Re: [PATCH] minor ne2k-pci irq fix

2001-01-31 Thread Martin Diehl
On Wed, 31 Jan 2001 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I think it would be better to move the pci_enable_device(pdev); > above all this, as we should enable the device before reading the > pdev->resource[] too iirc. Probably I've missed this because the last time I hit such a thing was when my ob800 bio

Re: 2.2.18 - failed to exec /sbin/modprobe -s -k binfmt-464c

2001-01-31 Thread Mikael Pettersson
On Wed, 31 Jan 2001 14:17:56 -0700, Josh Higham wrote: >I tried compiling a 2.2.18 kernel, and when I reboot I get > >failed to exec /sbin/modprobe -s -k binfmt-464c Reconfigure with CONFIG_BINFMT_ELF=y and your kernel will work again. /Mikael - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "uns

Re: Power usage Q and parallel make question (separate issues)

2001-01-31 Thread Keith Owens
On Wed, 31 Jan 2001 11:44:28 -0800, LA Walsh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >So, just about anyone I know uses make -j X [-l Y] bzImage modules, but I noticed that >make modules_install isn't parallel safe in 2.4 -- since it takes much longer than the >old, it would make sense to want to run it in pa

Re: Request: increase in PCI bus limit

2001-01-31 Thread Dan Hollis
On Wed, 31 Jan 2001, Scott Laird wrote: > Where do cards with PCI-PCI bridges, like multiport PCI ethernet cards, > fit into this? I can easily add 3 or 4 extra busses into a box just by > grabbing a couple extra Intel dual-port Ethernet cards. I loaded a PC with quad-tulip cards once and the re

Re: [PATCH/REQ] Increase kmsg buffer from 16K to 32K, kernel/printk.c

2001-01-31 Thread Mark Hahn
> > Would it be possible to grow and shring that buffer on demand? > > Let's say we have a default size and let it grow to a maximum > > value. After some timeout, buffer size can be shrinked to > > default value if it's enough at that moment. Or something > > similar. > > And when you can't allo

Re: VT82C686A corruption with 2.4.x

2001-01-31 Thread Tobias Ringstrom
On Wed, 31 Jan 2001, safemode wrote: > I'm wondering... Perhaps it's a problem motherboard specific. I'm > using the KA7 and saw pretty bad problems (extreme fs corruption) > and bad latency. Perhaps the K7V and the KT7's dont have this problem. > I dont see any of the problems with dma enabled

problems with sblive as well as 3com 3c905

2001-01-31 Thread Lukasz Gogolewski
After I compiled kernel 2.4.1 on rh 6.2 I enabled module support for 2 of those devices. However when I rebooted my machine both of those devices are not working. I don't know what's wrong since I did make moudle and make module_install. When I try to configure mdoule for the sound card, I get

Compiling 2.4.1: undefined reference to `__buggy_fxsr_alignment'

2001-01-31 Thread Matt Yourst
Hi, I just tried to compile 2.4.1 and I'm getting the error "undefined reference to `__buggy_fxsr_alignment'" when trying to do the final link. It looks like this check was something 2.4.1 added to include/asm-i386/bugs.h to fail the kernel build if part of the thread structure wasn't aligned on

gcc freeze for 3.0 ?

2001-01-31 Thread J . A . Magallon
Hi, If I did not misunderstood this news (Jan 15): http://gcc.gnu.org/gcc-3.0/branch.html http://gcc.gnu.org/ml/gcc/2001-01/msg00871.html the gcc tree is feature-freezed to prepare 3.0. No more optimization algorithms, no more syntax-feature changes. Only bug fixes and compilation speed improve

Problems compiling hdparm with string.h (2.4.x)

2001-01-31 Thread Gregor Jasny
I've just tried to compile hdparm v3.9 with a vanilla 2.4.1 tree. Gcc complained about serveral parse errors in /usr/include/linux/string.h. Compiling with an >=ac6 release works fine. Why isn't the little string.h fix not included in 2.4.1? Regards, Gregor PS: Is this normal: (ac-12, 1xPIII, iB

Re: Compiling 2.4.1: undefined reference to `__buggy_fxsr_alignment'

2001-01-31 Thread Alan Cox
> reference to `__buggy_fxsr_alignment'" when trying to do the final Dont use pgcc 2.95, at least until they fix that 8) - 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/

CRC loop device: when you do not trust your disk subsystem

2001-01-31 Thread Pavel Machek
Hi! Here it is. With crc loop device, you can no longer get silent data corruption due to disk subsystem... Pavel --- clean/drivers/block/loop.c Mon Jan 8 22:49:50 2001 +++ linux/drivers/block/loop.c Mon Jan 8 22:44:09 2001 @@ -6

Re: problems with sblive as well as 3com 3c905

2001-01-31 Thread Timothy A. DeWees
You need to create a symlink ln -s /lib/modules/2.4.1/kernel/drivers/net /lib/modules/2.4.1/net That will fix the nic, I am not sure about sound. You may need to create a misc link like ln -s /lib/modules/2.4.1/kernel/drivers/misc /lib/modules/2.4.1/misc - Original Message - From: "L

Re: kernel BUG at inode.c:889!

