Do we need this junk?

2007-04-05 Thread Nikolas Britton
Can anything in the list below be removed from CURRENT? legacyfree1# cd dev/ legacyfree1# grep -irsn isa ./ | grep -i include ./acpica/acpi.c:54:#include isa/isavar.h ./acpica/acpi.c:55:#include isa/pnpvar.h ./acpica/acpi_acad.c:46:#include isa/isavar.h ./acpica/acpi_acad.c:47:#include

Porting FreeBSD to a new Architecture?

2007-04-04 Thread Nikolas Britton
Hello, I'm looking for documentation that could possibly help me port FreeBSD to a new architecture. I'm mainly interested in how you guys did the xbox and amd64 ports. i.e. x86 instruction set. Thanks! ___ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list

Re: Porting FreeBSD to a new Architecture?

2007-04-04 Thread Nikolas Britton
On 4/4/07, Rink Springer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi Nikolas, On Wed, Apr 04, 2007 at 02:23:44AM -0500, Nikolas Britton wrote: I'm looking for documentation that could possibly help me port FreeBSD to a new architecture. I'm mainly interested in how you guys did the xbox and amd64 ports. i.e

Re: Amd64 Unstable Areca

2007-03-30 Thread Nikolas Britton
On 3/30/07, Phillip Neumann [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: El dom, 25-03-2007 a las 10:11 -0600, Scott Long escribió: Please try the following patch against the latest 6-STABLE driver sources: http://people.freebsd.org/~scottl/arcmsr.simq.diff. Scott Just in case you mind, the problem does not

Re: Amd64 Unstable Areca

2007-03-30 Thread Nikolas Britton
On 3/30/07, Scott Long [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Nikolas Britton wrote: On 3/30/07, Phillip Neumann [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: El dom, 25-03-2007 a las 10:11 -0600, Scott Long escribió: Please try the following patch against the latest 6-STABLE driver sources: http://people.freebsd.org

Re: Amd64 Unstable Areca

2007-03-26 Thread Nikolas Britton
On 3/25/07, Scott Long [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Nikolas Britton wrote: Yeah are hardware is nearly identical. I don't remember what I did to my custom driver, I know I fixed some syntax errors and merged in changes that were made on top of the 1.20.00.02 code base. I'm not sure but I think

Re: Amd64 Unstable Areca

2007-03-24 Thread Nikolas Britton
On 3/24/07, Jan Mikkelsen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, Nikolas Britton wrote: If that doesn't work move back down to 1.20.00.12: http://www.nbritton.org/uploads/areca/ I could consistently make 1.20.00.12 corrupt data. If you are going to go back, that's probably a bad choice. 1.20.00.02

Re: Amd64 Unstable Areca

2007-03-24 Thread Nikolas Britton
On 3/24/07, Jan Mikkelsen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Nikolas Britton wrote: On 3/24/07, Jan Mikkelsen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, Nikolas Britton wrote: If that doesn't work move back down to 1.20.00.12: http://www.nbritton.org/uploads/areca/ I could consistently make 1.20.00.12

Re: Amd64 Unstable Areca

2007-03-23 Thread Nikolas Britton
A newer version of the driver has been release to fix this problem (I think): http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/cvsweb.cgi/src/sys/dev/arcmsr/ If that doesn't work move back down to 1.20.00.12: http://www.nbritton.org/uploads/areca/ Added erich and scott to the cc list. On 3/22/07, Phillip Neumann

Re: Xen Dom0, are we making progress?

2007-03-23 Thread Nikolas Britton
On 3/13/07, Kip Macy [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I know you were working on Xen support in FreeBSD, but web about it (http://www.fsmware.com/xenofreebsd/7.0/STATUS) has one year old info (support planned in FreeBSD 6.1). So is there any progress, or Xen will not be in any near future release?

Don't buy AMD products (was Re: Xorg and ATI card query.)

2007-03-13 Thread Nikolas Britton
We need to start hounding on AMD to publish the developer documentation for all radeon chipsets. I for one will not buy any AMD or ATI components until they decide to fix the problem. Here's the email address of AMD's president: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Give him your two cents. On 3/12/07, Daniel

Re: Xen Dom0, are we making progress?

2007-03-12 Thread Nikolas Britton
Free Solaris DVD software kits (Free shipping too): http://www.sun.com/solaris/freemedia Sweet! On 3/12/07, Nikolas Britton [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Is FreeBSD making any progress in Xen Dom0 / Intel VT support? I'd really like to consolidate some underutilized FreeBSD servers. Are their any

Xen Dom0, are we making progress?

