Re: mpt problem on a Supermicro motherboard (FreeBSD 9.2 amd64)

2013-10-10 Thread Victor Sudakov
Victor Sudakov wrote: I have several Supermicro-based servers with the mpt RAID adapter: # mptutil show adapter mpt0 Adapter: Board Name: UNUSED Board Assembly: Chip Name: C1068E Chip Revision: UNUSED RAID Levels: none # The problem is, I cannot

mpt problem on a Supermicro motherboard (FreeBSD 9.2 amd64)

2013-10-08 Thread Victor Sudakov
Colleagues, I have several Supermicro-based servers with the mpt RAID adapter: # mptutil show adapter mpt0 Adapter: Board Name: UNUSED Board Assembly: Chip Name: C1068E Chip Revision: UNUSED RAID Levels: none # The problem is, I cannot configure any RAIDs (please see

Re: Where is pkg repository for 9.2-RELEASE (amd64)?

2013-10-08 Thread Zoran Kolic
Use PACKAGESITE=http://pkg-test.freebsd.org/pkg-test-${ABI}/latest That's the kit that will form the official FreeBSD package repository; it just lacks the crypto bits for signing the packages, which is why it's calling itself 'pkg-test' Oh -- there isn't an A record in the DNS for

Re: Where is pkg repository for 9.2-RELEASE (amd64)?

2013-10-08 Thread Mark Felder
On Tue, Oct 8, 2013, at 10:58, Zoran Kolic wrote: Use PACKAGESITE=http://pkg-test.freebsd.org/pkg-test-${ABI}/latest That's the kit that will form the official FreeBSD package repository; it just lacks the crypto bits for signing the packages, which is why it's calling itself 'pkg-test'

Re: Where is pkg repository for 9.2-RELEASE (amd64)?

2013-10-08 Thread Zoran Kolic
Yeah!!! 96.47.72.120 works! Thanks! Depends. Where are your other installed packages from? I'd probably re-install all of them from the pkg-test repository just to be safe. I installed 9.1 on new node and compiled from ports. It took a long time, which I want to avoid right now. Here is what I

Where is pkg repository for 9.2-RELEASE (amd64)?

2013-10-02 Thread Winston
Summary: Where is the (U.S.) pkg(ng) repository for amd64 9.2-RELEASE (i.e., what's the right URI for PACKAGESITE in pkg.conf)? Things I tried that didn't work: * pkg_add -r pkg didn't create /usr/local/etc/pkg.conf * pkg.conf.sample suggests http://pkg.freebsd.org/${ABI}/latest

Re: Where is pkg repository for 9.2-RELEASE (amd64)?

2013-10-02 Thread Matthew Seaman
On 02/10/2013 21:07, Winston wrote: Summary: Where is the (U.S.) pkg(ng) repository for amd64 9.2-RELEASE (i.e., what's the right URI for PACKAGESITE in pkg.conf)? Things I tried that didn't work: * pkg_add -r pkg didn't create /usr/local/etc/pkg.conf * pkg.conf.sample suggests

Wildly different numbers of portsnap updates between i386 and amd64?

2013-09-21 Thread Christian Campbell
Hi. I run 9.1-RELEASE on two boxes: one i386 and the other amd64. I've run the latter for a bit over a week. When I portsnap update, the 32-bit machine typically gets several to dozens or hundreds of updates, while the 64-bit machine typically gets none, or maybe a couple. What might

Re: Wildly different numbers of portsnap updates between i386 and amd64?

2013-09-21 Thread Robert Simmons
. Then just portsnap fetch portsnap extract. You will get a fresh ports tree. On Sat, Sep 21, 2013 at 2:20 PM, Christian Campbell dc...@alumni.ufl.edu wrote: Hi. I run 9.1-RELEASE on two boxes: one i386 and the other amd64. I've run the latter for a bit over a week. When I portsnap update, the 32

Re: Installworld on amd64 fails on libc.a on r255342

2013-09-15 Thread CyberLeo Kitsana
On 09/13/2013 02:46 PM, Eir Nym wrote: I get this error for a while, and don't know what to do with. I build the world, then try to install it into DESTDIR. And at this point I always get error that libc.a can't be found. To eliminate any mistakes in commits I've run snapshot r255342 from

Installworld on amd64 fails on libc.a on r255342

2013-09-13 Thread Eir Nym
I get this error for a while, and don't know what to do with. I build the world, then try to install it into DESTDIR. And at this point I always get error that libc.a can't be found. To eliminate any mistakes in commits I've run snapshot r255342 from FTP in VM and build sources it contains. my

Should I move to amd64 ?

2013-05-30 Thread Michael Gass
I am currently using a 9.1-RELEASE with an i386 install. The hardware is a core 2 duo with 2 GB of RAM. My video card is an ati radeon hd 2400 xt. Things work fine. Would I gain anything by starting over and doing an AMD64 install or would that be a bad idea? Would my system perform better

Should I move to amd64 ?

