Re: can't mount 300G USB drive that's FAT32
Bill Moran wrote: Dan Finn [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: FAT32 wasn't my choice. They needed to be writen to by a linux server but they want to be able to take these and just plug them into a windows server if need be. We knew that linux writing ntfs wasn't a good choice so we decided on FAT32. Is there a better solution? Unfortunately, none that I know of. If you want to maintain Windows support, you're pretty much stuck with either NTFS or FAT, as Windows is pretty stupid and doesn't understand many filesystems. There was a windows driver for ufs, but I don't know if it has been ported to newer windows versions. Perhaps google can help. Otherwise, you could use UFS or ext2, which work on both FreeBSD and Linux. On Fri, 25 Jun 2004 14:17:50 -0700, Kent Stewart [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Friday 25 June 2004 02:11 pm, Bill Moran wrote: [I copied Tom on this because I know he was working on FAT filesystem code at some point ... Don't know if he's still trying to do anything there or not.] Dan Finn [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: the system sees the disk: Jun 24 15:37:30 stewie kernel: umass0: Maxtor OneTouch, rev 2.00/2.00, addr 2 Jun 24 15:37:30 stewie kernel: umass0: Get Max Lun not supported (STALLED) Jun 24 15:37:31 stewie kernel: GEOM: create disk da0 dp=0xc2d85050 Jun 24 15:37:31 stewie kernel: da0 at umass-sim0 bus 0 target 0 lun 0 Jun 24 15:37:31 stewie kernel: da0: Maxtor OneTouch 0201 Fixed Direct Access SCSI-0 device Jun 24 15:37:31 stewie kernel: da0: 1.000MB/s transfers Jun 24 15:37:31 stewie kernel: da0: 286103MB (585938944 512 byte sectors: 255H 63S/T 36473C) this is a Maxtor 300G USB drive. A backup was written to it via a linux 2.4 server and now I would like to mount it on my FBSD laptop to read it and work with the files. When trying to mount it using mount_msdos I get the following: [ root @ stewie : ~] : mount_msdosfs -o rw /dev/da0s1 /mnt/usb1/ mount_msdosfs: /dev/da0s1: Invalid argument and in /var/log/messages I get the following: Jun 24 15:43:52 stewie kernel: mountmsdosfs(): disk too big, sorry The source tells the story: From msdosfs_vfsops.c ... /* * We cannot deal currently with this size of disk * due to fileid limitations (see msdosfs_getattr and * msdosfs_readdir) */ ... This section of code exists even in -CURRENT, so it has not yet been improved in FreeBSD. when trying to use ntfs to mount it I get : [ root @ stewie : ~] : mount_ntfs /dev/da0s1 /mnt/usb1/ mount_ntfs: /dev/da0s1: Invalid argument and nothing in any log file. Don't know what's going on there. One of the taks I need to accomplish here is to copy all of the data on this 300G USB drive onto an identical 300G USB drive. I was going to mount both and just copy from one to the other. After reading about the limited writing capabilities in the man page of mount_ntfs I'm wondering if I would be better off doing this on a linux box. If you just need to copy the identical drives, you could ignore the filesystem and make a raw copy. If you ask me, you'd be better off using UFS, which doesn't have any of the weirdnesses or limitations of FAT _or_ NTFS. The linux box that created the origional backup onto the USB drive had no problem creating the Fat32 filesystem and writing to it. Horay for Linux. If you really need to put FAT filesystems on these drives, you're not going to be able to use FreeBSD until the limitation is fixed. The other thing is that the cluster size must be huge. Fat32 was supposed to start being inefficient around 8GB and this is well beyond that :). Kent You should file a PR on this ... it doesn't appear as if one is currently open that addresses this issue: http://www.freebsd.org/send-pr.html -- Kent Stewart Richland, WA http://users.owt.com/kstewart/index.html ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Hendrik ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [OT] Re: Devil Mascot
Andrew L. Gould wrote: On Tue, 15 Jun 2004 11:20:17 -0400 Chris Lynch [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: This thread cracks me up. No matter how many times the same subject has been brought up, I still can't stop laughing at the silliness of it all. Maybe FreeBSD should make a fuzzy bunny that does a happy dance...but, then we'd be stepping on the Easter Bunnies toes, and we all know what could happen then!!! Too fluffy. FreeBSD is a no-fluff OS! ;-) Bun-Bun isn't fluffy. Ok, and he is no longer the easter bunny. And I am sure the happy dance is performed by the easter beagle. Hendrik ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Installing problems. No Desktop.
Lloyd Hayes wrote:
I installed FreeBSD on an older Gateway laptop. 128 MB/ 233 MHz/ 800x600
screen/ 6 GB Hard driver with 4 GB on the hard drive set aside for
FreeBSD. Windows 98 SE is installed in the other 2 GB. FreeBSD appears
to be installed correctly, but I cannot get the KDE desktop to come up.
