Re: Why not gzip iso images?

2000-03-16 Thread Anatoly Vorobey
On Wed, Mar 15, 2000 at 12:11:48PM -0800, Darryl Okahata wrote: While you are right about the download/gunzip times, compression doesn't help that much. As has been mentioned in -hackers, the ISO images only compress by 3% or so, or around ~20MB. So, instead of a 640MB ISO image, you

Re: Best NIC for FBSD (was: Buffer Problems and hangs in 4.0-CURRENT..)

2000-03-16 Thread Martin Cracauer
In [EMAIL PROTECTED], Mike Smith wrote: fxp0: The Intel driver is by far the highest preformance model, beats the 3com (second best) hands down with much lower CPU overhead. Do you actually have any numbers to quantify this? There's nothing in the driver architecture nor any of my

Re: Trouble with CVSUP to 4.0 Release, any ideas??

2000-03-16 Thread Doug Rabson
On Thu, 16 Mar 2000, Howard Leadmon wrote: On Wed, 15 Mar 2000, Howard Leadmon wrote: Any ideas how to fix this, or to get to 4.0 RELEASE on my other alphas do I have to do a clean reload?? ../../sys/ucontext.h:34: invalid #-line ../../alpha/alpha/genassym.c:44: #-lines for

FDDI cards in -current

2000-03-16 Thread Christoph Kukulies
Planning a router between FDDI and Fast Ethernet I'm wondering if I'm on the safe side when using FreeBSD 4.0-current for this project rather than being more conservative and use an older version of the OS. What FDDI cards could be recommended? (There aren't many, though, I believe). -- Chris

Re: gcc -Os optimisation broken (RELENG_4)

2000-03-16 Thread David O'Brien
I think that 'pentium' would result in code that isn't as optimized as 'pentiumpro', but I've heard that 'pentium' has a lot less problems. What??? 'pentiumpro' code isn't going to be very optimized for a Pentium (if it even runs at all). I've heard that -mpentiumpro can be pretty buggy,

Re: Trouble with CVSUP to 4.0 Release, any ideas??

2000-03-16 Thread Howard Leadmon
Any ideas how to fix this, or to get to 4.0 RELEASE on my other alphas do I have to do a clean reload?? ../../sys/ucontext.h:34: invalid #-line ../../alpha/alpha/genassym.c:44: #-lines for entering and leaving files don't match Can I see the contents of

No Subject

2000-03-16 Thread Sid Lambert
I notice someone posted this the other day Never have not seen a response...so...this is 5.0 CURRENT make world from cvsup March 15. ys/boot/i386/libi386/biosdisk.c -o biosdisk.o/usr/src/sys/boot/i386/libi386/biosdisk.c: In function

No Subject

2000-03-16 Thread Anne Marcel Roorda
I notice someone posted this the other day Never have not seen a = response...so...this is 5.0 CURRENT make world from cvsup March 15. Hi, Please check your version of /usr/src/sys/boot/i386/libi386/biosdisk.c. This was fixed yesterday. welpje:[sys/boot/i386/libi386] % grep

Re: cs89x0 driver update (fwd)

2000-03-16 Thread Maxim Bolotin
I sent my changes to Mike Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] 12 Mar 2000, but still have no answer, unfortunately I have no commit privs, so somebody have to commit it for us. I thought that Mike have to, just because he commit our previous version of driver. If you can commit it I'll have no objection.

Re: gcc -Os optimisation broken (RELENG_4)

2000-03-16 Thread Christian Weisgerber
Doug Barton [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hmm... If I have a PII (Actually celeron 300A) or a PIII, which is better, 'pentium' or 'pentiumpro'? I would think the latter, but I've I have to admit that I kind of lost track of Intel's Pentium du jour offerings after the PPro, but I think PII

Re: gcc -Os optimisation broken (RELENG_4)

2000-03-16 Thread Christian Weisgerber
David O'Brien [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: What??? 'pentiumpro' code isn't going to be very optimized for a Pentium (if it even runs at all). According to the gcc(1) man page, -mpentiumpro is synonymous to -mcpu=pentiumpro, which only affects instruction scheduling but not the actual instruction

Re: Trouble with CVSUP to 4.0 Release, any ideas??

