Userland access to modem control lines?

2004-11-16 Thread Daniel O'Connor
ction. I have a kernel driver which handles this but it has it's limitations (eg takes over the port and boot up, only usable on certain devices). I'm going to make it a line discipline eventually, but this was a stepping stone. Thanks. -- Daniel O'Connor software and network

Re: Userland access to modem control lines?

2004-11-17 Thread Daniel O'Connor
On Wed, 17 Nov 2004 18:03, Marcel Moolenaar wrote: > On Nov 16, 2004, at 10:48 PM, Daniel O'Connor wrote: > > Hi, > > Does anyone know of a way to manipulate the modem control lines from > > userland? > > See , in particular the following ioctls: Unk thanks. Dun

A hack to rebuild port KLDs during kernel builds

2004-11-29 Thread Daniel O'Connor
way). I have the 4 I mentioned building just fine with 5 minutes work. -- 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: Backup file formats: tar, cpio, pax, yadda, yadda, yadda

2001-07-26 Thread Daniel O'Connor
s for backing up when you _know_ you don't want everything and you couldn't even if you wanted it because your backup media is too small.. ie selectivity is good :) --- Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au "The nice th

Re: Backup file formats: tar, cpio, pax, yadda, yadda, yadda

2001-07-26 Thread Daniel O'Connor
On 27-Jul-2001 Wilko Bulte wrote: > > ie selectivity is good :) > > Sure. > > [I love my DLT4000 ;-) ] DLT for all! I love my imaginary multi terabyte RAID too. (My point being the solution isn't bigger tapes but better tools..) --- Daniel O'Connor softw

RE: Finding filesizes in C++ for files greater than 4gb

2001-08-01 Thread Daniel O'Connor
I guess I will have > to switch to unsigned long long, which appears to be a 64bit int. I would explicitly use off_t for file offsets/sizes which is what it is designed for. If you want an explicit bit width use it, eg u_int64_t etc. That way you get what you ask for rather than second gue

RE: Ghostscript 6.51 + HP printer = WOW!

2001-08-10 Thread Daniel O'Connor
ime (like 20-30 minutes :) but looks _amazing_ --- 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 [EMAIL PRO

Re: Ghostscript 6.51 + HP printer = WOW!

2001-08-10 Thread Daniel O'Connor
comparisson I guess :) > >Photo printing takes a long time (like 20-30 minutes :) but looks _amazing_ > Depends a lot on your connection/printer of course. Hmm this was USB which I would assume was the faster method. (Assumption...) --- Daniel O'Connor software and network en

RE: VM statistics per process?

2001-08-22 Thread Daniel O'Connor
call does this (the manpage in -stable is wrong, but may have recently been fixed?). You could steal the code from that I guess. --- 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 man

Re: [xine-user] xine on freebsd?

2001-09-12 Thread Daniel O'Connor
hared memory on the freebsd box? By default the amount of shm you can use is fairly small, and if you use GNOME it will easily eat it all. --- Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au "The nice thing about standards is that there are

Re: Does boot1 still have a > 1023 cyl limit?

2001-09-14 Thread Daniel O'Connor
aded by another kind of MBR loader (say, Grub), and they find out > that they are placed beyond the 1023th cylinder? FYI the way you actually DO this is run boot0cfg :) eg.. boot0cfg -v -o packet /dev/mydiskdevice --- Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis Software -

Re: Version of XFree86 in FreeBSD Release 4.4

2001-09-17 Thread Daniel O'Connor
people to it by default. Hopefully > by 4.5. It's a pitty you can't pick either :) There are, of course, several issue, the most difficult is the fact that packages are built against XFree 3.3.6 and pkg_add can't 'adjust' that during install :( --- Dani

Re: Version of XFree86 in FreeBSD Release 4.4

2001-09-18 Thread Daniel O'Connor
kable in the current package framework I suspect.. Probably have to trap a port guru and subject them to torture before it got implemented though ;) --- Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au "The nice thing about standards is that th

Re: Version of XFree86 in FreeBSD Release 4.4

2001-09-18 Thread Daniel O'Connor
rced not to if I'm using a machine which needs X4.. Usually for a fresh install I use packages since it gets a working machine quicker :) --- Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au "The nice thing about standards is that there

Re: Version of XFree86 in FreeBSD Release 4.4

2001-09-18 Thread Daniel O'Connor
that require X.. (Adding packages will fail because they all want X3, so you have to use ports) --- 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: Version of XFree86 in FreeBSD Release 4.4

