Re: Nvidia amd64

2007-09-29 Thread Miguel Mendez
cided it would be more practical to get ATI hardware and let the proprietary nvidia blob rot. The knowledge gained from the reverse engineering can be useful for the Nouveau guys (http://nouveau.freedesktop.org/wiki/) anyway. Cheers, Miguel Mendez [EMAIL PROTECTED] PGP.sig Descri

Re: NVIDIA FreeBSD kernel feature requests

2006-07-06 Thread Miguel Mendez
_proprietary_ driver for FreeBSD which you can neither use on !x86/amd64 nor study. Sounds like a very nice deal. I know many among the BSD camp consider people like Richard Stallman and Theo to be extremists when it comes to software freedom. Maybe you'll change your mind next time you'

Re: NVIDIA FreeBSD kernel feature requests

2006-07-02 Thread Miguel Mendez
so amd64 users can hope to have more than a framebuffer some day? How about the proprietary nforce4 chipset? Cheers. -- Miguel Mendez <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://www.energyhq.be PGP Key: 0xDC8514F1 pgpgMdsD8IL9p.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: Converting libfoo.so for linux to freebsd

2005-08-09 Thread Miguel Mendez
inux binary as Kris has suggested, although I suspect that this .so is involved in some sort of i/o which might or might not be easily ported to FreeBSD. Cheers, -- Miguel Mendez <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://www.energyhq.es.eu.org PGP Key: 0xDC8514F1 pgpMkjBrw2U3k.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: A bunch of memory allocation bugs in CGD

2005-03-30 Thread Miguel Mendez
s in CGD contact the NetBSD developers and send patches or shut up (TM). Cheers, -- Miguel Mendez <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://www.energyhq.es.eu.org PGP Key: 0xDC8514F1 pgp6YuAiRYfGC.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: A few thoughts..

2005-03-29 Thread Miguel Mendez
, anyone knows if FreeBSD is getting systrace support ? I think of > it as a major drawback in the security field, one can do very interesting > things with systrace. Added with other freebsd features (jails, etc), it > makes a very good security tool. Have a look at mac(3), mac(4) and mac.

Re: style(9) example :-)

2005-03-18 Thread Miguel Mendez
ssive. I tend to prefer obfuscated C over perl, although you can easily make perl look like line noise :) Cheers, -- Miguel Mendez <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://www.energyhq.es.eu.org PGP Key: 0xDC8514F1 pgpFeK2CKTs4m.pgp Description: PGP signature

usb printing blues and a couple of questions

2005-01-26 Thread Miguel Mendez
s with usb), I'd rather have a daemon crash than a kernel go down :) Cheers, -- Miguel Mendez <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://www.energyhq.es.eu.org PGP Key: 0xDC8514F1 pgpirBS7Zxsll.pgp Description: PGP signature

OpenCVS

2004-12-07 Thread Miguel Mendez
od move, and it would help testing the code in another production environment. As a side effect, it would please the BSDL advocates by reducing the amount of GNU warez in the base system :) [1] http://www.openbsd.org/opencvs/ Cheers, -- Miguel Mendez <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> | lea

Re: My project wish-list for the next 12 months

2004-12-01 Thread Miguel Mendez
solid and tested softupdates is, fsck is not an acceptable solution in this case. Some people were working on a port of XFS, has any progress been made? I tried contacting them some time ago, but never got an answer. Sounds like a very interesting, though. Cheers, -- Miguel Mendez <[EMAIL PR

Re: tcsh is not csh

2004-11-15 Thread Miguel Mendez
. Cheers, -- Miguel Mendez <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> | Extreme ways are back again http://www.energyhq.es.eu.org| Extreme places I didn't know PGP Key: 0xDC8514F1 | I broke everything new again Note: All HTML mail goes to /dev/null| Every

Re: valgrind on 5.3BETA1

2004-08-23 Thread Miguel Mendez
ld you please test it? Interesting. However, it looks like that patch was already incorporated into valgrind (the patch is for version 337, the port has 352), but it can be a good start to get an idea of what to look for. Cheers, -- Miguel Mendez <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ht

valgrind on 5.3BETA1

2004-08-23 Thread Miguel Mendez
frame inner to this frame (corrupt stack?) Cheers, -- Miguel Mendez <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://www.energyhq.es.eu.org PGP Key: 0xDC8514F1 Note: All HTML and non-english mail goes to /dev/null pgpNMLpLB7ZrR.pgp Description: PGP signature

