Re: Building a FreeBSD desktop.

2012-08-21 Thread doug
On Mon, 20 Aug 2012, James D. Parra wrote: I was looking to build a desktop to learn FreeBSD and was wondering if there is a list of parts to build one or to just look at the hardware comparability list? I just don't want to order wrong parts. If don't want to

Re: Building a FreeBSD desktop.

2012-08-21 Thread Brian W.
The pcbsd project which uses FreeBSD is another option. On Aug 20, 2012 11:31 PM, d...@safeport.com wrote: On Mon, 20 Aug 2012, James D. Parra wrote: I was looking to build a desktop to learn FreeBSD and was wondering if there is a list of parts to build one or to just look at the

Re: Apache 2.2 and php 5.4.5 failing on freebsd 8.3

2012-08-21 Thread Odhiambo Washington
On Mon, Aug 20, 2012 at 11:42 PM, John R. Levine jo...@iecc.com wrote: Good thought, I just did that. Results: php5.3: works fine as far as I can tell php5.4: fails in random ways This suggests there is a bug in 5.4 which only is apparent on FreeBSD 8.x. I note that the packages for

Re: Warning - FreeBSD (*BSD) entanglement in Linux ecosystem

2012-08-21 Thread Hans Ottevanger
On 08/20/12 16:42, Mark Felder wrote: Those in on the core teams here are very well aware. Did you notice we've survived this long without ALSA? :-) However, this is very good reading for anyone who hasn't looked at Linux lately, and it's worth mentioning that this is snowballing quickly. I used

Re: Apache 2.2 and php 5.4.5 failing on freebsd 8.3

2012-08-21 Thread bsd
Le 21 août 2012 à 04:10, John Levine a écrit : Are you running pecl-APC? If so, what version? There's a major issue with the latest. Hmmn, that might have been it. I backed down to 5.3, but when I have a chance I'll try 5.4 again without APC. Tried it without APC, didn't help.

Re: Building a FreeBSD desktop.

2012-08-21 Thread Daniel Feenberg
On Tue, 21 Aug 2012, d...@safeport.com wrote: On Mon, 20 Aug 2012, James D. Parra wrote: I was looking to build a desktop to learn FreeBSD and was wondering if there is a list of parts to build one or to just look at the hardware comparability list? I just don't want to order wrong

start kernel

2012-08-21 Thread blank blank
i am beginning to question how computers work. i am using darwin 10.0.0. is there a place or way that i can get a thoroughly commented kernel of this version of unix so that i can learn from it and ask inteligent questions. i think this would be a good place to start from.

Re: Building a FreeBSD desktop.

2012-08-21 Thread Robert Huff
Daniel Feenberg writes: But why order parts? If you want to learn FreeBSD, just take any old windows box and install FreeBSD over the existing windows install. It will work fine and won't cost you anything. This was (close to) my gut reaction. If all you want it the learning

Re: Building a computer for FreeBSD

2012-08-21 Thread Warren Block
On Tue, 21 Aug 2012, Erich Dollansky wrote: On Mon, 20 Aug 2012 22:43:35 -0400 Tyler Campbell ty...@tristatesafeandlock.com wrote: Is there a list of parts for building a personal computer or do you just read through the hardware list? if you use big names like Asus, nothing should go

Re: Building a computer for FreeBSD

2012-08-21 Thread Erich Dollansky
Hi, On Tue, 21 Aug 2012 07:04:03 -0600 (MDT) Warren Block wbl...@wonkity.com wrote: On Tue, 21 Aug 2012, Erich Dollansky wrote: On Mon, 20 Aug 2012 22:43:35 -0400 Tyler Campbell ty...@tristatesafeandlock.com wrote: Is there a list of parts for building a personal computer or do you

Re: start kernel

2012-08-21 Thread Julian H. Stacey
Hi, Reference: From: blank blank gangl...@asia.com Date: Tue, 21 Aug 2012 02:11:35 -0400 Message-id: 20120821061135.210...@gmx.com blank blank wrote: i am beginning to question how computers work. i am using darwin 10.0.0. is there a place or way that i can get a

Re: doom, quake, hexen...

