Re: VMWare ESX and FBSD 7.2 AMD64 guest

2009-07-24 Thread Steve Bertrand
John Nielsen wrote: On Thursday 23 July 2009 19:44:15 Steve Bertrand wrote: My problem is performance. I'm only willing to make this box virtual if I can keep the abstraction performance loss to 25% (my ultimate goal would be 15%). usable memory = 8575160320 (8177 MB) avail memory =

RE: VMWare ESX and FBSD 7.2 AMD64 guest

2009-07-24 Thread Dean Weimer
is performance. I'm only willing to make this box virtual if I can keep the abstraction performance loss to 25% (my ultimate goal would be 15%). The following is what I have, followed by my benchmark findings: # 7.2-RELEASE AMD64 FreeBSD 7.2-RELEASE #0: Fri May 1 07:18:07 UTC 2009 r

Re: VMWare ESX and FBSD 7.2 AMD64 guest

2009-07-24 Thread Steve Polyack
John Nielsen wrote: On Thursday 23 July 2009 19:44:15 Steve Bertrand wrote: I'd appreciate any feedback on tweaks that I can make (either to VMWare, or FreeBSD itself) to make the virtualized environment much more efficient. See above about storage. Similar questions come up

Re: VMWare ESX and FBSD 7.2 AMD64 guest

2009-07-24 Thread Richard Mahlerwein
From: John Nielsen li...@jnielsen.net Subject: Re: VMWare ESX and FBSD 7.2 AMD64 guest To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Cc: Steve Bertrand st...@ibctech.ca Date: Friday, July 24, 2009, 10:22 AM On Thursday 23 July 2009 19:44:15 Steve Bertrand wrote: This message has a foot that has

Re: VMWare ESX and FBSD 7.2 AMD64 guest

2009-07-24 Thread Steve Bertrand
Richard Mahlerwein wrote: If I recall correctly from ESX (well, VI) training*, there may be a minor scheduling issue affecting things here. If you set up the VM with 4 processors, ESX schedules time on the CPU only when there's 4 things to execute (well, there's another time period it

RE: VMWare ESX and FBSD 7.2 AMD64 guest

2009-07-24 Thread Richard Mahlerwein
From: Dean Weimer dwei...@orscheln.com Subject: RE: VMWare ESX and FBSD 7.2 AMD64 guest To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Cc: st...@ibctech.ca Date: Friday, July 24, 2009, 10:49 AM [snip] servers while running between datacenters.  Also keep in mind that as of vSphere 4 (We

Re: Building FreeBSD Current on Debian Squeeze AMD64

2009-07-23 Thread Ruben de Groot
On Wed, Jul 22, 2009 at 12:12:14PM +0200, Oliver Pinter typed: debian not only linux based: http://www.debian.org/ports/kfreebsd-gnu/ http://www.debian.org/ports/#nonlinux That's not the point. FreeBSD is a complete OS. Not just a kernel and some tools Why would you want to replace all the

Re: Building FreeBSD Current on Debian Squeeze AMD64

2009-07-23 Thread Oliver Pinter
That's not the point. FreeBSD is a complete OS Yeah, I know, and I use true FreeBSD, and not debian gnu/kfreebsd. On 7/23/09, Ruben de Groot mai...@bzerk.org wrote: On Wed, Jul 22, 2009 at 12:12:14PM +0200, Oliver Pinter typed: debian not only linux based:

VMWare ESX and FBSD 7.2 AMD64 guest

2009-07-23 Thread Steve Bertrand
willing to make this box virtual if I can keep the abstraction performance loss to 25% (my ultimate goal would be 15%). The following is what I have, followed by my benchmark findings: # 7.2-RELEASE AMD64 FreeBSD 7.2-RELEASE #0: Fri May 1 07:18:07 UTC 2009 r...@driscoll.cse.buffalo.edu:/usr

freebsd 7.2 amd64 jail ip lost connection ?

2009-07-23 Thread Thomas Wahyudi
hi all I have freebsd 7.2 amd64 installed on IBM server with dual NIC but i only use one and put 2 ip address ( aliases ) on that NIC the other left unuse, using ezjail I create one jail. All is working fine but there is something strange happening, every 1 or two minute that jail ip can't

custom amd64 kernel

2009-07-21 Thread PJ
Frankly, I have no idea how to configure the kernel from GENERIC... I have installed, in the past and recently, Intel i386 kernels without problem but this amd64 thingy is incomprehensible for me... the default GENERIC example holds HAMMER as the cpu; mine is Turion with some other name

Re: custom amd64 kernel

2009-07-21 Thread ill...@gmail.com
2009/7/21 PJ af.gour...@videotron.ca: Frankly, I have no idea how to configure the kernel from GENERIC... I have installed, in the past and recently, Intel i386 kernels without problem but this amd64 thingy is incomprehensible for me... the default GENERIC example holds HAMMER as the cpu; mine

