Re: Proof of concept patch for device rearrangement

2003-06-18 Thread Wilko Bulte
On Thu, Jun 19, 2003 at 01:16:56AM +0200, Maxime Henrion wrote: > walt wrote: > > Poul-Henning Kamp wrote: > > > > >I have uploaded a proof of concept patch: > > > > > > http://phk.freebsd.dk/patch/fd_dev.patch > > > > > > >...And with this code enabled, it is possible to go from userland to >

Re: EHCI USB on _top_ of UHCI?

2003-06-18 Thread David Gilbert
> "Bernd" == Bernd Walter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Bernd> Please compile USB_DEBUG into your kernel and do a sysctl Bernd> hw.usb.ehci.debug=2 before connecting a device. Here's the report... (I'm includin the syslog timestamps because the output happens in several spurts.) Jun 19 00:41:2

Re: fun with WITNESS and "pool mutex"

2003-06-18 Thread Don Lewis
On 18 Jun, I wrote: > When I was attempting to debug a system deadlock problem where the > culprit process was sleeping on a "pool mutex", I noticed that "show > witness" in ddb doesn't report anything about this particular mutex > flavor. I discovered that witness doesn't monitor these mutexes be

Re: APM problem in 5.1-RELEASE

2003-06-18 Thread Kevin Oberman
One thing that jumps out at me on my T30 is that when I issue the S3, the disk spins down instantly. Under APM it takes several seconds and under Windows XP it also pauses bor a few (maybe 4) seconds. I suspect it is powering down the disk as soon as the S3 is issued and the write cache is never g

who has the ACPI "BAD PARAMETER" patch?

2003-06-18 Thread Julian Elischer
My Dell is exhibiting this error message all over the place.. At USENIX I was told someone had a fix.. Julian ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-current To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECT

NFS weirdness...

2003-06-18 Thread jle
My new web server won't mount NFS from fstab on reboot. on NFSD: (/etc/exports) /home2 -maproot=0 -alldirs httpd on HTTPD: (/etc/fstab) NFSD:/home2 /home nfs rw,bg 0 0 mount NFSD:/home2 /home Works fine until I reboot. Shouldn't it mou

Re: 5.1-CURRENT hangs on disk i/o? sysctl_old_user() non-sleepablelocks

2003-06-18 Thread Don Lewis
On 18 Jun, Chris Shenton wrote: > Don Lewis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > >> Try the very untested patch below ... > >> RCS file: /home/ncvs/src/sys/kern/uipc_syscalls.c,v >> retrieving revision 1.150 >> Try the very untested patch below ... >> diff -u -r1.150 uipc_syscalls.c >> --- uipc_syscalls

Re: ACPI problems on 5.1

2003-06-18 Thread Antony T Curtis
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Thanks! I have it working nicely now - without any problems. I decompiled, fixed and compiled... problem sorted :) On Wednesday 18 June 2003 8:58 am, Sid Carter wrote: > On Tue, Jun 17, 2003 at 04:21:41PM +0100, Antony T Curtis wrote: > > On a Comp

Re: ATA DMA broken/kernel panic with 5.1-R/5.1-C and VIA 82C586B

2003-06-18 Thread Nicolai E M Plum
Soeren Schmidt writes: > It seems Nicolai E M Plum wrote: > > I noticed some ATA problems solved in -current recently, so I tried > > compiling a kernel from sources about 2 days ago. Booting from that > > (GENERIC) kernel, I do not get "Mounting root..", instead I get > > (approximately, can't cut

Re: APM problem in 5.1-RELEASE

2003-06-18 Thread Darryl Okahata
Jesse Guardiani <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Help! This APM BIOS suspends fine under Linux (2.4.18 > kernel)! I've tried everything I can think of to > get suspend working under 5.1-RELEASE! Wild-a** guess: > ata1-slave: timeout waiting for interrupt > ata1-slave: ATAPI identify failed

Re: 5.1-CURRENT hangs on disk i/o? sysctl_old_user() non-sleepablelocks

2003-06-18 Thread Chris Shenton
Don Lewis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Try the very untested patch below ... > RCS file: /home/ncvs/src/sys/kern/uipc_syscalls.c,v > retrieving revision 1.150 > Try the very untested patch below ... > diff -u -r1.150 uipc_syscalls.c > --- uipc_syscalls.c 12 Jun 2003 05:52:09 - 1.150 >

