smmsp user check in Makefile.inc1

For those of us using NIS, it'd be nice if the check would be made against the passwd and group maps if the local passwd and group don't have these users. Stephen -- The views expressed above are not those of PGS Tensor. We've heard that a million monkeys at a million

Voodoo3 + XFree4 + DRM - simple_lock ? :-)

Hey, I've been fooling with this (and Glide3) but under FBSD 4.2. Didn't have the time or inclination to do it under the latest current. Good to see someone's been crazy^Wbrave enough to try. It'd bee really nice if someone could make the kernel modules part of the current tree, the same way

Re: cvs-cur.6925.gz appears to be corrupt

It's fine with me. BTW, I got my cvs delta through ctm-cvs-cur mailing list, and here's the check sum for it. $ ls -l cvs-cur.6925.gz -rw-r--r-- 1 daemon wheel 24114 Dec 6 19:34 cvs-cur.6925.gz $ md5 cvs-cur.6925.gz MD5 (cvs-cur.6925.gz) =

cvs-cur.6925.gz appears to be corrupt

With # ctm -b /cvs cvs-cur.6925.gz I get FR: /cvs/CVSROOT/history md5 mismatch. cvs-cur.6925.gz Fatal error: Corrupt patch. Expected "\n" but didn't find it {20}. ctm: exit(96) Anybody like to comment? -- The views expressed above are not those of PGS Tensor. "We've heard

cvs-cur snapshots have stopped again.

Could someone please restart them? Stephen -- The views expressed above are not those of PGS Tensor. "We've heard that a million monkeys at a million keyboards could produce the Complete Works of Shakespeare; now, thanks to the Internet, we know this is not true."

Where has cvs-cur gone?

Last one I can find in the FTP repository is cvs-cur.6772.gz. Where are the more recent ones? Stephen -- The views expressed above are not those of PGS Tensor. "We've heard that a million monkeys at a million keyboards could produce the Complete Works of Shakespeare; now,

AMD X86-64 simulator available

Those of you who peruse slashdot will've already seen this - it's a Linux binary, and requires humungous amounts of memory disk, 384MB 4GB respectively. http://www.x86-64.org/downloads/ Stephen -- The views expressed above are not those of PGS Tensor. "We've heard that a

Problems with current's AGP device?

I've been seeing some problems with modules (such as XFree86's mga dri modules) that are consumers of the services of agp. They seem to beleive that they cant find it - then X fires up and the machine crashes. I'll be pulling out a debug dump later today. Stephen -- The views

Strange problems with AGP driver sound.

With very recent current sources, the agp driver doesn't probe when loaded as a module, but works OK when compiled into the kernel. However, when compiled into the kernel, it seems to mess up the sound driver (pcm, crystal cs23x) such that no sound or garbled sound at a low volume comes out.

Re: Strange problems with AGP driver sound.

With very recent current sources, the agp driver doesn't probe when loaded as a module, but works OK when compiled into the kernel. Oh. I thought that was only a problem in 4.x. Can I see a verbose bootlog for a kernel where this is a problem. OK - I'm away from the machine at the

Re: Strange problems with AGP driver sound.

Ok, here's the two dmesg listing from verbose boots, one with the agp code as a module, and the other built in. Stephen Copyright (c) 1992-2000 The FreeBSD Project. Copyright (c) 1979, 1980, 1983, 1986, 1988, 1989, 1991, 1992, 1993, 1994 The Regents of the University of

Problems with sym device driver?

I just updated my sources after a few days and reconfiged, recompiled booted a machine with with a NCR810a card. It panicked partway through the boot messages (prior to mounting filesystems) saying that it couldn't allocate space for sym1's data. The previous kernel correctly found only one

Re: Problems with sym device driver?

WARNING: / was not properly dismounted pid 271 (ldconfig), uid 0: exited on signal 11 (core dumped) Er, why is ldconfig dumping core? guess it's the linux ldconfig and it hasn't been brandelf'd after obrien made a change that required that. /guess Yup - that's right. I've been

Heap colliding with mmaped areas?

I have a situation where some device files are being mmaped (to the tune of a couple of hundred megs) and then there's some memory allocation happening. The memory allocation ends up failing, even though the amount it appears to be requesting would make the process a long way off its maximum

hintmode not found.

