Re: LANANA: To Pending Device Number Registrants

2001-05-16 Thread Oystein Viggen
Quoth Helge Hafting: > This could be extended to non-raid use - i.e. use the "raid autodetect" > partition type for non-raid as well. The autodetect routine could > then create /dev/partitions/home, /dev/partitions/usr or > /dev/partitions/name_of_my_choice > for autodetect partitions not

Re: LANANA: To Pending Device Number Registrants

2001-05-16 Thread Oystein Viggen
Quoth Helge Hafting: This could be extended to non-raid use - i.e. use the raid autodetect partition type for non-raid as well. The autodetect routine could then create /dev/partitions/home, /dev/partitions/usr or /dev/partitions/name_of_my_choice for autodetect partitions not

Unable to compile cvs kernel on Sparc

2001-05-13 Thread Oystein Viggen
Hi I have a SparcStation 10 with dual SuperSparc processors (_not_ sparc64), and I am unable to compile the latest kernel from vger.samba.org CVS. Standard Linus kernels neither work, but I figure they aren't supposed to... The reason seems to be that the functions pmd_alloc_one_fast,

Unable to compile cvs kernel on Sparc

2001-05-13 Thread Oystein Viggen
Hi I have a SparcStation 10 with dual SuperSparc processors (_not_ sparc64), and I am unable to compile the latest kernel from vger.samba.org CVS. Standard Linus kernels neither work, but I figure they aren't supposed to... The reason seems to be that the functions pmd_alloc_one_fast,

Re: added a new feature: disable pc speaker

2001-05-04 Thread Oystein Viggen
Quoth Nico Schottelius: > Can somebody give me a hint where to find documentation about > sysctl and howto use/program that ? > This is what Simon and David suggested. > > But as long as I am not able to make sysctl's, I would like > to add this feature under the General setup. > > What do

Re: added a new feature: disable pc speaker

2001-05-04 Thread Oystein Viggen
Quoth Keith Owens: > Userspace problem, userspace fix. > > setterm -blength 0 (text) > xset b 0 (X11) Well, some buggy programs don't care about you turning off beeping in X. I think gnome-terminal or such has its own checkbox for turning beeps on or off. I still agree that this is

Re: added a new feature: disable pc speaker

2001-05-04 Thread Oystein Viggen
Quoth Keith Owens: Userspace problem, userspace fix. setterm -blength 0 (text) xset b 0 (X11) Well, some buggy programs don't care about you turning off beeping in X. I think gnome-terminal or such has its own checkbox for turning beeps on or off. I still agree that this is fixing

Re: added a new feature: disable pc speaker

2001-05-04 Thread Oystein Viggen
Quoth Nico Schottelius: Can somebody give me a hint where to find documentation about sysctl and howto use/program that ? This is what Simon and David suggested. But as long as I am not able to make sysctl's, I would like to add this feature under the General setup. What do you think

Re: IDE Raid supported with the HPT370?

2001-04-25 Thread Oystein Viggen
Quoth "Jeroen Geusebroek": > If not, will i be able to work without raid then? (maybe using > software raid) http://www.linux-ide.org/chipsets.html Yours is listed under "supported, but not for RAID", which probably means it works well when accessing individual disks, which again should mean

Re: IDE Raid supported with the HPT370?

2001-04-25 Thread Oystein Viggen
Quoth Jeroen Geusebroek: If not, will i be able to work without raid then? (maybe using software raid) http://www.linux-ide.org/chipsets.html Yours is listed under supported, but not for RAID, which probably means it works well when accessing individual disks, which again should mean it

Re: Hashing and directories

2001-03-02 Thread Oystein Viggen
Pavel Machek wrote: > xargs is very ugly. I want to rm 12*. Just plain "rm 12*". *Not* "find > . -name "12*" | xargs rm, which has terrible issues with files names > > "xyzzy" > "bla" > "xyzzy bla" > "12 xyzzy bla" These you work around using the smarter, \0 terminated, version: find . -name

Re: Hashing and directories

2001-03-02 Thread Oystein Viggen
Pavel Machek wrote: xargs is very ugly. I want to rm 12*. Just plain "rm 12*". *Not* "find . -name "12*" | xargs rm, which has terrible issues with files names "xyzzy" "bla" "xyzzy bla" "12 xyzzy bla" These you work around using the smarter, \0 terminated, version: find . -name "12*"

Re: ANNOUNCE: Linux Kernel ORB: kORBit

2000-12-14 Thread Oystein Viggen
Alexander Viro spake thus: > Maybe... I definitely agree that 14 is below the limit, but 30... Hell knows, > from what I see on the box I'm using right now it seems to fall into several > cathegories: > * Very-Long-And-Verbose-Named-HOWTO.html > * manpages for X and Tcl functions

Re: ANNOUNCE: Linux Kernel ORB: kORBit

2000-12-14 Thread Oystein Viggen
Alexander Viro spake thus: Maybe... I definitely agree that 14 is below the limit, but 30... Hell knows, from what I see on the box I'm using right now it seems to fall into several cathegories: * Very-Long-And-Verbose-Named-HOWTO.html * manpages for X and Tcl functions with