Re: How to mount memory stick on sony vaio laptop?
Andrei Flame wrote: pci10: mass storage at device 3.2 (no driver attached) This is, I am afraid, your card reader device :( You're right about the device, thanks! My pciconf -lv says: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:10:3:2: class=0x018000 card=0x81ef104d chip=0x803b104c rev=0x00 hdr=0x00 vendor = 'Texas Instruments (TI)' device = 'PCIxx12 Integrated Flash Media Controller' class = mass storage Any further suggestions? AFAIK, there is no driver for this flash reader at the moment. As a workaround you could purchase one of these cheap usb card readers. These should work like usb flash drives. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
core dumped with java
Dear List, I upgraded to freebsd 7.0 yesterday. I have install /usr/ports/java/diablo-jre15/ using ports. Then, I run the following command, resulting errors. [EMAIL PROTECTED] -jar /usr/local/share/java/jabref/jabref.jar Segmentation fault: 11 (core dumped) Anyone know how to solve this problem? Thanks. -- HUANG Ronggui, Wincent http://ronggui.huang.googlepages.com/ Bachelor of Social Work, Fudan University, China Master of sociology, Fudan University, China Ph.D. Candidate, CityU of HK. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Can I Reinstall FreeBSD Over SSH?
My server is getting kinda messy, but my ISP charges too much for a reinstall. Can I do this myself over SSH? Or perhaps there are ways to make ones system as clean as a fresh install? Thanks. Much obliged, Kyrre ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
FreeBSD crashed
Hello all: My FreeBSD crashed. It boots fine but can't mount root directory. Here is the message: / ... Trying to mount root from ufs:/dev/ad0s2a Manual root filesystem specification: fstype:device Mount device using filesystem fstype eg. ufs:da0s1a ? List valid disk boot devices empty line Abort manual input mountroot /// Could any gurus here help me out this? I just want to save the files in the home directory so that I can rebuild the system. Regards Dave ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: core dumped with java
On Sun, May 25, 2008 at 10:11 AM, ronggui [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Dear List,
I upgraded to freebsd 7.0 yesterday.
I have install /usr/ports/java/diablo-jre15/ using ports. Then, I run
the following command, resulting errors.
[EMAIL PROTECTED] -jar /usr/local/share/java/jabref/jabref.jar
Segmentation fault: 11 (core dumped)
Anyone know how to solve this problem? Thanks.
--
HUANG Ronggui, Wincent http://ronggui.huang.googlepages.com/
Bachelor of Social Work, Fudan University, China
Master of sociology, Fudan University, China
Ph.D. Candidate, CityU of HK.
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Does it segfault if you just run a class as you normally would? e.g what
happens if you do the following:
vi HelloWorld.java
class HelloWorld {
public static void main(String[] args) {
System.out.println(Hello world!);
}
}
javac HelloWorld.java
java HelloWorld
Christian Zachariasen
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Re: FreeBSD crashed
Just type ? to get the possible values. If this not help use the livefs cd to start a shell and mount the disk. Cheers, Norman 2008/5/25 gahn [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Hello all: My FreeBSD crashed. It boots fine but can't mount root directory. Here is the message: / ... Trying to mount root from ufs:/dev/ad0s2a Manual root filesystem specification: fstype:device Mount device using filesystem fstype eg. ufs:da0s1a ? List valid disk boot devices empty line Abort manual input mountroot /// Could any gurus here help me out this? I just want to save the files in the home directory so that I can rebuild the system. Regards Dave ___ 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: Can I Reinstall FreeBSD Over SSH?
In theory yes you can its been done before, ill see if i can find the url and the code for it i think it was mfsbsd ?? On Sun, May 25, 2008 at 4:31 PM, Christian Zachariasen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sun, May 25, 2008 at 9:42 AM, Kyrre Nygård [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: My server is getting kinda messy, but my ISP charges too much for a reinstall. Can I do this myself over SSH? Or perhaps there are ways to make ones system as clean as a fresh install? Thanks. Much obliged, Kyrre ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] (sorry, forgot to send this to the list as well) You have a server at an ISP? I'd say you'll need physical access to do an actual reinstall, unless they're using some kind of virtualization and you have access to that. But how is the server getting messy? In most cases you can just remove the software you're not using, and reclaim disk space that way. Also make sure any unneeded services are removed from /etc/rc.conf. To be honest, though - I've never felt the need to reinstall FreeBSD unless I was doing a major update as well (5 - 6 for example). Christian Zachariasen ___ 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: Can I Reinstall FreeBSD Over SSH?
On Sun, May 25, 2008 at 9:42 AM, Kyrre Nygård [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: My server is getting kinda messy, but my ISP charges too much for a reinstall. Can I do this myself over SSH? Or perhaps there are ways to make ones system as clean as a fresh install? Thanks. Much obliged, Kyrre ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] (sorry, forgot to send this to the list as well) You have a server at an ISP? I'd say you'll need physical access to do an actual reinstall, unless they're using some kind of virtualization and you have access to that. But how is the server getting messy? In most cases you can just remove the software you're not using, and reclaim disk space that way. Also make sure any unneeded services are removed from /etc/rc.conf. To be honest, though - I've never felt the need to reinstall FreeBSD unless I was doing a major update as well (5 - 6 for example). Christian Zachariasen ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: FreeBSD crashed
On Sun, May 25, 2008 at 01:52:05AM -0700, gahn wrote: Could any gurus here help me out this? I just want to save the files in the home directory so that I can rebuild the system. Boot with a FreeBSD installation or live CD/DVD and mount the home partition and burn the files on a CD or DVD, or copy them with scp to an other system or mount a remote filesystem like CIFS/Samba/NFS and copy the files on that filesystem. Or restore them from your most recent backup :) -- Regards, Richard. /* Homo Sapiens non urinat in ventum */ ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Can I Reinstall FreeBSD Over SSH?
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi, Kyrre Nygård wrote: | My server is getting kinda messy, but my ISP charges too much for a reinstall. Can I do this myself over SSH? Or perhaps there are ways to make ones system as clean as a fresh install? Thanks. If you have a spare partition on your system, then you can try the depinguinator: http://www.daemonology.net/blog/2008-01-29-depenguinator-2.0.html The depinguinator helps you to create a FreeBSD install image, that has SSH enabled by default. You can boot into that system and use it as an install medium for your FreeBSD installation. Regards, ~ Lothar -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v2.0.9 (FreeBSD) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iEYEARECAAYFAkg5NtEACgkQOlpYSeF9JmZvXgCgh1bROYIDzY6b6vn760nLQUNc cUEAnArHwflIa7//tfX+ce6IZbFYSiWn =NZd3 -END PGP SIGNATURE- ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: where is FreeBSD on ftp.uk.freebsd.org?
