freebsd7 kde4 performance

2008-10-11 Thread Michal Kulczewski
Hi, I'm a little bit disappointed with the performance of kde4 on freebsd7. I have Pentium M 2GHz, 1GB RAM, radeon x300, tried both, radeon and ati drivers, but kde4 is still so slow that I cannot work with it. Is it because of poor graphic card or driver itself? I'm looking forward to any

Re: freebsd7 kde4 performance

2008-10-11 Thread freebsdemail
Hi Michael, Unfortunetly I've been having the same difficulty with KDE4. I've tried using both the nv driver as well as nvidia. My hardware is intel core2 duo 1.8ghz, nvidia 8600 gs with 512 dedicated memory and 2gigs of system memory. I've tried using 7.0, 7.1 and 8.0(Current) with all

Re: freebsd7 kde4 performance

2008-10-11 Thread Brian
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi Michael, Unfortunetly I've been having the same difficulty with KDE4. I've tried using both the nv driver as well as nvidia. My hardware is intel core2 duo 1.8ghz, nvidia 8600 gs with 512 dedicated memory and 2gigs of system memory. I've tried using 7.0, 7.1 and

Re: freebsd7 kde4 performance

2008-10-11 Thread Michal Kulczewski
Brian wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi Michael, Unfortunetly I've been having the same difficulty with KDE4. I've tried using both the nv driver as well as nvidia. My hardware is intel core2 duo 1.8ghz, nvidia 8600 gs with 512 dedicated memory and 2gigs of system memory. I've tried

Re: dmesg: Invalid time in clock: check and reset the date

2008-10-11 Thread Matthew Seaman
Richard Smith wrote: Hi, I've just installed FreeBSD 7.0 Release along with Windows XP on my PC. I found that when I set the clock to the correct timedate, next time I boot into FreeBSD it changes and reports the wrong timedate. Both BIOS and Windows reports the time correctly. dmesg shows

RE: dmesg: Invalid time in clock: check and reset the date

2008-10-11 Thread Ted Mittelstaedt
-Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Matthew Seaman Sent: Saturday, October 11, 2008 12:49 AM To: Richard Smith Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: dmesg: Invalid time in clock: check and reset the date Richard Smith wrote:

Re: freebsd7 kde4 performance

2008-10-11 Thread Wojciech Puchar
well it's KDE. what do you expect ;) On Sat, 11 Oct 2008, Michal Kulczewski wrote: Hi, I'm a little bit disappointed with the performance of kde4 on freebsd7. I have Pentium M 2GHz, 1GB RAM, radeon x300, tried both, radeon and ati drivers, but kde4 is still so slow that I cannot work with

Re: cvsup 7.0 STABLE checkout failure

2008-10-11 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
On Sat, Oct 11, 2008 at 11:33:08PM +0530, Shakul M Hameed wrote: Forwarding original msg to freebsd-questions mailing list. On Sat, Oct 11, 2008 at 11:06:13PM +0530, Shakul M Hameed wrote: I am trying to download 7.0 stable release through cvsup, but it fails. I tried changing the

Re: Need help installing on SATA

2008-10-11 Thread Jerry
On Sat, 11 Oct 2008 04:17:24 -0700 Jeremy Chadwick [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: People will use whatever gets the job done for them. If it doesn't, users *will* switch to another operating system, and there is absolutely nothing wrong with that. Why? Because reality states: solving problems is

RE: proflibs

2008-10-11 Thread Ansar Mohammed
Are they needed for compiling anything from ports? -Original Message- From: Jeremy Chadwick [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: October 11, 2008 5:59 AM To: Ansar Mohammed Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: proflibs On Fri, Oct 10, 2008 at 11:06:11PM -0400, Ansar Mohammed

Re: cvsup 7.0 STABLE checkout failure

2008-10-11 Thread Shakul M Hameed
Forwarding original msg to freebsd-questions mailing list. On Sat, Oct 11, 2008 at 11:06:13PM +0530, Shakul M Hameed wrote: I am trying to download 7.0 stable release through cvsup, but it fails. I tried changing the server, but still get those errors. - ERROR --- Checkout

