Re: >128 MB RAM stability problems (again)

2001-07-04 Thread J Sloan
Ronald Bultje wrote: > I'm kind of astounded now, WHY can't linux-2.4.x run on ANY machine in > my house with more than 128 MB RAM?!? Can someone please point out to me > that he's actually running kernel-2.4.x on a machine with more than 128 > MB RAM and that he's NOT having severe stability pro

[OT] Re: ipchains

2001-06-18 Thread J Sloan
Ted Gervais wrote: > I just ran into something odd. To me anyways, it was odd. > I just installed and brought up kernel 2.4.5 and my ipchains failed. > So I upgraded to the latest (that I could find) ipchains-1.3.10, and > that also fails. > > Has anyone got any version of ipchains to work with t

[OT] Re: Snowhite and the Seven Dwarfs - The REAL story!

2001-06-15 Thread J Sloan
Tobias Ringstrom wrote: > Ah... the joy of reading mail using non-MS software, on a non-MS OS... > > Hahaha, indeed! Indeed, since: Jun 15 15:39:03 mirai sendmail[21499]: f5FMd2t21499: from=<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, size=33547, class=-60, nrcpts=1, msgid=<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, bodytype=7BIT, proto=ESM

[OT] Re: inetd missing

2001-06-13 Thread J Sloan
Blesson Paul wrote: > hi > I just brought a CD of RedHat 7. Unfortunately I > couldn't find the inetd rpm. wheather it is missing or it is in any other > name It's xinetd - BTW You might think about RH 7.1 since 7.0 was the end of the line for the legacy 2.2. kernel - cu

[OT]: Tux vs khttpd? (fwd)

2001-06-12 Thread J Sloan
Hi Roy, IIRC Ingo posted some tux benchmark results on the khttpd mailing list some weeks ago - basically khttpd is not in the same ballpark at this point. cu jjs Roy Sigurd Karlsbakk wrote: > Hi everyone! > > I tried to send this message to the khttpd group, but got no answer. Can > any of y

Re: [OT] Re: Linux scalability?

2001-05-18 Thread J Sloan
Peter Rival wrote: > "David S. Miller" wrote: > > > J Sloan writes: > > > Microsoft finally managed to get a better result using > > > an all-out, "bet the farm", "benchmark buster" setup > > > with a special web cache in

[OT] Re: Linux scalability?

2001-05-18 Thread J Sloan
Ronald Bultje wrote: > On 18 May 2001 10:12:34 +0200, reiser.angus wrote: > > > However, taking a closer look, it turns out, that the above statement > > > holds true only for 1 and 2 processor machines. Scalability already > > > suffers at 4 processors, and at 8 processors, TUX 2.0 (7500) gets b

Re: Inodes

2001-05-13 Thread J Sloan
Blesson Paul wrote: > Hi > This is an another doubt related to VFS. I want to know > wheather all files are assigned their inode number at the mounting time itself > or inodes are assigned to files upon accessing only er.. inode numbers are assigned at file creation time. c

Re: 2.4.4 fork() problems (maybe)

2001-05-05 Thread J Sloan
Marc Schiffbauer wrote: > use 2.4.5-pre1 instead, Linus has undone the fork()-change for some > reason ;-) > 2.4.5-pre1 has it's own problems - Probably better to use 2.4.4-ac5 instead. cu jjs - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message

Re: [OT] Re: Linux NAT questions- (kernel upgrade??)

2001-05-02 Thread J Sloan
"Sim, CT (Chee Tong)" schrieb: > I am using the Red Hat 7, below are my kernel version. I feel Red Hat 7 is > quite new, although RH 7.1 has just come out. How come it still say that my > kernel version is old. Ah, by old is meant the 2.2 version - 7.1 is the first RH release to ship with ker

[OT] Re: Linux NAT questions- (kernel upgrade??)

