Re: Help review the FAQ

2012-12-15 Thread Jakub Lach
#missing-hw-float

There is no longer npx option in 9 GENERIC 
i386 kernel, so there is nothing to delete 
accidentally.

Traces of npx on my system (amd64) are:

$ locate npx
/usr/src/share/man/man4/man4.i386/npx.4
/usr/src/sys/i386/include/npx.h
/usr/src/sys/i386/isa/npx.c
/usr/src/sys/pc98/include/npx.h

+ NOTES content.





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Re: Help review the FAQ

2012-12-14 Thread Jakub Lach
After _following_ recommendations (0600) in #xconsole-failure, there
is xterm error as well as xconsole one still. So definitely something is 
amiss.

On the side note, revisited What security features are present in os;
should mention ProPolice.



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Re: Help review the FAQ

2012-12-13 Thread Jakub Lach
#uninstall-kerberos

Uh? Reinstalling base will delete kerberos? I don't get this answer.
I thought kerberos was part of base?



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Re: Help review the FAQ

2012-12-13 Thread Jakub Lach
#xfree86-root There is no Xwrapper (x11/wrapper) in ports tree. (Port is
expired, whole 
answer outdated.)

#xconsole-failure Indeed xconsole throws such error, but not xterm -C.



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Re: Help review the FAQ

2012-12-12 Thread Jakub Lach
I think HAST (hastd) is faq-worthy, as since release
9, it covers area previously vocally missed by some.



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Re: Help review the FAQ

2012-12-10 Thread Lars Engels
On Sun, Dec 09, 2012 at 07:47:01AM -0800, Jakub Lach wrote:
 #sound-card-support 
 
 First part is fine, assuming man pages will be up to date etc. Not sure
 about
 support for MIDI cards/MPU-401. Is this covered by uart? Don't know whatever 
 was Microsoft® Sound System specification.
 
 #es1370-silent-pcm 
 
 That's one thing, but most often silent device is caused by need for proper 
 device.hints, as usual with e.g. snd_hda. This could use mention of it.

snd_hda can be configured at runtime from 9.0 on. No need for
device.hints.


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Re: Help review the FAQ

2012-12-10 Thread Jakub Lach
Ok, but it doesn't change current primary reason of silent devices 
(wrong pinout) :)



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Re: Help review the FAQ

2012-12-10 Thread Ian Smith
On Sun, 9 Dec 2012 08:03:03 -0800, Jakub Lach wrote:

  Probably already axed, it was supported by
  dev/sound/isa/mss.c and isa/snd/ad1848.c I think.

Add text and items enhancing knowledge for later and latest kit, by all 
means, but - just speaking generally - Careful with that axe, Eugene!

cheers, Ian
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Re: Help review the FAQ

2012-12-10 Thread Jakub Lach
Exactly, I assumed mss.c was history already, because I looked 
only in modules, while there is plenty isa stuff in 
src/sys/dev/sound/isa still!

/usr/src/sys/dev/sound/isa $ ls -a
.   ad1816.h mss.c sb16.csndbuf_dma.c
..  ess.c  mss.h sb8.c
ad1816.cgusc.c sb.h   sbc.c

Sorry.



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Re: Help review the FAQ

2012-12-09 Thread Jakub Lach
#sound-card-support 

First part is fine, assuming man pages will be up to date etc. Not sure
about
support for MIDI cards/MPU-401. Is this covered by uart? Don't know whatever 
was Microsoft® Sound System specification.

#es1370-silent-pcm 

That's one thing, but most often silent device is caused by need for proper 
device.hints, as usual with e.g. snd_hda. This could use mention of it.

#java 

is fine assuming linked content is up to date. Looks it is, but I'm not
using Java.

#midi-sound-files 

I'm not usually creating wavs from midi (honestly, probably nobody is doing 
that for music listening any more, maybe it should be swapped to how to rip
CD to mp3 or ogg 
with links to port tools, but maybe this is already old fashioned ;) ) but I
have audio/timidity++ 
installed, and just checked, it still works as described. On the side note,
audio/timidity is broken, 
sound is severely corrupted, this was not the case some time ago.

#x-3d-acceleration 

This should/could be updated a bit, especially that there is no mention of
intel and newer cards, 
and those old ones (matrox etc.) are going to be dropped with newer xorg
(kib@?)



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Re: Help review the FAQ

2012-12-09 Thread Jakub Lach
Just FYI, Microsoft Sound System Specification probably
was meant to be Windows Sound System (?), severely 
obsolete standard...

WSS was based on Analog Devices AD1848 codec chip 
with Yamaha OPL3 (YMF262-M) FM synthesis sound chip.

Probably already axed, it was supported by
dev/sound/isa/mss.c and isa/snd/ad1848.c I think.




