Re: Cool Road Runner

2001-04-02 Thread Richard Gooch
Andre Hedrick writes: > On Mon, 2 Apr 2001, Richard Gooch wrote: > > > However, flaming about it isn't the right answer either. Nor are snide > > comments. The point can be raised politely (i.e. "I have difficulty > > parsing your messages because of your writing style/grammar/spelling"). > > Hi

Re: Asus CUV4X-D, 2.4.3 crashes at boot

2001-04-02 Thread Allen Campbell
On Tue, Apr 03, 2001 at 10:40:36AM +1200, Simon Garner wrote: > From: "Alan Cox" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > > I've seen the exact same behavior with my CUV4X-D (2x1GHz) under > > > 2.4.2 (debian woody). In addition, the kernel would sometimes hang > > > around NMI watchdog enable. At least, I th

Re: Asus CUV4X-D, 2.4.3 crashes at boot

2001-04-02 Thread Simon Garner
From: "Allen Campbell" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Patience is likely to be effective. The chipset isn't exactly rare > being on SMP boards from Gigabyte, MSI, Tyan and Asus, and likely > others. I'm betting it will be fixed soon enough. UP and 2.2.x > kernels worked fine here if you're really despe

Re: what is pci=biosirq

2001-04-02 Thread xcp
On Mon, 2 Apr 2001, Petr Vandrovec wrote: > It looks more like that Acer misimplemented PCI_IRQPIN register - if it > is legacy IDE interface using ports 1F0-1F7/170-177, with IRQs 14 & 15, > it should report zero as IRQ pin. What 'lspci -vx -s 0:f.0' says? > Last four bytes it prints should re

Re: Recent problems with APM and XFree86-4.0.1

2001-04-02 Thread Alain E.
Hello Stephen, I've just switched from 2.2.18 to 2.4.3 (on a Dell Inpiron 8000, r128 M4 adapter) and I am experimenting some problems with Xfree 4.02 (debian woody) and (probably) APM. When I resume after a suspend, the X server hangs. Connecting through ethernet, using strace -p `pid-of-Xfree`

Re: [Linux-fbdev-devel] Re: fbcon slowness [was NTP on 2.4.2?]

2001-04-02 Thread Geert Uytterhoeven
On Mon, 2 Apr 2001, Alan Cox wrote: > > Yes this is problem. See my response to Paul about this. The only reason > > I'm using MMX for the vesa framebuffer because it has no acceleration. MMX > > gives a big boost for genuine intel chips. Other types of MMX are fast but > > they don't seemed to be

Re: nfsd vfs.c does not seems to fsync() with file overwrite, when ithave to.

2001-04-02 Thread Neil Brown
On Tuesday April 3, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Dear Neil, > > I think I've found bug in nfsd. Here's patch for fixing. > I'd like to explain what's problem and what's changed, after patch. snip > > Because > > L710: err = file.f_op->write(&file, buf, cnt, &file.f_pos); > > does not store di

Re: /proc/config idea

2001-04-02 Thread Michal Jaegermann
On Mon, Apr 02, 2001 at 05:39:19PM -0700, David Lang wrote: > > if the distro/sysadmin _always_ installs the kernel the 'right way' then > the difference isn't nessasarily that large, but if you want reliability > on any system it may be worth loosing a page or so of memory (hasn't > someone said

BTTV problems in 2.4.3

2001-04-02 Thread Robert Holmberg
I'm having some bttv problems in 2.4.3 (2.4.2 works fine). When my xawtv window (or my fbtv resolution) gets to a certain point (like 768x576, which is what I want, 640x480 is still fine) the right part of the tv window is left black. I'm back to using 2.4.2 again, but I could produce a screenshot

Re: More about 2.4.3 timer problems

2001-04-02 Thread viking
Andrew Morton wrote: > Eric Gillespie wrote: > > > >... > > VESA fb mode 1280x1024x16, clock lost 1m 35s in time > > ... > > Same command, normal (non-fb mode) lost no time off clock. > > Is due to the 2.4.3 console drivers. They block interrupts during > console output. There's a fix in 2.4.2-

Future reports

2001-04-02 Thread Andre Hedrick
Please send reports directly to <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> I hope to figure out a news reader and have it parse real problems, but for now I am dropping off lkml for sometime as I am tired. Regards, Andre Hedrick Linux ATA Development - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux

Re: [lkml]Re: [lkml]Re: Matrox G400 Dualhead

2001-04-02 Thread James Simmons
> > >If I use X on an accelerated, normal Matrox screen, my monitor complains > > >on exit: > > > > > >fH 49.4 KHz, fV 39.8 Hz > > > > > >(and it doesn't sync at 40 Hz vertical refresh :-( ). > > > > > >This is _half_ of the normal 80 Hz. Using fbset -a "1600x1200-80" > > >before X, of after X, d

Stuck: What to do with solid locks?

