I thought it was ok with a 2.4.5-ac kernel however it started
acting up again today giving more i/o errors. I think I'm just going
to give up on these boards as I have 3 of them doing the exact same
thing. However they are flawless in up mode.
Nick
On Thu, Jun 28, 2001 at 04:11:32A
Is Graphics really in the Windows kernel? I think GDI.EXE runs in user mode.
> >Olaf Hering wrote:
> >> kde.o. 2.5?
> >
> >Good idea! Graphics needs to be in the kernel to be fast. Windows
> >proved that.
>
> thought SGI proved that :-)
>
> Martin
> --
>
Is this (printing out versions. etc) really a big deal so we should add stuff
like "/proc/xxx", KERN_ to make things more complicated? It sounds to me
like to make the kernel "smaller" we'd actually end up with adding more code
and complexity to it. And quite frankly, if people don't rea
I'm currently running 2.4.6-pre8 and happy as a clam, the
problem has been found and reverted, looks from my discussions with
Linus like the page_launder change introduced into pre3 and also
included in ac14 was causing the hangs/near freezes.
I'm not really much of a coder, so I
On Sat, 30 Jun 2001, Marcelo Tosatti wrote:
>
> In pre7:
>
> "me: undo page_launder() LRU changes, they have nasty side effects"
>
> Can you be more verbose about this ?
See the thread about 2.4.5-ac13+ (and my pre3+) basically becoming
unusable for longish times (temporarily locking up) on linu
> I am doing very well with my consulting projects, but to be honest,
> my family has sufferred horribly in the past four years fighting with
> Novell every other week, and there's a very strong chance I will be
> moving shop to either New Mexico or Arizona, since they own the
> local courts he
From: "Jeff V. Merkey" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Novell has recently threatened to try to take my house and
> assets if I post any more NWFS releases or MANOS.
[snip]
> They are wounded in the market ...
A quote for the lumbering lizards at Novell
as they stumble torwards the tarpits:
These moment
prototypes weren't updated.
--- linux/drivers/sound/cs46xx.c.orig Sat Jun 30 20:16:06 2001
+++ linux/drivers/sound/cs46xx.cSat Jun 30 20:26:57 2001
@@ -383,8 +383,8 @@
static int cs46xx_powerup(struct cs_card *card, unsigned int type);
static int cs461x_powerdown(struct cs_card *card,
Joshua Schmidklofer wrote:
>
> Kernel developers,
>I hate to burden you with menial quetions, but: How does ipconfig
> get called & initialized?
The magic happens right at the end of ipconfig.c:
__setup("ip=", ip_auto_config_setup);
__setup("nfsaddrs=", nfsaddrs_config_setup);
When the k
> Lately, I have been having problems reading from from my HP Colorado IDE
> tape drive. I can use mt to get the status of the drive and to forward the
> drive to a different file. I can even use tar to write to the tape.
> But whenever I try to read the tar files that I have written to tape, I
On Sun, Jul 01, 2001 at 02:07:58AM +0200, Guest section DW wrote:
> > If you're using it on a wintel arch machine, have you managed to get the
> > numeric keypad's = key or the power key to work? Doesn't here and I've
> > tried more than one model of keyboard on more than one machine, no luck
> >
The two branches of the USA that pertain have now confirmed that Microsoft
is a problem requiring an externally asserted solution, but the judicial
branch has rejected the specific solution proposed by the executive
branch. Three other proposed remedies are mentioned in the Washington Post
today.
