Re: Mac osX drivers

2008-03-24 Thread Oliver Herold
Hi Mac OS X uses a different driver model, I/O kit. It's based on the XNU kernel (BSD/Mach). http://www.kernelthread.com/mac/osx/arch_xnu.html Cheers, Oliver Da Rock [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I know I keep asking about drivers, but what about Mac drivers? I understand that Mac osX is based

Re: Very bad performance when using battery on my laptop with FB7

2008-03-23 Thread Oliver Herold
Hi just a shoot into the dark, but did you set debug.cpufreq.lowest=1000 in /etc/sysctl.conf? 1000 MHz is the lowest (usable) frequency of my laptop. Cheers, Olier Kemian Dang [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Dear all, I have a Compaq laptop running FB7 stable. When I use battery, the system

Re: xpdf segmentation fault on FreeBSD 7.0 Release

2008-03-12 Thread Oliver Herold
No, I'm using it without any problems. Maybe you have some strange configuration in /etc/make.conf? Cheers, Oliver Kemian Dang [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, all, I have installed xpdf 3.02 on a FreeBSD 7.0 Release Box without problem, I can use xpdf -h to get the help information, But when

Re: the best network card for freebsd 7.0

2008-03-04 Thread Oliver Herold
Usually Intel nics are a good choice. Oliver Mohamad Faizul [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: hello and good day all, i wanna ask about the good network card for freebsd 7.0 thanks -- Faizul http://kaki5.wordpress.com/ ___

Re: FreeBSD bind performance in FreeBSD 7

2008-02-29 Thread Oliver Herold
: -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Sam Leffler Sent: Wednesday, February 27, 2008 8:54 AM To: Ted Mittelstaedt Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; Kris Kennaway; Oliver Herold; freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: FreeBSD bind

FreeBSD bind performance in FreeBSD 7

2008-02-25 Thread Oliver Herold
Hi, I saw this bind benchmarks just some minutes ago, http://new.isc.org/proj/dnsperf/OStest.html is this true for FreeBSD 7 (current state: RELENG_7/7.0R) too? Or is this something verified only for the state of development back in August 2007? --Oliver -- QOTD: Ludwig Boltzmann, who

Re: FreeBSD Linux distro

2008-02-22 Thread Oliver Herold
Yes! This is the best answer to this question so far. Just UNIX nothing more :-) --Oliver Wojciech Puchar [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: by not being linux at all. FreeBSD is more a server than a desktop system. Ubuntu particularly is FreeBSD isn't both desktop or server system. it is just

Re: How to mount usb flash disk on FreeBSD 7.0

2007-11-08 Thread Oliver Herold
Hi if this is a card reader then it will be most of the time something like mount_msdosfs /dev/da0s1 /mnt/usb Just have a look into /dev Cheers Oliver On Thu, Nov 08, 2007 at 09:13:15PM +0800, Tsetsbold wrote: Hi all, I am newbie to UNIX and using FreeBSD 7.0 current ,and I cannot mount

Re: FreeBSD 6.2-release and azalia sound chipset

2007-11-05 Thread Oliver Herold
Hi, http://people.freebsd.org/~ariff/BINARY_MODULES/ just follow the README. Cheers, Oliver On Mon, Nov 05, 2007 at 10:51:37PM +0100, Nicolas Letellier wrote: Hello, I installed 6.2 -release. I have the sound chipset azalia (Intel 82801H HD Audio). However, I don't find a module for

Re: Flashplayer?

2007-10-07 Thread Oliver Herold
Hi just install Gnash, it doesn't play all of the Flash content, but it will play all of the Youtube videos. Cheers, Oliver On Sun, Oct 07, 2007 at 10:26:17AM -0700, Rem P Roberti wrote: Anyone give me a heads up on what needs to be done to watch YouTube videos using Firefox and FreeBSD 6.2?

Re: hard drive testing...

2007-10-07 Thread Oliver Herold
Bonnie++ is a benchmark, to actually 'test' your harddrive you should use some tool of the manufacturer. Cheers, Oliver On Sun, Oct 07, 2007 at 02:40:50PM -0700, Gary Kline wrote: Last question for today. Well, hopefullly. Is bonnie++ the only meeans of testing a hard drive?

Re: linux-flashplugin9 (usable?)

