Yes. I did it a few days as /usr/ports/UPDATING suggests. It worked but it
took too much time (1.5 days). This is because a lot packages depend on glib
and gtk, so they have to be upgraded as well. I am just wondering if there
is any way to accerlerate the process.
cheers,
--ken
On 11/11/05,
I'm happily using FreeBSD 6 on a Centrino laptop, but wondering if
anyone can explain (for dummies) how to use the new cpufreq +
SpeedStep to throttle-down my CPU usage and extend battery life - the
way that sysutils/est and sysutils/estctrl used to do in FreeBSD 5?
(I was using est+estctrl in
Many msgs are written on disk layout before, I guess.
I have still a small question.
I'll install FreeBSD-6 on a 160G drive.
Is it OK to just use the normal layout (/ /var /tmp /usr) or will it
be smarter to create some slices extra like /home or /data ?
All slices are on the same disk, but I
On Sat, Nov 12, 2005 at 10:18:52AM +0100, Dick Hoogendijk wrote:
I have still a small question.
I'll install FreeBSD-6 on a 160G drive.
Is it OK to just use the normal layout (/ /var /tmp /usr) or will it
be smarter to create some slices extra like /home or /data ?
All slices are on the same
--On 11. november 2005 13:15 -0500 Charles Swiger [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Nov 11, 2005, at 12:57 PM, Sasa Stupar wrote:
I am quite new to freebsd. I have several applications build from
the ports collection. When some port change for a new version (I
cvsup my ports collection) how do I
On 2005-11-12 12:47, Gobbledegeek [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I wanted to know how to estimate at a quick glance, the TOTAL amount
of physical memory consumed by the system - if is it the Active
pages in Kbytes of Top command..
Not really.
Active, Cached, Wired and Buf memory is also 'in use'.
Sean Bruno [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I was looking for an answer to this question. Since my CD is actually
the running file system(is mounted), I cannnot eject it while the
system is running.
So is there a way to do this that y'all have found, or do I have to
change my CD to run from
On 11/11/05, Dave [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hello,
I've got a 6.0-RELEASE machine and am going to compile a new kernel on
it.
I've got a few questions as to the best options. This is a single-processor
machine, going to run only 6.0. Which of the schedulers should i use
SCHED_4BSD or
Hey,
I have a HP LaserJet 1010 and I was trying to get it working with
FreeBSD, so I installed CUPS and configured it to recoginize the printer
and it does, I can successfully print a testpage using the webinterface.
So I was trying to print a file from commandline with lpr, but there is
Im running 6.0 and I have som problems with the nvidia-drivers and AGP
support.
Its a SiS 661 chipset. It seems to be found:
agp0: SiS 661 host to AGP bridge mem 0xe800-0xebff at device 0.0
on pci0
And this it was sysctl says:
dev.agp.0.%desc: SiS 661 host to AGP bridge
Miles Keaton wrote:
I'm happily using FreeBSD 6 on a Centrino laptop, but wondering if
anyone can explain (for dummies) how to use the new cpufreq +
SpeedStep to throttle-down my CPU usage and extend battery life - the
way that sysutils/est and sysutils/estctrl used to do in FreeBSD 5?
I'm
Hello freebsd-mobile,
i'm a quite experienced Debian laptop user using an Acer Travelmate 8005. I
would like to install freebsd on an external USB or Firewire HD and choose
which OS use at startup (maybe within the GRUB loader). However i'm a BSD
newbie.
Could you give me some hints on how to
i'm attempting to create a stripped down implementation of FreeBSD
6.0-RELEASE and have noticed some changes in how the loader loads mfsroot
between 4.x and 6.x.
/boot/loader.rc has:
set console=comconsole
set hw.ata.atapi_dma=1
set hw.ata.ata_dma=1
set hw.ata.wc=0
load /kernel
load -t
On Wed, 9 Nov 2005, Ian Lord wrote:
Are you saying that ULE is slower then 4BSD ?
I'm new to this and when I compiled my kernel, it was clear ULE was a
better alternative for performance then 4BSD
Schedulers are one of the hardest things to do right in OS design, as they
rely a great deal
Hello list,
Two days ago, I cvsupped the RELENG_5_4 tag, and rebuilt the system
using make buildworld, make buildkernel KERNCONF=mykernel, make
installworld, make installkernel KERNCONF=mykernel. Before I
started, I was at 5.4-RELEASE #2. Now that I've done this, I'm at
5.3-RELEASE #3.
