Re: problems with sysinstall

2003-10-29 Thread Darryl Okahata
tion before using the information in the following): http://bsdatwork.com/sections.php?op=viewarticle&artid=3 (Also read the OpenBSD section for additional WinXP info.) http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/faq/disks.html#NT-BOOTLOADE

Re: Problems with fxp0 on T30 with 5.1-RELEASE

2003-07-18 Thread Darryl Okahata
ite some time, maybe since > pre-5.0-Release. I typically update the system about once a week. Has the OP used ``hw.pci.allow_unsupported_io_range="1"''? I had to use this with my A31 to prevent nasty fxp-related crashes in 5.1-RELEASE. -- Darryl Okahata

Re: APM problem in 5.1-RELEASE

2003-06-19 Thread Darryl Okahata
lay corruption). -- Darryl Okahata [EMAIL PROTECTED] DISCLAIMER: this message is the author's personal opinion and does not constitute the support, opinion, or policy of Agilent Technologies, or of the little green men that have been fo

Re: APM problem in 5.1-RELEASE

2003-06-18 Thread Darryl Okahata
ave: ATAPI identify failed I don't get this in my dmesg (and I have an A31, where apm seems to work). As you say it seems to be hanging during ATA reset, perhaps this has something to do with it? Is there any way to disable the ata1-slave? BIOS? Kernel setting??? -- Darryl O

Re: programs not running under strace

2003-05-31 Thread Darryl Okahata
race? (See the recent 5.1 release TODO messages for details.) -- Darryl Okahata [EMAIL PROTECTED] DISCLAIMER: this message is the author's personal opinion and does not constitute the support, opinion, or policy of Agilent Technologies, or of the little green men that h

Re: boot0cfg

2003-03-05 Thread Darryl Okahata
ve.) (Also read the OpenBSD section for additional WinXP info.) http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/faq/disks.html#NT-BOOTLOADER -- Darryl Okahata [EMAIL PROTECTED] DISCLAIMER: this message is the author's personal opi

Re: "NTLDR missing" after 5-RELEASE install

2003-02-26 Thread Darryl Okahata
While GRUB, booteasy, and others are quite perfectly usable for many people, some of us may be better off with an untouched MBR. -- Darryl Okahata [EMAIL PROTECTED] DISCLAIMER: this message is the author's personal opinion and does not constitute the support, opinion, or poli

Re: "NTLDR missing" after 5-RELEASE install

2003-02-26 Thread Darryl Okahata
bably the best approach, as it doesn't require any MBR changes or boot floppies/CDs. ] -- Darryl Okahata [EMAIL PROTECTED] DISCLAIMER: this message is the author's personal opinion and does not constitute the support, opinion, or policy of Agilent Technologies, or o

Re: "NTLDR missing" after 5-RELEASE install

2003-02-26 Thread Darryl Okahata
http://bsdatwork.com/sections.php?op=viewarticle&artid=3 (This is for the case where Windows & FreeBSD are on the SAME drive.) (Also read the OpenBSD section for additional WinXP info.) http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO885

Re: Vinum R5 [was: Re: background fsck deadlocks with ufs2 and big disk]

2003-02-24 Thread Darryl Okahata
of bg fsck, I'm guessing not, but I'd like to be sure. Thanks. -- Darryl Okahata [EMAIL PROTECTED] DISCLAIMER: this message is the author's personal opinion and does not constitute the support, opinion, or policy of Agilent Technologies, or of the little green m

Re: background fsck deadlocks with ufs2 and big disk

2003-02-20 Thread Darryl Okahata
t chanche to play. Did you believe that the crashes were caused by enabling softupdates on an R5 vinum volume, or were the crashes unrelated to vinum/softupdates? I can see how crashes unrelated to vinum/softupdates might trash vinum filesystems. -- Darryl Okahata [EMAI

Re: background fsck deadlocks with ufs2 and big disk

2003-02-19 Thread Darryl Okahata
This is on a system that's been running in the current state for around a month. So far, it's panic'd once (a week or so ago), and so I don't have any feel for long-term stability. We'll see how it goes. ] -- Darryl Okahata [EMAIL PROTECTED] DISC

