Carsten Mattner writes:
Has anyone successfully installed FreeBSD as a single boot system
on an EFI Mac?
I'm not sure exactly what you mean by a single boot system.
I have Mac Pro that runs Mac OS on on disk (actually a pair in a
software RAID) and FreeBSD from another pair (gmirror RAID).
Dick Hoogendijk writes:
I run FreeBSD-8.1/amd64. I have used ZFS for four years on
(Open)Solaris, so I have some experience with it. It always served me
very very well. However, I cannot get it to work on my SATA2 drives. At
first I thought they'de suffer from something from there
Vincent Zee writes:
Hi,
I recently upgraded to the newest version of audio/squeezeboxserver.
After the update the server is unable to rescan my music collection.
Does anyone else encountered this problem?
How can I revert to the previous version of squeezeboxserver
(I'm using
Adam Vande More writes:
On Fri, Dec 4, 2009 at 10:20 PM, Paul Schmehl
pschmehl_li...@tx.rr.comwrote:
As I mentioned in a previous post, I have tried it both with and without
hald and dbus. Nothing works.
[...]
I missed the original post, but I recently noticed that my bluetooth
Tim Judd writes:
On 7/19/09, Aleksandr Miroslav alexmiros...@gmail.com wrote:
On Sun, Jul 19, 2009 at 5:42 PM, Aleksandr Miroslav
alexmiros...@gmail.com wrote:
What kind of RAID chassis, computer system should I get for this setup?
Would a soekris be sufficient, or is that overkill?
John Almberg writes:
I have a client who has an application that he wants to deploy in his
customer's offices as a headless 'appliance'. Basically, just a black
box that you can plug into a Lan, turn it on, and it runs. No floppy
disk or CD, no monitor/keyboard, just remotely
Formula 1 writes:
Is there going to be a possibility for FreeBSD, in the future or now, that
there will be a release of it that allows for install and running of the
operating system off of a USB memory stick?
There's a pretty simple script here that builds a bootable usb stick.
Uwe Laverenz writes:
On Thu, Jan 08, 2009 at 06:04:37AM -0700, Modulok wrote:
Does anyone know of a laptop, preferably an older model so it's
inexpensive, (It doesn't have to be very fast.), that is:
1) FreeBSD friendly.
2) Isn't a portable skillet?
3) Is physically sturdy.
Keith Seyffarth writes:
What do I need to install to make printing a pdf from the print
command in an appliction as an option.
It looks like panda may do this, but I'm unsure.
My immediate goal is to be able to print invoices to .pdf from
gnucash.
If you're using the cups
Keith Seyffarth writes:
If you're using the cups printing subsystem you can use the cups-pdf
port/package.
You end up with the pdf's deposited in /var/spool/cups-pdf/USERNAME.
I don't have any printing installed currently. I may be getting a
printer for this machine at some
In addition to the java clients, you can also go lower tech. and try this:
http://www.ex-parrot.com/~pdw/slimp3slave/
or even the lower tech comment from that web site:
[...] to running mpg123 http://slimserver:9000/stream.mp3
g.
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Bill Campbell writes:
[...]
I haven't tried FreeBSD on the Macs. [...]
-STABLE runs almost flawlessly on an 8-core late 2008 Mac PRO.
Sometimes hangs as it's booting and you need to give the snd_hda
driver a couple of hints to get sound out, but otherwise it rocks.
g.
Redd Vinylene writes:
On Sat, Oct 4, 2008 at 8:53 PM, Redd Vinylene [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Sat, Oct 4, 2008 at 8:40 PM, Redd Vinylene [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Sat, Oct 4, 2008 at 8:38 PM, Rodrigo Gonzalez [EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote:
Are the jails stopped?
Yes,
RW writes:
On Fri, 18 Jul 2008 18:15:48 -0700
George Hartzell [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Warren Liddell writes:
im looking to purchase the NVIDIA 8800GTX PCI Express Video Card
an was wondering if anyone has heard or know of any issues within
FreeBSD with this particular
Warren Liddell writes:
im looking to purchase the NVIDIA 8800GTX PCI Express Video Card an was
wondering if anyone has heard or know of any issues within FreeBSD with this
particular video card ?
I use an Nvidia 8800GT in a Mac Pro running -STABLE with the
xf86-video-nv-2.1.8 driver from
Did you take the necessary steps to restrict the IP addresses on which
sendmail on the host and the jail listen? The jail man page only
says:
To configure sendmail(8), it is necessary to modify
/etc/mail/sendmail.cf.
but you'll probably end up adjusting the DAEMON_OPTIONS lines of
DA Forsyth recently mentioned the coretemp driver, which fetches the
core temperatures for Core 2 Duo chips.
I'm in the middle of building up a Shuttle SG31G2 (7-STABLE) and
loaded the driver to see what it told me.
I've noticed that cpu.0 is consistently hotter than cpu.1, even on an
unloaded
Josh Carroll writes:
[...]
