Re: acpica malfunctions

2001-07-30 Thread Mike Smith
Mike, Seems like I managed to solve my problem. Attached is to be applied against sys/dev/acpica/acpi_pcib.c, rev 1.10 . Thanks for tracking this down; without hardware to test here, it's been difficult. Great bug report! I've just committed a slightly different patch, based on a mix

Re: ACPI: Clock problems in -current

2001-07-29 Thread Mike Smith
On Sat, 28 Jul 2001, Mike Smith wrote: You could also try building a kernel with CLK_CALIBRATION_LOOP defined and then booting with -v (without the timer disabled). This might be instructive (I don't know for certain that it'll calibrate the ACPI timer, since it may not have been

Re: ACPI: Clock problems in -current

2001-07-28 Thread Mike Smith
Say set debug.acpi.disable=timer in the bootloader and see if you still get this. I've already got one report of system time going twice as fast as it should; I'm unsure what's going on here (I don't grok the timecounter code as well as I should, I think)... You could also try building a

Re: ACPI: Clock problems in -current

2001-07-28 Thread Mike Smith
Mike Smith schrieb: Say set debug.acpi.disable=timer in the bootloader and see if you still get this. I've already got one report of system time going twice as fast as it should; I'm unsure what's going on here (I don't grok the timecounter code as well as I should, I think

Re: Death sentence to KLD screen savers? Comments?

2001-07-26 Thread Mike Smith
It is much easier, at least to me, to just remove much of the KLD screen saver support from syscons to the user-land, than to utilize the kthread :-) Just FWIW, I think that moving the screen saver to userspace is an excellent thing to do. -- ... every activity meets with opposition,

HEADS UP: ACPI bug

2001-07-26 Thread Mike Smith
this problem. (I would assume sometime in the next 2-3 weeks.) Regards, Mike -- ... every activity meets with opposition, everyone who acts has his rivals and unfortunately opponents also. But not because people want to be opponents, rather because the tasks and relationships force people

Re: acpica malfunctions

2001-07-24 Thread Mike Smith
though; my last suspicion is that it doesn't contain any resources at all, and so we're overrunning it when we go to try to stuff an interrupt resource into it. If that's the case, it's easy to fix. If not, then we will have to go hunting snarks. Thanks. Mike -- ... every activity meets

Re: acpica malfunctions

2001-07-22 Thread Mike Smith
. Regards, Mike -- ... every activity meets with opposition, everyone who acts has his rivals and unfortunately opponents also. But not because people want to be opponents, rather because the tasks and relationships force people to take different points of view. [Dr. Fritz Todt] V I C T O R Y

Re: [Patch] ACPI support in rc.conf

2001-07-21 Thread Mike Smith
On 20 Jul, Mike Smith wrote: attached is a diff for rc.i386, rc.conf.5 and defaults/rc.conf which allows to enable the ACPI power management in rc.conf similar to apm_enable. This is not a good idea; ACPI isn't on or off, and by the time What does acpiconf -e do then? Nothing

Re: [Patch] ACPI support in rc.conf

2001-07-20 Thread Mike Smith
attached is a diff for rc.i386, rc.conf.5 and defaults/rc.conf which allows to enable the ACPI power management in rc.conf similar to apm_enable. This is not a good idea; ACPI isn't on or off, and by the time rc.conf is running it's too late to en/disable it. There are several seperate

HEADS UP: ACPI core code updated

2001-07-20 Thread Mike Smith
are having with the PCI interrupt routing _SRS method failing. Regards, Mike -- ... every activity meets with opposition, everyone who acts has his rivals and unfortunately opponents also. But not because people want to be opponents, rather because the tasks and relationships force people to take

Re: kernel with SSE is unstable

2001-07-14 Thread Mike Heffner
device statically compiled into the kernel and was also loading the random KLD, it would always crash when starting the linux version of netscape. Removing the random device from the kernel config fixed the problem. So you don't happen to be doing anything similar are you? Mike -- Mike

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: HEADS UP - more ACPI updates, CPU throttling

2001-07-07 Thread Mike Smith
I've committed another round of ACPI changes to -current. The major addition is CPU throttling support. This is implemented using ACPI, not any vendor-specific technology, so it should work on any platform that exports the relevant information. By default, the CPU will run at 100%

Re: Problems with ata probing twice.

