xorg-server 6.9.0 won't build on 4.11-stable

2006-01-25 Thread Steve O'Hara-Smith
Hi, I upgraded my ports tree and found the the xorg-server port (now at 6.9.0) won't build on 4.11 because it can't find a working va_copy. I've checked /usr/include and indeed there is no mention of va_copy in there. -- C:>WIN | Directable

Re: xorg-server 6.9.0 won't build on 4.11-stable

2006-01-25 Thread Steve O'Hara-Smith
On Wed, 25 Jan 2006 23:29:20 +1100 Mark Andrews <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Steve O'Hara-Smith wrote: > > > Hi, > > > > > > I upgraded my ports tree and found the the xorg-server port (now > > > at 6.9.0) won't build

Re: xorg-server 6.9.0 won't build on 4.11-stable

2006-01-26 Thread Steve O'Hara-Smith
On Thu, 26 Jan 2006 07:26:20 +1100 Peter Jeremy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Wed, 2006-Jan-25 13:23:52 +0000, Steve O'Hara-Smith wrote: > >On Wed, 25 Jan 2006 23:29:20 +1100 > >Mark Andrews <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >>Or I suspect you can get awa

Small patch to lpr - comments, review, commit ?

2000-10-30 Thread Steve O'Hara-Smith
Hi, I have found that lpr does not pass the -C parameters to lpd unless burst header pages are being printed. Unfortunately apsfilter (ab)uses the -C parameters for printer mode control. The patch below moves pass through of the -C parameters out of the conditional block. As far a

Re: 4.1.1-Stable

2000-11-08 Thread Steve O'Hara-Smith
On Tue, 07 Nov 2000 23:08:12 -0500 Michael DeMutis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Yikes, I'm lost. > > I had always thought that the RELENG_4 tag was always going to carry the > 4.x-STABLE name. And that the BETA was really 4.x-CURRENT ? What happened > to CURRENT or has it been done away with?

Re: How can i see just -stable logs

2000-12-06 Thread Steve O'Hara-Smith
On Wed, 6 Dec 2000 12:12:44 -0500 "Ken Menzel" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Ahh- Ok subscribe to the commit mailing list and just filter what I > don't want yes?! Thanks I don't know why I didn't think of that. I > guess I was oriented towards getting in a web page or file, but that > works.

Re: More than 256 pty's

2001-02-16 Thread Steve O'Hara-Smith
On Fri, 16 Feb 2001 17:28:54 + Robert bobb Crosbie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: RC> RC> You can have more than 256 ptys; the problem is what to name them. You RC> can easily get 384 ptys by extending the current scheme slightly (using RC> /dev/tty[tuTU]*; /dev/ttyv* is syscons so we hit our li

Re: More than 256 pty's

2001-02-17 Thread Steve O'Hara-Smith
On 17 Feb 2001 17:49:10 +0100 Cyrille Lefevre <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Seems to take it up to 704 ptys (now try explaining quickly how *that* number comes up). Don't you also need to disable the test in ptsopen() on line 189 of kern/tty_pty.c ? viz: - if (minr < 255) { next

Re: IBM/Cyrix 6x86 133(PR166)

2001-02-17 Thread Steve O'Hara-Smith
On Fri, 16 Feb 2001 18:21:51 -0600 (CST) Virtual Bob <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: VB> lot. Did I miss anything else other than /usr/obj? /usr/src ? To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message

Re: 4.3-BETA

2001-03-20 Thread Steve O'Hara-Smith
On Mon, 19 Mar 2001 20:53:50 -0800 Kent Stewart <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: KS> > - -RELEASE branch doesn't change. To my mind this is all backwards. KS> Not in my mind. The -release branch always has something wrong with it But -release is *not* a branch, it is a point. It cannot change,

Re: Xwrapper - HOW_TO

2001-04-02 Thread Steve O'Hara-Smith
On Mon, 2 Apr 2001 15:19:01 -0400 "Steven D. Smith" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: SS> When I run Xwrapper as user... I get an blank screen with my mouse cursor SS> An help would be appreciated... Now you have Xwrapper installed xinit, startx and friends will work. -- Optimal hardware

Re: Further question Re: cvsupped to RELENG_4 but got 4.3-RC

2001-04-04 Thread Steve O'Hara-Smith
On Wed, 04 Apr 2001 23:49:40 -0500 "Brian D. Woodruff" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: BW> I would rather be consistent across my servers than have some be one BW> release past the others. Allow me to investigate this a little further. Do you want to have all your servers running t

Re: Trouble with 4.3-RELEASE compiler

2001-04-28 Thread Steve O'Hara-Smith
On Sat, 28 Apr 2001 06:10:00 -0400 Donn Miller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: DM> Steve O'Hara-Smith wrote: DM> > It makes me wonder just how safe -O is :( DM> DM> I think Window Maker compiles parts of its code with -O0. Must be for DM> good reason. I think

Re: tail

2001-04-29 Thread Steve O'Hara-Smith
On Mon, 30 Apr 2001 17:08:47 +1200 "Juha Saarinen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: JS> More desirable behaviour, IMO. Not so. Being able to read a directory with normal tools is (on rare occasions) useful - diagnosing a mess if nothing else. Being unable to do so brings no useful functionality

