() function with a small slip-up. The inode hash-value is initialized with "unsigned long tmp = i_ino | ((unsigned long) sb /

Re: bttv problems in 2.4.0/2.4.1

2001-01-30 Thread adrian
Hmmm, I have a bt848 based video capture card, and get near the same results: 2.4.0-test10 through 2.4.1 all lock when i2c registers the device. The card has its own interrupt. With 2.2.18, the card initialized and the kernel continued to boot. Interesting. Regards, Adrian On Tue, 30

Re: Crash using DRI with 2.4.0 and 2.4.1

2001-01-30 Thread Adam Sampson
Miguel Rodriguez Perez <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Hi, I have a Matrox G200 card installed on an Ali motherboard. > Sometimes when I use any opengl program my box crashes. It is more > likely that it will crash if I have used the xvideo extension or the > matroxfb, but this is not a must, it

Re: [NFS] Linux 2.2.18 nfs v3 server bug (was: Incompatible: FreeBSD 4.2 client, Linux 2.2.18 nfsv3 server, read-only export)

2001-01-30 Thread Neil Brown
On Thursday January 25, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > On Wed, 24 Jan 2001, Matthias Andree wrote: > > > This looks better and it makes FreeBSD able to ls the directory, and on > > touch /mnt/try, I get EROFS on the client, so this is okay; however, the > > access reply does not include EXECUTE

Re: Still not sexy! (Re: sendfile+zerocopy: fairly sexy (nothing to dowith ECN)

2001-01-30 Thread jamal
On Tue, 30 Jan 2001, Rick Jones wrote: > > ** I reported that there was also an oddity in throughput values, > > unfortunately since no one (other than me) seems to have access > > to a gige cards in the ZC list, nobody can confirm or disprove > > what i posted. Here again as a reminder: > > >

Re: sendfile+zerocopy: fairly sexy (nothing to do with ECN)

2001-01-30 Thread Bernd Eckenfels
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> you wrote: > On Tue, Jan 30, 2001 at 02:17:57PM -0800, David S. Miller wrote: > 8.5MB/sec sounds like half-duplex 100baseT. > No; I'm 100% its FD; HD gives 40k/sec TCP because of collisions and > such like. > Positive you are running at full duplex all

Re: Request: increase in PCI bus limit

2001-01-30 Thread List User
He's probably sending it to the list the same reason why most in tech circles do. To cut down on the amount of work required. Personally I would love to have all my custom changes put into a 'standard' distribution that way I wouldn't need to keep as many custom notes for x,y,z platforms or

Re: Still not sexy! (Re: sendfile+zerocopy: fairly sexy (nothing todo with ECN)

2001-01-30 Thread jamal
On Wed, 31 Jan 2001, Ingo Molnar wrote: > > On Tue, 30 Jan 2001, jamal wrote: > > > > - is this UDP or TCP based? (UDP i guess) > > > > > TCP > > well then i'd suggest to do: > > echo 10 10 10 > /proc/sys/net/ipv4/tcp_wmem > > does this make any difference? According to my

Re: Request: increase in PCI bus limit

2001-01-30 Thread Bernd Eckenfels
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> you wrote: > I guess the cleanest solution would be to allow variable setting of the > maximum number of PCI busses in the config file, similar to the > CONFIG_UNIX98_PTY_COUNT setting, so that "exotic" users with 32+ PCI > busses can boost the standard value

Re: Request: increase in PCI bus limit

2001-01-30 Thread Bernd Eckenfels
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> you wrote: > 256, in later 2.4.* kernel releases? That would allow this customer to > work with an unpatched kernel, at the cost of an additional 3.5 kB of > variables in the kernel. Don't think this is fairly common. So especially since I consider that kind of

Re: Multiple SCSI host adapters, naming of attached devices

2001-01-30 Thread Michael Pacey
On Wed, 31 Jan 2001 01:05:51 Andreas Dilger wrote: > If you are using ext2 filesystems, you don't care which is which, because > you can mount by filesystem UUID or LABEL, so just ignore the device > names. > The same is true with LVM. > > Cheers, Andreas Well, I do care... This machine is

Re: VT82C686A corruption with 2.4.x

2001-01-30 Thread David D.W. Downey
OK, here is the output of lspci -v on the SMP box I'm having trouble with as requested... 00:00.0 Host bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82C691 [Apollo PRO] (rev c4) Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 0 Memory at d000 (32-bit, prefetchable) Capabilities: [a0]

OT: mount/umount doesn't track used resources correctly?

