Re: how to turn my computer into a TV

2012-06-17 Thread Juergen Lock
In article you write: >On Sun, Jun 17, 2012 at 9:38 AM, Niclas Zeising wrote: >> On 06/17/12 04:14, Aryeh Friedman wrote: >>> >>> I just moved into a very cramped apartment and we only have room for >>> one monitor so it is the computer then I heard it is possible to make >>> it so you can watch

Re: serial lirc driver for testing (and a book review)

2012-04-27 Thread Juergen Lock
-preliminary-002.shar If someone would like to comment on the code I'd be grateful! :) On Tue, Apr 24, 2012 at 11:08:38PM +0200, Juergen Lock wrote: > Hi! > > For those that don't read forums.freebsd.org: I posted a short review > of "FreeBSD Device Drivers: A Guide for t

Re: easy way to determine if a stream or fd is seekable

2011-11-18 Thread Juergen Lock
On Fri, Nov 18, 2011 at 12:00:07PM -0800, Tim Kientzle wrote: > > On Nov 17, 2011, at 12:55 PM, Juergen Lock wrote: > > >> > >> After a few experiments, bsdtar stopped using lseek() on > >> FreeBSD for anything other than regular files and block > >>

Re: easy way to determine if a stream or fd is seekable

2011-11-17 Thread Juergen Lock
In article you write: >On Nov 16, 2011, at 4:24 PM, Alexander Best wrote: > >> On Thu Nov 17 11, Joerg Sonnenberger wrote: >>> On Wed, Nov 16, 2011 at 01:14:28PM +, Alexander Best wrote: On Wed Nov 16 11, Joerg Sonnenberger wrote: > On Tue, Nov 15, 2011 at 08:24:50PM +, Alexander

Re: wdrain vs. fuse/ggate (was: Re: mount vdi)

2011-07-26 Thread Juergen Lock
On Wed, Jul 27, 2011 at 12:22:34AM +0300, Kostik Belousov wrote: > On Tue, Jul 26, 2011 at 08:03:35PM +0200, Juergen Lock wrote: > > On Mon, Jul 25, 2011 at 06:31:36PM -0500, Brandon Gooch wrote: > > > 2011/7/25 Andrey V. Elsukov : > > > > On 25.07.2011 10:18, Joe

wdrain vs. fuse/ggate (was: Re: mount vdi)

2011-07-26 Thread Juergen Lock
On Mon, Jul 25, 2011 at 06:31:36PM -0500, Brandon Gooch wrote: > 2011/7/25 Andrey V. Elsukov : > > On 25.07.2011 10:18, Joe Sciulli wrote: > >> Is it possible to mount virtualbox vdi file on the FreeBSD host?  This > >> appears to be doable on > >> windows and linux hosts, which basically is done

Does this Linuxolaotor DVB wrapper port look good now?

2011-04-21 Thread Juergen Lock
tptr_t props; X}; X X#endif /*__LINUX_DVB_H*/ 827c22870bae42a8ffb3d63ad3e605d6 echo x - linux_dvbwrapper-kmod/files/linux_dvb_ioctl.h sed 's/^X//' >linux_dvbwrapper-kmod/files/linux_dvb_ioctl.h << '0599fcbdb1e16725afdc6cae52772454' X/*- X * Copyright (c) 2011 Juergen Lock X *

Re: Can vm_mmap()/vm_map_remove() be called with giant held? (linuxolator dvb patches)

2011-02-22 Thread Juergen Lock
On Tue, Feb 22, 2011 at 01:50:31PM +0100, Alexander Leidinger wrote: > Quoting Juergen Lock (from Tue, 22 Feb 2011 > 12:37:53 +0100): > > > On Tue, Feb 22, 2011 at 09:26:41AM +0100, Alexander Leidinger wrote: > >> Quoting Juergen Lock (from Mon, 21 Feb

Re: Can vm_mmap()/vm_map_remove() be called with giant held? (linuxolator dvb patches)

