David Jackson wrote:
I am still having severe problems with severe system instabilities with
FreeBSD and have had these problrms in 7.1 and 8.0. The system randomly
locks up, it appears applications lock up when they access the USb disk.
Also, when accessing the USB disk, the entire system lock
doug schmidt wrote:
On Mon, Mar 8, 2010 at 7:42 AM, Lars Hartmann wrote:
Hi,
i have a acer aspire one with no oprating system it has
no cd drive would i be possible to download a redy top use
version of software so i could boot form a memory stick?
(i have no other computer to unlock t
Alexander Motin wrote:
Chris Whitehouse wrote:
Dan Naumov wrote:
CPU-performance-wise, I am not really worried. The current system is
an Atom 330 and even that is a bit overkill for what I do with it and
from what I am seeing, the new Atom D510 used on those boards is a
tiny bit faster. What I
Dan Naumov wrote:
CPU-performance-wise, I am not really worried. The current system is
an Atom 330 and even that is a bit overkill for what I do with it and
from what I am seeing, the new Atom D510 used on those boards is a
tiny bit faster. What I want and care about for this system are
reliabil
Warren Block wrote:
On Sat, 23 Jan 2010, Chris Whitehouse wrote:
...
That makes me think ad4p2 is HFS or HFS+ so I installed hfsexplorer
(http://hem.bredband.net/catacombae/hfsx.html) and it tells me ad4p2
is an invalid HFS type.
So try a few other things
eco# mount /dev/ad4p2 /mnt
mount
Hi
I have a 120gb SATA disk with the following>
eco# fdisk ad4
*** Working on device /dev/ad4 ***
parameters extracted from in-core disklabel are:
cylinders=232581 heads=16 sectors/track=63 (1008 blks/cyl)
Figures below won't work with BIOS for partitions not in cyl 1
parameters to be u
Uwe Laverenz wrote:
Am 08.01.2010 16:43, schrieb Anselm Strauss:
chips. I can't find real evidence on the supported hardware list
whether the
following chipsets are really working with FreeBSD 8.0 or not. Maybe
I have an Asus "M4A785TD-M EVO" running with RELENG_8 and it works fine.
There i
Warren Block wrote:
On Sat, 2 Jan 2010, Paul Shi wrote:
I am working my way t setup a FTP server on FreeBSD however I got
stuck at
the very first stage - installation of FreeBSD 8.0.
I downloaded FreeBSD 8.0-RELEASE-i386-dvd1.iso from FreeBSD.org and
burned
it with NERO to a DVD-RW disc. Af
Gary Kline wrote:
On Fri, 25 Dec 2009 13:37:13 -0800, Gary Kline wrote:
at first I'm lookings for a "cots" (commericial, off-the-shelf)
solution. The XO has stereo speakers and so do the notebooks.
I am thinking of the 'PC speaker'; something that would sound for
around a
Hi all,
My motherboard has onboard nvidia GeForce 8300 graphics rated up to
1920x1080 (1080p). It has VGA, DVI and HDMI outputs. Are there any
issues using a 1920x1080 monitor with HDMI like LG electronics W2361V?
Eg would this mode need special drivers? Or should it all just work?
http://u
d...@safeport.com wrote:
On Thu, 17 Dec 2009, Pieter de Goeje wrote:
Xorg defaults to a black screen instead of a checkerboard pattern
these days.
You can revert to the old style with -retro flag to X .If things are
working you should see the old style screen with an X mouse pointer (if
ena
Manolis Kiagias wrote:
Polytropon wrote:
On Thu, 10 Dec 2009 19:47:08 +1100 (EST), Ian Smith
wrote:
But the naive or new installer knows of no such thing, and
could beat around in the huge lists of X software for ages, wondering
what's required and what's not to get a desktop going.
Polytropon wrote:
On Tue, 08 Dec 2009 20:24:36 +0100, ocean wrote:
also for the old computer i would recommend xfce or, since
you say they only need a few programs, you could go with
just Xorg + feh for the background + xfwm or openbox + a
light taskbar and a nice dock-bar (wbar or simdock) we
Warren Block wrote:
As far as GUI goes, there's good news and bad news. The good news is
that a couple GUI network managers are around:
sysutils/desktopbsd-tools includes a wireless network configurator
according to its pkg-descr, haven't used myself though.