2007-03-12 Thread Nikolas Britton
Is FreeBSD making any progress in Xen Dom0 / Intel VT support? I'd really like to consolidate some underutilized FreeBSD servers. Are their any alternative solutions that will enable me to do this kind of stuff with FreeBSD, or would it be better to go with Solaris Dom0 + FreeBSD DomU?

Re: Xen Dom0, are we making progress?

2007-03-12 Thread Nikolas Britton
On 3/12/07, Ivan Voras [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Nikolas Britton wrote: Free Solaris DVD software kits (Free shipping too): http://www.sun.com/solaris/freemedia Or NetBSD: http://www.netbsd.org/Ports/xen/ Yes that was my next choice after FreeBSD but they don't support the Areca RAID

Re: Xen Dom0, are we making progress?

2007-03-12 Thread Nikolas Britton
On 3/12/07, Ronald Klop [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, 12 Mar 2007 20:16:32 +0100, Nikolas Britton [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Is FreeBSD making any progress in Xen Dom0 / Intel VT support? I'd really like to consolidate some underutilized FreeBSD servers. Are their any alternative solutions

Re: Xen Dom0, are we making progress?

2007-03-12 Thread Nikolas Britton
On 3/12/07, Andras Gót [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Nikolas Britton wrote: On 3/12/07, Ronald Klop [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, 12 Mar 2007 20:16:32 +0100, Nikolas Britton [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Is FreeBSD making any progress in Xen Dom0 / Intel VT support? I'd really like

Re: FreeBSD and make -j# buildworld usability

2006-10-16 Thread Nikolas Britton
On 10/13/06, Kent Stewart [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Friday 13 October 2006 07:31, Buki wrote: Hi, I searched the archives and web a little but found many different opinions on stability/usability of using make -j# with buildworld (and buildkernel). So I am asking if it is a good idea to

Re: 16M RAM enough for FreeBSD 6.1?

2006-08-27 Thread Nikolas Britton
On 8/27/06, Peter Jeremy [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sun, 2006-Aug-27 11:00:30 +0200, Torfinn Ingolfsen wrote: On Sun, 27 Aug 2006 17:13:29 +1000 Peter Jeremy [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The CD-ROMs create a RAMdisk and need a minimum of 24MB last I checked. And I guess that the floppies work

Re: 16M RAM enough for FreeBSD 6.1?

2006-08-26 Thread Nikolas Britton
On 8/26/06, Torfinn Ingolfsen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello, I have an old laptop, a Compaq Armada 1580DMT, with 16M RAM, 2GB hd, floppy and CD-rom. It doesn't have built in networking, neither wired nor wireless. It does have PC card slots. It has had FreeBSD 4.9-release installed a long

Re: 16M RAM enough for FreeBSD 6.1?

2006-08-26 Thread Nikolas Britton
On 8/26/06, Nikolas Britton [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 8/26/06, Torfinn Ingolfsen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello, I have an old laptop, a Compaq Armada 1580DMT, with 16M RAM, 2GB hd, floppy and CD-rom. It doesn't have built in networking, neither wired nor wireless. It does have PC card

Re: RocketRAID 2224

2006-08-25 Thread Nikolas Britton
On 8/25/06, Dave Kingsley [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I am attemping to use a RocketRAID 2224 8 channel card to set up a storage server. The server board is an Intel SE7230NH1-E with a P4-D 2.8GHz, 2GB RAM. When I set up a RAID5 with 7 750GB drives I get nothing but wierdness. Using sysinstall -

Re: suggestions for SATA RAID cards

2006-08-24 Thread Nikolas Britton
On 8/24/06, Andreas Klemm [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, Aug 23, 2006 at 09:23:00AM +0100, Steven Hartland wrote: The Areca cards I can recommend. Highpoint 1820a is surprisingly good Many many years ago I bought a HighPoint HPT366 ATA66 controller. Thought its a good deal because it was

Re: suggestions for SATA RAID cards

2006-08-24 Thread Nikolas Britton
On 8/24/06, Daniel O'Connor [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thursday 24 August 2006 01:16, Nikolas Britton wrote: Stay away from Adaptec and Promise because they don't support FreeBSD. I would recommend Areca and/or HighPoint because they do officially support FreeBSD. 3Ware does support FreeBSD