About the rc.conf parsing thread

2004-04-19 Thread Miguel Mendez
yhq.es.eu.org/thefish.html, it's in ports as well like I mentioned. Cheers, -- Miguel Mendez <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://www.energyhq.es.eu.org PGP Key: 0xDC8514F1 pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature

AMD64 running FreeBSD 5.2.1 benchmarked in 32 and 64bit mode

2004-03-15 Thread Miguel Mendez
Some of you might find this interesting: http://www.thejemreport.com/modules.php?op=modload&name=News&file=article&sid=117 Cheers, -- Miguel Mendez <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://www.energyhq.es.eu.org PGP Key: 0xDC8514F1 signature.asc Description: T

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

2004-01-11 Thread Miguel Mendez
27; is? p4 is an SCM, some will say the best money can buy :) http://www.perforce.com Some of the FreeBSD development takes place in a perforce repo, perforce.freebsd.org iirc. Cheers, -- Miguel Mendez <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://www.energyhq.es.eu.org PGP

Re: Future of RAIDFrame

2004-01-11 Thread Miguel Mendez
nager (which neither ccd nor RF claim to be) used vinum. People with VxVM experience feel at home with it. Unfortunately, vinum has its own set of issues as well. It's probably easier to write a set of GEOM classes from scratch than trying to shoehorn RF into GEOM. Cheers, M

Re: Where is FreeBSD going?

2004-01-08 Thread Miguel Mendez
ee to flame, I've become extremely efficient at adding people to /etc/postfix/access :-P Cheers, -- Miguel Mendez <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://www.energyhq.es.eu.org PGP Key: 0xDC8514F1 ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list h

Re: non-root process and PID files

2003-10-27 Thread Miguel Mendez
id [...] > Of the two, I think #1 is cleaner as it does not require another > directory with special permissions. Agreed. Cheers, Miguel Mendez http://www.energyhq.es.eu.org ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.free

Re: Some specific questions about 5.x

2003-03-26 Thread Miguel Mendez
cases a 1:1 threading system is better. Cheers, -- Miguel Mendez - [EMAIL PROTECTED] GPG Public Key :: http://energyhq.homeip.net/files/pubkey.txt EnergyHQ :: http://www.energyhq.tk Tired of Spam? -> http://www.trustic.com pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature _

Re: Some specific questions about 5.x

2003-03-26 Thread Miguel Mendez
g calling thread only not the whole process > as usually in FreeBSD? That I don't know, perhaps the local KSE guru, Julian might have an answer for this. Cheers, -- Miguel Mendez - [EMAIL PROTECTED] GPG Public Key :: http://energyhq.homeip.net/files/pubkey.txt

Re: Missing commit bit [PATCH].

2003-02-10 Thread Miguel Mendez
bout the ipfw thing. As stated several times in the chat@ mailing list, it has to do with 4 years of bad netiquette. It looks like Matt won't and is not willing to change his behavior towards fellow committers. Too bad? Yes, it's a shame. Cheers, -- Miguel Mendez - [EMAIL

Re: RFC: Adding a new (safer) data entry function to libdialog

2003-01-21 Thread Miguel Mendez
n. The only (big) drawback I see in tvision is that it's in C++, otherwise is lightyears ahead of what dialog(3) currently offers. -- Cheers, Miguel Mendez - [EMAIL PROTECTED] GPG Public Key :: http://energyhq.homeip.net/files/pubkey.txt EnergyHQ :: http://www.ener

RFC: Adding a new (safer) data entry function to libdialog

2003-01-20 Thread Miguel Mendez
d let you specify the length of the input buffer. Comments? Ideas? If people find it useful I can come with patches, since the implementation would be trivial. Cheers, -- Miguel Mendez - [EMAIL PROTECTED] GPG Public Key :: http://energyhq.homeip.net/files/pubkey.txt Ene

Re: Reading rc.conf from C programs?

2003-01-03 Thread Miguel Mendez
I'm looking for, so I can easily move between different rc.conf styles (NetBSD vs FreeBSD) without having to start from scratch every time. Cheers, -- Miguel Mendez - [EMAIL PROTECTED] GPG Public Key :: http://energyhq.homeip.net/files/pubkey.txt EnergyHQ :: http://ww

Re: Reading rc.conf from C programs?

