IUP port
Hi: Does anybody know if there is a IUP port in FreeBSD ? IUP is a portable toolkit for building graphical user interfaces http://www.tecgraf.puc-rio.br/iup/ thanks Saifi. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
Re: Whic mail server?
On Sun, 27 Sep 2009, Aflatoon Aflatooni wrote: > Hi, > I am running a server that is acting as the mail server for only internal > users (about 50 users). Currently we are running Sendmail, but reading on > other discussions I noticed that qmail and other programs are suggested. > I am wondering if qmail is thought to be better than sendmail. Is there a > matrix of features and functionalities that would compare the different mail > servers? > Any suggestions on spam filters like spam-assassin? > > > Thank you > Hello Aflatoon Aflatooni: Are you running Sendmail on FreeBSD ? If yes, what issue are you facing ? and what did you read ? thanks Saifi. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
Re: why no Oracle on FreeBSD ?
On Thu, 24 Sep 2009, Julian H. Stacey wrote: > > > > i noticed that there is no Oracle available for FreeBSD > > > > http://www.oracle.com/technology/software/products/database/index.html > > > > > > > > What could be the reason for that ? > > > > > > Best ask direct of commercial application vendor Oracle. > > > IE wave money under Oracle's nose & ask to purchase what you want. > > > > > > If Oracle think there's enough profit in it, there's many BSD > > > consultants eg http://berklix.com/consultants/ willing to work. > > > > > > Cheers, > > > Julian > > > -- > > > > i was wondering if there is any technical reason behind this ? > > Most unlikely. Ask Oracle & tell advocacy@ what you find out. > I'd bet perceived market share & demand as ever, ie Money. > Hi Julian: Here is the response on the Oracle forum thread to my posting, """ FreeBSD is a kernel not used in any extant operating system with the sole exception being Apple's Mac OSX so you are heading, full speed ahead, toward disappointment. FreeBSD handles many things very differently from the UNIX System 5 standard so you can not just kludge your way into this. What fascinates me about your request is why you care. FreeBSD is going nowhere at a staggeringly fast pace. And to the same place as went Oracle Database version 8.0. Obscurity. Install Oracle's Enterprise Linux and you will have a real operating system in less time than you've spent monitoring this thead. And as an additional value it will support the Oracle technology stack while you are still young enough to use it. """ and """ IF you can match up the system calls, then you can 'make it work'. """ The relevant links are 1. http://forums.oracle.com/forums/thread.jspa?threadID=952076&tstart=0 2. http://forums.oracle.com/forums/thread.jspa?threadID=952076&tstart=0 The response seems to suggest that there is some feature used by Oracle which is expected from a UNIX Sys 5 std and perhaps FreeBSD does not support/have the syscall. Given the response, What is your analysis of the situation ? thanks Saifi. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
Re: netbooks and sdhci
On Tue, 1 Sep 2009, David Horwitt wrote: > > So my question is: does anybody know _for sure_ of a hard-disk netbook with a > media reader that uses the sdhci interface > and is supported by FBSD 7.2 (supported = wireless,X,USB). $USD300 (like the > AA1-D250) is the desired price point, but > up to about $USD400 is OK (as is FBSD 8.0, if the hardware is right). If you > have any pointers, please > include the sub-model information, because if it's anything like the Asus, the > hardware varies all over the place, and > 'Aspire One' means less than 'D250' or 'AO150'. > > Thank you, > David > Acer Aspire One D150. note 'Acer' ! is what i'd recommend. This is a hard-disk netbook. Here are the complete hardware and installation details http://www.twincling.org/node/451 The website http://www.acer.com/aspireone/about.html In India it costed me about INR 21,500 (or $430) in March 2009. YMMV. thanks Saifi. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
Re: howto alias a stty erase?
On Tue, 25 Aug 2009, Gary Kline wrote: > > is there a way of setty'ing "stty erase" to [backspace key"? > pretty sure that is the delete key. i'm tired of having to hand > set it every time when i use the Konsole term. > > thanks, > gary > to set this you need to specify command and key combination command is : stty erase keycomb is : CTRL+v then press backspace key once overall it looks like # stty erase ^? Hope this helps. thanks Saifi. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
Re: IBM Stinkpad and Wifi
On Tue, 25 Aug 2009, herbert langhans wrote: > Hi Daemons, > I have some troubles to get connected to an open Wifi-Net. > > Its an older IBM Stinkpad 600 and I bought a new PCMCIA-card for it. > Chipset of the card is from Atheros, this is recommended by the FreeBSD > Handbook. > > I boot the Laptop, the drivers seem to be compiled in the generic > Kernel. Booting shows something like: > ath0: mem 0xff9f-0xff9f irq 17 at device 2.0 on > pci2 > ath0: Ethernet address: 00:11:95:d5:43:62 > ath0: mac 7.9 phy 4.5 radio 5.6 > > Good. Then I try: > # ifconfig ath0 up scan > # > (I tried this in a cool caf?, with cool people there and a cool open > access point..) > > Nothing. There should be a list of the available access points. > Is that right? > Something I missed with the setup? > > I tried: > #kldload wlan_wep.ko > #kldload wlan_ccmp.ko > #kldload wlan_tkip.ko > > ..and BSD 7.2, a very recent version, tells me that these files already exist > (so the kernel took > already care of it). > > What am I doing wrong?? > All ideas appreciated! > Thanks > herb langhans > Assuming that you know the SSID. # ifconfig ath0 ssid SSID # ifconfig ath0 up # dhclient ath0 What do you observe in this case (ie. dmesg log) ? thanks Saifi. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
Re: java config problem
On Fri, 28 Aug 2009, AN wrote: > I'm trying to configure java on FreeBSD 7-stable and Gnome 2.26.3, with > Firefox35. I tried the following commands, but still no ability to view java > applets. > > ln -s libjavaplugin_oji.so /usr/local/lib/firefox/plugins > ln -s libjavaplugin_oji.so /usr/local/lib/firefox3/plugins > ln libjavaplugin_oji.so /usr/local/lib/firefox3/plugins > > installed package's: > pkg_info | grep java > javavmwrapper-2.3.3 Wrapper script for various Java Virtual Machines > pkg_info | grep jdk > diablo-jdk-1.6.0.07.02 Java Development Kit 1.6.0_07.02 > > Any help to get this working would be really appreciated. > > TIA > Hi AN: To enable the java plugin in firefox, please do the following: . cd $HOME/.mozilla . cd plugins (if the plugins dir doesnot exist, please create one) . ln -s /usr/local/diablo-jdk1.6.0/jre/plugin/i386/ns7/libjavaplugin_oji.so . on doing ls -l, you'll see an entry look like this libjavaplugin_oji.so@ -> /usr/local/diablo-jdk1.6.0/jre/plugin/i386/ns7/libjavaplugin_oji.so To check for java plugin support, you can try the following: . start firefox 3.5 . type about:plugins in the address bar . you should see entry like Java(TM) Plug-in 1.6.0_07-b02 File name: libjavaplugin_oji.so Java(TM) Plug-in 1.6.0_07 MIME Type Description SuffixesEnabled application/x-java-vm JavaYes application/x-java-applet JavaYes application/x-java-applet;version=1.1 JavaYes Hope this helps you get started with using Java on FreeBSD. thanks Saifi. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
Re: Samba and busy network
On Fri, 28 Aug 2009, stan wrote: > I have a FreeBSD machine serving as (among other things) a Samba server > for an XP instance running under VirtualBox. The XP application is a data > gathering one that polls continuously. I have set up things so that XP > mounts the Samba share, and logs it's data there. > > Problem is that every morning I come in to find that the XP app is > complaining of disk problems from the share. I am fairly certain that this > problem is occurring in the middle of the night, when my Amanda backups run. > This does load the network fairly good. The FreeBSD box, and the Linux box > are on the same switch, and same subnet. Anyone have suggestions as to how > to address this issue? > > Can you please share error logs on the xp share side ? What is the backup set size that Amanda is handling ? thanks Saifi. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
Re: Problems with pkg_delete *
On Wed, 12 Aug 2009, Sd?vtaker wrote: > Hi, > I want to clean up and start again the installation of pkg since i did a > broken update in python and qt and pretty much everything is broken > portupgrade never ends, doing make in ports crash pretty much all the time > ><. > I tried > # pkg_delete '*' > Segmentation fault (core dumped) > # pkg_delete 'kde*' > Segmentation fault (core dumped) > Failed both in multiuser so I tried to do this as monouser and was the same. > Im running > FreeBSD user.domain 7.2-RELEASE-p2 FreeBSD 7.2-RELEASE-p2 #0: Wed Jun 24 > 00:57:44 UTC 2009 > r...@i386-builder.daemonology.net:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GENERIC i386 > Any suggestions? > Thanks for any help. > > Damian > There was an earlier thread that discussed this issue http://www.mail-archive.com/freebsd-sta...@freebsd.org/msg101896.html Perhaps this may help you. thanks Saifi. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
