Re: [re]writable cdrom drive

1999-08-18 Thread brooks
too high for the media type (i.e. 2x on a 1x CD-RW writer) that the drive (an older Yamaha) did the right thing so you should be able to set the higher speed globaly. The only problem was that cdrecord didn't do the right thing so the time estimates were bogus. -- Brooks To Unsubscribe

Re: [re]writable cdrom drive

1999-08-23 Thread brooks
too high for the media type (i.e. 2x on a 1x CD-RW writer) that the drive (an older Yamaha) did the right thing so you should be able to set the higher speed globaly. The only problem was that cdrecord didn't do the right thing so the time estimates were bogus. -- Brooks To Unsubscribe

Re: make port and bsd.port.mk

1999-02-03 Thread brooks
ing told that cvsuping ports on a 2.2 machine might cause breakage (re: the no more 2.2 support announcement) to find that *not* cvsuping ports broke my ports collection because the makefiles moved to /usr/ports/Mk. Don't get me wrong, I like the change, but the timing seems less the perfect.

Re: -pipe switch in kernel compilation

2000-01-11 Thread Brooks Davis
and use it as a 2GB drive. Of course, some of them may not even tolerate that much space. -- Brooks -- "Those who desire to give up freedom in order to gain security, will not have, nor do they deserve, either one" --Thomas Jefferson To U

Re: Please help spread the CVSup mirror load more evenly

2000-01-21 Thread Brooks Davis
at until the decididly non-trivial problem of out of sync servers is solved. -- Brooks -- "They that can give up essential liberty to purchase a little temporary safety, deserve neither liberty nor safety." -- Benjamin Franklin. To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message

Re: wine in freebsd-current

2000-02-10 Thread Brooks Davis
he patch attached to the PR ports/16344 will fix the build or you can just cd to ports/devel/bison and install it first which is all the patch really does. -- Brooks -- Any statement of the form "X is the one, true Y" is FALSE. To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message

Re: wine in freebsd-current

2000-02-12 Thread Brooks Davis
On Sat, Feb 12, 2000 at 10:51:52AM -0800, David O'Brien wrote: > On Thu, Feb 10, 2000 at 01:46:59PM -0800, Brooks Davis wrote: > > Wine thinks it can use byacc, but it needs bison. The patch attached to > > the PR ports/16344 will fix the build or you can just cd to >

Re: ATA Drivers and Kernel Panic during INSTALL

2000-02-15 Thread Brooks Davis
f the workaround while booting the install disks > (kern.flp and mfsroot.flp). There's the problem. CMD controlers aren't supported. There's a discussion of it in the archives, unfortunatly, they are down. -- Brooks -- Any statement of the form "X is the one, true Y"

Re: HELP! Can not build kernel ... :-(

2000-02-18 Thread Brooks Davis
ate your config and genassym before you can build a 4.0 kernel. Also, I hope your kernel config file is based on a new config and isn't just a copy of a 3.x config since that likely won't work. -- Brooks -- Any statement of the form "X is the one, true Y" is FALSE. To Unsubscr

Re: pcm and /dev/dsp

2000-02-23 Thread Brooks Davis
nt over 3.4, however, where I could not get pcm to > work at all. The first pcm device is now pcm0 not pcm1 for PCI devices. Did you do a "MAKEDEV snd0" after upgrading. My es1371 is working great streaming mp3s off of my.mp3.com using xmms. -- Brooks -- Any statement of the fo

Re: pcm and /dev/dsp

2000-02-23 Thread Brooks Davis
umber and I think PnP cards would end up at pcm0 by default. However, Nick gave the more correct answer in that you should check dmesg and /dev/sndstat. -- Brooks -- Any statement of the form "X is the one, true Y" is FALSE. To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "u

Re: pcm and /dev/dsp

2000-02-23 Thread Brooks Davis
On Wed, Feb 23, 2000 at 01:23:22PM -0800, Brooks Davis wrote: > On Wed, Feb 23, 2000 at 12:27:49PM -0800, R Joseph Wright wrote: > > Beautiful. Thank you :) > > What about for isa cards? Which one is used for them now? > > I gave my only ISA sound card to Camran so I ca

