Re: [BUG] Inconsistent behaviour of rmdir

2000-11-20 Thread Eric Paire
> > On Fri, 17 Nov 2000, Guest section DW wrote: > > > I see that an entire discussion has taken place. Let me just remark this, > > quoting the Austin draft: > > > > If the path argument refers to a path whose final component is either > > dot or dot-dot, rmdir( ) shall fail. > > > > EINVAL

test11.sign question

2000-11-20 Thread jani
Sorry for being kind of OT but did anyone gpg --verify pre11? It says BAD signature to me with key 517D0F0E which I think is the good one.Just say yes if so and I'll try to see what I did wrong, don't wanna waste your time :-) Jani. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe l

Re: test11.sign question

2000-11-20 Thread jani
On Mon, 20 Nov 2000 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > Sorry for being kind of OT but did anyone gpg --verify pre11? > It says BAD signature to me with key 517D0F0E which I think is the good > one.Just say yes if so and I'll try to see what I did wrong, don't wanna > waste your time :-) > Sorry do

Re: 2.4.0-test11-pre7: isapnp hang

2000-11-20 Thread Tim Waugh
On Mon, Nov 20, 2000 at 12:19:43AM +, Alan Cox wrote: > And a quick read of the code I pasted instead of just pasting > suggests instead we should be using the patch below. Question > however is who stole port 0x279 which is the normal port to use. It > shouldnt be lp since lp is supposed to

Oops in 2.4.0-test11-pre4 (SMP x86)

2000-11-20 Thread Bernhard Rosenkraenzer
I just got this on a dual Pentium III-700 system, running 2.4.0-test11-pre4; no special patches applied except for commenting out the printk line generating the tons of "APIC error on CPU0" messages generated on Gigabyte P2D boards: Unexpected IRQ trap at vector 6c kernel BUG at smp.c:281 ksymoo

Re: [BUG] Inconsistent behaviour of rmdir

2000-11-20 Thread Guest section DW
On Mon, Nov 20, 2000 at 09:32:39AM +0100, Eric Paire wrote: > > > > On Fri, 17 Nov 2000, Guest section DW wrote: > > > > > I see that an entire discussion has taken place. Let me just remark this, > > > quoting the Austin draft: > > > > > > If the path argument refers to a path whose final comp

Re: Linux 2.2.18pre22

2000-11-20 Thread Kai Germaschewski
On Sun, 19 Nov 2000, Jeff V. Merkey wrote: > ISDN_MODEM_ANZREG undefined on 2.4.0-10(11) and 2.2.18-22, rpm.spec is > attached. This has been fixed 2000/03/03, see below. Just use the latest version, ftp.isdn4linux.de/pub/isdn4linux/utils/isdn4k-utils.v3.1pre1.tar.gz --Kai Index: iprofd.c =

[PATCH] Re: BTTV detection broken in 2.4.0-test11-pre5

2000-11-20 Thread Richard Guenther
On 19 Nov 2000, Gerd Knorr wrote: > Some generic way to make module args available as kernel args too > would be nice. Or at least some simple one-liner I could put next to > the MODULE_PARM() macro... Well, I did a patch that does automagically convert MODULE_PARAM stuff to __setup() functions

Re: [PATCH] Large "clipped" IDE disk support for 2.4 when using oldBIOS

2000-11-20 Thread Andre Hedrick
Andries, Don't you mean (drive->id->cfs_enable_1 & 0x0400) word85 and not (drive->id->command_set_1 & 0x0400) word82 Because when bit 10 of word 85 is not set then clip or HPArea is not enabled. Cheers, Andre Hedrick CTO Timpanogas Research Group EVP Linux Developmen

Re: Linux 2.2.18pre22

2000-11-20 Thread Arnaud S . Launay
Le Sun, Nov 19, 2000 at 01:11:33AM +, Alan Cox a écrit: > Bugs to go: PS/2 mouse detection > Anything which isnt a strict bug fix or previously agreed is now 2.2.19 > material. Once again, I needed this patch by Dave Miller to compile the kernel: --- kernel/sysctl.c.~1~ Thu Nov 9 19:41:52

Re: [PATCH] Large "clipped" IDE disk support for 2.4 when using old BIOS

2000-11-20 Thread T. Yamada
> Both disks claim support for the Host Protected Area feature set. > No doubt early disks had firmware flaws. So it's yet another "borken hardware"... Is there anything like SCSI "blacklist" for IDE driver? Then it could be handled easily by registering the drive there and check that out before

Re: [PATCH] Large "clipped" IDE disk support for 2.4 when using oldBIOS

2000-11-20 Thread Andre Hedrick
Fixed now and working on it.. On Mon, 20 Nov 2000, T. Yamada wrote: > > > Both disks claim support for the Host Protected Area feature set. > > No doubt early disks had firmware flaws. > > So it's yet another "borken hardware"... Is there anything like > SCSI "blacklist" for IDE driver? Then

[PATCH] Documentation/initrd.txt update (for 2.4)

