notebook audio playback problem
Hi, guys, I have some trouble with the audio playback. I am using Acer Aspire 4710Z notebook and it has a build-in speaker. So when I play an audio the sound come from the build-in speaker. But when I plug my headphone into the hole the speaker still keeps playing. The speaker couldn't be turned off from outside. Is there a way to silent the speaker when the headphone is plugged in? I am running FreeBSD 7.0 Beta3. The audio driver is: FreeBSD Audio Driver (newpcm: 32bit 2007061600/i386) Installed devices: pcm0: at memory 0xdc24 irq 21 kld snd_hda [20071020_0048] [MPSAFE] (1p:1v/1r:1v channels duplex default) Thank you. Liyu ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
Re: notebook audio playback problem
On Sun, 2 Dec 2007 15:54:42 +0800 "Liyu,She" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, guys, > I have some trouble with the audio playback. > I am using Acer Aspire 4710Z notebook and it has a build-in > speaker. So > when I play an audio the sound come from the build-in speaker. > But when I plug my headphone into the hole the speaker still > keeps > playing. The speaker couldn't be turned off from outside. > Is there a way to silent the speaker when the headphone is > plugged in? I am running FreeBSD 7.0 Beta3. The audio driver is: > > FreeBSD Audio Driver (newpcm: 32bit 2007061600/i386) > Installed devices: > pcm0: at memory > 0xdc24 irq 21 kld snd_hda [20071020_0048] [MPSAFE] (1p:1v/1r:1v > channels duplex default) > If the codec is ALC268, you need to show me the output of pciconf -lv | grep ^pcm. If not, please send the verbose dmesg, privately. -- Ariff Abdullah FreeBSD ... Recording in stereo is obviously too advanced and confusing for us idiot * users :P pgpri4IZWIjET.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: CD Audio on D975XBX2 mobo
[EMAIL PROTECTED] schrieb: [EMAIL PROTECTED] schrieb: > I bought the board without looking at the audio parts, because "every" > board has a CD in port. Turns out this one doesn't, it uses digital > CD Audio and doesn't use the connector anymore > ([1][2]http://www.intel.com/support/motherboards/desktop/sb/CS-014753. htm > ). Are there any options for playing CDs with FBSD on this board? I > can rip the disk to MP3, then play that; but are there any ways to > just play the disk? > > As long as you can rip it to mp3, you should be able to play it with e.g. vlc or any other cd player. Rg, Tino I figured that would work, was kind of wondering if there were any players that would play directly from the CD reading the digital data instead of through the analog audio output. Joe. References 1. http://email.secureserver.net/pcompose.php?aEmlPart=0&type=replyall&folder=INBOX.Freebsd-Questions&uid=18921#Compose 2. http://www.intel.com/support/motherboards/desktop/sb/CS-014753.htm I don't really get the problem. You only have a digital connection to your motherboard. Therefore, when you play the CD using player it play from digital data. Of course it has to convert to analog in order to play... ;-) Or am I not getting you? Tino ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
Re: Linux /proc on FreeBSD
On Sun, Dec 02, 2007 at 01:32:37AM +0100, Pieter de Goeje wrote: >On Sunday 02 December 2007, Lennart Koopmann wrote: >> Hey everyone, >> >> i am going to port a server that i am currently working on to FreeBSD. >> I don't have much experience with FreeBSD yet. The only real big thing >> i have to change is the way some data is fetched. In the Linux version i >> read in data like the hostname, the domainname, the kernel version etc >> from /proc. >Sysctls kern.hostname and kern.version. >> >> Is there a central point to look for those values in FreeBSD? >Yes, the sysctl MIB tree. >> If not, where do i get those values? >> >> I _don't_ want to use external binaries like sysctl etc... >man 3 sysctl :) Why not use (more portable (?)) functions instead of linux-isms or freebsd-isms? (e.g. uname, gethostname and friends vs. /proc and sysctl). -jurjen ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
problems with pthread_testcancel
Hello, I'm looking a common problem in many programs with pthread_testcancel(3). When creating new threads some programs craches in pthread_testcancel(3). Now, I'm coding a daemon in C++ using pthreads, but I don't know where is my mistake or the mistake on the programs that I run. Here's the backtrace... -8<--8<--8<--8<--8<- #0 0x2819a0ef in pthread_testcancel () from /lib/libpthread.so.2 [New Thread 0x8053c00 (LWP 100197)] [New Thread 0x8053a00 (sleeping)] [New Thread 0x8053800 (sleeping)] [New Thread 0x8053600 (sleeping)] [New Thread 0x8053400 (runnable)] [New Thread 0x8053200 (LWP 100191)] [New Thread 0x8053000 (sleeping)] [New LWP 100182] (gdb) (gdb) info threads * 8 LWP 100182 0x2819a0ef in pthread_testcancel () from /lib/libpthread.so.2 7 Thread 0x8053000 (sleeping) 0x2818fb51 in pthread_mutexattr_init () from /lib/libpthread.so.2 6 Thread 0x8053200 (LWP 100191) 0x2819a0af in pthread_testcancel () from /lib/libpthread.so.2 5 Thread 0x8053400 (runnable) 0x280e8a40 in GCT::ServiceTCP::getSocket ( this=0x0) at /work/dmw/CXX/gctserver/libgct/src/ServiceTCP.cxx:72 4 Thread 0x8053600 (sleeping) 0x2818fb51 in pthread_mutexattr_init () from /lib/libpthread.so.2 3 Thread 0x8053800 (sleeping) 0x2818fb51 in pthread_mutexattr_init () from /lib/libpthread.so.2 2 Thread 0x8053a00 (sleeping) 0x2818fb51 in pthread_mutexattr_init () from /lib/libpthread.so.2 1 Thread 0x8053c00 (LWP 100197) 0x2819b893 in __error () from /lib/libpthread.so.2 Current language: auto; currently c++ (gdb) thread 8 [Switching to thread 8 (LWP 100182)]#0 0x2819a0af in pthread_testcancel () from /lib/libpthread.so.2 (gdb) backtrace #0 0x2819a0af in pthread_testcancel () from /lib/libpthread.so.2 #1 0x2819042f in pthread_mutexattr_init () from /lib/libpthread.so.2 #2 0x28170450 in ?? () (gdb) -8<--8<--8<--8<--8<- Thanks in advance... -- .O. | Daniel Molina Wegener | C/C++ Developer ..O | dmw [at] unete [dot] cl | FOSS Coding Adict OOO | FreeBSD & Linux User| Standards Rocks! ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
