Re: 2.6.21-rc2 radeon backlight

2007-03-02 Thread Alex Romosan
Richard Purdie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I propose the following patch (I was previously waiting on James for > this). It avoids backing out the problematic Kconfig changes but > means a user has to explicitly enable the backlight via a kernel or > module parameter. > > Can people with

Re: 2.6.21-rc2 radeon backlight

2007-03-02 Thread Alex Romosan
Henrique de Moraes Holschuh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Fri, 02 Mar 2007, David Miller wrote: >> Why don't we compromise for 2.6.21 by marking the Radeon backlight >> stuff EXPERIMENTAL until the cases where IBM ACPI works and the >> Radeon backlight stuff does not are worked out? > > What

Re: 2.6.21-rc2 radeon backlight

2007-03-02 Thread Alex Romosan
Andrew Morton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Wed, 28 Feb 2007 08:32:43 -0800 > Alex Romosan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> the backlight on my thinkpad still (2.6.20 worked fine) doesn't come >> on if i have the radeon backlight enabled. without it, i g

Re: 2.6.21-rc2 radeon backlight

2007-03-02 Thread Alex Romosan
Andrew Morton [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Wed, 28 Feb 2007 08:32:43 -0800 Alex Romosan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: the backlight on my thinkpad still (2.6.20 worked fine) doesn't come on if i have the radeon backlight enabled. without it, i guess it's the ibm acpi modules that controls

Re: 2.6.21-rc2 radeon backlight

2007-03-02 Thread Alex Romosan
Henrique de Moraes Holschuh [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Fri, 02 Mar 2007, David Miller wrote: Why don't we compromise for 2.6.21 by marking the Radeon backlight stuff EXPERIMENTAL until the cases where IBM ACPI works and the Radeon backlight stuff does not are worked out? What ibm-acpi

Re: 2.6.21-rc2 radeon backlight

2007-03-02 Thread Alex Romosan
Richard Purdie [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I propose the following patch (I was previously waiting on James for this). It avoids backing out the problematic Kconfig changes but means a user has to explicitly enable the backlight via a kernel or module parameter. Can people with backlight

2.6.21-rc2 radeon backlight

2007-02-28 Thread Alex Romosan
the backlight on my thinkpad still (2.6.20 worked fine) doesn't come on if i have the radeon backlight enabled. without it, i guess it's the ibm acpi modules that controls the backlight and it seems to work fine. --alex-- -- | I believe the moment is at hand when, by a paranoiac and active | |

2.6.21-rc2 radeon backlight

2007-02-28 Thread Alex Romosan
the backlight on my thinkpad still (2.6.20 worked fine) doesn't come on if i have the radeon backlight enabled. without it, i guess it's the ibm acpi modules that controls the backlight and it seems to work fine. --alex-- -- | I believe the moment is at hand when, by a paranoiac and active | |

Re: no backlight on radeon after recent kernel "upgrade"s

2007-02-21 Thread Alex Romosan
Richard Purdie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > If FB_RADEON_BACKLIGHT wasn't set for 2.6.20, can you try 2.6.21-rc1 > with that option disabled? i've disabled FB_RADEON_BACKLIGHT (FB_BACKLIGHT also got deselected) and i managed to boot into 2.6.21-rc1 and have a working backlight. --alex-- -- |

Re: no backlight on radeon after recent kernel "upgrade"s

2007-02-21 Thread Alex Romosan
Richard Purdie writes: > Can you have a look at the differences between the defconfigs for > 2.6.20 and 2.6.21-rc1? this is probably the relevant part: --- config-2.6.20 2007-02-04 12:09:28.0 -0800 +++ config-2.6.21-rc1 2007-02-21 08:37:53.0 -0800 @@ -1270,16 +1302,25 @@

Re: no backlight on radeon after recent kernel "upgrade"s

2007-02-21 Thread Alex Romosan
Richard Purdie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > If FB_RADEON_BACKLIGHT wasn't set for 2.6.20, can you try 2.6.21-rc1 > with that option disabled? i don't have my laptop with me but i am pretty sure FB_RADEON_BACKLIGHT wasn't set for 2.6.20 (i think it showed up as a new option when i did make

