Re: >128 MB RAM stability problems (again)

2001-07-04 Thread Ragnar Hojland Espinosa
On Wed, Jul 04, 2001 at 11:16:43PM -0400, Bill Pringlemeir wrote: > I also have had problems with a machine that had 128Mb + 64 Mb. I > discovered the following about 2.4.x. You _should_ have a swap file > that is double RAM. Mixing different SDRAM types is probably a bad > thing. So if you up

Re: Total loss with 2.4.0 (release)

2001-01-23 Thread Ragnar Hojland Espinosa
On Tue, Jan 23, 2001 at 12:33:45AM -0500, Mike A. Harris wrote: > On Mon, 15 Jan 2001, Trever Adams wrote: > > >I had a similar experience. All I can say is windows 98 > >and ME seem to have it out for Linux drives running late > >2.3.x and 2.4.0 test and release. I had windows completely > >fr

Re: [OT?] Coding Style

2001-01-20 Thread Ragnar Hojland Espinosa
On Sat, Jan 20, 2001 at 05:19:17PM +0100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I just wanted to say that Linus´ CodingStyle is the ONLY SANE style of > writing code in bigger projects. At university we are forced to use exactly the And the lord spake, saying, "First shalt thou write thy holy code. Indentin

Re: Warnings on compiling 2.4.1-pre8

2001-01-20 Thread Ragnar Hojland Espinosa
On Fri, Jan 19, 2001 at 11:15:27AM +, Jason Saunders wrote: > Since about 2.4.0-prerelease, I've been getting odd errors on compilation. A > sample is included below. It happens for every source file that includes > - is it anything to worry about? > > In file included from /usr/src/linux/

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

2001-01-09 Thread Ragnar Hojland Espinosa
On Mon, Jan 08, 2001 at 04:37:32PM -0800, J Sloan wrote: > Ragnar Hojland Espinosa wrote: > > Well, the real problem is that (at least Voodoo3) DRI didn't work _before_ > > with the "latest" test and pre kernels, and X < 4.0.2 (unless there was some > > co

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

2001-01-09 Thread Ragnar Hojland Espinosa
On Mon, Jan 08, 2001 at 10:45:09PM +, Michael D. Crawford wrote: > glxinfo says dri is not available if I remove the library as I did. So I > rebuilt Mesa and reinstalled it. The full output of glxinfo on my machine > follows. Note that it says "direct rendering: Yes" but the version string

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

2001-01-08 Thread Ragnar Hojland Espinosa
On Mon, Jan 08, 2001 at 02:56:05PM -0800, J Sloan wrote: > In my case, that meant nuking mesa from my system and > letting Linux use what was left, which got me back the good > accelerated performance - you may choose a less drastic > option. I don't see any breakage from the absence of mesa. We

Re: VM problem (2.4.0-test11)

2000-12-14 Thread Ragnar Hojland Espinosa
On Wed, Dec 13, 2000 at 12:41:19AM +0100, J . A . Magallon wrote: > There are various patches-ways-to-do available, kernel gurus are still working > on it... > (leave always some 4% of mem for root, kill some process when mem is exhausted, > which one to kill...) which is a bad idea; 4% of 1GB i

Re: test12pre6: BUG in schedule (sched.c, 115)

2000-12-06 Thread Ragnar Hojland Espinosa
On Wed, Dec 06, 2000 at 02:00:12PM -0800, Mike Kravetz wrote: > Ragnar, > > Are you sure that was line 115? Could it have been line 515? Yes, yes, it was 515. 115 is the result of human cache corruption ;) > Also, do you have any Oops data? It just froze there. -- /| Ragnar Højland

test12pre6: BUG in schedule (sched.c, 115)

2000-12-06 Thread Ragnar Hojland Espinosa
as per subject.. BUG in schedule (sched.c, 115) -- /| Ragnar Højland Freedom - Linux - OpenGL Fingerprint 94C4B \ o.O| 2F0D27DE025BE2302C =(_)= "Thou shalt not follow the NULL pointer for 104B78C56 B72F0822 U chaos and

2.4.0-t11: IDE probe failed

2000-11-28 Thread Ragnar Hojland Espinosa
I still get those at random (and no, I'm not hot-rebooting from ms windows) Normally the cookie is 0xfff8 or similar. -- /| Ragnar Højland Freedom - Linux - OpenGL Fingerprint 94C4B \ o.O| 2F0D27DE025BE2302C =(_)= "Thou shalt

