Re: X mailers (was Re: ANNOUNCE: Linux ABI/SDK standards for Ope

1999-09-09 Thread Daniel O'Connor
On 10-Sep-99 Nate Williams wrote: > > Does it do IMAP? > It doesn't even do POP, I use fetchmail/procmailrc to get my email, > which works *MUCH* better than anything else I've found. Woe is me. Oh well.. back to xfmail :) --- Daniel O'Connor software and n

Re: X mailers (was Re: ANNOUNCE: Linux ABI/SDK standards for Ope

1999-09-09 Thread Daniel O'Connor
y seen *1* emailer which does IMAP properly (xfmail) all the others either don't support it at all, or treat IMAP like POP (ie just fetch mail from INBOX). --- Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au "The nice thing about standar

Re: X mailers (was Re: ANNOUNCE: Linux ABI/SDK standards for Ope

1999-09-09 Thread Daniel O'Connor
ention Netscape.. OK no mailer with a memory footprint smaller than 20 meg BESIDES xfmail does IMAP :) --- Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au "The nice thing about standards is that there are so many of them to choose from.&qu

Re: X mailers (was Re: ANNOUNCE: Linux ABI/SDK standards for Ope

1999-09-09 Thread Daniel O'Connor
pe FreeBSD/NT use different mechanisms to build > its "folder summaries" :( > I'd be interested to hear if anyone has a similar config. (i guess I have Cyrus IMAP on my server box and my workstation dual boots freebsd/win95 so I use xfmail under freebsd and netscape under wi

RE: NetWare client in -current

1999-09-10 Thread Daniel O'Connor
sible candidate for contrib'ifying I could see would be mount_nwfs because building it without the kernel source could be a problem, but the rest of it could be a port I think :) --- Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au "The nice

Re: NetWare client in -current

1999-09-10 Thread Daniel O'Connor
the 'ipfw' command a port and leave the > kernel bits in the tree. Since all this stuff depends on being in sync, > the only reasonable way to do this is to put it in the tree. Why? What kernel code does this need? --- Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis

Re: NetWare client in -current

1999-09-10 Thread Daniel O'Connor
arters. :) Bah like I care enough to care ;) If it has a fair amount of kernel code then its a good idea.. Also as you pointed out, it aids interoperability.. --- Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au "The nice thing about standards

Re: X mailers (was Re: ANNOUNCE: Linux ABI/SDK standards for Ope

1999-09-12 Thread Daniel O'Connor
daily for all of my internal > stuff. No.. I meant that XFMail worked properly, but Pine didn't. --- Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au "The nice thing about standards is that there are so many of them to choose f

Re: PCI Express and drivers

2010-06-25 Thread Daniel O'Connor
_t sc_st; /* bus space tag */ bus_space_handle_t sc_sh; /* bus space handle */ PS what board are you using? :) -- Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au "The nice thing about standards is that there are so ma

Re: PCI Express and drivers

2010-06-26 Thread Daniel O'Connor
-SP605-G.htm > perfect for playing with hardware for a frame buffer device or graphics > device. It comes with a full license for the synthesis and PCIe IP for the > device on that board which is a great deal. Ahh, it does look like a fun toy :) -- Daniel O'Connor software and netw

Re: PCI Express and drivers

2010-07-05 Thread Daniel O'Connor
> perform multiple mmap calls? If I go the multiple mmap route, how do I match > a mmap call to a particular BAR? Do I use the size of the allocation? Yes, I think you just key off the requested address in the mmap() call. -- Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Gen

Re: Missing files device_if.h and bus_if.h

2010-07-10 Thread Daniel O'Connor
e_t _child, int _index, uintptr_t *_result) { kobjop_t _m; KOBJOPLOOKUP(((kobj_t)_dev)->ops,bus_read_ivar); return ((bus_read_ivar_t *) _m)(_dev, _child, _index, _result); } -- Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Gene

