devfs rule: ioctl DEVFSIO_SAPPLY: No such process (???)
Hi! I am trying to get the OSS soundsystem working for my nforce2 mainboard since yesterday, but with mixed success. The OSS driver is generally setup correctly and working, which means osstest outputs the demosound. My problem now seems to be the devfs, because I am trying to apply the ruleset to the audio devices in /dev, so that a normal user can access the sound in KDE. I used the following code for /etc/devfs.rules (which are given in this forum thread: http://www.4front-tech.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=710): [oss_rules=200] add path 'dsp*' mode 666 add path 'mixer*' mode 666 add path 'audio*' mode 666 add path 'midi*' mode 666 add path sequencer mode 666 add path music mode 666 add path dmfm0 mode 666 The ruleset should be processed by the oss.sh startscript by calling: /sbin/devfs rule -s 200 applyset but this command only outputs: devfs rule: ioctl DEVFSIO_SAPPLY: No such process and nothing happens to the device nodes in /dev. I already tried to play around with devfs devfs.rules, but whatever I tried, either it only gives the above error message, or simply gives no feedback and does nothing. If I run /etc/rc.d/devfs restart, nothing happens. If I run devfs ruleset 200 devfs rule applyset no feedback, and no change in /dev. I tried a similar approach for changing ownership and perms for /dev/acd* with another ruleset, I found on this mailinglist, but exactly the same result. For some reason unknown to me, devfs seems not be working on my system. I did nothing special on this installation. Installed from the 6.0-RELEASE install-cd, updated world to 6.1-PRERELEASE, installed the latest OSS driver package, configured it for nforce2, osstest OK, installed KDE by ports, and now I am stuck to get sound working in KDE... Any comments? -- Sincerely, Michael A FreeBSD Prospect, who is actually using Gentoo Linux ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
How to check status of IBM ServRaid 6i remotely?
I have an IBM eServer 226 with ServRaid 6i U320 SCSI-raid-controller running in raid-5 mode. The appropriate FreeBSD driver is ips. Is there a way of checking the status of that hardware-raid5 remotely? I could not find any info concerning this matter, but there surely has to be a way (how else would you know about a disc gone down, if you are not in the vicinity of the server?). -- Sincerely, Michael A FreeBSD Prospect, who is actually using Gentoo Linux ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: nforce2 digital audio output support? (or spdif support at all?)
Am Montag, 6. Februar 2006 21:54 schrieb FreeBSD Prospect: I was searching for more info about support for DOLBY DIGITAL pass-through to a digital audio output, but nothing recent came up. This matter seems to be a serious shortage in FreeBSD, because the only useable info which came up on www.google.com/bsd was concerning NetBSD (http://bsd-crew.de/index.php/5.1-Surround-Sound_mit_NetBSD, which is in German language). There something of an audio-layer is mentioned. Is it really possible, that NetBSD is ahead of FreeBSD in that particular matter? I have a workstation with Asus A7N8X-deluxe motherboard, which features the nforce2 chipset, and has an electrial digital audio output. On my first few tests with FreeBSD 6.0 (-RELEASE), after loading the snd_ich driver, I got analog sound working, but the digital output was not recognized and did not show up in sysctl. Any idea, if spdif support is already in -CURRENT, and if not, if somebody is working on that issue? Now that's strange, I really thought, I am not the only one interested in being able to use a DOLBY DIGITAL signal output in FreeBSD. Does really nobody here have a clue? -- Sincerely, Michael A FreeBSD Prospect, who is actually using Gentoo Linux ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
FreeBSD Ports vs. Gentoo Portage (a matter of concept)
Hi, Reading a lot about FreeBSD recently made me really curious. I know, that the founder of Gentoo (the well known GNU/Linux meta-distribution, which is also based on compiling everything from source) was using FreeBSD for some time, before continuing creating Gentoo, what's why portage (the Gentoo software management system) is generally based on FreeBSD's ports. FreeBSD is generally seen as being more secure, more stable, has a lot more software in ports, and used to be the better choice especially for production servers. Now I am wondering, how this is even possible considering the following: - Portage divides all software into three states: hardmasked, masked unstable/testing (~arch) and stable (arch). - In ports there is no such difference, which means the lastest software is just available using the usual port management features, without the need to fiddle around with unmasking something, to be able to install it. In most cases (even the usual desktop stuff, like Gnome KDE) software in ports is more up-to-date than in portage. That means, to be able to compare Gentoo Linux with FreeBSD, you would have to run a pure unstable (~arch) Gentoo system, which is generally not recommended, and especially not for a production system. So how is it possible, that FreeBSD is considered to be more suited as a production environment, if it runs the latest software-versions, which are considered unstable/testing