... It would be nice if a Xgl/Compiz port existed on FreeBSD.
Thanks!
Pierre-Luc Drouin
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... It would be nice if a Xgl/Compiz port existed on FreeBSD.
Thanks!
Pierre-Luc Drouin
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Hi,
I would like to buy a new motherboard (Asus P5WD2) that has a Marvell
88E8001 ethernet card and I would like to know if this card works fine
now on -stable. I have seen reported problems related to this card on 5.3...
Thanks!
Pierre-Luc Drouin
Hi,
I would like to create a boot CD using FreeBSD 8.0 but I just noticed
that there is no existing boot.flp file for 8.0. What is the alternative
to get a boot image to create my CD image?
Thanks!
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Great Thanks! So when I create a boot CD using the boot image, are the
kernel files contained in /boot/kernel read at all during boot?
Manolis Kiagias wrote:
On 10/02/2010 11:10 μ.μ., Pierre-Luc Drouin wrote:
Hi,
I would like to create a boot CD using FreeBSD 8.0 but I just noticed
that
the cdboot file is only 1.2 kB, so I guess -no-emul-boot is required...
Do you have an idea what could be wrong?
Thanks!
Pierre-Luc Drouin wrote:
Great Thanks! So when I create a boot CD using the boot image, are the
kernel files contained in /boot/kernel read at all during boot?
Manolis
directory for the image and the path
specified by the -b option is relative to the root directory of the CD...
So should this work according to you?
Thanks!
Manolis Kiagias wrote:
On 10/02/2010 11:39 μ.μ., Pierre-Luc Drouin wrote:
Great Thanks! So when I create a boot CD using the boot
Manolis Kiagias wrote:
On 11/02/2010 12:08 π.μ., Pierre-Luc Drouin wrote:
What I am trying to do is basically to install FreeBSD 8.0 on a CD. I
followed these instructions to install FreeBSD on a USB stick:
http://typo.submonkey.net/articles/2006/04/13/installing-freebsd-on-usb-stick
/etc_tmp tar -cp -C /etc -f - ./ | tar -xpf - #Copy content of
/etc to /etc_tmp
mount /etc #nullfs mount /etc_tmp over /etc
Obviously I have also changed the root password and created a user that
is a member of the wheel group.
Manolis Kiagias wrote:
On 11/02/2010 12:08 π.μ., Pierre-Luc Drouin
Hi,
I would like to know if there is a mount command that allows to create a
memory disk that can be initialized from a file. What I am looking for
is something like mount_mfs -F, but that does not modify the actual
file. I know what I could easily to this by copying the content of the
file
Matthew Seaman wrote:
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I would like to know if there is a mount command that allows to create a
memory disk that can be initialized from a file. What I am looking for
is something like mount_mfs -F
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Matthew Seaman m.sea...@infracaninophile.co.uk wrote:
On 11/02/2010 14:53, Pierre-Luc Drouin wrote:
I would like to know
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On 11/02/2010 17:10, Pierre-Luc Drouin wrote:
Actually, I was thinking more along the lines of mounting a .iso as a
cd9660 filesystem. Which won't muck up the underlying .iso, but only
because it's read-only. You could
Hi,
I have compiled OpenOffice 3.1.1_1 using the port on FreeBSD i386
8.0-RELEASE, and there is no sound with slide shows. The sound works
fine with vlc and with linux-f10-flashplugin-10.0r42 . What could be
missing? I tested with another box running FreeBSD amd64 8.0-STABLE and
I have the
On Wed, Feb 16, 2011 at 1:59 PM, Chip Camden sterl...@camdensoftware.comwrote:
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Subject:
I guess part of it must have something to do with how the devices are
identified by the FreeBSD kernel vs linux. I know also that when using a ZFS
boot partition, it takes a lot longer to my system to boot compared to
UFS...
On Fri, Mar 4, 2011 at 5:10 PM, David Demelier
Hi,
I am looking for a secondary DNS service. Any suggestion? It is not for
a non-profit organisation so I am not necessarily looking for a free
solution, but I am wondering if there are reliable solutions for less
than what dyndns charges ($40 /year/zone).
Thanks!
Donating is an option yes. Any suggestion for a reliable free service?
Thanks!
On 04/11/2011 12:15 AM, Outback Dingo wrote:
whats the org ? could consider domating
On Sun, Apr 10, 2011 at 11:43 PM, Pierre-Luc Drouin
pldro...@pldrouin.net mailto:pldro...@pldrouin.net wrote:
Hi,
I
I was more looking for a slave server, since it would prefer to keep my
primary server...