Hello. The current tulip driver in 2.4.5 and up no longer works with my
'tulip' ethernet card. 0.9.14 (what's in prior to 2.4.5-pre6, iirc) works
fine with the card, as does de4x5. Version 0.9.15-pre5 (2.4.6-pre8) and
1.1.8 (from sourceforge) both don't work. The card is:
01:15.0 Ethernet cont
Hello,
I have compiled 2.4.5 four times now, and it just won't boot. I have
compiled and used every previous 2.4 kernel without problems, using the
same configuration. The compiler is gcc 2.95.2, but I also tried gcc 3.0
without success. The system crashes early in the boot process, so I
haven't
On Fri, Jun 29, 2001 at 09:48:40PM -0700, Joseph Carter wrote:
> If you're using it on a wintel arch machine, have you managed to get the
> numeric keypad's = key or the power key to work? Doesn't here and I've
> tried more than one model of keyboard on more than one machine, no luck
> even with
On Sat, Jun 30, 2001 at 05:35:58PM -0700, Jeff V. Merkey wrote:
Alan,
There is a very current version which I have not released that is
in great shape. I have not posted it. This is the version I
would be sending you.
Jeff
>
>
> Alan,
>
> I would like for you to take over NWFS if you a
PALFFY Daniel wrote:
> --- linux/drivers/net/wireless/airo.c~ Sat Jun 30 22:37:10 2001
> +++ linux/drivers/net/wireless/airo.c Sat Jun 30 22:37:33 2001
> @@ -2988,9 +2988,7 @@
> * fails with an error other than -ENODEV, instead of proceeding,
> * if ISA devs are present.
>
I am not subscribed to the list please cc me on replies.
I have seen a number of reports of complete lockup of systems. I have been
experiencing them almost since I decided to switch over to an all reiserfs
system - and had installed linux 2.4.5-ac22 since it supposidly contained a
patch that
Alan,
I would like for you to take over NWFS if you are willing. I have dissolved
TRG as a Utah Corporation and I am now focused on a variety of projects
for various clients related to Linux development. Novell has recently
threatened to try to take my house and assets if I post any more
N
Hi, all,
I want to disable irq14 interrupt in the kernel.
Do somebody know how to do? If so, please help me.
Thanks!
Barry
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Linus Torvalds <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> So let's simply disallow versions, author information, and "good status"
> messages, ok?
I'd be quite happy with this, if only for consistency's sake -- at the
moment we've got some kernel subsystems which print "yup, I've started
up" messages, and so
On Sat, Jun 30, 2001 at 11:10:40PM +0200, Rudolf Polzer wrote:
> There is a problem concerning chvt. A normal user can run a
>
> bash$ while [ 1 ]; do chvt 11; done
>
> which cannot be killed using the console (only remotely, virtually never
> on a nonnetworked multiuser machine). So I changed t
There is a problem concerning chvt. A normal user can run a
bash$ while [ 1 ]; do chvt 11; done
which cannot be killed using the console (only remotely, virtually never
on a nonnetworked multiuser machine). So I changed the kernel source code
so that only the superuser may change terminals.
Sin
Linus,
In pre7:
"me: undo page_launder() LRU changes, they have nasty side effects"
Can you be more verbose about this ?
Thanks
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Hi!
A small patch to airo.c to allow the module to load even if no pci or isa
cards are found, because airo_cs needs the airo module to load.
--- linux/drivers/net/wireless/airo.c~ Sat Jun 30 22:37:10 2001
+++ linux/drivers/net/wireless/airo.c Sat Jun 30 22:37:33 2001
@@ -2988,9 +2988,7 @@
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Stuart Lynne) writes:
[snip]
> A counter example that does both, bc does tell us who wrote it
> every time we run it (most annoying) and is smart enough to know
> when it is not talking to a tty.
>
> % bc
> bc 1.05
> Copyright 1991, 1992, 1993, 1994, 1997, 1998 Fre
Hi Russell, Adam.
>> So, I guess something like Keith Owens's patch would be the way
>> to go, with some additional definitions (CONFIG_AGP, CONFIG_PCI,
>> CONFIG_ISA, CONFIG_EISA, CONFIG_PCMCIA, and possibly others).
