Re: IDE_TAPE problem wiht ONSTREAM DI30

2000-12-04 Thread Rogier Wolff
Andre Hedrick wrote: > On Sun, 3 Dec 2000, Eckhard Jokisch wrote: > > > Am Don, 30 Nov 2000 schrieben Sie: > > > On Thu, Nov 30, 2000 at 04:26:09PM +, Eckhard Jokisch wrote: > > > > > > > > I tried the ide-tape driver for several weeks now. And after some time during > > > > writing or readi

test12-pre4: BUG at swap.c:271!

2000-12-04 Thread Mike Galbraith
Hi, When stressing swap (virgin test12-pre4), I encounter the repeatable oops below once load builds to heavy. The vmscan.c:UnlockPage(page) addition sets it off. Appears 100% repeatable. kernel BUG at swap.c:271! invalid operand: CPU:0 EIP:0010:[] EFLAGS: 00010282 eax: 001a

Re: Transmeta and Linux-2.4.0-test12-pre3

2000-12-04 Thread Pavel Machek
Hi! > Anyway, I do have this machine working now, although not everything is > to my liking. Unlike older picture-books, for example, this one has a > WinModem. Ugh. And the sound chip is supported, but only by the ~ > ALSA > driver (the OSS version is too broken to be used). Gre

Re: [PATCH] New user space serial port driver

2000-12-04 Thread Pavel Machek
Hi! > Please consider including this user space serial driver. It was writen for > the Pele 833 RAS Server but is also usable for other serial device drivers > in user space. Good, someone finally implemented this. This is going to be mandatory if we want to support winmodems properly; also ISDN

2.4.0-test12pre3 : kernel NULL pointer dereference

2000-12-04 Thread Marc Lefranc
Machine : Red Hat 7.0 system on a K6-2@450, with vanilla 2.4.0-test12pre3 (except compiled with -O3 rather than -O2 (and yes, with kgcc-egcs)), RH glibc 2.2 SRPM update recompiled with options -O3 -mcpu=k6. After having recompiled the WindowMaker RPMS, I noticed something was wrong when installat

Re: [PATCH] i810_audio 2.4.0-test11

2000-12-04 Thread Pavel Machek
Hi! > > It implements mono output and fixes a bug in the dma logic (reset necessary > > because some descriptors are already prefetched and are not updated > > This is wrong. Linus please do not apply this patch, or if you have done back > it out. Not only does it do format conversions in kerne

Re: Fasttrak100 questions...

2000-12-04 Thread Pavel Machek
Hi! > [Christopher Friesen] > > I think you should re-read the GPL. You only have to provide source > > to people to whome you have distributed your new binaries, and you > > only have to provide that source if you are asked for it. > > Oh, and you have to provide the complete text of the GPL a

[patch-2.4.0-test12-pre4] microcode update for Pentium 4.

2000-12-04 Thread Tigran Aivazian
Hi Linus, This patch adds support for the latest member of Intel IA32 family -- the Pentium 4 processor. Tested under 2.4.0-test12-pre4 -- still works. Regards, Tigran diff -urN -X dontdiff linux/CREDITS ucode/CREDITS --- linux/CREDITS Mon Dec 4 08:43:33 2000 +++ ucode/CREDITS Mon

Re: using TOS as a key in route cache

2000-12-04 Thread Helge Hafting
Rajeev Bector wrote: > > Guys > I am looking for a reason as to why we want > to have different route cache entries for > different IP ToS types. Does anyone have > any insight into this ? Because you may want to route time-critical stuff like video through a dedicated fast network and slow stu

Re: test12-pre4: BUG at swap.c:271!

2000-12-04 Thread Andrew Morton
Mike Galbraith wrote: > > Hi, > > When stressing swap (virgin test12-pre4), I encounter the repeatable > oops below once load builds to heavy. The vmscan.c:UnlockPage(page) > addition sets it off. Appears 100% repeatable. > Same here. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscri

Re: [PATCH] i810_audio 2.4.0-test11

2000-12-04 Thread Alan Cox
> > Tjeerd. I deliberately applied only small bits of your patch before because > > the mono mode stuff clutters the driver horribly and is not in the right place. > > It belongs in the application/libraries > > Then you should kill parts of drivers/usb/audio - it contains format conversions. De

Re: Linux for local languages - patch

2000-12-04 Thread Andries Brouwer
On Mon, Dec 04, 2000 at 09:32:58AM +0530, K Ratheesh wrote: > I am working on enabling Linux console for Local languages. As the current > PSF format doesn't support variable width fonts , I have made a patch in > the console driver so that it will load a user defined multi-glyph mapping > table

Re: test12-pre4

2000-12-04 Thread Alan Cox
> Was borking on dummy.c. This seemed to fix it. Verification please? > > gcc -D__KERNEL__ -I/usr/src/linux-2.4.0-test11/include -Wall > -Wstrict-prototypes -O6 -fomit-frame-pointer -fno-strict-aliasing -pipe > -mpreferred-stack-boundary=2 -march=i686 -DMODULE -DMODVERSIONS -include > /usr/src/li