On Sat, Nov 12, 2005 at 07:36:31AM -0600, Eric F Crist wrote:
Hello list,
Two days ago, I cvsupped the RELENG_5_4 tag, and rebuilt the system
using make buildworld, make buildkernel KERNCONF=mykernel, make
installworld, make installkernel KERNCONF=mykernel. Before I
started, I was at
Hiya,
I'm having a problem with newly installed system. cvsup -g L 2 supfile
gives Release not specified for collection default with the supfile
(based on standard-supfile) containing:
default host=cvsup2.FreeBSD.org
default base=/var/db
default prefix=/usr
default release=cvs
default
On Nov 12, 2005, at 7:42 AM, Doug Poland wrote:
On Sat, Nov 12, 2005 at 07:36:31AM -0600, Eric F Crist wrote:
Hello list,
Two days ago, I cvsupped the RELENG_5_4 tag, and rebuilt the system
using make buildworld, make buildkernel KERNCONF=mykernel, make
installworld, make installkernel
Kan Cai wrote:
Yes. I did it a few days as /usr/ports/UPDATING suggests. It worked but
it took too much time (1.5 days). This is because a lot packages depend
on glib and gtk, so they have to be upgraded as well. I am just
wondering if there is any way to accerlerate the process.
cheers,
At 12:16 PM +0100 11/12/05, Frank Staals wrote:
Hey,
I have a HP LaserJet 1010 and I was trying to get it working with
FreeBSD, so I installed CUPS and configured it to recoginize the
printer and it does, I can successfully print a testpage using the
webinterface. So I was trying to print a
At 2:09 PM + 11/12/05, Robert Slade wrote:
Hiya,
I'm having a problem with newly installed system. cvsup -g L 2 supfile
gives Release not specified for collection default with the supfile
(based on standard-supfile) containing:
default host=cvsup2.FreeBSD.org
default base=/var/db
default
Sean Bruno [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
I was looking for an answer to this question. Since my CD is actually
the running file system(is mounted), I cannnot eject it while the system
is running.
So is there a way to do this that y'all have found, or do I have to
change my CD to run from
On Sat, 2005-11-12 at 14:30, Garance A Drosihn wrote:
At 2:09 PM + 11/12/05, Robert Slade wrote:
Hiya,
I'm having a problem with newly installed system. cvsup -g L 2 supfile
gives Release not specified for collection default with the supfile
(based on standard-supfile) containing:
First time using portmanager. Using command line:
# portmanager -u -pi editors/openoffice-1.1 -l -f
It coredumps approx at line 00218 or so:
MGPMrController 0.3.4_0 info: running in forced update mode
portmanager 0.3.4_0:
On 12/11/05, cpghost [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
First time using portmanager. Using command line:
# portmanager -u -pi editors/openoffice-1.1 -l -f
It coredumps approx at line 00218 or so:
MGPMrController 0.3.4_0 info: running in forced update mode
I all ready have one pr against this port that looks like it will be pending
until maintainer time out. Saw this a while bck and thought I had
portmanager working around it. Mind testing the attached patch and seeing if
it helps?
Note: my /usr/ports tree is symlinked to somewhere within my
On Saturday 12 November 2005 09:17, Alistair Sutton wrote:
I all ready have one pr against this port that looks like it will be
pending until maintainer time out. Saw this a while bck and thought I
had portmanager working around it. Mind testing the attached patch and
seeing if it helps?
On Sat, 2005-11-12 at 09:35 -0500, Lowell Gilbert wrote:
Sean Bruno [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
I was looking for an answer to this question. Since my CD is actually
the running file system(is mounted), I cannnot eject it while the system
is running.