>> I am not sure which other conditionals might also be incorrectly
>> ign
Hi,
There was a discussion in October, 2000, about the Granger and McKusick paper
on soft updates for the BSD FFS. Reading the thread, nothing conclusive seemed
to come out of it.
The paper is available at http://www.pdos.lcs.mit.edu/~ganger/papers/CSE-TR-25
4-95/
The code for the BSD implementa
Hi all,
Lately, I have been having problems reading from from my HP Colorado IDE
tape drive. I can use mt to get the status of the drive and to forward the
drive to a different file. I can even use tar to write to the tape.
But whenever I try to read the tar files that I have written to tape, I
On Sat, 30 Jun 2001, Steve Lord wrote:
>
> > Yes. 2.4.6-pre8 fixes that (not sure if its up already).
>
> It is up.
>
> >
> > > If the fix is to avoid page_launder in these cases then the number of
> > > occurrences when an alloc_pages fails will go up.
> >
> > > I was attempting to come
On Sun, 1 Jul 2001, Byeong-ryeol Kim wrote:
>On Sat, 30 Jun 2001, Keith Owens wrote:
>
>>On Sat, 30 Jun 2001 10:07:20 +0900 (KST),
>>Byeong-ryeol Kim <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>background.c:57: `do_softirq_Rf0a529b7' undeclared (first use in \
>this function)
>>
>>Missing
Andrew Morton wrote:
> 1: Include `magic sysrq' support in the kernel and use ALT-SYSRQ-T and S
>when it has locked up. If you get some traces then please feed them
>into `ksymoops -m System.map' and report back.
That was locked as well, AFAIK.
> 2: If the above doesn't work, add `nmi
On Sat, 30 Jun 2001, Keith Owens wrote:
>On Sat, 30 Jun 2001 10:07:20 +0900 (KST),
>Byeong-ryeol Kim <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
background.c:57: `do_softirq_Rf0a529b7' undeclared (first use in \
this function)
>
>Missing include in fs/jffs2/background.c. spin_unlock_bh()
> "AC" == Alan Cox <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>> may be a 'make mrproper' solves your problem,
AC> Unlikely since the problem is the fact that the scsi firmware
AC> assembler wants a library that isnt installed.
It seems the libdb is in fact installed. I just added a
sy
Alan Cox wrote:
>
> > > gcc -I/usr/include -I. -ldb aicasm_gram.c aicasm_scan.c aicasm.c aicasm_symbol.c
>-o aicasm
> > > /usr/i486-linux/bin/ld: cannot open -ldb: No such file or directory
> > > collect2: ld returned 1 exit status
> > > make[5]: *** [aicasm] Error 1
> > > [...]
> > > --
(cc's trimmed a little.)
As someone who actually has created an embedded Linux distribution
for a set top box, I can say that the boot output has never been
a problem for me. I like verbose output, it's useful.
Developers probably know that once you have the system booting
nicely and you've q
>
> On Sat, 30 Jun 2001, Steve Lord wrote:
> >
> > OK, sounds reasonable, time to go download and merge again I guess!
>
> For 2.4.7 or so, I'll make a backwards-compatibility define (ie make
> GFP_BUFFER be the same as the new GFP_NOIO, which is the historical
> behaviour and the anally safe va
> > gcc -I/usr/include -I. -ldb aicasm_gram.c aicasm_scan.c aicasm.c aicasm_symbol.c
>-o aicasm
> > /usr/i486-linux/bin/ld: cannot open -ldb: No such file or directory
> > collect2: ld returned 1 exit status
> > make[5]: *** [aicasm] Error 1
> > [...]
> > -
hei,
I got a compiler source and would like to port it to linux platform later, what
Linux specific directories/ methods I would need for this porting? Any
documemtation available?
thanks a lot
eric
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On 30 Jun 2001 18:13:42 +0100
Rodrigo Ventura <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I got the following build error of aic7xxx drivers, with
> kernel 2.4.6-pre8:
>
> --
> [...]