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Re: Help review the FAQ

2012-12-09 Thread Jakub Lach
Closest now would be ancient snd_ad1816, maybe it could be 
usable with it but it's pure speculation, good luck with finding 
hardware and testing that :)



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Re: Help review the FAQ

2012-12-09 Thread CeDeROM
AdLib ROX! :-)

http://www.datasheetarchive.com/indexer.php?file=DSA00355987.pdfdir=Datasheet-020keywords=AD1848%2F1846database=user-highscore#

http://www.ebay.com/itm/Analog-Devices-AD1848KP-ISA-SoundPort-Opti-82C29A-/200846434225?pt=US_Sound_Cards_Internal_hash=item2ec3615fb1

At computer demoscene there are still guys that use this stuff to
create muzik :-)

http://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=adlib

Best regards :-)
Tomek

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Re: Help review the FAQ

2012-12-07 Thread Jakub Lach
While it's very, very minute detail, I think that in #officesuite
there should be Apache OpenOffice not Apache Open Office
as they were very careful even bureaucratic [*] if I reckon correctly, 
when choosing new branding.

[*] They have branding initiative guidelines and held vote-
https://blogs.apache.org/OOo/entry/openoffice_org_is_now_apache



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Re: Help review the FAQ

2012-12-07 Thread Bas Smeelen

On 12/07/12 21:36, Jakub Lach wrote:

While it's very, very minute detail, I think that in #officesuite
there should be Apache OpenOffice not Apache Open Office
as they were very careful even bureaucratic [*] if I reckon correctly,
when choosing new branding.

[*] They have branding initiative guidelines and held vote-
https://blogs.apache.org/OOo/entry/openoffice_org_is_now_apache


Hi Jakub
You can file a patch for it

Index: en_US.ISO8859-1/books/faq/book.xml
===
--- en_US.ISO8859-1/books/faq/book.xml(revision 40304)
+++ en_US.ISO8859-1/books/faq/book.xml(working copy)
@@ -3523,7 +3523,7 @@

 answer
   paraThe open-source applicationulink
-  url=http://www.openoffice.org;Apache Open 
Office/ulink/application
+  url=http://www.openoffice.org;Apache 
OpenOffice/ulink/application

 and applicationulink
url=http://www.libreoffice.org;LibreOffice/ulink/application
 office suites work natively on os;./para


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Re: Help review the FAQ

2012-12-07 Thread Eitan Adler
On 7 December 2012 16:11, Bas Smeelen b.smee...@ose.nl wrote:
 On 12/07/12 21:36, Jakub Lach wrote:

 While it's very, very minute detail, I think that in #officesuite
 there should be Apache OpenOffice not Apache Open Office
 as they were very careful even bureaucratic [*] if I reckon correctly,
 when choosing new branding.

 [*] They have branding initiative guidelines and held vote-
 https://blogs.apache.org/OOo/entry/openoffice_org_is_now_apache

Patch sent to mentor for approval. Thanks!


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Re: Help review the FAQ

2012-11-30 Thread Jakub Lach
officesuite is good, just change OO.org to Apache OpenOffice

convert-back-from-pkgng, make-kernel, release-candidate (I think that even
major releases are technically cut from -STABLE, as fresh -STABLE branch is
made from -CURRENT prior to -RELEASE, but that's minor detail) reread-rc,
use-beastie are all fine.



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Re: Help review the FAQ

2012-11-27 Thread Jakub Lach
If it is really mandatory on i386, why there is option at all?

According to man, while apic is mandatory on amd64  there 
is no corresponding config or NOTES entry.



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Re: Help review the FAQ

2012-11-26 Thread Jakub Lach
Absolutely not, it's a heavily stripped custom kernel on this machine on
/boot/. 

I was pointing to that, if my kernel is 9 MB, there's no way GENERIC could
be
1.5-2.5 MB.

Sorry for confusion.



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Re: Help review the FAQ

2012-11-26 Thread Volodymyr Kostyrko

26.11.2012 16:49, Jakub Lach:

Absolutely not, it's a heavily stripped custom kernel on this machine on
/boot/.


Do you call this heavily stripped? :)

 ls -la /boot/kernel/kernel
-r-xr-xr-x  1 root  wheel  5757970 Nov 26 10:57 /boot/kernel/kernel

However it's very hard to strip kernel further and make it usable for 
all machines.



I was pointing to that, if my kernel is 9 MB, there's no way GENERIC could
be
1.5-2.5 MB.


That's true...

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Re: Help review the FAQ

2012-11-26 Thread Bas Smeelen

On 11/26/2012 04:26 PM, Volodymyr Kostyrko wrote:

26.11.2012 16:49, Jakub Lach:

Absolutely not, it's a heavily stripped custom kernel on this machine on
/boot/.


Do you call this heavily stripped? :)

 ls -la /boot/kernel/kernel
-r-xr-xr-x  1 root  wheel  5757970 Nov 26 10:57 /boot/kernel/kernel

However it's very hard to strip kernel further and make it usable for all 
machines.



I was pointing to that, if my kernel is 9 MB, there's no way GENERIC could
be
1.5-2.5 MB.


