Using march=native in /etc/make.conf
I just acquired an older Gateway GT5220 with an AMD 62 Athlon-x2 dual processor. I want to set it up as a sort of test machine. There does not seem to be a specific setting for 'cpu-type' or 'march' for this machine. I have notices on some Linux forums that they recommend using the 'native' keyword; i.e., march=native in the 'make.conf' file to get the most optimization out of the CPU. Would that be correct for FreeBSD also? Would it also be appropriate for other CPUs as well? Thanks :-) -- Carmel carmel...@hotmail.com |=== |=== |=== |=== | The hardest thing in the world to understand is the income tax. Albert Einstein ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Dual booting Windows 7 and FreeBSD (and possibly GRUB)
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Re: Using march=native in /etc/make.conf
On Tue, 23 Feb 2010 06:41:04 -0500 Carmel carmel...@hotmail.com wrote: I just acquired an older Gateway GT5220 with an AMD 62 Athlon-x2 dual processor. I want to set it up as a sort of test machine. There does not seem to be a specific setting for 'cpu-type' or 'march' for this machine. I have notices on some Linux forums that they recommend using the 'native' keyword; i.e., march=native in the 'make.conf' file to get the most optimization out of the CPU. Would that be correct for FreeBSD also? Would it also be appropriate for other CPUs as well? FreeBSD sets march and other default settings based on CPUTYPE. It's probably better to set that. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: Raid
2010/2/22 Nick Mackowski nmackow...@new.rr.com: Hi I have a Hp Pavillion dv8 with dual sata drives. What program do I need to raid this thing. I installed a second hard drive after I bought it.. I am not sure what I need. Hi Nick http://lantech.geekvenue.net/chucktips/jason/chuck/1175552464/index_html Regards. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: Dual booting Windows 7 and FreeBSD (and possibly GRUB)
On Tue, 23 Feb 2010 14:20:27 +0200, Angelin Lalev lalev.ange...@gmail.com wrote: Well, Windows 7 isn't playing nicely with FreeBSD (and some other OS systems). I have my first primary partition (MBR scheme) installed with Windows 7 and I want to have FreeBSD as second primary partition. Eventually, I want to have Ubuntu on my first and second extended partitions. Any suggestions? FreeBSD brings its own boot manager that can be installed. As far as I know, it should be installed after the Windows installation, because it would be overwritten otherwise. If you're planning to also use Linux, I think GRUB may be a good solution. As I am not using multi-boot environments, I can't be more precise. But go ahead and try the presented suggestions. -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ... ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: Using march=native in /etc/make.conf
On 02/23/10 13:21, RW wrote: On Tue, 23 Feb 2010 06:41:04 -0500 Carmelcarmel...@hotmail.com wrote: I just acquired an older Gateway GT5220 with an AMD 62 Athlon-x2 dual processor. I want to set it up as a sort of test machine. There does not seem to be a specific setting for 'cpu-type' or 'march' for this machine. I have notices on some Linux forums that they recommend using the 'native' keyword; i.e., march=native in the 'make.conf' file to get the most optimization out of the CPU. Would that be correct for FreeBSD also? Would it also be appropriate for other CPUs as well? FreeBSD sets march and other default settings based on CPUTYPE. It's probably better to set that. Yes but the old version of gcc in FreeBSD (4.2) is lacking support for modern CPUs. Using march=native is fine. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: Physic to KVM VPS server FREEBSD 8.0 STABLE
On 02/22/10 23:17, Jeronimo Calvo wrote: How can I get rid of this message, making the system ignore it? Is not causing any apparent problem apart of the funny flooding... Try commenting out or modifying the first active line in /etc/sylog.conf. If that doesn't work there's probably no simple way to do it. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: Dual booting Windows 7 and FreeBSD (and possibly GRUB)
Angelin Lalev skrev 2010-02-23 13:20: Well, Windows 7 isn't playing nicely with FreeBSD (and some other OS systems). I have my first primary partition (MBR scheme) installed with Windows 7 and I want to have FreeBSD as second primary partition. Eventually, I want to have Ubuntu on my first and second extended partitions. Any suggestions? ___ I use the following boot manager because when I set this up there was new behaviour of the Windows Vista boot method and it didn't play well with Freebsd's bootmanager. Today I run Windows 7 and Freebsd 8 on this system. http://neosmart.net/dl.php?id=1 You can find instructions in bsdmag on how to set it up. http://bsdmag.org/app/files/download?attachment=attachment1model=Articlemodel_id=9300portal_id=134 Or http://bsdmag.org/pdf-articles And choose Download Free Issue: FreeBSD Ins Outs /Leslie ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Netgraph VLan support
Hi there all
I've trying to setup nested VLans using netgraph and most of my
googling suggests that this can be done.
