Re: ATI Radeon HD3450 on FreeBSD 7.2

2009-08-14 Thread Sabine Baer
On Fri, 14 Aug 2009 21:35:37 +0200, Glen Barber wrote: Hi, On Fri, Aug 14, 2009 at 6:39 AM, Ricky Tompu Breaky wrote: Dear my friends, I just installed FreeBSD 7.2. But its xserver always hung-up (suddenly stop working), only the GUI which suddenly stops working once I execute: " startx "

Re:firefox 2.0.0.20_9,1

2009-08-14 Thread ajtiM
firefox 2.0.0.20_9,1 Paul Schmehl pschmehl_lists at tx.rr.com Thu Aug 13 02:16:24 UTC 2009 Previous message: firefox 2.0.0.20_9,1 Next message: firefox 2.0.0.20_9,1 Messages sorted by: [ date ] [ thread ] [ subject ] [ author ] --On August 12, 2009 8:18:55 PM -0500 ajtiM wrote: > > Hi! > Wh

Re: 7.2 burncd and cdrecord problem

2009-08-14 Thread Polytropon
On Fri, 14 Aug 2009 18:47:48 -0600, Tim Judd wrote: > First thing I'd suspect is that your drive is a read-only, write-only, > but no rewrite, so that means it's unable to blank RW medium. > > The 'DVDR' and CDDVDW both indicate a write once kind of mindset. > > > does the bezel on the drive it

Re: 7.2 burncd and cdrecord problem

2009-08-14 Thread Tim Judd
First thing I'd suspect is that your drive is a read-only, write-only, but no rewrite, so that means it's unable to blank RW medium. The 'DVDR' and CDDVDW both indicate a write once kind of mindset. does the bezel on the drive itself say rewrite anywhere? --TJ On 8/14/09, Fernando Apesteguía

Re: More on Toshiba A305 SP6926A

2009-08-14 Thread Polytropon
On Fri, 14 Aug 2009 05:12:24 -0700 (PDT), Leonardo M. Ramé wrote: > A new issue I found is I can't control screen brightness & > contrast. This machine has this control in Windows by clicking > the [FN Key]+F6/F7. Erm, you are *clicking* the keys on the keyboard? With the mouse? Would you expla

Re: ATI Radeon HD3450 on FreeBSD 7.2

2009-08-14 Thread Glen Barber
Hi, On Fri, Aug 14, 2009 at 6:39 AM, Ricky Tompu Breaky wrote: > Dear my friends, > > I just installed FreeBSD 7.2. But its xserver always hung-up (suddenly > stop working), only the GUI which suddenly stops working once I execute: > " > startx > ". > I can see the GUI but I can not do anything on

ATI Radeon HD3450 on FreeBSD 7.2

2009-08-14 Thread Ricky Tompu Breaky
Dear my friends, I just installed FreeBSD 7.2. But its xserver always hung-up (suddenly stop working), only the GUI which suddenly stops working once I execute: " startx ". I can see the GUI but I can not do anything on it. I can not click anything and I can not type nothing on it. My computer us

7.2 burncd and cdrecord problem

2009-08-14 Thread Fernando Apesteguía
Hi all, I'm trying to get my CD drive to work without so much success. Reading is fine, but when I try to burn a CD I get errors in dmesg. Using cdrecord -blank=fast dev=3,0,0 I get: [...] Using generic SCSI-3/mmc CD-ROM driver (mmc_cd). Driver flags : MMC-3 SWABAUDIO BURNFREE Supported mode

Re: bwi driver

2009-08-14 Thread Eitan Adler
> You really should post the full pciconf(8) and dmesg(8) for us, as well > as kldstat(8) -v. http://pastebin.com/f368e0550 http://pastebin.com/f7d5f883d http://pastebin.com/f7500570e http://pastebin.com/f606e2c81 -- Eitan Adler "Security is increased by designing for the way humans actually beh

