Re: iwi-firmware-kmod port

2009-04-14 Thread Bruce Cran
kernel config file. -- Bruce Cran ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org

Re: How big can a tar file get?

2009-04-06 Thread Bruce Cran
with files up to 128TB. However traditional tar only supports up to 8GB while the newer ustar format goes up to 64GB. It seems that at least on 7.x tar creates ustar archives by default. -- Bruce Cran ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http

Re: Question about forcing fsck at boottime

2009-04-05 Thread Bruce Cran
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Re: Build/Install world via ssh

2009-04-01 Thread Bruce Cran
because you could be left with a broken system if something does go wrong. -- Bruce Cran ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr

Re: Question about forcing fsck at boottime

2009-03-31 Thread Bruce Cran
, this was simply a matter of editing /etc/rc.sysinit. Things seem a bit more complicated in the BSD world. Can somebody please point me in the right direction ? I found this from a post last year: echo '/sbin/fsck -y -f' /etc/rc.early -- Bruce Cran

Re: Why?? (prog question)

2009-03-31 Thread Bruce Cran
overflowed); -- Bruce Cran ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org

Re: [perl] sysopen(CD, /dev/cd0, O_RDONLY | O_NONBLOCK) fails

2009-03-27 Thread Bruce Cran
with and without atapicam. So it sounds like the OP is aware of the different device nodes created with and without atapicam, has checked he has permission to access the appropriate device and has come across a problem with perl itself. -- Bruce Cran

Re: [perl] sysopen(CD, /dev/cd0, O_RDONLY | O_NONBLOCK) fails

2009-03-26 Thread Bruce Cran
works on FreeBSD: perl use POSIX; sysopen(CD,/dev/acd0, O_RDONLY|O_NONBLOCK) || perror(sysopen) and before I fixed the permissions: perl use POSIX; sysopen(CD,/dev/acd0, O_RDONLY|O_NONBLOCK) || perror(sysopen) sysopen: Permission denied -- Bruce Cran

Re: [perl] sysopen(CD, /dev/cd0, O_RDONLY | O_NONBLOCK) fails

2009-03-26 Thread Bruce Cran
get if you use atapicam (ATAPI is SCSI over ATA from what I remember) - for example cdrecord has traditionally used it when writing CDs. Apparently the OP has the issue both when using atapicam (/dev/cd0) and the normal ata node /dev/acd0. -- Bruce Cran

Re: updated world to CURRENT, how to update ports to CURRENT?

2009-03-24 Thread Bruce Cran
cvs mainline, and the only way to go back to a branch (e.g RELENG_5_5_0) is by using csup, which you would only really want to do if you're using a release of FreeBSD which has gone out of support, such as 5.x. -- Bruce Cran ___ freebsd-questions

Re: utility that scans lan for client?

2009-03-24 Thread Bruce Cran
to broadcast ping, which appears to be usually disabled nowadays. At least on FreeBSD 7.1 net.inet.icmp.bmcastecho defaults to 0. -- Bruce Cran ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions

Re: What does df command use to get Used column?

2009-03-12 Thread Bruce Cran
On Thu, 12 Mar 2009 15:59:54 -0700 (PDT) Peter Steele pste...@maxiscale.com wrote: A typical df command looks like this: # df -h Filesystem Size Used Avail Capacity Mounted on /dev/mirror/gm0a 4.8G 2.0G 2.4G 46% / devfs 1.0K 1.0K 0B 100% /dev linprocfs 4.0K 4.0K 0B 100% /proc

Re: where is gtk+-2?

2009-02-28 Thread Bruce Cran
On Sat, 28 Feb 2009 11:10:01 -0800 (PST) gahn ipfr...@yahoo.com wrote: Which is the package gtk+-2 located under /usr/ports? /usr/ports/x11-toolkits/gtk20 -- Bruce Cran ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman

Re: kernel compile problems

2009-02-21 Thread Bruce Cran
: make buildkernel KERNCONF=configfile Leave the KERNCONF out to build GENERIC. See http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en/books/handbook/kernelconfig-building.html for more details. -- Bruce Cran ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http

Re: USB Hard disk with LUKS AES encryption regarding.

