wireless card won't associate

2009-02-04 Thread James Strother
Hello, I've been trying to get a wireless card of mine working with a new install of freebsd 7.1, but I've been unable to associate with the access point. From pciconf -lv, it appears the chipset is Ralink RT2561/RT61. The documentation for ral doesn't mention this particular chipset, but there

Re: NFSv2 Wrong FS Size

2009-02-04 Thread perryh
1755708928*1024/512 = 3511417856 blocks. This number is larger than 2^31, which techinically isn't a problem because the NFSv2 spec says that the filesystem size is unsigned. FreeBSD treats it as signed, though, so it can display negative free space when root starts using its 8% reserve, so

Re: no cats at home, but system (7.0-STABLE) reboots

2009-02-04 Thread perryh
Brief power outage, perhaps? ... note: the box is a laptop; I hit the power-off button and pulled out the 220V power cable of the power-supply from the outlet (that's why later the laptop after 2h uptime failed with battery empty) ... So much for the power-bounce theory. Perhaps you have

Re: apt of freebsd

2009-02-04 Thread Alexander Wolf
prad ?: It's probably used for the Linux emulation in FreeBSD, you can't use it with FreeBSD native packages. so what does this mean? if you have linux emulation, you can install .debs from the debian repository? hmm... etch (linux) or lenny (linux), or lenny (kfreebsd) packages? --

Power off and network apcupsd

2009-02-04 Thread bsd
Hello, I would like to know if this is possible to keep the network during a shutdown as describe and explained below for a Linux system. How could we do that? This will be used in a procedure to shutdown the UPS and the system after a Power Failure has been detected. Any experience with

Power off and network apcupsd

2009-02-04 Thread Greg Bernard
Hello, I would like to know if this is possible to keep the network during a shutdown as describe and explained below for a Linux system. How could we do that? This will be used in a procedure to shutdown the UPS and the system after a Power Failure has been detected. Any experience with

Re: CMake error compiling kdepimlibs4

2009-02-04 Thread Max Brazhnikov
On Wed, 04 Feb 2009 15:36:02 +1000, Warren Liddell wrote: I have been trying to compile KDE4.2 on AMD64 7.1-STABLE machine, but atm this is 1 of the errors thats stopping it from working. CMake Error at CMakeLists.txt:128

Graphviz port compilation error

2009-02-04 Thread Unga
Hi all This is FreeBSD 7.1 on i386. make install clean on /usr/ports/x11/kde3 develops a compilation error in /usr/ports/graphics/graphviz with following error message: *** [libgv_tcl_la-gv_tcl.lo] Error 1 I have refreshed the port tree and gave it a try, but its still develops the same

Xlib: extension Generic Event Extension missing on display :0.0

2009-02-04 Thread Da Rock
Ok, I give up... wtf am I missing here? As per the Xorg upgrade disaster discussion, I commented that this error IS causing issues; namely mplayer, file-roller. After that I read nothing in reply. I can now confirm this problem in several ways: 1) I just ran xine, mplayer, and file-roller and the

shell commands - exclusion

2009-02-04 Thread t-u-t
hi, i don't know if this is a freak question, but i was looking around to see if this is possible, and what the convention would be. if i have say one (or even two) single file/directories among many others, and i want to perform any said function like cp, mv, rm, etc.. , to all other files

Re: Image size manipulation

2009-02-04 Thread Mehul Ved
On Wed, Feb 4, 2009 at 11:53 AM, Doug Hardie bc...@lafn.org wrote: You are looking for graphics/ImageMagick. This provides a 'convert' command that does lots of image file manipulations. Thanks. Don't know how I managed to miss it before. Also gd(http://www.libgd.org/Main_Page)? -- If

Re: NFSv2 Wrong FS Size

2009-02-04 Thread Dan Nelson
In the last episode (Feb 04), per...@pluto.rain.com said: 1755708928*1024/512 = 3511417856 blocks. This number is larger than 2^31, which techinically isn't a problem because the NFSv2 spec says that the filesystem size is unsigned. FreeBSD treats it as signed, though, so it can display

