Re: too many video drivers

2009-03-31 Thread mdh
--- On Tue, 3/31/09, Adam Vandemore amvandem...@gmail.com wrote: From: Adam Vandemore amvandem...@gmail.com Subject: Re: too many video drivers To: FreeBSD freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Date: Tuesday, March 31, 2009, 3:39 PM Tsu-Fan Cheng wrote: Hi, I am rebuilding ports and realize

Re: too many video drivers

2009-03-31 Thread Tim Judd
On Tue, Mar 31, 2009 at 4:53 PM, mdh mdh_li...@yahoo.com wrote: --- On Tue, 3/31/09, Adam Vandemore amvandem...@gmail.com wrote: From: Adam Vandemore amvandem...@gmail.com Subject: Re: too many video drivers To: FreeBSD freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Date: Tuesday, March 31, 2009, 3:39

nvidia-drivers crash computer on X start

2009-03-28 Thread Anders Holmström
I'm having something of a problem. X.org will not start whenever I load the drivers installed from the latest nvidia-drivers port. The error also happens with the older versions of said drivers. The error doesn't occur with the normal nv drivers. What happens: 1) $ startx 2) The normal startup

Re: nvidia-drivers crash computer on X start

2009-03-28 Thread RW
On Sat, 28 Mar 2009 13:53:43 +0100 Anders Holmström holmstrom.and...@gmail.com wrote: The current xorg.conf I'm using is listed below. It was generated with X -configure. I've used many different xorg.confs, but they've all more or less been using the same settings as below, I don't know if

Re: nvidia-drivers crash computer on X start

2009-03-28 Thread rasz
RW wrote: On Sat, 28 Mar 2009 13:53:43 +0100 Anders Holmström holmstrom.and...@gmail.com wrote: The current xorg.conf I'm using is listed below. It was generated with X -configure. I've used many different xorg.confs, but they've all more or less been using the same settings as below,

Re: nvidia-drivers crash computer on X start

2009-03-28 Thread rasz
Anders Holmström wrote: did you try Option AllowEmptyInput off in Serverlayout section under screen, keyboard, mouse? I was told by a guy on the nvnews.net forums that I should put machdep.disable_mtrrs=1 in my /boot/loader.conf. Apparently he had had the same problem and he said it was

Re: nvidia-drivers crash computer on X start

2009-03-28 Thread Mel Flynn
to put an entry in /boot/loader.conf and restart instead. /dev/nvidia0 and /dev/nvidiactl show up after the drivers are installed and the computer rebooted. I've tried disabling FreeBSD AGP and using NvAGP instead, but the exact same thing happens. My card is a GeForce 8800 GTS 512 MB

Video Drivers for Parallels

2008-11-12 Thread Payne
Guys, I am trying to get X running on Parallel 3.0 on MacOSX, when I set up VESA 24bit 1024x768, it doesn't load. I can do 16bit but it is wash out. Does anyone know what I need to do to get X running. Thanks, Payne ___

how determine all possible drivers for my system

2008-10-17 Thread Oleg
Hello maillist of my favorite WortstationServer OS May i asking: how i can determine all drivers of existing devices, but who is not present in GENERIC kernel. For definition of all devices useful to me I have written the following a little stupid script: -- #!/bin/sh MODLIST=`find

Re: Questions drivers for VGA and NIC

2008-10-03 Thread Bruce Cran
Robert Huff wrote: Jerry [EMAIL PROTECTED]: nVidia, at least, is aware of the issue and has offered to write and maintain drivers ... provided certain capabilities are added to the kernel. (See previous discussion in this mailing list.) This has - obviously - not happened

Re: Questions drivers for VGA and NIC

2008-10-03 Thread Da Rock
On Thu, 2008-10-02 at 10:25 -0400, Jerry McAllister wrote: On Wed, Oct 01, 2008 at 06:04:24PM -0400, Jerry wrote: On Wed, 1 Oct 2008 23:25:19 +0200 (CEST) Wojciech Puchar [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: In all likelihood, the probability of any vendor creating FBSD specific drivers

Re: Questions drivers for VGA and NIC

2008-10-02 Thread Jerry
FBSD specific drivers is directly proportionate to the expenditure of funds to create and maintain the driver versus the expected revenue from such an expenditure. giving out a specs will be the simplest way. Any entity, or corporation, has a right to expect a return on their investment

Re: Questions drivers for VGA and NIC

2008-10-02 Thread Robert Huff
Jerry [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Again, it appears that NVIDIA has attempted to work with the FBSD community. Evidently, nothing has come of it. Unfortunate, to say the least. The next step - sometimes suggested, but never to my knowledge attepted - would be for someone to run a

