well, i know there's a problem with the via apollo pro 133a chipset,
smp, apic, and usb. it looks like the usb driver (usb-uhci) doesn't
receive any interrupts if apic is enabled. if you disable apic from the
lilo prompt with "noapic", then it'll all work (of course, without
apic).
according
uot; thing is.
Ok, I want to see what people have. ANYBODY who has a SiS chipset, please
take 5 seconds to do this as root (yes, you need to be root):
dump_pirq | mail -s "dump_pirq" [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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no change.
any ideas?
any more information i can provide to help?
thanks,
pete
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oh, btw, i also tried an asus p2b-ds mobo with the intel bx chipset with
the same results.
pete
On Mon, 09 Oct 2000, Pete Toscano wrote:
hello,
i haven't been on lkml since vger died, but just subscribed and looked
at the archives and was unable to find anything on this...
i'm running
46PM -0400, Pete Toscano wrote:
any more information i can provide to help?
Yes:
What kind of timeout errors are you seeing? Kernel debug logs would be
helpful.
What devices are you trying to use?
What is your .config file?
What is your BIOS setting for MPS (if it's 1.4, plea
Hello,
I've been experiencing some strange lock ups and I hope someone can
help. I don't remember exactly when they started, but I know it was
happening around the release of 2.4.0, possibly earlier with the test
2.4.0 kernels too. Around 2.4.0 time, I started patching in KDB to help
find the
Hello,
I asked here about a week ago for help with debugging a random lock I've
been experiencing. With the help of Mr. Owens, I seem to have gotten a
bit further. (Long winded way of saying, "Sorry about the messy
looking, clueless debugging.")
I'm running 2.4.2 + KDB 1.8 on my SMP machine
Hello,
I'm running 2.4.2 with KDB patch on an SMP system. I have an Adaptec
2940 SCSI card that my CD burner is connected to. When this happened, I
was not using the CD at all. This is on a Tyan Tiger 133 motherboard
(with the Via Apollo Pro 133a chipset). I'm running with "noapic" due
to
Well, I can't speak for the consequences of noapic (I've wondered as
much myself), but I know that there's been a problem with SMP 2.4
kernels (even the 2.4 test kernels) and USB running on VIA chipsets for
a while now. I'm told by the linux-usb maintainers that it's a problem
with the PCI IRQ
On Tue, 13 Mar 2001, Greg KH wrote:
On Tue, Mar 13, 2001 at 12:25:13AM -0500, Pete Toscano wrote:
Well, I can't speak for the consequences of noapic (I've wondered as
much myself), but I know that there's been a problem with SMP 2.4
kernels (even the 2.4 test kernels) and USB running
On Wed, 14 Mar 2001, Juha Saarinen wrote:
Greg,
:: It seems that the APIC on this motherboard does not have most of the
:: pins connected, so that even if we could get the USB interrupt to work
:: properly (which we couldn't) there would be no benefit to run in APIC
:: mode. I was
I use my Palm VX as a serial console on Linux, OpenBSD, FreeBSD, and
Solaris. Just get a serial cable for your unit and some console program
such as pTelnet. The rest is quite simple. If you find something
different than pTelnet for console, please let me know as I find it
crashes too much.
they do lots of disk activity
in test12?
Yes, I've had some complete freezes (nothing working at all) in
test12-pre8 and test12. They can be triggered by e.g. Netscape.
test12-pre7 seems to be stable.
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OS setting for MSR?
And how about the contents of /proc/interrupts?
This is a case of when the usb code isn't getting the hardware interrupt
delivered properly.
thanks,
greg k-h
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at virtual address
3030386e
is there any further info i can provide? would the test11 oops help
too?
is it not bad enough that i spent the whole day frustrated, working with
this system? but then the computer had to keep making faces at me,
mocking me. *sigh* =;]
pete
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way
around?
thanks,
pete
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, 13 Dec 2000, Pete Toscano wrote:
On Wed, 13 Dec 2000, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hello!