Re: pcm and /dev/dsp

2000-02-23 Thread Brooks Davis
On Wed, Feb 23, 2000 at 03:26:07PM -0800, R Joseph Wright wrote: > On Wed, 23 Feb 2000, Brooks Davis wrote: > > On Wed, Feb 23, 2000 at 12:27:49PM -0800, R Joseph Wright wrote: > > > Beautiful. Thank you :) > > > What about for isa cards? Which one is used for them no

Re: Shared memory - Was: 2 Queries

2000-03-01 Thread Brooks Davis
ou don't have to reboot. I've spent the last couple weeks hacking on some code which uses SysV shared memory and semaphores. It's really not that bad. You just have to get into the proper mindset. -- Brooks -- Any statement of the form "X is the one, true Y" is FALSE. To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message

Re: Alternative way to do -stable to -current upgrade

2000-03-07 Thread Brooks Davis
xed is that users need to be reminded the cardinal rule of kernel building which is to always keep a known, working kernel around. I use /kernel.working, others use kernel.good. That way, if things go wrong they just switch back. None of this messing with floppies and redirecting installworlds.

Re: Alternative way to do -stable to -current upgrade

2000-03-07 Thread Brooks Davis
On Tue, Mar 07, 2000 at 07:14:42PM +, Nik Clayton wrote: > On Tue, Mar 07, 2000 at 10:19:57AM -0800, Brooks Davis wrote: > > On Tue, Mar 07, 2000 at 11:01:09AM +, Nik Clayton wrote: > > > To which the response has been nil. At this point, you're either all &

Re: Alternative way to do -stable to -current upgrade

2000-03-07 Thread Brooks Davis
On Tue, Mar 07, 2000 at 04:49:06PM -0700, Warner Losh wrote: > In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Brooks Davis writes: > : You don't need to update /dev though. As long as you don't change > : anything else, a 4.0 kernel will work just fine with a 3.x /dev and > :

Re: Shared IRQs

2000-03-03 Thread Brooks Davis
f this is safe or > if I should reroute the ethernet card or the usb to another irq. It's fine, PCI can share interupts. It might perform somewhat sub-optimaly under very heavy load, but it will work just fine. -- Brooks -- Any statement of the form "X is the one, true Y" is FA

Re: [URGENT] OpenSSH changes

2000-03-13 Thread Brooks Davis
4.0 release tag yet. -- Brooks -- Any statement of the form "X is the one, true Y" is FALSE. To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message

Re: mouse question

2000-03-14 Thread Brooks Davis
more expensive, but it actually works. The only problem I've found is that it occationaly looses sync with the mouse, but there is a keyboard command to reset the mouse which generally fixes it. -- Brooks -- Any statement of the form "X is the one, true Y" is FALSE. To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message

Re: FreeBSD branches?

2000-03-15 Thread Brooks Davis
G_4_0_0_RELEASE) as a snapshot of 4-stable. That's normally how releases work, they are a snapshot of the appropriate -stable branch. (3.0 was an exception to this.) -- Brooks -- Any statement of the form "X is the one, true Y" is FALSE. To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECT

Re: 82559 information

1999-10-12 Thread Brooks Davis
Support was added in -current Sept 6. It appears that no one has back ported it yet. -- Brooks To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message

Re: ambiguity between -STABLE and -RELEASE

1999-11-08 Thread Brooks Davis
it tells people that you are running a version of the 3-STABLE (RELENG_3 to CVS) branch after 3.3-RELEASE. The way things work is that there is a 3.x branch which is referred to as 3-STABLE and releases are snapshots of that branch. -- Brooks -- "Those who desire to give up freedom in order to

Re: Make world documentation

1999-12-27 Thread Brooks Davis
> post it again? I did check the archives, but I wasn't able to find it. http://www.nothing-going-on.demon.co.uk/FreeBSD/make-world/make-world.html Though I though it was supposed to have been moved to the main site, but that's what http://www.freebsd.org/tutorials/ says. -- Brooks

New-bus patch for tx (kern/17601)

2000-03-26 Thread Brooks Davis
Hi, I've written a new-bus probe/attach patch for the tx driver and submitted it as PR kern/17601. It works for me, but it could definatly use wider testing as it's my first venture into driver hacking. If you've got one of these cards please give it a spin. Thanks, Brooks --

Re: dev/vx/if_vx_pci.c 5.0-CURRENT

2000-04-05 Thread Brooks Davis
ted 2319. It looks like you are missing the required "option COMPAT_OLDPCI". The PCI portion of the vx driver needs to be converted to newbus. It looks pretty straight forward if you're feeling a moderatly ambitious. -- Brooks -- Any statement of the form "X is the

Re: dev/vx/if_vx_pci.c 5.0-CURRENT

2000-04-05 Thread Brooks Davis
The function signatures have changed as well. Take a look at rev 1.67 of src/sys/pci/if_fxp.c to see what newbus conversion takes. I'm taking a wack at a rewrite, but like you I don't have a card, so testing will be kinda trickey. -- Brooks -- Any statement of the form "X is the o

Re: dev/vx/if_vx_pci.c 5.0-CURRENT

2000-04-05 Thread Brooks Davis
FreeBSD/if_vx_pci.c.patch > > Unfortunately I do not have the acutal card to test this patch. It did > survive a buildkernel, so I'm just assuming that I'm not that far off. Take a look at: http://www.one-eyed-alien.net/~brooks/FreeBSD/if_vx.diff It does a newbus coversion and makes the

Re: dev/vx/if_vx_pci.c 5.0-CURRENT

2000-04-05 Thread Brooks Davis
you'll find a patch I wrote to modernize the tx driver. In and of it self, it's probably too complicated to be very useful to learn from, but I mention four revisions of if_fxp which do individual parts of the conversion. Upgrading tx was a good six hourish exercise. I've got a muc

Re: IEEE 1394 Firewire issues

2000-04-14 Thread Brooks Davis
nge their license IEEE 1394 is DOA outside of commercial software. The only workable solution looks like value added commercial software a la OSS or LinDVD. -- Brooks -- Any statement of the form "X is the one, true Y" is FALSE. To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message

Re: Bluetooth

2000-04-18 Thread Brooks Davis
t I don't think anyone is shipping products. -- Brooks -- Any statement of the form "X is the one, true Y" is FALSE. To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message

Re: Bluetooth

2000-04-18 Thread Brooks Davis
ho have 1394 hardware, but that's the live of an early adoptor. -- Brooks -- Any statement of the form "X is the one, true Y" is FALSE. To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message

Re: Anyone have OpenSSH + X11-fwd working?

2000-04-20 Thread Brooks Davis
my laptop (current as of yesterday) to a 4.0-S machine, a 3.3-RC running ssh 1.2.26, and Solaris 2.6 system also running 1.2.26. I seem to recall that we were shipping with the server disabling forwarding which was bogus. It's not disabled in the default client config. -- Brooks -- Any

Re: usr.sbin/xntpd missing in 5.0-CURRENT

2000-04-25 Thread Brooks Davis
On Tue, Apr 25, 2000 at 09:02:34PM +, attila! wrote: > in 5.0-CURRENT as of this morning (Tue, 25) usr.sbin/xntpd > was not in the cvs files. xntpd is obsolete. It has been replaced with ntpd. -- Brooks -- Any statement of the form "X is the one, true Y"

Re: linux ldconfig core dump

2000-04-25 Thread Brooks Davis
need to rebrand the linux ldconfig program. -- Brooks -- Any statement of the form "X is the one, true Y" is FALSE. To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message

Re: How to determine when something broke

2000-04-30 Thread Brooks Davis
est if you do both. > Is it enough to cvsup src-sys, src-include and src-base? src-all is generally recommended. It only takes a few minutes even on a really crappy modem link once you've done it once and 2.2->3 took me under two hours on a very poor 56k link when I did it. -- Brooks

Re: error making world: stage 1

2000-05-19 Thread Brooks Davis
o -current > but the build fails in the bootstrap stage. You can't do that in one step. You need to upgrade to 3.4-STABLE first. Then follow the instructions in /usr/src/UPDATING to upgrade to 4.0. Finaly, you can then upgrade to -current. Multiple major version jumps are not supported an

Re: ACPI project progress report

2000-06-19 Thread Brooks Davis
8GB disk because 10GB looked too small for my needs. Even with the 6.4GB disk it shipped with, the suspend to disk partition is only 4% of my disk. -- Brooks -- Any statement of the form "X is the one, true Y" is FALSE. To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message

Re: ACPI project progress report

2000-06-19 Thread Brooks Davis
seen that happen. Someone with a better grasp of the VM could give a more preciese answer. -- Brooks -- Any statement of the form "X is the one, true Y" is FALSE. To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message

Re: ftp and /etc/services...