Re: mallinfo equivalent on FreeBSD

2010-07-11 Thread Daniel O'Connor
27;s address space) > in a light weight fashion so that I can make some decision based on it. Can't you use getrusage to find that out? As for system wide stats, I think you could look at sysctl, specifically the vm tree. -- Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesi

Re: Problem detecting and reacting to serial break

2010-08-14 Thread Daniel O'Connor
es sounds like it's ignoring your request :( However you won't get a SIGINT unless the serial port is the controlling terminal of your process (which it won't be if you just open()'d it) -- Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.co

Re: Problem detecting and reacting to serial break

2010-08-14 Thread Daniel O'Connor
the default serial driver changed from sio to uart. You can recompile your kernel and get sio back and see if that has an effect. Actually I see you used cuaU0 - that is a USB serial dongle so the driver change would have no effect. That said the stack was rewritten between 7 & 8 too

Re: Problem detecting and reacting to serial break

2010-08-15 Thread Daniel O'Connor
oesn't seem to be any in the read call back routine to handle break, hence the TTY layer will not see them. The Linux driver does (obviously :) support it and it doesn't look too tricky so you could probably fix it up. It would be nice if the man page mentioned the lack of break suppo

Re: Winbond Watchdog

2010-08-22 Thread Daniel O'Connor
I >> imagine you check the PCI id etc. first? > > It's not a PCI device unfortunately (at least, not the one I have > encountered on my Supermicro board). They're LPC ISA devices, I don't know if they appear in any PNP or ACPI tables though. -- Daniel O'Co

Re: libz.so no found

2008-05-23 Thread Daniel O'Connor
header to the message ID of the email you pulled out of your saved folder. Mail clients use this header to track what thread a message is in (even if someone changed the subject). -- Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au "The nice

Re: Can I change the device of the "/" mount point at boot time.

2008-07-14 Thread Daniel O'Connor
about. After that you can use any device the kernel knows about. As for the virtual device aspect - could you use a geom class to do you want? It's hard to say without an overview of what you actually want to achieve :) -- Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis

Re: Can I change the device of the "/" mount point at boot time.

2008-07-14 Thread Daniel O'Connor
hts on both the issues? I think you'd have a lower overhead and much less hassle writing a GEOM class and using that. -- Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au "The nice thing about standards is that there are so many of them to

Re: Can I change the device of the "/" mount point at boot time.

2008-07-17 Thread Daniel O'Connor
ch less hassle writing a > > GEOM class and using that. > > This sounds good. I will try using GEOM first. But if I could achieve > interception, as I described earlier, I will go for that rather than > redirection. I think using GEOM is the "Right Way" in FreeBSD for

Re: kvm on amd64 - >6G?

2008-08-27 Thread Daniel O'Connor
On Wed, 27 Aug 2008, Kris Kennaway wrote: > will now get you this: > > vm.kvm_free: 547729960960 > vm.kvm_size: 549755809792 > > on HEAD. :-) Holy fat cache Batman! Any chance it could be made a tunable? -- Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for

Re: lock test from sh script

2008-10-17 Thread Daniel O'Connor
es in length) lockf -s -t 0 /path/to/file /bin/echo -n if [ $? -eq 75 ]; then echo file is locked exit fi -- Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au "The nice thing about standards is that there are so many

Re: libusb for linux-emulation

2008-10-24 Thread Daniel O'Connor
d by ken :( (It would be handy for Xilinx Webpack FPGA programming tools) -- Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au "The nice thing about standards is that there are so many of them to choose from." -- Andrew Tanenbaum GPG Fin

Re: Why does adding /usr/lib32 to LD_LIBRARY_PATH break 64-bit binaries?

2008-10-24 Thread Daniel O'Connor
- it merrily tries to link FreeBSD libraries to Linux binaries with predictable results.. One trick I use for that is to put a symlink in /compat/linux in the place the problematic FreeBSD library is.. That said it would be really nice if it ignored incompatible libraries :) -- Daniel O'Con

Re: Why does adding /usr/lib32 to LD_LIBRARY_PATH break 64-bit ?binaries?

