Re: Version 6.1.6 of the aic7xxx driver availalbe

2001-03-31 Thread Peter Enderborg
I upgraded to 2.4.3 from 2.4.1 today and I get a lot of recovery on the scsi bus. I also upgraded to the "latest" aic7xxx driver but still the sam problems. A typical revery in my logs. Mar 31 09:34:35 pescadero kernel: scsi0:0:4:0: Attempting to queue an ABORT message Mar 31 09:34:35 pescadero ke

Re: How to compile linux 0.0.0.1?

2001-03-31 Thread Drew Bertola
Alan Olsen writes: > On Fri, 30 Mar 2001, Bruno Avila wrote: > > >I can't find this anywhere. What is the version of the tools to > > compile linux kernel 0.0.0.1 (../Historic)? And where can i find them? > > Well, first you have to find a good source of obsidean, a couple of sharp > roc

Minor 2.4.3 Adaptec Driver Problems

2001-03-31 Thread Earle Nietzel
I just got 2.4.3 up a running (on Abit BP6 Dual Celeron ) and it reorderd my SCSI id's. Take a look. I don't like that my ZIP drive becomes sda because if I ever remove it then I'll @#$% my harddrive dev mappings again and have to change them again. Adaptec Driver 6.1.5 :-( <2.4.3 Detected scsi d

MTRR on AMD THUNDERBIRD

2001-03-31 Thread Stephen E. Clark
Anyone know the status of mtrr the AMD Thunderbird? It does not seem to work for me anymore. cat /proc/mtrr reg00: base=0x ( 0MB), size=16711936MB: write-back, count=1 joker:/ # echo "base=0xd400 size=0x200 type=write-combining" >| /proc/mtrr joker:/ # cat /proc/mtrr reg00: bas

IDE Disk Corruption with 2.4.3 / NOT with AC kernels

2001-03-31 Thread Karl Heinz Kremer
I run into some major disk corruptions on my IDE disk with the new 2.4.3 kernel version. I did see the same corruptions with 2.4.2 - but back then I blamed reiserfs and went back to 2.4.1. Now I did some more testing and found out that the Alan Cox series of kernel patches does not show these pr

add-single-device won't work in 2.4.3

2001-03-31 Thread Armin Obersteiner
hi! as in the subject, yesterday i upgraded to 2.4.3 (plain, no patches). add-single-device/del-single-device did not work anymore. tried with: controller: adaptec-19160 device: yamaha-4260 MfG, Armin Obersteiner -- [EMAIL PROTECTED]pgp public key on request

Re: pcnet32 (maybe more) hosed in 2.4.3

2001-03-31 Thread Szabolcs Szakacsits
On Fri, 30 Mar 2001, Scott G. Miller wrote: > Linux 2.4.3, Debian Woody. 2.4.2 works without problems. However, in > 2.4.3, pcnet32 loads, gives an error message: 2.4.3 (and -ac's) are also broken as guest in VMWware due to the pcnet32 changes [doing 32 bit IO on 16 bit regs on the 79C970A co

Re: problem in drivers/block/Config.in (PATCH)

2001-03-31 Thread Pozsar Balazs
On Fri, Mar 30, 2001 at 10:17:08PM +0200, Herbert Rosmanith wrote: > > hi, > > I noticed that the option CONFIG_PARIDE_PARPORT will always be "y", > even if CONFIG_PARIDE_PARPORT="n". I checked with kernels 2.2.18 > and 2.2.19. > > the file responsible is "drivers/block/Config.in", around line

Re: [Linux-fbdev-devel] Re: fbcon slowness [was NTP on 2.4.2?]

2001-03-31 Thread Jamie Lokier
James Simmons wrote: > > > You have same toshiba satellite as me, right? > > > > Yes > > Is this the NeoMagic chipset? No, it's the Trident Cyber9525 -- Jamie - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo i

Re: MTRR on AMD THUNDERBIRD

2001-03-31 Thread davej
On Sat, 31 Mar 2001, Stephen E. Clark wrote: > Anyone know the status of mtrr the AMD Thunderbird? It does not seem to > work for me anymore. > reg00: base=0x ( 0MB), size=16711936MB: write-back, count=1 > Linux version 2.4.2-ac18 ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) (gcc version ^^^