Re: Questions drivers for VGA and NIC

2008-10-02 Thread Da Rock
: In all likelihood, the probability of any vendor creating FBSD specific drivers is directly proportionate to the expenditure of funds to create and maintain the driver versus the expected revenue from such an expenditure. giving out a specs will be the simplest way. Any entity

Re: Questions drivers for VGA and NIC

2008-10-02 Thread Robert Huff
Da Rock writes: I apologise for jumping into this thread mid way, but wouldn't the problem be simply a case of nil NDA? If an FOSS programmer signed an NDA with say NVidia, then wouldn't the hardware supplier be more willing to supply more specific details? Anyone with experience in

Re: Questions drivers for VGA and NIC

2008-10-02 Thread Jerry McAllister
On Wed, Oct 01, 2008 at 06:04:24PM -0400, Jerry wrote: On Wed, 1 Oct 2008 23:25:19 +0200 (CEST) Wojciech Puchar [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: In all likelihood, the probability of any vendor creating FBSD specific drivers is directly proportionate to the expenditure of funds to create

Re: Questions drivers for VGA and NIC

2008-10-02 Thread Frank Shute
don't wanna play 3D games on FreeBSD, so just cheap Geforce card would be enough, but it should support 1920x1200 resolution. I wonder if what Geforce model is supported by the FreeBSD 7R - amd64. Anybody can recommend? Have you tried using: x11-drivers/xf86-video-ati? That should build on your

Questions drivers for VGA and NIC

2008-10-01 Thread Mungyung Ryu
Hi BSD folks! I installed FreeBSD 7 Release - amd64. I have ATI Radeon HD2600 pro VGA card but ATI is sucks for supporting driver for Linux or FreeBSD! So, I'm considering to replace the dam ATI card with NVIDIA Geforce. I don't wanna play 3D games on FreeBSD, so just cheap Geforce card would be

RE: Questions drivers for VGA and NIC

2008-10-01 Thread Sean Cavanaugh
Date: Wed, 1 Oct 2008 14:18:10 -0400 From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Questions drivers for VGA and NIC Hi BSD folks! I installed FreeBSD 7 Release - amd64. I have ATI Radeon HD2600 pro VGA card but ATI is sucks for supporting driver for Linux

Re: Questions drivers for VGA and NIC

2008-10-01 Thread Henrik Hudson
were thinking of using that. Personally, if it's in the cards I would look for a intel board with the onboard video. The driver issue is killing me on FreeBSD. Call the vendors and tell them you want drivers. Henrik -- Henrik Hudson [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- God, root

Re: Questions drivers for VGA and NIC

2008-10-01 Thread Robert Huff
Henrik Hudson writes: The driver issue is killing me on FreeBSD. Call the vendors and tell them you want drivers. nVidia, at least, is aware of the issue and has offered to write and maintain drivers ... provided certain capabilities are added to the kernel. (See previous

Re: Questions drivers for VGA and NIC

2008-10-01 Thread Wojciech Puchar
I don't wanna play 3D games on FreeBSD, so just cheap Geforce card would be enough, but it should support 1920x1200 resolution. I wonder if what Geforce model is supported by the FreeBSD 7R - amd64. Anybody can recommend? none of them are supported on any arch. unless giving somewhat-working

Re: Questions drivers for VGA and NIC

2008-10-01 Thread Jerry
On Wed, 1 Oct 2008 15:24:33 -0400 Robert Huff [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [snip] nVidia, at least, is aware of the issue and has offered to write and maintain drivers ... provided certain capabilities are added to the kernel. (See previous discussion in this mailing list.) This has

Re: Questions drivers for VGA and NIC

2008-10-01 Thread Wojciech Puchar
In all likelihood, the probability of any vendor creating FBSD specific drivers is directly proportionate to the expenditure of funds to create and maintain the driver versus the expected revenue from such an expenditure. giving out a specs will be the simplest way

Re: Questions drivers for VGA and NIC

2008-10-01 Thread Robert Huff
Jerry [EMAIL PROTECTED]: nVidia, at least, is aware of the issue and has offered to write and maintain drivers ... provided certain capabilities are added to the kernel. (See previous discussion in this mailing list.) This has - obviously - not happened, and I do not know of work

Re: Questions drivers for VGA and NIC

2008-10-01 Thread Henrik Hudson
On Wednesday 01 October 2008, Jerry [EMAIL PROTECTED] sent a missive stating: On Wed, 1 Oct 2008 15:24:33 -0400 Robert Huff [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [snip] nVidia, at least, is aware of the issue and has offered to write and maintain drivers ... provided certain capabilities

Re: Questions drivers for VGA and NIC

2008-10-01 Thread Jerry
On Wed, 1 Oct 2008 23:25:19 +0200 (CEST) Wojciech Puchar [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: In all likelihood, the probability of any vendor creating FBSD specific drivers is directly proportionate to the expenditure of funds to create and maintain the driver versus the expected revenue from

Re: Questions drivers for VGA and NIC

2008-10-01 Thread Jerry
On Wed, 1 Oct 2008 17:52:08 -0400 Robert Huff [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Sorry - wrong list. Try: http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-hackers/2006-June/016995.html Thanks! Considering the age of the article, Thu Jun 29 11:12:35 UTC 2006, I am surprised that more has not transpired

Re: Questions drivers for VGA and NIC

2008-10-01 Thread Henrik Hudson
On Wednesday 01 October 2008, Jerry [EMAIL PROTECTED] sent a missive stating: On Wed, 1 Oct 2008 23:25:19 +0200 (CEST) Wojciech Puchar [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: In all likelihood, the probability of any vendor creating FBSD specific drivers is directly proportionate to the expenditure

Re: Questions drivers for VGA and NIC

2008-10-01 Thread Wojciech Puchar
giving out a specs will be the simplest way. Any entity, or corporation, has a right to expect a return on their investment. To expect a corporation to simply give away something, quite a difference. for example - documentation about say pentium 4 assembly language and opcodes are widely

Device drivers for DAT-based sound cards

2008-08-15 Thread John McCabe
Hello, Is there any person(s) developing a driver for DAT-chipset-based Creative sound cards? If this is the wrong mailing list to ask this question, please tell me which is the proper list. Regards, John McCabe ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org

needs drivers for the gadgets in freebsd

2008-08-06 Thread Prakash Poudyal
Hello Everybody, Here I want to install some gadgets like webcam wireless ethernet USB card and also Wireless PC card in laptop contents freebsd OS. But when I join these gadgets in the notebook it does not show any sign of connected in the Notebook. I do have driver for windows version. But I

Re: needs drivers for the gadgets in freebsd

2008-08-06 Thread Gerard
On Wed, 6 Aug 2008 15:31:44 +0545 Prakash Poudyal [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Here I want to install some gadgets like webcam wireless ethernet USB card and also Wireless PC card in laptop contents freebsd OS. But when I join these gadgets in the notebook it does not show any sign of connected in

konica minolta magicolor 2430DL drivers

2008-07-21 Thread Steve Franks
it's printing now!) (10) noticed there's also plain Minolta under drivers, which actually has a 2430 and now it works! Hope this helps someone down the road... Best, Steve ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman

Re: HEAD UP: non-MPSAFE network drivers to be disabled (was: 8.0 network stack MPsafety goals (fwd))

2008-05-24 Thread Christian Zachariasen
On Sat, May 24, 2008 at 4:48 PM, Coleman Kane [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sat, 2008-05-24 at 11:20 +0100, Robert Watson wrote: Dear all: Just as a reminder, we've just about reached the one month date before IFF_NEEDSGIANT drivers are disabled in the build. You can find a description

Re: HEAD UP: non-MPSAFE network drivers to be disabled (was: 8.0 network stack MPsafety goals (fwd))

2008-05-24 Thread Coleman Kane
the one month date before IFF_NEEDSGIANT drivers are disabled in the build. You can find a description of the general problem and list of specific drivers below. As USB work is on-going, I will *not* disable the USB drivers

Writing userspace device drivers

2008-05-06 Thread Christopher Key
this? Is it possible to do everything in userspace? Under Linux, there appears to be something called FUSD, which allows one to write userspace device drivers. Is there anything similar under FreeBSD? Ideally I'd like to keep the resulting solution as generic as possible, so that it can

Re: Writing userspace device drivers

2008-05-06 Thread Pollywog
anyone point me in right direction towards achieving this? Is it possible to do everything in userspace? Under Linux, there appears to be something called FUSD, which allows one to write userspace device drivers. Is there anything similar under FreeBSD? Do you mean FUSE? There is FUSE

Re: Writing userspace device drivers

2008-05-06 Thread Christopher Key
/lircX. Can anyone point me in right direction towards achieving this? Is it possible to do everything in userspace? Under Linux, there appears to be something called FUSD, which allows one to write userspace device drivers. Is there anything similar under FreeBSD? Do you mean FUSE

Installing Xorg drivers

2008-04-25 Thread Da Rock
to install the compat5x to get some software to work, but my problem now is Xorg won't recognize the drivers. Albeit the drivers are old, and for xfree86-4... I'd like to build them if I can't do anything else. What I'd like answers to are: 1. How does Xorg find the drivers? Does it just go

Re: Xorg ATi/Radeon drivers on 7.0-STABLE?

