help! - strange vn behaviour

I'll cc: hackers and see if this rings a bell for anyone :| .. Andrew Btw, can you explain why this happens? $ partitionsize=256 $ sects=`/bin/expr $partitionsize '*' 64 '-' 1` $ vnconfig -e -s labels -S $partitionsize"m" /dev/vn0 $ disklabel -w -r vn0 auto diskl

Re: Mandatory locking?

at file system or data-base applications, but I do want to learn as much about them as I can. -- Andrew To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message

undocumented vfork behaviour?

eeBSD OSF1 binaries, and fixes my linux/alpha binary's problems), I'd like to make sure there aren't any hidden ramifications. Thanks, Drew ------ Andrew Gallatin, Sr Systems Programmer http://www.cs.duke.edu/~gallatin Duke

Re: Proposal: Add generic username for 3rd-party MTA's

same thing ... user postfix ... (as well as a group maildrop) Another data point: qmail adds _seven_ new users, and one new group. It has a very paranoid security model. I think that it uses a script to add them, but maybe I did it myself. It was a while ago... -- Andrew To Unsubscribe: send

Re: PCI modems do not work???

possible to buy USB interface cards that plug into ISA, PCI, SCSI? And vice-versa? -- Andrew To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message

Limit of bus hierarchies (was Re: PCI modems do not work???)

? I guess in the Windows world they must provide 16550-virtualisation software, or else everyone's copy of Telix or TeraTerm won't work. Or the parallel ports vs parallel-port scanners. Or maybe these docking stations just won't work at all... -- Andrew To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL

Re: Problems with FIFO open in non-blocking mode?

in the first case is required by standards. In the second case, the fact that the FIFO has been opened O_RDWR means that it _is_ ready for writing, and select() is correctly returning the fact. -- Andrew. To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message

Re: PCI modems do not work???

is or V.90, it's not even a moving target any more. No wonder they're cheap now. Does anyone know whether there's more to a "WinModem" than a line hybrid, a codec and a PCI interface? -- Andrew To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message

X mailers (was Re: ANNOUNCE: Linux ABI/SDK standards for OpenGL/Mesa)

tory style of mailbox. Is it still the case? Nate: it's a while since I looked at VM on XEmacs. I found its layout cluttered and it's key sequences awkward. How configurable is it, really? Do you use it as it comes out of the box? -- Andrew To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with &q

Re: X mailers (was Re: ANNOUNCE: Linux ABI/SDK standards for OpenGL/Mesa)

On Thu, Sep 09, 1999 at 01:21:09PM +0200, Markus Stumpf wrote: On Thu, Sep 09, 1999 at 12:08:01PM +1000, Andrew Reilly wrote: really easy, with a shell script that's just a case $SENDER It's even "easier" :-) I subscribe new mailing lists (and resubscribed old ones) as

Re: damn ATX power supplies...

. -- Andrew To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message

Re: How to go about making a compiler port

. The distribution just includes the C, from which the compiler and tools is built. That seems to work pretty well. -- Andrew To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message

Re: fxp driver for alpha

FreeBSD/alpha, you should have a peek at iprobe. Its not quite DCPI, but it is free ;-) See http://www.cs.duke.edu/ari/iprobe.html {\end shameless-plug} Cheers, Drew ------ Andrew Gallatin, Sr Systems Programmer http://www.cs.duke

Re: A new package fetching utility, pkg_get

ist that gets posted to usenet every (?) month or so, but that seems hard too. -- Andrew To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message

Re: A new package fetching utility, pkg_get

On Mon, Sep 27, 1999 at 08:09:13AM +0100, Nik Clayton wrote: On Mon, Sep 27, 1999 at 10:22:34AM +1000, Andrew Reilly wrote: What I'd like is a little weekly crontab script that runs after my weekly ports cvsup, and tells me which of the ports that I "subscribe to" has changed,

Re: alpha scheduling needs some tuning

Jason Thorpe writes: On Tue, 12 Oct 1999 23:37:53 -0400 (EDT) Andrew Gallatin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Has anybody noticed that scheduling appears to be broken on the alpha? On both i386 alpha, try: echo "main(){for(;;);}" foo.c cc foo.c /usr/bi

ip forwarding broken on alpha

his machine) Thanks, Drew ------ Andrew Gallatin, Sr Systems Programmer http://www.cs.duke.edu/~gallatin Duke University Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Department of Computer Science Phone: (919) 660

