Re: [re]writable cdrom drive

1999-08-19 Thread Amancio Hasty
> > : > you can do a 'quick erase' of the media using 'cdrecord blank=fast'. > : > This does not actually erase the data, so if you have used say 100MB > : > you will only have 550MB left. You can actually erase the media using > : > 'cdrecord blank=all', which takes a while. > : > :In my experi

PnP probe croaks in boot...

1999-08-19 Thread Poul-Henning Kamp
Mike, the PnP probe you added panics my HP800CT during boot. With -v it prints (typed from barely legible notes:) PnPbios: Found PnPBiosdata 0xc00ff000 PnPbios: Entry e8000:33e1 rev 1.0 PnPbios: eventflag at e801b OEM ID 1826744e and then panics with a pagefaul

Re: [fwd] [fm/news] newsletter for Aug 18th 1999, 23:59

1999-08-19 Thread Dominic Mitchell
On Thu, Aug 19, 1999 at 09:31:48AM +0300, Hristo Grigorov wrote: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] ??? Well, somebody should probably contact freshmeat and let them know that it's not an "official" release as such. Unless, of course, we want the ability to submit daily snapshots to freshmeat. :-) -- Dom Mi

Bug with malloc_options

1999-08-19 Thread A . Leidinger
Hi, -current from ~3 days ago. from malloc(3): ---snip--- To specify in the source that a program does no return value checking on calls to these functions: extern char *malloc_options; malloc_options = "X"; ---snip--- my source: ---snip--- #include #include #

Re: Bug with malloc_options

1999-08-19 Thread Poul-Henning Kamp
The two lines were intended to be used inside a function, and I'm sure they'll work there... -- Poul-Henning Kamp FreeBSD coreteam member [EMAIL PROTECTED] "Real hackers run -current on their laptop." FreeBSD -- It will take a long time before progress goes too far!

Re: Bug with malloc_options

1999-08-19 Thread Max Khon
hi, there! On Thu, 19 Aug 1999 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > -current from ~3 days ago. > > from malloc(3): > ---snip--- > To specify in the source that a program does no return value checking on > calls to these functions: > >extern char *malloc_options; >malloc

cc -O broken in -current for Alpha KLDs

1999-08-19 Thread Andrew Gallatin
I do most of my development on alphas & I just turned some local code into a loadable kernel module. It works fine when compiled into the kernel statically, but fails miserably when loaded into an alpha kernel as a module. This alpha is running -current from monday or so. After a day or so of

Re: patches for tosha?

1999-08-19 Thread Matthew Hunt
On Wed, Aug 18, 1999 at 07:39:04PM -0700, Amancio Hasty wrote: > Or does tosha work with CAM? Tosha works fine with CAM, provided you built it post-CAM. There was also a change to CAM between 3.mumble and 3.mumble+1 which required a rebuild of tosha (but no source changes). Try building a fres

Strange notebook boot misbehaviour.

1999-08-19 Thread Maxim Sobolev
Hi all, I have a notebook (toshiba satellite pro 445) with WinNT and FreeBSD installed and discovered that when I'm booting FreeBSD directly from power-down state or rebooting after FreeBSD then it boots ok, but when I doing reboot from NT it hangs just before mounting / (probably "hang" is not

Re: [re]writable cdrom drive

1999-08-19 Thread John R. LoVerso
> > This does not actually erase the data, so if you have used say 100MB > > you will only have 550MB left. You can actually erase the media using > > 'cdrecord blank=all', which takes a while. > In my experience, this is not true. I have used blank=fast on a CDRW > that has over 500 MB written,

_KPOSIX_PRIORITY_SCHEDULING and cdda2wav

1999-08-19 Thread Arno J. Klaassen
Hi, just a quick note: on a -current of this morning I recompiled the cdrecord port; kernel compiled with the options: options P1003_1B options _KPOSIX_PRIORITY_SCHEDULING options _KPOSIX_VERSION=199309L launching cdda2wav immediately panics with: panic: setrunqueue: invali

Re: patches for tosha?

