Re: hardware problem

2008-02-25 Thread Da Rock
On Mon, 2008-02-25 at 20:38 -0500, Tsu-Fan Cheng wrote: hi guys, just take every part out and dust with a brush, reseat the m-board and hook on the power supply, switch on the power and both fans spin for quite a while, seeing this, I switch it off and start to connect all the cables.

Re: Hardware compatability.

2008-02-21 Thread Bill Moran
In response to Odeth Solano [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Hi Can you suggest us, what kind of servers are supported to run if Free Free BSD 6.2? HP? Dell? ]IBM? http://www.freebsd.org/releases/6.3R/hardware-i386.html Could you suggest a model of this servers and processors please? We've had

Re: Hardware compatability.

2008-02-21 Thread Wojciech Puchar
http://www.freebsd.org/releases/6.3R/hardware-i386.html Could you suggest a model of this servers and processors please? We've had mostly good experiences with Dell's servers. while i have one IBM and 2 self-assembled servers recently, both works fine. just check the hardware (by chipset,

Re: Hardware RAID diagnostics (Dell PERC 6/i)

2008-02-19 Thread Vince
Jesse Sheidlower wrote: I'm in the process of getting a new server, and have been planning on a Dell PowerEdge 1950. I see from this thread: http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-stable/2008-January/039675.html That the PERC 6/i RAID controller seems to work fine with the mfi(4) driver;

Re: Hardware detection

2008-01-31 Thread Wojciech Puchar
Looked at dmesg, but am unsure of how Freebsd would identify a SATA drive. it says it's sata like that: ad10: 305244MB SAMSUNG HD321KJ CP100-10 at ata5-master SATA300 ad12: 305245MB SAMSUNG HD321KJ CP100-10 at ata6-master SATA300 ad14: 305245MB SAMSUNG HD321KJ CP100-10 at ata7-master SATA300

RE: Hardware detection

2008-01-31 Thread Darryl Hoar
Looked at dmesg, but am unsure of how Freebsd would identify a SATA drive. it says it's sata like that: ad10: 305244MB SAMSUNG HD321KJ CP100-10 at ata5-master SATA300 ad12: 305245MB SAMSUNG HD321KJ CP100-10 at ata6-master SATA300 ad14: 305245MB SAMSUNG HD321KJ CP100-10 at ata7-master

Re: Hardware detection

2008-01-31 Thread Erik Trulsson
On Thu, Jan 31, 2008 at 01:48:00PM -0600, Darryl Hoar wrote: Looked at dmesg, but am unsure of how Freebsd would identify a SATA drive. it says it's sata like that: ad10: 305244MB SAMSUNG HD321KJ CP100-10 at ata5-master SATA300 ad12: 305245MB SAMSUNG HD321KJ CP100-10 at

RE: Hardware detection

2008-01-31 Thread Wojciech Puchar
Exactly my problem. It says ad4: DMA limited to UDMA33, device found non-ATA66 cable ad4: 152587MB SAMSUNG HE160HJ JF800-24 at ata2-master UDMA33 ad6: DMA limited to UDMA33, device found non-ATA66 cable ad6: 152587MB SAMSUNG HE160HJ JF800-24 at ata3-master UDMA33 Weird. What would cause this

Re: Hardware detection

2008-01-31 Thread Wojciech Puchar
That is usually what happens when the disk controller is one that FreeBSD does not have support for, so it treats the controller as a Generic ATA controller. Should normally work fine albeit with somewhat suboptimal performance. (And even though it says UDMA33 a SATA controller should still

Re: Hardware compatibility question

2008-01-03 Thread Jerry McAllister
On Thu, Jan 03, 2008 at 12:29:44PM -0600, Darryl Hoar wrote: Greetings, I am looking at buying a used Dell PowerEdge 2650. It has (2) Xeon 2.8Ghz with 512kb cache 6 GB ECC Ram (5) 36 GB 10k SCSI hard drives Perc/3 raid controller. dual 10/100/1000 ethernet dual power supplies. will I

Re: Hardware compatibility question

2008-01-03 Thread Eric Crist
On Jan 3, 2008, at 12:29 PM, Darryl Hoar wrote: Greetings, I am looking at buying a used Dell PowerEdge 2650. It has (2) Xeon 2.8Ghz with 512kb cache 6 GB ECC Ram (5) 36 GB 10k SCSI hard drives Perc/3 raid controller. dual 10/100/1000 ethernet dual power supplies. will I have any problem

Re: Hardware compatibility question

2008-01-03 Thread Jack Barnett
Eric Crist wrote: On Jan 3, 2008, at 12:29 PM, Darryl Hoar wrote: Greetings, I am looking at buying a used Dell PowerEdge 2650. It has (2) Xeon 2.8Ghz with 512kb cache 6 GB ECC Ram (5) 36 GB 10k SCSI hard drives Perc/3 raid controller. dual 10/100/1000 ethernet dual power supplies. will I

