Re: DVD-ram

1999-07-01 Thread Dag-Erling Smorgrav
crypt0genic [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I have a Lacie DVD-RAM drive, it work great under windows, here is the DMESG i g et from it, I hope this is of some help. LaCie don't make drives, they just package them in ugly boxes with noisy fans. One of my cow-orkers (with whom I share an office) had

Re: DVD-ram

1999-07-01 Thread crypt0genic
* Dag-Erling Smorgrav ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [990701 11:47]: LaCie don't make drives, they just package them in ugly boxes with noisy fans. Im not sure what model you are refering too, but the drive I have is in a stylish external box with a fan that doesnt make a whisper on noise, It also

Re: DVD-ram

1999-07-01 Thread Dag-Erling Smorgrav
crypt0genic [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: * Dag-Erling Smorgrav ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [990701 11:47]: LaCie don't make drives, they just package them in ugly boxes with noisy fans. Im not sure what model you are refering too, but the drive I have is in a stylish external box with a fan that

Postfix license update.

1999-07-01 Thread Dominic Mitchell
Just to let you all know, it appears that the termination clause has been dropped, but it appears to have gained a gpl-like "must make source available" clause. http://msgs.securepoint.com/cgi-bin/get/postfix9906/103.html (and where I found it) http://www.lwn.net/1999/0701/a/postfix.html --

Re: GRE encapsulation under FreeBSD 3.2

1999-07-01 Thread Jonathan Lemon
In article local.mail.freebsd-hackers/[EMAIL PROTECTED] you write: On Wed, 30 Jun 1999, Jonathan Lemon was heard blurting out: In article local.mail.freebsd-hackers/[EMAIL PROTECTED] you write: I don't seem to see support for GRE (IP-in-IP encaspulation) in FreeBSD (although I might be

Re: Lizard...

1999-07-01 Thread Matthew Jacob
Reminds me of SCO. I personally don't much like it- it makes it harder than hell to figure out what's gone wrong when it doesn't work. On Thu, 1 Jul 1999, Steve Ames wrote: Everyone should take a peak at http://www.troll.no/announce/lizard.html if you haven't already. Definately take a

Re: Lizard...

1999-07-01 Thread Steve Ames
True... But such a configuration doesn't preclude the use of a more detailed listing on vty1 the way we do it now. With our current installation setup its similar to this already. Its text based and some of the menus are not exactly intuitive (No... I don't have a better suggestion just yet). If

Re: Lizard...

1999-07-01 Thread Matthew Jacob
if it gave me lots more diagnostics. Joe Average, on the other hand, likes a spiffy, clean interface. We try to accomodate both types by having a simplistic install and then some detail output on a seperate VTY. This could still be done with an even spiffier graphical installation on the

Re: npx0 to set maxmem broken in -current?

1999-07-01 Thread Jonathan Lemon
In article local.mail.freebsd-hackers/[EMAIL PROTECTED] you write: Personally, I think we should use a kernel environment variable passed in from loader, since kern_envp is available *real early*, from the very beginning of init386(), which is called form locore just after going virtual. It

Re: Lizard...

1999-07-01 Thread Matthew Jacob
OK, I'll add a few comments to this. And I'll respond... The actual pros and cons of the current installer and what a new one would look like is not the real question to answer here,... I have to say that what we have isn't that bad- it fails only in some areas where it violates the principle

Re: Lizard...

1999-07-01 Thread Jordan K. Hubbard
What actual marketing information do we actually have that says that in order to go after the desktops we aren't currently installed on we have to add a lot of engineering effort to the installer? Would it be better to Well, just to clear up what looks like a misunderstanding in the making,

Re: Lizard...

