Re: USB printers How on Freebsd

2005-06-20 Thread Daniel O'Connor
) -- Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au The nice thing about standards is that there are so many of them to choose from. -- Andrew Tanenbaum GPG Fingerprint - 5596 B766 97C0 0E94 4347 295E E593 DC20 7B3F CE8C pgp4bY43M1BKX.pgp Description

Re: Kernel module/IPC with userland: create and write to FIFO

2005-06-17 Thread Daniel O'Connor
On Fri, 17 Jun 2005 21:36, Hannes Mayer wrote: To cut a long story short, how can I open a FIFO in kernel space and write to it, so I can open and read from it in userspace ? Why don't you create a device node? If you read and write to it, it acts like a FIFO. -- Daniel O'Connor software

Re: Kernel module/IPC with userland: create and write to FIFO

2005-06-17 Thread Daniel O'Connor
the variability of the data rate is if you use read/write since the userland app will spend 99% of it's time waiting in select() for the kernel to tell it when new data is available. -- Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au The nice thing about standards

Re: Atheros drirve

2005-06-15 Thread Daniel O'Connor
On Thu, 16 Jun 2005 12:05, Eitarou Kamo wrote: Is there the Atheros wi-fi driver with WPA encryption. Do I need WPA_supplicant like hack? I'd say you need to use wpa_supplicant but I don't see it as a hack.. -- Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for

Re: /usr/local/etc/rc.d/*.sh not working?

2005-06-14 Thread Daniel O'Connor
run_rc_script) -- Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au The nice thing about standards is that there are so many of them to choose from. -- Andrew Tanenbaum GPG Fingerprint - 5596 B766 97C0 0E94 4347 295E E593 DC20 7B3F CE8C pgpwL9uQKEEt8.pgp

Re: FreeBSD MySQL still WAY slower than Linux

2005-06-13 Thread Daniel O'Connor
of anywhere global to set something like this. I tried 'man environ' and similar but it doesnt help Not sure you can actually.. Setting it in login.conf might do almost what you want. Although in the context of this discussion you could add it to the mysql user login script I imagine. -- Daniel

if_axe watchdog timeouts

2005-06-11 Thread Daniel O'Connor
suggestions? -- Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au The nice thing about standards is that there are so many of them to choose from. -- Andrew Tanenbaum GPG Fingerprint - 5596 B766 97C0 0E94 4347 295E E593 DC20 7B3F CE8C machine i386 cpu

Re: What to use to get remote display from a amd64 machine?

2005-06-06 Thread Daniel O'Connor
use X forwarding to run X apps on such a machine though. -- Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au The nice thing about standards is that there are so many of them to choose from. -- Andrew Tanenbaum GPG Fingerprint - 5596 B766 97C0 0E94 4347

Re: Linuxulator UDP PowerWare LanSafe III

2005-05-26 Thread Daniel O'Connor
) -- Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au The nice thing about standards is that there are so many of them to choose from. -- Andrew Tanenbaum GPG Fingerprint - 5596 B766 97C0 0E94 4347 295E E593 DC20 7B3F CE8C pgpXzuFRdYYeN.pgp Description

Re: Linuxulator UDP PowerWare LanSafe III

2005-05-26 Thread Daniel O'Connor
On Thu, 26 May 2005 20:39, Igor Robul wrote: As you can read from my post NUT does not support this model. I'll try Oops sorry, I didn't read it properly :( I looked at this project on the NUT home page - http://www.lygre.org/upscode2/ -- Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer

Re: Linuxulator UDP PowerWare LanSafe III

2005-05-26 Thread Daniel O'Connor
(From FreeBSD-5.2.1 CD). Also I cannot build linux_kdump, because linux_devtools is broken. It's not marked broken here.. Is your ports tree up to date? PS your replies are not being CC'd to me. -- Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au The nice

Re: Syntax Error in Kernel

2005-05-23 Thread Daniel O'Connor
(uppc) which you talk PPP over (by running userland PPP). -- Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au The nice thing about standards is that there are so many of them to choose from. -- Andrew Tanenbaum GPG Fingerprint - 5596 B766 97C0 0E94 4347