2000-03-16 Thread Andrew Gallatin
Howard Leadmon writes: Has anyone updated a mid-febuary 4.0 to the RELEASE code on Alpha via CVS and had it go smooth, and if so what steps did you use to get there?? Yes, at least 3. But my methods are rather unconventional. On my build machine, which is running a 4.0-current box from

Re: HEADS UP: 3.x - 4.0-STABLE upgrade instructions

2000-03-16 Thread Salvo Bartolotta
Original Message On 3/16/00, 2:52:36 AM, Brandon Fosdick [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote regarding Re: HEADS UP: 3.x - 4.0-STABLE upgrade instructions: Warner Losh wrote: In message [EMAIL PROTECTED] Doug Barton writes: : You can find instructions at :

Jumped across a month and left dc behind.

2000-03-16 Thread Russell L. Carter
I've been using the dc driver without a hitch but when I updated to current two days ago dc stopped working. Symptoms are no link light on the hub and ifconfig reports no-carrier. Lights are on on the NIC though. Enumerating the varieties of media/mediaopt has no effect. Fortunately, there

Re: B_WRITE cleanup patch, please test!

2000-03-16 Thread Julian Elischer
Poul-Henning Kamp wrote: http://phk.freebsd.dk/misc/b_iocmd.patch I concur that these patches represent effectlively a mechanical edit of the sources to produce effectively the same functionality as before. I have a couple of points which I would like to discuss. These are not

Re: B_WRITE cleanup patch, please test!

2000-03-16 Thread Poul-Henning Kamp
In message [EMAIL PROTECTED], Julian Elischer writes: 1/ I think the removal of IPSEC from LINT is by mistake in this patch yes, that is a mistake. 2/ The change of separating buffer management from IO management is long overdue and the introduction of b_iocmd is a good first step for this.

Re: FDDI cards in -current

2000-03-16 Thread Bruce A. Mah
If memory serves me right, Christoph Kukulies wrote: Planning a router between FDDI and Fast Ethernet I'm wondering if I'm on the safe side when using FreeBSD 4.0-current for this project rather than being more conservative and use an older version of the OS. You mean 4.0-stable, right? :-)

Re: FDDI cards in -current

2000-03-16 Thread Matthew N. Dodd
On Thu, 16 Mar 2000, Christoph Kukulies wrote: Planning a router between FDDI and Fast Ethernet I'm wondering if I'm on the safe side when using FreeBSD 4.0-current for this project rather than being more conservative and use an older version of the OS. fpa0: Digital DEFPA PCI FDDI

Re: FDDI cards in -current

2000-03-16 Thread Garrett Wollman
On Thu, 16 Mar 2000 07:56:33 -0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Bruce A. Mah) said: Here's what's supported: fpa(4), fea(4) - Device Drivers for DEC FDDI Controllers fpa is a PCI card, fea is EISA. Note that finding any FDDI hardware these days is getting to be quite expensive. The manufacturers

Re: cs89x0 driver update (fwd)

2000-03-16 Thread Matthew N. Dodd
On Thu, 16 Mar 2000, Maxim Bolotin wrote: I sent my changes to Mike Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] 12 Mar 2000, but still have no answer, unfortunately I have no commit privs, so somebody have to commit it for us. I thought that Mike have to, just because he commit our previous version of driver. If

Re: [sound] PCI ESS support

2000-03-16 Thread Julian Elischer
Darryl Okahata wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Munehiro Matsuda) wrote: No, I don't have real ESS docs. Thanks, anyway. I have 1)the usual DSMaestro2E 3-02-98.pdf datasheet, 2)some small stuff I grabbed off ftp.esstech.com.tw (nolonger exists on the site?) and I have just got this

Re: cs89x0 driver update (fwd)

2000-03-16 Thread Warner Losh
In message [EMAIL PROTECTED] "Matthew N. Dodd" writes: : On Thu, 16 Mar 2000, Maxim Bolotin wrote: : I sent my changes to Mike Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] 12 Mar 2000, but : still have no answer, unfortunately I have no commit privs, so : somebody have to commit it for us. I thought that Mike