Re: hardware not recognized

2007-10-27 Thread Erik Trulsson
On Sat, Oct 27, 2007 at 12:22:21PM -0400, Robert Huff wrote: Recently, I replaced the NICs on a machine (old card was slow and throwing errors). Per good reviews, I went with Intel. However: the card is not recognized on boot, and I get: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:12:0:

Re: hardware not recognized

2007-10-27 Thread Robert Huff
Erik Trulsson writes: Recently, I replaced the NICs on a machine (old card was slow and throwing errors). Per good reviews, I went with Intel. However: the card is not recognized on boot, and I get: If I explicitly load if_em via loader.conf, everything's fine. Do you

Re: hardware not recognized

2007-10-27 Thread Erik Trulsson
On Sat, Oct 27, 2007 at 01:26:57PM -0400, Robert Huff wrote: Erik Trulsson writes: Recently, I replaced the NICs on a machine (old card was slow and throwing errors). Per good reviews, I went with Intel. However: the card is not recognized on boot, and I get: If I

Re: Hardware compatible : Marble_Mouse/TrackMan Wheel from Logitech

2007-10-08 Thread Roland Smith
On Mon, Oct 08, 2007 at 08:51:16AM +0800, williamkow wrote: Tahnk you for your reply, may I ask if I to purchase TrackMan Wheel Mouse (Logitech), does it also work and compatible in FreeBSD? Please advise, Thank you.

Re: Hardware compatible : Marble_Mouse/TrackMan Wheel from Logitech

2007-10-08 Thread Erich Dollansky
Hi, I used the Trackman with earlier versions and I did not have any problems. I do not use it with the current version. Erich Roland Smith wrote: On Mon, Oct 08, 2007 at 08:51:16AM +0800, williamkow wrote: Tahnk you for your reply, may I ask if I to purchase TrackMan Wheel Mouse

Re: Hardware compatible : Marble_Mouse from Logitech

2007-10-07 Thread Roland Smith
On Sun, Oct 07, 2007 at 09:05:20PM +0800, williamkow wrote: Can anyboby advice me whether the Marble_Mouse from Logitech, be used and recognized by FreeBSD6.2-Release ? I've used this trackball without problems with Xorg. Here's the relevant part of my xorg.conf; Section InputDevice

Re: Hardware compatible : Marble_Mouse/TrackMan Wheel from Logitech

2007-10-07 Thread williamkow
Dear Mr. Roland, Tahnk you for your reply, may I ask if I to purchase TrackMan Wheel Mouse (Logitech), does it also work and compatible in FreeBSD? Please advise, Thank you. [1]http://www.logitech.com/index.cfm/mice_pointers/trackballs/devices/ 166cl=my,en WilliamKow

Re: hardware reality check - server

2007-09-20 Thread Ivan Voras
kalin mintchev wrote: hi all... some input about this hardware on fbsd 6.2 would be appreciated. just would like to know if anybody has tried successfully something like this before: motherboard: Supermicro X7DVL-L Xeon 5000V Server Board(MB4284) with: INTEL® CPU PROCESSOR 1 Intel Quad-Core

Re: hardware reality check - server

2007-09-19 Thread Norberto Meijome
On Tue, 18 Sep 2007 20:37:46 -0400 (EDT) kalin mintchev [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: motherboard: Supermicro X7DVL-L Xeon 5000V Server Board(MB4284) with: INTEL® CPU PROCESSOR 1Intel Quad-Core Xeon E5335 Processor 2.0GHz 1333MHz(CP1149) INTEL® CPU PROCESSOR 2Intel Quad-Core

Re: hardware reality check - server

2007-09-19 Thread kalin mintchev
On Tue, 18 Sep 2007 20:37:46 -0400 (EDT) kalin mintchev [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: motherboard: Supermicro X7DVL-L Xeon 5000V Server Board(MB4284) with: INTEL® CPU PROCESSOR 1 Intel Quad-Core Xeon E5335 Processor 2.0GHz 1333MHz(CP1149) INTEL® CPU PROCESSOR 2 Intel Quad-Core

Re: hardware reality check - server

2007-09-18 Thread Jay Chandler
kalin mintchev wrote: hi all... some input about this hardware on fbsd 6.2 would be appreciated. just would like to know if anybody has tried successfully something like this before: motherboard: Supermicro X7DVL-L Xeon 5000V Server Board(MB4284) with: INTEL® CPU PROCESSOR 1 Intel Quad-Core

