Re: no hyperthreading in FreeBSD 9?

2012-01-13 Thread b. f.
Hi, I just upgraded from 8-STABLE to 9-STABLE on my dual Xeon (nocona). Now I have in my boot messages: ... root: /etc/rc.d/sysctl: WARNING: sysctl machdep.hlt_logical_cpus does not exist. root: /etc/rc.d/sysctl: WARNING: sysctl machdep.hyperthreading_allowed does not exist.

Re: AHCI driver and static device names

2011-12-03 Thread b. f.
I was getting ready to install the latest FreeBSD 9-RCs image, and I found that 9 now defaults to using the ahci driver for sata disks. This would be great if it weren't for the fact that the ahci driver seems to do dynamic device name assignment as opposed to the static ones used with the

Re: options atapicam and/or device ATA_CAM in kernel config?

2011-11-28 Thread b. f.
Now I think I'll try to rebuild the kernel with options ATA_CAM and drop device atapicam. This question needs to be better resolved in time for FreeBSD 9.0-RELEASE. I cross-post this message to freebsd-curr...@freebsd.org so the developers will see it. FreeBSD users want to be able to burn

Re: options atapicam and/or device ATA_CAM in kernel config?

2011-11-27 Thread b. f.
What is the role of options atapicam and device ATA_CAM in kernel config file? Are they redundant? Kernel will build with both these options, but will it make things go awry? Is ATA_CAM deprecated? They are redundant and incompatible. atapicam is deprecated, and ATA_CAM is the

Re: options atapicam and/or device ATA_CAM in kernel config?

2011-11-27 Thread b. f.
On 11/27/11, Lowell Gilbert freebsd-questions-lo...@be-well.ilk.org wrote: b. f. bf1...@googlemail.com writes: What is the role of options atapicam and device ATA_CAM in kernel config file? Are they redundant? Kernel will build with both these options, but will it make things go

Re: Quick build of stripped-down kernel

2011-11-25 Thread b. f.
On 11/25/11, Thomas Mueller mueller6...@bellsouth.net wrote: from b. f. bf1...@googlemail.com: If you are going to build most of the modules, but only want to exclude a few, then add the directories of the modules to be excluded (relative to /usr/src/sys/modules) to WITHOUT_MODULES

Re: Quick build of stripped-down kernel

2011-11-24 Thread b. f.
Happy Thanksgiving! This week, I've been building FreeBSD 9.0-RC2 And to you, too. kernels for various machines, and on some of the older and slower ones it's been taking quite a long time. One of the reasons for this is that even if you strip 98% of the drivers out of the kernel, they are

Re: (8.2) share lib and ldconfig problem.

2011-10-28 Thread b. f.
Hello, 8.2 STABLE/i386 I'm hit by something strange. Basically ldconfig does not take care of some libs in /usr/local/lib/compat/pkg By sample I've updated icu (via portupgrade) and libreoffice does not start anymore. $ libreoffice /libexec/ld-elf.so.1: Shared object libicuuc.so.46

Re: pkg_version: corrupted record (pkgdep line without argument), ignoring

2011-10-22 Thread b. f.
On 10/22/11, b. f. bf1...@googlemail.com wrote: Jerry wrote: After attempting unsuccessfully to update KDE4 via portmaster, I found a number of errors printed out when using pkg_version-vIL=. I eventually used portmanager to update the KDE4 port successfully; however, I am still receiving

Re: How can I disable hyperthreads, but NOT smp ?

2011-09-20 Thread b. f.
On 20/09/2011 21:34, Jason Usher wrote: FreeBSD 6.4-RELEASE system with two physical CPUs, each of which are HT capable. From dmesg: cpu0 (BSP): APIC ID: 0 cpu1 (AP): APIC ID: 1 cpu2 (AP): APIC ID: 6 cpu3 (AP): APIC ID: 7 I also see this: machdep.hyperthreading_allowed: 0

Re: Download manpages

2011-09-20 Thread b. f.
Hello Matthew, I'm trying to download section 2 and section 1 for freebsd commands and system calls ? Is there a specific manpage that you are missing? A cursory glance shows that these sections are populated: sh -c 'cd /tmp ; for i in a b c d e f g ; do fetch -ampv

Re: Negative ping times with FreeBSD 8.1-RELEASE on older Celeron system

2011-09-12 Thread b. f.
I just put FreeBSD 8.1 up on an old (but good) 500 MHz Celeron with half a gig of RAM. Interfaces are classic xl (3Com) and dc (DEC tulip). Works quite nicely except for one quirk: ping times that ought to be positive (no more than 200 ms worst case) are coming out negative! Can't figure out

