Re: Skylake/HD graphics support

2016-11-14 Thread Warren Block
On Sun, 13 Nov 2016, Daniel Campos do Nascimento wrote: Hello, First time posting on a mailing list... I currently have 11.0-STABLE installed on my laptop which has a Core i7-6500U. I can't get Xorg-server to work neither with xf86-driver-intel, nor with i915kms driver; I'm falling back on

Re: Destroy GPT partition scheme absolutely, how?

2016-10-04 Thread Warren Block
On Mon, 26 Sep 2016, John Baldwin wrote: On Tuesday, September 27, 2016 12:36:22 AM Ngie Cooper wrote: On Sep 26, 2016, at 22:48, Ernie Luzar wrote: ... This little script has been posted before. Maybe it will be what your looking for. Called gpart.nuke #! /bin/sh

Re: r300951: mountroot: waiting for device /dev/ad4s1a...

2016-06-04 Thread Warren Block
On Sat, 4 Jun 2016, Matthias Apitz wrote: El día Saturday, June 04, 2016 a las 02:41:48PM +0200, Michael Gmelin escribió: It's also covered in UPDATING: 20151011: Compatibility shims for legacy ATA device names have been removed. It includes ATA_STATIC_ID kernel option,

Re: UEFI dual boot zfs root

2016-05-17 Thread Warren Block
On Sun, 15 May 2016, Andreas Nilsson wrote: Hello, I'm trying to install current on my lenovo x1 yoga ( and keeping it dual boot for now). I have a fair amount of disk free after resizing. I can't seem to workout how to do the partitioning. Do I only need the freebsd-zfs partition ( assuming

CAM I/O Scheduler (was Re: FreeBSD Quarterly Status Report - First Quarter 2016 (fwd))

2016-05-03 Thread Warren Block
On Tue, 3 May 2016, Johan Hendriks wrote: Op 02/05/16 om 02:49 schreef Warren Block: CAM I/O Scheduler    Links    I/O Scheduling in FreeBSD's CAM Subsystem (PDF) URL:    https://people.freebsd.org/~imp/bsdcan2015/iosched-v3.pdf    The BSDCan 2015 Talk URL: https

FreeBSD Quarterly Status Report - First Quarter 2016 (fwd)

2016-05-01 Thread Warren Block
fixed. In all, a discomfiture of abundance. View the rubrics below, and marvel at their profusion and magnitude! Marvel! --Warren Block __ Please submit status reports for the second quarter of 2016 by July 7

Re: qsort() documentation

2016-04-19 Thread Warren Block
On Tue, 19 Apr 2016, Aleksander Alekseev wrote: Why Wikipedia, specifically? There are a lot of places that describe quicksort. How about just Note: This implementation of qsort() is designed to avoid the worst-case complexity of N**2 that is often seen with standard versions. I

Re: qsort() documentation

2016-04-18 Thread Warren Block
On Mon, 18 Apr 2016, Hans Petter Selasky wrote: Hi, Are there any objections adding the following as part of documenting our kernel's qsort function? Index: sys/libkern/qsort.c === --- sys/libkern/qsort.c (revision 298202) +++

Re: Heads up

2016-04-14 Thread Warren Block
On Thu, 14 Apr 2016, Warner Losh wrote: On Thu, Apr 14, 2016 at 9:56 PM, Warren Block <wbl...@wonkity.com> wrote: On Thu, 14 Apr 2016, Warner Losh wrote: The CAM I/O scheduler has been committed to current. This work is described in https://people.freeb

Re: Heads up

2016-04-14 Thread Warren Block
On Thu, 14 Apr 2016, Warner Losh wrote: The CAM I/O scheduler has been committed to current. This work is described in https://people.freebsd.org/~imp/bsdcan2015/iosched-v3.pdf though the default scheduler doesn't change the default (old) behavior. One possible issue, however, is that it also

D3702: add support for Bluetooth Magic Mouse

2016-04-04 Thread Warren Block
Is anyone working on Bluetooth stuff? https://reviews.freebsd.org/D3702 adds support for the Apple Magic Mouse, and has been tested and reported working: https://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-bluetooth/2016-April/002053.html Could someone please review and commit this? Thanks!

Re: Need some help with ports and rebuilding the world

2016-03-30 Thread Warren Block
On Wed, 30 Mar 2016, Aleksander Alekseev wrote: CPUTYPE?=native CFLAGS+=-O2 -pipe CXXFLAGS+=-O2 -pipe These will bite with no provocation, and prevent ports that want to set their own flags from using them. Frankly as a rule of thumb I prefer binary packages. But how would you recommend to

Re: Need some help with ports and rebuilding the world

2016-03-29 Thread Warren Block
On Tue, 29 Mar 2016, Aleksander Alekseev wrote: Do you still have your old make.conf for comparison? Sure. Current make.conf: ``` CPUTYPE?=native CFLAGS+=-O2 -pipe CXXFLAGS+=-O2 -pipe These will bite with no provocation, and prevent ports that want to set their own flags from using them.

