Re: REQUEST FOR TESTERS: `devel/mingw32-gcc'

2009-03-29 Thread Coleman Kane
On Sat, 2009-03-28 at 20:37 -0500, Stephen Montgomery-Smith wrote: Coleman Kane wrote: I haven't seen any activity on the above email, and I am curious if: 1) It was missed (and this really does affect people) 2) Nobody cross-compiles using the mingw32-* ports (it is really very

Re: Overlap in PCI memory ranges (fixed)

2007-12-10 Thread Coleman Kane
Andrey V. Elsukov wrote: Coleman Kane wrote: Also, the mem resources of the SATA controller are used for AHCI (however, PATA compatibility mode is supported using the port ranges, which is what the controller is forced to do). In addition, the device name string on the SATA controller is only

Re: Overlap in PCI memory ranges

2007-12-07 Thread Coleman Kane
Andrey V. Elsukov wrote: Coleman Kane wrote: My apologies. The lines *should* read (mem ranges overlap): atapci0: ATI IXP600 SATA300 controller port 0x9000-0x9007,0x9008-0x900b,0x9010-0x9017,0x5018-0x501b,0x5020-0x502f mem 0xd0609000-0xd06093ff irq 16 at device 18.0 on pci0 . pcm0: ATI

Re: Overlap in PCI memory ranges

2007-12-06 Thread Coleman Kane
Aryeh M. Friedman wrote: Coleman Kane wrote: Hello all, I've got a problem with overlapping PCI memory ranges between my SATA controller and my High-Def Audio controller: Are you using AMD64 or i386? AMD64, FreeBSD 8.0-CURRENT

Overlap in PCI memory ranges

2007-12-06 Thread Coleman Kane
resources to PCI devices), so I'd like to know if anybody can help me sort this problem out which is preventing AHCI and HDA-Audio from working... -- Coleman Kane ___ freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd

Re: Overlap in PCI memory ranges

2007-12-06 Thread Coleman Kane
Gary Corcoran wrote: Coleman Kane wrote: Hello all, I've got a problem with overlapping PCI memory ranges between my SATA controller and my High-Def Audio controller: atapci1: ATI IXP600 UDMA133 controller port 0x1f0-0x1f7,0x3f6,0x170-0x177,0x376,0x5040-0x504f irq 16 at device 20.1

Re: REQUEST FOR TESTERS: `devel/mingw32-gcc'

2007-08-21 Thread Coleman Kane
Coleman Kane wrote: Lev Serebryakov wrote: Hello ports, Latest versions of `mingw32-binutils' and `mingw32-bin-msvcrt' were committed. `mingw32-gcc' is on pipeline. But it is BIG update: new version is 4.2.0 I ask you to test this `almost new' port before commit. http

Re: Mac OS underlying FreeBSD - does it run Linux emulation?

2007-04-04 Thread Coleman Kane
In addition to this, there have been examples of the Linux kernel hosted by Mach in the past (such as MkLinux). From my understanding, the only thing that prevents this from being realized is that nobody has sat down to actually write/port the code to do it. -- Coleman Kane

Re: Any recent news on Xen support for FreeBSD?

2007-04-03 Thread Coleman Kane
On 4/2/07, Kip Macy [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Rink has made some progress. I'm cc'ing him. -Kip On 4/2/07, Jaye Mathisen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The fsmware page is significantly dated, and I just am not sure what's going on. I was just curious if there was a better or updated

Re: Any recent news on Xen support for FreeBSD?

2007-04-03 Thread Coleman Kane
anticipated in my opinion Sam Fourman Jr. On 4/3/07, Coleman Kane [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 4/2/07, Kip Macy [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Rink has made some progress. I'm cc'ing him. -Kip On 4/2/07, Jaye Mathisen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The fsmware page

Re: Floating-point in kernel space

2007-03-09 Thread Coleman Kane
time doing it. However, there are Real-Time applications for such an implementation. Perhaps posting about the problem would be more helpful. -- Coleman Kane ___ freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd

Re: Progress on scaling of FreeBSD on 8 CPU systems

2007-03-01 Thread Coleman Kane
On 2/28/07, Sten Daniel Soersdal [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Jim C. Nasby wrote: On Tue, Feb 27, 2007 at 03:59:52PM -0500, Kris Kennaway wrote: On Tue, Feb 27, 2007 at 12:25:11PM -0600, Jim C. Nasby wrote: On Sat, Feb 24, 2007 at 04:31:11PM -0500, Kris Kennaway wrote: Now that the goals of the

Re: portupgrade O(n^m)?

