Re: scsi-cdrom lockup and ide-scsi problem (both EFS related)

2000-10-31 Thread Miles Lane
Jens Axboe wrote: > > On Tue, Oct 31 2000, Paul Jakma wrote: > > I have 2 problems related to reading IRIX EFS cd's. > > > > ---problem 1: > > > > mounting an EFS cd from my Yamaha CDR-4416S SCSI CDRW consistently > > causes a lockup when i try to read directory/file data from the CD. I > > o

Re: Linux-2.4.0-test10

2000-10-31 Thread Miles Lane
Linus, Were there no changes between test10-pre7 and test10? I notice you didn't send out a Changelist. The Changelists help me focus my testing. Thanks, Miles - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Please

2.4.0-test10 -- Problem reading VFAT formatted ORB drive.

2000-11-06 Thread Miles Lane
Hi, I have an ORB drive I am accessing using the usb-storage driver. I formatted the drive media last night using Windoze 98. The media was formatted as though it had one large partition, which is weird because I had previously partitioned the drive under Linux 2.4.0-test10 with several partitio

Re: 2.4.0-test10 -- Problem reading VFAT formatted ORB drive.

2000-11-06 Thread Miles Lane
Andries Brouwer wrote: > On Tue, Nov 07, 2000 at 12:43:43AM -0800, Miles Lane wrote: > > >> I have an ORB drive I am accessing using the usb-storage driver. >> I formatted the drive media last night using Windoze 98. The media >> was formatted as though it had on

Re: linux-2.4.0-test10 and X4.0.1 don't like each other on Libretto110CT

2000-11-07 Thread Miles Lane
You must upgrade to the latest release: 4.0.1e The fix for this problem went into 4.0.1d, but since you need to upgrade, you might as well get the latest code. Miles On Wed, 8 Nov 2000, David Luyer wrote: > > I'm having problems with X 4.0.1 and 2.4.0-test kernels on a Toshiba Libre

Re: patch: test12-pre7 cd stuff

2000-12-08 Thread Miles Lane
Hi Jens, I have tested your latest stuff (cd-2) with the CD that was causing problems before. The problems still occur. The CD plays fine, but I get the following errors in my /var/log/messages: Dec 8 06:05:29 agate kernel: hdc: packet command error: status=0x51 { DriveReady SeekComplete Erro

Bug in config scripts? Some FB console options not cleared when container options disabled.

2000-12-10 Thread Miles Lane
Hi, If I set these options using "make menuconfig": CONFIG_FB=y CONFIG_DUMMY_CONSOLE=y CONFIG_FB_VESA=y CONFIG_VIDEO_SELECT=y CONFIG_FBCON_ADVANCED=y CONFIG_FBCON_CFB8=y CONFIG_FBCON_CFB16=y CONFIG_FBCON_CFB24=y CONFIG_FBCON_CFB32=y CONFIG_FBCON_FONTS=y CONFIG_FONT_8x8=y CONFIG_FONT_8x16=y And,

2.4.0-test12-pre8 -- ohci1394.c:1588 In function `alloc_dma_rcv_ctx': structure has no member named `next'

2000-12-10 Thread Miles Lane
make[2]: Entering directory `/usr/src/linux/drivers/ieee1394' gcc -D__KERNEL__ -I/usr/src/linux/include -Wall -Wstrict-prototypes -O2 -fomit-frame-pointer -fno-strict-aliasing -pipe -march=i686 -DMODULE -DEXPORT_SYMTAB -c ohci1394.c ohci1394.c: In function `alloc_dma_rcv_ctx': ohci1394.c:1588:

Re: INIT_LIST_HEAD marco audit

2000-12-10 Thread Miles Lane
"Mohammad A. Haque" wrote: > > The follwing files probably need to be patched to use the > DECLARE_TASK_QUEUE() macro and new tq_struct, but I don't have time > right now to go through them. Would someone who knows what to do send out a patch for these two drivers? drivers/pcmcia/i82365

Re: how to capture long oops w/o having second machine

2000-12-12 Thread Miles Lane
Try reading: http://www.linuxhq.com/kernel/v2.3/doc/oops-tracing.txt.html It mentions: Patch the kernel with one of the crash dump patches. These save data to a floppy disk or video rom or a swap partition. None of these are standard kernel patches so you have to find

Will the large corporate contributors to Linux like IBM help us get more device specifications?

2000-12-14 Thread Miles Lane
Hi, There seems to be an ongoing need for a stronger relationship between the kernel development community and the various hardware vendors. Specifically, the current situation seems to often be that individuals from the community are banging on random doors and sending e-mail to support staff as

PCMCIA modem (v.90 X2) not working with 2.4.0-test12 PCMCIA services

2000-12-16 Thread Miles Lane
Hi, I have built my test12 kernel with the following options: CONFIG_PCMCIA=y CONFIG_CARDBUS=y CONFIG_I82365=y CONFIG_PNP=y CONFIG_ISAPNP=y CONFIG_PCMCIA_SERIAL=y CONFIG_PCMCIA_SERIAL_CS=m CONFIG_PCMCIA_SERIAL_CB=m I have the 3.1.22 version of David Hinds' PCMCIA installed. It didn't build th

2.4.0-test13-pre3: unresolved symbols in dsbr100.o, ibmcam.o and ov511.o

2000-12-18 Thread Miles Lane
depmod -ae -F System.map 2.4.0-test13-pre3 depmod: *** Unresolved symbols in /lib/modules/2.4.0-test13-pre3/kernel/drivers/usb/dsbr100.o depmod: video_register_device depmod: video_unregister_device depmod: *** Unresolved symbols in /lib/modules/2.4.0-test13-pre3/kernel/drivers/u

test13-pre4-ac2 -- The cardbus/pcmcia sockets no longer work with two devices present at boot time.