Re: test12-pre4

2000-12-04 Thread Alan Cox
> > dummy.c: In function `dummy_init_module': > > dummy.c:103: invalid type argument of `->' > > make[2]: *** [dummy.o] Error 1 > > No, module.h needs fixing. I guess I didn't send that one to Alan... You did send it, you just didnt tell me the dummy patch depended on it and that I needed to se

Re: test12-pre4

2000-12-04 Thread Nikhil Goel
I had the same error, The .config file is attached. Alan Cox wrote: >> Was borking on dummy.c. This seemed to fix it. Verification please? >> >> gcc -D__KERNEL__ -I/usr/src/linux-2.4.0-test11/include -Wall >> -Wstrict-prototypes -O6 -fomit-frame-pointer -fno-strict-aliasing -pipe >> -mpreferred

Race/problem with hotplug & network interfaces

2000-12-04 Thread Oleg Drokin
Hello! It seems I have found some kind of race, if hotplug is enabled, and one have changing number of network interfaces (observed on ppp). I use 2.4.0-test11. Problem is 100% repeatable. My test case is this: I start ppp over ssh session, then do ifconfig and then kill pppd (by

Re: eepro100 driver update for 2.4

2000-12-04 Thread Andrey Savochkin
Hello, On Fri, Dec 01, 2000 at 01:45:24PM -0800, Ion Badulescu wrote: > On Fri, 1 Dec 2000 17:51:09 +0800, Andrey Savochkin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > I've been promised that this issue would be looked up in Intel's errata by > > people who had the access to it, but I haven't got the resul

Re: [PATCH] inode dirty blocks Re: test12-pre4

2000-12-04 Thread Andrew Morton
Alexander Viro wrote: > > On Sun, 3 Dec 2000, Linus Torvalds wrote: > > > > > Synching up with Alan and various other stuff. The most important one > > being the fix to the inode dirty block list. > > It doesn't solve the problem. If you unlink a file with dirty metadata > you have a nice chanc

Re: Race/problem with hotplug & network interfaces

2000-12-04 Thread Andrew Morton
Oleg Drokin wrote: > > Hello! > >It seems I have found some kind of race, if hotplug is enabled, >and one have changing number of network interfaces (observed on ppp). >I use 2.4.0-test11. Problem is 100% repeatable. > >My test case is this: I start ppp over ssh session, then do

Re: [PATCH] i810_audio 2.4.0-test11

2000-12-04 Thread Thomas Sailer
Alan Cox wrote: > Definitely we should If you start killing format conversion then >99% of the existing applications won't work anymore with usbaudio. At that point you can dump the OSS interface just as well. And before killing format conversion you should kill the mmap stunt, because the form

Re: [PATCH] inode dirty blocks

2000-12-04 Thread Alexander Viro
OK, guys, I think I've got it: static int ext2_update_inode(struct inode * inode, int do_sync) { ... mark_buffer_dirty_inode(bh, inode); ... } Yes, that's right. bh of piece of inode table is put on inode's list. Fix: in ext2/inode.c 1211s/mark_buffer_dirty_inode/

Re: Race/problem with hotplug & network interfaces

2000-12-04 Thread Oleg Drokin
Hello! On Tue, Dec 05, 2000 at 12:42:05AM +1100, Andrew Morton wrote: > Could you please test this patch? It was sent to Linus for > test12-pre4, but Yes, it works that way. But code path and readability became horrible, unfortunatelly. :( Bye, Oleg - To unsubscribe from this list: se

[BUG] [PATCH] VFAT creates wrongly files with short names

2000-12-04 Thread Nico . G .
Dear Linus, please apply! I have sent a similar message to the maintainer Gordon Chaffee <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> more than a week ago but I have not got any reaction, even after I have sent another message. As this patch is only a simple bug fix, I have chosen to send it directly to you. The patch

Re: DMA !NOT ONLY! for triton again...

2000-12-04 Thread Mike Dresser
Now, the question is, can we trust a hard drive manufacturer support tech to know what they're talking about, with evidence to the contrary? :) Somewhat like the 6 days i spent with a Cisco 802 and an 804, trying to get a link up. Set it to National ISDN-1, dial 9 before dialing outbound numbe

Re: test12-pre4 drivers/net/dummy

2000-12-04 Thread Mohammad A. Haque
Ok, so here's the proper patch for those who dont want to wait for t5 =) Ignore previous. On Mon, 4 Dec 2000, Jeff Garzik wrote: > the fix is in module.h which needs extra parens in the def of > set_module_owner... > > Jeff --

Re: corruption

2000-12-04 Thread Stephen C. Tweedie
Hi, On Sat, Dec 02, 2000 at 10:33:36AM -0500, Alexander Viro wrote: > > On Sun, 3 Dec 2000, Andrew Morton wrote: > > > It appears that this problem is not fixed. > Sure, it isn't. Place where the shit hits the fan: fs/buffer.c::unmap_buffer(). > Add the call of remove_inode_queue(bh) there and

filesystem corruption with 2.4.0-test11

2000-12-04 Thread mkloppstech
My filesystem was checked because it contained errors. The warnings in my message file are: Dec 4 13:04:19 john kernel: EXT2-fs error (device ide0(3,3)): ext2_readdir: bad entry in directory #280596: rec_len % 4 != 0 - offset=0, inode=68583844, rec_len=13758, name_len=0 Dec 4 15:38:07 john ke