Re: FreeBSD7 - PAE and nVidia
On Sat, Dec 01, 2007 at 06:19:36PM +0200, David Naylor wrote: > Thanks for the info. Also from what I can see PAE does not support > USB. The reason why I am using i386 is because I'm not going to > sacrifice my gaming :-) which means nvidia. > > Thanks > > David > > p.s. I'm volunteering to do any testing for an amd64 version of the > nvidia driver... There are plenty of people who fall into that category! However, nVidia have already said that due to internal implementation details of the FreeBSD amd64 kernel, they're unable to produce an amd64 driver just yet. There was some discussion of it a while ago - check out the archives for more details and links. I don't recall if it was this list, or amd64@ so try them both. Dan -- Daniel Bye _ ASCII ribbon campaign ( ) - against HTML, vCards and X - proprietary attachments in e-mail / \ pgpfaVGr0lG4j.pgp Description: PGP signature
FreeBSD and Asus P5N-E (nForce 650)
Hi, I'm trying to get my computer (an Asus P5N-E SLI (nForce 650)) to run with FreeBSD (i386) however it does not detect any of the hard drives (both are SATA) or any of the CDROM drives (one is SATA and the other is IDE). Disabling APCI does not help either however running in Safe Mode does allow the hard drives and one CDROM (I don't know which one but I think it is the SATA one) to be detected. The computer also has a wireless card that uses the if_ral drive (it is detected). I need to use i386 and not amd64. Please help David ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
Issues configuring cyrus-imapd
Greetings
I'm trying to configure cyrus-imapd on a FreeBSD (6.2) mail server. The
only guide Google pointed me to is this one, who seems a bit outdated :
http://www.soe.ucsc.edu/~venkat/tutorial1.html
So I tried to follow it, making all the changes I could figure out.
First, I installed mail/cyrus-imapd23 instead of mail/cyrus-imapd2. The
first issue came when I su'd to the cyrus user and ran mkimap, where I
got a permissions problem :
chown: ./socket/lmtp: Operation not permitted
No big deal, I thought, and just chown'ed /var/imap/socket/ltmp to cyrus
as root. Everything else went fine, or at least seemed to, until I
created the password for cyrus using saslpasswd2. No error message, but
this apppears in my auth.log :
saslpasswd2: sql_select option missing
saslpasswd2: auxpropfunc error no mechanism available
And then, when I try to login using the command described in the guide,
I get :
Please enter your password:
C: L01 LOGIN cyrus {1}
S: L01 NO Login only available under a layer
Authentication failed. generic failure
Security strength factor: 0
And the same thing than before in my auth.log :
imap[53980]: sql_select option missing
imap[53980]: auxpropfunc error no mechanism available
Any help to solve this would be greatly appreciated.
Firas
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laptop
Hello How is it going. I'm geting ready to go over to Iraq on Dec 6th. I've used Linux for a few years now. A frind of mine sead that he would set up a laptop for me with FreeBSD as soon as I pick one up. I will not use MicroSoft WinBlows I looking to do mostly games on it but I'll also use it for the net and other things. If you were me what laptop would you look for. I'm thinking of the P4 type mabe a dule cord, around $700 to $1000 on ebay. If you need to get ahold of my here is 2 e-mail address: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Thank you for any help that you can give me on this. James Pandy ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
Re: laptop
Pandy, James R SGT NG NG FORSCOM wrote: Hello How is it going. I'm geting ready to go over to Iraq on Dec 6th. I've used Linux for a few years now. A frind of mine sead that he would set up a laptop for me with FreeBSD as soon as I pick one up. I will not use MicroSoft WinBlows I looking to do mostly games on it but I'll also use it for the net and other things. If you were me what laptop would you look for. I'm thinking of the P4 type mabe a dule cord, around $700 to $1000 on ebay. If you need to get ahold of my here is 2 e-mail address: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Thank you for any help that you can give me on this. ThinkPad T23 is around $200 and ThinkPad T30 is around $300. They would work like a charm with FreeBSD. If you are going to spend $500 you might as well by new lap top. Personally, I would not buy anything else but ThinkPad T series. Best, Predrag James Pandy ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
Re: What's the point of the shell choice in single user mode?