That's true...



i386 kernel with the only devices I need without debug symbols is 4.5MB on 
7.4-STABLE

fb1:/home/Freebee % uname -a
FreeBSD fb1 7.4-STABLE FreeBSD 7.4-STABLE #7: Mon Nov 26 11:27:42 CET 
2012 root@fb1:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/FB1  i386

fb1:/home/Freebee % ls -lh /boot/kernel/kernel
-r-xr-xr-x  1 root  wheel   4.6M Nov 26 11:27 /boot/kernel/kernel

amd64 same story on 9.1-RC3 is 6.3MB
[Freebee@sys:~] $ uname -a
FreeBSD sys 9.1-RC3 FreeBSD 9.1-RC3 #0: Wed Oct 31 11:56:55 CET 2012 
root@sys:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/SYS  amd64

[Freebee@sys:~] $ ls -hl /boot/kernel/kernel
-r-xr-xr-x  1 root  wheel   6.3M Oct 31 11:56 /boot/kernel/kernel



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Re: Help review the FAQ

2012-11-26 Thread Jakub Lach
Again, sorry for confusion :)

ls -la /boot/kernel/kernel
-r-xr-xr-x  1 root  wheel  5842267 25 lis 18:32 /boot/kernel/kernel

Yes, it could be artificially smaller still, but delegating to modules
things 
I would load witch each startup would be absurd. 

First size was whole directory with modules.



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Re: Help review the FAQ

2012-11-26 Thread Jakub Lach
As a reminder, this isn't a contest in kernel size :) 

More useful would be if somebody would check GENERIC
on i386/amd64 for FAQ update.



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Re: Help review the FAQ

2012-11-26 Thread Miroslav Lachman

Jakub Lach wrote:

As a reminder, this isn't a contest in kernel size :)

More useful would be if somebody would check GENERIC
on i386/amd64 for FAQ update.


FreeBSD 8.3-RELEASE amd64 GENERIC

 ls -lh /boot/kernel/kernel
-r-xr-xr-x  1 root  wheel12M May  8  2012 /boot/kernel/kernel

FreeBSD 8.2-RELEASE-p3 i386 GENERIC

 ls -lh /boot/kernel/kernel
-r-xr-xr-x  1 root  wheel11M Jan  8  2012 /boot/kernel/kernel

FreeBSD 9.0-RELEASE amd64 GENERIC

 ls -lh /boot/kernel/kernel
-r-xr-xr-x  1 root  wheel14M Jan  3  2012 /boot/kernel/kernel

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Re: Help review the FAQ

2012-11-26 Thread Jakub Lach
Thanks!

Regarding FAQ, some info about journalling should  be added to
Chapter 9 Disks, File Systems, and Boot Loaders, especially now,
when SU+J is default. 



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Re: Help review the FAQ

2012-11-26 Thread Eitan Adler
On 26 November 2012 11:25, Jakub Lach jakub_l...@mailplus.pl wrote:
 Thanks!

 Regarding FAQ, some info about journalling should  be added to
 Chapter 9 Disks, File Systems, and Boot Loaders, especially now,
 when SU+J is default.

which question does this apply to, or is this a request for new questions?



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Re: Help review the FAQ

2012-11-26 Thread Bas Smeelen

On 11/26/12 17:25, Jakub Lach wrote:

Thanks!

Regarding FAQ, some info about journalling should  be added to
Chapter 9 Disks, File Systems, and Boot Loaders, especially now,
when SU+J is default.


Add to FAQ 9.4 Which partitions can safely use Soft Updates? I have 
heard that Soft Updates on / can cause problems.


Journaled Soft Updates (SU+J) is now default on FreeBSD 9.x-RELEASE 
installs.
This feature keeps a journal on soft updates which avoids a background 
filesystem check and speeds up a filesystem check during boot to a few 
seconds or less.

For history and technical details see:
http://jeffr-tech.livejournal.com/22716.html
and
http://www.*bsdcan*.org/2010/schedule/attachments/141_suj-slides.pdf

This can also be enabled/disabled with tunefs -j enable | disable
For more information see man 8 tunefs



New FAQ 9.28 I have heard about TRIM for Solid State Drives (SSD), is it 
supported by FreeBSD?


The TRIM filesystem flag is very useful for devices that use 
flash-memory (SSD for instance) and support the BIO_DELETE command.
This flag is not enabled by default and can be enabled/disabled with 
tunefs -t enable | disable

For more information see man 8 tunefs
 -t enable | disable
 Turn on/off the TRIM enable flag.  If enabled, and if the 
under-

 lying device supports the BIO_DELETE command, the file system
 will send a delete request to the underlying device for each
 freed block.  The trim enable flag is typically set when the
 underlying device uses flash-memory as the device can use the
 delete command to pre-zero or at least avoid copying 
blocks that

 have been deleted.

Important when using tunefs:
 This utility does not work on active file systems.  To change the root
 file system, the system must be rebooted after the file system is 
tuned.


FIlesystems have to be mounted read-only or not mounted at all





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Re: Help review the FAQ

2012-11-26 Thread Bas Smeelen

On 11/26/12 16:57, Jakub Lach wrote:

As a reminder, this isn't a contest in kernel size :)



Didn't mean to, I just put it there to state that 1.5 - 2.5 MB for a 
GENERIC kernel is not appropriate anymore.

More useful would be if somebody would check GENERIC
on i386/amd64 for FAQ update.


Thanks Miroslav Lachman for the reply with the correct sizes for GENERIC 
kernels.


Change FAQ 8.3 Why is my kernel so big?

