Re: Huge fonts in mozilla with nvidia driver
On Sun, Oct 05, 2003 at 12:40:43PM +0200, Eric Dillenseger wrote: On Sun, Oct 05, 2003 at 12:23:23PM +0200, Eric Dillenseger wrote: I just set a fbsd 5.1 box and installed the nvidia driver. Now when I launch X with nvidia driver mozilla display very huge fonts (in menu, dialog boxes, etc.) When using nv driver, no problem. I'm desperately searching for a fix, unsuccessfully. And just found the trick. As usually when posting for help :/ Need to use DisplaySize width height in Monitor section of XF86Config. So i'm posting it to be in the archives. May help some other people. Thanks, it was good of you to take the time to share what you found, because the archives are a valuable and much used resource. It's nice to see such a considerate person joining our community. I'm reposting this to freebsd-questions, which is the archive that people rely on for all support questions. We don't distinguish between newbies and old timers when offering support. Everyone deserves the best we can give, and that's in freebsd-questions. Also the developers watch freebsd-questions to see if new users are having trouble installing new versions. You might not have realised that people are not supposed to ask questions, nor answer them, on freebsd-newbies. If someone does that by mistake, you can be sure they don't know much about FreeBSD or its community and you wouldn't want their advice. So there is no point ever searching the -newbies archives for help. Just use freebsd-questions for any help, asking or offering or searching. You don't have to join the list first. If you read the mailing list charters on the web site, you'll see what the difference is. When you join a mailing list, you get sent your own copy of its list charter. If you have trouble working out how to use the mailing lists effectively, _that_ is something you are very welcome to ask about in freebsd-newbies. Thanks again for your helpful approach, and I'm glad to see you got everything sorted out in the end. If you need any more help please write again to freebsd-questions, or if you just want to chat I'll see you over at freebsd-newbies. -- Regards, -*Sue*- ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Problems printing to remote print server. (Not PC/Nix)
On Tue, Jul 22, 2003 at 04:27:56PM +1000, Robert Chalmers wrote: The thing I have on the network isa Print Server. A DLink three port print server. Its not a FreeBSD box sharing print jobs, nor a W2K machine doing the same. Its on a network connection of its own, and the printers are plugged into it. oh well. I'll keep digging. :-) Did you get your printing organised yet? Maybe you just need to tell printcap which port to send the print jobs to? -- Regards, -*Sue*- ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Disaster recovery planning
Here's how I plan to recover a system from a level 0 backup to new hardware, if ever the need arises: 1. boot off installation CD (or floppy??) 2. disklabel, make filesystems (using sysinstall) 3. restore root filesystem and mount it 4. change fstab and various configs to work with new hardware 5. boot in single user mode, fix fstab and devices, restore other filesystems 6. boot multiuser and fix anything that still doesn't work I'm upgrading using cvsup and don't have recent CDs. I know I can make my own bootable CD to keep for this purpose, but I don't want to rely on it being found in a crisis if there is a more generic method. Can I do this by booting off an _old_ FreeBSD CD? How old, I mean, what sort of changes do I need to look out for? I think I need the fixit CD too, I couldn't just use the holographic shell even if feeling masochistic... or could I? Could it be done just using a couple of quickly downloaded boot floppy images, in which case I'd only need to document the URL for the current floppies? -- Regards, -*Sue*- ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Updating /usr/src after updating 4.7-4.8
