epoll fully supported?
by Jeff Macdonald
Hi,
I haven't had a chance to load the beta onto a computer yet, so can
anyone tell me if the epoll system calls are in this beta and if glibc
has been patched to support these new system calls?
RHL 9 has sys/epoll.h header, but glibc doesn't have the stubs and doing
a locate for 'libepoll' turns up nothing.
--
Jeff Macdonald <jeff.macdonald(a)virtualbuilder.com>
My birding blog: http://www.virtualbuilder.com/archives/cat_birding.html
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20 years, 9 months
ACPI Issues -- No Battery?
by Matt Jones
Any one have any issues w/ ACPI? My laptop (a toshiba 1400) isn't
showing its battery.
Here's the output from dmesg | grep -i acpi
BIOS-e820: 00000000000eee00 - 00000000000ef000 (ACPI NVS)
BIOS-e820: 000000000eff0000 - 000000000f000000 (ACPI data)
ACPI: have wakeup address 0xc0001000
ACPI: RSDP (v000 TOSHIB ) @ 0x000f0090
ACPI: RSDT (v001 TOSHIB 750 00151.02068) @ 0x0eff0000
ACPI: FADT (v002 TOSHIB 750 00151.02068) @ 0x0eff0054
ACPI: DSDT (v001 TOSHIB 1400 08194.01040) @ 0x00000000
ACPI: BIOS passes blacklist
ACPI: Subsystem revision 20030619
ACPI: Interpreter enabled
ACPI: Using PIC for interrupt routing
ACPI: System [ACPI] (supports S0 S3 S4bios S4 S5)
ACPI: PCI Root Bridge [PCI0] (00:00)
ACPI: PCI Interrupt Routing Table [\_SB_.PCI0._PRT]
ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKA] (IRQs 3 4 5 6 7 10 *11)
ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKB] (IRQs 3 4 5 6 7 10 *11)
ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKC] (IRQs 3 4 5 6 7 10 *11)
ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKD] (IRQs 3 4 5 6 7 10 *11)
ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKG] (IRQs 3 4 5 6 7 10 *11)
ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKH] (IRQs 3 4 5 6 7 10 *11)
ACPI: PCI Interrupt Routing Table [\_SB_.PCI0.PCI1._PRT]
ACPI: Power Resource [PFAN] (off)
PCI: Using ACPI for IRQ routing
PCI: if you experience problems, try using option 'pci=noacpi' or even
'acpi=off'
apm: overridden by ACPI.
Asus Laptop ACPI Extras version 0.24a
Toshiba Laptop ACPI Extras version 0.15
I used ACPI regularly on the same machine before installing severn, and
it worked like a dream (with vanilla and acpi-patched and redhat sources
-- including a custom rh9 kernel). What's changed that could cause this?
-- Matt
20 years, 9 months
Feature Request
by Ethan Bonick
Something I have wanted for the last two releases is the ability to choose
more than ext2 or ext3 for my partitions. I would like to be able to
choose jfs, reiserfs, xfs at install time without having to boot resuce
create partitions and then start the install and choose do not format. Is
there a reason for not really having a choice?
Just my $.02 here. Linux is all about choice yet we seem to be moving
toward the distributors choice. I know. I know. You all say switch to a
different distro if I dont like it. Well I have tried and I havent liked
any of the others. Gentoo was good but just not stable. I just hate to see
all of our choices go away because we want to be able to have mom and pop
install on their machines. We should be left with some choices and not
have to dumb everything down. Even Win2K and XP gave you partition type
choices.
--
Ethan Bonick
etbonick_AT_networkinggeeks.com
http://www.networkinggeeks.com
20 years, 9 months
Missing kernel module? (kernel/drivers/scsi/advansys.o)
by Robert Lynch
kernel-2.4.21-20.1.2024.2.1.nptl seems to lack the advansys scsi module
required by my scanner's scsi input card. I can make it manually with a
makefile scraped outta Rubin's book:
===
KERNELDIR = /usr/src/linux
CFLAGS = -D__KERNEL__ -DMODULE -I$(KERNELDIR)/include -O -Wall
all : advansys.o
clean:
rm -f advansys.o *~ core
===
which when then modprobe'd, the scanner works.
Maybe this is a feature, not a bug? No bug seems to have been filed on
this.
Otherwise I find the severn beta astonishingly good.
Bob L.
--
Robert Lynch Berkeley CA USA rmlynch(a)pacbell.net
20 years, 9 months
package/feature request
by Ricardo Ariel Gorosito
What think about the following list?
* Kernel Patches:
- Alsa (to be more 2.6 ready)
- IPsec (freeswan?)
- update lm_sensors (patch & apps)
* Packages/Apps:
- Amavisd-new (usefull in mail servers)
- ClamAV (it help to detect/filter viruses)
- Wine: now support NPTL and AFAIK it run ok in RH9.
- gq
- Samba 3: It is stable for me. AFAIK next release will be RC.
* Features:
- rpm: add/detect more targets (pentium4, athlon-tbird, ppc604e, ...). I
can add athlon-tbird, but rpm -i say "incompatible arch". --ignorearch
solve the problem.
- Up2Date/rhn-applet: add something like "AutoUpdateList " in
/etc/sysconfig/rhn/up2date . It will usefull for packages like
"clamav-signatures-xxx.rpm", "snort-rules-xxx-rpm".
- rpm+up2date: Multirepository.
Add a field like "Package Repository URI" in RPM where Up2Date can
check/update the package. Software vendors can setup a Current or
another RHN like server.
Another option is add config lines for up2date where you can say
"Packager X in URL Y".
I think that users will love update RHL and other software (as from
freshrpms) from unique application.
Problems: Profiles/Passwords/etc.
Ricardo.-
20 years, 9 months
Severn and Mozilla Firebird?
by Kyle Maxwell
Has anyone had any difficulty (or success) running Mozilla Firebird
under Severn? I'm trying to run v0.6 (build 2003051615) and it just
returns
/path/to/MozillaFirebird/run-mozilla.sh: line 454: 21714 Segmentation
fault "$prog" ${1+"$@"}
Or should I take this to a Mozilla Firebird list somewhere? It ran
beautifully on the same system running Red Hat 9 until I upgraded to
9.0.93 last night.
--
Kyle Maxwell <kylem(a)xwell.org>
20 years, 9 months
Re: battery charge status applet broken?
by Steve Ward
OK, I loaded the acpid RPM and started it, loaded ac and battery
modules, now when I start the battery monitor applet it works fine but
my cursor goes "out of control" and races about the screen doing random
things.
If I manage to logout of the session and the login screen returns, the
cursor becomes sane again.
Confirmed after a power cycle.
Ideas?
20 years, 9 months
Questions about acpi and cpufreq...
by Øystein Olsen
and hoping for synaptics driver.
I've got a laptop with the synaptics touchpad. Is there any hope that redhat
will include a driver liked this:
http://w1.894.telia.com/~u89404340/touchpad/index.html
I just love to control the scroll-bars with my touchpad. Life is so much
simpler:)
I've noticed that cpufreq for pentium 4 is not enabled. Is there any
particular reason for this?
Since the kernel is acpi-enabled, why isn't the acpi-related modules(*)
loaded during boot when acpi is used? It's not very important, since I anyway
have to patch and compile my own kernel. (Such that it loads a fixed
dsdt-table.) But I'm slightly curious.
(*) battery, thermal, processor, fan etc.
--
Øystein Olsen, oystein.olsen(a)astro.uio.no, http://folk.uio.no/oeysteio
Institute of Theoretical Astrophysics, http://www.astro.uio.no
University of Oslo, Norway
20 years, 9 months