Re: zoneedit.com

2013-02-04 Thread Pierre-Luc Drouin
Hi, I had a similar issue about my emails not getting forwarded by Zoneedit. Now I am using the Google SMTP server to collect the emails for my domain. Maybe I should also switch the DNS to another service. I need my router to be able to update the DNS information for my dynamic IP address

Re: zoneedit.com

2013-02-04 Thread Pierre-Luc Drouin
On Mon, Feb 4, 2013 at 10:07 AM, Jerry je...@seibercom.net wrote: On Mon, 4 Feb 2013 09:48:06 -0500 Pierre-Luc Drouin articulated: On Mon, Feb 4, 2013 at 9:39 AM, Mike. the.li...@mgm51.com wrote: On 2/3/2013 at 3:04 PM Fbsd8 wrote: | [snip] | |After reviewing zoneedit new

Re: portsnap Generating a Bad file descriptor Error Message

2012-09-10 Thread Pierre-Luc Drouin
On Tue, Sep 4, 2012 at 10:14 AM, Pierre-Luc Drouin pldro...@gmail.comwrote: Hi, so I have been having problems using portsnap lately. I always get a Bad file descriptor message when trying using it on one of my i386 machine: Looking up portsnap5.freebsd.org mirrors... none found. Fetching

ftp2.ca.freebsd.org out of date?

2012-09-10 Thread Pierre-Luc Drouin
Hi, it seems that the ftp2.ca.freebsd.org mirror has not been updating since August 3rd. At least this is the case for the files in ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/CTM/src-9 ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list

Re: portsnap Generating a Bad file descriptor Error Message

2012-09-10 Thread Pierre-Luc Drouin
, 2012 at 9:43 AM, Polytropon free...@edvax.de wrote: On Mon, 10 Sep 2012 08:56:29 -0400, Pierre-Luc Drouin wrote: On Tue, Sep 4, 2012 at 10:14 AM, Pierre-Luc Drouin pldro...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, so I have been having problems using portsnap lately. I always get a Bad file

portsnap Generating a Bad file descriptor Error Message

2012-09-04 Thread Pierre-Luc Drouin
Hi, so I have been having problems using portsnap lately. I always get a Bad file descriptor message when trying using it on one of my i386 machine: Looking up portsnap5.freebsd.org mirrors... none found. Fetching snapshot tag from portsnap5.freebsd.org... done. Fetching snapshot metadata...

Re: newfs on a SSD

2012-05-29 Thread Pierre-Luc Drouin
On Tue, May 29, 2012 at 2:05 PM, Roland Smith rsm...@xs4all.nl wrote: On Fri, May 11, 2012 at 09:01:33AM +0200, Christer Solskogen wrote: After years of waiting for a decent price on one of these I finally got one. The questions is, which options should I use on a SSD that will be / on my

Re: Which compiler compiled system?

2012-03-12 Thread Pierre-Luc Drouin
If Java is broken, then you know FreeBSD was compiled with clang... On Mon, Mar 12, 2012 at 3:45 PM, kalth...@googlemail.com wrote: Hi, Is there a way to determine whether a FreeBSD-system was compiled with gcc or clang? I thought of some libs or so that might significantly differ.

Re: Problems with libz since libz.so.5 is gone...

2012-01-30 Thread Pierre-Luc Drouin
On Fri, Jan 27, 2012 at 6:19 PM, Pierre-Luc Drouin pldro...@pldrouin.netwrote: On Fri, Jan 27, 2012 at 11:44 AM, Pierre-Luc Drouin pldro...@pldrouin.net wrote: On Fri, Jan 27, 2012 at 10:41 AM, Pierre-Luc Drouin pldro...@pldrouin.net wrote: On Fri, Jan 27, 2012 at 9:58 AM, Pierre

Re: Problems with libz since libz.so.5 is gone...

2012-01-27 Thread Pierre-Luc Drouin
On Thu, Jan 26, 2012 at 5:40 PM, Dan Nelson dnel...@allantgroup.com wrote: In the last episode (Jan 26), Pierre-Luc Drouin said: so various ports, in particular the java ports, are giving me headaches since /lib/libz.so.5 was replaced by /lib/libz.so.6. I managed to update most of my

Re: Problems with libz since libz.so.5 is gone...

