RE: Cosmetic JFFS patch.

2001-06-30 Thread Torrey Hoffman
ogo? Incidentally, the copyright and other messages have never bothered me. I figure if some company is going to do me the favor of sponsoring development of software I can use for free, I really don't mind being reminded of it. MP3.com definitely scores karma points with me for spo

RE: Fwd: Copyright infringement in linux/drivers/usb/serial/keyspan*fw.h

2001-05-25 Thread Torrey Hoffman
and a different instruction set. It's obviously not part of the kernel! Torrey Hoffman - [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- I find this corpse guilty of carrying a concealed weapon and I fine it $40. -- Judge Roy Bean, finding a pistol and $40 on a man he'

Unresolved symbol compiling a standalone module?

2001-05-18 Thread Torrey Hoffman
ptions as the normal kernel modules. My /usr/include/linux directory is a symbolic link to /usr/src/linux/include, and /usr/src/linux is the kernel I'm running. What am I doing wrong? Torrey Hoffman [EMAIL PROTECTED] - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-ke

[OT] automated remote install of Linux from WinNT4

2001-05-02 Thread Torrey Hoffman
provide... Torrey Hoffman [EMAIL PROTECTED] - 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://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/

RE: 2.4 and 2GB swap partition limit

2001-04-30 Thread Torrey Hoffman
wapped out? In general, is there a safe way to replace executable files for programs that might be running while their on-disk images are replaced? Thanks for any hints... Torrey Hoffman [EMAIL PROTECTED] - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in th

RE: [PATCH] Single user linux

2001-04-24 Thread Torrey Hoffman
> think about personal devices. something like the nokia communicator. > a system security passwd is acceptable, but that's it. no those- > device-user would like to know about user account, file ownership, > etc. they just want to use it. If you are making a personal device, like an "appliance",

An improved natsemi driver for 2.2

2001-04-18 Thread Torrey Hoffman
AC address from the EEPROM, and other things. I (Torrey Hoffman) am not the developer of our version, although I did go through it and clean it up a little. I am the alleged "Linux expert" here, and if there are problems with the driver I am the person to contact. I'm cc'i

RE: SiS 630

2001-04-10 Thread Torrey Hoffman
using the generic driver, and use hdparm to turn on DMA and 32bit. That gives decent performance. Also, the motherboard has 5(!) USB sockets, and I haven't tried those yet, but there's no reason to believe they won't work too. Hope that helps. Torrey Hoffman - To unsubscribe

RE: a quest for a better scheduler

2001-04-05 Thread Torrey Hoffman
lticast packets were never dropped, the MPEG decode never dropped frames, and the "user interface" stayed responsive, etc. Also, I would not mind a bit if the kernel had tuning options, either in configuration or through /proc to adjust for these very different situations. Torrey Hoff

Kernel Summit info?

2001-03-30 Thread Torrey Hoffman
aries about what the topics of discussion were, what options were looked at, and what decisions were made. Are any journalists there? Thanks. Torrey Hoffman [EMAIL PROTECTED] - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL

RE: natsemi.c (Netgear FA311 card) probmlems??

2001-03-28 Thread Torrey Hoffman
etimes when the moon is in the right phase, run at a much more reasonable 7 MB/s. We are working on it... If anyone else out there has some improvements, I would love to hear about them. Torrey Hoffman - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the b

RE: regression testing

2001-03-22 Thread Torrey Hoffman
thousands of new machines on board for continuous testing, keeping it a community effort. Not that the testing work of IBM, SGI, Red Hat, et. al. is unappreciated, but a distributed, open, regression testing package sort of fits the Linux philosophy and model... Torrey Hoffman - To un

on /etc/mtab vs. /proc/mounts (Was RE: Linux should better cope with power failure)

2001-03-19 Thread Torrey Hoffman
eem to be the significant ones. Hopefully those problems can and will be solved soon, and then we can get rid of /etc/mtab completely, and keep the root partition read only almost all the time. Torrey Hoffman - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the

RE: Linux should better cope with power failure

2001-03-19 Thread Torrey Hoffman
ying "never go to the limits"? So why is this simple rule > always broken with computers? So were you breaking this rule? Were you using a journaling file system, or RAID, or a UPS? Torrey Hoffman - 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://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/

RE: Is swap == 2 * RAM a permanent thing?

2001-03-15 Thread Torrey Hoffman
work fine... Thanks! Torrey Hoffman - 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://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/

RE: Linux stifles innovation...

2001-02-17 Thread Torrey Hoffman
ter hardware. Feh. On the other hand, they make excellent mice. The mouse wheel and the new optical mice are truly innovative and Microsoft should be commended for them. Yours truly, Torrey Hoffman - a relative nobody in the world of free software. But I use it. - To unsubscribe from this l

RE: Linux stifles innovation...

2001-02-17 Thread Torrey Hoffman
ess pain than I ever had on Windows. I'm never going back. Yours, Torrey Hoffman - 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://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/

RE: linux-logo.h

2001-02-12 Thread Torrey Hoffman
_logo.h during a kernel build. Also note that putting in a huge logo will make your kernel bzImage or zImage noticeably larger. This is not likely to be a problem if you use modules for most things. Best wishes, Torrey Hoffman [EMAIL PROTECTED] - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line &quo

RE: Knowing what options a kernel was compiled with

2001-01-29 Thread Torrey Hoffman
Should someone submit a patch to copy the .config to a standard location as part of "make install" or "make modules_install"? If included in the official sources, that good example would encourage the distribution maintainers do the same. Torrey Hoffman >-Orig

RE: Total loss with 2.4.0 (release) [off topic now...]

2001-01-23 Thread Torrey Hoffman
ever have to deal with this again either. Torrey Hoffman [EMAIL PROTECTED] - 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.org/lkml/

RE: Is there a Crystal 4299 sound driver?

2001-01-19 Thread Torrey Hoffman
Bill Nottingham said: >Torrey Hoffman ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) said: >> Does anyone know of a driver for the Crystal 4299 sound chip? > >It's not something there's one particular sound driver for (it's just >an ac97 codec chip, as you saw). Most likely you want to u

Is there a Crystal 4299 sound driver?

2001-01-18 Thread Torrey Hoffman
haps he is writing a driver? Any hints would be appreciated. Torrey Hoffman [EMAIL PROTECTED] - 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.org/lkml/

RE: 2.2.18 and Maxtor 96147H6 (61 GB)

2001-01-04 Thread Torrey Hoffman
perfectly under Linux Mandrake 2.2.17-mdk-21 - it shows up as /dev/hde. They are cheap controllers if you don't get the RAID version. Best wishes. Torrey Hoffman > From: Igmar Palsenberg [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Thursday, January 04, 2001 1:43 PM > Yeah.. I removed the

National Semiconductor DP83815 ethernet driver?

2000-12-12 Thread Torrey Hoffman
ncentrating on a port to the 2.4 series, how is that coming along? For what it's worth, the chip seems to have detailed documentation at http://www.national.com/pf/DP/DP83815.html. Thanks for any help. Torrey Hoffman [EMAIL PROTECTED] - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "

RE: [patch] Make linux logo centered, add margins, etc. for 2.2.1 7

2000-10-03 Thread Torrey Hoffman
has not been addressed. For more information on this patch, see my first posting to this thread. Please let me know of bugs or problems - all I can really say is "it works for me", and it's pretty simple patch, so it should be ok. Thanks. Torrey Hoffman. diff -u -r -x *.

RE: [patch] Make linux logo centered, add margins, etc. for 2.2.17

2000-10-02 Thread Torrey Hoffman
Mohammad A. Haque provided enlightenment: >>Why does fbcon_show_logo() have a loop that looks at smp_num_cpus? > For every CPU you have you see one more Tux (blush) I should have figured that out for myself. You know, a different, or at least more comprehensive patch will be needed for machine

[patch] Make linux logo centered, add margins, etc. for 2.2.17

2000-10-02 Thread Torrey Hoffman
created in /usr/src with the command: diff -u -r linux-2.2.17 linux and can be applied in /usr/src/linux with the command patch -p1 < ../linux_logo.patch Thanks! Torrey Hoffman [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] diff -u -r -x *.o -x *.flags -x *.depend linux-2.2.17/drivers/video/fbcon.c