So is there a way to do this that
On Saturday 12 November 2005 07:42, cpghost wrote:
First time using portmanager. Using command line:
# portmanager -u -pi editors/openoffice-1.1 -l -f
It coredumps approx at line 00218 or so:
MGPMrController 0.3.4_0 info: running in forced update mode
On Saturday 12 November 2005 08:41, Alistair Sutton wrote:
On 12/11/05, cpghost [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
First time using portmanager. Using command line:
# portmanager -u -pi editors/openoffice-1.1 -l -f
It coredumps approx at line 00218 or so:
MGPMrController 0.3.4_0 info: running in
On 12/11/05, Michael C. Shultz [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Here is what I get with the patch I sent you applied:
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:~ portmanager multimedia/avifile -ui -l -bu
rCreateCommandLineDb 0.3.4_1 info: executing rm
-f /usr/local/share/portmanager/commandLine.db
upgrading/installing
Hi list,
Every now and then I forget to unmount my USB memory stick. This becomes a
problem because every time I do it, I am left with a bogus mount and
device entry. umount -f makes the whole machine reboot instantly. From
the googling that I have done, I have concluded that this is normal.
On Sat, Nov 12, 2005 at 07:36:31AM -0600, Eric F Crist wrote:
Hello list,
Two days ago, I cvsupped the RELENG_5_4 tag, and rebuilt the system
using make buildworld, make buildkernel KERNCONF=mykernel, make
installworld, make installkernel KERNCONF=mykernel. Before I
started, I was at
At Sat, 12 Nov 2005 it looks like Sean Bruno composed:
On Sat, 2005-11-12 at 09:35 -0500, Lowell Gilbert wrote:
Sean Bruno [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
I was looking for an answer to this question. Since my CD is actually
the running file system(is mounted), I cannnot eject it while the system
Greetings!
I've done a buildworld/kernel/installworld/mergemaster update from
5.4-STABLE to 6.0-RELEASE. Everything went without a hitch.
I'm in the process of completely rebuilding all my installed ports
(portmanager -u -f). After that, I'll be removing 'options
COMPAT_FREEBSD5' from my
If I understand this correctly, if I want to enable a cache name server,
all I have to do is the following:
In /etc/rc.conf enter:
named_enable=YES
Run this command:
# cd /etc/namedb
# sh make-localhost
I enter the address: 127.0.0.1 in the /etc/resolv.conf file ahead of any
other entries.
I
I believe that you can't do this because you are sitting on this CD.
In general:
# cdcontrol eject
or with port /usr/ports/sysutils/eject just
# eject
On Sat, Nov 12, 2005 at 12:19:39PM -0800, Bill Schoolcraft wrote:
At Sat, 12 Nov 2005 it looks like Sean Bruno composed:
On Sat,
On Sat, 12 Nov 2005 12:35:51 -0800
Wes Santee [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I'm in the process of completely rebuilding all my installed ports
(portmanager -u -f). After that, I'll be removing 'options
COMPAT_FREEBSD5' from my kernel.
Is there anything else I'll need to do to make sure I'm not
On Sat, 2005-11-12 at 15:52 -0500, Gerard Seibert wrote:
If I understand this correctly, if I want to enable a cache name server,
all I have to do is the following:
In /etc/rc.conf enter:
named_enable=YES
Run this command:
# cd /etc/namedb
# sh make-localhost
I enter the address:
It seems that there is some problem with your glib. You might need to
upgrade it. Note that portupgrade isn't working for glib/gtk 2.8.x upgrade.
You need to use gnome_upgrade212.sh instead, check /usr/ports/UPDATING for
details.
cheers,
--ken
On 10/11/05, makisupa [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hi, I was trying to install FreeBSD 6.0-CURRENT in my box but when I do it...
Usually my hard drive make a strange noise... and the screen show DMA problems
(ok, it may be the hard drive)... but... I change my hard drive and I take one
more time problems with the hard drive... (ok, it may be
On Saturday 12 November 2005 04:28 pm, Javier Matos wrote:
Hi, I was trying to install FreeBSD 6.0-CURRENT in my box but when
I do it... Usually my hard drive make a strange noise... and the
screen show DMA problems (ok, it may be the hard drive)... but... I
change my hard drive and I take one
Hello,
Has ntp handling changed in 6.0-RELEASE? I've been through the handbook
and /etc/defaults/rc.conf but haven't found the answer to this. I've got a
machine acting as an ntp server for a network. When i run ntpdate -b IP
from another machine i get the error No servers suitable for
On Saturday 12 November 2005 14:28, Javier Matos wrote:
Hi, I was trying to install FreeBSD 6.0-CURRENT in my box but when I do
it... Usually my hard drive make a strange noise... and the screen show DMA
problems (ok, it may be the hard drive)... but... I change my hard drive
and I take one
Today I compiled some kde stuff for a few hours on my fbsd-6.0 box and
when I gave the shutdown -p now command it took minutes to complete
the shutdown process. The machine seemed to hang on the shutdown of
the pflog device. The porcess /was/ completed succesfully in the end but
I wonder what
On 11/13/05, Javier Matos [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hi, I was trying to install FreeBSD 6.0-CURRENT in my box but when I do it...