2013-05-30 Thread Michael Gass
I am currently using a 9.1-RELEASE with an i386 install. The hardware is a core 2 duo with 2 GB of RAM. My video card is an ati radeon hd 2400 xt. Things work fine. Would I gain anything by starting over and doing an AMD64 install or would that be a bad idea? Would my system perform better

Re: Should I move to amd64 ?

2013-05-30 Thread Adam Vande More
gain anything by starting over and doing an AMD64 install or would that be a bad idea? Would my system perform better, worse, or the same after the change? I may eventually bring the memory up to 4GB, but not anytime soon. I understand some ports my not work - like WINE - but I do not use

Re: Should I move to amd64 ?

2013-05-30 Thread Charles Swiger
an AMD64 install or would that be a bad idea? Would my system perform better, worse, or the same after the change? I may eventually bring the memory up to 4GB, but not anytime soon. For machines with less than 4GB of RAM, running 32-bit version is probably wise; 32-bit processes use memory more

Thunderbird 17.0.6 build failure FreeBSD 9.1-p3 amd64

2013-05-23 Thread John
Hello list, Portaudit said thunderbird had a vulnerability so I went to upgrade it with portupgrade but it coredumps and it does this a good while into the compilation process. Can anyone advise please how to overcome this? Here is my system and output: system - FreeBSD 9.1-RELEASE-p3 #0

FreeBSD 9.1 amd64 : hwpstate0 : set freq failed , err 6

2013-04-29 Thread Mehmet Erol Sanliturk
Dears All , The following message hwpstate0 : set freq failed , err 6 is displayed frequently on the following computer : Main board : ASUS M5A97 R2.0 Processor : AMD FX X8 8350 Graphics Card : PowerColor HD 4830 Memory : 32GB FreeBSD 9.1 amd64 2013-04-20 Snapshot What may be the reason

amd64 and COMPAT_AOUT

2013-02-19 Thread Daniel O'Callaghan
I'm migrating a lot of services to a new server running 9.1 amd64. I have a VMWare FreeBSD 3.3 server I want to decommission, which is running a client's website with a shopping cart system in an a.out binary (source code lost long ago). I have just tried to build a new kernel on the 9.1

Re: IPMI SOL setup on FreeBSD 9.1 amd64 supermicro X9SCM-F/X9CL-F

2013-01-24 Thread Derek Ragona
At 09:07 AM 1/23/2013, Anton Yuzhaninov wrote: On Mon, 21 Jan 2013 22:52:17, Derek Ragona wrote: DR I have a couple servers that are built using the supermicro X9SCM-F/X9CL-F DR motherboards, and I can't quite get IPMI SOL working right. DR DR These motherboards have 3 NIC's. One NIC is for a

Re: IPMI SOL setup on FreeBSD 9.1 amd64 supermicro X9SCM-F/X9CL-F

2013-01-23 Thread Anton Yuzhaninov
On Mon, 21 Jan 2013 22:52:17, Derek Ragona wrote: DR I have a couple servers that are built using the supermicro X9SCM-F/X9CL-F DR motherboards, and I can't quite get IPMI SOL working right. DR DR These motherboards have 3 NIC's. One NIC is for a dedicated IPMI interface. DR DR I have both

IPMI SOL setup on FreeBSD 9.1 amd64 supermicro X9SCM-F/X9CL-F

2013-01-21 Thread Derek Ragona
I have a couple servers that are built using the supermicro X9SCM-F/X9CL-F motherboards, and I can't quite get IPMI SOL working right. These motherboards have 3 NIC's. One NIC is for a dedicated IPMI interface. I have both servers configured to use the dedicated IPMI NIC and these NIC's are

Re: 关于在Freebsd9.0-amd64安装VirtualBox虚拟机的问题

2013-01-11 Thread Tijl Coosemans
On 10-01-2013 05:56, *;sτóΡ〆~*~ξ wrote: ��请�导 ���骤� # portsnap fetch update # cd /usr/ports/emulators/virtualbox-ose # make install clean �路��认���OK� � pass -build programs pass -Libraries pass -DLLs pass -Programs Pass - install

关于在Freebsd9.0-amd64安装VirtualBox虚拟机的问题

2013-01-10 Thread *;sτóΡ〆~*~ξ
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powerd(8), cpufreq(4) only available on amd64/i386?

