Re: 2.2.[16,17pre20] VM do_try_to_free_pages

2000-08-31 Thread Jon Burgess
When trying to compile SimGear-0.0.12 under 2.2.16, with gcc-2.95.2, I could (quite reproducibly) cause an unbounded number of: VM: do_try_to_free_pages failed for x where x was cc1plus, kswapd, syslogd, etc. Under 2.2.17pre20, this still start to happen, but shortly thereafter the

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 occur.

Re: Serial Console

2000-12-05 Thread Jon Burgess
hat the flow control says. Perhaps there are some hardware differences in the configuration of the control signal pull-up/downs. Jon Burgess PLANET PROJECT will connect millions of people worldwide through the combined technology of 3Com and the Internet. Find out more and

Re: Dell Precision 330 (Pentium 4, i850 chipset, 3c905c)

2001-01-05 Thread Jon Burgess
What is the output of 'lspci -v'? If it says that the chip revision is '78' then this is one of the new 3C905CX (note the CX) NIC's or ASIC on the motherboard. I've seen a problem with the 3c59x.c driver and this chip, it can send packets but not receive any. The 3Com 3c90x-1.0.0i.tgz driver at

[Patch] oops with cs5530 using ide.2.2.17.all.20000904.patch (probably 2.4 as well)

2000-11-17 Thread Jon Burgess
When using Linux-2.2.17 + ide.2.2.17.all.2904.patch on a board with the CS5530, doing the following generates a kernel NULL dereference: pb-3com# cat /proc/ide/cs5530 Unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at virtual address 003c ... This is caused because the 'bmide_dev' in

Re: real-time file monitoring at the kernel level

2001-04-11 Thread Jon Burgess
I have never tried it myself but it looks like it might do what you want: http://oss.sgi.com/projects/fam/ fam and imon FAQ === What is fam? fam, the File Alteration Monitor, provides an API which applications can use to be notified when specific files or directories are

Re: [linux-dvb] Re: More than 2Gb problem (dvb related) ?

2007-04-27 Thread Jon Burgess
On Fri, 2007-04-27 at 22:46 +0200, Markus Rechberger wrote: just for the completeness, what does dmesg show up? You forgot to mention what device you have too... Markus On 4/27/07, Gregoire Favre [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello, I have a computer (mother Asus Commando) with 4x1Gb Ram.

Re: [linux-dvb] Re: More than 2Gb problem (dvb related) ?

2007-04-27 Thread Jon Burgess
On Fri, 2007-04-27 at 18:06 -0400, Lee Revell wrote: On 4/27/07, Jon Burgess [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Interesting - I see similar symptoms after upgrading my PC: * old PC was AMD Athlon 64 3000 w/ 2GB of RAM which had no issues * new PC is a Intel Core 2 Duo w/ 4GB of RAM and fails

[PATCH] Re: More than 2Gb problem (dvb related) ?

2007-04-28 Thread Jon Burgess
On Fri, 2007-04-27 at 18:06 -0400, Lee Revell wrote: On 4/27/07, Jon Burgess [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Interesting - I see similar symptoms after upgrading my PC: * old PC was AMD Athlon 64 3000 w/ 2GB of RAM which had no issues * new PC is a Intel Core 2 Duo w/ 4GB of RAM and fails

Re: [PATCH] Re: More than 2Gb problem (dvb related) ?

2007-04-28 Thread Jon Burgess
On Sat, 2007-04-28 at 18:17 +0100, Jon Burgess wrote: On Fri, 2007-04-27 at 18:06 -0400, Lee Revell wrote: On 4/27/07, Jon Burgess [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Interesting - I see similar symptoms after upgrading my PC: * old PC was AMD Athlon 64 3000 w/ 2GB of RAM which had no issues

Re: [PATCH] Re: More than 2Gb problem (dvb related) ?

2007-04-30 Thread Jon Burgess
On Mon, 2007-04-30 at 18:52 +0200, Gregoire Favre wrote: On Sat, Apr 28, 2007 at 09:14:37PM +0100, Jon Burgess wrote: While the above patch works, it seems the underlying causes is that vmalloc_32() is providing memory above 4Gb on x86-64 which is not what the driver expects. This same

Re: [PATCH] Re: More than 2Gb problem (dvb related) ?