Re[2]: gcc -Os optimisation broken (RELENG_4)

2000-03-16 Thread Maxim Sobolev
-Original Message- From: Dan Nelson [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: "David O'Brien" [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Wed, 15 Mar 2000 15:57:27 -0600 Subject: Re: gcc -Os optimisation broken (RELENG_4) In the last episode (Mar 15), David O'Brien said: On Wed, Mar 15, 2000 at 10:51:55AM -0600, Dan Nelson

Re: [sound] PCI ESS support

2000-03-16 Thread Darryl Okahata
Julian Elischer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have 1)the usual DSMaestro2E 3-02-98.pdf datasheet, 2)some small stuff I grabbed off ftp.esstech.com.tw (nolonger exists on the site?) and I have just got this doc. is anyone going to work on this? Well, I was going to take Ville-Pertti

Re: cs89x0 driver update (fwd)

2000-03-16 Thread Maxim Bolotin
On Thu, 16 Mar 2000, Warner Losh wrote: In message [EMAIL PROTECTED] "Matthew N. Dodd" writes: : On Thu, 16 Mar 2000, Maxim Bolotin wrote: : I sent my changes to Mike Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] 12 Mar 2000, but : still have no answer, unfortunately I have no commit privs, so : somebody have

Re: possible simple install-info fix

2000-03-16 Thread Marcel Moolenaar
Ruslan Ermilov wrote: I was looking into fixing the install-info problem, and wondered if the solution is really as easy as it seems: Hmmm I had been thinking all along that the problem with install-info was that the system couldn't use the new binary. Are you saying

rpc.lockd and XDR 64bit

2000-03-16 Thread David E. Cross
Now that the code freeze is over, can the 64Bit XDR changes be made? This is the only thing preventing the next release of the rpc.lockd code at this point. -- David Cross | email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Acting Lab Director | NYSLP: FREEBSD

Re: Why not gzip iso images?

2000-03-16 Thread Jeffrey J. Mountin
At 11:09 PM 3/15/00 +0100, Oliver Fromme wrote: That's true. Most of the files in the ISO images are already compressed, so trying to gzip it saves only a few percent. Also take into account that many people are downloading and recoding the images on Windows boxes, which don't have gzip by

Re: Why not gzip iso images?

2000-03-16 Thread Matthew Hunt
On Thu, Mar 16, 2000 at 01:12:39PM -0600, Jeffrey J. Mountin wrote: Also take into account that many people are downloading and recoding the images on Windows boxes, which don't have gzip by default. And then they can xfer it over to their FBSD system, etc.. You're suggesting that folks

Re: gcc -Os optimisation broken (RELENG_4)

2000-03-16 Thread Jeffrey J. Mountin
At 01:42 PM 3/16/00 +0100, Christian Weisgerber wrote: David O'Brien [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: What??? 'pentiumpro' code isn't going to be very optimized for a Pentium (if it even runs at all). According to the gcc(1) man page, -mpentiumpro is synonymous to -mcpu=pentiumpro, which only

Re: ata + vinum problems

2000-03-16 Thread Greg Lehey
On Wednesday, 15 March 2000 at 16:29:03 -0500, Mathew Kanner wrote: On Mar 15, Mathew Kanner wrote: On Mar 15, Soren Schmidt wrote: Btw are you running the latest 4.0 or -current code ? there was a time when we had problems with the HPT and Promise controllers ? The kernel in question

Re: Why not gzip iso images?

2000-03-16 Thread Matt Heckaman
Speaking of ISOs, where is the 4.0-RELEASE ISO, I need it to do up this machine which I wanna format and install 4.0 clean =/ Matt -- Matt Heckaman [[EMAIL PROTECTED]|[EMAIL PROTECTED]] [Please do not send me] !Powered by FreeBSD/x86! [http://www.freebsd.org] [any SPAM (UCE) e-mail] On Thu, 16

Re: panic during make depend

2000-03-16 Thread Jeffrey J. Mountin
At 11:01 PM 3/15/00 -0500, Donn Miller wrote: Sounds like one of those nasty gcc optimization bugs. I generally build my kernel and world with -mpentium -O3 -pipe, and I haven't seen any bugs at all. I build everything with these flags without problems. The only problems I've see, as mentioned

Re: Trouble with CVSUP to 4.0 Release, any ideas??

