BSD voice synthesis

1999-08-03 Thread Julian Elischer
Just fetched and compiled the "festival" package. http://www.cstr.ed.ac.uk/projects/festival it has support for FreeBSD already (seems to work fine) Very impressive. I hope to have a little time to play with it and understand it a bit better. They seem to have support for up to 4.0 in some of

Support for ez USB chips, anchorchips

1999-08-03 Thread Nick Hibma
A down-/uploader for the EZ USB chip is available from http://www.etla.net/~ezload.tar.gz See also the AnchorChips home page http://www.anchorchips.com/ The utility is courtesy of Dirk van Gulik, WebWeaving Consultancy and ActiveWire, Inc. (prototype board,

IDE quirk in 3.2-STABLE kernel ?

1999-08-03 Thread Cillian Sharkey
Hi, On my system here, wd0: windoze wd1: FreeBSD wd2: blankdisk When I boot up under a 3.2-STABLE kernel (recently updated), wdc1 is "not found" However when I boot up under a 3.1-RELEASE "generic" kernel it sees the drive (wd2) and controller (wdc1) ok. (And yes I do have an entry for

Multiple versions of FreeBSD on one HDD

1999-08-03 Thread Graham Wheeler
Hi all I am trying to install both 2.2.8 and 3.2 on a single 17Gb HDD, but am not having much luck. I have tried several approaches, in particular creating four partitions, the first two for the respective root slices, the third for swap, and the fourth for the remaining slices. If I create the

RE: IDE quirk in 3.2-STABLE kernel ?

1999-08-03 Thread Biju Susmer
Yes, i'm also facing the same problem in 3.2 stable (wdc1 not found at 0x170). When i put a CD-ROM (ATAPI, secondary slave) sometimes the controller comes up ;) I tried my own kernel (by changing the IDE delay), it didn't work. -biju -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: IDE quirk in 3.2-STABLE kernel ?

1999-08-03 Thread Cillian Sharkey
Yes, i'm also facing the same problem in 3.2 stable (wdc1 not found at 0x170). When i put a CD-ROM (ATAPI, secondary slave) sometimes the controller comes up ;) I tried my own kernel (by changing the IDE delay), it didn't work. -biju Normally for my own kernel, I set the IDE delay very low

RE: IDE quirk in 3.2-STABLE kernel ?

1999-08-03 Thread Biju Susmer
I tried with delay 12000, 6000, 8000 (I admit that i really don't know how this delay helps) but no use... only putting a CD in the drive while booting helps. -biju -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Cillian Sharkey Sent: Tuesday, August

Re: Multiple versions of FreeBSD on one HDD

1999-08-03 Thread Cillian Sharkey
I am trying to install both 2.2.8 and 3.2 on a single 17Gb HDD, but am not having much luck. I have tried several approaches, in particular creating four partitions, the first two for the respective root slices, the third for swap, and the fourth for the remaining slices. If I create the first

Re: IDE quirk in 3.2-STABLE kernel ?

1999-08-03 Thread Cillian Sharkey
I tried with delay 12000, 6000, 8000 (I admit that i really don't know how this delay helps) but no use... only putting a CD in the drive while booting helps. -biju I just set IDE_DELAY=4000 in my 3.2-STABLE kernel, and now it sees all disks on both controllers. I think the problem was that

Re: more NFS questions, why is the VFS_FHTOVP weird?

1999-08-03 Thread Assar Westerlund
Alfred Perlstein [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: the problem with nfsrv_fhtovp is that it is overkill for my application (it checks perms where i don't need it to, so i would have to fake a lot of stuff to look like i was authorized) What's your application? so instead I gutted nfsrv_fhtovp a bit

Re: BSD voice synthesis

1999-08-03 Thread Vince Vielhaber
On Tue, 3 Aug 1999, Julian Elischer wrote: Very impressive. I hope to have a little time to play with it and understand it a bit better. They seem to have support for up to 4.0 in some of the files, so maybe they actually have a freebsd user in their group. It's big and(on my p90) a bit

Re: Proposing argv for klds and preloaded modules

1999-08-03 Thread Daniel C. Sobral
Peter Wemm wrote: Don't forget, there are zero or more modules per file. Which one gets the arguments? Coda (for example) is structured so that it has two modules, one device (codadev) and one vfs (coda). It seems to me that the one who gets the arguments is the one who searches for it.

