Any comments?
Archan Paul
devrootp@psynet.net
noodlez@cyber-rights.net wrote:
>
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>
> hello.
> i just compiled a 2.4.0 kernel from stable sources from ftp.us.kernel.org,
> including reiserfs support from the reiserfs patch (www.namesys.com) .
> anyway, i compiled the ramfs (resizeable ramdisk) feature as a module, loaded
> the module, and mounted a directory and started copying. i kept copying
> files onto it via 'cp' and after each copy, i would check the ram left using
> 'top'. everything was fine until i had 500kb of ram left and i copied a
> 2mb file. total freeze. the only thing that would happen is my keystrokes
> would output to the screen, and i could also use ALT + F? to change terminals.
> i used the reset button and everything was back to normal. i don't know
> why that happened.
> my next problem is with data CD's (iso9660). I had the same problem with
> 2.2.x kernels. after mounting the data CD, it would list fine, but the
> data would be corrupted (BMP and TIFF images would appear with lines through
> them, sometimes not even recognized as images; mp3's would sound like they
> are combined). the solution would be to 'umount' the directory, open the
> cd-rom a little, and close the tray. after 'mount'ing it, hopefully it
> would be fine. if not, just pop the drive open again, etc. until it worked.
> the distribution is slackware 7.1, but most of my software is hand-compiled.
> i read the REPORTING-BUGS file, and here is some of system info ( i hope
> it isn't overkill; i'm sorry if it is):
> 'dmesg' output:
> Linux version 2.4.0 (root@darkstar) (gcc version egcs-2.91.66 19990314/Linux
> (egcs-1.1.2 release)) #1 Tue Jan 9 18:50:51 EST 2001
> BIOS-provided physical RAM map:
> BIOS-e820: 000000000009fc00 @ 0000000000000000 (usable)
> BIOS-e820: 0000000000000400 @ 000000000009fc00 (reserved)
> BIOS-e820: 0000000000020000 @ 00000000000e0000 (reserved)
> BIOS-e820: 0000000001f00000 @ 0000000000100000 (usable)
> BIOS-e820: 0000000000001000 @ 00000000fec00000 (reserved)
> BIOS-e820: 0000000000001000 @ 00000000fee00000 (reserved)
> BIOS-e820: 0000000000020000 @ 00000000fffe0000 (reserved)
> On node 0 totalpages: 8192
> zone(0): 4096 pages.
> zone(1): 4096 pages.
> zone(2): 0 pages.
> Kernel command line: BOOT_IMAGE=new ro root=306
> Initializing CPU#0
> Detected 233.296 MHz processor.
> Console: colour VGA+ 80x30
> Calibrating delay loop... 465.30 BogoMIPS
> Memory: 30236k/32768k available (909k kernel code, 2144k reserved, 288k
> data, 196k init, 0k highmem)
> Dentry-cache hash table entries: 4096 (order: 3, 32768 bytes)
> Buffer-cache hash table entries: 1024 (order: 0, 4096 bytes)
> Page-cache hash table entries: 8192 (order: 3, 32768 bytes)
> Inode-cache hash table entries: 2048 (order: 2, 16384 bytes)
> CPU: Before vendor init, caps: 008001bf 00000000 00000000, vendor = 0
> Intel Pentium with F0 0F bug - workaround enabled.
> CPU: After vendor init, caps: 008001bf 00000000 00000000 00000000
> CPU: After generic, caps: 008001bf 00000000 00000000 00000000
> CPU: Common caps: 008001bf 00000000 00000000 00000000
> CPU: Intel Pentium MMX stepping 03
> Checking 'hlt' instruction... OK.
> POSIX conformance testing by UNIFIX
> PCI: PCI BIOS revision 2.10 entry at 0xfdb11, last bus=0
> PCI: Using configuration type 1
> PCI: Probing PCI hardware
> isapnp: Scanning for Pnp cards...