I'd recommend taking the heat sink off and seeing how the thermal
grease is spread on the CPU's head spreader and on the heatsink
itself. If it looks lopsided or extremely thick on one side of the CPU
package or extremely thin (to the point where you can still
Frank Shute writes:
[...]
My top on 7.0 says CPU states: not CPU:
Are you sure you're running on 2 cores?
dmesg will tell you and top will have a C column with 0 or 1 in it.
If you're running on one core, it will explain the temperature
discrepancy.
I'm almost certain that
Sahil Tandon writes:
Maxim Khitrov [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I'm currently with JohnCompanies. Overall, it's been a positive
experience, though I wish they offered FreeBSD 7. Beta testing for it
was supposed to begin last month, but so far no news.
+1 for JC. The tech support
Jim Stapleton writes:
[...]
Do you know of a wireless router that can provide individual user
authentication, without requiring a complex setup? Some places may not
want to pay for the internet connection, so he'll need to 'rent out'
connection bandwidth to other vendors.
Nocatsplash
Jason Joines writes:
George Hartzell wrote:
Jason Joines writes:
I'm a Linux guy who has inherited some apple xserve boxes.
Surprisingly I've discovered that I really hate os x. For the intel
xserve boxes, Linux isn't an option. The CPUs are amd64 architecture
Jason Joines writes:
I'm a Linux guy who has inherited some apple xserve boxes.
Surprisingly I've discovered that I really hate os x. For the intel
xserve boxes, Linux isn't an option. The CPUs are amd64 architecture.
The EFI capable Linux bootloader, has had beta support for
David Kelly writes:
On Wed, Nov 14, 2007 at 12:09:47PM -0600, Doug Poland wrote:
Hello,
I'm looking for an external, firewire-based, hard-drive from which to
run FreeBSD 7.0 (i386). Ideally, I'd boot from this device as well, but
I'm not sure if FreeBSD (or my BIOS) supports
Hi,
I'm trying to get a Microsoft Wireless Optical Desktop working on a
Mac Pro running today's -STABLE amd64.
The Desktop has a single wireless puck that supports a keyboard and
a mouse. The puck has two connectors, a usb dongle and a
old-fashioned mouse connector (din-9?).
I've had the set
I have a mac pro running amd64 -STABLE from a week or so ago. Most
things are working well, but sound's not quite there.
When I plug a set of powered speakers into the headphone jack on the
front of the machine and max the mixer setting and the speakers, I can
just barely hear an mp3 played by
I have a mac pro running amd64 -STABLE from about a week or so ago.
The console and dmesg output are flooded by
acpi_smbus_read_2: AE_ERROR 0x10
message. There will be a couple, then silence, then a burst of them,
then
The don't seem to be hurting anything, but they push other stuff
I have a new ASUS A8V-MX motherboard that's running 6.1-RC cvsuped
earlier this week. I'm running w/ ACPI enabled, I still see the
problem if I boot w/ ACPI disabled at the loader prompt.
I'm running a kernel based on the standard SMP config file with the
addition of an atapicam device.
I
I'm looking for a passively cooled pci-express card that will support
dual-head w/ dvi lcd's on FreeBSD -STABLE.
I'm currently using an AGP based matrox and it works well enough.
I don't do anything 3-D, just a gnome desktop and various xterms and
xemacs and stuff. The only fancy hardware
I've memorized that one shouldn't use soft-updates on /
RSE's excellent howto on setting up a pair of mirrored disks
(http://people.freebsd.org/~rse/mirror/) includes this line
newfs -U /dev/mirror/gm0s1a
which enables softupdates.
Is this not quite correct, or am I missing something?
George Hartzell writes:
quick summary
I have set up an ssh based vpn between a -STABLE laptop and a 5.3
server. I can ping either end from the other. I'd like to route
traffic from the laptop to the public IP address of the server but it
doesn't seem to work. I can
quick summary
I have set up an ssh based vpn between a -STABLE laptop and a 5.3
server. I can ping either end from the other. I'd like to route
traffic from the laptop to the public IP address of the server but it
doesn't seem to work. I can, as a sanity test, route packets from
the
Lowell Gilbert writes:
George Hartzell [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
I've set up an ASUS small form factor machine based around an P4S8L
motherboard. It's running 6.0BETA4 and Gnome2.12 from the tinderbox
packages.
I'm kldload'ing snd_ich and (after getting a helpful pointer
I've set up an ASUS small form factor machine based around an P4S8L
motherboard. It's running 6.0BETA4 and Gnome2.12 from the tinderbox
packages.
I'm kldload'ing snd_ich and (after getting a helpful pointer to the
gnome FAQ) all of the sounds stuff is working.
Here's my problem:
The machine
Lowell Gilbert writes:
George Hartzell [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
I just noticed that I couldn't ssh -X from a machine into a fully
configured jail on the same machine and have an X app display back on
the desktop.
[...]
You're going to have problems with ssh authentication
I just noticed that I couldn't ssh -X from a machine into a fully
configured jail on the same machine and have an X app display back on
the desktop.
I think that this used to work, but I can't swear to it.
I've been playing around, and now have pretty much everything on the
machine stripped
I'm having trouble building a jail under 5.3 (RELENG_5_3).