Re: My FreeBSD-current/Xen install notes
On Tue, 19 May 2009, Adrian Chadd wrote: > > People seem to think "virtualisation" is "virtualisation". It isn't. > It depends on what kind(s) of problems you're trying to solve. Xen > solves a certain set of virtualisation problems. > Could you please share 'your insight' on the 'set of virtualization problems' that Xen solves ? thanks Saifi. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
Re: My FreeBSD-current/Xen install notes
On Tue, 19 May 2009, Scott Bennett wrote: > [Nota Bene--Cc: list trimmed! --SB] > On Tue, 19 May 2009 09:56:54 + (GMT) Saifi Khan > wrote: > >On Tue, 19 May 2009, Adrian Chadd wrote: > > > >> I don't think there's any support for Dom0 stuff in FreeBSD. > >> > >> http://wiki.freebsd.org/FreeBSD/Xen has further information about what > >> is and isn't supported at this time. > >> > >> Adrian > >> > >> 2009/5/19 Saifi Khan : > >> > On Mon, 18 May 2009, Adrian Chadd wrote: > >> > > >> >> I've started documenting (mostly for my own memory for now!) my > >> >> experiences getting a working FreeBSD-current Xen environment > >> >> together. > >> >> > >> >> http://wiki.freebsd.org/AdrianChadd/XenHackery > >> >> > >> >> Notable bits: pygrub works. :) > >> >> > >> >> Adrian > >> > > >> > Hi: > >> > > >> > What is the extent of Dom0 support for FreeBSD 8.x with Xen > >> > 3.3.x ? > >> > > >> > My interest is to run multiple guest OS hosted on a Xen-ified > >> > (aka paravirtualized) FreeBSD 8.x on a multi-core intel or AMD64 > >> > box. > >> > > >> > Any pointers or observations ? > >> > > > > >Hi Adrian: > > > >Thank you for the clarification about "no dom0 support in > >FreeBSD 8.x as of now". > > > >Yes, i did visit the wiki link couple of months ago and in fact > >dropped a mail to Kip as well :) there was no response, guess he > >was busy. > > > >i'd be thankful, if you could share your observations about the > >following: > > > > . is dom0 support something that FreeBSD will target at some > > point in time or would be happy to be domU ? > > > > . there was some mention of vimage/bitvisor in one of the > > slides (i think on scribd.com). So, is it that jails getting > > extended to support virtualization+containers and thus a > > entirely different approach which does not use Xen ? > > > > . is it envisaged that a stable NetBSD dom0 implementation > > would then be ported to FreeBSD (maybe) ? > > > If you just need versatile emulation for i386- amd64-based software and > not necessarily Xen, you might check the threads in -ports@ during the last > week or two about Sun's VirtualBox package. The FreeBSD port is being beta- > tested at present, and many testers are saying it appears to work pretty well > already. My guess is that the porters will get it committed to the ports > tree fairly soon. > What i intend to do is this: 1. capability to run FreeBSD as dom0 with Xen. 2. setup and run Eucalyptus on FreeBSD/dom0 3. run SaaS (storage as a service) solutions leveraged on BSD. 4. develop VMM orchestration solution. 5. Package the entire stuff. 6. Interested folks can build services/solutions on top of this infrastructure. Legal 1-6 is all Open Source some BSD 2.0 and most of it ASL 2.0. Open Source infrastructure leveraged on FreeBSD powers the cloud ! thanks Saifi. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
Re: My FreeBSD-current/Xen install notes
On Tue, 19 May 2009, Scott Bennett wrote: > [Nota Bene--Cc: list trimmed! --SB] > On Tue, 19 May 2009 09:56:54 + (GMT) Saifi Khan > wrote: > >On Tue, 19 May 2009, Adrian Chadd wrote: > > > >> I don't think there's any support for Dom0 stuff in FreeBSD. > >> > >> http://wiki.freebsd.org/FreeBSD/Xen has further information about what > >> is and isn't supported at this time. > >> > >> Adrian > >> > >> 2009/5/19 Saifi Khan : > >> > On Mon, 18 May 2009, Adrian Chadd wrote: > >> > > >> >> I've started documenting (mostly for my own memory for now!) my > >> >> experiences getting a working FreeBSD-current Xen environment > >> >> together. > >> >> > >> >> http://wiki.freebsd.org/AdrianChadd/XenHackery > >> >> > >> >> Notable bits: pygrub works. :) > >> >> > >> >> Adrian > >> > > >> > Hi: > >> > > >> > What is the extent of Dom0 support for FreeBSD 8.x with Xen > >> > 3.3.x ? > >> > > >> > My interest is to run multiple guest OS hosted on a Xen-ified > >> > (aka paravirtualized) FreeBSD 8.x on a multi-core intel or AMD64 > >> > box. > >> > > >> > Any pointers or observations ? > >> > > > > >Hi Adrian: > > > >Thank you for the clarification about "no dom0 support in > >FreeBSD 8.x as of now". > > > >Yes, i did visit the wiki link couple of months ago and in fact > >dropped a mail to Kip as well :) there was no response, guess he > >was busy. > > > >i'd be thankful, if you could share your observations about the > >following: > > > > . is dom0 support something that FreeBSD will target at some > > point in time or would be happy to be domU ? > > > > . there was some mention of vimage/bitvisor in one of the > > slides (i think on scribd.com). So, is it that jails getting > > extended to support virtualization+containers and thus a > > entirely different approach which does not use Xen ? > > > > . is it envisaged that a stable NetBSD dom0 implementation > > would then be ported to FreeBSD (maybe) ? > > > If you just need versatile emulation for i386- amd64-based software and > not necessarily Xen, you might check the threads in -ports@ during the last > week or two about Sun's VirtualBox package. The FreeBSD port is being beta- > tested at present, and many testers are saying it appears to work pretty well > already. My guess is that the porters will get it committed to the ports > tree fairly soon. > What i intend to do is this: 1. capability to run FreeBSD as dom0 with Xen. 2. setup and run Eucalyptus in an OS (linux, solaricle, BSD) hosted as domU. 3. run SaaS (storage as a service) solutions leveraged on BSD. 4. develop VMM orchestration solution. 5. Package the entire stuff. 6. Interested folks can build services/solutions on top of this infrastructure. Legal 1-6 is all Open Source some BSD 2.0 and most of it ASL 2.0. Open Source infrastructure leveraged on FreeBSD powers the cloud ! thanks Saifi. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
Re: kdb and mouse are disabled on HP Pavilion dv5210us by X.org 7.4.1 (7.2-R)
On Mon, 18 May 2009, Jin Guojun[VFF] wrote: > Hi Saifi, > > Xorg 7.4_1 seems having some issues with dbus and hald. > The --Option "AllowEmptyInput" "false" -- is the must, but dbus and > hald > can cause system useless. > > On this laptop, I only run dbus and hald once. Then I disabled both of them > and X window works well. > > On a couple of Desktop machines (4-core Phenom and Intel P4+506) with GeForce > graphic cards, without > dbus and halt, X Window run fine except no F-key works. Enable and run dbus > and hald, All F-key work, > but output device is almost dead. > > Top shows system is completely idle, but typing will not show on any xterm > till the mouse is moving. > > For example, run TOP on a xterm, the entire window system has no thing change. > The clock of on the upper right > corner of the "TOP" xterm is stopped (actually is running, but no output to > display). Once mouse is moving, > the clock and top section are updated. Once mouse stops moving, then no thing > is change (no output anywhere). > > Similar to the typing. Typing a command will not show on the Xterm still mouse > is moved. About less than 5% > of time, I can type and see the output right way. Without dbus and hald > running, there is no such problem. > > Has anyone encountered the same problem? > > The other main difference between this xorg.conf and previous on is the > "Module" section. > This xorg.conf, generated by X -configure, has -- Load "dri2" where previous > one has -- Load "GLcore". I am not sure if this is an issue. > > -Jin > Hi Jin: Yes, i've encountered the same symptom on both my servers: . Intel P4 + ATI Radeon . AMD64X2 + nVidia So, what i do is move the mouse once and then get to the typing of code/mail etc. But once i use rich X based application like browser, krita, it is very difficult and exasperating to use the app. Currently, i just switch to my Gentoo laptop to access web browser / graphics editing. Thanks for sharing the observation or else this conversation wouldn't have got started. thanks Saifi. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
Re: My FreeBSD-current/Xen install notes