On Sunday 25 May 2008, Sahil Tandon wrote: * Chris Whitehouse [EMAIL PROTECTED] [05-24-2008]: Also UK is not in the list of countries at http://mirrorlist.freebsd.org/FBSDsites.php. Several UK mirrors listed here: http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en/books/handbook/mirrors-ftp.html Unfortunately most of these don't appear to be functional. I've tried to access /pub/FreeBSD/ports/ on them with very limited success. ftp.uk.freebsd.org = ftp.plig.net Failed - /pub/FreeBSD doesn't exist ftp2.uk.freebsd.org = ftp.mirrorservice.org OK ftp3.uk.freebsd.org = ftp.demon.net Failed - Incomplete mirror ftp cd pub/FreeBSD 250 CWD command successful. ftp dir 229 Entering Extended Passive Mode (|||52865|) 150 Opening ASCII mode data connection for file list -r--rw-r-- 1 root archives 6254 Nov 5 2002 README.TXT drwxr-xr-x 2 root archives 4096 Oct 24 2004 TrustedBSD -r--rw-r-- 1 root archives20645 Feb 5 2004 dir.sizes 226 Transfer complete. ftp4.uk.freebsd.org = sunsite.org.uk Failed - Destination Host Unreachable ftp5.uk.freebsd.org = karma.freebsd-uk.eu.org Failed - no response ftp6.uk.freebsd.org = storm.freebsd.org.uk Failed - /pub/FreeBSD doesn't exist Of the 6 mirrors, ftp2.uk.freebsd.org looks like the only usable one. That's what I've been using for quite a while now with no problems. The situation with UK mirrors for the FreeBSD website is quite messy too. The home page at www.uk.freebsd.org doesn't appear to have been updated for over a year, the production release is shown as 6.2 and the latest security patch is listed as 2007-02-09. The main FreeBSD site http://www.freebsd.org/ shows a couple of UK mirrors in it's drop-down list, United Kingdom/1 and United Kingdom/2, which resolve to www1.uk.freebsd.org and www3.uk.freebsd.org respectively. Currently www1 appears to be down but www3 appears to be OK. I appreciate that www.uk.freebsd.org isn't listed as a mirror on the main web site but it's the one many people might intuitively try to use and it's a pity that it will give them such an out of date view of FreeBSD. -- Mike Clarke ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: FreeBSD crashed
gahn wrote: Hello all: My FreeBSD crashed. It boots fine but can't mount root directory. Here is the message: / ... Trying to mount root from ufs:/dev/ad0s2a Manual root filesystem specification: fstype:device Mount device using filesystem fstype eg. ufs:da0s1a ? List valid disk boot devices empty line Abort manual input mountroot try to find if da0s1a is the right disk: `lsdev' may help then `set currdev disk' and check the content of the current disk with `ls' Henri /// Could any gurus here help me out this? I just want to save the files in the home directory so that I can rebuild the system. Regards Dave ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-current 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: Can I Reinstall FreeBSD Over SSH?
Hello Kyrre, Sunday, May 25, 2008, 9:42:37 AM, you wrote: My server is getting kinda messy, but my ISP charges too much for a reinstall. Can I do this myself over SSH? Or perhaps there are ways to make ones system as clean as a fresh install? Thanks. This will probably help you: http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/articles/remote-install/ -- Best regards, Danielmailto:[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: Can I Reinstall FreeBSD Over SSH?
Yupp thats the one i was referring to also, id go this way to do it remotely On Sun, May 25, 2008 at 6:23 PM, Daniel Gerzo [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello Kyrre, Sunday, May 25, 2008, 9:42:37 AM, you wrote: My server is getting kinda messy, but my ISP charges too much for a reinstall. Can I do this myself over SSH? Or perhaps there are ways to make ones system as clean as a fresh install? Thanks. This will probably help you: http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/articles/remote-install/ -- Best regards, Danielmailto:[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]
Re: Can I Reinstall FreeBSD Over SSH?
Thanks a lot, this is exactly what I need. Kyrre ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
mounting and using cd-rw media from a non root account
I'm still stuck on the command line for this one. How do I give the user permissions and allow an application such as k3b to access the device? Any and all links to howtos or your own method is welcome. Thank you in advance. _ E-mail for the greater good. Join the i’m Initiative from Microsoft. http://im.live.com/Messenger/IM/Join/Default.aspx?source=EML_WL_ GreaterGood___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: mounting and using cd-rw media from a non root account
Desmond Chapman wrote: I'm still stuck on the command line for this one. How do I give the user permissions and allow an application such as k3b to access the device? Any and all links to howtos or your own method is welcome. Thank you in advance. I have the following in my /etc/devfs.conf file: own cd0 root:operator perm cd0 0660 This makes the cd device owned by root / operator, and the permissions are set so that everyone in the operators group can read and write the device. If you change it to perm cd0 0666, everyone will be able to read and write (depending on your setup, this may have security implications). Do not forget to perform /etc/rc.d/devfs restart if you change the above file. You will need to load the atapicam module into the kernel if you wish to use utilities like cdrecord and k3b. This will make your atapi CD to be handled as a SCSI device. Use something like: kldload atapicam and add: atapicam_load=YES in your /boot/loader.conf so that it also loads on your next boot. You can also build atapicam into your kernel if you don't want to use the module. The CD will then be handled using a cdX device, i.e. cd0, while the atapicd is usually acd0 Finally, for instructions on setting up k3b, go to /usr/ports/sysutils/k3b directory and type: make showinfo This will tell you most that you need to know on setting up k3b (including some of the info mentioned above). ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: mounting and using cd-rw media from a non root account
Desmond Chapman wrote: I'm still stuck on the command line for this one. How do I give the user permissions and allow an application such as k3b to access the device? Any and all links to howtos or your own method is welcome. Thank you in advance. _ E-mail for the greater good. Join the i’m Initiative from Microsoft. http://im.live.com/Messenger/IM/Join/Default.aspx?source=EML_WL_ GreaterGood___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] My own configuration notes. Your mileage may vary : ) #How to install and configure K3b on FreeBSD 7.0 #To install the pre-compiled package (usually satisfactory) use the code below pkg_add -r k3b # If the pre-compiled package is ill-suited for your system, you can try compiling from source using the code below. cd /usr/ports/sysutils/k3b make install clean # Next, we edit configuration files in order to establish the proper settings and permissions # Edit /boot/loader.conf to add the following: atapicam_enable=YES hw.ata.atapi_dma=1 # Modify devfs.conf with the following lines: own cdrom root:operator perm cdrom 0666 link cd0 cdwriter own cderiter root:operator perm cdwriter 0666 own pass0 root:operator perm pass0 0666 own xpt0 root:operator perm xpt0 0666 # Edit /etc/rc.conf to add the following: devd_enable=YES #I am told the commands below are necessary on occasion. My system seems to work fine without them, however. chmod 4711 /usr/local/bin/cdrecord chmod 4711 /usr/local/bin/cdrdao ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Ekiga/OPAL won't compile
