Re: cmi sound problems in 4.6-RC

2002-06-03 Thread Brian W. Buchanan
Following up to myself... I brought my laptop up to date: FreeBSD 4.6-RC #1: Mon Jun 3 21:48:05 PDT 2002 i386 pcm0: on csa0 No problems. Sound is just fine. The problem seems to be limited to the cmi driver. Brian -- Brian Buchanan [EMAIL PROTECTED] -

cmi sound problems in 4.6-RC

2002-06-03 Thread Brian W. Buchanan
FreeBSD 4.6-RC FreeBSD 4.6-RC #1: Sun Jun 2 18:03:01 PDT 2002 i386 pcm0: port 0xa400-0xa4ff irq 10 at device 5.0 on pci0 Sound is scratchy... sounds kinda like when you've got a loose speaker cable. I swapped the snd_pcm and snd_cmi KLDs for ones built from 4-STABLE on March 9th, and the prob

Re: messed up /etc/rc.conf

2001-07-30 Thread Brian W. Buchanan
Rohit, "mount -a" will mount your filesystems read-write. Or just "mount /" to remount the / filesystem read-write, if you prefer. In the future, please send questions like this to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Brian -- Brian Buchanan [EMAIL PROTECTED] ---

Re: help with booting

2001-07-15 Thread Brian W. Buchanan
When you ran 'make install' after building your kernel, it renamed your old kernel to kernel.old. When the bootloader countdown starts, press the spacebar (or any key except ENTER) and you will get the bootloader prompt. Type "unload" and then "boot /kernel.old". In the future, plese direct que

Re: fd driver hacking to recover data

2001-05-09 Thread Brian W. Buchanan
On Thu, 10 May 2001, Luigi Rizzo wrote: > > I have a bunch of old floppy disks with some text files I'd like to > > recover. Many of them have errors and are unreadable past a certain point > > in the disk. Others I can't read from at all. > > > > The ones I can't read, period, are all 1.44MB-

fd driver hacking to recover data

2001-05-09 Thread Brian W. Buchanan
Any fdc driver gurus in the house? I have a bunch of old floppy disks with some text files I'd like to recover. Many of them have errors and are unreadable past a certain point in the disk. Others I can't read from at all. The ones I can't read, period, are all 1.44MB-size floppies. I've trie

Re: USB HIDs

2001-05-09 Thread Brian W. Buchanan
On Wed, 9 May 2001, Ryan Dewalt wrote: > I've recently reverse engineered a small piece of hardware, The > 'Microsoft Sidewinder Strategic Commander" (MSSC hereafter). What do you mean by "reverse-engineering"? I wrote a userland USB HID driver using libusb for an experimental RTS game engine

PCMCIA-PCI bridge cards

2001-04-07 Thread Brian W. Buchanan
I've looked in the archives, and this seems to have been a FAQ in the past with the answer being "they don't work yet". I haven't found anything on the subject since February, so I'm inquiring: Do PCI PCMCIA adapters work in 4.3? As far as I can tell, they do not. My Lucent ORiNOCO/WaveLAN car

cdd produces only noise from CD-AUDIO tracks

1999-10-27 Thread Brian W. Buchanan
Under -current built from Oct 22 soucrces, and cdd built today, ripping CD-AUDIO tracks just produces output files which are just a loud hiss. I've tried this with both of my CD-ROM drives to no avail, and it used to work for both of them under -current several months ago. wcd0: drive speed 5512K

UCB removes advertising clause

1999-09-02 Thread Brian W. Buchanan
This is apparently old news, but I don't recall seeing anything about it on the lists, and didn't hear about it until it hit Slashdot a short while ago. ftp://ftp.cs.berkeley.edu/pub/4bsd/README.Impt.License.Change: July 22, 1999 To All Licensees, Distributors of Any Version of BSD: As you know

UCB removes advertising clause

1999-09-02 Thread Brian W. Buchanan
This is apparently old news, but I don't recall seeing anything about it on the lists, and didn't hear about it until it hit Slashdot a short while ago. ftp://ftp.cs.berkeley.edu/pub/4bsd/README.Impt.License.Change: July 22, 1999 To All Licensees, Distributors of Any Version of BSD: As you kno