2003-01-02 Thread Miguel Mendez
t science anway. Cheers, -- Miguel Mendez - [EMAIL PROTECTED] GPG Public Key :: http://energyhq.homeip.net/files/pubkey.txt EnergyHQ :: http://www.energyhq.tk Of course it runs NetBSD! To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers

Re: Reading rc.conf from C programs?

2003-01-02 Thread Miguel Mendez
grammer ought to spend some time with lex/flex (and obviously > yacc/bison). If you don't know it for an employer, you're really > hobbled, it's *such* a good tool. Agreed 100% You could also use embedded perl /me ducks Cheers, -- Miguel Mendez - [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: allocating memory

2002-06-06 Thread Miguel Mendez
tom line is that, in order to have a *usable* amount of > physical RAM over 4G, you pretty much have to go to a 64 bit > platform, and if you are a user, now that Alpha is dead and no > one looks to be making quick progress on the Alpha 2G barrier, > that pretty much means "Itaniu

Re: allocating memory

2002-06-06 Thread Miguel Mendez
:) Or he could go the PAE way, and get an x86 box with 8 or 16GB of memory. However, I don't know how good the support for that in FreeBSD is. Cheers, -- Miguel Mendez - [EMAIL PROTECTED] GPG Public Key :: http://energyhq.homeip.net/files/pubkey.txt EnergyHQ

Re: raidframe

2002-05-29 Thread Miguel Mendez
On Wed, May 29, 2002 at 01:15:10PM -0500, Brandon D. Valentine wrote: Hi, > Is there a reason you can't use vinum(4)? Yes, sir, there is one, like I said before, I want to play with raidframe. Being a geek yourself you should understand that :-) Cheers, -- Miguel Mendez

raidframe

2002-05-29 Thread Miguel Mendez
care of it before devoting time to making this patch work against a recent -CURRENT. Cheers, -- Miguel Mendez - [EMAIL PROTECTED] GPG Public Key :: http://energyhq.homeip.net/files/pubkey.txt EnergyHQ :: http://www.energyhq.tk FreeBSD - The power to serve! msg34669/pg

Re: Random Crash under load Athlon 1Ghz

2002-05-13 Thread Miguel Mendez
On Mon, May 13, 2002 at 09:36:06AM +0100, Dominic Marks wrote: Hi, > You do have a good quality heatsink and fan on this, don't you? > LOL, please, see below... > > Soyo K7VTA PRO MB > > Koolance Water cooled case ^^ Cheers, --

Re: missing libraries, and how to find them.

2002-04-25 Thread Miguel Mendez
.c -L/tmp/foo -lfoo flynn@kajsa# ldd main main: libfoo.so => /tmp/foo/libfoo.so (0x28068000) libc.so.5 => /usr/lib/libc.so.5 (0x2806a000) libbar.so => /tmp/foo/libbar.so (0x2811d000) libbaz.so => /tmp/foo/libbaz.so (0x2811f000)

Re: missing libraries, and how to find them.

2002-04-25 Thread Miguel Mendez
dk12.so.2 => /usr/X11R6/lib/libgdk12.so.2 (0x2825a000) [...] Anyway, a nice patch I hope will be commited soon. Cheers, -- Miguel Mendez - [EMAIL PROTECTED] GPG Public Key :: http://energyhq.homeip.net/files/pubkey.txt EnergyHQ :: http://www.energyhq.tk FreeBSD - The power to serve! msg33926/pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: graphical frontend for vinum

2002-04-24 Thread Miguel Mendez
sses in GEOM. Excellent idea Poul, I'm currently gathering info on GEOM and I think that's the way to go. Btw, yeah, the Veritas people introduced console logging long time ago, I just haven't used vxvm for that long :) Cheers, -- Miguel Mendez - [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: graphical frontend for vinum

2002-04-24 Thread Miguel Mendez
On Thu, Apr 25, 2002 at 12:05:29AM +1000, Joshua Goodall wrote: > On Wed, Apr 24, 2002 at 03:52:18PM +0200, Miguel Mendez wrote: > However you present the UI, when it comes to making changes, please > have it queue up the actual commands which are then visible to the > sysadmin

graphical frontend for vinum

2002-04-24 Thread Miguel Mendez
or it. Any wishes/suggestions/ideas for it? So far people have liked The Fish (much more than I have initially hoped btw). I think having a nice interface for vinum would be nice. Cheers, -- Miguel Mendez - [EMAIL PROTECTED] GPG Public Key :: http://energyhq.homeip.net/files/

