Re: The latest Microsoft FUD. This time from BillG, himself.

2001-06-20 Thread Alan Olsen
purposes... [EMAIL PROTECTED] | Note to AOL users: for a quick shortcut to reply Alan Olsen| to my mail, just hit the ctrl, alt and del keys. "All power is derived from the barrel of a gnu." - Mao Tse Stallman - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscri

Re: IP_ALIAS in 2.4.x gone?

2001-06-20 Thread Alan Olsen
not get confused by that. On Wed, 20 Jun 2001, Alan Olsen wrote: > > Has the IP_ALIAS functionality been replaced by something else in the > 2.4.x kernels? > > Documentation/networking/alias.txt seems to imply that it still does, but > the string IP_ALIAS does not exist anywhere

IP_ALIAS in 2.4.x gone?

2001-06-20 Thread Alan Olsen
nder 2.4.x? If the IP_ALIAS option is no longer valid, then the alias.txt doc should be changed to reflect the new option. Thanks! [EMAIL PROTECTED] | Note to AOL users: for a quick shortcut to reply Alan Olsen| to my mail, just hit the ctrl, alt and del keys. "All power is d

Re: obsolete code must die

2001-06-13 Thread Alan Olsen
looks pretty old.) I do agree that some parts need to be cut off from the main tree. Maybe this clean-up should be a part of 2.5? 2.7? 6.6.6? [EMAIL PROTECTED] | Note to AOL users: for a quick shortcut to reply Alan Olsen| to my mail, just hit the ctrl, alt and del keys. "All power

es1371 compile issue in 2.4.5-ac9

2001-06-06 Thread Alan Olsen
x5f71): undefined reference to `gameport_unregister_port' make: *** [vmlinux] Error 1 [EMAIL PROTECTED] | Note to AOL users: for a quick shortcut to reply Alan Olsen| to my mail, just hit the ctrl, alt and del keys. "In the future, everything will have its 15 minutes of blame.

Re: SCSI is as SCSI don't...

2001-06-05 Thread Alan Olsen
On Tue, 5 Jun 2001, Greg KH wrote: > On Tue, Jun 05, 2001 at 11:08:04PM -0700, Alan Olsen wrote: > > The basic effect is that the kernel will not load. Something breaks hard > > in it. > > Any clue on what the last thing printed to the kernel log is? > Hardware you

Re: SCSI is as SCSI don't...

2001-06-05 Thread Alan Olsen
> Sense Key: 0xB Aborted Command, Segment 0 > Sense Code: 0xBA Qual 0x00 (no write data - buffer empty) Fru 0x0 > Sense flags: Blk 0 (not valid) > > Ideas...? (At least it give me time to finish Linus's autobiography while > I am rebuilding things, but I am quickly running o

SCSI is as SCSI don't...

2001-06-05 Thread Alan Olsen
nus's autobiography while I am rebuilding things, but I am quickly running out of book. ]:> ) [EMAIL PROTECTED] | Note to AOL users: for a quick shortcut to reply Alan Olsen| to my mail, just hit the ctrl, alt and del keys. "In the future, everything will have its 15 minute

Re: Kernel Error Message

2001-04-22 Thread Alan Olsen
back-to-back capable. Master Capable. > Latency=32. > Min Gnt=2.Max Lat=4. > I/O at 0xf000 [0xf001]. > > > > > > > > best regards > > andreas > > - > To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kerne

Re: just a note

2001-04-11 Thread Alan Olsen
kernel ? > > :) I guess the devil is in the details... [EMAIL PROTECTED] | Note to AOL users: for a quick shortcut to reply Alan Olsen| to my mail, just hit the ctrl, alt and del keys. "In the future, everything will have its 15 minutes of blame." - To unsu

Re: How to compile linux 0.0.0.1?

2001-03-30 Thread Alan Olsen
On Sat, 31 Mar 2001, Dr S.M. Huen wrote: > On Fri, 30 Mar 2001, Alan Olsen wrote: > > > Yeah, but then you have to find the buffalo and that gets hard. (Actually > > Linus used a carabou, but those are even harder to find...) > > > I thought he used GNU?

Re: How to compile linux 0.0.0.1?

2001-03-30 Thread Alan Olsen
On Fri, 30 Mar 2001, David Relson wrote: > At 03:06 PM 3/30/01, Alan Olsen wrote: > >On Fri, 30 Mar 2001, Bruno Avila wrote: > > > > >I can't find this anywhere. What is the version of the tools to > > > compile linux kernel 0.0.0.1 (../Historic)?

