Re: Disk I/O problems with -current.

2001-08-21 Thread Jim Bryant
Kris Kennaway wrote: On Mon, Aug 20, 2001 at 11:52:07AM +0100, Josef Karthauser wrote: I'm having strange problems with -current on a laptop with 64mb of memory. Periodically things go strange [tm]. Because of the lack of memory I'm using a fair amount of swap. Everything runs smoothly

Re: syscons VTY switch panic...

2001-08-21 Thread Jim Bryant
Actually, I have tried to get the VESA splash thing going, but never can get anything to display... I can try removing that... I believe it is still set up this way... What are the limitations on image size and color-depth for the boot splash thing? Kazutaka YOKOTA wrote: Do you by any

Re: Interrupt messages from usb0 on CURRENT

2001-08-22 Thread Jim Bryant
Same thing here, started with the build this morning... I know of one change that had been done in the past 36 hours to usb, but it should not have done this, as the patches I was using didn't produce this before the committer committed the patches. Maybe something else got changed as well?

Re: syscons VTY switch panic...

2001-08-22 Thread Jim Bryant
This seems to solve the problem. Thank you. How soon before VESA will be stable? I do prefer a 132x60 text-mode console... Kazutaka YOKOTA wrote: Would you please remove the vesa driver from the kernel and do not try loading the vesa module either, and see if things work? Actually, I

exec issue in tcsh?

2001-08-23 Thread Jim Bryant
i noticed this after a build from -current of about 24 hours ago: due to problems getting kde-2.2 to compile under -current, I am currently using windowmaker and doing a `exec startx /dev/null` to get into X without leaving a console shell open... the problem i have is that when i switched

exec issue with tcsh?

2001-08-23 Thread Jim Bryant
Please DISREGARD my previous message on this topic... I have issued myself a severe boot to the head in the true tradition of tai-kwan-leap as a result of sending that, so if you must, please remember that I booted myself in the head first, and was enlightened by the experience. jim -- ET

Why is csh tcsh? This can be a bad thing...

2001-08-23 Thread Jim Bryant
Why is csh tcsh? There are differences... 4:52:48pm wahoo(6): cmp /bin/csh /bin/tcsh 4:59:12pm wahoo(7): jim -- ET has one helluva sense of humor! He's always anal-probing right-wing schizos! _ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free

Re: Why is csh tcsh? This can be a bad thing...

2001-08-23 Thread Jim Bryant
not a drop-in replacement for csh. Kris Kennaway wrote: On Thu, Aug 23, 2001 at 05:03:29PM -0500, Jim Bryant wrote: Why is csh tcsh? There are differences... 4:52:48pm wahoo(6): cmp /bin/csh /bin/tcsh 4:59:12pm wahoo(7): tcsh is the newer version of csh. Kris jim -- ET has one

Re: Why is csh tcsh? This can be a bad thing...

2001-08-25 Thread Jim Bryant
Peter Wemm wrote: Jordan Hubbard wrote: Because of certain differences, it cannot be used wholesale as a replacement for csh. Then please enumerate them so that they can be given due attention. This is exactly the sort of detailed feedback that was requested when we first raised the issue of

Re: exec issue in tcsh?

2001-08-26 Thread Jim Bryant
David Wolfskill wrote: Date: Sun, 26 Aug 2001 02:43:56 -0400 (EDT) From: Brandon D. Valentine [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Sat, 25 Aug 2001, Jim Bryant wrote: Wow. Why not use xdm? 8) Too lazy? Heh. You just uncomment one line in /etc/ttys and HUP init. It's not compilicated. Indeed

Re: exec issue in tcsh?

2001-08-26 Thread Jim Bryant
Nate Williams wrote: Wow. Why not use xdm? 8) Too lazy? Heh. You just uncomment one line in /etc/ttys and HUP init. It's not compilicated. Indeed. However, there are some differences in startup of which to be aware (.xinitrc vs. .xsession). I just hard-link the two files together.

Re: Why is csh tcsh? This can be a bad thing...

2001-08-26 Thread Jim Bryant
Terry Lambert wrote: I was still grumpy about the change, but that at least was enough to mollify me into not objecting loudly and persitantly up to the import. Let me get this straight, though: _now_ you are saying that the system wide defaults and account template defaults will be

aic7xxx fatal flaw

2000-02-12 Thread Jim Bryant
I seem to have had a problem with the ahc driver since around the beginning of the year. Due to mail problems, this is the first I've been able to report this. I am running a Tyan Thunder2 [DLUA-1696] motherboard with -current/SMP. This board has the aic7895 [3940UW] on it. The error I get

Re: aic7xxx fatal flaw

2000-02-12 Thread Jim Bryant
In reply: You need to upgrade to the latest -current. I believe Justin fixed this on Wednesday: revision 1.28 date: 2000/02/09 21:00:22; author: gibbs; state: Exp; lines: +23 -9 Fix parity error detection logic for aic7880 and aic7895 chips during the

spontaneous reboot during `mt erase`

1999-03-17 Thread Jim Bryant
I am running: FreeBSD argus 4.0-CURRENT FreeBSD 4.0-CURRENT #2: Sun Mar 14 18:20:15 CST 1999 jbry...@argus:/usr/src/sys/compile/ARGUS i386 I popped in a 60m tape and did an mt erase. After a couple of minutes, I had a spontaneous reboot. I also noticed that things had really slowed down

f77 not working.

