Re: [patch] some Hurd console keyboard shortcut/layout changes

2004-11-15 Thread M. Gerards
Quoting Michael Banck <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > The fowolling two patches change the behaviour of pc-kbd slightly. The > first patch makes left-shift+pgup/pgdown work like > right-shift+pgup/pgdown, i.e. it scrolls the screen up or down by half a > screenful. The second patch might be more controvers

Re: FTBFS: xorg monolithic xserver

2004-05-12 Thread M. Gerards
Quoting [EMAIL PROTECTED]: > OK, I pulled down the monolithic sources for xserver to take a look at the > gnu.cf file for the modular stuff. > > Just for kicks, I tried to build it and recieved the following error: > > make[1]: Entering directory `/src/bdefreese/xc' > cd ./config/imake && make -

Re: FTBFS: xserver

2004-05-11 Thread M. Gerards
Quoting Barry deFreese <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > I don't know if anyone gives a shit or not but I am playing with this > again. I manually ripped the agpstuff from the Makefile last night just > to see what would happen. I did get further but it now chokes looking > for linux/keyboard.h and linu

Bug#184624: reboots unexpectedly after panic

2004-03-02 Thread M. Gerards
Quoting Robert Millan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > {MB} Pass the `-H' option to init (add it to the boot command line), and > > `init' will tell Mach to enter the kernel debugger instead to rebooting > > it. At the debugger prompt (`db>'), you can type `reboot' any time to > > reboot the system. > >

Re: realtek 8139

2004-02-20 Thread M. Gerards
Quoting Rian Hunter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > My network card (realtek 8139 or dlink 530tx+) does not work. > I don't have any developement tools (gcc gdb) > I don't have the hurd sources :( GNUMach has a rtl8139 driver, but there can be a few problems with your situation: - You use shared IRQs, GN

Re: [linux 2.6 patch] ext2 support for hurd extensions via xattr interface

2004-02-13 Thread M. Gerards
Quoting "Alfred M. Szmidt" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: >> > GNU tar also supports POSIX archives since some months. I >> > wrote a patch for GNU tar to support passive translators >> > (GNU.translator). It should not be too hard to support this on >> > GNU/Linux as well. >> >>

Re: [linux 2.6 patch] ext2 support for hurd extensions via xattr interface

2004-02-13 Thread M. Gerards
Quoting Roland McGrath <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > GNU tar also supports POSIX archives since some months. I wrote a patch > > for GNU tar to support passive translators (GNU.translator). It should > > not be too hard to support this on GNU/Linux as well. > > If you reformulate it as generic xattr

Re: [linux 2.6 patch] ext2 support for hurd extensions via xattr interface

2004-02-13 Thread M. Gerards
Quoting Roland McGrath <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > This makes it possible to use a GNU/Linux system to not only create but > also populate a Hurdish ext2 filesystem complete with passive translator > settings so that it can boot the Hurd normally. It also makes it possible > to back up and restore a H

Re: comiling error in exec

2004-02-12 Thread M. Gerards
Quoting "Dmitry V. Zhulanov" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > error. Make output attached. Here my actions: > Forgot something :) Thanks for this report. It seems that Roland commited some patches: http://savannah.gnu.org/cgi-bin/viewcvs/hurd/hurd/exec/ChangeLog?rev=1.63&content-type=text/vnd.view

Re: comiling error in exec

2004-02-12 Thread M. Gerards
Quoting "Dmitry V. Zhulanov" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Today I get sources from cvs on savannah, and make fails with > error. Make output attached. Here my actions: > $ cd hurd > $ mkdir build > $ cd build > $ ../configure > $ make You are doing the right t

Re: console-client problem

2004-02-12 Thread M. Gerards
Quoting "Dmitry V. Zhulanov" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > You can find information about checking out the sources here: > > http://savannah.nongnu.org/cvs/?group=hurd > > > > For GNUMach you can better use the branch "gnumach-1-branch". > Is this main branch, or not? And what is different? This is n

Re: console-client problem

2004-02-11 Thread M. Gerards
Quoting "Dmitry V. Zhulanov" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > > May be rpctrace will be more informative? its size about 6.5k > > > > Perhaps, but it would be more useful to know if it segfaults or > > not. Please send it to be sure. > The probles is not segfaults, because ctrl-alt-bksps works In one o

