Re: Fatal Trap 12 (-current kernel w/MFS)

1999-05-19 Thread Sheldon Hearn
On Tue, 18 May 1999 17:04:56 MST, Doug White wrote: > Fixed it earlier this week or last week in v1.63 (14 May) of > /sys/ufs/mfs/mfs_vfsops.c. Resup. I don't think so. Your changes didn't stop the panic for me. What _did_ fix it was Luoqi's change yesterday to kern_conf.c . John, make sure yo

Re: MFS still hosed

1999-05-19 Thread Sheldon Hearn
On Wed, 19 May 1999 12:04:54 +1000, Bruce Evans wrote: > >dumping to dev (0, 131089), offset 524288 > >dump device bad > > The dev_t changes obfuscated it by printing it in %d format instead of > as part of the dev number in [0x]%x format. So you reckon that whatever problem is making it imp[o

Re: FBSDBOOT.EXE

1999-05-19 Thread Jerry Alexandratos
Jonathan Lemon says: : : Not true. VM86 is also required to support VESA. Also, it is used : for reliable memory detection (which is why I want to make it mandatory). : No more "My Stinkpad only detected 64M, what do I do now??!" questions. Actually, even with VM86, the kernel still doesn't co

Re: MFS still hosed

1999-05-19 Thread Bruce Evans
>> >dumping to dev (0, 131089), offset 524288 >> >dump device bad >> >> The dev_t changes obfuscated it by printing it in %d format instead of >> as part of the dev number in [0x]%x format. > >So you reckon that whatever problem is making it imp[ossible for me to >take dumps, it was present before

Re: MFS still hosed

1999-05-19 Thread Sheldon Hearn
On Wed, 19 May 1999 17:40:50 +1000, Bruce Evans wrote: > so you must be using the old wd driver. The old wd_driver's d_dump > only returns ENXIO when the drive doesn't exist or has never been > opened or is not labeled. I'm using the "old" wd driver (controller wdc in CURRENT). The disk is lab

MTRR support for AMD K6-2?

1999-05-19 Thread Stephen Hocking-Senior Programmer PGS Tensor Perth
Do we have MTRR support for the AMD K6-2, and how's it done (e.g., if I want to allow mtrr support for my Voodoo Banshee) Stephen -- The views expressed above are not those of PGS Tensor. "We've heard that a million monkeys at a million keyboards could produce the Complete

RE: MTRR support for AMD K6-2?

1999-05-19 Thread Daniel O'Connor
On 19-May-99 Stephen Hocking-Senior Programmer PGS Tensor Perth wrote: > Do we have MTRR support for the AMD K6-2, and how's it done (e.g., if I want > to allow mtrr support for my Voodoo Banshee) I don't think its supported for the K6 (it only happens if you have i686). You can use it by playi

Re: XFree86 xsetpointer causes silo overflows (Was: Re: Fixed my MAMEd sio problem.)

1999-05-19 Thread David Dawes
On Wed, May 19, 1999 at 01:20:01AM +0930, Matthew Thyer wrote: >I have confirmed that the problem occurs if I just do: > > xsetpointer Joystick > sleep 1 > xsetpointer pointer > >So M.A.M.E. is unrelated to the problem as Bruce Evans would suggest. > >So the problem appears to be with XFree86 no

"hanging root device to da0s1a"

1999-05-19 Thread Jordan K. Hubbard
No offense, but can we use something like "assigning" in place of the rather loaded word "hanging?" I can just see the user bug reports now; "My root device is hanging! It says so every time I boot! HELP!" :) - Jordan To Unsubscribe: send mail to majord...@freebsd.org with "unsubscribe freebsd

Re: "hanging root device to da0s1a"

1999-05-19 Thread Ian Pallfreeman
> No offense, but can we use something like "assigning" in place of the > rather loaded word "hanging?" I can just see the user bug reports now; > "My root device is hanging! It says so every time I boot! HELP!" :) Or better still, revert to printing the SCSI probe results on a line break, rathe

some1 messed with the voxware drivers ?