2001-04-02 Thread Pete Toscano
Hello, Three times since I upgraded to 2.4.3 and at least once in the 2.4.3-pre series, my machine would completely lock hard. I've got KDB running on a serial console (as I've been seeing lots of crashes, usually in the scsi_eh_0 process) and even this fails to pick up anything wrong. It's jus

Re: Basic Text Mode (was: Re: Question about SysRq)

2001-04-02 Thread James Simmons
> One more property, that i'd like to have should be request key to force > the most basic text mode (say 80x25) on the console, when eg. X freezes > and i kill its session, then last gfx mode resides on the screen and > see no way to restore back the text mode - /usr/bin/reset or something > ali

Re: [Linux-fbdev-devel] Re: fbcon slowness [was NTP on 2.4.2?]

2001-04-02 Thread James Simmons
>Is it possible that "jump scroll" would provide more performance benefit >than an accelerated driver anyway? I wouldn't rule it out. If someone wants to wipe up some code I would have no problem testing it to see if it is worth it. >Seeing as you bring up this topic of writing a 9525 driver.

Re: what is pci=biosirq

2001-04-02 Thread Petr Vandrovec
Don Dugger wrote: > > The error message idicates that the MPS table doesn't provide interrupt > routing information for that PCI slot. I ran into the same problem > on my K6 machine. I was able to fix it in the BIOS. In the BIOS setup > go to the `Advaned' page. Look under `Installed O/S'. I

Re: [QUESTION] 2.4.x nice level

2001-04-02 Thread LA Walsh
Quim K Holland wrote: > > > "BS" == BERECZ Szabolcs <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > BS> ... a setiathome running at nice level 19, and a bladeenc at > BS> nice level 0. setiathome uses 14 percent, and bladeenc uses > BS> 84 percent of the processor. I think, setiathome should use > BS> max 2

Re: scsi bus numbering

2001-04-02 Thread Justin T. Gibbs
>"Justin T. Gibbs" wrote: >> It is bogus that this stuff depends on link order to function >> correctly. > >No, it is simply one more rule, and one that is not immediately >obvious. Take heart though. Like Rolaids, 2.5's updated makefile >system will bring relief... Its not something the build

Re: Serial Console!!

2001-04-02 Thread Jim Dennis
Apparently "Green" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi all, > I want to login to my MIPS box through serial port. > I execute 'make menuconfig' and select the 'serial console'. > But I can't see the login prompt in my window(I use netterm). > May I ask how serial console work? > Or I forget som

Re: /proc/config idea

2001-04-02 Thread David Lang
a module for 2.4.3 will work for any 2.4.3 kernel that supports modules at all (except for the SMP vs UP issue) so it's not the same thing as trying to figure out which if the 2.4.3 kernels matches what you are running. David Lang On Mon, 2 Apr 2001, Jeff Garzik wrote: > Date: Mon, 02 Apr 2001

Re: PROBLEM:Bug when installing NVidia Driver Module

2001-04-02 Thread Aric Cyr
I have tried out the latest NVidia driver set, and they do work fine for me with plain vanilla 2.4.3 on my Athlon with GCC 2.95.3. I would blame your compiler, it's dated July 2000, that's an old CVS version AFAIK. - Aric - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel"

Re: More about 2.4.3 timer problems

2001-04-02 Thread Andrew Morton
Eric Gillespie wrote: > >... > VESA fb mode 1280x1024x16, clock lost 1m 35s in time > ... > Same command, normal (non-fb mode) lost no time off clock. Is due to the 2.4.3 console drivers. They block interrupts during console output. There's a fix in 2.4.2-ac. There's also a patch against 2.4.

size of ring buffer for kernel msgs

2001-04-02 Thread Tim Strobell aka Griffy
Kernel gurus, Since the boot process on some SMP machines can be rather verbose, it seems that the ring buffer for printk()s wraps before it can be snarfed by klogd/syslogd after boot. This makes it difficult to troubleshoot messages printed early in the boot process (like BIOS RAM maps). The de

Re: what is pci=biosirq

2001-04-02 Thread Don Dugger
The error message idicates that the MPS table doesn't provide interrupt routing information for that PCI slot. I ran into the same problem on my K6 machine. I was able to fix it in the BIOS. In the BIOS setup go to the `Advaned' page. Look under `Installed O/S'. It probably says something sil

a quest for a better scheduler

2001-04-02 Thread Fabio Riccardi
Hello, I sent a message a few days ago about some limitations I found in the linux scheduler. In servers like Apache where a large (> 1000) number of processes can be running at the same time and where many of them are runnable at the same time, the default Linux scheduler just starts trashing a

More about 2.4.3 timer problems

2001-04-02 Thread Eric Gillespie
First off, CC: back to me, as my machine can't handle an estimated 200 messages a day for me to sign up to the list 8-( - Anyway.. I updated my kernel to 2.4.3 when the patch was released. As I said earlier, I noticed my timer losing a few seconds over the space of a couple of hours. Well, I ha

Re: Question: is linux support Intel's i840 chipset?