Re: Recent problems with APM and XFree86-4.0.1

2001-03-31 Thread Jamie Lokier
Stephen Rothwell wrote: > > On that theme of power management with X problems, I have been having > > trouble with my laptop crashing when the lid is closed, instead of > > suspending as it used to. The laptop is a Toshiba Satellite 4070CDT. > > Can you please try adding > Option "NoPM" >

Re: Plans for 2.5

2001-03-31 Thread James Lewis Nance
On Fri, Mar 30, 2001 at 07:54:44PM -0800, Joel Jaeggli wrote: > On Thu, 29 Mar 2001, Hen, Shmulik wrote: > > 4) What is the time frame of releasing 2.5.x-final (or 2.6.x) ? > > wow that's jumping the gun a bit. But its easy to answer. It will come out about 1 year after whatever target date we

Re: Plans for 2.5

2001-03-31 Thread Lars Marowsky-Bree
On 2001-03-31T09:36:33, James Lewis Nance <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > > > 4) What is the time frame of releasing 2.5.x-final (or 2.6.x) ? > > wow that's jumping the gun a bit. > But its easy to answer. It will come out about 1 year after whatever > target date we initially set :-) Sorry, s/w

[PATCH] kmap performance

2001-03-31 Thread Mark Hemment
Hi, Two performance changes against 2.4.3. flush_all_zero_pkmaps() is guarding against a race which cannot happen, and thus hurting performance. It uses the atomic fetch-and-clear "ptep_get_and_clear()" operation, which is much stronger than needed. No-one has the page mapped, and cannot

Re: Version 6.1.6 of the aic7xxx driver availalbe

2001-03-31 Thread Justin T. Gibbs
>I upgraded to 2.4.3 from 2.4.1 today and I get a lot of recovery on the scsi >bus. >I also upgraded to the "latest" aic7xxx driver but still the sam problems. >A typical revery in my logs. Can you resend the recovery information after booting with "aic7xxx=verbose". This will provide more inform

Re: add-single-device won't work in 2.4.3

2001-03-31 Thread Justin T. Gibbs
>hi! > >as in the subject, yesterday i upgraded to 2.4.3 (plain, no patches). >add-single-device/del-single-device did not work anymore. > >tried with: > >controller: adaptec-19160 >device: yamaha-4260 Do you get any error messages? Does the problem persist with the latest driver? http://people

Re: Minor 2.4.3 Adaptec Driver Problems

2001-03-31 Thread Justin T. Gibbs
>I just got 2.4.3 up a running (on Abit BP6 Dual Celeron ) and >it reorderd my SCSI id's. Take a look. I don't like that my ZIP drive >becomes sda because if I ever remove it then I'll @#$% my harddrive dev >mappings again and have to change them again. Adaptec Driver 6.1.5 >:-( Upgrade to versio

Re: IP layer bug?

2001-03-31 Thread Oleg Drokin
Hello! On Fri, Mar 30, 2001 at 09:13:40PM +0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > >For now I workarounded it with filling skb->cb with zeroes before > >netif_rx(), > This is right. For another examples look into tunnels. Hm. But comment in linux/skbuff.h says: /* * This is the

Re: IP layer bug?

2001-03-31 Thread kuznet
Hello! > Hm. But comment in linux/skbuff.h says: The comment is about more difficult case: transmit path, where cb is used both by top level protocol and lower layers: f.e. TCP -> IP -> device. cb is dirty from the moment of skb creation in this case. Also, note that the second sentence in the

2.4.3 compile fail (conflicting types) - Alpha processor - init/main.c

2001-03-31 Thread Delbert Matlock
I didn't turn up a previous reference to this with a quick search in the mailing list archive, so here it goes. Compiling 2.4.3 on an Alpha processor system failed on 'init/main.c' with 'conflicting types' errors for 'pte_alloc' and 'pmd_alloc'. If I'm reading things right, it's a discrepency be

bug report: select on unconnected sockets

2001-03-31 Thread Radu Greab
Sorry if this is already known: on a RH 7.0 system with kernel 2.4.2 or 2.4.3, a select on an unconnected socket incorrectly says that the socket is ready for input and output. Of course, reading from the socket file descriptor returns -1 and errno is set to ENOTCONN as shown in the strace output

[PATCH] Possible SCSI + block-layer bugs

2001-03-31 Thread Mark Hemment
Hi, I've never seen these trigger, but they look theoretically possible. When processing the completion of a SCSI request in a bottom-half, __scsi_end_request() can find all the buffers associated with the request haven't been completed (ie. leftovers). One question is; can this ever happ

