Re: C--

2007-06-01 Thread Sascha Wildner
Chris Turner wrote: Simon corecode Schubert wrote: However, there won't be any C++ in the list of things to do. The only thing which uses C++ in DragonFly is groff, and I would be happier without this. was just thinking about this issue - any thoughts about:

Re: C--

2007-06-01 Thread Sascha Wildner
Justin C. Sherrill wrote: On Fri, June 1, 2007 3:52 pm, Sascha Wildner wrote: So... I'm kinda unsure here if the perspective of being able to remove C++ from the build justifies reverting to the old mdoc macros. What do the rest of you think? Would there be any quantifiable benefit greater

Re: cvs commit: src/sys/dev/disk/fd fd.c fdc.h

2007-05-22 Thread Sascha Wildner
Petr Janda wrote: You are right, but I think because DragonFly is a small sized project we should be trying to support the most common modern hardware, instead of ancient hardware that barely no one uses these days. How do you decide what is barely used these days? Sascha --

Re: C--

2007-05-19 Thread Sascha Wildner
Chris Turner wrote: Simon corecode Schubert wrote: However, there won't be any C++ in the list of things to do. The only thing which uses C++ in DragonFly is groff, and I would be happier without this. was just thinking about this issue - any thoughts about:

Re: no gcc 4.1after rebuild

2007-05-12 Thread Sascha Wildner
Erik Wikström wrote: For example the make.conf man-page is quite informative (it says among other thing that there is no option WANT_GCC41, gcc41 will be compiled by default and you'll have to set NO_GCC if you don't want it). That's for HEAD. In the 1.8 branch it's still needed. Sascha --

Re: Green console on Dell flat panel 153 monitor

2007-05-04 Thread Sascha Wildner
Eric wrote: I've installed Dragonfly on a Dell Optiplex with a normal old fashion box monitor with no problem. However, when I tried running Dragonfly on a Dimension with a flat panel FP153 monitor, the console screen turns a pale green right after booting. I've had similar problems with

Re: Green console on Dell flat panel 153 monitor

2007-05-04 Thread Sascha Wildner
Eric wrote: On Thu, 3 May 2007 19:53:47 -0700 (PDT) Matthew Dillon [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: :The green tint goes away after I start X, and when I close X and go back :into console, the console is the normal black and white. Its not a :hardware issue, since the problem doesnt replicate in

Re: Green console on Dell flat panel 153 monitor

2007-05-04 Thread Sascha Wildner
Eric wrote: I've installed Dragonfly on a Dell Optiplex with a normal old fashion box monitor with no problem. However, when I tried running Dragonfly on a Dimension with a flat panel FP153 monitor, the console screen turns a pale green right after booting. I've had similar problems with

Re: Welcome new committer - Hasso Tepper

2007-04-26 Thread Sascha Wildner
Matthew Dillon wrote: I would like welcome Hasso Tepper as our newest committer! Very good! Welcome, Hasso! Sascha -- http://yoyodyne.ath.cx

Re: Need Reassurance for using DragonFly for Prodduction

2007-04-07 Thread Sascha Wildner
Gergo Szakal wrote: On Sun, 8 Apr 2007 00:54:33 +0530 Siju George [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I am Planning to migrate my Samba Domain Controller from FreeBSd 6.2 to NetBSD 3.1. Now I am having thoughts about using DragonFly 1.4 as it is Stable. Use 1.8.0 as that is the latest stable

Re: ZFS in FreeBSD-CURRENT

2007-04-06 Thread Sascha Wildner
Gergo Szakal wrote: Just in case anyone's interested... http://tinyurl.com/2dnk9h Pawel did a great job there. Sascha -- http://yoyodyne.ath.cx

Re: compiling ath

2007-03-20 Thread Sascha Wildner
Pataky Tibor wrote: I want to build a kernel with ath(4). I added the following lines to the GENERIC config file: device ath device ath_hal device ath_rate_sample (Is this correct?) After this make buildkernel says: Warning: device ath is unknown What should I do now? Thanks a lot! ath

Re: DragonFly testing

2007-02-23 Thread Sascha Wildner
Jeremy C. Reed wrote: Yes, I thought about it too. However, the packages.7 manpage is part of the pkgsrc bootstrap, so adding a link would either have to be done directly by the pkgsrc people or we'd have to add it to nrelease/Makefile (which I'll do on the weekend if no one objects). NetBSD