Interesting Kernel Config

1999-08-03 Thread eT
Greets ... I just noticed that on my 2.2.6 System, I had to enable the options ATAPI options ATAPI_STATIC device wcd0 before the following had any effect: controller wdc1 at disk wd2 at wdc1 drive 0 disk wd3 at wdc1 drive 1 in my kernel config file. So, the second controller was only

Re: Proposing argv for klds and preloaded modules

1999-08-03 Thread Daniel C. Sobral
"Daniel C. Sobral" wrote: assuming we are making it at all, the less pain. It provides a way of getting parameters that is compatible with what is already possible with loader (ie, the module need not differentiate between it's method of loading). The code is working and ready. Actually...

Re: Multiple versions of FreeBSD on one HDD

1999-08-03 Thread Cillian Sharkey
This works, but has the restriction that I have to enter a command line at the boot prompt to boot one of the two. I would much prefer partitions, as I can use a boot selector instead, and also change the default as appropriate. If you do have the installations in two seperate slices on the

Re: Multiple versions of FreeBSD on one HDD

1999-08-03 Thread Graham Wheeler
Cillian Sharkey wrote: I am trying to install both 2.2.8 and 3.2 on a single 17Gb HDD, but am not having much luck. I have tried several approaches, in particular creating four partitions, the first two for the respective root slices, the third for swap, and the fourth for the remaining

Overloading my machine?

1999-08-03 Thread Andy
From brodnik Tue Aug 3 15:27:35 1999 Subject: Overloading my machine? To: [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Tue, 3 Aug 1999 15:27:35 +0200 (CEST) Organization: IBC, Iskra Systems Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Andrej Brodnik (Andy)) X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+

RE: RE: DOC volunteer WAS:RE: userfs help needed.

1999-08-03 Thread Alton, Matthew
Ach. As I read my original mail here I realize that I didn't make clear that the chief aim of developing this FS is to glean information for the FS doc. My idea is to learn by writing a toy FS and to elaborate upon the experience in the form of a FS-doc. I'll hold off until the new FS code is

Re: Proposing argv for klds and preloaded modules

1999-08-03 Thread Juha Nurmela
On Tue, 3 Aug 1999, Peter Wemm wrote: Don't forget, there are zero or more modules per file. Which one gets the arguments? Coda (for example) is structured so that it has two modules, one device (codadev) and one vfs (coda). Yes, the naming 'module_get_file_argstr()' had the _file_ for

NSS Project

1999-08-03 Thread Oscar Bonilla
Following on the NSS (Name Service Switch): *Step One: I ported the NetBSD implementation of nsdispatch(3) as implemented by Luke Mewburn. See attached patch to libc and new header file. I'm also attaching the man page for /etc/nsswitch.conf. Right now it compiles, installs, and works for

Re: Multiple versions of FreeBSD on one HDD

1999-08-03 Thread Cillian Sharkey
If you do have the installations in two seperate slices on the one disk, you should be able to use a boot selector to boot which ever slice you want. Boot selector programs like os-bs work with partitions, not disk slices. That's why I wanted separate partitions. At the moment I have

Re: Multiple versions of FreeBSD on one HDD

1999-08-03 Thread Robert Nordier
This works, but has the restriction that I have to enter a command line at the boot prompt to boot one of the two. I would much prefer partitions, as I can use a boot selector instead, and also change the default as appropriate. If you do have the installations in two seperate slices

Re: BSD voice synthesis

1999-08-03 Thread Wes Peters
Julian Elischer wrote: Just fetched and compiled the "festival" package. http://www.cstr.ed.ac.uk/projects/festival it has support for FreeBSD already (seems to work fine) Very impressive. I hope to have a little time to play with it and understand it a bit better. They seem to have

Re: NSS Project

1999-08-03 Thread Boris Popov
On Tue, 3 Aug 1999, Oscar Bonilla wrote: Following on the NSS (Name Service Switch): *Step One: I ported the NetBSD implementation of nsdispatch(3) as implemented by Luke Mewburn. See attached patch to libc and new header file. I'm also attaching the man page for /etc/nsswitch.conf.

Re: Overloading my machine?