Re: port build breaks at xmlto

2011-08-12 Thread b. f.
On Fri, Aug 12, 2011 at 01:18:07PM +1000, Daryl Sayers wrote: FreeBSD 7.4 I am having trouble building the xmlto port on FreeBSD 7.4. I am getting an error: === Building for xmlto-0.0.24 make all-am for xml in xmlif.xml xmlto.xml; do FORMAT_DIR=./format /usr/local/bin/bash ./xmlto

Re: High interrupt rate

2011-08-08 Thread b. f.
On 8/7/11, Mario Lobo l...@bsd.com.br wrote: On Sunday 07 August 2011 18:34:27 b. f. wrote: I know 75% idle is not bad but this machine, when not under load on a saturday night like today, used to be at around 98% idle 99% of the time. Now its is at 72% idle 99.9% of the time. It has been

Re: High interrupt rate

2011-08-07 Thread b. f.
I know 75% idle is not bad but this machine, when not under load on a saturday night like today, used to be at around 98% idle 99% of the time. Now its is at 72% idle 99.9% of the time. It has been like this all day. The only things with a high interrupt rate are cpu0: timer

Re: how do i find a file in all directories 7 to 9 days old?

2011-07-28 Thread b. f.
how can i use find or whatever to find a file, say 6 levels deep that is = 9 days old? i'm looking fo something i had to jt down [[ASCII]]. can't remembr te file name, nor when i was when i had the idea flash into my mind Try something like: find / -type f -mtime -10d -mindepth 5

Re: how do i find a file in all directories 7 to 9 days old?

2011-07-28 Thread b. f.
On 7/28/11, b. f. bf1...@googlemail.com wrote: how can i use find or whatever to find a file, say 6 levels deep that is = 9 days old? i'm looking fo something i had to jt down [[ASCII]]. can't remembr te file name, nor when i was when i had the idea flash into my mind Try

Re: pkg_delete yields 'no such package'

2011-07-24 Thread b. f.
Matthew Seaman wrote: On 24/07/2011 08:48, Toan H. Le wrote: Either I use 'pkg_delete xorg-docs' or 'pkg_delete xorg-docs-1.4.1', pkg_delete yields the error of 'no such package'. Checking via 'pkg_info' and 'pkg_version' confirms the packages xorg-docs-1.4.1 installed. I think I did not

Re: Using csup and -i switch

2011-07-19 Thread b. f.
Hello, I updated all my ports recently but I have submitted a PR for audio/musicpd for a simple patch. I would like to update only my audio/musicpd on all my machines so I tried the following: markand at Groseille ~ $ sudo csup -i audio/musicpd /etc/ports-supfile Connected to 193.51.24.2

Re: options used to compile packages

2011-07-17 Thread b. f.
On 7/17/11, David Arendt ad...@prnet.org wrote: When I did the test, I used FreeBSD 8.2 amd64 using the ports collection delivered with this distribution. I see. Since that time, there have been very few changes to the version of the base system used to build the packages for 8, but more to

Re: options used to compile packages

2011-07-16 Thread b. f.
I want to compile packages from the ports collections with exactly the same options that have been used to compile the official packages from the official freebsd package collection. Is the var/db/ports directory used to compile the official freebsd package collection available somewhere ? If

Re: gcc 4.4.7

2011-07-16 Thread b. f.
I decided to switch from portmaster to portupgrade and pkddb -F show many stale dependencies on gcc-4.4.5.20110503 (lang/gcc44). Do I need to put new dependencies to gcc-4.5.4.20110630 or something else, please? For portmaster I put IGNOREMI+ line and it works but I don't know how to do

Re: options used to compile packages

2011-07-16 Thread b. f.
well I don't actually now which package it was, but I compiled gdm (so it should be one of it's dependencies). A compilation resulted in a non working gdm (something with pam support not found on execution). Upon installing gdm and is dependencies from packages, everything worked correctly.

Re: Portupgrade Package Question

2011-07-09 Thread b. f.
Thomas D. Dean wrote: ... For the most recent try, I have ... # OS_PATCHLEVEL:-p8 # OS_PLATFORM:i386 amd64 # OS_PKGBRANCH: 7-current 6.1-release OS_RELEASE=8-STABLE OS_BRANCH=STABLE OS_PKGBRANCH=8-stable The comments above were not

Re: Portupgrade Package Question

2011-07-09 Thread b. f.
On 7/9/11, Thomas D. Dean tomd...@speakeasy.org wrote: On Sat, 2011-07-09 at 19:54 -0400, b. f. wrote: occasionally trip over problems that will require intervention. (Note that in the section of the csup file that you reproduced in an earlier message, 'release-cvs' should be 'release=cvs

Re: Portupgrade Package Question

2011-07-09 Thread b. f.
On 7/10/11, b. f. bf1...@googlemail.com wrote: On 7/9/11, Thomas D. Dean tomd...@speakeasy.org wrote: On Sat, 2011-07-09 at 19:54 -0400, b. f. wrote: You could cheat, and neither upgrade your base system nor make the changes I mentioned in my last message, but instead fool portupgrade

Re: What is xz ?