Nowadays kernels are compiled in /debug mode by default/. Kernels built 
in debug mode contain many symbols that are used for debugging, thus 
greatly increasing the size of the kernel. Note that there will be 
little or no performance decrease from running a debug kernel, and it is 
useful in case of a system panic.


However



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Re: Help review the FAQ

2012-11-26 Thread Bas Smeelen

On 11/26/12 21:27, Bas Smeelen wrote:

On 11/26/12 17:25, Jakub Lach wrote:

Thanks!

Regarding FAQ, some info about journalling should  be added to
Chapter 9 Disks, File Systems, and Boot Loaders, especially now,
when SU+J is default.


Please also add:
SU+J does not work (yet) with dump on a live filesystem i.e. use snapshot.
If you want to use snapshot (dump -L) then disable the soft updates 
journal for that filesystem




Add to FAQ 9.4 Which partitions can safely use Soft Updates? I have 
heard that Soft Updates on / can cause problems.


Journaled Soft Updates (SU+J) is now default on FreeBSD 9.x-RELEASE 
installs.
This feature keeps a journal on soft updates which avoids a background 
filesystem check and speeds up a filesystem check during boot to a few 
seconds or less.

For history and technical details see:
http://jeffr-tech.livejournal.com/22716.html
and
http://www.*bsdcan*.org/2010/schedule/attachments/141_suj-slides.pdf

This can also be enabled/disabled with tunefs -j enable | disable
For more information see man 8 tunefs



New FAQ 9.28 I have heard about TRIM for Solid State Drives (SSD), is 
it supported by FreeBSD?


The TRIM filesystem flag is very useful for devices that use 
flash-memory (SSD for instance) and support the BIO_DELETE command.
This flag is not enabled by default and can be enabled/disabled with 
tunefs -t enable | disable

For more information see man 8 tunefs
 -t enable | disable
 Turn on/off the TRIM enable flag.  If enabled, and if the 
under-
 lying device supports the BIO_DELETE command, the file 
system

 will send a delete request to the underlying device for each
 freed block.  The trim enable flag is typically set when the
 underlying device uses flash-memory as the device can use 
the
 delete command to pre-zero or at least avoid copying 
blocks that

 have been deleted.

Important when using tunefs:
 This utility does not work on active file systems.  To change the 
root
 file system, the system must be rebooted after the file system is 
tuned.


FIlesystems have to be mounted read-only or not mounted at all



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Re: Help review the FAQ

2012-11-26 Thread Jakub Lach
This may be request for new questions, or this can be supplemented 
partially in hardware ones I think; 

- new default partition layout and it's justification (single partition 
nowadays, I believe?)
- default block size and it's justification (is it 4K? why?)
- NCQ support with ada/ahci 
- ahci power managment [*]
- why or why not default settings are just fine with SSD 
(regarding journaling, SU, trim and what not).

Sorry for requesting content rather than reviewing existing 
one, but I think this info important for modern FAQ. 

* power-management-support description is lacking, 
apm is obsolete, no mention of ahci. 

I think this is more of less complete sketch of power 
saving facilities in FreeBSD-

http://wiki.freebsd.org/TuningPowerConsumption



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Re: Help review the FAQ

2012-11-26 Thread Doug Hardie

On 26 November 2012, at 12:53, Bas Smeelen wrote:

 On 11/26/12 21:27, Bas Smeelen wrote:
 On 11/26/12 17:25, Jakub Lach wrote:
 Thanks!
 
 Regarding FAQ, some info about journalling should  be added to
 Chapter 9 Disks, File Systems, and Boot Loaders, especially now,
 when SU+J is default.
 
 Please also add:
 SU+J does not work (yet) with dump on a live filesystem i.e. use snapshot.
 If you want to use snapshot (dump -L) then disable the soft updates journal 
 for that filesystem

It would be helpful to include information on how to do that during install 
(still trying to figure that out myself), and using the recover CD for when you 
forget to do it during install.
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Re: Help review the FAQ

2012-11-26 Thread Miroslav Lachman

Bas Smeelen wrote:

On 11/26/12 16:57, Jakub Lach wrote:

[...]

Thanks Miroslav Lachman for the reply with the correct sizes for GENERIC
kernels.

Change FAQ 8.3 Why is my kernel so big?

Nowadays kernels are compiled in /debug mode by default/. Kernels built
in debug mode contain many symbols that are used for debugging, thus
greatly increasing the size of the kernel. Note that there will be
little or no performance decrease from running a debug kernel, and it is
useful in case of a system panic.

However


I think that debug symbols are in another files (*.symbols)

FreeBSD 8.3-RELEASE amd64 GENERIC

 ls -lh /boot/kernel/kernel*
-r-xr-xr-x  1 root  wheel   12M May  8  2012 /boot/kernel/kernel
-r-xr-xr-x  1 root  wheel   50M May  8  2012 /boot/kernel/kernel.symbols

So a kernel alone has 12MB, with debug symbols 62MB (12+50).
And all *.symbols files can be deleted (if more space on /boot is needed)
I don't know how it should be mentioned in FAQ.

