Re: ESS 1868, newpcm, and Linux RealPlayer 5.0

1999-12-21 Thread Doug Rabson
On Mon, 20 Dec 1999, Cameron Grant wrote: On Sat, 18 Dec 1999, Donn Miller wrote: I just rebuilt my kernel from a recent cvsup. Of course, I have device pcm0 device sbc0 in my kernel config file. When I try to play a realaudio clip with Linux rvplayer

Re: mic cannot be deactivated

1999-12-21 Thread Nick Hibma
I've got a ESS1879 as well. Try the following patch, Cameron sent me. Index: sb.c === RCS file: /home/ncvs/src/sys/dev/sound/isa/sb.c,v retrieving revision 1.41 diff -u -r1.41 sb.c --- sb.c1999/12/19 22:25:26 1.41 +++

Re: Mount msdos floppy

1999-12-21 Thread Nick Hibma
# mount -tmsdos /dev/fd0 /mnt msdos: vfsload(msdos): Exec format error Disk works in windows. Check tail /var/log/messages as well. It might make remarks about unknown variables in there. Recompile your kernel and modules in any case. Nick Your /modules/msdos.ko file is

Re: mic cannot be deactivated

1999-12-21 Thread Cameron Grant
I've got a ESS1879 as well. Try the following patch, Cameron sent me. i commited an equivalent fix this morning. - cameron To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message

ATA errors and AUTO_EOI

1999-12-21 Thread Dieter Rothacker
Hi, I do not know if this issue has already been solved, but I cannot remember having read something about it. ATA errors directly after booting the kernel seem to be related to the usage of the fast IRQ tuning parameter "AUTO_EOI". Last night I migrated from my GA586DX (Dualboard, 430HX

Re: ATA errors and AUTO_EOI

1999-12-21 Thread Soren Schmidt
It seems Dieter Rothacker wrote: Using the new board, I get "waiting for interrupt" errors, and the system freezes while trying to mount the disks (with kernel from 12/03) or the system freeezes before being able to detect the drives (with kernel from 12/20). The solution for me was to

Re: Success with ATA drivers and UDMA66

1999-12-21 Thread Tom Embt
[snip] What is the rating of your Power supply ? Not quite high enough :-( It's a 300 Watt power supply. Hehe - I'm running dual 540's (2.2V) on a BP6 (I'm guessing around 30 Watts per CPU), extra case fan, big CPU fans, CD, TNT and an IDE drive (I've had three hooked up once) - on a 235W

[diskless] /etc/rc.diskless1 in 3-stable is better than in 4-current

1999-12-21 Thread MIHIRA Sanpei Yoshiro
[/etc/rc.diskless1 was broken] I setup File server under 4-current for diskless machine, ``/etc/rc.diskless1'' for diskless machine was different from 3-stable and broken . If I replace rc.diskless1 to 3-stable version, it is fine and no-trouble under 4-current diskless client. From CVS

Problems with the ATA-driver

1999-12-21 Thread Theo van Klaveren
When installing the 08-dec-1999 snapshot (before ATA went in GENERIC), a recompile from the kernel with the ATA driver instead of the WD driver resulted in an unbootable system because of the following error (approx.): mounting root /dev/ad0s1a ata-master: lost disk contact ata: resetting

Re: Problems with the ATA-driver

1999-12-21 Thread Soren Schmidt
It seems Theo van Klaveren wrote: When installing the 08-dec-1999 snapshot (before ATA went in GENERIC), a recompile from the kernel with the ATA driver instead of the WD driver resulted in an unbootable system because of the following error (approx.): mounting root /dev/ad0s1a

Re: [diskless] /etc/rc.diskless1 in 3-stable is better than in 4-current

1999-12-21 Thread Luigi Rizzo
[/etc/rc.diskless1 was broken] ... From CVS log of src/etc/rc.diskless1, I think someone forgot to commit newer and sophisticated code in 4-current and only committed in 3-stable by Luigi. it is not something i forgot -- the problem is, i don't have the resources to run a 4.0 machine, and

Re: Problems with the ATA-driver

1999-12-21 Thread Theo van Klaveren
On Tue, 21 Dec 1999, Soren Schmidt wrote: Harddisks: Western Digital Caviar (2.0 GB), non-DMA and Western Digital Caviar (2.5 GB), DMA-33. Mainboard: Asus P5A-B Super7 Chipset: ALi Aladdin V AGPset It probably because I relaxed the requirements for doing WDMA on disks that

Re: Recent current hangs frequently for 1 to 2 seconds.

1999-12-21 Thread Wilko Bulte
On Mon, Dec 20, 1999 at 05:08:27PM -0800, Matthew Dillon wrote: :It's possible you might be on to something. I've been running iostat :at 1 second intervals, and during the last hang I saw: : : ttyad2 da1 sa1 cpu : tin tout KB/t tps

Re: [diskless] /etc/rc.diskless1 in 3-stable is better than in 4-current

1999-12-21 Thread MIHIRA Sanpei Yoshiro
i suggest that you try and find a committer which can do appropriate tests. Huum, at first, I will merge 3-stable rc.diskless1 into 4-current. And I will test and post patch here. BTW -- i attach to this msg a small script (/etc/diskless/clone_root, whatever it should go e.g.

Re: python tests

1999-12-21 Thread Daniel M. Eischen
Fritz Heinrichmeyer wrote: with todays freebsd-current, pythons "test_select.py" fails. Is this harmful? Hmm, is this using libc_r? I just found and fixed (not committed yet) a bug that may cause errant wakeups due to SIGCHLD for threads in wrapped system calls (select included). Dan

Re: vm_page_remove panic

1999-12-21 Thread Tamiji Homma
What's your filesystem configuration? Do a 'df'. Are any of the filesystems non-standard? /usr/src on /dev/ad0s2f /usr/obj on /dev/ad2f /usr/home/ncvs on /dev/ad0s2f I think that swap is 256MB. Thanks Tammy Filesystem 1K-blocks UsedAvail Capacity Mounted on

Re: Status on building modula-3 and cvsup on -current ...

1999-12-21 Thread Bush Doctor
Out of da blue John Polstra aka ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) said: In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], Bush Doctor I [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: What's the latest on building modula 3 and cvsup on -current systems? It probably doesn't work right yet -- I'm not sure. I've been too busy and there have been

Re: ATA errors and AUTO_EOI

1999-12-21 Thread Doug White
On Tue, 21 Dec 1999, Soren Schmidt wrote: It seems Dieter Rothacker wrote: Using the new board, I get "waiting for interrupt" errors, and the system freezes while trying to mount the disks (with kernel from 12/03) or the system freeezes before being able to detect the drives (with

Re: Problems with the ATA-driver

1999-12-21 Thread Richard J Kuhns
Soren Schmidt writes: It seems Theo van Klaveren wrote: On Tue, 21 Dec 1999, Soren Schmidt wrote: Harddisks: Western Digital Caviar (2.0 GB), non-DMA and Western Digital Caviar (2.5 GB), DMA-33. Mainboard: Asus P5A-B Super7 Chipset: ALi Aladdin V AGPset

Re: Problems with the ATA-driver

1999-12-21 Thread Doug White
On Tue, 21 Dec 1999, Soren Schmidt wrote: Harddisks: Western Digital Caviar (2.0 GB), non-DMA and Western Digital Caviar (2.5 GB), DMA-33. Mainboard: Asus P5A-B Super7 Chipset: ALi Aladdin V AGPset It probably because I relaxed the requirements for doing WDMA on disks that

End of sound file repeating was Re: mic cannot be deactivated

1999-12-21 Thread Edwin Culp
Cameron, Thanks for fixing the regenerative feedback problem between the mic and the speakers. My ESS1869 is now repeating the very end of the sound file being played six or seven times. It is as if the last buffer is being written and rewritten to the device at the end without finding the

Re: ATA errors and AUTO_EOI

1999-12-21 Thread Oliver Fromme
Doug White wrote in list.freebsd-current: On Tue, 21 Dec 1999, Soren Schmidt wrote: It seems Dieter Rothacker wrote: The solution for me was to recompile the kernel without AUTO_EOI1 and AUTO_EOI2. Those options newer worked (for me at least) reliably with anything, could

Re: Problems with the ATA-driver

1999-12-21 Thread Soren Schmidt
It seems Doug White wrote: It probably because I relaxed the requirements for doing WDMA on disks that doesn't bother to tell whihc verson of the ATA spec they conform to. I think your case is the more seldom one, but I'm this close to blacklisting all WD/Maxtor drives, that would make

Re: ATA errors and AUTO_EOI

1999-12-21 Thread D. Rock
Oliver Fromme schrieb: Doug White wrote in list.freebsd-current: On Tue, 21 Dec 1999, Soren Schmidt wrote: It seems Dieter Rothacker wrote: The solution for me was to recompile the kernel without AUTO_EOI1 and AUTO_EOI2. Those options newer worked (for me at least)

Questions about the various /boot/loader scripts

1999-12-21 Thread John Polstra
I'm trying to figure out how all these loader scripts fit together, and I have some questions. First, my understanding is that the scripts are included like this (indentation signifies nesting): /boot/loader.rc /boot/loader.4th /boot/support.4th ["start" command executes]

Re: Questions about the various /boot/loader scripts

1999-12-21 Thread Matthew Jacob
On Tue, 21 Dec 1999, John Polstra wrote: I'm trying to figure out how all these loader scripts fit together, and I have some questions. First, my understanding is that the scripts are included like this (indentation signifies nesting): /boot/loader.rc /boot/loader.4th

Re: End of sound file repeating was Re: mic cannot be deactivated

1999-12-21 Thread Donn Miller
On Tue, 21 Dec 1999, Edwin Culp wrote: My ESS1869 is now repeating the very end of the sound file being played six or seven times. It is as if the last buffer is being written and rewritten to the device at the end without finding the EOF. These laptops are current as of 9 am PST today.

Is AUTO_EOI better? [was:Re: ATA errors and AUTO_EOI]

1999-12-21 Thread Dieter Rothacker
On Tue, 21 Dec 1999 17:13:20 +0100, D. Rock wrote: Oliver Fromme schrieb: Doug White wrote in list.freebsd-current: On Tue, 21 Dec 1999, Soren Schmidt wrote: It seems Dieter Rothacker wrote: The solution for me was to recompile the kernel without AUTO_EOI1 and AUTO_EOI2.

Re: Questions about the various /boot/loader scripts

1999-12-21 Thread David O'Brien
On Tue, Dec 21, 1999 at 09:37:14AM -0800, John Polstra wrote: I'm trying to figure out how all these loader scripts fit together, and I have some questions. First, my understanding is that the ... 4. Shouldn't these scripts installed on the Alpha too? Currently, none of them are. FICL

Re: ATA errors and AUTO_EOI

1999-12-21 Thread jack
Today Oliver Fromme wrote: The comment in LINT about AUTO_EOI_2 sounds pretty suspicous, so I never even tried it: "it works for some clones and some integrated versions." That sounds to me like "it works on a very limited set of hardware (and if you're lucky)." I've only got one out of

4.0-19991220-SNAP sysinstall failure (triage)

1999-12-21 Thread John W. DeBoskey
Hi, I tried to install a SNAP which I built early this morning and ran into some trouble (4.0-19991220-SNAP). After running through sysinstall and configuring everything, the following message pops up: Unable to make device node for /dev/ad0s1b in /dev! The creation of filesystems will

Re: Recent current hangs frequently for 1 to 2 seconds.

1999-12-21 Thread Matthew Dillon
: :On 1999-Dec-21 12:08:27 +1100, Matthew Dillon [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: :Tape drives may: :* Not support disconnection ... :* Implement a crappy SCSI command stack ... :* Not properly terminate the SCSI bus ... :* Introduce too much noise onto the SCSI bus due to bad

Odd TCP glitches in new currents

1999-12-21 Thread Matthew Dillon
I think this may be due to the timing changes. While typing over a TCP connection, running a remote X client (such as netscape), and so forth I sometimes see momentary 1/10 second hangs, even on a clean, empty network. For a while I thought it was packet loss, but then I

Re: Questions about the various /boot/loader scripts

1999-12-21 Thread Mike Smith
I'm trying to figure out how all these loader scripts fit together, and I have some questions. First, my understanding is that the scripts are included like this (indentation signifies nesting): /boot/loader.rc /boot/loader.4th /boot/support.4th ["start" command

RE: 4.0-19991220-SNAP sysinstall failure (triage)

1999-12-21 Thread Mike Heffner
On 21-Dec-99 John W. DeBoskey said: | |Before I start debugging the boot floppy (actually I use the | 2.88 image burned onto a CD) code, has anyone else run into this | yet, and/or is a fix being looked at? | Yes, see my message "error with install" from yesterday. It broke

Odd TCP glitches in new currents

1999-12-21 Thread Garrett Wollman
On Tue, 21 Dec 1999 12:50:50 -0800 (PST), Matthew Dillon [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: I have NOT tested this fix yet, so I don't know if it works, but I believe the problem is that on high speed networks the milliscond round trip delay is short enough that you can get 1-tick timeouts.

Re: vm_page_remove panic

1999-12-21 Thread Matthew Dillon
Try turning off UDMA operation on your IDE disks. It should be in the kernel configuration somewhere, but the IDE driver has changed so often I have no idea which one you are using. -Matt Matthew

Re: Odd TCP glitches in new currents

1999-12-21 Thread Poul-Henning Kamp
In message [EMAIL PROTECTED], Garrett Wollman write s: On Tue, 21 Dec 1999 12:50:50 -0800 (PST), Matthew Dillon [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: I have NOT tested this fix yet, so I don't know if it works, but I believe the problem is that on high speed networks the milliscond round trip

Re: Odd TCP glitches in new currents

1999-12-21 Thread Garrett Wollman
On Tue, 21 Dec 1999 22:13:51 +0100, Poul-Henning Kamp [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: Hmmm. I thought we agreed that 200 msec was the minimum reasonable RTO. That code doesn't seem to have made it in. I assume you mean 20 msec (= 2 tick @ 100 Hz ) ? 200 msec is enough to get halfway around the

Re: Odd TCP glitches in new currents

1999-12-21 Thread Matthew Dillon
: :Hmmm. I thought we agreed that 200 msec was the minimum reasonable :RTO. That code doesn't seem to have made it in. : :I assume you mean 20 msec (= 2 tick @ 100 Hz ) ? 200 msec is enough :to get halfway around the globe... : :-- :Poul-Henning Kamp FreeBSD coreteam member I

Re: Problems with the ATA-driver

1999-12-21 Thread Peter Wemm
Theo van Klaveren wrote: When installing the 08-dec-1999 snapshot (before ATA went in GENERIC), a recompile from the kernel with the ATA driver instead of the WD driver resulted in an unbootable system because of the following error (approx.): mounting root /dev/ad0s1a ata-master:

Re: Problems with the ATA-driver

1999-12-21 Thread Matthew Dillon
: it broke again as I recompiled my system yesterday (This was the first : time after it had been fixed, so I don't know when exactly it broke). : : Harddisks: Western Digital Caviar (2.0 GB), non-DMA and :Western Digital Caviar (2.5 GB), DMA-33. : Mainboard: Asus P5A-B Super7 :

Re: Problems with the ATA-driver

1999-12-21 Thread Soren Schmidt
It seems Peter Wemm wrote: Same here, but with a toshiba laptop disk. I have to comment out a version test in ata-disk.c to get it to work. I've just a few hours ago committed a change that does this... --- ata-disk.c 1999/12/18 20:06:30 1.46 +++ ata-disk.c 1999/12/21 21:48:28 @@

Re: Problems with the ATA-driver

1999-12-21 Thread Soren Schmidt
It seems Matthew Dillon wrote: The thread 'vm_page_remove panic' that Tamiji Homma initiated may be related. She is getting a panic in the buffer cache subsystem while using the new ATA driver with softupdates + NFS exported filesystems. I do not know if it is related,

Re: Questions about the various /boot/loader scripts

1999-12-21 Thread Daniel C. Sobral
John Polstra wrote: I'm trying to figure out how all these loader scripts fit together, and I have some questions. First, my understanding is that the scripts are included like this (indentation signifies nesting): /boot/loader.rc /boot/loader.4th /boot/support.4th

Re: Questions about the various /boot/loader scripts

1999-12-21 Thread Daniel C. Sobral
Mike Smith wrote: Hmm. The "right" answer would appear to be in a 'loader.rc.local', but that's obviously not implemented at this point. The loader.rc file isn't typically overwritten after installation, so either inserting it there or sourcing another file at that point would be the

DLTs, disconnection and hangs--solved (was: Recent current hangs frequently for 1 to 2 seconds.)

1999-12-21 Thread Greg Lehey
On Tuesday, 21 December 1999 at 10:07:28 +0100, Wilko Bulte wrote: On Mon, Dec 20, 1999 at 05:08:27PM -0800, Matthew Dillon wrote: It's possible you might be on to something. I've been running iostat at 1 second intervals, and during the last hang I saw: ttyad2

Re: Success with ATA drivers and UDMA66

1999-12-21 Thread Dave J. Boers
On Tue, Dec 21, 1999 at 11:22:12PM +0100, Thierry Herbelot wrote: Let's start a thread on the BP6 ? (the release of the board was carefully synchronized with stable SMP releases of FreeBSD : kudos to the FreeBSD release engineering team ;-)) I second that! Running -current since October and

Re: is this really a bad disklabel?

1999-12-21 Thread Mike Smith
I can't seem to boot from wd1s3a. When I run the loader, and set currdev=disk2s3a, it won't ls, and when I try to lsdev, it says there is a bad partition table on wd1. That's pretty categoric; if the loader doesn't like your partition table, you're not going to have much luck. I found

Re: 4.0-19991220-SNAP sysinstall failure (triage)

1999-12-21 Thread Jordan K. Hubbard
Hi, I tried to install a SNAP which I built early this morning and ran into some trouble (4.0-19991220-SNAP). I accepted some changes to libdisk which, in retrospect, were too draconian. I'll back 'em out. - Jordan To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe

ppp phone dial is broken

1999-12-21 Thread Andrey A. Chernov
With latest ppp I hear no phone numbers dial sounds at the stage: Phase: Phone: N ppp does _nothing_ until timeout occurse, then redial happens with the same unsuccessful result. -- Andrey A. Chernov http://nagual.pp.ru/~ache/ MTH/SH/HE S-- W-- N+ PEC+ D A a++ C G+ QH+(++) 666+++ Y To

Re: ppp phone dial is broken

1999-12-21 Thread Christopher Nielsen
On Tue, 21 Dec 1999, Andrey A. Chernov wrote: With latest ppp I hear no phone numbers dial sounds at the stage: Phase: Phone: N ppp does _nothing_ until timeout occurse, then redial happens with the same unsuccessful result. I'm seeing the exact same thing. It appears that the phone

Re: Problems with the ATA-driver

1999-12-21 Thread Alex Zepeda
On Tue, 21 Dec 1999, Soren Schmidt wrote: It probably because I relaxed the requirements for doing WDMA on disks that doesn't bother to tell whihc verson of the ATA spec they conform to. I think your case is the more seldom one, but I'm this close to blacklisting all WD/Maxtor drives, that

** HEADS UP ** NCR/Symbios SCSI controller owners

1999-12-21 Thread David O'Brien
The new `sym' (Symbios) driver has been turned on in GENERIC. There is a subset of NCR chipsets which both `sym' and the `ncr' driver can own. For those controllers the `sym' driver will win out. This behavior may be changed by using the "SYM_SETUP_LP_PROBE_MAP" kernel config option. It is

Re: Odd TCP glitches in new currents

1999-12-21 Thread Joe Abley
On Tue, Dec 21, 1999 at 01:23:05PM -0800, Matthew Dillon wrote: I just rebooted both machines and it didn't fix the problem. I did a packet trace on both boxes and there does indeed appear to be packet loss. Sorry if this is stating the obvious, but I've seen more than one clueful