2009-02-12 Thread Bruce Cran
On Thu, 12 Feb 2009 10:17:38 +0100 (CET) Wojciech Puchar woj...@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl wrote: i don't know what's LUKS AES but it sound like something proprietary, so unless LUKS AES software for FreeBSD exist you can't do it I'd not heard of it either but apparently LUKS is the Linux

Re: Bios chip update suggestions

2009-02-11 Thread Bruce Cran
that the flash program wanted to load an unsigned driver - I had to boot into XP using the CD because Vista x64 blocked the driver. Once booted from the CD you can access the Internet and see local drives. -- Bruce Cran ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing

Re: How to compile a network driver given source code

2009-02-08 Thread Bruce Cran
doesn't seem to be used any more: modules are put into /boot/kerneldir which is /boot/kernel by default. -- Bruce Cran ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail

Re: RTL8201 not explicitly in 7.1 / 2nd POSTING

2009-02-07 Thread Bruce Cran
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Re: system time on top output

2009-02-05 Thread Bruce Cran
On Thu, 5 Feb 2009 00:00:35 +0200 Omer Faruk Sen omerf...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, I have a running pgsql server but on heavy loads it consumes lots of time in system (more than %50). I can see that CPU states: 15.4% user, 0.0% nice, 81.9% system, 1.5% interrupt, 1.2% idle But how can I

Re: Question about install of Fortran compiler

2009-01-28 Thread Bruce Cran
, i already installed c compiler, but calling g77 wouldn't work. Any help anyone could provide ? With the import of GCC 4.2 the Fortran compiler was removed from the base system a few versions ago. There are several in the ports system you can install instead. -- Bruce Cran

Re: Laptop battery life on FreeBSD

2009-01-27 Thread Bruce Cran
: acpi0 dev.cpu.0.freq: 533 dev.cpu.0.freq_levels: 533/-1 266/-1 dev.cpu.0.cx_supported: C1/0 C2/90 C3/900 dev.cpu.0.cx_lowest: C1 dev.cpu.0.cx_usage: 100.00% 0.00% 0.00% -- Bruce Cran ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org

Re: hex editors, disk info

2009-01-25 Thread Bruce Cran
/usr/bin/hd? It seems it doesn't have any problem opening disk devices. -- Bruce Cran ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr

Re: Last q of '08...

2008-12-31 Thread Bruce Cran
On Wed, 31 Dec 2008 16:43:53 -0800 Gary Kline kl...@thought.org wrote: is there a C-beauitful//reformatter in ports? need one Badly!! It's not in ports, but /usr/bin/indent reformats C code. -- Bruce Cran ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing

Re: local copy of handbook

2008-12-29 Thread Bruce Cran
connection is down ;) Are the docs branched? I tried running a csup with tag=RELENG_7 and nothing got created; changing the line doc-all to doc-all tag=. fixed it and fetched all the docs. -- Bruce Cran ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing

Re: local copy of handbook

2008-12-29 Thread Bruce Cran
doc-supfile which will contain the correct tag line. -- Bruce Cran ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org

Re: Wireless router?

2008-12-27 Thread Bruce Cran
to VxWorks. Probably because they realised they could get away with less memory and a slower CPU because code runs more efficiently on VxWorks vs. Linux on the same hardware. Of course it also provides fewer features than Linux, so I'd prefer a Linux-based router over VxWorks. -- Bruce Cran

Re: Persistent Kernel Variables

2008-12-25 Thread Bruce Cran
set? How can I fix it. I think it's something that has to be set later during boot, via /etc/sysctl.conf. I tried setting it through /boot/loader.conf and it didn't work but there's no problem setting it once the system has booted. -- Bruce Cran

Re: Perl 5.10?

2008-12-25 Thread Bruce Cran
on it. It's one of the first things installed during an initial ports installation though. -- Bruce Cran ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd

Re: FreeBSD cannot power down

2008-12-06 Thread Bruce Cran
during poweroff_wait but I can't see where ACPI is told to remove power. You might get more help by asking on the freebsd-acpi list. -- Bruce Cran ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd

Re: Performance benchmarks pitting FreeBSD against Windows

2008-12-05 Thread Bruce Cran
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Re: what is umtxn

2008-12-05 Thread Bruce Cran
On Sat, Dec 06, 2008 at 03:36:29AM +, RW wrote: What's procstat? find isn't finding it, neither is make search in ports. It's a new utility that was introduced into -CURRENT in the past year and seems to have been MFC'd at least to 7.x. It should be in /usr/bin -- Bruce Cran

Re: To swap or not to swap

2008-12-04 Thread Bruce Cran
; however the current behaviour seems good to me. -- Bruce Cran ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: FreeBSD and hardware??

