Help troubleshoot the nvidia driver and x display problem
Hello, I need some help to troubleshoot why the X doesn't come up after installing the latest nvidia driver from the port tree. I have no X display problem prior to replacing the generic vga driver with the new nvidia driver. I installed the driver via the ports tree, added a line to turn off agp.ko in device.hint, edited xorg.conf per the readme file from the driver download, then rebooted the box. When it tried to start the X server, the screen flashed a few times then gave me the following errors: kdm: Abnormal termination of greeter for display:0, code 1, singal 0 (the line above repeats five times) init: getty repeating too quickly on port /dev/ttyv8, sleepinnng 30 secs My system has FreeBSD 5.3 installed with default xorg-server-6.7.0_9. I also have Linux ABI compability turned on. My graphics card is GeForce TI4000. The /etc/ttys has the following line: ttyv8 /usr/local/bin/kdm -nodaemon xterm on secure I looked in the Xorg.0.log file but did not spot any error. Any help to chase down this display problem will be greatly appreciated. rain - Do you Yahoo!? All your favorites on one personal page Try My Yahoo! ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Status of java support in FreeBSD 5.x release?
Thanks for the tip! And, yes, the bad first line in the Currency?.java file is still there! Has anyone submitted a bug report to the port maintainer? I cvsup my port tree just 5 hours ago before starting compiling /usr/ports/jdk14. Can't believe the problem still hasn't been fixed. :-( one question though. I followed the suggestion in the pkg message that says: # kldload linprocfs and # mount -t linprocfs linprocfs /compat/linux/proc Is this just a one time procedure for compiling the jdk or do I have to do something permanent in the kernel configuration? rain --- Nikolas Britton [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: rain cip wrote: Hello, Does anyone know the status of java support in FreeBSD 5.x release? Their website says there is a binary compatibility issue in 5.x but doesn't give further detail on what the issue is. Has anyone had any success using linux port of java in the 5.3 release? Thanks. rain The native jdk14 works fine for FreeBSD 5.3, read my notes before you start, remember to mount linprocfs before you start: http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-newbies/2004-October/002551.html Use this to test java: http://weather.noaa.gov/radar/mosaic.loop/DS.p19r0/ar.us.conus.shtml, the link in my notes has a typo. __ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Mail - Helps protect you from nasty viruses. http://promotions.yahoo.com/new_mail ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Status of java support in FreeBSD 5.x release?
Hello, Does anyone know the status of java support in FreeBSD 5.x release? Their website says there is a binary compatibility issue in 5.x but doesn't give further detail on what the issue is. Has anyone had any success using linux port of java in the 5.3 release? Thanks. rain __ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Mail - now with 250MB free storage. Learn more. http://info.mail.yahoo.com/mail_250 ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
How to configure gcc in FreeBSD 5.3
Hello, Is there a way to configure gcc post installation of the 5.3 release? I am thinking to leverage the -cputype flag used by the compiler. BTW, is there any noticeable performance gain by using the cputype flag with gcc? My processor is athlon-xp. Thanks. rain - Do you Yahoo!? The all-new My Yahoo! What will yours do? ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: question on portupgrade and FreeBSD branches
I see. Thanks, Erik. It now makes a lot more sense to me why the ports collection is there in the first place. rain Erik Trulsson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, Dec 06, 2004 at 11:09:04AM -0800, rain cip wrote: Hello, I am new to the FreeBSD ports collection system and am having some difficulty understanding how the ports collection works with the FreeBSD branches. After having perused the ports collection doc on the FreeBSD website, I got the impression that it is the FreeBSD branch tag that determines which versions of the packages or ports will be installed/upgraded. But this is somehow confusing to me when I need to upgrade a port. Here is an example. I have FreeBSD 5.3 installed via CD so it appears to me that the branch tag used by my installation is 5.3-RELEASE. I installed a bunch of packages from the CD, then updated the ports collection