Chris
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David Horn wrote:
Would it be an option to have sbp disabled by default in the install
CD's? Those without the problem can put sbp_load in loader.conf, those
with the problem will have to kldload it later but at least they will be
able to install.
As per svn and cvs:
r199112 | kensmith | 2009
Tim Judd wrote:
Any way via tunables, environment, sysctl or device hints that one can
disable firewire on the install medium of recent (7.2 and newer)
Install CD/DVDs?
more than one person is having problems with kernel panics on startup
due to firewire, and I can't google my way out of this on
vuthecuong wrote:
Hello, I am trying to install FreeBSD 8.0 rc2 on mobo ASUS P5QL-EM, but under
the boot of the install dvd I get this
run_interrupt_driven_hooks: still waiting after 60 seconds for xpt_config
and then 120, 180 etc.
Anyone know whats wrong?
thanks
http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/
Polytropon wrote:
On Sun, 08 Nov 2009 22:41:19 +, Chris Whitehouse wrote:
I have WITHOUT_ALSA=true in lxpanel's options and I have even changed
the line in lxpanel/Makefile:
eco# diff Makefile Makefile.original
31c31
< WITH_ALSA=off
---
WITH_ALSA=yes
Maybe that'
Hi
I am trying to build x11/lxde-meta in a 8.0RC2 tinderbox. lxpanel fails
because it depends on linux-alsa-lib. linux-alsa-lib fails because
eco# make
===> linux-alsa-lib-1.0.10.3_2 bsd.linux-rpm.mk test failed: default
package building at OSVERSION>=800076 was changed to linux-f10 ports,
plea
Chuck Swiger wrote:
Hi, Chris--
On Oct 26, 2009, at 3:43 PM, Chris Whitehouse wrote:
Some mailing lists I am on automatically insert the mailing list name
in square brackets into the subject line. I find this quite useful for
setting up filters in thunderbird to drop different lists into
Hi
Some mailing lists I am on automatically insert the mailing list name in
square brackets into the subject line. I find this quite useful for
setting up filters in thunderbird to drop different lists into different
'folders'
I couldn't see anything in my freebsd questions list account sett
Jamie Griffin wrote:
On Mon 26.Oct'09 at 13:17:56 +0300, Boris Samorodov wrote:
The port www/linux-f10-flashplugin needs linux -f10- ports. The latter
are defaults for FreeBSD-8.x and later. You can use them at 7.2
(7.2-STABLE is preferred). For more unformation take a look at
/usr/ports/UPDATIN
Henry Olyer wrote:
I need more information to make this work.
help, please. And thank you!
On Sat, Sep 26, 2009 at 8:27 AM, Chris Whitehouse wrote:
Jules Gilbert wrote:
now i got up (by doing the startx as root,) but i dont' have a working
mouse.
when I am in screen mode (normal, --
hi,
I just noticed this at
http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.1/en/automatic-start.html
On FreeBSD, startup scripts generally should go in /usr/local/etc/rc.d/.
The rc(8) manual page states that scripts in this directory are executed
only if their basename matches the *.sh shell file name pat
Warren Block wrote:
On Wed, 7 Oct 2009, Philip Jocks wrote:
BTW: is everyone else getting messages from the list twice, once with
the list's signature, once without?
Normal procedure on the FreeBSD mailing lists is to respond to the
message and CC the list (or vice versa) so replies are vis
Bill Campbell wrote:
On Sun, Sep 27, 2009, Dan Nelson wrote:
In the last episode (Sep 26), Chris Whitehouse said:
Hi all
Does anyone have experience of a LaCie Hard Disk, Design by Neil Poulton
eSATA, FireWire 400 & Hi-Speed USB 2.0 1TB ?
http://www.lacie.com/uk/products/product.htm
Hi all
Does anyone have experience of a LaCie Hard Disk, Design by Neil Poulton
eSATA, FireWire 400 & Hi-Speed USB 2.0 1TB ?
http://www.lacie.com/uk/products/product.htm?pid=11064
Are all the interfaces supported? The data sheet says it is supported
under Linux. Does that mean it is safe to as
Jules Gilbert wrote:
now i got up (by doing the startx as root,) but i dont' have a working mouse.
when I am in screen mode (normal, -- with no X.) when I move the
mouse, I can see the 'arrow' pointer move just fine.
