Re: MAJOR number

2003-11-30 Thread Frank Mayhar
port it to 5.x when I can test it there. When I have a major number, I'll submit the driver for official inclusion in -stable. -- Frank Mayhar [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.exit.com/ Exit Consulting http://www.gpsclock.com/ http://www.exit.com/blog

Re: Anybody using gp driver?

2003-11-28 Thread Frank Mayhar
. -- Frank Mayhar [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.exit.com/ Exit Consulting http://www.gpsclock.com/ http://www.exit.com/blog/frank/ ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo

Re: Anybody using gp driver?

2003-11-28 Thread Frank Mayhar
the same search. -- Frank Mayhar [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.exit.com/ Exit Consulting http://www.gpsclock.com/ http://www.exit.com/blog/frank/ ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org

Re: 40% slowdown with dynamic /bin/sh

2003-11-24 Thread Frank Mayhar
in the past have made the same or similar decisions. We'll see if you get burned by it, as many of those other people were. -- Frank Mayhar [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.exit.com/ Exit Consulting http://www.gpsclock.com/ http://www.exit.com/blog/frank

Re: 40% slowdown with dynamic /bin/sh

2003-11-24 Thread Frank Mayhar
Steve Kargl wrote: On Mon, Nov 24, 2003 at 05:06:52PM -0800, Frank Mayhar wrote: Kind of defeats the purpose, don't you think? Let's see. You dislike the dynamic root decision enough that you are considering the abandonment of FreeBSD. Then when you're told that you can still build

Re: 40% slowdown with dynamic /bin/sh

2003-11-24 Thread Frank Mayhar
have made my feelings known. -- Frank Mayhar [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.exit.com/ Exit Consulting http://www.gpsclock.com/ http://www.exit.com/blog/frank/ ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http

Re: 40% slowdown with dynamic /bin/sh

2003-11-24 Thread Frank Mayhar
the performance hit. What about data about improved performance or improved function in some other way? What is the compelling reason to move to a dynamic root? So far I've seen no argument that was even convincing, let alone compelling. -- Frank Mayhar [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.exit.com/ Exit

Re: Make it so that nobody wins

2003-11-24 Thread Frank Mayhar
, I'm only being half serious. But in a bizarre way, it kinda makes sense. Hey, that works for me! If nothing else it will keep some attention on the issue. -- Frank Mayhar [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.exit.com/ Exit Consulting http://www.gpsclock.com

Re: Unfortunate dynamic linking for everything

2003-11-18 Thread Frank Mayhar
not that much there. Both Matt and John are right. You guys are trying to solve a non-problem. Please don't. There are much better things on which to spend your time. -- Frank Mayhar [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.exit.com/ Exit Consulting http://www.gpsclock.com

Re: ports and -current (really 4.9 stability)

2003-09-20 Thread Frank Mayhar
and testing a device driver. All _without_ PAE, which I won't touch until it has shaken out a bit. Everything has been rock-solid, no problems at all. Were it not for PAE, I would say to go ahead and release it. -- Frank Mayhar [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.exit.com/ Exit Consulting http

Re: I'm leaving the project

2002-12-17 Thread Frank Mayhar
it a little early for april fool? This kind of fool is a fool all year 'round, I'm afraid. (And no, I don't mean the real Matt Dillon, if it wasn't obvious.) -- Frank Mayhar [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.exit.com/ Exit Consulting http://www.gpsclock.com/ To Unsubscribe: send mail

Re: dnet causes Hard Lock on SMP kernel? ( was 'Why is my -current systemHard Locking?' )

2002-11-07 Thread Frank Mayhar
, the case, at least with my system. It usually eventually unhangs on its own, but sometimes it's a hard wedge that only the reset button can fix. This is in -stable, btw. Is it happening in -current as well? -- Frank Mayhar [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.exit.com/ Exit Consulting http

Re: What is user uucp good for?