Someone stashed a refewrence to an extern int hintmode in /sys/kern/subr_bus.c a couple of days ago - where's it actually defined? Mr Grep cant seem to find in /sys. Stephen -- The views expressed above are not those of PGS Tensor. "We've heard that a million monkeys at a

When Good DIMMS go Bad (or how I fixed my sig11)

About a week ago, I complained of mysterious Sig 11s during a make world. After some experimentation, a PC100 DIMM was found to be better suited for a 66MHz memory bus in another machine, who obligingly donated a DIMM in return that actually works with a 100MHz bus. I think the trip from

More compile errors in current (if_dc.c)

cc -c -O -pipe -Wall -Wredundant-decls -Wnested-externs -Wstrict-prototypes -Wmissing-prototypes -Wpointer-arith -Winline -Wcast-qual -fformat-extensions -ansi -g -nostdinc -I- -I. -I../.. -I../../../include -D_KERNEL -include opt_global.h -elf -mpreferred-stack-boundary=2

Re: More compile errors in current (if_dc.c)

Yeah - I was just trying to express my irritation without being overly nasty. Beats me why thing are commited without being compiled though. Stephen -- The views expressed above are not those of PGS Tensor. "We've heard that a million monkeys at a million keyboards could

Compilation failure in current as of cvs-cur 6562

Anyone else seen this? chmod 755 /usr/obj/usr/src/gnu/usr.bin/perl/perl/lib/auto/DynaLoader/DynaLoader .a cc -O -pipe -I/usr/src/gnu/usr.bin/perl/perl/../../../../contrib/perl5 -I/usr/obj/usr/src/gnu/usr.bin/perl/perl -DPERL_CORE -I/usr/obj/usr/src/i386/usr/include -Wl,-E

What's up with ftp.freebsd.org

It doesn't seem to be allowing anon logings - nobody released some fancy new game, have they? Stephen -- The views expressed above are not those of PGS Tensor. "We've heard that a million monkeys at a million keyboards could produce the Complete Works of Shakespeare; now,

Interesting SpecWeb benchmarks

http://linuxtoday.com/news_story.php3?ltsn=2000-07-05-001-04-OP -- The views expressed above are not those of PGS Tensor. "We've heard that a million monkeys at a million keyboards could produce the Complete Works of Shakespeare; now, thanks to the Internet, we know this is not

cvs-cur.6450.gz Fatal error: Bytecount too large.

After some absence from the net (my machines were in a box between Australia Houston) I've finaaly connected up and am updating my cvs repository via CTM again. However, when I attempt to apply cvs-cur.6450.gz I get the above error. Anybody got a good one? Stephen -- The views

Can we please have a current that compiles?

For the past few days, current has not compiled, owing to problems (in no particular order) with more, vinum and various INET options in the GENERIC kernel. Can people please check things before they commit them? I like a working compile at least *once* a week. Stephen -- The

Re: Can we please have a current that compiles?

This is the first I've heard of a problem in Vinum. Can people please check things before they commit them? I like a working compile at least *once* a week. I'm wondering if you haven't had some other problem. I haven't heard anybody else with problems. I have a number of problems

Re: Undocumented tape devices in pax(1)

The Pyramid series of machines used to have block tape devices, such that one was able to boot a repair kernel and ro root fs off the 1600bpi reel-to-reel deck. Not unaturally, one was discouraged from doing a recursive find on that fs. Stephen (who used to have thoughts of doing the

DEVFS - what's happening with it?

Haven't seen any discussion for quite some time. The Linux people seem to be getting into a lather about it as well. Rehashing the issues like device persistence, et cetera. Is anyone doodling around with a sysctlfs? Stephen -- The views expressed above are not those of PGS

Last changes to SDL made smpeg not work

The mpeg player smpeg doesn't work (catches a signal then just hangs) when you compile link against the SDL which uses the native threads - however when you compile against one that uses linux threads, then it does. I've seen some problems with sdl test apps that mix sound video when we use

Netscape 6 Linux pre-release, got it going.

It needed the libjpeg libgtk rpms from the RedHat 6.1 CD (perhaps these could be added to Linux_base?) and a whole lot of memory, but otherwise wasn't too bad. Rather slow in some circumstances, but I hope that's owing to a bunch of debug code being in place. Stephen -- The views

Versions of gas that support 3dnow!?

I've been following the GLX stuff for Matrox G400s and noticed that there's now a version of gas that supports 3dnow! instructions without bugs. It's one of the snapshots by H.J. Lu - 2.9.5.0.34, found at ftp://ftp.varesearch.com/pub/support/hjl/binutils/ Any chance of this making its way

Latest kernel hangs on mounting /dev/ad0a

As at cvs-cur.6207 -- The views expressed above are not those of PGS Tensor. "We've heard that a million monkeys at a million keyboards could produce the Complete Works of Shakespeare; now, thanks to the Internet, we know this is not true."Robert Wilensky, University

Updating examples /usr/share/examples/ld

Can someone please update the examples in /usr/share/examples/kld? It's a bit confusing when it doesn't even compile. Stephen To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message

Crash on current at cvs-cur.6182

The back trace reads ... #0 boot (howto=260) at ../../kern/kern_shutdown.c:304 #1 0xc013d7e5 in panic (fmt=0xc0273514 "from debugger") at ../../kern/kern_shutdown.c:554 #2 0xc01265bd in db_panic (addr=-1071292651, have_addr=0, count=-1, modif=0xc5ec6ce4 "") at

Why I hate RealTek ethernet cards

After much to-ing fro-ing ealier this year, I ended up using a Realtek on an otherwise respectable machine. For the most part it seemed alright. Then just before I went on an extended overseas trip 7 weeks ago, it started doing odd things. Small transfers worked OK, but larger ones just

Re: 3dfx Driver?