Usually my hard drive make a strange noise... and the screen show DMA
problems
. . Anyone is having problems with FreeBSD and Seagate hard drives?
My system is so
dick hoogendijk wrote:
On Sat, 12 Nov 2005 12:35:51 -0800
Wes Santee [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I'm in the process of completely rebuilding all my installed ports
(portmanager -u -f). After that, I'll be removing 'options
COMPAT_FREEBSD5' from my kernel.
Is there anything else I'll need to do
hi the new website is nice. but PLEASE dont replace the
image of beastie on the homepage with the new logo. that
thing is GOD AWFUL. most people wouldn't even know what the
heck it is or what significance it has. just stick with the
REAL daemon on the homepage. please keep beastie. thank
you.
Miles Keaton wrote:
I'm happily using FreeBSD 6 on a Centrino laptop, but wondering if
anyone can explain (for dummies) how to use the new cpufreq +
SpeedStep to throttle-down my CPU usage and extend battery life - the
way that sysutils/est and sysutils/estctrl used to do in FreeBSD 5?
On
#uname -a
FreeBSD gimpy.tcbug.org 6.0-RELEASE FreeBSD 6.0-RELEASE #1: Fri Nov 11
20:00:32 CST 2005
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GENERIC i386
dmesg attached
This box has run 5.4-RELEASE-p(x) for quite some time without issue.
I cvsupped it to 6.0-RC1 and that worked fine. I
Hi,
I don't know how long it has been like that, maybe since kde 3.4 but about 1
in 3 times, kdeinit will stay up and consume my cpu like free beer after
logout.
I resolve by killall -KILL kdeinit and everything is fine until it does it
again. I haven't found the cause or a real solution so
Remove device agp from kernel or set it to use freebsd's agp in
xorg.conf. This shouldn't cause the machine to hang though, having no
trouble with nvidia here.
On Sat, 2005-11-12 at 20:09 -0600, Josh Paetzel wrote:
nvidia0: GeForce 6600 GT mem
On Nov 12, 2005, at 2:17 PM, Kris Kennaway wrote:
On Sat, Nov 12, 2005 at 07:36:31AM -0600, Eric F Crist wrote:
Hello list,
Two days ago, I cvsupped the RELENG_5_4 tag, and rebuilt the system
using make buildworld, make buildkernel KERNCONF=mykernel, make
installworld, make installkernel
I'm feeling a bit _thick_ here. I can seem to get through my brain the
process of creating an .img file with qemu that will boot.
I can create the .img file, but how do I get an OS on it?
I've got a feeling this is a simple thing, but I'm apparently too simple to
see the path to a bootable
On Saturday 12 November 2005 09:02 pm, Dev Tugnait wrote:
Remove device agp from kernel or set it to use freebsd's agp in
xorg.conf. This shouldn't cause the machine to hang though, having
no trouble with nvidia here.
On Sat, 2005-11-12 at 20:09 -0600, Josh Paetzel wrote:
nvidia0: GeForce
At Sat, 12 Nov 2005 it looks like Thomas Linton composed:
I believe that you can't do this because you are sitting on this CD.
In general:
# cdcontrol eject
or with port /usr/ports/sysutils/eject just
# eject
Jeez, first off I didn't know this command existed for *BSD and
then read the
On Sat, 12 Nov 2005, Tim Kellers wrote:
I'm feeling a bit _thick_ here. I can seem to get through my brain the
process of creating an .img file with qemu that will boot.
I can create the .img file, but how do I get an OS on it?
