getting a list of open files versus PID nos.?

2010-12-08 Thread Chuck Robey
I think, *maybe* that I have located what's been giving me all of those machine lockups. I was all ready to replace the mobo & cpu when I noticed a panic error of being out of open files. The message suggested just adding the ability for more open files, but if it's what I think it is, that wo

Re: getting a list of open files versus PID nos.?

2010-12-09 Thread Chuck Robey
On 12/08/10 17:54, Matthew Fleming wrote: On Wed, Dec 8, 2010 at 2:18 PM, Chuck Robey wrote: I think, *maybe* that I have located what's been giving me all of those machine lockups. I was all ready to replace the mobo& cpu when I noticed a panic error of being out of open files. Th

Re: getting a list of open files versus PID nos.?

2010-12-09 Thread Chuck Robey
On 12/09/10 06:49, krad wrote: On 9 December 2010 00:20, Andriy Gapon wrote: on 09/12/2010 01:47 Matthew Fleming said the following: On Wed, Dec 8, 2010 at 3:01 PM, Bruce Cran wrote: On Wed, 8 Dec 2010 14:54:57 -0800 Matthew Fleming wrote: This is what lsof is for. I believe there's one

handling pdfs?

2007-11-27 Thread Chuck Robey
I need to read about 4 tons of some really sparse pdf specs. I also have a rather inconvenient throwback: I feel hugely more at home-reading documents in paper. What I'd kind of like to do would be able to perform cut'n'paste among different pdfs, 5 pages here, 10 pages there, until I put to

Re: handling pdfs?

2007-12-02 Thread Chuck Robey
Atom Smasher wrote: On Wed, 28 Nov 2007, Wilkinson, Alex wrote: /usr/ports/print/pdftk/ that's a good first choice, but if it doesn't work (amd64) then a second choice is print/pdfjam and/or print/psutils-(letter|a4)... and ghostscript for pdf2ps and/or ps2pdf... but yeah, pdft

Re: Linux executable picks up FreeBSD library over linux one and breaks

2007-12-02 Thread Chuck Robey
Yuri wrote: I am trying to run Linux version of Skype and am getting the following error: /usr/home/yuri/skype/current/skype: error while loading shared libraries: /usr/lib/librt.so.1: ELF file OS ABI File /usr/lib/librt.so.1 is FreeBSD library and /usr/compat/linux/lib/librt.so.1 is Linux lib

Re: handling pdfs?

2007-12-02 Thread Chuck Robey
Gary Jennejohn wrote: On Wed, 28 Nov 2007 13:05:18 -0500 Bill Moran <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: In response to Giorgos Keramidas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: On 2007-11-27 21:27, Chuck Robey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I need to read about 4 tons of some really sparse pdf specs. I

Re: handling pdfs?

2007-12-02 Thread Chuck Robey
Julian H. Stacey wrote: Giorgos Keramidas wrote: On 2007-11-27 21:27, Chuck Robey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I need to read about 4 tons of some really sparse pdf specs. I also have a rather inconvenient throwback: I feel hugely more at home-reading documents in paper. What I'd k

Re: handling pdfs?

2007-12-02 Thread Chuck Robey
Ulrich Spoerlein wrote: On Tue, 27.11.2007 at 21:27:41 -0500, Chuck Robey wrote: Is there some sort of util that will allow me to do cut'n'pasting among different pdfs, or at the very least, only to print certain ranges out of pdf docs, so I could do paper-wise cut'n'paste

Re: Linux executable picks up FreeBSD library over linux one and breaks

2007-12-03 Thread Chuck Robey
Alexander Leidinger wrote: Quoting Chuck Robey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> (from Sun, 02 Dec 2007 13:23:33 -0500): You've gotten some good suggestions, but I might add one more, I don't think it's been mentioned. I have foound, myself in the last 2 weeks, some FreeBSD ports p

kernel config for networking

2007-12-04 Thread Chuck Robey
I've been having problems trying to get the onboard networking to work with this Asus Striker Extreme ever since I first put FreeBSD-current on it. Right now, I have a cheapy junk-pile card that probes as a dc0 working, but my motherboard has two nfe's (nfe0 & nfe1) that show up on the desmg.

