Re: bugreporting script - second try

2001-01-11 Thread Rafael E. Herrera
Matthias Juchem wrote: http://www.brightice.de/src/bugreport.sh I have a suggestion, there is a kernel patch to add a config.gz entry in the /proc fs. It reflects the configuration used in building the running kernel, which may differ from the one you have in /usr/src/linux. It's part of the

Re: display problem with matroxfb

2001-01-24 Thread Rafael E. Herrera
f5ibh wrote: XF4.0.x should work reasonably well. Or you can run accelerated XF on mga: matroxfb is compatible with accelerated XF 3.3.x, and with accelerated XF 4.0.x WITHOUT enabled DRI (as DRI code reprograms hardware even if X are on background) (and 'Option "UseFBDev"' is required if

Kernel 2.4.3 and new aic7xxx

2001-03-05 Thread Rafael E. Herrera
This is just to report on a the behavior of this driver. I've a dual channel Adaptec 7895 controller. The adapter BIOS is configured to boot from devices in channel B. I boot from a disk connected to channel B and when the kernel loads the driver the disks from channel A are seen first,

Re: Kernel 2.4.3 and new aic7xxx

2001-03-06 Thread Rafael E. Herrera
"Justin T. Gibbs" wrote: Can you provide me with a dmesg from a boot with aic7xxx=verbose? I just tested this on a 3940AUW and the behavior was as expected. Perhaps you have a motherboard based controller that has no seeprom? I don't know how to detect flipped channels in that configuration

Re: Kernel 2.4.3 and new aic7xxx

2001-03-07 Thread Rafael E. Herrera
Aaron Tiensivu wrote: I suspect it's easier to just make the PCI layer call the probe function in that order, instead of working around it in your driver. Jeff? Would 'pci=reverse' do the trick already? Get a unknown option warning message when using that. -- Rafael - To

Re: scsi_scan problem.

2001-03-16 Thread Rafael E. Herrera
Patrick Mansfield wrote: If your testing Doug's patch, it might be a good idea to run with/without your adapter built as a module, as the kernel is inconsistent in its setting of "online" in scsi.c: it sets online TRUE after an attach in scsi_register_device_module(), but leaves online as

Re: scsi_scan problem.

2001-03-16 Thread Rafael E. Herrera
I applied the first hunk to version 2.4.3-pre4, as by email with Doug. The output for the scsi devices follows and is identical with and without the patch. Maybe someone can explain the meaning of the illegal requests at the end. Nevertheless, I can use the drive fine. Loading module aic7xxx_old

Re: [sligthly OT] serial console on palm

2001-03-20 Thread Rafael E. Herrera
It was posted by Christian Ehrhardt. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, Feb 12, 2001 at 05:32:39PM +0100, I wrote: I wrote a little palm app some time ago that can capture serial console output. If anyone is interested I'll build a tar ball with sources and binary. It is now availiable

Re: AHA-154X/1535 not recognized any more

2001-04-18 Thread Rafael E. Herrera
Markus Schaber wrote: Hello, On Wed, 18 Apr 2001, Alan Cox wrote: Ok if you use the old style usermode isapnp tools to configure it and then force aha1542 to use the right io, irq to find it does it then work ? Well, as this device is already configured by the bios, I just tried

Re: [ANNOUNCE] Animated framebuffer logo for 2.4.1

2001-02-12 Thread Rafael E. Herrera
I've seen in recently purchased computers that the very initial messages, like memory test, are masked by some kind of picture or logo (example are the HP kayaks). They display a message saying that pressing ESC or some function key displays the messages. Why not having the same in this pretty

Re: [ANNOUNCE] Animated framebuffer logo for 2.4.1

2001-02-12 Thread Rafael E. Herrera
Not good enough in isolation. Suppose the kernel freezes at a very early stage, such as while detecting the CPU(s) or PCI bridge - are your geeky reaction times fast enough to dismiss the logo in time to see the relevant messages? I agree with others that this should be a boot option - and

