Re: 5.0 Question

2001-07-10 Thread Nick Hibma
Hardly any USB CD are supported as they are mainly ATAPI based. Nick On Mon, 9 Jul 2001, Person, Roderick wrote: I was reading the 5.0 Release notes and Hardware text. The release notes mention that usb support was added to the generic kernel and the installation program to allow for

Re: picking a DB (Re: nvi maintainer?)

2001-07-10 Thread Tomasz Paszkowski
On Mon, Jul 09, 2001 at 05:55:56PM -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Well, it started out discussing the next release of nvi and promptly concluded, that it would require upgrading dbm. So, now the issue is -- which db to pick: the currently used (buggy), the DB3 (too restrictive a

Re: picking a DB (Re: nvi maintainer?)

2001-07-10 Thread Jason Evans
On Tue, Jul 10, 2001 at 11:16:32PM +0200, Tomasz Paszkowski wrote: On Mon, Jul 09, 2001 at 05:55:56PM -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Well, it started out discussing the next release of nvi and promptly concluded, that it would require upgrading dbm. So, now the issue is -- which db

Re: picking a DB (Re: nvi maintainer?)

2001-07-10 Thread Dag-Erling Smorgrav
Jason Evans [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: The dxstore license has the same problem as the Sleepycat DB license. In addition, it has the pesky advertising clause of the original BSD license. It's effectively equivalent to the GPL + the advertising clause... but their web site has a (short) list of

Re: Cross building FYI

2001-07-10 Thread Mark Peek
At 3:43 PM -0700 7/10/01, David O'Brien wrote: On Tue, Jul 10, 2001 at 01:29:32PM -0700, Mark Peek wrote: Below are patches which allowed me to run an alpha cross build through to completion using: make -DNOPERL MACHINE_ARCH=alpha MAKEOBJDIRPREFIX=/usr/aobj buildworld Why is

Re: picking a DB (Re: nvi maintainer?)

2001-07-10 Thread Sheldon Hearn
On 10 Jul 2001 17:49:54 +0300, Giorgos Keramidas wrote: Is DB 3.x the only workaround for these bugs? Even if it's not, it's a bit much to expect SleepyCat to do the extra work of providing the alternative fix. I think this has probably gone as far as it can for now. The next step is for

Re: Cross building FYI

2001-07-10 Thread current
On Tue, Jul 10, 2001 at 04:04:51PM -0700, Mark Peek wrote: At 3:43 PM -0700 7/10/01, David O'Brien wrote: On Tue, Jul 10, 2001 at 01:29:32PM -0700, Mark Peek wrote: Below are patches which allowed me to run an alpha cross build through to completion using: make -DNOPERL

Re: picking a DB (Re: nvi maintainer?)

2001-07-10 Thread Maxim Sobolev
On 10 Jul 2001 17:49:54 +0300, Giorgos Keramidas wrote: Is DB 3.x the only workaround for these bugs? Even if it's not, it's a bit much to expect SleepyCat to do the extra work of providing the alternative fix. I think this has probably gone as far as it can for now. The next

Re: picking a DB (Re: nvi maintainer?)

2001-07-10 Thread Garrett Wollman
On Tue, 10 Jul 2001 17:24:37 +0200, Sheldon Hearn [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: The next step is for someone to see how hard it is to provide libc hooks for the DB 3.x functionality that nvi requires, without removing the existing DB 1.x functionality that other subsystems require. It's actually

Re: [acpi-jp 1165] Re: HEADS UP - more ACPI updates, CPU throttling

2001-07-10 Thread Mike Smith
I'm also having same hang-up, with acpi_pcib.c rev1.10 (no NEWCARD). Sounds like calling _SRS is breaking something. With acpi_pcib.c rev1.9, I loose my pccard. This is known; I messed it up. 8( With acpi_pcib.c rev1.8, everything seems ok. This uses the old PCI interrupt routing code.

Re: picking a DB (Re: nvi maintainer?)

