opl3sa2 in 2.4.2 on Toshiba Tecra 8000

2001-03-29 Thread Klaus Reimer
Hi, I have switched from 2.2.17 to 2.4.2 and now the sound is no longer working on my Toshiba Tecra 8000 Notebook. In 2.2.17 I used the following modules: mpu401 ad1848 opl3sa2 io=0x538 mss_io=0x530 mpu_io=0x330 irq=5 dma=1 dma2=0 opl3 io=0x388 This was working perfectly. I was able to control

Re: Linux 2.4.2-ac27

2001-03-29 Thread Martin Diehl
(Linus cc'ed - related thread: 243-pre[78]: mmap changes (breaks) /proc) On Wed, 28 Mar 2001, Alan Cox wrote: > 2.4.2-ac27 > o Revert mmap change that broke assumptions (and (Martin Diehl) > it seems SuS) the reason to suggest keeping the test was not due to len=0 behaviour of mmap

Re: [patch] pae-2.4.3-C3

2001-03-29 Thread Ingo Molnar
On Thu, 29 Mar 2001, Albert D. Cahalan wrote: > > the problem is that redzoning is enabled unconditionally, and SLAB has no > > information about how crutial alignment is in the case of any particular > > SLAB cache. The CPU generates a general protection fault if in PAE mode a > > non-16-byte a

Re: Serial port latency

2001-03-29 Thread Manfred Spraul
From: "Pavel Machek" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > Is the computer otherwise idle? > > I've seen one unexplainable report with atm problems that disappeared > > (!) if a kernel compile was running. > > I've seen similar bugs. If you hook something on schedule_tq and forget > to set current->need_resched

Re: [WISHLIST] Addition of suspend patch into 2.5?

2001-03-29 Thread Robert-Velisav MICIOVICI
Just a small adition to the 2.5 whislist: Is "hibernation" on linux possible? Ideally it should write out on the / running on ext2fs and the new journaling fs's like reiserfs, xfs, etx3 etc and not some special filesystem or unpartiotioned space etc. I mean that this should be working without the

[PATCH] Re: [patch] Re: 2.4.3-pre8: IPX not building

2001-03-29 Thread Eran Mann
The improved patch below should fix it. This additional problem only showed up when IPX was built into the kernel (non modular). If you don't want to revert the previous patch and apply this one you can simply change net/ipx/af_ipx line 126 from: static int sysctl_ipx_pprop_broadcasting = 1; to:

RE: Plans for 2.5

2001-03-29 Thread Hen, Shmulik
Just some general questions: 1) Is there anywhere a list that describes what is intended to be in 2.5.x ? 2) Are there any early releases of 2.5.x ? 3) Are the things for 2.5.x being discussed on another mailing list ? 4) What is the time frame of releasing 2.5.x-final (or 2.6.x) ? Specifically,

Re: RFC: configuring net interfaces

2001-03-29 Thread Francois Romieu
Krzysztof Halasa <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> écrit : [...] > That's a physical interface like V.35 or RS232. Ok. [...] > > * n200, t200 ? > > What's that? Parameters for retransmission of a trame specified in Q922. t200 is the timeout value and n200 the maximal number of retransmissions. They can be n

Re: 53c400a datasheet

2001-03-29 Thread Steffen Grunewald
On Wed 2001-03-28 (22:15), [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Hello > > does anybody here have the datasheet for the 53c400a SCSI bus interface cotroller? > > I tried to find it on the Net but did not succeed. found a printout of the page at ftp://ftp.symbios.com/pub/symchips/scsi/scsidocs/c40xxfaq.tx

Re: kernel apm code

2001-03-29 Thread David Balazic
John Fremlin wrote: > > David Balazic <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > John Fremlin wrote: > > > > > > David Balazic <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > [...] > > > > The maintainer hasn't the time to do it. He promised me he would in > > > February, when I telephone, but hasn't bothered to do a

Re: [PATCH for 2.5] preemptible kernel

2001-03-29 Thread Dipankar Sarma
On Wed, Mar 28, 2001 at 12:51:02PM -0800, george anzinger wrote: > Dipankar Sarma wrote: > > > > Also, a task could be preempted and then rescheduled on the same cpu > > making > > the depth counter 0 (right ?), but it could still be holding references > > to data > > structures to be updated usi

Re: OOM killer???

2001-03-29 Thread Dr. Michael Weller
On Wed, 28 Mar 2001, Andreas Dilger wrote: > Szaka writes: > > On Tue, 27 Mar 2001, Andreas Dilger wrote: > > > Every time this subject comes up, I point to AIX and SIGDANGER - a signal > > > sent to processes when the system gets OOM. > > > > And every time the SIGDANGER comes up, the issue tha

how can I send a signal like kill

2001-03-29 Thread Cedric Lienart
hello, how can I send a signal like 'kill (pid_t pid, int sig);' from a driver module to a user program. When I include signal.h in my module I have many errors. Thank you for your help. Liénart Cédric [EMAIL PROTECTED] - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in

Question: is linux support Intel's i840 chipset?

