Bug#398948: i810fb not available at boot-time if compiled as a module

2007-01-21 Thread Matt Zimmerman
On Sat, Jan 20, 2007 at 09:10:37PM +, TJ wrote: > On Sat, 2007-01-20 at 12:59 -0800, Matt Zimmerman wrote: > > The options are passed to it by modprobe, based on command-line parameters > > and its configuration files, either in early userspace (initramfs) or from >

Bug#398948: i810fb not available at boot-time if compiled as a module

2007-01-20 Thread Matt Zimmerman
On Sat, Jan 20, 2007 at 08:11:50PM +, TJ wrote: > On Sat, 2007-01-20 at 11:21 -0800, Matt Zimmerman wrote: > > > The argument handling is done differently for the modular case; elsewhere in > > the file you'll find module_param macros for that purpose. > > >

Bug#398948: i810fb not available at boot-time if compiled as a module

2007-01-20 Thread Matt Zimmerman
On Sat, Jan 20, 2007 at 06:33:35PM +, TJ wrote: > I've been investigating this issue on two notebooks that have i815 > chipsets, with Ubuntu Edgy 6.10 (2.6.17-10). > > The reason i810fb (and most other framebuffers) isn't available at > boot-time when compiled as a module is that the framebuf

Bug#398948: i810fb not available at boot-time if compiled as a module

2007-01-20 Thread Matt Zimmerman
On Sat, Jan 20, 2007 at 06:38:18PM +, TJ wrote: > I've been investigating this issue on two notebooks that have i815 > chip-sets, with Ubuntu Edgy 6.10 (2.6.17-10). > > I've documented my research in this Ubuntu bug report: > > https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/fbset/+bug/64666 > > T

Bug#380028: closed by Bastian Blank <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> (Re: Bug#380028: mkvmlinuz requires -fno-stack-protector with gcc-4.1)

2006-08-03 Thread Matt Zimmerman
On Thu, Aug 03, 2006 at 10:50:56PM +0200, Sven Luther wrote: > On Sun, Jul 30, 2006 at 10:35:15AM -0700, Matt Zimmerman wrote: > > That isn't true any more now than it was the first time you asserted it, and > > I've corrected you several times in other forums. > >

Bug#380028: closed by Bastian Blank <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> (Re: Bug#380028: mkvmlinuz requires -fno-stack-protector with gcc-4.1)

2006-07-30 Thread Matt Zimmerman
On Sun, Jul 30, 2006 at 06:50:10PM +0200, Sven Luther wrote: > On Thu, Jul 27, 2006 at 09:51:40AM +0200, Emanuel Steen wrote: > > Please, don't ignore the bug report just because I'm using Ubuntu. It's the > > same package, version 23 of mkvmlinuz in Debian. I just found it better to > > report i

Re: Bug#323183: Please remove some linux packages from sid

2005-08-18 Thread Matt Zimmerman
On Wed, Aug 17, 2005 at 01:13:46AM -0400, Andres Salomon wrote: > On Tue, Aug 16, 2005 at 02:43:36PM -0700, Matt Zimmerman wrote: > > It should be removed from unstable if no one steps up to maintain it; it > > needs to be repackaged more or less from scratch in order to migrate t

Re: Bug#323183: Please remove some linux packages from sid

2005-08-16 Thread Matt Zimmerman
On Tue, Aug 16, 2005 at 02:22:33PM -0700, Steve Langasek wrote: > On Tue, Aug 16, 2005 at 09:23:52AM -0400, Joey Hess wrote: > > Jeroen van Wolffelaar wrote: > > > This will break a lot packages depending on one of those, including but > > > not limited to things like linux-kernel-di-hppa-2.6, pwc,

Bug#310931: overheating cpu due to !acpid

2005-07-26 Thread Matt Zimmerman
On Tue, Jul 26, 2005 at 11:13:47PM +0200, maximilian attems wrote: > On Tue, 26 Jul 2005, Marcin Owsiany wrote: > > > Either way, I don't think having acpid installed is enough, as long it > > starts so late in bootup process. A long fsck run or a similar problem > > before entering runlevel 2, an

Bug#306355: linux-image-2.6.10-5-k7-smp: fails to boot on udev system

2005-05-02 Thread Matt Zimmerman
On Mon, May 02, 2005 at 10:47:21PM +0300, Pasi Savolainen wrote: > On 5/2/05, Colin Watson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Tue, Apr 26, 2005 at 03:22:49AM +0300, Pasi Savolainen wrote: > > > Package: linux-image-2.6.10-5-k7-smp > > > Version: 2.6.10-34 > > > Severity: important > > > > This appe

Bug#294826: kernel-image-2.4.27-1-686-smp: kernel panic in dm_snapshot.c

2005-02-24 Thread Matt Zimmerman
On Fri, Feb 25, 2005 at 12:44:04PM +0900, Horms wrote: > thanks for your bug report. Sorry for the long delay in replying. > Long inbox... > > I took a quick look into this. Unfortunately I can't find dm_snapshot.c > in either the kernel tree or the evms source code tree, nor anything > that look

