Re: [Fwd: i-Buddie 4: Synaptics touch pad FreeBSD support?]

2002-09-27 Thread Daniel O'Connor
On Fri, 2002-09-27 at 16:54, Guido Van Hoecke wrote: > The windoze driver offers a set of extra features which I found useful > and which I would appreciate on a FreeBSD box: > - configurable touch behaviour > - edge motion > - scrolling > - button actions (including virtual btns supplied by the

Re: Disk space over 1 TB

2002-09-27 Thread Attila Nagy
Hello, > The i386 port uses the generic disklabel code, which has 32 bit logical > block addressing, which means that the partitions themselves are limited > to 1TB or so. Will this change or GEOM will be the standard method? (and thanks, I forgot that all of this is on IA-32) > But one could th

Re: Disk space over 1 TB

2002-09-27 Thread Poul-Henning Kamp
In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Attila Na gy writes: >Hello, > >> The i386 port uses the generic disklabel code, which has 32 bit logical >> block addressing, which means that the partitions themselves are limited >> to 1TB or so. >Will this change or GEOM will be the standard method? (and thanks,

Re: Just a wild idea

2002-09-27 Thread Oliver Fromme
Sorry for the late reply (I don't skim through the hackers list very often). Paul Schenkeveld <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > For many applications however, for example lpd, named, sendmail, > tac_plus and others, it would be more than good enough to run that > program as a normal, non-root user

Maybe it's time to commit parts of S/390 port?

2002-09-27 Thread Serguei Tzukanov
Hi! Just want to let your know I can send some patches to be committed to -current. Anyone interested? I'am asking because I tried to communicate with some FreeBSD people this week, but their did't respond for unknown reason (busy?). To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscri

Re: Maybe it's time to commit parts of S/390 port?

2002-09-27 Thread Poul-Henning Kamp
In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, "Serguei Tzukanov" writes: >Hi! > >Just want to let your know I can send some patches to be committed >to -current. Anyone interested? I'am asking because I tried >to communicate with some FreeBSD people this week, but their >did't respond for unknown reason (busy?)

Re: IBM ATA Deskstars *without* tagged queueing?

2002-09-27 Thread Bruce M Simpson
On Thu, Sep 26, 2002 at 08:07:27PM +0200, Hellmuth Michaelis wrote: > Exactly the same thing happened here with a IC35L020AVER07-0; it did not > do tagging and i bought it (and many other IBM drives) because of that. [snip] > It turned out that the drive i bought had DELL firmware in it [ :- ]

Runlevels and opcodes

2002-09-27 Thread porte10
Runlevels and opcodes I am a bit familiar with the design of operating systems but i definitely lack practical experience so please apologize if i am confusing things ... Anyway i think the subject is likely to interest our readers ! On most modern operating systems, system calls provide control

Re: two make questions

2002-09-27 Thread Roman Neuhauser
# [EMAIL PROTECTED] / 2002-09-23 13:08:04 -0400: > The odd behavior of variables is only one item from a whole list of them. > Go take a look at what use: means, if you want a headache. you mean .USE? looks quite powerful... a can of worms if misused. :) > Or, how about the behavior of "incl

Re: gethostbyname_r() fbsd equiv?

2002-09-27 Thread Hiten Pandya
On Fri, Sep 13, 2002 at 09:01:45AM -0700, Terry Lambert wrote the words in effect of: > Terry Lambert wrote: > > Jev wrote: > > > Im trying to build some software on freebsd, which wants to use > > > the thread safe gethostbyname_r(). Despite having very bad C skills im > > > going to attempt to p

4.6.2/RELENG_4: timeout in wi_seek and wi_cmd

2002-09-27 Thread Dirk-Willem van Gulik
On a machine with either 4.6.2 of RELENG_4 as of today with: 3x wiX: mem 0xfedf8000-0xfedf8fff irq 11 at device 19.X on pci0 wiX: 802.11 address: 00:06:25:a7:a7:2a wiX: using RF:PRISM2.5 MAC:ISL3874A(Mini-PCI) wiX: Intersil Firmware: Primary 1.00.05, Station 1.03.0

Re: Security of a JAIL UDP patch

2002-09-27 Thread Marc G. Fournier
U, named currently does work within a jail ... I run several at the moment ... On Thu, 26 Sep 2002, Martin Matuska wrote: > I would like to ask which aspects has this patch on security of a jailed > environment. > This patch enables the use of named or ircd in jails. > > --- in_pcb.c.old

kernel panic in 4.5-STABLE

2002-09-27 Thread Paul Smith
I've been experiencing somewhat periodic panics on my 4.5-STABLE box: [root@wickerpark crash] # uname -a FreeBSD wickerpark.cnt.org 4.5-STABLE FreeBSD 4.5-STABLE #0: Thu Aug 29 12:26:05 CDT 2002 [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/WP-DEBUG i386 kgdb output follows: This GDB was configu

Re: Runlevels and opcodes

2002-09-27 Thread Ryan Sommers
On Fri, 2002-09-27 at 11:47, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > *** But what does prevent a user-level process from executing > wild instructions (RESET, traps, other dangerous instructions > and undocumented features) ? I'm probably less knowledgeable then you are but in protected-mode programming isn

Re: Runlevels and opcodes

2002-09-27 Thread Ronald G Minnich
On 27 Sep 2002, Ryan Sommers wrote: > > *** But what does prevent a user-level process from executing > > wild instructions (RESET, traps, other dangerous instructions > > and undocumented features) ? > > I'm probably less knowledgeable then you are but in protected-mode > programming isn't the k