Default console font

Folks...

Might I suggest changing the default console font to FONT_VT220L8x16?  
It looks a LOT better than the Gallant font on a Mac screen.

         -- Jason R. Thorpe <thorpej <at> wasabisystems.com>

Re: Default console font

On Sat, Nov 01, 2003 at 04:30:58PM -0800, Jason Thorpe wrote:
> Folks...
> 
> Might I suggest changing the default console font to FONT_VT220L8x16?  
> It looks a LOT better than the Gallant font on a Mac screen.

What sizes of display (in inches and pixels) are you dealing with?
What looks bad about Gallant?  Because of my nearsightedness, I enjoy
Gallant, but I can see that other people would consider it too big.

Fundamental solutions (as opposed to patches or tweaks) would be:

1) if it's the dimensions in characters that bother you, see how wscons
   finds the screen size in pixels and how it converts that to a number
   of characters, and fix the code if necessary.  Under 1.5 the behavior
   is not obvious -- I get strange margins at certain screen resolutions.
   1.6 may have changed things.
2) Get wscons to allow font loading so people can choose their own fonts.

Unfortunately I haven't looked through wscons enough.  I don't even know
who could explain it.

-- Derek

weird compiler failure

I have a 9600/200 MP that I'm running 1.6 on.  It seems to work OK,
until I try to use the system compiler.  The compiler consistently
exits with a SEGV.

Of course at this stage, I start to suspect a bad memory module.

But I have swapped memory modules from a working system that did not
have this problem, to no avail.  Could the motherboard be bad in some
way?  Any ideas about what else might be wrong here?

-russ

6500 of ide detection

I just got a PMac 6500 and installed a 20 GB ide drive in it.  I 
managed to boot from the floppy dirve to install off of a cd (the cd 
won't boot) after installing NetBSD I went back to the Open Firmware 
prompt and found that Open Firmware can't see my hard disk.  Other 
posts that I've seen about booting the 6500 say to use a boot command 
like:
	0 > boot ata/ata-disk <at> 0:0
If I use ls to show the device tree I see the ata bus 
(/bandit/ohare/ata) but it has no children.
boot ata produces DEFAULT CATCH! The same error appears if you enter a 
nonsenceical boot command like boot kbd.
If I try
boot ata/ata-disk
OF says it can't find the device.

After booting off an OS 8 cd I found that Apple's drive setup can't see 
the drive either.

Any ideas?

Re: 6500 of ide detection

Hi,

> After booting off an OS 8 cd I found that Apple's drive setup can't see
> the drive either.
>
> Any ideas?

Did you make sure you don't have one of those stupid IDE drives which
requires that you set jumpers based on whether or not there is a slave
drive? And the drive is set to be master? And it's set to automatically
power up?

John Klos

Re: 6500 of ide detection

On Nov 2, 2003, at 21 08, John Klos wrote:

> Hi,
>
>> After booting off an OS 8 cd I found that Apple's drive setup can't 
>> see
>> the drive either.
>>
>> Any ideas?
>
> Did you make sure you don't have one of those stupid IDE drives which
> requires that you set jumpers based on whether or not there is a slave
> drive? And the drive is set to be master? And it's set to automatically
> power up?
>
> John Klos
>
>

That did it.  It was set to master, I changed it to single, and now OF 
sees it.  Seems odd though that NetBSD still saw it while I was 
installing dispite the wrong jumper settings.  Now the bootloader comes 
up and crashes.  I geuss that's some progress.  Thanks.

Re: 6500 of ide detection

On Sun, Nov 02, 2003 at 09:54:59PM -0500, Ryan Rotter wrote:

> That did it.  It was set to master, I changed it to single, and now OF 
> sees it.  Seems odd though that NetBSD still saw it while I was 
> installing dispite the wrong jumper settings.  Now the bootloader comes 
> up and crashes.  I geuss that's some progress.  Thanks.

Um, if there's only device on the IDE bus it's (usually) going to be the master 
device.  I've had similar problems with not being able to enumerate the devices on 
the ide bus (I chalked it up to not setting the boot-device).  And I'm having 
similar problems with recent loaders.  What version of NetBSD are you trying to 
use?

- alex

How do I get pkg_install compiled?

A simple make install seems to bomb out because 'configure doesn't recognize -4 as 
a valid option'.  Zuh?

Do I need to update autoconf?  the base system? what?

I just ran sup to update my pkgsrc tree (and ran make clean-depends, and make sure 
that the delete option is in the supfile).

I'd be happy to leave everything alone I suppose, but I suddenly had a need 
to install a ruby module.. and since I've managed to update my pkgsrc tree I can't 
use the 'outdated' pkg_install that's currently installed.

I can't very well update the base system (since I'm running current, and this
would require a newer, non-functional kernel).

*sigh*

- alex

===> Checking for vulnerabilities in pkg_install-20031003
===> Extracting for pkg_install-20031003
===> Patching for pkg_install-20031003
===> Configuring for pkg_install-20031003
cd /usr/pkgsrc/pkgtools/pkg_install/work/libnbcompat && /usr/bin/env CC="cc" ./configure &&	 make
checking build system type... powerpc-unknown-netbsd1.6ZC
checking host system type... powerpc-unknown-netbsd1.6ZC
checking whether make sets $(MAKE)... yes
checking for gcc... cc

about ati M6 LY

Hi everyone,

I've installed some  days ago NetBSD 1.6.1 but I  can't get my video
card working. It's an ati radeon M6 LY. I think it is supported. 

With XFree 4.2.1, with xsrc and with XFree 4.3 sources recompilation
I get always the same error message :
xf86MapVidMem: could not mmap screen [s=80000,a=90000000] (invalid argument)

I also tried with xsrc from current but server shut down after I see
mouse cursor in twm. The log was :
(II)XINPUT: Adding extended input device "Mouse1" (type: MOUSE)
Couldn't load XKB keymap, falling back to pre-XKB keymap
(II)Server_Terminate keybinding not found

Did someone get this video card working ? And how ?

Thanks you,

--

-- 
Serj

Re: 6500 of ide detection

On Nov 3, 2003, at 03 13, Alex Zepeda wrote:

> On Sun, Nov 02, 2003 at 09:54:59PM -0500, Ryan Rotter wrote:
>
>> That did it.  It was set to master, I changed it to single, and now OF
>> sees it.  Seems odd though that NetBSD still saw it while I was
>> installing dispite the wrong jumper settings.  Now the bootloader 
>> comes
>> up and crashes.  I geuss that's some progress.  Thanks.
>
> Um, if there's only device on the IDE bus it's (usually) going to be 
> the master
> device.  I've had similar problems with not being able to enumerate 
> the devices on
> the ide bus (I chalked it up to not setting the boot-device).  And I'm 
> having
> similar problems with recent loaders.  What version of NetBSD are you 
> trying to
> use?
>
> - alex
>
>

I'm using 1.6.1.  The crash was just a stupid memory fault resulting 
from my failure to reset real-base in OF after the last time I booted 
Mac OS.