2000-08-16 Thread Brooks Davis
fic service, you should look it up in /etc/services. Changing IANA registered services in the services file is asking for trouble. If you really want to change it, you can should be able to get away with specifying the correct port on the command line. -- Brooks -- Any statement of the form

Re: hints static wiring

2000-08-27 Thread Brooks Davis
t/device.hints) is acceptable for those who don't want to use a hints file. -- Brooks -- Any statement of the form "X is the one, true Y" is FALSE. To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message

Re: hints static wiring

2000-08-28 Thread Brooks Davis
who want static hints. -- Brooks -- Any statement of the form "X is the one, true Y" is FALSE. To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message

Re: hints static wiring

2000-08-28 Thread Brooks Davis
think that roughly translates to "never" on modern system and "rarely" on strange systems made of scavenged parts. Heck, on most legacy free systems, it really does translate to never because you can't add anything that would effect drivers that need hints (device w

Re: hints static wiring

2000-08-29 Thread Brooks Davis
On Tue, Aug 29, 2000 at 04:15:09AM -0500, Mike Meyer wrote: > Brooks Davis writes: > > This is more correct. The new world order says that hints are not in the > > kernel, instead they are loaded by the loader at boot time. By default > > they are loaded from /boot/device.

Re: hints static wiring

2000-08-29 Thread Brooks Davis
On Tue, Aug 29, 2000 at 10:30:24AM -0700, David O'Brien wrote: > On Mon, Aug 28, 2000 at 06:29:21PM -0700, Brooks Davis wrote: > > This is minimally correct. I.e. that's what the build system requires. > > This works if you build static hints into your kernel. > &g

Re: Anyone experience problems with the "tap" device in current?

2001-09-12 Thread Brooks Davis
actually sure this is the way we want to handle cloning hybrid devices, but there is precident so I committed the patch. I think we may want to move to a model were we use interface cloning rather then devfs cloning because it will work in stable. -- Brooks -- Any statement of the form "X is the o

Re: CVSup package for -current

2001-09-12 Thread Brooks Davis
ary doens't work and compat3x doesn't seem to have everything for the 3.5 binary. Since compat4x is broken up until last night, a current binary would probaly be of use to some people. -- Brooks -- Any statement of the form "X is the one, true Y" is FALSE. PGP fingerprint 655D

Re: wake up on lan driver support

2001-11-12 Thread Brooks Davis
dynamic power control on clusters. Suspend/Resume is going to be faster then a boot cycle unless someone ports the loader to the LinuxBIOS framework. -- Brooks -- Any statement of the form "X is the one, true Y" is FALSE. PGP fingerprint 655D 519C 26A7 82E7 2529 9BF0 5D8E 8BE9

applix 5.0 and current

2001-10-16 Thread Brooks Davis
at I tried using the converters and discovered that the olefilter doesn't work because is uses libc_r.so.3 and we don't have a version of that with __stderrp defined. I don't really know what the fix to this one is since we haven't had a libc_r.so.3 in 3.x for almost two years now.

Re: applix 5.0 and current

2001-10-16 Thread Brooks Davis
On Tue, Oct 16, 2001 at 06:17:08PM -0400, Garance A Drosihn wrote: > At 12:43 PM -0700 10/16/01, Brooks Davis wrote: > >I've been trying to get applix 5.0 to work and I've been running into > >some interesting problems. The first one was that current has the > >

Re: applix 5.0 and current

2001-10-16 Thread Brooks Davis
On Wed, Oct 17, 2001 at 12:38:02AM +0200, Gary Jennejohn wrote: > On Tuesday 16 October 2001 22:50, Robert Watson wrote: > > On Tue, 16 Oct 2001, Brooks Davis wrote: > > > After that I tried using the converters and discovered that the > > > olefilter doesn't work

Re: applix 5.0 and current

2001-10-17 Thread Brooks Davis
for getresuid.so. -- Brooks -- Any statement of the form "X is the one, true Y" is FALSE. PGP fingerprint 655D 519C 26A7 82E7 2529 9BF0 5D8E 8BE9 F238 1AD4 msg32588/pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: Ethernet tunnel device

2002-02-11 Thread Brooks Davis
> I cant think anymore ... would appreciate input from you=20 > guys . Any input. Please dont shy about telling me that > I am going the wrong ally It sounds like there's some sort of a bug in the close code. You are sure the previous instance is really gone, right? If it is, that&#

