[OT] Re: test -please disregard

2001-05-11 Thread Vivek Dasmohapatra
On Fri, 11 May 2001, Matti Aarnio wrote: I have not recived mail from the list for more than a day just a test . I find the logic of these test - please disregard emails weird.. You definitely want list-owners attention, perhaps Postmasters... I believe the point is to establish

2.4.4-ac8 boot lockup

2001-05-13 Thread Vivek Dasmohapatra
Hi: Just tried to boot 2.4.4-ac8 on my thinkpad: I have an eepro100 ethernet card, which works fine under 2.4.3-ac14 and 2.4.4 - when I tried 2.4.4-ac8 things got as far as pump trying to bring up the eth0 interface, and the machine locked up - this happened a few times [I have not enabled

Re: Changes in Kernel

2001-05-22 Thread Vivek Dasmohapatra
On Tue, 22 May 2001, Alan Cox wrote: Are there specific reasons you cannot just use the existing ioctls to load fonts ? The console driver already supports Klingon for example. What are the issues - writing right - left ? No, but in some scripts [devanagari anyway] you only ever write a

Re: XFree4/gdm problems with 2.4.4-pre5

2001-04-21 Thread Vivek Dasmohapatra
On Sat, 21 Apr 2001, Meelis Roos wrote: The latest XFree4 (4.0.99.33 current cvs snapshot) and gdm 2.0-0.beta4-helix12 have problems with kernel 2.4.4-pre5. gdm has been the same version for long time, kerne and XFree have changed almost together. After logging the user out, no new gdm login

drivers/usb/hid.c

2001-04-25 Thread Vivek Dasmohapatra
Hi: Been battling w. my new Gravis joystick [kernel 2.4.3-ac5] - the driver wouldn't recognise it through the gameport, but would through the USB port [the stick came with a converter]. I did have one problem though: I had to apply the following one line patch to get the joystick hat to work

Re: About rebuild 2.4.x kernel to support SMP.

2001-04-26 Thread Vivek Dasmohapatra
On Thu, 26 Apr 2001, Yiping Chen wrote: My question is why the result of 'uname -r' is not 2.4.2-2smp , but 2.4.2-2 This is just the label as defined by the entries in the top-level Makefile, eg: VERSION = 2 PATCHLEVEL = 4 SUBLEVEL = 3 EXTRAVERSION = -ac5 Whether I forgot to do something?

RE: About rebuild 2.4.x kernel to support SMP.

2001-04-26 Thread Vivek Dasmohapatra
On Thu, 26 Apr 2001, Yiping Chen wrote: So, I have two question now, 1. how to determine whether your kernel support SMP? Somebody taugh me that you can type uname -r, but it seems not correct. Try: cat /proc/stat or cat /proc/cpuinfo /proc/cpuinfo should contain 1 processor

RE: About rebuild 2.4.x kernel to support SMP.

2001-04-26 Thread Vivek Dasmohapatra
On Fri, 27 Apr 2001, Yiping Chen wrote: Where the uname command extract the kernel version information(eg: 2.4.2-2smp or 2.2.16)? uname [the shell command] is a wrapper around the uname system call: man 1 uname man 2 uname I means from which file, or use which system call? From a strace

Re: Breakage of opl3sax cards since 2.4.3 (at least)

2001-05-01 Thread Vivek Dasmohapatra
On Tue, 1 May 2001, David Bronaugh wrote: opl3sax cards have refused to init in Linux with the in-kernel OSS driver since 2.4.3 at least (last I tested and worked was 2.4.1). I'm pretty sure this is a kernel issue as it's happened on 2 different machines, one of which I never goofed around

Re: Breakage of opl3sax cards since 2.4.3 (at least)

2001-05-02 Thread Vivek Dasmohapatra
On Wed, 2 May 2001, Russ Dill wrote: Actually, this occured at 2.4.2 I searched though the archives, and the only people who were able to get this resolved were those with a non-isapnp card (by added isapnp=0). However, I have an isapnp card and the driver doesn't think my card exists. If

Re: Breakage of opl3sax cards since 2.4.3 (at least)

2001-05-02 Thread Vivek Dasmohapatra
On Wed, 2 May 2001, Russ Dill wrote: On 02 May 2001 09:30:03 +0100, Vivek Dasmohapatra wrote: I have an isapnp opl3sax system [2.4.3-ac5] - the sound card initialises [cut] not quite, you seem to have a YMH0802, while I have a YMH0802, what error were you originally getting? ad1848

Re: Linux NAT questions- (kernel upgrade??)

