Re: Sticky Keys ?

2000-07-02 Thread Guy Harris
You want accessx for X-windows. Solaris, Compaq/Digital, and SGI provide it, but I didn't see anything at www.xfree86.org Searching around the web found a version for Linux http://slappy.cs.uiuc.edu/fall98/Linux/download.html AccessX appears to have been developed, at least in part, by the

Re: invlpg produces strange sig11 on PentiumPro box

2000-07-02 Thread John Baldwin
On 01-Jul-00 Poul-Henning Kamp wrote: In message [EMAIL PROTECTED], Mike Smith writes: In message [EMAIL PROTECTED], KATO Takenori writ es: The invlpg instruction causes strange signal 11 problem on some PentiumPro box. This problem seems to hapen when (1) mother board is very old and (2)

Re: UDF (DVD fs)

2000-07-02 Thread Soren Schmidt
It seems Coleman Kane wrote: Hello, is anyone currently working on code to implement the UDF filesystem? For those not familiar with it, it is the filesystem that DVDs use. I'd like to look into getting the support under FreeBSD, since the players already seem to work. If no one is working on

Re: UDF (DVD fs)

2000-07-02 Thread Julian Elischer
I am working on UDF support. I have at present a program that reads a udf filesystem and am working (today) on making it into an "mtools" like program that allows access to the contents in a useful manner. I will eventually turn this into a (readonly) filesystem, and it is designed with that

Re: Why do we always create a malloc disk for md?

2000-07-02 Thread Poul-Henning Kamp
In message [EMAIL PROTECTED], John Baldwin writes: This ends up registering md1 with disk_create, and thus md1 is returned as a disk through kern.disks into the list returned by Disk_Names(), and sysinstall blows up when it tries to open it. I think the reason it blows up is because /dev/md1

Re: invlpg produces strange sig11 on PentiumPro box

2000-07-02 Thread Poul-Henning Kamp
In message [EMAIL PROTECTED], John Baldwin writes: *ahem* You might want to read the first paragraph as well. It is for situations where one _can't_ update one's BIOS. I don't see why making it a tweakable kernel compile time know that is off by default would be so incredibly bad. We have

Re: UDF (DVD fs)

2000-07-02 Thread Soren Schmidt
It seems Julian Elischer wrote: I am working on UDF support. I have at present a program that reads a udf filesystem and am working (today) on making it into an "mtools" like program that allows access to the contents in a useful manner. I will eventually turn this into a (readonly)

Re: vmstats for pages that go inactive-active

2000-07-02 Thread Paul Herman
On Sat, 1 Jul 2000, I wrote: vmmeter-cnt.v_reactivated counts the number of cache pages that get promoted to either active or inactive queues. My read (and I could be wrong) from vm/vm_page.c is, there is no statistic to count the inactive pages that get "reclaimed" into the active queue.

RE: Invalidating PACK!!!

2000-07-02 Thread Mustafa Deeb
what do you mean by ribbon cables, aren't the cables that came with the motherboard good for it? -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Joey Miller Sent: Sat, July 01, 2000 10:04 PM To: Mustafa Deeb Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: UDF (DVD fs)

2000-07-02 Thread Julian Elischer
Soren Schmidt wrote: It seems Julian Elischer wrote: Indeed, makeing a ro UDF filesystem more or less useless :) I will be adding read/write later.. One must be able to walk before running! As for RO UDF, it is useful for reading UDF2.0.1 cds that don't have ISO9660 on them (I have one

Re: Documentation selection in sysinstall

2000-07-02 Thread papowell
2. We need to find a UI model that allows the user to efficiently select the language and formats they want to install. I'm thinking of initially presenting a dialog box that looks like this:

Re: style(9)

2000-07-02 Thread Wes Peters
Warner Losh wrote: In message [EMAIL PROTECTED] Jeroen Ruigrok/Asmodai writes: : Often the 80 column boundary reminds me not to use : functions_which_have_crazy_long_names_with_underscores(), but be a : little more brief, but not too. ;)