2001-05-02 Thread J Sloan
"Sim, CT (Chee Tong)" schrieb: > Hi.. I follow your instruction, but I encounter this issue, my kernel need > to be upgrade? MAy I know how to determine the current kernel version uname -a > and > how to upgrade it?? Either upgrade to a distro that includes the new kernel (e.g. latest SuSE or

Re: 2.4.4: Kernel crash, possibly tcp related

2001-04-29 Thread J Sloan
"David S. Miller" schrieb: > I'm having a devil of a time finding the tcpblast sources on the > net, can you point me to where I can get them? The one reference > I saw to get the original sources was: > > ftp://ftp.xlink.net/pub/network/tcpblast.shar.gz > > But even that directory no longer exi

Re: [PATCH] Single user linux

2001-04-24 Thread J Sloan
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > hi, > > a friend of my asked me on how to make linux easier to use > for personal/casual win user. > > > from that, i also found out that it is very awkward to type > username and password every time i use my computer. > so here's a patch. Neet hack, but maybe the kern

Re: performance degradation on -ac tree

2001-04-22 Thread J Sloan
There is a bit more clarity on the performance degradation issue now - In fact the degradation only appears when using iptables. It's just that sometime shortly after 2.4.2, the hit imposed by iptables got worse. For instance: netperf results without iptables with iptables ---

Re: Linux 2.4.3-ac12 unresolved symbol rwsem...

2001-04-22 Thread J Sloan
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

Re: performance degradation on -ac tree

2001-04-17 Thread J Sloan
Hi all, I've been lurking for some time now, unsure of whether I had some special issues in my own setup, but seeing these others come forward has emboldened me to speak out as well. I am running a RH 7.0 box with all updates and then some, and generally trying each new 2.4 pre patch or -ac vari

[OT] Re: Your response is requested

2001-04-17 Thread J Sloan
John Jasen wrote: > On Tue, 17 Apr 2001, Disconnect wrote: > > > (Sending to LKML just so nobody else flips out) > > > > OK it wasn't just us. Lemme reassure the admins I just forwarded it to ;) > > > > It seems to list the hostname of whoever receives it (neat trick). > > sendmail, by default,

[OT] Re: Your response is requested

2001-04-17 Thread J Sloan
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Dear Friend: > > YOU CAN make over a half million dollars every 4 to 5 months from > your home for a one time investment of only twenty five U.S. > Dollars. This did not originate from toyota.com - The spammer simply used that domain as the "from" hostname. We are care

Re: loopback mount won't umount on 2.2.12

2001-04-04 Thread J Sloan
Khyron wrote: > Okay, I've seen various references to problems with loopback > mounts under (early) 2.2.x kernels. But I don't see any reference > to a solution (ie. how to umount the stupid thing). > > My situation is that I have mounted a CD image on a machine > for use in kickstart builds. The

Re: uninteruptable sleep

2001-04-03 Thread J Sloan
Trevor Nichols wrote: > > Its a kernel bug if it gets stuck like this. You need to provide more info > > though - what file system, what devices, how much memory. Also ps can give you > > the wait address of a process stuck in 'D' state which is valuable for debug > > ps xl: > F UID PID PP

Re: Can't find modules after moving to 2.4.2

2001-03-28 Thread J Sloan
Make sure you have up to date modutils package. Current version is 2.4.5 - later, jjs Marcus Ramos wrote: > Hello, > > I've moved from kernel 2.2.16 to 2.4.2 (RH7) and its boots OK, except > for the fact that none of the modules in "/etc/modules.conf" are loaded > anymore (although modules we

Re: "mount -o loop" lockup issue

2001-03-27 Thread J Sloan
"Mohammad A. Haque" wrote: > David Konerding wrote: > > > And this is described in what release notes? It worked just fine on Red Hat 7.0's >2.4 > > kernel oh wait, I see that they fixed it before they released it. > > And hmm..gee .. did they bother contributing back the code? Based on th

Re: Sound issues with m805lr motheboard

2001-03-22 Thread J Sloan
"Brent D. Norris" wrote: > > That seems strange. What is realserver failing with ? > > It isn't so much failing as it hangs. It might be interesting to strace the realserver startup both under 2.2 and 2.4 - cu Jup - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in th