Re: Linux executable picks up FreeBSD library over linux one and breaks

2007-12-12 Thread Chuck Robey
Alexander Leidinger wrote: Quoting Chuck Robey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> (from Mon, 03 Dec 2007 13:30:50 -0500): Alexander Leidinger wrote: Quoting Chuck Robey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> (from Sun, 02 Dec 2007 13:23:33 -0500): You've gotten some good suggestions, but I might add

Re: Linux executable picks up FreeBSD library over linux one and breaks

2007-12-14 Thread Chuck Robey
Alex Dupre wrote: Alexander Leidinger ha scritto: To achieve this goal we have 2 possibilities, either we install everything into LINUXBASE and install a wrapper in LOCALBASE, or we install everything in a safe location in LOCALBASE. The first part requires that the maintainers of the linux pr

Re: Linux executable picks up FreeBSD library over linux one and breaks

2007-12-15 Thread Chuck Robey
Alex Dupre wrote: Chuck Robey wrote: I guess I might be wrong, but I have to say, wrapping everything really does seem to me to be the hack. Call it a wrapper, call it a symlink, but it seems to me that you don't like linux libs in LOCALBASE *and* you don't like executable ref

printing boot probe messages

2007-12-20 Thread Chuck Robey
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I've lost the printing of all of th e messages you normally see, when you are booting yoiur machine (you know, mostly probe messages. I used to see them on this box. When I made my first kernel, I had begun (obviously, as we all do) with GENERIC as a

Re: printing boot probe messages

2007-12-21 Thread Chuck Robey
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Bernd Walter wrote: > On Thu, Dec 20, 2007 at 05:48:18PM -0500, Chuck Robey wrote: >> -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- >> Hash: SHA1 >> >> I've lost the printing of all of th e messages you normally see, when you a

Re: printing boot probe messages

2007-12-22 Thread Chuck Robey
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Bernd Walter wrote: > OK, when I run conscontrol, it tells me I am using the dcons console. I > looked at the man page for concontrol (and I've been gone from FreeBSD so > long, I wasn't even awaare of conscontrol at all) and it informed me I am > usi

Re: printing boot probe messages

2007-12-23 Thread Chuck Robey
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Dag-Erling Smørgrav wrote: > Chuck Robey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> I've lost the printing of all of th e messages you normally see, when you are >> booting yoiur machine (you know, mostly probe messages. I used to s

Re: printing boot probe messages

2007-12-25 Thread Chuck Robey
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Bernd Walter wrote: > On Sun, Dec 23, 2007 at 01:12:49PM -0500, Chuck Robey wrote: >> -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- >> Hash: SHA1 >> >> Dag-Erling Smørgrav wrote: >>> Chuck Robey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wri

Re: printing boot probe messages

2007-12-27 Thread Chuck Robey
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Dag-Erling Smørgrav wrote: > Chuck Robey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> As far as the hints files go, I'm embarrassed to admit that I don't >> understand the difference between the hints file that I name (APRIL.hints

Re: printing boot probe messages

2007-12-29 Thread Chuck Robey
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Dag-Erling Smørgrav wrote: > Chuck Robey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> Anyhow, in the midst of all the screwing around, I now find that, on the >> Ascii-graphics FreeBSD loader UI, if I choose Option #5 (verbose loading) >&g

Re: printing boot probe messages

2007-12-30 Thread Chuck Robey
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Jeremy Chadwick wrote: > On Sat, Dec 29, 2007 at 09:42:38PM +0100, Erik Trulsson wrote: >> If you do not see any boot messages at all, then my guess is that you >> probably have messed around with /boot/device.hints (or compiled in a hints >> file in t

Re: printing boot probe messages

2007-12-30 Thread Chuck Robey
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Peter Jeremy wrote: > On Sat, Dec 29, 2007 at 01:58:32PM -0500, Chuck Robey wrote: >> booting. If I stick "-v" in /boot.config, then when the kernel probes, all >> the probes are verbose. Stuff like my HDaudio card pr

Re: printing boot probe messages

2008-01-01 Thread Chuck Robey
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Peter Jeremy wrote: > On Sun, Dec 30, 2007 at 06:13:53PM -0500, Chuck Robey wrote: >> during booting is to call out a verbose boot. If I do that, then the boot >> messages DO print during booting, and examination afterwards shows a big

nvidia working?