Re: Need some help with ports and rebuilding the world

2016-03-29 Thread Warren Block
On Mon, 28 Mar 2016, Aleksander Alekseev wrote: I think I realized what's going on. I probably rebuilded the world on two different machines but forgot to do it on this one. I will re-check this and report results a bit later. OK, here is a problem. I can't upgrade the world because of

Re: question on support processor Intel Atom Z3735F

2016-03-25 Thread Warren Block
On Fri, 25 Mar 2016, Lundberg, Johannes wrote: One problem is that most of these devices have only 32 bit UEFI which FreeBSD does not support (except Intel Compute Stick which has 64 bit UEFI). The MinnowBoard has both 32-bit and 64-bit UEFI. My Turbot came with 64-bit UEFI, and the FreeBSD

Re: boot loaders got fatter in the last few days

2016-03-19 Thread Warren Block
On Fri, 18 Mar 2016, Guido Falsi wrote: On 03/18/16 17:54, José Pérez wrote: Hi Guido, maybe it's because of this: https://svnweb.freebsd.org/base?view=revision=296963 I see. There is a problem with this though, we have howtos suggesting 64K for the size of the freebsd-boot gpt partition:

Re: [CFT] packaging the base system with pkg(8)

2016-03-06 Thread Warren Block
On Sun, 6 Mar 2016, Glen Barber wrote: On Sun, Mar 06, 2016 at 12:39:57PM +0100, Baptiste Daroussin wrote: On Thu, Mar 03, 2016 at 10:27:00AM +, Matthew Seaman wrote: On 03/02/16 23:54, Glen Barber wrote: Also note (as repeated below), running 'pkg delete -a' will implicitly remove base

Re: CVE-2015-7547: critical bug in libc

2016-02-17 Thread Warren Block
On Thu, 18 Feb 2016, Kubilay Kocak wrote: On 18/02/2016 3:51 AM, Warren Block wrote: On Wed, 17 Feb 2016, Eric van Gyzen wrote: On 02/17/2016 08:19, Warren Block wrote: On Wed, 17 Feb 2016, Kurt Jaeger wrote: A short note on the www.freebsd.org website would probably be helpful

Re: CVE-2015-7547: critical bug in libc

2016-02-17 Thread Warren Block
On Wed, 17 Feb 2016, Eric van Gyzen wrote: On 02/17/2016 08:19, Warren Block wrote: On Wed, 17 Feb 2016, Kurt Jaeger wrote: A short note on the www.freebsd.org website would probably be helpful, as this case will produce a lot of noise. Maybe a short article like we did for leap seconds

Re: CVE-2015-7547: critical bug in libc

2016-02-17 Thread Warren Block
On Wed, 17 Feb 2016, Kurt Jaeger wrote: Hi! The project that's vulnerable is called "glibc", not "libc". The BSDs don't use glibc, so the phrase "nothing to see here" applies. glibc isn't even available in FreeBSD's ports tree. TL;DR: FreeBSD is not affected by CVE-2015-7547. What about

Re: Aw: Re: No X on Dell E6540

2015-12-21 Thread Warren Block
On Tue, 15 Dec 2015, Carsten Kunze wrote: Hello Michael, It looks like that is a machine with Haswell integrated graphics. Haswell graphics has not yet landed in CURRENT but there is a development branch availible for testing.

Re: Depreciate and remove gbde

2015-10-19 Thread Warren Block
On Mon, 19 Oct 2015, John-Mark Gurney wrote: Ed Maste wrote this message on Mon, Oct 19, 2015 at 17:13 -0400: On 19 October 2015 at 16:50, John-Mark Gurney wrote: O. Hartmann wrote this message on Mon, Oct 19, 2015 at 06:19 +0200: For me, I'd like to know what is the

Re: [CFT] Buildworld ccache support

2015-10-15 Thread Warren Block
On Thu, 15 Oct 2015, Bryan Drewery wrote: Hi, If you are interested in using ccache in buildworld please consider using this patch locally and giving me some feedback. The current advice for ccache+buildworld (the CC:= trick in make.conf) actually results in the build thinking you are using a

Re: em broken on current amd64

2015-09-13 Thread Warren Block
On Sat, 12 Sep 2015, Mark R V Murray wrote: I just caught this, on today’s build: em0: Watchdog timeout Queue[0]-- resetting Interface is RUNNING and ACTIVE em0: TX Queue 0 -- em0: hw tdh = 127, hw tdt = 139 em0: Tx Queue Status = -2147483648 em0: TX descriptors avail = 1012 em0: Tx

Re: ramblings.. or not

2015-08-28 Thread Warren Block
On Fri, 28 Aug 2015, Lars Engels wrote: On Thu, Aug 27, 2015 at 02:31:21PM -0700, Craig Rodrigues wrote: On Wed, Aug 26, 2015 at 8:44 PM, Julian Elischer jul...@freebsd.org wrote: We should also do a better job of productising and incorporating GSOC work.. Definitely! It's sad to see

Re: Call for FreeBSD 2015Q2 (April-June) Status Reports

2015-07-13 Thread Warren Block
Have you submitted your quarterly report yet? People need to know about the cool things being done with, or to, or by FreeBSD. In an effort that will surely never come back to haunt us all, I have committed all the reports I saw in monthly@ to the upcoming status report. However, I am also