2001-07-07 Thread Mike Smith
sos Well, sortof, the ata driver doesn't allow for sharing irq1415 sos since lots of boards doesn't work that way. However if you need sos it you can try to add the shared flag in the driver and see if sos it works on yours. Hmm, maybe I should make this tunable... It this patch OK?

Re: Problems with ata probing twice.

2001-07-07 Thread Mike Smith
: There is absolutely no reason for the ata driver not to simply set : RF_SHAREABLE and be done with it. It's up to the driver's parent (isa, : pci, etc) to decide whether the interrupt is in fact shareable or not. : : The ata driver itself can share interrupts just fine, and it should

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

2001-07-07 Thread Mike Smith
Finally, if you're so damn concerned about your precious alpha I expect you or at least ANYONE WHO CARES ABOUT ALPHA TO ASSIST IN TESTING THESE DIFFS. HOW THE FSCK AM I TO TEST THEM WHEN I CANNOT EVEN GET TO SINGLE USER?? By testing them before they're committed, obviously. David -

Re: KLD-module(dir) naming conventions

2001-07-05 Thread Mike Smith
On Fri, 6 Jul 2001, Bruce Evans wrote: ... if_foo.c - /sys/modules/foo - foo.ko. There is no driver named if_foo. that seems to be right. No man if_ed(4) yust ed(4)... No. if_foo.c in /sys/modules/foo builds if_foo.ko. This was discussed a year or so back; it's a compromise design.

Re: I take it alpha is broken now, yes?

2001-07-05 Thread Mike Smith
ha/alpha/genassym.c ../../../vm/vm_zeroidle.c:13: opt_npx.h: No such file or directory ../../../vm/vm_zeroidle.c:17: opt_reset.h: No such file or directory ../../../vm/vm_zeroidle.c:38: machine/pcb_ext.h: No such file or directory ../../../vm/vm_zeroidle.c:39: machine/vm86.h: No such file

Re: can't build kernel: config doesn't work

2001-07-01 Thread Mike Heffner
again, it didn't even recreate the | directory. | mdharnois | | To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] | with unsubscribe freebsd-current in the body of the message Mike -- Mike Heffner mheffner@[acm.]vt.edu Fredericksburg, VA [EMAIL PROTECTED] PGP signature

Re: can't build kernel: config doesn't work

2001-07-01 Thread Mike Heffner
On 01-Jul-2001 Mark Peek wrote: | At 10:05 AM -0400 7/1/01, Mike Heffner wrote: |It works for me ;) Remember that the new default is: | | /sys/${MACHINEARCH}/compile/${KERNCONF} | | | Right, there is a new compile directory. Perhaps this needs to be | added to UPDATING. Anyway, did you run

Re: Interrupt problem? with accton EN2242 MiniPCI 10/100BaseTX.

2001-06-29 Thread Mike Smith
I'm running current and get the following error in dmesg while trying to enable the minipci. This is a HP n5470 laptop. dc0: Accton EN2242 MiniPCI 10/100BaseTX irq 11 at device 16.0 on pci0 dc0: failed to enable I/O ports! device_probe_and_attach: dc0 attach returned 6 It is sharing

HEADS UP: ACPI update - thermal management

2001-06-28 Thread Mike Smith
. 8) Regards, Mike -- ... every activity meets with opposition, everyone who acts has his rivals and unfortunately opponents also. But not because people want to be opponents, rather because the tasks and relationships force people to take different points of view. [Dr. Fritz Todt] V

Re: msdosfs can't mount Extended partition. Any ideas?

2001-06-14 Thread Mike Smith
In message [EMAIL PROTECTED] Bruce Evans writes: : The first ls should create about 8000 new tun devices by first accessing : them via stat(2), but there is some garbage collection, so the second ls : may show that some of the devices have magically unappeared. I just want to see the disk

Re: New SMP Mbuf Allocator (PATCH and TESTING request)

2001-06-13 Thread Mike Smith
The reason I said in the next week is actually because on Sat. June 23rd (not this upcoming one, but the one after), I should be flying off to Yugoslavia (actually to London, and only then to Yugoslavia). I will be gone for 3 weeks and seeing as how maintaining this huge diff is a real

Re: FORTH: Modifying loader...

