Re: How the hell does one create a new bus?!

1999-02-15 Thread Doug Rabson
[hackers removed from Cc to prevent excessive crossposting] On Sun, 14 Feb 1999, Garrett Wollman wrote: > < said: > > > The trouble is Doug, that until there IS a developer's guide, the only > > person capable if moving PCI and ISA to your scheme, is you. > > and as you pointed out.. you're sho

Problesm w/ 4.0-current & wine

1999-02-15 Thread Donn Miller
When I try to run wine on FreeBSD 4.0-CURRENT, I get the following message: Feb 15 05:19:56 myname /kernel: Patch manager interface is currently broken. Sorry Feb 15 05:19:56 myname /kernel: Patch manager interface is currently broken. Sorry wine: can't exec 'demo1.exe': error=0 wine: no executab

Re: Problesm w/ 4.0-current & wine

1999-02-15 Thread Maxim Sobolev
I'm also using wine(latest from ports) with 4.0-current and it works for me (elf kernel). Donn Miller wrote: > When I try to run wine on FreeBSD 4.0-CURRENT, I get the following > message: > > Feb 15 05:19:56 myname /kernel: Patch manager interface is currently > broken. Sorry > Feb 15 05:19:56 m

Re: How to power off an ATX power supply machine on shutdown ?

1999-02-15 Thread Jose M. Alcaide
Alex Zepeda wrote: > > > Is a delay needed between the final sync's and the actual power off? > > Apparently so. There is/was a recently added sysctl for this purpose. > Poke around in the archives. > Was that sysctl added to the -STABLE branch? I am running 3.1-BETA and I cannot find it. --

Re: Disk locks and weird things

1999-02-15 Thread Dag-Erling Smorgrav
Matthew Thyer writes: > On Sun, 14 Feb 1999, Erik Funkenbusch wrote: > > During a make world (usually about 10-20 minutes in on my P100) everything > > just comes to a grinding halt. No disk activity, but the screen saver will > > kick in (despite the shell being in the middle of said make world)

Re: Weird piecemeal reads over socketpair() pipe breaks up small writes into even smaller reads.

1999-02-15 Thread Peter Dufault
> When the writer blocks, the reader runs and uses a buggy loop to read > only the first chunk of input. > > On an otherwise idle system, the need_resched() condition seems to be > true always. I would have expected the synchronisation provided by the > sleep(1) to bias need_resched() in the oppo

Re: Problesm w/ 4.0-current & wine

1999-02-15 Thread Kris Kennaway
On Mon, 15 Feb 1999, Donn Miller wrote: > I've got the USER_LDT option in my kernel, and I'm running an `aout' > instead of `elf' kernel. I thought running a.out systems had been deprecated for -current and was no longer supported. Since you're running a bleeding-edge codebase anyway, why haven't

Re: Heads up! /etc/rc.conf.site is dead.

1999-02-15 Thread Sheldon Hearn
On Fri, 12 Feb 1999 16:56:48 PST, Jaye Mathisen wrote: > mergemaster is your friend. Mergemaster will help you update /etc/defaults/rc.conf, but you'll need to use something else to merge changes from that file into /etc/rc.conf . Ciao, Sheldon. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majord...@freebsd.

Re: Problesm w/ 4.0-current & wine

1999-02-15 Thread Donn Miller
Kris Kennaway wrote: > On Mon, 15 Feb 1999, Donn Miller wrote: > > > I've got the USER_LDT option in my kernel, and I'm running an `aout' > > instead of `elf' kernel. > > I thought running a.out systems had been deprecated for -current and was no > longer supported. Since you're running a bleedi

Re: Problesm w/ 4.0-current & wine

1999-02-15 Thread Brian Feldman
On Mon, 15 Feb 1999, Donn Miller wrote: > > > Kris Kennaway wrote: > > > On Mon, 15 Feb 1999, Donn Miller wrote: > > > > > I've got the USER_LDT option in my kernel, and I'm running an `aout' > > > instead of `elf' kernel. > > > > I thought running a.out systems had been deprecated for -current