Re: Lenovo BIOS boot fix

2015-07-13 Thread Warren Block
On Mon, 13 Jul 2015, Adrian Chadd wrote: But the problem here is that we're using GPT but /not/ UEFI, right? That's why that's all a mess? If you have a GPT layout, but it boots on a BIOS machine, the missing active flag on a standards-correct PMBR partition usually does not keep it from

Re: Lenovo BIOS boot fix

2015-07-13 Thread Warren Block
On Mon, 13 Jul 2015, Allan Jude wrote: On 2015-07-13 11:19, Warren Block wrote: Needing the active flag set is indeed a different problem. I am working on a patch for bsdinstall that will allow the user to request the active bit be set as well. For GPT, that should be the default, because

Re: Lenovo BIOS boot fix

2015-07-13 Thread Warren Block
Needing the active flag set is indeed a different problem. I am working on a patch for bsdinstall that will allow the user to request the active bit be set as well. For GPT, that should be the default, because it matches the standard. I would like to see an effort to get Lenovo to fix their

Re: Lenovo BIOS boot fix

2015-07-13 Thread Warren Block
On Mon, 13 Jul 2015, Allan Jude wrote: On 2015-07-13 14:08, Warren Block wrote: On Mon, 13 Jul 2015, Allan Jude wrote: On 2015-07-13 11:19, Warren Block wrote: Needing the active flag set is indeed a different problem. I am working on a patch for bsdinstall that will allow the user

Re: Lenovo BIOS boot fix

2015-07-13 Thread Warren Block
On Mon, 13 Jul 2015, Kevin Oberman wrote: This is possibly orthogonal and possibly not of use on X2nn systems, but I boot my T520 with a GPT formatted disk as the secondary drive by having the MBR disk0 configured with booteasy and telling it to boot disk1. While this is of no use on single

Re: Lenovo BIOS boot fix

2015-07-13 Thread Warren Block
On Mon, 13 Jul 2015, Adrian Chadd wrote: I'm really confused. Why is the active flag not set again? I thought that was the whole point of the active flag in the partition table. At one point, smart people explained this to me. My fault if I do not remember it correctly (not that it will

Re: Newer yacc needed for building world

2015-04-22 Thread Warren Block
On Wed, 22 Apr 2015, Willem Jan Withagen wrote: Hi, [I thought that I've seen talk about this before.] On a customers system I'm trying to build a new world, with a fresh tree. I've deleted lines from other tracks in parallel compilation. --- aslcompilerparse.c --- yacc -d -pAslCompiler

Re: default pager (csh)

2015-02-20 Thread Warren Block
On Thu, 19 Feb 2015, Kevin Oberman wrote: On Thu, Feb 19, 2015 at 5:10 PM, Warren Block wbl...@wonkity.com wrote: On Thu, 19 Feb 2015, Julian Elischer wrote: On 2/18/15 3:41 PM, Xin Li wrote: The _only_ reason that I can think of is that more(1) does

Re: default pager (csh)

2015-02-19 Thread Warren Block
On Thu, 19 Feb 2015, Julian Elischer wrote: On 2/18/15 3:41 PM, Xin Li wrote: The _only_ reason that I can think of is that more(1) does not clear screen for certain terminals (done with 'ti' and 'te' sequences), while less(1) when running as less does. The less(1) behavior can be annoying

Re: Acer C720 Chromebook (was: Re: looking for new netbook)

2015-01-07 Thread Warren Block
On Wed, 7 Jan 2015, Matthias Apitz wrote: The keyboard of the C720, in principle a normal PC105, mine with German layout QWERTZ, is a bit tricky: it has - only F-keys from F1 to F10 and they are labeled with symbols for the ChromeOS applications; - no hardware power-off (only by an ACPI key

Re: [HEADSUP] man(1) now uses mandoc

2014-11-23 Thread Warren Block
On Sun, 23 Nov 2014, Baptiste Daroussin wrote: The default renderer on HEAD has been switched to mandoc(1) by default The man(1) command has been instrumented to first test the manpage and fallback on groff if the man page cannot be rendered with mandoc(1). If base is built without groff then

Re: [RFC] Moving troff only documentation to the doc repository

2014-11-23 Thread Warren Block
On Sun, 23 Nov 2014, Remko Lodder wrote: On 23 Nov 2014, at 20:10, Baptiste Daroussin b...@freebsd.org wrote: Hi all, I would like to move the troff documentation which is not very useful anymore on a recent FreeBSD system but still part of history into the doc repository, a dedicated branch

Re: HEADS UP: Enabling vt(4) by default

2014-11-05 Thread Warren Block
On Wed, 5 Nov 2014, Chris H wrote: On Wed, 5 Nov 2014 10:19:51 +0100 Gary Jennejohn gljennj...@gmail.com wrote No, video mode won't work with the nVidia blob. That requires a KMS (in-kernel) driver. Thank you for the reply, Gary. Ahh. I see. So unless I have ATI hardware, I'm pretty much