2012-08-21 Thread Victor Sudakov
Victor Sudakov wrote: Try games/deng. This one would not run out of the box either: Yuri, you are the maintainer of the games/deng port. What great luck! I have contacted the deng forum about deng not working and they said the software is too old:

Re: doom, quake, hexen...

2012-08-21 Thread Victor Sudakov
Josh Tolbert wrote: games/quake2max is a good one...At least it was years ago when I tried it. I see nothing in the Makefile that will prevent it from building on amd64. Josh, I must be especially out of luck, it dumps core. Script started on Tue Aug 21 20:29:49 2012 [sudakov@vas ~]

Re: Building a FreeBSD desktop.

2012-08-21 Thread Julian H. Stacey
If you have a system you want to try you can also check out http://laptop.bsdgroup.de/freebsd/index.html. That is a great resource for laptops, too bad it isn't mentioned in the Handbook compatibility chapter. Suggestion: send-pr Cheers, Julian -- Julian Stacey, BSD Unix Linux C

Re: Building a computer for FreeBSD

2012-08-21 Thread Warren Block
On Tue, 21 Aug 2012, Erich Dollansky wrote: Hi, On Tue, 21 Aug 2012 07:04:03 -0600 (MDT) Warren Block wbl...@wonkity.com wrote: On Tue, 21 Aug 2012, Erich Dollansky wrote: On Mon, 20 Aug 2012 22:43:35 -0400 Tyler Campbell ty...@tristatesafeandlock.com wrote: Is there a list of parts for

Problem with r-o access in jail

2012-08-21 Thread Len Conrad
Want a nullfs filesystem to be read-only for tech people to search-only maillog files. host machine's files: /var/log/mx1/maillog* files the maillog files are all 644 and r bit is set all along the path using ezjail jail root is /var/jails jail name is fixit mkdir -p /var/jails/fixit/mx1

ruby: Cannot create main thread

2012-08-21 Thread Ross
Hi I have an old machine running 7.3-STABLE. I tried to install portupgrade from ports, but installation failed on ruby dependency with message Cannot create main thread. I then just pkg_add'ed ruby. Now when I simply run ruby in the console it dies with the same message. What could be the

Re: 9.0 release hang in quiescent X [Solved]

2012-08-21 Thread Gary Aitken
Having run for a couple of days now without problems, I'm guardedly optimistic I've solved this problem. It appears the problem had nothing to do with screen blanking. The solution was to disable memory mapping in BIOS, whose purpose is to recover the memory addresses reserved for hardware in old

Re: 9.0 release hang in quiescent X [Solved]

2012-08-21 Thread Ian Smith
On Tue, 21 Aug 2012 09:54:14 -0600, Gary Aitken wrote: Having run for a couple of days now without problems, I'm guardedly optimistic I've solved this problem. It appears the problem had nothing to do with screen blanking. The solution was to disable memory mapping in BIOS, whose

Re: Double boot

2012-08-21 Thread lokada...@gmx.de
i had same error after some updates and fixed it with fdisk -B -b /boot/boot0/device/ http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/boot-blocks.html On 08/17/12 06:55, p...@sanciai.lt wrote: Hello, I have installed FreeBSD 8.3 to Toshiba Satellite besides Windows XP. Unix

Re: Apache 2.2 and php 5.4.5 failing on freebsd 8.3

2012-08-21 Thread Michael Powell
bsd wrote: Le 21 août 2012 à 04:10, John Levine a écrit : Are you running pecl-APC? If so, what version? There's a major issue with the latest. Hmmn, that might have been it. I backed down to 5.3, but when I have a chance I'll try 5.4 again without APC. Tried it without APC,

Repeaters [off topic]

2012-08-21 Thread Bob Hall
I'm using a repeater to grab a wireless signal and pass it to my local (wired) lan. For various reasons I won't go into a repeater is, in theory, the best way to do this. However, I'm having trouble finding a repeater that isn't garbage. I've been through 2 Linksys units, both of which required

Re: Repeaters [off topic]