Re: no backlight on radeon after recent kernel "upgrade"s

2007-02-21 Thread Alex Romosan
Richard Purdie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Mon, 2007-02-19 at 00:04 -0800, Andrew Morton wrote: >> On Sun, 18 Feb 2007 23:46:16 -0500 Yaroslav Halchenko <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >> wrote: >> > Since the most recent successful for me kernel 2.6.19-rc6-mm1, I've >> > tried few times to build more

Re: no backlight on radeon after recent kernel upgrades

2007-02-21 Thread Alex Romosan
Richard Purdie [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Mon, 2007-02-19 at 00:04 -0800, Andrew Morton wrote: On Sun, 18 Feb 2007 23:46:16 -0500 Yaroslav Halchenko [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Since the most recent successful for me kernel 2.6.19-rc6-mm1, I've tried few times to build more recent

Re: no backlight on radeon after recent kernel upgrades

2007-02-21 Thread Alex Romosan
Richard Purdie [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: If FB_RADEON_BACKLIGHT wasn't set for 2.6.20, can you try 2.6.21-rc1 with that option disabled? i don't have my laptop with me but i am pretty sure FB_RADEON_BACKLIGHT wasn't set for 2.6.20 (i think it showed up as a new option when i did make

Re: no backlight on radeon after recent kernel upgrades

2007-02-21 Thread Alex Romosan
Richard Purdie writes: Can you have a look at the differences between the defconfigs for 2.6.20 and 2.6.21-rc1? this is probably the relevant part: --- config-2.6.20 2007-02-04 12:09:28.0 -0800 +++ config-2.6.21-rc1 2007-02-21 08:37:53.0 -0800 @@ -1270,16 +1302,25 @@

Re: no backlight on radeon after recent kernel upgrades

2007-02-21 Thread Alex Romosan
Richard Purdie [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: If FB_RADEON_BACKLIGHT wasn't set for 2.6.20, can you try 2.6.21-rc1 with that option disabled? i've disabled FB_RADEON_BACKLIGHT (FB_BACKLIGHT also got deselected) and i managed to boot into 2.6.21-rc1 and have a working backlight. --alex-- -- | I

Re: linux 2.6.20-rc1: kernel BUG at fs/buffer.c:1235!

2006-12-24 Thread Alex Romosan
Jiri Slaby <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Alex Romosan wrote: >> this is on a thinkpad t40, not sure if it means anything, but here it goes: >> >> kernel: kernel BUG at fs/buffer.c:1235! >> kernel: invalid opcode: [#1] >> kernel: PREEMPT >> kern

Re: linux 2.6.20-rc1: kernel BUG at fs/buffer.c:1235!

2006-12-24 Thread Alex Romosan
Jiri Slaby [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Alex Romosan wrote: this is on a thinkpad t40, not sure if it means anything, but here it goes: kernel: kernel BUG at fs/buffer.c:1235! kernel: invalid opcode: [#1] kernel: PREEMPT kernel: Modules linked in: radeon drm binfmt_misc nfs sd_mod

linux 2.6.20-rc1: kernel BUG at fs/buffer.c:1235!

2006-12-23 Thread Alex Romosan
this is on a thinkpad t40, not sure if it means anything, but here it goes: kernel: kernel BUG at fs/buffer.c:1235! kernel: invalid opcode: [#1] kernel: PREEMPT kernel: Modules linked in: radeon drm binfmt_misc nfs sd_mod scsi_mod nfsd exportfs lockd sunrpc autofs4 pcmcia firmware_class

linux 2.6.20-rc1: kernel BUG at fs/buffer.c:1235!

2006-12-23 Thread Alex Romosan
this is on a thinkpad t40, not sure if it means anything, but here it goes: kernel: kernel BUG at fs/buffer.c:1235! kernel: invalid opcode: [#1] kernel: PREEMPT kernel: Modules linked in: radeon drm binfmt_misc nfs sd_mod scsi_mod nfsd exportfs lockd sunrpc autofs4 pcmcia firmware_class

2.6.20-rc1 sky2 problems (regression?)

2006-12-14 Thread Alex Romosan
under heavy network load the sky2 driver (compiled in the kernel) locks up and the only way i can get the network back is to reboot the machine (bringing the network down and back up again doesn't help). this happens on an amd64 machine (athlon 3500+ processor) and the card in question is a

2.6.20-rc1 sky2 problems (regression?)

