Re: USB disk on CS5536 unstable

2010-11-09 Thread Anselm Strauss
I opened a PR: http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=152075 On Wed, Oct 13, 2010 at 11:28 PM, Hans Petter Selasky hsela...@c2i.netwrote: On Wednesday 13 October 2010 23:22:59 Hans Petter Selasky wrote: Can you add this device to the quirk entries in: sys/dev/usb/controller/ehci.c

Shotwell 0.7 on FreeBSD

2010-10-27 Thread Anselm Strauss
Hi, I was wondering if there are any plans when shotwell in version 0.7 will come on ports. Currently it is on 0.6.1, the new version would make it possible to import a f-spot library. But it also requires an update of vala from 0.8 to 0.9. Are there any blockers? Cheers, Anselm

Re: USB disk on CS5536 unstable

2010-10-09 Thread Anselm Strauss
On 10/07/10 22:59, Lowell Gilbert wrote: Anselm Strauss amsiba...@gmail.com writes: On 10/02/10 16:39, Hans Petter Selasky wrote: On Saturday 02 October 2010 14:44:07 Anselm Strauss wrote: On 09/30/10 21:38, Hans Petter Selasky wrote: On Thursday 30 September 2010 21:10:59 Anselm Strauss

Re: USB disk on CS5536 unstable

2010-10-07 Thread Anselm Strauss
On 10/02/10 16:39, Hans Petter Selasky wrote: On Saturday 02 October 2010 14:44:07 Anselm Strauss wrote: On 09/30/10 21:38, Hans Petter Selasky wrote: On Thursday 30 September 2010 21:10:59 Anselm Strauss wrote: Maybe sending it to just the USB list was too specific ... On 09/30/10 00:08

Re: Swap on ZFS

2010-10-07 Thread Anselm Strauss
On 10/02/10 17:52, Adam Vande More wrote: On Sat, Oct 2, 2010 at 4:30 AM, Anselm Strauss amsiba...@gmail.com wrote: Hi I have a virtual server with only 512 MB of memory but still want to run ZFS on it. snip Has there been any fix or workaround for this? I guess it does not help when I

Re: USB disk on CS5536 unstable

2010-10-07 Thread Anselm Strauss
On 10/07/10 22:12, Anselm Strauss wrote: On 10/02/10 16:39, Hans Petter Selasky wrote: On Saturday 02 October 2010 14:44:07 Anselm Strauss wrote: On 09/30/10 21:38, Hans Petter Selasky wrote: On Thursday 30 September 2010 21:10:59 Anselm Strauss wrote: Maybe sending it to just the USB list

Swap on ZFS

2010-10-02 Thread Anselm Strauss
Hi I have a virtual server with only 512 MB of memory but still want to run ZFS on it. When there is IO load and only few memory left it occasionally happens that the server freezes, network ping will still work. As far as I know there was the problem that an IO request on ZFS first needs to

Re: USB disk on CS5536 unstable

2010-10-02 Thread Anselm Strauss
On 09/30/10 21:38, Hans Petter Selasky wrote: On Thursday 30 September 2010 21:10:59 Anselm Strauss wrote: Maybe sending it to just the USB list was too specific ... On 09/30/10 00:08, Anselm Strauss wrote: Hi I have an ALIX board that has an AMD Geode and the CS5536 companion chip

Re: USB disk on CS5536 unstable

2010-09-30 Thread Anselm Strauss
Maybe sending it to just the USB list was too specific ... On 09/30/10 00:08, Anselm Strauss wrote: Hi I have an ALIX board that has an AMD Geode and the CS5536 companion chip with integrated USB on it. When I connect a USB disk I have observed various problems. For example when I run

Sound mixer

2010-05-28 Thread Anselm Strauss
Hi, I'm using the snd_hda driver on FreeBSD 8.0 for my ATI SB600 sound chip. First, I can't adjust the main volume with the mixer(8) command. If I set it to 0 everything is muted, when I set it to 1-100 sound is unmuted but has the same volume for all values. Second, is it possible to mute the