2001-04-02 Thread Jean-Michel Lee
Thanks a lot. A fool question: since IDE controller is a PCI device, and the PCI is 32bit/33MHz - 132MB/s or so. How does two ATA-100 device work, it will use 2 x 100MB/s bandwidth. I know most IDE controller is in the Sound Bridge, but I can buy an IDE expand card, which support ATA-100 too.

RE: vmalloc on 2.4.x on ia64

2001-04-02 Thread hiren_mehta
That is what I said. I am using vmalloc only. But the call to vmalloc is hanging. -hiren > -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Monday, April 02, 2001 6:26 PM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: RE: vmalloc on 2.4.x on ia64 > > > kmalloc() has

Re: /proc/config idea

2001-04-02 Thread Jeff Garzik
Jeremy Jackson wrote: > If you have a lot of kernels around, which Config-2.4.3 applies to kernel 2.4.3 > given 5 to choose from...the idea (same for System.map) is that it being in the > same > file they can't be confused. Kinda like forks under Mac (but let's not go there > now) The same appli

Re: /proc/config idea

2001-04-02 Thread David Lang
yes it's unreclaimable memory and that's why we want to minimize how much is used. on the other hand there is a factor of reliability in the kernel knowing what options were used to compile it that you just cannot match with a seperate file, or even with it a part of the on-disk image that is thr

Re: /proc/config idea

2001-04-02 Thread Jeremy Jackson
Jeff Garzik wrote: > Jeremy Jackson wrote: > > Yes, I like this. I do this manually, it allows reproducability, and > > incremental > > modifications, tracing how that kernel on that problem system was made... > > > > I think the ultimate would be to put all of .config (gzipped?) in a new ELF >

Re: can not compile 2.4.3 on alpha

2001-04-02 Thread Jeff Garzik
Gustavo Niemeyer wrote: > Hello Andrejs!! > > /usr/src/linux-2.4.3/include/asm/pgalloc.h:334: conflicting types for > > `pte_alloc' > This is happening on ia64 as well. The interface seems to have changed > but some architectures were forgotten. The interface changed and other architectures have

Re: /proc/config idea

2001-04-02 Thread Jeff Garzik
Jeremy Jackson wrote: > Yes, I like this. I do this manually, it allows reproducability, and > incremental > modifications, tracing how that kernel on that problem system was made... > > I think the ultimate would be to put all of .config (gzipped?) in a new ELF > section without the Loadable at

Re: oops in uhci.c running 2.4.2-ac28

2001-04-02 Thread Jeff Golds
Johannes Erdfelt wrote: > > On Mon, Apr 02, 2001, Jeff Golds <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Let me show what I got with the 2.4.2 kernel with USB support enabled. > > > > Mar 19 14:10:00 Eng99 kernel: uhci: host controller halted. very bad > > Mar 19 14:10:31 Eng99 last message repeated 108 times

Sandisk flashcard reader on 2.4.2. It works. Sort of.

2001-04-02 Thread Stefan Linnemann
PLease Cc: all responses to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Hiya, since I'm not on the list, and my experience with and knowledge of kernel internals are negligable, please keep in mind to Carbon copy all forcoming relevant conversation to me. Thank you. Ok, I bought a Nikon Coolpix 990, aand to download t

vmalloc on 2.4.x on ia64

2001-04-02 Thread MEHTA,HIREN (A-SanJose,ex1)
Greetings. Is vmalloc() interface broken on any of 2.4.x kernel on ia64 ? I am trying to call vmalloc from the driver to allocate about 130kb of memory and it hangs the system. I am running 2.4.1 kernel with ia64 patch (I can find out the exact patch if needed) on LION. Let me know if more inform

Re: Question about SysRq

2001-04-02 Thread Dr. Kelsey Hudson
On Sat, 31 Mar 2001, Boris Pisarcik wrote: > on say tty2. The processes get created pretty fast. After a short while > I supposed a single solution to this to kill all session by alt+sysrq+k, > but nothing happened. Under normal averagely loaded situation, this will > imidiately kill all processes

Re: [PATCH] multiline string cleanup

2001-04-02 Thread Andi Kleen
On Mon, Apr 02, 2001 at 07:50:04PM -0400, Jeff Garzik wrote: > Andi Kleen wrote: > > "J . A . Magallon" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > This is one other try to make kernel sources gcc-3.0 friendly. This cleans > > > some muti-line asm strings in checksum.h and floppy.h (this were the only > > >