Re: IDE_TAPE problem wiht ONSTREAM DI30

2000-12-04 Thread Kurt Garloff
Hi, On Mon, Dec 04, 2000 at 09:25:33AM +0100, Rogier Wolff wrote: > Stay away from onstream is my advice nowadays. I've been using the USB and the SCSI versions of OnStream tapes with good success! > We've been trying to get the stupid thing to work since july 8th, and > onstream technical su

Nightly usb oops

2000-12-04 Thread J. Nick Koston
My machine crashes almost every night with this oops. I've finally managed to catch it before it was totally gone. ksymoops 2.3.4 on i686 2.4.0-test10. Options used -V (default) -k /proc/ksyms (default) -l /proc/modules (default) -o /lib/modules/2.4.0-test10 (specified)

Re: Linux for local languages - patch

2000-12-04 Thread Kurt Garloff
Hi, On Mon, Dec 04, 2000 at 01:05:53PM +0100, Andries Brouwer wrote: > On Mon, Dec 04, 2000 at 09:32:58AM +0530, K Ratheesh wrote: > > Even though the patch has been developed keeping Indian languages in mind, > > I feel it will be applicable to many other languages (for eg. Chinese) > > which re

Re: corruption

2000-12-04 Thread Alexander Viro
On Mon, 4 Dec 2000, Stephen C. Tweedie wrote: > unmap_buffer() calls mark_buffer_clean() calls refile_buffer() calls > remove_inode_queue(), which is why we don't see this all the time. Not enough, since you can hit the window between the request completion (bh is marked clean) and getting it

Path: for oom_kill.c

2000-12-04 Thread hugang
Hello all: old> points = p->mm->total_vm; change to ---> points = p->pid; I write a shell to test it, cat > bin/hello hello ^D hello before change it ,kernel will kill some pid, to change it kernel will kill hello(bash). - To unsubscribe from this list: s

2.40.t11: Unresolved symbols while insmodding ip_tables.

2000-12-04 Thread Meino Christian Cramer
Hi, I got problems using ip_tables. Insmodding ip_tables gives me: /lib/modules/2.4.0-test11/kernel/net/ipv4/netfilter/ip_tables.o: unresolved symbol nf_unregister_sockopt /lib/modules/2.4.0-test11/kernel/net/ipv4/netfilter/ip_tables.o: unresolved symbol nf_register_sockopt /lib/modules/2

Config setting to remove linux logo

2000-12-04 Thread Joan Bertran
I know that there is a similar question about this in linux-kernel Fri, 01 Oct 1999 but I will like that the Linux logo were a config option. The difference betwen the stripped uncompressed vmlinux 2.4.0-test11 file is of 12288 bytes. I have a patch without the config menu option: diff -ur ./li

Re: HPT366 + SMP = slight corruption in 2.3.99 - 2.4.0-11

2000-12-04 Thread Gerard Sharp
Gnea wrote: > > [1.] One line summary of the problem: > > Intermittent corruption of 4 bytes in SMP kernels using HPT366 > [snip] > Have you tried updating the bios on the bp6? This solved a LOT of > problems for me, and afaik, ru is the latest... RU seems the latest. Flashed bios as per your

Re: [PATCH] i810_audio 2.4.0-test11

2000-12-04 Thread Jeff Garzik
On Mon, 4 Dec 2000, Thomas Sailer wrote: > And before killing format conversion you should kill > the mmap stunt, because the format conversion complexity > (~25 LOC) is by far dwarfed by the mmap emulation stuff. mmap -emulation- ?? Ug. Is Quake really worth that much? :) > The underlying qu

HPT366 + SMP = slight corruption in 2.3.99 - 2.4.0-11

2000-12-04 Thread Gerard Sharp
Hello Again Some more details, now that I scraped a few minutes on the weekend to look into this. Same hardware configuration as my earlier post; with a newer bios version on the motherboard; with no improvement. Some long winded test results, and my conclusions: [abridged] output from diff for

Re: Path: for oom_kill.c

2000-12-04 Thread Rik van Riel
On Sat, 2 Dec 2000, hugang wrote: > Hello all: > > old> points = p->mm->total_vm; > > change to ---> points = p->pid; Ummm, what exactly do you want to achieve with this? > before change it ,kernel will kill some pid, to change it kernel > will kill hello(bash). Be

Re[2]: DMA !NOT ONLY! for triton again...

2000-12-04 Thread Guennadi Liakhovetski
Well, yes, I thought they could not have known:-)) I'm absolutely stuck. If disk is fine, chipset is fine and supported by the kernel, then BIOS doesn't (or shouldn't) make a difference... Then WHAT ON THE EARTH??? Mike, have you been able to recall what BIOS option turned DMA on? Shall I write

Re: Re[2]: DMA !NOT ONLY! for triton again...