2000-11-20 Thread Werner Almesberger
Hi Linus, this patch contains the long overdue revision of Documentation/initrd.txt. The changes are mainly updates (e.g. mention devfs), and I've changed the focus from change_root to pivot_root. The changes in detail: - updated e-mail addresses of authors - reduced description of change_root

Re: test11-pre6 still very broken

2000-11-20 Thread Thomas Sailer
Linus Torvalds wrote: > I'd disagree. UHCI has tons of advantages, not the least of which is > [Cthat it was there first and is widely available. If OHCI hadn't been > done we'd have _one_ nice good USB controller implementation instead of UHCI has a couple of disadvantages, though (and some o

Re: 2.4.0-test11-pre7: isapnp hang

2000-11-20 Thread Alan Cox
> It seems to me that it would be better to initialize all the (non-PnP) > ISA cards first, and have them claim their preferred ranges. Now you > can pick the PnP isolate port out of what is left, and also have a > much better idea of what is available. Post 2.4 only. It means re-architecting al

Re: [PATCH] (new for ppa and imm) Re: [PATCH] Re: Patch to fix lockup on ppa insert

2000-11-20 Thread Tim Waugh
On Sat, Nov 18, 2000 at 05:10:24PM -0500, John Cavan wrote: > it is. The new scsi error stuff does mention that drivers must > spinunlock/spinlock if it enables interrupts. Okay, I guess it is safe then. Tim. */ PGP signature

Re: grphics mode problem

2000-11-20 Thread Igmar Palsenberg
On Fri, 17 Nov 2000, M.Kiran Babu wrote: > sir, > i am getting some problem with graphics mode. my system is opening in text > mode only. upto yesterday it is ok. but now it is failing to open in > graphics mode. i am using startx, xinit and Xconfigurator all options. but > even it is showing err

Re: [PATCH] blindingly stupid 2.2 VM bug

2000-11-20 Thread Rik van Riel
On Sun, 19 Nov 2000, Ville Herva wrote: > My questions is: I saw Andrea's VM-global patch being > recommended as a solution for this problem, and I already > compiled it in (although I haven't booted into it yet). Should I > use Rik's or Andrea's patch? This patch is incremental with VM-global,

Re: [PATCH] semaphore fairness patch against test11-pre6

2000-11-20 Thread Andrew Morton
Linus Torvalds wrote: > > ... > > I'll think about this some more. One thing I noticed is that the > "wake_up(&sem->wait);" at the end of __down() is kind of bogus: we don't > actually want to wake anybody up at that point at all, it's just that if > we don't wake anybody up we'll end up having

Defective Red Hat Distribution poorly represents Linux

2000-11-20 Thread Charles Turner, Ph.D.
I tried to help a friend this weekend convert to Linux. He lives in Upstate New York, so it was a long trip from Cambridge, Massachusetts. He has a Dual Pentium III, 600 MHz TYAN "Thunderbolt". It has a built-in Adaptec SCSI controller and Intel 100-base-T Ethernet controller. It also has 1/2 Gb

Re: Defective Red Hat Distribution poorly represents Linux

2000-11-20 Thread Mohammad A. Haque
You're complaining on the wrong list. On Mon, 20 Nov 2000, Charles Turner, Ph.D. wrote: > > I tried to help a friend this weekend convert to Linux. > He lives in Upstate New York, so it was a long trip from > Cambridge, Massachusetts. > > He has a Dual Pentium III, 600 MHz TYAN "Thunderbolt". >

2.2.18pre22: ppa_fail(3) from ppa_wait at line 319

2000-11-20 Thread Oleg Makarenko
With 2.2.18pre22 I get a lot of scsidisk I/O errors on my parallel port zip. All pervious versions of 2.2.18pre worked fine. The problem is 100% reproducible and occurs after a long period of inactivity (10 or more minutes) compiled with #define PPA_DEBUG 1 I get: ppa_fail(3) from ppa_wait at l

Re: Defective Red Hat Distribution poorly represents Linux

2000-11-20 Thread Andreas Jaeger
> Charles Turner, Ph D writes: > I tried to help a friend this weekend convert to Linux. > He lives in Upstate New York, so it was a long trip from > Cambridge, Massachusetts. > I was terribly wrong. This Red Hat version is irrevocably defective. This list is about problems with the Lin

Re: Defective Red Hat Distribution poorly represents Linux

2000-11-20 Thread Tigran Aivazian
On Mon, 20 Nov 2000, Charles Turner, Ph.D. wrote: > I certainly don't know what to purchase for my > next attempt at a "shrink-wrap" installation. Try Red Hat 7.0 -- it is certainly better. True, no distribution is perfect but over the years I've developed my own CD image upgrade.iso

Re: PROBLEM: isofs crash on 2.4.0-test11-pre7 [1.] MAINTAINERS: ISO FILESYSTEM

2000-11-20 Thread Alessandro Suardi
Tony Spinillo wrote: > > Same problem as Vincent - OOPs when "ls" a mounted cdrom. It did work > once with a CD-R. My report symptoms are nearly identical to previous > post with same subject heading with a few differences: there is a buglet in fs/isofs/namei.c, corrected in test11-final. --ale