2002-11-02 Thread Frank Mayhar
* is owned by uucp. And that /usr/bin/tip and /usr/bin/cu are setuid uucp, although I guess they may now be a part of the port, eh? I take it that this is all in -current? -- Frank Mayhar [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.exit.com/ Exit Consulting http://www.gpsclock.com

Re: Total lockup

2002-06-12 Thread Frank Mayhar
running. I'm virtually certain it has to do with IRQ sharing. So far, though, no one has had any effective suggestions. I want to check commits from late April to early May for any possible culprit, when and if I have time... -- Frank Mayhar [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.exit.com/ Exit

Re: nVidia nForce 420

2002-04-25 Thread Frank Mayhar
soutbridge... But it seems that it have same problems... And looks that there are no true AMD chipset motherboard... Check out the ASUS A7M266-D motherboard, or the Tyan Tiger MPX. Look like really nice motherboards, both of them (although I'm leaning toward the Tyan). -- Frank Mayhar [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: fxp suspend/resume hangs

2000-09-17 Thread Frank Mayhar
it basically comes down to either him or nobody. So I suspect that either blackmail or bribery is now in order. :-) (Hey, it worked for me with Cameron and the SBLive driver!) -- Frank Mayhar [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.exit.com/ Exit Consulting http://store.exit.com

Re: Fdescfs updates--coming to a devfs near you!

2000-09-14 Thread Frank Mayhar
ul to some, if not to all. One thing about end users as opposed to engineers, they put this stuff to uses that we can't even imagine. Never underestimate the sheer ingenuity of a relatively naive user. :-) -- Frank Mayhar [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.exit.com/ Exit Consulting

Breakage in emu10k1.c ver 1.13?

2000-08-06 Thread Frank Mayhar
There _is_ a "CCR_READADDRESS_MASK" there, but no "CCR_READADDRESS." -- Frank Mayhar [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.exit.com/ Exit Consulting http://store.exit.com/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message

Re: SBLive (value)

2000-07-18 Thread Frank Mayhar
read this, please email me the address to send the memory stick. I'll contribute it to the cause. (I'll need a receipt, though. ;-) -- Frank Mayhar [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.exit.com/ Exit Consulting http://store.exit.com/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED

Will the urio dev make it to -stable?

2000-07-16 Thread Frank Mayhar
relevant. Please limit followups, though. -- Frank Mayhar [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.exit.com/ Exit Consulting http://store.exit.com/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message

More problems with emu10k1 driver.

2000-06-12 Thread Frank Mayhar
on "spread" down in spec_getpages(). I didn't see anything else interesting that I could interpret, but I can certainly grunge through the dump for anything that anyone else (particularly Cameron) might need. -- Frank Mayhar [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.exit.com/ Exit Consulting

Re: Anyone else seeing jumpy mice?

2000-05-22 Thread Frank Mayhar
. I'm running 4-stable. -- Frank Mayhar [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.exit.com/ Exit Consulting http://store.exit.com/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message

Re: Anyone else seeing jumpy mice?

2000-05-21 Thread Frank Mayhar
, wild pointer motion, all sorts of stuff. I usually have to log in from another box and kill and restart moused; that fixes things. -- Frank Mayhar [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.exit.com/ Exit Consulting http://store.exit.com/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: Anyone else seeing jumpy mice?

2000-05-21 Thread Frank Mayhar
after I've been hacking away a while, having not touched the switch in hours or days. Still, it could be related, I guess. -- Frank Mayhar [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.exit.com/ Exit Consulting http://store.exit.com/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: Anyone else seeing jumpy mice?

2000-05-21 Thread Frank Mayhar
4.0, but that was also about the time I added the KVM. You can also get this if you have moused running but have configured X to point to the physical mouse device rather than /dev/sysmouse. Nope. -- Frank Mayhar [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.exit.com/ Exit Consulting http

Re: Breaking build world costs $5? (was: Can we please have acurrent that compiles?)

2000-05-15 Thread Frank Mayhar
hat matter, the FreeBSD Mall site could do the same thing. -- Frank Mayhar [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.exit.com/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message

Re: Breaking build world costs $5? (was: Can we please have a currentthat compiles?)

