ALS4000 Sound Chip

2001-06-18 Thread Konrad Heuer
I just bought a PCI sound card based on an ALS4000 chip. It seems to be sound blaster compatible (port 0x220 irq 5 drq 1). Do I have a chance to get the card working when modifying /usr/src/sys/dev/sound/isa/sbc.c in such a way that the chip will be recognized in sound blaster mode during pci

AuDSL

2001-06-18 Thread Jacques Fourie
Hi, I am trying to get AuDSL ( See http://www.araneus.fi/audsl/) to work under FreeBSD. One major problem is that it requires both the read and write channels of the soundcard to be mmap()-able. On 4.3-RELEASE, the following comment can be found in sys/dev/sound/pcm/dsp.c : /* XXX this is

Re: Query: How to tell if Microsoft is using BSD TCP/IP code?

2001-06-18 Thread Josef Karthauser
On Sat, Jun 16, 2001 at 01:16:28PM -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: is BSDI's stack so superior to any of the other BSDs that MS would pay BSDI for it, particularly at a time when BSDI was trying to compete with MS in the server market? Seems like something that a bunch of BSD fanatics

Re: Article Network performance by OS

2001-06-18 Thread Karsten W. Rohrbach
Dag-Erling Smorgrav([EMAIL PROTECTED])@2001.06.17 07:48:27 +: Rik van Riel [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Not quite. Linux distributions tend to be extremely conservative in the IDE options (DMA, interrupt unmasking, write caching, etc. all disabled) while FreeBSD seems to have write

Re: Article Network performance by OS

2001-06-18 Thread Peter Pentchev
On Mon, Jun 18, 2001 at 12:34:53PM +0200, Karsten W. Rohrbach wrote: Dag-Erling Smorgrav([EMAIL PROTECTED])@2001.06.17 07:48:27 +: Second, we tried turning write caching on ATA drives off by default, and boy were you (the user community) pissed. Yes, turning wc off shows you just

Re: ALS4000 Sound Chip

2001-06-18 Thread Chris Faulhaber
On Mon, Jun 18, 2001 at 09:40:27AM +0200, Konrad Heuer wrote: I just bought a PCI sound card based on an ALS4000 chip. It seems to be sound blaster compatible (port 0x220 irq 5 drq 1). Do I have a chance to get the card working when modifying /usr/src/sys/dev/sound/isa/sbc.c in such a way

Re: ALS4000 Sound Chip

2001-06-18 Thread Chris Faulhaber
On Mon, Jun 18, 2001 at 12:58:39PM +0200, Konrad Heuer wrote: On Mon, 18 Jun 2001, Chris Faulhaber wrote: On Mon, Jun 18, 2001 at 09:40:27AM +0200, Konrad Heuer wrote: I just bought a PCI sound card based on an ALS4000 chip. It seems to be sound blaster compatible (port 0x220 irq

max kernel memory

2001-06-18 Thread Ashutosh S. Rajekar
Hi, I'm trying to give the kernel (4.0-RELEASE) 2Gb of memory to work with. I can afford to have 4Gb of physical memory on one of my servers, and hence the experiments. Is it safe to play around with KERNBASE, and get away without breaking code ? Is there any other advisable method if this one

Re: Injecting a packet with explicit route.

2001-06-18 Thread Karsten W. Rohrbach
David Preece([EMAIL PROTECTED])@2001.06.18 12:03:09 +: Hi, Due to the wonder of IPFW and divert sockets I have been merrily catching packets, modifying them and reinjecting back in from userland to great effect for some time now. What I would like (need) to do is much the same, but

RE: Query: How to tell if Microsoft is using BSD TCP/IP code?

2001-06-18 Thread Andy [Tecc Nops]
Hmm, anyone seen this then in the Wall Street J ?? Or is this what started this thread (if so I musta missed one somewhere along the line). Ak -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Josef Karthauser Sent: 18 June 2001 11:17 To: [EMAIL

RE: Query: How to tell if Microsoft is using BSD TCP/IP code?

2001-06-18 Thread Andy [Tecc Nops]
jeez, forgot the link to WSJ http://public.wsj.com/news/hmc/sb992819157437237260.htm If this is what started this forgive me for being so unobservent, we're a bit slow here in the UK sometimes (well I am that is!) Ak Hmm, anyone seen this then in the Wall Street J ?? Or is this what

Re: Query: How to tell if Microsoft is using BSD TCP/IP code?

