Re: Western Digital hard disks and ATA timeouts

2008-11-09 Thread Joe Kelsey
Søren Schmidt wrote: On 7Nov, 2008, at 20:12 , Peter Wemm wrote: On Thu, Nov 6, 2008 at 11:17 PM, Jeremy Chadwick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: [..] As stated, FreeBSD's ATA command timeout is hard-set to 5 seconds, and is not adjustable without editing the ATA code yourself and increasing the v

Re: xorg 7.4 keyboard localisation (xorg.conf vs hal)

2009-02-01 Thread Joe Kelsey
Sebastien Chassot wrote: On Sun, 2009-02-01 at 17:19 +, Daniel Bye wrote: On Sun, Feb 01, 2009 at 05:42:39PM +0100, Sebastien Chassot wrote: Hi, I've upgrade to xorg7.4 and apparently keyboard and mouse are now working with hald. In xorg.conf changing "old" keybord config as no ef

Re: xorg 7.4 keyboard localisation (xorg.conf vs hal)

2009-02-02 Thread Joe Kelsey
Robert Noland wrote: On Sun, 2009-02-01 at 14:10 -0800, Joe Kelsey wrote: Sebastien Chassot wrote: On Sun, 2009-02-01 at 17:19 +, Daniel Bye wrote: On Sun, Feb 01, 2009 at 05:42:39PM +0100, Sebastien Chassot wrote: Hi, I've upgrade to xorg7.

Re: xorg 7.4 keyboard localisation (xorg.conf vs hal)

2009-02-02 Thread Joe Kelsey
Robert Noland wrote: man xorg.conf search for Input... This provides absolutely no help. I look at my /var/log/Xorg.0.log and it tells me nothing. If I remove the keyboard and mouse input devices from xorg.conf, the log tells me that it is disabling all input devices and never says anyt

Re: xorg 7.4 keyboard localisation (xorg.conf vs hal)

2009-02-03 Thread Joe Kelsey
Robert Noland wrote: On Tue, 2009-02-03 at 15:07 +0100, Sebastien Chassot wrote: On Mon, 2009-02-02 at 16:05 -0500, Robert Noland wrote: On Mon, 2009-02-02 at 12:43 -0800, Joe Kelsey wrote: Robert Noland wrote: man xorg.conf search for Input... This

6.3-RELEASE versus 5.2-RELEASE

2008-06-09 Thread Joe Kelsey
I think I have finally decoded Jo Rhett's issue. It is very hard to decipher because the poster refuses to exactly identify their problem. The entire problem comes down to the definition of -RELEASE. Jo apparantly feels that they can ONLY run -RELEASE branded code at their workplace. That m

Closing the Jo Rhett argument

2008-06-09 Thread Joe Kelsey
Jo Rhett has clearly stated (in offline reply) that they do not participate in the -BETA and-RC cycles leading up to -RELEASE, so they therefore do not have any issues with -RELEASE and EoL to raise. Actually, they still have the same complaints to raise about EoL, but since they refuse to par

Re: DVD-RW doesn't write

2008-06-10 Thread Joe Kelsey
Jerahmy Pocott wrote: On loading atapicam module it says: acd0: FAILURE - INQUIRY ILLEGAL REQUEST asc=0x24 ascq=0x00 I have never managed to use burncd with any drive. In order to use atapicam, you must enable the pass? devices. My devfs.conf contains: # Commonly used by many ports link

Heimdal version in system is ancient!

2004-11-10 Thread Joe Kelsey
Why is the version of Heimdal in the base system 0.5.1? The port has 0.6.1 in /usr/ports/security/heimdal. How are we supposed to do any useful work when the system version of a product is in direct conflict with a port version? How do I get the latest version of Heimdal into the system? /Joe

Re: the best graphicscard for FreeBSD

2004-11-25 Thread Joe Kelsey
On Thu, 2004-11-25 at 20:36 +0100, alex bustamante wrote: > On Thu, 2004-11-25 at 19:43 +0100, Fredrik Eriksson wrote: > > On Thu, Nov 25, 2004 at 06:07:36PM +, Mark Dixon wrote: > > > On Thursday 25 Nov 2004 17:52, Joe Kelsey wrote: > > > > > > > &