Re: Ethernet tunnel device

2002-02-13 Thread Brooks Davis
ce between vmware and a little hacked up test app. Linux emulation. It certaintly shouldn't matter, but it might be worth compiling the test program on a linux machine and seeing it it leaves the device in a weird state like vmware. -- Brooks -- Any statement of the form "X is the

Re: Ethernet tunnel device

2002-02-15 Thread Brooks Davis
gs I haven't tried, but though might have an effect were using fork or linux threads to create multiple refrences to the device and then closing them oddly. -- Brooks -- Any statement of the form "X is the one, true Y" is FALSE. PGP fingerprint 655D 519C 26A7 82E7 2529 9BF0 5D8E 8BE9 F238 1AD4 msg34788/pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: changes to rc.diskless*

2002-02-22 Thread Brooks Davis
" up before /var and /tmp creation and then actually test to be sure they are not writable before attempting to create MFS versions. The logic was basicly: if touch /var/_writable_test; then rm /var/_writable_test else #create MFS var fi -- Brooks [0] I've got a slightly

Re: changes to rc.diskless*

2002-02-22 Thread Brooks Davis
ch drive and > swap, which are from the local hard disk. Hmm, that's odd. They are definatly getting fsck'd on my test machine. -- Brooks -- Any statement of the form "X is the one, true Y" is FALSE. PGP fingerprint 655D 519C 26A7 82E7 2529 9BF0 5D8E 8BE9 F238 1AD4 msg

Re: tape device names and devfs

2001-03-06 Thread Brooks Davis
e the fact that this change occured. Now's the time to start since we know it is going to confuse people. -- Brooks -- Any statement of the form "X is the one, true Y" is FALSE. PGP fingerprint 655D 519C 26A7 82E7 2529 9BF0 5D8E 8BE9 F238 1AD4 PGP signature

very strange problem with ps

2001-03-16 Thread Brooks Davis
with a current as of this morning. I'll try a rebuild after this dump finishes. You can see what I did in a transcript below. -- Brooks [6:11pm] brooks@minya (~): ps -U operator PID TT STAT TIME COMMAND 884 ?? DW 0:00.02 /usr/local/libexec/amanda/sendbackup 885 ?? RW

Re: very strange problem with ps

2001-03-16 Thread Brooks Davis
On Fri, Mar 16, 2001 at 06:17:37PM -0800, Alex Zepeda wrote: > On Fri, Mar 16, 2001 at 06:12:29PM -0800, Brooks Davis wrote: > > I'm seeing a very strange problem with ps. I was calling "ps -U > > >From what I can tell (I've seen this for a while), calling ps

Re: very strange problem with ps

2001-03-17 Thread Brooks Davis
On Sat, Mar 17, 2001 at 10:02:16AM +, David Malone wrote: > On Fri, Mar 16, 2001 at 06:21:46PM -0800, Brooks Davis wrote: > > Ah, you are correct. I should have tried that. What a strange bug. > > It happens for any option which causes the sysctl to return no > processes

Re: Call for review... PR 25577

2001-03-30 Thread Brooks Davis
ing to add some more features to the ioctl interface over time including the stuff necessicary to build generic version of the pretty GUI apps you get in Windows. As an extra bonus, this stuff should let you install with a floppy and a wireless nic. -- Brooks -- Any statement of the form "

Re: Call for review... PR 25577

2001-03-30 Thread Brooks Davis
mediaopt's in the supported list. Instead you'd see the same media type twice with not differences. Apparently no one actually uses mediaopts other then full-duplex. ;-) -- Brooks -- Any statement of the form "X is the one, true Y" is FALSE. PGP fingerprint 655D 519C 26A7 82E7 2529 9BF0 5D8E 8BE9 F238 1AD4 PGP signature

Re: Call for review... PR 25577

2001-03-30 Thread Brooks Davis
ould make my life simpler). If anyone wants to try it one -stable, there's a patch against it at: http://www.one-eyed-alien.net/~brooks/FreeBSD/ifconfig.diff-stable The fact that wi hasn't been repo-copied in to sys/dev in stable plus the spl->mutex changes mean the patches against -cur

