Re: Staroffice 5.0 under 4.0-current

1999-02-17 Thread Maxim Sobolev
Go to http://lt.tar.com/ and see? transcript? of a successful installation of StarOffice 5.0. It should help you. ad...@worldbank.org wrote: I'm running 4.0-current as of late last week, elf kernel.? Everything works great - no problems.? I understand that the Linux kernel threads stuff is now

Re: Aladdin chipset SMBus support available!

1999-02-17 Thread Doug Rabson
On Tue, 16 Feb 1999, Warner Losh wrote: : Not to stop you in your tracks, but I would really love to see : somebody (more capable than the PAO people) work out a power : management architecture for us before we have too many more : hacks in this area... I'd have to agree that a unified

Re: RE: Problems in VM structure ?

1999-02-17 Thread Matthew Dillon
:I'm seeing different responses depending on hardware. : :On regular Pentium 166 machines, I almost NEVER get :a panic. On brand-new Pentium II 350s, I get a panic :every 6-9 hours. This happens when both kernels are :configured the same for maxusers. It happens when :both machines are under

Kernel option NFS_NOSERVER breaks current kernel

1999-02-17 Thread Sheldon Hearn
Hi folks, I have the following pertinent options in my kernel config: options FFS #Fast filesystem options FFS_ROOT#FFS usable as root device options MFS #Memory filesystem options NFS

Re: Kernel option NFS_NOSERVER breaks current kernel

1999-02-17 Thread Sheldon Hearn
On Wed, 17 Feb 1999 11:48:15 +0200, Sheldon Hearn wrote: Is anyone else using the NFS_NOSERVER option successfully? Bleh, I should have mentioned that the kernel builds fine if I remove the NFS_NOSERVER option. Ciao, Sheldon. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majord...@freebsd.org with

Re: VM patch.. SMP and SO5.0

1999-02-17 Thread Luoqi Chen
who's looked at this. Tor Egge, he has been very helpful during the development of the code. The pmap change was a result of discussions with him. It looks to me that this is serious stuff spliting the pmap out of the vmspace structure is a big change. caertainly a logical move but

Re: SMP and SO5.0

1999-02-17 Thread Luoqi Chen
I've gone through these patches and I can see that they are really needed for SMP where address spaces are shared. There are details I didn't get, such as where is the per-processor pde pointed, (i.e. where is the per processor KVM range) and is there a single page table for each processor

RE: RE: Problems in VM structure ?

1999-02-17 Thread tcobb
-Original Message- From: Matthew Dillon [mailto:dil...@apollo.backplane.com] :What's the chance that our kernel adaptations for PIIs :is partly at fault? : :-Troy Cobb : Circle Net, Inc. : http://www.circle.net With what config? Have you tried reducing

Re: RE: RE: Problems in VM structure ?

1999-02-17 Thread Matthew Dillon
Try reducing maxusers to 128. If you have mbuf problems, override NMBCLUSTERS ( making it 4096 or 8192 should be sufficient ). Sometimes network mbuf problems on heavily loaded machines are due to too-large default buffer sizes - if net.inet.tcp.sendspace or recvspace is greater

Re: Problems in VM structure ?

1999-02-17 Thread Gary Palmer
[ CC trimmed ] tc...@staff.circle.net wrote in message ID a0cfa284c004d211b7ee0060082f32a412e...@freya.circle.net: I've had it at MAXUSERS=256 on both the P5 and the P6. The P5 stays stable, the P6 doesn't. If I reduce MAXUSERS to 128 then these heavily loaded boxen will fall over due to out

Re: /etc/defaults/rc.conf

1999-02-17 Thread Eivind Eklund
On Wed, Feb 17, 1999 at 06:15:06PM +1030, Greg Lehey wrote: On Tuesday, 16 February 1999 at 9:24:31 -0800, Jordan K. Hubbard wrote: If I have a /etc/defaults/rc.conf, then my /etc/rc.conf won't be consulted. Wrong. You need to read just a bit FURTHER into that file before jumping to

Re: how to play with pci128 sound card

1999-02-17 Thread Chris Knight
Greetings, I also have a Creative Labs Sound Blaster PCI128 installed, and though I followed your instructions below I am not havine what I would call promising results. At 12:21 PM 1/10/99 +0100, Luigi Rizzo wrote: you need a -current system with the pcm device, then I am running

Re: Buildworld fails on today 3.1-STABLE!

1999-02-17 Thread Doug Rabson
On Tue, 16 Feb 1999, Mikhail Teterin wrote: I usually keep -O to just '-O' - I had been upping it recently, but then it started breaking even some of my simple programs, so leasson learn't, it's staying at just '-O' from now on in... (safety first? :-) -O2 works fine too. -O3 does not.

axp kernel breakage

1999-02-17 Thread Gary Palmer
cc -c -O -Wall -Wredundant-decls -Wnested-externs -Wstrict-prototypes -Wmissing-prototypes -Wpointer-arith -Winline -Wcast-qual -fformat-extensions -ansi -nostdinc -I- -I. -I../.. -I../../../include -DKERNEL -include opt_global.h -mno-fp-regs -Wa,-mev56 ../../nfs/nfs_syscalls.c

Re: SMP and SO5.0

1999-02-17 Thread John S. Dyson
Julian Elischer said: On Tue, 16 Feb 1999, Luoqi Chen wrote: You may try my patch at http://www.freebsd.org/~luoqi, which would allow linux threads to run on SMP. I've gone through these patches and I can see that they are really needed for SMP where address spaces are shared. I

Re: You Got To Love the New Kind of Spam 8)

1999-02-17 Thread Doug Rabson
On Wed, 17 Feb 1999, Kenneth D. Merry wrote: Amancio Hasty wrote... SGI is releasing GLX 8) http://biz.yahoo.com/prnews/990216/ca_silicon_2.html Have Fun, Amancio P.S.: If companies start dumping large packages is going to weight us down :( Heh. That's

Re: Buildworld fails on today 3.1-STABLE!

1999-02-17 Thread Bob Bishop
At 8:05 pm -0800 16/2/99, Mike Smith wrote: [...] No, -O2 does not work fine; we've seen reports of it breaking things before. I've been using -O2 building -current for over a year with no problems. I haven't dared try it for the kernel though... -- Bob Bishop (0118) 977 4017

Re: Problems in VM structure ?

1999-02-17 Thread Bernd Walter
On Tue, Feb 16, 1999 at 12:19:07AM -0800, Matthew Dillon wrote: :maxusers 256 Try reducing maxusers to 128. Another person reported similar behavior to me and after a bunch of work he tried going back to a basic distribution -- and everything started working again. To add

Re: Problems in VM structure ?

1999-02-17 Thread Bernd Walter
On Wed, Feb 17, 1999 at 08:46:49AM -0500, tc...@staff.circle.net wrote: -Original Message- From: Matthew Dillon [mailto:dil...@apollo.backplane.com] :What's the chance that our kernel adaptations for PIIs :is partly at fault? : :-Troy Cobb : Circle Net, Inc.

Re: Buildworld fails on today 3.1-STABLE!

1999-02-17 Thread Daniel C. Sobral
Bob Bishop wrote: At 8:05 pm -0800 16/2/99, Mike Smith wrote: [...] No, -O2 does not work fine; we've seen reports of it breaking things before. I've been using -O2 building -current for over a year with no problems. I haven't dared try it for the kernel though... Lucky you. -O2 *does*

Re: Buildworld fails on today 3.1-STABLE!

1999-02-17 Thread Matthew Dillon
:At 8:05 pm -0800 16/2/99, Mike Smith wrote: :[...] :No, -O2 does not work fine; we've seen reports of it breaking things :before. : :I've been using -O2 building -current for over a year with no problems. I :haven't dared try it for the kernel though... : :-- :Bob Bishop (0118) 977

Re: Buildworld fails on today 3.1-STABLE!

1999-02-17 Thread Kris Kennaway
On Thu, 18 Feb 1999, Daniel C. Sobral wrote: Lucky you. -O2 *does* break world for many people. Eventually, it might break your world too, and there is a great chance you'll first spam -current before changing -O2 to -O and trying again. Or there would, if we stopped hitting on this nail. :-)

Re: Buildworld fails on today 3.1-STABLE!

1999-02-17 Thread Karl Pielorz
Matthew Dillon wrote: I've been using -O2 kernels for over a year. Works fine as far as I can tell. I've had a few failures with -O2 ages ago, though I can't guess how long ages was - I definitely remember tracing one problem down to '-O' vs. '-O2', I stick to '-0' now

Compaq built-in ncr tl controllers with 4.0

1999-02-17 Thread Benjamin Lewis
Hello- I've been trying to get 3.1 or 4.0 to run on a Compaq Professional Workstation 6000 with dual PII-300s, using the built-in symbios 53c875 SCSI controller, and the built-in ThunderLan ethernet adapter. The machine works perfectly with 2.2.8, but we'd like to get it running 3.1 (or 4.0 if

4.0-current make release failure (sysctl)

1999-02-17 Thread John W. DeBoskey
Hi, Just fyi, current as of 2pm EST. Thanks, John cc -c -O -Wall -Wredundant-decls -Wnested-externs -Wstrict-prototypes -Wmissing-prototypes -Wpointer-arith -Winline -Wcast-qual -fformat-extensions -ansi -nostdinc -I- -I. -I../.. -I../../../include -DKERNEL -DVM_STACK -include

Re: 4.0-current make release failure (sysctl)

1999-02-17 Thread Sheldon Hearn
On Wed, 17 Feb 1999 19:12:59 EST, John W. DeBoskey wrote: Just fyi, current as of 2pm EST. ../../nfs/nfs_syscalls.c:92: warning: `nfsrv_zapsock' declared `static' but never defined *** Error code 1 I get this when I set ``option NFS_NOSERVER''. If I disable the option, my kernel

Re: 4.0-current make release failure (sysctl)

1999-02-17 Thread John W. DeBoskey
Hi, I don't control the options used to build the distribution kernels during a 'make release'. Jordan is responsible for that. I don't have any problems building my local kernel since the only nfs options I have are: options NFS #Network Filesystem options

Re: Compaq built-in ncr tl controllers with 4.0

1999-02-17 Thread Michael Reifenberger
Hi, On Wed, 17 Feb 1999, Benjamin Lewis wrote: ... We then tried to boot with the 3.1 and the 4.0 boot floppies. Neither was able to find the SCSI controller or the ethernet device. Of course, we find it odd that 2.2.8 found the devices ok, but newer releases do not. As far as I can tell,

panic mount root failed

1999-02-17 Thread Gianmarco Giovannelli
Env: Yesterday I went to a friends house for installing a box from the freebsd 3.0-release cdrom (I have also the src and obj very current on another cd to do a quick make installword :-). He has : 1 hd master (A) + 1 cdrom slave on primary ch. 1 hd master (B) + 1 zip atapi slave on secundary

Re: panic mount root failed

1999-02-17 Thread Matthew Dillon
:Env: : :Yesterday I went to a friends house for installing a box from the freebsd :3.0-release cdrom (I have also the src and obj very current on another cd :to do a quick make installword :-). : :He has : :1 hd master (A) + 1 cdrom slave on primary ch. :1 hd master (B) + 1 zip atapi slave on

Re: panic mount root failed

1999-02-17 Thread Gianmarco Giovannelli
At 17.49 17/02/99 -0800, you wrote: :everything was fine after adding a boot config with 1:wd(2,a)kernel Look at the disklabel for wd2s2. If the 'disk:' field in the label says wd1 that may be your problem. I think is our installer that have some problems :-) Btw I'll check it, but

Re: panic mount root failed

1999-02-17 Thread Mike Smith
:Env: : :Yesterday I went to a friends house for installing a box from the freebsd :3.0-release cdrom (I have also the src and obj very current on another cd :to do a quick make installword :-). : :He has : :1 hd master (A) + 1 cdrom slave on primary ch. :1 hd master (B) + 1 zip atapi

Re: axp kernel breakage

1999-02-17 Thread Bruce Evans
cc -c -O -Wall -Wredundant-decls -Wnested-externs -Wstrict-prototypes -Wmissing-prototypes -Wpointer-arith -Winline -Wcast-qual -fformat-extensions -ansi -nostdinc -I- -I. -I../.. -I../../../include -DKERNEL -include opt_global.h -mno-fp-regs -Wa,-mev56 ../../nfs/nfs_syscalls.c