recent ports on 2.2.8-R

Hi ! What i need to do to install programs from ports collection on my FreeBSD 2.2.8-RELEASE box ? Ports collection are fresh. Just cvsupped. Is there any caveats ? -- Best regards, Andrey To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body o

Problems with installing 4.1-RELEASE

Hiya, is there any reason why "flags 0x1" got added to the atkbd0 line somewhere between 4.0 and 4.1? I'm asking as when I was trying to install 4.1-RELEASE it wasn't recognising the keyboard, installing with 4.0-RELEASE worked, after which I tried cvsuping to 4.1-STABLE which still didn't work.

Re: XFree86 4 and DRI with voodoo3

Alas, from: http://dri.sourceforge.net/DRIuserguide.html : * With XFree86 4.0 and the Direct Rendering Interface (DRI), hardware * accelerated 3D graphics can be considered a standard feature on Linux * workstations. Support for other operating systems, such as FreeBSD, is * underway. Each DRI

Question on catching SIGFPE

I'm teaching Python to catch SIGFPE, and currently I have this: #elif defined(__FreeBSD__) #include fpresetsticky( FP_X_INV | FP_X_DZ | FP_X_OFL ); fpsetmask( FP_X_INV | FP_X_DZ | FP_X_OFL ); signal(SIGFPE, handler); which executes on initialization and every time one

pow() ERANGE bug

This seems to be a bug. According to the man page: The functions exp(), expm1(), pow() detect if the computed value will overflow, set the global variable errno to ERANGE, and ... But it doesn't set errno to ERANGE on overflow. I'll wait for a day on the PR in case someone knows better.

Re: tail -f over NFS in -stable

Fred Gilham wrote: > In 4.1-stable tail -f over NFS polls rather than blocking. Yes, this is acknowledged in the kqueue() manual page. Try this patch, it seems to work for me so I might commit it if no-one objects. Index: forward.c ==

Re: tail -f over NFS in -stable

Ben Smithurst wrote: > Fred Gilham wrote: > >> In 4.1-stable tail -f over NFS polls rather than blocking. > > Yes, this is acknowledged in the kqueue() manual page. Try this patch, > it seems to work for me so I might commit it if no-one objects. Scratch that, the problem is fixed in -current

FreeBSD v4.1R on laptops

Hi everyone, Has anyone sat down and tested loading FreeBSD v4.1 on IBM Thinkpads and other laptops?? I was looking into installing it on some of my older laptops and wondered what are the trails and errors in doing this. Ken To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe

Re: 4.1-STABLE BOOT SLICE PROBLEM

> Recently, I copied a 4.1-2813-STABLE installation to a larger disk. > > I used /stand/sysinstall to create a "dangerously dedicated" disk and to > custom label it. Thereafter, I mounted the new slices on temporary > mount points on the old disk and copied the folders and files using > Midn

4.1-STABLE BOOT SLICE PROBLEM

Recently, I copied a 4.1-2813-STABLE installation to a larger disk. I used /stand/sysinstall to create a "dangerously dedicated" disk and to custom label it. Thereafter, I mounted the new slices on temporary mount points on the old disk and copied the folders and files using Midnight Command

XFree86 4 and DRI with voodoo3

Hi, I'm trying to use DRI with XFree 4 and the voodoo3 agp card, but as as I start x windows I get the message that DRI is disabled: ... (II) TDFX(0): initializing int10 (==) TDFX(0): Write-combining range (0xa,0x2) was already clear (II) TDFX(0): Primary V_BIOS segment is: 0xc000 (II) TDF

Re: 18G LVD drive not recognized

On Fri, Sep 01, 2000 at 05:53:59PM -0500, Doc Shipley wrote: > Mike Smith wrote: > > > The hardware is all jumpered correctly, there are no ID conflicts, and > > > the Tekram BIOS is set to factory defaults. > > > Has anyone seen this? Is there a solution? > > > > Not enough data to be sure. >