KernelTrap Suggestions and Feedback

KernelTrap suggestions and feedback.

how Executing iopl() function local user

Submitted by prakash07
on March 19, 2005 - 1:00am
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I have program which is using the iopl() function i cannot excute the program rather than root.

i want to excute the program from local user can any one tell me how to execute this program from local user.

Mailing List archives do not escape < and >

Submitted by Kedar Sovani
on March 3, 2005 - 6:48am
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It appears that the mailing list archives do not replace the < and > with their HTML equivalents.

So, when the sequence like this :

<something_here>

appears, it treats it as some HTML tag and not understanding it, gulps it out.

Nice is not nice.

Submitted by Anonymous
on February 28, 2005 - 5:08am
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Linux is great. It always gives me an extra year out of hardware that would otherwise get passed on to the family. But one thing that annoys me is nice and process priorities.

Running big cpu-bound jobs, I often make use of nice to shunt the priority to 19. But even with this lowest priority, my heavy-duty jobs get in the way of regular use of my platform. What I'd like to see is a nice 30 or a nice 300 or let's really go to town and have a nice 3000! :-) This is a way of saying, I really don't want this process consuming resources until I'm not around. "Go use at or cron" you'll probably say. But that's missing the point. I don't know when I'm going to be around. The closest solutions so far are the number-crunching screensavers (like SETI). Ok so I can run my bigs jobs as a screensaver, but shouldn't this kind of resource management be part of the kernel?

Some 2.6.10 kernel problems (with ide_detect and vesafb)

Submitted by Vertical
on February 7, 2005 - 2:07am
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I have self-compiled 2.6.10 kernel

On on start I get some errors:

1) Sometimes I recieve: "module ide_detect unable to load". I really can't find to what kernel option this module belongs..

2) In kernel log: "vesafb: probe of vesafb0 failed with error -6"

Help me to solve this
Thanks

Broken blogs and stuff

Submitted by bluefoxicy
on January 18, 2005 - 3:01pm
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I keep trying to post a blog entry or a comment to today's poll and they don't go through. As for my blog, it goes "Your blog entry was posted successfully\n\nACCESS DENIED you don't have authorization to view this page" and doesn't post the entry.

An idea about handling universal resources.

Submitted by jtsop
on November 10, 2004 - 4:01am
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I had an idea which I believe would help all users if implemented in the OS level. Currently if you want to manipulate a file/resource which is a remote computer, it is not easy to do it. you should know the application that handles that protocol and any switches you may need for that application. But there is already an answer to that. You can use URIs to refer to these resources.

e.g. when you want to copy a file from a remote computer to your computer you should use

didn't get my password

Submitted by Anonymous
on October 27, 2004 - 7:17am
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hi,
i tried to create my account and i received message that password was sent to my email, but i didn't receive it. i tried to generate new password but i also didn't get it.
my login is morgwai and my email should be morgwai at wp dot pl - maybe i've made a spelling mistake in it, but i don't think so...

thanks and regards

Numbers of Visitors

Submitted by xwings
on October 17, 2004 - 9:40am
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Jeremy,

How can I get the visitors counter on the blog ?
I remember we hv it last time :)

How to add some article (topic) to "my blog"...

Submitted by gbnaidu
on October 12, 2004 - 4:59pm
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I would like to know how to add a specific article or forum topic discussions to my personal blog.

Appreciate the helpful information.

thanks
--gb

Help needed regarding RSS feed

Submitted by gbnaidu
on September 30, 2004 - 1:53pm
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Hi,

I would like to add a specific forum topic as RSS feed to the webpage. How can I do this? For example, I would like to add "Linux kernel 2.4 (Forums/linux kernel/2.4) as an RSS feed.

Thanks for the help
--gb

plan9

Submitted by Greg Buchholz
on September 10, 2004 - 10:13am
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Do any kerneltrappers have an opinion on plan9? It seems to have an interesting architecture and even has a free software license. Any reason it's not more popular?

Articles get mixed up when changing "Comment viewing options"

Submitted by Anonymous
on August 30, 2004 - 6:57am
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Hi!

I was viewing the "Linux: Removing the Philips Webcam Driver" article (http://kerneltrap.org/node/view/3729#comment) and changed the "Comment viewing options" from threaded list to "Flat list - expanded", then clicked "Save Settings".
After that another article appeared, instead of the same on , just with different comment view.
Now when I am typing this , I tried it again, and now after clicking "Save Settings" I got to the FAQ (http://kerneltrap.org/faq?PHPSESSID=cdbed1183d2a3bcbb898c62ca55744f5)

Linux, GCC, Program developers ...

Submitted by Anonymous
on August 6, 2004 - 2:55pm
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Hi, I'm not an expert user, this days I try to install gentoo on my laptop, and is was something (I don't know really how to explain it) but bootstraping the system, it was a very dificult for me.
The situation is:
gcc compiler knows how to optimize programs
we have a lot of scripts and programs that tell us wath are the flags that we can activate or not, to compile to our architecture, and developers can tell us what are the flags that we cant use to optimize software, ok.

Where are all the articles?

Submitted by Con Kolivas
on June 25, 2004 - 9:23am
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What happened? Kerneltrap used to be updated regularly with great kernel stuff making it worth a visit daily. I guess everyone' too busy now... what a shame.

did not get registration email

Submitted by Anonymous
on May 29, 2004 - 11:41am
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Hello, I did not receive my registration email neither, so I can't activate my account. I re-requested it again, but to no avail. My email address is morton_at_softhome_net, please contact me...

thx
mortee