So...
If you are running hald you probably need
option "AutoAddDe
Gary Kline wrote:
this is only to the few hundred of you guys who read the slice of my novel.
before i invest
another twenty minutes in it, i'd be much obliged how many of you would
actually buy th ebook.
WEll, either ebook of pod. please answer only offlist; i'm asking here because this is wh
Jerry wrote:
On Wed, 16 Sep 2009 11:18:39 +0200
"DA Forsyth" wrote:
[snip]
I saw someone ask about this in Google Groups on the 14th but he has
not got an answer yet, so I am not the only one.
How do I fix this?
You could try the following;
1) Update your ports tree.
including updating
Uwe Laverenz wrote:
Am 13.09.2009 14:11, schrieb Zbigniew Komarnicki:
run_interrupt_driven_hooks: still waiting after 60 seconds for xpt_config
run_interrupt_driven_hooks: still waiting after 120 seconds for
xpt_config
run_interrupt_driven_hooks: still waiting after 180 seconds for
xpt_config
Mel Flynn wrote:
On Sunday 06 September 2009 20:18:38 Chris Whitehouse wrote:
Thanks for the info. I read man ports, quite a lot of bsd.ports.mk plus
list archives
If you want to see the dynamically generated pkg-message of a *port*, before
building/installing it (f.e. to identify what
Randy Belk wrote:
On Sun, Sep 6, 2009 at 10:29 AM, Kalle
Møller wrote:
Looking for that feature to :)
On Sun, Sep 6, 2009 at 5:19 PM, Chris Whitehouse wrote:
Hello
Could someone remind of the make target for showing messages which are
displayed when installing ports please. I thought it
Hello
Could someone remind of the make target for showing messages which are
displayed when installing ports please. I thought it was some variant of
make showinfo but I can't find one that works. I am assuming that if
/files/pkg-message.in exists the this make target would show a result.
th
John Nielsen wrote:
On Wednesday 19 August 2009 12:17:10 Scott Schappell wrote:
In a parallel sort of thread to the current desktop thread, when I
installed FreeBSD 7.2 since I had plenty of disk space and memory I
installed X, however, I don't need it or really want it.
How can I pare that out
Gary Kline wrote:
Super! just offhand, can i install PCSD *over* thius FBSd
--7.1--? Keep /usr/home and so on? Or is PCBSD a
do-it-from-scratch? (I'm pretty much OS agnostic [[so long
as it's somethng like UNIX]], but here I know where things
live... With ubuntu,
Randi Harper wrote:
On Mon, Jul 13, 2009 at 3:56 PM, Chris Whitehouse wrote:
Hi,
This is from memory (brain not ram) and I can't recreate the steps for
reasons which will be obvious, so may not be entirely accurate.
I have a sata hard disk which is divided into 2 slices. Slice 1 (ad4s
Hi,
This is from memory (brain not ram) and I can't recreate the steps for
reasons which will be obvious, so may not be entirely accurate.
I have a sata hard disk which is divided into 2 slices. Slice 1 (ad4s1)
is about half the disk and had the remains of a standard install with
swap, / , /
Al Plant wrote:
Chris Whitehouse wrote:
Al Plant wrote:
Aloha,
I read that the kernel module ndis0 work with wireless devices.
Where do I get the original W32 driver.inf for the Broadcom 4310
wireless?
Either on a CD/DVD that came with the machine or the Broadcom Wireless
LAN Driver
Al Plant wrote:
Aloha,
I read that the kernel module ndis0 work with wireless devices.
Where do I get the original W32 driver.inf for the Broadcom 4310 wireless?
Either on a CD/DVD that came with the machine or the Broadcom Wireless
LAN Driver here if yours is HP 2133 Mini-Notebook
http://h
Sergio de Almeida Lenzi wrote:
Em Qua, 2009-07-01 às 22:40 +0100, Chris Whitehouse escreveu:
Yes you can.
put your kernel (the one that works) on a DVD/CD
assume that your rootfs on the HD is on ad0s1a, /usr is on /dev/ad0s1e
with all the /boot directory.
than boot from dvd/CD
with the HD on
Chris Whitehouse wrote:
Chris Whitehouse wrote:
I'm trying to install on a new motherboard ASUS M3N78-EM. While booting
from CD I'm getting
run_interrupts_driven_hooks: still waiting after 60 seconds for xpt_config
This is repeated a few times then installation stops and the mach
Hi all,
I cannot boot my motherboard with the default kernel on 7.2-RELEASE (or
any other iso's I have tried). It panics if device sbp is in the kernel.