OT: SVN checkout checksumming

2009-02-04 Thread FreeBSD
Hi everyone, I have asked this question on the svnforum.org and didn't got a good answer, so I try it here. I want to use SVN to automate the update process of a custom application. So, I'm planning to indicate to every PC to update periodically to a specific branch of the repository. The

Re: shell commands - exclusion

2009-02-04 Thread Lars Eighner
On Wed, 4 Feb 2009, t-u-t wrote: hi, i don't know if this is a freak question, but i was looking around to see if this is possible, and what the convention would be. if i have say one (or even two) single file/directories among many others, and i want to perform any said function like cp, mv,

Could we get rid of the extra blank line in the MOTD?

2009-02-04 Thread Redd Vinylene
My MOTD is like this (- marks beginning and end): - AUTHORIZED ACCESS ONLY - But in FreeBSD it displays with an extra blank line on top: - Copyright (c) 1980, 1983, 1986, 1988, 1990, 1991, 1993, 1994 The Regents of the University of California. All rights reserved. AUTHORIZED

Re: shell commands - exclusion

2009-02-04 Thread Dan Nelson
In the last episode (Feb 04), t-u-t said: hi, i don't know if this is a freak question, but i was looking around to see if this is possible, and what the convention would be. if i have say one (or even two) single file/directories among many others, and i want to perform any said function

Re: Image size manipulation

2009-02-04 Thread Doug Hardie
On Feb 4, 2009, at 06:38, Mehul Ved wrote: On Wed, Feb 4, 2009 at 11:53 AM, Doug Hardie bc...@lafn.org wrote: You are looking for graphics/ImageMagick. This provides a 'convert' command that does lots of image file manipulations. Thanks. Don't know how I managed to miss it before. Also

Re: shell commands - exclusion

2009-02-04 Thread t-u-t
On Wed, Feb 4, 2009 at 4:26 PM, Lars Eighner luvbeas...@larseighner.comwrote: In general this is not possible. A few commands have exclusion options, but not many. Some shells have ways of managing glob exclusion (it's the shell that expands wildcard patterns). Setting GLOBIGNORE works in

Re: [6.3] ALT-CTRL-DEL = clean unmount?

2009-02-04 Thread Gilles
On Mon, 02 Feb 2009 12:19:59 +0100, Ivan Voras ivo...@freebsd.org wrote: The OS reboot process might have been interrupted somehow, or your drive might be caching more than it should be. Mmm... Any idea how to investigate + fix this? I'm concerned about losing data :-/ Thank you guys.

Re: Power off and network apcupsd

2009-02-04 Thread Lowell Gilbert
bsd b...@todoo.biz writes: I would like to know if this is possible to keep the network during a shutdown as describe and explained below for a Linux system. How could we do that? This will be used in a procedure to shutdown the UPS and the system after a Power Failure has been detected.

Re: shell commands - exclusion

2009-02-04 Thread t-u-t
On Wed, Feb 4, 2009 at 4:48 PM, Dan Nelson dnel...@allantgroup.com wrote: zsh has the ^ and ~ glob metacharacters that are enabled with you enable EXTENDED_GLOB: ^x (Requires EXTENDED_GLOB to be set.) Matches anything except the pattern x. This has a higher

Re: Xlib: extension Generic Event Extension missing on display :0.0

2009-02-04 Thread Warren Block
On Thu, 5 Feb 2009, Da Rock wrote: Ok, I give up... wtf am I missing here? As per the Xorg upgrade disaster discussion, I commented that this error IS causing issues; namely mplayer, file-roller. After that I read nothing in reply. The extension message is probably not the problem. mplayer

Re: Image size manipulation

2009-02-04 Thread Peter Giessel
On Wednesday, February 04, 2009, at 07:10AM, Doug Hardie bc...@lafn.org wrote: I am currently using gd to create some images from data, but don't see how to resize the images to a specific pixel size. Nothing seems to stand out in the documentation. void gdImageCopyResized doesn't stand