2013-01-07 Thread Anton Shterenlikht
line relevant? # dmesg|grep power management jbusppm0: JBus power management mem 0x4000f00-0x4000f07,0x4000f410050-0x4000f41005f on nexus0 # Anyway, I wonder if powerd is only for amd64/i386 and is not supposed to work on sparc64. cpufreq(4) is not listed in sparc64 GENERIC kernel

Re: Upgrading FreeBSD 8.3 amd64

2012-12-23 Thread Ralf Mardorf
Hi, I've done the upgrade yesterday. It was a clean 8.3 install, I only set up PPPoE and then run the following commands. # cd /usr/ports/misc/mc make install clean # uname -r 8.3-RELEASE # freebsd-update -r 9.1-RELEASE upgrade # freebsd-update install # shutdown -r now # freebsd-update

Re: Upgrading FreeBSD 8.3 amd64

2012-12-20 Thread Erich Dollansky
Hi, On Thu, 20 Dec 2012 05:13:39 +0100 Ralf Mardorf ralf.mard...@rocketmail.com wrote: ok, so FreeBSD release is the version of the kernel and not a labelling for the collection of all the software. yes. It is even so that the ports work on all 'current' FreeBSD versions but not the packages.

Re: Upgrading FreeBSD 8.3 amd64

2012-12-20 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Thu, 2012-12-20 at 05:29 +0100, Polytropon wrote: I'd say: Use the source Luke. :-) :) Strange question: Is the FreeBSD handbook available as iBook? At the moment I've got plenty of time, unfortunately not in front of my desktop computer. Some time ago I won an iPad2, it's a dust catcher,

Re: Upgrading FreeBSD 8.3 amd64

2012-12-20 Thread Paul Kraus
On Dec 20, 2012, at 10:51 AM, Ralf Mardorf wrote: On Thu, 2012-12-20 at 05:29 +0100, Polytropon wrote: I'd say: Use the source Luke. :-) :) Strange question: Is the FreeBSD handbook available as iBook? You can get it as a PDF at

Re: Upgrading FreeBSD 8.3 amd64

2012-12-20 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Thu, 2012-12-20 at 15:52 +0700, Erich Dollansky wrote: The author of the snd_hdspe driver for FreeBSD seems to need testers. I never have heard of this driver. It's a new driver for FreeBSD for some cards of the vendor RME, AFAIK they only sell really professional audio cards, used for

Re: Upgrading FreeBSD 8.3 amd64

2012-12-20 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Thu, 2012-12-20 at 10:57 -0500, Paul Kraus wrote: On Dec 20, 2012, at 10:51 AM, Ralf Mardorf wrote: On Thu, 2012-12-20 at 05:29 +0100, Polytropon wrote: I'd say: Use the source Luke. :-) :) Strange question: Is the FreeBSD handbook available as iBook? You can get it

Re: Upgrading FreeBSD 8.3 amd64

2012-12-20 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Fri, 2012-12-21 at 07:35 +0100, Ralf Mardorf wrote: On Thu, 2012-12-20 at 10:57 -0500, Paul Kraus wrote: On Dec 20, 2012, at 10:51 AM, Ralf Mardorf wrote: On Thu, 2012-12-20 at 05:29 +0100, Polytropon wrote: I'd say: Use the source Luke. :-) :) Strange question: Is the

Re: Upgrading FreeBSD 8.3 amd64

2012-12-19 Thread Ralf Mardorf
Hi :) this isn't a request, just a note about the handbook, from the point of view a newbie has got. http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/makeworld.html We also assume that you have already obtained the sources to a newer system. If the sources available on the particular

Re: Upgrading FreeBSD 8.3 amd64

2012-12-19 Thread Antonio Olivares
Ralf, On Wed, Dec 19, 2012 at 10:04 AM, Ralf Mardorf ralf.mard...@rocketmail.com wrote: Hi :) this isn't a request, just a note about the handbook, from the point of view a newbie has got. http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/makeworld.html We also assume that you

Re: Upgrading FreeBSD 8.3 amd64

2012-12-19 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Wed, 2012-12-19 at 10:14 -0600, Antonio Olivares wrote: You may also use at your discretion the portmaster tool? It works very well and a nice example is given by W. Block: http://www.wonkity.com/~wblock/docs/html/portupgrade.html Thank you Antonio :) because I can't install FreeBSD by

Re: Upgrading FreeBSD 8.3 amd64

2012-12-19 Thread Antonio Olivares
Ralf, On Wed, Dec 19, 2012 at 11:09 AM, Ralf Mardorf ralf.mard...@rocketmail.com wrote: On Wed, 2012-12-19 at 10:14 -0600, Antonio Olivares wrote: You may also use at your discretion the portmaster tool? It works very well and a nice example is given by W. Block:

Re: Upgrading FreeBSD 8.3 amd64

2012-12-19 Thread Erich Dollansky
Hi, On Wed, 19 Dec 2012 18:09:16 +0100 Ralf Mardorf ralf.mard...@rocketmail.com wrote: On Wed, 2012-12-19 at 10:14 -0600, Antonio Olivares wrote: You may also use at your discretion the portmaster tool? It works very well and a nice example is given by W. Block:

Re: Upgrading FreeBSD 8.3 amd64

2012-12-19 Thread Ralf Mardorf
Thank you Erich :) ok, so FreeBSD release is the version of the kernel and not a labelling for the collection of all the software. For Linux major distros there usually is a labelling for the collection of the software, independent of the kernel version. On Linux I usually install binaries for

Re: Upgrading FreeBSD 8.3 amd64

2012-12-19 Thread Polytropon
On Thu, 20 Dec 2012 05:13:39 +0100, Ralf Mardorf wrote: Thank you Erich :) ok, so FreeBSD release is the version of the kernel and not a labelling for the collection of all the software. No. The version specification refers to the version of the kernel _and_ the operating system (which form

Re: i386 vs. amd64

2012-12-18 Thread Joseph A. Nagy, Jr
chime in where Erich couldn't answer as I recently made the switch to amd64 myself. x11-wm/xfce4 yes. www/firefox Yes. www/linux-f10-flashplugin11 Yes editors/libreoffice Yes. www/tomcat-7 www/apace22 Typo? Apache 2.2 runs. devel/aegis (I am the maintainer) devel/fhist devel/cook

Re: Upgrading FreeBSD 8.3 amd64

2012-12-18 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Tue, 2012-12-18 at 18:42 +0100, Ralf Mardorf wrote: I want to test snd_hdspe. How can I upgrade from 8.2 to a version ^^^8.3 including the driver or something similar to get the driver? Btw. I didn't test, if the driver is part of 8.3 until

Re: Upgrading FreeBSD 8.3 amd64

2012-12-18 Thread Polytropon
On Tue, 18 Dec 2012 18:42:41 +0100, Ralf Mardorf wrote: I want to test snd_hdspe. How can I upgrade from 8.2 to a version including the driver or something similar to get the driver? Btw. I didn't test, if the driver is part of 8.3 until now :D, but if IIUC I need = 9.0. It would probably be

Re: Upgrading FreeBSD 8.3 amd64

2012-12-18 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Tue, 2012-12-18 at 18:57 +0100, Polytropon wrote: On Tue, 18 Dec 2012 18:42:41 +0100, Ralf Mardorf wrote: I want to test snd_hdspe. How can I upgrade from 8.2 to a version including the driver or something similar to get the driver? Btw. I didn't test, if the driver is part of 8.3 until

Re: Upgrading FreeBSD 8.3 amd64

2012-12-18 Thread Polytropon
On Tue, 18 Dec 2012 18:54:29 +0100, Ralf Mardorf wrote: On Tue, 2012-12-18 at 18:42 +0100, Ralf Mardorf wrote: I want to test snd_hdspe. How can I upgrade from 8.2 to a version ^^^8.3 including the driver or something similar to get the

i386 vs. amd64

2012-12-17 Thread Aryeh Friedman
-ose (and additions) print/cups I have avoided amd64 in the past due to some or not all them working, but want to switch if possible because PAE seems to be broken now on i386. So I have the following questions: 1. Will all the above ports (and their dependencies) work on amd64? 2. Is there any way

Re: i386 vs. amd64

2012-12-17 Thread Erich Dollansky
avoided amd64 in the past due to some or not all them working, but want to switch if possible because PAE seems to be broken now on i386. It was a big jump forward when I switched during 8.0 or 8.1. So I have the following questions: 1. Will all the above ports (and their dependencies) work

Re: switching from i386 to amd64

2012-12-16 Thread Erich Dollansky
Hi, On Sun, 16 Dec 2012 06:00:51 -0500 Aryeh Friedman aryeh.fried...@gmail.com wrote: I have been using i386 (-STABLE) for years now and was wondering if switching to amd64 finally makes sense (i.e. are enough ports working on it now [xfrce4, firefox, libreoffice, openjdk-6, tomcat, mysql

Re: switching from i386 to amd64

2012-12-16 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Sun, 2012-12-16 at 05:35 -0600, Joseph A. Nagy, Jr wrote: I'm running amd64 and it seems rock-solid and well supported. I had a similar question. I wanted to know if there are issues for audio, when using 64 bit and got this reply: If you do not have a _specific_ requirement for 32 bit, use

Re: switching from i386 to amd64

2012-12-16 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Sun, 2012-12-16 at 18:45 +0700, Erich Dollansky wrote: flash For Linux there are no issues with the proprietary 64 bit flash, but there will be no new versions of Flash any more for Linux. If FreeBSD should use the Linux version, than Flash in the near future either way won't work any more.