On Sat, May 24, 2008 at 9:19 PM, Matthias Apitz wrote: The page says KDE 3.5.8 because this is what I have; I'm sure it will work with any other recent KDE or Gnome version; I'm happy to update the page with your (or others) version of KDE/Gnome/... just send me a note; Never mind. I installed the pre-compiled package using pkg_add. It is working fine now. Girish. -- Girish Kulkarni - Allahabad, India - http://girish.50webs.com ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: core dumped with java
ronggui wrote: Dear List, I upgraded to freebsd 7.0 yesterday. I have install /usr/ports/java/diablo-jre15/ using ports. Then, I run the following command, resulting errors. [EMAIL PROTECTED] -jar /usr/local/share/java/jabref/jabref.jar Segmentation fault: 11 (core dumped) Anyone know how to solve this problem? Thanks. misc/compat6x ? Cheers Matthew -- Dr Matthew J Seaman MA, D.Phil. 7 Priory Courtyard Flat 3 PGP: http://www.infracaninophile.co.uk/pgpkey Ramsgate Kent, CT11 9PW signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature
Re: News in Spanish
On 05/24/2008 01:44 PM, Mustela wrote: Hello. I'm FreeBSD user. Very days ago, I verified that the news (what's new) in spanish is not up to date (the last is 1999!!) Why? Hi Mustela Disclaimer: I am not member of the FreeBSD team (I am only a newbie users) Simply because there is no voluntary FreeBSD user who translated it. Every Open Source project needs contributions. You are welcome to translate the news. Link: [1]http://www.freebsd.org/es/news/press.html#story200802:02 Very thanks. Pd:If is possible, please, reply in spanish. cheers Simon signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature
Re: anti-aliased fonts
On Sat, May 24, 2008 at 9:37 PM, Ashish Shukla wrote: Search for FireFox in this blog post[1] That helped. Although, I had to restrict font availability in Firefox; some fonts don't support anti-aliasing. You might like to join bsd-india[2] list[3]. Thanks. -- Girish Kulkarni - Allahabad, India - http://girish.50webs.com ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: core dumped with java
Dear all, I don't know the exact problem. After I have installed the /usr/ports/jdk15/, all things go smoothly. Thanks for all your replies. Best On Mon, May 26, 2008 at 12:03 AM, Matthew Seaman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: ronggui wrote: Dear List, I upgraded to freebsd 7.0 yesterday. I have install /usr/ports/java/diablo-jre15/ using ports. Then, I run the following command, resulting errors. [EMAIL PROTECTED] -jar /usr/local/share/java/jabref/jabref.jar Segmentation fault: 11 (core dumped) Anyone know how to solve this problem? Thanks. misc/compat6x ? Cheers Matthew -- Dr Matthew J Seaman MA, D.Phil. 7 Priory Courtyard Flat 3 PGP: http://www.infracaninophile.co.uk/pgpkey Ramsgate Kent, CT11 9PW -- HUANG Ronggui, Wincent http://ronggui.huang.googlepages.com/ Bachelor of Social Work, Fudan University, China Master of sociology, Fudan University, China Ph.D. Candidate, CityU of HK. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Stick memory USB
Hi, I'm new on FreeBSD not on unix. I want to mount automatically an usb-stick memory into my machine ? I get some problems. Need help. - /etc/devfs.rules add path 'da*' mode 0660 group operator Actions: 1) ls -al /dev/da* ls: No match. 2) I Plug into the USB port, the ImageMate 12-in-1 Card Reader/Writer (SanDisk) 3) ls -al /dev/da* crw-rw 1 root operator0, 136 25 mai 14:11 /dev/da0 crw-rw 1 root operator0, 138 25 mai 14:11 /dev/da1 crw-rw 1 root operator0, 140 25 mai 14:11 /dev/da2 crw-rw 1 root operator0, 141 25 mai 14:11 /dev/da3 4) I put the memory stick into the Card reader's slot 5) ls -al/dev/da* crw-rw 1 root operator0, 136 25 mai 14:11 /dev/da0 crw-rw 1 root operator0, 138 25 mai 14:11 /dev/da1 crw-rw 1 root operator0, 140 25 mai 14:11 /dev/da2 crw-rw 1 root operator0, 141 25 mai 14:11 /dev/da3 the /dev/da2s1 isn't here. 6) mount_msdosfs /dev/da2s1/mnt/cleusb/ mount_msdosfs: /dev/da2s1: No such file or directory 7) fdisk/dev/da2 *** Working on device /dev/da2 *** parameters extracted from in-core disklabel are: cylinders=30 heads=64 sectors/track=32 (2048 blks/cyl) parameters to be used for BIOS calculations are: cylinders=30 heads=64 sectors/track=32 (2048 blks/cyl) Media sector size is 512 Warning: BIOS sector numbering starts with sector 1 Information from DOS bootblock is: The data for partition 1 is: sysid 4 (0x04),(Primary DOS with 16 bit FAT ( 32MB)) start 64, size 62656 (30 Meg), flag 0 beg: cyl 1/ head 0/ sector 1; end: cyl 979/ head 1/ sector 32 The data for partition 2 is: UNUSED The data for partition 3 is: UNUSED The data for partition 4 is: UNUSED 8) ls -al /dev/da* crw-rw 1 root operator0, 136 25 mai 14:11 /dev/da0 crw-rw 1 root operator0, 138 25 mai 14:11 /dev/da1 crw-rw 1 root operator0, 140 25 mai 14:11 /dev/da2 crw-rw 1 root operator0, 141 25 mai 14:11 /dev/da3 9) mount_msdosfs /dev/da2/mnt/cleusb mount_msdosfs: /dev/da2: Invalid argument The command mount_msdosfs terminated abnormally but created in the /dev directory the /dev/da2s1 file. 10) ls -al /dev/da* crw-rw 1 root operator0, 136 25 mai 14:11 /dev/da0 crw-rw 1 root operator0, 136 25 mai 14:11 /dev/da0 crw-rw 1 root operator0, 138 25 mai 14:11 /dev/da1 crw-rw 1 root operator0, 140 25 mai 14:11 /dev/da2 crw-rw 1 root operator0, 142 25 mai 14:11 /dev/da2s1 crw-rw 1 root operator0, 141 25 mai 14:11 /dev/da3 11) And now i can mount and umount the stick memory. Please, can someone explain to me why, when i plug the stick memory into the slot of the card reader, the system doesn't create the /dev/da2s1 file in the the /dev directory. And why i use the mount_msdosfs command, this command creates /dev/da2s1 file in the /dev directory. Thank you for your answers ! Sorry for my english. Best regards Nej Email : [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: Stick memory USB