2001-01-31 Thread Andreas Dilger
I previously wrote: > Below is a patch which should fix this. It _should_ prevent you from > mounting this filesystem in the first place, and should also stop the BUG > in inode.c. I'm not 100% sure of correctness, however: > - is calling clear_inode() in these error cases OK? > - is calling dpu

Re: Request: increase in PCI bus limit

2001-01-31 Thread nick
depends on the network card. The adaptecs have one. the Obsidion X16 and X24 have them. Many dual channel SCSI cards use them, and even some nicer motherboards have them onboard. I would like to recommend autodetection at boot, but I'm assuming that someone has looked into it and determined it

Re: 2.4.x and SMP fails to compile (`current' undefined)

2001-01-31 Thread David Lang
about the third story down is one mentioning SMP athlon boards actually starting to show up http://www.aceshardware.com/Spades/list_news.php?category=AMD David Lang On Wed, 31 Jan 2001, Tom Leete wrote: > Date: Wed, 31 Jan 2001 05:48:31 -0500 > From: Tom Leete <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: Peter S

modules as drivers and the order of loading

2001-01-31 Thread Alan Chandler
As I was building 2.4.1 afresh I took the opportunity to build some of the device drivers as modules. In particular I have a SCSI cdrom device (it actually is a cd writer) and I had made that and its controller (Adaptec AIC-7xxx driver) modules. However, during boot they fail to load because at

Re: ACPI breaks maestro

2001-01-31 Thread Michael B. Trausch
On Wed, 31 Jan 2001, Pavel Machek wrote: > > Hi! > > With acpi support turned on, maestro does not work. Turn acpi off, and > maestro is working, again. > Pavel > Funny, I was browsing that source code the other day, and while I found

Re: [Kiobuf-io-devel] RFC: Kernel mechanism: Compound event wait /notify + callback chains

2001-01-31 Thread Stephen C. Tweedie
Hi, On Wed, Jan 31, 2001 at 07:28:01PM +0530, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > Do the following modifications to your wait queue extension sound > reasonable ? > > 1. Change add_wait_queue to add elements to the end of queue (fifo, by > default) and instead have an add_wait_queue_lifo() routine tha

Re: Problems with Promise IDE controller under 2.4.1

2001-01-31 Thread Andre Hedrick
Okay.. On Wed, 31 Jan 2001, Dan Hollis wrote: > On Wed, 31 Jan 2001, Andre Hedrick wrote: > > On Wed, 31 Jan 2001, Mark Lord wrote: > > > Even better would be to add a stage in front of the fall-back, > > > which queries the BIOS (from kernel startup code) for translation > > > info on ALL

Keyboard Scancode Problems

2001-01-31 Thread Udo A. Steinberg
Hi all, With all the latest kernels (at least since 2.4.0-test12) I have had occasional problems with a PS/2 keyboard when switching back and forth between X and text consoles. In most cases the problem occurs when switching from X to a text console, which renders the keyboard totally unusable.

Grr..

2001-01-31 Thread Greg from Systems
Please disreguard my last message, someone loaded stuff on the my machines without telling me and using the sysrq stuff found out it was running at crash time... Sorry to jump the gun on this. I had no idea the stuff was on there. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe lin

RE: ACPI fix + comments

2001-01-31 Thread Grover, Andrew
> From: Drew Bertola [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > > This is a temporary interface, just to see if we're returning values > > properly. Your points below are well taken. People really care about > > minutes/percentage remaining. In your opinion should we > just report that > > through /proc or sho

Re: Multiple SCSI host adapters, naming of attached devices

2001-01-31 Thread Michael Pacey
Well, just so you know I am now building a 2.4.1 kernel for this machine so I can use devfs. So perhaps I'll try ReiserFS on this too... lots of fun :) Thanks for everyone's kind words of wisdom. -- Michael Pacey [EMAIL PROTECTED] ICQ: 105498469 wd21 ltd - world domination in the 21st century

Re: problems with sblive as well as 3com 3c905

2001-01-31 Thread Michael B. Trausch
On Wed, 31 Jan 2001, Lukasz Gogolewski wrote: > > any suggestions on how to fix it? > Oh, and I might add that all the URLs for the new programs that you have to get, are contained in the same file, Documentation/Changes. - Mike

Re: v2.4.1 missing EXPORT_SYMBOL

2001-01-31 Thread Ken Sandars
- Original Message - From: "Eric Kasten" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Wednesday, January 31, 2001 8:44 PM Subject: BUG: v2.4.1 missing EXPORT_SYMBOL > Hi, > > Quick bug report for kernel 2.4.1. There needs to be a > EXPORT_SYMBOL(name_to_kdev_t); at the bottom of li

