Unable to install on CompaQ D310

2006-08-31 Thread freebsd
Hi all I tied to install 6.1 on a CompaQ D310. At the beginning I only got a BTX Halt. Then after googling around I found a similar problem on the D510 and disabled DMA in the BIOS. Now the system boots (the same with the floppy set), but when it comes to partitioning I got No disk drives

Any suggestion regarding /DEV wipe out on freebsd 4.7?

2006-08-31 Thread babak badaei
Hello, A few days ago I was not able to log into my machine using SSH. I got this following message Server refused to allocate pty. I was, somewhat fortunately, able to log using SCP. So SCP works. The file system looked good for the most part; until I checked out /DEV. Almost everything was

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2006-08-31 Thread Misha Pupkin
Excuse for my English. Pair ideas for promotion FreeBSD! 1) Everyone search for a place in the organization desktop on base FreeBSD Probably, it is necessary to use as follows On one computer to force to work at once some monitors, some keyboards and mouses. To whom it is necessary to those

Re: Any issue having multiple sound cards running at the same time in 6.1?

2006-08-31 Thread matti k
On Tue, 29 Aug 2006 18:09:48 -0500 (CDT) Philip Hallstrom [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi all - I've got a freebsd server in the garage that has a low end soundblaster (I think) card in it that I've been using to play music. Works just fine. We moved and now I'd like to be able to have

Advertising opportunity on http://www.freebsd.org

2006-08-31 Thread Elizabeth Sherry
Hi, My name is Liz and I am an Internet Advertising Coordinator for a marketing company located in California. We are engaged in an advertising campaign for our clients, and found your site, http://www.freebsd.org/old/ports/games.html to be a great match for our needs. At

Re: linux-firefox

2006-08-31 Thread Boris Samorodov
On Wed, 30 Aug 2006 17:59:17 -0400 Pete C wrote: did a 'make install' for linux-firefox I got an error that libXfixes.so.3 (as part of linux-glib2, IIRC) could not be found . . . after some googling and a few bad leads for some reason I did another make install and got no errors . . . but now

Re: who do you install freebsd without sysinstall?

2006-08-31 Thread Ruslan Ermilov
[ added freebsd-questios@ ] On Thu, Aug 31, 2006 at 02:08:59AM +0200, Thomas Vogt wrote: Hello In this emails http://docs.freebsd.org/cgi/getmsg.cgi?fetch=244762+0+current/cvs-src you wrote that you don't install freebsd with sysinstall. May I ask you how you do this? Maybe in some way

Re: Any suggestion regarding /DEV wipe out on freebsd 4.7?

2006-08-31 Thread Nikos Vassiliadis
On Thursday 31 August 2006 09:29, babak badaei wrote: Hello, A few days ago I was not able to log into my machine using SSH. I got this following message Server refused to allocate pty. I was, somewhat fortunately, able to log using SCP. So SCP works. The file system looked good for the most

Re: Mounting Linux Procfs at Boot

2006-08-31 Thread Boris Samorodov
On Thu, 31 Aug 2006 00:22:03 +0100 RW wrote: On Wednesday 30 August 2006 21:55, Gerard Seibert wrote: RW wrote: What's the canonical way of mounting the Linux procfs at boot-time? I've seen several recommendations to add the following to fstab: linproc/compat/linux/proc

Re: SMP detection

2006-08-31 Thread Jordi Carrillo
2006/8/31, Skylar Thompson [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Michal Mertl wrote: No! Kernel threads (e.g. handling interrupts) aren't that much different to normal processes. Logical CPUs on a single HTT capable CPU share most of the CPU logic, especially all the external stuff (handling interrupts).

Mirroring: gvinum or gmirror?