But alas it is not working on this side. I'm running a standard
FreeBSD 8.0-RELEASE-p2 AMD64.
The below works just fine and creates a perfectly functional Vlan
interface ngeth0:
ifconfig bge0 10.123.0.1 netmask 255.255.255.0
kldload ng_ether
kldload ng_vlan
ngctl mkpeer bge0: vlan lower downstream
ngctl name bge0:lower vlanL1
ngctl connect bge0: vlanL1: upper nomatch
ngctl mkpeer vlanL1: eiface vlan3555 ether
ngctl msg vlanL1: addfilter '{ vlan=3555 hook=vlan3555 }'
ifconfig ngeth0 link 00:1a:4b:d4:3e:c2
ifconfig ngeth0 10.124.0.1 netmask 255.255.255.0
The below however does not and just throws an error :
-
ngctl mkpeer ngeth0: vlan lower downstream
ngctl name ngeth0:lower vlanL2
ngctl connect ngeth0: vlanL2: upper nomatch
ngctl mkpeer vlanL2: eiface vlan2555 ether
ngctl msg vlanL2: addfilter '{ vlan=2555 hook=vlan2555 }'
ifconfig ngeth1 link 00:1a:4b:d4:3e:c2
ifconfig ngeth1 10.125.0.1 netmask 255.255.255.0
The error is:
ngctl: send msg: Protocol family not supported
ngctl: send msg: No such file or directory
Any advice?
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Re: Dual booting Windows 7 and FreeBSD (and possibly GRUB)
On Tue, 23 Feb 2010 08:23:44 -0500, Leslie Jensen les...@eskk.nu wrote: Angelin Lalev skrev 2010-02-23 13:20: Well, Windows 7 isn't playing nicely with FreeBSD (and some other OS systems). I have my first primary partition (MBR scheme) installed with Windows 7 and I want to have FreeBSD as second primary partition. Eventually, I want to have Ubuntu on my first and second extended partitions. Any suggestions? ___ I use the following boot manager because when I set this up there was new behaviour of the Windows Vista boot method and it didn't play well with Freebsd's bootmanager. Today I run Windows 7 and Freebsd 8 on this system. http://neosmart.net/dl.php?id=1 You can find instructions in bsdmag on how to set it up. I'm using GAG http://gag.sourceforge.net/ -- Using Opera's 10.50 pre-Alpha -- because I'm a f*cking maniac! ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: Dual booting Windows 7 and FreeBSD (and possibly GRUB)
Even if you installed FreeBSD *before* Windows, you can restore the FreeBSD boot manager with sysinstall (select the Custom installation from the main menu), for example. Or GRUB can also be another way to go, of course. -- AngryWolf On 2010.02.23. 13:58, Polytropon wrote: FreeBSD brings its own boot manager that can be installed. As far as I know, it should be installed after the Windows installation, because it would be overwritten otherwise. If you're planning to also use Linux, I think GRUB may be a good solution. As I am not using multi-boot environments, I can't be more precise. But go ahead and try the presented suggestions. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
A recent update to vlc requires gnme-vfs, which requires kerberos
Can anyone shed light on this? I don't want to run kerberos... ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: Dual booting Windows 7 and FreeBSD (and possibly GRUB)
or simply do an fdisk -B bsdlabel -B /dev/ad0s2 or similar On 23 February 2010 13:16, AngryWolf angrywolf2...@gmail.com wrote: Even if you installed FreeBSD *before* Windows, you can restore the FreeBSD boot manager with sysinstall (select the Custom installation from the main menu), for example. Or GRUB can also be another way to go, of course. -- AngryWolf On 2010.02.23. 13:58, Polytropon wrote: FreeBSD brings its own boot manager that can be installed. As far as I know, it should be installed after the Windows installation, because it would be overwritten otherwise. If you're planning to also use Linux, I think GRUB may be a good solution. As I am not using multi-boot environments, I can't be more precise. But go ahead and try the presented suggestions. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: IDE ZIP100 Drive
On 02/22/10 14:32, Programmer In Training wrote: Second attempt to post this to the list. Please bear with me as I'm having issues with my posts to the list not always making it through. OK, after some searching I've come up (almost) empty handed[0-1]. Everything else I've found so far for IOMEGA ZIP100 drives deals with the external drive (either USB or parallel port). I've not seen anything in dmesg or /var/log/messages that would indicate that the device is being detected by anything on boot aside from the BIOS. I'm not sure of snip OK, upon a second reboot (for something unrelated), the device is detected (but I think only because I had the disk in the drive at the time). Now I'm having mount issues. First, it's entry in dmesg: afd0: 95MB IOMEGA ZIP 100 ATAPI 13.A at ata0-slave PIO0 I'm issuing the following command with the following results: mount_msdosfs /dev/afd0 /mnt/zip mount_msdosfs: /dev/afd0: Invalid argument The man page for mount and mount_msdosfs gives no clue on why that's an invalid argument. When executed, the drive is accessed, then a moment later it errors out as above. I've tried afd1 through afd4, I just get no such file or directory errors. I'd like to use the zip drive to back up my private keys from GnuPG and other important data. -- Yours In Christ, PIT Emails are not formal business letters, whatever businesses may want. signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature
Re: Dual booting Windows 7 and FreeBSD (and possibly GRUB)
On Tue, 23 Feb 2010 14:16:53 +0100, AngryWolf angrywolf2...@gmail.com wrote: Even if you installed FreeBSD *before* Windows, you can restore the FreeBSD boot manager with sysinstall (select the Custom installation from the main menu), for example. Well... in fact, that's not restoring the boot manager, this is re-installing the boot manager. :-) You can install the boot manager also from a FreeBSD live file system or fixit console, using the boot0cfg command, if I remember that procedure correctly. Or GRUB can also be another way to go, of course. Especially in conjunction with Linux as another OS on the disk, I think this would be the most comfortable solution. But as I said, I'm no multi-booter. =^_^= -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ... ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: IDE ZIP100 Drive
On 2/23/10, Programmer In Training p...@joseph-a-nagy-jr.us wrote: On 02/22/10 14:32, Programmer In Training wrote: Second attempt to post this to the list. Please bear with me as I'm having issues with my posts to the list not always making it through. OK, after some searching I've come up (almost) empty handed[0-1]. Everything else I've found so far for IOMEGA ZIP100 drives deals with the external drive (either USB or parallel port). I've not seen anything in dmesg or /var/log/messages that would indicate that the device is being detected by anything on boot aside from the BIOS. I'm not sure of snip OK, upon a second reboot (for something unrelated), the device is detected (but I think only because I had the disk in the drive at the time). Now I'm having mount issues. First, it's entry in dmesg: afd0: 95MB IOMEGA ZIP 100 ATAPI 13.A at ata0-slave PIO0 I'm issuing the following command with the following results: mount_msdosfs /dev/afd0 /mnt/zip mount_msdosfs: /dev/afd0: Invalid argument Could be due to that the zip disks have a partition defined. ls /dev/afd0* file -s /dev/afd0 The man page for mount and mount_msdosfs gives no clue on why that's an invalid argument. When executed, the drive is accessed, then a moment later it errors out as above. I've tried afd1 through afd4, I just get no such file or directory errors. I'd like to use the zip drive to back up my private keys from GnuPG and other important data. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: IDE ZIP100 Drive
On Tue, 23 Feb 2010 11:05:20 -0600, Programmer In Training p...@joseph-a-nagy-jr.us wrote: OK, upon a second reboot (for something unrelated), the device is detected (but I think only because I had the disk in the drive at the time). Now I'm having mount issues. First, it's entry in dmesg: afd0: 95MB IOMEGA ZIP 100 ATAPI 13.A at ata0-slave PIO0 That look okay. By the way, it shouldn't matter if there's actually a disk in the drive for the detection. The OS will try to identify the media, or report no media if there isn't a disk in the drive - but the drive will be present. I'm issuing the following command with the following results: mount_msdosfs /dev/afd0 /mnt/zip mount_msdosfs: /dev/afd0: Invalid argument For diagnostics, check the output of fdisk afd0 to see if the MBR partition data can be retrieved. If you have an MS-DOS formatted media, I doubt that /dev/afd0 will be the correct device to access. Are there more /dev/afd0* devices present? Maybe accessing /dev/afd0s1 will work. It depends on the partitioning of the disk. Then, a command like mount_msdosfs /dev/afd0s1 /mnt/zip should be working correctly; consider using -noatime and useful masks (-m, -M) because MS-DOS file systems can't deal with file attributes properly. If you're planning to use the ZIP drive with modern OSes only - i. e. such understanding UFS file systems - then you could format the disk with UFS, with a slice containing the partition, or omiting the slice (dedicated)... just an additional idea. I've tried afd1 through afd4, I just get no such file or directory errors. Those devices are refering to a second, third, fourth and fifth ZIP drive, which obviously isn't present. I'd like to use the zip drive to back up my private keys from GnuPG and other important data. I wouldn't trust important data to a ZIP drive. I still have hardware virus in mind, and a