Re: (no subject) was: command list for FreeBSD
Hello again, Oliver Koch wrote: Where can i get FreeBSD commands list? that depends on what you want to do. The list can be very long especially if you start to install things from ports... ;-) those links might help you: http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-questions/2004-June/049516.html http://www.gsp.com/support/virtual/admin/unix/commands.html But that are only the simplest basics. Google can help you to find out more or take a look at the FreeBSD handbook. The most commands aren't different from the linux commands. Kind regards, Oliver -- Oliver Koch Phone: +49-(0)5323-72-2626 Computer Center Fax:+49-(0)5323-72-3536 Clausthal University of Technology E-Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Erzstraße 51 Web: http://www.rz.tu-clausthal.de 38678 Clausthal-Zellerfeld, Germany signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature
RE: (no subject)
I've found that Greg Lehey's book - The Complete FreeBSD was a huge help when I (very recently) started getting into BSD. Kind Regards Phil Tann [EMAIL PROTECTED] Mobile: 0404 098 268 From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] on behalf of neo neo Sent: Thu 3/15/2007 4:33 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: (no subject) hello ; i am new at FreeBSD . Where can i get FreeBSD commands list? thankz . ZAW HTET AUNG ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Memory leak and deep swap upon the restart?
In the last episode (Mar 15), Abdullah Ibn Hamad Al-Marri said: Hello, I have a webmail server, has apache 2.2.4, mysql 5.0.33, php 5.2.1, clamav, mailscanner ..etc. The weird issue it goes into deep swap when it starts or I restart it. *sigh* This happened since like 6 months I don't know why? it was okay before that. here is the top info last pid: 790; load averages: 0.00, 0.06, 0.05 up 0+00:06:50 03:51:28 69 processes: 1 running, 68 sleeping CPU states: 0.0% user, 0.0% nice, 0.4% system, 0.0% interrupt, 99.6% idle Mem: 323M Active, 91M Inact, 56M Wired, 27M Cache, 52M Buf, 988K Free Swap: 2048M Total, 104M Used, 1944M Free, 5% Inuse Right now you're only showing 100M of swap being used; that looks fine, as long as it's not being accessed constantly (watch for ##K in, ##K out to appear on the Swap: line, or watch the pi and po columns of vmstat 5). If you see constant swap activity, that means you'll need to reduce the number of worker processes for your multiprocess daemons (from your ps output, that means apache, amavisd amd MailScanner), move some processes to another machine, or add RAM. Here is the ps -aux output mail# ps -aux USER PID %CPU %MEM VSZ RSS TT STAT STARTED TIME COMMAND vscan 482 0.0 0.0 46472 0 ?? IW - 0:00.00 amavisd (virgin child) (perl5.8.8) vscan 483 0.0 0.0 46472 0 ?? IW - 0:00.00 amavisd (virgin child) (perl5.8.8) You have a bunch of amavisd processes that are completely swapped out (0 RSS) and have never consumed any CPU (TIME column). This probably means that you could safely reduce the number of worker processes since they're never used. Also, the MailScanner process is pretty big; maybe there are some settings you can change to make it use less. -- Dan Nelson [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Did I take the wrong bus with FreeBSD 6 to VMware?
On Wed, 14 Mar 2007 21:17:21 -0800, Ted Mittelstaedt wrote Robert, You have device driver conflicts with the hardware. Most likely it is the ata driver and the rocket raid card. The rocket raids are nice cards but I have had them blow up too. In my case I simply moved the rocket raid card to a different system where it was rock solid, and put in a promise card that was blowing up in yet a third system. I have a whole collection of hardware to play with. Unfortunately that is what happens when you work with operating systems that wern't preloaded on the hardware you bought. Ted, I would like to do so, but the RAID-controller is on the motherboard. (That was the main reason for choosing this mobo, since everything I need (and obviously something more) is already on-board.) All I could do was do disable SATA is in BIOS. Is there a way to control the ressources to avoid the conflict? Robert Ted - Original Message - From: Robert Eckardt [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, March 14, 2007 3:27 PM Subject: Did I take the wrong bus with FreeBSD 6 to VMware? Hi, for some time I'm trying to get FreeBSD 6 running on my server as a host for VMware and several other functions. I'm using a 1.7GHz Pentium M 735 on an AOpen i855GMEm-LFS mobo w/ USB, VGA, 2xGbit/s, 2xPATA channels etc. on board. I used to run FBSD-5.2.1 with vmware3 on an Epox mobo w/ a 2GHz Celeron without problems. After changing HW (mobo, CPU, HDD) and OS (FBSD6.0) I found the system to freeze upon accessing an USB device when vmware was running. So my first investigations led to its driver, but in some cases heavy disk I/O was sufficient to cause a freeze. Since the situation got worse with FreeBSD 6.2 I started to work on it more systematically and found the following (actually I was on the verge to switch to Linux CentOS 4.4 or OpenSUSE 10.2 with VMware Server running nicely, but the HD and network performance were disappointing): 1)**ACPI off, Assign USB IRQ disabled in BIOS, vmware3 started: vmware3 runs fine, but no USB devices. 2)**ACPI off, Assign USB IRQ enabled in BIOS, vmware3 started: system freezes with network connections breaking, endless messages ad2: WARNING: - SETFEATURES SET TRANSFER MODE taskqueue timeout - completing request directly ad2: WARNING: - SETFEATURES SET TRANSFER MODE taskqueue timeout - completing request directly ad2: WARNING: - SETFEATURES ENABLE RCACHE taskqueue timeout - completing request directly ad2: WARNING: - SETFEATURES ENABLE WCACHE taskqueue timeout - completing request directly ad2: WARNING: - SET_MULTI taskq. ad2: FAILURE [or TIMEOUT] - WRITE:DMA timed out [or retrying] LBA= g_vs_done():ad2s1e[WRITE(offset=, length=)]error = 5 typing reboot will finally reboot the system after several hours, nothing in the logs though. 3)**ACPI off, Assign USB IRQ enabled in BIOS, additional PCI-VGA card installed, using either PCI-VGA *or* on-board VGA, vmware3 started: vmware3 runs fine, also when accessing the USB device. 4)**ACPI on, Assign USB IRQ enabled in BIOS, additional PCI-VGA card installed, using on-board VGA, vmware3 started: system freezes with messages above. So, what's the relation between the scenarios? Where can I tweak the system to get it stable? Since I spend already several man-days on getting VMware running on my machine, I would like to help further debugging by making additional tests, but I don't know where to start. I can live without ACPI (for the time being) -- the old system consumes 125W while the Pentium M machine stays at 42W with ACPI taking about another 8W in idle-state. For me it seems essential why enabling/disabling USB in the BIOS or adding an additional PCI-VGA card stabilizes the system and why the unstable system behaves the same way like with enabling ACPI. I put some boot_verbose-logs on http://www.robert-eckardt.de/ghost/ Regards, Robert -- Dr. Robert Eckardt---[EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Dr. Robert Eckardt---[EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Hi ;
On 14/03/07, Ivan Rambius Ivanov [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello, On 3/14/07, Christian Walther [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 14/03/07, Halil Guven [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Dear Sırs I want to open in FreeBSD program 21,443,11905,11907,12341 15501 ports.How can i do these. Please inform me and thanks in advance of your help. Wait of your kind replay. Pardon me - but what are you trying to do? Sounds to me as if you're trying to install some applications from ports. In my opinion, the original requestor wants to open the corresponding TCP ports :) telnet, https... *lol* Okay, I see. Well, I guess I've been so deeply in /usr/ports in the last few days that I didn't think about another possibility. [...] Regards Christian ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
pause before Trying to mount root from ufs:
Hello, My motherboard Intel D955XBK died these day, I took it to service center and they gave me a new one of another model: DP965LT. On my home computer I have dual boot with Windows XP and FreeBSD 6.2-STABLE. I've expected Windows XP not to boot at all after the change, but fortunately it successfully came up, found all new component and everything went smooth. What I did not expect at all is that FreeBSD showed some problems: there is a short pause on boot before (I've measured about 4 seconds) before SMP: AP CPU #1 Launched!, and a long one (I've measured about 90 seconds!!!) between this message and Trying to mount root from ufs:/dev/ad8s2a. Last night (14.03.2007) I've updated mys source tree (6.2-STABLE) an rebuilt the work and kernel hoping for salvation to come, but it did not. Rebuilt SMP-GENERIC but it did not help either. Another (bad) change that came with the motherboard change is that Xorg is hanging on start without any message. If I try to get back to console with Alt-Ctrl-FN, it beeps. Alt-Ctrl-Backspace does not work either. Keyboard is working: NumLock responds and fortunately Alt-Ctrl-Del works fine too, being the only way out of Xorg's hang. With the exception of motherboard nothing changed in hardware. What could be the cause? Here is the dmesg output. dmesg output start Copyright (c) 1992-2007 The FreeBSD Project. Copyright (c) 1979, 1980, 1983, 1986, 1988, 1989, 1991, 1992, 1993, 1994 The Regents of the University of California. All rights reserved. FreeBSD is a registered trademark of The FreeBSD Foundation. FreeBSD 6.2-STABLE #0: Wed Mar 14 23:33:20 EET 2007 [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/usr/src/sys/i386/compile/kpax.smp WARNING: MPSAFE network stack disabled, expect reduced performance. ACPI APIC Table: INTEL DP965LT Timecounter i8254 frequency 1193182 Hz quality 0 CPU: Intel(R) Pentium(R) D CPU 2.80GHz (2802.82-MHz 686-class CPU) Origin = GenuineIntel Id = 0xf44 Stepping = 4 Features=0xbfebfbffFPU,VME,DE,PSE,TSC,MSR,PAE,MCE,CX8,APIC,SEP,MTRR,PGE,MCA,CMOV,PAT,PSE36,CLFLUSH,DTS,ACPI,MMX,FXSR,SSE,SSE2,SS,HTT,TM,PBE Features2=0x641dSSE3,RSVD2,MON,DS_CPL,CNTX-ID,CX16,b14 AMD Features=0x2010NX,LM Cores per package: 2 real memory = 1055305728 (1006 MB) avail memory = 1019219968 (972 MB) FreeBSD/SMP: Multiprocessor System Detected: 2 CPUs cpu0 (BSP): APIC ID: 0 cpu1 (AP): APIC ID: 1 ioapic0: Changing APIC ID to 2 ioapic0 Version 2.0 irqs 0-23 on motherboard kbd1 at kbdmux0 ath_hal: 0.9.20.3 (AR5210, AR5211, AR5212, RF5111, RF5112, RF2413, RF5413) acpi0: INTEL DP965LT on motherboard acpi0: Power Button (fixed) Timecounter ACPI-fast frequency 3579545 Hz quality 1000 acpi_timer0: 24-bit timer at 3.579545MHz port 0x408-0x40b on acpi0 cpu0: ACPI CPU on acpi0 p4tcc0: CPU Frequency Thermal Control on cpu0 cpu1: ACPI CPU on acpi0 p4tcc1: CPU Frequency Thermal Control on cpu1 acpi_button0: Sleep Button on acpi0 pcib0: ACPI Host-PCI bridge port 0xcf8-0xcff on acpi0 pci0: ACPI PCI bus on pcib0 pcib1: PCI-PCI bridge at device 1.0 on pci0 pci1: PCI bus on pcib1 drm0: ATI Radeon RV370 X550 port 0x2000-0x20ff mem 0x4000-0x4fff,0x5021-0x5021 irq 16 at device 0.0 on pci1 info: [drm] Initialized radeon 1.25.0 20060524 pci1: display at device 0.1 (no driver attached) pci0: simple comms at device 3.0 (no driver attached) em0: Intel(R) PRO/1000 Network Connection Version - 6.2.9 port 0x30c0-0x30df mem 0x5030-0x5031,0x50324000-0x50324fff irq 20 at device 25.0 on pci0 em0: Ethernet address: 00:19:d1:09:de:de em0: [GIANT-LOCKED] uhci0: UHCI (generic) USB controller port 0x30a0-0x30bf irq 16 at device 26.0 on pci0 uhci0: [GIANT-LOCKED] usb0: UHCI (generic) USB controller on uhci0 usb0: USB revision 1.0 uhub0: Intel UHCI root hub, class 9/0, rev 1.00/1.00, addr 1 uhub0: 2 ports with 2 removable, self powered uhci1: UHCI (generic) USB controller port 0x3080-0x309f irq 21 at device 26.1 on pci0 uhci1: [GIANT-LOCKED] usb1: UHCI (generic) USB controller on uhci1 usb1: USB revision 1.0 uhub1: Intel UHCI root hub, class 9/0, rev 1.00/1.00, addr 1 uhub1: 2 ports with 2 removable, self powered ehci0: EHCI (generic) USB 2.0 controller mem 0x50325400-0x503257ff irq 18 at device 26.7 on pci0 ehci0: [GIANT-LOCKED] usb2: EHCI version 1.0 usb2: companion controllers, 2 ports each: usb0 usb1 usb2: EHCI (generic) USB 2.0 controller on ehci0 usb2: USB revision 2.0 uhub2: Intel EHCI root hub, class 9/0, rev 2.00/1.00, addr 1 uhub2: 4 ports with 4 removable, self powered pci0: multimedia at device 27.0 (no driver attached) pcib2: ACPI PCI-PCI bridge at device 28.0 on pci0 pci2: ACPI PCI bus on pcib2 pcib3: ACPI PCI-PCI bridge at device 28.1 on pci0 pci3: ACPI PCI bus on pcib3 atapci0: GENERIC ATA controller port 0x1018-0x101f,0x1024-0x1027,0x1010-0x1017,0x1020-0x1023,0x1000-0x100f mem 0x5010-0x501001ff irq 17 at device 0.0 on pci3 ata2: ATA channel 0 on atapci0 ata3: ATA channel 1 on atapci0 pcib4: ACPI PCI-PCI bridge at device 28.2 on pci0 pci4: ACPI PCI bus
Re: moving binary port as installed from one system to another (openoffice.org-2 amd64)
On 3/15/07, Steve Franks [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: No idea why there isn't an openoffice pkg yet for 6.2/amd64, but some of us are running that on laptops, not servers, and we like to do things like edit documents. ftp://ooopackages.good-day.net/pub/OpenOffice.org/FreeBSD/ Steve -- Pietro Cerutti - ASCII Ribbon Campaign - against HTML e-mail and proprietary attachments www.asciiribbon.org ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: CPUTYPE for VIA EPIA M-Series Mini-ITX
On Wed, Mar 14, 2007 at 08:44:21PM -0500, Jeffrey Goldberg wrote: I have one of these CPU: VIA C3 Nehemiah (999.52-MHz 686-class CPU) Origin = CentaurHauls Id = 0x691 Stepping = 1 Features=0x380b035FPU,DE,TSC,MSR,MTRR,PGE,CMOV,MMX,FXSR,SSE http://www.via.com.tw/en/products/mainboards/motherboards.jsp? motherboard_id=81 And 6.2-RELEASE p2 When I set CPUTYPE=c3 in /etc/make.conf the world seemed to build just fine, but (at least) gcc ended up broken. Most compiling attempts after that ended up with gcc reporting an internal error. Now that I've entered the FreeBSD world and am building everything from source, I would like to take advantage of that by compiling for my system. Does anyone have a similar system? And what CPUTYPE or local tuning do you recommend? I have CPU: VIA C3 Samuel 2 (533.36-MHz 686-class CPU) Origin = CentaurHauls Id = 0x673 Stepping = 3 Features=0x803035FPU,DE,TSC,MSR,MTRR,PGE,MMX real memory = 528416768 (503 MB) running FreeBSD 6.2 without problems. The key here is NOT to set CPUTYPE in /etc/make.conf. Just use the defaults and you're fine. A dmesg for the system is available at http://ntp0.goldmark.org/temp/dmesg Cheers, -j -- Jeffrey Goldberghttp://www.goldmark.org/jeff/ Regards, -cpghost. -- Cordula's Web. http://www.cordula.ws/ ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Build your own ISO-install-CD?