2008-10-27 Thread Daniel O'Connor
On Tuesday 28 October 2008 01:31:16 M. Warner Losh wrote: > In message: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > Oliver Fromme <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > : Daniel O'Connor wrote: > : > On Friday 24 October 2008 23:20:59 Peter Jeremy wrote: > : > > > t

Re: How can I add new binaries to the mfsroot image?

2008-11-18 Thread Daniel O'Connor
hat would allow you to do some basic stuff like this. While the sysinstall code is a bit fugly it's not that difficult to hack on (speaking from limited experience :) -- Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au "The nice thing ab

Re: How can I add new binaries to the mfsroot image?

2008-11-18 Thread Daniel O'Connor
actually creating a custom sysinstall but I > guess that's another way we could approach this. I have some research to > do... You wouldn't have to do so - you could just run a shell script from sysinstall and do what you want. -- Daniel O'Connor software and network engine

Re: tcpdump filter for out/in traffic

2009-01-04 Thread Daniel O'Connor
d not watch other interfaces this way. I think it's more a question for the tcpdump maintainers. Also, in & out don't necessarily mean traffic from your MAC address or the inverse. eg if you are running a bridge then in & out will mean something different. -- Daniel O

Re: booting/loading a tool, not kernel

2009-02-17 Thread Daniel O'Connor
t; > Thanks a lot, these are very useful. > But I am still thinking about an interactive menu where I could e.g. > press '9' to go to "Utilities" and then could select memtest86 or > memtest2009 or cputest :-) That would be very handy IMO. What file do you use to

Re: booting/loading a tool, not kernel

2009-02-17 Thread Daniel O'Connor
On Tuesday 17 February 2009 22:37:51 Andriy Gapon wrote: > on 17/02/2009 14:00 Daniel O'Connor said the following: > > On Tuesday 17 February 2009 21:45:19 Andriy Gapon wrote: > >> on 17/02/2009 12:25 Nick Hibma said the following: > >>> You are aware of nextboo

Re: Debugging init process.

2009-03-10 Thread Daniel O'Connor
pecialcase PID 1 so maybe that won't work either.. -- Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au "The nice thing about standards is that there are so many of them to choose from." -- Andrew Tanenbaum GPG Fingerprint - 5596

Re: AVR-GCC compiler options

2009-03-22 Thread Daniel O'Connor
=foo.lst to gcc and it will make a .lst which will do what I think you want.. -- Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au "The nice thing about standards is that there are so many of them to choose from." -- Andrew Tanenbaum

Re: In search of a video card

2009-05-14 Thread Daniel O'Connor
span across 2 1280x1024 screens :( > (The max viewport width was 2048 pixels..) > > 2d acceleration may be a must for that kind of resolution.. If you have a fast CPU & decent pipe to video memory it isn't necessary, but very nice. -- Daniel O'Connor software and network

Re: Installation from USB pen

2009-05-21 Thread Daniel O'Connor
e install key though. -- Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au "The nice thing about standards is that there are so many of them to choose from." -- Andrew Tanenbaum GPG Fingerprint - 5596 B766 97C0 0E94 4347 295E E593 DC20 7B3F CE8C

Re: Why kernel kills processes that run out of memory instead of just failing memory allocation system calls?

2009-05-21 Thread Daniel O'Connor
dd, if you have a program using 1Gb (RAM + swap) and you want to start another (in any way) then that is going to be impossible. If you had a 750Mb process that forked and the child only modified 250Mb you'd be all right because the other pages would be copies. -- Daniel O'Connor software a

Re: improve my USB knowledge

2009-05-25 Thread Daniel O'Connor
nd I want to know if there is others (BSD > related) articles or documents I can/must read. FYI, I work with the > new USB stack in 8-CURRENT. libusb is moderately horrible but you can do stuff with it, I wrote a driver for a USB TMC device in Python in an iterative fashion with the pyusb

Booting from FAT(32)

2009-06-13 Thread Daniel O'Connor
x but it doesn't like loading /boot/loader as a linux kernel and I'm not sure which format to try. I think I can get it to work using the memdisk syslinux thing but that seems like a kludge.. -- Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis Software - http://www.gs

