Latest ACPICA megapatch now up

2000-10-07 Thread Mike Smith
http://people.freebsd.org/~msmith/acpica-bsd-20001007.tar.gz This includes: - ACPI as PnP enumerator for ISA (there are issues here, and this doesn't disable the "real" PnPBIOS code yet, so you will get duplicates on some machines). - Power/Sleep button code (Iwasaki-san) - Improved

sio problems?

2000-10-07 Thread Mike Meyer
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Re: ext2fs support for writing - what's the verdict?

2000-10-05 Thread Mike Meyer
superblocks? Just FYI, Mandrake 7.1 does the same thing out of the box. mike To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message

Re: -CURRENT clock deviation

2000-10-05 Thread Mike Smith
On 04-Oct-00 Alain Thivillon wrote: I have noticed that -CURRENT (build last week) is subject to a very high clock deviation: I run -CURRENT on a laptop, it seems that last commit in idle loop (the one replacing loop by HLT and lowering temperature) broke the clock. Hmm, this

Re: boot problem with Mylex DAC960 - help ?

2000-10-05 Thread Mike Smith
I don't know of any problems related to this at this time. Make sure you have the latest BIOS from Intel for the ISP2150. I installed 4.1.1 on an Intel ISP 2150 with a Mylex AcceleRAID 250. The fireware on the controller is 4.06 . After install and while it starts to boot I get: BTX

Re: ACPI megapatch

2000-10-02 Thread Mike Smith
started lerning ACPICA with documents and source code. Mike, I'm feeling we need to have a migration plan. Do you have any plan on this? I have an enormous patch that I can put up later tonight on Freefall. I have the ACPICA 2915 release fully integrated, and I've ported their sample OSPM

Re: Interesting AML bug... recommended workaround?

2000-10-02 Thread Mike Smith
Here's what seems to be an interesting AML or AML parser bug. OperationRegion(PSRG, SystemMemory, 0x0410, 0x1) Field(PSRG, DWordAcc, NoLock, Preserve) { , 2, PS2E, 1 } The field is marked for 32-bit access, but the region is only 1

Re: ACPI megapatch

2000-10-02 Thread Mike Smith
I have an enormous patch that I can put up later tonight on Freefall. Actually, I couldn't make CVS do what I wanted, so it's a big tarball with an itty-bitty little patch instead. This requires an up-to-date -current kernel (for the pci_cfgreg changes, etc.) I haven't done anything special

Re: ACPI megapatch

2000-10-02 Thread Mike Smith
Great! This is really great!! I didn't think we can have ACPICA kernel so earlier. Well, let's see if it works right first. 8) I hear from Intel that they plan to release a new code revision today, so I will be updating when they do. I also hear that Andrew Grover (the chap at Intel

Re: mtree verification output format

2000-10-02 Thread Mike Smith
This is still very obscure; I'd like to see: size (was 1234, should be 5678) cksum (was 42424242, should be 69696969) ...so that it's clear what the meaning of the numbers is. In that case I think I would like to loose the ',' also. While you're at it,

Re: Today -current broken on build

2000-10-01 Thread Mike Smith
I hate to spoil the moment ... but does anyone have an idea what the fix is? g Nothing in the amd directory seems to have changed in the past couple of weeks, so it must be somewhere else, and I'm not bright enough to figure out where. Yeah, somebody forgot that typedefs and structure

Re: ACPI megapatch

2000-10-01 Thread Mike Smith
PowerResource code keeps pointers to the PowerResource objects, then finds a pointer to methods of the object dynamically. Can we do it in similar way for thermal management? Well, yes, but you have to go back and re-parse the actual AML. I'm not even sure if it's safe to

Interesting AML bug... recommended workaround?