Re: bug report: select on unconnected sockets

2001-03-31 Thread john slee
On Sat, Mar 31, 2001 at 06:44:20PM +0300, Radu Greab wrote: > Sorry if this is already known: on a RH 7.0 system with kernel 2.4.2 > or 2.4.3, a select on an unconnected socket incorrectly says that the > socket is ready for input and output. Of course, reading from the socket > file descriptor re

Re: bug report: select on unconnected sockets

2001-03-31 Thread Radu Greab
On Sun, 1 Apr 2001 02:15 +1000, john slee wrote: > On Sat, Mar 31, 2001 at 06:44:20PM +0300, Radu Greab wrote: > > Sorry if this is already known: on a RH 7.0 system with kernel 2.4.2 > > or 2.4.3, a select on an unconnected socket incorrectly says that the > > socket is ready for input and ou

Re: Linux connectivity trashed.

2001-03-31 Thread John Kodis
On Thu, Mar 29, 2001 at 08:34:06AM -0500, Richard B. Johnson wrote: > So, now I hooked up my lap-top, installed Windows and here I am. > Only windows machines are allowed to access the outside world. That is a shame. I can think of two things that might be of use under these circumstances:

Re: Matrox G400 Dualhead

2001-03-31 Thread J Brook
> I have a similar problem with my G450, booting into the framebuffer, > then loading xdm and working in X, and then switching back to the > console. I may have another detail to add in that when I switch back > to the console from X, my monitor blanks and displays the warning > that the frequen

using ioctls (was: RE: Larger dev_t)

2001-03-31 Thread Dunlap, Randy
Hi- Tangential question (I think). Not for an IOCTL request 8;) [as the JFS request last week]. [When] is it OK to use (new) IOCTLs vs. using procfs read/write? And are there some alternative methods besides these two? Thanks, ~Randy > -Original Message- > From: Linus Torvalds [mai

Re: add-single-device won't work in 2.4.3

2001-03-31 Thread Douglas Gilbert
Armin, It works for me: $ uname -a Linux frig 2.4.3 #1 Fri Mar 30 16:33:45 EST 2001 i586 unknown $ cat /proc/scsi/scsi Attached devices: Host: scsi1 Channel: 00 Id: 01 Lun: 00 Vendor: IBM Model: DNES-309170W Rev: SA30 Type: Direct-AccessANSI SCSI revision: 03

Re: VIA IDE driver status ?

2001-03-31 Thread Glenn C. Hofmann
I am not sure if this applies in your case, but I was getting problems such as this on my Abit KT7-RAID and had the correct cables, also. One day, on a hunch after reading a post from Alan about overclocking, I took my Athlon 750 down to 850 from 1.05 GHz and all is working great now. If your ov

Re: VIA IDE driver status ?

2001-03-31 Thread Frédéric L. W. Meunier
I'm not overclocking. It's an ASUS A7Pro with Athlon 1000. I had the same problem with an ASUS K7V with Athlon 700. But the processor died after my cooler failed for 20 minutes! BTW, how do I know if my cable is ATA100/ATA66, not only ATA66 ? The manual from the A7Pro says it supports both, but a

Re: udp <-> tcp connect

2001-03-31 Thread kuznet
Hello! > I want to bind to non-local IP and send/receive UDP packets. This is impossible, apparently. > but in tcp_v4_connect: > tmp = ip_route_connect(&rt, nexthop, sk->saddr, > RT_TOS(sk->ip_tos)|RTO_CONN|sk->localroute, sk->bound_dev_if); > ^^

Re: IDE Disk Corruption with 2.4.3 / NOT with AC kernels

2001-03-31 Thread Arjan Filius
Hello, I just got my first fs corruption too(2.4.3), but using reiserfs on LVM , and the volume group is also on IDE. Accessing some /usr/src/linux/... file my system "hang" or just rebooted. using reiserfsck "fixed" this for me. I'm using the Asus A7V board, but comparable chipset, with the at

Re: Minor 2.4.3 Adaptec Driver Problems

2001-03-31 Thread Earle Nietzel
> >I just got 2.4.3 up a running (on Abit BP6 Dual Celeron ) and > >it reorderd my SCSI id's. Take a look. I don't like that my ZIP drive > >becomes sda because if I ever remove it then I'll @#$% my harddrive dev > >mappings again and have to change them again. Adaptec Driver 6.1.5 > >:-( > > Upgr

epic100 aka smc etherpower II

2001-03-31 Thread Daniel Nofftz
hi! i can`t get my smc etherpower ii working with the 2.4.3 kernel. now i have downgraded to 2.4.2 and it works again ... does anyone have a suggestion, what the problem is ? daniel this are the interesting lines from /var/log/messages: during the bootup: (debugging enabled in the driver) Mar 3