2012-01-27 Thread Pierre-Luc Drouin
On Fri, Jan 27, 2012 at 9:55 AM, Pierre-Luc Drouin pldro...@pldrouin.netwrote: On Thu, Jan 26, 2012 at 5:40 PM, Dan Nelson dnel...@allantgroup.comwrote: In the last episode (Jan 26), Pierre-Luc Drouin said: so various ports, in particular the java ports, are giving me headaches since /lib

Re: Problems with libz since libz.so.5 is gone...

2012-01-27 Thread Pierre-Luc Drouin
On Fri, Jan 27, 2012 at 9:58 AM, Pierre-Luc Drouin pldro...@pldrouin.netwrote: On Fri, Jan 27, 2012 at 9:55 AM, Pierre-Luc Drouin pldro...@pldrouin.netwrote: On Thu, Jan 26, 2012 at 5:40 PM, Dan Nelson dnel...@allantgroup.comwrote: In the last episode (Jan 26), Pierre-Luc Drouin said

Re: Problems with libz since libz.so.5 is gone...

2012-01-27 Thread Pierre-Luc Drouin
On Fri, Jan 27, 2012 at 10:41 AM, Pierre-Luc Drouin pldro...@pldrouin.netwrote: On Fri, Jan 27, 2012 at 9:58 AM, Pierre-Luc Drouin pldro...@pldrouin.netwrote: On Fri, Jan 27, 2012 at 9:55 AM, Pierre-Luc Drouin pldro...@pldrouin.net wrote: On Thu, Jan 26, 2012 at 5:40 PM, Dan Nelson

Re: Problems with libz since libz.so.5 is gone...

2012-01-27 Thread Pierre-Luc Drouin
On Fri, Jan 27, 2012 at 11:44 AM, Pierre-Luc Drouin pldro...@pldrouin.netwrote: On Fri, Jan 27, 2012 at 10:41 AM, Pierre-Luc Drouin pldro...@pldrouin.net wrote: On Fri, Jan 27, 2012 at 9:58 AM, Pierre-Luc Drouin pldro...@pldrouin.net wrote: On Fri, Jan 27, 2012 at 9:55 AM, Pierre

Using non-gcc linker?

2012-01-23 Thread Pierre-Luc Drouin
Hi, I just made world and kernel using clang, but I noticed that ld is still using the GNU ld. The page http://wiki.freebsd.org/BuildingFreeBSDWithClangmentions using a different linker that supports LTO optimisation. Is that non-GNU linker part of FreeBSD 9? Thanks!

Re: Installing free bsd

2011-12-12 Thread Pierre-Luc Drouin
On Mon, Dec 12, 2011 at 4:00 PM, Jerry McAllister jerr...@msu.edu wrote: On Mon, Dec 12, 2011 at 02:36:04PM -0600, Daniel Lewis wrote: Im new to FreeBSD and did a FTP of 8.2 and unzipped to a cd rom. It was an ISO Version. I then FTP the CDROM BOOT file and un zipped it. Unfortunately It wont

Re: Which Lenovo Laptop?

2011-12-09 Thread Pierre-Luc Drouin
On Fri, Dec 9, 2011 at 2:03 AM, 文鳥 bunc...@googlemail.com wrote: Hi, I am typing this message on a W520 running 9.0 stable, which should be similar enough to the T520. - MBR boot works fine, but GPT seems to be impossible (Lenovo  appears to have messed up again). - The NVidia driver is

Which Lenovo Laptop?

2011-12-08 Thread Pierre-Luc Drouin
Hi, so which current 14 Lenovo laptop is the best for FreeBSD compatibility right now? Is it the T420 with the Nvidia card (Nvidia card forced in the BIOS)? Sleep modes work with the T420, right? And I guess Intel Wi-Fi cards are the most supported ones, right? Thanks!

Re: 9.0 PRERELEASE freezing when running Gnome and Firefox

2011-12-01 Thread Pierre-Luc Drouin
On Thu, Dec 1, 2011 at 12:27 PM, Jukka A. Ukkonen j...@iki.fi wrote: Greetings, Has anybody else seen FreeBSD 9.0 PRERELEASE freezing totally when using X11, Gnome, and Firefox? Usually it does not happen immediately after starting firefox but instead everything might be just fine for

Re: Best Server OS for Someone That Does not Want to Touch a Shell on a Regular Basis?