2000-10-01 Thread Mike Smith
Here's what seems to be an interesting AML or AML parser bug. OperationRegion(PSRG, SystemMemory, 0x0410, 0x1) Field(PSRG, DWordAcc, NoLock, Preserve) { , 2, PS2E, 1 } The field is marked for 32-bit access, but the region is only

Re: setting device permissions for DEVFS

2000-09-30 Thread Mike Meyer
Ah, thanks :) Does it possibly belong in /etc/defaults/rc.devfs, to slurp in /etc/rc.devfs (if it exists) at the end? mike To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message

Re: pw_class in _pw_passwd is null if __hashpw() is not called in prior

2000-09-30 Thread Mike Meyer
* installed ports; 2) uninstall them all; then 3) rebuild and install them all, with a report about failures would make me happy. That way, I'd know that all the ports were built against the current system, which would make me feel much safer. mike To Unsubscribe: send mail

Re: setting device permissions for DEVFS

2000-09-30 Thread Mike Meyer
Alexander Langer writes: Thus spake Mike Meyer ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): Does it possibly belong in /etc/defaults/rc.devfs, to slurp in /etc/rc.devfs (if it exists) at the end? No - instead we should add something like devfs_permission{0,1,2,etc} (and maybe ownership) to rc.conf, which can

Re: ACPI megapatch

2000-09-30 Thread Mike Smith
Please test this; there are lots of opportunities for error in these changes. In particular, I am afraid that I may have broken I/O from AML I did test it, S1, S5 transition, PowerResource On/OFF and GPE handling by kernel thread, everything seems OK! I think nobody has objections for

Re: ACPI megapatch

2000-09-30 Thread Mike Smith
Cool. On some machine, thermal management requires Embedded Controller I/O. Anybody working on this? Yeah. I just discovered that I need this. I haven't look at how operation regions are handled, so I'm not sure how hard it's going to be to implement the hooks necessary for this.

Re: (Semi-)automatic update of installed ports (was: Re: pw_class in _pw_passwd is null if __hashpw() is not called in prior)

2000-09-30 Thread Mike Meyer
Seigo Tanimura writes: On Sat, 30 Sep 2000 13:35:48 -0500 (CDT), Mike Meyer [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: Mike Seigo Tanimura writes: Completely automatic update of installed ports is acutally difficult because we cannot get to know the language or required toolkit from the name of a binary

Re: Today -current broken on build

2000-09-30 Thread Mike Smith
Run 4.0 or piss off... Actually, no. This message contains useful diagnostic information, and can be used to resolve the problem. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of CHOI Junho Sent: Saturday, September 30, 2000 11:22 PM To: [EMAIL

ACPI megapatch

2000-09-29 Thread Mike Smith
Here's the latest ACPI megapatch: - Move all the register I/O into a separate file - Made all the I/O spaces use proper bus resources - Allocate the resources in machine-dependant code - Map ACPI-used memory in machine-dependant code - Create a machine-dependant "acpiprobe" device which

Re: ACPI megapatch

2000-09-29 Thread Mike Smith
I'd like to move and rename them as I said in my previous mail, sys/acpi.h - sys/dev/acpi/acpi.h shared by both kernel and userland programs sys/dev/acpi/acpi.h - sys/dev/acpi/acpivar.h shared within kernel code (acpi stuff and related drivers) IMHO, it's desirable to use

Re: ACPI megapatch

2000-09-29 Thread Mike Smith
Thanks a lot mike, these are mostly acceptable for me. - Made all the I/O spaces use proper bus resources - Allocate the resources in machine-dependant code I prefer previous patch because most of the code in i386/acpi_machdep.c can be shared with IA64 I think. I'm not so sure about

Re: ACPI megapatch

2000-09-29 Thread Mike Smith
And probe method and identify method should not be confused. Memory area check etc can be in MD acpi probe code. Can you explain what you mean here a bit more? The FACT lookup and resource establishment need to be done in the identify routine, not the probe routine... -- ... every