In fact, all I can get is the command line. I can pull up the
installation files. But that is pretty much it. I am very familiar with
DOS commands, but UNIX commands appears to be nothing like them, and I
don't know any UNIX commands. It seems that I can not pull up even the
directory.
The commands are very similar at the command line, but you invoke a
directory listing with 'ls' instead of 'dir'. Copy and move just lost
their vocals ('cp', 'mv').
I have managed to get my mail saying that I have incomplete
modifications from trying to change things. I get to a point where I
can't even figure our how to close the program, so I hit the power power
which closes things down.
But this is frustrating, and makes a good case for why people are
staying with Windows. In going from the old C-64/C-128 to Apple, to IBM,
to a CP/M operating system, the system commands reminded very much the
same. Even in going from the old GEOS (On both the C-64/C-128 or the PC)
to them MAC, to Windows, things stayed very close to the same between
them. Here everything is completely different. It's like going from
English to being told to fill out a form in Chinese without ever having
seen or heard the language.
Your situation is more like being stuck in MSDOS 6.0 before starting
Windows 3.1(1). You have to start up the X-Windows system.
'XFree86 -configure' generates you a template config for your system.
After you have moved your config to /etc/X11 you should be able to fire
up kde by entering 'kdm'.
If all is successful you can enter the command in /etc/ttys for
automatic startup. There is a template line for xdm.
I've installed the FreeBSD software 4 times coming to the same end. How
do I get from this Chinese line item stuff to an environment that I can
deal with? KDE seems to be installed, but is not coming up by default,
nor by any other way or reason.
I've tried several things, but I tried something to manually bring up
KDE the other day by switching to it's directory. Whatever I was doing
was something out of the FreeBSD Handbook. I was logged in as 'root'. I
got errors saying that I did not have permission. This puzzled me. I
didn't think this was supposed to happen while logged in as root.
It is possible to restrict even root for security reasons.
I have version 5.2.1 which I had downloaded a couple of weeks ago.
Hendrik
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Re: Help: I think I've been hacked! what can I do??
Mark Jayson Alvarez wrote: Hi, Last night before this morning, I was browsing fine with kde's konqueror. I don't remember doing anything about my system rather than dialing through ppp. This morning, when I ppp to dial into internet... my external modem established a successful connection(because I can see the LED's are lightened up the way I usually see it). But when I launch the konqueror and typed something in the address bar and hit enter, it says Unknown Host Next, I tried browsing through Links in my shell but it still says Unknown Host. I even rebooted my machine and tried dialing again.. but still says unknown host whichever browser I use. I've tried to ping 127.0.0.1 and it replied. I've tried to ping http://www.google.com but it says there was an error. Does the error looks like that: ping: cannot resolve www.google.de: Unknown host I've type ifconfig in the shell and it returned something like 198.0.2...198.3.4...(just an example) at the bottom which indicates that I have a successful connection with my isp and they have provided me with a public ip address. I'm sending this email to you from Windows and I'm pretty sure that my external modem is working fine. Question: Do you have any idea what could have happened with my pc? I honestly think that I've been hacked and I am being denied of service. Now, I only have one thing in my mind... to back up my files and reformat my freebsd partition. It could be a DNS issue. Can you try to ping 69.57.142.26, 66.35.250.150, 216.239.37.99, 216.239.57.99 or 216.239.39.99? If you get a reply, try to enter them into your browser. If that works, try to get the DNS server address under windows and enter it in /etc/resolv.conf If you know something better than formatting my pc, please tell me where should I begin... One last thing... Other than those of recovered vi sessions, I can read some unusual mails about system occurances etc.. when I logged in as a root(but I dont know what they really mean) Looking forward to your kindness, -jay :=( Hendrik ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: USB 2.0 (ehci) - still buggy?
Antoine Jacoutot wrote: On Monday 14 June 2004 09:51, AK wrote: I have just compiled EHCI into kernel, but have no luck on making USB2 working :( Is USB2 supported or it is still buggy on fbsd? If I compile ehci into the kernel and plug a USB2 Harddrive, my FreeBSD-5.2.1 box panics, so I guess it is still _very_ buggy. I got a friends external harddrive here and got no problems with either firewire or usb2. Hendrik ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [samba] can't print from w2k to bsd printer
Rob wrote: I've got an HP LaserJet 4V connected to the parallel port of my FBSD PC. I use CUPS, so I share the printer with W2k over ipp (port 631). Note: older W$ boxes (W96, W98) do not support ipp, I believe. There is a client for download on http://www.easysw.com/printpro/ Hendrik ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: USB not fashion
Arek Czereszewski wrote: Hendrik Hasenbein wrote: Try 'mount -t msdos /dev/da0 /removable'. Wrong, # mount -t msdos /dev/da0s1 /removable It hasnt to be on partition one of the key. Most times it is. Hendrik ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: USB not fashion
xavier collot wrote: Hi!! I can't use my USB key!! How can I do this? When I write mount /dev/da0 /removable (/removable has been created by me) I have a warning : incorrect super block Thanks for your answer.. Xav le geek OUF Try 'mount -t msdos /dev/da0 /removable'. Hendrik ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: mount_msdosfs anomaly
Jerry McAllister wrote: Aloha I have a 80 gig hard drive that I have sliced up for multiple distros of linux and freebsd. I have win98 on slice 1 and freebsd on slice 2. On slice 10 I have a 2.7 Gig slice formatted as fat32 for data sharing between all distros. When logged into frebsd (5.2.1) i can mount the win98 slice with mount_msdosfs /dev/ad0s1 /win98 without any trouble. When I attempt to mount slice 10 with mount_msdosfs /dev/ad0s10 /shared I get the following error: mount_msdosfs: /dev/ad0s10: invalid argument. Slice 10 was formatted in win98 and scan disk was run. I have a text file and two jpeg photos in the slice. Only 4 primary slices are recognized. FreeBSD will not talk to a slice 10 and I don't think anything MS will either in a standard manner. That is why they came up with extended partitions. What did you use to create the extra slices? jerry Isn't ad?s5 and up used for the extended partitions? Which devices show up in /dev ? Hendrik ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: why freebsd doesn't support extended partion?