RE: Hardware monitor needed

2007-06-24 Thread Ted Mittelstaedt
-Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Jim Capozzoli Sent: Saturday, June 23, 2007 11:22 AM To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Hardware monitor needed On 6/21/07, Eduardo Viruena Silva [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, 21

Re: Hardware monitor needed

2007-06-23 Thread Jim Capozzoli
On 6/21/07, Eduardo Viruena Silva [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, 21 Jun 2007, Laszlo Nagy wrote: Hi, My FreeBSD 6.2 server restarts suddenly once or twice a day. I believe it is because the processor is overheated, but I'm not sure. Is there a way to check this from software? I would

Re: Hardware monitor needed

2007-06-21 Thread Alex Zbyslaw
Laszlo Nagy wrote: Hi, My FreeBSD 6.2 server restarts suddenly once or twice a day. I believe it is because the processor is overheated, but I'm not sure. Is there a way to check this from software? I would like to install a hardware monitor program that can log out processor temperature

Re: Hardware monitor needed

2007-06-21 Thread Laszlo Nagy
Check out healthd or mbmon. One or other has worked OK for me on other Asus boards, and both are in ports (sysutils/ I think). If you have ACPI and your board supports thermal zones, then you can check those. sysctl -a | egrep 'acpi.*therm' or sysctl -a | egrep 'acpi.*tz' one or

Re: Hardware monitor needed

2007-06-21 Thread Eduardo Viruena Silva
On Thu, 21 Jun 2007, Laszlo Nagy wrote: Hi, My FreeBSD 6.2 server restarts suddenly once or twice a day. I believe it is because the processor is overheated, but I'm not sure. Is there a way to check this from software? I would like to install a hardware monitor program that can log out

Re: Hardware monitor needed

2007-06-21 Thread Alex Zbyslaw
Laszlo Nagy wrote: Check out healthd or mbmon. One or other has worked OK for me on other Asus boards, and both are in ports (sysutils/ I think). If you have ACPI and your board supports thermal zones, then you can check those. sysctl -a | egrep 'acpi.*therm' or sysctl -a | egrep

Re: Hardware monitor needed

2007-06-21 Thread Martin Hudec
Hello, Laszlo Nagy wrote: This server is an X terminal server and the users connect to it with 'X -query ip'. Can I do something to reduce the load on the CPU? gnome-volume-manage uses 99% of the CPU, constantly - why? --Alex You can try to trace them, what they are doing, what functions

Re: hardware for ia64

2007-05-29 Thread Bill Moran
In response to [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Hi, Guys! Can you tell me if anyone tried to run your OS for IA64 on Intel's Dual cores or cor 2 duos? Core duos are not ia64, they are amd64. FreeBSD supports both ia64 and amd64, but you'll need to select the correct one. -- Bill Moran

Re: hardware for ia64

2007-05-29 Thread Andrea Venturoli
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, Guys! Can you tell me if anyone tried to run your OS for IA64 on Intel's Dual cores or cor 2 duos? I don't know, but they would have failed: ia64 is for Itaniums. I'm running Vista64 on D, started wondering if your OS will do as well... or should I just try?

Re: hardware for ia64

2007-05-29 Thread Kris Kennaway
On Tue, May 29, 2007 at 11:44:43PM +0200, Andrea Venturoli wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, Guys! Can you tell me if anyone tried to run your OS for IA64 on Intel's Dual cores or cor 2 duos? I don't know, but they would have failed: ia64 is for Itaniums. I'm running Vista64 on D,

Re: HARDWARE compatability

2007-05-07 Thread Bob Middaugh
-- Original message -- From: Jean-Paul Natola [EMAIL PROTECTED] Hi everyone, I'm looking to retire my PIII freebsd box for something a little more of age- being that I'm at a non-profit I do not have the largest of budgets- On that note I have never used

Re: HARDWARE compatability

2007-05-07 Thread Matthew Seaman
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 Jean-Paul Natola wrote: Hi everyone, I'm looking to retire my PIII freebsd box for something a little more of age- being that I'm at a non-profit I do not have the largest of budgets- On that note I have never used and AMD before for a

RE: HARDWARE compatability

2007-05-07 Thread Jean-Paul Natola
Hash: SHA256 Jean-Paul Natola wrote: Hi everyone, I'm looking to retire my PIII freebsd box for something a little more of age- being that I'm at a non-profit I do not have the largest of budgets- On that note I have never used and AMD before for a server so I was looking at this box

Re: Hardware requirement

2007-04-28 Thread Roland Smith
On Sat, Apr 28, 2007 at 12:56:04PM +0100, mukul choudhuri wrote: Would U Plz. tell me about MAX amount of RAM freeBSD supports per processor in SMP systems? Depends on the architecture. A 32 bit x86 chip can address 4GB, unless you have the PAE extension in the kernel. In that case it is 64