Re: problems with sblive as well as 3com 3c905

2001-01-31 Thread Michael B. Trausch
On Wed, 31 Jan 2001, Lukasz Gogolewski wrote: > > After I compiled kernel 2.4.1 on rh 6.2 I enabled module support for 2 > of those devices. > > However when I rebooted my machine both of those devices are not > working. > > I don't know what's wrong since I did make moudle and make > module_ins

Re: reiserfs min size (was: [2.4.1] mkreiserfs on loopdevice freezes kernel)

2001-01-31 Thread Bernd Eckenfels
On Wed, Jan 31, 2001 at 11:15:56PM +, James Sutherland wrote: > > dd if=/dev/zero of=/var/loop.img count=32768 size=4096 > > That just creates a 128Mb file of zeros... This sounds a bit small. Why > "size=4096"?? because i am too tired to calculate. mkreiserfs wants 32768 (32*1024) blocks wi

Bummer...

2001-01-31 Thread Greg from Systems
I've been playing with the 2.4.0 kernel scince you gave me the patch for the alphas... What I have found is that it tends to randomly hang... No Panic, no OOPs, no nothing... The machine is a PC164, Which falls under the EB164 class. It exhibits this behaviour on both the "generic" and "eb164"

Re: 2.4.x and SMP fails to compile (`current' undefined)

2001-01-31 Thread Olaf Titz
> Yes, but if SMP for Athlons is not supported, what is the point in > allowing CONFIG_SMP + CONFIG_MK7 (or CONFIG_SMP + CONFIG_MK6)? Such a > kernel will not run on *any* SMP system, since AMD kernels do not work > on Intel. If an AMD user really wants to carry around SMP baggage for > no reaso

Re: CPU error codes

2001-01-31 Thread James Sutherland
On Wed, 31 Jan 2001, Alan Cox wrote: > > > In the intel databook. Generally an MCE indicates hardware/power/cooling > > > issues > > > > Doesn't an MCE also cover some hardware memory problems - parity/ECC > > issues etc? > > Parity/ECC on main memory is reported by the chipset and needs sepera

Re: PCI IRQ routing problem in 2.4.0 (updated patch)

2001-01-31 Thread Martin Diehl
(cc's shortened, not to trash Linus et al) On Thu, 1 Feb 2001, Robert Siemer wrote: > Is it possible to directly ask the 'IRQ-router' (namely the > ISA-bridge) for what it is set up for? - I mean which IRQ is routed to > what without the help of the BIOS? It's written in the PCI config registe

Re: Compiling 2.4.1: undefined reference to `__buggy_fxsr_alignment'

2001-01-31 Thread Gian Piero Sala
Matt Yourst wrote: > > Hi, > > I just tried to compile 2.4.1 and I'm getting the error "undefined > reference to `__buggy_fxsr_alignment'" when trying to do the final > link. It looks like this check was something 2.4.1 added to > include/asm-i386/bugs.h to fail the kernel build if part of the t

Re: Modules and DevFS

2001-01-31 Thread Michael B. Trausch
On Wed, 31 Jan 2001, William Knop wrote: > > Correct me if I'm wrong, but DevFS only makes /dev entries when a device is > present, and the device is not present until the module is loaded. So if I > want to access /dev/hda and the IDE module has not been loaded yet, I will > One thing that I

Re: Compiling 2.4.1: undefined reference to `__buggy_fxsr_alignment'

2001-01-31 Thread Shawn Starr
pgcc borks 2.4.1 kernel and prereleases (sadly I found this out the same way). Shawn. Matt Yourst wrote: > Hi, > > I just tried to compile 2.4.1 and I'm getting the error "undefined > reference to `__buggy_fxsr_alignment'" when trying to do the final > link. It looks like this check was somethin

Re: [UPDATE] Zerocopy patches, against 2.4.1-pre10

2001-01-31 Thread Rogerio Brito
On Jan 24 2001, Mathieu Chouquet-Stringer wrote: > Moreover, few ethernet cards are able to compute the ip checksum so > linux doesn't need anymore to do that. I'm very ignorant when it comes to Ethernet, but I'd like to know which cards have this feature, as I'm planning on buyin

Modules and DevFS

2001-01-31 Thread William Knop
I decided recently to go bleeding-edge on one of my Linux boxes and discovered I had a problem with module loading while using DevFS. Correct me if I'm wrong, but DevFS only makes /dev entries when a device is present, and the device is not present until the module is loaded. So if I want to a

Re: [PATCH/REQ] Increase kmsg buffer from 16K to 32K, kernel/printk.c

2001-01-31 Thread David Ford
"Maciej W. Rozycki" wrote: > On Wed, 31 Jan 2001, Alan Cox wrote: > > > > Does Linus or anyone object to raising the ksmg buffer from 16K to 32K? > > > 4/5 systems I have now overflow the buffer during boot before init is > > > even launched. > > > > Thats just an indication that 2.4.x is current

Re: Recommended swap for 2.4.x.