2007-03-01 Thread Coleman Kane
... -- Coleman Kane ___ freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hackers To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Wireless card not being detected

2007-02-27 Thread Coleman Kane
On 2/24/07, DAK GHATIKACHALAM [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I wonder why these fraudulent scam artists/spammers abusing our freebsd lists. They are in wrong place with wrong people. I am not buying your idea anyway. dude, you chose a wrong person. Thanks Dak -- Forwarded message

Re: Progress on scaling of FreeBSD on 8 CPU systems

2007-02-24 Thread Coleman Kane
On 2/24/07, Kris Kennaway [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Now that the goals of the SMPng project are complete, for the past year or more several of us have been working hard on profiling FreeBSD in various multiprocessor workloads, and looking for performance bottlenecks to be optimized. We have

Re: Progress on scaling of FreeBSD on 8 CPU systems

2007-02-24 Thread Coleman Kane
On Sun, Feb 25, 2007 at 12:41:20AM -0500, Kris Kennaway wrote, and it was proclaimed: On Sat, Feb 24, 2007 at 10:00:35PM -0700, Coleman Kane wrote: What does the performance curve look like for the in-CVS 7-CURRENT tree with 4BSD or ULE ? How do those stand up against the Linux SMP

Re: Progress on scaling of FreeBSD on 8 CPU systems

2007-02-24 Thread Coleman Kane
On 2/24/07, Kris Kennaway [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sun, Feb 25, 2007 at 05:47:55AM +, Coleman Kane wrote: On Sun, Feb 25, 2007 at 12:41:20AM -0500, Kris Kennaway wrote, and it was proclaimed: On Sat, Feb 24, 2007 at 10:00:35PM -0700, Coleman Kane wrote: What does the performance

Re: Examples on using RTC

2007-02-22 Thread Coleman Kane
... don't know if it will help... http://lists.mplayerhq.hu/pipermail/mplayer-dev-eng/2005-January/032291.html -- Coleman Kane ___ freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hackers To unsubscribe, send any mail

Re: Wireless card not being detected

2007-02-22 Thread Coleman Kane
On 2/22/07, DAK GHATIKACHALAM [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 2/21/07, Coleman Kane [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 2/18/07, DAK GHATIKACHALAM [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi Freebsd I have an issue with new card I need to make it work with freebsd, on /var/log/messages I get Feb 18

Re: Wireless card not being detected

2007-02-21 Thread Coleman Kane
On 2/18/07, DAK GHATIKACHALAM [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi Freebsd I have an issue with new card I need to make it work with freebsd, on /var/log/messages I get Feb 18 20:51:55 DAK kernel: pccard0: unknown card (manufacturer=0x0192, produc t=0x0710, function_type=6) at function 0 Feb 18

Re: portupgrade O(n^m)?

2007-02-15 Thread Coleman Kane
On 2/15/07, Alexander Leidinger [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Quoting Olivier Warin [EMAIL PROTECTED] (from Wed, 14 Feb 2007 19:54:09 +0100): This issue is not only related to portupgrade, pkg_add a new port takes far too long now... and make index each time I upgrade my ports is awfull too.

Re: portupgrade O(n^m)?

2007-02-15 Thread Coleman Kane
On Thu, Feb 15, 2007 at 05:33:59PM +0100, Niclas Zeising wrote, and it was proclaimed: On 2/15/07, Coleman Kane [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 2/15/07, Alexander Leidinger [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Quoting Olivier Warin [EMAIL PROTECTED] (from Wed, 14 Feb 2007 19:54:09 +0100): This issue

Re: portupgrade O(n^m)?

