Mouse Issues

2010-03-01 Thread Programmer In Training
I'm not exactly sure what is going on here. Just about 10 minutes ago my mouse locked up and stopped responding, eventually forcing me to reboot because I couldn't get it to start responding again. I even had to unplug it from the USB port (it is a USB mouse) and plug it back in because it lost pow

Mouse Issues

2010-03-01 Thread Programmer In Training
Resent: Originally sent over one hour ago. I'm not exactly sure what is going on here. Just about 10 minutes ago my mouse locked up and stopped responding, eventually forcing me to reboot because I couldn't get it to start responding again. I even had to unplug it from the USB port (it is a USB mo

Mouse Issues

2010-03-01 Thread Programmer In Training
Resend: Sorry if this has appeared twice before. First time sent at 11:13 CST, sent a second time at 12:43 CST. Sending this one at approximately 21:37 CST, CCing owner because this (posting new mails to the list) is an on going problem I'm having. I would like to know what the problem is so I can

Handbook Index

2010-03-01 Thread Fbsd1
I find it very hard to find the subject I am looking for in the handbook. The index only gets me to the general area in the handbook and then I have to (next page) through it looking for what I hope is there. The Index really needs to be expanded to display each and every sub-section of all th

Re: Lockups with USB disks on FreeBSD

2010-03-01 Thread Aiza
David Jackson wrote: David Jackson wrote: David Jackson wrote: I am currently using FreeBSD 8.0. I have been, for a long time, been having problems with lockups of FreeBSD 8.0 when using USB hard disks. Sometimes certain applications lock up for several minutes, when they use the disk, file o

RAID10 doen't boot

2010-03-01 Thread Indiana Jones
Hi, I'd really appreciate it if somebody could help me out! I have a box with a MB ASUS P5WDG2-WS Pro with two built-in SATA II RAID controllers (Intel ICH7R and Marvell 88SE614x). I installed 4 HDD WD WD5002ABYS (500GB each) on the 4 SATA ports of the Intel ICH7R and using the Intel Matrix Stor

Lost audio after new Video card installation

2010-03-01 Thread Carmel
I was attempting to upgrade a Gateway GT5220 PC. The machine was running FreeBSD-7.2 successfully. The sound system was functioning correctly and gMplayer and Mplayer worked fine. The machine was using a nVidia GeForce 6150 LE on-board card. I installed a nVidia GeForce GT 220 card. The old on-boar

Re: Lockups with USB disks on FreeBSD

2010-03-01 Thread David Jackson
David Jackson wrote: David Jackson wrote: I am currently using FreeBSD 8.0. I have been, for a long time, been having problems with lockups of FreeBSD 8.0 when using USB hard disks. Sometimes certain applications lock up for several minutes, when they use the disk, file operations are very slo

Re: wireless setup

2010-03-01 Thread Derek Funk
On 2/28/2010 3:10 PM, dacoder wrote: on a 2nd reading, i see from your ifconfig output that wlan0 is up. so instead of "ifconfig wlan0 up" i think you need "ifconfig wlan0 create wlandev ath0" (assuming your wireless nic is ath0), then "dhclient wlan0". that does it for me, anyway. i find it

Re: Compiler Flags problem with core2 CPU

2010-03-01 Thread James Phillips
> Date: Sun, 28 Feb 2010 22:37:27 +0800 > From: Aaron Lewis > Subject: Re: Compiler Flags problem with core2 CPU > To: Paul B Mahol > Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org > Message-ID: <4b8a7fa7.1070...@gmail.com> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; > format=flowed > > Really ? It's b

Re: how do I tell ports that perl5.8 should never be installed?

2010-03-01 Thread Matthew Seaman
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 01/03/2010 18:19:36, Matthew Seaman wrote: > On second thoughts, writing a small wrapper around pkg_add(1) that greps > through the @pkgdep lines in the +CONTENTS file from the package tarball > and bails if it finds the wrong version of perl would

Re: sorry, email program ate my subject: Can't compile MySQL 5.0server on 7.2

2010-03-01 Thread Len Conrad
-- Original Message -- From: Greg Larkin Reply-To: glar...@freebsd.org Date: Mon, 01 Mar 2010 14:46:54 -0500 >-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- >Hash: SHA1 > >Len Conrad wrote: >> -- Original Message -- >> From: "Le

Re: Sendmail Configuration

2010-03-01 Thread Dan Busarow
On Mar 1, 2010, at 10:40 AM, Uzair Qadir wrote: Hi, i am new to the freebsd. and i have been trying to configure sendmail so that it would only send mails through a mail server . but i cant seem to get it right. wen i run sendmail. i get the following output. i would like to knw what coul