2011-09-05 Thread Pierre-Luc Drouin
On 09/05/2011 08:31 AM, Polytropon wrote: On Sun, 04 Sep 2011 23:47:03 -0400, Pierre-Luc Drouin wrote: Hi, so I have a friend who is looking for the best OS for a web server, that allows to configure services (I guess HTTP, PHP, MySQL and web content) and do the OS maintenance (OS package

Re: Best Server OS for Someone That Does not Want to Touch a Shell on a Regular Basis?

2011-09-05 Thread Pierre-Luc Drouin
I just took a look at PBDir and the choice of PBIs for server-related softwares seems to be rather limited. They have a PBI for Apache, but I could not even find one for PHP... To me it seems that if not all the required softwares are available through PBI, it would be better to drop the whole

Re: Best Server OS for Someone That Does not Want to Touch a Shell on a Regular Basis?

2011-09-05 Thread Pierre-Luc Drouin
How well does it work to use binary packages only to maintain a FreeBSD web server in general (I am thinking of package availability, but also and in particular as a quasi-automated updating tool)? I noticed that in the past few years, updating softwares through ports has been requiring more

Best Server OS for Someone That Does not Want to Touch a Shell on a Regular Basis?

2011-09-04 Thread Pierre-Luc Drouin
Hi, so I have a friend who is looking for the best OS for a web server, that allows to configure services (I guess HTTP, PHP, MySQL and web content) and do the OS maintenance (OS package updates, firewall configuration) without having to touch a shell. I was wondering if something like

Re: random generated password

2011-08-30 Thread Pierre-Luc Drouin
If the purpose is to make login unusable, starring the password is the only 100% safe way... On Tue, Aug 30, 2011 at 2:42 PM, Michael Sierchio ku...@tenebras.com wrote: That occurred to me, but it's a smaller alphabet.  Probably doesn't matter if the purpose is to make login unusable. On Tue,

Re: FreeBSD WIFI USB adapter

2011-08-11 Thread Pierre-Luc Drouin
Isn't the Intel 3000 AGN supported by FreeBSD? I thought it was? On Thu, Aug 11, 2011 at 1:27 PM, Jerry je...@seibercom.net wrote: On Thu, 11 Aug 2011 16:27:29 - b...@taiotoshi.org articulated: Folks: I have a Dell XPS Studio laptop with a broadcom wifi adapter built in. I've had no

Re: How to use gui

2011-08-09 Thread Pierre-Luc Drouin
On Tue, Aug 9, 2011 at 1:04 PM, Sudhakar K featu...@gmail.com wrote: Sir, i'm new to freebsd 8.2, i downloaded full dvd iso. I installed once. But on gui. Can you please tell me how to install this release and use gui desktop. Now its only a dos like environment. Please help me. I'm new to

What is going on with the DNS for the Canadian FreeBSD Mirrors?

2011-08-09 Thread Pierre-Luc Drouin
Hi, does someone know why the hostnames for the Canadian FreeBSD mirrors can no longer be resolved? Thanks! ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to

Re: Alternative windowmanagers

2011-08-05 Thread Pierre-Luc Drouin
For me fluxbox is the way to go, since it is very light, has good key binding configuration and can be configured very easily. The only thing that I miss is the true transparency feature of Compiz, which can be quite useful sometimes, for example to quickly compare plots. Xfce is next on my list,

Re: printing to Kyocera FS-1030D

2011-08-03 Thread Pierre-Luc Drouin
Hi, I would install CUPS and use the PPD file recommended on openprinting.org (http://www.openprinting.org/printer/Kyocera/Kyocera-FS-1030D). Cheers, Pierre-Luc On Wed, Aug 3, 2011 at 12:41 PM, Chris Whitehouse cwhi...@onetel.com wrote: Hi, before I use up too many trees experimenting, could

List of Servers for FreeBSD and Ports Updates...

2011-06-22 Thread Pierre-Luc Drouin
Hi, I am working on a network which uses a http/ftp proxy that prompts by default for user permission before downloading any file. In order to be able to keep my system up-to-date (FreeBSD and ports), I have to white list the FreeBSD servers and directories that need to be accessible, because

Required HTTP/FTP Servers for FreeBSD and Ports Updates?

