Hello,
I plan to buy a new notebook and will use FreeBSD 6.2-RELEASE, I have
2 choices, Turion64 x2 with 2.0 GHz and Centrino Duo 2 with 2.0 GHz,
but with 2 GB DDR2 ram, with the same speed of the hd 5400 RPM.
So which of them will buildworld, and ports from source faster? both
of them will use
On 1/20/07, Luigi Rizzo [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Sat, Jan 20, 2007 at 06:05:45PM +, Abdullah Al-Marrie wrote:
On 1/20/07, Luigi Rizzo [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Sat, Jan 20, 2007 at 07:38:36AM -0500, Tsu-Fan Cheng wrote:
under the subsection of display, i have
Modes
On Sun, Jan 21, 2007 at 12:33:32PM +0300, Abdullah Al-Marrie wrote:
...
i put the line
/usr/local/bin/915resolution 58 1280 1024
in /usr/local/etc/rc.d/00setvideo.sh
so it gets called automatically at startup
cheers
luigi
That didn't make it, is there another way to do
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Sent: Saturday, January 20, 2007 3:51 PM
Subject: Re: FreeBSD challenged by Internet
What really grates is that I have to pay Verizon *more* if I want
*less* from them! Would you
On Sat, 20 Jan 2007 19:56:08 -0600 (CST) Rich Winkel wrote:
Has anyone else seen this behavior??
What are the HDs doing? Is there swapping going on? 512 megs of RAM are
not really a generous amount for this kind of work.
Regards
Chris
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On Sun, 21 Jan 2007 03:45:27 -0800 Ted Mittelstaedt wrote:
That's $5K difference not $10. Thieves can get away with a lot if they
steal it in small bits.
So if I steal $1 from every account of New York's biggest bank they
would smile and see that as a sporting achievement? Somehow I doubt
On Sun, 21 Jan 2007 11:12:25 +0300 Abdullah Al-Marrie wrote:
[broken up Xpost]
I plan to buy a new notebook and will use FreeBSD 6.2-RELEASE, I have
2 choices, Turion64 x2 with 2.0 GHz and Centrino Duo 2 with 2.0 GHz,
but with 2 GB DDR2 ram, with the same speed of the hd 5400 RPM.
So which
-wpi-freebsd.tar.gz compiles.
Here, you will find the result of my work :
http://www.bsdmon.com/download/20070121-wpi-freebsd.tar.gz
To make it compiles, I basically started from 20070107-wpi-freebsd.tar.gz
and took some code on wpi-freebsd-20061109.tgz.
Now, this new one compiles and it works
Hi
I am trying to run the freebsd-update, so as root I do:
/usr/local/sbin/freebsd-update fetch
And I get:
Fetching public key...
fetch: http://update.daemonology.net/amd64/6.1/pub.key: Not Found
Error fetching updates
My conf looks like:
# Configuration file for freebsd-update-client
#
#
On Saturday 20 January 2007 20:58, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Terrific waste of bandwidth.
*shrug* i dont see it that way. i see it as insurance that when i build
kernels for 15 machines, they are all getting the cleanest sources possible,
with absolutely nothing left over from a previous
On Sat, Jan 20, 2007 at 09:15:34PM -0500, Joshua Lewis wrote:
Hello list,
After many days of hard work, a lot of caffeine and not nearly enough sleep I
have a working
asterisk PBX for my home.
I have it working on a PIII 800 with 512MB of RAM and two 5GB drives in a
Raid1 config.
On Sun, 21 Jan 2007 08:29:52 -0600 Jonathan Horne wrote:
Terrific waste of bandwidth.
*shrug* i dont see it that way. i see it as insurance that when i build
kernels for 15 machines, they are all getting the cleanest sources possible,
with absolutely nothing left over from a previous
Glenn Becker wrote:
All -
I've been away from FreeBSD for some time and have been updating my
installation, getting used to the ways of portupgrade, etc.
Have noticed that Firefox keeps emitting what sound like console beeps -
I haven't established much of a pattern for these though it
Jonathan Horne wrote:
On Saturday 20 January 2007 20:58, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Terrific waste of bandwidth.
*shrug* i dont see it that way. i see it as insurance that when i build
kernels for 15 machines, they are all getting the cleanest sources possible,
with absolutely nothing left
On Saturday 20 January 2007 20:15, Joshua Lewis wrote:
Hello list,
After many days of hard work, a lot of caffeine and not nearly enough
sleep I have a working asterisk PBX for my home.
I have it working on a PIII 800 with 512MB of RAM and two 5GB drives
in a Raid1 config. While this system
On Sun, Jan 21, 2007 at 11:45:36AM -0500, Jeff Royle wrote:
Jonathan Horne wrote:
On Saturday 20 January 2007 20:58, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Terrific waste of bandwidth.
*shrug* i dont see it that way. i see it as insurance that when i build
kernels for 15 machines,
they are all getting
On Sat, 20 Jan 2007 17:04:00 +0100 (CET) Christian Baer wrote:
Basically, it does not work on 6.1-RELEASE, so you should consider
updating to 6.2-RELEASE.
Bin there, done that. Was one of the first things I tried. Now running:
FreeBSD sunny.rz1.convenimus.net 6.2-STABLE
FreeBSD 6.2-STABLE
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Ok, I kind of worked myself into a corner by only bringing a USB
keyboard and accidentally making logins impossible via the network (bad
firewall setup with IPFilter).
Basically I have a disk with FreeBSD 7-CURRENT on it and I have a
working machine
Background: The Olympus WS-310M digital voice recorder has a standard USB
interface and uses flash memory to store sound files. Unfortunately, this
device only records to WMA files. I was able to view the filesystem on my
MacMini without installing any software. I'm trying to mount it to my
On Jan 21, 2007, at 10:40 AM, Andrew Gould wrote:
Background: The Olympus WS-310M digital voice recorder has a
standard USB interface and uses flash memory to store sound files.
Unfortunately, this device only records to WMA files. I was able
to view the filesystem on my MacMini without
On Jan 21, 2007, at 10:40 AM, Andrew Gould wrote:
snip
Nevermind.. didn't see the last line. What does your MacMini say when
you mount the camera (Utilities - Disk Utility or Utilities -
Terminal and type in mount and provide the output here)?
-Garrett
Hi -
I am following along in the Handbook in my first attempt to compile a
custom kernel ... and once again confronting the fact that I really know
beans about hardware. So once I get to the device lines in my edited
copy of the GENERIC config file I start to get a little bit lost.
I know
Glenn Becker wrote:
Hi -
I am following along in the Handbook in my first attempt to compile a
custom kernel ... and once again confronting the fact that I really know
beans about hardware. So once I get to the device lines in my edited
copy of the GENERIC config file I start to get a
All -
One of the reasons I jumped into trying a kernel configuration/compile is
that I have been noticing performance issues with STABLE.
(if you are reading and want to skip the following explanatory verbiage
the questions are: how do I profile applications to figure out where the
It's easy to write a shell script that dumps/mails the output of
several status commands (eg, df -k, crontab -l, ps -aux -www,
top -n -d 1 infinity, w -d, mailq -v, netstat -a, vmstat,
etc) every hour, but I'm wondering if I'm re-inventing the wheel.
Is there a FreeBSD command that reports
aire# portsnap fetch
Looking up portsnap.FreeBSD.org mirrors... using portsnap2.FreeBSD.org
Fetching snapshot tag... done.
Fetching snapshot metadata... done.
Updating from Sat Jan 20 17:19:42 MST 2007 to Sun Jan 21 12:49:55 MST 2007.
Fetching 4 metadata patches. done.
Applying metadata
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Okay,
I've done some Googling and it does appear as if this could be the
source of this problem...
This page in particular suggests that:
http://www.pingle.org/2006/10/18/php-crashes-extensions/
However, I've tried all sorts of combinations
Hi folkes!
Is there any way to do this with FreeBSD?
Background:
I have to admit, that I have never actually done or even tried this with
any OS whatsoever. I am running a two drive system with two mirrors on
it. Because I wanted a lot of room for /usr while /usr/home ist mounted
on a different
I have another section to add to my previous post:
At some point in your dealings, you may introduce a typo into a
critical startup file, such as rc.conf, loader.conf, fstab, or
similar, and reach the following upon reboot:
Press enter for /bin/sh:
To recover:
0. press enter
1. cd /etc
Ive never understood why we still partition drives so much..its one
spindle..sure, a hige filesystem might cause an edge performance
issue..but..its one spindle.
/ works.
?