Re: Booting from FAT(32)

2009-06-13 Thread Daniel O'Connor
gh so I could just get Syslinux to load the loader then it would do the rest. Although heck how hard can read only FAT support be to write? :) -- Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au "The nice thing about standards is that there ar

Re: Booting from FAT(32)

2009-06-13 Thread Daniel O'Connor
On Sun, 14 Jun 2009, Daniel O'Connor wrote: > > I've been meaning to trial it out actually. It sure would be > > interesting to boot a kernel/mfs off of a DOS bootable FAT USB. > > I think you can do it if you makefs /boot and feed it to syslinux > using memdisk (I

Re: Booting from FAT(32)

2009-06-15 Thread Daniel O'Connor
n.com/mimedefang/enduser.php3 An attachment named makeusb.sh was removed from this document as it constituted a security hazard. If you require this document, please contact the sender and arrange an alternate means of receiving it. On Sun, 14 Jun 2009, Daniel O'Connor wrote: > On Sun, 14 Jun

Re: Booting from FAT(32)

2009-06-15 Thread Daniel O'Connor
On Mon, 15 Jun 2009, Daniel O'Connor wrote: > WARNING: This e-mail has been altered by MIMEDefang. Following this > paragraph are indications of the actual changes made. For more > information about your site's MIMEDefang policy, contact > Postmaster . For more informat

Loader reading FAT

2009-06-16 Thread Daniel O'Connor
Any ideas? Thanks. -- Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au "The nice thing about standards is that there are so many of them to choose from." -- Andrew Tanenbaum GPG Fingerprint - 5596 B766 97C0 0E94 4347 295E E593 DC20 7B3

Re: Loader reading FAT

2009-06-16 Thread Daniel O'Connor
On Wed, 17 Jun 2009, Rick C. Petty wrote: > On Tue, Jun 16, 2009 at 11:50:38PM +0930, Daniel O'Connor wrote: > > Unfortunately I can't get the loader to read a FAT partition which > > surprises me because I think it should be able to.. I believe that > > libstan

Re: dd copy of FreeBSD-7.2 won't boot

2009-06-22 Thread Daniel O'Connor
would DTRT. You could also try running fdisk -BI on your new disk to reinit the MBR, then running boot0cfg on it. -- Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au "The nice thing about standards is that there are so many of them to choose from

Re: dd copy of FreeBSD-7.2 won't boot

2009-06-23 Thread Daniel O'Connor
them. It should be only used when windoze has to be run from > the same disk There are plenty of BIOSen which will puke on a dangerously dedicated disk. Next time he should partition, label & newfs the disk, then copy it over with dump | store. Unless the disk is chock full it wi

PCI IRQ latency

2009-08-18 Thread Daniel O'Connor
ts for >4 milliseconds, however I have no real idea how to go about finding what it is.. Does anyone have any suggestions? (apart from get a new DAQ card, I know this one already :) Thanks. -- Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.a

Re: PCI IRQ latency

2009-08-19 Thread Daniel O'Connor
On Wed, 19 Aug 2009, Zaphod Beeblebrox wrote: > On Tue, Aug 18, 2009 at 11:23 PM, Daniel O'Connor wrote: > > Unfortunately it seems that _something_ blocks interrupts for >4 > > milliseconds, however I have no real idea how to go about finding > > what it is.. Doe

Re: PCI IRQ latency

2009-08-19 Thread Daniel O'Connor
On Wed, 19 Aug 2009, Daniel O'Connor wrote: > Unfortunately it seems that _something_ blocks interrupts for >4 > milliseconds, however I have no real idea how to go about finding > what it is.. Does anyone have any suggestions? (apart from get a new > DAQ card, I know this one

DTrace probes & klds

2009-08-19 Thread Daniel O'Connor
Is it possible? the handbook implies not and I can't get it to work, but i could be doing it wrong.. I get fbt traces listed for KLDs (I get new entries for each load of the KLD which seems like a potential problem) but I can't specify an SDT_PROBE and have it work. -- Danie