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 nej ALL wrote: Hi, I'm new on FreeBSD not on unix. I want to mount automatically an usb-stick memory into my machine ? I get some problems. Need help. You're trying with your devfs stuff to create the file, but you have to realize it's a device representing a filesystem, not just a file. What you want to read is the mount and fstab man pages, mount to find out how to mount your memory stick, and fstab to figure out how to get it to happen automatically. The devfs stuff is all mistaken, I think, you want that when you want to change permissions or make softlinks of devices, not to create them in the first place, least that's how I';'ve always used it, and I know very well that the correct line in /etc/fstab WILL automount your memory stick. I could give you the exact line, but I think you would rather look that up yourself (I know I would). - /etc/devfs.rules add path 'da*' mode 0660 group operator Actions: 1) ls -al /dev/da* ls: No match. 2) I Plug into the USB port, the ImageMate 12-in-1 Card Reader/Writer (SanDisk) 3) ls -al /dev/da* crw-rw 1 root operator0, 136 25 mai 14:11 /dev/da0 crw-rw 1 root operator0, 138 25 mai 14:11 /dev/da1 crw-rw 1 root operator0, 140 25 mai 14:11 /dev/da2 crw-rw 1 root operator0, 141 25 mai 14:11 /dev/da3 4) I put the memory stick into the Card reader's slot 5) ls -al/dev/da* crw-rw 1 root operator0, 136 25 mai 14:11 /dev/da0 crw-rw 1 root operator0, 138 25 mai 14:11 /dev/da1 crw-rw 1 root operator0, 140 25 mai 14:11 /dev/da2 crw-rw 1 root operator0, 141 25 mai 14:11 /dev/da3 the /dev/da2s1 isn't here. 6) mount_msdosfs /dev/da2s1/mnt/cleusb/ mount_msdosfs: /dev/da2s1: No such file or directory 7) fdisk/dev/da2 *** Working on device /dev/da2 *** parameters extracted from in-core disklabel are: cylinders=30 heads=64 sectors/track=32 (2048 blks/cyl) parameters to be used for BIOS calculations are: cylinders=30 heads=64 sectors/track=32 (2048 blks/cyl) Media sector size is 512 Warning: BIOS sector numbering starts with sector 1 Information from DOS bootblock is: The data for partition 1 is: sysid 4 (0x04),(Primary DOS with 16 bit FAT ( 32MB)) start 64, size 62656 (30 Meg), flag 0 beg: cyl 1/ head 0/ sector 1; end: cyl 979/ head 1/ sector 32 The data for partition 2 is: UNUSED The data for partition 3 is: UNUSED The data for partition 4 is: UNUSED 8) ls -al /dev/da* crw-rw 1 root operator0, 136 25 mai 14:11 /dev/da0 crw-rw 1 root operator0, 138 25 mai 14:11 /dev/da1 crw-rw 1 root operator0, 140 25 mai 14:11 /dev/da2 crw-rw 1 root operator0, 141 25 mai 14:11 /dev/da3 9) mount_msdosfs /dev/da2/mnt/cleusb mount_msdosfs: /dev/da2: Invalid argument The command mount_msdosfs terminated abnormally but created in the /dev directory the /dev/da2s1 file. 10) ls -al /dev/da* crw-rw 1 root operator0, 136 25 mai 14:11 /dev/da0 crw-rw 1 root operator0, 136 25 mai 14:11 /dev/da0 crw-rw 1 root operator0, 138 25 mai 14:11 /dev/da1 crw-rw 1 root operator0, 140 25 mai 14:11 /dev/da2 crw-rw 1 root operator0, 142 25 mai 14:11 /dev/da2s1 crw-rw 1 root operator0, 141 25 mai 14:11 /dev/da3 11) And now i can mount and umount the stick memory. Please, can someone explain to me why, when i plug the stick memory into the slot of the card reader, the system doesn't create the /dev/da2s1 file in the the /dev directory. And why i use the mount_msdosfs command, this command creates /dev/da2s1 file in the /dev directory. Thank you for your answers ! Sorry for my english. Best regards Nej Email : [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v2.0.4 (FreeBSD) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFIOa34z62J6PPcoOkRAgH6AKCUgvP/EqN9INW2oQ+F+JCob71WYwCfaoJB E1viOjy7youaf0uoJ/EDK9I= =VDLR -END PGP SIGNATURE- ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Non aligned DMA transfer errors with k3b
Suddenly today all my attempts to burn DVDs with k3b result in a continuous stream of the following error messages. May 25 18:04:40 kestrel kernel: ata1: FAILURE - non aligned DMA transfer attempted May 25 18:04:40 kestrel kernel: acd0: setting up DMA failed Quiting k3b doesn't stop the flood of errors, reboots hang and the only solution is to hit the reset switch. I'm running 7.0 RELEASE and if I reboot into my 6.3 partition k3b works just fine, confirming that it's not a media or hardware fault. I've also replaced the DVD writer but I still get the problem with 7.0. I can burn the same data to the same DVD with growisofs with no problem which suggests that the problem lies with k3b so this got me wondering if it was related to the massive portupgrade I did yesterday (affecting 156 ports) but that seems unlikely because when portupgrade finished last night I rebooted and burnt that day's backup to DVD+RW without problem. This morning I burnt 3 DVD+Rs without problem, then about an hour later the problem suddenly appeared when I started to burn another DVD+RW, and there'd been absolutely no software or hardware changes since the previous successful run. Although I don't think upgrading the ports is responsible I've tried downgrading k3b from 1.0.4_1 to 1.0.4 but that had no effect, nor did downgrading dvd+rw-tools-7.1 to 7.0. I don't think any of the other upgraded ports would have been significant. Turning off DMA by setting hw.ata.ata_dma and hw.ata.atapi_dma to zero stops the errors but with a big performance hit so that's not an option for a permanent fix. I've now run out of ideas for what to try next so any suggestions would be welcome. -- Mike Clarke ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Your suggestions about this Dell configuration?
VeeJay wrote: Hello Frank Really good points. I am really glad to have your thoughts. Regarding your questions and comments, I have given some answers and a couple of questions in *RED* colour. Please comment if you happen to manage some time during weekend, Thanks! *Please continue...* On Thu, May 22, 2008 at 4:01 AM, Frank Shute [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, May 21, 2008 at 08:49:51AM +0200, VeeJay wrote: Hello friends, My employer is buying this Dell server and I would like to have your opinion about the configuration. Requirements are: 2 Websites with 3-4 million hits per month with video ads. If it's 3-4 million hits per month as you've stated twice now, then your hardware is complete overkill. So I'll assume you mean 3-4 million hits a day for each site. *No, its 3-4 million each site per month and we are having problem. Because, either Apache or MySQL stops responding. I have following settings as Performance:* ** *# = # Performance settings # = Timeout 300 KeepAlive On MaxKeepAliveRequests 100 KeepAliveTimeout 15 MinSpareServers 5 MaxSpareServers 10 StartServers 5 MaxClients 256 MaxRequestsPerChild 0* Operating System: *FreeBSD AMD647-STABBLE* I'd use 7.0-RELEASE. Database: *PHP+MySQL with Apache* No problem. You should use Apache 2.*. *We will use Apache 2.** Server Configuration: *PowerEdge? 6850 SCSI* Dual Core Intel(R) Xeon(R) Processor 7130M, 3.2GHz, 8MB L3 Cache, 800Mhz FSB 1x Additional Dual Core Intel(R) Xeon(R) Processor 7130M, 3.2GHz, 8MB L3 Cache, 800MHz FSB Slow FSB. I suppose they hope you hit the cache. Shouldn't matter because your server is more likely to be disk bound rather than bus bound. Changed Processor to: *PE 2950 III Quad Core Xeon X5450 (3.0GHz, 2x6MB, 1333MHz FSB)* *what do you think about E5450?* 16GB 400MHz Dual Rank DDR2 Memory (8X2GB) Slow memory, to match the slow FSB :) But you've got 250MB per hit. So use the excess to cache frequently accessed content. *We have changed it to:* *16GB (8x2GB Dual Rank DIMMs) 667MHz FBD* C5 Drives attached to embedded PERC4ei, RAID 10 PERC 4/DC RAID controller (128MB cache) (1 intern and 1 extern Channel) (Should I use controller with Both Internal or Both External Channel? What they do?) Supported according to a quick Google search. 5 x 146GB SCSI Ultra320 (15000rpm) 1'' 80 pin harddrives No name or a brand? *We have changed the disks to :* *6 x 450GB SAS 15k 3.5 HD Hot Plug, (Hitachi Japan)* We have the PERC 4e/Di and that works wonderfully (256 MB battery backed cache). One hint is that the PERC 4e/Di (and possibly the entire series) does not do correct RAID 1 + 0 (mirrored then striped) but instead does RAID 1 and concatenates those mirrors. Chassis with support for 3.5'' SCSI Hard Drives Dell Remote Access Card 4 SERVER MANAGEMENT CARD Don't know if this will work. Most guys use a serial console/ssh for management. (I will have hot swappable drives chassis) Get it if your server is going to be remote. It lets you mount CD-ROM disks and ISOs, Floppy images and gives you real keyboard/mouse/video display of the server. It also lets you power up/down/reboot the server remotely. A necessity to do firmware/BIOS upgrades. Serial console/ssh only lets you work with an already working system. The DRAC lets you do remote installs/reinstall/upgrades. Thank you in advance. The performance of this hardware will depend on what *sort* of hits you get. Are a lot of them just for the homepage? Then just cache it. Is it static content? *No, its dynamic contents, data is coming form Database.* If you're getting lots of ad-hoc database queries and fetches/writes from/to disk, then your disks could get a thrashing. How big's your database? Being read from more than written to? How precious is the data? *More than 20 million records and more than 1000 Tables.* *And of course, data is always preciouse. :)* How many of these hits are reading video ads? All of them? How many KBs are these awful ads? *50% of users are going to see the Video Ads.* ** *Size would vary between 100KB to 2MB. * What bandwidth do you have to these servers? *100 Mbps* How you are going to get the best out of your hardware depends on questions like these, so you have to analyse your Apache logs and tune appropriately. Tuning Apache, mysql and PHP are all subjects in their own right. For FreeBSD, read tuning(7). Are you running FreeBSD ATM? Then some numbers from iostat, top etc. would be useful in analysing how your new server is going to cope and how much spare capacity you'll have, but the numbers are dependent on how you've tuned it (if at all). Hope I've given you something to think about. Regards, -- Frank Contact info: http://www.shute.org.uk/misc/contact.html -- Sten Daniel Soersdal ___
Linux Compatibility version of libXau
I am trying to get the linux version of Planeshift to work but I need to find a linux version of libXau, cant find it in ports tho :( anyone got a solution to getting Planeshift to work? Thanks Derek ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Best nVidia card for Xorg on FreeBSD?
Currently using a Radeon 8500LE but since u/g to xorg 7.3 I've had nothing but trouble with X hanging/crashing/locking-up. From what I've read, the state of the radeon drivers leaves much to be desired and although some people seem to have trouble with nVidia cards they appear to be a better choice. So, after over a decade of brand-loyalty to ATI (when I started with FreeBSD back in the mid-90's ATI cards were the only ones I could find that would run X at better than VGA resolution) I'm going to switch to nVidia. The machine is FreeBSD-only so no issues with Windows drivers and performance etc. (I divorced the Evil Empire a couple of years ago) and my Radeon 8500 is adequate for my needs so I don't need a high-end card. I'm looking on eBay and an FX5x00 card seems to fit the bill. So, are there any particular cards that work well under Xorg/FreeBSD or, more importantly, any that don't? Any advice about the need to consider 3D issues would be welcome? I run KDE and mainly use digikam/GIMP for digital photo editing and kmplayer for viewing videos. I believe there is a 3D interface for KDE (CompuViz?) - is this worth bothering with? All help/advice gratefully received. TIA Mark ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Best nVidia card for Xorg on FreeBSD?
Mark Ovens wrote: Currently using a Radeon 8500LE but since u/g to xorg 7.3 I've had nothing but trouble with X hanging/crashing/locking-up. From what I've read, the state of the radeon drivers leaves much to be desired and although some people seem to have trouble with nVidia cards they appear to be a better choice. So, after over a decade of brand-loyalty to ATI (when I started with FreeBSD back in the mid-90's ATI cards were the only ones I could find that would run X at better than VGA resolution) I'm going to switch to nVidia. The machine is FreeBSD-only so no issues with Windows drivers and performance etc. (I divorced the Evil Empire a couple of years ago) and my Radeon 8500 is adequate for my needs so I don't need a high-end card. I'm looking on eBay and an FX5x00 card seems to fit the bill. So, are there any particular cards that work well under Xorg/FreeBSD or, more importantly, any that don't? Any advice about the need to consider 3D issues would be welcome? I run KDE and mainly use digikam/GIMP for digital photo editing and kmplayer for viewing videos. I believe there is a 3D interface for KDE (CompuViz?) - is this worth bothering with? All help/advice gratefully received. TIA Mark Don't know about CompuViz, but if you would like to try compiz fusion, I am a bit tempted to point you to this article (maybe because I am the author :) http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/articles/compiz-fusion/ This will answer your questions on installing nvidia drivers and also getting 3D effects and compiz-fusion to work. Note that there is no nvidia-supplied (read: proprietary) driver for the 64bit version of FreeBSD. The community 'nvidia' driver works fine, although no 3D and 2D performance is somewhat limited. I've used a number of cards with FreeBSD (7300GT, 7300Go (laptop), 6600GT, 6200) and never had problems. The FX series should also work, but why not buying a newer card? You can get new entry-level nvidia cards for very little money. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Best nVidia card for Xorg on FreeBSD?
Manolis Kiagias wrote: Don't know about CompuViz, but if you would like to try compiz fusion, I am a bit tempted to point you to this article (maybe because I am the author :) Ah, compiz - that's what I was thinking of ;-) http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/articles/compiz-fusion/ This will answer your questions on installing nvidia drivers and also getting 3D effects and compiz-fusion to work. Note that there is no nvidia-supplied (read: proprietary) driver for the 64bit version of FreeBSD. The community 'nvidia' driver works fine, although no 3D and 2D performance is somewhat limited. I've used a number of cards with FreeBSD (7300GT, 7300Go (laptop), 6600GT, 6200) and never had problems. The FX series should also work, but why not buying a newer card? You can get new entry-level nvidia cards for very little money. Well, it's down to money really but I'll take a look at the price of new cards. Thanks. Mark ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: FreeBSD crashed
At 03:52 AM 5/25/2008, gahn wrote: Hello all: My FreeBSD crashed. It boots fine but can't mount root directory. Here is the message: / ... Trying to mount root from ufs:/dev/ad0s2a Manual root filesystem specification: fstype:device Mount device using filesystem fstype eg. ufs:da0s1a ? List valid disk boot devices empty line Abort manual input mountroot /// Could any gurus here help me out this? I just want to save the files in the home directory so that I can rebuild the system. Regards Dave Boot a cd, then copy your files to another system, or to removable media. -Derek -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Best nVidia card for Xorg on FreeBSD?
