Re: ASUS CUV4X-D Dual CPU's - Failure to boot...

2001-07-07 Thread John Cavan
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> you >wrote: > > Dear Kernel People, > > A friend of mine has a new PC with an ASUS CUV4X-D motherboard > > and dual 1GHZ PIII's. ... > For several people the following works: > 1) Upgrade to the latest bios > 2) Change the "MPS"

Re: ASUS CUV4X-D Dual CPU's - Failure to boot...

2001-07-07 Thread John Cavan
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: In article [EMAIL PROTECTED] you wrote: Dear Kernel People, A friend of mine has a new PC with an ASUS CUV4X-D motherboard and dual 1GHZ PIII's. ... For several people the following works: 1) Upgrade to the latest bios 2) Change the MPS level in the bios.

Re: Asus CUV4X-DLS

2001-06-28 Thread John Cavan
John Cavan wrote: > I have an AIC7 based SCSI card in my machine as well, hooked up to a > Jaz. I haven't actually used it in ages, but I'll test it to see of the > problem is apparent on CUV4X-D board as well. First, I copied 640 Mb file to the jaz disk, no problem. Then I ran

Re: Asus CUV4X-DLS

2001-06-28 Thread John Cavan
"J. Nick Koston" wrote: > > Thanks for the tips, however it doesn't help :-( It was worth a shot... > > Also, try passing "noapic" to the kernel on boot if the problem still > > persists. The downside is that all interrupts will be handled by a > > single CPU. There is a definite problem with

Re: Asus CUV4X-DLS

2001-06-28 Thread John Cavan
J. Nick Koston wrote: Thanks for the tips, however it doesn't help :-( It was worth a shot... Also, try passing noapic to the kernel on boot if the problem still persists. The downside is that all interrupts will be handled by a single CPU. There is a definite problem with VIA

Re: Asus CUV4X-DLS

2001-06-28 Thread John Cavan
John Cavan wrote: I have an AIC7 based SCSI card in my machine as well, hooked up to a Jaz. I haven't actually used it in ages, but I'll test it to see of the problem is apparent on CUV4X-D board as well. First, I copied 640 Mb file to the jaz disk, no problem. Then I ran the same

Re: Linux 2.4.5-ac14

2001-06-14 Thread John Cavan
Dieter Nützel wrote: > > Hello Alan, > > I see 4.29 GB under shm with your latest try. > something wrong? total:used:free: shared: buffers: cached: Mem: 1053483008 431419392 622063616 122880 24387584 260923392 Swap: 3947642880 394764288 MemTotal: 1028792 kB

Re: Linux 2.4.5-ac14

2001-06-14 Thread John Cavan
Dieter Nützel wrote: Hello Alan, I see 4.29 GB under shm with your latest try. something wrong? total:used:free: shared: buffers: cached: Mem: 1053483008 431419392 622063616 122880 24387584 260923392 Swap: 3947642880 394764288 MemTotal: 1028792 kB

Re: Fwd: Copyright infringement in linux/drivers/usb/serial/keyspan*fw.h

2001-05-25 Thread John Cavan
Not to sound dense, but what part of the GPL prohibits a piece of GPL'd software from including non-GPL'd code? The GPL does explicitly state that you can't include it's software in proprietary code, but I don't recall seeing a provision that prohibits the other way around. It may not be in the

Re: Fwd: Copyright infringement in linux/drivers/usb/serial/keyspan*fw.h

2001-05-25 Thread John Cavan
Not to sound dense, but what part of the GPL prohibits a piece of GPL'd software from including non-GPL'd code? The GPL does explicitly state that you can't include it's software in proprietary code, but I don't recall seeing a provision that prohibits the other way around. It may not be in the

Potential help for VIA problems and ASUS motherboards

2001-05-19 Thread John Cavan
Hi, I've seen a lot of messages regarding problems with the VIA chipset... I've experienced them myself. Anyways, I just put in a new ASUS CUV4X-D motherboard, BIOS revision 1004. Once installed, I ran into a raft of problems when IO-APIC was enabled... and discovered that ASUS had a BIOS

Potential help for VIA problems and ASUS motherboards

2001-05-19 Thread John Cavan
Hi, I've seen a lot of messages regarding problems with the VIA chipset... I've experienced them myself. Anyways, I just put in a new ASUS CUV4X-D motherboard, BIOS revision 1004. Once installed, I ran into a raft of problems when IO-APIC was enabled... and discovered that ASUS had a BIOS