Re: ld: cannot find -lintl

2002-04-12 Thread Miguel Mendez
On Fri, Apr 12, 2002 at 05:50:48PM +0930, Wilkinson,Alex wrote: > I'm unsure how to go about solving this problem. > > Any ideas ? Yes, install gettext-old, libintl is not part of the new gettext. Cheers, -- Miguel Mendez - [EMAIL PROTECTED] GPG Publ

Re: lang/icc doesn't compile c++ sources

2002-04-01 Thread Miguel Mendez
.energyhq.tk 5.0-CURRENT flynn@saioa# cc -v Using builtin specs. gcc version 2.95.4 20020320 [FreeBSD] Cheers, -- Miguel Mendez - [EMAIL PROTECTED] GPG Public Key :: http://energyhq.homeip.net/files/pubkey.txt EnergyHQ :: http://www.energyhq.tk FreeBSD - The power to se

mmap and efence

2002-03-19 Thread Miguel Mendez
efence. This code linked with gtk 2.0 but without efence works as well. I tried asking in the gtk developers list but got no answer at all. I'm using the latest efence port on a 4.5-STABLE built the 3rd of Feb. Any ideas about what could be causing this? Cheers, -- Miguel Mendez - [EMAI

Re: Converting physical into virtual address

2002-03-07 Thread Miguel Mendez
On Thu, Mar 07, 2002 at 01:09:40PM +0100, Andy Sporner wrote: Andy, what were you trying to say? Or is that the way the Linux kernel converts addresses? Cheers, -- Miguel Mendez - [EMAIL PROTECTED] GPG Public Key :: http://energyhq.homeip.net/files/pubkey.txt EnergyHQ

Re: C vs C++

2002-03-07 Thread Miguel Mendez
it usually leads to bloatware (cough MSFT cough) because programmers get really excited about all those cool (as in useless) features. Cheers, -- Miguel Mendez - [EMAIL PROTECTED] GPG Public Key :: http://energyhq.homeip.net/files/pubkey.txt EnergyHQ :: http:/

fish [continued]

2002-03-04 Thread Miguel Mendez
s it look like: http://energyhq.homeip.net/brain.html Still waiting for someone to come up with a cool name tho :) Cheers, -- Miguel Mendez - [EMAIL PROTECTED] GPG Public Key :: http://energyhq.homeip.net/files/pubkey.txt EnergyHQ :: http://www.energyhq.tk FreeBSD - The power t

Re: Meet fish (read on)

2002-02-27 Thread Miguel Mendez
menu of legal values would be very nice too. I'll work on it. > So, why call it fish? I couldn't come up with a better name when I imported it into the p4 repo, I'm open to suggestions for a name too :) Cheers, -- Miguel Mendez - [EMAIL PROTECTED] GPG

Re: Meet fish (read on)

2002-02-27 Thread Miguel Mendez
ll enable one or the other by checking the DISPLAY varible and a command line switch. I just felt like writing the GTK frontend first. Cheers, -- Miguel Mendez - [EMAIL PROTECTED] GPG Public Key :: http://energyhq.homeip.net/files/pubkey.txt EnergyHQ :: http://www.en

Meet fish (read on)

2002-02-27 Thread Miguel Mendez
code such tool? What about going one step further and add something like the admin tool in Solaris? To compile the code just untargz and type make. You need gtk12 port installed. The window might take a few seconds to create the widgets, I'm working on it currently. Thanks in advance, --

Re: in-kernel HTTP Server for FreeBSD?

2002-02-17 Thread Miguel Mendez
for FreeBSD, but one thing I remember, is that once the Linux kernel incorporated the zero copy netowrking code, userland HTTP servicing like Tux saw it's performance increase on par with khttpd, so it seems that's not worth to run a http server in kernel space. Cheers, -- M

Re: IPv6-over-IPv4 problems since the upgrade to 4.5

2002-02-16 Thread Miguel Mendez
use Hurricane Electric's free tunnel. I'm using it now and it works like a champ. Cheers, -- Miguel Mendez - [EMAIL PROTECTED] GPG Public Key :: http://energyhq.homeip.net/files/pubkey.txt EnergyHQ :: http://www.energyhq.tk FreeBSD - The power to serve!