Re: custom amd64 kernel

2009-07-21 Thread PJ
ill...@gmail.com wrote: 2009/7/21 PJ af.gour...@videotron.ca: Frankly, I have no idea how to configure the kernel from GENERIC... I have installed, in the past and recently, Intel i386 kernels without problem but this amd64 thingy is incomprehensible for me... the default GENERIC example

Re: custom amd64 kernel

2009-07-21 Thread b. f.
Frankly, I have no idea how to configure the kernel from GENERIC... I have installed, in the past and recently, Intel i386 kernels without problem but this amd64 thingy is incomprehensible for me... the default GENERIC example holds HAMMER as the cpu; mine is Turion with some other name

Lots of freebsd-update file changes on amd64 systems from 7.2-RELEASE-p1 to -p2

2009-07-16 Thread Henno Schooljan
I noticed that on my amd64 systems almost all of /bin, /sbin, /lib, / usr/bin, etc had changed from 7.2-RELEASE-p1 to 7.2-RELEASE-p2. On my i386 only some network drivers, libc and rescue files were updated. Is this normal? Before installing the update I made a copy of the files, and it looks

Re: Wine on FBSD-7.0 amd64. Does it run?

2009-07-09 Thread Adam Vande More
On Wed, Jul 8, 2009 at 9:32 AM, kxorrao luizbcam...@gmail.com wrote: What port of wine should I download in order to play 32bit .exe files on FreeBSD-7.0 amd64? Linux wine or Wine? It's not a terribly big port. Compile it and check. Generally if there are problems with port on a specific

Re: Wine on FBSD-7.0 amd64. Does it run?

2009-07-09 Thread Roland Smith
On Thu, Jul 09, 2009 at 01:10:58AM -0500, Adam Vande More wrote: On Wed, Jul 8, 2009 at 9:32 AM, kxorrao luizbcam...@gmail.com wrote: What port of wine should I download in order to play 32bit .exe files on FreeBSD-7.0 amd64? Linux wine or Wine? It's not a terribly big port

Re: Wine on FBSD-7.0 amd64. Does it run?

2009-07-09 Thread Sam Fourman Jr.
. The FreeBSD ports system doesn't currently isn't equipped to handle this. Not that this would be impossible, but nobody has bothered. I know that is must be possible, 64bit Linux's run 32bit wine apps. Gentoo Linux and OpenSuse amd64 editions, work with wine I use one of these two to Play World

Wine on FBSD-7.0 amd64. Does it run?

2009-07-08 Thread kxorrao
What port of wine should I download in order to play 32bit .exe files on FreeBSD-7.0 amd64? Linux wine or Wine? ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail

Re: AMD64 VM with OpenGL?

2009-06-30 Thread xorquewasp
On 2009-06-30 02:13:11, Roland Smith wrote: The page says it does. Forgive me for being cynical but after countless experiences, I rarely believe such statements any more! Virtualbox + VMGL seems the most likely candidate at the moment - From the abovementioned page: VMGL is available

AMD64 VM with OpenGL?

2009-06-29 Thread xorquewasp
Hello. What's the preferred virtual machine on FreeBSD 7.2-RELEASE on amd64 if OpenGL support is required? Please CC me as I'm not subscribed. xw ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd

Re: AMD64 VM with OpenGL?

2009-06-29 Thread Roland Smith
On Mon, Jun 29, 2009 at 08:14:17PM +0100, xorquew...@googlemail.com wrote: Hello. What's the preferred virtual machine on FreeBSD 7.2-RELEASE on amd64 if OpenGL support is required? Depends on what your definitions of a virtual machine and OpenGl support are. :-) All CPU level virtual

Re: AMD64 VM with OpenGL?

2009-06-29 Thread xorquewasp
On 2009-06-29 23:34:08, Roland Smith wrote: On Mon, Jun 29, 2009 at 08:14:17PM +0100, xorquew...@googlemail.com wrote: Hello. What's the preferred virtual machine on FreeBSD 7.2-RELEASE on amd64 if OpenGL support is required? Depends on what your definitions of a virtual machine

Re: AMD64 VM with OpenGL?

2009-06-29 Thread Roland Smith
On Mon, Jun 29, 2009 at 10:59:04PM +0100, xorquew...@googlemail.com wrote: On 2009-06-29 23:34:08, Roland Smith wrote: On Mon, Jun 29, 2009 at 08:14:17PM +0100, xorquew...@googlemail.com wrote: Hello. What's the preferred virtual machine on FreeBSD 7.2-RELEASE on amd64 if OpenGL

Re: security/pgp on amd64

2009-06-24 Thread Dan Nelson
In the last episode (Jun 24), Olivier Nicole said: Is the port security/pgp working on amd64 system? I copied my public and private keyrings from i386 to amd64 system and I cannot decipher any file, it keeps on complaining that the pass phrase is bad. I already tried to export the key

Re: Can't boot 7.2-RELEASE i386 or AMD64 on an Abit KV8 Pro motherboard with Sempron 3100+ CPU