On Sat, Apr 05, 2003 at 07:15:45PM -0800, Paul Hoffman wrote: At 9:56 PM -0500 4/5/03, taxman wrote: On Saturday 05 April 2003 09:26 pm, Paul Hoffman wrote: Greetings again. On a test machine, I upgraded from fairly vanilla 4.7 to 4.8 using CD-ROM and /stand/sysintall. At the beginning of the upgrade, it told me that it would not upgrade /usr/src. After the upgrade, I see by the dates that it upgraded some of /usr/src, but not most of it. What is the proper way to bring /usr/src up to date so that I can make kernel mods? cvsup is one of the most common ways. You need to install it first. See http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/cvsup.html I was assuming that there was a way to get it off the CD-ROM. Is that not true? That is true. First copy your kernel config file to at least one safe place. Use /stand/sysinstall as root, go into the post-installation configuration section, add distributions, custom selection, then select the kernel sources. You'll have to find your way around the menus a bit because I haven't seen a recent enough CD to give you more exact menu item names, sorry. There is a chance that it will see /usr/src and complain, especially if you have it populated with sources. Also you might have to clean away all of the files from the old build before using the new sources. Being the cautious type, I would start afresh by renaming /usr/src first (# mv /usr/src /usr/oldsrc), sysinstall the new kernel sources, retrieve your old kernel config file, and then remove /usr/oldsrc when you're sure you don't need it. I tend to upgrade from CD rather than cvsup because for some of us there is no choice, though I do like to have the full sources if possible. I always remove the old /usr/src before attempting a CD upgrade, because I've seen it stubbornly sing that old familiar song no, no, cvsup is better when it found I had sources, though I don't know if that's still a problem or not. I often forget that /usr/src contained my precious kernel config file :-) -- Regards, -*Sue*- ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
minimum memory [was: A simple question about FreeBSD]
On Fri, Mar 14, 2003 at 09:28:14PM -0500, taxman wrote: On Friday 14 March 2003 08:23 pm, Wizard of Wor wrote: I was unable to find the minimum requirements on x86 platform. Can I run FreeBSD on mz 486dx2 8Mb laptop smoothly? The install documentation or the FAQ does have this answer, but yes you should be able to run fine on this machine. Just don't try to install X windows, unless you set up a *lot* of swap. It also depends a little bit on if there is any noncooperative hardware on the machine. Laptops tend to have some of that. Best bet is to try it. 4.x will probably work the best for you. This memory question comes up a lot, and I'm not sure how up to date that part of the documentation is. Has anyone _definitely_ run an install on a machine with only 8MB in the last couple of years? Twice I have failed to install (boot floppy with CD) to machines with only 8MB RAM. It could have been FreeBSD 4.4, but I think it was FreeBSD 3.3. I'd love to discover that I'm wrong here. Of course the alternative is to put the disk in another machine to do the install, then it should run OK back in the 8MB machine. As for X, forget trying it. If it was installed it would run but not usably, no matter how much swap. Without X and with plenty of swap you can do a lot with your 8MB in text mode if you can get an installation going. I had a 386 with 8MB running FreeBSD 2.x (without X) that ran much faster than the NT4 pentium beside it. The 486 CPU should be fine. -- Regards, -*Sue*- To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-questions in the body of the message
/etc/vntab
Is the /etc/vntab file mentioned in vnconfig(8) documented anywhere? I can't find any hint of it on this system: FreeBSD 4.8-PRERELEASE #0: Mon Feb 24 http://mobile.yahoo.com.au - Yahoo! Mobile - Exchange IMs with Messenger friends on your Telstra or Vodafone mobile phone. To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-questions in the body of the message
Re: Compaq Evo install problems
Nobody's answered yet so I'll have a go. --- Sue Blake [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm half way through working around the problems trying to install FreeBSD on a new Compaq Evo desktop. The only install CD I have is 4.6-RELEASE, but these problems don't seem to be version-specific. Here is where I'm up to, and hopefully someone can point me closer to completion. Please excuse only partial information. I have very limited access through the firewall, no GUI. Output from the new machine can only be transferred to this email via the pencil device if necessary. At first, the install CD wouldn't boot at all, saying BTX halted. A search of the archives told me to disable DMA in the BIOS, or downgrade to an earlier BIOS. I did the former and completed the basic installation and reboot without drama. Now I have to do something about the two devices that come up as unknown in dmesg: audio and ethernet. pci0: unknown card(vendor=0x8086, dev=0x24c5) at 31.5 irq 5 