On Tue, 19 May 2009, Adrian Chadd wrote: > I don't think there's any support for Dom0 stuff in FreeBSD. > > http://wiki.freebsd.org/FreeBSD/Xen has further information about what > is and isn't supported at this time. > > Adrian > > 2009/5/19 Saifi Khan : > > On Mon, 18 May 2009, Adrian Chadd wrote: > > > >> I've started documenting (mostly for my own memory for now!) my > >> experiences getting a working FreeBSD-current Xen environment > >> together. > >> > >> http://wiki.freebsd.org/AdrianChadd/XenHackery > >> > >> Notable bits: pygrub works. :) > >> > >> Adrian > > > > Hi: > > > > What is the extent of Dom0 support for FreeBSD 8.x with Xen > > 3.3.x ? > > > > My interest is to run multiple guest OS hosted on a Xen-ified > > (aka paravirtualized) FreeBSD 8.x on a multi-core intel or AMD64 > > box. > > > > Any pointers or observations ? > > Hi Adrian: Thank you for the clarification about "no dom0 support in FreeBSD 8.x as of now". Yes, i did visit the wiki link couple of months ago and in fact dropped a mail to Kip as well :) there was no response, guess he was busy. i'd be thankful, if you could share your observations about the following: . is dom0 support something that FreeBSD will target at some point in time or would be happy to be domU ? . there was some mention of vimage/bitvisor in one of the slides (i think on scribd.com). So, is it that jails getting extended to support virtualization+containers and thus a entirely different approach which does not use Xen ? . is it envisaged that a stable NetBSD dom0 implementation would then be ported to FreeBSD (maybe) ? Thank you for your time. thanks Saifi. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
Re: My FreeBSD-current/Xen install notes
On Mon, 18 May 2009, Adrian Chadd wrote: > I've started documenting (mostly for my own memory for now!) my > experiences getting a working FreeBSD-current Xen environment > together. > > http://wiki.freebsd.org/AdrianChadd/XenHackery > > Notable bits: pygrub works. :) > > Adrian Hi: What is the extent of Dom0 support for FreeBSD 8.x with Xen 3.3.x ? My interest is to run multiple guest OS hosted on a Xen-ified (aka paravirtualized) FreeBSD 8.x on a multi-core intel or AMD64 box. Any pointers or observations ? thanks Saifi. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
Re: kdb and mouse are disabled on HP Pavilion dv5210us by X.org 7.4.1 (7.2-R)
On Sun, 17 May 2009, Jin Guojun[VFF] wrote: > When installed FreeBSD 7.2 release with xorg-7.4.1, the X server does not work > on > HP Pavilion dv5210us laptop due to the key board and mouse are disabled > somehow. > Some Hot keys (Ctrl-Altr-F#) are working but mouse is not movable and cannot > type in a Xterm. > > (**) ModulePath set to "/usr/local/lib/xorg/modules" > (WW) AllowEmptyInput is on, devices using drivers 'kbd', 'mouse' or 'vmmouse' > will be disabled. > (WW) Disabling Mouse0 > (WW) Disabling Keyboard0 > > Does anyone hasve an idea how to fix this problem? > Both Xorg.0.log and xorg.conf are attached. > > Thanks, > -Jin > Hi Jin: You need to add an additional line to your 'ServerLayout' or 'ServerFlags'. Option "AllowEmptyInput" "false" Please see the sample xorg.conf file that i'm running on my Compaq laptop. Section "ServerLayout" Identifier "X.org Configured" Screen 0 "Screen0" 0 0 InputDevice"Keyboard0" "CoreKeyboard" InputDevice"Mouse0" "CorePointer" # InputDevice"Mouse1" "SendCoreEvents" EndSection Section "ServerFlags" Option "DontZap" "Off" Option "AllowEmptyInput" "false" Option "AllowEmptyInput" "false" # Option "AllowMouseOpenFail""on" EndSection Section "Files" FontPath"unix/:7101" FontPath "/usr/local/lib/X11/fonts/100dpi/" FontPath "/usr/local/lib/X11/fonts/75dpi/" FontPath "/usr/local/lib/X11/fonts/OTF" FontPath "/usr/local/lib/X11/fonts/TTF/" FontPath "/usr/local/lib/X11/fonts/Type1/" FontPath "/usr/local/lib/X11/fonts/URW/" FontPath "/usr/local/lib/X11/fonts/bistream-vera/" FontPath "/usr/local/lib/X11/fonts/cyrillic/" FontPath "/usr/local/lib/X11/fonts/dejavu/" FontPath "/usr/local/lib/X11/fonts/freefont/" FontPath "/usr/local/lib/X11/fonts/local/" FontPath "/usr/local/lib/X11/fonts/misc/" FontPath "/usr/local/lib/X11/fonts/terminus-font/" FontPath "/usr/local/lib/X11/fonts/urwfonts-ttf/" FontPath "/usr/local/lib/X11/fonts/util/" FontPath "/usr/local/lib/X11/fonts/webfonts/" FontPath "/usr/local/share/ghostscript/fonts/" FontPath "/usr/local/lib/X11/fonts/sharefont/" FontPath "/usr/local/lib/X11/fonts/texcm-ttf/" FontPath "/usr/local/lib/X11/fonts/local/sgi/" FontPath "/usr/local/lib/X11/fonts/ppantsfonts/" ModulePath "/usr/local/lib/xorg/modules" EndSection Section "Module" Load "extmod" Load "record" Load "dbe" Load "glx" Load "dri" Load "dri2" Load"freetype" EndSection Section "InputDevice" Identifier "Keyboard0" Driver "kbd" Option "Protocol" "Standard" Option "XkbLayout" "us" Option "XkbModel" "pc104" EndSection Section "InputDevice" Identifier "Mouse0" Driver "mouse" Option "Protocol" "auto" Option "Device" "/dev/sysmouse" Option "ZAxisMapping" "4 5 6 7" EndSection Section "InputDevice" Identifier "Mouse1" Driver "synaptics" Option "Device" "/dev/sysmouse" Option "Emulate3Buttons" "on" Option "SHMConfig" "on" Option "ZAxisMapping" "4 5" EndSection Section "Monitor" Identifier "Monitor0" VendorName "Monitor Vendor" ModelName"Monitor Model" HorizSync30-62 VertRefresh 50-60 Option "DPMS" EndSection Section "Device" Identifier "Card0" Driver "intel" VendorName "Intel Corporation" BoardName "Mobile 945GM/GMS, 943/940GML Express Integrated Graphics Controller" BusID "PCI:0:2:0" Option "FramebufferCompression""false" Option "AccelMethod" "XAA" EndSection Section "Screen" Identifier "Screen0" Device "Card0" Monitor"Monitor0" DefaultDepth 24 SubSection "Display" Viewport 0 0 Depth 24 Modes "1280x800" "1024x768" "800x600" EndSubSection EndSection #Section "DRI" # Group "video" # Mode0660 #EndSection Additionally, it is required that you place the following configurations in the /etc/rc.conf file hald_enable="YES" dbus_enable="YES" thanks Saifi. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
Re: USB-to-serial adapter configuration
On Mon, 18 May 2009, Ruben de Groot wrote: > On Mon, May 18, 2009 at 04:07:09PM +0000, Saifi Khan typed: > > Hi all: > > > > How does one configure settings for USB-to-serial adapter in FreeBSD ? > > > > The one i have purchased is > > http://www.usbgear.com/computer_cable_details.cfm?sku=CHEAP-SERIAL&cats=199&catid=482%2C1303%2C199%2C461%2C106%2C1009%2C601 > > > > On the Gentoo box, 'lsusb' displays it as: > > Bus 002 Device 003: ID 067b:2303 > > Prolific Technology, Inc. PL2303 Serial Port > > Your adapter should be recognised by the uplcom driver. put uplcom_load="YES" > in loader.conf > or load manually. Check dmesg for the device name. > Also, I think cu is "good enough" ;) > > Ruben > This is the error shown in 'dmesg' log ugen0.2: at usbus0 uplcom0: on usbus0 uplcom0: init failed! device_attach: uplcom0 attach returned 6 uplcom0: on usbus0 uplcom0: init failed! device_attach: uplcom0 attach returned 6 Scenarios: 1. kldstat -v | grep uplcom shows 303 uhub/uplcom 2. uplcom_load="YES" in /boot/loader.conf with a reboot In both the scenarios, 'dmesg' shows the same error. On re-attaching the device, the following error is shown. usb2_alloc_device:1574: set address 2 failed (USB_ERR_STALLED, ignored) usb2_alloc_device:1612: getting device descriptor at addr 2 failed, USB_ERR_STALLED! ugen0.2: <> at usbus0 (disconnected) uhub_reattach_port:417: could not allocate new device! The output from 'usbconfig dump_info' shows ugen3.1: at usbus3, cfg=0 md=HOST spd=FULL (12Mbps) pwr=ON ugen4.1: at usbus4, cfg=0 md=HOST spd=HIGH (480Mbps) pwr=ON ugen0.1: at usbus0, cfg=0 md=HOST spd=FULL (12Mbps) pwr=ON ugen1.1: at usbus1, cfg=0 md=HOST spd=FULL (12Mbps) pwr=ON ugen2.1: at usbus2, cfg=0 md=HOST spd=FULL (12Mbps) pwr=ON The 'dmesg' extract of USB is as follows: usbus0: 12Mbps Full Speed USB v1.0 usbus1: 12Mbps Full Speed USB v1.0 usbus2: 12Mbps Full Speed USB v1.0 uhub0: on usbus3 ugen4.1: at usbus4 uhub1: on usbus4 ugen0.1: at usbus0 uhub2: on usbus0 ugen1.1: at usbus1 uhub3: on usbus1 ugen2.1: at usbus2 uhub4: on usbus2 Root mount waiting for: usbus4 usbus3 usbus2 usbus1 usbus0 uhub0: 2 ports with 2 removable, self powered uhub2: 2 ports with 2 removable, self powered uhub3: 2 ports with 2 removable, self powered uhub4: 2 ports with 2 removable, self powered Root mount waiting for: usbus4 Root mount waiting for: usbus4 Root mount waiting for: usbus4 uhub1: 8 ports with 8 removable, self powered Here is the system information. FreeBSD bsd 8.0-CURRENT-200905 FreeBSD 8.0-CURRENT-200905 #0: Mon May 4 23:25:09 UTC 2009 r...@almeida.cse.buffalo.edu:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GENERIC i386 Any suggestions on how i can get uplcom drive to work ? thanks Saifi. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
USB-to-serial adapter configuration
Hi all: How does one configure settings for USB-to-serial adapter in FreeBSD ? The one i have purchased is http://www.usbgear.com/computer_cable_details.cfm?sku=CHEAP-SERIAL&cats=199&catid=482%2C1303%2C199%2C461%2C106%2C1009%2C601 On the Gentoo box, 'lsusb' displays it as: Bus 002 Device 003: ID 067b:2303 Prolific Technology, Inc. PL2303 Serial Port i have to access a headless AMD64X2 box running FreeBSD 7.2-STABLE, from a FreeBSD 8.0 laptop. So far, i've used 'cu' and '/dev/cu0a', but thats because both the systems had a serial port interface. The key info i'm looking for is: . what is the driver to load . what is the device entry to look for . is 'cu' good enough or i need to install some other tool thanks Saifi. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
Re: Query regarding "write" system call.
