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

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: 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

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: [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: /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: 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: 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: 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: Trying to install current from a memory stick and then a DVD and got a new and strange installer.

2011-07-24 Thread Warren Block
On Sun, 24 Jul 2011, Nathan Whitehorn wrote: Can you please describe what you didn't like about it, and what you would prefer be changed? Reminiscent of the 1980s is not really helpful, especially given that the new installer in fact looks very much like sysinstall, which you seemed to like.

Re: Trying to install current from a memory stick and then a DVD and got a new and strange installer.

2011-07-25 Thread Warren Block
On Mon, 25 Jul 2011, Andriy Gapon wrote: on 25/07/2011 07:47 Warren Block said the following: 2. The options don't always really apply. Create when ad0 is highlighted leads the user to think they can create a new device, like ad1. But it will really create another partition. Delete on ad0

Re: libdialog strangeness after source upgrade to head/9.0BETA1

2011-08-09 Thread Warren Block
On Mon, 8 Aug 2011, Kevin Oberman wrote: I think this behavior (already in several Linux distros) is really far more intuitive that the old FreeBSD version, but it is a bit disconcerting at first. It really does not take much to get used to and I think anyone who is either new to Unix or

Re: Well, there goes Windows!

2011-08-18 Thread Warren Block
On Fri, 19 Aug 2011, Michal Varga wrote: On Thu, 2011-08-18 at 16:24 -0700, Garrett Cooper wrote: So, I used the bsdinstaller again on the 9.0-BETA1 media with manual partitioning. The HP desktop ate up 3 partitions, I inconveniently forgot that geom can't grok secondary PC MBR partitions, was

Re: Problems booting 9.0-BETA1 memstick

2011-08-30 Thread Warren Block
On Tue, 30 Aug 2011, Jason Campbell wrote: Downloaded FreeBSD-9.0-BETA1-amd64-memstick.img and verified the image with md5sum. I wrote the image (from Linux): dd if=FreeBSD.img of=/dev/sde bs=512 Rebooted and get gptboot: Invalid backup GPT header Same here, although it ran normally. The

Re: Problems booting 9.0-BETA1 memstick

2011-09-01 Thread Warren Block
On Thu, 1 Sep 2011, Garrett Cooper wrote: On Sep 1, 2011, at 12:00 PM, Matt Thyer wrote: Shouldn't we use MBR partitioning instead of GPT for the memstick image ? We won't need larger than 2TiB installation media for many decades! Or just don't use a backup partition? Maybe dd

RE: Need a README to explain items in download directory

2011-09-09 Thread Warren Block
(Sorry, lost track of quoting) The style is okay, but I would suggest rearranging the order to demphasize the DVD with its quickly-obsolete packages. Media type is very important and should probably be mentioned first. FreeBSD-8.2-RELEASE-i386-disc1.iso- CD: Installer, FreeBSD OS

Re: 9.0 beta2 the new bsdinstaller

2011-09-18 Thread Warren Block
On Sun, 18 Sep 2011, Thomas Mueller mueller6...@bellsouth.net wrote: Also, I can't see the function of the 64 KB boot partition with no file system, which does not boot for me (Warning: guesswork and supposition ahead. Set your puzzler in low gear for traction.) AFAIK this is space for

Improving the FreeBSD-9 boot menu

2011-09-20 Thread Warren Block
The patch in PR 160818 makes some clarifications and improvements to the new boot menu. Obviously this is not for 9.0-RELEASE, just wanting to get it out there so people can look at it. http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=160818 Among other things, the patch removes the word boot from

Re: 9.0 beta2 the new bsdinstaller

2011-09-21 Thread Warren Block
On Wed, 21 Sep 2011, Thomas Mueller wrote: From Matthew D. Fuller fulle...@over-yonder.net: I've been meaning to mention this, but we really should document somewhere that it has a _MAXIMUM_ size. I setup a system a few weeks back with GPT, and figured I'd just make the first 'real'

