Video for Linux deprecated drivers (VIDEO_V4L1)

2007-04-27 Thread Sunil Naidu
Hello, I need add a device for a particular solution on a x86 box. Device is Logitech QuickCam, USB based WebCam (has to be included because of the change in the experiment specs). To get the device working (capture images by a V4L application), need to compile the driver (qc-usb) & insert the q

Enigma of Hardware Monitoring in 2.6.20.x or 2.6.21

2007-04-27 Thread Sunil Naidu
Hello, I am did compile those kernels to the best available hardware in a P-III machine. (Research experiment - P-III box is a part of Wireless stuff). I have this enigma called Hardware Monitoring support on many boards. Because: a) Vendors don't give enough info - which chips are meant for Ha

Re: Linux 2.6.21 - something wrong with dmesg.

2007-04-27 Thread Sunil Naidu
On 4/26/07, Alistair John Strachan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Don't you need to increase CONFIG_LOG_BUF_SHIFT ? Yep, I need to. But, have to enable the Kernel Debug (DEBUG_KERNEL) to increase the value from default 14 value to 15/16. I feel that this might increase the kernel size? Ummm, i

Re: Linux 2.6.21 - something wrong with dmesg.

2007-04-26 Thread Sunil Naidu
Hello, I did compile the kernel, boots good ;-) BTW, does anyone (on P-III) facing a memory check skip or sort of? Not getting RAM info in the dmesg. Unable to get dmseg from the start of the gcc check! Any clue? Here is the dmesg I get on my box: 0] ACPI: LAPIC (acpi_id[0x01] lapic_id[0x00

Re: menuconfig issue (checklist) in 2.6.20.7 & 2.6.21-rc7 ?

2007-04-25 Thread Sunil Naidu
On 4/25/07, Michael Tokarev <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] linux-2.6.20.7]$ sudo make menuconfig Don't compile kernel as root. That was a mistake out of hurry, I never compile as root (sudo). > HOSTCC scripts/kconfig/lxdialog/checklist.o > In file included from scripts/kcon

menuconfig issue (checklist) in 2.6.20.7 & 2.6.21-rc7 ?

2007-04-25 Thread Sunil Naidu
Hello, I was trying to compile those kernels with make menuconfig. I am getting the error in scripts/kconfig/lxdialog/checklist.o. Here is the output: [EMAIL PROTECTED] linux-2.6.20.7]$ sudo make menuconfig HOSTCC scripts/kconfig/lxdialog/checklist.o In file included from scripts/kconfig/lxdia

Re: ACPI issues? (2.6.21-rc7 - dmesg, interrupts, lspci output)

2007-04-22 Thread Sunil Naidu
On 4/22/07, Len Brown <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: This is an AML run-time error from a PCI Interrupt Link trying to find its "Present Resource Settings" -- ie. the current IRQ for a programmable IRQ. Please open up a bug report here: http://bugzilla.kernel.org/enter_bug.cgi?product=ACPI For 2.6

Re: ACPI issues? (2.6.20.7 dmesg, interrupts, lspci output)

2007-04-22 Thread Sunil Naidu
On 4/22/07, Len Brown <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: This is an AML run-time error from a PCI Interrupt Link trying to find its "Present Resource Settings" -- ie. the current IRQ for a programmable IRQ. Please open up a bug report here: http://bugzilla.kernel.org/enter_bug.cgi?product=ACPI For 2.6

Re: Linux 2.6.21-rc7 - ACPI issues? (Namespace lookup failure, AE_NOT_FOUND)

2007-04-22 Thread Sunil Naidu
On 4/22/07, Len Brown <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: This is an AML run-time error from a PCI Interrupt Link trying to find its "Present Resource Settings" -- ie. the current IRQ for a programmable IRQ. Please open up a bug report here: http://bugzilla.kernel.org/enter_bug.cgi?product=ACPI Yep, r

Re: Linux 2.6.21-rc7 - ACPI issues?

2007-04-22 Thread Sunil Naidu
On 4/22/07, Andrew Morton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: (added linux-acpi) Are any other problems observeable due to this? This issue I did observe with 2.6.20.7 & 2.6.21-rc7. Should I try anymore tests? Anyway, here is the dmesg of 2.6.21-rc7:- Linux version 2.6.21-rc7-Akula2 ([EMAIL PROTECTE

Re: Linux 2.6.20.7 - Hard Disk rumbling?