2007-10-03 Thread Oliver Herold
Hi, you have to use www/nspluginwrapper together with the Linux Flash-plugins, but Flash9 isn't stable, most of the time you can just play some seconds and then it crashes. If Youtube is your intention try Gnash instead. Cheers, Oliver On Wed, Oct 03, 2007 at 08:56:23PM +0200, Peo Nilsson

Re: USB headset

2007-10-01 Thread Oliver Herold
Hi for my Logitech USB boxes I have to load snd_uaudio first. You have to attach your USB device *after* you've loaded the driver. Cheers, Oliver On Mon, Oct 01, 2007 at 02:25:08AM +0200, Andreas Davour wrote: Hi Anyone know how to use a USB Logitech headset with FreeBSD? I'd like to use

Re: 6.2 iso images

2007-10-01 Thread Oliver Herold
As far as I know there are just the releases, but there are of course recent stable and current isos. Cheers, Oliver On Mon, Oct 01, 2007 at 01:25:29PM -0600, hal wrote: On freebsd.org the date of the ISO images is 1-12-2007. There have been several updates since then. Is there a repository

Re: Questions on the scheduler

2007-09-29 Thread Oliver Herold
Are there any numbers or technical papers? Just out of curiosity. Cheers, Oliver On Sat, Sep 29, 2007 at 06:10:50PM +0200, Kris Kennaway wrote: RW wrote: The FreeBSD response was to make the kernel more SMP friendly with finer-grained locking, and to bring-in the ULE scheduler. Dragonfly

Re: Questions on the scheduler

2007-09-29 Thread Oliver Herold
Thanks :-) Cheers, Oliver On Sat, Sep 29, 2007 at 06:45:20PM +0200, Kris Kennaway wrote: Oliver Herold wrote: Are there any numbers or technical papers? Just out of curiosity. I ran a mysql benchmark against Dragonfly-current and FreeBSD 7 on an 8-core machine (one of the workloads

Re: Questions on the scheduler

2007-09-29 Thread Oliver Herold
+0300, Abdullah Ibn Hamad Al-Marri wrote: On 9/29/07, Kris Kennaway [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Oliver Herold wrote: Are there any numbers or technical papers? Just out of curiosity. I ran a mysql benchmark against Dragonfly-current and FreeBSD 7 on an 8-core machine (one of the workloads

Re: Stress testing/burning in HDDs

2007-09-27 Thread Oliver Herold
Maybe with stress? http://weather.ou.edu/~apw/projects/stress/ /usr/ports/sysutils/stress Cheers, Oliver On Thu, Sep 27, 2007 at 10:43:24AM -0700, Don O'Neil wrote: I have an array that has a drive that keeps timing out/failing... So I need to replace it. However, I want to stress test/burn

Re: Why is sendmail in the core of FreeBSD?

2007-09-22 Thread Oliver Herold
Hi, 'most people' is a vague term, http://www.securityspace.com/s_survey/data/man.200708/mxsurvey.html if you have a look at this survey, sendmail rules it. So 'most' depends on the context and a mailinglist isn't of much significance in my opionion. Cheers, Oliver On Sat, Sep 22, 2007 at

Re: How to downgrade from xorg-7.3 to xorg-7.2 ...

2007-09-22 Thread Oliver Herold
Hi did you start X with startx -- -ignoreABI ? Usually this works like a charm. Cheers, Oliver On Sat, Sep 22, 2007 at 02:50:25PM +0200, Kiffin Gish wrote: Hi there, Since I recently upgraded to xorg-7.3, I cannot use my laptop because nvidia has not yet provided an upgraded driver. I've

Re: flash player

2007-08-26 Thread Oliver Herold
Yes you can diable it with make DISABLE_VULNERABILITIES=yes in the linux-flashplugin directory. Cheers Oliver On Sun, Aug 26, 2007 at 09:53:33AM -0400, Michael S wrote: Good day all, I am trying to install flash 7 from ports, I keep on getting this message linux-flashplugin -- critical

Re: Calendar for 7.0-RELEASE

2007-06-29 Thread Oliver Herold
http://www.freebsd.org/releng/ Cheers, Oliver On Fri, Jun 29, 2007 at 01:30:45PM +0200, Jose Luis Alarcon Sanchez wrote: Hello Folks. Please, anyone knows when is planned (aprox.) FreeBSD 7.0-RELEASE will be available?. Thanks you very much, in advance. Regards. Jose. --

Re: gimp error

2007-06-24 Thread Oliver Herold
Didn't experience this kind of problem at all. I'm using Gimp in FreeBSD stable with lot of pictures in 5-7MP. Cheers, Oliver On Sun, Jun 24, 2007 at 07:37:57PM +0200, cpghost wrote: On Sat, Jun 23, 2007 at 02:05:49PM -0400, Tsu-Fan Cheng wrote: On 6/23/07, Roland Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: gimp error

2007-06-23 Thread Oliver Herold
There is an error in libX11, you have to patch this library. http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-x11/2007-June/004649.html Cheers, Oliver On Sat, Jun 23, 2007 at 10:59:13AM -0400, Tsu-Fan Cheng wrote: On 6/23/07, Tsu-Fan Cheng [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: hi, i am using gimp 2.2

Re: nve driver clarifications with 6.2-RELEASE

2007-06-22 Thread Oliver Herold
hint.nve.0.disabled=1 in /boot/device.hints should do the magic. If have a motherboard with nforce4 (430) chipset, nve isn't even in action, to use the onboard nic I have to use nfe but I don't need the phy patch. Cheers, Oliver On Fri, Jun 22, 2007 at 01:04:55PM +0100, Matthew Bloch wrote: