Re: FreeBSD as Desktop OS with support for Windows

2002-11-28 Thread Kenneth Culver
I want to use FreeBSD as my desktop OS with Gnome but I still need to do Windows luser support. I have installed Gnome 2 on FreeBSD 4.7 Stable and now I'm trying to figure out what is the best solution. Does the Vmware port still work and or should I just install Samba and which Office

Re: USB Modem using Linux driver on FreeBSD?

2003-02-08 Thread Kenneth Culver
The linux driver won't work on FreeBSD. On Sun, 9 Feb 2003, Sleepy wrote: Hello! I am trying to set up my USB modem for dialup on 4.7 Release. It is detected as ugen0. I have been trying to set it up as umodem0. The modem has a driver available for it in Linux (reported to work)

Re: Worrying ATA problems.

2003-02-16 Thread Kenneth Culver
Are you sure the cable on your ad0 maxtor drive is ok? I'm asking because I had a problem with using some no-name ata cable instead of the one that came with the drive, and my problem was similar to yours. Ken On Sun, 16 Feb 2003, Trent Nelson wrote: Hi, I've had a new server for a

Re: ATI Radeon 9700 Pro

2003-02-17 Thread Kenneth Culver
The linux drivers do not work with FreeBSD. In order to get 2d support and xv support for this card, you must get the cvs version of XFree86, and compile and install that. Ken On Mon, 17 Feb 2003, Nigel Taylor wrote: Hi all Just wondering has anyone got there ATI Radeon working with XFree86?

Re: options USER_LDT

2003-02-17 Thread Kenneth Culver
It's built in now, it's no longer an option. On 17 Feb 2003, David Loszewski wrote: is 'options USER_LDT' no longer a valid option in the FreeBSD kernel? I have FreeBSD 5.0 Release Dave To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-questions in the body of the

Re: OT: AGP Pro 8x Slot

2003-02-27 Thread Kenneth Culver
They are backwards compatable, so there must be some other problem. Ken On Thu, 27 Feb 2003, Brian Henning wrote: Hello- I just bought a new motherboard, the ASUS A7N8X (not deluxe). I want to use it for my new FBSD machine. I actually want to use my old graphics card (AOpen NVidia Riva

Re: FreeBSD 4.x Opteron Question

2005-03-18 Thread Kenneth Culver
Quoting Chuck Robey [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Boris Spirialitious wrote: --- Boris Spirialitious [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- Matthew Seaman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, Mar 15, 2005 at 08:50:22AM -0800, Boris Spirialitious wrote: When opteron support start for Freebsd? I have 4.9. is supported? Or

Re: Compiling Linux Driver under FreeBSD

2004-07-15 Thread Kenneth Culver
Quoting Ahmad Zulkarnain [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Hi guys! I'm a newbie runnin FreeBSD 5.2.1 on Clevo M22ES laptop. Sorry if my question has been asked before. I have a built-in SmartLink modem (SiS chipset) and I grabbed myself the official linux driver from their website. Can I just compile the driver

Re: Compiling Linux Driver under FreeBSD

2004-07-15 Thread Kenneth Culver
Quoting Henrik W Lund [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Kenneth Culver wrote: snip What you want to do can't be done. The best you can do really is port the driver. The kernel internals/driver apis are totally different between linux and FreeBSD. Ken Greetings! Speaking of driver APIs, do you know of any good

Re: NVidia vs. KT600

2004-07-22 Thread Kenneth Culver
Quoting Uwe Laverenz [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Hi, I have a strange problem with the NVidia drivers on my machines: when I start a glx-application (glxgears, quake2...) the performance is normal. If I make another attempt a few minutes later, the performance is ridiculous slow. Example: glxgears, 1st

Re: Linux Hardware Drivers with FreeBSD?

