Re: amd64, 57600 serial install help

2012-07-24 Thread Paul Macdonald
On 21/07/2012 22:06, Ihsan Junaidi Ibrahim wrote: I assume you have compiled the bootblocks as per the instruction in the handbook. Second, do you have more than one serial port on the box because FreeBSD can only work its serial console magic on only one port at a time. If you redirect your

Re: amd64, 57600 serial install help

2012-07-21 Thread Ihsan Junaidi Ibrahim
I assume you have compiled the bootblocks as per the instruction in the handbook. Second, do you have more than one serial port on the box because FreeBSD can only work its serial console magic on only one port at a time. If you redirect your IPMI serial console or just a normal serial

Re: AMD64 with 9.0 PRERELEASE freezing/hanging without any messages

2011-11-21 Thread Mark Felder
On Sat, 19 Nov 2011 04:54:18 -0600, Jukka A. Ukkonen j...@iki.fi wrote: Hello, Has anyone else noticed a similar odd behavior with AMD64 and 9.0 prerelease (as well as RCs and betas)? On my 12 core (2*4162EE) the whole system just freezes quite often without any warning, without any messages

Re: AMD64 with 9.0 PRERELEASE freezing/hanging without any messages

2011-11-19 Thread Reed Loefgren
On 11/19/11 03:54, Jukka A. Ukkonen wrote: Hello, Has anyone else noticed a similar odd behavior with AMD64 and 9.0 prerelease (as well as RCs and betas)? On my 12 core (2*4162EE) the whole system just freezes quite often without any warning, without any messages being logged. Neither is there

Re: AMD64 with 9.0 PRERELEASE freezing/hanging without any messages

2011-11-19 Thread Conrad J. Sabatier
On Sat, 19 Nov 2011 12:54:18 +0200 (EET) j...@iki.fi (Jukka A. Ukkonen) wrote: Hello, Has anyone else noticed a similar odd behavior with AMD64 and 9.0 prerelease (as well as RCs and betas)? Yes, I've seen a few of these myself, under both of the RCs and PRERELEASE. No idea what the

Re: amd64

2010-08-10 Thread Jerry McAllister
On Mon, Aug 09, 2010 at 08:58:49PM -0500, Depo Catcher wrote: On 8/9/2010 4:14 PM, Robert Huff wrote: Polytropon writes: I've installed FreeBSD-amd64. It runs very well. The packages I fetch are amd64 too, but what about the ports I compile myself? Are those

Re: amd64

2010-08-09 Thread Polytropon
On Mon, 09 Aug 2010 22:19:31 +0200, Dick Hoogendijk d...@nagual.nl wrote: I've installed FreeBSD-amd64. It runs very well. The packages I fetch are amd64 too, but what about the ports I compile myself? Are those amd64 too? Yes, as your compiler infrastructure and target platform is amd64,

Re: amd64

2010-08-09 Thread Elias Chrysocheris
On Monday 09 of August 2010 23:19:31 Dick Hoogendijk wrote: I've installed FreeBSD-amd64. It runs very well. The packages I fetch are amd64 too, but what about the ports I compile myself? Are those amd64 too? Of cource! When you make them they are compiled using the amd64 libraries and

Re: amd64

2010-08-09 Thread Robert Huff
Polytropon writes: I've installed FreeBSD-amd64. It runs very well. The packages I fetch are amd64 too, but what about the ports I compile myself? Are those amd64 too? Yes, as your compiler infrastructure and target platform is amd64, and so is the resulting binary code.

Re: amd64

2010-08-09 Thread Depo Catcher
On 8/9/2010 4:14 PM, Robert Huff wrote: Polytropon writes: I've installed FreeBSD-amd64. It runs very well. The packages I fetch are amd64 too, but what about the ports I compile myself? Are those amd64 too? Yes, as your compiler infrastructure and target platform is

Re: amd64

2010-08-09 Thread b. f.
On 8/9/2010 4:14 PM, Robert Huff wrote: Polytropon writes: I've installed FreeBSD-amd64. It runs very well. The packages I fetch are amd64 too, but what about the ports I compile myself? Are those amd64 too? Yes, as your compiler infrastructure and target platform is

Re: amd64 8.0 with zfs root and raidz ?