Thanks!
On 04/11/2011 06:10 AM, Maxim Khitrov wrote:
On Sun, Apr 10, 2011 at 11:43 PM, Pierre-Luc Drouin
pldro...@pldrouin.net wrote:
Hi,
I am looking for a secondary DNS service. Any suggestion
On Tue, May 10, 2011 at 2:00 PM, Ivan Klymenko fi...@ukr.net wrote:
В Tue, 10 May 2011 17:31:53 +0200
Patrick Lamaiziere patf...@davenulle.org пишет:
Hi,
I've got a new box running 8.2-stable with amd64 + linuxulator +
nvidia driver. Quite often when watching video on youtube the box
Hi,
If you initially compiled your ports using the -p option of portupgrade,
then using the -P option of portupgrade will install the ports using the
package files that you have generated rather than fetching them from the
server. If you want to fetch the binaries rather than recompile it on your
On Tue, May 10, 2011 at 2:23 PM, Mage m...@mage.hu wrote:
On 05/10/2011 08:10 PM, Pierre-Luc Drouin wrote:
Hi,
If you initially compiled your ports using the -p option of
portupgrade, then using the -P option of portupgrade will install the
ports using the package files that you have
On Tue, May 10, 2011 at 2:59 PM, Mage m...@mage.hu wrote:
On 05/10/2011 08:35 PM, Pierre-Luc Drouin wrote:
By the way you don't really need to use the cvsup package anymore, as
there is now the csup command that is part of FreeBSD. Regarding the
core dumps, maybe you should tried
On Tue, May 10, 2011 at 3:42 PM, Mage m...@mage.hu wrote:
Since it core dumps with Illegal instruction, it looks like there cvsup
is
still using some of the ports you compiled with the wrong flags. I would
try
the following:
1) Rename your file /etc/make.conf such that the system
On Tue, May 10, 2011 at 4:06 PM, Mage m...@mage.hu wrote:
On 05/10/2011 09:55 PM, Pierre-Luc Drouin wrote:
If the -O3 argument in the command above comes from your make.conf, it is
possible that this level of optimisation causes gcc46 to crash for these
particular input files... You can
On Tue, May 10, 2011 at 5:21 PM, Mario Lobo l...@bsd.com.br wrote:
On Tuesday 10 May 2011 15:21:07 Pierre-Luc Drouin wrote:
On Tue, May 10, 2011 at 2:00 PM, Ivan Klymenko fi...@ukr.net wrote:
В Tue, 10 May 2011 17:31:53 +0200
Patrick Lamaiziere patf...@davenulle.org пишет
Hi,
I am working on a network which uses a http/ftp proxy that prompts by
default for user permission before downloading any file. In order to be able
to keep my system up-to-date (FreeBSD and ports), I have to white list the
FreeBSD servers and directories that need to be accessible, because
Hi,
I am working on a network which uses a http/ftp proxy that prompts by
default for user permission before downloading any file. In order to be able
to keep my system up-to-date (FreeBSD and ports), I have to white list the
FreeBSD servers and directories that need to be accessible, because
Hi,
I would install CUPS and use the PPD file recommended on
openprinting.org
(http://www.openprinting.org/printer/Kyocera/Kyocera-FS-1030D).
Cheers,
Pierre-Luc
On Wed, Aug 3, 2011 at 12:41 PM, Chris Whitehouse cwhi...@onetel.com wrote:
Hi,
before I use up too many trees experimenting, could
For me fluxbox is the way to go, since it is very light, has good key
binding configuration and can be configured very easily. The only
thing that I miss is the true transparency feature of Compiz, which
can be quite useful sometimes, for example to quickly compare plots.
Xfce is next on my list,
On Tue, Aug 9, 2011 at 1:04 PM, Sudhakar K featu...@gmail.com wrote:
Sir,
i'm new to freebsd 8.2, i downloaded full dvd iso. I installed once.
But on gui. Can you please tell me how to install this release and use
gui desktop.
Now its only a dos like environment. Please help me. I'm new to
Hi,
does someone know why the hostnames for the Canadian FreeBSD mirrors
can no longer be resolved?
Thanks!
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Isn't the Intel 3000 AGN supported by FreeBSD? I thought it was?
