ACPI weirdness in 2.4.1 ? (!!)

2001-02-04 Thread Benson Chow
This is odd: System: AMD AthlonThunderbird 850, Chaintech 7AIA MB Seems 2.4.0 isn't affected (dmesg related to ACPI:) ACPI: System description tables found ACPI: System description tables loaded ACPI: Subsystem enabled ACPI: System firmware supports: C2 ACPI: System firmware supports: S0 S1 S4

Re: [patch] tmpfs for 2.4.1

2001-02-04 Thread Christoph Rohland
"H. Peter Anvin" [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Do you need it for POSIX shm or not... if so, I would say you do need it (even if it's going to take some time until POSIX shm becomes widely used.) Yes, you need it. glibc 2.2 will search for a shm fs on shm_open. And without it fails. And the

d-link dfe-530 tx (bug-report)

2001-02-04 Thread ksa1
hi! When I download big files with a win-client from my linux-server with samba 2.07 and kernel 2.4.1 (just downloaded to test the new driver) after a random time there is a connection-error! ..when I just download a few megabytes there is no problem. /var/log/messages on the linux-server with

Re: [patch] tmpfs for 2.4.1

2001-02-04 Thread Christoph Rohland
"J . A . Magallon" [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: There was a post recently (that now I can't find), that said the shm management was done with an interal fs. Was that Posix or sysv shm ? SYSV shm and shared anonymous mappings are using a kern_mount of shm/tmpfs. So the CONFIG_TMPFS does only make

Re: [patch?] RAMFS

2001-02-04 Thread Christoph Rohland
Mike Galbraith [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: However, tmpfs appears to cover the functionality provided by ramfs. Are there any uses for ramfs which can't be handled by tmpfs? Nothing I know of. The only thing I could think of was "what if you don't have a swap device up and running". Seems

2.4.1 segfault when doing ls /dev/

2001-02-04 Thread Pierfrancesco Caci
It happened with 2.4.0, it continues to happen with 2.4.1 too root@penny:~ # ps -ax|grep devfs 48 ?S 0:00 /sbin/devfsd /dev 6300 pts/0S 0:00 grep devfs root@penny:~ # cd /dev root@penny:/dev # ls Segmentation fault root@penny:/dev # ps -ax|grep devfs 6309 pts/0S

Re: ATAPI CDRW which doesn't work

2001-02-04 Thread Joachim 'roh' Steiger
On Sun, 4 Feb 2001, Marko Kreen wrote: On Sat, Feb 03, 2001 at 11:05:44PM +0100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Compile in options 'SCSI generic', 'SCSI cdrom and 'SCSI emulation support' then add 'hdb=scsi' to kernel parameters. is there someone working on direct support for Atapi-cdrw this time?

Re: d-link dfe-530 tx (bug-report)

2001-02-04 Thread Jonathan Morton
/var/log/messages on the linux-server with the d-link dfe-530 tx: [THIS IS THE ERROR-MESSAGE!] Feb 1 17:25:56 Nethost kernel: NETDEV WATCHDOG: eth0: transmit timed out Feb 1 17:25:56 Nethost kernel: eth0: Transmit timed out, status , PHY status 782d, resetting... after booting everthing

AW: ATAPI CDRW which doesn't work - devfs problems

2001-02-04 Thread Friedrich Lindenberg
Hi I was trying to burn cds under linux-2.4.1 with devFS enabled. But x-cd-roast (and also cdrecord) do not find any scsi drives. I guess they have been renamed or something like that, I cannot find them in /dev, nor anywhere in /dev/scsi ... Oh, and could anybody tell me, how I stop

Re: System unresponsitive when copying HD/HD

2001-02-04 Thread Alan Cox
If I have vmstat running, I notice blocks trickling out to the disk, 5sec averages 495,142,151,155,136,257,15,0. Note that the maximum read rate (hdparm -t) of this disk is in the 12-14M/s range. I'm getting about 1-5% of that on output with the system's disk subsystem being apparently

RE: accept

2001-02-04 Thread David Schwartz
What does it typically mean when accept returns 0 and that the perror outputs "Interupted system call"?? Since 'accept' returning zero is not an error, the results of 'perror' are meaningless. Please read the manual page for 'accept' and notice that it says, "The call returns -1 on

Re: [reiserfs-list] ReiserFS Oops (2.4.1, deterministic, symlink related)

2001-02-04 Thread Alan Cox
can bracket his code in 'if [ $TRUSTED = "y" ] ... fi', so if some driver-fs fails with untrusted compilers it is just not selectable. What kind of crap is this? It is not the kernel's job to work around RedHat bugs. The kernel actually works round gcc 2.7.2, egcs-1.1.2 and gcc-2.95