Boot fails in Avanti AS 400 4/233, include boot log and sysrq dump

2001-02-17 Thread Rafael E. Herrera
Hello, I compiled both kernel versions 2.4.2-pre4 and 2.4.1-ac18 on my Alpha Station 400 4/233 and both stop when they are start init. I include the boot log and sysrq dumps for 2.4.1-ac18, I passed init=/bin/bash as kernel parameter. I'd appreciate any help. Thanks. -- Rafael Linux

Re: Recent problems with APM and XFree86-4.0.1

2001-04-01 Thread Rafael E. Herrera
Jamie Lokier wrote: I've noticed other changes in suspend/resume. I'm running Gnome now, and it insists on running xscreensaver whenever I close the lid. Somehow it is noticing the APM event, because this is very consistent. Does anyone know how to disable this? The setting "No

Re: [PATCH] matroxfb and mga XF4 driver coexistence...

2001-04-12 Thread Rafael E. Herrera
Petr Vandrovec wrote: On 11 Apr 01 at 14:55, Chris Meadors wrote: I would like to see this fixed as much as anyone (even complained to the XFree people from SuSE last ALS). But I don't think the fix should be in the kernel. XF4 needs to be fixed. The problem doesn't just effect the

Sudden scsi timeouts on main disk.

2001-04-12 Thread Rafael E. Herrera
Hi, While playing a dvd I was plugging a headphone and my machine froze and had to reset. The machine was running 2.4.3 with the new aha7xxx driver. I booted back into 2.2.18. It took a while to get pass the scsi BIOS. It finally detected all the drives, but lilo would not find the scsi disk

Re: bugreporting script - second try

2001-01-11 Thread Rafael E. Herrera
Matthias Juchem wrote: > http://www.brightice.de/src/bugreport.sh I have a suggestion, there is a kernel patch to add a config.gz entry in the /proc fs. It reflects the configuration used in building the running kernel, which may differ from the one you have in /usr/src/linux. It's part of the

Re: display problem with matroxfb

2001-01-24 Thread Rafael E. Herrera
f5ibh wrote: > > XF4.0.x should work reasonably well. Or you can run accelerated XF on mga: > > matroxfb is compatible with accelerated XF 3.3.x, and with accelerated > > XF 4.0.x WITHOUT enabled DRI (as DRI code reprograms hardware even if > > X are on background) (and 'Option "UseFBDev"' is

Re: AHA-154X/1535 not recognized any more

2001-04-18 Thread Rafael E. Herrera
Markus Schaber wrote: > > Hello, > > On Wed, 18 Apr 2001, Alan Cox wrote: > > > Ok if you use the old style usermode isapnp tools to configure it and then > > force aha1542 to use the right io, irq to find it does it then work ? > > Well, as this device is already configured by the bios, I

Kernel 2.4.3 and new aic7xxx

2001-03-05 Thread Rafael E. Herrera
This is just to report on a the behavior of this driver. I've a dual channel Adaptec 7895 controller. The adapter BIOS is configured to boot from devices in channel B. I boot from a disk connected to channel B and when the kernel loads the driver the disks from channel A are seen first,

Re: Kernel 2.4.3 and new aic7xxx

2001-03-06 Thread Rafael E. Herrera
"Justin T. Gibbs" wrote: > Can you provide me with a dmesg from a boot with aic7xxx=verbose? > I just tested this on a 3940AUW and the behavior was as expected. > Perhaps you have a motherboard based controller that has no seeprom? > I don't know how to detect flipped channels in that

Re: Kernel 2.4.3 and new aic7xxx

2001-03-07 Thread Rafael E. Herrera
Aaron Tiensivu wrote: > > > I suspect it's easier to just make the PCI layer call the probe function > > in that order, instead of working around it in your driver. Jeff? > > Would 'pci=reverse' do the trick already? Get a unknown option warning message when using that. -- Rafael - To

Re: scsi_scan problem.