Strange fetch behaviour

2009-02-04 Thread FreeBSD
Hi everyone, I'm totally mystified by this one: I have a shell script that fetch a couple of RSS feeds periodically. It worked fine. I now want to integrate a 3 times retry if the fetch fails. The logic of the script if now good but when I'm testing the script by unplugging the network cable

Re: Using Serial Port Other Than sio0 for the Console

2009-02-04 Thread Jerry McAllister
On Wed, Feb 04, 2009 at 08:45:46AM +0100, Martin Schweizer wrote: Hello Tim I did what in the handbook under article 26.6.5.2. is described but not shure how I can write a new boot block to the disk. Here is what I think is correct: Output from df and bsdlabel mfid0s1: # df -h

RE: freebsd-update fetching files failed

2009-02-04 Thread Webster, Andrew
On 1/19/09 4:00 PM, Tore Lund t...@next.online.no wrote: Tom Worster wrote: a funny thing happened on wat to 7.1 today (from 7.0-p6): # freebsd-update upgrade -r 7.1-RELEASE Have you tried freebsd-update -r 7.0-RELEASE upgrade? I am not sure it makes a difference, but at any

Re: Using Serial Port Other Than sio0 for the Console

2009-02-04 Thread Martin Schweizer
Hello Jerry Jerry McAllister schrieb: On Wed, Feb 04, 2009 at 08:45:46AM +0100, Martin Schweizer wrote: Hello Tim I did what in the handbook under article 26.6.5.2. is described but not shure how I can write a new boot block to the disk. Here is what I think is correct: Output from df

GEOM_JOURNAL on a 550G partition - opinions ?

2009-02-04 Thread Hugo Silva
Hi list, For a server I will be setting up, I am considering using gjournal on the partition that will hold all the www data. The journaled partition (mounted async) would be mostly read from, uploads would not be very frequent and most sites wouldn't write to the disk. Logs would be kept

No wifi signal with usb antenna (rum driver)

2009-02-04 Thread Lars Lonne
Hi all. I have recently installed FreeBSD-7.1-RELEASE on my Compaq Evo laptop. It used to dualboot with windows xp and gentoo linux, but I decided to give FreeBSD a try instead, so now it dualboots with windows and FreeBSD. My biggest problem is connecting to the internet over the local wifi

Re: Could we get rid of the extra blank line in the MOTD?

2009-02-04 Thread Redd Vinylene
On 2/4/09, Rajarajan Rajamani r.rajam...@gmail.com wrote: The messages are from /etc/motd Edit is to display what you'd like. I'm sorry Rajarajan, but you misread my question. -- http://www.home.no/reddvinylene ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org

Re: Xlib: extension Generic Event Extension missing on display :0.0

2009-02-04 Thread Roland Smith
On Thu, Feb 05, 2009 at 12:10:30AM +1000, Da Rock wrote: Ok, I give up... wtf am I missing here? The Xext library has the extension, but the server hasn't yet. It should be harmless. I don't notice any problems with it. (7.1-RELEASE amd64 with Xorg 7.4) I can now confirm this problem in

Re: shell commands - exclusion

2009-02-04 Thread Roland Smith
On Wed, Feb 04, 2009 at 03:35:52PM +0100, t-u-t wrote: hi, i don't know if this is a freak question, but i was looking around to see if this is possible, and what the convention would be. if i have say one (or even two) single file/directories among many others, and i want to perform any

Re: Image size manipulation

2009-02-04 Thread Doug Hardie
On Feb 4, 2009, at 08:17, Peter Giessel wrote: On Wednesday, February 04, 2009, at 07:10AM, Doug Hardie bc...@lafn.org wrote: I am currently using gd to create some images from data, but don't see how to resize the images to a specific pixel size. Nothing seems to stand out in the

Multiple MAC on a single (physical) interface

2009-02-04 Thread Frédéric Perrin
Hello, I live in a network where it is pretty much assumed that one machine == one MAC address == one IP address. Therefore, in order to play with jails, some having of course access to the network, I need to be able to send and receive using several MAC addresses, as if I had several NIC (which

Re: Multiple MAC on a single (physical) interface

2009-02-04 Thread Glen Barber
On Wed, Feb 4, 2009 at 1:07 PM, Frédéric Perrin frederic.per...@resel.fr wrote: [snip] It seems quite a convoluted setup (especially having to make a tunnel from tap0 to tap1 ... tapn). Is there an easier way ? Comments ? Forgive me if I am misunderstanding what you are trying to accomplish,

Re: Could we get rid of the extra blank line in the MOTD?