2001-06-18 Thread Bsdguru
In a message dated 06/17/2001 2:27:59 PM Eastern Daylight Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: 2. We're not bashing Microsoft here. We're just trying to figure out if their recently published comments that Open Source is bad and inimical to our interests is really just marketspeak which

Anyone see todays Wall Street Journal article: Microsoft Using Free Software (or something to that effect)

2001-06-18 Thread Jonathan Slivko
While I didn't read the article (I saw it when someone was reading the opposite page on the subway today), I thought it might make for some interesting conversation and views on the list. I will try and get a URL for you all to look at later. Thanks. -- Jonathan -- Jonathan M. Slivko [EMAIL

RE: Mergemaster bug + new feature [patch]

2001-06-18 Thread Koster, K.J.
Dear James, I had a mergemaster problem a while back, but I haven't debugged it properly. I had my /etc/ppp symlinked into /home/root/ppp. Then, after a mergemaster run I ended up with a file named /etc/ppp, which had the contents of the new version of /etc/ppp/ppp.conf. This box used to dial

Re: Anyone see todays Wall Street Journal article: Microsoft Using Free Software (or something to that effect)

2001-06-18 Thread James Housley
Jonathan Slivko wrote: While I didn't read the article (I saw it when someone was reading the opposite page on the subway today), I thought it might make for some interesting conversation and views on the list. I will try and get a URL for you all to look at later. Thanks. -- Jonathan

RE: Anyone see todays Wall Street Journal article: Microsoft Using Free Software (or something to that effect)

2001-06-18 Thread Andy [Tecc Nops]
Like I posted eariler.. http://public.wsj.com/news/hmc/sb992819157437237260.htm Regards Ak While I didn't read the article (I saw it when someone was reading the opposite page on the subway today), I thought it might make for some interesting conversation and views on the list. I will

Re: Anyone see todays Wall Street Journal article: Microsoft UsingFree Software (or something to that effect)

2001-06-18 Thread Marc Nicholas
http://public.wsj.com/news/hmc/sb992819157437237260.htm On Mon, 18 Jun 2001, Jonathan Slivko wrote: While I didn't read the article (I saw it when someone was reading the opposite page on the subway today), I thought it might make for some interesting conversation and views on the list. I

RE: Injecting a packet with explicit route.

2001-06-18 Thread Koster, K.J.
Dear Karsten, Definition of Windows 95: A 32-bit extension and graphical shell for a 16 Bit patch to an 8 Bit OS originally coded for an 4 Bit CPU, written by a 2-Bit Company that can't stand 1 Bit of competition. That would make Windows 2000 the 64-bit sauce on the 32-bit extension

Re: Anyone see todays Wall Street Journal article: Microsoft UsingFree Software (or something to that effect)

2001-06-18 Thread Matt Dillon
: :http://public.wsj.com/news/hmc/sb992819157437237260.htm Ahhh very nice. BSD is more viral then GPL it would seem :-) It will be interesting to see if MS now tries to rewrite TCP/IP. I got dibs on the front row aisle seat! Where's the popcorn?

Re: Query: How to tell if Microsoft is using BSD TCP/IP code?

2001-06-18 Thread Adam
I'm not sure if this will help or not but Winsock.h, Winsock2.h, and Ws2spi.h which are shipped with visual studio 6 include the following in the header: * This file includes parts which are Copyright (c) 1982-1986 Regents * of the University of California. All rights reserved. The *

Re: Anyone see todays Wall Street Journal article: Microsoft UsingFree Software (or something to that effect)

2001-06-18 Thread Marc Nicholas
On Mon, 18 Jun 2001, Matt Dillon wrote: :http://public.wsj.com/news/hmc/sb992819157437237260.htm Ahhh very nice. BSD is more viral then GPL it would seem :-) It will be interesting to see if MS now tries to rewrite TCP/IP. I got dibs on the front row aisle seat!

Re: Anyone see todays Wall Street Journal article: Microsoft Using Free Software (or something to that effect)

2001-06-18 Thread Matthew Hagerty
As I understand the BSD license anyone can use it, however, they must say that they are using it, no? So if MS is using TCP/IP code (or any other code from FreeBSD), are they not in violation of the license by not including such a clause in their license or documentation? What am I missing

Re: XFree86

2001-06-18 Thread Leif Neland
On Sat, 19 May 2001, Huff wrote: I can't get XFree86 to work. Using /stand/sysinstall I use the script and configure everything manually to the best of my knowledge. I can't find any specs on the monitor I'm using (The Monitor is from the Toshiba Infinia 7200) so I'm not sure of the

RE: Query: How to tell if Microsoft is using BSD TCP/IP code?

2001-06-18 Thread Jordan Hubbard
Sort of the other way around. We were the several FreeBSD volunteers referenced in the article. Lee's my press contact at the WSJ and he's done a number of pieces favorable to us in the past. Again, I'd like to thank the various folks on -hackers who responded (you know who you are) and were a

Re: Anyone see todays Wall Street Journal article: Microsoft Using Free Software (or something to that effect)

2001-06-18 Thread Steve Tremblett
+ Matthew Hagerty wrote: | As I understand the BSD license anyone can use it, however, they must say | that they are using it, no? So if MS is using TCP/IP code (or any other | code from FreeBSD), are they not in violation of the license by not | including such a clause in their license

Re: Query: How to tell if Microsoft is using BSD TCP/IP code?