Chan Seng Loong wrote: hi... Can you guy implement extended partion support to freebsd? I have got extended partitions in my system (ad0s5, ad0s6). What support do you need in the system? Hendrik ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: dead mouse
prague wrote: Hey everyone, New to FreeBSD coming off of Slackware Linux. I went through the install okay but the mouse (an optical mouse, non-USB) is dead when i do 'startx'. The mouse should be recognized as a PS/2 but it wasn't. I have edited the XF86Config and changed it to an IMPS/2 and added Options Buttons 5 Options ZAxisMapping 4 5 to the file. This was a fix for Slackware and I thought it may have been the same problem but, still nothing. Any ideas? I suppose you are using the wrong device. With moused: Option Protocol auto Option Device /dev/sysmouse Without (PS/2 mice): Option Protocol auto Option Device /dev/psm0 Hendrik ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Deskjet 3320
Owen Becker wrote: Greetings All, Anyone managed to get an HP Deskjet 3320 working under FreeBSD 5.2.1? Yep working fine most at the time, but sometimes I get an USB port error. (Sometimes = Random and circa twice a month) Only a cold boot can fix it here. Dmesg reports: ulpt0: hp deskjet 3320, rev 2.00/1.00, addr 2, iclass 7/1 ulpt0: using bi-directional mode ulpt0: output error After that message my system resets the port, but the printer wont come back. Hendrik ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: FDisk won't detect or accept correct disk geometry from BIOS
Michael Clark wrote: I configure the two devices that way (CD-ROM as slave, hard drive as master), sysinstall refuses to mount the CD, giving me an error about CD/DVD drive not found!. It's worth noting that no other OS I've run on this same PC ever had any trouble finding the CD-ROM drive when it was configured as the slave. Strange. That you got that problems. I've been always using a CDROM on slave. Never had a problem there. Did you look if the BIOS was able to autodetect the cdrom on boot? Do you use cable select on one of them? To get around _that_ problem, I had to configure the CD-ROM as the master and the hard drive as the slave. With the CD-ROM as the master, sysinstall is able to actually detect the CD/DVD drive, but then I run into this nonsense with fdisk refusing to detect or accept the correct disk geometry for the hard drive. It's worth noting that I've never had to manually specify hard drive geometry settings in the installer for any other OS I've installed on this PC. They figured it out automatically and worked fine. Another time: Just turn on LBA. So far, I'm really disappointed by FreeBSD. If FreeBSD lacks the logic or detection to automatically figure all these things out and just work, that is a serious bug (whether due to a programmer mistake or poor software design). I've _never_ had this much trouble getting an operating system installed on this particular PC. It's due to poor hardware design in history. If I can't get things working within about 1 more hour of tinkering, I'm going to abandon FreeBSD entirely, put my machine back together, and just use the drive as an extra NTFS filesystem for my personal files under Windows XP. That explains, why you don't want to switch from auto to LBA. Sometimes auto is the right thing, but most times you have to think of the right setting, because auto is just a default. (Example: If I leave all values set to auto in my bios, my system is going to creep literally, because some components wont interact correct) When people argue that Windows is easier, and that *nix isn't ready for the desktop, this is *exactly* the kind of problem that they are talking about. I hope any actual FreeBSD developers on these aliases wake up and take notice. The real problem is that we still work around design flaws which exist in hardware for a decade. Everybody uses his/her personal best workaround and sometimes they are in conflict. Hendrik ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: FreeBSD/FDisk geometry problems - SOLVED!