2001-05-02 Thread Vivek Dasmohapatra
On Wed, 2 May 2001, Russell King wrote: On Wed, May 02, 2001 at 08:22:54AM -0400, Feng Xian wrote: i think iptables is a new feature in kernel 2.4.x(and you have to build it in the kernel or as module). you can use ipchains if you are running kernel with lower version, 2.2.something. I

Re: Break 2.4 VM in five easy steps

2001-06-06 Thread Vivek Dasmohapatra
On Wed, 6 Jun 2001, Dr S.M. Huen wrote: On Wed, 6 Jun 2001, Sean Hunter wrote: For large memory boxes, this is ridiculous. Should I have 8GB of swap? Do I understand you correctly? ECC grade SDRAM for your 8GB server costs £335 per GB as 512MB sticks even at today's silly prices

2.4.3 SMP aic7895 oops on boot

2001-04-01 Thread Vivek Dasmohapatra
Hi: I just tried upgrading to the 2.4.3 kernel [ currently running 2.2.18/Debian/woody ] and I got [or rather I should say get - it happens every time] a kernel panic on boot, just after the lines: [ Apologies if two message like this turn up - I sent the last one some time ago, and it

SMP aic7xxx 2.4.3 boot panic: Aiee, killing interrupt handler

2001-04-03 Thread Vivek Dasmohapatra
Has anyone else had this or a similar problem? I tried to upgrade to 2.4.3 from 2.2.18 recently, but I invariably got a kernel panic on boot - I ran the oops through ksymoops, and it seemed to indicate that the problem occurred while in the aic7xxx driver [although I may, of course, be

Re: aic7xxx and 2.4.3 failures

2001-04-09 Thread Vivek Dasmohapatra
On Mon, 9 Apr 2001, Alan Cox wrote: A typical startup with 6.1.9 proceeds like this... (6.1.10 hangs silently after emitting the scsi0 and scsi1 adapter summaries, maybe it is going through the same gyrations silently.) Try saying N to the AIC7xxx driver and Y to AIC7XXX_OLD and see

Re: Adaptec 2940 and Linux 2.2.19

2001-04-17 Thread Vivek Dasmohapatra
On Tue, 17 Apr 2001, Subba Rao wrote: I am trying to configure and install linux kernel 2.2.19. This system has a Adaptec 2940 SCSI adapter. I have enabled SCSI support kernel configuration I think you want the aic7xxx driver - istr the aha2940 cards are actually aic789x chipsets.

2.4.4-ac8 boot lockup

2001-05-13 Thread Vivek Dasmohapatra
Hi: Just tried to boot 2.4.4-ac8 on my thinkpad: I have an eepro100 ethernet card, which works fine under 2.4.3-ac14 and 2.4.4 - when I tried 2.4.4-ac8 things got as far as pump trying to bring up the eth0 interface, and the machine locked up - this happened a few times [I have not enabled

Re: Changes in Kernel

2001-05-22 Thread Vivek Dasmohapatra
On Tue, 22 May 2001, Alan Cox wrote: > Are there specific reasons you cannot just use the existing ioctls to load > fonts ? The console driver already supports Klingon for example. > > What are the issues - writing right - left ? No, but in some scripts [devanagari anyway] you only ever write

Re: Break 2.4 VM in five easy steps

2001-06-06 Thread Vivek Dasmohapatra
On Wed, 6 Jun 2001, Dr S.M. Huen wrote: > On Wed, 6 Jun 2001, Sean Hunter wrote: > > > > > For large memory boxes, this is ridiculous. Should I have 8GB of swap? > > > > Do I understand you correctly? > ECC grade SDRAM for your 8GB server costs £335 per GB as 512MB sticks even > at today's

Re: XFree4/gdm problems with 2.4.4-pre5

2001-04-21 Thread Vivek Dasmohapatra
On Sat, 21 Apr 2001, Meelis Roos wrote: > The latest XFree4 (4.0.99.33 current cvs snapshot) and gdm > 2.0-0.beta4-helix12 have problems with kernel 2.4.4-pre5. gdm has been > the same version for long time, kerne and XFree have changed almost > together. After logging the user out, no new gdm

drivers/usb/hid.c

2001-04-25 Thread Vivek Dasmohapatra
Hi: Been battling w. my new Gravis joystick [kernel 2.4.3-ac5] - the driver wouldn't recognise it through the gameport, but would through the USB port [the stick came with a converter]. I did have one problem though: I had to apply the following one line patch to get the joystick hat to work

Re: About rebuild 2.4.x kernel to support SMP.

2001-04-26 Thread Vivek Dasmohapatra
On Thu, 26 Apr 2001, Yiping Chen wrote: > My question is why the result of 'uname -r' is not "2.4.2-2smp" , but > "2.4.2-2" This is just the label as defined by the entries in the top-level Makefile, eg: VERSION = 2 PATCHLEVEL = 4 SUBLEVEL = 3 EXTRAVERSION = -ac5 > Whether I forgot to do

RE: About rebuild 2.4.x kernel to support SMP.

2001-04-26 Thread Vivek Dasmohapatra
On Thu, 26 Apr 2001, Yiping Chen wrote: > So, I have two question now, > 1. how to determine whether your kernel support SMP? > Somebody taugh me that you can type "uname -r", but it seems not > correct. Try: cat /proc/stat or cat /proc/cpuinfo /proc/cpuinfo should contain 1

RE: About rebuild 2.4.x kernel to support SMP.

2001-04-26 Thread Vivek Dasmohapatra
On Fri, 27 Apr 2001, Yiping Chen wrote: > Where the uname command extract the kernel version information(eg: > 2.4.2-2smp or 2.2.16)? uname [the shell command] is a wrapper around the uname system call: man 1 uname man 2 uname > I means from which file, or use which system call? >From a

Re: Breakage of opl3sax cards since 2.4.3 (at least)

2001-05-01 Thread Vivek Dasmohapatra
On Tue, 1 May 2001, David Bronaugh wrote: > opl3sax cards have refused to init in Linux with the in-kernel OSS driver > since 2.4.3 at least (last I tested and worked was 2.4.1). I'm pretty sure > this is a kernel issue as it's happened on 2 different machines, one of > which I never goofed

Re: Breakage of opl3sax cards since 2.4.3 (at least)

2001-05-02 Thread Vivek Dasmohapatra
On Wed, 2 May 2001, Russ Dill wrote: > Actually, this occured at 2.4.2 > > I searched though the archives, and the only people who were able to get > this resolved were those with a non-isapnp card (by added isapnp=0). > However, I have an isapnp card and the driver doesn't think my card >

Re: Breakage of opl3sax cards since 2.4.3 (at least)

2001-05-02 Thread Vivek Dasmohapatra
On Wed, 2 May 2001, Russ Dill wrote: > On 02 May 2001 09:30:03 +0100, Vivek Dasmohapatra wrote: > > > I have an isapnp opl3sax system [2.4.3-ac5] - the sound card > > initialises [cut] > not quite, you seem to have a YMH0802, while I have a YMH0802, what > error wer

Re: Linux NAT questions- (kernel upgrade??)

2001-05-02 Thread Vivek Dasmohapatra
On Wed, 2 May 2001, Russell King wrote: > On Wed, May 02, 2001 at 08:22:54AM -0400, Feng Xian wrote: > > i think iptables is a new feature in kernel 2.4.x(and you have to build > > it in the kernel or as module). you can use ipchains if > > you are running kernel with lower version,

[OT] Re: test -please disregard

2001-05-11 Thread Vivek Dasmohapatra
On Fri, 11 May 2001, Matti Aarnio wrote: > > I have not recived mail from the list for more than a day just a test > > . > > I find the logic of these "test - please disregard" emails weird.. > You definitely want list-owners attention, perhaps Postmasters... I believe the point is to

2.4.3 SMP aic7895 oops on boot

2001-04-01 Thread Vivek Dasmohapatra
Hi: I just tried upgrading to the 2.4.3 kernel [ currently running 2.2.18/Debian/woody ] and I got [or rather I should say get - it happens every time] a kernel panic on boot, just after the lines: [ Apologies if two message like this turn up - I sent the last one some time ago, and it

SMP aic7xxx 2.4.3 boot panic: Aiee, killing interrupt handler

2001-04-03 Thread Vivek Dasmohapatra
Has anyone else had this or a similar problem? I tried to upgrade to 2.4.3 from 2.2.18 recently, but I invariably got a kernel panic on boot - I ran the oops through ksymoops, and it seemed to indicate that the problem occurred while in the aic7xxx driver [although I may, of course, be

Re: aic7xxx and 2.4.3 failures

2001-04-09 Thread Vivek Dasmohapatra
On Mon, 9 Apr 2001, Alan Cox wrote: > > A typical startup with 6.1.9 proceeds like this... (6.1.10 hangs silently > > after emitting the scsi0 and scsi1 adapter summaries, maybe it is > > going through the same gyrations silently.) > > Try saying N to the AIC7xxx driver and Y to AIC7XXX_OLD

Re: Adaptec 2940 and Linux 2.2.19

2001-04-17 Thread Vivek Dasmohapatra
On Tue, 17 Apr 2001, Subba Rao wrote: > I am trying to configure and install linux kernel 2.2.19. This system has > a Adaptec 2940 SCSI adapter. I have enabled SCSI support kernel configuration I think you want the aic7xxx driver - istr the aha2940 cards are actually aic789x chipsets.