I'm following the process in the jail man page and it dies trying to
compile on of the bootstrap tools.
Google and the freebsd-questions archives show several other people
reporting the problem, but I havn't seen anyone post a
George Hartzell writes:
[...]
Google and the freebsd-questions archives show several other people
reporting the problem, but I havn't seen anyone post a solution.
Pardon my following up to my own post, but in the interest of having a
solution in the archives, here's a shar file of two
I have access to a stack of blank dvd-ram disks, so I'm trying to
learn how to use them in my IBM t42p with a dvd-multi burner.
This is (I think) the burner that I have:
I'd like to make a custom live CD-2 of a -STABLE release (I want to
include the asr-tools on it, so that I can tweak my raid which is
normally running 5.2.1)
I've been doing this from /usr/src/release
sudo make release CHROOTDIR=/opus/release CVSROOT=/home/ncvs BUILDNAME=GH NODOC=
It runs
Hi,
This is one of those Stop me before I waste my time. questions
I have a box w/ a dpt raid controller (DPT PM3755U2B) that I set up
with raidutils from the asr-utils port back when the machine was
running -STABLE.
I've since migrated the machine to -CURRENT, and followed the various
I'm trying to become sound savy.
I have a D-Link DSB-R100 usb radio, and Sony Vaio PCG-Z505-JE laptop
running:
FreeBSD rosebud.alerce.com 4.9-RELEASE-p5 FreeBSD 4.9-RELEASE-p5 #20: Tue Apr 20
10:02:23 PDT 2004 [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/ROSEBUD i386
I kldload the ufm.ko
I just noticed
a) that several accounts (from ports stuff, it seems) on a -stable
system use /nonexistent as their home directory
(ghost)[9:50am]loggrep nonexist /etc/passwd
pop:*:68:6:Post Office Owner:/nonexistent:/sbin/nologin
www:*:80:80:World Wide Web
Remington writes:
George Hartzell wrote:
George Hartzell writes:
I've been trying to install something 5-ish on a Sony PCG-GRX570
laptop.
I started off trying to boot off of the 5.1 release CD, normally,
w/out acpi, and safe. Every option panic-ed
Hi,
I have a server running 4.8 on a single disk. I'd like to set it up
to mirror and be bootable. Killer performance isn't critical, but
maximal flexibility to frankenstein it together from spare parts is.
So, I'm shying away from hardware raids, and even the pseudo-hardware
raids.
I'd like
Joshua Oreman writes:
On Wed, Jun 25, 2003 at 08:04:38PM -0700 or thereabouts, George Hartzell wrote:
[...]
Once it's running, how do I recover if/when a disk pukes. It sounds
like atacontrol's rebuild command only works w/ real controllers.
Do I need to boot from a cd
I'm working on keeping my laptop disk spun down and am using the
process of elimination to figure out who's always spinning up the
disk.
So far, I've put /tmp on an mfs, and I just installed Robert Sexton's
hw.ata.suspend patch from the freebsd-mobile archives.
I'm slowly killing off and/or
Andrew Boothman writes:
[...]
It's possible I guess that we both suffered from the same problem. I'd
be inclined to think that it must be operator error over something wrong
with sysinstall since I've not seen people complaining of these problems
before, yet there must be loads of
Andrew Boothman writes:
[...]
I didn't really change much about my system when I installed FreeBSD.
Windows is installed on the whole of the first HDD, and FreeBSD on the whole of
the second. Prior to installing 5.0, the second disc had an old installation of
4.6 that I wasn't
George Hartzell writes:
I'd like to set up an IPsec connection between my laptop running
FreeBSD 4.7-REL-p3 and a Linksys BEFVP41 router w/ built in IPsec
capability.
[...]
I almost have things working!
I've fallen back to a very simple solution, it took me a while to
separate
Stacy Millions writes:
George Hartzell wrote:
[...]
I almost have things working!
I've fallen back to a very simple solution, [...]
/usr/sbin/setkey -FP
/usr/sbin/setkey -F
/usr/sbin/setkey -c EOF
spdadd LAPTOP_IP/32 192.168.1.0/24 any -P out ipsec
David Cramblett writes:
Just a quick note, what Linksys box do you have? Are you sure it
supports IPsec? I have seen many that support IPsec pass through, but I
have not seen any that support IPsec.
Yes, it actually supports IPsec itself, with encryption hardware and
everything. It's
I'd like to set up an IPsec connection between my laptop running
FreeBSD 4.7-REL-p3 and a Linksys BEFVP41 router w/ built in IPsec
capability.
I've found a number of sites w/ information on setting up ipsec
between a pair of FreeBSD machines, including:
Hi all,
I have a Lexar 128Mb JumpDrive USB keychain thingy. It works
beatifully on a RedHat Linux system and a Windows 2000 system.
When I plug it into a FreeBSD 4.7 release system I get the following:
[...]
Jan 5 14:01:33 redtail login: ROOT LOGIN (root) ON ttyv0
Jan 5 14:01:54 redtail
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