Re: PS hanging in 2.4.1 - More interesting things

2001-02-04 Thread Alan Cox
Ok, I rebooted the system, then syslogd was using 100% cpu? it seems like perhaps reiserfs is causing this problem?? Typically it means your syslogd (klogd actually) is too old and has a bug that a 0 length printk causes it to spin. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe

Inadmissible sound dropouts on 2.2.18

2001-02-04 Thread clock
I found that 2.2.18 probably rudely drops samples (lets ocassionally one sample be played several times) on the Gravis Ultrasound output device. I use 2.2.18 and the native kernel drivers. I wrote this program that should produce a clean sine tone. Instead I hear a sine interspaced with

RE: system call sched_yield() doesn't work on Linux 2.2

2001-02-04 Thread David Schwartz
The program you attached worked perfectly for me. You need to 'fflush(stdout);' after each 'printf'. You didn't expect perfect alternation did you? That's totally unrealistic. You cannot use the scheduler as a synchronization mechanism. -- Thread1 Thread1 Thread2 Thread1 Thread1

Re: d-link dfe-530 tx (bug-report)

2001-02-04 Thread hjb
Hi, This sounds every much like it's related to the problems we're having with the card not initialising on reboot from Windows. What's the bets we're looking at a new revision of the chip which VIA haven't (publically) released documentation for yet? I'd say they're pretty high... I had the

AW: ATAPI CDRW which doesn't work - devfs problems part2

2001-02-04 Thread Friedrich Lindenberg
-Ursprngliche Nachricht- Von: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]Im Auftrag von Friedrich Lindenberg Gesendet: Sonntag, 4. Februar 2001 11:36 An: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Betreff: AW: ATAPI CDRW which doesn't work - devfs problems Hi I was trying to burn cds under linux-2.4.1

Re: Better battery info/status files

2001-02-04 Thread James Sutherland
On Sat, 3 Feb 2001, Russell King wrote: Albert D. Cahalan writes: The units seem to vary. I suggest using fundamental SI units. That would be meters, kilograms, seconds, and maybe a very few others -- my memory fails me on this. iirc, SI comes from France, and therefore it should be

Problems with ide-scsi in 2.4.1

2001-02-04 Thread huma
Hi all, System: kernel 2.4.1 util-linux-2.10r cdrecord-1.9 modutils-2.3.21 I have a cd writer and a cdrom in the same pc. When the kernel has SCSI support compiled as a module, cdrecord doesn't find anything (hdb=ide-scsi is passed with lilo). When is compiled with built-in scsi support, the

Re: Inadmissible sound dropouts on 2.2.18

2001-02-04 Thread john slee
On Sun, Feb 04, 2001 at 12:07:28PM +0100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The crackling is not dependent on the buffer size you can set up in the C code. The crackling is dependent on the frequency of the sine. It's clearly audible (read: annoying) at 10kHz, audible at 1kHz, inaudible at 100Hz. So I

Re: d-link dfe-530 tx (bug-report)

2001-02-04 Thread Manfred Spraul
Urban Widmark wrote: The "transmit timed out" message is simply saying that we told the card to send something but it hasn't generated an interrupt or anything allowing the driver to know the packet was actually sent. check via_rhine_tx_timeout(): the function is basically empty. Oh,

Re: d-link dfe-530 tx (bug-report)

2001-02-04 Thread Urban Widmark
On Sun, 4 Feb 2001, Manfred Spraul wrote: Oh, that's known already. They haven't released any info on the older "VT3043" chip either, afaik. And the vt86c100a.pdf document is just a preliminary version. Where can I find that file? I'll try to implement tx_timeout()

Re: [OT] Major Clock Drift

2001-02-04 Thread Michael B. Trausch
On Sat, 3 Feb 2001, Josh Myer wrote: Hello all, I know this _really_ isn't the forum for this, but a friend of mine has noticed major, persistent clock drift over time. After several weeks, the clock is several minutes slow (always slow). Any thoughts on the cause? (Google didn't show up

Re: Better battery info/status files

2001-02-04 Thread Steve Underwood
James Sutherland wrote: On Sat, 3 Feb 2001, Russell King wrote: Albert D. Cahalan writes: The units seem to vary. I suggest using fundamental SI units. That would be meters, kilograms, seconds, and maybe a very few others -- my memory fails me on this. iirc, SI comes from

Re: [Kiobuf-io-devel] RFC: Kernel mechanism: Compound event wait /notify + callback chains

2001-02-04 Thread bsuparna
Hi, On Fri, Feb 02, 2001 at 12:51:35PM +0100, Christoph Hellwig wrote: If I have a page vector with a single offset/length pair, I can build a new header with the same vector and modified offset/length to split the vector in two without copying it. You just say in the higher-level

Re: 2.4.1 segfault when doing ls /dev/

2001-02-04 Thread Pierre Rousselet
Pierfrancesco Caci wrote: 48 ?S 0:00 /sbin/devfsd /dev on my box devfsd has pid 15, it comes just after the [kdaems] 1 ?S 0:04 init 2 ?SW 0:00 [keventd] 3 ?SW 0:00 [kapm-idled] 4 ?SW 0:00 [kswapd] 5 ?

Re: [patch?] RAMFS

2001-02-04 Thread David Woodhouse
On 4 Feb 2001, Christoph Rohland wrote: Yes and no. tmpfs has a little bit overhead for the noswap case but this overhead is in the kernel anyways for shared anon mappings. The whole vm is using swap unconditionally. I'm hoping that'll end up conditional on CONFIG_BLK_DEV or CONFIG_SWAP.

Re: 2.4.1 segfault when doing ls /dev/

2001-02-04 Thread Pierfrancesco Caci
:- "Pierre" == Pierre Rousselet [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Pierfrancesco Caci wrote: 48 ?S 0:00 /sbin/devfsd /dev on my box devfsd has pid 15, it comes just after the [kdaems] and it works with 2.4.x I can't see how this can affect performance/funtionality of

Re: Problems with ide-scsi in 2.4.1

2001-02-04 Thread Jeff Chua
try to add the following to /etc/modules.conf ... pre-install sg modprobe -k sr_mod pre-install sr_mod modprobe -k ide-scsi pre-install ide-scsi modprobe -k ide-cd pre-install ide-cd modprobe -k ide-probe-mod options ide-cd ignore="hdc" ... that's assuming you want to use hdc as the ide cdrw

Re: Better battery info/status files

2001-02-04 Thread David Woodhouse
On Sun, 4 Feb 2001, James Sutherland wrote: For the end-user, the ability to see readings in other units would be useful - how many people on this list work in litres/metres/kilometres, and how many in gallons/feet/miles? Probably enough in both groups that neither could count as

kernel memory allocations alignment

2001-02-04 Thread Hen, Shmulik
Hello, When using kmalloc(size_t size), do I get a guaranty that the memory region allocated is aligned according to the size specified ? More to the point, if I call kmalloc for type int on an IA64 architecture is the pointer going to be 8 bytes aligned ? Shmulik Hen Software

Re: Better battery info/status files

2001-02-04 Thread Ben Ford
David Woodhouse wrote: On Sun, 4 Feb 2001, James Sutherland wrote: For the end-user, the ability to see readings in other units would be useful - how many people on this list work in litres/metres/kilometres, and how many in gallons/feet/miles? Probably enough in both groups that

[2.4.1] DEVFS+RAID not working

2001-02-04 Thread Art Boulatov
Hi, as I've posted before in [SoftwareRAID in 2.4.1], I wasn't able to get RAID0 working with devfs enabled and mounted on /dev. The problem had gone after I passed devfs=nomount, and used old device names for configuring/starting raid: /dev/md0 instead of /dev/md/0 /dev/sda1 instead of

/usr/src/linux/scripts/ver_linux prints out incorrect info when ls is aliased.

2001-02-04 Thread Ishikawa
I just noticed that running . /usr/src/linux/script/ver_linux prints out strange libc version when I run it as a normal user. It prints out expected output if I run it as superuser. Output Example: Incorrect and correct examples. Binutils 2.10.0.26 ! Linux C Library

Re: [OT] Major Clock Drift

2001-02-04 Thread Steve Underwood
"Michael B. Trausch" wrote: On Sat, 3 Feb 2001, Josh Myer wrote: Hello all, I know this _really_ isn't the forum for this, but a friend of mine has noticed major, persistent clock drift over time. After several weeks, the clock is several minutes slow (always slow). Any thoughts on

[patch] make tmpfs_statfs more user friendly

2001-02-04 Thread Christoph Rohland
Hi Alan, The following patch make shmem_statfs report some sensible size estimates in the case that the user does not give a size limit. This should make it more error prone when used as /tmp Greetings Christoph diff -uNr 2.4.1-tmpfs/mm/shmem.c 2.4.1-tmpfs-fstat/mm/shmem.c ---

Re: [OT] Major Clock Drift

2001-02-04 Thread Hacksaw
Technical explanations aside, some sort of clock drift exists in all computers. My experience with Sun hardware, for instance, was that the hardware and software clocks rarely agreed. You should set up your machines to use some sort of time synchronization software, such as ntp or rdate. When