> make[2]: Entering directory `/usr/src/linux/driver
> Yes. 2.4.6-pre8 fixes that (not sure if its up already).
It is up.
>
> > If the fix is to avoid page_launder in these cases then the number of
> > occurrences when an alloc_pages fails will go up.
>
> > I was attempting to come up with a way of making try_to_free_buffers
> > fail on buffe
Tim Jansen wrote:
>
> On Friday 29 June 2001 19:27, Jordan Breeding wrote:
> > noticed my real problem with the keyboard. The kernel apparently
> > expects a PS/2 (AT) keyboard to be plugged in because if there isn't one
> > the kernel reports timeouts and seems slower than when there is a PS/2
On Sat, 30 Jun 2001, Steve Lord wrote:
>
> OK, sounds reasonable, time to go download and merge again I guess!
For 2.4.7 or so, I'll make a backwards-compatibility define (ie make
GFP_BUFFER be the same as the new GFP_NOIO, which is the historical
behaviour and the anally safe value, if not very
On Fri, Jun 29, 2001 at 12:27:34PM -0500, Jordan Breeding wrote:
> lock a couple of times then the keyboard stops responding completely and
> the kernel tells me that there was an error waiting on a IRQ on CPU #1.
You are using an SMP kernel. In my experience, nothing USB works with an SMP
kerne
>
> On Sat, 30 Jun 2001, Steve Lord wrote:
> >
> > It looks to me as if all memory allocations of type GFP_BUFFER which happen
> > in generic_make_request downwards can hit the same type of deadlock, so
> > bounce buffers, the request functions of the raid and lvm paths can all
> > end up in try_
On Sat, 30 Jun 2001, Steve Lord wrote:
>
> It looks to me as if all memory allocations of type GFP_BUFFER which happen
> in generic_make_request downwards can hit the same type of deadlock, so
> bounce buffers, the request functions of the raid and lvm paths can all
> end up in try_to_free_buffer
On Sat, 30 Jun 2001, Steve Lord wrote:
> >
> >
> > On Fri, 29 Jun 2001, Steve Lord wrote:
> >
> > >
> > > Has anyone else seen a hang like this:
> > >
> > > bdflush()
> > > flush_dirty_buffers()
> > > ll_rw_block()
> > > submit_bh(buffer X)
> > > generic_make_request()
>
>
>
> On Fri, 29 Jun 2001, Steve Lord wrote:
>
> >
> > Has anyone else seen a hang like this:
> >
> > bdflush()
> > flush_dirty_buffers()
> > ll_rw_block()
> > submit_bh(buffer X)
> > generic_make_request()
> > __make_request()
> > create_bounce()
> >
On Fri, 29 Jun 2001, Steve Lord wrote:
>
> Has anyone else seen a hang like this:
>
> bdflush()
> flush_dirty_buffers()
> ll_rw_block()
> submit_bh(buffer X)
> generic_make_request()
> __make_request()
> create_bounce()
> alloc_bou
On Sat, 30 Jun 2001, Marcelo Tosatti wrote:
>
>
> On Fri, 29 Jun 2001, Steve Lord wrote:
>
> >
> > Has anyone else seen a hang like this:
> >
> > bdflush()
> > flush_dirty_buffers()
> > ll_rw_block()
> > submit_bh(buffer X)
> > generic_make_request()
> > __mak
I got the following build error of aic7xxx drivers, with
kernel 2.4.6-pre8:
--
[...]