2001-09-18 Thread Daniel O'Connor
e out there than X4. --- 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 [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsu

RE: precise timing

2001-09-30 Thread Daniel O'Connor
eBSD at the moment is to write a kernel driver. That way you can disable interrupts while you frob your board.. (And get quick access when you need it). --- Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au "The nice thing about standards is tha

Re: sio modification

2001-09-30 Thread Daniel O'Connor
for 'smart' one which uses a PIC chip to do the polling... http://www.geocities.com/SiliconValley/Sector/3863/uir/index.html You could probably fit the whole thing inside a D9 backshell. --- Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.co

Re: power supplies

2001-09-30 Thread Daniel O'Connor
problem at work due to an interface card (of custom design) that didn't have any isolation. Power was flowing back from the controlled device and tricking the PSU into thinking it was still on. > Soft power off is not as perfect. No, but it's pretty neat :) --- Daniel O'Con

Re: Framebuffer device under FreeBSD?

2001-11-08 Thread Daniel O'Connor
; going very slowly with little improvement in performance. Hmm.. I have to disagree here.. The Xv extension is very nice. The DRI is looking good etc.. --- Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au "The nice thing about standards is tha

RE: power supplies

2001-09-27 Thread Daniel O'Connor
ng enough current.. I have found slightly over spec'ing the PSU is a good idea when using a UPS, because if another device powered by the UPS draws a big load the computer tends to reset :( (250w vs 300w) --- Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis Software - http://w

RE: Does FreeBSD support copy-on-write pages?

2001-11-27 Thread Daniel O'Connor
her just remembering things mentioned on lists etc.. Maybe worth looking in the list archives for a more authorative answer. --- 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 the

Re: adding some new IPs from a different subnet - errors

2003-01-14 Thread Daniel O'Connor
92.168.0.2 netmask 255.255.255.255" Change the netmask for alias0 to be 255.255.255.0. You only need a 'point to point' (255.255.255.255) netmask if the alias would conflict with an existing subnet (as in how you have alias0) -- Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis

Re: PPP in -direct mode does not execute any chat scripts

2003-02-02 Thread Daniel O'Connor
calls). If -direct *by default* used chat then I would have to change my ppp.conf and that would suck :) Perhaps have 'enable usechatindirect' or some such.. (You might want to forward the email to the PPP maintainer BTW) -- Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for G

Re: PPP in -direct mode does not execute any chat scripts

2003-02-02 Thread Daniel O'Connor
necessary/useful to 'steer' PPP from the RFCOMM end? eg 'when you get a connection from this device connect via PPP on stdin/stdout' Still I guess you could just run 'ppp rfcomm' instead.. -- Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis Software - h

RE: PPP in -direct mode does not execute any chat scripts

2003-02-02 Thread Daniel O'Connor
iables when invoking PPP I guess :) > > Still I guess you could just run 'ppp rfcomm' instead.. > > it will only work for in RFCOMM client case. i do not know > how to build server applications with tty interface (pty's > do not count :) Heh, I use birda for IRDA, it'

Re: Another EPIA M 9000 update (was Re: More compartivepower/performance results (was Re: Lower power SMP boxes?))

2003-02-09 Thread Daniel O'Connor
just acts like a 1.1 controller. NetBSD has USB2.0 support, dunno if you're interested in seeing if it works with their code (which is where FreeBSD got most of it's USB code) -- Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au "The

Re: D_KQFILTER & ltmdm: Patch for review?

2003-03-04 Thread Daniel O'Connor
anyway :\ ) He might possibly ;) I will hopefully look at your patch tonight so I can nag someone into committing 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 f

Re: mixer for /etc/rc

2003-03-19 Thread Daniel O'Connor
uld get it to store the current mixer values on shutdown too. -- 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 - 9A8C 56

Re: ld.so and hard links

2003-03-21 Thread Daniel O'Connor
omething like that for a jail :) -- 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 - 9A8C 569F 685A D928 5140 AE

Re: Debugging FreeBSD 4.7 using gdb remote machine

2003-03-31 Thread Daniel O'Connor
configuration or gdb stuff, > or cabling problem? (I tested with kermit that the serial connection > setup and is working fine, or it seems to be ;-() I would try reducing your serial port speed. I have had trouble doing anything above 9600 baud which is quite irritating :( -- Daniel O&

Re: Debugging FreeBSD 4.7 using gdb remote machine

2003-03-31 Thread Daniel O'Connor
ith still lower baud and check. Hmm, worth a shot I guess. I found 9600 baud worked quite well when I was doing it, but I haven't needed to use it for a while. -- Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au "The nice thing about standar

Re: Broadcom 44xx (Re: Rrrrrr.....)