Re: IDE Disk Corruption with 2.4.3 / NOT with AC kernels

2001-03-31 Thread Wayne Whitney
In mailing-lists.linux-kernel, you wrote: > I run into some major disk corruptions on my IDE disk with the new > 2.4.3 kernel version. [ . . . ] Now I did some more testing and found > out that the Alan Cox series of kernel patches does not show these > problems. Hmm, 2.4.2-ac28 and 2.4.3 have t

via busmaster driver

2001-03-31 Thread Daniel Nofftz
hi! when i enable the ultra dma 33 mode on my computer, the disk performance goes down by around 30 % compared to normal pio mode 4. is this a bug, or is there any solution to get this ultra dma working correctly ? this happens with 2.4.2 and 2.4.3 ... i have a shuttle hot-603 motherboard with th

ipx wont compile in 2.4.3

2001-03-31 Thread Stephen Crowley
Trying to compile 2.4.3 with ipx support gives the following net/network.o(.data+0x3e48): undefined reference to sysctl_ipx_pprop_broadcasting' --Stephen - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info a

Question about SysRq

2001-03-31 Thread Boris Pisarcik
Hi. I managed fullowing situation: user with no ulimits will run script like this: #! /usr/bin/perl while (1) { fork(); }; on say tty2. The processes get created pretty fast. After a short while I supposed a single solution to this to kill all session by alt+sysrq+k, but nothing happened. Un

Re: OOPS: Resend - more info

2001-03-31 Thread Mircea Damian
?? -- Mircea Damian E-mails: [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] WebPage: http://taz.mania.k.ro/~dmircea/ - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html P

[speculation] Partitioning the kernel

2001-03-31 Thread Sandy Harris
I'm wondering whether we have or need a formalisation of how work might be divided in future kernels. The question I'm interested in is how the work gets split up among various components at different levels within a single box (not SMP with many at the same level, or various multi-box techniques

ipc/shm.c ifdef CONFIG_PROC_FS

2001-03-31 Thread Elmer Joandi
missing for line 73 at 2.4.0 - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/

Re: VIA IDE driver status ?

2001-03-31 Thread Glenn C. Hofmann
It should support both, to my knowledge (which is very limited, mind you). I also went out to the store and purchased a new cable, which made the driver recognize the cable correctly, whereas it did not before. I wonder if there is not a serious deficiency in the cables sent out with motherboard

Assumption in sym53c8xx.c failed

2001-03-31 Thread Christian Kurz
Hi, I'm currently running 2.4.2-ac28 and today I got a failing assumption in sym53c8xx.c. I'm not sure about the exact steps that I did to produce this error, but it must have been something like: cdparanoia -blank=all, then sending Ctrl+C to this process and after it's been killed cdparanoia -bl

Re: [speculation] Partitioning the kernel

2001-03-31 Thread Roger Larsson
On Saturday 31 March 2001 22:55, Sandy Harris wrote: > I'm wondering whether we have or need a formalisation of how work might be > divided in future kernels. > > The question I'm interested in is how the work gets split up among various > components at different levels within a single box (not SM

Re: How to compile linux 0.0.0.1?

2001-03-31 Thread Harald Arnesen
Leif Sawyer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Yeah, but then you have to find the buffalo and that gets > > hard. (Actually Linus used a carabou, but those are even > > harder to find...) > > Well, I remember back to 0.12ish and the Caribou around here > (Alaska) were plentiful then. Ah, those

Magik1 and pci=biosirq

2001-03-31 Thread loftwyr
I reported this a while back but no fix went into the 2.4.3 kernel so I thought I'd ask again. Is this just a problem waiting for a driver? Or have I missed a setting? I have the ALi Magick1 chipset and on boot (and in dmesg) I get the following messages: PCI: PCI BIOS revision 2.10 entry at 0x

Re: ipx wont compile in 2.4.3

2001-03-31 Thread Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo
Em Sat, Mar 31, 2001 at 01:55:23PM -0600, Stephen Crowley escreveu: > Trying to compile 2.4.3 with ipx support gives the following > > net/network.o(.data+0x3e48): undefined reference to sysctl_ipx_pprop_broadcasting' oops, Linus/David, can you please apply this? - Arnaldo --- linux-2.4.3/net/

