Stuff Michael Meeks is doing
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- Slept extremely badly, unbearable itchiness in the
night; nasty. Discovered the thinkpad failing to write anything
to disk this morning; prehaps it's not Reiser - but just the
IDE code; loads of:
Dec 4 17:58:55 linux kernel: hda: read_intr: status=0x59 { DriveReady SeekComplete DataRequest Error }
Dec 4 17:58:55 linux kernel: hda: read_intr: error=0x10 { SectorIdNotFound }, LBAsect=72506408, sector=47634008
messages; with DMA off, and 16bit I/O. Turned DMA & 32bit I/O
back on - and the errors went away temporarily, sync worked again;
concerning indeed - then something turned DMA off again, and it
went bad again - miraculous.
- Off to get the train, chewed mail. Glad the cairo
stuff seems to be garnering wider interest. Dug in the kernel for
my warning, re-booted, used hdparm -m 0 to turn off multiple foo,
seemed to calm the situation a tad.
- Got to Morden, found the place; met Eddie, Sean, Steve
and a selection of others: John, Alex, Evelyn, Chris, Andrew, Jane,
Phil Hands had a pleasant meal, good to catch up, some interesting
guys, more people than last-year. Plugged Novell's Linux direction
enthusiastically; we rock. Home early.
- Drove back to NCC for a youth-drop-in center meeting,
needs more work on the thin-client computing setup; must spend some
time there too. Home to the lovely wife.
- More laptop debugging stuff; discovered that Ted Tso is a Christian; 1 down,
4 billion to go; great. Set about following the advice on this page wrt.
setup. Turned of the 'special partition' protection stuff in the
bios - perhaps some low level BIOS hooks were intercepting writes
to those sectors (a vain hope perhaps), distributed my PCI
interrupts around a bit.
- Chewed mail, bed but no sleep, up to hack gtk+, turned
around Owen's comments as a new, nicer patch. Finally to bed.
My content in this blog and associated images / data under
images/ and data/ directories are (usually)
created by me and (unless obviously labelled otherwise) are licensed under
the public domain, and/or if that doesn't float your boat a CC0
license. I encourage linking back (of course) to help people decide for
themselves, in context, in the battle for ideas, and I love fixes /
improvements / corrections by private mail.
In case it's not painfully obvious: the reflections reflected here are my
own; mine, all mine ! and don't reflect the views of Collabora, SUSE,
Novell, The Document Foundation, Spaghetti Hurlers (International),
or anyone else.
It's also important to realise that I'm not in on the Swedish Conspiracy.
Occasionally people ask for formal photos for conferences
or fun.
Michael Meeks (michael.meeks@collabora.com)