John Murphy wrote: On Sat, 1 Dec 2007 06:18:13 + RW <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Sat, 1 Dec 2007 04:44:27 + John Murphy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I've just successfully done the world and kernel upgrade from 7 beta2 to beta3. I've always had a mergemaster phobia, but it didn't seem too bad this time. I thought I'd broken it after choosing /bin/tcsh as my shell in single user mode. It grumbled about termcap (I think) and then gave me a "simple shell" with a % prompt. ... I'll know to always accept the suggested /bin/sh in future, but I was wondering if the only reason a choice of a different shell is offered is to scare the unwary. Selecting /bin/[t]csh always works for me. I just tried it again with exactly the same results (FreeBSD-7.0 beta3): [after pressing 4 at the Beasty menu] Trying to mount root from ufs:/dev/ad4s2a Enter full path name of shell or RETURN for /bin/sh: /bin/tcsh sh: Cannot open /etc/termcap sh: using dumb terminal settings %fsck -p fsck: Command not found %mount -u / mount: Command not found %reboot reboot: Command not found %exit logout ... continues to a Login prompt. You simply don't have the commands in your PATH. Type /sbin/mount, /sbin/fsck, /sbin/reboot and so on, and it does work. Never tried using an setenv PATH /bin:/sbin:usr/bin:/usr/sbin(etc) in single user mode, but I reckon it works. Also note that vi doesn't work by default as it needs to write to /tmp. So mount /tmp or re-mount / to RW permissions. Regards, Jorn Pressing RETURN or typing /bin/sh gets a '#' prompt and working fsck etc. Is your /etc/termcap a symlink? ll /etc/termcap lrwxrwxrwx 1 root wheel 23 Nov 15 20:27 /etc/termcap -> /usr/share/misc/termcap ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
Re: FreeBSD 6.2: freebsd-update and SMP Kernel
Hi again, I've found the "error" by myself. I've rebooted the system with nextboot -k mynewkernel which was stored under /boot/mynewkernel. After moving mynewkernel to /boot/kernel and rebooting again freebsd-update works just fine. I could update 6.2-RELEASE-p9 without any problems. freebsd-update has also chosen the right SMP kernel now and installed the new version. Matthias ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
FreeBSD 6.2: freebsd-update and SMP Kernel
Hi list, i've built a SMP Kernel on an amd64 system because the GENERIC kernel on my amd64 FreeBSD 6.2 box did not include SMP support. After booting with the new kernel freebsd-update won't work: # freebsd-update fetch Cannot identify running kernel # uname -a FreeBSD hostname 6.2-RELEASE-p8 FreeBSD 6.2-RELEASE-p8 #0: Sun Dec 2 17:48:26 CET 2007 [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/SMP amd64 I've used the default SMP config in /usr/src/sys/amd64/conf/. How can I fix this issues? Is there any prebuilt SMP kernel available that can I install and keep up to date with freebsd-update? Matthias ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
Re: laptop
> Pandy, James R SGT NG NG FORSCOM wrote: >> Hello >> >> How is it going. >> >> I'm geting ready to go over to Iraq on Dec 6th. >> >> I've used Linux for a few years now. A frind of mine sead that he would >> set up a laptop for me with FreeBSD as soon as I pick one up. I will >> not use MicroSoft WinBlows >> >> I looking to do mostly games on it but I'll also use it for the net and >> other things. >> >> If you were me what laptop would you look for. I'm thinking of the P4 >> type mabe a dule cord, around $700 to $1000 on ebay. >> >> If you need to get ahold of my here is 2 e-mail address: >> >> [EMAIL PROTECTED] >> [EMAIL PROTECTED] >> >> Thank you for any help that you can give me on this. >> >> > > > ThinkPad T23 is around $200 and ThinkPad T30 is around $300. They would > work like a charm with FreeBSD. > If you are going to spend $500 you might as well by new lap top. > Personally, I would not buy anything else but ThinkPad T series. > > > > Best, > Predrag >> James Pandy Where are you finding the T23 for $200? Presumably that's not US dollars, because even Ebay isn't showing a thinkpad for $200. James ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
Re: laptop
* Pandy, James R SGT NG NG FORSCOM <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2007-12-02 10:04:41]: > Hello > > How is it going. > > I'm geting ready to go over to Iraq on Dec 6th. > > I've used Linux for a few years now. A frind of mine sead that he would set > up a laptop for me with FreeBSD as soon as I pick one up. I will not use > MicroSoft WinBlows > > I looking to do mostly games on it but I'll also use it for the net and other > things. > > If you were me what laptop would you look for. I'm thinking of the P4 type > mabe a dule cord, around $700 to $1000 on ebay. > > If you need to get ahold of my here is 2 e-mail address: > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > I have a Thinkpad T42 and X40, both of which run FreeBSD 7.0-BETA3 extremely well. The Atheros wifi cards in both machines are also well supported. Good luck- Chess -- Chess Griffin GPG Public Key: 0x0C7558C3 http://www.chessgriffin.com pgptzCmM6rSDW.pgp Description: PGP signature
smtp in inetd.conf
Hello; I have my system, running FreeBSD v6.2, using Postfix. The following line in inetd.conf is uncommented; smtpstream tcp nowait qmaild /var/qmail/bin/tcp-env tcp-env /var/qmail/bin/qmail-smtpd and, I am getting messages on system boot that qmaild does not exist and is being ignored. Is this line (in inetd.conf) necessary for Postfix to operate? Or, should I modify the line to remove the references to qmail? (Meanwhile I have commented the line to see what happens) Thank you for info; Jeff K ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
Re: Using brandelf