2010-03-23 Thread Randal L. Schwartz
Gene == Gene f...@brightstar.bomgardner.net writes: Gene I'm still working out just what everything does, but the one thing I've Gene noticed is that it doesn't address raidz at all. Can anyone direct me to any Gene docs that might help? Or does anyone know where in the wiki page's

Re: amd64 won't install on Core Duo

2010-03-06 Thread Ross Cameron
What system board revision does you're Thinkpad have? You can use CPU-Z (http://www.cpuid.com/cpuz.php) to check on this. The revision 3 and above system boards can run 64bit OS's. Also if you're CPU is one of the following a a BIOS upgrade/setting may enable the full set of processor

Re: amd64 won't install on Core Duo

2010-03-06 Thread Chad Perrin
On Sat, Mar 06, 2010 at 03:19:31PM +0200, Ross Cameron wrote: What system board revision does you're Thinkpad have? You can use CPU-Z (http://www.cpuid.com/cpuz.php) to check on this. That looks like a handy tool. Is there a version that will run on FreeBSD? -- Chad Perrin [ original

Re: amd64 won't install on Core Duo

2010-03-06 Thread C. P. Ghost
On Sat, Mar 6, 2010 at 5:42 PM, Chad Perrin per...@apotheon.com wrote: On Sat, Mar 06, 2010 at 03:19:31PM +0200, Ross Cameron wrote: What system board revision does you're Thinkpad have?     You can use CPU-Z (http://www.cpuid.com/cpuz.php) to check on this. That looks like a handy tool.  Is

Re: amd64 won't install on Core Duo

2010-03-05 Thread Tim Daneliuk
On 3/5/2010 6:28 PM, Chad Perrin wrote: The amd64 arch installer for 8.0-RELEASE fails to start on a ThinkPad T60 with an Intel Centrino Core Duo. What am I doing wrong? error message: CPU doesn't support long mode You have a CPU that does not have 64-bit extensions. You need to

Re: amd64 won't install on Core Duo

2010-03-05 Thread Chad Perrin
On Fri, Mar 05, 2010 at 06:30:48PM -0600, Tim Daneliuk wrote: On 3/5/2010 6:28 PM, Chad Perrin wrote: The amd64 arch installer for 8.0-RELEASE fails to start on a ThinkPad T60 with an Intel Centrino Core Duo. What am I doing wrong? error message: CPU doesn't support long mode

Re: amd64: Fatal Trap 12 in high load situations

2010-02-06 Thread Michael Powell
ms80 wrote: Hi I have a problem installing / upgrading FreeBSD 8.0-release on a new machine. The computers specs are: cpu: AMD Phenom II X4 board: Gigabyte MA790GPT-UD3H ram: 4x2GBytes DDR3/1333 hdd: 2xMaxtor STM31000528AS nic: 4x Intel(R) PRO/1000 [snip] So here are my

Re: amd64: Fatal Trap 12 in high load situations

2010-02-06 Thread ms80
Am Saturday 06 February 2010 11:38:25 schrob Michael Powell: ms80 wrote: Hi I have a problem installing / upgrading FreeBSD 8.0-release on a new machine. The computers specs are: cpu: AMD Phenom II X4 board: Gigabyte MA790GPT-UD3H ram: 4x2GBytes DDR3/1333 hdd: 2xMaxtor

Re: amd64: Fatal Trap 12 in high load situations

2010-02-06 Thread David N
On 6 February 2010 22:18, ms80 m...@dynamik.sytes.net wrote: Am Saturday 06 February 2010 11:38:25 schrob Michael Powell: ms80 wrote: Hi I have a problem installing / upgrading FreeBSD 8.0-release on a new machine. The computers specs are: cpu: AMD Phenom II X4 board: Gigabyte

Re: amd64: Fatal Trap 12 in high load situations

2010-02-06 Thread Michael Powell
ms80 wrote: [snip] Thank you for your reply. I'm using two of this: OCZ3P1333LVAM4GK (OCZ DDR3 AMD Edition, rated for 1333MHz at 1.65V). My Board is rated for 1066 - 1600 MHz memory, and neither the website nor the manual say anything about limitations with memory. Anyway: I didn't

Re: amd64: Fatal Trap 12 in high load situations

2010-02-06 Thread ms80
Am Saturday 06 February 2010 14:03:06 schrob David N: [snip] What power supply do you have? How many watts? brand? If you have insufficient power, it may cause the system to become unstable. Regards David N I tested with an Enermax EPR425AWT Pro82+ II, 425W wich was the psu I bought

Re: amd64: Fatal Trap 12 in high load situations

2010-02-06 Thread ms80
Am Saturday 06 February 2010 14:37:16 schrob Michael Powell: ms80 wrote: [snip] There seems to be a general feeling the newer AMD processors don't much care for higher memory voltages. Try lowering your voltages and see if it helps. I am successfully using this board with the CPU clock

Re: amd64: Fatal Trap 12 in high load situations

2010-02-06 Thread ms80
Am Saturday 06 February 2010 10:17:05 schrob ms80: Hi I have a problem installing / upgrading FreeBSD 8.0-release on a new machine. The computers specs are: cpu: AMD Phenom II X4 board: Gigabyte MA790GPT-UD3H ram: 4x2GBytes DDR3/1333 hdd: 2xMaxtor STM31000528AS nic: 4x Intel(R)

Re: amd64: building lib32 with ccache ?

