Re: ahc + vinum raid5 deadlocks?

2004-02-21 Thread Tony Frank
Hi, Cross posting to -scsi as it seems maybe related to my scsi setup. At least, the problems currently only appear when the scsi parts are in use. On Sat, Feb 21, 2004 at 02:47:49PM +1100, Tony Frank wrote: Refer earlier thread on -stable for more background. 4.9-STABLE (cvsup 20th Feb)

cannot find label and other woes with a 3ware raid5

2004-02-21 Thread ravi pina
hi. i have a 3ware 7410 with 4 250G disk in a raid5 config. at one point i lost a disk and for some reason the system kernel paniced and rebooted. not knowing that the array had gone to a degraded state i did a fsck and began correcting errors that it found. after noticing a lot of

Re: problem with tape units

2004-02-21 Thread anubis
On Sat, 21 Feb 2004 11:52 am, David Bear wrote: I recently replace an ait tape drive with another one of the same model,, a sony sdx 300. Now, when I try to do anything with /dev/sa0 like get status or erase, I get a ton of errors. Below is the output of dmesg from it. Do I need to remake

Re: problem with SCSI disk

2004-02-21 Thread RJ45
yes I can see it with /dev/da* On Sat, 21 Feb 2004, anubis wrote: On Sat, 21 Feb 2004 1:56 am, RJ45 wrote: Hello FreeBSD 5.2/alpha I have 3 scsi disk, one of the disks I don;t know why is not working. it is not seen by sysinstall and when I try to do sauron# disklabel -e da2

Re: dialup question ?

2004-02-21 Thread Tony Frank
Hi, On Fri, Feb 20, 2004 at 07:37:49PM -0300, Roberto Pereyra wrote: A question: I want to configure a simple dial-up server and have this ppp.conf -- default: pap: set debug phase lcp chat set timeout 0 set debug phase lcp chat enable pap

Re: Custom startup+shutdown scripts

2004-02-21 Thread Tony Frank
Hi there, On Fri, Feb 20, 2004 at 01:38:39PM -, Dominic Bishop wrote: I am shortly going to try and install a Belkin universal UPS on one of my FreeBSD machines running 5.2 using the nut utility. Something I've been thinking of doing for many months now. Due to a failing in the Belkin

Re: DHCP access

2004-02-21 Thread Tony Frank
Hi, On Fri, Feb 20, 2004 at 04:05:54PM -0800, Jim Pazarena wrote: I have a wireless home network with an 802.11B router which assigns IPs via DHCP. what method is appropriate to access one fbsd box from another when I don't actually know the IP which has been assigned to any given box.

Re: USB modem support?

2004-02-21 Thread Tony Frank
Hi, On Sat, Feb 21, 2004 at 02:26:24AM +, Daniela wrote: I'm having problems with an USB ADSL modem (Alcatel Speed Touch). It is recognized at boot time, but when I try to connect, it tells me that the modem is busy. I symlinked /dev/cuaa3 to /dev/ugen1 (that's the device that showed up

Kernel module programming

2004-02-21 Thread Sch
Hello everyone! In my localized version of FreeBSD developer's handbook (russian) I have found a skeleton example for writing custom kernel modules. But I can not find it's analog in original english version of the handbook. And if I do compile example given, computer stops responding

Copy old drive to new drive - is it possible?

2004-02-21 Thread Tig
Hi, I have a hard drive which is on its last legs. I also have new hard drive to replace the old one. I was wondering if it is possible to simply copy everything from the old drive to the new (after formating the new drive) and have my system back up and running, or do I need to reinstall the OS

Re: cvsup gets connection refused

2004-02-21 Thread James Gallagher
On 20 Feb 2004, at 01:35, Tiller Beauchamp wrote: On Tue, 2004-02-10 at 06:25, James Gallagher wrote: Hi Carl, Just out of curiosity, do you have a firewall between your BSD box and the cvs server you're trying to connect to? Alternatively, have you tested another cvs server? The reason I ask

Re: NFS and different exports to the same host

2004-02-21 Thread Tony Frank
Hi there, On Fri, Feb 20, 2004 at 09:17:37PM -0600, dap wrote: Per the FreeBSD handbook, I have to follow the rule that for a specific host I have to export everything the same for a particular filesystem. So let's say I have one filesystem, /. So I can't have: /export1-roserver1

Re: Copy old drive to new drive - is it possible?