Has anyone ported the linux 3DFx Driver to FreeBSD? Don't think so. Why? You volunteering? =) I made a start on it earlier this year, but the final step (mapping the card memory) I got wrong, which then locked up the machine. The box the code is on is the other side of the world at the

Failure of new PCM code to pickup my CS4236.

A dmesg from it is as follows - note that the old PCM code used to find it. The voxware stuff needs a couple of delays inserted to find it. Copyright (c) 1992-1999 The FreeBSD Project. Copyright (c) 1982, 1986, 1989, 1991, 1993 The Regents of the University of California. All rights

Currnet build problems

Partway through a make world, I'm seeing the following, I've applied up to cvs-cur.5622.gz and int-cvs-cur.0118.gz. Is this likely to be fixed sometime soon? Stephen cc -O -pipe -mpentiumpro -fschedule-insns2 -DKLUDGELINEMODE -DUSE_TERMIO -DENV_HACK -DSKEY -DENCRYPTION

Re: Interesting NFS hangs under current

Could you print out *p and *uap in frame 18? frame 18 print *p print *uap Also, do: ps -axl -N /sys/compile/bleep/kernel.debug -M /var/crash/vmcore.2 This is very odd. There is no way it should be looping in supervisor mode in that call

Assembler capable of supporting 3dnow!

I'm messing around with the latest mesa and have discovered (suprise)that our assembler doesn't support 3dnow instructions. Are there any plans to update to a version of binutils that does? Linux's stuff appears to support it. Stephen -- The views expressed above are not those of

Re: MTRR stuff

What exactly are the ranges? You haven't given me enough info yet. I wrote the K6-* MTRR driver, so I'd like to help. OK, the Linux 3dfx driver attempts to set up a write combining range starting at the card's base address and 0x40 bytes long. After doing this it then sets up a range

Finding out what function an interrupt is tied to..

I'm having some problems since when the newbus code went in, in that my sound card doesn't seem to be interrupting anymore (PAS16, Voxware drivers). So what I'd like to do is look at the kernel and see if an interrupt actually has a function associated with it, and if it's being masked out. Any

Re: pcm still broken in -current (at least for me)

The same happens with snd0 instead of pcm. It looks like it can't register the interrupt handler - is it now supposed to be registered in a different way (perhaps via nexus)? I'm seeing the exact same problem, only with the Voxware driver and a PAS16. I've held off upgrading the

Hacking objcopy

Would anyone have any objections to me hacking objcopy so that it could do the following - a) Change symbol names from one thing to another b) Add/remove dependencies on other shared objects. If I submit these changes, what chance do I have of getting them made official? Stephen

Re: MTRR support for AMD K6-2?

Do we have MTRR support for the AMD K6-2, and how's it done (e.g., if I want to allow mtrr support for my Voodoo Banshee) It's being worked on. The K6 is a problematic device, as it only supports two memory ranges, as opposed to the eight the P6 does. OK - give me a yell once

MTRR support for AMD K6-2?

Do we have MTRR support for the AMD K6-2, and how's it done (e.g., if I want to allow mtrr support for my Voodoo Banshee) Stephen -- The views expressed above are not those of PGS Tensor. We've heard that a million monkeys at a million keyboards could produce the Complete

SGI to release XFS under Open Source license

Some of you may already know this - I'm wondering about the pain involved in fitting it to our architecture. Journaling. Hmmm. http://www.news.com/News/Item/0,4,36807,00.html?owv -- The views expressed above are not those of PGS Tensor. We've heard that a million monkeys at a million

Some interrupt bogons still around.

An old 486 of mine still cant see its IDE driver with versions of ata-all.c later than 1.8, and my soundcard (PAS16) still doesn't seem to generate interrupts since the nexus stuff went in. Stephen -- The views expressed above are not those of PGS Tensor. We've heard that a

Sound still not quite working (Voxware)

I get DMA / interrupt timeouts on programs such as mpg123 or NAS. Those programs that mmap the DMA buffer and set it cycling through (quake friends) work fine. Stephen -- The views expressed above are not those of PGS Tensor. We've heard that a million monkeys at a million

Re: New ATA drivers problem? (Was: New kernels won't boot)

Soren, I did a bit of experimenting with my CVS archive and found that version 1.8 of ata-all.c was the last one that worked on my problem box. 1.9 spewed out errors about unexpected interrupts whilst probing and eventually hung, and 1.10 gave the unable to mount wd0s2a errors we all love.

