Re: ESS 1868 driver (again)

1999-01-02 Thread Donn Miller
On Thu, 4 Nov 1999, Luigi Rizzo wrote: guys, you should realize that the ESS1868 codecs (and friends) are extremely unfriendly to the programmer, and possibly (according to Sanpei comments) broken in their handling of auto-dma. As a consequence i cannot believe anyone wants to write a

Re: vga driver and signal

1999-01-02 Thread Kazutaka YOKOTA
AFAIK, not all video cards generate the vertical retrace interrupt. Even worse, some BIOSes have a configuration option which instract the BIOS NOT to assign an IRQ to the PCI video card. I fully agree that the vertical retrace interrupt will be of great value, but I wonder if it is really

Re: vga driver and signal

1999-01-02 Thread Kazutaka YOKOTA
Well, I may be wrong :-) Well, sortof :) The delay caused by the system to process the interrupt and deliver the signal etc is unpredictable (well sortof) and is almost certainly too long so the window of opportunity will be missed ... This has been discussed to death many times in the past

Re: vga driver and signal

1999-01-02 Thread Dennis Glatting
Kazutaka YOKOTA wrote: I fully agree that the vertical retrace interrupt will be of great value, but I wonder if it is really worth the trouble, because it might be available in only few cards and systems at the end of the day... I may have value synchronizing animation, such as games.

Re: Network booting, I'm off to work (was Re: GENERIC build broken)

1999-01-02 Thread Andrew Gallatin
Mike, I'm not trying to contribute to the FUD, rather I'm just trying to understand what you're proposing and what effect it will have on my current environment. Right now we have an OS research cluster of 30+ Pentium II machines. These machines are used for both real research for class

Re: ESS 1868 driver (again)

1999-01-02 Thread Andrew Atrens
All, I'm having trouble with my old Yamaha OPL based ISA soundcard. It used to work flawlessly, but now as Don, I get `bursty' sound. Most pronounced effect is when using `rvplayer'. If I open rvplayer and click to play a sound clip everything is just peachy until I move the mouse, causing a

Re: vga driver and signal

1999-01-02 Thread Amancio Hasty
It seems Kazutaka YOKOTA wrote: AFAIK, not all video cards generate the vertical retrace interrupt. Even worse, some BIOSes have a configuration option which instract the BIOS NOT to assign an IRQ to the PCI video card. I fully agree that the vertical retrace interrupt will be of

Re: vga driver and signal

1999-01-02 Thread Amancio Hasty
AFAIK, not all video cards generate the vertical retrace interrupt. Even worse, some BIOSes have a configuration option which instract the BIOS NOT to assign an IRQ to the PCI video card. I fully agree that the vertical retrace interrupt will be of great value, but I wonder if it is

Re: vga driver and signal

1999-01-02 Thread Soren Schmidt
It seems Amancio Hasty wrote: It seems Kazutaka YOKOTA wrote: AFAIK, not all video cards generate the vertical retrace interrupt. Even worse, some BIOSes have a configuration option which instract the BIOS NOT to assign an IRQ to the PCI video card. I fully agree that the

Re: vga driver and signal

1999-01-02 Thread Amancio Hasty
What will happen if the X server was running with real time priorities which syncing up with a vertical retrace seems to imply? -- Amancio Hasty [EMAIL PROTECTED] To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message

Re: laptop problems

1999-01-02 Thread Warner Losh
In message [EMAIL PROTECTED] Will Andrews writes: : My card IS getting recognized, and seems to be on the appropriate port, : BUT, I think memory pointers are getting mixed up, because it's : returning the _WRONG_ MAC address. That's usually an indication that something is wrong. : Plus,

TCP sockets stuck in the CLOSING state

1999-01-02 Thread Kenneth D. Merry
Before I spend a lot of time hunting this down, I figured it might be worth asking -- is there any particular reason why TCP sockets may be getting stuck in the CLOSING state more often now? I upgraded a machine from -current as of about June 26th to -current as of last Friday (October 29th),

