Config files for Compaq Presario 1800T Laptop

or Mach64 yet (correct me if it should work, and I'll keep trying). I can use the atyfb framebuffer driver in unaccellerated mode but not accellerated. Regards, Mike Crawford -- Michael D. Crawford GoingWare Inc. - Expert Software Development and Consulting http://www.goingware.com/ [E

Update to kernel test suite article

e to http://freshmeat.net and entered the word "stress" into the search box. Regards, Mike Crawford -- Michael D. Crawford GoingWare Inc. - Expert Software Development and Consulting http://www.goingware.com/ [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tilting at Windmills for a Better Tomorrow. - To unsub

"Why We Should All Test the New Linux Kernel" on Advogato

o say any Linux kernel developer would qualify for a membership. I hope you like what I have to say. Perhaps if you'd like to encourage a friend to test the kernel you could forward them the URL. Mike -- Michael D. Crawford GoingWare Inc. - Expert Software Development and Consulting http://www.g

Re: How to Power off with ACPI/APM?

27;s a shutdown program, but on slackware I think shutdown is a script and there's a halt binary with reboot symlinked to it. Mike -- Michael D. Crawford GoingWare Inc. - Expert Software Development and Consulting http://www.goingware.com/ [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tilting at Windmills for a Bet

You've Been Slashdotted

and give the clueless some clues on getting their new kernels working? They need help. Mike -- Michael D. Crawford GoingWare Inc. - Expert Software Development and Consulting http://www.goingware.com/ [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tilting at Windmills for a Better Tomorrow. - To unsubscribe from this l

Re: How to Power off with ACPI/APM?

le. CONFIG_PM=y CONFIG_ACPI=y CONFIG_APM=y # CONFIG_APM_IGNORE_USER_SUSPEND is not set # CONFIG_APM_DO_ENABLE is not set # CONFIG_APM_CPU_IDLE is not set # CONFIG_APM_DISPLAY_BLANK is not set # CONFIG_APM_RTC_IS_GMT is not set # CONFIG_APM_ALLOW_INTS is not set # CONFIG_APM_REAL_MODE_POWER_OFF is not

Re: How to Power off with ACPI/APM?

nks for the help. If you're in the neighborhood, stop by: http://linuxquality.sunsite.dk Mike -- Michael D. Crawford GoingWare Inc. - Expert Software Development and Consulting http://www.goingware.com/ [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tilting at Windmills for a Better Tomorrow. - To unsubscribe fr

Re: Change of policy for future 2.2 driver submissions

ng people should test, but I feel that having the testing done by people who know what they're getting into and have some guidance is a wiser course of action. If you're in the neighborhood, please stop by: http://linuxquality.sunsite.dk Mike -- Michael D. Crawford GoingWare Inc. -

Re: You've Been Slashdotted

posted the algorithm for calculating the URL to your nearest mirror on Slashdot. Maybe that'll help some Mike -- Michael D. Crawford GoingWare Inc. - Expert Software Development and Consulting http://www.goingware.com/ [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tilting at Windmills for a Better Tomorrow. - To u

Re: How to Power off with ACPI/APM?

off with smp enabled unless (as someone helpfully posted) you give this parameter in lilo or grub: apm=power-off While the SMP config option says APM doesn't work if you have SMP enabled (so I should have known), it would be helpful to mention that you can still power off this way. Mike -

Is your component's config help up-to-date?

ur current thinking? - Are any URL's or references to external doc given in the help correct? - Could you add any URL's or references to doc like HOWTOs that would be helpful? Yours, Mike -- Michael D. Crawford GoingWare Inc. - Expert Software Development and Consulting http://www.goingwa

DRI doesn't work on 2.4.0 but does on prerelease-ac5

G_DRM_R128=y # CONFIG_DRM_I810 is not set # CONFIG_DRM_MGA is not set If you want my whole .config file I could mail it in or post it on my website. Mike -- Michael D. Crawford GoingWare Inc. - Expert Software Development and Consulting http://www.goingware.com/ [EMAIL PROTECTED] Til

What test suites can you tell me about?

In some cases, the tests really do need to have some user input, like navigating around a 3D world or turning various rendering options on and off, but it's possible the tests could be extended to allow this input from a script (Python provides a nice way to bolt a script interpreter

Re: What test suites can you tell me about?

ted and updated version of that on the Linuxquality site. Regards, -- Michael D. Crawford GoingWare Inc. - Expert Software Development and Consulting http://www.goingware.com/ [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tilting at Windmills for a Better Tomorrow. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsu

ReL DRI doesn't work on 2.4.0 but does on prerelease-ac5

ources/XFree86-4.0.1/ Steven Walter ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) suggested that the incompatibility would be fixed by using a -ac version since 2.4.0. I built 2.4.0, but it didn't fix it, so given what Jeff said I guess this is a feature not a bug. Mike -- Michael D. Crawford GoingWare Inc

Re: [PATCH] typo in vesafb.c (against 2.4.0-ac3)

iting the file by hand to do what the patch does fixed the problem. Mike -- Michael D. Crawford GoingWare Inc. - Expert Software Development and Consulting http://www.goingware.com/ [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tilting at Windmills for a Better Tomorrow. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line &qu