On Sun, May 25, 2008 at 11:04:40PM +0100, Mark Ovens wrote: Currently using a Radeon 8500LE but since u/g to xorg 7.3 I've had nothing but trouble with X hanging/crashing/locking-up. From what I've read, the state of the radeon drivers leaves much to be desired and although some people seem to have trouble with nVidia cards they appear to be a better choice. So, after over a decade of brand-loyalty to ATI (when I started with FreeBSD back in the mid-90's ATI cards were the only ones I could find that would run X at better than VGA resolution) I'm going to switch to nVidia. Heh. I was just thinking about going the other way. One of the main problems with the nVidia on X is that the xorg-nvidia driver is very basic; this can be demonstrated by going to a Javascript heavy page (eg http://www.xwiki.org) using firefox. The X-server just slows to crawl when trying to scroll the site. The behaviour is not exhibited with xorg-intel driver, as a counter-example. Support for the nVidia on FreeBSD from the vendor is also incomplete: http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-hackers/2006-June/016995.html The feature request from nVidia appears to have stalled for the time being (more correctly: I couldn't locate news on any updates to on the 'Net). In short, nVidia cards are usable, but performance can be exceptionally bad. Cheers. -- Jonathan Chen [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Only the meek get pinched. The bold survive. - Ferris Bueller ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
non-RAID SATA
I am looking for a cost-effective way to add a SATA drive to an existing 7.0 system whose on-board controller is PATA, and am not getting very far at all in identifying an inexpensive controller which would be expected to work well. (I'd prefer PCI, since the USB in this box is probably 1.0 and not capable of sustaining desirable data rates.) All mentions of SATA in the hardware guide and FAQ seem to be of RAID controllers, or else too generic to guide a choice of add-in cards. Does anyone have any experience with this that they would be inclined to share? ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Best nVidia card for Xorg on FreeBSD?
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Jonathan Chen wrote: On Sun, May 25, 2008 at 11:04:40PM +0100, Mark Ovens wrote: Currently using a Radeon 8500LE but since u/g to xorg 7.3 I've had nothing but trouble with X hanging/crashing/locking-up. From what I've read, the state of the radeon drivers leaves much to be desired and although some people seem to have trouble with nVidia cards they appear to be a better choice. So, after over a decade of brand-loyalty to ATI (when I started with FreeBSD back in the mid-90's ATI cards were the only ones I could find that would run X at better than VGA resolution) I'm going to switch to nVidia. Heh. I was just thinking about going the other way. One of the main problems with the nVidia on X is that the xorg-nvidia driver is very basic; this can be demonstrated by going to a Javascript heavy page (eg http://www.xwiki.org) using firefox. The X-server just slows to crawl when trying to scroll the site. The behaviour is not exhibited with xorg-intel driver, as a counter-example. Support for the nVidia on FreeBSD from the vendor is also incomplete: http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-hackers/2006-June/016995.html The feature request from nVidia appears to have stalled for the time being (more correctly: I couldn't locate news on any updates to on the 'Net). In short, nVidia cards are usable, but performance can be exceptionally bad. 'Scuse me, I'm not personally very familiar (yet) with 3D graphics, but I'm reading OpenGL (I bought the SuperBible) and I'm quite well along in writing my driver for a cheapy graphics tablet, to get me along with Gimp. So, could you tell me, are your comments about the Nvidia card driver performance dealing with the Nvidia-supplied driver and OpenGL libs they have, as expressed in the FreeBSD-ports supplied (from Nvidia code) Nvidia driver?? I have them compiled under FreeBSD-current, because a friend recommended them as the best available, is that wrong? Is there better? I am not aware of any pure-public driver for those cards, but I just am not very well up on their details, so I want to be sure of your meaning, making sure I have you right here.. BTW, my card is a Nvidia-compatible (licensed) GeForce 8600 GTS card, if that means anything to you. If you think the ATI cards (using FreeBSD available drivers) are better, let me have that one more time please, there is very little on the net from even slightly reliable sources on this, so I would guess you have a attentive audience here. Cheers. -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v2.0.4 (FreeBSD) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFIOhibz62J6PPcoOkRAoUFAJ4iG+lO49cL3X2qNrRWDwpvPgaAmwCfWd67 zmGMC23pwA6mE5w2LycKB/k= =97lJ -END PGP SIGNATURE- ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Disk Controller
Hi, I have a Biostar 7050PV motherboard, but can't tell what the disk controller is, I think it's an NF630A. Is this disk controller supported by any of the freebsd versions for amd64? Thanks, ~Nick ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Best nVidia card for Xorg on FreeBSD?
On Mon, 26 May 2008 10:54:28 +1200 Jonathan Chen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Support for the nVidia on FreeBSD from the vendor is also incomplete: http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-hackers/2006-June/016995.html The feature request from nVidia appears to have stalled That article says: While the following is focused on the NVIDIA FreeBSD graphics drivers, we believe the interfaces discussed below are generally applicable to any modern high performance graphics driver. Aside from the amd64 specific issues, it's doesn't seem to imply that NVIDIA cards are particularly disadvantaged, just that NVIDIA are the only company to make an effort with FreeBSD. In short, nVidia cards are usable, but performance can be exceptionally bad. The xorg nv driver is certainly poor, but is there any reason to believe that the nvidia driver is inferior to drivers for other graphics cards. I've never heard any great claims for their 3d performance. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
RE: non-RAID SATA
-Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, May 25, 2008 6:11 PM To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: non-RAID SATA I am looking for a cost-effective way to add a SATA drive to an existing 7.0 system whose on-board controller is PATA, and am not getting very far at all in identifying an inexpensive controller which would be expected to work well. (I'd prefer PCI, since the USB in this box is probably 1.0 and not capable of sustaining desirable data rates.) SATA is faster than PCI. Most people would replace the motherboard or use a USB 2.0 card which has a far faster transfer speed than PCI does as a transition, with the expectation that sooner or later they are going to replace the system. All mentions of SATA in the hardware guide and FAQ seem to be of RAID controllers, or else too generic to guide a choice of add-in cards. Does anyone have any experience with this that they would be inclined to share? In automotive terms your adding a free-flow exhaust to a restricted engine - in the trade we call them adding a fart can because they do nothing to help the car go faster since there's restrictions further up the chain. Go buy an inexpensive USB 2.0 external disk case, then buy your SATA disk and stick it inside of that, with the idea that eventually your going to get a faster machine you might be able to use the disk in. Ted ___ 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]