fast search revealed this: I like the fact that the old zip drives were vulnerable to the infamous click of death. Leave it to Iomega to inadvertantly create what was essentially a hardware virus. We've lost two of our old zip drives in the office to infected zip disks. What are the odds of accidentally creating a device that can both damage itself and all other compatible devices it comes in contact with? Basically, it's a broken spring in the sliding aluminum part of the disc that would also damage any drive the disc was used in - those drives often times would end up damaging more discs - thereby spreading the problem. Damaged discs were usually totally unreadable without a little hardware hack that basically involved more or less taking them apart. Doesn't happen to the new drives, but the new discs can still break in the same way. http://www.consolecity.com/forum/archive/index.php/t-12717.html Are you sure your drive isn't affected? I've never owned a ZIP drive, so I can't speak from my own experiences. -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ... ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
[SOLVED] Re: IDE ZIP100 Drive
On 02/23/10 11:42, Tim Judd wrote: Could be due to that the zip disks have a partition defined. ls /dev/afd0* file -s /dev/afd0 That did it. I didn't know how to define the partition. Now to format it. -- Yours In Christ, PIT Emails are not formal business letters, whatever businesses may want. signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature
Re: Dump questions
On Mon, Feb 22, 2010 at 03:10:01PM +, Matthew Seaman wrote:
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On 22/02/2010 14:30, Jerry McAllister wrote:
No. In multi-user, files are still changing. The snapshot could
possibly be made between parts of a change - between different writes
to the file, so there could be some inconsistency. In practice this
is not a big problem, but, single user with filesystems unmounted is
still the most absolute way of making sure a filesystem is quiescent
during a dump.
Umm you don't *need* to go to single user to ensure a consistent
filesystem dump: unmounting the partition is sufficient, or remounting
it read-only.
True. But, the problem with that, as you follow with is that it can
produce a lot of fudd from parts of the running system that expect to
find that file system mountable and writable. Plus some filesystems
such as maybe /usr, etc may be needed for the multi-user system to
operate at all. So, you either don't dump them or go to single user
just for them or use -L and not worry about it, or whatever.
jerry
It's just that shutting the system down and rebooting to
single user mode can save you a deal of faffing about trying to kill
off any processes still using the filesystem, which would otherwise
block your ability to unmount it.
Note too, it's *reboot* into single user ('shutdown -r now', then press
4 at the boot menu) not *drop* into single user ('shutdown now') which
doesn't unmount filesystems for you, although it should kill almost all
processes.
Single user has it's own disadvantages: generally there's no network
configured, and with the root partition mounted read-only, you can't
update /etc/dumpdates.
Whenever you boot into single user, remember to run 'fsck -p' to ensure
filesystem integrity. I'm not sure what happens if you attempt to
dump'n'restore a dirty filesystem, but it's certainly going to have
unintended consequences if the filesystem is actually damaged rather
than just dirty.
Cheers,
Matthew
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Is there a command to load all swap into the memory?
I am asking out of curiosity. 'top' describes the memory state on my machine like this: Mem: 1085M Active, 196M Inact, 301M Wired, 36M Cache, 112M Buf, 1366M Free Swap: 16G Total, 757M Used, 16G Free, 4% Inuse There is enough space in memory to load back all swap. Is there a command to do that for all swap? This will speed up immediate system response in the future. Yuri ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: Is there a command to load all swap into the memory?
In response to Yuri y...@rawbw.com: I am asking out of curiosity. 'top' describes the memory state on my machine like this: Mem: 1085M Active, 196M Inact, 301M Wired, 36M Cache, 112M Buf, 1366M Free Swap: 16G Total, 757M Used, 16G Free, 4% Inuse There is enough space in memory to load back all swap. Is there a command to do that for all swap? This will speed up immediate system response in the future. You could use swapoff, then swapon to readd the device. -- Bill Moran http://www.potentialtech.com http://people.collaborativefusion.com/~wmoran/ ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: Is there a command to load all swap into the memory?
