Re: Softupdates reliability?

1999-08-25 Thread Stephen McKay
On Tuesday, 24th August 1999, Wilko Bulte wrote: Hmm. I would generally expect SCSI errors etc to occur. Assuming the driver reports those one would at least know the bus was whacko. I saw no errors, but that's not entirely surprising since I was running X11 and by that time xconsole was

Re: Softupdates reliability?

1999-08-25 Thread Maxim Sobolev
Richard Tobin wrote: Origin = "AuthenticAMD" Id = 0x580 Stepping=0 You have one of the first K6-2s off the line. There were definite problems with these, and as such, they were specially distinguished by having 66 printed on top. I have a 0x580 which has had no problems at all.

Re: Softupdates reliability?

1999-08-25 Thread Amancio Hasty
PIII 450Mhz are going for about $175 see http://www.pricewatch.com . Heck , at that price get two 8) Enjoy -- Amancio Hasty [EMAIL PROTECTED] To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message

Re: SIO lost interrupt status in current?

1999-08-25 Thread George Michaelson
I wasn't using the DMA, 32-bit, multi-block-16 flags on wdc. Added that. still got the drops.. I removed the ed0 ISA card from the kernel, seemed to reduce freq. still dropped. I then tried harder to look for a correlation. doing virtual desktop pans caused every drop every time. small

make release and DOC failures (diskless doc)

1999-08-25 Thread John W. DeBoskey
Hi, the following has been happenning for some time now... is anyone else seeing this, or is it time to turn of doc again? Thanks, John cd /usr/doc/en_US.ISO_8859-1 ; make afterdistribute DESTDIR=/R/stage/trees/bin === en_US.ISO_8859-1/articles cd /usr/doc/en_US.ISO_8859-1/articles ; make

New combo patch avail

1999-08-25 Thread Matthew Dillon
A new combo patch is now avaiable: http://www.backplane.com/FreeBSD4/ first section, multipatch-2.diff hotlink. The fixes are too numerous to mention. Portions of the patch may be committed by Alan or dg at any time so anyone who uses the above should beware.

Re: gdb-4.17 in FreeBSD 4.0-CURRENT

1999-08-25 Thread Daniel Eischen
Did anyone of you took care that you can build an aout gdb on an ELF FreeBSD system? I don't mean a gdb that is aout, but one that can debug aout binaries. I thought the gdb in our base system could debug aout binaries. Or am I sadly mistaken. That would be most useful to have as a port.

Re: gdb-4.17 in FreeBSD 4.0-CURRENT

1999-08-25 Thread Martin Cracauer
In [EMAIL PROTECTED], Daniel Eischen wrote: Did anyone of you took care that you can build an aout gdb on an ELF FreeBSD system? I don't mean a gdb that is aout, but one that can debug aout binaries. I thought the gdb in our base system could debug aout binaries. Or am I sadly

RE: New combo patch avail

1999-08-25 Thread Mark J. Taylor
Since I am currently experimenting with BOOTP in -current, I patched ONLY vfs_conf.c and vfs_subr.c with your rootfsid changes. Works fine in a BOOTP configuration. -current sources are as of last night. I can now boot a -current system from only a floppy disk with a (kgzipped) kernel on it!

Re: The Matrix screensaver, v.0.2

1999-08-25 Thread Jordan K. Hubbard
But it's not going into the tree, no. I think Kevin's point and the experiences we had with Hasbro should already have convinced people of that much. I think people are being almost clinically paranoid here. Hasbro and folks got upset over TRADEMARK infringement, e.g. from using a name

Re: RE: New combo patch avail

1999-08-25 Thread Matthew Dillon
:Since I am currently experimenting with BOOTP in -current, I patched ONLY :vfs_conf.c and vfs_subr.c with your rootfsid changes. Works fine in a BOOTP :configuration. -current sources are as of last night. : :I can now boot a -current system from only a floppy disk with a (kgzipped) kernel :on

Re: The Matrix screensaver, v.0.2

1999-08-25 Thread Mike Smith
But it's not going into the tree, no. I think Kevin's point and the experiences we had with Hasbro should already have convinced people of that much. I think people are being almost clinically paranoid here. Hasbro and folks got upset over TRADEMARK infringement, e.g. from using a

newfs of a ccd failing?

1999-08-25 Thread Mark J. Taylor
I've had this problem since at least FreeBSD 3.1-RELEASE (it works in 2.2.7/2.2.8). Same problem in 3.2-RELEASE and -current (as of last night). Can someone reproduce this error? I can't believe that you can't newfs a ccd... did I miss something? spiffy# ./ccdtest.sh [snip] newfs

Re: newfs of a ccd failing?