2000-05-15 Thread Frank Mayhar
committers think? I think it's a genuinely stupid idea. Hey, you'll get sodas out of it! And while they're all drunk, you should be able to get them to agree to anything you want. :-) -- Frank Mayhar [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.exit.com/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: Archive pruning

2000-04-26 Thread Frank Mayhar
e convenience of having it local. I'll sit back and wait... Uh, huh. Cop out. Business as usual for you, Richard, from what I have seen in the past. It's simple: Put up or shut up. -- Frank Mayhar [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.exit.com/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message

Re: Linux emulation scripting fix to be committed to 5.x and 4.x wednesdayy

2000-04-24 Thread Frank Mayhar
. Although I do agree that there should be a knob to turn this thing on and/or off. -- Frank Mayhar [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.exit.com/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message

Re: SMP changes and breaking kld object module compatibility

2000-04-24 Thread Frank Mayhar
not internal ones. Number six is probably better unsaid. -- Frank Mayhar [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.exit.com/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message

Re: Archive pruning

2000-04-24 Thread Frank Mayhar
g age were it a human being. _It_ probably needs history, too, and doesn't have it. Fortunately, that's Not My Problem. :-) The more history, unfortunately for the disk space needs of all of us keeping copies of the repository, the better. -- Frank Mayhar [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://ww

Re: Sound Blaster Live! 4.0

2000-04-16 Thread Frank Mayhar
(Forwarding this to -current; I think it's relevant there since 4-stable and -current haven't diverged _that_ much. Yet.) Frank Mayhar wrote: Bryan Bradsby wrote: Do _you_ have ECC memory? Nope. So far, of the folks I've polled, the ones that have had success (with the SBLive driver

Re: Megahertz pccard

2000-02-08 Thread Frank Mayhar
Gerald Abshez wrote: I thought that I'd heard that the 3CCFE574BT (10/100) from 3com/Megahertz was supported, but it seems like it isn't. I've tried Actually, it is. I'm running one in my laptop right now, in fact, and it works fine. What problems are you seeing? -- Frank Mayhar [EMAIL

Re: 3C589 problems (was: 4.0 code freeze scheduled for Jan 15th)

2000-01-21 Thread Frank Mayhar
Warner Losh wrote: In message [EMAIL PROTECTED] Will Andrews writes: : On Tue, Jan 18, 2000 at 02:48:25AM -0800, Frank Mayhar wrote: : Interestingly, I rebuilt world with the latest pccardd changes and, : suddenly, the 589D started working perfectly. Unfortunately, the : 574BT doesn't

Re: 3C589 problems (was: 4.0 code freeze scheduled for Jan 15th)

2000-01-18 Thread Frank Mayhar
perfectly. Unfortunately, the 574BT doesn't work at all now. It appears to configure properly, but it doesn't transmit or receive. -- Frank Mayhar [EMAIL PROTECTED] To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message

3C589 problems?

2000-01-17 Thread Frank Mayhar
is seriously wrong and I'm not sure where to look next. -- Frank Mayhar [EMAIL PROTECTED] To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message

Re: 3C589 problems (was: 4.0 code freeze scheduled for Jan 15th)

2000-01-17 Thread Frank Mayhar
the 574BT. I haven't tracked it down yet, but I'm hunting. I do know, at least, that I'm not receiving _any_ interrupts from either card. So far I don't know why. -- Frank Mayhar [EMAIL PROTECTED] To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message

Re: 3C589 problems?

2000-01-17 Thread Frank Mayhar
Warner Losh wrote: In message [EMAIL PROTECTED] Frank Mayhar writes: : I just want to know if anyone else is still having problems with their : 3C589 or 574 after Matt Dodd's latest series of checkins. Yea. I'm only getting 950KiB/s with ftp. I'm bummed. Matt was geting 1.1MiB/s

Re: neomagic 256av/256zx audio

2000-01-11 Thread Frank Mayhar
card0 sio1: type 16550A ep0: No irq?! -- Frank Mayhar [EMAIL PROTECTED] To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message

Re: neomagic 256av/256zx audio

2000-01-10 Thread Frank Mayhar
ell enough to say whether it's right or wrong. In the meantime, I'll try Nick Sayer's trick. -- Frank Mayhar [EMAIL PROTECTED] To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message

Re: neomagic 256av/256zx audio

2000-01-09 Thread Frank Mayhar
this helps. -- Frank Mayhar [EMAIL PROTECTED] To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message

Re: 4.0 code freeze scheduled for Jan 15th

2000-01-06 Thread Frank Mayhar
pccard ep0 broken in 4.0-RELEASE is a mistake, IMHO. At the very _least_, the 589D's should work, and it would be Really Nice if the 574BTs worked, too. Of course, no one should expect full cardbus support until 4.1 or 4.2, given Warner's work situation. -- Frank Mayhar [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: A couple questions regarding pcmcia cards....