1999-08-19 Thread Wilko Bulte
As Amancio Hasty wrote ... > > > Or does tosha work with CAM? It does for me... (3.2-stable). -- | / o / / _ Arnhem, The Netherlands- Powered by FreeBSD - |/|/ / / /( (_) BulteWWW : http://www.tcja.nl http://www.freebsd.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL

Re: [re]writable cdrom drive

1999-08-19 Thread Wilko Bulte
As Bruce Albrecht wrote ... > Matthew Dillon writes: > > And to head off another question: When you are recording to a CD-RW > > you can do a 'quick erase' of the media using 'cdrecord blank=fast'. > > This does not actually erase the data, so if you have used say 100MB > > you will only have

NFS HEADS UP (was Re: cvs commit: src/sys/nfs nfsm_subs.h xdr_subs.h)

1999-08-19 Thread Eivind Eklund
On Thu, Aug 19, 1999 at 07:50:13AM -0700, Peter Wemm wrote: > peter 1999/08/19 07:50:13 PDT > > Modified files: > sys/nfs nfsm_subs.h xdr_subs.h > Log: > Convert all the nfs macros to do { blah } while (0) to ensure it > works correctly in if/else etc. egcs had pr

Re: SIGBUS [was Re: gdb]

1999-08-19 Thread John Polstra
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Amancio Hasty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On 18 Aug 1999, Joel Ray Holveck wrote: > > > > > That reminds me. I thought that SIGBUS meant byte-alignment errors. > > > What does it mean on FreeBSD/x86? > > The boehm garbage collector is trying to find the memo

Re: patches for tosha?

1999-08-19 Thread Kenneth D. Merry
Matthew Hunt wrote... > On Wed, Aug 18, 1999 at 07:39:04PM -0700, Amancio Hasty wrote: > > > Or does tosha work with CAM? > > Tosha works fine with CAM, provided you built it post-CAM. There was > also a change to CAM between 3.mumble and 3.mumble+1 which required a > rebuild of tosha (but no s

Kernel Panic at boot with -CURRENT (last 2-3 days)

1999-08-19 Thread Thomas Stromberg
Background: --- Work recently assigned me a Gateway GP7-500 (PIII-500mhz, 96M RAM) to replace my older 333mhz PII that's been running FreeBSD 3.2.. Of course, as my testing machine, I wanted to run FreeBSD 4.0-CURRENT on it, and installed the 19990806 snapshot without a problem, and then c

Re: Kernel Panic at boot with -CURRENT (last 2-3 days)

1999-08-19 Thread Poul-Henning Kamp
See my earlier post today, it is due to the PnP probe. If you boot a kernel which is older than Mikes commit, you can boot the new kernel after a soft reboot... Poul-Henning In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Thomas Stromberg writes: >Background: >--- >Work recently assigned me a Gateway

Re: NFS HEADS UP (was Re: cvs commit: src/sys/nfs nfsm_subs.h xdr_subs.h)

1999-08-19 Thread Matthew Dillon
:On Thu, Aug 19, 1999 at 07:50:13AM -0700, Peter Wemm wrote: :> peter 1999/08/19 07:50:13 PDT :> :> Modified files: :> sys/nfs nfsm_subs.h xdr_subs.h :> Log: :> Convert all the nfs macros to do { blah } while (0) to ensure it :> works correctly in if/else etc. eg

Re: Strange notebook boot misbehaviour.

1999-08-19 Thread Mike Nowlin
> I have a notebook (toshiba satellite pro 445) with WinNT and FreeBSD > installed and discovered that when I'm booting FreeBSD directly from > power-down state or rebooting after FreeBSD then it boots ok, but when I > doing reboot from NT it hangs just before mounting / (probably "hang" > is not

Re: patches for tosha?

1999-08-19 Thread Amancio Hasty
> As Amancio Hasty wrote ... > > > > > > Or does tosha work with CAM? > > It does for me... (3.2-stable). > Hi, I think is that tosha does not know how to read audio tracks with my Yamaha cd recorder. The Yamaha have a slightly weird way of reading the audio tracks . I have cdda2wav as an

Re: patches for tosha?

1999-08-19 Thread jack
Today Amancio Hasty wrote: > I think is that tosha does not know how to read audio tracks with > my Yamaha cd recorder. The Yamaha have a slightly weird > way of reading the audio tracks . I have cdda2wav as > an example on how to read audio tracks on Yamaha CDs. > The only gotcha is that is f

Re: patches for tosha?