2011-07-02 Thread b. f.
From owner-freebsd-questions at freebsd.org Sat Jul 2 06:45:00 2011 Date: Sat, 2 Jul 2011 13:43:55 +0200 From: Polytropon freebsd at edvax.de To: Chris Whitehouse cwhiteh at onetel.com Cc: freebsd-questions at freebsd.org Subject: Re: What is xz ? On Sat, 02 Jul 2011 12:26:14

Re: What is xz ?

2011-07-02 Thread b. f.
On 7/2/11, Robert Huff roberth...@rcn.com wrote: b. f. writes: It is part of '7.2-RELEASE', Dunno about 7.1 Hmm. Are you sure? If this is true, the archivers/xz port needs to be patched to IGNORE those branches of 7 that have xz. Is that necessarily true

Re: I486_CPU or I586_CPU in kernel config

2011-05-31 Thread b. f.
Warren Block wrote: On Mon, 30 May 2011, Adam Vande More wrote: Perhaps this is the one you meant? http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-questions/2009-January/190568.html That's the one! Thanks! Actually the two threads touch on the same subject, and it seems removal of those

Re: UDF and DVD's

2011-05-19 Thread b. f.
grarpamp wrote: ... I'm guessing the current state within FreeBSD means that I can neither read, nor create, or write, readable (compatible) images at this, or any given, UDF level? ... Is this a blocker for FreeBSD? For me, at least, minimally, that seems to be the case... as I now have

Re: Comparing two lists [SOLVED (at least it looks like that)]

2011-05-06 Thread b. f.
2011-05-07 02:09, Rolf Nielsen skrev: Hello all, I have two text files, quite extensive ones. They have some lines in common and some lines are unique to one of the files. The lines that do exist in both files are not necessarily in the same location. Now I need to compare the files

Re: Piping find into tar...

2011-05-04 Thread b. f.
I've been playing with the find command lately. Is there a way I can pipe the putput list of files from find, into the tar command to create an archive which contains the files which find lists? I tried the following, but it didn't work (obviously). find -E . '.*\.txt$' -print | tar -cjf

Re: Piping find into tar...

2011-05-04 Thread b. f.
On 5/4/11, Chris Rees utis...@gmail.com wrote: On 4 May 2011 08:44, b. f. bf1...@googlemail.com wrote: I've been playing with the find command lately. Is there a way I can pipe the putput list of files from find, into the tar command to create an archive which contains the files which find

Re: Piping find into tar...

2011-05-04 Thread b. f.
On 5/4/11, Modulok modu...@gmail.com wrote: As for pax, I thought tar could create pax archives too, via the --format pax option? Yes, although I haven't tested it thoroughly. pax(1) should also be able to create a number of different archive formats via the -x flag. I prefer tar(1)

Re: Piping find into tar...

2011-05-04 Thread b. f.
Dne 4.5.2011 11:42, Modulok napsal(a): By the way, in reference to the commands above the -j option is for bzip2, so the extension should be .tbz o_O Thanks everyone! I went with the following, because it works regardless of space characters in filenames. (Thanks for the correction on

Re: Port dependencies

2011-04-02 Thread b. f.
Chris Telting wrote: See above. What I want to see is minimal installs with all features being usable once you install the optional components. And run time detection for programs shouldn't be all that difficult or computation intensive. The program would just consult pkg_info or another

Re: Booting from firmware RAID

2011-03-16 Thread b. f.
This is probably more PC-specific than freebsd-specific question. I have intel firmware raid. OS needs drivers to work with it. FreeBSD sees it as ar0, so it has drivers. But I want my OS to be installed on this drive and boot from it. It is not good idea, but I really want to do it:) Is it

Re: DTrace in RELEASE?

2011-03-15 Thread b. f.
Does anyone know if it's likely DTrace will ever make it into the generic RELEASEs? Maybe, at least in part. One of the developers has asked that the hooks needed for dtrace be included by default in upcoming releases: http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-arch/2011-March/011157.html b.