2004-02-21 Thread Tony Frank
Hi there, On Sat, Feb 21, 2004 at 09:38:41PM +1100, Tig wrote: Hi, I have a hard drive which is on its last legs. I also have new hard drive to replace the old one. I was wondering if it is possible to simply copy everything from the old drive to the new (after formating the new drive) and

errors with FAM and KDE

2004-02-21 Thread Antoine Jacoutot
Hi :) I'm having a problem with FAM under KDE (3.2). My homedirs are mounted using NFS and regularly, I get the following errors in my logs: kernel: pid 609 (fam), uid 1: exited on signal 6 Everything seems to work fine though, but I'm always concern about errors I don't understand. The

clientmqueue filling up

2004-02-21 Thread Jonathon McKitrick
I've turned off all my sendmail options, IIRC, but /var/spool/clientmqueue keeps getting filled up with messages about undelivered mail. How can I stop this? NOTE: Please CC me, as I am not currently subscribed. Thanks. jm -- My other computer is your windows box.

Re: Kernel module programming

2004-02-21 Thread jan . muenther
Hey dude, looked at /usr/share/examples/kld/ yet? ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: cron or ipfw problem!

2004-02-21 Thread Marwan Sultan
Hello everyone, Thank you for the answers, True, I didnot use the full path for ipfw in my script. when I added to the script /sbin/ipfw RULE_HERE everything works great. I thought it will regonize the command ipfw by it self. well it didnot :) Thank you again marty, nathan, Ion and all

Re: cron or ipfw problem!

2004-02-21 Thread Ion-Mihai Tetcu
On Sat, 21 Feb 2004 15:51:16 +0300 Marwan Sultan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello everyone, Thank you for the answers, True, I didnot use the full path for ipfw in my script. when I added to the script /sbin/ipfw RULE_HERE everything works great. I thought it will regonize the command

RE: agp error with Radeon 7500 disables DRI

2004-02-21 Thread Rahul Sawarkar
Hello Radeon7500 does not support AGP 1X. Change the line in your XF86Config Option AGPMode 1 to read as Option AGPMode 2 .. or 4 Depending on if you have 2X/4X slot or only 2X or only 4X slot. I use 2 for my intel 440bx man radeon should give you the details. PS Don't use pageflip

framebuffer fro freebsd

2004-02-21 Thread Rahul Sawarkar
Hello is there a framebuffer port for freebsd? i want to run my console in 1024x768. thanks please cc to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to

Re: clientmqueue filling up

2004-02-21 Thread Matthew Seaman
On Sat, Feb 21, 2004 at 12:20:19PM +, Jonathon McKitrick wrote: I've turned off all my sendmail options, IIRC, but /var/spool/clientmqueue keeps getting filled up with messages about undelivered mail. How can I stop this? NOTE: Please CC me, as I am not currently subscribed. Thanks.

Re: mac filtering

2004-02-21 Thread Dan Pelleg
Neil Camara [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Hey guys, I don't know if this is the correct mailing to post this question. Is it possible to implement mac filtering in freebsd running hostap mode? If so, can someone share some links about it? Thanks. Neil ipfw(8) can filter by MAC addresses. --

FreeBSD binary distribution's CFLAGS?

2004-02-21 Thread Geert Hendrickx
Hello, does anyone know with which CFLAGS the FreeBSD binary distribution is compiled? It has -march=i386 allright, but does it have any -Ox? GH -- Powered by FreeBSD ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Re: DHCP access

2004-02-21 Thread Marty Landman
At 12:21 AM 2/21/2004, Saint Aardvark the Carpeted wrote: Jim Pazarena disturbed my sleep to write: May sound rookie, but presently I go to each box and determine it's IP directly and then I know the IP (at least for this session). What I end up doing is browing the hosts file on my gateway

[FAQ pointer] Re: Copy old drive to new drive - is it possible?

2004-02-21 Thread Lowell Gilbert
Tig [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Hi, I have a hard drive which is on its last legs. I also have new hard drive to replace the old one. I was wondering if it is possible to simply copy everything from the old drive to the new (after formating the new drive) and have my system back up and running,

Re: USB keyboard rollover problem [PATCHED]

