Re: [current] Re: Confusing error messages from shell image activation

2000-12-11 Thread Andreas Klemm
On Mon, Dec 11, 2000 at 12:37:54AM -0500, David Gilbert wrote: > ... but /usr/pkg supplanting /usr/local is one of the things that I > like about NetBSD. /usr/pkg sounds a little bit odd ... ( at least for my ears). Why not choose what Solaris uses (/opt) ? It would be an advantage, when design

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2000-12-11 Thread Rajpaul Grewal
 

Re: patch for wi driver

2000-12-11 Thread Dirk-Willem van Gulik
Thanks Yamamoto san ! This works really rather nicely and has reduce the number of tx errors tremendously (Though not completely and xmit failed/device timeout is still there). Thanks ! Dw. On Mon, 11 Dec 2000, YAMAMOTO Shigeru wrote: > Hi, all. > I send a patch for wi driver. > > Some cases

Re: patch for wi driver

2000-12-11 Thread Warner Losh
[[ Followups to freebsd-mobile please ]] In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> YAMAMOTO Shigeru writes: : I send a patch for wi driver. Thank you yamamoto-san. I'll have to see if this works with the prism II based boards that I have here that aren't supported by the an driver. : #Current wi driver

Re: RE: __asm help..

2000-12-11 Thread Matt Dillon
: :But if gcc breaks that assumption, that implies it would break :alloca(), and presumably they wouldn't do that. : :Tony. :-- :f.a.n.finch[EMAIL PROTECTED][EMAIL PROTECTED] :"Dead! And yet there he stands!" alloca() is a GCC internal function, not a piece of __asm code.

Re: RE: __asm help..

2000-12-11 Thread Tony Finch
Matt Dillon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >:As long as gcc uses %ebp to address local variables and functoin parameters >:rather than %esp you should be fine. %esp will be preserved, but if %esp is >:for some odd reason used to address a variable during the C code, you are hosed. > >I strongly r

APM problem with 5.0-current

2000-12-11 Thread Yoshihiro Koya
Hello, I have a some problem of APM with 5.0-current. In the case which I type # shutdown -p now the system does halt or reboot( this seems to be somewhat unstable), and never off the power of the PC. To find the problem, I produced the crash dump and analyzed it by gdb. The result was :

Re: Lucent Orinoco Gold PCCard?

2000-12-11 Thread Wes Peters
Nick Sayer wrote: > > Wes Peters wrote: > > > > Andre Oppermann wrote: > > > > > > Is there any supporting Access Point functionality, eg. using the > > > freebsd server as AP? > > > > There's no special support for it, but it's just another interface. If > > you run it (and your other 802.11 de

Re: [current] Re: Confusing error messages from shell image activation

2000-12-11 Thread Mike Meyer
Michael C . Wu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> types: > I know I should not jump into this bikeshed. But IMHO, whereever > we have our packages install to, we should also place > our ports metadata (/var/db/pkg) and the ports skeleton in the > same place, preferably a mountpoint. This allow me to switch > b

Re: PCI power states (was Re: fxp driver not reset after Windows reboot? )

2000-12-11 Thread Mike Smith
> > pci_enable_busmaster(dev); > > pci_enable_io(dev, SYS_RES_IOPORT | SYS_RES_MEMORY); > > pci_set_powerstate(dev, PCI_POWERSTATE_D0); > > > > Consider the above a request for review on the matter. > > Shouldn't that be: > > pci_enable_io(dev, SYS_RES_IOPORT | SYS_RES_MEMORY)

Re: Applix problems (Was: /usr/local abuse)

2000-12-11 Thread Mike Meyer
David O'Brien <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> types: > On Mon, Dec 11, 2000 at 05:24:19PM -0600, Mike Meyer wrote: > > At that point, you're running VistaSource's software, so they should > > give you the details. > Then I'll just back out of trying to help figure out why many others can > run it outside of /

Re: Applix problems (Was: /usr/local abuse)

2000-12-11 Thread David O'Brien
On Mon, Dec 11, 2000 at 05:24:19PM -0600, Mike Meyer wrote: > At that point, you're running VistaSource's software, so they should > give you the details. Then I'll just back out of trying to help figure out why many others can run it outside of /usr/local. To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL

Re: Applix problems (Was: /usr/local abuse)

2000-12-11 Thread Mike Meyer
David O'Brien <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> types: > On Mon, Dec 11, 2000 at 08:14:47AM -0600, Mike Meyer wrote: > > The problem is that the shared libraries aren't getting found when I > > run the applix binary after a reboot. > Why do you say that? Where is the error message?? I say that because 1) that

Re: Re: write(2) returns error saying read only filesystem when trying to write to a partition