Re: ACPI megapatch

2000-09-29 Thread Mike Smith
OK, understood. How about having MD sub-routine in the same interface (say acpi_set_resources() or acpi_create_instance() or whatever) for i386 and ia64? Then generic ACPI identify method calls suitable sub-routine depending on machine architecture. - i386/i386/acpi_machdep.c

Re: ACPI megapatch

2000-09-29 Thread Mike Smith
Ok. Based on all the suggestions, received today, and some more ideas besides, here's the latest megapatch. - Move all register I/O into a new file - Move event handling into a new file - Move headers to acpivar/acpireg/acpiio - Move find-RSDT and find-ACPI-owened-memory into acpi_machdep

Re: ACPI megapatch

2000-09-29 Thread Mike Smith
As Iwasaki-san pointed out, I left acpi_event.c out of the previous megapatch. Rather than resend the entire thing, you can fetch the complete patch from: http://people.freebsd.org/~msmith/acpi-2929.diff.gz Regards, -- ... every activity meets with opposition, everyone who acts has

Re: My system hang with ACPI kernel thread

2000-09-28 Thread Mike Smith
With the addition of ACPI kernel thread, my system hangs in about 10 miniutes use after boot up. By disabling kernel thread, system runs just fine. Do you have any idea where to look at? I'll try and see what I can do myself. Please set debug.aml_debug and debug.acpi_debug to 1 and

Re: My system hang with ACPI kernel thread

2000-09-28 Thread Mike Smith
Please set debug.aml_debug and debug.acpi_debug to 1 and see what will happen. It wouldn't surprise me if the system wasn't running out of kernel memory. Right now we just keep mallocing storage to queue ACPI events (bad idea). The entire event/Notify stuff needs to be

Re: My system hang with ACPI kernel thread

2000-09-28 Thread Mike Smith
Currently kernel thread seems broken, so mallocing storage in acpi_queue_event() never be freed. I think number of events at a point of tme is limited and we can have static storage for the events. The implementaion of sys/i386/apm/apm.c:apm_record_event() (it's for apmd) would be

Re: new idle_proc() makes my laptop very hot

2000-09-21 Thread Mike Smith
I can second this... on my PC the cpu used to run around about 84 degrees F with the case at 80 degrees F, now the cpu runs at about 91-93 degrees F while the case runs at 80 degrees F. While you're tinkering with SMPng, be VERY SURE that you do not have acpi enabled (ie. make sure it's not

Re: new idle_proc() makes my laptop very hot

2000-09-21 Thread Mike Smith
My laptop does seem to run *MUCH* warmer than before as well. It runs hot to begin with, but with the latest kernels it runs really hot. It used to get this hot only when I compiled -j 4. I don't have ACPI enabled and am using UP kernel. There really needs to be a HLT in the idle loop to

Re: new idle_proc() makes my laptop very hot

2000-09-21 Thread Mike Smith
In message [EMAIL PROTECTED] Mike Smith writes: : If I remember from a discussion with John Baldwin, the reason we don't do : this (yet) is that HLT only wakes up when you take an interrupt, and : there are cases where we can't guarantee that we'll take an interrupt in : order to get us

Re: new idle_proc() makes my laptop very hot

2000-09-21 Thread Mike Smith
: If I remember from a discussion with John Baldwin, the reason we : don't do this (yet) is that HLT only wakes up when you take an : interrupt, and there are cases where we can't guarantee that we'll : take an interrupt in order to get us out of the HLT. : : I thought that's what the

Re: PRE_SMPNG snap

2000-09-19 Thread Mike Meyer
Vallo Kallaste writes: On Sat, Sep 16, 2000 at 03:01:28PM -0500, Mike Meyer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I've had a ton of experience with ahc lately, as those of you who follow -questions, -stable, or -scsi know. r1.48 of aic7xxx.c is horribly broken. I can't get current snaps after

periodic no longer usable by users?