Re: python27 update-py-psyco

2011-03-08 Thread b. f.
On 3/8/11, ajtiM lum...@gmail.com wrote: On Monday March 7 2011 08:37:46 b. f. wrote: On 3/7/11, ajtiM lum...@gmail.com wrote: On Sunday March 6 2011 12:01:47 b. f. wrote: Thank you. I am reading /usr/ports/UPDATING special like now but there are problems. And I have a problem again

Re: python27 update-py-psyco

2011-03-07 Thread b. f.
On 3/7/11, ajtiM lum...@gmail.com wrote: On Sunday March 6 2011 12:01:47 b. f. wrote: Thank you. I am reading /usr/ports/UPDATING special like now but there are problems. And I have a problem again with /usr/ports/devel/py-psyco I get: c/mergepoints.c:242: error 'JUMP_IF_FALSE' undeclared

Re: Coldfusion, Postgres and Java under FreeBSD

2011-03-07 Thread b. f.
... I'm running Java on FreeBSD right now, but I must say I'd probably stick to Linux nowadays if I had any say, at least until there comes a day when I'll be able to pkg_add -r openjdk7. ... Why not now? (Or anytime this past year or more?):

Re: python27 update

2011-03-06 Thread b. f.
I am using portmaster all the time more or less without problems. I like to switch to portupgrade but I don't know if is good to mix them. I think I will wait to FreeBSD 9 and than install evrything from scratch. You would have encountered the problem that you mentioned regardless of whether you

Re: optical driver with ahci bios mode but ata(4) driver

2011-03-05 Thread b. f.
On Mon, Feb 28, 2011 at 8:31 PM, David Demelier demelier.david at gmail.com wrote: Hello, My bios can be set to use IDE emulation or ahci mode, I prefere the ahci mode because it's a bit faster. It's probably stupid to stay with ata(4) driver with the ahci mode, isn't it? But with ahci(4)

Re: python27 update

2011-03-05 Thread b. f.
... I tried to update python26 to python27. I did as I red in /usr/ports/UPDATING: portmaster -o lang/python27 lang/python26 and than cd /usr/ports/lang/python make upgrade-site-packages -DUSE_PORTMASTER and after one day and a half of pressing yes for deleting old files I got: Has it

Re: SIL Fonts

2011-03-03 Thread b. f.
I was unable to find a port with Charis or Doulos typefaces. Perhaps someone can tell me that these typefaces are part of some meta-port. Which? Hmm. I don't see any port with them, either, although bundling of them is permitted, under certain circumstances, and I didn't look into the innards

Re: SIL Fonts

2011-03-03 Thread b. f.
On 3/3/11, Jason C. Wells j...@speakeasy.net wrote: On 03/03/11 05:01, b. f. wrote: I don't _need_ ports but I do like to use them because they include management tools. thanks for the response. Right, then, I will add some ports. b. ___ freebsd

Re: Kernel compiling problems

2011-03-03 Thread b. f.
Heya! Anybody know what's wrong with this? ## make buildworld buildkernel KERNCONF=NINJA ... /usr/src/sys/kern/sysv_msg.c:163: error: invalid application of 'sizeof' to incomplete type 'struct freebsd7_msgctl_args This error message is suggestive. ;) options COMPAT_FREEBSD4 options

Re: GNU make doesn't understand .for? suffix rules obsolete?

2011-03-02 Thread b. f.
In particular I was surprised to find out that GNU make considers suffix rules obsolete: http://www.gnu.org/software/make/manual/html_node/Suffix-Rules.html#Suffix-Rules I didn't think the suffix rules are obsolete in BSD make, are they? No (Although maybe some people will argue that BSD

Re: Is CTM still being offered for updating FreeBSD?

2011-02-25 Thread b. f.
So I have a few questions: 1) Is it still being offered and supported as a method of updating FreeBSD systems? As of today, yes -- I have recent deltas in my mailbox. But you could easily check by subscribing, and looking at: http://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/CTM where the deltas are still

Re: Accessing a GPT drive

2011-02-08 Thread b. f.
Os: FreeBSD amd64 w/ options GEOM_PART_GPT What version of FreeBSD? I added a drive to my system which I installed win7 64. The drive is 500G. I gave 100G to win7. Then I created an ext2 partition with the unallocated space with a gparted cd. fdisk shows the MBR of the drive with the win7

Re: Set tty resolution using hint.sc.0.flags with VESA

2011-02-06 Thread b. f.
David Demelier wrote: hint.sc.0.vesa_mode=0x1f0 ... absolutely great! But where did you find these vesa_mode setting? It's not documented anywhere. Look again: syscons(4), in the Synopsis and the Driver Flags section. b. ___

Re: nedit problem

2011-02-06 Thread b. f.
Fred Boatwright wrote: On 02/06/11 00:53, b. f. wrote: Fred Boatwright wrote: After updating all ports on 8.1-RELEASE, nedit has a problem. The right mouse button works ok in the toolbar but if it is pressed in the text area, for example to copy a block of text, the cursor changes

Re: Debian GNU/kFreeBSD

2011-02-06 Thread b. f.
I have heard that Debian project has replaced the Linux kernel in their distribution with FreeBSD kernel and have released Debian GNU/kFreeBSD. Since this version, they will release Debian GNU/kFreeBSD as a stable port. What is this all about? As you can see from their webpages, they

Re: nedit problem

2011-02-05 Thread b. f.
Fred Boatwright wrote: After updating all ports on 8.1-RELEASE, nedit has a problem. The right mouse button works ok in the toolbar but if it is pressed in the text area, for example to copy a block of text, the cursor changes shape and the X session becomes completely locked up. I have to

Re: Why can't I install icu?

2011-02-04 Thread b. f.
Icu is a necessary dependency for Gimp, but I can't get it to install. I checked UPDATING and it states that icu4 is now deprecated, and one should install /devel/icu. But when I try to do that the file that is downloaded is icu4c, and the install goes along until it chokes with this error

Re: linux PF_PACKET compatibility

2011-01-31 Thread b. f.
Da Rock wrote: ... I've been chasing the answer to a FreeBSD version of this (approx. anyway), but I needed to find out what exactly PF_PACKET was first. Finally found this answer here: http://www.linuxjournal.com/article/4659 I looked up man socket and I can see possibilities (in my mind

Re: include file not found

2011-01-26 Thread b. f.
Da Rock wrote: gcc -Wall -Wformat-security -Wno-format-zero-length -g -O3 -I. -I/usr/include -I/usr/local/include -DLIBDIR='/lib/l2tpns' -DETCDIR='/etc/l2tpns' -DSTATISTICS -DSTAT_CALLS -DRINGBUFFER -DHAVE_EPOLL -DBGP -c -o arp.o arp.c In file included from arp.c:8:

Re: Implications of missing this step?

2011-01-20 Thread b. f.
Good Day; Running PC-BSD 8.1 with a custom kernel and new world. I just finished another custom kernel and rebuilt world according to the FreeBSD handbook. While reading the docs again to find an answer to a question about how upgraded ports are handled, I came across the following in

Re: Which network driver for RTL8211 or 8201 NIC's?

2011-01-19 Thread b. f.
Mike Clarke wrote: I need to replace a failing motherboard. I'm aiming to keep the existing Athlon CPU so I'm tied down to to a socket AM2(+) board and the majority of those available seem to have nForce 630a chipsets and RTL8211CL or 8201EL NIC's which aren't explicitly mentioned in the

Re: ImageMagick, Djvu, and Perl-threaded - marked as IGNORE when updating

2010-12-28 Thread b. f.
On 12/27/10, David Southwell da...@vizion2000.net wrote: On 12/27/10, David Southwell da...@vizion2000.net wrote: Agreed - but following Doug's commit I can vouch that the PERL_THREADED hack was still needed for 7.2 p3 systems on amd64. It shouldn't be needed. Can you remove this

Re: ImageMagick, Djvu, and Perl-threaded - marked as IGNORE when updating

2010-12-28 Thread b. f.
On 12/28/10, David Southwell da...@vizion2000.net wrote: On 12/27/10, David Southwell da...@vizion2000.net wrote: On 12/27/10, David Southwell da...@vizion2000.net wrote: Agreed - but following Doug's commit I can vouch that the PERL_THREADED hack was still needed for 7.2 p3 systems

Re: ImageMagick, Djvu, and Perl-threaded - marked as IGNORE when updating

2010-12-27 Thread b. f.
What concerns me is perl-threaded _is_ installed but it can't see it. Do you have in: etc/make.conf PERL_THREADED=true Perhaps I'm a little daft atm. Either way I want to be clear: Are you saying the define needs to be in the make.conf so that it will build correctly?