2000-12-11 Thread Matthew Thyer
I've been writing to the whole disk OK (since I changed to /dev/da18), but now I am finding a problem with trying to seek further into the disk before starting to write. The code fragment is below and the "lseek(fd, 0L, SEEK_SET)" works OK but the first "lseek(fd, 8192L, SEEK_CUR)" thereafter fai

Re: PCI power states (was Re: fxp driver not reset after Windows reboot? )

2000-12-11 Thread Stefan Esser
On 2000-12-11 01:04 -0800, Mike Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > All of these can be abstracted as PCI methods, so they won't require lots > of cut-n-paste in each driver: > > pci_enable_busmaster(dev); > pci_enable_io(dev, SYS_RES_IOPORT | SYS_RES_MEMORY); > pci_set_powersta

Re: write(2) returns error saying read only filesystem when trying to write to a partition

2000-12-11 Thread Matthew Thyer
David O'Brien wrote: > > On Fri, Dec 08, 2000 at 01:44:47PM +1030, Matthew Thyer wrote: > > Regardless /dev/da18s1 should work as for /dev/da18 > > Correct me if I'm wrong, but /dev/da18s1 would only work if you installed > a true slice vs. a dedicated configuaation of the disk something like >

Re: [current] Re: Confusing error messages from shell image activation

2000-12-11 Thread Brandon D. Valentine
On Mon, 11 Dec 2000, Michael C . Wu wrote: >I know I should not jump into this bikeshed. But IMHO, whereever >we have our packages install to, we should also place >our ports metadata (/var/db/pkg) and the ports skeleton in the >same place, preferably a mountpoint. This allow me to switch >betw

Re: Confusing error messages from shell image activation

2000-12-11 Thread David O'Brien
On Mon, Dec 11, 2000 at 02:35:43PM -0500, Richard J Kuhns wrote: > /usr/libexec/ld-elf.so.1: Shared object "libstdc++.so.2" not found > /prog/applix/axdata/axmain: Operation timed out Blah. :-( Applixware depends on the compat3x distribution it seems. Can you install compat3x and see if it now r

Re: Confusing error messages from shell image activation

2000-12-11 Thread Richard J Kuhns
David O'Brien writes: > On Mon, Dec 11, 2000 at 09:07:27AM -0500, Richard J Kuhns wrote: > > Yes, it's definitely different. No matter what you say when installing, > > `applix' is: > > > > #!/bin/sh > > APPLIX_HOME="/usr/local/applix" > > export APPLIX_HOME > > exec $APPLIX_HOME/applix

Re: Confusing error messages from shell image activation

2000-12-11 Thread David O'Brien
On Mon, Dec 11, 2000 at 09:07:27AM -0500, Richard J Kuhns wrote: > Yes, it's definitely different. No matter what you say when installing, > `applix' is: > > #!/bin/sh > APPLIX_HOME="/usr/local/applix" > export APPLIX_HOME > exec $APPLIX_HOME/applix "$@" Again lack of details.. :-( EXACTLY wha

Re: Applix problems (Was: /usr/local abuse)

2000-12-11 Thread David O'Brien
On Mon, Dec 11, 2000 at 08:14:47AM -0600, Mike Meyer wrote: > The problem is that the shared libraries aren't getting found when I > run the applix binary after a reboot. Why do you say that? Where is the error message?? > /usr/local/applix/axdata/axshlib are ELF shared objects. I haven't > inv

Re: Lucent Orinoco Gold PCCard?

2000-12-11 Thread Nick Sayer
Wes Peters wrote: > > Andre Oppermann wrote: > > > > Is there any supporting Access Point functionality, eg. using the > > freebsd server as AP? > > There's no special support for it, but it's just another interface. If > you run it (and your other 802.11 devices) in ad-hoc mode, everything sho

Re: [current] Re: Confusing error messages from shell image activation

2000-12-11 Thread Michael C . Wu
On Mon, Dec 11, 2000 at 12:37:54AM -0500, David Gilbert scribbled: | For foreign or not-so-foreign packages and software, I've seen | /usr/local, /local, /usr/contrib, /opt and /usr/pkg. One site that I | worked at was even pedantic that /usr/contrib was for externally | generated software and /u

Re: /usr/local abuse

2000-12-11 Thread Nate Williams
> David hands Nate a freshly minted copy of BSD/OS 4.2, where he will see > /usr/contrib/ burned on the CDROM (using an electron microscope of > course :-)). > > > Even Sun does this with it's 'OS vendor' tools. > > Uhm.. not everything. Many optional pieces from Sun installs in /opt. > The Sun

Re: PCI power states (was Re: fxp driver not reset after Windows reboot? )

2000-12-11 Thread Mark Huizer
> All of these can be abstracted as PCI methods, so they won't require lots > of cut-n-paste in each driver: > > pci_enable_busmaster(dev); > pci_enable_io(dev, SYS_RES_IOPORT | SYS_RES_MEMORY); > pci_set_powerstate(dev, PCI_POWERSTATE_D0); > > Consider the above a request for