Re: Need help installing on SATA

2008-10-11 Thread Wojciech Puchar
they're committing a sin by using another operating system. Open source is about freedom of choice -- if FreeBSD doesn't work for you or get the job done, and Linux does, then use Linux! If Windows works for you, use Windows! There's absolutely no shame in that. Blind, one-sided except when

Re: Need help installing on SATA

2008-10-11 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
On Fri, Oct 10, 2008 at 11:06:51PM -0500, Conrad J. Sabatier wrote: Does anyone know the magic incantation that will permit me to install FreeBSD on this new machine of mine (nVidia chipset, SATA1 disk controller)? This information is too vague. We need to know *exactly*: 1) What

Re: proflibs

2008-10-11 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
On Fri, Oct 10, 2008 at 11:06:11PM -0400, Ansar Mohammed wrote: Can anyone explain what are the proflibs on the install media, and what they are for? They're special versions of all the libraries that come with FreeBSD which contain profiling code (code for determining the amount of time spent

Re: proflibs

2008-10-11 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
On Sat, Oct 11, 2008 at 09:01:50AM -0400, Ansar Mohammed wrote: Are they needed for compiling anything from ports? I have yet to find a port that *requires* profiled libraries. They are only needed for developers wishing to benchmark code (determine how long the system/processor stays within a

Re: freebsd7 kde4 performance

2008-10-11 Thread RW
On Sat, 11 Oct 2008 08:18:10 +0200 Michal Kulczewski [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I'm a little bit disappointed with the performance of kde4 on freebsd7. I have Pentium M 2GHz, 1GB RAM, radeon x300, tried both, radeon and ati drivers, but kde4 is still so slow that I cannot work with it.

Re: Need help installing on SATA

2008-10-11 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
On Sat, Oct 11, 2008 at 12:44:03PM +0200, Wojciech Puchar wrote: they're committing a sin by using another operating system. Open source is about freedom of choice -- if FreeBSD doesn't work for you or get the job done, and Linux does, then use Linux! If Windows works for you, use Windows!

warning message when starting opera-9.60.20081004 on amd64

2008-10-11 Thread Dino Vliet
Hi All, when I start opera on my amd64 machine running freebsd 6.3 I get the following warning message on my console: [: missing ] grep: ]: No such file or directory exec: /usr/local/share/opera/bin//operapluginwrapper.linux: not found opera: Search operapluginwrapper: No response from wrapper

Re: cvsup 7.0 STABLE checkout failure

2008-10-11 Thread Shakul M Hameed
On Sat, Oct 11, 2008 at 05:38:26AM -0700, Jeremy Chadwick wrote: On Sat, Oct 11, 2008 at 11:33:08PM +0530, Shakul M Hameed wrote: Forwarding original msg to freebsd-questions mailing list. On Sat, Oct 11, 2008 at 11:06:13PM +0530, Shakul M Hameed wrote: I am trying to download 7.0

Re: freebsd7 kde4 performance

2008-10-11 Thread mdh
--- On Sat, 10/11/08, Michal Kulczewski [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi Michael, Unfortunetly I've been having the same difficulty with KDE4. I've tried using both the nv driver as well as nvidia. My hardware is intel core2 duo 1.8ghz, nvidia 8600 gs with 512

Re: cvsup 7.0 STABLE checkout failure

2008-10-11 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
On Sun, Oct 12, 2008 at 01:21:31AM +0530, Shakul M Hameed wrote: 1) Your setup looks very custom. I see SMB/CIFS in use, and you're using a non-standard directory for the cvsup CVS data (the default is Yes, I am using mount_smbfs to mount a network harddrive to store all my devel code.