2009-02-04 Thread cpghost
On Wed, Feb 04, 2009 at 06:53:07PM +0100, Redd Vinylene wrote: On 2/4/09, Rajarajan Rajamani r.rajam...@gmail.com wrote: The messages are from /etc/motd Edit is to display what you'd like. That's not his problem. Something *else* prints a newline before the contents of /etc/motd... See

Re: Using Serial Port Other Than sio0 for the Console

2009-02-04 Thread Jerry McAllister
On Wed, Feb 04, 2009 at 06:01:46PM +0100, Martin Schweizer wrote: Hello Jerry don't edit d: 2097152 104857604.2BSD 2048 16384 28528 e: 394264576 125829124.2BSD 2048 16384 28528 f: 839234174 4068474884.2BSD 2048 16384 28528 My opinion is: bsdlabel

Re: Could we get rid of the extra blank line in the MOTD?

2009-02-04 Thread Redd Vinylene
On Wed, Feb 4, 2009 at 7:12 PM, Rajarajan Rajamani r.rajam...@gmail.comwrote: I'm sorry Rajarajan, but you misread my question. -- http://www.home.no/reddvinylene Ok, sorry for the hurried reply, is the extra line coming from /etc/COPYRIGHT then ? Whats there in /etc/login.conf

Re: Xlib: extension Generic Event Extension missing on display :0.0

2009-02-04 Thread matt donovan
On Wed, Feb 4, 2009 at 12:56 PM, Roland Smith rsm...@xs4all.nl wrote: On Thu, Feb 05, 2009 at 12:10:30AM +1000, Da Rock wrote: Ok, I give up... wtf am I missing here? The Xext library has the extension, but the server hasn't yet. It should be harmless. I don't notice any problems with it.

Re: Could we get rid of the extra blank line in the MOTD?

2009-02-04 Thread Gonzalo Nemmi
On Wednesday 04 February 2009 4:53:24 pm Redd Vinylene wrote: On Wed, Feb 4, 2009 at 7:12 PM, Rajarajan Rajamani r.rajam...@gmail.comwrote: I'm sorry Rajarajan, but you misread my question. -- http://www.home.no/reddvinylene Ok, sorry for the hurried reply, is the extra line

Dabber Newsletter - Feb 2009

2009-02-04 Thread Daniel Daboczy - DABBER
Dabber Newsletter New video player examples We´ve been working hard on presenting different variations of the kind of= intuitive technology we offer. But Dabber is something more than just cool= intuitive 3D applications. We use our experience and knowledge as the glue= between

Re: GEOM_JOURNAL on a 550G partition - opinions ?

2009-02-04 Thread Manolis Kiagias
Hugo Silva wrote: Hi list, For a server I will be setting up, I am considering using gjournal on the partition that will hold all the www data. The journaled partition (mounted async) would be mostly read from, uploads would not be very frequent and most sites wouldn't write to the disk.

is there any way to increase disk performance ?

2009-02-04 Thread Yavuz
I have freebsd7 (amd64 bit) and sata2 disk 7200 rpm. it's running mail server which has services like pop3,imap,smtp and webmail on this machine. When I type systat 1 -vmstat on command line, even I rarely see that disk usage hits 100%. I have no problem as ram and cpu. they is enough.

Re: is there any way to increase disk performance ?

2009-02-04 Thread Bill Moran
In response to Yavuz mas...@ihlas.net.tr: I have freebsd7 (amd64 bit) and sata2 disk 7200 rpm. it's running mail server which has services like pop3,imap,smtp and webmail on this machine. When I type systat 1 -vmstat on command line, even I rarely see that disk usage hits 100%. I

Re: is there any way to increase disk performance ?

