Xorg error: New athlon laptop, radeonhd video - unable to load fbdev
I hate to come with this kind of a query, but my googling hasn't come across a satisfactory answer. I'm running an install on a brand new laptop for a client, and I'm trying to get X up using xdm- nothing. The logs says it failed to load fbdev because there is no data module. I try uninstalling fbdev and running a rebuild of xorg- its still using the builtin configuration and still can't load fbdev. No devices detected. I run Xorg -configure, and it shows the radeon card fine, 2 displays. Still working with the config file, but it seems fine. WTF? This is essentially the same hardware as another laptop I've setup (same video card - same brand CPU, just bigger and faster), and its fine. Both are AMD, the original is athlon dual core, the new is phenom quad core. The googling failed as my searches came up with either root has access and user doesn't, or mixed intel/ati. Neither are the case here... Cheers ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: Xorg error: New athlon laptop, radeonhd video - unable to load fbdev
On 12/19/11 21:31, Da Rock wrote: I hate to come with this kind of a query, but my googling hasn't come across a satisfactory answer. I'm running an install on a brand new laptop for a client, and I'm trying to get X up using xdm- nothing. The logs says it failed to load fbdev because there is no data module. I try uninstalling fbdev and running a rebuild of xorg- its still using the builtin configuration and still can't load fbdev. No devices detected. I run Xorg -configure, and it shows the radeon card fine, 2 displays. Still working with the config file, but it seems fine. correction - its dual display issue that I've never had trouble with before (I also have installed on a HTPC with same memory, phenom quad core, uses a radeon HD card and a NVidia HD card). And no, the Xorg -config /root/xorg.conf.new [-retro] doesn't work as it is locking up and I can't even ctl-alt-backspace, I have to acpi power off to shut the system down. Google's still not giving me any hope... :( Last time I came across this level of issue was with a solo vintage intel card on yet another laptop- it froze the system too. BTW, who says multicard vga is rare? WTF? This is essentially the same hardware as another laptop I've setup (same video card - same brand CPU, just bigger and faster), and its fine. Both are AMD, the original is athlon dual core, the new is phenom quad core. The googling failed as my searches came up with either root has access and user doesn't, or mixed intel/ati. Neither are the case here... Cheers ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: Legacy releases of freeBSD
I think we understand why you're looking for older versions, there might even be a copy of 3.5 out there somewhere but as I recall the latest version was 3.3 sometime in 2001. I have an old CD around here somewhere with 4.9 but I think others as well would encourage you to use the latest version and then read the handbook which comes with FreeBSD. There is a section in the docs which is titled For People New to Unix which is just as good for the new versions as it was for the old versions. Why limit yourself with an old version. From: Vong Bui vong...@embarqmail.com To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.org Sent: Friday, December 16, 2011 3:00 PM Subject: Legacy releases of freeBSD Hello, I am trying to learn Unix by using freeBSD and wanted to obtain an older version of freeBSD, such as version 3.5, to accompany a book about freeBSD published around 1999. Can you point me to where the iso images can be found, if they are available for download. Thank you -- Vong Bui E-mail: vong...@embarqmail.com ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: HP LaserJet Pro P1102 stops responding after a while
From: Jeff Tipton jef...@mail.com To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Sent: Tuesday, December 13, 2011 5:10 PM Subject: HP LaserJet Pro P1102 stops responding after a while But what I do find is that my laser printer also goes into sleep mode to save power and life...which is a good thing. And most of the time when it does the lpd deamon stops working as well. When I check the status with lpq it tells me there is no deamon present. I just stop lpd and restart it to get things working again and all is fine. I am a real paperless type of person these days so I hardly ever print anything. I often turn my printer off for weeks, even months at a time and then when I turn it back on most of the time the the above scenario happens. On rare occassions the lpd deamon works fine