2008-12-02 Thread Bruce Cran
about GVFS are able to see the files. -- Bruce Cran ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Swapping to MMC (Was: To swap or not to swap)

2008-12-02 Thread Bruce Cran
even more than usual. -- Bruce Cran ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: large binary, why not strip ?

2008-11-27 Thread Bruce Cran
it couldn't find any data. -- Bruce Cran ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: FreeBSD and hardware??

2008-11-19 Thread Bruce Cran
. good to know. Actually, I think it is. See http://www.joelonsoftware.com/items/2006/11/21.html for the reasoning. -- Bruce Cran ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions

Re: FreeBSD and hardware??

2008-11-18 Thread Bruce Cran
go wrong too, in trying to cater for two types of users at once and possibly failing both. I think beginners might actually be better off using one of the simpler window managers like Window Maker which have fewer items on the screen with simple rules to get things done. -- Bruce Cran

Re: re changing from vista

2008-11-17 Thread Bruce Cran
doesn't work, you can generally just build a new kernel - without including it. If it's user-space you don't like - well, that's a problem with the distribution, not linux itself. -- Bruce Cran ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http

Re: Official FreeBSD Forums

2008-11-16 Thread Bruce Cran
On Sun, 16 Nov 2008 22:56:28 +0100 (CET) Wojciech Puchar [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Having a larger user-base is definitely a good thing. That means attracting NO IT IS NOT! Well, it sounds like Minix may be gaining a new user soon then ;) -- Bruce Cran

Re: Sluggish scheduling during a long disk copy

2008-11-09 Thread Bruce Cran
be happening here too. -- Bruce Cran ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: uhub0: device problem

2008-11-05 Thread Bruce Cran
. The first step would probably be to let people see what sort of hardware you have: could you post the output of the dmesg command please? -- Bruce Cran ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd

Re: garmin forerunner 305

2008-11-04 Thread Bruce Cran
On Tue, Nov 04, 2008 at 08:28:05AM -0500, Bob McConnell wrote: On Behalf Of Bruce Cran On Thu, 4 Sep 2008 20:24:02 +0100 Bruce Cran [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, 4 Sep 2008 11:51:33 -0300 Joey Mingrone [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Has anyone had any success collecting data from

Re: garmin forerunner 305

2008-11-04 Thread Bruce Cran
On Tue, 04 Nov 2008 14:57:14 +0300 Boris Samorodov [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Bruce Cran [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I don't know if it'll work with the usb stack that's in shipping version of FreeBSD though, and even with the new stack I had to make a change to libgpsusb.c in gpsbabel

Re: /etc/src.conf WITHOUT_PROFILE=yes

2008-11-04 Thread Bruce Cran
libc.so and libc_p.so - the _p version is the profiled version. The only problem I can see with disabling it using WITHOUT_PROFILE is that unless you remove the _p libraries they'll become stale over time. -- Bruce Cran ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org

Re: garmin forerunner 305

2008-11-03 Thread Bruce Cran
On Thu, 4 Sep 2008 20:24:02 +0100 Bruce Cran [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, 4 Sep 2008 11:51:33 -0300 Joey Mingrone [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, Has anyone had any success collecting data from a Garmin Forerunner 305? When I connect the device I see the kernel messages: Sep

Re: Is KDE4 usable on FreeBSD?

2008-11-02 Thread Bruce Cran
it. -- Bruce Cran ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Is KDE4 usable on FreeBSD?

2008-11-01 Thread Bruce Cran
getting in your way it's still easy to change a few settings to turn it off. -- Bruce Cran ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: the age old 3D hardware question

2008-10-25 Thread Bruce Cran
On Sat, 25 Oct 2008, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 20081025 10:18:01, Wojciech Puchar wrote: I'm looking to buy a new workstation that needs to be able to run in 64-bit (long) mode (working with large data sets). What are my options for 3D acceleration without binary drivers? My needs are

Re: GCC help

2008-10-23 Thread Bruce Cran
the base-system version. Can't you set $CC to gcc44 or whatever to make the ports system use a different version of gcc? -- Bruce Cran ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions

Re: High Performance Computing Mini-Cluster

2008-10-21 Thread Bruce Cran
://2007.asiabsdcon.org/papers/P02-slides.pdf and the paper is at http://2007.asiabsdcon.org/papers/P02-paper.pdf -- Bruce Cran ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any