2007-02-14 Thread Coleman Kane
in a shorter amount of time than it takes portupgrade to update its database. -- Coleman Kane ___ freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hackers To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: top delay value

2007-01-31 Thread Coleman Kane
overhead and time exponentially! e.g: perl -e 'while(1) { fork; };' -- Coleman Kane ___ freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hackers To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: kern/89528: [jail] impossible to kill a jail

2007-01-04 Thread Coleman Kane
-terminals I have open and I typically have to reboot to clear out the zombies that remain. I can't open any more apps that use gnome-pty-helper to allocate ttys unless I attempt to kill it and start it anew (and I am not even completely sure if that works). -- Coleman Kane

Re: Doubts with scheduler code

2007-01-02 Thread Coleman Kane
or 6.2-RELEASE and then re-ask... -- Coleman Kane ___ freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hackers To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Linking static libraries with '-l'

2006-12-20 Thread Coleman Kane
to literally specify a static library on the commandline. I believe there might be one caveat in the case where another dynamic library dynamically links in libm.so... mainly an ambiguity of which fabs() is actually called... I am not familiar with how this would be resolved in this case. -- Coleman

Re: if exists statement

2006-12-18 Thread Coleman Kane
something like: .if exists($(PREFIX)/etc/rc.d) ... -- Coleman Kane ___ freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hackers To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [call for comments] l2sched

2006-11-02 Thread Coleman Kane
version of the previous email up as a wepage somewhere. Optionally, you could post a blog entry of it and allow for comments... -- Coleman Kane ___ freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hackers

Re: [call for comments] l2sched

2006-11-02 Thread Coleman Kane
On 11/2/06, Maxim A. Zhuravlev [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Optionally, you could post a blog entry of it and allow for comments... http://mzhuravlev.blogspot.com/ -- JID: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org mailing list

Re: [PATCH] Fancy rc startup style RFC

2006-05-24 Thread Coleman Kane
On Wed, May 24, 2006 at 12:29:28PM -0500, Eric Anderson wrote, and it was proclaimed: Eric Anderson wrote: Coleman Kane wrote: On Mon, May 01, 2006 at 12:29:20PM -0700, Brooks Davis wrote: On Mon, May 01, 2006 at 02:16:04PM -0500, Eric Anderson wrote: Brooks Davis wrote: On Mon, May 01

Re: [PATCH] Fancy rc startup style RFC - v6

2006-05-05 Thread Coleman Kane
Hey all, My webserver went down earlier this week, and I have moved my mail. I am in the arduous process of getting a new replacement. I apologize for the delay however, on the rc.subr colorization project, and hope to have the newest updates available again soon. -- Coleman Kane

Re: [PATCH] Fancy rc startup style RFC

2006-05-01 Thread Coleman Kane
: Coleman Kane wrote: On Mon, Apr 24, 2006 at 09:45:09AM -0500, Eric Anderson wrote: Eric Anderson wrote: Actually, some other things got changed somewhere in the history, that broke some things and assumptions I was making. This patch has them fixed, and I've tested it with all

Re: [PATCH] Fancy rc startup style RFC

2006-04-30 Thread Coleman Kane
thoughts, criticisms, etc -- Coleman Kane [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hackers To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [PATCH] Fancy rc startup style RFC - v6

2006-04-23 Thread Coleman Kane
On 4/23/06, Sean Winn [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, Apr 20, 2006 at 10:32:33PM -0500, Eric Anderson wrote: Other than that, do we have general consensus that these do what they claim? Any outstanding issues that haven't been addressed? One request:

Re: [PATCH] Fancy rc startup style RFC - v6

2006-04-22 Thread Coleman Kane
in the recent version of this script that caused the line width to be too big on the syscons console. I modified it and posted it at: http://www.cokane.org/files/rc_fancy-cokane3.patch -- coleman kane ___ freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org mailing list http

Re: [PATCH] Fancy rc startup style RFC - v6

2006-04-22 Thread Coleman Kane
Regards There was a small defect in the recent version of this script that caused the line width to be too big on the syscons console. I modified it and posted it at: http://www.cokane.org/files/rc_fancy-cokane3.patch --coleman kane ___ freebsd