2001-01-31 Thread Russell King
Rik van Riel writes: > On Tue, 30 Jan 2001, Matthew Kirkwood wrote: > > On Tue, 30 Jan 2001, Rik van Riel wrote: > > > While reclaiming swap space when you run out is pretty > > > trivial to do, Linus doesn't seem to like the idea all > > > that much and Disk Space Is Cheap(tm) so it's not very >

BUG

2001-01-31 Thread Grzegorz Sojka
I am using kernel v2.4.0 on Abit BP6 with two Intel Pentium Celeron 366@517Mhz + video based on Riva TNT2 M64 32Mb + network card 3com 3c905b + Creative Sound Blaster 64 pnp isa and hercules video card. I'm geting all over the time messages like that: Jan 31 23:37:16 Zeus kernel: APIC error on CPU

Re: BUG

2001-01-31 Thread James Sutherland
On Wed, 31 Jan 2001, Grzegorz Sojka wrote: > I am using kernel v2.4.0 on Abit BP6 with two Intel Pentium Celeron > 366@517Mhz + video based on Riva TNT2 M64 32Mb + network card 3com 3c905b > + Creative Sound Blaster 64 pnp isa and hercules video card. I'm geting > all over the time messages like

RE: ACPI fix + comments

2001-01-31 Thread Grover, Andrew
The problem the diff below fixes is a BIOS issue - the _STA control method should always be returning a value, but in this case it doesn't. The approach we're taking is "get everything working and THEN worry about broken ACPI implementations" and hopefully in the meantime, people will release fixe

Kernel (v2.4.1) APIC Error on Tyan S2505 MB?

2001-01-31 Thread List User
I am running kernel v2.4.1 (gcc2.95.2/glibc-2.1.3) and have been getting the following errors sent to the console. I saw reference to this to a BP6 MB but nothing about the Tyan S2505 (Tiger 200) MB. I've tried two different MB's so far and both exhibit the same problem? APIC error on CPU0: 00

Re: VT82C686A corruption with 2.4.x

2001-01-31 Thread safemode
Tobias Ringstrom wrote: > On Wed, 31 Jan 2001, safemode wrote: > > > I'm wondering... Perhaps it's a problem motherboard specific. I'm > > using the KA7 and saw pretty bad problems (extreme fs corruption) > > and bad latency. Perhaps the K7V and the KT7's dont have this problem. > > I dont see a

Re: Problems with Promise IDE controller under 2.4.1

2001-01-31 Thread Dan Hollis
On Wed, 31 Jan 2001, Andre Hedrick wrote: > On Wed, 31 Jan 2001, Mark Lord wrote: > > Even better would be to add a stage in front of the fall-back, > > which queries the BIOS (from kernel startup code) for translation > > info on ALL drives. > Maybe a compile option could help... kernel paramete

Re: possible bug with adaptec aic-7896 and 2.4.x

2001-01-31 Thread Igor Mozetic
Andrew Prins writes: > in 2.4.0 and 2.4.1 on a pentium 3 with an onboard adaptec AIC-7896, i > receive the following after it is detected: > > scsi: aborting command due to timeout: pid 0, scsi0, channel 0, id 0 > lun 0 Inquiry 00 00 00 ff 00 I my case machine doesn't even boot. You might try t

Re: Modules and DevFS

2001-01-31 Thread Brian May
> "William" == William Knop <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: William> Correct me if I'm wrong, but DevFS only makes /dev William> entries when a device is present, and the device is not William> present until the module is loaded. So if I want to William> access /dev/hda and the ID

Re: [PATCH] vma limited swapin readahead

2001-01-31 Thread Eric W. Biederman
Marcelo Tosatti <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Wed, 31 Jan 2001, Stephen C. Tweedie wrote: > > > Hi, > > > > On Wed, Jan 31, 2001 at 01:05:02AM -0200, Marcelo Tosatti wrote: > > > > > > However, the pages which are contiguous on swap are not necessarily > > > contiguous in the virtual memory

Re: Crash using DRI with 2.4.0 and 2.4.1

2001-01-31 Thread Miguel Rodríguez Pérez
Adam Sampson wrote > Are you sure you get the same results with 2.4.1? Yes, I'm sure. In fact I just downloaded the 2.4.1 kernel to test if this was fixed. > I'm in the exact > same position (G200 on a Gigabyte GA5AX with ALi M1541/3). There was a > patch to properly support AGP on these boar

ACPI breaks maestro

2001-01-31 Thread Pavel Machek
Hi! With acpi support turned on, maestro does not work. Turn acpi off, and maestro is working, again. Pavel -- I'm [EMAIL PROTECTED] "In my country we have almost anarchy and I don't care." Panos Katsaloulis describing me w.r.t. pat

Re: mount dos-partition bug

2001-01-31 Thread Andries Brouwer
Andreas Huppert wrote: > > I have been trying to mount the dos-partition /dev/hdb1 on /dos/d for > > three years and it fails: Yes. It has 805998 data sectors, which require 50374 clusters, but the fat16 has room only to describe 39168 clusters. The kernel mount code considers this an error. Yo

