Re: acroread4

2000-12-11 Thread Wilko Bulte
On Mon, Dec 11, 2000 at 11:31:42PM -0600, Bruce Albrecht wrote: > H writes: > > Do you know a better alternative ? My acroread4 turns purple all the > > time :-( which makes the text unreadable. > > IIRC, acroread has problems if X is running at bpp 24, but works fine > at other color depths.

Re: How come accounting limits of login.conf still doesn't work?!

2000-12-11 Thread James Lim
Hi there, Perhaps you would like to give an example of ur login.conf here and give us a brief description of the problem? James Lim Technical Support Executive Pacific Internet Limited 89 Science Park Drive #02-05/06 The Rutherford Singapore 118261 Finger [EMAIL PROTECTED] for PGP key. --

bad BIOS service directory!

2000-12-11 Thread Jason Neumann
Greetings, I was just about to upgrade a machine from 3.4-R to 3.5-Stable. While performing a cvs up of ports and stable source the machine took a dump and rebooted. I noticed the above message while the kernel was loading. Does anyone know what, 'bad BIOS service directory!" means? Thank you

Re: /dev

2000-12-11 Thread Vivek Khera
> "y" == youlgok <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: y> Hi, All: y> After completely installing 4.2-stable-20001208, I re-built a custom y> kernel in order to use parallel port zip drive; however, it just hang y> when I try to use /dev as instructed in y> http://www.freebsd.org/FAQ/hardware.html#ZIP

Re: sendmail, rbl & orbs

2000-12-11 Thread Roman Shterenzon
On Thu, 7 Dec 2000, Lauri Laupmaa wrote: > On 6 Dec 2000, at 16:58, Jason Neumann wrote: > > > You asked for it and you're getting it! Please follow these instructions > > carefully. I am assuming you are running 4.2-STABLE. If you are running > > an earlier version of FreeBSD the cf file may be

shutdown -r and reboot

2000-12-11 Thread Michael Remski
Wondering if anyone else is seeing this: Fresh install from 4.2 release ISO image everything installs ok, custom kernel: Basically GENERIC with ide stripped out (all SCSI system) boots and runs fine, usually in X linux emulation loaded at boot time type in either "shutdown -r now" or "reboot" and

Re: Different gcc optimisations cause IP packet CRC problems

2000-12-11 Thread Mark Powell
On Mon, 11 Dec 2000, Chris Faulhaber wrote: > No, but you may want to review the mailing list archives since GCC > optimization problems have been rehash many times (see also the notes > in /etc/defaults/make.conf WRT optimization). I hadn't seen those comments. I didn't think gcc could be *that

Re: MFS sizes

2000-12-11 Thread Vivek Khera
> "KK" == Ken \\" Escape Meta Alt Control "Shift " " Kanno writes: KK> I am not able to create MFS ramdisks larger than about 500MB. This KK> seems to be because I nor mkfs are able to malloc more than 520185 KK> k of RAM. I've tried 768 and 1024MB of RAM in my machine as well KK> as swap si

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2000-12-11 Thread Alasdair Ramsay
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RE: MySQLd not using both CPUs

2000-12-11 Thread Vivek Khera
> "DS" == David Schwartz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> And from your experience, can the LinuxThreads take place of the >> pthreads library in all aspects? DS> Yes. My question is do you still need to link libc_r to get thread-safe versions of all the other functions or are they all th

Different gcc optimisations cause IP packet CRC problems

2000-12-11 Thread Mark Powell
Hi, On a PIII 600E, compiling a week old 4.2S kernel with the following options: -O2 -fomit-frame-pointer -mpentium -march=pentium -pipe Cause the kernel to produce TCP CRC errors when talking to certain IP addresses. It generally seemed to get the 2nd octet of the CRC out by one i.e. 0xb9f7 b

Re: Different gcc optimisations cause IP packet CRC problems

2000-12-11 Thread Chris Faulhaber
On Mon, Dec 11, 2000 at 03:34:19PM +, Mark Powell wrote: > On Mon, 11 Dec 2000, Thomas T. Veldhouse wrote: > > > I generally don't compile the kernel with any optimizations except > > "-O -pipe". I never have a problem - and I don't have any performance > > differences that have been noticab

Re: Different gcc optimisations cause IP packet CRC problems

2000-12-11 Thread Mark Powell
On Mon, 11 Dec 2000, Thomas T. Veldhouse wrote: > I generally don't compile the kernel with any optimizations except > "-O -pipe". I never have a problem - and I don't have any performance > differences that have been noticable. Well okay. But this isn't supposed to happen. Is it? Cheers. Ma

Re: Different gcc optimisations cause IP packet CRC problems

2000-12-11 Thread Thomas T. Veldhouse
I generally don't compile the kernel with any optimizations except "-O -pipe". I never have a problem - and I don't have any performance differences that have been noticable. Tom Veldhouse [EMAIL PROTECTED] - Original Message - From: "Mark Powell" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECT

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2000-12-11 Thread Jose Novoa
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Re: /dev and //port

2000-12-11 Thread Michel Talon
On Mon, Dec 11, 2000 at 04:24:20AM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Hi, All: > > After completely installing 4.2-stable-20001208, I re-built a custom > kernel in order to use parallel port zip drive; however, it just hang > when I try to use /dev as instructed in There is no need to rebuild any

Re: pcm0: problem

2000-12-11 Thread Dag-Erling Smorgrav
Antoine Beaupre <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > That sounds like an interrupt conflict to me. Not necessarily. Could be just cheap hardware. I used to have a box where you could detect harddisk activity by listening to the output of the (on-board) audio codec. The sound wouldn't skip or loop or any

Re: PCIOCGETCONF/PCIOCREAD requires write permission?

2000-12-11 Thread Dag-Erling Smorgrav
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