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

2007-03-13 Thread Mark Kirkwood
Abdullah Ibn Hamad Al-Marri wrote: Since AMD/ATI doesn't make a native driver for FreeBSD, I only buy notebooks with nvidia, and I told my friends about this. We as FreeBSD users could write about this in our blogs and pages, which will widespread the word about the driver issues in better way,

Re: adduser error

2007-03-13 Thread Scot Hetzel
On 3/14/07, zen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: dear users, i have problem with my fresh FreeBSD 6.2 RELEASE i can not adduser to this machine, the error logs was: ns1# pw adduser zen -g wheel -d /home/zen -s /bin/csh pwd_mkdb: corrupted entry pwd_mkdb: at line #12 pwd_mkdb: /etc/master.passwd: Inap

Re: adduser error

2007-03-13 Thread zen
Scot Hetzel wrote: On 3/14/07, Scot Hetzel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On 3/14/07, zen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > dear users, > i have problem with my fresh FreeBSD 6.2 RELEASE > i can not adduser to this machine, the error logs was: > > ns1# pw adduser zen -g wheel -d /home/zen -s /bin/csh

Re: adduser error

2007-03-13 Thread Scot Hetzel
On 3/14/07, Scot Hetzel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On 3/14/07, zen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > dear users, > i have problem with my fresh FreeBSD 6.2 RELEASE > i can not adduser to this machine, the error logs was: > > ns1# pw adduser zen -g wheel -d /home/zen -s /bin/csh > pwd_mkdb: corrupted

adduser error

2007-03-13 Thread zen
dear users, i have problem with my fresh FreeBSD 6.2 RELEASE i can not adduser to this machine, the error logs was: ns1# pw adduser zen -g wheel -d /home/zen -s /bin/csh pwd_mkdb: corrupted entry pwd_mkdb: at line #12 pwd_mkdb: /etc/master.passwd: Inappropriate file type or format pw: user 'zen'

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

2007-03-13 Thread Abdullah Ibn Hamad Al-Marri
On 3/13/07, Nikolas Britton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: 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 PROTE

Re: ntpd(8) exits quietly after fork()

2007-03-13 Thread Dan Nelson
In the last episode (Mar 13), Kevin Kinsey said: > ntpd won't continue running on my "stratum 2" server (making our other > systems a tad untrustworthy "as time goes by"). > > $ uname -a > FreeBSD ezekiel.daleco.biz 6.2-RELEASE FreeBSD 6.2-RELEASE #5: Sat Jan 20 > 16:41:42 CST 2007 [EMAIL PROTEC

Re: FreeBSD mysql Benchmark on 4BSD/ULE scheduler and i386/amd64

2007-03-13 Thread Steven Hartland
Alban Hertroys wrote: Sorry, couldn't resist... Being a troll? This being mysql, the number of processors isn't going to matter much, no matter how many connections you have. Mysql doesn't scale very well to multiple cpu's. You seem to have been paying no attention at all to any of the mysq

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

2007-03-13 Thread Andrew Reilly
On Tue, 13 Mar 2007 14:17:00 -0800 (PST) Doug Ambrisko <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > One thing that is a plus with nv is that X has some support for it, > whereas, the newer ati cards have no support :-( I was a fan of ati > since it was easier to get support. Now I'm starting to lean towards >

Re: FreeBSD mysql Benchmark on 4BSD/ULE scheduler and i386/amd64

2007-03-13 Thread Kris Kennaway
On Wed, Mar 14, 2007 at 01:27:22AM +0100, Alban Hertroys wrote: > > On Mar 13, 2007, at 22:45, Kris Kennaway wrote: > > >>I used sql-bench > >>/usr/ports/databases/mysql50-server/work/mysql-5.0.33/sql-bench/ > >>(at this time) > >>the default Makefile of port have "--without-bench" options so u

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

2007-03-13 Thread Kip Macy
> Please be very careful. The only real alternative (Intel comes and > goes) is Nvidia whose driver is binary-only for i386 (no amd64 > support) and has a history for being notoriously buggy. I only buy ATI > because of the problems I keep seeing people have with the Nvidia > driver. I have a frie

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

2007-03-13 Thread fred
Kip Macy a écrit : Please be very careful. The only real alternative (Intel comes and goes) is Nvidia whose driver is binary-only for i386 (no amd64 support) and has a history for being notoriously buggy. I only buy ATI because of the problems I keep seeing people have with the Nvidia driver. I h

Re: Xen Dom0, are we making progress?