On Thu, Aug 11, 2011 at 1:27 PM, Jerry je...@seibercom.net wrote:
On Thu, 11 Aug 2011 16:27:29 -
b...@taiotoshi.org articulated:
Folks:
I have a Dell XPS Studio laptop with a broadcom wifi adapter built
in. I've had no
If the purpose is to make login unusable, starring the password is the
only 100% safe way...
On Tue, Aug 30, 2011 at 2:42 PM, Michael Sierchio ku...@tenebras.com wrote:
That occurred to me, but it's a smaller alphabet. Probably doesn't
matter if the purpose is to make login unusable.
On Tue,
)...
Thank you!
Pierre-Luc Drouin
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Hi,
so I have a friend who is looking for the best OS for a web server, that
allows to configure services (I guess HTTP, PHP, MySQL and web content)
and do the OS maintenance (OS package updates, firewall configuration)
without having to touch a shell. I was wondering if something like
On 09/05/2011 08:31 AM, Polytropon wrote:
On Sun, 04 Sep 2011 23:47:03 -0400, Pierre-Luc Drouin wrote:
Hi,
so I have a friend who is looking for the best OS for a web server, that
allows to configure services (I guess HTTP, PHP, MySQL and web content)
and do the OS maintenance (OS package
I just took a look at PBDir and the choice of PBIs for server-related
softwares seems to be rather limited. They have a PBI for Apache, but I
could not even find one for PHP... To me it seems that if not all the
required softwares are available through PBI, it would be better to drop
the whole
How well does it work to use binary packages only to maintain a FreeBSD
web server in general (I am thinking of package availability, but also
and in particular as a quasi-automated updating tool)? I noticed that in
the past few years, updating softwares through ports has been requiring
more
On Thu, Dec 1, 2011 at 12:27 PM, Jukka A. Ukkonen j...@iki.fi wrote:
Greetings,
Has anybody else seen FreeBSD 9.0 PRERELEASE freezing totally when
using X11, Gnome, and Firefox?
Usually it does not happen immediately after starting firefox but
instead everything might be just fine for
Hi,
so which current 14 Lenovo laptop is the best for FreeBSD
compatibility right now? Is it the T420 with the Nvidia card (Nvidia
card forced in the BIOS)? Sleep modes work with the T420, right? And I
guess Intel Wi-Fi cards are the most supported ones, right?
Thanks!
On Fri, Dec 9, 2011 at 2:03 AM, 文鳥 bunc...@googlemail.com wrote:
Hi,
I am typing this message on a W520 running 9.0 stable, which should be
similar enough to the T520.
- MBR boot works fine, but GPT seems to be impossible (Lenovo
appears to have messed up again).
- The NVidia driver is
On Mon, Dec 12, 2011 at 4:00 PM, Jerry McAllister jerr...@msu.edu wrote:
On Mon, Dec 12, 2011 at 02:36:04PM -0600, Daniel Lewis wrote:
Im new to FreeBSD and did a FTP of 8.2 and unzipped to a cd rom. It
was an ISO Version. I then FTP the CDROM BOOT file and un zipped it.
Unfortunately It wont
Hi,
I just made world and kernel using clang, but I noticed that ld is still
using the GNU ld. The page
http://wiki.freebsd.org/BuildingFreeBSDWithClangmentions using a
different linker that supports LTO optimisation. Is that
non-GNU linker part of FreeBSD 9?
Thanks!