On Sat, 16 May 2009, Abhiman Yashpal Karkera wrote: > Hi all, > I am a newbie to Freebsd OS. I had a query regarding performing writes onto > a disk. > > Generally when we want to write some data we first copy the data from the > processes user space to the kernel buffer and hand this buffer to the device > driver who then goes and initiated a write to the h/w. > > Now my question here is that the kernel buffers are very limited in size , > what happens if i have a really huge chunk of data to be written, won't the > above mechanism of copying from userland to kernel buffer be slow ? > > thanks, > Abhiman RDMA is one possibility. Zero-copy networking is an illustration of RDMA. You may also want to look up VIA http://www.intel.com/intelpress/chapter-via.pdf thanks Saifi. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
Re: FreeBSD on Dell Studio 15
On Mon, 27 Apr 2009, Aditya Sarawgi wrote: > I'm getting Dell Studio 15 and Dell Vostro 1510 (same config) in around the > same price. The main > difference being Studio 15 has a ATI radeon HD 4570 and Vostro 1510 has > nvidia 8400 GS. So for which one > should I go for ? How about purchasing the components and assembling a good system yourself ? Let me know if you need help with that. thanks Saifi. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
Re: php5 pcre
On Thu, 14 May 2009, gdn wrote: > Hi all! > > I'm using on CURRENT apache22 with php5. > When I install php5-extensions, all packages make fine. > But module "pcre" not work. > -- > >php -m > > [PHP Modules] > bz2 > date > libxml > mbstring > mysql > pdf > pdo_dblib > Reflection > session > SimpleXML > standard > xml > xmlrpc > zip > zlib > > [Zend Modules] > - > > Log file of php: > -- > [14-May-2009 18:04:50] PHP Warning: PHP Startup: Unable to load > dynamic librar > y '/usr/local/lib/php/20060613/pcre.so' - > /usr/local/lib/php/20060613/pcre.so: > Undefined symbol "php_pcre_free" in Unknown on line 0 > [14-May-2009 18:04:50] PHP Warning: Cannot load module 'PDO' because > required > module 'spl' is not loaded in Unknown on line 0 > --- > > Haw fix this problem? > > Thanks, > > > Dmitry. > Please go back to directory /usr/ports/lang/php5-extensions run make config and select PCRE and SPL among the extensions Usually it is selected by default along with CTYPE, DOM, FILTER, HASH, ICONV, JSON, PDO, PDO_SQLITE, POSIX, SESSION, SIMPLEXML, SQLITE, TOKENIZER, XML, XMLREADER, XMLWRITER. Please try a re-build and confirm. thanks Saifi. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
Re: Welcome to the "freebsd-questions" mailing list
On Wed, 13 May 2009, Sean Cavanaugh wrote: > -- > From: "Saifi Khan" > Sent: Wednesday, May 13, 2009 9:04 PM > To: "Sean Cavanaugh" > Cc: ; ; > Subject: RE: Welcome to the "freebsd-questions" mailing list > > > On Wed, 13 May 2009, Sean Cavanaugh wrote: > > > > > > > > (The true nomenclature is GNU/Linux when refering to a Linux based OS). > > > > Not true. > > > > Please see > > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GNU/Linux_naming_controversy > > > > > > thanks > > Saifi. > > > > based on the wiki page (which we ALL know is NEVER wrong) states that > GNU/Linux is the correct form and the ONLY reason for calling it just Linux is > that its easier to say and that's how its known overall in mainstream media. based on Linus Torvalds (which we ALL know is RIGHT) states that when asked if the name GNU/Linux was justified: Well, I think it's justified, but it's justified if you actually make a GNU distribution of Linux ... the same way that I think that "Red Hat Linux" is fine, or "SuSE Linux" or "Debian Linux", because if you actually make your own distribution of Linux, you get to name the thing, but calling Linux in general "GNU Linux" i I think is just ridiculous. (G)ot (N)othing (U)nique takes years since 1989 for http://is.gd/zGZh Hope this helps. thanks Saifi. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
Opera: X Shared memory extension is not available. ZPixmap not supported
Hi all: Running Opera 9.64 on X.org 7.4 leads to freeze ups in Opera. The error reported is Opera: X Shared memory extension is not available. ZPixmap not supported My system is Intel CeleronM 1.6GHz, Intel 945GM mobo. Some of the blogs seem to suggest that the new driver shipped has fixed the issue. Does anybody know ? Is there a recommended work around ? thanks Saifi. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
scrotwm can't find
Hi: Trying to compile scrotwm (from OpenBSD ports) http://www.peereboom.us/scrotwm/html/scrotwm.html on my FreeBSD 8.x 200905 i386 system. and make can't find .include .include The directory /usr/ports/Mk/ has bsd.xorg.mk file but not bsd.prog.mk Is there a work around ? thanks Saifi. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
RE: Welcome to the "freebsd-questions" mailing list
On Wed, 13 May 2009, Sean Cavanaugh wrote: > > (The true nomenclature is GNU/Linux when refering to a Linux based OS). Not true. "Please give us the credit for userland" is the line of reasoning used for the puported TLA prefix ! silly actually. Please see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GNU/Linux_naming_controversy thanks Saifi. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
Re: howto sidestep sysinstall during installation
On Mon, 11 May 2009, Vincent Hoffman wrote: > > > > Is there a way to sidestep the sysinstall during the > > > installation process, beyond selecting the 'location' ? > > > > > > > > Since you are using the snapshot DVD you should have the live/fixit > > environment which is very handy for this. > > I would suggest a combination of LOTS of reading and understanding of > > the pages at > > http://typo.submonkey.net/articles/2006/04/13/installing-freebsd-on-usb-stick-episode-2 > > (which goes though the steps for partitoning and installing using fdisk > > and bsdlabel, adjust paths to your dvd-rom) Thanks Vince for the link that was a nice starting point. Thanks to everybody who chipped in with pointers and help with learning the various concepts. Using the Fixit# console (LiveDVD) i could install FreeBSD 200905 snapshot (bypassed the sysinstall). i plan to write an article on the experience shortly. Since then, i've installed the following software: . xorg X 7.4 meta port (complete) . postgresql 8.3.7 . apache 2.2.11 . diablo-jdk 1.6.0 . opera 9.64 . dwm + many others. There were two errors/quirks that i noticed. http://www.flickr.com/photos/saifi/sets/72157618010835543/ 1. crash encountered while running sysinstall from the booted up system. 2. same crash encountered while running 'make fetch' for many of the ports. (rather random in occurence). Anybody encountered this issue ? thanks Saifi. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
Re: fdisk: class not found
On Mon, 11 May 2009, Pietro Cerutti wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA512 > > Saifi Khan wrote: > | Hi all: > Hi Saifi, > > | Trying to write a partition table using fdisk supplied in the > | installation DVD of FreeBSD 8.0 i386 200905 snapshot. > | > | Should we write new partition table ? [n] y > | fdisk: Class not found > | > | When i again run 'fdisk' it should the old partition table. > | > | What exactly does 'Class not found' mean ? > > This comes from geom. See geom(8). > Hi Pietro: Does this imply, geom_mbr needs to be loaded, if one is using the Fixit# (DVD/Live) console ? thanks Saifi. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
boot0 installation not permitted in single slice config
Hi all: Trying to install the 'boot0' boot manager on the MBR, from the Fixit# command prompt as Fixit# boot0cfg -v -B -o noupdate /dev/ad4 the response is: boot0cfg: write_mbr: /dev/ad4: Operation not permitted. i've configured a single slice for the entire disk as Fixit# fdisk -B -I /dev/ad4 Is it that by default the sector 0 is taken as the start point if the entire disk is configured with a single slice ? thanks Saifi. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
Re: howto sidestep sysinstall during installation
On Mon, 11 May 2009, Daniel O'Connor wrote: > > > > Putting out a monthly snapshot is nice and if the people are > > going to not find info about 'Fixit#' and commands in the > > legendary handbook, that is not very helpful. > > FreeBSD doesn't work this way, you are trying to fit FreeBSD into your > Gentoo way of thinking. Obviously this causes pain, please stop. > i'll be highly obliged, if you could share some nuggets of wisdom on 'the FreeBSD way' ! Please. thanks Saifi. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
single SATA disk and yet identified as 'ad4'
Hi all: The system has just one SATA disk and yet bootloader process identified it as 'ad4'. Ideally, it should be ad1. Here is the PCI information 00:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corporation Mobile 945GM/PM/GMS, 943/940GML and 945GT Express Memory Controller Hub (rev 03) 00:02.0 VGA compatible controller: Intel Corporation Mobile 945GM/GMS, 943/940GML Express Integrated Graphics Controller (rev 03) 00:02.1 Display controller: Intel Corporation Mobile 945GM/GMS/GME, 943/940GML Express Integrated Graphics Controller (rev 03) 00:1b.0 Audio device: Intel Corporation 82801G (ICH7 Family) High Definition Audio Controller (rev 01) 00:1c.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801G (ICH7 Family) PCI Express Port 1 (rev 01) 00:1c.2 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801G (ICH7 Family) PCI Express Port 3 (rev 01) 00:1d.0 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801G (ICH7 Family) USB UHCI Controller #1 (rev 01) 00:1d.1 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801G (ICH7 Family) USB UHCI Controller #2 (rev 01) 00:1d.2 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801G (ICH7 Family) USB UHCI Controller #3 (rev 01) 00:1d.7 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801G (ICH7 Family) USB2 EHCI Controller (rev 01) 00:1e.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801 Mobile PCI Bridge (rev e1) 00:1f.0 ISA bridge: Intel Corporation 82801GBM (ICH7-M) LPC Interface Bridge (rev 01) 00:1f.1 IDE interface: Intel Corporation 82801G (ICH7 Family) IDE Controller (rev 01) 00:1f.2 SATA controller: Intel Corporation 82801GBM/GHM (ICH7 Family) SATA AHCI Controller (rev 01) 00:1f.3 SMBus: Intel Corporation 82801G (ICH7 Family) SMBus Controller (rev 01) 06:00.0 Network controller: Broadcom Corporation BCM94311MCG wlan mini-PCI (rev 01) 08:08.0 Ethernet controller: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. RTL-8139/8139C/8139C+ (rev 10) How does the labelling logic work ? thanks Saifi. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
Re: howto sidestep sysinstall during installation
On Mon, 11 May 2009, Vincent Hoffman wrote: > On 11/5/09 11:48, Saifi Khan wrote: > > Hi all: > > > > Is there a way to sidestep the sysinstall during the > > installation process, beyond selecting the 'location' ? > > > > i'm using FreeBSD 8.0 200905 i386 snapshot DVD and looking > > for an approach to drive the entire installation from the > > Fixit# command line console. > > > > i'm a experienced Gentoo Linux user. > > > > Any suggestions, pointers or observations ? > > > > > Since you are using the snapshot DVD you should have the live/fixit > environment which is very handy for this. > I would suggest a combination of LOTS of reading and understanding of > the pages at > http://typo.submonkey.net/articles/2006/04/13/installing-freebsd-on-usb-stick-episode-2 > (which goes though the steps for partitoning and installing using fdisk > and bsdlabel, adjust paths to your dvd-rom) > and if you want zfs > http://lulf.geeknest.org/blog/freebsd/Setting_up_a_zfs-only_system/ > (goes though using gpart instead of fdisk and bsdlabel if you want to > use zfs on root) > should be enough to get you started. I assume you dont need too much > hand holding since you want to install -CURRENT. > > > Vince > Vince, thanks for the freebsd-on-usb link. i really appreciate your help. "Unknown giant" i still wonder why a snapshot should have a dysfunctional installer ? stable slice and partition support is key to trying or helping or contributing towards testing/coding for an evolving "unknown giant". Oh well :) Check this out http://www.twincling.org/node/237 If you scan this page for a minute, you will appreciate the overall flow of installation of Gentoo Linux. Even if you haven't tried the weekly Gentoo build, you may be encouraged to try this out ! Putting out a monthly snapshot is nice and if the people are going to not find info about 'Fixit#' and commands in the legendary handbook, that is not very helpful. thanks Saifi. the time has come ... 1227. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
Re: Unable to find device node for /dev/ad4s1b in /dev !