2011-02-22 Thread Juergen Lock
On Tue, Feb 22, 2011 at 09:26:41AM +0100, Alexander Leidinger wrote: > Quoting Juergen Lock (from Mon, 21 Feb 2011 > 19:36:11 +0100): > > > And here comes the patch for head: > > linux_dvb.h is still GPLed (not taking into account that there are > voices w

Re: Can vm_mmap()/vm_map_remove() be called with giant held? (linuxolator dvb patches)

2011-02-21 Thread Juergen Lock
On Sat, Feb 19, 2011 at 07:57:44PM +0200, Kostik Belousov wrote: > On Fri, Feb 18, 2011 at 09:55:42PM +0100, Juergen Lock wrote: > > I have finally got back to this and did the style and vm_map_remove() > > return value handling fixes, updated the patches in-place: &g

Re: Can vm_mmap()/vm_map_remove() be called with giant held? (linuxolator dvb patches)

2011-02-18 Thread Juergen Lock
12:54:48AM +0100, Juergen Lock wrote: > On Sat, Jan 29, 2011 at 10:51:05PM +0200, Kostik Belousov wrote: > > On Sat, Jan 29, 2011 at 09:10:00PM +0100, Juergen Lock wrote: > > > Hi! > > > > > > I was kinda hoping to be able to post a correct patch in public but

Re: Can vm_mmap()/vm_map_remove() be called with giant held? (linuxolator dvb patches)

2011-01-30 Thread Juergen Lock
On Sun, Jan 30, 2011 at 12:33:20PM +0200, Kostik Belousov wrote: > On Sun, Jan 30, 2011 at 12:54:48AM +0100, Juergen Lock wrote: > > On Sat, Jan 29, 2011 at 10:51:05PM +0200, Kostik Belousov wrote: > > > On Sat, Jan 29, 2011 at 09:10:00PM +0100, Juergen Lock wrote: > > >

Re: Can vm_mmap()/vm_map_remove() be called with giant held? (linuxolator dvb patches)

2011-01-29 Thread Juergen Lock
On Sat, Jan 29, 2011 at 10:51:05PM +0200, Kostik Belousov wrote: > On Sat, Jan 29, 2011 at 09:10:00PM +0100, Juergen Lock wrote: > > Hi! > > > > I was kinda hoping to be able to post a correct patch in public but > > getting an answer to ${Subject} seems to be more d

Can vm_mmap()/vm_map_remove() be called with giant held? (linuxolator dvb patches)

2011-01-29 Thread Juergen Lock
Hi! I was kinda hoping to be able to post a correct patch in public but getting an answer to ${Subject} seems to be more difficult than I thought... :) So, does anyone here know? copyout_map() and copyout_unmap() are copied from ksyms_map() from sys/dev/ksyms/ksyms.c - should there maybe be glo

Re: Radeon DRI/3D status

2010-10-23 Thread Juergen Lock
In article <20101019204409.ga5...@logik.internal.network> you write: >Hello. Hi! > >What's the current status of DRI/3D support with the 4xxx range of ATI >cards? > >I'm on 8.0-RELEASE and have just installed a (borrowed) 4870 card. I >get working dual monitor support but only software rasterizatio

So I got "The D Programming Language" (and: threaded .xz compression)

2010-09-15 Thread Juergen Lock
(that's this book: http://amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0321635361/modecdesi-20 Author's homepage: http://erdani.com/ ) ...and finally played with the language a bit. I've posted some notes about getting dmd 2.048 running on FreeBSD (that's the D 2.0 compiler + runtime + phobos l

Re: How to slow down SATA to 1.5 GBit/s ?

2010-03-18 Thread Juergen Lock
In article <105730535417...@192.168.2.69> you write: >Hi, Hi! > >> > I found a similar PR >> > http://www.mail-archive.com/freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org/msg70510.html >> >> Hm thats my post, wrong link? :) > >Indeed. I copied the wrong URL from my mail to >mav. The PR is at > http://www.freebsd.org/

Re: How to slow down SATA to 1.5 GBit/s ?

2010-03-16 Thread Juergen Lock
In article <10608773149...@192.168.2.69> you write: >Hi, Hi! > >> I have Cc'd mav@ who afaik did most of the ahci(4) work, > >I found a similar PR > http://www.mail-archive.com/freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org/msg70510.html Hm thats my post, wrong link? :) >and bothered mav for instructions how to u

Re: How to slow down SATA to 1.5 GBit/s ?