Re: style(9)

2000-07-02 Thread Warner Losh
In message [EMAIL PROTECTED] Wes Peters writes: : Warner Losh wrote: : : In message [EMAIL PROTECTED] Jeroen Ruigrok/Asmodai :writes: : : Often the 80 column boundary reminds me not to use : : functions_which_have_crazy_long_names_with_underscores(), but be a : : little more brief, but not

name cache size

2000-07-02 Thread Sitaram Iyer
Hi, for the purposes of an experiment, how can I increase the size of freebsd's name cache? Currently, find -type f on a tree with more than 40,000 files refuses to cache the results, and increasing desiredvnodes and the size of nchashtbl didn't seem to help. (4.0-RELEASE, with maxusers=512).

dev to name

2000-07-02 Thread Fox Anderson
Hi. How can i find out the name of device file by device major/minor? To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message

Re: dev to name

2000-07-02 Thread Chris Costello
On Sunday, July 02, 2000, Fox Anderson wrote: Hi. How can i find out the name of device file by device major/minor? The devtoname() function. ``man devtoname'' -- |Chris Costello [EMAIL PROTECTED] |To define recursion, we must first define recursion.

Re: name cache size

2000-07-02 Thread Alfred Perlstein
* Sitaram Iyer [EMAIL PROTECTED] [000702 12:32] wrote: Hi, for the purposes of an experiment, how can I increase the size of freebsd's name cache? Currently, find -type f on a tree with more than 40,000 files refuses to cache the results, and increasing desiredvnodes and the size of

Re: name cache size

2000-07-02 Thread Sitaram Iyer
Thus, Alfred Perlstein wrote... how can I increase the size of freebsd's name cache? sysctl -w vfs.vmiodirenable=1 thanks, that worked. -- Sitaram Iyer [EMAIL PROTECTED]http://www.cs.rice.edu/~ssiyer/ Phone: (off) 713-348-2265 (rice xBANK), (home) 713-799-8980 To Unsubscribe: send

GCC extended asm experts please look at this

2000-07-02 Thread John Polstra
I _thought_ I was an expert in gcc's extended asm feature, but I can't figure out why this won't compile when optmization is disabled: === #define xchgl(v, m) ({ \ int __result;

VPNs and FreeBSD

2000-07-02 Thread Stephen Hocking
Has anyone done this yet? I've just acquired this shiny new cable modem and would like to have secure access to my place of work (even though they're only 10 minutes walk away!) Stephen -- The views expressed above are not those of PGS Tensor. "We've heard that a million

Re: UDF (DVD fs)

2000-07-02 Thread Coleman Kane
Soren Schmidt had the audacity to say: Uhm, the real value of UDF is that it can be used as a "real" rw filesystem on CDRW/DVDRAM media, if this is not implemented the value of having UDF is very limited IMHO Not necessarily, since the cd9660 backward compatibility is not a requirement

Re: loader ??? Awwww... come on someone must know !!!

2000-07-02 Thread nathan
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have FreeBSD 4.0-RELEASE (on i386) What I am trying to do is nfs root boot from the loader (?) I do: ok unload kernel ok load diskless_kernel ok set kernel=diskless_kernel ok boot -r -h Now what I understand is the -r flag will tell the kernel to overide

Re: VPNs and FreeBSD

2000-07-02 Thread Kris Kennaway
On Sun, 2 Jul 2000, Stephen Hocking wrote: Has anyone done this yet? I've just acquired this shiny new cable modem and would like to have secure access to my place of work (even though they're only 10 minutes walk away!) Well, yeah..ipsec, SSH tunnel, all sorts of SSL-based stuff in ports,

ls -G seems to depend on TERM=xterm-color

2000-07-02 Thread Doug Barton
The new improved ncurses version of the color ls stuff doesn't display for me if I am in a "normal" xterm. If I set TERM equal to xterm-color I'm back in business. Is this expected behavior? If so, a note to that effect in the man page would help reduce user confusion. I'll be happy to