On Sun, 10 May 2009, James Phillips wrote: > > --- On Mon, 5/11/09, Saifi Khan wrote: > > > From: Saifi Khan > > Subject: Unable to find device node for /dev/ad4s1b in /dev ! > > To: freebsd-curr...@freebsd.org, "FreeBSD Questions" > > > > Received: Monday, May 11, 2009, 6:45 AM > > Hi all: > > > > Issue faced > > Installer on 'Commit' step shows > > Unable to find device node for /dev/ad4s1b in /dev! > > The creation of filesystems will be aborted. > > I am missing some context, but for me ad4 refers to the first drive on an > add-on card. (ad0,1 -> Primary IDE controller, ad2,3 -> Secondary IDE > controller) > > handbook reference: > http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/install-steps.html > (Rule out the situation described in: > 2.6.1 BIOS Drive Numbering) > > Your hardware in newer than mine: you have only one PATA port and 2 SATA > ports. While having your drive labeled as ad4 strikes me as weird, I don't > have enough BSD experience to know if it is a symptom of a problem or not. (I > know my drive is on ad4 because the on-board controllers are slower than my > add-on card. After a BIOS update booting is no problem. (I initially tried to > forcibly disable the on-board controller: now, I ignore it.)) > > > Do you think you may have come across an installer bug? > If so, I suspect we will need more information about exactly what you were > trying to do. > > Regards, > > James Phillips > > > > > System > > Intel Celeron M 1.6 GHz > > Intel 945GM board > Mobile chipset apparently. > > > 2GB DDR2 > > 160GB SATA Seagate HDD > > > > > > > Any pointers or workarounds ? > > > > Thank you for your kind reply. Thank you for the handbook reference, i did read the section. In fact, there is only one SATA HDD in my laptop. PCI information 00:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corporation Mobile 945GM/PM/GMS, 943/940GML and 945GT Express Memory Controller Hub (rev 03) 00:02.0 VGA compatible controller: Intel Corporation Mobile 945GM/GMS, 943/940GML Express Integrated Graphics Controller (rev 03) 00:02.1 Display controller: Intel Corporation Mobile 945GM/GMS/GME, 943/940GML Express Integrated Graphics Controller (rev 03) 00:1b.0 Audio device: Intel Corporation 82801G (ICH7 Family) High Definition Audio Controller (rev 01) 00:1c.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801G (ICH7 Family) PCI Express Port 1 (rev 01) 00:1c.2 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801G (ICH7 Family) PCI Express Port 3 (rev 01) 00:1d.0 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801G (ICH7 Family) USB UHCI Controller #1 (rev 01) 00:1d.1 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801G (ICH7 Family) USB UHCI Controller #2 (rev 01) 00:1d.2 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801G (ICH7 Family) USB UHCI Controller #3 (rev 01) 00:1d.7 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801G (ICH7 Family) USB2 EHCI Controller (rev 01) 00:1e.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801 Mobile PCI Bridge (rev e1) 00:1f.0 ISA bridge: Intel Corporation 82801GBM (ICH7-M) LPC Interface Bridge (rev 01) 00:1f.1 IDE interface: Intel Corporation 82801G (ICH7 Family) IDE Controller (rev 01) 00:1f.2 SATA controller: Intel Corporation 82801GBM/GHM (ICH7 Family) SATA AHCI Controller (rev 01) 00:1f.3 SMBus: Intel Corporation 82801G (ICH7 Family) SMBus Controller (rev 01) 06:00.0 Network controller: Broadcom Corporation BCM94311MCG wlan mini-PCI (rev 01) 08:08.0 Ethernet controller: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. RTL-8139/8139C/8139C+ (rev 10) I've got two identical Compaq Presario C300TU laptops - one running Gentoo Linux and other "would" run FreeBSD 8.0 (when it gets) Additionally, from the BIOS i've activated . Wireless Radio (Broadcom chipset) . Native SATA Controller . Realtek Netboot agent There is only ONE SATA Seagate HDD of 160GB in the system. Currently, i'm struggling to get the installation work from the Fixit# command line. Any suggestions ? thanks Saifi. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
fdisk: class not found
Hi all: Trying to write a partition table using fdisk supplied in the installation DVD of FreeBSD 8.0 i386 200905 snapshot. Should we write new partition table ? [n] y fdisk: Class not found When i again run 'fdisk' it should the old partition table. What exactly does 'Class not found' mean ? There is no mention of the 'Class' in fdisk man page at http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=fdisk&sektion=8 Can the experienced BSD guys explain ? thanks Saifi. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
howto sidestep sysinstall during installation
Hi all: Is there a way to sidestep the sysinstall during the installation process, beyond selecting the 'location' ? i'm using FreeBSD 8.0 200905 i386 snapshot DVD and looking for an approach to drive the entire installation from the Fixit# command line console. i'm a experienced Gentoo Linux user. Any suggestions, pointers or observations ? thanks Saifi. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
Unable to find device node for /dev/ad4s1b in /dev !
Hi all: Issue faced Installer on 'Commit' step shows Unable to find device node for /dev/ad4s1b in /dev! The creation of filesystems will be aborted. System Intel Celeron M 1.6 GHz Intel 945GM board 2GB DDR2 160GB SATA Seagate HDD i'm using FreeBSD 8.0 200905 i386 DVD to try and install the OS. Using the FreeBSD 7.1 DVD, i'm able to make the partition, define the slices and install a 'minimal' distribution set. However with FreeBSD 8.0 200905 snapshot i'm getting the above mentioned error. Any pointers or workarounds ? thanks Saifi. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
geometry does not match label
Hi all: when i try to boot the system using FreeBSD 8.0 i386 200905 bootonly CD, the following line is shown. GEOM: ad4: geometry does not match label (255h,63S != 16h, 63s) i just selected the entire disk and marked it bootable in the fdisk partition editor option. The system has a 160GB SATA HDD with 255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 19457 cylinders Any pointers or suggestions ? thanks Saifi. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
FreeBSD 8.0 i386 200905 snapshot DVD does not boot
Hi all: The FreeBSD 8.0 i386 200905 snapshot DVD does not boot up. I'm on a normal Celeron 1.6GHz Presario C300TU laptop with 160GB HDD and 2GB DDR2 RAM. The system just whirrs up the DVD drive, the LEDs blink for a few moments and then the installed FreeBSD 7.1 screen is presented. I tested the DVD drive by putting in the old FreeBSD 7.1 DVD and it works fine. As an additional investigation i wrote another DVD with -J -R flags (unnecessary though in my opinion) and even this DVD does not get booted up. The first thing i did was do a md5sum on the downloaded .ISO image and that is fine. Has anybody tried FreeBSD 8.0 i386 200905 DVD and could get it to boot ? Is there something that i'm missing here ? Any pointers are appreciated. thanks Saifi. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
FreeBSD 8.x, Xen 3.3.x Dom0 support
Hi: Does anybody know the extent of Dom0 support for FreeBSD 8.x with Xen 3.3.x ? The discussion threads on -xen and -virtualization are fairly sketchy on this topic. Any pointers or observations ? thanks Saifi. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
Too many active children of 'whole'
Hi: Using FreeBSD 8.x snapshot 200902, On a 160GB SATA HDD, i tried creating a 25GB slice and then selected 'install a standard MBR (no boot manager)', the installer gave a warning as: "Disk Slicing warning: Too many active children of 'whole'" What exactly does this mean ? thanks Saifi. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
FreeBSD can't see OpenBSD slice
Hi: I installed OpenBSD 3.5 in a 25GB slice on a 160GB SATA HDD. Now when i power up the system and boot into a FreeBSD instalation CD (8.x 200902 snapshot), the Fdisk partition editor shows the entire disk as unused. Are slices created with OpenBSD tools not seen in FreeBSD ? thanks Saifi. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
Re: bsd vs gpl
On Thu, 12 Mar 2009, Wojciech Puchar wrote: > > The ACM Queue (1 May 2004) article by Jay Michaelson of Wasabi > > Systems is very insightful. > > > > "There is no such thing as Free (Software) lunch" > > > > Please take a look at > > http://queue.acm.org/detail.cfm?id=1005066 > > > > In 2009, you would like your product (esp infrastructure product > > or platform) to reach out to as many people as possible and be > > used in as many ways possible. > > not always true. > Let me re-state for your benefit: In 2009, you would like your product (esp infrastructure product or platform) "benefits" to reach to as many people as possible and be "useful" in as many ways possible > > BSD / ASL 2.0 license precisely help one accomplish that in a > > very benign way. > > generally true, anyway i don't consider wasabysystems (destroyers of NetBSD) > as a reference. Do you have any credible proof ? This link may help you http://mail-index.netbsd.org/netbsd-users/2006/08/30/0016.html My suggestion, an objective assessment of the situation for what it is and not what it seems to be is more beneficial. This also helps us avoid 'fuzzy' to 'vague' observations like: . generally true . somewhat true . not always true . not always false . may be true on mars . may not be true on jupiter ... Think about it ! thanks Saifi. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
Re: is there a laptop ?
On Thu, 12 Mar 2009, Paul B. Mahol wrote: > On 3/13/09, Saifi Khan wrote: > > On Thu, 12 Mar 2009, Maciej Suszko wrote: > > > >> Saifi Khan wrote: > >> > Hi all: > >> > > >> > i've looked at tuxmobil, bsdgroup.de etc and i don't want to use > >> > ndiswrapper, or broadcom or additional PCMCIA card at all. > >> > > >> > Is there a laptop model (available in market) that experienced > >> > members would like to recommend wherein > >> > . the WiFi 802.11 a/g (PCI based) > >> > . Ethernet port > >> > . and ACPI > >> > work absolutely fine with FreeBSD 7.x ? > >> > >> I use RELENG_7_1 and RELENG_7 on HP Compaq nx7300. I haven't tried the > >> suspend/resume, firewire port and I suppose the modem is not > >> going to work. Everything else is working fine for me. > >> -- > >> regards, Maciej Suszko. > >> > > > > What is the wireless chipset of your machine ? > > On mine nx7300 it is broadcom one and works fine via ndis. > Suspend/resume works fine if second core is disabled and vesa is > loaded in kernel > (either via kldload or via custom kernel) > Firewire and bluetooth are supported and should work without problems. > Ethernet works via if_bfe; carbus, drm, sound works fine ... > In short everything is supported on UP kernel except winmodem. > > There are some bugs in BIOS asl which I fixed adding: > > acpi_dsdt_load="YES" > acpi_dsdt_name="/boot/acpi.aml" > > in /boot/loader.conf > > /boot/acpi.aml is modified version of ASL which address "temperature > is absurd, ignored" > type of messages. > > > 8.0 CURRENT i386. > > -- > Paul > Thanks Paul. i'd like to avoid Trash-com chipset at all costs. When Maciej wrote HP nx, i thought here comes another laptop baked with Trash-com chipset cookie. Indian market is filled with these trash-com HP/Compaq laptops. I really don't mind buying something 1-2 yr old, as long as i've got all the stuff working fine. Any suggestions on BenQ R58 ? It's about $ 560 here and atleast one guy claims that it has Ralink chipset. Anybody knows ? thanks Saifi. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
Re: is there a laptop ?
