Re: what USB-2 CF reader is alleged to work?
by Pete Zaitcev
On Sat, 08 Jan 2005 04:45:58 -0800, Jamie Zawinski <jwz(a)jwz.org> wrote:
> Are any of you running FC3 and able to get pictures off of a
> CompactFlash card at USB-2 speeds? If so, what CF reader are
> you using? Because I want to go out and buy one of those.
>
> The set of readers I have tried recently are:
> - SanDisk ImageMate SDDR-31 USB 1.0 reader;
I use SDDR-31 successfuly since 2001, it's a great device with [almost]
no serious firmware problems which plague this kind of peripherals.
> All of them do this when I plug them in (card present or not):
>
> usb 5-1: new full speed USB device using address 52
> usb 5-1: device not accepting address 52, error -71
> usb 5-1: new full speed USB device using address 53
> usb 5-1: device not accepting address 53, error -71
This is not good, because -71 is a low-level protocol error. Usually it
is called by things like a bitstuffing violation, a missing token, etc.
I cannot speculate what causes it, but every component has to be excluded
by replacement. We can exclude readers now, so it leaves motherboard
chips and traces, cables, possibly a hub, and most especially any power
supplies involved. Sometimes it happens when people connect external VGA
to a laptop, go figure! (I am not saying this is your problem, obviously).
I know who I am dealing with, Jamie, but for the list archives: DO NOT
exclude two articles at a time. If you replace the laptop, leave all cabling,
hubs, and the reader, in place.
To be frank, it is possible for the software to report -71 for a bad
reason, when it is confused. Once we excluded everything else, with
the computer itself, it's time to look at UHCI root hub handling.
We'll take it from there.
> "Eratically" means that generally they would work immediately after
> I rebooted the machine, and I could plug/unplug them right after
> that, and they'd continue working; but if I tried to use them again
> a few hours later, the only way to make them work would be to reboot
> again. No amount of rmmod would bring joy (though some would bring
> complete wedgedness.)
This is very interesting, but I don't think I can act upon this section
of your report, especially that it appears to relate a past experience.
Let's concentrate on -71s.
BTW, I should note that it is possible to use a passive PCMCIA-CF adapter.
I have one of those as well, and it works great. The only reason I used
SDDR-31 is that my only PC Card slot was often used by a wireless card.
Eventually I got used to it. Also, in older distros and kernels it was
required to stop and start pcmcia services when you plug the thing, and
USB always was 100% hotplug, at least in theory.
-- Pete
19 years, 3 months
rawhide report: 20041222 changes
by Build System
New package GFS
GFS - The Global File System
New package GFS-kernel
GFS-kernel - The Global File System kernel modules
New package ccs
CCS - The Cluster Configuration System
New package cfengine
GNU cfengine - a systems administration tool for networks
New package cman
cman - The Cluster Manager
New package cman-kernel
cman-kernel - The Cluster Manager kernel modules
New package dlm
dlm - The Distributed Lock Manager
New package dlm-kernel
dlm-kernel - The Distributed Lock Manager kernel modules.
New package fence
fence - The cluster I/O fencing system
New package gnbd
gnbd - GFS's Network Block Device
New package gnbd-kernel
gnbd-kernel - The kernel module for GFS's Network Block Device
New package gulm
gulm - One possible lock manager for GFS
New package iddev
iddev is a library that identifies device contents.
New package lvm2-cluster
Cluster extenstions for userland logical volume management tools
New package magma
A cluster/lock manager API abstraction library
New package magma-plugins
Cluster manager plugins for magma
New package rgmanager
Open Source HA Resource Group Failover for Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Updated Packages:
MAKEDEV-3.16-3
--------------
* Tue Dec 21 2004 Nalin Dahyabhai <nalin(a)redhat.com> 3.16-3
- raise number of loop devices from 16 to 256 (Kenneth Lee)
- create 'vmware' alias for vnet,vmnet,vmmon devices
- change vmnet->vnet to vmnet0->vnet0, so that it isn't left dangling
dialog-1.0.20041219-1
---------------------
* Tue Dec 21 2004 Harald Hoyer <harald(a)redhat.com> 1.0-20041219-1
- new version 1.0-20041219
glib2-2.6.0-1
-------------
* Tue Dec 21 2004 Matthias Clasen <mclasen(a)redhat.com> - 2.6.0-1
- Upgrade to 2.6.0
glibc-2.3.4-3
-------------
* Tue Dec 21 2004 Jakub Jelinek <jakub(a)redhat.com> 2.3.4-3
- rebuilt
* Mon Dec 20 2004 Jakub Jelinek <jakub(a)redhat.com> 2.3.4-2
- work around rpm bug some more, this time by copying
iconvconfig to iconvconfig.%{_target_cpu}.
* Mon Dec 20 2004 Jakub Jelinek <jakub(a)redhat.com> 2.3.4-1
- update from CVS
- glibc 2.3.4 release
- add -o and --nostdlib options to iconvconfig
- if /sbin/ldconfig doesn't exist when running
glibc_post_upgrade.%{_target_cpu}, just don't attempt to run it.
This can happen during first install of bi-arch glibc and the
other arch glibc's %post wil run /sbin/ldconfig (#143326)
- use -o and --nostdlib options to create all needed
gconv-modules.cache files on bi-arch setups
grep-2.5.1-44
-------------
* Tue Dec 21 2004 Tim Waugh <twaugh(a)redhat.com> 2.5.1-44
- Fixed -Fi for multibyte input (bug #143079).
gtk2-2.6.0-1
------------
gtk2-engines-2.2.0-7
--------------------
* Tue Dec 21 2004 Matthias Clasen <mclasen(a)redhat.com> 2.2.0-6
- remove pixbuf engine which is integrated in gtk+ 2.6
kernel-2.6.9-1.1048_FC4
-----------------------
* Tue Dec 21 2004 Dave Jones <davej(a)redhat.com>
- Fix two silly bugs in the AGP posting fixes.
kernel-utils-1:2.4-13.1.49
--------------------------
* Tue Dec 21 2004 Dave Jones <davej(a)redhat.com>
- Fix missing delimiter token in microcode_ctl initscript. (143372)
* Sun Nov 28 2004 Dave Jones <davej(a)redhat.com>
- More SMP cpuspeed work. (#134398)
- Don't enable smartd by default. (#114669)
- Update irqbalance to 1.12 (#130625)
- Don't use binaries from /usr too early. (#102049)
- Fix bogus "" in microcode_ctl initscript. (#112014)
- Don't start microcode_ctl on 586's (#112088)
* Sat Oct 30 2004 Dave Jones <davej(a)redhat.com>
- Install irqbalance manpage. (#90023)
lapack-3.0-28
-------------
* Tue Dec 21 2004 Ivana Varekova <varekova(a)redhat.com>
- fix bug #143420 problem with compiler optimalizations
lm_sensors-2.8.8-1
------------------
* Tue Dec 21 2004 Phil Knirsch <pknirsch(a)redhat.com> 2.8.7-3
- Added Buildprereq for bison (#138888)
- Update to lm_sensors-2.8.8
mc-1:4.6.1a-0.3
---------------
* Tue Dec 21 2004 Jindrich Novy <jnovy(a)redhat.com> 4.6.1a-0.3
- rewrote mbstrlen() in utf8 patch, this fixes:
- dir name truncation in command prompt for ja_JP, ko_KR locales (#142706)
- localized texts will fit dialog windows and pull-down menus - tweak create_menu()
- dialog titles are centered correctly
- fix bad displaying of mc logo in help (#143415)
- merge msglen patch with utf8 patch
mktemp-2:1.5-22
---------------
* Tue Dec 21 2004 Than Ngo <than(a)redhat.com> 2:1.5-22
- fix permission issue
mysql-4.1.7-8
-------------
* Tue Dec 21 2004 Tom Lane <tgl(a)redhat.com> 4.1.7-8
- Run make test on all archs except s390x (which seems to have a bdb issue)
* Mon Dec 13 2004 Tom Lane <tgl(a)redhat.com> 4.1.7-7
- Suppress someone's silly idea that libtool overhead can be skipped
* Sun Dec 12 2004 Tom Lane <tgl(a)redhat.com> 4.1.7-6
- Fix init script to not need a valid username for startup check (bz#142328)
- Fix init script to honor settings appearing in /etc/my.cnf (bz#76051)
- Enable SSL (bz#142032)
pango-1.8.0-1
-------------
* Tue Dec 21 2004 Matthias Clasen <mclasen(a)redhat.com> - 1.8.0-1
- Version 1.8.0
- Drop unneeded patches and hacks
pcmcia-cs-3.2.7-4.1
-------------------
* Tue Dec 21 2004 Bill Nottingham <notting(a)redhat.com>
- fix broken close-on-exec patch (#135508)
rpmdb-fedora-1:4-0.20041222
---------------------------
selinux-policy-strict-1.19.15-1
-------------------------------
* Mon Dec 20 2004 Dan Walsh <dwalsh(a)redhat.com> 1.19-15-1
- Update to latest from NSA
selinux-policy-targeted-1.19.15-1
---------------------------------
* Tue Dec 21 2004 Dan Walsh <dwalsh(a)redhat.com> 1.19-15-1
- Update to latest from NSA
tmpwatch-2.9.2-1
----------------
* Wed Dec 22 2004 Miloslav Trmac <mitr(a)redhat.com> - 2.9.2-1
- Mention skipping of lost+found in the man page (#143526)
udev-048-4
----------
* Tue Dec 21 2004 Dan Walsh <dwalsh(a)redhat.com> - 048-4
- Call selinux_restore to fix labeling problem in selinux
- Fixes rh#142817
* Tue Dec 21 2004 Harald Hoyer <harald(a)redhat.com> - 048-3
- maybe fixed bug rh#143367
19 years, 3 months
rawhide report: 20050108 changes
by Build System
Updated Packages:
alsa-lib-1.0.7-2
----------------
* Sat Jan 08 2005 Colin Walters <walters(a)redhat.com> 1.0.7-2
- New patch alsa-lib-1.0.7-asym-config.patch, sets up asym
in the default config file and makes it easy to make it
the default via an environment variable. Also increases the
default dmix buffer variables.
- Mark /etc/alsa/alsa.conf as a config file, and use sysconfdir
variable
alsa-utils-1.0.7-2
------------------
* Sat Jan 08 2005 Colin Walters <walters(a)redhat.com> 1.0.7-2
- New patch alsa-utils-1.0.7-alsa-launch.patch, adds the
alsa-launch command.
- New source file xinit-alsa-launch.sh, integrates alsa-launch
into X startup
- BR xorg-x11-devel
* Thu Jan 06 2005 Colin Walters <walters(a)redhat.com> 1.0.7-1
- New upstream version
bitstream-vera-fonts-1.10-5
---------------------------
* Sat Jan 08 2005 Florian La Roche <laroche(a)redhat.com>
- rebuilt to get rid of legacy selinux filecontexts
checkpolicy-1.20.1-1
--------------------
* Fri Jan 07 2005 Dan Walsh <dwalsh(a)redhat.com> 1.20.1-1
- Update for version increase at NSA
device-mapper-1.00.21-1
-----------------------
* Fri Jan 07 2005 Alasdair Kergon <agk(a)redhat.com> - 1.00.21-1
- Fix (harmless) unintended warning messages.
dhcpv6-0.10-9
-------------
dovecot-0.99.13-1.devel
-----------------------
* Thu Jan 06 2005 John Dennis <jdennis(a)redhat.com> 0.99.13-1.devel
- bring up to date with latest upstream, 0.99.13, bug #143707
also fix bug #14462, bad dovecot-uid macro name
grep-2.5.1-47
-------------
* Fri Jan 07 2005 Tim Waugh <twaugh(a)redhat.com> 2.5.1-47
- Run 'make check'.
- Fixed -w handling for EGexecute. Now 'make check' passes.
- Cache MB_CUR_MAX value in egf-speedup patch.
- Fixed variable shadowing in egf-speedup patch.
- Removed redundant (and incorrect) code in prline.
* Fri Jan 07 2005 Tim Waugh <twaugh(a)redhat.com> 2.5.1-46
- More -w tests from Jakub Jelinek.
- Rebased on 2.5.1a.
kernel-2.6.10-1.1074_FC4
------------------------
* Fri Jan 07 2005 Dave Jones <davej(a)redhat.com>
- Santa came to Notting's house too. (another new card reader)
- Rebase to 2.6.10-bk10
libselinux-1.20.1-1
-------------------
* Fri Jan 07 2005 Dan Walsh <dwalsh(a)redhat.com> 1.20.1-1
- Update to latest from upstream
* Just changing version number to match upstream
libusb-0.1.8-5
--------------
* Sat Jan 08 2005 Florian La Roche <laroche(a)redhat.com>
- rebuilt to get rid of legacy selinux filecontexts
* Tue Jun 15 2004 Elliot Lee <sopwith(a)redhat.com>
- rebuilt
lvm2-2.00.33-1.0
----------------
* Fri Jan 07 2005 Alasdair Kergon <agk(a)redhat.com> - 2.00.33-1.0
- pvcreate wipes ext label
- several clvm fixes
parted-1.6.20-1
---------------
* Fri Jan 07 2005 Chris Lumens <clumens(a)redhat.com> 1.6.20-1
- Updated to 1.6.20 (#139257, #142100).
- Updated DASD and AIX patches for 1.6.20.
policycoreutils-1.20.1-1
------------------------
* Mon Jan 03 2005 Dan Walsh <dwalsh(a)redhat.com> 1.20.1-1
- Update to latest from NSA
* Merged fixfiles rewrite from Dan Walsh.
* Merged restorecon patch from Dan Walsh.
procps-3.2.4-2
--------------
* Fri Jan 07 2005 Karel Zak <kzak(a)redhat.com> 3.2.4-2
- fix sysctl errno usage (#144459)
* Wed Dec 01 2004 Karel Zak <kzak(a)redhat.com> 3.2.4-1
- update to new upstream release
* Mon Nov 01 2004 Karel Zak <kzak(a)redhat.com> 3.2.3-6
- update FAQ
- update spec description
- fix text in .noproc patch
- fix segv fault if cpu number exceeding 38 (#137159)
pydict-0.3.0-8
--------------
* Sat Jan 08 2005 Florian La Roche <laroche(a)redhat.com>
- rebuild to get rid of legacy selinux filecontexts
rpmdb-fedora-1:4-0.20050108
---------------------------
selinux-doc-1.16.1-1
--------------------
* Fri Jan 07 2005 Dan Walsh <dwalsh(a)redhat.com> 1.16-1
- Upgrade to match NSA
* Updated more sections of module report.
system-logviewer-0.9.13-1
-------------------------
* Fri Jan 07 2005 Chris Lumens <clumens(a)redhat.com> 0.9.13-1
- Don't crash if there's no $LANG environment variable (#144370).
tetex-2.0.2-28
--------------
* Fri Jan 07 2005 Jindrich Novy <jnovy(a)redhat.com> 2.0.2-28
- update texi2html to 1.72 (#143854)
- update makej patch to fix parallel builds (#143354)
19 years, 3 months
Just dial "1902424500500" from your BSNL, MTNL phones ifyou are in INDIA
by Kaustubh Ghosh
`Dear Sirs/Madams/Friends,
Hope many of you are
already in the pipeline of contribution for the Tsunami Victims. This
notification is for those who have missed the column in the daily
newspaper mentioning that the BSNL, MTNL have opened up new service by
which you can contribute at least Re.1 (INR) by just dialing
*1902424500500*. You will also get thanks for your contribution. It's my
request to you all those in India to dial this number and ask your
fellow relatives or neighbors to dial the no. Imagine India being a
country with such a large population contributing Re.1 by every single
individual by just dialing a number would definitely raise a
considerable amount.
*Kindly pass on this mail to every single individual staying in India*
With regards,
Kaustubh Ghosh
Kolkata
19 years, 3 months
festival 1.95 anyone?
by Matthew Miller
I don't know anything about the science behind this, but text-to-speech is,
y'know, cool. Festival 2.0 was supposed to be out a few months ago, but it
seems to be late. In the meantime, 1.9.5 is out there, and has a few nice
things -- particularly, the CMU_ARCTIC voices sound really good. Is anyone
working on updating this? If not, I'll look, although it's way outside of
areas where I know what I'm doing. :)
--
Matthew Miller mattdm(a)mattdm.org <http://www.mattdm.org/>
Boston University Linux ------> <http://linux.bu.edu/>
19 years, 3 months
rpm --import
by Florin Andrei
One thing that i noticed the newbies get confused with is the "rpm --
import (blah)GPG-KEY" trick that has to be done after installing a new
system.
Please put that info in a more prominent place in the Release Notes or
something. Or let yum spew it out if needed.
--
Florin Andrei
http://florin.myip.org/
19 years, 3 months
mkinitrd troubles -- needs "sync"?
by Matthew Miller
I am fairly frequently running into a problem where mkinitrd generates empty
images. (They're about 12k, with no contents.) I can find no rhyme or reason
to when this fails, and if you give -v, everything _looks_ to be fine -- but
sometimes it isn't.
And it's not just mkinitrd -- I experienced the same thing the other day
trying to rebuild anaconda on FC3 -- that initrd was ending up empty (even
though its tree seemed to be created fine, and the log of the build _says_
everything is copied in -- when the actual file is made, it's empty.
But sometimes it works just fine. Rebooting seems to usually make it work for a while
too, but that may be a red herring.
I'm seeing this _a lot_, yet I can't really find it in bugzilla. Am I going
crazy, here?
Out of superstition, I'm going to add a "sync; sleep 3" before the umount in
the mkinitrd script... that shouldn't be necessary, should it?
... time passes ....
HEY! It seems to work fine _every time_ so far once I've done that!!!
Anyone care to comment?
--
Matthew Miller mattdm(a)mattdm.org <http://www.mattdm.org/>
Boston University Linux ------> <http://linux.bu.edu/>
19 years, 3 months
rawhide report: 20050107 changes
by Build System
Updated Packages:
alsa-lib-1.0.7-1
----------------
* Thu Jan 06 2005 Colin Walters <walters(a)redhat.com> 1.0.7-1
- New upstream version
bison-2.0-4
-----------
* Thu Jan 06 2005 Roland McGrath <roland(a)redhat.com> - 2.0-4
- update upstream URLs, add doc files (#144346)
* Thu Jan 06 2005 Roland McGrath <roland(a)redhat.com> - 2.0-3
- missing %defattr for subpackage
* Thu Jan 06 2005 Roland McGrath <roland(a)redhat.com> - 2.0-2
- split liby.a into bison-devel package
cups-1:1.1.23-2
---------------
* Thu Jan 06 2005 Tim Waugh <twaugh(a)redhat.com> 1.1.23-2
- Fixed patch from STR #1023.
device-mapper-1.00.20-1
-----------------------
* Thu Jan 06 2005 Alasdair Kergon <agk(a)redhat.com> - 1.00.20-1
- Minor fixes and updates - see WHATS_NEW.
dhcp-8:3.0.2rc3-1
-----------------
* Thu Jan 06 2005 Jason Vas Dias <jvdias(a)redhat.com> 8:3.0.2rc3.1
- still need an epoch to get past nvre test
* Thu Jan 06 2005 Jason Vas Dias <jvdias(a)redhat.com> 3.0.2rc3-1
- fix bug 144417: much improved dhclient-script
* Thu Jan 06 2005 Jason Vas Dias <jvdias(a)redhat.com> 3.0.2rc3-1
- Upgrade to latest release from ISC, which includes most of our
- recent patches anyway.