Re: New print interface

1999-02-15 Thread Daniel C. Sobral
Chuck Robey wrote: > > If IO is generic, then printing the type of printer it finds is > meaningless, right? It's going to announce "generic" no matter what, > then it should stay silent, right? Better to say nothing than to get it > wrong every time, especially with the correct info sitting mer

Re: Problesm w/ 4.0-current & wine

1999-02-15 Thread Daniel C. Sobral
Donn Miller wrote: > > Kris Kennaway wrote: > > > On Mon, 15 Feb 1999, Donn Miller wrote: > > > > > I've got the USER_LDT option in my kernel, and I'm running an `aout' > > > instead of `elf' kernel. > > > > I thought running a.out systems had been deprecated for -current and was no > > longer su

Re: Problesm w/ 4.0-current & wine

1999-02-15 Thread Daniel C. Sobral
Brian Feldman wrote: > > That sounds like a bug, but the "boot: " prompt is NOT the new boot loader, > it's the semi-new boot0 (which is quite nice, Mr. Nordier). When you actually > yet to BTX, try boot -c. Terminology errors abound here. I know, because I made many of them in the past. boot0 i

Re: Problesm w/ 4.0-current & wine

1999-02-15 Thread Thomas T. Veldhouse
At the prompt: set boot_userconfig boot Tom Veldhouse ve...@visi.com -Original Message- From: Donn Miller To: Kris Kennaway Cc: curr...@freebsd.org Date: Monday, February 15, 1999 6:34 AM Subject: Re: Problesm w/ 4.0-current & wine > > >Kris Kennaway wrote: > >> On Mon, 15 Fe

Re: Problesm w/ 4.0-current & wine

1999-02-15 Thread Brian Feldman
On Mon, 15 Feb 1999, Daniel C. Sobral wrote: > Brian Feldman wrote: > > > > That sounds like a bug, but the "boot: " prompt is NOT the new boot loader, > > it's the semi-new boot0 (which is quite nice, Mr. Nordier). When you > > actually > > yet to BTX, try boot -c. > > Terminology errors aboun

Re: Weird piecemeal reads over socketpair() pipe breaks up small writes into even smaller reads.

1999-02-15 Thread Bruce Evans
>Ok, so perhaps tweeking the rescheduling changes in kern_subr.c to >not try to do it in the first few thousand bytes copied is the solution? kern_subr.c can't do that, because `struct uio' doesn't give the original count. >Would you like to do it or should I? This isn't high priorit

Re: Problesm w/ 4.0-current & wine

1999-02-15 Thread Mike Smith
> > > Kris Kennaway wrote: > > > On Mon, 15 Feb 1999, Donn Miller wrote: > > > > > I've got the USER_LDT option in my kernel, and I'm running an `aout' > > > instead of `elf' kernel. > > > > I thought running a.out systems had been deprecated for -current and was no > > longer supported. Since y

Re: Problesm w/ 4.0-current & wine

1999-02-15 Thread Mike Smith
> > That sounds like a bug, but the "boot: " prompt is NOT the new boot loader, > it's the semi-new boot0 (which is quite nice, Mr. Nordier). 'boot:' comes from boot2, actually. > When you actually > yet to BTX, try boot -c. ... and you never get to "BTX", you end up the loader. -- \\ Somet

Re: How to power off an ATX power supply machine on shutdown ?

1999-02-15 Thread D. Rock
> > > Is a delay needed between the final sync's and the actual power off? > > > > Apparently so. There is/was a recently added sysctl for this purpose. > > Poke around in the archives. > > > > Was that sysctl added to the -STABLE branch? I am running 3.1-BETA > and I cannot find it. No, they w

easily reproducible NFS-related panic

1999-02-15 Thread Jose M. Alcaide
Sorry for the cross-posting, but I am running -STABLE and I would like to hear from -CURRENT users about this problem. The panic is easily reproducible: simply, try to hard-link a file from a local filesystem to a NFS-mounted one (yes, I _know_ that this is non-sense): mount remotesys:/exported