cvsup RELENG_6_3 to RELENG_7 impaired gnome
I am feeling nuked from the freeBSD community right now and I was trying to appropriately post to the gnome list but oh well. I don't have time for the continued bugs in my system, I have _GOT_ to get this running pronto. The subscription to the gnome list seems to be hanging or lagging and my paranoia meter says that some people are doing this because crimeny the gnome list should have sent me at least 50 emails by now. Anyway. To my stupid question that is probably too stupid for hackers, but I am not subscribed to questions either I just can't tolerate that in my time frames It is hard enough letting the other lists go by. Oh. I should have tried to subscribe to that but I am under the.. GGGH fine. If I don't get that subscription notice by the time I finish this then I'm sending it. I suspect the composition should take a reasonable amount of time for that to happen. I did cvsup with the standard-supfile but I guess I used the one from freeBSD 6.2 and I thought it would be kosher to change the bit that said RELENG_6_2 to RELENG_7 so that's what I did. I used the ftp4.freebsd.org mirror and I did a cvsup. Then I did cvsup with the ports-supfile but that one had cvsup4.freebsd.org in it, so after that I was OMG and I changed the ftp4.freebsd.org in the standard-supfile and redid that cvsup. Anyway. THen I started following instructions in /usr/src/Makefile. My current professor runs FreeBSD and he suggested that method. It looks pretty similar to stuff I have seen elsewhwere, plus it was part of what cvsup slurped up that was supposed to be specific to my version, right? Anyway, here are the steps: IMPROVISATION: I did mergemaster -p here oops. (see below) make buildworld / make buildkernel make kernel -| substituted for- make installkernel reboot -s .. okay. This is where I guess I am basic? I don't think I used the loader prompt, I didn't use reboot -s hmm.. that probably would have been a good thing to type after # I guess I am really stupid. I did shutdown -r now and when the devil came up I pressed 4 Then I typed mount -a and then.. mergemaster -p and that is a ball of wax depicted here: http://www.monkeyview.net/id/965/fsck/inst_world/index.vhtml The same thing happened the first time I did mergemaster -p tells my spidey sense oh oh. Anyway. Then I did make installworld and had a bad thing something about make doesn't get it but I fixed that by googling it. Oh here it is: http://www.monkeyview.net/id/965/fsck/inst_world/p5240176.vhtml anyway, don't worry too much about that I fixed it by doing: /usr/src/usr.sbin/mergemaster/mergemaster.sh -p and had the same trials and tribulation of hitting 1000 space bars at the right time with intercelated 1000 return keys (actually maybe more like 300 space bars and 200 return keys) and then, saints be praised, make installworld did some presumably nice things so then I did: make delete-old like /usr/src/Makefile said and OMFG I had to hit y 200 times now. mergemaster -U 300 more space bars 200 more return keys make delete-old-libs and now I have provided some pictures of what happens when I try to start up. I get to the devil and then it looks like http://www.monkeyview.net/id/965/fsck/fb7/p5250001.vhtml http://www.monkeyview.net/id/965/fsck/fb7/p5250002.vhtml http://www.monkeyview.net/id/965/fsck/fb7/p5250004.vhtml http://www.monkeyview.net/id/965/fsck/fb7/p5250005.vhtml I broke my gnome and my nessus which is the thing I absolute need pronto! I am not trying to be demanding I am just informing everybody that I am under pressure here and I have no idea what to google at this point. *--* Kayven Riese, BSCS, MS (Physiology and Biophysics) (415) 902 5513 cellular http://kayve.net Webmaster http://ChessYoga.org *--* ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Best nVidia card for Xorg on FreeBSD?
On Sun, May 25, 2008 at 09:55:39PM -0400, Chuck Robey wrote: [...] So, could you tell me, are your comments about the Nvidia card driver performance dealing with the Nvidia-supplied driver and OpenGL libs they have, as expressed in the FreeBSD-ports supplied (from Nvidia code) Nvidia driver?? I have them compiled under FreeBSD-current, because a friend recommended them as the best available, is that wrong? Is there better? I am not aware of any pure-public driver for those cards, but I just am not very well up on their details, so I want to be sure of your meaning, making sure I have you right here.. I've got a nVidia card on a FreeBSD-7/amd64 system, and so the only driver I can use is the xorg-nvidia driver. The driver from the nVidia is not an option for me. If you have an i386 system, the driver from nVidia is *MUCH* faster than the xorg driver. Queries to nVidia about the possiblity of an amd64 compatibile driver led me to the kernel-feature list that they would like to have before being able to release a driver form amd64 hosts. HTH. -- Jonathan Chen [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- The human mind ordinarily operates at only ten percent of its capacity -- the rest is overhead for the operating system. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Stick memory USB
Chuck Robey wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 nej ALL wrote: Hi, I'm new on FreeBSD not on unix. I want to mount automatically an usb-stick memory into my machine ? I get some problems. Need help. You're trying with your devfs stuff to create the file, but you have to realize it's a device representing a filesystem, not just a file. What you want to read is the mount and fstab man pages, mount to find out how to mount your memory stick, and fstab to figure out how to get it to happen automatically. The devfs stuff is all mistaken, I think, you want that when you want to change permissions or make softlinks of devices, not to create them in the first place, least that's how I';'ve always used it, and I know very well that the correct line in /etc/fstab WILL automount your memory stick. Are you sure Chuck? The devfs rules stuff is to allow non-root users to mount removable media isn't it? I followed the instructions at http://gphoto.sourceforge.net/doc/manual/permissions-usb.html - the FreeBSD-specific stuff is near the bottom of the page - but I have *exactly* the same problem as the OP with my mobile phone. It is detected as da2 and da3 (phone and memory stick - mine's a SCSI system so da0 and da1 are the HDDs) but only the top-level device nodes (/dev/da[23]) are created. I can try to mount /dev/da3 until I'm blue in the face and it always fails but as soon as I attempt to mount /dev/da3s1 it fails first time but succeeds the second time because the /dev/da3s1 device node gets created on the first (failed) mount attempt. It doesn't matter whether I have an entry in /etc/fstab for /dev/da3s1 or not, it stills fails, but creates the device, on the first attempt. Maybe something has changed? The page I linked to above refers to FreeBSD 5 but I'm running 6.3-STABLE. Regards, Mark ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: cvsup RELENG_6_3 to RELENG_7 impaired gnome
Try downloading the binary packages for 7.0 that you need and install them. That would be fastest. FreeBSD doesn't claim to maintain binary (library?) compatibility across major releases. I personally have never had a problem, but I consider that dumb luck. Regards, Jason ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Stick memory USB