2001-06-18 Thread Steve Tremblett
+ Adam wrote: | I'm not sure if this will help or not but Winsock.h, Winsock2.h, and Ws2spi.h | which are shipped with visual studio 6 include the following in the header: | | * This file includes parts which are Copyright (c) 1982-1986 Regents | * of the University of California. All

Re: Anyone see todays Wall Street Journal article: Microsoft Using Free Software (or something to that effect)

2001-06-18 Thread Jordan Hubbard
From: Matthew Hagerty [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Anyone see todays Wall Street Journal article: Microsoft Using Free Software (or something to that effect) Date: Mon, 18 Jun 2001 12:43:24 -0400 As I understand the BSD license anyone can use it, however, they must say that they are using

Re: max kernel memory

2001-06-18 Thread Matt Dillon
:Hi, : :I'm trying to give the kernel (4.0-RELEASE) 2Gb of memory to work with. I :can afford to have 4Gb of physical memory on one of my servers, and hence :the experiments. : :Is it safe to play around with KERNBASE, and get away without breaking :code ? Is there any other advisable method if

Re: max kernel memory

2001-06-18 Thread David Greenman
:Hi, : :I'm trying to give the kernel (4.0-RELEASE) 2Gb of memory to work with. I :can afford to have 4Gb of physical memory on one of my servers, and hence :the experiments. : :Is it safe to play around with KERNBASE, and get away without breaking :code ? Is there any other advisable method if

Re: Anyone see todays Wall Street Journal article: Microsoft UsingFree Software (or something to that effect)

2001-06-18 Thread Adrian Filipi-Martin
On Mon, 18 Jun 2001, Matt Dillon wrote: : :http://public.wsj.com/news/hmc/sb992819157437237260.htm Ahhh very nice. BSD is more viral then GPL it would seem :-) It will be interesting to see if MS now tries to rewrite TCP/IP. I got dibs on the front row aisle seat!

Mergemaster killed symlink (was RE: Mergemaster bug + new feature [patch])

2001-06-18 Thread James Halstead
On Monday 18 June 2001 17:04, Koster, K.J. wrote: I had a mergemaster problem a while back, but I haven't debugged it properly. I had my /etc/ppp symlinked into /home/root/ppp. Then, after a mergemaster run I ended up with a file named /etc/ppp, which had the contents of the new version of

Changes to the /etc/rc* boot system

2001-06-18 Thread Doug Barton
[Please follow up on this discussion in -arch] Gang, Several people are leaping into the fray with enthusiasm for this project all of a sudden, which is a good thing. However, I'm a little concerned that it's not getting enough of a big picture view. What may seem like lack of progress

Re: Article: Network performance by OS

2001-06-18 Thread Sergey Babkin
Matt Dillon wrote: : But this isn't true at all. How many people need to make thousands : or tens of thousands of simultanious connections to a machine out of the : box? Almost nobody. So to run a benchmark and have it hit these : :You are essentially saying: out primary

Re: Article: Network performance by OS

2001-06-18 Thread Kenneth Wayne Culver
It's a lot faster on writes with softupdates enabled. FreeBSD will also have journaling filesystems soon. Either way, this was not a very good benchmark. On Sun, 17 Jun 2001, Rayson Ho wrote: But how much tuning is needed? You can download a kernel patch for VM, another kernel patch for FS...

Re: Query: How to tell if Microsoft is using BSD TCP/IP code?

2001-06-18 Thread Sergey Babkin
Josef Karthauser wrote: On Sat, Jun 16, 2001 at 01:16:28PM -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: is BSDI's stack so superior to any of the other BSDs that MS would pay BSDI for it, particularly at a time when BSDI was trying to compete with MS in the server market? Seems like something that a

Re: Data corruption in 4.3-STABLE (a long standing bug)

2001-06-18 Thread Boris Popov
On Mon, 18 Jun 2001, Attila Nagy wrote: I have a mid-loaded server which runs each daemon in jail()-ed environments. The data space is union-mounted, because nullfs paniced the kernel when someting did a chroot on it (this was the case with 4.2-STABLE). On friday I upgraded from 4.3-RC

Re: Changes to the /etc/rc* boot system

2001-06-18 Thread Warner Losh
In message [EMAIL PROTECTED] Doug Barton writes: : A) Examine what we have (most of us understand that pretty well) : B) Figure out what we need (in progress, nowhere near done yet) : C) Take a hard look at NetBSD's code to determine if it meets our needs : D) If we decide C) is yes, figure out

Re: max kernel memory

2001-06-18 Thread Ashutosh S. Rajekar
On Mon, 18 Jun 2001, Matt Dillon wrote: DG changed KERNBASE a while back to reserve a gigabyte of VM for the kernel. This should be sufficient on a 4G machine but it depends where your resources are going. If your server's resources are user-process centric then you don't

Re: max kernel memory

2001-06-18 Thread Matt Dillon
:An associated question: along with this, changing the kernel to use only :PDEs should be better for TLB performance. Mapping 4Mb at a time would :definitely be much better than 4k. I'm talking of having the entire kernel :(at least the code) find mappings in the TLB, and keeping 4Mb mappings