2011-06-22 Thread Pierre-Luc Drouin
Hi, I am working on a network which uses a http/ftp proxy that prompts by default for user permission before downloading any file. In order to be able to keep my system up-to-date (FreeBSD and ports), I have to white list the FreeBSD servers and directories that need to be accessible, because

Re: (8.2) amd64 + linuxulator + nvidia driver is it stable ?

2011-05-10 Thread Pierre-Luc Drouin
On Tue, May 10, 2011 at 2:00 PM, Ivan Klymenko fi...@ukr.net wrote: В Tue, 10 May 2011 17:31:53 +0200 Patrick Lamaiziere patf...@davenulle.org пишет: Hi, I've got a new box running 8.2-stable with amd64 + linuxulator + nvidia driver. Quite often when watching video on youtube the box

Re: kernel and buildworld questions

2011-05-10 Thread Pierre-Luc Drouin
Hi, If you initially compiled your ports using the -p option of portupgrade, then using the -P option of portupgrade will install the ports using the package files that you have generated rather than fetching them from the server. If you want to fetch the binaries rather than recompile it on your

Re: kernel and buildworld questions

2011-05-10 Thread Pierre-Luc Drouin
On Tue, May 10, 2011 at 2:23 PM, Mage m...@mage.hu wrote: On 05/10/2011 08:10 PM, Pierre-Luc Drouin wrote: Hi, If you initially compiled your ports using the -p option of portupgrade, then using the -P option of portupgrade will install the ports using the package files that you have

Re: kernel and buildworld questions

2011-05-10 Thread Pierre-Luc Drouin
On Tue, May 10, 2011 at 2:59 PM, Mage m...@mage.hu wrote: On 05/10/2011 08:35 PM, Pierre-Luc Drouin wrote: By the way you don't really need to use the cvsup package anymore, as there is now the csup command that is part of FreeBSD. Regarding the core dumps, maybe you should tried

Re: kernel and buildworld questions

2011-05-10 Thread Pierre-Luc Drouin
On Tue, May 10, 2011 at 3:42 PM, Mage m...@mage.hu wrote: Since it core dumps with Illegal instruction, it looks like there cvsup is still using some of the ports you compiled with the wrong flags. I would try the following: 1) Rename your file /etc/make.conf such that the system

Re: kernel and buildworld questions

2011-05-10 Thread Pierre-Luc Drouin
On Tue, May 10, 2011 at 4:06 PM, Mage m...@mage.hu wrote: On 05/10/2011 09:55 PM, Pierre-Luc Drouin wrote: If the -O3 argument in the command above comes from your make.conf, it is possible that this level of optimisation causes gcc46 to crash for these particular input files... You can

Re: (8.2) amd64 + linuxulator + nvidia driver is it stable ?

2011-05-10 Thread Pierre-Luc Drouin
On Tue, May 10, 2011 at 5:21 PM, Mario Lobo l...@bsd.com.br wrote: On Tuesday 10 May 2011 15:21:07 Pierre-Luc Drouin wrote: On Tue, May 10, 2011 at 2:00 PM, Ivan Klymenko fi...@ukr.net wrote: В Tue, 10 May 2011 17:31:53 +0200 Patrick Lamaiziere patf...@davenulle.org пишет

Re: Options for Secondary DNS Service?

2011-04-11 Thread Pierre-Luc Drouin
Donating is an option yes. Any suggestion for a reliable free service? Thanks! On 04/11/2011 12:15 AM, Outback Dingo wrote: whats the org ? could consider domating On Sun, Apr 10, 2011 at 11:43 PM, Pierre-Luc Drouin pldro...@pldrouin.net mailto:pldro...@pldrouin.net wrote: Hi, I

Re: Options for Secondary DNS Service?

2011-04-11 Thread Pierre-Luc Drouin
I was more looking for a slave server, since it would prefer to keep my primary server... Thanks! On 04/11/2011 06:10 AM, Maxim Khitrov wrote: On Sun, Apr 10, 2011 at 11:43 PM, Pierre-Luc Drouin pldro...@pldrouin.net wrote: Hi, I am looking for a secondary DNS service. Any suggestion

Options for Secondary DNS Service?

2011-04-10 Thread Pierre-Luc Drouin
Hi, I am looking for a secondary DNS service. Any suggestion? It is not for a non-profit organisation so I am not necessarily looking for a free solution, but I am wondering if there are reliable solutions for less than what dyndns charges ($40 /year/zone). Thanks!