2003-06-02 Thread Daniel O'Connor
p? A lot of newer laptops have it in them (Dell's are one in particular I am aware of) -- 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 T

Re: Looking for FreeBSD kernel debugging help

2003-06-11 Thread Daniel O'Connor
handbook or FAQ (or The Complete FreeBSD), rather than a specific man page. They can be a bit stale though :( Serial GDB is very nice.. You can even do firewire debugging, but I guess you guys can't really use that :) (Firewire mini-PCI board? 8-) -- Daniel O'Connor software and n

vr(4) duplex problems

2003-06-16 Thread Daniel O'Connor
anks. -- 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 - 9A8C 569F 685A D928 5140 AE4B

Re: vr(4) duplex problems

2003-06-16 Thread Daniel O'Connor
's going to work :) I am more wondering if this is a known problem with the chipset, or the driver. -- 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: vr(4) duplex problems

2003-06-16 Thread Daniel O'Connor
ether 00:04:61:49:23:7c media: Ethernet 100baseTX status: active -- 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 Tanenb

Re: vr(4) duplex problems

2003-06-17 Thread Daniel O'Connor
7;m not inclined to > spend time on it now. OK, I will get back to you with the results with a different switch in a few days... -- 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

Re: BCM4401 ethernet driver

2003-06-17 Thread Daniel O'Connor
On Wednesday 18 June 2003 04:37, Sebastian Yepes [ESN] wrote: > Lost of ppl are waiting for this driver to be ported Your patches went missing.. maybe your mailer ate them. -- Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au "The nic

Re: vr(4) duplex problems

2003-06-19 Thread Daniel O'Connor
On Tuesday 17 June 2003 17:29, Daniel O'Connor wrote: > > > ukphy0: on miibus1 > > > ukphy0: 10baseT, 10baseT-FDX, 100baseTX, 100baseTX-FDX, auto > > > > Nothing out of the ordinary there, but perhaps we're messing up by _not_ > > recognizing a sp

Re: vr(4) duplex problems

2003-06-19 Thread Daniel O'Connor
h is a bit annoying. -- 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 - 9A8C 569F 685A D

Re: boot0 screen output with dual-boot of FreeBSD / WinXP

2003-10-16 Thread Daniel O'Connor
op with it so it shouldn't be _that_ broken, but please keep a backup :) to apply.. cd /usr/src/sys/ patch <~/winxp.diff cd boot/i386/boot0 make sudo make install sudo boot0cfg -Bv /dev/ -- Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.c

Re: bsd.prog.mk

2003-10-19 Thread Daniel O'Connor
work with fairly good results. It IS portable since you can copy those makefiles and build pmake on your destination machine :) (I have done this on a Linux box trivially) -- Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au "The nice thing abou

Re: two soundcards and realplayer

2003-10-26 Thread Daniel O'Connor
ev sudo sh ./MAKEDEV snd1 With 5.x (and DEVFS), do hw.snd.unit=1 -- 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 GP

Re: sha1 program

2001-12-15 Thread Daniel O'Connor
ably a fairly simple script or two could be written to use openssl instead. --- 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

Re: sha1 program

2001-12-15 Thread Daniel O'Connor
difficult unless openssl supports 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." -- Andrew Tanenbaum To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROT

Port hooks for kernel (and world?) builds

2002-01-09 Thread Daniel O'Connor
ng on it? :) I am thinking a smallish modification to /usr/src/sys/modules/Makefile would work.. Or is it more complex than 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

Re: VCD file system?

2002-02-04 Thread Daniel O'Connor
ecking (more space) on another track. I think mplayer can play them 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 To

Re: in-kernel HTTP Server for FreeBSD?

2002-02-17 Thread Daniel O'Connor
guys keep mentioning it in sales garbage :) --- 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 t

Re: make in freebsd

2002-02-18 Thread Daniel O'Connor
Mk. If you look at the bottom of each port makefile you will see ".include " (although some use pre and post instead if they are complicated). --- Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au "The nice thing about standards is th

Re: Sony CD Writer model CRX175M

2002-02-21 Thread Daniel O'Connor
; in my dmesg. Personally I'd say that is the problem. The ATA code is sending a request that the memory stick doesn't understand. Perhaps there are some resources online that may be able to point out what is necessary to talk to this device. --- Daniel O'Connor software

Re: how do I see the current number of PTYs in use ?