Re: scsi bus numbering

2001-04-02 Thread Jeff Garzik
"Justin T. Gibbs" wrote: > It is bogus that this stuff depends on link order to function > correctly. No, it is simply one more rule, and one that is not immediately obvious. Take heart though. Like Rolaids, 2.5's updated makefile system will bring relief... Make sure to add a comment, when yo

Re: oops in uhci.c running 2.4.2-ac28

2001-04-02 Thread Johannes Erdfelt
On Mon, Apr 02, 2001, Jeff Golds <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Let me show what I got with the 2.4.2 kernel with USB support enabled. > > Mar 19 14:10:00 Eng99 kernel: uhci: host controller halted. very bad > Mar 19 14:10:31 Eng99 last message repeated 108 times > Mar 19 14:11:37 Eng99 last messag

Re: [PATCH] multiline string cleanup

2001-04-02 Thread Jeff Garzik
Andi Kleen wrote: > "J . A . Magallon" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > This is one other try to make kernel sources gcc-3.0 friendly. This cleans > > some muti-line asm strings in checksum.h and floppy.h (this were the only > > ones reported in my kernel build, perhaps there are more in drivers I

Re: bug database braindump from the kernel summit

2001-04-02 Thread Oliver Xymoron
On Mon, 2 Apr 2001, Jeff Garzik wrote: > Oliver Xymoron wrote: > > On Mon, 2 Apr 2001, Tom Leete wrote: > > > How about /lib/modules/$(uname -r)/build/.config ? It's already there. > > > It'd be great if we got away from the config being hidden too. > > When exporting it outside the kernel tree,

Re: oops in uhci.c running 2.4.2-ac28

2001-04-02 Thread Jeff Golds
Pete Zaitcev wrote: > > > Date: Sun, 1 Apr 2001 03:35:03 +0200 (CEST) > > From: Ketil Froyn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > While running kernel 2.4.2-ac28, I switched on spinlock debugging and > > verbose BUG() reporting (I always use sysrq). Anyway, while running

Re: Kernel 2.4.3 fails to compile

2001-04-02 Thread Alan Cox
> > buz.c: In function `v4l_fbuffer_alloc': > > buz.c:188: `KMALLOC_MAXSIZE' undeclared (first use in this function) > > buz.c:188: (Each undeclared identifier is reported only once > > buz.c:188: for each function it appears in.) > > Easy solution -- just delete the entire test > > if (si

Re: 2.4.3 aic7xxx wont compile

2001-04-02 Thread Alan Cox
> The sad part is that there has been a fix for this "problem", supplied > by the author of the driver, for well over a month that everyone seems > to ignore. I've not had a patch from the author to apply so I've not applied anything. Alan - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubsc

Re: Dell PERC/Adaptec RAID support?

2001-04-02 Thread Alan Cox
> kernels. As I want to run Linux-2.4.x, I can't find a kernel supporting > the PERC, and this annoys me... Does anyone know when this will be > merged into the main source tree? When someone writes a driver that is less disgusting than the current one - To unsubscribe from this list: send the li

Re: bug database braindump from the kernel summit

2001-04-02 Thread Jeff Garzik
Oliver Xymoron wrote: > On Mon, 2 Apr 2001, Tom Leete wrote: > > How about /lib/modules/$(uname -r)/build/.config ? It's already there. > It'd be great if we got away from the config being hidden too. When exporting it outside the kernel tree, the '.' prefix should definitely be stripped... My

Re: bug database braindump from the kernel summit

2001-04-02 Thread Oliver Xymoron
On Mon, 2 Apr 2001, Tom Leete wrote: > Oliver Xymoron wrote: > > > > On Sun, 1 Apr 2001, Jeff Garzik wrote: > > > > > On Sun, 1 Apr 2001, David Lang wrote: > > > > if we want to get the .config as part of the report then we need to make > > > > it part of the kernel in some standard way (the old

Re: EXT2-fs error

2001-04-02 Thread Alan Cox
> > I got the following while rm -rf'ing my mozilla cvs checkout. Deadly or not >deadly? > > Highly deadly. > > Your disk is dropping bits, or, more likely, your RAM. This is very, > very bad. if it was 2.2 I'd believe it. 2.4 is still showing these kind of problems in software on many VIA c

Re: Disturbing news..