without having to restart it. But most of the time a restart of lpd is required. Your setup using CUPS and SAMBA may not be the same. Hi, I put HP LaserJet Pro P1102 on a CUPS server with Samba. I followed the steps as shown here: http://forums.freebsd.org/showthread.php?t=21312 except I have 7.4-RELEASE, so I recompiled the kernel without ulpt device as suggested in foo2zjs site (INSTALL notes on FreeBSD 7), and the printer is now on ugen0.1. After installation, the printer became available in CUPS, I could print a test page, then I exported CUPS and WINDOWS postscript drivers to Samba with cupsaddsmb. Then I added the printer on some Windows XP workstations, and the shared driver installed automatically as expected. The problem is that after some idle minutes, the printer stops responding. The job just disappears from the queue, but nothing prints. The same thing on the CUPS web interface. If I restart cupsd, the printer prints again. But as soon as try printing from another workstation, it's again silent. Really weird. I found in the HP manual that it has an economic usage feature that by default is set to switch the printer off after 5 minutes being idle. The printer should switch on again when a new job is sent. This can be disabled but only with a native HP driver (don't really understand where it happens -- on the host the printer is attached to or within the printer's firmware). I tried to install the HP Windows driver on a workstation, attached the printer directly to it, disabled the switching off, sent a job from there as told in the manual but it didn't help. But maybe the 'economic usage feature' isn't the reason. Any ideas of what could be wrong? ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org I cannot say this for sure about your setup because mine is a little different. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: .config
On 30 November 2011 14:03, Polytropon free...@edvax.de wrote: On Wed, 30 Nov 2011 13:40:19 -0500, ill...@gmail.com wrote: A dirty workaround might be to link /.config to something innocuous. One could obvio- usly also have /.config mounted as a tmpfs(5). So it couldn't persist from boot to boot. The cleanest solution is to forgo qt/kde, but then you're slightly more limited in what you can use for office-type stuff. The question remains: How is a user-started process (e. g. when you run the startx command) supposed to create directory entries and files on root level /, a thing that only root and root-like users (and programs!) should be allowed to? % mkdir /.config mkdir: /.config: Permission denied As a normal user, you _intendedly_ can't do this. Why would you assume that a program you start can do it? I don't have any QT/KDE stuff but isn't kdm suid ( owned by root)? There're likely a couple of others in that whole mess, as well. Creating such data structures in a _user_ directory is completely okay. But in / it simply sounds WRONG. Sorry. JUST PLAIN WRONG! This I agree with wholeheartedly. When I first moved to UFS2, the presence of the heretofore unknown .snap directories gave me a bit of a paranoid moment. -- -- ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Need to know the compatibility
Hi Team, Kindly let me know on the compatibility of Intel X520 Dual Port 10 Gigabit Ethernet PCIe Adaptor Card with Free BSD 8.2 OS. This is an urgent requirement for our development project. Please provide us the information at the earliest. Thanks Regards, Vijay K Extn : 785-4581 ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: Xorg error: New athlon laptop, radeonhd video - unable to load fbdev
On Mon, 19 Dec 2011, Da Rock wrote: On 12/19/11 21:31, Da Rock wrote: I hate to come with this kind of a query, but my googling hasn't come across a satisfactory answer. I'm running an install on a brand new laptop for a client, and I'm trying to get X up using xdm- nothing. The logs says it failed to load fbdev because there is no data module. I try uninstalling fbdev and running a rebuild of xorg- its still using the builtin configuration and still can't load fbdev. No devices detected. I run Xorg -configure, and it shows the radeon card fine, 2 displays. Still working with the config file, but it seems fine. correction - its dual display issue that I've never had trouble with before (I also have installed on a HTPC with same memory, phenom quad core, uses a radeon HD card and a NVidia HD card). And no, the Xorg -config /root/xorg.conf.new [-retro] doesn't work as it is locking up and I can't even ctl-alt-backspace, I have to acpi power off to shut the system down. Google's still not giving me any hope... :( Last time I came across this level of issue was with a solo vintage intel card on yet another laptop- it froze the system too. BTW, who says multicard vga is rare? Some newer laptops have dual GPUs, an onboard Intel combined with one from another vendor for higher performance. There's hot-switching between the two, but AFAIK it's not supported in FreeBSD. There may be a BIOS option to disable one or the other. There should still be two video outputs. More than one video card at a time is a different issue, which is also unsupported on FreeBSD AFAIK: (WW) VGA arbiter: cannot open kernel arbiter, no multi-card support ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: .config