Re: Audio Production

2008-10-11 Thread t-u-t
On Mon, Sep 22, 2008 at 12:33 PM, Da Rock [EMAIL PROTECTED]wrote: On Mon, 2008-09-22 at 11:50 +0200, marshc wrote: My only advice on this point is to subscribe to the multimedia list and ask your questions there (I'll be watching this list too, have been for some time now due to my htpc

Re: cvsup 7.0 STABLE checkout failure

2008-10-11 Thread Shakul M Hameed
On Sat, Oct 11, 2008 at 07:47:11AM -0700, Jeremy Chadwick wrote: On Sun, Oct 12, 2008 at 01:21:31AM +0530, Shakul M Hameed wrote: 1) Your setup looks very custom. I see SMB/CIFS in use, and you're using a non-standard directory for the cvsup CVS data (the default is Yes, I am using

Worth persuing a KDB: stack backtrace: ?

2008-10-11 Thread Tuc
Hi, I have a 5.5-STABLE laptop thats been having issues lately, mostly related to memory. I bought new chips, and I think I narrowed it down to one of the Dimm slots being bad. I did a memtest for 25 hours and it seemed stable. I started up and started downloading a backup of over 5K

Re: cvsup 7.0 STABLE checkout failure

2008-10-11 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
On Sun, Oct 12, 2008 at 02:20:52AM +0530, Shakul M Hameed wrote: On Sat, Oct 11, 2008 at 07:47:11AM -0700, Jeremy Chadwick wrote: Are you sure? http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en/books/handbook/cvsup.html -- see the first Note: paragraph. As a newbie to FreeBSD, I would rather like to

Re: Worth persuing a KDB: stack backtrace: ?

2008-10-11 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
On Sat, Oct 11, 2008 at 11:22:21AM -0400, Tuc wrote: I have a 5.5-STABLE laptop thats been having issues lately, mostly related to memory. I bought new chips, and I think I narrowed it down to one of the Dimm slots being bad. I did a memtest for 25 hours and it seemed stable.

Re: cvsup 7.0 STABLE checkout failure

2008-10-11 Thread Shakul M Hameed
On Sat, Oct 11, 2008 at 08:24:51AM -0700, Jeremy Chadwick wrote: On Sun, Oct 12, 2008 at 02:20:52AM +0530, Shakul M Hameed wrote: On Sat, Oct 11, 2008 at 07:47:11AM -0700, Jeremy Chadwick wrote: Are you sure? http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en/books/handbook/cvsup.html -- see the first

Re: cvsup 7.0 STABLE checkout failure

2008-10-11 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
On Sun, Oct 12, 2008 at 02:41:34AM +0530, Shakul M Hameed wrote: I am never going to do a Windows-FreeBSD mount as it is not required for me. I rather go for extra space on my FreeBSD box. Is there any method to increase the size of my FreeBSD partition?? Do you mean partition as in I

Re: cvsup 7.0 STABLE checkout failure

2008-10-11 Thread Shakul M Hameed
On Sun, Oct 12, 2008 at 02:41:34AM +0530, Shakul M Hameed wrote: On Sat, Oct 11, 2008 at 08:24:51AM -0700, Jeremy Chadwick wrote: On Sun, Oct 12, 2008 at 02:20:52AM +0530, Shakul M Hameed wrote: On Sat, Oct 11, 2008 at 07:47:11AM -0700, Jeremy Chadwick wrote: Are you sure?

Re: freebsd7 kde4 performance

2008-10-11 Thread Matt
On Sat, Oct 11, 2008 at 1:18 AM, Michal Kulczewski [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I'm a little bit disappointed with the performance of kde4 on freebsd7. I have Pentium M 2GHz, 1GB RAM, radeon x300, tried both, radeon and ati drivers, but kde4 is still so slow that I cannot work with it. Is it

newsyslog naming scheme could be improved?

2008-10-11 Thread Kelly Jones
newsyslog rotates logfiles so that messages.0.gz is yesterday's file, messages.1.gz is the day before's, etc. This is ugly. If I tell my fellow sysadmins that I ran this command: zfgrep 'bad thing' /var/log/messages.4.gz and found stuff, they may run it the next day and get different results

Re: newsyslog naming scheme could be improved?