1999-07-01 Thread Nathan Ahlstrom
My bad, as the current generation says, and it's a major item on my TODO list to spend about 2 days pouring through his code and generating a comprehensive set of comments about where to go from there. Unfortunately, this code is also in the very early stages and represents about 34,000

Re: pccard problems

1999-07-01 Thread Mike Smith
Indeed. Is it possibly interrupting on a line which something else is using? I've found a problem on my Latitude where it appears that the machine only has two interrupts free (3 and 9). If I put a modem on 3 and an Ethernet board on 9, it works, but only by putting pccardd on irq 5,

Xfree86 v 3.3.4

1999-07-01 Thread Leif Neland
Does anyone have any inside information on subj? The website still claims: "We are planning to release 3.3.4 some time in June 1999" I'm longing to get support for my S3 Trio3D. Leif To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message

Re: Lizard...

1999-07-01 Thread Mike Smith
Everyone should take a peak at http://www.troll.no/announce/lizard.html if you haven't already. Definately take a look at the screenshots. Lizard is a fully graphical Linux installation for Caldera Systems Open Linux. IMO, having an easy, reliable and attractive installer is an excellent

Re: Lizard...

1999-07-01 Thread Steve Ames
Everyone should take a peak at http://www.troll.no/announce/lizard.html if you haven't already. Definately take a look at the screenshots. Lizard is a fully graphical Linux installation for Caldera Systems Open Linux. IMO, having an easy, reliable and attractive installer is an

Re: Lizard...

1999-07-01 Thread Matthew Jacob
That being said... I've heard some of my ex-coworkers (who were all FreeBSD people when they worked here) come up to me in this impressed tone: "You wouldn't believe how much easier it is to install RedHat!'. *sigh* I'm not bitching... just being loyal :) That's ridiculous. I've used both,

Re: npx0 to set maxmem broken in -current?

1999-07-01 Thread Mike Smith
Personally, I think we should use a kernel environment variable passed in from loader, since kern_envp is available *real early*, from the very beginning of init386(), which is called form locore just after going virtual. It needs a couple of tweaks to get this to work, and in particular,

Re: Lizard...

1999-07-01 Thread Thomas David Rivers
That being said... I've heard some of my ex-coworkers (who were all FreeBSD people when they worked here) come up to me in this impressed tone: "You wouldn't believe how much easier it is to install RedHat!'. *sigh* I'm not bitching... just being loyal :) That's ridiculous. I've used

Re: Xfree86 v 3.3.4

1999-07-01 Thread Mark J. Taylor
There is a Linux X server for the Voodoo Banshee, over at: http://developer.soundblaster.com/linux/ You might have some luck running it under the Linux emulator. I've never tried it, as I don't have a Banshee. -Mark Taylor NetMAX Developer [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.netmax.com/ On

reason for slow user-user memory copy

1999-07-01 Thread Zhihui Zhang
A graduate student here implements a mmap() interface to a TCP/IP network card. He notices that it takes much longer time to copy from mmapp()'ed area to another user area than it takes to copy the same amount of data from kernel space to user space. The students here have no idea why this

Re: reason for slow user-user memory copy

1999-07-01 Thread Julian Elischer
hmm Unfortunatly Linux is nt relevent to FreeBSD so we can't comment directly.. it is possible that the mmapped region is marked non-cachable, which migh tmake a difference. I have no idea where "memcpy_to_iovec" in Linux is copying to so it's hard to comment. julian On Thu, 1 Jul 1999,

Re: reason for slow user-user memory copy

1999-07-01 Thread Zhihui Zhang
On Thu, 1 Jul 1999, David Greenman wrote: A graduate student here implements a mmap() interface to a TCP/IP network card. He notices that it takes much longer time to copy from mmapp()'ed area to another user area than it takes to copy the same amount of data from kernel space to user

Re: npx0 to set maxmem broken in -current?

1999-07-01 Thread Julian Elischer
a bit late you should check teh cvs rep for these files.. peter's already checked it in... :-) On Thu, 1 Jul 1999, Andrew Gallatin wrote: Peter Wemm writes: Peter, Thanks for the details. I wasn't sure if it was something that was supposed to work... I assume it still works

Re: npx0 to set maxmem broken in -current?