2006-08-31 Thread Jonathan McKeown
I'm setting up a remote server with two identical hard drives, running FreeBSD-6.1. I want to set the drives up as a mirror for data redundancy. I also want to be able to break the mirror when I need to update the OS or installed software, so that if anything goes wrong with the update on one

Re: 6.1 current instabilty on Sun Ultra 40's

2006-08-31 Thread stan
On Thu, Aug 31, 2006 at 02:44:28PM +1000, Norberto Meijome wrote: On Thu, 31 Aug 2006 00:01:07 -0400 stan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On that disk is a world, built from last weekends cvsup. I was able to reproduce it's instability to build a generic kernel. It fails with a signal (I

Re: Mounting Linux Procfs at Boot

2006-08-31 Thread Gerard Seibert
Boris Samorodov wrote: I tried it and it didn't work. Irrespective of whether it should begin linproc or linprocfs, /compat is a link to /usr/compat, and /usr isn't mounted at that point. Do you have a different arrangement? Would it be possible to submit the output of 'dmesg'

Re: Playing Audio CDs

2006-08-31 Thread Viswas Nair
I use fluxbox :( no kde On 8/31/06, Andriy Babiy [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- Viswas Nair [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I am new to BSD and have mplayer installed (Gmplayer) and I do not see the option to play an Audio CD, only CDs, files and DVDs. How do I get Audio CD's to play? Can they be

firefox starts up always in the first virtual screen in XFCE

2006-08-31 Thread Markus Hoenicka
Hi all, I don't know whether this qualifies as a bug. In any case it is only a mild annoyance, but if anyone knows how to fix it, please let me know. I upgraded to FreeBSD 6.1 from 5.4 with all ports updated to the latest about one week ago. My desktop is XFCE, which is configured with 6 virtual

Re: SMP detection

2006-08-31 Thread Michal Mertl
Skylar Thompson wrote: Michal Mertl wrote: No! Kernel threads (e.g. handling interrupts) aren't that much different to normal processes. Logical CPUs on a single HTT capable CPU share most of the CPU logic, especially all the external stuff (handling interrupts). Scheduling handling

Re: not adding daemons to rc.conf

2006-08-31 Thread Karol Kwiatkowski
On 31/08/2006 05:25, Daniel Bye wrote: On Wed, Aug 30, 2006 at 08:47:06PM -0500, Jonathan Horne wrote: ive noticed that apache can be started manually using the apachectl tool, even if it is not enabled in /etc/rc.conf. do many other daemons have this ability? i have a dev server that i

6.1 kernel messages

2006-08-31 Thread up
Having just migrated a server from 4.10-STABLE to 6.1-STABLE, I'm curious about some kernel messages in dmesg that I hadn't seen before: asr0: [GIANT-LOCKED] (adaptec RAID adapter) uhci0: [GIANT-LOCKED] (USB driver) atkbd0: [GIANT-LOCKED] (keyboard driver) I'm running SMP with 2 CPUs...a

Re: Monitor display problem

2006-08-31 Thread Derek Ragona
Sorry about my bad typing, I meant eratta. I would look at http://www.s3graphics.com/ And look for documentation on issues running X -Derek On Thu, 31 Aug 2006, Roger Merritt wrote: At 08:38 AM 8/30/2006 -0500, Derek Ragona wrote: I would check the errat on the S3 you are using.

Re: firefox starts up always in the first virtual screen in XFCE

2006-08-31 Thread Norberto Meijome
On Thu, 31 Aug 2006 14:30:05 +0200 Markus Hoenicka [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I upgraded to FreeBSD 6.1 from 5.4 with all ports updated to the latest about one week ago. My desktop is XFCE, which is configured with 6 virtual screens. If you start an X program, its window will pop up in the

Re: SMP detection

2006-08-31 Thread backyard
--- Skylar Thompson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Jordi Carrillo wrote: 2006/8/30, backyard [EMAIL PROTECTED]: --- Jordi Carrillo [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I've read that SMP should be disabled for performance issues (I did not know that before installing freebsd). I have a P4

Re: not adding daemons to rc.conf

2006-08-31 Thread Daniel Bye
On Thu, Aug 31, 2006 at 02:43:20PM +0200, Karol Kwiatkowski wrote: It does more, it will force the script to run even if a daemon is running. What OP is looking for is 'one' prefix: Ah! Even better. Thanks for the tip. Dan -- Daniel Bye PGP Key:

Re: Mounting Linux Procfs at Boot

2006-08-31 Thread RW
On Thursday 31 August 2006 10:09, Boris Samorodov wrote: On Thu, 31 Aug 2006 00:22:03 +0100 RW wrote: Can't confirm that the problem exists: $ uname -a FreeBSD srv.sem.ipt.ru 6.1-STABLE FreeBSD 6.1-STABLE #2: Wed May 17 23:26:59 MSD 2006 [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/SRV i386

Re: SMP detection

2006-08-31 Thread backyard
--- Michal Mertl [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Skylar Thompson wrote: Jordi Carrillo wrote: 2006/8/30, backyard [EMAIL PROTECTED]: --- Jordi Carrillo [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I've read that SMP should be disabled for performance issues (I did not know that before

Re: Mounting Linux Procfs at Boot

2006-08-31 Thread Jerry McAllister
On Thursday 31 August 2006 10:09, Boris Samorodov wrote: On Thu, 31 Aug 2006 00:22:03 +0100 RW wrote: Can't confirm that the problem exists: $ uname -a FreeBSD srv.sem.ipt.ru 6.1-STABLE FreeBSD 6.1-STABLE #2: Wed May 17 23:26:59 MSD 2006 [EMAIL

Re: who do you install freebsd without sysinstall?

2006-08-31 Thread backyard
--- Ruslan Ermilov [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [ added freebsd-questios@ ] On Thu, Aug 31, 2006 at 02:08:59AM +0200, Thomas Vogt wrote: Hello In this emails http://docs.freebsd.org/cgi/getmsg.cgi?fetch=244762+0+current/cvs-src you wrote that you don't install freebsd with

Re: who do you install freebsd without sysinstall?

2006-08-31 Thread Thomas
Am Donnerstag, den 31.08.2006, 07:53 -0700 schrieb backyard: --- Ruslan Ermilov [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --snipp--- Out of curiosity... also along these lines how do I make the system allow me to seed the entropy engine? Usually after an install it asks to fill in a screen full of junk,

Re: who do you install freebsd without sysinstall?

2006-08-31 Thread Ruslan Ermilov
On Thu, Aug 31, 2006 at 07:53:28AM -0700, backyard wrote: Out of curiosity... So If I made a custom boot cd I could boot a dead box, setup the drives and slices, CVSUP the system I want to build, tweak the build environment for the proper temporary build locations and build a system from

Re: shared cache -- Re: SMP detection

2006-08-31 Thread backyard
--- Chad Leigh -- Shire.Net LLC [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Aug 30, 2006, at 12:12 PM, backyard wrote: with HT disabling in FreeBSD is more for the security issues about a potential exploit whereby one process in one pipe can access the priveledged information of a process in

Re: Mounting Linux Procfs at Boot

2006-08-31 Thread Boris Samorodov
On Thu, 31 Aug 2006 15:44:39 +0100 RW wrote: On Thursday 31 August 2006 10:09, Boris Samorodov wrote: On Thu, 31 Aug 2006 00:22:03 +0100 RW wrote: Can't confirm that the problem exists: $ uname -a FreeBSD srv.sem.ipt.ru 6.1-STABLE FreeBSD 6.1-STABLE #2: Wed May 17 23:26:59 MSD 2006

Re: who do you install freebsd without sysinstall?

2006-08-31 Thread backyard
--- Ruslan Ermilov [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, Aug 31, 2006 at 07:53:28AM -0700, backyard wrote: Out of curiosity... So If I made a custom boot cd I could boot a dead box, setup the drives and slices, CVSUP the system I want to build, tweak the build environment for the

Re: shared cache -- Re: SMP detection

2006-08-31 Thread Josh Carroll
Core 2 Duos have the EM64T extensions. Core Duos (Yonah) are a mobile chip only, not a full line of processors like the Core 2 architecture (Merom, Conroe, Woodcrest). I suspect the Core 2 chips do not suffer from the same security implications as HT-enabled processors. I'm not certain, but I

Re: who do you install freebsd without sysinstall?

