Re: GEOM Gate.

2003-10-15 Thread Terry Lambert
Wilko Bulte wrote: > On Tue, Oct 14, 2003 at 10:44:14PM +0200, Oldach, Helge wrote: > > From: Richard Tobin [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > Ok, GEOM Gate is ready for testing. > > > > For those who don't know what it is, they can read README: > > > > > > Aaargh! It's the return of nd(4) from Sun

Re: GEOM Gate.

2003-10-15 Thread Wilko Bulte
On Wed, Oct 15, 2003 at 12:28:12AM -0700, Terry Lambert wrote: > Wilko Bulte wrote: > > On Tue, Oct 14, 2003 at 10:44:14PM +0200, Oldach, Helge wrote: > > > From: Richard Tobin [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > > Ok, GEOM Gate is ready for testing. > > > > > For those who don't know what it is, the

Re: Determining CPU features / cache organization from userland

2003-10-15 Thread Joseph Koshy
Hi Bruce, A few thoughts on your API: 1) Rather than naming the struct's as "l1", "l2" etc, it may be more orthogonal to use an array of cache entries like so struct entry { ... } entries[MAX_ENTRIES]; where MAX_ENTRIES would be say, 8. 2) We could pass information back about whether

[patch] psm hacks for kvm problems.

2003-10-15 Thread Alfred Perlstein
I was getting fustrated with the effect my KVM was having on my PS/2 mouse, basically after switching to the FreeBSD box I was getting random mouse movement for a second or two including button clicks as the kvm "settled". Windows doesn't have this problem. I have some hacks here that get me clos

Crash 4.9-RC during heavy I/O, crashdump available.

2003-10-15 Thread Kees Jan Koster
Dear All, My workstation went down today. Thanks to Michael Lucas' article I was prepared and could get you guys a crash dump. You will find it inline just after my signature. My system goes down like this occasionally (about once a month) and it is always during heavy I/O. This time I was rebuil

Re: On-board Promise controller is not detected

2003-10-15 Thread Kees Jan Koster
Dear All, > > I'm having trouble getting my on-board Promise controller to work. I can > use atacontrol to build an array, but sysinstall won't detect the disk > pack. > A few more datapoints: my motherboard BIOS is up to date (ver. 3.7 from MSI for 6380 board), the BIOS on my controller is vers

What are the .1 files?

2003-10-15 Thread David Tomshany
This program comes on from time to time and knocks off things that I am working on with this new computer and Windows XP. No one at CompUSA where I bought the computer, or no one at Compaq customer tech. service knows anything about the program or how to delete it. Please tell me how it got here an

to write a device driver or not to write (i/o, opl3, stupidity)

2003-10-15 Thread lauri . jarvenpaa
Hello. I'm sorry to disturb you but.. I have read manuals, searched web, fed the ducks (evil ones), but I can not figure out some things. 1: I have an isa card with i/o address 0x300-0x301. No dma, no irq - just i/o. How can I read/write from/to this address to program the card? Card is a HardSID

Re: to write a device driver or not to write (i/o, opl3, stupidity)

2003-10-15 Thread Mathew Kanner
On Oct 15, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Hello. I'm sorry to disturb you but.. I have read manuals, searched web, fed the > ducks (evil ones), but I can not figure out some things. > > 1: > I have an isa card with i/o address 0x300-0x301. No dma, no irq - just i/o. > How can I read/write from/to thi

CC swiper / Cash machine

2003-10-15 Thread Keith Pitcher
Anyone ever used FreeBSD to talk to a CC swipe machine and / or a cash machine? I've seen a number of devices that you can plug into PCs that talk via serial, so it might be a no brainer. However if anyone has any real world experience with a good product that would be helpful. Basically I'm thi

Re: CC swiper / Cash machine

2003-10-15 Thread Dirk-Willem van Gulik
On Wed, 15 Oct 2003, Keith Pitcher wrote: > Anyone ever used FreeBSD to talk to a CC swipe machine and / or a cash > machine? A fair number of them (in fact most) are serial ports (though you may need RS232/432 volt/current conversion) devices which are very easy to talk to. Just think 'modem'.

Re: to write a device driver or not to write (i/o, opl3, stupidity)

2003-10-15 Thread Poul-Henning Kamp
In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, laur [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: >Hello. I'm sorry to disturb you but.. I have read manuals, searched web, fed the >ducks (evil ones), but I can not figure out some things. > >1: >I have an isa card with i/o address 0x300-0x301. No dma, no irq - just i/o. >How can I r

Re: GEOM Gate.

2003-10-15 Thread Richard Tobin
> Yeah... Think Sun2 systems > > http://www.netbsd.org/Documentation/network/netboot/nd.html Though it wasn't just for booting in the old days. On a diskless workstation, your whole filesystem would be on nd. And it was a real mistake to mount a writable partition on two machines, but nothi

Re: CC swiper / Cash machine

2003-10-15 Thread Q
Interesting, documentation availability must depend on who you talk to, or what country you live in. I too have been trying to source the programming doco for an eftpos pinpad recently (an Ingenico device), and it has so far been mostly fruitless. Do you have any documentation for a similar device

Re: CC swiper / Cash machine

2003-10-15 Thread Erich Dollansky
Hi, take a look at the web-site of Schlumberger. They do machines like this. All the documentation needed should be there. There is even a standard behind. Most machines follow this standard. Only the fields vary. Yes, most machines are connected via RS232. The protocol is pretty easy to do.

Re: real vs. avail memory

2003-10-15 Thread David Schultz
On Sun, Oct 12, 2003, Dag-Erling Smrgrav wrote: > I've gotten used to the fact that there is a small discrepancy between > real and available memory, but I was surprised to see the following in > dmesg on a new P4 system: > > real memory = 1073676288 (1023 MB) > avail memory = 1037799424 (989 MB)