On Thu, 12 Mar 2009, Maciej Suszko wrote: > Saifi Khan wrote: > > Hi all: > > > > i've looked at tuxmobil, bsdgroup.de etc and i don't want to use > > ndiswrapper, or broadcom or additional PCMCIA card at all. > > > > Is there a laptop model (available in market) that experienced > > members would like to recommend wherein > > . the WiFi 802.11 a/g (PCI based) > > . Ethernet port > > . and ACPI > > work absolutely fine with FreeBSD 7.x ? > > I use RELENG_7_1 and RELENG_7 on HP Compaq nx7300. I haven't tried the > suspend/resume, firewire port and I suppose the modem is not > going to work. Everything else is working fine for me. > -- > regards, Maciej Suszko. > What is the wireless chipset of your machine ? thanks Saifi. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
Re: is there a laptop ?
On Thu, 12 Mar 2009, Ashish SHUKLA wrote: > Saifi Khan writes: > > [...] > > > Do Atheros, Ralink, Realtek, Intel PRO/Wireless chipset work > > with FreeBSD ? > > Atheros chipsets work great with FreeBSD 8-CURRENT at least. And the > driver is FOSS and blob free. No ideas about other chipsets. > > -- > Ashish SHUKLA > There are Atheros chipsets which don't work with FreeBSD ! An OSS (Open Source software) driver is certainly appreciated. I've very good idea about the chipsets dumped in Indian markets, hence the specificity of the question. thanks Saifi KHAN. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
dual boot FreeBSD and openBSD
Hi all: My apologies if this is a newbie question, however, i'm trying to look beyond GRUB fixation. i'd like to do a dual boot installation of FreeBSD and openBSD, without using GRUB or LILO. Any suggestions on the bootloader to use ? What would your suggestion be, if i'm trying to dual boot on a clean (ie. no multilib) 64-bit system ? thanks Saifi. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
Re: bsd vs gpl
On Wed, 11 Mar 2009, prad wrote: > On Wed, 11 Mar 2009 01:20:18 -0700 > prad wrote: > > > do people here have any thoughts on the two different licenses? > > > thank you everyone for your comments on this topic. > > the links some of you provided were very interesting and helpful. > i had no idea there were so many licenses either!!! > The ACM Queue (1 May 2004) article by Jay Michaelson of Wasabi Systems is very insightful. "There is no such thing as Free (Software) lunch" Please take a look at http://queue.acm.org/detail.cfm?id=1005066 In 2009, you would like your product (esp infrastructure product or platform) to reach out to as many people as possible and be used in as many ways possible. BSD / ASL 2.0 license precisely help one accomplish that in a very benign way. thanks Saifi. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
Re: is there a laptop ?
On Wed, 11 Mar 2009, Chris Whitehouse wrote: > > > HP nc6320 (google RH383ET) - most things work, including wifi and ethernet, > except for the following: > >From HP site, Network Integrated Broadcom NetLink Gigabit Ethernet PCI Controller (10/100/1000 NIC) Wireless Broadcom 802.11a/b/g; Broadcom 802.11b/g; Bluetooth 2.0 It seems to have the US-trash-com chipset ! Do Atheros, Ralink, Realtek, Intel PRO/Wireless chipset work with FreeBSD ? thanks Saifi. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
Re: bsd vs gpl
On Wed, Mar 11, 2009 at 8:20 AM, prad wrote: > > however, recently i've become aware of there being a chasm within the > goodguys in that the bsd attitude is do what you want as long as you > give credit to the creator, whereas the gpl folks say do what you want > as long as you keep it free. > > is this a fair summation? > > do people here have any thoughts on the two different licenses? > > -- > In friendship, > prad > There are two rights associated. Rights to Usage Rights to Modify When you take a piece of code licensed under GPL and "modify" it, you are required to make your changes available and also under the same license ie. GPL. So the rights to modify comes with covenants in GPL. In the case of BSD and ASL, there is no such covenant. It may also be pertinent to know that under any license, the recipient cannot change the copyright ownership or the notice for eg. " ... The Regents of the University of California. All rights reserved. ..." -- thanks Saifi. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
Re: Is there a roadmap for FreeBSD ?
On Wed, 11 Mar 2009, Patrick Lamaizi?re wrote: > Le Wed, 11 Mar 2009 08:25:12 + (GMT), > Saifi Khan : > > > > Personally I don't think roadmaps are all that usefull for open > > > source projects that depend on volunteer work. Volunteers tend to > > > work on an area that either scratches an itch for them or that > > > interests them. > > > > Fine, may i have the list of 'itch'es ? > > Ivan Voras has a nice page "What's cooking for FreeBSD 8?" > > http://ivoras.sharanet.org/freebsd/freebsd8.html > Thank you Patrick for the help. This is the document that i was searching for on freebsd.org and wiki.freebsd.org . Is there any reason, to not have this document on freebsd.org website like other projects ? thanks Saifi.___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
Re: Is there a roadmap for FreeBSD ?
On Tue, 10 Mar 2009, Roland Smith wrote: > > Personally I don't think roadmaps are all that usefull for open source > projects that depend on volunteer work. Volunteers tend to work on an > area that either scratches an itch for them or that interests them. > Fine, may i have the list of 'itch'es ? thanks Saifi. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
Is there a roadmap for FreeBSD ?
Hi all: Is there a roadmap for FreeBSD ? i spent sometime reading up the website, but couldn't find any information regarding the roadmap. What exactly is 8.x trying to accomplish ? thanks Saifi. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
Re: is there a laptop ?
On Tue, 10 Mar 2009, Takashi Inoue wrote: > Hi, > > > i've looked at tuxmobil, bsdgroup.de etc and i don't want to use > > ndiswrapper, or broadcom or additional PCMCIA card at all. > > > > Is there a laptop model (available in market) that experienced > > members would like to recommend wherein > > . the WiFi 802.11 a/g (PCI based) > > . Ethernet port . and ACPI > > work absolutely fine with FreeBSD 7.x ? > > If you want to use ACPI suspend/resume, > you need to kill one of two core in Core2Duo. > If you want the both, choose Linux insted. > > Cheers, > T. I. > Are you saying that ACPI implementation in FreeBSD is buggy ? Do you have any suggestions about laptops to make (assuming ACPI is disabled) ? thanks Saifi. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
is there a laptop ?
Hi all: i've looked at tuxmobil, bsdgroup.de etc and i don't want to use ndiswrapper, or broadcom or additional PCMCIA card at all. Is there a laptop model (available in market) that experienced members would like to recommend wherein . the WiFi 802.11 a/g (PCI based) . Ethernet port . and ACPI work absolutely fine with FreeBSD 7.x ? thanks Saifi. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
broadcom wireless card BCM94311MCG on FreeBSD 7.1
Hi all: Compaq C301TU laptop has a Broadcom chipset based wireless card and i'm unable to make it work on FreeBSD 7.1 Using the ndisgen approach with bcm5wls.sys and bcm5wls.inf files creates a driver file which on kldload causes a kernel panic. Interestingly on the same laptop, there is a ethernet card of RTL 8139, which is also not detected by FreeBSD 7.1 . However, lets not worry about that for the time being. With Gentoo Linux, i've configured the Linux kernel to use the native bcm43xx driver and using the bcm43xx-fwcutter, i've been able to install the firmware and get the wireless card to work. Here is the lspci -v -nn details as collected from the Linux side. 06:00.0 Network controller: Broadcom Corporation BCM94311MCG wlan mini-PCI (rev 01) Subsystem: Hewlett-Packard Company Unknown device 1364 Control: I/O+ Mem+ BusMaster+ SpecCycle- MemWINV- VGASnoop- ParErr- Stepping- SERR+ FastB2B- DisINTx- Status: Cap+ 66MHz- UDF- FastB2B- ParErr- DEVSEL=fast >TAbort- SERR- Capabilities: [13c] Virtual Channel Kernel driver in use: bcm43xx Kernel modules: bcm43xx i don't intend to buy another wireless add-on card or another old laptop. Would be thankful, if anybody can suggest how i can get the Wireless card work to with FreeBSD 7.1 or FreeBSD 8.0 snapshot. Additional tips for getting the ethernet card to work will also be appreciated. -- thanks Saifi. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
Re: a "strange" question about OSs
On Mon, Feb 23, 2009 at 2:30 PM, Valentin Bud wrote: > > > On Mon, Feb 23, 2009 at 3:12 PM, Saifi Khan wrote: >> >> On Mon, Feb 23, 2009 at 8:06 AM, Valentin Bud >> wrote: >> > Hello Community, >> > >> > The following question may sound very ackward but was OS is suitable >> > from >> > the following list >> > to replace FBSD: >> > >> > - OpenSUSE 10.3 >> > - Debian 4.0 >> > - CentOS 5 >> > >> > The company i work for wants to change the provider because of the >> > economical crisis to >> > save some money. The actual provider gave us the chance to install our >> > OS >> > but the one >> > they chose as a replacement doesn't give any other choice besides the >> > above >> > mentioned. >> > >> > I work for 2 years in IT and FBSD is the only OS i have ever used in >> > production. I like it and >> > learned it a little bit. It is going to be a steep learning curve with >> > the >> > new OS which I'm not afraid >> > of but i would like to chose a suitable OS and one that has some >> > similarities with FBSD. >> > >> > thank you, >> > v >> >> What are the services you are currently using on FreeBSD ? >> >> >> -- >> thanks >> Saifi. > > A web server basically: MySQL, Apache, php plus some pdf manipulation with > ghostscript and imagemagick. The new server will be on 64 bits if this is a > concern regarding the OSs i have to choose from. > > thanks, > v > if you have to use Linux, i'd suggest you look at Gentoo Linux 2008.0r2 . It's a very configurable and fast distribution and works very well on AMD64X2. The emerge/portage system is akin to ports/makefile combo in FreeBSD. The fact that i've to deal with Python for most of the emerge tools is an annoyance. Almost all the packages are installed from the source code. I've myself been a FreeBSD user for quite sometime and Gentoo Linux is what i've found quite impressive among the Linux distributions. It may come as a surprise, but i've found the PHP runtime to start faster on Gentoo Linux than on FreeBSD on the same hardware. I also had to do a bit of reordering of the extensions to avoid crashes. I still donot know why that problem does not occur on my Gentoo Linux installation. If you have to go to Linux and choose to use Gentoo Linux, i'll be happy to offer assistance as a friend with setup and troubleshooting. You are also welcome to look up the settings for Gentoo Linux at http://www.twincling.org/node/237 -- thanks Saifi. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
Re: a "strange" question about OSs
On Mon, Feb 23, 2009 at 8:06 AM, Valentin Bud wrote: > Hello Community, > > The following question may sound very ackward but was OS is suitable from > the following list > to replace FBSD: > > - OpenSUSE 10.3 > - Debian 4.0 > - CentOS 5 > > The company i work for wants to change the provider because of the > economical crisis to > save some money. The actual provider gave us the chance to install our OS > but the one > they chose as a replacement doesn't give any other choice besides the above > mentioned. > > I work for 2 years in IT and FBSD is the only OS i have ever used in > production. I like it and > learned it a little bit. It is going to be a steep learning curve with the > new OS which I'm not afraid > of but i would like to chose a suitable OS and one that has some > similarities with FBSD. > > thank you, > v What are the services you are currently using on FreeBSD ? -- thanks Saifi. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
Re: hi
Hi Wojciech: You haven't still explained, (as suggested by your kindself ) why the new user must keep buying new network interface cards just to make FreeBSD run (when most of those cards will work fine with Linux). -- thanks Saifi. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