Re: Bug #266882 still not fixed

2005-01-06 Thread Matt Zimmerman
On Fri, Jan 07, 2005 at 11:41:51AM +0900, Horms wrote: > Understood. Would it be helpful if security patches for the 2.4 kernel > were forwarded to the security-team as they are added to SVN for > inclusion in unstable and thus testing? Yes, absolutely. > Perhaps being better about opening entri

Re: Bug #266882 still not fixed

2005-01-03 Thread Matt Zimmerman
On Wed, Dec 15, 2004 at 11:27:58AM +0900, Horms wrote: > On Wed, Dec 15, 2004 at 12:59:24AM +0100, Tomasz Malesinski wrote: > > Why hasn't the bug #266882 (CAN-2004-0554 i387.h in kernel: asm > > volatile("fnclex ; fwait");) has not been fixed in 2.4.18 for so long? > > That and a host of others.

Bug#285359: [Fwd: Re: the extraversion problem]

2004-12-15 Thread Matt Zimmerman
On Tue, Dec 14, 2004 at 10:04:42AM -0500, Marvin Stodolsky wrote: > Note that in in the Ubuntu packages linux-headers-2.6.8.1 and > linux-headers-2.6.8.1-3-686 > there is assignment: > Maintainer: Debian kernel team > so please transfer the Bug Report to those packages The maintainer address

Bug#261706: usb-storage hangs all USB devices

2004-09-13 Thread Matt Zimmerman
On Thu, Aug 12, 2004 at 11:13:14AM +0900, Horms wrote: > On Sun, Aug 01, 2004 at 10:43:30PM -0700, Matt Zimmerman wrote: > > Is there anything further I can do to help resolve this issue? For now, I > > am working around the problem by backing out to an older cdrecord which >

Bug#270437: Patch

2004-09-09 Thread Matt Zimmerman
tags 270437 patch thanks Herbert Xu pointed out that the problem is that growisofs opens the device read-only, while read-write mode is necessary for some of the ioctls that it uses. This trivial patch seems to get it working again, though I confess the code is difficult to follow and I'm not sur

Bug#261706: Still here

2004-09-07 Thread Matt Zimmerman
This bug is still present with 2.6.8.1, same symptoms. -- - mdz

Bug#266882: CAN-2004-0554 i387.h in kernel: asm volatile("fnclex ; fwait");

2004-08-20 Thread Matt Zimmerman
On Fri, Aug 20, 2004 at 10:20:17AM +0900, Horms wrote: > tags 266882 + woody security > > Security Team, what is going on with respect to updating 2.4.18 in > woody? There are numerous CAN entries outstanding. Joey has been working on it, and I have sent him what patches I had been able to colle

Bug#262383: Options

2004-08-19 Thread Matt Zimmerman
Is it possible to have ACPI disabled in the kernel until acpid starts, and enable it then? Or must this decision be made very early in the boot process? -- - mdz

Bug#262540: Is 262540 a problem for debian stable 2.4.18 as well?

2004-08-06 Thread Matt Zimmerman
On Fri, Aug 06, 2004 at 01:34:27PM +0200, boud wrote: > Is anyone working on a new security release for 2.4.18? Joey is. -- - mdz

Bug#261706: usb-storage hangs all USB devices

2004-08-02 Thread Matt Zimmerman
Is there anything further I can do to help resolve this issue? For now, I am working around the problem by backing out to an older cdrecord which doesn't trigger the problem, but I would like to help solve it correctly. Has anyone else seen this behaviour? -- - mdz

Bug#257373: Support for UML ubd devices

2004-07-02 Thread Matt Zimmerman
Package: initrd-tools Version: 0.1.71 Severity: wishlist Tags: patch This trivial patch adds support for user mode linux ubd devices to mkinitrd. -- System Information: Debian Release: unstable APT prefers unstable APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (1, 'experimental') Architecture: i386 (i686) K

Re: Bug#254325: kernel-source-2.4.22: DoS in OSS Sound Blaster Driver (CAN-2004-0178)

2004-06-14 Thread Matt Zimmerman
On Mon, Jun 14, 2004 at 05:32:07PM +0100, Martin Michlmayr wrote: > * Matt Zimmerman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2004-06-14 08:46]: > > debian-kernel: Can we remove kernel-source-2.4.22 from sid yet? > > It has been removed from sid at the end of May. OK, so there is no point

Re: Bug#254325: kernel-source-2.4.22: DoS in OSS Sound Blaster Driver (CAN-2004-0178)

2004-06-14 Thread Matt Zimmerman
On Mon, Jun 14, 2004 at 07:37:46PM +0900, Horms wrote: > Package: kernel-source-2.4.22 > Version: 2.4.22-7.um.3 > Severity: normal > Tags: security sid patch > > Bug filed on request from William Lee Irwin > > The OSS code for the Sound Blaster driver in Linux 2.4.x does not > properly handle ce