Re: In-kernel ioctl calls

2000-08-09 Thread Soren Schmidt
It seems Theo van Klaveren wrote: > | Here's another idea, the ata driver can read/write 2352 sector size > | blocks directly, no need to use that ugly ioctl. You just have to > | set the right blocksize, I could provide you with a function for > | that, no more ioctl mess ;) > > That would be _g

Re: libvgl and splitting the screen

2000-08-09 Thread andrew
Sorry to follow up on my own posting but this is under 4.1-STABLE as of last week. Thanks, Andrew To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message

libvgl and splitting the screen

2000-08-09 Thread andrew
Hi, Is it possible to use libvgl but get it to use just part of the screen so I have a regular text console above? I'm guessing not... I'm trying to get text to scroll along the bottom of the screen (lame I know)...is there another way? I can scroll in character chunks by printing substrings of

Re: An sblock magic number is...

2000-08-09 Thread Ollivier Robert
According to Wilko Bulte: > Guessing: superblock? Yes. Our dump is only able to backup complete filesystems. Historically, SunOS' one is able to backup partial FS (i.e. directories) and ironically, when Rémy Card (of ext2fs fame) ported it to Linux, he added back that functionality. -- Ollivier

Re: How do I change serial console tty speed?

2000-08-09 Thread rbg
Hi Bob, Did you try setting it with sysctl in one of the rc.* files ? Good luck! Robert > On Tue, 8 Aug 2000 08:53:59 -0500 you said: bob> Oops, I forgot to add that this is on a 4.0-stable system (from about 3 bob> months ago). bob> bob> Thanks again, bob> Bob bob> bob> On Tue, Au

Re: Installation Problems on Dell PowerEdge 6100/200

2000-08-09 Thread Mike Smith
> On Tue, 8 Aug 2000, Mike Smith mumbled: > > > > If it is worth anything, I tried installing on a poweredge 2450 once and to > > > make a long story short couldn't get the onboard RAID to work or the SMP to > > > work. I hear it got sent back for something else (that wasn't a dell!) > > > > On

Re: ACPI project progress report (final?)

2000-08-09 Thread Michael Harnois
I'm not quite sure what it does, but it seems to work fine here on my ASUS CUSL2, at least the shutdown part. -- Michael D. Harnois, Redeemer Lutheran Church, Washburn, IA [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] When the stomach is satisfied, and lust is spent, man spares a

Re: PC compatibility cards.

2000-08-09 Thread Paul Halliday
David Scheidt wrote: > The ones I am familiar with were 486 somethings in PowerMac 6100s. I have > no idea if you could run FreeBSD on them; they certainly wouldn't work *in* > a PC, being PDS cards. ARe the ones you have PCI? > > David As a matter of fact, they are. Or at least ap

Re: PC compatibility cards.

2000-08-09 Thread David Scheidt
On Wed, 9 Aug 2000, Paul Halliday wrote: :Hi. : :Kinda off topic, but maybe not. : :I just aquired a few pc compatibility cards. From what I can ascertain :they have an onboard p166 processor, 16m ram, 2 meg ati video, 256k :cache, etc. Anyway, after a little reading i figured out what th

PC compatibility cards.

2000-08-09 Thread Paul Halliday
Hi. Kinda off topic, but maybe not. I just aquired a few pc compatibility cards. From what I can ascertain they have an onboard p166 processor, 16m ram, 2 meg ati video, 256k cache, etc. Anyway, after a little reading i figured out what these little buggers do. Now, has anyone ever tried

Re: Logging changes in files.