Re: {PATCH} isofs stuff

2000-11-23 Thread Ragnar Hojland Espinosa
On Thu, Nov 23, 2000 at 09:20:15AM -0800, Linus Torvalds wrote: > Can you check whether the single patch of _just_ removing the extra "f_pos > >= i_size" test in do_isofs_readdir() fixes it? The other changes of > Andries patch look like they should not affect code generation at all, but > I'd sti

Re: {PATCH} isofs stuff

2000-11-23 Thread Ragnar Hojland Espinosa
On Thu, Nov 23, 2000 at 04:50:22AM +0100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Below a working patch for which the isofs images I got > all are OK. (There is still a lot of silliness here - > superfluous parentheses, a rename of isofs_cmp to isofs_comp > in one file to avoid confusion with the isofs_cmp in

Re: silly [< >] and other excess

2000-11-22 Thread Ragnar Hojland Espinosa
On Thu, Nov 23, 2000 at 12:26:30AM +, Russell King wrote: > Albert D. Cahalan writes: > > > Function entered at [] from [] > > > Function entered at [] from [] > > > Code: e51f2024 e5923000 (e5813000) e3a0 e51f3030 > > > > All those numbers get looked up. Keep going for another 25 lines t

Re: 2.4.0-test11: "_isofs_bmap: block < 0"

2000-11-21 Thread Ragnar Hojland Espinosa
On Tue, Nov 21, 2000 at 08:14:51AM +0300, Eugene Crosser wrote: > zero entries on the mounted CD, and each "ls" attempt causes this > kernel message: > > _isofs_bmap: block < 0 Same here, except that once showed _isofs_bmap: block >= EOF (1633681408, 4096) -- /| Ragnar Højland

Re: BTTV detection broken in 2.4.0-test11-pre5

2000-11-20 Thread Ragnar Hojland Espinosa
On Sun, Nov 19, 2000 at 07:00:41PM -0800, Dan Hollis wrote: > On Mon, 20 Nov 2000, David Woodhouse wrote: > > On Sun, 19 Nov 2000, Dan Hollis wrote: > > > Writeprotect the flashbios with the motherboard jumper, and remove the > > > cmos battery. > > > Checkmate. :-) > > Only if you run your kernel

Re: No tcp connection establishment with 2.4

2000-11-13 Thread Ragnar Hojland Espinosa
On Thu, Nov 09, 2000 at 12:13:21PM +0100, Erik Mouw wrote: > On Thu, Nov 09, 2000 at 12:08:32PM +0100, Michele Iacobellis wrote: > > [Summary] > > No tcp connection establishment with 2.4 > > > [snip] > > Disable "Explicit congestion notification support" in the networking > options. It breaks w

Re: Linux-2.4.0-test10

2000-11-07 Thread Ragnar Hojland Espinosa
On Fri, Nov 03, 2000 at 01:25:10AM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > Just happened with test10, same circumstances .. font map got corrupted, and > > noise on the screen. Switching back and forth from X to a vc fixed it, tho. > > > > Sort of amusing that it (apparently) only happens with ppp

Re: Linux-2.4.0-test10

2000-11-02 Thread Ragnar Hojland Espinosa
On Thu, Nov 02, 2000 at 06:57:06PM +0100, Ragnar Hojland Espinosa wrote: > Well, here never did until today :) With test9, I had left the box idle Just happened with test10, same circumstances .. font map got corrupted, and noise on the screen. Switching back and forth from X to a vc fixed

Re: Linux-2.4.0-test10

2000-11-02 Thread Ragnar Hojland Espinosa
On Wed, Nov 01, 2000 at 06:44:25PM -0600, M.H.VanLeeuwen wrote: > "CRADOCK, Christopher" wrote: > > I have a similar hardware list and I don't observe any of these problems on > > 2.4.0-test10x. Is it possibly a hardware conflict somewhere? > > > > What I do see occasionally is if X was ever heav

irq probe failed? (2.4.0-latests)

2000-10-27 Thread Ragnar Hojland Espinosa
On at least test8 onwards on hd[abc] I sometimes get an printk("%s: IRQ probe failed (0x%lx)\n", drive-> name, cookie); with cookie being ~0 VT82C586 hda: ST320423A, ATA DISK drive hdc: SAMSUNG VG34323A (4.32GB), ATA DISK drive ide0 at 0x1f0-0x1f7,0x3f6 on irq 14 ide1 at 0x170-0x177,0