Re: Defective Red Hat Distribution poorly represents Linux

2000-11-20 Thread Gregory Maxwell
On Mon, Nov 20, 2000 at 08:53:19AM -0500, Charles Turner, Ph.D. wrote: [snip] > I was terribly wrong. This Red Hat version is irrevocably defective. [snip] > (3) It "sort of" worked. However, network daemons kept > dropping core. X would eventually crash, leaving the > terminal in an

Re: [PATCH] Large "clipped" IDE disk support for 2.4 when using old BIOS

2000-11-20 Thread Andries . Brouwer
From [EMAIL PROTECTED] Mon Nov 20 12:29:59 2000 Andries, Don't you mean (drive->id->cfs_enable_1 & 0x0400)word85 and not (drive->id->command_set_1 & 0x0400)word82 Because when bit 10 of word 85 is not set then clip or HPArea is not enabled. I saw no

Re: 2.2.18pre22: ppa_fail(3) from ppa_wait at line 319

2000-11-20 Thread Tim Waugh
On Mon, Nov 20, 2000 at 05:01:32PM +0300, Oleg Makarenko wrote: > the following partial reversal patch seems to help (but I am not sure it > is correct): Hmm. That patch went in because without it it doesn't work at all for some people. :-(( Tim. */ PGP signature

Re: easy-to-fix bug in /dev/null driver

2000-11-20 Thread Alan Kennington
Okay, okay, I didn't really make my point persuasively enough. The file linux/drivers/char/mem.c contains this: === static ssize_t write_null(struct file * file, const char * buf, size_t count, loff_t *ppos) { retur

2.4.0-test10 on sparc

2000-11-20 Thread Wakko Warner
I noticed 2 things. One is quite annoying. 1) sunlance: Nov 19 19:09:49 sparq kernel: eth0: Carrier Lost, trying AUI Nov 19 19:09:52 sparq kernel: eth0: Carrier Lost, trying TPE This has been going on for some time since it has been up. But I think something oopsed to cause this 2) the oops.

Re: [oops] apm and tulip (eeprom.c) related in kernel 2.4.0 test11-pre7

2000-11-20 Thread Tobias Ringstrom
On Sat, 18 Nov 2000, David Ford wrote: > I've been trying [unsuccessfully :S] to get the kernel's pcmcia > working. I woke up this morning and found the following oops: This has nothing to do with the pcmcia support, but with the tulip driver. The easiest thing to try is to comment away the fo

ext2 compression: How about using the Netware principle?

2000-11-20 Thread Roy Sigurd Karlsbakk
Hi With some years of practice with Novell NetWare, I've been wandering why the (unused?) file system compression mechanism in ext2 is based on doing realtime compression. To make compression efficient, it can't be made this simple. Let's look at the type of volume (file system) compression intro

Whiner spams linux-kernel (Re: Defective Red Hat Distribution poorly represents Linux)

2000-11-20 Thread Jes Sorensen
> "Charles" == Charles Turner, Ph D <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Charles> It had been running Windows 2000 "Professional". Several Charles> months ago, he purchased Red Hat "DELUXE" version 6.2. He was Charles> unable to install it. I convinced him that installation was Charles> easy. Charles

2.2.5 more stable than 2.2.12 or later.

2000-11-20 Thread John Folkers
Hello. I subscribed to this list expressly to tell you guys about a bug in the kernel that is being carried forward. I am not a kernel master, all I do is install stuff. First, before I begin, PLEASE reference linux-kernel posting entitled: Subject "kswapd related oopses in 2.2.13" From: Arthu

Re: Strange lockup of the timer with 2.4.0-test10 SMP (and older)

2000-11-20 Thread Benjamin Monate
In his message of Sat 18 November, Andrew Morton writes : > Try booting with the `noapic' option. Looks like your APIC > is getting itself unprogrammed. Check that you're not > overclocked and not over temperature. Booting with noapic did not improve anything. The processor is not supposed to

Re: Defective Red Hat Distribution poorly represents Linux

2000-11-20 Thread Bernhard Rosenkraenzer
Wrong list, but this needs to be set straight. Please send any further problem reports about Red Hat Linux to http://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla > I was terribly wrong. This Red Hat version is irrevocably defective. With the exception that it works for everyone else. > (1) It will not create

AIC-7xxx oops

2000-11-20 Thread KELEMEN Peter
Hello. I've been experiencing SCSI-related oopsen since 2.4.0-test6. Couple of minutes ago I tried with test11 final, no luck still. When I attempt to play an audio CD using cdplay from the cdtool package, I'm rewarded with the following oops and cdplay segfaults. ksymoops 2.3.5 on i686 2.4.0-te

[PATCH] maestro 2E not enabled

2000-11-20 Thread Georg Nikodym
Second try (probably since I didn't correctly follow all the rules before, thanks for the timely discussion). The Maestro 2E on my laptop, which worked on 2.2 kernels, stopped working on 2.4.0. Where stopped working means no sound and "pauses" when interacting with the driver. The symptom was