Re: bwi driver

2009-08-14 Thread Neal Hogan
On Fri, Aug 14, 2009 at 12:22 PM, Neal Hogan wrote: > On Fri, Aug 14, 2009 at 12:19 PM, Mel > Flynn wrote: >> On Friday 14 August 2009 08:49:07 Neal Hogan wrote: >> >>> man lspci > > >> ?? wrong "distribution". Try pciconf. > > Ah . . . sorry, got mixed up with mailing lists. Thanks for correcting

Re: bwi driver

2009-08-14 Thread Neal Hogan
On Fri, Aug 14, 2009 at 12:19 PM, Mel Flynn wrote: > On Friday 14 August 2009 08:49:07 Neal Hogan wrote: > >> man lspci > ?? wrong "distribution". Try pciconf. Ah . . . sorry, got mixed up with mailing lists. Thanks for correcting me! > > -- > Mel > _

Re: bwi driver

2009-08-14 Thread Mel Flynn
On Friday 14 August 2009 08:49:07 Neal Hogan wrote: > man lspci ?? wrong "distribution". Try pciconf. -- Mel ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "fr

Re: A question for developers

2009-08-14 Thread Steve Bertrand
Manish Jain wrote: > Hi Steve, > >> Vim also does colours/syntax highlighting I found, but quickly disabled >> the colours, as I didn't like them as much as I thought I would. > > I wouldn't blame you for not liking Vim's default syntax highlighting. > However, you can try the my set instead whic

Re: ZFS Boot Support from Installer

2009-08-14 Thread Tim Judd
On 8/14/09, Tim Gustafson wrote: >> Valid point. I didn't make the clarification that I should >> have. graid3 and gmirror have reached the maturity and >> dedicated to the system, whereas ZFS is still experimental. >> When ZFS is no longer considered experimental, I would expect >> ZFS support i

Re: ZFS Boot Support from Installer

2009-08-14 Thread Tim Gustafson
> Valid point. I didn't make the clarification that I should > have. graid3 and gmirror have reached the maturity and > dedicated to the system, whereas ZFS is still experimental. > When ZFS is no longer considered experimental, I would expect > ZFS support in the installer in the same expectation

Re: bwi driver

2009-08-14 Thread Neal Hogan
On Fri, Aug 14, 2009 at 7:41 AM, Eitan Adler wrote: > I have a Lenovo G530 laptop with a broadcom wireless card. > I downloaded the drivers referenced here: > http://forums.freebsd.org/showthread.php?t=170 > I installed them and loaded them. > > However pciconf -lv|grep bwi produces no output and i

Re: bwi driver

2009-08-14 Thread Brian A. Seklecki
On Fri, 2009-08-14 at 12:41 +, Eitan Adler wrote: > I have a Lenovo G530 laptop with a broadcom wireless card. > I downloaded the drivers referenced here: If the driver didn't attach because IBM chose some exotic OEM PCI ID, then the grep wont find it. You really should post the full pciconf(

Re: ZFS Boot Support from Installer

2009-08-14 Thread Tim Judd
On 8/14/09, Tim Gustafson wrote: >> From: "Tim Judd" >> I don't use ZFS, UFS2 works fine for me. I would find it >> ridiculous to see ZFS support in the installer, but all GEOM >> should be supported. Especially the raid3 and mirror. > > So, you like the idea of including RAID3 and mirror becau

bwi driver

2009-08-14 Thread Eitan Adler
I have a Lenovo G530 laptop with a broadcom wireless card. I downloaded the drivers referenced here: http://forums.freebsd.org/showthread.php?t=170 I installed them and loaded them. However pciconf -lv|grep bwi produces no output and ifconfig does not mention any wireless cards. What should I try

Re: ZFS Boot Support from Installer

2009-08-14 Thread Steve Bertrand
Jason Garrett wrote: > On Mon, Aug 3, 2009 at 11:48, Tim Gustafson wrote: > >> Hi, >> >> I was wondering if there was a plan or time line in place to support ZFS >> boot partitions in the installer. I Googled around a bit and found some >> how-to documents for setting it up in a hacky kind of wa