New kernels won't boot

On my machine, a kernel newer than one built on the 22nd will not complete booting, panicing about not being able to mount root. Another machine with a very similar config is fine. The main difference is that the faulty machine has its FreeBSD partition in an odd spot on the disk. Below is

Further on tape CAM problems

When the tape hangs with an unkillable process, its relevant PS flags are physstrat and DL+. It doesn't hang forever, just a very long time, like someone's confused milliseconds with microseconds, or some such. Also, when writing to the 2nd tape in a CPIO archive, it doesn't actually write to

Re: DoS from local users (fwd)

Mikhail Teterin wrote: What about a new login-class capability specifying the maximum percentage of CPU time a class of users can utilize? With standard class having 90% (or 95%)? The machine would appear (to most of the users) as if it had 10% slower CPU, with the remaining usable by the

Re: ATTENTION PLEASE: g77 in base system.

Thus spake Brian Handy ha...@lambic.physics.montana.edu On Fri, 9 Apr 1999, The Hermit Hacker wrote: [g77 in the source tree] I have to agree here...I personally know noone that actually uses Fortran...having it as an option to turn off would be nice...one less thing to compile on a

CAM changes causing prob?

After the last lot of CAM changes, I occasionally get processes hanging attempting to access my QIC-525 tape drive. They can't be killed, so doing backups can be a mite troublesome. Sometimes it works, sometimes it doesn't. There seems to be some relation to how recently the last lot of tape

Re: Patched RealTek driver -- please test

This version survived for a little longer, but hung (on the 486 box) whilst doing a recursive ls of a large directory tree. Again, no messages, except for one which came up as the box was booting, whilst it was starting squid. The box was OK for about 4 minutes after this message, which was rl0:

Re: Patched RealTek driver -- please test

OK - I've banged on the new version with extra debug messages and it still locks up, but without any messages! I can only conclude that the 486MB BIOS is iffy. I haven't tried any other slots in the MB, but have tried various PCI settings, all to no avail. I have swapped the de0 and the rl0

Re: More on rl0 woes

I can't believe I'm getting so worked up because you cheap bastards insist on buying the absolute worst network adapter in the world. Go buy an ASIX card for crying out loud. They're cheap, and they actually work worth a damn. Weeelll... I'm a cheap bastard I actually expected it to work

Re: egcs

What will become of f77 which is in src/gnu/usr.bin/cc/f77? This seems to be a good time to decide what will happen with Fortran in the base FreeBSD system. VERY good question. I have no opinion in the matter, but will follow the wishes of others (or Core, or committers, or who ever should

Re: Patched RealTek driver -- please test

Well, I nipped home over my lunch break gave it a try - some progress, of a sort. My NFS problems have gone away (at least under light activity), but it now seems rather sensitive to sending lots of stuff. The symptoms observed are a hard hang of the whole machine, no response to pings or

More on rl0 woes

On the offchance that mty problems were chipset related, I swapped the RealTek with the de0 card in my other machine, a 233MHz k6. It being a socket 7 mboard presumably has a later PCI bios. Still the same symptoms - hangs on NFS access. These can be interrupted and other network traffic

RealTek driver woes

I'm running a RealTek ethernet card in a 486dx4-100 machine and am having some problems. Firstly, doing an ls on a nfs mounted directory exported from the RealTek machine hangs. According to tcpdump it is receiving the readdir packets. Secondly, it will hange solidly when acting as the receiver

Re: bmake/contrib framework for egcs

BTW, do you plan to include egcs' g77 as well? Current, the g77 driver is built. But the f771 isn't. From previous talk, I've gotten the impression g77 should be a port vs. in the base system. I'm Ok either way -- I leave the decision to the lists and Core. - -- - -- David

Successfully cross-compiling Linux code!

Well, after unpacking various RPMs from my RedHat 5.23 CD, making a number of hardlinks within the library directories under /compat/linux, I've finally got this going. Who do I contact to put together an official Linux development port that'll work? Stephen -- The views expressed

Linux devel doesn't work with glibc libs

When trying to link, it complains about libc.os.6 vs libc.so.5. This makes life rather difficult when trying to test glide programs against my version of the /dev/3dfx driver. Can someone commit the RedHat dev system (. egcs )? Stephen -- The views expressed above are not

FreeBSD version of DRM?

Now that a working version of the Direct Rendering Manager (along with an open source version of glide 3) has been released for Linux on a decent consumer level card, is anyone interested in porting it over to FreeBSD? It could well displace my TNT2U. Stephen To Unsubscribe: send