[patch] 2.4.1-tmpfs-2

2001-02-04 Thread Christoph Rohland
Hi, this is my second version of tmpfs against 2.4.1. It adds more resonable reporting on statfs when there is no size limit given. Have fun Christoph diff -uNr 2.4.1/Documentation/Changes 2.4.1-tmpfs-fstat/Documentation/Changes --- 2.4.1/Documentation/Changes Tue Jan 30

Re: d-link dfe-530 tx (bug-report)

2001-02-04 Thread Manfred
Urban Widmark wrote: On Sun, 4 Feb 2001, Manfred Spraul wrote: Oh, that's known already. They haven't released any info on the older "VT3043" chip either, afaik. And the vt86c100a.pdf document is just a preliminary version. Where can I find that file? I'll try to implement

Re: Better battery info/status files

2001-02-04 Thread James Sutherland
On Sun, 4 Feb 2001, Ben Ford wrote: David Woodhouse wrote: On Sun, 4 Feb 2001, James Sutherland wrote: For the end-user, the ability to see readings in other units would be useful - how many people on this list work in litres/metres/kilometres, and how many in gallons/feet/miles?

Re: kernel memory allocations alignment

2001-02-04 Thread Manfred
"Hen, Shmulik" wrote: When using kmalloc(size_t size), do I get a guaranty that the memory region allocated is aligned according to the size specified ? More to the point, if I call kmalloc for type int on an IA64 architecture is the pointer going to be 8 bytes aligned ? Yes, kmalloc

Re: 2.4.1 segfault when doing ls /dev/

2001-02-04 Thread Pierre Rousselet
Pierfrancesco Caci wrote: I can't see how this can affect performance/funtionality of devfsd. Can you try to stop the daemon and restart it to see if continues to work as before ? /dev is mounted at boot time by the kernel (CONFIG_DEVFS_MOUNT=y). The system boots and runs without devfsd. You

RE: kernel memory allocations alignment

2001-02-04 Thread Hen, Shmulik
Actually yes. We were warned that on IA64 architecture the system will halt when accessing any type of variable via a pointer if the pointer does not contain an aligned address matching that type. Until now we were using a method of receiving a pointer to an array, casting it to a pointer of a

RE: accept

2001-02-04 Thread Mathieu Dube
Ok, but fd 0 cant be a valid socket since its the stdin I posted that on this mailing list coz I thought that this might be a scaling problem since it happens when theres already several clients connected to the server On Sun, 04 Feb 2001, David Schwartz wrote: What does it typically mean

Re: Better battery info/status files

2001-02-04 Thread David Woodhouse
On Sun, 4 Feb 2001, James Sutherland wrote: On Sun, 4 Feb 2001, Ben Ford wrote: David Woodhouse wrote: Yeah. We can have this as part of the locale settings, changeable by echoing the desired locale string to /proc/sys/kernel/lc_all. Just an idea, . . but isn't this something

Re: accept

2001-02-04 Thread Mathieu Dube
On Sat, 03 Feb 2001, you wrote: What does it typically mean when accept returns 0 and that the perror outputs "Interupted system call"?? During the call, your process received a signal. Most system calls are affected in this way, so that you may break out of what you are doing by sending

Re: 2.4.1 segfault when doing ls /dev/

2001-02-04 Thread Pierfrancesco Caci
:- "Pierre" == Pierre Rousselet [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: /dev is mounted at boot time by the kernel (CONFIG_DEVFS_MOUNT=y). The system boots and runs without devfsd. You just can't start any process calling for non-existing device under /dev and not created by devfsd. For

Re: [Kiobuf-io-devel] RFC: Kernel mechanism: Compound event wait

2001-02-04 Thread Alan Cox
It appears that we are coming across 2 kinds of requirements for kiobuf vectors - and quite a bit of debate centering around that. 1. In the block device i/o world, where large i/os may be involved, we'd 2. In the networking world, we deal with smaller fragments (for protocol Its probably

Re: Better battery info/status files

2001-02-04 Thread James Sutherland
On Mon, 5 Feb 2001, Steve Underwood wrote: James Sutherland wrote: On Sun, 4 Feb 2001, Ben Ford wrote: David Woodhouse wrote: On Sun, 4 Feb 2001, James Sutherland wrote: For the end-user, the ability to see readings in other units would be useful - how many people on this

Re: kernel memory allocations alignment

2001-02-04 Thread Andi Kleen
"Hen, Shmulik" [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Actually yes. We were warned that on IA64 architecture the system will halt when accessing any type of variable via a pointer if the pointer does not contain an aligned address matching that type. Until now we were using a That will need to be fixed