1999-05-19 Thread Tomer Weller
im -current, lat build world was two days ago, it seems like in the past week some1 has messed with the Voxware sound drivers, until last week i used a SB-Pro emulation with Voxware, and it worked fine, now it still works, but there are some annoying poping sound in the background (works FINE in w

ATA driver problem ?

1999-05-19 Thread Tomer Weller
i've been using the ATA driver for a while now, but since my last word & kernel i get "WARNING: / was not properly dismounted" at the end of the dmesg and i have to fsck /. my last world was about 2 dayz ago. dmesg output for that ATA driver : ad1: ATA-4 disk at ata0 as slave ad1: 6149MB (12

Re: FBSDBOOT.EXE

1999-05-19 Thread Luoqi Chen
> Jonathan Lemon says: > : > : Not true. VM86 is also required to support VESA. Also, it is used > : for reliable memory detection (which is why I want to make it mandatory). > : No more "My Stinkpad only detected 64M, what do I do now??!" questions. > > Actually, even with VM86, the kernel st

Re: "hanging root device to da0s1a"

1999-05-19 Thread Chris Timmons
Heh. Well, then you would have people asking you what "ssigning" root devices means :) The message seems to get garbled when the CAM probes (being done in the background) emit their messages. The "c" in my "changing" creates a new device called cda4 in my log file: Waiting 5 seconds for SCSI d

Re: Sound Strangeness

1999-05-19 Thread Thomas T. Veldhouse
Same settings under Windows and same I have used under Linux [with the 2.2 kernels]. Tom Veldhouse ve...@visi.com -Original Message- From: Doug White To: Thomas T. Veldhouse Cc: FreeBSD-Current Date: Tuesday, May 18, 1999 7:10 PM Subject: Re: Sound Strangeness >This is usually indici

SUMMARY: why you cant use FBSDBOOT.EXE anymore (Was: Re: FBSDBOOT.EXE)

1999-05-19 Thread Matthew Thyer
The problem is that recent versions of MS-DOS (version 7 and above ? ...definitely the DOS that comes with Windows 98 and I think the DOS with Windows 95 under some circumstances) change various vectors which destroy FBSDBOOTs ability to work (this is because there is no way to determine where thes

Re: XFree86 xsetpointer causes silo overflows (Was: Re: Fixed my MAMEd sio problem.)

1999-05-19 Thread Matthew Thyer
The big problem is that the silo overflows continue after I have returned the pointer to the mouse (with "xsetpointer pointer"). This should close the joystick device shouldn't it ? If it doesn't then there is a problem with either the X server or FreeBSD. Bruce has already indicated that there

Re: SUMMARY: why you cant use FBSDBOOT.EXE anymore (Was: Re: FBSDBOOT.EXE)

1999-05-19 Thread Maxim Sobolev
Matthew Thyer wrote: > Therefore it *MAY* be possible to make a DOS 6.0, 6.20 or even 6.22 > boot floppy which runs FBSDBOOT.EXE to boot your a.out FreeBSD kernel > and hence the whole system. Obviously it makes no sense at all to make special DOS boot floppy with older DOS just to run FBSDBOOT

Re: "hanging root device to da0s1a"

1999-05-19 Thread Mike Smith
> No offense, but can we use something like "assigning" in place of the > rather loaded word "hanging?" I can just see the user bug reports now; > "My root device is hanging! It says so every time I boot! HELP!" :) Actually, it says "changing", but the 'c' gets printed and then all of the inter

Re: FBSDBOOT.EXE

1999-05-19 Thread Mike Smith
> > Jonathan Lemon says: > > : > > : Not true. VM86 is also required to support VESA. Also, it is used > > : for reliable memory detection (which is why I want to make it mandatory). > > : No more "My Stinkpad only detected 64M, what do I do now??!" questions. > > > > Actually, even with VM86,

Re: zzz crashing in current OR inthand_remove not removing handlers properly

1999-05-19 Thread Warner Losh
In message <199905171500.jaa22...@mt.sri.com> Nate Williams writes: : The solution is to not poll and to make sure insertion/removal events : generate an interrupt which can inform the card's interrupt handlers : that there is no more card. : : (That's one of the main reasons polling is a very bad

Re: ed0/probe solved (Was: re: ed0/probe problem in 4.0-CURRENT)

1999-05-19 Thread Daniel C. Sobral
Steven Ames wrote: > > *sigh* No suprise here. As 90% of these things are this was yet > another Dumb User Error. I had a base address conflict that kept > the card from being probed. So, can we say it was due? ;-) -- Daniel C. Sobral(8-DCS) d...@newsguy.com d...@freebsd.