2000-12-04 Thread Andre Hedrick
Guennadi, I have watched this and even if UDMA is not supported cleanly by the drive, the classic ATA-2 Multi-wrod DMA should be. There was a time in the past where WDC had some problems, but they have fixed most if not all with "modern" drives. I will be at WDC in two weeks, and I can raise t

Re: Path: for oom_kill.c

2000-12-04 Thread Jeff Epler
On Mon, Dec 04, 2000 at 02:57:34PM -0200, Rik van Riel wrote: > On Sat, 2 Dec 2000, hugang wrote: > > > Hello all: > > > > old> points = p->mm->total_vm; > > > > change to ---> points = p->pid; > > Ummm, what exactly do you want to achieve with this? I suspect that hu

Re[4]: DMA !NOT ONLY! for triton again...

2000-12-04 Thread Guennadi Liakhovetski
Thanks, Andre! Briefly, the problem is that I can't turn on DMA for a WDC AC21600H CCC F6 drive, all the details are on this mailing list, but I'll put them all together in a single message and email it to you personally, ok? There is still a SMALL chance, that the problem is solvable locally b

Re: [PATCH] i810_audio 2.4.0-test11

2000-12-04 Thread Alan Cox
> Anything in between is IMO silly. Killing the format > conversion drops the advantage of running many existing > applications but don't bring you much closer to the goal > of simplicity. Those applications already have to deal with the fact some devices only support 48KHz 16bit stereo audio. I

Re: using TOS as a key in route cache

2000-12-04 Thread Rajeev Bector
Hello Thanks for your reply. But this can create problems in some of the cases. For example, "scp" over TCP starts with TOS 0, then goes to 8 (bulk data). What happens is that when RTOs are cached, they are updated for TOS 8 and not for TOS 0, therefore a new connection does not pick up the cache

Re: [PATCH] inode dirty blocks Re: test12-pre4

2000-12-04 Thread Stephen C. Tweedie
On Mon, Dec 04, 2000 at 01:01:36AM -0500, Alexander Viro wrote: > > It doesn't solve the problem. If you unlink a file with dirty metadata > you have a nice chance to hit the BUG() in inode.c:83. I hope that patch > below closes all remaining holes. See analysis in previous posting > (basically,

Re: [PATCH] i810_audio 2.4.0-test11

2000-12-04 Thread Thomas Sailer
Alan Cox wrote: > What format is it that causes the problems, the only badly supported key format > right know I know of is 16bit bigendian. That needs some small esd patches. S8 is a not very well supported format. And btw there are many applications that cannot live with esd for latency reaso

Re: [PATCH] Attempt to hard link across filesystems results inun-unmountable filesystem (fwd)

2000-12-04 Thread Tigran Aivazian
Second attempt, the first one failed due to stupid setup of ISP and the usage of mail-abuse.org which blocks anything that has no reverse DNS lookup. So some of my messages (about 20%) get lost and I have to resend them when I feel it's been too quiet :) -- Forwarded message -- Da

Re: Re[4]: DMA !NOT ONLY! for triton again...

2000-12-04 Thread Alan Cox
Certain older WDC drives are explicitly blacklisted due to firmware bugs. WDC put out firmware upgrades but given no answer from them on how to be sure a drive was upgraded we play safe - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PR

2.4.0.12.4: dummy.o problem (again)

2000-12-04 Thread Horst von Brand
A better (right, IMVHO) patch is: --- linux-2.4.0-test/include/linux/module.h~Mon Dec 4 09:06:47 2000 +++ linux-2.4.0-test/include/linux/module.h Mon Dec 4 13:55:18 2000 @@ -345,7 +345,7 @@ #endif /* MODULE */ #ifdef CONFIG_MODULES -#define SET_MODULE_OWNER(some_struct) do { some_st

2.4.0.12.4: drivers/net/dummy.c fails compile

2000-12-04 Thread Horst von Brand
SPARC64, Red Hat 6.2 + local updates dummy.c: In function `dummy_init_module': dummy.c:103: invalid type argument of `->' A patch follows: --- linux-2.4.0-test/drivers/net/dummy.c~ Mon Dec 4 09:03:05 2000 +++ linux-2.4.0-test/drivers/net/dummy.cMon Dec 4 13:27:23 2000 @@ -100,7

Re: 2.4.0.12.4: drivers/net/dummy.c fails compile

2000-12-04 Thread Jeff Garzik
On Mon, 4 Dec 2000, Horst von Brand wrote: > SPARC64, Red Hat 6.2 + local updates A better patch has already been posted, and is present in the 2.4.0-test11-ac series. module.h needs to be modified to protect the argument of SET_MODULE_OWNER. Jeff - To unsubscribe from this list: sen