2000-12-27 Thread Miles Lane
When I boot with the following inserted: Socket 0: product info: "3Com Corporation", "3CCFE575BT", "LAN Cardbus Card", "001" manfid: 0x0101, 0x5157 function: 6 (network) Socket 1: product info: "PCMCIA ", "56K V.90 Fax Modem (LK) ", "FM560LK " manfid: 0x0175, 0x function:

test13-pre6 -- OOPS at boot time in kmem_cache_create (usb-ohci related)

2000-12-30 Thread Miles Lane
This OOPS occured at boot time when I did not have my Belkin BusPort Mobile USB host-controller inserted. /etc/usb/rc.usb tried loading usb-ohci. After the boot process completed (after the OOPS occured), I was unable to unload the module and lsmod showed that usb-ohci was still initializing. Pr

Prerelease kernel will not hotplug a USB host-controller when it is inserted into a Cardbus slot.

2001-01-03 Thread Miles Lane
Hi Linus and Co., I am writing to let you know that in all test12-pre6+ kernels, I get a "Bad PCI invocation" error when hotplug attempts to handle the insertion of a USB host-controller into a Cardbus slot. I am aware that you most likely will ship 2.4.0 anyway, but thought you should at least

Re: Prerelease kernel will not hotplug a USB host-controller when it isinserted into a Cardbus slot.

2001-01-03 Thread Miles Lane
David Brownell wrote: >> I am writing to let you know that in all test12-pre6+ kernels, >> I get a "Bad PCI invocation" error when hotplug attempts to >> handle the insertion of a USB host-controller into a Cardbus >> slot. > > > That's new info ... you'd previously thought that it wasn't even

Re: [patch] vmfixes-2.4.0-test9-B2 - fixing deadlocks

2000-09-24 Thread Miles Lane
bert hubert wrote: > On Mon, Sep 25, 2000 at 12:13:42AM +0200, Andrea Arcangeli wrote: > >> On Sun, Sep 24, 2000 at 10:43:03PM +0100, Stephen C. Tweedie wrote: >> >>> any form of serialisation on the quota file). This feels like rather >>> a lot of new and interesting deadlocks to be introduci

Re: Russell King forks ARM Linux.

2000-09-27 Thread Miles Lane
Well, this sucks. I am not sure how you both came to this impass, but it really is quite unacceptable. I think there are several problems here: No maintainer should cut off contribution from an entire company to a platform it intends to help support and implement. Usually these kin

Re: [patch] enabling APIC and NMI watchdog on UP systems

2000-09-28 Thread Miles Lane
Ingo, Can you please outline exactly what testers with UP machines need to do to build, set up, enable and debug using this new code? I have an Athlon 750MHz machine and a Pentium II laptop that I use for testing and I'd like to exercise some of the experimental VM code. I have gotten system

Re: [patch] enabling APIC and NMI watchdog on UP systems

2000-09-28 Thread Miles Lane
Ingo Molnar wrote: > if SysRq works then this is a 'soft lockup', and if you want to debug this > then you should capture the EIP values from RightAlt+ScrLk output, thats > the place where it locks up. The UP-NMI-oopser will not help. > > Ingo Cool. Is there anything else I need to kn

2.4.0-test9-pre8 -- Build failure when Athlon build is set to use SMP.

2000-10-01 Thread Miles Lane
Note that, yes, I ran make oldconfig and make clean before attempting to build the SMP version of the kernel. gcc -D__KERNEL__ -I/usr/src/linux/include -Wall -Wstrict-prototypes -O2 -fomit-frame-pointer -pipe -mpreferred-stack-boundary=2 -march=i686 -malign-functions=4 -fno-strict-aliasing

test9-pre8 -- Question: SMP not yet supported for Athlon systems?

2000-10-02 Thread Miles Lane
Hi, Yesterday I reported a problem compiling with SMP enabled for an Athlon-targetted kernel. I wonder whether this is because there are no Athlon SMP systems out there, yet? If so, then if the architecture selected is Athlon, the SMP option should not be available when configuring the kernel t

Re: [patch] APIC, NMI watchdog support on UP systems

2000-10-05 Thread Miles Lane
Ingo Molnar wrote: > the latest UP-APIC patch against 2.4.0-test9 (upapic-2.4.0-test9-F5), can > be downloaded from: > > http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/mingo/apic-patches/ > > this one should work on all systems - let me know how it behaves, reports, > suggestions welcome.