[PATCH] 2.4.3 and SysRq over serial console

2001-03-31 Thread Tom Rini
Hello all. Without the attached patch, SysRq doesn't work over a serial console here. Has anyone else seen this problem? -- Tom Rini (TR1265) http://gate.crashing.org/~trini/ diff -Nru a/linux/drivers/char/n_tty.c b/linux/drivers/char/n_tty.c --- a/linux/drivers/char/n_tty.cSat Mar 3

Re: Matrox G400 Dualhead

2001-03-31 Thread Trevor Hemsley
On Sat, 31 Mar 2001 07:17:19, "Rafael E. Herrera" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > J Brook wrote: > > > > >With 2.4.2 it was working just fine. > > > > I have also noticed problems with the 2.4.3 release. I have a G450 > > 32Mb, that I use in single-head mode. The console framebuffer runs > > fine

tcgetattr fails in 2.4.3

2001-03-31 Thread jerry
ppp chat script stopped working under 2.4.3. I ran a program of my own that opens ttyS1 and it also fails on a tcgetattr with errno=5 (IO error). The ppp chat script and my program both work fine under 2.4.2 and older. jpd - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" i

Re: epic100 aka smc etherpower II

2001-03-31 Thread Arnd Bergmann
Daniel Nofftz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > i can`t get my smc etherpower ii working with the 2.4.3 kernel. > now i have downgraded to 2.4.2 and it works again ... > does anyone have a suggestion, what the problem is ? Looks to me like the problem I had in Febuary, see the thread "epic100 in curr

w9966cf v4l driver homepage

2001-03-31 Thread Jakob Kemi
The w9966cf webcam v4l driver now has a homepage: http://hem.fyristorg.com/mogul/w9966.html - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the F

oops in uhci.c running 2.4.2-ac28

2001-03-31 Thread Ketil Froyn
Hi. While running kernel 2.4.2-ac28, I switched on spinlock debugging and verbose BUG() reporting (I always use sysrq). Anyway, while running this I got an oops after about 2 or 3 minutes running, several times, exact same place each time, which I traced back to rh_int_timer_do(). This was in uhc

[BUG] smbfs: caching problems

2001-03-31 Thread Xuan Baldauf
Hello, there is something wrong with smbfs caching which makes my applications fail. The behaviour happens with linux-2.4.3-pre4 and linux-2.4.3-final. Consider following shell script: (where /mnt/n is a smbmounted smb share from a Win98SE box) router|/mnt/n/temp/smbfs> I=0; while test $I -lt 1

Loopback device hangs on mount command

2001-03-31 Thread Bill Rossi
[1.] Loopback device hangs on mount command. [2.] Mounting a loopback device hangs the process. Eg. Issuing losetup /dev/loop0 fsimg mount /dev/loop0 /mnt will hang at the mount command. The mount process cannot be killed, nor can the loopback device be destroyed with lo

KernelWiki Lives

2001-03-31 Thread Gary Lawrence Murphy
Out of the ashes arises a better KernelWiki, with more expressive power, more features, more pages and a _lot_ of work to be done to update all your excellent submissions to the new PhpWiki syntax ;) enjoy: http://kernelbook.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php -- Gary Lawrence Murphy <[EMAIL PROTEC

what is pci=biosirq

2001-03-31 Thread xcp
I have an ALi chipset motherboard that seems to function normally. K6-2 450, 256mb ram, 20gb ide fujitsu hard disk. Every time I boot up I get this unsettling message about PCI: No IRQ known for interrupt pin A of device 00:0f.0. Please try using pci=biosirq. It turns out that 00:0f.0 is my ALi

Re: Loopback device hangs on mount command

2001-03-31 Thread Jens Axboe
On Sat, Mar 31 2001, Bill Rossi wrote: > > [1.] Loopback device hangs on mount command. use 2.4.3, known and fixed bug -- Jens Axboe - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kern

Re: tmpfs in 2.4.3 and AC

2001-03-31 Thread Christoph Rohland
On Fri, 30 Mar 2001, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > tmpfs (or shmfs or whatever name you like) is still different in > official series (2.4.3) and in ac series. Its a kick in the ass for > multiboot, as offcial 2.4.3 does not recognise 'tmpfs' in fstab: > > shmfs /dev/shmtmpfs ... Use typ