Re: Proof of concept patch for device rearrangement

2003-06-18 Thread Maxime Henrion
walt wrote: > Poul-Henning Kamp wrote: > > >I have uploaded a proof of concept patch: > > > > http://phk.freebsd.dk/patch/fd_dev.patch > > > >...And with this code enabled, it is possible to go from userland to > >device driver without touching Giant underway. > > I'm sorry, I can't parse t

Re: Proof of concept patch for device rearrangement

2003-06-18 Thread walt
Poul-Henning Kamp wrote: I have uploaded a proof of concept patch: http://phk.freebsd.dk/patch/fd_dev.patch ...And with this code enabled, it is possible to go from userland to device driver without touching Giant underway. I'm sorry, I can't parse that last sentence. Could you explain in 25

Proof of concept patch for device rearrangement

2003-06-18 Thread Poul-Henning Kamp
I have uploaded a proof of concept patch: http://phk.freebsd.dk/patch/fd_dev.patch WARNING: It is perfectly possibly that this patch eats your machine WARNING: destroys your disk and makes your corn-flakes soggy. WARNING: RUN AT YOUR OWN RISK! This patch basically shortcuts access

Re: Problems with wi on 5.1-CURRENT

2003-06-18 Thread Kevin Oberman
> From: "Robert Hulme" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Date: Wed, 18 Jun 2003 21:03:18 +0100 > Sender: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Hi, > > Yesterday I sent in an email to freebsd-current about the problems with > wi in 5.1-Current. There haven't been any replies to suggest anyone > knows why this is happening, h

Re: Why doesn't background fsck work ?

2003-06-18 Thread Kevin Oberman
> From: Juan Rodriguez Hervella <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Date: Wed, 18 Jun 2003 17:51:00 +0200 > Sender: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > On Wednesday 18 June 2003 17:39, Bernd Walter wrote: > > On Wed, Jun 18, 2003 at 04:54:44PM +0200, Juan Rodriguez Hervella wrote: > > > Hello!: > > > > > > I tried to make my

Problems with wi on 5.1-CURRENT

2003-06-18 Thread Robert Hulme
Hi, Yesterday I sent in an email to freebsd-current about the problems with wi in 5.1-Current. There haven't been any replies to suggest anyone knows why this is happening, how to fix it, or anyone looking into fixing it. Can someone please direct me as to which list (or which person) I should co

terminfo man page

2003-06-18 Thread Guy Middleton
I put this on comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc, but I'll ask here too. Is there any reason for the terminfo man page? It's a good man page, a very stylish and well-written man page, but it's wrong. It says the terminfo files are in /usr/share/misc/terminfo (they're not there). They do get installed i

Re: ACPI: LCD

2003-06-18 Thread Robert Watson
On Wed, 18 Jun 2003, Sebastian Yepes [ESN] wrote: > Any one know how to turn off the screen on a notebook i mean totally > off, Not the dpms > > The problem is that when i close the lid it stays on and produces to > much heat.. > > 5-Current on dell inspiron 8500 (with AML patch) More sucky a

Re: 5.1-CURRENT hangs on disk i/o? sysctl_old_user() non-sleepablelocks

2003-06-18 Thread Don Lewis
On 18 Jun, Chris Shenton wrote: > Don Lewis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > >> Try the very untested patch below ... > >> RCS file: /home/ncvs/src/sys/kern/uipc_syscalls.c,v > > When I do the patch, how much of the OS do I need to rebuild, just do > a "make install" in the ".../src/sys/kern" dir?

Re: 5.1-CURRENT hangs on disk i/o? sysctl_old_user() non-sleepablelocks

2003-06-18 Thread Chris Shenton
Don Lewis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Try the very untested patch below ... > RCS file: /home/ncvs/src/sys/kern/uipc_syscalls.c,v When I do the patch, how much of the OS do I need to rebuild, just do a "make install" in the ".../src/sys/kern" dir? Rebuild the OS from the top dir? Rebuild the

APM problem in 5.1-RELEASE

2003-06-18 Thread Jesse Guardiani
Not sure if this is the appropriate list, but I've tried the -mobile list a few times with no response. Background: --- I have an IBM Thinkpad A30p with all the latest BIOS code and Controller code. It's running 5.1-RELEASE well. But I had to set: hw.pci.allow_unsupported_io_range=1 T