(OT -- Partition Magic for Linux?) Re: Newer motherboards / CPU's / hardware with Linux

2000-10-09 Thread Miles Lane
Andre Hedrick wrote: > They may be a way to test and create drive profiles that are stored and > reloaded to the kernel that will add the missing supercharge on Andrea's > elevator. Basically creating a physical LBA sector profile. > > Trust that this will be painful to create because this is

Re: [PATCH] drivers/usb/Config.in

2000-10-09 Thread Miles Lane
Matthew Dharm wrote: > > I'm not sure this is correct -- the options that this if conditional > controls are the Keyboard and Mouse _Boot_Protocol_ support, which is > separate form the regular HID support -- I believe it's for motherboards > which can boot from a USB keyboard. > > Can somone on

Re: [PATCH] drivers/usb/Config.in

2000-10-09 Thread Miles Lane
"Dunlap, Randy" wrote: > Then if you select USB HID support, that builds the hid driver, > which handles mice, keyboards, joysticks, gamepads, speaker > buttons, any-old-kind-of buttons, toaster buttons, etc. > > OTOH, if you want just some basic USB mouse & keyboard support, > you don't have

Re: [PATCH] VM fix for 2.4.0-test9 & OOM handler

2000-10-10 Thread Miles Lane
Olaf Titz wrote: > > > > Still, it would be nice to recover that 4 MB when the system > > > doesn't have any memory left. > > Yup. The X server could give back the memory for some cases like the > > background without too much hackery. > > Then Linux only needs to implement SIGDANGER, which has

2.4.0-test10-pre1 + APIC,NMI Watchdog (latest) -- OOPS -- Unable to handle null pointer dereference

2000-10-10 Thread Miles Lane
ksymoops 0.7c on i686 2.4.0-test10. Options used -V (default) -k /proc/ksyms (default) -l /proc/modules (default) -o /lib/modules/2.4.0-test10/ (default) -m /usr/src/linux/System.map (default) agate login: Unable to handle null pointer dereference at virtual address

Second attempt -- Re: 2.4.0-test10-pre1 + APIC,NMI Watchdog (latest) -- OOPS -- Unable to handle null pointer dereference

2000-10-11 Thread Miles Lane
Would someone please look at this and see what might be going wrong? Please tell me if additional information is needed. Thanks, Miles Miles Lane wrote: > > ksymoops 0.7c on i686 2.4.0-test10. Options used > -V (default) > -k /proc/ksyms (default) > -

Re: ide-scsi + /dev/dsp == solid lockup

2000-10-14 Thread Miles Lane
So do you wish to respond with an example that shows exactly how to set a bit? Miles Frank de Lange wrote: > > On Sat, Oct 14, 2000 at 08:58:38PM -0400, Leigh Orf wrote: > > > > Tried that. At least I think I did. Still hung. > > Your tweaking BYTES, not BITS here... > > > home[1008]

Re: Device Driver

2000-10-15 Thread Miles Lane
> On Mon, 16 Oct 2000 14:30:39 +1000, > "Mike McLeod" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >All of the code is open except for an image file that is loaded > >onto the card when the driver is installed that handles it's > >logic. From here, how do we begin the process of getting our > >drivers includ

Re: Device Driver

2000-10-15 Thread Miles Lane
Thanks, all, for the education. Sounds like I got this wrong. Miles Keith Owens wrote: > > On Sun, 15 Oct 2000 09:57:08 -0700, > Miles Lane <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> On Mon, 16 Oct 2000 14:30:39 +1000, > >> "Mike McLeod" <[EMAIL PR

2.4.2-ac15 -- Build fails in serial.c if CONFIG_SERIAL_CONSOLE is enabled.

2001-03-08 Thread Miles Lane
In serial.c, in function `wait_for_xmitr' at lines 5497 and 5666, `ASYNC_NO_FLOW' is undeclared. - 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

Re: [PATCH] Re: PCMCIA serial CardBus support vanished in2.4.3-pre3 and later

2001-03-20 Thread Miles Lane
On 20 Mar 2001 10:37:40 -0500, Jeff Garzik wrote: > On closer inspection, that patch I linked to appears to be incomplete. > > Can you try the attached patch, to see if it fixes the > absence-of-serial_cb problem? > > Thanks, > > Jeff > > > P.S. I'm surprised serial_cb in 2.4 worked at

Re: 2.4.3 aic7xxx wont compile

2001-03-30 Thread Miles Lane
"Justin T. Gibbs" wrote: > > >You cannot expect that all people will instantly start using the > >latest driver from your Web site, immediately. Especially considering > > I guess I expect people posting on LK to read it. There have been > announcements for all the driver versions on that list

Re: New directions for kernel development

2001-04-01 Thread Miles Lane
Linus Torvalds wrote: It's definitely time for you to show up on Saturday Night Live! You are one funny guy. :-) Happy April Fools Day. Miles - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at

Re: bug database braindump from the kernel summit

2001-04-01 Thread Miles Lane
David Lang wrote: > > On Sun, 1 Apr 2001, Larry McVoy wrote: > > when generating the auto bug reports make sure that the system tells the > user exactly what data is being sent. > > sending a large chunk of unknown data off the machine is a big concern to > many people. Yeah. This is a good p

Re: bug database braindump from the kernel summit

2001-04-01 Thread Miles Lane
Jeff Garzik wrote: > /proc/pci data alone with every bug report is usually invaluable. It > gives you a really good idea of the general layout of the system, and > you can often catch or become aware of related hardware characteristics > which I often see requests for the output of "lspci -vv

Re: 2.4 disk speed 66% slowdown...