2008-01-14 Thread Chuck Robey
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I was wondering ... I have (I think) nvidia working on my box, or at least, I am calling out the nvidia driver in the xorg.conf, but I was wondering if there is any program that only works with the nvidia hardware, some way I can absolutely prove that

Re: nvidia working?

2008-01-14 Thread Chuck Robey
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 John Nielsen wrote: > Quoting Chuck Robey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: >> I was wondering ... I have (I think) nvidia working on my box, or at >> least, I am calling out the nvidia driver in the xorg.conf, but I was >> wondering i

Re: nvidia working?

2008-01-14 Thread Chuck Robey
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Garrett Cooper wrote: > On Jan 14, 2008, at 12:26 PM, John Nielsen wrote: > >> The most straightforward approach is probably to review the output of >> your Xorg log, e.g. /var/log/Xorg.0.log. Output from the nvidia driver >> will be prefixed by NVIDI

Re: nvidia working?

2008-01-16 Thread Chuck Robey
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 John Nielsen wrote: > Quoting Chuck Robey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: >> I was wondering ... I have (I think) nvidia working on my box, or at >> least, I am calling out the nvidia driver in the xorg.conf, but I was >> wondering i

USB Graphic Tablets

2008-02-09 Thread Chuck Robey
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I just laid hands on a UC-Logic WP8060-TAB08 Graphic tablet, so as to make my work in gimp easier I got this one instead of a Wacom unit for the single obvious reason: $$. It seems to have all the features of the big boys, it's 8" by 6", 1024 intensi

Re: USB Graphic Tablets

2008-02-09 Thread Chuck Robey
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Julian H. Stacey wrote: > Chuck Robey wrote: >> Well, my first question is, does there exist a tool for USB that let's you >> view the raw return from the usb probing? I want to see what this device >> is actually iden

Re: USB Graphic Tablets

2008-02-09 Thread Chuck Robey
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Julian H. Stacey wrote: > Chuck Robey wrote: >> -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- >> Hash: SHA1 >> >> Julian H. Stacey wrote: >>> Chuck Robey wrote: >>>> Well, my first question is, does there exist

Re: USB Graphic Tablets

2008-02-10 Thread Chuck Robey
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Julian H. Stacey wrote: > Chuck Robey wrote: > Ah, sorry, forgot to say: Using a 2nd PC as traffic monitor. > > You'd issue probe from FreeBSD to USB device using whatever tools, > & the (Gasp! Wash my mouth out with soap!) -

problem with ldconfig

2008-02-28 Thread Chuck Robey
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I had a problem with my raid array, and during a fix, I noticed that a thing I'd gotten very used to during my time running Linux was a really bad thing for FreeBSD (the usage of a /boot partition for booting only, to store the kernel, but nothing els

Re: problem with ldconfig; nvidia loading fixed

2008-02-29 Thread Chuck Robey
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Ben Kaduk wrote: > Hi Chuck, > > On 2/28/08, Chuck Robey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- >> Hash: SHA1 >> > [snip RAID/loader interaction] >> Well, the other thing that&

Re: problem with loading 1/2 fixed

2008-02-29 Thread Chuck Robey
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Chuck Robey wrote: > Ben Kaduk wrote: > >> cat nvidia_load="YES"" >> /boot/loader.conf > > I'd never heard that about it needing absolutely to load at boot time, but > you were absolutely right, I ha