2001-06-09 Thread Mike Smith
, so this *won't* work for the Alpha. 8( Regards, Mike -- ... every activity meets with opposition, everyone who acts has his rivals and unfortunately opponents also. But not because people want to be opponents, rather because the tasks and relationships force people to take different points

Re: dual athlons

2001-06-07 Thread Mike Smith
Just curious, but are there plans to support the EV6 bus that the dual athlon motherboards use? I'm not going to buy that kind of system unless FreeBSD 5 will support it. FreeBSD works just fine on the dual K7 evaluation systems that AMD have been shipping around. It seems that they wimped

HEADS UP, ACPI CA updated.

2001-05-29 Thread Mike Smith
The ACPI core code in -current has been updated to the 20010518 drop from Intel. You can read more about APCI CA at http://developer.intel.com/technology/ial/acpi This update doesn't add any new, visible functionality, but it should resolve a number of bugs and problems in the core

Re: HEADS UP, ACPI CA updated.

2001-05-29 Thread Mike Smith
The ACPI core code in -current has been updated to the 20010518 drop from Intel. You can read more about APCI CA at http://developer.intel.com/technology/ial/acpi Sorry, that should be http://developer.intel.com/technology/iapc/acpi Regards, Mike -- ... every activity meets

Re: Boot time memory issue

2001-05-27 Thread Mike Smith
SMAP type=01 base= len= 0009f800 SMAP type=02 base= 0009f800 len= 0800 SMAP type=02 base= 000e8400 len= 00017c00 SMAP type=01 base= 0010 len= 13ef SMAP type=03 base= 13ff len=

Re: Laptop locks up during pci initialization

2001-05-27 Thread Mike Smith
locked up at the same place. I'll be glad to try any patches to try and get this working. You could try disabling the PCI BIOS calls; set machdep.bios.pci=disable at the loader prompt. Let me know if this helps; I'd want to track this further if it does. Regards, Mike -- ... every activity

Re: Laptop locks up during pci initialization

2001-05-27 Thread Mike Heffner
On 27-May-2001 Mike Smith wrote: | You could try disabling the PCI BIOS calls; | | set machdep.bios.pci=disable | | at the loader prompt. Let me know if this helps; I'd want to track this | further if it does. Yes, this works =) Mike -- Mike Heffner [EMAIL PROTECTED

Laptop locks up during pci initialization

2001-05-25 Thread Mike Heffner
=0x02 chip3@pci0:11:1:class=0x060700 card=0x00011179 chip=0x06171179 rev=0x20 hdr=0x02 none1@pci0:12:0:class=0x040100 card=0x00011179 chip=0x00121073 rev=0x00 hdr=0x00 none2@pci1:0:0: class=0x03 card=0x00011179 chip=0x8c125333 rev=0x13 hdr=0x00 Thanks, Mike -- Mike Heffner

Re: GENERIC kernel hangs at boot (uhci-related)

2001-05-21 Thread Mike Smith
Could be, and I certainly don't know much about this code. But it seems like the driver is being given reason to assume it has a working device when it doesn't really have one. I assume the device is unusable without its interrupt, so shouldn't it fail at probe or attach time?

Re: GENERIC kernel hangs at boot (uhci-related)

2001-05-21 Thread Mike Smith
The bottom line is this; in your driver, ask for the resources that you need. If you don't get them, you fail. The PCI bus infrastructure is being worked on to improve your chances of getting these resources; it's not something that a driver writer should be worrying about per se. And

panic: mutex vm not owned

2001-05-20 Thread Mike Heffner
Segmentation fault (core dumped) I also have DDB in my kernel config, but it didn't drop into DDB. Is there anything else I can test? I'm willig to test any patches or whatever. Thanks, Mike -- Mike Heffner [EMAIL PROTECTED] Fredericksburg, VA [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: panic: mutex vm not owned