2000-08-09 Thread Kris Kennaway
On Wed, 9 Aug 2000, [iso-8859-1] Jesús Arnáiz wrote: > Hi Everyone! > > I'm using FreeBSD and I'm interesting in log when a user modifies some file > and the changes made on it. See the kqueue(2) manpage in FreeBSD 4.1. It would be a trivial matter to write a utility that watches files for acti

Re: audiofs mixing audio and data tracks

2000-08-09 Thread Theo van Klaveren
Koster, K.J. wrote: | Could you perhaps make it so that all the audio tracks appear als slice 1, | while the data track appears as slice 2. Sorry if I come across rude, but I've had numerous requests for this and just wanted to say what I think about it. I can't think of any way of accomplishin

Re: threadsafe name resolution

2000-08-09 Thread Jun-ichiro itojun Hagino
>as long as nothing other than getipnodebyname and byaddr share resources >with those two, i'm safe if i just throw a mutex around my calls to >byname/addr. unfortuantely, this solution gets the "big suck" rating. if >the operating system ships with mechanisms that are documented as being >

Re: In-kernel ioctl calls

2000-08-09 Thread Theo van Klaveren
Soren Schmidt wrote: -long story snipped- | > Am I just doing it wrong, or should atapi-cd.c be patched to verify if the | > buffer is in user space or in kernel space? If so, what function checks if | > an address is in kernel space or in user space? If not, what am I doing | > wrong? | | Here's

Logging changes in files.

2000-08-09 Thread Jesús Arnáiz
Hi Everyone! I'm using FreeBSD and I'm interesting in log when a user modifies some file and the changes made on it. Have someone done something similar or have some idea to help me?. Thanks in advance. Jesús Arnáiz. To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-h

Re: ACPI project progress report (final?)

2000-08-09 Thread Warner Losh
In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Mitsuru IWASAKI writes: : Hi, here is the latest (and maybe final?) report on our ACPI project's : progress. : : We are ready now to merge our work on ACPI into main source tree! Bravo! Wonderful work! Warner To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with

Re: An sblock magic number is...

2000-08-09 Thread Wilko Bulte
On Wed, Aug 09, 2000 at 12:00:06PM -0500, Ben Weaver wrote: > Heh... OK I'm done having my stupid moment... Thank's for seeing that :-) > > I'm still curious (just so I know) what an sblock magic number is. Guessing: superblock? -- Wilko Bulte [EMAIL

Re: CVS question

2000-08-09 Thread Archie Cobbs
John Polstra writes: > > $ cvs co -D 'January 18, 1999 0:00' freebsd/src/usr.sbin/xntpd/lib/ranny.c > > > > Perhaps version 1.1.1.2 would be correct, but instead you get 1.1. > > CVS has a heuristic that does the wrong thing for this particular > file. The code is around line 3252 of src/cont

RE: threadsafe name resolution

2000-08-09 Thread Greg Thompson
>From: Charles Randall <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > >Is there a reason that ADNS won't work for this? > >http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~ian/adns/ in addition to the other reasons mentioned, it won't work for me because it's not a part of the os. as an application developer, i'd expect the basic s

Re: threadsafe name resolution

2000-08-09 Thread Dan Moschuk
| Is there a reason that ADNS won't work for this? | | http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~ian/adns/ Technically, no. Morally, it's GNU. :-) -- Man is a rational animal who always loses his temper when he is called upon to act in accordance with the dictates of reason. -- Osca

Re: threadsafe name resolution

2000-08-09 Thread Mike Bristow
On Wed, Aug 09, 2000 at 12:07:01PM -0600, Charles Randall wrote: > Is there a reason that ADNS won't work for this? Firstly, adns doesn't do IPv6 (at least not yet, according to the web page you gave). Secondly, I'm not sure if it's thread safe (although being nice 'n async it's not hard to use

Re: Installation Problems on Dell PowerEdge 6100/200

2000-08-09 Thread Linh Pham
On Tue, 8 Aug 2000, Mike Smith mumbled: > > If it is worth anything, I tried installing on a poweredge 2450 once and to > > make a long story short couldn't get the onboard RAID to work or the SMP to > > work. I hear it got sent back for something else (that wasn't a dell!) > > Onboard RAID wil

RE: threadsafe name resolution

2000-08-09 Thread Charles Randall
Is there a reason that ADNS won't work for this? http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~ian/adns/ Charles -Original Message- From: Dan Moschuk [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, August 09, 2000 10:51 AM To: Greg Thompson Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: threads

Re: An sblock magic number is...