2.2.18 - failed to exec /sbin/modprobe -s -k binfmt-464c

2001-01-31 Thread Josh Higham
I tried compiling a 2.2.18 kernel, and when I reboot I get failed to exec /sbin/modprobe -s -k binfmt-464c scrolling past the screen. A web search reveals a comment about 2.3.99pre3, which indicates that it is a problem with the USB config (video4linux must be compiled in the kernel?). I am not

Re: possible bug with adaptec aic-7896 and 2.4.x

2001-01-31 Thread J . A . Magallon
On 01.31 Igor Mozetic wrote: > Andrew Prins writes: > > in 2.4.0 and 2.4.1 on a pentium 3 with an onboard adaptec AIC-7896, i > > receive the following after it is detected: > > > > scsi: aborting command due to timeout: pid 0, scsi0, channel 0, id 0 > > lun 0 Inquiry 00 00 00 ff 00 > > I my c

ACPI fix + comments

2001-01-31 Thread Pavel Machek
Hi! This patch fixes ACPI oops on my toshiba.. This should go to Linus. --- clean/drivers/acpi/cmbatt.c Wed Jan 31 16:14:26 2001 +++ linux/drivers/acpi/cmbatt.c Wed Jan 31 21:03:47 2001 @@ -163,11 +167,13 @@ result->battery_capacity_granularity_1=objs[7].integer.value; result->ba

Re: [PATCH] vma limited swapin readahead

2001-01-31 Thread David Gould
On Wed, Jan 31, 2001 at 12:40:52PM -0700, Eric W. Biederman wrote: > Marcelo Tosatti <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > On Wed, 31 Jan 2001, Stephen C. Tweedie wrote: > > > On Wed, Jan 31, 2001 at 01:05:02AM -0200, Marcelo Tosatti wrote: > > > > > > > > However, the pages which are contiguous on swa

Re: reiserfs min size (was: [2.4.1] mkreiserfs on loopdevice freezeskernel)

2001-01-31 Thread James Sutherland
On Wed, 31 Jan 2001, Bernd Eckenfels wrote: > On Wed, Jan 31, 2001 at 09:24:39AM +, James Sutherland wrote: > > 32 megaBLOCK?? How big is it in Mbytes? > > Blocksize is 4k, mkreiserfs in my version is telling me it can not generate > partitions smaller than 32M but it is not true, i have to

Re: problems with sblive as well as 3com 3c905

2001-01-31 Thread Mathieu Chouquet-Stringer
You need to get the latest modutils: the directory tree under /lib/modules changed recently and that's why it works if you create symlinks... [EMAIL PROTECTED] ("Timothy A. DeWees") writes: > You need to create a symlink > > ln -s /lib/modules/2.4.1/kernel/drivers/net /lib/modules/2.4.1/net >

Re: [PATCH/REQ] Increase kmsg buffer from 16K to 32K, kernel/printk.c

2001-01-31 Thread Rik van Riel
On Wed, 31 Jan 2001, Gabor Lenart wrote: > On Wed, Jan 31, 2001 at 05:06:07PM +, Alan Cox wrote: > > > Does Linus or anyone object to raising the ksmg buffer from 16K to 32K? > > > 4/5 systems I have now overflow the buffer during boot before init is > > > even launched. > > > > Thats just an

Re: Compiling 2.4.1: undefined reference to `__buggy_fxsr_alignment'

2001-01-31 Thread Brian Gerst
Matt Yourst wrote: > > Hi, > > I just tried to compile 2.4.1 and I'm getting the error "undefined > reference to `__buggy_fxsr_alignment'" when trying to do the final > link. It looks like this check was something 2.4.1 added to > include/asm-i386/bugs.h to fail the kernel build if part of the t

Re: Why isn't init PID 1?

2001-01-31 Thread Igmar Palsenberg
On Wed, 31 Jan 2001, Paul Powell wrote: > Hello, > > I have a bootable linux CD that runs a custom init. > Under most versions of linux init runs as process ID > one. Under my bootable CD, it runs as process ID 15. > I need it to run as PID 1 so that I can execute a > kill(-1,15) without kill

Re: CPU error codes

2001-01-31 Thread Dan Hollis
On Wed, 31 Jan 2001, James Sutherland wrote: > On Wed, 31 Jan 2001, Alan Cox wrote: > > Parity/ECC on main memory is reported by the chipset and needs seperate > > drivers or apps to handle this > Yes - MCE only covers errors in the CPU's cache, IIRC? (Is there still an > NMI on main memory parity

[FYI] Power drain on notebook

2001-01-31 Thread Pavel Machek
Hi! I played a bit with acpi on my toshiba, and got following figures (toshiba satellite 4030cdt): system powered on, disk spinning, backlight on, low brightness 12.8W high brigtness +0.8W no backlight

NFS root mounting in 2.4.1...

2001-01-31 Thread Russell King
...fails on ARM with ESTALE (116): Looking up port of RPC 13/2 on 192.168.0.4 Looking up port of RPC 15/2 on 192.168.0.4 nfs_get_root: getattr error = 116 nfs_read_super: get root inode failed VFS: Unable to mount root fs via NFS, trying floppy. It seems to be related to these two compi

Re: Why isn't init PID 1?

