REQ: Test /etc/rc clean-up

1999-08-20 Thread Sheldon Hearn
Hi folks, I have a diff for src/etc/rc that I'd like to have had used on a few machines before I commit it. I'm pretty sure I haven't made any mistakes with my changes, but you can never be too careful, right? The diff homogenizes the manner in which variables are tested and is more careful

Re: The Matrix screensaver

1999-08-20 Thread Nick Hibma
What a ridiculous idea! I love it! Nick Hi, This is my poor attempt at reproducing the screens on the movie... Sure, there is much room for improvement, and the whole thing would look cool in VESA, if someone has more spare time... http://www.freebsd.org/~abial/matrix.tgz

How To Burn CDs

1999-08-20 Thread Amancio Hasty
This is a summary of the information that I gather over the last few days with respect to CD recorders. It appears that the preferred and better supported CD recorders are scsi . To shorten the gap what is needed is for ATAPI cd recorders to be integrated into CAM so that we may present a

Re: Strange notebook boot misbehaviour.

1999-08-20 Thread Maxim Sobolev
Greg Lehey wrote: On Thursday, 19 August 1999 at 17:34:28 +0300, Maxim Sobolev wrote: I have a notebook (toshiba satellite pro 445) with WinNT and FreeBSD installed and discovered that when I'm booting FreeBSD directly from power-down state or rebooting after FreeBSD then it boots ok,

RE: How To Burn CDs

1999-08-20 Thread Werner Griessl
On 20-Aug-99 Amancio Hasty wrote: This is a summary of the information that I gather over the last few days with respect to CD recorders. It appears that the preferred and better supported CD recorders are scsi . To shorten the gap what is needed is for ATAPI cd recorders to be

Re: cc -O broken in -current for Alpha KLDs

1999-08-20 Thread Peter Wemm
Doug Rabson wrote: On Thu, 19 Aug 1999, Andrew Gallatin wrote: I do most of my development on alphas I just turned some local code into a loadable kernel module. It works fine when compiled into the kernel statically, but fails miserably when loaded into an alpha kernel as a

Re: cc -O broken in -current for Alpha KLDs

1999-08-20 Thread Andrew Gallatin
Doug Rabson writes: On Thu, 19 Aug 1999, Andrew Gallatin wrote: I do most of my development on alphas I just turned some local code into a loadable kernel module. It works fine when compiled into the kernel statically, but fails miserably when loaded into an alpha kernel

Re: How To Burn CDs

1999-08-20 Thread Mikhail A. Sokolov
On Fri, Aug 20, 1999 at 01:04:47PM +0200, Werner Griessl wrote: # # Don't forget cdrdao, it's able to read and burn "video(cdi)"-cd's. # Successfully done here with a philips cdr2600 burner for a philips cdi player. # It's also in ports. From what I recall, tosha's been able to deal with vcd's

ping/egcs

1999-08-20 Thread Tamiji Homma
Hi, I just came across the problem with ping and egcs. If you do # ping -s 57 localhost PING localhost (127.0.0.1): 57 data bytes ^C --- localhost ping statistics --- 2 packets transmitted, 0 packets received, 100% packet loss if the data size is even number, it works OK. I think that the

problem with vnconfig -s labels ...

1999-08-20 Thread Luigi Rizzo
Hi, trying to build picobsd on 19990816snap of -current, i am consistently hitting a problem, which is totally reproducible from the command line. The following sequence vnconfig -s labels -c /dev/rvn0 fs.PICOBSD disklabel -rw /dev/rvn0 fd1440 causes a panic with a page fault accessing

Re: problem with vnconfig -s labels ...

1999-08-20 Thread Andrzej Bialecki
On Fri, 20 Aug 1999, Luigi Rizzo wrote: Hi, trying to build picobsd on 19990816snap of -current, i am consistently hitting a problem, which is totally reproducible from the command line. The following sequence vnconfig -s labels -c /dev/rvn0 fs.PICOBSD disklabel -rw /dev/rvn0

Re: problem with vnconfig -s labels ...

1999-08-20 Thread Luigi Rizzo
can someone investigate this ? the code seems to work fine on 3.x Someone also sent me a report on that, so it's a real problem. I have a traceback, but without debugging symbols. it's so easy to reproduce that i hope the vm/vn gurus will not require too much effort to find the bug. in

The Matrix screensaver, v.0.2

1999-08-20 Thread Andrzej Bialecki
Hi, Due to unexpected demand (I did it mostly as a distraction from real work), I backported this screensaver to 3.2-RELEASE (don't know about STABLE), and corrected some inconsistencies. I added also binary versions to the archives. Both versions are available at:

Re: problem with vnconfig -s labels ...