Re: DTrace probes & klds

2009-08-20 Thread Daniel O'Connor
On Thu, 20 Aug 2009, Alexander Leidinger wrote: > Quoting Daniel O'Connor (from Wed, 19 Aug > 2009 > > 23:31:33 +0930): > > Content-Type: text/plain; > > charset="utf-8" > > Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable > > Content-Disposition:

Re: DTrace probes & klds

2009-08-22 Thread Daniel O'Connor
On Fri, 21 Aug 2009, Alexander Leidinger wrote: > Quoting Daniel O'Connor (from Thu, 20 Aug > 2009 > > 17:13:07 +0930): > > On Thu, 20 Aug 2009, Alexander Leidinger wrote: > >> Quoting Daniel O'Connor (from Wed, 19 Aug > >> 2009 > >>

Re: Parallel port headers

2009-08-24 Thread Daniel O'Connor
_RDWR)) == -1) { printf("Can't open /dev/ppi0\n"); exit(1); } exit(0); } Those includes are present on my 7.2 box (upgraded with the last week) and my (oldish) -current box. -- Daniel O'Connor software and network engine

Re: Making bootable USB keys

2009-09-04 Thread Daniel O'Connor
> understandable) I use the attached script (on FreeBSD :) to prep a USB stick for booting. I imagine you could munge it into your setup without too much trouble. -- Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au "The nice thing

Re: Making bootable USB keys

2009-09-04 Thread Daniel O'Connor
On Fri, 4 Sep 2009, Daniel O'Connor wrote: > WARNING: This e-mail has been altered by MIMEDefang. Following this > paragraph are indications of the actual changes made. For more > information about your site's MIMEDefang policy, contact > Postmaster . For more informat

Re: Distributed SSH attack

2009-10-03 Thread Daniel O'Connor
possible?) for someone to cause you to block a legit IP. If you can, changing the port sshd runs on is by far the simplest work around. Galling as it is to have to change stuff to work around malicious assholes.. -- Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis So

Re: (Ab)using rcng's features to keep rc.d-style services running should they fail.

2009-10-06 Thread Daniel O'Connor
; provided it does not happen by default. > > +1 > > I think this feature should be user-controllable (or, the 'make > install' should be 'restart'ing the rc.d script at very least). It won't actually start anything you haven't enabled in rc.conf though si

Re: Superpages on amd64 FreeBSD 7.2-STABLE

2009-11-26 Thread Daniel O'Connor
ould fork when you tell it to rotate, seems like a design defect. -- Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au "The nice thing about standards is that there are so many of them to choose from." -- Andrew Tanenbaum GPG Fingerprin

Re: Superpages on amd64 FreeBSD 7.2-STABLE

2009-11-27 Thread Daniel O'Connor
is or isn't doing in her configuration. :) Yeah I understand that but if you can avoid the huge problem with a deft rearrangement that may help your production environment and give you more time for a real solution :) -- Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis Soft

Re: Suggestion: rename "killall" to "fkill", but wait five years to phase the new name in

2009-12-21 Thread Daniel O'Connor
killall to match Linux & *BSD behaviour? Although seriously, why not? killall just killing everything is a fairly dangerous command with almost no use in the real world. -- Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au "The nice thin

Re: ACPI/power implementation causing performance loss with i7/Nehalem turbo boost

2010-03-05 Thread Daniel O'Connor
have more than just a power savings > benefit now. What does "sysctl dev.cpu.0.cx_lowest" say? And "sysctl dev.cpu.$N.cx_supported" ? ISTR FreeBSD defaults to a very conservative setting here so you may have to set it manually. -- Daniel O'Connor softwar

Re: ACPI/power implementation causing performance loss with i7/Nehalem turbo boost