1999-07-01 Thread Mike Smith
a bit late you should check teh cvs rep for these files.. peter's already checked it in... :-) Don't count on Peter's changes; I'm going to try to beat them up again. -- \\ The mind's the standard \\ Mike Smith \\ of the man. \\ [EMAIL PROTECTED] \\--

Re: npx0 to set maxmem broken in -current?

1999-07-01 Thread Andrew Gallatin
Julian Elischer writes: a bit late you should check teh cvs rep for these files.. peter's already checked it in... :-) Wow, he's fast. ;-) I should have checked my committers folder sooner.. Thanks Peter. Cheers, Drew

Usage of 'gdb' command in DDB

1999-07-01 Thread Stan Shkolnyy
Hello All, Well, I entered 'gdb', then 'continue' and now I can debug the kernel remotely. How do I switch DDB back? Ctrl-Alt-Esc now causes DDB to contact the remote GDB instead of accepting input from me. Thank you, Stan To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe

Re: reason for slow user-user memory copy

1999-07-01 Thread David Greenman
If the mapping is being done via a device mapping, then the region will be marked non-cacheable. I remember that he said he created a character device /dev/tulip to represent the network card. Actually, his work borrowed a lot from the Cornell U-Net project (now the basis of VIA?). Can we

Re: pccard problems

1999-07-01 Thread Greg Lehey
On Thursday, 1 July 1999 at 13:08:11 -0700, Mike Smith wrote: Indeed. Is it possibly interrupting on a line which something else is using? I've found a problem on my Latitude where it appears that the machine only has two interrupts free (3 and 9). If I put a modem on 3 and an Ethernet

Re: Lizard...

1999-07-01 Thread Alex Zepeda
Feel free, just don't ask me questions about it since I honestly don't have time right now to explain to many hundreds of people how to build this stuff. In a nutshell, use egcs to compile everything from the following list: turbovision 0.7, qt 1.42, libh 0.1 (see below). libh is the

Re: pccard problems

1999-07-01 Thread Warner Losh
In message [EMAIL PROTECTED] Greg Lehey writes: : Is that what you meant? No. You need to set machdep.pccard.pcic_irq to be zero in your boot loader. Warner To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message

Re: pccard problems

1999-07-01 Thread Greg Lehey
On Wednesday, 30 June 1999 at 22:56:43 -0700, Dan Strick wrote: I am attempting to configure a couple of pccards on a DELL Inspiron 3500 running FreeBSD 3.2-RELEASE. Neither card works: 1) The first card is some sort of DVD/MPEG-2 decoder card. It seems to be called a DELL Margi.

Re: DVD-ram

1999-07-01 Thread crypt0genic
* Kenneth D. Merry (k...@plutotech.com) [990701 07:56]: No, its SCSI, im using a adaptec adapter. Keep in mind that i am unfamiliar with SCSI devices so I might allready be doing/have done something stupid ; ) It's not SCSI. The acd driver is the ATAPI CD driver. If you had a SCSI DVD

Annoucing: FreeBSD-3.2-Express, a multi-filesystem capable FreeBSD

1999-07-01 Thread Clarence Chu
Dear all, It is to announce the availability of FreeBSD-3.2-Express on ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/development/3.2-express. FreeBSD-3.2-Express is now capable of being hosted on local/remote disk drives of FAT/NTFS/UFS/EXT2FS/NFS and ISO-9660 to take the benefits of harddisk and/or

Webcams?