2009-02-04 Thread Adam Vande More
Yavuz wrote: I have freebsd7 (amd64 bit) and sata2 disk 7200 rpm. it's running mail server which has services like pop3,imap,smtp and webmail on this machine. When I type systat 1 -vmstat on command line, even I rarely see that disk usage hits 100%. I have no problem as ram and cpu. they

mount time

2009-02-04 Thread Peter B
Is it normal with a mount time of 44 seconds for a 250G FAT32 volume ..? CPU: Intel(R) Pentium(R) M processor 1600MHz (1594.84-MHz 686-class CPU) umass0: Sunplus Technology Inc. USB to Serial-ATA bridge, class 0/0, rev 2.00/ec.02, addr 2 on uhub3 da0 at umass-sim0 bus 0

dump/restore problem

2009-02-04 Thread Ivan Dimitrov
Hi list when I started a migration to new HDD, according few how-tos, I got the following warning: # dump -0Lauf - /dev/ad0s1f | restore -rf - DUMP: Date of this level 0 dump: Wed Feb 4 22:02:42 2009 DUMP: Date of last level 0 dump: the epoch DUMP: Dumping snapshot of /dev/ad0s1f (/usr)

Re: policykit fails to build on 7.1-stable i386

2009-02-04 Thread Steve Franks
I think portupgrade -f p5-XML-Parser got me over the hurdle. There was !!! a file missing altho the port was installed. Forced it to build and !!! reinstall and things were able to build once again. Someone (maintainer or upstream) should be paying more attention here. All my systems have

Re: [6.3] ALT-CTRL-DEL = clean unmount?

2009-02-04 Thread Lokadamus
Gilles wrote: I was wondering: When hitting the ALT-CTRL-DEL combination as an easy way to call reboot, does this unmount disks properly? ad0: DMA limited to UDMA33, controller found non-ATA66 cable ad0: 19092MB Seagate ST320413A 3.39 at ata0-master UDMA3 Can you change your IDE- Cable from

Re: Link UP/DOWN problem with re0 on FreeBSD 7.1

2009-02-04 Thread FreeBSD
FreeBSD a écrit : Graeme Dargie a écrit : If you do a dmesg are you also showing a watchdog time out for the nic ? I only ask as I am having the exact same problem with the exact same card and I have yet to find a solution, if I come across something I will let you know. Regards Graeme

Re: Perl: Why not updated to latest version 5.10.0

2009-02-04 Thread Lokadamus
Jerry wrote: I subscribe to the port@ list as well as this one obviously and I do not remember seeing that article. I will keep looking. http://docs.freebsd.org/mail/ -- Archiv of maillinglist :) ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list

system time on top output

2009-02-04 Thread Omer Faruk Sen
Hi, I have a running pgsql server but on heavy loads it consumes lots of time in system (more than %50). I can see that CPU states: 15.4% user, 0.0% nice, 81.9% system, 1.5% interrupt, 1.2% idle But how can I debug that kind of system. vmstat and other tools only show most cpu is used by

Re: Multiple MAC on a single (physical) interface

2009-02-04 Thread Frédéric Perrin
Le Mercredi 4 à 19:36, Glen Barber a écrit : Forgive me if I am misunderstanding what you are trying to accomplish, but it appears you just want to have several jails with sevaral IP addresses. I'm not clear on why you mentioned MAC, as from what I see, is irrelevant. I want each jail to have

Re: Multiple MAC on a single (physical) interface

2009-02-04 Thread Glen Barber
A bit of searching for freebsd rc.conf ifconfig mac address brought me to this, in a previous mailing list thread. Not sure if this works with 'alias'ed interfaces, but worth a shot, I suppose. ifconfig_em0=inet 1.2.3.4 netmask 255.0.0.0 ether aa:bb:cc:dd:ee:ff -- Glen Barber

IDL on FreeBSD 8.0-CURRENT/AMD64

2009-02-04 Thread O. Hartmann
Hello, I need to run a Linux 32Bit IDL-7.0 binary (IDL vm) on a FreeBSD-8.0-CURRENT/amd64 box. Does anyone out here already performed that task and is willing and able giving some hints? Thanks in advance, Oliver ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org

Re: is there any way to increase disk performance ?