Re: GCC extended asm experts please look at this

2000-07-02 Thread Peter Wemm
John Polstra wrote: I _thought_ I was an expert in gcc's extended asm feature, but I can't figure out why this won't compile when optmization is disabled: = == #define xchgl(v, m) ({ \

Re: ls -G seems to depend on TERM=xterm-color

2000-07-02 Thread Sean Lutner
I'm experiencing the same thing. ls --color doesn't seem to work for me unless like Doug, I set TERM=xterm-color. On Sun, 2 Jul 2000, Doug Barton wrote: The new improved ncurses version of the color ls stuff doesn't display for me if I am in a "normal" xterm. If I set TERM equal to

Re: GCC extended asm experts please look at this

2000-07-02 Thread John Polstra
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], Peter Wemm [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: If I change it to use a static inline function, it seems to work and will generate identical code (with -O): Thanks! I'll give that a try in both places where I'm having this problem. It appears to generate valid code

Re: Invalidating PACK!!!

2000-07-02 Thread Peter Philipp
On Sat, Jul 01, 2000 at 10:49:11PM +0200, Mustafa N. Deeb wrote: well I think I've eliminated most of these things, I've the disks out of the server and made the cooler point the air to it.. and It does not look like bad cables... about the BAD hd, I've the problem on 5/5 new drives that I

Anyone tried StarOffice 5.2 yet?

2000-07-02 Thread Stephen Hocking
Hopefully some industrious soul will update the port... Stephen -- The views expressed above are not those of PGS Tensor. "We've heard that a million monkeys at a million keyboards could produce the Complete Works of Shakespeare; now, thanks to the Internet, we know

Re: mbuf re-write(s), v 0.1

2000-07-02 Thread David Greenman
On Thu, 29 Jun 2000, David Greenman wrote: We used to do this in FreeBSD, but found that it was a bad idea for performance reasons. Freeing and reallocating memory from the high-level VM system is quite expensive and the trend in NICs these days is towards needing the code to be even

Re: VPNs and FreeBSD

2000-07-02 Thread Nick Rogness
On Sun, 2 Jul 2000, Stephen Hocking wrote: Has anyone done this yet? I've just acquired this shiny new cable modem and would like to have secure access to my place of work (even though they're only 10 minutes walk away!) I have done just that with nos-tun and Road Runner service.

Re: Invalidating PACK!!!

2000-07-02 Thread Nick Slager
Thus spake Peter Philipp ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): On Sat, Jul 01, 2000 at 10:49:11PM +0200, Mustafa N. Deeb wrote: well I think I've eliminated most of these things, I've the disks out of the server and made the cooler point the air to it.. and It does not look like bad cables... about the

Re: Anyone tried StarOffice 5.2 yet?

2000-07-02 Thread 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 of some of the crapisms. Stephen Hocking had the audacity to say: Hopefully some industrious soul will update the port... Stephen -- The views expressed above are

mbstowcs/wcstombs

2000-07-02 Thread Max Khon
hi, there! sorry for posting here but freebsd-i18n list seems to be dead (is it?) some products (e.g. Xerces for C from XML Apache Project) rely on the following behaviour of mbstowcs/wcstombs: when `dest' param is NULL then `len' parameter is ignored and these functions return required length

Re: mbstowcs/wcstombs

2000-07-02 Thread Max Khon
hi, there! On Mon, 3 Jul 2000, Max Khon wrote: sorry for posting here but freebsd-i18n list seems to be dead (is it?) some products (e.g. Xerces for C from XML Apache Project) rely on the following behaviour of mbstowcs/wcstombs: when `dest' param is NULL then `len' parameter is ignored

Re: ls -G seems to depend on TERM=xterm-color

2000-07-02 Thread Brian Fundakowski Feldman
On Sun, 2 Jul 2000, Sean Lutner wrote: I'm experiencing the same thing. ls --color doesn't seem to work for me unless like Doug, I set TERM=xterm-color. That's because the "color" escape sequences are defined for xterm-color in termcap; xterm-color is defined as a superset of xterm (see the