2001-05-20 Thread Mike Heffner
On 20-May-2001 Dima Dorfman wrote: | Please try the attached patch. I make no claims of its correctness, | but this e-mail is coming to you via X on -current updated a few hours | ago so it works here :-). Thanks, it works so far (I'm running X). I'll see where it breaks next. Mike

Re: GENERIC kernel hangs at boot (uhci-related)

2001-05-19 Thread Mike Smith
I have some more information about this now. There is a BIOS knob USB IRQ which can be set to Disabled or Enabled. If it is Disabled, the hangs occur as I described. If it is Enabled, everything works fine. I think it ought to boot in either case (-4.x does). I am not actually using the

Re: GENERIC kernel hangs at boot (uhci-related)

2001-05-19 Thread Mike Smith
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], Mike Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: You're not tying up an interrupt; PCI interrupts are shared. With the new PCI code, even if you turn it off, we'll just turn it right back on again. 8) But if IRQ 5 is assigned to the uhci device, then it's

Re: Re: -CURRENT b0rked?

2001-05-13 Thread Mike Pritchard
. To get around it, I just commented out the file that was causing problems in the makefile (ua..alt.kbd or something like that), but before that I had nuked /usr/obj twice, and did fresh checkouts of /usr/src just to be sure I hadn't messed up. -Mike - Mike Pritchard [EMAIL PROTECTED] or [EMAIL

Re: World is broken...

2001-04-29 Thread Mike Smith
The only reference to isalnum() I see is in boot/ficl/words.c:274, and appears to replace a couple of references, one to isdigit() and the other to isalpha(). Perhaps something was omitted in the upgrade to ficl 2.05? It's because words.c uses stand.h instead of ctype.h, and

Re: Boot messages

2001-04-25 Thread Mike Smith
On Tue, 24 Apr 2001 16:19:59 -0700, Dima Dorfman [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: This is not a bug. This is an FAQ. So much that it's actually documented in (*gasp!*) the FAQ: Unfortunately, the A in the FAQ is wrong. The ``can't assign resources'' messages indicate that the devices are

Re: Boot messages

2001-04-25 Thread Mike Smith
On Wed, 25 Apr 2001 16:57:56 -0600, Warner Losh [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: Actually, it is a bug. The drivers in the tree should grok these pnp ids. Actually, no, it is not a bug. The FreeBSD drivers for these devices manage their resources differently from the way the Windows drivers

Re: kernel core

2001-04-23 Thread Mike Smith
In message [EMAIL PROTECTED] Mike Smith writes: : I assume there's a better fix in the works, so that a dirpref-touched : disk can be moved back to a pre-dirpref system? If not, then dirpref should be backed out, imho. I'd have to agree; this was a pretty poorly-thought-out aspect

Re: kernel core

2001-04-21 Thread Mike Smith
You need to rebuild fsck and install it and fsck your filesystems. This is the dirpref changes biting you. Warner, we probably need an entry in UPDATING for the dirpref changes that warn people to build and install a new fsck before booting a dirpref kernel. Er. This really isn't very

Re: cp -d dir patch for review (or 'xargs'?)

2001-04-20 Thread Mike Smith
Folks, although there was much rejoicing, I think there's no need for a new option to cp. Just use the toolbox, it's not too hard: (cat bigfilelist; echo destdir) | xargs cp Or even echo destdir bigfilelist xargs cp bigfilelist should do the trick. No, it won't. Consider a

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Re: is it supposed to be this broken?

2001-03-31 Thread Mike Smith
ppc1: ECP parallel printer port at port 0x378-0x37f,0x778-0x77b irq 7 drq 3 on isa0 That's because the PnP entity is still matched. You can't disable PnP devices; it just doesn't work that way. 8) You mean it's impossible to disable lpt/floppy in a pnp system and use thier

Re: newcard/cardbus instabilities

2001-03-26 Thread Mike Smith
In message [EMAIL PROTECTED] Mike Smith writes: : This looks OK, though you might want to disable the pccard support, since : it's known to be broken right now. pccard support is not broken right now. If there's a "known" issue, I sure don't know about it. Oh, sorry, I'm obv

Re: use md device in /etc/rc.diskless{1,2}

2001-03-26 Thread Mike Smith
Hi. I have diskless-PC which was used /boot/pxeboot. But latest FreeBSD-current is output below messages and some fsck_nfs problem. WARNING: MFS is being phased out in preference for md devices WARNING: Please see mdconfig(8) for details WARNING: Continuing in 15 seconds Does

NFS over IPv6 is a reason????