Re: FBSDBOOT.EXE

1999-05-19 Thread Luoqi Chen
> Not at all. If there's 640k chopped off the end of eg. 128M of > physical memory, you'd have to use a 64M segment, a 32M segment, a 16M > segment, an 8M segment, a 4M segment, a 2M segment, a 1M segment, a > 256k segment and a 128k segment to map it accurately. That's 9 > variable MTRRs, an

Re: SUMMARY: why you cant use FBSDBOOT.EXE anymore (Was: Re: FBSDBOOT.EXE)

1999-05-19 Thread Luoqi Chen
> > Therefore it *MAY* be possible to make a DOS 6.0, 6.20 or even 6.22 > > boot floppy which runs FBSDBOOT.EXE to boot your a.out FreeBSD kernel > > and hence the whole system. > > Obviously it makes no sense at all to make special DOS boot floppy with older > DOS > just to run FBSDBOOT - it sim

WDM maddness

1999-05-19 Thread Chris Silva
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I have installed 4.0-CURRENT however, It seems that wdm is still broken. Here is the tail end of a make install for wdm: ras# make install > tmp ras# more tmp ===> Extracting for wdm-1.0 >> Checksum OK for wdm/wdm-1.0.tar.gz. >> Checksum OK for wdm/d

Re: FBSDBOOT.EXE

1999-05-19 Thread Jonathan Lemon
On May 05, 1999 at 03:38:05AM -0400, Jerry Alexandratos wrote: > Jonathan Lemon says: > : > : Not true. VM86 is also required to support VESA. Also, it is used > : for reliable memory detection (which is why I want to make it mandatory). > : No more "My Stinkpad only detected 64M, what do I do

Re: FBSDBOOT.EXE

1999-05-19 Thread Mike Smith
> > Not at all. If there's 640k chopped off the end of eg. 128M of > > physical memory, you'd have to use a 64M segment, a 32M segment, a 16M > > segment, an 8M segment, a 4M segment, a 2M segment, a 1M segment, a > > 256k segment and a 128k segment to map it accurately. That's 9 > > variable

Re: SUMMARY: why you cant use FBSDBOOT.EXE anymore (Was: Re: FBSDBOOT.EXE)

1999-05-19 Thread Mike Smith
> > > Therefore it *MAY* be possible to make a DOS 6.0, 6.20 or even 6.22 > > > boot floppy which runs FBSDBOOT.EXE to boot your a.out FreeBSD kernel > > > and hence the whole system. > > > > Obviously it makes no sense at all to make special DOS boot floppy with > > older DOS > > just to run FBS

Re: FBSDBOOT.EXE

1999-05-19 Thread Jonathan Lemon
On May 05, 1999 at 12:27:31PM -0700, Mike Smith wrote: > The issue here is that the BIOS will tell us how much memory we are > _allowed_to_use_, which is not always the same as the amount of > physical memory present in the system. Some memory may be (is > sometimes) reserved for use by eg. APM

Re: syscons update - stage 2 snopshot 17 May

1999-05-19 Thread Gregory Sutter
On Tue, May 18, 1999 at 11:48:40PM -0700, Archie Cobbs wrote: > Vallo Kallaste writes: > > > - History buffer (back-scroll buffer) management functions are moved > > > to a new file, schistory.c. > > > > My question is slightly off-topic, but.. is it now possible (or in the > > future) to choose

Re: SUMMARY: why you cant use FBSDBOOT.EXE anymore (Was: Re: FBSDBOOT.EXE)

1999-05-19 Thread Robert Nordier
> > > > Therefore it *MAY* be possible to make a DOS 6.0, 6.20 or even 6.22 > > > > boot floppy which runs FBSDBOOT.EXE to boot your a.out FreeBSD kernel > > > > and hence the whole system. > > > > > > Obviously it makes no sense at all to make special DOS boot floppy with > > > old > er DOS > > >

X11 aout compat pack

1999-05-19 Thread Marc van Woerkom
May I suggest to add the XFree86 aout libraries to src/compat, or to add them as port - for easy update via make. Background: Netscape 4.6 installation complained that I need X11 aout libs, so I had to download xlib.tgz (3.3M) just for the aout libs (0.7M). Or am I missing some opportunity else

Re: MTRR support for AMD K6-2?