2001-01-31 Thread H. Peter Anvin
Followup to: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> By author:Igmar Palsenberg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> In newsgroup: linux.dev.kernel > > Yes. First program to run get PID 1. > > Solution : fork() in init and load the modules in the child. > Or finish your script with "exec init". -hpa -- <[EMAIL PRO

Any reason why we can't auto-start LVM (vg's) in the kernel?

2001-01-31 Thread List User
Is there any reason why we can't auto-detect/bring up volume-groups in the kernel instead of creating a ramdisk volume to do a vgscan and then mount a rootlv? Just trying to see if there is a way (or would make sense) to skip the ramdisk stage in mounting a root logical volume. Steve - To unsub

Re: VT82C686A corruption with 2.4.x

2001-01-31 Thread Byron Stanoszek
On Wed, 31 Jan 2001, safemode wrote: > yea i know. . same mode i also had a big problem with DMA timeouts on > 2.4 so .. i dont know what's up with 2.4 and my motherboard ...2.2 > hasn't shown a single irq or DMA error yet since going back to it. > currently 2.2.19-pre7 is using UDMA4

Re: BUG: v2.4.1 missing EXPORT_SYMBOL

2001-01-31 Thread Keith Owens
On Wed, 31 Jan 2001 15:44:29 -0500 (EST), Eric Kasten <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >Quick bug report for kernel 2.4.1. There needs to be a >EXPORT_SYMBOL(name_to_kdev_t); at the bottom of linux/init/main.c. >name_to_kdev_t is used by the md driver (and maybe others). If the >driver is built as a

Re: modules as drivers and the order of loading

2001-01-31 Thread Mathieu Chouquet-Stringer
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Alan Chandler) writes: > As I was building 2.4.1 afresh I took the opportunity to build some of > the device drivers as modules. In particular I have a SCSI cdrom > device (it actually is a cd writer) and I had made that and its > controller (Adaptec AIC-7xxx driver) modules.

Re: 2.2.18 - failed to exec /sbin/modprobe -s -k binfmt-464c

2001-01-31 Thread Keith Owens
On Wed, 31 Jan 2001 14:17:56 -0700, "Josh Higham" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >failed to exec /sbin/modprobe -s -k binfmt-464c You compiled your kernel with support for ELF objects as a module. You execute an ELF program, the kernel tries to autoload the ELF module using modprobe which is an ELF

Re: [PATCH] make sym53c8xx.c and ncr53c8xx.c call pci_enable_device

2001-01-31 Thread Gérard Roudier
On Wed, 31 Jan 2001, Alan Cox wrote: > > If the pci_enable_device() thing is to be added to the drivers, it must > > preferently be placed after the checking against RAID attachement. > > You cant check the signature until the device has been enabled. Maybe you > could poke the LSI guys and fi

RE: [BUG] 2.4.1 Detects 64 MB RAM, actual 192MB

2001-01-31 Thread Dunlap, Randy
> From: Adam Schrotenboer [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > > > On Wed, 31 Jan 2001 10:01:08 -0500, Adam Schrotenboer wrote: > > > >>> On Tue, 30 Jan 2001 23:25:22 -0500, Adam Schrotenboer wrote: > >>> > ... > Linux version 2.4.1 (root@tabriel) (gcc version egcs-2.91.66 > >>> > >> 199903

Re: 2.4.x and SMP fails to compile (`current' undefined)

2001-01-31 Thread Peter Samuelson
[David Lang] > about the third story down is one mentioning SMP athlon boards > actually starting to show up Cool! I want one. So ... is there any way to know if and when Linux kernel support will be available? I assume AMD doesn't follow the MPS 1.x standards. Peter - To unsubscribe from th

Re: [patch] 2.4.0, 2.4.0-ac12: APIC lock-ups

2001-01-31 Thread Andrew Morton
"Maciej W. Rozycki" wrote: > > Following is the 82489DX-ized version of the patch. I believe it's fine, > but I would feel safer if others test it before I send it to Linus. Your latest patch passes all my testing. 2.4.1+irq-whacker+netperf:APIC dies instantly 2.4.1+irq-whacker+netper

Re: 2.4.x and SMP fails to compile (`current' undefined) (fwd)

2001-01-31 Thread nick
They are supposed to be available near the end of this quarter. the manufacturers of the first two will be tyan and gigabyte (all according to current amd rumors). AMD Demoed several quad athlon systems on the first of this month, so hope for that soon as well. Nick On Wed, 31 Jan 2001,

2.4.1 FireWire compile problem

2001-01-31 Thread Dax Kelson
# IEEE 1394 (FireWire) support CONFIG_IEEE1394=y # CONFIG_IEEE1394_PCILYNX is not set CONFIG_IEEE1394_OHCI1394=y CONFIG_IEEE1394_VIDEO1394=y CONFIG_IEEE1394_RAWIO=y # CONFIG_IEEE1394_VERBOSEDEBUG is not set gcc -D__KERNEL__ -I/usr/src/linux/include -Wall -Wstrict-prototypes -O2 -fomit-f rame-po

Re: [PATCH/REQ] Increase kmsg buffer from 16K to 32K, kernel/printk.c

2001-01-31 Thread Chris Adams
Once upon a time, David Ford <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: >The largest bodies of text come from scsi, irda, usb, and udf. Don't forget software RAID. You get gobs of output from autodetect and startup of each filesystem (so if you have 6 or so RAID filesystems, you can get over 13kB of messages).