Re: ip forwarding broken on alpha

Andrew Gallatin writes: I have an older AlphaStation 600 5/266 running -current (cvsupped last week) which is setup as a router between 2 100mb networks. When the machine is pushed fairly hard (like running a netperf -tUDP_STREAM -- -m 100 across the router, eg about 10-20k 100byte

Re: ip forwarding broken on alpha

, t0 /* are we returning to user? */ beq t0, Lrestoreregs/* no: just return */ --- 263,268 Thanks, Drew -- Andrew Gallatin, Sr Systems Programmer http://www.cs.duke.edu/~gallatin

Is part of user stack always mapped?

does this work on the i386? Is the user's stack always mappeped into the kernel's address space? Should it also work on the alpha? Apologies for wasting your time if I'm missing something obvious, -- Andrew Gallatin, Sr

Re: Is part of user stack always mapped?

Luoqi Chen writes: I was under the impression that this was a no-no one should use copyin/copout friends to access memory on users's stacks. Although this appears to work on the i386, if I try this on the alpha I take a fatal trap when accessing *set. So -- how does this

Re: PCI DMA lockups in 3.2 (3.3 maybe?)

be maintained, designed and tested by individuals. I think that a goal of "surprise at a crash of any sort" isn't unreasonable, and highly desirable. I'll take "right" over "fast", and both over "features" any day. -- Andrew To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EM

Bugs and their ubiquity (was an extended rant about PCI DMA)

Hi Wes, On 07-Dec-99 Wes Peters wrote: Andrew Reilly wrote: On Sun, Dec 05, 1999 at 07:42:21PM -0700, Wes Peters wrote: Software is created by humans, and humans are fallible, therefore the software is also fallible. No, that doesn't logically follow. Just because it's possible

Re: PCI DMA lockups in 3.2 (3.3 maybe?)

nterrupt stack. The interrupt stack grew very large eventually trashed some critical areas of memory. Any chance that something like this could be happening on the i386? Drew ------ Andrew Gallatin, Sr Systems Programmer ht

DMI Support

out on myself, but my knowledge of FreeBSD isn't detailed enough, and my knowledge of OS programming is even worse! :) So while I'm still learning, is anyone else working on this? Many thanks! --- Andrew Boothman [EMAIL PROTECTED] FreeBSD UK User Group http://ukug.uk.FreeBSD.org/~andrew/ http

Re: ATAPI problems in 3.2-RELEASE

On Wed, 22 Dec 1999 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 1. Does your CD spin up and down for no reason and then the process accessing it crash? No, it does not. 2. Is the board a genuine intel one? No again. Maybe it made by MicroStar, but I'm not sure. Andrew A. Bely Software developer

ATAPI problems in 3.2-RELEASE

something? Thanks. Here is dmesg output: Copyright (c) 1992-1999 FreeBSD Inc. Copyright (c) 1982, 1986, 1989, 1991, 1993 The Regents of the University of California. All rights reserved. FreeBSD 3.2-RELEASE #7: Mon Oct 11 19:59:34 GMT 1999 andrew@home:/usr/src/sys/compile/VAULT

Re: Dell PowerEdge 2400 RCC PCI chipset?

00:33:58 abrown Exp $ 299.3323 (This is a Compaq XP1000, alpha 21264). Thanks, Drew -- Andrew Gallatin, Sr Systems Programmer http://www.cs.duke.edu/~gallatin Duke University Email: [EMAIL

Re: Dell PowerEdge 2400 RCC PCI chipset?

$Id: bw_mem_cp.c,v 1.2 1995/03/11 02:19:56 lm Exp $ 8. 251.41 Not too shabby! Thanks! Drew -- Andrew Gallatin, Sr Systems Programmer http://www.cs.duke.edu/~gallatin Duke University

Re: powerpc cross compiler?

You'll need to get header files from your _target_ os and then tell gcc where to find them. What's your target OS ? On Fri, 25 Feb 2000, Jason Allum wrote: Date: Fri, 25 Feb 2000 09:58:01 -0500 From: Jason Allum [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: freebsd-hackers [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: powerpc

Re: empty lists in for

} ; for i ; do echo $i; done seems to do what we want. Well, it works with bash and freebsd's sh. -- Andrew To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message

Re: Is FreeBSD dead? Well, not in theory...

to be making on the mailing lists of a successful open-source project. Particularly from someone who obviously _does_ use and support open source projects. Go on, what's your real point? -- Andrew To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" i

Re: Is FreeBSD dead? Well, not in theory...

ways to improve the situation, or alternative scenarios that would be better. It is just an unhelpful whinge. -- Andrew To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message

Re: JetDirect 500X and FreeBSD

, although in that case NT is providing the "print server" function. -- Andrew I MacIntyre "These thoughts are mine alone..." E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED](work) | Snail: PO Box 370 [EMAIL PROTECTED] (play) |Belconnen ACT 2616 [EMA

reducing the number of NFSv3 commit ops

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Re: reducing the number of NFSv3 commit ops

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Re: Large mbufs?

) driver's management of jumbo frame receive buffers for an example of how this is done. Hope this helps, Drew -- Andrew Gallatin, Sr Systems Programmer http://www.cs.duke.edu/~gallatin Duke University

Re: floating point exceptions

to divide by that the hardware can manage. 0 is never an approximation to 1 or -1. Dividing is for wimps, anyway. :-) -- Andrew To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message

Re: SSE support for FreeBSD

of between 40% (PIII Xeon, 733MHz) and 50% (PIII, 450MHz) when using the kni memcpy stolen from those patches rather than the bcopy from libc, so I think it could be worth looking into. Cheers, Drew -- Andrew Gallatin, Sr

Re: modules and newbus

with questions regarding "is it useful to write a KLD".. Thanks andrew On Thu, 18 May 2000, Adam wrote: |I got the impression that newbus would make it easier to make kernel |modules out of things. What in general does it take to make something |into a kld? I'm thinking of pcm f

Re: Device driver requirement...

Quick note... in my tutorial on writing KLD's, it will include a section on an example character device skeleton. 3 of 5 sections are complete in this tutorial... so I suspect that son I will release it publically. Andrew On Mon, 22 May 2000, G.B.Naidu wrote: | |Hi, | |I would like to know

Re: Device driver requirement...

You are correct.. However, they were quite useless, imo. This tutorial will go into detail regarding each step of the skeleton for ading syscalls and device drivers so that hopefully anyone can quickly learn how to write them. Andrew On Tue, 23 May 2000, Daniel C. Sobral wrote: |Andrew

Re: Device driver requirement...

I guess I may have been brain dead or something to not pick up on the last question in your previous email. I will look at them quickly today and then work on it saturday (Im leaving to california for a few days starting tomorrow). Andrew On Tue, 23 May 2000, Daniel C. Sobral wrote: |Andrew

Receive-only FDDI

nds before "Halted". I am hoping that the DEFPA can be told to "don't worry be happy" and ignore the lack of participation in the ring. Has anyone done anything like this? Does anyone know where to get a programming manual for the DEFPA? thanks, andrew To Unsubscribe:

circumventing ld default -L paths

-Wall -Acpu(i386) -Amachine(i386) -Di386 -D__i386 -D__i386__ -D__ELF__ empty.c | /usr/libexec/cc1 -quiet -dumpbase empty.c -march=pentiumpro -O2 -Wall -version -o - | /usr/libexec/elf/as -v -o /home/andrew/tmp/ccr65832.o - GNU C version 2.95.2 19991024 (release) (i386-unknown-freebsd) compiled

Re: circumventing ld default -L paths

is the default ld link path hardcoded? Cordially, _ Andrew Perkins [EMAIL PROTECTED] To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message

to subscribe

I want to subscribe. Andrew Kamchatnikov, [EMAIL PROTECTED] To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message

Re: soft updates and qmail (RE: qmail IO problems)

don't know what circumstances can provoke either of those flags to be zero, but if they can be, then it mightn't be doing any fsyncs. -- Andrew To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message

Re: What's changed recently with vmware/linuxemu/file I/O

} Cheers, Drew ------ Andrew Gallatin, Sr Systems Programmer http://www.cs.duke.edu/~gallatin Duke University Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Department of Computer Science Phone: (919) 660-6590 To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with