Re: DragonFly testing

2007-02-22 Thread Sascha Wildner
Justin C. Sherrill wrote: On Thu, February 22, 2007 2:25 am, Sascha Wildner wrote: Ben Jolitz wrote: I found the how to a little non specific. I do think that a getpkgsrc script would help set things up. There were no man pages (maybe install fubar'ed?) on pkgsrc, so unlike man ports, I could

Re: Slip Tag

2007-02-10 Thread Sascha Wildner
Simon 'corecode' Schubert wrote: Jose timofonic wrote: Speaking of tags, what does mean the MAIN tag? I was trying to find a tag that means the latest stable release, like 1.8 or 1.8.1 when available. This could make a bit less painful the cvs updating of the source code. MAIN is just made up

Re: DragonFly's tools (and technologies)?

2007-02-10 Thread Sascha Wildner
Jeremy C. Reed wrote: I'd like to make a list of DragonFly's inventions or new tools. The following are some new tools (compare with FreeBSD 4 -- there were other changes but I think I list here only DragonFly tools.) I can also post this on the DragonFly wiki. Can you add to or correct this

Re: buildworld error v1.8 - undefined reference to `EVP_sha256'

2007-02-01 Thread Sascha Wildner
j s wrote: Here's the error. I have attempted building several times including from a cleaned /usr/src and cvsup with tag=. and tag=DragonFly_RELEASE_1_8_Slip cc -O -pipe -mtune=pentiumpro -I/usr/src/secure/libexec/sftp-server/../../lib/libssh

Re: Upgrade 1.6 - 1.8 question

2007-01-31 Thread Sascha Wildner
Huub wrote: Hi, I have 1.6.0 running and just downloaded and burned 1.8.0, But for a proper upgrade and keeping applications and settings installed, I suppose I shouldn't use the cd but rather upgrade according to the handbook? Just check out a copy of the 1.8 sources and then do: cd

Re: Vkernel on the wiki

2007-01-24 Thread Sascha Wildner
Steve O'Hara-Smith wrote: Feel free to let me know what I've got wrong on it :) Lemme know if there's something that might be worth adding to our vkernel(7) manpage. Sascha -- http://yoyodyne.ath.cx

Re: why null kernel module? why kernel listed in kldstat?

2007-01-13 Thread Sascha Wildner
Jeremy C. Reed wrote: Is nullfs same as null? If so, how is loader configuration called nullfs_load while file is null.ko? nullfs == null.ko It's a typo in the default loader.conf, I guess. I'll fix it along with some other stuff. Sascha -- http://yoyodyne.ath.cx

Re: why null kernel module? why kernel listed in kldstat?

2007-01-13 Thread Sascha Wildner
Jeremy C. Reed wrote: It's a typo in the default loader.conf, I guess. I'll fix it along with some other stuff. I may misunderstand still... I think the loader.conf is probably correct, but the kernel object should be called nullfs.ko? As it is now, I am confused because I never heard of

Re: NDIS compile problem

2007-01-03 Thread Sascha Wildner
Vladimir Mitiouchev wrote: On 1/3/07, Sepherosa Ziehau [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: You will need to use following command to build modules: make depend all OK. Now i have: /usr/sources/src/sys/dev/netif/ndis/if_ndis.c: In function `ndis_shutdown':

Re: compiling kernel / booting from usb

2006-12-22 Thread Sascha Wildner
Armin Arh wrote: Hi, I just fetched via cvsup all the sources, but there appears to be no /sys/i386/conf/GENERIC any more (marked as Attic). How to compile a kernel? (Can't find instructions in handbook, man-pages, wiki) It was moved to sys/config. Sascha -- http://yoyodyne.ath.cx

Re: open of /dev/speaker for writing: Device not configured

2006-12-07 Thread Sascha Wildner
Vladimir Mitiouchev wrote: Hi! I'm trying to run beep. beep: open of /dev/speaker for writing: Device not configured I haven't found any modules that looks like speaker driver.. Hm, seems Joerg removed it in March 2005.. Sascha -- http://yoyodyne.ath.cx