2008-03-26 Thread Eduardo Morras
At 19:35 25/03/2008, C Verboom wrote: Hi All, Just new here, so if this has been dealt with before, pls excuse me. I've seen only a few posts dealing w/ ATi drivers (ati and radeon) on v7.0-STABLE and Xorg, and together with my own experience I'm inclined to suspect there's something wrong

Re: Xorg ATi/Radeon drivers on 7.0-STABLE?

2008-03-26 Thread C Verboom
On Wed, Mar 26, 2008 at 12:43 AM, Paul Schmehl [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --On March 25, 2008 7:35:51 PM +0100 C Verboom [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: ... For a while I've been running 6.2-STABLE w/ Xorg on a Dell Latitude C610. Worked nicely @ 1400x1050, no problems. ... Mh, I think I

Re: Xorg ATi/Radeon drivers on 7.0-STABLE?

2008-03-26 Thread C Verboom
On Wed, Mar 26, 2008 at 12:43 AM, Paul Schmehl [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --On March 25, 2008 7:35:51 PM +0100 C Verboom [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: ... The problem: there's no way that I can get a decent graphics resolution like I was used to. The only one xorg.conf setting that resulted in

Status of AMD64 NVIDIA Proprietary Drivers for Xorg

2008-03-26 Thread Martyn Hare
What's the status regarding AMD64 NVIDIA Xorg drivers? I know this has been raised several times in the past but since the release of FreeBSD 7.0 how near/far are we from having this? If i'm not mistaken an NVIDIA representative said it required certain system calls to be implemented in order

Status of AMD64 NVIDIA Proprietary Drivers for Xorg

2008-03-26 Thread Robert Huff
Martyn Hare writes: What's the status regarding AMD64 NVIDIA Xorg drivers? I know this has been raised several times in the past but since the release of FreeBSD 7.0 how near/far are we from having this? If i'm not mistaken an NVIDIA representative said it required certain system

Re: Mac osX drivers

2008-03-25 Thread Da Rock
On Mon, 2008-03-24 at 13:49 -0700, Chuck Swiger wrote: On Mar 24, 2008, at 1:19 PM, David Kelly wrote: On Mon, Mar 24, 2008 at 02:26:23PM +1000, Da Rock wrote: I know I keep asking about drivers, but what about Mac drivers? I understand that Mac osX is based fairly well on BSD, so would

Re: FreeBSD 7: Xorg Failed to load module neomagic (Module does not exist, 0) No drivers available

2008-03-25 Thread Lowell Gilbert
Pedro Alves [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I found this error after making a fresh install of freeBSD7 into my IBM THINKPAD600 that has a neomagic graphic card. I never had such problems with FreeBSD 6.3. Where I find the drivers for the card and how to implement that? x11-drivers/xf86-video

Xorg ATi/Radeon drivers on 7.0-STABLE?

2008-03-25 Thread C Verboom
Hi All, Just new here, so if this has been dealt with before, pls excuse me. I've seen only a few posts dealing w/ ATi drivers (ati and radeon) on v7.0-STABLE and Xorg, and together with my own experience I'm inclined to suspect there's something wrong with this combo. Or wrong... it may need

Re: Xorg ATi/Radeon drivers on 7.0-STABLE?

2008-03-25 Thread Aline de Freitas
Em Tuesday 25 March 2008 15:35:51 C Verboom escreveu: Hi All, Just new here, so if this has been dealt with before, pls excuse me. I've seen only a few posts dealing w/ ATi drivers (ati and radeon) on v7.0-STABLE and Xorg, and together with my own experience I'm inclined to suspect there's

Re: Xorg ATi/Radeon drivers on 7.0-STABLE?

2008-03-25 Thread Isaac Mushinsky
2008 15:35:51 C Verboom escreveu: Hi All, Just new here, so if this has been dealt with before, pls excuse me. I've seen only a few posts dealing w/ ATi drivers (ati and radeon) on v7.0-STABLE and Xorg, and together with my own experience I'm inclined to suspect there's something

really dumb question: can I install Linux USB drivers under linux compat?

2008-03-25 Thread Steve Franks
Am I crazy? Steve ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: really dumb question: can I install Linux USB drivers under linux compat?