Re: console-client problem

2004-02-11 Thread M. Gerards
Quoting "Dmitry V. Zhulanov" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > On Tue, Feb 10, 2004 at 08:27:14PM +0100, Marco Gerards wrote: > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Dmitry V. Zhulanov) writes: > > > > > When I start console with vga and pc_kbd drivers my screen > > > blanks, and ctrl-alt-backspace does nothing. How can I

Re: Support for D-Link DFE 528-TX and 538-TX

2004-02-05 Thread M. Gerards
Quoting "Alfred M. Szmidt" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: >This is the patch, but I haven't tested it: > > ChangeLog please. Michael did not write this patch, he is just trying to be helpful here. :) But Alfred has a point, if someone writes a changelog it can be committed real soon. If no one will

Re: FTBFS: python

2003-11-26 Thread M. Gerards
Quoting "Alfred M. Szmidt" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: >I'm looking at the thread problem but it is really tricky. I tried >disabling threads totaly using --without-threads but it didn't >worked at all. I really wonder what this configure is really >doing... > > Could you try debugging

Re: mouse device

2003-07-04 Thread M. Gerards
Quoting Robert Millan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > On Fri, Jul 04, 2003 at 09:07:54PM +0100, Sam Halliday wrote: > > hi there, > > > > i can get xf86cfg to give me its classic black-grey pattern when i start > > up, but the pointing device does not work. i realised that the > > /dev/mouse (or /dev/psau

Re:

2003-06-28 Thread M. Gerards
You do not handle '-' an check for the amount op arguments as was done before if I understand your patch correctly. Most other stuff looks ok. ___ Bug-hurd mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-hurd

Re: Translator support for GNU tar

2003-06-22 Thread M. Gerards
Quoting Marcus Brinkmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: [...] > > To add translators to a tar file you have to use the "-a" switch. It > > doesn't add symlinks, devices and fifos. I guess that is the behaviour > > we want. > > In effect, yes. I am not quite sure on tar's internal logic, but it > appeared

Re: Translator support for GNU tar

2003-06-19 Thread M. Gerards
Quoting "Alfred M. Szmidt" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: >I really appreciate any feedback, even about the changelog (My english >sucks and I guess I made some mistakes). :) > > Here you go. And thanks! >2003-06-19 Marco Gerards <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > * configure.ac: Check for

Re: Translator support for GNU tar

2003-06-19 Thread M. Gerards
Quoting "Alfred M. Szmidt" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: >I have a question about the output while verbosely listing the >tarball content. Now I use a format like: ">> /hurd/ext2fs >/dev/hd0s2" just like the output for symlinks, but ">>" instead of >"->". Is this the output we want? Alfred,

Re: Patches for the Hurd on OSF Mach/PowerPC

2003-06-12 Thread M. Gerards
> The ext2 file system uses little-endian order, whereas htons etc. convert > from > native to network (big-endian) byte-order. So using htons would give you > exactly the wrong result. (Actually, I didn't even think of using htons, > since > I looked at the Linux code for ext2fs and copied the l

Re: Screensaver

2003-06-03 Thread M. Gerards
> Please see the attached file. Which attached file? That 2 line text file? Could you please provide a little discription what the attachment is about? Thanks, Marco ___ Bug-hurd mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug

Re: Bug#185450: missing virtual terminal ioctl's

2003-03-20 Thread M. Gerards
> > However, the console client mouse driver could provide /dev/mouse. > > there's a translator providing /dev/mouse already, what is wrong with it? It is just for X. The driver for the console will emulate xterm behaviour AFAIK. It will also be able to copy text IIRC(so just like gpm). __

Re: Bug#185450: missing virtual terminal ioctl's

2003-03-20 Thread M. Gerards
Citeren Robert Millan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > The keyboard is accessed directly, too. There is a simple driver in the > > kernel though so the interrupt handling is done inside the kernel. > > and the Xserver is also accessing VGA and keyboard directly? looks like > an unnecessary code duplicat

XKB plugin 0.001

2003-03-17 Thread M. Gerards
Hi, As I have mailed to this list before I planned to work on a XKB keymap plugin for the console-client. I have done this for a while. It is not finished yet and the code is really ugly, and it isn't intended for serious usage yet (If you are lucky it might work) But incase I get hit by a bus