2010-03-05 Thread Daniel O'Connor
> Is the note about adding hint.apic.0.clock=0 mentioned on > http://wiki.freebsd.org/TuningPowerConsumption needed to leave C1 at > all on SMP systems? Dunno sorry.. The only SMP system I have running a recent FreeBSD only supports C1 :) -- Daniel O'Connor software and netw

RE: Problems with Ethernet programming

1999-05-13 Thread Daniel O'Connor
I'm a script kiddie now ;) --- Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au "The nice thing about standards is that there are so many of them to choose from." -- Andrew Tanenbaum To Unsubscribe: send mail to majord...@freebsd.org wit

Re: No sound (Ensoniq Audio PCI 1370)

1999-05-18 Thread Daniel O'Connor
On 18-May-99 Shin-ichi YOSHIMOTO wrote: > > Is anyone working on ES1371 drivers? > Yes. I'm working on ES1371 drivers with SB PCI128. Hmm.. I have access to an SB Ensoniq Audio PCI which has the ES1371 on it. I can test patches etc. The machine is running 3.2-BETA. --- Daniel O&#

Re: No sound (Ensoniq Audio PCI 1370)

1999-05-18 Thread Daniel O'Connor
on it. It was working fine on ES1370 drivers. My machine is running > 3.2-stable and I only add the following line to my kernel configuration > file: > > device pcm0 at isa ? port? tty irq 7 drq 1 Shouldn't it just be 'device pcm0'? --- Daniel O'Connor software a

RE: RS232 status read ioctl (RI,DSR,CTS etc..)

1999-05-26 Thread Daniel O'Connor
eg -- code snippet -- /* Lower All Modem Lines */ commlines = 0; ioctl(ups->SerialPortHandle,TIOCMSET,&commlines); D( printf("Clearing... commlines = %ld\n",commlines); ) -- end code -- --- Daniel O'Connor software and network en

RE: Help: mount disk.img as file system?

1999-05-28 Thread Daniel O'Connor
l on FreeBSD? Yes, you need to use the vnode device (look in LINT) Try vnconfig vn0 disk.img mount /dev/vn0c /mnt --- Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au "The nice thing about standards is that there are so many of them to choo

Re: a two-level port system? (fwd)

1999-05-31 Thread Daniel O'Connor
On 31-May-99 Bill Fumerola wrote: > Not really. > > > E.g.: try to check out port for samba 1.9.18p10 > > $ cvs co -D 08/29/98 samba > > works for me on freefall. Hmm... anon cvs anyone? :) I have a copy of the src repo but not the ports one.. --- Daniel O

RE: [Fwd: Good news from NVIDIA]

1999-06-02 Thread Daniel O'Connor
r another desktop. TNT cards have gotten pretty > cheap... Well the patches are there :) I suppose it would work OK, but no TNT to test with either. My friend is getting an Asus TNT2 soon, so I will try it and see :) --- Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis Software

RE: [Fwd: Good news from NVIDIA]

1999-06-02 Thread Daniel O'Connor
On 03-Jun-99 Chris Piazza wrote: > Just downloading the XFree86 source right now and I'm going to build it > overnight assuming it works. If not I'm sure it'll be fun (heh) to track > down. Yeah.. Building X is a bit of a dog I've found.. --- Daniel O'Co

RE: [Fwd: Good news from NVIDIA]

1999-06-02 Thread Daniel O'Connor
On 03-Jun-99 Alex Zepeda wrote: > On Thu, 3 Jun 1999, Daniel O'Connor wrote: > > Yeah.. Building X is a bit of a dog I've found.. > Well if you're interested in binaries the bzip2'd binary of XF86_SVGA > seems to be a little over 1 meg. Hmm.. well I would

RE: [Fwd: Good news from NVIDIA]

1999-06-02 Thread Daniel O'Connor
SVGA.bz2 Thanks. You could try running the GLX Quake2 renderer :) Of see if its faster in 2D etc since some acceleration has been added (stipple fill at least) --- Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au "The nice thing about standard

Re: [Fwd: Good news from NVIDIA]

1999-06-03 Thread Daniel O'Connor
days. Some info on how well the 3D works would be nice. Do you have an GLX apps? > With a resonable fast system X takes about 35 or 40minutes to build > very reasonable in my opinion . I suppose.. I just look at it compiling and wonder what the hell its up to :) --- Daniel O'Conn

RE: Why not let "sys/stat.h" include "sys/types.h"?