Re: ATAPI CDRW which doesn't work

2001-02-04 Thread patrick . mourlhon
I've got those kind of message now : Feb 4 07:18:35 Line kernel: scsi : aborting command due to timeout : pid 0, scsi0, channel 0, id 0, lun 0 Read (10) 00 00 00 00 2e 00 00 01 00 If this is a correct ISO9660 cd you should not see those messages. It is either hardware problem (eg

Re: Better battery info/status files

2001-02-04 Thread Alan Cox
Yeah. We can have this as part of the locale settings, changable by echoing the desired locale string to /proc/sys/kernel/lc_all. Just an idea, . . but isn't this something better done in userland? Please remember this is an international list. For the benefit of certain users please

Re: [OT] Major Clock Drift

2001-02-04 Thread Tom Eastep
Thus spoke Michael B. Trausch: On Sat, 3 Feb 2001, Josh Myer wrote: Hello all, I know this _really_ isn't the forum for this, but a friend of mine has noticed major, persistent clock drift over time. After several weeks, the clock is several minutes slow (always slow). Any thoughts

Configure.help typo fix

2001-02-04 Thread Keitaro Yosimura
Hi. Axel Boldt, Alan Cox, Linus Torvalds. We found Configure.help typo. please fix it. for 2.2.X --- linux.orig/Documentation/Configure.help Mon Feb 5 02:07:04 2001 +++ linux/Documentation/Configure.help Mon Feb 5 02:07:52 2001 @@ -1530,7 +1530,7 @@ inserted in and removed from

Re: kaweth usb ethernet driver in 2.4?

2001-02-04 Thread Eric Sandeen
Michael Rothwell wrote: It also doesn't seem to work in 2.2. :) The original development of this driver was going on at http://drivers.rd.ilan.net/kaweth/ but there have been no updates for quite some time. Well, it doesn't work you _you_ on 2.2, obviously. But it works for us and

Re: 2.4.1 segfault when doing ls /dev/

2001-02-04 Thread Pierre Rousselet
Pierfrancesco Caci wrote: Yes I know this. Actually, booting with "devfs=nomount s" is the only way to update the boot record with lilo and my existing lilo.conf. i can't do that on my box, /dev is only a mount point for devfs. assuming your /dev directory is dirty from something else than

Re: ACPI broken in 2.4.1

2001-02-04 Thread Benson Chow
I waited out the boot so I could login and experiment, but it was painfully slow. Compiling with just APM in and no ACPI, results in a correctly-running machine with rh7 gcc-2.96-69. I got lucky this time that with APM worked, else I'd be stuck with slowly fscking, since this last boot I had to

Re: ACPI broken in 2.4.1

2001-02-04 Thread Alan Cox
I waited out the boot so I could login and experiment, but it was painfully slow. Compiling with just APM in and no ACPI, results in a correctly-running machine with rh7 gcc-2.96-69. Lots of people are seeing this. Stick to APM for now until the acpi folks fix it. - To unsubscribe from

RE: system call sched_yield() doesn't work on Linux 2.2

2001-02-04 Thread Mohit Aron
What version of Linux are you using ? What I see is the following: Thread1 Thread1 Thread1 Thread1 Thread1 Thread2 Thread2 Thread2 Thread2 Thread2 Also, it is NOT unrealistic to expect perfect alternation. The

Re: 2.4.2-pre1

2001-02-04 Thread Linus Torvalds
[ Linux-kernel added to the cc, as others probably also wonder ] On Sat, 3 Feb 2001, David D.W. Downey wrote: How often does Alan's patches get rolled into your main line? I'm having difficulty following the divergence here. I'm trying to run THE latest release(s) of your kernel with

Re: accept

2001-02-04 Thread W1012
In article 01020411401700.00110@grndctrl you wrote: Ok, but fd 0 cant be a valid socket since its the stdin if you have closed stdin (like all daemons usually do) you will get fd 0 on next open. There is nothing magical about fd0 or fd1. Greetings Bernd - To unsubscribe from this list: send the

Re: [OT] Major Clock Drift

2001-02-04 Thread Hacksaw
I've discovered that heavy use of vesafb can be a major source of clock drift on my system, especially if I don't specify "ypan" or "ywrap". On my This is extremely interesting. What version of ntp are you using? - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the

Re: [OT] Major Clock Drift

2001-02-04 Thread Tom Eastep
Thus spoke Hacksaw: I've discovered that heavy use of vesafb can be a major source of clock drift on my system, especially if I don't specify "ypan" or "ywrap". On my This is extremely interesting. What version of ntp are you using? The RH7 rpm -- ntp-4.0.99k-5 -Tom -- Tom Eastep