2000-08-09 Thread Ben Weaver
Heh... OK I'm done having my stupid moment... Thank's for seeing that :-) I'm still curious (just so I know) what an sblock magic number is. Thanks, -Ben On Wed, Aug 09, 2000 at 08:07:35AM +, Alan Clegg wrote: > Out of the ether, Ben Weaver spewed forth the following bitstream: > > > $ df

Re: SMBFS

2000-08-09 Thread Michael Lucas
> > How did you implement SMBFS? Is it yet a part of FreeBSD 4.1-STABLE or? > New kernel option? > Take a look at http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/a/bsd/2000/07/13/Big_Scary_Daemons.html. All the links, and some hints, appear there. Also, I don't want to claim even indirectly that I implemen

Re: SMBFS

2000-08-09 Thread Nathan Vidican
Michael Lucas wrote: > > My understanding of SMBFS is that it's not intended to be a server. > > It's a pretty solid client, though. I use it extensively, without trouble. > > ==ml > > > What's the current status the native smbfs support? Can it act as a both a > > client and a server? How do

Re: ACPI project progress report (final?)

2000-08-09 Thread Garance A Drosihn
At 12:30 AM +0900 8/10/00, Mitsuru IWASAKI wrote: >Hi, here is the latest (and maybe final?) report on our ACPI >project's progress. > >We are ready now to merge our work on ACPI into main source tree! > >[...skipping...] >Folks, there are a lot of exciting and cool things, like Processor >and Dev

Re: threadsafe name resolution

2000-08-09 Thread Dan Moschuk
| i've just received confirmation from the author of the KAME resolution code | that it isn't at all thread safe: | | >Sure. As noted in name6.c, thread related stuff is not implemented yet. | >Since our resolver code based on bind4 doesn't aware thread safeness, | >all I can do now would be o

Re: SMBFS

2000-08-09 Thread Michael Lucas
My understanding of SMBFS is that it's not intended to be a server. It's a pretty solid client, though. I use it extensively, without trouble. ==ml > What's the current status the native smbfs support? Can it act as a both a > client and a server? How does it compare to Samba in terms of func

Re: God I feel stupid (gcc issue)

2000-08-09 Thread John Polstra
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Laurence Berland <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > So I thought, "we don't define __GNUC__?" But our compiler _does_ define that macro. > I figured I'd check. After much mind wracking, I can't for the life > of me figure out how to get gcc to output a list of what is

Re: God I feel stupid (gcc issue)

2000-08-09 Thread John Polstra
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Chris D. Faulhaber <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Tue, 8 Aug 2000, Laurence Berland wrote: > > > So I thought, "we don't define __GNUC__?" I figured I'd check. After > > much mind wracking, I can't for the life of me figure out how to get gcc > > to output a lis

audiofs mixing audio and data tracks

2000-08-09 Thread Koster, K.J.
Dear All, I'm not sure if I'm off into the woods on this one, but I'm sure you will correct me. :-) Could you perhaps make it so that all the audio tracks appear als slice 1, while the data track appears as slice 2. Mount data-only cdrom: mount -t cd9660 /dev/cd0s1c -or- mount -t cd9660 /de

Re: CVS question

2000-08-09 Thread John Polstra
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Archie Cobbs <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Consider this source file: > > http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/cvsweb.cgi/src/usr.sbin/xntpd/lib/Attic/ranny.c > > Question: what version should this command checkout? > > $ cvs co -D 'January 18, 1999 0:00' freebsd/src/u

Re: In-kernel ioctl calls

2000-08-09 Thread Soren Schmidt
It seems Theo van Klaveren wrote: > > I think I've finally figured out why AudioFS isn't working (aside from an > endianess error in v0.1), but I can't think of a solution. The problem I've > found is as follows: The code in atapi-cd.c (from Soren's ATA driver) > assumes the passed buffer (in the

ACPI project progress report (final?)