2006-08-31 Thread Ruslan Ermilov
On Thu, Aug 31, 2006 at 08:24:45AM -0700, backyard wrote: how does cron save entropy??? I've noticed saving entropy files at shutdown but have always wondered what it is using. or does it just read from /dev/random? # Save some entropy so that /dev/random can re-seed on boot. */11*

Re: free-bsd's mount_smbfs having issues with EMC Celerra

2006-08-31 Thread Jim Stapleton
The right stuff: sudo mount_smbfs -I server name NOT ip - don't ask me why, I don't know -W workgroup/domain name -d 550 -f 550 //myusername@server name NOT ip - I can answer this if you don't know and ask me why/share mount point That's about it. On 8/30/06, Antony Mawer [EMAIL PROTECTED]

can someone point me to some good and descriptive VPN documentation for my use?

2006-08-31 Thread Jim Stapleton
I'm trying to VPN in to work from home, and the IT group there only supports windows. There are Cisco pre-configured clients for Linux, MacOS X, and Windows available, but not BSD. I tried running the Linux binary, but it wanted to move to a nonexistant driectory, and didn't tell me which

Re: can someone point me to some good and descriptive VPN documentation for my use?

2006-08-31 Thread Alex Zbyslaw
Jim Stapleton wrote: I'm trying to VPN in to work from home, and the IT group there only supports windows. There are Cisco pre-configured clients for Linux, MacOS X, and Windows available, but not BSD. I tried running the Linux binary, but it wanted to move to a nonexistant driectory, and

Re: Thin terminals for FreeBSD

2006-08-31 Thread Luyt
On Monday 07 August 2006 21:19, Nagy László wrote: I need to setup an environment where some users (10 to 20 employees) will use terminals to run programs. They need to run a few popular programs: thunderbird, firefox, adobe acrobat, openoffice and gaim. Jamie Zawinski has done such a thing

Re: not adding daemons to rc.conf

2006-08-31 Thread Tofik Suleymanov
Jonathan Horne wrote: ive noticed that apache can be started manually using the apachectl tool, even if it is not enabled in /etc/rc.conf. do many other daemons have this ability? i have a dev server that i would like to not have many things enabled in the rc.conf, but i would like an easy

Re: Mirroring: gvinum or gmirror?

2006-08-31 Thread Elliot Finley
I use gmirror for this very purpose. It works well. - Original Message - From: Jonathan McKeown [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Sent: Thursday, August 31, 2006 5:25 AM Subject: Mirroring: gvinum or gmirror? I'm setting up a remote server with two identical hard

Re: Mirroring: gvinum or gmirror?

2006-08-31 Thread David Robillard
I'm setting up a remote server with two identical hard drives, running FreeBSD-6.1. I want to set the drives up as a mirror for data redundancy. I also want to be able to break the mirror when I need to update the OS or installed software, so that if anything goes wrong with the update on one

Re: The future of NetBSD

2006-08-31 Thread David Kelly
On Thu, Aug 31, 2006 at 08:57:32AM -0700, Andy Ruhl wrote: On 8/31/06, Gilles Gravier [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Ahem... so no Apache... but why games, X11, compiler? So don't install the games set, the X set, or the comp set if you don't want that stuff. I think the point I'm trying to

Re: Mirroring: gvinum or gmirror?

2006-08-31 Thread Elliot Finley
- Original Message - From: David Robillard [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Jonathan McKeown [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: FreeBSD Questions Mailing List freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Sent: Thursday, August 31, 2006 11:17 AM Subject: Re: Mirroring: gvinum or gmirror? Bonus Tip of the day! If you ever

Re: Mirroring: gvinum or gmirror?

2006-08-31 Thread Elliot Finley
- Original Message - From: David Robillard [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Jonathan McKeown [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: FreeBSD Questions Mailing List freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Sent: Thursday, August 31, 2006 11:17 AM Subject: Re: Mirroring: gvinum or gmirror? Bonus Tip of the day! If you ever

Re: Mirroring: gvinum or gmirror?

