Where can I get a nVidia driver for FBSD amd64

2007-03-02 Thread Stephen Liu
Hi folks, FreeBSD 6.2-amd64 I have been searching around for nVidia drvier without result. X window can't work properly on this box. However I'm not alone. Please visit following sites http://www.nvnews.net/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=41545&page=15 and http://www.nvnews.net/vbulletin/showthr

Re: (S)ATA performance in FBSD 6.2/7.0

2007-03-02 Thread Bruce Evans
On Fri, 2 Mar 2007, Brooks Davis wrote: Also, you should time the actual copy and do the math to verify that vmstat is actually producing valid results. It's possible there's a bug in vmstat or the underlying statistics it uses. There is certainly a bug in the underlying statistics. For ATA

"Digital Nation" Radio Show

2007-03-02 Thread josh
My name is Josh Smith, I am the producer for the "Digital Nation," radio show, based out of Orlando, Fl. "Digital Nation," is about everything electronic and I would like to know some things about FreeBSD. Does a drive need to be partitioned to run it? Can it run on a partitioned drive, while the

Re: Firefox only runs as root--help!

2007-03-02 Thread Paulette McGee
--- "Dr. Jennifer Nussbaum" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > This is a resend of something i sent to the > freebsd-gnome list a few days > ago, but there wer no answers and i think its a real > problem, so i hope > no one minds. > > I have a new install of FreeBSD 6.2, and installed > Gnome 2.16 and

Re: X11 library question..

2007-03-02 Thread Jeff Mohler
For kicks I copied to to /usr/lib. NEW error.. error while loading shared libraries: /usr/lib/libXm.so.3: ELF file OS ABI invalid On 3/2/07, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On 01/03/07, Jeff Mohler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > The error: > > error while loading shared librarie

Re: X11 library question..

2007-03-02 Thread Jeff Mohler
My output to your commands is identical to yours in that it was found, and is the same open-motif version. :( :( On 3/2/07, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On 01/03/07, Jeff Mohler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > The error: > > error while loading shared libraries: libXm.so.3: cann

Fwd: Re: Firefox only runs as root--help!

2007-03-02 Thread Dr. Jennifer Nussbaum
And i can't even spell "freebsd.org" right. Not my day. Jen - Any questions? Get answers on any topic at Yahoo! Answers. Try it now.--- Begin Message --- Jeremy Gransden <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On 3/2/07, Dr. Jennifer Nussbaum <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrot

Re: BSDstats report for Mar 1st, 2006

2007-03-02 Thread Marc G. Fournier
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Depends if you are looking for 'fast and easy' numbers. or long term ones ... the project goal is long term numbers ... The problem is that right now, everything is "word of mouth", except in the case of PC-BSD, and, I believe, DragonflyBSD ... som

Firefox only runs as root--help!

2007-03-02 Thread Dr. Jennifer Nussbaum
This is a resend of something i sent to the freebsd-gnome list a few days ago, but there wer no answers and i think its a real problem, so i hope no one minds. I have a new install of FreeBSD 6.2, and installed Gnome 2.16 and other things, including Firefox 2.0, from Ports. Firefox only runs as

Re: hauppauge PVR 150 problem loading modules

2007-03-02 Thread Jim Stapleton
I appologize -questions, disregard this, it was supposed to go to multimedia. On 3/3/07, Jim Stapleton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: After being unable to get the WinTV-Radio work, I replaced it with a PVR-150. I followed the instructions here: http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-multimedia/

hauppauge PVR 150 problem loading modules

2007-03-02 Thread Jim Stapleton
After being unable to get the WinTV-Radio work, I replaced it with a PVR-150. I followed the instructions here: http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-multimedia/2006-November/005351.html attempting to get the PVR 150 I just picked up working. However, after loading the modules as described i

Re: Users unable to write to mounted FAT32 partition

2007-03-02 Thread Michael G.
Chris, A mod of your suggestion did the trick. I was unable to finally "chown Michael /mydos" and then change permissions using chmod. Seems pretty simple but kinda strange that as root I could not change the permissions. Thanks to you and Jerry for all the help! Michael G. Chris Hill

Re: COPYING DATA TO NTFS

2007-03-02 Thread Jerry McAllister
On Sat, Mar 03, 2007 at 01:13:21AM +0100, Marco Hafke wrote: > Did you read the manpage of mount_ntfs? Have a look to the writing section: > > "There is limited writing ability. Limitations: file must be nonresident > and must not contain any sparces (uninitialized areas); compressed files > ar

Re: hardware question

2007-03-02 Thread jekillen
On Mar 1, 2007, at 10:38 PM, Garrett Cooper wrote: jekillen wrote: On Mar 1, 2007, at 8:04 PM, Garrett Cooper wrote: jekillen wrote: Hello; I have built a machine with ASUS M2N32 WS pro motherboard. It has dual network interface ports that are Marvell interfaces. I understand that FreeBSD do

Re: Linux "equivalent" to freebsd

2007-03-02 Thread Danny Pansters
If you have a (Free)BSD mindset and like your rc.conf but don't mind typing "pacman" instead of pkg_* or portupgrade -P * and you don't mind using something called ABS for src packages, which is like ports, only with a stage install before live-system install, then you may just like ArchLinux.

Re: Serial Port Problems

2007-03-02 Thread Mike Tancsa
On Thu, 01 Mar 2007 15:27:19 -0600, in sentex.lists.freebsd.questions you wrote: > >More Dell 2950 woes. > >I use serial ports to manage my FreeBSD machines remotely. I've never >had any problems until now. I've installed FreeBSD 6.2 on a Dell 2950. > >The install goes without problems over the

Re: COPYING DATA TO NTFS

2007-03-02 Thread Marco Hafke
Did you read the manpage of mount_ntfs? Have a look to the writing section: "There is limited writing ability. Limitations: file must be nonresident and must not contain any sparces (uninitialized areas); compressed files are also not supported. The file name must not contain multibyte charac

Re: Users unable to write to mounted FAT32 partition

2007-03-02 Thread Jerry McAllister
On Fri, Mar 02, 2007 at 07:30:50PM -0500, Chris Hill wrote: > On Fri, 2 Mar 2007, Michael G. wrote: > > >Owner of /mydos is root and Group is wheel. User has rwx while Group > >and Other only have r-x > > Well, there it is. I think users who want to write to this filesystem > need to have wri

Re: Users unable to write to mounted FAT32 partition

2007-03-02 Thread Chris Hill
On Fri, 2 Mar 2007, Michael G. wrote: Owner of /mydos is root and Group is wheel. User has rwx while Group and Other only have r-x Well, there it is. I think users who want to write to this filesystem need to have write permission on the mountpoint. How about creating a group, perhaps "user

Re: Users unable to write to mounted FAT32 partition

2007-03-02 Thread Michael G.
Jerry, Owner of /mydos is root and Group is wheel. User has rwx while Group and Other only have r-x M.G. Jerry McAllister wrote: On Fri, Mar 02, 2007 at 05:14:14PM -0600, Michael G. wrote: OK, I've scoured the archives for an answer with no results. I'm sharing a FAT32 partition bet

Re: COPYING DATA TO NTFS

2007-03-02 Thread Jona Joachim
On Fri, 2 Mar 2007 15:39:30 -0800 "Parker Brown" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Using the FreeBSD booter to manage both Windoz XP and FreeBSD 6.1 on > the same SCSI drive. Under FreeBSD I've got XP mounted, and I've > been able to examine the XP directories, but when I try to copy data > or the con

COPYING DATA TO NTFS

2007-03-02 Thread Parker Brown
Using the FreeBSD booter to manage both Windoz XP and FreeBSD 6.1 on the same SCSI drive. Under FreeBSD I've got XP mounted, and I've been able to examine the XP directories, but when I try to copy data or the contents of directories from FreeBSD to XP. Usingcp -R format, nothing copies,

Re: Users unable to write to mounted FAT32 partition

2007-03-02 Thread Jerry McAllister
On Fri, Mar 02, 2007 at 05:14:14PM -0600, Michael G. wrote: > OK, I've scoured the archives for an answer with no results. I'm > sharing a FAT32 partition between XP and 6.2 Release. The problem is I > can mount the drive but only root can write to it (users can just > read). I have the foll

Users unable to write to mounted FAT32 partition

2007-03-02 Thread Michael G.
OK, I've scoured the archives for an answer with no results. I'm sharing a FAT32 partition between XP and 6.2 Release. The problem is I can mount the drive but only root can write to it (users can just read). I have the following in fstab: /dev/asd42/mydosmsdosfs rw 0 0

Re: BSDstats report for Mar 1st, 2006

2007-03-02 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On 02/03/07, Doug Poland <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Fri, March 2, 2007 13:24, Marc G. Fournier wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > > Well, I skip'd reporting last month, like anyone missed it, right? > I did :) > Well, last month, and this month, have been seen ~10% increases in > f

Re: find returns unusable result

2007-03-02 Thread Gary Kline
On Wed, Feb 28, 2007 at 03:38:24PM -0800, Bill Campbell wrote: > On Wed, Feb 28, 2007, Vince wrote: > >Josh Tolbert wrote: > >> On Wed, Feb 28, 2007 at 05:12:58PM -0600, Paul Schmehl wrote: > >>> I'd like to cron a process that looks at a certain folder every day and > >>> changes the perms on a d

Re: BSDstats report for Mar 1st, 2006

2007-03-02 Thread Matt Olander
On Friday 02 March 2007 11:24 am, Marc G. Fournier wrote: > Well, I skip'd reporting last month, like anyone missed it, right? > > Well, last month, and this month, have been seen ~10% increases in > first of month numbers, so its still growing ... Thanks Marc! I noticed and I missed it ;-) -matt

Re: BSDstats report for Mar 1st, 2006

2007-03-02 Thread Doug Poland
On Fri, March 2, 2007 13:24, Marc G. Fournier wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > > Well, I skip'd reporting last month, like anyone missed it, right? > I did :) > Well, last month, and this month, have been seen ~10% increases in > first of month numbers, so its still growing ... > The

Re: slice/booting problem

2007-03-02 Thread Jerry McAllister
On Fri, Mar 02, 2007 at 03:12:55PM -0500, J. W. Ballantine wrote: > > I have a two disk system, and I'm trying to install FBSD6.2 on slice 2 > of the second disk, a configuration that I've had working in the past. > > I'm using the Standard installation, select the second disk (ad1) > and create

dhclient.conf + resolv.conf

2007-03-02 Thread J.D. Bronson
I am trying to have dhclient setup my resolv.conf perfect. I am very close. I have this in dhclient.conf: - interface "bge1" { supersede domain-name "wixb.com"; prepend domain-name-servers 192.l68.1.1; request subnet-mask, broadcast-address, routers, domain-na

BSDstats report for Mar 1st, 2006

2007-03-02 Thread Marc G. Fournier
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Well, I skip'd reporting last month, like anyone missed it, right? Well, last month, and this month, have been seen ~10% increases in first of month numbers, so its still growing ... Thanks to all that are participating ... for those just tuning in

slice/booting problem

2007-03-02 Thread J. W. Ballantine
I have a two disk system, and I'm trying to install FBSD6.2 on slice 2 of the second disk, a configuration that I've had working in the past. I'm using the Standard installation, select the second disk (ad1) and create a slice (ad1s2) and then create the partitions within that slice. On that dis

Question about a specific ISP: Amen/Amenworld

2007-03-02 Thread Alexandre Vieira
Hello folks, I'm interested in a dedicated server plan from a somewhat big company called Amenworld (www.amenworld.com) but the sales technician is telling me that amen technicians can't install freebsd on the machines. After some googling I found that they are hosting some freebsd machines (if t

Re: (S)ATA performance in FBSD 6.2/7.0

2007-03-02 Thread Mike Tancsa
At 04:38 AM 3/2/2007, O. Hartmann wrote: The last days I tried to figure out why some of my lab's FreeBSD boxes and also mine at home seem to be outperformed by some Linux setups around here and I saw something interesting. On my lab's FreeBSD 6.2/i386 box (ASUS P4P800, ICH5 with two SATA 150

Re: musicpd frustrations

2007-03-02 Thread Micheal Patterson
- Original Message - From: "Sam Jones" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Sent: Friday, March 02, 2007 11:43 AM Subject: musicpd frustrations Hi all, I'm trying to get musicpd to start on bootup. I'm doing my best to follow the documentation on the website, but there are slight contradictio

Re: (S)ATA performance in FBSD 6.2/7.0

2007-03-02 Thread Eric Anderson
On 03/02/07 09:28, Brooks Davis wrote: On Fri, Mar 02, 2007 at 10:38:35AM +0100, O. Hartmann wrote: The last days I tried to figure out why some of my lab's FreeBSD boxes and also mine at home seem to be outperformed by some Linux setups around here and I saw something interesting. On my lab'

Re: Dual booting problems

2007-03-02 Thread Jerry McAllister
On Fri, Mar 02, 2007 at 05:52:52PM +, RW wrote: > On Fri, 2 Mar 2007 11:37:26 -0500 > Jerry McAllister <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > On Fri, Mar 02, 2007 at 12:34:10AM +, RW wrote: > > > > > On Thu, 1 Mar 2007 13:30:26 -0900 > > > Beech Rintoul <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > >

Re: NeedHelp

2007-03-02 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On 02/03/07, Igor V. Ruzanov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hello! I compiled mbmon ver. 2.05 (console version) under FreeBSD 6.2 RELEASE. But i have the following problem when try to observe values about fan-speeds, t's and voltages: mail:/usr/ports/sysutils/mbmon$ mbmon -d -A 1 ioctl(smb0:open): N

Re: Dual booting problems

2007-03-02 Thread RW
On Fri, 2 Mar 2007 12:49:23 -0500 Jerry McAllister <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Fri, Mar 02, 2007 at 05:39:05PM +, Alex Zbyslaw wrote: > > (*) Actually I have no idea what would happen if you stuck some > > other booter like grub or gag on a later disk. But blank (new) > > disk or Windows

Re: find returns unusable result

2007-03-02 Thread Bill Campbell
On Wed, Feb 28, 2007, Vince wrote: >Josh Tolbert wrote: >> On Wed, Feb 28, 2007 at 05:12:58PM -0600, Paul Schmehl wrote: >>> I'd like to cron a process that looks at a certain folder every day and >>> changes the perms on a directory if they aren't what I want. >>> Unfortunately, the people creat

Re: Apache Rotate Logs and Log Rotate.

2007-03-02 Thread David Robillard
On 3/1/07, Peter Pluta <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: What I did was made a new log format to include the %v (it includes the vhost name in the logs). Lowered my error log to just info. I also got rid of the errorlog and customlog in my vhost brackets and setup newsyslog to rotate the http-access.log

Re: Dual booting problems

2007-03-02 Thread RW
On Fri, 2 Mar 2007 11:37:26 -0500 Jerry McAllister <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Fri, Mar 02, 2007 at 12:34:10AM +, RW wrote: > > > On Thu, 1 Mar 2007 13:30:26 -0900 > > Beech Rintoul <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > I should also mention that you need the FreeBSD boot manager on > > >

Re: Dual booting problems

2007-03-02 Thread Jerry McAllister
On Fri, Mar 02, 2007 at 05:39:05PM +, Alex Zbyslaw wrote: > Jerry McAllister wrote: > > >If you select F5 (maybe F6 or more, I should try that some time) it > >will instead cause the MBR from that second (maybe third, etc) disk to > >be loaded and passes control to it. > > > F5 moves to the

musicpd frustrations

2007-03-02 Thread Sam Jones
Hi all, I'm trying to get musicpd to start on bootup. I'm doing my best to follow the documentation on the website, but there are slight contradictions as far as where to put config files. Right now I have the line musicpd_enable="YES" in /etc/rc.conf, the file /usr/local/etc/rc.d/musicpd, and

Re: X11 library question..

2007-03-02 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On 01/03/07, Jeff Mohler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: The error: error while loading shared libraries: libXm.so.3: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory Ive done a few searches, and installing open-motif seemed to be the right answer, but isnt getting me anywhere. Indeed, %

Re: Dual booting problems

2007-03-02 Thread Alex Zbyslaw
Jerry McAllister wrote: If you select F5 (maybe F6 or more, I should try that some time) it will instead cause the MBR from that second (maybe third, etc) disk to be loaded and passes control to it. F5 moves to the next disk. From that next disk F5 moves on to the next disk again and so f

NeedHelp

2007-03-02 Thread Igor V. Ruzanov
Hello! I compiled mbmon ver. 2.05 (console version) under FreeBSD 6.2 RELEASE. But i have the following problem when try to observe values about fan-speeds, t's and voltages: mail:/usr/ports/sysutils/mbmon$ mbmon -d -A 1 ioctl(smb0:open): No such file or directory SMBus[ALi M1533/1543C] found,

"The Complete FreeBSD": errata and addenda

2007-03-02 Thread Greg Lehey
The trouble with books is that you can't update them the way you can a web page or any other online documentation. The result is that most leading edge computer books are out of date almost before they are printed. Unfortunately, The Complete FreeBSD, published by O'Reilly, is no exception. Inev

How to get best results from FreeBSD-questions

2007-03-02 Thread Greg Lehey
How to get the best results from FreeBSD questions. === Last update $Date: 2005/08/10 02:21:44 $ This is a regular posting to the FreeBSD questions mailing list. If you got it in answer to a message you sent, it means that the sender thinks that a

Re: Serial Port Problems

2007-03-02 Thread Dan D Niles
On Fri, 2007-03-02 at 01:33 -0800, Ted Mittelstaedt wrote: > - Original Message - > From: "Dan D Niles" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: > Sent: Thursday, March 01, 2007 1:27 PM > Subject: Serial Port Problems > > > > > > More Dell 2950 woes. > > > > I use serial ports to manage my FreeBSD mac

Re: Dual booting problems

2007-03-02 Thread Jerry McAllister
On Fri, Mar 02, 2007 at 12:34:10AM +, RW wrote: > On Thu, 1 Mar 2007 13:30:26 -0900 > Beech Rintoul <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > I should also mention that you need the FreeBSD boot manager on both > > disks, or an alternative boot manager such as grub or gag. Read the > > handbook. >

Re: defrag

2007-03-02 Thread Giorgos Keramidas
On 2007-03-02 11:27, Mario Lobo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Thursday 01 March 2007 17:27, Pietro Cerutti wrote: > > On 3/1/07, Kevin Kinsey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Kevin Kinsey wrote: > > > > > > groff /usr/share/doc/smm/05.fastfs/* > ~/ffs.ps > > This is what worked for me: > > [~]>

Re: defrag

2007-03-02 Thread Jerry McAllister
On Fri, Mar 02, 2007 at 02:17:31AM +0100, Ivan Voras wrote: > Jerry McAllister wrote: > > > Well, it would do some, but for the greatest effect, you would need: > > dump + rm -rf * + restore > > This is nitpicking so ignore it: deleting all files on UFS2 volume won't > restore it to it's prist

Re: top

2007-03-02 Thread Bill Moran
Please don't top-post. Please don't turn public discussions into private ones. Please read: http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/articles/freebsd-questions/index.html Format recovered, response in-line. In response to "Grant Peel" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > - Original Message - > Fr

Re: (S)ATA performance in FBSD 6.2/7.0

2007-03-02 Thread Brooks Davis
On Fri, Mar 02, 2007 at 10:38:35AM +0100, O. Hartmann wrote: > The last days I tried to figure out why some of my lab's FreeBSD boxes > and also mine at home seem to be outperformed by some Linux setups > around here and I saw something interesting. > > On my lab's FreeBSD 6.2/i386 box (ASUS P4P

Re: top

2007-03-02 Thread Bill Moran
In response to "Grant Peel" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Hi all, > > FreeBSD 'top' 6.n does not seem to show anything when the i flag (don't > display idle processes). the whole display (below the mem and cpu > information header) goes blank. > > Any ideas? Maybe all your processes are idle? What's

Re: (S)ATA performance in FBSD 6.2/7.0

2007-03-02 Thread Eric Anderson
On 03/02/07 06:03, Alexander Leidinger wrote: Quoting Cheffo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> (from Fri, 02 Mar 2007 13:38:45 +0200): Hi, Ted Mittelstaedt wrote: - Original Message - From: "O. Hartmann" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: ; Sent: Friday, March 02, 2007 1:38 AM Subject: (S)ATA performance

Re: (S)ATA performance in FBSD 6.2/7.0

2007-03-02 Thread Divacky Roman
On Fri, Mar 02, 2007 at 10:43:34AM +0100, Wojciech Puchar wrote: > >another while the box didn't do anything else than copying. I watched the > >copy process via 'systat -vmstat 1' and realized, that the value of 'KB/t' > >never go byond 128 (128kb buffer limit?). But more frustrating, I never go

top

2007-03-02 Thread Grant Peel
Hi all, FreeBSD 'top' 6.n does not seem to show anything when the i flag (don't display idle processes). the whole display (below the mem and cpu information header) goes blank. Any ideas? -Grant ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://

Re: Fwd: IPF (ftp - pkg_add) help requested

2007-03-02 Thread Don Munyak
On 3/1/07, Kelly D. Grills <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Thu, Mar 01, 2007 at 04:10:11PM -0500, Don Munyak wrote: As I hinted at in my original response, If you'd rather keep your firewall rules tighter, pkg_add(1) says: Note: If you wish to use passive mode ftp in such transfers, set the varia

Re: Bandwidth limit server

2007-03-02 Thread Mike Barnard
pf + altq is your friend...(a whole lot of reading for you though) On 3/1/07, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Any one have idea about bandwidth limitation on FreeBSD to act as distribution switch for an ISP's subscriber? Thanks & Best Regards, Rithy RAY, CIO ___

Re: defrag

2007-03-02 Thread Vince Hoffman
Kevin Kinsey wrote: > Kevin Kinsey wrote: >> Steve Franks wrote: >>> How come I never hear defrag come up as a topic, and can't find >>> anything related to defrag in the ports tree? Is it really not an >>> issue on UFS? Can someone point me to an explantion if so? >>> >>> Thanks, >>> Steve >> >>

Re: (S)ATA performance in FBSD 6.2/7.0

2007-03-02 Thread Cheffo
Hi, Ted Mittelstaedt wrote: - Original Message - From: "O. Hartmann" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: ; Sent: Friday, March 02, 2007 1:38 AM Subject: (S)ATA performance in FBSD 6.2/7.0 The last days I tried to figure out why some of my lab's FreeBSD boxes and also mine at home seem to be

Re: (S)ATA performance in FBSD 6.2/7.0

2007-03-02 Thread Alexander Leidinger
Quoting Cheffo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> (from Fri, 02 Mar 2007 13:38:45 +0200): Hi, Ted Mittelstaedt wrote: - Original Message - From: "O. Hartmann" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: ; Sent: Friday, March 02, 2007 1:38 AM Subject: (S)ATA performance in FBSD 6.2/7.0 The last days I tried to figur

Re: defrag

2007-03-02 Thread Mario Lobo
On Thursday 01 March 2007 17:27, Pietro Cerutti wrote: > On 3/1/07, Kevin Kinsey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Kevin Kinsey wrote: > > > > groff /usr/share/doc/smm/05.fastfs/* > ~/ffs.ps > > /\/\ This is what worked for me: [~]>gunzip

Re: (S)ATA performance in FBSD 6.2/7.0

2007-03-02 Thread R. B. Riddick
--- "O. Hartmann" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Before digging into this problem deeper with benchmarks, could anyone > explain why FreeBSD reaches this 33 MB/s limit (sounds like UDMA 33 > defaults, but on both boxes nForce4 and ICH5 controller are recognized > and show up with SATA300 or SATA15

Re: unlisted camera in gtkam?