2001-01-30 Thread Miles Lane
I am having trouble removing the usbide module which enables me to access my USB external hard drive. I think the problem may be due to usermode tools not handling the new "mount multiple devices to a single mount point" feature, but I'm not sure. Here was my mount configuration for /dev/pda

Re: bttv problems in 2.4.0/2.4.1

2001-01-30 Thread Prasanna P Subash
I have experienced similar issues with 2.4.0 and its test. I have a bttv848 chipset. I even tried compiling in kdb as a part of the kernel to see if it oopses, but no luck. I will try trying 0.7.47 today. this works on 2.2.16, last time i tried. -- Prasanna Subash --- [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Still not sexy! (Re: sendfile+zerocopy: fairly sexy (nothing todo with ECN)

2001-01-30 Thread Ingo Molnar
On Tue, 30 Jan 2001, jamal wrote: > > - is this UDP or TCP based? (UDP i guess) > > > TCP well then i'd suggest to do: echo 10 10 10 > /proc/sys/net/ipv4/tcp_wmem does this make any difference? Ingo - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe

Re: Still not sexy! (Re: sendfile+zerocopy: fairly sexy (nothing to dowith ECN)

2001-01-30 Thread Rick Jones
> ** I reported that there was also an oddity in throughput values, > unfortunately since no one (other than me) seems to have access > to a gige cards in the ZC list, nobody can confirm or disprove > what i posted. Here again as a reminder: > > Kernel | tput | sender-CPU | receiver-CPU |

Re: bttv problems in 2.4.0/2.4.1

2001-01-30 Thread Matthew Gabeler-Lee
On Tue, 30 Jan 2001, John Jasen wrote: > On Tue, 30 Jan 2001, Matthew Gabeler-Lee wrote: > > > These errors all occur in the same way (as near as I can tell) in > > kernels 2.4.0 and 2.4.1, using bttv drivers 0.7.50 (incl. w/ kernel), > > 0.7.53, and 0.7.55. > > > > I am currently using

Re: Multiple SCSI host adapters, naming of attached devices

2001-01-30 Thread Andreas Dilger
Michael Pacey writes: > Given two host adapters each with 1 disk of ID 0, how do I tell Linux which > is sda and which sdb? You can't - you need to make sure either the cards are different and check the SCSI host probe order, or the detection order in the PCI bus. You should only need to do

Re: Still not sexy! (Re: sendfile+zerocopy: fairly sexy (nothing todo with ECN)

2001-01-30 Thread jamal
On Wed, 31 Jan 2001, Ingo Molnar wrote: > > On Tue, 30 Jan 2001, jamal wrote: > > > Kernel | tput | sender-CPU | receiver-CPU | > > - > > 2.4.0-pre3 | 99MB/s | 87% | 23% | > > NSF|||

Re: Still not sexy! (Re: sendfile+zerocopy: fairly sexy (nothing todo with ECN)

2001-01-30 Thread Ingo Molnar
On Tue, 30 Jan 2001, jamal wrote: > Kernel | tput | sender-CPU | receiver-CPU | > - > 2.4.0-pre3 | 99MB/s | 87% | 23% | > NSF||| | > - >

Re: AGPGART problems with VIA KX133 chipsets under 2.2.18/2.4.0

2001-01-30 Thread Bob_Tracy
Congratulations to all involved in fixing the subject problem. With the 2.4.1 kernel, I can now actually use agpgart with my GeForce2 MX on a Tyan S1590S motherboard. Just thought someone might appreciate another data point, because prior to 2.4.1 I had to leave out agpgart support :-(. --Bob

Still not sexy! (Re: sendfile+zerocopy: fairly sexy (nothing to dowith ECN)

2001-01-30 Thread jamal
On Mon, 29 Jan 2001, Ion Badulescu wrote: > On Mon, 29 Jan 2001, jamal wrote: > > > > 11.5kBps, quite consistently. > > > > This gige card is really sick. Are you sure? Please double check. > > Umm.. the starfire chipset is 100Mbit only. So 11.5MBps (sorry, that was a > typo, it's mega not

