Re: Nvidia graphics on AMD64

2008-02-03 Thread Tore Lund
Kimi wrote: xorg-driver-nv will be more then good enough, providing 3D is not needed. 2D can also be pretty sluggish at times. The following shows the nv driver in its fully glory as I was leafing through a page of photos: http://home.no/tl18/misc/mincemeat.jpg Moreover, the nv driver does

Re: Nvidia graphics on AMD64

2008-02-03 Thread Wojciech Puchar
http://home.no/tl18/misc/mincemeat.jpg Moreover, the nv driver does not provide a way to properly control brightness and contrast. I would say it is strictly necessary for anyone who is into photography to use the nvidia-driver, even if they are not remotely interested in 3D. -- for desktop i

linux-opera-9.25.20071214 on FreeBSD 7.0-PRERELEASE amd64 fails to start up

2008-02-03 Thread Stacey Roberts
of where else to look for any hints as to what's going on. Here're the details on the machine (IBM T61p): $ uname -a FreeBSD ibm-t61p.snipped.snipped 7.0-PRERELEASE FreeBSD 7.0-PRERELEASE #0: Sun Feb 3 15:42:51 GMT 2008 snipped@ibm-t61p.snipped.snipped:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/STEEL amd64 $ Package

Re: linux-opera-9.25.20071214 on FreeBSD 7.0-PRERELEASE amd64 fails to start up

2008-02-03 Thread Wojciech Puchar
I find that clicking on the linux-opera menu item fails to start Opera. Nothing gets logged to messages / security, and I can't think of where else to look for any hints as to what's going on. start linux opera from xterm and read what's up. do you have linprocfs

Re: linux-opera-9.25.20071214 on FreeBSD 7.0-PRERELEASE amd64 fails to start up

2008-02-03 Thread Stacey Roberts
Hi Wojciech! Thanks for getting back to me. On Sun, 03 Feb 2008, Wojciech Puchar wrote: I find that clicking on the linux-opera menu item fails to start Opera. Nothing gets logged to messages / security, and I can't think of where else to look for any hints as to what's going on.

Re: linux-opera-9.25.20071214 on FreeBSD 7.0-PRERELEASE amd64 fails to start up

2008-02-03 Thread Wojciech Puchar
$ linux-opera [1] 2263 [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~]$ shm_allow_removed is disable, set OPERA_NUM_XSHM to 0 to disable shared memory. ELF binary type 0 not known. ELF binary type 0 not known. ELF binary type 0 not known. ^^^ this is strange - like no linux emulation active at all. no more

Re: linux-opera-9.25.20071214 on FreeBSD 7.0-PRERELEASE amd64 fails to start up

2008-02-03 Thread Wojciech Puchar
$ cat /etc/fstab # DeviceMountpoint FStype Options DumpPass# /dev/ad4s2b noneswapsw 0 0 /dev/ad4s2a / ufs rw 1 1 /dev/ad4s2e /home ufs rw

Re: linux-opera-9.25.20071214 on FreeBSD 7.0-PRERELEASE amd64 fails to start up

2008-02-03 Thread Stacey Roberts
Hi Wojciech! Thanks for the response. On Sun, 03 Feb 2008, Wojciech Puchar wrote: $ cat /etc/fstab # DeviceMountpoint FStype Options Dump Pass# /dev/ad4s2b noneswapsw 0 0 /dev/ad4s2a /

Re: linux-opera-9.25.20071214 on FreeBSD 7.0-PRERELEASE amd64 fails to start up

2008-02-03 Thread Wojciech Puchar
so please ask some else :) i have no other ideas. and please check your mailserver (respond on priv please) Feb 3 21:42:04 wojtek sm-mta[7276]: m13Kf36P007273: to=[EMAIL PROTECTED], ctladdr=[EMAIL PROTECTED] (1003/1003), delay=00:01:01, xdelay=00:01:01, mailer=esmtp, pri=31239,

Re: linux-opera-9.25.20071214 on FreeBSD 7.0-PRERELEASE amd64 fails to start up

2008-02-03 Thread Boris Samorodov
On Sun, 3 Feb 2008 20:33:10 + Stacey Roberts wrote: On Sun, 03 Feb 2008, Wojciech Puchar wrote: and turn ON linux emulation because this is probably your problem :) Err., if you meant to ensure that linux_enable=YES is in /etc/rc.conf, and that linux-base is installed, then these

Re: linux-opera-9.25.20071214 on FreeBSD 7.0-PRERELEASE amd64 fails to start up

2008-02-03 Thread Boris Samorodov
On Sun, 3 Feb 2008 21:07:06 + Stacey Roberts wrote: % kldstat | grep linux $ kldstat | grep linux $ Nothing was returned.., OK. Can you try kldload linux as root, repeat that kldstat... and if it shows linux.ko then try to run linux-opera? WBR -- bsam