Re: kernel memory allocations alignment

2001-02-04 Thread Johannes Erdfelt
On Sun, Feb 04, 2001, Andi Kleen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: "Hen, Shmulik" [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Actually yes. We were warned that on IA64 architecture the system will halt when accessing any type of variable via a pointer if the pointer does not contain an aligned address matching

Re: Still not sexy! (Re: sendfile+zerocopy: fairly sexy (nothing todowith ECN)

2001-02-04 Thread jamal
On Tue, 30 Jan 2001, Rick Jones wrote: How does ZC/SG change the nature of the packets presented to the NIC? what do you mean? I am _sure_ you know how SG/ZC work. So i am suspecting more than socratic view on life here. Could be influence from Aristotle;- Well, I don't know the

Re: System unresponsitive when copying HD/HD

2001-02-04 Thread LA Walsh
Alan Cox wrote: But try 2.4.1 before worrying too much. That fixed a lot of the block performance problems I was seeing (2.4.1 ruins the VM performance under paging loads but the I/O speed is fixed ;)) --- Seems to have gotten a bit worse. Vmstat output after 'vmware' had completed

Re: PS hanging in 2.4.1 - More interesting things

2001-02-04 Thread Shawn Starr
Well, strangely, it stopped as it started? I don't know what caused it to go loopy but then it just stopped. Im using: syslogd -ver syslogd 1.4-0 klogd -v klogd 1.4-0 I thought this only affected older versions? Shawn. Alan Cox wrote: Ok, I rebooted the system, then syslogd was using

Re: PS hanging in 2.4.1 - More interesting things

2001-02-04 Thread Alan Cox
Well, strangely, it stopped as it started? I don't know what caused it to go loopy but then it just stopped. Im using: syslogd -ver syslogd 1.4-0 klogd -v klogd 1.4-0 I thought this only affected older versions? Yep. So something else happened in this case. I don't know what but that

RE: accept

2001-02-04 Thread J . A . Magallon
On 02.04 Mathieu Dube wrote: Ok, but fd 0 cant be a valid socket since its the stdin I posted that on this mailing list coz I thought that this might be a scaling problem since it happens when theres already several clients connected to the server It just mean that your stdin was closed

Re: AW: ATAPI CDRW which doesn't work - devfs problems

2001-02-04 Thread Douglas Gilbert
Friedrich Lindenberg wrote: I was trying to burn cds under linux-2.4.1 with devFS enabled. But x-cd-roast (and also cdrecord) do not find any scsi drives. I guess they have been renamed or something like that, I cannot find them in /dev, nor anywhere in /dev/scsi ... xcdroast expects to

Re: PS hanging in 2.4.1 - More interesting things

2001-02-04 Thread Shawn Starr
Well, i found something in my logs: This really is weird :) Shawn. Alan Cox wrote: Well, strangely, it stopped as it started? I don't know what caused it to go loopy but then it just stopped. Im using: syslogd -ver syslogd 1.4-0 klogd -v klogd 1.4-0 I thought this only

Dual Promise Ultra66 PCI Cards

2001-02-04 Thread Adrian Chung
I've been attempting to get two Promise Ultra66 controllers working with an Asus P2B-F motherboard. I've got one controller successfully working, but as soon as I stick the second controller in the computer, the system refuses to boot. With 2.2.18 and the linux-ide patches (Uniform E-IDE 6.30),

Re: Configure.help typo fix

2001-02-04 Thread Jeremy M. Dolan
On Mon, 05 Feb 2001 02:22:11 +, Keitaro Yosimura wrote: Hi. Axel Boldt, Alan Cox, Linus Torvalds. This might be a good time to mention Axel has passed maintainership of Configure.help to myself. I'm currently working to combine Axel's fork against Linux 2.4.1's Configure.help, which is

Re: RAID autodetect and 2.4.1

2001-02-04 Thread Jakob Østergaard
On Sun, Feb 04, 2001 at 12:28:30AM +0100, Jean-Eric Cuendet wrote: Hi, I have a server with RAID1 partitions with linux 2.4.1 (stock, self-compiled) installed. It was easy to create the RAID partitions but when booting, no auto-detection is successful. The kernel says that autodetect is

2.4.0/2.4.1 crashes in ext2

2001-02-04 Thread Dan Merillat
Ok, here's the crash I'm getting in 2.4.0. Same thing is happening in 2.4.1, but It's dying harder so getting syslog info out is tougher. Looks like it's trying to write WAY past the end of a drive (from some messages that unfortunatly did not get logged, but were scrolling on the screen) but

APM screen blanking

2001-02-04 Thread Joseph Pingenot
Greetings. Does anyone know what would cause a lockup when (2.4.x): * supsending to disk * changing from X to a virtual console with APM enabled? Changing from X to a VC functions when APM is compiled out. Essentially, the screen blanks once and the machine locks up. Usually while