Hello Mark! Mon, May 26, 2008 at 05:40:50AM +0100 you wrote: It is detected as da2 and da3 (phone and memory stick - mine's a SCSI system so da0 and da1 are the HDDs) but only the top-level device nodes (/dev/da[23]) are created. I can try to mount /dev/da3 until I'm blue in the face and it always fails but as soon as I attempt to mount /dev/da3s1 it fails first time but succeeds the second time because the /dev/da3s1 device node gets created on the first (failed) mount attempt. I had a similar problem with my card reader. AFAIU the problem with those is that they don't report media change events; the system gets to know what's there only when it tries to access it, one way or the other. This might be of help both to you and to the OP: http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-questions/2007-January/138907.html It's not beautiful, but it works. -- DoubleF No virus detected in this message. Ehrm, wait a minute... /kernel: pid 56921 (antivirus), uid 32000: exited on signal 9 Oh yes, no virus:) pgpkIaQcGOOrU.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: non-RAID SATA
On Sun, May 25, 2008 at 08:01:42PM -0700, Ted Mittelstaedt wrote: -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, May 25, 2008 6:11 PM To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: non-RAID SATA I am looking for a cost-effective way to add a SATA drive to an existing 7.0 system whose on-board controller is PATA, and am not getting very far at all in identifying an inexpensive controller which would be expected to work well. (I'd prefer PCI, since the USB in this box is probably 1.0 and not capable of sustaining desirable data rates.) SATA is faster than PCI. Most people would replace the motherboard or use a USB 2.0 card which has a far faster transfer speed than PCI does as a transition, with the expectation that sooner or later they are going to replace the system. While it is true that the maximum theoretical transfer speed available from SATA (150MB/s or 300MB/s depending on SATA version) exceeds that of a normal PCI bus (133MB/s for a standard 32bit/33MHz bus), there is currently no single SATA disk available on the market that will swamp the PCI bus. USB 2.0 is however much slower than either of SATA and PCI. USB 2.0 has a maximum theoretical transfer speed of 480Mbit/s ( = 60MB/s) with a practical maximum of maybe 30-40 MB/s - less than half of either PCI or SATA. All mentions of SATA in the hardware guide and FAQ seem to be of RAID controllers, or else too generic to guide a choice of add-in cards. Does anyone have any experience with this that they would be inclined to share? In automotive terms your adding a free-flow exhaust to a restricted engine - in the trade we call them adding a fart can because they do nothing to help the car go faster since there's restrictions further up the chain. It is unlikely that a PCI-based SATA card would be a noticable bottleneck in this case unless one were to connect several high-speed disks to the card. Go buy an inexpensive USB 2.0 external disk case, then buy your SATA disk and stick it inside of that, with the idea that eventually your going to get a faster machine you might be able to use the disk in. USB however would be a quite noticable bottleneck. Bad idea if you want anything resembling speed. -- Insert your favourite quote here. Erik Trulsson [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
squidguard installing problem - unknown bdb version
Dear All, I have installed a lots of applications on the FreeBSD7 Server the list is attached below. When I try to install squidguard it gives me following error: stpl# pwd /usr/ports/www/squidguard stpl# make install clean === squidGuard-1.3 cannot install: unknown bdb version: 51. *** Error code 1 Stop in /usr/ports/www/squidguard. === Can somebody please guide me to resolve this problem ? Thanking you in advance. S. H. Ziaya Kathmandu, Nepal. stpl# pkg_info apache-2.2.8Version 2.2 of Apache web server with prefork MPM. arc-5.21o_1 Create extract files from DOS .ARC files arj-3.10.22_1 Open-source ARJ autoconf-2.61_2 Automatically configure source code on many Un*x platforms autoconf-wrapper-20071109 Wrapper script for GNU autoconf bandwidthd-2.0.1_1 Tracks bandwidth usage by IP address bigreqsproto-1.0.2 BigReqs extension headers clamav-0.92.1_1 Command line virus scanner written entirely in C curl-7.16.3_1 Non-interactive tool to get files from FTP, GOPHER, HTTP(S) cyrus-sasl-2.1.22 RFC SASL (Simple Authentication and Security Layer) cyrus-sasl-saslauthd-2.1.22 SASL authentication server for cyrus-sasl2 db3-3.3.11_3,1 The Berkeley DB package, revision 3.3 db4-4.0.14_1,1 The Berkeley DB package, revision 4 dovecot-1.0.13_1Secure and compact IMAP and POP3 servers expat-2.0.0_1 XML 1.0 parser written in C freetype2-2.3.5 A free and portable TrueType font rendering engine gd-2.0.35,1 A graphics library for fast creation of images gettext-0.16.1_3GNU gettext package gmake-3.81_2GNU version of 'make' utility gnupg-2.0.8 The GNU Privacy Guard gnutls-2.2.2GNU Transport Layer Security library help2man-1.36.4_1 Automatically generating simple manual pages from program o inputproto-1.4.2.1 Input extension headers jabber-1.6.1.1_1,1 XMPP/Jabber server daemon jpeg-6b_4 IJG's jpeg compression utilities kbproto-1.0.3 KB extension headers lha-1.14i_6 Archive files using LZSS and Huffman compression (.lzh file libICE-1.0.4_1,1Inter Client Exchange library for X11 libSM-1.0.3_1,1 Session Management library for X11 libX11-1.1.3_1,1X11 library libXau-1.0.3_2 Authentication Protocol library for X11 libXaw-1.0.4_1,1X Athena Widgets library libXdmcp-1.0.2_1X Display Manager Control Protocol library libXext-1.0.3,1 X11 Extension library libXmu-1.0.3,1 X Miscellaneous Utilities libraries libXp-1.0.0,1 X print library libXpm-3.5.7X Pixmap library libXt-1.0.5_1 X Toolkit library libassuan-1.0.4 IPC library used by GnuPG and gpgme libgcrypt-1.4.0 General purpose crypto library based on code used in GnuPG libgmp-4.2.2A free library for arbitrary precision arithmetic libgpg-error-1.6Common error values for all GnuPG components libiconv-1.11_1 A character set conversion library libidn-1.2 Internationalized Domain Names command line tool libksba-1.0.2 KSBA is an X.509 Library libtasn1-1.3ASN.1 structure parser library libtool-1.5.24 Generic shared library support script libxml2-2.6.31 XML parser library for GNOME lynx-2.8.6.5_2,1A non-graphical, text-based World-Wide Web client m4-1.4.9,1 GNU m4 mhash-0.9.9 An easy-to-use library for strong hashes such as MD5 and SH mysql-client-5.1.23 Multithreaded SQL database (client) mysql-server-5.1.23 Multithreaded SQL database (server) net-snmp-5.4.1_2An extendable SNMP implementation p5-Archive-Tar-1.38_1 Perl module for creation and manipulation of tar files p5-Authen-PAM-0.16_1 A Perl interface to the PAM library p5-Authen-SASL-2.10_1 Perl5 module for SASL authentication p5-Compress-Raw-Zlib-2.008 Low-Level Interface to zlib compression library p5-Compress-Zlib-2.008 Perl5 interface to zlib compression library p5-DBD-mysql-4.006 MySQL driver for the Perl5 Database Interface (DBI) p5-DBI-1.60.1 The perl5 Database Interface. Required for DBD::* modules p5-Digest-1.15 Modules that calculate message digests p5-Digest-HMAC-1.01 Perl5 interface to HMAC Message-Digest Algorithms p5-Digest-MD5-2.36 Perl5 interface to the MD5 algorithm p5-Digest-SHA1-2.11 Perl interface to the SHA-1 Algorithm p5-Encode-Detect-1.00 An Encode::Encoding subclass that detects the encoding of d p5-Error-0.17012Perl module to provide Error/exception support for perl: Er p5-ExtUtils-CBuilder-0.22_1 Compile and link C code for Perl modules p5-ExtUtils-ParseXS-2.19 Converts Perl XS code into C code p5-GSSAPI-0.26 Perl extension providing access to the GSSAPIv2 library p5-Geography-Countries-1.4 Handle ISO-3166 country codes p5-HTML-Parser-3.56_1 Perl5 module for parsing HTML documents p5-HTML-Tagset-3.20 Some useful data table in parsing HTML p5-IO-Compress-Base-2.008 Base Class for IO::Uncompress modules p5-IO-Compress-Zlib-2.008 Perl5 interface for reading and writing of (g)zip