Re: Defective Red Hat Distribution poorly represents Linux

2000-11-20 Thread Bernhard Rosenkraenzer
On Mon, 20 Nov 2000, Tigran Aivazian wrote: > Try Red Hat 7.0 -- it is certainly better. True, no distribution is > perfect but over the years I've developed my own CD image upgrade.iso > which goes directly after installing latest Red Hat distribution. It is > full of things like BRS, dict(1), '

RE: catch 22 - porting net driver from 2.2 to 2.4

2000-11-20 Thread Hen, Shmulik
I tried using the kernel thread as demonstrated in your example and again it failed (panic - scheduling in interrupt). The difference is that your code executes the thread from within dev->open, while my code tries to do that from dev->do_ioctl that has spinlocks around the entire operation (which

2.2.16 does not compile

2000-11-20 Thread Andrei Smirnov
I have a newly installed RH-7.0 distribution on a Celeron Pentium 400. When I tried to compile the kernel I got the following: 1. I ran make xconfig (or make menuconfig) and saved without changing any options - completed OK 2. make dep: OK. 3. make zImage: produced the following output: k

Re: Linux 2.2.18pre22

2000-11-20 Thread Jeff V. Merkey
On Mon, Nov 20, 2000 at 11:10:21AM +0100, Kai Germaschewski wrote: > > On Sun, 19 Nov 2000, Jeff V. Merkey wrote: > > > ISDN_MODEM_ANZREG undefined on 2.4.0-10(11) and 2.2.18-22, rpm.spec is > > attached. > > This has been fixed 2000/03/03, see below. Just use the latest version, > ftp.isdn4li

Re: 2.2.16 does not compile

2000-11-20 Thread Alan Cox
> I have a newly installed RH-7.0 distribution on a Celeron Pentium 400. > When I tried to compile the kernel I got the following: > > 1. I ran make xconfig (or make menuconfig) and saved without changing any >options - completed OK Step 0: make mrproper - To unsubscribe from this list: send

Re: Defective Red Hat Distribution poorly represents Linux

2000-11-20 Thread Jeff V. Merkey
On Mon, Nov 20, 2000 at 08:53:19AM -0500, Charles Turner, Ph.D. wrote: Charles, 6.2 is one of te better distributions. You should also go talk to RedHat directly. Jeff > > I tried to help a friend this weekend convert to Linux. > He lives in Upstate New York, so it was a long trip from >

de4x5 hangs in 2.4.0-test11-pre7

2000-11-20 Thread Bernhard Rosenkraenzer
The de4x5 driver crashed on me twice today (on a 2 CPU x86 box); The network went down for no visible reason (nothing in syslog or on the console). The network card is a 00:0b.0 Ethernet controller: Digital Equipment Corporation DECchip 21142/43 (rev 41) Subsystem: Compu-Shack: Unknown de

Re: 2.2.16 does not compile

2000-11-20 Thread Richard Torkar
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Andrei Smirnov wrote: > > I have a newly installed RH-7.0 distribution on a Celeron Pentium 400. > When I tried to compile the kernel I got the following: > > 1. I ran make xconfig (or make menuconfig) and saved without changing any >options - co

Sharing memory between processes in kernel mode

2000-11-20 Thread Rubén Gallardo Fructuoso
Hi! I want to share memory between two differents processes in kernel mode. The goal is to copy the read buffer of a user process into the read buffer of another user process. I know it's possible to do it by creating an intermediate buffer in kernel mode and to use the 'copy_from

Re: Defective Red Hat Distribution poorly represents Linux

2000-11-20 Thread Werner Almesberger
Charles Turner, Ph.D. wrote: > I can even see obvious bugs in the trace, i.e., : > stat("/usrusr/lib/ldscripts", 0xba7c) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory) Probably only a cosmetic problem. A regular run (RedHat binutils-2.9.5.0.22-6) yields: stat("/usrusr/lib/ldscripts", 0xb5c4) =

Re: [patch] Remove tq_scheduler

2000-11-20 Thread Alan Cox
> The patch against test11-pre7 (1043 lines) is at > > http://www.uow.edu.au/~andrewm/linux/tq_scheduler.patch > > It affects the following files: Andrew, can you put your patches on a properly configured site. The site admins have all ICMP packets blocked on www.uow.edu.au so you ar

Re: 2.2.5 more stable than 2.2.12 or later.

2000-11-20 Thread Jan Gyselinck
Hi, I too run linux on a Compaq Deskpro EN PII 350. It never crashed. It runned 2.2.9 -> 2.2.15, without any oops. But I must say, I only run official kernels from kernel.org that I compiled myself. I'm not interested in the pre-compiled redhat thingies. Did you compile your kernel yoursel

Any advantage to kernel 2.4 in low-end system?