2010-03-15 Thread Juergen Lock
On Mon, Mar 15, 2010 at 08:50:49PM +0100, Juergen Lock wrote: > In article <106085798526...@192.168.2.69> you write: > >Hi, > Hi! > > >[ahci(4)/pass(4) optical discs burning bug...] > >So now i could need advise about filing a bug > >report. > > >

Re: How to slow down SATA to 1.5 GBit/s ?

2010-03-15 Thread Juergen Lock
In article <10606352212...@192.168.2.69> you write: >Hi, Hi! > >> > A leadout track. Sounds very CD-ish. >> > With DVD and BD one should rather go for READ >> > DISC INFORMATION and READ TRACK INFORMATION. > >Juergen Lock wrote: >> Hmm

Re: How to slow down SATA to 1.5 GBit/s ?

2010-03-15 Thread Juergen Lock
In article <106085798526...@192.168.2.69> you write: >Hi, Hi! > >the switch to ahci was successful and it looks >quite good, overall. > >But probably i found a bug. I could need advise >where and how to submit it. > >A particular sequence of SCSI commands leads to >an elsewise harmless stall of the

Re: How to slow down SATA to 1.5 GBit/s ?

2010-03-14 Thread Juergen Lock
need that for the IDE DVD-ROM >drive that is built in too. > Yeah I think so (I don't have ide drives on this box anymore...) There is code in head now and (I think) stabe/8 to use cam for `regular' (i.e. non-ahci) ata devices too, but I haven't played with that yet as ahci(

Re: How to slow down SATA to 1.5 GBit/s ?

2010-03-13 Thread Juergen Lock
In article <106107651416...@192.168.2.69> you write: >Hi, Hi! > >Juergen Lock gave me a lot to read about >> ahci(4) on FreeBSD >= 8.0 > >The proposed solution points me to a third way >how a contemporary burner can be driven by >FreeBSD. > >The purpose

Re: How to slow down SATA to 1.5 GBit/s ?

2010-03-12 Thread Juergen Lock
In article <10609484503...@192.168.2.69> you write: >Hi, > >Andrey V. Elsukov wrote: >> Can you show `pciconf -l` output? > ># pciconf -l >hos...@pci0:0:0:0: class=0x06 card=0x50001458 chip=0x79111002 >rev=0x00 hdr=0x00 >pc...@pci0:0:1:0: class=0x060400 card=0x79121002 chip=0x791210

Re: 32 bit Linux lseek missing overflow check (was: Re: Linuxolator patches: stat and lseek SEEK_END for disk devices)

2010-03-02 Thread Juergen Lock
In article <201003020750.20845@freebsd.org> you write: >On Monday 01 March 2010 1:25:53 pm John Baldwin wrote: >> On Friday 26 February 2010 4:09:52 pm Juergen Lock wrote: >> > On Fri, Feb 26, 2010 at 11:21:05AM -0500, John Baldwin wrote: >> > > On Thursday

Re: 32 bit Linux lseek missing overflow check (was: Re: Linuxolator patches: stat and lseek SEEK_END for disk devices)

2010-02-26 Thread Juergen Lock
On Fri, Feb 26, 2010 at 11:21:05AM -0500, John Baldwin wrote: > On Thursday 25 February 2010 3:28:50 pm Juergen Lock wrote: > > On Tue, Feb 23, 2010 at 10:50:10PM +0100, Juergen Lock wrote: > > > Hi! > > > > > > Before this gets buried on -hackers in another

32 bit Linux lseek missing overflow check (was: Re: Linuxolator patches: stat and lseek SEEK_END for disk devices)

2010-02-25 Thread Juergen Lock
On Tue, Feb 23, 2010 at 10:50:10PM +0100, Juergen Lock wrote: > Hi! > > Before this gets buried on -hackers in another thead... :) > > I now have disks appear as block devices for Linux processes (there > already was commented out code for that in linux_stats.c, I hope m