0. whenever i ping6 the loopback interface (::1/128), all echo requests
seem to be dropped and i get no echo replies. is this correct?
Your guess? 8) Of course, it is incorrect. I even have
dereference
tsk-{mm,active_mm}-context = 05c9
tsk-{mm,active_mm}-pgd = f80013789000
thanks,
pete
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tion
about my system that could help squash this bug. it's a problem that
quite a few people on the linux-usb list are complaining about (all, it
seems, have this via chipset). please let me know if there's any more
info i can provide, i'm more than happy to help.
thanks,
pete
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might help solve this one, please let me know and i'll be more than
happy to oblige.
thanks,
pete
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del" it, i get "SIOCDIFADDR: Invalid argument". i've tried to del with
and without the /prefixlen and neither has worked.
thanks,
pete
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I had a similar problem with this yesterday. Try moving your .config
file to a safe place, making mrproper, then moving your .config back and
rebuilding. I did this and all was well.
HTH,
pete
On Wed, 20 Jun 2001, Ted Gervais wrote:
Wondering something..
I ran insmod to bring up
Hello,
I'm still looking into this, but has anybody else seen this problem?
When I do anything (print to it, query its ink levels with escputil,
etc.) with my Epson 870 while it's hooked to my computer via USB, the
whole machine locks hard. If I change the connection over to a printer
cable on
I think I've seen this same problem, at least with regards to USB
printing. Yesterday, I traced the problem down to a patch to usb-uhci.c
in the transition from 2.4.3 to 2.4.4. The problem persists today. A
work around for this problem is to use the alternate UHCI driver
(uhci.o).
What
hmmm, *remembers back to lwe* maybe linus would be able to say if
there's been a change... i seem to recall he was surprised by this...
=;]
pete
On Mon, 05 Feb 2001, Pat Verner wrote:
Has there been a change in the definition of "BogoMips"?
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s, a quick search on
the xfree Xpert mailing list reveals this:
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hmmm... I've been trying to play with GRUB on my 2.4.2-pre4 system. For
safety's sake, I wanted to make a bookdisk with mkbootdisk. After
reading this, I see now why mkbootdisk was locking in the D state with
the loop mounted... Would this also explain not being able to seek
forward while
Excellent! Thanks, that worked.
pete
On Sat, 17 Feb 2001, Thomas Molina wrote:
On Sat, 17 Feb 2001, Pete Toscano wrote:
reading this, I see now why mkbootdisk was locking in the D state with
the loop mounted... Would this also explain not being able to seek
forward while writing
Oh, I realize this. I don't mind and even expect the occational crash
right now in the 2.4.x series, but the frequency of these crashes fall
into the "frequent" category. I know that if I want a much more stable
system, I should go back to 2.2.19, but I'd prefer to stick it out with
2.4.x and
On Fri, 13 Apr 2001, Scott Prader wrote:
one of the problems i've been having so far with the 2.4.3 series is the
fact that USB appears to be futzed. It just doesn't want to work right.
Also, I compile a lot of things as modules and I've been getting lots of
unresolved symbols and hence
one.
Can anybody look into this or give me a good brain dump on how I can fix
it?
Thanks,
pete
On Fri, 06 Jul 2001, Pete Toscano wrote:
I think I've seen this same problem, at least with regards to USB
printing. Yesterday, I traced the problem down to a patch to usb-uhci.c
in the transition
well, i know there's a problem with the via apollo pro 133a chipset,
smp, apic, and usb. it looks like the usb driver (usb-uhci) doesn't
receive any interrupts if apic is enabled. if you disable apic from the
lilo prompt with "noapic", then it'll all work (of course, without
apic).
according
same chipset, it's just that we don't
> know exactly what that "same" thing is.