Re: bttv problems in 2.4.0/2.4.1

2001-01-30 Thread John Jasen
On Tue, 30 Jan 2001, Matthew Gabeler-Lee wrote: > These errors all occur in the same way (as near as I can tell) in > kernels 2.4.0 and 2.4.1, using bttv drivers 0.7.50 (incl. w/ kernel), > 0.7.53, and 0.7.55. > > I am currently using 2.4.0-test10 with bttv 0.7.47, which works fine. > > I have

Re: sendfile+zerocopy: fairly sexy (nothing to do with ECN)

2001-01-30 Thread David S. Miller
Chris Wedgwood writes: > There are ... ... 3 switches between four switches in > between, mostly linked via GE. I'm not sure if latency might be an > issue here, is it was critical I can imagine 10 km of glass might be > a problem but it's not _that_ far... Other than this, I don't know

Re: Request: increase in PCI bus limit

2001-01-30 Thread Udo A. Steinberg
Christopher Neufeld wrote: > The only patch > which has to be applied to make Linux run stably on these systems is to > increase that limit. Would it be possible to bump it up to 128, or even > 256, in later 2.4.* kernel releases? That would allow this customer to > work with an unpatched

Re: Request: increase in PCI bus limit

2001-01-30 Thread Timur Tabi
** Reply to message from Christopher Neufeld <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> on Tue, 30 Jan 2001 16:08:32 -0800 > Would it be possible to bump it up to 128, or even > 256, in later 2.4.* kernel releases? That would allow this customer to > work with an unpatched kernel, at the cost of an additional 3.5 kB

Re: Multiple SCSI host adapters, naming of attached devices

2001-01-30 Thread Wolfgang Wegner
Hi, > Given two host adapters each with 1 disk of ID 0, how do I tell Linux which > is sda and which sdb? [...] which leads me to the question: Is there any reason for the (IMHO stupid) "dynamic" naming of SCSI devices (in contrast to e.g. IDE devices or the "physical" device naming used in

Re: Reiserfs problem was: Re: Version 2.4.1 cannot be built.

2001-01-30 Thread Chris Mason
On Tuesday, January 30, 2001 03:42:36 PM -0800 "Brett G. Person" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Worked fine here but i am getting segfaults on my Reiser filesystems. > I've been distracted by a project over the last few days. Is what I'm > seeing a symptom of the fs corruption people were

Re: Oops in 2.4.0: [kswapd+116/272]

2001-01-30 Thread Petr Vandrovec
On 31 Jan 01 at 0:36, Andreas Ackermann (Acki) wrote: > Jan 29 08:17:39 ane kernel: CPU:0 > Jan 29 08:17:39 ane kernel: EIP:0010:[prune_dcache+24/328] > Jan 29 08:17:39 ane kernel: EFLAGS: 00010216 > Jan 29 08:17:39 ane kernel: Call Trace: [shrink_dcache_memory+33/48] >

Re: [ANNOUNCE] Kernel Janitor's TODO list

2001-01-30 Thread Timur Tabi
** Reply to message from Daniel Phillips <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> on Wed, 31 Jan 2001 01:06:08 +0100 > > What is wrong with sleep_on()? > > If you have a task that looks like: > > loop: > > sleep_on(q) > > And you do wakeup(q) hoping to get something important done, then if

Re: [ANNOUNCE] Kernel Janitor's TODO list

2001-01-30 Thread Daniel Phillips
Timur Tabi wrote: > > ** Reply to message from David Woodhouse > > > Note that this is _precisely_ the reason I'm advocating the removal of > > sleep_on(). When I was young and stupid (ok, "younger and stupider") I used > > sleep_on() in my code. I pondered briefly the fact that I really

Request: increase in PCI bus limit

2001-01-30 Thread Christopher Neufeld
Hello, I'm working at a customer site with custom hardware. The 2.4.0 series kernel almost works out of the box, but the machine has 52 PCI busses. Plans are to produce a 4-way box which would have over 80 PCI busses. The file include/asm-i386/mpspec.h allocates space for 32 busses in