Re: [PATCH] Attempt to hard link across filesystems results in

2000-12-04 Thread Alan Cox
> Second attempt, the first one failed due to stupid setup of ISP and the > usage of mail-abuse.org which blocks anything that has no reverse DNS > lookup. So some of my messages (about 20%) get lost and I have to resend > them when I feel it's been too quiet :) mail-abuse doesnt do this. One thi

Re: Nightly usb oops

2000-12-04 Thread Greg KH
On Mon, Dec 04, 2000 at 10:13:09AM -0500, J. Nick Koston wrote: > My machine crashes almost every night with this oops. I've finally > managed to catch it before it was totally gone. This looks like a usb device was unplugged and plugged back in. What devices do you have connected? What host con

Re: [PATCH] Attempt to hard link across filesystems results in

2000-12-04 Thread Tigran Aivazian
On Mon, 4 Dec 2000, Alan Cox wrote: > > Second attempt, the first one failed due to stupid setup of ISP and the > > usage of mail-abuse.org which blocks anything that has no reverse DNS > > lookup. So some of my messages (about 20%) get lost and I have to resend > > them when I feel it's been too

Re: Alpha SCSI error on 2.4.0-test11

2000-12-04 Thread Phillip Ezolt
Ivan, I've recompiled as you have suggested. Any ideas? Here is my dmesg output: Linux version 2.4.0-test12 ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) (gcc version egcs-2.91.66 19990314/Linux (egcs-1.1.2 release)) #3 Mon Dec 4 02:38:18 EST 2000 Booting GENERIC on Miata using machine vector Miata from SRM C

RE: Nightly usb oops

2000-12-04 Thread Dunlap, Randy
Hi, What kernel (test10)? > -m /boot/System.map-2.4.0-test10 (specified) What compiler/version? Please post a list of your USB devices from /proc/bus/usb/devices . Are you inserting or unplugging a USB device when this happens? If not, are you doing anything with USB when this happens? T

Summary: lost dirs after fsck (also via82cxx works on kt133)

2000-12-04 Thread Saber Taylor
In-Reply-To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Thanks for the replies. As for why I ran the devel kernel with important data, I made the fatal mistake of listening: Me: "Are you sure it will be ok??!?" Friend: "No problems. It's rock solid. I've been running it for weeks." The fact that he also ove

Re: *_trylock return on success?

2000-12-04 Thread george anzinger
So what is a coder to do. We need to define the pi_mutex_trylock(). If I understand this thread, it should return 0 on success. Is this correct? George On Saturday 25 November 2000 22:05, Roger Larsson wrote: > On Saturday 25 November 2000 20:22, Philipp Rumpf wrote: > > On Sat, Nov 25, 20

Re: [PATCH] Attempt to hard link across filesystems results inun-unmountable filesystem (fwd)

2000-12-04 Thread Alexander Viro
On Mon, 4 Dec 2000, Tigran Aivazian wrote: > It is true that your patch fixes the problem as reported but let us look > one step deeper into the problem. Linux supports multiply mounted > instances of a filesystem and the check in sys_link() comparing the > mountpoints would refuse (with cross-

Re: DMA !NOT ONLY! for triton again...

2000-12-04 Thread Mike Dresser
Well, i just checked ide-dma.c, and the WDC 21600 isn't listed. 31600 is, but no 21600 I've been using the 21600 for awhile now with DMA enabled, under reasonable load, and it seems to hold up. Guennadi: I don't suppose you can get your hands on a different size/brand drive long enough to plug it

Re: [PATCH] inode dirty blocks Re: test12-pre4

2000-12-04 Thread Alexander Viro
On Mon, 4 Dec 2000, Stephen C. Tweedie wrote: > Agreed. However, is there any reason to have this as a separate > function? bforget() should _always_ remove the buffer from any inode > queue. You can make that operation conditional on (bh->b_inode != > NULL) if you want to avoid taking the l

Re: [PATCH] Attempt to hard link across filesystems results inun-unmountable filesystem (fwd)

2000-12-04 Thread Gary E. Miller
Yo Tigran! On Mon, 4 Dec 2000, Tigran Aivazian wrote: > Second attempt, the first one failed due to stupid setup of ISP and the > usage of mail-abuse.org which blocks anything that has no reverse DNS > lookup. Mail-abuse.org does nothing with reverse DNS.Many that hate spam choose to refuse

Re: [PATCH] Attempt to hard link across filesystems results inun-unmountable filesystem (fwd)

2000-12-04 Thread Tigran Aivazian
On Mon, 4 Dec 2000, Alexander Viro wrote: > Tigran, think about the uses from knfsd. Yes, you are right. I thought I grepped for all usages of vfs_link but looks like I did not, i.e. when sending the patch I was sure that sys_link is the only user of vfs_link but now that you pointed it out I cle

autoloading of lowlevel modules broken (devfs-related?)

