Re: eVLBI PCs discussion points (fwd)
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From: <rdodson_at_email.protected>
Date: 03 Jun 2005 11:16:24 +0200
John,
>The original problem with the current machine here was that the
(serial)
>mouse occupied COM1, so to get a third serial port required activating
>COM3 and/or COM4. Despite many hours' trying we couldn't get either of
>these to work properly with either the DAS or the Mk3.
I had similar problems with the Hobart system. I didn't know you'd tried
and failed as well.
Chris,
>- We still need to double check both motherboards are supported by
>Linux 2.4.
>
>- Should we spend time porting the system to Linux 2.6?
>
Do you have my comments on this (from last year). There is a patch
(bigphysarea) which needs to be added. This has been ported to 2.6 now
http://lwn.net/Articles/111132/ Subject: [PATCH] bigphysarea for 2.6.9
Richard
Received on 2005-06-03 19:17:29
Date: 03 Jun 2005 11:16:24 +0200
John,
>The original problem with the current machine here was that the
(serial)
>mouse occupied COM1, so to get a third serial port required activating
>COM3 and/or COM4. Despite many hours' trying we couldn't get either of
>these to work properly with either the DAS or the Mk3.
I had similar problems with the Hobart system. I didn't know you'd tried
and failed as well.
Chris,
>- We still need to double check both motherboards are supported by
>Linux 2.4.
>
>- Should we spend time porting the system to Linux 2.6?
>
Do you have my comments on this (from last year). There is a patch
(bigphysarea) which needs to be added. This has been ported to 2.6 now
http://lwn.net/Articles/111132/ Subject: [PATCH] bigphysarea for 2.6.9
Richard
Received on 2005-06-03 19:17:29