2001-01-24 Thread Miles Lane
Benson Chow wrote: > Just as a datapoint, my Via IDE chipset (on atb850/kt133) and Promise > Ultra66 (on 2xpp200/82440FX/PIIX3) works fine with 2.4.0, getting speeds > about correct: > Model=QUANTUM FIREBALLP LM30, FwRev=A35.0700 > [snip. unused info cut] > tDMA={min:120,rec:120}, DMA mod

2.4.0-pre10 -- Unresolved symbols in smctr.o and comx.o

2001-01-26 Thread Miles Lane
depmod: *** Unresolved symbols in /lib/modules/2.4.1-pre10/kernel/drivers/net/tokenring/smctr.o depmod: __bad_udelay depmod: *** Unresolved symbols in /lib/modules/2.4.1-pre10/kernel/drivers/net/wan/comx.o depmod: proc_get_inode If you need more info, just ask. Miles - To

Re: Running "make install" runs lilo on my Athlon but not my Pentium II.

2001-01-26 Thread Miles Lane
Russell King wrote: > > Miles Lane writes: > > When I run "make install" on my Pentium II machine, lilo gets > > run after vmlinuz is built. When I do the same thing on my Athlon, > > vmlinuz gets built, but lilo does get run. > > Have you checked fo

2.4.1-pre11 -- Unresolved symbols in smctr.o and comx.o (fixed in Alan's tree).

2001-01-29 Thread Miles Lane
Hi Linus, Do you plan to take a patch from Alan that fixes this for 2.4.1? depmod: *** Unresolved symbols in /lib/modules/2.4.1-pre11/kernel/drivers/net/tokenring/smctr.o depmod: __bad_udelay depmod: *** Unresolved symbols in /lib/modules/2.4.1-pre11/kernel/drivers/net/wan/comx.o depmod:

IBM encryption chip support?

2001-01-30 Thread Miles Lane
Will this chip need any kernel support or will it just need to be supported in usermode? http://www.zdnet.com/zdnn/stories/news/0,4586,2680013,00.html?chkpt=zdnn_rt_latest - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Pleas

2.4.1 -- Unresolved symbols in radio-miropcm20.o

2001-01-30 Thread Miles Lane
depmod: *** Unresolved symbols in /lib/modules/2.4.1/kernel/drivers/media/radio/radio-miropcm20.o depmod: aci_write_cmd depmod: aci_indexed_cmd depmod: aci_write_cmd_d - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMA

OT: mount/umount doesn't track used resources correctly?

2001-01-30 Thread Miles Lane
I am having trouble removing the usbide module which enables me to access my USB external hard drive. I think the problem may be due to usermode tools not handling the new "mount multiple devices to a single mount point" feature, but I'm not sure. Here was my mount configuration for /dev/pda

Re: 2.4.1 -- Unresolved symbols in radio-miropcm20.o

2001-01-30 Thread Miles Lane
ea of competency. Thanks, Miles Keith Owens wrote: > > On Tue, 30 Jan 2001 13:08:12 -0800, > Miles Lane <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >depmod: *** Unresolved symbols in > >/lib/modules/2.4.1/kernel/drivers/media/radio/radio-miropcm20.o > >depmod:aci_write

Re: OT: mount/umount doesn't track used resources correctly?

2001-01-31 Thread Miles Lane
default listed in Documentation/Changes? Cheers, Miles Peter Samuelson wrote: > [Miles Lane] > >> I think the problem may be due to usermode tools not handling the new >> "mount multiple devices to a single mount point" feature, but I'm not >> sur

Re: did 2.4 messed up lilo?

2001-02-02 Thread Miles Lane
Chris Mason wrote: > > On Friday, February 02, 2001 03:36:18 PM -0500 [EMAIL PROTECTED] > wrote: > > > I'm not sure whether this problem is related > > to 2.4 kernel. > > > > I suspect it is a reiserfs problem, and that you are using lilo older than > 21.6. Are you mounting /boot with -o notai

Re: did 2.4 messed up lilo?

2001-02-02 Thread Miles Lane
Hmm. I just downloaded the lilo 21.6 source and the patch appears to have already been applied. I got 21.6 from: http://ftp.cnr.it/Linux/system/boot/lilo/lilo-21.6.1.tar.gz Miles Lane wrote: > > Chris Mason wrote: > > > > On Friday, February 02, 2001 03:36:

Adding PCMCIA support to the kernel tree -- developers needed.

2001-02-02 Thread Miles Lane
Hi, I asked David Hinds to write up an outline of the things that will be needed to get PCMCIA support cleanly and completely integrated into the kernel tree. David has expressed that he'll not be able to participate in this work. He has his hands full with his day job and his role as maintain

Re: Adding PCMCIA support to the kernel tree -- developers needed.

2001-02-03 Thread Miles Lane
Jeff Garzik wrote: > > On Fri, 2 Feb 2001, Miles Lane wrote: > > I asked David Hinds to write up an outline of the things that > > will be needed to get PCMCIA support cleanly and completely > > integrated into the kernel tree. > > > > David has expressed that

Re: Adding PCMCIA support to the kernel tree -- developers needed.