Re: open of /dev/speaker for writing: Device not configured

2006-12-07 Thread Sascha Wildner
Sascha Wildner wrote: Vladimir Mitiouchev wrote: Hi! I'm trying to run beep. beep: open of /dev/speaker for writing: Device not configured I haven't found any modules that looks like speaker driver.. Hm, seems Joerg removed it in March 2005.. http://www.dragonflybsd.org/cvsweb/src/sys/dev

Re: how starts openoffice

2006-11-23 Thread Sascha Wildner
Yury Tarasievich wrote: Then do: kldload linux first. To automate, have linux_load=YES (or linux_enable=YES?) in your rc.conf. Either linux_load=yes in /boot/loader.conf or linux_enable=yes in /etc/rc.conf will do. Sascha -- http://yoyodyne.ath.cx

Re: graphical boot in DFly

2006-11-23 Thread Sascha Wildner
Saverio Iacovelli wrote: In Slackware Linux I can change runlevel in /etc/inittab, but I did not find the same file in DragonFly. DragonFly, being a BSD derived OS, doesn't have the SysV'ish run levels. Sascha -- http://yoyodyne.ath.cx

Re: mounting usb stick

2006-11-13 Thread Sascha Wildner
Ja'far Railton wrote: On Sat, Nov 11, 2006 at 06:45:34PM -0500, Justin C. Sherrill wrote: On Sat, November 4, 2006 5:37 am, Ja'far Railton wrote: mount_msdos /dev/da0s1 /mnt Nothing happens. No output. detach it After mounting it, there's no output, but does it also not mount? The

Re: mounting usb stick

2006-11-13 Thread Sascha Wildner
Ja'far Railton wrote: Sascha Wildner wrote: Could you try sephe's USB patch from http://leaf.dragonflybsd.org/~sephe/usb.diff7 and tell us if that makes a difference? Sascha I *was* waiting for the hg / mercurial src repository to be fixed [1] before trying a build again. Does anyone know

Re: belarusian locale(s) broken

2006-11-12 Thread Sascha Wildner
Yury Tarasievich wrote: On 27/10/06, Simon 'corecode' Schubert [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: ... If you think they are neccessary. I don't think there are reasons against inclusion of the 8-bit versions. Besides, I am fully UTF-8'ized since several years now, and there are only few regressions

Re: multimedia and desktop

2006-11-10 Thread Sascha Wildner
Saverio Iacovelli wrote: Excuse for my stupid questions, but what I must write in snd_... As Yury wrote before, try 'kldload snd' from the prompt to see if your card is detected. If yes, put snd_load=YES in /boot/loader.conf Sascha -- http://yoyodyne.ath.cx

Re: multimedia and desktop

2006-11-10 Thread Sascha Wildner
Saverio Iacovelli wrote: I must create /boot/loader.conf, because that file don't exist. Yes, you must. Sascha -- http://yoyodyne.ath.cx

Re: bonding driver in DragonFly

2006-11-06 Thread Sascha Wildner
Saverio Iacovelli wrote: ng_one2many(4), ng_fec(4). It don't exist ng_fec man page. We do have ng_fec source in the tree but it is not included in the build. Sascha -- http://yoyodyne.ath.cx

Re: updating from 1.6.2 to 1.7.x

2006-10-27 Thread Sascha Wildner
Saverio Iacovelli wrote: 1) I don't want recompile from zero the system, but only the missing pieces. I think for 1.6.2 - 1.7.x you need a full buildworld. However, after a full buildworld, you can first try a quickworld. Please read the build(7) man page for more info on our build targets.

For the laughs :)

2006-10-12 Thread Sascha Wildner
New predictions from our old friend Danial Thom: My prediction is that a year from now we'll all be using DragonflyBSD and you guys will be looking for a new bunch of beta-test guinea pigs. Thanks to Ancient on #dragonflybsd for noticing.

Re: Network Slowdowns?

2006-10-09 Thread Sascha Wildner
Petr Janda wrote: I think, It should be advised against using PF 24/7 at this moment because it causes lockups for many people. including me without any tricky setup. Strange, I'm running a (non-tricky) PF setup here for years (well, since it was imported) without any issues. I remember

Re: where is cvsup?