Aryeh M. Friedman wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Chuck Robey wrote: Can you use brandelf to read the elf type of a binary? The man page shows a usage that might possibly do this, but doesn't bother to say what that usage does. To be honest, I need to do some work with the linux stuff, and the usage of /compat/linux and /usr/compat/linux, well, I don't understand, and I haven't seen a good enough explanation yet. Stuff like the ld.so.conf file to configure linux's ldconfig, it assumes the /compat/linux prefix. Do all the binaries do that? I mean, the browser files, they use a sh scri[t to kick them off, do they use that prefix, or assume stuff? I need to know this so I can keep going forward on getting flash to work. If you're attempting to rebrand the linux flash exec (I assume 9 since I know for a fact 7 works right out of the box [ff 2.0.0.9, gnome 2.20.1, amd64 8-current]) no amount of hacking will make it like FreeBSD since it uses some linux specific stuff... your better off learning compat.. I found a Linux emulation app, one that installed libs, that put it's libs into /usr/local/lib, and I guess I wanted some more data, but I went ahead, moved them to a place that seemed good to me under /compat/linux (I hafe a Gentoo system, I know that Linux premendously abuses their /usr/bin and /usr/llib, to stick their packages into, mixing their OS and user stuff completely. Anyhow, I moved the libs, used the linux ldconfig, and now the libs user's work fine. That was a couple of weeks ago. I wanted to know enough to determine if it was worth a PR on this. It seems to me that a whole lot of various ports put things where they don't belong, because LOCALBASE and X11BASE seem to be disregarded by some ports also. I found a font port that used a search of pkgconfig files to figure out where to install to, and I couldn't fix it. I personally don't care for the fact that X11 ports now all install into /usr/local, and I found that no amount of manipulation of LOCALBASE or X11BASE fixes this. I just gave up and installed (unwillingly) to /usr/local. At least, it's not like Linux, which does largely without any /usr/local. That much makes separating system and packages for Linux just about impossible. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
Re: smtp in inetd.conf
On Sun, 2 Dec 2007 11:08:50 -0800 jekillen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hello; > I have my system, running FreeBSD v6.2, > using Postfix. > The following line in inetd.conf is uncommented; > smtpstream tcp nowait qmaild /var/qmail/bin/tcp-env > tcp-env /var/qmail/bin/qmail-smtpd > and, I am getting messages on system boot that qmaild does not exist > and is being ignored. > Is this line (in inetd.conf) necessary for Postfix to operate? > Or, should I modify the line to remove the references to qmail? > (Meanwhile I have commented the line to see what happens) The line should be commented out. Otherwise, inetd (if started) will try to grab port 25 and start qmail on it. AFAICT, it's commented out by default. > Thank you for info; > Jeff K Regards, -cpghost. -- Cordula's Web. http://www.cordula.ws/ ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
Re: laptop
James A. Harrison wrote: Pandy, James R SGT NG NG FORSCOM wrote: Hello How is it going. I'm geting ready to go over to Iraq on Dec 6th. I've used Linux for a few years now. A frind of mine sead that he would set up a laptop for me with FreeBSD as soon as I pick one up. I will not use MicroSoft WinBlows I looking to do mostly games on it but I'll also use it for the net and other things. If you were me what laptop would you look for. I'm thinking of the P4 type mabe a dule cord, around $700 to $1000 on ebay. If you need to get ahold of my here is 2 e-mail address: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Thank you for any help that you can give me on this. ThinkPad T23 is around $200 and ThinkPad T30 is around $300. They would work like a charm with FreeBSD. If you are going to spend $500 you might as well by new lap top. Personally, I would not buy anything else but ThinkPad T series. Best, Predrag James Pandy Where are you finding the T23 for $200? Presumably that's not US dollars, because even Ebay isn't showing a thinkpad for $200. James ___ They might be more now because of holidays but they are generally around $200 + shipping $35-50. Also T30 is around $300 more likely to be $330-340 + shipping. It is in U. S. dollars Predrag freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
Problems connecting a (formerly working) flash device
Dear beasties, I have a problem with a flash device (1G, FAT). It did not work on a special usb-hub on my system. Connecting it to another hub, I was able to access the device and load data to it. The only irregularity was that on connecting the device not only standard /dev/da0 and /dev/da0s1 were created, but also two "dummy" devices/dev/da0s2 and /dev/da1. But that made no problem in mounting /dev/da0s1 as usually using mount_msdosfs. Today I wanted to mount the device again and it fails now on any usb-port, always sending the same error message to dmesg. uhub2: device problem (INVAL), disabling port 5 uhub2: device problem (INVAL), disabling port 7 uhub2: device problem (INVAL), disabling port 6 uhub2: device problem (INVAL), disabling port 5 uhub2: device problem (INVAL), disabling port 1 uhub2: device problem (INVAL), disabling port 1 (I tried connecting to various ports) After various reconnects, I was able to get the device mounted again, resulting in dmesg as follows: umass0: on uhub2 da0 at umass-sim0 bus 0 target 0 lun 0 da0: Removable Direct Access SCSI-0 device da0: 40.000MB/s transfers da0: 1917MB (3926016 512 byte sectors: 255H 63S/T 244C) da1 at umass-sim0 bus 0 target 0 lun 1 da1: Removable Direct Access SCSI-0 device da1: 40.000MB/s transfers da1: Attempt to query device size failed: NOT READY, Medium not present (da0:umass-sim0:0:0:0): SYNCHRONIZE CACHE. CDB: 35 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 (da0:umass-sim0:0:0:0): NOT READY asc:3a,0 (da0:umass-sim0:0:0:0): Medium not present (da0:umass-sim0:0:0:0): SYNCHRONIZE CACHE. CDB: 35 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 (da0:umass-sim0:0:0:0): NOT READY asc:3a,0 (da0:umass-sim0:0:0:0): Medium