Mysterious system freeze-ups on my consoles...

2004-12-27 Thread Barry Bouwsma
r via USB combined with cons25-type screen activity could be the cause of this, or if it's just coincidence, as well as what is likely to cause a complete solid wedge, for my education. Thanks. barry bouwsma ___ freebsd-hackers@freebsd.or

Re: USB OHCI problems...

2004-12-01 Thread Barry Bouwsma
le I've had panics from other causes, I don't think any of mine could be pinned on the uaudio/uhid device -- but I haven't done much in the way of connect/disconnecting and stuff. thanks barry bouwsma ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hackers To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"

Soundcard tweaking: `mixer' v. `sysctl' ?

2004-12-01 Thread Barry Bouwsma
ne this is the way to go. Apologies for my stupidity. And I'll submit (ugly) patches, when I'm happy with my hacks. If desired. thanks barry bouwsma ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hackers To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"

Re: USB OHCI problems...

2004-11-30 Thread Barry Bouwsma
B and fit better into a machine with a lack (but not quite so severe) of PCI slots. Perhaps there's a PCI-PCI bridge on the card in the way, but there's a firewire controller on the card sharing the interrupt with OHCI, and I have no problems with the firewire. thanks barry bouws

USB OHCI problems...

2004-10-21 Thread Barry Bouwsma
detailed testing with fresh -current or with code fresher than two months ago. thanks barry bouwsma ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hackers To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"

Re: probe ordering of interfaces

2004-09-21 Thread Barry Bouwsma
that I'll have to wake up a bit and grovel around in the source to get things working for me... Thanks for the reply anyway. barry bouwsma ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hackers To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"

Re: ISA card and if_ed as module

2004-08-15 Thread Barry Bouwsma
tually turning those environment hints into action just doesn't happen. thanks barry bouwsma ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hackers To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"

ISA card and if_ed as module

2004-08-08 Thread Barry Bouwsma
happy to keep ed* in my kernel (maybe, I'm not sure if the presence of `miibus' as well causes problems with the autoloading of module miibus when other NIC modules get loaded...) thanks barry bouwsma ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://li

man/cat pages, compressed/or not

2004-07-30 Thread Barry Bouwsma
access... (I know, you'll tell me that if I have a big disk and a slow machine, there's no reason to want compressed manpages to go with the uncompressed catpages, so set NOMANCOMPRESS=true.) thanks barry bouwsma ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] ma

Re: pci_cfgintr: can't route an interrupt ...

2004-06-15 Thread Barry Bouwsma
This message is ancient, but I finally got things (sort of) working just now. More context can be found in the first message in this thread On Tue, 23 Dec 2003, John Baldwin wrote: > On 23-Dec-2003 Barry Bouwsma wrote: > > > There was a thread about this in this list back in late

Re: HEADSUP!!! USB MFC committed..

2004-04-07 Thread Barry Bouwsma
ly posting the added lines to umass.c from -current to make it operate with my mostly-stable. (Actually, it looks like all I did was to un-re-implement cam_calc_geometry() back to what was in -stable, and to say that I don't have a ZIP_100 so I could junk that portion of the code just to get

dev_mkdb coredumps under -stable with a different root disk...

2003-12-27 Thread Barry Bouwsma
ind, for which 65536/32768 b/fsize was more appropriate for multi-gig files.) thanks, Barry Bouwsma, puzzled ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hackers To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"

pci_cfgintr: can't route an interrupt ...

2003-12-22 Thread Barry Bouwsma
This isn't a cardbus bridge, rather an on-card PCI bridge, for whatever difference that makes. I have at hand no newer machines than 100+MHz pentium vintage at least six years old -- certainly no ACPI -- so I can't compare in newer boxes, sorry. I could try NetBSD, which disk is currentl

Re: USB card overcurrent problems...

2003-11-04 Thread Barry Bouwsma
if I can arrive at a clean power-on, or keep the external hub attached to its power supply cord, or try yet another card, or some combination of the above, or something different. Or maybe even cut open a USB cable to measure the actual current inline... Thanks, Barry Bouwsma

Re: USB2.0 external hub and ehci question

2003-11-04 Thread Barry Bouwsma
I probe failed (that stalled error), and no USB1 attach was done. Admittedly, I don't know if this is also the case under FreeBSD, since I haven't properly updated my machine to -current. > Maybe there are other show stopppers too. Erk. Thanks for your informative replies! Barry Bouws

USB2.0 external hub and ehci question

2003-09-29 Thread Barry Bouwsma
k, below I've attached an echidebug=3 dmesg, as it includes a few and for anyone who can make sense out of it, with a failed attempt at trying a random quirk. I'll see about downloading some USB utilities while I'm online to nab more useful info. Thanks, Barry Bouwsma uhub_explo

Re: Any workarounds for Verisign .com/.net highjacking?

2003-09-24 Thread Barry Bouwsma
ess. This tells me I need to use the DNS machines of an ISP with Clue as static forwarder addresses, not those provided by ISP-of-the-day (and the last ISP seemed to give horribly broken machines anyway), if this reaches a point where I actually want to do something about these wildcards.

Re: Machine wedges solid after one serial-port source-lineaddition...

2003-09-24 Thread Barry Bouwsma
rance of fundamental PC hardware principles, and I'll welcome pointers to sources of more knowledge. Thanks, Barry Bouwsma ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hackers To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"

Kernel module problems/questions

2003-09-24 Thread Barry Bouwsma
unload any auto-loaded modules, regardless. Fifth, I've run out of questions for now. Tune in again later. Thanks, Barry Bouwsma ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hackers To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"

USB card overcurrent problems...

2003-09-24 Thread Barry Bouwsma
my hacks aren't at all proper, so I'd rather learn the right way to handle this case before explaining where I run into problems. And, I'll have more USB-related questions later, so pointers to the proper place for those would be

Re: Machine wedges solid after one serial-port source-line addition...

2003-09-17 Thread Barry Bouwsma
right out, is it safe for me (as a non- programmer, so forgive my ignorance of the basics) to simply use little more than a wakeup() in its place? Or does that, or the tsleep() corresponding, need some sort of careful handling to avoid the lockups I've experienced? Thanks, Barry Bouwsma _

Conflict between use of /dev/pps and /dev/ppi?

2003-09-15 Thread Barry Bouwsma
ular code I'm using looks like fd = open("/dev/ppi0", O_RDONLY ); Or is this something within the kernel source that needs munging? Apologies if it no longer (fails to) work this way, but I'm still downloading and reviewing the last nine months o

Machine wedges solid after one serial-port source-line addition...

2003-09-15 Thread Barry Bouwsma
n't happen anywhere in the suspect section of code that I sprinkled with printf()s, but I haven't done enough debuggery to narrow down where it does or does not happen. I'm wondering if it's something really blindingly obvious that I should be but am not aware of, or something I g

Re: Tuning up semaphores in kernel

2000-02-20 Thread BARRY BOUWSMA IS A MASSMURDERER
or just somewhere in the ports files where it can be ignored? Otherwise, I can't see that bplay would be particularly useful as a port, but rather as additional software the user could optionally choose to hunt down and install... thanks, barry bouwsma, tele damnark internet -- ***