Re: Another newbie question, about makefile options

2007-03-10 Thread Roland Smith
On Sat, Mar 10, 2007 at 08:28:45PM +0100, Daniel Mouritsen wrote: So my question is, should i pass the makefile options only when running make to compile the program (that would make sence wouldnt it?) or should i use them everytime i run make as in both when doing make and make install clean.

Re: Supported graphics card on X11.

2007-02-21 Thread Roland Smith
On Wed, Feb 21, 2007 at 09:39:10AM -0800, Paulette McGee wrote: the page for that chip set. If I am not mistaken there is more than one driver for ATI. IE: radeon driver

Re: firefox hangs second time it's run

2007-02-20 Thread Roland Smith
On Tue, Feb 20, 2007 at 08:39:02PM -0500, Chris Shenton wrote: I was running 6.2-PRERELEASE (?) happily until a couple days ago when I cvsupped to get 6.2-RELEASE, actually 6.2-STABLE. Now when I start firefox it works -- the first time. If I stop it, then start again, it never materializes

Re: parallel port printer: interrupt storm system slowdown with 6.2-release

2007-02-02 Thread Roland Smith
On Fri, Feb 02, 2007 at 03:29:42PM +0100, Jost Menke wrote: Hi all, I am having big trouble getting my parallel port printer to work on 6.2-release. I am getting lots of those famous stray irq7 messages. I already knew that from my 5.4 installation which I previously had on the same

Re: 6.1BETA3 amd64 doesn't detect my floppy drive

2007-01-30 Thread Roland Smith
On Tue, Jan 30, 2007 at 04:37:50PM +1030, Daniel O'Connor wrote: On Tuesday 30 January 2007 00:27, M. Warner Losh wrote: : I did the USB/Firewire thing just to make sure one wasn't the direct : cause. Maybe we have yet another issue with resources... I thing I have noticed is that

Re: Pb with network interface and some other questions

2007-01-29 Thread Roland Smith
On Mon, Jan 29, 2007 at 04:00:43PM +0100, Stephane THOMAS wrote: The main pb I have is that the ethernet interface (bge0) works, but breakdown a few minutes after I boot. with this message (repeated) in the first VT : bge0: PHY read timeout. I tried googling to find out a solution but I

Re: rd.d/power_profile: dev.cpu.0.cx_supported doesn't exist

2007-01-28 Thread Roland Smith
On Sun, Jan 28, 2007 at 04:39:29AM +0100, Lars Stokholm wrote: Hi, After updating to 6.2-STABLE Sun Jan 28 02:57:55 CET 2007 (GENERIC), I get an error on startup from sysctl, because dev.cpu.0.cx_supported doesn't exist. I think I tracked it down to this update:

Re: rd.d/power_profile: dev.cpu.0.cx_supported doesn't exist

2007-01-28 Thread Roland Smith
On Sun, Jan 28, 2007 at 12:14:40PM +0100, Lars Stokholm wrote: Roland Smith wrote: On Sun, Jan 28, 2007 at 04:39:29AM +0100, Lars Stokholm wrote: After updating to 6.2-STABLE Sun Jan 28 02:57:55 CET 2007 (GENERIC), I get an error on startup from sysctl, because dev.cpu.0.cx_supported

Re: rd.d/power_profile: dev.cpu.0.cx_supported doesn't exist

2007-01-28 Thread Roland Smith
On Sun, Jan 28, 2007 at 04:54:12PM +0100, Lars Stokholm wrote: Whoops. I'm using 1.7.2.2, but it's the same: http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/cvsweb.cgi/src/etc/rc.d/power_profile.diff?f=hr1=texttr1=1.7.2.1r2=texttr2=1.7.2.2 Looks like this is related to the following CVS commit:

Re: rd.d/power_profile: dev.cpu.0.cx_supported doesn't exist

2007-01-28 Thread Roland Smith
On Sun, Jan 28, 2007 at 07:26:00PM +0100, Lars Stokholm wrote: Damnit, I seem to be making one mistake after another, with no end to it. I'm truely sorry for wasting your time. Been there, done that. A lot of times when I had a problem with the base system (from 5.3-RELEASE uptil now) it

Re: Loosing spam fight

2007-01-27 Thread Roland Smith
On Sat, Jan 27, 2007 at 10:58:46AM -0200, JoaoBR wrote: also a point to think about, most complains about spam talk about bandwidth consumption, by asking for resend later you certainly increase bandwidth consumption and resources on both sides Most spammers do not bother to return if they

Re: Loosing spam fight

2007-01-27 Thread Roland Smith
On Sat, Jan 27, 2007 at 09:32:54AM -0500, Jim Pingle wrote: To defeat this, wouldn't a spammer just have to send out the same spam twice in a row from the same machines, spaced apart by a little time? Yes. But in practice, most spammers don't bother. They don't use a real SMTP server, but

