Re: Future of RAIDFrame and Vinum (was: Future of RAIDFrame)

2004-01-16 Thread Marcin Dalecki
Mark Linimon wrote: But, in the real world of software engineering, He Who Breaketh It, Must Fixeth It. Your mileage may vary. Yes it vaires. In the real world He Who Reaketh It, will hire someone who known what he is doing to fix the problem... ___ [EMA

Re: Assembler coding help needed.

2004-01-11 Thread Marcin Dalecki
Martin Nilsson wrote: I'm trying to find out why I can't boot 5.2 from USB CDROM on Supermicro motherboards. (I have an old Gateway P3 that can!). I've found out that that only 0x20 of 0x4c sectors of the loader are read in and it therfor traps when executed. (read is only called once). My las

Re: Power consumption in desktop computers

2003-12-29 Thread Marcin Dalecki
Erich Dollansky wrote: The actual power can go down to less than 10% if the CPU is idle. Are these business-grade ones maybe equipped with mobile P-4s? No, it is just the fact that modern CPU are most of the time just idle. Which is bullshit becouse most of the CPUs those days don't run desktop

Re: I'm resigning from FreeBSD

2003-12-27 Thread Marcin Dalecki
Lucas Holt wrote: Funny, I see people switching to *BSD from Linux all the time. I've "converted" quite a few people at Western Michigan where i'm a student. Most people think of FreeBSD as the "new" linux. You have to think to use it, as opposed to the redhat idiot wizards. Personally I just

Re: Darwin/OSX Bluetooth code

2003-10-17 Thread Marcin Dalecki
Peter Pentchev wrote: You've done some great work on BlueTooth. IMHO, it would be a mistake to try to un-NetGraph it; there have been lots of rumours about people porting the NetGraph framework to other OS's, and if BlueTooth support will provide yet one more reason for the need to do this, so be

Re: Hyperthreading slowdown

2003-10-04 Thread Marcin Dalecki
Richard Coleman wrote: Kris Kennaway wrote: On Sat, Oct 04, 2003 at 03:20:03PM -0400, Richard Coleman wrote: Kris Kennaway wrote: On Sat, Oct 04, 2003 at 04:39:03PM +0200, Mikulas Patocka wrote: I installed FreeBSD 4.9RC1 on P4 3GHz with hyperthreading and I see drastic slowdown when kernel wit

Re: Ugly Huge BSD Monster

2003-09-02 Thread Marcin Dalecki
Peter Jeremy wrote: On Mon, Sep 01, 2003 at 12:38:34PM -0700, Greg Shenaut wrote: Has it ever been suggested to create one or more "dependencies" ports (or more to the point, packages)? I think it might be pretty useful to have something like that so that all of the "prerequisites" can be install

Re: Missing system call in linux emulation

2003-08-14 Thread Marcin Dalecki
Marcel Moolenaar wrote: On Tue, Aug 12, 2003 at 05:42:51PM +0100, Steven Hartland wrote: Any one know how I can track down what function is missing and hence look at fixing it? In the linux kernel source tree, look in arch/i386/kernel/entry.S. There you'll find all the syscall entry points. Curr

Re: libedit and g++

2003-07-13 Thread Marcin Dalecki
Priit Piipuu wrote: Hi! There seems to be a problem using libedit from C++. Small test case: cat test.c #include #include int main(void) { EditLine *ed; ed = el_init("foo", stdin, stdout, stderr); el_end(ed); return 0; } gcc -ledit -ltermcap -o test test.c g++ -ledit -ltermcap -o test

Re: nscd for freebsd

2003-06-19 Thread Marcin Dalecki
Jan Grant wrote: On Thu, 19 Jun 2003, Marcin Dalecki wrote: Michael Bushkov wrote: Good day! Can anyone tell me if there is an implementation of nscd for FreeBSD? If there is no, who's currently working on it? You can use bind in caching only mode. A far suprerior solution to the probl

Re: nscd for freebsd

2003-06-19 Thread Marcin Dalecki
Michael Bushkov wrote: Good day! Can anyone tell me if there is an implementation of nscd for FreeBSD? If there is no, who's currently working on it? You can use bind in caching only mode. A far suprerior solution to the problem at hand. So there is no need for "takoje malenkoje gawno" as nscd is u

Re: What RFCs are supported by FreeBSD

2003-06-04 Thread Marcin Dalecki
David Schultz wrote: On Mon, Jun 02, 2003, Terry Lambert wrote: "Nickolay A. Kritsky" wrote: Does anybody know, which RFCs are followed by FreeBSD's core network drivers (like IP,TCP,routing,UDP,ICMP drivers)? All of them. I'm sorry Terry, but I must be missing something. Can you please point

Re: Retrieving disk geometry

2003-06-03 Thread Marcin Dalecki
Andrew wrote: Hi, Under FreeBSD 4.x the ioctl DIOCGDINFO could be used to retrieve the number of cylinders, heads and sectors of a drive. This could be called on /dev/ad0 for example. Under FreeBSD 5 it seems to produce "Inappropriate ioctl for device" unless you call it on an individual partition

Re: Hi!Dear FreeBSD!

2003-02-01 Thread Marcin Dalecki
writing applications. Help me join some simple project,I would work hardly!Thank you very much! You could go hunt for the russian translation of the design of the UNIX operating system. It is freely available on the net as a bunch of plain text files. -- Marcin Dalecki To Unsubscribe: send

Re: Synaptics touchpad extendid support.

2003-01-05 Thread Marcin Dalecki
Rahul Siddharthan wrote: Marcin Dalecki wrote: Here is my first cut at support for the Synaptics touchpads, 2. The pad has 4 buttons; left and right work as before. In between, there are a small up and down button. Now the up button acts as the middle button (button 3?) -- ie I can paste

Re: Synaptics touchpad extendid support.

2003-01-05 Thread Marcin Dalecki
Rahul Siddharthan wrote: Marcin Dalecki wrote: Here is my first cut at support for the Synaptics touchpads, which are commonly used on notebooks. Contrary to the default "Windows installation mode" those devices come up at boot, this is enabling full support for all buttons pres

Synaptics touchpad extendid support.

2003-01-03 Thread Marcin Dalecki
Have fun! -- Marcin Dalecki diff -urN src-old/sys/isa/psm.c src/sys/isa/psm.c --- src-old/sys/isa/psm.c Tue Dec 31 00:35:19 2002 +++ src/sys/isa/psm.c Tue Dec 31 01:05:35 2002 @@ -277,6 +277,7 @@ static probefunc_t enable_4dplus; static probefunc_t enable_mmanplus; static p

Re: Framebuffer howto?

2002-12-29 Thread Marcin Dalecki
Hiten Pandya wrote: --- "Pedro F. Giffuni" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Actually I suggested on private email to use GGI. GGI > can work on top of VGL or Linux's framebuffer, and > when KGI becomes available it will work fine. Hmm, someone said earlier on in this thread, that FreeBSD does not

Re: PS/2 Mice device - synaptics touch pad.

2002-11-29 Thread Marcin Dalecki
Daniel O'Connor wrote: On Sat, 2002-11-30 at 02:54, Marcin Dalecki wrote: Looking further I discovered that the writing method is filled with a global nowrite() function. What should I do about it: 1. Just provide the trivial psmwrite() augmenting kernel level function, thus preserin

PS/2 Mice device - synaptics touch pad.

2002-11-29 Thread Marcin Dalecki
ion. What should I do about it: 1. Just provide the trivial psmwrite() augmenting kernel level function, thus presering the higher level driver for XFree? 2. Move everything in to the kernel space?! (The driver isn't exactly small due to many features like border detection and so on...) --