So far I've got things working by putting the hard disk in another
machine, installed the OS and rebuilt a kernel without sbp, then
returned
RW wrote:
On Tue, 23 Jun 2009 22:21:21 +0100
Chris Whitehouse wrote:
RW wrote:
On Mon, 22 Jun 2009 20:58:41 +0100
Chris Whitehouse wrote:
I'll probably get flamed for this but since I've been using
ports-mgmt/portmanager I've almost forgotten
about /usr/ports/UPDATING and
dan wrote:
On Tuesday 23 June 2009 23:21:21 Chris Whitehouse wrote:
RW wrote:
On Mon, 22 Jun 2009 20:58:41 +0100
Chris Whitehouse wrote:
I'll probably get flamed for this but since I've been using
ports-mgmt/portmanager I've almost forgotten
about /usr/ports/UPDATING and all
Jerry wrote:
On Mon, 22 Jun 2009 20:58:41 +0100
Chris Whitehouse wrote:
I'll probably get flamed for this but since I've been using
ports-mgmt/portmanager I've almost forgotten
about /usr/ports/UPDATING and all that pkgdb -Fu stuff or whatever it
was. I've upgraded
RW wrote:
On Mon, 22 Jun 2009 20:58:41 +0100
Chris Whitehouse wrote:
I'll probably get flamed for this but since I've been using
ports-mgmt/portmanager I've almost forgotten
about /usr/ports/UPDATING and all that pkgdb -Fu stuff or whatever it
was. I've upgraded
ericr wrote:
On Sat, Jun 20, 2009 at 3:10 PM, Kent Stewart wrote:
On Saturday 20 June 2009 11:00:45 am ericr wrote:
Hi,
As the subject says, I can't get the 7.2-RELEASE i386 CD to boot on a
system that has:
Abit KV8 Pro (K8T800P-8237-6A7L1A1BC-26) motherboard with the most recent
BIOS - BIO
Chris Rees wrote:
2009/6/21 danny :
Hi list members ,
I frequently update the contents of the ports tree but I have never upgraded
any port. I am studying the way to do it, by following the handbook and an
article on The FreeBSD Diary about the use of portupgrade.
At the moment I am focuing the
Gary Kline wrote:
On Sun, Jun 21, 2009 at 12:42:00PM -0700, Gary Kline wrote:
On Sun, Jun 21, 2009 at 09:18:55AM -1000, Al Plant wrote:
i have another issue that has more to do with freebsd on the new and
lost cost notebook computers i had heard of. how many and which ones
work best with ou
Manish Jain wrote:
I forgot to mention that Windows installs and runs very smoothly on the
system.
Windows system information reports :
System ManufacturerGigabyte Technology Co., Ltd.
System ModelGA-MA78GM-US2H
snip
The only thing that strikes me as odd is that right-clicki
Manolis Kiagias wrote:
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-
Hash: SHA1
Hey all,
This is a continuation of the effort that started with this post:
http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-questions/2009-May/198284.html
This little project also found its way to Distrowatch Weekly news
(Thanks!)
Leslie Jensen wrote:
Hello list!
I try not to disturb the list unless I need to using the list archive to
find answers.
I've never been successful in searching the archives it always returns
No matches were found for ...
Now I see that the search index is not rebuild for a long tim
Paul B. Mahol wrote:
On 5/20/09, Chris Whitehouse wrote:
has this died a death? Anything else I can do? Should I file a PR?
Perhaps donate some money, not to me directly :) , file a PR, send card
with complete machine so that problem can be completly and promptly
explored and etc...
yes
Chris Whitehouse wrote:
Paul B. Mahol wrote:
On 5/13/09, Chris Whitehouse wrote:
Paul B. Mahol wrote:
On 5/12/09, Chris Whitehouse wrote:
Paul B. Mahol wrote:
Just typing bt on db prompt for now should be enough.
panic: sleeping thread
cpuid = 0
KDB: enter: panic
[thread pid 1497 tid
Chris Whitehouse wrote:
I can build a debug kernel on 7.2R or any recommended version onto a
spare hard disk and use it to boot this machine to get debugging info.