Re: Hang when using loop device

2001-03-20 Thread J Sloan
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > Hello all, > > > > Recently my ext2 partition out of space so I have made a regular file > > in the FAT32 partition and format it as ext2 partiton and mount it as > > loop device.However,occasionaly when I extract a large tar to the loop device.. > > The comput

Re: [Fwd: Problem with file => 2GB]

2001-03-19 Thread J Sloan
Andreas Dilger wrote: > There is a bug in 2.4.2 with the loop device, which is fixed in -ac series. Also fixed in 2.4.3-pre series. cu Jup - 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://vge

Re: How to optimize routing performance

2001-03-15 Thread J Sloan
Gregory Maxwell wrote: > The scheduler schedules tasks not interrupts. Unless it manages to thrash the > cache, the scheduler can not affect routing performance. OK, thanks for the clarification - I need to get into the source. cu Jup - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscrib

Re: How to optimize routing performance

2001-03-15 Thread J Sloan
Rik van Riel wrote: > On Thu, 15 Mar 2001, J Sloan wrote: > > > Fun, yes, and perhaps not directly related, however > > under high load, where the sheer numbet of interrupts > > per second begins to overwhelm the kernel, might it > > not be relevant? > >

Re: How to optimize routing performance

2001-03-15 Thread J Sloan
Rik van Riel wrote: > On Thu, 15 Mar 2001, J Sloan wrote: > > > There are some scheduler patches that are not part of the > > main kernel tree at this point (mostly since they have yet to > > be optimized for the common case) which make quite a big > > differenc

Re: How to optimize routing performance

2001-03-15 Thread J Sloan
Just my .02 - There are some scheduler patches that are not part of the main kernel tree at this point (mostly since they have yet to be optimized for the common case) which make quite a big difference under heavy load - you might want to check out: http://lse.sourceforge.net/scheduling/ cu

Re: Kernel 2.4.1 on RHL 6.2

2001-03-10 Thread J Sloan
Miquel van Smoorenburg wrote: > Note! You only have to have those symlinks on broken systems such > as Redhat. This is silly, Red Hat works fine for a great many people. He probably removed the original kernel-devel package, which contained the links above, so they would have to be remade. > S

Re: Linux on the Unisys ES7000 and CMP2 machines?

2001-03-04 Thread J Sloan
Miles Lane wrote: > http://www.nytimes.com/cnet/CNET_0-1003-200-5007472.html > > Hi, > > I noticed that this article mentions that Unisys has > no plans to port Linux to it's "cellular multiprocessor" > machines. So, I am wondering if anyone is working > on this independantly. > > These systems

Re: 2.4.2ac8 lost char devices

2001-03-01 Thread J Sloan
Mark Hahn wrote: > > > > > > Well, somethig has broken in ac8, because I lost my PS/2 mouse and > > > > > me too . > > No luck. same here - > it seems to be the mdelay(2) added to pc_keyb.c in -ac6. -ac7 is fine here, but when I boot -ac8, there's no ps/2 mouse. jjs - To unsubscribe from t

Re: 2.4.x very unstable on 8-way IBM 8500R

2001-03-01 Thread J Sloan
"Dr. Kelsey Hudson" wrote: > Under redhat 7 you should use kgcc to compile the kernel, since gcc2.96 is > inherently broken(*). Or upgrade to the current Red Hat 7 gcc, which works quite well. jjs - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a messag

Re: [2.4.2-ac5] X (4.0.1) crashes

2001-02-27 Thread J Sloan
"Manfred H. Winter" wrote: > I'm going back to vanilla 2.4.2 for now. Is there another way to get > loop to work? Working fine here: 2.4.2 + Axboe's loop patch + Morton's low latency patch jjs - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message t

Re: problem with mount -o loop

2001-02-23 Thread J Sloan
Tim Tim wrote: > I made iso-image from cd with > dd if=/dev/hdd of=/image.iso > and mount it with > mount -o loop /image.iso /mnt/cdrom > under Linux-2.4.2-pre1 it is working > but under Linux-2.4.2 do not > Please help me to understand why If it was working it was by sheer luck - You need