2001-07-10 Thread Sheldon Hearn
On Tue, 10 Jul 2001 19:20:23 +0300, Maxim Sobolev wrote: At the first glance it is not a big problem - nvi could build its own private static DB3 library and link against it, leaving DB 1.x for libc. This is the approach that Keith's suggesting, and it makes a lot of sense. The only

Re: Lock of struct filedesc, file, pgrp, session and sigio

2001-07-10 Thread Seigo Tanimura
On Mon, 9 Jul 2001 03:20:44 -0500, Alfred Perlstein [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: I'm going to be giving this code some testing, not that you have to wait for me to finish, but it seems like no one has stepped forward to review this. I'd like to see it committed, so either go ahead or wait for

Re: Lock of struct filedesc, file, pgrp, session and sigio

2001-07-10 Thread Alfred Perlstein
* Seigo Tanimura [EMAIL PROTECTED] [010710 03:46] wrote: On Mon, 9 Jul 2001 03:20:44 -0500, Alfred Perlstein [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: I'm going to be giving this code some testing, not that you have to wait for me to finish, but it seems like no one has stepped forward to review this.

Re: Lock of struct filedesc, file, pgrp, session and sigio

2001-07-10 Thread Seigo Tanimura
On Tue, 10 Jul 2001 03:53:47 -0500, Alfred Perlstein [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: Alfred * Seigo Tanimura [EMAIL PROTECTED] [010710 03:46] wrote: On Mon, 9 Jul 2001 03:20:44 -0500, Alfred Perlstein [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: I'm going to be giving this code some testing, not that you have to

Is there a way to power-down IDE HDD?

2001-07-10 Thread Maxim Sobolev
Hi, Is there a way to forcefully power-down one of the IDE HDD drives attached to the system? On my primary workstation I have two - one for FreeBSD and second for W2K, so it would be nice to suspend one that is currently inactive to reduce noice and heat generation. -Maxim To Unsubscribe:

Re: picking a DB (Re: nvi maintainer?)

2001-07-10 Thread Keith Bostic
Well, can you recommend some other alternative? You mentioned db-tests you created, etc. Did you evaluate any other dbm libraries useable for us from the licensing perspective? No -- there aren't a lot of choices here, and nothing that is a good enough choice that it's worth rewriting

Re: cvs commit: src/sbin/fsck_msdosfs Makefile boot.c check.c dir.c dosfs.h ext.h fat.c fsck_msdosfs.8 main.c

2001-07-10 Thread David O'Brien
On Wed, Jul 11, 2001 at 09:57:33AM +0400, Dmitry S. Sivachenko wrote: Do you plan to MFC this? It would be *very* useful! Yes. But I already got some comments on it I need to take care of. I also don't begin to guarantee it will do something useful for anyone who tries it. I would like to

Re: [acpi-jp 1165] Re: HEADS UP - more ACPI updates, CPUthrottling

2001-07-10 Thread Munehiro Matsuda
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Mon, 09 Jul 2001 18:51:12 +0900 ::I cvsup'ed to FreeBSD-current after this change, but I cannot boot ::kernel configured with device acpica (added to NEWCARD). ::I can boot with the configuration NEWCARD. ::In past days(cvsup'ed about 1-2 weeks ago), I was able to

Re: Is there a way to power-down IDE HDD?

2001-07-10 Thread Søren Schmidt
It seems Maxim Sobolev wrote: [ Charset KOI8-R unsupported, converting... ] Hi, Is there a way to forcefully power-down one of the IDE HDD drives attached to the system? On my primary workstation I have two - one for FreeBSD and second for W2K, so it would be nice to suspend one that is

Re: picking a DB (Re: nvi maintainer?)

2001-07-10 Thread Giorgos Keramidas
Keith Bostic [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Nvi needs some of the features of Berkeley DB 3.X (transactional logging) in order to fix long-standing bugs in the application. Regards, --keith Is DB 3.x the only workaround for these bugs? -giorgos To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: picking a DB (Re: nvi maintainer?)

2001-07-10 Thread Keith Bostic
Nvi needs some of the features of Berkeley DB 3.X (transactional logging) in order to fix long-standing bugs in the application. Is DB 3.x the only workaround for these bugs? Pretty much. To make a long story short, all known versions of vi (including the original) will lose changes if they

Re: Cross building FYI

2001-07-10 Thread David O'Brien
On Tue, Jul 10, 2001 at 01:29:32PM -0700, Mark Peek wrote: Below are patches which allowed me to run an alpha cross build through to completion using: make -DNOPERL MACHINE_ARCH=alpha MAKEOBJDIRPREFIX=/usr/aobj buildworld Why is MAKEOBJDIRPREFIX=/usr/aobj needed? The cross build used