Re: 64bit OS?

2000-02-20 Thread Doug Rabson
On Sun, 20 Feb 2000, Patryk Zadarnowski wrote: On Sun, Feb 20, 2000 at 12:42:14PM +1100, Patryk Zadarnowski wrote: One more thing about GPTs (I thought I'll leave that till last. ;) Jochen Liedtke holds a German patent on them, although he will probably be fairly easily convinced to

Re: yamaha japan relationships anyone?

2000-02-20 Thread Doug Rabson
On Sun, 20 Feb 2000, Karsten W. Rohrbach wrote: hi * this might be a little offtopic... clueless mode i just messaged the guys from yamaha japan for specs on their pci audio chipsets to get some decent documentation to start torturing those ymf744 soundcards. no response. i mailed again.

Re: Tuning up semaphores in kernel

2000-02-20 Thread BARRY BOUWSMA IS A MASSMURDERER
On Sun, 13 Feb 19100, Andrey Novikov wrote: You probably want to increase either SEMMNI or SEMMNS. I've noticed that but why are they so "round"? Is there any corelation between all these numbers? I don't want to break my kernel by guessing. options SEMMAP=31 options

Re: 64bit OS?

2000-02-20 Thread Patryk Zadarnowski
On Sun, 20 Feb 2000, Patryk Zadarnowski wrote: On Sun, Feb 20, 2000 at 12:42:14PM +1100, Patryk Zadarnowski wrote: One more thing about GPTs (I thought I'll leave that till last. ;) Jochen Liedtke holds a German patent on them, although he will probably be fairly easily

My daughter bought Digital Research USB Card

2000-02-20 Thread Beverly H Barnhart
The book said she could get the driver off of Windows 98 CD or www.microsoft .com but I could not get the driver from any of those places any ideas? Bev

Re: yamaha japan relationships anyone?

2000-02-20 Thread Luigi Rizzo
Me tooo... luigi i just messaged the guys from yamaha japan for specs on their pci audio ... please hit me with your suggestions, since i am starting to get very I have had more-or-less the same experience. I did get a response which completely misunderstood what I was asking and

Re: yamaha japan relationships anyone?

2000-02-20 Thread Jeroen Ruigrok/Asmodai
-On [2220 14:14], Doug Rabson ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: On Sun, 20 Feb 2000, Karsten W. Rohrbach wrote: i just messaged the guys from yamaha japan for specs on their pci audio chipsets to get some decent documentation to start torturing those ymf744 soundcards. no response. i mailed

Re: yamaha japan relationships anyone?

2000-02-20 Thread Karsten W. Rohrbach
jeroen, could you give us some more details on that law, perhaps some pointers to documents - i could have our law department check that out /k Jeroen Ruigrok/Asmodai([EMAIL PROTECTED])@Sun, Feb 20, 2000 at 04:04:00PM +0100: -On [2220 14:14], Doug Rabson ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: On Sun

Re: yamaha japan relationships anyone?

2000-02-20 Thread Daniel C. Sobral
Jeroen Ruigrok/Asmodai wrote: Well Doug, you're in the UK, so part of the European Community. And since you requested information from Yamaha and got none, you are now legally clean of action due to the law that you may disassemble/reverse engineer their drivers to obtain the

Re: yamaha japan relationships anyone?

2000-02-20 Thread Doug Rabson
On Mon, 21 Feb 2000, Daniel C. Sobral wrote: Jeroen Ruigrok/Asmodai wrote: Well Doug, you're in the UK, so part of the European Community. And since you requested information from Yamaha and got none, you are now legally clean of action due to the law that you may

Re: yamaha japan relationships anyone?

2000-02-20 Thread Karsten W. Rohrbach
with my ymf744 it's a little different... things get vey tricky if you want to change a laptop's embedded audio chipset ;-) anyway, vaio n505x has a neomagic256av chipset onboard, i wonder why the sony boys implement a second chip for the audio stuff if the graphics chipset would also support

Re: Device driver KLD module

2000-02-20 Thread Nick Hibma
First of all the joy module is not a good example as it has been made to work, but nothing beyond that. Second, you are still using lkm-isms, which you shouldn't. Any use of lkm* is wrong and should be converted to kld*. It should be fairly straightforward to create an ISA driver that loads as

Two questions on NFS source code

2000-02-20 Thread Zhihui Zhang
I have spent some time understanding the NQNFS code and have two questions to ask: (1) People say we can not do write-behind on the NFS server side. Does this mean all vnode I/O must be performed with IO_SYNC (or other similar) flag set on the server side when the I/O is done on behalf of a NFS

Re: post 4.0...adoption of pfil(9) from NetBSD ?

2000-02-20 Thread Robert Watson
On Sat, 19 Feb 2000, Luigi Rizzo wrote: If you look at how linux's iptables works, there are separate modules for each of ip, tcp, udp, icmp, etc. A packet is filtered by calling the appropriate filter routine for that protocol. In comparison to ipfw which does all its port checking,

DeCSS

2000-02-20 Thread Peter Wemm
I would love to make a port of this, for reasons that become obvious once you see the page. (Think of all the mailing list archives and mirrors) http://www.totse.com/DeCSS/ Be sure to read it before commenting, it's not what you might think. Cheers, -Peter To Unsubscribe: send mail to

Re: Tuning up semaphores in kernel

2000-02-20 Thread Juergen Lock
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED] you write: On Sun, 13 Feb 19100, Andrey Novikov wrote: You probably want to increase either SEMMNI or SEMMNS. I've noticed that but why are they so "round"? Is there any corelation between all these numbers? I don't want to break my kernel by guessing.

Re: yamaha japan relationships anyone?

2000-02-20 Thread Wes Peters
"Karsten W. Rohrbach" wrote: with my ymf744 it's a little different... things get vey tricky if you want to change a laptop's embedded audio chipset ;-) anyway, vaio n505x has a neomagic256av chipset onboard, i wonder why the sony boys implement a second chip for the audio stuff if the

Re: yamaha japan relationships anyone?

2000-02-20 Thread Daniel C. Sobral
Many people have made this request. The following is what I remember of it. Notice, though, that... * I found the original link on the secret irc channel. * I'm under the impression that it was Asmodai who posted the link. Now, it was Asmodai who just said this is the EU law, so maybe the case I

Re: 64bit OS?

2000-02-20 Thread Arun Sharma
Matt Dillon wrote: Linux also stores persistent information in their machine independant page tables. They aren't throw-away like FreeBSD's are. This will give us a huge advantage when we do the IA64 port. I forgot to mention that Linux/IA-64 switches the processor to physical

Re: DeCSS

2000-02-20 Thread Daniel C. Sobral
Peter Wemm wrote: I would love to make a port of this, for reasons that become obvious once you see the page. (Think of all the mailing list archives and mirrors) http://www.totse.com/DeCSS/ Be sure to read it before commenting, it's not what you might think. Excellent idea. (And, no,