2001-03-26 Thread Mike O'Dell
gee - being like SysV is more comprehensible than worrying about IPv6 -mo To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message

Re: newcard/cardbus instabilities

2001-03-22 Thread Mike Smith
Firstly, please don't send HTML mail. It's bad, and people have a hard time dealing with it. Semi-recently grabbed a snapshot of -CURRENT (from 03/06) to see if I could finally get my 3Com 3c575C Fast Etherlink XL cardbus lancard to work. I saw it mentioned in the HARDWARE.TXT so I decided

Re: ahc driver: aic7892 no longer supported (conflict with ATA)

2001-03-22 Thread Mike Smith
On Thu, 22 Mar 2001, Justin T. Gibbs wrote: I think I found the problem. The problem occur since 03/14/2001. The following files could be infvolved: You'll have to ask Soren about this. It looks like one part of ata-all (this is in -stable), clears the RF_SHAREABLE flag. I don't

Re: ** HEADS UP **

2001-03-19 Thread Mike Bristow
mething like: interface "fxp0" { media "media 100baseTX mediaopt full-duplex"; } in /etc/dhclient.conf will make dhclient DTRT when ifconfig ing the interface. Of course, that means that you're forcing the interface to be 100meg (which won't work when you plug your laptop in $C

Re: Fw: Stop annoying message of lnc

2001-03-18 Thread Mike Smith
Ian Dowse wrote: In message [EMAIL PROTECTED], Mike Smith writes: I don't quite understand Paul's reasoning, though; it's not actually useful to unload/reload parts of a device's bus attachment without unloading/reloading all the downstream parts of the driver. What do you mean

Re: Fw: Stop annoying message of lnc

2001-03-17 Thread Mike Smith
See my PR kern/25582. The explanation why Bill Paul does not want to make this change yet is there :) That's Paul Richards, not Bill Paul. I don't quite understand Paul's reasoning, though; it's not actually useful to unload/reload parts of a device's bus attachment without

Re: well! That root didn't work! Let's try another!

2001-03-08 Thread Mike Smith
As suggested, if the correct root device can't be found, the boot _should_ offer you a choice of running off others that appear to be bootable. The "appear to be bootable" criterion is almost impossible (and unsafe to attempt) to determine. Also, I certainly can see instances

Re: well! That root didn't work! Let's try another!

2001-03-04 Thread Mike Smith
There are two schools of thought here. One says "you should try very hard to find a root device", the other says "you should boot only from the exactly correct root device and complain otherwise". I took the first approach because its advocates shouted more loudly than those of

Re: -CURRENT is bad for me...

2001-02-12 Thread Mike Smith
Then wouldn't the "partially applied patch" rule apply? eg, back it out until the issues can be resolved. Breaking the upgrade path isn't acceptible. I have to "me too" this; the change simply isn't OK. There are a variety of ways that we can work around the issue and maintain binary

Re: -CURRENT is bad for me...

2001-02-12 Thread Mike Smith
Then wouldn't the "partially applied patch" rule apply? eg, back it out until the issues can be resolved. Breaking the upgrade path isn't acceptible. If you bump the library versions, doesn't that fix the upgrade path? No, because the library version bump has already happened. I

Re: -CURRENT is bad for me...

2001-02-12 Thread Mike Smith
On Mon, Feb 12, 2001 at 02:20:30PM -0800, Mike Smith wrote: You can do better than this. Put the lock in FILE, and define a new structure FILE_old, which has the same size/layout as the old FILE structure. How is this more acceptable than bumping the major number? Are they really

Re: -CURRENT is bad for me...