Re: Loosing spam fight

2007-01-27 Thread Roland Smith
On Sat, Jan 27, 2007 at 12:57:08PM -0200, JoaoBR wrote: On Saturday 27 January 2007 12:10, you wrote: On Sat, Jan 27, 2007 at 10:58:46AM -0200, JoaoBR wrote: also a point to think about, most complains about spam talk about bandwidth consumption, by asking for resend later you certainly

Re: Loosing spam fight

2007-01-27 Thread Roland Smith
On Sat, Jan 27, 2007 at 01:04:28PM -0200, JoaoBR wrote: Greylisting is a decent idea, but it seems to me that it's just another tool in the ongoing arms race against spammers. It may work for a while, but eventually they'll catch on and it will only cause unnecessary delays for legitimate

Re: impossible rc.d ordering problem with stf and pf ?

2007-01-27 Thread Roland Smith
On Sat, Jan 27, 2007 at 06:23:27PM +, Pete French wrote: Am trying to solve a little problem with 'pf'. I have a ruleset which has some firewall rules for the IPv6 interface stf0. This works fine, except when I rreboot the machine, as the pf script is run before the network_ipv6 script -

Re: can we resurrect linux-firefox-1.5 ?

2007-01-16 Thread Roland Smith
On Wed, Jan 17, 2007 at 11:37:53AM +1030, Greg 'groggy' Lehey wrote: I can't agree. It has hijacked some keys used by Wikipedia (alt-S, alt-P), and so far I've found it impossible to disable tabs, something that was barely possible under 1.5. Tell me how to fix that and I'll be marginally

Re: ntpd flipping between PLL and FLL mode

2006-12-20 Thread Roland Smith
On Tue, Dec 19, 2006 at 06:45:15PM -0500, David Magda wrote: This bug has been reported to the NTP maintainers: https://ntp.isc.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=452 It's been assigned to Harlan Stenn (stennatntp.org). There have been no notes added to the bug report after the initial

Re: ntpd flipping between PLL and FLL mode

2006-12-19 Thread Roland Smith
On Tue, Dec 19, 2006 at 04:41:51AM -0800, Jeremy Chadwick wrote: snip Dec 19 00:22:26 icarus ntpd[624]: kernel time sync enabled 2001 Dec 19 01:47:48 icarus ntpd[624]: kernel time sync enabled 6001 Dec 19 02:04:52 icarus ntpd[624]: kernel time sync enabled 2001 Looks very familiar,

Re: Problems unmounting/fssyncking extern UFS filesystem

2006-11-25 Thread Roland Smith
On Sat, Nov 25, 2006 at 05:08:03PM +0100, O. Hartmann wrote: A while ago since now I receive kernel messages like this in FreeBSD 6.2-PRE/AMD64: fsync: giving up on dirty 0xff000362c7c0: tag devfs, type VCHR usecount 1, writecount 0, refcount 325 mountedhere 0xff00504d8400

firefox hangs on 6.2-PRERELEASE amd64

2006-11-03 Thread Roland Smith
Yesterday I updated my amd64 STABLE box to 6.2-PRERELEASE. After the upgrade, firefox started to hang. I can reliably trigger this my clicking on the [Manage...] button in the Content tab of the preferences dialog. The same happens when trying to access some websites. Both firefox 1.5.0.7 and

Re: 6.x from i386 to amd64

2006-10-31 Thread Roland Smith
On Tue, Oct 31, 2006 at 10:22:43AM -0600, Bruce Burden wrote: On Tue, Oct 31, 2006 at 08:41:44AM -0500, Robert Blayzor wrote: Is there a way to upgrade/move an already installed i386 installed 6.1 machine to amd64 without completely reinstalling? Is there a procedure to do so? It has

Re: Three FreeBSD 6 questions

2006-10-26 Thread Roland Smith
On Thu, Oct 26, 2006 at 12:32:43PM +0100, SiteRollout.com wrote: I'm new to this list, so here's a hello, how are you to everyone on the list! Welcome! snip And which file do I change to use a different release, and how must I update the system to pull in this latest release? 2.) I'm a

Re: How to configure a usb device

2006-10-23 Thread Roland Smith
On Mon, Oct 23, 2006 at 04:56:50PM +0800, Sun Zongjun-E5739C wrote: Hi, all I want to use a usb network interface on FreeBSD6.1 as well as I use it snip I am a newbie to FreeBSD. How can I know whether my FreeBSD can support this devices like Linux? You need to know what chipset is in

Re: cpu usage

2006-10-23 Thread Roland Smith
On Mon, Oct 23, 2006 at 06:23:52PM +0200, gareth wrote: hi, i'm on FreeBSD 6.1, with a problematic cpu - it seems to be overheating and shutting the system down when running intensive jobs, at the moment i can't even finish compiling the mysql-server in ports. i've tried running the make with