Bug in set1 to set2 mapping in pc-kbd.c

2003-02-24 Thread M. Gerards
Hi, There is a small bug in pc-kbd.c. The keys F11 and F12 aren't properly mapped from set1 to set2. I included the patch to fix this in this mail. - Marco Gerards Changelog entry: 2003-02-24 Marco Gerards <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * pc-kbd.c (sc_set1_to_set2): Map the set 2 sc

Re: init: cannot reboot

2003-01-23 Thread M. Gerards
Quoting "Alfred M. Szmidt" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: >tty1"/libexec/getty 38400" hurdon secure > trus= >ted console > > Shouldn't "/libexec/getty 38400" be "/libexec/getty 9600"? Due to > some bug; not that I remeber what bug. 38400 always worked for me. Maybe y

Re: init: cannot reboot

2003-01-21 Thread M. Gerards
Citeren Lionel Elie Mamane <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Launched the console server. Blank screen, no other way to reboot than > hardware reset button (no telnetd/sshd). Surprise, filesystem > corruption, and Murphy's Law, /hurd/auth was unreadable (an fsck from > GNU/Linux said "has deleted/unused inod

Re: Default pager ?

2003-01-10 Thread M. Gerards
Citeren "Harley D. Eades III" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > I am just strating out in the Hurd so far I am loving it. I hope to > help with future Devolping/Maintaining/Error fixing in the Hurd. Right > now I am currently working on a printing system for GNU/Linux and I hope > to port it to the Hurd.

Re: Escape-Meta-Alt-Shift

2003-01-05 Thread M. Gerards
Quoting "Alfred M. Szmidt" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Don't know if this is known, but it looks like GNU Mach doesn't grok > multiple modifier keys (did it ever grok them?). For example C-M-v > doesn't work in Emacs. This is not a GNU Mach problem, it is a pc-kbd problem. The string that is bound to

Re: JFS Translator

2002-12-24 Thread M. Gerards
Quoting Sajith T S <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Hello, > > Presenting "the first industrial sterngth journaling filesystem" for > the Hurd :^) > > http://www.symonds.net/~sajith/hurd/jfs-0.0.1.tar.gz Cool! :) > Please take a look at the translator. Just took it out of the > freezer... it starte

Re: 2nd attemt at reviving the filesystem limit discussion.

2002-12-22 Thread M. Gerards
Quoting "Neal H. Walfield" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > My idea is to maintain a ~1GB area of "metadata control space." This > area, rather than being a one-to-one mapping of memory to backing > store (as it currently is), would lazily map (via a hash) the metadata > lazily as it is requested. (The ha

Bug#173490: hurd: Console: Alt-Fx partially broken

2002-12-18 Thread M. Gerards
> Package: hurd > Version: 20021118-1 > Severity: minor > > With the newest hurd package, using Alt-Fx to access virtual consoles > works only for the first two consoles. The rest can only be accessed > with Alt-Left|Right. This bug has been fixed in CVS on 2002-11-21. The bug was in pc-kbd.c. J

Re: serverboot

2002-12-18 Thread M. Gerards
> Also, is there a reason to keep bsdfsck, defpager and libtreefs > around? About libtreefs I'm a bit unsure, since it might be useful. > But I doubt this since it hasn't been touched since 1996 (there is not > even a ChangeLog). Why do you want to remove bsdfsck? I think it will be used more oft

Re: fatfs errors

2002-12-12 Thread M. Gerards
> inode.c:60: conflicting types for > 'diskfs_cached_lookup' > :/include/hurd/diskfs.h:738:previous declaration of > 'diskfs_cached_lookup' > > inode.c:in function 'read_node': > inode.c:267:warning:'buflen' might be used > uninitialized in this function. > whats the problem?.. fatfs is now a

Re: 2nd attemt at reviving the filesystem limit discussion.

