Re: FreeBSD boot menu is missing

2008-11-28 Thread Rick C. Petty
On Thu, Nov 27, 2008 at 11:45:10AM +0100, Dag-Erling Smørgrav wrote: > > Just make sure you leave a few unallocated blocks at the end of the disk > (for gmirror metadata). In most cases, this happens automatically, Well, you only need to leave room for 512 bytes or one hard drive sector, in the

Re: Fwd: FBSD 7.1 BETA2 and RTL8168/8111 problem

2008-11-28 Thread Pegasus Mc Cleaft
On Friday 28 November 2008 17:14:33 Fernando Apesteguía wrote: > Hi, > > I forward my orginal mail to freebsd-questions. I hope someone can > shed some light here... > > > -- Forwarded message -- > From: Fernando Apesteguía <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Date: Fri, Nov 28, 2008 at 9:33 AM >

Fwd: FBSD 7.1 BETA2 and RTL8168/8111 problem

2008-11-28 Thread Fernando Apesteguía
Hi, I forward my orginal mail to freebsd-questions. I hope someone can shed some light here... -- Forwarded message -- From: Fernando Apesteguía <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Fri, Nov 28, 2008 at 9:33 AM Subject: FBSD 7.1 BETA2 and RTL8168/8111 problem To: FreeBSD <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

HOWTO in wiki: adding custom dtrace probes in the kernel

2008-11-28 Thread Alexander Leidinger
Hi, while working on adding dtrace probes to the linuxulator, I thought it may be interesting for some people to know how to do this, so I added some text/examples into the wiki how to add static dtrace probes in the kernel: http://wiki.freebsd.org/HOWTO-dtrace-sdt If you are interest

dd if=/dev/mem can hang a machine?

2008-11-28 Thread Andriy Gapon
I have a new machine with DG33TL mainboard (ICH9/G33). In a course of some hacking I ran dd if=/dev/mem ... to scan all memory, this caused the machine to hang. I tried to reproduce and this is 100% reproducible. I am not used to such behavior. In older days I could scan all the memory without an

Re: ukbd attachment and root mount

2008-11-28 Thread Andriy Gapon
on 27/11/2008 15:23 Andriy Gapon said the following: > I increased debug level in uhub and also switched mouse and keyboard > ports hoping that order might matter. It didn't. > > Here's fresh usbdevs output snippet: > Controller /dev/usb2: > addr 1: full speed, self powered, config 1, UHCI root hu

Re: New C compiler and analyzer lang/cparser in ports

2008-11-28 Thread Alexander Leidinger
Quoting Christoph Mallon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> (from Thu, 27 Nov 2008 21:39:45 +0100): cparser is a C compiler, which can parse C89 and C99 as well as many GCC and some MSVC extensions. The handled GCC extensions include __attribute__, inline assembler, computed goto and statement expressio

Re: Hardware support for AMD Geode CS5536 audio?

2008-11-28 Thread Carlos A. M. dos Santos
On Thu, Nov 27, 2008 at 1:30 AM, ancelgray <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > To AMD CS5536 users: > > This is Andrew Gray. I have finished the audio driver for the AMD CS5536 > companion > chip. It is working on a PC Engines Alix 1C low power board under FreeBSD > 7.0. > It can be found at: > > http

Re: New C compiler and analyzer lang/cparser in ports

2008-11-28 Thread Christoph Mallon
Alexander Leidinger schrieb: Quoting Christoph Mallon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> (from Thu, 27 Nov 2008 21:39:45 +0100): cparser is a C compiler, which can parse C89 and C99 as well as many GCC and some MSVC extensions. The handled GCC extensions include __attribute__, inline assembler, computed got

Re: Hardware support for AMD Geode CS5536 audio?

2008-11-28 Thread Carlos A. M. dos Santos
On Fri, Nov 28, 2008 at 7:43 AM, Dag-Erling Smørgrav <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Patrick Lamaizière <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> You cannot include a file under the GPL license without being >> contaminated. Even a simple .h with only some #define. This is not correct, as DES explained. Anyway

Re: Hardware support for AMD Geode CS5536 audio?

2008-11-28 Thread Dag-Erling Smørgrav
Patrick Lamaizière <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > You cannot include a file under the GPL license without being > contaminated. Even a simple .h with only some #define. On the contrary, as was settled in SCO v. IBM, constant and structure definitions are not copyrightable if they are dictated by e

Re: FreeBSD boot menu is missing

2008-11-28 Thread Dag-Erling Smørgrav
"Garrett Cooper" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > That's a good brief guide, but a lot of the information is already > contained in: > . That's five years out of date, and even five years ago it was a ridiculously compli