1 Jun 2005 22:01
2 Jun 2005 08:22
Micron Xceed Grayscale in an SE/30?
<gj <at> FREESHELL.ORG>
2005-06-02 06:22:15 GMT
2005-06-02 06:22:15 GMT
Hi, It is not clear to me from searching through the archives or the mac68k hardware page at the NetBSD site whether or not this antique video card (which allows the SE/30 to display grays as opposed to solely black and white) is supported by NetBSD. OTOH, the Xceed *color* cards certainly is. Does anyone know for certain whether this card works with NetBSD? Thanks, G.
2 Jun 2005 20:11
Re: Micron Xceed Grayscale in an SE/30?
Hauke Fath <hauke <at> Espresso.Rhein-Neckar.DE>
2005-06-02 18:11:50 GMT
2005-06-02 18:11:50 GMT
At 6:22 Uhr +0000 2.6.2005, gj <at> FREESHELL.ORG wrote: >It is not clear to me from searching through the archives or >the mac68k hardware page at the NetBSD site whether or not >this antique video card (which allows the SE/30 to display >grays On an external or the internal monitor? Please post the exact ID string of the card. >as opposed to solely black and white) is supported by >NetBSD. OTOH, the Xceed *color* cards certainly is. > >Does anyone know for certain whether this card works with >NetBSD? I just gave away my crystal ball for polishing... Well, since you seem to own the card, why don't you download the NetBSD booter and an install kernel, boot NetBSD, and tell *us*? Or am I missing anything important? hauke -- /~\ The ASCII Ribbon Campaign \ / No HTML/RTF in email X No Word docs in email / \ Respect for open standards(Continue reading)
7 Jun 2005 11:46
-Wcast-qual
Robert Swindells <rjs <at> fdy2.demon.co.uk>
2005-06-07 09:46:30 GMT
2005-06-07 09:46:30 GMT
I have put some patches to fix compilation with -Wcast-qual defined along with GENERIC and GENERICSBC kernels into: ftp.netbsd.org:/pub/NetBSD/arch/mac68k/test/20050607 It would be helpful if people could try them out on machines other than a Q950. Robert Swindells
15 Jun 2005 16:52
Pth implementation
Conrad Rehill <conrad <at> rehill.org>
2005-06-15 14:52:26 GMT
2005-06-15 14:52:26 GMT
Hi Everyone. Does anyone have any experience with using Pth to build an application originally written using pthreads ? Specifically, I have an application which compiles and works well when built against libpthread on a linux system. The code compiles with no problem using the Pth pthreads compatibility flags on my 68040 Mac, but at runtime I get an error: **Pth** scheduler internal error: no more threads available to schedule It seems to choke at a 'pthread_create()' call in my code. I'm using a 1.5.3 kernel. Any help is much appreciated ! Thanks, Conrad
15 Jun 2005 23:03
Re: Pth implementation
Magnus Henoch <mange <at> freemail.hu>
2005-06-15 21:03:02 GMT
2005-06-15 21:03:02 GMT
Conrad Rehill <conrad <at> rehill.org> writes: > Hi Everyone. > > Does anyone have any experience with using Pth to build an application > originally written using pthreads ? > > Specifically, I have an application which compiles and works well when > built against libpthread on a linux system. The code compiles with no > problem using the Pth pthreads compatibility flags on my 68040 Mac, but at > runtime I get an error: > > **Pth** scheduler internal error: no more threads available to schedule > > It seems to choke at a 'pthread_create()' call in my code. Here comes a wild guess. The pthread emulation of Pth is non-preemptive, unlike most other pthread implementations, which means that the code must explicitly yield control to other threads. Thus, it's possible that many threads have been created, but haven't had much of a chance to run, as other threads are running. This would lead to threads being created faster than they can finish their task. So try to sprinkle pth_yield calls around the code, and see if that helps. Magnus
17 Jun 2005 13:14
netbsd-3 snapshot: big problems
Riccardo Mottola <zuse <at> libero.it>
2005-06-17 11:14:31 GMT
2005-06-17 11:14:31 GMT
Hey, since I failed to get a usable box ith the netbsd 2.0.2 release I thought that trying the current netbsd-3 snapshot could do no damage. But it is really in bad, bad shape. My box is a a MacIIci, 72MBytes of ram and a 2Gb disk. I installed directly there instead than on my test disk... I got the snapshot from netbsd-daily, netbsd-3 1. the sysint procedure is still broken with regard to newfs and mount to /targetroot. I used the usual trick 2. the kernel seems to have problems, if the sysinst wasn't successful or got restarted for some reason, it would kill itself giving usually no space left on disk message and a reboot from shell causes a kernel panic. Sysinst has to go in one single step, restarting from the beginning for any reason will cause deep trouble. I assume kernel problems. 3. most of the packages didn't even uncompress properly! sometimes pax returns a "killed by signal" but most often the console gets swamped with tar and checksum errors. this with various of the .tgz (man, etc, X packages, comp...). I didn't delete the packages. I ignored the errors, had it continue so that it built devices and I could reboot, indeed the system reboots! Miracle! But X11 will fail for example due to broken library symbols (I guess indeed that the tars(Continue reading)