1999-08-20 Thread Andrew Atrens
Luigi, I've been seeing the same thing for about 6 weeks now :) I, too can reproduce the panic _at will_. If anyone's interested I've got a large selection of kernel cores to choose from :) ... Andrew. Some comments below ... On Fri, 20 Aug 1999, Luigi Rizzo wrote: Hi, trying to

Re: problem with vnconfig -s labels ...

1999-08-20 Thread Andrew Atrens
Someone also sent me a report on that, so it's a real problem. I have a traceback, but without debugging symbols. Doh! Sorry about that :) I'll rebuild my kernel later today... Cheers, Andrew. To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the

Re: ftp and cdrom image

1999-08-20 Thread Kris Kennaway
On Fri, 20 Aug 1999, Mete Balci wrote: I have some questions for distribution. I have started to download freebsd 3.2-current via ftp but it seems to be huge. I think it will be 2 CD. First, how do I have to split it to 2 CDs ? which dirs will going to first and which to second CD ? Second,

Re: The Matrix screensaver

1999-08-20 Thread Doug White
On Fri, 20 Aug 1999, Andrzej Bialecki wrote: Hi, This is my poor attempt at reproducing the screens on the movie... Sure, there is much room for improvement, and the whole thing would look cool in VESA, if someone has more spare time... http://www.freebsd.org/~abial/matrix.tgz

gdb-4.17 in FreeBSD 4.0-CURRENT

1999-08-20 Thread Richard Cownie
I managed to build gdb-4.17 in FreeBSD 4.0, here's how to do it: 1) gdb-4.17/configure --host=i386-unknown-freebsdelf4.0 Have to specify the host explicitly, otherwise it doesn't realize it needs to use ELF. 2) in gdb-4.17/Makefile, add "-DSVR4_SHARED_LIBS" to definition of CFLAGS 3)

Re: The Matrix screensaver

1999-08-20 Thread Andrzej Bialecki
On Fri, 20 Aug 1999, Doug White wrote: On Fri, 20 Aug 1999, Andrzej Bialecki wrote: Hi, This is my poor attempt at reproducing the screens on the movie... Sure, there is much room for improvement, and the whole thing would look cool in VESA, if someone has more spare time...

Re: The Matrix screensaver, v.0.2

1999-08-20 Thread Julian Elischer
oh THAT screen... quite a giggle.. On Fri, 20 Aug 1999, Andrzej Bialecki wrote: Hi, Due to unexpected demand (I did it mostly as a distraction from real work), I backported this screensaver to 3.2-RELEASE (don't know about STABLE), and corrected some inconsistencies. I added also binary

Re: The Matrix screensaver, v.0.2

1999-08-20 Thread Andrzej Bialecki
On Fri, 20 Aug 1999, Julian Elischer wrote: oh THAT screen... quite a giggle.. c'mon, you didn't expect me to put an intro scene from the movie, did you? Yeah, that's something - MPEG screensaver... only a few GB. I need to think about it. 8-)) Andrzej Bialecki // [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: The Matrix screensaver, v.0.2

1999-08-20 Thread Bill Fumerola
On Fri, 20 Aug 1999, Andrzej Bialecki wrote: c'mon, you didn't expect me to put an intro scene from the movie, did you? Yeah, that's something - MPEG screensaver... only a few GB. I need to think about it. I wonder where in phk's rules for binary files in the tree that would fall. Just make

Re: The Matrix screensaver, v.0.2

1999-08-20 Thread Andrzej Bialecki
On Fri, 20 Aug 1999, Nick Hibma wrote: oh THAT screen... quite a giggle.. Have you seen the source ... very neat and short. Pitty that it consumes 2% intr time. Oh, there is still much room for improvement here... if there is any interest, that is. :-) Andrzej Bialecki // [EMAIL

Re: The Matrix screensaver, v.0.2

1999-08-20 Thread Kevin S. Brackett
On Fri, 20 Aug 1999, Andrzej Bialecki wrote: Hi, Due to unexpected demand (I did it mostly as a distraction from real work), I backported this screensaver to 3.2-RELEASE (don't know about STABLE), and corrected some inconsistencies. I added also binary versions to the archives. LOL! I

help! - strange vn behaviour

1999-08-20 Thread Andrew Atrens
I'll cc: hackers and see if this rings a bell for anyone :| .. Andrew Btw, can you explain why this happens? $ partitionsize=256 $ sects=`/bin/expr $partitionsize '*' 64 '-' 1` $ vnconfig -e -s labels -S $partitionsize"m" /dev/vn0 $ disklabel -w -r vn0 auto disklabel:

Re: The Matrix screensaver, v.0.2

1999-08-20 Thread Nick Hibma
oh THAT screen... quite a giggle.. Have you seen the source ... very neat and short. Pitty that it consumes 2% intr time. Oh, there is still much room for improvement here... if there is any interest, that is. :-) Like rewriting the syscons driver again, to make your 10 line