Re: A question for developers

2009-08-14 Thread Manish Jain
Hi Steve, Vim also does colours/syntax highlighting I found, but quickly disabled the colours, as I didn't like them as much as I thought I would. I wouldn't blame you for not liking Vim's default syntax highlighting. However, you can try the my set instead which took me days to fine-tune t

Re: ZFS Boot Support from Installer

2009-08-14 Thread Tim Gustafson
I'm responding to two people's comments here in one response. :) > From: "Brian A. Seklecki" > I make the suggestions because you're asking about an > advanced topic, so I gave you an honest answer. Honest answers are appreciated. :) I'm not saying that the way you suggested was invalid, jus

Re: ZFS Boot Support from Installer

2009-08-14 Thread Brian A. Seklecki
On Fri, 2009-08-14 at 08:58 -0700, Tim Gustafson wrote: > then there's no reason that the functionality couldn't or shouldn't be > built into the installer. With a few machines, yes. Once you get to 5 or 6, start building your own custom internal ISOs, and maintain your configuration templates in

Re: ZFS Boot Support from Installer

2009-08-14 Thread Tim Judd
On 8/14/09, Tim Gustafson wrote: >> No one has gone near that stuff in years. We don't even >> have gmirror(8) creation support in there. Best not to use >> sysinst. The livefs image has all of the tools that you >> need to bootstrap a system. > > That's a silly answer. The way to get more peop

Re: ZFS Boot Support from Installer

2009-08-14 Thread Tim Gustafson
> No one has gone near that stuff in years. We don't even > have gmirror(8) creation support in there. Best not to use > sysinst. The livefs image has all of the tools that you > need to bootstrap a system. That's a silly answer. The way to get more people to use FreeBSD is to make the install

Re: ZFS Boot Support from Installer

2009-08-14 Thread Brian A. Seklecki
On Mon, 2009-08-03 at 09:48 -0700, Tim Gustafson wrote: > Hi, > > I was wondering if there was a plan or time line in place to support > ZFS boot partitions in the installer. No one has gone near that stuff in years. We don't even have gmirror(8) creation support in there. Best not to use sysi

Re: Userland PPP fails to load via rc.conf (7.2/amd64)

2009-08-14 Thread Alex R
Thank you Ruben :-) :-) I wouldn't have thought in a million years that could be the issue, but what you have said makes perfect sense. Looks like its back to /bin/sh for root. Cheers, Alex. Ruben de Groot wrote: On Fri, Aug 14, 2009 at 10:08:48PM +1000, Alex R typed: Actually I did cha

Re: Partions per slice limitation removed?

2009-08-14 Thread Doug Poland
On Fri, August 14, 2009 05:47, Vincent Hoffman wrote: > Mak Kolybabi wrote: >> On 2009-08-13 13:41, Doug Poland wrote: >> >>> I thought I recalled reading, within the last few months, that >>> there is no longer a 8 partition/slice limitation in FreeBSD. >>> I've been googling and reading man page

Re: Userland PPP fails to load via rc.conf (7.2/amd64)

2009-08-14 Thread Ruben de Groot
On Fri, Aug 14, 2009 at 10:08:48PM +1000, Alex R typed: > Actually I did change the root shell to bash. U think that might cause it? Definately. before ldconfig is run, only the system libraries in /lib and /usr/lib are known. Doing a "su -m root" at that time, as /etc/rc.d/ppp is doing, will re

More on Toshiba A305 SP6926A

2009-08-14 Thread Leonardo M . Ramé
A new issue I found is I can't control screen brightness & contrast. This machine has this control in Windows by clicking the [FN Key]+F6/F7. Does anyone knows how to enable this in FreeBsd? Thanks in advance, Leonardo. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd

Re: Userland PPP fails to load via rc.conf (7.2/amd64)

2009-08-14 Thread Alex R
Actually I did change the root shell to bash. U think that might cause it? Ruben de Groot wrote: On Fri, Aug 14, 2009 at 09:49:48PM +1000, Alex R typed: Hi Ruben, Output is as follows: /usr/bin/su: libutil.so.7 => /lib/libutil.so.7 (0x800635000) libpam.so.4 => /usr/lib/libpam