Re: sorry, email program ate my subject: Can't compile MySQL 5.0 server on 7.2

2010-03-01 Thread Greg Larkin
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Len Conrad wrote: > -- Original Message -- > From: "Len Conrad" > Reply-To: lcon...@go2france.com > Date: Mon, 1 Mar 2010 19:04:58 +0100 > >> FreeBSD 7.2 as ESXi virtual machine >> >> after portsnap fetch upd

Sendmail Configuration

2010-03-01 Thread Uzair Qadir
Hi, i am new to the freebsd. and i have been trying to configure sendmail so that it would only send mails through a mail server . but i cant seem to get it right. wen i run sendmail. i get the following output. i would like to knw what could be the problem. WARNING: local host name (FreeBSD)

sorry, email program ate my subject: Can't compile MySQL 5.0 server on 7.2

2010-03-01 Thread Len Conrad
-- Original Message -- From: "Len Conrad" Reply-To: lcon...@go2france.com Date: Mon, 1 Mar 2010 19:04:58 +0100 >FreeBSD 7.2 as ESXi virtual machine > >after portsnap fetch update > >cd /usr/ports/databases/mysql50-server > >make configure > >make > >blah

Re: Adding slice on existing disk

2010-03-01 Thread Leslie Jensen
On 2010-03-01 17:49, Polytropon wrote: On Mon, 01 Mar 2010 10:25:48 +0100, Leslie Jensen wrote: On a dualboot system I've made some space available that I want to make a freebsd slice of. [...] Any suggestions on how to solve this? I would suggest to use sysinstall oder sade for this task,

Re: 8.0 on new hardware and a few errors, should I be worried?

2010-03-01 Thread John Baldwin
On Saturday 27 February 2010 8:28:48 pm Dan Naumov wrote: > Hello > > I've very recently finished installing 8.0-RELEASE on some new > hardware and I noticed a few error messages that make me a bit uneasy. > This is a snip from my dmesg: > > -- > ac

Re: how do I tell ports that perl5.8 should never be installed?

2010-03-01 Thread Adam Vande More
On Mon, Mar 1, 2010 at 12:19 PM, Matthew Seaman < m.sea...@infracaninophile.co.uk> wrote: > > As far as I know, there isn't an official way to do this. What you > want sounds like a useful addition to the base system to me. > > You could do it in a fairly gross hacky way, like the following. This

Re: Remote Building of FreeBSD

2010-03-01 Thread Adam Vande More
On Mon, Mar 1, 2010 at 12:07 PM, Adam Vande More wrote: > On Mon, Mar 1, 2010 at 12:00 PM, Martin McCormick < > mar...@dc.cis.okstate.edu> wrote: > >> Adam Vande More writes: >> > This seems to be similar to the depenguinator. >> >> > Maybe there some approach in there to get you over the hump. >>

Re: how do I tell ports that perl5.8 should never be installed?

2010-03-01 Thread Matthew Seaman
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 01/03/2010 17:21:48, Randal L. Schwartz wrote: >> "Matthew" == Matthew Seaman writes: > > Matthew> For best results, install from ports rather than packages. If it's > Matthew> pure-perl code, then this should be hardly more onerous than > i

Re: Remote Building of FreeBSD

2010-03-01 Thread Adam Vande More
On Mon, Mar 1, 2010 at 12:00 PM, Martin McCormick wrote: > Adam Vande More writes: > > This seems to be similar to the depenguinator. > > > Maybe there some approach in there to get you over the hump. > > It is exactly the right idea. Funny thing, I actually did turn > swap off and the image is n

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2010-03-01 Thread Len Conrad
FreeBSD 7.2 as ESXi virtual machine after portsnap fetch update cd /usr/ports/databases/mysql50-server make configure make blah blah mv -f .deps/ha_example.Tpo .deps/ha_example.Po c++ -DEMBEDDED_LIBRARY -DMYSQL_SERVER -DDEFAULT_MYSQL_HOME="\"/usr/local\"" -DMYSQL_DATADIR="\"/var/db/mysql\"

Re: Remote Building of FreeBSD

2010-03-01 Thread Martin McCormick
Adam Vande More writes: > This seems to be similar to the depenguinator. > Maybe there some approach in there to get you over the hump. It is exactly the right idea. Funny thing, I actually did turn swap off and the image is now sitting there because I thought this might be useful. Is there any w

Re: Lockups with USB disks on FreeBSD

2010-03-01 Thread David Jackson
David Jackson wrote: I am currently using FreeBSD 8.0. I have been, for a long time, been having problems with lockups of FreeBSD 8.0 when using USB hard disks. Sometimes certain applications lock up for several minutes, when they use the disk, file operations are very slow, and sometimes the e

Re: Remote Building of FreeBSD

2010-03-01 Thread Adam Vande More
On Mon, Mar 1, 2010 at 11:19 AM, Martin McCormick wrote: > One can almost but not quite remotely build a FreeBSD system > using mfsbsd. The problem is that in order to install the > mfsboot.img data on the main boot drive, it is necessary to use > dd to write it there and a working system already

Re: how do I tell ports that perl5.8 should never be installed?