2009-11-28 Thread RW
On Sat, 28 Nov 2009 11:57:17 +0100 Frank Staals franksta...@gmx.net wrote: Hey everyone, Yesterday I wanted to update my system currently running 8.0-RC1 amd64 to the latest 8-STABLE release. However buildworld failed. I found out the problem seems to pop up when trying to build the lib32

Re: amd64

2009-11-09 Thread Bruce Cran
On Mon, 9 Nov 2009 04:27:54 -0800 (PST) Clayton Wilhelm da Rosa claytonwilhel...@yahoo.com.br wrote: Hi, i made the download of FreeBSD amd64 and i wanna know if the amd64 is the same as x86_x64. Yes, it's the same. amd64, x86_64 and x64 are all the same architecture. -- Bruce Cran

Re: amd64 native ports?

2009-08-06 Thread John Nielsen
On Thursday 06 August 2009 10:19:47 Robert Huff wrote: Somewhere in *.freebsd.org is a page that lists which ports run natively on amd64 and what the status is for the others. I've seen it, I have it bookmarked in a place that is currently unavailable, and I can't find it by hand.

Re: amd64 native ports?

2009-08-06 Thread Roland Smith
On Thu, Aug 06, 2009 at 10:19:47AM -0400, Robert Huff wrote: Somewhere in *.freebsd.org is a page that lists which ports run natively on amd64 and what the status is for the others. I've seen it, I have it bookmarked in a place that is currently unavailable, and I can't find it by

Re: amd64 native ports?

2009-08-06 Thread Robert Huff
John Nielsen wrote: There's always the build logs on pointyhat: http://pointyhat.freebsd.org/errorlogs/ And some reports here: http://portsmon.freebsd.org/index.html These are not the droids I'm looking for. As I remember the page, it has three columns: the port name, the

Re: amd64 and sysinstall weirdness

2009-07-31 Thread Adam Vande More
On Fri, Jul 31, 2009 at 1:20 PM, Len Conrad lcon...@go2france.com wrote: Dell PE 1950 FreeBSD 7.2 amd64 boot from disc01 into sysinstall, do our regular setup, reboot, and df shows only / and /devfs. f stab has /usr and /var missing. so we go into sysinstall, slices are correct:

Re: AMD64 VM with OpenGL?

2009-06-30 Thread xorquewasp
On 2009-06-30 02:13:11, Roland Smith wrote: The page says it does. Forgive me for being cynical but after countless experiences, I rarely believe such statements any more! Virtualbox + VMGL seems the most likely candidate at the moment - From the abovementioned page: VMGL is available

Re: AMD64 VM with OpenGL?

2009-06-29 Thread Roland Smith
On Mon, Jun 29, 2009 at 08:14:17PM +0100, xorquew...@googlemail.com wrote: Hello. What's the preferred virtual machine on FreeBSD 7.2-RELEASE on amd64 if OpenGL support is required? Depends on what your definitions of a virtual machine and OpenGl support are. :-) All CPU level virtual

Re: AMD64 VM with OpenGL?

2009-06-29 Thread xorquewasp
On 2009-06-29 23:34:08, Roland Smith wrote: On Mon, Jun 29, 2009 at 08:14:17PM +0100, xorquew...@googlemail.com wrote: Hello. What's the preferred virtual machine on FreeBSD 7.2-RELEASE on amd64 if OpenGL support is required? Depends on what your definitions of a virtual machine and

Re: AMD64 VM with OpenGL?

2009-06-29 Thread Roland Smith
On Mon, Jun 29, 2009 at 10:59:04PM +0100, xorquew...@googlemail.com wrote: On 2009-06-29 23:34:08, Roland Smith wrote: On Mon, Jun 29, 2009 at 08:14:17PM +0100, xorquew...@googlemail.com wrote: Hello. What's the preferred virtual machine on FreeBSD 7.2-RELEASE on amd64 if OpenGL

Re: amd64 ?!

2008-05-28 Thread Kris Kennaway
kalin m wrote: hi all... i have dilemma. i asked a hosting faclity to set up freebsd 7 on new server. and i mentioned that it should be 64 bit. now they when i get into the machine i get: srv391# uname -a FreeBSD srv391.carpathiahost.com 7.0-RELEASE FreeBSD 7.0-RELEASE #0: Sun Feb 24

Re: amd64 ?!

2008-05-28 Thread Roland Smith
On Wed, May 28, 2008 at 04:56:26PM -0400, kalin m wrote: hi all... i have dilemma. i asked a hosting faclity to set up freebsd 7 on new server. and i mentioned that it should be 64 bit. now they when i get into the machine i get: srv391# uname -a FreeBSD srv391.carpathiahost.com

Re: amd64 ?!