Re: HEADS UP: Enabling vt(4) by default

2014-11-05 Thread Warren Block
On Wed, 5 Nov 2014, Chris H wrote: On Wed, 5 Nov 2014 08:15:04 -0700 (MST) Warren Block wbl...@wonkity.com wrote On Wed, 5 Nov 2014, Chris H wrote: On Wed, 5 Nov 2014 10:19:51 +0100 Gary Jennejohn gljennj...@gmail.com wrote No, video mode won't work with the nVidia blob. That requires

Re: WiFi 802.11/ac PCIe supported adaptor

2014-10-19 Thread Warren Block
On Sun, 19 Oct 2014, O. Hartmann wrote: Am Sun, 28 Sep 2014 14:50:02 -0600 (MDT) Warren Block wbl...@wonkity.com schrieb: On Sun, 28 Sep 2014, Gavin Atkinson wrote: On Sun, 28 Sep 2014, O. Hartmann wrote: Networking wasn't an issue for me for years, but now, sitting on a pile of neat new

Re: WiFi 802.11/ac PCIe supported adaptor

2014-09-28 Thread Warren Block
On Sun, 28 Sep 2014, Gavin Atkinson wrote: On Sun, 28 Sep 2014, O. Hartmann wrote: Networking wasn't an issue for me for years, but now, sitting on a pile of neat new hardware of which FreeBSD can not make any serious use, let me rethink. Luckily, The Lenovo laptops have a mini PCIe WiFi NIC

Re: WiFi 802.11/ac PCIe supported adaptor

2014-09-27 Thread Warren Block
On Sat, 27 Sep 2014, O. Hartmann wrote: I'm looking for a replacemnt for my 802.11g WiFi PCIe adaptor card and want to replace it with an 802.11ac adaptor. Since I made very bad experiences with CURRENT and support of modest modern hardware (Haswell CPU/Intel 7260 DualBand WiFi NIC), I'd

Re: x11/nvidia-driver (340.24/340.32/343.13): nvidia BLOB doesn't recognize any display socket on Lenovo E540/UEFI and FBSD CURRENT

2014-09-20 Thread Warren Block
On Fri, 19 Sep 2014, O. Hartmann wrote: nVidia's BLOB from port x11/nvidia-driver seems to have problems in FreeBSD 11.0-CURRENT #2 r271869: Fri Sep 19 13:28:03 CEST 2014 amd64, on Lenovo ThinkPad Edge E540 laptop with CPU i5-4200M (Haswell) with integrated HD4600 Intel iGPU and dedicated

Re: x11/nvidia-driver (340.24/340.32/343.13): nvidia BLOB doesn't recognize any display socket on Lenovo E540/UEFI and FBSD CURRENT

2014-09-20 Thread Warren Block
On Sat, 20 Sep 2014, O. Hartmann wrote: Am Sat, 20 Sep 2014 07:36:21 -0600 (MDT) Warren Block wbl...@wonkity.com schrieb: On Fri, 19 Sep 2014, O. Hartmann wrote: nVidia's BLOB from port x11/nvidia-driver seems to have problems in FreeBSD 11.0-CURRENT #2 r271869: Fri Sep 19 13:28:03 CEST

Re: x11/nvidia-driver (340.24/340.32/343.13): nvidia BLOB doesn't recognize any display socket on Lenovo E540/UEFI and FBSD CURRENT

2014-09-20 Thread Warren Block
On Sat, 20 Sep 2014, O. Hartmann wrote: The very same CURRENT (most recent as I built world on all system today) doesn't recognize the Haswell's HD4600 iGPU (i5-4200M). So, it seems impossible to me that people can report having this GPU working if even the most recent FreeBSD CURRENT doesn't

Re: did tar(1) loose xz compression support in 11?

2014-08-27 Thread Warren Block
On Tue, 26 Aug 2014, Daniel Eischen wrote: On Tue, 26 Aug 2014, Tim Kientzle wrote: On Aug 26, 2014, at 11:05 AM, Chris H bsd-li...@bsdforge.com wrote: Greetings, I'm currently testing 11. My build / install is from about 2 days ago. I generally use xz compression, when creating archives.

Re: How to get a mouse in vt(4) -- NEWCONS

2014-08-25 Thread Warren Block
On Mon, 25 Aug 2014, Chris H wrote: I also read that hw.vga.textmode is available. However sysctl hw.vga.textmode returns unknown oid. It is a boot-time-only setting for loader.conf. hw.vga.textmode=1 boots in text mode. ___

Re: No bootable device

2014-08-10 Thread Warren Block
On Sun, 10 Aug 2014, Eric L. Camachat wrote: /usr/local/libexec/ppf_verify: pgp command failed gpg: Signature made Sun Aug 10 16:49:09 2014 MDT gpg:using DSA key 0x49F050BB7A0EC18C gpg: Can't check

Re: HOWTO articles for migrating from Linux to FreeBSD, especially for pkg?

2014-07-25 Thread Warren Block
On Fri, 25 Jul 2014, Craig Rodrigues wrote: What I'd like to see is an article on freebsd.org either on the wiki or in the handbook, which compares using apt, yum, rpm, whatever to pkg. Is anyone interested in working on an article like this? I don't have the bandwidth right now. A person to

Re: HOWTO articles for migrating from Linux to FreeBSD, especially for pkg?