Re: 9.0 beta2 the new bsdinstaller

2011-09-21 Thread Warren Block
Forgot to add this for reference earlier: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dd758814%28v=sql.100%29.aspx Valid Starting Partition Offsets has some justification for the 1M offset. ___ freebsd-current@freebsd.org mailing list

Re: 9.0 beta2 the new bsdinstaller

2011-09-25 Thread Warren Block
On Sun, 25 Sep 2011, Antonio Olivares wrote: More concerns and questions onthe new bsdinstall: There is no upgrade function.  How will a user be able to upgrade to BETA3 (or RC1?) without wiping out BETA2 installation? For instance, user might have built many software applications from ports

Re: FreeBSD 9.0-BETA2 memstick USB image hangs my BIOS

2011-09-25 Thread Warren Block
On Mon, 26 Sep 2011, Adrian Chadd wrote: I've just tried to boot a FreeBSD-9.0 BETA2 (i386) memstick USB image on my BIOS. When inserted into a FreeBSD box (the one that I wrote it from), the partition table has an MBR style partition setup with a single EFI partition on it. Also known as a

Re: Experiences with FreeBSD 9.0-BETA2

2011-09-26 Thread Warren Block
On Mon, 26 Sep 2011, Gary Palmer wrote: BSD disklabel is limited to a maximum of 8 slices per MBR partition. Careful. disklabel/bsdlabel creates FreeBSD partitions, up to 8 per MBR partition (FreeBSD slice). Instead of three different things that share two names, GPT only has partitions.

Re: aliasing (or renaming) kern.geom.debugflags

2011-10-07 Thread Warren Block
On Fri, 7 Oct 2011, Poul-Henning Kamp wrote: In message alpine.gso.1.10.1110071341430@multics.mit.edu, Benjamin Kaduk writes: Now, an ordinary user who is doing this for the first time might ask, why do I need to do something with 'debugflags' in order to make a USB stick? Which is the

Re: aliasing (or renaming) kern.geom.debugflags

2011-10-07 Thread Warren Block
On Fri, 7 Oct 2011, Arnaud Lacombe wrote: Hi, On Fri, Oct 7, 2011 at 2:13 PM, Warren Block wbl...@wonkity.com wrote: On Fri, 7 Oct 2011, Poul-Henning Kamp wrote: In message alpine.gso.1.10.1110071341430@multics.mit.edu, Benjamin Kaduk writes: Now, an ordinary user who is doing

Re: aliasing (or renaming) kern.geom.debugflags

2011-10-07 Thread Warren Block
On Fri, 7 Oct 2011, Glen Barber wrote: Hi, On 10/7/11 3:18 PM, Poul-Henning Kamp wrote: My guess is that GEOM isn't letting go of the GPT table and you have multiple partitions in the GPT table and you're not destroying them hierarchically in a proper manner.. but again, that's just a guess

Re: aliasing (or renaming) kern.geom.debugflags

2011-10-07 Thread Warren Block
On Fri, 7 Oct 2011, Glen Barber wrote: On 10/7/11 4:27 PM, Warren Block wrote: In my experience, without kern.geom.debugflags=16, the MBR will not be written to the memstick, leaving you with what would effectively be a coaster in the not-so-distant past. Tried it just now with the 9.0-BETA3

Re: aliasing (or renaming) kern.geom.debugflags

2011-10-07 Thread Warren Block
On Fri, 7 Oct 2011, Poul-Henning Kamp wrote: In message alpine.bsf.2.00.1110071352210.2...@wonkity.com, Warren Block writes: Followed by removing the memory stick without unmounting it to avoid overwriting part of the image. No obvious problems, but no, it's not polite. (I'm thinking

Re: aliasing (or renaming) kern.geom.debugflags

2011-10-07 Thread Warren Block
On Sat, 8 Oct 2011, Andrey V. Elsukov wrote: On 07.10.2011 23:41, Glen Barber wrote: In my experience, without kern.geom.debugflags=16, the MBR will not be written to the memstick, leaving you with what would effectively be a coaster in the not-so-distant past. The problem is that this bad