2001-02-04 Thread Miles Lane
As we look into developing PCMCIA support in the 2.4/2.5 kernel trees, in addition to reading the pcmcia-cs code to learn about problems with specific devices that need to be handled, David Hinds also a reference page that lists some a bunch of issues that are in varying degrees of resolution:

Re: [ANNOUNCE] Animated framebuffer logo for 2.4.1

2001-02-08 Thread Miles Lane
christophe barbe wrote: > Ok it seems not important to have a nice boot process but each time you show a linux >machine to a M$ normal user (normal = not a programmer) his first reaction is >something like ""what are all these strange output lines?". And it's the first thing >that keep Windows

Re: [ANNOUNCE] Animated framebuffer logo for 2.4.1

2001-02-09 Thread Miles Lane
Helge Hafting wrote: > christophe barbe wrote: > > >> Moreover there is no need to be ignorant. With LPP, messages are displayed during >the boot process and if something goes wrong an little picture inform you. And you >can switch to the classic console when you want (by a simple CTRL-ALT-F2

2.4.2-pre2 -- vesafb gives broken virtual terminals.

2001-02-09 Thread Miles Lane
I just gave 2.4.2-pre2 a spin on my laptop. This machine has a Neomagic MagicGraph 128XD (2160) video chip. My .config included: # # Console drivers # CONFIG_VGA_CONSOLE=y CONFIG_VIDEO_SELECT=y # # Frame-buffer support # CO

Re: [ANNOUNCE] Animated framebuffer logo for 2.4.1

2001-02-09 Thread Miles Lane
Werner Almesberger wrote: > Miles Lane wrote: > >> Since, as Christophe mentions, the boot messages would >> still be accessible via CTRL-ALT-F2, I don't see what >> the problem is with at least making this an option. > > > Except if some initializati

2.6.12-rc2-mm1 -- arch/i386/lib/mmx.c:374: error: conflicting types for `mmx_clear_page' include/asm/mmx.h:11: error: previous declaration of `mmx_clear_page' make[1]: *** [arch/i386/lib/mmx.o] Error 1

2005-04-05 Thread Miles Lane
arch/i386/lib/mmx.c:374: error: conflicting types for `mmx_clear_page' include/asm/mmx.h:11: error: previous declaration of `mmx_clear_page' make[1]: *** [arch/i386/lib/mmx.o] Error 1 CONFIG_X86_PC=y CONFIG_MK7=y CONFIG_X86_CMPXCHG=y CONFIG_X86_XADD=y CONFIG_X86_L1_CACHE_SHIFT=6 CONFIG_RWSEM_XCHGA

Re: Brown-paper-bag bug in m68k, sparc, and sparc64 config files

2001-05-19 Thread Miles Lane
On 19 May 2001 21:06:51 -0400, Benedict Bridgwater wrote: > > This bug unconditionally disables a configuration question -- and it's > > so old that it has propagated across three port files, without either > > of the people who did the cut and paste for the latter two noticing it. > > > > This so

Re: Brown-paper-bag bug in m68k, sparc, and sparc64 config files

2001-05-19 Thread Miles Lane
On 19 May 2001 21:06:51 -0400, Benedict Bridgwater wrote: > > This bug unconditionally disables a configuration question -- and it's > > so old that it has propagated across three port files, without either > > of the people who did the cut and paste for the latter two noticing it. > > > > This so

Re: Linux 2.4.4-ac12 -- fs/fs.o: In function `bm_register_write':undefined reference to `lookup_one'

2001-05-22 Thread Miles Lane
ld -m elf_i386 -T /usr/src/linux/arch/i386/vmlinux.lds -e stext arch/i386/kernel/head.o arch/i386/kernel/init_task.o init/main.o init/version.o \ --start-group \ arch/i386/kernel/kernel.o arch/i386/mm/mm.o kernel/kernel.o mm/mm.o fs/fs.o ipc/ipc.o \ drivers/char/char.o

"Nvidia takes a crack at PCs" -- Interesting article from ZDNet

2001-06-06 Thread Miles Lane
I noticed this article on ZDNet and wondered if any of the kernel developers might be able to get a prototype motherboard from NVidia in order to do early support work for this new chipset. It sounds like pretty interesting technology. --- Nvidia takes a crack at PCs By Ian Fri

Re: Break 2.4 VM in five easy steps

2001-06-06 Thread Miles Lane
On 06 Jun 2001 20:34:49 -0400, Mike A. Harris wrote: > On Wed, 6 Jun 2001, Derek Glidden wrote: > > >> Derek> overwhelmed. On the system I'm using to write this, with > >> Derek> 512MB of RAM and 512MB of swap, I run two copies of this > >> > >> Please see the following message on the kernel m

Re: Break 2.4 VM in five easy steps

2001-06-07 Thread Miles Lane
On 07 Jun 2001 11:49:47 -0400, Derek Glidden wrote: > Miles Lane wrote: > > > > So please, if you have new facts that you want to offer that > > will help us characterize and understand these VM issues better > > or discover new problems, feel free to share them.