Re: Hardware requirement

2007-04-28 Thread Garrett Cooper
Reshmakov Roman wrote: We sucessfuly use amd64 arch on Intel Xeon CPUs. EMT64 is fully compatible with the major features in AMD64. However, IA64 (64-bit architecture made by Intel in older Xeons) isn't compatible with AMD Opterons AFAIK. Besides, IA64 doesn't allow binary/library profiling

Re: Hardware Raid on Intel DG965OT Motherboard

2007-04-11 Thread Antony Mawer
On 5/04/2007 1:52 AM, Alexander Anderson wrote: Thu, Apr 05, 2007 at 08:52:44 AM, Antony Mawer wrote: I have Intel D975XBX2 with two on-board SATA RAID controllers: one is Intel Matrix and the other is Marvell storage. I have FreeBSD 6.2 with RAID-5 using Intel Matrix Storage. It seems to work

Re: Hardware Raid on Intel DG965OT Motherboard

2007-04-05 Thread Alexander Anderson
Thu, Apr 05, 2007 at 08:52:44 AM, Antony Mawer wrote: I have Intel D975XBX2 with two on-board SATA RAID controllers: one is Intel Matrix and the other is Marvell storage. I have FreeBSD 6.2 with RAID-5 using Intel Matrix Storage. It seems to work fine. You may want to re-think that option...

Re: Hardware Raid on Intel DG965OT Motherboard

2007-04-04 Thread Alexander Anderson
Tue, Apr 03, 2007 at 05:22:22 PM, Ivan Carey wrote: Is there hardware support for this Motherboard Intel DG965OT Motherboard in FreeBSD 6.2 I have read the Hardware notes but am unable to determine if FreeBSD 6.2 is compatible with Intel DG965OT Motherboard and the on board Martix Storage

Re: Hardware Raid on Intel DG965OT Motherboard

2007-04-04 Thread Antony Mawer
On 4/04/2007 9:30 PM, Alexander Anderson wrote: I have Intel D975XBX2 with two on-board SATA RAID controllers: one is Intel Matrix and the other is Marvell storage. I have FreeBSD 6.2 with RAID-5 using Intel Matrix Storage. It seems to work fine. ... ad4: 305245MB Seagate ST3320620AS 3.AAJ at

Re: Hardware Raid on Intel DG965OT Motherboard

2007-04-04 Thread Ivan Carey
Alexander Anderson wrote: Tue, Apr 03, 2007 at 05:22:22 PM, Ivan Carey wrote: Is there hardware support for this Motherboard Intel DG965OT Motherboard in FreeBSD 6.2 I have read the Hardware notes but am unable to determine if FreeBSD 6.2 is compatible with Intel DG965OT Motherboard and the

Re: hardware question

2007-03-02 Thread jekillen
On Mar 1, 2007, at 10:38 PM, Garrett Cooper wrote: jekillen wrote: On Mar 1, 2007, at 8:04 PM, Garrett Cooper wrote: jekillen wrote: Hello; I have built a machine with ASUS M2N32 WS pro motherboard. It has dual network interface ports that are Marvell interfaces. I understand that FreeBSD

Re: Hardware Problem - FreeBSD 6.2

2007-03-01 Thread Nikos Vassiliadis
On Thursday 01 March 2007 16:10, Rômulo Lima wrote: Hi, Good morning, my name is Rômulo Lima, I had a problem when make an upgrade in my Freebsd Server from version 6.1 to 6.2. Before upgrade my SATA disc controller was working normally: atapci1: AcerLabs M5287 SATA150 controller port

Re: hardware question

2007-03-01 Thread Garrett Cooper
jekillen wrote: Hello; I have built a machine with ASUS M2N32 WS pro motherboard. It has dual network interface ports that are Marvell interfaces. I understand that FreeBSD does not yet support Marvell as of v6.2. I did get a reference to a source for the driver source and instructions to

Re: hardware question

2007-03-01 Thread Garrett Cooper
Garrett Cooper wrote: jekillen wrote: Hello; I have built a machine with ASUS M2N32 WS pro motherboard. It has dual network interface ports that are Marvell interfaces. I understand that FreeBSD does not yet support Marvell as of v6.2. I did get a reference to a source for the driver source and

Re: hardware question

2007-03-01 Thread jekillen
On Mar 1, 2007, at 8:18 PM, Garrett Cooper wrote: Garrett Cooper wrote: jekillen wrote: Hello; I have built a machine with ASUS M2N32 WS pro motherboard. It has dual network interface ports that are Marvell interfaces. I understand that FreeBSD does not yet support Marvell as of v6.2. I did