Re: Bootstrapping issues with groff(1)

2000-12-11 Thread Marcel Moolenaar
Ruslan Ermilov wrote: > > It appers that running mtree(1) with -U under non-root account works OK, > i.e. it creates all missing directories, and exits with status of zero. I believe it also emits warnings, right? > What if we create the mtree(1)-compatible BSD.world.dist? > The below was gener

Re: Bootstrapping issues with groff(1)

2000-12-11 Thread Marcel Moolenaar
Ruslan Ermilov wrote: > > On Sat, Dec 09, 2000 at 12:29:54PM -0800, Marcel Moolenaar wrote: > > Ruslan Ermilov wrote: > > > > > > On Fri, Dec 08, 2000 at 06:22:09PM -0800, Marcel Moolenaar wrote: > > > > Ruslan Ermilov wrote: > > > > > > > > > > The attached patches (p4 and p5) try to solve this

Applix problems (Was: /usr/local abuse)

2000-12-11 Thread Mike Meyer
David O'Brien <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> types: > On Sun, Dec 10, 2000 at 11:42:37PM -0600, Mike Meyer wrote: > > On the other hand, Applixware Office ships a precompiled package for > > /usr/local, and doesn't like being installed anywhere else. Which > > means I've got a couple of hundred megabytes bei

Re: Confusing error messages from shell image activation

2000-12-11 Thread Richard J Kuhns
Tony Maher writes: > > On the other hand, Applixware Office ships a precompiled package for > > /usr/local, and doesn't like being installed anywhere else. Which > > means I've got a couple of hundred megabytes being backup up for no > > good reason :-(. > > Really?! > I have it installed

Re: /usr/local abuse

2000-12-11 Thread Mike Meyer
David O'Brien <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> types: > On Sun, Dec 10, 2000 at 11:33:33PM -0600, Mike Meyer wrote: > > The thing is, the package system has grown into something more than > > that. It really is vendor-supplied and vendor-supported third party > > software, and part of the distribution. > I can

Re: fxp driver not reset after Windows reboot?

2000-12-11 Thread Andrzej Bialecki
On Sun, 10 Dec 2000, Mark Huizer wrote: > Hello, > > On my VAIO laptop, I have trouble rebooting directly from Windows to > FreeBSD (luckily enough I don't run Windows that often :-) > I tried to look at the driver code, but it looks to me like it is doing > resets when attaching the fxp driver,

Re: Bootstrapping issues with groff(1)

2000-12-11 Thread Ruslan Ermilov
On Sat, Dec 09, 2000 at 10:11:28PM -0800, Thomas D. Dean wrote: > I have no environment settings that relate to groff and only MANPATH > that relates to man. > > There are no local modifications. etc/make.conf only has > CFLAGS= -O -pipe > HAVE_MOTIF= yes > MOTIF_STATIC= yes > USA_RESIDENT=

PCI power states (was Re: fxp driver not reset after Windows reboot? )

2000-12-11 Thread Mike Smith
>Based on the above, I would say that Windows has powered-down the NIC. This > is outside of the scope of the driver, so I don't think a solution should be > implemented there. Probably something for our APM folks. It's actually an ACPI-ish issue, however drivers are probably going to have t

Re: Confusing error messages from shell image activation

2000-12-11 Thread Tony Maher
> On the other hand, Applixware Office ships a precompiled package for > /usr/local, and doesn't like being installed anywhere else. Which > means I've got a couple of hundred megabytes being backup up for no > good reason :-(. Really?! I have it installed in /opt/applix and I dont think there ar

Re: Confusing error messages from shell image activation

2000-12-11 Thread David O'Brien
On Mon, Dec 11, 2000 at 12:58:21PM +1100, Andrew Reilly wrote: > I agree that PREFIX/LOCALBASE should work: you can't legislate > taste. I'm going to keep it to /usr/local and /usr/X11R6, > though, thanks all the same. Its been acknowledged that we really should not be installing ports into /usr

Re: Bootstrapping issues with groff(1)

2000-12-11 Thread Ruslan Ermilov
On Sat, Dec 09, 2000 at 12:43:24PM -0800, Marcel Moolenaar wrote: > Ruslan Ermilov wrote: > > > > On Fri, Dec 08, 2000 at 06:17:52PM -0800, Marcel Moolenaar wrote: > > > Ruslan Ermilov wrote: > > > > > > > > The attached patches (p4 and p5) try to solve this bootstrapping > > > > problem with gro

Re: Bootstrapping issues with groff(1)

2000-12-11 Thread Bruce Evans
On 10 Dec 2000, Dag-Erling Smorgrav wrote: > Marcel Moolenaar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > According to the manpage, if you remove -U it doesn't create new > > directories or symlinks. At least that's how I interpret it. > > You interpret it wrong. -U just tells mtree to fix permissions. The