Re: linux-opera-9.25.20071214 on FreeBSD 7.0-PRERELEASE amd64 fails to start up

2008-02-03 Thread Stacey Roberts
@snipped.snipped.snipped:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/STEEL amd64 $ % kldstat | grep linux $ kldstat | grep linux $ Nothing was returned.., % sysctl -a | grep linux $ sysctl -a | grep linux hw.snd.compat_linux_mmap: 0 $ % ls -ld /var/db/pkg/linux* $ ls -ld /var/db/pkg/linux* drwxr-xr-x 2 root wheel 512

Re: linux-opera-9.25.20071214 on FreeBSD 7.0-PRERELEASE amd64 fails to start up

2008-02-03 Thread Stacey Roberts
Hi Boris, Good to hear from you.., On Mon, 04 Feb 2008, Boris Samorodov wrote: On Sun, 3 Feb 2008 21:07:06 + Stacey Roberts wrote: % kldstat | grep linux $ kldstat | grep linux $ Nothing was returned.., OK. Can you try kldload linux as root, repeat that kldstat... and if

Re: linux-opera-9.25.20071214 on FreeBSD 7.0-PRERELEASE amd64 fails to start up

2008-02-03 Thread Boris Samorodov
On Sun, 3 Feb 2008 21:39:57 + Stacey Roberts wrote: On Mon, 04 Feb 2008, Boris Samorodov wrote: On Sun, 3 Feb 2008 21:07:06 + Stacey Roberts wrote: % kldstat | grep linux $ kldstat | grep linux $ Nothing was returned.., OK. Can you try kldload linux as root,

Nvidia graphics on AMD64

2008-02-02 Thread Mike Clarke
graphics should suffice. I've been looking at a few specs, many of them use Nvidia chipsets and I understand that there isn't a Nvidia graphics driver for FreeBSD on the AMD64 platform. If I choose a Nvidia based motherboard would I have to install the i386 version of FreeBSD if I wanted to use

Re: Nvidia graphics on AMD64

2008-02-02 Thread Wojciech Puchar
a Nvidia graphics driver for FreeBSD on the AMD64 platform. by general there are lots of problems with nvidia as it's closed source. i always avoid closed source. If I choose a Nvidia based motherboard would I have to install the i386 version of FreeBSD if I wanted to use the onboard graphics

Re: Nvidia graphics on AMD64

2008-02-02 Thread Manolis Kiagias
with integrated graphics should suffice. I've been looking at a few specs, many of them use Nvidia chipsets and I understand that there isn't a Nvidia graphics driver for FreeBSD on the AMD64 platform. If I choose a Nvidia based motherboard would I have to install the i386 version of FreeBSD

Re: Nvidia graphics on AMD64

2008-02-02 Thread Wojciech Puchar
It was an Athlon X2 4600+ and the onboard graphics was GeForce 7100. Usually the integrated graphics come from the lower-spec graphic chipsets and are well supported by the open source nv driver. As long as you don't need good to know at least partially things changed to better.

Re: Nvidia graphics on AMD64

2008-02-02 Thread Mel
, many of them use Nvidia chipsets and I understand that there isn't a Nvidia graphics driver for FreeBSD on the AMD64 platform. by general there are lots of problems with nvidia as it's closed source. i always avoid closed source. That's a very unfounded statement. Nvidia is probably the best

Re: Nvidia graphics on AMD64

2008-02-02 Thread Mike Clarke
On Saturday 02 February 2008, Wojciech Puchar wrote: After running a 90 hour portupgrade job on my current Duron 1600 based system I've persuaded myself that a hardware upgrade is due. simply use precompiled ones if it's a problem. anyway - i don't what bloatware you have compiled but on

Re: Nvidia graphics on AMD64

2008-02-02 Thread Kimi
On 02/02/2008, Wojciech Puchar [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [...] i needed few hours to install things i use. not a very helpful comment at all. Durons were pretty crap. [...] by general there are lots of problems with nvidia as it's closed source. i always avoid closed source. again, not

Re: Nvidia graphics on AMD64

2008-02-02 Thread Frank Shute
and overclocking so a relatively low end motherboard with integrated graphics should suffice. I've been looking at a few specs, many of them use Nvidia chipsets and I understand that there isn't a Nvidia graphics driver for FreeBSD on the AMD64 platform. There are nvidia chipsets such as nforce4

Re: Nvidia graphics on AMD64

2008-02-02 Thread Kimi
On 02/02/2008, Mel [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [...] I'd really stay away from ATI, for your purposes, either go with nvidia or Intel onboard. nothing wrong with xorg-driver-radeonhd or xorg-driver-ati for ATi/AMDs graphics cards, providing you don't need 3D now on newer hardwares. -- Mel --

Re: Nvidia graphics on AMD64

2008-02-02 Thread RW
and overclocking so a relatively low end motherboard with integrated graphics should suffice. I've been looking at a few specs, many of them use Nvidia chipsets and I understand that there isn't a Nvidia graphics driver for FreeBSD on the AMD64 platform. As others have said it's only

Re: FreeBSD 7.0-PRE/AMD64: missing f77/Fortran compiler ...