Much thanks
Chris
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Hi all
I'm trying to install on a new motherboard ASUS M3N78-EM. While booting
from CD I'm getting
run_interrupts_driven_hooks: still waiting after 60 seconds for xpt_config
This is repeated a few times then installation stops and the machine
stops responding.
I've tried various versions,
Paul B. Mahol wrote:
On 5/13/09, Chris Whitehouse wrote:
Paul B. Mahol wrote:
On 5/12/09, Chris Whitehouse wrote:
Paul B. Mahol wrote:
Just typing bt on db prompt for now should be enough.
panic: sleeping thread
cpuid = 0
KDB: enter: panic
[thread pid 1497 tid 100073 ]
Stopped at
Paul B. Mahol wrote:
On 5/12/09, Chris Whitehouse wrote:
Paul B. Mahol wrote:
Just typing bt on db prompt for now should be enough.
panic: sleeping thread
cpuid = 0
KDB: enter: panic
[thread pid 1497 tid 100073 ]
Stopped atkdb_enter+0x3a: movl$0,kdb_why
db> bt
Tracing pid 1497
Paul B. Mahol wrote:
Just typing bt on db prompt for now should be enough.
panic: sleeping thread
cpuid = 0
KDB: enter: panic
[thread pid 1497 tid 100073 ]
Stopped atkdb_enter+0x3a: movl$0,kdb_why
db> bt
Tracing pid 1497 tid 100073 td 0xc356c900
kdb_enter(c0c3d8fa,c0c3d8fa,c0c42726,d40
Paul B. Mahol wrote:
On 5/8/09, Chris Whitehouse wrote:
Paul B. Mahol wrote:
On 5/7/09, Chris Whitehouse wrote:
In the meantime I've tried the three possible drivers (XP, NT and an
unlabelled one). I've also installed a recent 8-current snapshot,
updated to latest source and b
firak jotawski wrote:
hi sirs,
apologized me for disturbing the list but i really have problem, X -config
/root/xorg.conf.new produce a black screen and die.
i attached my machine uname -a, my xorg packages installed, X -configure output
and its' configuration file.
any helps anf hints would
Paul B. Mahol wrote:
On 5/7/09, Chris Whitehouse wrote:
In the meantime I've tried the three possible drivers (XP, NT and an
unlabelled one). I've also installed a recent 8-current snapshot,
updated to latest source and built world, and tried the XP driver. Still
get interr
Tim Judd wrote:
I think project evil (ndis) requires a specific driver version, such as the
WinXP drivers versus the Vista or 2000 or anything else.
What drivers did you use? Any other drivers available on the manufacturer
website?
If you're not using XP, I recall reading that XP is the pre
Tim Judd wrote:
I think project evil (ndis) requires a specific driver version, such as the
WinXP drivers versus the Vista or 2000 or anything else.
What drivers did you use? Any other drivers available on the manufacturer
website?
If you're not using XP, I recall reading that XP is the pre
Paul B. Mahol wrote:
On 5/2/09, Paul B. Mahol wrote:
On 5/1/09, Chris Whitehouse wrote:
Paul B. Mahol wrote:
On 4/29/09, Chris Whitehouse wrote:
Hi all
I'm trying to get a Linksys WPC54Gv5 wireless pccard working. It has a
Marvell 8335 chip. I've created a module with ndisgen
Paul B. Mahol wrote:
On 4/29/09, Chris Whitehouse wrote:
Hi all
I'm trying to get a Linksys WPC54Gv5 wireless pccard working. It has a
Marvell 8335 chip. I've created a module with ndisgen and I can see
ndis0. When I up it with ifconfig I immediately get repeated messages:
Apr 2
Frederique Rijsdijk wrote:
Chris Whitehouse wrote:
I'm not getting any replies when searching the freebsd questions
archives at http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-questions/
That's the page I get to if I google "freebsd questions archives" (and
then a couple of
Hi all
I'm trying to get a Linksys WPC54Gv5 wireless pccard working. It has a
Marvell 8335 chip. I've created a module with ndisgen and I can see
ndis0. When I up it with ifconfig I immediately get repeated messages:
Apr 28 23:23:19 pcbsd kernel: interrupt storm detected on "irq11:";
throttl
I'm not getting any replies when searching the freebsd questions
archives at http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-questions/
That's the page I get to if I google "freebsd questions archives" (and
then a couple of clicks to get to the archives)
.
