**HEADS UP** libreadline version number reverted

1999-08-20 Thread David O'Brien
On 28-May-1999 libreadline was upgraded from readline-2.2 to readline-4.0. At that time the shared library major version number was bumped from "3" to "4". It has been deemed that the interface change between readline-2.2 and readline-4.0 was not suffient to warrant the version number bump. Thu

Re: Strange notebook boot misbehaviour.

1999-08-20 Thread Warner Losh
In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Maxim Sobolev writes: : > > Card inserted, slot 1 : > > : > > ^ - Hangs after this message!!! I saw this once or twice on my 505TS when I had a bad IRQ for the pcic device. Warner To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscrib

Re: problem with vnconfig -s labels ...

1999-08-20 Thread John Birrell
On Sat, Aug 21, 1999 at 04:30:57PM +1000, Bruce Evans wrote: > >Hmmm, I know this is your code, but are you sure? 8-). My understanding of > >dkmodslice() and friends is that they manipulate dev_t entries, but don't > >actually initialise them. Since the subr_diskslice code takes a dev_t > > dkmo

Re: REQ: Test /etc/rc clean-up

1999-08-20 Thread Warner Losh
In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sheldon Hearn writes: : -if [ X$start_vinum = XYES ]; then : +if [ X"${start_vinum}" = X"YES" ]; then I never understood why you check against X"YES"? XYES always seemed much better than X"YES" since the latter is somewhat obscure. Both are identical... Warner

Re: Strange notebook boot misbehaviour.

1999-08-20 Thread Warner Losh
In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> "Matt Crawford" writes: : On the Sony 505 mailing list, this was noted and said to be due to : Windows leaving the ethernet chip in some APM-related suspended : state. I've had problems with my Sony Notebook (my 505-TS) after running windows... A power cycle fixes

Re: HEADS UP: at_shutdown going away

1999-08-20 Thread Warner Losh
In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Mike Smith writes: : Seriously though, I'm in the process of replacing a number of the : ad-hoc event handler callout lists in the kernel (most notably the : at_shutdown and apm* lists) with a generic implementation. Shouldn't the apm stuff use the new-bus hooks?

Re: [fwd] [fm/news] newsletter for Aug 18th 1999, 23:59

1999-08-20 Thread Warner Losh
In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Amancio Hasty writes: : It wouldn't surprise me if it was a linux fan who made the posting : and probably in reaction to the great success of Red Hat's IPO: : "They are making fortunes with my code!! " : Well thats what I read and I think it was on www.zdnet.com To

Re: problem with vnconfig -s labels ...

1999-08-20 Thread Poul-Henning Kamp
In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Bruce Evans writes: >>Hmmm, I know this is your code, but are you sure? 8-). My understanding of >>dkmodslice() and friends is that they manipulate dev_t entries, but don't >>actually initialise them. Since the subr_diskslice code takes a dev_t > >dkmodslice() once

Re: problem with vnconfig -s labels ...

1999-08-20 Thread Poul-Henning Kamp
In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, John Birrell writes: >On Sat, Aug 21, 1999 at 07:30:46AM +0200, Poul-Henning Kamp wrote: >> >but I'm still looking for the place >> >where the dev1 entry is supposed to be initialised. >> >> In dkmodslice() (and friends). > >Hmmm, I know this is your code, but are

Re: problem with vnconfig -s labels ...

1999-08-20 Thread Bruce Evans
>Hmmm, I know this is your code, but are you sure? 8-). My understanding of >dkmodslice() and friends is that they manipulate dev_t entries, but don't >actually initialise them. Since the subr_diskslice code takes a dev_t dkmodslice() once just manipulated bits in dev_t scalars. Now that dev_t i

Re: problem with vnconfig -s labels ...

1999-08-20 Thread John Birrell
On Sat, Aug 21, 1999 at 07:30:46AM +0200, Poul-Henning Kamp wrote: > >but I'm still looking for the place > >where the dev1 entry is supposed to be initialised. > > In dkmodslice() (and friends). Hmmm, I know this is your code, but are you sure? 8-). My understanding of dkmodslice() and friends

Re: problem with vnconfig -s labels ...

1999-08-20 Thread Poul-Henning Kamp
In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, John Birrell writes: >The problem is that disklabel executes code in subr_diskslice.c which >does: > >dev1 = dkmodslice(dkmodpart(dev, RAW_PART), slice); > >The 'dev' structure has s_drv1 set correctly, but the 'dev1' entry >has s_drv1 NULL. When vnstrategy() is ca

Re: problem with vnconfig -s labels ...