Re: switching from i386 to amd64

2012-12-16 Thread Polytropon
On Sun, 16 Dec 2012 13:05:47 +0100, Ralf Mardorf wrote: On Sun, 2012-12-16 at 18:45 +0700, Erich Dollansky wrote: flash For Linux there are no issues with the proprietary 64 bit flash, but there will be no new versions of Flash any more for Linux. If FreeBSD should use the Linux version,

Re: switching from i386 to amd64

2012-12-16 Thread Warren Block
On Sun, 16 Dec 2012, Ralf Mardorf wrote: On Sun, 2012-12-16 at 05:35 -0600, Joseph A. Nagy, Jr wrote: I'm running amd64 and it seems rock-solid and well supported. I had a similar question. I wanted to know if there are issues for audio, when using 64 bit and got this reply: If you do

Re: switching from i386 to amd64

2012-12-16 Thread Steve O'Hara-Smith
On Sun, 16 Dec 2012 12:48:40 +0100 Ralf Mardorf ralf.mard...@rocketmail.com wrote: Specific requirements _could_ be wine and nVidia's proprietary GPU driver, as far as I know. - Polytropon (Btw. thank you Polytropon :) I'm using amd64 on an Atom/ION box here, the Nvidia binary drivers

Re: switching from i386 to amd64

2012-12-16 Thread Arthur Chance
On 12/16/12 11:00, Aryeh Friedman wrote: I have been using i386 (-STABLE) for years now and was wondering if switching to amd64 finally makes sense (i.e. are enough ports working on it now [xfrce4, firefox, libreoffice, openjdk-6, tomcat, mysql, apache22, flash, cups, devel/aegis, devel/cook

Re: switching from i386 to amd64

2012-12-16 Thread Gary Aitken
On 12/16/12 04:00, Aryeh Friedman wrote: I have been using i386 (-STABLE) for years now and was wondering if switching to amd64 finally makes sense (i.e. are enough ports working on it now [xfrce4, firefox, libreoffice, openjdk-6, tomcat, mysql, apache22, flash, cups, devel/aegis, devel/cook

Re: switching from i386 to amd64

2012-12-16 Thread Polytropon
On Sun, 16 Dec 2012 12:13:36 -0700, Gary Aitken wrote: On 12/16/12 07:08, Polytropon wrote: And if you're using Firefox, there are plugins available that allow you to download video content instead of dealing with the Flash player the site wants you to use. and the recommended one is?

Re: switching from i386 to amd64

2012-12-16 Thread RW
On Sun, 16 Dec 2012 06:00:51 -0500 Aryeh Friedman wrote: I have been using i386 (-STABLE) for years now and was wondering if switching to amd64 ... nvidia-kmod are the minimal ones I need]) the main reason for asking is PAE seems to be broken now The last I heard the nvidia driver wasn't

Re: i386 vs amd64

2012-11-30 Thread Jakub Lach
The problem is, it gets recreated upon updating from source. -- View this message in context: http://freebsd.1045724.n5.nabble.com/i386-vs-amd64-tp5765012p5765488.html Sent from the freebsd-questions mailing list archive at Nabble.com. ___ freebsd

Re: i386 vs amd64

2012-11-30 Thread Jakub Lach
Even that I was aware of that, I've just lost track of it. Thanks for simple solution. -- View this message in context: http://freebsd.1045724.n5.nabble.com/i386-vs-amd64-tp5765012p5765489.html Sent from the freebsd-questions mailing list archive at Nabble.com

Re: i386 vs amd64

2012-11-30 Thread Thomas Mueller
On Thu, Nov 29, 2012 at 2:57 PM, Bill Tillman btillma...@yahoo.com wrote: i386 will not see anything above 4 GB Actually you *can* give access to 4Gb RAM for your system: PAE allows you to use 36 bits instead of 32 to address your memory (and supported till Pentium Pro) but that is only

Re: i386 vs amd64

2012-11-30 Thread Ilya Kazakevich
How does the system know what is OS and what is 32-bit apps? OS works in kernel space while application is not. PAE affects paging system allowing software to address 2^36 bytes of memory. You can access it in kernel space, but user space applications are limited to 2^32 bytes of virtual memory

Re: i386 vs amd64

2012-11-30 Thread Andrea Venturoli
more than 4GB. However, since apps runs unmodified, a single process cannot break that barrier. So, if you are running a single program that requires that lot of memory, PAE is not an option and you will need amd64. OTOH, if you run several programs which don't singularly require more than

Re: i386 vs amd64

2012-11-29 Thread Bill Tillman
From: Fleuriot Damien m...@my.gd To: birdf...@yahoo.com Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Sent: Wednesday, November 28, 2012 12:40 PM Subject: Re: i386 vs amd64 On Nov 28, 2012, at 6:36 PM, mike miskulin birdf...@yahoo.com wrote: About to build

Re: i386 vs amd64

2012-11-29 Thread Jakub Lach
If it was from me, my system is without 32bit compat whatsoever, and this is not default setting on amd64. Maybe on def. amd64 there are no problems, I don't know, nobody replied to my thread. -- View this message in context: http://freebsd.1045724.n5.nabble.com/i386-vs-amd64

