ciss(4) driver in FreeBSD 6.x ...

2005-11-22 Thread Marc G. Fournier
Hi .. Having read the man page, there is alot in there that makes me wonder whether going with a HP Smart Array P600 is a wise idea ... "The Compaq ciss adapters require faked responses to get reasonable behavior out of them. In addition, the ciss command set is by no means adequate to

Re: xorg-clients conflicts with xterm (patch)

2005-11-22 Thread Kirill Ponomarew
On Wed, Nov 23, 2005 at 12:47:13PM +1100, Mark Andrews wrote: > > > > > > $ sh > > > $ PACKAGES=/home/packages > > > $ export PACKAGES > > > $ /usr/local/sbin/pkg_info -I xorg-clients-6.8.2 > > > pkg_info: can't find package 'xorg-clients-6.8.2' installed or in a file! > > > $ PKG_PATH=/home/pack

sym(4) broken on amd64 (Time to port new driver?)

2005-11-22 Thread Sergey N. Voronkov
Looks like it is broken for a while - "_sym_calloc2: failed to allocate HCB" is always there... And... Looks like Gerard Roudier havn't more interest in maintaining this driver - there is the second generation of the original driver into linux source three since 2001, which is newer ported to Fre

Re: Laptop choices

2005-11-22 Thread Graham North
Hello Daniel and Bartosz: Thank you for such prompt and helpful replies. Sounds like the Dell's ATI will work just fine. Graham/ Bartosz Fabianowski wrote: Mmm, the radeon man page claims Radeon 9000's are supported without caveats. Oops, I sent my initial reply off-list. To summarize

Re: /create/symlink failed: no inodes free

2005-11-22 Thread Stephen Hurd
MS-KILA wrote: still present trying to install 6.0 on a 600Mhz celery, 384 ram, 8g hdd; ftp install. will attempt the explicit ip idea. does every first attempt at ftp choke like this? wayne ___ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.f

gdb konsole system crash

2005-11-22 Thread Android
Hello all! Discovering troubles with kde-apps startup I've faced with interesting effect - starting of gdb konsole (as nonprivileged user) causes system crash. Here is an example: gdb konsole run In my case this method 100% rebooting system in 80 seconds (mysterious network wa

Re: Performance problem since updating from 6.0-RELEASE to 6.0-STABLE last friday

2005-11-22 Thread Pierre-Luc Drouin
Hajimu UMEMOTO wrote: Hi, On Tue, 22 Nov 2005 12:06:12 -0800 Nate Lawson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: nate> Thank you for tracking this down. It is interesting that BIF is nate> heavyweight while BST is not. I guess that is expected behavior by OEMs nate> which only test on

Re: Performance problem since updating from 6.0-RELEASE to 6.0-STABLE last friday

2005-11-22 Thread Hajimu UMEMOTO
Hi, > On Tue, 22 Nov 2005 12:06:12 -0800 > Nate Lawson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: nate> Thank you for tracking this down. It is interesting that BIF is nate> heavyweight while BST is not. I guess that is expected behavior by OEMs nate> which only test on Windows and so not everyone mak

Re: Laptop choices

2005-11-22 Thread Bartosz Fabianowski
Mmm, the radeon man page claims Radeon 9000's are supported without caveats. Oops, I sent my initial reply off-list. To summarize for everybody else: Yes, you're right; I was thinking the Radeon 9000 was a newer chip, while it is an oder one (an rv250), which has been fully supported for a wh

Re: [Fwd: cvs commit: src/sys/dev/acpica acpi_cmbat.c]

2005-11-22 Thread Doug Poland
> Nate Lawson wrote: > >Here is a patch that should fix the battery hangs on RELENG_6. It > >was tested to work fine, although I need testing from an affected > >user to verify it fixes the problem. It was committed to HEAD and > >will be MFCed if it fixes the problem. > > My Dell C600 is affect

Re: [Fwd: cvs commit: src/sys/dev/acpica acpi_cmbat.c]

2005-11-22 Thread Scott Long
Nate Lawson wrote: Here is a patch that should fix the battery hangs on RELENG_6. It was tested to work fine, although I need testing from an affected user to verify it fixes the problem. It was committed to HEAD and will be MFCed if it fixes the problem. Thanks a lot! I'm a bit disappo