Keith Kelly wrote: I've found a bug in FDisk which is responsible for all the problems I've had trying to get FreeBSD installed. I also found a work-around, and I'm happy to report I'm typing this message from Konquerer inside FreeBSD 5.1-RELEASE right now. Gratulation. Basically, the problem is that FreeBSD's FDisk and the motherboard BIOS independently calculate a set of CHS values (Cylinders/Heads/Sectors) based on the total sector count of the disk, but they do it in different ways and thus end up with different values. Yes. That is because there are different ways to calculate that. So, the problem is that FDisk makes *different* assumptions than my BIOS does about what the sectors and heads values should be. That has always been the problem for CHS conversions. I ran across some information on a BIOS manufacturer's site which claimed that for LBA mode SCSI drives (more accurately known as LBA-Assist translation mode), that it is safe to assume that sectors should be 63 and heads should be 255. Given that FreeBSD's roots and developer community seems historically SCSI-centric, I can see how these assumptions would have been picked up and used in FDisk and considered acceptable. But these assumed values are clearly not correct for how CHS gets calculated by many PC BIOSes for IDE drives. LBA is the only common mode known to all BIOS vendors, Harddrive manufactures and so on, because at least someone made up some assumptions and published them instead of developing their own CHS translation. SCSI was first to breach the BIOS CHS barrier on PCs and so they defined that method. If your BIOS is in auto mode, it tries to get the current format from the harddisk most times uses CHS, but will also find a disk with LBA. So in a modern system LBA would be the safe pick and not CHS. Most likely it picks it from disk (the partition table uses entries for cylinders, heads and sectors to describe the partitions), so the first fdisk sets the addressing the bios chooses. So to avoid conflicts and enhance the usabilty of your drive in different PCs and with different systems use LBA. Furthermore, I believe that the reason FDisk rejects the manually entered CHS of 19618/16/255 is because either (1) it tries to enforce those bad assumptions about heads and sectors, or (2) it gets confused by the rounding error. In other words, in the case of rounding error, FDisk may be taking the manually-entered values, multiplying them together, and seeing that it doesn't exactly match (or come close enough to, in its humble but flawed opinion) the total sector count for the drive. The way Fdisk's geometry validation ought to work is like this: - Divide the total sector count of the drive by (H*S), where H and S are the user-supplied values. - Round the result to the nearest whole number. - Compare that result to the user-supplied value for cylinders. - If the result matches, accept the user's input as good. The test will ensure that the user dont make typos, but it can't ensure that the C. H and S are arranged the same in both conversions. In the meantime, the workaround for anyone experiencing this problem is to go into their BIOS and set the hard drive to User mode, and manually enter the same C/H/S settings that FDisk calculated for the drive. Unfortunately, I think this means that if you have to repartition and reformat the entire drive, since the BIOS will now be addressing the drive using different C/H/S settings and will be unable to read any partitions that were formatting using different C/H/S addressing. So while there is a workaround, it is far from an ideal user experience. Better solution, put the IDE drives to LBA and you'll see that you get the same CHS every time and on every system except MSDOS 6.3. If you got a filesystem which doesnt bother about CHS and uses linear addressing you 'only' need a new partition table. After redoing the drive you can put the IDE back to Auto. Hendrik ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Folding@Home problem
Sara Trice wrote: I'm trying to get [EMAIL PROTECTED] running on freeBSD. I get the console running fine, but once it gets running it just keeps failing when it tries to run FahCore_65.exe. Partial Log: [23:14:50] Trying to unzip core FahCore_65.exe [23:14:52] Decompressed FahCore_65.exe (1732608 bytes) successfully brandelf: file 'FahCore_65.exe' is not ELF format [23:14:52] + Core successfully engaged [23:14:58] [23:14:58] + Processing work unit [23:14:58] Core required: FahCore_65.exe [23:14:58] Core found. [23:14:58] Working on Unit 01 [January 23 23:14:58] [23:14:58] + Working ... sh: ./FahCore_65.exe: cannot execute binary file [23:14:59] CoreStatus = 7E (126) [23:14:59] Client-core communications error: ERROR 0x7e [23:14:59] Deleting current work unit continuing... sh: ./FahCore_65.exe: cannot execute binary file Ideas? Hi, you have to use a parameter (-freeBSD) on the command line, so any new core gets branded on download. hendrik ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: FDisk won't detect or accept correct disk geometry from BIOS
Keith Kelly wrote: OK, but if the auto mode uses the wrong C/H/S translation, this default may be the source of your problem. What happens when you switch from using auto to explicitly using LBA? I don't know. I've never had to change away from Auto to get any other OS to install or boot from any of my hard drives, though, so I really doubt that is the problem. I'm quite confident the problem must lie with FreeBSD itself, in the form of a bug or a lack of hardware support. Although my integrated IDE controller and all other basic hardware is on the FreeBSD supported hardware list. No, the problem doesn't lie with FreeBSD. The problem is in the long line of kept compatibilities since the first Intel-PC. There is no need for an addressing mode besides LBA if you are using current hardware (And this current being a long time). The problem first came when the hard drives hit the first CHS barrier: The manufacturing companies chose different formulas to converted the real CHS to the BIOS CHS values. So until the get used to a common formula or the Linear Block Adressing you couldnt even swap harddrives from one system to another of another IDE board manufacturer. SCSI got more luck on this platform since most manufactures used the adaptec formula and NCR had its own, but could detect if an adaptec formula was used. Back to your systems problem. The BIOS assumes you a different alignment on the harddrive than the system. ONLY if you choose ONE addressing mode you get predictable results and that should be LBA, since it is used in modern ATA-commands. Other addressing modes should only be used for older drives which cant use LBA. I hope there will be a time when the CHS conversions get dropped from BIOS, but I doubt that. Choosing one mode enforces the correct conversion on each system. I definitely do not have hardware issues, because Linux, Windows XP, Windows 2000, BeOS, and SkyOS have all worked fine at various points, and Windows XP continues to work fine :-) Lucky you. Haven't been so lucky, but LBA solved it. Hendrik ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: How to create .iso file image of cdrom (atapi)?