Re: [PATCH] Single user linux

2001-04-26 Thread John Cavan
On Thu, 26 Apr 2001 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > you're right, we could do it in more than one way. like copying > with mcopy without mounting a fat disk. the question is where to put it. > why we do it is an important thing. > taking place as a clueless user, i think i should be able to do

Re: [PATCH] Single user linux

2001-04-25 Thread John Cavan
On Wed, 25 Apr 2001 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > so i guess i deserve opinions instead of flames. the > approach is from personal use, not the usual server use. > if you think a server setup is best for all use just say so, > i'm listening. Several distributions (Red Hat and Mandrake certainly)

Re: [PATCH] Single user linux

2001-04-25 Thread John Cavan
On Wed, 25 Apr 2001 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: so i guess i deserve opinions instead of flames. the approach is from personal use, not the usual server use. if you think a server setup is best for all use just say so, i'm listening. Several distributions (Red Hat and Mandrake certainly) offer

Re: Problem with "su -" and kernels 2.4.3-ac11 and higher

2001-04-22 Thread John Cavan
Manuel McLure wrote: > Did you try nesting more than one "su -"? The first one after a boot works > for me - every other one fails. I tried it with about a half-dozen nested and no problem. Mandrake cooker here... uname -a Linux lion 2.4.3-ac11 #5 SMP Fri Apr 20 22:10:41 EDT 2001 i686 unknown

Re: Linux 2.4.3-ac12

2001-04-22 Thread John Cavan
Alan Cox wrote: > > > > Using /lib/modules/2.4.3-ac12/kernel/drivers/char/drm/radeon.o > > > /lib/modules/2.4.3-ac12/kernel/drivers/char/drm/radeon.o: unresolved > > > symbol rwsem_up_write_wake > > > /lib/modules/2.4.3-ac12/kernel/drivers/char/drm/radeon.o: unresolved > > > symbol

Re: Linux 2.4.3-ac12

2001-04-22 Thread John Cavan
Alan Cox wrote: > 2.4.3-ac12 > o Further semaphore fixes (David Howells) Getting unresolved symbols in some modules (notably, for me, microcode.o and radeon.o)... Using /lib/modules/2.4.3-ac12/kernel/drivers/char/drm/radeon.o

Re: Linux 2.4.3-ac12

2001-04-22 Thread John Cavan
Alan Cox wrote: 2.4.3-ac12 o Further semaphore fixes (David Howells) Getting unresolved symbols in some modules (notably, for me, microcode.o and radeon.o)... Using /lib/modules/2.4.3-ac12/kernel/drivers/char/drm/radeon.o

Re: Linux 2.4.3-ac12

2001-04-22 Thread John Cavan
Alan Cox wrote: Using /lib/modules/2.4.3-ac12/kernel/drivers/char/drm/radeon.o /lib/modules/2.4.3-ac12/kernel/drivers/char/drm/radeon.o: unresolved symbol rwsem_up_write_wake /lib/modules/2.4.3-ac12/kernel/drivers/char/drm/radeon.o: unresolved symbol rwsem_down_write_failed

Re: Problem with su - and kernels 2.4.3-ac11 and higher

2001-04-22 Thread John Cavan
Manuel McLure wrote: Did you try nesting more than one "su -"? The first one after a boot works for me - every other one fails. I tried it with about a half-dozen nested and no problem. Mandrake cooker here... uname -a Linux lion 2.4.3-ac11 #5 SMP Fri Apr 20 22:10:41 EDT 2001 i686 unknown

Re: Linux 2.4.3-ac7

2001-04-16 Thread John Cavan
Alan Cox wrote: > VIA users should test this kernel carefully. It has what are supposed to be > the right fixes for the VIA hardware bugs. Obviously the right fixes are not > as tested as the deduced ones. > > 2.4.3-ac7 > o Updated VIA quirk handling for the chipset (Andre Hedrick, >

Re: Linux 2.4.3-ac7

2001-04-16 Thread John Cavan
Alan Cox wrote: VIA users should test this kernel carefully. It has what are supposed to be the right fixes for the VIA hardware bugs. Obviously the right fixes are not as tested as the deduced ones. 2.4.3-ac7 o Updated VIA quirk handling for the chipset (Andre Hedrick,

