Re: umount -f causes page fault in kernel?

1999-12-13 Thread Mark Newton
On Mon, Dec 13, 1999 at 04:27:48PM +0100, Gergely EGERVARY wrote: [ ... ] "Doctor, it hurts when I do this:" > mount /cdrom > cd /cdrom > umount -f /cdrom > cd .. > will cause 100% reproduceable kernel panic (page fault) "So don't do that then!" > I know forced umount is dangerous, but

Re: an lm79 device driver

1999-12-13 Thread Takanori Watanabe
In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Todd Han sen wrote: >Brian Powell and I recently finished implementing a FreeBSD device driver >for the lm79 system monitor by national semiconductor. We are interested >in submitting it for inclusion in the FreeBSD kernel. However, we are also >very interested in g

bsd signals

1999-12-13 Thread Joao Pedras
Hello all I am new to C so I need a little help on this one. I am in need for something that calls an app and leaves it running. What is so special about this is that this app is called by php3 scripts. A very good soul handed these lines of code which work perfectly well in FreeBSD : #include

Re: DMI Support

1999-12-13 Thread Mike Smith
> What's the current situation with DMI support on FreeBSD? Basically, there is none. I spent some time looking at it, and finally concluded that there wasn't much to be gained (for me) from it, and moved on. From a functional standpoint DMI doesn't actually offer us very much; ACPI is a clo

Re: Multiple instances of the same character device

1999-12-13 Thread Vladimir N. Silyaev
On Mon, Dec 13, 1999 at 12:39:42AM -0800, Mike Smith wrote: > > > > The question is very simple. Is it possible to open the same character > > pseudo device, for example /dev/foo0, simultaneously from other programs, and > > to work with this instances independently? > > Not in the fashion tha

an lm79 device driver

1999-12-13 Thread Todd Hansen
Brian Powell and I recently finished implementing a FreeBSD device driver for the lm79 system monitor by national semiconductor. We are interested in submitting it for inclusion in the FreeBSD kernel. However, we are also very interested in getting constructive feedback on our design. You can acce

DMI Support

1999-12-13 Thread Andrew Boothman
Hi! What's the current situation with DMI support on FreeBSD? A search of the mail archives reveal that we have support for finding the code in the BIOS but not a lot else. Is that still accurate? Do we have any plans to add more support? This is the kind of thing that I would LOVE to help out

ATA w/ today's -CURRENT

1999-12-13 Thread Steve Ames
Hrm... no question that the ATA driver is better today, but its still not reporting DMA on my Quantum bigfoot drive (which should support DMA: http://www.quantum.com/products/archive/bigfoot_cy/bigfoot_cy_features.htm) The Maxtor is pretty old (But its been current since 3.0 :) but may still hav

FW: popen in RPC svc code

1999-12-13 Thread Quan Guo
Hi there, > I wrote a standard popen program inside rpc svc interface code . > The fgets could not get anything it should get. > Do you know what kind of problem I am facing? > Thank very much for your time. > > -Quan > Software Engineer > Veritas Software To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL

Re: loader hacks (was: Re: easyboot far into disk)

1999-12-13 Thread Juergen Lock
On Sun, Dec 12, 1999 at 04:21:15PM -0800, Mike Smith wrote: > > > > I thought rootdev was fixed a long time back. If it's not, please tell > > > > me and I'll fix it again. 8) > > > > > > Alright I finally got around testing this with a later kern.flp > > > (3.3-R actually), and it still didn'

Re: ATAPI tape support - how to format?

1999-12-13 Thread Warner Losh
In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Wilko Bulte writes: : It does, yes. I never had any desire to go for IDE tapes but I have now : filed the idea as insane ;-) Well, come to think of the 8500 experiences I've had, it isn't as bad as that. The 8200 was a pain, but usable and useful. That's the level

Re: ATAPI tape support - how to format?

1999-12-13 Thread Karl Denninger
On Mon, Dec 13, 1999 at 07:25:45PM +0100, Wilko Bulte wrote: > On Mon, Dec 13, 1999 at 10:31:31AM -0700, Warner Losh wrote: > > In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Soren Schmidt writes: > > : > Anything else I should know offhand other than "plug it in and use dump like > > : > everything else"? > > :

Re: ATAPI tape support - how to format?