Re: hardware question

2007-03-01 Thread Garrett Cooper
jekillen wrote: On Mar 1, 2007, at 8:04 PM, Garrett Cooper wrote: jekillen wrote: Hello; I have built a machine with ASUS M2N32 WS pro motherboard. It has dual network interface ports that are Marvell interfaces. I understand that FreeBSD does not yet support Marvell as of v6.2. I did get a

Re: hardware mirrors recognized as individual disks in fbsd

2007-01-23 Thread Jerry McAllister
On Tue, Jan 23, 2007 at 01:35:06AM -0600, Damian Wiest wrote: On Mon, Jan 22, 2007 at 07:16:59PM -0600, Damian Wiest wrote: [snip] Real hardware RAID chips/cards tend to be expensive, proprietary, don't require an OS driver and include a battery backup system for data in the RAID

Re: hardware mirrors recognized as individual disks in fbsd

2007-01-23 Thread Jerry McAllister
On Mon, Jan 22, 2007 at 07:16:59PM -0600, Damian Wiest wrote: On Tue, Jan 16, 2007 at 11:33:47AM -0700, Steve Franks wrote: I'm tired of win2k crashing, and we won't even go into my opinion of vista's strongarm marketing tactics (read: changing my hardware means I have to pay again? they

Re: hardware mirrors recognized as individual disks in fbsd

2007-01-23 Thread Apatewna
On Mon, Jan 22, 2007 at 07:16:59PM -0600, Damian Wiest wrote: Forging ahead, I get ready to start playing the mounting game, but lo-and-behold, suddenly I have 4 disks whereas in windows I had two. Now I praise FreeBSD for it's superior intellect here, but now I have a problem. I want two

Re: hardware mirrors recognized as individual disks in fbsd

2007-01-23 Thread Steve Franks
dmesg gives me: atapci1: AcerLabs M5287 SATA150 controller port 0xec00-0xec0f,0xe880-0xe887,0xe800-0xe80f,0xe480-0xe487,0xe400-0xe41f mem 0xd800-0xdbff irq 21 at device 31.1 on pci0 Two pairs of drives are identical in terms of partitions, and no ar0 devices found, So I'd guess I have

Re: hardware mirrors recognized as individual disks in fbsd

2007-01-22 Thread Damian Wiest
On Tue, Jan 16, 2007 at 11:33:47AM -0700, Steve Franks wrote: I'm tired of win2k crashing, and we won't even go into my opinion of vista's strongarm marketing tactics (read: changing my hardware means I have to pay again? they can keep their OS). Problem is, I've got 320GB of accumulated

Re: hardware mirrors recognized as individual disks in fbsd

2007-01-22 Thread Damian Wiest
On Mon, Jan 22, 2007 at 07:16:59PM -0600, Damian Wiest wrote: [snip] Real hardware RAID chips/cards tend to be expensive, proprietary, don't require an OS driver and include a battery backup system for data in the RAID cache should the system lose power. I don't know what I was thinking, of

Re: hardware mirrors recognized as individual disks in fbsd

2007-01-16 Thread Steve Franks
I suppose a couple of other details are in order: 1. FreeBSD is installed on a completely different disk. 2. I checked, and the motherboard still thinks they are mirrored. Steve On 1/16/07, Steve Franks [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm tired of win2k crashing, and we won't even go into my

Re: hardware mirrors recognized as individual disks in fbsd

2007-01-16 Thread Ivan Voras
Steve Franks wrote: I want two 160GB mirrored volumes, not 4 unmirrored ones. The RAID is an ASUS P5DR1-VM motherboard with a ULI raid chipset onboard. Very nice setup for the money. I don't know about the chipset or the controller, but judging from the symptoms it's highly likely you

Re: hardware acceleration for ATI Radeon 9600 ?

2006-12-25 Thread Andrew Pantyukhin
On 12/25/06, [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Andrew Pantyukhin wrote: On 12/24/06, [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Last official ATI video card support for FreeBSD was the 9400 series drivers. I've heard about some reverse engineered drivers from Linux. Is there any way

Re: hardware acceleration for ATI Radeon 9600 ?

2006-12-25 Thread deeptech71
Andrew Pantyukhin wrote: On 12/25/06, [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Andrew Pantyukhin wrote: On 12/24/06, [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Last official ATI video card support for FreeBSD was the 9400 series drivers. I've heard about some reverse engineered drivers

Re: hardware acceleration for ATI Radeon 9600 ?

2006-12-25 Thread Abdullah Al-Marrie
On 12/25/06, [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: AMD has bought ATI so there maybe hope for official drivers. Meanwhile, Xorg, keep up the good work :] . Did AMD work with FreeBSD in powernow or they didn't bother? Why do you think the ATI policy with open source would change? --

Re: hardware acceleration for ATI Radeon 9600 ?

