Re: HEADS UP: at_shutdown going away

1999-08-21 Thread Warner Losh
In message [EMAIL PROTECTED] Mike Smith writes: : Seriously though, I'm in the process of replacing a number of the : ad-hoc event handler callout lists in the kernel (most notably the : at_shutdown and apm* lists) with a generic implementation. Shouldn't the apm stuff use the new-bus hooks?

Re: Strange notebook boot misbehaviour.

1999-08-21 Thread Warner Losh
In message [EMAIL PROTECTED] "Matt Crawford" writes: : 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. I've had problems with my Sony Notebook (my 505-TS) after running windows... A power cycle fixes

Re: REQ: Test /etc/rc clean-up

1999-08-21 Thread Warner Losh
In message [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sheldon Hearn writes: : -if [ X$start_vinum = XYES ]; then : +if [ X"${start_vinum}" = X"YES" ]; then I never understood why you check against X"YES"? XYES always seemed much better than X"YES" since the latter is somewhat obscure. Both are identical... Warner

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

1999-08-21 Thread Amancio Hasty
Hi Linux land does not look so pretty now days ... Playing with Sun's java jre on linux. Ran jre libgc on redhat 6.0 no problem. slackware 4.0 appears to only like jre libc Suse 6.1 does not like either jre libc nore jre libgc. So on My customer should ship an entire linux box with

Re: How To Burn CDs

1999-08-21 Thread David O'Brien
"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. Any reason not to use ``cdrecord -fs=64m'' (or some simular size) -- -- David([EMAIL PROTECTED] -or- [EMAIL PROTECTED]) To Unsubscribe: send mail

Re: How To Burn CDs

1999-08-21 Thread David O'Brien
On Fri, Aug 20, 1999 at 01:04:47PM +0200, Werner Griessl wrote: Werner, like you we all got 246 line email message. You did not have to quote the *ENTIRE* thing back to us just to add 3 lines. If you don't have the time to trim, we don't have the time to read your reply. -- -- David

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

1999-08-21 Thread Doug Rabson
On Fri, 20 Aug 1999, Andrew Gallatin wrote: Doug Rabson writes: 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

Forgotten debug messages in ahc

1999-08-21 Thread Blaz Zupan
After compiling yesterday's -current kernel, I see the following in dmesg: ... ahc0: aic7880 SBLKCTL = 0x0 SSTAT0 = 0x0 SFUNCT = 0x0 Single Channel A, SCSI Id=7, 16/255 SCBs ... Notice the "SBLKCTL"... stuff. I guess this is some forgotten debug printf left, or am I mistaken? Blaz Zupan,

Re: How To Burn CDs

1999-08-21 Thread Amancio Hasty
If you have the physical memory sure however if you don't then you will start swapping and most likely your cd recording will fail. Hence my recommendation for a small size buffer. And to the list. Please keep the comments or suggestions rolling and hopefully by early next we will have a

Re: How To Burn CDs

1999-08-21 Thread Amancio Hasty
If you don't have the time to trim, we don't have the time to read your Easy , Easy we are coming along fine so far so please keep the flame temperature down. If you are compelled or annoyed at the poster send him private e-mail and possibly a pointer to net - etiguette. If you do it nicely you

Re: ATA - Trouble mounting secondary master

1999-08-21 Thread Soren Schmidt
It seems Mike Smith wrote: Our boot blocks/loader dont have the needed computrons to use the "ad" device name. However I have some patches to boot2 that allows to boot off an ad root device, provided you dont use the loader, and put the rigth boot string in boot.config. This should now

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

1999-08-21 Thread John S. Dyson
Matthew Dillon said: : 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

Re: The Matrix screensaver, v.0.2

1999-08-21 Thread Nik Clayton
On Fri, Aug 20, 1999 at 07:34:31PM +0200, Andrzej Bialecki wrote: Both versions are available at: http://www.freebsd.org/~abial/matrix_3.2.tgz http://www.freebsd.org/~abial/matrix_4.0.tgz I knew I should have taken the blue pill. FWIW, there are at least two other 'matrix'

Re: VESA module doesn't work with ATI Mach64 RagePro

1999-08-21 Thread Cejka Rudolf
Mike Smith wrote (1999/08/11): Yes, thanks. Information reported by 0x4F01 function about any video mode has set MODE_NON_VGA attribute indeed. And now I have found DOS TSR program for VESA support... Bleagh. Have you tried ignoring that attribute in our code and seeing what happens

