ACPI problems with Dell laptops? (was: Jerky keyboard and mouse)

2005-11-20 Thread Greg 'groggy' Lehey
On Saturday, 19 November 2005 at 21:37:03 -0600, Stephen Montgomery-Smith wrote: I recently upgraded from stable-6 of Nov 4 to stable-6 of today on my Dell Latitude D800 Laptop, and suddenly the response of the touchpad mouse and keyboard was bery bad. Heh. I saw the subject line and thought

Re: Centralized building

2005-11-20 Thread Eirik Øverby
On Nov 19, 2005, at 19:43 , Joseph Koshy wrote: AFAICT cross-compiling amd64 on a i386 machine isn't supported yet. I ran into a similar problem when I upgraded an i386 machine to amd64. I thought I could just set CPUTYPE=athlon-64 and buildworld would do the right thing. Apparently not.

Re: Centralized building

2005-11-20 Thread Eirik Øverby
On Nov 20, 2005, at 09:50 , Eirik Øverby wrote: On Nov 19, 2005, at 19:43 , Joseph Koshy wrote: AFAICT cross-compiling amd64 on a i386 machine isn't supported yet. I ran into a similar problem when I upgraded an i386 machine to amd64. I thought I could just set CPUTYPE=athlon-64 and

Mount related panic with FreeBSD 6?

2005-11-20 Thread Václav Haisman
Hi, I got this panic on freshly installed FreeBSD 6. I did this df -h and noticed that /mnt/oldroot/home is somewhat mangled. The /mnt/oldroot is root of FreeBSD 4.11 system. I successfully copied some settings and all user accounts from that /mnt/oldroot/home earlier today. This is what I did

FBSD 6-STABLE usb problem: umass0: BBB reset failed, IOERROR

2005-11-20 Thread Holger Kipp
Hello, whilst copying files from SD-Card via usb card reader with mcopy, I encountered the following error with FreeBSD 6.0-STABLE from 15.11.2005. Even though the device was reattached automatically (nice improvement, btw!), this error is very annoying. Is this behaviour already known, or

Re: message too long when sending broadcasts

2005-11-20 Thread Robert Watson
On Sun, 20 Nov 2005, Michael Voucko wrote: Berkeley-derived kernels do not allow a broadcast datagram to be fragmented. If the size of an IP datagram that is being sent to a broadcast address exceeds the outgoing interface MTU, EMSGSIZE is returned (pp. 233?234 of TCPv2). This is a policy

FBSD-6 usb/scanner-access-rights

2005-11-20 Thread Holger Kipp
Hello, I am slightly unsatisfied with user rights management, especially with usb-devices, but also with access to cd/dvd-burners for the following reason: I'd like to be able to allow access to burners that are accessed as scsi-devices (via atapicam) for some users, but for that to work it is

Re : Re: building gnome2 on freebsd6-stable

2005-11-20 Thread Didier Wiroth
thanks for replying. No, I actually did not have gnome installed, as I'm running fluxbox but may be I had some sub-gnome ports installed that I didn't notice and that are responsible for the build failure. May be I should uninstall all *gnome* ports and restart. Best regards, Didier -

Re: FBSD-6 usb/scanner-access-rights

2005-11-20 Thread Roland Smith
On Sun, Nov 20, 2005 at 02:16:24PM +0100, Holger Kipp wrote: Is there an easy way to name the devices a user might be allowed to access rw, without compromising the system? I don't want to give operator group to these users, and I don't want to blindly allow access to some da- or

Re: FBSD-6 usb/scanner-access-rights

2005-11-20 Thread Holger Kipp
Dear Roland, thank you very much for your answer. On Sun, Nov 20, 2005 at 03:04:22PM +0100, Roland Smith wrote: On Sun, Nov 20, 2005 at 02:16:24PM +0100, Holger Kipp wrote: Is there an easy way to name the devices a user might be allowed to access rw, without compromising the system? I

Re: FBSD-6 usb/scanner-access-rights

2005-11-20 Thread Roland Smith
On Sun, Nov 20, 2005 at 05:37:36PM +0100, Holger Kipp wrote: Dear Roland, thank you very much for your answer. On Sun, Nov 20, 2005 at 03:04:22PM +0100, Roland Smith wrote: On Sun, Nov 20, 2005 at 02:16:24PM +0100, Holger Kipp wrote: Is there an easy way to name the devices a user

inconsistent arp(8) mac address output using if_bridge

2005-11-20 Thread Niki Denev
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hello, I have a small machine setup to act as simple network gateway. I have one wireless and one wired interfaces without IP configuration on them, and they are added as if_bridge(4) members. When i issue arp -na command on the machine i get this:

Re: inconsistent arp(8) mac address output using if_bridge

2005-11-20 Thread Niki Denev
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Niki Denev wrote: Hello, I have a small machine setup to act as simple network gateway. I have one wireless and one wired interfaces without IP configuration on them, and they are added as if_bridge(4) members. When i issue arp -na command on

Re: FBSD-6 usb/scanner-access-rights

2005-11-20 Thread Holger Kipp
On Sun, Nov 20, 2005 at 06:47:54PM +0100, Roland Smith wrote: On Sun, Nov 20, 2005 at 05:37:36PM +0100, Holger Kipp wrote: Dear Roland, Is there an easy way to name the devices a user might be allowed to access rw, without compromising the system? I don't want to give operator group

Re: FreeBSD unstable on Dell 1750 using SMP?

2005-11-20 Thread Rutger Bevaart
Strange indeed. On a 1750 with bge's: 475 mbufs in use 501/25600 mbuf clusters in use (current/max) 0/3/6656 sfbufs in use (current/peak/max) 1120 KBytes allocated to network 0 requests for sfbufs denied 0 requests for sfbufs delayed 0 requests for I/O initiated by sendfile 100 calls to protocol

Re: inconsistent arp(8) mac address output using if_bridge

2005-11-20 Thread Andrew Thompson
On Sun, Nov 20, 2005 at 07:50:44PM +0200, Niki Denev wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hello, I have a small machine setup to act as simple network gateway. I have one wireless and one wired interfaces without IP configuration on them, and they are added as

Re: FBSD-6 usb/scanner-access-rights

2005-11-20 Thread Roland Smith
On Sun, Nov 20, 2005 at 07:26:38PM +0100, Holger Kipp wrote: Doesn't matter that you get UNKNOWN. It _will_ work with sane without access to /dev/usb*. It does here. This is an Epson Perfection 1260. Don't ask what the 'Perfection' stands for. Anyway, this is in fact a Plustek, so I have

is removable_interfaces still used?

2005-11-20 Thread Ronald Klop
Hello, I'm running 6.0-STABLE and see that the option removable_interfaces is not used in any config script. /etc# grep -r removable_interfaces * defaults/rc.conf:removable_interfaces=# Removable network interfaces for /etc/pccard_ether. What is is the use of it now? I can't

cmbat related ACPI change between 6.0-release and Nov 10th -stable sources is making Dell laptops to hang

2005-11-20 Thread Pierre-Luc Drouin
Hi, Since I upgraded from 6.0-release to 6.0-stable on Nov 10th, my laptop hangs for about 1-2 seconds everytime a battery monitoring tool asks for the cmbat battery status. My laptop is a Dell Precision M70 and shares its motherboard with many other Dell laptops. I can reproduce the problem

Re: cmbat related ACPI change between 6.0-release and Nov 10th -stable sources is making Dell laptops to hang

2005-11-20 Thread Vlad GALU
On 11/20/05, Pierre-Luc Drouin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, Since I upgraded from 6.0-release to 6.0-stable on Nov 10th, my laptop hangs for about 1-2 seconds everytime a battery monitoring tool asks for the cmbat battery status. My laptop is a Dell Precision M70 and shares its motherboard

Re: Centralized building

2005-11-20 Thread Ruslan Ermilov
On Sun, Nov 20, 2005 at 10:14:37AM +0100, Eirik ?verby wrote: On Nov 20, 2005, at 09:50 , Eirik ?verby wrote: On Nov 19, 2005, at 19:43 , Joseph Koshy wrote: AFAICT cross-compiling amd64 on a i386 machine isn't supported yet. I ran into a similar problem when I upgraded an i386

Re: CF card and /dev filesystem entries

2005-11-20 Thread Brian Candler
On Wed, Nov 16, 2005 at 05:57:12PM +0100, Roland Smith wrote: However, when I insert a CF card with normal partioning I need /dev/da0s1, and this is not present in the /dev filesystem because the partition table has not been read. snip The only way I can see to *force* the superblock to

ad1: req=0xc2998000 SETFEATURES SET TRANSFER MODE semaphore timeout !! DANGER Will Robinson !!

2005-11-20 Thread Nikolay Pavlov
Hi. I have an error after upgrade to FreeBSD 6.0-RELEASE in time of booting: ad1: req=0xc2998000 SETFEATURES SET TRANSFER MODE semaphore timeout !! DANGER Will Robinson !! swap_pager: indefinite bufobj: 0 blkno: 3 size: 4096 then it's just halt. But not everytime, sometime it's booting

Re: CF card and /dev filesystem entries

2005-11-20 Thread Robert Marella
On Sun, 20 Nov 2005 21:04:59 + Brian Candler [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, Nov 16, 2005 at 05:57:12PM +0100, Roland Smith wrote: However, when I insert a CF card with normal partioning I need /dev/da0s1, and this is not present in the /dev filesystem because the partition table

6.0 Release - Pentium install panic and some questions

2005-11-20 Thread Paul Koch
Hi, we are having a number of issues with 6.0-Release. Our setup: We have ~40 machines in a development test environment, ranging from P5/150Mhz/32M ram/IDE, PII Celerons, P3, P4, single and dual processor setups. Issue 1: Can't install on a Pentium P5 class machine: The install panics when

acpi_perf error

2005-11-20 Thread Zoran Kolic
Hi all! I've seen this error some 300 times at the beginning of boot process. System goes up and works with no issue. It is nforce3 250 with amd64, 6.0 os. Using sysctl, I've found the line: dev.acpi_perf.0.%driver: acpi_perf In bios acpi apic is turned off, due to acpi errors from 5.4 era. Kernel