Fixed my MAMEd sio problem. Was: Re: Doesn't anyone care about the broken sio ??

1999-05-16 Thread Matthew Thyer
Just so you all know (the list included) how I have fixed my silo overflow problem which occurred while running xmame (and after I quit until I restarted the X server) I have found the problem doesn't occur if I remove the following lines from the shell script I use to start xmame:

Re: Fixed my MAMEd sio problem. Was: Re: Doesn't anyone care about the broken sio ??

1999-05-16 Thread Bruce Evans
Just so you all know (the list included) how I have fixed my silo overflow problem which occurred while running xmame (and after I quit until I restarted the X server) I have found the problem doesn't occur if I remove the following lines from the shell script I use to start xmame:

Doesn't anyone care about the broken sio ??

1999-05-08 Thread Matthew Thyer
I mailed a simple way to reproduce the serious brokeness of the serial port driver on my system and no one responds. What does this mean ? Does core know that sio is seriously broken and doesn't want to admit it ? [dont take that comment too seriously please]. What am I supposed to think ?

Re: Doesn't anyone care about the broken sio ??

1999-05-08 Thread Jordan K. Hubbard
I mailed a simple way to reproduce the serious brokeness of the serial port driver on my system and no one responds. What does this mean ? It means that nobody is probably willing to go bring up a MAME environment just to test this. You need to isolate it to a more minimal test case if you

Re: Doesn't anyone care about the broken sio ??

1999-05-08 Thread Poul-Henning Kamp
Bruce said, in his own quite way, that somebody had broken fast interrupts as part of newbus, and that is the end of that story. Poul-Henning In message 9.926181...@zippy.cdrom.com, Jordan K. Hubbard writes: I mailed a simple way to reproduce the serious brokeness of the serial port

Re: Doesn't anyone care about the broken sio ??

1999-05-08 Thread Brian Feldman
On Sat, 8 May 1999, Jordan K. Hubbard wrote: I mailed a simple way to reproduce the serious brokeness of the serial port driver on my system and no one responds. What does this mean ? It means that nobody is probably willing to go bring up a MAME environment just to test this. You

Re: Doesn't anyone care about the broken sio ??

1999-05-08 Thread Jordan K. Hubbard
MAME is a great piece of software, and in and of itself entirely legal; what problem do you have with it? I'm not talking about MAME, go read the message again. - Jordan To Unsubscribe: send mail to majord...@freebsd.org with unsubscribe freebsd-current in the body of the message

Re: Doesn't anyone care about the broken sio ??

1999-05-08 Thread Matthew Thyer
As far as I can tell, this is unrelated to newbus as the same actions would trigger this problem before and after newbus. I have been seeing this problem for many months (maybe years - but I've only recently identified a set of actions to reproduce it every time). The wierd thing is that I can

Re: Doesn't anyone care about the broken sio ??

1999-05-08 Thread Matthew Thyer
*** STOP PRESS *** I have just confirmed that restarting the X server is enough to fix the problem. So my apologies to Bruce, -CURRENT and the whole FreeBSD community in general for blaming sio. For the benefit of David Dawes, I'll quickly restate the problem: Running xmame (from the

Re: Doesn't anyone care about the broken sio ??

1999-05-08 Thread David Dawes
On Sun, May 09, 1999 at 12:39:56PM +0930, Matthew Thyer wrote: *** STOP PRESS *** I have just confirmed that restarting the X server is enough to fix the problem. So my apologies to Bruce, -CURRENT and the whole FreeBSD community in general for blaming sio. For the benefit of David