Hi, I need to build my own ISO-install-CD for FreeBSD 6.2. Is this possible (given an up-to-date /usr/src tree)? If yes, how? Will this process build build a mini-CD or a full Disc1? Can this home-brewn install-CD be used instead of the Disc1 of the 6.2 CD-set when installing a machine from scratch? Will it prompt for the second CD containing the various packages? Thanks in advance for any clue, -ewald PS: Just for explanation: The original 6.2 install-CDs don't support a specific NIC I've got in my blade-systems. A new-version of the corresponding driver has already been submitted though. In order to avoid the chicken-and-egg-problem (i.e. can't update the source since the machine can't connect to the net when installed via the original 6.2 CDs) I thought about building a custom 6.2 CD install set from a machine that has up-to-date 6.2 sources. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Build your own ISO-install-CD?
Just download the disk1 iso image then use nero or cdcreator to burn the CD. -Derek At 04:14 AM 3/15/2007, Ewald Jenisch wrote: Hi, I need to build my own ISO-install-CD for FreeBSD 6.2. Is this possible (given an up-to-date /usr/src tree)? If yes, how? Will this process build build a mini-CD or a full Disc1? Can this home-brewn install-CD be used instead of the Disc1 of the 6.2 CD-set when installing a machine from scratch? Will it prompt for the second CD containing the various packages? Thanks in advance for any clue, -ewald PS: Just for explanation: The original 6.2 install-CDs don't support a specific NIC I've got in my blade-systems. A new-version of the corresponding driver has already been submitted though. In order to avoid the chicken-and-egg-problem (i.e. can't update the source since the machine can't connect to the net when installed via the original 6.2 CDs) I thought about building a custom 6.2 CD install set from a machine that has up-to-date 6.2 sources. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean. MailScanner thanks transtec Computers for their support. -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean. MailScanner thanks transtec Computers for their support. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
List of FreeBSD commands (was: Re: (no subject))
On Thu, Mar 15, 2007 at 06:03:25AM +, neo neo wrote: i am new at FreeBSD . Where can i get FreeBSD commands list? I assume that by 'command' you mean executable programs that are part of the FreeBSD operating system, or programs that you add later via packages or port... 1. Most commands are in /bin and /usr/bin. 2. Sysadmin (root) commands are in /sbin and /usr/sbin. 3. Commands that you add via the ports system usually end up in /usr/local/bin and /usr/X11R6/bin To get a list of a directory (folder in Windows-speak), just call ls (which is itself in /bin; /bin/ls): % ls /usr/bin (or ls /usr/bin | more if the list is too long for one screen) Commands usually (but not always) have a manual page avaiable, e.g.: % man ls Oh, and btw, welcome to FreeBSD. :-) thankz . ZAW HTET AUNG Regards, -cpghost. -- Cordula's Web. http://www.cordula.ws/ ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
FreeBSD 2.2.9 / Installation problem
Dear Sir or Madam, First of all, I would like to thank all involved in this project for the work they do, and wish them all the best for its continuation. I would like to use FreeBSD on a certain machine, but unfortunately I have a problem with the installation. I would like to mention that I have a non-technical background, which might be relevant regarding any information I supply, and also the way you address my problem. I am writing you with regard to the following issue, and would appreciate your help greatly: 1. Ultimate Goal. I am a law student, and in my field we are working a lot with .pdf-documents. To my surprise, the Midnight Commander is able to display them, at least in FreeBSD 6.1 which I use normally. (I have read somewhere there is no text-mode .pdf-viewer; fortunately, this appears to be incorrect.) I decided to put FreeBSD in text mode on my old laptop, so I can view .pdf-documents on it while working on another machine. 2. The Means. The target machine is a HP Omnibook 600c laptop with 8MB RAM, a 486 DX4 processor, 300 MB disk space. No CD drive. No network available. External floppy drive without DMA. (I tried NetBSD, but because of the lack of DMA it did not work properly.) The functioning of the floppy drive is critical, being the machine's only practical means of communicating with the outer world. Due to cost and time considerations, no upgrades are possible. If the target machine is not suitable for an installation of FreeBSD, please let me know so I stop further attempts. Fortunately, the harddrive can be put into my main machine, a Compaq Armada Laptop whose type I unfortunately don't know. Specifications of the Compaq machine: 192 MB RAM, Internet access available, 300MHz PII CPU, CD drive and floppy drive available. The CD drive cannot boot from CDs, so I am using the boot floppies to initialize installation. The HP Omnibook harddrive fits in by placing it into the PCMCIA slot, as the HP Omnibook drive physically has PCMCIA connections. 3. The Problem. I chose Novice Installation. The next screen informed me of what is to happen now. The screen following it said: No disk found! Please verify that your disk controller is being properly probed at boot time. See the Hardware Guide on the Documentation menu for clues on diagnosing this type of problem. 4. Analysis. Frankly, I have no idea what to do. I have tried to install FreeBSD 4.11 using the same method. It was successful, however, I could not run it on the HP Omnibook machine, as it appears it had not sufficient RAM: The booting process of FreeBSD 4.11 initiated, but after a while started to preduce errors until it broke off. I must say, I have read the documentation, searched many times the Internet etc., but not found anything regarding the issue. Maybe I have overlooked a solution because of my non-technical background. 5. Desired solution. All I want is a FreeBSD system with the Midnight Commander that shall display my .pdf-files on my HP Omnibook 600c. I have no pretentions as to which version, so long as it fits the purpose. So, I would be grateful if you could advise me as to how to correct my installation problem of FreeBSD 2.2.9; however, if another solution looks better to you, please do not hesitate to mention it. I thank you in advance for your help. Yours faithfully, Nino Ivanov ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Build your own ISO-install-CD?
On Thu, Mar 15, 2007 at 04:22:36AM -0500, Derek Ragona wrote: Just download the disk1 iso image then use nero or cdcreator to burn the CD. Please don't top-post. He meant the command to create the iso image. Something like 'make release' or so... -Derek At 04:14 AM 3/15/2007, Ewald Jenisch wrote: Hi, I need to build my own ISO-install-CD for FreeBSD 6.2. Is this possible (given an up-to-date /usr/src tree)? If yes, how? Will this process build build a mini-CD or a full Disc1? Can this home-brewn install-CD be used instead of the Disc1 of the 6.2 CD-set when installing a machine from scratch? Will it prompt for the second CD containing the various packages? Thanks in advance for any clue, -ewald PS: Just for explanation: The original 6.2 install-CDs don't support a specific NIC I've got in my blade-systems. A new-version of the corresponding driver has already been submitted though. In order to avoid the chicken-and-egg-problem (i.e. can't update the source since the machine can't connect to the net when installed via the original 6.2 CDs) I thought about building a custom 6.2 CD install set from a machine that has up-to-date 6.2 sources. Regards, -cpghost. -- Cordula's Web. http://www.cordula.ws/ ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: CPUTYPE for VIA EPIA M-Series Mini-ITX
On Thu, 15 Mar 2007 02:44:21 +0100, Jeffrey Goldberg [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have one of these CPU: VIA C3 Nehemiah (999.52-MHz 686-class CPU) Origin = CentaurHauls Id = 0x691 Stepping = 1 Features=0x380b035FPU,DE,TSC,MSR,MTRR,PGE,CMOV,MMX,FXSR,SSE And 6.2-RELEASE p2 When I set CPUTYPE=c3 in /etc/make.conf the world seemed to build just fine, but (at least) gcc ended up broken. Most compiling attempts after that ended up with gcc reporting an internal error. Does anyone have a similar system? And what CPUTYPE or local tuning do you recommend? I have a Via Epia PD1 with the same CPU and use: CPUTYPE= i686 Although it does not seem to be mentioned in /usr/share/examples/etc/make.conf anymore (afaik i686==pentiumpro), it works just fine. Andreas ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Server hanged on VFS lock problem
Hello. Yesterday a 6.2/amd64 SMP server of mine entered DDB after a problem with locks. Since I was not there, I instructed one user to type panic and I got a dump. Here's what I get: x# kgdb kernel.debug /var/crash/vmcore.0 [GDB will not be able to debug user-mode threads: /usr/lib/libthread_db.so: Undefined symbol ps_pglobal_lookup] GNU gdb 6.1.1 [FreeBSD] Copyright 2004 Free Software Foundation, Inc. GDB is free software, covered by the GNU General Public License, and you are welcome to change it and/or distribute copies of it under certain conditions. Type show copying to see the conditions. There is absolutely no warranty for GDB. Type show warranty for details. This GDB was configured as amd64-marcel-freebsd. Unread portion of the kernel message buffer: KDB: stack backtrace: vfs_badlock() at vfs_badlock+0x95 assert_vop_elocked() at assert_vop_elocked+0x7d VOP_WRITE_APV() at VOP_WRITE_APV+0xee vn_write() at vn_write+0x1ec dofilewrite() at dofilewrite+0x87 kern_writev() at kern_writev+0x51 write() at write+0x4a syscall() at syscall+0x4d1 Xfast_syscall() at Xfast_syscall+0xa8 --- syscall (4, FreeBSD ELF64, write), rip = 0x8017ecbac, rsp = 0x7fffb568, rbp = 0x8054079c0 --- VOP_WRITE: 0xff00097f1ca8 is not exclusive locked but should be KDB: enter: lock violation Locked vnodes 0xff00097f1ca8: tag ufs, type VREG usecount 5, writecount 2, refcount 560 mountedhere 0 flags () v_object 0xff0002f65000 ref 3 pages 2216 lock type ufs: SHARED (count 1)#0 0x80238786 at lockmgr+0x5f6 #1 0x8033d558 at ffs_lock+0x58 #2 0x803b4df1 at VOP_LOCK_APV+0x81 #3 0x802b80cb at vn_lock+0x6b #4 0x802b92c6 at vn_write+0x156 #5 0x80271b37 at dofilewrite+0x87 #6 0x80271e01 at kern_writev+0x51 #7 0x80271efa at write+0x4a #8 0x803854a1 at syscall+0x4d1 #9 0x80370b78 at Xfast_syscall+0xa8 ino 1078094, on dev mirror/gm0s1e panic: from debugger cpuid = 0 Uptime: 13d23h8m15s Dumping 1023 MB (2 chunks) chunk 0: 1MB (151 pages) ... ok chunk 1: 1023MB (261744 pages) 1007 991 975 959 943 927 911 895 879 863 847 831 815 799 783 767 751 735 719 703 687 671 655 639 623 607 591 575 559 543 527 511 495 479 463 447 431 415 399 383 367 351 335 319 303 287 271 255 239 223 207 191 175 159 143 127 111 95 79 63 47 31 15 #0 doadump () at pcpu.h:172 172 __asm __volatile(movq %%gs:0,%0 : =r (td)); (kgdb) Any hint? Is there a way I can get these dumps automatically, without entering DDB, since this is an unattended server? I have this options in my kernel configuration: options KDB options DDB options KDB_UNATTENDED options INVARIANTS options INVARIANT_SUPPORT options WITNESS options DEBUG_LOCKS options DEBUG_VFS_LOCKS options DIAGNOSTIC bye Thanks av. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: CPUTYPE for VIA EPIA M-Series Mini-ITX
On 3/15/07, cpghost [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, Mar 14, 2007 at 08:44:21PM -0500, Jeffrey Goldberg wrote: I have one of these CPU: VIA C3 Nehemiah (999.52-MHz 686-class CPU) Origin = CentaurHauls Id = 0x691 Stepping = 1 Features=0x380b035FPU,DE,TSC,MSR,MTRR,PGE,CMOV,MMX,FXSR,SSE http://www.via.com.tw/en/products/mainboards/motherboards.jsp? motherboard_id=81 And 6.2-RELEASE p2 When I set CPUTYPE=c3 in /etc/make.conf the world seemed to build just fine, but (at least) gcc ended up broken. Most compiling attempts after that ended up with gcc reporting an internal error. Now that I've entered the FreeBSD world and am building everything from source, I would like to take advantage of that by compiling for my system. Does anyone have a similar system? And what CPUTYPE or local tuning do you recommend? I have CPU: VIA C3 Samuel 2 (533.36-MHz 686-class CPU) Origin = CentaurHauls Id = 0x673 Stepping = 3 Features=0x803035FPU,DE,TSC,MSR,MTRR,PGE,MMX real memory = 528416768 (503 MB) running FreeBSD 6.2 without problems. The key here is NOT to set CPUTYPE in /etc/make.conf. Just use the defaults and you're fine. A dmesg for the system is available at http://ntp0.goldmark.org/temp/dmesg Cheers, -j -- Jeffrey Goldberghttp://www.goldmark.org/jeff/ Regards, -cpghost. -- Cordula's Web. http://www.cordula.ws/ As cpghost said, there is no big difference when you make an optimization for the time being. You can also check http://gentoo-wiki.com/Safe_Cflags and see what cflag you can use with it. -- Regards, -Abdullah Ibn Hamad Al-Marri Arab Portal http://www.WeArab.Net/ ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Build your own ISO-install-CD?
On Thu, Mar 15, 2007 at 10:27:02AM +0100, cpghost wrote: He meant the command to create the iso image. Something like 'make release' or so... Hi, Yes you're right - the question is about how to create a *custom* ISO-image. I've already tried the following: cd /usr/src # make release -DMAKE_ISOS `release' is up to date. # yet, no .iso-files to find :-( I also came across /usr/src/release/i386/mkisoimages.sh It needs the following params: mkisoimages.sh [-b] image-label image-name base-bits-dir [extra-bits-dir] Where is base-bits-dir supposed to be? -ewald ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: binary patches?
Gary Kline schrieb:
On Wed, Mar 14, 2007 at 05:07:43PM +0100, Gabor Kovesdan wrote:
Gary Kline schrieb:
Regarding most (or many) of the port changes--say, upgrading
foo-2.1.9_5 to foo-2.1.9_6, if the upgrade could be done by
downloading a binary diff file, could the resulting
/usr/local/bin/foo-2.1.9_6 be achieved by downloading a
relatively small binary patch? Seems to me that smaller scale
upgrades could be done this way in preference to re-compiling
ports or downloading entire pacakes. --Same would go for any
dependencies.
Why is this a bad idea!
gary
The final form of actual binaries depend on a lot of things, e.g. which
version of dependency you compiled with, which CFLAGS you have used,
what options the port you built it. Some of these applies to packages as
well, that's why I prefer ports over packages at all. E.g. let's see
lang/php5. It does not have the apache module enabled by default. If it
were, then the problem comes up with Apache versions. IIRC, 2.2 is the
default now, but what if you use 2.0? How would you install php for your
apache version from package? The situtation has been already pretty
complicated with packages if you have higher needs for fine tuning, but
you can use them if you don't have special needs. Binary diffs would be
so complicated that I think this way we could really not follow.
If you need simplicity at all, use portupgrade with packages. It has an
option (don't remember which one) you can use to make it fetch packages
instead of building from source. Nowadays, this network traffic should
not be a real problem, I think.
You've brought up a lot of things I didn't consider; this was
part of the reason for my post. It seems to me that there would
need to be some simple ground rules from the binary patches I'm
got in mind. The *default* CFLAGS in the port would match those
in the patch is one place to start.
Obviously, this could get way out of hand very quickly. Two of
my slowest servers (one 400MHz, 192M RAM) were rebuilding parts
of the KDE suite; the new kdelib-3.5.6 [??] just finished and I
already scp'd it over to my more beefy platform. Once I've got
all my servers up to date, it may not be that hard to keep them
current. You're right that bandwidth isn't a problem--um, in
most places {{ clearing my throat! }}. Bandwidth isn't the main
issue. It's time.
As you said, bandwith is not an issue, but time is, what I understand,
of course. What I wanted to point out was exactly the same. For time
concerns, you can use portupgrade with packages (somebody already
mentioned with which option you can do this) and it will fetch the
appropriate new packages for you. Binary patches would not make this
process much faster if bandwith is not a concern.