Re: ImageMagick, Djvu, and Perl-threaded - marked as IGNORE when updating

2010-12-27 Thread b. f.
Well I did offer the info in the OP, albeit pkg_version style. Anyhoo perl --version outputs: Yes, but the output of 'perl --version' is what really matters in this case, because it is used to determine PERL_THREADED for this port, as you can see in the port Makefile. This is perl, v5.10.1

Re: ImageMagick, Djvu, and Perl-threaded - marked as IGNORE when updating

2010-12-27 Thread b. f.
On 12/27/10, David Southwell da...@vizion2000.net wrote: What concerns me is perl-threaded _is_ installed but it can't see it. Do you have in: etc/make.conf PERL_THREADED=true Perhaps I'm a little daft atm. Either way I want to be clear: Are you saying

Re: ImageMagick, Djvu, and Perl-threaded - marked as IGNORE when updating

2010-12-26 Thread b. f.
Da Rock wrote: I run portupgrade and it tells me it can't update ImageMagick because the Djvu option requires threads, and needs perl, therefore perl needs to be threaded. So it comes up with an IGNORE which is nuts because I run threaded perl. ... Any hints guys? So, as the others wrote, build

Re: randomising tracks: scripting question

2010-12-26 Thread b. f.
Frank Shute wrote: I generally play my tracks of an album like so: for track in $(cat trombone_shorty-backatown.m3u); do mplayer $track done They then play in the correct order. How would I go about randomising the order of play using sh (preferably) or perl? cat trombone_shorty-backatown.m3u

Re: pkg_info and an active /usr/ports is slow

2010-12-26 Thread b. f.
Just wondering about the interaction of pkg_info (no args) and having a ports directory. Without it it's blazing fast, with it it is just slow and sometimes just breaks during the listing. There is nothing in the man page about it reading the ports directory or why it would want or need

Re: Portmaster general questions and problems

2010-12-26 Thread b. f.
I had been using portupgrade for several years and never had any problems and upgrading ports was quick and simple process every week. But, due to portupgrade no longer being maintained and failing to work anymore, I have switched to using portmaster and am having nothing but problems, so

Re: where can i download freebsd4.4?i need it ,thanks

2010-12-25 Thread b. f.
yuan huajie wrote: where can i download freebsd4.4?i need it ,thanks ftp://ftp-archive.FreeBSD.org/pub/FreeBSD-Archive/old-releases/ in the subdirectories corresponding to the architectures and versions of your choice. b. ___

Re: Well, I broke it! FreeBSD V8.1 release

2010-12-22 Thread b. f.
dave wrote: ... I was trying to disable the console screensaver, and found that in sysinstall, there is no way to select none as an option. So I went and edited /etc/rc.conf to comment out the line:- Saver=fire (or whatever it is) I put a ; at the beginning of the line, and now FreeBSD wont come

Re: 'Broadcom Wireless b/g (BCM4315/BCM22062000)'

2010-11-15 Thread b. f.
Chris Brennan wrote: ... My Hiccup as the subject suggests is about my Wireless Card. I have been following the handbook ( http://www.freebsd.org/doc/handbook/config-network-setup.html) on how to use 64-bit Windows drivers coupled w/ ndisgen to get my wireless card working. I got ndisgen to

Re: 'Broadcom Wireless b/g (BCM4315/BCM22062000)'

2010-11-15 Thread b. f.
On 11/16/10, Chris Brennan xa...@xaerolimit.net wrote: On Mon, Nov 15, 2010 at 11:17 PM, b. f. bf1...@googlemail.com wrote: Chris Brennan wrote: ... My Hiccup as the subject suggests is about my Wireless Card. I have been following the handbook ( http://www.freebsd.org/doc/handbook/config

Re: 'Broadcom Wireless b/g (BCM4315/BCM22062000)'

2010-11-15 Thread b. f.
On 11/16/10, b. f. bf1...@googlemail.com wrote: ... ttp://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=kern/144724 The above should be http://... , of course. b. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd

Re: Too many binary packages are missing

2010-10-17 Thread b. f.
On 10/15/10, Yuri y...@rawbw.com wrote: On 10/15/2010 11:54, b. f. wrote: That's quite a delay. This makes it very visible to users. Well, yes, to some. As to whether it's an unreasonably long delay, I'm not sure, considering the amount of work and resources required. After all, we're talking

Re: Too many binary packages are missing

2010-10-17 Thread b. f.
On 10/17/10, Ian Smith smi...@nimnet.asn.au wrote: On Fri, 15 Oct 2010, b. f. wrote: On 10/15/10, Ian Smith smi...@nimnet.asn.au wrote: ... Just to check that I get it .. for packages-8-stable, an 8.0-RELEASE-p2 kernel + world is used to _build_ these, is that right? Yes, on i386, although

Re: Too many binary packages are missing

2010-10-15 Thread b. f.
On 10/15/10, Ian Smith smi...@nimnet.asn.au wrote: ... http://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/ports/i386/packages-8-stable works, it's what portupgrade looks at on an 8.1-STABLE system, but it's a bit sad finding the last directory updated at 1st October. I checked just one subdir, sysutils,

Re: Too many binary packages are missing

2010-10-15 Thread b. f.
On 10/15/10, Yuri y...@rawbw.com wrote: On 10/15/10 09:39, b. f. wrote: On 10/15/10, Ian Smithsmi...@nimnet.asn.au wrote: ... http://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/ports/i386/packages-8-stable works, it's what portupgrade looks at on an 8.1-STABLE system, but it's a bit sad finding the last

Re: VIA EPIA 5000 and ACPI Cx levels

2010-10-14 Thread b. f.
On 10/10/10, Bruce Cran br...@cran.org.uk wrote: On Sunday 10 October 2010 21:49:30 b. f. wrote: If it has an i8254, that can also be used in one-shot mode if hint.attimer.0.timecounter=0 is used, since r212778. Thanks, I didn't know about that. After enabling it things are quite different

Re: Too many binary packages are missing

2010-10-13 Thread b. f.
I am updating i386 system (portupgrade -aP) and whole lot of binary packages are missing. For example, gcc-4.5.0, qt4-corelib are examples of large packages that are missing that don't require too many dependencies and are very basic. I know, it may be caused by failed dependencies, copyright

Re: Too many binary packages are missing

2010-10-13 Thread b. f.
On 10/14/10, Yuri y...@rawbw.com wrote: On 10/13/2010 17:24, b. f. wrote: ... My system is 8.1-stable and portupgrade looks at http://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/ports/i386/packages-8.1-stable No sure what is packages-8-stable, shouldn't it be the same? As far as I know, there are no packages

Re: Too many binary packages are missing

2010-10-13 Thread b. f.
On 10/14/10, b. f. bf1...@googlemail.com wrote: On 10/14/10, Yuri y...@rawbw.com wrote: On 10/13/2010 17:24, b. f. wrote: ... My system is 8.1-stable and portupgrade looks at http://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/ports/i386/packages-8.1-stable No sure what is packages-8-stable, shouldn't

Re: VIA EPIA 5000 and ACPI Cx levels

2010-10-10 Thread b. f.
I recently upgraded to HEAD on my VIA EPIA C3 box, and had thought about trying out the new one-shot timer mode. Reading mav@'s email it seems that since it doesn't have LAPIC or HPET timers it won't work. However I thought I should still get power savings by using higher Cx levels, but setting

Re: How to obtain which interrupts cause system to hang?

2010-10-10 Thread b. f.
PID USERNAMETHR PRI NICE SIZERES STATETIME WCPU COMMAND 11 root 1 171 ki31 0K16K RUN 24.9H 86.47% idle: cpu0 14 root 1 -44- 0K16K WAIT 689:52 10.25% swi1: net 2 root 1 -68- 0K16K sleep 207:35 4.69%

Re: Like it or not, Theo is having a good laugh ..

2010-10-09 Thread b. f.
Surrilous isn't an English word, nor an obvious typo of one, so I have no idea what you mean here. He probably meant scurrilous, which seems obvious to me. Look, can we move on now? Yes, export restrictions will apply, in the U.S. and -- what seems to have been overlooked in this thread --

Re: How to obtain which interrupts cause system to hang?

2010-10-09 Thread b. f.
How to obtain what nasty happen, which process take 36-50% of CPU resource? It partly depends upon the version of the OS that you are running, your hardware, and your configuration. 2008 interrupts/sec is high, but not improbably so, for kern.hz=1000, and not beyond the capabilities of today's

Re: Upgrading to higher major version directly or via small steps?

2010-10-05 Thread b. f.
I can't understand why should I use this adm tool instead of standard method, described in /usr/src/Makefile. List subscribers generally ask that those sending messages to the list place their replies below quoted material, rather than above it. If you read /usr/src/UPDATING, you will see: To

Re: Massive portupgrade without being interrupted by configuration screens?