Re: [PATCH] Fancy rc startup style RFC - v6

2006-04-20 Thread Coleman Kane
On 4/20/06, Eric Anderson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Coleman Kane wrote: I have modified the patch as follows: Made a bunch of the settings tunable by the user (message text and field widths). It is availalbe at http://www.cokane.org/files/rc_fancy-cokane2.patch This looks good. I

Re: [PATCH] Fancy rc startup style RFC - v6

2006-04-20 Thread Coleman Kane
I have seen at first sight on the patch. Thanks for all the feedback and testing! Eric I have modified the patch as follows: Made a bunch of the settings tunable by the user (message text and field widths). It is availalbe at http://www.cokane.org/files/rc_fancy-cokane2.patch -- Coleman

Re: [PATCH] Fancy rc startup style RFC

2006-04-19 Thread Coleman Kane
On 4/19/06, Eric Anderson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Eric Anderson wrote: Bill Vermillion wrote: Somewhere around Wed, Apr 19, 2006 at 04:07 , the world stopped and listened as [EMAIL PROTECTED] graced us with this profound tidbit of wisdom that would fulfill the enjoyment of future

Re: [PATCH] Fancy rc startup style RFC

2006-04-19 Thread Coleman Kane
On 4/19/06, Mike Meyer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: In [EMAIL PROTECTED], Coleman Kane [EMAIL PROTECTED] typed: On 4/19/06, Eric Anderson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Please do not use colors in rc. Escape-sequenced colors make unacceptable assumptions about the user and syslogd strips

Re: [PATCH] Fancy rc startup style RFC

2006-04-19 Thread Coleman Kane
On 4/19/06, Mike Meyer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: In [EMAIL PROTECTED], Coleman Kane [EMAIL PROTECTED] typed: On 4/19/06, Mike Meyer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: How about we all discuss good choices for default colors? Depends on the goal: do you want the default to work for everyone, or do

Re: [PATCH] Fancy rc startup style RFC

2006-04-18 Thread Coleman Kane
7-CURRENT rc.subr. I had to manually merge 3 hunks due to some differences. -- coleman kane --- rc.subr.orig Tue Apr 18 13:58:14 2006 +++ rc.subr Tue Apr 18 13:57:36 2006 @@ -313,12 +313,16 @@ break fi _list=$_nlist - echo -n ${_prefix:-Waiting for PIDS: }$_list + if ! checkyesno

Re: [PATCH] Fancy rc startup style RFC

2006-04-18 Thread Coleman Kane
On 4/18/06, Coleman Kane [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 4/18/06, M. Warner Losh [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: In message: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Eric Anderson [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: : : Thanks for the feedback! Looks like I made an erroneous assumption that : the wc, expr

Re: [PATCH] Fancy rc startup style RFC

2006-04-18 Thread Coleman Kane
On 4/18/06, Coleman Kane [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 4/18/06, M. Warner Losh [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: In message: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Eric Anderson [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: : Gordon Bergling wrote: : Hi, : : * Thus spake Eric Anderson ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): : I've

Re: [PATCH] Fancy rc startup style RFC

2006-04-18 Thread Coleman Kane
-on-Black. In fact, I haven't heard of one for some time. -- Coleman Kane ___ freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hackers To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [PATCH] Fancy rc startup style RFC

2006-04-18 Thread Coleman Kane
sanitized for your protection ___ freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hackers To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] You want colors?!? You can have them! (attached) --- Coleman

Re: Fw: Priority Increasing

2005-02-28 Thread Coleman Kane
the system DoS free for others? Ash Also, this isn't really a forkbomb, as you seem to have a limit instituted on the number of forks. In a traditional fork-bomb, the forkers fork themselves, and so on, and so on, -- coleman kane ___ freebsd

Re: Priority Increasing

2005-02-27 Thread Coleman Kane
Well, since the program is running a forkbomb, it is gonna stress out the kernel. The kernel is constantly creating new process spaces, as well as filling in the queue. Are we talking a O(2^n) forkbomb here (where the forks also fork)? Remember, there is overhead associated with forking off new

Re: pthreads dynamic memory in fbsd vs. the same in linux

2005-02-10 Thread Coleman Kane
Could you post the code too, perchance? On Thu, 10 Feb 2005 10:55:04 +0200, Andriy Tkachuk [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi folks. I noticed the strange stick of pthreads (amount ~ 500) when allocating dynamic memory by malloc or new in my system: uname -a FreeBSD ant.emict.com 5.3-STABLE

Re: OpenBSD's netcat in base or ports?