Re: 2.4.1 FireWire compile problem

2001-01-31 Thread Dax Kelson
Dax Kelson said once upon a time (Wed, 31 Jan 2001): > > # IEEE 1394 (FireWire) support > CONFIG_IEEE1394=y > # CONFIG_IEEE1394_PCILYNX is not set > CONFIG_IEEE1394_OHCI1394=y > CONFIG_IEEE1394_VIDEO1394=y > CONFIG_IEEE1394_RAWIO=y > # CONFIG_IEEE1394_VERBOSEDEBUG is not set I noticed when I com

Re: Power usage Q and parallel make question (separate issues)

2001-01-31 Thread Keith Owens
On Wed, 31 Jan 2001 19:02:03 -0800, LA Walsh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >This seems to serialize the delete, run the mod-installs in parallel, then run the >depmod when they are done. It works, until somebody does this make -j 4 modules modules_install There is not, and never has been, any

Re: VT82C686A corruption with 2.4.x

2001-01-31 Thread safemode
Byron Stanoszek wrote: > On Wed, 31 Jan 2001, safemode wrote: > > > yea i know. . same mode i also had a big problem with DMA timeouts on > > 2.4 so .. i dont know what's up with 2.4 and my motherboard ...2.2 > > hasn't shown a single irq or DMA error yet since going back to it. > > cu

Re: [BUG] 2.4.1 Detects 64 MB RAM, actual 192MB

2001-01-31 Thread Adam Schrotenboer
Dunlap, Randy wrote: >> From: Adam Schrotenboer [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] >> >>> On Wed, 31 Jan 2001 10:01:08 -0500, Adam Schrotenboer wrote: >>> > On Tue, 30 Jan 2001 23:25:22 -0500, Adam Schrotenboer wrote: > >> ... >> Linux version 2.4.1 (root@tabriel) (gcc version egcs-2.9

Re: Kernel PPP/Modem connection problems starting somewhere between 2.2.14(maybe 15) and 2.2.18

2001-01-31 Thread Matthew Fredrickson
On Sun, Jan 28, 2001 at 07:48:29PM +, Adrian Bridgett wrote: > On Wed, Jan 24, 2001 at 17:30:38 -0600 (+), Matthew Fredrickson wrote: > > I'm not positive if this is a bug, I'm only able to confirm this from one > > other source. Somewhere between (I can't remember exactly which kernel my

Kernel BUG in 2.4.0

2001-01-31 Thread Magnus Walldal
Hi, I was playing around with Gnome when I got this Kernel BUG in my syslog. Kernel is 2.4.0 running on updated RedHat 7. My box is a Pentium III (440BX) with 256 MB RAM. System just froze, I could not move the mouse or switch virtual console, after hitting SysRq repeatedly the system finally

2.4.1 unresolved reference

2001-01-31 Thread khromy
2.4.1 - make bzImage modules CONFIG_BLK_DEV_PDC202XX=y # CONFIG_PDC202XX_BURST is not set drivers/ide/idedriver.o: In function `pci_init_pdc202xx': drivers/ide/idedriver.o(.text.init+0x1ac4): undefined reference to `pdc202xx_display_info' make: *** [vmlinux] Error 1 -- L1: khromy

Re: 2.4.x and SMP fails to compile (`current' undefined)

2001-01-31 Thread Alan Cox
> Cool! I want one. So ... is there any way to know if and when Linux > kernel support will be available? I assume AMD doesn't follow the MPS > 1.x standards. As far as I am aware they will be following the software interface. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux

[PATCH] StackGuard gcc patch for 2.4.1

2001-01-31 Thread Greg KH
Here's the latest StackGuard patch for the 2.4.1 kernel. greg k-h -- greg@(kroah|wirex).com diff -Naur -X dontdiff linux-2.4.1/Makefile linux-2.4.1-greg/Makefile --- linux-2.4.1/MakefileWed Jan 31 17:15:05 2001 +++ linux-2.4.1-greg/Makefile Wed Jan 31 17:14:11 2001 @@ -227,6 +227,10

Re: bttv problems in 2.4.0/2.4.1

2001-01-31 Thread adrian
On 31 Jan 2001, Gerd Knorr wrote: > > The card is a video only capture that came with a camera (and has a > > connector to power that camera next to the video connector). > > Sure the box is really dead? These very cheap cards with just the bt848 [snip] > some sanity checks on the i2c bus firs

Re: Power usage Q and parallel make question (separate issues)

2001-01-31 Thread LA Walsh
Keith Owens wrote: > > The only bit that could run in parallel is this one. > > .PHONY: $(patsubst %, _modinst_%, $(SUBDIRS)) > $(patsubst %, _modinst_%, $(SUBDIRS)) : > $(MAKE) -C $(patsubst _modinst_%, %, $@) modules_install > > The erase must be done first (serial), then make modules_

Re: Bummer...

