Re: How the hell does one create a new bus?!

1999-02-15 Thread Doug Rabson
[hackers removed from Cc to prevent excessive crossposting] On Sun, 14 Feb 1999, Garrett Wollman wrote: On Sun, 14 Feb 1999 16:44:37 -0800 (PST), Julian Elischer jul...@whistle.com said: The trouble is Doug, that until there IS a developer's guide, the only person capable if moving PCI

Problesm w/ 4.0-current wine

1999-02-15 Thread Donn Miller
When I try to run wine on FreeBSD 4.0-CURRENT, I get the following message: Feb 15 05:19:56 myname /kernel: Patch manager interface is currently broken. Sorry Feb 15 05:19:56 myname /kernel: Patch manager interface is currently broken. Sorry wine: can't exec 'demo1.exe': error=0 wine: no

Re: Problesm w/ 4.0-current wine

1999-02-15 Thread Maxim Sobolev
I'm also using wine(latest from ports) with 4.0-current and it works for me (elf kernel). Donn Miller wrote: When I try to run wine on FreeBSD 4.0-CURRENT, I get the following message: Feb 15 05:19:56 myname /kernel: Patch manager interface is currently broken. Sorry Feb 15 05:19:56 myname

Re: How to power off an ATX power supply machine on shutdown ?

1999-02-15 Thread Jose M. Alcaide
Alex Zepeda wrote: Is a delay needed between the final sync's and the actual power off? Apparently so. There is/was a recently added sysctl for this purpose. Poke around in the archives. Was that sysctl added to the -STABLE branch? I am running 3.1-BETA and I cannot find it. -- JMA

Re: Disk locks and weird things

1999-02-15 Thread Dag-Erling Smorgrav
Matthew Thyer m...@camtech.com.au writes: On Sun, 14 Feb 1999, Erik Funkenbusch wrote: During a make world (usually about 10-20 minutes in on my P100) everything just comes to a grinding halt. No disk activity, but the screen saver will kick in (despite the shell being in the middle of

Re: Weird piecemeal reads over socketpair() pipe breaks up small writes into even smaller reads.

1999-02-15 Thread Peter Dufault
When the writer blocks, the reader runs and uses a buggy loop to read only the first chunk of input. On an otherwise idle system, the need_resched() condition seems to be true always. I would have expected the synchronisation provided by the sleep(1) to bias need_resched() in the opposite

Re: Problesm w/ 4.0-current wine

1999-02-15 Thread Kris Kennaway
On Mon, 15 Feb 1999, Donn Miller wrote: I've got the USER_LDT option in my kernel, and I'm running an `aout' instead of `elf' kernel. I thought running a.out systems had been deprecated for -current and was no longer supported. Since you're running a bleeding-edge codebase anyway, why haven't

Re: Heads up! /etc/rc.conf.site is dead.

1999-02-15 Thread Sheldon Hearn
On Fri, 12 Feb 1999 16:56:48 PST, Jaye Mathisen wrote: mergemaster is your friend. Mergemaster will help you update /etc/defaults/rc.conf, but you'll need to use something else to merge changes from that file into /etc/rc.conf . Ciao, Sheldon. To Unsubscribe: send mail to

Re: Problesm w/ 4.0-current wine

1999-02-15 Thread Donn Miller
Kris Kennaway wrote: On Mon, 15 Feb 1999, Donn Miller wrote: I've got the USER_LDT option in my kernel, and I'm running an `aout' instead of `elf' kernel. I thought running a.out systems had been deprecated for -current and was no longer supported. Since you're running a bleeding-edge

Re: Problesm w/ 4.0-current wine

1999-02-15 Thread Brian Feldman
On Mon, 15 Feb 1999, Donn Miller wrote: Kris Kennaway wrote: On Mon, 15 Feb 1999, Donn Miller wrote: I've got the USER_LDT option in my kernel, and I'm running an `aout' instead of `elf' kernel. I thought running a.out systems had been deprecated for -current and was no