Miroslav Lachman
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Re: Help review the FAQ

2012-11-26 Thread Bas Smeelen

On 11/26/12 22:02, Doug Hardie wrote:

On 26 November 2012, at 12:53, Bas Smeelen wrote:


On 11/26/12 21:27, Bas Smeelen wrote:

On 11/26/12 17:25, Jakub Lach wrote:

Thanks!

Regarding FAQ, some info about journalling should  be added to
Chapter 9 Disks, File Systems, and Boot Loaders, especially now,
when SU+J is default.

Please also add:
SU+J does not work (yet) with dump on a live filesystem i.e. use snapshot.
If you want to use snapshot (dump -L) then disable the soft updates journal for 
that filesystem

It would be helpful to include information on how to do that during install 
(still trying to figure that out myself), and using the recover CD for when you 
forget to do it during install.


Right now, when installing a new system it's easiest to reboot to single 
user mode after the install and tunefs -j disable 'the filesystems' to 
disable journaling of soft updates.


If you want to accomplish this during the install, choose shell at the 
disk partitioning part and add slices and/or partitions with gpart and 
then newfs them with the appropriate options, then mount them on /mnt 
and the appropriate places beneath and continue the install by quitting 
the shell.


There are some nice entries on http://wiki.freebsd.org/RootOnZFS
Just substitute the ZFS stuff with the easier gpart and then newfs -U 
etc... then make sure the filesystems are mounted under /mnt and 
continue the installation.
I hope that I will not confuse you too much with the proposed solution 
i.e. use these resources as a guideline. Else see reboot to single user 
mode after install above and tunefs




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Re: Help review the FAQ

2012-11-26 Thread Bas Smeelen

On 11/26/12 22:15, Miroslav Lachman wrote:

Bas Smeelen wrote:

On 11/26/12 16:57, Jakub Lach wrote:

[...]

Thanks Miroslav Lachman for the reply with the correct sizes for GENERIC
kernels.

Change FAQ 8.3 Why is my kernel so big?

Nowadays kernels are compiled in /debug mode by default/. Kernels built
in debug mode contain many symbols that are used for debugging, thus
greatly increasing the size of the kernel. Note that there will be
little or no performance decrease from running a debug kernel, and it is
useful in case of a system panic.

However


I think that debug symbols are in another files (*.symbols)

FreeBSD 8.3-RELEASE amd64 GENERIC

 ls -lh /boot/kernel/kernel*
-r-xr-xr-x  1 root  wheel   12M May  8  2012 /boot/kernel/kernel
-r-xr-xr-x  1 root  wheel   50M May  8  2012 /boot/kernel/kernel.symbols

So a kernel alone has 12MB, with debug symbols 62MB (12+50).
And all *.symbols files can be deleted (if more space on /boot is needed)
I don't know how it should be mentioned in FAQ.


You are right.
From the FAQ I understand with 'kernel so big' the contents of the 
/boot/kernel directory is being referred to as a whole?
Thus disabling (commenting) makeoptions DEBUG=-g (which is default the 
last couple of releases, since 7?) and then rebuilding and installing 
the kernel you get rid if them 'the right way'


So FAQ 8.3 is still right just changing that nowadays it's default for 
GENERIC to be build with the debug symbols.






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Re: Help review the FAQ

2012-11-26 Thread Bas Smeelen

On 11/26/12 22:20, Bas Smeelen wrote:

On 11/26/12 22:02, Doug Hardie wrote:

On 26 November 2012, at 12:53, Bas Smeelen wrote:


On 11/26/12 21:27, Bas Smeelen wrote:

On 11/26/12 17:25, Jakub Lach wrote:

Thanks!

Regarding FAQ, some info about journalling should  be added to
Chapter 9 Disks, File Systems, and Boot Loaders, especially now,
when SU+J is default.

Please also add:
SU+J does not work (yet) with dump on a live filesystem i.e. use 
snapshot.
If you want to use snapshot (dump -L) then disable the soft updates 
journal for that filesystem
It would be helpful to include information on how to do that during 
install (still trying to figure that out myself), and using the 
recover CD for when you forget to do it during install.


Right now, when installing a new system it's easiest to reboot to 
single user mode after the install and tunefs -j disable 'the 
filesystems' to disable journaling of soft updates.


When changing the root ( / ) filesystem in single user mode, reboot 
immediately after disabling the soft updates journal otherwise it will 
still be enabled. No need for a rescue cd/usb here.




If you want to accomplish this during the install, choose shell at the 
disk partitioning part and add slices and/or partitions with gpart and 
then newfs them with the appropriate options, then mount them on /mnt 
and the appropriate places beneath and continue the install by 
quitting the shell.


There are some nice entries on http://wiki.freebsd.org/RootOnZFS
Just substitute the ZFS stuff with the easier gpart and then newfs -U 
etc... then make sure the filesystems are mounted under /mnt and 
continue the installation.
I hope that I will not confuse you too much with the proposed solution 
i.e. use these resources as a guideline. Else see reboot to single 
user mode after install above and tunefs




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Re: Help review the FAQ

2012-11-26 Thread Schaich Alonso
On 2012-11-26 (Monday) 22:15:27 Miroslav Lachman wrote:
 [...]
 
