Re: SBLive... anyone, anywhere?

2000-02-20 Thread Dan Moschuk
| > There was some mention in the SBLive earlier this year (January), whatever | > became of it? I checked www.posi.net and I do not see the driver listed | > there at all. Pointers/suggestions? | | it's listed there. | the guy does not reply the mails, however | | -- mauzi I've taken this o

Re: 64bit OS?

2000-02-20 Thread Arun Sharma
On Sun, Feb 20, 2000 at 04:28:51PM +1100, Patryk Zadarnowski wrote: > > On Sun, Feb 20, 2000 at 01:48:49PM +1100, Patryk Zadarnowski wrote: > > > > It looks like the hardware has to implement GPTs and know how to > > > > walk them. How can FreeBSD use them without hardware support ? > > > > > > N

Re: 64bit OS?

2000-02-20 Thread Doug Rabson
On Sun, 20 Feb 2000, Patryk Zadarnowski wrote: > > On Sun, Feb 20, 2000 at 12:42:14PM +1100, Patryk Zadarnowski wrote: > > > One more thing about GPTs (I thought I'll leave that till last. ;) > > > Jochen Liedtke holds a German patent on them, although he will > > > probably be fairly easily conv

Re: yamaha japan relationships anyone?

2000-02-20 Thread Doug Rabson
On Sun, 20 Feb 2000, Karsten W. Rohrbach wrote: > hi * > this might be a little offtopic... > > > i just messaged the guys from yamaha japan for specs on their pci audio > chipsets to get some decent documentation to start torturing those ymf744 > soundcards. no response. i mailed again. same r

Re: Tuning up semaphores in kernel

2000-02-20 Thread BARRY BOUWSMA IS A MASSMURDERER
On Sun, 13 Feb 19100, Andrey Novikov wrote: > > You probably want to increase either SEMMNI or SEMMNS. > > I've noticed that but why are they so "round"? Is there any corelation > between all these numbers? I don't want to break my kernel by guessing. > > > > options SEMMAP=31 > > > opt

Re: 64bit OS?

2000-02-20 Thread Patryk Zadarnowski
> On Sun, 20 Feb 2000, Patryk Zadarnowski wrote: > > > > On Sun, Feb 20, 2000 at 12:42:14PM +1100, Patryk Zadarnowski wrote: > > > > One more thing about GPTs (I thought I'll leave that till last. ;) > > > > Jochen Liedtke holds a German patent on them, although he will > > > > probably be fairly

My daughter bought Digital Research USB Card

2000-02-20 Thread Beverly H Barnhart
The book said she could get the driver off of Windows 98 CD or www.microsoft .com but I could not get the driver from any of those places any ideas?   Bev

Re: yamaha japan relationships anyone?

2000-02-20 Thread Luigi Rizzo
Me tooo... luigi > > i just messaged the guys from yamaha japan for specs on their pci audio ... > > please hit me with your suggestions, since i am starting to get very > I have had more-or-less the same experience. I did get a response which > completely misunderstood what I was asking

Re: yamaha japan relationships anyone?

2000-02-20 Thread Jeroen Ruigrok/Asmodai
-On [2220 14:14], Doug Rabson ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: >On Sun, 20 Feb 2000, Karsten W. Rohrbach wrote: > >> i just messaged the guys from yamaha japan for specs on their pci audio >> chipsets to get some decent documentation to start torturing those ymf744 >> so

Re: yamaha japan relationships anyone?

2000-02-20 Thread Karsten W. Rohrbach
jeroen, could you give us some more details on that law, perhaps some pointers to documents - i could have our law department check that out /k Jeroen Ruigrok/Asmodai([EMAIL PROTECTED])@Sun, Feb 20, 2000 at 04:04:00PM +0100: > -On [2220 14:14], Doug Rabson ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: &g

Re: yamaha japan relationships anyone?