pci5: unknown card(vendor=0x8086, dev=0x103b) at 8.0 irq 5 The important one is pci5. Again a mail archive search showed someone had a similar problem, used pciconf -l and looked up /usr/share/misc/pci_vendors to investigate, then suggested Is it enough to add 0x103b to the ident table?. He did, and apparently it worked fine. That seems to be what I need to do, and the same 0x103b turns out appropriate for my device. I have two questions: What/where is the ident table, and unless it's obvious, how do I put the number in? After grepping my fingers to the bone, I found a file that not only talked about an ident table, but also looked relevant, at /usr/src/sys/dev/fxp/if_fxp.c Now don't ask me what that file is about or what I did, because I'm not sure and I don't claim it's right. I just found some lines that related to other models and added similar info substituting the words and numbers that I'd picked up from things like 'dmesg | grep unknown' and 'pciconf -lv'. It was a bit like solving one of those find-the-pattern puzzles. Rebuilt the kernel. Reboot. Hey, I'm networked! Now I can upgrade from 4.6-RELEASE to something more recent, maybe even find a version of X that understands the video. If the nic effort is successful, can I follow similar steps to try to get sound going? Well, not in that same file I don't think, it looks like it's only about the ethernet interface. I did find a file in another directory that looked like it too was simply lacking info about my hardware related to sound support, but at this point it's all getting way too guessy to proceed. Of course if anyone who reads this has suggestions re explaining the hardware to X and sound, I'd love to hear from you! :-) But if like me you can't get started with your Compaq Evo, perhaps what I've related above will help some. http://mobile.yahoo.com.au - Yahoo! Mobile - Exchange IMs with Messenger friends on your Telstra or Vodafone mobile phone. To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-questions in the body of the message
Compaq Evo install problems
I'm half way through working around the problems trying to install FreeBSD on a new Compaq Evo desktop. The only install CD I have is 4.6-RELEASE, but these problems don't seem to be version-specific. Here is where I'm up to, and hopefully someone can point me closer to completion. Please excuse only partial information. I have very limited access through the firewall, no GUI. Output from the new machine can only be transferred to this email via the pencil device if necessary. At first, the install CD wouldn't boot at all, saying BTX halted. A search of the archives told me to disable DMA in the BIOS, or downgrade to an earlier BIOS. I did the former and completed the basic installation and reboot without drama. Now I have to do something about the two devices that come up as unknown in dmesg: audio and ethernet. pci0: unknown card(vendor=0x8086, dev=0x24c5) at 31.5 irq 5 pci5: unknown card(vendor=0x8086, dev=0x103b) at 8.0 irq 5 The important one is pci5. Again a mail archive search showed someone had a similar problem, used pciconf -l and looked up /usr/share/misc/pci_vendors to investigate, then suggested Is it enough to add 0x103b to the ident table?. He did, and apparently it worked fine. That seems to be what I need to do, and the same 0x103b turns out appropriate for my device. I have two questions: What/where is the ident table, and unless it's obvious, how do I put the number in? If the nic effort is successful, can I follow similar steps to try to get sound going? http://mobile.yahoo.com.au - Yahoo! Mobile - Exchange IMs with Messenger friends on your Telstra or Vodafone mobile phone. To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-questions in the body of the message
Re: speaker now makes buzzing noise...
On Sun, Nov 03, 2002 at 06:58:58PM -0500, Michael E Mercer wrote: Hello all, I recently followed the instructions to from http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2002/09/19/FreeBSD_Basics.html and added all the lines in the files it states... I rebooted my machine and all seems fine. However, I used GAIM and after a few messages from people, the speakers start buzzing and the only way I can stop it is to reboot. How to do I stop this noise, and hopefully fix it altogether? Are any error messages written to /var/log/messages when that happens? -- Regards, -*Sue*- http://www.sievx.com/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-questions in the body of the message
Re: speaker now makes buzzing noise...