2008-05-28 Thread Erik Trulsson
On Wed, May 28, 2008 at 04:56:26PM -0400, kalin m wrote: hi all... i have dilemma. i asked a hosting faclity to set up freebsd 7 on new server. and i mentioned that it should be 64 bit. now they when i get into the machine i get: srv391# uname -a FreeBSD srv391.carpathiahost.com

Re: amd64 ?!

2008-05-28 Thread Wojciech Puchar
so i'm a bit confused about the the 64 bit and why the machine is identifying itself as amd64 and not i686? because this intel CPU is 64-bit AMD compatible (x86-64 standard). the rules changed and now intel make AMD-compatible CPUs ___

Re: amd64 ?!

2008-05-28 Thread Outback Dingo
I think maybe what he was expecting was a FreeBSD IA64 install on the box, but they installed AMD64 instead On Thu, May 29, 2008 at 4:48 AM, Wojciech Puchar [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: so i'm a bit confused about the the 64 bit and why the machine is identifying itself as amd64 and not i686?

Re: amd64 ?!

2008-05-28 Thread Kris Kennaway
Outback Dingo wrote: I think maybe what he was expecting was a FreeBSD IA64 install on the box, but they installed AMD64 instead *Correctly* installed. Kris ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list

Re: amd64 or i386 for desktop use?

2008-03-06 Thread RW
On Thu, 6 Mar 2008 07:35:34 + Colin Adams [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 06/03/2008, RW [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Everything I've every seen about this suggests that amd64 is faster on a few applications, such as mp3 encoding, but generally there is very little difference, on average,

Re: amd64 or i386 for desktop use?

2008-03-05 Thread Aline de Freitas
Em Wednesday 05 March 2008 02:36:33 Isaac Mushinsky escreveu: I have new hardware (Abit ip35-pro, Intel Q6600), and was contemplating installing FreeBSD/arch, but now realise that I am going to have some problems. My nvidia card will not be of much use (GeForce 8500GT), since nvidia-drivers

Re: amd64 or i386 for desktop use?

2008-03-05 Thread Roland Smith
On Wed, Mar 05, 2008 at 12:36:33AM -0500, Isaac Mushinsky wrote: I have new hardware (Abit ip35-pro, Intel Q6600), and was contemplating installing FreeBSD/arch, but now realise that I am going to have some problems. My nvidia card will not be of much use (GeForce 8500GT), since

Re: amd64 or i386 for desktop use?

2008-03-05 Thread alive
On Wed, 5 Mar 2008 18:13:03 +0100, Roland Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, Mar 05, 2008 at 12:36:33AM -0500, Isaac Mushinsky wrote: I have new hardware (Abit ip35-pro, Intel Q6600), and was contemplating installing FreeBSD/arch, but now realise that I am going to have some problems.

Re: amd64 or i386 for desktop use?

2008-03-05 Thread Isaac Mushinsky
On 3/5/08, Roland Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, Mar 05, 2008 at 12:36:33AM -0500, Isaac Mushinsky wrote: I have new hardware (Abit ip35-pro, Intel Q6600), and was contemplating installing FreeBSD/arch, but now realise that I am going to have some problems. My nvidia card will

Re: amd64 or i386 for desktop use?

2008-03-05 Thread Wojciech Puchar
of RAM, and I seldom use more than half of that. Mind you, I'm using a simple window manager not a desktop environment with lots of bells whistles. I suspect binaries on i386 will be somewhat smaller. But amd64 has more registers which might give some speed advantages. I haven't tested it, but

Re: amd64 or i386 for desktop use?

2008-03-05 Thread Roland Smith
On Wed, Mar 05, 2008 at 06:29:51PM +0100, alive wrote: Any ATI card up to and including the 9250 (rv280) is fully supported on amd64, 3D and all. (I know because I've got one :-) Oh, is that so? Could you please tell me how you got it to work? Because I've got GREAT issues getting *ANY* ATI

Re: amd64 or i386 for desktop use?

2008-03-05 Thread Bob Johnson
On 3/5/08, Isaac Mushinsky [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 3/5/08, Roland Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, Mar 05, 2008 at 12:36:33AM -0500, Isaac Mushinsky wrote: I have new hardware (Abit ip35-pro, Intel Q6600), and was contemplating installing FreeBSD/arch, but now realise that I

Re: amd64 or i386 for desktop use?

2008-03-05 Thread alive
Thanks. Do you by any chance have a link to supported cards? Do you know if this driver supports Composite? OpenGL? On Wed, 5 Mar 2008 20:32:06 +0100, Roland Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, Mar 05, 2008 at 06:29:51PM +0100, alive wrote: Any ATI card up to and including the 9250 (rv280)

Re: amd64 or i386 for desktop use?