2006-12-24 Thread Andrew Pantyukhin
On 12/24/06, [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Last official ATI video card support for FreeBSD was the 9400 series drivers. I've heard about some reverse engineered drivers from Linux. Is there any way to get hardware acceleration for ATI Radeon 9600 series? I want to run OpenGL

Re: hardware acceleration for ATI Radeon 9600 ?

2006-12-24 Thread deeptech71
Andrew Pantyukhin wrote: On 12/24/06, [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Last official ATI video card support for FreeBSD was the 9400 series drivers. I've heard about some reverse engineered drivers from Linux. Is there any way to get hardware acceleration for ATI Radeon 9600 series? I

Re: Hardware Console Redirection

2006-11-03 Thread Brian A. Seklecki
redirection) and use consdev com0. (Unless you used the bios console direction at 9600 bps) Right, and the Dell PE uses com 2, or com1 (when properly counting from 0), ah la 0x2F8 which is logically connected to a serial port on the DRAC5 via the daughterboard connection. And that's where

Re: Hardware Console Redirection

2006-11-03 Thread Tom Judge
Brian A. Seklecki wrote: Right, and the Dell PE uses com 2, or com1 (when properly counting from 0), ah la 0x2F8 which is logically connected to a serial port on the DRAC5 via the daughterboard connection. The drac [345] Cards actually hook into or present a new vga adapter to the system

Re: Hardware Console Redirection

2006-11-03 Thread Herb Peyerl
On 3-Nov-06, at 11:13 AM, Brian A. Seklecki wrote: With the Real Weasel, you could connect on demand and force a screen refresh/redraw and it would grab the current VGA framebuffer and re- write to the TTY. I invented the Weasel and even I use it in Serial passthrough mode. The VGA

Re: Hardware Console Redirection

2006-11-01 Thread Martin Husemann
On Wed, Nov 01, 2006 at 01:05:04AM -0500, Brian A. Seklecki wrote: In either case, forget about sysinst/sysinstall to install off of stock install media. I'm not sure why - just stop the bootloader (still in bios console redirection) and use consdev com0. (Unless you used the bios console

Re: Hardware Console Redirection

2006-10-31 Thread Andrew Reilly
On Tue, Oct 31, 2006 at 06:18:22PM -0500, Brian A. Seklecki wrote: I have noticed that the Phoenix BIOS console redirection feature on both discontinues to operate once the kernel has booted (however, the 1st/2nd stage boot loaders work fine). Why is that a problem? The BIOS doesn't use the

Re: Hardware Console Redirection

2006-10-31 Thread Brian A. Seklecki
Why is that a problem? The BIOS doesn't use the console once the kernel has booted. Because it becomes a burden always having to customize your install/upgrade media/kernels/bootblocks to use redirection. Dell knew that; that's why they made the DRAC4 with a virtual VNC-based console

Re: Hardware Recomendation

2006-08-25 Thread Shane Ambler
The hardware requirements for the web server can be quite low, you can run a pretty busy website from on old PIII. Some more info would be needed to predict the sort of needs you may expect for your database. Will it be a forum (such as phpBB) or a banner exchange? Is this to replace an existing

Re: hardware raid suggestions

2006-06-12 Thread Nikolas Britton
On 6/12/06, Philip M. Gollucci [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I've got a dell power edge 600sc. (I realize thats getting old) I'm running FreeBSD 6.1-release. I'm looking for suggestions for a good raid setup both controls and disks. I'd like to use hardware raid and not software. I'm more

Re: hardware raid suggestions

2006-06-12 Thread Philip M. Gollucci
Nikolas Britton wrote: On 6/12/06, Philip M. Gollucci [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I've got a dell power edge 600sc. (I realize thats getting old) I'm running FreeBSD 6.1-release. I'm looking for suggestions for a good raid setup both controls and disks. I'd like to use hardware raid and not

Re: hardware raid suggestions

2006-06-12 Thread Nikolas Britton
On 6/12/06, Philip M. Gollucci [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Nikolas Britton wrote: On 6/12/06, Philip M. Gollucci [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I've got a dell power edge 600sc. (I realize thats getting old) I'm running FreeBSD 6.1-release. I'm looking for suggestions for a good raid setup

Re: hardware raid suggestions

2006-06-12 Thread pete wright
On 6/12/06, Philip M. Gollucci [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Nikolas Britton wrote: On 6/12/06, Philip M. Gollucci [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I've got a dell power edge 600sc. (I realize thats getting old) I'm running FreeBSD 6.1-release. I'm looking for suggestions for a good raid setup

Re: hardware raid suggestions

2006-06-12 Thread Paul Pathiakis
If you go SATA RAID, I've had good luck and good speed with RocketRaid 1820 cards. P. On Monday 12 June 2006 14:29, pete wright wrote: On 6/12/06, Philip M. Gollucci [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Nikolas Britton wrote: On 6/12/06, Philip M. Gollucci [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I've