2000-09-18 Thread Mike Meyer
wanted to see what others thought of it before trying it. mike To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message

Re: PRE_SMPNG snap

2000-09-16 Thread Mike Meyer
was about to step from PRE_SMPNG back to -current, but you've just made me nervous! Thanx, mike To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message

Kernel builds to wrong location?

2000-09-16 Thread Mike Meyer
or current message I missed or hadn't read yet? Thanx, mike To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message

fxp suspend/resume hangs

2000-09-16 Thread mike ryan
forward with getting this patch to the point where it can be committed, i'd certainly appreciate it. alternately, any feedback on whether the patch is necessary and/or functional on your machine, laptop or no, would be interesting. - Forwarded message from mike ryan [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: Kernel builds to wrong location?

2000-09-16 Thread Mike Meyer
Ben Smithurst writes: Mike Meyer wrote: I cvsupped and rebuilt earlier to today, only to find that the kernel was installed as /boot/kernel/kernel instead of /boot/kernel/kernel.ko. While fixing this was trivial, it was a bit of a surprise. Is this a bug, or did I happen to catch

Re: No block devices (was: VMWare on -current, how fast should I expect it to be?)

2000-09-15 Thread Mike Smith
e in the future". This is an example where they could presumably be useful. Doesn't Oracle run MUCH better when given raw block disk devices to store data on? Oracle wants to cache it's own data, it doesn't want the buffer cache behind it. Could this have lead to some of the poor pe

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

2000-09-14 Thread Mike Meyer
ost certainly. If you really want to make C programming look like Perl programming, could you do it by adding new library calls, instead of changing the semantics of existing ones? mike To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message

Re: Star Office and editor

2000-09-14 Thread Mike Meyer
I just realized this may be a difference due to a between -current and -stable, so I've moved discussion to -current to check. Apologies if this was the wrong thing to do. On Wed, 13 Sep 2000, Mike Meyer wrote: It then fails to install for me with the error messages: /tmp/sv001.tmp/setup.bin

Re: Question

2000-09-14 Thread Mike Smith
I have two questions. Recently, I started seeing the message: module sn already present! when dhclient runs on my sn device. What causes this? It's caused by the 'sn' driver's module being called 'sn' rather than 'if_sn'. The code in ifconfig that tries to autoload modules for

Re: oddness with new bootblock sources.

2000-09-09 Thread Mike Smith
Robert Nordier wrote: Julian Elischer wrote: with newly CVSup'd sources (I cannot compile the bootblocks..) (also with everything checked out to PRE_SMPNG) It get's the following error: /usr/obj/usr/src/sys/boot/i386/loader/../libi386/libi386.a(pxe.o): In function `

Re: oddness with new bootblock sources.

2000-09-09 Thread Mike Smith
Robert Nordier wrote: Julian Elischer wrote: with newly CVSup'd sources (I cannot compile the bootblocks..) (also with everything checked out to PRE_SMPNG) It get's the following error: /usr/obj/usr/src/sys/boot/i386/loader/../libi386/libi386.a(pxe.o): In

Re: page fault in sched_ithd

2000-09-09 Thread Mike Meyer
ix? Isn't a stray IRQ a hardware glitch? If so, I'd say that logging it and then ignoring it would be the right thing. mike To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message

Re: microuptime() went backwards

2000-09-08 Thread Mike Smith
Sep 7 14:35:55 laptop /kernel: microuptime() went backwards (10412.355980 - 10412, -694583121)y this is bad.. right ? :-) Well, at any rate it looks very funny. If this is a laptop, try building a kernel without apm and see if that helps. It only helps "hide" the problem. There's

Re: world broken

2000-09-08 Thread Mike Smith
looks like the boot loader is killing -current. I have a patch, but it just cuts all the offending references. Comments? rebuild/reinstall libstand. Sorry; should have HEADS-UPped that one. Warner cc -nostdlib -static -Ttext 0x0 -o loader.sym

Re: microuptime() went backwards

2000-09-08 Thread Mike Smith
I have collected all the emails I've received and I have identified at least two different causes: There is a bogus i8254 implementation on certain Athlon Mobos, this is a non-brainer since they should not use the i8254 but the TSC. s/TSC/ACPI timer/ It might even work on those systems.