Regards,
Gabor
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WG: FreeBSD 2.2.9 / Installation problem
Dear Sir or Madam, I tried again installing FreeBSD 4.11, but the problem is that when I put back the harddisk into the Omnibook and boot it, the system does not recognize from where to mount root (sorry for the misinformation in my mail below it appears not to be a RAM issue!). It starts probing devices, until it finally gives up and asks me to input it manually. I managed finally installing FreeBSD 2.2.9, by using the bootfloppies from 4.11. Same problem: When booting it does not recognize from where to mount root. I would be grateful if you could help me. Kind regards, Nino Ivanov _ Von: Nino Ivanov [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Gesendet: Donnerstag, 15. März 2007 09:59 An: 'freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.org' Betreff: FreeBSD 2.2.9 / Installation problem Dear Sir or Madam, First of all, I would like to thank all involved in this project for the work they do, and wish them all the best for its continuation. I would like to use FreeBSD on a certain machine, but unfortunately I have a problem with the installation. I would like to mention that I have a non-technical background, which might be relevant regarding any information I supply, and also the way you address my problem. I am writing you with regard to the following issue, and would appreciate your help greatly: 1. Ultimate Goal. I am a law student, and in my field we are working a lot with .pdf-documents. To my surprise, the Midnight Commander is able to display them, at least in FreeBSD 6.1 which I use normally. (I have read somewhere there is no text-mode .pdf-viewer; fortunately, this appears to be incorrect.) I decided to put FreeBSD in text mode on my old laptop, so I can view .pdf-documents on it while working on another machine. 2. The Means. The target machine is a HP Omnibook 600c laptop with 8MB RAM, a 486 DX4 processor, 300 MB disk space. No CD drive. No network available. External floppy drive without DMA. (I tried NetBSD, but because of the lack of DMA it did not work properly.) The functioning of the floppy drive is critical, being the machines only practical means of communicating with the outer world. Due to cost and time considerations, no upgrades are possible. If the target machine is not suitable for an installation of FreeBSD, please let me know so I stop further attempts. Fortunately, the harddrive can be put into my main machine, a Compaq Armada Laptop whose type I unfortunately dont know. Specifications of the Compaq machine: 192 MB RAM, Internet access available, 300MHz PII CPU, CD drive and floppy drive available. The CD drive cannot boot from CDs, so I am using the boot floppies to initialize installation. The HP Omnibook harddrive fits in by placing it into the PCMCIA slot, as the HP Omnibook drive physically has PCMCIA connections. 3. The Problem. I chose Novice Installation. The next screen informed me of what is to happen now. The screen following it said: No disk found! Please verify that your disk controller is being properly probed at boot time. See the Hardware Guide on the Documentation menu for clues on diagnosing this type of problem. 4. Analysis. Frankly, I have no idea what to do. I have tried to install FreeBSD 4.11 using the same method. It was successful, however, I could not run it on the HP Omnibook machine, as it appears it had not sufficient RAM: The booting process of FreeBSD 4.11 initiated, but after a while started to preduce errors until it broke off. I must say, I have read the documentation, searched many times the Internet etc., but not found anything regarding the issue. Maybe I have overlooked a solution because of my non-technical background. 5. Desired solution. All I want is a FreeBSD system with the Midnight Commander that shall display my .pdf-files on my HP Omnibook 600c. I have no pretentions as to which version, so long as it fits the purpose. So, I would be grateful if you could advise me as to how to correct my installation problem of FreeBSD 2.2.9; however, if another solution looks better to you, please do not hesitate to mention it. I thank you in advance for your help. Yours faithfully, Nino Ivanov ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
boot2 can't boot from USB?
Dag-Erling Smørgrav wrote: Barry Pederson [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Is there any hope for someday optionally using ZFS as a root filesystem? For that to be possible, both /boot/boot2 and /boot/loader need to understand ZFS well enough to read files from it. There isn't much room to spare in /boot/boot2, so we'd have to have a separate version for ZFS and teach 'disklabel -B' how to pick the right one. Sorry if this is offtopic. Am i right to assume that: - boot0 and boot1 both read from the disk via BIOS - boot2 tries to read from the disk directly, without BIOS ? If so, i may have found some bugs / problems with boot2. Long ago i tried to make a bootable USB pendrive with FreeBSD 6.1 on it. It failed to boot with the message invalid slice and i got a prompt like: FreeBSD/i386 BOOT Default: 0:ad(0,a)/boot/loader boot: Whatever i tried, it fails to load Loader or the kernel. Later, i tried FreeNAS which enables the user to write an image to an USB pendrive which contains a bootable FreeNAS installation. The copying went ok, but i got the same boot problem. I then tried it on three different systems with two different USB pendrives and they all had the same problem. All of the systems supported USB boot, and it does actually boot from USB how else could i see that FreeBSD boot prompt? Some systems are brand new: dualcore SLI motherboards, etc. It appears to me the boot2 program fails to read from USB. boot0 and boot1 appear not to have this problem since it uses the BIOS to read from the disk. Is this correct? Are USB boot problems by boot2 known, should i file a PR? Thanks, - Veronica ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Sendmail on a new Freebsd6.2 Won't Send or Receive. Solved!
Ted Mittelstaedt writes: sendmail_enable=YES in /etc/rc.conf? Many thanks. That's exactly what I had, but after looking at it again, I also had something much worse in the startup line. This new system is a replacement for the one I am on now and the name is similar. The rc.conf.local file was copied from the old system and this part looks like: sendmail_enable=YES # Run the sendmail inbound daemon (YES/NO/NONE). # # If NONE, don't start any sendmail processes. sendmail_flags=-L sm-mta -bd -q15m -C/etc/mail/dc.cis.okstate.edu.cf # Flags to sendmail (as a server) That was the problem. The file name referenced there doesn't exist on the new system. When I used the right configuration file name, all is well. Again, thanks for your help because it made me look everything over once again and find the problem. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Periodic xl watchdog timeouts on 6.2-RELEASE
On Mon, 12 Mar 2007 22:22:44 -0800 Ted Mittelstaedt [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have found with some of the intel MBs that the latest BIOS update actually causes trouble. Don't be afraid to try back-flashing to an older BIOS update. Intel has all the BIOS versions up on their site for each board. Ted Tried a few things in the past couple days: - Set the interfaces to not auto-negotiate and hard-coded them: No change. - Tried the past 3 BIOS revisions I had been using previously: No change. Next up, started swapping around cards. I noticed that one of my 3 3c905C cards hadn't been giving the watchdog timeout errors that I could remember, even though I'm doubting 2/3 of my previously-good cards are actually bad, but I kept that one at xl1 and tried a good 3c905B as xl0. This worked a little differently, now instead of watchdog timeouts, on the previously-normal xl1 I get: Mar 15 05:56:51 imogen kernel: xl1: transmission error: 90 Mar 15 05:56:51 imogen kernel: xl1: tx underrun, increasing tx start threshold to 120 bytes I know it's *technically* an informational message and not a problem, I'm a perfectionist and would prefer it not to be there. Perhaps I need to start from stratch with some em* cards, they've been working well for me everywhere else. (Original discussion: http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-questions/2007-March/144227.html) Brian J. Conway ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: FreeBSD 2.2.9 / Installation problem
On 15/03/07, Nino Ivanov [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Dear Sir or Madam, [...] The target machine is a HP Omnibook 600c laptop with 8MB RAM, a 486 DX4 processor, 300 MB disk space. No CD drive. No network available. External floppy drive without DMA. (I tried NetBSD, but because of the lack of DMA it did not work properly.) The functioning of the floppy drive is critical, being the machine's only practical means of communicating with the outer world. Due to cost and time considerations, no upgrades are possible. If the target machine is not suitable for an installation of FreeBSD, please let me know so I stop further attempts. I guess you're without luck in this case. AFAIK FreeBSD needs at least 64 MB RAM to work happily. I tried installing it on an P1/133MHz Laptop with 16MB RAM, and it freezes after a few minutes. And it's dead slow. So I tried NetBSD which worked better on my machine. Maybe there is a switch or configuration setting to turn off DMA for the Floppy Drive? HTH Christian ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: boot2 can't boot from USB?
Fluffles [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Sorry if this is offtopic. Am i right to assume that: - boot0 and boot1 both read from the disk via BIOS - boot2 tries to read from the disk directly, without BIOS ? No, only the kernel contains drivers that are independent from the BIOS. Everything else (the boot* blocks and /boot/loader) use BIOS calls. If so, i may have found some bugs / problems with boot2. Long ago i tried to make a bootable USB pendrive with FreeBSD 6.1 on it. It failed to boot with the message invalid slice and i got a prompt like: FreeBSD/i386 BOOT Default: 0:ad(0,a)/boot/loader boot: Whatever i tried, it fails to load Loader or the kernel. Later, i tried FreeNAS which enables the user to write an image to an USB pendrive which contains a bootable FreeNAS installation. The copying went ok, but i got the same boot problem. I then tried it on three different systems with two different USB pendrives and they all had the same problem. All of the systems supported USB boot, and it does actually boot from USB how else could i see that FreeBSD boot prompt? Some systems are brand new: dualcore SLI motherboards, etc. It appears to me the boot2 program fails to read from USB. boot0 and boot1 appear not to have this problem since it uses the BIOS to read from the disk. Is this correct? No, see above, they all use the BIOS. The difference is that boot2 needs to understand UFS, locate the correct slice and partition with /boot/loader in it and load it. The earlier boot blocks are relatively dumb and only know how to load boot2 from a fixed location on the media. So, if boot2 doesn't work for you, it's probably unable to locate your FreeBSD slice and/or partition. How did you create them? (Another difference is that boot2 enters protected mode in order to be able to access memory above 1 MB, while the earlier boot blocks use pure real mode. But that should not be related to the problem that you see.) Are USB boot problems by boot2 known, should i file a PR? boot2 doesn't know about USB at all. It only knows about BIOS-accessible drives (which may include USB drives if that's enabled in the BIOS setup). Best regards Oliver -- Oliver Fromme, secnetix GmbH Co. KG, Marktplatz 29, 85567 Grafing b. M. Handelsregister: Registergericht Muenchen, HRA 74606, Geschäftsfuehrung: secnetix Verwaltungsgesellsch. mbH, Handelsregister: Registergericht Mün- chen, HRB 125758, Geschäftsführer: Maik Bachmann, Olaf Erb, Ralf Gebhart FreeBSD-Dienstleistungen, -Produkte und mehr: http://www.secnetix.de/bsd With sufficient thrust, pigs fly just fine. However, this is not necessarily a good idea. It is hard to be sure where they are going to land, and it could be dangerous sitting under them as they fly overhead. -- RFC 1925 ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: ifstated check commands behavior
On 3/14/07, Alexandre Biancalana [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hi list,
I'm trying to setup ifstated to check two links and if some go down, do
some actions like change pf rules and machine's route.
My doubt is about the execution order/repetition of the states body of
ifstated.conf, in all configs that I tried just the last check is executed
always, follow and example:
ifstated.conf:
==
loglevel debug
ping1 = '( ping -q -c 1 -t 3 www.site1.com /dev/null every 10 ) '
ping2 = '( ping -q -c 1 -t 3 www.site2.com /dev/null every 10 ) '
state one {
if ! ( $ping1 $ping2 ) {
set-state two
}
}
state two {
init {
run logger -p console.notice -t ifstated 'Restarting
network !'
}
if ( $ping $ping2 ) {
set-state one
}
}
==
# ifstated -dv
ping1 = ( ping -q -c 1 -t 3 www.site1.com /dev/null every 10 )
ping2 = ( ping -q -c 1 -t 3 www.site2.com /dev/null every 10 )
ifstated: initial state: one
ifstated: changing state to one
ifstated: running ping -q -c 1 -t 3 www.site1.com /dev/null
ifstated: running ping -q -c 1 -t 3 www.site2.com /dev/null
ifstated: started
ifstated: changing state to two
ifstated: running ping -q -c 1 -t 3 www.site1.com /dev/null
ifstated: running ping -q -c 1 -t 3 www.site2.com /dev/null
ifstated: running ping -q -c 1 -t 3 www.site2.com /dev/null
ifstated: running ping -q -c 1 -t 3 www.site2.com /dev/null
As you can see, after change state ifstated execute only the *last* check
command of the statement (ping2) forever
This is the expected behavior ?
This shouldn't execute all state body until state change ??
Thanks for any help.
Alexandre
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ipnat. Mapping only specified port
I use IPFilter firewall and I need to remap only packets with specified port in destination. Other traffic should not be remapped. IPNAT(5) says following: Matching of packets has now been extended to allow more complex compares. In place of the address which is to be translated, an IP address and port number comparison can be made using the same expressions available with *ipf*. I tried the following line in ipnat.rules: map rl0 from 192.168.0.0/24 to any port=pop3 - 0.0.0.0/32 But it didn’t help: isrv# ipnat -CF -f /etc/ipnat.rules 0 entries flushed from NAT table 1 entries flushed from NAT list isrv# ipnat -l List of active MAP/Redirect filters: map rl0 from 192.168.0.0/24 to any - 0.0.0.0/32 List of active sessions: isrv# As you can see, active filter didn’t contain port I need. How can I specify IP address and port number to be translated in ipnat.rules? Or can I restrict NAT for all traffic to specified network? --- Alexey B. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: started getting repeated bge0: PHY read timed out messages
On Mar 15, 2007, at 12:48 AM, Michael K. Smith - Adhost wrote: Have you considered hard-setting the speed/duplex to 1000/Full instead of 100/Full? There may be some issues in the autonegotiation happening between switch and server. We used to see some of this early on in inter-vendor GigE connections; perhaps the switch vendor and the FreeBSD devels are reading the standards differently. I thought of that. However, I thought that if that were the case, the problem would happen at boot and not start at some random time after boot and work for a while first. Is that not a valid thought? Chad Mike --- Chad Leigh -- Shire.Net LLC Your Web App and Email hosting provider chad at shire.net ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: sendmail not working?
You haven't configured it correctly. I think I did. To enable postfix startup script please add postfix_enable=YES in your rc.conf If you not need Sendmail anymore, please add in your rc.conf: sendmail_enable=NO sendmail_submit_enable=NO sendmail_outbound_enable=NO sendmail_msp_queue_enable=NO I'm sorry, I did not paste all lines related to sendmail. Here are the options: messias# cat /etc/rc.conf | grep sendm sendmail_enable=NO sendmail_submit_enable=NO sendmail_outbound_enable=NO sendmail_msp_queue_enable=NO messias# cat /etc/rc.conf | grep postf postfix_enable=YES And you can disable some sendmail specific daily maintenance routines in your /etc/periodic.conf file: daily_clean_hoststat_enable=NO daily_status_mail_rejects_enable=NO daily_status_include_submit_mailq=NO daily_submit_queuerun=NO Okay, this was missing but I guess this did not affect local mail delivery. You also need to modify the /etc/mail/mailer.conf file. This is done automatically by postfix. Yes. When I reinstalled postfix, it asked me if I want to enable postfix in mailer.conf. I answered YES. Here is my mailer.conf: messias# cat /etc/mail/mailer.conf # # Execute the Postfix sendmail program, named /usr/local/sbin/sendmail # sendmail/usr/local/sbin/sendmail send-mail /usr/local/sbin/sendmail mailq /usr/local/sbin/sendmail newaliases /usr/local/sbin/sendmail If your version is not current, you might want to update it. messias# pkg_info | grep postfix postfix-2.3.5,1 A secure alternative to widely-used Sendmail I know it is not the newest, but should work. I rebooted the machine, but it did not help. By the way, I do NOT want postfix to listen on TCP/25. I have to use an ssh tunnel. But I would like to be able to deliver e-mail messages locally. Here is what I did for now: - deinstalled postfix - changed mailer.conf back to the original version - disabled postfix and re-enabled sendmail in rc.conf - started sendmail with /etc/rc.d/sendmail start And it works! But why couldn't I do this with postfix? Thanks, Laszlo ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: sendmail not working?