That page says the archives are rebuilt ev
Mel Flynn wrote:
On Monday 13 April 2009 03:56:15 Tim Judd wrote:
On Sun, Apr 12, 2009 at 5:10 PM, Chris Whitehouse wrote:
Hi
Is there a make target which will give a list of _all_ dependencies
recursively not just next level up? Or a port? I tried
ports-mgmt/pkg_tree but it only seems to
Graeme Dargie wrote:
My grandmother had a HP that just died too. My brother took the first stab
at it, describing it as a likely "DC-DC converter" problem, and I was seeing
indication of a bad seat on the CPU. It was working just fine and for the
CPU to become unseated is not likely. I tore
Hi
Is there a make target which will give a list of _all_ dependencies
recursively not just next level up? Or a port? I tried
ports-mgmt/pkg_tree but it only seems to work with installed ports.
I don't care if I get duplicates as long as every dependency is listed
at least once.
Thanks
Ch
Manolis Kiagias wrote:
Sure. I'll do a test run with XFCE and we can discuss details afterwards.
That's great, look forward to the results
Chris
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Glen Barber wrote:
Hi, Chris
On Sat, Apr 11, 2009 at 9:13 PM, Chris Whitehouse wrote:
Hi all
very sorry for this OT post, does anyone know of a good usenet or other
forum to ask about laptop hardware repair? My quite expensive and now
out-of-warranty HP laptop has suddenly become very dead
Chris Rees wrote:
2009/4/12 Chris Whitehouse :
Hi all
very sorry for this OT post, does anyone know of a good usenet or other
forum to ask about laptop hardware repair? My quite expensive and now
out-of-warranty HP laptop has suddenly become very dead and I'm in shock :((
Thanks
Hi all
very sorry for this OT post, does anyone know of a good usenet or other
forum to ask about laptop hardware repair? My quite expensive and now
out-of-warranty HP laptop has suddenly become very dead and I'm in shock :((
Thanks
Chris
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Manolis Kiagias wrote:
Chris Whitehouse wrote:
Hi guys,
When you have a minute please would you have a look at a proposal for
changes to the packages system I posted which is kind of a ports
equivalent of freebsd-update involving a 'ports-snapshot'.
The original post is
Glen Barber wrote:
Manolis,
Thanks again for taking the time for this.
[snip]
The site does not yet contain any other pages or info, as Glen is still
working on the web content.
Please send us your feedback (including problems, suggestions and
success stories!) either on the list or directly
Ok here's an improved description of how it works. The key to the whole
thing is the snapshot of the ports tree. Everything else follows from that.
Build process:
A predetermined set of packages is built from a ports tree. The most
benefit comes with packages which would acceptable for use with t
Polytropon wrote:
On Fri, 10 Apr 2009 15:25:13 +0100, Chris Whitehouse wrote:
Is there a quick way to find out how big are the tarballs without
downloading them all or adding them up one by one?
I think it's possible to obtain an FTP ls listing and then use
awk to get the column wit
Bob Johnson wrote:
On 4/8/09, Jonathan McKeown wrote:
On Tuesday 07 April 2009 23:35:03 Bob Johnson wrote:
On 4/4/09, Chris Whitehouse wrote:
The drawback I can see is the disk space required to keep several
generations
of packages online - if the package-port bundle is rebuilt every
Bob Johnson wrote:
- reduced energy use for everyone.
I think the difference in energy use would be so small as to be
pointless. If I have a system that consumes 75 kilowatt hours per
month, and I spend an extra 0.05 kilowatt hour per month updating
ports, is the difference (less than 1/10 of
Matthew Seaman wrote:
Chris Whitehouse wrote:
You've suggested solutions to a couple of Polytropon's objections,
thank you. Do you think there is anough mileage in my suggestion to
make it worth putting in front of some ports people? What would have
to happen to take it forwar
Valentin Bud wrote:
Hello community,
I have built with a micro controller a system of power plugs that can be
controlled through the serial port.
I have 2 plugs that i can start/stop and check the status of them. This is
accomplished by sending different
letters (eg. A/W) to start/stop one of t
per...@pluto.rain.com wrote:
Chris Whitehouse wrote:
My suggestion is to start with a ports tree that is fixed in time.