Re: VirtualBox: no network

2010-05-17 Thread Anselm Strauss
I switched to NAT networking for now. It doesn't require any modules to load besides the vboxdrv.ko and runs stable so far. Only strange that ICMP is not working ... On Tue, May 11, 2010 at 10:16 PM, Anselm Strauss amsiba...@gmail.comwrote: Okay, so it works with the stock kernel when I don't

Re: VirtualBox: no network

2010-05-17 Thread Anselm Strauss
and software updates, worked pretty well. I have not yet done extensive networking or used it for very long time. On Mon, May 17, 2010 at 5:32 PM, Ondrej Majerech oxyd.o...@gmail.comwrote: Ondrej Majerech wrote: Anselm Strauss wrote: I switched to NAT networking for now. It doesn't require any modules

Re: VirtualBox: no network

2010-05-11 Thread Anselm Strauss
are needed. I think it needs at least netgraph and ng_ether. But obviously that's not enough since network still doesn't work with my custom kernel. Oh, and then it regularly freezes my whole system after running for about 20 minutes and I have to do a hardware reset ... ;-) On 05/09/10 13:37, Anselm

VirtualBox: no network

2010-05-09 Thread Anselm Strauss
Hi, I'm running VirtualBox 3.1.6 on FreeBSD 8.0 amd64. I loaded the vboxdrv module on boot and started the vboxnet service. Then I set up an Ubuntu 10.04 amd64 guest and configured one bridged network interface. But I can't get an IP address from my DHCP server. When I check with tcpdump on all

Re: [Help-smalltalk] gst-browser on FreeBSD

2010-05-07 Thread Anselm Strauss
Sorry, this should have gone to the gnu smalltalk list. On Thu, May 6, 2010 at 7:47 PM, Anselm Strauss amsiba...@gmail.com wrote: On 05/06/10 07:54, Johan van Selst wrote: Anselm Strauss wrote: I didn't find any GTK packages coming with the installation, maybe the port for FreeBSD

Re: [Help-smalltalk] gst-browser on FreeBSD

2010-05-06 Thread Anselm Strauss
On 05/06/10 07:54, Johan van Selst wrote: Anselm Strauss wrote: I didn't find any GTK packages coming with the installation, maybe the port for FreeBSD is incomplete ...? Yes, the FreeBSD port installs smalltalk without GTK support (because the combination was broken). This has been

Re: USB mount delay

2010-05-03 Thread Anselm Strauss
On 05/03/10 19:54, Lowell Gilbert wrote: Anselm Strauss amsiba...@gmail.com writes: I have the problem that on my ALIX system USB is first powered up when the FreeBSD kernel is loading. When local filesystems are mounted the USB disk is not yet ready and booting fails giving me a shell

USB mount delay

2010-05-01 Thread Anselm Strauss
Hi, I have the problem that on my ALIX system USB is first powered up when the FreeBSD kernel is loading. When local filesystems are mounted the USB disk is not yet ready and booting fails giving me a shell prompt. Shortly after I see the kernel message for the recognized /dev/da0 USB disk, mount

Re: ZFS scheduling

2010-04-27 Thread Anselm Strauss
On 04/26/10 00:03, Dan Naumov wrote: Hi, I noticed that my system gets very slow when I'm doing some simple but intense ZFS operations. For example, I move about 20 Gigabytes of data from one data set to another on the same pool, which is a RAIDZ of 3 500 GB SATA disks. The operations itself

Re: USB keyboard: mode switch / numlock freezes

2010-04-27 Thread Anselm Strauss
On 04/27/10 07:06, Polytropon wrote: On Mon, 26 Apr 2010 00:33:28 +0200, Anselm Strauss amsiba...@gmail.com wrote: Could it be a numlock issue? Any idea how to address this? A good tool for diagnostics always is the xev program. See if something like KeyPress event, serial 24, synthetic