2003-12-10 Thread Kenneth Culver
Quoting Jonathan Walters [EMAIL PROTECTED]: I connect to the internet with a wireless card (Blitzz 802.11b 11Mbps Wireless LAN PCI Card, http://www.iblitzz.com). This has always worked well under Windows 2000, but now I'd like to do the same with FreeBSD 4.9. Unfortunately, the closest

Re: FreeBSD and poor ata performance

2004-10-14 Thread Kenneth Culver
Quoting fandino [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Hello list, This is an interesting issue. While I was installing FreeBSD 5.3BETA7 I wonder about the performance that the new branch will bring to my computer, and it was a deception how bad FreeBSD performs compared with Linux on the same hardware (even I

Re: FreeBSD and poor ata performance

2004-10-15 Thread Kenneth Culver
Quoting fandino [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Chris Howells wrote: On Friday 15 October 2004 09:57, fandino wrote: I'm out of ideas, It doesn't matter if I use other PC or hard disks, performance sucks compared to Linux :-( OK, so you came to conclusion that performance sucks based on the the theoretical

Re: FreeBSD and poor ata performance

2004-10-15 Thread Kenneth Culver
Quoting fandino [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Kenneth Culver wrote: well, my usage pattern is write a big file and few seconds later read it. So my tests were valid for the use of the computer. But you have reason, I must provide a more formal report. I redid all test with bonnie++ and results shows Linux

Re: C compiler

2004-10-04 Thread Kenneth Culver
Quoting [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Hello, I´ve installed FreeBSD 5.2.1 in my PC machine. I compiled my own programs and started to running them. For my surprise, I checked that FreeBSD programs spent almost 50% more time than the same program compiled to linux. I checked several compile options, but it

Re: C compiler

2004-10-04 Thread Kenneth Culver
Quoting Josh Hansen [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Bill Moran wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello, I´ve installed FreeBSD 5.2.1 in my PC machine. I compiled my own programs and started to running them. For my surprise, I checked that FreeBSD programs spent almost 50% more time than the same program

Re: Two faced FreeBSD - or is that two headed?

2004-10-20 Thread Kenneth Culver
Quoting Peter Risdon [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Robert Huff wrote: Louis LeBlanc writes: Your config looks like I have to go shopping for another graphics card. Not sure if I can even get the same one now. Though they're not state-of-the-market, Matrox (with I have always had

Re: NVidia driver not using AGP?

2004-11-29 Thread Kenneth Culver
Quoting Kirk Strauser [EMAIL PROTECTED]: On my 5.3 system (recompiled completely, including ports, one week ago), the NVidia driver (for a GeForce MX 400) from ports doesn't seem to be using AGP: $ sysctl hw.nvidia.agp.status.status hw.nvidia.agp.status.status: disabled I've built a new

Re: NVidia driver not using AGP?

2004-11-29 Thread Kenneth Culver
Quoting Chris Howells [EMAIL PROTECTED]: On Monday 29 November 2004 21:21, Kenneth Culver wrote: (I forget which) with a GeForce4 MX 440. The other is an athlon 64 3200+ with a via k8t800 chipset and a geforce FX 5900 (running in 32 bit x86 FreeBSD). The NVidia drivers don't yet support the K8T800

Re: NVidia driver not using AGP?

2004-11-29 Thread Kenneth Culver
Quoting Louis LeBlanc [EMAIL PROTECTED]: On 11/29/04 03:13 PM, Kirk Strauser sat at the `puter and typed: On my 5.3 system (recompiled completely, including ports, one week ago), the NVidia driver (for a GeForce MX 400) from ports doesn't seem to be using AGP: $ sysctl

Re: NVidia driver not using AGP?

2004-11-29 Thread Kenneth Culver
Quoting Kirk Strauser [EMAIL PROTECTED]: On Monday 29 November 2004 03:21 pm, Kenneth Culver wrote: One of the computers I'm having this problem with is a P4 with an Intel chipset Which reminds me: I forgot to mention that my system has a 1.4GHz Thunderbird on an Asus A7V (KT133) motherboard

Re: NVidia driver not using AGP?