Re: VIA C7 support

2006-10-23 Thread Roland Smith
On Mon, Oct 23, 2006 at 06:49:21PM +0200, Oliver Fromme wrote: Matthieu Michaud wrote: Oliver Fromme wrote: Also take into account that you usually don't read that much data from /dev/random. Quality is much more important than speed. you are right. do you know an easy way

Re: VIA C7 support

2006-10-23 Thread Roland Smith
On Mon, Oct 23, 2006 at 07:27:12PM +0200, Roland Smith wrote: On Mon, Oct 23, 2006 at 06:49:21PM +0200, Oliver Fromme wrote: Matthieu Michaud wrote: Oliver Fromme wrote: Also take into account that you usually don't read that much data from /dev/random. Quality is much more

Re: VIA IDE controller not detected on RELENG_6

2006-10-12 Thread Roland Smith
On Thu, Oct 12, 2006 at 11:59:00PM +0100, Dominic Bishop wrote: I am running a RELENG_6 from yesterday on amd64 and the VIA PATA controller is being detected as GENERIC ATA, from dmesg: atapci0: GENERIC ATA controller port 0x1f0-0x1f7,0x3f6,0x170-0x177,0x376,0xfc00-0xfc0f at device 15.0 on

Re: possible RAM problem

2006-10-11 Thread Roland Smith
On Wed, Oct 11, 2006 at 04:09:57PM -0400, Matt Smith wrote: Lately, I've been having Unreal and sometimes Apache on my 6.0 box crash randomly. I'm thinking it might be RAM related The best way to test for memory troubles is to run a memory testing program like memtest86

Re: /dev/null

2006-10-07 Thread Roland Smith
On Fri, Oct 06, 2006 at 08:36:05PM +0200, Ivan Voras wrote: Roland Smith wrote: Are you sure that you have no rulesets? Yup. The command devfs rule showsets shows nothing. This is on somewhat old RELENG_6. Weird. I assume that the system created the rulesets that I see on my machine

Re: /dev/null

2006-10-06 Thread Roland Smith
On Fri, Oct 06, 2006 at 10:03:11AM +0200, Ivan Voras wrote: Brent Casavant wrote: Not with FreeBSD in particular. However, from time to time I've run across a piece of software that makes bad assumptions about deleting various input or output files. If run as root, the program/library

Re: /dev/null

2006-10-06 Thread Roland Smith
On Fri, Oct 06, 2006 at 06:09:09PM +0200, Ivan Voras wrote: Roland Smith wrote: The command 'devfs rule -s 2 apply 100' should fix it, I think. ? If I read devfs(8) correctly, this should apply rule 100 of ruleset 2. Since I have no rulesets or rules, it doesn't work. :) Are you

Re: EV1 Servers makes me sick

2006-10-02 Thread Roland Smith
On Mon, Oct 02, 2006 at 03:21:33PM -0300, Eduardo Meyer wrote: if your server is re-imaged with 6.0 vs the 5.4 version currently installed we will not be able to support this. We have found that the versions after 5.4 are inherantly unstable. Please let us know what course of action you would

Re: western digital mybook (external usb drive, 250gb) takes 15 minutes to be recognized

2006-09-30 Thread Roland Smith
On Sat, Sep 30, 2006 at 12:34:10PM +0200, Brian King wrote: i'm seeing strange behavior for a wd mybook on freebsd 6.1-RELEASE-p5, GENERIC kernel. - the system hangs on boot if it's attached. it stops right after it has recognized my internal hard drives and dvd writer. perhaps it would

Re: western digital mybook (external usb drive, 250gb) takes 15 minutes to be recognized

2006-09-30 Thread Roland Smith
On Sun, Oct 01, 2006 at 12:32:06AM +0200, Brian King wrote: I've got an external harddrive with a WD disk. It works without problems; snip interesting. perhaps it's something specific to the MyBook. i'm guessing that you don't have a MyBook? Correct. no other messages related to the

Re: ARRRRGH! Guys, who's breaking -STABLE's GMIRROR code?!

2006-09-15 Thread Roland Smith
On Fri, Sep 15, 2006 at 03:41:04PM -0300, Marc G. Fournier wrote: But, I'm just curious here ... for all of the talk going around about this whole issue, how many ppl have truly ever been bitten by an unstable -STABLE? And for those that have, how long did it take to get help from a

Re: ARRRRGH! Guys, who's breaking -STABLE's GMIRROR code?!

2006-09-15 Thread Roland Smith
On Fri, Sep 15, 2006 at 08:46:57PM +0200, Martin Nilsson wrote: Hans Lambermont wrote: Why not rename 'stable' into 'stable-api' ? .. or just stop calling it STABLE and call it RELENG_6 instead, which is what you are actually fetching from cvs :-) That's a good idea, IMHO. When I started

Re: 6.1-STABLE spontaneously reboots!

