Re: Installing Dragonfly 1.8 hangs BIOS completly

2007-02-20 Thread Michael Neumann
Rauf Kuliyev wrote: Hi, I bet it is IBM ThinkPad. You can find additional information here: http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/faq/install.html#BOOT-ON-THINKPAD No it isn't a ThinkPad, it's a Bullman (noname), similar to an Acer. FreeBSD runs without change to the bootblock.

Re: Installing Dragonfly 1.8 hangs BIOS completly

2007-02-20 Thread Simon 'corecode' Schubert
Michael Neumann wrote: I don't know about the issues involved with different disk geometries, but as this is the only difference I see between DragonFly 1.4 and 1.8, maybe this might be a problem? Possibly not. Try using fdisk with -C. Your BIOS might stumble upon these values. cheers

Re: Why not FUSE ZFS?

2007-02-20 Thread Simon 'corecode' Schubert
[no offence, not directed particularly at you, just taking this mail to hang the rant] Dmitri Nikulin wrote: Now it just occurred to me we can have ZFS for the nominal price of supporting FUSE. It's not as fast as a pure kernel version, of course, but Matt says he wants userland file systems

X fails after upgrade to 1.9

2007-02-20 Thread Huub
Hi, I just upgraded from 1.6 to 1.9 and now X fails to run: xf86OpenSerial: Cannot open device /dev/psm0 Device busy Mouse0: Cannot open input device PreInit failed for input device Mouse0 No core pointer However, when I move my mouse, I do see the X-mousecursor move. How can I solve

Re: Installing Dragonfly 1.8 hangs BIOS completly

2007-02-20 Thread Michael Neumann
Simon 'corecode' Schubert wrote: Michael Neumann wrote: I don't know about the issues involved with different disk geometries, but as this is the only difference I see between DragonFly 1.4 and 1.8, maybe this might be a problem? Possibly not. Try using fdisk with -C. Your BIOS might

Re: Plans for 1.8+ (2.0?)

2007-02-20 Thread B. Estrade
On 2/19/07, Matthew Dillon [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I've been letting the conversation run to see what people have to say, I am going to select this posting by Brett to answer, as well as provide some more information. :I am not sure I understand the potential aim of the new file

mailing list etiquette (was: Re: Plans for 1.8+ (2.0?))

2007-02-20 Thread Simon 'corecode' Schubert
B. Estrade wrote: On 2/19/07, Matthew Dillon [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [complete quote of matt's mail] Thanks for that, Matt. could people please try to follow common netiquette standards, especially trimming extensive quotes and avoid top posting (obviously didn't happen in this case).

Re: X fails after upgrade to 1.9

2007-02-20 Thread walt
Huub wrote: Hi, I just upgraded from 1.6 to 1.9 and now X fails to run: xf86OpenSerial: Cannot open device /dev/psm0 Device busy Mouse0: Cannot open input device PreInit failed for input device Mouse0 No core pointer However, when I move my mouse, I do see the X-mousecursor move.

Re: X fails after upgrade to 1.9

2007-02-20 Thread Huub
You mean the cursor moves when X is not running, at the console? If so, you are running the mouse daemon and that is what is using psm0. moused then passes the mouse input to /dev/sysmouse which is what X should use instead of psm0. You can also disable moused if you don't want the console

Native jdk build - success

2007-02-20 Thread Francois Tigeot
Hi, Today, I finally succeeded in building a native version of wip/jdk14. The big difference with my previous attempts was the DragonFly version: 1.4.5-RELEASE So, we have: 1.4.5 = success 1.6.2 = failure 1.8.0 = failure No matter what version of the pkgsrc system I used, the results were the

Re: Native jdk build - success

2007-02-20 Thread Bill Hacker
Francois Tigeot wrote: Hi, Today, I finally succeeded in building a native version of wip/jdk14. The big difference with my previous attempts was the DragonFly version: 1.4.5-RELEASE So, we have: 1.4.5 = success 1.6.2 = failure 1.8.0 = failure No matter what version of the pkgsrc system I

Re: Native jdk build - success

2007-02-20 Thread walt
Bill Hacker wrote: Francois Tigeot wrote: Hi, Today, I finally succeeded in building a native version of wip/jdk14. The big difference with my previous attempts was the DragonFly version: 1.4.5-RELEASE So, we have: 1.4.5 = success 1.6.2 = failure 1.8.0 = failure One annoying problem

Re: Why not FUSE ZFS?

2007-02-20 Thread Dmitri Nikulin
On 2/20/07, Simon 'corecode' Schubert [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: So the choice is: 1. port FUSE as a new filesystem 2. port ZFS as a new filesystem notice that only the name differs? It is both work, so why not go for the real thing? FUSE does not have a particularly optimized interface, so

x11/kdebase-3.5.6 compiled

2007-02-20 Thread Petr Janda
ProcessList.c: In function `updateProcess': ProcessList.c:216: error: structure has no member named `kp_proc' ProcessList.c:217: error: structure has no member named `kp_eproc' ProcessList.c:218: error: structure has no member named `kp_eproc' ProcessList.c:219: error: structure has no member

Re: x11/kdebase-3.5.6 compiled

2007-02-20 Thread Simon 'corecode' Schubert
Petr Janda wrote: ProcessList.c: In function `updateProcess': ProcessList.c:216: error: structure has no member named `kp_proc' [more follow] yea, that's the recent threading changes. somebody would have to update the kde code for that. Im having all sorts of problems with C++ written

Re: Plans for 1.8+ (2.0?)

2007-02-20 Thread Petr Janda
As in the design spec. It works on paper. I haven't started coding anything yet. -Matt Matthew Dillon [EMAIL PROTECTED] Hey Matt, Thanks for your answers, but i have one more question for you. Will the new file system be capable of ACLs?

Re: x11/kdebase-3.5.6 compiled

2007-02-20 Thread Petr Janda
Simon 'corecode' Schubert wrote: yea, that's the recent threading changes. somebody would have to update the kde code for that. Thanks for the explanation. Guess I'll just have to wait some time. That's interesting. maybe you could succeed capturing such a write error compile process with

bge not probed

2007-02-20 Thread Kris Kennaway
Hi, I tried to netboot a dragonfly 1.8 kernel but it didn't probe bge, so it was unable to mount the nfs root. FreeBSD sees it as: bge0: Broadcom BCM5704 A3, ASIC rev. 0x2003 mem 0xf335-0xf335,0xf334-0xf334 irq 31 at device 3.0 on pci14 miibus0: MII bus on bge0 brgphy0: BCM5704

RealPlayerGold?

2007-02-20 Thread Huub
Hi, I run DFBSD 1.9. In pkgsrc/multimedia I find RealPlayerGold, but make install clean stops in error. How do I build it? First download the rpm from real.com? and then? Thanks, Huub