Re: background fsck deadlocks with ufs2 and big disk

2003-02-19 Thread Darryl Okahata
pted?). After investigating, I believe these truncated files (which were NOT recently modified) were in a directory in which other files were being created/written at the time of the panic. -- Darryl Okahata [EMAIL PROTECTED] DISCLAIMER: this message is the author's p

Re: ACPI thermal panics ThinkPad 600X

2003-02-18 Thread Darryl Okahata
wait for an IBM BIOS fix. I'm not yet that desperate. ;-( In the meantime, I'll muddle through with apm. -- Darryl Okahata [EMAIL PROTECTED] DISCLAIMER: this message is the author's personal opinion and does not constitute the support, opinion, or policy o

Re: ACPI thermal panics ThinkPad 600X

2003-02-18 Thread Darryl Okahata
While there may be issues with FreeBSD's ACPI, there are definitely issues with the A31 BIOS: http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/message.php?msg_id=3597168 -- Darryl Okahata [EMAIL PROTECTED] DISCLAIMER: this message is the author's personal opinion and does n

Re: APM and ACPI fail on Toshiba Satellite

2003-02-04 Thread Darryl Okahata
kernel, there > are no error messages, but the /dev/apm device doesn't appear. Is this line in /boot/device.hints?: hint.apm.0.disabled="1" I got bit by this, too. -- Darryl Okahata [EMAIL PROTECTED] DISCLAIMER: this message is the author's

Re: gbde & vnode md devices?

2003-02-02 Thread Darryl Okahata
); Thanks for the help. -- Darryl Okahata [EMAIL PROTECTED] DISCLAIMER: this message is the author's personal opinion and does not constitute the support, opinion, or policy of Agilent Technologies, or of the little green men that have been following him all day. To Unsu

Re: gbde & vnode md devices?

2003-02-02 Thread Darryl Okahata
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Can you please try this: > > mdconfig -a -t malloc -s 4m -u 75 > gbde init /dev/md75 > gbde attach md75 Nope, exact same error. -- Darryl Okahata [EMAIL PROTECTED] DISCLAIMER: this message is the author's

Re: gbde & vnode md devices?

2003-02-02 Thread Darryl Okahata
Sorry, I'm being forgetful: I'm getting these errors under 5.0-RELEASE. -- Darryl Okahata [EMAIL PROTECTED] DISCLAIMER: this message is the author's personal opinion and does not constitute the support, opinion, or policy of Agilent Technologies, or of the l

Re: gbde & vnode md devices?

2003-02-02 Thread Darryl Okahata
words, I get the same error regardless of whether or not I use the -L/-l options. [ Sorry for being unclear, but I originally tried gbde(8) without -L or -l. I switched to using -L and -l because that's what the man page showed, and I assumed that the man page knew something I didn&#

gbde & vnode md devices?

2003-02-02 Thread Darryl Okahata
Has anyone gotten gbde working with vnode md devices (file-based)? I'm trying to create a gbde-managed device from a file, and I keep on getting various ioctl() failures. See attached log file. Thanks, -- Darryl Okahata [EMAIL PROTECTED] DISCLAIMER: this messa

Re: 5.0RC2: does vinum work???

2003-01-08 Thread Darryl Okahata
ed (the "-T" isn't needed). Foo. Arg. OK, I'll now try putting numbers at the end of volume names. Thanks for the help. -- Darryl Okahata [EMAIL PROTECTED] DISCLAIMER: this message is the author's personal opinion and does not constitute th

5.0RC2: does vinum work???