Re: ACPI: LCD

2003-06-18 Thread Cliff L. Biffle
On Wednesday 18 June 2003 09:42 am, Sebastian Yepes [ESN] wrote: > Any one know how to turn off the screen on a notebook > i mean totally off, Not the dpms > > The problem is that when i close the lid it stays on and produces to much > heat.. It varies from notebook to notebook. For example, on m

ACPI: LCD

2003-06-18 Thread Sebastian Yepes [ESN]
Hi all.. Any one know how to turn off the screen on a notebook i mean totally off, Not the dpms The problem is that when i close the lid it stays on and produces to much heat.. 5-Current on dell inspiron 8500 (with AML patch) -- /* FingerPrint: 5BF1 58B1 DE75 CBE3 6044 7098 1246 1EF6 9E7

Re: [current] Re: ACPI suspending.

2003-06-18 Thread David Gilbert
> "Mark" == Mark Santcroos <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Mark> Ok, it would really help if you try and document all cases until Mark> you at least exactly know the behavior. From there we can go on. What am I looking for? S1 appears to work. S5 appears to work (that is: shutdown -p now works)

Re: [current] Re: ACPI suspending.

2003-06-18 Thread Mark Santcroos
On Wed, Jun 18, 2003 at 12:11:52PM -0400, David Gilbert wrote: > You shouldn't happen to have a reference to the one posted to the > list, would you? Sometimes the FreeBSD list search facility isn't > that useful. I'll make an effort to find it. Date: Tue, 27 May 2003 22:28:32 +0200 Subject: Re:

[current] Re: ACPI suspending.

2003-06-18 Thread David Gilbert
> "Mark" == Mark Santcroos <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Mark> On Tue, Jun 17, 2003 at 10:57:32PM -0400, David Gilbert wrote: >> I have a Dell D800 laptop (as I've mentioned a few times here) and >> I've gone so far as to upgrade the BIOS to A03 and fetch new ACPI >> DSDT code from the linux sit

Re: Why doesn't background fsck work ?

2003-06-18 Thread Bernd Walter
On Wed, Jun 18, 2003 at 05:51:00PM +0200, Juan Rodriguez Hervella wrote: > On Wednesday 18 June 2003 17:39, Bernd Walter wrote: > > On Wed, Jun 18, 2003 at 04:54:44PM +0200, Juan Rodriguez Hervella wrote: > > > Hello!: > > > > > > I tried to make my Nvidia video card work yesterday, and everytime >

Re: Why doesn't background fsck work ?

2003-06-18 Thread Juan Rodriguez Hervella
On Wednesday 18 June 2003 17:39, Bernd Walter wrote: > On Wed, Jun 18, 2003 at 04:54:44PM +0200, Juan Rodriguez Hervella wrote: > > Hello!: > > > > I tried to make my Nvidia video card work yesterday, and everytime > > I launched the X system my computer hang up. So I had to > > make a hard reboot.

Re: Need acpi-event-d?

2003-06-18 Thread Mark Santcroos
On Tue, Jun 17, 2003 at 06:40:59AM -0600, M. Warner Losh wrote: > : I think devd(8) should be used for this, but I havn't tried. > > devd does not (currently) get events for suspend/resume. Maybe it > should. Either devd should or we do need an acpid. Mark -- Mark Santcroos

Re: ACPI suspending.

2003-06-18 Thread Mark Santcroos
On Tue, Jun 17, 2003 at 10:57:32PM -0400, David Gilbert wrote: > I have a Dell D800 laptop (as I've mentioned a few times here) and > I've gone so far as to upgrade the BIOS to A03 and fetch new ACPI DSDT > code from the linux site. Please compare that one with the one posted on the list. I recall

Re: Why doesn't background fsck work ?