make[2]: Entering directory `/usr/src/linux/drivers/scsi'
make -C aic7xxx
make[3]: Entering directory `/usr/src/linux/drivers/scsi/aic7
On Sat, 30 Jun 2001, J . A . Magallon wrote:
>
> On 20010629 Martin Knoblauch wrote:
> >Hi,
> >
> > just something positive for the weekend. With 2.4.5-ac21, the behaviour
> >on my laptop (128MB plus twice the sapw) seems a bit more sane. When I
> >start new large applications now, the "used"
On Fri, 29 Jun 2001, Steve Lord wrote:
>
> Has anyone else seen a hang like this:
>
> bdflush()
> flush_dirty_buffers()
> ll_rw_block()
> submit_bh(buffer X)
> generic_make_request()
> __make_request()
> create_bounce()
> alloc
On Saturday 30 June 2001 16:22, Dmitri Pogosyan wrote:
> Well, this is an old as world argument used to take your freedom away -
> 'law obeying citizens have nothing to fear'
While I'm as interested as anyone else in the exact steps Microsoft takes to
drive users to us, I don't see what this has
Hi,
I don't where else to send this ... so please send it to the right person if this is
the wrong address.
Below is a bug report. Please let me know if you can look at it.
Thanks
Marc
[1.] One line summary of the problem:
dd if=/dev/sdb of=/dev/null bs=64k makes fast system *slow*
[2.] Ful
On Sat, 30 Jun 2001, Dmitri Pogosyan wrote:
> Well, this is an old as world argument used to take your freedom away -
> 'law obeying citizens have nothing to fear'
except that you are opting in, by purchasing the product.
> Why not allow police to search your car at every moment they wish ?
> I
Hello all!
I have a VIA 686A-board (EP7KXA) with 512 MB RAM. If I burn a rw-cd with the
Philips CDD3610, the whole machine suddenly freezes.
The last messages of cdrecord is:
Track 01: 234 of 645 MB written (fifo 100%).
ksymoops crash
ksymoops 2.4.1 on i686 2.4.5-ac19. Options used
-V
Kernel developers,
I hate to burden you with menial quetions, but: How does ipconfig
get called & initialized? I am new to attempting to _read_ kernel
source, and not nearly a good C progammer. This is killing me, But
after two hours of looking,I can't figure out how ipconfig get
init
Lionel Elie Mamane wrote:
>
> On Fri, Jun 29, 2001 at 07:50:36PM -0700, David Schwartz wrote:
>
> > More likely, Microsoft will display escalating suspicion with
> > each install, If they find out that a key is definitely being
> > abused, they will stop issuing unlock codes for it. In oth
We have this multithreaded app that run fine under the kernel 2.2.x
series. Last week, we decided to update our linux and went dor RedHat7.1 to
use the new kernel. Some threadsw of our app just hangs in random moments.
Is there any issue on the 2.4.x series that must be observed t
Hi!
What are the maximum socket buffer sizes for:
net.core.rmem.*
net.core.wmem.*
net.core.optmem_max
As far as i can tell these are ones to adjust when "tuning"
e.g. the netlink sockets between the kernel and userspace?
I have not been able to find this information anywhere...
Best regards
Hi,
When building 2.4.6-pre8 with CONFIG_DISCONTIGMEM=y, I get the following
error:
numa.c:96: conflicting types for `_alloc_pages'
/usr/src/v2.4/linux-assabet/include/linux/mm.h:383: previous declaration of
`_alloc_pages'
The following patch fixes this problem. Please apply.
--- orig/mm/num
David Woodhouse wrote:
>
>Also consider the question "What was the last thing you see on screen
>before it reboots?"
>
USER: A bunch of words.
TECH: What words?
USER: Dunno, there were a lot though.
;)
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On Sat, 30 Jun 2001, Philips wrote:
> If I could choose what filesystem to run on / - it impact performance greatly
No, it doesn't. Most of lookups go outside of root and within root you
mostly deal with cached lookups from dcache (which doesn't give a damn for
fs type) and with page cac
Patrick Mauritz wrote:
>
> On Fri, Jun 29, 2001 at 08:17:25AM -0500, Brent D. Norris wrote:
> > Instead of forking the kernel or catering only to one group, instead why
> > not try this: Using the new CML2 tools and rulesets, make it possible to
> > have the kernel configured for the type of job
--- David Lang <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> back when I was doing PC repair (1.x kernel days) I
> started useing linux
> becouse the boot messages gave me so much info about
> the system (I started
> to keep a Slackware boot/root disk set on hand so
> when faced with a
> customer machine I could
On Wed, Jun 27, 2001 at 12:35:13AM -0600, Blesson Paul wrote:
> 1: P1 and P2 have different physical areas of memory. This is how
> protection works.