Re: Unresolved symbols

2001-01-30 Thread Rusty Russell
In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> you write: > Hi again Rusty God I'm an idiot. I swear I've fixed this before. <>. Yep, I did. And before that, the same bug in the conntrack code. This fixed the `core nat compiled in, rest as modules' case, of course, by actually exporting the symbols.

bttv problems in 2.4.0/2.4.1

2001-01-30 Thread Matthew Gabeler-Lee
In 2.4.0 and 2.4.1, when I try to load the bttv driver, one of two things happens: the system hangs (even alt-sysrq doesn't work!), or the system powers off by itself (ATX mobo). Instant power-off usually happens after a soft reboot (init 6), while it usually hangs up after a hard reboot (power

Reiserfs problem was: Re: Version 2.4.1 cannot be built.

2001-01-30 Thread Brett G. Person
Worked fine here but i am getting segfaults on my Reiser filesystems. I've been distracted by a project over the last few days. Is what I'm seeing a symptom of the fs corruption people were talking about last week? Brett G. Person 415-358-2656 [EMAIL PROTECTED] Penguin Computing - The World's

RAID-cleanups in 2.4.1

2001-01-30 Thread Ole André Vadla Ravnås
I assume I'm not the first one to notice, but the RAID-cleanups that made it into 2.4.1-pre12 (and thus also the final) resulted in "unresolved symbols" when compiling the RAID-stuff as modules (worked fine in 2.4.1-pre11). Any patches/fixes anyone? Ole André - To unsubscribe from this list:

Oops in 2.4.0: [kswapd+116/272]

2001-01-30 Thread Andreas Ackermann (Acki)
Hi folks, using the new Kernel it now occured for the 4th time that I get an Oops some minutes after bootup, with X-Windows running. However, if I get past this 'criticak period' the system seems to run ok (it never crashed a second time although running all day), even when heavily loaded

Re: Matrox G450 problems with 2.4.0 and xfree

2001-01-30 Thread Petr Vandrovec
On 31 Jan 01 at 0:06, Marcel J.E. Mol wrote: > > > Installed a Matrox G450 on my linux system. Now it has problems > > > booting. The kernel is compiled with framebuffer support so is supposed > > > to boot up with the Linux logo. Unfortunately the systems hangs when > > > the kernel switches

Re: Version 2.4.1 cannot be built.

2001-01-30 Thread Keith Owens
On Tue, 30 Jan 2001 18:09:48 -0500 (EST), "Richard B. Johnson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >On Wed, 31 Jan 2001, Keith Owens wrote: >> You mean that nobody reads Documentation/Changes any more? > >Seldom, only once or twice a day. Guess that's not often enough >to keep up on the new tool

Re: unresolved symbol in 2.4.1 depmod.

2001-01-30 Thread dmeyer
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> you write: > On Tue, 30 Jan 2001 14:15:20 -0600 (CST), > Jason Michaelson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >Greetings. I've just procured myself a copy of 2.4.1, and tried to build > >it. At the tail end of a make modules_install, the following error occurs: > > >

Re: digiboard support in linux

2001-01-30 Thread Martin Laberge
Kenneth Yeung wrote: > Hello all > > Can anyone tell me where I can find infomation on digiboard support in > linux specifically the PC/X model? > > THanks > -Ken > > - > To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in > the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] >

thread core dumps

2001-01-30 Thread Adam Fritzler
Is there a way to get threaded applications to dump core properly on 2.4.0? There is a patch floating around for 2.2.x, but the patch is not applicable to the 2.4. code. Any help is appreciated af - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a

Re: Version 2.4.1 cannot be built.

2001-01-30 Thread Richard B. Johnson
On Wed, 31 Jan 2001, Keith Owens wrote: > On Tue, 30 Jan 2001 17:57:44 -0500 (EST), > "Richard B. Johnson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >On Wed, 31 Jan 2001, Keith Owens wrote: > > > >> On Tue, 30 Jan 2001 16:45:16 -0500 (EST), > >> "Richard B. Johnson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> >The

Re: Version 2.4.1 cannot be built.