2001-03-29 Thread Jean-Michel Lee
Hi, I just want to search a mainboard with 64-bit PCI bus and ATA-100 support. I just find that Intel i840 do. So, I wonder whether linux support Intel's i840. Thanks. Michel - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED

RE: Question: is linux support Intel's i840 chipset?

2001-03-29 Thread Ofer Fryman
I believe that Linux 2.2.x and 2.4.x do support it well, however I tried using it with Linux 2.0.x and it caused me many problems with PCI drivers. I also tried server-works chipset, which also works with 64-bit PCI bus, it worked well under Linux 2.0.x no problems what so ever. Any way since the

Re: Promise RAID controller howto?

2001-03-29 Thread Erik van Asselt
Hm i have the Promise raid source for 2.2 kernel modules so what do you mean by opensource signatures i have it working for 2.2 kernels but i can't get it to work properly in 2.4 So if someone want to look at the source !!! it can be found on www.promise.com Assie Andre Hedrick schreef: >

Re: Promise RAID controller howto?

2001-03-29 Thread Henning P . Schmiedehausen
Hi, as far as I can see (you're talking about the "rel.tgz" archive from the LinuxBETA directory, don't you?), this is just glue code for their binary only "ftlib.o" driver. No real open source here. Maybe Andre can work something from the header structures. But then again, the archive is dated

Re: Linux Kernel IRC Room?

2001-03-29 Thread Colin Watson
David Lang <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >how do you hold a real-time chat with people around the world? the fact >that the key people would seldom be on at the same time severly limits >it's usefullness. the mailing list does a pretty good job as is. Doesn't seem to harm #debian-devel ... -- Coli

Re: OOM killer???

2001-03-29 Thread Guest section DW
On Thu, Mar 29, 2001 at 11:29:34AM +0200, Dr. Michael Weller wrote: > On Wed, 28 Mar 2001, Andreas Dilger wrote: > > > Szaka writes: > > > On Tue, 27 Mar 2001, Andreas Dilger wrote: > > > > Every time this subject comes up, I point to AIX and SIGDANGER - a signal > > > > sent to processes when th

[PATCH] framebuffer drivers: static zero initializers removal

2001-03-29 Thread Andrey Panin
Hi all, IMHO subject is selfexplaining. Affected files: amifb.c, atafb.c, clgenfb.c, cyberfb.c, tdfxfb.c, tgafb.c, vesafb.c, vfb.c, vga16fb.c, vgacon.c, virgefb.c and most importantly skeletonfb.c :) All patches are extremely simple, except patch for TGA framebuffer which adds missing pci_enable

Re: OOPS: reiserfs, 2.4.2-ac26 SMP

2001-03-29 Thread Elmer Joandi
On Wed, 28 Mar 2001, Chris Mason wrote: > Most likely compiled with redhat gcc 2.96. Please upgrade to their latest, > or use kgcc. umm, upgraded to their latest, the only difference is that it wont happen now right away, but after some time. elmer. - To unsubscribe from this list: send th

Re: Larger dev_t

2001-03-29 Thread Martin Dalecki
Alan Cox wrote: > > > Why do you worry about installers? New distro - new kernel - new > > installer > > Because the same code tends to be shared with post install configuration > tools too. So change them as well for a new distribution. What's there problem. There isn't anything out there you

diskette change problems

2001-03-29 Thread clock
I put a write-protected diskette into fd0 cat /dev/zero > /dev/fd0: readonly filesystem then removed dikette, switched the plastic nibble reinserted diskette cat /dev/zero > /dev/fd0 : readonly filesystem removed the diskette cat /dev/zero: a bunch of garbage, then kernel spasms about sectors not

Hanging process

2001-03-29 Thread clock
I did cat /dev/zero >/dev/fd0 no space left on device (that's correct) ps ax | grep cat kill pid - nothing kill -9 pid - nothing then I repeatedly did the kill -9 , when after about half a minute it started working What's wrong? Why was the process unkillable? -- Karel Kulhavy

Re: RFC: configuring net interfaces

2001-03-29 Thread Krzysztof Halasa
Ivan Passos <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I guess 'interface' means media type (e.g. V.35, RS-232, X.21, etc.). > Maybe it would be more intuitive to call it 'media'. What do you think? Probably. > Also, for synchronous cards that have built-in DSU/CSU's (such as the > Cylades-PC300/TE), it's a

question on ip_masq_irc.c

2001-03-29 Thread Deja User
Hi all, I am working on a NAT product and trying provide mIRC support in it. I am looking into ip_masq_irc.c file of Linux 2.2.12 for reference, and have some doubts. 1. In 2.2.12 ip_masq_irc.c, DCC RESUME protocol is not supported. In which patch can I find it? 2. I have pre-patch-2.2.18-5 linu