Re: cvs commit: src/bin/ps print.c src/share/man/man9 mutex.9 Makefile src/usr.bin/top machine.c src/sys/alpha/alpha mp_machdep.c synch_machdep.c clock.c genassym.c interrupt.c ipl_funcs.c locore.s machdep.c mem.c pmap.c prom.c support.s swtch.s trap.c ...

2000-09-07 Thread Mike Meyer
here, though. Thanks guys, mike To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message

Re: DPT SmartRAID V, VI, Adaptec SCSI RAID driver committed

2000-09-05 Thread Mike Smith
I'd like to hear a few more success stories first (only one so far) from people using the kit to add the driver to their 4.x systems. With all the breakage in -current's PCI support at the moment, I don't expect to hear too many people there reporting on it just yet. Maybe

Re: DPT SmartRAID V, VI, Adaptec SCSI RAID driver committed

2000-09-04 Thread Mike Smith
I've just committed a driver for the abovementioned RAID adapter families provided by DPT/Adaptec and the long-suffering Mark Salyzyn. The driver will be maintained by Adaptec, with a little help from yours truly if really necessary. Excellent! Any ideas when this might be

Re: AIC-7890 problems with kernel build

2000-09-04 Thread Mike Meyer
an onboard 7890. mike To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message

Re: AIC-7890 problems with kernel build

2000-09-04 Thread Mike Meyer
working kernel was built August 26, 10:05 GMT. mike To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message

Re: DPT SmartRAID V, VI, Adaptec SCSI RAID driver committed

2000-09-03 Thread Mike Smith
At 01/09/2000 10:30, Mike Smith wrote: I've just committed a driver for the abovementioned RAID adapter families provided by DPT/Adaptec and the long-suffering Mark Salyzyn. The driver will be maintained by Adaptec, with a little help from yours truly if really necessary. With any luck

Re: -current freezes when I try to connect to it.

2000-09-02 Thread Mike Nowlin
er? (I'll probably throw out a response to myself once I get the CVS/recompile done, assuming that incoming telnet works again.) --mike To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message

3dfx module broken

2000-09-02 Thread Mike Meyer
Looks like 3dfx linux emulation aren't mixing well. Since I don't use 3dfx, I turn off that module. What we really need is a system that lets me specify *which* modules to build. Hmmm. mike === 3dfx make: don't know how to make @/i386/linux/linux_ioctl.h. Stop *** Error code 2

DPT SmartRAID V, VI, Adaptec SCSI RAID driver committed

2000-09-01 Thread Mike Smith
I've just committed a driver for the abovementioned RAID adapter families provided by DPT/Adaptec and the long-suffering Mark Salyzyn. The driver will be maintained by Adaptec, with a little help from yours truly if really necessary. With any luck, we should see the complete set of

Re: Currents PCI support hosed ?

2000-09-01 Thread Mike Smith
Maybe. It's also not clear to me whether my current breakage is PCI related or device.hints related (it appears that the read of my /boot/devices.hints file gets things garbled): What makes you say that? This all looks fine to me. (The hang is not so good though...) Hit [Enter] to boot

Re: hints static wiring

2000-08-29 Thread Mike Meyer
are old, stupid devices for compatability reasons so it's best to have a working hints file around. Just curious - are there no defaults at all if you don't have a hints file somewhere? That seems a bit strange. mike To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe fr