2006-09-05 Thread Roland Smith
On Tue, Sep 05, 2006 at 10:55:04AM -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: This server was in production and rock steady with 4.10-STABLE for years. Before moving it to a colo center, I took it offline and did a clean install of 6.1, cvsup'd to STABLE on 8/30/06 and then installed the latest stable

Re: Motherboard RAID problem

2006-08-20 Thread Roland Smith
On Sun, Aug 20, 2006 at 10:02:05AM -0700, Bill Blue wrote: I'm not sure if I'm expecting too much, or this is a real bug. Using FreeBSD 6.1 release, CVSup'd to current. The motherboard is a Supermicro P4SCT0 with a 3.2Ghz P4 and 2 DDR400 1G sticks of RAM. On the MB is a built-in RAID

Re: Motherboard RAID problem

2006-08-20 Thread Roland Smith
On Sun, Aug 20, 2006 at 07:55:47PM +0200, Greg Byshenk wrote: On Sun, Aug 20, 2006 at 07:38:28PM +0200, Roland Smith wrote: On Sun, Aug 20, 2006 at 10:02:05AM -0700, Bill Blue wrote: I'm not sure if I'm expecting too much, or this is a real bug. Using FreeBSD 6.1 release, CVSup'd

Re: Motherboard RAID problem

2006-08-20 Thread Roland Smith
On Sun, Aug 20, 2006 at 12:24:36PM -0700, Bill Blue wrote: On Sun, 20 Aug 2006 11:22:48 -0700, Roland Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: snip ad6* were the only new devices seen in the OS. If FreeBSD supports the device, you should see an ar0 device. Do you have the ataraid(4) driver

Re: Monitoring temperature with acpi (sysctls)

2006-07-27 Thread Roland Smith
On Wed, Jul 26, 2006 at 02:52:53PM -0400, Mike Jakubik wrote: David Duchscher wrote: On Jul 26, 2006, at 11:09 AM, Bruno Ducrot wrote: Does this one support IPMI? Yes, the Supermicro PDSMi supports the IPMI 2.0 module and I can confirm that it works with the IPMI ported driver from

Re: Monitoring temperature with acpi (sysctls)

2006-07-27 Thread Roland Smith
On Thu, Jul 27, 2006 at 03:31:56PM +0200, O. Hartmann wrote: Roland Smith wrote: On Wed, Jul 26, 2006 at 02:52:53PM -0400, Mike Jakubik wrote: David Duchscher wrote: On Jul 26, 2006, at 11:09 AM, Bruno Ducrot wrote: Does this one support IPMI? Yes, the Supermicro PDSMi supports the IPMI 2.0

Re: 5.5-stable network interface rl0 stops working

2006-07-05 Thread Roland Smith
On Wed, Jul 05, 2006 at 06:40:58PM +0200, Hank Hampel wrote: Hello everybody, I have a very disturbing problem with one of our FreeBSD 5.5-stable machines. It is a box on which ~10 jail systems run, each with small to moderate network traffic. Now from time to time - sometimes after a few

Re: Canon PIXMA support

2006-06-27 Thread Roland Smith
On Tue, Jun 27, 2006 at 07:27:50PM +0300, Ivan Asmer wrote: Hello everyone. I'm interesting how to run my canon pixma iP 1500 under my honest freebsd. As I found in internet this is impossible. Who can say more? If it's not listed at the following link, you're probably out of luck:

Re: vinum to gvinum help

2006-06-26 Thread Roland Smith
On Mon, Jun 26, 2006 at 12:22:07PM -0400, Sven Willenberger wrote: I have an i386 system currently running 5.2.1-RELEASE with a vinum mirror array (2 drives comprising /usr ). I want to upgrade this to 5.5-RELEASE which, if I understand correctly, no longer supports vinum arrays. Would simply

Re: 6.1-stable hangs and LORs

2006-06-11 Thread Roland Smith
On Sun, Jun 11, 2006 at 12:09:05PM -0600, Brad Waite wrote: Hi guys, I'm going to take another stab at getting some help. For the last 6 months my FBSD gateway has been locking up every few days, usually about once a week. No panic, no reboots, just a hard lock with no response on the

Re: pf not loading the rules at boot

2006-05-07 Thread Roland Smith
On Sun, May 07, 2006 at 03:49:08PM +0300, Iantcho Vassilev wrote: On 5/7/06, Pertti Kosunen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Iantcho Vassilev wrote: Hello to all, I noticed such a problem: I have a 6.1 RC2 and i have in rc.conf pf_enable=YES pflogd_enable=YES This last line should

Re: cc can't build 32-bit executables on amd64

2006-05-01 Thread Roland Smith
On Mon, May 01, 2006 at 05:39:02PM -0400, Mikhail Teterin wrote: snip I may be missing something huge, but, it seems to me, that my little patch is sufficient to point cc to the right direction. With it I can create 32-bit executables. Thus created lame, for example (from the audio/lame port)

Re: CPUTYPE for FreeBSD AMD64 running on a Pentium D

2006-04-22 Thread Roland Smith
On Sat, Apr 22, 2006 at 11:47:29AM -0400, Pierre-Luc Drouin wrote: Hi, I have FreeBSD AMD64 running on a Pentium D and I would like to know what should I use for the CPUTYPE variable of make.conf. AFAIK, it is not necessary to set CPUTYPE in make.conf. My amd64 box is running just fine

Re: VMware host on stable?