Re: RFC: configuring net interfaces

2001-03-29 Thread Krzysztof Halasa
"Paul Fulghum" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > +struct hdlc_physical /* 10 bytes */ > > +{ > > + unsigned int interface; > > + unsigned int clock_rate; > > + unsigned short clock_type; > > +}; > > What about encoding (NRZ/NRZI)? > > Plus I think the CRC type would be a good idea for > raw HDLC

Re: RFC: configuring net interfaces

2001-03-29 Thread Krzysztof Halasa
Francois Romieu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Parameters for retransmission of a trame specified in Q922. t200 is the > timeout value and n200 the maximal number of retransmissions. They can > be negocied and default to t200=1,5s, n200=3. Hmm... I've taken a look at it, but it seems to me that t

Re: OOM killer???

2001-03-29 Thread Sean Hunter
On Thu, Mar 29, 2001 at 01:01:54PM +0200, Guest section DW wrote: > [Never use planes where the company's engineers spend their > time designing algorithms for selecting which passenger > must be thrown out when the plane is overloaded.] This is (as far as I can see) a fantastically specious argu

re: 2.4.3-p8 pci_fixup_vt8363 + ASUS A7V "Optimal" = IDE disk corruption

2001-03-29 Thread Todd M. Roy
Wayne, I have also been seeing disk corruption with my ASUS A7V with both 2.4.3-pre7 and pre8. -- todd -- Hi, I'm running kernel 2.4.3-pre8 on an ASUS A7V (BIOS 1007) motherboard and recently noticed that it sometimes corrupts my hard disk, an IBM 75GXP on the onboard PDC20265 IDE controller.

Re: Plans for 2.5

2001-03-29 Thread Giacomo Catenazzi
"Hen, Shmulik" wrote: > > Just some general questions: > > 1) Is there anywhere a list that describes what is intended to be in 2.5.x ? General/Big changes are discussed in: http://lwn.net/2001/0329/a/kernel-summit-agenda.php3 > 2) Are there any early releases of 2.5.x ? > 3) Are the things fo

Re: Disturbing news..

2001-03-29 Thread Walter Hofmann
On Wed, 28 Mar 2001, Jesse Pollard wrote: > By itself it doesn't - but if you also don't have user/group/world rw and > don't own the file, you can't do anything to it. This is all completely useless. Why not remove world rw permissions in the first place. If the admin isn't even able to write

copy_to_user - (is the best way?)

2001-03-29 Thread Sardañons, Eliel
I have been looking, the syscalls and drivers in the kernel and always what I see is something like this: int func(char *user_buffer) { /* A lot of function stuff */ ... /* then at the end when you write user_buffer I see */ if (copy_to_user(user_buffer, from, n)

Re: RFC: configuring net interfaces

2001-03-29 Thread Krzysztof Halasa
Jeff Garzik <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Maybe it's a better idea to have just two ioctl's here (GET and SET), and > > have "subioctl's" inside the structure passed to the HDLC layer (and > > defined by the HDLC layer). This would allow changes in the HDLC layer > > without having to change so

how can I send a signal like kill

2001-03-29 Thread Cedric Lienart
hello, how can I send a signal like 'kill (pid_t pid, int sig);' from a driver module to a user program. When I include signal.h in my module I have many errors. Thank you for your help. Liénart Cédric [EMAIL PROTECTED] - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in

Re: OOM killer???

2001-03-29 Thread Guest section DW
On Thu, Mar 29, 2001 at 01:02:38PM +0100, Sean Hunter wrote: > The reason the aero engineers don't need to select a passanger to throw out > when the plane is overloaded is simply that the plane operators do not allow > the plane to become overloaded. Yes. But today Linux willing overcommits. It

udp <-> tcp connect

2001-03-29 Thread SZALAY Attila
Hi All! I want to bind to non-local IP and send/receive UDP packets. But when I try to connect to remote end I get an error (although bind itself is successful). I examined the udp_connect and tcp_v4_connect and I found an interesting difference between them. In udp_connect: err = ip_route_con

Re: Promise RAID controller howto?

2001-03-29 Thread Gregory Maxwell
On Thu, Mar 29, 2001 at 12:41:11PM +0200, Erik van Asselt wrote: > Hm i have the Promise raid source for 2.2 kernel modules so what do you mean > by opensource signatures > > i have it working for 2.2 kernels but i can't get it to work properly in 2.4 > So if someone want to look at the sourc

Re: OOM killer???