Re: problem with loading all fixed now

2008-02-29 Thread Chuck Robey
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Chuck Robey wrote: > Chuck Robey wrote: >> Ben Kaduk wrote: > >>> cat nvidia_load="YES"" >> /boot/loader.conf >> I'd never heard that about it needing absolutely to load at boot time, but >>

Re: Comments on pmake diffs for building on Linux

2008-03-05 Thread Chuck Robey
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Warner Losh wrote: > From: "Daniel O'Connor" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Subject: Re: Comments on pmake diffs for building on Linux > Date: Tue, 4 Mar 2008 17:01:28 +1030 > >> On Tue, 4 Mar 2008, M. Warner Losh wrote: >>> Greetings, >>> >>> here's a set of

Re: Why doesn't autoconf like our /bin/sh?

2008-03-09 Thread Chuck Robey
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Mike Meyer wrote: > I've stumbled on to an obscure problem with autoconf 2.61, and I'm not > sure quite what to do with it. I've already sent mail to the autoconf > folks, but I'd like to understand what's going on. > > The problem is that, on a FreeB

remote operation or admin

2008-03-17 Thread Chuck Robey
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I have 4 computers, 1 big FreeBSD-current (4 x86 procs), 2 GentooLinux (1 is a dial AMD Opteron, the other a dual older x86), and 1 MacOSX (dual PPC). I was thinking about looking for two items, I'm not sure if I want one or both of them: either some

Re: remote operation or admin

2008-03-19 Thread Chuck Robey
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Jeremy Chadwick wrote: > On Mon, Mar 17, 2008 at 08:43:49PM -0400, Chuck Robey wrote: >> I have 4 computers, 1 big FreeBSD-current (4 x86 procs), 2 GentooLinux (1 >> is a dial AMD Opteron, the other a dual older x86), and 1 MacOSX (d

Re: remote operation or admin

2008-03-19 Thread Chuck Robey
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Bill Moran wrote: > In response to Chuck Robey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > >> -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- >> Hash: SHA1 >> >> I have 4 computers, 1 big FreeBSD-current (4 x86 procs), 2 GentooLinux (1 >> is

Re: remote operation or admin

2008-03-19 Thread Chuck Robey
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Jeremy Chadwick wrote: > On Wed, Mar 19, 2008 at 01:01:45PM -0400, Chuck Robey wrote: >> What is most important in my considerations are, how might it to possible >> to stretch our present smp software to be able to extend the managemen

Re: remote operation or admin

2008-03-19 Thread Chuck Robey
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Jeremy Chadwick wrote: > On Wed, Mar 19, 2008 at 02:03:54PM -0400, Chuck Robey wrote: >> Well, I am, and I'm not, if you could answer me one quiestion, then I would >> probably know for sure. What is the difference between our SM

cvs

1999-08-05 Thread Chuck Robey
to do checkouts and diffs (no source changes, but it needs to be able to lock directories for checkouts). Thanks. +--- Chuck Robey | Interests include any kind of voice or data chu...@picnic.ma

Re: cvs

1999-08-07 Thread Chuck Robey
On Fri, 6 Aug 1999, Alex Zepeda wrote: > On Thu, 5 Aug 1999, Chuck Robey wrote: > > > Can someone tell me how to make a cvs archive work for users that aren't > > the owner of the archive, the way that it works on Freefall? I *am* > > doing this for a cvsup mainta

Re: cvs

1999-08-07 Thread Chuck Robey
or me. Thanks, guys. > > Warner > +------- Chuck Robey | Interests include any kind of voice or data chu...@picnic.mat.net | communications topic, C programming, and Unix. 213 Lakeside Drive Apt T-1 | Greenbelt, MD 20770 | I run picnic and

ATX power supplies

1999-08-21 Thread Chuck Robey
Anyone know where the spec might be for how ATX power supplies work (especially the interface to the motherboard, and their on'off methods?) Thanks. +--- Chuck Robey | Interests include any kind of voi

Re: ATX power supplies

1999-08-21 Thread Chuck Robey
On Sat, 21 Aug 1999, Kevin Day wrote: > At 12:29 PM 8/21/99 -0400, Chuck Robey wrote: > >Anyone know where the spec might be for how ATX power supplies work > >(especially the interface to the motherboard, and their on'off methods?) > > > >Thanks. > > ft

Re: Mandatory locking?

