Re: Sysinstall: Write the FreeBSD version at the top of the display

2006-07-13 Thread Martin Nilsson
On Wednesday 12 July 2006 23:58, Joao Barros wrote: > Hi all, > > I was browsing the list of projects and ideas and stumbled upon one > that's rather simple and which would have been useful in the past: > Write the FreeBSD version at the top of the display (or somewhere > similar visible) - so lazy

Re: Backup problem for backup MySQL (a table > 2GB)

2005-08-16 Thread Martin Nilsson
Patrick Dung wrote: It consumes lots of space to do tar+gzip and split. I am thinking if I could copy all mysql files to another server (by ftp/ssh) periodically. MySQL have something called RAID tables for filesystems where max filesize is 2GB (read old Linux ext2fs systems). You can also u

Re: EHCI Kernel Panic w/ 5.2.1-RELEASE Kernel

2004-11-01 Thread Martin Nilsson
Martes Wigglesworth wrote: My kernel panic seems to come from the usb port actually having a device in the port, at boot. When I do not have a device in the port, bootup continues, however, my usb ports are not usable. This is my dmesg output. I have the same problem with a SeverWorks P3 machine

Re: ad0: FAILURE - WRITE_DMA

2004-10-14 Thread Martin Nilsson
Martin Nilsson wrote / skrev: Something is rotten with ATA on 5.x (or I have a rotten motherboard!) I have an E7320 "Lindenhurst VS 6300ESB box" with 2*3GHz EM64T Xeons and 2*80GB Seagate SATA disks. Sometimes when booting the whole ATA/SATA system hangs after two READ_DMA or WRITE_D

Re: ad0: FAILURE - WRITE_DMA

2004-10-13 Thread Martin Nilsson
Mikhail P. wrote: Well, now those timeouts popped up on 5.3-BETA7 system with 4 IDE drives.. They start appearing with high disk activity. System had FreeBSD-4.7 prior to that, and has been rock solid for almost a year. Drives have no problems, that's for sure (4.7 did not show up any timeouts,

Re: Adding DMA support for a device

2004-07-08 Thread Martin Nilsson
Avleen Vig wrote: The drive supports DMA, and Windows sets it to use UDMA mode 5 (I think), but BSD does not. Can anyone point me in the right direction for this? have you tried man ata ? The following tunables are settable from the loader: hw.ata.atapi_dma set to 1 for DMA access, 0 for PIO (

GEOM programming resources?

2004-01-12 Thread Martin Nilsson
Poul-Henning, do you have a list of GEOM programming info available so that one have something to start with for example to make Vinum compatible with GEOM. I read the GEOM manpage in 5.2, have looked at your webpage (http://people.freebsd.org/~phk) and have found a paper and some slides. Are t

Re: Assembler coding help needed. [solved, patch enclosed]

2004-01-11 Thread Martin Nilsson
Marcin Dalecki wrote: > 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 lo

Assembler coding help needed.

2004-01-11 Thread Martin Nilsson
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 last attempt at programmi

Re: Discussion on the future of floppies in 5.x and 6.x

2004-01-09 Thread Martin Nilsson
This is getting stupid! This discussion is just like when the i386 support was removed from the GENERIC kernel, a lot of noise about old systems that wouldn't be able to run (or benefit) from FreeBSD 5 anyway. And, further, some of us don't have (and don't want) CD burners, and even if we had '

Re: Discussion on the future of floppies in 5.x and 6.x

2004-01-08 Thread Martin Nilsson
rections on how to debug this I'm willing to help. /Martin -- Martin Nilsson, CTO & Founder, Mullet Scandinavia AB, Malmö, SWEDEN E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED], Phone: +46-(0)708-606170, http://www.mullet.se Our business is well engineered servers opti

Re: Intel and Broadcom NICs

2003-08-22 Thread Martin Nilsson
Ethernet" }, in if_fxp.c Wouldn't it be a good idea to MFC this in time for the 4.9 release, the intel 865 chipset is rather common in new machines these days. -- Martin Nilsson - Home:<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Work:<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> UNIX & Webb programmer/architect Malmö,

Need help with MII-bus driver

2002-03-17 Thread Martin Nilsson
else + mii->mii_media_active |= IFM_10_T; + } + + } else + mii->mii_media_active = mii_media_from_bmcr(bmcr); } --- Martin Nilsson - Home:<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Work:<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> UNIX & Webb programmer/architect Malmö, Sweden FreeBSD - The power to serve. http://www.FreeBSD.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message

What is needed to support i815 in XFree86 4.01?

2000-08-15 Thread Martin Nilsson
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