2008-10-11 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
On Sat, Oct 11, 2008 at 09:33:42AM -0700, Kelly Jones wrote: newsyslog rotates logfiles so that messages.0.gz is yesterday's file, messages.1.gz is the day before's, etc. This is ugly. If I tell my fellow sysadmins that I ran this command: zfgrep 'bad thing' /var/log/messages.4.gz and

ULE

2008-10-11 Thread Desmond Chapman
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Re: newsyslog naming scheme could be improved?

2008-10-11 Thread Doug Hardie
On Oct 11, 2008, at 09:46, Jeremy Chadwick wrote: On Sat, Oct 11, 2008 at 09:33:42AM -0700, Kelly Jones wrote: newsyslog rotates logfiles so that messages.0.gz is yesterday's file, messages.1.gz is the day before's, etc. This is ugly. If I tell my fellow sysadmins that I ran this command:

Re: Worth persuing a KDB: stack backtrace: ?

2008-10-11 Thread Tuc
On Sat, Oct 11, 2008 at 11:22:21AM -0400, Tuc wrote: I have a 5.5-STABLE laptop thats been having issues lately, mostly related to memory. I bought new chips, and I think I narrowed it down to one of the Dimm slots being bad. I did a memtest for 25 hours and it seemed stable.

Re: Worth persuing a KDB: stack backtrace: ?

2008-10-11 Thread Tuc
Booting the machine in single-user mode and run fsck -y. I'm betting you'll find errors. If not, then it's probably a kernel bug -- see below, however. Ya lost the bet All filesystems were supposedly fine. Tuc

Re: libncurses.so.6 Not Found - How to Get 32 bit Version?

2008-10-11 Thread Kris Kennaway
Drew Tomlinson wrote: First, I must say I love the ports system!!! It keeps me from suffering as I am now. :) Anyway, I'm attempting to install a web log analysis software from Google named Urchin. The installation docs say it's supported on FBSD 6.2+. As I am dedicating a machine to

Re: Worth persuing a KDB: stack backtrace: ?

2008-10-11 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
On Sat, Oct 11, 2008 at 01:42:09PM -0400, Tuc wrote: On Sat, Oct 11, 2008 at 11:22:21AM -0400, Tuc wrote: I have a 5.5-STABLE laptop thats been having issues lately, mostly related to memory. I bought new chips, and I think I narrowed it down to one of the Dimm slots being bad.

Re: libncurses.so.6 Not Found - How to Get 32 bit Version?

2008-10-11 Thread Boris Samorodov
Drew Tomlinson [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: First, I must say I love the ports system!!! It keeps me from suffering as I am now. :) Anyway, I'm attempting to install a web log analysis software from Google named Urchin. The installation docs say it's supported on FBSD 6.2+. As I am

Re: libncurses.so.6 Not Found - How to Get 32 bit Version?

2008-10-11 Thread Kris Kennaway
Boris Samorodov wrote: You can copy this file from 6-i386 as Kris has already said. And it may be a good idea to file a PR about it since this is definitely the port's bug (CCing to the port's maintainer). I don't think it's a port bug, but it would be useful to have an official way to

Re: libncurses.so.6 Not Found - How to Get 32 bit Version?

2008-10-11 Thread Boris Samorodov
Kris Kennaway [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Boris Samorodov wrote: You can copy this file from 6-i386 as Kris has already said. And it may be a good idea to file a PR about it since this is definitely the port's bug (CCing to the port's maintainer). I don't think it's a port bug, but it would

Re: libncurses.so.6 Not Found - How to Get 32 bit Version?