2001-03-29 Thread Szabolcs Szakacsits
On Thu, 29 Mar 2001, Dr. Michael Weller wrote: > On Wed, 28 Mar 2001, Andreas Dilger wrote: > > Szaka writes: > > > And every time the SIGDANGER comes up, the issue that AIX provides > > > *both* early and late allocation mechanism even on per-process basis > > > that can be controlled by *both*

Newbie to Kernel Development

2001-03-29 Thread George Wright
Hi all, I am a newbie to Linux Kernel Development, with a very basic knowledge of C, and an OK knowledge of C++/Qt. I was wondering if the people on this list could help me with my learning of C, and help me and bring me up to Kernel Developer status. Looking through the source code, there ar

Re: Can't find modules after moving to 2.4.2

2001-03-29 Thread Marcus Ramos
Hello, Thanks for those who replied telling me to upgrade modutils to 2.4.5. I downloaded modutils-2.4.5.tar.gz and placed it in my /root directory. After tar -xzvf, I got a new directory /root/modutils-2.4.5. Then I followed the instructions in INSTALL: cd modutils-2.4.5 ./configure But, from

Linux connectivity trashed.

2001-03-29 Thread Richard B. Johnson
This is for information only. Last week a standard RH distribution of Linux was rooted from what looks like a Russian invasion. The penetration used the method taught in the CERT Advisory CA-2000-17. The intruder(s) then attempted to perform additional penetrations from this site. One of the

RE: Newbie to Kernel Development

2001-03-29 Thread Sardañons, Eliel
kernel/printk.c as you can see printk use vsprintf :) vsprintf was coded by linus torvalds! .. and printf use vsprintf :) - ELF / a.out are binary formats . let say when you compile a program a header is appended to know let say when the code start, where the data start in th

[OT] fb programming documentation (full)

2001-03-29 Thread BERECZ Szabolcs
Hi! where can I find the documentation about fb programming? I would have a lot of questions, so first I want to read the docs, but I can't find it. Is there a mailing list about fb programming? Bye, Szabi - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body o

[OT] fb programming documentation

2001-03-29 Thread BERECZ Szabolcs
Hi! where can I find the documentation about fb programming? I would have a lot of questions, so first I want to read the docs, but I can't find it. Is there a mailing list - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Mor

Re: OOM killer???

2001-03-29 Thread Dr. Michael Weller
On Thu, 29 Mar 2001, Szabolcs Szakacsits wrote: > > On Thu, 29 Mar 2001, Dr. Michael Weller wrote: > > On Wed, 28 Mar 2001, Andreas Dilger wrote: > > > Szaka writes: > > > > And every time the SIGDANGER comes up, the issue that AIX provides > > > > *both* early and late allocation mechanism even

Re: Linux connectivity trashed.

2001-03-29 Thread J . A . Magallon
On 03.29 Richard B. Johnson wrote: > > The penetration occurred because somebody changed our firewall > configuration > so that all of the non-DHCP addresses, i.e., all the real IP addresses had > complete > connectivity to the outside world. This meant that every Linux and Sun > Workstation >

Re: diskette change problems

2001-03-29 Thread Lech Szychowski
> I put a write-protected diskette into fd0 > cat /dev/zero > /dev/fd0: readonly filesystem > then removed dikette, switched the plastic nibble > reinserted diskette > cat /dev/zero > /dev/fd0 : readonly filesystem Are you sure your FDD correctly recognizes media changes? Is there anything like "

Re: RFC: configuring net interfaces

2001-03-29 Thread Paul Fulghum
> > Parameters for retransmission of a trame specified in Q922. t200 is the > > timeout value and n200 the maximal number of retransmissions. They can > > be negocied and default to t200=1,5s, n200=3. > > Hmm... I've taken a look at it, but it seems to me that they are only > used with "acknowled

Re: max ip_conntrack entries

2001-03-29 Thread Rusty Russell
In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> you write: > > is there a way to dynamically change the limit : kernel: ip_conntrack: > maximum limit of 16384 entries exceeded ? echo 32768 > /proc/net/ipv4/ip_conntrack_max Don't increase it too much, or your efficiency will go out the window (the hash table siz

Re: 386 'ls' gets SIGILL iff /proc is mounted

2001-03-29 Thread Eric Buddington
On Wed, Mar 28, 2001 at 10:09:11AM -0800, Ulrich Drepper wrote: > Eric Buddington <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > OK. Context again (since I clipped preceding notes): 386SX/20 nfsroot, > > getting SIGILL on lots of processes, math emulation is enabled, ls and > > glibc were compiled with '-marc