not present GEOM_LABEL: Label for provider da0s1 is msdosfs/Sansa e250. (da0:umass-sim0:0:0:0): SYNCHRONIZE CACHE. CDB: 35 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 (da0:umass-sim0:0:0:0): NOT READY asc:3a,0 (da0:umass-sim0:0:0:0): Medium not present (da0:umass-sim0:0:0:0): SYNCHRONIZE CACHE. CDB: 35 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 (da0:umass-sim0:0:0:0): NOT READY asc:3a,0 (da0:umass-sim0:0:0:0): Medium not present GEOM_LABEL: Label msdosfs/Sansa e250 removed. Now I can mount the device using mount_msdosfs /dev/da0s1 /mnt. freebsdangel# ls /dev/da* /dev/da0/dev/da0s1 /dev/da0s2 /dev/da1 freebsdangel# From my shell: Anyone has an idea how to debug this error, as soon as it occurs again? I have googled and searched the archives, but the error message seem to be related to various different problems. Rg, Tino ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
Re: Building FreeBSD on Linux
On 2007-11-30 16:06, "Saravanan Shanmugham (sarvi)" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hi, > I am trying to build all of FreeBSD from a Linux Machine and seem to > be running into problems. We have farm of build machines that we use > to build many other things and my team would look like to use it going > forward for our FreeBSD development. > > Has anyone tried this before? > > I have tried GNU Make 3.80 as well as pmake. And I can't seem to find > bmake for Linux. I don't know of any port of BSD make(1) to Linux, or if that would be sufficient to cross-build FreeBSD. I'm trying to build a snapshot of FreeBSD make(1) which builds with autoconf, for other stuff, but it may take a while before I have a fully autoconf-ified version and that may still not be adequate. You can always try booting a FreeBSD snapshot inside vmware or qemu, and build FreeBSD from FreeBSD, but that may be a bit slow... ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
Anyone running Plesk ... ?
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi ... I run a web hosting company, and one of the most often asked question is whether we have a control panel, to which we generally say no ... recently, a new client signed up and looked to install Plesk on his VPS, but has been unable to get it to work ... Being curious myself, I've downloaded both 8.2.1 and 8.1.1, and find that neither of them appear to install properly, but I can't seem to find any reasons *why* ... for instance, 8.1.1 just finished installing with: Installation done. Notice: make.conf was restored from previous autoinstaller's backup. But there is no /usr/local/etc/rc.d/psa.sh to stop / start the server, and no psa-* related ports installed ... as if it installed all the dependencies, but not the components themselves ... If I try and go into /usr/ports/swsoft/psa and do 'make install', it fails as the installer installed both apache2.0 and apache2.2, causing a conflict ... I have tried both 8.2.1 and 8.1.1, and get the same results ... One response I got on the -isp list was to pay Plesk to install it, so I figured I'd range out a bit onto -questions and see if anyone has been able to successfully install Plesk *without* deferring it to SWSoft themselves to do it ... ? - Marc G. Fournier Hub.Org Networking Services (http://www.hub.org) Email . [EMAIL PROTECTED] MSN . [EMAIL PROTECTED] Yahoo . yscrappy Skype: hub.orgICQ . 7615664 -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v2.0.4 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQFHUzsr4QvfyHIvDvMRAl30AJ9WxvB5ie5A2UJkUUaO1J1kvVUV/gCdGCHw GSXLJh+3Kaz/0L+kGI+elhY= =Scmh -END PGP SIGNATURE- ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
RE: apple bonjour served up on FBSD
I covered making all this run on this list back on 9-23-07 look in the list archives for the "Netatalk" thread. Ted > -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of brad davison > Sent: Wednesday, November 28, 2007 10:33 AM > To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org > Subject: RE: apple bonjour served up on FBSD > > > > the mDNSResponder port is up to date (moreso than even the apple > download site) so i installed that with the port. > > it requires swig13 port as well.. which installed from the port just fine. > > after you get all that installed and working w/o errors, there is > a bonjour python script set that will at least test the > functionality and get it registered for services. I am still in > the 'finding out' stages for this. I will post my findings that > might help someone else on their journey.. > > > > > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org > > Date: Mon, 26 Nov 2007 17:49:05 + > > Subject: apple bonjour served up on FBSD > > > > > > I am going to be making my BSD server at home available to my > wife's macbook running Leopard. > > > > I am planning on implementing one of the mDNSResponder systems, > but I am having some issues deciding which one to use. > > > > I have found the mDNSResponder from apple itself. > > > > I have also found (in no particular order) > > avahi-server > > p5-Net-Rendezvous > > > > My end goal is a server that will be able to share out iTunes > and a printer to a Bonjour network. > > > > Does anyone have a suggestion on a recent setup? > > > > > > _ > Connect and share in new ways with Windows Live. > http://www.windowslive.com/connect.html?ocid=TXT_TAGLM_Wave2_newwa ys_112007___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
rmuser
Dear list, I have the following problem when when using rmuser (freebsd 6.2): Is this the entry you wish to remove? yes Remove user's home directory (/home/jakub/abcd)? yes Removing user (abcd):ipcs: sysctlbyname: kern.ipc.shmmax: No such file or directory ipcs: sysctlbyname: kern.ipc.shmmax: No such file or directory ipcs: sysctlbyname: kern.ipc.shmmax: No such file or directory mailspool home passwd. I haven't find any records in google. Please, can you help? ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
Re: What's the point of the shell choice in single user mode?