2006-12-14 Thread Alex Romosan
under heavy network load the sky2 driver (compiled in the kernel) locks up and the only way i can get the network back is to reboot the machine (bringing the network down and back up again doesn't help). this happens on an amd64 machine (athlon 3500+ processor) and the card in question is a

Re: Screwy clock after apm suspend

2005-01-16 Thread Alex Romosan
Mikael Pettersson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I'm no longer seeing any time jumps after resumes with the > 2.6.11-rc1 kernel. It looks like the wall_jiffies change in > time.c fixed the bug. i can also confirm the that the time no longer jumps after an acpi resume with the 2.6.11-rc1 kernel.

Re: Screwy clock after apm suspend

2005-01-16 Thread Alex Romosan
Mikael Pettersson [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I'm no longer seeing any time jumps after resumes with the 2.6.11-rc1 kernel. It looks like the wall_jiffies change in time.c fixed the bug. i can also confirm the that the time no longer jumps after an acpi resume with the 2.6.11-rc1 kernel.

Re: 2.4.2-pre2 ext2fs corruption

2001-02-13 Thread Alex Romosan
Alan Cox <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > i came in today to find the computer completely locked up. after > > rebooting and waiting for about an hour for fsck to finish i found the > > following errors in the system log: > > What hardware. I can see its some kind of scsi setup but what

2.4.2-pre2 ext2fs corruption

2001-02-13 Thread Alex Romosan
i came in today to find the computer completely locked up. after rebooting and waiting for about an hour for fsck to finish i found the following errors in the system log: Feb 13 06:25:18 caliban kernel: EXT2-fs error (device sd(8,3)): ext2_readdir: bad entry in directory #11: rec_len %% 4 != 0

2.4.2-pre2 ext2fs corruption

2001-02-13 Thread Alex Romosan
i came in today to find the computer completely locked up. after rebooting and waiting for about an hour for fsck to finish i found the following errors in the system log: Feb 13 06:25:18 caliban kernel: EXT2-fs error (device sd(8,3)): ext2_readdir: bad entry in directory #11: rec_len %% 4 != 0

Re: 2.4.2-pre2 ext2fs corruption

2001-02-13 Thread Alex Romosan
Alan Cox [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: i came in today to find the computer completely locked up. after rebooting and waiting for about an hour for fsck to finish i found the following errors in the system log: What hardware. I can see its some kind of scsi setup but what interfaces ?

Re: "No IRQ known for interrupt pin A..." error message

2000-11-19 Thread Alex Romosan
Gerhard Mack <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > That looks exactly like the message I get if I tell the bios not to > assign an interrupt to my video card. > unfortunately, i don't get such a choice. and if what you say is true, isn't the message ("No IRQ known for interrupt pin A of device

Re: "No IRQ known for interrupt pin A..." error message

2000-11-19 Thread Alex Romosan
Martin Mares <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > During boot, I get the message: > > > > PCI: No IRQ known for interrupt pin A of device 00:00.1. Please try > > using pci=biosirq. > > Can you send me 'lspci -vvx' output, please? > i am not the original poster, but i get the same message (save

Re: [oops] pppd in kernel 2.4.0-test11-pre7

2000-11-19 Thread Alex Romosan
Alex Romosan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > i forgot to bring up eth0 before attempting to connect to my dsl > provider using ppp over ethernet and i got the following oops: > i hate it when i do this. the correct oops follows: ksymoops 2.3.4 on i686 2.4.0-test11. Optio

[oops] pppd in kernel 2.4.0-test11-pre7

2000-11-19 Thread Alex Romosan
i forgot to bring up eth0 before attempting to connect to my dsl provider using ppp over ethernet and i got the following oops: ksymoops 2.3.4 on i686 2.4.0-test11. Options used -V (default) -k /proc/ksyms (specified) -l /proc/modules (default) -o /lib/modules/2.4.0-test11/

Re: [oops] pppd in kernel 2.4.0-test11-pre7

2000-11-19 Thread Alex Romosan
Alex Romosan [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: i forgot to bring up eth0 before attempting to connect to my dsl provider using ppp over ethernet and i got the following oops: i hate it when i do this. the correct oops follows: ksymoops 2.3.4 on i686 2.4.0-test11. Options used -V (default

Re: No IRQ known for interrupt pin A... error message

2000-11-19 Thread Alex Romosan
Martin Mares [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: During boot, I get the message: PCI: No IRQ known for interrupt pin A of device 00:00.1. Please try using pci=biosirq. Can you send me 'lspci -vvx' output, please? i am not the original poster, but i get the same message (save for the device

Re: No IRQ known for interrupt pin A... error message

2000-11-19 Thread Alex Romosan
Gerhard Mack [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: That looks exactly like the message I get if I tell the bios not to assign an interrupt to my video card. unfortunately, i don't get such a choice. and if what you say is true, isn't the message ("No IRQ known for interrupt pin A of device 05:00.0.