2001-04-02 Thread Dr. Kelsey Hudson
On Wed, 28 Mar 2001, Jesse Pollard wrote: > Sure - very simple. If the execute bit is set on a file, don't allow > ANY write to the file. This does modify the permission bits slightly > but I don't think it is an unreasonable thing to have. Oh, honestly! Think about what you are saying here: Wha

Re: bug database braindump from the kernel summit

2001-04-02 Thread Tom Leete
Oliver Xymoron wrote: > > On Sun, 1 Apr 2001, Jeff Garzik wrote: > > > On Sun, 1 Apr 2001, David Lang wrote: > > > if we want to get the .config as part of the report then we need to make > > > it part of the kernel in some standard way (the old /proc/config flamewar) > > > it's difficult enough

Re: oops in uhci.c running 2.4.2-ac28

2001-04-02 Thread Johannes Erdfelt
On Mon, Apr 02, 2001, Pete Zaitcev <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Date: Sun, 1 Apr 2001 03:35:03 +0200 (CEST) > > From: Ketil Froyn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > While running kernel 2.4.2-ac28, I switched on spinlock debugging and > > verbose BUG() reporting (I alwa

Re: [QUESTION] 2.4.x nice level

2001-04-02 Thread Quim K Holland
> "BS" == BERECZ Szabolcs <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: BS> ... a setiathome running at nice level 19, and a bladeenc at BS> nice level 0. setiathome uses 14 percent, and bladeenc uses BS> 84 percent of the processor. I think, setiathome should use BS> max 2-3 percent. the 14 percent is way to

Re: oops in uhci.c running 2.4.2-ac28

2001-04-02 Thread Pete Zaitcev
> Date: Sun, 1 Apr 2001 03:35:03 +0200 (CEST) > From: Ketil Froyn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > While running kernel 2.4.2-ac28, I switched on spinlock debugging and > verbose BUG() reporting (I always use sysrq). Anyway, while running this I > got an oops after about 2

Re: linux scheduler limitations?

2001-04-02 Thread Alan Cox
> I've found a (to me) unexplicable system behaviour when the number of > Apache forked instances goes somewhere beyond 1050, the machine > suddently slows down almost top a halt and becomes totally unresponsive, > until I stop the test (SpecWeb). Im suprised it gets that far > Moreover the max

Re: [Linux-fbdev-devel] Re: fbcon slowness [was NTP on 2.4.2?]

2001-04-02 Thread Alan Cox
> Yes this is problem. See my response to Paul about this. The only reason > I'm using MMX for the vesa framebuffer because it has no acceleration. MMX > gives a big boost for genuine intel chips. Other types of MMX are fast but > they don't seemed to be optimized for memory transfers like MMX on

Re: bug database braindump from the kernel summit

2001-04-02 Thread David Lang
the reason for suggesting /proc is that this data needs to be available in a standard place, putting it in the kernel image (compressed is fine, bitmap is fine) eliminates the problems of trying to dictate where in the filesystem the distros need to put things. putting it in /proc _somewhere_ (/

Re: Asus CUV4X-D, 2.4.3 crashes at boot

2001-04-02 Thread Simon Garner
From: "Alan Cox" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > I've seen the exact same behavior with my CUV4X-D (2x1GHz) under > > 2.4.2 (debian woody). In addition, the kernel would sometimes hang > > around NMI watchdog enable. At least, I think it's trying to > > Known problem. Thats one reason why -ac trees had

Re: bug database braindump from the kernel summit

2001-04-02 Thread J . A . Magallon
On 04.03 Jeff Garzik wrote: > "J . A . Magallon" wrote: > > Could make part of the kernel scripts, or in one other > > standard software package, like modutils, so its versions are controlled > > There is value in putting it into the Linux kernel source tree, in > linux/scripts dir. But most v

Re: PROBLEM:Bug when installing NVidia Driver Module

2001-04-02 Thread Alan Cox
> /lib/modules/2.4.3/video/NVDriver: unresolved symbol _mmx_memcpy > > however if i rebuild my kernel using an "i686" architecture this problem > no longer comes up. > > It is quite possible that this is NVidia's problem, however it seemed > reasonable that the "athlon" architecture should suppo

Re: Asus CUV4X-D, 2.4.3 crashes at boot

2001-04-02 Thread Alan Cox
> I've seen the exact same behavior with my CUV4X-D (2x1GHz) under > 2.4.2 (debian woody). In addition, the kernel would sometimes hang > around NMI watchdog enable. At least, I think it's trying to Known problem. Thats one reason why -ac trees had nmi watchdog turned off. - To unsubscribe from

Re: Matrox G400 Dualhead

2001-04-02 Thread Trevor Hemsley
On Mon, 2 Apr 2001 17:43:42, Petr Vandrovec <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Trevor Hemsley wrote: > > > I get this as well on my G200. From observation it appears that the > > refresh rate is being doubled when you exit X and that's why the > > console appears blank. On my system I normally use >

Re: Oracle 8I & Kernel 2.4.3 : Sane ?