Re: i386 vs amd64

2012-11-29 Thread Ilya Kazakevich
Hello, On Thu, Nov 29, 2012 at 2:57 PM, Bill Tillman btillma...@yahoo.com wrote: i386 will not see anything above 4 GB Actually you *can* give access to 4Gb RAM for your system: PAE allows you to use 36 bits instead of 32 to address your memory (and supported till Pentium Pro) but that is

i386 vs amd64

2012-11-28 Thread mike miskulin
About to build a replacement system for an older i386 setup. A few years ago I had tried the amd64 port on it and found it was frustrating as things that just worked on i386 did not on amd64. IIRC ports were large annoyance too. Now I have a new system with 8GB, etc,etc and wonder if I am best

Re: i386 vs amd64

2012-11-28 Thread Fleuriot Damien
On Nov 28, 2012, at 6:36 PM, mike miskulin birdf...@yahoo.com wrote: About to build a replacement system for an older i386 setup. A few years ago I had tried the amd64 port on it and found it was frustrating as things that just worked on i386 did not on amd64. IIRC ports were large

Re: i386 vs amd64

2012-11-28 Thread Warren Block
On Wed, 28 Nov 2012, mike miskulin wrote: About to build a replacement system for an older i386 setup. A few years ago I had tried the amd64 port on it and found it was frustrating as things that just worked on i386 did not on amd64. IIRC ports were large annoyance too. Now I have a new

Re: i386 vs amd64

2012-11-28 Thread mike miskulin
What port was that ? I've never had a *single* problem due to using amd64 over i386. Well I have to apologize, I've reached senility! My past bad experience was with netbsd amd64 afterwhich I bailed and went to FreeBSD i386 (thanks google). But I guess the basic question remains

Re: i386 vs amd64

2012-11-28 Thread Polytropon
packages (wine_amd64, if I remember correctly), but the rest of the system should run good on amd64 as it did on i386. Sidenote: I switched back from 8.2/amd64 to 8.2/i386 because of three reasons (in fact, two reasons and one justification): I had problems with wine, problems with nVidia's driver (plus

Re: i386 vs amd64

2012-11-28 Thread Andrea Venturoli
On 11/28/12 18:49, Warren Block wrote: On Wed, 28 Nov 2012, mike miskulin wrote: About to build a replacement system for an older i386 setup. A few years ago I had tried the amd64 port on it and found it was frustrating as things that just worked on i386 did not on amd64. IIRC ports were

Re: i386 vs amd64

2012-11-28 Thread Rod Person
might be if you want to use wine. As it has been said, there are binary packages (wine_amd64, if I remember correctly), but the rest of the system should run good on amd64 as it did on i386. Sidenote: I switched back from 8.2/amd64 to 8.2/i386 because of three reasons (in fact, two reasons

Re: do I need agp(4) on my amd64 laptop

2012-11-27 Thread ill...@gmail.com
code 1 ... ok, I get it. I think I built drm and agp together, hence I haven't encountered this error. Do you use radeon video driver? Do you use radeondrm device in kernel? This only place I see this is in src/sys/amd64/conf/NOTES. My understanding is that to get drm working

Re: do I need agp(4) on my amd64 laptop

2012-11-25 Thread Anton Shterenlikht
From ill...@gmail.com Sat Nov 24 16:09:29 2012 On 22 November 2012 06:19, Anton Shterenlikht me...@bristol.ac.uk wrote: It is not clear for me from the agp(4) man page, whether I need this device in the kernel or not. The pciconf -lv output is below. Or

Re: do I need agp(4) on my amd64 laptop

2012-11-25 Thread Anton Shterenlikht
code 1 ... ok, I get it. I think I built drm and agp together, hence I haven't encountered this error. Do you use radeon video driver? Do you use radeondrm device in kernel? This only place I see this is in src/sys/amd64/conf/NOTES. My understanding is that to get drm working

Re: do I need agp(4) on my amd64 laptop

2012-11-24 Thread ill...@gmail.com
On 22 November 2012 06:19, Anton Shterenlikht me...@bristol.ac.uk wrote: It is not clear for me from the agp(4) man page, whether I need this device in the kernel or not. The pciconf -lv output is below. Or do I need to show dmesg? Please advise Thanks Anton hostb0@pci0:0:0:0:

Re: do I need agp(4) on my amd64 laptop

2012-11-24 Thread ill...@gmail.com
On 24 November 2012 10:14, ill...@gmail.com ill...@gmail.com wrote: On 22 November 2012 06:19, Anton Shterenlikht me...@bristol.ac.uk wrote: It is not clear for me from the agp(4) man page, whether I need this device in the kernel or not. The pciconf -lv output is below. Or do I need to show

do I need agp(4) on my amd64 laptop

2012-11-22 Thread Anton Shterenlikht
It is not clear for me from the agp(4) man page, whether I need this device in the kernel or not. The pciconf -lv output is below. Or do I need to show dmesg? Please advise Thanks Anton hostb0@pci0:0:0:0: class=0x06 card=0x30c2103c chip=0x79101002 rev=0x00 hdr=0x00 vendor =

valgrind on pure amd64 (64 bit system _only_)