1999-08-03 Thread Matthew Dillon
:Hi there, : :I want to put on my machine the following HW (I'll be running :FBSD-3.2) beside the usual HW (serial and parallel ports etc.): : : - three IDE disks : - floppy : - IDE CD-ROM : - three ep NIC : - Adaptec PCI bus SCSI adapter : :Now, this is not a lot of burden (I think) for

Re: Proposing argv for klds and preloaded modules

1999-08-03 Thread Mike Smith
Juha Nurmela wrote: On Tue, 3 Aug 1999, Daniel C. Sobral wrote: Actually... Loader passes a string. It seems the kldcode is passing argv[]. Juha, you sure you have they both working the same way (from a module's perspective)? It's splatted together, by just putting ' '

Berkeley IRS and NSS

1999-08-03 Thread Oscar Bonilla
Anyone knows about the BSD Information Retrieval Service (IRS) mentioned in http://www.padl.com/nss_ldap.html ? It seems to accomplish the same thing as the NSS stuff we've been talking about. Regards, -Oscar -- For PGP Public Key: finger [EMAIL PROTECTED] To Unsubscribe: send mail to

Re: no elf(5) man page (docs/7914)

1999-08-03 Thread Jeroen Ruigrok/Asmodai
* Wes Peters ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [990803 10:13]: Jeroen Ruigrok/Asmodai wrote: * Andy Doran ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [990802 00:53]: Wes Peters writes: NetBSD doesn't have one as of 1.4, so they may be interested in yours. ;^) It'd be cool if Asmodai could bounce this around one of

Re: Overloading my machine?

1999-08-03 Thread D. Rock
"Andrej Brodnik (Andy)" schrieb: Hi there, I want to put on my machine the following HW (I'll be running FBSD-3.2) beside the usual HW (serial and parallel ports etc.): - three IDE disks - floppy - IDE CD-ROM - three ep NIC - Adaptec PCI bus SCSI adapter Now, this is not

Re: Multiple versions of FreeBSD on one HDD

1999-08-03 Thread Robert Nordier
By now the floppies for PowerBoot had come, so I tried installing that. I could now boot the HD, and PowerBoot can see the two partitions with freebsd installed (it even recognizes them as freebsd). Right now, my situation is that: - If I select WinNT at the PowerBoot menu, it comes

Re: DOC volunteer WAS:RE: userfs help needed.

1999-08-03 Thread Nik Clayton
On Sun, Aug 01, 1999 at 03:00:49PM -0400, Brian F. Feldman wrote: Judging by your description, why don't we use LyX? :) LaTeX sounds about right. Argh -- contextual sense of humour failure. Smiley not withstanding, I can't decide if the above question was asked in all seriousness or not. N

Re: DOC volunteer WAS:RE: userfs help needed.

1999-08-03 Thread Brian F. Feldman
On Tue, 3 Aug 1999, Nik Clayton wrote: On Sun, Aug 01, 1999 at 03:00:49PM -0400, Brian F. Feldman wrote: Judging by your description, why don't we use LyX? :) LaTeX sounds about right. Argh -- contextual sense of humour failure. Smiley not withstanding, I can't decide if the above

Re: Multiple versions of FreeBSD on one HDD

1999-08-03 Thread Robert Nordier
I should mention that what I have on the disk right now (with the three systems) isn't too critical, so it is alright if I have to start over and reinstall everything. On the other hand, reinstalling does get a little tiring after awhile, so I want to have a better idea of what I'm doing

Re: Berkeley IRS and NSS

1999-08-03 Thread Jason Thorpe
On Tue, 3 Aug 1999 11:28:29 -0600 Oscar Bonilla [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Anyone knows about the BSD Information Retrieval Service (IRS) mentioned in http://www.padl.com/nss_ldap.html ? It seems to accomplish the same thing as the NSS stuff we've been talking about. In NetBSD, we

Results of investigating optimizing calloc()...

1999-08-03 Thread Kelly Yancey
Sorry for posting this out-of-the-blue, I meant to post it last week while the thread was still fresh, but I got distracted by work and other projects, so here it is a tad late. For those of you who hadn't been following the previous calloc() thread: I had theorized that we could see an

Re: Tuning web benchmarks

1999-08-03 Thread Chris Costello
On Tue, Aug 03, 1999, David Miller wrote: After the "Broken pipe" message it dies with a returncode of 141. You might want to try the Apache lists for this. -- |Chris Costello [EMAIL PROTECTED] |When all else fails, let a = 7. |If that doesn't help, then read the manual.

Re: more NFS questions, why is the VFS_FHTOVP weird?