2009-06-23 Thread ericr
version 2.10 pcib0: MPTable Host-PCI bridge pcibus 0 on motherboard pci0: PCI Bus on pcib0 pci0: domain=0, physical bus=0 There's no PCI cards plugged in, just the AGP video card. When I try booting the AMD64 ISO, the boot loader runs, I get the boot menu, and regardless of what boot

Re: Can't boot 7.2-RELEASE i386 or AMD64 on an Abit KV8 Pro motherboard with Sempron 3100+ CPU

2009-06-23 Thread Mark Busby
--- On Tue, 6/23/09, ericr erobi...@gmail.com wrote: From: ericr erobi...@gmail.com Subject: Re: Can't boot 7.2-RELEASE i386 or AMD64 on an Abit KV8 Pro motherboard with Sempron 3100+ CPU To: Kent Stewart kstew...@owt.com, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Date: Tuesday, June 23, 2009, 12:44

Re: Can't boot 7.2-RELEASE i386 or AMD64 on an Abit KV8 Pro motherboard with Sempron 3100+ CPU

2009-06-23 Thread Chris Whitehouse
ericr wrote: On Sat, Jun 20, 2009 at 3:10 PM, Kent Stewart kstew...@owt.com wrote: On Saturday 20 June 2009 11:00:45 am ericr wrote: Hi, As the subject says, I can't get the 7.2-RELEASE i386 CD to boot on a system that has: Abit KV8 Pro (K8T800P-8237-6A7L1A1BC-26) motherboard with the most

security/pgp on amd64

2009-06-23 Thread Olivier Nicole
--- Start of forwarded message --- Hi, Is the port security/pgp working on amd64 system? I copied my public and private keyrings from i386 to amd64 system and I cannot decipher any file, it keeps on complaining that the pass phrase is bad. I already tried to export the key on the i386

fortran in AMD64 FreeBSD-7.2-RELEASE

2009-06-22 Thread Jason Barnes
-RELEASE. I'd use ifc but that's marked as i386 only and I'm on an AMD64 box. How do I get g77 running on FreeBSD 7.2-RELEASE? Thanks in advance for any help that you can provide with my conundrum . . . - Jason ___ freebsd

Re: fortran in AMD64 FreeBSD-7.2-RELEASE

2009-06-22 Thread Anton Shterenlikht
the gfortran port, however I don't see one in my ports tree for 7.2-RELEASE. I'd use ifc but that's marked as i386 only and I'm on an AMD64 box. How do I get g77 running on FreeBSD 7.2-RELEASE? Thanks in advance for any help that you can provide with my conundrum . . . gfortran is part

Can't boot 7.2-RELEASE i386 or AMD64 on an Abit KV8 Pro motherboard with Sempron 3100+ CPU

2009-06-20 Thread ericr
. When I try booting the AMD64 ISO, the boot loader runs, I get the boot menu, and regardless of what boot options I give the kernel, I get the message CPU doesn't support long mode and then I get the OK prompt. I'm pretty sure it doesn't have a h/w problem, it'll boot and install Fedora 11, Win2K

Re: Can't boot 7.2-RELEASE i386 or AMD64 on an Abit KV8 Pro motherboard with Sempron 3100+ CPU

2009-06-20 Thread Kent Stewart
, physical bus=0 There's no PCI cards plugged in, just the AGP video card. When I try booting the AMD64 ISO, the boot loader runs, I get the boot menu, and regardless of what boot options I give the kernel, I get the message CPU doesn't support long mode and then I get the OK prompt. I'm

Re: tcllib error while installing tcllib on amd64 system running freebsd 7.0

2009-06-11 Thread Dino Vliet
--- On Mon, 6/8/09, Lowell Gilbert freebsd-questions-lo...@be-well.ilk.org wrote: From: Lowell Gilbert freebsd-questions-lo...@be-well.ilk.org Subject: Re: tcllib error while installing tcllib on amd64 system running freebsd 7.0 To: Dino Vliet dino_vl...@yahoo.com Cc: freebsd-questions

Re: tcllib error while installing tcllib on amd64 system running freebsd 7.0

2009-06-08 Thread Lowell Gilbert
Dino Vliet dino_vl...@yahoo.com writes: [*   ]  [8.6b1] comm    comm.test!Connect to remote failed: couldn't open socket: connection timed out  Taking a look in the comm.test file, it looks to me like you already had something on port 12345, so an attempt to open such a port failed. --

tcllib error while installing tcllib on amd64 system running freebsd 7.0

2009-06-06 Thread Dino Vliet
Hi all, On my AMD 64 system running freebsd 7.0 I try to install tcllib. I have up to date ports and have installed tcl86-threaded first. pkg_info | grep threads gives: tcl-threads-8.6.b.1_4 Tool Command Language Installing tcllib gives the following error: [ *  ]  [8.6b1] cmdline PASS

Still 2 apcupsd problems using USB to connect on FreeBSD 7.2-RELEASE AMD64

2009-06-01 Thread Chun-fan Ivan Liao
The time of the first post of the original topic 4 apcupsd problems using USB to connect on FreeBSD 7.2-RELEASE was some 20 days ago, and there are still 2 problems remained. So I copy the unsolved problems here, plus the thing I did. Any help will be greatly appreciated. = OS version:

Fwd: updating from 7.1 to 7.2 AMD64

2009-05-29 Thread Prokofyev Vladislav
Very specifically that I was getting watchdog time outs and link status up down up on the re nic driver, hopefully 7.2 solves this. hmm i do have re(8) nic with 7.1 (6.3 before) - no problems. strange almost the same.. three rl nic's with 7.0, no problems on all ifaces

Re: Fwd: updating from 7.1 to 7.2 AMD64

2009-05-29 Thread Wojciech Puchar
hmm i do have re(8) nic with 7.1 (6.3 before) - no problems. strange almost the same.. three rl nic's with 7.0, no problems on all ifaces rl and re are different drivers for different chips, just both produced by realtek ;) ___

RE: updating from 7.1 to 7.2 AMD64

2009-05-26 Thread Graeme Dargie
-Original Message- From: Wojciech Puchar [mailto:woj...@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl] Sent: 26 May 2009 02:20 To: Graeme Dargie Cc: ill...@gmail.com; freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: RE: updating from 7.1 to 7.2 AMD64 I am trying to update 2 7.1 systems to 7.2. sun3# freebsd

Re: updating from 7.1 to 7.2 AMD64

2009-05-26 Thread Ghirai
On Tue, 26 May 2009 09:01:36 +0100 Graeme Dargie a...@tangerine-army.co.uk wrote: -Original Message- Various network interface drivers have been improved, including ae(4), ath_hal(4), axe(4), bce(4), cxgb(4), fxp(4), igb(4), jme(4), msk(4), mxge(4), nfe(4), re(4), rl(4), sis(4), and

Re: updating from 7.1 to 7.2 AMD64

2009-05-26 Thread Wojciech Puchar
Are you suggesting a user should only upgrade if they are having a problem, or do you just like to contribute more nonsense to the list mostly yes - keep things as is if it works. and it's only nonsense for you. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org

Re: updating from 7.1 to 7.2 AMD64

2009-05-26 Thread Wojciech Puchar
I'd say it depends very much on the system's use. For a system which is in production (i.e. doing ongoing work), there is a great deal to be said for not fixing things that aren't broken. if they are not broken - there is nothing to fix. ___

RE: updating from 7.1 to 7.2 AMD64

2009-05-26 Thread Wojciech Puchar
Very specifically that I was getting watchdog time outs and link status up down up on the re nic driver, hopefully 7.2 solves this. hmm i do have re(8) nic with 7.1 (6.3 before) - no problems. strange ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list

updating from 7.1 to 7.2 AMD64

2009-05-25 Thread Graeme Dargie
Hi All I am trying to update 2 7.1 systems to 7.2. sun3# freebsd-update upgrade -r 7.2RELEASE Looking up update.FreeBSD.org mirrors... 2 mirrors found. Fetching metadata signature for 7.1-RELEASE from update4.freebsd.org... done. Fetching metadata index... done. Inspecting system... done.

Re: updating from 7.1 to 7.2 AMD64

2009-05-25 Thread ill...@gmail.com
2009/5/25 Graeme Dargie a...@tangerine-army.co.uk: Hi All I am trying to update 2 7.1 systems to 7.2. sun3# freebsd-update upgrade -r 7.2RELEASE 7.2-RELEASE Maybe? -- -- ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list

RE: updating from 7.1 to 7.2 AMD64

2009-05-25 Thread Graeme Dargie
-Original Message- From: ill...@gmail.com [mailto:ill...@gmail.com] Sent: 25 May 2009 22:39 To: Graeme Dargie Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: updating from 7.1 to 7.2 AMD64 2009/5/25 Graeme Dargie a...@tangerine-army.co.uk: Hi All I am trying to update 2 7.1 systems

RE: updating from 7.1 to 7.2 AMD64

2009-05-25 Thread Wojciech Puchar
I am trying to update 2 7.1 systems to 7.2. sun3# freebsd-update upgrade -r 7.2RELEASE 7.2-RELEASE Maybe? Haha ... thank I knew it was something blindly obvious that I was missing ... there be a lesson don't try to upgrade 3 systems at once and watch TV. even more important - why you are

Re: updating from 7.1 to 7.2 AMD64

2009-05-25 Thread Glen Barber
On Mon, May 25, 2009 at 9:19 PM, Wojciech Puchar woj...@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl wrote: even more important - why you are upgrading at all. did you find in 7.1 problems that you wanted to solve by moving to 7.2? Are you suggesting a user should only upgrade if they are having a problem, or do

Re: updating from 7.1 to 7.2 AMD64

2009-05-25 Thread perryh
Glen Barber glen.j.bar...@gmail.com wrote: On Mon, May 25, 2009 at 9:19 PM, Wojciech Puchar woj...@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl wrote: even more important - why you are upgrading at all. did you find in 7.1 problems that you wanted to solve by moving to 7.2? Are you suggesting a user should