2008-03-25 Thread Da Rock
On Tue, 2008-03-25 at 15:19 -0700, Steve Franks wrote: Am I crazy? Steve Not really. Check out linux-kmod-compat in ports. However, there is catch ;) I'm just checking into some details now- I'm not sure if you have to build the driver or you can just use one prebuilt in an rpm.

Re: Xorg ATi/Radeon drivers on 7.0-STABLE?

2008-03-25 Thread Paul Schmehl
--On March 25, 2008 7:35:51 PM +0100 C Verboom [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi All, Just new here, so if this has been dealt with before, pls excuse me. I've seen only a few posts dealing w/ ATi drivers (ati and radeon) on v7.0-STABLE and Xorg, and together with my own experience I'm inclined

Re: Mac osX drivers

2008-03-24 Thread perryh
I know I keep asking about drivers, but what about Mac drivers? I understand that Mac osX is based fairly well on BSD, so would the drivers be portable? Last I heard, MacOs X userland was based on FreeBSD but the MacOS X kernel was Mach. The part of a driver that deals with the hardware might

Re: Mac osX drivers

2008-03-24 Thread Oliver Herold
Hi Mac OS X uses a different driver model, I/O kit. It's based on the XNU kernel (BSD/Mach). http://www.kernelthread.com/mac/osx/arch_xnu.html Cheers, Oliver Da Rock [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I know I keep asking about drivers, but what about Mac drivers? I understand that Mac osX is based

RE: Mac osX drivers

2008-03-24 Thread Ted Mittelstaedt
-Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Da Rock Sent: Sunday, March 23, 2008 8:26 PM To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Mac osX drivers I know I keep asking about drivers, but what about Mac drivers? I understand that Mac osX

FreeBSD 7: Xorg Failed to load module neomagic (Module does not exist, 0) No drivers available

2008-03-24 Thread Pedro Alves
Hello I found this error after making a fresh install of freeBSD7 into my IBM THINKPAD600 that has a neomagic graphic card. I never had such problems with FreeBSD 6.3. Where I find the drivers for the card and how to implement that? Does this machine is only supported by 6.3? Thanks Pedro

Re: Mac osX drivers

2008-03-24 Thread David Kelly
On Mon, Mar 24, 2008 at 02:26:23PM +1000, Da Rock wrote: I know I keep asking about drivers, but what about Mac drivers? I understand that Mac osX is based fairly well on BSD, so would the drivers be portable? Drivers for doing what? This is all on a current project I'm working on... Go

Re: Mac osX drivers

2008-03-24 Thread Chuck Swiger
On Mar 24, 2008, at 1:19 PM, David Kelly wrote: On Mon, Mar 24, 2008 at 02:26:23PM +1000, Da Rock wrote: I know I keep asking about drivers, but what about Mac drivers? I understand that Mac osX is based fairly well on BSD, so would the drivers be portable? Drivers for doing what

Mac osX drivers

2008-03-23 Thread Da Rock
I know I keep asking about drivers, but what about Mac drivers? I understand that Mac osX is based fairly well on BSD, so would the drivers be portable? This is all on a current project I'm working on... Cheers ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org

uscanner and ugen drivers questions

2008-03-21 Thread Predrag Punosevac
Dear All, I was playing with various scanners and all-in-one devices on FreeBSD (probably 6-7 different scanners and all-in-one devices) and I noticed that the range of scanners supported on FreeBSD is far smaller than that of sane-backends. This is due to the fact that there is no standard

Re: Nightmare on FreeBSD Street: NIC Drivers

2008-02-27 Thread Shigeaki Tagashira
Hello, It needs the e1000phy patch for working on your motherboard. Have you applied it? --- Shigeaki Tagashira W. D. wrote: Compiled, built kernel, and world per: http://www.f.csce.kyushu-u.ac.jp/~shigeaki/software/freebsd-nfe.html Still getting timeout errors. Seems like more of them

Re: Nightmare on FreeBSD Street: NIC Drivers

2008-02-25 Thread W. D.
At 20:05 2/24/2008, Pyun YongHyeon wrote: On Sat, Feb 23, 2008 at 01:09:06PM -0600, W. D. wrote: Compiled, built kernel, and world per: http://www.f.csce.kyushu-u.ac.jp/~shigeaki/software/freebsd-nfe.html Still getting timeout errors. Seems like more of them with this nfe driver.