Re: Call for review... PR 25577

2001-03-31 Thread Brooks Davis
nterface for things like the signal > strenght cache? I'm not sure at this point. It's probalby a good idea, though it may be to expensive to populate on interfaces. For instance, the an driver only sets one of the three possible values. -- Brooks -- Any statement of the form

Re: Call for review... PR 25577

2001-04-05 Thread Brooks Davis
WEP keys. In my patches, I just copied the stuff from ancontrol since that's all we've got. The linux code is even more non-sensical then ancontrol in that it reports five keys. -- Brooks -- Any statement of the form "X is the one, true Y" is FALSE. PGP fingerprint 655D 519C 26A7 82E7 2529 9BF0 5D8E 8BE9 F238 1AD4 PGP signature

Re: ** HEADS UP ** portmap daemon renamed to rpcbind

2001-04-10 Thread Brooks Davis
address of the call back TCP port when making requests for large tables. I'm pretty sure it did this due to the fact that they were too lazy to select the sending IP. The really painful thing is that the IP port pair is encoded in ascii as dotted sextuples (123.124.125.126.32.98 = 123.124.125.126

Re: PATCH: media option for ethernet hw checksum

2001-05-25 Thread Brooks Davis
G1 0x0200/* Driver defined flag */ #define IFM_FLAG2 0x0400/* Driver defined flag */ #define IFM_LOOP0x0800/* Put hardware in loopback */ Personaly I don't think I would have wasted 3/8th of the shared options on the abomination known as flag

Re: PATCH: media option for ethernet hw checksum

2001-05-30 Thread Brooks Davis
ould be a shared option, but realisticly Token Ring and FDDI aren't going to support it any time soon and there's little point with 802.11. The other option is of course to just go ahead and use the last free slot and figure if_media will need a redesign one of these days regardless. -

Re: wicontrol && ifconfig after wireless ifconfig changes

2001-06-01 Thread Brooks Davis
; If the intent is to replace *control, should a note be put in UPDATING > that users might have problems? It should be working and I'd like to know what's not. There is functionality in wicontrol that won't ever make it in to ifconfig so we're stuck with it and I wouldn

Re: wicontrol && ifconfig after wireless ifconfig changes

2001-06-01 Thread Brooks Davis
send them > to the list. If not, I'll officially declare myself a moron. (Yeah, > like folks didn't know that already...) Could you send me that script? I'd like to see what it does to see if it's near any of the code I'm less certain about. -- Brooks --

Re: KLD-module(dir) naming conventions

2001-07-05 Thread Brooks Davis
> if_fxp.ko > ... > but > ... > if_ef.c -> /sys/modules/if_ef -> if_ef.ko > > Whats desired? They should have been if_* or possiably if/*, but since current plans are to take src/sys/modules out back and shoot it, there's probably no point in fixing the problem. --

installworld failures in calendar

2001-07-18 Thread Brooks Davis
y ... *** Error code 64 Stop in /usr/src/usr.bin/calendar. *** Error code 1 -- Brooks -- Any statement of the form "X is the one, true Y" is FALSE. PGP fingerprint 655D 519C 26A7 82E7 2529 9BF0 5D8E 8BE9 F238 1AD4 PGP signature

Re: installworld failures in calendar

2001-07-18 Thread Brooks Davis
On Wed, Jul 18, 2001 at 10:18:06AM -0700, Brooks Davis wrote: > I've been seeing the following failure in my installworlds for the past > week or so. I've been getting around it with make -k, but it's kinda > annoying. Just now I took a look at etc/mtree/BSD.user.dis

Re: installworld failures in calendar

2001-07-23 Thread Brooks Davis
On Wed, Jul 18, 2001 at 10:18:06AM -0700, Brooks Davis wrote: > I've been seeing the following failure in my installworlds for the past > week or so. I've been getting around it with make -k, but it's kinda > annoying. I've looked around some more and I think

Re: device.hints

2001-07-24 Thread Brooks Davis
el with the "static" line > uncomented, but same problem on install. The short answer is that you can copy sys/i386/conf/GENERIC.hints to /boot/device.hints. If you have devices that you have needed to configured in your kernel or with userconfig you may need to add or modify this fi

Re: VMWare on -current, how fast should I expect it to be?

2000-09-12 Thread Brooks Davis
ormance are memory related. Running out will cause the system to temporarily hang while it pages large chunks of memory in and out. Also, the J option to malloc did really bad things to performance when I had it on. -- Brooks -- Any statement of the form "X is the one, true Y" is FALSE.