1999-08-20 Thread John Birrell
On Sat, Aug 21, 1999 at 04:22:46AM +0200, Luigi Rizzo wrote: > Hi, > > > I've found panics are more likely to occur if the command pair is > > executed in a script vs. from the command line. This may suggest some > > sort of race is occurring. > > no idea... i have always managed to panic

Re: problem with vnconfig -s labels ...

1999-08-20 Thread Luigi Rizzo
Hi, > I've found panics are more likely to occur if the command pair is > executed in a script vs. from the command line. This may suggest some > sort of race is occurring. no idea... i have always managed to panic the system even running the commands from the command line one at a time,

Re: cc -O broken in -current for Alpha KLDs

1999-08-20 Thread John Polstra
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Andrew Gallatin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I've just committed a patch to alpha/alpha/elf_machdep.c which takes > into account the addends for objects of type R_ALPHA_GLOB_DAT. This > fixes my problem. Should it be MFC'ed? Nice work! It looks right to me,

Re: "The Matrix" screensaver, v.0.2

1999-08-20 Thread Kevin S. Brackett
On Fri, 20 Aug 1999, Keith Stevenson wrote: > On Fri, Aug 20, 1999 at 04:11:42PM -0600, Oscar Bonilla wrote: > > > > I haven't seen Andrzej's screensaver, but if it is about those > > green letters that fall from the top of the screen (aka the matrix) > > then xlock already includes a module for

Re: "The Matrix" screensaver, v.0.2

1999-08-20 Thread Keith Stevenson
On Fri, Aug 20, 1999 at 04:11:42PM -0600, Oscar Bonilla wrote: > > I haven't seen Andrzej's screensaver, but if it is about those > green letters that fall from the top of the screen (aka the matrix) > then xlock already includes a module for this... I'm using it on my > laptop.. I like Andrzej'

Re: user friendly creation of CDs (was: Re: patches for tosha?)

1999-08-20 Thread Amancio Hasty
Yes, I tried gcombust and opted for the command line approach gcombust looks great ;however, I expect for user firiendly land less knobs for instance: burn iso 9660 cd Select files or directories type of CD : CD-R , CD-RW then pull the appropiate information for buffering and optimal speed fr

user friendly creation of CDs (was: Re: patches for tosha?)

1999-08-20 Thread Juergen Lock
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> you write: > >Hi, > >I am all set . cdrecord-1.8a22 includes cdda2wav as [EMAIL PROTECTED] >pointed out and it does work with my Yamaha cd recorder . > >In summary using FreeBSD-current of about two weeks ago , I am now able to : >1. to burn iso 9660 with mkisofs + c

Re: "The Matrix" screensaver, v.0.2

1999-08-20 Thread Oscar Bonilla
On Fri, Aug 20, 1999 at 11:50:25PM +0200, Andreas Braukmann wrote: > Hi, > > On Fri, Aug 20, 1999 at 07:34:31PM +0200, Andrzej Bialecki wrote: > > Due to unexpected demand (I did it mostly as a distraction from real > > work), I backported this screensaver to 3.2-RELEASE (don't know about > ... I

Re: "The Matrix" screensaver, v.0.2

1999-08-20 Thread Andreas Braukmann
Hi, On Fri, Aug 20, 1999 at 07:34:31PM +0200, Andrzej Bialecki wrote: > Due to unexpected demand (I did it mostly as a distraction from real > work), I backported this screensaver to 3.2-RELEASE (don't know about ... I saw the announcement for the first release, realised that it's only for -curre

Re: "The Matrix" screensaver, v.0.2

1999-08-20 Thread Nick Hibma
> > > oh THAT screen... > > > > > > quite a giggle.. > > > > Have you seen the source ... very neat and short. Pitty that it consumes > > 2% intr time. > > Oh, there is still much room for improvement here... if there is any > interest, that is. :-) Like rewriting the syscons driver again, to

help! - strange vn behaviour

1999-08-20 Thread Andrew Atrens
I'll cc: hackers and see if this rings a bell for anyone :| .. Andrew > >Btw, can you explain why this happens? > > > > > >$ partitionsize=256 > > > >$ sects=`/bin/expr $partitionsize '*' 64 '-' 1` > > > >$ vnconfig -e -s labels -S $partitionsize"m" /dev/vn0 > > > >$ disklabel -w -r vn0 au

