Xorg error: New athlon laptop, radeonhd video - unable to load fbdev

2011-12-19 Thread Da Rock
I hate to come with this kind of a query, but my googling hasn't come across a satisfactory answer. I'm running an install on a brand new laptop for a client, and I'm trying to get X up using xdm- nothing. The logs says it failed to load fbdev because there is no data module. I try

Re: Xorg error: New athlon laptop, radeonhd video - unable to load fbdev

2011-12-19 Thread Da Rock
On 12/19/11 21:31, Da Rock wrote: I hate to come with this kind of a query, but my googling hasn't come across a satisfactory answer. I'm running an install on a brand new laptop for a client, and I'm trying to get X up using xdm- nothing. The logs says it failed to load fbdev because there

Re: Legacy releases of freeBSD

2011-12-19 Thread Bill Tillman
I think we understand why you're looking for older versions, there might even be a copy of 3.5 out there somewhere but as I recall the latest version was 3.3 sometime in 2001. I have an old CD around here somewhere with 4.9 but I think others as well would encourage you to use the latest

Re: HP LaserJet Pro P1102 stops responding after a while

2011-12-19 Thread Bill Tillman
From: Jeff Tipton jef...@mail.com To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Sent: Tuesday, December 13, 2011 5:10 PM Subject: HP LaserJet Pro P1102 stops responding after a while But what I do find is that my laser printer also goes into sleep mode to save power and

Re: .config

2011-12-19 Thread ill...@gmail.com
On 30 November 2011 14:03, Polytropon free...@edvax.de wrote: On Wed, 30 Nov 2011 13:40:19 -0500, ill...@gmail.com wrote: A dirty workaround might be to link /.config to something innocuous.  One could obvio- usly also have /.config mounted as a tmpfs(5). So it couldn't persist from boot to

Need to know the compatibility

2011-12-19 Thread Vijayamurugan.Kalyanasundaram
Hi Team, Kindly let me know on the compatibility of Intel X520 Dual Port 10 Gigabit Ethernet PCIe Adaptor Card with Free BSD 8.2 OS. This is an urgent requirement for our development project. Please provide us the information at the earliest. Thanks Regards, Vijay K Extn : 785-4581

Re: Xorg error: New athlon laptop, radeonhd video - unable to load fbdev

2011-12-19 Thread Warren Block
On Mon, 19 Dec 2011, Da Rock wrote: On 12/19/11 21:31, Da Rock wrote: I hate to come with this kind of a query, but my googling hasn't come across a satisfactory answer. I'm running an install on a brand new laptop for a client, and I'm trying to get X up using xdm- nothing. The logs says

Re: .config

2011-12-19 Thread Polytropon
On Mon, 19 Dec 2011 10:48:23 -0500, ill...@gmail.com wrote: On 30 November 2011 14:03, Polytropon free...@edvax.de wrote: On Wed, 30 Nov 2011 13:40:19 -0500, ill...@gmail.com wrote: A dirty workaround might be to link /.config to something innocuous.  One could obvio- usly also have

Re: Xorg error: New athlon laptop, radeonhd video - unable to load fbdev

2011-12-19 Thread Da Rock
On 12/20/11 03:05, Warren Block wrote: On Mon, 19 Dec 2011, Da Rock wrote: On 12/19/11 21:31, Da Rock wrote: I hate to come with this kind of a query, but my googling hasn't come across a satisfactory answer. I'm running an install on a brand new laptop for a client, and I'm trying to get

Re: .config

2011-12-19 Thread ajtiM
On Monday 19 December 2011 12:43:42 Polytropon wrote: On Mon, 19 Dec 2011 10:48:23 -0500, ill...@gmail.com wrote: On 30 November 2011 14:03, Polytropon free...@edvax.de wrote: On Wed, 30 Nov 2011 13:40:19 -0500, ill...@gmail.com wrote: A dirty workaround might be to link /.config to

BWN Driver

2011-12-19 Thread Chris Brennan
I've got an HP Pavillian laptop with a Broadcom BCM4312 card. Below is what I've loaded so far and the result from /var/log/messages. [root@blackdragon ~]# kldstat | grep bwn 141 0x82035000 28a9abwn_v4_ucode.ko 191 0x8205e000 2982cif_bwn.ko 201

Re: BWN Driver

2011-12-19 Thread Chris Brennan
On Mon, Dec 19, 2011 at 8:28 PM, Ramiro Caso ramirocas...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, I have the same card, so maybe I can help. Some Broadcom chipsets are LP (low power) PHY, so you have to load bwn_v4_lp_ucode instead of bwn_v4_ucode. That worked for me. You may want to check the man page for bwn,

Re: BWN Driver

2011-12-19 Thread Ramiro Caso
2011/12/19, Chris Brennan xa...@xaerolimit.net: I've got an HP Pavillian laptop with a Broadcom BCM4312 card. Below is what I've loaded so far and the result from /var/log/messages. Hi, I have the same card, so maybe I can help. Some Broadcom chipsets are LP (low power) PHY, so you have to load

Re: Xorg error: New athlon laptop, radeonhd video - unable to load fbdev

2011-12-19 Thread Warren Block
On Tue, 20 Dec 2011, Da Rock wrote: Some newer laptops have dual GPUs, an onboard Intel combined with one from another vendor for higher performance. There's hot-switching between the two, but AFAIK it's not supported in FreeBSD. There may be a BIOS option to disable one or the other.

Re: Xorg error: New athlon laptop, radeonhd video - unable to load fbdev

2011-12-19 Thread Da Rock
On 12/20/11 14:33, Warren Block wrote: On Tue, 20 Dec 2011, Da Rock wrote: Some newer laptops have dual GPUs, an onboard Intel combined with one from another vendor for higher performance. There's hot-switching between the two, but AFAIK it's not supported in FreeBSD. There may be a BIOS

Re: 9.0 install and journaling

2011-12-19 Thread Allen
On 12/13/2011 11:54 AM, Devin Teske wrote: *Snipping* On 12/13/11 06:00, Eric S Pulley wrote: As for one big / partition- linux may be using it: and its their biggest failing! I've had a system lockup due to lack of space. Never a problem with bsd as logs will only fill up var, a user won't

Port, Packages, and Patching, Upgrading

2011-12-19 Thread Allen
Hi, I've been trying to find info about this, so I'm Hoping someone here will know about this; I use FreeBSD 8.2-RELEASE, and basically, the normal way I do things, is like this: I grab the CD, boot, and install the Base System. Once I've booted, I'll then use one of the two: pkg_add -r bunch

Re: 9.0 install and journaling

2011-12-19 Thread Da Rock
On 12/20/11 16:08, Allen wrote: On 12/13/2011 11:54 AM, Devin Teske wrote: *Snipping* On 12/13/11 06:00, Eric S Pulley wrote: As for one big / partition- linux may be using it: and its their biggest failing! I've had a system lockup due to lack of space. Never a problem with bsd as logs will