2008-03-05 Thread Roland Smith
On Wed, Mar 05, 2008 at 09:22:35PM +0100, alive wrote: Thanks. Do you by any chance have a link to supported cards? http://www.sapphiretech.com/us/products/products_overview.php?gpid=59grp=2 Support for r300 based cards is coming as well. Do you know if this driver supports Composite?

Re: amd64 or i386 for desktop use?

2008-03-05 Thread aline
On Wed, 5 Mar 2008, alive wrote: On Wed, 5 Mar 2008 18:13:03 +0100, Roland Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, Mar 05, 2008 at 12:36:33AM -0500, Isaac Mushinsky wrote: I have new hardware (Abit ip35-pro, Intel Q6600), and was contemplating installing FreeBSD/arch, but now realise that I

Re: amd64 or i386 for desktop use?

2008-03-05 Thread Isaac Mushinsky
Thanks everyone, based on the info I am returning the nvidia card and getting an R4xx instead (found an X850 for under $80 still sold; seems to be well enough supported). I still want to try amd64; other limitations do not bother me that much (I do not care for wine or win32 codecs).

Re: amd64 or i386 for desktop use?

2008-03-05 Thread RW
On Wed, 5 Mar 2008 19:47:53 +0100 (CET) Wojciech Puchar [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: of RAM, and I seldom use more than half of that. Mind you, I'm using a simple window manager not a desktop environment with lots of bells whistles. I suspect binaries on i386 will be somewhat smaller. But

Re: amd64 or i386 for desktop use?

2008-03-05 Thread Colin Adams
On 06/03/2008, RW [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Everything I've every seen about this suggests that amd64 is faster on a few applications, such as mp3 encoding, but generally there is very little difference, on average, across desktop applications. Do you have any measurements to support that

Re: amd64 kernel installed on i386 machine?

2008-02-21 Thread RW
On Thu, 21 Feb 2008 12:08:31 -0500 David T [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I am worried that I installed the 64 bit version of FreeBSD with an amd kernel on an Intel i386 box. Is there something wrong when I see the following: Intel produce CPUs that are compatible with amd64. If yours wasn't one

Re: amd64 kernel installed on i386 machine?

2008-02-21 Thread Wojciech Puchar
[EMAIL PROTECTED] /usr/local]# uname -aFreeBSD web1.machine.net 6.2-RELEASE FreeBSD 6.2-RELEASE #0: Sun Jan 6 22:37:33 CST 2008 [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/web1 amd64 you did all right. you installed 64-bit kernel on 64-bit capable machine. amd64 is just a standard for

Re: amd64 native boot loader?

2007-12-22 Thread Bruce Cran
snowcrash+freebsd wrote: hi, i've FBSD/amd64 62Rp9 installed. kernel world are my own builds from latest cvsup. on boot I see: FreeBSD/i386 bootstrap loader odd. i'd expect a native loader ... checking in, /usr/src/sys/boot ls Makefile alpha/arm/ efi/ forth/

Re: amd64 native boot loader?

2007-12-22 Thread Joshua Isom
On Dec 22, 2007, at 3:32 AM, Bruce Cran wrote: AMD64 CPUs are backwards compatible with i386; they boot in 16-bit real mode and only get switched into 64-bit 'long mode' by the kernel later on. Since both i386 and amd64 start booting in the same way, there's no need for separate bootloaders.

Re: amd64 HP SA6i RAID5 no boot

2007-11-30 Thread Per olof Ljungmark
Brian wrote: Per olof Ljungmark wrote: Per olof Ljungmark wrote: Per olof Ljungmark wrote: Hi, What am I doing wrong? 7-Beta3 vanilla install from CD, I let sysinstall do automatic partitions and slices, then stops at F1 FreeBSD prompt and beeps. Obviously it cannot find anything to boot

Re: amd64 HP SA6i RAID5 no boot

2007-11-30 Thread Derrick Ryalls
7-Beta3 vanilla install from CD, I let sysinstall do automatic partitions and slices, then stops at F1 FreeBSD prompt and beeps. Obviously it cannot find anything to boot from. System is a SA6i RAID5-array with 6x300GB disks. Possibly I need to enter drive geometry manually but have

Re: amd64 HP SA6i RAID5 no boot

2007-11-30 Thread Per olof Ljungmark
Per olof Ljungmark wrote: Hi, What am I doing wrong? 7-Beta3 vanilla install from CD, I let sysinstall do automatic partitions and slices, then stops at F1 FreeBSD prompt and beeps. Obviously it cannot find anything to boot from. System is a SA6i RAID5-array with 6x300GB disks. Possibly I

Re: amd64 HP SA6i RAID5 no boot

2007-11-30 Thread Brian
Per olof Ljungmark wrote: Per olof Ljungmark wrote: Per olof Ljungmark wrote: Hi, What am I doing wrong? 7-Beta3 vanilla install from CD, I let sysinstall do automatic partitions and slices, then stops at F1 FreeBSD prompt and beeps. Obviously it cannot find anything to boot from. System