Re: Unknown PCI chipsets

2000-09-27 Thread Brooks Davis
3D Sound, Direct Sound andDirect 3D Sound support"? Chip Number: YMF744B Description: DS-1S PCI audio controller http://www.yourvote.com/pci/ is your friend. -- Brooks -- Any statement of the form "X is the one, true Y" is FALSE. To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message

Re: HP Deskjet 840C supported?

2000-11-01 Thread Brooks Davis
under Fbsd? Under FreeBSD (and unix in general) if a printer isn't PostScript, the question is, does GhostScript support it. If so, it's supported, if not it isn't. -- Brooks -- Any statement of the form "X is the one, true Y" is FALSE. To Unsubscribe: send mail to

non-root users can't debug applications (kern/22711)

2000-11-10 Thread Brooks Davis
r me. Could someone please verify this and commit a fix? Thanks, Brooks P.S. This has been broken for 10 days now and I haven't seen a single peep on -current. Am I the only one crazy enough to develope non-system applications on -current. ;-) -- Any statement of the form "X is t

Re: Lucent Orinoco Gold PCCard?

2000-11-29 Thread Brooks Davis
On Wed, Nov 29, 2000 at 05:59:03PM +, Sascha Luck wrote: > has anyone got the Lucent Orinoco Gold (11MBit/s) PC-Card working > with the wi driver in -CURRENT? They work fine. -- Brooks -- Any statement of the form "X is the one, true Y" is FALSE. To Unsubscribe: sen

Re: Confusing error messages from shell image activation

2000-12-10 Thread Brooks Davis
On Sun, Dec 10, 2000 at 09:37:53AM -0600, Mike Meyer wrote: > Interesting. What other OS distribution put things that went into > /usr/local on their distribution media? I'm fairly sure that some of the software distributed by SGI on their unsupported free software media does this.

Re: Lucent Orinoco Gold PCCard?

2000-12-10 Thread Brooks Davis
27;t 802.11b compatable. They played the usual game of releasing before the final IEEE vote on the standard to be early to market and didn't win the vote. The 802.11b compatable Aironet access points (Cisco APs) can be configured to support these, but the don't interoperate fully. -- Broo

PCI changes break HP Docking Station

2001-01-26 Thread Brooks Davis
nf -l -v output, and acpidump output at: http://www.one-eyed-alien.net/~brooks/FreeBSD/dock/ Please let me know if you need anything more from me to help debug this. Thanks, Brooks -- Any statement of the form "X is the one, true Y" is

Re: [CFT]: ClangBSD is selfhosting, we need testers now

2010-04-22 Thread Brooks Davis
On Thu, Apr 22, 2010 at 04:32:45PM -0700, K. Macy wrote: > The current llvm-devel package is woefully out of date. Anyone wishing > to try this will need to compile the latest port. For the foreseeable future, doing anything but using the latest port is a recipe for problems. -- Brooks

Re: PXE Installation of RC2

2003-01-01 Thread Brooks Davis
his doesn't sound like the sort of problem PXE could cause. It's just not involved with that part of the process. Are you sure the kernel and loader you used were the right ones? -- Brooks -- Any statement of the form "X is the one, true Y" is FALSE. PGP fingerprint 655D 519C 26A7 82E7 2529 9BF0 5D8E 8BE9 F238 1AD4 msg49506/pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: PXE Installation of RC2

2003-01-02 Thread Brooks Davis
On Thu, Jan 02, 2003 at 07:23:44PM +0100, Sven Hazejager wrote: > Brooks Davis wrote: > > For the archives, this is way too much work. Instead point tftp and NFS > > at the mounted ISO and you're done. > > Doing that results in a "can't load kernel" erro

Re: 5.0-RELEASE & VMWare 3.2

2003-01-23 Thread Brooks Davis
P kernel # will cause the kernel to be unusable. You need a kernel with this option or compiled with "cpu I386_CPU". -- Brooks -- Any statement of the form "X is the one, true Y" is FALSE. PGP fingerprint 655D 519C 26A7 82E7 2529 9BF0 5D8E 8BE9 F238 1AD4 msg50787/pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: 5.0-RELEASE & VMWare 3.2