Fixing Posix semaphores

2004-12-13 Thread Joe Kelsey
I have a desire to fix posix semaphores in at least 5.3. The current implementation doesn't actually follow the "spirit" of the standard, even though it technically qualifies in a somewhat degraded sense. I refer to the fact that the current implementation treats posix semaphores as completely co

4.10 vs. 5.3: iswcntrl

2005-01-08 Thread Joe Kelsey
I am helping a friend work out problems with the latest release of streamripper. I run 5.3, he runs 4.10. The issue we currently have concerns iswcntrl, or rather the lack of iswcntrl in 4.10. Has thought been given to any sort of MFC to 4.11 or is his only recourse upgrading to 5.3? /Joe ___

gmirror Issues

2007-03-25 Thread Joe Kelsey
I am having a real hard time with gmirror. I recently bought two new 400G SATA disks and I want to mirror them. I think I am following the directions, but I am not sure. I generally do the following steps: edit /boot/loader.conf to add geom_mirror_load. reboot into single-user gmirror label

Re: gmirror Issues

2007-03-25 Thread Joe Kelsey
Ivan Voras wrote: Joe Kelsey wrote: So, after loading the mirror stuff, I regularly lock up the system by trying to perform simple activities on the mirror. What do I need to do differently? Here are the relevant dmesg lines: atapci0: port 0xa000-0xa007,0x9800-0x9803,0x9400-0x9407,0x9000

Re: gmirror Issues

2007-03-26 Thread Joe Kelsey
Joe Kelsey wrote: I am having a real hard time with gmirror. I recently bought two new 400G SATA disks and I want to mirror them. I think I am following the directions, but I am not sure. I generally do the following steps: edit /boot/loader.conf to add geom_mirror_load. reboot into single

relocation truncated to fit

2007-04-08 Thread Joe Kelsey
I have a problem reported to me in ports/65 about ksh93 not compiling on the sparc64 platform due to the linker reporting "relocation truncated to fit". This is an error I have never seen. I know for a fact that it is not strictly a sparc64 platform issue as I have seen reference to it in

DVD Device Errors

2007-05-01 Thread Joe Kelsey
FreeBSD zircon.zircon.seattle.wa.us 6.2-STABLE FreeBSD 6.2-STABLE #2: Sun Apr 22 14:47:33 PDT 2007 [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/ZIRCON amd64 I have a Sony RW DVD hooked up to my system and it does not operate properly. Here is the dmesg: acd0: DVDR at ata0-master UDMA66 Whe

Logitech MX700 Moiuse Prblems

2006-03-30 Thread Joe Kelsey
I have read many messages on the various lists concerning the Logitech MX700 mouse and button problems, especially with the scrolling wheel. The message that provided me the real clue to what is going on was the one to hardware@ by Joe Schmoe that went through a very complex setup involving xorg.co

USB Mosue Driver Problems

2006-04-01 Thread Joe Kelsey
I have a Logitech MX700 USB Wireless mouse. A few days ago I posted about changing the usbd.conf entry to swap buttons 4 and 6 and buttons 5 and 7 to get the wheel scrolling to work correctly. Last night, I rebooted my system and the moused was started from rc.conf instead of usbd.conf! Since wh

Problems Booting 6.0 RC1 on ia64

2005-10-22 Thread Joe Kelsey
I am trying to boot up 6.0 RC1 on a brand new ia64 box. I have an ASUS A8V motherboard with an AMD64 3800. I have a DVD writer attached to the ATA bus and two SATA disk drives. On my x86 box (5.4), I download the 6.0 RC1 ia64 disc ISO images and burn them onto CD-ROM. I then take the new CD-ROM

Problem with moused or XFree86-4.03

2001-03-21 Thread Joe Kelsey
John Merryweather Cooper writes: > After installing XFree86-4.03 (XFree86-4.02 had worked just fine), > I found myself with a mouse that would not function under X. The > pointer would appear, but it would be pinned at the top-most scan line > of the monitor--able to move laterally, but not v