2014-07-25 Thread Warren Block
On Fri, 25 Jul 2014, Craig Rodrigues wrote: On Fri, Jul 25, 2014 at 2:26 PM, Garrett Wollman woll...@hergotha.csail.mit.edu wrote: In article alpine.bsf.2.11.1407251459370.72...@wonkity.com you write: Writing an article is hard.  Writing a small section on how deleting

Re: Boot loader too large

2014-07-11 Thread Warren Block
On Fri, 11 Jul 2014, Benjamin Kaduk wrote: On Fri, Jul 4, 2014 at 7:07 AM, Alie Tan a...@afflemedialab.com wrote: On Fri, Jul 4, 2014 at 5:57 PM, Alie Tan a...@afflemedialab.com wrote: Hi, I am getting Boot loader too large message while using

Re: freebsd and utf-8 directory names

2014-07-01 Thread Warren Block
On Tue, 1 Jul 2014, d...@gmx.com wrote: In other words, You, the general user, should learn the art of operating system development (on your own) for the sole purpose of being able to fix the bug yourself. It's one approach to solving a technical problem, but not the only one. You can fix

Re: gpart(8) man page missing list documentation

2014-07-01 Thread Warren Block
On Tue, 1 Jul 2014, Chris Ross wrote: Looking at the man page for gpart(8) on a recent 10-stable system, I was trying to find out what the -a option to list does. (shown in the output of gpart when run with no parameters). Interestingly, despite ?list? being highlighted in paragraph text

Re: Turning TESTS on by default

2014-06-08 Thread Warren Block
On Sun, 8 Jun 2014, Julio Merino wrote: On Fri, Jun 6, 2014 at 11:33 PM, Konstantin Belousov kostik...@gmail.com wrote: It is the same as the debugging kernel. The INVARIANTS, WITNESS, DEBUG and DIAGNOSTIC options are not enabled for the user consumption. No; this is not the same at all. All

Re: diskid documentation

2014-06-02 Thread Warren Block
On Mon, 2 Jun 2014, Michael W. Lucas wrote: On Mon, Jun 02, 2014 at 10:45:52AM -0400, Ryan Stone wrote: On Mon, Jun 2, 2014 at 9:26 AM, Allan Jude allanj...@freebsd.org wrote: It also tends to sometimes hide the gpt label provider on me (not sure in which cases it does this, but it is

Re: Hello fdclose

2014-03-21 Thread Warren Block
On Thu, 20 Mar 2014, Dag-Erling Smørgrav wrote: Warren Block wbl...@wonkity.com writes: John Baldwin j...@freebsd.org writes: Warren Block wbl...@wonkity.com writes: .Fn fdclose is equivalent to .Fn fclose , but the file descriptor is returned rather than closed. Yes, but this has

Re: Hello fdclose

2014-03-21 Thread Warren Block
On Fri, 21 Mar 2014, Dag-Erling Smørgrav wrote: Warren Block wbl...@wonkity.com writes: Dag-Erling Smørgrav d...@des.no writes: We always use [The .Nm foo utility or The .Fn foo function] instead of just .Nm or .Fn at the start of a sentence, but never (or rarely) within a sentence. By we

Re: Hello fdclose

2014-03-19 Thread Warren Block
On Wed, 19 Mar 2014, John Baldwin wrote: On Wednesday, March 19, 2014 12:38:57 am Warren Block wrote: On Tue, 18 Mar 2014, John Baldwin wrote: On Monday, March 17, 2014 7:23:19 pm Mariusz Zaborski wrote: Hi, After our previous discuss [1] I prepare fdclosedir(3) function which

Re: Hello fdclose

2014-03-18 Thread Warren Block
On Tue, 18 Mar 2014, John Baldwin wrote: On Monday, March 17, 2014 7:23:19 pm Mariusz Zaborski wrote: Hi, After our previous discuss [1] I prepare fdclosedir(3) function which was committed by Pawel (cc'ed) in commit r254499. A while ago I also prepare the fdclose function. Unfortunately,

Re: zfs boot manual pages

2014-02-04 Thread Warren Block
additions, corrections, suggestions and other kinds of reviewing are welcome. Patches and pull requests are very welcome! Many thanks to Warren Block for the initial review and many fixes. One fix for the gptzfsboot man page would be to mention that gptzfsboot is installed into a GPT partition of type

Re: Lessons learned from source upgrade from FreeBSD i386 9.2 Stable to FreeBSD i386 10.0 Release.

2014-01-23 Thread Warren Block
On Thu, 23 Jan 2014, Jakub Lach wrote: I plan to stay some time on 9.2-STABLE (already pkgng and clangfied) waiting maybe till next release from 10-STABLE tree, however 10-STABLE will be where I will be eventually heading, so notes in this spirit are valuable reminders at least, I appreciate

Re: Lessons learned from source upgrade from FreeBSD i386 9.2 Stable to FreeBSD i386 10.0 Release.