2003-01-23 Thread Brooks Davis
ldworld and buildkernel. You'd have to generate the stripped kernel used for the release floppies and then hack on the floppies to replace the existing kernel with your new one. I don't know if you have space for that. -- Brooks -- Any statement of the form "X is the one, true Y"

Re: I've just had a massive file system crash

2003-01-25 Thread Brooks Davis
er is cut. Maybe we ought to be sending FLUSH > CACHE commands to all drives and waiting for them to finish. I've heard is longer then 5sec on more recent systems like 2000 or XP. I even heard one claim that some shops were using 30sec internally. -- Brooks -- Any statement of the f

Re: 5.0 Ports List

2003-02-03 Thread Brooks Davis
can check ports/INDEX-5 for the list of ports from the release. -- Brooks -- Any statement of the form "X is the one, true Y" is FALSE. PGP fingerprint 655D 519C 26A7 82E7 2529 9BF0 5D8E 8BE9 F238 1AD4 msg51682/pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: Wireless LAN

2003-02-15 Thread Brooks Davis
On Sat, Feb 15, 2003 at 01:23:51PM +0100, Gerald Mixa wrote: > Hi, > > does anybody know wether FreeBSD 5.0 supports Wirless Lan cards based on a TI > chip. This standard is called 802.11b+ and is said to have 22MBit/s. They are not supported. -- Brooks -- Any statement of the fo

Re: can't load if_gif.ko

2003-02-26 Thread Brooks Davis
rno values being used that we > KNOW mean something in this context, and give something more informative. I wonder if we shouldn't add ENOSYMBOL translating to "Unresolved symbol" for this case. -- Brooks -- Any statement of the form "X is the one, true Y" is FALSE. PGP

Re: Amanda backups, or dump(8) broken?

2003-03-04 Thread Brooks Davis
I've seen reports that dump compatability was broken. I'm dumping two 5.0 boxes and one 4-STABLE box to one of the 5.0 boxes and the amverify I'm current running doesn't seem to have any problem. Thus, I'd tend to suspect we need to fix restore in 4.x. -- Brooks -- Any

Re: Plea for base system trim

2003-03-05 Thread Brooks Davis
red lib version of the openssl port was bumped when the base wasn't which screws up the dependencies. :-( -- Brooks -- Any statement of the form "X is the one, true Y" is FALSE. PGP fingerprint 655D 519C 26A7 82E7 2529 9BF0 5D8E 8BE9 F238 1AD4 pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: Plea for base system trim

2003-03-05 Thread Brooks Davis
OS versions. .if defined(WITH_PORTSSL) || ${OSVERSION} >= 500100 || (${OSVERSION} >= 470103 && ${OSREL} == 4) -- Brooks -- Any statement of the form "X is the one, true Y" is FALSE. PGP fingerprint 655D 519C 26A7 82E7 2529 9BF0 5D8E 8BE9 F238 1AD4 pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: Loopback device dillema

2003-03-06 Thread Brooks Davis
le. What is gained by making loopback default? It's true that you need a loopback device, but that's a bug not a feature. -- Brooks -- Any statement of the form "X is the one, true Y" is FALSE. PGP fingerprint 655D 519C 26A7 82E7 2529 9BF0 5D8E 8BE9 F238 1AD4 pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: Loopback device dillema

2003-03-06 Thread Brooks Davis
On Thu, Mar 06, 2003 at 02:06:32PM -0500, Hiten Pandya wrote: > Brooks Davis (Thu, Mar 06, 2003 at 11:00:11AM -0800) wrote: > > On Thu, Mar 06, 2003 at 01:38:54PM -0500, Hiten Pandya wrote: > > > To conclude, I would like to see the loopback device made default, and > >

Re: Loopback device dillema

2003-03-06 Thread Brooks Davis
interface could use some clean up. I just don't want to see the layer violation loif represents papered over by making loop default. That would be a move in the wrong direction. -- Brooks -- Any statement of the form "X is the one, true Y" is FALSE. PGP fingerprint 655D 519C

Re: We have ath, now what about Broadcom?

2003-07-23 Thread Brooks Davis
from doing things you aren't supposed to do. This is why the Linksys link boosters were pulled. FWIW, there is a solution to this which Sam used to when implementing ath(4). That is to implement a binary-only hardware access layer, ath_hal(4), that keeps you from doing things you aren'

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