Re: GPL version 4

2008-12-14 Thread Mark Kirkwood
valdis.kletni...@vt.edu wrote: On Thu, 17 Jul 2008 05:31:15 +0800, Morton Harrow said: I see with pain in my heart that the GPLv3 doesn't actually give the users of GPLv3 software the liberty and freedom the FSF has been fighting for. Instead they are forced to play by the strict set of

Re: GPL version 4

2008-12-14 Thread Mark Kirkwood
Marco Peereboom wrote: All this GPL blah blah is a huge waste of time. It comes down to this; nearly everyone on this list thinks that the GPL is criminally stupid so stop trying to convince people here that it does not suck dog ass. Lets not have this retarded debate again, *we* know *you*

Re: X fails after upgrade to xorg-7.2; FreeBSD AMD64 w/ Radeon 9600 Pro

2007-06-19 Thread Mark Kirkwood
Byron Campbell wrote: Xorg -configure now reports: (++) Using config file: /root/xorg.conf.new (WW) RADEON: No matching Device section for instance (BusID PCI:1:0:1) found (**) RADEON(0): RADEONPreInit Manually doing the config by running xorgcfg -textmode gives a different BusID in the

Re: X fails after upgrade to xorg-7.2; FreeBSD AMD64 w/ Radeon 9600 Pro

2007-06-18 Thread Mark Kirkwood
Byron Campbell wrote: On Sunday 17 June 2007 10:23:19 pm Mark Kirkwood wrote: AFAICS the symbol is defined in: /usr/local/lib/xorg/modules/drivers/ati_drv.so e.g: $ nm ati_drv.so|grep ATIMemoryTypeNames_88800CX b5c0 D ATIMemoryTypeNames_88800CX What does it show on your system (I'm

Re: X fails after upgrade to xorg-7.2; FreeBSD AMD64 w/ Radeon 9600 Pro

2007-06-17 Thread Mark Kirkwood
Byron Campbell wrote: Help, X was working just fine until I did a portupgrade of xorg 6.9.0 to 7.2. Looks like X is starting but my LCD monitor just goes black with the monitor's OSD reporting video input, out of range. I've gone back through Xorg configuration (via xorgcfg -textmode) and

Re: X fails after upgrade to xorg-7.2; FreeBSD AMD64 w/ Radeon 9600 Pro

2007-06-17 Thread Mark Kirkwood
Byron Campbell wrote: I went back and ran Xorg -configure again, and noted the following error messages: dlopen: /usr/local/lib/xorg/modules/drivers//atimisc_drv.so: Undefined symbol ATIMemoryTypeNames_88800CX (EE) Failed to load /usr/local/lib/xorg/modules/drivers//atimisc_drv.so

Re: xorg 7.2 start problem

2007-05-23 Thread Mark Kirkwood
Kris Kennaway wrote: On Wed, May 23, 2007 at 01:07:18AM -0700, Andriy Babiy wrote: I guess you missed the several replies (and the note in UPDATING) telling you to install the xorg port to obtain a complete xorg installation. Kris Thank you Kris. Now I see, I didn't have xorg meta-port

Re: Don't buy AMD products (was Re: Xorg and ATI card query.)

2007-03-14 Thread Mark Kirkwood
Abdullah Ibn Hamad Al-Marri wrote: Since AMD/ATI doesn't make a native driver for FreeBSD, I only buy notebooks with nvidia, and I told my friends about this. We as FreeBSD users could write about this in our blogs and pages, which will widespread the word about the driver issues in better way,

Increase max data segment size?

2004-04-16 Thread Mark Kirkwood
Dear Questions: I have a machine with 2G of ram. I would like to be able to malloc about half of it. However I keep running into the max data segment size limitation: $ ulimit -d 524288 Is there any way to increase or amend this ? I am running FreeBSD 4.9 RELEASE i386 with the following non

Re: Increase max data segment size?

2004-04-16 Thread Mark Kirkwood
I should have mentioned that I built the kernel when the machine had either 512M or 1G of ram, and have subsequently added another 1G. Would rebuilding the kernel result in this limit being recalculated? Mark Kirkwood wrote: Dear Questions: I have a machine with 2G of ram. I would like

Re: Increase max data segment size?

2004-04-16 Thread Mark Kirkwood
size */ so is there any reason *not* to amend this and recompile? e.g. #define MAXDSIZ (1024UL*1024*1024) /* max data size now 1G */ any opinions out there? regards Mark Mark Kirkwood replied to himself: I should have mentioned that I built the kernel when the machine had either

Re: Increase max data segment size?

2004-04-16 Thread Mark Kirkwood
to do... Of course by this time I have managed to find some postings concerning MAXDSIZ and kern.maxdsiz. Hopefully the next person confused about this will find my postings *before* dredging the code! regards Mark Mark Kirkwood wrote: so is there any reason *not* to amend this and recompile

Re: Increase max data segment size?

2004-04-16 Thread Mark Kirkwood
I mean in /boot/loader.conf (growl...) Mark Kirkwood wrote: which looked suspicously like a kernel tunable for data segment size. So setting kern.maxdsiz in /etc/loader.conf seems to be the thing to do... ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http

Re: IO To IDE Blocking In 5.1

2003-09-04 Thread Mark Kirkwood
. regards Mark P.s : Still seeing loss of 2 processor scaling where *any* io is involved, but I will study this some more and post to smp if cant understand it (I wonder if its something to do with running 2 copies of the *same* binary). Mark Kirkwood wrote: . iostat blocks until the process

Re: Why people are not satisfied with FreeBSD?

2003-09-02 Thread Mark Kirkwood
I use Linux for surfing + mail , and Freebsd for coding + research. The choice of which to use for what was just how it happened - rather than any deficiency in either product. I think they are both great. Good to be spoilt for choice. P.s : notice I did not mention that other operationg

IO To IDE Blocking In 5.1

2003-08-30 Thread Mark Kirkwood
I am running Freebsd 5.1 on a Dell 410 with 2xPII and 2xIDE drives (each on its own channel). Drive #1 as 1 filesystem mounted on /, drive #2 has 1 filesystem, mounted on /data1 (both have softupdates enabled) i) start a process doing some io on drive #1 ii) start iostat 5 iostat blocks until