2000-01-05 Thread Frank Mayhar
Warner Losh wrote: In message [EMAIL PROTECTED] Frank Mayhar writes: : Wups, I thought I read 575BT. But no, the 574BT doesn't work either; there's : a bug somewhere in the driver. I have one of _those_, too, having read the : same thing you did. Last I heard, Matt Dodd had

Re: A couple questions regarding pcmcia cards....

2000-01-04 Thread Frank Mayhar
. The other card is cardbus, so I doubt it but I will ask anyway Adaptec SlimSCSI 1480A UltraSCSI If it's cardbus, it won't work. -- Frank Mayhar [EMAIL PROTECTED] To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message

Re: A couple questions regarding pcmcia cards....

2000-01-04 Thread Frank Mayhar
William Woods wrote: I thought I read in the mailing list that the 3COM did work.. Wups, I thought I read 575BT. But no, the 574BT doesn't work either; there's a bug somewhere in the driver. I have one of _those_, too, having read the same thing you did. -- Frank Mayhar [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: 3COM 574BT 10/100 PCMCIA

1999-12-17 Thread Frank Mayhar
be fixed Real Soon Now (meaning, when Matt gets to it). -- Frank Mayhar [EMAIL PROTECTED] To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message

Re: Mounting one FS on more than one system

1999-12-05 Thread Frank Mayhar
and is the same one that was written at Locus (and is the same one in the product I work on). It solves coherency using tokens; in fact, an earlier version of this filesystem is where the OSF got the token mechanism used in DFS. -- Frank Mayhar [EMAIL PROTECTED] To Unsubscribe: send mail

Re: Mounting one FS on more than one system

1999-12-04 Thread Frank Mayhar
coherency mechanism; DFS uses a token mechanism invented, AFAIK, by Locus Computing Corporation. I work on the former Locus clustering stuff (for Compaq, these days), so I can't really contribute, but I know there are white papers and other docs out there. -- Frank Mayhar [EMAIL PROTECTED

Well, the 3Com 574BT is still broken.

1999-12-02 Thread Frank Mayhar
Really Use an ethernet connection on this laptop; right now I have the cardbus card (3Com 575CT) and the pcmcia card (the 574BT) sitting here, useless. -- Frank Mayhar [EMAIL PROTECTED] (0x8000) pci_cfgcheck: device 0 [class=06] [hdr=00] is there (id=71908086) npx0: math processor on mother

Re: Well, the 3Com 574BT is still broken.

1999-12-02 Thread Frank Mayhar
Matthew N. Dodd wrote: On Thu, 2 Dec 1999, Frank Mayhar wrote: Suggestions? I could Really Use an ethernet connection on this laptop; right now I have the cardbus card (3Com 575CT) and the pcmcia card (the 574BT) sitting here, useless. Looking at the NetBSD driver it appears that the MAC

Re: block devices dumpon.

1999-11-30 Thread Frank Mayhar
install and another, and always end up having to go back and do a "MAKEDEV da0s1a" or whatever, usually in single-user mode when the system refused to mount filesystems because of missing /dev entries. Sigh.) Or at the very _least_, "MAKEDEV da1" should make the slice dev

Re: PCCARD eject freeze (was Re: your mail)

1999-11-30 Thread Frank Mayhar
'll bet Warner meant device_delete_child(pccarddev, kid[i]); up there, and not device_delete_child(pccarddev, kid[0]); Did you try that? -- Frank Mayhar [EMAIL PROTECTED] To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message

Re: FreeBSD 4.0 SCSI Tape Driver

1999-11-15 Thread Frank Mayhar
chiming in _against_ this idea. And, yes, "blank check" means something entirely different from EOT. Conflating the two opens up a real can of worms. -- Frank Mayhar [EMAIL PROTECTED] To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message

Problems with 3Com 547BT card versus -current.

1999-11-14 Thread Frank Mayhar
call to NULL). If someone wants to look at it, they're welcome to, just contact me. For reference, I've attached my dmesg output. -- Frank Mayhar [EMAIL PROTECTED] in 15 seconds - press a key on the console to abort Rebooting... Copyright (c) 1992-1999 The FreeBSD Project. Copyright (c) 1982, 19

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" i