If there is a fundamental reason why we still partition things like we
only have 10, 20, or 40Mb RLL. or slightly larger
Glenn Becker :
I'm running 6.2 on an old but not ancient Dell laptop, PIII 1000MHz,
which now has seven operating systems on it. I have noticed recently that
the graphics-heavy planetarium program Stellarium -- which runs great on
my Debian GNU/Linux system -- barely creaks along on FreeBSD
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Andrew Gould wrote:
The MacMini mounts the drive as soon as it sees it, and deletes the device as
soon as I unmount it; so I can't test it that way. When I try to mount it
while
it's mounted, I get:
mount_msdos /dev/disk1s1: resource
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Sent: Sunday, January 21, 2007 3:26:03 PM
Subject: Re: trouble mounting Olympus WS-310M voice recorder
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Andrew Gould wrote:
The MacMini mounts the
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Jeff Mohler wrote:
Ive never understood why we still partition drives so much..its one
spindle..sure, a hige filesystem might cause an edge performance
issue..but..its one spindle.
/ works.
?
If there is a fundamental reason why we still
Jeff Mohler wrote:
If there is a fundamental reason why we still partition things like we
only have 10, 20, or 40Mb RLL. or slightly larger ESDI drives from
back in the day..im willing to learn.
1. if you only have one file system and something corrupts it, it's all
gone. Some people even use
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Christian Baer wrote:
Hi folkes!
Is there any way to do this with FreeBSD?
Background:
I have to admit, that I have never actually done or even tried this with
any OS whatsoever. I am running a two drive system with two mirrors on
it.
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Garrett Cooper wrote:
Ok, I kind of worked myself into a corner by only bringing a USB
keyboard and accidentally making logins impossible via the network (bad
firewall setup with IPFilter).
Basically I have a disk with FreeBSD 7-CURRENT on it
On 21/01/07, Garrett Cooper [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Jeff Mohler wrote:
something top-posted
On 1/21/07, Christian Baer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
problem is that I can't allocate another partition
One good reason I can think of is to partition (not the tech definition
but the
This may help:
The emphasis is on my vidcard, it's an ATI Radeon 9600. Last official ATI
video card support for FreeBSD was the 9400 series drivers. I've heard about
some reverse engineered drivers from Linux.
Andrew Pantyukhin wrote:
AFAIK, you get that with Xorg 7.x.
6.2-RELEASE uses Xorg
Since I tend to build my own boxes, I'd like to make sure my choice of
CPU/MB is good fro FBSD before I buy :-)
I'm looking at an AMD X2 64 5400 and an Abit AN9 32X.
The AN9 has:
NVIDIA nForce SPP 190/nForce 590 SLI MCP
Dual NV Gigabit LAN
6x SATA 3gb/s ports with RAID 0/1/0+1/5 JBOD support
On 1/22/07, [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
This may help:
The emphasis is on my vidcard, it's an ATI Radeon 9600. Last official ATI
video card support for FreeBSD was the 9400 series drivers. I've heard about
some reverse engineered drivers from Linux.
Andrew Pantyukhin wrote:
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Sent: Sunday, January 21, 2007 3:26:03 PM
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Andrew Gould wrote:
The MacMini mounts the
Andrew Gould wrote:
[snip]
Honestly, Andrew. Please try to use a style where on or more
indicates quoting level. It is 100% foggy who wrote what in the parent
message of this post. TIA.
--
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This mail is not a question, but a solution to the problem that fxtv
application does not use the whole visible screen in full screen mode.
The problem is that in full screen mode fxtv switches to the closest
to 768x576 video mode, which is normally 800x600. Thus, all we have
to do is to create
eoghan wrote:
Hi
I am trying to run the freebsd-update, so as root I do:
/usr/local/sbin/freebsd-update fetch
And I get:
Fetching public key...
fetch: http://update.daemonology.net/amd64/6.1/pub.key: Not Found
Updates aren't being built for amd64 for the version of FreeBSD Update
in the
Garrett Cooper writes:
One good reason I can think of is to partition (not the tech
definition but the traditional definition, to divide)
filesystems such that if one person fills up /, it won't cause
a program that needs to write to /var or /tmp problems, which
in the case of /var
I have a win2k3 server running as my rsync server. I also have a freebsd
web server being the rsync client. A shell script runs every night at
5am (it's below).
Shell script:
#!/bin/sh
. `dirname $0`/settings.inc
destination=**.***.***.***::backup
if [ $TERM ]; then verbose=-v; fi
rsync
Patrick -
You need direct rendering to be enabled from Xorg.
