Re: [Fwd: i-Buddie 4: Synaptics touch pad FreeBSD support?]

2002-09-27 Thread Guido Van Hoecke
Stephen Montgomery-Smith wrote: If you want to get tpconfig to work (so that you can customise various features of the touchpad), I have a PR that will allow you to do this. It is a combination of a hack to the kernel, and a port of tpconfig. Look at

Re: [Fwd: i-Buddie 4: Synaptics touch pad FreeBSD support?]

2002-09-27 Thread Daniel O'Connor
On Fri, 2002-09-27 at 16:54, Guido Van Hoecke wrote: The windoze driver offers a set of extra features which I found useful and which I would appreciate on a FreeBSD box: - configurable touch behaviour - edge motion - scrolling - button actions (including virtual btns supplied by the 4

Re: Disk space over 1 TB

2002-09-27 Thread Attila Nagy
Hello, The i386 port uses the generic disklabel code, which has 32 bit logical block addressing, which means that the partitions themselves are limited to 1TB or so. Will this change or GEOM will be the standard method? (and thanks, I forgot that all of this is on IA-32) But one could

Re: Disk space over 1 TB

2002-09-27 Thread Poul-Henning Kamp
In message [EMAIL PROTECTED], Attila Na gy writes: Hello, The i386 port uses the generic disklabel code, which has 32 bit logical block addressing, which means that the partitions themselves are limited to 1TB or so. Will this change or GEOM will be the standard method? (and thanks, I forgot

Re: Just a wild idea

2002-09-27 Thread Oliver Fromme
Sorry for the late reply (I don't skim through the hackers list very often). Paul Schenkeveld [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: For many applications however, for example lpd, named, sendmail, tac_plus and others, it would be more than good enough to run that program as a normal, non-root user

Maybe it's time to commit parts of S/390 port?

2002-09-27 Thread Serguei Tzukanov
Hi! Just want to let your know I can send some patches to be committed to -current. Anyone interested? I'am asking because I tried to communicate with some FreeBSD people this week, but their did't respond for unknown reason (busy?). To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with

Re: Maybe it's time to commit parts of S/390 port?

2002-09-27 Thread Poul-Henning Kamp
In message [EMAIL PROTECTED], Serguei Tzukanov writes: Hi! Just want to let your know I can send some patches to be committed to -current. Anyone interested? I'am asking because I tried to communicate with some FreeBSD people this week, but their did't respond for unknown reason (busy?). Hey

Re: IBM ATA Deskstars *without* tagged queueing?

2002-09-27 Thread Bruce M Simpson
On Thu, Sep 26, 2002 at 08:07:27PM +0200, Hellmuth Michaelis wrote: Exactly the same thing happened here with a IC35L020AVER07-0; it did not do tagging and i bought it (and many other IBM drives) because of that. [snip] It turned out that the drive i bought had DELL firmware in it [ :- ]

Runlevels and opcodes

2002-09-27 Thread porte10
Runlevels and opcodes I am a bit familiar with the design of operating systems but i definitely lack practical experience so please apologize if i am confusing things ... Anyway i think the subject is likely to interest our readers ! On most modern operating systems, system calls provide

Re: two make questions

2002-09-27 Thread Roman Neuhauser
# [EMAIL PROTECTED] / 2002-09-23 13:08:04 -0400: The odd behavior of variables is only one item from a whole list of them. Go take a look at what use: means, if you want a headache. you mean .USE? looks quite powerful... a can of worms if misused. :) Or, how about the behavior of

Re: gethostbyname_r() fbsd equiv?

2002-09-27 Thread Hiten Pandya
On Fri, Sep 13, 2002 at 09:01:45AM -0700, Terry Lambert wrote the words in effect of: Terry Lambert wrote: Jev wrote: Im trying to build some software on freebsd, which wants to use the thread safe gethostbyname_r(). Despite having very bad C skills im going to attempt to patch it.

4.6.2/RELENG_4: timeout in wi_seek and wi_cmd

2002-09-27 Thread Dirk-Willem van Gulik
On a machine with either 4.6.2 of RELENG_4 as of today with: 3x wiX: Intersil Prism2.5 mem 0xfedf8000-0xfedf8fff irq 11 at device 19.X on pci0 wiX: 802.11 address: 00:06:25:a7:a7:2a wiX: using RF:PRISM2.5 MAC:ISL3874A(Mini-PCI) wiX: Intersil Firmware: Primary

Re: Security of a JAIL UDP patch

2002-09-27 Thread Marc G. Fournier
U, named currently does work within a jail ... I run several at the moment ... On Thu, 26 Sep 2002, Martin Matuska wrote: I would like to ask which aspects has this patch on security of a jailed environment. This patch enables the use of named or ircd in jails. --- in_pcb.c.old

kernel panic in 4.5-STABLE

2002-09-27 Thread Paul Smith
I've been experiencing somewhat periodic panics on my 4.5-STABLE box: [root@wickerpark crash] # uname -a FreeBSD wickerpark.cnt.org 4.5-STABLE FreeBSD 4.5-STABLE #0: Thu Aug 29 12:26:05 CDT 2002 [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/WP-DEBUG i386 kgdb output follows: This GDB was

Re: Runlevels and opcodes

2002-09-27 Thread Ryan Sommers
On Fri, 2002-09-27 at 11:47, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: *** But what does prevent a user-level process from executing wild instructions (RESET, traps, other dangerous instructions and undocumented features) ? I'm probably less knowledgeable then you are but in protected-mode programming isn't

Re: Runlevels and opcodes

2002-09-27 Thread Ronald G Minnich
On 27 Sep 2002, Ryan Sommers wrote: *** But what does prevent a user-level process from executing wild instructions (RESET, traps, other dangerous instructions and undocumented features) ? I'm probably less knowledgeable then you are but in protected-mode programming isn't the kernel