2012-11-21 Thread Jakub Lach
What's state of valgrind port on pure amd64 system? Here, it core dumps upon linking both with clang and gcc47, with complaint that looks suspicious (expected i386 not X86_64 or something to that effect). -- View this message in context: http://freebsd.1045724.n5.nabble.com/valgrind-on-pure

nvidia driver on amd64 (for asus nvidia gt 610)

2012-10-27 Thread Gary Aitken
running 9.0 release Being frustrated with my radeon hd-5550 video card which occasionally (once a week or so) goes into some kind of reset loop, filling up Xorg.0.log and crashing the system because /var is full... I picked up an asus nvidia gt 610. Downloaded the nvidia driver and tried to

nvidia driver on amd64 (for asus nvidia gt 610)

2012-10-27 Thread Gary Aitken
running 9.0 release Being frustrated with my radeon hd-5550 video card which occasionally (once a week or so) goes into some kind of reset loop, filling up Xorg.0.log and crashing the system because /var is full... I picked up an asus nvidia gt 610. Downloaded the nvidia driver and tried to

Re: nvidia driver on amd64 (for asus nvidia gt 610)

2012-10-27 Thread Gary Aitken
On 10/27/12 07:50, Gary Aitken wrote: running 9.0 release Being frustrated with my radeon hd-5550 video card which occasionally (once a week or so) goes into some kind of reset loop, filling up Xorg.0.log and crashing the system because /var is full... I picked up an asus nvidia gt 610.

'svn up' problem on amd64

2012-10-21 Thread Darrel
: amd64 Processor Architecture: amd64 ZFS Storage pool Version: 28 ZFS Filesystem Version: 5 FreeBSD 9.1-RC2 #0 r241106: Mon Oct 1 18:26:44 UTC 2012 root 2:32AM up 4 days, 18:32, 7 users, load averages

Re: 'svn up' problem on amd64

2012-10-21 Thread Matthew Seaman
On 21/10/2012 07:35, Darrel wrote: Advice? I have not seen this before: (685) @ 2:22:16 cd /usr/src (686) @ 2:22:18 svn up Updating '.': Skipped 'sys' -- Node remains in conflict At revision 241794. Summary of conflicts: Skipped paths: 1 (687) @ 2:22:43 For some reason svn thinks

8.3 stable or 9.0 stable amd64 iso with mfi driver changes of May 18, 2012

2012-09-14 Thread Jean Christofferson
I am trying to install FreeBSD stable - either 8.3 or 9.0 - on a Dell 420 with Perc H310 LSI PCI Express SAS Rain controllers. Although the physical disks are present and recognized by the BIOS the sysinstall does not see the disks. I think the issue is mfi driver and was added to the

Re: 8.3 stable or 9.0 stable amd64 iso with mfi driver changes of May 18, 2012

2012-09-14 Thread Jean Christofferson
Kevin, Thank you for your response. It is great to get confirmation and I will try with 9.1-RC1 I DO have on board Broadcom 5720 NIC. Nice to know what my next problem is likely to be. Hopefully that will be easy to solve if I install another NIC card. Thanks! Jean Jean

Re: Firefox 14.0.1 won't build under 8.3 on amd64

2012-08-17 Thread Jamie Paul Griffin
== John Levine wrote on Mon 13.Aug'12 at 5:41:52 - == Oops, it's 14.0.1 I'm trying to build. 13.0.0.1 is what I have installed now. In article 20120813053621.24629.qm...@joyce.lan you write: did you select the option to use optimised CFLAGS when you run make config in the port

Firefox 13.0.1.1 won't build under 8.3 on amd64

2012-08-12 Thread John Levine
I'm reasonably sure I have the png and sqlite3 libraries built as needed, but the build still barfs when compiling the SSL function nsNSSErrors.cpp. The end of the build log is copied below. I don't have the logs handy, but Thunderbird fails the same way. Any suggestions? R's, John c++ -o

Re: Firefox 14.0.1 won't build under 8.3 on amd64

2012-08-12 Thread John Levine
Oops, it's 14.0.1 I'm trying to build. 13.0.0.1 is what I have installed now. In article 20120813053621.24629.qm...@joyce.lan you write: I'm reasonably sure I have the png and sqlite3 libraries built as needed, but the build still barfs when compiling the SSL function nsNSSErrors.cpp. The end

Re: bsdinstall to jail aborted (9.0-RELEASE-p3, amd64)

2012-07-29 Thread Matthias Petermann
Hi Darren, On Sun, 29 Jul 2012 04:57:43 +0400 Darren Baginski kick...@yandex.com wrote: No, feel free to open if you feel it needed. I would say it's more a feature request, but without it, bsdinstall not usable on non release environments. thanks, I submitted the PR here:

bsdinstall to jail aborted (9.0-RELEASE-p3, amd64)

