Re: How to fdisk/disklabel whole disk for FreeBSD from command line?

2000-02-27 Thread Doug White
On Sat, 26 Feb 2000, Marc Frajola wrote: Hi... I have spent a bit of time messing around with the command-line fdisk and disklabel commands, and have been unable to setup a proper fdisk and FreeBSD partition label solely from the command line. Somebody didn't check the usual places!

KDGKBSTATE and alt=meta

2000-02-27 Thread Victor Ivanov
hi.. there is no shift-keys retrieval ioctl implemented in FreeBSD... why? the KDGKBSTATE ioctl returns just the lock-keys state. actualy it takes the flags int and masks it with the lock-keys bitmask. some applications need the shift-keys state (such as mcedit and the tvision library)

custom release

2000-02-27 Thread Joao Pedras
Hello all How much disk space is it necessary to have the entire CVS repository ? The idea is to build a custom release. Tkx Joao ^\ /^ O O

Re: custom release

2000-02-27 Thread Alexander Langer
How much disk space is it necessary to have the entire CVS repository ? Actually almost exactly: /dev/ad0s3f992439 8482766476893%/usr/home/ncvs uhm, approx. 800 MB. The idea is to build a custom release. This takes some more, I believe at least 3 GB or such. Alex To

Re: Where is 'dip' ... -- Any dip users out there?

2000-02-27 Thread Dann Lunsford
On Sun, Feb 27, 2000 at 01:49:14AM +0100, J Wunsch wrote: Incidentally, i recently considered removing the entire bsddip port. (I'm the maintainer of it.) There have never been any updates to the original bsddip (AFAICT), ppp(8) is actively and nicely maintained by Brian Somers, and nobody's

sockets in kernelmodule

2000-02-27 Thread Bernd Walter
Is it valid to use proc0 for socreate() and sobind() in kernel? In my case I need to create a TCP connection which is used from different processes and which may be reconnected from different processes. -- B.Walter COSMO-Project http://www.cosmo-project.de [EMAIL

Re: Annoying nfsrcv hangs

2000-02-27 Thread Matthew Dillon
:ps al on my system shows multiple nfsrcv hangs on processes such as df, ls :and umount. Without any other characteristic problems, the nfs server :machine's exports all seemed to be working correctly. However, *one* and :only one of the mounts somehow went south. 'mount' on the client machine

Re: building a release

2000-02-27 Thread Joerg Micheel
On Sat, Feb 26, 2000 at 11:47:33AM -0800, Brian Beattie wrote: I have looked at the FAQ and find only a partial answer. I would like to build a a release with base and X11, to do local installs of 4.0-current. I can build the base from /usr/src/release, I have the XFree86 sources. Can

Re: Annoying nfsrcv hangs

2000-02-27 Thread Ryan Thompson
Matthew Dillon wrote to Ryan Thompson: :ps al on my system shows multiple nfsrcv hangs on processes such as df, ls :and umount. Without any other characteristic problems, the nfs server : [...] I assume the hangs are on the client? Not surprising if its a 3.2 system. A whole

Re: powerpc cross compiler?

2000-02-27 Thread Andrew Atrens
You'll need to get header files from your _target_ os and then tell gcc where to find them. What's your target OS ? On Fri, 25 Feb 2000, Jason Allum wrote: Date: Fri, 25 Feb 2000 09:58:01 -0500 From: Jason Allum [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: freebsd-hackers [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: powerpc

scanimage reports open of device coolscan:/dev/pass4 failed: Invalid argument

2000-02-27 Thread tom brown
The story so far: Recompiled the kernel with controller scbus0 # SCSI bus (required) device da0 # Direct Access (disks) device sa0 # Sequential Access (tape etc) device cd0 # CD controller

Re: How to fdisk/disklabel whole disk for FreeBSD from command line?

2000-02-27 Thread Greg Lehey
On Sunday, 27 February 2000 at 0:59:30 -0800, Doug White wrote: On Sat, 26 Feb 2000, Marc Frajola wrote: Hi... I have spent a bit of time messing around with the command-line fdisk and disklabel commands, and have been unable to setup a proper fdisk and FreeBSD partition label solely

Re: modem program... Help

2000-02-27 Thread Daniel O'Connor
On 25-Feb-00 Victor Ivanov wrote: The modem's escape sequense is three escape symbols (usually '+') which maybe disabled if the escape symbol is 127 (stored in register 2): ATS2=x where x127 disables it, so xxxATH0 won't work. It is good to disable it (otherwise you get dropped with a

idea: official hardware manufacturer blacklist - let's wake em up!