Re: What's changed recently with vmware/linuxemu/file I/O

Andrew Gallatin writes: Dag-Erling Smorgrav writes: Julian Elischer [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I believe that vmware mmaps a region of memory and then somehow syncs it to disk. (It is certainly doing something like it here). Theory: VMWare mmaps a region of memory

Wake on Lan

PowerEdge 4400 (onboard fxp) SuperMicro 370DER (oboard fxp) In all cases, I've enabled the PME or "remote wakeup" in the bios. Does FreeBSD need to do something on the way down to make this work? Thanks, Drew -----

Re: Wake on Lan

Peter Dufault writes: Can somebody clue me in on how Wake On Lan is supposed to work? Does it require any support at all from the OS, or is it totally a BIOS thing? I don't know how "Wake On Lan" is supposed to work, but the "Sony Vaio Slimtop" I have comes out of suspend

Re: Wake on Lan

To follow up on myself, it seems to work on older Asus P2B-LS motherboards (onboard fxp). But only after you shutdown FreeBSD via 'shutdown -p now'. I don't suppose anybody knows which machines support this well? Drew To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe

Re: Compiling FreeBSD kernel with Sun's cc

syntax. I spent most of an afternoon translating our inline asms to ccc syntax, then got distracted and never got back to it... Drew -- Andrew Gallatin, Sr Systems Programmer http://www.cs.duke.edu/~gallatin Duke

Re: Machines are getting too damn fast

box and (barely) faster than a year-old Alpha UP1000 for her code. Drew -- Andrew Gallatin, Sr Systems Programmer http://www.cs.duke.edu/~gallatin Duke University Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: Question regarding the array of size 0.

at run-time, not compile-time? any halfway decent optimizing compiler ought to be reducing the number of useless constants in its output, this being an example of such. -- |- "CODE WARRIOR" -| [EMAIL PROTECTED] * "ah! i see you have the internet [EMAIL PRO

Re: RELEASE versus STABLE

rmore, this question is not appropriate for freebsd-hackers. This list is meant for people with bug notices, programming suggestions, and code to discuss. freebsd-questions is for questions about the basic operation of FreeBSD. -- Andrew Hesford [EMAIL PROTECTED] To Unsubscribe: send mail

Re: A novel idea....

ction to hunt around for things I like. Besides, isn't this message too damn long? -- Andrew Hesford [EMAIL PROTECTED] To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message

Re: system slows down to a crawl

inux!), but the main focus is 4.3BSD, which makes many aspects still relevant. I am finding it to be an interesting read. It does some comparison between Xenix, SunOS, BSD UNIX and System V (releases 3 and 4). -- Andrew Hesford [EMAIL PROTECTED] To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with

Re: Adding a new drive

the walkthrough says. -- Andrew Hesford [EMAIL PROTECTED] To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message

Re: Adding a new drive

MBR with the FreeBSD fdisk. -- Andrew Hesford [EMAIL PROTECTED] To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message

Re: Adding a new drive

On Sat, Apr 07, 2001 at 07:26:30PM -0600, Warner Losh wrote: In message [EMAIL PROTECTED] Andrew Hesford writes: : Hrm... I'm sorry then. I have no idea why the Handbook asks you to zero : out the device, it consumes a lot of time and really isn't necessary. I : wonder if that could

burncd code

Any help would be greatly appreciated, and I would, of course, submit any patches I make. -- Andrew Hesford [EMAIL PROTECTED] To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message

Re: Mounting Linux Partitions in Extended Partitions

can't figure out if, or how, i can mount the larger one. Does anyone have any insight? Use the slice number equal to the partition number in linux. For instace, if Linux saw the disk as sdb6, use da1s6 in FreeBSD. This will work just fine. -- Andrew Hesford [EMAIL PROTECTED] To Unsubscribe

Re: x86-64 Hammer and IA64 Itainium

and leave the x86-64 porting to people who actually care. -- Andrew Hesford [EMAIL PROTECTED] To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message

Re: x86-64 Hammer and IA64 Itainium

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Re: UFS block size vs. write speed

slower in real-world transfer rates, because transfer protocols have overhead, breaking data into packets and reassembling it takes time, and other things. -- Andrew Hesford [EMAIL PROTECTED] To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message

Re: vmware on freebsd for fast booting for devel.

via pxe. Drew -- Andrew Gallatin, Sr Systems Programmer http://www.cs.duke.edu/~gallatin Duke University Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Department of Computer Science Phone: (919) 660-6590

Re: vmware on freebsd for fast booting for devel.

