Re: Xorg, xf86EnableIO() and the VESA driver

2010-03-18 Thread Samuel Thibault
olafbuddenha...@gmx.net, le Mon 15 Mar 2010 03:24:08 +0100, a écrit : > I think this man page is simply outdated. Mmm, indeed, even 2.6.12 has it up to 2^16. But 2.4.36 has it up to 2^10 only. Samuel

Re: too many warning messages from gnumach

2010-03-18 Thread Samuel Thibault
olafbuddenha...@gmx.net, le Thu 18 Mar 2010 10:23:26 +0100, a écrit : > On Wed, Mar 17, 2010 at 01:39:26PM +0100, Samuel Thibault wrote: > > > Mmm, the command column is normally only empty if the page got swapped > > out. > > How does Mach know the command?... By peeking in the stack to find ar

Re: Xorg, libpciaccess and /dev/mem

2010-03-18 Thread Samuel Thibault
olafbuddenha...@gmx.net, le Mon 15 Mar 2010 03:16:23 +0100, a écrit : > On Mon, Mar 15, 2010 at 12:16:00AM +0100, Samuel Thibault wrote: > > > I've added the mem device to GNU Mach and the aliasing in the Debian > > package. > > Great :-) > > BTW, do you think it would be a good idea to rewrite

Re: too many warning messages from gnumach

2010-03-18 Thread olafBuddenhagen
Hi, On Tue, Mar 16, 2010 at 10:21:06AM +0100, Samuel Thibault wrote: > No wonder why our boxes are becoming farmers... Not the boxes are becoming farmers, but their relatives... ;-) (Also, I find the error message excessively confusing, as I have yet to see it printed when actually something se

Re: Hurd vs. Google Summer of Code 2010

2010-03-18 Thread olafBuddenhagen
Hi, On Fri, Mar 12, 2010 at 07:44:56PM +0100, Thomas Schwinge wrote: > > On Wed, Mar 10, 2010 at 02:43:35PM +0100, Thomas Schwinge wrote: > > > I did some further changes: the guys evaluating all these many > > > organizations' applications very likely don't want to read -- > > > inside the orani

Freeze

2010-03-18 Thread olafBuddenhagen
Hi, I got a strange effect: the system froze completely (both main Hurd and subhurd), but without a kernel panic. Judging by the fan speed, it was idling rather than busy-looping. Later I realized that the root partition of the subhurd was full -- there were still reserved blocks, but no normal o

Re: Xorg, xf86EnableIO() and the VESA driver

2010-03-18 Thread olafBuddenhagen
Hi, On Sat, Mar 13, 2010 at 02:37:36AM +0100, Jérémie Koenig wrote: > I think you're right, but apparently ioperm fails at least in my > setting (the manual page seems to indicate it can only be used for the > first 0x400 ports on Linux). I think this man page is simply outdated. Though I couldn

Re: too many warning messages from gnumach

2010-03-18 Thread olafBuddenhagen
Hi, On Wed, Mar 17, 2010 at 01:39:26PM +0100, Samuel Thibault wrote: > Mmm, the command column is normally only empty if the page got swapped > out. How does Mach know the command?... -antrik-

Re: Xorg, libpciaccess and /dev/mem

2010-03-18 Thread olafBuddenhagen
Hi, On Mon, Mar 15, 2010 at 12:16:00AM +0100, Samuel Thibault wrote: > I've added the mem device to GNU Mach and the aliasing in the Debian > package. Great :-) BTW, do you think it would be a good idea to rewrite programs opening the iopl/mem device directly, to use /dev/mem instead?... -antr