2001-01-31 Thread John Jasen
On Wed, 31 Jan 2001, Greg from Systems wrote: > I've been playing with the 2.4.0 kernel scince you gave me the patch for > the alphas... > > What I have found is that it tends to randomly hang... > No Panic, no OOPs, no nothing... > The machine is a PC164, Which falls under the EB164 class. > It

RE: ACPI fix + comments

2001-01-31 Thread Grover, Andrew
> > The problem the diff below fixes is a BIOS issue - the _STA > control method > > should always be returning a value, but in this case it doesn't. The > > approach we're taking is "get everything working and THEN > worry about broken > > ACPI implementations" and hopefully in the meantime, pe

Re: Any reason why we can't auto-start LVM (vg's) in the kernel?

2001-01-31 Thread Andreas Dilger
Steve, writes: > Is there any reason why we can't auto-detect/bring up volume-groups in the > kernel instead of creating a ramdisk volume to do a vgscan and then mount a > rootlv? Um, yes, because it won't work. The user tools do the I/O of LVM state information to the disk. The kernel LVM modu

any razer boomslang users with 2.4.1?

2001-01-31 Thread David S. Miller
I ask because I note that mine isn't working with the USB-->PS/2 adapter and the PSMOUSE driver in 2.4.x, but 2.2.x works fine. Basically, the mouse gives random events to the kernel when moved. At the very least, they do not match up with where I actually move the mouse. This is on an Athlon-

Re: [UPDATE] Fresh zerocopy patch on kernel.org

2001-01-31 Thread David S. Miller
Malcolm Beattie writes: > David S. Miller writes: > > > > At the usual place: > > > > ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/davem/zerocopy-2.4.1-1.diff.gz > > Hmm, disappointing results here; maybe I've missed something. As discussed elsewhere there is a %10 to %15 performance h

Re: bttv problems in 2.4.0/2.4.1 PAL_BG

2001-01-31 Thread archan
ok!! archan [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] John Jasen wrote: > On Wed, 31 Jan 2001, archan wrote: > >> I am using "Pixel View TV tuner card" based on "bttv". It works perfect >> in Windows with default TV application, and also responding well in >> Linux 2.2.17 and 2.4.0-test10 kernel. Th

VAST: Re: 2.4.X inode cache bug

2001-01-31 Thread jukka . santala
Quim K Holland <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Then maybe the attached patch is what you want? This also replaces > `+' on the next line with `^' to avoid slanted distribution. Thanks. The use of + in a hash-formula is usually all right, though. It's XOR with carry propagation; when there's some pa

Re: [Kiobuf-io-devel] RFC: Kernel mechanism: Compound event wait /notify + callback chains

2001-01-31 Thread bsuparna
>Hi, > >On Wed, Jan 31, 2001 at 07:28:01PM +0530, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >> >> Do the following modifications to your wait queue extension sound >> reasonable ? >> >> 1. Change add_wait_queue to add elements to the end of queue (fifo, by >> default) and instead have an add_wait_queue_lifo() ro

usermode linux hoses 2.2.18-SMP host machine when run from regular user account

2001-01-31 Thread Brian Ristuccia
When run from a normal user account with its current working directory on a NFS filesystem, usermode linux causes the host machine's kernel to enter a hosed state. No processes (including UML) seem to respond, and the machine becomes unusable. I am running 2.2.18 built with SMP and hedrick's IDE

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2.4.1 - can't read root fs (devfs maybe?)

2001-01-31 Thread Michael J. Dikkema
I went from 2.4.0 to 2.4.1 and was surprised that either the root filesystem wasn't mounted, or it couldn't be read. I'm using devfs.. I'm thinking there might have been a change with regards to the devfs tree.. is the legacy /dev/hda1 still /dev/discs/disc0/part1? I can't even get a shell with

Re: [Kiobuf-io-devel] RFC: Kernel mechanism: Compound event wait/notify + callback chains

2001-01-31 Thread bsuparna
>My first comment is that this looks very heavyweight indeed. Isn't it >just over-engineered? Yes, I know it is, in its current form (sigh !). But at the same time, I do not want to give up (not yet, at least) on trying to arrive at something that can serve the objectives, and yet be simple i

Re: [uml-devel] usermode linux hoses 2.2.18-SMP host machine when run from regular user account

2001-01-31 Thread Jeff Dike
[EMAIL PROTECTED] said: > When run from a normal user account with its current working directory > on a NFS filesystem, usermode linux causes the host machine's kernel > to enter a hosed state. No processes (including UML) seem to respond, > and the machine becomes unusable. Just to clarify what

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