Re: "The Matrix" screensaver, v.0.2

1999-08-20 Thread Kevin S. Brackett
On Fri, 20 Aug 1999, Andrzej Bialecki wrote: > Hi, > > Due to unexpected demand (I did it mostly as a distraction from real > work), I backported this screensaver to 3.2-RELEASE (don't know about > STABLE), and corrected some inconsistencies. I added also binary versions > to the archives. > L

Re: "The Matrix" screensaver, v.0.2

1999-08-20 Thread Andrzej Bialecki
On Fri, 20 Aug 1999, Nick Hibma wrote: > > oh THAT screen... > > > > quite a giggle.. > > Have you seen the source ... very neat and short. Pitty that it consumes > 2% intr time. Oh, there is still much room for improvement here... if there is any interest, that is. :-) Andrzej Bialecki //

Re: "The Matrix" screensaver, v.0.2

1999-08-20 Thread Bill Fumerola
On Fri, 20 Aug 1999, Andrzej Bialecki wrote: > c'mon, you didn't expect me to put an intro scene from the movie, did you? > Yeah, that's something - MPEG screensaver... only a few GB. I need to > think about it. I wonder where in phk's rules for binary files in the tree that would fall. Just ma

Re: "The Matrix" screensaver, v.0.2

1999-08-20 Thread Nick Hibma
> oh THAT screen... > > quite a giggle.. Have you seen the source ... very neat and short. Pitty that it consumes 2% intr time. Nick -- e-Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message

Re: "The Matrix" screensaver, v.0.2

1999-08-20 Thread Andrzej Bialecki
On Fri, 20 Aug 1999, Julian Elischer wrote: > oh THAT screen... > > quite a giggle.. c'mon, you didn't expect me to put an intro scene from the movie, did you? Yeah, that's something - MPEG screensaver... only a few GB. I need to think about it. 8-)) Andrzej Bialecki // <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

Re: "The Matrix" screensaver, v.0.2

1999-08-20 Thread Julian Elischer
oh THAT screen... quite a giggle.. On Fri, 20 Aug 1999, Andrzej Bialecki wrote: > Hi, > > Due to unexpected demand (I did it mostly as a distraction from real > work), I backported this screensaver to 3.2-RELEASE (don't know about > STABLE), and corrected some inconsistencies. I added also bin

Re: "The Matrix" screensaver

1999-08-20 Thread Andrzej Bialecki
On Fri, 20 Aug 1999, Doug White wrote: > On Fri, 20 Aug 1999, Andrzej Bialecki wrote: > > > Hi, > > > > This is my poor attempt at reproducing the screens on the movie... Sure, > > there is much room for improvement, and the whole thing would look cool in > > VESA, if someone has more spare tim

Re: "The Matrix" screensaver

1999-08-20 Thread Doug White
On Fri, 20 Aug 1999, Andrzej Bialecki wrote: > Hi, > > This is my poor attempt at reproducing the screens on the movie... Sure, > there is much room for improvement, and the whole thing would look cool in > VESA, if someone has more spare time... > > http://www.freebsd.org/~abial/matrix.t

Re: REQ: Test /etc/rc clean-up

1999-08-20 Thread Doug
On Fri, 20 Aug 1999, Sheldon Hearn wrote: > > Hi folks, > > I have a diff for src/etc/rc that I'd like to have had used on a few > machines before I commit it. I'm pretty sure I haven't made any mistakes > with my changes, but you can never be too careful, right? > > The diff homogenizes the m

Re: ftp and cdrom image

1999-08-20 Thread Kris Kennaway
On Fri, 20 Aug 1999, Mete Balci wrote: > I have some questions for distribution. I have started to download freebsd > 3.2-current via ftp but it seems to be huge. I think it will be 2 CD. > First, how do I have to split it to 2 CDs ? which dirs will going to first > and which to second CD ? Secon

Re: problem with vnconfig -s labels ...