Re: hints static wiring

2000-08-29 Thread Mike Meyer
configured in the kernel? Do both methods throw out such data, or do both save it? Basically, which will provide the smallest running kernel, and if it's the same, which will boot fastest? Thanx, mike To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-cu

buildworld fails under gnu

2000-08-29 Thread Mike Endsley
ation here *** Error code 1 Stop. *** Error code 1 Stop. *** Error code 1 Stop. *** Error code 1 Stop. I tried just cvsup the gnu src today, but cvsup completed successfully w/o any files. Can this be fixed w/o starting from a "clean slate" ? Thanks, Mike Endsley -- Declared free

Re: hints static wiring

2000-08-28 Thread Mike Meyer
files. Can you provide a pointer to details on how /boot/device.hints is used in the build process, or how having an empty one keeps you from shooting yourself in the foot? Thanx, mike To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-curre

Installkernel

2000-08-28 Thread Mike Meyer
on each box makes my life much simpler. As for GENERIC, it's what people run by default, and it can be used as is on much hardware. The documentation is a bit behind - the handbook should mention setting KERNEL in /etc/make.conf when it talks about buildkernel and installkernel. mike

Re: hints static wiring

2000-08-28 Thread Mike Meyer
Donn Miller writes: Mike Meyer wrote: I do read cvs-all, and I missed it. Not did I find device.hints in the relevant Makefiles. Can you provide a pointer to details on how /boot/device.hints is used in the build process, or how having an empty one keeps you from shooting yourself

Re: hints static wiring

2000-08-28 Thread Mike Meyer
Maxim Sobolev writes: Mike Meyer wrote: Donn Miller writes: Mike Meyer wrote: I do read cvs-all, and I missed it. Not did I find device.hints in the relevant Makefiles. Can you provide a pointer to details on how /boot/device.hints is used in the build process, or how having

Re: hints static wiring

2000-08-28 Thread Mike Meyer
Maxim Sobolev writes: Mike Meyer wrote: Will the system fail to boot if there isn't an empty device.hints file? No, it will boot, but some devices (like keyboard, console etc) would not work. That's clearly not true - I just removed an empty /boot/device.hints and rebooted

Re: 5.0-current 20000826 snapshot problems

2000-08-28 Thread Mike Pritchard
over the whole mess). Thanks to everyone who replied. I'm now typing this message from the machine that I had to do the re-install on, so all is good. -Mike -- Mike Pritchard [EMAIL PROTECTED] or [EMAIL PROTECTED] To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe fr

Re: 5.0-current 20000826 snapshot problems

2000-08-28 Thread Mike Smith
John Baldwin writes: FreeBSD/i386 bootstrap loader, Revision 0.8 ([EMAIL PROTECTED], Sat Aug 26 11:14:35 GMT 2000) /kernel text=0x2432ca zf_read: fill error elf_loadexec: archsw.readin failed Your floppy is bad. Try a different one. Not necessarily. This also happens if

5.0-current 20000826 snapshot problems

2000-08-27 Thread Mike Pritchard
very well :-(. -Mike -- Mike Pritchard [EMAIL PROTECTED] or [EMAIL PROTECTED] - End of forwarded message from Mike Pritchard - -- Mike Pritchard [EMAIL PROTECTED] or [EMAIL PROTECTED] To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" i

Re: IDE RAID (HPT-370/Abit KT7-RAID) install questions..

2000-08-26 Thread Mike Smith
This is not an "IDE RAID" controller. It's an IDE controller with some lame "RAID" software in the BIOS. We don't support this. (excuse complete ignorance as far as IDE RAID below) For the buildbox here, I decided to go ahead with Soren's ATA-100 RAID suggestion, and bought an Abit

Re: DPT revision....(broken drivers in -STABLE)

2000-08-26 Thread Mike Smith
I'm curious -- what kinds of cards are supported by this routine? Does this include the DPT SmartRAID V, as well as the older SmartRAID IV? I've got an anonymous ftp server I need to rebuild -- it had previously been running Slackware Linux, but as the kernel got updated, the

Re: People running with LOCALBASE set to something other than /usr/local?

