Re: K6-III wrtalloc + mtrr support ?

1999-10-30 Thread Daniel O'Connor
On 30-Oct-99 Andrew Atrens wrote: > I remember this now, I was one of those that got bit by this problem. What > I recall is that MTRR support made a dramatic speed improvement, but alas > was _extremely_ unstable. That was when I had an ATI Expert@Work card. > Since then I've gotten a 3dfx V

Re: /usr/share/calendar/calendar.freebsd ?

1999-10-30 Thread Brian Fundakowski Feldman
On Sun, 31 Oct 1999, Nik Clayton wrote: > Folks, > > Is there any interest in a /usr/share/calendar/calendar.freebsd file > (which would actually be in the CVS tree in src/usr.bin/calendar/calendars). > > Milestones in FreeBSD development (50 committers, 100 committers, the > first 1000 ports

Re: copy-on-write optimized faults

1999-10-30 Thread Jonathan M. Bresler
> From: "Jonathan M. Bresler" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [snip] > 7:39PM up 29 mins, 1 user, load averages: 0.24, 0.32, 0.31 > Aspen:[209] uname -a > FreeBSD Aspen.Bresler.ORG 3.0-CURRENT FreeBSD 3.0-CURRENT #3: Sun Jan > 17 08:06:24 EST 1999 [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/usr/src/sys/compile/ASPEN > i386 > A

/usr/share/calendar/calendar.freebsd ?

1999-10-30 Thread Nik Clayton
Folks, Is there any interest in a /usr/share/calendar/calendar.freebsd file (which would actually be in the CVS tree in src/usr.bin/calendar/calendars). Milestones in FreeBSD development (50 committers, 100 committers, the first 1000 ports), dates of releases, committer birthdays, that sort of

Re: copy-on-write optimized faults

1999-10-30 Thread Jonathan M. Bresler
i gets lots of "copy-on-write optimized faults". bu tthis may be a corner case. just rebooted my box. its used for ppp with nat aliasing and is in the middle of a cvsup follwed by 'cvs update -PAd'. the box is fairly weak40MB in a AMD 5x86-133MHz. Aspen:[208] uptime 7:39PM up 29 mins,

Re: NOT! KDE 1.1.2 package for current seems broken

1999-10-30 Thread Stefan Esser
On 1999-10-28 11:30 +0200, Reinier Bezuidenhout <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > It seems that the qt-1.42 package of current is different than that > of the 3.3. packages ... I just installed the current version of > qt-1.42 and now kde 1.1.2 is working fine ... Well, KDE and Qt are written in C++

Re: -current build fails

1999-10-30 Thread Vincent Poy
On Sat, 30 Oct 1999, Leif Neland wrote: > On Sat, 30 Oct 1999, Vincent Poy wrote: > > > I was just worried > > that rebooting with a new kernel before a world build might actually > > render the system bootless. > > > > If you're worried, then just > cp /usr/src/sys/compile/NAME/kernel /kerne

Re: -current build fails

1999-10-30 Thread Leif Neland
On Sat, 30 Oct 1999, Vincent Poy wrote: > I was just worried > that rebooting with a new kernel before a world build might actually > render the system bootless. > If you're worried, then just cp /usr/src/sys/compile/NAME/kernel /kernel.new and reboot, using kernel.new If it fails, you have

Re: -current build fails

1999-10-30 Thread Vincent Poy
On Sat, 30 Oct 1999, Jordan K. Hubbard wrote: > > Hmmm, I can understand the build/install portion but will it boot > > since one machine is -CURRENT from 3/99 and the other is 3.3-RELEASE. > > Are you still running current, Vince? I thought we established over a > year a go that -current w

Re: emacs / ncurses - problem somewhere

1999-10-30 Thread Kevin Street
"Peter S. Housel" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Ever since the libtermcap / libncurses consolidation, change emacs has > > problems positioning the cursor and properly updating the screen for > > character-only devices like the console. It also affects the display > > in an xterm in non-X mode

Sv: copy-on-write optimized faults

1999-10-30 Thread Leif Neland
> > 2062637 copy-on-write optimized faults < > [cut] > > > I must have something configured wrong, or??? > > No, but you didn't read Allan's original posting, the change only applied to > -CURRENT, your box is running -STABLE ... > OKOKOKOK! Don't nag me anymore. I forgot, I run current at

Re: -current build fails

1999-10-30 Thread Jordan K. Hubbard
> I think a lot of the people who run older versions of -current, and > upgrade sporadically, have done so because there are particular things > missing out of -STABLE that they need (or want). Which is a fair point, and hopefully we'll be branching 4.0 sooner this time so the wait is not so long

Re: -current build fails

1999-10-30 Thread Jordan K. Hubbard
> Hmmm, I can understand the build/install portion but will it boot > since one machine is -CURRENT from 3/99 and the other is 3.3-RELEASE. Are you still running current, Vince? I thought we established over a year a go that -current was *not* for you since you don't take the requisite tim

Re: -current build fails

1999-10-30 Thread Bruce Albrecht
Chris Costello writes: > On Sat, Oct 30, 1999, Vincent Poy wrote: > >Well, I try to stay up to date but there are times when I am busy > > so things do get behind... I've ran -current since 1993. There is no > > real reason to use -STABLE. > >Give me one single reason why there is

Re: K6-III wrtalloc + mtrr support ?