1999-08-19 Thread Amancio Hasty
Hi! I am totally full of joy to be able to read audio CDs in FreeBSD . pwd /mnt/ports/sysutils/cdrecord/work/cdrecord-1.8/cdda2wav/OBJ/i386-freebsd-cc {root} ./cdda2wav -D0,1,0 -B 266240 bytes buffer memory requested, 4 buffers, 27 sectors Read TOC CD Text failed (probably not supported). #Cdda

Re: Kernel Panic at boot with -CURRENT (last 2-3 days)

1999-08-19 Thread Thomas Stromberg
Poul-Henning Kamp wrote: > > See my earlier post today, it is due to the PnP probe. > > If you boot a kernel which is older than Mikes commit, > you can boot the new kernel after a soft reboot... > > Poul-Henning > Yes, I saw that, and tried to rebuild includes this morning (as per your reply

Re: NFS HEADS UP (was Re: cvs commit: src/sys/nfs nfsm_subs.h xdr_subs.h)

1999-08-19 Thread Alfred Perlstein
On Thu, 19 Aug 1999, Matthew Dillon wrote: > > :On Thu, Aug 19, 1999 at 07:50:13AM -0700, Peter Wemm wrote: > :> peter 1999/08/19 07:50:13 PDT > :> > :> Modified files: > :> sys/nfs nfsm_subs.h xdr_subs.h > :> Log: > :> Convert all the nfs macros to do { blah } whi

Re: HEADS UP: at_shutdown going away

1999-08-19 Thread Archie Cobbs
Mike Smith writes: > I will be converting all users of at_shutdown in the kernel to the new > mechanism, but it's of some concern to me that there may be external > code using the old at_shutdown* interfaces that may benefit from a > compatibility interface (which could be done relatively easil

Re: [re]writable cdrom drive

1999-08-19 Thread Darryl Okahata
Matthew Dillon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Finally, when you pipe mkisofs to cdrecord directly it is possible to > fall behind enough that an error may occur. The CD writer needs a > continuous stream. There are two solution to this if it occurs: First, > write at a slower rat

Re: NFS HEADS UP (was Re: cvs commit: src/sys/nfs nfsm_subs.h xdr_subs.h)

1999-08-19 Thread Matthew Dillon
:> global references across subroutine calls! I'll send Luoqi another email. :> :> In the case of the NFS stuff, the changes have been pretty well tested :> so I think we are in the clear. : :On a somewhat similar note, what do you think about converting a lot :of the NFS macros to f

Re: [re]writable cdrom drive

1999-08-19 Thread Matthew Dillon
: Another possibility, if you have the RAM, is to use the team(1) :program (it's in the ports) to buffer the data as it goes to the burner. :You basically put it into the pipeline between mkisofs and cdrecord, and :it buffers up to 5MB in memory (default, adjustable). Of course, you've :got t

Re: NFS HEADS UP (was Re: cvs commit: src/sys/nfs nfsm_subs.h xdr_subs.h)

1999-08-19 Thread Archie Cobbs
Matthew Dillon writes: > :On a somewhat similar note, what do you think about converting a lot > :of the NFS macros to functions, yes i know it will be difficult, but > :there is so much forced inlining it just seems like it would reduce > :the codesize signifigantly and play nicer with the CPU ca

Re: [re]writable cdrom drive

1999-08-19 Thread Amancio Hasty
Please Matt "burn" a summary document ... (Gosh I have been burning too many CDs 8) ) -- Amancio Hasty [EMAIL PROTECTED] To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message

Re: _KPOSIX_PRIORITY_SCHEDULING and cdda2wav

1999-08-19 Thread Peter Wemm
Arno J. Klaassen wrote: > > Hi, > > just a quick note: on a -current of this morning I recompiled the cdrecord > port; kernel compiled with the options: > options P1003_1B > options _KPOSIX_PRIORITY_SCHEDULING > options _KPOSIX_VERSION=199309L > > launching cdda2wav immedia

Re: HEADS UP: at_shutdown going away

1999-08-19 Thread Julian Elischer
there was external code at TRW but I don't know if it is still in use.. We have uses of it here at whistle too. (that's why I wrote it..) but I guess I can handle them... why the change? If you re-aranged the arguments you'd have EVENTHANDLER_REGISTER == at_shutdown_pri. :-) what are the sele

Re: patches for tosha?