Re: Matrox G400 Dualhead

2001-03-30 Thread Alan Olsen
IL PROTECTED])... What kernel version are you using? Kernel compile options? Version of XFree86? Have to looked for error messages in /var/log/XFree86.0.log? [EMAIL PROTECTED] | Note to AOL users: for a quick shortcut to reply Alan Olsen| to my mail, just hit the ctrl, alt and del keys.

Re: How to compile linux 0.0.0.1?

2001-03-30 Thread Alan Olsen
... [EMAIL PROTECTED] | Note to AOL users: for a quick shortcut to reply Alan Olsen| to my mail, just hit the ctrl, alt and del keys. "In the future, everything will have its 15 minutes of blame." - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel

Re: Where's Alan?

2001-03-22 Thread Alan Olsen
ince yesterday. His personal webpage hasn't > been updated since 13th of this month though... He found out what happens when you mix Penguin bars and Penguin Mints and he has been in detox since. ];> [EMAIL PROTECTED] | Note to AOL users: for a quick shortcut to reply Alan Olsen

Re: mysterious card

2001-03-21 Thread Alan Olsen
posed to do that! That sounds like the card that came with an old DOS debugger. The old 8088 PCs did not have a reset switch. This was so you could do hardware breaks when the whole system was locked up. I have one of those lying around somewhere... [EMAIL PROTECTED] | Note to AOL users: for a q

Re: Alert on LAN for Linux?

2001-03-13 Thread Alan Olsen
info.html > Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/ > [EMAIL PROTECTED] | Note to AOL users: for a quick shortcut to reply Alan Olsen| to my mail, just hit the ctrl, alt and del keys. "In the future, everything will have its 15 minutes of blame." - To unsu

OT: UCITA in Oregon

2001-03-01 Thread Alan Olsen
Sorry for the off-topic message, but this will be of interest to some here. There are a couple of bills being proposed in the Oregon legislature. One to stop UCITA and one to adopt it. (For those of you not familiar with UCITA, it is a nasty little provision being pushed that would make clic

Re: Linux stifles innovation...

2001-02-17 Thread Alan Olsen
On Sat, 17 Feb 2001, Dennis wrote: > At 07:01 PM 02/16/2001, Alan Olsen wrote: > >On Fri, 16 Feb 2001, Dennis wrote: > > > > > There is much truth to the concept, although Microsoft should not be ones > > > to comment on it as such. > > > >What trut

Re: Linux stifles innovation...

2001-02-16 Thread Alan Olsen
o make money off what you do for a living. I do object to you taring what I do as somehow damaging to the software industry as a whole. (Especially since the closed source software industry has been poaching off the open source community for years. Microsoft seeking enlightenment with WinXP is only a

RE: Linux stifles innovation...

2001-02-15 Thread Alan Olsen
all works. (Or if it does not, then the tools exist to make it work.) I wonder what kind of law they will try to push to outlaw Open Source? If this is his idea of "The American Way" then he needs to take a basic civics course. He obviously slept through the last one. [EMAIL PROT

Re: Slowing down CDROM drives (was: Re: ATAPI CDRW which doesn'twork)

2001-02-11 Thread Alan Olsen
Sorry. it was late when I answered that. (Either that or no ocffe, not certain which.) On Sun, 11 Feb 2001, Jens Axboe wrote: > On Sun, Feb 11 2001, Alan Olsen wrote: > > > It's no news that vendors only implement what they want to. New > > > cd-r/w and dvd

Re: Slowing down CDROM drives (was: Re: ATAPI CDRW which doesn'twork)

2001-02-11 Thread Alan Olsen
cdparanoia or one of the other MP3 ripping programms. Slowing down the drive is a standard feature for that type of program. (Reduces errors when pulling audio tracks off the disc.) [EMAIL PROTECTED] | Note to AOL users: for a quick shortcut to reply Alan Olsen| to my mail, just hit the c

Re: [OT] Re: 2.4.x, drm, g400 and pci_set_master

2001-02-09 Thread Alan Olsen
o AOL users: for a quick shortcut to reply Alan Olsen| to my mail, just hit the ctrl, alt and del keys. "In the future, everything will have its 15 minutes of blame." - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a mes

Re: [OT] Re: 2.4.x, drm, g400 and pci_set_master

2001-02-08 Thread Alan Olsen
concerns".) Good luck on getting them to make an Alpha version of the library or get them to release the underlying library interface specs. [EMAIL PROTECTED] | Note to AOL users: for a quick shortcut to reply Alan Olsen| to my mail, just hit the ctrl, alt and del keys. "

Re: Matrox Marvell G400

2001-02-05 Thread Alan Olsen
f effort being put into making it work right. (Kind of working in the dark at this point...) This is more of a question for the xpert list on xfree86.org. [EMAIL PROTECTED] | Note to AOL users: for a quick shortcut to reply Alan Olsen| to my mail, just hit the ctrl, alt and del keys.