ZFS scheduling

2010-04-25 Thread Anselm Strauss
Hi, I noticed that my system gets very slow when I'm doing some simple but intense ZFS operations. For example, I move about 20 Gigabytes of data from one data set to another on the same pool, which is a RAIDZ of 3 500 GB SATA disks. The operations itself runs fast, but meanwhile other things get

USB keyboard: mode switch / numlock freezes

2010-04-25 Thread Anselm Strauss
Hi, I have a Roccat Arvo keyboard that has a number block with integrated positioning keys (arrows, del, end, ...), but no extra keys for them. There is a mode switch button that switches between the two layouts, like the numlock key, but I'm not sure if this really is numlock. For some reason

Re: KDE firefox integration

2010-03-21 Thread Anselm Strauss
On Wednesday 10 March 2010 23:45:37 you wrote: On 03/07/2010 12:29, Josh Paetzel wrote: On Sunday 07 March 2010 10:53:29 Anselm Strauss wrote: On Sunday 07 March 2010 15:52:30 Josh Paetzel wrote: On Sunday 07 March 2010 08:13:53 Elias Chrysoheris wrote: On Sunday 07 of March 2010 15:56:15

KDE firefox integration

2010-03-07 Thread Anselm Strauss
Hi, I noticed that in PC-BSD 8 firefox is nicely integrated into KDE. Anybody knows how to achieve this on FreeBSD 8? Anselm ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe,

Re: KDE firefox integration

2010-03-07 Thread Anselm Strauss
On Sunday 07 March 2010 15:52:30 Josh Paetzel wrote: On Sunday 07 March 2010 08:13:53 Elias Chrysoheris wrote: On Sunday 07 of March 2010 15:56:15 Anselm Strauss wrote: Hi, I noticed that in PC-BSD 8 firefox is nicely integrated into KDE. Anybody knows how to achieve this on FreeBSD

Port/package install preview

2010-03-05 Thread Anselm Strauss
Hi, is it possible to do a real preview with portupgrade? I want to see all ports that would be installed/upgraded when installing a particular port. The --noexecute option doesn't really show me a lot. How would this be done with packages? pkg_add would have to download all packges first to be

Re: Port/package install preview

2010-03-05 Thread Anselm Strauss
, daniele gl...@live.com wrote: On 03/05/10 16:43, Anselm Strauss wrote: Hi, is it possible to do a real preview with portupgrade? I want to see all ports that would be installed/upgraded when installing a particular port. The --noexecute option doesn't really show me a lot. How would

Re: RTL8192SE WLAN

2010-02-18 Thread Anselm Strauss
On Feb 17, 2010, at 23:36 , Paul B Mahol wrote: On 2/17/10, Anselm Strauss amsiba...@gmail.com wrote: On Feb 17, 2010, at 13:54 , Paul B Mahol wrote: I use 8.0. Here is the script of what I did to manually setup the card: Script started on Wed Feb 17 21:33:08 2010 [r...@thor ~]# kldload

Re: RTL8192SE WLAN

2010-02-17 Thread Anselm Strauss
On Tue, Feb 16, 2010 at 11:28 PM, Paul B Mahol one...@gmail.com wrote: On 2/16/10, Anselm Strauss amsiba...@gmail.com wrote: Hey, anybody got the RTL8192SE wireless chip to work with FreeBSD? I bought a Asus 1201N laptop. I successfully compiled the Windows XP driver with ndisgen(8

Re: RTL8192SE WLAN

2010-02-17 Thread Anselm Strauss
On Feb 17, 2010, at 13:54 , Paul B Mahol wrote: On 2/17/10, Anselm Strauss amsiba...@gmail.com wrote: On Tue, Feb 16, 2010 at 11:28 PM, Paul B Mahol one...@gmail.com wrote: On 2/16/10, Anselm Strauss amsiba...@gmail.com wrote: Hey, anybody got the RTL8192SE wireless chip to work