Re: Seems to be a lot of confusion about aic7xxx in linux 2.4.3

2001-04-06 Thread John Cavan
"Jeffrey W. Baker" wrote: > So, I conclude that the patch was created incorrectly, or that something > changed between cutting the patch and the tarball. Compiled fine for me without the complete tarball, just patched. Now, I went straight to ac2 (now ac3) without building the 2.4.3 stock

Re: Linux 2.4.2-ac24

2001-03-23 Thread John Cavan
Alan Cox wrote: > 2.4.2-ac24 Is DRI still hosed? - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/

Re: Error compiling aic7xxx driver on 2.4.2-ac13

2001-03-06 Thread John Cavan
Phil Oester wrote: > > one more try... > > anyone else get the following: > > make[5]: Entering directory > `/usr/src/linux-2.4.2-ac13/drivers/scsi/aic7xxx/aicasm' > lex -t aicasm_scan.l > aicasm_scan.c > gcc -I/usr/include -ldb aicasm_gram.c aicasm_scan.c aicasm.c > aicasm_symbol.c -o aicasm

Re: Error compiling aic7xxx driver on 2.4.2-ac13

2001-03-06 Thread John Cavan
Phil Oester wrote: one more try... anyone else get the following: make[5]: Entering directory `/usr/src/linux-2.4.2-ac13/drivers/scsi/aic7xxx/aicasm' lex -t aicasm_scan.l aicasm_scan.c gcc -I/usr/include -ldb aicasm_gram.c aicasm_scan.c aicasm.c aicasm_symbol.c -o aicasm

Re: Linux 2.4.2ac11

2001-03-03 Thread John Cavan
Alan Cox wrote: > > ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/alan/2.4/ > > 2.4.2-ac11 Doesn't apply cleanly against a 2.4.2 tree... ./mm/slab.c.rej ./net/irda/irnet/irnet.h.rej ./arch/i386/kernel/traps.c.rej ./drivers/net/tulip/tulip.h.rej ./drivers/net/tulip/tulip_core.c.rej

Re: Linux 2.4.2ac11

2001-03-03 Thread John Cavan
Alan Cox wrote: ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/alan/2.4/ 2.4.2-ac11 Doesn't apply cleanly against a 2.4.2 tree... ./mm/slab.c.rej ./net/irda/irnet/irnet.h.rej ./arch/i386/kernel/traps.c.rej ./drivers/net/tulip/tulip.h.rej ./drivers/net/tulip/tulip_core.c.rej

Re: Linux stifles innovation... [way O.T.]

2001-02-18 Thread John Cavan
"Henning P. Schmiedehausen" wrote: > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Michael H. Warfield) writes: > > > Excuse me? A 1 billion dolar investment in Linux is not > >supporting it? > > On their own hardware. Which is really the point and they won't be the only ones. If IBM wants to attract and keep

Re: Linux stifles innovation... [way O.T.]

2001-02-18 Thread John Cavan
"Henning P. Schmiedehausen" wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Michael H. Warfield) writes: Excuse me? A 1 billion dolar investment in Linux is not supporting it? On their own hardware. Which is really the point and they won't be the only ones. If IBM wants to attract and keep customers on

Re: Linux stifles innovation... [way O.T.]

2001-02-16 Thread John Cavan
Dennis wrote: > objective, arent we? You might ask yourself the same question... > For example, if there were six different companies that marketed ethernet > drivers for the eepro100, you'd have a choice of which one to buy..perhaps > with different "features" that were of value to you.

Re: PROBLEM: virtual console corruption (2.4.1/p4/radeon/XFree864.0.2)

2001-02-16 Thread John Cavan
David Wood wrote: > > I believe you, although... why doesn't it happen with 2.2.17? vconsole > buffers in a different place in memory, I suppose? > > I'll forward this to the XFree team. Thanks! > -David Known bug, they're working on it. If you want to avoid the corruption, use the Vesa

Re: PROBLEM: virtual console corruption (2.4.1/p4/radeon/XFree864.0.2)

2001-02-16 Thread John Cavan
David Wood wrote: I believe you, although... why doesn't it happen with 2.2.17? vconsole buffers in a different place in memory, I suppose? I'll forward this to the XFree team. Thanks! -David Known bug, they're working on it. If you want to avoid the corruption, use the Vesa framebuffer

Re: Linux stifles innovation... [way O.T.]

2001-02-16 Thread John Cavan
Dennis wrote: objective, arent we? You might ask yourself the same question... For example, if there were six different companies that marketed ethernet drivers for the eepro100, you'd have a choice of which one to buy..perhaps with different "features" that were of value to you. Instead,

Re: spelling of disc (disk) in /devfs

2001-02-10 Thread John Cavan
"Albert D. Cahalan" wrote: > > > It had always been my assumption that non-optical storage media used > > the 'disk' spelling, whereas optical media, such as CDs, DVDs, and MO, > > were reffered to using the 'disc' spelling. > > No, "disk" is correct for everything, but we use "disc" for a

Re: Mucho timeouts on USB

2001-02-09 Thread John Cavan
Greg KH wrote: > > On Fri, Feb 09, 2001 at 07:22:54PM -0500, John Cavan wrote: > > > > Current config: > > > > Dual P3-500 w/ 512mb of RAM > > Tyan Tiger 133 mobo with VIA chipset, onboard USB > > Kernel 2.4.1-ac9 compiled with egcs-1.1.2 > > T

Re: Mucho timeouts on USB

2001-02-09 Thread John Cavan
Greg KH wrote: > > On Fri, Feb 09, 2001 at 07:22:54PM -0500, John Cavan wrote: > > > > Current config: > > > > Dual P3-500 w/ 512mb of RAM > > Tyan Tiger 133 mobo with VIA chipset, onboard USB > > Kernel 2.4.1-ac9 compiled with egcs-1.1.2 > > T

Mucho timeouts on USB

2001-02-09 Thread John Cavan
Hi, Just got a D-Link USB radio (R100) and I'm seeing lots of timeouts with it. I've seen this through the last few 2.4.1+ and -ac+ kernels. Current config: Dual P3-500 w/ 512mb of RAM Tyan Tiger 133 mobo with VIA chipset, onboard USB Kernel 2.4.1-ac9 compiled with egcs-1.1.2 The only thing

Mucho timeouts on USB

2001-02-09 Thread John Cavan
Hi, Just got a D-Link USB radio (R100) and I'm seeing lots of timeouts with it. I've seen this through the last few 2.4.1+ and -ac+ kernels. Current config: Dual P3-500 w/ 512mb of RAM Tyan Tiger 133 mobo with VIA chipset, onboard USB Kernel 2.4.1-ac9 compiled with egcs-1.1.2 The only thing

Re: Mucho timeouts on USB

2001-02-09 Thread John Cavan
Greg KH wrote: On Fri, Feb 09, 2001 at 07:22:54PM -0500, John Cavan wrote: Current config: Dual P3-500 w/ 512mb of RAM Tyan Tiger 133 mobo with VIA chipset, onboard USB Kernel 2.4.1-ac9 compiled with egcs-1.1.2 This motherboard does not currently work with USB in SMP mode

Re: Mucho timeouts on USB

2001-02-09 Thread John Cavan
Greg KH wrote: On Fri, Feb 09, 2001 at 07:22:54PM -0500, John Cavan wrote: Current config: Dual P3-500 w/ 512mb of RAM Tyan Tiger 133 mobo with VIA chipset, onboard USB Kernel 2.4.1-ac9 compiled with egcs-1.1.2 This motherboard does not currently work with USB in SMP mode

Odd behaviour on / filesystem and SCSI removable media

2001-02-03 Thread John Cavan
Hi, I noticed an odd thing about my / file system: du -hx reports 74mb used df -h . reports 236mb used The same behaviour does not show on other mounted filesystems... I'm not sure which to believe... I've seen this with 2.4.1 and 2.4.1-ac1, the filesystem is ReiserFS and the kernel was

Odd behaviour on / filesystem and SCSI removable media

2001-02-03 Thread John Cavan
Hi, I noticed an odd thing about my / file system: du -hx reports 74mb used df -h . reports 236mb used The same behaviour does not show on other mounted filesystems... I'm not sure which to believe... I've seen this with 2.4.1 and 2.4.1-ac1, the filesystem is ReiserFS and the kernel was