On Mon, 19 Dec 2011 10:48:23 -0500, ill...@gmail.com wrote: On 30 November 2011 14:03, Polytropon free...@edvax.de wrote: On Wed, 30 Nov 2011 13:40:19 -0500, ill...@gmail.com wrote: A dirty workaround might be to link /.config to something innocuous. One could obvio- usly also have /.config mounted as a tmpfs(5). So it couldn't persist from boot to boot. The cleanest solution is to forgo qt/kde, but then you're slightly more limited in what you can use for office-type stuff. The question remains: How is a user-started process (e. g. when you run the startx command) supposed to create directory entries and files on root level /, a thing that only root and root-like users (and programs!) should be allowed to? % mkdir /.config mkdir: /.config: Permission denied As a normal user, you _intendedly_ can't do this. Why would you assume that a program you start can do it? I don't have any QT/KDE stuff but isn't kdm suid ( owned by root)? That could be the reason: kdm, belonging to the KDE world and quite probably using Qt, running with the permissions to access /. You could temporarily try to disable kdm and replace it by xdm, or no display login manager at all. In that case, /.config shouldn't appear anymore. -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ... ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: Xorg error: New athlon laptop, radeonhd video - unable to load fbdev
On 12/20/11 03:05, Warren Block wrote: On Mon, 19 Dec 2011, Da Rock wrote: On 12/19/11 21:31, Da Rock wrote: I hate to come with this kind of a query, but my googling hasn't come across a satisfactory answer. I'm running an install on a brand new laptop for a client, and I'm trying to get X up using xdm- nothing. The logs says it failed to load fbdev because there is no data module. I try uninstalling fbdev and running a rebuild of xorg- its still using the builtin configuration and still can't load fbdev. No devices detected. I run Xorg -configure, and it shows the radeon card fine, 2 displays. Still working with the config file, but it seems fine. correction - its dual display issue that I've never had trouble with before (I also have installed on a HTPC with same memory, phenom quad core, uses a radeon HD card and a NVidia HD card). And no, the Xorg -config /root/xorg.conf.new [-retro] doesn't work as it is locking up and I can't even ctl-alt-backspace, I have to acpi power off to shut the system down. Google's still not giving me any hope... :( Last time I came across this level of issue was with a solo vintage intel card on yet another laptop- it froze the system too. BTW, who says multicard vga is rare? Some newer laptops have dual GPUs, an onboard Intel combined with one from another vendor for higher performance. There's hot-switching between the two, but AFAIK it's not supported in FreeBSD. There may be a BIOS option to disable one or the other. There should still be two video outputs. More than one video card at a time is a different issue, which is also unsupported on FreeBSD AFAIK: (WW) VGA arbiter: cannot open kernel arbiter, no multi-card support It appears that it is something that needs to be resolved pretty quickly then. The linux guys jumped on it quick as (I'm not ribbing by the way) - probably their guys came across it sooner than BSD users. What has thrown me is the fact that I didn't even consider it as a problem because I already had installed on a dual video system- ATI card and NVidia onboard, both that will work on a linux system, and that FBSD has no problem like this either; it just works. Weird... So what are my options then? I have 2 high performance cards I can't use? VESA is not exactly an exciting solution - or secure: it somehow retains the image displayed in memory, and shows it as it loads up X the next time. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: .config