Re: suggestions for SATA RAID cards

2006-08-23 Thread Nikolas Britton
On 8/23/06, Willem Jan Withagen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I've ran into sort of a snag with building a 2T file server. Given all the good press here for 3ware and the talk to the guys at the CeBIT I decided to go for a 9550SX-LP8. With that I bought a ASUS serverboard: K8N-LR with 165 dual

Re: suggestions for SATA RAID cards

2006-08-23 Thread Nikolas Britton
On 8/23/06, Bob Willcox [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, Aug 23, 2006 at 12:02:47PM +0200, Willem Jan Withagen wrote: Steven Hartland wrote: The Areca cards I can recommend. Highpoint 1820a is surprisingly good for its price and the later cards have better performance still apparently. N.B.

Re: suggestions for SATA RAID cards

2006-08-23 Thread Nikolas Britton
On 8/23/06, Nikolas Britton [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 8/23/06, Bob Willcox [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, Aug 23, 2006 at 12:02:47PM +0200, Willem Jan Withagen wrote: Steven Hartland wrote: The Areca cards I can recommend. Highpoint 1820a is surprisingly good for its price

Re: RocketRAID 2224

2006-08-21 Thread Nikolas Britton
On 8/18/06, Nikolas Britton [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 8/18/06, Dave Kingsley [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I am attemping to use a RocketRAID 2224 8 channel card to set up a storage server. The server board is an Intel SE7230NH1-E with a P4-D 2.8GHz, 2GB RAM. FreeBSD doesn't see it at all

Re: diffs to add newer Intel ATA and ICHSMB IDs

2006-08-20 Thread Nikolas Britton
On 6/1/06, Jack Vogel [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I occasionally run into issues that newer PCI device IDs are not yet supported, these in particular are on a new box I am working on. Can someone see that these changes get integrated please :) Cheers, Jack --- dev/ata/ata-chipset.orig.c Fri Jun

Re: diffs to add newer Intel ATA and ICHSMB IDs

2006-08-20 Thread Nikolas Britton
On 8/20/06, Jack Vogel [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 8/20/06, Nikolas Britton [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 6/1/06, Jack Vogel [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I occasionally run into issues that newer PCI device IDs are not yet supported, these in particular are on a new box I am working on. Can

Re: RocketRAID 2224

2006-08-18 Thread Nikolas Britton
On 8/18/06, Dave Kingsley [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I am attemping to use a RocketRAID 2224 8 channel card to set up a storage server. The server board is an Intel SE7230NH1-E with a P4-D 2.8GHz, 2GB RAM. FreeBSD doesn't see it at all. I've noticed that the kernel config has options built in

gzip is faster with -O3

2006-08-09 Thread Nikolas Britton
dd if=/dev/random of=testfile bs=1m count=5000 gzip compiled with -O3: # date ; nice -10 ./gzip -c9 testfile testfile.gz ; date Wed Aug 9 08:01:21 CDT 2006 Wed Aug 9 08:09:06 CDT 2006 465 Seconds. gzip compiled with -O2: # date ; nice -10 ./gzip -c9 testfile testfile.gz ; date Wed Aug 9

Re: gzip is faster with -O3

2006-08-09 Thread Nikolas Britton
On 8/9/06, Matthias Andree [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 1. gzip isn't usually used to compress incompressible data. 2. use time to figure out how much CPU time it actually burns. 5 GB are somewhat I/O bound, but gcc options don't help with that, so CPU time is better than wallclock time.

Re: Professional sound card

2006-08-07 Thread Nikolas Britton
On 8/7/06, Marco Pirovano [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello, I'm looking for a professional sound card available under FreeBSD-stable. Any suggestions ? Thank you very much. Read the first two and the fourth links here if you want a Envy24 based card:

Xen / FreeBSD 6.2

2006-08-06 Thread Nikolas Britton
Will FreeBSD 6.2 support Xen dom0? I have a new Xeon system with VT and I'm chomping at the bit here, considering -CURRENT for a production server... or worse... running Linux to get my fix. -- BSD Podcasts @: http://bsdtalk.blogspot.com/ http://freebsdforall.blogspot.com/

Re: Xen / FreeBSD 6.2

2006-08-06 Thread Nikolas Britton
Can't. NetBSD doesn't have the arcmsr(4) driver... My choice is limited to FreeBSD, Solaris, or Linux. On 8/6/06, Luke [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Perhaps you should consider NetBSD if FreeBSD will not have support for it? On Sun, 6 Aug 2006, Nikolas Britton wrote: Will FreeBSD 6.2 support Xen

Re: Xen / FreeBSD 6.2

2006-08-06 Thread Nikolas Britton
is currently working on it. How difficult are we talking? Could someone with extremely limited C programming experience do it? On Sun, 6 Aug 2006, Nikolas Britton wrote: Will FreeBSD 6.2 support Xen dom0? I have a new Xeon system with VT and I'm chomping at the bit here, considering -CURRENT

Re: em(4) update for 6-STABLE

2006-08-06 Thread Nikolas Britton
On 8/3/06, Gleb Smirnoff [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Colleagues, here is a patch that merges HEAD em(4) driver to RELENG_6. First, it significantly improves perfromance of the driver under high pps load. Second, it adds support for few new chips. You need to update your system to fresh

Re: GIANT in arcmsr(4)

2006-07-31 Thread Nikolas Britton
On 7/31/06, Mike Tancsa [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: At 07:13 AM 30/07/2006, Nikolas Britton wrote: On 7/29/06, Nikolas Britton [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Anyone know why the giant is in arcmsr(4) or how to kill him? I did some work on the arcmsr(4) driver: http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr

Re: GIANT in arcmsr(4)

2006-07-31 Thread Nikolas Britton
On 7/31/06, erich [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Dear Nikolas Britton, Sorry I had new arcmsr driver version 1.20.00.13 for FreeBSD i386/amd64/ppc plateform. This version add ARECA new generation RAID adapters ( SATA / SAS ) into arcmsr. Its xfer rate more than 800MB/sec. I need more time to test

Re: GIANT in arcmsr(4)

2006-07-30 Thread Nikolas Britton
On 7/29/06, Nikolas Britton [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Anyone know why the giant is in arcmsr(4) or how to kill him? I did some work on the arcmsr(4) driver: http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=101045 -- BSD Podcasts @: http://bsdtalk.blogspot.com/ http://freebsdforall.blogspot.com

GIANT in arcmsr(4)

2006-07-29 Thread Nikolas Britton
Anyone know why the giant is in arcmsr(4) or how to kill him? -- BSD Podcasts @: http://bsdtalk.blogspot.com/ http://freebsdforall.blogspot.com/ ___ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable To

Re: Monitoring temperature with acpi (sysctls)

2006-07-28 Thread Nikolas Britton
On 7/26/06, David Duchscher [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Jul 26, 2006, at 11:09 AM, Bruno Ducrot wrote: On Tue, Jul 25, 2006 at 11:51:25AM -0400, Mike Jakubik wrote: I need to be able to get the cpu and fan information from my motherboard, however none of the monitoring utilities in the

Xen dom0 support?

2006-07-22 Thread Nikolas Britton
Does FreeBSD support Xen 3 dom0 yet??? What's the current status of domU support? Does Net/Open BSD support Xen 3 dom0? -- BSD Podcasts @: http://bsdtalk.blogspot.com/ http://freebsdforall.blogspot.com/ ___ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list

Re: Xen dom0 support?

2006-07-22 Thread Nikolas Britton
On 7/22/06, Nikolas Britton [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Does FreeBSD support Xen 3 dom0 yet??? What's the current status of domU support? Does Net/Open BSD support Xen 3 dom0? NetBSD has Xen 3 dom0 support: http://mail-index.netbsd.org/port-xen/2006/07/03/.html -- BSD Podcasts @: http

Gigabit ethernet very slow.

2006-06-25 Thread Nikolas Britton
What's up with my computer, it's only getting 30MB/s? hostB: nc -4kl port /dev/null hostA: nc host port /dev/zero hostB: Athlon64 3000, Asus A8R-MVP, FreeBSD 6.1/amd64): $ sysctl -a net.inet.tcp|grep space net.inet.tcp.sendspace: 32768 net.inet.tcp.recvspace: 131072 sk0:

Re: Gigabit ethernet very slow.

2006-06-25 Thread Nikolas Britton
though. Using other software that I wrote. On 6/25/06, Nikolas Britton [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: What's up with my computer, it's only getting 30MB/s? hostB: nc -4kl port /dev/null hostA: nc host port /dev/zero 408MByte/s or 408Mbit/s and what measuring stick are you using? I'm trying to rule

Re: Gigabit ethernet very slow.

