Re: inb parameter physical/Virtual.

Is > it a Physical address or a Virtual address? > > Regards, > Mukund jampala No, It is I/O port address. It is different from Memory address. In x86, I/O Port addresses are 16bit. Regards Manish Regmi -- - "Owning

Re: Syscall() vs _syscallN()

allN calls calls the glibc function syscall which is an assembly entry in sysdeps\unix\sysv\linux\i386\syscall.S (glibc source). regards Manish Regmi - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-newbie" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majord

Complex Scripts In Text Mode.

Hi all, I was wondering if there are work done for Text Consoles in Linux Kernel for Complex scripts like Devnagari, Chinese etc I mean in Text mode (not X). IS it Possible? thanks in advance.. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-newbie" in the body

screen Refresh problem

). What is the problem? Thanks in advance. -- Manish Regmi - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-newbie" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.linux-learn.org/faqs

Proc structure standards.

Hi all, Is there any standard to the proc interface? Or Linux, Solaris, HPUX etc, etc... do their own way or follow some standards. Thanks in advance. -- Manish Regmi - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-newbie" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTE

Re: uint8_t mean8[8] __attribute__ ((aligned (32))), *mp;

nkit jain > __attribute__ and aligned() are a gcc builtin. aligned(32) generates 32 byte aligned address. so that data is stored on 32 byte aligned address. This is done for performance reasons. see gcc manual for more details. regards manish -- Manish Regmi - To unsubscribe from t

Re: Query regarding Copy-on-write

ED], MaDsen Wikholm) Furthermore, There are a lot of resources in the internet. I too started writing an OS few years back. Those resources were very much helpful. www.osdev.org www.nondot.org/~sabre/os www.mega-tokyo.org/forum http://my.execpc.com/~geezer/os/ http://mega-tokyo.com/osfaq2/ sourc

Re: Query on SIGFPE handling

olve the cause of the exception. For playing with Signals, you can generate SIGUSR1 kill(pid, SIGUSR1) and catch. -- Manish Regmi - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-newbie" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vge

Re: Query on SIGFPE handling

> How can I generate and send a signal from a function of mine? Is it > possible from a userlevel C program, using some functions like > signal()?? > > Please do help > -- > With regards, > > Jagadeesh Bhaskar P > yes, see man kill, raise regards manish -- Mani

Re: Forking in kernel

o post the queries. Can u help me on that issue? > > -- > With regards, > > Jagadeesh Bhaskar P > R&D Engineer > HCL Infosystems Ltd > Pondicherry > INDIA > > See this page. http://mail.nl.linux.org/kernelnewbies/2004-11/msg00285.html see line, List-subscri

Re: further query signal handling!

g instruction and signal is generate again and so on. BTW: For UNIX programming, Advanced UNIX programming by richard stevens is the Best book (i have ever seen). Regards Manish -- Manish Regmi - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-newbie" in the body

Re: Query on SIGFPE handling

On Mon, 22 Nov 2004 11:56:12 +0530, Jagadeesh Bhaskar P <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > > I wrote a the small program, to c how signals can be caught by > customized routines. > > /*** start of code / > > #include > #include > > void fe(void){ >printf("floating pt e

Re: are they physical address?

On Fri, 8 Oct 2004 08:14:25 +0100 (BST), Ankit Jain <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > hi > > http://www.xml.com/ldd/chapter/book/ch02.html > > -0009fbff : System RAM > 0009fc00-0009 : reserved > 000a-000b : Video RAM area > 000c-000c7fff : Video ROM > 000f-000f : System

Re: physical or virtual address

On Fri, 8 Oct 2004 06:47:42 +0100 (BST), Ankit Jain <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > in this file i have a doubt if this is the physical > address > it basically looks from - > > which is 0-4294967295 > > i feel after that there is a mapping for physical > address > > if somebody can

changing refresh rate.

hi all, How can i change the refresh Rate. I am using Fedora Core 2. The monitor settings(gdm) does not have refresh rate option. I want to make it exactly 100 HZ(My system supports this value in Windows). I have Geforce 2 MX 100/200 card and have installed propritary driver from nVidia. I looked