On Monday 19 December 2011 12:43:42 Polytropon wrote: On Mon, 19 Dec 2011 10:48:23 -0500, ill...@gmail.com wrote: On 30 November 2011 14:03, Polytropon free...@edvax.de wrote: On Wed, 30 Nov 2011 13:40:19 -0500, ill...@gmail.com wrote: A dirty workaround might be to link /.config to something innocuous. One could obvio- usly also have /.config mounted as a tmpfs(5). So it couldn't persist from boot to boot. The cleanest solution is to forgo qt/kde, but then you're slightly more limited in what you can use for office-type stuff. The question remains: How is a user-started process (e. g. when you run the startx command) supposed to create directory entries and files on root level /, a thing that only root and root-like users (and programs!) should be allowed to? % mkdir /.config mkdir: /.config: Permission denied As a normal user, you _intendedly_ can't do this. Why would you assume that a program you start can do it? I don't have any QT/KDE stuff but isn't kdm suid ( owned by root)? That could be the reason: kdm, belonging to the KDE world and quite probably using Qt, running with the permissions to access /. You could temporarily try to disable kdm and replace it by xdm, or no display login manager at all. In that case, /.config shouldn't appear anymore. I don't know because I don't use kdm and I don't see that kdm running. I have ksplah but not kdm and I have or re-create directory if I deleted in: / /root and in the user directory which should be. And it is happened when I start kde with 'startx as user and .config isd recreated evrywhere.. In .xinitrc I have just: PATH=/usr/local/kde4/bin:$PATH export PATH startkde Mitja http://jpgmag.com/people/lumiwa ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
BWN Driver
I've got an HP Pavillian laptop with a Broadcom BCM4312 card. Below is what I've loaded so far and the result from /var/log/messages. [root@blackdragon ~]# kldstat | grep bwn 141 0x82035000 28a9abwn_v4_ucode.ko 191 0x8205e000 2982cif_bwn.ko 201 0x82088000 6183 siba_bwn.ko [root@blackdragon ~]# Dec 19 19:10:53 blackdragon kernel: fwohci0: 1394 Open Host Controller Interface mem 0xc7f5-0xc7f507ff irq 10 at device 9.0 on pci1 Dec 19 19:10:53 blackdragon kernel: fwohci0: [ITHREAD] Dec 19 19:10:53 blackdragon kernel: fwohci0: OHCI version 0.0 (ROM=0) Dec 19 19:10:53 blackdragon kernel: fwohci0: invalid OHCI version Dec 19 19:10:53 blackdragon kernel: fwohci0: fwohci_init failed with err=6 Dec 19 19:10:53 blackdragon kernel: device_attach: fwohci0 attach returned 5 Dec 19 19:10:53 blackdragon kernel: siba_bwn0: Broadcom BCM4312 802.11b/g Wireless mem 0xfc00-0xfc003fff irq 23 at device 0.0 on pci8 Dec 19 19:10:54 blackdragon kernel: bwn0 on siba_bwn0 Dec 19 19:10:54 blackdragon kernel: bwn0: WLAN (chipid 0x4312 rev 15) PHY (analog 6 type 5 rev 1) RADIO (manuf 0x17f ver 0x2062 rev 2) Dec 19 19:10:54 blackdragon kernel: bwn0: DMA (64 bits) Dec 19 19:10:54 blackdragon kernel: bwn0: Using 1 MSI messages Dec 19 19:10:54 blackdragon kernel: bwn0: [FILTER] I get a nice bwn0 device with ifconfig, but I am unable to do anything with it and the little blue light on the front of my laptop stays red, even after playing with the switch for my Wireless device. I've gotten it to work in linux but not reliably and of course it does work in Windows. So I am a bit stumped as to what is wrong or what I am missing. -- Chris Brennan A: Yes. Q: Are you sure? A: Because it reverses the logical flow of conversation. Q: Why is top posting frowned upon? http://xkcd.com/84/ | http://xkcd.com/149/ | http://xkcd.com/549/ GPG: D5B20C0C (6741 8EE4 6C7D 11FB 8DA8 9E4A EECD 9A84 D5B2 0C0C) ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: BWN Driver
On Mon, Dec 19, 2011 at 8:28 PM, Ramiro Caso ramirocas...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, I have the same card, so maybe I can help. Some Broadcom chipsets are LP (low power) PHY, so you have to load bwn_v4_lp_ucode instead of bwn_v4_ucode. That worked for me. You may want to check the man page for bwn, just to be sure. I tried this as well, still no blue light. -- Chris Brennan A: Yes. Q: Are you sure? A: Because it reverses the logical flow of conversation. Q: Why is top posting frowned upon? http://xkcd.com/84/ | http://xkcd.com/149/ | http://xkcd.com/549/ GPG: D5B20C0C (6741 8EE4 6C7D 11FB 8DA8 9E4A EECD 9A84 D5B2 0C0C) ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: BWN Driver