2001-02-12 Thread Mike Smith
Mike Smith wrote: On Mon, Feb 12, 2001 at 02:20:30PM -0800, Mike Smith wrote: You can do better than this. Put the lock in FILE, and define a new structure FILE_old, which has the same size/layout as the old FILE structure. How is this more acceptable than bumping

Re: problems with playback via pcm device

2001-02-09 Thread Mike Holling
. This happens both with a ES1371 and an old SB16 ISA card. It seems I may also be losing keystrokes from the keyboard, though I haven't confirmed it's not a problem with the keyboard itself. - Mike To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" i

Re: problems with playback via pcm device

2001-02-09 Thread Mike Holling
in audio, just when the machine gets busy (which is fine since I don't expect a P133 to be able to do too much else when playing MP3's). - Mike To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message

Re: ACPI

2001-02-01 Thread Mike Smith
FreeBSD currently only supports S1 and S5. I haven't done anything with S1 lately, so I'm not sure if it's been broken recently. In BIOS i can select weather to use S1 or S3, motherboard uses AWARD ACPI, which ever I select it doesn't wont to sleep, dou I can shut it down by eather -s5 or

Re: FreeBSD-SA-01:19.local

2001-02-01 Thread Mike Meyer
John Summerfield [EMAIL PROTECTED] types: [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: Isn't it early for april fool's? Nah. Easter eggs are in the shops. And the fools are forging mail. mike -- Mike Meyer [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.mired.org/home/mwm/ Independent WWW/Perforce

Re: /etc/shells #include syntax support patch

2001-01-29 Thread Mike Meyer
him about it. mike -- Mike Meyer [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.mired.org/home/mwm/ Independent WWW/Perforce/FreeBSD/Unix consultant, email for more information. To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" i

Re: PCI changes break HP Docking Station

2001-01-27 Thread Mike Smith
This is weird; the bridge appears to be clearly misconfigured, and unless there's something funky in the datasheet (looking for it now) I'm not quite sure what the "right" thing to do is here. 8( Please let me know if you need anything more from me to help debug this. This is enough for

Re: patch for test: /etc/shells - /usr/local/etc/shells

2001-01-26 Thread Mike Meyer
for shells added later, whether from ports or elsewhere. And I want the shed crimson with cream trim. mike -- Mike Meyer [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.mired.org/home/mwm/ Independent WWW/Perforce/FreeBSD/Unix consultant, email for more information. To Unsubscribe: send

Re: [loader?] secret to setting root elsewhere?.

2001-01-25 Thread Mike Smith
Ok so I have tried the settings in teh loader conf.. I have: #autoboot_delay="10"# Delay in seconds before autobooting #console="vidconsole" # Set the current console currdev="disk1s1a" # Set the current device module_path="/boot/kernel;/boot/modules"

Re: 4GB with NFS?

2001-01-25 Thread Mike Smith
VLF-incapable utilities. (on a related note, is there a need for vlfread()/vlfwrite() in the BSD's, or is VLF support native in the read/write calls? The standard off_t is 64 bits in all of the BSDs. -- ... every activity meets with opposition, everyone who acts has his rivals and

Re: [loader?] secret to setting root elsewhere?.

2001-01-25 Thread Mike Smith
#autoboot_delay="10"# Delay in seconds before autobooting #console="vidconsole" # Set the current console currdev="disk1s1a" # Set the current device module_path="/boot/kernel;/boot/modules"# Set the module search path

Re: [loader?] secret to setting root elsewhere?.

2001-01-25 Thread Mike Smith
If you mean "it loads the kernel from the wrong place", that's one thing. If you mean "it mounts / from the wrong filesystem", then you should be aware that the loader reads /etc/fstab, and the kernel will mount whatever you've put in there. Just curious, but isn't there a

Why would my IRQs suddenly move?

2001-01-23 Thread Mike Meyer
with the BIOS either. Anyone got a clue as to why the IRQ would change? Is there anything in FreeBSD that could change it? Thanx, mike -- Mike Meyer [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.mired.org/home/mwm/ Independent WWW/Perforce/FreeBSD/Unix consultant, email for more

Re: Why would my IRQs suddenly move?

2001-01-23 Thread Mike Smith
After installing a fresh cvsup last Sunday, I find that my usb printer quit working. Some investigation shows that this is because the uhci and fxp are now on the same IRQ. Why would this cause your printer to stop working? Have you determined that this is actually the case, or did you only

Re: Why would my IRQs suddenly move?