2006-06-25 Thread Nikolas Britton
On 6/25/06, Nikolas Britton [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 6/25/06, Sean Bryant [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: /dev/zero not exactly the best way to test sending data across the network. Especially since you'll be reading a 8k chunks. I could be wrong, strong possibility that I am. I only got 408mb

Re: bug in systat: ifstat?

2006-06-24 Thread Nikolas Britton
Now it shows: 13228401022664.000 b (12TB)... Which means I transferred 3.226TB in 330 minutes... or 170.84MB/s, which is not possible using a gigabit Ethernet link to say the least. On 6/24/06, Nikolas Britton [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Look at the Totals column (gmail may wrap

Effects of changing tar's -b option.

2006-06-24 Thread Nikolas Britton
Test Setup: 250 50MB files (13068252KB) dd if=/dev/random of=testfile bs=1m count=50 Ethernet mtu=6500 Transferred files were wiped after every test with 'rm -r *'. Test: hostB: nc -4l port | tar xpbf n - hostA: date; tar cbf n - . | nc hostB port; date Test Results: seconds = n 645sec. = 1024

Re: xorg build failed

2006-06-04 Thread Nikolas Britton
On 6/2/06, Manfred Lotz [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi there, Trying to build xorg-server 6.9.3 I get Where did you get Xorg 6.9.3 from? -- BSD Podcasts @: http://bsdtalk.blogspot.com/ http://freebsdforall.blogspot.com/ ___ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org

Re: PCI Radeon 7000/VE (RV100) on AMD64

2006-05-03 Thread Nikolas Britton
On 5/3/06, Wilde, Donald [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Nikolas Britton Sent: Tuesday, May 02, 2006 2:46 PM To: Alastair G. Hogge Cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: PCI Radeon 7000/VE (RV100) on AMD64

Re: PCI Radeon 7000/VE (RV100) on AMD64

2006-05-02 Thread Nikolas Britton
On 3/27/06, Alastair G. Hogge [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: G'day Having some problem with Xorg-6.9.0 and the radeon or ati driver on mad64 system. X seems to look up at a black screen after setting the resolution and then resets the computer. I have drm and radeon defined in my kernel config and

ICH7 SATA RAID Broken, Was (Re: Timescale for 6.1-RELEASE...)

2006-04-12 Thread Nikolas Britton
On 4/12/06, Ted Mittelstaedt [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: -Original Message- From: Ted Mittelstaedt [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, April 11, 2006 6:04 PM To: Nikolas Britton Cc: Harrison Peter CSA BIRKENHEAD; freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: RE: Timescale for 6.1-RELEASE

Re: Disappointed

2006-04-06 Thread Nikolas Britton
On 4/6/06, [LoN]Kamikaze [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Alexey Karagodov wrote: hi. i think, this unstablity happaning just because developers trying to make two systems at one time, one is 6.0 and another 7.0 current and they supporting old version, lower then 6.0 i want to ask developers,

Re: FreeBSD 6.1 Release day

2006-04-06 Thread Nikolas Britton
On 4/6/06, Norbert Augenstein [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, Apr 06, 2006 at 01:41:23PM +0200, Erik Trulsson wrote: On Thu, Apr 06, 2006 at 12:20:09PM +0300, SoHo.NET wrote: Dear Sir, Can you notify me with date of FreeBSD 6.1 RELEASE? It have to be released in 1 or 2 weeks

Pros and Cons of amd64 (versus i386).

2006-04-05 Thread Nikolas Britton
Hello all, I will be getting my very first 64-bit x86 system tomorrow and I don't know anything about the platform at the software level. The last time I touched an AMD based system was in the socket 7 days. HELP!, what do I do with the extra 32-bits of CPU goodness? :-) $200 bucks got me a

Is mount_smbfs broken in 6.1-PRERELEASE?

2006-03-30 Thread Nikolas Britton
Anyone know if mount_smbfs is broken in 6.1, I'm trying to run this: mount_smbfs -I 192.168.1.2 //[EMAIL PROTECTED]/music2 /mnt/network/music/ And then it asks for my password, I type it in, and then I get this error: mount_smbfs: unable to open connection: syserr = Authentication error I've

Re: Is mount_smbfs broken in 6.1-PRERELEASE?