Re: 3c509 + sb16 bug

2001-02-23 Thread J Sloan
Perhaps it's cold comfort, but I found long ago that 3c509 and SB don't mix too well, at least in Linux. ISA devices are somewhat dumb, switching one of the cards for a PCI version does the trick here. SB128, SBlive work fine, or you might want to go to a 10/100 pci ethernet card. Just my $.02

Re: 2.4.2 seems to break loopback and/or mount

2001-02-22 Thread J Sloan
Red Hat 7.x running nicely on a number of machines here w/ no problem, with all apologies to the Red Hat bashers - The real problem is loopback is broken, and the fix still needs to be merged. In the meantime, Jens Axboe's loop patches will make it work - ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/p

Re: Mucho timeouts on USB

2001-02-09 Thread J Sloan
I'm seeing a similar usb timeout message here with an HP 5200C usb scanner, e.g: usb_control/bulk_msg: timeout usb_control/bulk_msg: timeout usb_control/bulk_msg: timeout My config: AMD-K6 450 on ASUS P5 mb 256 MB RAM, Ali chipset Red Hat 7.0 updated, kernel 2.4.1-ac8 jjs John Cavan wrote: >

ibmtr.o does not like 2.4 [Was: IBM Model 350 does not like 2.4]

2001-02-06 Thread J Sloan
Hi, Just to follow up on my own post, the problem is way down in the network driver layer, specifically in the ibmtr driver - it seems to be happy with 2.2, and barfs with 2.4 - for now I replaced it with an IBM pci card (olympic driver) and 2.4 is now solid on the machine that had serious proble

IBM Model 350 does not like 2.4

2001-02-05 Thread J J Sloan
Hi All, I have 10 systems running 2.4 that are rock solid, but I have 1 system that has problems with 2.4. The box had run perfectly for 46 days with 2.2.19pre2, and today I installed 2.4.1-ac3 to see how it would go. It seemed to run fine for a few minutes, then the old problem reasserted itself

A buglet with LVM-0.9.1

2001-02-01 Thread J Sloan
Hi, I discovered that lvm seems to have a problem with compaq raid controllers - the partitions don't have the normal names like /dev/sda1, but instead names like /dev/ida/c0d0p1 - lvm seems to works OK, but lvmdiskscan freaks... lvmdiskscan works normally on other systems, which have conventio

Re: NT soon to surpass Linux in specweb99 performance?

2001-02-01 Thread J Sloan
Gregory Maxwell wrote: > Looks like TUX caught MS's attention: > http://www.spec.org/osg/web99/results/res2000q4/web99-20001211-00082.html > > Anyone know if their method of achieveing this is as flexible as TUX, or is > their "SWC 3.0" simply mean 'spec web cheat' and involve implimenting the >

Re: ps hang in 241-pre10

2001-01-27 Thread J Sloan
OK, here's the details you asked about: Soundblaster Awe 32 sound card Voodoo 3 pci video card Running Xfree86-4.0.0 (rpms from 3dfx.com) Playing unreal tournament, no special game options, just 800x600 graphics @ 16 bits. To recap, the symptoms (hung ps, etc) occurred on kernel 2.4.1-pre8 + low

Re: ps hang in 241-pre10

2001-01-27 Thread J Sloan
Sorry, there was no xmms involved here - The behavior occurred while playing unreal tournament. But at least the sound card was in use, FWIW - jjs David Ford wrote: > We've narrowed it down to "we're all running xmms" when it happend. > > -d > > J Sloan wr

Re: ps hang in 241-pre10

2001-01-27 Thread J Sloan
Just for the record, the system where I saw the problem has only ext2 - jjs Shawn Starr wrote: > Yes, I have ReiserFS as well...hrm... > > David Ford wrote: > > > I can quickly and easily duplicate it on my notebook by playing music or > > mpegs in xmms. It may take a few minutes but it's guar