2001-01-30 Thread Richard B. Johnson
On Tue, 30 Jan 2001, Richard B. Johnson wrote: > On Wed, 31 Jan 2001, Keith Owens wrote: > > > On Tue, 30 Jan 2001 16:45:16 -0500 (EST), > > "Richard B. Johnson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > >The subject says it all. `make dep` is now broken. > > >make[4]: Entering directory

Re: Matrox G450 problems with 2.4.0 and xfree

2001-01-30 Thread Marcel J.E. Mol
On Tue, Jan 30, 2001 at 04:53:45PM -0500, tc lewis wrote: > > try the latest driver that matrox provides. i had to do this with just a > stock redhat 7.0 system. i don't think the standard kernel distributions > redhat packages use a driver that knows about the 450 yet. > >

Re: Multiple SCSI host adapters, naming of attached devices

2001-01-30 Thread Michael Pacey
Of course I should have said this is linux kernel 2.2.17, an IBM PS/2 9585, in-built 'IBM MCA' SCSI adapter and an AHA-1640 MCA card. I now realise that in 2.4 I can use scsihosts=ibmmca:aha1542, but have no info for 2.2.17. Sorry for the lack of info previously :) Thanks again. On Tue, 30

Re: Version 2.4.1 cannot be built.

2001-01-30 Thread Keith Owens
On Tue, 30 Jan 2001 17:57:44 -0500 (EST), "Richard B. Johnson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >On Wed, 31 Jan 2001, Keith Owens wrote: > >> On Tue, 30 Jan 2001 16:45:16 -0500 (EST), >> "Richard B. Johnson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >The subject says it all. `make dep` is now broken. >>

can't compile kernel 2.4.1 with Athlon/K7 option

2001-01-30 Thread Arno Heister
Hi ! I had a similar problem also for the 2.4.0-test10 kernel ... if I switch from the standard settings in the .config file and change only the processor type to Athlon/K7 compilation fails and I waited for a newer kernel ... I'm using a RedHat 7.0 distribution (with all available updates

Re: Version 2.4.1 cannot be built.

2001-01-30 Thread Xuan Baldauf
"Richard B. Johnson" wrote: > On Wed, 31 Jan 2001, Keith Owens wrote: > > > On Tue, 30 Jan 2001 16:45:16 -0500 (EST), > > "Richard B. Johnson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > >The subject says it all. `make dep` is now broken. > > >make[4]: Entering directory `/usr/src/linux-2.4.1/drivers/acpi'

Re: Version 2.4.1 cannot be built.

2001-01-30 Thread Richard B. Johnson
On Wed, 31 Jan 2001, Keith Owens wrote: > On Tue, 30 Jan 2001 16:45:16 -0500 (EST), > "Richard B. Johnson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >The subject says it all. `make dep` is now broken. > >make[4]: Entering directory `/usr/src/linux-2.4.1/drivers/acpi' > >Makefile:29: *** target pattern

Re: 2.4.1 -- Unresolved symbols in radio-miropcm20.o

2001-01-30 Thread Keith Owens
On Tue, 30 Jan 2001 13:08:12 -0800, Miles Lane <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >depmod: *** Unresolved symbols in >/lib/modules/2.4.1/kernel/drivers/media/radio/radio-miropcm20.o >depmod:aci_write_cmd >depmod:aci_indexed_cmd >depmod:aci_write_cmd_d Those symbols are defined

Re: WOL and 3c59x (3c905c-tx)

2001-01-30 Thread Andrew Morton
Tobias Ringstrom wrote: > > When shutting down my computer with Linux, I cannot wake it up using > wake-on-LAN, which I can do if I shut it down from WinME or the LILO > prompt using the power button. > > I see some "interesting" code in 3c59x.c and acpi_set_WOL, and there is > the following

Multiple SCSI host adapters, naming of attached devices

2001-01-30 Thread Michael Pacey
Sorry for posting this here, I'm sure you're all busy with 2.4.1 and 2.2.18 but I'm read the SCSI HOWTO and asked on #LinPeople to no avail: Given two host adapters each with 1 disk of ID 0, how do I tell Linux which is sda and which sdb? After this I'll be filling the 2nd SCSI chain

Re: unresolved symbol in 2.4.1 depmod.

2001-01-30 Thread Keith Owens
On Tue, 30 Jan 2001 14:15:20 -0600 (CST), Jason Michaelson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >Greetings. I've just procured myself a copy of 2.4.1, and tried to build >it. At the tail end of a make modules_install, the following error occurs: > >depmod: *** Unresolved symbols in

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