2008-10-11 Thread Kris Kennaway
Boris Samorodov wrote: Kris Kennaway [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Boris Samorodov wrote: You can copy this file from 6-i386 as Kris has already said. And it may be a good idea to file a PR about it since this is definitely the port's bug (CCing to the port's maintainer). I don't think it's a

Re: ULE

2008-10-11 Thread Kris Kennaway
Desmond Chapman wrote: Anyone with experience using and setting this up, please contact me. I need to learn how to work with and on it. Replace options SCHED_4BSD with options SCHED_ULE in your kernel config file, compile/install kernel in the usual way, reboot. End of story. Kris

LDAP+login classes

2008-10-11 Thread J. Johnston
Hello, I was wonder if anyone has an idea if its possible to use login classes when using nss_ldap ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL

Re: freebsd7 kde4 performance

2008-10-11 Thread Michal Kulczewski
mdh wrote: Michal, can you describe in more detail just what is performing poorly? Things like what effects, what actions you're taking, what your settings are that effect those actions, etc? I'm running KDE4.1.1 from ports on 7-STABLE and have no performance problems at all with an

Re: newsyslog naming scheme could be improved?

2008-10-11 Thread Garance A Drosehn
At 9:33 AM -0700 10/11/08, Kelly Jones wrote: ...but has anyone considered tweaking newsyslog to name files messages.2008-10-05-12-00-00.gz or something. IE, give them a constant name that doesn't change and then delete them after how many ever days? It would be bad to change the default

Re: FreeBSD as PF/Router/Firewall dying on the vine

2008-10-11 Thread Michael K. Smith
Hello Jeremy: On 10/6/08 9:30 PM, Jeremy Chadwick [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, Oct 06, 2008 at 06:08:50PM -0700, Michael K. Smith - Adhost wrote: Hello All: We have a load balanced pair of PF boxes sitting in front of a whole bunch of server doing all manner of things! It's been

Re: ULE

2008-10-11 Thread Wojciech Puchar
in few days old RELENG_7 it's great, much better than anything before. there are something to fix with realtime priority threads scheduling, i contacted the author and i think it will be fixed soon. in case of usual work - just use it. it's very good. On Sat, 11 Oct 2008, Desmond Chapman

The FreeBSD Diary: 2008-09-21 - 2008-10-11

2008-10-11 Thread Dan Langille
The FreeBSD Diary contains a large number of practical examples and how-to guides. This message is posted weekly to freebsd-questions@freebsd.org with the aim of letting people know what's available on the website. Before you post a question here it might be a good idea to first search the

Re: libncurses.so.6 Not Found - How to Get 32 bit Version?

2008-10-11 Thread Drew Tomlinson
Kris Kennaway wrote: Boris Samorodov wrote: Kris Kennaway [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Boris Samorodov wrote: You can copy this file from 6-i386 as Kris has already said. And it may be a good idea to file a PR about it since this is definitely the port's bug (CCing to the port's maintainer). I

rsync or even scp questions....

2008-10-11 Thread Gary Kline
I have two desktop computers; three, if you count my new ThinkPad. The TPad needs a new CAT5 cable, so for now I'm only considereing the two tower computers. On the Ubuntu computer I am /home/kline; on my main computer, my home is /usr/home/kline. The

Re: Mailman + Apache + Cookies + FreeBSD

2008-10-11 Thread Jeffrey Goldberg
On Oct 10, 2008, at 1:45 AM, Odhiambo Washington wrote: Could you downgrade Mailman and see if the problem still persists? I run the combination you have (except Mailman is 2.1.9 and FreeBSD is 6.3) and I haven't had an issue. Might be a bug introduced in Mailman 2.1.11 I'm running mailman

Re: rsync or even scp questions....

2008-10-11 Thread mdh
--- On Sat, 10/11/08, Gary Kline [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On the Ubuntu computer I am /home/kline; on my main computer, my home is /usr/home/kline. The following sh script worked perfected when my home on tao [FBSD] was /home/kline: P #!/bin/sh PWD=`pwd`; echo

the impossible! get java 1.5 running on FB6.2?

2008-10-11 Thread Kayven Riese
I am a dum-dum. I don't know what happened, but suddently my FreeBSD7.0-STABLE running on my 160GB HD froze. I fsck-ed mounted, later from the older hard drive I am running now: % uname -a FreeBSD 6.2-RELEASE FreeBSD 6.2-RELEASE #0: Fri Jan 12 11:05:30 UTC 2007 [EMAIL