2001-04-02 Thread Alan Cox
> I noticed that 2.4.3 contains some fixs for shared memory - > So the final question IS : > > Is oracle 8.1.5 + Kernel 2.4.3 a sane combination ? Probably not yet but getting closer. > In general is oracle + Kernel 2.4 working ? Ditto. The shm and rawio fixes are very recent - To unsubscri

[QUESTION] 2.4.x nice level

2001-04-02 Thread BERECZ Szabolcs
Hi! I just noticed, that a process with nice level 19, gets some processor time, even if there is another process, which would use all of the processor time. for example, there is a setiathome running at nice level 19, and a bladeenc at nice level 0. setiathome uses 14 percent, and bladeenc uses

Re: Larger dev_t

2001-04-02 Thread Andries . Brouwer
> Mount NFS device areas with NFSv2. Thats the standard workaround Oh, sure. We survived with 16 bits and we'll survive with 32. Nevertheless it is a bad sign that you have to start talking about workarounds even before the new system has been implemented. (And NFSv2 has its quirks as well. Sola

Re: bug database braindump from the kernel summit

2001-04-02 Thread Jeff Garzik
"J . A . Magallon" wrote: > Could make part of the kernel scripts, or in one other > standard software package, like modutils, so its versions are controlled There is value in putting it into the Linux kernel source tree, in linux/scripts dir. But most vendors can and should take this script as

Re: [PATCH] multiline string cleanup

2001-04-02 Thread Andi Kleen
"J . A . Magallon" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > This is one other try to make kernel sources gcc-3.0 friendly. This cleans > some muti-line asm strings in checksum.h and floppy.h (this were the only > ones reported in my kernel build, perhaps there are more in drivers I do > not use). I surely

Re: Cool Road Runner (was CFA as Ide.)

2001-04-02 Thread Adrian Cox
Richard A. Smith wrote: > On Mon, 02 Apr 2001 21:50:59 +0100, Adrian Cox wrote: >> If only. In my limited experience SanDisk cards have been the most >> tolerant. I suspect that Sandisk actually implement the full range of >> timings documented in the spec, and nobody else bothers. [...] > We

Re: [Fwd: [Copyright/Licensing] "Dual-copyright/licensing" of your IP withOUT your permission]

2001-04-02 Thread J . A . Magallon
I like specially this: http://www.passport.com/Consumer/TermsOfUse.asp .. Microsoft reserves the right to review materials posted to a Communication Service and to remove any materials in its sole discretion. Microsoft reserves .. Well, this just says they will read all your e-mail and kick you

Re: Larger dev_t

2001-04-02 Thread Alan Cox
> Not using 64 also gives interesting small problems with Solaris or > FreeBSD NFS mounts. One uses 14+18, the other 8+24, so with 12+20 > we cannot handle Solaris' majors and we cannot handle FreeBSD's minors. Mount NFS device areas with NFSv2. Thats the standard workaround for the fact the NFSv

Re: bug database braindump from the kernel summit

2001-04-02 Thread Steven Walter
On Mon, Apr 02, 2001 at 06:26:45AM +0100, Richard Russon wrote: > On 01 Apr 2001 18:21:29 -0500, Jeff Garzik wrote: > > Let's hope it's not a flamewar, but here goes :) > > > > We -need- .config, but /proc/config seems like pure bloat. > > Don't ask me for sample code, but... > > The init code

Announcing Journaled File System (JFS) release 0.2.2 available

2001-04-02 Thread Steve Best
The latest drop of JFS was made available today. The file system has fixes included. Also, the utilities have been cleaned up to use standard types. In the file system the following problems have been fixed. - Fix for assert(iagp->wmap[extno] & mask); (line #2875) in jfs_imap while running db

Re: bug database braindump from the kernel summit

2001-04-02 Thread J . A . Magallon
On 04.02 Oliver Xymoron wrote: > > As a former proponent of /proc/config (I wrote one of the much-debated > patches), I tend to agree. Debian's make-kpkg does the right thing, namely > treating .config the same way it treats System-map, putting it in the > package and eventually installing it in

Re: Cool Road Runner (was CFA as Ide.)