>
> 2: Why do they need to share the same memory? You can have your second
> process
> communicate with your first process through IPC.
>
> 3: Li
I attached a Toshiba DVD-ROM at the ASUS A7V133 Promise controller.
The highest transfer mode I can use is Multiword DMA 2, though I activated
the DMA-Option in the IDE-kernel configuration.
>hdparm -i /dev/hde
/dev/hde:
Model=TOSHIBA DVD-ROM SD-M1502, FwRev=1008, SerialNo=2100807146
Config=
On Thu, Jun 28 2001, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> Why precisely is complying to SFF-8020 broken?
Because 8020 is _old and dated_, yet some manufacturers still base new
devices on it. That is what is broken, clearly noone is faulting a '96
device for being based on SFF-8020, however a '09 and '01 is
I have a lock problem on a dual P3 1GHz w/1GB RAM setup and 2.4.5, but it
doesn't seem to be NIC related although I have two EEPro100's in it.
I get lockups while doing large disk reads that use larges amounts of memory
(MySQL's myisamchk on a 600MB MyISAM table, for instance). The SCSI
subsyste
On Fri, Jun 29, 2001 at 01:26:29AM -0700, Christopher Smith wrote:
> At 10:59 AM 6/28/2001 -0400, Dan Maas wrote:
> >life-threatening things like SIGTERM, SIGKILL, and SIGSEGV. The mutation
> >into queued, information-carrying siginfo signals just shows how badly we
> >need a more robust event mod
On Fri, Jun 29, 2001 at 09:44:51PM -0400, Jeff S Wheeler wrote:
> The VIA686B SouthBridge bug workaround is not activated on motherboards
> which have a VIA 82C686B that needs fixing, but not a VIA NorthBridge. For
> Below is a patch to the __initdata table which causes the fix to be applied
> b
>From: Russell King <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>On Sat, Jun 30, 2001 at 08:26:22AM +0100, Alan Cox wrote:
>> #2
>> dep_tristate $FOO $BAR
>>
>> to say 'FOO requires BAR and must be a similar setting _IF_CONFIGURED_'
>Err, how can $BAR be undefined? Configure sets all config variables which
>are a
Just my humble opinion, please dont laugh if I am
wrong, I think:
Supermount
JFS
I use the patch from IBM ; now running JFS, and notice
a bit improved performance than Reiserfs, it is good
file system, (they release stable (may be?) release
already). But It is hard, they only give the patch for
Hello,
> I am happy that processes in Linux are so marvelous. Linux does not need
> a decent POSIX threads implementation because the same functionality can
> be achived with processes. Do what you like, you write the kernel code.
> I could write my soft using fork special fetaures in Linux.
> Bu
I should have known that you (instructor of the current and previous
maintainer) would have the answer off the top ;-)
Therefore by your description it mys be set always but I guess it is a
DGD; however, I do want to know that it is now.
Oh, and now that Big Drive Technology has been annouced I
Okay my bad it is ATA-1 but even that does not explain the bit.
only that section 7.2.6 top of page 14 (index numbers) defines it to be
set to 1 with out a reason.
This this is a pre-ATA thing back in IDE.
If you really want to know the answer I can go dig it up, but later.
Cheers,
Andre Hed
On Fri, Jun 29, 2001 at 07:50:36PM -0700, David Schwartz wrote:
> More likely, Microsoft will display escalating suspicion with
> each install, If they find out that a key is definitely being
> abused, they will stop issuing unlock codes for it. In other words,
> they will cause great incon
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