2003-06-18 Thread Bernd Walter
On Wed, Jun 18, 2003 at 04:54:44PM +0200, Juan Rodriguez Hervella wrote: > Hello!: > > I tried to make my Nvidia video card work yesterday, and everytime > I launched the X system my computer hang up. So I had to > make a hard reboot. > (I think I will fix the Xs problem this night at home) > >

Re: Problem with USB ulpt0 and CUPS

2003-06-18 Thread Bernd Walter
On Wed, Jun 18, 2003 at 08:39:12AM -0500, Thomas T. Veldhouse wrote: > I posted this in April and received no response. However, this has been an > ongoing issue since at least 2001 (where I found the first reference to this > trouble via Google). > > The problem seems to be that the FreeBSD USB

Re: ACPI errors on boot

2003-06-18 Thread Mark Santcroos
On Wed, Jun 18, 2003 at 09:11:23AM +0200, Maikel Verheijen wrote: > I have recently installed FreeBSD 5.1 on my Dell C800 laptop, and I get > quite a lot (well: 48 :) of these errors on boot: > > ACPI-0293: *** Warning: Buffer created with zero length in AML > -0166: *** Error: UtAlloc

Re: VIA C3

2003-06-18 Thread Damian Gerow
This isn't really a -current issue, moving to hardware. Please strip the Cc: in your reply. Thus spake Gerrit K?hn ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [18/06/03 11:20]: > > FWIW, the best way I've seen to figure out which chip you're using (at least > > between Ezra/Ezra-T and Nehemiah) is to look at the clockin

Re: VIA C3

2003-06-18 Thread Gerrit Kühn
On Wed, Jun 18, 2003 at 11:10:49AM -0400, Damian Gerow wrote: > > Well, all I can say is, that I bought it as "Ezra" and there is "Ezra" > > printed on it. FreeBSD identifies it as Samuel2, though. > And I bought my Ezra as a Nehemiah. [...] > So maybe they do have a way to distinguish the chip

Re: VIA C3

2003-06-18 Thread Damian Gerow
Thus spake Gerrit K?hn ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [18/06/03 11:00]: > > If you have a 'Samuel2' core, then you have a Samuel2 core. It's neither > > Ezra nor Ezra-T -- those two are the successors to Samuel2. > > Well, all I can say is, that I bought it as "Ezra" and there is "Ezra" > printed on it. Fre

Re: NVidia kernel driver support for FreeBSD-5.1

2003-06-18 Thread Kenneth Culver
> On Wednesday 18 June 2003 16:05, Kenneth Culver wrote: > > > #pciconf -l -v > > > > > > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:12:0:class=0x03 card=0x chip=0x002d10de > > > rev=0x15 hdr=0x00 vendor = 'NVIDIA Corporation' > > > device = 'NV5 TNT2 Model 64 / TNT2 Model 64 Pro' > > > > > > T

Re: VIA C3

2003-06-18 Thread Gerrit Kühn
On Wed, Jun 18, 2003 at 10:44:17AM -0400, Damian Gerow wrote: > I have an Ezra or an Ezra-T core (the only difference is Tualatin > compatibility), and it produces an Unknown. > If you have a 'Samuel2' core, then you have a Samuel2 core. It's neither > Ezra nor Ezra-T -- those two are the succe

Why doesn't background fsck work ?

2003-06-18 Thread Juan Rodriguez Hervella
Hello!: I tried to make my Nvidia video card work yesterday, and everytime I launched the X system my computer hang up. So I had to make a hard reboot. (I think I will fix the Xs problem this night at home) But I've got another weird problem. :) The fsck of my partitions is always made on the f

flock error

2003-06-18 Thread Santos
I'm trying to do a make release on 5.1-RELEASE to do a custom 5.1. CHROOTDIR=/home/custom and CVSROOT=/home/ncvs are both on a redhat nfs server. I had some errors related to telnet, telnetd and libtelnet. After a few makes the error went away. Now the the error is this: cd /usr/src/release/../et

Re: VIA C3

2003-06-18 Thread Damian Gerow
Thus spake Gerrit K?hn ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [15/06/03 10:40]: > > CPU: VIA/IDT Unknown (998.70-MHz 686-class CPU) > > Origin = "CentaurHauls" Id = 0x689 Stepping = 9 > > Features=0x803035 > > This one doesn't seem to support SSE, though I wonder why there is > this "unknown". My C3 here is an

Re: NVidia kernel driver support for FreeBSD-5.1

2003-06-18 Thread Juan Rodriguez Hervella
On Wednesday 18 June 2003 16:05, Kenneth Culver wrote: > > #pciconf -l -v > > > > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:12:0:class=0x03 card=0x chip=0x002d10de > > rev=0x15 hdr=0x00 vendor = 'NVIDIA Corporation' > > device = 'NV5 TNT2 Model 64 / TNT2 Model 64 Pro' > > > > This is my video