2000-02-20 Thread Daniel C. Sobral
Jeroen Ruigrok/Asmodai wrote: > > Well Doug, > > you're in the UK, so part of the European Community. > > And since you requested information from Yamaha and got none, you are > now legally clean of action due to the law that you may > disassemble/reverse engineer their drivers to obtain the in

Re: yamaha japan relationships anyone?

2000-02-20 Thread Doug Rabson
On Mon, 21 Feb 2000, Daniel C. Sobral wrote: > Jeroen Ruigrok/Asmodai wrote: > > > > Well Doug, > > > > you're in the UK, so part of the European Community. > > > > And since you requested information from Yamaha and got none, you are > > now legally clean of action due to the law that you may

Re: yamaha japan relationships anyone?

2000-02-20 Thread Karsten W. Rohrbach
with my ymf744 it's a little different... things get vey tricky if you want to change a laptop's embedded audio chipset ;-) anyway, vaio n505x has a neomagic256av chipset onboard, i wonder why the sony boys implement a second chip for the audio stuff if the graphics chipset would also support aud

Re: Device driver & KLD module

2000-02-20 Thread Nick Hibma
First of all the joy module is not a good example as it has been made to work, but nothing beyond that. Second, you are still using lkm-isms, which you shouldn't. Any use of lkm* is wrong and should be converted to kld*. It should be fairly straightforward to create an ISA driver that loads as a

Two questions on NFS source code

2000-02-20 Thread Zhihui Zhang
I have spent some time understanding the NQNFS code and have two questions to ask: (1) People say we can not do write-behind on the NFS server side. Does this mean all vnode I/O must be performed with IO_SYNC (or other similar) flag set on the server side when the I/O is done on behalf of a NFS

Re: post 4.0...adoption of pfil(9) from NetBSD ?

2000-02-20 Thread Robert Watson
On Sat, 19 Feb 2000, Luigi Rizzo wrote: > > If you look at how linux's iptables works, there are separate modules > > for each of ip, tcp, udp, icmp, etc. A packet is filtered by calling > > the appropriate filter routine for that protocol. In comparison to > > ipfw which does all its port chec

DeCSS

2000-02-20 Thread Peter Wemm
I would love to make a port of this, for reasons that become obvious once you see the page. (Think of all the mailing list archives and mirrors) http://www.totse.com/DeCSS/ Be sure to read it before commenting, it's not what you might think. Cheers, -Peter To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMA

Re: Tuning up semaphores in kernel

2000-02-20 Thread Juergen Lock
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> you write: >On Sun, 13 Feb 19100, Andrey Novikov wrote: > >> > You probably want to increase either SEMMNI or SEMMNS. >> >> I've noticed that but why are they so "round"? Is there any corelation >> between all these numbers? I don't want to break my kernel by guessi

Re: yamaha japan relationships anyone?

2000-02-20 Thread Wes Peters
"Karsten W. Rohrbach" wrote: > > with my ymf744 it's a little different... things get vey tricky if you want > to change a laptop's embedded audio chipset ;-) > > anyway, vaio n505x has a neomagic256av chipset onboard, i wonder why the > sony boys implement a second chip for the audio stuff if t

Re: yamaha japan relationships anyone?

2000-02-20 Thread Daniel C. Sobral
Many people have made this request. The following is what I remember of it. Notice, though, that... * I found the original link on the secret irc channel. * I'm under the impression that it was Asmodai who posted the link. Now, it was Asmodai who just said this is the EU law, so maybe the case I

Re: 64bit OS?

2000-02-20 Thread Arun Sharma
Matt Dillon wrote: > > Linux also stores persistent information in their machine independant > page tables. They aren't throw-away like FreeBSD's are. This will give > us a huge advantage when we do the IA64 port. I forgot to mention that Linux/IA-64 switches the processor to physi

Re: DeCSS

2000-02-20 Thread Daniel C. Sobral
Peter Wemm wrote: > > I would love to make a port of this, for reasons that become obvious once you > see the page. (Think of all the mailing list archives and mirrors) > > http://www.totse.com/DeCSS/ > > Be sure to read it before commenting, it's not what you might think. Excellent idea. (An