2006-03-30 Thread Nikolas Britton
On 3/30/06, Gavin Atkinson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, 30 Mar 2006, Nikolas Britton wrote: Anyone know if mount_smbfs is broken in 6.1, I'm trying to run this: mount_smbfs -I 192.168.1.2 //[EMAIL PROTECTED]/music2 /mnt/network/music/ And then it asks for my password, I type

-march=pentium2 + -mtune=pentium4 faster then -march=pentium4?

2006-03-27 Thread Nikolas Britton
Why does GCC produce faster code using -march=pentium2 -mtune=pentium4 on a Pentium 4 chip versus plain -march=pentium4? Try it... CPUTYPE=pentium2 CFLAGS+= -mtune=pentium4 COPTFLAGS+= -mtune=pentium4 -- BSD Podcasts @ http://bsdtalk.blogspot.com/

Re: -march=pentium2 + -mtune=pentium4 faster then -march=pentium4?

2006-03-27 Thread Nikolas Britton
On 3/27/06, Kris Kennaway [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, Mar 27, 2006 at 01:05:13PM -0600, Nikolas Britton wrote: Why does GCC produce faster code using -march=pentium2 -mtune=pentium4 on a Pentium 4 chip versus plain -march=pentium4? Try it... CPUTYPE=pentium2 CFLAGS+= -mtune

Re: well-supported SATA RAID card?

2006-03-13 Thread Nikolas Britton
On 3/10/06, Brian Szymanski [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Howdy... After not having much success with the hptmv driver for highpoint's rocketraid 1820A, I'm wondering if other folks have had good luck with any SATA RAID cards with at least 6 ports... Is there a SATA RAID card with utilities that

Re: When is the 6.1 branch going to be cut?

2006-03-12 Thread Nikolas Britton
On 3/11/06, M. Warner Losh [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: In message: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Nikolas Britton [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: : March 5th was the scheduled date, what's the hold up? I think we're going to see another BETA (BETA4) shortly. The hold up is that there's still enough

When is the 6.1 branch going to be cut?

2006-03-11 Thread Nikolas Britton
March 5th was the scheduled date, what's the hold up? http://www.freebsd.org/releases/6.1R/schedule.html -- BSD Podcasts @ http://bsdtalk.blogspot.com/ ___ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list

Re: loader_color=YES

2006-03-09 Thread Nikolas Britton
On 3/9/06, Pete Slagle [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Ruslan Ermilov wrote: loader_color is deprecated. One should use loader_logo as described in loader.conf(5) instead. Hmmm. Contrary to what you say, when I run 'man 5 loader.conf' on my 6.0-RELEASE-p4 box there is no mention whatsoever of

loader_color=YES

2006-02-28 Thread Nikolas Britton
What happen to 'loader_color=YES' if FreeBSD 6.x? If you put this in loader.conf it would make a color daemon in the boot menu. -- BSD Podcasts @ http://bsdtalk.blogspot.com/ ___ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list

Re: loader_color=YES

2006-02-28 Thread Nikolas Britton
On 2/28/06, Holger Kipp [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, Feb 28, 2006 at 04:55:49AM -0600, Nikolas Britton wrote: What happen to 'loader_color=YES' if FreeBSD 6.x? If you put this in loader.conf it would make a color daemon in the boot menu. Please use loader_logo=beastie

Re: loader_color=YES

2006-02-28 Thread Nikolas Britton
On 2/28/06, Pete Slagle [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Holger Kipp wrote: Please use loader_logo=beastie loader_color=YES loader_logo does not appear in /boot/defaults/loader.conf, at least not in 6.0-RELEASE-p4. Is that an oversight? Their are lots of undocumented feature in FreeBSD.

Re: Søren!!!, Promise FastTrak TX2300 semph ore timeouts, 6.1-BETA2

2006-02-26 Thread Nikolas Britton
'hptmv6_load=YES' /boot/loader.conf 12. reinstalled highpoint card. 13. installed highpoint raid managment software. 14. ran build/install world/kern. On 2/25/06, Nikolas Britton [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm getting ad(x): req=0xc(foobar) setfeatures set transfer mode semphore timeout !! Danger

Søren!!!, Promise FastTrak TX2300 semphore ti meouts, 6.1-BETA2

2006-02-25 Thread Nikolas Britton
I'm getting ad(x): req=0xc(foobar) setfeatures set transfer mode semphore timeout !! Danger Will Robinson !! after I installed BETA2 on my server (Intel SE7210TP-E). I get the messages a few minutes after the systems booted up, and then it deadlocks. I had to go to great length just to get BETA2