Re: amd64 HP SA6i RAID5 no boot

2007-11-30 Thread Per olof Ljungmark
Per olof Ljungmark wrote: Per olof Ljungmark wrote: Hi, What am I doing wrong? 7-Beta3 vanilla install from CD, I let sysinstall do automatic partitions and slices, then stops at F1 FreeBSD prompt and beeps. Obviously it cannot find anything to boot from. System is a SA6i RAID5-array with

Re: AMD64 vs i386

2007-08-22 Thread Kris Kennaway
On Wed, Aug 22, 2007 at 08:58:34AM -0400, Arend P. van der Veen wrote: Hi All, I have a general question. We have access to some new AMD64 based Dell Servers with 2 Core Duo Xeons. We are currently using i386 Dell Servers with a core duo processor. I recall from my MS Windows days

Re: AMD64 vs i386

2007-08-22 Thread Roland Smith
On Wed, Aug 22, 2007 at 08:58:34AM -0400, Arend P. van der Veen wrote: - Will the AMD64 based FreeBSD 6.2 distribution with applications such as Postgresql, Apache, Python, Tomcat and SBCL be able to take advantage of the 64-bit quad processor? Yes, if you compile them natively on AMD64.

Re: amd64 GENERIC fails to compile

2007-05-29 Thread Boris Samorodov
On Tue, 29 May 2007 08:35:24 -0700 Michael K. Smith - Adhost wrote: Hello All: We have a system that was built with the amd64 source (uname -a below). I was attempting to make a custom kernel and the make kept failing so I decided to try the make against GENERIC. It fails at the same place

Re: amd64 FreeBSD Release 5.5 - 6.2

2007-05-19 Thread RW
On Fri, 18 May 2007 13:31:52 + (UTC) Duane Hill [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Fri, 18 May 2007, RW wrote: On Thu, 17 May 2007 10:39:35 + (UTC) Duane Hill [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, 17 May 2007, Matthew Seaman wrote: You should be able to upgrade the system by a

Re: amd64 FreeBSD Release 5.5 - 6.2

2007-05-18 Thread RW
On Thu, 17 May 2007 10:39:35 + (UTC) Duane Hill [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, 17 May 2007, Matthew Seaman wrote: You should be able to upgrade the system by a routine buildworld, buildkernel ... type operation, but beware that you will need to recompile all of your ports because

Re: amd64 FreeBSD Release 5.5 - 6.2

2007-05-18 Thread Duane Hill
On Fri, 18 May 2007, RW wrote: On Thu, 17 May 2007 10:39:35 + (UTC) Duane Hill [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, 17 May 2007, Matthew Seaman wrote: You should be able to upgrade the system by a routine buildworld, buildkernel ... type operation, but beware that you will need to

Re: amd64 FreeBSD Release 5.5 - 6.2

2007-05-18 Thread Gerard Seibert
On Fri, 18 May 2007 13:31:52 + (UTC) Duane Hill [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: What about: portupgrade -afR Wouldn't that force everything including ports that depend on the one being reinstalled? If you wanted, you could use: portmanager -u -l -f That will update and rebuild

Re: amd64 FreeBSD Release 5.5 - 6.2

2007-05-18 Thread Duane Hill
On Fri, 18 May 2007, Gerard Seibert wrote: On Fri, 18 May 2007 13:31:52 + (UTC) Duane Hill [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: What about: portupgrade -afR Wouldn't that force everything including ports that depend on the one being reinstalled? If you wanted, you could use:

Re: amd64 FreeBSD Release 5.5 - 6.2

2007-05-18 Thread Lowell Gilbert
Duane Hill [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: What about: portupgrade -afR Wouldn't that force everything including ports that depend on the one being reinstalled? I can't parse your question, but I think you are confusing the 'R' option with the 'r' option. You should also note that both

Re: amd64 FreeBSD Release 5.5 - 6.2

2007-05-17 Thread Duane Hill
On Thu, 17 May 2007, Matthew Seaman wrote: Duane Hill wrote: I have a server that, at first, required 5.5 because of the MTA that was running on the server. It no longer is running that particular MTA anymore. I need to upgrade the server to release 6.2. Is it just a matter of changing the

Re: amd64 FreeBSD Release 5.5 - 6.2

2007-05-16 Thread Matthew Seaman
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 Duane Hill wrote: I have a server that, at first, required 5.5 because of the MTA that was running on the server. It no longer is running that particular MTA anymore. I need to upgrade the server to release 6.2. Is it just a matter of

Re: AMD64

2007-04-18 Thread Bill Moran
In response to Michael S [EMAIL PROTECTED]: I am getting my (first) Athlon 64 x 2 today or tomorrow and was wondering whether I should stick with the reliable x86 or try the AMD64 port. Any performance penalties when running x86 FreeBSD on a 64-bit machine? Performance is equivalent,