2.4 on COMPQ Proliant

2001-03-29 Thread Butter, Frank
Has anyone experiences with 2.4.x on recent Compaq Proliant Servers (e.g. ML570)? I've installed RedHat7 and it worked fine out of the box. Except that the SMP-enabled kernel stated there was no SMP-board detected ;-/ For some reasons (Fibrechannel drivers and so on) I've compiled 2.4.2 and inst

Proposed changes to isofs driver

2001-03-29 Thread Andreas Eckleder
Hello, playing with RockRidge extensions recently I found two issues with the current implementation of the linux kernel's rockridge reading code: a) when a SL field describing part of a symbolic link only contains a single root component and the rest of the link is continued in the followi

Re: Multicast and IP-conntrack problem

2001-03-29 Thread Rusty Russell
In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> you write: > Hi! > > I'm having some problems with ip-connection tracking and multicast packets: > the conntrack stuff doesn't seem to be able to handle multicast packets, > flooding my logs with messages like these: > > Feb 28 15:53:00 procyon kernel: NAT: 0 dropp

Re: OOM killer???

2001-03-29 Thread David Konerding
I would tend to agree, I'm not a fan of the OOM killer's behavior. The OOM is forced because of the policy of overcommitting of memory. The reason for that policy is based on an observation: many programs allocate far more memory than they ever use, and most people don't want their program to cr

Solved with MTRR was: ISSUE: very slow (factor 100) 4-way 16GByte server, with 2.4.2

2001-03-29 Thread Robert Suetterlin
Thanks everyone, especially David, for explaining the MTRR problem to me in detail. I could get the machine to work nicely by mapping all memory in MTRRs. There are only two corrections I would like to make to Davids eMail: > # cat >/proc/mtrr > disable=2 > disable=3 > disable=4 > disab

Re: Linux Kernel IRC Room?

2001-03-29 Thread Kurt Roeckx
On Wed, Mar 28, 2001 at 08:37:49PM -0500, Alexander Valys wrote: > Is there a kernel development irc room anywhere? If not, does anyone think > it might be useful? I'd just like to point out that it's called a channel, not a room. Room is a term introduced by AOL, and I don't think it has much

Re: opl3sa2 in 2.4.2 on Toshiba Tecra 8000

2001-03-29 Thread Bill Nottingham
Klaus Reimer ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) said: > 2001-03-29 10:02:50.054774500 {kern|info} kernel: ad1848/cs4248 codec driver > Copyright (C) by Hannu Savolainen 1993-1996 > 2001-03-29 10:02:50.070692500 {kern|notice} kernel: opl3sa2: No cards found > 2001-03-29 10:02:50.070703500 {kern|notice} kernel:

Re: Solved with MTRR was: ISSUE: very slow (factor 100) 4-way 16GByte server, with 2.4.2

2001-03-29 Thread David Wragg
Robert Suetterlin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > 2. I was not allowed to do `base=0 size=0x4 > type=write-back`, because of the overlap with the memory range at > base=0x0fb00. /proc/mtrr does allow overlapping regions in some cases, but the conditions turned out to be stricter than I

WG: 2.4 on COMPQ Proliant

2001-03-29 Thread Butter, Frank
2.2.16 claimes to find a ncr53c1510D-chipset, supported by the driver ncr53c8xx. Which kernel-param would be the correct one for this? Frank > -Ursprüngliche Nachricht- > Von: Butter, Frank > Gesendet: Donnerstag, 29. März 2001 17:11 > An: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' > Betreff: 2.4 on COMPQ Pr

[OOPS] 2.2.19 USB and Digianswer/Tektronix sniffer

2001-03-29 Thread Dave Airlie
when boot Linux 2.2.19 with a Digianswer Bluetooth Sniffer plugged into the USB I get the following oops ... I know the device isn't supported but I'd like to be able to leave it plugged in without oopsen between Linux/Windows.. Regards, Dave. ksymoops 0.7c on i686 2.2.19. Options used

Re: OOPS: reiserfs, 2.4.2-ac26 SMP

2001-03-29 Thread Elmer Joandi
Chris Mason wrote: > > Most likely compiled with redhat gcc 2.96. Please upgrade to their latest, > or use kgcc. Ok, after 1. upgrading redhat gcc 2. applying that BKL in vmtruncate minipatch now it copies about 50MB before cp gets stuck on do_journal 2.4.0 with reiserfs patch and r

Re: [OOPS] 2.2.19 USB and Digianswer/Tektronix sniffer

2001-03-29 Thread Dave Airlie
And of course the olibgatory self-followup... usb-uhci.c: USB UHCI at I/O 0x1080, IRQ 9 usb-uhci.c: Detected 2 ports usb.c: new USB bus registered, assigned bus number 1 usb.c: USB new device connect, assigned device number 1 hub.c: USB hub found hub.c: 2 ports detected usb.c: USB new device con

Re: Newbie to Kernel Development

2001-03-29 Thread Guennadi Liakhovetski
On Thu, 29 Mar 2001, George Wright wrote: > Hi all, > > I am a newbie to Linux Kernel Development, with a very basic knowledge of C, ...and there is a kernel-newbies mailing list: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Kernelnewbies: Help each other learn about the Linux kernel. > Archive: http://mail.nl.