2002-03-01 Thread Daniel O'Connor
> > ;P This -> fstat | awk '{print $8}' | egrep 'tty[pqrsPQRS]' | wc -l Is much more accurate. (ie on my machine who only shows 4 entries :) --- Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au "The nice thing about

Re: how do I see the current number of PTYs in use ?

2002-03-01 Thread Daniel O'Connor
On Fri, 2002-03-01 at 21:19, Danny Braniss wrote: > fstat | awk '{print $8}' | egrep 'tty[pqrsPQRS]' | sort -u | wc -l > > is IMHO correct, ;-) Ach, of course :) I hope the original poster is satisfied 8-) --- Daniel O'Connor software and network en

Remote GDB in -stable..

2002-03-07 Thread Daniel O'Connor
traces have the extra info in them. I even read the handbook, but to no avail :( Anyone have any handy tips? -- --- 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: Where are the TCP patches for 4.4?

2002-03-08 Thread Daniel O'Connor
ilable at.. http://apollo.backplane.com/FreeBSD.old/ It applies with to easily fixable rejects (well, I assume my changes work, but I haven't properly tested yet :) --- Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au "The nice thing about sta

Re: Remote GDB in -stable..

2002-03-08 Thread Daniel O'Connor
ce though :( ie I want gdb to show me line numbers of function calls and the like.. I have a debugging kernel and all of the source, but it doesn't seem to work :( --- Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au "The nice thing about s

Serial GDB hangs

2002-03-13 Thread Daniel O'Connor
uires breaking to the debugger manually after restarting GDB which isn't exactly desirable :( It seems more reliable at 9600 but I would have thought a K7 1Ghz could go a bit faster :-/ (Gdb is running on a PIII-700 laptop) --- Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis

PCI read config functions

2002-03-13 Thread Daniel O'Connor
I_DC_SIO_PORT, &nport)) != PCIBIOS_SUCCESSFUL) break; And I think the equiv would be -> tmp = pci_read_config(dev, PCI_DC_SIO_PORT, /*bytes*/1); printf("pccom: number of ports - %d\n", tmp); However this just ends up printing 0. (PCI_DC_SIO_PORT is 0x2f) --

Porting a userland NFS server

2002-03-13 Thread Daniel O'Connor
n be read with no problem, _but_ the dump of NFS traffic doesn't show a read for that file. I have ethereal dumps of a working FreeBSD NFS loopback mount and broken file requests etc if anyone's interested. It would be nice to get this working as the project looks quite useful :) ---

Re: PCI read config functions

2002-03-13 Thread Daniel O'Connor
ridge pci driver and it works. I believe so.. The code I pasted is in the probe routine of the device just after a check that the vendor and device ID are correct. Perhaps not all of it is mapped? (or isn't during probe?) Or some other straw grabbing statement :) --- Daniel O'Conno

Re: PCI read config functions

2002-03-14 Thread Daniel O'Connor
00 0x Very odd :( Time to install Linux on the machine and see if it works there I think... --- 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 fr

Decision PCCOM Serial Card

2002-03-19 Thread Daniel O'Connor
t possesses. (via PCI config regs). Anyone else had any luck with these? --- 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 Unsub

Re: Decision PCCOM Serial Card

2002-03-20 Thread Daniel O'Connor
d it and it tried to attach and errored out I now get.. mdtest# kldunload puc kldunload: can't unload file: Device not configured Sigh :) --- Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au "The nice thing about standards is tha

Re: Decision PCCOM Serial Card

2002-03-20 Thread Daniel O'Connor
board as I have the routine to do that (we've used the PLX9050 before and I wrote some routines to read/write the EEPROM connected to 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 s

Re: Decision PCCOM Serial Card

2002-03-20 Thread Daniel O'Connor
{ 0x, 0x, 0, 0 }, Note that they sell 2, 4, 8 and 16 port versions which appear to be communicated with the same way, but I'm not 100% certain. I think they have different PCI ID's as well. --- Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis S