2000-12-04 Thread Felix Braun
Hi there, I've had some strange problems with autoloading of some modules in the latest versions of the kernel (up to test12-pre4). I'm using devfs and modutils 2.3.21. Most of the modules autoload fine however ppp_async and parport_pc don't autoload anymore. /etc/modules.conf has the following a

2.4.0-test12pre4: parport / lp problems

2000-12-04 Thread Henrik Størner
I discovered yesterday that printing does not work in 2.4.0-test12-pre4. This is a pretty stock PC system with a printer on the parallel port. Both parport and lp is compiled into the kernel - and the parport appears to be detected OK, but the lp driver for some reason refuses to use it: [snip /

Re: HPT366 + SMP = slight corruption in 2.3.99 - 2.4.0-11

2000-12-04 Thread Dan Hollis
On Tue, 5 Dec 2000, Gerard Sharp wrote: > Gnea wrote: > > > [1.] One line summary of the problem: > > > Intermittent corruption of 4 bytes in SMP kernels using HPT366 > > [snip] > > Have you tried updating the bios on the bp6? This solved a LOT of > > problems for me, and afaik, ru is the latest

New patches for 2.2.18pre24 raw IO (fix for bounce buffer copy)

2000-12-04 Thread Stephen C. Tweedie
Hi, I have pushed another set of raw IO patches out, this time to fix a bug with bounce buffer copying when running on highmem boxes. It is likely to affect any bounce buffer copies using non-page-aligned accesses if both highmem and normal pages are involved in the kiobuf. The specific new pat

Re: multiprocessor kernel problem

2000-12-04 Thread Roger Crandell
Rusty, Excellent! I applied the patch and netfilter is happy with 4 processors. Thank you and thanks to everyone else who sent suggestions. Roger Rusty Russell wrote: > In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> you write: > > yes, but is it a dual machine or is it an N-way SMP with N > 2? the > >

2.4.0-test12-pre4 boot failure (better than pre3 and lower)

2000-12-04 Thread Wakko Warner
PCI patches that were added between pre3 and pre4 allow me to boot the kernel on my noritake alpha. Once it boots, however, it oops's in the swapper. I've tried a few times in the past to use ksymoops on oops's on the alpha arch, but it doesn't appear to work. (I'm using the ksymoops that's par

[PATCH] Makefile

2000-12-04 Thread Georg Nikodym
When making the docs, the top-level Makefile unconditionally chmod's three scripts. Under BitKeeper, things are normally left read-only and the above mode change is flagged as an error in subsequent BK operations. BK is can and does track file modes, so BK users can: bk chmod +x script

2.4.0-test12-pre4 + cs46xx + KDE 2.0 = frozen system

2000-12-04 Thread Steven Cole
If I have the cs46xx driver compiled either as a module or into the kernel, then 2.4.0-test12-pre4 locks up when KDE 2.0 is started. The problem with dummy.o in 2.4.0-test12-pre4 allowed me to find the possible source of this lock-up which I have been seeing recently (since test11-ac2) while star

Re: HPT366 + SMP = slight corruption in 2.3.99 - 2.4.0-11

2000-12-04 Thread Richard Torkar
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Dan Hollis wrote: > On Tue, 5 Dec 2000, Gerard Sharp wrote: > > Gnea wrote: > > > > [1.] One line summary of the problem: > > > > Intermittent corruption of 4 bytes in SMP kernels using HPT366 > > > [snip] > > > Have you tried updating the bios on

Re: kernel panic in SoftwareRAID autodetection

2000-12-04 Thread Roberto Ragusa
On 01-Dec-00, Neil Brown wrote: > On Friday December 1, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >> I found a real showstopper problem in the SoftwareRAID autodetect >> code; 2.4.0-test10 and 2.4.0-test11 are affected (I didn't test >> previous versions). [detailed report] > > Fixed in 2.4.0-test12pre3. I tri

Re: HPT366 + SMP = slight corruption in 2.3.99 - 2.4.0-11

2000-12-04 Thread Dan Hollis
On Mon, 4 Dec 2000, Richard Torkar wrote: > Dan Hollis wrote: > > On Tue, 5 Dec 2000, Gerard Sharp wrote: > > > Gnea wrote: > > > > > [1.] One line summary of the problem: > > > > > Intermittent corruption of 4 bytes in SMP kernels using HPT366 > > > > [snip] > > > > Have you tried updating the

Re: 2.4.0-test12-pre4 boot failure (better than pre3 and lower)

2000-12-04 Thread Keith Owens
On Mon, 4 Dec 2000 16:26:42 -0500, Wakko Warner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >PCI patches that were added between pre3 and pre4 allow me to boot the >kernel on my noritake alpha. Once it boots, however, it oops's in the >swapper. I've tried a few times in the past to use ksymoops on oops's on >th

Re: HPT366 + SMP = slight corruption in 2.3.99 - 2.4.0-11

2000-12-04 Thread Mike Dresser
Agreed. I've got one of these beasts running NT Server, dual 433 non o/c, 4x12.7 gig software raid. Before i put the Promise Ultra/33 card in, i was using the HPT366. Random lockups every couple weeks. Stopped using the HPT366, machine is stable now. In hindsight, I think the HPT366 was the ca

Re: Using map_user_kiobuf()