Re: Memstick image differences between 8.x and 9.x

2011-10-08 Thread Warren Block
On Sat, 8 Oct 2011, Glen Barber wrote: On 10/8/11 2:21 PM, Garrett Cooper wrote: Are there any general structural differences between FreeBSD 8 and 9 memstick images which could be at fault here? The new memstick image uses GPT instead of MBR partitioning. GPT should have no impact on

Re: flash for 9-beta3

2011-10-08 Thread Warren Block
On Sat, 8 Oct 2011, Garrett Cooper wrote: On Sat, Oct 8, 2011 at 2:21 PM, Greg Miller greglmil...@gmail.com wrote: On 10/8/11, Nenhum_de_Nos math...@eternamente.info wrote: as recently had issues in this regard, to install it can I just use

Re: Memstick image differences between 8.x and 9.x

2011-10-08 Thread Warren Block
On Sat, 8 Oct 2011, Glen Barber wrote: On 10/8/11 5:40 PM, Warren Block wrote: On Sat, 8 Oct 2011, Glen Barber wrote: On 10/8/11 2:21 PM, Garrett Cooper wrote: Are there any general structural differences between FreeBSD 8 and 9 memstick images which could be at fault here? The new

Re: Memstick image differences between 8.x and 9.x

2011-10-08 Thread Warren Block
On Sun, 9 Oct 2011, Matt Thyer wrote: On Oct 9, 2011 11:04 AM, Nathan Whitehorn nwhiteh...@freebsd.org wrote: On 10/08/11 19:25, Matt Thyer wrote: There is also the interesting question of actually installing to GPT on the hard disk, which is the default in 9.0. Does this not work on some

Re: VM images for FreeBSD

2011-10-17 Thread Warren Block
On Mon, 17 Oct 2011, Alexander Yerenkow wrote: Hello all. I'm currently made set of scripts, which builds FreeBSD from svn sources, and packing it in VirtualBox (*.vdi) compatible images. It's working now, and producing something like FreeBSD-9-i386-r226409-2011-10-16.vdi.xz (also .vdi,

Re: possible mountroot regression

2011-10-19 Thread Warren Block
On Wed, 19 Oct 2011, Oliver Pinter wrote: On 10/19/11, Olivier Smedts oliv...@gid0.org wrote: 2011/10/19 Marcel Moolenaar mar...@xcllnt.net: On Oct 18, 2011, at 9:04 AM, Andriy Gapon wrote: Would you be able to commit a variant of this patch sans the 'x' part? Yes, soonish. If people like

Re: FreeBSD 9.0 RC1 USB Mouse and Keyboard

2011-10-24 Thread Warren Block
On Sun, 23 Oct 2011, Mehmet Erol Sanliturk wrote: I have installed FreeBSD 9.0 RC1 . During installation and boots , and ( as root ) console mode , both USB keyboard and mouse are working . When a graphical desktop ( Fluxbox , Gnome , or KDE ) is started , both of them are becoming frozen .

Re: FreeBSD 9.0 RC1 USB Mouse and Keyboard

2011-10-25 Thread Warren Block
On Tue, 25 Oct 2011, Mehmet Erol Sanliturk wrote: Also by Benjamin Kaduk : Has this computer successfully run other versions of FreeBSD with X? I seem to recall there can be odd interactions with hald, xorg.conf, and others. Some googling brings up

Re: Netgear WNA1000N USB wlan device

2011-11-10 Thread Warren Block
On Thu, 10 Nov 2011, Glen Barber wrote: Netgear has these neat little USB micro wireless network adapters[1] that one could plug in and forget about without fear of, for example, breaking the device. Said devices are really nice for those of us without supported integrated wireless chipsets,