Re: FreeBSD kernel init slower than linux

2011-03-04 Thread Pierre-Luc Drouin
I guess part of it must have something to do with how the devices are identified by the FreeBSD kernel vs linux. I know also that when using a ZFS boot partition, it takes a lot longer to my system to boot compared to UFS... On Fri, Mar 4, 2011 at 5:10 PM, David Demelier

Re: [[FreeBSD-Announce] FreeBSD Foundation Announces New Project]

2011-02-16 Thread Pierre-Luc Drouin
On Wed, Feb 16, 2011 at 1:59 PM, Chip Camden sterl...@camdensoftware.comwrote: - Forwarded message from Deb Goodkin d...@freebsdfoundation.org - Date: Wed, 16 Feb 2011 10:35:23 -0700 From: Deb Goodkin d...@freebsdfoundation.org To: freebsd-annou...@freebsd.org Subject:

Re: wine questions

2011-01-27 Thread Pierre-Luc Drouin
Linux emulation on FreeBSD is not really emulation, in the sense that it does not create virtual hardware. Some linux softwares run even faster on FreeBSD than Linux... My worry would be more to make sure that USB communication works through the emulation layers... On Thu, Jan 27, 2011 at 2:08

Re: zoneedit.com

2011-01-13 Thread Pierre-Luc Drouin
The legacy platform seems to still work for me: http://legacy.zoneedit.com I had sent some money though to have free service for my existing domains forever. On Thu, Jan 13, 2011 at 11:20 AM, Jack L. Stone ja...@sage-american.comwrote: I have used zoneedit.com's DNS zone service for about 9

Re: FreeBSD-similar build-from-source Linux?

2010-11-10 Thread Pierre-Luc Drouin
I am interested to use CUDA as well for a scientific environment. What about CUDA 64bit on FreeBSD? Is it excluded completely because of the lack of support for Linux 64bit emulation? Thanks! 2010/11/10 C. Bergström cbergst...@pathscale.com App Deb wrote: 2010/11/10 O. Hartmann

Re: Too many binary packages are missing

2010-10-13 Thread Pierre-Luc Drouin
On Wed, Oct 13, 2010 at 2:00 PM, Yuri y...@rawbw.com wrote: On 10/13/2010 10:51, Frank Shute wrote: gcc is in base as cc(1). There are a metric ton of qt4 ports and they are not basic in that they are not required if you don't use KDE or its applications. Base has 4.2.1 and not updating

Re: Which OS for notebook

2010-10-05 Thread Pierre-Luc Drouin
Well, according to me FreeBSD works very well on desktops (except for CUDA), but I agree that its usage is extremely limited for laptops and netbooks. If I can't use ACPI or wireless on my laptop/netbook, I don't really see the point... Over the past 6 years I have tried many times to use FreeBSD

Re: GUI Suggested?

2010-09-24 Thread Pierre-Luc Drouin
I love Fluxbox too for its lightweightness and configurability. If you find it too minimalistic, I think that XFCE can be a good compromise also since it runs quite fast compared to KDE and Gnome while having most of their functionalities. XFCE is also compatible with Compiz... On Fri, Sep 24,

No sounds with OpenOffice 3.1.1_1 slide shows...

2010-02-20 Thread Pierre-Luc Drouin
Hi, I have compiled OpenOffice 3.1.1_1 using the port on FreeBSD i386 8.0-RELEASE, and there is no sound with slide shows. The sound works fine with vlc and with linux-f10-flashplugin-10.0r42 . What could be missing? I tested with another box running FreeBSD amd64 8.0-STABLE and I have the

Memory disk a la mfsroot?

2010-02-11 Thread Pierre-Luc Drouin
Hi, I would like to know if there is a mount command that allows to create a memory disk that can be initialized from a file. What I am looking for is something like mount_mfs -F, but that does not modify the actual file. I know what I could easily to this by copying the content of the file

Re: Memory disk a la mfsroot?

2010-02-11 Thread Pierre-Luc Drouin
Matthew Seaman wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 11/02/2010 14:53, Pierre-Luc Drouin wrote: I would like to know if there is a mount command that allows to create a memory disk that can be initialized from a file. What I am looking for is something like mount_mfs -F

Re: Memory disk a la mfsroot?