2000-12-04 Thread Stephen C. Tweedie
Hi, On Thu, Nov 30, 2000 at 01:07:37PM -, John Meikle wrote: > I have been experimenting with a module that returns data to either a user > space programme or another module. A memory area is passed in, and the data > is written to it. Because the memory may be allocated either by a module

Re: 2.4.0-test12-pre4 + cs46xx + KDE 2.0 = frozen system

2000-12-04 Thread Keith Owens
On Mon, 4 Dec 2000 14:27:10 -0700, Steven Cole <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >If I have the cs46xx driver compiled either as a module or into >the kernel, then 2.4.0-test12-pre4 locks up when KDE 2.0 >is started. >[snip] >When I say the system freezes, I mean it completely locks up, and >ALT-SYSRQ-

Re: 2.4.0-test12pre4: parport / lp problems

2000-12-04 Thread Henrik Størner
In <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Henrik Størner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >I discovered yesterday that printing does not work in 2.4.0-test12-pre4. OK - mea culpa. It turned out to be a configuration problem: I had been playing with the I2C support for lm_sensors, and in my attempt to get it working I h

aacraid for 2.4.0

2000-12-04 Thread Boerner, Brian
Many of you, specifically customers of Dell Computer have been asking about the aacraid driver and the 2.4.0 kernel. Development is underway, however I have run into a stumbling block and am not sure how to proceed. The driver is generating a segmentation fault and produces and oops. I have includ

Re: aacraid for 2.4.0

2000-12-04 Thread Andi Kleen
On Mon, Dec 04, 2000 at 05:31:04PM -0500, Boerner, Brian wrote: > EIP:0010:[] > Using defaults from ksymoops -t elf32-i386 -a i386 > EFLAGS: 00010286 > eax: 0025 ebx: c881c000 ecx: edx: ^ > esi: 0001 edi: ebp: c88296a0 esp: c6b51e74

Re: 2.4.0-test12-pre4 + cs46xx + KDE 2.0 = frozen system

2000-12-04 Thread Roger Larsson
Hi, I am seeing something strange too, trying to reliably reproduce it for a while - it is rare but irritating. Most likely to happen on cold power on (first@evening) --- X --- XFree86 Version 3.3.6 / X Window System (protocol Version 11, revision 0, vendor release 6300) Release Date: January 8

Re: aacraid for 2.4.0

2000-12-04 Thread Keith Owens
On Mon, 4 Dec 2000 17:31:04 -0500 , "Boerner, Brian" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >The driver >is generating a segmentation fault and produces and oops. I have included >Code: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 b8 00 00 00 83 ec 34 68 00 2c 82 c8 That code looks bad. I suspect you are using an old modutils

Re: aacraid for 2.4.0

2000-12-04 Thread Russell King
Andi Kleen writes: > On Mon, Dec 04, 2000 at 05:31:04PM -0500, Boerner, Brian wrote: > > EIP:0010:[] Note the value of EIP, and compare it with the structure size of "struct module". > > Code: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 b8 00 00 00 83 ec 34 68 00 2c 82 c8 > ^^^ >...

PM in 2.2

2000-12-04 Thread J . A . Magallon
Hi everyone. I would like to know if there is any back-port of ACPI to 2.2. Problem: 2-way machine, so APM does not work. I would love my box powers down when I shutdown...just like macs. -- Juan Antonio Magallon Lacarta #> cd /pub mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: 2.4.0-test12-pre4 + cs46xx + KDE 2.0 = frozen system

2000-12-04 Thread Alan Cox
> Crystal 4280/461x + AC97 Audio, version 0.14, 13:39:25 Dec 4 2000 > cs461x: Card found at 0xf8ffe000 and 0xf8e0, IRQ 18 > cs461x: Unknown card (:) at 0xf8ffe000/0xf8e0, IRQ 18 > ac97_codec: AC97 Audio codec, id: 0x4352:0x5914 (Unknown) This is failing to detect the CS46

Re: 2.4.0-test12-pre4 + cs46xx + KDE 2.0 = frozen system

2000-12-04 Thread Alan Cox
> > Crystal 4280/461x + AC97 Audio, version 0.14, 13:39:25 Dec 4 2000 > > cs461x: Card found at 0xf8ffe000 and 0xf8e0, IRQ 18 > > cs461x: Unknown card (:) at 0xf8ffe000/0xf8e0, IRQ 18 > > ac97_codec: AC97 Audio codec, id: 0x4352:0x5914 (Unknown) > > This is failing to det

SCSI Oops (was test12-pre4)

2000-12-04 Thread Borislav Deianov
(cross-posted to linux-kernel and linux-scsi) Hi, The SCSI oops I reported last week is still present in test12-pre4. This is on a Dell PowerEdge 6300. It has two Adaptec AIC-7890, one Adaptec AIC-7860, and an AMI MegaRAID controller. There's nothing on the 7890s, a CDROM and a tape drive on the