2002-12-06 Thread M. Gerards
Quoting "Alfred M. Szmidt" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Was there any agreement on how to procced with fixing the 1GB limit? > The discussion died of after Marcus reposted a discussion about not > mapping the whole disk to memory. > > Here are the archives of the threads: > http://mail.gnu.org/pipermai

Re: fatfs checked in

2002-12-04 Thread M. Gerards
> > There are still two locking problems. I'm working on those problems ATM. > > Because of those problems fatfs will most likely freeze while testing it. > > Even in read-only mode? My understanding was that the locking problems only > occur when writing. Certainly the fatfs I wrote (0.2) wor

Re: fatfs checked in

2002-12-04 Thread M. Gerards
Citeren Marcus Brinkmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Hi, > > I checked in fatfs 0.4, made it read-only and enabled it in the Makefiles. > It compiles but is not otherwise tested much. But this way everybody can > check themselves, and we can start to treat it like the other Hurd code. cool :) Ther

Re: Visual bell

2002-11-21 Thread M. Gerards
> > Ok, that's what I wanted. This is just a quick hack because my speaker is > > broken. > > It would have been a quicker hack to do it right ;) Yeah... :). Here is another attempt (a better one I assume ;)). Changelog entry: 2002-11-21 Marco Gerards <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> *

VT switching code in pc_kbd broken.

2002-11-21 Thread M. Gerards
Hi, Because of recent changes in the pc_kbd code VC switching is broken (switching to VCs >2 doesn't work anymore). This was caused because the code assumes things about the order of the scancodes of the function keys. Because isn't true for set 2 VC switching is broken. (diff attached) Changelo

Re: Visual bell

2002-11-21 Thread M. Gerards
> Well, this is usually configured in the application (we define the bel and > flash terminal capabilities for that). If you want to make it a feature > that a visible bell is used instead of an audible bell all the time > (regardless of what the application requests) then this should be an option

Visual bell

2002-11-20 Thread M. Gerards
Hi, Here is a small plugin I wrote for the console client using the generic-speaker sourcecode and some hints I found in driver.h. It is a quick hack, but it works :). To use it just supply the parameter "-d visual_bell" to the console client. It should work with all output drivers.

Re: More about XKB

2002-11-14 Thread M. Gerards
> On Wed, Nov 13, 2002 at 10:52:53PM +0100, M. Gerards wrote: > > > Why discuss this with the X people? The need to be able to reuse the > Hurd > > > extensions to keymaps in X is absolutely zero. The Hurd driver should > > > (internally) preload the default Hurd

Re: More about XKB

2002-11-13 Thread M. Gerards
> Why discuss this with the X people? The need to be able to reuse the Hurd > extensions to keymaps in X is absolutely zero. The Hurd driver should > (internally) preload the default Hurd extensions (like Alt+F1 sitch to VC1), > and allow users to specify their own mappings, which can be in separ

Re: Console-client xkb keyboard plugin

2002-11-13 Thread M. Gerards
> On Wed, Nov 13, 2002 at 12:02:51AM +0100, M. Gerards wrote: > > I only support the compiled format. When a user wants to use the XKB format > the > > external xkbcomp program can be used to compile the keymap. This action > data > > structure can't be modif

Re: More about XKB

2002-11-13 Thread M. Gerards
Citeren Marcus Brinkmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > On Tue, Nov 12, 2002 at 11:06:32PM +0100, M. Gerards wrote: > > Before you can understand what it does you first have to know what it > > is. This plugin is no driver (as it is now), but it is an additional layer > between &g

Re: Console-client xkb keyboard plugin

2002-11-12 Thread M. Gerards
Quoting Marcus Brinkmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > On Mon, Nov 11, 2002 at 02:49:33PM +0100, M. Gerards wrote: > > The first problem is the scancode to keycod translation. At the moment I've > > > hardcoded this translation (XKB also works like this.). I'm not h

More about XKB

2002-11-12 Thread M. Gerards
Hi, I've been working on the XKB console-client plugin for some weeks now. In this mail I will inform you what I have done, what needs to be done and how XKB globally works. This is a huge mail for something simple like a keyboard, but well... I hope many people understand more about keyboards tha

Console-client xkb keyboard plugin

2002-11-11 Thread M. Gerards
Hi, At the moment I'm working on a xkb keyboard plugin for the console-client. I encountered some problems. The first problem is the scancode to keycod translation. At the moment I've hardcoded this translation (XKB also works like this.). I'm not happy with this because this will cause proble

Console-client xkb keyboard plugin

2002-11-11 Thread M. Gerards
Hi, At the moment I'm working on a xkb keyboard plugin for the console-client. I encountered some problems. The first problem is the scancode to keycod translation. At the moment I've hardcoded this translation (XKB also works like this.). I'm not happy with this because this will cause proble