2001-03-16 Thread Rafael E. Herrera
Patrick Mansfield wrote: > > If your testing Doug's patch, it might be a good idea to run with/without > your adapter built as a module, as the kernel is inconsistent in its setting > of "online" in scsi.c: it sets online TRUE after an attach in > scsi_register_device_module(), but leaves online

Re: scsi_scan problem.

2001-03-16 Thread Rafael E. Herrera
I applied the first hunk to version 2.4.3-pre4, as by email with Doug. The output for the scsi devices follows and is identical with and without the patch. Maybe someone can explain the meaning of the illegal requests at the end. Nevertheless, I can use the drive fine. Loading module aic7xxx_old

Re: [sligthly OT] serial console on palm

2001-03-20 Thread Rafael E. Herrera
It was posted by Christian Ehrhardt. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > On Mon, Feb 12, 2001 at 05:32:39PM +0100, I wrote: > > I wrote a little palm app some time ago that can capture serial > > console output. If anyone is interested I'll build a tar ball with > > sources and binary. > > It is now

Re: [OT] Re: Matrox G450 problems with 2.4.0 and xfree

2001-02-06 Thread Rafael E. Herrera
"Mike A. Harris" wrote: > > If anyone has open source g450 patches against stock 4.0.2 that > get the thing to work at all, _please_ send me unified diffs, and > I will put them into my next build. I've yet to have my g450 do > anything but turn off my monitor, although a handful of people >

Re: [ANNOUNCE] Animated framebuffer logo for 2.4.1

2001-02-12 Thread Rafael E. Herrera
I've seen in recently purchased computers that the very initial messages, like memory test, are masked by some kind of picture or logo (example are the HP kayaks). They display a message saying that pressing ESC or some function key displays the messages. Why not having the same in this pretty

Re: [ANNOUNCE] Animated framebuffer logo for 2.4.1

2001-02-12 Thread Rafael E. Herrera
> Not good enough in isolation. Suppose the kernel freezes at a very early > stage, such as while detecting the CPU(s) or PCI bridge - are your geeky > reaction times fast enough to dismiss the logo in time to see the relevant > messages? I agree with others that this should be a boot option -

Boot fails in Avanti AS 400 4/233, include boot log and sysrq dump

2001-02-17 Thread Rafael E. Herrera
Hello, I compiled both kernel versions 2.4.2-pre4 and 2.4.1-ac18 on my Alpha Station 400 4/233 and both stop when they are start init. I include the boot log and sysrq dumps for 2.4.1-ac18, I passed init=/bin/bash as kernel parameter. I'd appreciate any help. Thanks. -- Rafael Linux

Re: Matrox G400 Dualhead

2001-03-30 Thread Rafael E. Herrera
J Brook wrote: > > >With 2.4.2 it was working just fine. > > I have also noticed problems with the 2.4.3 release. I have a G450 > 32Mb, that I use in single-head mode. The console framebuffer runs > fine at boot time, but when I load X (4.0.3 compiled with Matrox HAL > library) and then return

Re: Recent problems with APM and XFree86-4.0.1

2001-04-01 Thread Rafael E. Herrera
Jamie Lokier wrote: > > I've noticed other changes in suspend/resume. I'm running Gnome now, > and it insists on running xscreensaver whenever I close the lid. > Somehow it is noticing the APM event, because this is very consistent. > Does anyone know how to disable this? The setting "No

Re: [PATCH] matroxfb and mga XF4 driver coexistence...

2001-04-12 Thread Rafael E. Herrera
Petr Vandrovec wrote: > > On 11 Apr 01 at 14:55, Chris Meadors wrote: > > > > I would like to see this fixed as much as anyone (even complained to the > > XFree people from SuSE last ALS). But I don't think the fix should be in > > the kernel. XF4 needs to be fixed. The problem doesn't just

Sudden scsi timeouts on main disk.

2001-04-12 Thread Rafael E. Herrera
Hi, While playing a dvd I was plugging a headphone and my machine froze and had to reset. The machine was running 2.4.3 with the new aha7xxx driver. I booted back into 2.2.18. It took a while to get pass the scsi BIOS. It finally detected all the drives, but lilo would not find the scsi disk