2006-08-31 Thread David Robillard
On 8/31/06, Elliot Finley [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: ad0: 4112MB WDC AC24300L 09.09M08 at ata0-master UDMA33 ad3: 4028MB Maxtor 84320D4 NAVXAA21 at ata1-slave UDMA33 Then make sure you install FreeBSD on the bigger one (i.e. here that would be ad0) then setup gmirror. If you do the oposite,

Netgear FA511 + Linksys BEFSR41 v.2 = 6.1-STABLE woes

2006-08-31 Thread Paul Mather
Someone recently gave me a Linksys BEFSR41 v.2 10/100 four-port switch/NAT router. I had previously been using an eight-port 10baseT hub. To take advantage of the higher bandwidth now available on my LAN, I bought some NICs from eBay to upgrade the 10baseT ones to 100baseT. Unfortunately, I'm

Re: firefox starts up always in the first virtual screen in XFCE

2006-08-31 Thread Markus Hoenicka
Hi, your comment rang a bell. The Firefox window was apparently maximized when I upgraded the box. Firefox remembers the previous window size, and it seems like the (updated) XFCE window manager now thinks that the (updated) Firefox window is too big, and displays it on virtual screen 1 as a

Re: 6.1 kernel messages

2006-08-31 Thread Toomas Aas
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Having just migrated a server from 4.10-STABLE to 6.1-STABLE, I'm curious about some kernel messages in dmesg that I hadn't seen before: asr0: [GIANT-LOCKED] (adaptec RAID adapter) uhci0: [GIANT-LOCKED] (USB driver) atkbd0: [GIANT-LOCKED] (keyboard driver) I'm

Re: Mirroring: gvinum or gmirror?

2006-08-31 Thread Elliot Finley
- Original Message - From: David Robillard [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Elliot Finley [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: Jonathan McKeown [EMAIL PROTECTED]; FreeBSD Questions Mailing List freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Sent: Thursday, August 31, 2006 12:08 PM Subject: Re: Mirroring: gvinum or gmirror? On

Re: The future of NetBSD

2006-08-31 Thread David Kelly
On Thu, Aug 31, 2006 at 07:47:48PM +0100, Jeff Rollin wrote: As I said, Yahoo are the one big company I remember being cited as using a BSD. My point was not that Yahoo does not give back to the FreeBSD project, but that the BSD licence *allows* them not to give back in a way that the GPL

Re: SMP detection

2006-08-31 Thread Michal Mertl
backyard píše v čt 31. 08. 2006 v 07:45 -0700: --- Michal Mertl [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Skylar Thompson wrote: Jordi Carrillo wrote: 2006/8/30, backyard [EMAIL PROTECTED]: --- Jordi Carrillo [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I've read that SMP should be disabled for

Re: Mounting Linux Procfs at Boot

2006-08-31 Thread RW
On Thursday 31 August 2006 16:26, Boris Samorodov wrote: On Thu, 31 Aug 2006 15:44:39 +0100 RW wrote: On Thursday 31 August 2006 10:09, Boris Samorodov wrote: On Thu, 31 Aug 2006 00:22:03 +0100 RW wrote: but it's complaining that /compat/linux Who? Can you provide us with some more

Re: SMP detection

2006-08-31 Thread Jordi Carrillo
2006/8/31, backyard [EMAIL PROTECTED]: --- Michal Mertl [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Skylar Thompson wrote: Jordi Carrillo wrote: 2006/8/30, backyard [EMAIL PROTECTED]: --- Jordi Carrillo [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I've read that SMP should be disabled for performance

Re: Mounting Linux Procfs at Boot

2006-08-31 Thread Boris Samorodov
On Thu, 31 Aug 2006 21:31:33 +0100 RW wrote: On Thursday 31 August 2006 16:26, Boris Samorodov wrote: On Thu, 31 Aug 2006 15:44:39 +0100 RW wrote: On Thursday 31 August 2006 10:09, Boris Samorodov wrote: On Thu, 31 Aug 2006 00:22:03 +0100 RW wrote: but it's complaining that

Re: Mirroring: gvinum or gmirror?