2000-08-24 Thread Mike Meyer
Satoshi - Ports Wraith - Asami writes: * From: Kris Kennaway [EMAIL PROTECTED] * On Wed, 23 Aug 2000, Mike Meyer wrote: * How does it decide whether or not a package conforms? * Probably by looking for files which get installed in /usr/local or * /usr/X11R6 instead of ${LOCALBASE

Re: People running with LOCALBASE set to something other than /usr/local?

2000-08-23 Thread Mike Meyer
with perl modules installing in /usr/local no matter where LOCALBASE points, I reported it at one point. Non-trivial is an understatement. mike To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message

Re: People running with LOCALBASE set to something other than /usr/local?

2000-08-23 Thread Mike Meyer
)/lib/5.6.0 to the search path for modules. Thanx, mike To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message

Re: People running with LOCALBASE set to something other than /usr/local?

2000-08-23 Thread Mike Meyer
Konstantin Chuguev writes: "Jacques A. Vidrine" wrote: On Wed, Aug 23, 2000 at 01:01:59AM -0500, Mike Meyer wrote: Um - why? If you removed the setting of LOCALBASE in that case, you wouldn't change the disk layout at all. I prefer installed executables, data files, and

Re: DPT revision....(broken drivers in -STABLE)

2000-08-23 Thread Mike Smith
Would it be possible to revert the DPT commits made by peter on Mon Aug 7 18:48:14 2000 in the RELENG_4 branch? It seems that the dpt_attatch is failing in bus_alloc_resource(9) for the IRQ, and I have production machines that need worlds built for some other updates as well.. I

Re: People running with LOCALBASE set to something other than /usr/local?

2000-08-23 Thread Mike Meyer
Satoshi - Ports Wraith - Asami writes: * From: Mike Meyer [EMAIL PROTECTED] * However, I was wondering if there was anyone who could fix things that * weren't PREFIX clean who would also find them on a regular * basis. That's not you. I can help you when the new package building cluster

Re: Why no CDR ioctls for SCSI cds?

2000-08-22 Thread Mike Meyer
nd I agree on that. If the answer from the person who would have to approve the code had come back "Ok, provide the code and we'll see how well it works in practice", I'd do the code. But when it appears the code would never make it into the tree to be used, why waste my time? mike To Un

Re: Why no CDR ioctls for SCSI cds?

2000-08-22 Thread Mike Meyer
ime? 'coz we're taking a page from Linus. Does Linus tell people something is a bad idea, and then use it anyway? Or does he just not bother to respond to questions about whether or not something would be a usefull addition? mike To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with &q

Re: Q: encrypted swap

2000-08-22 Thread Mike Meyer
to that :-) Actually, two. You can *always* work on something yourself! mike To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message

Re: Why no CDR ioctls for SCSI cds?

2000-08-22 Thread Mike Meyer
to be on a man page. Soren? Mike To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message

Re: People running with LOCALBASE set to something other than /usr/local?

2000-08-22 Thread Mike Meyer
Jacques A. Vidrine writes: On Mon, Aug 21, 2000 at 11:59:26PM -0500, Mike Meyer wrote: I'm curious - are there any committers who regularly use a system with LOCALBASE set to something other than /usr/local? I have LOCALBASE=/opt for a couple of years now. OTOH, I also have a symlink

Why no CDR ioctls for SCSI cds?

2000-08-21 Thread Mike Meyer
(much, *much*) smaller burncd. Thanx, mike To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message

Re: Why no CDR ioctls for SCSI cds?

2000-08-21 Thread Mike Meyer
Kenneth D. Merry writes: On Mon, Aug 21, 2000 at 10:54:49 -0500, Mike Meyer wrote: I'm curious - is there some reason that the CDR ioctls (in /usr/include/sys/cdrio.h) aren't supported for MMC cds? It looks like doing them for MMC would be straightforward, it's the kind of thing

Re: Why no CDR ioctls for SCSI cds?