Re: New print interface

1999-02-15 Thread Daniel C. Sobral
Chuck Robey wrote: If IO is generic, then printing the type of printer it finds is meaningless, right? It's going to announce generic no matter what, then it should stay silent, right? Better to say nothing than to get it wrong every time, especially with the correct info sitting mere

Re: Problesm w/ 4.0-current wine

1999-02-15 Thread Daniel C. Sobral
Donn Miller wrote: Kris Kennaway wrote: On Mon, 15 Feb 1999, Donn Miller wrote: I've got the USER_LDT option in my kernel, and I'm running an `aout' instead of `elf' kernel. I thought running a.out systems had been deprecated for -current and was no longer supported. Since

Re: Problesm w/ 4.0-current wine

1999-02-15 Thread Daniel C. Sobral
Brian Feldman wrote: That sounds like a bug, but the boot: prompt is NOT the new boot loader, it's the semi-new boot0 (which is quite nice, Mr. Nordier). When you actually yet to BTX, try boot -c. Terminology errors abound here. I know, because I made many of them in the past. boot0 is the

Re: Problesm w/ 4.0-current wine

1999-02-15 Thread Thomas T. Veldhouse
At the prompt: set boot_userconfig boot Tom Veldhouse ve...@visi.com -Original Message- From: Donn Miller dmm...@bellatlantic.net To: Kris Kennaway kkenn...@physics.adelaide.edu.au Cc: curr...@freebsd.org curr...@freebsd.org Date: Monday, February 15, 1999 6:34 AM Subject: Re:

Re: Problesm w/ 4.0-current wine

1999-02-15 Thread Brian Feldman
On Mon, 15 Feb 1999, Daniel C. Sobral wrote: Brian Feldman wrote: That sounds like a bug, but the boot: prompt is NOT the new boot loader, it's the semi-new boot0 (which is quite nice, Mr. Nordier). When you actually yet to BTX, try boot -c. Terminology errors abound here. I

Re: Weird piecemeal reads over socketpair() pipe breaks up small writes into even smaller reads.

1999-02-15 Thread Bruce Evans
Ok, so perhaps tweeking the rescheduling changes in kern_subr.c to not try to do it in the first few thousand bytes copied is the solution? kern_subr.c can't do that, because `struct uio' doesn't give the original count. Would you like to do it or should I? This isn't high priority

Re: Problesm w/ 4.0-current wine

1999-02-15 Thread Mike Smith
Kris Kennaway wrote: On Mon, 15 Feb 1999, Donn Miller wrote: I've got the USER_LDT option in my kernel, and I'm running an `aout' instead of `elf' kernel. I thought running a.out systems had been deprecated for -current and was no longer supported. Since you're running a

Re: Problesm w/ 4.0-current wine

1999-02-15 Thread Mike Smith
That sounds like a bug, but the boot: prompt is NOT the new boot loader, it's the semi-new boot0 (which is quite nice, Mr. Nordier). 'boot:' comes from boot2, actually. When you actually yet to BTX, try boot -c. ... and you never get to BTX, you end up the loader. -- \\ Sometimes

Re: How to power off an ATX power supply machine on shutdown ?

1999-02-15 Thread D. Rock
Is a delay needed between the final sync's and the actual power off? Apparently so. There is/was a recently added sysctl for this purpose. Poke around in the archives. Was that sysctl added to the -STABLE branch? I am running 3.1-BETA and I cannot find it. No, they were added

easily reproducible NFS-related panic

1999-02-15 Thread Jose M. Alcaide
Sorry for the cross-posting, but I am running -STABLE and I would like to hear from -CURRENT users about this problem. The panic is easily reproducible: simply, try to hard-link a file from a local filesystem to a NFS-mounted one (yes, I _know_ that this is non-sense): mount

Re: panics deciphering VMSTAT output

1999-02-15 Thread Geoff Buckingham
Previously on Sun, Feb 14, 1999 at 09:37:01PM -0500, tc...@staff.circle.net wrote: : I've been trying to track down a regular, but not : manually reproducible crash in 3.0-BETA (19990205). : : I can't get a crashdump due to a DSCHECK negative : number bug. I think my swap space of 3+GB is : too