Re: TRACED] Re: "Tux" is the wrong logo for Linux

2000-10-20 Thread Ragnar Hojland Espinosa
On Thu, Oct 19, 2000 at 11:04:44AM -0700, Dan Hollis wrote: > On Thu, 19 Oct 2000, Alex Buell wrote: > > Feel free to send complaints to [EMAIL PROTECTED] and get his account > > yanked for abuse of mailing lists. > > http://www.ilan.net/contact.htm for a nice list of addresses to send > complai

test10-pre1: cd burn data mismatch

2000-10-16 Thread Ragnar Hojland Espinosa
Burnt a CD, compared the file with the original, and found out the following. As you can see, the mismatch is the same depending on the offset. What's wrong? I'm using the ide-scsi patch Andre posted, btw. 07CEE45D: 63 73 0C96C5FF: 85 05 0D4B259A: B8 38 0FA3259A: DC 5C 1259745D: E1 F1 17CAA45D

mcdx oopsing in d_lookup (2.4.0-test9)

2000-10-08 Thread Ragnar Hojland Espinosa
After mounting; Doing 1 or 2 ls, works fine. However if you do a cat * > /dev/null, it oopses. I'm not sure if this is the real evil-doer since it spews a couple of oopses out of scrollback reach, but the last point appears to be in d_lookup, in the for. 0xc013bfc6 : movl 0x0(

Re: No SCSI burning problem (was: Bug in "ide-pci.c")

2000-10-08 Thread Ragnar Hojland Espinosa
On Sat, Oct 07, 2000 at 11:16:30AM -0700, Andre Hedrick wrote: > On Sat, 7 Oct 2000, Jeff V. Merkey wrote: > > > append "hdd=ide-scsi" > > append "hdd=scsi" is better. Care to explain why? -- /| Ragnar Højland Freedom - Linux - OpenGL Fingerprint 94C4B \ o.O|

Re: ide-scsi seems to inhibit mounting CD-ROMs

2000-10-01 Thread Ragnar Hojland Espinosa
On Sat, Sep 30, 2000 at 01:06:13PM -0500, Thomas Molina wrote: > My CD-RW is a Phillips CDD-3610. I'm not sure who the person wanting > input from a Phillips user was so I hope that person is reading here. I > got cdrecord working by NOT compiling in ATAPI CD ROM support, and by > compiling ide-

Re: ide-scsi seems to inhibit mounting CD-ROMs

2000-09-29 Thread Ragnar Hojland Espinosa
On Fri, Sep 29, 2000 at 11:41:20AM +0200, Lars Steinke wrote: > When using ide-scsi to access a CDRW writer, the recording process works > but I am not able to mount any CD-ROM media in that drive for reading. And here it's exactly the opposite :) If anyone has a Philips CDD-36xx drive and cdr

Re: Posting to this list without 500 bounces?

2000-09-28 Thread Ragnar Hojland Espinosa
On Thu, Sep 28, 2000 at 08:25:09PM +, Miquel van Smoorenburg wrote: > In article <3776575819.970144217@[10.10.1.2]>, > And unreliable ISP SMTP servers? Hard to imagine, as 99.5% of the > userbase undoubtedly uses that SMTP server and I can't believe > that a reasonable ISP randomly drops email

Re: Linux kernel modules development in C++

2000-09-28 Thread Ragnar Hojland Espinosa
On Thu, Sep 28, 2000 at 04:44:55PM -0400, Horst von Brand wrote: > Ragnar Hojland Espinosa <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > > On Thu, Sep 28, 2000 at 01:45:40AM +0200, Igmar Palsenberg wrote: > > Let's put it the other way... there aren't many people who know C++ &g

Re: Posting to this list without 500 bounces?

2000-09-28 Thread Ragnar Hojland Espinosa
On Wed, Sep 27, 2000 at 05:38:23PM -0400, Mike A. Harris wrote: > This message may be seen by some to be OT, but it concerns > ISP's SMTP. I figured despite the slowness, it would solve the > problem. Now I'm getting back all sorts of bounces from machines > blocking using something at "www.mail

Re: Linux kernel modules development in C++

2000-09-28 Thread Ragnar Hojland Espinosa
On Thu, Sep 28, 2000 at 01:45:40AM +0200, Igmar Palsenberg wrote: > Some arguments why not to use it in the kernel : > > - C++ gives overhead. With something like a kernel that's unwanted. You pay for what you use, no less no more. C++ compilers don't generate bloated code `per se' but, yes, i

Re: Whining about MIME formatted email

2000-09-08 Thread Ragnar Hojland Espinosa
On Fri, Sep 08, 2000 at 11:10:13PM +0200, Kurt Garloff wrote: > Stop making stupid statements like this, please, and comparing well-defined > RFC standards with proprietary formats. > MIME is a way for people that happen to use non 7bit characters to be able > to print their name correctly, even