Re: OOPS in 2.6.13-rc1-mm1 -- EIP is at sysfs_release+0x49/0xb0

2005-07-12 Thread Miles Lane
On Thu, 2005-07-07 at 20:31 +1000, Dave Airlie wrote: > On 7/3/05, Miles Lane <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > mtrr: base(0xe802) is not aligned on a size(0x3c) boundary > > [drm:drm_unlock] *ERROR* Process 4470 using kernel context 0 > > mtrr: 0xe800,

Re: OOPS in 2.6.13-rc1-mm1 -- EIP is at sysfs_release+0x49/0xb0

2005-07-13 Thread Miles Lane
On 7/13/05, Dave Airlie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Thanks Dave, > > > > I switched to the i915 kernel driver and still got the OOPS. > > I also continue to get the overlapping mtrr message. I am currently > > testing 2.6.13-rc2-git3. I have tried to run strace with hald, but > > cannot reprod

2.6.13-rc2-mm2 -- include/linux/mtd/xip.h:68:25: error: asm/mtd-xip.h: No such file or directory

2005-07-13 Thread Miles Lane
In file included from drivers/mtd/chips/cfi_probe.c:18: include/linux/mtd/xip.h:68:25: error: asm/mtd-xip.h: No such file or directory - 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.o

Re: OOPS in 2.6.13-rc1-mm1 -- EIP is at sysfs_release+0x49/0xb0

2005-07-07 Thread Miles Lane
m] removed 1 reserved context for kernel (II) I810(0): [drm] unmapping 8192 bytes of SAREA 0xf916e000 at 0xb7d38000 On 7/7/05, Dave Airlie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 7/3/05, Miles Lane <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > mtrr: base(0xe802) is not aligned on a size(0x3c0

Old ipw2200 code in 2.6.13-git3 and 2.6.13-mm1

2005-09-02 Thread Miles Lane
The most recent IPW2200 release is 1.0.6. Now we have: #define IPW2200_VERSION "1.0.0" in 2.6.13-git2. Here, the version of firmware is set to the last release: ipw2200.c:#define IPW_FW_MAJOR_VERSION 2 ipw2200.c:#define IPW_FW_MINOR_VERSION 2 The most recent firmware

2.6.24-rc7 -- WARNING: at kernel/lockdep.c:2662 check_flags()

2008-01-06 Thread Miles Lane
Is this an issue in the Totem code or in the kernel? Please, let me know if you need my .config file. [ 5446.835007] WARNING: at kernel/lockdep.c:2662 check_flags() [ 5446.835022] Pid: 6060, comm: totem-plugin-vi Not tainted 2.6.24-rc7 #1 [ 5446.835027] [] show_trace_log_lvl+0x1a/0x2f [ 5446.8350

Re: 2.6.24-rc4-mm1: VDSOSYM build error

2007-12-06 Thread Miles Lane
How can I find Roland's patches, so I can try backing them out? I looked in the broken out patches and only saw one related to VDSO. Backing it out did not help. I tried searching for messages to LKML sent by "roland" but mostly got a bunch of folks sending spam. Thanks,

Re: 2.6.24-rc4-mm1: VDSOSYM build error

2007-12-06 Thread Miles Lane
I found: http://marc.info/?l=linux-kernel&m=119550978915647&w=2 through http://marc.info/?l=linux-kernel&m=119551057816829&w=2 (I was unable to locate the 6th patch in the set) When I tried backing out the patches, there were tons of errors. I guess I'll punt on trying to build this MM tree. Sor

Re: [PATCH x86/mm] x86 vDSO: canonicalize sysenter .eh_frame

2007-12-06 Thread Miles Lane
Thanks. That enabled me to compile as well. Now, if I can figure out why the resulting kernel has a boot process that hangs... :-) Miles -- 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://v

2.6.24-rc4-mm1 -- boot process hangs -- tty4 main process (2988) terminated with status 1

2007-12-06 Thread Miles Lane
The machine is: http://www.gateway.com/retail/mt6821.php Gnu C 4.2.3 Gnu make 3.81 binutils 2.18.20071027 util-linux 2.13.1-rc1 mount 2.13.1-rc1 module-init-tools 3.3-pre11 e2fsprogs 1.40.2 reiserfsprogs

Re: 2.6.24-rc4-mm1 -- boot process hangs -- tty4 main process (2988) terminated with status 1

2007-12-08 Thread Miles Lane
> > Dec 6 21:24:28 erratic-orbits init: tty3 main process (2991) > > terminated with status 1 > > Boggle. We broke the vt driver? > > config, please... I sent the .config. Is there nothing else to follow up on? I have tried rebuilding about seven kernels, tweaking the options each time. All th

Re: 2.6.24-rc5-mm1 -- drivers/video/logo/logo_linux_clut224.c:598: error: conflicting type qualifiers for ‘logo_linux_clut224’

2007-12-13 Thread Miles Lane
On Dec 13, 2007 8:57 PM, Randy Dunlap <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Thu, 13 Dec 2007 20:16:13 -0500 Miles Lane wrote: > > > CC drivers/video/logo/logo_linux_clut224.o > > drivers/video/logo/logo_linux_clut224.c:598: error: conflicting type > > qual

Re: OOPS: 2.6.24-rc5-mm1 -- EIP is at r_show+0x2a/0x70 -- (triggered by "cat /proc/iomem" AFTER suspend-to-disk/resume)

2007-12-20 Thread Miles Lane
Resending... Curse GMail's HTML messages! On Dec 21, 2007 12:58 AM, Miles Lane <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Dec 20, 2007 12:32 PM, Andrew Morton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > On Thu, 20 Dec 2007 08:38:03 -0500 Miles Lane <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: &g