in Gentoo? How comes, that a FreeBSD system is considered to cause less work do administer this way (thinking of regular updates of installed ports, and if it's only for security fixes - compare that to the frequent changes in ~arch portage)? And shouldn't a FreeBSD system break more often, if kept up to date on a regular basis (this is meant concerning the software installed from ports, not the base-system)? Maybe I am missing something here, or maybe the procedure to get something into ports is different (more test in advance by the contributors/devs?), but I could not find more info about that matter until now. Don't get me wrong, I think the portage way with the three different states is useful, and the more I read about the ports system in FreeBSD, the less I think, ports are superior to portage (at least if you are used to portage and USE flags). But hands down, using Gentoo, even a stable (arch) system can break from time to time, and a mixture of stable (arch) and unstable/testing (~arch) packages may also not be the best approach (try to hold an unstable package by using something like =sys-apps/baselayout-1.12.0_pre13-r1 and see that particular ebuild disappear in favor of newer unstable versions with portage complaining about no suitable versions being available for your setup). The FreeBSD way, to split the base system (the OS itself) from addon software, is a really good idea, so that the base system can be kept stable and profen to be well tested, but I just don't understand, how this is fitting under one hat, with having a stable OS all the lastest add-on software installed. How does this work out in the FreeBSD world? P.S. If interested in upcoming reactions from the Gentoo world, have a look at the following forum posting: http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-p-3091579.html -- Sincerely, Michael A FreeBSD Prospect, who is actually using Gentoo Linux ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: FreeBSD Ports vs. Gentoo Portage (a matter of concept)
Am Dienstag, 7. Februar 2006 12:10 schrieb a non y mouse: FreeBSD Prospect wrote: with having a stable OS all the lastest add-on software installed. How does this work out in the FreeBSD world? do you install every single piece of third party software onto your machine? no... of course not 3rd party software is just that--it has no relevance to the quality of the operating system on which it runs, so i fail to see how it could be taken into consideration when evaluating said operating system. you are given free will to install or not install any software you wish, and in any manner. if you want to compare the level of stability and security of an operating system vs. another, fine. but leave it at that. whether the ports tree existed or not, you would install certain pieces of software if you needed them. this, imo, makes any concept of security or stability in the ports tree completely immaterial In general I am unsure, how a stable production environment is handled in FreeBSD due to the lack of dividing new ports in different states. The approach with different qualification of a software state (stable / unstable at least) is a common way to go, as it is handled with the FreeBSD OS (release / stable / current). That's why I wanted to know, how everybody else is comming along with such a system missing for the ports collection. What you write about 3rd party software is not exactly meeting the point, because you can't run a production environment with just the base system. Everybody relies on the additional software, and the whole system can only be considered that secure and stable, as it is as a whole. Therefor the add-on software has to be taken into consideration about the quality of an OS as well, especially because all that software is available using a central repository. Doesn't it make sense, to ensure the quality of add-on software, if the ports-tree is controlled by the FreeBSD project? Wether if it is in a way, like the Gentoo project is handling it, or the OpenBSD project, is a different question. -- Sincerely, Michael A FreeBSD Prospect, who is actually using Gentoo Linux ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
nforce2 digital audio output support? (or spdif support at all?)
Hi! I was searching for more info about support for DOLBY DIGITAL pass-through to a digital audio output, but nothing recent came up. This matter seems to be a serious shortage in FreeBSD, because the only useable info which came up on www.google.com/bsd was concerning NetBSD (http://bsd-crew.de/index.php/5.1-Surround-Sound_mit_NetBSD, which is in German language). There something of an audio-layer is mentioned. Is it really possible, that NetBSD is ahead of FreeBSD in that particular matter? I have a workstation with Asus A7N8X-deluxe motherboard, which features the nforce2 chipset, and has an electrial digital audio output. On my first few tests with FreeBSD 6.0 (-RELEASE), after loading the snd_ich driver, I got analog sound working, but the digital output was not recognized and did not show up in sysctl. Any idea, if spdif support is already in -CURRENT, and if not, if somebody is working on that issue? -- Sincerely, A FreeBSD Prospect, who is actually using Gentoo Linux ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Possibility to submit requests for new ports?