Re: RTL8192SE WLAN

2010-02-17 Thread Anselm Strauss
On Feb 17, 2010, at 22:25 , Anselm Strauss wrote: On Feb 17, 2010, at 13:54 , Paul B Mahol wrote: On 2/17/10, Anselm Strauss amsiba...@gmail.com wrote: On Tue, Feb 16, 2010 at 11:28 PM, Paul B Mahol one...@gmail.com wrote: On 2/16/10, Anselm Strauss amsiba...@gmail.com wrote: Hey

Re: Fn key events in Devd

2010-02-16 Thread Anselm Strauss
Thank you, that did it. Anselm On Feb 16, 2010, at 03:18 , David Horn wrote: On Mon, Feb 15, 2010 at 3:42 PM, Anselm Strauss amsiba...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, is there a way to see all events going through devd? cat /var/run/devd.pipe should work for what you need too see from devd

RTL8192SE WLAN

2010-02-16 Thread Anselm Strauss
Hey, anybody got the RTL8192SE wireless chip to work with FreeBSD? I bought a Asus 1201N laptop. I successfully compiled the Windows XP driver with ndisgen(8). The driver loads and the device is there. On the FreeBSD EeePC wiki it says it's a 8191 chip, but when I look at the driver download

Fn key events in Devd

2010-02-15 Thread Anselm Strauss
Hi, is there a way to see all events going through devd? I have loaded the acpi_asus module, but the default devd rules in /etc/devd/asus.conf don't seem to match for my Fn keys. How can I find out what Fn key produces which event in devd? Cheers, Anselm

Support for Asus MicroATX Boards

2010-01-08 Thread Anselm Strauss
Hi, I was looking for some new hardware to buy. I'm interested especially in the M4*/M3* boards from Asus with the AMD 785G/SB710, 780G/SB700 and nForce 720a chips. I can't find real evidence on the supported hardware list whether the following chipsets are really working with FreeBSD 8.0 or not.

Fwd: Booting from ZFS raidz

2010-01-08 Thread Anselm Strauss
Sorry, forgot the list ... -- Forwarded message -- From: Anselm Strauss amsiba...@gmail.com Date: Fri, Jan 8, 2010 at 4:50 PM Subject: Re: Booting from ZFS raidz To: Sergiy Suprun sergiy.sup...@gmail.com I've done some experiments with the 8.0 stable branch and the head branch

Re: Booting from ZFS raidz

2010-01-08 Thread Anselm Strauss
On Jan 8, 2010, at 17:12 , krad wrote: 2010/1/8 Anselm Strauss amsiba...@gmail.com Sorry, forgot the list ... -- Forwarded message -- From: Anselm Strauss amsiba...@gmail.com Date: Fri, Jan 8, 2010 at 4:50 PM Subject: Re: Booting from ZFS raidz To: Sergiy Suprun

Booting from ZFS raidz

2010-01-06 Thread Anselm Strauss
Hi, I'm experimenting with a ZFS only system and booting from it in VirtualBox. Thanks to various mails and forum posts from the net I have a working scenario with booting from a ZFS mirror. However, I can't get the thing to work with raidz with the exactly same setup, except that the pool is

Re: Booting from ZFS raidz

2010-01-06 Thread Anselm Strauss
On Jan 6, 2010, at 21:37 , krad wrote: 2010/1/6 Anselm Strauss amsiba...@gmail.com Hi, I'm experimenting with a ZFS only system and booting from it in VirtualBox. Thanks to various mails and forum posts from the net I have a working scenario with booting from a ZFS mirror. However, I

Re: ZFS boot

2009-10-15 Thread Anselm Strauss
I just ran into the very same problem, although I use UFS instead of ZFS, but I think this doesn't matter for this problem. I updated to tinyBIOS v0.99h and now it works fine. Cheers, Anselm Hi, I'm trying to boot a PC-engines board off GPT+ZFS, but the GPT MBR does not support CHS layout

Re: No serial console input in loader

2009-10-14 Thread Anselm Strauss
: Then, in the loader menu the input is dead, when the kernel boots and also afterwards it works again fine. When I use GRUB to start the loader the keyboard also works. Any ideas on what the problem could be or how to track this down? Cheers Anselm On Jun 28, 2008, at 13:15 , Anselm Strauss