Re: spurious IRQ complaints

2001-01-27 Thread John Cavan
David Ford wrote: > > PCI: No IRQ known for interrupt pin A of device 01:00.0. Please try > using pci=biosirq. > > 01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc Rage 128 RF > (prog-if 00 [VGA]) > Subsystem: ATI Technologies Inc: Unknown device 0008 > Flags: bus master,

Re: spurious IRQ complaints

2001-01-27 Thread John Cavan
David Ford wrote: PCI: No IRQ known for interrupt pin A of device 01:00.0. Please try using pci=biosirq. 01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc Rage 128 RF (prog-if 00 [VGA]) Subsystem: ATI Technologies Inc: Unknown device 0008 Flags: bus master,

Networking strangeness 2.4.0-ac9 and earlier

2001-01-22 Thread John Cavan
Hi all, I've seen this for a while... the output from netstat and ifconfig do not agree on the MTU of the device: [root@lion /root]# netstat -r Kernel IP routing table Destination Gateway Genmask Flags MSS Window irtt Iface 10.1.11.0 * 255.255.255.0

Networking strangeness 2.4.0-ac9 and earlier

2001-01-22 Thread John Cavan
Hi all, I've seen this for a while... the output from netstat and ifconfig do not agree on the MTU of the device: [root@lion /root]# netstat -r Kernel IP routing table Destination Gateway Genmask Flags MSS Window irtt Iface 10.1.11.0 * 255.255.255.0

Re: Coding Style

2001-01-19 Thread John Cavan
David Ford wrote: > > One other thing. Allot of people neglect to brace a statement if > > it has a single line body. This is VERY bad, always brace your > > statements > > > > if (x = 1) > >if (y = 2) > > if (z = 3) > >for (i = 1; i < 10; i++) > > if > >

Re: Coding Style

2001-01-19 Thread John Cavan
David Ford wrote: One other thing. Allot of people neglect to brace a statement if it has a single line body. This is VERY bad, always brace your statements if (x = 1) if (y = 2) if (z = 3) for (i = 1; i 10; i++) if switch (foo)

Re: tcp no-ack bug can-rpt, w/script incl (this bugs 4 u)

2001-01-15 Thread John Cavan
> I have been trying to figure out > why linux tcp is failing to ack > properly in some situations. This is exactly the same problem I'm seeing with a Solaris box talking to my Linux box. It has a similar problem with Linux as well, but does not manifest as bad against a 2.2 kernel machine.

Networking strangeness 2.4.0-ac9 and earlier

2001-01-15 Thread John Cavan
Hi all, I've seen this for a while... the output from netstat and ifconfig do not agree on the MTU of the device: [root@lion /root]# netstat -r Kernel IP routing table Destination Gateway Genmask Flags MSS Window irtt Iface 10.1.11.0 * 255.255.255.0

Networking strangeness 2.4.0-ac9 and earlier

2001-01-15 Thread John Cavan
Hi all, I've seen this for a while... the output from netstat and ifconfig do not agree on the MTU of the device: [root@lion /root]# netstat -r Kernel IP routing table Destination Gateway Genmask Flags MSS Window irtt Iface 10.1.11.0 * 255.255.255.0

Re: tcp no-ack bug can-rpt, w/script incl (this bugs 4 u)

2001-01-15 Thread John Cavan
I have been trying to figure out why linux tcp is failing to ack properly in some situations. This is exactly the same problem I'm seeing with a Solaris box talking to my Linux box. It has a similar problem with Linux as well, but does not manifest as bad against a 2.2 kernel machine. Seems I

Re: 2.2.16 SMP: mtrr errors

2000-12-12 Thread John Cavan
Alan Cox wrote: > > to fall through, but is this correct? I've inserted a break at the end > > of the Intel switch before and have not had problems, but I left it out > > Lucky Wouldn't be the first time... - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of

Re: 2.2.16 SMP: mtrr errors

2000-12-12 Thread John Cavan
Petr Vandrovec wrote: > > kernel: mtrr: base(0xd400) is not aligned on a size(0x180) boundary > > last message repeated 2 times > > For some strange reason X thinks that you have 24MB of memory on the G450. > You can either create 32MB write-combining region at 0xd400, or > teach X