Nagy László Zsolt wrote: I'm sorry, I did not paste all lines related to sendmail. Here are the options: messias# cat /etc/rc.conf | grep sendm sendmail_enable=NO sendmail_submit_enable=NO sendmail_outbound_enable=NO sendmail_msp_queue_enable=NO messias# cat /etc/rc.conf | grep postf [...] postfix-2.3.5,1 A secure alternative to widely-used Sendmail I know it is not the newest, but should work. Things changed in the way postfix is installed, In particular old ports required sendmail_enable=YES and some substitutions to various sendmail commands. To be sure you did the right thing you would have to look at the pkg-message *from the version of the port that you installed*. An old port should work, but you have to make sure that you followed the instructions from that port. I can't tell whether this is the case for you or not. Either way, it might help to get the latest version of the port (either cvsup/portsnap/csup, or just downloading the latest port from http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/ports.cgi?query=postfixstype=name and download whichever version it is you have and overwrite the version in /usr/ports (after backing it up :-)) --Alex ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Don't buy AMD products (was Re: Xorg and ATI card query.)
On Wed, Mar 14, 2007 at 11:55:20AM -0400, Sean Bryant wrote: Try the 'vesa' xorg driver. It may not be fancy or all that accelerated but it works quite well. I have an nvidia card and cannot get it to work for the life of me. the drive attached, but nothing happens after that. It might be the fact that I have a PCI express card. But the vesa driver is working just fine for me. I have tried the vesa driver. Indeed I re-use it sometimes when I power-cycle the computer, because one of the quirks of the nv driver is that it doesn't seem to be able to put the card into a state where it actually displays a useful or stable image. Once the vesa driver has that sorted out, though, the nv driver seems to work reliably for me, and seems to be slightly faster, thanks (I think) to some 2D acceleration. Other things the nv driver won't do for me: power control of the monitor from screen-saver, and ability to drive my display at its rated 1600x1200 resolution (logs claim that it's restricted to 1280x1024 by BIOS, whatever that means...) I don't think that the vesa driver can do either of those either, though. Cheers, -- Andrew ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: sendmail not working?
On Thursday March 15, 2007 at 09:15:50 (AM) Nagy László Zsolt wrote: And it works! But why couldn't I do this with postfix? Because you have postfix configured wrong. I would need the output of postconf -n to even begin to tell what is happening. Are you subscribed to the postfix mail forum? http://www.postfix.com/lists.html You can subscribe by sending an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Place this is the body -- not the subject portion: subscribe postfix-users Then once you are subscribed submit your 'postconf -n' output along with your OS version and postfix version. Include the relevant lines from the /var/log/mail.log file as well as what your problem is. By the way, I would still up date to the latest stable version before posting. You have a better chance of getting a satisfactory response. Good luck! -- Gerard ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Problem with X11 and S3 Savage video card
Hello, I am trying to run X11 on a machine with FreeBSD 6.2 and S3 Savage video card. The installation of X11 was successful. The initial test is ok, everything seems to function normally. The problem occures when I try to exit the test with Ctrl-Alt-Backspace. At that moment it looks like an attempt is made to switch the video mode and the screen remains black. After some time the monitor goes to power down mode as if there is no video signal. Please, give me a link to a possible solution. -- Best regards, Lubomir Toshev mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: (no subject)
On Thu, Mar 15, 2007 at 06:03:25AM +, neo neo wrote: A request, first. Please include a meaningful subject line on messages to the list. Most people will ignore messages with no subject line as all are quite busy enough taking care of things already. hello ; i am new at FreeBSD . Where can i get FreeBSD commands list? There is no comprehensive list. That is because it is not only possible, but required and encouraged for you to add to the system what you need or desire to run. There are a few basic thing that exist for everyone. First, you should probably know ls(1) and man(1). ls lists files. man is a utility to display or print the manual page (usually shortened to just 'man' page) for something. Note that the number in parens (1) or (8) or whatever, you will often see refers to the manual section. Most often the one you want is the one that comes up by default, but there are some things with information in more than one man section. Then there are the shell built-in commands. See 'man builtin' It lists the built in shell commands for the two main shell families that are used in the system. sh includes sh and bash. csh includes csh and tcsh. There are others, but less often used. In FreeBSD the default shell is tcsh for a login and mose system scripts use sh. Finally, list the contents of directories /bin /sbin /usr/bin, /usr/sbin and /usr/local/bin and /usr/local/sbin.Those files are almost all utilities that can be executed directly as a command. Check the man page for any that you want to learn about - type 'man yes' (without the quote marks) to see the brief man page for the yes utility, for example. Man pages have a formal/stylized structure and wording. Sometimes that can seem a little dense and you will want to look for additional information in a book or in a search engine on the web. You should also check out the 'man hier' man page as it describes the way FreeBSD file systems and directories are layed out. jerry thankz . ZAW HTET AUNG ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: squid
On Thu, Mar 15, 2007 at 06:45:22AM +, neo neo wrote: hello ; thankz for your reply . could u please help me about that.? How to configure to use my FreeBSD as a proxy with Squid ? You are going to have to learn to read and use documentation. People aren't going to be happy doing thing over that have already been written up, just because you don't read about it. jerry thankz a lot ZAW HTET AUNG ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Optimizationn questions?
On Wed, Mar 14, 2007 at 08:19:49PM -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, 15 Mar 2007, Danny Pansters wrote: On Thursday 15 March 2007 02:16, Gary Kline wrote: Two quick one for kernel and/or compiler wizards: first, is a 400Mz processor considered a 586 (for my KERNELCONF file)? Think its 686 (but really, leaving 486 and 586 in isn't going to slow down booting or anything!) I always say: Use GENERIC unless you have a good reason not to. Second, is it safe to do a buildworld with -O3? If there are No. It's not supported if things break. stability concerns, I'll go with the default when I rebuild my 6.2 systems. The defaults should be fine. Also, like I said consider just using GENERIC and load the odd kmod if needed. Generally it's less headache and equal performance. thanks in advance, gary Cheers, Dan As Dan and Gary said -O3 isn't supported, and in many cases that level of optimization gets filtered out while compiling sections of FreeBSD. Besides, I've compiled stuff with -O3 and various optimizations in Gentoo Linux before, and let me say that it caused a great deal of headaches... that's why I stick with -O2 now, because it's better to have something in executable shape and a bit slower (arguably because some optimizations slow things down) than it is to have something run fast and break all the time. Some food for thought :). --Food for thought and a chuckle too! (not to mention that it's waaay early, the chickens are still snoring, and I've only had *one* cup of joe)... I've done some investigation with optimizing my own code, usually 1000 lines, and haven't seen much gain between -O2 and -O3. Loop-unrolling may be different; one trick that compiler hackers at supercomputer companies use by default in to unroll small loops. Cray is one example. S, to get any real gain is going to mean going thru the most freq used tools (*grep, find, ls) and hand-tweak. Might buy 5 - 7%. have a good one, gary -Garrett ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Gary Kline [EMAIL PROTECTED] www.thought.org Public Service Unix ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Problem with X11 and S3 Savage video card
Lubomir Toshev wrote: Hello, I am trying to run X11 on a machine with FreeBSD 6.2 and S3 Savage video card. The installation of X11 was successful. The initial test is ok, everything seems to function normally. The problem occures when I try to exit the test with Ctrl-Alt-Backspace. At that moment it looks like an attempt is made to switch the video mode and the screen remains black. After some time the monitor goes to power down mode as if there is no video signal. By test do you mean you just ran the startx script without having a desktop environment installed? Did an xterm (or rather 3 xterms) pop up? If so, usually closing it or typing exit at the prompt inside of it should cause the X-Server to shutdown. As far as killing the server with the keyboard, compare the values in the manpage with those in your configuration file for man xorg.conf regarding these options: DontZap, DontVTSwitch, HandleSpecialKeys, and XkbDisable. It may also be that xkbmap is not loading or cannot find your keyboard map. The next time you start the server, try logging all output somewhere and seeing if there are any errors coming up. Please, give me a link to a possible solution. http://linuxreviews.org/man/XF86Config/ http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/xorg/2004-September/thread.html#3473 (For the above: Read the entire thread starting with Xorg 6.8.1: can't switch VT or resolution) ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Problem with X11 and S3 Savage video card
If your video is AGP, it is likely an AGP issue. AGP cards can be managed by the driver or by the kernel. You need the correct AGP setting. -Derek At 08:36 AM 3/15/2007, Lubomir Toshev wrote: Hello, I am trying to run X11 on a machine with FreeBSD 6.2 and S3 Savage video card. The installation of X11 was successful. The initial test is ok, everything seems to function normally. The problem occures when I try to exit the test with Ctrl-Alt-Backspace. At that moment it looks like an attempt is made to switch the video mode and the screen remains black. After some time the monitor goes to power down mode as if there is no video signal. Please, give me a link to a possible solution. -- Best regards, Lubomir Toshev mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean. MailScanner thanks transtec Computers for their support. -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean. MailScanner thanks transtec Computers for their support. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Build your own ISO-install-CD?
On 3/15/07, Ewald Jenisch [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Yes you're right - the question is about how to create a *custom* ISO-image. I tried to find something about this in the FreeBSD docs, but I didn't look very hard: http://romana.now.ie/writing/customfreebsdiso.html From the article: I needed to install FreeBSD on a system (a Dell PowerEdge 400SC) with an LSILogic 1030 Ultra4 SCSI adapter. At that time support for this device was only available with an mpt driver patch that hadn't yet made it into FreeBSD. I needed to make install media that incorporated the mpt patch. It's for a different driver patch, not sure if it will work as I haven't tried it myself, and again it's not the FreeBSD docs, but hopefully it will help a bit. cd /usr/src # make release -DMAKE_ISOS `release' is up to date. # yet, no .iso-files to find :-( I also came across /usr/src/release/i386/mkisoimages.sh The link I found was googled with mkisoimages.sh as the query string. Most of the results were from CVS check-ins, but if you want to search for more documentation, searching for things that mention that file could be a good start. It needs the following params: mkisoimages.sh [-b] image-label image-name base-bits-dir [extra-bits-dir] Where is base-bits-dir supposed to be? -ewald -Parker ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Trying to Upgrade Version of Tar on a 5.3 System.
I am transfering all our working group files from a FreeBSD5.3 platform to a bigger, faster and FreeBSD6.2 system. I discovered that bsdtar on the 5.3 system doesn't appear to have the --newer-than feature in which you only archive files newer than either a given date or a reference file such as the last monster tar ball from, say, /usr/home. The plan was to copy the monster tar ball over which has happened without problems, and then do a second pass just before we shut the older system down and pick up everybody's files which have changed in a hopefully much smaller tar ball which can then be overlayed to bring everything up to date as to what it was on the old system. The ports collection has gtar and freetar and the older system is using the bsdtar that unpacked from the iso image so it would not be productive to try to install what I already have as there is nothing wrong. Will either freetar or gtar give me the capability to use a reference file to only get the new files that have either appeared or changed since yesterday? Is there another way to use the existing tar that I might have missed that does the same thing? Thanks. Martin McCormick WB5AGZ Stillwater, OK Systems Engineer OSU Information Technology Department Network Operations Group ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Web Hosting @ StartLogic
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Re: Trying to Upgrade Version of Tar on a 5.3 System.
In the last episode (Mar 15), Martin McCormick said: I am transfering all our working group files from a FreeBSD5.3 platform to a bigger, faster and FreeBSD6.2 system. I discovered that bsdtar on the 5.3 system doesn't appear to have the --newer-than feature in which you only archive files newer than either a given date or a reference file such as the last monster tar ball from, say, /usr/home. [..] Will either freetar or gtar give me the capability to use a reference file to only get the new files that have either appeared or changed since yesterday? gtar has the --newer and --newer-mtime options, which should suffice for what you need. You could also build the latest bsdtar from http://people.freebsd.org/~kientzle/libarchive/ , but since you just need it for this one operation, building gtar from ports is probably easier. -- Dan Nelson [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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Re: Fixing DST manually on rel4 rel5
On Mar 14, 2007, at 10:29 PM, Ted Mittelstaedt wrote:
echo ln -s /usr/share/zoneinfo/PST8PDT /etc/localtime
[ ... ]
I think the ln-s line is backwards, I didn't check it. I think it's
been a while since they used softlinks for localtime
The use of ln -s will work just fine as written. I don't know why
tzsetup makes a copy of the zoneinfo file rather than setting up a
symlink, but making a copy simply allows the file in /etc to become
out-of-sync if one updates the files under /usr/share{/lib}/zoneinfo
without re-running tzsetup again.
--
-Chuck
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Help installing nasm
Hi, Im trying to install the Netwide Assembler (nasm) in such a way: # cd /usr/ports/devel/nasm # make But I get the following error: = Couldnt fetch it please try to retrieve this port manually into /usr/ports/distfiles/ and try again. *** Error code 1 Im using the stable version 6.1 And Im behind a proxy. What can I do? Thanx, -- Robe. Psiquiatría: el único negocio donde el cliente nunca tiene la razón. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Slim Server
Hey guys, I got Slim Server installed… although it won’t load when I run “slimserver.pl --daemon” I checked out the /var/log folder but I cannot find out where the log is… any ideas? -- No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Free Edition. Version: 7.5.446 / Virus Database: 268.18.11/723 - Release Date: 3/15/2007 11:27 AM ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Help installing nasm
On Thursday 15 March 2007 18:59:05 Robe wrote: Hi, Im trying to install the Netwide Assembler (nasm) in such a way: # cd /usr/ports/devel/nasm # make But I get the following error: = Couldnt fetch it please try to retrieve this port manually into /usr/ports/distfiles/ and try again. *** Error code 1 Im using the stable version 6.1 And Im behind a proxy. What can I do? Thanx, -- Robe. Psiquiatría: el único negocio donde el cliente nunca tiene la razón. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Hi, is the URL of the file outputted to your terminal ? If so, you could do as it suggests : download the file yourself, via your web browser or otherwise, and put it in /usr/port/distfiles pgpKipSOZQZhR.pgp Description: PGP signature
Verifying my 3D drivers set up properly for my nVidia based graphics card
I have a 7300GT in my computer, and I have run into a couple of errors trying to set up WoW in Wine (couldn't find copies of the error elsewhere). Also a couple of OpenGL applications are running slower than one would expect given my card (especially in the screen savers area, where the same apps would run /too fast/ with my old Ti4200. These in conjunction lead me to suspect my graphics setup. What application/method would you suggest to test this? I'd prefer something that would provide command line information, rather than about how fast does this run? I checked for the libraries mentioned on nVidias web site, and they are all in the right spots, which leads me to suspect it's an xorg.conf error, but I'm not sure. I've attached the xorg.conf file to the end, just in case. Thanks, -Jim Stapleton /etc/X11/xorg.conf: # nvidia-xconfig: X configuration file generated by nvidia-xconfig # nvidia-xconfig: version 1.0 ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) Tue Feb 6 05:44:08 UTC 2007 Section ServerLayout Identifier X.org Configured Screen 0 Screen0 0 0 InputDeviceMouse0 CorePointer InputDeviceKeyboard0 CoreKeyboard EndSection Section Files RgbPath /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/rgb ModulePath /usr/X11R6/lib/modules FontPath/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/misc/ FontPath/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/TTF/ FontPath/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/Type1/ FontPath/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/CID/ FontPath/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/75dpi/ FontPath/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/100dpi/ EndSection Section Module Load extmod Load glx Load dbe Load record Load xtrap Load type1 Load freetype EndSection Section InputDevice Identifier Keyboard0 Driver kbd EndSection Section InputDevice Identifier Mouse0 Driver mouse Option Protocol auto Option Device /dev/sysmouse Option ZAxisMapping 4 5 6 7 EndSection Section Monitor ### Comment all HorizSync and VertSync values to use DDC: Identifier Monitor0 VendorName SAM ModelName SyncMaster HorizSync 30.0 - 81.0 VertRefresh 56.0 - 75.0 Option DPMS EndSection Section Extensions Option Composite Enable EndSection Section Device Identifier Card0 Driver nvidia VendorName nVidia Corporation BoardName Unknown Board EndSection Section Screen Identifier Screen0 Device Card0 MonitorMonitor0 SubSection Display Viewport0 0 Depth 24 Modes 1280x1024 1024x768 800x600 640x480 EndSubSection SubSection Display Viewport0 0 Depth 16 Modes 1280x1024 1024x768 800x600 640x480 EndSubSection SubSection Display Viewport0 0 Depth 15 Modes 1280x1024 1024x768 800x600 640x480 EndSubSection SubSection Display Viewport0 0 Depth 8 Modes 1280x1024 1024x768 800x600 640x480 EndSubSection SubSection Display Viewport0 0 Depth 4 Modes 1280x1024 1024x768 800x600 640x480 EndSubSection SubSection Display Viewport0 0 Modes 1280x1024 1024x768 800x600 640x480 EndSubSection EndSection /var/log/Xorg.0.log: X Window System Version 6.9.0 Release Date: 21 December 2005 X Protocol Version 11, Revision 0, Release 6.9 Build Operating System: FreeBSD 6.2 i386 [ELF] Current Operating System: FreeBSD elrond.ameritech.net 6.2-STABLE FreeBSD 6.2-STABLE #0: Fri Mar 2 21:01:49 UTC 2007 [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/JIM20070302 i386 Build Date: 08 February 2007 Before reporting problems, check http://wiki.X.Org to make sure that you have the latest version. Module Loader present Markers: (--) probed, (**) from config file, (==) default setting, (++) from command line, (!!) notice, (II) informational, (WW) warning, (EE) error, (NI) not implemented, (??) unknown. (==) Log file: /var/log/Xorg.0.log, Time: Tue Mar 13 17:47:13 2007 (==) Using config file: /etc/X11/xorg.conf (==) ServerLayout X.org Configured (**) |--Screen Screen0 (0) (**) | |--Monitor Monitor0 (**) | |--Device Card0 (**) |--Input Device Mouse0 (**) |--Input Device Keyboard0 (WW) The directory /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/CID/ does not exist. Entry deleted from font path. (**) FontPath set to /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/misc/,/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/TTF/,/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/Type1/,/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/75dpi/,/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/100dpi/ (**) RgbPath set to /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/rgb (**) ModulePath set to /usr/X11R6/lib/modules (**) Extension Composite is enabled (II) Module ABI versions: X.Org ANSI C Emulation: 0.2 X.Org Video Driver: 0.8 X.Org XInput driver : 0.5 X.Org Server Extension :
amarok lyrics: proxy and ruby?
Well the problem is that im behind a proxy and i cant see the lyrics in amarok with 1.4.5 version, it gave me an error with all lyrics scipts for example with LyriWiki is this: Failed to establish a connection with LyricWiki.org SOAP Server. LyricWiki.org is either down or experiencing an problem with their SOAP server. The script will run, but will be less responsive than usual. With Leos script is this: Lyrics could not be retrieved because the server was not reachable. and with the default scipt it gave me this error: Lyrics could not be retrieved because the server was not reachable. To me it seems that is becouse amarok didnt find the proxy.But with older version 1.3.9 i can, what is the problem? Can somebody help me? ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Help installing nasm
On Thu, 15 Mar 2007, Robe wrote: Hi, Im trying to install the Netwide Assembler (nasm) in such a way: # cd /usr/ports/devel/nasm # make But I get the following error: = Couldnt fetch it please try to retrieve this port manually into /usr/ports/distfiles/ and try again. *** Error code 1 Im using the stable version 6.1 And Im behind a proxy. What can I do? I've received the same error a few times in the past. It was caused by the fact my computer didn't have its NIC configured correctly to establish a connection to the Internet. Could be the same in your case.___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: No matter what I try I can't get Nvidia 3d acceleration to work. Please help!
Norbert Papke wrote: On Monday 12 March 2007 20:58, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm actually having the same problem, but after I took out device agp out of my kernel. And I still cannot start x with nvidia driver. It complains that /dev/nvidiactl couldn't be opened. And then it says it failed to load the kernel module. It seems that the graphics card is not detected. Does 'pciconf -l | grep nvidia' show anything? What model is it? If it is an older card, you may need the older version of the NVIDIA driver. sysctl -a | grep nvidia hw.nvidia.version: NVIDIA UNIX x86 Kernel Module 1.0-9746 Tue Dec 19 13:20:59 PST 2006 hw.nvidia.registry.EnableVia4x: 0 hw.nvidia.registry.EnableALiAGP: 0 hw.nvidia.registry.NvAGP: 1 hw.nvidia.registry.EnableAGPSBA: 0 hw.nvidia.registry.EnableAGPFW: 0 hw.nvidia.registry.SoftEDIDs: 1 hw.nvidia.registry.Mobile: 4294967295 hw.nvidia.registry.ResmanDebugLevel: 4294967295 hw.nvidia.registry.FlatPanelMode: 0 hw.nvidia.registry.DevicesConnected: 0 hw.nvidia.registry.RmLogonRC: 1 hw.nvidia.registry.DetectPrimaryVga: 1 hw.nvidia.registry.dwords: For comparison, here is my output. Note that there are card specific entries. # sysctl -a | grep nvidia nvidia 603 1293K -38844 16,32,64,128,256,512,1024,2048,4096 nvidia0: GeForce 7600 GS port 0xbc00-0xbc7f mem 0xfd00-0xfdff,0xc000-0xcfff,0xfc00-0xfcff irq 16 at device 0.0 on pci3 nvidia0: [GIANT-LOCKED] hw.nvidia.version: NVIDIA UNIX x86 Kernel Module 1.0-9746 Tue Dec 19 13:20:59 PST 2006 hw.nvidia.registry.EnableVia4x: 0 hw.nvidia.registry.EnableALiAGP: 0 hw.nvidia.registry.NvAGP: 1 hw.nvidia.registry.EnableAGPSBA: 0 hw.nvidia.registry.EnableAGPFW: 0 hw.nvidia.registry.SoftEDIDs: 1 hw.nvidia.registry.Mobile: 4294967295 hw.nvidia.registry.ResmanDebugLevel: 4294967295 hw.nvidia.registry.FlatPanelMode: 0 hw.nvidia.registry.DevicesConnected: 0 hw.nvidia.registry.RmLogonRC: 1 hw.nvidia.registry.DetectPrimaryVga: 1 hw.nvidia.registry.dwords: hw.nvidia.cards.0.model: GeForce 7600 GS hw.nvidia.cards.0.irq: 16 hw.nvidia.cards.0.vbios: 05.73.22.16.02 hw.nvidia.cards.0.type: PCI-E dev.nvidia.0.%desc: GeForce 7600 GS dev.nvidia.0.%driver: nvidia dev.nvidia.0.%location: slot=0 function=0 dev.nvidia.0.%pnpinfo: vendor=0x10de device=0x0392 subvendor=0x3842 subdevice=0xc547 class=0x03 dev.nvidia.0.%parent: pci3 ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] It seems the driver is attached: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:0:0: class=0x03 card=0x chip=0x00f910de rev=0xa2 hdr=0x00 its a 6800 GT. From BFG. I am on CURRENT. And xorg 6.9.0 ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: amarok lyrics: proxy and ruby?
Anna Vazquez Nikonova wrote: To me it seems that is becouse amarok didnt find the proxy.But with older version 1.3.9 i can, what is the problem? Can somebody help me? ___ Leave Amarok open and type this in a console window: dcop amarok script proxyForProtocol http If it prints an empty line instead of a string like http://somehost:someport;, you probably need to open kcontrol and configure the proxy settings. Even if you don't use KDE, you need to configure proxy support in kcontrol (don't worry, if you can run Amarok then you have kdelibs, which means you also have kcontrol), because Amarok grabs its knowledge of the proxy addresses from there. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
rbl-milter
I'm using mail/rbl-milter-0.30_2 on FreeBSD 6.2 (which sports Sendmail 8.13.8 compiled with -DMILTER). rbl-bilter is a sendmail milter that checks a DNS RBL (in this case, spamcop) to see if an address is a known-spammer, and if so, adds a header to the email rbl-milter starts, and creates a socket in /var/run/rbl-milter srwxr-xr-x 1 root wheel 0B 14 Mar 14:27 /var/run/rbl-milter= When I receive an email from a known spammer, I get a message in syslog that looks like this: Mar 14 15:03:05 melchoir rbl-milter[30345]: RBL entry found for 82.23.177.133 So I know that rbl-milter gets the message, and does its lookup. I receive the emails as I would expect, except no header has been added. I'm launching rbl-milter from the shipped a init.d script with: /usr/local/sbin/rbl-milter -l -r -p local:/var/run/rbl-milter -d $BLOCKLIST (where BLOCKLIST is bl.spamcop.net, defined earlier), and the rbl- milter portion of my sendmail.mc looks like: dnl pipe through rbl-milter socket INPUT_MAIL_FILTER(`rbl-milter',`S=local:/var/run/rbl-milter') define(`confINPUT_MAIL_FILTERS', `rbl-milter') (the entire sendmail.mc is at the end of the message). The INSTALL file indicates that a negotiation should happen, to quote: 7. Restart sendmail. Send yourself an email. In your maillogs you should see lines like the following: sm-mta[2826]: g19CaLob002826: Milter (rbl-milter): init success to negotiate sm-mta[2826]: g19CaLob002826: Milter: connect to filters sm-mta[2826]: g19CaLob002826: Milter accept: message I do NOT see that negotiation happening (but of course I *do* see rbl- milter indicating that the addresses in the message are on a blocklist). All of this seems to work, since rbl-milter obviously sees the mail and does the proper lookup. Do you know of any way that it would be able to do this, but not able to add the header? I can of course furnish additional configuration, but I'm not sure what's applicable. Here is my entire sendmail.mc: -- cut here -- divert(0) VERSIONID(`$FreeBSD: src/etc/sendmail/freebsd.mc,v 1.27 2002/10/16 22:52:56 keramida Exp $') OSTYPE(freebsd5) DOMAIN(generic) FEATURE(access_db, `hash -o -TTMPF /etc/mail/access') FEATURE(blacklist_recipients) FEATURE(local_lmtp) FEATURE(mailertable, `hash -o /etc/mail/mailertable') FEATURE(virtusertable, `hash -o /etc/mail/virtusertable') dnl Uncomment the first line to change the location of the default dnl /etc/mail/local-host-names and comment out the second line. dnl define(`confCW_FILE', `-o /etc/mail/sendmail.cw') define(`confCW_FILE', `-o /etc/mail/local-host-names') dnl pipe through rbl-milter socket INPUT_MAIL_FILTER(`rbl-milter',`S=local:/var/run/rbl-milter') define(`confINPUT_MAIL_FILTERS', `rbl-milter') FEATURE(`local_procmail') dnl set SASL options TRUST_AUTH_MECH(`LOGIN PLAIN')dnl define(`confAUTH_MECHANISMS', `LOGIN PLAIN')dnl define(`confDEF_AUTH_INFO', `/etc/mail/auth-info')dnl define(`CERT_DIR', `/etc/ssl')dnl define(`confCACERT_PATH', `CERT_DIR')dnl define(`confCACERT', `CERT_DIR/cacert.pem')dnl define(`confSERVER_CERT', `CERT_DIR/mail-cert.pem')dnl define(`confSERVER_KEY', `CERT_DIR/private/mail-key.pem')dnl DAEMON_OPTIONS(`Port=smtp, Name=MTA')dnl DAEMON_OPTIONS(`Port=smtps, Name=TLSMTA, M=s')dnl define(`confBIND_OPTS', `WorkAroundBroken') define(`confMAX_MIME_HEADER_LENGTH', `256/128') define(`confNO_RCPT_ACTION', `add-to-undisclosed') define(`confPRIVACY_FLAGS', `authwarnings,noexpn,novrfy') MAILER(local) MAILER(smtp) -- cut here -- ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: FreeBSD 2.2.9 / Installation problem
On Thu, Mar 15, 2007 at 12:28:12PM +0100, Christian Walther wrote: On 15/03/07, Nino Ivanov [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Dear Sir or Madam, [...] The target machine is a HP Omnibook 600c laptop with 8MB RAM, a 486 DX4 processor, 300 MB disk space. No CD drive. No network available. External floppy drive without DMA. (I tried NetBSD, but because of the lack of DMA it did not work properly.) The functioning of the floppy drive is critical, being the machine's only practical means of communicating with the outer world. Due to cost and time considerations, no upgrades are possible. If the target machine is not suitable for an installation of FreeBSD, please let me know so I stop further attempts. I guess you're without luck in this case. AFAIK FreeBSD needs at least 64 MB RAM to work happily. I tried installing it on an P1/133MHz Laptop with 16MB RAM, and it freezes after a few minutes. And it's dead slow. Well it is only true of more modern versions that they do not function well on systems with e.g. 8MB. FreeBSD 2.x was happy with as little as 4MB. Kris ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Help installing nasm
Robe wrote: And I’m behind a proxy. What can I do? Try following what this guy did. It sounds like you're having the same problem (i.e. fetch not working with a proxy): http://cyberjames.pbwiki.com/FreeBSD:%20Installing%20ports%20via%20proxy ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
'nodump' on directories: new contents still dumped
Hi, I'm using dump(8) for backing up a FreeBSD 4.10 server. In order to decrease the resulting file size, I flagged some directories like /usr/ports and /usr/src with 'nodump'. I adjusted the dump level 0 script to have -h 0, so that worked fine. The other scripts for dumps 0 do not have a -h flag set, because -h 1 is default. The problem is that new files appearing in the /usr/ports tree (daily portsnap cron) do not have the 'nodump' flag set. But despite the 'nodump' flag on the /usr/ports directory, the new files in the tree are still dumped. I understood that dump does not enter directories with 'nodump' flag set, so it shouldn't see the new files inside, right? Or is this behavior implemented in a newer version than FreeBSD 4.10? I have scanned the CVS logs for dump, but couldn't find anything relevant. One 'hack' is to run a script prior to the dump to recursively set all 'nodump' flags where appropriate, but I'm hoping that someone can enlighten me what is going on. Thanks in advance, -- Bram Schoenmakers What is mind? No matter. What is matter? Never mind. (Punch, 1855) ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Build your own ISO-install-CD?
Ewald Jenisch wrote: Hi, I need to build my own ISO-install-CD for FreeBSD 6.2. Is this possible (given an up-to-date /usr/src tree)? IIRC, you actually need a CVS tree outside of /usr/src, unless your /usr/src is actually a repo copy of the CVS tree. It's been a while, so maybe I'm wrong on that. If yes, how? I did this once, back after 6.0, for the experience as much as anything I can remember now. I don't seem to find any notes, however. release(7) is the canonical reference, and you should be able to do this after a fairly thorough study of same. Will this process build build a mini-CD or a full Disc1? It depends on what you tell it to do. If MAKE_ISOS is defined, you will get all of the ISO's that are built with any standard release. I don't know if there are any variables to control *which* of the ISO's might be omitted, etc. I'm thinking maybe not, but IANAE. Can this home-brewn install-CD be used instead of the Disc1 of the 6.2 CD-set when installing a machine from scratch? I don't see why not, as that is what it is designed for. We used OurCompany-6.0-RELEASE on a few servers back then. Will it prompt for the second CD containing the various packages? It should behave as any other of the FBSD CDs, providing you follow the instructions and burn the CD correctly. Thanks in advance for any clue, -ewald PS: Just for explanation: The original 6.2 install-CDs don't support a specific NIC I've got in my blade-systems. A new-version of the corresponding driver has already been submitted though. In order to avoid the chicken-and-egg-problem (i.e. can't update the source since the machine can't connect to the net when installed via the original 6.2 CDs) I thought about building a custom 6.2 CD install set from a machine that has up-to-date 6.2 sources. A good reason to give it a try, I suppose. The Friendly manual is what you need, plus a bit of time for reading/planning and a fairly fast build machine --- or a *lot* of time on a slower box. Happy release(7)-ing! Kevin Kinsey -- 1 + 1 = 3, for large values of 1. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Build your own ISO-install-CD?
Ewald Jenisch wrote: On Thu, Mar 15, 2007 at 10:27:02AM +0100, cpghost wrote: He meant the command to create the iso image. Something like 'make release' or so... Hi, Yes you're right - the question is about how to create a *custom* ISO-image. I've already tried the following: cd /usr/src # make release -DMAKE_ISOS `release' is up to date. # I believe you're in the wrong WD. Check release(7). yet, no .iso-files to find :-( I also came across /usr/src/release/i386/mkisoimages.sh It needs the following params: mkisoimages.sh [-b] image-label image-name base-bits-dir [extra-bits-dir] Where is base-bits-dir supposed to be? I dunno, 'cause in using 'make release' that script is used by make instead of us humans ... ;-) KDK -- The great nations have always acted like gangsters and the small nations like prostitutes. -- Stanley Kubrick ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Trying to Upgrade Version of Tar on a 5.3 System.