2001-01-23 Thread Mike Meyer
Mike Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] types: After installing a fresh cvsup last Sunday, I find that my usb printer quit working. Some investigation shows that this is because the uhci and fxp are now on the same IRQ. Why would this cause your printer to stop working? Have you determined

Re: Why would my IRQs suddenly move?

2001-01-23 Thread Mike Meyer
Mike Meyer [EMAIL PROTECTED] types: Mike Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] types: After installing a fresh cvsup last Sunday, I find that my usb printer quit working. Some investigation shows that this is because the uhci and fxp are now on the same IRQ. Why would this cause your printer

Re: VN bug or pilot error ?

2001-01-22 Thread Mike Meyer
Poul-Henning Kamp [EMAIL PROTECTED] types: But while you're at it, migrate to md(4) instead of vn(4), it does vn(4) will be deprecated RSN. mdconfig(8) configures the md(4) devices How close is the md rewrite to being able to replace mfs? Thanxm mike Poul-Henning

Re: current panics in mount(2)

2001-01-22 Thread Mike Smith
I got quite upset about this last time, and I guess it's time to do it again. Folks, *please* stop exporting "pure" kernel structures to userland. Make a sanitisied, versioned structure and just copy your damn args back and forth. 'struct ucred' should probably never have been exported to

Re: lastest kernel from cvs ( sh exists with signal 8 )

2001-01-22 Thread Mike Meyer
for disaster right now). Could you also make sure it makes it into /etc/defaults/make.conf (KERNEL isn't mentioned there at all) and make.conf(5)? Thanx, mike -- Mike Meyer [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.mired.org/home/mwm/ Independent WWW/Perforce/FreeBSD/Unix

Re: lastest kernel from cvs ( sh exists with signal 8 )

2001-01-22 Thread Mike Meyer
John Baldwin [EMAIL PROTECTED] types: On 22-Jan-01 Warner Losh wrote: In message [EMAIL PROTECTED] Mike Meyer writes: : Warner Losh [EMAIL PROTECTED] types: : It is in the handbook, and has been for some time. I'm reviewing the : recent KERNEL - KERNCONF changes to make sure

Re: current panics in mount(2)

2001-01-22 Thread Mike Smith
On Mon, Jan 22, 2001 at 12:16:38PM -0800, Mike Smith wrote: In the meantime, perhaps we could ask that one of the SMPng rules of engagement mandate that no mutex structures or structure members should ever be exported as part of a userspace interface? This sounds fine in principle

Patch to enable asm cores w/openssl

2001-01-22 Thread Mike Silbersack
in speed. For those not familiar with openssl, the process of benchmarking is simple - just type "openssl speed". Any comments about how to improve my make syntax would also be helpful, if one is so inclined. Thanks, Mike "Silby" Silbersack (Please CC me on followups,

Re: current hangs...

2001-01-20 Thread Mike Meyer
involvement? I don't think it's ccd. I get similar hangs with "make -j 20 buildworld" on a 2xPII-Xeon/450, 256M, two scsi disks on ahc without ccd. I think more likely it's related to the problems that sos is currently having/investigating. mike To Unsubscribe: send mail

Re: HEADS UP: I386_CPU

2001-01-18 Thread Mike Smith
That's one of the big reasons that we're 4.x based right now rather than 3.x based, despite 4.x's slightly larger memory footprint. That and 4.x's much better c++ compiler. Well, Warner, I've never done embedded systems. So, tell me, do they actually use any C++ code in embedded

Re: Fan speed control sony vaio lx800 slimtop

2001-01-10 Thread Mike Smith
Note that there are no \_TZ_ entries in that "vaiolx800.asl" dump that I submitted for the ACPI collection. I'm not sure where that collection is - I don't see it off www.jp.freebsd.org/acpi, if anyone wants to see that .asl file I can put it somewhere public. Is there a thermal zone

Re: Fan speed control sony vaio lx800 slimtop

2001-01-09 Thread Mike Smith
Note also that Scott Long ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) is also working on this, you will want to check with him to work out where he's up to... Now I'd like to figure out how to turn the damn fan up and down. This machine is quiet under windows but sets the fan to high under FreeBSD and never