Re: easily reproducible NFS-related panic

1999-02-15 Thread Matthew Dillon
:Sorry for the cross-posting, but I am running -STABLE and I would :like to hear from -CURRENT users about this problem. : :The panic is easily reproducible: simply, try to hard-link a file :from a local filesystem to a NFS-mounted one (yes, I _know_ that :this is non-sense): :.. : : mount

Re: Weird piecemeal reads over socketpair() pipe breaks up small writes into even smaller reads.

1999-02-15 Thread Matthew Dillon
:kern_subr.c can't do that, because `struct uio' doesn't give the original :count. : :Would you like to do it or should I? This isn't high priority but it :should definitely not be rescheduling after the first 96 bytes. That's :just a waste of cpu. : :The waste for rescheduling

Re: support for 3Com 3C575 network controller?

1999-02-15 Thread Doug White
On Sat, 13 Feb 1999, Steve Price wrote: Is anyone out there successfully using a 3Com 3C375 network controller in there laptop? I got a new Dell Inspiron 7000 that came with one of these jewels and I haven't been able to find the trick to make it work. CardBus cards aren't supported.

Re: Weird piecemeal reads over socketpair() pipe breaks up small writes into even smaller reads.

1999-02-15 Thread Bill Fenner
Isn't it easier to reclassify the bug as uipc_send() wakes up the reader before it's done appending the data from a write() to the socket buffer and use my patch? I don't think it makes sense for uipc_send() to depend on sorwakeup() not actually waking up anyone in certain situations. Bill To

Re: easily reproducible NFS-related panic

1999-02-15 Thread Dom Mitchell
On 15 February 1999, Jose M. Alcaide proclaimed: Sorry for the cross-posting, but I am running -STABLE and I would like to hear from -CURRENT users about this problem. The panic is easily reproducible: simply, try to hard-link a file from a local filesystem to a NFS-mounted one (yes, I

Re: support for 3Com 3C575 network controller?

1999-02-15 Thread Steve Price
On Mon, 15 Feb 1999, Doug White wrote: # CardBus cards aren't supported. Period. Eek, I didn't realize this was a CardBus card. :{ I quess this begs the question though, is anyone working on CardBus support for FreeBSD since this is the 32-bit version of PCMCIA? Yes I understand they are

Problems in VM structure ?

1999-02-15 Thread Khetan Gajjar
Hi. I saw that my 4-CURRENT box from 8 February dropped to ddb after my last make world. I rebuilt world today, and the same problem is occuring. These problems started occuring after Matt Dillon's changes to the VM system. What is worrying/troubling is that in single user mode, the machine is

Re: support for 3Com 3C575 network controller?

1999-02-15 Thread Doug Rabson
On Mon, 15 Feb 1999, Steve Price wrote: On Mon, 15 Feb 1999, Doug White wrote: # CardBus cards aren't supported. Period. Eek, I didn't realize this was a CardBus card. :{ I quess this begs the question though, is anyone working on CardBus support for FreeBSD since this is the 32-bit

Re: Problems in VM structure ?

1999-02-15 Thread Luoqi Chen
Hi. I saw that my 4-CURRENT box from 8 February dropped to ddb after my last make world. I rebuilt world today, and the same problem is occuring. These problems started occuring after Matt Dillon's changes to the VM system. What is worrying/troubling is that in single user mode, the

Re: Problems in VM structure ?

1999-02-15 Thread Greg Lehey
On Monday, 15 February 1999 at 18:00:16 -0500, Luoqi Chen wrote: Hi. I saw that my 4-CURRENT box from 8 February dropped to ddb after my last make world. I rebuilt world today, and the same problem is occuring. These problems started occuring after Matt Dillon's changes to the VM system.