Re: updating from 7.1 to 7.2 AMD64

2009-05-25 Thread Glen Barber
On Tue, May 26, 2009 at 12:06 AM, per...@pluto.rain.com wrote: I'd say it depends very much on the system's use.  For a system which is in production (i.e. doing ongoing work), there is a great deal to be said for not fixing things that aren't broken. This was not the OP's reason for this

RE: dell broadcom nic fbsd 7.1 AMD64

2009-05-19 Thread Len Conrad
ifconfig_bce0=inet 10.2.17.8 netmask 255.255.0.0 and output from: dhclient bc0 I ran that on a local machine and it hung up the interface, requiring a warm reboot. I'll see what happens with my client's machine. I assume you substituted the correct interface name? (bce0 in place of

RE: dell broadcom nic fbsd 7.1 AMD64

2009-05-19 Thread Dean Weimer
Have you tried the bge drivers instead of bce? I have a Dell PowerEdge 2650 running 7.1 and it is using the bge drivers with no problems, though it is the running i386 and not amd64. Thanks, Dean Weimer Network Administrator Orscheln Management Co -Original Message

dell broadcom nic fbsd 7.1 AMD64

2009-05-18 Thread Len Conrad
Dell PE1950 III frebsd 7.1 AMD64 (to get support of full 4 GB RAM) After fresh 7.1 install, and boot, ifconfig shows bc0 active and 1000 Mb/sec, but cannot ping anything. replaced cables, tried the other bc nic, nothing. Linux in 3 other same machines works fine. suggestions? Len

Re: dell broadcom nic fbsd 7.1 AMD64

2009-05-18 Thread Glen Barber
Hi, Len On Mon, May 18, 2009 at 4:20 PM, Len Conrad lcon...@go2france.com wrote: Dell PE1950 III frebsd 7.1 AMD64 (to get support of full 4 GB RAM) After fresh 7.1 install, and boot, ifconfig shows bc0 active and 1000 Mb/sec, but cannot ping anything. replaced cables, tried the other bc

Re: dell broadcom nic fbsd 7.1 AMD64

2009-05-18 Thread Len Conrad
Dell PE1950 III frebsd 7.1 AMD64 (to get support of full 4 GB RAM) After fresh 7.1 install, and boot, ifconfig shows bc0 active and 1000 Mb/sec, but cannot ping anything. replaced cables, tried the other bc nic, nothing. Linux in 3 other same machines works fine. Could you paste

Re: dell broadcom nic fbsd 7.1 AMD64

2009-05-18 Thread Glen Barber
On Mon, May 18, 2009 at 5:37 PM, Len Conrad lcon...@go2france.com wrote: Could you paste the output of the following:   cat /etc/rc.conf | grep bc0 sorry, is bce not bc, Was going to be my next suggestion... I couldn't find 'bc' in GENERIC for amd64. ifconfig_bce0=inet 10.2.17.8 netmask

RE: dell broadcom nic fbsd 7.1 AMD64

2009-05-18 Thread Graeme Dargie
-Original Message- From: Glen Barber [mailto:glen.j.bar...@gmail.com] Sent: 18 May 2009 22:58 To: lcon...@go2france.com Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: dell broadcom nic fbsd 7.1 AMD64 On Mon, May 18, 2009 at 5:37 PM, Len Conrad lcon...@go2france.com wrote: Could you

Re: Xdvi with amd64

2009-05-06 Thread Andrew Hamilton-Wright
On Mon, 4 May 2009, Olivier Nicole wrote: Exactly which fonts are you having trouble with? I can tell you whether I can reproduce the issue under 7.1. Nothing exotic at all: cmr10.300.pk The error message is: $ xdvi memo Note: overstrike characters may be incorrect. xdvi: Wrong

Re: Xdvi with amd64

2009-05-05 Thread Olivier Nicole
HI Andrew, Exactly which fonts are you having trouble with? I can tell you whether I can reproduce the issue under 7.1. Nothing exotic at all: cmr10.300.pk The error message is: $ xdvi memo Note: overstrike characters may be incorrect. xdvi: Wrong number of bits stored: char. 68,

Re: Xdvi with amd64

2009-05-05 Thread Olivier Nicole
Hi, Exactly which fonts are you having trouble with? I can tell you whether I can reproduce the issue under 7.1. Nothing exotic at all: cmr10.300.pk The error message is: $ xdvi memo Note: overstrike characters may be incorrect. xdvi: Wrong number of bits stored: char.