1999-07-01 Thread Erik Meyer
I'm planning of setting up a webcam under freebsd (4.0-CURRENT) What webcams work good with FreeBSD? thnx in advance /*Erik Meyer eri...@display-umea.se*/ /*work(+46(0)90177963) */ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majord...@freebsd.org with

Re: DVD-ram

1999-07-01 Thread Dag-Erling Smorgrav
crypt0genic crypt0ge...@ecad.org writes: I have a Lacie DVD-RAM drive, it work great under windows, here is the DMESG i g et from it, I hope this is of some help. LaCie don't make drives, they just package them in ugly boxes with noisy fans. One of my cow-orkers (with whom I share an office)

Re: DVD-ram

1999-07-01 Thread crypt0genic
* Dag-Erling Smorgrav (d...@flood.ping.uio.no) [990701 11:47]: LaCie don't make drives, they just package them in ugly boxes with noisy fans. Im not sure what model you are refering too, but the drive I have is in a stylish external box with a fan that doesnt make a whisper on noise, It also

Re: DVD-ram

1999-07-01 Thread Dag-Erling Smorgrav
crypt0genic crypt0ge...@ecad.org writes: * Dag-Erling Smorgrav (d...@flood.ping.uio.no) [990701 11:47]: LaCie don't make drives, they just package them in ugly boxes with noisy fans. Im not sure what model you are refering too, but the drive I have is in a stylish external box with a fan

Postfix license update.

1999-07-01 Thread Dominic Mitchell
Just to let you all know, it appears that the termination clause has been dropped, but it appears to have gained a gpl-like must make source available clause. http://msgs.securepoint.com/cgi-bin/get/postfix9906/103.html (and where I found it) http://www.lwn.net/1999/0701/a/postfix.html -- Dom

Re: Postfix license update.

1999-07-01 Thread Jesper Skriver
On Thu, Jul 01, 1999 at 01:27:38PM +0100, Dominic Mitchell wrote: Just to let you all know, it appears that the termination clause has been dropped, but it appears to have gained a gpl-like must make source available clause. http://msgs.securepoint.com/cgi-bin/get/postfix9906/103.html

Re: cvs commit: src/usr.bin/ftp Makefile fetch.c ftp.1 ftp.c ftp_var.h main.c util.c

1999-07-01 Thread Eivind Eklund
On Thu, Jul 01, 1999 at 03:03:12PM +0200, Dag-Erling Smorgrav wrote: Ruslan Ermilov r...@freebsd.org writes: On Thu, Jul 01, 1999 at 01:51:24PM +0200, Eivind Eklund wrote: On Thu, Jul 01, 1999 at 04:33:37AM -0700, Ruslan Ermilov wrote: - separate the pftp and FTP_PASSIVE_MODE tests so

Lizard...

1999-07-01 Thread Steve Ames
Everyone should take a peak at http://www.troll.no/announce/lizard.html if you haven't already. Definately take a look at the screenshots. Lizard is a fully graphical Linux installation for Caldera Systems Open Linux. IMO, having an easy, reliable and attractive installer is an excellent selling

Re: GRE encapsulation under FreeBSD 3.2

1999-07-01 Thread Jonathan Lemon
In article local.mail.freebsd-hackers/19990630153542.a31...@lunatic.oneinsane.net you write: On Wed, 30 Jun 1999, Jonathan Lemon was heard blurting out: In article local.mail.freebsd-hackers/pine.bsf.4.05.9906301438450.10384-100...@medulla.hippocampus.net you write: I don't seem to see

npx0 to set maxmem broken in -current?

1999-07-01 Thread Andrew Gallatin
I have a user with a need to run a machine in varying memory configurations. The machine has 512MB she needs to artificially constrain memory to multiples of 32MB from 32MB to 512MB. (32MB, 64MB, 96MB, 128MB ...) I was planning on having her edit /kernel.config change the value of iosize

Re: npx0 to set maxmem broken in -current?

1999-07-01 Thread Peter Wemm
Andrew Gallatin wrote: I have a user with a need to run a machine in varying memory configurations. The machine has 512MB she needs to artificially constrain memory to multiples of 32MB from 32MB to 512MB. (32MB, 64MB, 96MB, 128MB ...) I was planning on having her edit /kernel.config

Re: Lizard...