2006-08-31 Thread John Hoover
I've got a write-up of the steps required to do this if you or anyone else needs them. I also routinely disconnect one of the drives in my mirror before a major upgrade to the OS or ports so that if I mess it up, I can boot back to the previous state. I have a write-up of the steps needed to do

Re: Playing Audio CDs

2006-08-31 Thread Wei Hu
mount your CD, change to the mount point, then, for example, issue the command: gmaplyer *.mp3 On 8/31/06, Viswas Nair [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- Viswas Nair [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I am new to BSD and have mplayer installed (Gmplayer) and I do not see the option to play an Audio CD,

Re: Mounting Linux Procfs at Boot

2006-08-31 Thread RW
On Thursday 31 August 2006 22:12, Boris Samorodov wrote: Move this line down and place it after mounting of /usr. Thanks. That was actually one of the first things I tried, I guess I must have screwed-up something else at the time. ___

Anyone Using the New Free Mulberry Mail Client?

2006-08-31 Thread RW
There used to be a port of Cyrusoft's Mulberry mail client that installed the Linux rpm version; then Cyrusoft went bankrupt and the port dissappeared. Mulberry is now available for free as a standalone Linux binary: http://www.mulberrymail.com Has anyone got this working? If you

Re: SMP detection

2006-08-31 Thread backyard
--- Jordi Carrillo [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 2006/8/31, backyard [EMAIL PROTECTED]: --- Michal Mertl [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Skylar Thompson wrote: Jordi Carrillo wrote: 2006/8/30, backyard [EMAIL PROTECTED]: --- Jordi Carrillo [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

Re: can someone point me to some good and descriptive VPN documentation for my use?

2006-08-31 Thread Jonathan Horne
On Thursday 31 August 2006 11:28, Alex Zbyslaw wrote: Jim Stapleton wrote: I'm trying to VPN in to work from home, and the IT group there only supports windows. There are Cisco pre-configured clients for Linux, MacOS X, and Windows available, but not BSD. I tried running the Linux

Re: Anyone Using the New Free Mulberry Mail Client?

2006-08-31 Thread pauls
--On September 1, 2006 12:18:20 AM +0100 RW [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: There used to be a port of Cyrusoft's Mulberry mail client that installed the Linux rpm version; then Cyrusoft went bankrupt and the port dissappeared. Mulberry is now available for free as a standalone Linux binary:

newbie. how to compile gcc-4.1.1

2006-08-31 Thread g
hi everyone, i'm trying to compile and install gcc-4.1.1 from the port section. errors: Syntax error: redirection unexpected *** Error code 2 Stop in /usr/home/g/Applications/gcc-4 ... /build-i386-unknown- freebsd6.1/fixincludes. *** Error code 1 i tried making the object code in another

VIA C3 - cant boot CD

2006-08-31 Thread abc
i have an ML6000 (no floppy) and have downloaded the 4.11 mini-iso image, and burned it to a CD-RW. CPU: VIA C3 Nehemiah (666.55-MHz 686-class CPU) after rebooting, the CD is found, and a boot attempt is made. within 5 seconds, the kernel locks up after about 3 seconds of the kernel data+234238

Re: newbie. how to compile gcc-4.1.1

2006-08-31 Thread Kris Kennaway
On Thu, Aug 31, 2006 at 08:21:04PM -0400, g wrote: hi everyone, i'm trying to compile and install gcc-4.1.1 from the port section. errors: Syntax error: redirection unexpected *** Error code 2 Stop in /usr/home/g/Applications/gcc-4 ... /build-i386-unknown- freebsd6.1/fixincludes.

Help re nvnet driver

2006-08-31 Thread jekillen
Hello: I have a machine with two SLI slots and two regular pci slots. The motherboard is Gigabyte with nVidia network interface built in. I have one regular pci slot taken with a video card and one with a D-Link nic. I need another nic and as it stands either the video card goes or I get a