Re: aacraid for 2.4.0

2000-12-04 Thread Andrew Morton
Keith Owens wrote: > > On Mon, 4 Dec 2000 17:31:04 -0500 , > "Boerner, Brian" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >The driver > >is generating a segmentation fault and produces and oops. I have included > >Code: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 b8 00 00 00 83 ec 34 68 00 2c 82 c8 > > That code looks bad. I sus

Re: PM in 2.2

2000-12-04 Thread Andi Kleen
On Tue, Dec 05, 2000 at 12:19:17AM +0100, J . A . Magallon wrote: > Hi everyone. > > I would like to know if there is any back-port of ACPI to 2.2. > Problem: 2-way machine, so APM does not work. > I would love my box powers down when I shutdown...just like macs. Make sure APM is compiled in and

Re: multiprocessor kernel problem

2000-12-04 Thread Johan Kullstam
Rusty Russell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> you write: > > yes, but is it a dual machine or is it an N-way SMP with N > 2? the > > other guy with iptables/SMP problems also has a quad box. could this > > perhaps be a problem only when you have more than two proces

Posible Bug at page_alloc.c in the [2.4.0-test11] kernel

2000-12-04 Thread Stefan Pfetzing
Hello, I think i possibly foun a Bug in the Linux Kernel 2.4.0-test11. I patched the kernel with the bttv driver 7.49 but nothing else. My system was up for 5 1/2 days and than it crashed. I have a Pentium 200MMX (overclocked to 225 but I REALLY don't think that's the problem, because it worked

Re: Posible Bug at page_alloc.c in the [2.4.0-test11] kernel

2000-12-04 Thread ehrhardt
On Tue, Dec 05, 2000 at 01:04:05AM +0100, Stefan Pfetzing wrote: > Hello, > > I think i possibly foun a Bug in the Linux Kernel 2.4.0-test11. > I patched the kernel with the bttv driver 7.49 but nothing else. > My system was up for 5 1/2 days and than it crashed. > [ page_alloc: BUG at line 84 ]

Re: Posible Bug at page_alloc.c in the [2.4.0-test11] kernel

2000-12-04 Thread Stefan Pfetzing
Am Tue, 5 Dec 2000 schrieb [EMAIL PROTECTED] : > On Tue, Dec 05, 2000 at 01:04:05AM +0100, Stefan Pfetzing wrote: > > Hello, > > > > I think i possibly foun a Bug in the Linux Kernel 2.4.0-test11. > > I patched the kernel with the bttv driver 7.49 but nothing else. > > My system was up for 5 1

Problems with Athlon CPU

2000-12-04 Thread Lukasz Trabinski
Hello There is probably not a kernel bug, but bug in gcc, but... :) [root@beer linux]# make bzImage [snip] gcc -D__KERNEL__ -I/usr/src/linux/include -Wall -Wstrict-prototypes -O2 -fomit-frame-pointer -fno-strict-aliasing -pipe -mpreferred-stack-boundary=2 -march=i686-DEXPORT_SYMTAB -c sele

PROBLEM: Kernel Oops 10% of diskless boots

2000-12-04 Thread Fred Feirtag
Following the form: [1.] PROBLEM: Kernel Oops 10% of diskless boots [2.] When booting a diskless workstation (etherboot) the boot will fail with an Oops, roughly 10% of the time. This has remained the failure rate for quite some time. The included Oops if from 2.4.0-test12-pre4. Similar crashi

Re: 2.4.0-test12-pre4 boot failure (better than pre3 and lower)

2000-12-04 Thread Wakko Warner
> Most architectures dump their code as a string of bytes and print the > code after the registers and trace back. Alpha dumps the code before > the trace and also decodes the instructions which really confuses > ksymoops. Somebody changed 'Trace: ' to 'Trace:' between 2.2 and 2.4 > kernels so k

Re: 2.4.0-test11: kernel: waitpid(823) failed, -512

2000-12-04 Thread tytso
On Sun, Dec 03, 2000 at 11:36:11PM +0100, Frank van Maarseveen wrote: > While playing with routing (zebra) and PPP I regularly see this > message appearing. It always happens when pppd terminates a connection, > e.g: > Dec 3 23:09:08 mimas kernel: waitpid(823) failed, -512 This means a system ca

Re: [PATCH] livelock in elevator scheduling

2000-12-04 Thread Russell Cattelan
Jens Axboe wrote: > On Fri, Dec 01 2000, Russell Cattelan wrote: > > > If performance is down, then that problem is most likely elsewhere. > > > I/O limited benchmarking typically thrives on lots of request > > > latency -- with that comes better throughput for individual threads. > > > > > > > A

Re: 2.4.0-test12-pre4 + cs46xx + KDE 2.0 = frozen system

2000-12-04 Thread Steven Cole
Alan Cox wrote: >> > Crystal 4280/461x + AC97 Audio, version 0.14, 13:39:25 Dec 4 2000 >> > cs461x: Card found at 0xf8ffe000 and 0xf8e0, IRQ 18 >> > cs461x: Unknown card (:) at 0xf8ffe000/0xf8e0, IRQ 18 >> > ac97_codec: AC97 Audio codec, id: 0x4352:0x5914 (Unknown) >> >> T

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