2011/12/19, Chris Brennan xa...@xaerolimit.net: I've got an HP Pavillian laptop with a Broadcom BCM4312 card. Below is what I've loaded so far and the result from /var/log/messages. Hi, I have the same card, so maybe I can help. Some Broadcom chipsets are LP (low power) PHY, so you have to load bwn_v4_lp_ucode instead of bwn_v4_ucode. That worked for me. You may want to check the man page for bwn, just to be sure. Best, Ramiro [root@blackdragon ~]# kldstat | grep bwn 141 0x82035000 28a9abwn_v4_ucode.ko 191 0x8205e000 2982cif_bwn.ko 201 0x82088000 6183 siba_bwn.ko [root@blackdragon ~]# Dec 19 19:10:53 blackdragon kernel: fwohci0: 1394 Open Host Controller Interface mem 0xc7f5-0xc7f507ff irq 10 at device 9.0 on pci1 Dec 19 19:10:53 blackdragon kernel: fwohci0: [ITHREAD] Dec 19 19:10:53 blackdragon kernel: fwohci0: OHCI version 0.0 (ROM=0) Dec 19 19:10:53 blackdragon kernel: fwohci0: invalid OHCI version Dec 19 19:10:53 blackdragon kernel: fwohci0: fwohci_init failed with err=6 Dec 19 19:10:53 blackdragon kernel: device_attach: fwohci0 attach returned 5 Dec 19 19:10:53 blackdragon kernel: siba_bwn0: Broadcom BCM4312 802.11b/g Wireless mem 0xfc00-0xfc003fff irq 23 at device 0.0 on pci8 Dec 19 19:10:54 blackdragon kernel: bwn0 on siba_bwn0 Dec 19 19:10:54 blackdragon kernel: bwn0: WLAN (chipid 0x4312 rev 15) PHY (analog 6 type 5 rev 1) RADIO (manuf 0x17f ver 0x2062 rev 2) Dec 19 19:10:54 blackdragon kernel: bwn0: DMA (64 bits) Dec 19 19:10:54 blackdragon kernel: bwn0: Using 1 MSI messages Dec 19 19:10:54 blackdragon kernel: bwn0: [FILTER] I get a nice bwn0 device with ifconfig, but I am unable to do anything with it and the little blue light on the front of my laptop stays red, even after playing with the switch for my Wireless device. I've gotten it to work in linux but not reliably and of course it does work in Windows. So I am a bit stumped as to what is wrong or what I am missing. -- Chris Brennan A: Yes. Q: Are you sure? A: Because it reverses the logical flow of conversation. Q: Why is top posting frowned upon? http://xkcd.com/84/ | http://xkcd.com/149/ | http://xkcd.com/549/ GPG: D5B20C0C (6741 8EE4 6C7D 11FB 8DA8 9E4A EECD 9A84 D5B2 0C0C) ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org -- Por favor, no enviar adjuntos de Word, Excel o PowerPoint. http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/no-word-attachments.html Please, do not send Word, Excel or PowerPoint attachments. http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/no-word-attachments.html ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: Xorg error: New athlon laptop, radeonhd video - unable to load fbdev
On Tue, 20 Dec 2011, Da Rock wrote: Some newer laptops have dual GPUs, an onboard Intel combined with one from another vendor for higher performance. There's hot-switching between the two, but AFAIK it's not supported in FreeBSD. There may be a BIOS option to disable one or the other. There should still be two video outputs. More than one video card at a time is a different issue, which is also unsupported on FreeBSD AFAIK: (WW) VGA arbiter: cannot open kernel arbiter, no multi-card support It appears that it is something that needs to be resolved pretty quickly then. The linux guys jumped on it quick as (I'm not ribbing by the way) - probably their guys came across it sooner than BSD users. What has thrown me is the fact that I didn't even consider it as a problem because I already had installed on a dual video system- ATI card and NVidia onboard, both that will work on a linux system, and that FBSD has no problem like this either; it just works. Weird... It's difficult to tell what you're saying. It's possible that multiple cards would work in some combinations, and just that the ones I tried did not. Also, you're talking about two systems, a laptop and a desktop. So it would be good to get some specifics, like laptop brand and model, whether the desktop dual-card setup worked with FreeBSD (and which version of FreeBSD). ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: Xorg error: New athlon laptop, radeonhd video - unable to load fbdev
On 12/20/11 14:33, Warren Block wrote: On Tue, 20 Dec 2011, Da Rock wrote: Some newer laptops have dual GPUs, an onboard Intel combined with one from another vendor for higher performance. There's hot-switching between the two, but AFAIK it's not supported in FreeBSD. There may be a BIOS option to disable one or the other. There should still be two video outputs. More than one video card at a time is a different issue, which is also unsupported on FreeBSD AFAIK: (WW) VGA arbiter: cannot open kernel arbiter, no multi-card support It appears that it is something that needs to be resolved pretty quickly then. The linux guys jumped on it quick as (I'm not ribbing by the way) - probably their guys came across it sooner than BSD users. What has thrown me is the fact that I didn't even consider it as a problem because I already had installed on a dual video system- ATI card and NVidia onboard, both