Binding SCTP sockets to the IPv6 lopback address

2008-10-15 Thread Bruce Cran
over IPv6 loopback? The code I'm running calls getaddrinfo with the hints to set AF_UNSPEC, SOCK_STREAM, AI_PASSIVE and then it calls bind with the protocol set to IPPROTO_SCTP. -- Bruce Cran ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http

Re: Questions drivers for VGA and NIC

2008-10-03 Thread Bruce Cran
is requesting. Sorry - wrong list. Try: http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-hackers/2006-June/016995.html There's also http://wiki.freebsd.org/NvidiaFeatureRequests -- Bruce Cran ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list

Re: pf question

2008-09-09 Thread Bruce Cran
it, and neither does pfctl -d; pfctl -e. Is there a way to do it besides rebooting? /etc/rc.d/pf reload -- Bruce Cran ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any

Re: garmin forerunner 305

2008-09-04 Thread Bruce Cran
#3: Thu Jun 12 18:47:50 ADT 2008 [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/xxx i386 Unfortunately Garmin use their own protocol for communicating between the GPS and the PC. Under Linux it's supported by the garmin_gps driver but there's no equivalent for FreeBSD yet. -- Bruce Cran

Re: Closing the terminal results in closing of application started by the terminal even if the processes is backgrounded

2008-08-23 Thread Bruce Cran
commands. Another possibility would be to use detach (from the ports), but this program is usually used when you want to keep running a program after you've logged out. There's also nohup(1) which I think does the same thing. -- Bruce Cran

Re: Intermittent -- yet regular -- v6.3 kernel panic

2008-06-14 Thread Bruce Cran
On Sat, 14 Jun 2008 01:24:07 -0500 Ryan Coleman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Ryan Coleman wrote: Kris Kennaway wrote: Bruce Cran wrote: On Fri, 13 Jun 2008 14:49:29 -0500 Ryan Coleman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Jun 12 23:02:41 UnixBox2 kernel: Fatal trap 12: page fault while in kernel

Re: Intermittent -- yet regular -- v6.3 kernel panic

2008-06-13 Thread Bruce Cran
device then when the system crashes a crash dump will be written to /var/crash by default. You then run kgdb on the file to get the backtrace. -- Bruce Cran signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: Status of KDE4

2008-05-19 Thread Bruce Cran
Derek Graham wrote: Just curious when KDE4 is going to be officialy in the port tree and if there is any word on running KDE3 and KDE4 together? I want to try it out but want to hear what others got to say about installing it and if there is a good guide to doing it? I believe the current

Re: time drift

2008-05-15 Thread Bruce Cran
Volker Jahns wrote: On Thu, May 15, 2008 at 09:53:02PM +0200, Volker Jahns wrote: On Thu, May 15, 2008 at 12:18:57PM -0700, Chuck Swiger wrote: On May 15, 2008, at 11:57 AM, Volker Jahns wrote: FreeBSD 6.2 running on X86 hardware (FSC) shows a remarkable time drift running ntpdate every

Re: does make buildworld/buildkernel require you to root

2008-05-07 Thread Bruce Cran
Aryeh M. Friedman wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 does make buildworld/buildkernel require you to root? I know installX does but build? No, you can build kernel, world and ports as an ordinary user as long as permissions on the build directories are configured

Re: Firewalls

2008-04-28 Thread Bruce Cran
Doug Hardie wrote: FreeBSD supports 3 firewalls: IPF, IPFW, and PF. Some time ago (perhaps years) I seem to recall some discussion that one or more of those was better maintained and higher quality than the others. I don't see any indications of this in the handbook. Several years ago I

Re: RAM Swap Speed

2008-04-21 Thread Bruce Cran
Jon Radel wrote: herbert langhans wrote: Hi Daemons, recently I had to add some more RAM on a workstation. Was 512MB before and is 2GB now, the reason was to give some graphic apps more space. But to my surprise the workstation ran faster--but before adding RAM it did NOT make use of the

Re: determining what's in the base system

2008-04-21 Thread Bruce Cran
Chad Perrin wrote: On Tue, Apr 15, 2008 at 04:35:52PM -0700, Luke Dean wrote: For the second question, I've always assumed that /COPYRIGHT applied to everything in the base system. I'm pretty sure GCC is in the base system (for instance), and it's GPL software. There's no mention of it in