2004-02-21 Thread Brian Candler
On Fri, Feb 20, 2004 at 03:56:02PM +, Brian Candler wrote: Here's what I get if I compile in and turn on USB keyboard debugging in the kernel, and type asd as a down, s down, a up, d down: this generates asds on screen. I have just spent a couple of hours debugging and documenting the

a sysctl machdep.tsc_freq problem

2004-02-21 Thread ouyang kai
hi, i found a strange case, i have tested the three machines(PIII 800 FreeBSD4.9-stable, P4-1.6G FreeBSD4.8-release, P4-2.0G FreeBSD5.2.1). I use sysctl -a | grep machdep.tsc.freq to get the CUP speed. But, I failed on the P4-1.6G machine. Nothing appears. Should I set some additional

Re: freebsd-questions Digest, Vol 48, Issue 21

2004-02-21 Thread J. Seth Henry
Daniela, The ugen device means that there wasn't a kernel driver to handle the device. I don't believe you can use the ugen device as a formatted device (like cuaa, tty, etc). What is the exact model of your modem? Most of the Alcatel SpeedTouch models I looked at claimed to have a UTP network

ssh no longer connecting automatically

2004-02-21 Thread Jonathon McKitrick
Any idea why updating to 4.9 stable would give me this error? I have to set it to protocol 1 and log in manually. The auto login with the id_rsa and authorized_keys doesn't seem to work anymore, but gives this error: neptune:~ ssh [EMAIL PROTECTED] key_verify failed for server_host_key NOTE:

Sendmail and imap server config

2004-02-21 Thread Gareth Bailey
Hello I want to set up 5.2 Release as an email server. I have performed basic configuration of the sendmail config files as outlined in the handbook I installed cyrus imapd. I'm battling. Can't seem to find a straight forward setup guide. I installed it using passwd password

Clarification needed on Handbook: Tracking for Multiple Machines

2004-02-21 Thread D J Hawkey Jr
Hi all. I recently acquired a laptop whose world and kernel I'd like to have built by a different machine on my LAN. Chapter 21.5 of the current Handbook lays things out pretty well, but I do have a couple of questions before proceeding. The Handbook states: Finally[,] make sure that

Hardware or software error ?

2004-02-21 Thread Heinrich Rebehn
Hi list, does anybody have a clue, if the following is a hard or software error? # syslogd: kernel boot file is /boot/kernel/kernel kernel: kernel: kernel: Fatal trap 12: page fault while in kernel mode kernel: cpuid =

Re: Clarification needed on Handbook: Tracking for Multiple Machines

2004-02-21 Thread Gabriel Ambuehl
Hi D J Hawkey Jr, you wrote. DJHJ So, two machines use the same world, except that a laptop doesn't want DJHJ profiled libraries or games. Since the install is separate from the build, DJHJ the build machine's make.conf must _not_ define NOPROFILE nor NOGAMES, If that machine itself wants those,

Re: Clarification needed on Handbook: Tracking for Multiple Machines

2004-02-21 Thread D J Hawkey Jr
On Feb 21, at 05:56 PM, Gabriel Ambuehl wrote: DJHJ Second, two machines are of the same architecture, but they have different DJHJ CPUs: One is an Intel PIII, but the other is a PII. Will the world built DJHJ on a PIII be correct for a PII? Similarly, will the kernel for the PII DJHJ built

UNEXPECTED SOFTUPDATES INCONSISTENCY

2004-02-21 Thread Heinrich Rebehn
Hi list, I have had the above error 2 times now during fsck after an unclean shutdown. fsck -y yielded tons of entries in lost+found. man (7) tuning says that softupdates guarantees filesystem consistency in case of crash, but thousands of lost files tell a different story. Did i miss anything?

Hardware or software error ?

2004-02-21 Thread Heinrich Rebehn
Hi list, does anybody have a clue, if the following is a hard or software error? # syslogd: kernel boot file is /boot/kernel/kernel kernel: kernel: kernel: Fatal trap 12: page fault while in kernel mode kernel: cpuid =

Re: Error when installing FreeBSD 5.2: /mnt/usr: create symlink failed, no inode free

2004-02-21 Thread Lowell Gilbert
Dave Vollenweider [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Been trying to install FreeBSD 5.2 using the kern.flp and mfsroot.flp images on floppies and proceeding with a network install via FTP on an old Acer Aspire with a Pentium 120 MHz processor and 80 MB of RAM on a 1.6 GB hard drive (the second on the

Re: Copy old drive to new drive - is it possible?