17 Jun 2005 21:01
Re: netbsd-3 snapshot: big problems
Christos Zoulas <christos <at> tac.gw.com>
2005-06-17 19:01:43 GMT
2005-06-17 19:01:43 GMT
In article <FA654396-DF20-11D9-90E9-000502EE4B47 <at> libero.it>, Riccardo Mottola <zuse <at> libero.it> wrote: I have a centris lying somewhere and I will try it myself... christos >Hey, > >since I failed to get a usable box ith the netbsd 2.0.2 release I >thought that trying the current netbsd-3 snapshot could do no damage. > >But it is really in bad, bad shape. > >My box is a a MacIIci, 72MBytes of ram and a 2Gb disk. I installed >directly there instead than on my test disk... > >I got the snapshot from netbsd-daily, netbsd-3 > >1. the sysint procedure is still broken with regard to newfs and mount >to /targetroot. I used the usual trick > >2. the kernel seems to have problems, if the sysinst wasn't successful >or got restarted for some reason, it would kill itself giving usually no >space left on disk message and a reboot from shell causes a kernel >panic. Sysinst has to go in one single step, restarting from the >beginning for any reason will cause deep trouble. I assume kernel >problems. > >3. most of the packages didn't even uncompress properly! sometimes pax(Continue reading)
21 Jun 2005 23:13
netbsd2-netbsd3 problems on IIci
Riccardo Mottola <zuse <at> libero.it>
2005-06-21 21:13:28 GMT
2005-06-21 21:13:28 GMT
Hey, I decided not to give up... on my IIci. I already told the story of installing netbsd-3-0 snapshot and how unreliable just the untarring was. The resulting OS was unusable with about everything segfaulting, including fsck! I thus decided to grab the netbsd-2-0 snaphsot, latest one 15 June, IIRC and just untar the .tgz on my broken installation. I kept the 3-series kernel though. The computer works much, much better! the tarballs untarred! I can now launch X! login with telnet and overall I didn't get many problems. CVS doesn't work reliably though. I can't checkout a CVS repository using ssh from savannah.org. I untarred pkgsrc.tar.gz (from current). I noticed something went wrong. I tried updating from CVS but it aborts... by untarring the package again I am notified of checksum problems... Somehow netbsd is having serious problem in the 68k platform! I don't know if there will be a 2.0.3 or a 2.1 release, but action is needed and the upcoming 3 is even worse. -R
21 Jun 2005 23:31
Re: netbsd2-netbsd3 problems on IIci
<setient <at> terra.powix.org>
2005-06-21 21:31:32 GMT
2005-06-21 21:31:32 GMT
does your 68k have a fpu?? i had alot of issues on a lc III with things like that until i tried the softfloat binaries!. you should try them. ftp://ftp.sixgirls.org/. they are in there somewhere On Tue, 21 Jun 2005, Riccardo Mottola wrote: > Date: Tue, 21 Jun 2005 23:13:28 +0200 > From: Riccardo Mottola <zuse <at> libero.it> > To: port-mac68k <at> netbsd.org > Subject: netbsd2-netbsd3 problems on IIci > > Hey, > > I decided not to give up... on my IIci. I already told the story of > installing netbsd-3-0 snapshot and how unreliable just the untarring was. The > resulting OS was unusable with about everything segfaulting, including fsck! > > I thus decided to grab the netbsd-2-0 snaphsot, latest one 15 June, IIRC and > just untar the .tgz on my broken installation. I kept the 3-series kernel > though. The computer works much, much better! the tarballs untarred! I can > now launch X! login with telnet and overall I didn't get many problems. CVS > doesn't work reliably though. I can't checkout a CVS repository using ssh > from savannah.org. > > I untarred pkgsrc.tar.gz (from current). I noticed something went wrong. I > tried updating from CVS but it aborts... by untarring the package again I am > notified of checksum problems... > > Somehow netbsd is having serious problem in the 68k platform! I don't know if > there will be a 2.0.3 or a 2.1 release, but action is needed and the upcoming(Continue reading)
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