2006-02-15 Thread Roland Smith
On Wed, Feb 15, 2006 at 02:31:49PM -0500, Michael Butler wrote: What is the most recent version of VMware known to work on 6.x in host mode so as to be able to run windoze as a guest? If you can't find a suitable VMware, try /usr/ports/emulators/qemu. Roland -- R.F.Smith

Re: devfs doesn't set access rights

2005-12-13 Thread Roland Smith
On Tue, Dec 13, 2005 at 08:49:47AM -0800, Brooks Davis wrote: On Tue, Dec 13, 2005 at 05:37:09PM +0100, [LoN]Kamikaze wrote: On my FreeBSD 6-stable (the last build is less then 24hours ago) my devfs doesn't apply permissions set in /etc/devfs.conf when I attach new devices. I have to call:

Re: devfs doesn't set access rights

2005-12-13 Thread Roland Smith
On Tue, Dec 13, 2005 at 09:37:13AM -0800, Kevin Oberman wrote: snip You are being entirely too kind. The documentation for the practical use of devfs at all sucks! Nothing I could find in the handbook, either. It's a classic case of documentation written by programmers in that the author

Re: devfs doesn't set access rights

2005-12-13 Thread Roland Smith
On Tue, Dec 13, 2005 at 11:21:43AM -0800, Brooks Davis wrote: snip This is normal. devfs.conf is for boot only, you need devfs.rules for runtime. Unfortunatly, the documentation of this fact and the docuementation of devfs.rules sucks. Hmm, it's quite explicitly mentioned in the

Re: devfs doesn't set access rights

2005-12-13 Thread Roland Smith
On Tue, Dec 13, 2005 at 08:44:50PM +0100, [LoN]Kamikaze wrote: Well, here are my conclusions. 1) The manpage for devfs.rules should mention that you have to set devfs_system_ruleset=yourruleset in /etc/rc.conf . I didn't see it anywhere. Agreed. I've posted a patch in this thread for

Re: devfs doesn't set access rights

2005-12-13 Thread Roland Smith
On Tue, Dec 13, 2005 at 12:55:39PM -0800, Brooks Davis wrote: snip What's wrong with the EXAMPLES section in devfs(8)? It's fine. Referring to devfs(8) was poor word choice on my part. I meant the system as a whole including devfs.rules. any documentation of the rc.conf variables

Re: devfs doesn't set access rights

2005-12-13 Thread Roland Smith
On Wed, Dec 14, 2005 at 12:31:52AM +0100, [LoN]Kamikaze wrote: I agree that a more flexible approach is generally better, but since it's not necessary I don't want to create an extra entry in my /etc/usbd.conf (one more file to worry about during mergemaster). IIRC, usbd is/will be deprecated

Re: FBSD-6 usb/scanner-access-rights

2005-11-20 Thread Roland Smith
On Sun, Nov 20, 2005 at 02:16:24PM +0100, Holger Kipp wrote: Is there an easy way to name the devices a user might be allowed to access rw, without compromising the system? I don't want to give operator group to these users, and I don't want to blindly allow access to some da- or

Re: FBSD-6 usb/scanner-access-rights

2005-11-20 Thread Roland Smith
On Sun, Nov 20, 2005 at 05:37:36PM +0100, Holger Kipp wrote: Dear Roland, thank you very much for your answer. On Sun, Nov 20, 2005 at 03:04:22PM +0100, Roland Smith wrote: On Sun, Nov 20, 2005 at 02:16:24PM +0100, Holger Kipp wrote: Is there an easy way to name the devices a user

Re: FBSD-6 usb/scanner-access-rights

2005-11-20 Thread Roland Smith
On Sun, Nov 20, 2005 at 07:26:38PM +0100, Holger Kipp wrote: Doesn't matter that you get UNKNOWN. It _will_ work with sane without access to /dev/usb*. It does here. This is an Epson Perfection 1260. Don't ask what the 'Perfection' stands for. Anyway, this is in fact a Plustek, so I have

Re: CF card and /dev filesystem entries

2005-11-16 Thread Roland Smith
On Wed, Nov 16, 2005 at 10:12:00AM +, Brian Candler wrote: Running FreeBSD 6.0 here. I have a USB-attached floppy/CF/SD combo reader. On powerup it is detected and I get /dev/da0 as the CF slot: da0 at umass-sim0 bus 0 target 0 lun 0 da0: OEI-USB CompactFlash 2.0 Removable Direct

Re: Install freeze while or immediately after finish copying the ports-collection

2005-11-13 Thread Roland Smith
On Sun, Nov 13, 2005 at 05:22:34PM +0100, Timm Florian Gloger wrote: If i just install a minimal system as Brandon suggested, the installation process works properly (except that disk geometry allegedly wrong, but the system-guessed values are correct for LBA mode). Well, that's something.