1999-08-23 Thread Chuck Robey
edge the machine, but (as usual) root can shoot himself in the foot (traditional Unix methodology). > > (I'm not opposed to mandatory locking in principle, but I don't find > your reasoning very convincing.) > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majord.

Re: Mandatory locking?

1999-08-23 Thread Chuck Robey
On Mon, 23 Aug 1999, Garance A Drosihn wrote: > At 11:29 AM -0400 8/23/99, Chuck Robey wrote: > >I think mandatory locking should exist, but only be available to root. > >If a program needs this, it must run with root privs, so that ordinary > >users cannot wedge the machine

Re: Mandatory locking?

1999-08-23 Thread Chuck Robey
correct locking procedure, because user B is mandatorily forced to follow the procedure. There isn't any added sloppiness, just a guarantee that if one user locks a file, no other rogues can get into it while the lock exists. ---+--

Re: Mandatory locking?

1999-08-23 Thread Chuck Robey
until someone else releases the lock; if you only have advisory locking, and you use the miscreant code you show, then indeed things will go awry. ---+------- Chuck Robey| Interests include any kind of voice or data ch

Re: Mandatory locking?

1999-08-24 Thread Chuck Robey
w race > condition in a periodic script. > > By the way, I like the idea of mandatory locking, and I "grew up" on > an OS that had it. > -- > Christopher Masto Senior Network Monkey NetMonger Communications > ch...@netmonger.neti...@netmonger.net

Re: Intel Merced FreeBSD???

1999-08-27 Thread Chuck Robey
e Knights who say... > "Ekki-Ekki-Ekki-Ekki-PTANG! Zoom-Boing! Z'nourrwringmm!" > > > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majord...@freebsd.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message > ---

Re: Intel Merced FreeBSD???

1999-08-28 Thread Chuck Robey
27;t have an Alpha box, so maybe it would > never get past "consider".) > > - Dave Rivers - > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majord...@freebsd.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message > -

Re: Intel Merced FreeBSD???

1999-08-30 Thread Chuck Robey
tion to mere clock speed comparison factors. Some of those features would make much more effective use of superscalar features than is now possible. ---+--- Chuck Robey| Interests include any kind of voice or data

Re: PCI modems do not work???

1999-09-05 Thread Chuck Robey
that modems are going is not going to eliminate regular modems (and it's _certainly_ not done that yet). > --Ugen > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majord...@freebsd.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message > -

Re: PCI modems do not work???

1999-09-05 Thread Chuck Robey
because of the Bios that all the Winmodems have (there isn't any standard for this strange interface). > > Kevin > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majord...@freebsd.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message > -

Re: PCI modems do not work???

1999-09-06 Thread Chuck Robey
dem. It's 33.6, not 56, which means that my friends can dial into my system, which they can't do if it's a 56K. That's very nice sometimes. ---+--- Chuck Robey| Interests include any kind

Re: PCI modems do not work???

1999-09-06 Thread Chuck Robey
on't support ISA at all, making this a somewhat timely problem. You're looking at this (quite naturally) from the point of view of a PC user. Not everyone is, you know, and the non-PC user market is large enough to ensure regular modems don't go away. > > Kevin >

Re: PCI modems do not work???