Alfred Perlstein writes: * Andrew Gallatin [EMAIL PROTECTED] [010424 14:44] wrote: Alfred Perlstein writes: So I've got this really elite machinery here to test on, problem is that booting takes about 2 minutes each time I make a bad kernel, s... Do you mean

Re: vmware on freebsd for fast booting for devel.

. I'll pass that pointer along to the person here who was hacking with VMware. Thanks! Drew -- Andrew Gallatin, Sr Systems Programmer http://www.cs.duke.edu/~gallatin Duke University Email: [EMAIL

Re: vmware on freebsd for fast booting for devel.

. My new 1.2GHz Tbird (1GB ram, plain disk) feels quite fast. This is for my workload, which is typically an occasional boot into Windows. Drew -- Andrew Gallatin, Sr Systems Programmer http://www.cs.duke.edu/~gallatin

Re: vmware on freebsd for fast booting for devel.

. Hitting Ctrl-A for the scsi bios works just fine dandy.. Anybody know how to make ansi function keys work from an xterm? Thanks, Drew -- Andrew Gallatin, Sr Systems Programmer http://www.cs.duke.edu/~gallatin Duke

Re: Re[2]: vmware on freebsd for fast booting for devel.

about 'bootstones' -- in more normal situations (ie, once the kernel is loaded) I'd say performance is more like 40-80% of native. Drew -- Andrew Gallatin, Sr Systems Programmer http://www.cs.duke.edu/~gallatin Duke

Re: x86-64 Hammer and IA64 Itainium

need a better solution than the Xilinx software. It's absolutely horrible. They should stick to electronics and leave the software design to those who know what they're doing. -- Andrew Hesford [EMAIL PROTECTED] To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-hackers

Re: Problem with device rl

worked. It was particularly frustrating because everything I've read in the mailing list archives indicated that it should work. Good Luck, Andrew -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Maybe this isn't right mailing list to send this problem but here it is: I have D-Link DFE-530TX+ and in LINT I

Re: new syscons screensaver

one that serves a really good purpose. -- Andrew Hesford [EMAIL PROTECTED] To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-hackers in the body of the message

Re: new syscons screensaver

a specified delay? G`luck, Torbjorn Kristoffersen [EMAIL PROTECTED] THAT'S an idea. I would love to see some fancy screensaver put to good use, as long as I know that it will eventually turn off my monitor. -- Andrew Hesford [EMAIL PROTECTED] To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: minimum size bsd requird

that PicoBSD will indeed get smaller than Linux. The reason is the ability to crunch binaries, which I haven't seen on a linux system. The only other small UNIX-like system I can think of is QNX, which can fit on a single floppy, and has a windowing system and at least a web browser. -- Andrew

Re: no keyboard

that there IS a chance you will toast things. -- Andrew Hesford [EMAIL PROTECTED] To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-hackers in the body of the message

Re: /dev/ptmx equivalent for Linux ABI?

. It would also be essential for running for example a Linux OpenSSH daemon in a jail with Linux binaries. That would be a very good thing... :) Why would that be a good thing? Run the FreeBSD OpenSSH in a jail. -- Andrew Hesford [EMAIL PROTECTED] To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: md disks more than one from a kldload?

, 0x00ff) If anybody else feels like testing this, please do so. Is there some interest an MFC? Cheers, Drew -- Andrew Gallatin, Sr Systems Programmer http://www.cs.duke.edu/~gallatin Duke University

Re: _SC_NPROCESSORS_CONF

Arun Sharma writes: Single UNIX spec doesn't include the above sysconf(3) argument, but many UNIX variants do. What's the BSD way of doing this ? How about the hw.ncpu sysctl? Drew -- Andrew Gallatin, Sr Systems

Re: technical comparison

that. They should be fixed. -- Andrew To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-hackers in the body of the message

Re: technical comparison

the tree-structring transformation that Terry mentioned from being a gratuitious hack to work around a performance problem with the existing implementation. -- Andrew To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-hackers in the body of the message

Re: technical comparison

? There are application specific databases available for that too. What have you got left? -- Andrew To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-hackers in the body of the message

Re: technical comparison

On Sat, May 26, 2001 at 07:25:16PM +1000, Andrew Reilly wrote: One of my personal mail folders has 4400 messages in it, and I've only been collecting that one for a few years. It's not millions, but its a few more than the 500 that I've seen some discuss here as a reasonable limit (why

Re: How to disable software TCP checksumming?