Francisco Reyes wrote: Other than speed is there any consideration about the buffer size? I assume you are referring to the 'bs=2048' argument to dd. The argument 'bs=2048' sets the block size to be used for the device. You can't use another value for cdrom drives than 2048 except you are able to change the blocksize on the drive. Some can be jumpered for 512 per block, but there is no need to do that. If you use another value for bs the operation will fail on a cdrom drive. Hendrik -- Ahhh there's only 10 types of people in the world, those who understand binary and those who don't... ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: playing a DVD with mplayer
stan wrote: I just got a new notebook with a DVD drive. I compiled mplayer from the ports. Now I want to play a smaple VD that I have. What do I need to do to mount the DVD? 'mplayer -dvd 1 -dvd-device /dev/cd0' should do. Eventually you have to change the device. Hendrik ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: USB stick
Christoph P. Kukulies wrote: Only drawback, which probably cannot be solved, to automatically unmount :-) when the user is about to pull the stick. Is there a detach line? Yes, there is. But it is too late. If you pull the stick the system gets noticed, but can't unmount it because the device is physically no longer available. Same problem on every system. Hendrik ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: 5.1 WD 80.0GB SE Drive Geometry
Jim wrote: Same deal. Installation runs through fine, does the post-install, finishes nicely, and reboots to a void (system runs POST, shows the devices, then hangs indefinitely (pre-os startup)). Turn on LBA access for that disk in your bios instead of auto and dont touch the geometrie in the editor. That worked for me. Hendrik ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Possible errors in FreeBSD 5.1
James Leone wrote: 2. While I am in KDE in FreeBSD, but not in KDE in Linux, if I click on the Floppy Device icon before the floppy is inserted, I will not be able to access a subsequently inserted floppy disk. When I do, I get an error that says: the device is not configured. Why do you even want to access a floppy before you insert it into the drive? No system should be able to do that. Kde tries to mount the floppy on clicking on the item. That is going to fail, because without a floppy in the drive there is no device in the device filesystem. Can't think why that should work with linux. 3. When I went to /boot/kernel and typed kldload pcm, it appeared to load up fine, no warning messages, etc. However, when I boot into KDE, KDE will not have any sound. However, if I compile PCM into the kernel and reboot, KDE's sound works just fine. Should work both ways. Perhaps the kde sound deamon is run by an script in /usr/local/etc/rc.d before your module is probed in. 4. The Real Player port does not use FreeBSD's sound system, even though sound is working in KDE. I have found a few proposed solutions, including one from the Real One Player forum, but none work. The error message says device not found. Realplayer is working fine. Perhaps your sound device is already taken and blocked by kde. 5. When configured with the tools available to sysinstall, and additionally when X -configure is run, the XF86Config file does not include the modes lines that I get in SuSE Linux 8.2. I ended up copying over and slightly modifying SuSE's XF86Config file for better screeen resolution. Modelines aren't needed any more. Just insert the parameters of your monitor and choose the desired resolution. Btw most screens show a sharper display if they aren't running at their stated max. Hendrik ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: terabyte limit
Shawn Ostapuk wrote: I have around 10 IDE drives which add up to over a terabyte. My goal is to use them all as one big drive using any means necessary (I have a backup so redundency is not needed, only space in this situation) I used to use vinum (and still would like to), i hit the terabyte limit with UFS and was told i would have to upgrade to 5.1 in order to take advantage of UFS2 and 1TB filesystem -- so thats what i've done. However I still seem to have the exactly same problems. I'm now trying it on a whole new box and set of drives with the same set of problems. It doesn't matter if i use vinum or ccdconfig -- they all work fine and predictably, until I make it larger than a terabyte then i get the following on freebsd 5.1 RELEASE: with ccdconfig # ccdconfig -cv ccd0 16 none /dev/ad1s1e .. /dev/ad10s1e ccd0: 10 componets (ad1s1e, .., ad10s1e), 2223956864 blocks interleaved at 16 blocks # newfs /dev/ccd0 newfs: wtfs: 512 bytes at sector 2223956863: Invalid argument with vinum # newfs /dev/vinum/vinum0 /dev/vinum/vinum0: 1085915.5MB (2223954992 sectors) block size 16384, fragment size 2048 using 5910 cylinder groups of 183.77MB, 11761 blks, 23552 inodes. newfs: can't read old UFS1 superblock: read error from block device: Invalid arguement Try newfs -O 2 /dev/vinum/vinum0 to force ufs2. Hope that works. Hendrik ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: using FreeBSD plus KDE as a kiosk