 So a kernel alone has 12MB, with debug symbols 62MB (12+50).
 And all *.symbols files can be deleted (if more space on /boot is needed)
 I don't know how it should be mentioned in FAQ.
 
 Miroslav Lachman

Specifying WITHOUT_KERNEL_SYMBOLS=YES in src.conf to not generate debug 
information IMO is a cleaner and more preferable solution then deleting the 
files, and it also reduces the amount of storage space needed for /usr/obj (or 
whereever else the kernel's built) by about 1GB on STABLE-9.

Schaich Alonso
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Re: Help review the FAQ

2012-11-26 Thread Bas Smeelen

On 11/26/12 22:27, Schaich Alonso wrote:

On 2012-11-26 (Monday) 22:15:27 Miroslav Lachman wrote:

[...]

So a kernel alone has 12MB, with debug symbols 62MB (12+50).
And all *.symbols files can be deleted (if more space on /boot is needed)
I don't know how it should be mentioned in FAQ.

Miroslav Lachman

Specifying WITHOUT_KERNEL_SYMBOLS=YES in src.conf to not generate debug
information IMO is a cleaner and more preferable solution then deleting the
files, and it also reduces the amount of storage space needed for /usr/obj (or
whereever else the kernel's built) by about 1GB on STABLE-9.


Thanks for this (man 5 src.conf)
I guess this way is preferred instead of customizing the kernel 
configuration file?
From the manpage I understand the symbol files will not get installed, 
but will still be build.
To decrease building time, one should modify the kernel configuration 
file anyway?




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Re: Help review the FAQ

2012-11-26 Thread Bas Smeelen

On 11/20/12 20:25, Eitan Adler wrote:

On 19 November 2012 15:07, Aldis Berjoza graude...@yandex.ru wrote:


19.11.2012, 22:04, Andrea Venturoli m...@netfence.it:

On 11/19/12 18:44, Eitan Adler wrote:


  Hey all,

  The FAQ for FreeBSD needs a significant amount of updating and
  changing.  The first step in that process is to figure out what needs
  to be changed.

  If you can a take a moment and thoroughly review just one
  question and add your comments and concerns it
  would be immensely helpful.

  http://wiki.freebsd.org/ThwackAFAQ

...

I've migrated the comments on the mailing list to the wiki and will
working on fixing them shortly.  Content patches are appreciated but
not required. Ideally every row on the wiki will be either green or
red.

Fixing the content is a very long term project.




Probable addition
8.8 I get a lot of 'spurious interrupts detected' messages on a modified 
i386 build kernel and my computer does not work right. What did I do wrong?


You have a single processor computer, build your own customized kernel 
and disabled

options SMP (multiprocessor).
Probably you also disabled the line below,
device  apic# I/O APIC

This is code for the advanced programmable interrupt controller which 
also controls interrupts for your attached devices, being ethernet cards 
and others.

Do not disable this device.




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Re: Help review the FAQ

2012-11-26 Thread Andrea Venturoli

On 11/26/12 23:09, Bas Smeelen wrote:


Probable addition
8.8 I get a lot of 'spurious interrupts detected' messages on a modified
i386 build kernel and my computer does not work right. What did I do wrong?

You have a single processor computer, build your own customized kernel
and disabled
options SMP (multiprocessor).
Probably you also disabled the line below,
device  apic# I/O APIC

This is code for the advanced programmable interrupt controller which
also controls interrupts for your attached devices, being ethernet cards
and others.
Do not disable this device.


While I don't know about apic, there used to be KEEP THIS!!! comments 
in GENERIC's conf file.
I guess this would be more on the spot than a FAQ you'd read *after* 
removing this.


Just my 2c.

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Re: Help review the FAQ

2012-11-26 Thread Bas Smeelen

On 11/27/2012 08:44 AM, Andrea Venturoli wrote:

On 11/26/12 23:09, Bas Smeelen wrote:


Probable addition
8.8 I get a lot of 'spurious interrupts detected' messages on a modified
i386 build kernel and my computer does not work right. What did I do wrong?

You have a single processor computer, build your own customized kernel
and disabled
options SMP (multiprocessor).
Probably you also disabled the line below,
device  apic# I/O APIC

This is code for the advanced programmable interrupt controller which
also controls interrupts for your attached devices, being ethernet cards
and others.
Do not disable this device.


While I don't know about apic, there used to be KEEP THIS!!! comments in 
GENERIC's conf file.
I guess this would be more on the spot than a FAQ you'd read *after* 
removing this.


Just my 2c.

 bye
av.


You're probably right. It must have been before 6.3-RELEASE, where there are 
no KEEP THIS comments in GENERIC.

Though in NOTES it says Mandatory.

It is a very stupid user error on my side, which I stumbled upon quite a 
time ago and maybe not even FAQ worthy then.



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Re: Help review the FAQ

2012-11-25 Thread Jakub Lach
Please include some SSD recommended practice.



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Re: Help review the FAQ

2012-11-25 Thread Jakub Lach
Why is my kernel so big?

As long as you make sure you follow the steps above, you can build your
kernel normally, and you should notice a fairly large size decrease; most
kernels tend to be around 1.5 MB to 2 MB.

Not really, stripped amd64 kernel is about 9 MB currently...