1999-07-01 Thread Matthew Jacob
Reminds me of SCO. I personally don't much like it- it makes it harder than hell to figure out what's gone wrong when it doesn't work. On Thu, 1 Jul 1999, Steve Ames wrote: Everyone should take a peak at http://www.troll.no/announce/lizard.html if you haven't already. Definately take a look

Re: Lizard...

1999-07-01 Thread Steve Ames
True... But such a configuration doesn't preclude the use of a more detailed listing on vty1 the way we do it now. With our current installation setup its similar to this already. Its text based and some of the menus are not exactly intuitive (No... I don't have a better suggestion just yet). If

Re: Lizard...

1999-07-01 Thread Matthew Jacob
if it gave me lots more diagnostics. Joe Average, on the other hand, likes a spiffy, clean interface. We try to accomodate both types by having a simplistic install and then some detail output on a seperate VTY. This could still be done with an even spiffier graphical installation on the

Re: npx0 to set maxmem broken in -current?

1999-07-01 Thread Jonathan Lemon
In article local.mail.freebsd-hackers/19990701181449.846a...@overcee.netplex.com.au you write: Personally, I think we should use a kernel environment variable passed in from loader, since kern_envp is available *real early*, from the very beginning of init386(), which is called form locore just

Re: Lizard...

1999-07-01 Thread Jordan K. Hubbard
through so-called spiffy installs is growing exponentially. Keeping a simple interface rather than trying to play human engineering with no real human interfaces lab and a 500K$ testing budget might be better. Just my 2 cents... I'll shut up now... (I mean, why should *I* beef so much? I'm

Re: Lizard...

1999-07-01 Thread Matthew Jacob
OK, I'll add a few comments to this. And I'll respond... The actual pros and cons of the current installer and what a new one would look like is not the real question to answer here,... I have to say that what we have isn't that bad- it fails only in some areas where it violates the principle

Re: Lizard...

1999-07-01 Thread Jordan K. Hubbard
What actual marketing information do we actually have that says that in order to go after the desktops we aren't currently installed on we have to add a lot of engineering effort to the installer? Would it be better to Well, just to clear up what looks like a misunderstanding in the making,

Re: Lizard...

1999-07-01 Thread Matthew Jacob
What actual marketing information do we actually have that says that in order to go after the desktops we aren't currently installed on we have to add a lot of engineering effort to the installer? Would it be better to Well, just to clear up what looks like a misunderstanding in the

Re: Lizard...

1999-07-01 Thread Nathan Ahlstrom
My bad, as the current generation says, and it's a major item on my TODO list to spend about 2 days pouring through his code and generating a comprehensive set of comments about where to go from there. Unfortunately, this code is also in the very early stages and represents about 34,000

Thank you Peter!! (Was: Heavily loaded amd/nfs... )

1999-07-01 Thread Doug
I am very happy to report that with the recent commits to -current I can now run my script that reads some 16000 small files in over NFS links at full speed and to completion without locking the box. *BSEG* Many, many thanks for this, it was a huge area of concern for my boss that

Re: pccard problems

1999-07-01 Thread Mike Smith
Indeed. Is it possibly interrupting on a line which something else is using? I've found a problem on my Latitude where it appears that the machine only has two interrupts free (3 and 9). If I put a modem on 3 and an Ethernet board on 9, it works, but only by putting pccardd on irq 5,

Xfree86 v 3.3.4

1999-07-01 Thread Leif Neland
Does anyone have any inside information on subj? The website still claims: We are planning to release 3.3.4 some time in June 1999 I'm longing to get support for my S3 Trio3D. Leif To Unsubscribe: send mail to majord...@freebsd.org with unsubscribe freebsd-hackers in the body of the message

Re: Lizard...

1999-07-01 Thread Mike Smith
Everyone should take a peak at http://www.troll.no/announce/lizard.html if you haven't already. Definately take a look at the screenshots. Lizard is a fully graphical Linux installation for Caldera Systems Open Linux. IMO, having an easy, reliable and attractive installer is an excellent

Re: Lizard...