2007-03-13 Thread Kip Macy
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? Basically Xen did not mature in the fashion that I

Re: FreeBSD mysql Benchmark on 4BSD/ULE scheduler and i386/amd64

2007-03-13 Thread Alban Hertroys
On Mar 13, 2007, at 22:45, Kris Kennaway wrote: I used sql-bench /usr/ports/databases/mysql50-server/work/mysql-5.0.33/sql-bench/ (at this time) the default Makefile of port have "--without-bench" options so u need to make manually Hmm. This seems to be a single-user test, so while it's

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

2007-03-13 Thread Stephen Montgomery-Smith
On Tue, 13 Mar 2007, Doug Ambrisko wrote: Kip Macy writes: | Please be very careful. The only real alternative (Intel comes and | goes) is Nvidia whose driver is binary-only for i386 (no amd64 | support) and has a history for being notoriously buggy. I only buy ATI | because of the problems I

Re: ntpd(8) exits quietly after fork()

2007-03-13 Thread Chuck Swiger
On Mar 13, 2007, at 3:46 PM, Kevin Kinsey wrote: The ktrace is on "ntpd -C /etc/ntp.conf -l $HOME/ntp.log" --- I'd seen nothing at all in /var/log/messages (was running tail on it while restarting it several times), so I pointed it there. The full ktrace is rather long, any point to posting

Re: ntpd(8) exits quietly after fork()

2007-03-13 Thread Kevin Kinsey
Chuck Swiger wrote: Hi, Kevin-- On Mar 13, 2007, at 1:14 PM, Kevin Kinsey wrote: ntpd won't continue running on my "stratum 2" server (making our other systems a tad untrustworthy "as time goes by"). $ uname -a FreeBSD ezekiel.daleco.biz 6.2-RELEASE FreeBSD 6.2-RELEASE #5: Sat Jan 20 16:41:4

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

2007-03-13 Thread Doug Ambrisko
Kip Macy writes: | Please be very careful. The only real alternative (Intel comes and | goes) is Nvidia whose driver is binary-only for i386 (no amd64 | support) and has a history for being notoriously buggy. I only buy ATI | because of the problems I keep seeing people have with the Nvidia | drive

Re: ntpd(8) exits quietly after fork()

2007-03-13 Thread Chuck Swiger
Hi, Kevin-- On Mar 13, 2007, at 1:14 PM, Kevin Kinsey wrote: ntpd won't continue running on my "stratum 2" server (making our other systems a tad untrustworthy "as time goes by"). $ uname -a FreeBSD ezekiel.daleco.biz 6.2-RELEASE FreeBSD 6.2-RELEASE #5: Sat Jan 20 16:41:42 CST 2007 [EMAIL P

Re: FreeBSD mysql Benchmark on 4BSD/ULE scheduler and i386/amd64

2007-03-13 Thread Craig Rodrigues
On Tue, Mar 13, 2007 at 09:13:56PM +0100, Martin wrote: > I use GENERIC kernel file for 6.2 > and GENERIC on 7 and I removed WITNESS You did not remove WITNESS in all your configs. I see this message: "WARNING: WITNESS option enabled, expect reduced performance." in the dmesg output of two of yo

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

2007-03-13 Thread Kip Macy
Please be very careful. The only real alternative (Intel comes and goes) is Nvidia whose driver is binary-only for i386 (no amd64 support) and has a history for being notoriously buggy. I only buy ATI because of the problems I keep seeing people have with the Nvidia driver. I have a friend who has

Re: FreeBSD mysql Benchmark on 4BSD/ULE scheduler and i386/amd64

2007-03-13 Thread Kris Kennaway
On Tue, Mar 13, 2007 at 09:19:08PM +0100, Martin wrote: > > Also some more discussion would be useful, e.g. you appear to be > > testing on different machines so the most important thing to > > understand is how, or whether, the hardware differs. You do link to > > the dmesgs, but it's hard to pr

Re: FreeBSD mysql Benchmark on 4BSD/ULE scheduler and i386/amd64

2007-03-13 Thread Kris Kennaway
On Tue, Mar 13, 2007 at 09:13:56PM +0100, Martin wrote: > Il giorno Tue, 13 Mar 2007 15:42:06 -0400 > Craig Rodrigues <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ha scritto: > > > On Tue, Mar 13, 2007 at 03:47:29PM +0100, Martin wrote: > > > > > > You can view my benchmark here: > > > https://manuelmartini.it/bench/mysq