1999-08-03 Thread Alfred Perlstein
On 3 Aug 1999, Assar Westerlund wrote: Alfred Perlstein [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: * At this point, this should never happen */ /* ARGSUSED */ static int nfs_fhtovp(mp, fhp, nam, vpp, exflagsp, credanonp) register struct mount *mp; struct fid *fhp; struct sockaddr

Re: Adding disks -the pain. Also vinum

1999-08-03 Thread Bernd Walter
On Tue, Aug 03, 1999 at 03:59:46PM +0930, Greg Lehey wrote: On Tuesday, 3 August 1999 at 8:12:17 +0200, Bernd Walter wrote: For UFS/FFS there is nothing worth seting the stripesize to low. It is generally slower to acces 32k on different HDDs than to acces 64k on one HDD. It is

What's new in Linux 2.4

1999-08-03 Thread Peter Jeremy
Jordan recently mentioned "Wonderful World of Linux 2.4 (Second Edition)" http://features.linuxtoday.com/stories/8191.html. This article makes the statement "Linux is still the only operating system completely compatible with the IPv4 specification", which is further expanded in a followup

Re: Mentioning RFC numbers in /etc/services

1999-08-03 Thread Peter Jeremy
Assar Westerlund [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: As an enhancement, the strtol() check should verify that the passed service number is completely numeric: --- inetd.c.orig Mon Aug 2 22:35:28 1999 +++ inetd.c Mon Aug 2 22:41:52 1999 @@ -830,34 +830,50 @@ continue;

Re: Solution for mail pseudo-users?

1999-08-03 Thread Matthew Dillon
:On Tue, 3 Aug 1999, Markus Stumpf wrote: : : I just don't see any justification in hacking away at all of your software : to bypass the passwd database. What is gained? : : If you have 10+ users you'll run out of UIDs (see recent thread). : :I find it hard to believe that handling

TCP stack hackers take a bow

1999-08-03 Thread Ted Faber
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Unmodified FreeBSD TCP at 1Gb/s. http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/1999/08/990802072727.htm -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: PGPfreeware 5.0i for non-commercial use Charset: noconv

Re: Jail syscalls

1999-08-03 Thread Matthew Dillon
Speaking of the jail() syscall -- it really needs to be revamped a little before people really start using it wholeheartedly. The size of the jail structure needs to be passed in the syscall to allow backwards compatibility when things change such as, for example, the size of

Re: Jail syscalls

1999-08-03 Thread Mike Smith
Speaking of the jail() syscall -- it really needs to be revamped a little before people really start using it wholeheartedly. The size of the jail structure needs to be passed in the syscall to allow backwards compatibility when things change such as, for example, the size

RE: IDE quirk in 3.2-STABLE kernel ?

1999-08-03 Thread Biju Susmer
hi, I tried yesterday to make the kernel understand my CD ROM drive.. but it refused. Here is the dmesg (of boot -v)... is my config wrong or i missed something? The drive is Acer 32X and connected as secondary slave. It is seen by Win98 and BIOS. Can someone help? And what does "ide_pci:

Re: NSS Project

1999-08-03 Thread Max Khon
hi, there! On Tue, 3 Aug 1999, Oscar Bonilla wrote: *Step One: I ported the NetBSD implementation of nsdispatch(3) as implemented by Luke Mewburn. See attached patch to libc and new header file. I'm also attaching the man page for /etc/nsswitch.conf. Right now it compiles, installs, and

Re: What's new in Linux 2.4

1999-08-03 Thread Jeroen Ruigrok/Asmodai
* Peter Jeremy ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [990804 01:13]: Jordan recently mentioned "Wonderful World of Linux 2.4 (Second Edition)" http://features.linuxtoday.com/stories/8191.html. This article makes the statement "Linux is still the only operating system completely compatible with the IPv4

Re: Adding disks -the pain. Also vinum

1999-08-03 Thread Bernd Walter
On Tue, Aug 03, 1999 at 01:35:54PM +0930, Greg Lehey wrote: On Tuesday, 3 August 1999 at 11:11:39 +0800, Stephen Hocking-Senior Programmer PGS Tensor Perth wrote: No, it would cause a higher I/O load. Vinum doesn't transfer entire stripes, it transfers what you ask for. With a large

Re: Documenting writev(2) ENOBUFS error

1999-08-03 Thread Wes Peters
Nik Clayton wrote: On Sat, Jul 31, 1999 at 06:50:09PM -0600, Wes Peters wrote: So, do you want to enumerate the cases in which this error can occur in the man page? This is not generally done, now that we have verified it is possible for the system to generate ENOBUFS on a writev. I

Re: Adding disks -the pain. Also vinum

1999-08-03 Thread Bernd Walter
On Tue, Aug 03, 1999 at 12:16:06PM +0800, Stephen Hocking-Senior Programmer PGS Tensor Perth wrote: No, it would cause a higher I/O load. Vinum doesn't transfer entire stripes, it transfers what you ask for. With a large stripe size, the chances are higher that you can perform the