2010-03-01 Thread Randal L. Schwartz
> "Matthew" == Matthew Seaman writes: Matthew> For best results, install from ports rather than packages. If it's Matthew> pure-perl code, then this should be hardly more onerous than installing Matthew> a compiled package. XS code however will chew up some CPU cycles. I don't mind install

carp ghosts

2010-03-01 Thread Alex Huth
Hi! We have two Frontendserver with carpinterfaces. Now we need more of the carpinterfaces. When i use /etc/netstart to bring them online, there are error messages about misconfigured carpinterfaces. When i look with ifconfig to the list of interfaces, there are four "ghost" carpinterfaces. I have

Remote Building of FreeBSD

2010-03-01 Thread Martin McCormick
One can almost but not quite remotely build a FreeBSD system using mfsbsd. The problem is that in order to install the mfsboot.img data on the main boot drive, it is necessary to use dd to write it there and a working system already has mounted all partitions in the main drive. The system

spreculative: /bin2 & /usr/bin2 and alternative package/ports trees?

2010-03-01 Thread Chris Telting
Just wondering if anyone cares to share their thoughts about this. There are a few ports that I would love to see included in the base tree such as OpenLDAP and the Openbsd pdksh or bash. But It hasn't happened and isn't likely to happen. So I was thinking about the pkg infrastructure. The

Re: Adding slice on existing disk

2010-03-01 Thread Polytropon
On Mon, 01 Mar 2010 10:25:48 +0100, Leslie Jensen wrote: > On a dualboot system I've made some space available that I want to make > a freebsd slice of. > [...] > Any suggestions on how to solve this? I would suggest to use sysinstall oder sade for this task, this is because I'm lazy. :-) In th

Bluetooth headset

2010-03-01 Thread Andrea Venturoli
Hello. I searched with Google, but all the threads I found are quite old, so... Is it possible to use any VoIP software with a bluetooth headset with FreeBSD? What about Skype? bye & Thanks av. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list

Re: USB 3.0

2010-03-01 Thread Don Read
On Thu, 14 Jan 2010 10:39:09 -0500 Jerry said: > I just found this regarding USB 3.0: > Will FreeBSD be able to take advantage of this updated technology? > Looking over the FAQ http://www.everythingusb.com/superspeed-usb.html ... it seems to be a change in pinouts ... INAD, but FreeBSD p

Re: IBM DS4800 Storage

2010-03-01 Thread Dan Nelson
In the last episode (Mar 01), Omer Faruk Sen said: > Is there anyone here that have used SAN against IBM DS4800 (Fiber). I > can see disk but i can't fdisk it. > > fdisk /dev/da0 > fdisk: could not detect sector size > > and dmesg output when system boots: > > registered firmware set > register

FreeBSD-Compatible Multifunction Device

2010-03-01 Thread Tim Gustafson
Hi, I've Googled this a bit and found lots of noise about different experiences with devices that -didn't- work or commentary from people about how multifunction devices are a bad idea, but no actual recommendations. I was wondering if anyone could make a recommendation for me about which network

Re: how do I tell ports that perl5.8 should never be installed?

2010-03-01 Thread Matthew Seaman
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 01/03/2010 01:40:55, Randal L. Schwartz wrote: > I'd like the entire portage system to consider 5.8 to be dead, both ^^^ That's a gentoo-ism > for building from ports, and for installing packages that

Re: how do I tell ports that perl5.8 should never be installed?

2010-03-01 Thread Matthew Seaman
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 01/03/2010 01:45:26, Randal L. Schwartz wrote: >> "Adam" == Adam Vande More writes: > > Adam> Can you attach your make.conf? > > WITHOUT_X11=yes > # added by use.perl 2010-02-28 17:41:39 > PERL_VERSION=5.10.1 > > The problem is n

Adding slice on existing disk

2010-03-01 Thread Leslie Jensen
On a dualboot system I've made some space available that I want to make a freebsd slice of. Following the instructions described here: http://forums.freebsd.org/showthread.php?t=2726 When using sysinstall label I get this when I try to write. Error mounting /dev/ad4s4d on /data : File or di

IBM DS4800 Storage

2010-03-01 Thread Omer Faruk Sen
Hi , Is there anyone here that have used SAN against IBM DS4800 (Fiber). I can see disk but i can't fdisk it. # camcontrol devlist -v scbus0 on isp0 bus 0: < > at scbus0 target -1 lun -1 () scbus1 on isp1 bus 0: at scbus1 target 0 lun 6 (pass0,da0) < >