2006-10-04 Thread Sascha Wildner
Joerg Sonnenberger wrote: ..and a full package build in the DragonFly 1.3.2 days on ftp://packages.stura.uni-rostock.de/bsdinstaller/dragonfly-1.4/cvsup-bin-16.1h.tgz It lacks a manpage, could you add one? Sascha -- http://yoyodyne.ath.cx

Re: external usb hard drive

2006-10-02 Thread Sascha Wildner
Bryan Berch wrote: Joerg Sonnenberger wrote: We don't need it. The check in msdosfs_vfsops.c can be killed, it doesn't aply anymore. Joerg Are you saying if you kill msdosfs_vfsops.c dfly will mount the hard drive and ,if so, how do you kill it? Can you try this patch and tell us if

Re: external usb hard drive

2006-10-02 Thread Sascha Wildner
Joerg Sonnenberger wrote: On Mon, Oct 02, 2006 at 03:14:46AM +0200, Sascha Wildner wrote: We don't have MSDOSFS_LARGE, unfortunately. I remember ~90GB being the maximum size I could mount on a DragonFly system. YMMV. We don't need it. The check in msdosfs_vfsops.c can be killed, it doesn't

Re: external usb hard drive

2006-10-01 Thread Sascha Wildner
Bryan Berch wrote: I got a usb external hard drive that is 160 gb, but I can not mount it. I get the error too big sorry. I can mount it in FreeBsd 6.1 by adding the following option in my custom kernel. option MSDOSFS_LARGE I didn't find that option in DragonFlyBSD LINT. Is

Re: Using #undef correctly?

2006-09-21 Thread Sascha Wildner
walt wrote: DragonFly defines 'timezone' as a character string in time.h but linux expect the number of seconds west of UTC (hence the long). I'm not trying for a definitive fix here, I'm just puzzled why my added '#undef' failed to change anything. Cluestick, please? The 'timezone' it is

Re: Hints on kernel config for a dula pII/450 system anyone?

2006-09-20 Thread Sascha Wildner
Gergo Szakal wrote: Sepherosa Ziehau wrote: mmm, try the attachment :-) http://rnrdoctor.sytes.net/dfcrash/crash1/ Please also provide the corresponding kernel.1 file from /var/crash. Sascha -- http://yoyodyne.ath.cx

Re: kernel recompilation

2006-09-20 Thread Sascha Wildner
Haidut wrote: I thought that line 224 refers to the line in MYKERNEL which the build process finds problematic. However, line 224 in that file is this: define wlan_ratectl_onoe # 802.11 Onoe TX rate control algorithm which seems fine to me. Any clue as to what I am doing wrong? It should

Re: crash dumps and slices (?)

2006-09-19 Thread Sascha Wildner
Gergo Szakal wrote: Hello, If i set dumpdev to the slice (bad term?) representing /var, will the system be able to access /home ? (asking because symlinked /var/crash to /home/var.crash) I think you're confusing two things there: dumpdev is usually set to a swap partition, as in

Re: Booting dragonfly cd from floppy?

2006-09-14 Thread Sascha Wildner
Petr Janda wrote: Hi, A friend of mine wants to try DragonFly on his old P75 which doesnt have a bootable cdrom drive(It has a cd rom drive but cant boot from it). Is there a way to boot the cd from a floppy? Unfortunately not. What I usually do in such a case is to plug the harddisk into

Re: How to delete files starting with -?

2006-09-06 Thread Sascha Wildner
Petr Janda wrote: Is it possible? How? Ive been trying to figure out. rm -- filename '--' means: End of options, treat everything from this point as arguments. Sascha -- http://yoyodyne.ath.cx

Re: gaim segfault while blocking someone

2006-08-29 Thread Sascha Wildner
Petr Janda wrote: Ok, that did work like a charm. Can you explain what this does besides making a symlink? Petr Trevor Kendall wrote: On 29/08/06, Petr Janda [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Ah thanks, How can this free() problem be fixed? The hack way: ln -s a /etc/malloc.conf The proper way:

Re: question about packages installation

2006-08-28 Thread Sascha Wildner
Saverio Iacovelli wrote: Depends, what shell you are using. I use tcsh, so i put all my stuff into ~/.cshrc The default shell of DragonFly, I think tcsh. Try # echo $SHELL in case you're not sure. Sascha -- http://yoyodyne.ath.cx

Re: questions about interfaces

2006-08-27 Thread Sascha Wildner
Saverio Iacovelli wrote: 4) What meaning sl0, lp0 and faith0? Use the following commands and your questions will be answered: man 4 sl man 4 lp man 4 faith Sascha -- http://yoyodyne.ath.cx

Re: Default selection for boot menu?