>
> Ok, I want to see what people have. ANYBODY who has a SiS chipset, please
> take 5 seconds to do this as root (yes, you need to be root):
>
> dump_pirq | mail -s "dump_pi
Hello,
I've been experiencing some strange lock ups and I hope someone can
help. I don't remember exactly when they started, but I know it was
happening around the release of 2.4.0, possibly earlier with the test
2.4.0 kernels too. Around 2.4.0 time, I started patching in KDB to help
find the
Hello,
I asked here about a week ago for help with debugging a random lock I've
been experiencing. With the help of Mr. Owens, I seem to have gotten a
bit further. (Long winded way of saying, "Sorry about the messy
looking, clueless debugging.")
I'm running 2.4.2 + KDB 1.8 on my SMP machine
Hello,
I'm running 2.4.2 with KDB patch on an SMP system. I have an Adaptec
2940 SCSI card that my CD burner is connected to. When this happened, I
was not using the CD at all. This is on a Tyan Tiger 133 motherboard
(with the Via Apollo Pro 133a chipset). I'm running with "noapic" due
to
Well, I can't speak for the consequences of noapic (I've wondered as
much myself), but I know that there's been a problem with SMP 2.4
kernels (even the 2.4 test kernels) and USB running on VIA chipsets for
a while now. I'm told by the linux-usb maintainers that it's a problem
with the PCI IRQ
On Tue, 13 Mar 2001, Greg KH wrote:
> On Tue, Mar 13, 2001 at 12:25:13AM -0500, Pete Toscano wrote:
> > Well, I can't speak for the consequences of noapic (I've wondered as
> > much myself), but I know that there's been a problem with SMP 2.4
> > kernels (even the 2.4
On Wed, 14 Mar 2001, Juha Saarinen wrote:
> Greg,
>
> :: It seems that the APIC on this motherboard does not have most of the
> :: pins connected, so that even if we could get the USB interrupt to work
> :: properly (which we couldn't) there would be no benefit to run in APIC
> :: mode. I
I use my Palm VX as a serial console on Linux, OpenBSD, FreeBSD, and
Solaris. Just get a serial cable for your unit and some console program
such as pTelnet. The rest is quite simple. If you find something
different than pTelnet for console, please let me know as I find it
crashes too much.
I had a similar problem with this yesterday. Try moving your .config
file to a safe place, making mrproper, then moving your .config back and
rebuilding. I did this and all was well.
HTH,
pete
On Wed, 20 Jun 2001, Ted Gervais wrote:
> Wondering something..
> I ran insmod to bring up
Hello,
I'm still looking into this, but has anybody else seen this problem?
When I do anything (print to it, query its ink levels with escputil,
etc.) with my Epson 870 while it's hooked to my computer via USB, the
whole machine locks hard. If I change the connection over to a printer
cable on
I think I've seen this same problem, at least with regards to USB
printing. Yesterday, I traced the problem down to a patch to usb-uhci.c
in the transition from 2.4.3 to 2.4.4. The problem persists today. A
work around for this problem is to use the alternate UHCI driver
(uhci.o).
What
one.
Can anybody look into this or give me a good brain dump on how I can fix
it?
Thanks,
pete
On Fri, 06 Jul 2001, Pete Toscano wrote:
> I think I've seen this same problem, at least with regards to USB
> printing. Yesterday, I traced the problem down to a patch to usb-
ny one else experiencing problems when they do lots of disk activity
> > > in test12?
> > >
> > Yes, I've had some complete freezes (nothing working at all) in
> > test12-pre8 and test12. They can be triggered by e.g. Netscape.
> > test12-pre7 seems to be stable.
--
USB device not accepting new address (error=-110)
>
> What's your BIOS setting for MSR?
>
> And how about the contents of /proc/interrupts?
>
> This is a case of when the usb code isn't getting the hardware interrupt
> delivered properly.