2010-02-11 Thread Pierre-Luc Drouin
Matthew Seaman wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 11/02/2010 15:39, RW wrote: On Thu, 11 Feb 2010 15:12:22 + Matthew Seaman m.sea...@infracaninophile.co.uk wrote: On 11/02/2010 14:53, Pierre-Luc Drouin wrote: I would like to know

Re: Memory disk a la mfsroot?

2010-02-11 Thread Pierre-Luc Drouin
Matthew Seaman wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 11/02/2010 17:10, Pierre-Luc Drouin wrote: Actually, I was thinking more along the lines of mounting a .iso as a cd9660 filesystem. Which won't muck up the underlying .iso, but only because it's read-only. You could

How to create a FreeBSD 8.0 boot CD without boot.flp?

2010-02-10 Thread Pierre-Luc Drouin
Hi, I would like to create a boot CD using FreeBSD 8.0 but I just noticed that there is no existing boot.flp file for 8.0. What is the alternative to get a boot image to create my CD image? Thanks! ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list

Re: How to create a FreeBSD 8.0 boot CD without boot.flp?

2010-02-10 Thread Pierre-Luc Drouin
Great Thanks! So when I create a boot CD using the boot image, are the kernel files contained in /boot/kernel read at all during boot? Manolis Kiagias wrote: On 10/02/2010 11:10 μ.μ., Pierre-Luc Drouin wrote: Hi, I would like to create a boot CD using FreeBSD 8.0 but I just noticed

Re: How to create a FreeBSD 8.0 boot CD without boot.flp?

2010-02-10 Thread Pierre-Luc Drouin
that the cdboot file is only 1.2 kB, so I guess -no-emul-boot is required... Do you have an idea what could be wrong? Thanks! Pierre-Luc Drouin wrote: Great Thanks! So when I create a boot CD using the boot image, are the kernel files contained in /boot/kernel read at all during boot? Manolis

Re: How to create a FreeBSD 8.0 boot CD without boot.flp?

2010-02-10 Thread Pierre-Luc Drouin
directory for the image and the path specified by the -b option is relative to the root directory of the CD... So should this work according to you? Thanks! Manolis Kiagias wrote: On 10/02/2010 11:39 μ.μ., Pierre-Luc Drouin wrote: Great Thanks! So when I create a boot CD using the boot

Re: How to create a FreeBSD 8.0 boot CD without boot.flp?

2010-02-10 Thread Pierre-Luc Drouin
Manolis Kiagias wrote: On 11/02/2010 12:08 π.μ., Pierre-Luc Drouin wrote: What I am trying to do is basically to install FreeBSD 8.0 on a CD. I followed these instructions to install FreeBSD on a USB stick: http://typo.submonkey.net/articles/2006/04/13/installing-freebsd-on-usb-stick

Re: How to create a FreeBSD 8.0 boot CD without boot.flp?

2010-02-10 Thread Pierre-Luc Drouin
/etc_tmp tar -cp -C /etc -f - ./ | tar -xpf - #Copy content of /etc to /etc_tmp mount /etc #nullfs mount /etc_tmp over /etc Obviously I have also changed the root password and created a user that is a member of the wheel group. Manolis Kiagias wrote: On 11/02/2010 12:08 π.μ., Pierre-Luc Drouin

Re: How painful is the nv driver supposed to be?

2009-11-20 Thread Pierre-Luc Drouin
Awesome! I have been waiting for years for this driver, so a few more months won't make a difference. This was the major factor preventing me from fully enjoy FreeBSD for workstation usage. Uwe Laverenz wrote: Pierre-Luc Drouin schrieb: an i7 overclocked at 4GHz) configured in 1920x1080

Re: How painful is the nv driver supposed to be?

2009-11-20 Thread Pierre-Luc Drouin
Thanks well this won't work on amd64 until Nvidia releases a driver. I was waiting for the amd64 driver to buy a new video card... Sean Cavanaugh wrote: Date: Fri, 20 Nov 2009 00:28:19 -0500 From: pldro...@pldrouin.net To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: How painful is the nv

How painful is the nv driver supposed to be?