Re: est man page

2012-06-13 Thread Warren Block
On Wed, 13 Jun 2012, Sean Bruno wrote: se http://people.freebsd.org/~sbruno/est_man.txt Looks good. Attached a diff for some small fixes. Updated again with feedback that I've gotten. I changed the Note that est interface is automatically loaded to Note that est capabilities are

Re: est man page

2012-06-13 Thread Warren Block
On Wed, 13 Jun 2012, Warren Block wrote: On Wed, 13 Jun 2012, Sean Bruno wrote: se http://people.freebsd.org/~sbruno/est_man.txt Looks good. Attached a diff for some small fixes. Updated again with feedback that I've gotten. I changed the Note that est interface is automatically

Re: CFR: backup GPT header support in pmbr and loader(8) (Re: Handbook mirroring section)

2012-06-14 Thread Warren Block
On Thu, 14 Jun 2012, Andrey V. Elsukov wrote: On 14.06.2012 17:08, Olivier Smedts wrote: 2012/6/14 Andrey V. Elsukov a...@freebsd.org: Also, our PMBR image doesn't contain any partition entries and writing it to the disk with dd(1) makes the system unbootable. What you think if we will add

Re: Howto create a FreeBSD 10.0-CURRENT/amd64 media? Where are the ISOs?

2012-08-16 Thread Warren Block
On Thu, 16 Aug 2012, O. Hartmann wrote: I find myself a bit floating when I looked for snapshot images for DVD/CD for rescue discs for FreeBSD 10.0-CURRENT/amd64. I can not find anything following the webpage www.freebsd.org! Most links with snapshot or places like ISO-Images-X refere to

Re: pkgng suggestion: renaming /usr/sbin/pkg to /usr/sbin/pkg-bootstrap

2012-08-23 Thread Warren Block
On Thu, 23 Aug 2012, Eitan Adler wrote: On 23 August 2012 22:55, Steve Wills swi...@freebsd.org wrote: As far as I understand it, POLA is about changing existing things: okay, so forget POLA. My point is that a user following a how to or even *our* documentation on how to install something

Re: pkgng suggestion: renaming /usr/sbin/pkg to /usr/sbin/pkg-bootstrap

2012-08-26 Thread Warren Block
On Sun, 26 Aug 2012, Ian Lepore wrote: On Sun, 2012-08-26 at 20:58 +0200, Baptiste Daroussin wrote: On Sun, Aug 26, 2012 at 11:39:07AM -0700, Doug Barton wrote: On 08/26/2012 05:58, Baptiste Daroussin wrote: This isn't the security issue I was talking about by having sbin/pkg pass every

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

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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: Is there a FreeBSD 9+ version of this?

2011-12-06 Thread Warren Block
On Tue, 6 Dec 2011, Sean Bruno wrote: http://www.freebsd.org/doc/handbook/geom-mirror.html Not in the Handbook. To make gmirror work with GPT, create GPT partitions and mirror those. I wrote an article on that using multiple partitions:

Re: can a wrong alignment cause a decrease in a hdd's life expectancy?

2011-12-19 Thread Warren Block
On Mon, 19 Dec 2011, Alexander Best wrote: no problem. so will the improper alignment also not cause a life expectancy shortage in case of a hdd (non-flash-based)? and one other question: the hdd also supports usb 3. will the improper alignment have any effect (speed wise) when connected via

Re: Removal of sysinstall from HEAD and lack of a post-install configuration tool

2011-12-29 Thread Warren Block
On Thu, 29 Dec 2011, John Baldwin wrote: A way to select from available partition types (UFS, boot, swap, ZFS, etc.) rather than requiring the user to remember the 'freebsd-xxx' string would be one improvement. There are PRs for that and several other common suggestions:

Re: Improving the FreeBSD-9 boot menu

2012-01-20 Thread Warren Block
On Tue, 20 Sep 2011, Warren Block wrote: The patch in PR 160818 makes some clarifications and improvements to the new boot menu. Obviously this is not for 9.0-RELEASE, just wanting to get it out there so people can look at it. http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=160818 Among other