Re: gpart mbr scheme

2009-10-11 Thread Anselm Strauss
, Anselm Strauss wrote: Hi, I'm trying to partition a compact flash card with gpart. When I want to create a new MBR scheme it always complains: - gpart create -s mbr da0 gpart: scheme 'mbr': Invalid argument The GPT scheme works fine: - gpart create -s gpt da0 da0 created - gpart show da0

gpart mbr scheme

2009-10-10 Thread Anselm Strauss
Hi, I'm trying to partition a compact flash card with gpart. When I want to create a new MBR scheme it always complains: - gpart create -s mbr da0 gpart: scheme 'mbr': Invalid argument The GPT scheme works fine: - gpart create -s gpt da0 da0 created - gpart show da0 = 34 8027645 da0

Build your own custom binary updates

2009-09-25 Thread Anselm Strauss
Hi, is there a way to make your own binary patches for version updates? Say, if you are building your own world from /usr/src, but don't want to do that on every machine for every security update? I assume that would be somehow the same that the server part of freebsd-update is doing ...

Re: Wake up time

2009-09-22 Thread Anselm Strauss
That would be a possibility. Although I prefer a solution without additional hardware. Also, I'm not sure, if it's good to constantly disconnect the board from power. Well, it's certainly better for your power bill, but maybe not for the BIOS battery. I know that my BIOS supports setting a

Fwd: Wake up time

2009-09-22 Thread Anselm Strauss
Begin forwarded message: From: Anselm Strauss amsiba...@gmail.com Date: September 22, 2009 8:55:42 PM GMT+02:00 To: Don Brearley donbrear...@hibbing.edu Subject: Re: Wake up time Good idea. Would work for my setup, my router should be always on. And I think there is a wakeonlan port

Re: Booting ZFS and GPT

2009-09-22 Thread Anselm Strauss
My next question is: Is it actually the plan to use ZFS as official root filesystem in FreeBSD, eventually replacing UFS? Is ZFS actually designed for that use? Anselm On Sep 17, 2009, at 22:25 , krad wrote: 2009/9/17 Anselm Strauss amsiba...@gmail.com Hi, I've read and tried out

Wake up time

2009-09-21 Thread Anselm Strauss
Hi, anybody knows if it's possible to set BIOS wake up time in FreeBSD. I have a machine I would like to regularly shutdown and wake up at different times depending the on the day of week. Cheers, Anselm ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing

Booting ZFS and GPT

2009-09-17 Thread Anselm Strauss
Hi, I've read and tried out that FreeBSD is able to boot from ZFS directly, also with GPT partitions, through zfsboot and gptzfsboot. When I tried the last time 8-CURRENT it was however not built into the release CD. Will this be included in the final release image? Is there any plan to

ZFS on small systems

2009-09-17 Thread Anselm Strauss
Hi, I'm interested in using ZFS on one of my small systems with 256 MB of RAM and 4 GB flash disk. Since ZFS is now considered production ready on FreeBSD I would like to use it as root filesystem and profit mainly from the cool snapshot features for easy backups. I found multiple

Re: ZFS on small systems

2009-09-17 Thread Anselm Strauss
enough to run ZFS? On Thu, Sep 17, 2009 at 2:26 PM, Steve Bertrand st...@ibctech.ca wrote: Anselm Strauss wrote: Hi, I'm interested in using ZFS on one of my small systems with 256 MB of RAM and 4 GB flash disk. Since ZFS is now considered production ready on FreeBSD I would like to use

Re: bash shell colors

2008-09-18 Thread Anselm Strauss
Hi, I use something like this (heavily inspired by Gentoo): if [[ ${EUID} == 0 ]] ; then PS1='\[\033[01;31m\]\h\[\033[01;34m\] \W \$\[\033[00m\] ' else PS1='\[\033[01;[EMAIL PROTECTED];34m\] \w \$\[\033[00m\] ' fi One could maybe also include a check of $TERM for different terminal