2000-03-16 Thread Kris Kennaway
On Thu, 16 Mar 2000, Andrew Gallatin wrote: One thing to check would be: did your installworld acutally complete? At one point the installworld was falling over in h2ph when a crypto-related header file was being perl'ified. If this is your problem, try doing a 'make -i installworld'

RealPlayer 7

2000-03-16 Thread Donn Miller
Anyone get this beast to work on -current? The audio works, but the video doesn't work at all. I have COMPAT_LINUX in my kernel, and RealPlayer 5.0 works pretty well. $ printenv LD_LIBRARY_PATH

Re: RealPlayer 7

2000-03-16 Thread Mark Newton
On Thu, Mar 16, 2000 at 05:35:43PM -0500, Donn Miller wrote: Anyone get this beast to work on -current? The audio works, but the video doesn't work at all. I have COMPAT_LINUX in my kernel, and RealPlayer 5.0 works pretty well. I've had it working perfectly with the latest

Re: RealPlayer 7

2000-03-16 Thread Donn Miller
Mark Newton wrote: On Thu, Mar 16, 2000 at 05:35:43PM -0500, Donn Miller wrote: Anyone get this beast to work on -current? The audio works, but the video doesn't work at all. I have COMPAT_LINUX in my kernel, and RealPlayer 5.0 works pretty well. I've had it working perfectly

Re: RealPlayer 7

2000-03-16 Thread Mark Newton
On Thu, Mar 16, 2000 at 06:01:57PM -0500, Donn Miller wrote: I've had it working perfectly with the latest linux_base-6.1 and no LD_LIBRARY_PATH setting. Hasn't crashed once so far, which is rather unusual for products from RealNetworks! Hmm. Do you get video, though? Also,

Re: RealPlayer 7

2000-03-16 Thread Donn Miller
On Fri, 17 Mar 2000, Mark Newton wrote: On Thu, Mar 16, 2000 at 06:01:57PM -0500, Donn Miller wrote: Hmm. Do you get video, though? Also, which plugins did you install? Yup, I get video; like I said, it's working perfectly. I just took it through the stock standard installation

Re: RealPlayer 7

2000-03-16 Thread Mark Newton
On Thu, Mar 16, 2000 at 06:29:58PM -0500, Donn Miller wrote: On Fri, 17 Mar 2000, Mark Newton wrote: On Thu, Mar 16, 2000 at 06:01:57PM -0500, Donn Miller wrote: Hmm. Do you get video, though? Also, which plugins did you install? Yup, I get video; like I said, it's working

Re: RealPlayer 7

2000-03-16 Thread Mark Newton
On Thu, Mar 16, 2000 at 03:37:22PM -0800, Kris Kennaway wrote: On Fri, 17 Mar 2000, Mark Newton wrote: in there. I've got all the other posix functions, though. Are you using Linuxthreads? Everyone is using Linuxthreads now; it's the default. I didn't think so -

Re: port/XFree86-4 make install fail.

2000-03-16 Thread Tim Seidl
i have the same problem, either building from ports or from scratch, so i make -k install'd it, and while X works, im missing some extensions so its a bit broken. anybody got a fix for this? To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the

Duplicate inodes, filesystem weirdness

2000-03-16 Thread Tim Liddelow
I have recently "upgraded" to current (5.0) and am finding that with the new ATAPI/IDE driver I am getting filesystem inconsistencies regularly :( This manifests itself with fsck complaining profusely after a crash. The machine has hung _hard_ a couple of times, and upon reboot fsck

Re: port/XFree86-4 make install fail.