2000-11-20 Thread Steven_Snyder
Hello. In reading about the cool new features of Linux v2.4, most of the improvements/changes seem to relate to high-end systems. Would users of low-end systems (386/486, low memory, etc.) be advised to stay with kernel v2.2.x or is v2.4.x the way to go for these systems as well? Thank you.

Re: Strange lockup of the timer with 2.4.0-test10 SMP (and older)

2000-11-20 Thread Fort David
"Benjamin Monate > In his message of Sat 18 November, Andrew Morton writes : > > Try booting with the `noapic' option. Looks like your APIC > > is getting itself unprogrammed. Check that you're not > > overclocked and not over temperature. > > Booting with noapic did not improve anything. > The

Re: Any advantage to kernel 2.4 in low-end system?

2000-11-20 Thread Rik van Riel
On Mon, 20 Nov 2000 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > In reading about the cool new features of Linux v2.4, most of > the improvements/changes seem to relate to high-end systems. > Would users of low-end systems (386/486, low memory, etc.) be > advised to stay with kernel v2.2.x or is v2.4.x the way t

Re: Defective Red Hat Distribution poorly represents Linux

2000-11-20 Thread Tigran Aivazian
On Mon, 20 Nov 2000, Bernhard Rosenkraenzer wrote: > On Mon, 20 Nov 2000, Tigran Aivazian wrote: > > > Try Red Hat 7.0 -- it is certainly better. True, no distribution is > > perfect but over the years I've developed my own CD image upgrade.iso > > which goes directly after installing latest Red

Re: Linux 2.2.18pre22 (ISDN4K errors)

2000-11-20 Thread Jeff V. Merkey
We were using the attached spec file for 3.1pre1 and the other file for 3.1beta7 (sorry I posted the wrong file, it was about 2 a.m. in the morning). When built against 2.2.18-21 with 3.1pre1, I get a whole new slew of errors. Neither seems to work. I have attached the 3.1pre1 spec file which

Re: BTTV detection broken in 2.4.0-test11-pre5

2000-11-20 Thread Ragnar Hojland Espinosa
On Sun, Nov 19, 2000 at 07:00:41PM -0800, Dan Hollis wrote: > On Mon, 20 Nov 2000, David Woodhouse wrote: > > On Sun, 19 Nov 2000, Dan Hollis wrote: > > > Writeprotect the flashbios with the motherboard jumper, and remove the > > > cmos battery. > > > Checkmate. :-) > > Only if you run your kernel

Bug in large files ext2 in 2.4.0-test11 ?

2000-11-20 Thread Zdenek Kabelac
Hi I just noticed this problem - I'm missing some large files created in the filesystem. This is 'ls' output from 2.4.0-test11/test10 total 33 drwxr-xr-x6 root root 4096 Nov 20 18:06 . drwxr-xr-x 42 root root 1024 Nov 20 14:02 .. drwxr-xr-x2 root root

Re: [patch] Remove tq_scheduler

2000-11-20 Thread bert hubert
On Mon, Nov 20, 2000 at 05:07:14PM +, Alan Cox wrote: > > The patch against test11-pre7 (1043 lines) is at > > > > http://www.uow.edu.au/~andrewm/linux/tq_scheduler.patch > > > > It affects the following files: > > Andrew, can you put your patches on a properly configured site. The

Re: Defective Red Hat Distribution poorly represents Linux

2000-11-20 Thread Charles Turner, Ph.D.
On Mon, 20 Nov 2000, Tigran Aivazian wrote: > On Mon, 20 Nov 2000, Charles Turner, Ph.D. wrote: > > I certainly don't know what to purchase for my > > next attempt at a "shrink-wrap" installation. > > Try Red Hat 7.0 -- it is certainly better. True, no distribution is [SNIPPED...] I jus

Re: Bug in large files ext2 in 2.4.0-test11 ?

2000-11-20 Thread Petr Vandrovec
On 20 Nov 00 at 17:56, Zdenek Kabelac wrote: > I just noticed this problem - > I'm missing some large files created in the filesystem. > > This is 'ls' output from 2.4.0-test11/test10 > total 33 > drwxr-xr-x6 root root 4096 Nov 20 18:06 . > drwxr-xr-x 42 root root 1

Re: Strange lockup of the timer with 2.4.0-test10 SMP (and older)

2000-11-20 Thread Benjamin Monate
Dans son message du Mon 20 November, Fort David ecrit : > > Further investigations showed that the problem will occur only when > > Xfree 4.0.1 is running with an smp kenel . Xfree 3.3.6 is ok. Could this > > be a bug in X ? I thought that the kernel should prevent such a bug > > from locking th

Re: Strange lockup of the timer with 2.4.0-test10 SMP (and older)

2000-11-20 Thread Alan Cox
> a lock of the PCI bus (as SCSI and NIC are still working). Only the > timer interrupts and NMI seem to be stuck : can a driver cause > something so "lowlevel" ? Something stopping the timers on the APIC I guess. But quite what or how I don't know - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line