On Tue, Feb 23, 2010 at 12:24:15PM -0800, Yuri wrote: I am asking out of curiosity. 'top' describes the memory state on my machine like this: Mem: 1085M Active, 196M Inact, 301M Wired, 36M Cache, 112M Buf, 1366M Free Swap: 16G Total, 757M Used, 16G Free, 4% Inuse There is enough space in memory to load back all swap. Is there a command to do that for all swap? This will speed up immediate system response in the future. Well, you have assumed that the furture demand on the system will involve the pages which are swapped out. If that assumption is false, bringing them back into memory now will dramatically slow down system responsiveness in the future, because the scarce resoure will be free memory pages, which was the reason they were swapped out in the first place. The reason that they are still out there with a bunch of free memory is that nothing has referenced them since they were written out - so maybe it will be a long time yet (if ever) before many/some/all of them are referenced again? If the same situation occurs again which caused them to be swapped out to begin with, before a situation occurs which references them, you'll be hurting your future system response time, not helping it. You may know these things are so and will happen in that way, but it is not self-evident from the e-mail. Yuri ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org -- John Lind j...@starfire.mn.org The inherent vice of capitalism is the unequal sharing of blessings; the inherent virtue of socialism is the equal sharing of miseries. - Winston Churchill ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: Is there a command to load all swap into the memory?
On Tue, 23 Feb 2010 14:59:28 -0600 John j...@starfire.mn.org wrote: On Tue, Feb 23, 2010 at 12:24:15PM -0800, Yuri wrote: I am asking out of curiosity. 'top' describes the memory state on my machine like this: Mem: 1085M Active, 196M Inact, 301M Wired, 36M Cache, 112M Buf, 1366M Free Swap: 16G Total, 757M Used, 16G Free, 4% Inuse There is enough space in memory to load back all swap. Is there a command to do that for all swap? This will speed up immediate system response in the future. Well, you have assumed that the furture demand on the system will involve the pages which are swapped out. If that assumption is false, bringing them back into memory now will dramatically slow down system responsiveness in the future, because the scarce resoure will be free memory pages, which was the reason they were swapped out in the first place. And AFAIK pages that are read back into memory are retained in swap to avoid haing to page them out again. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: Gvinum RAID1+0
From the lack of response, am I correct to conclude that Gvinum can't do RAID1+0 (as opposed to RAID0+1)? Thanks. Andrew --- On Mon, 2/22/10, Andrew Klaassen claws...@yahoo.com wrote: Hi. Newbie question: I'm trying to figure out how to create a stripe-over-mirrors, aka RAID1+0, with Gvinum. The manual gives an example for a mirror-over-stripes, aka RAID0+1, but I can't for the life of me figure out from that example or others I've feebly Googled how to do a RAID1+0. I'm using 112 drives, so I'd much rather have RAID1+0 than RAID0+1. Does anyone have an example kicking around they could kindly send me? Thanks. Andrew __ Ask a question on any topic and get answers from real people. Go to Yahoo! Answers and share what you know at http://ca.answers.yahoo.com ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org __ Be smarter than spam. See how smart SpamGuard is at giving junk email the boot with the All-new Yahoo! Mail. Click on Options in Mail and switch to New Mail today or register for free at http://mail.yahoo.ca ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
can I do away with most things-java?
Some years ago I thought that future java tools would have BSD ports that did not demand that we fetch them ourselves? Now, among the few things left to rebuild/update is diablo-jdk16. The makefile sez to fetch tzupdater-1_3_25-2009u.zip. Can somebody please give me the exact URL that points to this file? More to the point, will a java port like openjdk free me from any Sun ports? Right now, a test pkg_delete of d-jdk16 gave me: t...@tao:/var/db/pkg# pkg_delete diablo-jdk-1.6.0.07.02_7/ pkg_delete: package 'diablo-jdk-1.6.0.07.02_7' is required by these other packages and may not be deinstalled: apache-ant-1.7.1 freemind-0.8.1_1,1 swt-3.5.1 Anybody? -- Gary Kline kl...@thought.org http://www.thought.org Public Service Unix http://jottings.thought.org http://transfinite.thought.org The 7.79a release of Jottings: http://jottings.thought.org/index.php ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: can I do away with most things-java?