2012-07-28 Thread Matthias Petermann
of the to-be-used mirror. Also re-trying it on the original system(1) leads to an error but a different one. Since then I upgraded from 9.0-RELEASE to 9.0-RELEASE-p3 using freebsd-update. Here are the symptoms: (2) FreeBSD 9.0-RELEASE-p3 amd64: After typing bsdinstall... it brings me directly

Re: bsdinstall to jail aborted (9.0-RELEASE-p3, amd64)

2012-07-28 Thread Darren Baginski
-p3 amd64: After typing bsdinstall... it brings me directly to the mirror selection list, but after selecting a mirror it aborts with an error message An installation step has beeen aborted. Would you like to restart the installer or exit the installer? (1) FreeBSD 9.0-RELEASE-p3 i386: After

Re: bsdinstall to jail aborted (9.0-RELEASE-p3, amd64)

2012-07-28 Thread Darren Baginski
-update.  Here are the symptoms:  (2) FreeBSD 9.0-RELEASE-p3 amd64: After typing bsdinstall... it brings me directly to the mirror selection list, but after selecting a mirror it aborts with an error message An installation step has beeen aborted. Would you like to restart the installer

Re: bsdinstall to jail aborted (9.0-RELEASE-p3, amd64)

2012-07-28 Thread Matthias Petermann
Hi Darren, thanks for diving into the issue. I looked through the mentioned places in the bsdinstall code and understand it now. On Sat, 28 Jul 2012 17:24:48 +0400 Darren Baginski kick...@yandex.com wrote: I thing release/arch selection has to be a part of the installer, either directly or

Re: amd64, 57600 serial install help

2012-07-24 Thread Paul Macdonald
On 21/07/2012 22:06, Ihsan Junaidi Ibrahim wrote: I assume you have compiled the bootblocks as per the instruction in the handbook. Second, do you have more than one serial port on the box because FreeBSD can only work its serial console magic on only one port at a time. If you redirect your

amd64, 57600 serial install help

2012-07-21 Thread Paul Macdonald
what am i doing wrong here? From rebuilding the install iso and from the handbook instructions here: http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/install-advanced.html which suggests that in /boot/loader.conf only console=comconsole is required, i have tried this and also

Re: amd64, 57600 serial install help

2012-07-21 Thread Ihsan Junaidi Ibrahim
I assume you have compiled the bootblocks as per the instruction in the handbook. Second, do you have more than one serial port on the box because FreeBSD can only work its serial console magic on only one port at a time. If you redirect your IPMI serial console or just a normal serial

Re: Wine for Diablo 3 on FreeBSD 9.0R amd64

2012-05-21 Thread Mickaël Maillot
2012/5/19 Edward M eam1edw...@gmail.com: On 05/19/2012 02:28 PM, lokada...@gmx.de wrote: On 05/17/12 07:54, Любомир Григоров wrote: We have to wait, unfortunately. I am using a Linux partition with Wine meanwhile. As long as it's not mainstream, it will be hard to do. Not to mention port is

Re: Wine for Diablo 3 on FreeBSD 9.0R amd64

2012-05-21 Thread Mickaël Maillot
...@home.freelooser.fr:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/FNEUFNEU amd64 and FreeBSD fneufneu.secuserve.net 8.2-STABLE FreeBSD 8.2-STABLE #4 r226057M: Thu Oct 6 16:43:50 CEST 2011 r...@fneufneu.secuserve.net:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GENERIC amd64 all my system use xorg-dev trunk (WITH_NEW_XORG=yes for xorg-server 1.12.1

Re: Wine for Diablo 3 on FreeBSD 9.0R amd64

2012-05-19 Thread lokada...@gmx.de
On 05/17/12 07:54, Любомир Григоров wrote: We have to wait, unfortunately. I am using a Linux partition with Wine meanwhile. As long as it's not mainstream, it will be hard to do. Not to mention port is at 1.4. FreeBSD have 2 wine- ports. :)

Re: Wine for Diablo 3 on FreeBSD 9.0R amd64

2012-05-19 Thread Edward M
On 05/19/2012 02:28 PM, lokada...@gmx.de wrote: On 05/17/12 07:54, Любомир Григоров wrote: We have to wait, unfortunately. I am using a Linux partition with Wine meanwhile. As long as it's not mainstream, it will be hard to do. Not to mention port is at 1.4. FreeBSD have 2 wine- ports. :)

Wine for Diablo 3 on FreeBSD 9.0R amd64

2012-05-16 Thread alphachi
Can anybody play diablo 3 with wine on FreeBSD 9R amd64? Wine 1.5.4,1 64bit can't running Diablo III perhaps because of Agent.exe. see http://appdb.winehq.org/objectManager.php?sClass=versioniId=25953. Thanks! ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing

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