Re: help on PPPOE

2002-05-13 Thread Daniel O'Connor
as Ethernet interface. how will this situation works for FreeBSD > notebook to connect to internet through a usb DSL modem. Your only hope for USB is to try the net/pppoa port. It only works with Alcatel Speedtouch USB devices. I've never used it - good luck :) (I have an ethernet ADS

Re: laptop's modem

2002-05-15 Thread Daniel O'Connor
. I don't believe there are any drivers for the 3com win-modem so your only option is to buy a real PCMCIA modem. -- 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: writing a driver for the IBM ultraport camera (USB)

2002-05-17 Thread Daniel O'Connor
that vary are resolution and colour depth. V4L support would be nice but it's a lot of infrastructure. You could look at how the bktr driver API works and provide a subset of that. -- Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au "The n

Re: Getting PXE to leave an existing partition alone

2002-06-07 Thread Daniel O'Connor
sinstall. Hope that helps :) -- 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 - 9A8C 569F 685A D928 5140 AE4B 319B 4

Re: tuning for samba

2002-07-10 Thread Daniel O'Connor
[EMAIL PROTECTED] > www.FreeBSD.org [EMAIL PROTECTED] > ACNS Inc. Calgary, Alberta Canada > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message -- Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for

Re: tuning for samba

2002-07-10 Thread Daniel O'Connor
ly going to be doing zero local disk access ya? Got any 1Gb DIMMs handy? :) -- 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 F

Re: tuning for samba

2002-07-10 Thread Daniel O'Connor
the acregmin/acregmax/acdirmin/acdirmax options - if the store is static then you could probably increase them quite a lot which would reduce NFS traffic. Also don't forget to run nfsiod. -- Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au

Re: possible to expand a file for vn-device FS usage ?

2002-08-15 Thread Daniel O'Connor
On Thu, 2002-08-15 at 17:04, Patrick Thomas wrote: > Any suggestions on how to expand that file without doing the dump/restore > steps ? man 8 growfs perchance? :) -- Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au "The nice thing ab

Re: Direct video access

2002-09-21 Thread Daniel O'Connor
ching video hardware :) You can get a framebuffer mapping (DGA in X, or magic syscons calls) without having to talk to the video card directly. -- Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au "The nice thing about standards is that there are

Re: Direct video access

2002-09-21 Thread Daniel O'Connor
hope so, but I wouldn't hold my breath. -- 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 - 9A8C 569F 685A D928 51

Re: Hey, is there space for a newbie? =)

2002-09-25 Thread Daniel O'Connor
something which > could be linked in to a corresponding FreeBSD .ko. There are a few ports which do things like this - comms/mwavem comms/ltmdm audio/aureal-kmod And of course VMWare. -- Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au "Th

Re: The poor man's cryptfs

2002-09-25 Thread Daniel O'Connor
omplete and > working, which is to say neither is quite true. For production-quality > code, some work remains: Impressive :) -- 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 man

Re: The poor man's cryptfs

2002-09-25 Thread Daniel O'Connor
-current. MFC? 8-) Sounds pretty useful.. How does key management work? (or will work) -- 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 Tane

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

2002-09-26 Thread Daniel O'Connor
got part way through hacking moused to grok my Synaptics touch pad, but I got stuck because once it's in absolute mode the psm driver doesn't like the packets it outputs and resets it :( IMHO moused should do most of the work that psm now does, but I don't have any patches yet :)

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

2002-09-27 Thread Daniel O'Connor
to click'. But maybe that is just a lack of > documentation. None of those features are possible without putting the device in absolute mode :( I should just get off my lazy ass and get it to work :) If anyone is interested the specs are readily available from the synaptics web site. -- Daniel

Re: ACPI programming under FreeBSD?

2002-10-02 Thread Daniel O'Connor
o access it. > > I think the list of sysctl entries is pretty long as it is. sysctl is suited toward the type of information ACPI provides though - ie it's tree structure. I don't think it's going to be any better to have an enormous number of ioctls for ACPI :) -- Daniel

Re: inet_aton() Bug or feature?

2002-10-03 Thread Daniel O'Connor
like it is because that is how atoi and friends work.. All of this stuff was written by C programmers and it shows 8-) -- 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

Re: Radui card with FM tuner PV-BT878P +FM

2002-10-17 Thread Daniel O'Connor
radio then xmradio is OK. -- 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 - 9A8C 569F 685A D928 5140 AE4B 319B 41F4

Re: Radui card with FM tuner PV-BT878P +FM

2002-10-18 Thread Daniel O'Connor
chipset. Yes.. I have a 878 based card and it works fine with 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 To

Re: [hardware] Tagged Command Queuing or Larger Cache ?