Re: panics & deciphering VMSTAT output

1999-02-15 Thread Geoff Buckingham
Previously on Sun, Feb 14, 1999 at 09:37:01PM -0500, tc...@staff.circle.net wrote: : I've been trying to track down a regular, but not : manually reproducible crash in 3.0-BETA (19990205). : : I can't get a crashdump due to a DSCHECK negative : number bug. I think my swap space of 3+GB is : too

Re: easily reproducible NFS-related panic

1999-02-15 Thread Matthew Dillon
:Sorry for the cross-posting, but I am running -STABLE and I would :like to hear from -CURRENT users about this problem. : :The panic is easily reproducible: simply, try to hard-link a file :from a local filesystem to a NFS-mounted one (yes, I _know_ that :this is non-sense): :.. : : mount remotes

Re: Weird piecemeal reads over socketpair() pipe breaks up small writes into even smaller reads.

1999-02-15 Thread Matthew Dillon
:kern_subr.c can't do that, because `struct uio' doesn't give the original :count. : :>Would you like to do it or should I? This isn't high priority but it :>should definitely not be rescheduling after the first 96 bytes. That's :>just a waste of cpu. : :The waste for rescheduling sho

Re: support for 3Com 3C575 network controller?

1999-02-15 Thread Doug White
On Sat, 13 Feb 1999, Steve Price wrote: > Is anyone out there successfully using a 3Com 3C375 network > controller in there laptop? I got a new Dell Inspiron 7000 > that came with one of these jewels and I haven't been able > to find the trick to make it work. CardBus cards aren't supported. Pe

Re: Weird piecemeal reads over socketpair() pipe breaks up small writes into even smaller reads.

1999-02-15 Thread Bill Fenner
Isn't it easier to reclassify the bug as "uipc_send() wakes up the reader before it's done appending the data from a write() to the socket buffer" and use my patch? I don't think it makes sense for uipc_send() to depend on sorwakeup() not actually waking up anyone in certain situations. Bill T

Re: easily reproducible NFS-related panic

1999-02-15 Thread Dom Mitchell
On 15 February 1999, "Jose M. Alcaide" proclaimed: > Sorry for the cross-posting, but I am running -STABLE and I would > like to hear from -CURRENT users about this problem. > > The panic is easily reproducible: simply, try to hard-link a file > from a local filesystem to a NFS-mounted one (yes, I

Re: support for 3Com 3C575 network controller?

1999-02-15 Thread Steve Price
On Mon, 15 Feb 1999, Doug White wrote: # CardBus cards aren't supported. Period. Eek, I didn't realize this was a CardBus card. :{ I quess this begs the question though, is anyone working on CardBus support for FreeBSD since this is the 32-bit version of PCMCIA? Yes I understand they are *comp

Problems in VM structure ?

1999-02-15 Thread Khetan Gajjar
Hi. I saw that my 4-CURRENT box from 8 February dropped to ddb after my last make world. I rebuilt world today, and the same problem is occuring. These problems started occuring after Matt Dillon's changes to the VM system. What is worrying/troubling is that in single user mode, the machine is st

Re: support for 3Com 3C575 network controller?

1999-02-15 Thread Doug Rabson
On Mon, 15 Feb 1999, Steve Price wrote: > On Mon, 15 Feb 1999, Doug White wrote: > > # CardBus cards aren't supported. Period. > > Eek, I didn't realize this was a CardBus card. :{ I quess > this begs the question though, is anyone working on CardBus > support for FreeBSD since this is the 32-

Re: Problems in VM structure ?

1999-02-15 Thread Luoqi Chen
> Hi. > > I saw that my 4-CURRENT box from 8 February dropped to ddb > after my last make world. I rebuilt world today, and the > same problem is occuring. These problems started occuring > after Matt Dillon's changes to the VM system. > > What is worrying/troubling is that in single user mode, >

Re: Problems in VM structure ?