2003-01-08 Thread Darryl Okahata
gure out file system partition I've attached a typescript file (w/added comments) illustrating the problem for the basic, one-drive case. Is vinum broken in 5.0RC2, or am I doing something spectacularly stupid? -- Darryl Okahata [EMAIL PROTECTED] DISCLAIMER: this message

Re: USB issues with Apollo KT133A mobo

2002-12-05 Thread Darryl Okahata
r him, but 4.7 doesn't. I haven't searched the archives very hard, but I could only find a reference to the "VIA patch" being applied to -current (Soren's post of around December 26, 2001). I haven't tried rummaging through the CVS logs. I've always assumed

Re: USB issues with Apollo KT133A mobo

2002-12-05 Thread Darryl Okahata
't surprise > me...this particular mobo is a very early Athlon board, and the chipset may > be buggy. Motherboards using the VIA KT133A chipset generally do not have a good reputation. -- Darryl Okahata [EMAIL PROTECTED] DISCLAIMER: this message is the author's pe

Re: USB issues with Apollo KT133A mobo

2002-12-04 Thread Darryl Okahata
n't much (some 2.5" USB hard disks can draw MUCH more, which violates the spec, and sometimes works, and sometimes doesn't). Here's another discussion on this: http://groups.google.com/groups?hl=en&lr=lang_en&ie=UTF-8&threadm=ajedc5%24bej%241

Re: Compaq Evo n115

2002-11-13 Thread Darryl Okahata
; > This line tells that sound device is detected and working problem, maybe > you just need to adjust mixer with aumix or something? If you look at the referenced linux patch, you'll see a workaround for a "no sound" problem. Perhaps that's the problem? -- Da

Re: cc1 crashes with SIGBUS while building XFree86-Server-4.2.0_2

2002-05-02 Thread Darryl Okahata
nt ways. I seem to recall hearing rumors that Windows allocates memory from the top down. If so, and if FreeBSD allocates memory from the bottom up (I don't know), that could explain why you do not appear to be seeing the problem under xp. However, as other people are having mysterious

Re: rtld messing up?

2002-04-03 Thread Darryl Okahata
patch (e.g., eliminate the code duplication and debugging code), and so it would be nice if someone else could do that and submit it. -- Darryl Okahata [EMAIL PROTECTED] DISCLAIMER: this message is the author's personal opinion and does not constitute the suppor

Re: rtld messing up?

2002-04-03 Thread Darryl Okahata
yet: XEmacs uses unexelf.c, whereas gcl uses unexec.c. Changing gcl to use unexelf.c didn't change anything, but the next step is to compare the two unexelf.c's (they are different). The core stack trace seems to imply that there's some constructor

Re: Just a reminder

2002-03-28 Thread Darryl Okahata
browsers, just uses "global". Anyone knee-deep in the kernel should be using global directly (or cscope, which is my preference), as you'll then be able to browse your locally-modified version of the code. -- Darryl Okahata [EMAIL PROTECTED] DISCLAIMER: this message is

Re: Headsup! KSE Nay-sayers speak up!

2001-08-27 Thread Darryl Okahata
5.0, but, with all the qualms that people seem to have, I'm curious as to why it can't be integrated immediately after 5.0 is cut? This way, Julian's MFCs are reduced, and it gives people more time to pound on KSE. ] -- Darryl Okahata [EMAIL PROTECTED] DIS

Re: unknown PNP hardware

2001-08-27 Thread Darryl Okahata
d by devinfo and pciconf's '-v' flag. > > Sorry. 8) Cool! I didn't want to support it, anyway. ;-) -- Darryl Okahata [EMAIL PROTECTED] DISCLAIMER: this message is the author's personal opinion and does not constitute the support, opinion, or p

Re: unknown PNP hardware

2001-08-23 Thread Darryl Okahata
, using an (old) hard-coded table originally obtained from: http://www.yourvote.com/pci/pcidev.csv You can get the script from: ftp://ftp.sonic.net/pub/users/darrylo/freebsd/scanirq.gz It's written for 4.X, but might work for -current (you'll have to disable the check

Re: Lucent Orinoco Gold PCCard?

2000-12-08 Thread Darryl Okahata
it, though. -- Darryl Okahata [EMAIL PROTECTED] DISCLAIMER: this message is the author's personal opinion and does not constitute the support, opinion, or policy of Agilent Technologies, or of the little green men that have been following him all day. To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL

Re: Lucent Orinoco Gold PCCard?