Re: Why are some linux users saying that FreeBSD is dying

2008-04-08 Thread Bruce Cran
E. J. Cerejo wrote: Pollywog wrote: On Tuesday 08 April 2008 21:32:01 E. J. Cerejo wrote: FreeBSD is a dying OS because netcraft.com confirms it that's the argument used some of these guys, and I'm wondering what data are they using to make their point! Even netcraft is running FreeBSD and

Re: disable periodic scripts

2008-03-30 Thread Bruce Cran
Warner Lambert wrote: Hi How can I disable those nightly/monthly/... periodic scripts? I don't need them, these days professional monitoring software such as nagios is used to monitor 200+ systems. I can't read 200 mails showing me hundreds of lines of output even if nothings happening. Am I

Re: Powerpc port

2008-03-24 Thread Bruce Cran
K. Bradford wrote: I have installed 7.0-RELEASE on an old Mac G4. I have cvs'ed the latest sources (using the RELENG_7 tag) in order to track 7.0-STABLE. The problem: I can boot only off the FreeBSD install CD, by breaking into open firmware upon bootup like this: 0 boot mac-io/[EMAIL

Re: virtual machine software

2008-03-22 Thread Bruce Cran
Jim Stapleton wrote: I need to get a VM work for XP. I tried QEmu, but XP wouldn't install. I wouldn't mind VMWare, but I want to run it under trial first if possible. Any documents/suggestions that anyone can point me to? Thanks, -Jim Stapleton There's also VMWare Server, which is free. --

Re: virtual machine software

2008-03-22 Thread Bruce Cran
Jim Stapleton wrote: Really? And runs on FreeBSD (or does it use Linux Compat?) I don't think any modern versions of VMWare run on FreeBSD - the version in ports is 3.x. -- Bruce On Sat, Mar 22, 2008 at 8:27 AM, Bruce Cran [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Jim Stapleton wrote: I need to get

Re: virtual machine software

2008-03-22 Thread Bruce Cran
Jim Stapleton wrote: Sorry, QEmu crashes when I try to boot the CD. Same happens with Bochs. -Jim Stapleton If it crashes with 'Bad system call' make sure you have aio support loaded. I missed it when I recently installed it, but the pkg-message does mention it: - qemu now uses aio at

Re: ifconfig gif0 and rc.conf [was: Re: IP packet with options]

2008-03-22 Thread Bruce Cran
Malcolm Clarke wrote: We are trying to configure an IPv6 tunnel for IPSec, ie IPv6 in IPv6. The command line would be ifconfig gif0 inet6 tunnel src-addr dst_addr (IPv6 addresses) There appears to be no equivalent line for rc.conf. Regards Malcolm To configure an if_gif interface for IPv6

Re: Web Site Mistype

2008-03-20 Thread Bruce Cran
Alexis Megas wrote: Hello, The page http://www.freebsd.org/java/dists/16.html has a date mistype (November 15, 2008). Thanks! freebsd-www@ is the mailing list which deals with errors on the FreeBSD web pages - I've cc'd them. -- Bruce

Re: Unable to reboot with 7.0 release candidates and -RELEASE on AMD64

2008-03-07 Thread Bruce Cran
Patrick C wrote: I am having issues getting a new machine with 7 to reboot and power down. The machine uses a SuperMicro X7DCL-3 and there are two quad-core processors installed. Upon issuing a reboot or power off, the machine hangs immediately after displaying the Uptime statement. I have

Re: FreeBSD 7.0

2008-02-27 Thread Bruce Cran
Maxim Khitrov wrote: On Wed, Feb 27, 2008 at 8:57 AM, Kris Kennaway [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Rudi Kramer - MWEB wrote: I did some digging and found it on the main ftp server: ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/ISO-IMAGES-i386/7.0/ Rudi People always try to get the jump on the

Re: Unable to compile anything from ports

2008-02-23 Thread Bruce Cran
Jasvinder S. Bahra wrote: It has a Via CPU? Comment that option and try again. Mel, It does indeed have a Via cpu. The box is running on a VIA EPIA EK 8000EG motherboard (which has a CPU integrated into it). If I run cat /var/log/dmesg.today | grep CPU, I get... CPU: VIA C3 Nehemiah+RNG+AES