2004-02-21 Thread Jerry McAllister
Hi, I have a hard drive which is on its last legs. I also have new hard drive to replace the old one. I was wondering if it is possible to simply copy everything from the old drive to the new (after formating the new drive) and have my system back up and running, or do I need to reinstall

Re: power point

2004-02-21 Thread Jerry McAllister
On Fri, Feb 20, 2004 at 10:38:28AM -0500, Jerry McAllister wrote: hi, is there a way to convert ms powerpoint presentation into jpegs? or to view it under Freebsd? Install Openoffice. It has a presenter that can open Powerpoint files to show them or incorporate them in to

ufs floppy mount error, FreeBSD 5.2

2004-02-21 Thread Nikolas Britton
I'm getting an Input/output error message when trying to mount a ufs floppy (mount -o ro /dev/fd0 /mnt) in FreeBSD 5.2 (Stock). Tried to duplicate this problem using a stock FreeBSD 4.9 with same floppy/drive/system but it works perfect. Both installs of FreeBSD are VMWare Guests (v4.0.5

OT: Longest uptime

2004-02-21 Thread Jamie
I'm curious as to what the longest uptimes are people have seen on production servers. We've got a FreeBSD machine here with an uptime of 506 days. It is a file server and it also runs spamassassin for another machine. Too bad we have to take it down to replace a motherboard tonight with

Re: FreeBSD binary distribution's CFLAGS?

2004-02-21 Thread Kris Kennaway
On Fri, Feb 20, 2004 at 09:10:17PM +0100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello, does anyone know with which CFLAGS the FreeBSD binary distribution is compiled? It has -march=i386 allright, but does it have any -Ox? The default value of CFLAGS is -O -pipe (-pipe obviously has no effect on the

Error Message Installing GCC 3.4

2004-02-21 Thread gerard-serbert
I am running FreeBSD version 5.2.1. While doing a ports install of GCC 3.4, everything went normally until the following error message appeared on my screen. I have no idea what it means or refers to. Perhaps someone can assist me. gmake[2]: *** [fibheap.o] Error 1 gmake[2]: Leaving directory

Re: Error Message Installing GCC 3.4

2004-02-21 Thread Kris Kennaway
On Sat, Feb 21, 2004 at 03:28:57PM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I am running FreeBSD version 5.2.1. While doing a ports install of GCC 3.4, everything went normally until the following error message appeared on my screen. I have no idea what it means or refers to. Perhaps someone can

Problem Resolved re: Porstdb -uU Continues to Fail?

2004-02-21 Thread Bob Perry
Original Message Subject: Re: Porstdb -uU Continues to Fail? Date: Wed, 11 Feb 2004 13:55:48 -0500 From: Bob Perry [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Kris Kennaway [EMAIL PROTECTED] CC: FreeBSD-Questions [EMAIL PROTECTED] References: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL

Re: framebuffer fro freebsd

2004-02-21 Thread Lowell Gilbert
Rahul Sawarkar [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: is there a framebuffer port for freebsd? i want to run my console in 1024x768. Why would you want a framebuffer for that? Do you have frame grabber hardware or something? If all you want is a 1024x768 video mode driving the text console,

Re: something for you

2004-02-21 Thread Glug autoresponder
Hi This is an auto-response to your mail to the Gauteng Linux User's group address, [EMAIL PROTECTED] Please save this message, as re-sending to the [EMAIL PROTECTED] address will not re-send it! The Glug list was split into two separate lists on the 1st June 2003. For more information, please

Re: OT: Longest uptime

2004-02-21 Thread Greg 'groggy' Lehey
On Saturday, 21 February 2004 at 15:24:47 -0500, S wrote: I'm curious as to what the longest uptimes are people have seen on production servers. http://uptime.netcraft.com/up/today/top.avg.html I've known people with server uptimes of over 1000 days. It's rather pointless to go

Do I need Mozilla-1.6 and Mozilla-GTK2-1.6?

2004-02-21 Thread Bob Perry
Hello, Just upgrade to 4.9-RELEASE and CVSup'd my system today. pkg_version -v listed mozilla-gtk2-1.6_2 as ? orphaned: www/mozilla-gtk2. Also have mozilla-1.6_2,2 which was my original browser. If I remember correctly, the gtk2 version appeared after installing Galeon2 and provided

cant compile emacs after installing XFree86

2004-02-21 Thread Noah
FreeBSD 4.8-Stable okay I just installed XFree86 from /usr/ports - now trying to upgrade emacs but look the build fails. any clue why? --- snip --- fcfreetype.c: In function `FcFreeTypeQuery': fcfreetype.c:279: syntax error before `psfontinfo' fcfreetype.c:738: `psfontinfo' undeclared (first