Hi! I was wondering, if there is any communication channel to request new ports. I mean, isn't it likely, that a FreeBSD user (not a codergeek able to create ports himself) is looking for some software, which is available open-source for Linux, but hasn't been ported yet? Wouldn't it be useful, to have an own mailing list for that? Or is freebsd-ports thought to be suiteable for that matter (I am subscribed to that mailing-list, but didn't see much traffic until now, and no port requests at all)? -- Sincerely, A FreeBSD Prospect, who is actually using Gentoo Linux ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: FreeBSD 6.0: Microsoft Wireless Optical Desktop - mouse not working???
Am Sonntag, 29. Januar 2006 18:57 schrieb FreeBSD Prospect: Using the GENERIC kernel, USB is enabled (ohci ehci on an Asus A7N8X deluxe motherboard), the mouse is found during boot as follows: - cut - # cat /var/run/dmesg.boot | grep ums ums0: Microsoft Microsoft Wireless Optical Desktop\M-. 1.00, rev 2.00/17.17, addr 3, iclass 3/1 ums0: 3 buttons and Z dir. - cut - Some more digging led me to this bug: http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=90162 It is about a similar mouse, but the identification is different (0x0063), and keyboard + mouse show up only as one entry due to the wireless receiver). I applied the first set of patches mentioned in that bugreport, and recompiled the kernel, but it did not work (I assume those patches apply especially for the MS Wireless Optical Mouse, although I changed the necessary identification parts in those patches). The only difference I could observe was, that the mouse LED was flickering when moved (instead of beeing steady before applying the patch). In the meantime I found another idea, to try to use the wireless receiver with a USB-PS/2 mouse adapter, and that approach indeed worked! So using the PS/2 connectors for keyboard + mouse for that MS Wireless Optical Desktop seems to be the solution. Nevertheless there is no doubt, that there is a bug in /usr/src/sys/dev/ums.c, so I will send a message to the freebsd-usb mailinglist (or should I submit a bug-report by myself?). Sincerely, Michael -- A FreeBSD Prospect, who is actually using Gentoo Linux ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
FreeBSD 6.0: Microsoft Wireless Optical Desktop - mouse not working???
Hi! I just finished my first FreeBSD 6.0 installation using the two CD image files, and my first problem is, that I can't get this optical wireless mouse to work. The Microsoft Wireless Optical Desktop consists of the receiver, connected to the PC by USB (also has a PS/2 connector, but it is not supposed to have both connected at the same time, and that connector is only to be connected to the keyboard jack), a wireless keyboard and a wireless optical mouse. The keyboard is working, but the mouse does not do anything (except the LED always on). Using the GENERIC kernel, USB is enabled (ohci ehci on an Asus A7N8X deluxe motherboard), the mouse is found during boot as follows: - cut - # cat /var/run/dmesg.boot | grep ums ums0: Microsoft Microsoft Wireless Optical Desktop\M-. 1.00, rev 2.00/17.17, addr 3, iclass 3/1 ums0: 3 buttons and Z dir. - cut - usbd + moused get started, /dev/ums0 and /dev/sysmouse are present, but no mousepointer and no mouse-reaction. cat /dev/sysmouse or killing moused cat /dev/ums0 does not do anything while moving the mouse. It is definitely no hardware-problem, because everything is working just fine in WinXP Gentoo Linux. I already searched with google, in the bugreports, the mailinglists, bsdforums.org bsdforen.de, and I could find quite some reports about similar problems with Microsoft / Logitech and other mice, but no solution (some patches were mentioned, but I could not find any success confirmation). So is there any hope at all, to get that mouse to work properly? If this is a commonly known issue, I wonder why nobody found a solution yet, some reports date back to the year 2003 with some older versions of FreeBSD. As I have read, USB support should have been improved in 6.0, and such a problem really should not be present any more. P.S. I was not quite sure, if this is the correct mailinglist to post that message in. I am subscribed to 6 FreeBSD-mailinglists ATM, but freebsd-questions seems to be the most popular one. Sincerely, Michael -- A FreeBSD Prospect, who is actually using Gentoo Linux ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
