Re: junior-hacker task: "prepdisk"

1999-08-05 Thread Poul-Henning Kamp
In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Bruce Evans writes: >>>: It seems that our new boot blocks doesn't like the taste of disks >>>: prepared according to the meagre information we have in the handbook. >>> >>>How does this script differ from 'disklabel -w wd0 auto'? It does do >>>the fdisk stuff (you

Re: junior-hacker task: "prepdisk"

1999-08-05 Thread Bruce Evans
>>: It seems that our new boot blocks doesn't like the taste of disks >>: prepared according to the meagre information we have in the handbook. >> >>How does this script differ from 'disklabel -w wd0 auto'? It does do >>the fdisk stuff (your script, not the disklabel command). > >It differs in th

Re: junior-hacker task: "prepdisk"

1999-08-05 Thread Poul-Henning Kamp
In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Warner Losh writes: >In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Poul-Henning Kamp writes: >: It seems that our new boot blocks doesn't like the taste of disks >: prepared according to the meagre information we have in the handbook. > >How does this script differ from 'disklabel

Re: junior-hacker task: "prepdisk"

1999-08-05 Thread Warner Losh
In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Poul-Henning Kamp writes: : It seems that our new boot blocks doesn't like the taste of disks : prepared according to the meagre information we have in the handbook. How does this script differ from 'disklabel -w wd0 auto'? It does do the fdisk stuff (your script,

Re: recent apm changes

1999-08-05 Thread Eric Hodel
Peter Mutsaers wrote: > > Hello, > > After Linux I gave FreeBSD a try again, when I saw some improvements > to APM had been committed. > > I hoped for a real suspend mode, but alas. Now I'm wondering what > makes the difference, and whether I could do it myself. > > Let me explain: I run my (d

Re: recent apm changes

1999-08-05 Thread Jonathan Lemon
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED]> you write: >In FreeBSD, when I activate suspend mode, I see the light on my >computer blinking, indicating it has gone into suspend mode, but still >there is no reduction in noise whatsoever. The disks keep spinning, >the CPU fan (or whatever) too. I could activate th

SMP and threads...

1999-08-05 Thread David E. Cross
I have a threaded appilcation that is only running on one processor. I remember there was discussion about this in the past, and there was a solution, I think it involved a patch. Any pointers? -- David Cross | email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Systems Administrator/Resea

recent apm changes

1999-08-05 Thread Peter Mutsaers
Hello, After Linux I gave FreeBSD a try again, when I saw some improvements to APM had been committed. I hoped for a real suspend mode, but alas. Now I'm wondering what makes the difference, and whether I could do it myself. Let me explain: I run my (desktop) computer in the living room. I don'

Re: Promise/IDE

1999-08-05 Thread Soren Schmidt
It seems Mike Hoskins wrote: > and I just installed a Promise Ultra66. Here's my relevant kernel config > stuff (following LINT's example): > > pci0: unknown card DBZ4d38 (vendor=0x105a, dev=0x4d38) at 14.0 irq 9 Thats the promise controller, try the ata driver instead an use the following patc

Re: Panic plus advice needed

1999-08-05 Thread David O'Brien
> > There aren't too many systems any more that don't have an additional > > 30 MB for the time it takes to build the kernel, and it solves a > > whole lot of potential problems. > > It does cause problems when you keep the kernels for 8 different machines > in one /usr/src. You are obiviously k

Re: "w" date

1999-08-05 Thread David O'Brien
> I don´t know, which daemon writes to /var/run/utmp. > > Maybe I should notice, that I´m logged in via ssh. Was this version of ssh built on a 4.0 system, or 2.x? Usernames went from 8 chars to 16 chars. I was experiencing simular problems when I upgraded from 2.2.x to 3.0. -- -- David(

Re: Packages

1999-08-05 Thread David O'Brien
> 1) Can I use the 3.2 packages with FreeBSD 4.0 or am I doing a stupid thing? Kinda. We provide different versions at ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/ports/i386/ because of there are some library difference between 3.x and 4.0. Not to mention anything that grubs around in the kernel. > 2)

Promise/IDE

1999-08-05 Thread Mike Hoskins
Hello, Just cvsup'd and running... FreeBSD snafu.adept.org 4.0-CURRENT FreeBSD 4.0-CURRENT #0: Thu Aug 5 04:51:08 PDT 1999 [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/usr/src/sys/compile/SNAFU i386 I have the following onboard... ide_pci0: at device 7.1 on pci0 and I just installed a Promise Ultra66. Here's m

Re: Assembler capable of supporting 3dnow!

1999-08-05 Thread Martin Cracauer
In <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Stephen Hocking-Senior Programmer PGS Tensor Perth wrote: > I'm messing around with the latest mesa and have discovered (suprise)that our > assembler doesn't support 3dnow instructions. Are there any plans to update to > a version of binutils that does? Linux's stuff ap

Re: Panic plus advice needed

1999-08-05 Thread David Malone
On Thu, Aug 05, 1999 at 10:10:49AM +0930, Greg Lehey wrote: > > So... IMHO, if we can fix this as well, it would be worth it for all > > the people who get core dumps but didn't build debug kernels. > > Do you disagree? > > I disagree that this should even be necessary. This kind of detail > wa

Re: "w" date

1999-08-05 Thread Alexander Langer
Thus spake Alexander Langer ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > root p0 0.10 04Nov35 - (w) > bash-2.02# date > Tue Aug 3 14:26:47 CEST 1999 > Take a look at the last one: p0. I logged in ~5 min before. > The date confuses me. I took a further look into the sources. usr.bi

Packages

1999-08-05 Thread Corrado Cau
I recently downloaded and installed the most recent FreeBSD 4.0 -CURRENT, skipping the packages' download because of the size (I have the latest 3.2 CDROMs). The problem is that some packages (linux_base, in example), are missing from the 3.2 CDs and also that every time FreeBSD 4.0 complains abo