Re: 6.0 freezes shortly after logging in.

2005-11-13 Thread Roland Smith
On Sun, Nov 13, 2005 at 10:50:29PM +0100, Timm Florian Gloger wrote: After booting for a several times now i got 2 more freezes in not coherent periods of time after logging in. If it's freezing unpredictably, I'd suspect hardware trouble. Bad RAM (try memtest86) or a powersupply that can't

Re: 6.0 freezes shortly after logging in.

2005-11-13 Thread Roland Smith
On Sun, Nov 13, 2005 at 11:11:49PM +0100, Timm Florian Gloger wrote: is there any other chance to get some information of the time shortly before the freeze out of the system other than the standard logfies? Syslog is programmed to fsync(2) after writing messages from the kernel, unless you

Re: FreeBsd 6.0 i386 freezes after ata initialization

2005-11-12 Thread Roland Smith
On Sat, Nov 12, 2005 at 02:05:01PM +0100, Timm Florian Gloger wrote: I tried to install i386 6.0 a few times now, but every time the hardware intitialization freezes at the same point. After detecting my 2 ide channels with their slave and master drives attached, the system stops acting or

Re: FreeBsd 6.0 i386 freezes after ata initialization

2005-11-12 Thread Roland Smith
On Sat, Nov 12, 2005 at 04:00:27PM +0100, Timm Florian Gloger wrote: Ok here we go: Motherboard: ASUS A7VN8X-De You mean A7N8X Deluxe? Chipset: nForce 2 According to the manual pages, the ATA driver should support this. USB 2.0 and FireWire onboard. Silicon Image Serail ATA Software

Re: FreeBsd 6.0 i386 freezes after ata initialization

2005-11-12 Thread Roland Smith
On Sat, Nov 12, 2005 at 06:30:22PM +0100, Timm Florian Gloger wrote: Disabling firewire did very well. Installation continues now. Are there known fixes how to get firewire running after installing or is this just a installation-kernel problem? The firewire driver is part of the GENERIC

Re: Install freeze while or immediately after finish copying the ports-collection

2005-11-12 Thread Roland Smith
On Sat, Nov 12, 2005 at 09:36:24PM +0100, Timm Florian Gloger wrote: Hi list, I am sorry to request help again, but now (after getting the system boot with the install cd [see other messages]) the install process freezes while or immediately after the copying the ports collection to my

Re: Anyone having problems with xorg 6.8.2 on 6.0-R

2005-11-10 Thread Roland Smith
On Wed, Nov 09, 2005 at 08:47:41PM -0500, Will Saxon wrote: Hello, I upgraded my amd64 installation to 6.0-RELEASE, and I am no longer able to use X. It exits with a signal 11 error. I have recompiled from ports, installed from packages from freebsd.org and performed a clean installation

Re: OT: Failure notices from blogger.com

2005-11-07 Thread Roland Smith
On Mon, Nov 07, 2005 at 05:48:42PM +0100, Michael Nottebrock wrote: I recently started to get failure notices from [EMAIL PROTECTED] when I post on the freebsd-stable mailing list. Looks like everybody who signs his email gets them. What is that all about? Is somebody redirecting all mail

Re: Kernel panic after upgrade to 6.0-STABLE

2005-11-06 Thread Roland Smith
On Sun, Nov 06, 2005 at 10:18:12AM +0100, Ales wrote: snip Well, it looks like the nvidia driver doesn't support 6-STABLE (yet). Did you guys managed to recompile the driver? After trying to recompile nvidia driver: snip In file included from nvidia_ctl.c:14: ./nv-freebsd.h:25:2: #error

Re: Strange warning while upgrading

2005-11-06 Thread Roland Smith
On Sun, Nov 06, 2005 at 08:01:53PM +0100, Guillaume R. wrote: Today I decided to upgrade my box from 5.4 to 6.O. So I change the right option in my stable-supfile and go through the process of upgrading. I can't build the world, and the error message was: /usr/src/share/mk/bsd.compat.mk, line

Re: burncd and dvd-drives

2005-11-04 Thread Roland Smith
On Fri, Nov 04, 2005 at 09:18:31AM +0100, Dick Hoogendijk wrote: I was and am a great fan of the burncd utility. Very fast, simple and cli.. Cdrecord is also a cli program. And you probably have it installed, because mkisofs is in the same port. :-) It does need atapicam, though. But as

Re: GENERIC and DEFAULTS

2005-10-30 Thread Roland Smith
On Sun, Oct 30, 2005 at 03:22:09PM -0800, Pete Slagle wrote: I've seen that 'GENERIC' file has been modified, moving some lines to 'DEFAULTS': device isa device mem # Memory and kernel memory devices device io # I/O device Why?