Re: FreeBSD - Linux curiosity

2001-06-12 Thread Steve O'Hara-Smith
On Tue, 12 Jun 2001 20:13:18 +0200 (CEST) "Hartmann, O." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: HO> Any ideas? If no, please have an amusement with this ... Try using the FreeBSD (or DOS) fdisk utility (or /stand/sysinstall) to remove all the FreeBSD partitions (with fdisk you can wipe everything d

Re: Staying *really stable* in FreeBSD

2001-06-23 Thread Steve O'Hara-Smith
On Sun, 24 Jun 2001 12:00:59 +1200 "Juha Saarinen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: JS> :: The tracking of stable is not for everyone. Noone *needs* to track JS> :: stable. JS> JS> Well, that isn't what the Handbook says: JS> JS> "19.2.2.2. Who needs FreeBSD-STABLE? JS> If you are a commercial use

Best time to cvsup -STABLE

2001-06-25 Thread steve . d . meacham
I'd like to know if there is a time window where -STABLE is most likely to not be getting updated. This should allow us to avoid grabbing and building source that by chance has some changes only partially checked in and then getting strange behaviour or build errors. I heard mention on this l

RE: BIND-9.x

2001-07-02 Thread steve . d . meacham
Even though about 1/3 of my FreeBSD installs need to run DNS servers, I'd be happy to see it removed from the base system. My understanding was that the version kept in the base system is what the committers and dev team consider the most stable, secure and compatible release. This, of course

RE: ie ethernet device driver

2001-07-05 Thread steve . d . meacham
You're right. The driver is still listed in a number of places including man, LINT, the source, etc. However, it is unusable because it has been removed from isa_compat.h so it cannot be recognized by the OS. In addition, there is an intermittent bug (PR 16214) with the driver. There is a f

Re: is "stable" "stable"?

2001-07-24 Thread Steve O'Hara-Smith
On Mon, 23 Jul 2001 09:52:49 +0200 (CEST) "A. L. Meyers" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: AM> A comparison: AM> Debian GNU/Linux has 3 trees: 1. stable 2. testing 3. unstable RELENG_4_3, RELENG_4, 'Top of Tree' (in CVS terms) security, stable, current(in release name ter

Re: probably remote exploit

2001-07-24 Thread Steve O'Hara-Smith
On Sun, 22 Jul 2001 03:56:26 +0200 (SAST) The Psychotic Viper <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: TV> Sure it takes time to to backup user data, reinstall of multiple machines TV> but it may save a lot of time when you have to keep rebuilding your TV> machine because your visitor keeps getting back in. A

Re: mmap busted in 4.3?

2001-12-04 Thread Steve O'Hara-Smith
On Mon, 19 Nov 2001 00:00:54 +0800 (WST) "Daniel O'Connor" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: DO> DO> On 18-Nov-2001 Cy Schubert - ITSD Open Systems Group wrote: DO> > I think that there's a greater possibility of a hardware problem. I DO> > bet it's memory. Also, there are some reported problems w

Re: mmap busted in 4.3?

2001-12-05 Thread Steve O'Hara-Smith
On Wed, 5 Dec 2001 07:05:28 +0100 "Steve O'Hara-Smith" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: SOS> On Wed, 05 Dec 2001 11:21:47 +1030 (CST) SOS> "Daniel O'Connor" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: SOS> SOS> DO> pressed to get 2 copies correct in a row

Re: Problems with large disk. (> 1 TB)

2002-03-20 Thread Steve O'Hara-Smith
On Tue, 19 Mar 2002 23:20:49 -0800 David Greenman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: DG> >On Tue, 19 Mar 2002 20:21:37 -0800 DG> >Jaye Mathisen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: DG> > DG> >JM> I dont' need a 1 TB FS, I just need/wanted to be able to create DG> >JM> multiple partitions < 1TB on a disk/slice > 1T

Re: build problem

2002-04-24 Thread Steve O'Hara-Smith
On Tue, 23 Apr 2002 11:27:17 +0200 (CEST) Richard Arends <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: RA> Hello, RA> RA> Makeworld stops with the following error. Does somebody know what this RA> means and how to solve it??? Remove /usr/obj and try the buildworld(1) again. If this doesn't work then updat

Re: Software raid 1 on root partition?

2002-07-11 Thread Steve O'Hara-Smith
On Thu, 11 Jul 2002 09:10:15 -0500 "Jim C. Nasby" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: JCN> No, there is no support for software raid on the root partition. This is JCN> on the vinum wishlist, though, so hopefully it will happen at some Er - have you seen man atacontrol in RELENG_4 lately ? I will

Re: Need instructions: build kernel on one machine; install on another

2002-08-13 Thread Steve O'Hara-Smith
On Tue, 13 Aug 2002 17:24:37 +0200 Olivier Tharan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: OT> * Dmitry Agafonov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> (20020813 18:20): OT> > The question still remains - can one build a number of kernels and OT> > then install them? This will save some time on updating a number OT> > of machine

Re: TEST REQUEST: USB stable MFC.