On Sun, 02 Dec 2007 18:48:33 +0100 Jorn Argelo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > John Murphy wrote: > > [after pressing 4 at the Beasty menu] > > > > Trying to mount root from ufs:/dev/ad4s2a > > Enter full path name of shell or RETURN for /bin/sh: > > /bin/tcsh > > sh: Cannot open /etc/termcap > > sh: using dumb terminal settings > > %fsck -p > > fsck: Command not found > > %mount -u / > > mount: Command not found > > %reboot > > reboot: Command not found > > %exit > > logout ... continues to a Login prompt. > > > You simply don't have the commands in your PATH. Type /sbin/mount, > /sbin/fsck, /sbin/reboot and so on, and it does work. Never tried using > an setenv PATH /bin:/sbin:usr/bin:/usr/sbin(etc) in single user mode, > but I reckon it works. Thanks. Useful to know that those tools are all in /sbin I can confirm that setenv PATH works too. > Also note that vi doesn't work by default as it needs to write to /tmp. > So mount /tmp or re-mount / to RW permissions. > > Regards, > > Jorn -- Thanks, John. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
Re: Building FreeBSD on Linux
On Mon, Dec 03, 2007 at 01:15:22AM +0200, Giorgos Keramidas wrote: > On 2007-11-30 16:06, "Saravanan Shanmugham (sarvi)" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > Hi, > > I am trying to build all of FreeBSD from a Linux Machine and seem to > > be running into problems. We have farm of build machines that we use > > to build many other things and my team would look like to use it going > > forward for our FreeBSD development. > > > > Has anyone tried this before? > > > > I have tried GNU Make 3.80 as well as pmake. And I can't seem to find > > bmake for Linux. > > I don't know of any port of BSD make(1) to Linux, or if that would be > sufficient to cross-build FreeBSD. I'm trying to build a snapshot of > FreeBSD make(1) which builds with autoconf, for other stuff, but it > may take a while before I have a fully autoconf-ified version and that > may still not be adequate. Debian has a package 'freebsd5-buildutils', which includes a version of make that runs on GNU/Linux. I used it for a while when I was too lazy to port some makefiles to GNU make. I don't know, however, if it'll build more recent versions of FreeBSD than 5.x. Ben signature.asc Description: Digital signature
what driver does the 80960rp use?
I just installed an HP scsi card into my Dell server I'm trying to figure out driver I should add to my custom kernel. >From pciconf -lcv [EMAIL PROTECTED]:0:0: class=0x080020 card=0x11618086 chip=0x11618086 rev=0x01 hdr=0x00 vendor = 'Intel Corporation' device = '82806AA PCI64 Hub Advanced Programmable Interrupt Controller' class = base peripheral subclass = interrupt controller [EMAIL PROTECTED]:4:0: class=0x010400 card=0x60e7103c chip=0x1960101e rev=0x20 hdr=0x00 vendor = 'American Megatrends Inc.' device = '80960RP i960RP Microprocessor' class = mass storage subclass = RAID cap 01[80] = powerspec 2 supports D0 D3 current D0 >From dmesg: pci3: on pcib3 pci3: at device 4.0 (no driver attached) uname -a FreeBSD tntpro.com 6.3-PRERELEASE FreeBSD 6.3-PRERELEASE #4: Sun Dec 2 16:14:46 EST 2007 [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/LUNARXL i386 Thank you! Tony ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
what driver does the 80960rp use?
I just installed an HP scsi card into my Dell server I'm trying to figure out driver I should add to my custom kernel. >From pciconf -lcv [EMAIL PROTECTED]:0:0: class=0x080020 card=0x11618086 chip=0x11618086 rev=0x01 hdr=0x00 vendor = 'Intel Corporation' device = '82806AA PCI64 Hub Advanced Programmable Interrupt Controller' class = base peripheral subclass = interrupt controller [EMAIL PROTECTED]:4:0: class=0x010400 card=0x60e7103c chip=0x1960101e rev=0x20 hdr=0x00 vendor = 'American Megatrends Inc.' device = '80960RP i960RP Microprocessor' class = mass storage subclass = RAID cap 01[80] = powerspec 2 supports D0 D3 current D0 >From dmesg: pci3: on pcib3 pci3: at device 4.0 (no driver attached) uname -a FreeBSD tntpro.com 6.3-PRERELEASE FreeBSD 6.3-PRERELEASE #4: Sun Dec 2 16:14:46 EST 2007 [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/LUNARXL i386 Thank you! Tony ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
Problem with mkisofs -dvd-video
HI List, What is the correct procedure to create a dvd-video iso. I have tried the following and receive an error: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~]$ mkisofs -dvd-video -o ~/develip.iso -R ~/develop_spin/ Using PSA07000.VOB;1 for /PSA074781-2.VOB (PSA074781-1.VOB) mkisofs: Unable to make a DVD-Video image. [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~]$ I searched google and did not find much of information. I read several articles about the case of the file names, but my files are uppercase as they suggested. I can create iso's without the -dvd-video switch, but not with. I also saw a suggestion to use the development version of cdrtools, but I get the same results. Any suggestions are much appreciated. thanks, Jeremy ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
RE: what driver does the 80960rp use?
Nevermind I remembered that I'm not running a k6/2 400 anymore and that rebuilding the kernel would not take forever amr0: mem 0xf400-0xf400 irq 16 at device 4.0 on pci3 amr0: Firmware \^H\^AH , BIOS \^B\^AG , 32MB RAM there it is! Tony -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Tony Sent: Sunday, December 02, 2007 9:20 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: what driver does the 80960rp use? I just installed an HP scsi card into my Dell server I'm trying to figure out driver I should add to my custom kernel. >From pciconf -lcv [EMAIL PROTECTED]:0:0: class=0x080020 card=0x11618086 chip=0x11618086 rev=0x01 hdr=0x00 vendor = 'Intel Corporation' device = '82806AA PCI64 Hub Advanced Programmable Interrupt Controller' class = base peripheral subclass = interrupt controller [EMAIL PROTECTED]:4:0: class=0x010400 card=0x60e7103c chip=0x1960101e rev=0x20 hdr=0x00 vendor = 'American Megatrends Inc.' device = '80960RP i960RP Microprocessor' class = mass storage subclass = RAID cap 01[80] = powerspec 2 supports D0 D3 current D0 >From dmesg: pci3: on pcib3 pci3: at device 4.0 (no driver attached) uname -a FreeBSD tntpro.com 6.3-PRERELEASE FreeBSD 6.3-PRERELEASE #4: Sun Dec 2 16:14:46 EST 2007 [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/LUNARXL i386 Thank you! Tony ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
RE: Building FreeBSD on Linux
I installed/bootstrapped NetBSD pkgsrc on the linux box. This comes with bmake(which I think standas for bsdmake). But fails else where. Sarvi -Original Message- From: Giorgos Keramidas [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, December 02, 2007 3:15 PM To: Saravanan Shanmugham (sarvi) Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Building FreeBSD on Linux Importance: High On 2007-11-30 16:06, "Saravanan Shanmugham (sarvi)" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hi, > I am trying to build all of FreeBSD from a Linux Machine and seem to > be running into problems. We have farm of build machines that we use > to build many other things and my team would look like to use it going > forward for our FreeBSD development. > > Has anyone tried this before? > > I have tried GNU Make 3.80 as well as pmake. And I can't seem to find > bmake for Linux. I don't know of any port of BSD make(1) to Linux, or if that would be sufficient to cross-build FreeBSD. I'm trying to build a snapshot of FreeBSD make(1) which builds with autoconf, for other stuff, but it may take a while before I have a fully autoconf-ified version and that may still not be adequate. You can always try booting a FreeBSD snapshot inside vmware or qemu, and build FreeBSD from FreeBSD, but that may be a bit slow... ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
Re: Problem with mkisofs -dvd-video
On 21:42:47 Dec 02, Jeremy Gransden wrote: > HI List, > > What is the correct procedure to create a dvd-video iso. I have tried the > following and receive an error: > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~]$ mkisofs -dvd-video -o ~/develip.iso -R ~/develop_spin/ > Using PSA07000.VOB;1 for /PSA074781-2.VOB (PSA074781-1.VOB) > mkisofs: Unable to make a DVD-Video image. > [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~]$ > > I searched google and did not find much of information. I read several > articles about the case of the file names, but my files are uppercase as > they suggested. I can create iso's without the -dvd-video switch, but not > with. > Check the mencoder documentation. Install mplayer, dvdauthor and growisofs (dvd+rw-tools). And set cranking. :) If you already have DVD compliant VOB, my stuff will not apply. If you don't then this is what you have to do. mencoder -oac lavc -ovc lavc -of mpeg -mpegopts format=dvd:tsaf \ -vf scale=720:576,harddup -srate 48000 -af lavcresample=48000 \ -lavcopts vcodec=mpeg2video:vrc_buf_size=1835:vrc_maxrate=9800:vbitrate=5000:\ keyint=15:vstrict=0:acodec=ac3:abitrate=192:aspect=16/9 -ofps 25 \ -o movie.mpg movie.avi Now movie.mpg contains MPEG-2 video befitting the DVD profile. Now just use a simple config file with dvdauthor and write it with growisofs. Something like this perhaps? $ cat foo.xml $ dvdauthor -x foo.xml -o myvideo dvdauthor will create a directory "myvideo" with dvd structure that can be directly given to growisofs or you could create an ISO with mkisofs with the -dvd-video switch. Hope this helps. -Girish ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
Installer failing dns lookups.
I will preface this by saying I am not a regular FreeBSD user, and although I've had a few successful installations in the past, I'm not very current on the material. I recently got the itch to try a new FreeBSD install, and not having a real purpose for the build, I went for some bleeding edge and grabbed 7.0-BETA3-i386-bootonly.iso. I went through the standard graphical install, partitioned disks, selected the package set, and all seemed well. When I came to the network portion, I selected no IPv6 and yes DHCP. DHCP came up correctly from my LAN DHCP server, and I moved on. I picked a mirror that didn't yet have beta3 on it (apparently) and the download failed. I went to try again, but the next mirror I tried wouldn't connect. Pretty soon, the installer was insisting that it can't find any domains via dns, and that I should check the network config. Well sure enough the network settings are right (not surprising considering they'd *just* worked, and I hadn't changed them), my dns server is fine, but the installer won't so much as find ftp.freebsd.org. I figure hey, that's what you get for trying beta software, let's try something a little less radical and maybe it will work. I opt for the 6.3 RC1 bootonly iso next. Wouldn't you know it, same results. If you don't pick a functional mirror on the first try, suddenly the installer forgets how to look up hosts in dns. After rebooting the installer a few times, I manage to confirm that if I get the right combo on the first time through the installer (ftp passive, ftp1.us.freebsd.org worked in this case), things work perfectly. If I do something silly like trying http without a proxy, or picking a mirror that doesn't have the distro or doesn't connect, after one or two cycles dns lookups magically fail and I have to reboot. Sure enough, I went back to my 7B3 disc, and using my winning combo of ftp/passive, ftp1.us, the install works right off the bat. (Note that these combinations are just examples of what works for me, right now. I'm not suggesting that the connection type or the mirror name is somehow responsible for things being broken; it's merely for completeness of story.) So, the essence of this bug report is this: If I fail to begin the installation download on the first couple tries, the installer habitually becomes unable to resolve dns until a reboot is performed. This affects at least 6.3 and 7.0, but could go back much further. - Matt ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
Re: FreeBSD for Sony Playstation3?
Joshua Isom wrote: On Nov 30, 2007, at 11:48 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: ... will FreeBSD.org consider porting FreeBSD to Sony Playstation3? ... NetBSD works like a charm on Sony Playstation2 http://www.netbsd.org/ports/playstation2/. and my guess will be that NetBSD 4.0 which is supposed to be released about the same time as FreeBSD 7.0 will work on Playstation3. The IBM Cell processor in the PS3 is unique beast, similar in many ways to a PPC970 but with enough subtle (and some not-so-subtle) differences that the port would likely need to be overseen by someone familiar with such undertakings. This is not to predict that NetBSD 4.0 will or won't support it -- that could reasonably be asked on a NetBSD list -- but be aware that it may turn out to be a bigger job than one might initially expect. Also don't forget, since it is a multiprocessor system, there's the difference between booting the OS and userland and taking full advantage of the hardware. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" I just stumbled to this thing on NetBSD mailing list so I decided to share with you. Subject: Re: Please update the site To: Vivek Ayer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> From: Martin Husemann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> List: port-playstation2 Date: 10/20/2007 01:37:06 On Fri, Oct 19, 2007 at 06:04:51PM -0400, Vivek Ayer wrote: > port. That new entry is almost 3 years old. Surely, there must bugs > and stuff to track in NetBSD/PS2 3.1. Unfortunately, due to missing toolchain support in newer gcc and binutils versions, NetBSD/playstation2 is a dying port. I anyone would find time to port the EE patches at least to a more modern binutils, this would be very much appreciated. Martin ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
Re: Building FreeBSD on Linux
"Saravanan Shanmugham (sarvi)" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I have tried GNU Make 3.80 as well as pmake. And I can't seem to find > bmake for Linux. Hye, I have found in my vaults a script that downloads pmake source from your favorite FreeBSD's mirror and builds a binary that worked on (at least one workstation running) Linux. The file being quite long (9651 bytes) I hesitate to post it directly to the list. If list posting is appropriate, you will soon see it there, if it is not, just drop me a mail I'll send you the file. -- Best wishes, Michaël ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
Re: Building FreeBSD on Linux
"Saravanan Shanmugham (sarvi)" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I installed/bootstrapped NetBSD pkgsrc on the linux box. This comes with > bmake(which I think standas for bsdmake). I use NetBSD pkgsrc on MAC OS X, and Makefiles of mine are rejected by NetBSD's bmake, whereas they are accepted by MAC OS X's bsdmake. -- Best regards, Michaël ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
Re: laptop
Hi James, Pandy, James R SGT NG NG FORSCOM wrote: Hello How is it going. I'm geting ready to go over to Iraq on Dec 6th. I've used Linux for a few years now. A frind of mine sead that he would set up a laptop for me with FreeBSD as soon as I pick one up. I will not use MicroSoft WinBlows I looking to do mostly games on it but I'll also use it for the net and other things. If you were me what laptop would you look for. I'm thinking of the P4 type mabe a dule cord, around $700 to $1000 on ebay. You should easily get a ThinkPad T30/T40 (P4-2.0 GHz/512MB RAM/60GB HDD) on Ebay for about U.S.$350. But there are refurbished and not brand new. Since you mentioned your budget of $700 - $1000, why not just buy a brand new ThinkPad R61i or ThinkPad T61 which comes under $1,000? Of course, FreeBSD is a great OS which can be used on your laptop. In fact, 75% of my servers are based on FreeBSD. But since you mentioned that the primarily use of this laptop will be for gaming purposes, I don't think that FreeBSD is the right OS for this stuff. Of course, I could be wrong because I don't play games on my FreeBSD desktop. But you are free to try the gaming stuff on FreeBSD and provide us the feedback! Anyway, SGT, take good care of yourself out there in Iraq. Thanking you... If you need to get ahold of my here is 2 e-mail address: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Thank you for any help that you can give me on this. James Pandy ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" -- With best regards and good wishes, Yours sincerely, Tek Bahadur Limbu System Administrator (TAG/TDG Group) Jwl Systems Department Worldlink Communications Pvt. Ltd. Jawalakhel, Nepal http://www.wlink.com.np http://teklimbu.wordpress.com ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