Re: ps hang in 241-pre10

2001-01-26 Thread J Sloan
OK, It's official now, I didn't know if it was some weird hardware fluke or something, but one of the computers here exhibited the same problem - The system in question is a Pentium II 400, scsi only (aic7xxx), running 2.4.1-pre8 plus Andrew Morton's low latency patches. The user was playing unr

Re: Total loss with 2.4.0 (release) (win98 not honoring partitioning)

2001-01-23 Thread J Sloan
Jason Venner wrote: > Windows 98 and possibly followons doesn't quite honor 'b' type > partitions in the extended area of the disk, particularily if you are > past the 8gig boundary and the partitions in question are over 2gig. > The above numbers are NOT hard boundaries, I have only seen this on

Re: [linux-audio-dev] low-latency scheduling patch for 2.4.0

2001-01-21 Thread J Sloan
Nigel Gamble wrote: > Yes, I most emphatically do disagree with Victor! IRIX is used for > mission-critical audio applications - recording as well playback - and > other low-latency applications. The same OS scales to large numbers of > CPUs. And it has the best desktop interactive response of

[OT] Re: 2.4 and ipmasq modules

2001-01-20 Thread J Sloan
Aaron Lehmann wrote: It was great to see that 2.4.0 reintroduced ipfwadm support! I had no need for ipchains and ended up using the wrapper around it that emulated ipfwadm. However, 2.[02].x used to have "special IP masquerading modules" such as ip_masq_ftp.o, ip_masq_quake.o, etc. I can't find t

Re: Problem with networking in 2.4.0

2001-01-17 Thread J Sloan
Try this shot in the dark: echo "0" > /proc/sys/net/ipv4/tcp_ecn jjs snpe wrote: > Hello, > > I have got 2 Linux machine with kernel 2.4.0 i kernel 2.2.18. > I am in Belgrade , Yugoslavia and I can't access to any hosts : > > for example, www.linux.co.yu (Island), www.skyrr.is, www.hotmail.com

[OT]: Linux v.2.4.0 and Netscape 4.76?

2001-01-17 Thread J Sloan
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > The problem: symptoms > > It concerns the behaviour of Netscape after upgrading from kernel > 2.2.16 to 2.4.0. With the new kernel Netscape locates and connects to > a URL, and sometimes begins to download, but then it just sits there > indefinitely (without downloading

Re: Is sendfile all that sexy?

2001-01-14 Thread J Sloan
Linus Torvalds wrote: > Of course, you may be right on wuftpd. It obviously wasn't designed with > security in mind, other alternatives may be better. I run proftpd on all my ftp servers - it's fast, configurable and can do all the tricks I need - even red hat seems to agree that proftpd is the

Re: [PLEASE-TESTME] Zerocopy networking patch, 2.4.0-1

2001-01-09 Thread J Sloan
Alan Cox wrote: > > > it might not be important to others, but we do hold one particular > > SPECweb99 world record: on 2-way, 2 GB RAM, testing a load with a full > > And its real world value is exactly the same as the mindcraft NT values. Don't > forget that. In other words, devastating. jjs

Re: Failure building 2.4 while running 2.4. Success in building 2.4 while running 2.2.

2001-01-09 Thread J Sloan
Silviu Marin-Caea wrote: > I have RedHat7, glibc-2.2-9, gcc-2.96-69. > > I can build 2.4.0 while running kernel 2.2.16. > > If I try to rebuild 2.4.0 while running the new kernel, I get random > compiler errors. Could you supply the text of the errors, and your .config? I've been building 2.4.0

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

2001-01-08 Thread J Sloan
Ragnar Hojland Espinosa wrote: > 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 dra

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

2001-01-08 Thread J Sloan
This is a little OT for linux-kernel, but I'll take a swing at it since I'm running 2.4 and Xfree 4 with a voodoo 3. After upgrading to Red Hat 7.0, I noticed 3D screensavers and Quake 3 Arena were dog slow - in the end, I basically had to make sure the mesa libs didn't get found before the real

Re: Redhat linux 7.0

2001-01-05 Thread J Sloan
Mike wrote: > Hi All ! > > I am installing Redhat 7.0 on my DNS/mail server. Is there any problem > with Redhat 7.0 you faced or any bug in Redhat 7.0. There are some bugs, but just make sure to install all the updates and they will be fixed. BTW gated is b0rken, I had to roll my own - everythng

Re: kernel network problem ?