Re: Staying *really stable* in FreeBSD

2001-06-25 Thread Joe Kelsey
Mike Porter writes: > [Lots of rambling ideas ...] First of all Mike, quite an interesting post. Unfortuantely, either the author of the book didn't understand or didn't explain the CMM well enough for you to be able to use it. I have worked as a Software Quality Engineer (really doing Quality,

Re: Hardware RAID vs vinum

2002-05-29 Thread Joe Kelsey
On Wed, 2002-05-29 at 07:11, Scott Long wrote: > On Wed, May 29, 2002 at 01:42:11PM +0930, Greg 'groggy' Lehey wrote: > > > > I'm sure that there are good reasons for small stripe sizes. I don't > > believe that efficiency is one of them. I think your problem is that > > you're looking at singl

Re: Posix semaphore problem

2003-03-23 Thread Joe Kelsey
On Sun, 2003-03-23 at 16:06, Mikhail Kruk wrote: > I beleive he is not using SYS V Semaphors but rahter POSIX semaphors. I > don't know about 5.0, but they are definitely not supported in 4.x Posix semaphores in 5.0 are supported with a kludged-together mess of SYSV semaphores and posix-threads..

Tools to modify shared libraries

2003-06-16 Thread Joe Kelsey
Has anyone ever come across general-purpose tools for modifying shared libraries? What I want to do is to edit the list of "needed" shared libraries to correct the common mistakes that developers make in creating shared objects with large lists of shared libraries. Specifically, I want to modi

/etc/libmap.conf MFC?

2003-06-20 Thread Joe Kelsey
Does anyone have plans to MFC the /etc/libmap.conf functionality into stable? Just for curiosity, I tried the original patch on my stable sources and that patch applied with no errors. I have seen messages on CURRENT talking about fixes for various bugs, so I suspect that applying the original pa

Re: 4.9 Boot Hang when USB Devices Attached

2003-09-26 Thread Joe Kelsey
Brandon Fosdick wrote: Joe Kelsey wrote: When I upgraded to fix the OpenSSH problems, the system started hanging at boot time right after the USB/OHCI messages whenever I had devices plugged into the USB ports (mainly a USB mouse). Now, in order to boot, I have to unplug the mouse and wait for

Re: 4.9 Boot Hang when USB Devices Attached

2003-09-26 Thread Joe Kelsey
Kent Stewart wrote: On Friday 26 September 2003 12:06 pm, Joe Kelsey wrote: Brandon Fosdick wrote: Joe Kelsey wrote: When I upgraded to fix the OpenSSH problems, the system started hanging at boot time right after the USB/OHCI messages whenever I had devices plugged into the USB ports (mainly a

Re: Patch for boot-time USB hangs in 4.9-PRERELEASE

2003-09-27 Thread Joe Kelsey
On Sat, 2003-09-27 at 06:05, Ian Dowse wrote: > Could people who are experiencing boot-time hangs in 4.9-PRERELEASE > try the following patch to see if it helps? I've had one positive > report so far, but it would be helpful to get more feedback to > determine if this is the right fix to be committ

Re: Using pam_ssh with gdm

2003-10-14 Thread Joe Kelsey
Volker Stolz wrote: Am 13. Oct 2003 um 16:56 CEST schrieb Joe Kelsey: first try, logging the following to syslog: Oct 13 07:24:30 zircon gdm[186]: Couldn't open session for joek Then, gdm resets and I reenter the password and passphrase. The second time, I get in. Apparantly, now ssh-agen

VersaLogic VSBC-8 Motherboard

2004-05-20 Thread Joe Kelsey
I have a VersaLogic VSBC-8 motherboard (PC104 style). I want to write a device driver to deal with the built-in A-D circuitry, among other things. I have plans to take the labpc device driver and heavily modify it for my purposes. My question, has anyone else already done this or something simil

No Thanks for All the Help

2004-05-26 Thread Joe Kelsey
Gee, I ask a seemingly simple question about connecting a very simple driver to the system and all of ZERO people chime in with help. The only thing anyone had to say involved something like "Read and update isa_compat.h" and I can take it from there! However, noone said that or anything else for