Re: C++ Memory Profiling/Debugging

2004-02-21 Thread Louis LeBlanc
On 02/21/04 12:48 AM, David Carter-Hitchin sat at the `puter and typed: Hi, Does anyone out there know a good C++ memory profiling/debugging tool for FBSD? I'm looking for a tool like valgrind or purify. I grepped around in the ports directory and I found ElectricFence and mprof but these

Re: cant compile emacs after installing XFree86

2004-02-21 Thread Kris Kennaway
On Sat, Feb 21, 2004 at 03:00:31PM -0800, Noah wrote: FreeBSD 4.8-Stable okay I just installed XFree86 from /usr/ports - now trying to upgrade emacs but look the build fails. any clue why? --- snip --- fcfreetype.c: In function `FcFreeTypeQuery': fcfreetype.c:279: syntax error before

Re: cant compile emacs after installing XFree86

2004-02-21 Thread Noah
Stop in /usr/ports/x11-fonts/fontconfig. *** Error code 1 This is the fontconfig build failing, not emacs. Furthermore, it looks like you do not yet have XFree86 installed, or you have an inconsistent system, because the emacs build couldn't find XFree86-4-libraries on your system

Re: cant compile emacs after installing XFree86

2004-02-21 Thread Kris Kennaway
On Sat, Feb 21, 2004 at 03:16:39PM -0800, Noah wrote: Stop in /usr/ports/x11-fonts/fontconfig. *** Error code 1 This is the fontconfig build failing, not emacs. Furthermore, it looks like you do not yet have XFree86 installed, or you have an inconsistent system, because the

Re: a sysctl machdep.tsc_freq problem

2004-02-21 Thread Uwe Doering
ouyang kai wrote: i found a strange case, i have tested the three machines(PIII 800 FreeBSD4.9-stable, P4-1.6G FreeBSD4.8-release, P4-2.0G FreeBSD5.2.1). I use sysctl -a | grep machdep.tsc.freq to get the CUP speed. But, I failed on the P4-1.6G machine. Nothing appears. Should I set some

Re: OT: Longest uptime

2004-02-21 Thread Alex de Kruijff
On Sat, Feb 21, 2004 at 02:47:56PM -0600, Jamie wrote: I'm curious as to what the longest uptimes are people have seen on production servers. We've got a FreeBSD machine here with an uptime of 506 days. It is a file server and it also runs spamassassin for another machine. Too bad we

Re: vinum raid5 initializing died overnight

2004-02-21 Thread Greg 'groggy' Lehey
On Wednesday, 18 February 2004 at 11:52:09 +0100, Bjorn Eikeland wrote: Yesterday I set up a vinum raid5 array on a fairly slow pc (p3-500, 128mb pc100, udma66) and started the initializing, but only to find vinum l showing the drives as 'State: I 38%' and the vinum processes were gone this

Re: cant compile emacs after installing XFree86

2004-02-21 Thread Noah
. Actually I guess the first thing to work out is why your system thinks you still need to install XFree86. Can you please run the following command: pkg_info | grep XFree86 Kris okay I make clean the XFree86 and started building one thing at a time and now it looks like everything

Apache FreeBSD not executing

2004-02-21 Thread Pratt, Benjamin E.
Hello - I'm trying to get my Apache web server up and running with PHP support but am running into problems. When I try to go to a .php web page I'm prompted to save the page instead of having the browser show the page. I've installed both /usr/ports/www/apache21/ and

Re: a sysctl machdep.tsc_freq problem

2004-02-21 Thread ouyang kai
Uwe wrote: Is the P4-1.6G machine a multi-processor system, that is, was the kernel compiled with the SMP option? If so, there is currently no TSC support on multi-processor systems, for technical reasons I understand. So in this case 'machdep.tsc.freq' is omitted from the kernel and

NcFTP undefined symbol error

2004-02-21 Thread Bryce Newall
Hello all, I just installed NcFTP 3.1.7 out of the ports collection on my recently-upgraded 4.9-STABLE system. When I try to run ncftp, though, it bails with the following error message: /usr/libexec/ld-elf.so.1: /usr/local/lib/libncftp.so: Undefined symbol ServiceNameToPortNumber I have not

Mounting a 5.2 filesystem on a 4.9 system?