Re: Jail syscalls

1999-08-03 Thread Ollivier Robert
According to Brian F. Feldman: Jail is in RELENG_3 Not according to the CVS logs which lists kern_jail.c only for CURRENT. === File: kern_jail.c Status: Up-to-date Working revision:1.3 Fri Apr 30 06:51:51 1999

Re: no elf(5) man page (docs/7914)

1999-08-03 Thread Wes Peters
Jeroen Ruigrok/Asmodai wrote: * Andy Doran (a...@netbsd.org) [990802 00:53]: Wes Peters writes: NetBSD doesn't have one as of 1.4, so they may be interested in yours. ;^) It'd be cool if Asmodai could bounce this around one of the NetBSD lists once it's near completion.

Re: Mentioning RFC numbers in /etc/services

1999-08-03 Thread Brian Somers
In message 199908022217.xaa02...@keep.lan.awfulhak.org Brian Somers writes: : Yes, but do it the other way 'round - strtol first, if it's not all : numeric, getservbyname(). I did it getservbyname first in case there were any legacy services that were all numbers. Traditionally, this is

Re: Mentioning RFC numbers in /etc/services

1999-08-03 Thread Brian Somers
In some email I received from Brian Somers, sie wrote: [.] Yes, but do it the other way 'round - strtol first, if it's not all numeric, getservbyname(). No, the patch was correct. Not in my book - see my other posting :] -- Brian br...@awfulhak.org

Re: Adding disks -the pain. Also vinum

1999-08-03 Thread Greg Lehey
On Tuesday, 3 August 1999 at 8:12:17 +0200, Bernd Walter wrote: On Tue, Aug 03, 1999 at 12:16:06PM +0800, Stephen Hocking-Senior Programmer PGS Tensor Perth wrote: No, it would cause a higher I/O load. Vinum doesn't transfer entire stripes, it transfers what you ask for. With a large

Re: Mentioning RFC numbers in /etc/services

1999-08-03 Thread Warner Losh
In message 199908030624.haa00...@keep.lan.awfulhak.org Brian Somers writes: : Exactly - ditto for gethostbyname(). In the case of gethostbyname(), : I believe that domain names can't have a number as the first : character - I would have thought this idea should follow through with : services.

BSD voice synthesis

1999-08-03 Thread Julian Elischer
Just fetched and compiled the festival package. http://www.cstr.ed.ac.uk/projects/festival it has support for FreeBSD already (seems to work fine) Very impressive. I hope to have a little time to play with it and understand it a bit better. They seem to have support for up to 4.0 in some of the

Support for ez USB chips, anchorchips

1999-08-03 Thread Nick Hibma
A down-/uploader for the EZ USB chip is available from http://www.etla.net/~ezload.tar.gz See also the AnchorChips home page http://www.anchorchips.com/ The utility is courtesy of Dirk van Gulik, WebWeaving Consultancy and ActiveWire, Inc. (prototype board,

more NFS questions, why is the VFS_FHTOVP weird?

1999-08-03 Thread Alfred Perlstein
If you look in src/nfs/nfs_serv.c in almost every call you'll see this: nfsm_srvmtofh(fhp); nfsm_dissect(tl, u_int32_t *, NFSX_UNSIGNED); error = nfsrv_fhtovp(fhp, 1, vp, cred, slp, nam, rdonly, (nfsd-nd_flag ND_KERBAUTH), TRUE); if (error) {

IDE quirk in 3.2-STABLE kernel ?

1999-08-03 Thread Cillian Sharkey
Hi, On my system here, wd0: windoze wd1: FreeBSD wd2: blankdisk When I boot up under a 3.2-STABLE kernel (recently updated), wdc1 is not found However when I boot up under a 3.1-RELEASE generic kernel it sees the drive (wd2) and controller (wdc1) ok. (And yes I do have an entry for wdc1,wd2,wd3

Multiple versions of FreeBSD on one HDD

1999-08-03 Thread Graham Wheeler
Hi all I am trying to install both 2.2.8 and 3.2 on a single 17Gb HDD, but am not having much luck. I have tried several approaches, in particular creating four partitions, the first two for the respective root slices, the third for swap, and the fourth for the remaining slices. If I create the

RE: IDE quirk in 3.2-STABLE kernel ?

1999-08-03 Thread Biju Susmer
Yes, i'm also facing the same problem in 3.2 stable (wdc1 not found at 0x170). When i put a CD-ROM (ATAPI, secondary slave) sometimes the controller comes up ;) I tried my own kernel (by changing the IDE delay), it didn't work. -biju -Original Message- From:

Re: IDE quirk in 3.2-STABLE kernel ?