1999-02-15 Thread Greg Lehey
On Monday, 15 February 1999 at 18:00:16 -0500, Luoqi Chen wrote: >> Hi. >> >> I saw that my 4-CURRENT box from 8 February dropped to ddb >> after my last make world. I rebuilt world today, and the >> same problem is occuring. These problems started occuring >> after Matt Dillon's changes to the VM

Re: ifq_maxlen on lo0

1999-02-15 Thread Jamie Clark
On Thu, Feb 11, 1999 at 12:53:05PM -0500, Chuck Robey wrote: > My boot messages recently have included a warning about the lo0 > interface not setting the ifq_maxlen. Same here. Rebuilt a few hours ago, and now I see: IP packet filtering initialized, divert disabled, rule-based forwarding disabl

Re: ifq_maxlen on lo0

1999-02-15 Thread Chuck Robey
On Tue, 16 Feb 1999, Jamie Clark wrote: > On Thu, Feb 11, 1999 at 12:53:05PM -0500, Chuck Robey wrote: > > My boot messages recently have included a warning about the lo0 > > interface not setting the ifq_maxlen. > > Same here. Rebuilt a few hours ago, and now I see: > > IP packet filtering init

Re: Problesm w/ 4.0-current & wine

1999-02-15 Thread Mike Smith
> Whoops, I always end up typing the wrong thing :) boot0 is the MBR, boot2 is > the kernel loader, and they're all by Mr. Nordier. Wrong again. boot0 is in the MBR, boot1 and boot2 are the bootstrap; all by Robert. The loader, OTOH, uses Robert's BTX code, Ficl, and a lot of code derived by m

HELP: vm_fault

1999-02-15 Thread T.D. Brace
Can anyone give me a hand with this problem? Machines are dropping like flies from this, one I haven't managed to get back at all (hangs on syncing disks). Anyway, this web server runs just fine for 1 - 3 days, then loses one of it's drives (da1). I'm not a kernel hacker, so I was looking for a

Re: HELP: vm_fault

1999-02-15 Thread Julian Elischer
I'd move forward, not back.. take the 3.1 release that will be available in a day or so.. 3.0 was a bit experimental still. On Mon, 15 Feb 1999, T.D. Brace wrote: > > Can anyone give me a hand with this problem? Machines are dropping like > flies from this, one I haven't managed to get back at

Re: Netscape, again

1999-02-15 Thread Alexander Sanda
Chris Tubutis writes: > > whenever I click a mailto: HREF it inadvertly dumps core. > > > Does it truly dump core, or does it merely go away? Can't speak for the original poster, but my Netscrap 4.5 shows the same behaviour: [16]a...@darkstar:/alex #>/usr/local/netscape/netscape [now clicki

Re: Problesm w/ 4.0-current & wine

1999-02-15 Thread Brian Feldman
On Mon, 15 Feb 1999, Mike Smith wrote: > > Whoops, I always end up typing the wrong thing :) boot0 is the MBR, boot2 is > > the kernel loader, and they're all by Mr. Nordier. > > Wrong again. boot0 is in the MBR, boot1 and boot2 are the bootstrap; > all by Robert. The loader, OTOH, uses Robert

vesa and X wierdness

1999-02-15 Thread Jake
Hi, if I load the vesa kld module from loader.rc, in order to use a high-res splash screen, when X starts the screen is very dim. Usually I start xdm from ttys, but its the same if I use startx. The cursor looks normal, its really bright against the dim screen. Its fine if I don't load vesa and use

Re: vesa and X wierdness

1999-02-15 Thread Kazutaka YOKOTA
>Hi, if I load the vesa kld module from loader.rc, in order to >use a high-res splash screen, when X starts the screen is very dim. >Usually I start xdm from ttys, but its the same if I use startx. >The cursor looks normal, its really bright against the dim screen. >Its fine if I don't load vesa a

Re: Problesm w/ 4.0-current & wine

1999-02-15 Thread Daniel C. Sobral
I spent sometime just staring at the subject, before reading the message, trying to remember if I had been to any FreeBSD & drinking problems thread... :-) -- Daniel C. Sobral(8-DCS) d...@newsguy.com d...@freebsd.org Well, as a computer geek, I have to believe in t

Re: vesa and X wierdness

1999-02-15 Thread Jake
> Please try the attached patch for /sys/i386/isa/vesa.c and > see if it works. > > Kazu Yes, that worked. No more dim screen. Thanks alot! To Unsubscribe: send mail to majord...@freebsd.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message