Re: idea about FreeBSD 7.1-RELEASE

2008-09-06 Thread Gen Otsuji
At Sat, 06 Sep 2008 04:20:58 -0700, Xin LI <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > Hello. > > I have an idea that, in FreeBSD 7.1-RELEASE, the code of freebsd-update > > is included. > > If SA is announced, it would be nice.

Re: Fwd: FreeBSD 7.1 Content

2008-09-06 Thread Ken Smith
On Sat, 2008-09-06 at 14:51 +1000, Ian Smith wrote: > I just booted off the 7.0 disc1 to check, and /usr/local/bin/links is > still the default browser in Options, available during installation from > another vty. So I was a bit surprised, on rebooting into my so far not > much configured 7.0, t

Re: Inspiron 1525 Hardware

2008-09-06 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
On Sat, Sep 06, 2008 at 05:50:36PM -0700, Jeremy Chadwick wrote: > It appears Linux got support for the 88E8040 in September 2007 (revision > 1.2.73). Support for the 88E8040T was added in June 2008 (revision > 1.330.1.3). > > The 1.2.73 commit also added support for the 88E8048 and the 88E8070.

Re: Inspiron 1525 Hardware

2008-09-06 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
On Sat, Sep 06, 2008 at 01:12:29PM -0600, Dan Allen wrote: > On 5 Sep 2008, at 9:43 PM, Jeremy Chadwick wrote: >> I cannot find a single PCI/PCIe card that uses the 88E8040. > > I wonder how Ubuntu supports this ethernet chip? It is amazing that > only two Dell's use this chip. Maybe it is not

how to compute vm.pmap.pv_entry_count from procstat ?

2008-09-06 Thread Laurent Frigault
Hi, On a 7.0-STABLE i386 web server, I got kernel messages reporting problems with PV entries: Approaching the limit on PV entries, consider increasing either the vm.pmap.shpgperproc or the vm.pmap.pv_entry_max tunable. This server (DELL poweredge R200 quad core 4G RAM) is having random hang eve

Problem with mod_fcgid on AMD64

2008-09-06 Thread Richard Tector
Earlier today I reinstalled one of our web servers (Dell PowerEdge 860 running dual or quad core Xeons) with amd64 RELENG_7 as of today, replacing i386 RELENG_7 from about a month back (clean install). After installing Apache 2.2.9 and mod_fcgid 2.2 from ports exactly as on the other i386 machin

Re: Inspiron 1525 Hardware

2008-09-06 Thread Dan Allen
On 5 Sep 2008, at 9:43 PM, Jeremy Chadwick wrote: I cannot find a single PCI/PCIe card that uses the 88E8040. I wonder how Ubuntu supports this ethernet chip? It is amazing that only two Dell's use this chip. Maybe it is not worth worrying about after all... Don't kill yourself over t

Re: nVidia driver update today: renders X11 unusable

2008-09-06 Thread Andrew Reilly
On Tue, Sep 02, 2008 at 02:28:20PM +, O. Hartmann wrote: > How can I selectively 'downgrade' a port? I've never had the nv driver be able to happily (or at all, really) drive my LCD screen, so I've been using the VESA driver. Works pretty OK. So it's not accelerated, but chips and busses are

Re: idea about FreeBSD 7.1-RELEASE

2008-09-06 Thread Xin LI
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Hello. > I have an idea that, in FreeBSD 7.1-RELEASE, the code of freebsd-update > is included. > If SA is announced, it would be nice. > When so, iso-image is still 7.1-RELEASE not 7.1-RELEASE-p1. > So, if someone intend to

Re: Upcoming Releases Schedule...

2008-09-06 Thread Robert Watson
On Fri, 5 Sep 2008, Ben Kaduk wrote: To quote from the same website: Early adopter Releases which are published from the -CURRENT branch will be supported by the Security Officer for a minimum of 6 months after the release. Normal Releases which are published from a -STABLE branch will be

idea about FreeBSD 7.1-RELEASE

2008-09-06 Thread annona2
Hello. I have an idea that, in FreeBSD 7.1-RELEASE, the code of freebsd-update is included. If SA is announced, it would be nice. When so, iso-image is still 7.1-RELEASE not 7.1-RELEASE-p1. So, if someone intend to install 7.1-RELEASE, and if network is coonnected, the installer runs the freebsd-u