2006-08-25 Thread Sascha Wildner
Jonathon McKitrick wrote: On Fri, Aug 25, 2006 at 01:16:55PM +0800, W B Hacker wrote: : Jonathon McKitrick wrote: : Addendum: pressing the F1 key does nothing. Keyboard just beeps at me : when I : press a key. : : Jonathon McKitrick : -- : My other computer is your Windows box. : : Is there

Re: Just obtained a wireless NIC

2006-08-22 Thread Sascha Wildner
Petr Janda wrote: Thanks, You're a legend! :) FreeBSD seems to have ifconfig_acx0=WPA ... Don't what NetBSD has, but I think we may need to keep close to NetBSD for rc script So currently theres no rc.conf way to start wpa_supplicant? I have used /etc/start_if.acx0 in the past for these

Re: Just obtained a wireless NIC

2006-08-22 Thread Sascha Wildner
Petr Janda wrote: Ok, so the line: wpa_supplicant -B -Dbsd -iacx0 -c/etc/wpa_supplicant.conf goes into the script and into rc.conf reads: ifconfig_acx0=inet 192.168.1.50 netmask 255.255.255.0 Will the script get loaded automatically or do I have to add something else into rc.conf? Should

Re: DFly installation fails on my HP notebook

2006-08-22 Thread Sascha Wildner
Saverio Iacovelli wrote: I installed DFly 1.6.0 on my old HP notebook, when I reboot the system the last output is: Fatal trap 12: page fault while in kernel mode fault virtual address = 0xe70766 fault code = supervised read, page not present instruction pointer =

Re: How to get DGUI working over ssh?

2006-08-21 Thread Sascha Wildner
Jonathon McKitrick wrote: On Mon, Aug 21, 2006 at 04:57:47PM +0200, Gergo Szakal wrote: : Probably it does not get forwarded thorugh SSH. Try the web-based : interface as described here: : http://wiki.bsdinstaller.com/wikka.php?wakka=WebInstallHowTo There is no thttpd.conf.sample in

Re: new DNS name suggestions

2006-08-05 Thread Sascha Wildner
Simon 'corecode' Schubert wrote: Justin C. Sherrill wrote: Matt - could you create DNS entries for bugs.dragonflybsd.org i was in favour for issues.dragonfly.org, and we wanted to move the issue tracker to crater as well. I prefer bugs.dragonflybsd.org because issues has so many more

Re: Locked out - need a little help (caution: n00b meter on high!)

2006-08-01 Thread Sascha Wildner
Simon 'corecode' Schubert wrote: yuck. just use ee(1). Nice + sweet + doesn't care about termcap :) Additionally, there's also mined(1). Sascha -- http://yoyodyne.ath.cx

Re: problem with /usr/bin/calendar

2006-08-01 Thread Sascha Wildner
Jon Drews wrote: DragonFly 1.6.0-RELEASE i386 Hi: I am having a minor problem with the calendar utility (man 1 calendar). I have created a ~/.calendar/calendar file but when I type: $ calendar I get the entries for all the calendars stored in /usr/share/calendar. I moved

Re: problem with /usr/bin/calendar

2006-08-01 Thread Sascha Wildner
Jon Drews wrote: DragonFly 1.6.0-RELEASE i386 Hi: I am having a minor problem with the calendar utility (man 1 calendar). I have created a ~/.calendar/calendar file but when I type: $ calendar I get the entries for all the calendars stored in /usr/share/calendar. I moved

Re: live CD question

2006-07-26 Thread Sascha Wildner
Haidut wrote: Hi all, I have a question about creating live CD based on Dragonfly. Is there any way to download the scripts/tools used to enerate the official Dragonfly live CD used for installation? If not, is the package mklivecd available in NetBSD ported to Dragonfly? If Dragonfly is using

Re: NVIDIA FreeBSD Kernel Feature Requests, interesting info for dfly?

