From pxc@lists.prosa.it  Mon Mar 12 22:37:01 2001
From: pxc@lists.prosa.it (Tye Brady)
Date: Mon, 12 Mar 2001 17:37:01 -0500 (EST)
Subject: [Pxc] PXC200L on RH7.0?
Message-ID: <200103122237.RAA18097@benz.mit.edu>

Hello and Big Thanks!

I am trying to run my PXC200L on 2.2.16.22 (fresh out of the box)
and find when I do a pxc_load the entire system hangs.

What to do?

I downlaod 0.28 and did make and make install.

Any help would be GREAT!

Thanks again,
Tye


From pxc@lists.prosa.it  Mon Mar 12 22:39:55 2001
From: pxc@lists.prosa.it (Tye Brady)
Date: Mon, 12 Mar 2001 17:39:55 -0500 (EST)
Subject: [Pxc] PXC200L on RH7.0
Message-ID: <200103122239.RAA18291@benz.mit.edu>

Hello and thanks for reading,

I am trying to install 0.28 on my RH7.0 (2.2.16-22) machine and after
I did the "make" and "make install" my system hangs up when I do
the "pxc_load".

ANy help would be GREAT!

Thanks very much,
Tye


From pxc@lists.prosa.it  Tue Mar 13 08:25:56 2001
From: pxc@lists.prosa.it (pxc@lists.prosa.it)
Date: Tue, 13 Mar 2001 10:25:56 +0200
Subject: [Pxc] PXC200L on RH7.0
In-Reply-To: <200103122239.RAA18291@benz.mit.edu>
References: <200103122239.RAA18291@benz.mit.edu>
Message-ID: <f6mratg0gbt5ljj0d7fb1oj2jgbhecreg5@4ax.com>

On Mon, 12 Mar 2001 17:39:55 -0500 (EST), you wrote:

>Hello and thanks for reading,
>
>I am trying to install 0.28 on my RH7.0 (2.2.16-22) machine and after
>I did the "make" and "make install" my system hangs up when I do
>the "pxc_load".
>
>ANy help would be GREAT!

Have you done the alocator process as described in the doc files?
Have you RTFM?

You need to reserve about 1Mb of memory by adding a line on lilo.

Marius.

>Thanks very much,
>Tye
>
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From pxc@lists.prosa.it  Tue Mar 13 08:28:42 2001
From: pxc@lists.prosa.it (pxc@lists.prosa.it)
Date: Tue, 13 Mar 2001 10:28:42 +0200
Subject: [Pxc] pxc question
Message-ID: <aamratsjdlovs9e2pau82130miuipgk0e8@4ax.com>

Is there ever going to be a newer version?

I heard there was a problem with streaks apearing in newer versions. (I've
experienced some of these myself, and had to revert back to another card)

Just curious.
Have not heard anything for awhile...

Regards,
Marius.
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From pxc@lists.prosa.it  Tue Mar 13 11:51:20 2001
From: pxc@lists.prosa.it (Alessandro Rubini)
Date: Tue, 13 Mar 2001 12:51:20 +0100
Subject: [Pxc] pxc question
In-Reply-To: <aamratsjdlovs9e2pau82130miuipgk0e8@4ax.com>
Message-ID: <20010313125120.A30408@morgana.systemy.it>

Hello Marius.

> Is there ever going to be a newer version?

Yes.

I've been very busy, and I still am, so I couldn't really produce any
"for fun" software. Not study nor anything else (and my email queue is
over 300 now -- 12 of them are pxc-related).

I plan to make a massive upgrade to the pxc driver pretty soon. I want
to port it to 2.4 (possibly dropping 2.0 support), implement
double-buffering and correct locking for SMP. Possibly testing on
other platforms as well, if time permits.

But first I have to complete the new edition of the book and delivery
other drivers that are paid for (you know, they take precedence
because life is costly and the marked for GPL stuff is tiny).
 
> I heard there was a problem with streaks apearing in newer versions.

I'm not experiencing them. I've had them only with older versions.
Most likely it's the high load on the PCI bus.

> Have not heard anything for awhile...

That's true. Time is not a renewable resource.
/alessandro


From pxc@lists.prosa.it  Tue Mar 13 14:04:53 2001
From: pxc@lists.prosa.it (M Bianchi)
Date: Tue, 13 Mar 2001 09:04:53 -0500
Subject: [Pxc] pxc question
In-Reply-To: <aamratsjdlovs9e2pau82130miuipgk0e8@4ax.com>
References: <aamratsjdlovs9e2pau82130miuipgk0e8@4ax.com>
Message-ID: <20010313090453.A1181@Foveal.com>

On Tue, Mar 13, 2001 at 10:28:42AM +0200, marius@tbs.co.za wrote:
> Is there ever going to be a newer version?
> 
> I heard there was a problem with streaks apearing in newer versions. (I've
> experienced some of these myself, and had to revert back to another card)

I am still using  pxc-0.23  because  0.26  and  0.28 both reliably give me
streaks, regardless of the specific motherboard and processor (I've tried
two).  The streaks seem to correlate with processor load, so I _guess_ they
are due to missed interrupts, but my ignorance of the insides the kernel is
massive.

pxc 0.23 had to be mofified to work with  include/linux/modversions.h  and
I _think_ Allesandro made that change in  pxc 0.24 , but I never moved up.

I'm running Linux 2.2.12-20, pretty much as delivered by Red Hat in  RH6.2 .

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From pxc@lists.prosa.it  Wed Mar 14 11:48:13 2001
From: pxc@lists.prosa.it (Alessandro Rubini)
Date: Wed, 14 Mar 2001 12:48:13 +0100
Subject: [Pxc] PXC200L on RH7.0?
Message-ID: <20010314124813.A32693@morgana.systemy.it>

Hi.

> I am trying to run my PXC200L on 2.2.16.22 (fresh out of the box)
> and find when I do a pxc_load the entire system hangs.

That's very strange. I never experienced this. Could you please
do the following after "make" to help me trace the problem?
This must be invoked _from_a_text_console_  not an xterm in your graphic
environment.

1- cat /proc/ksyms > ksyms
2- nm pxc.o > pxcsyms
3- dmesg | grep Memory > mem
4- cat /proc/meminfo >> mem
6- cat /proc/bus/pci/devices > pcidev
5- echo 8 > /proc/sys/kernel/printk
6- sync
7- insmod pxc.o

Note that "6" is to save your disks, as "7" can be the event that hangs
your system.

If it hangs, I need the information printed on the screen (as "5"
above raises the amount of messages that get printed). If it doesn't
hang, I'd like to see the output of "1" again, then please make it
hang in the usual way and send me all the files (possibly in .tar.gz
format).

/alessandro