Re: Enhancing the user experience with tcsh

2012-02-09 Thread Warren Block
On Fri, 10 Feb 2012, Gonzalo Nemmi wrote: On Thu, Feb 9, 2012 at 9:52 PM, Eitan Adler li...@eitanadler.com wrote: In conf/160689 (http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=160689) there has been some discussion about changing the default cshrc file. In the same line that Wojciech on the

Re: Enhancing the user experience with tcsh

2012-02-10 Thread Warren Block
On Fri, 10 Feb 2012, Joel Dahl wrote: [completion examples] How about adding stuff like this to /usr/share/examples/tcsh/complete.tcsh ? Along with a comment in .cshrc pointing to that file (or even a commented line to source it), it would be an improvement. People who can benefit the

Re: Using TMPFS for /tmp and /var/run?

2012-04-01 Thread Warren Block
On Mon, 2 Apr 2012, deeptec...@gmail.com wrote: I personally wouldn't use TMPFS, because I have a rather low amount of RAM (512MiB). Depends on what you keep there. I've been trying it lately. For an X desktop running xfce, /tmp is only 332K.

Re: [CFT] Xorg 7.7 ready for testing!

2012-06-07 Thread Warren Block
On Thu, 7 Jun 2012, Martin Wilke wrote: The FreeBSD Xorg Team is pleased to announce Xorg 7.7 Release. We are very happy to be able to Call for testing shortly after the Xorg team annouced 7.7 release. Thanks for your work on this! This CFT is also open for discussion on how we should move

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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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

2014-03-21 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: Cannot switch tty's after install xorg, gnome and gdm

2011-01-23 Thread Warren Block
On Sun, 23 Jan 2011, Rob Farmer wrote: On Sun, Jan 23, 2011 at 07:32, LOL elvis4...@gmail.com wrote: Hi guys. On every release of freebsd that i tried (-CURRENT, -STABLE, -RELEASE) everything goes fine until I install xorg, gdm and gnome by packages or not it does not make any difference. When

Re: Switch from legacy ata(4) to CAM-based ATA

2011-04-20 Thread Warren Block
On Wed, 20 Apr 2011, Doug Barton wrote: On 04/20/2011 15:18, Scott Long wrote: I agree with what Alexander is saying, but I'd like to take it a step further. We should all be using [...] mount-by-label +1 When I first saw this on linux my gut reaction was e, different. But now that

Re: Switch from legacy ata(4) to CAM-based ATA

2011-04-20 Thread Warren Block
On Wed, 20 Apr 2011, Doug Barton wrote: On 04/20/2011 16:01, Warren Block wrote: Not sure I understand the question. I have a little article called FreeBSD Labeled Filesystems: http://www.wonkity.com/~wblock/docs/html/labels.html That's a good article, but it highlights what seem to be some

Re: Switch from legacy ata(4) to CAM-based ATA

2011-04-20 Thread Warren Block
On Wed, 20 Apr 2011, Arnaud Lacombe wrote: On Wed, Apr 20, 2011 at 6:38 PM, Garrett Cooper yaneg...@gmail.com wrote: On Wed, Apr 20, 2011 at 3:35 PM, Doug Barton do...@freebsd.org wrote: glabel create label /dev/blah Just tested that with a kernel from HEAD and a 8.x userland. This does not

Re: I am very confused and would appreciate some help on device renameing or on renumbering on current fstab.

2011-05-03 Thread Warren Block
On Tue, 3 May 2011, Edwin L. Culp W. wrote: It will be ada0 rather than ad4.  With adaX the weird ATA_STATIC_ID stuff is gone and ATA disks are now numbered starting from 0 just like SCSI disks use da0, da1, ... etc. -- John Baldwin Thanks, John. I was afraid that was the answer. Now, II'm

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