Check it with glxinfo
$ glxinfo
name of display: :0.0
display: :0 screen: 0
direct rendering: Yes === must be yes
What is your graphics card ?
It's an ATI Radeon Mobility with 16mb video memory. I got Stellarium to
behave based
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Steve Franks wrote:
I have another section to add to my previous post:
At some point in your dealings, you may introduce a typo into a
critical startup file, such as rc.conf, loader.conf, fstab, or
similar, and reach the following upon reboot:
On Mon, Jan 22, 2007 at 12:27:10AM +0100, Tore Lund wrote:
Andrew Gould wrote:
[snip]
this is from a previous message in the thread:
attempt: mount -tmsdos -orw /dev/da0s1 /mnt/ws310
try as root or su to root
# mount_msdosfs /dev/da0s1 /mnt/ws310
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FreeBSD 6.0-RELEASE i386
My experience with ghoscscript device 'gdi' is that even patched it
generates a correct data only for 600 dpi resolution. With -r300' option
printer makes pages with large horizontal black and grey stripes.
Does somebody use Samsung laser printer and ghostscript device 'gdi' for
printing to
I'm looking to replace the Realtek rtl8185 mini-PCI wireless NIC in my
laptop, and I was wondering about what to replace it with.
Could anyone tell me who the manufacturers are that support their chips
with documentation available to FreeBSD for the writing of drivers,
please. I believe that
On Sun, Jan 21, 2007 at 07:06:16PM -0600, Patrick Bowen wrote:
I'm looking to replace the Realtek rtl8185 mini-PCI wireless NIC in my
laptop, and I was wondering about what to replace it with.
Could anyone tell me who the manufacturers are that support their chips
with documentation
HI,
I am a user of freebsd for couple of year now and had recently made a fresh
install with 6.2. Everything worked as it always did but as i booted the
system today it seems that the kernel couldnt find my harddisk.
Strange thing is:
- I get the bootloader (dual boot with windows)
- windows
It turned out that DP965LT uses Marvell 88SE6101 controller for PATA, not a
JMicron one. So, that bug does not apply. Is there a workaround I could use for
that one?
Thanks,
Serdar
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From: Serdar Ozler [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Cc:
On Sunday 21 January 2007 20:07, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
My experience with ghoscscript device 'gdi' is that even patched it
generates a correct data only for 600 dpi resolution. With -r300' option
printer makes pages with large horizontal black and grey stripes.
Does somebody use Samsung
Patrick Bowen wrote:
Could anyone tell me who the manufacturers are that support their
chips with documentation available to FreeBSD for the writing of
drivers, please.
I have two computers with VIA 6102 for ethernet. One is a EPIA Mini-itx
and the
CD included has a FreeBSD driver. One might
Dear friends:
Just installed the first CD of PCBSD 6.2. I also downloaded the second CD. How
do I install it, please?
Thank you.
Benjamin
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On 1/21/07, Kelly Jones [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
It's easy to write a shell script that dumps/mails the output of
several status commands (eg, df -k, crontab -l, ps -aux -www,
top -n -d 1 infinity, w -d, mailq -v, netstat -a, vmstat,
etc) every hour, but I'm wondering if I'm re-inventing the
Hello all,
every once in a while i have a machine (6.1) that out of the blue,
sometimes after days, some after 6 months, looses Ethernet
Connectivity. My Machines just run some Service, and have no
Keyboard / Mouse or Monitor. When the Machine goes down, eg, i am
unable to ping it from
Hey,
sure, i can do a script which does the up-down when it cant ping the
router or something, but to be honest i think that is not a
production solution. cheap nic..maybe, some of the nics in question
where onboard ones, which are not the best ones out there, but
others, such as the
Sounds like flaky/cheap network card to me...
[But I'm no expert]
Perhaps, however, just doing a cron job every day to do the ifconfig
down/up would be a simple work-around.
On Sun, January 21, 2007 9:12 pm, David Schulz wrote:
Hello all,
every once in a while i have a machine (6.1) that out
John Nielsen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Sunday 21 January 2007 20:07, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
My experience with ghoscscript device 'gdi' is that even patched it
generates a correct data only for 600 dpi resolution. With -r300' option
printer makes pages with large horizontal black and grey
What about firewall and especially ipfw MAC rules?
