questions about 4.0 along with 3.4-STABLE

2000-02-10 Thread John Reynolds~
lete backup, nuke, and re-install of 4.0 from "official" CDs--given this, would it be "safer" to simply unplug the silly SCSI drives from the machine and do the install (so it would be physically impossible to screw them over in any way)? Thanks, -Jr -- =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-

feedback on CD install of 4.0-RC2

2000-02-17 Thread John Reynolds~
there! All in all, I think most of the things I experienced last night were "cosmetic" in nature--however, if they could be polished away, it would make for a *completely* bullet-proof and awesome install experience--especially for a new user coming to FreeBSD for the first time. "

question regarding root_disk_unit ...

2000-02-17 Thread John Reynolds~
ood. We just need to do some "polishing" around the corners and it'll be as shiny as a new dime! -- =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= | John Reynolds WCCG, CCE, Higher Levels of Abstraction | | Intel Corporation MS:

RE: feedback on CD install of 4.0-RC2

2000-02-17 Thread John Reynolds~
not sure where they > are in the src tree, maybe src/share/skel. Indeed. However, as we were talking about this morning in -qa, is a better spot for these variables /etc/csh.cshrc and /etc/profile? > Thanks. no problem! -Jr -- =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-

here's some feedback on 4.0-RC ...

2000-02-10 Thread John Reynolds
de to pinpoint the problems, QA'ing was asked for and those are things I found :) ... I hope they are helpful More in a few days when I get the new drive in and actually go through the whole binary installation -Jr -- =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= John Reynol

Installation floppies and USB

2000-02-28 Thread John Reynolds~
be: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message --- end of forwarded message --- -- =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= | John Reynolds WCCG, CCE, Higher Levels of Abstract

Feedback on 4.0-RC3 (mostly good! :)

2000-03-09 Thread John Reynolds
ituation to the Label editor. The system is fast, GNOME+E. desktop is usable, kernel config went like a charm. Looks *real* good from where I'm sittin'. Good work to all! Let's ship this puppy. :) -Jr -- =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=

Re: Feedback on 4.0-RC3 (mostly good! :)

2000-03-09 Thread John Reynolds
lling on a disc I can frag at will ... can't "take the plunge" until later :). -Jr -- =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= John Reynolds Chandler Capabilities Engineering, CDS, Intel Corporation [EMAIL PROTECTED] My opinions are mine, not Intel's. Running [EMAI

Intel PRO/1000 Gigabit driver

1999-10-21 Thread John Reynolds~
e is there for those who do! :) -Jr -- =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= | John Reynolds CEG, CCE, Next Generation Flows, HLA | | Intel Corporation MS: CH6-210 Phone: 480-554-9092 pgr: 868-6512 | | [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Intel PRO/1000 Gigabit driver

1999-10-21 Thread John Reynolds~
[ On Thursday, October 21, Bill Paul wrote: ] > Of all the gin joints in all the towns in all the world, John Reynolds~ > had to walk into mine and say: > > > Just in case anyone is wondering, I refuse to create BSD drivers based > soley on information from Linux drivers

Re: Intel PRO/1000 Gigabit driver

1999-10-21 Thread John Reynolds~
articles they read about Linux in the Wall Street Journal that morning) ... it's a tough battle, but things like this are at least some evidence of a positive trend. Just for CYA points, #include -Jr -- =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= | John Re

anything more current info on UDF support/activities?

2000-03-26 Thread John Reynolds
people working on Mac OS X regarding UDF and one of them being an advertisement for a job for somebody to develop UDF support ...)? Just curious. Thanks for any info, -Jr -- =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= John Reynolds Chandler Capa

Re: anything more current info on UDF support/activities?

2000-03-26 Thread John Reynolds
hich uses UDF and packet writing, rather than burning an ISO9660 filesystem the "traditional" way. Thus, I was not able to "see" the contents under FreeBSD. It just got me curious. Your code will not go un-appreciated! Thanks for the more-up-to-date info, -Jr -- =-=-=-=-=

OT: Praise to all you guys!

2000-07-21 Thread John Reynolds
he box. It boots faster, I/O is faster, NFS is faster, the pcm driver is better, everything is faster and I haven't tripped over a single "show-stopper" yet! Bravo, congrats, and many thanks to all developers minor or major -Jr -- =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-

Re: OT: Praise to all you guys!