Re: Recommended swap for 2.4.x.

2001-02-02 Thread Alan Olsen
? Standard laptop drive size except 8.45mm thick as opposed to 9.5mm thick. (Kind of bites too. If it would take a 9.5mm drive I could put in 30 gigs instead of 8.1gigs.) [EMAIL PROTECTED] | Note to AOL users: for a quick shortcut to reply Alan Olsen| to my mail, just hit the ctrl,

Re: Secure Linux

2001-01-30 Thread Alan Olsen
uot;real" involved with it? That would be telling. Be seeing you! [EMAIL PROTECTED] | Note to AOL users: for a quick shortcut to reply Alan Olsen| to my mail, just hit the ctrl, alt and del keys. "In the future, everything will have its 15 minutes of blame."

Recommended swap for 2.4.x.

2001-01-29 Thread Alan Olsen
drive for my Vaio (8.1 gig in a 8.45mm drive!) and I want to install 2.4.x on it. (I like getting the swap partition done right the first time. Repartitions are a pain. Especially if you screw up.) [EMAIL PROTECTED] | Note to AOL users: for a quick shortcut to reply Alan Olsen| to my

Re: [OT?] Coding Style

2001-01-23 Thread Alan Olsen
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Re: Total loss with 2.4.0 (release)

2001-01-22 Thread Alan Olsen
partitions frequently.) I have not seen any file corruption on this or the other Linux partition that stays in the drive the few and far between times I run Win 98. (Carmageddon 3 does not run under Linux yet...) [EMAIL PROTECTED] | Note to AOL users: for a quick shortcut to reply Alan Olsen

Probably Off-topic Question...

2001-01-22 Thread Alan Olsen
eek with code examples taken from APL and BCPL and written using the ISO character set for Sanscrit. (To avoid complaints of swear words appearing in them by the morally clenched.) [EMAIL PROTECTED] | Note to AOL users: for a quick shortcut to reply Alan Olsen| to my mail, just hit

Re: [OT?] Coding Style

2001-01-20 Thread Alan Olsen
ver read the bible. I thought that was the indention rules for Python. ]:> [EMAIL PROTECTED] | Note to AOL users: for a quick shortcut to reply Alan Olsen| to my mail, just hit the ctrl, alt and del keys. "In the future, everything will have its 15 minutes of blame."

X performance on 2.4.0 v.s. 2.4.0-test12

2001-01-10 Thread Alan Olsen
r reported weirdnesses. Maybe it is the sacrifices made to dark penguin gods during that last full moon. [EMAIL PROTECTED] | Note to AOL users: for a quick shortcut to reply Alan Olsen| to my mail, just hit the ctrl, alt and del keys. "In the future, everything will have it

Re: DRI doesn't work on 2.4.0 but does on prerelease-ac5

2001-01-09 Thread Alan Olsen
t now" kinda days. So far, the code has all worked...) [EMAIL PROTECTED] | Note to AOL users: for a quick shortcut to reply Alan Olsen| to my mail, just hit the ctrl, alt and del keys. "In the future, everything will have its 15 minutes of blame." - To unsubscribe

Re: [OT]: DRI doesn't work on 2.4.0 but does on prerelease-ac5

2001-01-09 Thread Alan Olsen
a Matrox G400 max card with 4.0.2cvs. I get about 1285 frames per second on the gears demo currently. We will see if that changes with the 2.4.0 final release version. [EMAIL PROTECTED] | Note to AOL users: for a quick shortcut to reply Alan Olsen| to my mail, just hit the ctrl, alt and d

Re: DRI doesn't work on 2.4.0 but does on prerelease-ac5

2001-01-06 Thread Alan Olsen
ompile DRM and the r128 drivers as modules as well. [EMAIL PROTECTED] | Note to AOL users: for a quick shortcut to reply Alan Olsen| to my mail, just hit the ctrl, alt and del keys. "In the future, everything will have its 15 minutes of blame." - To unsubscribe from this lis

Re: [PATCH] 2.4.0-prerelease: preemptive kernel.

2001-01-04 Thread Alan Olsen
the hardware, things have run MUCH smoother. [EMAIL PROTECTED] | Note to AOL users: for a quick shortcut to reply Alan Olsen| to my mail, just hit the ctrl, alt and del keys. "In the future, everything will have its 15 minutes of blame." - To unsubscribe from this list: