Re: cx88 teletext not yet implemented -was- Re: Linux-2.6.13-rc6: aic7xxx testers please..

2005-08-11 Thread Gene Heskett
On Thursday 11 August 2005 11:38, Michael Krufky wrote: >Gene Heskett wrote: >>I can also report that teletext decoding has ceased to work >>here. But I'm not sure what kernel version killed it. Currently >>running 2.6.13-rc6. But my card is cx88 based, a pcHDTV-3000. But >>attempting to switch

cx88 teletext not yet implemented -was- Re: Linux-2.6.13-rc6: aic7xxx testers please..

2005-08-11 Thread Michael Krufky
Gene Heskett wrote: I can also report that teletext decoding has ceased to work here. But I'm not sure what kernel version killed it. Currently running 2.6.13-rc6. But my card is cx88 based, a pcHDTV-3000. But attempting to switch it on/off doesn't seem to generate any output indicating it f

Re: Linux-2.6.13-rc6: aic7xxx testers please..

2005-08-11 Thread Philipp Matthias Hahn
Hello Michael! On Thu, Aug 11, 2005 at 02:37:20PM +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > >I got the following OOPS from running "alevtd -F -d -v /dev/vbi0" with > >my Siemens-DVB-C on a Dual-i686-600. I'm able to reproduce this even > >running a 2.6.12-rc6 without the nvidia module tainting the kernel.

Re: Linux-2.6.13-rc6: aic7xxx testers please..

2005-08-11 Thread Gene Heskett
On Thursday 11 August 2005 08:37, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >Hello Philipp, > >> I got the following OOPS from running "alevtd -F -d -v /dev/vbi0" >> with my Siemens-DVB-C on a Dual-i686-600. I'm able to reproduce >> this even running a 2.6.12-rc6 without the nvidia module tainting >> the kernel. >

Re: Linux-2.6.13-rc6: aic7xxx testers please..

2005-08-11 Thread hunold
Hello Philipp, I got the following OOPS from running "alevtd -F -d -v /dev/vbi0" with my Siemens-DVB-C on a Dual-i686-600. I'm able to reproduce this even running a 2.6.12-rc6 without the nvidia module tainting the kernel. So you're using the analog tuner of the card to watch analog cable tv a

Re: Linux-2.6.13-rc6: aic7xxx testers please..

2005-08-11 Thread Johannes Stezenbach
On Thu, Aug 11, 2005 Philipp Matthias Hahn wrote: > PS: MAINTAINTER lists http://linuxtv.org/developer/dvb.xml which is > dead. Thanks for reporting. --- Fix DVB URL. Signed-off-by: Johannes Stezenbach <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Index: linux-2.6.13-rc6/MAINTAINERS =

Re: Linux-2.6.13-rc6: aic7xxx testers please..

2005-08-10 Thread Philipp Matthias Hahn
Hello! On Sun, Aug 07, 2005 at 11:47:53AM -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote: > Apart from some reverts and the aic7xxx performance regression fix, > there's arm and ppc updates, and some PCI resource allocation updates that > hopefully will reduce the number of machines (especially laptopns) that > have

Re: Linux-2.6.13-rc6: aic7xxx testers please..

2005-08-10 Thread Philipp Matthias Hahn
Hello! On Sun, Aug 07, 2005 at 11:47:53AM -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote: > James and gang found the aic7xxx slowdown that happened after 2.6.12, and > we'd like to get particular testing that it's fixed, so if you have a > relevant machine, please do test this. I just tried 2.6.13-rc6 after my la

Re: Linux-2.6.13-rc6: aic7xxx testers please..

2005-08-10 Thread John Stoffel
Hi James, Dropped back to 2.6.11.1 and it hung again. I was able to get the drive back by power cycling it and then doing the scsiadd to drop and re-add the drive. I then used the bacula 'btape' tool to run some tests. It seems to be just fine with regular files, but when it hit EOM, all hell

Re: Linux-2.6.13-rc6: aic7xxx testers please..

2005-08-10 Thread John Stoffel
James> Well, I suspect the tape is hanging the bus, from which no card James> can recover. Blech, not going to be fun to fix this sucker. James> Just to test this, can you try sending a bus reset with sgutils (from James> the debain package sg3-utils): James> sg_reset -b /dev/sg3 James> Then r

Re: Linux-2.6.13-rc6: aic7xxx testers please..

2005-08-10 Thread James Bottomley
On Wed, 2005-08-10 at 11:28 -0400, John Stoffel wrote: > Is there any more info I can provide here for you? dmesg output? > Here's the latest output from dmesg with the lockup of the drive, > which takes a power cycle to clear now. Well, I suspect the tape is hanging the bus, from which no card c

Re: Linux-2.6.13-rc6: aic7xxx testers please..

2005-08-10 Thread John Stoffel
Hi James, As a test, I dropped back to 2.6.12.1 and the drive hung again last night while trying to do backups, so I suspect that I might have controller or tape drive problems of some sort. I'll also try to go back to 2.6.12-rc6 as well and see how that works out. My next step is to try and ge

Re: Linux-2.6.13-rc6: aic7xxx testers please..

2005-08-09 Thread James Bottomley
On Tue, 2005-08-09 at 16:12 -0400, John Stoffel wrote: > Thank you for looking into this with me, I really appreciate it. I'm > kinda stumped why this suddenly started happening, but it could be > hardware related of course... Well ... there's something going on that your posted dmesg's don't see

Re: Linux-2.6.13-rc6: aic7xxx testers please..

2005-08-09 Thread John Stoffel
> "James" == James Bottomley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Thank you for looking into this with me, I really appreciate it. I'm kinda stumped why this suddenly started happening, but it could be hardware related of course... James> So basically the problem is on scsi1 with the tape device, whi

Re: Linux-2.6.13-rc6: aic7xxx testers please..

2005-08-09 Thread James Bottomley
On Tue, 2005-08-09 at 15:35 -0400, John Stoffel wrote: > Attached devices: > Host: scsi0 Channel: 00 Id: 00 Lun: 00 > Vendor: COMPAQ Model: HC01841729 Rev: 3208 > Type: Direct-AccessANSI SCSI revision: 02 > Host: scsi0 Channel: 00 Id: 01 Lun: 00 > Vendor: COMPAQ

Re: Linux-2.6.13-rc6: aic7xxx testers please..

2005-08-09 Thread John Stoffel
Hi Linus & James, I've still got problems under 2.6.13-rc6 with my DLT7000 drive on an AIC7880 builtin controller. Here's the message I got in dmesg. My system is a heavily upgraded Debian/unstable with dual 550mhz Xeon processors and 768mb of RAM, dual SCSI busses. The annoying problem is tha

Re: Linux-2.6.13-rc6: aic7xxx testers please..-deadlock

2005-08-08 Thread Andrew Morton
"art" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > kernel 2.6.13-rc1-git7 to 2.6.13-rc5 transfer 72MB/s on aha19160 with 15k > rpm seagate with reiserfs3 but possible deadlock in heavy IO - rsync > ~5-small files from /mnt/seagate15k/a to /mnt/seagate15k/b ends in > middle with deadlock of rsync (3 instances

Re: Linux-2.6.13-rc6: aic7xxx testers please..

2005-08-08 Thread Jesper Juhl
On Sunday 07 August 2005 20:47, Linus Torvalds wrote: > > James and gang found the aic7xxx slowdown that happened after 2.6.12, and > we'd like to get particular testing that it's fixed, so if you have a > relevant machine, please do test this. > I'm using the aic7xxx driver, and although I ha

Re: Linux-2.6.13-rc6: aic7xxx testers please..-deadlock

2005-08-08 Thread art
kernel 2.6.13-rc1-git7 to 2.6.13-rc5 transfer 72MB/s on aha19160 with 15k rpm seagate with reiserfs3 but possible deadlock in heavy IO - rsync ~5-small files from /mnt/seagate15k/a to /mnt/seagate15k/b ends in middle with deadlock of rsync (3 instances), pdflush, and gam_server all of them i

Re: Linux-2.6.13-rc6: aic7xxx testers please..

2005-08-08 Thread Danny ter Haar
Linus Torvalds <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >James and gang found the aic7xxx slowdown that happened after 2.6.12, and >we'd like to get particular testing that it's fixed, so if you have a >relevant machine, please do test this. with me, rc6 lasted 18 hours: reboot system boot 2.6.13-rc6

Re: Linux-2.6.13-rc6: aic7xxx testers please..

2005-08-08 Thread Theodore Ts'o
On Mon, Aug 08, 2005 at 12:14:43AM +0300, Dumitru Ciobarcianu wrote: > ??n data de Du, 07-08-2005 la 11:47 -0700, Linus Torvalds a scris: > > Luming Yu: > > [ACPI] revert Embedded Controller to polling-mode by default (ala 2.6.12) > > [ACPI] CONFIG_ACPI_HOTKEY is now "n" by default > > IMHO yo

Re: Linux-2.6.13-rc6: aic7xxx testers please..

2005-08-08 Thread John Stoffel
Linus> James and gang found the aic7xxx slowdown that happened after Linus> 2.6.12, and we'd like to get particular testing that it's Linus> fixed, so if you have a relevant machine, please do test this. This might explain why my DLT7000 has been dropping off the bus at times and requiring a full

Re: Linux-2.6.13-rc6: aic7xxx testers please..

2005-08-07 Thread Dumitru Ciobarcianu
În data de Du, 07-08-2005 la 11:47 -0700, Linus Torvalds a scris: > Luming Yu: > [ACPI] revert Embedded Controller to polling-mode by default (ala 2.6.12) > [ACPI] CONFIG_ACPI_HOTKEY is now "n" by default IMHO you really need then to make acpi_specific_hotkey the default or at least mention it

Re: Linux-2.6.13-rc6: aic7xxx testers please..

2005-08-07 Thread Lee Revell
On Sun, 2005-08-07 at 13:50 -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote: > > On Sun, 7 Aug 2005, Lee Revell wrote: > > > > It looks like CONFIG_4KSTACKS has gone away (IOW 8K stacks are no longer > > an option). But now I get this ominous warning when I compile > > ndiswrapper: > > It's still there, and it (st

Re: Linux-2.6.13-rc6: aic7xxx testers please..

2005-08-07 Thread Linus Torvalds
On Sun, 7 Aug 2005, Lee Revell wrote: > > It looks like CONFIG_4KSTACKS has gone away (IOW 8K stacks are no longer > an option). But now I get this ominous warning when I compile > ndiswrapper: It's still there, and it (still) depends on DEBUG_KERNEL. Nothing should have changed afaik..

Re: Linux-2.6.13-rc6: aic7xxx testers please..

2005-08-07 Thread Lee Revell
On Sun, 2005-08-07 at 11:47 -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote: > James and gang found the aic7xxx slowdown that happened after 2.6.12, and > we'd like to get particular testing that it's fixed, so if you have a > relevant machine, please do test this. > > There are other fixes too, a number of them re

Re: Linux-2.6.13-rc6: aic7xxx testers please..

2005-08-07 Thread Heikki Orsila
Linus Torvalds wrote: > In general, anybody who has reported regressions since 2.6.12, please > re-test with -rc6 and report back > ... > Herbert Xu: > tcp: fix TSO cwnd caching bug The tcp_output panic bug seems to be fixed. I'm referring to: http://lkml.org/lkml/2005/8/7/63 -- Heikki

Linux-2.6.13-rc6: aic7xxx testers please..

2005-08-07 Thread Linus Torvalds
James and gang found the aic7xxx slowdown that happened after 2.6.12, and we'd like to get particular testing that it's fixed, so if you have a relevant machine, please do test this. There are other fixes too, a number of them reverting (at least for now) patches that people had problems with