Hi Gary, On 23 February 2010 23:28, Gary Kline kl...@thought.org wrote: Some years ago I thought that future java tools would have BSD ports that did not demand that we fetch them ourselves? Now, among the few things left to rebuild/update is diablo-jdk16. The makefile sez to fetch tzupdater-1_3_25-2009u.zip. Can somebody please give me the exact URL that points to this file? More to the point, will a java port like openjdk free me from any Sun ports? Right now, a test pkg_delete of d-jdk16 gave me: t...@tao:/var/db/pkg# pkg_delete diablo-jdk-1.6.0.07.02_7/ pkg_delete: package 'diablo-jdk-1.6.0.07.02_7' is required by these other packages and may not be deinstalled: apache-ant-1.7.1 freemind-0.8.1_1,1 swt-3.5.1 Anybody? I simply use the package for 7 with compatibility. I have no idea what is going on with FreeBSD Foundation and why no new packages for 8-RELEASE have been built. OpenJDK will partially free you. I tried it too, but I recall correctly you cannot build it without bootstrapping it with the Diablo the first time (subsequently, it can be built with the old version of OpenJDK on each update - please correct me if this is wrong). However, I never succeeded in making any browser plugin for openjdk work. If you have a problem with 'tzupdater', download the latest one from Sun's site and alter the checksums in /usr/ports/java/diablo-jdk16/distinfo with the correct checksums and size. Hope this helps, Regards, //T ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: Gvinum RAID1+0
On Tuesday 23 February 2010 23:11:37 Andrew Klaassen wrote: From the lack of response, am I correct to conclude that Gvinum can't do RAID1+0 (as opposed to RAID0+1)? I'll bite. Is there a particular reason why you want to use gvinum instead of a combination of gmirror and gstripe? I don't have any experience with vinum and can only come to the same conclusion as you have after reading the docs. It seems vinum does mirrored stripes by design. - Pieter Thanks. Andrew --- On Mon, 2/22/10, Andrew Klaassen claws...@yahoo.com wrote: Hi. Newbie question: I'm trying to figure out how to create a stripe-over-mirrors, aka RAID1+0, with Gvinum. The manual gives an example for a mirror-over-stripes, aka RAID0+1, but I can't for the life of me figure out from that example or others I've feebly Googled how to do a RAID1+0. I'm using 112 drives, so I'd much rather have RAID1+0 than RAID0+1. Does anyone have an example kicking around they could kindly send me? Thanks. Andrew __ Ask a question on any topic and get answers from real people. Go to Yahoo! Answers and share what you know at http://ca.answers.yahoo.com ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org __ Be smarter than spam. See how smart SpamGuard is at giving junk email the boot with the All-new Yahoo! Mail. Click on Options in Mail and switch to New Mail today or register for free at http://mail.yahoo.ca ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Raid0 second question
Thanks for the first reply and the link. it helped. My second question is if I do the bsd raid0 thing, will it affect windows 7, the protectsmart harddrive feature, the imprint reader, and other misc features. IE: will it run like it does now in exception for the changes to the sata setup. I know it will be faster but I am not to familiar with this and plan to have a friend w more experience do the mods for me. I just want to know what to expect before I buy. Thanks, Nick E-mail message checked by Spyware Doctor (7.0.0.514) Database version: 6.14420 http://www.pctools.com/en/spyware-doctor-antivirus/ ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: Intel Turbo Boost
On Thu, Feb 18, 2010 at 2:18 AM, Lowell Gilbert freebsd-questions-lo...@be-well.ilk.org wrote: Andreas Nilsson andrn...@gmail.com writes: is the scheduler and acpi system aware of the Intel Turbo Boost technology? I don't know much more about it than the advertising material, but I don't really see what the scheduler would be able to do with the information. It's automatically applied by the chip on any core in P0 state, no? won't it be affected by CPU affinity? -- Gautham Ganapathy http://lisphacker.org ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: A recent update to vlc requires gnme-vfs, which requires kerberos
On 2/23/10 8:23 AM, Steven Friedrich wrote: Can anyone shed light on this? I don't want to run kerberos... I think you posted this on the freebsd-ports list, and Gary Jennejohn provided the following reply, have you tried? On 2/10/10 11:59 AM, Gary Jennejohn wrote: Run make config and make sure that the box for Gnome VFS does_not_ have an 'X' in it. I'm using vlc without Gnome VFS and it works just fine. --- Gary Jennejohn ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