1999-08-03 Thread Cillian Sharkey
Yes, i'm also facing the same problem in 3.2 stable (wdc1 not found at 0x170). When i put a CD-ROM (ATAPI, secondary slave) sometimes the controller comes up ;) I tried my own kernel (by changing the IDE delay), it didn't work. -biju Normally for my own kernel, I set the IDE delay very low

RE: IDE quirk in 3.2-STABLE kernel ?

1999-08-03 Thread Biju Susmer
I tried with delay 12000, 6000, 8000 (I admit that i really don't know how this delay helps) but no use... only putting a CD in the drive while booting helps. -biju -Original Message- From: owner-freebsd-hack...@freebsd.org [mailto:owner-freebsd-hack...@freebsd.org]on Behalf Of Cillian

Re: Multiple versions of FreeBSD on one HDD

1999-08-03 Thread Cillian Sharkey
I am trying to install both 2.2.8 and 3.2 on a single 17Gb HDD, but am not having much luck. I have tried several approaches, in particular creating four partitions, the first two for the respective root slices, the third for swap, and the fourth for the remaining slices. If I create the first two

Re: IDE quirk in 3.2-STABLE kernel ?

1999-08-03 Thread Cillian Sharkey
I tried with delay 12000, 6000, 8000 (I admit that i really don't know how this delay helps) but no use... only putting a CD in the drive while booting helps. -biju I just set IDE_DELAY=4000 in my 3.2-STABLE kernel, and now it sees all disks on both controllers. I think the problem was that

Re: more NFS questions, why is the VFS_FHTOVP weird?

1999-08-03 Thread Assar Westerlund
Alfred Perlstein bri...@rush.net writes: the problem with nfsrv_fhtovp is that it is overkill for my application (it checks perms where i don't need it to, so i would have to fake a lot of stuff to look like i was authorized) What's your application? so instead I gutted nfsrv_fhtovp a bit

RE: IDE quirk in 3.2-STABLE kernel ?

1999-08-03 Thread Biju Susmer
I tried with delay 12000, 6000, 8000 (I admit that i really don't know how this delay helps) but no use... only putting a CD in the drive while booting helps. -biju I just set IDE_DELAY=4000 in my 3.2-STABLE kernel, and now it sees all disks on both controllers. I think the problem

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Re: BSD voice synthesis

1999-08-03 Thread Vince Vielhaber
On Tue, 3 Aug 1999, Julian Elischer wrote: Very impressive. I hope to have a little time to play with it and understand it a bit better. They seem to have support for up to 4.0 in some of the files, so maybe they actually have a freebsd user in their group. It's big and(on my p90) a bit

Interesting Kernel Config

1999-08-03 Thread eT
Greets ... I just noticed that on my 2.2.6 System, I had to enable the options ATAPI options ATAPI_STATIC device wcd0 before the following had any effect: controller wdc1 at disk wd2 at wdc1 drive 0 disk wd3 at wdc1 drive 1 in my kernel config file. So, the second controller was only

Re: Proposing argv for klds and preloaded modules

1999-08-03 Thread Daniel C. Sobral
Daniel C. Sobral wrote: assuming we are making it at all, the less pain. It provides a way of getting parameters that is compatible with what is already possible with loader (ie, the module need not differentiate between it's method of loading). The code is working and ready. Actually...

Overloading my machine?

1999-08-03 Thread Andy

Overloading my machine?

1999-08-03 Thread Andrej Brodnik (Andy)
Hi there, I want to put on my machine the following HW (I'll be running FBSD-3.2) beside the usual HW (serial and parallel ports etc.): - three IDE disks - floppy - IDE CD-ROM - three ep NIC - Adaptec PCI bus SCSI adapter Now, this is not a lot of burden (I think) for the processor,

Re: Multiple versions of FreeBSD on one HDD

1999-08-03 Thread Graham Wheeler
Cillian Sharkey wrote: I am trying to install both 2.2.8 and 3.2 on a single 17Gb HDD, but am not having much luck. I have tried several approaches, in particular creating four partitions, the first two for the respective root slices, the third for swap, and the fourth for the remaining

Re: Proposing argv for klds and preloaded modules

1999-08-03 Thread Juha Nurmela
On Tue, 3 Aug 1999, Daniel C. Sobral wrote: Actually... Loader passes a string. It seems the kldcode is passing argv[]. Juha, you sure you have they both working the same way (from a module's perspective)? It's splatted together, by just putting ' ' between words, somewhere in there. Search