[Fwd: Re: Hardware for FreeBSD6(motherboard for LGA775)]

2006-06-11 Thread Kevin Kinsey
Andrey Slusar wrote: Hi, peoples. I need buy the motherboard for LGA 775 CPU. My choice is ASUS P5RD1-VM(ATI X200 chipset). FreeBSD 6 is fully supported all devices on this motherboard without any problems or not? http://www.freebsd.org/releases/6.1R/hardware-i386.html -- Lewis's Law of

Re: Hardware

2006-06-02 Thread Garrett Cooper
horn wrote: Whether it will be installed FreeBSD 6.1-RELEASE and whether after will work on a computer: Proc: Pentium 75 MHz Menory: 16 MB RAM HDD: 1.2 Gb ? It may work, if it will boot from a CD drive and then the bios has the capability to load the FreeBSD MBR from the hard disk, but I

Re: Hardware

2006-06-02 Thread Colin Percival
horn wrote: Whether it will be installed FreeBSD 6.1-RELEASE and whether after will work on a computer: Proc: Pentium 75 MHz Menory: 16 MB RAM HDD: 1.2 Gb ? Not unless you do build a custom kernel first. I couldn't get FreeBSD 5.4 to boot a GENERIC kernel on a system with 16 MB of RAM

Re: Hardware

2006-06-02 Thread Fabian Keil
horn [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Whether it will be installed FreeBSD 6.1-RELEASE and whether after will work on a computer: Proc: Pentium 75 MHz Menory: 16 MB RAM HDD: 1.2 Gb ? I tried to install FreeBSD 6.1-PRERELEASE on a Pentium 90 with 16 MB RAM a few weeks ago. The BIOS wasn't able to

Re: Hardware

2006-06-02 Thread Kevin Kinsey
Colin Percival wrote: horn wrote: Whether it will be installed FreeBSD 6.1-RELEASE and whether after will work on a computer: Proc: Pentium 75 MHz Menory: 16 MB RAM HDD: 1.2 Gb ? Not unless you do build a custom kernel first. I couldn't get FreeBSD 5.4 to boot a GENERIC kernel on a system

Re: Hardware graphics

2006-01-01 Thread Tijl Coosemans
On Friday 30 December 2005 05:44, Jon wrote: I need some help getting hardware graphics going. I built radeon.ko and drm.ko from drm cvs and loaded them, a quick dmesg drm says the modules are loaded. (drm 1.21.0 20051229) I was told on here I would need the r300 DRI module for my ATI Radeon

Re: Hardware graphics

2005-12-31 Thread Pascal Pype
Jon wrote: Hi, I need some help getting hardware graphics going. I built radeon.ko and drm.ko from drm cvs and loaded them, a quick dmesg drm says the modules are loaded. (drm 1.21.0 20051229) I was told on here I would need the r300 DRI module for my ATI Radeon 9800 Pro which I got from the

Re: Hardware graphics

2005-12-30 Thread Micah
Jon wrote: Hi, I need some help getting hardware graphics going. I built radeon.ko and drm.ko from drm cvs and loaded them, a quick dmesg drm says the modules are loaded. (drm 1.21.0 20051229) I was told on here I would need the r300 DRI module for my ATI Radeon 9800 Pro which I got from the

Re: Hardware supported

2005-12-20 Thread Nikolas Britton
On 12/20/05, Aguiar Magalhaes [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi list, I´d like to known if the external tape drive DAT USB 2.0 (HP or other) is supported in FreeBSD 6.0 AMD64 bits I couldn´t get any information about it USB?, Probably not. Check the hardware notes pages:

Re: Hardware Donation?

2005-10-27 Thread Mark Kane
Darren Sessions wrote: I am wondering if the FreeBSD project is in need of any server hardware. If so, I would like to make a donation. Thanks, - Darren Hi Darren. Here is a list of some hardware that the FreeBSD team is looking for: http://www.freebsd.org/donations/wantlist.html I

Re: Hardware Donation?

2005-10-27 Thread Andrew P.
On 10/27/05, Darren Sessions [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I am wondering if the FreeBSD project is in need of any server hardware. If so, I would like to make a donation. Thanks, - Darren ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list

RE: Hardware selection for comment.

2005-10-26 Thread Murray Taylor
Thanks to those who commented - the PSU is uprated to 600 W now and I have one (hopefully last) question re the video card The supplier has suggested the X800 GT graphics card (a ATI Radeon based card) instead of the nVidia card mentioned below. Comments welcome cheers mjt

Re: Hardware selection for comment.