Re: Userland PPP fails to load via rc.conf (7.2/amd64)

2009-08-14 Thread Ruben de Groot
On Fri, Aug 14, 2009 at 09:49:48PM +1000, Alex R typed: > Hi Ruben, > > Output is as follows: > > /usr/bin/su: >libutil.so.7 => /lib/libutil.so.7 (0x800635000) >libpam.so.4 => /usr/lib/libpam.so.4 (0x800744000) >libbsm.so.2 => /usr/lib/libbsm.so.2 (0x80084c000) >li

Re: Userland PPP fails to load via rc.conf (7.2/amd64)

2009-08-14 Thread Alex R
There are also some interesting responses in comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc about this (I opened a thread there too). ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail t

Re: Userland PPP fails to load via rc.conf (7.2/amd64)

2009-08-14 Thread Alex R
Hi Ruben, Output is as follows: /usr/bin/su: libutil.so.7 => /lib/libutil.so.7 (0x800635000) libpam.so.4 => /usr/lib/libpam.so.4 (0x800744000) libbsm.so.2 => /usr/lib/libbsm.so.2 (0x80084c000) libc.so.7 => /lib/libc.so.7 (0x800962000) Ruben de Groot wrote: On Fri,

Re: Xorg slow on Toshiba A305 SP6926A

2009-08-14 Thread Leonardo M . Ramé
Thanks George, that worked!. Leonardo M. Ramé http://leonardorame.blogspot.com --- On Fri, 8/14/09, George Liaskos wrote: > From: George Liaskos > Subject: Re: Xorg slow on Toshiba A305 SP6926A > To: "Leonardo M. Ramé" > Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org > Date: Friday, August 14, 2009, 4:13

Re: Userland PPP fails to load via rc.conf (7.2/amd64)

2009-08-14 Thread Ruben de Groot
On Fri, Aug 14, 2009 at 06:20:00PM +1000, Alex R typed: > Hi Guys, > > I ran into the same problem as this person did (see the link below): > > http://www.mail-archive.com/freebsd-...@freebsd.org/msg24337.html > > ppp starts fine if invoked from shell prompt, however the problem above > occurs

Re: Partions per slice limitation removed?

2009-08-14 Thread Vincent Hoffman
Mak Kolybabi wrote: > On 2009-08-13 13:41, Doug Poland wrote: > >> I thought I recalled reading, within the last few months, that there is no >> longer a 8 partition/slice limitation in FreeBSD. I've been googling and >> reading man pages to verify that but cannot find any documentation to suppo

Re: boot sector f*ed

2009-08-14 Thread Michael Powell
Ian Smith wrote: [snip] > > Smells like flakey hardware .. intermittent, inexplicable glitches. It > might survive hours on one workload, minutes on another, no sense to it? > > > All that I am seeing is that there is either a problem with the bios > > (which I even reinstalled and that change

Re: Managing encrypted disks

2009-08-14 Thread Modulok
[snip] > What I'd like to know, is if it's possible to somehow check to see if > there are any GELI 'attach'ed disks on a given system that have not yet > been mounted (or, iow, were umount'd, but were left attached). > > #dmesg doesn't say much in this regard, and I couldn't find out by > listing

Userland PPP fails to load via rc.conf (7.2/amd64)

2009-08-14 Thread Alex R
Hi Guys, I ran into the same problem as this person did (see the link below): http://www.mail-archive.com/freebsd-...@freebsd.org/msg24337.html ppp starts fine if invoked from shell prompt, however the problem above occurs for me when I attempt to start it automatically at boot via /etc/rc.co

Re: Xorg slow on Toshiba A305 SP6926A

2009-08-14 Thread George Liaskos
Try the following options in your Device section: Option "AccelMethod" "EXA" Option "MigrationHeuristic""greedy" On Fri, Aug 14, 2009 at 3:51 AM, Leonardo M. Ramé wrote: > > Hi, I installed 7.2 amd64 on a Toshiba Satellite A305 SP6926A and it looks > like Xorg is