Re: [PATCH] dynamic IP support for 2.4.0 (SIOCKILLADDR)

2001-02-04 Thread Mark Cooke
On Mon, 29 Jan 2001, Jamie Lokier wrote: Unfortunately getting the same IP is rare now, so I've been toying with running a PPP tunnel through a fixed host out on the net. The tunnel would be dropped and recreated with each new connection. My local link IP would change, but the tunnel IP

Motherboard Misdetect

2001-02-04 Thread Steve 'Denali' McKnelly
Howdy everyone, I own a M-Technology M-668DS motherboard. Linux 2.4.1 identifies my board as a Soyo SY-6KD. They're not really the same board, and they each have features the other doesn't have. (The 668DS has onboard SCSI, where as the 6KD doesn't. The

Re: Motherboard Misdetect

2001-02-04 Thread David Woodhouse
[EMAIL PROTECTED] said: I own a M-Technology M-668DS motherboard. Linux 2.4.1 identifies my board as a Soyo SY-6KD. They're not really the same board, and they each have features the other doesn't have. (The 668DS has onboard SCSI, where as the 6KD doesn't.

Re: kaweth usb ethernet driver in 2.4?

2001-02-04 Thread Michael Rothwell
Thanks. Has Brad Hards made his version available somewhere? -M - Original Message - From: "Eric Sandeen" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: "Michael Rothwell" [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, February 04, 2001 9:30 AM Subject: Re: "kaweth" usb ethernet driver in 2.4? Michael

Re: Better battery info/status files

2001-02-04 Thread Ben Ford
David Woodhouse wrote: On Sun, 4 Feb 2001, James Sutherland wrote: On Sun, 4 Feb 2001, Ben Ford wrote: David Woodhouse wrote: On Sun, 4 Feb 2001, James Sutherland wrote: For the end-user, the ability to see readings in other units would be useful - how many people on this list work

3 more traces, 2.4.1 this time.

2001-02-04 Thread Dan Merillat
Managed to get 2.4.1 to Oops without locking up entirely: I have no idea what's causing this... I just mkfs'ed all the drives fresh, so there shouldn't be any filesystem corruption. Ideas? Unable to handle kernel paging request at virtual address d8958100 c0130704 *pde = Oops:

Re: [OT] Major Clock Drift

2001-02-04 Thread Alan Chandler
On Sun, 04 Feb 2001 10:31:35 -0500, you wrote: Technical explanations aside, some sort of clock drift exists in all computers. My experience with Sun hardware, for instance, was that the hardware and software clocks rarely agreed. You should set up your machines to use some sort of time

2.4.2-pre1 won't boot on my SMP P-II

2001-02-04 Thread Bryan W. Headley
Last kernel that booted was Redhat's build of 2.4.0-pre11. I'm not sure where the issue is at, so I attach a log of the system booting up. It's an ASUS P2B-DS with dual Deschutes PII-450s. Anybody with a clue as to where to look, please advise. (Have other boot logs) --

IDE CD writer fails on 2.4.x

2001-02-04 Thread Frank van de Pol
Though I was successfull using my cdwriter under the pre series and win98 it fails using 2.4.x (i tested it with 2.4.0 and 2.4.2-pre1). cd writer software in use: Cdrecord 1.9 (i686-pc-linux-gnu) Copyright (C) 1995-2000 Jrg Schilling caps according to hdparm: /dev/hdd: Model=PHILIPS

Re: d-link dfe-530 tx (bug-report)

2001-02-04 Thread Thomas Stewart
On 4 Feb 2001, at 23:31, Urban Widmark wrote: On Sun, 4 Feb 2001, Manfred wrote: Ok, I've attached a patch that performs an unconditional reset in tx_timeout(). I don't have the hardware, could you test it? The changed startup code doesn't break anything for me. I also found

modversions.h source pollution in 2.4

2001-02-04 Thread Keith Owens
The following files explicitly include linux/modversions.h. They should not do this, the Makefiles are responsible for automatically including modversions.h. Since modversions.h will disappear in 2.5, consider this advance warning that the offending sources can expect problems. Maintainers:

Re: modversions.h source pollution in 2.4

2001-02-04 Thread Jeff Garzik
Keith Owens wrote: Maintainers: please fix these sources by removing modversions.h. [...] drivers/net/epic100.c drivers/net/starfire.c Fixed. Jeff -- Jeff Garzik | "You see, in this world there's two kinds of Building 1024 | people, my friend: Those with loaded guns

[BUG] Shutting down PCMCIA driver in Linux 2.4.1, Trying to free nonexistent resource 000003e0-000003e1