Re: The Matrix screensaver, v.0.2

1999-08-20 Thread Andreas Braukmann
Hi, On Fri, Aug 20, 1999 at 07:34:31PM +0200, Andrzej Bialecki wrote: Due to unexpected demand (I did it mostly as a distraction from real work), I backported this screensaver to 3.2-RELEASE (don't know about ... I saw the announcement for the first release, realised that it's only for

Re: The Matrix screensaver, v.0.2

1999-08-20 Thread Oscar Bonilla
On Fri, Aug 20, 1999 at 11:50:25PM +0200, Andreas Braukmann wrote: Hi, On Fri, Aug 20, 1999 at 07:34:31PM +0200, Andrzej Bialecki wrote: Due to unexpected demand (I did it mostly as a distraction from real work), I backported this screensaver to 3.2-RELEASE (don't know about ... I saw

user friendly creation of CDs (was: Re: patches for tosha?)

1999-08-20 Thread Juergen Lock
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED] you write: Hi, I am all set . cdrecord-1.8a22 includes cdda2wav as [EMAIL PROTECTED] pointed out and it does work with my Yamaha cd recorder . In summary using FreeBSD-current of about two weeks ago , I am now able to : 1. to burn iso 9660 with mkisofs + cdrecord

Re: user friendly creation of CDs (was: Re: patches for tosha?)

1999-08-20 Thread Amancio Hasty
Yes, I tried gcombust and opted for the command line approach gcombust looks great ;however, I expect for user firiendly land less knobs for instance: burn iso 9660 cd Select files or directories type of CD : CD-R , CD-RW then pull the appropiate information for buffering and optimal speed

Re: The Matrix screensaver, v.0.2

1999-08-20 Thread Keith Stevenson
On Fri, Aug 20, 1999 at 04:11:42PM -0600, Oscar Bonilla wrote: I haven't seen Andrzej's screensaver, but if it is about those green letters that fall from the top of the screen (aka the matrix) then xlock already includes a module for this... I'm using it on my laptop.. I like Andrzej's

Re: The Matrix screensaver, v.0.2

1999-08-20 Thread Kevin S. Brackett
On Fri, 20 Aug 1999, Keith Stevenson wrote: On Fri, Aug 20, 1999 at 04:11:42PM -0600, Oscar Bonilla wrote: I haven't seen Andrzej's screensaver, but if it is about those green letters that fall from the top of the screen (aka the matrix) then xlock already includes a module for this...

Re: cc -O broken in -current for Alpha KLDs

1999-08-20 Thread John Polstra
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], Andrew Gallatin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I've just committed a patch to alpha/alpha/elf_machdep.c which takes into account the addends for objects of type R_ALPHA_GLOB_DAT. This fixes my problem. Should it be MFC'ed? Nice work! It looks right to me, not to

Re: problem with vnconfig -s labels ...

1999-08-20 Thread Luigi Rizzo
Hi, I've found panics are more likely to occur if the command pair is executed in a script vs. from the command line. This may suggest some sort of race is occurring. no idea... i have always managed to panic the system even running the commands from the command line one at a time, so

Re: problem with vnconfig -s labels ...

1999-08-20 Thread John Birrell
On Sat, Aug 21, 1999 at 04:22:46AM +0200, Luigi Rizzo wrote: Hi, I've found panics are more likely to occur if the command pair is executed in a script vs. from the command line. This may suggest some sort of race is occurring. no idea... i have always managed to panic the

Re: problem with vnconfig -s labels ...

1999-08-20 Thread John Birrell
On Sat, Aug 21, 1999 at 07:30:46AM +0200, Poul-Henning Kamp wrote: but I'm still looking for the place where the dev1 entry is supposed to be initialised. In dkmodslice() (and friends). Hmmm, I know this is your code, but are you sure? 8-). My understanding of dkmodslice() and friends is

Re: problem with vnconfig -s labels ...

1999-08-20 Thread Bruce Evans
Hmmm, I know this is your code, but are you sure? 8-). My understanding of dkmodslice() and friends is that they manipulate dev_t entries, but don't actually initialise them. Since the subr_diskslice code takes a dev_t dkmodslice() once just manipulated bits in dev_t scalars. Now that dev_t is

Re: problem with vnconfig -s labels ...

1999-08-20 Thread Poul-Henning Kamp
In message [EMAIL PROTECTED], Bruce Evans writes: Hmmm, I know this is your code, but are you sure? 8-). My understanding of dkmodslice() and friends is that they manipulate dev_t entries, but don't actually initialise them. Since the subr_diskslice code takes a dev_t dkmodslice() once just