Re: OOM killer???

2001-03-29 Thread Szabolcs Szakacsits
On Thu, 29 Mar 2001, Dr. Michael Weller wrote: > On Thu, 29 Mar 2001, Szabolcs Szakacsits wrote: > > The point is AIX *can* guarantee [even for an ordinary process] that > > your signal handler will be executed, Linux can *not*. It doesn't matter > No it can't... and the reason is... So AIX is b

Re: OOM killer???

2001-03-29 Thread Jesse Pollard
Guest section DW <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > On Thu, Mar 29, 2001 at 01:02:38PM +0100, Sean Hunter wrote: > > > The reason the aero engineers don't need to select a passanger to throw out > > when the plane is overloaded is simply that the plane operators do not allow > > the plane to become overlo

Re: opl3sa2 in 2.4.2 on Toshiba Tecra 8000

2001-03-29 Thread Bill Nottingham
Klaus Reimer ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) said: > If I am doing this, I can't even load the module and I get the following > message in syslog: > > 2001-03-29 18:13:14.184156500 {kern|err} kernel: opl3sa2: Control I/O port > 0x0 not free > > What is that "control i/o port"? Is this normally 0x100? I

Re: 2.4.3-p8 pci_fixup_vt8363 + ASUS A7V "Optimal" = IDE disk corruption

2001-03-29 Thread Arjan van de Ven
On Wed, Mar 28, 2001 at 09:29:46PM -0800, Wayne Whitney wrote: > I'm running kernel 2.4.3-pre8 on an ASUS A7V (BIOS 1007) motherboard and > recently noticed that it sometimes corrupts my hard disk, an IBM 75GXP on > the onboard PDC20265 IDE controller. The corruption is detectable with a > simpl

Re: Linux connectivity trashed.

2001-03-29 Thread Jesse Pollard
"J . A . Magallon" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > On 03.29 Richard B. Johnson wrote: > > > > The penetration occurred because somebody changed our firewall > > configuration > > so that all of the non-DHCP addresses, i.e., all the real IP addresses had > > complete > > connectivity to the outside world.

Re: menuconfig snafu?

2001-03-29 Thread Dennis
At 05:35 PM 03/28/2001, Steve VanDevender wrote: >Dennis writes: > > I KNOW this..my point is that menuconfig is not intuitive in providing > the > > choices. > >Linux kernel configuration isn't intuitive. menuconfig isn't there to >handhold newbies through the process. Arguing that something

Re: opl3sa2 in 2.4.2 on Toshiba Tecra 8000

2001-03-29 Thread Klaus Reimer
Hi, > > 2001-03-29 10:02:50.054774500 {kern|info} kernel: ad1848/cs4248 codec > > driver Copyright (C) by Hannu Savolainen 1993-1996 > > 2001-03-29 10:02:50.070692500 {kern|notice} kernel: opl3sa2: No cards > > found 2001-03-29 10:02:50.070703500 {kern|notice} kernel: opl3sa2: 0 PnP > > card(s) f

Re: OOM killer???

2001-03-29 Thread Szabolcs Szakacsits
On Thu, 29 Mar 2001, Dr. Michael Weller wrote: > Applications forking and then dirtying their shared data pages > madly? OOps.. nothing.. Why? It cannot be done! In eager mode Solaris, Tru64, Irix, non-overcommit patch for Linux by Eduardo Horvath from last year can do (you get ENOMEM at fork).

Re: kernel apm code

2001-03-29 Thread John Fremlin
David Balazic <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > John Fremlin wrote: [...] > > > To implement off-button you only need the APM_IOC_REJECT ioctl and > > > > The problem on my computer with my (re)implementation of > > APM_IOC_REJECT is that the screen goes into powersaving when the user > > suspend

rate limiting error messages

2001-03-29 Thread Eli Carter
Can someone point me to a "standard way" of doing rate limiting of error messages in the kernel? TIA, Eli ---. Rule of Accuracy: When working toward Eli Carter |the solution of a problem, it always eli.carter(at)inet.com `--

Re: Linux connectivity trashed.

2001-03-29 Thread John Jasen
On Thu, 29 Mar 2001, Richard B. Johnson wrote: >snipped< First mistake: your security administrator relied on the firewall for protection. It is an _aid_ to security; not the 'be all and end all'. IOW, the hosts weren't hardened to resist penetration in case the firewall didn't cover it.