2009-02-04 Thread Wojciech Puchar
I have freebsd7 (amd64 bit) and sata2 disk 7200 rpm. it's running mail server which has services like pop3,imap,smtp and webmail on this machine. When I type systat 1 -vmstat on command line, even I rarely see that disk usage hits 100%. I have no problem as ram and cpu. they is enough.

Re: policykit fails to build on 7.1-stable i386

2009-02-04 Thread Jason Morgan
On 2009.02.03 14:48:24, David Kelly wrote: On Tue, Feb 03, 2009 at 11:21:23AM -0900, Mel wrote: On Tuesday 03 February 2009 07:49:29 Jason Morgan wrote: Do it a few times in a row, the sourceforge servers are overloaded apparently and return false errors. Either that, or familiarize

Re: dump/restore problem

2009-02-04 Thread A. Wright
Ivan; when I started a migration to new HDD, according few how-tos, I got the following warning: # dump -0Lauf - /dev/ad0s1f | restore -rf - When debugging dump/restore problems, it is always best to dump to a file, and then restore from the file -- this allows you to see which of dump and

Re: Multiple MAC on a single (physical) interface

2009-02-04 Thread Frédéric Perrin
Le Mercredi 4 à 23:26, Glen Barber a écrit : A bit of searching for freebsd rc.conf ifconfig mac address brought me to this, in a previous mailing list thread. Not sure if this works with 'alias'ed interfaces, but worth a shot, I suppose. ifconfig_em0=inet 1.2.3.4 netmask 255.0.0.0 ether

Re: Xlib: extension Generic Event Extension missing on display :0.0

2009-02-04 Thread Da Rock
On Wed, 2009-02-04 at 18:56 +0100, Roland Smith wrote: On Thu, Feb 05, 2009 at 12:10:30AM +1000, Da Rock wrote: Ok, I give up... wtf am I missing here? The Xext library has the extension, but the server hasn't yet. It should be harmless. I don't notice any problems with it. (7.1-RELEASE

Re: OT: SVN checkout checksumming

2009-02-04 Thread Giorgos Keramidas
On Wed, 04 Feb 2009 10:20:25 -0500, FreeBSD free...@optiksecurite.com wrote: Hi everyone, I have asked this question on the svnforum.org and didn't got a good answer, so I try it here. I want to use SVN to automate the update process of a custom application. So, I'm planning to indicate to

Re: Xlib: extension Generic Event Extension missing on display :0.0

2009-02-04 Thread Robert Huff
Da Rock writes: X is working fine here on a Radeon X1650 on 7.1-RELEASE with rnoland's last patch to update the kernel direct rendering support (which should be in 7-STABLE by now). Accellerated X works, 2D and 3D. Xv also works. This is getting very interesting now. Based On your

Re: Multiple MAC on a single (physical) interface

2009-02-04 Thread Glen Barber
On Wed, Feb 4, 2009 at 6:20 PM, Frédéric Perrin frederic.per...@resel.fr wrote: ifconfig_em0=inet 1.2.3.4/8 ifconfig_em0_alias0=ether a:b:c:d:e:f Well, I was thinking: ifconfig_em0=inet 1.2.3.4 ifconfig_em0_alias0=1.2.3.5 ether xx:xx:xx:xx:xx -- Glen Barber

Dabber Newsletter - Feb 2009

2009-02-04 Thread Daniel Daboczy - DABBER
Dabber Newsletter New video player examples We´ve been working hard on presenting different variations of the kind of= intuitive technology we offer. But Dabber is something more than just cool= intuitive 3D applications. We use our experience and knowledge as the glue= between

libxcb-xlib issue

2009-02-04 Thread Tsu-Fan Cheng
Hi, just a while ago I run portupgrade -rf libxcb to rebuild anything that depends on libxcb, and there are A LOT of them!! While during rebuild, some work but some don't, which is fine, since my problem was solved at the moment. But today, I realize that transcode has not been fixed, and I

Re: shell commands - exclusion

2009-02-04 Thread Jaime
On Wed, Feb 4, 2009 at 9:35 AM, t-u-t marshc...@gmail.com wrote: if i have say one (or even two) single file/directories among many others, and i want to perform any said function like cp, mv, rm, etc.. , to all other files except that one or two, is there a way to do that in a single command?