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

2007-03-13 Thread Brandon S. Allbery KF8NH
On Mar 13, 2007, at 16:33 , Jeremy Chadwick wrote: On Tue, Mar 13, 2007 at 02:58:34PM -0500, Nikolas Britton wrote: 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 pro

ntpd(8) exits quietly after fork()

2007-03-13 Thread Kevin Kinsey
ntpd won't continue running on my "stratum 2" server (making our other systems a tad untrustworthy "as time goes by"). $ uname -a FreeBSD ezekiel.daleco.biz 6.2-RELEASE FreeBSD 6.2-RELEASE #5: Sat Jan 20 16:41:42 CST 2007 [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GENERIC i386 using ktrace and

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

2007-03-13 Thread Jack Vogel
On 3/13/07, Jeremy Chadwick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Tue, Mar 13, 2007 at 02:58:34PM -0500, Nikolas Britton wrote: > 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

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

2007-03-13 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
On Tue, Mar 13, 2007 at 02:58:34PM -0500, Nikolas Britton wrote: > 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 presi

Re: FreeBSD mysql Benchmark on 4BSD/ULE scheduler and i386/amd64

2007-03-13 Thread Martin
Il giorno Tue, 13 Mar 2007 15:57:57 -0400 Kris Kennaway <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ha scritto: > On Tue, Mar 13, 2007 at 03:42:06PM -0400, Craig Rodrigues wrote: > > On Tue, Mar 13, 2007 at 03:47:29PM +0100, Martin wrote: > > > > > > You can view my benchmark here: > > > https://manuelmartini.it/bench/m

Re: FreeBSD mysql Benchmark on 4BSD/ULE scheduler and i386/amd64

2007-03-13 Thread Martin
Il giorno Tue, 13 Mar 2007 15:42:06 -0400 Craig Rodrigues <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ha scritto: > On Tue, Mar 13, 2007 at 03:47:29PM +0100, Martin wrote: > > > > You can view my benchmark here: > > https://manuelmartini.it/bench/mysql/ > > Can you add links your kernel config file for > each configura

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 O'

Re: FreeBSD mysql Benchmark on 4BSD/ULE scheduler and i386/amd64

2007-03-13 Thread Kris Kennaway
On Tue, Mar 13, 2007 at 03:42:06PM -0400, Craig Rodrigues wrote: > On Tue, Mar 13, 2007 at 03:47:29PM +0100, Martin wrote: > > > > You can view my benchmark here: > > https://manuelmartini.it/bench/mysql/ > > Can you add links your kernel config file for > each configuration you tested? > It look

Re: FreeBSD mysql Benchmark on 4BSD/ULE scheduler and i386/amd64

2007-03-13 Thread Craig Rodrigues
On Tue, Mar 13, 2007 at 03:47:29PM +0100, Martin wrote: > > You can view my benchmark here: > https://manuelmartini.it/bench/mysql/ Can you add links your kernel config file for each configuration you tested? It looks like your 6.2 configuration does not have WITNESS enabled, but your 7.0 configu

Re: FreeBSD mysql Benchmark on 4BSD/ULE scheduler and i386/amd64

2007-03-13 Thread Ivan Voras
Martin wrote: > You can view my benchmark here: > https://manuelmartini.it/bench/mysql/ Interesting results. The performance improvements talked about at http://jeffr-tech.livejournal.com/6268.html#cutid1 are not yet included in 7-current so the results might improve :) signature.asc Descriptio

Re: Xen Dom0, are we making progress?

2007-03-13 Thread Miroslav Lachman
Kip Macy wrote: 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/ Heh, you're still confused about what list your on. I know yo

Re: Testing UFS/Snapshots/Quotas on -STABLE

2007-03-13 Thread Doug Poland
On Tue, March 13, 2007 10:46, Kostik Belousov wrote: > On Tue, Mar 13, 2007 at 09:50:54AM -0500, Doug Poland wrote: >> >> I would like to test 6.2-STABLE's ability to handle UFS2, quotas, >> and snapshots. In particular, I would like to make sure the >> deadlock issue is resolved, > > This patch i