Re: "tar tfv /dev/cd0" speedup patch; Linux compatibility patches

2010-02-23 Thread Juergen Lock
On Mon, Feb 22, 2010 at 08:47:57PM -0800, Tim Kientzle wrote: > Juergen Lock wrote: > > On Sun, Feb 21, 2010 at 05:17:37PM -0800, Tim Kientzle wrote: > >> > >> Could you try the current version of read_open_filename from: > >> > >> http://l

Linuxolator patches: stat and lseek SEEK_END for disk devices

2010-02-23 Thread Juergen Lock
Hi! Before this gets buried on -hackers in another thead... :) I now have disks appear as block devices for Linux processes (there already was commented out code for that in linux_stats.c, I hope my version is now `correct enough' to be usable [1]), and I made a simple patch to make lseek SEEK_

Re: "tar tfv /dev/cd0" speedup patch; Linux compatibility patches

2010-02-22 Thread Juergen Lock
On Sun, Feb 21, 2010 at 05:17:37PM -0800, Tim Kientzle wrote: > Juergen, > > Could you try the current version of read_open_filename from: > > http://libarchive.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/libarchive/archive_read_open_filename.c > > You should be able to just copy it into your FreeBSD source > tree

Re: "tar tfv /dev/cd0" speedup patch

2010-02-20 Thread Juergen Lock
On Sat, Feb 20, 2010 at 01:00:40AM -0500, Jung-uk Kim wrote: > On Saturday 20 February 2010 12:20 am, Tim Kientzle wrote: > > Juergen, > > > > I was looking at your Linux code here and thought > > the technique of trying lseek(SEEK_END) might work. > > Unfortunately, it doesn't: lseek(fd, 0, SEEK_E

Re: "tar tfv /dev/cd0" speedup patch

2010-02-20 Thread Juergen Lock
On Fri, Feb 19, 2010 at 09:20:30PM -0800, Tim Kientzle wrote: > Juergen, Hi! > > I was looking at your Linux code here and thought > the technique of trying lseek(SEEK_END) might work. > Unfortunately, it doesn't: lseek(fd, 0, SEEK_END) gives > zero for both /dev/sa0 (a tape drive) and /dev/cd0 >

Re: "tar tfv /dev/cd0" speedup patch

2010-02-19 Thread Juergen Lock
On Thu, Feb 18, 2010 at 10:12:24PM -0800, Garrett Cooper wrote: > On Thu, Feb 18, 2010 at 10:34 AM, Juergen Lock > wrote: > > On Wed, Feb 17, 2010 at 10:38:30PM -0800, Tim Kientzle wrote: > >> Juergen Lock wrote: > >> > > >> >  ...  since bsdtar/liba

Re: "tar tfv /dev/cd0" speedup patch

2010-02-18 Thread Juergen Lock
On Thu, Feb 18, 2010 at 07:34:59PM +0100, Juergen Lock wrote: > On Wed, Feb 17, 2010 at 10:38:30PM -0800, Tim Kientzle wrote: > > Juergen Lock wrote: > > > > > > ... since bsdtar/libarchive know iso9660 I just did the command in the > > > Subject. It worked

Re: "tar tfv /dev/cd0" speedup patch

2010-02-18 Thread Juergen Lock
On Wed, Feb 17, 2010 at 10:38:30PM -0800, Tim Kientzle wrote: > Juergen Lock wrote: > > > > ... since bsdtar/libarchive know iso9660 I just did the command in the > > Subject. It worked, but it was sloow... :( Apparently it read all of > > the disc without seeking.

"tar tfv /dev/cd0" speedup patch

2010-02-17 Thread Juergen Lock
Hi! I recently wanted to quickly look at an optical disc without mounting it and since bsdtar/libarchive know iso9660 I just did the command in the Subject. It worked, but it was sloow... :( Apparently it read all of the disc without seeking. The following patch fixes this, is something like t

Re: AMD64 qemu completely broken?