2005-01-25 Thread Coleman Kane
I agree. I think even tcpdump, libpcap, and ssl stuff should be in ports. Currently these are in the src/contrib tree. I know they currently have utility there for the base system. We moved the base away from perl dependence, I think these dependencies should be worked out as well. I really

Re: pthread_mutex_trylock and glib-2

2004-09-09 Thread Coleman Kane
Yeah, I had the same problem. Fixed it by not building with debug code, but I noticed there was chatter about it. On Wed, 8 Sep 2004 18:57:09 -0400, Brian Fundakowski Feldman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, Sep 07, 2004 at 06:27:14PM -0700, Pascal Hofstee wrote: On Mon, 6 Sep 2004

Re: Network interface RUNNING and UP flags

2004-08-09 Thread Coleman Kane
That patch seems to have fixed it. It seemed strange that setting an inet address to the interface set it running, however setting the inet6 does not do this. It is possible this behavior affacts other interface types as well? On Fri, 2004-08-06 at 18:07, Maksim Yevmenkin wrote: 2) Is there a

Network interface RUNNING and UP flags

2004-08-06 Thread Coleman Kane
of them addresses. -- thanks, coleman kane ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hackers To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Proper code style regarding hexadecimal case

2004-08-03 Thread Coleman Kane
Typically, I have used the lowercase formatting. Much of the code I work with has gone for the lowercase format as well. Typically setting something to 0x reads like yelling and stands out in the source, since keywords are all lowercase and most var/function names are as well. As an aside,

Re: Minor weirdness in pci/agp_amd.c.

2002-04-15 Thread Coleman Kane
Is this in the -STABLE or -CURRENT version? I've been working on getting this driver working, mostly from outside patches. -- coleman On Sun, Apr 14, 2002 at 04:57:17PM -0700, Frank Mayhar wrote: I'm working on writing a driver for the ServerWorks AGP support from the Linux driver (sans

Re: Minor weirdness in pci/agp_amd.c.

2002-04-15 Thread Coleman Kane
This was the case in older revisions, it has been fixed in RELENG_4 and -CURRENT. The driver shipped with 4.5-RELEASE was broken. -- coleman On Sun, Apr 14, 2002 at 04:57:17PM -0700, Frank Mayhar wrote: I'm working on writing a driver for the ServerWorks AGP support from the Linux driver

Re: Minor weirdness in pci/agp_amd.c.

2002-04-15 Thread Coleman Kane
:48:05AM -0400, Joe O wrote: This is probably the agp_amd.c driver from stable. It never got patched up with the irongate fix that went into current. Look ether into agp_amd.c in current or look through PR database on the the main freebsd website. On Mon, 15 Apr 2002, Coleman Kane wrote

Re: FreeBSD Advanced tuning advice

2002-04-11 Thread Coleman Kane
The CPUTYPE variable in make.conf handles this, look at src/share/mk/bsd.cpu.mk. -- coleman On Thu, Apr 11, 2002 at 11:05:38AM -0400, Michael Lucas wrote: On Thu, Apr 11, 2002 at 05:04:23PM +0300, Peter Pentchev wrote: Erm.. gcc has quite a lot more flags than the -On optimizations :)

Re: Junior Kernel Task: syscons screensavers

2002-04-05 Thread Coleman Kane
Or maybe make it only come out of screensaver if there is a console message (i.e.: kernel messages, etc...), but stay there during tty activity. -- coleman On Fri, Apr 05, 2002 at 12:18:28AM -0800, Alfred Perlstein wrote: Can someone (for the love of god) make it an option for the syscons