Re: AMD64

2007-04-18 Thread Danny Pansters
On Wednesday 18 April 2007 21:30:14 Michael S wrote: Good day all. I am getting my (first) Athlon 64 x 2 today or tomorrow and was wondering whether I should stick with the reliable x86 or try the AMD64 port. I'd try it but ... Any performance penalties when running x86 FreeBSD on a

Re: AMD64

2007-04-18 Thread Roland Smith
On Wed, Apr 18, 2007 at 04:41:46PM -0400, Bill Moran wrote: In response to Michael S [EMAIL PROTECTED]: I am getting my (first) Athlon 64 x 2 today or tomorrow and was wondering whether I should stick with the reliable x86 or try the AMD64 port. Any performance penalties when

Re: AMD64

2007-04-18 Thread wanderingidea
Hi, FreeBSD 6.x AMD64 runs for more than a year on my 'AMD Athlon 3000+' now. It runs very stable with one exception: accessing ext2/ext3 filesystems often hang the system completely. That is a phenomenon that I did not see with FreeBSD 6.x x86. Apart from that I am very happy with it.

Re: AMD64

2007-04-18 Thread Kris Kennaway
On Thu, Apr 19, 2007 at 12:23:41AM +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, FreeBSD 6.x AMD64 runs for more than a year on my 'AMD Athlon 3000+' now. It runs very stable with one exception: accessing ext2/ext3 filesystems often hang the system completely. That is a phenomenon that I did not

Re: AMD64 -current iso laying around? or How to make a LiveCD from scratch?

2007-03-10 Thread Josh Carroll
So, in an effort to get my system up and running I was wondering if someone could provide me with either a link to a v7 ISO available somewhere, or directions on how to make a FreeBSD LiveCD (I have 2 other IA32 systems kicking around I can use for building stuff :)..). There are 7.0-CURRENT

Re: AMD64 -current iso laying around? or How to make a LiveCD from scratch?

2007-03-10 Thread Dan Nelson
In the last episode (Mar 10), Garrett Cooper said: Just bought and built a new PC, comes with an Conroe-based Core 2 Duo, Realtek 8169 Gigabit chipset, JbMicron PATA / SATA RAID controller, and the like. Now, I can boot up the FreeBSD livecd perfectly fine, but when it comes to adding

Re: AMD64 -current iso laying around? or How to make a LiveCD from scratch?

2007-03-10 Thread Garrett Cooper
On Mar 10, 2007, at 11:11 PM, Dan Nelson wrote: In the last episode (Mar 10), Garrett Cooper said: Just bought and built a new PC, comes with an Conroe-based Core 2 Duo, Realtek 8169 Gigabit chipset, JbMicron PATA / SATA RAID controller, and the like. Now, I can boot up the FreeBSD livecd

Re: AMD64 + FreeBSD 6.1 + Keyboard troubles

2006-11-13 Thread Lowell Gilbert
Coen Watstaatervoor [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I've installed FreeBSD 6.1 on a new Dual AMD Opeteron HE server, during the installation the keyboard works fine. But when you plug in the keyboard after a reboot (without the keyboard attached) the keyboard won't work any more. I'm doing the same

Re: AMD64 Stability with 6.1+?

2006-09-05 Thread Andrew Pantyukhin
On 9/5/06, Thomas T. Veldhouse [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Can anybody on this list indicate what kind of stability they have seen with AMD64 systems using FreeBSD (the 64-bit binaries)? How about the majority of PORTS in the tree? I realize this question will solicit relatively subjective

Re: AMD64 Stability with 6.1+?

2006-09-05 Thread RW
On Tuesday 05 September 2006 14:09, Thomas T. Veldhouse wrote: Can anybody on this list indicate what kind of stability they have seen with AMD64 systems using FreeBSD (the 64-bit binaries)? How about the majority of PORTS in the tree? The problems with amd64 are more to do with whether the

Re: AMD64 Stability with 6.1+?

2006-09-05 Thread Kris Kennaway
On Tue, Sep 05, 2006 at 08:09:27AM -0500, Thomas T. Veldhouse wrote: Can anybody on this list indicate what kind of stability they have seen with AMD64 systems using FreeBSD (the 64-bit binaries)? How about the majority of PORTS in the tree? Stability of amd64 is excellent. # uptime

Re: AMD64 Stability with 6.1+?

2006-09-05 Thread Cor van Wandelen
I experience instability with FreeBSD-AMD64 using ext2/ext3 filesystems. Sometimes reading and writing these filesystems work without any problems and the next time the whole system hangs with the only option resetting the pc. Nevertheless I use it because overall it seems to be a lot faster, but

Re: AMD64 Stability with 6.1+?