2001-02-04 Thread Thomas Hood
I get this message when shutting down Linux with 2.4.1 kernel, kernel PCMCIA support compiled as a module. - $ cat /proc/ioports ... 03e0-03e1 : i82365 ... $ sudo reboot (reboot) $ grep 3e0 /var/log/messages Feb 4

RE: accept

2001-02-04 Thread David Schwartz
Ok, but fd 0 cant be a valid socket since its the stdin Wrong. fd 0 can be a valid socket. Read the man page to 'accept' again. Remember again that zero is a non-negative integer. I posted that on this mailing list coz I thought that this might be a scaling problem since it happens

RE: system call sched_yield() doesn't work on Linux 2.2

2001-02-04 Thread David Schwartz
What version of Linux are you using ? What I see is the following: I'm using 2.4.1-pre10, glibc 2.1.3. Thread1 Thread1 Thread1 Thread1 Thread1 Thread2 Thread2 Thread2 Thread2 Thread2 That's totally

Re: System unresponsitive when copying HD/HD

2001-02-04 Thread Jens Axboe
On Sun, Feb 04 2001, LA Walsh wrote: Seems to have gotten a bit worse. Vmstat output after 'vmware' had completed write -- but system unresponsive and writing out a 155M file... Your numbers seem way too much off to have much to do with i/o scheduling fairness, but there is a slight bug

Re: ATAPI CDRW which doesn't work

2001-02-04 Thread Jens Axboe
On Sat, Feb 03 2001, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Feb 3 22:08:25 Line kernel: hdb: irq timeout: status=0xd0 { Busy } Feb 3 22:08:25 Line kernel: hdb: DMA disabled Feb 3 22:08:55 Line kernel: hdb: ATAPI reset timed-out, status=0x90 Feb 3 22:08:55 Line kernel: hda: DMA disabled Try disabling

Re: Adding PCMCIA support to the kernel tree -- developers needed.

2001-02-04 Thread Jeff Garzik
Miles Lane wrote: Jeff Garzik wrote: On Fri, 2 Feb 2001, Miles Lane wrote: I asked David Hinds to write up an outline of the things that will be needed to get PCMCIA support cleanly and completely integrated into the kernel tree. David has expressed that he'll not be able to

Re: [OT] Major Clock Drift

2001-02-04 Thread Michael B. Trausch
On Sun, 4 Feb 2001, Tom Eastep wrote: Thus spoke Michael B. Trausch: On Sat, 3 Feb 2001, Josh Myer wrote: Hello all, I know this _really_ isn't the forum for this, but a friend of mine has noticed major, persistent clock drift over time. After several weeks, the clock is

[PATCH] [BUGFIX] [RESEND, goddammit!] important fixes for ieee1394 subsystem

2001-02-04 Thread Andreas Bombe
I have sent the following patch three times to you during 2.4.1 prepatch time and you seem to have missed all of them (Jan 15, 19 and 25). I hope we can manage that for 2.4.2 and get the known bugs with fixes out of the ieee1394 subsystem. Finally. Please, either show some sign of life by

Re: Adding PCMCIA support to the kernel tree -- developers needed.

2001-02-04 Thread Miles Lane
As we look into developing PCMCIA support in the 2.4/2.5 kernel trees, in addition to reading the pcmcia-cs code to learn about problems with specific devices that need to be handled, David Hinds also a reference page that lists some a bunch of issues that are in varying degrees of resolution:

Re: More on the VIA KT133 chipset misbehaving in Linux

2001-02-04 Thread Rogerio Brito
On Feb 02 2001, Dunlap, Randy wrote: From: Rogerio Brito [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] While I don't have problems with the Duron above, I do have a 486 here with 8MB of memory that I intend to use as a router for my local LAN, but 2.4.0 only recognizes 7MB, while 2.2.18

[Patch] 3Com 3c523: Can't load module in kernel 2.4.1

2001-02-04 Thread Tom Sightler
Ok all, here's a patch that attempts to make the 3c523 driver work again in 2.4.1. It includes the following changes: - fix addresses with bus_to_virt - reduce xmit buffers from 4 to 1 (puts driver in noop mode like ni52 driver) - increase recv buffers from 6 to 9 (should help decrease

Re: raid-1 with raid-0 and normal disk - performance and autostart?

2001-02-04 Thread Neil Brown
On Thursday February 1, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: hi, i using kernel 2.4.1. mkraid version 0.90.0 i build /dev/md0 raid-0 with hda5 and sda1. then i build /dev/md1 raid-1 with /dev/md0 and sdb1. it works fine. BUT the resync takes a long time. i have a performance from 253K/sec. whats

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