Re: AMD thunderbird oops

2001-07-01 Thread Pierre Etchemaite
On 28-Jun-2001 Tim Moore wrote: >> (I wrote) >> Some ASUS boards (mostly P3B-F) would either freeze or self reboot >> when using PhotoShop 5. Everything else would run perfectly. >> >> Disabling MMX optimizations in this software would "solve" the >> problem. Another solution found on the web (

Re: AMD thunderbird oops

2001-06-28 Thread Pierre Etchemaite
Le 26-Jun-2001, Alex Deucher écrivait : > What's weird though is that it is rock solid as long as I don't use > athlon optimizations. Some ASUS boards (mostly P3B-F) would either freeze or self reboot when using PhotoShop 5. Everything else would run perfectly. Disabling MMX optimizations in th

Re: lowlatency 2.2.19

2001-06-07 Thread Pierre Etchemaite
Le 05-Jun-2001, Andrew Morton écrivait : > Some video cards have a PCI cheat-mode in which they keep > the PCI bus busy until they are ready to accept new > commands, rather forcing a retry. Figures of up to > twenty milliseconds have been mentioned. Your X server > *may* support the `PCIRetry'

RE: tmpfs + sendfile bug ?

2001-05-21 Thread Pierre Etchemaite
On 21-May-2001 David Schwartz wrote: > >> Any idea ? > > Looks like a bug in the program. If 'sendfile' returns 'EINVAL', that means > you can't use 'sendfile' to send this particular file, and should default to > read/write or mmap/write. If this program doesn't, it doesn't understand >

tmpfs + sendfile bug ?

2001-05-21 Thread Pierre Etchemaite
Hi all, I just found a problem GETting a file stored in tmpfs using proftpd; I always get a "426 Transfer aborted. Data connection closed." That could be a bug with tmpfs and sendfile in 2.4.5-pre4 : [...] read(8, "%PDF-1.4\r%\342\343\317\323\r\n870 0 obj\r<< \r/L"..., 8192) = 8192 s

RE: Still IRQ routing problems with VIA

2001-04-11 Thread Pierre Etchemaite
Le 10-Apr-2001, Manuel A. McLure écrivait : > This may be the difference - I always set "Plug-n-Play OS: No" on all my > machines. Linux works fine and it doesn't seem to hurt Windows 98 any. I've been told it affects the way IRQs are assigned; With "PnP OS: No", some boards (seen on several Asu

Re: About DC-315U scsi driver

2001-03-19 Thread Pierre Etchemaite
Le 13-Mar-2001, ³¯¤ý®i écrivait : >Today I try to recompiler a new kernel with integrated driver. And burn a > test > CDR. The errors are still alive. FYI, burning CDRs with this adapter seldom work under Windows too, Tekram adapters are usually fine, but those DC-315* & DC-395* really look

RE: [PATCH] fix a bug in ioctl(CDROMREADAUDIO) in cdrom.c in 2.2

2001-03-15 Thread Pierre Etchemaite
Le 14-Mar-2001, Jani Jaakkola écrivait : > > Using ioctl(CDROMREADAUDIO) with nframes argument being larger than 8 and > not divisible by 8 causes kernel to read and return more audio data than > was requested. This is bad since it clobbers up processes memory > (I noticed this when my patched c

RE: Question on bdflush

2000-11-15 Thread Pierre Etchemaite
Le 14-Nov-2000, Zhiruo Cao écrivait : > Why does bdflush (kupdated and kflushed) writes to disk periodically even > though the system is apparently idle. I think if no more new buffers > becomes dirty, kflushed show not write anything to disk. I'm working > on a notebook, and I found the perio

Re: ide/disk perf?

2000-10-30 Thread Pierre Etchemaite
Le 30-Oct-2000, Mohammad Haque écrivait : > At the bottom is the IDE/ATA part of my .config. let me knwo if I am > missing something. Should I worry about the Multi_Mode configuration? I have it enabled, however I never used any HPT366 controller, so YMMV. The BX chipset is what I tested the mo

RE: ide/disk perf?

2000-10-30 Thread Pierre Etchemaite
Le 30-Oct-2000, Mohammad A. Haque écrivait : > Could someone who knows ide and drive inside and out (Andre?) please > take a look at these figures? Am I forgetting to do something (or doing > something I'm not suposed to) to get the best numbers? I thought I'd be > able to get more than ~4MB/sec