Re: What is VT_TFS?

2001-09-02 Thread Boris Popov
On Fri, 31 Aug 2001, Zhihui Zhang wrote: What is the file system that uses VT_TFS in vnode.h? Is it still available on FreeBSD? Thanks. This type of filesystem was used by netcon package (http://www.netcon.com). However there is no new versions for FreeBSD above 2.x, so it probably

.so and threads, and stereo /dev/dsp, freebsd 4.3-stable.

2001-09-02 Thread Faried Nawaz
Hello, I checked out quakeforge (http://www.quakeforge.net/) from their cvs tree, and tried building it on FreeBSD yesterday. It mostly worked, but I ran into two odd problems. Quakeforge uses plugins to handle sound; there is an OSS plugin for the normal system sound libs, and an SDL plugin

Re: Mounting FAT16 on USB connected Rio 600

2001-09-02 Thread Nick Hibma
As said below, modify usbdevs/umass.c to recognise your device and then see whether it behaves. If not, try adding the quirks to scsi_da.c (no READS_6 and no cache sync) and see whether that improves things. If it is an ATAPI based device it might be more work to get this device working. Nick

signal handling descrpancy (FreeBSD oaf fix/Evolution)

2001-09-02 Thread David O'Brien
Hi Hackers, et.al. The PIM Evolution, http://www.ximian.com/products/ximian_evolution/, does not run on FreeBSD. The authors have made a change so that it will. However, we would like to know if FreeBSD is the odd-man-out, or if the authors were lucky Evolution ran on Solaris and Linux. -

Re: :q:q![kevin.way@overtone.org: Re: import NetBSD rc system]

2001-09-02 Thread David O'Brien
On Sat, Sep 01, 2001 at 03:11:46PM +, Kevin Way wrote: I don't see any reason to force the boot order to be maintained. As long as the dependancies are set correctly, i'd think the boot order would be determined solely by the output of rcorder. Correct. What am I missing? Nothing.

Re: gzipped crashdumps

2001-09-02 Thread David O'Brien
On Sat, Sep 01, 2001 at 01:16:31AM -0700, Kris Kennaway wrote: Anyone else think this patch from NetBSD is worthwhile? As JDP said, YES!. --- /dev/null Sat Sep 1 01:13:34 2001 +++ zopen.c Sat Sep 1 01:10:14 2001 @@ -0,0 +1,39 @@ +/* + * Public domain stdio wrapper for libz, written

Re: FreeBSD and Athlon Processors

2001-09-02 Thread David O'Brien
On Sun, Sep 02, 2001 at 12:11:15AM -0400, Charles Shannon Hendrix wrote: On Fri, Aug 31, 2001 at 08:33:36PM -0400, Albert D. Cahalan wrote: Well, since it didn't, I might as well explain the problem here too. There are at least two major problems with VIA chips: [data curruption on VIA

Re: FreeBSD and Athlon Processors

2001-09-02 Thread Søren Schmidt
It seems David O'Brien wrote: On Sun, Sep 02, 2001 at 12:11:15AM -0400, Charles Shannon Hendrix wrote: On Fri, Aug 31, 2001 at 08:33:36PM -0400, Albert D. Cahalan wrote: Well, since it didn't, I might as well explain the problem here too. There are at least two major problems with VIA

Patches for Conexant LANfinity support

2001-09-02 Thread Bill Paul
Phil Kernick ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) has been kind enough (and brave enough) to sit down and produce patches for the dc(4) driver to add support for the Conexant LANfinity miniPCI fast ethernet controller. Those of you that have laptops with this chipset can test the patches at:

Re: Routing Performance?

2001-09-02 Thread John Polstra
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], Deepak Jain [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The new P4s are shipping with 800mhz RAMBUS memory modules. Wouldn't 2GB of 800mhz RAM go a long way to evening out the performance between a PC/FreeBSD box and all but the most specialized, packet-pushing ASICs? I doubt it.

Re: Routing Performance?

2001-09-02 Thread Joshua Goodall
On Sat, 1 Sep 2001, Deepak Jain wrote: The new P4s are shipping with 800mhz RAMBUS memory modules. Wouldn't 2GB of 800mhz RAM go a long way to evening out the performance between a PC/FreeBSD box and all but the most specialized, packet-pushing ASICs? I was doing some rough figuring, and

Re: Routing Performance?

2001-09-02 Thread John Polstra
Correcting myself ... In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], John Polstra [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: There is very little bulk copying in the IP forwarding path of the kernel, so the higher bandwidth of RAMBUS would not provide much benefit. I suppose it would speed up the DMA transfers between the

Re: FreeBSD and Athlon Processors

2001-09-02 Thread Rob
On a related topic, I wonder whether gcc 3.0 will improve Athon compilations. I have a big number crunching program that runs just as fast on Windows2000 on my laptop(1Ghz PPro), as on my monster 1.2G Athlon DDR with FreeBSD. Rob. Søren Schmidt wrote: It seems David O'Brien wrote: On

page fault unmounting FFS from NFS-located special

2001-09-02 Thread Semen A. Ustimenko
Hi! Here is sequence leading to page fault: 1. Make special file on NFS 2. Mount FFS from this file 3. Read or write special file (for attributes to change) 4. Unmount this special 5. Enjoy ``Fatal trap 12: ...'' Like this: su-2.04# mount 192.168.5.1:/home/diskless_root on / (nfs, noatime)

Re: Should URL's be pervasive.

2001-09-02 Thread Steve Roome
On Fri, Aug 31, 2001 at 03:34:09PM -0700, David O'Brien wrote: On Thu, Aug 30, 2001 at 11:21:09PM +0100, Steve Roome wrote: ping http://www.myserver.wherever/ instead of telnet wherever 80, just to see if I get a connected or not ? Do you have *ANY* clue how ping works? Ping uses

Re: Mounting FAT16 on USB connected Rio 600

2001-09-02 Thread Andrew J Caines
Nick, As said below, modify usbdevs/umass.c to recognise your device and then see whether it behaves. If not, try adding the quirks to scsi_da.c (no READS_6 and no cache sync) and see whether that improves things. Since I started this, I ought to say that while I enjoy new challenges I don't

Re: Mounting FAT16 on USB connected Rio 600

2001-09-02 Thread Alfred Perlstein
* Andrew J Caines [EMAIL PROTECTED] [010902 22:12] wrote: Nick, As said below, modify usbdevs/umass.c to recognise your device and then see whether it behaves. If not, try adding the quirks to scsi_da.c (no READS_6 and no cache sync) and see whether that improves things. Since I