2003-08-29 Thread Steve O'Hara-Smith
On Thu, 28 Aug 2003 21:30:25 +0100 Josef Karthauser <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: JK> Dear USB users, JK> JK> We have made a patch available of the USB stack in -current, back JK> ported to -stable. I am looking for feedback from USB users as to JK> whether it works or not so that we can consider i

Re: burncd to makcd DVD-R backups on 4.X-STABLE?

2004-02-19 Thread Steve O'Hara-Smith
On Wed, 9 Apr 2003 14:43:43 -0500 (EST) FreeBSD <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: F> Are there plans to implement the DVD capabilities of burncd F> in FreeBSD 5.X-CURRENT into 4.X-STABLE? We need to make F> backups to DVD-R using an IDE burner. Is upgrading to F> 5.X-CURRENT our only option? N

Re: Stable vs Release vs Current

2004-02-19 Thread Steve O'Hara-Smith
On Wed, 18 Feb 2004 15:36:09 -0800 Dave Tweten <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: DT> tag=RELENG_5 --> This is how to get cvsup to give you the absolutely DT> latest, up-to-the-minute, flakiest CURRENT. This one (and only this one) is wrong - tag=RELENG_5 will currently empty your source tree. S

RE: is -STABLE really stable?

1999-12-08 Thread Steve O'Hara-Smith
On 08-Dec-99 David Wolfskill wrote: >>From: "Sameer R. Manek" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >>Date: Tue, 7 Dec 1999 21:05:38 -0800 > Unless I'm confused rather more than is usual -- which is by no means > especially unlikely -- that also assumes that the "spare box" hardware is > sufficiently close to that

/dev/pcaudio unusable

1999-12-28 Thread Steve O'Hara-Smith
Hi, Is anyone else seeing this effect ? su-2.03# cat bork.au > /dev/pcaudio cat: stdout: Device busy No matter what I do I get this (even in single user mode just after a cold boot -s). This has been happening for a while now (at least beack to 3.3-RELEASE). Is

Re: parallel printer & nlpt0

2000-01-13 Thread Steve O'Hara-Smith
On 13-Jan-00 David Berard wrote: > 1. make a "lptcontrol -p" before using the printer, to configure the > parallel port in poll mode. > > 2. modify the ppc entry in the kernel config file, and build a new > kernel >--- device ppc0at isa? port? flags 0x40 net irq 7 >+++ device

RE: More than just logging, Re: JFS

2000-01-31 Thread Steve O'Hara-Smith
> Why logging filesystems don't work: > > You generally (with the hardware available in PCs now) > can't tell the difference between: > > 1) loss of power (ok!) > 2) crash where the filesystem datastructures weren't corrupted (ok!) > 3) crash where the filesystem datastructures were corrupted (

Re: ESS Solo (1394) support in 4.0-stable

2000-05-17 Thread Steve O'Hara-Smith
On 17-May-00 Takanori Watanabe wrote: > I wrote a patch to newpcm that recognize ESS Solo and get > ESS solo mixer work.(PCM will *not* work) Do you have a variation of this patch for -stable ? It seems the ess.c split is only in -current at the moment. To Unsubscribe: send mail to [

Re: ESS 1969 sound support?

2000-06-19 Thread Steve O'Hara-Smith
On 16-Jun-00 Kevin M. Dulzo wrote: > On Thu, Jun 15, 2000 at 09:41:37AM +0100, Steve O'Hara-Smith wrote: >> >> There was a patch by Takanori Watanabe that got the thing >> recognised with the mixer working but no PCM. Unfortunately it no longer >> appl

Re: SSH failed on 4.0-S

2000-06-19 Thread Steve O'Hara-Smith
On 19-Jun-00 Alessandro de Manzano wrote: > On Mon, 19 Jun 2000 13:54:52 +0200, Brad Knowles wrote: > >> If you upgrade with the /usr/ports/security/rsaintl library, that > > argh! I have not that port! :-? > > I've only security/rsaref I think that should be /usr/ports/securit

Re: AMD K6-2 / 550

2000-07-03 Thread Steve O'Hara-Smith
Hi, A possibility (only). I have two AMD K6-2 boxes currently both of which work fine. BUT on one of them if I use the loader then I get crashes, unrecoverable disc errors and all sorts of nasty things. Booting straight into the kernel is fine, I can run forever under heavy load.

RE: Bad sound output, AudioPCI ES1371, 4.0-STABLE

2000-07-12 Thread Steve O'Hara-Smith
On 11-Jul-00 Joseph Scott wrote: > running 4-STABLE (from 10 Jul 2000) and putting out really crummy > sound ouput. FWIW, my June 30th 4-STABLE is driving one of these (an SB128 to be exact) very nicely indeed. I might try updating that box to see if the sound breaks, but I'm a little wo

Re: Color ls

2000-07-19 Thread Steve O'Hara-Smith
TERM to xterm-color which also makes most other X apps work in colour. The trick is *customization: -color In .Xdefaults (or anything else that sets X resources). I gather (I have not tested) that this even does the right thing if you run an xterm on a mono X-Server. -- Steve O

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