2006-07-16 Thread Sascha Wildner
James Mansion wrote: Fine. Go and do it, instead of complaining about it. I'm sure you'll check the IP and find that actually I'm not Danial/Dmitri/whatever, but please, take a step back before writing this sort of thing. James, no, we normally don't check IP addresses. Before

Re: pkg_add -r ? pkgsrc ? Howto install packages ??

2006-07-04 Thread Sascha Wildner
Heinrich Rebehn wrote: So, what's the best way to install packages for DragonFly? Read http://wiki.dragonflybsd.org/index.cgi/HowToPkgsrc Sascha -- http://yoyodyne.ath.cx

Re: USB Pen drive

2006-07-02 Thread Sascha Wildner
Steve O'Hara-Smith wrote: On Wed, 28 Jun 2006 08:30:54 -0700 (PDT) Matthew Dillon [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The manual page is definitely out of date. usbd *used* to handle core connect and disconnect events, but all of that was moved into a kernel thread and integrated into the

Re: est module

2006-06-22 Thread Sascha Wildner
YONETANI Tomokazu wrote: So my question is: Thomas(and anybody else), can you try my untested patch and see if it works for you? (untested because I don't have access to any Pentium-M machines now) Seems to work here with my 770: Jun 22 18:48:47 kern.crit dim kernel: Enhanced SpeedStep (0

Re: Replacing Sendmail with Postfix in the base system

2006-06-14 Thread Sascha Wildner
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Seeing that sendmail is old,archaic, not-as-secure and difficult we should start moving to a better alternative such as Postfix. If anyone has something against it, raise your hands. Otherwise I'll start trying to do it. Petr Would that include free future maintenance

Re: path for detect my RealTek 8139 (really 8169 device id)

2006-06-05 Thread Sascha Wildner
rmkml wrote: Hi, joigned my little patch for detect dragonfly v1.4.4 (stable) THIS PATCH IS ALPHA ! (but work ssh for me, not tested heavily) Im happy for my first very little patch ! Best Regards Rmkml Hmm, are you sure about using rl? The 0x816910ec PCI ID is supported by the re(4) driver

Re: Reading Postscript on the Terminal

2006-06-03 Thread Sascha Wildner
John Duncan wrote: Hi there, Could some kind soul save me trying all the postscript converters in existence and recommend a nice way of reading a postscript document without Xorg installed ? I am getting into groff for printing etc. but have had to rely on old Unix books from

Re: Any serious production servers yet?

2006-05-31 Thread Sascha Wildner
Danial Thom wrote: Surely it makes sense to begin developing O/S applications (which is what I need to do), however I need an OS that is production ready, even if its not as good as its going to be, because I can't reasonably test the performance of an application on an OS that can't handle

Re: No GUI

2006-05-09 Thread Sascha Wildner
Oliver Fromme wrote: card that's not supported by Xorg, it must work with the old 8bit ISA Hercules monochrome card in my printer server (I don't even think it supports graphics mode), it must work without any graphics card at all Hmm, I'm just curious here. Have you actually tried DFly on

Re: [OT] Bonehead question about coredumps

2006-05-01 Thread Sascha Wildner
walt wrote: When a userland program segfaults, what determines whether it also dumps core? Is there something either the programmer or the user can do to force a cordump on segfault? Thanks for any clues! Erik already mentioned core(5). Additionally, signal(3) will tell you the default

Re: Getting nuts with pkgsrc

2006-04-19 Thread Sascha Wildner
Thomas Schlesinger wrote: I've exactly followed this Wiki site: http://wiki.dragonflybsd.org/index.php/Pkgsrc, so I haven't done a cvs up -dP. Is the information on the Wiki wrong? Try http://wiki.dragonflybsd.org/index.php/Set_up_and_use_pkgsrc instead. I've fixed the Wiki. Sascha --

Re: Getting nuts with pkgsrc

2006-04-19 Thread Sascha Wildner
Jeremy C. Reed wrote: Please change the cvs up to cvs up -dP (as documented in pkgsrc Guide). Fixed, thanks... Sascha -- http://yoyodyne.ath.cx

Re: Problem with CDROM

2006-04-13 Thread Sascha Wildner
Saverio Iacovelli wrote: Finally!! I installed DragonFly BSD on laptop! Now, I cannot to mount the cd-rom: #mkdir /mnt/cdrom #mount /dev/cd0 /mnt/cdrom mount: /dev/cd0: No such file or directory #mount /dev/cd0a /mnt/cdrom mount: /dev/cd0a on /mnt/cdrom: incorrect super block #mount /dev/cd0c