Matt Hartzell wrote: I am interested in using FreeBSD and KDE as a semi-publicly accessible internet terminal. I have a web-based application that I would like to run from this type of setup. Does anyone have any experience using a setup like this? Can any one point me toward relevant documents? If you only need to show a website and no other programs should be displayed in parallel you might want to try a combination of ratpoison+browser of your choice. Depending on your browser you can even omit ratpoison and just start the browser as the xsession (should have tabbed browsing then). In effect you get a fullscreen browser with your app as homepage. More browser windows can be openend and switched between them with free configurable shortcuts (i recommend alt+tab). If the browser is closed you end the xsession and depending on configuration a new session might open or show a loginscreen. Hendrik ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Possible errors in FreeBSD 5.1
James Leone wrote: LIke I said, I am just providing information here. I really don't care if it gets resolved, but I did care enough to point out these REAL problems. If you aren't interested in solutions set the reply-to to [EMAIL PROTECTED] for the problem reports. Still can't see REAL problems here. Hendrik ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: VT82C686/A/B AC'97 Audio Codec
Timur wrote: Hi! I have integrated via82c686 soundcard.. I am new to freebsd (coming from linux), and wishing to use it instead windows at work. The sound card in Windows XP is shown as AC97 codec, and works well. Unfortunately, I have no luck with making it work under freebsd. What I am trying to do is to load via82c686 driver.. it loads, but the kernel does not writes any messages about detected card (it with CMI8xxx card at home).. I only added 'device pcm' to the kernel, so kldload pcm should work as root. Hendrik ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re:
Denis wrote: Hi All!!! Does FreeBSD support C++ or support C only? C, C++, objective C, Fortran, Modula, Java ... Hendrik ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: XF86 Multiple Head video cards
Ted Wisniewski wrote: Hi, Can anyone recommend a Multi-head video card (the more heads the better, I am thinking 4 heads if possible) that will work with XF86 and FreeBSD 4.8 or 5.1. The sooner the better. I may be able to get some Free FreeBSD press out of the results.. I can't recommend a Multi-head card, because I only got one (geforce 4 ti4200). Dual-head is possible with the nvidia driver. The driver itself is a pain if you got other nvidia stuff in your computer (nforce(2)), because it just looks at the vendor id and not on the device class. The ide controller doesn't like that if acpi is enabled. Adding the line to the driver fixed it and the system runs fine now. Hendrik ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: mplayer quicktime killing me
Monah Baki wrote: Hi, I got mplayer and openquicktime running 3 days ago, don't know how I did and I can't seem to replicate the procedure. I'm running 5.1/Windowmaker, and I know I need to install from ports: multimedia/openquicktime multimedia/mplayer www/mplayer-plugin www/mozilla (1.4) Reading config file /usr/local/share/mplayer/mplayer.conf: no such file or directory Can't load font bitmap: iso-8859-1-a.raw You have to install mplayer-fonts, too. Or make user-install in the ports to generate a config. Hendrik ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: multimedia/MMX, Celeron CPU, and the kernel config
Louis LeBlanc wrote: Now, I realize no one will want to make 'supported' or 'guaranteed' recommendations, but I would certainly appreciate some pointers on taking the above information and determining the ideal CPU options to use in my kernel. I looked at the handbook, and can't find any such details or links. My main goal is to find out what CPU features are disabled through the kernel config, and enable them - particularly MMX support. You don't need to enable MMX in the kernel. Your mplayer had MMX on, the mplayerxp not I remember. Perhaps there is a switch for mplayerxp. Features=0x183f9ffFPU,VME,DE,PSE,TSC,MSR,PAE,MCE,CX8,SEP,MTRR,PGE,MCA,CMOV,PAT,PSE36,MMX,FXSR Does this specify just detection or kernel config? I would call it detection. Hendrik ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: OT: xterm setup