Re: Laptop choices

2005-11-22 Thread Daniel O'Connor
On Wed, 23 Nov 2005 12:43, Bartosz Fabianowski wrote: > > I'd say the Dell's video is more likely to work (even 3d). > > Well, not quite yet. X.Org 6.8 doesn't have any 3D support for modern > Radeon chips and the forthcoming 6.9/7.0 will have "experimental" > support. But 2D is working just fine (

Re: Laptop choices

2005-11-22 Thread Bartosz Fabianowski
I'd say the Dell's video is more likely to work (even 3d). Well, not quite yet. X.Org 6.8 doesn't have any 3D support for modern Radeon chips and the forthcoming 6.9/7.0 will have "experimental" support. But 2D is working just fine (I am typing this on an Inspiron 8600C with ATI Radeon). I

Re: Swapfile problem in 6?

2005-11-22 Thread Rob
Rob wrote: > --- Peter Jeremy wrote: >> >> Basically, wait until your system deadlocks. BREAK >> into DDB. >> As a start, run 'show lockedvnods', 'ps'. My guess >> is that you'll see a lock that has a number of waiters >> which is probably the culprit. >> Use 'panic' to get a crashdump and then

Re: Laptop choices

2005-11-22 Thread Daniel O'Connor
On Wed, 23 Nov 2005 11:42, Graham North wrote: > Am currently trying to choose between a couple of laptops, the luck > winner of which will have Freebsd loaded alongside WinXP. > > Dell Latitude d600 with Radeon 9000? video, intel pro wireless > or > IBM R51 - Intel Extreme2, intel pro wireless. >

Re: xorg-clients conflicts with xterm (patch)

2005-11-22 Thread Mark Andrews
> > > $ sh > > $ PACKAGES=/home/packages > > $ export PACKAGES > > $ /usr/local/sbin/pkg_info -I xorg-clients-6.8.2 > > pkg_info: can't find package 'xorg-clients-6.8.2' installed or in a file! > > $ PKG_PATH=/home/packages/All > > $ export PKG_PATH > > $ /usr/local/sbin/pkg_info -I xorg-clients-

Re: xorg-clients conflicts with xterm (patch)

2005-11-22 Thread Mark Andrews
> $ sh > $ PACKAGES=/home/packages > $ export PACKAGES > $ /usr/local/sbin/pkg_info -I xorg-clients-6.8.2 > pkg_info: can't find package 'xorg-clients-6.8.2' installed or in a file! > $ PKG_PATH=/home/packages/All > $ export PKG_PATH > $ /usr/local/sbin/pkg_info -I xorg-clients-6.8.2 > xorg-client

Re: xorg-clients conflicts with xterm (patch)

2005-11-22 Thread Mark Andrews
> > > On Wednesday 23 of November 2005 01:11, Joel Hatton wrote: > > > > Joel Hatton wrote: > > > > > What was the rationale behind changing this behaviour for 206_1? > > > > > > > > That xterm should install as xterm and not xterm-static. > > > > > > This is certainly sensible, however it appear

Re: xorg-clients conflicts with xterm (patch)

2005-11-22 Thread Mark Andrews
> On Wednesday 23 of November 2005 01:11, Joel Hatton wrote: > > > Joel Hatton wrote: > > > > What was the rationale behind changing this behaviour for 206_1? > > > > > > That xterm should install as xterm and not xterm-static. > > > > This is certainly sensible, however it appears that the onus h

Laptop choices

2005-11-22 Thread Graham North
Am currently trying to choose between a couple of laptops, the luck winner of which will have Freebsd loaded alongside WinXP. Dell Latitude d600 with Radeon 9000? video, intel pro wireless or IBM R51 - Intel Extreme2, intel pro wireless. The main differences will likely be the video and maybe bi

[Fwd: cvs commit: src/sys/dev/acpica acpi_cmbat.c]

2005-11-22 Thread Nate Lawson
Here is a patch that should fix the battery hangs on RELENG_6. It was tested to work fine, although I need testing from an affected user to verify it fixes the problem. It was committed to HEAD and will be MFCed if it fixes the problem. I'm a bit disappointed that no one reported this proble

Re: xorg-clients conflicts with xterm (patch)

2005-11-22 Thread Dejan Lesjak
On Wednesday 23 of November 2005 01:11, Joel Hatton wrote: [snip] > # pkg_info -I xorg-clients\* > xorg-clients-6.8.2_1 X client programs and related files from X.Org > > # portupgrade -p xterm > > ... (building) > > ---> Installing the new version via the port > ===> Installing for xterm-206_1 >

Re: recompiled 6.0 does not boot -- need help !!

2005-11-22 Thread Bartosz Fabianowski
loader.old??? AFAIK loader is not rebuilt while compiling kernel and there is no such file like loader.old created! It is installed with world and not kernel then. Sorry for getting that wrong, I didn't check. But it makes no difference to the original poster because he reinstalled both world

Re: recompiled 6.0 does not boot -- need help !!

2005-11-22 Thread Wojciech Puchar
boot: Simply copy the default line and append ".old", as in: boot: 0:ad(0,a)/boot/loader.old loader.old??? AFAIK loader is not rebuilt while compiling kernel and there is no such file like loader.old created! Here, you can tell the loader to boot the previous kernel: OK boot /boot/kernel.

Re: xorg-clients conflicts with xterm (patch)

2005-11-22 Thread Dejan Lesjak
On Wednesday 23 of November 2005 01:11, Joel Hatton wrote: > > Joel Hatton wrote: > > > What was the rationale behind changing this behaviour for 206_1? > > > > That xterm should install as xterm and not xterm-static. > > This is certainly sensible, however it appears that the onus has now been > p

Re: xorg-clients conflicts with xterm (patch)

2005-11-22 Thread Joel Hatton
> Joel Hatton wrote: > > What was the rationale behind changing this behaviour for 206_1? > > That xterm should install as xterm and not xterm-static. This is certainly sensible, however it appears that the onus has now been put on the maintainer of xorg-clients to change its installation process

Re: DHCP client error: domain_not_set.invalid

2005-11-22 Thread Greg Barniskis
Mark Andrews wrote: Yes it is reasonable to expect ISP to fix things like this. You pay the ISP to operate there part of the network within the operational contraints of the RFCs (Standards track and BCP). I totally agree. Make sure when calling tech support on

Re: DHCP client error: domain_not_set.invalid

2005-11-22 Thread Mark Andrews
> Hi, > > >>I understand the idea that bad values should be rejected, but in > >>reality, I have the same DSL modem that these others have and there is > >>no way to change the domain search list that it sends. No way that I > >>could find at least. This is SBC-Yahoo in California, so there ar

Re: freebsd-stable Digest, Vol 136, Issue 3

2005-11-22 Thread Doug White
On Tue, 22 Nov 2005, Rutger Bevaart wrote: > > There is no doubt that a lot of people have stable FreeBSD systems on Dell > hardware. The strange thing is though that there are also a lot of people > having problems with 1750's and 1850's (and therefore 2850's as well, as > they have an identical

Re: 5.4-RELEASE: integer divide panic (trap 18) during install boot

2005-11-22 Thread Doug White
On Mon, 21 Nov 2005 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > Hi. I've got a system that's dying during the scsi probe of the > initial install boot. The console messages are along the lines of: > > [...usual boot stuff...] > vga0 > unknown: can't assign resources (port) > unknown:

Re: Mount related panic with FreeBSD 6?

2005-11-22 Thread Václav Haisman
Doug White wrote: > On Sun, 20 Nov 2005, [UTF-8] Václav Haisman wrote: > > >>Hi, >>I got this panic on freshly installed FreeBSD 6. I did this df -h and >>noticed that /mnt/oldroot/home is somewhat mangled. The /mnt/oldroot is >>root of FreeBSD 4.11 system. I successfully copied some settings and

Re: Mount related panic with FreeBSD 6?

2005-11-22 Thread Doug White
On Sun, 20 Nov 2005, [UTF-8] V??clav Haisman wrote: > Hi, > I got this panic on freshly installed FreeBSD 6. I did this df -h and > noticed that /mnt/oldroot/home is somewhat mangled. The /mnt/oldroot is > root of FreeBSD 4.11 system. I successfully copied some settings and all > user accounts fro

Re: RELENG_6: ACPI-0698: *** Warning: Type override:

2005-11-22 Thread Doug White
On Sat, 19 Nov 2005, Doug White wrote: > On Fri, 18 Nov 2005, Ricardo A. Reis wrote: > > > Hi all, > > > > > > Updating proxy server running 5.4, i resolve enable acpi,smp > > kernel to use HTT. > > You need to set > > machdep.hyperthreading_enabled="1" Sorry, this should be: machdep.

Re: recompiled 6.0 does not boot -- need help !!

2005-11-22 Thread Bartosz Fabianowski
now, when i think of it, i suspect the reason might be CPUTYPE=pentium-m The relevant bug is 75898, which I filed almost a year ago. It has been fixed and MFC'd though, so it should not be affecting 6.0-release (I am using CPUTYPE=pentium-m on 6.0 myself). Most likely, something else went wro

SV: recompiled 6.0 does not boot -- need help !!

2005-11-22 Thread Sune Wettersteen
I use CPUTYPE=pentium-m without any problems, and I'm pretty sure that the kernel gets compiled without any optimizing, so I think you'll need to look somewhere else for this problem. -Oprindelig meddelelse- Fra: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] På vegne af martinko Sendt: 22. n

RE: ACPI problems with Dell laptops? (was: Jerky keyboard and mouse)

2005-11-22 Thread Sune Wettersteen
I'm on a Dell 500m and acpi seems to work fine, other than it doesn't register lid opening, which means that when I close the lid and open it again, the screen is still blank. Does anyone know about this problem? I can partly relate to the mouse issue. My mouse is very sluggish and its slow to regi

sh(1) man page needs to be updated for \[hHWw$] usage

2005-11-22 Thread Parv
A PR (bin/89410) about the handing of \[uW] in sh(1) on 6.0 caused me to look for its introduction. I found that '\[hHWw$]' escape sequences had been introduced in 5.4, mention of which so far has been lacking from sh.1. Could somebody please update the man page? Should i file a PR? - Parv -

Re: Performance problem since updating from 6.0-RELEASE to 6.0-STABLE last friday

2005-11-22 Thread Nate Lawson
Hajimu UMEMOTO wrote: Hi, On Thu, 17 Nov 2005 11:24:16 -0500 Pierre-Luc Drouin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: Ok, there is new development. I realized by playing with debug.acpi.disabled="smbat", debug.acpi.disabled="smbat cmbat" and debug.acpi.disabled="cmbat", that my laptop battery is not a

Renaming a gmirror?

2005-11-22 Thread Rink Springer
Hi everyone, On a fileserver, one of the gmirror volumes has recently changed its mountpoint. Therefore, I would like to change the name of the gmirror to reflect this, as the current name is not very informational anymore. Is there a 'gmirror rename' command I am misssing, or is this simply not

Re: [FreeBSD6] kinfo_size mismatch

2005-11-22 Thread Laurent C
2005/11/21, Robert Watson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > On Mon, 21 Nov 2005, Laurent C wrote: > > >> This is almost certainly a mismatch between the kernel version and a > >> monitoring tool that is trying to inspect kernel state (specifically, > >> retrieve process lists). If your buildworld/installwor

Re: VIA 8237 under FreeBSD 4.11

2005-11-22 Thread Sean Bruno
On Wed, 2005-11-23 at 00:36 +1030, Daniel O'Connor wrote: > On Tue, 22 Nov 2005 16:14, Sean Bruno wrote: > > > Or you could try staying with PATA drives, but it's a losing battle - you > > > will be hard pressed to find a new PC for which the devices are properly > > > supported. (eg stuff like onb

recompiled 6.0 does not boot -- need help !!

2005-11-22 Thread martinko
dear all, i recompiled kernel (and world) and it does not boot anymore. even loader does not start. :-(( [note: version 6.0-release] now, when i think of it, i suspect the reason might be CPUTYPE=pentium-m -- long time ago i read either in freebsd or linux mailing lists something along the l

Re: PAE-SMP compilation problem

2005-11-22 Thread Scott Long
Goran Gajic wrote: Hi, I don't know if this is known, but when I have tried compiling PAE kernel with SMP enabled on 6.0-RELEASE I've got this mistake: cc -c -O -pipe -Wall -Wredundant-decls -Wnested-externs -Wstrict-prototypes -Wmissing-prototypes -Wpointer-arith -Winline -Wcast-qual -f

atapci0: failed to enable memory mapping!

2005-11-22 Thread Pierre-Luc Drouin
I get this when I boot -stable on my Dell M70 laptop: Nov 22 09:25:12 mdaemon kernel: atapci0: port 0x1f0-0x1f7,0x3f6,0x170-0x177,0x376,0xbfa0-0xbfaf irq 9 at device 31.2 on pci0 Nov 22 09:25:12 mdaemon kernel: atapci0: failed to enable memory mapping! Should memory mapping be working for tha

Re: ACPI problems with Dell laptops? (was: Jerky keyboard and mouse)

2005-11-22 Thread Pierre-Luc Drouin
Greg 'groggy' Lehey wrote: On Sunday, 20 November 2005 at 23:01:41 -0600, Doug Poland wrote: On Sun, November 20, 2005 01:59, Greg 'groggy' Lehey wrote: On Saturday, 19 November 2005 at 21:37:03 -0600, Stephen Montgomery-Smith wrote: I recently upgraded from stable-6 of Nov 4 t

Re: Performance problem since updating from 6.0-RELEASE to 6.0-STABLE last friday

2005-11-22 Thread Pierre-Luc Drouin
Hajimu UMEMOTO wrote: Hi, On Thu, 17 Nov 2005 11:24:16 -0500 Pierre-Luc Drouin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: Ok, there is new development. I realized by playing with debug.acpi.disabled="smbat", debug.acpi.disabled="smbat cmbat" and debug.acpi.disabled="cmbat", that my lapto

Re: DHCP client error: domain_not_set.invalid

2005-11-22 Thread Sebastiaan van Erk
Hi, I understand the idea that bad values should be rejected, but in reality, I have the same DSL modem that these others have and there is no way to change the domain search list that it sends. No way that I could find at least. This is SBC-Yahoo in California, so there are a lot of people o

Re: VIA 8237 under FreeBSD 4.11

2005-11-22 Thread Daniel O'Connor
On Tue, 22 Nov 2005 16:14, Sean Bruno wrote: > > Or you could try staying with PATA drives, but it's a losing battle - you > > will be hard pressed to find a new PC for which the devices are properly > > supported. (eg stuff like onboard ethernet) > > /me groans...patches eh? > > I'm not a BSD guy

PAE-SMP compilation problem

2005-11-22 Thread Goran Gajic
Hi, I don't know if this is known, but when I have tried compiling PAE kernel with SMP enabled on 6.0-RELEASE I've got this mistake: cc -c -O -pipe -Wall -Wredundant-decls -Wnested-externs -Wstrict-prototypes -Wmissing-prototypes -Wpointer-arith -Winline -Wcast-qual -fformat-extensions -st

Re: Performance problem since updating from 6.0-RELEASE to 6.0-STABLE last friday

2005-11-22 Thread Hajimu UMEMOTO
Hi, > On Thu, 17 Nov 2005 11:24:16 -0500 > Pierre-Luc Drouin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > Ok, there is new development. I realized by playing with > debug.acpi.disabled="smbat", debug.acpi.disabled="smbat cmbat" and > debug.acpi.disabled="cmbat", that my laptop battery is not a smbat, >

Re: DHCP client error: domain_not_set.invalid

2005-11-22 Thread Mark Andrews
> Sorry for the late reply. I just read this thread and this issue affects > me as well. Hopefully I'm not commenting on something that has been > fixed but I can't test STABLE at the moment to verify that... > > I understand the idea that bad values should be rejected, but in > reality, I hav

Re: DHCP client error: domain_not_set.invalid

2005-11-22 Thread Sam Nilsson
Mark Andrews wrote: --61jdw2sOBCFtR2d/ Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Sun, Nov 13, 2005 at 07:14:00PM -0800, Mark Space wrote: Hi all, =20 I just set up the latest 6.0 release, and I'm getting errors with the

Re: ACPI problems with Dell laptops? (was: Jerky keyboard and mouse)

2005-11-22 Thread Greg 'groggy' Lehey
On Sunday, 20 November 2005 at 23:01:41 -0600, Doug Poland wrote: > > On Sun, November 20, 2005 01:59, Greg 'groggy' Lehey wrote: >> On Saturday, 19 November 2005 at 21:37:03 -0600, Stephen >> Montgomery-Smith wrote: >>> I recently upgraded from stable-6 of Nov 4 to stable-6 of today on >>> my Dell

Re: freebsd-stable Digest, Vol 136, Issue 3

2005-11-22 Thread Rutger Bevaart
There is no doubt that a lot of people have stable FreeBSD systems on Dell hardware. The strange thing is though that there are also a lot of people having problems with 1750's and 1850's (and therefore 2850's as well, as they have an identical board). We have installed about 4 1750's and 8 1850/