1999-08-20 Thread Andrew Atrens
> > Someone also sent me a report on that, so it's a real problem. I have a > traceback, but without debugging symbols. Doh! Sorry about that :) I'll rebuild my kernel later today... Cheers, Andrew. To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the

Re: REQ: Test /etc/rc clean-up

1999-08-20 Thread Rodney W. Grimes
> > Hi folks, > > I have a diff for src/etc/rc that I'd like to have had used on a few > machines before I commit it. I'm pretty sure I haven't made any mistakes > with my changes, but you can never be too careful, right? Right... > > The diff homogenizes the manner in which variables are tes

Re: problem with vnconfig -s labels ...

1999-08-20 Thread Andrew Atrens
Luigi, I've been seeing the same thing for about 6 weeks now :) I, too can reproduce the panic _at will_. If anyone's interested I've got a large selection of kernel cores to choose from :) ... Andrew. Some comments below ... On Fri, 20 Aug 1999, Luigi Rizzo wrote: > Hi, > > trying to bu

Re: "The Matrix" screensaver, v.0.2

1999-08-20 Thread Andrzej Bialecki
On Fri, 20 Aug 1999, Sheldon Hearn wrote: > > > On Fri, 20 Aug 1999 19:34:31 +0200, Andrzej Bialecki wrote: > > > Due to unexpected demand (I did it mostly as a distraction from real > > work), I backported this screensaver to 3.2-RELEASE (don't know about > > STABLE), and corrected some incon

Re: problem with vnconfig -s labels ...

1999-08-20 Thread Poul-Henning Kamp
In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Luigi Rizzo writes: >> > can someone investigate this ? the code seems to work fine on 3.x >> >> Someone also sent me a report on that, so it's a real problem. I have a >> traceback, but without debugging symbols. > >it's so easy to reproduce that i hope the vm/vn

Re: "The Matrix" screensaver, v.0.2

1999-08-20 Thread Sheldon Hearn
On Fri, 20 Aug 1999 19:34:31 +0200, Andrzej Bialecki wrote: > Due to unexpected demand (I did it mostly as a distraction from real > work), I backported this screensaver to 3.2-RELEASE (don't know about > STABLE), and corrected some inconsistencies. I added also binary versions > to the archive

Re: problem with vnconfig -s labels ...

1999-08-20 Thread Andrzej Bialecki
On Fri, 20 Aug 1999, Luigi Rizzo wrote: > > > can someone investigate this ? the code seems to work fine on 3.x > > > > Someone also sent me a report on that, so it's a real problem. I have a > > traceback, but without debugging symbols. > > it's so easy to reproduce that i hope the vm/vn gurus

"The Matrix" screensaver, v.0.2

1999-08-20 Thread Andrzej Bialecki
Hi, Due to unexpected demand (I did it mostly as a distraction from real work), I backported this screensaver to 3.2-RELEASE (don't know about STABLE), and corrected some inconsistencies. I added also binary versions to the archives. Both versions are available at: http://www.freebsd.or

Re: problem with vnconfig -s labels ...

1999-08-20 Thread Luigi Rizzo
> > can someone investigate this ? the code seems to work fine on 3.x > > Someone also sent me a report on that, so it's a real problem. I have a > traceback, but without debugging symbols. it's so easy to reproduce that i hope the vm/vn gurus will not require too much effort to find the bug. i

Re: problem with vnconfig -s labels ...

1999-08-20 Thread Andrzej Bialecki
On Fri, 20 Aug 1999, Luigi Rizzo wrote: > Hi, > > trying to build picobsd on 19990816snap of -current, i am consistently > hitting a problem, which is totally reproducible from the command line. > The following sequence > > vnconfig -s labels -c /dev/rvn0 fs.PICOBSD > disklabel -rw /dev

problem with vnconfig -s labels ...

1999-08-20 Thread Luigi Rizzo
Hi, trying to build picobsd on 19990816snap of -current, i am consistently hitting a problem, which is totally reproducible from the command line. The following sequence vnconfig -s labels -c /dev/rvn0 fs.PICOBSD disklabel -rw /dev/rvn0 fd1440 causes a panic with a page fault accessing

ping/egcs

1999-08-20 Thread Tamiji Homma
Hi, I just came across the problem with ping and egcs. If you do # ping -s 57 localhost PING localhost (127.0.0.1): 57 data bytes ^C --- localhost ping statistics --- 2 packets transmitted, 0 packets received, 100% packet loss if the data size is even number, it works OK. I think that the pro