Re: Status of agpgart device

2001-07-20 Thread Coleman Kane
table, or something similar - needed for high-performance memory transfers). -- Coleman Kane wrote: 4.3-RELEASE comes with an agp device. Simply add agp_load=YES to your /boot/loader.conf file, or device agp to your kernel config file. It only supports certain AGP bridges though, look

Re: Status of agpgart device

2001-07-19 Thread Coleman Kane
4.3-RELEASE comes with an agp device. Simply add agp_load=YES to your /boot/loader.conf file, or device agp to your kernel config file. It only supports certain AGP bridges though, look in /usr/src/sys/pci/agp* for more info. On Thu, Jul 19, 2001 at 04:48:00PM -0700, Farooq Mela wrote, and it

Re: ATAPI support

2001-07-13 Thread Coleman Kane
On Thu, Jul 12, 2001 at 11:25:22AM -0700, Mike Smith wrote, and it was proclaimed: We support ATAPI devices and has been for a long time (also CD burners)... I believe I forgot to do a group reply on my previous reply to Søren. OK, it seems a misunderstanding of the term ATAPI.

Re: Idea about modules build

2001-04-16 Thread Coleman Kane
It would also be nice to be able to update third-party modules (like those in ports, x11, etc...) after a kernel recompile. Perhaps some way of setting these up into /usr/local? Peter Pentchev had the audacity to say: On Sat, Apr 14, 2001 at 07:51:31PM +0400, Vladimir B. Grebenschikov wrote:

Re: wd ata

2001-03-30 Thread Coleman Kane
Oh. Sorry. I thought that applied across the ata driver, my bad. Daniel O'Connor had the audacity to say: On 30-Mar-2001 Coleman Kane wrote: There is an ENABLE_ATAPI_DMA or something to that effect in the kernel config you must set. Read /usr/src/sys/i386/conf/LINT for more info. You

Re: Writing to a file in the kernel

2001-03-30 Thread Coleman Kane
Yeah. And you can prefix the messages with DEBUG: or some shit and use grep to parse them out. Drew Eckhardt had the audacity to say: In message 002d01c0b924$a07d2090$8d7d1f26@dhgfhcpps5nhe1, [EMAIL PROTECTED] w rites: The problem is that printf's scroll off the screen. How can I write to a

Re: wd ata

2001-03-29 Thread Coleman Kane
There is an ENABLE_ATAPI_DMA or something to that effect in the kernel config you must set. Read /usr/src/sys/i386/conf/LINT for more info. You may also man ata. BSD Blood had the audacity to say: Hello. I'm using FreeBSD 4.1. My kernel contains the ata driver for the IDE controllers. I

Re: what's the number behind the driver?

2001-03-29 Thread Coleman Kane
Some are legacy drivers that need space configured in the kernel for them. Others are newer PCI devices that can auto-attach. This stuff is being phased-out in -current. BSD Blood had the audacity to say: Hello. While configuring my kernel configuration file, I notice that certain

Re: Porting a Linux driver to FreeBSD with ioctl return values

2001-03-27 Thread Coleman Kane
... Devin Butterfield had the audacity to say: On Monday 26 March 2001 11:24, Alfred Perlstein wrote: * Coleman Kane [EMAIL PROTECTED] [010326 22:40] wrote: Yeah, that's basically what I had to do in tdfx. You can take a look int src/sys/dev/tdfx/tdfx_pci.c under tdfx_ioctl(...) to get

Re: Porting a Linux driver to FreeBSD with ioctl return values

2001-03-27 Thread Coleman Kane
Yeah, figured that one out too. bleh. Dennis had the audacity to say: oh, also, they MUST be negative. so you return (-ENODEV)...some bad upper layer code they decided to never fix. DB To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of

Re: Porting a Linux driver to FreeBSD with ioctl return values

2001-03-26 Thread Coleman Kane
Yeah, that's basically what I had to do in tdfx. You can take a look int src/sys/dev/tdfx/tdfx_pci.c under tdfx_ioctl(...) to get an idea of what needs to be done, if you need more info. Tdfx basically implements the API from device_3dfx in Linux. Alfred Perlstein had the audacity to say: *