Re: Can't reboot into single mode

2005-09-11 Thread Roland Smith
On Sat, Sep 10, 2005 at 11:19:22PM -0400, Didier Rwitura wrote: After I upgraded my FreeBSD-5.3 to FreeBSD -5.4 stable, I can't to go to single user mode anymore . I am getting the following error message init: can't exec getty '/usr/libexec/getty' for port /dev/ttyv0 init: can't exec

Re: VIA 6420 SATA150 RAID on 5.4

2005-08-25 Thread Roland Smith
On Thu, Aug 25, 2005 at 11:39:08AM +0930, Daniel O'Connor wrote: Does anyone have one of these - atapci1: VIA 6420 SATA150 controller port 0xc400-0xc4ff,0xc000-0xc00f,0xbc00-0xbc03,0xb800-0xb807,0xb400-0xb403,0xb000-0xb007 irq 20 at device 15.0 on pci0 ata4: channel #0 on atapci1 ata5:

Re: i386 vs amd64 - benchmark results

2005-07-27 Thread Roland Smith
On Tue, Jul 26, 2005 at 07:57:06PM +0200, Martin wrote: Hi, I've tried two benchmarks to check the speed of my system on two FreeBSD architectures i386 and amd64. My results for amd64 (haven't tried i386): Hardware: Athlon64 3400+ (2.4 GHz, 400 MHz FSB) MSI Neo FSR (MSI-6702) 2x512 MB

Re: How to set polling for printer upon startup

2005-07-08 Thread Roland Smith
On Sat, Jul 09, 2005 at 09:39:17AM +1200, Jonathan Chen wrote: On Fri, Jul 08, 2005 at 02:53:25PM -0500, Stephen Montgomery-Smith wrote: My printer doesn't work very well unless I type lpcontrol -p What is the correct way to make this happen when the computer first boots up - is there

Re: mounting reiserfs

2005-05-30 Thread Roland Smith
On Mon, May 30, 2005 at 09:27:50AM -0300, Maximiliano Combina wrote: My problem now is that I would like to mount my reiserfs paritions from freebsd. I have found a driver to mount those partitions as read-only (I dont have the link here :( ), but I have not tried the driver myself. Does

Re: Problems with NIC

2005-04-13 Thread Roland Smith
On Wed, Apr 13, 2005 at 05:50:27AM +, Jaimie Garner wrote: This just started happing this evening not sure what is up. The nic is a Linksys LNE 100 V 4.something I forget now. I had some weird errors a while back when I first installed 5.3-RELEASE but i disabled ACPI and they seemed to

Re: Kernel NTP flipping between FLL and PLL modes

2005-04-01 Thread Roland Smith
On Fri, Apr 01, 2005 at 02:24:50PM +0100, Bob Bishop wrote: Any suggestions as to why this is happening? (And how I can stop it regularly flipping) I don't think this is really an issue. [etc] I think this is an issue: - As stated, machines running 4.x don't seem to do it - In

Re: 4.11 + Xorg mga/dri problem

2005-01-17 Thread Roland Smith
On Mon, Jan 17, 2005 at 05:16:36PM +, Pete French wrote: Just giving 4.11 a whirl. Thought I would try and get dri working with my mga card. It's never worked in the past, so I am not too worried that it doesnt work now. What hardware are you on? The radeon driver had 64-bit issues on

Re: /usr too small

2005-01-12 Thread Roland Smith
On Wed, Jan 12, 2005 at 09:22:19AM +0100, Marc Plumet wrote: Dear all, my system : kern.osreldate: 503001 FreeBSD 5.3-RELEASE #0: Tue Nov 9 13:34:27 CET 2004 I am running Freebsd on a laptop (Compaq Evo N800c). I have a winnt partition (8GB) I have a ufs partition (11GB) snip my

Re: SOund not working on new motherboard

2005-01-10 Thread Roland Smith
On Mon, Jan 10, 2005 at 07:49:09AM -0600, Jonathan Fosburgh wrote: This weekend I upgraded my aging P-III machine to a newAMD Athlon 64 system. I am running FreeBSD/i386 5.3-STABLE. This onboard sound on my motherboard (ECS 755-A2) probes and the pcm driver loads, but I do not get sound. I

Re: USB scanner not attached when connected after system startup]