Re: How To Burn CDs

1999-08-20 Thread Mikhail A. Sokolov
On Fri, Aug 20, 1999 at 01:04:47PM +0200, Werner Griessl wrote: # # Don't forget cdrdao, it's able to read and burn "video(cdi)"-cd's. # Successfully done here with a philips cdr2600 burner for a philips cdi player. # It's also in ports. >From what I recall, tosha's been able to deal with vcd's

Re: [re]writable cdrom drive

1999-08-20 Thread A . Leidinger
On 19 Aug, Matthew Dillon wrote: > It should be noted that the 'cdrecord' program implements a FIFO itself, > and you can specify the size. The default is 2MB. cdrecord uses a man cdrecord (v1.8a2?): ---snip--- The default fifo size is currently 4 MB. ---snip--- Bye, Alex

gdb-4.17 in FreeBSD 4.0-CURRENT

1999-08-20 Thread Richard Cownie
I managed to build gdb-4.17 in FreeBSD 4.0, here's how to do it: 1) gdb-4.17/configure --host=i386-unknown-freebsdelf4.0 Have to specify the host explicitly, otherwise it doesn't realize it needs to use ELF. 2) in gdb-4.17/Makefile, add "-DSVR4_SHARED_LIBS" to definition of CFLAGS 3) in

Re: cc -O broken in -current for Alpha KLDs

1999-08-20 Thread Andrew Gallatin
Doug Rabson writes: > On Thu, 19 Aug 1999, Andrew Gallatin wrote: > > > > > I do most of my development on alphas & I just turned some local code > > into a loadable kernel module. It works fine when compiled into the > > kernel statically, but fails miserably when loaded into an alpha

Re: "The Matrix" screensaver

1999-08-20 Thread Andrzej Bialecki
On Fri, 20 Aug 1999, Nick Hibma wrote: > > What a ridiculous idea! I love it! Hehe.. Now they can run it on their cluster. :-) > > Hi, > > > > This is my poor attempt at reproducing the screens on the movie... Sure, > > there is much room for improvement, and the whole thing would look cool i

Re: cc -O broken in -current for Alpha KLDs

1999-08-20 Thread Peter Wemm
Doug Rabson wrote: > On Thu, 19 Aug 1999, Andrew Gallatin wrote: > > > > > I do most of my development on alphas & I just turned some local code > > into a loadable kernel module. It works fine when compiled into the > > kernel statically, but fails miserably when loaded into an alpha > > kerne

ftp and cdrom image

1999-08-20 Thread Mete Balci
I have some questions for distribution. I have started to download freebsd 3.2-current via ftp but it seems to be huge. I think it will be 2 CD. First, how do I have to split it to 2 CDs ? which dirs will going to first and which to second CD ? Second, I have seen there is an iso image file for re

RE: How To Burn CDs

1999-08-20 Thread Werner Griessl
On 20-Aug-99 Amancio Hasty wrote: > This is a summary of the information that I gather over the last > few days with respect to CD recorders. > > > It appears that the preferred and better supported CD recorders are > scsi . To shorten the gap what is needed is for ATAPI cd recorders > to be i

Re: Strange notebook boot misbehaviour.

1999-08-20 Thread Maxim Sobolev
Greg Lehey wrote: > On Thursday, 19 August 1999 at 17:34:28 +0300, Maxim Sobolev wrote: > > > > I have a notebook (toshiba satellite pro 445) with WinNT and FreeBSD > > installed and discovered that when I'm booting FreeBSD directly from > > power-down state or rebooting after FreeBSD then it boo

How To Burn CDs

1999-08-20 Thread Amancio Hasty
This is a summary of the information that I gather over the last few days with respect to CD recorders. It appears that the preferred and better supported CD recorders are scsi . To shorten the gap what is needed is for ATAPI cd recorders to be integrated into CAM so that we may present a unifi

Re: "The Matrix" screensaver

1999-08-20 Thread Nick Hibma
What a ridiculous idea! I love it! Nick > Hi, > > This is my poor attempt at reproducing the screens on the movie... Sure, > there is much room for improvement, and the whole thing would look cool in > VESA, if someone has more spare time... > > http://www.freebsd.org/~abial/matrix.tgz

REQ: Test /etc/rc clean-up

1999-08-20 Thread Sheldon Hearn
Hi folks, I have a diff for src/etc/rc that I'd like to have had used on a few machines before I commit it. I'm pretty sure I haven't made any mistakes with my changes, but you can never be too careful, right? The diff homogenizes the manner in which variables are tested and is more careful abo