Re: Defective Red Hat Distribution poorly represents Linux

2000-11-20 Thread Mohammad A. Haque
At the risk of being flamed for a distribution type discussion... Security nuts are probably rolling on the floor laughing at you for these two. I can think of some situations where these would be usefull though. On Mon, 20 Nov 2000, Tigran Aivazian wrote: > 3) edit /etc/ftpusers to allow root

Re: Defective Red Hat Distribution poorly represents Linux

2000-11-20 Thread John Jasen
On Mon, 20 Nov 2000, Charles Turner, Ph.D. wrote: > (4) For those who think the hardware is broken; The hardware worked > for six months using Windows/2000. It has a NT core. On this note, I recall a time that I 'appropriated' a workstation for linux. It was pulled out of the student la

Re: struct acct uses 16bit uids :-(

2000-11-20 Thread Chris Wing
Andreas: My changes for process accounting were not accepted along with the rest of the 32-bit UID patches. The current state of things as I understand it is that SGI is working on some "enhanced" accounting support for Linux, which may end up replacing the current process accounting. (stuff like

Re: Bug in large files ext2 in 2.4.0-test11 ?

2000-11-20 Thread Ben Collins
On Mon, Nov 20, 2000 at 07:06:07PM +, Petr Vandrovec wrote: > On 20 Nov 00 at 17:56, Zdenek Kabelac wrote: > > I just noticed this problem - > > I'm missing some large files created in the filesystem. > > > > This is 'ls' output from 2.4.0-test11/test10 > > total 33 > > drwxr-xr-x6 root

Abit VP6 HPT370 support?

2000-11-20 Thread Michael J. Dikkema
Does Linux 2.4pre support the raid controller on the abit vp6? The kernel says it supports the 370, but it doesn't mention raid. I was confused as to if there was a difference or not. Also, OT, does anyone know if the controller is managed through hardware or through software? Thanks. ,.;:: :

Re: Bug in large files ext2 in 2.4.0-test11 ?

2000-11-20 Thread Petr Vandrovec
On 20 Nov 00 at 13:19, Ben Collins wrote: > > Does kernel 2.4.x compile and run well for all of our supported archs? AFAIK yes. At least on all Debian archs. > Do programs compiled against a glibc with LFS (2.4.x kernel) support, and > using that LFS support, work on kernel 2.2.x machines? Yes

[Fwd: Linux 2.2.18pre22 (ISDN4K errors)]

2000-11-20 Thread Jeff V. Merkey
My NT box fritzed on sending this via outlook express, so I lost Kai's email (MUTT works better on Linux). Here's the other info he inquired about on the 3.1pre1 compile problems. Jeff We were using the attached spec file for 3.1pre1 and the other file for 3.1beta7 (sorry I posted the wrong

Soft Junk RAID!!! (Re: Abit VP6 HPT370 support?)

2000-11-20 Thread Andre Hedrick
HELLO WORLD! Michael, do not take this as a flame, please. You just happen to jump on that nerve at the wrong point. ;-) http://www.linux-ide.org/chipsets.html Linux ATA Development Project, Supported Chipsets (p1 of 3) Supported Chipsets and Ve

Re: [BUG] knfsd causes file system corruption when files are locked.

2000-11-20 Thread Ivan Kanis
> "Trond" == Trond Myklebust <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > " " == Ivan Kanis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Ivan> space. I am running this on ext2fs. Fsck-ing the filesystem Ivan> does not help. The only way to recover the space is to Ivan> reformat the partition. Ivan> I

Re: Defective Red Hat Distribution poorly represents Linux

2000-11-20 Thread Mohammad A. Haque
Same experince here Boxes ran perfectly fine with Windows (95/98/NT) but barfed with linux. RAM replacement fixed it. Now whenever I see a signal 11 with gcc memory is the first thing I go after. On Mon, 20 Nov 2000, John Jasen wrote: > On Mon, 20 Nov 2000, Charles Turner, Ph.D. wrote: > On

strange interaction between IDE and ieee1394 driver

2000-11-20 Thread Arne Schirmacher
When I user the ieee1394 subsystem to transmit data from a camcorder to an IDE disk and the IDE driver is not using DMA, then there will be some data lost in the ieee1394 driver. If I turn on DMA in the IDE driver (hdparm -d1 /dev/hda), I do not have any data loss in the ieee1394 driver. Also,

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2000-11-20 Thread karl . gustav
Hi, I've a Wacom Graphire USB. I tested the test11-pre6 kernel with my Graphire USB. The scroll whell of the Graphire mouse does not work with the last test kernels. The last kernel supporting the wheel was test11-pre2, I think... I used the IMPS/2 compatible mouse emulation of

[PATCH] Documentacion proc.txt update (2.4.x)