2002-10-28 Thread Daniel O'Connor
at > good is a fast hard-drive if it's just going to break faster too? I haven't had any trouble with the WDxxxBB drives - the WDxxxAA drives are pretty unreliable though. -- Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au "The nice

Re: [hardware] Tagged Command Queuing or Larger Cache ?

2002-10-28 Thread Daniel O'Connor
ie effectively identical but with a bigger cache). Personally I find that no HD manufacturer has a good reputation - they have all made trashy drives at one point. Give the general time it takes for problems to surface vs product lifetimes makes deciding what to buy a PITA :( -- Daniel O&

Re: [hardware] Tagged Command Queuing or Larger Cache ?

2002-10-28 Thread Daniel O'Connor
> I guess if you *must* run IDE, then run raid arrays. If you don't run > either, then you can't complain if you buy the cheapest and don't get the > best reliability. Indeed, though in general I find it pretty hard to justify SCSI prices in the particular application

Re: Disk reliability (was: Tagged Command Queuing or Larger Cache ?)

2002-10-29 Thread Daniel O'Connor
ou can also purchase an extended warranty (but it costs about the same as the price difference between the BB and JB drives) -- 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 t

Re: GDB & Linux binaries.

2002-11-10 Thread Daniel O'Connor
There is also linux_kdump which groks ktrace output from linux binaries. -- 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 Fingerpri

Re: CD audio interpolation

2002-11-12 Thread Daniel O'Connor
in, but IMHO new drive are perfectly capable of reading audio without too much hassle. -- 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 G

Re: Shared files within a jail

2002-11-12 Thread Daniel O'Connor
ardlinks for this sort of thing. Make sure you mark them immutable though, otherwise someone in a jail could compromise other users of those libraries [in another jail]. -- > > Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer > for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au > "

Re: Shared files within a jail

2002-11-12 Thread Daniel O'Connor
s I can tell. Is there some way > around this? Don't think so, you're stuck :( -- 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 T

Re: Backup/restore of bootable w2k fat32 part from freebsd

2002-11-20 Thread Daniel O'Connor
think you'll have trouble unless you backup and restore the extra bits (system, hidden, archive) as well. I wrote a patch for msdosfs which maps these to suid/sgid/sticky (yes, I know, gross, but it was useful at the time). You can have it if you want. -- Daniel O'Connor software and n

Re: Backup/restore of bootable w2k fat32 part from freebsd

2002-11-22 Thread Daniel O'Connor
utes. Ahh, interesting, one of the reasons I wrote the patch was so that it could be done in a single pass with a normal backup tool. Handy to know though :) -- Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au "The nice thing about standards is

Re: PS/2 Mice device - synaptics touch pad.

2002-11-29 Thread Daniel O'Connor
en that is pretty tough :( Also if you follow step 1 you will have to provide some way of telling the psm device not to validate the input stream, because otherwise it will barf on the absolute packets. (I have done a little tinkering, but the moused/psm code makes my head explode) -- Daniel O&#

Re: Sound Card Problems

2002-12-11 Thread Daniel O'Connor
other. The stuff above is from /boot/kernel.conf disabling the devices that where disabled using 'boot -c', and can safely be ignored. -- Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au "The nice thing about standards is that there are

Re: burncd raw mode

2002-12-16 Thread Daniel O'Connor
into a file, I would > have a verbatim copy of my original, albeit less fault tolerant. > > Can this be done with burncd? Don't think so. cdrdao might be able to do it, but I'm not sure of the format it uses. It has a seperate cue file usually, it doesn't read info from the

Re: BSD voice synthesis

1999-08-03 Thread Daniel O'Connor
lly I liked the speak: device for the Amiga.. type foobar.txt >speak:someoptionsgohere :) --- 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 PGP signature

Re: Jail syscalls

1999-08-04 Thread Daniel O'Connor
would seem to be not too uncommon.. --- 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 PGP signature

Re: fetch: default to passive mode?

1999-08-05 Thread Daniel O'Connor
DE. Speaking of fetch features.. Are there any plans to make fetch use a http proxy for ftp requests like ftp does? At the moment I usually do 'make FETCH_CMD=ftp' when making ports since it honours ftp_proxy (like wget, netscape and lynx) --- Daniel O'Connor softw

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