Re: Multiple versions of FreeBSD on one HDD

1999-08-03 Thread Cillian Sharkey
This works, but has the restriction that I have to enter a command line at the boot prompt to boot one of the two. I would much prefer partitions, as I can use a boot selector instead, and also change the default as appropriate. If you do have the installations in two seperate slices on the

Re: Proposing argv for klds and preloaded modules

1999-08-03 Thread Peter Wemm
Juha Nurmela wrote: On Tue, 3 Aug 1999, Daniel C. Sobral wrote: Actually... Loader passes a string. It seems the kldcode is passing argv[]. Juha, you sure you have they both working the same way (from a module's perspective)? It's splatted together, by just putting ' ' between

RE: DOC volunteer WAS:RE: userfs help needed.

1999-08-03 Thread Alton, Matthew
I'll follow these guidelines. Thank you. -Original Message- From: Nik Clayton [SMTP:n...@nothing-going-on.demon.co.uk] Sent: Friday, July 30, 1999 6:47 PM To: Alton, Matthew Cc: 'Nik Clayton'; 'Matthew Dillon'; David E. Cross; freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG; d...@freebsd.org

Re: Proposing argv for klds and preloaded modules

1999-08-03 Thread Daniel C. Sobral
Peter Wemm wrote: Don't forget, there are zero or more modules per file. Which one gets the arguments? Coda (for example) is structured so that it has two modules, one device (codadev) and one vfs (coda). It seems to me that the one who gets the arguments is the one who searches for it.

Re: Proposing argv for klds and preloaded modules

1999-08-03 Thread Peter Wemm
Daniel C. Sobral wrote: Peter Wemm wrote: Don't forget, there are zero or more modules per file. Which one gets the arguments? Coda (for example) is structured so that it has two modules, on e device (codadev) and one vfs (coda). It seems to me that the one who gets the

RE: RE: DOC volunteer WAS:RE: userfs help needed.

1999-08-03 Thread Alton, Matthew
Ach. As I read my original mail here I realize that I didn't make clear that the chief aim of developing this FS is to glean information for the FS doc. My idea is to learn by writing a toy FS and to elaborate upon the experience in the form of a FS-doc. I'll hold off until the new FS code is

Re: Proposing argv for klds and preloaded modules

1999-08-03 Thread Juha Nurmela
On Tue, 3 Aug 1999, Peter Wemm wrote: Don't forget, there are zero or more modules per file. Which one gets the arguments? Coda (for example) is structured so that it has two modules, one device (codadev) and one vfs (coda). Yes, the naming 'module_get_file_argstr()' had the _file_ for

NSS Project

1999-08-03 Thread Oscar Bonilla
Following on the NSS (Name Service Switch): *Step One: I ported the NetBSD implementation of nsdispatch(3) as implemented by Luke Mewburn. See attached patch to libc and new header file. I'm also attaching the man page for /etc/nsswitch.conf. Right now it compiles, installs, and works for some

Re: Multiple versions of FreeBSD on one HDD

1999-08-03 Thread Graham Wheeler
Cillian Sharkey wrote: This works, but has the restriction that I have to enter a command line at the boot prompt to boot one of the two. I would much prefer partitions, as I can use a boot selector instead, and also change the default as appropriate. If you do have the installations

Re: Multiple versions of FreeBSD on one HDD

1999-08-03 Thread Cillian Sharkey
If you do have the installations in two seperate slices on the one disk, you should be able to use a boot selector to boot which ever slice you want. Boot selector programs like os-bs work with partitions, not disk slices. That's why I wanted separate partitions. At the moment I have

Re: Multiple versions of FreeBSD on one HDD

1999-08-03 Thread Robert Nordier
This works, but has the restriction that I have to enter a command line at the boot prompt to boot one of the two. I would much prefer partitions, as I can use a boot selector instead, and also change the default as appropriate. If you do have the installations in two seperate slices on

Re: BSD voice synthesis

1999-08-03 Thread Wes Peters
Julian Elischer wrote: Just fetched and compiled the festival package. http://www.cstr.ed.ac.uk/projects/festival it has support for FreeBSD already (seems to work fine) Very impressive. I hope to have a little time to play with it and understand it a bit better. They seem to have

Re: NSS Project

1999-08-03 Thread Boris Popov
On Tue, 3 Aug 1999, Oscar Bonilla wrote: Following on the NSS (Name Service Switch): *Step One: I ported the NetBSD implementation of nsdispatch(3) as implemented by Luke Mewburn. See attached patch to libc and new header file. I'm also attaching the man page for /etc/nsswitch.conf.