2014-01-23 Thread Warren Block
On Thu, 23 Jan 2014, Kevin Oberman wrote: On Thu, Jan 23, 2014 at 7:47 AM, Thomas Hoffmann trh...@gmail.com wrote: On Thu, Jan 23, 2014 at 9:56 AM, Warren Block wbl...@wonkity.com wrote: Using -DNOCLEAN with an existing /usr/obj can go even faster than ccache

Re: Intel graphics driver broken on 10-RC5

2014-01-09 Thread Warren Block
On Thu, 9 Jan 2014, David Chisnall wrote: Hi Johannes, Are you using the packaged Xorg in both cases? Currently, the default for 10 is the old (pre-KMS) X.org and the default for 11 (HEAD) is the newer (post-KMS) one. If you're using the default one, would you mind trying the new one?

Re: FreeBSD 10.0-RC3 Now Available

2013-12-27 Thread Warren Block
On Fri, 27 Dec 2013, Mathieu Arnold wrote: +--On 27 décembre 2013 10:28:07 -0500 Thomas Hoffmann trh...@gmail.com wrote: | All the examples I've seen for updating bootcode assume GPT. If one has | MBR (as I do) and assuming the following basic scheme: | | gpart show ada0 | = 63 976773105

Re: cron(8) improvement

2013-11-10 Thread Warren Block
On Sun, 10 Nov 2013, Daniel O'Connor wrote: On 10 Nov 2013, at 24:24, Matthew Seaman matt...@freebsd.org wrote: 2) Should ports / packages populate these cron.d directories? This is a much more interesting question. Effectively its asking if a port / package should provide

Re: cron(8) improvement

2013-11-10 Thread Warren Block
On Sun, 10 Nov 2013, Philipp Ost wrote: Warren Block schrieb: [...] ie either the file is named such that it is ignored by cron (preferable IMO) or the entries in them are commented out. Why not just use an additional entry in rc.conf? rsnapshot_cron=YES (If there is a /usr/local/etc

Re: Overriding sector size on disks?

2013-11-03 Thread Warren Block
On Fri, 1 Nov 2013, Adrian Chadd wrote: Hi! I have an odd problem. That, honestly, can't be that odd. I have a bunch of SATA disks that when plugged into the laptop directly, show up as 512 byte sectors. But if I plug it in via this iomega USB caddy, they show up as 4k sector devices. ISTR

Re: /usr/src/lib/msun errors

2013-10-13 Thread Warren Block
On Sun, 13 Oct 2013, Joe Nosay wrote: On Sun, Oct 13, 2013 at 11:57 AM, Joe Nosay superbisq...@gmail.com wrote: Someone had to tell me what to do. Steve, are you the only person in the multiverse that is free of making any mistakes? Nobody was accusing you of doing it intentionally.

Re: [CFT] Patch to bsdinstall to support root-on-ZFS and GELI

2013-10-09 Thread Warren Block
On Tue, 8 Oct 2013, Freddie Cash wrote: On Tue, Oct 8, 2013 at 1:17 PM, Nathan Whitehorn nwhiteh...@freebsd.orgwrote: 4. What is this gnop stuff for? Can't comment on the rest, but gnop is required to create 4K-aligned vdevs where the minimum block size is 4K (aka ashift=12). Right, but

Re: [CFT] Patch to bsdinstall to support root-on-ZFS and GELI

2013-10-09 Thread Warren Block
On Tue, 8 Oct 2013, Teske, Devin wrote: But shell is nasty; slow; and not as powerful as C (it depends in what context; the first is rhetoric, the second is only true for poor implement- ations, and the third may be true in some contexts, but I consider the answer to how maintainable is it to

Re: X related ports not finding version strings and hanging

2013-10-07 Thread Warren Block
On Sun, 6 Oct 2013, Kevin Oberman wrote: As usual with such upgrades, pkg_libchk is your friend. Assuming you have updated pixman: portmaster graphics/libGL graphics/dri pkg_libchk -o | grep pixman | cut -d: -f1 | sort | uniq pixman-files.txt portmaster =D `cat pixman-files.txt` portmaster -aD

Re: [CFT] Patch to bsdinstall to support root-on-ZFS and GELI

2013-10-07 Thread Warren Block
On Mon, 7 Oct 2013, Allan Jude wrote: Additional, it includes some other changes to bsdinstall: 1. Change the default to the 'non-standard keyboard mapping' prompt to no Please see http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=bin/162175 . ___

Re: [CFT] Patch to bsdinstall to support root-on-ZFS and GELI

2013-10-07 Thread Warren Block
On Mon, 7 Oct 2013, Allan Jude wrote: On 2013-10-07 16:43, Warren Block wrote: On Mon, 7 Oct 2013, Allan Jude wrote: Additional, it includes some other changes to bsdinstall: 1. Change the default to the 'non-standard keyboard mapping' prompt to no Please see http://www.freebsd.org/cgi

Re: Moused + HAL + rc.conf + Boot

2013-09-16 Thread Warren Block
On Mon, 16 Sep 2013, Nilton Jose Rizzo wrote: Hi all, I'm here again! When I start my box, the moused is run. My mouse is an USB mouse. I put in rc.conf this knob: moused_enable=NO, but is ignored by start up script and moused is run, this is a problem to the HAL, because the