2007-05-01 Thread Jon Burgess
On Tue, 2007-05-01 at 11:41 +0200, Gregoire Favre wrote: Hello again, just forgot this : ksymoops 2.4.11 on x86_64 2.6.21. Options used -V (default) -k /proc/ksyms (default) -l /proc/modules (default) -o /lib/modules/2.6.21/ (default) -m

Re: klogd is acting strange with 2.4

2001-01-30 Thread Jon Burgess
>> Before 2.2.18. Now I've tested with both >> 2.4.1-pre12 and 2.4.1. 2.4 kernel klogd is >> always using 99% cpu. What gives? >> > Can you try 2.4.0? Are you using the 3c59x ethernet driver? I've got the > same problem on one of my machines, (see message with subject "2.4.1-pre10 > ->

Re: 2.2.[16,17pre20] VM do_try_to_free_pages

2000-08-31 Thread Jon Burgess
> When trying to compile SimGear-0.0.12 under 2.2.16, with gcc-2.95.2, > I could (quite reproducibly) cause an unbounded number of: > > VM: do_try_to_free_pages failed for x > >where x was cc1plus, kswapd, syslogd, etc. > >Under 2.2.17pre20, this still start to happen, but shortly thereafter

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: Serial Console

2000-12-05 Thread Jon Burgess
tput is dumped to /dev/null if DCD is not asserted no matter what the flow control says. Perhaps there are some hardware differences in the configuration of the control signal pull-up/downs. Jon Burgess PLANET PROJECT will connect millions of people worldwide through the combined technology

Re: Serial Console

2000-12-05 Thread Jon Burgess
Yes it could be a modem on the line, so my comment about DCD is wrong, a comms program must be able to send AT commands to the modem when DCD is not asserted before the call is setup. I was being confused by the login getty which we run on the same serial port. This drops back to the login

Re: Dell Precision 330 (Pentium 4, i850 chipset, 3c905c)

2001-01-05 Thread Jon Burgess
What is the output of 'lspci -v'? If it says that the chip revision is '78' then this is one of the new 3C905CX (note the CX) NIC's or ASIC on the motherboard. I've seen a problem with the 3c59x.c driver and this chip, it can send packets but not receive any. The 3Com 3c90x-1.0.0i.tgz driver at

[Patch] oops with cs5530 using ide.2.2.17.all.20000904.patch (probably 2.4 as well)

2000-11-17 Thread Jon Burgess
When using Linux-2.2.17 + ide.2.2.17.all.2904.patch on a board with the CS5530, doing the following generates a kernel NULL dereference: pb-3com# cat /proc/ide/cs5530 Unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at virtual address 003c ... This is caused because the 'bmide_dev' in

Re: real-time file monitoring at the kernel level

2001-04-11 Thread Jon Burgess
I have never tried it myself but it looks like it might do what you want: http://oss.sgi.com/projects/fam/ fam and imon FAQ === What is fam? fam, the File Alteration Monitor, provides an API which applications can use to be notified when specific files or directories are

Re: [linux-dvb] Re: More than 2Gb problem (dvb related) ?

2007-04-27 Thread Jon Burgess
On Fri, 2007-04-27 at 22:46 +0200, Markus Rechberger wrote: > just for the completeness, what does dmesg show up? > You forgot to mention what device you have too... > > Markus > > On 4/27/07, Gregoire Favre <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hello, > > > > I have a computer (mother Asus Commando)

Re: [linux-dvb] Re: More than 2Gb problem (dvb related) ?

2007-04-27 Thread Jon Burgess
On Fri, 2007-04-27 at 18:06 -0400, Lee Revell wrote: > On 4/27/07, Jon Burgess <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Interesting - I see similar symptoms after upgrading my PC: > > * old PC was AMD Athlon 64 3000 w/ 2GB of RAM which had no issues > > * new PC is a Intel Core 2

[PATCH] Re: More than 2Gb problem (dvb related) ?

2007-04-28 Thread Jon Burgess
On Fri, 2007-04-27 at 18:06 -0400, Lee Revell wrote: > On 4/27/07, Jon Burgess <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Interesting - I see similar symptoms after upgrading my PC: > > * old PC was AMD Athlon 64 3000 w/ 2GB of RAM which had no issues > > * new PC is a Intel Core 2

Re: [PATCH] Re: More than 2Gb problem (dvb related) ?

2007-04-28 Thread Jon Burgess
On Sat, 2007-04-28 at 18:17 +0100, Jon Burgess wrote: > On Fri, 2007-04-27 at 18:06 -0400, Lee Revell wrote: > > On 4/27/07, Jon Burgess <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Interesting - I see similar symptoms after upgrading my PC: > > > * old PC was AMD Athlo

Re: [PATCH] Re: More than 2Gb problem (dvb related) ?

2007-04-30 Thread Jon Burgess
On Mon, 2007-04-30 at 18:52 +0200, Gregoire Favre wrote: > On Sat, Apr 28, 2007 at 09:14:37PM +0100, Jon Burgess wrote: > > > While the above patch works, it seems the underlying causes is that > > vmalloc_32() is providing memory above 4Gb on x86-64 which is not what >

Re: [PATCH] Re: More than 2Gb problem (dvb related) ?

2007-05-01 Thread Jon Burgess
On Tue, 2007-05-01 at 11:41 +0200, Gregoire Favre wrote: > Hello again, > > just forgot this : > > ksymoops 2.4.11 on x86_64 2.6.21. Options used > -V (default) > -k /proc/ksyms (default) > -l /proc/modules (default) > -o /lib/modules/2.6.21/ (default) > -m