On Sun, Nov 03, 2002 at 09:04:36PM -0500, Michael E Mercer wrote: Sue Blake wrote: On Sun, Nov 03, 2002 at 06:58:58PM -0500, Michael E Mercer wrote: Hello all, I recently followed the instructions to from http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2002/09/19/FreeBSD_Basics.html and added all the lines in the files it states... I rebooted my machine and all seems fine. However, I used GAIM and after a few messages from people, the speakers start buzzing and the only way I can stop it is to reboot. How to do I stop this noise, and hopefully fix it altogether? Are any error messages written to /var/log/messages when that happens? Nov 3 18:39:53 dual /kernel: pcm0:virtual:2: play interrupt timeout, channel dead the only thing I see related to sound... So that's the culprit. I too had a sound problem just like yours, and it produced that error message, and I too felt like nobody understood/believed me for a while :-) Then I went and hunted through the problem reports at http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/query-pr-summary.cgi?query and found there was another that sounded quite like mine http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=kern/34942 That was several FreeBSD versions ago, and just last month I had email from someone running the latest release asking if I'd found a solution. Unfortunately not, this one seems a real mystery. Now I see quite a few other PRs that could be related, but I can't tell if they're similar symptoms for unrelated problems or not. kern/34942 kern/25859 i386/25442 kern/40927 kern/29465 kern/25061 kern/20115 kern/35230 i386/44762 ... Although I have been unable to use sound properly since 4.3, at a pinch I can play something if I do not queue up more than one sound file, do not stop, pause, change speed, or quit during play, do not suspend if it's a laptop, do not allow any application running sound to be closed or crash while playing, and be prepared to reboot if it goes into foghorn mode or stops making sounds. You might have more success than me by following just some of these tips. Sorry I can do little more than commiserate, but I'm sure the problem will be addressed as soon as enough of us give enough information for the problem to be found and sorted out. It is tempting to just give up, but we shouldn't do that. -- Regards, -*Sue*- http://www.sievx.com/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-questions in the body of the message
cvsup-mirror and collections
I'm using the cvsup-mirror port to create an unofficial mirror for use within a private network with limited connectivity. Local machines will cvsup various releases from this repository. Before using cvsup-mirror I disabled gnats and www. Now I see that the docs are not updating in my repository. Here's what I have: drwxr-xr-x6 cvsupin cvsupin 1536 Oct 31 22:33 CVSROOT drwxr-xr-x3 cvsupin cvsupin 512 Oct 20 21:20 distrib drwxr-xr-x 38 cvsupin cvsupin 1024 Oct 20 21:47 doc drwxr-xr-x 58 cvsupin cvsupin 1536 Oct 31 22:40 ports drwxr-xr-x 24 cvsupin cvsupin 1024 Oct 31 23:02 src drwxr-xr-x 12 cvsupin cvsupin 512 Oct 21 04:37 www Now maybe all I have to do is tell it to get docs-all, but I'm asking about it first in case I've done something wrong because I'm surprised that docs wouldn't be in the default setup for a mirror. Is this what I should expect to see? -- Regards, -*Sue*- http://www.sievx.com/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-questions in the body of the message
Re: Laptop sound
On Tue, Oct 08, 2002 at 11:14:48PM -0700, Pookie wrote: I have a Sony Vaio GRX-570 running FreeBSD 4.6. Im attempting to get my sound working, but im receiving an error: Dmesg: Pcm0: Intel 82801CA (IHC3)... irq 9 at device 31.5 on pci0 After I try playing something in xmms I get: Pcm0:play:0:play interrupt timeout, channel dead Why does it do this, and how is it fixed? Perhaps it relates to http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=kern/34942 -- Regards, -*Sue*- http://www.sievx.com/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-questions in the body of the message