2008-01-11 Thread Kris Kennaway
Daniel Rucci wrote: Kris Kennaway wrote: No, it's not convenient. There is a large maintenance cost for keeping the fortran compiler in the base system for little gain (nothing in FreeBSD uses it), and it is also only of use to a small subset of FreeBSD users, so this is a perfect situation

Re: FreeBSD 7.0-PRE/AMD64: missing f77/Fortran compiler ...

2008-01-11 Thread Daniel Rucci
Kris Kennaway wrote: No, it's not convenient. There is a large maintenance cost for keeping the fortran compiler in the base system for little gain (nothing in FreeBSD uses it), and it is also only of use to a small subset of FreeBSD users, so this is a perfect situation where moving it to

paravirtualized version of freebsd-kernel for amd64

2008-01-11 Thread Denis Maligin
Hello people, I'd like to ask, whether there is, or will be a paravirtualized version of freebsd for amd64? Kind regards, Denis Maligin ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions

size problem 7.0 amd64 (Dell-PERC 6/i)

2008-01-09 Thread Albert Shih
Hi all I've just try to install FreeBSD 7.0RC1 on my new Dell PowerEdge 2900 with PERC 6/i with two raid volumes on with 2 disk (2*80Go) and one 6 disk (6*750 raid5). The first volume (80Go) is perfectly working and the server boot normaly. But on the second volume I've got A

yelp 2.20.0 consistently crashing in FreeBSD 6.2, amd64

2008-01-08 Thread Mark Tague
System: FreeBSD 6.2 amd64, release #13 Xorg X Server 1.4.0 Release date Sept. 5, 2007 X Protocol ver. 11, Rev 0 gnucash-2.2.0_1 gnucash-docs-2.2.0_2 yelp-2.20.0 FreeBSD GNOME Project: GNOME 2.20 Upgrading FAQ / GNOME 2.20 problems and their solutions Some users have

32-bit FreeBSD binary on amd64

2008-01-07 Thread Mikhail Teterin
Hello! I'm struggling with a 32-bit FreeBSD executable, which is identified as: ELF 32-bit LSB executable, Intel 80386, version 1 (FreeBSD), dynamically linked (uses shared libs), stripped Unfortunately, the executable would not run: /libexec/ld-elf.so.1: /lib/libm.so.4: unsupported file

Re: FreeBSD 7.0-PRE/AMD64: missing f77/Fortran compiler ...

2008-01-05 Thread Kris Kennaway
O. Hartmann wrote: Kris Kennaway wrote: O. Hartmann wrote: Sorry about the noise, but I miss g77 or f77 on my FreeBSD 7.0-PRE box. Where is it? Hasn't gcc 4.2 as incorporated in FreeBSD as the native compiler also a native fortran 90 compiler? No, you need to install the gfortran port.

Re: FreeBSD 7.0-PRE/AMD64: missing f77/Fortran compiler ...

2008-01-05 Thread O. Hartmann
Kris Kennaway wrote: O. Hartmann wrote: Sorry about the noise, but I miss g77 or f77 on my FreeBSD 7.0-PRE box. Where is it? Hasn't gcc 4.2 as incorporated in FreeBSD as the native compiler also a native fortran 90 compiler? No, you need to install the gfortran port. This is presumably

ggatec hanging on 7.0-RC1/amd64

2008-01-04 Thread Hugo Silva
Hi, I'm experiencing some problems while attempting to export a ZVOL with ggated on a gigabit network. All servers are running FreeBSD 7.0-RC1 on amd64, and using bce NICs. client# ggatec create -t 6 -u 0 172.16.100.200 /dev/zvol/storage/vol0 client# ls -l /dev/ggate* crw-r- 1 root

Re: ggatec hanging on 7.0-RC1/amd64

2008-01-04 Thread Kris Kennaway
Hugo Silva wrote: Hi, I'm experiencing some problems while attempting to export a ZVOL with ggated on a gigabit network. All servers are running FreeBSD 7.0-RC1 on amd64, and using bce NICs. client# ggatec create -t 6 -u 0 172.16.100.200 /dev/zvol/storage/vol0 client# ls -l /dev/ggate

Migrate FreeBSD 7.0RC1 from i386 to amd64

2008-01-03 Thread Christian Walther
to conclusion that this would be the right time to switch to amd64. My old machine was an AthlonXP at 1500MHz running FreeBSD7.0RC1 with a ZFS pool doing DNS, DHCP, NFS, serving websites with Apache, Mail. As you can see there are quite some services/ports installed and configured. I searched the net

Re: Migrate FreeBSD 7.0RC1 from i386 to amd64

2008-01-03 Thread Jonathan Chen
On Thu, Jan 03, 2008 at 06:44:45PM +0100, Christian Walther wrote: [...] I searched the net for some information on migrating from i386 to amd64. I'd like to build a new kernel for amd64, reboot. Do a buildworld and installworld and a portupgrade -afk --batch afterwards. The approach that I

FreeBSD 7.0-PRE/AMD64: missing f77/Fortran compiler ...