2010-10-03 Thread b. f.
Are there any adverse side effects if I use portupgrade some of the time, and postmaster other times? Probably not, if you keep your portupgrade portsdb and pkgdb up-to-date, and you are not doing anything special with pkgtools.conf, portmaster.rc, or environment variables. But you don't

Re: PDF to HTML translations

2010-09-04 Thread b. f.
What PDF to HTML translators, other than pdftohtml, am I likely to be able to find in ports? I went looking for pdf2html, expecting to find that there, but no luck. Off the top of my head: OpenOffice graphics/xpdf (via pdftotext -htmlmeta, simplistic) graphics/poppler-utils (pdftohtml) I'm

Re: PDF to HTML translations

2010-09-04 Thread b. f.
On 9/5/10, b. f. bf1...@googlemail.com wrote: What PDF to HTML translators, other than pdftohtml, am I likely to be able to find in ports? I went looking for pdf2html, expecting to find that there, but no luck. Off the top of my head: OpenOffice graphics/xpdf (via pdftotext -htmlmeta

Re: FreeBSD, GPGPU and OpenCL/CUDA

2010-08-20 Thread b. f.
... MPI is typically dependent on the network not OpenMP. OpenMP 3.0 can be made more scalable if there's tasks built-into the kernel that can be cleanly exposed to userland. (Like OpenSolaris + libtask from Moinak is a good example) If you have a specific set of modifications in mind,

Re: FreeBSD, GPGPU and OpenCL/CUDA

2010-08-20 Thread b. f.
On 8/20/10, Eduardo emor...@xroff.net wrote: On Fri, 20 Aug 2010 13:24:16 + b. f. bf1...@googlemail.com wrote: Reading documentation, thanks b. f. I'm already on freebsd-hackers list. Is that the correct list for this topic? If you have a specific technical question about FreeBSD

Re: Xorg Problems

2010-08-19 Thread b. f.
Warren Block wrote: On Thu, 19 Aug 2010, Ondrej Majerech wrote: On 08/19/2010 15:02, Warren Block wrote: Don't need it in FreeBSD, either. In fact, using it in FreeBSD often causes hesitant input characters that only show up when you move the mouse. Or a draggy mouse. Or both. Finally got

Re: Documentation on how to build 32bit applications on amd64?

2010-08-15 Thread b. f.
On 08/14/2010 04:05, Tijl Coosemans wrote: There are patches for CURRENT here: http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-arch/2010-July/010470.html Thank you Tijl, cc-m32-2.diff has some failures: -- |diff --git a/include/Makefile b/include/Makefile |index

Re: ts_to_ct flood on 8.1-STABLE

2010-08-13 Thread b. f.
Since installing 8.1-RC2 and now on up-to-date RELENG_8 I am frequently getting kern.crit messages like ts_to_ct(1281661818.743348859) = [2010-08-13 01:10:18] and have been unable so far to determine their origin or purpose. I saw no such messages while running 7.x or earlier releases. This

Re: Is there a way to rebuild 32-bit libraries under amd64?

2010-08-12 Thread b. f.
I have 8.0-STABLE amd64 machine, and I need to run some 32-bit FreeBSD process which runs fine on 8.0-STABLE i386. So I copied all shared libs needed by it from i386 into there respective locations on amd64, but under lib32/ folder. libexecinfo.so.1 = /usr/local/lib32/libexecinfo.so.1

Re: AHCI driver

2010-08-10 Thread b. f.
Is it really better to enable AHCI driver? Almost certainly, yes. If your BIOS and SATA controller use AHCI, and are recognized by the ahci(4), mvs(4), or siis(4) drivers (I think that these drivers are built as kernel modules by default in the recent versions of FreeBSD, and don't require the

Re: amd64

2010-08-09 Thread b. f.
On 8/9/2010 4:14 PM, Robert Huff wrote: Polytropon writes: I've installed FreeBSD-amd64. It runs very well. The packages I fetch are amd64 too, but what about the ports I compile myself? Are those amd64 too? Yes, as your compiler infrastructure and target platform is

Re: I donot like using mergemaster ?

2010-07-27 Thread b. f.
On Monday 26 July 2010, zaxis wrote: I want to upgrade my freebsd 8.0 to 8.1. I have read all the steps about upgrading freebsd. I feel mergemaster is difficult to use e.g. which parameters should i use ? (you may wish to use -U or -ai or -Fi) Well, obviously you will get more out of

Re: apps update from ports

2010-07-27 Thread b. f.
I was wondering about your update strategy. Do you update your apps as soon as a new version is available in the ports ? Or do you follow the if it works, don't touch it strategy ? There is no one strategy that pleases everyone. You'll have to consider the time required to perform updates

Re: popt-1.50 or better??

2010-07-27 Thread b. f.
On Sat, Jul 24, 2010 at 10:53:03PM +, b. f. wrote: here are the last few lines of output from configure, ots-0.5.0: checking for pkg-config... /usr/X11R6/bin/pkg-config checking for glib-2.0 = 2.0 libxml-2.0 = 2.4.23... yes checking OTS_CFLAGS... -I/usr/local/include/glib-2.0 -I/usr

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