I've got a feeling this is a simple thing, but I'm apparently
On Nov 11, 2005, at 9:15 PM, Dev Tugnait wrote:
sysctl -a; man sysctl
On Fri, 2005-11-11 at 18:38 -0600, David Kelly wrote:
/usr/src/sys/conf/NOTES says:
# 2. In /boot/loader.conf, set the tunables kern.maxswzone,
# kern.maxbcache, kern.maxtsiz, kern.dfldsiz, kern.maxdsiz,
#
Check /boot/defaults/loader.conf
#kern.maxssiz=# Set the max stack size
#kern.maxswzone= # Set the max swmeta KVA storage
under NOTES it shows you how to add it in the kernel just place your
settings in tunables instead hope that helps
On Sat, 2005-11-12 at 22:25
On Sat, Nov 12, 2005 at 09:50:47PM -0600, Eric F Crist wrote:
On Nov 12, 2005, at 2:17 PM, Kris Kennaway wrote:
On Sat, Nov 12, 2005 at 07:36:31AM -0600, Eric F Crist wrote:
Hello list,
Two days ago, I cvsupped the RELENG_5_4 tag, and rebuilt the system
using make buildworld, make
On Saturday 12 November 2005 11:31 pm, P.U.Kruppa wrote:
On Sat, 12 Nov 2005, Tim Kellers wrote:
I'm feeling a bit _thick_ here. I can seem to get through my brain the
process of creating an .img file with qemu that will boot.
I can create the .img file, but how do I get an OS on it?
On 11/12/05 21:02 Dinesh Nair said the following:
how does one specify a read/write mount of mfsroot in 6.0 in the
bootloader ?
apparently, the behaviour of vfs_mountroot_try() has changed in 6.0.
previously, if the root filesystem was mounted from a memory disk, as would
be the case with
Hi there,
I am wanting to copy standard output to a file.
I know that 'tee' will do this fine.
blah | tee it
but I am find that on some occasions processes will not output when pipping to
tee.
other than screen what are some applications that could capture standard
output and dump to a
On Sun, 13 Nov 2005 04:01 pm, Noah wrote:
Hi there,
I am wanting to copy standard output to a file.
I know that 'tee' will do this fine.
blah | tee it
but I am find that on some occasions processes will not output
when pipping to tee.
other than screen what are some applications that
On 11/12/05, Noah [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hi there,
I am wanting to copy standard output to a file.
I know that 'tee' will do this fine.
blah | tee it
but I am find that on some occasions processes will not output when pipping to
tee.
other than screen what are some applications that
Hello
I am having problems with my FreeBSD 5.4 gateway/firewall. When I enable a
custom firewall (ipfw) or the Simple firewall through rc.firewall my
clients are unable to resolve DNS when DNS does work with the Open ruleset
that is provide by rc.firewall. I create the custom firewall
Hi,
Is there any text-to-speech available for FreeBSD?
--
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IN THE WORLD OF SCIENCE,
NOTHING IS IMPOSSIBLE.
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On 11/11/05, Dinh C. Nguyen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hi,
I am trying to download release 4.1 from the website and I am unable to
connect to either of the ftp sites from FreeBSD.org. I was wondering if the
server is down because I would like to get a copy of release 4.1. Thank you.
Dinh
On Sat, 12 Nov 2005 23:57:22 -0500
Tim Kellers [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Wow! Thanks for that URL. I popped my XP CD into the drive, ran the
command qemu -hda qemu_basic.img -cdrom /dev/cd0 -boot d -win2k-hack
-m 256
Now if I can just get qemu to emulate my Apple IIGS :-)
You also might
Hi!
I would like to print from a Solaris 10 workstation
(192.168.10.3) to my FreeBSD server (192.168.10.1). My idea
was to use Cups and ipp protocol on both
machines since I have already got Cups up and running on my
FreeBSD machine.
Cups on Solaris seems to be up to (I can access
Festival is the engine Festvox are the voices for festival.
See /usr/ports/festival
-Original Message-
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:owner-freebsd-
[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Edwin D. Vinas
Sent: November 13, 2005 1:59 AM
To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject: Text to
Thanks. From the article I conclude that Active pages are:
Pages with page-used bit set
Inactive and cached refers to the different page queues.
But I could not correlate wired with anything. Any Tips?
Rgrds
On 11/12/05, Giorgos Keramidas [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On 2005-11-12 12:47,
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