Re: Disturbing news..

2001-03-29 Thread Jesse Pollard
Walter Hofmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > On Wed, 28 Mar 2001, Jesse Pollard wrote: [snip] > > Now, if ELF were to be modified, I'd just add a segment checksum > > for each segment, then put the checksum in the ELF header as well as > > in the/a segment header just to make things harder. At exec time

Re: [OT] fb programming documentation

2001-03-29 Thread James Simmons
Take a look at http://linux-fbdev.sourceforge.net and are mailing is [EMAIL PROTECTED] If you go to the web site you will see a link to join the mailing list. MS: (n) 1. A debilitating and surprisingly widespread affliction that renders the sufferer barely able to perform the simplest task. 2.

At Last, Herbal V, the all Natural Alternative!

2001-03-29 Thread HV
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Re: [WISHLIST] Addition of suspend patch into 2.5?

2001-03-29 Thread Shawn Starr
Not only for laptops :) It's nice for PCs too also. On Thu, 29 Mar 2001, Robert-Velisav MICIOVICI wrote: > > Just a small adition to the 2.5 whislist: > Is "hibernation" on linux possible? Ideally it should write out on the / > running on ext2fs and the new journaling fs's like reiserfs, xfs,

Re: OOM killer???

2001-03-29 Thread Stephen Satchell
At 07:41 AM 3/29/01 -0800, David Konerding wrote: >Now, if you're going to implement OOM, when it is absolutely necessary, at >the very >least, move the policy implementation out of the kernel. One of the general >philosophies of Linux has been to move policy out of the kernel. In this >case,

Re: rate limiting error messages

2001-03-29 Thread Khalid Aziz
Eli Carter wrote: > > Can someone point me to a "standard way" of doing rate limiting of error > messages in the kernel? > > TIA, > > Eli > ---. Rule of Accuracy: When working toward > Eli Carter |the solution of a problem, it always > eli.c

[ANNOUNCE] Linux Trace Toolkit 0.9.5pre1

2001-03-29 Thread Karim Yaghmour
LTT 0.9.5pre1 is out. As the name says, this is a development version and should be treated as such. Only one kernel is supported with 0.9.5pre1, linux 2.4.0-test10. What it includes: -Cross-platform reading capability submitted by Andy Lowe -Visualizer enhancements submitted by Rocky Craig -Pa

Panic after using bonding driver

2001-03-29 Thread Jeff Golds
I have been working on a driver similar to the bonding driver and have come across a bug in the bonding driver code. When the bonding driver enslaves a device, it modifies the slave's multicast list to be the master's multicast list. Later, after the master is downed, the kernel gets a panic if

Re: question on ip_masq_irc.c

2001-03-29 Thread S. Shore
On Thu, 29 Mar 2001, Deja User wrote: > I am working on a NAT product and trying provide mIRC support in it. I am looking >into ip_masq_irc.c file of Linux 2.2.12 for reference, and have some doubts. > 1. In 2.2.12 ip_masq_irc.c, DCC RESUME protocol is not supported. In which patch can >I find i

Re: OOM killer???

2001-03-29 Thread David Lang
one of the key places where the memory is 'allocated' but not used is in the copy on write conditions (fork, clone, etc) most of the time very little of the 'duplicate' memory is ever changed (in fact most of the time the program that forks then executes some other program) on a lot of production

Re: 2.4.3-p8 pci_fixup_vt8363 + ASUS A7V "Optimal" = IDE diskcorruption

2001-03-29 Thread Wayne Whitney
On 29 Mar 2001, Juan Quintela wrote: > Hi I have the same motherboard and BIOS version. I was having > filesystem corruption. There is a bugfix (from Arjan van der Ven) in > the ac tree (around ac20 I think), could you test the last ac patch > and test if the filesystem corruption persist?? I

Re: opl3sa2 in 2.4.2 on Toshiba Tecra 8000

2001-03-29 Thread Klaus Reimer
Hi, > > modprobe opl3sa2 io=0x538 mss_io=0x530 mpu_io=0x330 irq=5 dma=1 dma2=0 > > isapnp=0 > It would be what you put in the io= parameter. 0x538 does *not* look > right. These are the sound-settings in the BIOS: WSS I/O: 0x530 SBPro I/O: 0x220 Synth I/O: 0x388 IRQ: 5 WSS (Play) DMA: 1 WSS (Re

Bug in the file attributes ?

