Re: Mackbook pro nvidia based video backlight

2009-01-30 Thread Ed Schouten
* Alexander Leidinger wrote: >> The ideal solution would be to integrate it into vidcontrol, calling >> some kind of ioctl on the TTY/consolectl, but syscons is too brainless >> to know anything about hardware specific features. > > Here we are back to what was proposed instead of sysctl. I have t

Re: Mackbook pro nvidia based video backlight

2009-01-30 Thread Julian Elischer
Ed Schouten wrote: * Alexander Leidinger wrote: The ideal solution would be to integrate it into vidcontrol, calling some kind of ioctl on the TTY/consolectl, but syscons is too brainless to know anything about hardware specific features. Here we are back to what was proposed instead of sysctl.

telnetd[20170]: ttloop: peer died: Resource temporarily unavailable

2009-01-30 Thread vasanth raonaik
Hello Hackers, I am seeing this message continuously in syslog for every 60 secs. what could be the possible reasons for this error messages. Thanks, Vasanth ___ freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-

Re: Mackbook pro nvidia based video backlight

2009-01-30 Thread Alexander Leidinger
Quoting Ed Schouten (from Thu, 29 Jan 2009 15:36:06 +0100): * Alexander Leidinger wrote: So you want that either - a daemon running as root is written which listens to user requests to set the backlight via sysctl or - a SUID root program is written that sets the backlight via sysctl

Re: INTR_FILTER?

2009-01-30 Thread Paolo Pisati
Andriy Gapon wrote: INTR_FILTER - what does it do? It doesn't seem to be documented anywhere, but seems to affect interrupt code. for a bit more information about interrupt filtering, see here: http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-hackers/2007-February/019704.html -- bye, P. __

blockable sleep lock (sleep mutex) 16

2009-01-30 Thread Nikola Knežević
Hi, I'm trying to port Click modular router to FreeBSD 7.1, but with a twist. Instead of letting Click run in netisr (as it used to run in FreeBSD 4), I want to have it running in a kthread. I managed to get it running this way, but when I turn on INVARIANTS and WITNESS (along with WITNES

Dynamic ddb commands

2009-01-30 Thread Matthew Fleming
I'm working on BSD 6.x and of course the set of ddb commands is static to whatever is in the kernel at compile. I see that BSD 7.1 has dynamic commands using sysinits and sysuninit's to call a new db_[un]register_cmd. I see this, though, only after I have spent a day or so adding a linker_file_[u

Re: Dynamic ddb commands

2009-01-30 Thread Matthew Fleming
Just an addenda: > I see that BSD 7.1 has dynamic commands using sysinits and sysuninit's to > call a new > db_[un]register_cmd. I was looking at HEAD, not RELENG_7_1. The remainder of my questions as to why this mechanism are the same, though. Thanks, matthew _

Re: Dynamic ddb commands

2009-01-30 Thread Sam Leffler
Matthew Fleming wrote: I'm working on BSD 6.x and of course the set of ddb commands is static to whatever is in the kernel at compile. I see that BSD 7.1 has dynamic commands using sysinits and sysuninit's to call a new db_[un]register_cmd. I see this, though, only after I have spent a day or s

Re: KLD: program.ko: depends of kernel - no avaiable

2009-01-30 Thread Jacky Oh
Hi Warner.. Can the solution become the source tree updates to the same version of my installed kernel? Sorry for my irregular-time questions and responses but currently i cannot access to inet.. It's really difficult for me becouse I don't put instant solution for my systems and my case of study

Re: KLD: program.ko: depends of kernel - no avaiable

2009-01-30 Thread M. Warner Losh
In message: Jacky Oh writes: : Can the solution become the source tree updates to the same version of my : installed kernel? Sorry for my irregular-time questions and responses but : currently i cannot access to inet.. It's really difficult for me becouse I : don't put instant solutio

Re: Dynamic ddb commands

2009-01-30 Thread Matthew Fleming
> If I recall it was painful to find entries in the help listing w/o sorting. So it's a human reading problem, where ddb spat out the command names in order that they were in the in-memory struct, and if I wanted to look over the listing I had to visually scan every one since they weren't in order