1999-08-25 Thread Dmitrij Tejblum
I've had this problem since at least FreeBSD 3.1-RELEASE (it works in 2.2.7/2.2.8). Same problem in 3.2-RELEASE and -current (as of last night). Can someone reproduce this error? I can't believe that you can't newfs a ccd... did I miss something? I always see the error message last

Re: Softupdates reliability?

1999-08-25 Thread Wilko Bulte
As Rodney W. Grimes wrote ... As Rodney W. Grimes wrote ... On Tue, 24 Aug 1999, Richard Tobin wrote: Origin = "AuthenticAMD" Id = 0x580 Stepping=0 The original K6-2's off the line where all 100MHz parts, it was later when AMD found that some people where sticking

Re: Docs blows up make release

1999-08-25 Thread Nik Clayton
[ I've added Satoshi Asami to the cc: list -- I figure he's almost certainly on -current, but I wanted to make sure he sees this and can add his input as necessary. I've also added -doc, for information. ] On Sun, Aug 22, 1999 at 02:25:52PM -0700, Jordan K. Hubbard wrote: Nik Clayton

Libraries broken in -CURRENT

1999-08-25 Thread Udo Schweigert
Hello all, I just cvsuped -CURRENT and got the following error (only the first of many): -- Rebuilding bootstrap libraries -- cd /work/src/HEAD;

Re: The Matrix screensaver, v.0.2

1999-08-25 Thread Jordan K. Hubbard
The issue with boggle and tetris wasn't the name, it was "look and feel". No, it was the name. Believe me, I read the letters we got from their lawyers. :) Unless we produce a movie with the name "Matrix" somewhere in it, I doubt we're going to be in the same boat. Hasbro objected to our

3C597 fast ethernet support

1999-08-25 Thread Bret Ford
I've got a 100Mbit 3COM EISA ethernet interface. Here are the particulars: vx0: 3Com 3C597-TX Network Adapter at 0x5000-0x501f, 0x5c80-0x5c89 vx0: irq 12 (edge) on eisa0 slot 5 I've been running it for a while now at 10Mbit. From what I can gather, the vx driver doesn't support fast ethernet.

Re: 3C597 fast ethernet support

1999-08-25 Thread Matthew N. Dodd
On Wed, 25 Aug 1999, Bret Ford wrote: I've got a 100Mbit 3COM EISA ethernet interface. Here are the particulars: vx0: 3Com 3C597-TX Network Adapter at 0x5000-0x501f, 0x5c80-0x5c89 vx0: irq 12 (edge) on eisa0 slot 5 I've been running it for a while now at 10Mbit. From what I can gather,

Re: Softupdates reliability?

1999-08-25 Thread Alex Zepeda
On Wed, 25 Aug 1999, Wilko Bulte wrote: The USA... your prices tend to be a lot better than ours. I could can the T2P4 but that would also mean I had to can the SIMMs (everything is DIMMs now), get an AGP videocard and can the perfectly fine Millenium II (I need the extra PCI slot quite

make world failure (signal 11 in cpp)

1999-08-25 Thread John W. DeBoskey
Hi, I'm having problems making world... before I dig into this, does anyone already know what's going on? My source is current as of 11:30pm EST. thanks, John === cpp cc -O -pipe -I/usr/src/gnu/usr.bin/cc/cpp/../../../../contrib/egcs/gcc

Re: make world failure (signal 11 in cpp)

1999-08-25 Thread Greg Lehey
On Wednesday, 25 August 1999 at 23:39:56 -0400, John W. DeBoskey wrote: Hi, I'm having problems making world... before I dig into this, does anyone already know what's going on? My source is current as of 11:30pm EST. thanks, John === cpp cc -O -pipe

Re: make world failure (signal 11 in cpp)

1999-08-25 Thread John W. DeBoskey
On Wednesday, 25 August 1999 at 23:39:56 -0400, John W. DeBoskey wrote: Hi, I'm having problems making world... before I dig into this, does anyone already know what's going on? My source is current as of 11:30pm EST. thanks, John === cpp cc -O -pipe

Re: make world failure (signal 11 in cpp)

1999-08-25 Thread Jeroen Ruigrok/Asmodai
* Greg Lehey ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [990826 06:19]: On Wednesday, 25 August 1999 at 23:39:56 -0400, John W. DeBoskey wrote: === cpp cc -O -pipe -I/usr/src/gnu/usr.bin/cc/cpp/../../../../contrib/egcs/gcc -I/usr/src/gnu/usr.bin/cc/cpp/../../../../contrib/egcs/gcc/config -DFREEBSD_NATIVE