Re: problem building XFree86 (pre-3.3.6) on a recent Freebsd 4.0-current

2000-01-05 Thread David Dawes
On Wed, Jan 05, 2000 at 08:47:07PM -0800, David Dawes wrote: >I've just been doing a build test of the pre-3.3.6 version of >XFree86 on a recent FreeBSD 4.0-current, and I've noticed that >/usr/libexec/cpp doesn't predefine the symbol __FreeBSD__. imake >uses /usr/libe

problem building XFree86 (pre-3.3.6) on a recent Freebsd 4.0-current

2000-01-05 Thread David Dawes
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Re: XFree86 xsetpointer causes silo overflows (Was: Re: Fixed my MAMEd sio problem.)

1999-05-20 Thread David Dawes
On Thu, May 20, 1999 at 07:23:49PM +0200, Jean-Marc Zucconi wrote: >>>>>> David Dawes writes: > > > IMHO the problem is in the joystick driver and in your assumptions. By > > configuring the joystick in your Xserver config file, you're giving the > >

Re: XFree86 xsetpointer causes silo overflows (Was: Re: Fixed my MAMEd sio problem.)

1999-05-20 Thread David Dawes
On Wed, May 19, 1999 at 11:37:51PM +0930, Matthew Thyer wrote: >The big problem is that the silo overflows continue after I have >returned the pointer to the mouse (with "xsetpointer pointer"). > >This should close the joystick device shouldn't it ? No. I've had a look through some of the XInput

Re: XFree86 xsetpointer causes silo overflows (Was: Re: Fixed my MAMEd sio problem.)

1999-05-19 Thread David Dawes
On Wed, May 19, 1999 at 01:20:01AM +0930, Matthew Thyer wrote: >I have confirmed that the problem occurs if I just do: > > xsetpointer Joystick > sleep 1 > xsetpointer pointer > >So M.A.M.E. is unrelated to the problem as Bruce Evans would suggest. > >So the problem appears to be with XFree86 no

Re: Doesn't anyone care about the broken sio ??

1999-05-08 Thread David Dawes
On Sun, May 09, 1999 at 12:39:56PM +0930, Matthew Thyer wrote: >*** STOP PRESS *** I have just confirmed that restarting the X server > is enough to fix the problem. So my apologies to Bruce, -CURRENT > and the whole FreeBSD community in general for blaming sio. > >For the b

Re: Silo overflows and MAME can someone else reproduce this problem ??

1999-05-04 Thread David Dawes
On Mon, May 03, 1999 at 08:57:14PM -0400, Brian Feldman wrote: >On Tue, 4 May 1999, Matthew Thyer wrote: > >> My usermode ppp works fine normally as I can quite happily download >> 4 things at once without a single silo overflow (as I did last night) >> even when there is lots of disk activity or X

Re: cvsup.au.freebsd.org

1999-04-28 Thread David Dawes
On Thu, Apr 29, 1999 at 12:48:58AM +0930, Mark Newton wrote: > >Does anyone know what has happened to cvsup.au.freebsd.org? I think a disk has died. I'm on leave for a couple of weeks, and haven't had a chance to go into work to check up on it properly. David To Unsubscribe: send mail to major

Re: USB keyboard attach function?

1999-04-22 Thread David Dawes
On Thu, Apr 22, 1999 at 02:01:35AM -0700, Amancio Hasty wrote: >Just a kind reminder we can unplug and plug a usb mouse as >well as a usb keyboard currently we have a small problem with >moused that it does not attempt to gain access of the mouse if there >is a usb disconnect / connect sequence.

Re: USB keyboard attach function?

1999-04-22 Thread David Dawes
On Thu, Apr 22, 1999 at 10:18:13AM +0200, Nick Hibma wrote: >I've heard of no one trying, but I (we!) would love to hear whether you >get this to work. > >There is not problem is using two keyboards at the same time, but I am >not sure whether X can already handle more than one keyboard attached t

Re: How many people use VI? This is unbelievable..

1999-02-03 Thread David Dawes
On Wed, Feb 03, 1999 at 10:27:15PM -0600, Chris Csanady wrote: > >>On Wed, Feb 03, 1999 at 09:53:05PM -0600, Chris Csanady wrote: >>>I unfortunately have a lot of data to type in, and to my surprise >>>the keypad is unuseable in vi. It doesn't even work in vim. Thank >>>god it works on Irix--I th

Re: How many people use VI? This is unbelievable..

1999-02-03 Thread David Dawes
On Wed, Feb 03, 1999 at 09:53:05PM -0600, Chris Csanady wrote: >I unfortunately have a lot of data to type in, and to my surprise >the keypad is unuseable in vi. It doesn't even work in vim. Thank >god it works on Irix--I thought I would be using ee. > >Anyways, here is what happens when I type t

Re: Promise FastTrack PCI IDE controller

1999-01-26 Thread David Dawes
On Fri, Jan 22, 1999 at 11:54:59PM +1100, Bruce Evans wrote: >>I've been playing with a Promise FastTrack RAID (IDE) controller with >>3.0-current as of yesterday. Although it is recognised in the PCI bus >>probe as a "Promise Ultra/33" (it has the same vendor/chip ID as the >>non-RAID card), the

Re: Promise FastTrack PCI IDE controller

1999-01-21 Thread David Dawes
On Thu, Jan 21, 1999 at 02:06:22PM +0100, Søren Schmidt wrote: >It seems David Dawes wrote: >> >> That didn't improve things, but with the patch I got lots of messages >> like the following (for a disk attached to the onboard PIIX4): >> >> wd1: DMA failu

Re: Promise FastTrack PCI IDE controller

1999-01-21 Thread David Dawes
On Thu, Jan 21, 1999 at 01:21:03PM +0100, Søren Schmidt wrote: >It seems David Dawes wrote: >> I've been playing with a Promise FastTrack RAID (IDE) controller with >> 3.0-current as of yesterday. Although it is recognised in the PCI bus >> probe as a "Promise Ul

Promise FastTrack PCI IDE controller

1999-01-21 Thread David Dawes
I've been playing with a Promise FastTrack RAID (IDE) controller with 3.0-current as of yesterday. Although it is recognised in the PCI bus probe as a "Promise Ultra/33" (it has the same vendor/chip ID as the non-RAID card), the probes in i386/isa/wd.c fail. I added some debugging printfs to the