Re: hi
On Sun, Feb 22, 2009 at 7:24 PM, Kevin Kinsey wrote: > Wojciech Puchar wrote: >>> >>> On Sun, Feb 22, 2009 at 04:07:44PM +, Saifi Khan wrote: >>>> >>>> The existing users provide continuity not growth. To be popular >>>> FreeBSD needs growth. > > > I think that one of FBSD's guiding principles is *correctness* > ... or, at least, that's one of the higher values of the community. Higher value ? sounds to me like an overdraft limit ! It still doesn't explain, (as suggested by Wojciech) why the new user must keep buying new network interface cards just to make FreeBSD run (when most of those cards will work fine with Linux). > By way of evidence, I present the following > terms, used frequently in correspondence on these lists: > >It Just Works(tm) >The Right Way(tm) >"canonical" >P.O.L.A. > > And be sure and check today's .sig ;-) > > Kevin Kinsey > -- > Grandpa used to say --- "What is right is not always popular, >and what is popular is not always right." You're right, Grandpa used to run the guzzler Buick which "IS" neither popular nor right ! -- thanks Saifi. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
Re: hi
On Sun, Feb 22, 2009 at 4:24 PM, cpghost wrote: > On Sun, Feb 22, 2009 at 04:07:44PM +0000, Saifi Khan wrote: >> The existing users provide continuity not growth. To be popular >> FreeBSD needs growth. >> Growth comes from new users ! > > The main driving force is to attract good developers who like technical > challenges and who love to tinker. > How is this different from Linux kernel ? -- thanks Saifi. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
Re: hi
On Sun, Feb 22, 2009 at 3:50 PM, Wojciech Puchar wrote: >> FreeBSD popularity will be affected if the big cats (ie. networking >> companies) continue to ""not contribute"" back the > > this will affect their sales - FreeBSD user will simply buy network card > from another manufacturer. > How a "new" user becomes a FreeBSD user ? by buying network cards all the time ? The existing users provide continuity not growth. To be popular FreeBSD needs growth. Growth comes from new users ! Do you see my point ? >> Does anybody know where FreeBSD (in particular) (NetBSD and OpenBSD) >> is headed ? What is the road map ? > > i wish the same as is now. STABLE & FAST unix-type operating environment. > Does anybody know where FreeBSD is headed ? -- thanks Saifi. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
Re: hi
On Sun, Feb 22, 2009 at 9:54 AM, GrimJow Espada wrote: > what will happen to FreeBSD if Gentoo/BSD is already out, does it affect > freebsd popularity? i dont like gentoo or gentoo/bsd > FreeBSD popularity will be affected if the big cats (ie. networking companies) continue to ""not contribute"" back the enhancements/modifications to the kernel, networking stack, optimizations etc etc ! Gentoo userland and emerge tools are easier and elegant though not certainly superior to FreeBSD make mechanism. This is based on my personal experience as i heavily use Gentoo Linux and FreeBSD on older hardware. And offcourse, i can easily emerge pine 4.64 on Gentoo but there is no way i can do it on FreeBSD. Does anybody know where FreeBSD (in particular) (NetBSD and OpenBSD) is headed ? What is the road map ? Please don't tell me that *BSD is a nice community project (which it is) and the charter is to flip burgers (i mean code) for the next networking company to take the code and run away ! i'm very hopeful that somebody will share some insight on the road map. -- thanks Saifi. -- If you don't know where you want to go, any path can take you there -- ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
ELF format alternative ?
Hi all: Curious to know if there are "under research" or known format other than ELF format ? Pls note i'm aware of a.out and COFF, ELF format was developed by wonderful USL. -- thanks Saifi. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
Re: how to install all p5-* one shot
On Mon, Jan 26, 2009 at 12:58 PM, Herbert J. Skuhra wrote: > 2009/1/26 Saifi Khan : >> Hi all: >> >> There are many PERL packages in ports whose names are prefixed with p5-* . >> >> How does one install all the p5-* packages one shot ? >> >> Is there a way one can do it with the options available in ports >> or does one need to write a script to locate all the dir names >> starting with p5-* ? >> >> Any pointer in this direction will be appreciated. > > % cd /usr/ports > % find . -name "p5\-*" | wc -l >3360 > > Good idea? Then try: > > % sudo portmaster -i */p5\-* > > - Herbert Thanks Herbert. I'd did not know about 'portmaster' until you mentioned in your mail. Wow, so i got cvsup, portsnap and now portmaster :) -- thanks Saifi. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
how to install all p5-* one shot
Hi all: There are many PERL packages in ports whose names are prefixed with p5-* . How does one install all the p5-* packages one shot ? Is there a way one can do it with the options available in ports or does one need to write a script to locate all the dir names starting with p5-* ? Any pointer in this direction will be appreciated. -- thanks Saifi. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
Pine4.64 installation on FreeBSD 7.1 (i386)
Hi: [note: i'm aware about Alpine in ports and am keen to install and use only Pine]. i'm trying to build Pine 4.64 from the sources downloaded from Univ of Wash site. For SSL support, i have installed OpenSSL 0.9.8j from ports. Here is the standard command run at the top of the pine source tree. ./build 'SSLCERTS=/etc/ssl' \ 'SSLINCLUDE=/usr/local/include/openssl' \ 'SSLLIB=/usr/local/lib' \ bsf The first error reported right in the beginning is "File /etc/ssl/factory.pem is missing This might indicate that CA certs did not get properly installed. If you get certificate validation failures in Pine, this might be the reason for them." On reviewing the OpenSSL code base, there is no factory.pem or a bunch of CA certs. Two questions: 1. what is the purpose of factory.pem ? 2. where do i get the bunch of CA certs ? Thanks in advance for helping me out, as i try to learn more about FreeBSD approach of doing the things. i've been a Gentoo user mostly. -- thanks Saifi. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
Re: Embedded scripting language advice sought
On Sun, Jan 25, 2009 at 3:34 AM, Linda Messerschmidt wrote: > On Mon, Jan 19, 2009 at 2:46 PM, George Hartzell wrote: >> I don't have any useful advice to offer, but I would love it if you >> would summarize anything interesting that you get. >> >> I do a lot of computational biology work and am always interested in >> extension language for my computing systems. > > There was not a lot of response. One suggestion for Tcl and one for Ruby. > > I figured that all of the possibilities were going to be a pain to > develop in their own unique way, so that was probably not the best > evaluation criteria. The best choice was going to be the one that the > people who were going to use it every day were the most comfortable > with. > > So what I did was code up little samples in each of the serious > contenders: Lua, Python, Ruby, and Tcl. Without telling people which > language was which, I sent them around for votes. I really liked the > Tcl syntax and I thought it was going to do really well, but Python > came back the winner. > > Even so, I kept researching for farther-flung alternatives and turned > up a couple of others as well, although several of the "embedded > languages" are pretty stale, dead, or haven't gotten past > 0.0.1-pre-alpha. Of the "haven't heard of it before" languages, only > one called Pike earned serious consideration. (Technically I had > heard of its predecessor LPC, but only as a result of a misspent > youth. :-) ) > > Pike and Python went head to head and, probably since our team is > heavy with C++ programmers, Pike came out on top. > > So, we've started doing a proof-of-concept using Pike and we'll see > how it goes. So far so good, and it's actually a pretty fun language > to work with. > > -LM Are you saying the choice is made on the basis of 'likeability' and not 'technical merit' ? -- thanks Saifi. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
Re: default CFLAGS
On Sat, Jan 24, 2009 at 5:57 PM, Pojken Purken wrote: > RW wrote: >> On Sat, 24 Jan 2009 15:27:02 +0100 >> Morgan Wesström wrote: >> >> >>> The section "options enabled" will list them all. I usually only add >>> "-march=native" to my CFLAGS to enable a few more CPU specific >>> optimizations. >> >> If you set CPUTYPE, -march is set to match, so setting -march=native >> should be redundant. OTOH a number of other make variables are defined >> from CPUTYPE, so if you set -march=native, but not CPUTYPE you might >> miss some optimisations based on build options. >> >> I've no idea whether there are any such options, just that you're >> probably not going to do better than setting CPUTYPE, and leaving the >> rest alone. > > I'm sorry I was unclear. I set CPUTYPE to native of course which is then > passed as -march=native to compiler. > The entry in file /var/run/dmesg.boot shows the CPU information as CPU: Intel (R) Celeron (R) CPU 2.40 GHz (686-class CPU) The entry in /usr/share/examples/etc/make.conf shows CPU types for Intel as core2 core nocona pentium4m pentium4 prescott pentium3m pentium3 pentium-m pentium2 pentiumpro pentium-mx pentium i486 i386 What would be the appropriate CPUTYPE specification in this case ? Is there any table which sort of maps the marketing names of the Intel processor with the CPU information shown in dmesg ? -- thanks Saifi. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
Re: opera 9.63 installation and Qt version
On Sat, 24 Jan 2009, Paul B. Mahol wrote: > On 1/24/09, Saifi Khan wrote: > > Hi: > > > > Qt 4.4.3 is installed on my FreeBSD 7.1 i386 system. > > > > Now, when i attempt to install Opera 9.63 from the ports, it tries to > > download Qt 3.3.8 > > Is there a way to modify the installation script so that Opera can use > > the installed qt 4.4.3 version ? > > Yes you can modify it, but question is will opera work at all with qt 4. > There is static opera binary, try it. > > > -- > Paul > The download site for FreeBSD is http://www.opera.com/browser/download/?os=freebsd-i386&list=all It shows the following entry FreeBSD 7.x (static) 7 MB But when the file is downloaded, it is "shared" version. opera-9.63-freebsd7-shared-qt3.i386.tar.bz2 Thus static opera binary is not available :( thanks Saifi. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
default CFLAGS
Hi all: What is the default CFLAGS if *no* CFLAGS has been specified in /etc/make.conf ? As an example, let us consider a FreeBSD 7.1 system running on a Intel Celeron M. thanks Saifi. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
Re: how to scrollback in terminal
On Sat, Jan 24, 2009 at 8:07 AM, Dan Nelson wrote: > In the last episode (Jan 24), Tim Judd said: >> Saifi Khan wrote: >> > >> > i'd like to scrollback on the multi page output on the terminal in >> > FreeBSD 7.1 >> > >> > SHIFT key + Pg Up doesn't seem to work. >> > >> > Can somebody post how to scrollback in terminal ? >> >> scroll lock, and pgup > > After you hit scroll-lock, up/down/pgup/pgdn/home/end all work, you can > copy and paste the history text with your mouse, and there's a separate > history per VTY. You can also set the number of scrollback lines with > the "vidcontrol -n ###" command. Significantly better than Linux's > scrollback... > > -- >Dan Nelson >dnel...@allantgroup.com Thank you Tim and Dan for helping me out. The BSD model is more logical and straightforward. -- thanks Saifi. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
PHP 5.2.8 crash (segmentation fault 11)
Hi all:
Freshly compiled PHP 5.2.8 with PECL and PHP5-extensions support
on FreeBSD 7.1 (i386) seems to be crashing in
#0 0x28e3e006 in hash_lookup (hashtab=0x29ea2f70,
key=0xbfbfea30 "\221??\222)??{\206)p/??)??\r\226)`Qp(") at misc.c:349
349 for (ret = hashtab->table[hash_index (hashtab,key)]; ret; ret =
ret->next)
[New Thread 0x28759400 (LWP 100083)]
The stack frame are shown below.