Re: Looking for a Good FreeBSD and General Unix Backup System

2009-02-04 Thread Dan
I second BackupPC. Very nice, despite what some may consider a misleading name. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to

Re: Perl: Why not updated to latest version 5.10.0

2009-02-04 Thread Tim Judd
On Wed, Feb 4, 2009 at 2:57 PM, Lokadamus lokada...@gmx.de wrote: Jerry wrote: I subscribe to the port@ list as well as this one obviously and I do not remember seeing that article. I will keep looking. http://docs.freebsd.org/mail/ -- Archiv of maillinglist :) I remember commenting on

Re: shell commands - exclusion

2009-02-04 Thread William Gordon Rutherdale
Lars Eighner wrote: On Wed, 4 Feb 2009, t-u-t wrote: hi, i don't know if this is a freak question, but i was looking around to see if this is possible, and what the convention would be. if i have say one (or even two) single file/directories among many others, and i want to perform any

Re: GEOM_JOURNAL on a 550G partition - opinions ?

2009-02-04 Thread Gabriel Lavoie
Hi, two 500gb hard drives under gmirror/gjournal and no problem here. I've had a few problems with the root partition under gjournal in FreeBSD 7.0. With an unclean shutdown, the journal replay wasn't done quickly enough before the kernel tried to mount the root partition, failing to do so

Graphics tablet / Xorg / mouse problems

2009-02-04 Thread Antonio Rieser
Hi, Whatever I did before, it had no effect. The temporary fix, for some reason, has been to deactivate kdm. Can anyone explain this? All the best, Tony ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list

[NS]freebsd 7.0 could not send Neighbor Solicitation when I reboot the freebsd

2009-02-04 Thread wang_jiabo
Hello, everyone: when I reboot freebsd7.0, it did not send NS package, I only can receive RS. could you tell me why. tcpdump log info: reading from file 1.2.A, link-type EN10MB (Ethernet) 13:20:11.994102 IP6 fe80::2e0:4cff:fe19:129f ff02::2: ICMP6, router solicitation, length 16

Re: Graphics tablet / Xorg / mouse problems

2009-02-04 Thread Da Rock
On Wed, 2009-02-04 at 23:32 -0500, Antonio Rieser wrote: Hi, Whatever I did before, it had no effect. The temporary fix, for some reason, has been to deactivate kdm. Can anyone explain this? For starters hald should probably be disabled in rc.conf: hald_enable=NO. That said; how are you

Re: is there any way to increase disk performance ?

2009-02-04 Thread Tim Judd
Yavuz wrote: I have freebsd7 (amd64 bit) and sata2 disk 7200 rpm. it's running mail server which has services like pop3,imap,smtp and webmail on this machine. When I type systat 1 -vmstat on command line, even I rarely see that disk usage hits 100%. I have no problem as ram and cpu. they

Re: Xorg upgrade desaster: Xlib: extension Generic Event Extension missing on display :0.0.

2009-02-04 Thread Ulrich Spörlein
On Fri, 30.01.2009 at 23:19:41 +0100, O. Hartmann wrote: After upgrading one of my FreeBSD 8.0-CUR/amd64 boxes to new xorg-7.4 and having done hurting recompiling nearly everything/package twice now firefox3 still doesn't work properly and hits me when starting with this error message:

Re: Xlib: extension Generic Event Extension missing on display :0.0

2009-02-04 Thread Alain G. Fabry
I'm using the radeonhd driver and am getting the message also. Video card is the ati mobility radeon x1600. On Wed, Feb 04, 2009 at 06:48:40PM -0500, Robert Huff wrote: Da Rock writes: X is working fine here on a Radeon X1650 on 7.1-RELEASE with rnoland's last patch to update the