On Thu, Jan 26, 2012 at 5:40 PM, Dan Nelson dnel...@allantgroup.com wrote:
In the last episode (Jan 26), Pierre-Luc Drouin said:
so various ports, in particular the java ports, are giving me headaches
since /lib/libz.so.5 was replaced by /lib/libz.so.6. I managed to update
most of my
On Fri, Jan 27, 2012 at 9:55 AM, Pierre-Luc Drouin pldro...@pldrouin.netwrote:
On Thu, Jan 26, 2012 at 5:40 PM, Dan Nelson dnel...@allantgroup.comwrote:
In the last episode (Jan 26), Pierre-Luc Drouin said:
so various ports, in particular the java ports, are giving me headaches
since /lib
On Fri, Jan 27, 2012 at 9:58 AM, Pierre-Luc Drouin pldro...@pldrouin.netwrote:
On Fri, Jan 27, 2012 at 9:55 AM, Pierre-Luc Drouin
pldro...@pldrouin.netwrote:
On Thu, Jan 26, 2012 at 5:40 PM, Dan Nelson dnel...@allantgroup.comwrote:
In the last episode (Jan 26), Pierre-Luc Drouin said
On Fri, Jan 27, 2012 at 10:41 AM, Pierre-Luc Drouin
pldro...@pldrouin.netwrote:
On Fri, Jan 27, 2012 at 9:58 AM, Pierre-Luc Drouin
pldro...@pldrouin.netwrote:
On Fri, Jan 27, 2012 at 9:55 AM, Pierre-Luc Drouin pldro...@pldrouin.net
wrote:
On Thu, Jan 26, 2012 at 5:40 PM, Dan Nelson
On Fri, Jan 27, 2012 at 11:44 AM, Pierre-Luc Drouin
pldro...@pldrouin.netwrote:
On Fri, Jan 27, 2012 at 10:41 AM, Pierre-Luc Drouin pldro...@pldrouin.net
wrote:
On Fri, Jan 27, 2012 at 9:58 AM, Pierre-Luc Drouin pldro...@pldrouin.net
wrote:
On Fri, Jan 27, 2012 at 9:55 AM, Pierre
On Fri, Jan 27, 2012 at 6:19 PM, Pierre-Luc Drouin pldro...@pldrouin.netwrote:
On Fri, Jan 27, 2012 at 11:44 AM, Pierre-Luc Drouin pldro...@pldrouin.net
wrote:
On Fri, Jan 27, 2012 at 10:41 AM, Pierre-Luc Drouin
pldro...@pldrouin.net wrote:
On Fri, Jan 27, 2012 at 9:58 AM, Pierre
If Java is broken, then you know FreeBSD was compiled with clang...
On Mon, Mar 12, 2012 at 3:45 PM, kalth...@googlemail.com wrote:
Hi,
Is there a way to determine whether a FreeBSD-system was compiled with gcc
or clang?
I thought of some libs or so that might significantly differ.
On Tue, May 29, 2012 at 2:05 PM, Roland Smith rsm...@xs4all.nl wrote:
On Fri, May 11, 2012 at 09:01:33AM +0200, Christer Solskogen wrote:
After years of waiting for a decent price on one of these I finally
got one. The questions is, which options should I use on a SSD that
will be / on my
I love Fluxbox too for its lightweightness and configurability. If you find
it too minimalistic, I think that XFCE can be a good compromise also since
it runs quite fast compared to KDE and Gnome while having most of their
functionalities. XFCE is also compatible with Compiz...
On Fri, Sep 24,
Well, according to me FreeBSD works very well on desktops (except for CUDA),
but I agree that its usage is extremely limited for laptops and netbooks. If
I can't use ACPI or wireless on my laptop/netbook, I don't really see the
point... Over the past 6 years I have tried many times to use FreeBSD
On Wed, Oct 13, 2010 at 2:00 PM, Yuri y...@rawbw.com wrote:
On 10/13/2010 10:51, Frank Shute wrote:
gcc is in base as cc(1). There are a metric ton of qt4 ports and they
are not basic in that they are not required if you don't use KDE or
its applications.
Base has 4.2.1 and not updating
I am interested to use CUDA as well for a scientific environment. What about
CUDA 64bit on FreeBSD? Is it excluded completely because of the lack of
support for Linux 64bit emulation?
Thanks!
2010/11/10 C. Bergström cbergst...@pathscale.com
App Deb wrote:
2010/11/10 O. Hartmann
The legacy platform seems to still work for me: http://legacy.zoneedit.com
I had sent some money though to have free service for my existing domains
forever.
On Thu, Jan 13, 2011 at 11:20 AM, Jack L. Stone ja...@sage-american.comwrote:
I have used zoneedit.com's DNS zone service for about 9
Linux emulation on FreeBSD is not really emulation, in the sense that it
does not create virtual hardware. Some linux softwares run even faster on
FreeBSD than Linux... My worry would be more to make sure that USB
communication works through the emulation layers...
On Thu, Jan 27, 2011 at 2:08
Hi,
My motherboard (EVGA X58 Classified) has a JMicron JMB363 SATA300/PATA
controller and it seems to be working fine with FreeBSD as long as I
don't try burning a DVD or a CD with my PATA DVD burner, which is the
only device hooked to the controller. However, when I try burning a CD
or a
Hi,
I'm trying to hack the code of tbancontrol, a linux tool used to control
t-balancer fan controllers that use FTDI FT232BL chips. It seems to be
working fine on linux, but when I try to use it on FreeBSD, I noticed
that read calls fail with Interruted system call. It seems there is
Hi,
so does anybody know what could be wrong with this?