2009-11-19 Thread Pierre-Luc Drouin
Hi, I am using the nv xorg driver on 8.0 amd64 with a GeForce 6600 (CPU is an i7 overclocked at 4GHz) configured in 1920x1080. With that setup it takes about 2 seconds to maximize a window or to switch workspace in fluxbox. Is there a way to improve speed or this is all I can hope to get?

How to display back trace automatically after seg fault?

2009-10-27 Thread Pierre-Luc Drouin
Hi, How can I make FreeBSD to display automatically the backtrace of an executable after a segmentation fault (the same way Linux does it)? I prefer this option by default rather than a core dump. Thanks! ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing

Re: Netbooks good for FreeBSD?

2009-10-12 Thread Pierre-Luc Drouin
Hi, So far I have been able to get WiFi working on most netbooks I got, but honestly, FreeBSD is not the best for laptops. WiFi drivers are often a bit buggy (connection is dropping because of driver problems) and ACPI sleep modes never worked on my laptops. WiFi, ACPI sleep modes and

Re: Demande de renseignements

2009-10-12 Thread Pierre-Luc Drouin
complet est dans le fichier COPYRIGHT dans le dossier racine de FreeBSD. Pierre-Luc Drouin Jérémy SALMERON wrote: Bonsoir , Je souhaiterai distribuer une version modifiée de FreeBSD : non alteration du code source mais avec modification d'ordre graphique . Je souhaiterai la distribuer en bundle avec

STOP state in top + segmentation fault and core dump?

2009-10-08 Thread Pierre-Luc Drouin
Hi, When I run many heavily multi-threaded (1000+ threads/process) and memory intensive (1800 MB+/process) processes on FreeBSD 8.0 amd64, some of them get in STOP state in top and then seg fault and core dump. Are stop states in top caused by seg faults or it is the OS that stops the

When is it worth enabling hyperthreading?

2009-10-07 Thread Pierre-Luc Drouin
Hi, Could someone explain me in which cases it is useful to enable hyperthreading on a machine running FreeBSD 8.0 and in which other cases it is not a good idea? Is that possible that hyperthreading is disadvantageous unless the number of active (non-sleeping) threads is really high? For

Re: IRQ storm when trying to burn a CD/DVD with JMicron JMB363 controller and PATA DVD burner

2009-09-21 Thread Pierre-Luc Drouin
Hi, so does anybody know what could be wrong with this? Thanks! Pierre-Luc Drouin Pierre-Luc Drouin wrote: Hi, My motherboard (EVGA X58 Classified) has a JMicron JMB363 SATA300/PATA controller and it seems to be working fine with FreeBSD as long as I don't try burning a DVD or a CD with my

IRQ storm when trying to burn a CD/DVD with JMicron JMB363 controller and PATA DVD burner

2009-09-19 Thread Pierre-Luc Drouin
Hi, My motherboard (EVGA X58 Classified) has a JMicron JMB363 SATA300/PATA controller and it seems to be working fine with FreeBSD as long as I don't try burning a DVD or a CD with my PATA DVD burner, which is the only device hooked to the controller. However, when I try burning a CD or a

Newbie question about ASYNC communication with FTDI-based device (via uftdi)

2009-09-19 Thread Pierre-Luc Drouin
Hi, I'm trying to hack the code of tbancontrol, a linux tool used to control t-balancer fan controllers that use FTDI FT232BL chips. It seems to be working fine on linux, but when I try to use it on FreeBSD, I noticed that read calls fail with Interruted system call. It seems there is

How to get the user time of another running process on FreeBSD?

2009-05-06 Thread Pierre-Luc Drouin
)... Thank you! Pierre-Luc Drouin ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org

Is Marvell 88E8001 ethernet card working fine on -stable?

2006-03-08 Thread Pierre-Luc Drouin
Hi, I would like to buy a new motherboard (Asus P5WD2) that has a Marvell 88E8001 ethernet card and I would like to know if this card works fine now on -stable. I have seen reported problems related to this card on 5.3... Thanks! Pierre-Luc Drouin

Xgl/Compiz port

2006-03-07 Thread Pierre-Luc Drouin
... It would be nice if a Xgl/Compiz port existed on FreeBSD. Thanks! Pierre-Luc Drouin ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Xgl/Compiz

2006-03-07 Thread Pierre-Luc Drouin
... It would be nice if a Xgl/Compiz port existed on FreeBSD. Thanks! Pierre-Luc Drouin ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]