2008-12-07 Thread Juergen Lock
On Thu, Dec 04, 2008 at 02:43:47PM -0800, Nate Eldredge wrote: > On Thu, 4 Dec 2008, Juergen Lock wrote: > >> I forgot to say the qemu-devel port (as well as the later snapshots I >> posted about on -emulation) also support -curses, which shows the emulated >> vga text

Re: AMD64 qemu completely broken?

2008-12-04 Thread Juergen Lock
On Thu, Dec 04, 2008 at 09:46:12PM +0100, I wrote: > In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> you write: > >On Thu, Dec 4, 2008 at 9:52 AM, Zaphod Beeblebrox <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> On Thu, Dec 4, 2008 at 6:27 AM, Garrett Cooper <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >>> > >>> Are you running the ports version

Re: AMD64 qemu completely broken?

2008-12-04 Thread Juergen Lock
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> you write: >On Thu, Dec 4, 2008 at 9:52 AM, Zaphod Beeblebrox <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> On Thu, Dec 4, 2008 at 6:27 AM, Garrett Cooper <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >>> >>> Are you running the ports version, or a different version, and/or are >>> you using kqemu (I'v

Re: kgdb's add-kld broken on amd64

2008-09-21 Thread Juergen Lock
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> you write: >On Wednesday 17 September 2008 03:51:02 pm Navdeep Parhar wrote: >> Hello John, >> >> The patch did NOT fix the problem. Read on for more >> >> On Wed, Sep 17, 2008 at 8:31 AM, John Baldwin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> > On Tuesday 16 September 200

Re: double panic, and whats apic_cmd? (kqemu crash...)

2007-11-28 Thread Juergen Lock
On Tue, Nov 27, 2007 at 08:24:55AM -0500, John Baldwin wrote: > On Sunday 18 November 2007 05:43:45 pm Juergen Lock wrote: > > On Sun, Nov 18, 2007 at 03:05:33AM +0100, Juergen Lock wrote: > > > Ok I finally have an amd64 smp box here that i can play with, and tried >

Re: double panic, and whats apic_cmd? (kqemu crash...)

2007-11-18 Thread Juergen Lock
On Sun, Nov 18, 2007 at 03:05:33AM +0100, Juergen Lock wrote: > Ok I finally have an amd64 smp box here that i can play with, and tried > to reproduce http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=113430 - and I got > the following crash: >[...] Ok, the crashes seem to be pretty random,

double panic, and whats apic_cmd? (kqemu crash...)

2007-11-17 Thread Juergen Lock
Ok I finally have an amd64 smp box here that i can play with, and tried to reproduce http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=113430 - and I got the following crash: iapetus# kgdb kernel.debug /var/crash/vmcore.0 [GDB will not be able to debug user-mode threads: /usr/lib/libthread_db.so: Undefi

debug kernels + -fomit-frame-pointer == unhappy gdb

2007-08-16 Thread Juergen Lock
Just got reminded of this... I noticed some kernel builds use -fomit-frame-pointer by default, even if you do a debug kernel. That kinda defeats the purpose since gdb uses the frame pointer when examining the stack, like, when doing backtraces, i.e. you lose function calls in backtraces when the

Re: ports/113430: Kernel Panic with emulators/qemu on AMD64 SMP

2007-06-08 Thread Juergen Lock
On Fri, Jun 08, 2007 at 03:10:10PM +, Allan Jude wrote: > I recreated it again, and the 'stopped at' in the kernel panic is: > > userret+0x22 movq0(%rdi),%rbx Ok so apparently userret was called with a bogus td arg, can you find out from where? (there should be a return address on the

any vm gurus in the house? :) (was: Fatal trap 12, at use qemu)

2007-04-01 Thread Juergen Lock
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> you write: >http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=110892 > >Crash of system at use of the emulator "qemu" > >$ pkg_info -E kqemu\* qemu\* >kqemu-kmod-1.3.0.p11 >qemu-0.9.0 > >$ kldload aio >$ kldload kqemu >$ qemu -boot c -m 256 \ >-hda /usr/EMULATORS/BOCHS/disk0