Re: [hylafax-users] notify script on FreeBSD 6.2

2007-03-13 Thread Willy Offermans
Dear Aidan, On Tue, Mar 13, 2007 at 09:38:46AM -0400, Aidan Van Dyk wrote: > * Willy Offermans <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [070313 09:27]: > > > Dear Aidan, > > > > Sure you can have access to the FreeBSD machine. If I can contribute to > > the ``development'' of hylaFAX, although in a very passive man

Re: cvs commit: src/share/man/man4 Makefile watchdog.4 src/share/man/man9 watchdog.9 src/sys/arm/xscale/i80321 i80321_wdog.c src/sys/dev/ichwd ichwd.c src/sys/dev/ipmi ipmi.c src/sys/dev/mk48txx mk48t

2007-03-13 Thread Nick Hibma
Hi, I think the issue is that in the commit you wiped out the part where the dog gets enabled ? This diff against what you committed gets it working once again Yes, the enable is missing. The (untested) fix should be: --- ichwd.c~Tue Feb 20 23:56:27 2007 +++ ichwd.c Tue Mar 13 16:31:

Re: Testing UFS/Snapshots/Quotas on -STABLE

2007-03-13 Thread Matthew D. Fuller
On Tue, Mar 13, 2007 at 09:50:54AM -0500 I heard the voice of Doug Poland, and lo! it spake thus: > > In addition, it appears that compiling support for quotas in the > kernel will force the Giant lock on UFS and I want to make sure I > won't have a performance regression on the filesystem. I can

Re: Testing UFS/Snapshots/Quotas on -STABLE

2007-03-13 Thread Kostik Belousov
On Tue, Mar 13, 2007 at 09:50:54AM -0500, Doug Poland wrote: > Hello, > > I would like to test 6.2-STABLE's ability to handle UFS2, quotas, and > snapshots. In particular, I would like to make sure the deadlock > issue is resolved, > (http://people.freebsd.org/~kib/quotagiant/quotas-20060428-1252

Re: cvs commit: src/share/man/man4 Makefile watchdog.4 src/share/man/man9 watchdog.9 src/sys/arm/xscale/i80321 i80321_wdog.c src/sys/dev/ichwd ichwd.c src/sys/dev/ipmi ipmi.c src/sys/dev/mk48txx mk

2007-03-13 Thread Mike Tancsa
At 11:32 AM 3/13/2007, Nick Hibma wrote: Hi, I think the issue is that in the commit you wiped out the part where the dog gets enabled ? This diff against what you committed gets it working once again Yes, the enable is missing. The (untested) fix should be: Yup, the patch below works for

Re: Xorg and ATI card query.

2007-03-13 Thread David Malone
On Tue, Mar 13, 2007 at 08:03:33PM +1030, Daniel O'Connor wrote: > On Tuesday 13 March 2007 07:21, Stanislav Sedov wrote: > > On Mon, 12 Mar 2007 18:40:07 + > > AFAIK, opensource Xorg ati drivers doesn't work with anything beyond > > x1800. flgrx is only linux binary, however, so you couldn't u

Re: cvs commit: src/share/man/man4 Makefile watchdog.4 src/share/man/man9 watchdog.9 src/sys/arm/xscale/i80321 i80321_wdog.c src/sys/dev/ichwd ichwd.c src/sys/dev/ipmi ipmi.c src/sys/dev/mk48txx mk48t

2007-03-13 Thread Mike Tancsa
At 05:42 PM 3/9/2007, Mike Tancsa wrote: Hi, The commit below to ichwd.c, breaks the watchdog on a number of Intel boards I tried it against. (ICH5 and ICH7) The module loads, but the box never reboots after sending a sig 11 to watchdogd ichwd module loaded ichwd0: on isa0 Revert

Testing UFS/Snapshots/Quotas on -STABLE

2007-03-13 Thread Doug Poland
Hello, I would like to test 6.2-STABLE's ability to handle UFS2, quotas, and snapshots. In particular, I would like to make sure the deadlock issue is resolved, (http://people.freebsd.org/~kib/quotagiant/quotas-20060428-1252.patch) In addition, it appears that compiling support for quotas in the

Re: Background process

2007-03-13 Thread sthomas
> On Thu, Mar 08, 2007 at 04:14:22PM -0800, Doug Barton wrote: > I've run moinmoin: it's a cgi script (wiki). It gets called > from a web server, usually Apache. There's no call to be > running it from the command line at all, that I'm aware of. I run moinmoin in "standalone" mode, so it has its

6.2-STABLE deadlock?