Jesse Sheidlower wrote: I recently upgraded my desktop to Gnome2, and of the various things that are causing me grief, the biggest is what's happened to my xterm windows. Now, after the change, it does three things differently and annoyingly: (1) it defaults to black/colored text on a white background; (2) it doesn't have a scrollbar of any sort; and (3) there's no menubar with basic File/Edit etc. options. Sounds like the gnome terminal or eterm. The standard xterm doesn't give you a menubar. I can somewhat get around (1) by launching it with xterm -r, although while this does display white/colored on black, it also makes other menus (e.g. those launched with ctrl-[mouse buttons]) look incomplete. You can set up .Xresources to change the behaviour of all xterms: XTerm*reverseVideo: true XTerm*ScrollBar:off XTerm*SaveLines:300 But (2) is the worst; I really need to have scrollbars with this. I see that there's a toggleable option to Enable Scrollbar that I get to with ctrl-Mouse2, but this isn't a regular scrollbar that I can click up and down on, with a moveable thumb, etc., as I used to have before the upgrade and as the gnome-terminal has now. Also: XTerm*ScrollBar:off XTerm*SaveLines:300 and 'xterm -sb' Hmm. I certainly thought I was using xterm, as I recall setting up the icon to launch xterm, and my .bashrc is setting TERM to xterm-color rather than gnome-terminal or anything else. TERM states the capabilities of the terminal. Since most terminals implements the same feature set for input as xterm does, they use the same entry in termcap. Is it possible that the functional scrollbars, etc., were an addition of the window manager, and if so is there any way to replicate it now? Use eterm or any other clone. Hendrik ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: usbdevs
Alan Batie wrote: OK, I got a D-Link USB 2 pci card, and now the devices get seen at boot up, though it still thinks it's uhci instead of ohci; I don't know what's what, but thought uhci was 1.1 and ohci was 2.0: No, UHCI and OHCI are both USB 1.1. USB 2.0 host controllers are calles EHCI. EHCI can double as UHCI or OHCI for campatibility. OHCI = Open Host Controller Interface (USB 1.x) UHCI = Universal Host Controller Interface (USB 1.x) EHCI = Enhanced Host Controller Interface (USB 2.0) Hendrik ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Formatting a floppy
Verghese George wrote: Did anybody find a bug in FreeBSD 5.1 when formatting a floppy? It always gives an error even when formatting a new floppy, When I used version 4.8, the formatting works fine with the same machine and hardware. I also find the number of drives in Free BSD 5.1 much less than in version 4.8. Many of the device drivers in /dev corresponding to fd0 are not available. I have decided to go back to version 4.8 Any similiar experiences? What kind of filesystem did you try to put on the floppy? The entries in /dev represent the actual situation on the floppy in FreeBSD 5. You see less device nodes in /dev on an empty floppy than on a formatted one. If you write a disklabel to the floppy new entries should appear in /dev. /dev is now a dynamic device filesystem. Hendrik ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Trouble setting up multiple boot on big disk
Brett Glass wrote: I'm setting up a laptop which will need to dual-boot Windows 2000 Server (ugh!) and FreeBSD. I partitioned the large (60 GB) hard disk so that there was an 18 GB NTFS partition at the beginning, followed by a 20 GB partition for data, followed by an 18 GB partition for FreeBSD. But when I attempted to install FreeBSD, the disk labeling utility wouldn't let me divide the 18 GB partition (or slice, in traditional UNIX parlance) into file systems (partitions in UNIX parlance). I get an error message that says I can't do it because something's too big. What limitation am I hitting, and how do I get around it? I got a problem when my BIOS was on auto adressing mode for the drive. I switched it to LBA and now every system see the same layout. Hendrik ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Newer names
Vitali Malicky wrote: What about DRAGON? There is also such a term as DRAGON. Yes, I'm all serious. cron is a DRAGON, for example. DRAGON is a process which may run other processes periodically under a user specified. What about it? And many my colleagues, and me as well, refer to it also as PROCESS. You've made me curious. Can you explain me the acronym DRAGON? Or did you just make that up? Hendrik ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Why people are not satisfied with FreeBSD?