Re: Loopback device hangs on mount command

2001-03-31 Thread Tom Sightler
> [1.] Loopback device hangs on mount command. > > [2.] Mounting a loopback device hangs the process. Eg. Issuing > > losetup /dev/loop0 fsimg > mount /dev/loop0 /mnt > > will hang at the mount command. The mount process cannot be > killed, nor can the loopback device be des

Re: Version 6.1.6 of the aic7xxx driver availalbe

2001-03-31 Thread Peter Enderborg
"Justin T. Gibbs" wrote: > >I upgraded to 2.4.3 from 2.4.1 today and I get a lot of recovery on the scsi > >bus. > >I also upgraded to the "latest" aic7xxx driver but still the sam problems. > >A typical revery in my logs. > > Can you resend the recovery information after booting with "aic7xxx=ve

Asus CUV4X-D, 2.4.3 crashes at boot

2001-03-31 Thread Simon Garner
Hi, I've compiled kernel 2.4.3 on the following RH7 system, and I'm now getting random crashes at boot, during IO-APIC initialisation. Random meaning that sometimes it boots fine, other times it doesn't, and it hangs in different places (but always around IO-APIC stuff). It almost always hangs af

"device or resource busy" - why??

2001-03-31 Thread Art Boulatov
Hi, could you please help me figure out why is that happenning: After succesfull pivot_root & chroot from initrd, I *do* unmount /initrd, (no directories, no mapped files...), but I can *not* free the memory: "blockdev --flushbufs /dev/rd/0" returns "BLKFLSBUF: Device or resource busy". --

Re: Version 6.1.6 of the aic7xxx driver availalbe

2001-03-31 Thread Justin T. Gibbs
>"Justin T. Gibbs" wrote: > >> >I upgraded to 2.4.3 from 2.4.1 today and I get a lot of recovery on the scs >i >> >bus. >> >I also upgraded to the "latest" aic7xxx driver but still the sam problems. >> >A typical revery in my logs. This really looks like you bus is not up to snuff. We timeout du

Re: Asus CUV4X-D, 2.4.3 crashes at boot

2001-03-31 Thread Allen Campbell
On Sun, Apr 01, 2001 at 04:15:38PM +1200, Simon Garner wrote: > Hi, > > I've compiled kernel 2.4.3 on the following RH7 system, and I'm now getting > random crashes at boot, during IO-APIC initialisation. Random meaning that > sometimes it boots fine, other times it doesn't, and it hangs in diffe

kernel compilation errors

2001-03-31 Thread Arc C.
Hello. I'm trying to compile new kernel 2.4.3 and I get some errors: yakov:/usr/src/linux$ make modules make[2]: Entering directory `/home/linux-2.4.3/drivers/block' gcc -D__KERNEL__ -I/home/linux-2.4.3/include -Wall -Wstrict-prototypes -O2 -fomi t-frame-pointer -fno-strict-aliasing -

Revised memory-management stuff (was: OOM killer)

2001-03-31 Thread Jonathan Morton
There's clearly been lots of discussion about OOM (and memory management in general) over the last week, so it looks like it's time to summarise it and work out the solution that's actually going to find it's way into the kernel. Issue 1: The OOM killer was activating too early. I have a

VIA 82C686 Audio Codec: Clicks

2001-03-31 Thread Harald Dunkel
Hi folks, Has anybody an idea how to get rid of the annoying clicks of the VIA 82C686 audio codec? Using xmms (just as an example) I get a click with each new track, when I move and release the track slider, etc. Even this echo -n "" >/dev/dsp produces a click. Regards Harri - To

Re: Revised memory-management stuff (was: OOM killer)

2001-03-31 Thread Gregory Maxwell
On Sat, Mar 31, 2001 at 10:03:28PM -0800, Jonathan Morton wrote: [snip] > Issue 3: > The OOM killer was frequently killing the "wrong" process. I have > developed an improved badness selector, and devised a possible means of > specifying "don't touch" PIDs at runtime. PID 1 is never select

Re: [PATCH for 2.5] preemptible kernel

2001-03-31 Thread george anzinger
Rusty Russell wrote: > > In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> you write: > > Here is an attempt at a possible version of synchronize_kernel() that > > should work on a preemptible kernel. I haven't tested it yet. > > It's close, but... > > Those who suggest that we don't do preemtion on SMP make thi