Re: How to know the size of RAM memory

2007-08-05 Thread Shantanoo Mahajan
On 05-Aug-07, at 8:53 AM, Prakash Poudyal wrote: Hello everybody, Can any body tell how to see the size of RAM memory in freebsd. ? you may try: sysctl -a | grep -i mem shanatnoo ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.o

portsdb and cvsup

2007-08-05 Thread Arend P. van der Veen
Hi, I have recently been having trouble with running portsdb after cvsup. I am running 6.2-RELEASE-p7. The approach that I had been using was: /usr/local/bin/cvsup -L 0 /usr/sup/supfile /usr/local/sbin/portsdb -Uu This had worked great until the emacs22 update. Now portsdb crashes due to

Re: The FreeBSD Diary: 2007-07-15 - 2007-08-04

2007-08-05 Thread Jonathan Horne
On Saturday 04 August 2007 23:10:02 Dan Langille wrote: > The FreeBSD Diary contains a large number of practical > examples and how-to guides. This message is posted weekly > to freebsd-questions@freebsd.org with the aim of letting people > know what's available on the website. Before you post a

Re: The FreeBSD Diary: 2007-07-15 - 2007-08-04

2007-08-05 Thread OutBackDingo
Hrmm odd cause my Z60M lenovo said the largest drive i could buy was 120G, but sensing the fact that was only due to specs i opted to buy a 250G SATA i plugged it in and it worked fine. might be the specs were based on drive sizes available at the time ? On Sun, 5 Aug 2007 09:51:24 -0500 Jonathan

Cross Compiling

2007-08-05 Thread Galya.
hello, i need if i can make cross compiling for bsdlite while im running freebsd , if there is any kind of help for this , cross compiling , and all about how to make it done plz help me.. /`| \] (| | (| \/ (| / _

RE: How to know the size of RAM memory

2007-08-05 Thread fbsd2
I tried what people said to do and I get different values that do not match what the bios say. Why is there so large a difference? How can this be explained??? # /root >sysctl -a | grep -i memory Virtual Memory: (Total: 2871K, Active 91444K) Real Memory:(Total: 37324K Active 12

Re: Waiting for BIND security announcement

2007-08-05 Thread Doug Barton
Rakhesh Sasidharan wrote: > This has probably been asked before, Heh, no, never. :) > but if BIND is available in ports then why is it also available in > contrib? Couple of reasons, of relatively equal importance depending on who you speak to. BSD systems have "always" (I haven't verified this

Re: 6.2 not compatible with new sata drives ?!

2007-08-05 Thread Dieter
>> I got 2 new 160GB drives last month, and my system has been >> unstable ever since. I have swapped cables, purchased a >> brand-new sata150 controller (as opposed to the year old >> sataII), and the results are always the same. > > What make & model controllers? What make & model drives? > Som

apsfilter setup problem

2007-08-05 Thread David Banning
I am setting up a new installation of apsfilter to a network printer. There a re the install options I have set during apsfilter setup. (D) Available Device Drivers in your gs binary (R) Read Ghostscript driver documentation(devices.txt) (1) Printer Dr

Re: Waiting for BIND security announcement

2007-08-05 Thread Rakhesh Sasidharan
This has probably been asked before, Heh, no, never. :) That's a relief. :) but if BIND is available in ports then why is it also available in contrib? Couple of reasons, of relatively equal importance depending on who you speak to. BSD systems have "always" (I haven't verified this, but

RE: Using Smart-Fail HD

2007-08-05 Thread Tim Judd
I'm on the digest list. I have copied/pasted the OP -QUOTE: Message: 17 Date: Sat, 04 Aug 2007 18:00:07 -0300 From: Damian Vicino <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Using Smart-Fail HD To: FreeBSD Questions Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-

Re: How to know the size of RAM memory

2007-08-05 Thread Manolis Kiagias
fbsd2 wrote: > I tried what people said to do and I get different values that do not match > what the bios say. > Why is there so large a difference? > How can this be explained??? > > # /root >sysctl -a | grep -i memory > Virtual Memory: (Total: 2871K, Active 91444K) > Real Memory:

Re: How to know the size of RAM memory

2007-08-05 Thread Wojciech Puchar
# /root >dmesg | grep -i memory real memory = 67108864 (64 MB) avail memory = 56094720 (53 MB) this is true - 64MB ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail

using mouse wheel

2007-08-05 Thread Wojciech Puchar
i just bought some cheap PS/2 mouse (A4 tech) 3-keys while middle key is a wheel that can be both pressed and rolled no rolling works both in text and xorg moused_enable="YES" in rc.conf and Section "InputDevice" Identifier "Mouse0" Driver "mouse" Option "

Re: using mouse wheel

2007-08-05 Thread RW
On Sun, 5 Aug 2007 21:19:08 +0200 (CEST) Wojciech Puchar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > i just bought some cheap PS/2 mouse (A4 tech) 3-keys while middle key > is a wheel that can be both pressed and rolled > > > no rolling works both in text and xorg > > moused_enable="YES" > > in rc.conf > >

encore pci controller card usb 2.0 showing up as usb revision 1.0

2007-08-05 Thread Vlad Skvortsov
Hi! I'm a bit puzzled by the behavior of my FreeBSD 6-STABLE: 11:47 [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~ # uname -a FreeBSD bear.escuela 6.2-STABLE FreeBSD 6.2-STABLE #2: Sun Jul 8 22:21:10 PDT 2007 [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/BEAR i386 I've installed a USB2.0 PCI card by Encore (http://www.

RE: How to know the size of RAM memory

2007-08-05 Thread fbsd2
What is the meaning of the 67108864 number? -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Wojciech Puchar Sent: Sunday, August 05, 2007 3:12 PM To: Manolis Kiagias Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: How to know the size of RA

keyboard layout change in Xorg 7.2

2007-08-05 Thread Novembre
On 8/4/07, Novembre <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I have Xfce 4.4.1_1 on top of X.org 7.2 running on FreeBSD > 6.2-RELEASEinstalled on a Pentium III-S > 1.4GHz machine. > The problem is that the ALT keys are not working when using XkbLayout > option in xorg.conf when I put the following lines in

USB mouse issues.

2007-08-05 Thread Rolf G Nielsen
Hi, My new USB mouse (a Logitech G5) works fine both in the console (with moused) and under X (both with moused and directly)... For the most part... However, once in a while it just dies (the lights indicating the DPI setting on top and the lights underneath it goes off and it stops respondin

Re: stty: unknown mode: doofus

2007-08-05 Thread Tom McLaughlin
On Sat, 2007-08-04 at 08:47 -0500, Jeffrey Goldberg wrote: > During an installation, ports/lang/python24, I did a > >sudo make install > > And was prompted for my password. I entered it (probably miskeyed it > as I was leaning over the keyboard from a strange position and got a > respon

Re: How to know the size of RAM memory

2007-08-05 Thread Philip M. Gollucci
fbsd2 wrote: > What is the meaning of the 67108864 number? Its 64MB in bytes. [08:42 PM](ttyp0)[EMAIL PROTECTED] j0 h2 c502 /usr/home/pgollucci> bc 64*1024 65536 .*1024 67108864 -- Philip M. Gollucci ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) 32

Unbelievably bad RAID-1 performance

2007-08-05 Thread Philip M. Gollucci
while writing to the disk gstat screenshot http://people.apache.org/~pgollucci/disks.png If I move the location to '/' (da0s1a) which AFAIK is at the center of disk(smaller thus faster rpms) should be faster, performance is at least 100times worse which is the opposite I would expect. Is

Re: Unbelievably bad RAID-1 performance

2007-08-05 Thread Jeff Mohler
The EDGE is faster byte wise, not the center. The distance between traditional or perpendicular sectors remains the same, just more of them around the drive at a given distance from the center, than at the center. So..because RPM remains the same at all distances from the center, you will read mo

Re: dump -L

2007-08-05 Thread Victor Sudakov
Victor Sudakov wrote: > > I always use "dump -L" to dump a live filesystem. > However, when I restore the dump, I sometimes get messages like > "foo.txt (inode 12345) not found on tape" or > "expected next file 12345, got 23456" > > I thought this should _never_ happen when dumping a snapshot.

portupgrade modifys EVERY +CONTENTS now?

2007-08-05 Thread Tuc at T-B-O-H.NET
Hi, I've noticed that recent version(s?) of portupgrade seem to update the +CONTENTS of *EVERY* package on my system, not just the ones it used to actually make a difference to. Is there a way to revert to the old behaviour? With 915 ports (WAS only around 600 before the recent Xorg upgrad

Re: portupgrade modifys EVERY +CONTENTS now?

2007-08-05 Thread Kris Kennaway
On Sun, Aug 05, 2007 at 11:10:42PM -0400, Tuc at T-B-O-H.NET wrote: > Hi, > > I've noticed that recent version(s?) of portupgrade seem to update > the +CONTENTS of *EVERY* package on my system, not just the ones it used to > actually make a difference to. Is there a way to revert to the old

Re: apsfilter setup problem

2007-08-05 Thread Nikola Lecic
(I apologise if this pops-up twice but it seems that sending to questions@ -- and not to freebsd-questions@ -- doesn't work for me.) On Sun, 5 Aug 2007 12:44:04 -0400 David Banning <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I am setting up a new installation of apsfilter to a network printer. > There a re the

Re: portupgrade modifys EVERY +CONTENTS now?

2007-08-05 Thread Tuc at T-B-O-H.NET
> > On Sun, Aug 05, 2007 at 11:10:42PM -0400, Tuc at T-B-O-H.NET wrote: > > Hi, > > > > I've noticed that recent version(s?) of portupgrade seem to update > > the +CONTENTS of *EVERY* package on my system, not just the ones it used to > > actually make a difference to. Is there a way to rever

Large Volumes - 2.2TB missing... expecting 3.4TB!

2007-08-05 Thread Hartleigh Burton
Hi Everyone, I have installed FreeBSD 6.2-RELEASE amd64 on a new boxen... and just realized that I am missing just a 'little' bit of storage space ;) The raid array is as follows: 3ware 9650SE-8LPML Controller 1 x 76GB OS RAID 1 Array (2 x 80GB drives) 1 x 3.4TB DATA RAID 5 Array (6 x 700GB

Re: portupgrade modifys EVERY +CONTENTS now?

2007-08-05 Thread Kris Kennaway
On Mon, Aug 06, 2007 at 12:49:31AM -0400, Tuc at T-B-O-H.NET wrote: > > > > On Sun, Aug 05, 2007 at 11:10:42PM -0400, Tuc at T-B-O-H.NET wrote: > > > Hi, > > > > > > I've noticed that recent version(s?) of portupgrade seem to update > > > the +CONTENTS of *EVERY* package on my system, not just

boot problem after custom kernel

2007-08-05 Thread Alain G. Fabry
Hello, After making some changes to my kernel and rebuilding (traditional way), my system does not boot anymore. I tried to boot from the GENERIC kernel following the instructions in the handbook. First 'unload kernel' followed by 'boot /boot/kernel.GENERIC/kernel', but it mentions that it ca

Re: boot problem after custom kernel

2007-08-05 Thread Philip M. Gollucci
Alain G. Fabry wrote: First 'unload kernel' followed by 'boot /boot/kernel.GENERIC/kernel', but it mentions that it cannot find the kernel. try, at loader prompt: unload kernel load /boot/kernel.old/kernel boot -- Phil

Re: Large Volumes - 2.2TB missing... expecting 3.4TB!

2007-08-05 Thread Philip M. Gollucci
Hartleigh Burton wrote: Hi Everyone, I have installed FreeBSD 6.2-RELEASE amd64 on a new boxen... and just realized that I am missing just a 'little' bit of storage space ;) sudo sysinstall -- does it still read as 3.4 TB ? aka a df bug ? not likely -- ---

Re: portsdb and cvsup

2007-08-05 Thread Rakhesh Sasidharan
On Sun, 5 Aug 2007, Arend P. van der Veen wrote: The approach that I had been using was: /usr/local/bin/cvsup -L 0 /usr/sup/supfile /usr/local/sbin/portsdb -Uu This had worked great until the emacs22 update. Now portsdb crashes due to the emacs entry in /etc/make.conf. However, I see very

Re: boot problem after custom kernel

2007-08-05 Thread Paul Fraser
Alain G. Fabry wrote: First 'unload kernel' followed by 'boot /boot/kernel.GENERIC/kernel', but it mentions that it cannot find the kernel. What can I do to boot my GENERIC kernel so I can rebuild from it and my system will boot normal again. Hi Alain, Try replacing 'kernel.GENERIC' wi

Re: Large Volumes - 2.2TB missing... expecting 3.4TB!