Re: Xdvi with amd64

2009-05-03 Thread Andrew Wright
Hello Oliver; On Thu, 30 Apr 2009, Olivier Nicole wrote: Is there known issue with the port of Xdvi (/usr/ports/print/xdvi) on 6.4 amd64? I suspect there is a problem with the size of the int/short/long as Xdvi detects wrong number of bits in some font files, while these same font files

Xdvi with amd64

2009-05-01 Thread Olivier Nicole
Hi, Is there known issue with the port of Xdvi (/usr/ports/print/xdvi) on 6.4 amd64? I suspect there is a problem with the size of the int/short/long as Xdvi detects wrong number of bits in some font files, while these same font files are used without problem by other ports and are identical

FreeBSd amd64 bit kernel conf

2009-04-27 Thread Mike Barnard
Hi, I'm trying to get myself around 64 bit custom kernel configuration for FreeBSD on Intel Xeon L5430. Does any one know what cpu option one should use for this? From my reading, it seems HAMMER is purely for amd64 architectures. What is the Intel architecture option. Regards, Mike -- Mike

Re: FreeBSd amd64 bit kernel conf

2009-04-27 Thread Neo [GC]
know what cpu option one should use for this? From my reading, it seems HAMMER is purely for amd64 architectures. What is the Intel architecture option. Regards, Mike ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman

Re: FreeBSd amd64 bit kernel conf

2009-04-27 Thread Mike Barnard
, Neo [GC] Mike Barnard schrieb: Hi, I'm trying to get myself around 64 bit custom kernel configuration for FreeBSD on Intel Xeon L5430. Does any one know what cpu option one should use for this? From my reading, it seems HAMMER is purely for amd64 architectures. What is the Intel

does isoqlog work in amd64?

2009-04-20 Thread B. Cook
just wanted to ask if anyone has the mail/isoqlog program working on an amd64 box. We have it working on i386 FreeBSD 7.x but it sig11's on amd64. looking to have it filter exim logs fwiw. I have sent emails to enderunix and not heard back.. and if it does not work, has anyone actually made

Re: Question about amd64 tier1 status.

2009-04-17 Thread Lowell Gilbert
J. Julián Rodríguez warenost...@gmail.com writes: I´m a FreeBSD user from 4.0 version to Current (i386 arch). I've recently switched to a amd64 machine and consecuently to the amd64 version of the OS. You claim the amd64 version enjoys Tier 1 Status, but in the page http://www.freebsd.org

Question about amd64 tier1 status.

2009-04-16 Thread J . Julián Rodríguez
Hi, I´m a FreeBSD user from 4.0 version to Current (i386 arch). I've recently switched to a amd64 machine and consecuently to the amd64 version of the OS. You claim the amd64 version enjoys Tier 1 Status, but in the page http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/articles/committers-guide

Re: memtest question on 8 GB RAM AMD64 system

2009-04-10 Thread Anton Yuzhaninov
On Thu, 9 Apr 2009 11:43:08 -0700 (PDT), Dino Vliet wrote: DV I have just installed 4 x 2gb kingston memory banks (Kingston HyperX 4GB 800mhz DDR2 Non-ECC CL5 (5-5-5-15) DIMM) onto my AMD 64 system with a X2 5200 CPU. The motherboard I have in this system is MSI K9AG Neo2-Digital. DV DV The

memtest question on 8 GB RAM AMD64 system

2009-04-09 Thread Dino Vliet
Dear freebsd people, I have just installed 4 x 2gb kingston memory banks (Kingston HyperX 4GB 800mhz DDR2 Non-ECC CL5 (5-5-5-15) DIMM) onto my AMD 64 system with a X2 5200 CPU. The motherboard I have in this system is MSI K9AG Neo2-Digital. The system boots fine and I wanted to try memtest to

Re: memtest question on 8 GB RAM AMD64 system

2009-04-09 Thread Josh Carroll
On Thu, Apr 9, 2009 at 2:43 PM, Dino Vliet dino_vl...@yahoo.com wrote: Dear freebsd people, I have just installed 4 x 2gb kingston memory banks (Kingston HyperX 4GB 800mhz DDR2 Non-ECC CL5 (5-5-5-15) DIMM) onto my AMD 64 system with a X2 5200 CPU. The motherboard I have in this system is

Re: Binary upgrade 7.1 i386 - amd64 ?

2009-03-29 Thread Frederique Rijsdijk
On Fri, 13 Mar 2009 09:05:12 +0100, Frederique Rijsdijk frederi...@isafeelin.org wrote: I'm planning to binary upgrade a machine that's now running i386 7.1-RELEASE-p3 to AMD64. Just to follow up on my quest here.. The upgrade went fine. Most ports were broken as expected. I gave up trying

Re: Installing 7.1 amd64 on Dell powerEdge 2950

2009-03-24 Thread Olivier Nicole
Hi, As a follow-up... I spent a couple of days trying to install FreeBSD 7.1 amd64 on a Dell PowerEdge 2950. It won't finish booting properly from the installation CD: with default boot, single user and verbose it stops at: fdc0: ... device_attach: fdc0 attach returned 6 with ACPI

Re: make installworld fails on RELEASE6.4 amd64

2009-03-17 Thread Olivier Nicole
I am facing a problem that I cannot solve when trying to reinstall wolrd on 6.4 amd 64. More about this issue. Regarding adjkerntz -i. Places that are ahead of UTC don't need to do the adjkerntz -i after rebooting in single user. Suppose you are in a time zone at UTC +7. Boot in