Re: ping/egcs

1999-08-21 Thread Dan Yergeau
I'm assuming that you are using egcs-1.1.2. gcc-2.95 seems to work OK. It doesn't discard the initialization of answer like egcs-1.1.2 does. Dan To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message

Re: How To Burn CDs

1999-08-21 Thread David O'Brien
If you have the physical memory sure however if you don't then you will start swapping and most likely your cd recording will fail. Hence my recommendation for a small size buffer. Then there is no advantage in using `team' vs. ``cdrecord -fs=XX'', right? -- -- David([EMAIL

Re: The Matrix screensaver, v.0.2

1999-08-21 Thread Kevin Day
At 10:26 AM 8/21/99 +0100, Nik Clayton wrote: On Fri, Aug 20, 1999 at 07:34:31PM +0200, Andrzej Bialecki wrote: Both versions are available at: http://www.freebsd.org/~abial/matrix_3.2.tgz http://www.freebsd.org/~abial/matrix_4.0.tgz FWIW, there are at least two other 'matrix'

Re: REQ: Test /etc/rc clean-up

1999-08-21 Thread David O'Brien
However I'd REALLY like to emphasize again that if we're going to do this the proper fix is to use case wherever possible. There are numerous reasons for this, not the least of which are making the variable case insensitive (and therefore more user friendly) I have to really agree with Doug

Current Kernel build broken

1999-08-21 Thread Manfred Antar
With current source tree as of 9 am pacific, I can no longer build a kernel : cc -c -O2 -Os -pipe -Wall -Wredundant-decls -Wnested-externs -Wstrict-prototypes -Wmissing-prototypes -Wpointer-arith -Winline -Wcast-qual -fformat-extensions -ansi -nostdinc -I- -I. -I../..

Re: How To Burn CDs

1999-08-21 Thread Wilko Bulte
As David O'Brien wrote ... "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. Any reason not to use ``cdrecord -fs=64m'' (or some simular size) Any reason to? I mean, I never had to go over the default

Re: apm problems.

1999-08-21 Thread Mitsuru IWASAKI
Hi, sorry to late. 1. Standby by PM timer in BIOS setting fails with the system activity. If by fails you mean enters standby mode, then yes the computer enters standby mode while the system is active, after the period of time set in the bios, as long as no keys have been pressed on the

Re: recent apm changes

1999-08-21 Thread Mitsuru IWASAKI
plm If I use 'zzz', I have to do the known 'sleep 1; zzz' trick. This is plm the difference. I'll commit the patch for `key release event prevent suspend' problem if no objections. Thanks a lot! To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of

Re: recent apm changes

1999-08-21 Thread Mitsuru IWASAKI
Sorry to late... plm Now suspend works. However still the disks keep spinning until they plm reach their BIOS timeout. In Linux Windows, there is some hook when plm going to suspend mode that spins down the (IDE) disks. This is nice, plm since it is well possible that you go to suspend but do

Re: if_de.c breakage ?

1999-08-21 Thread Mitsuru IWASAKI
Hi, my mentor :-) phk Am I the only one to see these ? Me too. I found it other files as well. It seems that adding following line is required in some source code. #include sys/eventhandler.h To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the

panic early in boot, no dumpon

1999-08-21 Thread David E. Cross
I am purposely panic()ing the system early in boot so I can get a look at some startup information... unfortunately the 'config kernel dumps on...' no longer works. how is one supposed to get crash dumps from early in the boot process? -- David Cross | email:

Re: How To Burn CDs

1999-08-21 Thread David O'Brien
"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. Any reason not to use ``cdrecord -fs=64m'' (or some simular size) Any reason to? I mean, I never had to go over the default cdrecord uses.

Re: How To Burn CDs

1999-08-21 Thread Amancio Hasty
Then there is no advantage in using `team' vs. ``cdrecord -fs=XX'', right? -- -- David([EMAIL PROTECTED] -or- [EMAIL PROTECTED]) As far as I can tell there is no difference other one component less to use and ease of use. Cheers -- Amancio Hasty [EMAIL PROTECTED] To

Re: HEADS UP: at_shutdown going away

1999-08-21 Thread Mike Smith
In message [EMAIL PROTECTED] Mike Smith writes: : Seriously though, I'm in the process of replacing a number of the : ad-hoc event handler callout lists in the kernel (most notably the : at_shutdown and apm* lists) with a generic implementation. Shouldn't the apm stuff use the new-bus