1999-07-01 Thread Steve Ames
Everyone should take a peak at http://www.troll.no/announce/lizard.html if you haven't already. Definately take a look at the screenshots. Lizard is a fully graphical Linux installation for Caldera Systems Open Linux. IMO, having an easy, reliable and attractive installer is an

Re: Lizard...

1999-07-01 Thread Matthew Jacob
That being said... I've heard some of my ex-coworkers (who were all FreeBSD people when they worked here) come up to me in this impressed tone: You wouldn't believe how much easier it is to install RedHat!'. *sigh* I'm not bitching... just being loyal :) That's ridiculous. I've used both,

Re: Lizard...

1999-07-01 Thread Ron 'The InSaNe One' Rosson
On Thu, 01 Jul 1999, Matthew Jacob was heard blurting out: That being said... I've heard some of my ex-coworkers (who were all FreeBSD people when they worked here) come up to me in this impressed tone: You wouldn't believe how much easier it is to install RedHat!'. *sigh* I'm not

Re: npx0 to set maxmem broken in -current?

1999-07-01 Thread Mike Smith
Personally, I think we should use a kernel environment variable passed in from loader, since kern_envp is available *real early*, from the very beginning of init386(), which is called form locore just after going virtual. It needs a couple of tweaks to get this to work, and in particular,

Re: Lizard...

1999-07-01 Thread Thomas David Rivers
That being said... I've heard some of my ex-coworkers (who were all FreeBSD people when they worked here) come up to me in this impressed tone: You wouldn't believe how much easier it is to install RedHat!'. *sigh* I'm not bitching... just being loyal :) That's ridiculous. I've used

Re: Xfree86 v 3.3.4

1999-07-01 Thread David Scheidt
On Thu, 1 Jul 1999, Leif Neland wrote: Does anyone have any inside information on subj? The website still claims: We are planning to release 3.3.4 some time in June 1999 I'm longing to get support for my S3 Trio3D. Heh. It now says early july. I have a Voodoo Banshee I want to use.

UMAX scsi scanner on adaptec 1542 Card

1999-07-01 Thread Greg Skafte
I've been messing around for awhile, and I'm confused (go figure). I've got an adaptec 1542 card using aha driver and RELENG_3 detects it no problems. If I use the adaptec on board utilities it finds my UMAX scanner no probs. when I try to boot the machine hangs just after the waiting for

Re: npx0 to set maxmem broken in -current?

1999-07-01 Thread Peter Wemm
Mike Smith wrote: Personally, I think we should use a kernel environment variable passed in from loader, since kern_envp is available *real early*, from the very beginning of init386(), which is called form locore just after going virtual. It needs a couple of tweaks to get this to work,

Re: Xfree86 v 3.3.4

1999-07-01 Thread Mark J. Taylor
There is a Linux X server for the Voodoo Banshee, over at: http://developer.soundblaster.com/linux/ You might have some luck running it under the Linux emulator. I've never tried it, as I don't have a Banshee. -Mark Taylor NetMAX Developer mtay...@cybernet.com http://www.netmax.com/ On

reason for slow user-user memory copy

1999-07-01 Thread Zhihui Zhang
A graduate student here implements a mmap() interface to a TCP/IP network card. He notices that it takes much longer time to copy from mmapp()'ed area to another user area than it takes to copy the same amount of data from kernel space to user space. The students here have no idea why this could

Re: reason for slow user-user memory copy

1999-07-01 Thread Julian Elischer
hmm Unfortunatly Linux is nt relevent to FreeBSD so we can't comment directly.. it is possible that the mmapped region is marked non-cachable, which migh tmake a difference. I have no idea where memcpy_to_iovec in Linux is copying to so it's hard to comment. julian On Thu, 1 Jul 1999, Zhihui

Re: reason for slow user-user memory copy

1999-07-01 Thread David Greenman
A graduate student here implements a mmap() interface to a TCP/IP network card. He notices that it takes much longer time to copy from mmapp()'ed area to another user area than it takes to copy the same amount of data from kernel space to user space. The students here have no idea why this could

Re: npx0 to set maxmem broken in -current?