Adam McLaurin wrote: On Sat, 2003-08-30 at 08:13, Denis Troshin wrote: Are there any common reasons of why people are not satisfied with FreeBSD? Why do they still prefer windows? To use windows doesn't implicate that the user prefers Windows. Using Windows more often implicates to hate it :). But sometimes you have no choice until you find a solution for your problem (Hello nvidia! *wave*) or you can convince your employer. Note that many people post from more than one system. Let's all refrain from feeding this troll. Later. At least he used put a name along his address. Hendrik ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Quicktime Trailers
Monah Baki wrote: Hi all, I'm trying to setup a Freebsd 5.1 machine to be able to watch quicktime trailers from apple's website. I installed from ports: qtutils libquicktime openquicktime However, the site tells me I'm still missing a plugin and can't view the trailer. Any help will be highly appreciated. To get a plugin in your browser I recommend to use ports/mplayerplug-in. That should allow you to view the trailer. If you get no sound, don't worry. That's not your fault. Some new trailer use an audiocodec which I only got in the latest windoze qt-player. It won't even play sound on a Mac. Hendrik ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Newer names
Vitali Malicky wrote: OK, Hendrik! On monday I'll take A Student's Guide To UNIX(C) by Harley Hann which I began with 5 years ago, and I'll quote for you and for all dear All the whole paragraph where it's explained. Deal? Why not? :) But I was more interested what the single letters in dragon mean, because you already explained a dragon itself. I don't think this is a right place to share bookchapters. Hendrik ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Mozilla and linebreaks
Dan Nelson wrote: In the last episode (Aug 29), Hendrik Hasenbein said: How do I force mozilla to break at 72 or 80 chars? I guess you're talking about writing email messages? Edit-Preferences-Composition, Wrap plaintext messages at [ 72 ] characters should be the default. It is turned on on both systems, but it only wraps in the compose window. When the mail gets back via the list I get one-liner. Hendrik ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re:
Glitch Birkenstock wrote: Hi Freebsd stuff, Good Afternoon. Can yah please help me out?i live in Philippines.i am using windows here and i want to change it into FREEBSD new version. i already downloaded all files here:ftp://ftp5.us.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/ i read the txt files but it doesnt shows the manual on how to install.im kinda new to it.how can i install the FREEbsd? Follow the instructions on http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/install.html . The pages should answer most questions. can i use it as dual?like windows and FREEBSD by booting or can select which one to use? You can install a bootmanager and select the partition/slice to boot from. All i want is to use both coz i really dont know if there is a word,exceel,photoshop,access,power point and frontpage just like in windows. There is no word, excel, photoshop, access, power point and frontpage. There is Abiword, gnumeric, gimp, mysql. Or use openoffice to get all features in one. can i use two OS (WIndows and FREEBSD)? Yes, you can use more than one os on your hardware. See above. Good luck. Hendrik ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: usbdevs
Alan Batie wrote: I've just installed FreeBSD 4.8 Release from the cd's. There's a 4 port USB card plugged in, with a Logitech USB mouse, a USB Serial port and a Belkin USB/IDE case with a Maxtor 30G IDE drive in it. Is the mouse a logitech optical mouse with forcefeedback? I got one to get able to distinguish my mouses by colour, but it caused a lot of trouble on the UHCI onboard controller. As soon as I put it on a OHCI it worked fine. Hendrik ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Scroll back in console
Jerry McAllister wrote: Generally hitting Scroll Lock and then PageUp works for me. The amount you can see depends on the amount of space reserved for it that is configured. I don't remember the parameter or place right off hand. You can configure options for the sc in the kernel (taken from 4.x): device sc0 at isa? flags 0x100 options SC_NORM_ATTR=(FG_GREEN|BG_BLACK) options SC_NORM_REV_ATTR=(FG_BLACK|BG_GREEN) options SC_KERNEL_CONS_ATTR=(FG_RED|BG_BLACK) options SC_KERNEL_CONS_REV_ATTR=(FG_BLACK|BG_RED) options SC_HISTORY_SIZE=512 Hendrik ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Mozilla and linebreaks
How do I force mozilla to break at 72 or 80 chars? Hendrik ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
ASUS A7N8X + nvidia driver
Hi, i am running FreeBSD-5.1 and can't get agp up and running. I tried to load the kernel module before and after system start and also tried with and without acpi. The results were the same: nvidia0: Unknown at device 0.1 on pci0 nvidia0: Unable to enable PCI busmastering. device_probe_and_attach: nvidia0 attach returned 6 nvidia0: Unknown at device 0.2 on pci0 nvidia0: Unable to enable PCI busmastering. device_probe_and_attach: nvidia0 attach returned 6 nvidia0: Unknown at device 0.3 on pci0 nvidia0: Unable to enable PCI busmastering. device_probe_and_attach: nvidia0 attach returned 6 nvidia0: Unknown at device 0.4 on pci0 nvidia0: Unable to enable PCI busmastering. device_probe_and_attach: nvidia0 attach returned 6 nvidia0: Unknown at device 0.5 on pci0 nvidia0: Unable to enable PCI busmastering. device_probe_and_attach: nvidia0 attach returned 6 nvidia0: Unknown port 0xe800-0xe81f irq 10 at device 1.1 on pci0 nvidia0: Unable to enable PCI busmastering. device_probe_and_attach: nvidia0 attach returned 6 nvidia0: Unknown mem 0xcf081000-0xcf0810ff irq 5 at device 2.2 on pci0 nvidia0: Unable to allocate NVIDIA memory resource. device_probe_and_attach: nvidia0 attach returned 6 nvidia0: Unknown port 0xec00-0xec07 mem 0xcf082000-0xcf082fff irq 10 at device 4.0 on pci0 nvidia0: Unable to allocate NVIDIA memory resource. device_probe_and_attach: nvidia0 attach returned 6 nvidia0: Unknown mem 0xcf00-0xcf07 irq 10 at device 5.0 on pci0 nvidia0: Unable to allocate NVIDIA memory resource. device_probe_and_attach: nvidia0 attach returned 6 nvidia0: GeForce4 Ti 4200 with AGP8X mem 0xc000-0xc7ff,0xcb00-0xcbff irq 11 at device 0.0 on pci3 Does someone know a solution? Hendrik ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