Re: HEADS UP: at_shutdown going away

1999-08-21 Thread Garrett Wollman
On Sat, 21 Aug 1999 12:51:29 -0700, Mike Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: [Quoting somebody unidentified, presumably Warner:] Shouldn't the apm stuff use the new-bus hooks? I've migraded a couple of uses in pccard to using that now that I have newbus node to hang them off of... APM is only

Re: ATA - Trouble mounting secondary master

1999-08-21 Thread Poul-Henning Kamp
In message [EMAIL PROTECTED], Mike Smith writes: So I still stick with my statement that the -current bootblocks/loader doesn't have the computrons needed to use the ad device (or any non wd/da/fd device for that matter) for anything usefull :) The loader is fine; the problem is just that

Panic with NFSv3 on a CURRENT/SMP system

1999-08-21 Thread Ollivier Robert
Hello, I just got a panic when trying to play with NFSv3. The system is a dual PentiumPro system, running CURRENT/SMP. I use NFS as a kld. The FS on keltia is exported as: /z -alldirs -maproot=0 tara And mounted on tara with keltia:/z /spare rw,nfsv30 0 I tried making a

Re: How To Burn CDs

1999-08-21 Thread Amancio Hasty
"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. Any reason not to use ``cdrecord -fs=64m'' (or some simular size) Any reason to? I mean, I never had to go over the default cdrecord uses.

Re: if_de.c breakage ?

1999-08-21 Thread Mike Smith
Hi, my mentor :-) phk Am I the only one to see these ? Me too. I found it other files as well. It seems that adding following line is required in some source code. #include sys/eventhandler.h Argh! I knew that taking it out of sys/systm.h was a bad idea. 8( -- \\ The mind's the

Re: HEADS UP: at_shutdown going away

1999-08-21 Thread Mike Smith
In message [EMAIL PROTECTED] Mike Smith writes: : Seriously though, I'm in the process of replacing a number of the : ad-hoc event handler callout lists in the kernel (most notably the : at_shutdown and apm* lists) with a generic implementation. Shouldn't the apm stuff use the new-bus

Re: HEADS UP: at_shutdown going away

1999-08-21 Thread Mike Smith
: If you need more functionality than DEVICE_SUSPEND and DEVICE_RESUME, : then add more methods. That DEVICE_SUSPEND and DEVICE_RESUME methods are exactly the same thing as we have right now with the apm code. No need to reinvent the wheel here. It was on my list of cleanups to do after

Re: if_de.c breakage ?

1999-08-21 Thread Bill Fumerola
On Sat, 21 Aug 1999, Mike Smith wrote: Argh! I knew that taking it out of sys/systm.h was a bad idea. 8( I committed the fix for this, FYI, after it tripped someone up on IRC. -- - bill fumerola - [EMAIL PROTECTED] - BF1560 - computer horizons corp - - ph:(800) 252-2421 - [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: The Matrix screensaver, v.0.2

1999-08-21 Thread Andreas Braukmann
On Fri, Aug 20, 1999 at 08:10:51PM -0400, Keith Stevenson wrote: On Fri, Aug 20, 1999 at 04:11:42PM -0600, Oscar Bonilla wrote: then xlock already includes a module for this... I'm using it on my laptop.. ... ahh. ... Meanwhile I've updated my xlock to xlockmore-4.14 including 'the matrix'.

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

1999-08-21 Thread John S. Dyson
Matthew Dillon said: : Well, the issue with converting many of the macros to inline functions : is with the embedded goto's and references to variables defined outside : the macros. Converting them to functions would basically require : rewriting a huge chunk of NFS code.

Re: user friendly creation of CDs (was: Re: patches for tosha?)

1999-08-21 Thread Juergen Lock
Heh. I see, you want a program that one could use without having to know _anything_. Your right thats not what gcombust is, but its still useful for those of us who know `something'... On Fri, Aug 20, 1999 at 05:02:07PM -0700, Amancio Hasty wrote: Yes, I tried gcombust and opted for the

Re: user friendly creation of CDs (was: Re: patches for tosha?)