Re: 2.2.16 SMP: mtrr errors

2000-12-12 Thread John Cavan
> kernel: mtrr: base(0xd400) is not aligned on a size(0x180) boundary > last message repeated 2 times > > and finally: > > %cat /proc/mtrr > reg00: base=0x ( 0MB), size= 256MB: write-back, count=1 > reg01: base=0xd000 (3328MB), size= 64MB: write-combining, count=1 >

Re: 2.2.16 SMP: mtrr errors

2000-12-12 Thread John Cavan
kernel: mtrr: base(0xd400) is not aligned on a size(0x180) boundary last message repeated 2 times and finally: %cat /proc/mtrr reg00: base=0x ( 0MB), size= 256MB: write-back, count=1 reg01: base=0xd000 (3328MB), size= 64MB: write-combining, count=1 reg02:

Re: 2.2.16 SMP: mtrr errors

2000-12-12 Thread John Cavan
Petr Vandrovec wrote: kernel: mtrr: base(0xd400) is not aligned on a size(0x180) boundary last message repeated 2 times For some strange reason X thinks that you have 24MB of memory on the G450. You can either create 32MB write-combining region at 0xd400, or teach X that your

Re: Linux 2.4.0test11ac4

2000-11-25 Thread John Cavan
Alan Cox wrote: > o Fix ppa and imm hangs on io_request_lock(Tim Waugh) Just so I understand the differences, for learning purposes... Tim did this a little different than I did and I'd just like to understand the "whys" of it. Can't learn if I don't understand. :o) Thanks, John

Re: Linux 2.4.0test11ac4

2000-11-25 Thread John Cavan
Alan Cox wrote: o Fix ppa and imm hangs on io_request_lock(Tim Waugh) Just so I understand the differences, for learning purposes... Tim did this a little different than I did and I'd just like to understand the "whys" of it. Can't learn if I don't understand. :o) Thanks, John

Re: Odd behaviour with agpgart

2000-11-19 Thread John Cavan
Petr Vandrovec wrote: > > On Sat, Nov 18, 2000 at 10:43:20PM -0500, John Cavan wrote: > > Bus 1, device 0, function 0: > > VGA compatible controller: Matrox Graphics, Inc. MGA G400 AGP (rev 5). > > IRQ 16. > > Master Capable. Late

Re: Odd behaviour with agpgart

2000-11-19 Thread John Cavan
Petr Vandrovec wrote: On Sat, Nov 18, 2000 at 10:43:20PM -0500, John Cavan wrote: Bus 1, device 0, function 0: VGA compatible controller: Matrox Graphics, Inc. MGA G400 AGP (rev 5). IRQ 16. Master Capable. Latency=64. Min Gnt=16.Max Lat=32. Prefetchable 32 bit

Odd behaviour with agpgart

2000-11-18 Thread John Cavan
I don't know if this is specifically a problem with the AGP driver or with X, but basically the AGP driver detects an aperture base address different from that of the prefetchable memory area of the video card and the mtrr's are not in agreement. I'm using this with a Dual P3-500mhz and a Matrox

Re: [PATCH] (new for ppa and imm) Re: [PATCH] Re: Patch to fix lockup on ppa insert

2000-11-18 Thread John Cavan
Tim Waugh wrote: > > On Thu, Nov 16, 2000 at 09:50:40PM -0500, John Cavan wrote: > > > [...] This patch unlocks, allows the lowlevel driver to do it's > > probes, and then relocks. It could probably be more granular in the > > parport_pc code, but my own home tests

Re: [PATCH] (new for ppa and imm) Re: [PATCH] Re: Patch to fix lockup on ppa insert

2000-11-18 Thread John Cavan
Tim Waugh wrote: On Thu, Nov 16, 2000 at 09:50:40PM -0500, John Cavan wrote: [...] This patch unlocks, allows the lowlevel driver to do it's probes, and then relocks. It could probably be more granular in the parport_pc code, but my own home tests show it to be working fine

Odd behaviour with agpgart

2000-11-18 Thread John Cavan
I don't know if this is specifically a problem with the AGP driver or with X, but basically the AGP driver detects an aperture base address different from that of the prefetchable memory area of the video card and the mtrr's are not in agreement. I'm using this with a Dual P3-500mhz and a Matrox