2007-03-13 Thread Adrian Wontroba
At work, amoungst my stable of old computers running FreeBSD, I have a Fujitsu M800 - a 4 Zeon SMP processor with 4 GB of memory. This primarily runs Nagios and a small and lightly used MySQL database, along with a few inbound FTP transfers per minute. It has a Mylex card based disc subsystem, ruli

FreeBSD mysql Benchmark on 4BSD/ULE scheduler and i386/amd64

2007-03-13 Thread Martin
You can view my benchmark here: https://manuelmartini.it/bench/mysql/ m. signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: [hylafax-users] notify script on FreeBSD 6.2

2007-03-13 Thread Willy Offermans
On Tue, Mar 13, 2007 at 08:23:15AM -0400, Aidan Van Dyk wrote: > * Willy Offermans <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [070313 07:51]: > > Dear hylaFAX friends, > > > > Running HylaFAX 4.3.2 on FreeBSD 6.2 produces following error: > > > > nawk -f bin/b64-encode.awk < /tmp/tmp-50791/body.txt > > > The encoding

Re: 6.1 to 6.2

2007-03-13 Thread Matthew Herzog
Hmm. The rc subsystem is supposed to handle the order, i.e. you should never need to think about the order of services in rc.conf. I can't help thinking I am missing something in the kernel. Do you have any kernel modules running? On 3/13/07, Alban Hertroys <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Mar 13,

hylaFAX on FreeBSD notify script

2007-03-13 Thread Willy Offermans
Dear hylaFAX _and_ FreeBSD friends, Running HylaFAX 4.3.2 on FreeBSD 6.2 produces following error: nawk -f bin/b64-encode.awk < /tmp/tmp-50791/body.txt WW91ciBqb2IgdG8gKzMxMTgxMjU2MzUyIHdhcyBjb21wbGV0ZWQgc3VjY2Vzc2Z1bGx5LgoK ICAgICAgICAgICAgUGFnZXM6IDIKICAgICAgICAgUmVjZWl2ZXI6ICszMSAxODEgMjYxMzUy

Re: any success with new sun "M2" product variant for X4100 and X2100

2007-03-13 Thread Andrew Reilly
On Thu, Mar 08, 2007 at 10:45:15PM +0100, Jens Fallesen wrote: > The primary NICs are Broadcom, the secondary ones are Nvidia as part of > the chipset (FreeBSD does not recognise those). I've been running the "nfe" driver with the "ciphy" patch for probably greater than six months on my NVidia nF

Re: Background process

2007-03-13 Thread Andrew Reilly
On Thu, Mar 08, 2007 at 04:14:22PM -0800, Doug Barton wrote: > No one has offered what I think is the most sensible option, which is > to check the documentation for your program to see if it has a command > line option to background itself properly. I'm not familiar with > moinmoin, but I have

Re: Xen Dom0, are we making progress?

2007-03-13 Thread Tom Judge
Nikolas Britton wrote: 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

Re: Xorg and ATI card query.

2007-03-13 Thread Daniel O'Connor
On Tuesday 13 March 2007 07:21, Stanislav Sedov wrote: > On Mon, 12 Mar 2007 18:40:07 + > AFAIK, opensource Xorg ati drivers doesn't work with anything beyond > x1800. flgrx is only linux binary, however, so you couldn't use it for > FreeBSD. Actually.. http://www.fglrx-freebsd.com/index.php

Re: Xorg and ATI card query.

2007-03-13 Thread Alexander Sabourenkov
Stanislav Sedov wrote: > > AFAIK, opensource Xorg ati drivers doesn't work with anything beyond > x1800. That would be x800. No x1k and problems with onboard video. -- ./lxnt ___ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailm

Re: Xorg and ATI card query.

2007-03-13 Thread Stanislav Sedov
On Mon, 12 Mar 2007 18:40:07 + Yann Golanski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> mentioned: > I have an ATI Radeon X1950 Sapphire and I am trying to get X/FreeBSD working > with it. My system is a clean install of FreBSD. I've managed to get > VESA to "work" but cannot get much more than that. > > fglrx gi

Re: 6.1 to 6.2

2007-03-13 Thread Alban Hertroys
On Mar 13, 2007, at 4:58, Matthew Herzog wrote: Hello. The 6.1 install is intact on disk0 and still works fine. I copied my ipfilter and ipnat config files to the new system after building an ipf/ipnat enabled kernel on the 6.2 install but the machine is not acting as a gateway. In fact, I can't