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Re: Help review the FAQ

2012-11-25 Thread Jakub Lach
Why does Opera take so long to start?

The usual answer is that DNS on your system is misconfigured. Opera perform
DNS checks when starting up. The browser will not appear on your desktop
until the program either gets a response or determines that the system has
no network connection.

Needs rechecking, I doubt it's still applicable.



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Re: Help review the FAQ

2012-11-25 Thread Eitan Adler
On 25 November 2012 13:28, Jakub Lach jakub_l...@mailplus.pl wrote:
 Why is my kernel so big?

 As long as you make sure you follow the steps above, you can build your
 kernel normally, and you should notice a fairly large size decrease; most
 kernels tend to be around 1.5 MB to 2 MB.

 Not really, stripped amd64 kernel is about 9 MB currently...

Is this the size of GENERIC on release media?


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Re: Help review the FAQ

2012-11-23 Thread Lars Engels

Am 19.11.2012 21:07, schrieb Aldis Berjoza:

19.11.2012, 22:04, Andrea Venturoli m...@netfence.it:

On 11/19/12 18:44, Eitan Adler wrote:


 Hey all,

 The FAQ for FreeBSD needs a significant amount of updating and
 changing.  The first step in that process is to figure out what 
needs

 to be changed.

 If you can a take a moment and thoroughly review just one
 question and add your comments and concerns it
 would be immensely helpful.

 http://wiki.freebsd.org/ThwackAFAQ


Under: removable-drives

Would it be worth mentioning no /dev/xxxs1 is created when the 
device is

plugged in after boot?

E.G. 1:
I have a Zip Drive which is /dev/da1.
Everything is fine if a disk is in when I boot, but if I insert the
media after boot, /dev/da1s1 is not there.
I need to mount /dev/da1 /mnt: this also fails, but now I have
/dev/da1s1 and can mount it.

E.G. 2:
I connect my Android phone with an USB cable: it will be /dev/da7.
Again I have no /dev/da7s1 until I dd count=0 if=/dev/random 
of=/dev/da7.


Same happens with CompactFlash, MMC, SD, etc...


That doesn't sound normal. I only had similar problems with
Klingston DataTraveler flash (it had some crap firmware)


I've seen that on almost every USB MP3 player, Android mobile phones 
and on other USB devices that export an internal memory card.


Much shorter than dd ... is this:
:  /dev/da0

But it would be really really really great if someone(TM) would fix it, 
so the workaround is no longer needed...

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Re: Help review the FAQ

2012-11-23 Thread Andrea Venturoli

On 11/23/12 10:25, Lars Engels wrote:

I've seen that on almost every USB MP3 player, Android mobile phones and
on other USB devices that export an internal memory card.


BTW, my disk drive is SCSI attached, so it's not an USB-only issue.




But it would be really really really great if someone(TM) would fix it,
so the workaround is no longer needed...


Yep, that would be really great.


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Re: Help review the FAQ

2012-11-23 Thread Lars Engels

Am 23.11.2012 14:54, schrieb Andrea Venturoli:

On 11/23/12 10:25, Lars Engels wrote:
I've seen that on almost every USB MP3 player, Android mobile phones 
and

on other USB devices that export an internal memory card.


BTW, my disk drive is SCSI attached, so it's not an USB-only issue.



So, it's probably a cam layer issue.
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Re: Help review the FAQ

2012-11-20 Thread Eitan Adler
On 19 November 2012 15:07, Aldis Berjoza graude...@yandex.ru wrote:


 19.11.2012, 22:04, Andrea Venturoli m...@netfence.it:
 On 11/19/12 18:44, Eitan Adler wrote:

  Hey all,

  The FAQ for FreeBSD needs a significant amount of updating and
  changing.  The first step in that process is to figure out what needs
  to be changed.

  If you can a take a moment and thoroughly review just one
  question and add your comments and concerns it
  would be immensely helpful.

  http://wiki.freebsd.org/ThwackAFAQ
...

I've migrated the comments on the mailing list to the wiki and will
working on fixing them shortly.  Content patches are appreciated but
not required. Ideally every row on the wiki will be either green or
red.

Fixing the content is a very long term project.


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Help review the FAQ

2012-11-19 Thread Eitan Adler
Hey all,

The FAQ for FreeBSD needs a significant amount of updating and
changing.  The first step in that process is to figure out what needs
to be changed.

If you can a take a moment and thoroughly review just one
question and add your comments and concerns it
would be immensely helpful.

http://wiki.freebsd.org/ThwackAFAQ

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Re: Help review the FAQ

2012-11-19 Thread Mehmet Erol Sanliturk
On Mon, Nov 19, 2012 at 9:44 AM, Eitan Adler li...@eitanadler.com wrote:

 Hey all,

 The FAQ for FreeBSD needs a significant amount of updating and
 changing.  The first step in that process is to figure out what needs
 to be changed.

 If you can a take a moment and thoroughly review just one
 question and add your comments and concerns it
 would be immensely helpful.

 http://wiki.freebsd.org/ThwackAFAQ

 --
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The following points may be inspected :


4.4.1. What kind of hard drives does FreeBSD support?

Requires complete rewrite .