Re: Nightmare on FreeBSD Street: NIC Drivers

2008-02-24 Thread Pyun YongHyeon
On Sat, Feb 23, 2008 at 01:09:06PM -0600, W. D. wrote: Compiled, built kernel, and world per: http://www.f.csce.kyushu-u.ac.jp/~shigeaki/software/freebsd-nfe.html Still getting timeout errors. Seems like more of them with this nfe driver. FreeBSD 6.2, Asus M2NPV-VM, nVidia

Nightmare on FreeBSD Street: NIC Drivers

2008-02-23 Thread W. D.
Compiled, built kernel, and world per: http://www.f.csce.kyushu-u.ac.jp/~shigeaki/software/freebsd-nfe.html Still getting timeout errors. Seems like more of them with this nfe driver. FreeBSD 6.2, Asus M2NPV-VM, nVidia Ethernet. Can anyone help me debug this problem or suggest a solid,

usb4bsd vs. stock ucom/umodem drivers and pantech px-500

2008-02-22 Thread Josh Paetzel
So in 6.3-RELEASE-p1 both amd64 and i386 I am getting 25K/sec off my sprint EVDO pcmcia card. This is an order of magnitude drop vs. 6.2-R and 7.0-RC1 7.0 had a habit of panicing after a few minutes of heavy transfer, so I ended up downgrading to 6.3-R. In a search for a solution I gave

Realtek RTL8100C no drivers?

2008-02-19 Thread Steve Franks
Just got a new motherboard, which is always painful. For once, everything *but* the NIC works. NIC is supposedly a Realtek RTL8100C, but it says 1000T all over the manual, and that chip is 100T. Who knows. All the 8100 references I can find in the mailing lists are OT about snd_hda. Steve

RLT8139d drivers?

2008-01-21 Thread Sdävtaker
Hello. Im running FBSD 6.2release. I got an old RLT 8139 1/10m working in my ia32 pc, used it for long time and wanted to buy a second one for routing, couldnt find one of those, and bought a 10/100/1000 rlt8139d, FBSD is not detecting it, i was googling and found out that 8139c+ drivers

Re: RLT8139d drivers?

2008-01-21 Thread Erik Trulsson
is not detecting it, i was googling and found out that 8139c+ drivers are not compatible with the old drivers. Is there any way to make it work? Thanks for any help. Sdav The RTL8139D is a 10/100Mbit chip that is supported by the rl(4) driver and can be found on the majority of really cheap NICs these days

Re: RLT8139d drivers?

2008-01-21 Thread Sdävtaker
one for routing, couldnt find one of those, and bought a 10/100/1000 rlt8139d, FBSD is not detecting it, i was googling and found out that 8139c+ drivers are not compatible with the old drivers. Is there any way to make it work? Thanks for any help. Sdav The RTL8139D is a 10/100Mbit

xorg-drivers-7.3

2008-01-21 Thread Bob Hall
I'm trying to update xorg-drivers-7.3 on an old machine. I didn't know that the i810 drivers do the job of the i740 drivers, so I selected i740 in the config screen when I ran portmanager. Unfortunately, this conflicts with i810, and unfortunately, this choice I made is preserved in some

Re: xorg-drivers-7.3

2008-01-21 Thread Peter Boosten
Bob Hall wrote: I'm trying to update xorg-drivers-7.3 on an old machine. I didn't know that the i810 drivers do the job of the i740 drivers, so I selected i740 in the config screen when I ran portmanager. Unfortunately, this conflicts with i810, and unfortunately, this choice I made is preserved

Re: xorg-drivers-7.3

2008-01-21 Thread Chess Griffin
Bob Hall wrote: I'm trying to update xorg-drivers-7.3 on an old machine. I didn't know that the i810 drivers do the job of the i740 drivers, so I selected i740 in the config screen when I ran portmanager. Unfortunately, this conflicts with i810, and unfortunately, this choice I made is preserved

Re: RLT8139d drivers?

2008-01-21 Thread Erik Trulsson
6.2release. I got an old RLT 8139 1/10m working in my ia32 pc, used it for long time and wanted to buy a second one for routing, couldnt find one of those, and bought a 10/100/1000 rlt8139d, FBSD is not detecting it, i was googling and found out that 8139c+ drivers are not compatible

Re: xorg-drivers-7.3

2008-01-21 Thread Bob Hall
On Mon, Jan 21, 2008 at 03:15:19PM -0500, Chess Griffin wrote: Bob Hall wrote: I'm trying to update xorg-drivers-7.3 on an old machine. I didn't know that the i810 drivers do the job of the i740 drivers, so I selected i740 in the config screen when I ran portmanager. Unfortunately

xf86-video drivers

2008-01-05 Thread E. J. Cerejo
I'm running FBSD6 stable and using portupgrade to manage my ports. I was wondering how do you stop all of these video drivers from building and installing when all I need is xf86-video-nv? ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http

xf86-video drivers

2008-01-05 Thread Robert Huff
E. J. Cerejo writes: I'm running FBSD6 stable and using portupgrade to manage my ports. I was wondering how do you stop all of these video drivers from building and installing when all I need is xf86-video-nv? pd /usr/ports/x11-drivers/xorg-drivers make config