Re: Machines are getting too damn fast

2001-03-05 Thread Coleman Kane
I believe DDR still has it bead (PC2100 that is), Rambus serailizes all writes to 32 bit or 16 bit (an even 8 bit) depending on the modules. I haven't seen any 64bit RIMMs. Also, DDR scales higher (up to 333Mhz I think). Just wait for that. I've pretty much given up on RamBus, I saw back in '96

Re: Machines are getting too damn fast

2001-03-04 Thread Coleman Kane
You should see what speed RamBus they were using, 600 or 800 Mhz. It is pretty fast for large memory writes and reads. It'd be cool to see how the different speeds stack up against one another. DDR comparisons would be cool too. Yeah, for the frequency, you have to take into account that these

Voodoo Graphics

2001-02-18 Thread Coleman Kane
for -stable. Thanks, Coleman Kane PGP signature

Re: Glide2x on FreeBSD? Anyone? Anyone...

2001-02-02 Thread Coleman Kane
I tried working with this some time ago. I managed to eventually get a glide2x.so that compiled, but all my newly compiled glide-based apps would crash suddenly. There are some patches available (I am including what I have found), that are supposed to fix this. Perhaps we should create a code

Re: Realtek card support

2001-02-01 Thread Coleman Kane
I usually don't recommend the 8139/29 for anything that is expected to work consistently. The cards work alright, but I prefer to stick to Digital or Intel based NICs for important tasks. Warner Losh had the audacity to say: We've had horrible luck with the realtek 8139 with a few of our

Re: Does anyone know how to let fd0.1720 be bootable?

2001-01-21 Thread Coleman Kane
I had issues with this when I was doing some bootsector ASM coding. Basically, you have to set up the disk header (first 32 bytes of sector 1?) to tell the bios how many sectors your disk has. Many BIOSes will still only do 18 sectors anyway, though. I can't remember the exact layout of the disk

Re: Linux NVIDIA drivers vs. default XFree86 drivers (WAS: RE: Video card support)

2000-07-31 Thread Coleman Kane
binary drivers under Debian GNU/Linux 2.1. He has decided to switch back to the XFree86 supplied drivers that have lower performance to stop X from crashing so much. You can't even debug them because the symbols have been stripped out. Too bad. -- Coleman Kane President, UC Free O.S. Users Group

Re: DEVFS

2000-07-18 Thread Coleman Kane
] Removing all references to DTYPE_* macros. `-- To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message -- Coleman Kane President, UC Free O.S. Users Group - http://pohl.ec

Re: DEVFS

2000-07-18 Thread Coleman Kane
| UNIX since Zilog Zeus 3.20 [EMAIL PROTECTED] | TCP/IP since RFC 956 FreeBSD coreteam member | BSD since 4.3-tahoe Never attribute to malice what can adequately be explained by incompetence. -- Coleman Kane President, UC Free O.S. Users Group - http://pohl.ececs.uc.edu

DEVFS

2000-07-14 Thread Coleman Kane
Who is currently working on the DEVFS? I emailed the last person to commit to the HOWTO and got no response. I'd like to look into finisheing this, and may start hacking if no one tells me otherwise... -- Coleman Kane President, UC Free O.S. Users Group - http://pohl.ececs.uc.edu

Re: Anyone tried StarOffice 5.2 yet?

2000-07-03 Thread Coleman Kane
the installer as root with the /net option, and put it under, say, /usr/local/office52. Then: exit root cd /usr/local/office52/program run setup as a regular user. No problem. I'm not sure we should even bother with the port. :) ==ml -- Coleman Kane President, UC Free O.S. Users

Re: Anyone tried StarOffice 5.2 yet?

2000-07-03 Thread Coleman Kane
You should be using the linux_base package. The linux_lib were removed after rh 5.2. I did this on 5.0-C. Ollivier Robert had the audacity to say: According to Coleman Kane: I d/l'd from Sun and it installed without a hitch. It is a hell of a lot faster than 5.1 and they've gotten rid

Re: Anyone tried StarOffice 5.2 yet?