2000-02-27 Thread Karsten W. Rohrbach
ok guys, here's just a little idea on how to get the hardware manufacturer guys a little bit more responsive (in fact, i got somehow "inspired" by the alsa sound project guys because they got something similar)... let's put up a list of hardware manufacturers that do not answer our mails, that

Need help with crash debug

2000-02-27 Thread David Miller
I'm trying my first ever post-mortem on a core file, so please be kind:) I recompiled the kernel with makeoptionsDEBUG="-g", copied the kernel to kernel.debug, strip -g the kernel, and booted. I set the dumpdev in rc.conf, and added to the savecore line in /etc/rc so it looks like this:

Re: idea: official hardware manufacturer blacklist - let's wake emup!

2000-02-27 Thread Michael Bacarella
I love the idea myself, but I have no power over FreeBSD :( -MB To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message

Re: Need help with crash debug

2000-02-27 Thread Joerg Micheel
David, I haven't done too much debugging with FreeBSD either. A few small notes, however. I don't think the gdb version shipped is ready to handle SMP kernels. This is a deficiency, not sure someone is working on it, I believe not. Having said this, it is probably impossible to find the kernel

Re: idea: official hardware manufacturer blacklist - let's wake em up!

2000-02-27 Thread Karsten W. Rohrbach
hm i mean, do the hardware people want their stuff supported or not? that's the main question some seem to choose the NOT. /k Chuck Robey([EMAIL PROTECTED])@Sun, Feb 27, 2000 at 11:44:42PM -0500: On Sun, 27 Feb 2000, Michael Bacarella wrote: I love the idea myself, but I have no power

Re: idea: official hardware manufacturer blacklist - let's wake emup!

2000-02-27 Thread The Hermit Hacker
On Mon, 28 Feb 2000, Karsten W. Rohrbach wrote: hm i mean, do the hardware people want their stuff supported or not? that's the main question some seem to choose the NOT. right, and that is their perogative ... you can't create a "blacklist" and publicize it, it makes us look bad, not

Re: idea: official hardware manufacturer blacklist - let's wake em up!

2000-02-27 Thread Karsten W. Rohrbach
okay, thats a good point let's concentrate on the good things in life ;-) i mean, with all that yamaha crap i had going on the last weeks i am really demotivated... they should be a little more open minded... apparently, we got no contact i this company and so they wont have their hardware

Re: idea: official hardware manufacturer blacklist - let's wake emup!

2000-02-27 Thread Chuck Robey
On Mon, 28 Feb 2000, Karsten W. Rohrbach wrote: hm i mean, do the hardware people want their stuff supported or not? that's the main question some seem to choose the NOT. Hmmm. You're saying any one who disagrees with you chooses not to have their stuff supported; "if you don't agree

Re: idea: official hardware manufacturer blacklist - let's wake em up!

2000-02-27 Thread Doug Barton
"Karsten W. Rohrbach" wrote: ok guys, here's just a little idea on how to get the hardware manufacturer guys a little bit more responsive Please direct this to -advocacy, thanks. Doug -- "Welcome to the desert of the real." - Laurence Fishburne as Morpheus, "The Matrix" To

Re: idea: official hardware manufacturer blacklist - let's wake em

2000-02-27 Thread Kevin Day
i mean, do the hardware people want their stuff supported or not? that's the main question some seem to choose the NOT. Hmmm. You're saying any one who disagrees with you chooses not to have their stuff supported; "if you don't agree with me, you must be stupid", right? Your

Re: scanimage reports open of device coolscan:/dev/pass4 failed: Invalid argument

2000-02-27 Thread Thierry.herbelot
tom brown wrote: [Assuming you use a 3.x version] The story so far: Recompiled the kernel with controller scbus0 # SCSI bus (required) device da0 # Direct Access (disks) device sa0 # Sequential Access (tape etc)

Re: idea: official hardware manufacturer blacklist - let's wake em up!

2000-02-27 Thread Jim Bryant
In reply: ok guys, here's just a little idea on how to get the hardware manufacturer guys a little bit more responsive (in fact, i got somehow "inspired" by the alsa sound project guys because they got something similar)... let's put up a list of hardware manufacturers that do not answer