that will work on a linux system, and that FBSD has no problem like this either; it just works. Weird... It's difficult to tell what you're saying. It's possible that multiple cards would work in some combinations, and just that the ones I tried did not. Also, you're talking about two systems, a laptop and a desktop. So it would be good to get some specifics, like laptop brand and model, whether the desktop dual-card setup worked with FreeBSD (and which version of FreeBSD). NP. I thought I was clear, but I'm not always coherent when I communicate (apparently... just ask the missus :) ). The laptop is a compaq cq62 with a quad core phenom and a ATI 4200 Radeon mobility GPU, as well as 6300 GPU. The HTPC/desktop is a whitebox quad core phenom on a ASUS MB (not 100% sure which) with a NVidia onboard pcie GPU, and an ATI Radeon 3450. There could be yet another GPU on there, but I can't remember. That system is running 8.x FBSD (1 or 2- can't quite remember), and the laptop I'm installing 9.0-RC3 on, with the view to using freebsd-update to RELEASE, because of the lack of Atheros 9285 support in 8.x (tried for hours, just couldn't get the bird to fly :( ). From what I understand now, having been able assimilate what has been discussed here and through google, it seems there is a conflict when dealing with multiple onboard GPUs. What exactly is the issue with getting an arbiter for FreeBSD? Aside from time, naturally. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: 9.0 install and journaling
On 12/13/2011 11:54 AM, Devin Teske wrote: *Snipping* On 12/13/11 06:00, Eric S Pulley wrote: As for one big / partition- linux may be using it: and its their biggest failing! I've had a system lockup due to lack of space. Never a problem with bsd as logs will only fill up var, a user won't break it with filling up usr, etc. And root always stays protected! Its saved my life a number of times... I can quickly fill TB's of data in no time, and if something goes bang the logs can be a silent killer too. My 2c's anyway... I didn't know there WERE any Linux distros that still used one root partition, and one swap... Even Mandriva doesn't do that anymore. -Allen ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Port, Packages, and Patching, Upgrading
Hi, I've been trying to find info about this, so I'm Hoping someone here will know about this; I use FreeBSD 8.2-RELEASE, and basically, the normal way I do things, is like this: I grab the CD, boot, and install the Base System. Once I've booted, I'll then use one of the two: pkg_add -r bunch of packages or sysinstall Configure Packages Then I go through the menus, and select what software I want, and, eventually, I'll tell it to start installing. Now, I've been reading about Ports more and more, and thought about maybe just using those instead, but even with upgrade_pkg from bsdaminscripts, I just can NOT seem to upgrade anything. I'd like to have my system fully patched, but most of the data I find, is about how to keep ports up to date, and has very little on Packages / Binaries. I don't think it matters much why I choose Binary Packages over Ports, I'm just looking to make sure the emails I get every once in a while on the root account will FINALLY not have a huge list of stuff that I need to either delete / uninstall, or upgrade and have no idea how. I mainly used Linux, so I AM a little more used to everything being patched at once, like Slackware, where you can type one command and install patches and stuff to everything you have installed, be it the Kernel, or an Xterm, or X itself, or Pidgin. Any of you that use pkg_add and Sysinstall to install packages, can you maybe describe what you do to install updates, Patches, or just in general, keep your system patched? I'd really appreciate that. -Allen ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: 9.0 install and journaling
On 12/20/11 16:08, Allen wrote: On 12/13/2011 11:54 AM, Devin Teske wrote: *Snipping* On 12/13/11 06:00, Eric S Pulley wrote: As for one big / partition- linux may be using it: and its their biggest failing! I've had a system lockup due to lack of space. Never a problem with bsd as logs will only fill up var, a user won't break it with filling up usr, etc. And root always stays protected! Its saved my life a number of times... I can quickly fill TB's of data in no time, and if something goes bang the logs can be a silent killer too. My 2c's anyway... I didn't know there WERE any Linux distros that still used one root partition, and one swap... Even Mandriva doesn't do that anymore. Fedora for one... ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