2000-07-03 Thread Coleman Kane
Yeah, change the /usr/bin/test in soffice to /bin/test. BSD has test in /bin. Wes Peters had the audacity to say: Coleman Kane wrote: Naw, man. Ports are necessary. They sure are: wes@homer$ /usr/local/office52/program bash: /usr/local/office52/program: is a directory wes

Re: UDF (DVD fs)

2000-07-02 Thread Coleman Kane
types of filesystems). Endeed, makeing a ro UDF filesystem more or less useless :) -Søren -- Coleman Kane President, UC Free O.S. Users Group - http://pohl.ececs.uc.edu To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message

Re: Anyone tried StarOffice 5.2 yet?

2000-07-02 Thread Coleman Kane
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Re: XFree86 4.0 - What are people using for dual-head video?

2000-07-01 Thread Coleman Kane
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UDF (DVD fs)

2000-07-01 Thread Coleman Kane
some help in writing the code to support this fs. -- Coleman Kane President, UC Free O.S. Users Group - http://pohl.ececs.uc.edu PGP signature

Linux ioctls

2000-06-21 Thread Coleman Kane
Who i currently working on the linux emu ioctl code? I need to add another ioctl to it to support glide games under freebsd in linux emulation. -- Coleman Kane President, UC Free O.S. Users Group - http://pohl.ececs.uc.edu To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubs

Re: freebsd bios.

2000-06-19 Thread Coleman Kane
I never said it would be easy, I simply was stating that the reference designs tend to stick to documented specifications, typically. Of course, writing a BIOS is hard enough. John Baldwin had the audacity to say: On 19-Jun-00 Coleman Kane wrote: If you start out with a board based

Re: 3dfx driver for freebsd

2000-06-18 Thread Coleman Kane
in comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc -- Coleman Kane President, UC Free O.S. Users Group - http://pohl.ececs.uc.edu To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message

Re: 3dfx driver for freebsd

2000-06-18 Thread Coleman Kane
if it works well under FreeBSD 4.0? -jve -- Coleman Kane President, UC Free O.S. Users Group - http://pohl.ececs.uc.edu To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message

Re: freebsd bios.

2000-06-18 Thread Coleman Kane
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Re: 3dfx driver for freebsd

2000-06-17 Thread Coleman Kane
. He also hadn't been able to get the mmap stuff working on account of 3dfx's mistake in writing glide. I fixed all of these problems in my release, and it works great, so far as I have been told. Cyrille Lefevre had the audacity to say: Coleman Kane [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Here's the address

3dfx driver for freebsd

2000-06-16 Thread Coleman Kane
Here's the address of the 3dfx device driver I wrote for freebsd: http://pohl.ececs.uc.edu/~cokane/ Please test it some more and give me feedback. Could someone please email me with information on submitting this to the CVS commit team? -- Coleman Kane President, UC Free O.S. Users Group

Re: Comments on Athlon [motherboards] sought..

2000-06-08 Thread Coleman Kane
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Re: kerneld for FreeBSD

2000-06-08 Thread Coleman Kane
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Re: kerneld for FreeBSD

2000-06-07 Thread Coleman Kane
y the auto-ifconfig and auto-mount stuff works, though. At the very least, I'd like a probe-only way to find out what devices are available, given a bunch of device driver modules. Neil -- Neil Blakey-Milner Sunesi Clinical Systems [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Coleman Kane President, UC Free

Re: FreeBSD Support of Hot Swappable NICs

2000-06-07 Thread Coleman Kane
t that (cc and reply-to reset there). -- Dan Nelson [EMAIL PROTECTED] To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message -- Coleman Kane President, UC Free O.S. Users Group - http://pohl.ececs.uc.edu To Un

Re: kerneld for FreeBSD

2000-06-06 Thread Coleman Kane
talking about. "Some resources?" Er, no offence, but you're not making any sense. -- Coleman Kane President, UC Free O.S. Users Group - http://pohl.ececs.uc.edu PGP signature

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