2000-03-16 Thread Idea Receiver
On Thu, 16 Mar 2000, Jean-Marc Zucconi wrote: Idea Receiver writes: "make all" success without any problem. There was an error but "make all" always complete. however, make install fail ;( What are your CFLAGS in /etc/make.conf ? default only. CFLAG= -O -pipe I have no

Re: RealPlayer 7

2000-03-16 Thread Doug Barton
Donn Miller wrote: Anyone get this beast to work on -current? The audio works, but the video doesn't work at all. I have COMPAT_LINUX in my kernel, and RealPlayer 5.0 works pretty well. I got disgusted with RP 5 because all of my favorite programs updated to G2 format, so I nuked

Re: RealPlayer 7

2000-03-16 Thread Donn Miller
Doug Barton wrote: I got disgusted with RP 5 because all of my favorite programs updated to G2 format, so I nuked it. Today I installed the latest linux-base port, downloaded the binary (non-rpm) version of linux RP 7 and it worked great. video and all. This is on an up-to-the-minute

Re: gcc -Os optimisation broken (RELENG_4)

2000-03-16 Thread Doug Barton
Donn Miller wrote: Doug Barton wrote: Hmm... If I have a PII (Actually celeron 300A) or a PIII, which is better, 'pentium' or 'pentiumpro'? I would think the latter, but I've learned not to assume where gcc is concerned. I think that 'pentium' would result in code that isn't

Re: [sound] PCI ESS support

2000-03-16 Thread Ville-Pertti Keinonen
Darryl Okahata [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Well, I was going to take Ville-Pertti Keinonen's ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) ESS2 mixer code and turn it into an LKM, which I'd then try to add sound output using the Linux code. However, I'm not familiar with how one accesses interrupts and DMA

Re: [sound] PCI ESS support

2000-03-16 Thread Julian Elischer
Ville-Pertti Keinonen wrote: Darryl Okahata [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Well, I was going to take Ville-Pertti Keinonen's ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) ESS2 mixer code and turn it into an LKM, which I'd then try to add sound output using the Linux code. However, I'm not familiar with how one

Re: [sound] PCI ESS support

2000-03-16 Thread Munehiro Matsuda
From: Ville-Pertti Keinonen [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: 17 Mar 2000 08:24:51 +0200 ::Another (perhaps simpler) alternative might be to try to get it to ::work in SB emulation mode. :: ::I've managed to get it to probe as a SoundBlaster (just by adding ::pci_write_config(dev, 0x41, 0x10, 1) to the

Re: RealPlayer 7

2000-03-16 Thread Khetan Gajjar
Around Today, "Donn Miller" wrote : DM I got disgusted with RP 5 because all of my favorite programs updated DM to G2 format, so I nuked it. Today I installed the latest linux-base DM port, downloaded the binary (non-rpm) version of linux RP 7 and it DM worked great. video and

Re: gcc -Os optimisation broken (RELENG_4)

2000-03-16 Thread Doug Barton
On Thu, 16 Mar 2000, Jeffrey J. Mountin wrote: Wondering why one would use -mcpu and not -march. If the code runs only on Celerons, PII's, and PIII's why would one *not* use -march. I'm curious about (possible) breakages with -mcpu or -march compared to -Ox settings which seem to break

Re: possible simple install-info fix

2000-03-16 Thread Ruslan Ermilov
On Thu, Mar 16, 2000 at 09:57:22AM -0800, Marcel Moolenaar wrote: Ruslan Ermilov wrote: I was looking into fixing the install-info problem, and wondered if the solution is really as easy as it seems: Hmmm I had been thinking all along that the problem with

Re: port/XFree86-4 make install fail.

2000-03-16 Thread Jean-Marc Zucconi
Idea Receiver writes: "make all" success without any problem. There was an error but "make all" always complete. however, make install fail ;( What are your CFLAGS in /etc/make.conf ? Jean-Marc -- Jean-Marc ZucconiPGP Key: finger [EMAIL PROTECTED] To

Re: possible simple install-info fix

2000-03-16 Thread Marcel Moolenaar
Ruslan Ermilov wrote: This is a bug. If install-info is installed, then it isn't a build tool. Build tools are programs/scripts that are needed to build the sources only. They are not installed. Since install-info is installed, it can't be a build tool. this means that we either use the