2001-03-29 Thread Xavier Ordoquy
Hi, I just made a manipulation that disturbs me. So I'm asking whether it's a bug or a features. user> su root> echo "test" > test root> ls -l -rw-r--r-- 1 root root5 Mar 29 19:14 test root> exit user> rm test rm: remove write-protected file `test'? y user> ls test ls: test: N

Re: opl3sa2 in 2.4.2 on Toshiba Tecra 8000

2001-03-29 Thread Bill Nottingham
Klaus Reimer ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) said: > Hi, > > > > modprobe opl3sa2 io=0x538 mss_io=0x530 mpu_io=0x330 irq=5 dma=1 dma2=0 > > > isapnp=0 > > It would be what you put in the io= parameter. 0x538 does *not* look > > right. > > These are the sound-settings in the BIOS: > > WSS I/O: 0x530 > SBPr

RE: Incorrect mdelay() results on Power Managed Machines x86

2001-03-29 Thread Woller, Thomas
i talked with Keith Frechette at IBM, he is in charge of Linux for IBM. he indicated that they are working issues with INTEL speedstep and Linux for their newer laptops, albeit not at a swift pace. he will probably contact the linux community at some point to help solve issues with SpeedStep, bu

Re: Bug in the file attributes ?

2001-03-29 Thread Stephen Clouse
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Thu, Mar 29, 2001 at 08:20:32PM +, Xavier Ordoquy wrote: > This is in the user home directory. > Since the file is read only for the user, it should not be able to remove > it. Moreover, the user can't write to test. > So I think this is a bug.

Re: Bug in the file attributes ?

2001-03-29 Thread Justin Carlson
On Thu, 29 Mar 2001, Xavier Ordoquy wrote: > Hi, > > I just made a manipulation that disturbs me. So I'm asking whether it's a > bug or a features. > > user> su > root> echo "test" > test > root> ls -l > -rw-r--r-- 1 root root5 Mar 29 19:14 test > root> exit > user> rm test > r

Re: Bug in the file attributes ?

2001-03-29 Thread Xavier Ordoquy
OK, thanks for the answer. I've spoken to a few people before and they hadn't heard about it. Since once upon the time on a solaris system I've had a root file that I couldn't remove even if I hold the rights of the directory. This is why I figured out this was a bug. Anyway, thanks for that. -

Re: Bug in the file attributes ?

2001-03-29 Thread Andreas Dilger
Xavier Ordoquy writes: > I just made a manipulation that disturbs me. So I'm asking whether it's a > bug or a features. > > user> su > root> echo "test" > test > root> ls -l > -rw-r--r-- 1 root root5 Mar 29 19:14 test > root> exit > user> rm test > rm: remove write-protected fil

insmod message explanation

2001-03-29 Thread clock
insmod g_NCR5380 ncr_addr=0xcc000 ncr_irq=255 ncr_53c400a=1 Using /lib/modules/2.2.19/scsi/g_NCR5380.o scsi : 0 hosts. /lib/modules/2.2.19/scsi/g_NCR5380.o: init_module: Device or resource busy Hint: this error can be caused by incorrect module parameters, including invalid IO or IRQ parameters

Re: Linux connectivity trashed.

2001-03-29 Thread Doug Ledford
John Jasen wrote: > > On Thu, 29 Mar 2001, Richard B. Johnson wrote: > > >snipped< >more snippage< > In short, your security administrator needs to be dragged out, shot, and > left hanging by the front door as a warning to his replacement. > > Or, at least fired. That, or have all the Unix u

Re: Bug in the file attributes ?

2001-03-29 Thread John Jasen
On Thu, 29 Mar 2001, Xavier Ordoquy wrote: > OK, thanks for the answer. > I've spoken to a few people before and they hadn't heard about it. > Since once upon the time on a solaris system I've had a root file that I > couldn't remove even if I hold the rights of the directory. > This is why I fig

Mount locks on bad ISO image?

2001-03-29 Thread Aaron Lunansky
I tried mounting a file as an ISO image (turns out it was corrupted) - after running mount file.iso /cdrom -o loop mount hung and did not respond.. I could not ^Z it into the background, or kill, or kill -9 it... I'm certain that I have ISO and loopback support compiled into my kernel. Anyone kn

Re: opl3sa2 in 2.4.2 on Toshiba Tecra 8000

2001-03-29 Thread Klaus Reimer
Hi, > > Control I/O: 0x538 > > MPU I/O: 0x330 > Hm, OK, then never mind. :) I don't have an opl3sa2 here to test > how well the current driver works. I have the feeling that there is going something wrong with the parameters. I modified the opl3sa2 driver and manually set the hw_config->io_base

Re: Bug in the file attributes ?

2001-03-29 Thread Jesse Pollard
- Received message begins Here - > > > Hi, > > I just made a manipulation that disturbs me. So I'm asking whether it's a > bug or a features. > > user> su > root> echo "test" > test > root> ls -l > -rw-r--r-- 1 root root5 Mar 29 19:14 test > root> exit > us

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