10-stable does not boot on Dell E1505 any more

2013-09-14 Thread Warren Block
This is an older Dell E1505, Core 2 but does not have AHCI. r255569 does not find /dev/ada0s2a and ? at the mountroot prompt shows no devices. r255451 from September 10 boots fine. Also possibly relevant is that after successfully building and installing world and kernel, /boot/kernel.old

Re: 10-stable does not boot on Dell E1505 any more

2013-09-14 Thread Warren Block
On Sat, 14 Sep 2013, Jan Kokemüller wrote: r255569 does not find /dev/ada0s2a and ? at the mountroot prompt shows no devices. I've had the same problem after I updated my kernel today. I tracked it down to the hyperv drivers that were added in r255524. Without the device hyperv line in my

Re: usb mouse and xorg

2013-09-10 Thread Warren Block
On Tue, 10 Sep 2013, Sergey V. Dyatko wrote: I have working touchpad (it is work fine before) and mouse with hacked devd.conf (doesn't try tip from gjb@ yet) from my xorg.conf: Section ServerLayout Identifier X.org Configured Screen 0 Screen0 0 0 InputDevice

Re: gpart: can not add MBR partitions with gpart add -t, mbr

2013-06-22 Thread Warren Block
On Fri, 21 Jun 2013, Genre Roger wrote: When I refer to gpart(8) manpage (9.1 release, updated jan 25,2013), I find the description of partition types a bit confusing. Considering the case of a MoBo with old way Bios (non UEFI), the only scheme allowed to get a bootable system is MBR. (Note

Re: gpart: can not add MBR partitions with gpart add -t mbr

2013-06-19 Thread Warren Block
On Tue, 18 Jun 2013, O. Hartmann wrote: Having a 1TB disk with a MBR partition layout created successfully with gpart create -s MBR ada4, which is shown as Geom name: ada4 modified: false state: OK fwheads: 16 fwsectors: 63 last: 1953525167 first: 63 entries: 4 scheme: MBR Consumers: 1. Name:

Re: 10-CURRENT i386 memstick snapshots broken?

2013-06-08 Thread Warren Block
On Sat, 8 Jun 2013, Glen Barber wrote: The problem is creating the gpart(8) partition scheme on the md(4) device. Below follows script(1) output of what the make-memstick.sh script does: Script started on Sun Jun 9 00:41:08 2013 root@snap:/snap/releng # chroot /snap/releng/10-i386-snap

Re: ipfilter(4) needs maintainer

2013-04-14 Thread Warren Block
On Sun, 14 Apr 2013, Chris Rees wrote: On 14 April 2013 01:41, Rui Paulo rpa...@felyko.com wrote: 2013/04/13 16:01?Scott Long scott4l...@yahoo.com ??: Maybe something else, but whatever it is, it should be done. If you and Gleb don't want to do this, I will. I already started writing

Re: gpart, slice starts at 0

2013-02-17 Thread Warren Block
On Sun, 17 Feb 2013, Erich Dollansky wrote: gpart destroy -F da0 diskinfo da0 dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/da0 bs=512 count=34 dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/da0 bs=512 count=34 seek=312581774 Someone here on the lists (I unfortunately forget who) showed a sneaky easier way to do this: gpart destroy -F

Re: gpart, slice starts at 0

2013-02-16 Thread Warren Block
On Sat, 16 Feb 2013, Erich Dollansky wrote: I did this to get a disk partitioned: #!/bin/tcsh Gah! gpart destroy -F da0 diskinfo da0 dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/da0 bs=512 count=34 dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/da0 bs=512 count=34 seek=312581774 Someone here on the lists (I unfortunately forget

Re: 7+ days of dogfood

2013-02-12 Thread Warren Block
On Mon, 11 Feb 2013, Lars Engels wrote: I also dislike that src build times increased over the years since I run CURRENT on my notebooks (starting 7-CURRENT, now 10-CURRENT). Wouldn't it be possible to add a DO_NOT_BUILD_CLANG_AND_GCC_IF_NOTHING_CHANGED= yes switch to src.conf? Building clang

Re: Xorg totally unusable with KMS and new Xorg on Sandy Bridge system: how to undo

2013-02-08 Thread Warren Block
On Fri, 8 Feb 2013, Thomas Mueller wrote: Thomas Mueller writes: I built the newer Xorg and it falls flat: goes to a nongraphic screen that is blank except for a rectangular cursor in the upper left corner, and now I want to get back to the earlier Xorg. System is Intel Sandy Bridge with

Re: gpart resize vs. cache?