2000-12-08 Thread Darryl Okahata
ong possibly others. I've got an AirStation, and it's not bad. Like most access points, it has only 40-bit encryption, though. It's configurable via a web browser, using password-protected web pages. However, because of this, the configuration needs to be done via a secure, wire

Re: [sound] PCI ESS support

2000-03-16 Thread Darryl Okahata
me a while. If anyone else would like to do it, that's fine with me. > My dell seems to have one of these things in it. As does mine. ;-( I really want sound output on my 7500. -- Darryl Okahata [EMAIL PROTECTED] DISCLAIMER: this message is the author's pers

Re: Why not gzip iso images?

2000-03-15 Thread Darryl Okahata
lp that much. As has been mentioned in -hackers, the ISO images only compress by 3% or so, or around ~20MB. So, instead of a 640MB ISO image, you have a 620MB image. Is the 20MB significant? (I don't know.) -- Darryl Okahata [EMAIL PROTECTED] DISCLAIMER: this message is the

Re: [sound] PCI ESS support

2000-03-14 Thread Darryl Okahata
or the pointer. I'll check it out. -- Darryl Okahata [EMAIL PROTECTED] DISCLAIMER: this message is the author's personal opinion and does not constitute the support, opinion, or policy of Agilent Technologies, or of the little green men that have been following him

Re: [sound] PCI ESS support

2000-03-14 Thread Darryl Okahata
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Munehiro Matsuda) wrote: > If you are tring to write a driver for it, I still have some docs around. > If you need them, let me know. If you have anything more than the ESS datasheets (like real ESS docs), I'd like to get a copy. Thanks, -- Dar

Re: /usr/ports/ too big?

2000-02-10 Thread Darryl Okahata
NTIRE history of a file (per cvs). I have CD roms which have the old versio > ns > in case I need to reference them. Huh? The "ENTIRE history of a file" isn't stored below /usr/ports. There may be some CVS control information for each port (and you can make an ar

Re: error wich devices ad*

2000-01-20 Thread Darryl Okahata
"joanra" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I have done all what you have told me to do, but it still doesn't work. Now > i have another problem, i have removed the DEVICES WD* (as you told me) and > i can't mount partitions. It mounts WD on / but just as READ-ONLY and i > can't do anything, How could

Re: xntpd - VERY old folks, how about updating? :-)

2000-01-01 Thread Darryl Okahata
ear" instead of "a century". ;-( -- Darryl Okahata [EMAIL PROTECTED] DISCLAIMER: this message is the author's personal opinion and does not constitute the support, opinion, or policy of Agilent Technologies, or of the little green men that have been following him all day. To Un

Re: xntpd - VERY old folks, how about updating? :-)

2000-01-01 Thread Darryl Okahata
Karl Denninger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> posted a message with the headers: > Date: Fri, 31 Dec 1999 22:55:35 +875400 > X-Mailer: Mutt 0.93.2i Methinks this version of Mutt may have a Y2K problem, as 875400 hours is roughly (very roughly) a century -- Darryl Okahata

Re: Problems with the ATA-driver

1999-12-22 Thread Darryl Okahata
really concerned about boot speed, you should be concerned about this. [ Personally, I like the way dmesg is now, but I guess some people don't. ] -- Darryl Okahata [EMAIL PROTECTED] DISCLAIMER: this message is the author's personal opinion and does not con

Re: HEADSUP: wd driver will be retired!

1999-12-10 Thread Darryl Okahata
sers of older hardware from running 4.0-release/-stable when it comes out, because no one running -current has an example of their older hardware, and we removed the old drivers which may have worked. In other words, it's unclear as to whether or not the new driver will leave an

Re: 3.3-stable -> 4.0-current problem...