2012-08-21 Thread Chris
How about overlaying the lynksys OS with something like ddwrt Sent from my HTC. - Reply message - From: Bob Hall musikte...@gmail.com Date: Tue, Aug 21, 2012 12:30 pm Subject: Repeaters [off topic] To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org I'm using a repeater to grab a wireless signal and pass

Re: 9.0 release hang in quiescent X [Solved]

2012-08-21 Thread Gary Aitken
On 08/21/12 10:22, Ian Smith wrote: Those guys were losing 768MB or more, but had plenty to spare. You? 16G so not a big problem, but that doesn't mean I like giving it away... ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list

Re: Double boot

2012-08-21 Thread Polytropon
On Tue, 21 Aug 2012 18:58:51 +0200, lokada...@gmx.de wrote: i had same error after some updates and fixed it with fdisk -B -b /boot/boot0/device/ ^ ^ lokademus malquoted command. rectify. :-) The source you've provided at

Re: Warning - FreeBSD (*BSD) entanglement in Linux ecosystem

2012-08-21 Thread Chad Perrin
On Mon, Aug 20, 2012 at 09:42:32AM -0500, Mark Felder wrote: Those in on the core teams here are very well aware. Did you notice we've survived this long without ALSA? :-) However, this is very good reading for anyone who hasn't looked at Linux lately, and it's worth mentioning that this is

Re: Twitter.com is loading slowly after updating to Firefox 13.0.1

2012-08-21 Thread Toomas Aas
Tue, 17 Jul 2012 kirjutas Lars Eighner luvbeas...@larseighner.com: On Tue, 17 Jul 2012, Toomas Aas wrote: Hello! I'm having this problem on two different computers, one running 8.3-STABLE and the other running 9.0-STABLE. After updating Firefox from 12.0 to 13.0.1, whenever I access

Re: ToS marking in pf

2012-08-21 Thread Darren Baginski
17.08.2012, 20:54, Darren Baginski kick...@yandex.ru: Hi list! Could you please point me how can I set DSCP/TOS bits for outgoing packets using pf ? I would like to mark all packets going to the specific port marked with DSCP CS3. Can't believe no one is aware..

Re: Twitter.com is loading slowly after updating to Firefox 13.0.1

2012-08-21 Thread Jamie Paul Griffin
[ Toomas Aas wrote on Tue 21.Aug'12 at 23:48:56 +0300 ] Tue, 17 Jul 2012 kirjutas Lars Eighner luvbeas...@larseighner.com: On Tue, 17 Jul 2012, Toomas Aas wrote: Hello! I'm having this problem on two different computers, one running 8.3-STABLE and the other running 9.0-STABLE.

Re: Warning - FreeBSD (*BSD) entanglement in Linux ecosystem

2012-08-21 Thread David Jackson
On Mon, Aug 20, 2012 at 10:09 AM, jb jb.1234a...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, here is an interesting comment (basically echoing other people's view) on Linux developments: http://distrowatch.com/weekly.php?issue=20120820 Reader Comments 1 o Arch and systemd (by Microlinux on 2012-08-20 10:11:39

Re: Warning - FreeBSD (*BSD) entanglement in Linux ecosystem

2012-08-21 Thread David Jackson
On Tue, Aug 21, 2012 at 9:20 PM, David Jackson djackson...@gmail.comwrote: On Mon, Aug 20, 2012 at 10:09 AM, jb jb.1234a...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, here is an interesting comment (basically echoing other people's view) on Linux developments: http://distrowatch.com/weekly.php?issue=20120820

9.0 release not dead but barely breathing after idling

2012-08-21 Thread Gary Aitken
Aargh... So my 9.0 RELEASE system no longer totally hangs when sitting idle... it seems to run quite a bit longer, waking up from screen blanking in general even after long (overnight) periods of sitting idle. However, not always. X (screen was allowed to blank after 10 min, I'm testing w/ that

Re: Repeaters [off topic]

2012-08-21 Thread rjhjr0
On Tue, Aug 21, 2012 at 11:10:19AM -1000, Al Plant wrote: Bob Hall wrote: I'm using a repeater to grab a wireless signal and pass it to my local (wired) lan. For various reasons I won't go into a repeater is, in theory, the best way to do this. However, I'm having trouble finding a