Re: kern/102217: no driver for HP J2585A DeskDirect 10/100VG LAN Adapter

2006-09-16 Thread Juergen Lock
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> you write: > >>Number: 102217 >>Category: kern >>Synopsis: no driver for HP J2585A DeskDirect 10/100VG LAN Adapter >>[...] Many moons ago, I was working on a driver that joerg@ started. I was promised docs, but never received them (you know who y

port update (was: Re: [Qemu-devel] qemu -boot d -cdrom /dev/cd0 on FreeBSD is not good)

2004-11-17 Thread Juergen Lock
On Tue, Nov 16, 2004 at 06:58:36PM +, Juergen Lock wrote: > On Tue, Nov 16, 2004 at 02:48:34AM +0900, Norikatsu Shigemura wrote: > > I tried to install Windows XP SP2 on qemu over FreeBSD 6-current > > like following command, but failed. > > > > # q

Re: [Qemu-devel] qemu -boot d -cdrom /dev/cd0 on FreeBSD is not good

2004-11-17 Thread Juergen Lock
On Tue, Nov 16, 2004 at 02:48:34AM +0900, Norikatsu Shigemura wrote: > I tried to install Windows XP SP2 on qemu over FreeBSD 6-current > like following command, but failed. > > # qemu -boot d -cdrom /dev/cd0 windows.img > Yeah physical cdroms don't work currently as mentioned i

qemu; emulators/rtc doesnt send SIGIO, is this patch right?

2004-06-03 Thread Juergen Lock
Hi! Is the following patch to the emulators/rtc port right? qemu (see http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=67506) expects it to send SIGIO and i'm not that good at kernel hacking to know if the following is correct... it seems to work for me tho. (Anyone interested in helping fixing the

Re: reading raw data from a CD-R with damaged table of contents

2004-01-21 Thread Juergen Lock
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> you write: >It seems Kevin Serwick wrote: >> Hi all, >> >> I added some files to a multisession CD-R with the >> burncd command. It appeared to work fine, but when I >> read the disk, the new files didn't show up. So I did >> the burncd fixate command - bad idea!

Re: ijppp for isdn, ppp compression, and netgraph (also: load balancing)

2000-03-05 Thread Juergen Lock
On Sun, Mar 05, 2000 at 12:31:30AM -0800, Julian Elischer wrote: > Hellmuth Michaelis wrote: > > > > >From the keyboard of Juergen Lock: > > > > > And the other reason i'm looking at ijppp is ppp compression. It > > > currently supports de

Re: ijppp for isdn, ppp compression, and netgraph (also: load balancing)

2000-03-05 Thread Juergen Lock
On Sun, Mar 05, 2000 at 06:32:45AM +0100, Hellmuth Michaelis wrote: > >From the keyboard of Juergen Lock: > > > And the other reason i'm looking at ijppp is ppp compression. It > > currently supports deflate (rfc1979) and predictor1 (rfc1978), which > > should a

ijppp for isdn, ppp compression, and netgraph (also: load balancing)

2000-03-04 Thread Juergen Lock
e current draft: http://www.ietf.cnri.reston.va.us/internet-drafts/draft-ietf-pppext-aodi-02.txt Regards, -- Juergen Lock <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> (remove dot foo from address to reply) To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message

Re: modem program... Help continued...

2000-02-26 Thread Juergen Lock
you could also try the xchat program in /usr/src/gnu/libexec/uucp/contrib, or maybe even the more simple /usr/bin/chat is enough. no need to reinvent the wheel... (of course depending on whats at the other end maybe you could also use ppp... then you'd treat the link as just another (slow)

Re: modem program... Help

2000-02-25 Thread Juergen Lock
etty+sendfax), that (unlike a `normal' getty) even interprets the modem messages and chats with the modem to be able to handle non-data calls too (i.e. faxes or voice, and if i remember right on some modems it will even get the caller id info...) HTH, -- Juergen Lock <[EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: modem program... Help

2000-02-25 Thread Juergen Lock
me comes from, hangup. people have dialed into unix boxes over modems long before the internet got popular...) and to drop DTR you just do the equivalent of a `stty 0'. simple, eh? :) (once you know it...) HTH, -- Juergen Lock <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> (remove dot foo from address to re

Re: Realaudio short sound clip then silence....