Re: Syntax Error in Kernel

2005-05-23 Thread Daniel O'Connor
for what you have to do to get a Pocket PC talking too :) -- Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au The nice thing about standards is that there are so many of them to choose from. -- Andrew Tanenbaum GPG Fingerprint - 5596 B766 97C0 0E94

Re: EHCI device

2005-05-21 Thread Daniel O'Connor
on FreeBSD? The speed reported by CAM is not the actual speed the device will run at. Test the speed of copying a few files to/from the camera and see what it really is (although it's not like flash is very fast anyway) -- Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis Software - http

Re: Mount DVD-RAM - device entry missing

2005-05-08 Thread Daniel O'Connor
behaviour ;-) # ls /dev/acd* /dev/acd0 /dev/acd1 me too I get this with a CF card via a USB reader. (in -current) -- Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au The nice thing about standards is that there are so many of them to choose

Re: Newbie Question About System Update

2005-04-25 Thread Daniel O'Connor
) I haven't used any because they're too pricey :) (Still since serial BIOS mobos are rare/expensive it's probably the cheaper option for a bunch of machines). You could kernel debug over it except you couldn't cut and paste which would suck for reporting back traces. -- Daniel O'Connor

Re: [PATCH] Re: /etc/rc.d/sshd : kldload random missing?

2005-04-24 Thread Daniel O'Connor
in /etc/rc.conf. That gets it called here (although I already had random.ko loaded so I'm not 100% sure it worked) -- Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au The nice thing about standards is that there are so many of them to choose from

Re: [PATCH] Re: /etc/rc.d/sshd : kldload random missing?

2005-04-24 Thread Daniel O'Connor
/rc.d/random rcvar' has no output at all. Adding an entry in /etc/rc.conf doesn't change that. Nevertheless, I have tried your advice, but to no avail. Hmm I'm stuck for ideas then. -- Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au The nice thing

Re: [PATCH] Re: /etc/rc.d/sshd : kldload random missing?

2005-04-24 Thread Daniel O'Connor
On Sun, 24 Apr 2005 17:39, Rob wrote: Nevertheless, I have tried your advice, but to no avail. Hmm, try this diff it kldload's random if it's not present. -- Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au The nice thing about standards

Re: Good CD Burning Software

2005-04-22 Thread Daniel O'Connor
. (Needs ATAPICAM though) -- Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au The nice thing about standards is that there are so many of them to choose from. -- Andrew Tanenbaum GPG Fingerprint - 5596 B766 97C0 0E94 4347 295E E593 DC20 7B3F CE8C

Re: external DVD-RAM devices

2005-04-22 Thread Daniel O'Connor
On Fri, 22 Apr 2005 20:49, Bruce M Simpson wrote: Currently the USB2 code in RELENG_5 seems more stable than the Firewire code. Not in my experience but I don't have an external CD/DVD writer.. The USB2 code is better but still has some bogons. -- Daniel O'Connor software and network

Re: [PATCH] Re: /etc/rc.d/sshd : kldload random missing?

2005-04-19 Thread Daniel O'Connor
On Tue, 19 Apr 2005 16:43, Rob wrote: Should I submit a patch here? Following patch works fine for me (be aware some lines are wrapped :[ ) I think a more correct solution would be to make a 'random' rc.d script which sshd depends on (and others if they're found to need it) -- Daniel

Re: [PATCH] Re: /etc/rc.d/sshd : kldload random missing?

2005-04-19 Thread Daniel O'Connor
On Tue, 19 Apr 2005 17:06, Daniel O'Connor wrote: On Tue, 19 Apr 2005 16:43, Rob wrote: Should I submit a patch here? Following patch works fine for me (be aware some lines are wrapped :[ ) I think a more correct solution would be to make a 'random' rc.d script which sshd depends

Re: [PATCH] Re: /etc/rc.d/sshd : kldload random missing?