2001-04-02 Thread Richard A. Smith
On Mon, 02 Apr 2001 21:50:59 +0100, Adrian Cox wrote: >> IIRC SanDisk was the original people to come out with IDE CFA and everyone >> else just copied them. I have the SanDisk datasheets that I can send you >> if you need them to verify stuff. I believe that if you verify it with >> the SanDi

Swapping wierdness on SparcStation 4 w/ 2.2.19

2001-04-02 Thread Alex Buell
I built and installed 2.2.19 on my SparcStation 4 last night, and have been testing it by recompiling gcc 2.95.2 over and over. Just noticed now that it doesn't seem to swap at all, despite the fact that the swap partition exists and is active. Here's the output from procinfo (snipped for brevity

Re: scsi bus numbering

2001-04-02 Thread Justin T. Gibbs
>The intent is that all built in HBA drivers are >initialized _before_ the built in upper level >drivers (e.g. sd). To get the effect you describe >the driver init order seems to have been: > register ncr53c8xxx > register sd > register aic7xxx # too late ... It is bogus that this stuff

Re: Cool Road Runner (was CFA as Ide.)

2001-04-02 Thread Adrian Cox
Richard A. Smith wrote: > IIRC SanDisk was the original people to come out with IDE CFA and everyone else just >copied > them. I have the SanDisk datasheets that I can send you if you need them to verify >stuff. I > believe that if you verify it with the SanDisk then all the other MFG's sh

Re: Cool Road Runner (was CFA as Ide.)

2001-04-02 Thread Richard A. Smith
On Mon, 23 Apr 2001 21:57:12 -0700 (PDT), Andre Hedrick wrote: >> OK can we just have a technical discussion? >Please, lets do, I am tired of the battles Me three... I am much better at tech than flames although I seemed to have missed all the flambe. BTW... why is this thread called Road Ru

Memory maps

2001-04-02 Thread Fu-hau Hsu
Dear freinds: I have following questions about memory maps. I appreciate any suggestion. Q. (1)When a process is running, how can I get the range of data, stack, and code segments, say the stack segment is from address 0x. to 0x. so do data segments and code segments?

Re: bug database braindump from the kernel summit

2001-04-02 Thread Kai Henningsen
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Ben Ford) wrote on 01.04.01 in <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Why not have the /proc/config option but instead of being plain text, > make it binary with a userspace app that can interpret it? > > It could have a signature as to kernel version + patches and the rest > would be just bi

Re: Larger dev_t

2001-04-02 Thread Andries . Brouwer
OK - everybody back from San Jose - pity I couldnt come - and it is no longer April 1st, so we can continue quarreling a little. Interesting that where I had divided stuff in the trivial part, the interesting part and the lot-of-work part we already start fighting on the trivial part. Maybe it is

Re: [reiserfs-list] Re: ReiserFS - corrupted files (2.4.3)

2001-04-02 Thread Hans Reiser
monstr will debug this and elena will enter it into our buglist file. Hans Rasmus Bøg Hansen wrote: > > Hello > > I am getting musch the same types of corruption. I am on a K6-2 with a > 30Gb IBM HD and 256Mb RAM running vanilla 2.4.3 with iptables and squid > caching proxy. The problems arise

Re: Larger dev_t

2001-04-02 Thread Alan Cox
> So change them as well for a new distribution. What's there problem. > There isn't anything out there you can't do by hand. > Fortunately so! So users cannot go back and forward between new and old kernels. Very good. Try explaining that to serious production -users- of a system and see how it

Re: [PATCH for 2.5] preemptible kernel

2001-04-02 Thread george anzinger
Nigel Gamble wrote: > > On Sat, 31 Mar 2001, george anzinger wrote: > > I think this should be: > > if (p->has_cpu || p->state & TASK_PREEMPTED)) { > > to catch tasks that were preempted with other states. > > But the other states are all part of the state change that happens at

[WARNING] Please don't send kernel patches through Hotmail

2001-04-02 Thread Aaron Lehmann
- Forwarded message from Bryan-TheBS-Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> - From: Bryan-TheBS-Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED],[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: [Copyright/Licensing] "Dual-copyright/licensing" of your IP withOUT your permission Date: 2001 April 02 [Copyright/Licensing] "Dual-copyright/licensing"

Re: [RFC] sane access to per-fs metadata (was Re: [PATCH] Documentation/ioctl-number.txt)

2001-04-02 Thread Chip Salzenberg
According to [EMAIL PROTECTED]: >[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Chip Salzenberg) wrote: >>Why not have a kernel thread and use standard RPC techniques like >>sockets? Then you'd not have to invent anything unimportant like >>Yet Another IPC Technique. > >kerneld (kmod's late unlamented predecessor) used to u

Re: Linux 2.4.2-ac27

2001-04-02 Thread Alan Cox
> This is consistent throughout all 2.4.x at least. From your comment I've > learnt SuS v2 requires -ENODEV for the len=0 case. While this would it needs -ENODEV for all cases where you mmap a file which does not support mmap operations. A 0 length mmap could return the address, EINVAL and maybe

Re: bug database braindump from the kernel summit

2001-04-02 Thread Oliver Xymoron
On Sun, 1 Apr 2001, Jeff Garzik wrote: > On Sun, 1 Apr 2001, David Lang wrote: > > if we want to get the .config as part of the report then we need to make > > it part of the kernel in some standard way (the old /proc/config flamewar) > > it's difficult enough sometimes for the sysadmin of a box

Re: RFC: configuring net interfaces

2001-04-02 Thread Krzysztof Halasa
Jeff Garzik <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > First of all, you as the HDLC subsystem maintainer have a lot more > control over what goes into include/linux/hdlc.h than > include/linux/sockios.h. New SIOC ioctls should not be added on a > whim, but after examination of the issues involved. Righ

Re: aic7xxx TCQ settings?