2000-08-21 Thread Mike Meyer
don't want to write it if it will never go in the distribution. mike To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message

Re: Why no CDR ioctls for SCSI cds?

2000-08-21 Thread Mike Meyer
Kenneth D. Merry writes: On Mon, Aug 21, 2000 at 18:19:47 -0500, Mike Meyer wrote: Kenneth D. Merry writes: Which should actually be smaller than the flood of mail saying things like "why doesn't burncd support my nice, standard-compliant CD-R?" In fact,

Re: Why no CDR ioctls for SCSI cds?

2000-08-21 Thread Mike Meyer
the CD driver + MMC extensions that gets first crack at CDROM drives, and recognizes MMC drives, but not others? mike To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message

Re: Why no CDR ioctls for SCSI cds?

2000-08-21 Thread Mike Meyer
use the same basic command set (MMC) as SCSI ones, only they don't have legacy problems - so it should be possible. mike To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message

Re: Why no CDR ioctls for SCSI cds?

2000-08-21 Thread Mike Meyer
Christopher Masto writes: I'd rather see cdrecord work on ATAPI CD-Rs. burncd gives me a lot of trouble. Spoke to soon - according to the pkg/DESCR file, it should work on them now. mike To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" i

People running with LOCALBASE set to something other than /usr/local?

2000-08-21 Thread Mike Meyer
I'm curious - are there any committers who regularly use a system with LOCALBASE set to something other than /usr/local? Thanx, mike To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message

Build breakage (was: fail to compile kernel...)

2000-08-13 Thread Mike Meyer
Warner Losh writes: In message [EMAIL PROTECTED] Mike Meyer writes: : The nasty downside of the the module system is that people who don't : adequately test module code before checking it in will screw up kernel : builds for kernels that don't need that code. But I did test it. But I had

Re: Build breakage (was: fail to compile kernel...)

2000-08-13 Thread Mike Meyer
Warner Losh writes: In message [EMAIL PROTECTED] Mike Meyer writes: : Warner Losh writes: : In message [EMAIL PROTECTED] Mike Meyer writes: : : The nasty downside of the the module system is that people who don't : : adequately test module code before checking it in will screw up kernel

Re: Build breakage (was: fail to compile kernel...)

2000-08-13 Thread Mike Meyer
to be the one that caused the problem this time. Pointing fingers isn't the difference I was talking about. It's more in the attitude after the fact. On FreeBSD, it's "Ok, I fixed it." Elsewhere, people apologize for breaking the bulid. mike To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL

fail to compile kernel...

2000-08-12 Thread Mike Meyer
builds for kernels that don't need that code. Since you probably don't need the oldcard module. Just comment it out of /usr/src/sys/modules/Makefile, and rebuild the kernel. You may want to comment out pccard as well. mike === oldcard cc -O -pipe -D_KERNEL -Wall -Wredundant-decls

Re: umount hangs system

2000-08-11 Thread Mike Hoskins
On Thu, 10 Aug 2000, Evan Oldford wrote: This happens whenever I shutdown the system too. It tries to unmount one of the partitions and hangs before the "dirty flag" is removed from any of the partitions. Thats why all the partitions are checked/repaired by fsck _everytime_ I boot.

Re: emu10k1 problems solved

2000-08-09 Thread Mike Muir
ys/gnu/dev/sound/pci/emu10k1.h from -current and recompile kernel.. no problems. -mike To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message

Re: hotmail now running win2000

2000-08-09 Thread Mike Johnson
I wonder what the back servers that handle the mail are running though... I wonder if they are gonna be changed to windows 2000 .. To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message

Re: Ugly, slow shutdown

2000-08-07 Thread Mike Smith
* Stephen McKay [EMAIL PROTECTED] [000805 08:49] wrote: Patch 2 is smaller and possibly controversial. Normally bufdaemon and syncer are sleeping when they are told to suspend. This delays shutdown by a few boring seconds. With this patch, it is zippier. I expect people to

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