2007-04-22 Thread Sunil Naidu
On 4/22/07, Mark Lord <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Opcode 0xb0 is "WIN_SMART". Error 0x04 is "command aborted/rejected/unsupported". Something on your system is issuing S.M.A.R.T. commands from userspace to the drive, and the drive either (1) doesn't support S.M.A.R.T., or (2) currently does not

Linux 2.6.21-rc7 - ACPI issues?

2007-04-21 Thread Sunil Naidu
Hello, I did compile 2.6.21-rc7 for a P-III machine. Here is the ACPI part in the dmesg:- ACPI Error (psargs-0355): [PRSE] Namespace lookup failure, AE_NOT_FOUND ACPI Error (psparse-0537): Method parse/execution failed [\_SB_.LNKE._PRS] (Node dfd63f40), AE_NOT_FOUND ACPI Exception (pci_link-0180

Linux 2.6.20.7 - Hard Disk rumbling?

2007-04-21 Thread Sunil Naidu
Hello, I am facing a strange problems with an old 1.2 GHz P-III machine with a 10 GB disk (used as a dedicated web server, later retired out of service!). Out of interest to implement some wireless solution (experiment), I did compile 2.6.20.7 for my requirement. Strangely, I did observe:- hda:

Re: [patch] MTD: fix DOC2000/2001/2001PLUS build error

2007-02-07 Thread Sunil Naidu
On 2/7/07, Linus Torvalds <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: And yes, then it's almost always correct to "turn things on as needed to make everything work out right", while turning things off would be actively wrong. I see a scenario (many others may have got this idea):- Reading H/W config at the t

Re: Free Linux Driver Development!

2007-02-07 Thread Sunil Naidu
On 2/7/07, Akemi Yagi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Tue, 06 Feb 2007 19:07:50 +0530, Sunil Naidu wrote: > On 2/5/07, Stefan Seyfried <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> On Wed, Jan 31, 2007 at 03:14:31AM +0100, Adrian Bunk wrote: >> > On Tue, Jan 30, 2007 at 0

Re: Free Linux Driver Development!

2007-02-06 Thread Sunil Naidu
On 2/5/07, Stefan Seyfried <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Wed, Jan 31, 2007 at 03:14:31AM +0100, Adrian Bunk wrote: > On Tue, Jan 30, 2007 at 05:24:28PM -0800, Greg KH wrote: Wrong. I abandoned all floppy drives some years ago. I'd actually vote for removing the floppy driver from the kernel comp

Re: Free Linux Driver Development!

2007-02-06 Thread Sunil Naidu
> On 2/4/07, Greg KH <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > >Just let me know if you are interested in participating, and what types > >of devices you wish to write drivers for (USB, PCI, network, etc.) Yep, would love to dive into this oceanin available mode ;-) > I would like to participate; h

Re: v2.6.20-rt1, yum/rpm

2007-02-06 Thread Sunil Naidu
On 2/5/07, Ingo Molnar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: i have released the v2.6.20-rt1 kernel, which can be downloaded from the This is about 2.6.20-rt2, no issues here. PID TTY STAT TIME COMMAND 1 ?Ss 0:00 init [5] 2 ?S 0:00 [migration/0] 3 ?S

Re: v2.6.20-rt1, yum/rpm

2007-02-05 Thread Sunil Naidu
On 2/5/07, Peter Zijlstra <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Mon, 2007-02-05 at 16:06 +0530, Sunil Naidu wrote: > On 2/5/07, Ingo Molnar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > i have released the v2.6.20-rt1 kernel, which can be downloaded from the > > usual place: > > Clean

Re: v2.6.20-rt1, yum/rpm

2007-02-05 Thread Sunil Naidu
On 2/5/07, Ingo Molnar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: i have released the v2.6.20-rt1 kernel, which can be downloaded from the usual place: Clean boot for me with 2.6.20 & 2.6.20-rt1. There isn't any error (like in 2.6.20-rc7-rt3). But here is an interesting dmesg: rcu_boost_dat: idx=1 b=0 ul=0 u

Re: Linux 2.6.20-rc7

2007-01-31 Thread Sunil Naidu
On 1/31/07, Linus Torvalds <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: It's in good enough shape that I'd probably have been happy to just release it as 2.6.20, but since I want 2.6.20 to be a stability release, I didn't want to risk any stupid bugs while the regressions got fixed, so here's a final -rc7. It's

Re: Strange XServer (KDE) log out on 2.6.20-rc6 !!

2007-01-30 Thread Sunil Naidu
On 1/30/07, Alexey Dobriyan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Have you pressed Ctrl+Alt+Backspace (by mistake)? I don't think I have done that. I shall investige on this... ~Akula2 - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTE

Strange XServer (KDE) log out on 2.6.20-rc6 !!

2007-01-30 Thread Sunil Naidu
Hello, I was working on this test machine with 2.6.20-rc6. There was a strange X log out (KDE 3.5.x). Three applications were running: BitTorrent client, Firefox 1.5.8, and KWrite. Suddenly, there was a log out from my work space (blank-blink for 3-4 seconds duration). Then, KDE log in screen ap

Re: 2.6.20-rc6-mm3 - interesting dmesg

2007-01-30 Thread Sunil Naidu
Hi Andrew, I did compile the same, it's a trouble free boot. I did observe interesting changes in the dmesg between 2.6.20-rc6 & 2.6.20-rc6-mm3 (wondering why there are so many changes in the output). Anyway, the changes in brief:- a) ACPI values b) pnp - iomem range reserved values c) Drive sel

Re: 2.6.20-rc6-mm3

2007-01-30 Thread Sunil Naidu
On 1/30/07, Andrew Morton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: - If you hit a bug in -mm and it is not obvious which patch caused it, it is most valuable if you can perform a bisection search to identify which patch introduced the bug. Instructions for this process are at I am hit with a compile er

2.6.20-rc6-rt2 - SMP/x86 -- questions about .config selection

2007-01-27 Thread Sunil Naidu
Hi Ingo, I did boot with (almost) no problems. Here is ps ax info:- PID TTY STAT TIME COMMAND 1 ?Ss 0:00 init [5] 2 ?S 0:00 [migration/0] 3 ?S 0:00 [posix_cpu_timer] 4 ?S 0:00 [softirq-high/0] 5 ?S 0:00 [softir

Re: [Ksummit-2006-discuss] 2007 Linux Kernel Summit

2007-01-26 Thread Sunil Naidu
On 1/26/07, Theodore Tso <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I did give you a response. Find a way to pay for 80+ kernel summit invitees to travel to India (preferably in business class :-), and we'll talk. That's not realistic? Well, then perhaps having the concept of holding Kernel Summit in India i

Re: Linux 2.6.20-rc6 - clean boot on P4/HT

2007-01-25 Thread Sunil Naidu
On 1/25/07, Sunil Naidu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: It was a cool booting, have really enjoyed this. Here is the clean boot for me after spending for good time. Here is the box info:- Linux Typhoon 2.6.20-rc6-Akula-II #1 SMP Fri Jan 26 05:33:18 IST 2007 i686 i686 i386 GNU/Linux I shal

Re: [Ksummit-2006-discuss] 2007 Linux Kernel Summit

2007-01-25 Thread Sunil Naidu
From: Dirk Hohndel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Thu, 25 Jan 2007 06:22:54 -0800 We've held netconf in Japan, Montreal, Portland, and this year will likely be Europe. People found a way to make it and we found sufficient sponsorship for all attendees who needed monetary travel assistence every time.

Re: Linux 2.6.20-rc6 - eth0 timed out - Myson Enternet driver (PCI)

2007-01-25 Thread Sunil Naidu
On 1/25/07, Sunil Naidu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: It was a cool booting, have really enjoyed this. I did find this in my dmesg. I have checked the dmesg of 2.6.19.x & 2.6.20-rc series. This is happening every time. NETDEV WATCHDOG: eth0: transmit timed out eth0: Transmit timed o

Re: Strange LKML home page!!!

2007-01-25 Thread Sunil Naidu
On 1/25/07, Randy Dunlap <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Thu, 25 Jan 2007 15:59:47 +0530 Sunil Naidu wrote: > Hello, > > I got stunned when I opened www.lkml.org > > => lkml deals psp ipod laptop hotel flight travel holiday lcd > tv mac pc > > All junk & non

Strange LKML home page!!!

2007-01-25 Thread Sunil Naidu
Hello, I got stunned when I opened www.lkml.org => lkml deals psp ipod laptop hotel flight travel holiday lcd tv mac pc All junk & nonsence .looks like a Domain seller!!! What's the problem here? ~Akula2 - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body

Re: Linux 2.6.20-rc6

2007-01-25 Thread Sunil Naidu
On 1/25/07, Linus Torvalds <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: It's been more than a week since -rc5, but I blame everybody (including me) being away for Linux.conf.au and then me waiting for a few days afterwards to let everybody sync up. So there it is, -rc6, hopefully the last -rc of the series. I

Re: [Ksummit-2006-discuss] 2007 Linux Kernel Summit

2007-01-24 Thread Sunil Naidu
On 1/24/07, Theodore Tso <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Presumably the way to do this would be to have a large conference (such as OLS) after the kernel summit. Hopefully most kernel summit attendees would stick around for 2-3 days afterwards for the technical conference. This is a good idea ;-)

Re: [Ksummit-2006-discuss] 2007 Linux Kernel Summit

2007-01-23 Thread Sunil Naidu
On 1/24/07, Josh Boyer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Any other reasons am missing here? > > Cost of flying 70 mainly US/European developers to India. Thanks James. I thought about this factor. Thinking about what are the factors which make a Kernel developer to show interest on a particular

Re: [Ksummit-2006-discuss] 2007 Linux Kernel Summit

2007-01-23 Thread Sunil Naidu
On 1/22/07, Alan Cox <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Ditto.. Definitely disagree with that. I'd like to see the conference somewhere else different this time - perhaps Czech Republic, or somewhere else more easterly and Linux active (or even Finland...) > While we're at it it would be nice to get r

Re: [Proposal] 2.6.18-stable release plans?

2007-01-23 Thread Sunil Naidu
On 1/23/07, Stefan Richter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: This would be hard to organize and support. There are news sites like LWN which give outlines of important kernel changes, and there are mailinglists or community sites for architectures or driver subsystems if you are interested in special p

Re: i965 testers wanted (Re: intel-agp PM experiences)

2007-01-23 Thread Sunil Naidu
On 1/23/07, Pavel Machek <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I've post a patch which trys to resolve pci config restore issue, see > http://lkml.org/lkml/2007/1/16/297. It resolves s3 issue with my 965G machine, > that my X can come back to live after s3, but I wasn't aware of the issues Andreas > has

Re: [Proposal] 2.6.18-stable release plans?

2007-01-23 Thread Sunil Naidu
On 1/23/07, Jesper Juhl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Now that 2.6.19 is out, most likely not. -stable releases are made for the latest stable 2.6.x kernel, once 2.6.x+1 is out that's the one -stable patches are made for (2.6.16 is an exception).. Earlier I was going through the stable paches wh

Re: Running Linux on FPGA

2007-01-21 Thread Sunil Naidu
On 1/21/07, Ralf Baechle <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: The overhead of timer interrupts at this low clockrate is significant so I recommend to minimize the timer interrupt rate as far as possible. This is really a tradeoff between latency and overhead and matters much less on hardcores which run at

Re: Abysmal disk performance, how to debug?

2007-01-20 Thread Sunil Naidu
On 1/21/07, Tim Schmielau <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Yes. You have a faster Disk that writes about 45 MB/s. But I am not sure I understand what you want to know? I got these results with a customized 2.6.20-rc5. [EMAIL PROTECTED] kernel]$ uname -a Linux Typhoon 2.6.20-rc5-Topol-M #1 SMP Sun Ja

Re: Abysmal disk performance, how to debug?

2007-01-20 Thread Sunil Naidu
On 1/21/07, Tim Schmielau <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Note that these dd "benchmarks" are completely bogus, because the data doesn't actually get written to disk in that time. For some enlightening data, try time dd if=/dev/zero of=/tmp/1GB bs=1M count=1024; time sync The dd returns as soon a

Re: Abysmal disk performance, how to debug?

2007-01-20 Thread Sunil Naidu
On 1/20/07, Willy Tarreau <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > It is not expected to increase write performance, but it should help you do something else during that time, or also give more responsiveness to Ctrl-C. It is possible that you have fast and slow RAM, or that your video card uses shared

More about dmesg stuff, this time 2.6.20-rc5

2007-01-20 Thread Sunil Naidu
Hello, I did find this dmesg for the kernel 2.6.20-rc5 Linux version 2.6.20-rc5-Typhoon ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) (gcc version 4.1.1 20061011 (Red Hat 4.1.1-30)) #1 SMP Sat Jan 20 15:00:20 IST 2007 BIOS-provided physical RAM map: sanitize start sanitize end copy_e820_map() start: size

Re: Missing dmesg parameters in 2.6.19.2

2007-01-19 Thread Sunil Naidu
On 1/20/07, Robert Hancock <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 1) Compiling with SMP as Generic (CONFIG_X86_PC is not set, CONFIG_M686=y) > > > > Using x86 segment limits to approximate NX protection > > > Using APIC driver default > > > > 2) Compili

Re: Choosing a HyperThreading/SMP/MultiCore kernel ?

2007-01-19 Thread Sunil Naidu
On 1/13/07, Lennart Sorensen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Fri, Jan 12, 2007 at 10:38:43PM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > amd64 will only work on a core2duo if it's a T7200 or higher - the > lower numbers are 32-bit-only chipsets. I admit not knowing what > exact variant the Mac has. 2.33GH

Re: BUG: linux 2.6.19 unable to enable acpi

2007-01-19 Thread Sunil Naidu
On 1/19/07, Len Brown <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Wednesday 17 January 2007 05:34, you wrote: > On 1/17/07, Matheus Izvekov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I just tried the firmwarekit, and here are the results, attached. > > TYVM, thats a very useful tool. > > I do suspect ACPI issues on my new

Re: Realtime-preemption for 2.6.20-rc5 ?

2007-01-19 Thread Sunil Naidu
On 1/18/07, Ingo Molnar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: the best place to start is: http://rt.wiki.kernel.org Ingo I did refer the same. Is it necessary to use only base kernel, say 2.6.19? Or, can I go ahead with 2.6.19 + 2.6.19.2 patch + 2.6.19-rt patch? If yes, any reason why we need

Missing dmesg parameters in 2.6.19.2

2007-01-19 Thread Sunil Naidu
Hello All, Atlast I have succeeded in booting 2.6.19.2 on mutiple x86 machines. I did observe a strange dmesg parameter behavior in this case:- 1) Compiling with SMP as Generic (CONFIG_X86_PC is not set, CONFIG_M686=y) . . Using x86 segment limits to approximate NX protection .

Realtime-preemption for 2.6.20-rc5 ?

2007-01-18 Thread Sunil Naidu
Hi Ingo, I would like to try with patch-2.6.20-rc5-rt7 for an experiment to measure the latency. Is there any documentation or help which talks about patching, issues, and latency benchmarks? ~Akula2 - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a messa

Re: BUG: linux 2.6.19 unable to enable acpi

2007-01-17 Thread Sunil Naidu
On 1/17/07, Matheus Izvekov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I just tried the firmwarekit, and here are the results, attached. TYVM, thats a very useful tool. I do suspect ACPI issues on my new DG965WH MOBO:- http://www.intel.com/products/motherboard/DG965WH/index.htm Tried with Linux-2.6.19.2. Any

Re: Choosing a HyperThreading/SMP/MultiCore kernel ?

2007-01-12 Thread Sunil Naidu
On 1/12/07, Lennart Sorensen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I would expect any distribution should work on these (as long as the kernel they use isn't too old.). Of course if it is a Mac, you need a distribution that supports their firmware (which is of course not a PC bios). As long as you can bo

Choosing a HyperThreading/SMP/MultiCore kernel ?

2007-01-12 Thread Sunil Naidu
Hello All, There are 2 cases:- #1 Intel Pentium 4 Workstation with HyperThreading Since kernel takes HT as 2 processors, I did say in KConfig as: CONFIG_SMP= y CONFIG_NR_CPUS=2 CONFIG_SCHED_MC=not set CONFIG_MPENTIUM4=y (Or should I say CONFIG_X86_PC=y) CONFIG_SCHED_SMT=y CONFIG_SCHED_MC=not s

Re: Linux-2.6.20-rc4 - Kernel panic!

2007-01-11 Thread Sunil Naidu
On 1/12/07, Stefan Richter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Sunil Naidu wrote: > compiling a driver as module has same affect (while > loading/booting of kernel) compare to compiling a driver as kernel > builtin feature? LKML is not the place for such questions. Being wexed from th

Re: Linux-2.6.20-rc4 - Kernel panic!

2007-01-11 Thread Sunil Naidu
On 1/12/07, Randy Dunlap <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Size cannot be > 100 KB (and message cannot be html). If photo size is > 100 KB, can you post it on the web somewhere? (or email it me) Shall e-mail you rightway, thanks. OffTopic: pic was 145KB, any good tool to compress with ease without mu