Re: FreeBSD 6.0/6.1: open ("/dev/lpt0" ...) hangs up

2006-07-21 Thread Greg Black
On 2006-07-21, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > This problem is also present in 6.0. Why haven't a whole bunch of > people already run into it? Am I the only person still using a > parallel port printer and (at first) a generic kernel? I use parallel printers under 6.0 and 6.1 on i386 and amd64 gener

FreeBSD 6.0/6.1: open ("/dev/lpt0" ...) hangs up

2006-07-21 Thread george+freebsd
A couple of days ago, I upgraded from FreeBSD 5.3 to 6.1 (installed on a previously unused disk partition). Happiness ensued for the most part, but I could not get printing to work at all with the generic kernel. I played around for a while and eventually found that open ("/dev/lpt0" ...) would h

Re: New Welcome message for FreeBSD

2006-07-21 Thread Giorgos Keramidas
On 2006-07-21 17:23, Tarasov Alexey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >Timur Yuldashev wrote: >> New motd-welcome message for FreeBSD. >> >> http://www.cwt.uz/motd >> >> best regards > > I like it! Very good. I don't. It is pretty "content free" when compared with our current default motd. The infor

Re: New Welcome message for FreeBSD

2006-07-21 Thread Michael Vince
Yes I agree with "The Power To Serve!" change, its less controversial and helps diminish arguments. If you like arguments how about the idea of having both in the base system and let users choose which one they prefer via rc.conf. I think I might actually put that motd on some of my servers. Th

Re: "swiN: clock sio" process taking 75% CPU

2006-07-21 Thread Gareth McCaughan
On Friday 2006-07-21 16:37, John Baldwin wrote: > On Friday 21 July 2006 10:07, Gareth McCaughan wrote: ... > > OK, so here's what's happening. ... > > Suggestions: ... > > If any of these is thought a good idea, I can provide a patch. > > Either 1 or 2 sounds like a good idea to me. I think perh

Re: "swiN: clock sio" process taking 75% CPU

2006-07-21 Thread John Baldwin
On Friday 21 July 2006 10:07, Gareth McCaughan wrote: > On Wednesday 2006-07-19 18:36, John Baldwin wrote: > > On Wednesday 19 July 2006 12:11, Gareth McCaughan wrote: > > > (The particular screen saver I turned on was the one called > > > "warp"; I haven't checked yet whether others have the same

Re: New Welcome message for FreeBSD

2006-07-21 Thread Özkan KIRIK
i think i'll be better if slogan of freebsd added to this motd ;) The Power To Serve! Tarasov Alexey yazmış: Timur Yuldashev wrote: New motd-welcome message for FreeBSD. http://www.cwt.uz/motd best regards I like it! Very good. ___ freebsd

Re: "swiN: clock sio" process taking 75% CPU

2006-07-21 Thread Gareth McCaughan
On Wednesday 2006-07-19 18:36, John Baldwin wrote: > On Wednesday 19 July 2006 12:11, Gareth McCaughan wrote: > > (The particular screen saver I turned on was the one called > > "warp"; I haven't checked yet whether others have the same > > CPU-guzzling effect.) > > Actually, if you could test tha

Re: kern/99979: Get Ready for Kernel Module in C++

2006-07-21 Thread R. Tyler Ballance
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Jul 20, 2006, at 1:04 AM, <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: FWIW; I went on to check that Embedded C++ that David Nugent mentioned, and I found this: http://www.caravan.net/ec2plus/ Acording to the Q&A section: "The goal of EC

Re: Programs not accepting input?

2006-07-21 Thread Daniel O'Connor
On Friday 21 July 2006 23:02, Robert Watson wrote: > I've occasionally also had weird focus problems with KDE. Among other > things, it looks like occasionally the mouse release event is lost > somewhere in the system (or something along these lines) -- I don't know if > it's a driver problem, a m

Re: Re: Programs not accepting input?

2006-07-21 Thread Robert Watson
On Fri, 21 Jul 2006, Greg 'groggy' Lehey wrote: I've been keeping a closer eye on my problem. I'm using fvwm1 with click-to-focus and lose-focus-on-screen-switch. If I move from one screen to another and quickly click on a window, the border changes colour to indicate that it has focus but

Re: New Welcome message for FreeBSD

2006-07-21 Thread Tarasov Alexey
Timur Yuldashev wrote: New motd-welcome message for FreeBSD. http://www.cwt.uz/motd best regards I like it! Very good. -- Best regards, Tarasov Alexey. ___ freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-