Re: turning off vga_pci

2001-01-04 Thread Mike Smith
On Sat, Dec 30, 2000 at 03:13:24AM +1000, Andrew Kenneth Milton wrote: Is there a nice way to stop vga_pci from attaching to my video card, or to allow another driver to attach to it after vga_pci has done its thing? At the moment I'm removing all traces of vga_pci from the Makefile in

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Re: Undefined symbol on boot

2000-12-28 Thread Mike Smith
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Wed, 27 Dec 2000 21:55:51 -0500 (EST) ::md0: Malloc disk ::WARNING: Driver mistake: destroy_dev on 154/0 ::** what's this? * I'm not sure about this one. It looks like a bug in the 'asr' driver. Mark - I'm guessing that you have a

Re: newer GENERIC (4.2) don't support mcd0

2000-12-26 Thread Mike Smith
Please add that back again. No. The Matsushita/Mitsumi/Sony CDROM interfaces have gone the way of the 3c501. The drivers are there, and if you're really desperate, you're welcome to try them, but they're not supported install devices anymore. Note that it's trivial to build a

Re: ACPI says: too many dependant configs(?)

2000-12-26 Thread Mike Smith
Since we are on the subject of ACPI, it is working great except for one thing, it can't attach my sound card to the pcm device (does that sound correct?). It definitely sees it: unknown: YMH0021 can't assign resources This would suggest that something else is taking one or more of the

Re: ffs_valloc: dup alloc panics with stable/current

2000-12-26 Thread Mike Smith
We got old Mylex DAC960PD-Ultra-raid-adapter and have tried to use it with FreeBSD 4.2-stable and 5.0-current. Adapter is configured with three luns 5+5*9G, 8+8*9G (raid5) and 1+1*2G (mirrored boot disk). All 9G disks are quite old Seagate Barracuda 9 disks ST19171W. System is

Re: newer GENERIC (4.2) don't support mcd0

2000-12-25 Thread Mike Smith
Trying to upgrade an existing 3.4 system to 4.2 failed due to kernel.GENERIC not having mcd0 built in anymore (MITSUMI CDROM) :-( Please add that back again. No. The Matsushita/Mitsumi/Sony CDROM interfaces have gone the way of the 3c501. The drivers are there, and if you're really

Re: ACPI says: too many dependant configs(?)

2000-12-24 Thread Mike Smith
Last night I installed a kernel with 'device acpica' for the 1st time, and all seems fine, except that I see this at boot: ... too many dependant configs ... I traced this message to /usr/src/sys/dev/acpica/acpi_isa.c, function acpi_isa_set_start_dependant(). Now, I have not had any

Re: ACPI says: too many dependant configs(?)

2000-12-24 Thread Mike Smith
with a better algorithm, but for the most part, this code seems to work just fine. On Sun, Dec 24, 2000 at 11:50:13AM -0800, Mike Smith wrote: Last night I installed a kernel with 'device acpica' for the 1st time, and all seems fine, except that I see this at boot: ... too many

Re: Problem building -current kernel with read-only /usr/src.

2000-12-23 Thread Mike Smith
While trying to run 'make depend' in /usr/src/sys/compile/BLAH I got: === 3dfx @ - /FreeBSD/FreeBSD-current/src/sys ln: @: Read-only file system *** Error code 1 Stop in /FreeBSD/FreeBSD-current/src/sys/modules/3dfx. *** Error code 1 It looks like it's trying to mess around

Re: Various VGA, VGL, FB questions

2000-12-19 Thread Mike Smith
Why is there the same VGA code in dev/fb/vga.c and libvgl? I think especially of the set_palette routines. The framebuffer code is a newer addition. Libvgl was done quite a while ago as more or less a proof-of-concept. As a more general rule, what's the philosophy for the future of libvgl

Re: fxp driver not reset after Windows reboot?

2000-12-16 Thread Mike Smith
Andrzej, did you receive a response regarding your email the Intel Pro 10/100B/100+ Ethernet being unresponsive after running windows? i seem to have the same problem. I'm working on the (longer-term) solution to this at the moment. In the meantime, it's going to need a driver

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