1999-05-19 Thread Mike Smith
> > Do we have MTRR support for the AMD K6-2, and how's it done (e.g., if I want > to allow mtrr support for my Voodoo Banshee) It's being worked on. The K6 is a problematic device, as it only supports two memory ranges, as opposed to the eight the P6 does. -- \\ The mind's the standard

Re: SUMMARY: why you cant use FBSDBOOT.EXE anymore (Was: Re: FBSDBOOT.EXE)

1999-05-19 Thread Carlos C. Tapang
Thanks to all who pitched in their input to this issue. Most users of my system are running Windows and don't want to have to reformat or repartition their hard disk. So I am stuck with the DOS file system. I think the best solution is to have my users use a FreeBSD boot floppy. The floppy will hav

Re: pccard status?

1999-05-19 Thread Warner Losh
The pccard code kinda sorta works on some systems, but not on others. The support for sio and fdc no longer works on any system. I'm working on a rewrite in the new bus framework. I have pcic interrupting now, and hope to have I/O and memory mapping working again to allow pccards to work again sh

Re: pccard status?

1999-05-19 Thread Warner Losh
In message Doug Rabson writes: : The sio support will need to wait until Warner Losh commits his changes to : clean up the pccard driver. I'm hoping to have this done before I take off for Memorial Day weekend. Warner To Unsubscribe: send mail to majord...@freebsd.org with "unsubscribe freebs

Re: "hanging root device to da0s1a"

1999-05-19 Thread Justin T. Gibbs
In article <199905191637.jaa03...@dingo.cdrom.com> you wrote: > I'm not sure why it happens like this; try putting a DELAY() just > before we actually set the root device and see if you can put it off. Why not just spl() protect that printf call so that its output is dumped contiguously into the

calcru and upages

1999-05-19 Thread Dmitrij Tejblum
calcru() access p_stats, which is in upages. Therefore, as I understand, it should not be called on a swapped out process. Neither calcru() nor its callers seem to ensure this. At least the call in procfs_dostatus() may happen on a swapped out process. (It test for P_INMEM for another access to

Re: SUMMARY: why you cant use FBSDBOOT.EXE anymore (Was: Re: FBSDBOOT.EXE)

1999-05-19 Thread Greg Childers
Sounds like you want something like a FreeBSD version of DOS Linux. See http://www.tux.org/pub/people/kent-robotti/index.html. How do they overcome this problem? Greg At 02:45 PM 5/19/99 -0700, Carlos C. Tapang wrote: >Thanks to all who pitched in their input to this issue. Most users of my >sy

Re: FBSDBOOT.EXE

1999-05-19 Thread Brian Feldman
On Wed, 19 May 1999, Luoqi Chen wrote: > > Jonathan Lemon says: > > : > > : Not true. VM86 is also required to support VESA. Also, it is used > > : for reliable memory detection (which is why I want to make it mandatory). > > : No more "My Stinkpad only detected 64M, what do I do now??!" quest

mount_mfs panics (Was: ``65536-byte tape record bigger than suplied buffer'')

1999-05-19 Thread Joel Ray Holveck
>> Well, I'll recheck mine... > It'd be interesting to see if you (and others) can reproduce this too. Using a May 17 15:00 CDT -current, I also have gotten a panic mounting MFS. The line from fstab is: /dev/da0s2b /tmpmfs rw 0 0 I commented it out

SGI to release XFS under Open Source license

1999-05-19 Thread Stephen Hocking-Senior Programmer PGS Tensor Perth
Some of you may already know this - I'm wondering about the pain involved in fitting it to our architecture. Journaling. Hmmm. http://www.news.com/News/Item/0,4,36807,00.html?owv -- The views expressed above are not those of PGS Tensor. "We've heard that a million monkeys at a million k