2004-02-21 Thread Eric F Crist
Hello all, I'm really screwed up my server last week, now I'm giving up on the 5.x series as a server for a while, so I've installed 4.9. I took all my backup files and placed them on a second harddrive in the system, hoping to just mount that drive on the new 4.9 system and restore the

Re: OT: Longest uptime

2004-02-21 Thread Daniela
On Saturday 21 February 2004 20:47, Jamie wrote: I'm curious as to what the longest uptimes are people have seen on production servers. We've got a FreeBSD machine here with an uptime of 506 days. It is a file server and it also runs spamassassin for another machine. Too bad we have to take

Re: OT: Longest uptime

2004-02-21 Thread Pratt, Benjamin E.
I cannot verify that any system has been up for 2300+ days but according to Netcraft.com (http://uptime.netcraft.com/up/today/top.avg.html) there are some very impressive uptimes out there. Ben ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Re: OT: Longest uptime

2004-02-21 Thread Marc G. Fournier
Doesn't (or didn't?) Linux have a 'feature' that allowed ppl to save their uptimes through a reboot? So, for instance, if it was a schedualed reboot, uptime still showed one continuous uptime? I'd imagine that this would be saved through upgrades as well ... Not sure of the accuracy of this,

RE: Mounting a 5.2 filesystem on a 4.9 system?

2004-02-21 Thread Eric F Crist
I guess I forgot to mention that I did search the archives for this problem. There was a post about this back in January, but a slightly different application. How would I go about using a CDROM to boot from, obtain my data, move it to a real partition, and reboot my regular OS? Eric F Crist

Content filtering and sendmail

2004-02-21 Thread Chris
If I prefer to use sendmail - can someone suggest something for content filtering (mainly attachments). TIA -- Best regards, Chris ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any

Can't boot from thumb disk

2004-02-21 Thread Kim and Alan
All, I have used the 5.2 released version of the iso disk 1 to install the minimal installation onto a 256M thumb disk. i know the installation completed and I can mount the disk on another Freebsd machine and see that all the files seem fine. If I don't install the boot selector then the

USB CD-RW won't work

2004-02-21 Thread David Kanter
I've got 4-stable and can't get my USB CD-RW to read or write CDs. The CD-RW is connected to the computer via a USB 2.0 PCI card. I've got a ATA DVD-ROM that works perfectly fine. When I boot, dmesg shows the USB CD-RW: umass0: IOMEGA CDRW64892EXT3-B , rev 2.00/0.02, addr 2 All the

Re: Mounting a 5.2 filesystem on a 4.9 system?

2004-02-21 Thread Gautam Gopalakrishnan
On Sat, 21 Feb 2004 20:24:57 -0600 Eric F Crist [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello all, I'm really screwed up my server last week, now I'm giving up on the 5.x series as a server for a while, so I've installed 4.9. I took all my backup files and placed them on a second harddrive in the system,

Re: framebuffer fro freebsd

2004-02-21 Thread Rahul Sawarkar
Have you tried switching to 1024x768 mode using vidcontrol. I tried and did not suceed on my last hardware which was a mvp4 chipset with an 8mb blade3d graphics. Right now I have a radeon 7500 on a 440bx chipset. I'd assumed it wouldn't work, this time around also (ref: the url below), but

CURRENT: RAID1: use vinum(8) or motherboard support (VIA VT8237)?

2004-02-21 Thread Burkard Meyendriesch
Hi all, for my new -CURRENT box I have to decide wether to use vinum(8) or the on-board capabilities of my Asus K8V Deluxe motherboard for RAID1 mirroring. Which solution would you recommend? Thanks for your advice Burkard -- Burkard Meyendriesch Stevern 2 D-48301 Nottuln pgp0.pgp

I have a dream, of a help/manual/doc system, which is simple to use?

2004-02-21 Thread Niel
Written 21st january 2004. I have a dream, of a help/manual/doc system, which is simple to use? I have a dream, of a help/manual/doc system, which is simple, and yet comprehensive to use. When I need help to some question, when using freebsd, I often get very confused, and cannot find out how

MySQL error 2013

2004-02-21 Thread Derrick Ryalls
I have been trying to get a working mysql daemon that allows connections from remote hosts. I can connect via local host just fine, but any time I try from my XP desktop via command center (or another remote client), I get this error immediately: ERROR 2013: Lost connection to MySQL server

Re: a sysctl machdep.tsc_freq problem

2004-02-21 Thread Uwe Doering
ouyang kai wrote: Uwe wrote: Is the P4-1.6G machine a multi-processor system, that is, was the kernel compiled with the SMP option? If so, there is currently no TSC support on multi-processor systems, for technical reasons I understand. So in this case 'machdep.tsc.freq' is omitted from