1999-06-14 Thread Daniel O'Connor
the stat(2) man page says, you need to include both and --- Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au "The nice thing about standards is that there are so many of them to choose from." -- Andrew Tanenbaum To Unsubscribe: s

RE: DHCP, arp and de0

1999-06-15 Thread Daniel O'Connor
ase, and the config file is empty except for comments. The output looks OK when it boots up, but I don't have an exact copy. It DOES get a lease fine, but for some reason it isn't entered into the arp table :( Err.. ifconfig -i de0 isn't legal :) --- Daniel O'Connor software an

RE: DHCP, arp and de0

1999-06-15 Thread Daniel O'Connor
nfo Jun 13 17:35:21 guppy /kernel: arpresolve: can't allocate llinfo for 127.0.0.1rt every ping packet sent. --- Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au "The nice thing about standards is that there are so many of them to choose fro

Re: RE: DHCP, arp and de0

1999-06-15 Thread Daniel O'Connor
d up. Yes, but how :) The loopback device is configured properly etc.. Its quite strange :-/ --- Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au "The nice thing about standards is that there are so many of them to choose from." -- Andre

Re: [Call for review] init(8): new feature

1999-06-15 Thread Daniel O'Connor
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Re: No interrupts coming to device driver.

2005-11-10 Thread Daniel O'Connor
ntrol. Looks like I missed something fundamental. Does > anyone can give me a hint where to look? Show us the code otherwise it's impossible to say.. Also, you haven't said what version of FreeBSD you're using. -- Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis

Re: Writing a driver for a card reader controller - how?

2005-11-23 Thread Daniel O'Connor
y aren't nearly as weird as that hardware sounds ;) Your next problem will be how to present the SD card to the OS.. Perhaps you can present it as a block device I guess. > Link to the datasheet and some more description of what I have done so far > (including my current state of sour

Re: My machine been hacked, I need help

2006-01-13 Thread Daniel O'Connor
the old disk. Basically it is really hard to trust any code run from the old disk although as someone suggested DDB is most likely to be OK, but you never know :) -- Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au "The nice thing about standard

Re: speed up port compiling using RAM (tmpfs) ???

2006-01-15 Thread Daniel O'Connor
> http://gentoo-wiki.com/TIP_Speeding_up_portage_with_tmpfs > > Does anyone know how to do this in Freebsd? Make a RAM drive using mdconfig and the mount it somewhere. Then put WRKDIRPREFIX=/path/to/md in /etc/make.conf -- Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis Softw

Re: cat problems ?

2006-01-25 Thread Daniel O'Connor
't think it is cat, it's the ulpt driver. You haven't said what version of FreeBSD you're using. Have you tried outputting to /dev/unplt0? -- Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au "The nice thing about stan

Re: Bad block -> file mapping

2006-02-18 Thread Daniel O'Connor
db is structured pretty differently. -- Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au "The nice thing about standards is that there are so many of them to choose from." -- Andrew Tanenbaum GPG Fingerprint - 5596 B766 97C0 0E94 4347 295E E

Re: PPI

2006-02-25 Thread Daniel O'Connor
n't capture edges so you would need to poll fairly frequently if you are trying to capture a button press. -- Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au "The nice thing about standards is that there are so many of them to choose from.