[PATCH] (new for ppa and imm) Re: [PATCH] Re: Patch to fix lockup on ppa insert

2000-11-16 Thread John Cavan
Jens Axboe wrote: > Wouldn't it be more interesting to fix the reason the new error > handling code dies with imm and ppa? Yes it would... :o) I think I've got it here. The new error handling code spinlocks the IRQ which cause the lowlevel parport driver to choke. This patch unlocks, allows the

[PATCH] Re: Patch to fix lockup on ppa insert

2000-11-16 Thread John Cavan
John Cavan wrote: > > Similar to the imm patch, it's working for me. > > John Again... not all screwed up... patch -ur linux.clean/drivers/scsi/ppa.h linux.current/drivers/scsi/ppa.h --- linux.clean/drivers/scsi/ppa.h Thu Sep 14 20:27:05 2000 +++ linux.current/drivers/scsi/

Patch to fix lockup on ppa insert

2000-11-16 Thread John Cavan
Similar to the imm patch, it's working for me. John diff -ru linux.clean/drivers/scsi/ppa.h linux.current/drivers/scsi/ppa.h --- linux.clean/drivers/scsi/ppa.h Thu Sep 14 20:27:05 2000 +++ linux.current/drivers/scsi/ppa.hThu Nov 16 07:26:38 2000 @@ -170,7 +170,7 @@

Patch to fix lockup on ppa insert

2000-11-16 Thread John Cavan
Similar to the imm patch, it's working for me. John diff -ru linux.clean/drivers/scsi/ppa.h linux.current/drivers/scsi/ppa.h --- linux.clean/drivers/scsi/ppa.h Thu Sep 14 20:27:05 2000 +++ linux.current/drivers/scsi/ppa.hThu Nov 16 07:26:38 2000 @@ -170,7 +170,7 @@

[PATCH] Re: Patch to fix lockup on ppa insert

2000-11-16 Thread John Cavan
John Cavan wrote: Similar to the imm patch, it's working for me. John Again... not all screwed up... patch -ur linux.clean/drivers/scsi/ppa.h linux.current/drivers/scsi/ppa.h --- linux.clean/drivers/scsi/ppa.h Thu Sep 14 20:27:05 2000 +++ linux.current/drivers/scsi/ppa.hThu Nov

[PATCH] (new for ppa and imm) Re: [PATCH] Re: Patch to fix lockup on ppa insert

2000-11-16 Thread John Cavan
Jens Axboe wrote: Wouldn't it be more interesting to fix the reason the new error handling code dies with imm and ppa? Yes it would... :o) I think I've got it here. The new error handling code spinlocks the IRQ which cause the lowlevel parport driver to choke. This patch unlocks, allows the

Re: lockup with parport_pc on 2.4.0-test10-pre1

2000-10-14 Thread John Cavan
Tim Waugh wrote: > > On Wed, Oct 11, 2000 at 11:01:20PM -0400, John Cavan wrote: > > > I don't if this is specifically a problem in the module or with modprobe > > (2.3.17), but it doesn't happen with any other module. Unfortunately > > parport_pc.c was as far as I

Re: lockup with parport_pc on 2.4.0-test10-pre1

2000-10-14 Thread John Cavan
Tim Waugh wrote: On Wed, Oct 11, 2000 at 11:01:20PM -0400, John Cavan wrote: I don't if this is specifically a problem in the module or with modprobe (2.3.17), but it doesn't happen with any other module. Unfortunately parport_pc.c was as far as I traced before my work life sucked me

lockup with parport_pc on 2.4.0-test10-pre1

2000-10-11 Thread John Cavan
I managed to follow, with a number of debug statements, a problem that appears to be in parport_pc that causes the following lockup on a dual P3 500 with modprobe: NMI Watchdog detected LOCKUP on CPU0, registers: CPU:0 EIP:0010:[] EFLAGS: 0086 eax: 0301 ebx: 0216 ecx:

lockup with parport_pc on 2.4.0-test10-pre1

2000-10-11 Thread John Cavan
I managed to follow, with a number of debug statements, a problem that appears to be in parport_pc that causes the following lockup on a dual P3 500 with modprobe: NMI Watchdog detected LOCKUP on CPU0, registers: CPU:0 EIP:0010:[c01deec3] EFLAGS: 0086 eax: 0301 ebx: 0216