Re: NVidia kernel driver support for FreeBSD-5.1

2003-06-18 Thread Kenneth Culver
> #pciconf -l -v > > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:12:0:class=0x03 card=0x chip=0x002d10de > rev=0x15 hdr=0x00 > vendor = 'NVIDIA Corporation' > device = 'NV5 TNT2 Model 64 / TNT2 Model 64 Pro' > > This is my video card, which sounds just like yours. I have it working > fine

Re: NVidia kernel driver support for FreeBSD-5.1

2003-06-18 Thread Kenneth Culver
> I've got a PCI-NVidia Riva TNT 64 video card at home, > and I've tried to compile the drivers but it doesn't work, > and after changing the source to let the compilation progress, > when the module is loaded I've received a "kernel panic". > > Im using FreeBSD-5.1 with XFree86-4.3, what can I do

Problem with USB ulpt0 and CUPS

2003-06-18 Thread Thomas T. Veldhouse
I posted this in April and received no response. However, this has been an ongoing issue since at least 2001 (where I found the first reference to this trouble via Google). The problem seems to be that the FreeBSD USB LPT driver (even with no-reset) is somehow dropping the first bits of the data

Re: NVidia kernel driver support for FreeBSD-5.1

2003-06-18 Thread walt
Juan Rodriguez Hervella wrote: Hello: I've got a PCI-NVidia Riva TNT 64 video card at home, and I've tried to compile the drivers but it doesn't work, and after changing the source to let the compilation progress, when the module is loaded I've received a "kernel panic". Im using FreeBSD-5.1 with

Re: EHCI USB on _top_ of UHCI?

2003-06-18 Thread Bernd Walter
On Tue, Jun 17, 2003 at 10:46:53PM -0400, David Gilbert wrote: > I'm running 5.1-RELEASE and have USB2.0 ports in my Dell D800 laptop. > I also have a USB2.0 drive encloseure with a 120G drive in it... so > I'm very motivated to get this to work :). > > To start, I posted briefly about this before

ports problem after new world

2003-06-18 Thread Peter Schultz
After updating 5.1-CURRENT this morning I get the following error when trying to build any port: Your system is too old to use this bsd.port.mk. You need a fresh make world or an upgrade kit. Please go to http://www.FreeBSD.org/ports/ or a mirror site and follow the instructions. I always do

Re: GEOM_FOX

2003-06-18 Thread Poul-Henning Kamp
I have just committed the GEOM_FOX class, see commit message below. GEOM_FOX is named after the common red fox, which amongst other traits have a liking for having multiple exits from its den. GEOM_FOX will recognize a magic label on the device, and all devices which come up with the same label

[-CURRENT tinderbox] failure on sparc64/sparc64

2003-06-18 Thread Tinderbox
TB --- 2003-06-18 08:47:04 - starting CURRENT tinderbox run for sparc64/sparc64 TB --- 2003-06-18 08:47:04 - checking out the source tree TB --- cd /home/des/tinderbox/CURRENT/sparc64/sparc64 TB --- /usr/bin/cvs -f -R -q -d/home/ncvs update -Pd -A src TB --- 2003-06-18 08:49:58 - building world TB

Re: ULE nice bugs are fixed.

2003-06-18 Thread Wiktor Niesiobedzki
On Wed, Jun 18, 2003 at 02:43:43AM -0400, Jeff Roberson wrote: > On Wed, 18 Jun 2003, Wiktor Niesiobedzki wrote: > > > On Tue, Jun 17, 2003 at 03:51:32PM -0400, Jeff Roberson wrote: > > > > > > I am still not able to reproduce this. Can you update your sources? I > > > commited some code just no

[-CURRENT tinderbox] failure on ia64/ia64

2003-06-18 Thread Tinderbox
TB --- 2003-06-18 07:46:25 - starting CURRENT tinderbox run for ia64/ia64 TB --- 2003-06-18 07:46:25 - checking out the source tree TB --- cd /home/des/tinderbox/CURRENT/ia64/ia64 TB --- /usr/bin/cvs -f -R -q -d/home/ncvs update -Pd -A src TB --- 2003-06-18 07:50:34 - building world TB --- cd /home

Re: Problems tuning kmem_map on 5.1-REL box.