2005-10-26 Thread Micah
Murray Taylor wrote: Thanks to those who commented - the PSU is uprated to 600 W now and I have one (hopefully last) question re the video card The supplier has suggested the X800 GT graphics card (a ATI Radeon based card) instead of the nVidia card mentioned below. Comments welcome

RE: Hardware selection for comment.

2005-10-26 Thread Murray Taylor
for Viruses by MailMarshal.*** -Original Message- From: Micah [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, October 27, 2005 10:09 AM To: Murray Taylor Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Hardware selection for comment. Murray Taylor wrote: Thanks to those who commented - the PSU

Re: Hardware selection for comment.

2005-10-26 Thread Joshua Tinnin
On Wed 26 Oct 05 18:17, Murray Taylor [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'd stay away from ATI unless you are sure FreeBSD/Xorg/DRI supports it.   I have a cheap ATI based card and the performance on this machine, even 2D stuff, sucks because the card is only barely supported. HTH, Micah Thanks

Re: Hardware selection for comment.

2005-10-19 Thread Peter Clutton
On 10/18/05, Murray Taylor [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have mental question marks against the graphics card and the response time of the monitor (I intend to use KDE and Xorg, am not interested in flashy games / video, but do want sharp, full colour resolution) If you do not desire to play

Re: Hardware selection for comment.

2005-10-18 Thread Chris Hill
On Tue, 18 Oct 2005, Murray Taylor wrote: Comments requested from people who may have used / broken the following components. I'm looking for items like unwanted interactions, driver probs, etc. I have a very, very similar setup running 5.4 and xorg, and it's generally been good. See

Re: Hardware Support (USB)

2005-10-14 Thread Peter Clutton
On 10/14/05, T3chn0Phr34k [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: My mouse is a USB mouse, optical from the Gateway house, well none of the drivers supports it I was wandering if its posible to configure the kernel before starting the installation, Well everything doesn't need to be stopped because of it,

Re: Hardware vendors in Australia...

2005-07-31 Thread Wayne Sierke
On Sun, 2005-07-31 at 22:10 +1000, Norberto Meijome wrote: Hi all, Can anyone recommend a vendor / reseller of server hardware in Australia (preferrably NSW)? In particular, (dual ) Opteron based systems. Of course, it'd be great if anyone actually had suggestions on the specifics of the

Re: hardware monitor

2005-07-27 Thread scuba
Gary, You're right. I could recompile the kernel now, however lmmon is not returning any value, neither healthd is. The relevant part of dmesg is: ichsmb0: Intel 82801BA (ICH2) SMBus controller port 0xefa0-0xefaf irq 17 at device 31.3 on pci0 smbus0: System Management

Re: hardware monitor

2005-07-26 Thread Gary W. Swearingen
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: |device ichsmb | | |I get this error messages: | |In file included from /usr/src/sys/dev/ichsmb/ichsmb.c:64: |/usr/src/sys/dev/ichsmb/ichsmb_var.h:44:22: smbus_if.h: No such file or Looks like you forgot to read the ichsmb manpage or the conf/NOTES file

Re: Hardware RAID Cards..

2005-05-31 Thread Toomas Aas
Aaron C. Meadows wrote: I have an IBM Netfinity 5000 server I just picked up, and it has an Adaptec AAA-131U2 (aic7815 chipset) RAID card in it, attached to 5 IBM Branded (Seagate ST39204LC) Hot Swap Ultra160 9.1gig SCSI Harddrives. My question is, since that chipset is unsupported for

Re: Hardware RAID Cards..

2005-05-26 Thread Aaron C. Meadows
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Kirk Strauser wrote: On Tuesday 24 May 2005 14:48, Aaron C. Meadows wrote: I'm planning on using RAID 5, since they are kind of small drives, and I'm more interested in reliability and size, than speed. Hmmm - I'd probably look toward a

Re: Hardware RAID Cards..

2005-05-26 Thread Tony Shadwick
Just be careful on what card you choose. Aside from simply making sure there are drivers for it, you also have to check on the little things. Like, oh, being able to non-destructively grow the size of the RAID5 array. I bought a Promise SX6000. I have 3 200GB drives that will be in RAID5.

Re: Hardware RAID Cards..

2005-05-26 Thread Luke Dean
On Tue, 24 May 2005, Kirk Strauser wrote: On Tuesday 24 May 2005 09:57, Aaron C. Meadows wrote: My question is, since that chipset is unsupported for hardware RAID, would I be better off to software RAID them, or get a different RAID card? What RAID level do you plan on using? Mirroring

Re: Hardware RAID Cards..

2005-05-24 Thread Kirk Strauser
On Tuesday 24 May 2005 09:57, Aaron C. Meadows wrote: My question is, since that chipset is unsupported for hardware RAID, would I be better off to software RAID them, or get a different RAID card? What RAID level do you plan on using? Mirroring shouldn't use much CPU, for example, but

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