Re: xf86-video drivers

2008-01-05 Thread Daniel Bye
On Sat, Jan 05, 2008 at 03:49:42PM -0500, E. J. Cerejo wrote: I'm running FBSD6 stable and using portupgrade to manage my ports. I was wondering how do you stop all of these video drivers from building and installing when all I need is xf86-video-nv? # cd /usr/ports/x11-drivers/xorg

Re: pkg_delete: package 'xorg-drivers-7.3' doesn't have a prefix

2007-12-31 Thread Mon Si
during the portupgrade due to an undefined prefix. The port can't be deleted by pkg_delete -f xorg-drivers-7.3 Does anybody know how to upgrade / remove this port? Thanks in advance, Simon If nothing else works, you could try rm -rf /var/db/pkg/xorg-drivers-7.3 If I remember correctly

Re: pkg_delete: package 'xorg-drivers-7.3' doesn't have a prefix

2007-12-30 Thread Peter Boosten
prefix. The port can't be deleted by pkg_delete -f xorg-drivers-7.3 Does anybody know how to upgrade / remove this port? Thanks in advance, Simon If nothing else works, you could try rm -rf /var/db/pkg/xorg-drivers-7.3 If I remember correctly, there are detailed instructions in /usr/ports

pkg_delete: package 'xorg-drivers-7.3' doesn't have a prefix

2007-12-28 Thread Mon Si
Dear list, I'm experiencing problems when I try to portupgrade the xorg-driver port. The old version of the port can't be uninstalled during the portupgrade due to an undefined prefix. The port can't be deleted by pkg_delete -f xorg-drivers-7.3 Does anybody know how to upgrade / remove this port

Re: pkg_delete: package 'xorg-drivers-7.3' doesn't have a prefix

2007-12-28 Thread Stephen Montgomery-Smith
Mon Si wrote: Dear list, I'm experiencing problems when I try to portupgrade the xorg-driver port. The old version of the port can't be uninstalled during the portupgrade due to an undefined prefix. The port can't be deleted by pkg_delete -f xorg-drivers-7.3 Does anybody know how to upgrade

Re: pkg_delete: package 'xorg-drivers-7.3' doesn't have a prefix

2007-12-28 Thread Eric Crist
by pkg_delete -f xorg-drivers-7.3 Does anybody know how to upgrade / remove this port? Thanks in advance, Simon If nothing else works, you could try rm -rf /var/db/pkg/xorg-drivers-7.3 If I remember correctly, there are detailed instructions in /usr/ports/ UPDATING -- go back to notes

Re: pkg_delete: package 'xorg-drivers-7.3' doesn't have a prefix

2007-12-28 Thread Tim Kellers
Montgomery-Smith wrote: Mon Si wrote: Dear list, I'm experiencing problems when I try to portupgrade the xorg-driver port. The old version of the port can't be uninstalled during the portupgrade due to an undefined prefix. The port can't be deleted by pkg_delete -f xorg-drivers-7.3 Does anybody

PPD files vs printer drivers also LPD vs LPRng vs CUPS

2007-11-10 Thread Predrag Punosevac
I am trying to understand little bit better Unix printing. I am terribly confused about the real meaning of PPD files and printer drivers. According to this http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PostScript_Printer_Description PPD files are post script description files that act as a drivers for post

Re: PPD files vs printer drivers also LPD vs LPRng vs CUPS

2007-11-10 Thread Predrag Punosevac
Predrag Punosevac wrote: I am trying to understand little bit better Unix printing. I am terribly confused about the real meaning of PPD files and printer drivers. According to this http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PostScript_Printer_Description PPD files are post script description files

Re: PPD files vs printer drivers also LPD vs LPRng vs CUPS

2007-11-10 Thread Roland Smith
On Sat, Nov 10, 2007 at 04:39:29PM -0700, Predrag Punosevac wrote: I am trying to understand little bit better Unix printing. I am terribly confused about the real meaning of PPD files and printer drivers. According to this http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PostScript_Printer_Description

Re: PPD files vs printer drivers also LPD vs LPRng vs CUPS

2007-11-10 Thread Warren Block
On Sat, 10 Nov 2007, Predrag Punosevac wrote: I am trying to understand little bit better Unix printing. I am terribly confused about the real meaning of PPD files and printer drivers. According to this http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PostScript_Printer_Description PPD files are post script