Re: unversal watchdog

2006-02-27 Thread Daniel O'Connor
(or /usr/local/etc/rc.d) - with a suitable entry in rc.conf it will be started at boot. man rc.subr plus a look through /etc/rc.d should get you started :) -- Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au "The nice thing about standards i

Re: unversal watchdog

2006-02-27 Thread Daniel O'Connor
oo hard to create a shell wrapper script though (kind of annoying I admit) -- Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au "The nice thing about standards is that there are so many of them to choose from." -- Andrew Tanenbaum GPG Fingerpr

Re: cloning a FreeBSD HDD

2006-03-27 Thread Daniel O'Connor
fectly reasonable. It won't go any faster.. In a modern system the CPU is so much faster than the disk than anything above about 16k would be enough. -- Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au "The nice thing about standards is t

Re: cloning a FreeBSD HDD

2006-03-29 Thread Daniel O'Connor
On Wednesday 29 March 2006 14:34, M. Warner Losh wrote: > dump + restore is slow but reliabe. Faster than dd for disks that aren't full :) It also gives you a defrag as well as allowing you to change FS options. -- Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis So

Re: Can kldload trigger pci bus rescan?

2006-04-26 Thread Daniel O'Connor
> rescan after loading our pci driver? It will reprobe.. Well, all of the probe functions in the kernel will be called again. -- Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au "The nice thing about standards is that there are so

Re: Fingerprint Authentication

2006-05-04 Thread Daniel O'Connor
security/bsp_upektfmess This might be a more FreeBSD friendly URL.. http://shapeshifter.se/articles/upek_touchchip_freebsd/ (not that I have any of these devices :) -- Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au "The nice thing about standards i

Driver for the SI Labs CP2101/2

2006-05-08 Thread Daniel O'Connor
iate it if someone could have look at it and maybe even test it :) The attached diff is against -current but I don't see why it wouldn't work in -stable. One thing the Linux driver does is reset the port on attach, I tried to duplicate that but usbd_reset_port returned USBD_STALLED.

Re: differences between M_CACHE, M_DEVBUF, M_TEMP

2006-05-09 Thread Daniel O'Connor
take has no bearing on the performance of the allocation itself. -- Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au "The nice thing about standards is that there are so many of them to choose from." -- Andrew Tanenbaum GPG Fingerprin

Re: Programs not accepting input?

2006-07-21 Thread Daniel O'Connor
largely ignored. Odd, eh? One thing that IS a KDE problem is having it manage 2 distinct desktops (ie :0.0 [laptop LCD] and :0.1 [TV out]) - it occasionally decides to give the other display focus after a dialog has been closed.. Makes using kmail annoying because the only way to bring back

Re: Programs not accepting input?

2006-07-24 Thread Daniel O'Connor
Maybe what we're seeing here is > related. Hmm could be.. Bit hard to tell for sure where the problem lies with so many interacting pieces :( -- Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au "The nice thing about standards is

Re: bktr(4) risk?

2006-10-09 Thread Daniel O'Connor
h also does it (I wrote it before mplayer grew support for bktr) -- Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au "The nice thing about standards is that there are so many of them to choose from." -- Andrew Tanenbaum GPG Fi

Re: How to write a FreeBSD-style makefile : checking for external vars existence?

2006-10-28 Thread Daniel O'Connor
#do something to build program > .endif Try .if !defined(VAR) ... -- Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au "The nice thing about standards is that there are so many of them to choose from." -- Andrew Tanenbaum GPG Fingerprint - 55

Re: [patch] rm can have undesired side-effects

2006-10-29 Thread Daniel O'Connor
n the file getting wiped in the end anyway because the link count will be 1 after the first link is removed. Also, -f ONLY means to ignore permissions (or rather, try to ignore them). It would be easy enough to add a diagnostic message in the -P case where the link count is >1. -- Daniel

Re: Intel i8xx watchdog driver

2006-12-13 Thread Daniel O'Connor
On Monday 11 December 2006 10:34, Daniel O'Connor wrote: > I saw your (2004) post about the watchdog driver for the i8xx and I was > wondering if you could send it to me? Whoops, no wonder I didn't get a reply. Not to menion it's already committed :) -- Daniel O'C

Re: Capturing Parallel Port Data

2006-12-15 Thread Daniel O'Connor
t; Finally, is there a FBSD-sanctioned parallel port driver for use with Perl > instead of using ppi and C? It would be pretty easy to write a wrapper to use ppi in Perl (eg SWIG) -- Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au "The nice

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