On Thu, Mar 15, 2007 at 11:23:24AM -0500, Martin McCormick wrote: Will either freetar or gtar give me the capability to use a reference file to only get the new files that have either appeared or changed since yesterday? There's always find+cpio if you're interested. find /what/ever -mtime -1 -print | cpio -o -H ustar file.tar Cheers. -- Jonathan Chen [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Lots of folks confuse bad management with destiny - Kin Hubbard ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: 'nodump' on directories: new contents still dumped
On Thursday 15 March 2007 13:57, Bram Schoenmakers wrote: I'm using dump(8) for backing up a FreeBSD 4.10 server. In order to decrease the resulting file size, I flagged some directories like /usr/ports and /usr/src with 'nodump'. I adjusted the dump level 0 script to have -h 0, so that worked fine. The other scripts for dumps 0 do not have a -h flag set, because -h 1 is default. The problem is that new files appearing in the /usr/ports tree (daily portsnap cron) do not have the 'nodump' flag set. But despite the 'nodump' flag on the /usr/ports directory, the new files in the tree are still dumped. I understood that dump does not enter directories with 'nodump' flag set, so it shouldn't see the new files inside, right? Or is this behavior implemented in a newer version than FreeBSD 4.10? I have scanned the CVS logs for dump, but couldn't find anything relevant. Read the dump manpage more carefully, and pay particular attention to the -h flag. You probably want '-h0'. JN ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: amarok lyrics: proxy and ruby?
On Thursday 15 March 2007 18:12:57 Anna Vazquez Nikonova wrote: Well the problem is that im behind a proxy and i cant see the lyrics in amarok with 1.4.5 version, it gave me an error with all lyrics scipts for example with LyriWiki is this: Failed to establish a connection with LyricWiki.org SOAP Server. LyricWiki.org is either down or experiencing an problem with their SOAP server. The script will run, but will be less responsive than usual. With Leos script is this: Lyrics could not be retrieved because the server was not reachable. and with the default scipt it gave me this error: Lyrics could not be retrieved because the server was not reachable. To me it seems that is becouse amarok didnt find the proxy.But with older version 1.3.9 i can, what is the problem? Can somebody help me? Have you asked this on the amarok mailing list or forum? My first guess is that this is an Amarok problem and not FreeBSD. http://amarok.kde.org/ ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: 'nodump' on directories: new contents still dumped
On Thursday 15 March 2007 14:37, John Nielsen wrote: On Thursday 15 March 2007 13:57, Bram Schoenmakers wrote: I'm using dump(8) for backing up a FreeBSD 4.10 server. In order to decrease the resulting file size, I flagged some directories like /usr/ports and /usr/src with 'nodump'. I adjusted the dump level 0 script to have -h 0, so that worked fine. The other scripts for dumps 0 do not have a -h flag set, because -h 1 is default. The problem is that new files appearing in the /usr/ports tree (daily portsnap cron) do not have the 'nodump' flag set. But despite the 'nodump' flag on the /usr/ports directory, the new files in the tree are still dumped. I understood that dump does not enter directories with 'nodump' flag set, so it shouldn't see the new files inside, right? Or is this behavior implemented in a newer version than FreeBSD 4.10? I have scanned the CVS logs for dump, but couldn't find anything relevant. Read the dump manpage more carefully, and pay particular attention to the -h flag. You probably want '-h0'. Sorry.. I obviously didn't read your post carefully enough. My understanding is the same as yours (also from versions more recent than 4.x), so I don't have any additional input. JN ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: 'nodump' on directories: new contents still dumped
Op donderdag 15 maart 2007, schreef John Nielsen: Hi, On Thursday 15 March 2007 13:57, Bram Schoenmakers wrote: I'm using dump(8) for backing up a FreeBSD 4.10 server. In order to decrease the resulting file size, I flagged some directories like /usr/ports and /usr/src with 'nodump'. I adjusted the dump level 0 script to have -h 0, so that worked fine. The other scripts for dumps 0 do not have a -h flag set, because -h 1 is default. The problem is that new files appearing in the /usr/ports tree (daily portsnap cron) do not have the 'nodump' flag set. But despite the 'nodump' flag on the /usr/ports directory, the new files in the tree are still dumped. I understood that dump does not enter directories with 'nodump' flag set, so it shouldn't see the new files inside, right? Or is this behavior implemented in a newer version than FreeBSD 4.10? I have scanned the CVS logs for dump, but couldn't find anything relevant. Read the dump manpage more carefully, and pay particular attention to the -h flag. You probably want '-h0'. -h 0 just works fine, that is not the problem. I may have forgotten one detail in case that was not clear. The level 0 backup does not contain any folder marked with 'nodump' (so it's all OK, despite the -h0 you mentioned). New contents (which have no flags set) in these folders emerge in higher level dumps. The problem is that dump(8) enters directories with 'nodump' flags set while it shouldn't. Kind regards, -- Bram Schoenmakers What is mind? No matter. What is matter? Never mind. (Punch, 1855) ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: sendmail not working?
On Mar 15, 2007, at 6:15 AM, Nagy László Zsolt wrote: I know it is not the newest, but should work. I rebooted the machine, but it did not help. By the way, I do NOT want postfix to listen on TCP/25. I have to use an ssh tunnel. But I would like to be able to deliver e-mail messages locally. Here is what I did for now: - deinstalled postfix - changed mailer.conf back to the original version - disabled postfix and re-enabled sendmail in rc.conf - started sendmail with /etc/rc.d/sendmail start And it works! But why couldn't I do this with postfix? Sendmail combines the functionality of something which listens on port 25 (aka a MTA), with something which performs local delivery (aka a MDA, Mail Delivery Agent), although sendmail can also be configured to use procmail, the OS/vendor-specific MDA mail.local or similar, etc. However, if sendmail is not configured to use an external MDA, it will perform local delivery without needing to route the mail via the MTA first. Postfix is designed to keep a firm separation of MTA and MDA functionality for security reasons and always wants to receive incoming mail via the MTA...it will not short-circuit to doing local delivery the way sendmail can. -- -Chuck ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Help installing nasm
On 3/15/07, Robe [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, Hello, I'm trying to install the Netwide Assembler (nasm) in such a way: # cd /usr/ports/devel/nasm # make But I get the following error: = Couldn't fetch it – please try to retrieve this port manually into /usr/ports/distfiles/ and try again. *** Error code 1 I'm using the stable version 6.1 And I'm behind a proxy. What can I do? from: http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/ports-using.html The ports system uses fetch(1) to download the files, which honors various environment variables, including FTP_PASSIVE_MODE, FTP_PROXY, and FTP_PASSWORD. You may need to set one or more of these if you are behind a firewall, or need to use an FTP/HTTP proxy. See fetch(3) for the complete list. Thanx, You're welcome, -- Robe. Psiquiatría: el único negocio donde el cliente nunca tiene la razón. -- Pietro Cerutti - ASCII Ribbon Campaign - against HTML e-mail and proprietary attachments www.asciiribbon.org ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
SUMMARY: CPUTYPE for VIA EPIA M-Series Mini-ITX
[mailed, posted and bcc'ed to off list respondents]
First let me quote my original query:
I have one of these
CPU: VIA C3 Nehemiah (999.52-MHz 686-class CPU)
Origin = CentaurHauls Id = 0x691 Stepping = 1
Features=0x380b035FPU,DE,TSC,MSR,MTRR,PGE,CMOV,MMX,FXSR,SSE
http://www.via.com.tw/en/products/mainboards/motherboards.jsp?
motherboard_id=81
And 6.2-RELEASE p2
When I set CPUTYPE=c3 in /etc/make.conf the world seemed to build
just fine, but (at least) gcc ended up broken. Most compiling
attempts after that ended up with gcc reporting an internal error.
Now that I've entered the FreeBSD world and am building everything
from source, I would like to take advantage of that by compiling
for my system.
Does anyone have a similar system? And what CPUTYPE or local
tuning do you recommend?
A dmesg for the system is available at
http://ntp0.goldmark.org/temp/dmesg
I've had two responses telling me that the make.conf defaults are
just fine, and two (one off list) recommending i686/pentiumpro. One
for pentiumpro and the other for i686, but as Andreas Rudish
helpfully pointed out, those two are probably the same thing. No one
suggested using c3. In fact, cpghost emphatically stated not to use
C3 in make.conf
Adbullah Ibn Hamad Al-Marri also helpfully directed me for
information about safe CFLAGS to
http://gentoo-wiki.com/Safe_Cflags
where the entry for the Via Nehemiah says:
==
Nehemiah (C5XL)/C5P (Via)
CHOST=i686-pc-linux-gnu
CFLAGS=-march=i686 -msse -mmmx -O2 -pipe -fomit-frame-pointer
CXXFLAGS=${CFLAGS}
note: The more recent versions of the C3 do support the cmov
instruction and hence -march=i686. If you must be compatible with all
VIA C3 versions, do not use the settings in this section.
note: it is also possible to use -march=c3-2. -- Comment to this:
I got a problem compiler can't create executables with this setting.
note: I had much better luck with -Os than with -O2. The cache on the
nehemiah chips is really small, so making the executables small helps
more than anything else.
==
The off list response added
- Setting CPUTYPE to pentium, or pentiumpro both work fine. IIRC,
the C3 designation is Linux-specific and doesn't exist for
FreeBSD.
If everybody agrees that the c3 designation is unwise to use, then
probably the distributed
/usr/share/examples/etc/make.conf
The off list responded gave extremely helpful and detailed
information about trimming the kernel for a similar box. I've
already done most of what that recommends.
In sum, don't use the c3 specification in /etc/make.conf even though
the example would suggested otherwise.
Thanks all for your help
-j
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Re: per-interface default routes?
On 3/14/07, Alexandre Biancalana [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 3/14/07, Wojciech Puchar [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: yes. but ipfw is most universal having all needed things at one place. firewalling, routing, shaping, etc. PF too. is all at same place. And pf has nat built-in, so it runs in kernel space. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
AW: FreeBSD 2.2.9 / Installation problem
Dear Chistian, Dear Kris, I also think the RAM will not be the issue, as it is a text-only install, and indeed, I am not planning to get fancy. I completely don't need X. Midnight Commander is perfectly fine as a working environment. 4.11 seemed OK. But I am having a different problem right now, which I am still researching: It does not recognize the device from where to mount root correctly. I mean the following: When I put FreeBSD into the Compaq for installation, the harddrive is ad4 or ad8. But in the system where I want to run it, the HP Omnibook, it is ad0. Now, when I start it back in the HP Omnibook, it says that swap is not configured correctly on ad8s-something. Which is true, it should look for it on ad0... I have only once been able till now to mount root. (And this is my basis for assuming that even 4.11 CAN potentially run.) I said as command ufs:/dev/ad0 when it asked me where to mount root from. This worked, however, e.g. ufs:/dev/ad0s1 did not work. I am thinking that I might have made a mistake, and should have said ad0s1a. Yet, the principal new problem persists: FreeBSD does not realize that it should now look at ad0 instead of ad4 or ad8. (However, in the booting process, it correctly sees ad0 as having 325 MB etc.) Is there a way to solve this? If this really works I think I'll write a step-by-step guide... I really appreciate your help in this matter - thank you a lot! -Ursprüngliche Nachricht- Von: Kris Kennaway [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Gesendet: Donnerstag, 15. März 2007 19:13 An: Christian Walther Cc: Nino Ivanov; freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Betreff: Re: FreeBSD 2.2.9 / Installation problem On Thu, Mar 15, 2007 at 12:28:12PM +0100, Christian Walther wrote: On 15/03/07, Nino Ivanov [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Dear Sir or Madam, [...] The target machine is a HP Omnibook 600c laptop with 8MB RAM, a 486 DX4 processor, 300 MB disk space. No CD drive. No network available. External floppy drive without DMA. (I tried NetBSD, but because of the lack of DMA it did not work properly.) The functioning of the floppy drive is critical, being the machine's only practical means of communicating with the outer world. Due to cost and time considerations, no upgrades are possible. If the target machine is not suitable for an installation of FreeBSD, please let me know so I stop further attempts. I guess you're without luck in this case. AFAIK FreeBSD needs at least 64 MB RAM to work happily. I tried installing it on an P1/133MHz Laptop with 16MB RAM, and it freezes after a few minutes. And it's dead slow. Well it is only true of more modern versions that they do not function well on systems with e.g. 8MB. FreeBSD 2.x was happy with as little as 4MB. Kris ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
elf_begin returns NULL
Hi,
I'm trying to create an object file (.o) using the libelf library.
Below appear the full source code.
Does any body know why the elf_begin statement return NULL?
#include stdio.h
#include stdlib.h
#include libelf.h
int main()
{
int FileDes;
Elf *pElf = elf_begin(FileDes, ELF_C_WRITE, NULL); // 3rd argument
is ignored for ELF_C_WRITE
if (!pElf)
printf(elf_begin: error\n);
Elf32_Ehdr *pEhdr = elf32_newehdr(pElf);
if (!pEhdr)
printf(elf32_newehdr: error\n);
elf_end(pElf);
// Free the memory
free(pElf);
free(pEhdr);
return 0;
}
Thanx,
Robe.
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Re: FreeBSD 2.2.9 / Installation problem
On Thu, Mar 15, 2007 at 08:43:32PM +0100, Nino Ivanov wrote: Dear Chistian, Dear Kris, I also think the RAM will not be the issue, as it is a text-only install, and indeed, I am not planning to get fancy. I completely don't need X. Midnight Commander is perfectly fine as a working environment. 4.11 seemed OK. But I am having a different problem right now, which I am still researching: It does not recognize the device from where to mount root correctly. I mean the following: When I put FreeBSD into the Compaq for installation, the harddrive is ad4 or ad8. But in the system where I want to run it, the HP Omnibook, it is ad0. Now, when I start it back in the HP Omnibook, it says that swap is not configured correctly on ad8s-something. Which is true, it should look for it on ad0... I have only once been able till now to mount root. (And this is my basis for assuming that even 4.11 CAN potentially run.) I said as command ufs:/dev/ad0 when it asked me where to mount root from. This worked, however, e.g. ufs:/dev/ad0s1 did not work. I am thinking that I might have made a mistake, and should have said ad0s1a. Yet, the principal new problem persists: FreeBSD does not realize that it should now look at ad0 instead of ad4 or ad8. (However, in the booting process, it correctly sees ad0 as having 325 MB etc.) Is there a way to solve this? Probably the /etc/fstab is wrong and refers to the ad4 or ad8 devices. The root should indeed typically be ufs:/dev/ad0s1a. Kris ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
burncd makes disk that is unmountable
AMD64 running 6.0 Drive is: acd0: DVDR HL-DT-ST DVDRAM GSA-4160B/A301 at ata0-master UDMA66 Media is CD-RW Burned a 6.2 disk using: burncd data 6.2-RELEASE-amd64-disc1.iso fixate as suggested in http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/creating-cds.html Seemed to go okay. Disk boots, but I cannot mount it: fstab entry: /dev/acd0 /cdrom cd9660 ro,noauto 0 0 Yields: g_vfs_done():acd0[READ(offset=32768, length=2048)]error = 5 Tried it with and without fixate, neither will mount. Other iso disks (probably burned using NetBSD) mount fine. UFS DVD+RW disks burned under FreeBSD using growisofs mount fine. Given the error message, I assume that the block/sector at 32768 isn't getting written. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: burncd makes disk that is unmountable
On Thu, Mar 15, 2007 at 01:06:10PM +0100, Dieter wrote: AMD64 running 6.0 Drive is: acd0: DVDR HL-DT-ST DVDRAM GSA-4160B/A301 at ata0-master UDMA66 Media is CD-RW Burned a 6.2 disk using: burncd data 6.2-RELEASE-amd64-disc1.iso fixate as suggested in http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/creating-cds.html I don't remember the details, but when I got to 6.1, I found that my old burncd parameters would not work and I had to change them. I don't remember the details, but I settled upon: /usr/sbin/burncd -v -f /dev/acd0 data FreeBSD62-disc1.iso fixate which seems to work find. Both boots and mounts. That doesn't look materially different from yours, but... jerry Seemed to go okay. Disk boots, but I cannot mount it: fstab entry: /dev/acd0 /cdrom cd9660 ro,noauto 0 0 Yields: g_vfs_done():acd0[READ(offset=32768, length=2048)]error = 5 Tried it with and without fixate, neither will mount. Other iso disks (probably burned using NetBSD) mount fine. UFS DVD+RW disks burned under FreeBSD using growisofs mount fine. Given the error message, I assume that the block/sector at 32768 isn't getting written. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
6.2-amd64 Hang at reboot on Supermicro X7DBR-i+
I'm investigating a problem where a pretty much stock 6.2 SMP kernel randomly hangs on multiple Supermicro X7DBR-i+ and X7DBR-8+ systems. The system syncs the filesystems and prints Uptime: ..., then hangs. So far, I've narrowed it down to the MOD_SHUTDOWN request to the rootbus module. Adding a printf() before and after the device_shutdown(child); line in subr_bus.c method bus_generic_shutdown() seems to make the problem go away, as does running a kernel with INVARIANTS, WITNESS, and DDB/KDB. I'm trying to reproduce the hang on a plain SMP kernel with just DDB/KDB, but it hasn't hung yet. Any ideas? Guy -- Guy Helmer, Ph.D. Chief System Architect Palisade Systems, Inc. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Should I Upgrade 5.4 - 6.2?