1999-09-06 Thread Chuck Robey
re isn't any standard, so there's not a whole lot to work with, and doing this hurts your system. > > -- > Andrew > ---+--- Chuck Robey| Interests include any kind of voice or data chu...@mat.ne

Re: CS Project

1999-09-08 Thread Chuck Robey
On Wed, 8 Sep 1999, Gustavo V G C Rios wrote: > Dear gentleman, > > i am a computer science student, and this semester i had to began my > project to get graduated. After looking for some interesting topics on > many sources, one rised up: > Privacity on Shared Environments. > > My ideia is to a

Re: CS Project

1999-09-09 Thread Chuck Robey
l(8) code? Is that what you're suggesting? > > julian > > > On Wed, 8 Sep 1999, Chuck Robey wrote: > > > On Wed, 8 Sep 1999, Gustavo V G C Rios wrote: > > > > > Dear gentleman, > > > > > > i am a computer science student, and

Re: damn ATX power supplies...

1999-09-10 Thread Chuck Robey
\\ The mind's the standard \\ Mike Smith > \\ of the man. \\ msm...@freebsd.org > \\-- Joseph Merrick \\ msm...@cdrom.com > > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majord...@freebsd.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers"

git problems

2008-06-03 Thread Chuck Robey
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I am having problems with the git out of ports git-fetch keeps on dumping core when I try update of xorg (the initial checkout works ok). I'm running FreeBSD-current ... does anyone have any idea why this might be? When I try to do a gdb -c cor

Re: git problems

2008-06-03 Thread Chuck Robey
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Ed Schouten wrote: > * Chuck Robey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> I am having problems with the git out of ports git-fetch keeps on >> dumping >> core when I try update of xorg (the initial checkout works ok). I&#

Re: git problems

2008-06-04 Thread Chuck Robey
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Robert Watson wrote: > On Tue, 3 Jun 2008, Ed Schouten wrote: > >> * Chuck Robey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >>> I am having problems with the git out of ports git-fetch keeps >>> on dumping core when I try

Re: git problems

2008-06-04 Thread Chuck Robey
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Robert Watson wrote: > On Tue, 3 Jun 2008, Ed Schouten wrote: > >> * Chuck Robey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >>> I am having problems with the git out of ports git-fetch keeps >>> on dumping core when I try

Re: git problems

2008-06-04 Thread Chuck Robey
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Eygene Ryabinkin wrote: > Chuck, good day. > > Tue, Jun 03, 2008 at 04:41:40PM -0400, Chuck Robey wrote: >> I am having problems with the git out of ports git-fetch keeps on >> dumping >> core when I try update of

Re: git problems

2008-06-04 Thread Chuck Robey
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Eygene Ryabinkin wrote: > Chuck, > > Wed, Jun 04, 2008 at 10:12:55AM -0400, Chuck Robey wrote: >>>> I'm seeing this on HEAD, not RELENG_6. I don't have a backtrace >>>> nearby, but it seems to be crash insi

Re: git problems

2008-06-04 Thread Chuck Robey
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Eygene Ryabinkin wrote: > Chuck, > > Wed, Jun 04, 2008 at 10:32:27AM -0400, Chuck Robey wrote: >>> Any possibility of using ElectricFence (devel/ElectricFence) >>> for chasing memory-related troubles? >> Now that I

Re: git problems

2008-06-04 Thread Chuck Robey
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Eygene Ryabinkin wrote: > Chuck, > > Wed, Jun 04, 2008 at 10:32:27AM -0400, Chuck Robey wrote: >>> Any possibility of using ElectricFence (devel/ElectricFence) >>> for chasing memory-related troubles? >> Now that I

number of /dev/usb nodes

2008-06-07 Thread Chuck Robey
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I can't seem to find how many /dev/usbN bus devices there can be. I'm writing some code that scans them all looking for anything that has my device, but I while I know to start at usb0, just how high do I go? There seem to be 128 device minors, is th

Re: number of /dev/usb nodes

2008-06-08 Thread Chuck Robey
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Bernd Walter wrote: > On Sat, Jun 07, 2008 at 01:18:41PM -0400, Chuck Robey wrote: >> -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- >> Hash: SHA1 >> >> I can't seem to find how many /dev/usbN bus devices there can be. I'