Re: OOPS: 2.6.24-rc5-mm1 -- EIP is at r_show+0x2a/0x70 -- (triggered by "cat /proc/iomem" AFTER suspend-to-disk/resume)

2007-12-21 Thread Miles Lane
On Dec 21, 2007 1:29 AM, Andrew Morton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Fri, 21 Dec 2007 00:58:19 -0500 "Miles Lane" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > On Dec 20, 2007 12:32 PM, Andrew Morton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > On Th

Re: OOPS: 2.6.24-rc5-mm1 -- EIP is at r_show+0x2a/0x70 -- (triggered by "cat /proc/iomem" AFTER suspend-to-disk/resume)

2007-12-21 Thread Miles Lane
On Dec 21, 2007 3:00 PM, Andrew Morton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Fri, 21 Dec 2007 11:06:49 -0500 "Miles Lane" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > > > > > How do I determine what comes next? > > > > > > > > &

2.6.24-rc5-mm1 -- inconsistent {in-softirq-W} -> {softirq-on-R} usage.

2007-12-14 Thread Miles Lane
Sorry Andrew, I don't know who to forward this problem to. I tried running: find /proc | xargs cat and got this: = [ INFO: inconsistent lock state ] 2.6.24-rc5-mm1 #26 - inconsistent {in-softirq-W} -> {softirq-on-R} usage. cat/6944

2.6.24-rc5-mm1 -- INFO: possible circular locking dependency detected -- pm-suspend/5800 is trying to acquire lock

2007-12-18 Thread Miles Lane
I have only seen this happen once, and cannot reproduce it. I'll keep trying, though. Dec 16 22:10:48 syntropy kernel: [ 231.718023] === Dec 16 22:10:48 syntropy kernel: [ 231.718025] [ INFO: possible circular locking dependency detected ] Dec

Re: [ipw3945-devel] 2.6.24-rc5-mm1 -- INFO: possible circular locking dependency detected -- pm-suspend/5800 is trying to acquire lock

2007-12-19 Thread Miles Lane
On Dec 18, 2007 9:58 PM, Zhu Yi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Tue, 2007-12-18 at 15:57 +0100, Johannes Berg wrote: > > Thanks. This is a bug in iwlwifi. > > > > The problem is actually another case where my workqueue debugging with > > lockdep is triggering a warning :)) > > > > Here's the thin

Re: 2.6.24-rc5-mm1 -- inconsistent {in-hardirq-W} -> {hardirq-on-W} usage -- pm-hibernate/9940 [HC0[0]:SC0[0]:HE1:SE1]

2007-12-19 Thread Miles Lane
I discovered that I can use IMAP with GMail now, so I can send messages using Thunderbird and avoid the line wrapping problem. I tried doing a series: suspend-to-disk, suspend-to-ram and suspend-to-disk Here is the result: [ 11.827653] PM: Creating hibernation image: [ 11.827658] WARNING:

Re: 2.6.24-rc5-mm1 -- inconsistent {in-hardirq-W} -> {hardirq-on-W} usage -- pm-hibernate/9940 [HC0[0]:SC0[0]:HE1:SE1]

2007-12-19 Thread Miles Lane
On Dec 19, 2007 7:09 PM, Rafael J. Wysocki <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Thursday, 20 of December 2007, Christoph Lameter wrote: > > On Thu, 20 Dec 2007, Rafael J. Wysocki wrote: > > > > > > We could reexport drain_local_pages() again but then I do not understand > > > > why we would only drain

Re: 2.6.24-rc5-mm1 -- inconsistent {in-hardirq-W} -> {hardirq-on-W} usage -- pm-hibernate/9940 [HC0[0]:SC0[0]:HE1:SE1]

2007-12-19 Thread Miles Lane
On Dec 19, 2007 8:31 PM, Rafael J. Wysocki <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Thursday, 20 of December 2007, Miles Lane wrote: > > On Dec 19, 2007 7:09 PM, Rafael J. Wysocki <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > On Thursday, 20 of December 2007, Christoph Lam

OOPS: 2.6.24-rc5-mm1 -- EIP is at r_show+0x2a/0x70

2007-12-19 Thread Miles Lane
I have the patch "find /proc | xargs tail" [ 50.595474] ADDRCONF(NETDEV_UP): eth0: link is not ready [ 54.733829] BUG: unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at virtual address 0018 [ 54.733836] printing ip: c012d527 *pde = [ 54.733843] Oops: [#1] SMP [ 54.733

Re: OOPS: 2.6.24-rc5-mm1 -- EIP is at r_show+0x2a/0x70 -- (triggered by "cat /proc/iomem")

2007-12-19 Thread Miles Lane
Okay. The command that directly triggers this is: cat /proc/iomem Here is the stack trace without the line-wrapping (sorry!): [ 251.602965] wlan0_rename: RX non-WEP frame, but expected encryption [ 252.868386] BUG: unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at virtual address 000

Re: OOPS: 2.6.24-rc5-mm1 -- EIP is at r_show+0x2a/0x70 -- (triggered by "cat /proc/iomem")