2006-09-05 Thread Cor van Wandelen
I experience instability with FreeBSD-AMD64 using ext2/ext3 filesystems. Sometimes reading and writing these filesystems work without any problems and the next time the whole system hangs with the only option resetting the pc. Nevertheless I use it because overall it seems to be a lot faster, but

Re: AMD64 Stability with 6.1+?

2006-09-05 Thread Kris Kennaway
On Tue, Sep 05, 2006 at 06:54:44PM +0200, Cor van Wandelen wrote: I experience instability with FreeBSD-AMD64 using ext2/ext3 filesystems. Sometimes reading and writing these filesystems work without any problems and the next time the whole system hangs with the only option resetting the pc.

Re: AMD64 make buildworld failure

2006-08-30 Thread Kris Kennaway
On Fri, Aug 25, 2006 at 08:26:54PM -0400, stan wrote: I'm trying to do a buildworld (AMD64) on a Sum Ultra 40, but it's failing like this: cc -O2 -fno-strict-aliasing -pipe -DRRESTORE -DRESCUE -c /usr/src/sbin/restore /restore.c cc -O2 -fno-strict-aliasing -pipe -DRRESTORE -DRESCUE -c

Re: AMD64 Desktop Support

2006-06-22 Thread Alex Zbyslaw
Michael Collette wrote: I don't have any bias towards either company. My focus is spending my money on what will actually work. Starting to feel like I'll be looking at the Pentium-D processors. I've got a laptop with a dual core Pentium and it works pretty sweet. AMD 64bit processors

Re: AMD64 Desktop Support

2006-06-21 Thread RW
On Wednesday 21 June 2006 01:42, Michael Collette wrote: Andy Reitz wrote: In 64-bit mode, that does appear to be the case. However, it sounds like you could purchase an AMD64-based processor, and have everythign work fine in 32-bit mode. Then later down the road, as the software evolves,

Re: AMD64 Desktop Support

2006-06-20 Thread Michael Collette
Chad Leigh -- Shire.Net LLC wrote: You can always run the 32bit i386 version on the AMD motherboard if you find out that the above stuff doesn't work so well. I don't use FreeBSD as a desktop so I cannot comment on that part but amd64 issues with flash etc does not mean you have to buy a P4

Re: AMD64 Desktop Support

2006-06-20 Thread Mark Kane
On Mon, Jun 19, 2006, at 22:35:15 -0700, Michael Collette wrote: Bit of a dilemma here with my primary desktop machine suddenly up and dieing on me. I'm now in the market to slap together a new PC I've started with looking at picking up an AMD64 based system. After Googling around for a

Re: AMD64 Desktop Support

2006-06-20 Thread Michael Collette
Mark Kane wrote: Hi. I'm using an Athlon64 3000+ (and the amd64 version of FreeBSD) as my main workstation. I also have another workstation with the same CPU running the i386 version. Here's my opinions: Flash - The 32 bit Linux binary of Flash 7 works in linux-firefox or linux-opera fine in

Re: AMD64 Desktop Support

2006-06-20 Thread Andy Reitz
On Tue, 20 Jun 2006, Michael Collette wrote: Any and all feedback is appreciated. For as nice as the AMD64 processor may be, sounds like things are a ways off before the software has fully caught up. In 64-bit mode, that does appear to be the case. However, it sounds like you could purchase

Re: AMD64 Desktop Support

2006-06-20 Thread Michael Collette
Andy Reitz wrote: In 64-bit mode, that does appear to be the case. However, it sounds like you could purchase an AMD64-based processor, and have everythign work fine in 32-bit mode. Then later down the road, as the software evolves, you could upgrade FreeBSD to be 64-bit and be set. Just a

Re: AMD64 Desktop Support

2006-06-20 Thread Cor van Wandelen
On Mon, 19 Jun 2006 22:35:15 -0700 Michael Collette [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Bit of a dilemma here with my primary desktop machine suddenly up and dieing on me. I'm now in the market to slap together a new PC I've started with looking at picking up an AMD64 based system. After Googling

Re: AMD64 Desktop Support

2006-06-19 Thread Chad Leigh -- Shire.Net LLC
On Jun 19, 2006, at 11:35 PM, Michael Collette wrote: Bit of a dilemma here with my primary desktop machine suddenly up and dieing on me. I'm now in the market to slap together a new PC I've started with looking at picking up an AMD64 based system. After Googling around for a while I

Re: amd64 FreeBSD 6.0 problem

2006-05-22 Thread Chad Leigh -- Shire.Net LLC
On May 22, 2006, at 10:46 AM, YTResearch wrote: Please let me know if this is not the right list to ask this. I have a Tyan 4882 4 CPU (dual core) Opteron, running amd64 FreeBSD 6.0 Release, 8 gig ram (all recognized), SCSI 15K Seagate ST373454LC drives. BIOS is running all stock

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