1999-08-21 Thread Amancio Hasty
Hi, In my case is a lot easier to customize a simple shell script and use it. Is just that gcombust comes from linux perhaps if I keep using I can get over my hurdle 8) Have Fun Guys! Heh. I see, you want a program that one could use without having to know _anything_. Your right

Re: REQ: Test /etc/rc clean-up

1999-08-21 Thread Harlan Stenn
I understand that folks use X$foo becuase if $foo evaluates to -whatever then there is a *chance* that test will misunderstand. I gather the reason for using the X trick *and* the quotes is because there might be some whitespace in there, too. Given that "case" is a builtin and using "case"

Re: REQ: Test /etc/rc clean-up

1999-08-21 Thread Jordan K. Hubbard
I gather the reason for using the X trick *and* the quotes is because there might be some whitespace in there, too. Actually, that's mostly just historical legacy. When the quotes, it's safe even if the expansion is empty or contains whitespace. I got kinda annoyed with this last night and

Re: REQ: Test /etc/rc clean-up

1999-08-21 Thread Doug
"Jordan K. Hubbard" wrote: I gather the reason for using the X trick *and* the quotes is because there might be some whitespace in there, too. Actually, that's mostly just historical legacy. When the quotes, it's safe even if the expansion is empty or contains whitespace. The

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

1999-08-21 Thread Doug
Matthew Dillon wrote: Does anyone know why our NFS clients are sending a separate RPC for each 8K buffer? If the dirty space is contiguous across a number of buffers we should be able to send a *SINGLE* commit rpc to the server. That would greatly reduce system overhead on

Re: The Matrix screensaver, v.0.2

1999-08-21 Thread Doug
Andrzej Bialecki wrote: Hi, Due to unexpected demand . . . Ok, I have to say that pretty much rocks. :) Any chance of making an X version of this? The guy in the cube across from mine and I are both big science fiction fans, and he would turn *cough* green with envy . . . Doug

Kernel compile died.....

1999-08-21 Thread william woods
This is my kernel compile error and where it died e -Wcast-qual -fformat-extensions -ansi -nostdinc -I- -I. -I../.. -I../../../include -DKERNEL -include opt_global.h -elf ../../dev/aha/aha.c cc -c -O -pipe -Wall -Wredundant-decls

Re: Panic with NFSv3 on a CURRENT/SMP system

1999-08-21 Thread Matthew Dillon
:Hello, : :I just got a panic when trying to play with NFSv3. The system is a dual :PentiumPro system, running CURRENT/SMP. I use NFS as a kld. The very first thing I would do is compile NFS into the kernel and not use it as a kld. Then see if you can repeat the problem.

slight note to patchset (was Re: NFS HEADS UP)xdr_subs.h)

1999-08-21 Thread Matthew Dillon
I forgot to mention: It's the 'Multi-patch #1' section of the web page, the section at the top. Ignore all the stuff that comes after that - they've already been committed, as have many other things not listed. http://www.backplane.com/FreeBSD4/

Re: Panic with NFSv3 on a CURRENT/SMP system

1999-08-21 Thread Luoqi Chen
I'm generating a core dump. Please note that as tara is my test machine, I use "INVARIANT" "INVARIANT_SUPPORT". Should I remove them ? It seems that from my reading of the code, the panic would not had happened without INVARIANT. It is these options that caused the panic, you either

Re: The Matrix screensaver, v.0.2

1999-08-21 Thread Chris Dillon
On Sun, 22 Aug 1999, Andrzej Bialecki wrote: Anyway, this module was meant more as a joke, but if you guys like it so much you could vote for putting it in the tree... It's extremely small, so why not? Got my vote. :-) -- Chris Dillon - [EMAIL PROTECTED] - [EMAIL PROTECTED] FreeBSD: The

Re: if_de.c breakage ?

1999-08-21 Thread Daniel C. Sobral
Mike Smith wrote: Hi, my mentor :-) phk Am I the only one to see these ? Me too. I found it other files as well. It seems that adding following line is required in some source code. #include sys/eventhandler.h Argh! I knew that taking it out of sys/systm.h was a bad idea. 8(

Re: The Matrix screensaver, v.0.2

1999-08-21 Thread Daniel C. Sobral
Kevin Day wrote: A Anyway, this module was meant more as a joke, but if you guys like it so much you could vote for putting it in the tree... What do you mean "vote"? I was waiting for it to show up on my tree after a cvsup! I hate to keep bringing things like this up, or start a

Re: Known MMAP() race conditions ... ?

1999-08-21 Thread Gerald Pfeifer
On Thu, 8 Jul 1999, The Hermit Hacker wrote: Three weeks ago, I, and a few other INN administrators, posted about FreeBSD -STABLE's inability to run the newest INN code, due to MMAP() race conditions...essentially, after X hours of run time, on a heavily loaded INN server, the whole thing