Re: number of /dev/usb nodes

2008-06-08 Thread Chuck Robey
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Bernd Walter wrote: > On Sun, Jun 08, 2008 at 10:16:26AM -0400, Chuck Robey wrote: >> -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- >> Hash: SHA1 >> >> Bernd Walter wrote: >>> On Sat, Jun 07, 2008 at 01:18:41PM -0400, Ch

FreeBSD hotplugging info

2008-06-13 Thread Chuck Robey
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I have finished doing all the work and investigation (and test program writing) I need to do, for all of the usb aspects of my grapghic tablet Xorg Xinput driver (well, THEY call it a driver). Yes, I know I've been owrking on it for a while now, but

Re: FreeBSD hotplugging (Hal) info

2008-06-14 Thread Chuck Robey
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Chuck Robey wrote: > I have finished doing all the work and investigation (and test program > writing) > I need to do, for all of the usb aspects of my grapghic tablet Xorg Xinput > driver (well, THEY call it a driver). Yes, I kn

Re: FreeBSD hotplugging (Hal) info

2008-06-16 Thread Chuck Robey
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Konrad Jankowski wrote: >> Replying to my own mail, I realize I've worded this badly ... what I meant >> is, >> does any part of FreeBSD's base make any use of Hal's (the hardware >> abstraction >> layer) API? If it does, and you could tell me where

Re: FreeBSD hotplugging (Hal) info

2008-06-16 Thread Chuck Robey
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Alexander Leidinger wrote: > Quoting Chuck Robey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> (from Mon, 16 Jun 2008 09:40:51 > -0400): > >> -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- >> Hash: SHA1 >> >> Konrad Jankowski wrote: >>>

Re: Decent 3D acceleration in 64bit mode?

2008-06-19 Thread Chuck Robey
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Mike Meyer wrote: > On Thu, 19 Jun 2008 14:00:42 -0400 "Zaphod Beeblebrox" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: > >> On Wed, Jun 18, 2008 at 8:13 AM, Stephen Hocking <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >> wrote: >>> Given that Nvidia aren't offering a driver for their cards

Re: Decent 3D acceleration in 64bit mode?

2008-06-19 Thread Chuck Robey
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Chuck Robey wrote: > Mike Meyer wrote: >> On Thu, 19 Jun 2008 14:00:42 -0400 "Zaphod Beeblebrox" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >> wrote: > >>> On Wed, Jun 18, 2008 at 8:13 AM, Stephen Hocking <[EMAIL PROTEC

Re: Laptop suggestions?

2008-07-25 Thread Chuck Robey
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Zaphod Beeblebrox wrote: > On Fri, Jul 25, 2008 at 1:35 PM, Razmig K <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> How about Dell models which come with Ubuntu preinstalled? (Inspiron 1525N >> and 1420N, XPS M1330). Don't they have higher chances of running FreeBSD

read with timeout ??

2008-08-07 Thread Chuck Robey
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I have my head lost in a code problem. I just hit a point where I need to do a read from an fd, but I need to associate it with a timeout, on the order of 1 second, something like that. I had the feeling that there's a function in FreeBSD's libc tha

Re: read with timeout ??

2008-08-08 Thread Chuck Robey
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Pieter de Goeje wrote: > On Friday 08 August 2008, Carlos A. M. dos Santos wrote: >> On Thu, Aug 7, 2008 at 10:14 PM, Nate Eldredge <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: >>> On Thu, 7 Aug 2008, Chuck Robey wrote: >>

Re: read with timeout ??