1999-12-07 Thread Darryl Okahata
Michael Chin-Yuan Wu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Please try this tutorial when you move from -stable to -current > > www.external.org/freebsd/current.html I think you're missing the recent block device obsolescence change. -- Darryl Okahata [EMAIL PR

Re: trek73

1999-10-24 Thread Darryl Okahata
program/server, which opened up a window on each player's display. Still, performance was pretty good (on a *local* LAN), even on ten-year-old RISC hardware. -- Darryl Okahata [EMAIL PROTECTED] DISCLAIMER: this message is the author's personal opinion and does not constitute

Re: trek73

1999-10-24 Thread Darryl Okahata
ing about, he's with HP. -- Darryl Okahata [EMAIL PROTECTED] DISCLAIMER: this message is the author's personal opinion and does not constitute the support, opinion, or policy of Hewlett-Packard, or of the little green men that have been following him all day. To Unsubscribe: se

Re: Why Adaptec 1540 bombing?

1999-10-12 Thread Darryl Okahata
can't, I've got a 1540A somewhere (in theory ;-) that I'd be willing to lend out (if the address is in the US). It's been years since I've used it, and so I'm not 100% sure that it still works, though. -- Darryl Okahata [EMAIL PROTECTED] DISCLAIMER: t

Re: modules: how to use?

1999-10-07 Thread Darryl Okahata
s is an article called, "Attacking FreeBSD with Kernel Modules", at: http://thc.pimmel.com Click on "Articles", followed by "Attacking FreeBSD with Kernel Modules (example modules)". I'm not sure how up-to-date it is, though. Strange, but true. --

Re: New PnP code does not work for me(?)

1999-09-26 Thread Darryl Okahata
ikely to become non-optional soon so we can use the > motherboard resource lists. I want to publicly thank Peter Wemm for posting a reply that is courteous, informative, and useful. Recently, there has been too much noise in this and other FreeBSD lists/groups where other people have been a

Re: gcc optimizer in -current system ...

1999-09-24 Thread Darryl Okahata
-fomit-frame-pointer -fschedule-insns > -fschedule-insns2 >141.92 real 141.43 user 0.10 sys What do these timings represent? As you say the mp3 playing time is 373 seconds, but the "real" times vary, the timings don't appear to be the playing/pr

Re: ccd build failure

1999-09-23 Thread Darryl Okahata
"Matthew D. Fuller" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > OK: > #!/bin/sh > (cvs status | grep '^File:' | grep -v 'Status: Up-to-date$') 2> /dev/null This doesn't give path information -- it's worse than before, in that the (verbose) p

Re: ccd build failure

1999-09-23 Thread Darryl Okahata
3 minutes to list the status below /usr/src/sys, this new version takes around 1 minute. I've also applied Anton's fix. ] -- Darryl Okahata [EMAIL PROTECTED] DISCLAIMER: this message is the author's personal opinion and does not constitute the support, opinion,

Re: ccd build failure

1999-09-23 Thread Darryl Okahata
er /usr/src/sys, and around 30 minutes for /usr/src (checked out via "cvs checkout src"). [ My (local, mirrored via cvsup) repository is accessed via pserver over 128K ISDN, and so there's a good chance that many people will see better performance. ] -- Darryl Okahat

Re: ed driver problem

1999-09-04 Thread Darryl Okahata
(I've forgotten if this is supposed to happen or not). When I insert the LAN card, the pccardd daemon reports: driver allocation failed for ACCTON(EN2216-PCMCIA-ETHERNET): Device not configured (The pccardd daemon is trying to use the ed0 driver.) -- Darryl Okahata [EMAIL

Re: [re]writable cdrom drive

1999-08-19 Thread Darryl Okahata
enough memory (32-64MB), you can be running X11 and compiling programs while the CD is burning (this is with a 2X burner, though). -- Darryl Okahata [EMAIL PROTECTED] DISCLAIMER: this message is the author's personal opinion and does not constitute the support, opinion, or poli

Re: How to upgrade from 3.3 to 4 - Clarification please!

1999-01-16 Thread Darryl Okahata
, and may completely crash and burn at times. Use it at your own risk. -- Darryl Okahata [EMAIL PROTECTED] DISCLAIMER: this message is the author's personal opinion and does not constitute the support, opinion, or policy of Agilent Technologies, or of the little green men that have