Re: ifq_maxlen on lo0

1999-02-15 Thread Jamie Clark
On Thu, Feb 11, 1999 at 12:53:05PM -0500, Chuck Robey wrote: My boot messages recently have included a warning about the lo0 interface not setting the ifq_maxlen. Same here. Rebuilt a few hours ago, and now I see: IP packet filtering initialized, divert disabled, rule-based forwarding

Re: ifq_maxlen on lo0

1999-02-15 Thread Chuck Robey
On Tue, 16 Feb 1999, Jamie Clark wrote: On Thu, Feb 11, 1999 at 12:53:05PM -0500, Chuck Robey wrote: My boot messages recently have included a warning about the lo0 interface not setting the ifq_maxlen. Same here. Rebuilt a few hours ago, and now I see: IP packet filtering initialized,

Re: Problesm w/ 4.0-current wine

1999-02-15 Thread Mike Smith
Whoops, I always end up typing the wrong thing :) boot0 is the MBR, boot2 is the kernel loader, and they're all by Mr. Nordier. Wrong again. boot0 is in the MBR, boot1 and boot2 are the bootstrap; all by Robert. The loader, OTOH, uses Robert's BTX code, Ficl, and a lot of code derived by me

HELP: vm_fault

1999-02-15 Thread T.D. Brace
Can anyone give me a hand with this problem? Machines are dropping like flies from this, one I haven't managed to get back at all (hangs on syncing disks). Anyway, this web server runs just fine for 1 - 3 days, then loses one of it's drives (da1). I'm not a kernel hacker, so I was looking for

Re: HELP: vm_fault

1999-02-15 Thread Julian Elischer
I'd move forward, not back.. take the 3.1 release that will be available in a day or so.. 3.0 was a bit experimental still. On Mon, 15 Feb 1999, T.D. Brace wrote: Can anyone give me a hand with this problem? Machines are dropping like flies from this, one I haven't managed to get back at

Re: Netscape, again

1999-02-15 Thread Alexander Sanda
Chris Tubutis ch...@tci.com writes: whenever I click a mailto: HREF it inadvertly dumps core. Does it truly dump core, or does it merely go away? Can't speak for the original poster, but my Netscrap 4.5 shows the same behaviour: [16]a...@darkstar:/alex #/usr/local/netscape/netscape

Re: Problesm w/ 4.0-current wine

1999-02-15 Thread Brian Feldman
On Mon, 15 Feb 1999, Mike Smith wrote: Whoops, I always end up typing the wrong thing :) boot0 is the MBR, boot2 is the kernel loader, and they're all by Mr. Nordier. Wrong again. boot0 is in the MBR, boot1 and boot2 are the bootstrap; all by Robert. The loader, OTOH, uses Robert's BTX

vesa and X wierdness

1999-02-15 Thread Jake
Hi, if I load the vesa kld module from loader.rc, in order to use a high-res splash screen, when X starts the screen is very dim. Usually I start xdm from ttys, but its the same if I use startx. The cursor looks normal, its really bright against the dim screen. Its fine if I don't load vesa and

Re: vesa and X wierdness

1999-02-15 Thread Kazutaka YOKOTA
Hi, if I load the vesa kld module from loader.rc, in order to use a high-res splash screen, when X starts the screen is very dim. Usually I start xdm from ttys, but its the same if I use startx. The cursor looks normal, its really bright against the dim screen. Its fine if I don't load vesa and

Re: Problesm w/ 4.0-current wine

1999-02-15 Thread Daniel C. Sobral
I spent sometime just staring at the subject, before reading the message, trying to remember if I had been to any FreeBSD drinking problems thread... :-) -- Daniel C. Sobral(8-DCS) d...@newsguy.com d...@freebsd.org Well, as a computer geek, I have to believe in

Re: vesa and X wierdness

1999-02-15 Thread Jake
Please try the attached patch for /sys/i386/isa/vesa.c and see if it works. Kazu Yes, that worked. No more dim screen. Thanks alot! To Unsubscribe: send mail to majord...@freebsd.org with unsubscribe freebsd-current in the body of the message