>
> thanks,
>
> greg k
not bad enough that i spent the whole day frustrated, working with
this system? but then the computer had to keep making faces at me,
mocking me. *sigh* =;]
pete
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the openbsd box doesn't
respond to the linux box's n.s. until it starts looking at all the
packets in promisc mode, right?
thanks,
pete
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e source mac address set to its mac address
and the destination mac address set to 0:0:0:0:0:0 and not the other way
around?
thanks,
pete
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, 13 Dec 2000, Pete Toscano wrote:
>
> On Wed, 13 Dec 2000, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>
> > Hello!
> >
> > > 0. whenever i ping6 the loopback interface (::1/128), all echo requests
> > > seem to be dropped and i get no echo replies. is this co
__wake_up+120/220>
1c: 80 a6 00 19 cmp %i0, %i1
Code; 0043f744 <__wake_up+124/220>
20: 02 f6 ff cc unknown
Aiee, killing interrupt handler
Unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference
tsk->{mm,active_mm}->context = 05c9
tsk->{mm,active_mm}->p
no change.
any ideas?
any more information i can provide to help?
thanks,
pete
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oh, btw, i also tried an asus p2b-ds mobo with the intel bx chipset with
the same results.
pete
On Mon, 09 Oct 2000, Pete Toscano wrote:
> hello,
>
> i haven't been on lkml since vger died, but just subscribed and looked
> at the archives and was unable to find anything on this
36:46PM -0400, Pete Toscano wrote:
> > any more information i can provide to help?
>
> Yes:
> What kind of timeout errors are you seeing? Kernel debug logs would be
> helpful.
> What devices are you trying to use?
> What is your .config file?
> What is your BIOS sett
tion
about my system that could help squash this bug. it's a problem that
quite a few people on the linux-usb list are complaining about (all, it
seems, have this via chipset). please let me know if there's any more
info i can provide, i'm more than happy to help.
thanks,
pete
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more than willing to help test patches and provide any more info to
people working on this, but i lack the low-level knowledge to actually
fix it.
thanks,
pete
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s, but if there's something similar that you think
might help solve this one, please let me know and i'll be more than
happy to oblige.
thanks,
pete
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del" it, i get "SIOCDIFADDR: Invalid argument". i've tried to del with
and without the /prefixlen and neither has worked.
thanks,
pete
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hmmm, *remembers back to lwe* maybe linus would be able to say if
there's been a change... i seem to recall he was surprised by this...
=;]
pete
On Mon, 05 Feb 2001, Pat Verner wrote:
> Has there been a change in the definition of "BogoMips"?
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with 2.2 kernels, a quick search on
> the xfree Xpert mailing list reveals this:
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hmmm... I've been trying to play with GRUB on my 2.4.2-pre4 system. For
safety's sake, I wanted to make a bookdisk with mkbootdisk. After
reading this, I see now why mkbootdisk was locking in the D state with
the loop mounted... Would this also explain not being able to seek
forward while
Excellent! Thanks, that worked.
pete
On Sat, 17 Feb 2001, Thomas Molina wrote:
> On Sat, 17 Feb 2001, Pete Toscano wrote:
>
> > reading this, I see now why mkbootdisk was locking in the D state with
> > the loop mounted... Would this also explain not being able to seek
Hello,
I'm currently running 2.4.3-pre4. (I tried 2.4.3-pre6, but it wouldn't
boot. I'm about to try -pre7.) This seemed worse with 2.4.2, but it's
still a problem.
My system's about as stable as Crispin Glover after a week-long meth
binge. =8]
I'm running an SMP system (dual P3 600s)
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
Oh, I realize this. I don't mind and even expect the occational crash
right now in the 2.4.x series, but the frequency of these crashes fall
into the "frequent" category. I know that if I want a much more stable
system, I should go back to 2.2.19, but I'd prefer to stick it out with
2.4.x and
On Fri, 13 Apr 2001, Scott Prader wrote:
> one of the problems i've been having so far with the 2.4.3 series is the
> fact that USB appears to be futzed. It just doesn't want to work right.
> Also, I compile a lot of things as modules and I've been getting lots of
> unresolved symbols and hence
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