2003-06-18 Thread David Schultz
On Tue, Jun 17, 2003, Peter Losher wrote: > Hi - > > If this sort of question is better asked on a more specialized list > @freebsd.org, please let me know. (Since 5.1 is still considered a > developmental release, one doesn't know if either -current or -stable > would be more appropriate. So I a

fun with WITNESS and "pool mutex"

2003-06-18 Thread Don Lewis
When I was attempting to debug a system deadlock problem where the culprit process was sleeping on a "pool mutex", I noticed that "show witness" in ddb doesn't report anything about this particular mutex flavor. I discovered that witness doesn't monitor these mutexes because mtx_pool_setup() calls

Re: cvs commit: src/sys/kern sched_ule.c (fwd)

2003-06-18 Thread Jeremy Messenger
On Tue, 17 Jun 2003 02:45:18 -0400 (EDT), Jeff Roberson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: My last few commits, including this one, went a long way towards improving ULE's interactive responsiveness under heavy load. I was just able to do a make -j32 of my kernel while browsing the web with mozilla and

Re: ULE nice bugs are fixed.

2003-06-18 Thread Terry Lambert
Wiktor Niesiobedzki wrote: > On Tue, Jun 17, 2003 at 03:51:32PM -0400, Jeff Roberson wrote: > > I am still not able to reproduce this. Can you update your sources? I > > commited some code just now that removed an external dependency from > > sched_nice(). This should make it more robust. > Got

Re: ACPI problems on 5.1

2003-06-18 Thread Sid Carter
On Tue, Jun 17, 2003 at 04:21:41PM +0100, Antony T Curtis wrote: > > On a Compaq Armada V300 notebook, if I load the acpi module, boot fails after > the kernel prints about half a dozen "acpi_bus_number: can't get _ADR", fails > to detect any of the hardware and panics because of failure to moun

[-CURRENT tinderbox] failure on i386/pc98

2003-06-18 Thread Tinderbox
TB --- 2003-06-18 06:52:24 - starting CURRENT tinderbox run for i386/pc98 TB --- 2003-06-18 06:52:24 - checking out the source tree TB --- cd /home/des/tinderbox/CURRENT/i386/pc98 TB --- /usr/bin/cvs -f -R -q -d/home/ncvs update -Pd -A src TB --- 2003-06-18 06:55:06 - building world TB --- cd /home

Re: Novatel Merlin

2003-06-18 Thread Bruce Evans
On Wed, 18 Jun 2003, Glenn Dawson wrote: > I'm trying to get a Novatel Merlin for Ricochet working under -CURRENT. > http://www.novatelwireless.com/support/support_ricochet.html > ... > I've noticed (in the PPP logs and when sending AT commands directly) that > characters get dropped occasionally.

Re: NVidia kernel driver support for FreeBSD-5.1

2003-06-18 Thread Maxim Konovalov
On Wed, 18 Jun 2003, 09:14+0200, Juan Rodriguez Hervella wrote: > Hello: > > I've got a PCI-NVidia Riva TNT 64 video card at home, > and I've tried to compile the drivers but it doesn't work, > and after changing the source to let the compilation progress, > when the module is loaded I've received

NVidia kernel driver support for FreeBSD-5.1

2003-06-18 Thread Juan Rodriguez Hervella
Hello: I've got a PCI-NVidia Riva TNT 64 video card at home, and I've tried to compile the drivers but it doesn't work, and after changing the source to let the compilation progress, when the module is loaded I've received a "kernel panic". Im using FreeBSD-5.1 with XFree86-4.3, what can I do to

ACPI errors on boot

2003-06-18 Thread Maikel Verheijen
Hi list! I have recently installed FreeBSD 5.1 on my Dell C800 laptop, and I get quite a lot (well: 48 :) of these errors on boot: ACPI-0293: *** Warning: Buffer created with zero length in AML -0166: *** Error: UtAllocate: Attempt to allocate zero bytes Are those harmfull? Is there

Novatel Merlin

2003-06-18 Thread Glenn Dawson
I'm trying to get a Novatel Merlin for Ricochet working under -CURRENT. http://www.novatelwireless.com/support/support_ricochet.html I've been able to connect to their network via PPP and do things like ping and traceroute to the rest of the internet. However, when I try things that produce larg