1999-04-08 Thread Jim Bryant
I attempted to run some fortran benchmarks to see the improvement that egcs gives with the pentium opts... 1:56:13pm argus(57): f77 -O2 -mpentium -fomit-frame-pointer -pipe -o pitest.mx=14 pi4.f mp.f cc: pi4.f: Fortran compiler not installed on this system cc: mp.f: Fortran compiler not

Re: Book - Pulpit Confessions: Exposing The Black Church

1999-04-21 Thread Jim Bryant
what is this shit? damn, i need to tell my uncle, he used to be an assemblies of god preacher, and he has enough choice words on those racists to fill a book... this shit doesn't belong here. In reply: CALL TODAY TO ORDER THIS BOOK - (800) 305-1458 [24hrs.]

Re: file disappeared?

1999-04-26 Thread Jim Bryant
In reply: Can VFS_STATFS return a value that indicates whether a file system is mounted? If so, it would seem logical to have fsck check the status. status = VFS_STATFS(mp, sbp, p); if (status MOUNTED) perror(file system mounted); I am saying this without having looked at the code

Re: file disappeared?

1999-04-26 Thread Jim Bryant
In reply: On Mon, 26 Apr 1999, Jim Bryant wrote: In reply: Can VFS_STATFS return a value that indicates whether a file system is mounted? If so, it would seem logical to have fsck check the status. status = VFS_STATFS(mp, sbp, p); if (status MOUNTED) perror(file system

Re: new clock good for unix (FreeBSD)

1999-04-28 Thread Jim Bryant
In reply: Hi Just wondering if the new swatch clock has its way into the date command... I'd rather that it wouldn't. Swatch is pulling a marketing stunt, plain and simple. Something to toss in the closet with the pet rock a year from now. jim -- All opinions expressed are mine, if you

Re: ep0 *UTP*

1999-04-28 Thread Jim Bryant
In reply: Btw, why does boot write [*UTP*] ? The card is working nicely with bnc. ep0 at port 0x300-0x30f irq 11 on isa0 ep0: utp/bnc[*UTP*] address 00:60:08:09:c8:d9 ep0: interrupting at irq 11 device ep0 at isa? port 0x300 irq 11 Leif good question. when were your sources built?

Re: ep0 *UTP*

1999-04-28 Thread Jim Bryant
In reply: On Wed, 28 Apr 1999, Jim Bryant wrote: good question. when were your sources built? i'm running a kernel from Thu Apr 8 10:40:17 CDT 1999. ep0 at 0x210-0x21f irq 10 on isa ep0: aui/bnc[*BNC*] address 00:20:af:d2:e4:ae Well, I'd chalk it up to buggy 3com h/w myself

kernel build breaks in bktr_i2c.c

2002-03-23 Thread Jim Bryant
last cvsup, less than an hour ago. cc -c -O -g -pipe -Wall -Wredundant-decls -Wnested-externs -Wstrict-prototypes -Wmissing-prototypes -Wpointer-arith -Winline -Wcast-qual -fformat-extensions -ansi -nostdinc -I- -I. -I../../.. -I../../../dev

Re: Current in Production

2002-04-10 Thread Jim Bryant
Do you own a Harley? Do the Mosh Pit? You definitely like riding the edge of insanity... -current is always in a state of flux... I say you lucked out... FreeBSD is killer stuff, but, I personally wouldn't risk a job on the odds of getting a stable -current when I needed one... Chris

SMP on Tyan Thunder2 and Thunder100 motherboards

1999-06-03 Thread Jim Bryant
are there any known problems with the Tyan Thunder2 [1696DLUA] and Thunder100 [1836DLUA] motherboards? I am finishing up putting together the thunder-2 system with dual 333's, and am starting to obtain the parts for the Thunder100. jim -- All opinions expressed are mine, if you| I will

Re: 4-way SMP broken ?

1999-06-09 Thread Jim Bryant
In reply: Hi, I've been trying to install 19990604-CURRENT on a couple of SC450NX boxes. It works fine with 2 cpu's, but an SMP kernel with 4 cpu's falls over very quickly (I think while it's setting up the APIC stuff, or very shortly after - the messages about APIC bus ids appear

Re: 4-way SMP broken ?

1999-06-09 Thread Jim Bryant
In reply: interesting. then why the delay in bringing up the AP? Note in the dmesg output below, that the AP only comes up during th SCSI delay. I have also added other comments to the following output. The APs need the giant kernel lock when initializing the local APIC and printing

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