2008-08-08 Thread Chuck Robey
[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >> wrote: >>>> On Thu, 7 Aug 2008, Chuck Robey wrote: >>>>> -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- >>>>> Hash: SHA1 >>>>> >>>>> I have my head lost in a code problem. I just hit a point where I need >>

startup options

2008-08-15 Thread Chuck Robey
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I was wondering if it was possible, with a machine that has about 2 year old dual AMD64 processors and an up-to-date AMI BIOS, to get the machine to be able to start up from a power shutdown, after some sort of a network signal? If it might be possibl

keyboard questions

2008-09-07 Thread Chuck Robey
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I have gotten my project, which was to make an Xorg driver for my ultra-cheapy UC-Logic graphic tablet working to a great extent, including scaling the cursor movement both with and without the optional function key areas that rim the tablet area. So,

UCLogic tablets

2008-10-03 Thread Chuck Robey
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I've just finished the first version of a Xorg driver for the UCLogic family of graphic tablets. It may well work for other tablets, if I could see what folks have, so I could program the names in. Anyhow, the UCLogic tablets are *very* widely OEMed,

Re: UCLogic tablets

2008-10-03 Thread Chuck Robey
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Chuck Robey wrote: > I've just finished the first version of a Xorg driver for the UCLogic family > of > graphic tablets. It may well work for other tablets, if I could see what > folks > have, so I could program the names

touch screen recommendation?

2008-10-05 Thread Chuck Robey
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I was wondering if anyone here had a recommendation for a touch screen, specifically to run on FreeBSD? Any user report? Thanks -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v2.0.9 (FreeBSD) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.o

indicating a debug image

2008-10-16 Thread Chuck Robey
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I was wondering, for FreeBSD images, is there a symbol that one could look for, to indicate if image had debug symbols? I know you could destroy that by just stripping, I just wanted to know if there is any way to definitely tell, short of firing up g

Re: usinig cvs diff to make a patch

2009-02-03 Thread Chuck Robey
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Aryeh M. Friedman wrote: > I use a local cvs repo and I have modified a port and which to submit an > update for it how do I generate a patch file with cvs (cvs diff seems to > give a unusable format)? > ___

x11 status

2009-02-24 Thread Chuck Robey
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I was wondering, I've lost track of the status of XFree86 on FreeBSD.or really, at all. It looks like all of the Xfree86 servers have been removed from ports. I was looking on the www.Xfree86.org website, and from what I see, it apparently still is g

howto configure FreeBSD's hal?

2009-03-02 Thread Chuck Robey
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I can't seem to find anything on how to set up hal on FreeBSD. I hope it's because I'm being lousy at searching, not that there just isn't anything on the subject. I think all I want is to set up my Logitech wireless PS/2 (via a USB to PS/2 converter

dbus causing my cvsup to fail

2009-03-22 Thread Chuck Robey
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 This one completely mystifies me. I have a little script I use to cvsup, cvs update, and rebuild my system, and it's been hitting failures about once a month over the last 6 months. The failures are all fairly alike: cvsup fails to apply a delta to o

the web site

2009-03-29 Thread Chuck Robey
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I just had to see if I could locate if there was a gnome project page by looking at the FreeBSD web pages. Why don't you try that yourself? I'll tell you, it's really FAR from being obvious. I'm just saying, even if folks don't want to change the we

building a gcc crosscompiler

2009-04-08 Thread Chuck Robey
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Since the last time I built a gcc crosscompiler, the gcc folks have added in dependencies on mpfr and gmp libraries. When I first read this, I was worried that I had a chicken/egg problem, but I found that you can do with the host's version of those l

porting info for FreeBSD's kernel?

2009-05-18 Thread Chuck Robey
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I've been googling, trying to see if I can find notes regarding what needs changing, in what order, to adapt the FreeBSD kernel to a new processor. Anyone know where stuff like that can be found? -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (Fr

Re: porting info for FreeBSD's kernel?

2009-05-21 Thread Chuck Robey
Alfred Perlstein wrote: > * Chuck Robey [090518 13:03] wrote: >> -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- >> Hash: SHA1 >> >> I've been googling, trying to see if I can find notes regarding what needs >> changing, in what order, to adapt the FreeBSD kernel to a ne

about building the crosstools

2009-05-21 Thread Chuck Robey
I got instructions from Warner about how to build my crosstools (the FreeBSD ones) and after a minor startup contretemps, things began to work better. My problem is that on doing the linking step, I'm getting a complaint that it can't figure out how to build the /usr/cross/usr/lib/libc.a (/usr/cr

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