Re: Problem with CDROM

2006-04-13 Thread Sascha Wildner
Matthew Dillon wrote: mount -t cd9660 /dev/cd0c /mnt/cdrom (or /dev/cd0a, I forget which). Oh wow, I never noticed that cd0c works as well (thought you had to use acd0c for ATAPI and cd0c for SCSI. Sascha -- http://yoyodyne.ath.cx

rc variables (Re: cups)

2006-04-10 Thread Sascha Wildner
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sun, Apr 09, 2006 at 06:09:40PM -0500, Ezra Drummond wrote: Hi all, How do i start cupsd at boot time, i'm using pkgsrc. With dfports i would just rename cups.sh.sample to cups.sh and make it executable. I did try cupsd_enable=YES in /etc/rc.conf but it didn't

ACPI (Re: ICH7 ?)

2006-04-06 Thread Sascha Wildner
Kevin L. Kane wrote: ok some more info... using this iso: http://chlamydia.fs.ei.tum.de/pub/DragonFly/snapshots/i386/LATEST-Devel.iso.bz2 it fails with default option at the loader prompt, but if you say load with ACPI disabled it works fine. Our ACPI surely could need an update. Any takers?

Re: seeking laptop users

2006-03-18 Thread Sascha Wildner
Justin C. Sherrill wrote: Because of recent circumstances, I'm looking for at least 1 'new' laptop. Is there anyone using DragonFly on a laptop not mentioned here? For what it's worth, it's running fine here on a Dell Inspiron 9300. The SD card reader doesn't work and messing with the iwi

Re: Desktopcluster

2006-03-14 Thread Sascha Wildner
Matthew Dillon wrote: Yah. Blades with MP cpus or multi-core capable cpus on them. Just a blade server, then. The difference between blade based clustering and the type of clustering that we want to do is that we want to be able to cluster efficiently over a LAN or WAN (i.e.

Re: (u)ral driver

2006-03-13 Thread Sascha Wildner
Chris Rawnsley wrote: # cvsup /usr/shar/cvsup/DragonFly-cvs-supfile So then the source downloaded to /home/dcvs. I then got myself a copy of ral.diff.gz and extracted it to /tmp. # cd /home/dcvs/src/sys #patch -p0 /tmp/ral.diff The patch seemed to apply successfully (although I cannot scroll

Re: DragonFly MBR

2006-03-09 Thread Sascha Wildner
Simon 'corecode' Schubert wrote: Thanks for your offer, yet, what's the gain with your MBR? Or put differently: what's wrong with the one from FreeBSD? One thing at least: Due to cramped space it's not easily possible to assign more descriptive texts for the menu choices based on the sysid.

Re: DragonFly MBR

2006-03-09 Thread Sascha Wildner
Ben Cadieux wrote: I wrote an MBR at one point - it's quite similar to FreeBSD's, except instead of function keys it looks something like this: Does that also support booting the last booted OS like our boot0 or does it have the concept of a default choice which is used when the user does

Re: DragonFly MBR

2006-03-09 Thread Sascha Wildner
Magnus Eriksson wrote: Hmm. I noticed that the man pages supposedly documenting the booting process aren't that well written (imho), maybe that's something I could look at. That would be great. Sascha -- http://yoyodyne.ath.cx

Re: how to dual boot? (was Re: adding boostrap code to boot system)

2006-03-04 Thread Sascha Wildner
Jeremy C. Reed wrote: But F4 just beeps (like when pressing invalid F5). So I booted with the LiveCD again, created the ad0s4a device node, and ran: disklabel -B /dev/ad0s4a Rebooting still didn't fix the F4. Sometimes packet mode helps, see boot0cfg(8) man page. # boot0cfg -B -o

Re: DF Console GUI

2006-03-02 Thread Sascha Wildner
Nigel Weeks wrote: I was reading through FBSD6's /usr/src/sys/dev/syscons to find out more about libVGL programming, when I noticed some code based on DF code. Does anyone know of examples of code using these syscons graphics libraries? (Want to have a shot at porting Qtopia (was QT-embedded)

Re: more trouble building JDK

2006-01-18 Thread Sascha Wildner
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Feel free to submit a patch for the current docu or write a wiki entry :-) A wiki entry is hardly a good substitute for correct man pages. So if anyone wants to put some effort into updating our linux emu documentation, please fix the man pages. Sascha

Re: more trouble building JDK

2006-01-18 Thread Sascha Wildner
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: WHICH MAN PAGE ?! Sry, I misunderstood. Sascha

Re: Would DF welcome a phpbb forum?