> isapnp: Calling quirk for 01:00
> isapnp: SB audio device quirk - increasing port range
> isapnp: Card 'Creative ViBRA16X PnP'
> isapnp: 1 Plug & Play card detected total
> Linux NET4.0 for Linux 2.4
> Based upon Swansea University Computer Society NET3.039
> Starting kswapd v1.8
> pty: 256 Unix98 ptys configured
> Uniform Multi-Platform E-IDE driver Revision: 6.31
> ide: Assuming 33MHz system bus speed for PIO modes; override with idebus=xx
> ALI15X3: IDE controller on PCI bus 00 dev 58
> PCI: No IRQ known for interrupt pin A of device 00:0b.0. Please try using
> pci=biosirq.
> ALI15X3: chipset revision 32
> ALI15X3: not 100% native mode: will probe irqs later
> ALI15X3: simplex device: DMA disabled
> ide0: ALI15X3 Bus-Master DMA disabled (BIOS)
> ALI15X3: simplex device: DMA disabled
> ide1: ALI15X3 Bus-Master DMA disabled (BIOS)
> hda: IBM-DTTA-351010, ATA DISK drive
> hdd: CREATIVEDVD-ROM DVD2240E 12/24/97, ATAPI CDROM drive
> ide0 at 0x1f0-0x1f7,0x3f6 on irq 14
> ide1 at 0x170-0x177,0x376 on irq 15
> hda: 19807200 sectors (10141 MB) w/466KiB Cache, CHS=1232/255/63
> Partition check:
> hda: hda1 hda2 hda3 hda4 < hda5 hda6 hda7 hda8 >
> Serial driver version 5.02 (2000-08-09) with MANY_PORTS SHARE_IRQ SERIAL_PCI
> ISAPNP enabled
> ttyS00 at 0x03f8 (irq = 4) is a 16550A
> ttyS01 at 0x02f8 (irq = 3) is a 16550A
> SCSI subsystem driver Revision: 1.00
> scsi0 : AdvanSys SCSI 3.2M: PCI Ultra 240 CDB: IO EC00/F, IRQ 11
> Vendor: YAMAHA Model: CRW8424S Rev: 1.0g
> Type: CD-ROM ANSI SCSI revision: 02
> Vendor: UMAX Model: Astra 2200 Rev: V2.2
> Type: Scanner ANSI SCSI revision: 02
> NET4: Linux TCP/IP 1.0 for NET4.0
> IP Protocols: ICMP, UDP, TCP
> IP: routing cache hash table of 512 buckets, 4Kbytes
> TCP: Hash tables configured (established 2048 bind 2048)
> NET4: Unix domain sockets 1.0/SMP for Linux NET4.0.
> fatfs: bogus cluster size
> reiserfs: checking transaction log (device 03:06) ...
> Using r5 hash to sort names
> reiserfs: using 3.5.x disk format
> ReiserFS version 3.6.25
> VFS: Mounted root (reiserfs filesystem) readonly.