Make that ports tree available as part of this package system and
compile a typical desktop set of ports ...
Isn't this exactly what is currently done as part of a re
Matthew Seaman wrote:
Polytropon wrote:
Compiling applications in general will lead you into one
main problem: Many ports have different options that need
to be set at compile time. For a set of n options, 2^n
packages would be created, if I consider the WITH_SOMETHING
options only.
One examp
On Sat, 04 Apr 2009 15:13:22 +0100, Chris Whitehouse wrote:
Ports is rightly a flagship element of FreeBSD. The benefit is
configureability and consistency. The obvious downside is it takes so
long to update a desktop machine with a normal set of ports installed,
particularly lower spec hardw
Hi all
I was thinking about the waste of energy and time involved in lots of
people around the world all compiling the same code such as openoffice,
firefox, kde etc and wondering how the package system could be improved.
Ports is rightly a flagship element of FreeBSD. The benefit is
configu
Wojciech Puchar wrote:
It's certainly not slow and messy here. I installed PCBSD a couple of
months ago after a few years of rolling my own desktop and I love it.
On reasonable spec hardware it runs very well, the developers have
done an excellent job
of course. windows vista runs well too on
Wojciech Puchar wrote:
PC-BSD===>http://www.pcbsd.org/
DesktopBSD===>http://www.desktopbsd.net/
And PC-BSD even provides an installer (PBI) that makes "Windows"
users feel at home: Download something from the web manually,
then click "next, next, next, finish" and have an ap
Wojciech Puchar wrote:
Does anyone have experience with a usb sound card? Are any of them
supported in FreeBSD?
looks like it is - man snd_uaudio
from manual it looks like it's standard of USB audio interfaces so all
should work - unless some manufacturers don't comply to standards.
thanks
Hi
Does anyone have experience with a usb sound card? Are any of them
supported in FreeBSD?
Also [OT] what is the sound quality like? I find it hard to believe that
a device that is available for around £1.50 can be as good as a PCI card
costing quite a lot more.
The onboard sound chip on
Saifi Khan wrote:
On Wed, 11 Mar 2009, Chris Whitehouse wrote:
HP nc6320 (google RH383ET) - most things work, including wifi and ethernet,
except for the following:
From HP site,
Network
Integrated Broadcom NetLink Gigabit Ethernet PCI Controller
(10/100/1000 NIC)
Wireless
Saifi Khan wrote:
Hi all:
i've looked at tuxmobil, bsdgroup.de etc and i don't want to use
ndiswrapper, or broadcom or additional PCMCIA card at all.
Is there a laptop model (available in market) that experienced
members would like to recommend wherein
. the WiFi 802.11 a/g (PCI based)
. Eth
Peter Steele wrote:
I have a process with creates bootable USB disks with FreeBSD 7.0.
The creation of the USB disks is prettystraightforward. We have a
master OS image saved as a tarball, and when we want to create a new
USB disk, we simply create a single bootable UFS partition on the
target US
On Friday 27 February 2009 08:06:04 SERGIO RODRIGO DE CAMARGO PAULI wrote:
How can i open the CD-ROM with line command in FreeBSD?
/usr/ports/sysutils/eject/ ?
Chris
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Mel wrote:
On Monday 23 February 2009 10:56:20 Chad Perrin wrote:
On Sun, Feb 22, 2009 at 08:18:16PM -0800, Charles Oppermann wrote:
http://www.yankodesign.com/2008/11/07/i-dont-wanna-grow-up-im-a-big-kid-n
ow/
I think it might for a great "official stool" for FreeBSD as soon as the
designer's
Bruce Cran wrote:
On Sat, 14 Mar 2009 18:37:55 +0800
Fbsd1 wrote:
Chris Whitehouse wrote:
Fbsd1 wrote:
I have an desktop manufactured in 2002 by a South Korean company
Hyunju. The company is now out of business.
It's bio's do not allow booting from a usb memory stick.
I want
Jonathan McKeown wrote:
On Friday 06 February 2009 02:55, Chris Whitehouse wrote:
I think you should be able to do it with a combination of -prune and
-delete (or -exec rm -rf {} \; ) on a find command. Substitute your
other commands for rm -rf in the -exec above.
I would give you a working
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