Re: make installworld fails on RELEASE6.4 amd64

2009-03-17 Thread Ian Smith
exactly why you DO need to run that when (ever) working single user, if you want file/log datestamps consistent. I can't comment on i386/amd64 differences, but it's necessary on i386. cheers, Ian ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http

Re: Installing 7.1 amd64 on Dell powerEdge 2950

2009-03-17 Thread Maciej Suszko
Olivier Nicole o...@cs.ait.ac.th wrote: Hi, I've had(and have) several fairly new Dell PowerEdge2950 servers running FreeBSD 7.1/amd64 just fine. Is this a brand new 2950 (2950 III, or whatever), or an older one? Depends how new is new, we bought it at the end of last year. I'd

Re: Installing 7.1 amd64 on Dell powerEdge 2950

2009-03-17 Thread Olivier Nicole
Hi, I got 2 PE2950 running 7.0/amd64 bought last summer - all running without problems. Maybe CD/DVD drives are failing? Have you tried another media - DVD instead of CD for example? Hummm, I doubt that CD drives would fail on both machines, and I tried also an external USB attached CD drive

FreeBSD 8.0-CUURENT/amd64 coredumps when shutdown

2009-03-16 Thread O. Hartmann
-CURRENT/amd64 I did last week when the box ran FreeBSD 7.1-STABLE/amd64. Whenever I left a Xsession, the box died. Whenever I rebootet it, the box died. I already checked cabling and SMART logs of the harddrives making sure there is no issue with lost blocks or similar. Then I tried testing

Re: Installing 7.1 amd64 on Dell powerEdge 2950

2009-03-16 Thread Steve Polyack
Olivier Nicole wrote: I spent a couple of days trying to install FreeBSD 7.1 amd64 on a Dell PowerEdge 2950. It won't finish booting properly from the installation CD I've had(and have) several fairly new Dell PowerEdge2950 servers running FreeBSD 7.1/amd64 just fine. Is this a brand new

Re: Installing 7.1 amd64 on Dell powerEdge 2950

2009-03-16 Thread Olivier Nicole
Hi, I've had(and have) several fairly new Dell PowerEdge2950 servers running FreeBSD 7.1/amd64 just fine. Is this a brand new 2950 (2950 III, or whatever), or an older one? Depends how new is new, we bought it at the end of last year. I'd make sure that the BIOS, BMC, and PERC

Re: make installworld fails on RELEASE6.4 amd64

2009-03-15 Thread Olivier Nicole
at the modification date of the link /usr/obj/usr/src/sys/boot/i386/boot2/machine; while on amd64 make installworld looks at the modification date of the directory /usr/src/sys/i386/include pointed by the link. Hence the different behaviour. This is annoying for people leaving ahead of UTC, that will install

Re: make installworld fails on RELEASE6.4 amd64

2009-03-15 Thread Kent Stewart
the object. My wild guess is that on i386, make installworld looks at the modification date of the link /usr/obj/usr/src/sys/boot/i386/boot2/machine; while on amd64 make installworld looks at the modification date of the directory /usr/src/sys/i386/include pointed by the link. Hence

Re: make installworld fails on RELEASE6.4 amd64

2009-03-15 Thread Olivier Nicole
Hi, What I did is: during the installation of the distrubition I set back the CMOS clock to UTC time, and when FreeBSD was done installing from the CD, I reset the CMOS clock to the wall clock. It worked, but it's not very nice. What you did is not necessary if you adjkerntz -i when you

Installing 7.1 amd64 on Dell powerEdge 2950

2009-03-15 Thread Olivier Nicole
Hi, I spent a couple of days trying to install FreeBSD 7.1 amd64 on a Dell PowerEdge 2950. It won't finish booting properly from the installation CD: with default boot, single user and verbose it stops at: fdc0: ... device_attach: fdc0 attach returned 6 with ACPI disabled and Safe mode

make installworld fails on RELEASE6.4 amd64

2009-03-14 Thread Olivier Nicole
Hi, I am facing a problem that I cannot solve when trying to reinstall wolrd on 6.4 amd 64. On a brand new machine (Dell powerEdge 2950) I install RELEASE 6.4 amd64: FreeBSD ufo2.cs.ait.ac.th 6.4-RELEASE FreeBSD 6.4-RELEASE #0: Wed Nov 26 08:37:42 UTC 2008 r...@palmer.cse.buffalo.edu

Binary upgrade 7.1 i386 - amd64 ?

2009-03-13 Thread Frederique Rijsdijk
I'm planning to binary upgrade a machine that's now running i386 7.1-RELEASE-p3 to AMD64. Mainly because the machine has 8GB of memory and I don't like the PAE limitations. I've done this a couple of times before with 4.x - 6.x but all remained i386. Are there any pitfalls when doing an upgrade

Re: Binary upgrade 7.1 i386 - amd64 ?

2009-03-13 Thread Erik Trulsson
On Fri, Mar 13, 2009 at 09:05:12AM +0100, Frederique Rijsdijk wrote: I'm planning to binary upgrade a machine that's now running i386 7.1-RELEASE-p3 to AMD64. Mainly because the machine has 8GB of memory and I don't like the PAE limitations. I've done this a couple of times before with 4.x

Re: Binary upgrade 7.1 i386 - amd64 ?