using the CVSup. Now, if I use portupgrade to upgrade a package, on which branch will it look for the new ports? One example is KDE. I had version 3.3.0 installed via the ports collection but now there is a new 3.3.1 version out there, which appears to be on the 5.3 STABLE branch. But can I simply use the portupgrade on my 5.3-RELEASE to upgrade KDE to the 3.3.1 port? The ports tree is not branched, so the same ports are used for all FreeBSD versions. Packages are slightly different, since the resulting binaries will be different when compiled on FreeBSD 5.x vs 4.x (new compiler, updated libraries, etc.) I don't use packages myself, and I don't use portupgrade at all, so I don't know exactly what it will do in your case, but I suspect it will do the right thing and work fine. -- Erik Trulsson [EMAIL PROTECTED] __ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
question on portupgrade and FreeBSD branches
Hello, I am new to the FreeBSD ports collection system and am having some difficulty understanding how the ports collection works with the FreeBSD branches. After having perused the ports collection doc on the FreeBSD website, I got the impression that it is the FreeBSD branch tag that determines which versions of the packages or ports will be installed/upgraded. But this is somehow confusing to me when I need to upgrade a port. Here is an example. I have FreeBSD 5.3 installed via CD so it appears to me that the branch tag used by my installation is 5.3-RELEASE. I installed a bunch of packages from the CD, then updated the ports collection using the CVSup. Now, if I use portupgrade to upgrade a package, on which branch will it look for the new ports? One example is KDE. I had version 3.3.0 installed via the ports collection but now there is a new 3.3.1 version out there, which appears to be on the 5.3 STABLE branch. But can I simply use the portupgrade on my 5.3-RELEASE to upgrade KDE to the 3.3.1 port? rain - Do you Yahoo!? All your favorites on one personal page Try My Yahoo! ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: How to boot FreeBSD from a slave IDE disk
Thanks, Joshua. This appears to be the easiest way to add multiple OSs. I installed gag and added another Linux OS parition in no time. Great tool! rain Joshua Lokken [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, 25 Nov 2004 20:26:38 -0800 (PST), rain cip wrote: Hello, I hope I can get some help from this list to figure out how to boot FreeBSD from a slave drive. My PC has two disks. The sysinstall sees both: ad0 and ad3. My hardware configuration is such: ad0 -- primary IDE, master (all for Win2k) ad3 -- secondary IDE, slave (all for FreeBSD 5.3) I know I must have done something wrong. But what did I do wrong? I'm not sure. I know that I use a tool called GAG to boot mutliple OSes from assorted locations, and it has always worked very well for me. http://gag.sourceforge.net/ HTH, -- Joshua Lokken Open Source Advocate - Do you Yahoo!? The all-new My Yahoo! What will yours do? ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
How to boot FreeBSD from a slave IDE disk
Hello, I hope I can get some help from this list to figure out how to boot FreeBSD from a slave drive. My PC has two disks. The sysinstall sees both: ad0 and ad3. My hardware configuration is such: ad0 -- primary IDE, master (all for Win2k) ad3 -- secondary IDE, slave (all for FreeBSD 5.3) No more device on the primary IDE while a CD drive acts as the master on the secondary IDE. I used the entire space on ad3 for a FreeBSD 5.3 release installation while the ad0 contains my old Win 2k. The problem now is that I can't boot FreeBSD at all even though I had selected install boot manager during the installation. The PC went straight to Win2k every time I booted. I tried to reboot from the distribution CDROM and used the FDISK utility to make sure that the FreeBSD slice is flagged as A= but it did nothing. In the BIOS setting, I selected the slave drive, i.e. ad3, to be the first boot device, and the ad0 to be second. Still, I couldn't get to FreeBSD. It appears to me that I did not have the boot manager installed on the ad0. But when I tried to install boot manager onto the ad0, the fdisk gave me no hint where to write the MBR. Basically what I did was: select install boot manager select ad0 hit the q key select install boot manager select ad3 hit the q key I know I must have done something wrong. But what did I do wrong? rain - Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Mail - Helps protect you from nasty viruses. ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