2007-03-02 Thread matti k
Try setting the camera to PTP mode, I've had success with unsupported camera's using this mode with ports/graphics/digikam. On Wed, 28 Feb 2007 11:48:54 +0200 "t nagu tundmatu" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hello to all, > > I have a problem with gtkam – my new camera (Pentax K10D) is not > supp

Re: portupgrade query

2007-03-02 Thread Vizion
> -Original Message- > From: Sergey Matveychuk [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Thursday, March 01, 2007 11:54 PM > To: Vizion > Cc: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org > Subject: Re: portupgrade query > > Vizion wrote: > > I have multiple lines of stale dependencies reported from > pkgdb -F a

Re: (S)ATA performance in FBSD 6.2/7.0

2007-03-02 Thread Wojciech Puchar
you can change FBSD to async then watch your fs scramble during a power failure no big deal, it's only your data. you are wrong, he talked about copying BIG files, and this shouldn't make a difference contrary to small files. there is something wrong there as i routinely get 70MB/s on my SA

Re: (S)ATA performance in FBSD 6.2/7.0

2007-03-02 Thread Ted Mittelstaedt
- Original Message - From: "O. Hartmann" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: ; Sent: Friday, March 02, 2007 1:38 AM Subject: (S)ATA performance in FBSD 6.2/7.0 > The last days I tried to figure out why some of my lab's FreeBSD boxes > and also mine at home seem to be outperformed by some Linux s

Re: (S)ATA performance in FBSD 6.2/7.0

2007-03-02 Thread Wojciech Puchar
another while the box didn't do anything else than copying. I watched the copy process via 'systat -vmstat 1' and realized, that the value of 'KB/t' never go byond 128 (128kb buffer limit?). But more frustrating, I never got what's wrong? FreeBSD uses 128k limit by default. edit /usr/src/sys/s

(S)ATA performance in FBSD 6.2/7.0

2007-03-02 Thread O. Hartmann
The last days I tried to figure out why some of my lab's FreeBSD boxes and also mine at home seem to be outperformed by some Linux setups around here and I saw something interesting. On my lab's FreeBSD 6.2/i386 box (ASUS P4P800, ICH5 with two SATA 150 ports, two SATA 300 drives attached) I co

Re: Serial Port Problems

2007-03-02 Thread Ted Mittelstaedt
- Original Message - From: "Dan D Niles" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Sent: Thursday, March 01, 2007 1:27 PM Subject: Serial Port Problems > > More Dell 2950 woes. > > I use serial ports to manage my FreeBSD machines remotely. I've never > had any problems until now. I've installed FreeBS

Re: defrag

2007-03-02 Thread Wojciech Puchar
Wojciech Puchar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: backup+restore will be defrag you mean : backup, format, (reinstall if needed, depending on method of backup) s/format/newfs/g no reinstall, that's not windows. after restoring all files, bsdlabel -B /dev/your_disk is enough ___

Re: defrag

2007-03-02 Thread Wojciech Puchar
shell - so not a defrag issue, just a screwed registry or something). I used to reinstall my entire MS server every 6 months, on average... as rarely? looks that you are very good windows admin, or this MS server wasn't used much ___ freebsd-question

Re: Mounting an FTP space ?

2007-03-02 Thread Jona Joachim
On Fri, 2 Mar 2007 12:26:33 +1100 Malcolm Fitzgerald <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> What do I need to do to wipe the slate clean? > > On 02/03/2007, at 11:53 AM, Chris Slothouber wrote: > > > make config > > > Yes. I don't know what arguments to pass to it. Where are the current > arguments