2001-01-05 Thread J Sloan
Nicolas Parpandet wrote: > Hi all, > > I'm testing 2.4 series for few weeks, > even the last prerelease > > I've seen stranges things : > > I cannot access to some ips adresses ! : > in http or in smtp using "konqueror", "netscape", > "mail", "telnet 25". > > I cannot login to hotmail (in the w

Re: How can I create root disk in Redhat 6.0

2001-01-05 Thread J Sloan
Mike wrote: > Hi !! > > When i boot linux from rescue disk, i get following message: > > VFS: Insert root floppy disk to be loaded in RAM disk and press ENTER > > Now how can i create a root disk... I am trying to boot Redhat 6.0 A Slackware boot disk can do wonders here - I never cared for Red

Re: LVM 0_9-1 woes on 2.4.0-prerelease+diffs

2001-01-02 Thread J Sloan
Andrea Arcangeli wrote: > On Tue, Jan 02, 2001 at 12:09:32PM -0800, J Sloan wrote: > > # vgscan > > vgscan: error while loading shared libraries: vgscan: undefined symbol: > > lvm_remove_recursive > > This looks like an userspace compilation/installation problem of the

LVM 0_9-1 woes on 2.4.0-prerelease+diffs

2001-01-02 Thread J Sloan
Hi folks, I have 2 servers with lvm trouble, one running Red Hat 6.2, and the other running Red Hat 7.0 plus latest errata. Both systems had been running lvm-0.8 on 2.4.0-test for awhile with no problems. After instaling 2.4.0-prerelease and building the lvm 0_9-1 source rpm on both systems,

Re: Compile errors: RCPCI, LANE, and others

2001-01-02 Thread J Sloan
Alan Cox wrote: > Bzzt, wrong. Red Hat 7 compiles the 2.4 tree beautifully with gcc 2.96 as well. > Please grow up. Yes indeed - on my quad CPU Red Hat 7 server, I accidentally forgot to say CC=kgcc during the last kernel build, and ended up with a gcc-2.96 built kernel. I decided to let it run

2.4.0-prerelease

2000-12-31 Thread J Sloan
Looks good here in most respects, but still needs makefile fixes - # modprobe tdfx /lib/modules/2.4.0-prerelease/kernel/drivers/char/drm/tdfx.o: unresolved symbol remap_page_range /lib/modules/2.4.0-prerelease/kernel/drivers/char/drm/tdfx.o: unresolved symbol __wake_up /lib/modules/2.4.0-prerelea

Re: test13-pre7...

2000-12-30 Thread J Sloan
Linus Torvalds wrote: > On Sat, 30 Dec 2000, Steven Cole wrote: > > > > It looks like 2.4.0-test13-pre7 is a clear winner when running dbench 48 > > on my somewhat slow test machine (450 Mhz P-III, 192MB, IDE). > > This is almost certainly purely due to changing (some would say "fixing") > the bd

Re: tdfx.o and -test13

2000-12-30 Thread J Sloan
Dieter Nützel wrote: > It haven't loaded since test13-pre1 for me. > Only the 'module version' was broken. > Last test12-pre7 was fine, here. > It was introduced with the Makefile cleanups. > > --- linux/drivers/char/drm/drmP.oldThu Dec 28 16:27:34 2000 > +++ linux/drivers/char/drm/drmP

Re: test13-pre6 weird with tdfx.o

2000-12-30 Thread J Sloan
Frank Jacobberger wrote: > Yes your right... I just haven't noticed... Why doesn't someone fix it? hehe, my guess is the chief kernel honchos don't play much q3a Hopefully fixing the makefile problem is on their todo list - jjs - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe

Re: test13-pre6 weird with tdfx.o

2000-12-30 Thread J Sloan
Frank Jacobberger wrote: > This is a first for tdfx.o not loading with XFree 4.01. > > All prior kernel build through test13-pre5 would load just fine... > > Strange... Very strange - others on this list, self included, have reported something a bit different: tdfx.o has not loaded in any kerne

Re: Problem with tdfx drm module

2000-12-23 Thread J Sloan
"Hayden A. James" wrote: > [root@neutron /root]# modprobe tdfx > /lib/modules/2.4.0-test13pre4-ac2/kernel/drivers/char/drm/tdfx.o: > unresolved symbol remap_page_range > /lib/modules/2.4.0-test13pre4-ac2/kernel/drivers/char/drm/tdfx.o: > unresolved symbol __wake_up > /lib/modules/2.4.0-test13pre4

drm woes continue in test13-pre4

2000-12-22 Thread J J Sloan
Greetings, Up to and including -test12, tdfx.o has built and run nicely. Starting with -test13-pre1, and continuing to -test13-pre4, tdfx.o (and other modules e,g the olympic.o token ring driver) have not been successfully created. In general, modules work fine, it's just a few that have been br

Re: test13-pre3 woes

2000-12-19 Thread J Sloan
The saga continues into test13-pre3-ac3: (last good tdfx.o was from test12) # uname -a Linux jyro.mirai.cx 2.4.0-test13pre3-ac3 #1 Tue Dec 19 21:26:36 PST 2000 i586 unknown # lsmod Module Size Used by iptable_filter 1872 0 (autoclean) (unused) ip_nat_ftp

Re: test13-pre3 woes

2000-12-18 Thread J Sloan
Olaf Titz wrote: > In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> you write: > > [J Sloan] > > > > > > kernel/drivers/char/drm/tdfx.o: unresolved symbol remap_page_range > >... > > Those symbols are rather generic and rather important. Sounds like a > > g

Re: test13-pre3 woes

2000-12-18 Thread J Sloan
Niels Kristian Bech Jensen wrote: > Does this patch fix your problem? > > --- test13-pre3/drivers/char/Makefile Mon Dec 18 01:21:31 2000 > +++ linux/drivers/char/Makefile Mon Dec 18 06:58:06 2000 > @@ -16,6 +16,8 @@ > > O_TARGET := char.o > > +mod-subdirs := drm > + > obj-y += tty_io.o n_tt

Re: test13-pre3 woes

2000-12-17 Thread J Sloan
Similar problem here - with CONFIG_DRM_TDFX=m I have not gotten a tdfx.o module complied since the start of the test13-pre series... So no quake 3 arena unless I want to play at < 1 fps... :( jjs Albert Cranford wrote: > With CONFIG_DRM_R128=m > we fail to produce module linux/drivers/char/dr

Re: [lkml]Re: VM problems still in 2.2.18

2000-12-14 Thread J Sloan
Alan Cox wrote: > > slrnpull --expire on a news-spool of about 600 Mb in 200,000 files gave > > a lot of 'trying_to_free..' errors. > > > > 2.2.18 + VM-global, booted with mem=32M: > > > > slrnpull --expire on the same spool worked fine. > > I think Andrea just earned his official God status ;)

kernel oops: test12-pre7, xmms, emu10k

2000-12-07 Thread J Sloan
Greetings, 2.4.0-test12-preXX has been pretty stable here on a K6/2-450 running ipchains and various net services in addition to workstation use. I went to bed last night while others were listening to xmms on my workstation while working in the room. This morning I found that xmms was frozen,

Re: setting up pppd dial-in on linux

2000-11-24 Thread J Sloan
"Jeff V. Merkey" wrote: > Anyone out there a whiz at setting up a pppd dialin server? I am > trying to put together an RPM for pppd dialin configurations > that will support default Windows NT and Linux dial in clients > without requiring the poor user to learn bash scripting, chat > scripting,