Re: TCP sockets stuck in the CLOSING state

1999-01-02 Thread Alfred Perlstein
On Thu, 4 Nov 1999, Kenneth D. Merry wrote: Before I spend a lot of time hunting this down, I figured it might be worth asking -- is there any particular reason why TCP sockets may be getting stuck in the CLOSING state more often now? I upgraded a machine from -current as of about June

boot problems with todays kernel

1999-01-02 Thread Bob Vaughan
kernel source cvsup'd within the last hour.. world from 991101 Preloaded elf module "linux.ko" at 0xc03bf2cc. Preloaded elf module "atapi.ko" at 0xc03bf36c. link_elf: symbol atapi_drvtab undefined Intel Pentium detected, installing workaround for F00F bug VESA: v1.2, 2048k memory, flags:0x0,

reply to field

1999-01-02 Thread Amancio Hasty
Curious, why is the reply field in the email header not set to the originating mailing list? Just thought that it will make it easier to reply to postings to the mailing lists so people don't get multiple copies of the same message. I don't have such problem because I have a mail filter which

Re: reply to field

1999-01-02 Thread Chris Costello
On Thu, Nov 04, 1999, Amancio Hasty wrote: Curious, why is the reply field in the email header not set to the originating mailing list? Just thought that it will make it easier to reply to postings to the mailing lists so people don't get multiple copies of the same message. I don't have such

Re: reply to field

1999-01-02 Thread Alexander Langer
Thus spake Amancio Hasty ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): it easier to reply to postings to the mailing lists so people don't get multiple copies of the same message. I don't have such problem because I have a mail filter which delete duplicate messages. Reply-To: also destroys private Reply-To:'s.

Re: reply to field

1999-01-02 Thread Amancio Hasty
Thus spake Amancio Hasty ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): it easier to reply to postings to the mailing lists so people don't get multiple copies of the same message. I don't have such problem because I have a mail filter which delete duplicate messages. Reply-To: also destroys private

Re: vga driver and signal

1999-01-02 Thread Doug Rabson
On Thu, 4 Nov 1999, Amancio Hasty wrote: It seems Kazutaka YOKOTA wrote: AFAIK, not all video cards generate the vertical retrace interrupt. Even worse, some BIOSes have a configuration option which instract the BIOS NOT to assign an IRQ to the PCI video card. I fully agree

Re: reply to field

1999-01-02 Thread Oscar Bonilla
On Thu, Nov 04, 1999 at 06:54:32PM -0600, Chris Costello wrote: On Thu, Nov 04, 1999, Amancio Hasty wrote: Curious, why is the reply field in the email header not set to the originating mailing list? Just thought that it will make it easier to reply to postings to the mailing lists so

Re: TCP sockets stuck in the CLOSING state

1999-01-02 Thread Jonathan Lemon
In article local.mail.freebsd-current/[EMAIL PROTECTED] you write: Before I spend a lot of time hunting this down, I figured it might be worth asking -- is there any particular reason why TCP sockets may be getting stuck in the CLOSING state more often now? Not sure. But here's a tcpdump trace

Re: vga driver and signal

1999-01-02 Thread Mike Smith
What will happen if the X server was running with real time priorities which syncing up with a vertical retrace seems to imply? The only real way to do this "right" is going to be to have the X server load a KLD, which will then be able to hook the relevant interrupt(s). Any other

reply to field

1999-01-02 Thread Garrett Wollman
On Thu, 04 Nov 1999 16:41:28 -0800, Amancio Hasty [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: Curious, why is the reply field in the email header not set to the originating mailing list? Because that would be an incredibly obnoxious (I would even say asinine) thing to do. If I want to make a reply to the list,

Re: vga driver and signal

1999-01-02 Thread Daniel O'Connor
On 05-Nov-99 Amancio Hasty wrote: Your idea sounds intriguing . How should we wired the KLD to the X server? or how will the KLD inform the X server that it has received a vertical retrace interrupt . It depends what you wanted to do, but you could have the X server feed the KLD commands

Re: vga driver and signal

1999-01-02 Thread Amancio Hasty
On 05-Nov-99 Amancio Hasty wrote: Your idea sounds intriguing . How should we wired the KLD to the X server? or how will the KLD inform the X server that it has received a vertical retrace interrupt . It depends what you wanted to do, but you could have the X server feed the KLD

Re: vga driver and signal

1999-01-02 Thread Mike Smith
The only real way to do this "right" is going to be to have the X server load a KLD, which will then be able to hook the relevant interrupt(s). Any other alternative involves interrupt delivery to user-space, which is just not practical. Hi Mike, Your idea sounds intriguing . How

Re: boot problems with todays kernel

1999-01-02 Thread Luoqi Chen
Fatal trap 12: page fault while in kernel mode fault virtual address = 0x0 fault code = supervisor write, page not present instruction pointer = 0x8:0xc0680c04 stack pointer = 0x10:0xc03d3f08 frame pointer = 0x10:0x2a94 code segment= base

Re: vga driver and signal

1999-01-02 Thread Daniel O'Connor
On 05-Nov-99 Amancio Hasty wrote: Not sure that this is as elegant as what you are suggesting , can the kernel schedule a user level routine to be executed when an interrupt occurs? I guess on Windoze land this is called a driver call-back. Well.. KLD? :) Thats about as close as it

Is CTM dead forever ?

1999-01-02 Thread nnd
Can somebody check and say why there are no new cvs-cur CTM deltas after cvs-cur.5803.gz ? (at least on 'ctm.freebsd.org' and 'ftp.freebsd.org') Are there any other sites with FTP fetchable CTM deltas ? (and with more current ones ?) Yes, I can switch to 'cvs-up'ing

Re: vga driver and signal

1999-01-02 Thread Amancio Hasty
The only real way to do this "right" is going to be to have the X server load a KLD, which will then be able to hook the relevant interrupt(s). Any other alternative involves interrupt delivery to user-space, which is just not practical. Hi Mike, Your idea sounds intriguing

IPFilter in -current?

1999-01-02 Thread davec
Hello, I'm curious as to the current status of IP Filter in the -current branch of FreeBSD. Since its removal from the kernel in October, there have been a few emails about getting/wanting it back. May I ask who is currently working on that and what sort of progress they are making? Thank

Re: boot problems with todays kernel

1999-01-02 Thread Will Andrews
At 04:42 PM 11/4/99 -0800, you wrote: Seems to me like a simple problem: devclass_alloc_unit: npx0 already exists, using next available unit number device npx0at isa? port IO_NPX irq 13 Shouldn't this be "at nexus?" ? Like apm0 is. I'm not quite sure it was the problem that Mike

Re: vga driver and signal

1999-01-02 Thread Mark Newton
Amancio Hasty wrote: Not sure that this is as elegant as what you are suggesting , can the kernel schedule a user level routine to be executed when an interrupt occurs? I guess on Windoze land this is called a driver call-back. Under UNIX it's called a signal handler :-) - mark

Re: ESS 1868 driver (again)

1999-01-02 Thread Luigi Rizzo
Luigi Rizzo [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: guys, you should realize that the ESS1868 codecs (and friends) are extremely unfriendly to the programmer, and possibly (according to Sanpei comments) broken in their handling of auto-dma. ?? I wouldn't say the interface is *pretty*, but the

Wondering about cardbus support.

1999-01-02 Thread Frank Mayhar
I have the misfortune to have a cardbus Ethernet card that came with my Dell laptop. I was wondering how cardbus support was going, and if I could help in any way. -- Frank Mayhar [EMAIL PROTECTED] To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body

Re: Network booting, I'm off to work (was Re: GENERIC build broken)

1999-01-02 Thread Mike Smith
My question boils down to: Will I be able to re-install a machine using your new i386 netboot just as easily as I can now? Or will I have to be physically present at each machine diddle with the bios to toggle between disk netboots? And what if the NIC doesn't support PXE? Am I just

Re: CTM-deltas generation sptopped ?

1999-01-02 Thread Chuck Robey
On Thu, 4 Nov 1999, Peter Jeremy wrote: On 1999-Nov-03 23:58:00 +1100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: There are no new CTM-deltas on 'ctm.freebsd.org' at least 22 hours. The last e-mail delta I have is cvs-cur.5804, which arrived here at 0808UTC (about 5 hours before your message). I

Re: boot problems with todays kernel

1999-01-02 Thread Mike Heffner
On 05-Nov-99 Will Andrews chanted: | At 04:42 PM 11/4/99 -0800, you wrote: | | Seems to me like a simple problem: | |devclass_alloc_unit: npx0 already exists, using next available unit number | |device npx0at isa? port IO_NPX irq 13 | | Shouldn't

Re: -current panic on AHA

1999-01-02 Thread Mark Murray
Very fresh -current always paniced after detecting SCSI devices on aha0: AHA-1542CF FW Rev. B.0 (ID=45) SCSI Host Adapter, SCSI ID 7, 16 CCBs page fault: supervisor, read page not present Old kernel from Oct 8 works nicely Sorry can't provide more info about panic, it is remote computer.

Re: boot problems with todays kernel

1999-01-02 Thread Bob Vaughan
Ok.. I tweaked the conf, and re-cvsup'd.. and i now have a bootable kernel.. but there is now another problem.. (see below) From [EMAIL PROTECTED] Thu Nov 4 19:36:38 1999 Date: Thu, 04 Nov 1999 22:22:48 -0500 To: Bob Vaughan [EMAIL PROTECTED] From: Will Andrews [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject:

Re: vga driver and signal

1999-01-02 Thread Soren Schmidt
It seems Amancio Hasty wrote: Just trying to prevent dragging the whole X server to the kernel -- Actually dragging the whole X server to the kernel is not a bad idea --- however it is something that I can not afford to do right now :( Ahh, horror, Terry's old idea is coming back again :)

Re: boot problems with todays kernel

1999-01-02 Thread Will Andrews
[ CC:'d to mdodd, imp as it relates to their current work ] At 10:44 PM 11/4/99 -0800, you wrote: I'm now running into issues with pccard and the ep driver, where ep0 (3c574B) is seen at boot time, at a familiar port/irq, but with a bogus mac address.. (4b:57:4b:57:4b:57). ifconfig -a will

Re: vga driver and signal

1999-01-02 Thread Kevin Day
Kind of complex though. Also the interrupt latency problem is still there. Not sure that this is as elegant as what you are suggesting , can the kernel schedule a user level routine to be executed when an interrupt occurs? I guess on Windoze land this is called a driver call-back.

Re: vga driver and signal

1999-01-02 Thread Daniel O'Connor
On 05-Nov-99 Kevin Day wrote: This works, but still has a problem if latency and missed interrupts if you aren't reading when the interrupt happens. (I've worked around those too, but that's quite a bit more involved to fix it). You'll probably need to end up changing the scheduler

Re: IPFilter in -current?

1999-01-02 Thread Arjan de Vet
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED] you write: Hello, I'm curious as to the current status of IP Filter in the -current branch of FreeBSD. Since its removal from the kernel in October, there have been a few emails about getting/wanting it back. May I ask who is currently working on that and what sort

Re: vga driver and signal

1999-01-02 Thread Soren Schmidt
It seems Amancio Hasty wrote: Lets step back for a moment, this is clearly the wrong solution to everything, what exactly is it you want to do or want to accomplish?? Lets see if we can come up with another way of doing that... Okay, The problem that the XFree86 group is trying to