2005-04-19 Thread Daniel O'Connor
it and see 8-) -- Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au The nice thing about standards is that there are so many of them to choose from. -- Andrew Tanenbaum GPG Fingerprint - 5596 B766 97C0 0E94 4347 295E E593 DC20 7B3F CE8C

Re: Dell 2850 sporadically reboots (amd64)

2005-04-13 Thread Daniel O'Connor
bit confused. amd64 with a dual xeon? EMT64... -- Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au The nice thing about standards is that there are so many of them to choose from. -- Andrew Tanenbaum GPG Fingerprint - 5596 B766 97C0 0E94 4347 295E E593

Re: FreeBSD mpd PPTP client connection to SnapGearLITE+

2005-04-05 Thread Daniel O'Connor
scheme. It is possible to configure ppp to participate in Microsoft's Windows VPN. For now, ppp can only get encryption keys from CHAP 81 authentication. ppp must be compiled with DES for MPPE to oper- ate. -- Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis Software

Re: FreeBSD mpd PPTP client connection to SnapGearLITE+

2005-04-05 Thread Daniel O'Connor
supports it and has come out with some very interesting new products, in particular a PCI NIC firewall/VPN (see URL below) which might just be what I need. http://www.cyberguard.com/products/firewall/SG_Family/SG630.html?lang=de_EN Looks kind of neat but IMO a bit of a waste of money :) -- Daniel

Re: FreeBSD mpd PPTP client connection to SnapGearLITE+

2005-04-04 Thread Daniel O'Connor
having used mpd I coudln't really offer any suggestions.. -- Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au The nice thing about standards is that there are so many of them to choose from. -- Andrew Tanenbaum GPG Fingerprint - 5596 B766 97C0 0E94

Re: FreeBSD mpd PPTP client connection to SnapGearLITE+

2005-04-03 Thread Daniel O'Connor
Windows - FreeBSD PopTop server without any big issues. It would be helpful if you supplied log files and configs to download somewhere. PS PPTP encryption sucks, use openvpn or IPSec :) -- Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au The nice thing

Re: Problems with AMD64 and 8 GB RAM?

2005-03-30 Thread Daniel O'Connor
try winding out the RAM timing slightly. -- Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au The nice thing about standards is that there are so many of them to choose from. -- Andrew Tanenbaum GPG Fingerprint - 5596 B766 97C0 0E94 4347 295E E593 DC20

Re: Problems with AMD64 and 8 GB RAM?

2005-03-30 Thread Daniel O'Connor
On Thu, 31 Mar 2005 08:14, Greg 'groggy' Lehey wrote: Have you run sysutils/memtest86 with the 8 GB? Heh. Difficult when the system doesn't run. You could try http://www.memtest86.com although that doesn't do 4Gb :( -- Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis Software

Re: Problems with AMD64 and 8 GB RAM?

2005-03-30 Thread Daniel O'Connor
On Thu, 31 Mar 2005 10:40, Steve Kargl wrote: On Thu, Mar 31, 2005 at 10:32:33AM +0930, Daniel O'Connor wrote: On Thu, 31 Mar 2005 08:14, Greg 'groggy' Lehey wrote: Have you run sysutils/memtest86 with the 8 GB? Heh. Difficult when the system doesn't run. You could try http

Re: Diagnostic tools for external hard drives?

2005-03-15 Thread Daniel O'Connor
that too :( Not much you can do without talking to the drive directly via IDE. -- Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au The nice thing about standards is that there are so many of them to choose from. -- Andrew Tanenbaum GPG Fingerprint

Re: Can't kldload pf

2005-03-14 Thread Daniel O'Connor
/make.conf. -- Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au The nice thing about standards is that there are so many of them to choose from. -- Andrew Tanenbaum GPG Fingerprint - 5596 B766 97C0 0E94 4347 295E E593 DC20 7B3F CE8C pgpqUww9r8Yp6.pgp

Re: Diagnostic tools for external hard drives?

2005-03-13 Thread Daniel O'Connor
commands) but you could be lucky :) -- Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au The nice thing about standards is that there are so many of them to choose from. -- Andrew Tanenbaum GPG Fingerprint - 5596 B766 97C0 0E94 4347 295E E593 DC20 7B3F CE8C

Re: Can't kldload pf

2005-03-10 Thread Daniel O'Connor
kldload attempts you'd see the kernel linker complaining about being unable to resolve some IPv6 related symbols. Other possibility is to do.. cd /usr/src/sys/modules/pf make NO_INET6= install and load it again. -- Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis Software - http

Re: Floppy problems in 5.3

2005-03-09 Thread Daniel O'Connor
attempt to use vi or to write to the floppy fails with another Input/Output error. Of course, the same drives and floppies mount, read, and write under Minix, Slackware-10.0 and FreeBSD 4.11. Tried that floppy drive with a different OS, or tried a different drive with FreeBSD? -- Daniel O'Connor

Re: Linking with CUPS Issue

2005-03-03 Thread Daniel O'Connor
/lib added to it and try again. -- Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au The nice thing about standards is that there are so many of them to choose from. -- Andrew Tanenbaum GPG Fingerprint - 5596 B766 97C0 0E94 4347 295E E593 DC20 7B3F

Re: ueagle(4) driver merging

2005-03-02 Thread Daniel O'Connor
frames whereas umodem deals with RS232 like devices. -- Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au The nice thing about standards is that there are so many of them to choose from. -- Andrew Tanenbaum GPG Fingerprint - 5596 B766 97C0 0E94 4347 295E

Re: ndis problem with stable kernel source

2005-03-02 Thread Daniel O'Connor
out the same as my original, but I still had the build error. Here's the error (this failure is after the make depend... during the make): How did you run ndiscvt? Where did you get the driver from? etc.. -- Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis Software - http

Re: ndis problem with stable kernel source

2005-03-02 Thread Daniel O'Connor
. -- Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au The nice thing about standards is that there are so many of them to choose from. -- Andrew Tanenbaum GPG Fingerprint - 5596 B766 97C0 0E94 4347 295E E593 DC20 7B3F CE8C pgpqyLOCtkCYZ.pgp Description: PGP

Re: Suppressing bounce messages in sendmail

2005-03-01 Thread Daniel O'Connor
to the outside world. So we don't have any problems when the network is operating properly but unfortunatly it can be rather variable in some places :) -- Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au The nice thing about standards

Suppressing bounce messages in sendmail

2005-02-28 Thread Daniel O'Connor
not the bounce messages provide pretty much zero useful information and just slow the link down when it does come back. Does anyone know how? I've seen DOUBLE_BOUNCE_ADDRESS which would help, but it would be nice to suppress them all if possible. Thanks. -- Daniel O'Connor software and network

Re: putc to a clist with no reserved cblocks

2005-02-27 Thread Daniel O'Connor
. Any idea what this is? What version of FreeBSD? -- Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au The nice thing about standards is that there are so many of them to choose from. -- Andrew Tanenbaum GPG Fingerprint - 5596 B766 97C0 0E94 4347 295E

Re: Xorg 6.8.1

2005-02-27 Thread Daniel O'Connor
are dumb and don't seem to do it properly. You can hard code it if you find out the monitors specs (eg manual, web site). -- Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au The nice thing about standards is that there are so many of them to choose from

Re: Xorg 6.8.1

2005-02-26 Thread Daniel O'Connor
many other ports are dependent on 6.8.1 and try to update half the system... You don't need to update a port just because it depends on Xorg. The X API is quite stable so you can update just Xorg without expecting any problems. (I did XFree86 - Xorg with zero problems for example) -- Daniel

Re: Xorg 6.8.1

2005-02-26 Thread Daniel O'Connor
of the ports system, so that I don't have to go through the pain of upgrading Xorg (on which firefox depends, naturally) as well. You can tell portupgrade and friends to ignore certain packages - ie --exclude. -- Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis Software - http

Re: Xorg 6.8.1

2005-02-26 Thread Daniel O'Connor
to have the resolution you want there. FYI X.Org should have just used your XF86-4 config file by default. -- Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au The nice thing about standards is that there are so many of them to choose from. -- Andrew

Re: xf86enableIO error (Feb 2005 Snapshots for FreeBSD available)

2005-02-16 Thread Daniel O'Connor
have device io in your kernel configuration? Also check your securelevel is low enough (1) you can find out what it is by running sysctl kern.securelevel -- Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au The nice thing about standards

Re: mktime() bug? result strtotime() fail in PHP

2005-02-14 Thread Daniel O'Connor
) return and error, 2) have the computer try and guess what you really meant. 2 leads to all sorts of bad things like other programs working around it to get proper functionality etc.. -- Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au The nice thing about

tun creation problem with security/openvpn

2005-02-09 Thread Daniel O'Connor
Anyone got any hints? -- Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au The nice thing about standards is that there are so many of them to choose from. -- Andrew Tanenbaum GPG Fingerprint - 5596 B766 97C0 0E94 4347 295E E593 DC20 7B3F CE8C

Re: tun creation problem with security/openvpn

2005-02-09 Thread Daniel O'Connor
On Wed, 9 Feb 2005 22:04, Daniel O'Connor wrote: Hi, I am trying to using openvpn on a 4.x system but it doesn't seem to want to create tun devices and I can't make them by hand with ifconfig. I've currently worked around it by running PPP first which creates a tun device but it's a bit

Re: ucom and sio

2005-01-08 Thread Daniel O'Connor
waiting for carrier detect to come up? Try using the cuaNN device instead. -- Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au The nice thing about standards is that there are so many of them to choose from. -- Andrew Tanenbaum GPG Fingerprint - 5596

Re: ucom and sio

2005-01-08 Thread Daniel O'Connor
On Sun, 9 Jan 2005 11:28, Brandon Fosdick wrote: Daniel O'Connor wrote: Is it blocking waiting for carrier detect to come up? Try using the cuaNN device instead. The software in question worked fine using a cuaNN device until said device died. Somebody else mentioned that I could set

Re: copying from DVD drive causes crash: vm_fault: pager read error, pid 13421 (cp) on FreeBSD 5.3-STABLE

2005-01-06 Thread Daniel O'Connor
read it.. Obviously the OS crashing when presented with bad media is not a good thing :) -- Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au The nice thing about standards is that there are so many of them to choose from. -- Andrew Tanenbaum GPG

Re: uplcom usb to serial adapter broken

2005-01-06 Thread Daniel O'Connor
. -- Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au The nice thing about standards is that there are so many of them to choose from. -- Andrew Tanenbaum GPG Fingerprint - 5596 B766 97C0 0E94 4347 295E E593 DC20 7B3F CE8C pgpYZ76Rhx8mB.pgp Description: PGP

Re: uplcom usb to serial adapter broken

2005-01-05 Thread Daniel O'Connor
'pciconf -l'. I think you mean usbdevs :) Also the output of dmesg after insertion would be useful. I have one of these devices at home I can test (although I have -current machines, not 5.3) -- Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au

Re: Can't access ATAPI CD-RW through SCSI using atapicam

2005-01-01 Thread Daniel O'Connor
sugestions? TIA! Miguel ___ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis Software

Re: everything concerning SLIP seems to be out of date

2005-01-01 Thread Daniel O'Connor
reason? Is there an easy alternative? Was SLIP declared as obsolete but someone forgot to document it? You can use PPP for this task (although that doesn't really answer your questions). SLIP isn't used very much so it's rotting a bit :( (Well the documentation is..) -- Daniel O'Connor

Re: portsdb and portupgrade causes errors

2004-12-23 Thread Daniel O'Connor
nice for a clearer announcement to have been made regarding this, eg the reasoning and work arounds (which are easy but you have to know about them :) It is a very user visible change and it's rather disruptive (because make index is very time consuming) -- Daniel O'Connor software and network

Re: portsdb and portupgrade causes errors

2004-12-23 Thread Daniel O'Connor
.. cd /usr/ports make fetchindex -- Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au The nice thing about standards is that there are so many of them to choose from. -- Andrew Tanenbaum GPG Fingerprint - 5596 B766 97C0 0E94 4347 295E E593 DC20 7B3F

Re: Asus P4P800 SE RAID1 on Intel ICH5 not working

2004-12-12 Thread Daniel O'Connor
will have to switch to FreeBSD 4.10, which has a massive amount of support for several RAID- and SCSI controllers. I would say it's much more likely 5.3 would support a given RAID/ATA chipset than 4.10. -- Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis Software - http

Re: 4.10 and KDE 3.3.1 == broken :(

2004-12-08 Thread Daniel O'Connor
On Tue, 7 Dec 2004 15:48, Daniel O'Connor wrote: Needless to say that is quite untested/unsupported by us, and if you've been using any packages there's a good chance things aren't fitting together so well. I do hope Xorg 6.8.1 won't break KDE on 4.x once it's in ports, but I can't

Re: 4.10 and KDE 3.3.1 == broken :(

2004-12-06 Thread Daniel O'Connor
On Mon, 6 Dec 2004 11:59, Daniel O'Connor wrote: Hmm, it's pretty big :) I just built a list of ports KDE depends on and I'm upgrading them all (big hammer approach) That didn't work :( Here's the list.. Hermes-1.3.2 ImageMagick-6.0.6.2 ORBit-0.5.17 ORBit2-2.12.0 OpenEXR-1.2.1 WebMagick

Re: 4.10 and KDE 3.3.1 == broken :(

2004-12-06 Thread Daniel O'Connor
On Tue, 7 Dec 2004 00:55, Michael Nottebrock wrote: On Monday, 6. December 2004 15:03, Daniel O'Connor wrote: That didn't work :( What about the icons. Do you have by chance downloaded an icontheme from kde-look.org via the icon-theme controlpanel and are using that now? No, I haven't done

Re: 4.10 and KDE 3.3.1 == broken :(

2004-12-06 Thread Daniel O'Connor
fitting together so well. I do hope Xorg 6.8.1 won't break KDE on 4.x once it's in ports, but I can't discount the possibility. I built Xorg from source using patches Eric Anholt supplied. Works in 5.x ;) I guess I'll try XFree86 on this box and see if it has an effect. -- Daniel O'Connor software

4.10 and KDE 3.3.1 == broken :(

2004-12-05 Thread Daniel O'Connor
() from /usr/lib/libc_r.so.4 #2 0x291eb395 in _thread_gc () from /usr/lib/libc_r.so.4 #3 0x291c5240 in _thread_start () from /usr/lib/libc_r.so.4 #4 0x0 in ?? () I can rebuild with debugging symbols but.. so slow to compile :( Anyone seen this problem and know a fix? :) Thanks. -- Daniel

Re: Parallel Port Interrupt Handler in Kernel Module

2004-12-05 Thread Daniel O'Connor
build outside the tree and allows you to load and unload (although I haven't actually _tested_ it apart from load and unload :) http://www.gsoft.com.au/~doconnor/pphack.tgz -- Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au The nice thing about

Re: 4.10 and KDE 3.3.1 == broken :(

2004-12-05 Thread Daniel O'Connor
? Hmm, it's pretty big :) I just built a list of ports KDE depends on and I'm upgrading them all (big hammer approach) Thanks for your help. -- Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au The nice thing about standards is that there are so many

Re: HW accel on R128/Xorg 6.7/FBSD-5.3R (was: the best graphicscard for FreeBSD)

2004-12-04 Thread Daniel O'Connor
On Sat, 4 Dec 2004 22:07, Godwin Stewart wrote: And yet: $ glxinfo | grep direct direct rendering: No OpenGL renderer string: Mesa GLX Indirect G. Sure you don't have nvidia GL, or bog standard MESA libraries installed for some crazy reason? (Wild stab in the dark..) -- Daniel

Re: HW accel on R128/Xorg 6.7/FBSD-5.3R (was: the best graphicscard for FreeBSD)

2004-12-04 Thread Daniel O'Connor
libs, but if you had inadvertantly installed something over the top of them it could cause a problem. What does.. pkgdb /usr/X11R6/lib/libGL.so say? If you don't have pkgdb try this.. grep libGL.so /var/db/pkg/*/+CONTENTS -- Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis Software

Re: HW accel on R128/Xorg 6.7/FBSD-5.3R (was: the best graphicscard for FreeBSD)

2004-12-04 Thread Daniel O'Connor
.. Could it be that this is just a stub? I ask because I just noticed $PORTS/graphics/mesagl which is *not* installed. No, the GL library installed with X is the whole shebang. -- Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au The nice thing about

Re: 4.x can't read 5.x dump?

2004-12-01 Thread Daniel O'Connor
dump a UFS 1 or 2 FS? If it's 2 then it's not really suprising since 4.x can't read it. You could quite proabably recompile restore with some kludgy support for UFS2 though. -- Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au The nice thing about

Re: the best graphicscard for FreeBSD

2004-11-30 Thread Daniel O'Connor
:) -- Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au The nice thing about standards is that there are so many of them to choose from. -- Andrew Tanenbaum GPG Fingerprint - 5596 B766 97C0 0E94 4347 295E E593 DC20 7B3F CE8C pgpx3wyinqzQJ.pgp

Re: bios disk numbers and device names

2004-11-29 Thread Daniel O'Connor
to freebsd (in general). I don't think there's much you can do - device names are based on the order of probing so if you change which slot on the controller it's connected to it will change device name. What sort of device in particular? -- Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis

Re: bios disk numbers and device names

2004-11-29 Thread Daniel O'Connor
boot single user, edit /etc/fstab, and go. -- Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au The nice thing about standards is that there are so many of them to choose from. -- Andrew Tanenbaum GPG Fingerprint - 5596 B766 97C0 0E94 4347 295E E593 DC20

Re: bios disk numbers and device names

2004-11-29 Thread Daniel O'Connor
..) -- Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au The nice thing about standards is that there are so many of them to choose from. -- Andrew Tanenbaum GPG Fingerprint - 5596 B766 97C0 0E94 4347 295E E593 DC20 7B3F CE8C pgpzO6QgSVjrh.pgp

Re: No RAID for VT8237?

2004-11-29 Thread Daniel O'Connor
in the BIOS? I am not sure how good 5.3 is at defining arrays (man atacontrol says atacontrol create should work but I've never used it). I doubt sysinstall has ATA RAID creation support. -- Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au The nice

Re: No RAID for VT8237?

2004-11-29 Thread Daniel O'Connor
, I mis-thought sorry :( -- Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au The nice thing about standards is that there are so many of them to choose from. -- Andrew Tanenbaum GPG Fingerprint - 5596 B766 97C0 0E94 4347 295E E593 DC20 7B3F CE8C

Re: VIA Rhine II network card

2004-11-16 Thread Daniel O'Connor
. Strange.. never seen that before - what OS runs on the gateway? -- Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au The nice thing about standards is that there are so many of them to choose from. -- Andrew Tanenbaum GPG Fingerprint - 5596 B766 97C0

Re: VIA Rhine II network card

2004-11-15 Thread Daniel O'Connor
switch). I've found vr(4) devices (which are very common in Via chipset motherboards) don't like talking to some switches and I need to force half duplex then unplug and replug the cable :( -- Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au The nice

Re: using only swap file without swap partition: OK?

2004-11-07 Thread Daniel O'Connor
when you get more RAM (unless you want to save crashdumps..) -- Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au The nice thing about standards is that there are so many of them to choose from. -- Andrew Tanenbaum GPG Fingerprint - 5596 B766 97C0 0E94

Re: php5 port compile problem

2004-10-29 Thread Daniel O'Connor
On Fri, 29 Oct 2004 15:33, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hope this is the right place to bring this up? You should have CC'd the port maintainer ([EMAIL PROTECTED]). Also stating what version of FreeBSD would be good :) (ie what cvsup tag you used..) -- Daniel O'Connor software and network

Re: burncd and mount_cd9660

2004-10-24 Thread Daniel O'Connor
the obligatory this used to work under 4.10-STABLE to my original post. Does cdcontrol info show the correct TOC? What is the error when you try and mount the disk? Can you dd the ISO off the disk? (ie dd if=/dev/acd0 of=/tmp/foo.iso bs-2048) -- Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis

Re: Problems doing make release on RELENG_4

2004-10-14 Thread Daniel O'Connor
On Wed, 13 Oct 2004 15:07, Daniel O'Connor wrote: It builds a bunch of needed ports, but not peps :( I can supply the 12Mb (620kb bzipd) log file if it helps. Off to try a newer ports tree and see if that fixes it. It didn't :( In the end I hacked up my copy of the docproj port to require

Re: How do I change so pcm1 is pcm0 and vice versa?

2004-10-13 Thread Daniel O'Connor
. If you're running 4.x you can do cd /dev sh ./MAKEDEV snd0 sh ./MAKEDEV snd1 -- Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au The nice thing about standards is that there are so many of them to choose from. -- Andrew Tanenbaum GPG Fingerprint - 5596

Re: Is snd_via82c686.ko causing a system hang on 5.3-BETA7?

2004-10-12 Thread Daniel O'Connor
sure it's not my hardware. Unloading the sound drivers can be Bad News (tm) :( Stop doing it and the pain will go away ;) -- Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au The nice thing about standards is that there are so many of them to choose

Re: How do I change so pcm1 is pcm0 and vice versa?

2004-10-12 Thread Daniel O'Connor
can set hw.snd.unit to 1. -- Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au The nice thing about standards is that there are so many of them to choose from. -- Andrew Tanenbaum GPG Fingerprint - 5596 B766 97C0 0E94 4347 295E E593 DC20 7B3F CE8C

Re: How do I change so pcm1 is pcm0 and vice versa?

2004-10-12 Thread Daniel O'Connor
, rather than with the emu10k1 driver compiled in. You can just put snd_emu10k1_load=YES in /boot/loader.conf. -- Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au The nice thing about standards is that there are so many of them to choose from. -- Andrew

Problems doing make release on RELENG_4

2004-10-12 Thread Daniel O'Connor
it. -- Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au The nice thing about standards is that there are so many of them to choose from. -- Andrew Tanenbaum GPG Fingerprint - 5596 B766 97C0 0E94 4347 295E E593 DC20 7B3F CE8C pgpovIhSDeUjs.pgp Description: PGP

Re: Maple 9.5 install -- [SOLUTION]

2004-10-05 Thread Daniel O'Connor
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Re: Audio board [HELP]

2004-09-25 Thread Daniel O'Connor
-- Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au The nice thing about standards is that there are so many of them to choose from. -- Andrew Tanenbaum GPG Fingerprint - 5596 B766 97C0 0E94 4347 295E E593 DC20 7B3F CE8C pgpalBz8UYH4h.pgp Description

Re: portsdb -Uu results in coredump

2004-09-06 Thread Daniel O'Connor
in there triggered by ruby_bdb1 and some line in the ports/INDEX. Hmm, I am running 6-current (libc.so.5) so perhaps the patch to fix it wasn't tested in 4.x? -- Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au The nice thing about standards

Re: 4.10-RELEASE miniinst does not fit on 3 CD-R

2004-06-01 Thread Daniel O'Connor
the full disk. Would be nice to shave that 8Mb off though :) - -- Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au The nice thing about standards is that there are so many of them to choose from. -- Andrew Tanenbaum GPG Fingerprint - 5596 B766 97C0

Re: 4.10-RELEASE miniinst does not fit on 3 CD-R

2004-06-01 Thread Daniel O'Connor
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Tue, 1 Jun 2004 19:02, Colin Percival wrote: At 09:19 01/06/2004, Daniel O'Connor wrote: miniinst isn't meant for small CD's, it's just meant to be smaller than the full disk. Would be nice to shave that 8Mb off though :) No it wouldn't

Buying a printer (in Japan)

2004-03-03 Thread Daniel O'Connor
and Epson's .jp site the PM-3700C seems suitable, but I don't know if it works in FreeBSD or not. Any recommendations gratefully received! -- Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au The nice thing about standards is that there are so many

Re: make package

2003-11-17 Thread Daniel O'Connor
-gui needs libiconv ... ) I would like to know if there exists any options or methods to build the dependencies packages as well while I try to build the packages (e.g. cvsup-without-gui). You can do.. make package PACKAGES=/tmp/packages DEPENDS_TARGET=package -- Daniel O'Connor software

Re: Possible mouse/ATA problems in -STABLE

2003-10-23 Thread Daniel O'Connor
.. I'd either buy a PS/2 to USB converter or a USB mouse :) PS/2 is a pain in the ass after you've used USB mice.. -- Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au The nice thing about standards is that there are so many of them to choose from

Re: Firewire on STABLE: Sane for drive-based backups?

2003-10-11 Thread Daniel O'Connor
though - http://www.wiebetech.com/products/firewiredrivedock.html They end up looking like SCSI disks, they perform very well (eg 20-30Mb/sec at fairly low CPU usage). -- Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au The nice thing about standards

Re: KDE apps crashing

2003-03-28 Thread Daniel O'Connor
: XFree86 Video Driver I have a GeForce 4 Ti4200. My wife's PC has a TNT2 M64 (with AGP disabled or the PC hangs). It runs KDE 3.0, 4.7-STABLE, X 4.2.1. --- Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au The nice thing about standards

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