2007-08-05 Thread Hartleigh Burton
OK, in the FDISK Partition Editor da1 reads as 3576219MB. So that looks to be ok and around what I am expecting. In the Disklabel Editor da1s1 has 0MB free, and da1s1d is the only da1s1 label with a size of 1444GB. Regards, Hartleigh Burton On 06/08/2007, at 3:28 PM, Philip M. Gollucci

Re: portupgrade modifys EVERY +CONTENTS now?

2007-08-05 Thread Tuc at T-B-O-H.NET
> > On Mon, Aug 06, 2007 at 12:49:31AM -0400, Tuc at T-B-O-H.NET wrote: > > > > > > On Sun, Aug 05, 2007 at 11:10:42PM -0400, Tuc at T-B-O-H.NET wrote: > > > > Hi, > > > > > > > > I've noticed that recent version(s?) of portupgrade seem to > > > > update > > > > the +CONTENTS of *EVERY*

Re: Large Volumes - 2.2TB missing... expecting 3.4TB!

2007-08-05 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On 06/08/07, Hartleigh Burton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > OK, in the FDISK Partition Editor da1 reads as 3576219MB. So that > looks to be ok and around what I am expecting. > > In the Disklabel Editor da1s1 has 0MB free, and da1s1d is the only > da1s1 label with a size of 1444GB. > The output of

Re: USB mouse issues.

2007-08-05 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On 05/08/07, Rolf G Nielsen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > > My new USB mouse (a Logitech G5) works fine both in the console (with > moused) and under X (both with moused and directly)... For the most part... > However, once in a while it just dies (the lights indicating the DPI > setting on to

Re: dump -L

2007-08-05 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On 05/08/07, Victor Sudakov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Victor Sudakov wrote: > > > > I always use "dump -L" to dump a live filesystem. > > However, when I restore the dump, I sometimes get messages like > > "foo.txt (inode 12345) not found on tape" or > > "expected next file 12345, got 23456" > >

Re: Large Volumes - 2.2TB missing... expecting 3.4TB!

2007-08-05 Thread Hartleigh Burton
Thanks for the tip. # /dev/da1s1: 8 partitions: #size offsetfstype [fsize bsize bps/cpg] c: 30291304010unused0 0 # "raw" part, don't edit d: 302913040104.2BSD 2048 16384 28528 Unfortunately for me, I do not really know what I

Re: portupgrade modifys EVERY +CONTENTS now?

2007-08-05 Thread Kris Kennaway
On Mon, Aug 06, 2007 at 02:01:51AM -0400, Tuc at T-B-O-H.NET wrote: > > > > On Mon, Aug 06, 2007 at 12:49:31AM -0400, Tuc at T-B-O-H.NET wrote: > > > > > > > > On Sun, Aug 05, 2007 at 11:10:42PM -0400, Tuc at T-B-O-H.NET wrote: > > > > > Hi, > > > > > > > > > > I've noticed that recent ver

Re: portupgrade modifys EVERY +CONTENTS now?

2007-08-05 Thread Tuc at T-B-O-H.NET
> > On Mon, Aug 06, 2007 at 02:01:51AM -0400, Tuc at T-B-O-H.NET wrote: > > > > > > On Mon, Aug 06, 2007 at 12:49:31AM -0400, Tuc at T-B-O-H.NET wrote: > > > > > > > > > > On Sun, Aug 05, 2007 at 11:10:42PM -0400, Tuc at T-B-O-H.NET wrote: > > > > > > Hi, > > > > > > > > > > > > I've notice

Re: Large Volumes - 2.2TB missing... expecting 3.4TB!

2007-08-05 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On 06/08/07, Hartleigh Burton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Thanks for the tip. > > # /dev/da1s1: > 8 partitions: > #size offsetfstype [fsize bsize bps/cpg] > c: 30291304010unused0 0 # "raw" part, > don't edit > d: 302913040104.2BSD