First off, I want to thank the people who responded to my thread Stability Issues on a 5.4-RELEASE box a couple of weeks ago; after disabling hyperthreading, getting a clean run of Memtest back, and doing some serious fsck'ing of the disks, the box appears to now be completely stable. I'm still not sure which of the above fixed the problem...but I'll take a stable system at this point. :-) That said, in that thread I had asked about the advisability of upgrading to 6.2, and it was intelligently pointed out that doing so in pursuit of stability was a bad idea. Now that the box is stable, though, I'm back to the same question: should I make the upgrade, and if so, how should I do it? My primary driver for doing so would be to keep current enough that I'm still getting security and other patches on a regular basis, and that I can upgrade my applications from ports as necessary. If this is not an issue, then my only remaining concern would be that it's usually easier to get support on lists like this if you're running a modern version of the OS (that's certainly the case with the OpenBSD folks). My primary concern with upgrading is that the box is in Portland, OR, and I'm in Arlington, VA...and while the ISP is friendly, I doubt that I could count on them for major system recovery if I botch something during the upgrade. My other worry is that I don't want to break existing apps if possible (the main one I'm concerned about is Zope/Plone). This is a production box with moderate traffic, and it would be a problem if there was extensive downtime. Is it worth upgrading? If so, what's the best way to do so -- CVSup, or some other way? Are there any major caveats if I do choose to upgrade (or choose to stay with the existing OS)? Thanks, Alex Kirk ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Should I Upgrade 5.4 - 6.2?
On Thu, Mar 15, 2007 at 04:47:06PM -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: First off, I want to thank the people who responded to my thread Stability Issues on a 5.4-RELEASE box a couple of weeks ago; after disabling hyperthreading, getting a clean run of Memtest back, and doing some serious fsck'ing of the disks, the box appears to now be completely stable. I'm still not sure which of the above fixed the problem...but I'll take a stable system at this point. :-) That said, in that thread I had asked about the advisability of upgrading to 6.2, and it was intelligently pointed out that doing so in pursuit of stability was a bad idea. Now that the box is stable, though, I'm back to the same question: should I make the upgrade, and if so, how should I do it? My primary driver for doing so would be to keep current enough that I'm still getting security and other patches on a regular basis, and that I can upgrade my applications from ports as necessary. If this is not an issue, then my only remaining concern would be that it's usually easier to get support on lists like this if you're running a modern version of the OS (that's certainly the case with the OpenBSD folks). My primary concern with upgrading is that the box is in Portland, OR, and I'm in Arlington, VA...and while the ISP is friendly, I doubt that I could count on them for major system recovery if I botch something during the upgrade. My other worry is that I don't want to break existing apps if possible (the main one I'm concerned about is Zope/Plone). This is a production box with moderate traffic, and it would be a problem if there was extensive downtime. Is it worth upgrading? If so, what's the best way to do so -- CVSup, or some other way? Are there any major caveats if I do choose to upgrade (or choose to stay with the existing OS)? On general grounds it is well worth running 6.2 over 5.x - depending on your workload you should see performance improvements, and support for 6.2 is much better than for the legacy 5.x branch. Kris ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Should I Upgrade 5.4 - 6.2?
On Thu, Mar 15, 2007 at 04:47:06PM -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: First off, I want to thank the people who responded to my thread Stability Issues on a 5.4-RELEASE box a couple of weeks ago; after disabling hyperthreading, getting a clean run of Memtest back, and doing some serious fsck'ing of the disks, the box appears to now be completely stable. I'm still not sure which of the above fixed the problem...but I'll take a stable system at this point. :-) That said, in that thread I had asked about the advisability of upgrading to 6.2, and it was intelligently pointed out that doing so in pursuit of stability was a bad idea. Now that the box is stable, though, I'm back to the same question: should I make the upgrade, and if so, how should I do it? My primary driver for doing so would be to keep current enough that I'm still getting security and other patches on a regular basis, and that I can upgrade my applications from ports as necessary. If this is not an issue, then my only remaining concern would be that it's usually easier to get support on lists like this if you're running a modern version of the OS (that's certainly the case with the OpenBSD folks). My primary concern with upgrading is that the box is in Portland, OR, and I'm in Arlington, VA...and while the ISP is friendly, I doubt that I could count on them for major system recovery if I botch something during the upgrade. My other worry is that I don't want to break existing apps if possible (the main one I'm concerned about is Zope/Plone). This is a production box with moderate traffic, and it would be a problem if there was extensive downtime. Is it worth upgrading? If so, what's the best way to do so -- CVSup, or some other way? Are there any major caveats if I do choose to upgrade (or choose to stay with the existing OS)? You should if you can reasonably do it, for the reasons you give plus improvements in performance and in some utilities. My sentiment is usually to do a clean install over major version numbers. It tends to leave less dross laying around. but I do not have to worry about down times very much, a couple of hours at night is not terribly noticable in my stuff. It does require more time down to do a clean from scratch install. But, I think you can get away with a cvsup upgrade from 5.4 to 6.2. Then your downtime is just the reboot and stuff at single user (mergemaster), plus probably some for upgrading various ports. jerry Thanks, Alex Kirk ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Wireless Bridge in FreeBSD 6.1
How about EoIP tunnel to establish wireless bridge? Is it possible? How about other tunnels? Do you have any suggestion to make it possible in FreeBSD? Thank you On 3/13/07, Kevin Downey [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 3/13/07, Sung Park [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm having trouble to bridge two wireless card which is Atheros AR5213A in FreeBSD 6.1. I try to make transparent bridge in these two wireless card. I compiled BRIDGE in kernel and I put net.link.ether.bridge=1 net.link.ether.bridge_cfg=*ath0*,*ath1* net.link.ether.bridge_ipfw=1 in sysctl.conf. Following diagram is what I did it. (192.168.0.1)Ath0Ath0,Ath1(192.168.0.2)Ath0(192.168.0.100) Left unit is wireless router. Middle unit is transparent bridge. Right unit is client. I set up like this. Ath0 of left unit is AP. Ath0 of middle unit is Station. Ath1 of middle unit is AP. Ath0 of right unit is Station. I can ping from 192.168.0.100 to 192.168.0.2 but I can't ping from 192.168.0.100 to 192.168.0.1. I tested wired LAN bridge with same configuration. It works well. Anyone has idea about this or has same problem. Please, help me. Any kind of information will save me. My understanding is that because of how the 802.11 is designed, this sort of setup is not possible using ethernet bridging code(if_bridge and friends) if you are using infrastructure mode and a-hoc mode is kind of slow. WDS may be waht you are looking for but I don't know if FreeBSD supports it yet.. -- The biggest problem with communication is the illusion that it has occurred. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Should I Upgrade 5.4 - 6.2?
On Thu, Mar 15, 2007 at 05:09:57PM -0400, Jerry McAllister wrote: On Thu, Mar 15, 2007 at 04:47:06PM -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: First off, I want to thank the people who responded to my thread Stability Issues on a 5.4-RELEASE box a couple of weeks ago; after disabling hyperthreading, getting a clean run of Memtest back, and doing some serious fsck'ing of the disks, the box appears to now be completely stable. I'm still not sure which of the above fixed the problem...but I'll take a stable system at this point. :-) That said, in that thread I had asked about the advisability of upgrading to 6.2, and it was intelligently pointed out that doing so in pursuit of stability was a bad idea. Now that the box is stable, though, I'm back to the same question: should I make the upgrade, and if so, how should I do it? My primary driver for doing so would be to keep current enough that I'm still getting security and other patches on a regular basis, and that I can upgrade my applications from ports as necessary. If this is not an issue, then my only remaining concern would be that it's usually easier to get support on lists like this if you're running a modern version of the OS (that's certainly the case with the OpenBSD folks). My primary concern with upgrading is that the box is in Portland, OR, and I'm in Arlington, VA...and while the ISP is friendly, I doubt that I could count on them for major system recovery if I botch something during the upgrade. My other worry is that I don't want to break existing apps if possible (the main one I'm concerned about is Zope/Plone). This is a production box with moderate traffic, and it would be a problem if there was extensive downtime. Is it worth upgrading? If so, what's the best way to do so -- CVSup, or some other way? Are there any major caveats if I do choose to upgrade (or choose to stay with the existing OS)? You should if you can reasonably do it, for the reasons you give plus improvements in performance and in some utilities. My sentiment is usually to do a clean install over major version numbers. It tends to leave less dross laying around. but I do not have to worry about down times very much, a couple of hours at night is not terribly noticable in my stuff. It does require more time down to do a clean from scratch install. But, I think you can get away with a cvsup upgrade from 5.4 to 6.2. Then your downtime is just the reboot and stuff at single user (mergemaster), plus probably some for upgrading various ports. Yes, a source upgrade from 5.x to 6.x (followed by portupgrade -fa) isn't too bad. As with any upgrade you do need a recovery strategy though. Kris ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Wireless Bridge in FreeBSD 6.1
Sung Park wrote: How about EoIP tunnel to establish wireless bridge? Is it possible? How about other tunnels? Do you have any suggestion to make it possible in FreeBSD? This site is 2,5 years old, but maybe it is helpful: http://www.cs.ait.ac.th/ai3/reports/eop/ Abstract: This document explains the configurations and procedures to enable Ethernet over IP tunneling on FreeBSD. I succesfully performed the test on a FreeBSD 4.10-RELEASE. I make no claim that it will work on other releases. I also tested it on FreeBSD 4.7-RELEASE. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
RE: Should I Upgrade 5.4 - 6.2?
First off, I want to thank the people who responded to my thread Stability Issues on a 5.4-RELEASE box a couple of weeks ago; after disabling hyperthreading, getting a clean run of Memtest back, and doing some serious fsck'ing of the disks, the box appears to now be completely stable. I'm still not sure which of the above fixed the problem...but I'll take a stable system at this point. :-) That said, in that thread I had asked about the advisability of upgrading to 6.2, and it was intelligently pointed out that doing so in pursuit of stability was a bad idea. Now that the box is stable, though, I'm back to the same question: should I make the upgrade, and if so, how should I do it? My primary driver for doing so would be to keep current enough that I'm still getting security and other patches on a regular basis, and that I can upgrade my applications from ports as necessary. If this is not an issue, then my only remaining concern would be that it's usually easier to get support on lists like this if you're running a modern version of the OS (that's certainly the case with the OpenBSD folks). My primary concern with upgrading is that the box is in Portland, OR, and I'm in Arlington, VA...and while the ISP is friendly, I doubt that I could count on them for major system recovery if I botch something during the upgrade. My other worry is that I don't want to break existing apps if possible (the main one I'm concerned about is Zope/Plone). This is a production box with moderate traffic, and it would be a problem if there was extensive downtime. Is it worth upgrading? If so, what's the best way to do so -- CVSup, or some other way? Are there any major caveats if I do choose to upgrade (or choose to stay with the existing OS)? Thanks, Alex Kirk If it is not broken, don't try to fix it! We had to upgrade from 5.4 to 6.1 because the performance was not good, crashing issues...etc. I advise my clients not to upgrade unless they have a performance or stability issue they are looking to resolve. However, should you decide to upgrade; as everyone had said: backup! backup! backup! Also, find a local service company in the city to call upon should the upgrade goes bad. We've upgraded many FBSD 5.4 to 6.1 with no problems and have always been able to SSH back to the box. Tamouh ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: boot2 can't boot from USB?
On Thu, Mar 15, 2007 at 11:16:16AM +0100, Fluffles wrote: If so, i may have found some bugs / problems with boot2. Long ago i tried to make a bootable USB pendrive with FreeBSD 6.1 on it. It failed to boot with the message invalid slice and i got a prompt like: I have worked a lot with getting FreeBSD to boot off of USB devices, and have gotten it to work. Specifically, I have worked with USB pen drives, and USB CD-ROM drives. It *is* possible, but what I have found is the following: - on some motherboards, you need to explicitly configure the BIOS to boot off of a USB device (either a disk, a CD-ROM, or a Zip drive) - booting off of USB-CDROM devices seems to be much more reliable than booting off of USB pen drives - if you have an older motherboard BIOS, say from about 3-4 years ago, booting off of USB devices is more unreliable, than a newer motherboard BIOS - if I have 5 different models of USB pen drives, each model may behave differently, and may or may not boot. Same for USB CD-ROM drives, but I've found CD-ROM drives to be more reliable than pen drives. So to summarize: - booting off of USB devices seems to be sensitive to your motherboard BIOS, and the firmware written into your USB device. - booting off of USB CD-ROM drives seems to be more reliable than booting off of USB pen drives There is no logic to this, I've just found this out from trial and error, and banging my head a lot. -- Craig Rodrigues [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
NAT
hi i want to do NAT with my FreeBSD . How can i do that ? thankz for reply. How to configure Gateway ? How to configure DNS ? How to configure NAT ? thankz everybody.. i really thankz for your reply. ZAW HTET AUNG ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: NAT
On Mar 15, 2007, at 2:44 PM, neo neo wrote: i want to do NAT with my FreeBSD. How can i do that ? thankz for reply. How to configure Gateway ? How to configure DNS ? How to configure NAT ? There's a friendly manual available for you to read: http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/advanced- networking.html http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/network- natd.html -- -Chuck ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
DNS configuration
hi For NAT ; i already configure internal and external ip . And also finished gateway. but i don't know how to configure DNS . plz .. ? by the way , route add default xx.xx.xx.xx is setting gateway .. is it right ? very thankz... i am very happy for your support.. ZAW HTET AUNG ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: NAT
You might want to read the handbook, a lot of your questions are answered there. On 2007/03/15 13:44, neo neo seems to have typed: hi i want to do NAT with my FreeBSD . How can i do that ? thankz for reply. http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/network-natd.html How to configure Gateway ? http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/network-routing.html How to configure DNS ? http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/network-dns.html How to configure NAT ? http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/network-natd.html ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: DNS configuration
On Thu, 15 Mar 2007 10:16:46 -1200 neo neo [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: but i don't know how to configure DNS . plz .. ? Read the same handbook as adviced earlier. And for DNS the O'Reilly book is great. DNS is no toy. It should be handled with great care. The internet depends on it. -- Dick Hoogendijk -- PGP/GnuPG key: F86289CE ++ http://nagual.nl/ | Solaris 10 11/06 ++ ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Wireless Bridge in FreeBSD 6.1
On 3/15/07, Sung Park [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: How about EoIP tunnel to establish wireless bridge? Is it possible? How about other tunnels? Do you have any suggestion to make it possible in FreeBSD? Thank you On 3/13/07, Kevin Downey [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 3/13/07, Sung Park [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm having trouble to bridge two wireless card which is Atheros AR5213A in FreeBSD 6.1. I try to make transparent bridge in these two wireless card. I compiled BRIDGE in kernel and I put net.link.ether.bridge=1 net.link.ether.bridge_cfg=*ath0*,*ath1* net.link.ether.bridge_ipfw=1 in sysctl.conf. Following diagram is what I did it. (192.168.0.1)Ath0Ath0,Ath1( 192.168.0.2)Ath0(192.168.0.100) Left unit is wireless router. Middle unit is transparent bridge. Right unit is client. I set up like this. Ath0 of left unit is AP. Ath0 of middle unit is Station. Ath1 of middle unit is AP. Ath0 of right unit is Station. I can ping from 192.168.0.100 to 192.168.0.2 but I can't ping from 192.168.0.100 to 192.168.0.1. I tested wired LAN bridge with same configuration. It works well. Anyone has idea about this or has same problem. Please, help me. Any kind of information will save me. My understanding is that because of how the 802.11 is designed, this sort of setup is not possible using ethernet bridging code(if_bridge and friends) if you are using infrastructure mode and a-hoc mode is kind of slow. WDS may be waht you are looking for but I don't know if FreeBSD supports it yet.. I would read the manpage for the gif interface, it may be what you are looking for -- The biggest problem with communication is the illusion that it has occurred. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Optimizationn questions?
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, 15 Mar 2007, Danny Pansters wrote: On Thursday 15 March 2007 02:16, Gary Kline wrote: Two quick one for kernel and/or compiler wizards: first, is a 400Mz processor considered a 586 (for my KERNELCONF file)? Think its 686 (but really, leaving 486 and 586 in isn't going to slow down booting or anything!) I always say: Use GENERIC unless you have a good reason not to. Second, is it safe to do a buildworld with -O3? If there are No. It's not supported if things break. stability concerns, I'll go with the default when I rebuild my 6.2 systems. The defaults should be fine. Also, like I said consider just using GENERIC and load the odd kmod if needed. Generally it's less headache and equal performance. thanks in advance, gary Cheers, Dan Dan, I know that this has been discussed a few times before, but IMO running a slightly stripped down kernel (i.e. custom, not GENERIC) actually proves to be helpful in increasing boot times (if options were added statically) and compile times if [(# of options added) (# of options in GENERIC)]. I can confirm this too. I noticed on both desktop and servers the boot time can be decreased by stripping the kernel configuration of stuff you don't need. I don't have any hard facts to prove this but this is what my personal experience is. Jorn I like being able to compile my kernel on my P4 in less than 10 minutes anyhow with less options :). The only thing that was brought up earlier (sometime later last year in a thread--I think either Oct or Nov) is that removing options removes flexibility as well. But that's a tradeoff you have to make. -Garrett ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
DNS configuration at FreeBSD
could u please tell me detail how to configure DNS ip ? ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: FreeBSD 2.2.9 / Installation problem
On Thursday 15 March 2007, Kris Kennaway wrote: On Thu, Mar 15, 2007 at 08:43:32PM +0100, Nino Ivanov wrote: Dear Chistian, Dear Kris, I also think the RAM will not be the issue, as it is a text-only install, and indeed, I am not planning to get fancy. I completely don't need X. Midnight Commander is perfectly fine as a working environment. 4.11 seemed OK. But I am having a different problem right now, which I am still researching: It does not recognize the device from where to mount root correctly. I mean the following: When I put FreeBSD into the Compaq for installation, the harddrive is ad4 or ad8. But in the system where I want to run it, the HP Omnibook, it is ad0. Now, when I start it back in the HP Omnibook, it says that swap is not configured correctly on ad8s-something. Which is true, it should look for it on ad0... I have only once been able till now to mount root. (And this is my basis for assuming that even 4.11 CAN potentially run.) I said as command ufs:/dev/ad0 when it asked me where to mount root from. This worked, however, e.g. ufs:/dev/ad0s1 did not work. I am thinking that I might have made a mistake, and should have said ad0s1a. Yet, the principal new problem persists: FreeBSD does not realize that it should now look at ad0 instead of ad4 or ad8. (However, in the booting process, it correctly sees ad0 as having 325 MB etc.) Is there a way to solve this? Probably the /etc/fstab is wrong and refers to the ad4 or ad8 devices. The root should indeed typically be ufs:/dev/ad0s1a. Kris I'm a tad confused, as I thought we were talking about FBSD 2.x, which would've called your drive wd0, not ad0. But Kris is correct in that your fstab is wrong...your /boot/loader.conf probably has the wrong root device as well. -- Thanks, Josh Paetzel ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: DNS configuration at FreeBSD
On Thursday 15 March 2007 14:53, neo neo said: could u please tell me detail how to configure DNS ip ? You really need to read the handbook. Most of your questions will be answered there. http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/index.html Bind and DNS questions here: http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/network-dns.html And here: http://www.isc.org/sw/bind/ Also google is your friend. Beech -- --- Beech Rintoul - Port Maintainer - [EMAIL PROTECTED] /\ ASCII Ribbon Campaign | FreeBSD Since 4.x \ / - NO HTML/RTF in e-mail | http://www.freebsd.org X - NO Word docs in e-mail | Latest Release: / \ - http://www.freebsd.org/releases/6.2R/announce.html --- pgpB4njkJT9Wk.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: Optimizationn questions?
On Mar 15, 2007, at 5:21 PM, Jorn Argelo wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, 15 Mar 2007, Danny Pansters wrote: I know that this has been discussed a few times before, but IMO running a slightly stripped down kernel (i.e. custom, not GENERIC) actually proves to be helpful in increasing boot times (if options were added statically) and compile times if [(# of options added) (# of options in GENERIC)]. I can confirm this too. I noticed on both desktop and servers the boot time can be decreased by stripping the kernel configuration of stuff you don't need. I don't have any hard facts to prove this but this is what my personal experience is. me, too. -j ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Strange freeze on -STABLE
Nothing really has changed to my box (no new software, configuration issues). I just like rebuilding world/kernel to the latest -STABLE at least once in week. And about two weeks ago I started getting strange freezes. Since then I've tried doing anything to get away from those stupid freezes, but nothing helps. On random time periods my box freezes, but not like the usual way when I can't do anything. It drops all network connections (this box is also router), so I can't connect with SSH anymore or use Internet through it. It mystical freezes everything else - if I had opened some xterms (x11 also on this box) then can write some command (for example ls) - it may or may not be executed, but what's strange - after execution it doesn't return to shell, it even doesn't react on ^C, ^Z or anything at all. Some applications I can close, some I cant and they just ignore my attempts. Sometimes I can even ctrl+alt+backspace (it gets executed after some while), sometimes I can't. Same with alt+ctrl+f1-f9 - it may work, it may not work. Only thing I can do is press power button, but then (again - sometimes) I get: acpi: suspend request ignored (not ready yet). Then I just press it for 5 seconds and it powers off. After reboot fsck stuff. It's just driving my crazy. But what's interesting - music keeps playing (line-in). Both pf (firewall/routing) and sound card is loaded as modules, music keeps playing, but network is unresponsive. And this box usually freezes when I'm asleep or when I'm not physically using it (ssh only). I'm really desperate. I've tried reinstalling from scratch, rebuilding world, using even GENERIC, but nothing helps. I'm using lastest FreeBSD 6.2-STABLE (recompiled even yesterday, but got crash again). Box is AMD Sempron. Please - really - any suggestions? I've run FreeBSD for years but I don't know what to do now with this situation. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Strange freeze on -STABLE
If its always when the box is quiet / no one using it, is it something to do with power saving settings? Steve Deniss Lee wrote: But what's interesting - music keeps playing (line-in). Both pf (firewall/routing) and sound card is loaded as modules, music keeps playing, but network is unresponsive. And this box usually freezes when I'm asleep or when I'm not physically using it (ssh only). This e.mail is private and confidential between Multiplay (UK) Ltd. and the person or entity to whom it is addressed. In the event of misdirection, the recipient is prohibited from using, copying, printing or otherwise disseminating it or any information contained in it. In the event of misdirection, illegible or incomplete transmission please telephone +44 845 868 1337 or return the E.mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Verifying my 3D drivers set up properly for my nVidia based graphics card
On Thursday 15 March 2007 10:37, Jim Stapleton wrote: Also a couple of OpenGL applications are running slower than one would expect given my card (especially in the screen savers area, where the same apps would run /too fast/ with my old Ti4200. These in conjunction lead me to suspect my graphics setup. /etc/X11/xorg.conf: [...] Section Extensions Option Composite Enable EndSection Even though the nvidia drivers claim to support OpenGL with the composite extension enabled, my experience has been that it leads to performance similar to what you are describing. Try disabling composite. Cheers, -- Norbert. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Have you mistake on *Legal Notices* subpages?
Hi! Walking around yours copyright pages I find that you don't have returning link on *Trademark Legend*? Is it your standard? RYCHoo 8-) ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Xfce 4.4 and Thunar automounting of USB stick
Hello! My first post to the list. :) I have FreeBSD 6.2 installed and running wonderfully. I have built Xfce 4.4from ports and it too, is working very well, but I have one problem -- the new Thunar file manager does not auto-mount USB sticks. I know there is the traditional way of allowing users to mount usb per the handbook: http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/usb-disks.html and that actually works fine for me. However, Thunar (the new Xfce file manager) has the capability to automount devices and it's not working. I have installed Hal, Dbus, and polkit and have those 3 things enabled in my /etc/rc.conf. I also installed thunar and the thunar-volman plugin. However, when I go to the Advanced tab in the File Manager settings manager in order to activate the auto-mounting, it states Build thunar-vfs with HAL support to use the volume management support in Thunar. When I built Thunar I did enable Hal support, and I can't find anything in ports or packages about thunar-vfs. partial output of /etc/rc.conf: dbus_enable=YES polkitd_enable=YES hald_enable=YES devfs_system_ruleset=localrules in /etc/sysctl.conf I put: vfs.usermount=1 and in /etc/devfs.rules I have: [localrules=1] add path 'da*' mode 0660 group operator I can mount a usb stick as my normal user without issues. It's just the automount feature in Thunar that is not working. If anyone has a fix or other suggestions I would be most appreciative. Thanks, Chess Griffin ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Optimizationn questions?
On Friday 16 March 2007 01:04:51 Jeffrey Goldberg wrote: On Mar 15, 2007, at 5:21 PM, Jorn Argelo wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, 15 Mar 2007, Danny Pansters wrote: I know that this has been discussed a few times before, but IMO running a slightly stripped down kernel (i.e. custom, not GENERIC) actually proves to be helpful in increasing boot times (if options were added statically) and compile times if [(# of options added) (# of options in GENERIC)]. I can confirm this too. I noticed on both desktop and servers the boot time can be decreased by stripping the kernel configuration of stuff you don't need. I don't have any hard facts to prove this but this is what my personal experience is. me, too. Of course it will speed up booting but then again how much time does one spend booting, compared to using the puter: not much (at least I hope so for them!) If I do build my own kernel, for example to switch schedulers, I tend to toss out a heap of devices that I don't have anyway. But other than a bit more memory usage (which compared to the software that's run will typically be minor anyhow unless you're talking embedded system or maybe not-so-embedded but still of low spec special purpose boxes, like a satellite receiver box) you're not going to have a slower system because your kernel happens to have some built-in drivers that it doesn't use. The exception is a debug kernel of course that will impact performance because it increases runtime tasks/load. On a server I'd strip down the kernel, but for other reasons (avoiding any unneeded complexity). On a desktop I don't care as long as thingie works. YMMV of course. Dan ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: FreeBSD Devil Image
On Thursday 15 March 2007 06:59:36 Ted Mittelstaedt wrote: - Original Message - From: Jeff Rollin [EMAIL PROTECTED] I think it needs to be clarified that the reason /why/ the image of Beastie is so apt to represent a Daemon is only /because/ it LOOKS like a daemon/devil. How do ye know what thee Angel of the Bottomless Pit looks like? Do ye regularly meet with the Antichrist? Some people on this mailing list might argue that they regularly do ;-) Couldn't resist. Cheers, Dan ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Optimizationn questions?
Gary Kline wrote: On Wed, Mar 14, 2007 at 08:19:49PM -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, 15 Mar 2007, Danny Pansters wrote: On Thursday 15 March 2007 02:16, Gary Kline wrote: Two quick one for kernel and/or compiler wizards: first, is a 400Mz processor considered a 586 (for my KERNELCONF file)? Think its 686 (but really, leaving 486 and 586 in isn't going to slow down booting or anything!) I always say: Use GENERIC unless you have a good reason not to. Second, is it safe to do a buildworld with -O3? If there are No. It's not supported if things break. stability concerns, I'll go with the default when I rebuild my 6.2 systems. The defaults should be fine. Also, like I said consider just using GENERIC and load the odd kmod if needed. Generally it's less headache and equal performance. thanks in advance, gary Cheers, Dan As Dan and Gary said -O3 isn't supported, and in many cases that level of optimization gets filtered out while compiling sections of FreeBSD. Besides, I've compiled stuff with -O3 and various optimizations in Gentoo Linux before, and let me say that it caused a great deal of headaches... that's why I stick with -O2 now, because it's better to have something in executable shape and a bit slower (arguably because some optimizations slow things down) than it is to have something run fast and break all the time. Some food for thought :). --Food for thought and a chuckle too! (not to mention that it's waaay early, the chickens are still snoring, and I've only had *one* cup of joe)... I've done some investigation with optimizing my own code, usually 1000 lines, and haven't seen much gain between -O2 and -O3. Loop-unrolling may be different; one trick that compiler hackers at supercomputer companies use by default in to unroll small loops. Cray is one example. S, to get any real gain is going to mean going thru the most freq used tools (*grep, find, ls) and hand-tweak. Might buy 5 - 7%. have a good one, gary -Garrett No problem. -funroll-loops might not buy you too much other than a few less instructions overall but I'm not sure how intelligent gcc is at unrolling loops. It seemed like there was a difference between optimizations in the 4.x branch compared to the 3.4.x sub branch. They made a lot of improvements in the 4.x branch though.. it's just that some of those improvements broke code, so that's probably why FreeBSD doesn't have gcc-4.x in the base system. Cheers :). -Garrett ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Verifying my 3D drivers set up properly for my nVidia based graphics card
Jim Stapleton wrote: I have a 7300GT in my computer, and I have run into a couple of errors trying to set up WoW in Wine (couldn't find copies of the error elsewhere). Also a couple of OpenGL applications are running slower than one would expect given my card (especially in the screen savers area, where the same apps would run /too fast/ with my old Ti4200. These in conjunction lead me to suspect my graphics setup. What application/method would you suggest to test this? I'd prefer something that would provide command line information, rather than about how fast does this run? I checked for the libraries mentioned on nVidias web site, and they are all in the right spots, which leads me to suspect it's an xorg.conf error, but I'm not sure. I've attached the xorg.conf file to the end, just in case. Thanks, -Jim Stapleton /etc/X11/xorg.conf: [snipped config] /var/log/Xorg.0.log: [snipped long log] Jim, I'm not sure about your wine config because wine's a very twitchy beast (over the past couple years in particular because of an API change I think). All I know is that I was very happy and amazed when I got Half-Life 1 to play on my desktop back when I ran KDE in Linux. It was astonishing.. glxgears will provide you with some performance info about your OpenGL stats though. It also depends on what you're running, what your 7300GT runs for shared RAM, etc because I noticed that you mentioned Ti4200 (my first nVidia card), and they customarily came stock with 64MB of VRAM, whereas the 7300GT cards I can only assume come with around 256MB ~ 368MB. This in turn could seriously eat up system RAM if you don't have a lot and reduce performance in your machine, like what occurred with me and my first desktop after I upgraded to a Geforce 6200 card with 128MB of RAM since my system only has 512MB of RAM to allocate. Some things got faster, some things stayed the same, and some things got slower.. It also depends on the vendor that you bought the card from too. nVidia contracted their chipset to quite a few 3rd parties after the 5000 series, and it seems like their graphics quality in some respects has become inconsistent, and degraded with some vendors. -Garrett -Garrett ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