1999-07-01 Thread Andrew Gallatin
Peter Wemm writes: Peter, Thanks for the details. I wasn't sure if it was something that was supposed to work... I assume it still works when built in by config should be left in place for that reason though, right? (haven't tried it here..) Personally, I think we should use a kernel

Re: reason for slow user-user memory copy

1999-07-01 Thread Zhihui Zhang
On Thu, 1 Jul 1999, David Greenman wrote: A graduate student here implements a mmap() interface to a TCP/IP network card. He notices that it takes much longer time to copy from mmapp()'ed area to another user area than it takes to copy the same amount of data from kernel space to user

Re: npx0 to set maxmem broken in -current?

1999-07-01 Thread Julian Elischer
a bit late you should check teh cvs rep for these files.. peter's already checked it in... :-) On Thu, 1 Jul 1999, Andrew Gallatin wrote: Peter Wemm writes: Peter, Thanks for the details. I wasn't sure if it was something that was supposed to work... I assume it still works when

Re: Microsoft performance (was: All this and documentation too? (was: cvs commit: src/sys/isa sio.c))

1999-07-01 Thread Nik Clayton
On Wed, Jun 30, 1999 at 08:02:06PM -0500, Stan Shkolnyy wrote: On Wed, 30 Jun 1999, Nik Clayton wrote: Sorry it's taken me a while to reply to this; ironically, most of my time has been spent on freebsd-doc recently. On Sat, Jun 26, 1999 at 12:03:59PM -0500, Constantine Shkolny wrote:

Re: npx0 to set maxmem broken in -current?

1999-07-01 Thread Mike Smith
a bit late you should check teh cvs rep for these files.. peter's already checked it in... :-) Don't count on Peter's changes; I'm going to try to beat them up again. -- \\ The mind's the standard \\ Mike Smith \\ of the man. \\ msm...@freebsd.org \\--

Re: npx0 to set maxmem broken in -current?

1999-07-01 Thread Andrew Gallatin
Julian Elischer writes: a bit late you should check teh cvs rep for these files.. peter's already checked it in... :-) Wow, he's fast. ;-) I should have checked my committers folder sooner.. Thanks Peter. Cheers, Drew

Usage of 'gdb' command in DDB

1999-07-01 Thread Stan Shkolnyy
Hello All, Well, I entered 'gdb', then 'continue' and now I can debug the kernel remotely. How do I switch DDB back? Ctrl-Alt-Esc now causes DDB to contact the remote GDB instead of accepting input from me. Thank you, Stan To Unsubscribe: send mail to majord...@freebsd.org with unsubscribe

Re: reason for slow user-user memory copy

1999-07-01 Thread David Greenman
If the mapping is being done via a device mapping, then the region will be marked non-cacheable. I remember that he said he created a character device /dev/tulip to represent the network card. Actually, his work borrowed a lot from the Cornell U-Net project (now the basis of VIA?). Can we

Re: pccard problems

1999-07-01 Thread Greg Lehey
On Thursday, 1 July 1999 at 13:08:11 -0700, Mike Smith wrote: Indeed. Is it possibly interrupting on a line which something else is using? I've found a problem on my Latitude where it appears that the machine only has two interrupts free (3 and 9). If I put a modem on 3 and an Ethernet

Re: Usage of 'gdb' command in DDB

1999-07-01 Thread Greg Lehey
On Thursday, 1 July 1999 at 18:47:27 -0500, Stan Shkolnyy wrote: Hello All, Well, I entered 'gdb', then 'continue' and now I can debug the kernel remotely. How do I switch DDB back? Ctrl-Alt-Esc now causes DDB to contact the remote GDB instead of accepting input from me. A nuisance, isn't