2006-01-17 Thread Sascha Wildner
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Indeed, it would be like users@, but consider: 1) In what way can you order threads in a mailing list? If we had a web-based forum we could easilly have stuff related to hardware in one forum, multimedia in another, pkgsrc in another etc., we could even have a forum for

Re: Would DF welcome a phpbb forum?

2006-01-17 Thread Sascha Wildner
Justin C. Sherrill wrote: On Tue, January 17, 2006 5:03 am, Steve O'Hara-Smith wrote: nitpick)USENET has been around since 1980 - NNTP is just a transport protocol for it/nitpick How was the material in USENET slung around before there was NNTP? UUCP, I guess. Sascha

Re: DragonFly 1.4 released!

2006-01-08 Thread Sascha Wildner
Matthew Dillon wrote: 1.4 has been released! Check out our main site, the information is all there now: Thanks to all who contributed! :) Sascha

Re: DragonFly 1.4 released!

2006-01-08 Thread Sascha Wildner
Matthew Dillon wrote: 1.4 has been released! Check out our main site, the information is all there now: By the way, what's the plan for DragonFly_Preview? Sascha

Re: learning c programming

2006-01-02 Thread Sascha Wildner
Erik Wikström wrote: My highly subjective oppinion: For the same price you'll get a couple of high quality books and while it might be harder (and take longer) to read them I'm quite sure that you'll learn more that way. And the books are much better when used as a reference. For a list of

Re: don't know how to make sprite.h

2005-12-26 Thread Sascha Wildner
Jiawei Ye wrote: Hi, I ran into some problem running 1.3 preview. Did a cvsup with DragonFly_Preview tag and started to build world, but ran into rm -f .depend mkdep -f .depend -a-I/usr/src/usr.bin/make -DMAKE_VERSION=\5200408120\ -DDEFSHELLNAME=\sh\ /usr/src/usr.bin/make/arch.c

Re: DMA Mode

2005-12-16 Thread Sascha Wildner
Ezra Drummond wrote: I have a Dell inspiron 6000 laptop, which i am trying to set dma mode for the dvd+rw drive. I add ata.atapi_dma=1 to loader.conf but the system just ignore it. Any hints would be very much appreciated. ps: FreeBSD 6.0 set dma automatically without me adding anything to

Re: DragonFly talk at the upcoming BayLisa (15 December 2005)

2005-12-10 Thread Sascha Wildner
Matthew Dillon wrote: Hello everyone! I will be giving a DragonFly talk at the next Bay Lisa. The primary focus of my talk will be a physical characterization (latencies, overheads, etc) of MP mechanisms and algorithms implemented by DragonFly. It would be nice to get an

22C3

2005-12-08 Thread Sascha Wildner
G'day, g'day, so who else is going to 22C3 (http://events.ccc.de/congress/2005) besides me? Sascha

Re: DP performance

2005-12-02 Thread Sascha Wildner
Matthew Dillon wrote: Well, if you think they're so provably wrong you are welcome to put forth an actual technical argument to disprove them, rather then throw out derogatory comments which contain no data value whatsoever. I've done my best to explain the technical issues to

Re: Upgrade problem (1.2.x -- 1.3.x)

2005-11-22 Thread Sascha Wildner
Ochronus wrote: I have a 1.2 release Dragonfly system, and as the new gobsd pkgsrc binaries require the new ABI introduced in 1.3.x (1.3.5, as I recall), I tried to upgrade my system. make buildworld - success make installworld - tells me to upgrade the kernel first and reboot kernel compile

Re: Packaging Questions

2005-10-18 Thread Sascha Wildner
Erik P. Skaalerud wrote: Just a side-note by me; the ability to binary-upgrade a debian linux system via apt is a -really- timesaving function. It would be very pleaseable to have something like this for dragonflybsd aswell. AFAIK binary upgrading is something being worked on by the

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