Re: XMMS not working on 2.4.0-test11-pre7

2000-11-19 Thread J Sloan
Just a data point I'm listening to mp3s now via xmms, running 2.4.0-test11-pre7 # uname -r -s Linux 2.4.0-test11-pre7 # rpm -q xmms xmms-1.2.3-0_helix_1 the "flags/features" switch doesn't seem to hurt it: # cat /proc/cpuinfo processor : 0 vendor_id : AuthenticAMD cpu family :

test11-pre7 compile failure

2000-11-17 Thread J Sloan
Just a quick heads-up - looks like the md fixes broke something - In file included from /usr/src/linux/include/linux/pagemap.h:17, from /usr/src/linux/include/linux/locks.h:9, from /usr/src/linux/include/linux/raid/md.h:37, from init/main.c:25:

Re: mp3 problems on nfs mount

2000-11-15 Thread J Sloan
I don't have the asnwer to your particular problem, but I can provide a data point: I play mp3s regularly from an nfs server running 2.4.0.testx (currently test11-pre5), with client also running 2.4.0-testx. The mp3 directory is automounted on demand. xmms plays these nfs-mounted mp3s for hours

Re: sendmail fails to deliver mail with attachments in /var/spool/mqueue

2000-11-11 Thread J Sloan
"Jeff V. Merkey" wrote: > NT and NetWare servers don't stop forwarding > emails when the load average gets too high -- they just work out of the > box, and hopefully, no so will Linux (our distribution does now since > this problem in fixed). Don't get me started on nt - saying it "just works" i

Re: Installing kernel 2.4

2000-11-07 Thread J Sloan
"Jeff V. Merkey" wrote: > So how come NetWare and NT can detect this at run time, and we have to > use a .config option to specifiy it? Come on guys. Linux detects this as well - However this is not about detection, but optimizations. Optimizations e.g. for xeon could keep a K6/2 from boo

[Fixed] - Repeatable oops mounting snapshots w/ test 10

2000-11-01 Thread J J Sloan
Thanks Andrea, it all works like a charm with your lvm utils. But why is the "official" release of the lvm utils so buggy? Regards, jjs - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.

Repeatable oops mounting snapshot fs on 2.4.0-test10

2000-10-31 Thread J Sloan
Greetings, I'm just getting started playing around with the lvm. I've used the HP-UX lvm, and was giving the Linux version a spin for the very first time when I ran into some big problems: Let me know if I'm doing something really stupid, but something tells me a kernel oops is not a good sign!

Re: 8139too & Abnormal interrupt, status 00000002

2000-10-09 Thread J Sloan
Ditto here - Running 8139too drivers on 2.4.0-test9: 8139too Fast Ethernet driver 0.9.10 loaded eth0: RealTek RTL8139 Fast Ethernet at 0xd1834000, 00:e0:7d:7b:5a:16, IRQ 10 eth0: Identified 8139 chip type 'RTL-8139A' eth1: RealTek RTL8139 Fast Ethernet at 0xd1836000, 00:e0:7d:7b:5a:1d, IRQ 10 e

Re: [PATCH] K6-2+ MTRR fix

2000-09-23 Thread J Sloan
Thank You! No wonder the screen draws on quake 3 arena have seemed so sluggish lately... K6/2 450. I have seen mtrrs work on this box, I wonder when they broke - could it have been back in 2.2 that I last saw something meaningful in /proc/mtrr (?) hmm... jjs - To unsubscribe from this list:

Re: Yet another report on the dquot oops

2000-09-15 Thread J Sloan
David Ford wrote: > Did you apply the quota patch that was posted this week? Yes, thanx for the sanity check - After the oops, I remembered something about a patch, and there was indeed one posted by Herr Diehl. Will check that out - now I'm curious if there's some reason Linus didn't like the

Yet another report on the dquot oops

2000-09-15 Thread J Sloan
Hi all, Just adding my useless complaints the the list - Currently running test8-pre1 + rik vm patches, very solid. Tonight I tried test9-pre1 - The most common occurrence is that vi segfaults on exit. Here is a decoded oops immediately after booting test9-pre1: jjs ---