Re: Dual console don't work

1999-02-02 Thread Robert Nordier
Bernd Walter wrote: I use -h -D in /boot.config Today I wanted to boot with monitor and keyboard. All I got was the first stage of the news boot loader on vga and seriel. The prompt itself goes only on seriel so there wasn't a chance to switch the console back to vga without a terminal.

RE: btokup().. patch to STYLE(9) (fwd)

1999-02-02 Thread Ladavac Marino
-Original Message- From: Mikhail Teterin [SMTP:m...@misha.cisco.com] Sent: Monday, February 01, 1999 9:41 PM To: curr...@freebsd.org Subject: Re: btokup().. patch to STYLE(9) (fwd) =Whilst the official codebase may be under the control of a select =group of committers, the

Misterious message...

1999-02-02 Thread Maxim Sobolev
I'm running recent 4.0 (updated today) and when booting have an message: lo0 XXX: driver didn't set ifq_maxlen Is it dangerous or not? Sincerely, Maxim To Unsubscribe: send mail to majord...@freebsd.org with unsubscribe freebsd-current in the body of the message

Re: Persistent files under /usr/obj

1999-02-02 Thread Erik H. Bakke
do a chflags -R noschg /usr/obj before you rm it Uh no... do the 'rm' first, tolerate the few warnings, _then_ do the chflags and then another 'rm'. It's faster on my stopwatch anyway :) /* Flamebait mode on: */ Now, shouldn't we really have a target in our makefile for this, like: make

Re: btokup().. patch to STYLE(9) (fwd)

1999-02-02 Thread Tony Finch
Peter Jeremy peter.jer...@auss2.alcatel.com.au wrote: Someone wrote: You are not supposed to understand this. I'd suggest that there's a vast difference in the intended audience of the code containing the above comment and FreeBSD. Not to mention a 20+ year gap in time. Whilst the official

Re: 3c589 doesn't work?

1999-02-02 Thread Jason Tatem
I'm using a 3c589C in a Fujitsu Lifebook 765dx, went from -release to -current about a week ago, no problem here. Aren't you supposed to use the zp driver for the 3c589 series? That's what I'm using at least. - Jason Tatem

Re: btokup().. patch to STYLE(9) (fwd)

1999-02-02 Thread Mikhail Teterin
Ladavac Marino once stated: = =Whilst the official codebase may be under the control of a select = =group of committers, the code should be capable of being understood = by = =anyone who is reasonably proficient with C. = = Depends on your definition of reasonably, Mr. Special Counselor... =

make world failure (2 days in a row)

1999-02-02 Thread John W. DeBoskey
Hi, The following says it all... Thanks, John === ru cd /usr/doc/ru ; make afterdistribute DESTDIR=/R/stage/trees/bin === ru/FAQ cd /usr/doc/ru/FAQ ; make install DESTDIR=/R/stage/trees/doc SHARED=copies install -c -o root -g wheel -m 444 FAQ*.html /R/stage/trees/doc/usr/share/doc/ru/FAQ

Re: 3c589 doesn't work?

1999-02-02 Thread Khaled Daham
On Tue, 2 Feb 1999, Jason Tatem wrote: I'm using a 3c589C in a Fujitsu Lifebook 765dx, went from -release to -current about a week ago, no problem here. Aren't you supposed to use the zp driver for the 3c589 series? That's what I'm using at least. pccard (compiled in the kernel, without zp)

Re: 3c589 doesn't work?

1999-02-02 Thread Christian Kuhtz
Actually, you should use the pccard driver. The zp doesn't support multicast and a couple of other things aren't as clean. Used to work fine over here, although I haven't tried it recently. Cheers, Chris On Tue, Feb 02, 1999 at 08:07:12AM -0500, Jason Tatem wrote: I'm using a 3c589C in a

GUI for cdrecord

1999-02-02 Thread Jim C. Joseph
does anybody know of a decent GUI for cdrecord that works on -current? XCDRoast is pretty hardcoded for linux. -- Jim Joseph Email: j...@phoenix.net The rule is, jam to-morrow and jam yesterday, but never jam today. -- Lewis Carroll To

Re: 3c589 doesn't work?

1999-02-02 Thread Jason Tatem
I loaded the generic pccard support + ep driver, and that works fine so far using -current from about middle of last week. - Jason Tatem What you want is irrelevant. VC3, Inc. What you have

Re: Scsi chatty'ness can be good..

1999-02-02 Thread Geoff Buckingham
Hopefully this isn't becoming a democracy, but just in case, the verbose reporting is a valued feature here. -- Geoff Buckingham Demon Internet To Unsubscribe: send mail to majord...@freebsd.org with unsubscribe freebsd-current in the body of the message

Re: swap_page_getswapspace failed (don't do stupid things with /dev/mem)

1999-02-02 Thread Brian Feldman
On Mon, 1 Feb 1999, Matthew Dillon wrote: :So, never do stupid things as root; that's always my moto. Well, so I did :something stupid as root, but it wasn't inherrently *that* stupid, at :least not stupid enough to require a hard boot :). Below is the source :... :Except I decided to test

Re: swap_page_getswapspace failed (don't do stupid things with /dev/mem)

1999-02-02 Thread Robert Watson
On Mon, 1 Feb 1999, Matthew Dillon wrote: :So this probably works for non-root users on files like /dev/zero that can :produce as much data as you might be interested in, suggesting a fun :denial of service attack for the bored and/or insane. Presumably the datasize limit can be used

Re: swap_page_getswapspace failed (don't do stupid things with /dev/mem)

1999-02-02 Thread Matthew Dillon
:Matt, : :Does datasize limit the number of backed pages, or the amount of address :space used by a process? I.e., can I grow myself a large chunk of address :space using mmap to the same region of a file, and then read into that :large chunk (presumably larger than the cache size if I want to be

Re: Dual console don't work

1999-02-02 Thread Matthew Dillon
:Bernd Walter wrote: : : I use -h -D in /boot.config : Today I wanted to boot with monitor and keyboard. : All I got was the first stage of the news boot loader on vga and seriel. : The prompt itself goes only on seriel so there wasn't a chance to switch : the console back to vga without a

Re: Scsi chatty'ness can be good..

1999-02-02 Thread Karl Pielorz
Geoff Buckingham wrote: Hopefully this isn't becoming a democracy, but just in case, the verbose reporting is a valued feature here. I'm pretty sure it's never going to go... The worst that seems to be threatened is that it's made an option (which is fine by me, I'd leave it turned on... All

Re: Scsi chatty'ness can be good..

1999-02-02 Thread Matthew Jacob
I think one of the major advantages of *nix / linux is that it is so verbose... Maybe a new topic for -chat? G NT is just as verbose (when using the Checked build) if not more- you just don't see it because it's being dumped out a debug serial port. To Unsubscribe: send mail to

problem with vr0

1999-02-02 Thread Chia-liang Kao
I have problem with my newly bought D-link DFE530TX on my -current (which is very new). I have tested my NIC using the master/slave mode program came with my NIC with my room mate. And the results show the NIC work correctly. The most strange thing is that I can see the ethernet address of the

Re: Dual console don't work

1999-02-02 Thread Robert Nordier
Matthew Dillon wrote: :Bernd Walter wrote: : : I use -h -D in /boot.config : Today I wanted to boot with monitor and keyboard. : All I got was the first stage of the news boot loader on vga and seriel. : The prompt itself goes only on seriel so there wasn't a chance to switch : the console

Re: problem with vr0

1999-02-02 Thread Bill Paul
Of all the gin joints in all the towns in all the world, Chia-liang Kao had to walk into mine and say: I have problem with my newly bought D-link DFE530TX on my -current (which is very new). I have tested my NIC using the master/slave mode program came with my NIC with my room mate. And

de0 XXX: driver didn't set ifq_maxlen

1999-02-02 Thread Neal Westfall
Just built a kernel from code cvsup'd last night. I get the following messages now during boot: de0 XXX: driver didn't set ifq_maxlen lo0 XXX: driver didn't set ifq_maxlen Everything otherwise seems to be working. Are these messages indicative of a problem? Thanks -- Neal Westfall

Re: de0 XXX: driver didn't set ifq_maxlen

1999-02-02 Thread Poul-Henning Kamp
In message pine.lnx.4.04.9902021128470.9384-100...@vorlon.odc.net, Neal Westf all writes: Just built a kernel from code cvsup'd last night. I get the following messages now during boot: de0 XXX: driver didn't set ifq_maxlen lo0 XXX: driver didn't set ifq_maxlen Everything otherwise seems to be

Re: btokup().. patch to STYLE(9) (fwd)

1999-02-02 Thread Fred Gilham
Julian Elischer jul...@whistle.com writes: Now if I'm working on some piece of code and feel that it could do with some parens then surely KNF should be flexible enough to allow them.. I don't know how many bugs have ben revealed by adding parens and braces.. I know that one of the first

4GB of RAM?!

1999-02-02 Thread Tom Bartol
Hi all, Has anyone yet tried running -current on a Xeon with 4GB RAM installed? We're about to place an order for a Quad Xeon and would like to have 4GB of RAM installed if it is feasible and/or possible to make this work with -current. Thanks for the help, Tom To Unsubscribe: send mail

New boot blocks not installed on 3.0-STABLE (02/01/1999 snap)

1999-02-02 Thread Steve Kiernan
Okay, I did an update install with 3.0-STABLE (the snap from yesterday), but the new boot blocks weren't installed, so the old boot loader keeps complaining that the kernel is the wrong format (obviously, bootloader, it's an ELF kernel). Any way to get the new boot blocks onto the drive from the

Re: Dual console don't work

1999-02-02 Thread Mike Smith
Is there a replacement for this functionality with the new bootloader? I was trying to get duel consoles working on a rack mount machine a week or two ago and met with utter failure. It was quite annoying. Support for multiple consoles in /boot/loader is planned but not

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1999-02-02 Thread Jayson Kastens
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1999-02-02 Thread Iani Brankov
Jayson Kastens wrote: subscribe freebsd-current mailto:majord...@freebsd.org?body=subscribe freebsd-current :) -- When the people talk about troubles, the word Microsoft is the most frequently used one. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majord...@freebsd.org with unsubscribe freebsd-current

Re: New boot blocks not installed on 3.0-STABLE (02/01/1999 snap)

1999-02-02 Thread Daniel C. Sobral
Steve Kiernan wrote: Okay, I did an update install with 3.0-STABLE (the snap from yesterday), but the new boot blocks weren't installed, so the old boot loader keeps complaining that the kernel is the wrong format (obviously, bootloader, it's an ELF kernel). Any way to get the new boot

Re:

1999-02-02 Thread Iani Brankov
Jayson Kastens wrote: subscribe freebsd-current mailto:majord...@freebsd.org?body='subscribe freebsd-current' :) -- When the people talk about troubles, the word Microsoft is the most frequently used one. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majord...@freebsd.org with unsubscribe freebsd-current

4.0-19990130-SNAP - ld.so not installed

1999-02-02 Thread John W. DeBoskey
Hi, I just installed the 0130 snap. The install process did not install /usr/libexec/ld.so ... I ran a make world which built and installed correctly: -- Installing legacy rtld

Linux devel doesn't work with glibc libs

1999-02-02 Thread Stephen Hocking-Senior Programmer PGS Tensor Perth
When trying to link, it complains about libc.os.6 vs libc.so.5. This makes life rather difficult when trying to test glide programs against my version of the /dev/3dfx driver. Can someone commit the RedHat dev system (. egcs )? Stephen -- The views expressed above are not

Overview of the FreeBSD boot process, 3.1 and later

1999-02-02 Thread Mike Smith
I'm in the process of preparing a document describing the FreeBSD boot process in the new age. At the moment, there's some emphasis on the loader, and probably an uneven level of detail elsewhere. Commentary is invited. http://www.freebsd.org/~msmith/FTL/bootstrap.txt -- \\ Sometimes

ppbus0: VLSI Vision Ltd PPC2 Camera MEDIA CPIA_1-20

1999-02-02 Thread Stephen Palmer
While looking at the output from dmesg, I noticed the following which I don't remember having seen before. (Of course I might not have had the camera hooked up to this system while running FreeBSD before ;-) Probing for PnP devices on ppbus0: ppbus0: VLSI Vision Ltd PPC2 Camera MEDIA CPIA_1-20

How do I query system temperature probes ?

1999-02-02 Thread Matthew Thyer
I seem to have all the hardware required for querying the temperature probes in the system (At least I can do it from the BIOS). How can I query this info ? I assume I need controller smbus0 and controller intpm0 in my kernel. But do I also need device smb0 at smbus? and/or any of the

Re: problem with vr0

1999-02-02 Thread Chia-liang Kao
I'm really sorry about this, Bill. I'll be very careful and make a recheck before sending out problem report next time. And really thank you for shouting at me instead of leaving my problem along. I did a `ping 192.168.100.1', and there is no response and no messages at all. I think the most

Re: How do I query system temperature probes ?

1999-02-02 Thread Takanori Watanabe
In message 36b7ced1.96d4b...@dsto.defence.gov.au, Matthew Thyer wrote: Extract from dmesg: chip0: Host to PCI bridge (vendor=8086 device=7180) rev 0x03 on pci0.0.0 chip1: PCI to PCI bridge (vendor=8086 device=7181) rev 0x03 on pci0.1.0 chip2: Intel 82371AB PCI to ISA bridge rev 0x01 on pci0.7.0

Heads up: comitted optimization to vm_map_insert()

1999-02-02 Thread Matthew Dillon
I've comitted an optimization to vm_map_insert() after initial tests seemed to indicate that it works. Basically it allows OBJT_SWAP objects to be optimized in addition to OBJT_DEFAULT objects already optimized in certain specific cases. However, a followup test that I had

Re: problem with vr0

1999-02-02 Thread Bill Paul
Of all the gin joints in all the towns in all the world, Chia-liang Kao had to walk into mine and say: I'm really sorry about this, Bill. I'll be very careful and make a recheck before sending out problem report next time. And really thank you for shouting at me instead of leaving my problem

Re: problem with vr0

1999-02-02 Thread Chia-liang Kao
* From: Bill Paul wp...@skynet.ctr.columbia.edu * Date: Wed, 3 Feb 1999 00:24:27 -0500 (EST) * * I did a `ping 192.168.100.1', and there is no response and no messages * at all. I think the most interesting part of this is that I can see * both of the lights on the hub blinking when I ping

Re: KLD confusion..

1999-02-02 Thread Mike Smith
Take the following scenario: compiled in: module A kldstat -v shows module 'A' kldload A damned thing succeeds. That's correct. There's a fundamental problem here in that there's a confusion between file names and module names. This is a basic flaw in the way that KLD was