1999-08-19 Thread Wilko Bulte
As Amancio Hasty wrote ... > > As Amancio Hasty wrote ... > > > > > > > > > Or does tosha work with CAM? > > > > It does for me... (3.2-stable). To qualify that a bit more: it works on my Toshiba XM-5701TA (surprise..) and also on my Philips CDD-3600 CDRW drive. > I think is that tosha does

Re: patches for tosha?

1999-08-19 Thread Amancio Hasty
Hi, I am all set . cdrecord-1.8a22 includes cdda2wav as [EMAIL PROTECTED] pointed out and it does work with my Yamaha cd recorder . In summary using FreeBSD-current of about two weeks ago , I am now able to : 1. to burn iso 9660 with mkisofs + cdrecord 2. extract CD audio tracks with cdda2wav

Re: Kernel Panic at boot with -CURRENT (last 2-3 days)

1999-08-19 Thread Mike Smith
This appears to be due to our PnP BIOS invocation not being sufficiently bug-compatible with some BIOSsen. I'm going to need to do some more work on this, and if you have time I'd like to get you involved in the testing process. Meanwhile I'll be disabling the PnP BIOS scan which should ge

Re: Strange notebook boot misbehaviour.

1999-08-19 Thread Matt Crawford
On the Sony 505 mailing list, this was noted and said to be due to Windows leaving the ethernet chip in some APM-related suspended state. To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message

Re: HEADS UP: at_shutdown going away

1999-08-19 Thread Mike Smith
> there was external code at TRW but I don't know if it is still in use.. > > We have uses of it here at whistle too. (that's why I wrote it..) > but I guess I can handle them... > > why the change? > If you re-aranged the arguments you'd have EVENTHANDLER_REGISTER == > at_shutdown_pri. It has

Weird X problem

1999-08-19 Thread Tomer Weller
very weird X problem, I can only load an X server if I have a ppp connection upi and running... Xfree86 3.4, -CURRENT(made world today) To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message

Re: patches for tosha?

1999-08-19 Thread Bob Bishop
At 10:34 am -0700 19/8/99, Amancio Hasty wrote: >> As Amancio Hasty wrote ... >> > >> > >> > Or does tosha work with CAM? >> >> It does for me... (3.2-stable). >> > >Hi, > >I think is that tosha does not know how to read audio tracks with >my Yamaha cd recorder. The Yamaha have a slightly weird

Re: Strange notebook boot misbehaviour.

1999-08-19 Thread Greg Lehey
On Thursday, 19 August 1999 at 17:34:28 +0300, Maxim Sobolev wrote: > Hi all, > > I have a notebook (toshiba satellite pro 445) with WinNT and FreeBSD > installed and discovered that when I'm booting FreeBSD directly from > power-down state or rebooting after FreeBSD then it boots ok, but when I >

"The Matrix" screensaver

1999-08-19 Thread Andrzej Bialecki
Hi, This is my poor attempt at reproducing the screens on the movie... Sure, there is much room for improvement, and the whole thing would look cool in VESA, if someone has more spare time... http://www.freebsd.org/~abial/matrix.tgz Unpack it in /sys/modules/syscons. Andrzej Bialecki

Re: cc -O broken in -current for Alpha KLDs

1999-08-19 Thread Doug Rabson
On Thu, 19 Aug 1999, Andrew Gallatin wrote: > > I do most of my development on alphas & I just turned some local code > into a loadable kernel module. It works fine when compiled into the > kernel statically, but fails miserably when loaded into an alpha > kernel as a module. This alpha is run

Re: Weird X problem

1999-08-19 Thread Mike Muir
Tomer Weller wrote: > > very weird X problem, I can only load an X server if I have a ppp connection > upi and running... > > Xfree86 3.4, -CURRENT(made world today) You might want to check your resolv.conf, having an ip that you cant access in there could be causing some things to load extreme