(gdb) bt
#0 0x28e3e006 in hash_lookup (hashtab=0x29ea2f70,
key=0xbfbfea30 "\221??\222)??{\206)p/??)??\r\226)`Qp(") at misc.c:349
#1 0x29867dae in find_alias () from /usr/local/lib/librecode.so.3
#2 0x29869361 in recode_new_outer () from /usr/local/lib/librecode.so.3
#3 0x2981dd6e in zm_startup_recode ()
from /usr/local/lib/php/20060613-debug/recode.so
#4 0x081c0f65 in zend_startup_module_ex (module=0x287cd100)
at /usr/ports/lang/php5/work/php-5.2.8/Zend/zend_API.c:1472
#5 0x081c81d2 in zend_hash_apply (ht=0x82f0a80,
apply_func=0x81c0dc0 )
at /usr/ports/lang/php5/work/php-5.2.8/Zend/zend_hash.c:673
#6 0x081c112f in zend_startup_modules ()
at /usr/ports/lang/php5/work/php-5.2.8/Zend/zend_API.c:1519
#7 0x08166db8 in php_module_startup (sf=0x82ec200, additional_modules=0x0,
num_additional_modules=0)
at /usr/ports/lang/php5/work/php-5.2.8/main/main.c:1843
#8 0x0823abf1 in php_cli_startup (sapi_module=0x82ec200)
at /usr/ports/lang/php5/work/php-5.2.8/sapi/cli/php_cli.c:357
#9 0x0823b8a6 in main (argc=2, argv=0xbfbfeda8)
at /usr/ports/lang/php5/work/php-5.2.8/sapi/cli/php_cli.c:716
Anybody pointers as to how to solve this issue ?
thanks
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how to scrollback in terminal
Hi: i'd like to scrollback on the multi page output on the terminal in FreeBSD 7.1 SHIFT key + Pg Up doesn't seem to work. Can somebody post how to scrollback in terminal ? -- thanks Saifi. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
opera 9.63 installation and Qt version
Hi: Qt 4.4.3 is installed on my FreeBSD 7.1 i386 system. Now, when i attempt to install Opera 9.63 from the ports, it tries to download Qt 3.3.8 Is there a way to modify the installation script so that Opera can use the installed qt 4.4.3 version ? -- thanks Saifi. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
Re: ASL 2.0 based software contribution to FreeBSD code base
On Wed, Jan 21, 2009 at 10:16 AM, Vincent Hoffman wrote: > Saifi Khan wrote: >> Hi: >> >> Is Apache Software License (ASL) 2.0 based software contributions >> accepted in FreeBSD code base ? >> >> Specific case to consider would be: >> a. device driver code released under ASL 2.0 >> b. code contributed to kernel (eg. scheduler implementation) under ASL 2.0 >> c. code contributed to userland (eg. new implementation of ctags) under ASL >> 2.0 >> >> Can some of the experienced members share how things work within the >> context of FreeBSD project ? >> >> > I was going to answer with > http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/articles/committers-guide/pref-license.html > however in a recent discussion on the -current list > (http://docs.freebsd.org/cgi/getmsg.cgi?fetch=163526+0+current/freebsd-current) > Brooks Davis said > "This file is outdated. While this remains our prefered license, the > current > OpenBSD prefered license is the ISC licesed which is allowed by the license > policy we published to developers last year. We should probably replace > this > page with that policy." > > I'd ask for a copy of the current policy on freebsd-current@ if you dont > get any answers here. > > Hi Vince: Thank you for your kind reply. Please see my writeup on ASL at http://www.twincling.org/node/277 While i understand ASL, i'm keen to know what are the technical deviations (if any) in the BSD licsense followed by FreeBSD project. eg. if i write a device driver and release it under ASL 2.0, can it legally make into FreeBSD project ? -- thanks Saifi. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
ASL 2.0 based software contribution to FreeBSD code base
Hi: Is Apache Software License (ASL) 2.0 based software contributions accepted in FreeBSD code base ? Specific case to consider would be: a. device driver code released under ASL 2.0 b. code contributed to kernel (eg. scheduler implementation) under ASL 2.0 c. code contributed to userland (eg. new implementation of ctags) under ASL 2.0 Can some of the experienced members share how things work within the context of FreeBSD project ? -- thanks Saifi. Twincling Technology Foundation freedom of innovation http://www.twincling.org/ ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
Re: Embedded scripting language advice sought
On Sun, Jan 18, 2009 at 11:41 PM, Linda Messerschmidt wrote: > For a project I'm working on, I need to find an scripting language, and I > have a long wishlist: > > > - able to be "easily" embedded in a C++ application > > - "real" object-oriented with inheritance (preferably multiple inheritance) > > - able to implement object methods in C++ where needed > > - "sandbox" operation (e.g. ability to suppress any file I/O & system > libraries, but keep math and string libraries) > > - thread-safe, or, at least able to have multiple coexisting execution > contexts in one running process > > - relatively user-friendly syntax (i.e. (not (lisp (based > > - has to build and embed on FreeBSD > How about looking at Ruby ? -- thanks Saifi. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
Re: __sys_fcntl() definition ?
On Tue, 31 Jul 2007, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> Date: Tue, 31 Jul 2007 14:00:06 -0700 (PDT)
> From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> To: Saifi Khan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Cc:
> Subject: Re: __sys_fcntl() definition ?
>
> On Wed, 1 Aug 2007, Saifi Khan wrote:
>
> > Hi:
> >
> > While working through the FreeBSD 6.2 codebase,
> > I saw the following functions referred at multiple places.
> >
> > __sys_fcntl()
> > __sys_open()
> > __sys_write()
> > ...
> >
> > Can somebody point out the file which contains the implementation
> > of the __sys_* functions ?
> >
> > Thanks in advance.
> >
> > thanks
> > Saifi.
>
> They're standard C library headers:
>
> man 2 fcntl
> man 2 open
> man 2 write
>
> Cheers,
> -Garrett
>
Hello Garrett:
In src/lib/libc/include/namespace.h (on line 64)
#define fcntl _fcntl
If you look at the _fcntl() definition on line 43 in
src/lib/libc_r/uthread/uthread_fcntl.c
you will see on line 66 the following code
/* Initialise the file descriptor table entry: */
if ((ret = __sys_fcntl(fd, cmd, oldfd)) < 0) {
My question is that where is the function definition
for this __sys_fcntl() ?
Thanks in advance.
thanks
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__sys_fcntl() definition ?
Hi: While working through the FreeBSD 6.2 codebase, I saw the following functions referred at multiple places. __sys_fcntl() __sys_open() __sys_write() ... Can somebody point out the file which contains the implementation of the __sys_* functions ? Thanks in advance. thanks Saifi. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
Re: Ethereal version for FreeBSD 6.2 RC1
On 11/30/06, Jon Krause <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: From: "Saifi Khan" Subject: Ethereal version for FreeBSD 6.2 RC1 : Hi all: : : Is there a recommended version of Ethereal for FreeBSD 6.2 RC1 ? : : I tried searching in the ports and there don't seems to be any. : : Searching on ethereal for FreeBSD throws up a few Security Advisories. : : Thanks in advance. : : -- : thanks : Saifi. Try http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/ports.cgi?query=wireshark&stype=all Ethereal is now Wireshark. Thanks Jon. Wireshark is a real cool name ! Wow ! -- thanks Saifi. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
Ethereal version for FreeBSD 6.2 RC1
Hi all: Is there a recommended version of Ethereal for FreeBSD 6.2 RC1 ? I tried searching in the ports and there don't seems to be any. Searching on ethereal for FreeBSD throws up a few Security Advisories. Thanks in advance. -- thanks Saifi. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
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