Re: X86 cpu without a FPU - Vortex86sx

2008-02-17 Thread Bruce Cran
Doug C wrote: I am trying to build FreeBSD 5.5 or 6.3 to run on a board that uses the DMP Vortex86sx SOC. This chip looks like a 486sx, no FPU. Is there a way to make a build that uses software emulation for the FPU, like the old days? I do not see anything in the .cong file that helps. I am

Re: Virtualization using FreeBSD and AMD-V

2008-02-13 Thread Bruce Cran
Vinicius Vianna wrote: Hi folks, I wanna setup a home server to make some lab work, in a simple way just throw some different distributions and test they, like bsd systems and linux/solaris also. Currently I'm doing this running Xen on linux, but i wanna to use FreeBSD to use pf and a more

Re: JOSEF VESELY; www.freebsd.org access problem

2008-02-09 Thread Bruce Cran
Martin Solar wrote: I have problem access your web www.freebsd.org http://www.freebsd.org/ from couple of my real virtual computers (VMWARE + WIN XP) I have this problem only with Opera browser. Other browsers are working. Which browser are you using ? I think there might be an issue with

Re: Desktop Performance Tuning?

2008-02-08 Thread Bruce Cran
Dominic Fandrey wrote: Bruce Cran wrote: Wojciech Puchar wrote: disabling SMP, but it didn't help. There have been threads on the stable list about jerky mouse performance, which may be part of this, but I have really followed it closely. I'm also wondering whether this might be due to some

Re: Desktop Performance Tuning?

2008-02-07 Thread Bruce Cran
Wojciech Puchar wrote: disabling SMP, but it didn't help. There have been threads on the stable list about jerky mouse performance, which may be part of this, but I have really followed it closely. I'm also wondering whether this might be due to some xorg or other port change from late 2007

Re: VM Options

2008-01-24 Thread Bruce Cran
Jack Barnett wrote: Robert Eckardt wrote: It depends on what you want to do. To clarify, I would like to run Windows XP at least VMWare runs WinXP beautifully - but unfortunately VMWare doesn't well under FreeBSD. Last time I tried Qemu it was fairly slow. So Jail, Qemu and VMWare

Re: How manu swap ?

2008-01-16 Thread Bruce Cran
on recent releases of FreeBSD? -- Bruce Cran ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: G5 Install

2008-01-12 Thread Bruce Cran
release? Thanks, Steve According to a recent post on ppc@ (http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-ppc/2007-December/002527.html) FreeBSD doesn't run on G5/PPC970 hardware. -- Bruce Cran ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http

Re: amd64 native boot loader?

2007-12-22 Thread Bruce Cran
snowcrash+freebsd wrote: hi, i've FBSD/amd64 62Rp9 installed. kernel world are my own builds from latest cvsup. on boot I see: FreeBSD/i386 bootstrap loader odd. i'd expect a native loader ... checking in, /usr/src/sys/boot ls Makefile alpha/arm/ efi/ forth/

Re: rough method of cleaning the ports tree

2007-12-19 Thread Bruce Cran
Aryeh M. Friedman wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Erich Dollansky wrote: Hi, after noticing how large my ports tree grows while compiling, I thought of simply deleting it and do a CVSup to get a new one after the compilation is finished. This should be much faster and

Re: what is /dev/xpt0/

2007-12-13 Thread Bruce Cran
Gary Kline wrote: this probably is irrelevant to 90% of the list, but it's got me wondering. can anybody 'splain what kind of SCSI device xpt0 is? Is there a /dev/xpt1 if you're running a second optical drive/ thanks, gary It's the CAM transport layer

Re: Upper limit on make -j ?

2007-11-28 Thread Bruce Cran
Brian wrote: Isn't 1000 an unrealistically high value? Brian On a system with only 2 cores and 2GB RAM - yes. I'm not sure that even with a huge number of cores you'd get much benefit from running such a massively parallel make, unless the build system is more intelligent than I think it

Re: Upper limit on make -j ?

2007-11-27 Thread Bruce Cran
Pieter de Goeje wrote: On Tuesday 27 November 2007, Andy Greenwood wrote: Aryeh Friedman wrote: Before I file a PR I just want to know if it is worth it to file a PR for: make -j1000 buildworld buildkernel installkernel seg faulting I thought that the kernel builds couldn't be built using

Re: Strange kernel log message

2007-11-26 Thread Bruce Cran
Giorgos Keramidas wrote: On 2007-11-26 09:58, Ceri Davies [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: So I have this in my security run output: kernel log messages: +++ /tmp/security.hLYJI0kF Sun Nov 25 03:01:02 2007 +NNNMNMMIII M III SIISAS SAAA 3 303,020,0 ,, EE IEIIESSSAIAA S A f ff + + +f

Re: How to set maximum disk cache size?