Re: x11 drivers - conflicts

2007-09-02 Thread Mel
On Sunday 02 September 2007 01:39:15 Robert Davison wrote: Or how do I make the build process bring the blue config screen up again so I can deselect the intel driver. cd /usr/ports/x11-drivers/xorg-drivers make rmconfig and take it from there. Or you could edit /var/db/ports/xorg-drivers

Re: x11 drivers - conflicts

2007-09-02 Thread matt donovan
You have to do make config in xorg-drivers again to reconfigure the port Message: 33 Date: Sun, 2 Sep 2007 00:39:15 +0100 (BST) From: Robert Davison [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: x11 drivers - conflicts To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Message-ID: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Content-Type: text/plain

x11 drivers - conflicts

2007-09-01 Thread Robert Davison
I was this evening doing a portupgrade on some of my outdated packages one of which was x11-drivers I did a portupgrade -arR and got the blue config screen for the x11-drivers. I stupidly chose and intel driver which when i run the portupgrade ends with the following error you cant

xf86 madness - stop installing drivers

2007-07-31 Thread Noah
Hi, I am wondering if there is an easy way to stop installing all of the xf86 input an video drivers listed below. 4 xf86-input-acecad-1.1.0 /x11-drivers/xf86-input-acecad 3 xf86-input-calcomp-1.1.0 /x11-drivers/xf86-input-calcomp 2 xf86-input-citron-2.2.0 /x11-drivers/xf86-input

Re: xf86 madness - stop installing drivers

2007-07-31 Thread John Nielsen
On Tuesday 31 July 2007 02:37:36 pm Noah wrote: Hi, I am wondering if there is an easy way to stop installing all of the xf86 input an video drivers listed below. Sure, just uninstall the xorg metaport, the xorg-drivers metaport, and any of the driver ports you listed that you're

Re: xf86 madness - stop installing drivers

2007-07-31 Thread Roland Smith
On Tue, Jul 31, 2007 at 11:37:36AM -0700, Noah wrote: Hi, I am wondering if there is an easy way to stop installing all of the xf86 input an video drivers listed below. 4 xf86-input-acecad-1.1.0 /x11-drivers/xf86-input-acecad 3 xf86-input-calcomp-1.1.0 /x11-drivers/xf86-input

Re: xf86 madness - stop installing drivers

2007-07-31 Thread Jonathan Horne
On Tuesday 31 July 2007 13:44:44 John Nielsen wrote: On Tuesday 31 July 2007 02:37:36 pm Noah wrote: Hi, I am wondering if there is an easy way to stop installing all of the xf86 input an video drivers listed below. Sure, just uninstall the xorg metaport, the xorg-drivers metaport

Re: xf86 madness - stop installing drivers

2007-07-31 Thread RW
On Tue, 31 Jul 2007 13:55:00 -0500 Jonathan Horne [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: honestly tho, it *does* seem like there should be a configuration where you can choose as many or as few of the available ones as you need. if they were going to go to the trouble of making each one a seperare entity,

Re: xf86 madness - stop installing drivers

2007-07-31 Thread Jona Joachim
On Tue, 31 Jul 2007 11:37:36 -0700 Noah [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I am wondering if there is an easy way to stop installing all of the xf86 input an video drivers listed below. snip I asked this some time ago on the X11 mailing list: http://docs.freebsd.org/cgi/mid.cgi?f2v3qg$vfl$1

Fwd: building ipmi drivers

2007-05-14 Thread Dhananjaya hiremath
Note: forwarded message attached. - Yahoo! oneSearch: Finally, mobile search that gives answers, not web links. ---BeginMessage--- Hello sir, Here we did the following command to build the ipmi. # cd /usr/src/sys/modules/i2c/smbus make make

ipmi drivers

2007-05-14 Thread Dhananjaya hiremath
Hello sir, Here we did the following command to build the ipmi. # cd /usr/src/sys/modules/i2c/smbus make make install # cd /usr/src/sys/modules/ipmi make make install # kldload smbus # kldload ipmi Then how we come to know that the driver is installed.And how to ensure that driver runs

Re: ipmi drivers

2007-05-14 Thread Pietro Cerutti
Dhananjaya hiremath wrote: Hello sir, Hello, Here we did the following command to build the ipmi. # cd /usr/src/sys/modules/i2c/smbus make make install # cd /usr/src/sys/modules/ipmi make make install # kldload smbus # kldload ipmi Then how we come to know that the driver is

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