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My aging GeForce MX 400 is dying and I want to replace it with something a bit
more modern. My desktop is running FreeBSD 6.2 on a Asus A7V (Via chipset)
motherboard with a 1.4GHz Athlon. This is more of a hardward question than
software, although pointers to any FreeBSD-specific driver
Benjamin Sher wrote:
Dear Bob:
I rebooted PCBSD with the first Install CD and chose Upgrade. It went ahead
and repaired and upgraded my system but at the end of the road I did not see
any mention of installing the second CD. I also didn't see it at the end of
my original install. What am
since the machines in question are behind a nat router with firewall,
they do not have extra firewall enabled.
On Jan 22, 2007, at 11:56 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
What about firewall and especially ipfw MAC rules?
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We're ordering Dell Poweredge 2950 Server which is come with SAS (Serial
Attach SCSI). Most newly manufacture branded server comes with SAS nowadays,
no more SCSI. According to Dell Technical Support, SAS is a new
--On January 22, 2007 11:53:58 AM +0800 Ahmad Faisal M. Nor
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as well
We're ordering Dell Poweredge 2950 Server which is come with SAS (Serial
Attach SCSI). Most newly manufacture branded server
Been there. You need to replace your ethernet switch. It's what
they call an ethernet hardware incompatability.
Forcing the card to 10baset half or 100 base t full might fix it but
probably not.
Ted
.
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From: David Schulz [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Hi,
thats harsh, because before i used a cheaper Mitsubishi, forgot the
Model, but before Christmas i purchased a Cisco ws-c2960-48tt-l ,
which i thought was not too bad for what i needed. I just cant
replace it easily now. Really, is that it? Im gonna have to go with
the cronjob / shell
Either that or replace the network card. Or put a dumb little 4 port
hub between the card and the switch.
it's funny but sometimes the cheaper nics have autonegotiation
issues with the better quality hubs, and don't with the cheaper hubs.
The network gods like to throw us these things from
Anyone know of a way to do voice chat with Google chat users? KDE's
Kopete is supposed to support gtalk's voice chat, but I can't get it to
work.
Thanks,
Micah
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Anyone with experience using their optical mouse under FreeBSD? All
input will be very much appreciated.
Wireless mice on either PS/2 or USB ports work fine with
FreeBSD/X11/Window Managers. I've used them for years, and would never
go back to a corded or balled mouse again.
I too live
David Schulz wrote:
Hello all,
every once in a while i have a machine (6.1) that out of the blue,
sometimes after days, some after 6 months, looses Ethernet Connectivity.
When something is frequently erratic, suspect software. But your
problem looks like intermittent hardware. I have
hey, sure, of course i have checked the cat5 first, but it is clearly
not the cable. id say it is as ted has written. what i would like
to know now is how exactly happens this hardware incompatibility?
On Jan 22, 2007, at 1:51 PM, bobmc wrote:
David Schulz wrote:
Hello all,
every once
Hello,
I'm looking at building a few new general-purpose servers in the near
future. I'd like to use Intel Core 2 Duo processors in these machines.
I'm currently evaluating a machine with a looks-good-on-paper
motherboard, the Intel DG965OT. However, I have come across two major
problems
On Jan 21, 2007, at 9:18 PM, Micah wrote:
Anyone know of a way to do voice chat with Google chat users? KDE's
Kopete is supposed to support gtalk's voice chat, but I can't get
it to work.
Thanks,
Micah
Should be jabber. See: http://www.google.com/talk/otherclients.html
for more info
On Jan 21, 2007, at 9:03 PM, Andrew Fremantle wrote:
Hello,
I'm looking at building a few new general-purpose servers in the near
future. I'd like to use Intel Core 2 Duo processors in these machines.
I'm currently evaluating a machine with a looks-good-on-paper
motherboard, the Intel
In response to peter [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
Hi,
My freebsd box runs the apache httpd2.0 server, postgresql8.1server,
Recently, I got the below info in /var/crash.
“Dump header from device /dev/da0s1b
Architecture: i386
Architecture Version: 2
Dump Length: 1073127424B (1023 MB)
On Jan 21, 2007, at 21:59, David Schulz wrote:
hey, sure, of course i have checked the cat5 first, but it is
clearly not the cable. id say it is as ted has written. what i
would like to know now is how exactly happens this hardware
incompatibility?
The interface chips use a very low
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