Re: /usr/local abuse

2000-12-11 Thread David O'Brien
On Sun, Dec 10, 2000 at 11:44:36PM -0700, Nate Williams wrote: > Ahh, if we're limiting the discussio to 'OS vendor' software, then every > OS vendor I know installs its software in /usr/bin, and /usr/lib. David hands Nate a freshly minted copy of BSD/OS 4.2, where he will see /usr/contrib/ burne

Re: /usr/local abuse

2000-12-11 Thread David O'Brien
On Sun, Dec 10, 2000 at 11:33:33PM -0600, Mike Meyer wrote: > The thing is, the package system has grown into something more than > that. It really is vendor-supplied and vendor-supported third party > software, and part of the distribution. I can back this up. As someone that maintains over 120

fork(2) pessimized

2000-12-11 Thread Bruce Evans
fork(2) of a tiny statically linked program now takes 9.6 msec on a Celeron450. Previously it took 0.5 msec. vfork(2) is now insignificantly faster than fork(2). Previously it was sever Bruce To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the

Re: Confusing error messages from shell image activation

2000-12-11 Thread David O'Brien
On Sun, Dec 10, 2000 at 09:46:46PM -0700, Nate Williams wrote: > Fixing broken things is a good thing. Your argument about moving it > from /usr/local to show how broken is a good test procedure, but turning > it into policy is something completely different. Yes changing the policy is something

Re: Confusing error messages from shell image activation

2000-12-11 Thread David O'Brien
On Sun, Dec 10, 2000 at 11:42:37PM -0600, Mike Meyer wrote: > On the other hand, Applixware Office ships a precompiled package for > /usr/local, and doesn't like being installed anywhere else. Which > means I've got a couple of hundred megabytes being backup up for no > good reason :-(. Mine live

patch for wi driver

2000-12-11 Thread YAMAMOTO Shigeru
Hi, all. I send a patch for wi driver. Some cases, we have errors, 'wi0: tx buffer allocation failed' and 'wi0: mgmt. buffer allocation failed' Thease errors are caused by bugs in wi driver. #Current wi driver has initialization and resource allocation mistakes. And this patch includes WEP supp

Re: /usr/local abuse

2000-12-11 Thread David O'Brien
On Sun, Dec 10, 2000 at 10:41:24PM -0700, Warner Losh wrote: > : To the extent that NetBSD *forces* the local administrator to use > : /usr/pkg, I find it contains the same deficiency. > > I'd point out that make install in the pkgsrc tree installs into > /usr/pkg too. So NetBSD doesn't differen

Re: /usr/local abuse

2000-12-11 Thread David O'Brien
On Sun, Dec 10, 2000 at 06:56:13PM -0700, Wes Peters wrote: > > Do you understand why NetBSD Packages (ie, the system they took from us) > > install into /usr/pkg by default rather than /usr/local ? > > Yes, but that doesn't mean I agree with it. In fact, I find it slighly > bizarre. I dislike

Re: Bootstrapping issues with groff(1)

2000-12-11 Thread Ruslan Ermilov
On Sat, Dec 09, 2000 at 12:29:54PM -0800, Marcel Moolenaar wrote: > Ruslan Ermilov wrote: > > > > On Fri, Dec 08, 2000 at 06:22:09PM -0800, Marcel Moolenaar wrote: > > > Ruslan Ermilov wrote: > > > > > > > > The attached patches (p4 and p5) try to solve this bootstrapping > > > > problem with gro

Re: write(2) returns error saying read only filesystem when trying to write to a partition

2000-12-11 Thread Matthew Thyer
"Daniel C. Sobral" wrote: > > Regardless /dev/da18s1 should work as for /dev/da18 [snip] > > No, and no. You misunderstand the problem. > > A disk on IBM PC compatible computers has the following format: I dont misunderstand the problem and I do know how disks are laid out under FreeBSD. I may

patch #3 (was Re: panic: vm_pageout_flush: partially dirty page)

2000-12-11 Thread Matt Dillon
Hi Phillipp. I couldn't find a quick fix so I recommend using the very first patch I sent you that changes the KASSERT that was causing the panic. I am comitting a slight variation of that patch to current now and stable in two days. The KASSERT was being a little too conser

Re: cvs commit: src/sys/dev/pci isa_pci.c

2000-12-11 Thread Mike Smith
> On Sun, Dec 10, 2000 at 03:15:19AM -0800, Mike Smith wrote: > > msmith 2000/12/10 03:15:19 PST > > > > Modified files: > > sys/dev/pci isa_pci.c > > Log: > > The ICH2 reports itself as a PCI:ISA bridge, so don't special-case it > > here. > > > > On a related(?) no