Re: Problems with freebsd nfsd and irix client

2002-02-12 Thread Miguel Mendez
ome problems with nfs on some versions of IRIX that they solved later with patches. Cheers, -- Miguel Mendez - [EMAIL PROTECTED] Public Key :: http://energyhq.homeip.net/files/pubkey.txt EnergyHQ :: http://www.energyhq.tk FreeBSD - The power to serve! To Unsubscribe:

Re: stack alignment issues (was: unbelievable benchmark output)

2002-02-03 Thread Miguel Mendez
an address that is multiple of 8. You'll waste some mem but will gain performance. I actually haven't tried it on FreeBSD but it's a trick I used to do on the Amiga some years ago. Cheers, -- Miguel Mendez - [EMAIL PROTECTED] Public Key :: http://energyhq.homeip.

Re: FreeBSD-1.X public cvs?

2002-01-29 Thread Miguel Mendez
icle.pl?sid=02/01/24/0146248) Cheers, -- Miguel Mendez - [EMAIL PROTECTED] Public Key :: http://energyhq.homeip.net/files/pubkey.txt EnergyHQ :: http://energyhq.homeip.net FreeBSD - The power to serve! To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] wit

Re: cpu info in userland

2002-01-22 Thread Miguel Mendez
missing or is this a > missing feature? There are not sysctl variables that provide cpu speed afair, so that basicly means that you could: a) Fetch data from dmesg b) Require that linuxprocs is mounted (so you could cat /compat/linux/proc/cpuinfo) c) Roll your own code (do

Re: Telnet option negotiation

2002-01-22 Thread Miguel Mendez
ht be you who don't understand? If I was wrong, how is that all other > platforms supported the way I used, except FreeBSD? Fuzzy, isn't it? Please go use Linux. Sorry, couldn't resist :) -- Miguel Mendez - [EMAIL PROTECTED] EnergyHQ :: http://energyhq.homeip.net

Re: Electric fence usage

2002-01-09 Thread Miguel Mendez
On Wednesday 09 January 2002 17:26, Alton, Matthew wrote: > As long as your program isn't overstepping memory boundaries nothing should > happen. > What were you expecting? My bad, I must have been really tired when I wrote the test code, it's now working, thanks :) --

Electric fence usage

2002-01-09 Thread Miguel Mendez
Hi, I've installed the electric fence port and it says that to use it you just -lefence, but it seems to me that this does nothing at all, at least for the little test programs that I've written. Is something else needed on FreeBSD to use it? Thanks in advance, -- Mig

Re: Oh my god, Google has a USENET archive going back to 1981!

2002-01-08 Thread Miguel Mendez
code. Bit of a sod to debug though. > > Fastest I ever saw with a firmware hack was 53k... Now that I'm subscribed to c64-hackers let's do some lda's here an there. I even have some Oxyron demo disks around :) How about BSD for the 6510? ;-P -- Miguel Mendez -

Re: The Hurd

2002-01-01 Thread Miguel Mendez
d I say that? Nervermind. Cheers, -- Miguel Mendez - [EMAIL PROTECTED] EnergyHQ :: http://energyhq.homeip.net FreeBSD - The power to serve! To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message

Re: Enhancing the CS461x audio driver...

2001-12-19 Thread Miguel Mendez
ver, I'll try to download it from a *gasp* windows box laster this evening and will look at it. Yours, -- Miguel Mendez - [EMAIL PROTECTED] EnergyHQ :: http://energyhq.homeip.net FreeBSD - The power to serve! To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message

Re: Enhancing the CS461x audio driver...

2001-12-18 Thread Miguel Mendez
ver, I'll try to download it from a *gasp* windows box laster this evening and will look at it. Yours, -- Miguel Mendez - [EMAIL PROTECTED] EnergyHQ :: http://energyhq.homeip.net FreeBSD - The power to serve! To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message

Enhancing the CS461x audio driver...

2001-12-18 Thread Miguel Mendez
f where to start from. My idea is to add an ioctcl call to enable/disable the digital output, but I have no previous experience with driver hacking. Is this feature already in the TODO list of the driver already or has someone else started working on this? Yours, -- Miguel Mendez - [EMAIL

Re: New feutures...........

2001-12-18 Thread Miguel Mendez
On Fri, 14 Dec 2001 23:03:49 +0800 "Rafter Man" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 2. I hope that in the furture the FreeBSD developers will rewrite the system in C++. As the BeOS developers used to say: NO C++ in the kernel. Follow that simple rule and you'll be safe :-) -