2000-02-25 Thread Juergen Lock
to /dev/audio, or try to play a .wav, or a .mp3) if other programs have the problem too check if your souncard's interrupts get thru (dmesg to see which irq it wants to use, then systat -vm), if not you have a hardware/configuration problem. (could be just the interrupt routed wrong in the bi

Re: Tuning up semaphores in kernel

2000-02-20 Thread Juergen Lock
just somewhere in the ports files where >it can be ignored? > > >Otherwise, I can't see that bplay would be particularly useful as a >port, but rather as additional software the user could optionally >choose to hunt down and install... > no even if a port won't work wi

Re: How to write a device-driver?

2000-01-27 Thread Juergen Lock
s.h for example would be here: http://www.freebsd.org/cgi-bin/cvsweb.cgi/src/sys/i386/include/bus.h And now i should probably convert the cascade driver to use the bus_space_* too... :) (Note, most(?) of the above is only what i learned from looking at the source myself, if i managed

Re: How to write a device-driver?

2000-01-16 Thread Juergen Lock
egal... I don't know what went of it and IANAL (of course its a _silly_ idea), but i also remember there were exceptions if its for the cause of interoperability, and writing a driver for another OS sure would at least seem to fall under that. ATB, -- Juergen Lock <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> (remove dot foo from address to reply) To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message

Re: Serial boot prompt messages and a modem

1999-12-27 Thread Juergen Lock
s a 'null modem cable' that connects DCD to: nothing! It connects DTR to DSR but _not_ to DCD... other than that the wiring appears to be normal. Well, so i hacked an `altpin' flag into sio that lets me swap the functions of DSR and DCD. (Anyone thinks that would be worth cleaning u

Re: loader hacks (was: Re: easyboot far into disk)

1999-12-13 Thread Juergen Lock
n a complete identifier. > I need to update the online help and manpage for it. Ah, but that does need changes in the kernel right? The way i did it should even work with an old 2.x kernel, you just have to put it on the floppy... Regards, -- Juergen Lock <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> (remove dot foo from address to reply) To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message

loader hacks (was: Re: easyboot far into disk)

1999-12-12 Thread Juergen Lock
ame up (da2s1a here) if you don't want to depend on how the BIOS numbers the disks which often differs from the kernel. (`da' goes into root_disk_type, `2' goes into root_disk_unit und the slice/partition `s1a' goes into rootdev. at least the 0 in disk0 should not matter anymor

HP Cascade driver (100VG-AnyLan)

1999-11-24 Thread Juergen Lock
a DOS packet driver which i also took a quick look at seem to need anything like that. Oh and it also doesn't (yet?) do DMA. If anyone wants to help i can mail my current version... (its in my local cvs tree so if you want the cvs files instead just say so.) Thanx and Regards, -- Juerg

Re: A bike shed (any colour will do) on greener grass...

1999-10-08 Thread Juergen Lock
On Fri, Oct 08, 1999 at 03:43:20PM -0400, Brian Reichert wrote: > On Fri, Oct 08, 1999 at 06:00:08PM +0200, Juergen Lock wrote: > > One maybe useful tip from a (mostly) lurker: turn your list email > > into news and read them with a decent threaded newsreader. I use > >

Re: A bike shed (any colour will do) on greener grass...

1999-10-08 Thread Juergen Lock
en >made to questions. One maybe useful tip from a (mostly) lurker: turn your list email into news and read them with a decent threaded newsreader. I use inn and its mailpost script and read with trn, both in /usr/ports/news. Just thought i'd mention... -- Juergen Lock <[EMAIL PROTECTED]&

problem fixed itself -- more FreeBSD MIDI patches and one rosegarden bugfix (was: Rosegarden 2.1-beta Sequencer: Segmentation Violation and strange SEQ_MIDIPUTC device values)

1999-06-20 Thread Juergen Lock
efaults(&RunningPtr); Midi_TrackConvertToOnePointRepresentation(TempPtr); Mapper_NewTrackMetaInfo(); Now i still have to find out why my midi keyboard keeps changing the volume between full and low at the start of every x'th playback, another problem of the more stranger kind...