1999-10-30 Thread Brian Fundakowski Feldman
On Sat, 30 Oct 1999, Andrew Atrens wrote: > > On Fri, 29 Oct 1999, Brian Fundakowski Feldman wrote: > > > > I disabled (or asked Peter to, actually) the K6-2+ MTRR driver a while > > back because with XFree86 3.9.16 (an alpha which uses MTRR support) it > > would cause memory corruption. It's

Re: -current build fails

1999-10-30 Thread Chris Costello
On Sat, Oct 30, 1999, Vincent Poy wrote: > Well, I try to stay up to date but there are times when I am busy > so things do get behind... I've ran -current since 1993. There is no > real reason to use -STABLE. Give me one single reason why there is on real reason to use -STABLE and I'l

Re: -current build fails

1999-10-30 Thread Vincent Poy
On Sat, 30 Oct 1999, Will Andrews wrote: > On 30-Oct-99 Vincent Poy wrote: > > Hmmm, I can understand the build/install portion but will it boot > > since one machine is -CURRENT from 3/99 and the other is 3.3-RELEASE. > > I highly advise that you read the last month's archive of the -curr

Re: copy-on-write optimized faults

1999-10-30 Thread Jesper Skriver
On Sat, Oct 30, 1999 at 06:54:07PM +0200, Leif Neland wrote: > > > > I would appreciate it if people running -current would run a "vmstat -s" > > and tell me if they see a NON-ZERO value for copy-on-write optimized > > faults. About six months ago, I implemented a simpler and more general > > o

Re: -current build fails

1999-10-30 Thread Will Andrews
On 30-Oct-99 Vincent Poy wrote: > Hmmm, I can understand the build/install portion but will it boot > since one machine is -CURRENT from 3/99 and the other is 3.3-RELEASE. I highly advise that you read the last month's archive of the -current mailing list archives: http://docs.FreeBSD.ORG/m

Re: K6-III wrtalloc + mtrr support ?

1999-10-30 Thread Andrew Atrens
On Fri, 29 Oct 1999, Brian Fundakowski Feldman wrote: > > I disabled (or asked Peter to, actually) the K6-2+ MTRR driver a while > back because with XFree86 3.9.16 (an alpha which uses MTRR support) it > would cause memory corruption. It's very strange, and something I > really haven't figured

Re: anyone have wine working?

1999-10-30 Thread Maxim Sobolev
John Hay wrote: > Is there anyone that have wine working on -current? > > I have tried old binaries of wine that I have compiled and used a few > months ago on -current and have recompiled them (99.07.31) and have > also tried the latest (99.09.23), but they all just coredump. It did > work a few

Sv: copy-on-write optimized faults

1999-10-30 Thread Leif Neland
> I would appreciate it if people running -current would run a "vmstat -s" > and tell me if they see a NON-ZERO value for copy-on-write optimized > faults. About six months ago, I implemented a simpler and more general > optimization at an earlier "fork in the road". (In effect, I avoid > the

Re: -current build fails

1999-10-30 Thread David O'Brien
> -I/usr/src/gnu/lib/libgcc/../../../contrib/egcs/gcc -I. -fexceptions > -DIN_GCC -I/usr/obj/usr/src/tmp/usr/include -DL_mulsi3 -o _mulsi3.o > /usr/src/gnu/lib/libgcc/../../../contrib/egcs/gcc/libgcc1.c > *** Signal 12 ...snip... > Any ideas? YES. DELETE, YES DELETE, CURRENT FROM YOUR MACH

anyone have wine working?

1999-10-30 Thread John Hay
Is there anyone that have wine working on -current? I have tried old binaries of wine that I have compiled and used a few months ago on -current and have recompiled them (99.07.31) and have also tried the latest (99.09.23), but they all just coredump. It did work a few months ago, so I would gues

Re: -current build fails

1999-10-30 Thread Vincent Poy
On Sat, 30 Oct 1999, Chris D. Faulhaber wrote: > On Sat, 30 Oct 1999, Vincent Poy wrote: > > > /usr/src/gnu/lib/libgcc/../../../contrib/egcs/gcc/libgcc1.c > > *** Signal 12 > > > > Read /usr/src/UPDATING (19990929 entry) and build/install a new kernel > before making world Hmmm, I can

Re: -current build fails

1999-10-30 Thread Chris D. Faulhaber
On Sat, 30 Oct 1999, Vincent Poy wrote: > /usr/src/gnu/lib/libgcc/../../../contrib/egcs/gcc/libgcc1.c > *** Signal 12 > Read /usr/src/UPDATING (19990929 entry) and build/install a new kernel before making world - Chris D. Faulhaber <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> | All the true gurus I've met never Sy

-current build fails

1999-10-30 Thread Vincent Poy
echo '#include "i386/att.h"' >> tm.h echo '#include "i386/freebsd.h"' >> tm.h echo '#include "i386/perform.h"' >> tm.h cc -c -O -pipe -I/usr/src/gnu/lib/libgcc/../../../contrib/egcs/gcc/config -I/usr/src/gnu/lib/libgcc/../../../contrib/egcs/gcc -I. -fexceptions -DIN_GCC -I/usr/obj/usr/src/tmp/usr/

Re: -stable to -current

1999-10-30 Thread Marcel Moolenaar
Doug White wrote: > On Fri, 29 Oct 1999, Ben Rosengart wrote: > > On Fri, 29 Oct 1999, Doug White wrote: > > > I still hate the way the signal change was handled. > > How would you have done it differently? As I understand it, the pain > > was more or less inevitable. > > Perhaps, but there must