Thanks!
Pierre-Luc Drouin
Pierre-Luc Drouin wrote:
Hi,
My motherboard (EVGA X58 Classified) has a JMicron JMB363 SATA300/PATA
controller and it seems to be working fine with FreeBSD as long as I
don't try burning a DVD or a CD with my
Hi,
Could someone explain me in which cases it is useful to enable
hyperthreading on a machine running FreeBSD 8.0 and in which other cases
it is not a good idea? Is that possible that hyperthreading is
disadvantageous unless the number of active (non-sleeping) threads is
really high?
For
Hi,
When I run many heavily multi-threaded (1000+ threads/process) and
memory intensive (1800 MB+/process) processes on FreeBSD 8.0 amd64, some
of them get in STOP state in top and then seg fault and core dump. Are
stop states in top caused by seg faults or it is the OS that stops the
Hi,
So far I have been able to get WiFi working on most netbooks I got, but
honestly, FreeBSD is not the best for laptops. WiFi drivers are often a
bit buggy (connection is dropping because of driver problems) and ACPI
sleep modes never worked on my laptops. WiFi, ACPI sleep modes and
complet est dans le fichier COPYRIGHT dans le dossier racine de FreeBSD.
Pierre-Luc Drouin
Jérémy SALMERON wrote:
Bonsoir ,
Je souhaiterai distribuer une version modifiée de FreeBSD : non alteration
du code source mais avec modification d'ordre graphique . Je souhaiterai la
distribuer en bundle avec
Hi,
How can I make FreeBSD to display automatically the backtrace of an
executable after a segmentation fault (the same way Linux does it)? I
prefer this option by default rather than a core dump.
Thanks!
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Hi,
I am using the nv xorg driver on 8.0 amd64 with a GeForce 6600 (CPU is
an i7 overclocked at 4GHz) configured in 1920x1080. With that setup it
takes about 2 seconds to maximize a window or to switch workspace in
fluxbox. Is there a way to improve speed or this is all I can hope to get?
Awesome! I have been waiting for years for this driver, so a few more
months won't make a difference. This was the major factor preventing me
from fully enjoy FreeBSD for workstation usage.
Uwe Laverenz wrote:
Pierre-Luc Drouin schrieb:
an i7 overclocked at 4GHz) configured in 1920x1080
Thanks
well this won't work on amd64 until Nvidia releases a driver. I was
waiting for the amd64 driver to buy a new video card...
Sean Cavanaugh wrote:
Date: Fri, 20 Nov 2009 00:28:19 -0500
From: pldro...@pldrouin.net
To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject: How painful is the nv
Hi,
so I have been having problems using portsnap lately. I always get a Bad
file descriptor message when trying using it on one of my i386 machine:
Looking up portsnap5.freebsd.org mirrors... none found.
Fetching snapshot tag from portsnap5.freebsd.org... done.
Fetching snapshot metadata...
On Tue, Sep 4, 2012 at 10:14 AM, Pierre-Luc Drouin pldro...@gmail.comwrote:
Hi,
so I have been having problems using portsnap lately. I always get a Bad
file descriptor message when trying using it on one of my i386 machine:
Looking up portsnap5.freebsd.org mirrors... none found.
Fetching
Hi,
it seems that the ftp2.ca.freebsd.org mirror has not been updating since
August 3rd. At least this is the case for the files in
ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/CTM/src-9
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, 2012 at 9:43 AM, Polytropon free...@edvax.de wrote:
On Mon, 10 Sep 2012 08:56:29 -0400, Pierre-Luc Drouin wrote:
On Tue, Sep 4, 2012 at 10:14 AM, Pierre-Luc Drouin pldro...@gmail.com
wrote:
Hi,
so I have been having problems using portsnap lately. I always get a
Bad
file
Hi,
I had a similar issue about my emails not getting forwarded by Zoneedit.
Now I am using the Google SMTP server to collect the emails for my domain.
Maybe I should also switch the DNS to another service. I need my router to
be able to update the DNS information for my dynamic IP address
On Mon, Feb 4, 2013 at 10:07 AM, Jerry je...@seibercom.net wrote:
On Mon, 4 Feb 2013 09:48:06 -0500
Pierre-Luc Drouin articulated:
On Mon, Feb 4, 2013 at 9:39 AM, Mike. the.li...@mgm51.com wrote:
On 2/3/2013 at 3:04 PM Fbsd8 wrote:
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