2000-11-20 Thread Jorge Nerin
Well, this is a little update to the proc.txt file, it's based in 2.2 kernel, and I have updated it a little to the 2.4 series, I have updated all the thing I have been told in lk, so I submit this in order to include this in the main tree in order to have a better updated info. diff -urN lin

ide_dma_timeout w/2.2.16 (redhat) and PIIX3

2000-11-20 Thread Rupa Schomaker
I've got an older HP E40 that I'm having problems getting to work with DMA turned on. Specifically, I get the following errors when I do a "hdparm -d 1 /dev/hda" and the same for hdc. If I boot into single user mode I can't seem to generate the problem, but after booting into multi user mode I c

Re: Defective Red Hat Distribution poorly represents Linux

2000-11-20 Thread Igmar Palsenberg
On Mon, 20 Nov 2000, Charles Turner, Ph.D. wrote: These are hardware problems, not software. Programs like gcc and ld segfaulting like this is NOT a software problem. Please don't turn up with some 'hey, it worked with my disk', that's no clue that the distrib is bad. The same arguments as 'i

Re: [Linux-IrDA]IrDA broken on pre-5/6 and stock 2.4.0-test11

2000-11-20 Thread Dag Brattli
Hi, I also get this kernel panic with the latest kernel (test11-pre5/6) but I didn't get it with any earlier kernels. I don't think this has anything to do with Linux-IrDA but maybe I'm wrong. -- Dag On Mon, 20 Nov 2000 16:57:30 +0400 (GMT-4), you wrote: > Guys, > > can someone confirm the f

Re: Bug in large files ext2 in 2.4.0-test11 ?

2000-11-20 Thread Ben Collins
On Mon, Nov 20, 2000 at 07:32:39PM +, Petr Vandrovec wrote: > On 20 Nov 00 at 13:19, Ben Collins wrote: > > > > Does kernel 2.4.x compile and run well for all of our supported archs? > > AFAIK yes. At least on all Debian archs. So, sparc, ultrasparc, i386 (with pcmcia support), alpha, arm,

Linux driver for DC10plus/LML33/Buz video capture cards V 0.7

2000-11-20 Thread Serguei Miridonov
November 20, 2000. Thanks to Wolfgang Scherr, who was the first maintainer of this driver, we now have support for Iomega Buz cards again. There are no changes for current DC10plus and LML33 cards users (besides that dc10.[ch] files have been renamed to zoran.[ch]), however I would like to ask th

Re: easy-to-fix bug in /dev/null driver

2000-11-20 Thread Michal Jaegermann
On Tue, Nov 21, 2000 at 12:53:04AM +1030, Alan Kennington wrote: > > I still think that write_null() should be rewritten as: > > === > static ssize_t write_null(struct file * file, const char * buf, > size_t count, loff_t

Kernel-2.4-Bug in raid-code ?

2000-11-20 Thread Oliver Poths
Hello, I´ve set up a Debian-2.2-System and built a Kernel-2.4.0-test11 on it. Hardwareconfiguration : athlon-850MHz, Asus-A7V (promise ultra-100 on board), additional promise ultra-100-card. 3 IBM DTLA 307045 Disks only one at each IDE-channel. The three ata-100 disks should become a raid-5. Add

Re: Defective Red Hat Distribution poorly represents Linux

2000-11-20 Thread Mohammad A. Haque
To Charles: I see your intentions but you really want to take this up with Redhat and some linux advocacy groups. linux-kernel really doesnt need to deal with things like gcc being broken and such (which I don't think is your case; check your hardware -- my reason? I've deployed RH 6.2 on 20 or so

USB: Wacom Graphire mouse wheel does not work anymore

2000-11-20 Thread karl . gustav
Hi, I've a Wacom Graphire USB. I tested the test11-pre6 kernel with my Graphire USB. The scroll whell of the Graphire mouse does not work with the last test kernels. The last kernel supporting the wheel was test11-pre2, I think... I used the IMPS/2 compatible mouse emulation of

Re: Abit VP6 HPT370 support?

2000-11-20 Thread davej
On Mon, 20 Nov 2000, Michael J. Dikkema wrote: > Does Linux 2.4pre support the raid controller on the abit vp6? The kernel > says it supports the 370, but it doesn't mention raid. I was confused as > to if there was a difference or not. I have a standalone card with the HPT370 chipset doing RAID

Dual Via694 M/B locks during 2.4.0-test11 boot. APIC pb ?

2000-11-20 Thread Vincent Marty
Hello I am using a Gigabyte 6VXDC7 Dual Pentium III MB. This motherboard uses a Via 694 chipset. cf http://www.giga-byte.com/products/6vxdc7.htm With the 2.4.0-test11-pre1 kernel the system freezes during boot. I suspect APIC pbs. Can anybody help me ? Thanks. Vincent Below is the content of t

Re: Bug in large files ext2 in 2.4.0-test11 ?

2000-11-20 Thread Matti Aarnio
On Mon, Nov 20, 2000 at 02:16:41PM -0500, Ben Collins wrote: > > > Do programs compiled against a glibc with LFS (2.4.x kernel) support, and > > > using that LFS support, work on kernel 2.2.x machines? > > > > Yes. Even glibc (2.2) compiled against kernel without LFS support has LFS > > interface

Re: Defective Red Hat Distribution poorly represents Linux

2000-11-20 Thread Andre Hedrick
Can everyone lay off this guy, he made a mistake and the heat is not cool. This is no way for the general masses to get a taste of Linux, cool? Please jsut let it die or offline the chap. Regards, Andre Hedrick CTO Timpanogas Research Group EVP Linux Development, TRG Linux ATA Development - To

Re: Bug in large files ext2 in 2.4.0-test11 ?

