Re: SATA hotplug and AHCI

2008-12-28 Thread David Ehrmann
I ran across this on an old thread, somewhere: "Try swapping drives without using atacontrol and read the kernel messages that follow. It will tell you if it automatically detached the old drive and attached the new drive, somewhat like it does with USB. If not, you will need to use atacontrol to

SATA hotplug and AHCI

2008-12-28 Thread David Ehrmann
I'm trying to get real hotplugging to work. My motherboard uses the Via VT8251 southbridge which, according to the whitesheet, supports SATA hotplugging: http://www.via.com.tw/en/downloads/whitepapers/chipsets/southbridge/chipsets_vt8251.pdf I set the SATA controller to the AHCI mode in my B

Re: 7.1 rc2 hangs with radeon 2600

2008-12-28 Thread Rich Dunkle
Garrett Cooper wrote: On Dec 28, 2008, at 8:47, Rich Dunkle wrote: FreeBSD 7.1 RC2 using: xf86-video-radeonhd-1.2.4 X.Org ati RadeonHD display driver after running Xorg -configure run: X -config /root/xorg.conf.new exit with control- alt- backspace This will lock the machine and require

Re: 7.1 rc2 hangs with radeon 2600

2008-12-28 Thread Garrett Cooper
On Dec 28, 2008, at 8:47, Rich Dunkle wrote: FreeBSD 7.1 RC2 using: xf86-video-radeonhd-1.2.4 X.Org ati RadeonHD display driver after running Xorg -configure run: X -config /root/xorg.conf.new exit with control- alt- backspace This will lock the machine and require a reboot. 1. What arc

security features

2008-12-28 Thread Oliver Pinter
Hi All! The FreeBSD takes features like that for example NetBSD or linux with PaX or GrSec patchset? (ASLR, randexec, PIE/PIC, rand mmap, etc, etc, ...) Thank, Oliver p_v ___ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/list

7.1 rc2 hangs with radeon 2600

2008-12-28 Thread Rich Dunkle
FreeBSD 7.1 RC2 using: xf86-video-radeonhd-1.2.4 X.Org ati RadeonHD display driver after running Xorg -configure run: X -config /root/xorg.conf.new exit with control- alt- backspace This will lock the machine and require a reboot. ___ freebsd-stab

Re: FreeBSD 7.1-RC2 Available...

2008-12-28 Thread Martin
Am Sun, 28 Dec 2008 10:33:25 -0500 schrieb "SDH Admin" : > Try burning new cd media and/or try another cd-rom drive if possible, > if the acpi/dma doesn't work. Hi, I've tried that already with RC1. I've burned it multiple times and tried 3 drives. It seems someone removed CD emulation boot from

Re: amd(8) cores dump when load high

2008-12-28 Thread Lin Jui-Nan Eric
Hi Danny, Can you tell us which patch did you apply? Thank you very much! On Sun, Dec 28, 2008 at 3:52 PM, Danny Braniss wrote: >> I got "Couldn't lock process pages in memory using mlockall()" too: > [...] >> On Sat, Dec 27, 2008 at 9:07 PM, Rong-en Fan wrote: >> > On Sat, Dec 27, 2008 at 7:03

Re: FreeBSD 7.1-RC2 Available...

2008-12-28 Thread Martin
Am Sun, 28 Dec 2008 10:25:17 -0500 schrieb "Glen Barber" : > > With RC1 and RC2 I only get "Booting CD-ROM... failure." from my > > BIOS (Asus board P2B). Any ideas? > > > > 1.) Try disabling ACPI > 2.) Try hw.ata.ata_dma=0 at the boot prompt. Hi Glen, I think my PC doesn't even get to the poin

RE: FreeBSD 7.1-RC2 Available...

2008-12-28 Thread SDH Admin
> With RC1 and RC2 I only get "Booting CD-ROM... failure." from my BIOS > (Asus board P2B). Any ideas? Try burning new cd media and/or try another cd-rom drive if possible, if the acpi/dma doesn't work. --- Kevin K. Systems Administrator www.web-hosting-in-canada.com

Re: FreeBSD 7.1-RC2 Available...

2008-12-28 Thread Glen Barber
On Sun, Dec 28, 2008 at 10:25 AM, Glen Barber wrote: > On Sun, Dec 28, 2008 at 10:18 AM, Martin wrote: >> Am Thu, 25 Dec 2008 09:37:55 -0500 >> schrieb Ken Smith : >> >>> >>> FreeBSD 7.1-RC2 is now available, the second of the Release >>> Candidates. Unless an as yet undiscovered show-stopper com

Re: FreeBSD 7.1-RC2 Available...

2008-12-28 Thread Glen Barber
On Sun, Dec 28, 2008 at 10:18 AM, Martin wrote: > Am Thu, 25 Dec 2008 09:37:55 -0500 > schrieb Ken Smith : > >> >> FreeBSD 7.1-RC2 is now available, the second of the Release >> Candidates. Unless an as yet undiscovered show-stopper comes along >> the release itself will be anywhere from a week to

Re: FreeBSD 7.1-RC2 Available...

2008-12-28 Thread Martin
Am Thu, 25 Dec 2008 09:37:55 -0500 schrieb Ken Smith : > > FreeBSD 7.1-RC2 is now available, the second of the Release > Candidates. Unless an as yet undiscovered show-stopper comes along > the release itself will be anywhere from a week to two weeks from > now. Hi, the RC2 livefs CD still does

Re: freebsd-update to 6.4-RELEASE doesn't work

2008-12-28 Thread Glen Barber
On Sun, Dec 28, 2008 at 9:26 AM, SDH Admin wrote: >> any ideas? > > > Try cvsup-without-gui your source tree, make buildworld, then try > freebsd-update again. > If he does a buildworld, he won't *need* to do freebsd-update... -- Glen Barber "Tell me and I forget. Teach me and I remember. Invo

RE: freebsd-update to 6.4-RELEASE doesn't work

2008-12-28 Thread SDH Admin
> any ideas? Try cvsup-without-gui your source tree, make buildworld, then try freebsd-update again. --- Kevin K. Systems Administrator www.web-hosting-in-canada.com ___ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/list

Re: freebsd-update to 6.4-RELEASE doesn't work

2008-12-28 Thread Thomas Krause
Glen Barber schrieb: On Sun, Dec 28, 2008 at 6:50 AM, Thomas Krause wrote: Dear list, I cannot upgrade my 6.3-RELEASE-p7/i386 to 6.4-RELEASE with freebsd-update. I have run: # freebsd-update upgrade -r 6.4-RELEASE Is there any output from this? Yes, many output. It ends with questions for

Re: freebsd-update to 6.4-RELEASE doesn't work

2008-12-28 Thread Glen Barber
On Sun, Dec 28, 2008 at 6:50 AM, Thomas Krause wrote: > Dear list, > I cannot upgrade my 6.3-RELEASE-p7/i386 to 6.4-RELEASE with freebsd-update. > I have run: > > # freebsd-update upgrade -r 6.4-RELEASE > Is there any output from this? > and then > > # freebsd-update install > No updates are av

freebsd-update to 6.4-RELEASE doesn't work

2008-12-28 Thread Thomas Krause
Dear list, I cannot upgrade my 6.3-RELEASE-p7/i386 to 6.4-RELEASE with freebsd-update. I have run: # freebsd-update upgrade -r 6.4-RELEASE and then # freebsd-update install No updates are available to install. Run '/usr/sbin/freebsd-update fetch' first. any ideas? (btw: I've successful upda