2000-07-21 Thread John Reynolds
:) > Glad you're enjoying it, :) -- =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= John Reynolds Chandler Capabilities Engineering, CDS, Intel Corporation [EMAIL PROTECTED] My opinions are mine, not Intel's. Running [EMAIL PROTECTED] FreeBSD 4.

should new-gcc kernels with -CURRENT still be panic()'ing right atboot?

2003-07-22 Thread John Reynolds
Hi all, when the new gcc was imported I spotted a thread saying that the new kernels *immediately* panicked (trap 12) upon booting. I too saw the same behavior after a successful buildworld/buildkernel (with a config file previously working just fine with 5.1-R sources). Has this been fixed? Can p

Re: should new-gcc kernels with -CURRENT still be panic()'ing rightat boot?

2003-07-22 Thread John Reynolds
[ On Tuesday, July 22, Steve Kargl wrote: ] > > I've built several kernels without a problem. You need > to (1) post the exact panic message, (2) read the section of > the Handbook on debugging kernel panics, and (3) provide a > backtrace. > will do. -Jr -- John & Jennifer Reynolds johnjen

Re: should new-gcc kernels with -CURRENT still be panic()'ing rightat boot?

2003-07-23 Thread John Reynolds
[ On Tuesday, July 22, Steve Kargl wrote: ] > > I've built several kernels without a problem. You need > to (1) post the exact panic message, (2) read the section of > the Handbook on debugging kernel panics, and (3) provide a > backtrace. > Well, I went through the process anyway, just to lea

questions on S-ATA and ICH5 (now owns hardware :)

2003-07-24 Thread John Reynolds
Hi all, a few weeks back I had asked whether -current supported ICH5's S-ATA and Søren stated that he'd put code in to detect it and it "should work" but there wasn't a lot of feedback yet from users. Well, I have some feedback. I just got a new spiffy 120Gb Seagate S-ATA drive today and I can say

Best Known Methods for dual booting WinXP + -current

2003-08-07 Thread John Reynolds
hello all, Having had a positive experience thus far with 5.1-RELEASE and -current beyond that on one of the new boxes I recently built, it is now time to build up the dual-boot system (BSD for me, WinXP for the wife ;). I've read different reports (some from laptop users) about using the WinXP lo

Re: Is rl broken?

2003-08-19 Thread John Reynolds~
ments and will cut-n-paste what I see, but I wanted to see if anybody else is experiencing anything oddball like this. -Jr -- John ReynoldsSr. Physical Design Engineer - WCCG/CCE PDE Intel Corporation MS: CH6-210 Phone: 480-554-9092RIM PIN: 10326855 [EMAIL PROTE

Re: Is rl broken?

2003-08-20 Thread John Reynolds~
[ On Tuesday, August 19, Doug White wrote: ] > On Tue, 19 Aug 2003, John Reynolds~ wrote: > > > sendto: permission denied > > Turn off ipfw, then try again. > Oooops! Sorry, my bad. cut-n-paste error left firewall stuff in this machine's config (which it shouldn

is there a "knob" for devfs rules?

2003-09-01 Thread John Reynolds
Hi all, in debugging /dev/usb* and /dev/ugen* permissions problems so that I could access my digital camera as a mere-mortal user, I came across this posting to -questions: http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/getmsg.cgi?fetch=1203173+1206388+/usr/local/www/db/text/2003/freebsd-questions/20030622.freebsd

Re: is there a "knob" for devfs rules?

2003-09-01 Thread John Reynolds
[ On Monday, September 1, Scot W. Hetzel wrote: ] > From: "John Reynolds" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > I > http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/getmsg.cgi?fetch=1203173+1206388+/usr/local/www/db/text/2003/freebsd-questions/20030622.freebsd-questions > You would need to add the f

panic with cdrecord -- anybody else seeing this? [backtrace obtained]

2003-10-12 Thread John Reynolds
Hi all, forgive me if I give incomplete information. This is the first time I've created a debugging kernel and gotten a dump after a panic, so I might not have done everything right. Ever since the tail end of July it seems, any time I've tried to burn a CD with cdrecord (cdrtools 2.0.3 from port

Re: panic with cdrecord -- anybody else seeing this? [backtrace obtained]

2003-10-12 Thread John Reynolds
[ On Sunday, October 12, Kris Kennaway wrote: ] > > Thanks..Alan made a commit which he thought might have fixed this, but > someone else also claimed it did not. > > See also > > http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=kern/56380 > > Kris Is there any more information that I can provide

