Re: 9.0 install and journaling

2011-12-19 Thread Da Rock
On 12/20/11 16:08, Allen wrote: On 12/13/2011 11:54 AM, Devin Teske wrote: *Snipping* On 12/13/11 06:00, Eric S Pulley wrote: As for one big / partition- linux may be using it: and its their biggest failing! I've had a system lockup due to lack of space. Never a problem with bsd as logs will o

Port, Packages, and Patching, Upgrading

2011-12-19 Thread Allen
Hi, I've been trying to find info about this, so I'm Hoping someone here will know about this; I use FreeBSD 8.2-RELEASE, and basically, the normal way I do things, is like this: I grab the CD, boot, and install the Base System. Once I've booted, I'll then use one of the two: pkg_add -r bunch of

Re: 9.0 install and journaling

2011-12-19 Thread Allen
On 12/13/2011 11:54 AM, Devin Teske wrote: *Snipping* >> On 12/13/11 06:00, Eric S Pulley wrote: As for one big / partition- linux may be using it: and its their biggest failing! I've had a system lockup due to lack of space. Never a problem with bsd as logs will only fill up var, a

Re: Xorg error: New athlon laptop, radeonhd video - unable to load fbdev

2011-12-19 Thread Da Rock
On 12/20/11 14:33, Warren Block wrote: On Tue, 20 Dec 2011, Da Rock wrote: Some newer laptops have dual GPUs, an onboard Intel combined with one from another vendor for higher performance. There's hot-switching between the two, but AFAIK it's not supported in FreeBSD. There may be a BIOS op

Re: Xorg error: New athlon laptop, radeonhd video - unable to load fbdev

2011-12-19 Thread Warren Block
On Tue, 20 Dec 2011, Da Rock wrote: Some newer laptops have dual GPUs, an onboard Intel combined with one from another vendor for higher performance. There's hot-switching between the two, but AFAIK it's not supported in FreeBSD. There may be a BIOS option to disable one or the other. There

Re: BWN Driver

2011-12-19 Thread Ramiro Caso
2011/12/19, Chris Brennan : > I've got an HP Pavillian laptop with a Broadcom BCM4312 card. Below is > what I've loaded so far and the result from /var/log/messages. Hi, I have the same card, so maybe I can help. Some Broadcom chipsets are LP (low power) PHY, so you have to load bwn_v4_lp_ucode in

Re: BWN Driver

2011-12-19 Thread Chris Brennan
On Mon, Dec 19, 2011 at 8:28 PM, Ramiro Caso wrote: Hi, I have the same card, so maybe I can help. Some Broadcom chipsets > are LP (low power) PHY, so you have to load bwn_v4_lp_ucode instead of > bwn_v4_ucode. That worked for me. You may want to check the man page > for bwn, just to be sure. I

BWN Driver

2011-12-19 Thread Chris Brennan
I've got an HP Pavillian laptop with a Broadcom BCM4312 card. Below is what I've loaded so far and the result from /var/log/messages. [root@blackdragon ~]# kldstat | grep bwn 141 0x82035000 28a9abwn_v4_ucode.ko 191 0x8205e000 2982cif_bwn.ko 201 0x820880

Re: .config

2011-12-19 Thread ajtiM
On Monday 19 December 2011 12:43:42 Polytropon wrote: > On Mon, 19 Dec 2011 10:48:23 -0500, ill...@gmail.com wrote: > > On 30 November 2011 14:03, Polytropon wrote: > > > On Wed, 30 Nov 2011 13:40:19 -0500, ill...@gmail.com wrote: > > >> A dirty workaround might be to link /.config > > >> to somet

Re: Xorg error: New athlon laptop, radeonhd video - unable to load fbdev

2011-12-19 Thread Da Rock
On 12/20/11 03:05, Warren Block wrote: On Mon, 19 Dec 2011, Da Rock wrote: On 12/19/11 21:31, Da Rock wrote: I hate to come with this kind of a query, but my googling hasn't come across a satisfactory answer. I'm running an install on a brand new laptop for a client, and I'm trying to get X

Re: .config

2011-12-19 Thread Polytropon
On Mon, 19 Dec 2011 10:48:23 -0500, ill...@gmail.com wrote: > On 30 November 2011 14:03, Polytropon wrote: > > On Wed, 30 Nov 2011 13:40:19 -0500, ill...@gmail.com wrote: > >> A dirty workaround might be to link /.config > >> to something innocuous.  One could obvio- > >> usly also have /.config m

Re: Xorg error: New athlon laptop, radeonhd video - unable to load fbdev

2011-12-19 Thread Warren Block
On Mon, 19 Dec 2011, Da Rock wrote: On 12/19/11 21:31, Da Rock wrote: I hate to come with this kind of a query, but my googling hasn't come across a satisfactory answer. I'm running an install on a brand new laptop for a client, and I'm trying to get X up using xdm- nothing. The logs says it

Need to know the compatibility

2011-12-19 Thread Vijayamurugan.Kalyanasundaram
Hi Team, Kindly let me know on the compatibility of " Intel X520 Dual Port 10 Gigabit Ethernet PCIe Adaptor Card " with Free BSD 8.2 OS. This is an urgent requirement for our development project. Please provide us the information at the earliest. Thanks & Regards, Vijay K Extn : 785-4581

Re: .config

2011-12-19 Thread ill...@gmail.com
On 30 November 2011 14:03, Polytropon wrote: > On Wed, 30 Nov 2011 13:40:19 -0500, ill...@gmail.com wrote: >> A dirty workaround might be to link /.config >> to something innocuous.  One could obvio- >> usly also have /.config mounted as a tmpfs(5). >> So it couldn't persist from boot to boot. >>

Re: HP LaserJet Pro P1102 stops responding after a while

2011-12-19 Thread Bill Tillman
From: Jeff Tipton To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Sent: Tuesday, December 13, 2011 5:10 PM Subject: HP LaserJet Pro P1102 stops responding after a while But what I do find is that my laser printer also goes into sleep mode to save power and life...which is

Re: Legacy releases of freeBSD

2011-12-19 Thread Bill Tillman
I think we understand why you're looking for older versions, there might even be a copy of 3.5 out there somewhere but as I recall the latest version was 3.3 sometime in 2001. I have an old CD around here somewhere with 4.9 but I think others as well would encourage you to use the latest version

Re: Xorg error: New athlon laptop, radeonhd video - unable to load fbdev

2011-12-19 Thread Da Rock
On 12/19/11 21:31, Da Rock wrote: I hate to come with this kind of a query, but my googling hasn't come across a satisfactory answer. I'm running an install on a brand new laptop for a client, and I'm trying to get X up using xdm- nothing. The logs says it failed to load fbdev because there i

Xorg error: New athlon laptop, radeonhd video - unable to load fbdev

2011-12-19 Thread Da Rock
I hate to come with this kind of a query, but my googling hasn't come across a satisfactory answer. I'm running an install on a brand new laptop for a client, and I'm trying to get X up using xdm- nothing. The logs says it failed to load fbdev because there is no data module. I try uninstall