1999-12-13 Thread Wilko Bulte
On Mon, Dec 13, 1999 at 10:31:31AM -0700, Warner Losh wrote: > In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Soren Schmidt writes: > : > Anything else I should know offhand other than "plug it in and use dump like > : > everything else"? > : > : Not really... > > Actually yes. There is one thing you should kn

Re: Xlib.h Question

1999-12-13 Thread Warner Losh
In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> "Gene Harris" writes: : The following includes incorrectly specify an X11 subdirectory: : : #include No. You are wrong. That include is 100% correct. It is the documented way to include X.h, and has been since at least X11R2 when I started doing X programming,

Re: ATAPI tape support - how to format?

1999-12-13 Thread Warner Losh
In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Soren Schmidt writes: : > Anything else I should know offhand other than "plug it in and use dump like : > everything else"? : : Not really... Actually yes. There is one thing you should know. The ata tape drives tend to be more flakey than their scsi brotheren.

Re: Xlib.h Question

1999-12-13 Thread Sheldon Hearn
On Mon, 13 Dec 1999 09:56:12 CST, "Gene Harris" wrote: > #include > #include > > If I edit out the "X11/" subdir, everything compiles correctly. Is > this a known bug, or have I placed Xlib.h in the wrong subdir? (It is > found in /usr/X11R6/include/X11 on my machine.) You're probably com

Xlib.h Question

1999-12-13 Thread Gene Harris
I noticed a problem with includes in Xlib.h on my FreeBSD 3.3-Stable box: The following includes incorrectly specify an X11 subdirectory: #include /* applications should not depend on these two headers being included! */ #include #include If I edit out the "X11/" subdir, everything compiles

umount -f causes page fault in kernel?

1999-12-13 Thread Gergely EGERVARY
hi, mount /cdrom cd /cdrom umount -f /cdrom cd .. will cause 100% reproduceable kernel panic (page fault) I know forced umount is dangerous, but soo ... =P it's 3.3-RELEASE -- mauzi To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message

Re: silo overflows

1999-12-13 Thread Gergely EGERVARY
> Do you have UDMA turned on? is ``flags 0xa0ffa0ff'' enough or should I set something else too? -- mauzi To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message

Re: 2questions

1999-12-13 Thread Kurt Olsen
> - the size of the X server includes the size of video RAM mapped from > the card. The 3dfx cards also map significantly more memory than there is RAM on the card itself. Mostly for control registers and stuff. It might be as much as 32 MB on top of the actual RAM available. To Unsubscribe:

Re: SCSI tape minor device numbers

1999-12-13 Thread Ronald F. Guilmette
In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, you wrot e: >> Can anyone interpret this for me: >> >> HARDWARE FAILURE asc:0,4 >> >> What does it mean? >> >> It this just the numeric code for ``Buy another tape drive''? >> :-) > >Yes. Thank you. P.S. Power cycling _just_ the tape drive seems to have

Re: Reminder - changes to sources and such

1999-12-13 Thread Marcel Moolenaar
Peter Wemm wrote: > > Karl Denninger wrote: > > Hi folks, > > > > Just something to keep in mind > > > > I am trying to update from a Juneish -CURRENT to a current -CURRENT. > > > > I've run into two instances (the latest being the use of "colldef" in > > /usr/src/share/colldef) where older b

Re: Multiple instances of the same character device

1999-12-13 Thread Mike Smith
> > The question is very simple. Is it possible to open the same character > pseudo device, for example /dev/foo0, simultaneously from other programs, and > to work with this instances independently? Not in the fashion that I believe you're trying to do, no. > I'm asked as the developer of a

Re: 2questions

1999-12-13 Thread Mike Smith
> thanks for your answers. With some comments: > > 1. I've asked at XIG what it is about and they told me that this a problem > of FreeBSD OS. Not about their server. Xig have not been providing accurate answers to many questions asked of them about FreeBSD recently. It would appear that they

Re: 2questions

1999-12-13 Thread Stefan Parvu
thanks for your answers. With some comments: 1. I've asked at XIG what it is about and they told me that this a problem of FreeBSD OS. Not about their server. Anyway I have asked also why they didn't test Accel 5.0.2 on FreeBSD 3.x ? With no success.No comments. I have also asked about 3D X serv

Re: 2questions

1999-12-13 Thread Mike Smith
> Hi all, > > I have posted this email for [EMAIL PROTECTED] but I didn't got any answer. > > > I am running FreeBSD 3.3 Release on one laptop Toshiba and as XServer the > Accelerated X 5.0.2. I am curious about one fact. Everytime when I exit > from XServer I 've got: > > > pid 8971 (Xaccel):