2001-04-02 Thread Justin T. Gibbs
> >I'm using 2.4.3 vanilla with aic7xxx (aic7880 onboard) >I set the max # of TCQ commands per device setting to 50..what's a really >good setting for this, just the default of 253? Depends on the device. The aic7xxx driver will determine the maximum number of tags that a particular device can h

No Subject

2001-04-02 Thread Jakob Kemi
Hi all. Ok, maybe this isn't the right list for this question. In 2.2.x the parport_probe module extracted the ieee1284 device id correctly and added to the proc fs. However this doesn't seem to work for me in 2.4.x I only have one device to test it on and since I know there have been some diffic

aic7xxx TCQ settings?

2001-04-02 Thread Admin Mailing Lists
I'm using 2.4.3 vanilla with aic7xxx (aic7880 onboard) I set the max # of TCQ commands per device setting to 50..what's a really good setting for this, just the default of 253? In /proc/scsi/aic7xxx/0 i see for my drives these numbers: Commands Queued 14 Commands Active 0

Re: CFA Membership (Re: Cool Road Runner)

2001-04-02 Thread Padraig Brady
Andre Hedrick wrote: > On Mon, 2 Apr 2001, Padraig Brady wrote: > >> I'm not sure I have. They seem to following the latest spec I >> downloaded from www.compactflash.org > > I am not paying $2500-$5000 annual for membership sorry. > It is bad enough that I burn $800 for T13 plus about $1000 p

User guide

2001-04-02 Thread sympa-request
SYMPA -- Systeme de Multi-Postage Automatique (Automatic Mailing System) User's Guide SYMPA is an electronic mailing-list manager that automates list management functions such as subscriptions, moderation, and archive managem

Re: [lkml]Re: [lkml]Re: Matrox G400 Dualhead

2001-04-02 Thread thunder7
On Sun, Apr 01, 2001 at 07:40:36AM -0700, James Simmons wrote: > > >If I use X on an accelerated, normal Matrox screen, my monitor complains > >on exit: > > > >fH 49.4 KHz, fV 39.8 Hz > > > >(and it doesn't sync at 40 Hz vertical refresh :-( ). > > > >This is _half_ of the normal 80 Hz. Using fbs

Re: ReiserFS - corrupted files (2.4.3)

2001-04-02 Thread Nicholas Petreley
Robert, That output below is part of the results from reiserfsck /dev/hde5 (obviously /dev/hde5 is the partition that I checked). I'm using reiserfsprogs version 3.x.0i. You can run reiserfsck without any arguments and it can't do any harm to your partition - it's read-only. I tried "rei

Re: [PATCH] drivers/isdn/hisax/bkm_a8.c, kernel 2.4.2 (Scitel Quadro)

2001-04-02 Thread Roland Klabunde
Hi all, great to hear, that the fix solves the problem. Is there any information about, whether and when the fix will migrate into the isdn4l source pool? Roland - Original Message - From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; <[EMAI

Re: VIA 82C686 Audio Codec: Clicks

2001-04-02 Thread Jani Monoses
You could try the ALSA driver if you're certain it is not a hw problem.It works better here than the one in the kernel. On Sun, 1 Apr 2001, Harald Dunkel wrote: > Hi folks, > > Has anybody an idea how to get rid of the annoying clicks of the > VIA 82C686 audio codec? Using xmms (just as an ex

Re: Matrox G400 Dualhead

2001-04-02 Thread Petr Vandrovec
mythos wrote: > > I solved the problem with dualhead!!! > Second head from 2.4.3 is /dev/fb2 rather than /dev/fb1. > Just had to look to the messages. And who is /dev/fb1? You must change your configuration... > P.S. Petr on the second head if I put mouse in the right-corner at the > bottom of

CFA Membership (Re: Cool Road Runner)

2001-04-02 Thread Andre Hedrick
On Mon, 2 Apr 2001, Padraig Brady wrote: > I'm not sure I have. They seem to following the latest spec I > downloaded from www.compactflash.org I am not paying $2500-$5000 annual for membership sorry. It is bad enough that I burn $800 for T13 plus about $1000 per meeting. $7000 is my personal fi

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