2007-11-16 Thread Bruce Cran
Ivan Voras wrote: On 16/11/2007, Laszlo Nagy [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Ivan Voras wrote: http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/arch-handbook/vm-fileio.html I read this too but I don't understand. Too difficult for me. So what is the answer? Do I need to set a sysctl or will

Re: How to set maximum disk cache size?

2007-11-15 Thread Bruce Cran
Wojciech Puchar wrote: Laszlo wrote: Hi All, Is there a way (sysctl?) to tell FreeBSD (6.2 RELEASE) how many memory can it use for caching file data from disk? It might be that FreeBSD will use all available RAM, and reduce the cache it already does It may seem strange since it's

Re: Socket programming question

2007-11-14 Thread Bruce Cran
Derek Ragona wrote: With internet sockets, these get added to the TCP stack, and their are kernel structures created too I'm sure, but I have no idea how to find those. Netstat will show sockets in use though. sockstat(1) might also be useful as it shows information about what program

Re: vim doesn't preserve the terminal content

2007-11-02 Thread Bruce Cran
Jerry McAllister wrote: On Fri, Nov 02, 2007 at 02:29:47PM -0700, Yuri wrote: I use vim both on Linux and FreeBSD. On Linux after I exit vim original screen content is restored. On FreeBSD vim leaves the last content viewed in vim. How do I make vim preserve the screen? I don't know how to

Re: nvidia display driver on amd64

2007-10-30 Thread Bruce Cran
Yuri Pankov wrote: On Mon, 2007-10-29 at 22:32 +, Tino Engel wrote: Dear all, Does anyone see any chance to get the nvidia display driver (with OpenGL support) set up on amd64? Or someone has even succeded? The ports driver tell me they are only for i386, the downloaded driver from

Re: CPU usage 100% but no process hogging CPU

2007-10-27 Thread Bruce Cran
Gunther Mayer wrote: Hi there, I'm having some capacity issues on the FreeBSD 6.2/Core 2 Duo/2GB RAM server that I manage. For quite a few days now it constantly shows load averages of around 1 and a CPU usage of around 100%. Yet summing up the CPU usage of the individual processes running I

Re: Rebuilding world

2007-10-27 Thread Bruce Cran
Aryeh M. Friedman wrote: Roberth Sjonøy wrote: Hello, i am updating FreeBSD to 8-CURRENT, and im at the 23.4.1 The Canonical Way to Update Your System part of the handbook, when running make buildworld, this occours: Before anyone gets on my friends case he is using 6.2 (i386) with the

Re: First panic in 7.0-BETA1 on i386

2007-10-24 Thread Bruce Cran
Kris Kennaway wrote: Doug Poland wrote: I'd like to report the details but I'm unfamiliar with the process. Should I post here on -questions or on -current mailing list? -stable. I know 7-BETA1 is currently in a region somewhere between -current and -stable but I thought the -current list

Re: Can't overwrite a particular swap partition

2007-10-24 Thread Bruce Cran
RW wrote: I have two swap partitions, ad4s1b is part of my main slice, and ad6s1b is on a second drive. The permissions are the same, but I can't overwrite the second one. The same thing happens whether I use swapoff or reboot into single user mode. What's the difference? # dd if=/dev/random

Re: Mentor for C self study wanted

2007-10-23 Thread Bruce Cran
' expects type 'int *', but argument 2 has type 'short int *' -- Bruce Cran ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Mentor for C self study wanted

2007-10-23 Thread Bruce Cran
cpghost wrote: There's a mismatch here: scanf(%d, ...) expects a pointer to int, while nnote is a pointer to a short. Normally, an int occupies more bytes in memory than a short (typically sizeof(int) == 4 on 32bit platforms, and sizeof(int) == 8 on 64bit platforms; while typically

Re: Rebuilding world

2007-10-21 Thread Bruce Cran
? It's very very new and will probably break in many ways in the coming months. You almost certainly want to be running 7-BETA1 (from the RELENG_7 branch) which is current at BETA1 stage - HEAD recently changed from 7-CURRENT to become 8-CURRENT. -- Bruce Cran

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