Re: DRI doesn't work on 2.4.0 but does on prerelease-ac5

d that does more complex things than the mesa demos that I can test this with? Is my DRI really working? If not, any tips on getting it to do so? Mike -- Michael D. Crawford GoingWare Inc. - Expert Software Development and Consulting http://www.goingware.com/ [EMAIL PROTECTED] Til

Re: DRI doesn't work on 2.4.0 but does on prerelease-ac5

29 24 dc 0 24 0 r y . 8 8 8 0 0 16 8 16 16 16 16 0 0 None 0x2a 24 dc 0 24 0 r y . 8 8 8 0 0 16 8 16 16 16 16 0 0 None -- Michael D. Crawford GoingWare Inc. - Expert Software Development and Consulting http://www.goingware.com/ [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tilting at Windmills for a

Re: FS callback routines

esign of the BFS (_not_ "befs" as it is sometimes called) is explained in Practical File System Design with the Be File System by Dominic Giampolo, ISBN 1-55860-497-9. Dominic has since left Be and I understand works at Google now. -- Michael D. Crawford GoingWare Inc. - Exper

Article: Using test suites to test the new kernel

irectly at testing Linux itself. Links to five different packages with test suites are given. I'd appreciate hearing of any more that you know about. I also appreciate your comments on how I can improve the article. This is a first draft. Regards, Mike Crawford -- Michael D. Crawfor

Doc bug? Is Sangoma S514 PCI WAN card supported?

have to send the telephone man on top of a pole to drop me a line. How many wires into your building are required for frame relay to work? Can't seem to find _that_ anywhere, and this house isn't exactly in a place where the telco would have thought to plan for lots of extra capacity.

Can't compile shmem.c in 2.4.0-ac9

`/home/mike/Kernel/linux/mm' make[1]: *** [first_rule] Error 2 make[1]: Leaving directory `/home/mike/Kernel/linux/mm' make: *** [_dir_mm] Er Mike -- Michael D. Crawford GoingWare Inc. - Expert Software Development and Consulting http://www.goingware.com/ [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tilting at Wind

Re: Can't compile shmem.c in 2.4.0-ac9

My apologies I see this was already encountered and a patch submitted. 2.4.0-pre8 builds OK for me. Mike -- Michael D. Crawford GoingWare Inc. - Expert Software Development and Consulting http://www.goingware.com/ [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tilting at Windmills for a Better Tomorrow. - To

Where to get reiserfs-utils?

is a safe way to exercise the code. I don't have an extra partition handy to try it out on, and I don't want to use it on my real files yet. Thanks, Mike -- Michael D. Crawford GoingWare Inc. - Expert Software Development and Consulting http://www.goingware.com/ [EMAIL PROTECTED

Linux Quality Database Project

#x27;m not subscribed to the linux-kernel list, but will be reading it off an archive. Subscribing last spring filled my inbox so full that it overflowed /tmp on my hosting service when I ran elm). Regards, Michael D. Crawford GoingWare Inc. -Expert Software Development and Consulting http://www.g

ACPI: S5 failed in 2.4.0-test13-pre4

ard with AGP and DRM enabled in the kernel. The kernel is built for SMP but it's not an SMP motherboard. Mike Michael D. Crawford GoingWare Inc. - Expert Software Development and Consulting http://www.goingware.com/ [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tilting at Windmills for a Better Tomorrow. - To u

VM thrashing in test13-pre4 with Netscape

els more like something suddenly goes haywire. Mike -- Michael D. Crawford GoingWare Inc. - Expert Software Development and Consulting http://www.goingware.com/ [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tilting at Windmills for a Better Tomorrow. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-ke

How to power off with ACPI/APM?

#x27;ve got XFree86 4.0.1 on it with DRI working (and DRM and AGP enabled in the kernel) with a VIA chipset on the motherboard - I generally had little luck ever getting accellerated drivers to work under XFree86 3.x, but things went much better with 4. I get on the internet with the ppp_async module

OK to mount multiple FS in one dir?

before /dev/sda1, then if I give the command "umount /dev/sda5", sda1 is the one that gets unmounted rather than sda5, so it takes the most recently mounted filesystem rather than the one you specify. Michael D. Crawford GoingWare Inc. - Expert Software Development and Consulting htt

Linux Quality Database on Newsforge

article is at: Using Test Suites to Validate the Linux Kernel http://linuxquality.sunsite.dk/articles/testsuites/ Best, Michael D. Crawford GoingWare Inc. - Expert Software Development and Consulting http://www.goingware.com/ [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tilting at Windmills for a Better Tomorrow. -

"Why We Should All Test the New Linux Kernel" updated

e all kinds of weird things happen. Regards, Michael D. Crawford GoingWare Inc. - Expert Software Development and Consulting http://www.goingware.com [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tilting at Windmills for a Better Tomorrow. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel&quo

tulip works in 2.4.5 on Compaq Presario 1800T (was broken)

en quite a few emails from confused 1800T owners in the time I've had that page up, I think this will make things much easier. Regards, Michael D. Crawford GoingWare Inc. - Expert Software Development and Consulting http://www.goingware.com/ [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tilting at Windmills for a Bet

Win98 Setup ignores partition table, corrupts filesystems

ey work out. Note that Linux is more flexible about partitions and the 1024 cylinder limit, besides being able to use grub you could put your kernels in a small partition all by themselves that your sure is below and have your other partitions (/, /home etc.) crossing the boundary or above.