dovecot-0.99.11-10.devel
------------------------
* Thu Jan 06 2005 John Dennis <jdennis(a)redhat.com> 0.99.11-10.devel
- fix bug #133618, removed LITERAL+ capability from capability string
* Wed Jan 05 2005 John Dennis <jdennis(a)redhat.com> 0.99.11-9.devel
- fix bug #134325, stop dovecot during installation
* Wed Jan 05 2005 John Dennis <jdennis(a)redhat.com> 0.99.11-8.devel
- fix bug #129539, dovecot starts too early,
set chkconfig to 65 35 to match cyrus-imapd
- also delete some old commented out code from SSL certificate creation
gamin-0.0.20-1
--------------
* Thu Jan 06 2005 Daniel Veillard <veillard(a)redhat.com> 0.0.20-1
- Frederic Crozat seems to have found the GList corruption which may fix
- Frederic Crozat also fixed poll only mode
gcc4-4.0.0-0.18
---------------
* Thu Jan 06 2005 Jakub Jelinek <jakub(a)redhat.com> 4.0.0-0.18
- update from trunk
- fix PRs tree-optimization/19060, rtl-optimization/18861,
tree-optimization/18828, rtl-optimization/19012,
tree-optimization/19283
gsl-1.6-1
---------
* Thu Jan 06 2005 Ivana Varekova <varekova(a)redhat.com>
- update to 1.6
kernel-2.6.10-1.1069_FC4
------------------------
* Thu Jan 06 2005 Rik van Riel <riel(a)redhat.com>
- update to latest xen-unstable tree
- fix up Xen compile with -bk9, mostly pudding
* Thu Jan 06 2005 Dave Jones <davej(a)redhat.com>
- Rebase to 2.6.10-bk9
* Tue Jan 04 2005 Dave Jones <davej(a)redhat.com>
- Rebase to 2.6.10-bk7
- Add periodic slab debug checker.
lvm2-2.00.32-2.0
----------------
* Thu Jan 06 2005 Alasdair Kergon <agk(a)redhat.com> - 2.00.32-2.0
- Remove temporary /sbin symlinks no longer needed.
- Include read-only pool support in the build.
lynx-2.8.5-21
-------------
* Thu Jan 06 2005 Tim Waugh <twaugh(a)redhat.com> 2.8.5-21
- Fixed <option> handling (bug #90302).
mrtg-2.11.1-1
-------------
* Thu Jan 06 2005 Miloslav Trmac <mitr(a)redhat.com> - 2.11.1-1
- Update to mrtg-2.11.1
rpmdb-fedora-1:4-0.20050107
---------------------------
synaptics-0:0.14.0-1
--------------------
* Thu Jan 06 2005 Paul Nasrat <pnasrat(a)redhat.com> - 0:0.14.0-1
- Update to 0.14.0
- Drop patch for 64bit as upstream now
system-config-samba-1.2.25-1
----------------------------
* Thu Jan 06 2005 Nils Philippsen <nphilipp(a)redhat.com> - 1.2.25-1
- use correct option menu for encrypt password
- use lower case for security value
- mask default values with a ";" instead of removing them altogether
xen-2-20050106
--------------
* Thu Jan 06 2005 Rik van Riel <riel(a)redhat.com>
- upgrade to new snapshot of xen-unstable
xscreensaver-1:4.18-17
----------------------
* Thu Jan 06 2005 Ray Strode <rstrode(a)redhat.com> 1:4.18-17
- Change lock dialog instructions to only ask for password
and not username.
ytalk-3.2.0-1
-------------
* Thu Jan 06 2005 Tim Waugh <twaugh(a)redhat.com> 3.2.0-1
- 3.2.0 (bug #144355).
19 years, 3 months
Compiling code that uses kernel headers
by Stephen John Smoogen
I am working with the libpcap + ringbuffer and trying to get it moved
from Debian to Red Hat. The Debian/Slackware code depends upon
/usr/include/linux/system.h which has the kernel version of asm.h
linked to if for the platform. For i386 this is asm-i386.h which has
the macro mb(); that the pcap ringbuffer code relies on to make sure
some obscure race conditions are taken of. [I do not know what the
race condition is beyond it talking to the kernel half of the
ringbuffer.]
Anyway it compiles well on the other Linux versions we have because it
can find the call to mb() without problems. On Fecore Core 3 (and most
likely RHEL4) it does not work at all because of kernel system.h now
in /lib/modules/....
What is the best way of dealing with items like this?
--
Stephen J Smoogen.
CSIRT/Linux System Administrator
19 years, 3 months