Re: panic with cdrecord -- anybody else seeing this? [backtrace obtained]

2003-10-13 Thread John Reynolds
[ On Monday, October 13, Marius Strobl wrote: ] > > And > http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=kern/57611 > > The latter is a bit more detailed and correct (it's not limited to ATAPI > burners). It also doesn't seem to be limited to cdrecord, the latest > ntpd also causes a panic when usin

Re: panic with cdrecord -- anybody else seeing this? [backtrace obtained]

2003-10-13 Thread John Reynolds
[ On Monday, October 13, Marius Strobl wrote: ] > > And > http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=kern/57611 > > The latter is a bit more detailed and correct (it's not limited to ATAPI > burners). It also doesn't seem to be limited to cdrecord, the latest > ntpd also causes a panic when usin

Re: panic with cdrecord -- anybody else seeing this? [backtrace obtained]

2003-10-15 Thread John Reynolds
[ On Wednesday, October 15, Bruce M Simpson wrote: ] > > It looks like alc@ has fixed the problem in vm_fault.c rev 1.181. > > BMS excellent! I'll CVSup, buildworld/kernel and try it out and report back (with the "unpatched" cdrecord of course). -Jr -- John & Jennifer Reynolds johnjen at re

Re: panic with cdrecord -- anybody else seeing this? [backtrace obtained]

2003-10-17 Thread John Reynolds
[ On Wednesday, October 15, Bruce M Simpson wrote: ] > On Mon, Oct 13, 2003 at 05:26:59AM -0700, John Reynolds wrote: > > Thanks. I haven't tried cdrtools-devel in "a while" so I probably didn't see > > the work-around that was committed. I will try it and re

features of ICH5/ICH5-R supported in -current or 5.1-RELEASE?

2003-07-01 Thread John Reynolds
Hi all, I'm wondering if some of the features of the ICH5 found in the springdale and canterwood platforms (i865/i875) are currently supported in either 5.1-RELEASE or -CURRENT? I've read through some of the ATA code commits and see a few comments related to ICH5 and I believe I spotted where t

Kudos to FreeBSD team!!!

2003-07-10 Thread John Reynolds~
I eagerly look forward to 5.2! -Jr -- John ReynoldsSr. Physical Design Engineer - WCCG/CCE PDE Intel Corporation MS: CH6-210 Phone: 480-554-9092RIM PIN: 10326855 [EMAIL PROTECTED] (e-mail with "PAGE" in subj to forward to RIM) __

build error building cvs doc?

2003-07-12 Thread John Reynolds
Anybody seeing this same error during "buildworld"? ===> gnu/usr.bin/cvs/doc makeinfo --no-split -I /usr/src/gnu/usr.bin/cvs/doc -I /usr/src/gnu/usr.bin/cvs/doc/../../../../contrib/cvs/doc /usr/src/gnu/usr.bin/cvs/doc/../../../../contrib/cvs/doc/cvs.texinfo -o cvs.info makeinfo --no-split -I /u

Re: build error building cvs doc?

2003-07-12 Thread John Reynolds
[ On Sunday, July 13, Barney Wolff wrote: ] > > Me too. I'm about to try re-cvsupping, in case I caught some update > in the middle. > Somebody else asked if I was doing a "make -jN" buildworld where N > 1 and I was. So, I just now did a buildworld with one process and it finished just fine. St

libusb build broken due to structure member renaming

2002-02-24 Thread John Reynolds
hello, I've got a -current-related question to ask. akbeech forwarded me his build log when trying to build the "linux" user-land libusb from the port which I maintain (it is below). At first I said "impossible" because I'd tested things thoroughly, but then noticed he was on a -current system. D

what is the status of KMS support in newcons?

2013-09-18 Thread John Reynolds
Hello all, I was just wondering what the status of KMS support with newcons is? About 6 weeks ago I got some help on x11@ and much was said about KMS (and the lack of support for the 'newer' Haswell graphics). somebody mentioned that one of the problems where the "console goes away" once you

Re: what is the status of KMS support in newcons?

2013-09-19 Thread John Reynolds
On 09/19/13 16:23, Aleksandr Rybalko wrote: Hello John! I can't say anything about Haswell support, but newcons works, sometimes :) Just not now. I've currently doing some redesign, so it is broken last week. Hope I will done something for wide testing in a week or so, but I'm afraid it will no