2013-02-03 Thread Warren Block
On Sun, 3 Feb 2013, Tim Kientzle wrote: On Feb 3, 2013, at 1:08 PM, Ian Lepore wrote: On Sun, 2013-02-03 at 12:06 -0800, Tim Kientzle wrote: I'm tinkering with a disk image that automatically fills whatever media you put it onto. But I'm having trouble with gpart resize failing. Disk

Re: problem after installkernel going from 9.0 to CURRENT

2013-01-03 Thread Warren Block
On Wed, 2 Jan 2013, Robert Huff wrote: (While this may not be a strictly CURRENT issue, I asked on questions@, but have not found a solution.) Situation: One of my boxes failed, and for various reasons it became easier to just scrub and rebuild it. Like its predecessor it will run

Re: problem after installkernel going from 9.0 to CURRENT

2013-01-03 Thread Warren Block
On Thu, 3 Jan 2013, Kevin Oberman wrote: One possibility: I believe I labeled each of the partitions during the gpt creation process. Can I use those labels to (hopefully) by-pass this issue? Yes! This is the current recommended way of doing it. cat /etc/fstab # Device

Re: 9.1-RC3 LiveCD missing features

2012-12-08 Thread Warren Block
On Fri, 7 Dec 2012, Garrett Cooper wrote: On Fri, Dec 7, 2012 at 11:06 PM, CeDeROM cede...@tlen.pl wrote: Hello Ian :-) This is the problem - / is read only and /etc/resolv.conf already links to nonexistent file. This way I cannot modify its content nor link other file (i.e. /var/resolv.conf)

Re: 9.1-RC3 LiveCD missing features

2012-12-07 Thread Warren Block
On Fri, 7 Dec 2012, Chuck Burns wrote: dd if=/dev/zer of=/dev/ada0 ^^^ There's your badblocks program. Any hard drive made in the last decade have been self-remapping.. That should be /dev/zero. And this will be very slow, going one 512-byte block at a time. Using a 64K or 128K buffer

Re: sluggish X.org/Xfce behavior

2012-11-20 Thread Warren Block
On Tue, 20 Nov 2012, René Ladan wrote: since last weekend (November 17th) I have been noticing a sluggish behavior of X.org/Xfce. Typical symptoms are: - Alt-Tab not reacting all of the time - pulldown/popup menus not allowing selections with mouse (typically in Terminal/pidgin), or moving the

Re: sluggish X.org/Xfce behavior

2012-11-20 Thread Warren Block
On Tue, 20 Nov 2012, René Ladan wrote: On 20-11-2012 15:34, Warren Block wrote: On Tue, 20 Nov 2012, René Ladan wrote: since last weekend (November 17th) I have been noticing a sluggish behavior of X.org/Xfce. Typical symptoms are: - Alt-Tab not reacting all of the time - pulldown/popup

Re: No ATA disks on 9.1-RC3

2012-11-19 Thread Warren Block
On Mon, 19 Nov 2012, Alex Keda wrote: I try update my laptop - Compaq 6715s from 9.0 to 9.1-rc3 it cannot boot, because no HDD found dmesg from 9.0/9.1 and pciconf in attached files If there is an IDE/AHCI mode setting in the BIOS, switch it to the other setting.

Re: 9.1-RC3 feels okay :-)

2012-11-08 Thread Warren Block
On Thu, 8 Nov 2012, CeDeROM wrote: I have tested additional options in xorg runtime :-) With the patched xorg mouse driver 1.7.1 (or driver version =1.7.2) situation is following: 1. With hald and dbus no xorg.conf file is needed. However it might bo option to pass some additional featutes

Re: 9.1-RC3 feels okay :-)

2012-11-08 Thread Warren Block
On Thu, 8 Nov 2012, Ian Lepore wrote: On Thu, 2012-11-08 at 08:45 -0700, Warren Block wrote: On Thu, 8 Nov 2012, CeDeROM wrote: I have tested additional options in xorg runtime :-) With the patched xorg mouse driver 1.7.1 (or driver version =1.7.2) situation is following: 1. With hald

Re: 9.1-RC3 feels okay :-)

2012-11-08 Thread Warren Block
On Thu, 8 Nov 2012, Tomek CEDRO wrote: WARNING!!! When AllowEmptyInput = False AND Hal is running really really bad things happen to Xorg!! Keys are messed up and screen is refreshed only after mouse move! Things are slow and the end of the word is near :-) AllowEmptyInput seems to be

Re: 9.1-RC3 feels okay :-)

2012-11-08 Thread Warren Block
On Thu, 8 Nov 2012, Richard Kuhns wrote: On 11/08/12 10:45, Warren Block wrote: On Thu, 8 Nov 2012, CeDeROM wrote: I have tested additional options in xorg runtime :-) With the patched xorg mouse driver 1.7.1 (or driver version =1.7.2) situation is following: 1. With hald and dbus

Re: 9.1-RC3 feels okay :-)

2012-11-07 Thread Warren Block
On Wed, 7 Nov 2012, Julian H. Stacey wrote: Ian Lepore wrote: Before you do that, read this: http://www.wonkity.com/~wblock/docs/html/aei.html The page is bad here: Summary ... just let xorg-server use hald by default. FreeBSD 8.3-RELEASE 9.0-RELEASE by default do Not run hald.

Re: 9.1-RC3 feels okay :-)

2012-11-07 Thread Warren Block
On Wed, 7 Nov 2012, CeDeROM wrote: Isn't this a Xorg bug then? When I have no configuration file Hal should provide the configuration, so sooner or later the mouse should start moving... but is does not.. Do I get http://www.wonkity.com/~wblock/docs/html/aei.html correct that when I am using

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