2000-11-20 Thread Ben Collins
> > Just for comparison, RedHat delivers glibc compiled with > 2.3.nn/2.4.0 headers -> newer interfaces are supported. > Let's not even get started on what RH did or did not do. If everyone did what RH did, then everyone else can just roll over and die, since there will be no differ

Re: Defective Red Hat Distribution poorly represents Linux

2000-11-20 Thread Paul Fulghum
> it's heck of alot better if we don't have a user that later > thinks 'Damn, linux developers are meanies'... > > Mohammad A. Haque http://www.haque.net/ When in fact according to this linux-kernel post: http://www.uwsg.iu.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/9912.1/0653.html

2.4.0-test11 ext2 filesystem corruptions

2000-11-20 Thread Tigran Aivazian
Hello, I just got a severe ext2 filesystem corruption again (something from ext2_free_blocks about freeing blocks not in datazone and then in system zones and also allocating block in system zone). Previously (last week) it happened on a 4cpu machine. Today on 2cpu. All UP machines running latest

Re: Defective Red Hat Distribution poorly represents Linux

2000-11-20 Thread Frank van Maarseveen
On Mon, Nov 20, 2000 at 08:53:19AM -0500, Charles Turner, Ph.D. wrote: > [root@merrimac linux-2.2.17]# make dep > gcc -Wall -Wstrict-prototypes -O2 -fomit-frame-pointer -o scripts/mkdep >scripts/mkdep.c > collect2: ld terminated with signal 11 [Segmentation fault], core dumped > make: *** [script

Re: hardcoded HZ in hub.c

2000-11-20 Thread Johannes Erdfelt
On Fri, Nov 17, 2000, Oleg Drokin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > hub.c in 2.4.0-test10 and above contains hardcoded HZ value, > which is wrong. Here is the patch: > > > --- drivers/usb/hub.c.origFri Nov 17 12:51:34 2000 > +++ drivers/usb/hub.c Fri Nov 17 12:51:59 2000 > @@ -813,7 +813,

Re: PROBLEM: Bad PCI detection of a sound card

2000-11-20 Thread Frederic LESPEZ
> Frederic LESPEZ <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > I think the problem is due to a bad PCI detection but i let you judge. > > Here is a description of the problem : > > I'm under X (Xfree 4.0.1). > > I switch to a VT (virtual terminal). > > I load my sound module (modprobe emu10k1). > > could y

Re: Defective Red Hat Distribution poorly represents Linux

2000-11-20 Thread Horst von Brand
John Jasen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: [...] > On this note, I recall a time that I 'appropriated' a workstation for > linux. > > It was pulled out of the student labs, where it had worked for 3 months > running NT 4.0, but the RH install kept on crashing out. So what? My former machine ran fine

Re: strange interaction between IDE and ieee1394 driver

2000-11-20 Thread Meelis Roos
AS> When I user the ieee1394 subsystem to transmit data from a camcorder to an AS> IDE disk and the IDE driver is not using DMA, then there will be some data AS> lost in the ieee1394 driver. If I turn on DMA in the IDE driver (hdparm -d1 AS> /dev/hda), I do not have any data loss in the ieee139

Promise Ultra66 boot troubles (lost interrupt and waiting for DMAtimeout)

2000-11-20 Thread Brian 'fief' De Smet
I just installed a Promise Ultra66 in my computer. It is running kernel 2.2.17 with the unified ide patch (20001118) from Andre Hedrick. When I boot the machine with drives plugged into this device the machine will hang during the partition check of the first drive connected to this controll

2.4.0-test11 crashes on boot with RAID5

2000-11-20 Thread Brian Kress
Hi all. 2.4.0-test11 is crashing during bootup while detecting my raid5 array. According to the EIP printed (assuming I did it right), that's in the function xor_block(). 2.4.0-test10 works fine with the same .config. One of the things in the change file for test11 is "make raid

kernel-2.4.0-test11 crashed again; this time i send you theOops-message

2000-11-20 Thread Oliver Poths
Hello again, I Tried again to built my soft-raid by the same way, with the same result. But this time i sent you that nice message the kernel has shown me: Unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at virtual address 0010 printing eip: c01c8e66 *pde = Oops: CPU:0

Re: [PATCH] Documentacion proc.txt update (2.4.x)

2000-11-20 Thread Dan Hollis
On Mon, 20 Nov 2000, Jorge Nerin wrote: > Well, this is a little update to the proc.txt file, it's based in 2.2 kernel, and I >have updated it a little to the 2.4 series, I have updated all the thing I have been >told in lk, so I submit this in order to include this in the main tree in order to

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