2004-11-30 Thread Kenneth Culver
Quoting Raul Zighelboim [EMAIL PROTECTED]: On Monday 29 November 2004 04:20 pm, Kenneth Culver wrote: Quoting Kirk Strauser [EMAIL PROTECTED]: On Monday 29 November 2004 03:21 pm, Kenneth Culver wrote: One of the computers I'm having this problem with is a P4 with an Intel chipset Which

Re: NVidia driver not using AGP?

2004-11-30 Thread Kenneth Culver
Quoting Raul Zighelboim [EMAIL PROTECTED]: On Monday 29 November 2004 04:55 pm, Kirk Strauser wrote: On Monday 29 November 2004 04:35 pm, Raul Zighelboim wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] sysctl -a | grep -i agp [...] hw.nvidia.agp.status.status: enabled What exactly did you do? Did you do anything

Re: NVidia driver not using AGP?

2004-11-30 Thread Kenneth Culver
Quoting Louis LeBlanc [EMAIL PROTECTED]: On 11/29/04 05:16 PM, Kenneth Culver sat at the `puter and typed: Quoting Louis LeBlanc [EMAIL PROTECTED]: SNIP The xorg.conf card section is: Section Device Identifier NV TwinView VendorName nVidia Corporation Driver nvidia # update

RE: Anybody have it working? (was Re: NVidia driver not using AGP?)

2004-11-30 Thread Kenneth Culver
Quoting Hauan, David [EMAIL PROTECTED]: -Original Message- From: Kirk Strauser [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, November 29, 2004 2:32 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Anybody have it working? (was Re: NVidia driver not using AGP?) On Monday 29 November 2004 04:20 pm, Kenneth

Re: NVidia driver not using AGP?

2004-11-30 Thread Kenneth Culver
Quoting Louis LeBlanc [EMAIL PROTECTED]: On 11/30/04 11:27 AM, Kenneth Culver sat at the `puter and typed: Quoting Louis LeBlanc [EMAIL PROTECTED]: SNIP Wrong. From nvidia's readme: Similar to the NVIDIA Linux Driver Set, the user can decide if the NVIDIA driver should use its internal AGP GART

RE: Anybody have it working? (was Re: NVidia driver not usingAGP?)

2004-11-30 Thread Kenneth Culver
Quoting Hauan, David [EMAIL PROTECTED]: -Original Message- From: Kirk Strauser [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Monday 29 November 2004 04:20 pm, Kenneth Culver wrote: How about this, then: Has *anyone* successfully used an NVidia card with the most recent x11/nvidia-driver port

Re: NVidia driver not using AGP?

2004-12-01 Thread Kenneth Culver
Quoting Louis LeBlanc [EMAIL PROTECTED]: On 11/30/04 01:22 PM, Kenneth Culver sat at the `puter and typed: Quoting Louis LeBlanc [EMAIL PROTECTED]: On 11/30/04 11:27 AM, Kenneth Culver sat at the `puter and typed: Quoting Louis LeBlanc [EMAIL PROTECTED]: SNIP I'll post the result tonight

Re: NVidia driver not using AGP?

2004-12-01 Thread Kenneth Culver
Quoting Louis LeBlanc [EMAIL PROTECTED]: On 12/01/04 10:44 AM, Kenneth Culver sat at the `puter and typed: Quoting Louis LeBlanc [EMAIL PROTECTED]: SNIP I wonder what the people who actually have this working are doing differently from those of us who can't seem to get it to work. I wish I knew

Re: Is this a high interrupt rate for nics?

2005-05-09 Thread Kenneth Culver
Quoting Greg 'groggy' Lehey [EMAIL PROTECTED]: On Sunday, 8 May 2005 at 9:02:08 -0400, M. Parsons wrote: Freebsd-5.3 SMP Kernel. Polling enabled. bash-2.05b$ vmstat -i interrupt total rate irq5: ep02937064 1 irq11: ed0

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