Major device number for firewire

1999-07-01 Thread ikob
Folks, I have been developing firewire (IEEE1394) device driver on FreeBSD and the driver is working quite stable. I would like to reserve major device number for firewire. P.S. The driver code can be obtained from following: ftp://ftp.uec.ac.jp/pub/firewire

Re: Xfree86 v 3.3.4

1999-07-01 Thread David Scheidt
On Thu, 1 Jul 1999, Mark J. Taylor wrote: There is a Linux X server for the Voodoo Banshee, over at: http://developer.soundblaster.com/linux/ You might have some luck running it under the Linux emulator. I've never tried it, as I don't have a Banshee. Thanks! This appears to work

Re: Major device number for firewire

1999-07-01 Thread Jordan K. Hubbard
I assume you mean a major character device number only? You can have 127 (decimal). Any prediction on when you think this driver will be ready to bring into -current? It sounds quite promising! - Jordan Folks, I have been developing firewire (IEEE1394) device driver on FreeBSD and the

Re: Major device number for firewire

1999-07-01 Thread ikob
From: Jordan K. Hubbard j...@zippy.cdrom.com Subject: Re: Major device number for firewire Date: Thu, 01 Jul 1999 19:49:29 -0700 Message-ID: 70335.930883...@zippy.cdrom.com jkh I assume you mean a major character device number only? You can jkh have 127 (decimal). jkh Thanks, I want to get

Re: Lizard...

1999-07-01 Thread Jordan K. Hubbard
Would it be possible to have this code put up for www/ftp or something, so that anyone who is interested could have a look? Feel free, just don't ask me questions about it since I honestly don't have time right now to explain to many hundreds of people how to build this stuff. In a nutshell,

Re: Lizard...

1999-07-01 Thread Josef Grosch
On Thu, Jul 01, 1999 at 03:18:00PM -0700, Ron 'The InSaNe One' Rosson wrote: On Thu, 01 Jul 1999, Matthew Jacob was heard blurting out: That being said... I've heard some of my ex-coworkers (who were all FreeBSD people when they worked here) come up to me in this impressed tone: You

Re: Lizard...

1999-07-01 Thread Alex Zepeda
On Thu, 1 Jul 1999, Josef Grosch wrote: I have done installs on FreeBSD, Redhat, HP/UX, and Solaris and I have to say that Redhat is very confusing. FreeBSD does have it's warts but it is better than Redhat. HP/UX and Solaris also have their problems, just ask Nicole Harrington how she liked

Re: Lizard...

1999-07-01 Thread Alex Zepeda
Feel free, just don't ask me questions about it since I honestly don't have time right now to explain to many hundreds of people how to build this stuff. In a nutshell, use egcs to compile everything from the following list: turbovision 0.7, qt 1.42, libh 0.1 (see below). libh is the code

Re: pccard problems

1999-07-01 Thread Warner Losh
In message 19990702105346.h87...@freebie.lemis.com Greg Lehey writes: : Is that what you meant? No. You need to set machdep.pccard.pcic_irq to be zero in your boot loader. Warner To Unsubscribe: send mail to majord...@freebsd.org with unsubscribe freebsd-hackers in the body of the

Re: UMAX scsi scanner on adaptec 1542 Card

1999-07-01 Thread Warner Losh
In message 19990701163631.a20...@gras-varg.worldgate.com Greg Skafte writes: : I've got an adaptec 1542 card using aha driver and RELENG_3 detects it no : problems. OK. : If I use the adaptec on board utilities it finds my UMAX scanner no probs. OK. : when I try to boot the machine hangs

Re: pccard problems

1999-07-01 Thread Greg Lehey
On Thursday, 1 July 1999 at 22:59:56 -0600, Warner Losh wrote: In message 19990702105346.h87...@freebie.lemis.com Greg Lehey writes: Is that what you meant? No. You need to set machdep.pccard.pcic_irq to be zero in your boot loader. Yes. Somebody else told me that. I tried it (and