2009-03-13 Thread Frederique Rijsdijk
architecture. OT: I've been trying to search the bsd list archives, but it appears broken. I can view one page of search results, but if I click a page further, I always end up with this error: http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/mmsearch?config=freebsd-amd64;method=and;format=short;sort=score;words=update;page

Re: Binary upgrade 7.1 i386 - amd64 ?

2009-03-13 Thread Frederique Rijsdijk
Erik Trulsson wrote: On Fri, Mar 13, 2009 at 09:05:12AM +0100, Frederique Rijsdijk wrote: I'm planning to binary upgrade a machine that's now running i386 7.1-RELEASE-p3 to AMD64. Mainly because the machine has 8GB of memory and I don't like the PAE limitations. I've done this a couple

FreeBSD 7.1-STABLE/amd64: pkg_delete core dumps

2009-03-05 Thread O. Hartmann
Since several weeks now /usr/sbin/pkg_delete core dumps whenever I try to delete an obsolete package or portupgrade tries to do so. The box is a Quad Core most recent FreeBSD 7.1-STABLE box as built world of today's sources. Regards, Oliver ___

installing i386.rpm files on fbsd-amd64

2009-03-03 Thread luizbcampos
I need to put my printer to work and its driver finishes as i386.rpm files. I've already installed linux_base-fc4 but when I type /compat/linux/bin rpm -ivh --root=/usr/compat/linux/rpmfile.rpm I got permission denied as root ___

Re: Upgrade from FreeBSD 7.1/i386 to FreeBSD 7.1/AMD64?

2009-02-26 Thread Andrew Moran
Cross fingers, and reboot into amd64-land Portupgrade -fa (this step wan't flawless since I was also upgrading through the perl58 and gnome-2.24 updates, but still took less than 24 hours) All the while having my i386 kernel and root available to reboot back into if I screwed something

Upgrade from FreeBSD 7.1/i386 to FreeBSD 7.1/AMD64?

2009-02-23 Thread Andrew Moran
I installed the i386 distro on my Core 2 Duo instead of AMD64 and now I want to switch to using AMD64. Is there a good path to do this? Will I have to reinstall, or can I do a buildworld/installworld over the i386? --Andy ___ freebsd-questions

Re: Upgrade from FreeBSD 7.1/i386 to FreeBSD 7.1/AMD64?

2009-02-23 Thread Roland Smith
On Mon, Feb 23, 2009 at 11:30:10AM -0800, Andrew Moran wrote: I installed the i386 distro on my Core 2 Duo instead of AMD64 and now I want to switch to using AMD64. First of all, your Core2 Duo should work just fine with i386. The amd64 architecture is an extension of the x86 arch. Unless

Re: Upgrade from FreeBSD 7.1/i386 to FreeBSD 7.1/AMD64?

2009-02-23 Thread Andrew Moran
need the ports to be 64-bit, but they SHOULD run just fine without recompiling, yes? --Andy On Feb 23, 2009, at 12:05 PM, Roland Smith wrote: On Mon, Feb 23, 2009 at 11:30:10AM -0800, Andrew Moran wrote: I installed the i386 distro on my Core 2 Duo instead of AMD64 and now I want to switch

Re: Upgrade from FreeBSD 7.1/i386 to FreeBSD 7.1/AMD64?

2009-02-23 Thread Dan Nelson
/boot partition (installed as /boot/kernel.amd64 temporarily) Edit /boot/loader.conf and add vfs.root.mountfrom=zfs:local_pool/root.amd64 kernel=kernel.amd64 Edit /etc/fstab on root.amd64 to mount / from local_pool/root.amd64 Cross fingers, and reboot into amd64-land

Re: Upgrade from FreeBSD 7.1/i386 to FreeBSD 7.1/AMD64?

2009-02-23 Thread Roland Smith
without recompiling, yes? As long as you don't ever recompile anything. Otherwise the shit will hit the fan. The base system by default keeps two sets of system libraries on amd64, 64-bit and 32-bit. (you can compile the system without the 32-bit libs and kernel stuff if you don't need them; see

gpac-libgpac port not building on amd64

2009-02-14 Thread Troy
I just did a successful portupgrade of multimedia/gpac-libgpac but when trying to upgrade the exact same port on amd64, it fails with the following error. Thanks cc -O3 -O2 -fno-strict-aliasing -pipe -fPIC -pthread -fno-strict-aliasing -Wno-pointer-sign -I/usr/ports/multimedia/gpac-libgpac

Re: gpac-libgpac port not building on amd64

2009-02-14 Thread Josh Carroll
On Sat, Feb 14, 2009 at 1:42 PM, Troy t...@twisted.net wrote: I just did a successful portupgrade of multimedia/gpac-libgpac but when trying to upgrade the exact same port on amd64, it fails with the following error. Thanks cc -O3 -O2 -fno-strict-aliasing -pipe -fPIC -pthread -fno-strict

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