4.4.5. Which CD-ROM drives are supported by FreeBSD?
4.4.6. Which CD-RW drives are supported by FreeBSD?


SATA devices ?
DVD RW ?
Blue-Ray RW ?

burncd is not used any more .


6.3. Where can I get CDE for FreeBSD?

CDE become open source ( LGPL ).

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Common_Desktop_Environment
http://cdesktopenv.org/
http://sourceforge.net/projects/cdesktopenv/


9.2. How do I move my system over to my huge new disk?
9.3. Will a dangerously dedicated disk endanger my health?
9.6. Why can I not edit the disk label on my ccd(4)?

Requires some rewrite with respect do bsdinstall , because sysinstall is
not used any more in new
distributions .


11.7. What is a virtual console and how do I make more?
11.8. How do I access the virtual consoles from X?


Application with KMS effects ?


Thank you very much .


Mehmet Erol Sanliturk
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Re: Help review the FAQ

2012-11-19 Thread Mehmet Erol Sanliturk
On Mon, Nov 19, 2012 at 9:44 AM, Eitan Adler li...@eitanadler.com wrote:

 Hey all,

 The FAQ for FreeBSD needs a significant amount of updating and
 changing.  The first step in that process is to figure out what needs
 to be changed.

 If you can a take a moment and thoroughly review just one
 question and add your comments and concerns it
 would be immensely helpful.

 http://wiki.freebsd.org/ThwackAFAQ

 --
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Bibliography


http://www.amazon.com/Complete-FreeBSD-Documentation-Source/dp/0596005164/ref=sr_1_1?s=booksie=UTF8qid=1353351576sr=1-1keywords=The+Complete+FreeBSD
The Complete FreeBSD: Documentation from the Source

Product Details

Paperback: 714 pages
Publisher: O'Reilly Media; 4th edition (May 6, 2003)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0596005164
ISBN-13: 978-0596005160

Thank you very much .

Mehmet Erol Sanliturk
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Re: Help review the FAQ

2012-11-19 Thread Andrea Venturoli

On 11/19/12 18:44, Eitan Adler wrote:

Hey all,

The FAQ for FreeBSD needs a significant amount of updating and
changing.  The first step in that process is to figure out what needs
to be changed.

If you can a take a moment and thoroughly review just one
question and add your comments and concerns it
would be immensely helpful.

http://wiki.freebsd.org/ThwackAFAQ



Under serial-communication:

Shouldn't USB to serial converters be mentioned?

I believe the most common modems nowadays are GSM/3G, which usually plug 
in through USB, but in fact show up as a ttyU/cuaU.


There are several working mobile modems; few are listed in the hardware 
compatibility page.


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Re: Help review the FAQ

2012-11-19 Thread Andrea Venturoli

On 11/19/12 18:44, Eitan Adler wrote:

Hey all,

The FAQ for FreeBSD needs a significant amount of updating and
changing.  The first step in that process is to figure out what needs
to be changed.

If you can a take a moment and thoroughly review just one
question and add your comments and concerns it
would be immensely helpful.

http://wiki.freebsd.org/ThwackAFAQ



Under: removable-drives

Would it be worth mentioning no /dev/xxxs1 is created when the device is 
plugged in after boot?


E.G. 1:
I have a Zip Drive which is /dev/da1.
Everything is fine if a disk is in when I boot, but if I insert the 
media after boot, /dev/da1s1 is not there.
I need to mount /dev/da1 /mnt: this also fails, but now I have 
/dev/da1s1 and can mount it.


E.G. 2:
I connect my Android phone with an USB cable: it will be /dev/da7.
Again I have no /dev/da7s1 until I dd count=0 if=/dev/random of=/dev/da7.

Same happens with CompactFlash, MMC, SD, etc...

 bye
av.

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Re: Help review the FAQ

2012-11-19 Thread Aldis Berjoza


19.11.2012, 22:04, Andrea Venturoli m...@netfence.it:
 On 11/19/12 18:44, Eitan Adler wrote:

  Hey all,

  The FAQ for FreeBSD needs a significant amount of updating and
  changing.  The first step in that process is to figure out what needs
  to be changed.

  If you can a take a moment and thoroughly review just one
  question and add your comments and concerns it
  would be immensely helpful.

  http://wiki.freebsd.org/ThwackAFAQ

 Under: removable-drives

 Would it be worth mentioning no /dev/xxxs1 is created when the device is
 plugged in after boot?

 E.G. 1:
 I have a Zip Drive which is /dev/da1.
 Everything is fine if a disk is in when I boot, but if I insert the
 media after boot, /dev/da1s1 is not there.
 I need to mount /dev/da1 /mnt: this also fails, but now I have
 /dev/da1s1 and can mount it.

 E.G. 2:
 I connect my Android phone with an USB cable: it will be /dev/da7.
 Again I have no /dev/da7s1 until I dd count=0 if=/dev/random of=/dev/da7.

 Same happens with CompactFlash, MMC, SD, etc...

That doesn't sound normal. I only had similar problems with 
Klingston DataTraveler flash (it had some crap firmware)

-- 
Aldis Berjoza
FreeBSD addict
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