Re: 2.4.0-test9-pre2: pcmcia 3c59x doesn't work

2000-09-18 Thread Alex Romosan
Andrew Morton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Horst von Brand wrote: > > > > I've been using a 3com 3CCFE575CT 10/100 Eth cardbus card without any > > trouble in 2.2.18pre and 2.4.0-test8 together with pcmcia-cs-3.1.21 (Sep 5 > > snapshot). I'm running Red Hat 6.2 on that machine (Toshiba

Re: 2.4.0-test9-pre2: pcmcia 3c59x doesn't work

2000-09-18 Thread Alex Romosan
Andrew Morton [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Horst von Brand wrote: I've been using a 3com 3CCFE575CT 10/100 Eth cardbus card without any trouble in 2.2.18pre and 2.4.0-test8 together with pcmcia-cs-3.1.21 (Sep 5 snapshot). I'm running Red Hat 6.2 on that machine (Toshiba Satellite Pro

Re: [PROBLEM] - Kernel 2.4.0-test8 panics (addendum: rebooted suddenly while writing about the "panic" problem .. this is my second attempt)

2000-09-09 Thread Alex Romosan
Ravindra Jaju <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > The second time, it was fine till about 2 hours, while I was writing > *this* mail. Rebooted all of a sudden (no idea as to where the > problem was. It was _quick_. No messages, nothing). > i had exactly the same problem with 2.4.0-test8. suddenly

Re: [patch] 3c59x.c

2000-09-09 Thread Alex Romosan
Andrew Morton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Please try this with your 3CCFE575BT. Quick test: go to another machine > and run > > ping -f -s 5 name_of_3com_machine > > > --- 3c575_cb.c.orig Sat Sep 9 18:56:29 2000 > +++ 3c575_cb.cSat Sep 9 18:56:20 2000 > @@ -1359,7

Re: [patch] 3c59x.c

2000-09-09 Thread Alex Romosan
Andrew Morton [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Please try this with your 3CCFE575BT. Quick test: go to another machine and run ping -f -s 5 name_of_3com_machine --- 3c575_cb.c.orig Sat Sep 9 18:56:29 2000 +++ 3c575_cb.cSat Sep 9 18:56:20 2000 @@ -1359,7 +1359,7 @@

Re: [PROBLEM] - Kernel 2.4.0-test8 panics (addendum: rebooted suddenly while writing about the panic problem .. this is my second attempt)

2000-09-09 Thread Alex Romosan
Ravindra Jaju [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: The second time, it was fine till about 2 hours, while I was writing *this* mail. Rebooted all of a sudden (no idea as to where the problem was. It was _quick_. No messages, nothing). i had exactly the same problem with 2.4.0-test8. suddenly the

Re: [patch] 3c59x.c

2000-09-02 Thread Alex Romosan
Andrew Morton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > This patch fixes some long-standing problems which people > have been experiencing on collisiony half-duplex 10baseT LANs. > > It also syncs up some device names and types with the latest > pcmcia_cs release. > > Many thanks to David Hinds for

Re: IrDA and PCMCIA

2000-09-02 Thread Alex Romosan
"Micha³ 'CeFeK' Nazarewicz" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Salve, > That's me again :-) It looks like that I am the only person with > Dell Latitude CPt using Linux 2.4 or nobody before wrote here -- as I > can't find a solution to my problems via the web. > The next problems are: >

Re: IrDA and PCMCIA

2000-09-02 Thread Alex Romosan
"Micha³ 'CeFeK' Nazarewicz" [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Salve, That's me again :-) It looks like that I am the only person with Dell Latitude CPt using Linux 2.4 or nobody before wrote here -- as I can't find a solution to my problems via the web. The next problems are: 1.

Re: [patch] 3c59x.c

2000-09-02 Thread Alex Romosan
Andrew Morton [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: This patch fixes some long-standing problems which people have been experiencing on collisiony half-duplex 10baseT LANs. It also syncs up some device names and types with the latest pcmcia_cs release. Many thanks to David Hinds for sorting all