2005-01-03 Thread Roland Smith
On Mon, Jan 03, 2005 at 08:23:33PM +0100, Harald Weis wrote: On Sun, Jan 02, 2005 at 02:22:27PM +0100, Roland Smith wrote: On Sun, Jan 02, 2005 at 01:17:37PM +0100, Harald Weis wrote: Sometimes the device that gets noticed by usbd is not the device that you eventually want. For instance

Re: USB scanner not attached when connected after system startup]

2005-01-02 Thread Roland Smith
On Sun, Jan 02, 2005 at 01:17:37PM +0100, Harald Weis wrote: Harald, I think most of us understood what you mean. But as I don't use the scanner every day I normally keep it disconnected. Up to now I am obliged to reboot the system if I want to use the scanner in the middle of the day. This

Re: USB scanner not attached when connected after system startup]

2004-12-31 Thread Roland Smith
On Fri, Dec 31, 2004 at 04:07:12PM +0100, Harald Weis wrote: On Thu, Dec 30, 2004 at 09:33:32AM +0100, Marc Fonvieille wrote: On Wed, Dec 29, 2004 at 04:49:05PM +0100, Harald Weis wrote: My scanner (EPSON PERFECTION 1650) is working alright if it is connected before system startup.

Re: dump/restore with ufs2

2004-12-30 Thread Roland Smith
On Thu, Dec 30, 2004 at 05:54:25PM +, Ceri Davies wrote: On Tue, Dec 28, 2004 at 01:23:50PM -0500, Brian Szymanski wrote: When I run the following script, I get a warning message, and I'm wondering if it's ignorable or indicates there is a little more work to be done in getting

Re: USB scanner not attached when connected after system startup]

2004-12-29 Thread Roland Smith
On Wed, Dec 29, 2004 at 04:49:05PM +0100, Harald Weis wrote: My scanner (EPSON PERFECTION 1650) is working alright if it is connected before system startup. But when connected to the running system it doesn't get attached by usbd. I can't find out from Handbook, manpages or mailing lists what

Re: USB scanner not attached when connected after system startup]

2004-12-29 Thread Roland Smith
On Wed, Dec 29, 2004 at 11:17:24PM +0100, Harald Weis wrote: Could you upgrade to 5.3? I've got a 1650 that works perfectly on 5.3-RELEASE on amd64. (BTW, 5.3 uses devfs). Yes, no problem, I've planned to migrate to 5.3 anyway in 2 weeks time. But I would like to understand _why_ usbd's

manpages for devfs.conf and devfs.rules (docs/63808)

2004-12-22 Thread Roland Smith
Hi all, As a new FreeBSD user I missed manpages for devfs.conf and devfs.rules. This is also listed in GNATS as docs/63808. So I tried my hand at writing them. I've posted them on my website at http://www.xs4all.nl/~rsmith/freebsd/ About two weeks ago I sent a message to the freebsd-doc mailing

Re: QEMU

2004-12-13 Thread Roland Smith
On Mon, Dec 13, 2004 at 08:03:00PM +0100, Ivan Voras wrote: Is anybody running qemu successfully on 5-stable? I'm trying to boot a knoppix live-cd from iso-image with: I tried to build it from ports on amd64 but the compiler segfaulted. :-( So it might be interesting to know what platform

Re: HW accel on R128/Xorg 6.7/FBSD-5.3R (was: the best graphicscard for FreeBSD)

2004-12-04 Thread Roland Smith
On Sat, Dec 04, 2004 at 12:37:35PM +0100, Godwin Stewart wrote: (II) R128(0): Direct rendering enabled That's beginning to look like it... And yet: $ glxinfo | grep direct direct rendering: No OpenGL renderer string: Mesa GLX Indirect Hmm. Bummer. What kind of framerate does glxgears

Re: the best graphicscard for FreeBSD

2004-12-03 Thread Roland Smith
On Fri, Dec 03, 2004 at 07:34:50PM +0100, Godwin Stewart wrote: On Fri, 03 Dec 2004 13:26:20 -0500, Jason Andresen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: IMHO, if you just want 2D, pretty much any bottom of the barrel card will work. I'd add that Matrox cards are excellent in the 2D arena. I still

Re: the best graphicscard for FreeBSD

2004-12-03 Thread Roland Smith
On Fri, Dec 03, 2004 at 11:09:06PM +0100, Godwin Stewart wrote: On Fri, 3 Dec 2004 22:45:32 +0100, Roland Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: For 3D you have to load the agp and radeon modules. This is a Rage128, not a Radeon. I was indeed referring to a Radeon. agp is built into the kernel

Re: the best graphicscard for FreeBSD

2004-12-03 Thread Roland Smith
On Sat, Dec 04, 2004 at 12:35:49AM +0100, Godwin Stewart wrote: On Sat, 4 Dec 2004 00:01:29 +0100, Roland Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I tried kldloading radeon anyway and running glxgears. It can't do any better than about 10 fps at 1024x768/24bits. My radeon gives 560 - 580 fps

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