> Freeing unused kernel memory: 196k freed
> Adding Swap: 120448k swap-space (priority -1)
>
> 'lspci -vvv' output:
> 00:00.0 Host bridge: Acer Laboratories Inc. [ALi] M1531 [Aladdin IV] (rev
> b3)
> Subsystem: Acer Laboratories Inc. [ALi] M1531 [Aladdin IV]
> Control: I/O- Mem+ BusMaster+ SpecCycle- MemWINV- VGASnoop- ParErr-
> Stepping- SERR- FastB2B-
> Status: Cap- 66Mhz- UDF- FastB2B- ParErr- DEVSEL=slow >TAbort- <TAbort-
> <MAbort+ >SERR- <PERR-
> Latency: 32
>
> 00:02.0 ISA bridge: Acer Laboratories Inc. [ALi] M1533 PCI to ISA Bridge
> [Aladdin IV] (rev b4)
> Control: I/O+ Mem+ BusMaster+ SpecCycle+ MemWINV- VGASnoop- ParErr-
> Stepping- SERR- FastB2B-
> Status: Cap- 66Mhz- UDF- FastB2B- ParErr- DEVSEL=medium >TAbort-
> <TAbort+ <MAbort+ >SERR- <PERR-
> Latency: 0
>
> 00:04.0 VGA compatible controller: S3 Inc. ViRGE/DX or /GX (rev 01) (prog-
> if 00 [VGA])
> Subsystem: S3 Inc. ViRGE/DX
> Control: I/O+ Mem+ BusMaster+ SpecCycle- MemWINV- VGASnoop- ParErr-
> Stepping- SERR- FastB2B-
> Status: Cap- 66Mhz- UDF- FastB2B- ParErr- DEVSEL=medium >TAbort-
> <TAbort- <MAbort- >SERR- <PERR-
> Latency: 64 (1000ns min, 63750ns max)
> Interrupt: pin A routed to IRQ 0
> Region 0: Memory at ec000000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=64M]
> Expansion ROM at ebff0000 [disabled] [size=64K]
>
> 00:05.0 Multimedia video controller: Auravision VxP524
> Control: I/O+ Mem+ BusMaster+ SpecCycle- MemWINV- VGASnoop- ParErr-
> Stepping- SERR+ FastB2B-
> Status: Cap- 66Mhz- UDF- FastB2B+ ParErr- DEVSEL=medium >TAbort-
> <TAbort- <MAbort- >SERR- <PERR-
> Latency: 64
> Interrupt: pin A routed to IRQ 10
> Region 0: Memory at ebe00000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=1M]
>
> 00:06.0 SCSI storage controller: Advanced System Products, Inc ABP940-U
> / ABP960-U (rev 03)
> Subsystem: Advanced System Products, Inc ASC1300 SCSI Adapter
> Control: I/O+ Mem+ BusMaster+ SpecCycle- MemWINV+ VGASnoop- ParErr-
> Stepping- SERR+ FastB2B-
> Status: Cap- 66Mhz- UDF- FastB2B+ ParErr- DEVSEL=medium >TAbort-
> <TAbort+ <MAbort- >SERR- <PERR-
> Latency: 64 (1000ns min, 1000ns max), cache line size 04
> Interrupt: pin A routed to IRQ 11
> Region 0: I/O ports at ec00 [size=256]
> Region 1: Memory at ebfeff00 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=256]
> Expansion ROM at ebfd0000 [disabled] [size=64K]
>
> 00:0b.0 IDE interface: Acer Laboratories Inc. [ALi] M5229 IDE (rev 20) (prog-
> if fa)
> Control: I/O+ Mem- BusMaster+ SpecCycle- MemWINV- VGASnoop- ParErr-
> Stepping- SERR- FastB2B-
> Status: Cap- 66Mhz- UDF- FastB2B+ ParErr- DEVSEL=medium >TAbort-
> <TAbort- <MAbort- >SERR- <PERR-
> Latency: 32 (500ns min, 1000ns max)
> Interrupt: pin A routed to IRQ 0
> Region 4: I/O ports at ffa0 [size=16]
>
> ver_linux output:
> -- Versions installed: (if some fields are empty or look
> -- unusual then possibly you have very old versions)
> Linux darkstar 2.4.0 #1 Tue Jan 9 18:50:51 EST 2001 i586 unknown
> Kernel modules 2.3.21
> Gnu C egcs-2.91.66
> Gnu Make 3.79
> Binutils 2.9.1.0.25
> Linux C Library 2.1.3
> Dynamic linker ldd: version 1.9.9
> Procps 2.0.6
> Mount 2.10l
> Net-tools 1.55
> Kbd 0.99
> Sh-utils 2.0
> Modules Loaded
>
> support for advansys card is built into the kernel (i don't use any modules
> from 2.2.17, all are from 2.4.0)
> scsi_mod is built in
> sg is a module
> sr_mod is a module
>
> thank you for your time and I apologize for the length of this e-mail.
>
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