Linux DRI (and Google Earth)

2010-09-12 Thread Andrea Venturoli
Hello. What's the status of 3d hardware acceleration in Linux emulation? I'm running 8.1R/i386 and I was finally able to get DRI working (with native software) on my Radeon HD 4200. So I installe Google Earth, but it's warning that it will use software rendering and is, of course, slow.

Re: Linux DRI (and Google Earth)

2010-09-12 Thread David DEMELIER
2010/9/12 Andrea Venturoli m...@netfence.it: Hello. What's the status of 3d hardware acceleration in Linux emulation? I'm running 8.1R/i386 and I was finally able to get DRI working (with native software) on my Radeon HD 4200. So I installe Google Earth, but it's warning that it will use

AMD SMBus

2010-09-12 Thread Andrea Venturoli
Any chance of enabling this? (Google was unfriendly :-) no...@pci0:0:20:0: class=0x0c0500 card=0x37001565 chip=0x43851002 rev=0x3c hdr=0x00 vendor = 'ATI Technologies Inc. / Advanced Micro Devices, Inc.' device = 'ATI SMBus (ATI RD600/RS600)' class = serial bus

Re: Upgrading packages - portupgrade confusion

2010-09-12 Thread Kaya Saman
[...] Have you refreshed the ports tree(s) with csup using the same supfile to ensure the ports trees are up to date ( and therefore identical)? Since you are using portugrade, as I do, this is what I do to see what needs to be done: I cd to /usr/sup which is where I keep my supfiles and the

Re: Upgrading packages - portupgrade confusion

2010-09-12 Thread Jerry
On Sun, 12 Sep 2010 14:34:52 +0300 Kaya Saman kayasa...@gmail.com articulated: [...] Have you refreshed the ports tree(s) with csup using the same supfile to ensure the ports trees are up to date ( and therefore identical)? Since you are using portugrade, as I do, this is what I do to

Re: Upgrading packages - portupgrade confusion

2010-09-12 Thread Michael Powell
Kaya Saman wrote: [...] csup -L 2 ports portsdb -uF pkgdb -u portversion To elaborate a little. csup -L 2 ports is what refreshes the ports tree. Portupgrade is a third party app you can install to assist in automating the updating process. Once you've installed portupgrade there are man

Re: sysinstall vs gmirror

2010-09-12 Thread Matthew Seaman
On 12/09/2010 05:09:04, per...@pluto.rain.com wrote: How do I get sysinstall to recognize a gmirror? I've created the mirror -- which currently has only one provider -- using Fixit#, followed by Fixit# ln -s /dist/boot/kernel /boot Fixit# gmirror load after which

Re: Upgrading packages - portupgrade confusion

2010-09-12 Thread Kaya Saman
Hi Jerry and Michael, thanks for all the advise and information!! I think I was confusing terminologies a little I was trying to imply that I have been building from ports all this time and *not* using pkg_add to obtain pre-built packages. I think mainly it's just that I've been using

Re: Upgrading packages - portupgrade confusion

2010-09-12 Thread Warren Block
On Sun, 12 Sep 2010, Kaya Saman wrote: The thing I don't quite understand though is that if the ports tree gets refreshed, do the packages get upgraded or will I need to rebuild them?? The ports tree is just build instructions, so updating it doesn't update any installed applications. It

Re: Upgrading packages - portupgrade confusion

2010-09-12 Thread Michael Powell
Kaya Saman wrote: [snip] The thing I don't quite understand though is that if the ports tree gets refreshed, do the packages get upgraded or will I need to rebuild them?? You have to rebuild them. Does this apply to ports too?? Yes. A package is just a port that someone has

Re: Compiling software with different compiler than cc or clang results in unusable output

2010-09-12 Thread Ian Smith
In freebsd-questions Digest, Vol 327, Issue 11, Message: 4 On Sat, 11 Sep 2010 O. Hartmann ohart...@mail.zedat.fu-berlin.de wrote: On 09/11/10 11:43, Andrew Brampton wrote: On 11 September 2010 10:28, O. Hartmann ohart...@mail.zedat.fu-berlin.de wrote: you see me a kind of

Re: Upgrading packages - portupgrade confusion

2010-09-12 Thread Kaya Saman
Thanks Warren and Michael! :-) On Sun, 12 Sep 2010, Kaya Saman wrote: The thing I don't quite understand though is that if the ports tree gets refreshed, do the packages get upgraded or will I need to rebuild them?? The ports tree is just build instructions, so updating it doesn't update

Re: 8.1 memstick installation

2010-09-12 Thread Morgan Wesström
2010/8/23 Morgan Wesströmfreebsd-questi...@pp.dyndns.biz: On 2010-08-23 19:34, Friedemann Becker wrote: Hello, I have some questions about an installation on a memorystick. I have (a few weeks still) a very poor internet connection at home that's unusable for anything beyond email. I tried

Re: fsck reports errors on clean filesystem (mounted rw)

2010-09-12 Thread Robert Bonomi
From owner-freebsd-questi...@freebsd.org Fri Sep 10 17:51:18 2010 From: cronfy cro...@gmail.com Date: Sat, 11 Sep 2010 02:27:46 +0400 To: freebsd-questions freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: fsck reports errors on clean filesystem (mounted rw) Hello. I ran fsck on my filesystems

Re: fsck reports errors on clean filesystem (mounted rw)

2010-09-12 Thread Bruce Cran
On Sun, 12 Sep 2010 16:16:53 -0500 (CDT) Robert Bonomi bon...@mail.r-bonomi.com wrote: There are exactly _four_ possible causes of file-system inconsistencies. 1) You can have an unexpected loss of power, where the CPU stops working before it as time to write the above-mentioned

Services do not start at boot

2010-09-12 Thread Arnaud Bergeron
I have a FreeBSD 8.0-RELEASE installation with a UFS root and a ZFS pool for data and users. I have a couple of ports installed (netatalk, mediatomb) to share the content of the ZFS pool along with sharing it over NFS. After a fresh boot, the NFS shares do not work, mediatomb is not up and

Re: sysinstall vs gmirror

2010-09-12 Thread perryh
Matthew Seaman m.sea...@infracaninophile.co.uk wrote: On 12/09/2010 05:09:04, per...@pluto.rain.com wrote: How do I get sysinstall to recognize a gmirror? ... I don't think sysinstall will do what you want. It certainly has been less than totally cooperative so far :( However, what is

Re: ipfw fwd and ipfw allow

2010-09-12 Thread Victor Sudakov
per...@pluto.rain.com wrote: ... the 'fwd ... keep-state' statement does create a useful dynamic rule. It contradicts the ipfw(8) man page but works ... Hopefully someone who understands all this will submit a patch for the man page :) The man page says that the Dynamic rules will be

Re: sysinstall vs gmirror

2010-09-12 Thread Adam Vande More
On Sun, Sep 12, 2010 at 11:14 PM, per...@pluto.rain.com wrote: The part I don't know how to do is partitioning gm0 by hand. (I suppose it would require some sort of arcane incantations involving bsdlabel.) For all its limitations, sysinstall seems at least to know how to translate a