2007-12-20 Thread Miles Lane
On Dec 20, 2007 6:37 AM, David Howells <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Andrew Morton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > I would be suspecting iget-stop-procfs-from-using-iget-and-read_inode.patch. > > I think your suspicions are very unlikely. The patch only affects > proc_get_inode() - and looking at

Re: OOPS: 2.6.24-rc5-mm1 -- EIP is at r_show+0x2a/0x70 -- (triggered by "cat /proc/iomem" AFTER suspend-to-disk/resume)

2007-12-20 Thread Miles Lane
My .config file can be found here: http://marc.info/?l=linux-kernel&m=119812903001296&w=2 Miles Lane wrote: .config attached in order to not trip spam filters. Miles Lane wrote: [ 252.868386] BUG: unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at virtual address 0018 [ 252.8

Oops: 2.6.11-mm3 -- NULL pointer -- EIP is at i2c_add_driver+0xa2/0xd0

2005-03-13 Thread Miles Lane
I2c /dev/ entries driver Unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at virtual address Printing eip: C028bbc2 *pde = Oops: [#1] PREEMPT Modules linked in: CPU: 0 EIP: 0060:[] Not tainted VLI EFLAGS: 00010282 (2.6.11-mm3) EIP is at i2c_add_driver+0xa2/0xd0

Support for the SiSM741 chipset?

2005-03-16 Thread Miles Lane
I am considering buying an Averatec AV6210X60, which uses this chipset. A description of the chipset is here: http://www.linuxelectrons.com/article.php/20031216092226919 The marketing blurb incudes this: Furthermore, the SiSM741 chipset incorporates SiS's revolutionary HyperStreamingâ Technology,

Re: Who should I write to about this OOPS in 2,6,11-mm3?

2005-03-21 Thread Miles Lane
Yes, I just did. I used the .config options I mentioned earlier. I am currently testing the suggested patches and options offered by the sensors developers. BTW, I am cross posting because I am not sure how often the LM Sensors folks read the linux-kernel list. Please don't reply to both lists.

2.4.5-ac15 -- Unresolved symbols "gameport_register_port" and"gameport_unregister_port" in char/joystick/[cs461x.o, emu10k1-gp.o,lightning.o, ns558.o, pcigame.o]

2001-06-18 Thread Miles Lane
I don't know if this is due to symbols not being exported or due to some failed dependency structuring in "make menuconfig". find kernel -path '*/pcmcia/*' -name '*.o' | xargs -i -r ln -sf ../{} pcmcia if [ -r System.map ]; then /sbin/depmod -ae -F System.map 2.4.5-ac15; fi depmod: *** Unresolve

2.4.5-ac16 -- "proc_get_inode" still unresolved in /net/wan/comx.o

2001-06-19 Thread Miles Lane
depmod: *** Unresolved symbols in /lib/modules/2.4.5-ac16/kernel/drivers/net/wan/comx.o depmod: proc_get_inode - 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-

The latest Microsoft FUD. This time from BillG, himself.

2001-06-20 Thread Miles Lane
http://www.zdnet.com/zdnn/stories/news/0,4586,5092935,00.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 FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkm

2.4.5-ac16 -- Still getting unresolved gameport_register_port and gameport_unregister_port symbols in joystick drivers.

2001-06-20 Thread Miles Lane
I have attached my .config file. find kernel -path '*/pcmcia/*' -name '*.o' | xargs -i -r ln -sf ../{} pcmcia if [ -r System.map ]; then /sbin/depmod -ae -F System.map 2.4.5-ac16; fi depmod: *** Unresolved symbols in /lib/modules/2.4.5-ac16/kernel/drivers/char/joystick/cs461x.o depmod:

One more ZDNet article with BillG hammering Linux and Open Source.

2001-06-20 Thread Miles Lane
http://www.zdnet.com/zdnn/stories/news/0,4586,2777283,00.html (an excerpt) Linux and open source ZDNet -- Can you clarify Microsoft's position on Linux and open source? There has been a lot written about it in the last week. What's Microsoft's objection to open source and Linux? BillG -- I do

Re: The latest Microsoft FUD. This time from BillG, himself.

2001-06-21 Thread Miles Lane
On 21 Jun 2001 15:48:11 +0200, Daniel Phillips wrote: > On Thursday 21 June 2001 10:46, Henning P. Schmiedehausen wrote: > > My last LinuxExpo talk was also made with PP, > > This makes about as much sense as going to a cocktail party with nose glasses > on. One of the mantras that get hammered

Re: [OT]Re: One more ZDNet article with BillG hammering Linux andOpen Source.

2001-06-22 Thread Miles Lane
On 22 Jun 2001 20:45:14 -0700, Gerhard Mack wrote: > On Fri, 22 Jun 2001, Ben Ford wrote: > > > Miles Lane wrote: > > > > >http://www.zdnet.com/zdnn/stories/news/0,4586,2777283,00.html > > > > > [ . . . ] > > > > Hey, Bill, here's my a

Re: [OT]Re: One more ZDNet article with BillG hammering Linux andOpen Source.

2001-06-22 Thread Miles Lane
It would be great to see the "Shared Source" licenses that Microsoft has made people sign. It would be especially interesting to compare the agreements that were given to the various classes of licensees: University Research Departments, ISVs, Enterprises and so on. Then we'd be able to have a s

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