Process in 'biowr' state

2008-08-23 Thread Anselm Strauss
Hi, I have a problem with my alix2c2 router. It's a all-in-one board with compact flash card as root device. I setup the card from another machine, then booted it, and then wanted to install the manpage distribution. But that took forever, I always had to quit it. I then noticed that it

Re: No serial console input in loader

2008-07-08 Thread Anselm Strauss
On Jun 28, 2008, at 13:15 , Anselm Strauss wrote: Hi, I have a small router that has no video output, it only supports a serial console. I configured the serial console in /boot/ boot.config, /boot/loader.conf and /etc/ttys. It's working in the BIOS, on the boot prompt before the loader

Re: bsdlabel has no effect

2008-07-08 Thread Anselm Strauss
On Jun 28, 2008, at 13:25 , Anselm Strauss wrote: Hi, originally I had the following labels on my ad0 disk (no partitions, directly labeled /dev/ad0): # /dev/ad0: 8 partitions: #size offsetfstype [fsize bsize bps/cpg] a: 1048576 04.2BSD 1024 8192 46248 c

bsdlabel has no effect

2008-06-28 Thread Anselm Strauss
Hi, originally I had the following labels on my ad0 disk (no partitions, directly labeled /dev/ad0): # /dev/ad0: 8 partitions: #size offsetfstype [fsize bsize bps/cpg] a: 1048576 04.2BSD 1024 8192 46248 c: 1048576 0unused0 0

No serial console input in loader

2008-06-28 Thread Anselm Strauss
Hi, I have a small router that has no video output, it only supports a serial console. I configured the serial console in /boot/boot.config, / boot/loader.conf and /etc/ttys. It's working in the BIOS, on the boot prompt before the loader starts, and when logging in on the getty. The only

Re: No serial console input in loader

2008-06-28 Thread Anselm Strauss
Coud you put here the related entries of /boot/loader.conf and /etc/ tty ? /boot/loader.conf: console=comconsole comconsole_speed=38400 /boot/boot.config: -h -S38400 /etc/ttys (disabled all ttyv*): ttyd0 /usr/libexec/getty std.38400 vt100 on secure

Re: 7.0-RELEASE + newer kernel

2008-05-02 Thread Anselm Strauss
On May 1, 2008, at 13:34 , Mel wrote: On Thursday 01 May 2008 13:17:03 Anselm Strauss wrote: The reasons why I hesitate to upgrade to 7.0-STABLE are: - freebsd-update won't work anymore. How do I then get informed about security updates? Using your favorite RSS reader and subscribe

7.0-RELEASE + newer kernel

2008-05-01 Thread Anselm Strauss
So, I'm one of those trying to run FreeBSD on one of the newest Macbooks. The hardware support looks very good, except that the network chips are not supported. But the Ethernet chip is supported by the msk driver in the current 7.0-STABLE kernel. Now, before I push the whole system from

Search for files in not installed ports

2008-04-23 Thread Anselm Strauss
Hi, is there an easy way to find the port that will install me a specific file? So far, I only found the following: # find /usr/ports -name pkg-plist | xargs -I {} grep -H 'bin/wish' {} /usr/ports/chinese/tk83/pkg-plist:bin/wish%%TK_VER%% /usr/ports/devel/sourcenav/pkg-plist:bin/wish8.3

Re: Tracking base system and kernel updates/vulnerabilities

2008-04-17 Thread Anselm Strauss
On Apr 15, 2008, at 20:28 , Lowell Gilbert wrote: Anselm Strauss [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: is there a tool, like portaudit for the ports tree, to track updates and/or vulnerabilities for the base system and the kernel? What I'm looking for is a tool that will check my current installation

Tracking base system and kernel updates/vulnerabilities

2008-04-15 Thread Anselm Strauss
Hi, is there a tool, like portaudit for the ports tree, to track updates and/or vulnerabilities for the base system and the kernel? What I'm looking for is a tool that will check my current installation against a specific checkout of the CVS source and kernel trees considering a specific