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Re: Fixing documented bug in env(1)

commonly used in /usr/local/etc/rc.d scripts, including qmail and courier-imap. -- Andrew To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-hackers in the body of the message

XFree86 4.1.0 and i810

will take a look at how they handled the ioctl. Unfortunately, I do not know enough about the design of the FreeBSD kernel to go poking in there; if XFree86 4.0.1 can't offer some hints on the right way to handle things, I'm fresh out of ideas. -- Andrew Hesford [EMAIL PROTECTED] To Unsubscribe: send mail

Re: XFree86 4.1.0 and i810

On Wed, Jun 06, 2001 at 11:20:45PM -0500, Andrew Hesford wrote: I hope somebody can provide more information. I am in the process of fetching and extracting the XFree86 4.0.1 sources, I will take a look at how they handled the ioctl. Unfortunately, I do not know enough about the design

Re: XFree86 4.1.0 and i810

On Thu, Jun 07, 2001 at 06:59:15AM -0500, Will Andrews wrote: On Thu, Jun 07, 2001 at 12:32:50AM -0500, Andrew Hesford ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: The XFree86 4.0.1 sources *did* offer a helpful hint. I have posted another email which includes a patch to fix the buggy i810 driver. Are you

Re: XFree86 4.1.0 and i810

On Thu, Jun 07, 2001 at 08:35:06AM -0500, Andrew Hesford wrote: The solution is to comment out the calls to I810BindGARTMemory() and I810UnbindGARTMemory() in the VT-switching functions. The end result is that I810EnterVT() and I810LeaveVT() are now identical in 4.1.0 to the ones in 4.0.1

Re: XFree86 4.1.0 and i810

On Thu, Jun 07, 2001 at 07:15:00AM -0700, Jean-Marc Zucconi wrote: I will commit it. Please send it to [EMAIL PROTECTED] too. Jean-Marc Thanks a lot, I have just submitted the patch to [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Andrew Hesford [EMAIL PROTECTED] To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: import NetBSD rc system

stuff, it too has a single rc.conf-like file to control things. Its main feature is that you can add new modules easily. Warner New modules? Isn't that just the same as /usr/local/etc/rc.d/ ? I side with Mr. Dillon, I hope things stay the way they are. -- Andrew Hesford [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: import NetBSD rc system

. This is a relatively minor issue, and I am sure there are a million equally valid (or more so) solutions to the problem. This is why I leave it to those who are going to implement the system. :) -- Andrew Hesford [EMAIL PROTECTED] To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe

Re: import NetBSD rc system

-var.sh and mount-rest.sh. If we want to mount pccard stuff from fstab, we should do something like the smbfs script does. Then we can have a mount-local.sh and mount-pccard.sh script, which is a bit more sane. -- Andrew Hesford [EMAIL PROTECTED] To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: Article: Network performance by OS

rules for the hardware. -- Andrew To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-hackers in the body of the message

Re: ACPI project progress report

river" level code in it already, so probably needs to be tweaked to re-initialise itself properly. -- Andrew To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message

Re: ACPI project progress report

On Mon, Jun 19, 2000 at 05:01:46PM -0600, Warner Losh wrote: In message [EMAIL PROTECTED] "Andrew Reilly" writes: : That sounds way too hard. Why not restrict suspend activity to : user-level processes and bring the kernel/drivers back up through : a regular boot process? At leas

Re: ACPI project progress report

On Mon, Jun 19, 2000 at 05:30:55PM -0700, Brooks Davis wrote: On Tue, Jun 20, 2000 at 10:16:08AM +1000, Andrew Reilly wrote: (*) Speaking of which: why are we considering doing process dumps into a _different_ swap-ish partition, instead of just ensuring that all processes are sleeping

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