2008-01-03 Thread O. Hartmann
Sorry about the noise, but I miss g77 or f77 on my FreeBSD 7.0-PRE box. Where is it? Hasn't gcc 4.2 as incorporated in FreeBSD as the native compiler also a native fortran 90 compiler? Regards, Oliver ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list

Re: FreeBSD 7.0-PRE/AMD64: missing f77/Fortran compiler ...

2008-01-03 Thread Kris Kennaway
O. Hartmann wrote: Sorry about the noise, but I miss g77 or f77 on my FreeBSD 7.0-PRE box. Where is it? Hasn't gcc 4.2 as incorporated in FreeBSD as the native compiler also a native fortran 90 compiler? No, you need to install the gfortran port. This is presumably documented in the release

Re: amd64 native boot loader?

2007-12-22 Thread Bruce Cran
snowcrash+freebsd wrote: hi, i've FBSD/amd64 62Rp9 installed. kernel world are my own builds from latest cvsup. on boot I see: FreeBSD/i386 bootstrap loader odd. i'd expect a native loader ... checking in, /usr/src/sys/boot ls Makefile alpha/arm/ efi/ forth

Re: amd64 native boot loader?

2007-12-22 Thread Joshua Isom
On Dec 22, 2007, at 3:32 AM, Bruce Cran wrote: AMD64 CPUs are backwards compatible with i386; they boot in 16-bit real mode and only get switched into 64-bit 'long mode' by the kernel later on. Since both i386 and amd64 start booting in the same way, there's no need for separate bootloaders

amd64 native boot loader?

2007-12-21 Thread snowcrash+freebsd
hi, i've FBSD/amd64 62Rp9 installed. kernel world are my own builds from latest cvsup. on boot I see: FreeBSD/i386 bootstrap loader odd. i'd expect a native loader ... checking in, /usr/src/sys/boot ls Makefile alpha/arm/ efi/ forth/ia64/ pc98

snd_hda on amd64 - exec format error

2007-12-21 Thread Steve Franks
This is not a priority, but I'm suprised that both the downloaded (ariff?) and the built-from-source snd*.ko files give me a: kldload: can't load snd_hda: Exec format error When I try to load them...guess my kernel is out of date with the latest 6.2-stable source? Best, Steve 6.2 - amd64

Re: amd64 HP SA6i RAID5 no boot

2007-11-30 Thread Per olof Ljungmark
from. System is a SA6i RAID5-array with 6x300GB disks. Possibly I need to enter drive geometry manually but have no idea where to get that info from, perhaps somebody knows where to look? i386 does not boot either - same A RAID1+0 array with 4x36GB disks boots fine both amd64 and i386. Right

Re: amd64 HP SA6i RAID5 no boot

2007-11-30 Thread Derrick Ryalls
no idea where to get that info from, perhaps somebody knows where to look? i386 does not boot either - same A RAID1+0 array with 4x36GB disks boots fine both amd64 and i386. Right. If I create two slices, one 50G and one 1.3T and use the first for /, /var etc. then the system will boot

Re: amd64 HP SA6i RAID5 no boot

2007-11-30 Thread Per olof Ljungmark
need to enter drive geometry manually but have no idea where to get that info from, perhaps somebody knows where to look? i386 does not boot either - same A RAID1+0 array with 4x36GB disks boots fine both amd64 and i386. So the logical drive size is a problem

amd64 HP SA6i RAID5 no boot

2007-11-30 Thread Per olof Ljungmark
Hi, What am I doing wrong? 7-Beta3 vanilla install from CD, I let sysinstall do automatic partitions and slices, then stops at F1 FreeBSD prompt and beeps. Obviously it cannot find anything to boot from. System is a SA6i RAID5-array with 6x300GB disks. Possibly I need to enter drive

Re: amd64 HP SA6i RAID5 no boot

2007-11-30 Thread Brian
is a SA6i RAID5-array with 6x300GB disks. Possibly I need to enter drive geometry manually but have no idea where to get that info from, perhaps somebody knows where to look? i386 does not boot either - same A RAID1+0 array with 4x36GB disks boots fine both amd64 and i386. Right. If I create

Re: amd64 HP SA6i RAID5 no boot

2007-11-30 Thread Per olof Ljungmark
with 6x300GB disks. Possibly I need to enter drive geometry manually but have no idea where to get that info from, perhaps somebody knows where to look? i386 does not boot either - same A RAID1+0 array with 4x36GB disks boots fine both amd64 and i386. Right. If I create two slices, one 50G and one

Re: Problems with zzz failing on FreeBSD 7/amd64

2007-11-24 Thread Bill Moran
suggestions. I don't need this laptop for a few weeks, so I'm open to just about any type of debugging folks could ask me to do. Are you running an amd64 build? I came across the same issue on my Dell laptop and found the following code in acpi_ReqSleepState: #if !defined(__i386__

Problems with zzz failing on FreeBSD 7/amd64

2007-11-23 Thread Bill Moran
Been spending some time setting up my new Lenovo T61 laptop. 7.0 ... just cvsupped and build world/kernel yesterday. Ports have installed nicely, have xfce4, Firefox, Sylpheed, OpenOffice.org. So far, the only snag I'm getting is suspending the laptop. Entering zzz returns: acpiconf: request

Re: Problems with zzz failing on FreeBSD 7/amd64

2007-11-23 Thread bruce
for a few weeks, so I'm open to just about any type of debugging folks could ask me to do. Are you running an amd64 build? I came across the same issue on my Dell laptop and found the following code in acpi_ReqSleepState: #if !defined(__i386__) /* This platform does not support acpi suspend/resume

NVIDIA glitch? w. AMD64

2007-11-19 Thread Wayne M Barnes
Dear FreeBSD, I have tried to install 6.2 and 7.1beta onto a new computer. The installs seem to start up fine, whether via FTP or from an install disc1 CD, but during the loading of the binaries, the installs reliably encounter a Signal 10 caught! That's bad! or the Checksum fails on the

inspiron 1721 xorg/ati radeon 1270 Xpress freebsd amd64 8-current

2007-11-13 Thread Philip M. Gollucci
Hi all, I just bought an Inspiron 1721 b/c I had a ridiculous deal. Its CPU:AMD Turion 64 x2 TL-64 (2.2GHz/1MB) RAM:4GB pc25300 sodimm (2x2GB) (upgraded manually) Screen: 17.0 wide screen (1920x1200) VGA:ATI RADEON Xpress1270 256MB HyperMemory HD: 320G (2x 160) 5400RPM SATA

Re: Problem with VNC on AMD64

2007-11-11 Thread David van Kuijk
Hi Josh and others Has anybody been able to solve this problem yet? I pulled in a friend who has a zillion years of experience with BSD and was not able to solve the problem. It looks like it is not even possible to start the X when the machine has a monitor attched to it. I installed

Re: ABI for i386 binaries under FreeBSD-amd64

2007-10-31 Thread Stephen Allen
Roland Smith wrote: Than they should run i386. You only _need_ (as opposed to nice to play with :-) amd64 if you run out of address space on a typical workload. What if you have more than 3Gb of RAM to play with... would you have to use amd64 then? Steve

Re: ABI for i386 binaries under FreeBSD-amd64

2007-10-31 Thread Roland Smith
On Wed, Oct 31, 2007 at 10:27:32AM +, Stephen Allen wrote: Roland Smith wrote: Than they should run i386. You only _need_ (as opposed to nice to play with :-) amd64 if you run out of address space on a typical workload. What if you have more than 3Gb of RAM to play with... would you have

i386 chroot on amd64

2007-10-31 Thread Erik Cederstrand
Hi! I just created an i386 chroot on an amd64 host (make TARGET=i386 TARGET_ARCH=i386 ...). The host is compiled with lib32 support. I'm trying to chroot into the directory to install a port (ports dir is nullfs_mount'ed): chroot /path/to/chroot /bin/sh -c cd /usr/ports/my/port; make

csup broken on -currnet amd64?

2007-10-31 Thread Aryeh Friedman
monster# uname -a FreeBSD monster 8.0-CURRENT FreeBSD 8.0-CURRENT #0: Tue Oct 30 18:07:21 UTC 2007 root@:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GENERIC amd64 monster# csup -h cvsup8.us.freebsd.org /usr/share/examples/cvsup/ports-supfile Connected to 216.165.129.134 Updating collection ports-all/cvs Checkout

Re: csup broken on -currnet amd64?

2007-10-31 Thread Steve Kargl
On Thu, Nov 01, 2007 at 03:06:54AM +, Aryeh Friedman wrote: monster# uname -a FreeBSD monster 8.0-CURRENT FreeBSD 8.0-CURRENT #0: Tue Oct 30 18:07:21 UTC 2007 root@:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GENERIC amd64 monster# csup -h cvsup8.us.freebsd.org /usr/share/examples/cvsup/ports-supfile

Re: csup broken on -currnet amd64?

2007-10-31 Thread Aryeh Friedman
On 11/1/07, Steve Kargl [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, Nov 01, 2007 at 03:06:54AM +, Aryeh Friedman wrote: monster# uname -a FreeBSD monster 8.0-CURRENT FreeBSD 8.0-CURRENT #0: Tue Oct 30 18:07:21 UTC 2007 root@:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GENERIC amd64 monster# csup -h cvsup8

Re: nvidia display driver on amd64

2007-10-30 Thread Yuri Pankov
On Mon, 2007-10-29 at 22:32 +, Tino Engel wrote: Dear all, Does anyone see any chance to get the nvidia display driver (with OpenGL support) set up on amd64? Or someone has even succeded? The ports driver tell me they are only for i386, the downloaded driver from nvidia stops

ABI for i386 binaries under FreeBSD-amd64

2007-10-30 Thread David Naylor
Hi, I have seen that recently on the mailing list there has been a discussion on running i386 FreeBSD binaries under an amd64 system. As far as I have been able to read there does not appear to be anyway of achieving this except though either a chroot/jail or vitalization. I think

Re: ABI for i386 binaries under FreeBSD-amd64

2007-10-30 Thread Roland Smith
On Tue, Oct 30, 2007 at 09:39:24AM +0200, David Naylor wrote: Hi, I have seen that recently on the mailing list there has been a discussion on running i386 FreeBSD binaries under an amd64 system. As far as I have been able to read there does not appear to be anyway of achieving this except

Re: nvidia display driver on amd64

2007-10-30 Thread Bruce Cran
Yuri Pankov wrote: On Mon, 2007-10-29 at 22:32 +, Tino Engel wrote: Dear all, Does anyone see any chance to get the nvidia display driver (with OpenGL support) set up on amd64? Or someone has even succeded? The ports driver tell me they are only for i386, the downloaded driver from

abiword refuses to start on 8-current (amd64) gnome-2 (the one came out last week)

2007-10-29 Thread Aryeh M. Friedman
FreeBSD monster 8.0-CURRENT FreeBSD 8.0-CURRENT #5: Wed Oct 24 18:14:31 EDT 2007 [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/MONSTER amd64 gnome 2.20.1 abiword will not start from menu or command line (no error messages given)... the starting abiword window appears but after it completes

Re: Problem with VNC on AMD64

2007-10-29 Thread Hakan K
What version of VNC are you running.. ? Anyone here tried Ultra VNC ? Thanks Hakan http://dominor.com On 10/28/07, Josh Carroll [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: So VNC server will run, and I can connect to it from a VNC-client, but the window manager fails to start correctly. I am having

Re: Problem with VNC on AMD64

2007-10-29 Thread Josh Carroll
What version of VNC are you running.. ? vnc-4.1.2_2 from ports. I wonder if this is related to it compiling against ancient XFree86 source? Josh ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions

Re: Problem with VNC on AMD64

2007-10-29 Thread Josh Carroll
vnc-4.1.2_2 from ports. I wonder if this is related to it compiling against ancient XFree86 source? The tightvnc port has the same problem, actually. Same message in the vnc log, but also another: X Error of failed request: BadValue (integer parameter out of range for operation) Major

nvidia display driver on amd64

2007-10-29 Thread Tino Engel
Dear all, Does anyone see any chance to get the nvidia display driver (with OpenGL support) set up on amd64? Or someone has even succeded? The ports driver tell me they are only for i386, the downloaded driver from nvidia stops with: ld: Relocatable linking with relocations from format elf32

Re: Problem with VNC on AMD64

2007-10-28 Thread Josh Carroll
So VNC server will run, and I can connect to it from a VNC-client, but the window manager fails to start correctly. I am having the same problem. My vnc log looks similar: *snip* X Error of failed request: BadValue (integer parameter out of range for operation) Major opcode of failed

forcing compilation/run time linking of lib32 on amd64

2007-10-24 Thread Aryeh M. Friedman
I am writing some demo code (for teaching C) and need to have the same program run on a 32 bit machine and a 64 bit machine (showing that int's are always word length)... I have 8-current amd64 how do I force it to compile with 32 bit words? ___ freebsd

Re: forcing compilation/run time linking of lib32 on amd64

2007-10-24 Thread Josh Carroll
I am writing some demo code (for teaching C) and need to have the same program run on a 32 bit machine and a 64 bit machine (showing that int's are always word length)... I have 8-current amd64 how do I force it to compile with 32 bit words? Add the following to your gcc command line: -m32

Re: forcing compilation/run time linking of lib32 on amd64

2007-10-24 Thread RW
On Wed, 24 Oct 2007 16:49:24 -0400 Aryeh M. Friedman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I am writing some demo code (for teaching C) ... showing that int's are always word length s/always/typically/ C has been around for a long time and there is always a counter-example to any sweeping generalisation

Re: forcing compilation/run time linking of lib32 on amd64

2007-10-24 Thread Aryeh M. Friedman
RW wrote: On Wed, 24 Oct 2007 16:49:24 -0400 Aryeh M. Friedman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I am writing some demo code (for teaching C) ... showing that int's are always word length s/always/typically/ C has been around for a long time and there is always a counter-example to any

Re: forcing compilation/run time linking of lib32 on amd64

2007-10-24 Thread RW
On Wed, 24 Oct 2007 21:56:50 -0400 Aryeh M. Friedman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: RW wrote: On Wed, 24 Oct 2007 16:49:24 -0400 Aryeh M. Friedman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I am writing some demo code (for teaching C) ... showing that int's are always word length

Re: forcing compilation/run time linking of lib32 on amd64

2007-10-24 Thread Joshua Isom
On Oct 24, 2007, at 8:56 PM, Aryeh M. Friedman wrote: RW wrote: On Wed, 24 Oct 2007 16:49:24 -0400 Aryeh M. Friedman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I am writing some demo code (for teaching C) ... showing that int's are always word length s/always/typically/ C has been around for a long time

RE: Problem with VNC on AMD64

2007-10-19 Thread Lisandro Grullon
I experience if i recall correctly were similar to the ones you outline in your log. Lisandro Grullon Date: Fri, 19 Oct 2007 14:19:58 +0200 From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Problem with VNC on AMD64 Hi I have been using FreeBSD for several years now

Problem with VNC on AMD64

2007-10-19 Thread David van Kuijk
Hi I have been using FreeBSD for several years now on intel32. Now I installed it on my new server which is a AMD64. Most things go well, but I can't get a Window Manager working under VNC anymore. Here you find the VNC log: --- Xvnc Free

SOS failure on mkisofs on FreeBSD-6.1-R amd64

2007-10-18 Thread luizbcampos
Trying to make a bootable CD, I did the following according to FreeBSD doc: #mkisofs -R -no-emul-boot -b /boot/cdboot -o /home/user/0S to be burned /home/user/cdboot And I got the message: uh, oh I can't find the boot image /boot/cdboot Suggestions?

Re: SOS failure on mkisofs on FreeBSD-6.1-R amd64

2007-10-18 Thread Fabian Keil
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Trying to make a bootable CD, I did the following according to FreeBSD doc: Where does one find this FreeBSD doc? #mkisofs -R -no-emul-boot -b /boot/cdboot -o /home/user/0S to be burned /home/user/cdboot And I got the message: uh, oh I

cdrao broken on amd64?

2007-10-16 Thread Aryeh M. Friedman
c++ -DDRIVER_TABLE_FILE=\/usr/local/share/cdrdao/drivers\ -O2 -fno-strict-aliasing -pipe -march=nocona -o cdrdao main.o ./libdao.a ../paranoia/libcdda_paranoia.a ../trackdb/libtrackdb.a -L../scsilib/export -lscg -lschily -L/usr/local/lib -lmad -lm -L/usr/local/lib -lvorbisfile -lvorbis -lm

Re: cdrao broken on amd64?

2007-10-16 Thread Roland Smith
On Tue, Oct 16, 2007 at 01:03:32PM +, Aryeh M. Friedman wrote: c++ -DDRIVER_TABLE_FILE=\/usr/local/share/cdrdao/drivers\ -O2 -fno-strict-aliasing -pipe -march=nocona -o cdrdao main.o ./libdao.a ../paranoia/libcdda_paranoia.a ../trackdb/libtrackdb.a -L../scsilib/export -lscg -lschily

Re: rebranding a i386 binary to be a amd64 binary

2007-10-11 Thread Kris Kennaway
Aryeh Friedman wrote: Even though I know this is asking for it I want to test the new nVidia driver on amd64 and the only issue with a hand compile (from nVidia's tar not the ports one) is src/nv-kernel.o is branded elf-i386-32 and amd64 wants it branded elf-amd64-64. This file comes from them

Re: rebranding a i386 binary to be a amd64 binary

2007-10-11 Thread Aryeh Friedman
On 10/11/07, Kris Kennaway [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Aryeh Friedman wrote: Even though I know this is asking for it I want to test the new nVidia driver on amd64 and the only issue with a hand compile (from nVidia's tar not the ports one) is src/nv-kernel.o is branded elf-i386-32 and amd64

Re: rebranding a i386 binary to be a amd64 binary

2007-10-11 Thread Joshua Isom
On Oct 11, 2007, at 1:34 AM, Aryeh Friedman wrote: On 10/11/07, Kris Kennaway [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Aryeh Friedman wrote: Even though I know this is asking for it I want to test the new nVidia driver on amd64 and the only issue with a hand compile (from nVidia's tar not the ports one

Re: rebranding a i386 binary to be a amd64 binary

2007-10-11 Thread Kris Kennaway
Aryeh Friedman wrote: On 10/11/07, Kris Kennaway [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Aryeh Friedman wrote: Even though I know this is asking for it I want to test the new nVidia driver on amd64 and the only issue with a hand compile (from nVidia's tar not the ports one) is src/nv-kernel.o is branded elf

Re: rebranding a i386 binary to be a amd64 binary

2007-10-11 Thread Bruce Cran
Aryeh Friedman wrote: On 10/11/07, Kris Kennaway [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Aryeh Friedman wrote: Even though I know this is asking for it I want to test the new nVidia driver on amd64 and the only issue with a hand compile (from nVidia's tar not the ports one) is src/nv-kernel.o is branded elf

Re: rebranding a i386 binary to be a amd64 binary

2007-10-11 Thread Aryeh Friedman
There are several kernel features that need to be implemented before an amd64 nVidia driver will work - see http://wiki.freebsd.org/NvidiaFeatureRequests for more info. nVidia do want to create an amd64 driver, but they need the kernel work to be done first. I just sent nVidia an offer

rebranding a i386 binary to be a amd64 binary

2007-10-10 Thread Aryeh Friedman
Even though I know this is asking for it I want to test the new nVidia driver on amd64 and the only issue with a hand compile (from nVidia's tar not the ports one) is src/nv-kernel.o is branded elf-i386-32 and amd64 wants it branded elf-amd64-64. This file comes from them as a precompiled object

Re: what cpu type to use for a intel duo e6850 (i386 or amd64)

2007-10-05 Thread mario . lobo
since 20 years of industry experience (15 with FreeBSD) and reading hardware.txt did not give a clue on this. What's confusing? i386 is for 386 compatible processors - a 32-bit OS for 32-bit processors, which is therefore limited to 2^32 bytes (4GiB) without the PAE workaround. amd64 is for AMD

Re: what cpu type to use for a intel duo e6850 (i386 or amd64)

2007-10-05 Thread Matthew Seaman
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: So, I did an SMP/i386 install. I cannot say I regret it since everything runs absolutely smooth and fast here. On the tecnical side (not practical) was it correct to give up 64 bit processing? This is a question to

Re: what cpu type to use for a intel duo e6850 (i386 or amd64)

2007-10-05 Thread Mario Lobo
On Friday 05 October 2007, Matthew Seaman wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: So, I did an SMP/i386 install. I cannot say I regret it since everything runs absolutely smooth and fast here. On the tecnical side (not practical) was it correct to give up 64 bit processing? This is a question

Re: segmentation fault in sqlite3 on 6.2R amd64

2007-10-02 Thread Maxim Khitrov
are welcome to change it and/or distribute copies of it under certain conditions. Type show copying to see the conditions. There is absolutely no warranty for GDB. Type show warranty for details. This GDB was configured as amd64-marcel-freebsd...(no debugging symbols found)... (gdb) r comments.db

Re: segmentation fault in sqlite3 on 6.2R amd64

2007-10-02 Thread Chad Leigh -- Shire.Net LLC
On Oct 2, 2007, at 7:07 AM, Maxim Khitrov wrote: On 10/2/07, Chad Leigh -- Shire. Net LLC [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi In installing trac I ran across a segmentation fault in the initenv command. This seems to be the same problem as shown here:

segmentation fault in sqlite3 on 6.2R amd64

2007-10-01 Thread Chad Leigh -- Shire . Net LLC
copying to see the conditions. There is absolutely no warranty for GDB. Type show warranty for details. This GDB was configured as amd64-marcel-freebsd...(no debugging symbols found)... (gdb) r comments.db CREATE TABLE comments (page, name, email, url, body); Starting program: /usr/public/bin

Re: what cpu type to use for a intel duo e6850 (i386 or amd64)

2007-09-30 Thread Aryeh Friedman
) without the PAE workaround. amd64 is for AMD 64 compatible processors operated in 64-bit mode. First of all there are several possible 64 bit intel like processors to choose from for example unless one reads carefully ia64 looks like what you want. Second of all in many peoples minds (including

oops (was Re: what cpu type to use for a intel duo e6850 (i386 or amd64))

2007-09-30 Thread Aryeh Friedman
well the procedure *ALMOST* worked turns out that sysinstall clobbers any unmodified bsdlabels (bug?) ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL

(amd64) kernel reconizes sound card but no dev nodes are made

2007-09-30 Thread Aryeh Friedman
hw.snd.verbose: 1 hw.snd.maxautovchans: 16 hw.snd.default_unit: 0 hw.snd.version: 2007061600/amd64 hw.snd.default_auto: 0 monster# ls /dev acd0cuad0.lock mixer0 stdout ttyvb acpidcons net sysmousettyvc ad10

Re: oops (was Re: what cpu type to use for a intel duo e6850 (i386 or amd64))

2007-09-30 Thread Giorgos Keramidas
On 2007-09-30 07:24, Aryeh Friedman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: well the procedure *ALMOST* worked turns out that sysinstall clobbers any unmodified bsdlabels (bug?) Which 'procedure' would that be? You haven't quoted anything from the previous messages, and your mailer hasn't included an

Re: what cpu type to use for a intel duo e6850 (i386 or amd64)

2007-09-30 Thread RW
On Sun, 30 Sep 2007 06:55:15 + Aryeh Friedman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Second of all in many peoples minds (including mine) we are used to there being subtle diffs between AMD and intel for the same class of processor thus would naturally think if it was lableb amd64 it is for Advanced

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