Re: it's time...

1999-08-12 Thread Steve O'Hara-Smith
On 12-Aug-99 Ben Rosengart wrote: > On Wed, 11 Aug 1999, Brian F. Feldman wrote: > >> What in the world would be the point of doing this? What would be so >> great >> about not seeing the system boot up? > > One might want minimal or no boot messages, just to look nice, while > still wanting th

yet more TP 600E fun...

1999-08-12 Thread David E. Cross
I attempt to boot a CD off of the TP600E and I get the following errors: "Can't work out which disk we are booting from." "Guessed BIOS device 0x8b not found by probes, defaulting to disk0:" Then whenever it attmpts to access "disk0:" it goes to the floppy drive. Suggestions? -- David Cross

Re: recent apm changes

1999-08-12 Thread Mitsuru IWASAKI
Hi, > MI> Please try this patch. > MI> If it still fails, it's worth to try increasing APM_SUSPEND_DELAY, > MI> something like: > MI> #define APM_SUSPEND_DELAY 3 > > Alas, it doesn't make a difference. H. OK, I'll buy new mather board same one as yours and investigate what'

Re: it's time...

1999-08-12 Thread Louis A. Mamakos
> On Wed, 11 Aug 1999, Brian F. Feldman wrote: > > > What in the world would be the point of doing this? What would be so great > > about not seeing the system boot up? > > One might want minimal or no boot messages, just to look nice, while > still wanting the dmesg stuff around in case somethi

Re: it's time...

1999-08-12 Thread Ben Rosengart
On Wed, 11 Aug 1999, Brian F. Feldman wrote: > What in the world would be the point of doing this? What would be so great > about not seeing the system boot up? One might want minimal or no boot messages, just to look nice, while still wanting the dmesg stuff around in case something goes wrong

Re: recent apm changes

1999-08-12 Thread Peter Mutsaers
>> "MI" == Mitsuru IWASAKI <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: MI> Please try this patch. MI> If it still fails, it's worth to try increasing APM_SUSPEND_DELAY, MI> something like: MI> #define APM_SUSPEND_DELAY 3 Alas, it doesn't make a difference. I tried too with APM_SUSPEND_DELAY 5.

Re: IBM ThinkPad 600E with cardbus EtherJet 10/100 :)

1999-08-12 Thread Nate Williams
> 1: any access to the serial port (/dev/cuaa0) locks the machine. Weird. I haven't tried accessing mine though, but I know there are lots of weird setup issues that must be done to get the serial port to be read correctly. > 2: I cannot get the ethernet card to work. > 2a: It is sort-a recog

Re: DEV_MODULE doesn't support dynamic major numbers any longer?

1999-08-12 Thread Assar Westerlund
Poul-Henning Kamp <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > The cmaj and bmaj in DEV_MODULE are only used for ordering the drivers, > and otherwise with no significance. Yeah, I realized that later. > The previous code was a hack and inflicted problems. The right > solution, (until DEVFS of course) is to a

Re: DEV_MODULE doesn't support dynamic major numbers any longer?

1999-08-12 Thread Poul-Henning Kamp
In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Assar Westerlund writes: >It seems to be the case that the possibility of specifying a major >number of NOMAJ in DEV_MODULE has vanished. The cmaj and bmaj in DEV_MODULE are only used for ordering the drivers, and otherwise with no significance. You should store

Re: Bus error in isatty() from /usr/lib/libc.so.3

1999-08-12 Thread John Birrell
Thimble Smith wrote: > Hello. I have a reproducable problem which gdb says is ending up at > 0x2818d862 in isatty() from /usr/lib/libc.so.3. A full back trace is > below. If this is a problem in FreeBSD, I'm very glad to do any > experiments that might be helpful. If it's a problem somewhere e