2000-08-09 Thread Mitsuru IWASAKI
Hi, here is the latest (and maybe final?) report on our ACPI project's progress. We are ready now to merge our work on ACPI into main source tree! Our prototype development is going to finish. AML interpreter development is almost completed, region access facility (SystemMemory, SystemIO and PC

Re: 4.1-RELEASE problem writing to async mounted filesystem

2000-08-09 Thread void
On Wed, Aug 09, 2000 at 12:35:11PM +0200, Mitja Horvat wrote: > > As I understand SU, it's just a method to do metadata asynchronously in a > safe way, > so using noasync with SU does still have a point? "Using noasync" is a no-op; noasync is the default. -- Ben 220 go.ahead.make.my.day ES

threadsafe name resolution

2000-08-09 Thread Greg Thompson
i've just received confirmation from the author of the KAME resolution code that it isn't at all thread safe: >Sure. As noted in name6.c, thread related stuff is not implemented yet. >Since our resolver code based on bind4 doesn't aware thread safeness, >all I can do now would be only putting m

Re: In-kernel ioctl calls

2000-08-09 Thread Poul-Henning Kamp
In message <001e01c0020c$d257b3c0$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, "Theo van Klaveren" writes: >I think I've finally figured out why AudioFS isn't working (aside from an >endianess error in v0.1), but I can't think of a solution. The problem I've >found is as follows: The code in atapi-cd.c (from Soren's ATA

In-kernel ioctl calls

2000-08-09 Thread Theo van Klaveren
I think I've finally figured out why AudioFS isn't working (aside from an endianess error in v0.1), but I can't think of a solution. The problem I've found is as follows: The code in atapi-cd.c (from Soren's ATA driver) assumes the passed buffer (in the ioctl struct) is in user-space. The followi

Re: An sblock magic number is...

2000-08-09 Thread Alan Clegg
Out of the ether, Ben Weaver spewed forth the following bitstream: > $ df > Filesystem 1K-blocks UsedAvail Capacity Mounted on > /dev/sd0s1a 3976982 909105 274971925%/ > /dev/sd1s1e 3976982 3359343 29948192%/home > /dev/sd2s1f992751 81754295789

Re: 4.1-RELEASE problem writing to async mounted filesystem

2000-08-09 Thread Mitja Horvat
Hi, > > There's no reason to use softupdates and async together. SU gets you > the same benefits, but much more safely. You are right... I thought async was only for data updates, not metadata too... Thanks for clearing this out... As I understand SU, it's just a method to do metadata asy

Re: An sblock magic number is...

2000-08-09 Thread David Malone
On Wed, Aug 09, 2000 at 04:25:14AM -0500, Ben Weaver wrote: > bash-2.03# ssh backup@tranq1 /sbin/dump -0a -f - /dev/sd0s1f | dd of=t1.var ^^ Doesn't dump take the raw device, or the filesystem name? Maybe it can take both - I don't have

An sblock magic number is...

2000-08-09 Thread Ben Weaver
Hey all, Here's the story... I am trying to back up a server running freebsd 2.2.8 onto another freebsd box running 4.0-RELEASE. I am attempting to achieve this by using dump over ssh. I created a user on the 2.2.8 box called backup and put it into the correct group allowing it read acces

Re: make release: how I do make it into a bootable cd?

2000-08-09 Thread Mario Sergio Fujikawa Ferreira
On Tue, Aug 08, 2000 at 05:36:26PM -0500, Alan Edmonds wrote: > This was brought up last week; I'm not sure if it was this list. > > See /usr/share/examples/worm for a couple of scripts used > to create the FreeBSD release CDs. Very informative. > > Ben Smithurst wrote: > > > > Mario Sergio Fu

Solo-1 appears to work (was Re: US$100 prize for adding ESS Audiodrive support to pcm)

2000-08-09 Thread Nick Sayer
I invite anyone capable to please test the Solo-1 driver. So far as I am able to test, it appears to work, but further field trials would be a good thing, especially in light of the wacky workaround that I found necessary to get recording to work (see the latest commit). Unless show-stoppers appe