[sound] PCI ESS support

Ok, being a newbie to FreeBSD, I'm trying to get my laptop (WinBook XL2) sound working under -CURRENT. If someone could point me to the relavent docs, I'd be happy Here is what I'm finding: dmesg reports: chip2: ESS Technology Maestro 2E Audio controller port 0xec00-0xecff irq 5 at device

Re: Why not gzip iso images?

Out of the ether, James FitzGibbon spewed forth the following bits: It might be nice if there were a utility that could pull the ISO in small slices just like any distribution and then put it back together. For that matter, couldn't the ISO image be made into a distribution that sysinstall

problem with CD changer 4.0-STABLE

Panasonic CD-ROM Changer that is found in by the kernel as: acd0-4: CDROM with 5 CD changer RD-DRC004-M at ata0-master using PIO4 In fstab, I have the following: /dev/acd0c /cdrom1 cd9660 ro,noauto 0 0 /dev/acd1c /cdrom2 cd9660 ro,noauto 0 0

reproducable system crash in 4.0-STABLE

I know this is not "current", but it was last week, so give me a break. On a dual PII system, access to /dev/smb0 (system management bus) by wmhm (/usr/ports/sysutils/wmhm) or gkrellm (/usr/ports/sysutils/gkrellm) causes an immediate system panic. I have the following in dmesg: smbus0:

Re: reproducable system crash in 4.0-STABLE

BTW, this is from sources cvsup'd at 3:00 this afternoon, Fri, March 24. Out of the ether, Chris D. Faulhaber spewed forth the following bitstream: On a dual PII system, access to /dev/smb0 (system management bus) by wmhm (/usr/ports/sysutils/wmhm) or gkrellm (/usr/ports/sysutils/gkrellm)

Patch to allow TSC with APM

I'd like to recommend the following patches. Adding the option "CLK_USE_TSC_ANYWAY" allows my laptop to use the TSC even though it is "flakey". This option should not be set by default. /usr/src/sys/i386/isa: *** clock.c.ORIGTue Apr 18 09:45:52 2000 --- clock.c Tue Apr 18 10:21:49

Re: Patch to allow TSC with APM

Out of the ether, Poul-Henning Kamp spewed forth the following bitstream: I'd like to recommend the following patches. Adding the option "CLK_USE_TSC_ANYWAY" allows my laptop to use the TSC even though it is "flakey". This option should not be set by default. I saw the same kind of

make buildworld broken (5/22, cvsup'd today)

On a build of 4.0 CVSup'd today before noon Eastern time. === usr.bin/kdump make: don't know how to make /usr/obj/usr/src/i386/usr/include/machine/random.h. Stop *** Error code 2 1 error *** Error code 2 1 error *** Error code 2 1 error *** Error code 2 1 error To Unsubscribe: send mail to

Re: WaveLan oddness at USENIX

On Mon, Jun 19, 2000 at 12:49:30PM -0400, Alan Clegg wrote: Well, USENIX is the first time I've needed to run in non-'ad-hoc' mode, and also the first time I've seen any contention for wireless bandwidth. I'm seein REALLY odd behavior when I put my wi0 into promiscuous mode.. When it goes

Re: People running with LOCALBASE set to something other than /usr/local?

Out of the ether, David O'Brien spewed forth the following bitstream: On Wed, Aug 23, 2000 at 01:36:56PM +0100, Konstantin Chuguev wrote: Do you use /usr/local for anything? Yes, local stuff. IMHO, the Ports Collection using /usr/local was the biggest mistake of it. The ports collection

Re: d.net client + today's kernel

Unless the network is lying to me again, Ilya Naumov said: a distributed.net client (ports/misc/dnetc) being run on -current with today's kernel just hangs my box. the system _dramatically_ slows down and stops to respond on any external events (keyboard, network, etc). An interesting