Re: Overloading my machine?

1999-08-03 Thread Matthew Dillon
:Hi there, : :I want to put on my machine the following HW (I'll be running :FBSD-3.2) beside the usual HW (serial and parallel ports etc.): : : - three IDE disks : - floppy : - IDE CD-ROM : - three ep NIC : - Adaptec PCI bus SCSI adapter : :Now, this is not a lot of burden (I think) for the

Re: Proposing argv for klds and preloaded modules

1999-08-03 Thread Mike Smith
Juha Nurmela wrote: On Tue, 3 Aug 1999, Daniel C. Sobral wrote: Actually... Loader passes a string. It seems the kldcode is passing argv[]. Juha, you sure you have they both working the same way (from a module's perspective)? It's splatted together, by just putting ' '

Re: Multiple versions of FreeBSD on one HDD

1999-08-03 Thread Garance A Drosihn
At 12:55 PM +0200 8/3/99, Graham Wheeler wrote: Hi all I am trying to install both 2.2.8 and 3.2 on a single 17Gb HDD, but am not having much luck. I am also interested in doing things like this, and my initial attempts didn't work quite the way I had hoped. Earlier I had a dual-boot setup

Berkeley IRS and NSS

1999-08-03 Thread Oscar Bonilla
Anyone knows about the BSD Information Retrieval Service (IRS) mentioned in http://www.padl.com/nss_ldap.html ? It seems to accomplish the same thing as the NSS stuff we've been talking about. Regards, -Oscar -- For PGP Public Key: finger oboni...@fisicc-ufm.edu To Unsubscribe: send mail to

Re: no elf(5) man page (docs/7914)

1999-08-03 Thread Jeroen Ruigrok/Asmodai
* Wes Peters (w...@softweyr.com) [990803 10:13]: Jeroen Ruigrok/Asmodai wrote: * Andy Doran (a...@netbsd.org) [990802 00:53]: Wes Peters writes: NetBSD doesn't have one as of 1.4, so they may be interested in yours. ;^) It'd be cool if Asmodai could bounce this around one of

Re: Multiple versions of FreeBSD on one HDD

1999-08-03 Thread Garance A Drosihn
At 1:24 PM -0400 8/3/99, i (Garance A Drosihn) wrote: So, my guess is that my primary problem is that I have only a vague idea of what I'm doing... Where is a good point to start looking for a better idea? I tried searching the web site for multi-boot, but that didn't turn up much. I have a

Re: Overloading my machine?

1999-08-03 Thread D. Rock
Andrej Brodnik (Andy) schrieb: Hi there, I want to put on my machine the following HW (I'll be running FBSD-3.2) beside the usual HW (serial and parallel ports etc.): - three IDE disks - floppy - IDE CD-ROM - three ep NIC - Adaptec PCI bus SCSI adapter Now, this is not a

Re: Multiple versions of FreeBSD on one HDD

1999-08-03 Thread Robert Nordier
By now the floppies for PowerBoot had come, so I tried installing that. I could now boot the HD, and PowerBoot can see the two partitions with freebsd installed (it even recognizes them as freebsd). Right now, my situation is that: - If I select WinNT at the PowerBoot menu, it comes up

Re: DOC volunteer WAS:RE: userfs help needed.

1999-08-03 Thread Nik Clayton
On Sun, Aug 01, 1999 at 03:00:49PM -0400, Brian F. Feldman wrote: Judging by your description, why don't we use LyX? :) LaTeX sounds about right. Argh -- contextual sense of humour failure. Smiley not withstanding, I can't decide if the above question was asked in all seriousness or not. N

Re: DOC volunteer WAS:RE: userfs help needed.

1999-08-03 Thread Brian F. Feldman
On Tue, 3 Aug 1999, Nik Clayton wrote: On Sun, Aug 01, 1999 at 03:00:49PM -0400, Brian F. Feldman wrote: Judging by your description, why don't we use LyX? :) LaTeX sounds about right. Argh -- contextual sense of humour failure. Smiley not withstanding, I can't decide if the above

Re: Multiple versions of FreeBSD on one HDD

1999-08-03 Thread Robert Nordier
I should mention that what I have on the disk right now (with the three systems) isn't too critical, so it is alright if I have to start over and reinstall everything. On the other hand, reinstalling does get a little tiring after awhile, so I want to have a better idea of what I'm doing

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