Different versions of ports...

2003-12-19 Thread John Wilson

Hi folks,

I've recently started playing around with X and various desktop managers.
There is one point that seems a little troublesome however...  after
recently browsing about the installed ports/packages on my system, it
appears that different programs require different versions of one
particular package.  Here is one such instance:

glib-1.2.10_10  =   up-to-date with port
glib-2.2.3  =   up-to-date with port

Is this going to cause any trouble at some later point?  If so, what would
be the best way to remove the earlier version and be sure that only the
newest version remains?

Thank you for your help,
John W.
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Re: X servers

2004-07-11 Thread John Wilson
On Sun, 11 Jul 2004 16:40:03 -0700
Roop Nanuwa <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

[...]
> point but I was referring to things like window compositing and other
> eye candy features.

Personally, I'd much prefer to see things like "eye candy" take a back seat
to stability, hardware support and performance enhancements/optimization of code.
Eye candy should best be left up to the various window managers.

- John.


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Re: Please help: burncd errors

2005-01-01 Thread John Wilson
On Sat, 01 Jan 2005 16:21:54 +0100
Xinizul Xinizul <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

Hi.

> I'm trying to burn an iso image containing a folder of mp3 files.
[...]
> 192# burncd -t -f /dev/acd0 audio mp3_1.iso fixate
[...]

For one, if you are attempting to burn a data CD, you want to use the
'data' option passed to burncd rather than 'audio'.  Use this for burning
ISO's.

If you truly wish to burn an audio CD, you'll first need to convert your
mp3's to wav's - I generally do this using mplayer with the -ao pcm option,
at which point, you can happily use the 'audio' option for burncd with the
list of wav's to burn.

- John.
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Re: Getting USB2 on FreeBSD 5.3?

2005-01-07 Thread John Wilson
On Fri, 07 Jan 2005 16:32:31 -0800
Paul Hoffman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
[...]
> da0:  Fixed Direct Access SCSI-0 device
> da0: 1.000MB/s transfers
[...]

For what it's worth, I too am using ehci with a USB2 HD based MP3 player, and
it is being reported similarly as well in regard to the 1.000MB/s transfer
rate.  However, according to `systat -vmstat`, I am seeing transfers in the
area of 8MB/s.  In regard to stability, I've had no issues at all with it.

I'm sure this doesn't help at all. ;p

- John.
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USB CD-ROM installations.

2005-01-11 Thread John Wilson
Hello folks.

I am currently looking into purchasing an external USB CD/DVD+/-RW unit for my
machine here at home.  However, before doing so, I do have a few questions
before plunking down the cash for this thing.

For starters, I don't know if this is an issue now, or ever really was an
issue to begin with, but I vaguely recall hearing about problems during
the installation of FreeBSD from a USB CD-ROM; something akin to the install
halting at some point and thus a faulure to install at all.  Unfortunately,
after google'ing about, I am unable to find anything in regard to this.  If
anyone could confirm successful USB CD-ROM installs, it would be most
appreciated.  Yes, my machines does support booting from USB devices.

Since the -STABLE EHCI, or USB2.0, support is not fully implemented yet, as I
understand it and in so far as supporting full speed operation, will this pose
any problems burning DVD +R or -R media?  I've never had a DVD burner before, so
I am somewhat new to this hardware.

Any suggestions or comments would be most appreciated.

Thank you,
John.
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Re: USB CD-ROM installations.

2005-01-12 Thread John Wilson
On Tue, 11 Jan 2005 22:34:32 -0500
Chuck Swiger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
[...]
> I've gotten the impression that USB2 under FreeBSD 5.3 will support 4x well 
> and be OK at 8x DVD burning speeds, although I've seen some reports of 
> problems (failing every third or forth burn) at high speeds, too.
>
> If it is possible, consider using Firewire instead: FreeBSD works very well 
> with FW/1394, and FW was designed for that kind of usage (specificly, 
> reserving dedicated I/O channels to guarantee bandwidth for realtime 
> multimedia tasks).
[...]

Well, I'm sort of limited in one specific way in this regard - it will be
the only optical solution available to this particular machine, which
unfortunately means that it would -have- to be USB in order to boot off of.
As long as I can install FreeBSD 5.3 with this unit, all would be well.

I've been looking at Macally external enclosures today and came across one
variety that includes both a USB 2.0 and Firewire interface.  This really
proves to be the best way to go, I believe - if I need to boot off of a
CD, slap it on the USB port, otherwise, it'll pretty much stay on the
firewire port the remainder of the time for general use which will allow
full speed operation.

Thankfully, my Audigy 2 sound card has a firewire interface on it.  Never
thought I'd use it prior to this, but glad that it's there for use now. : )

Thank you for your time, Chuck, and your reply.  It was most appreciated.

- John.
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mplayer port failing.

2005-02-03 Thread John Wilson
Hi folks.

Just installed and upgraded to -stable on a new machine, cvsup'd ports a few
moments ago, and attempted in building /usr/ports/multimedia/mplayer -
unfortunately, it appears to fail trying to fetch:

===>  Installing for mplayer-0.99.5_6
===>   mplayer-0.99.5_6 depends on file: 
/usr/local/lib/win32/win32-codecs-2.1.0.p5,1 - not found
===>Verifying install for /usr/local/lib/win32/win32-codecs-2.1.0.p5,1 in 
/usr/ports/multimedia/win32-codecs
===>  Vulnerability check disabled, database not found
=> qt63dlls-20040626.tar.bz2 doesn't seem to exist in 
/usr/ports/distfiles/win32.
=> Attempting to fetch from http://www1.mplayerhq.hu/MPlayer/releases/codecs/.
fetch: 
http://www1.mplayerhq.hu/MPlayer/releases/codecs/qt63dlls-20040626.tar.bz2: Not 
Found
=> Attempting to fetch from http://www2.mplayerhq.hu/MPlayer/releases/codecs/.
fetch: 
http://www2.mplayerhq.hu/MPlayer/releases/codecs/qt63dlls-20040626.tar.bz2: Not 
Found
=> Attempting to fetch from ftp://ftp.mplayerhq.hu/MPlayer/releases/codecs/.
fetch: 
ftp://ftp.mplayerhq.hu/MPlayer/releases/codecs/qt63dlls-20040626.tar.bz2: File 
unavailable (e.g., file not found, no access)
=> Attempting to fetch from ftp://ftp.lug.udel.edu/MPlayer/releases/codecs/.
fetch: 
ftp://ftp.lug.udel.edu/MPlayer/releases/codecs/qt63dlls-20040626.tar.bz2: File 
unavailable (e.g., file not found, no access)
=> Attempting to fetch from 
ftp://ftp.FreeBSD.org/pub/FreeBSD/ports/distfiles/win32/.
fetch: 
ftp://ftp.FreeBSD.org/pub/FreeBSD/ports/distfiles/win32/qt63dlls-20040626.tar.bz2:
 File unavailable (e.g., file not found, no access)
=> Couldn't fetch it - please try to retrieve this
=> port manually into /usr/ports/distfiles/win32 and try again.
*** Error code 1

Stop in /usr/ports/multimedia/win32-codecs.
*** Error code 1
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Re: correct cvsup for 5.3 snapshot

2005-02-25 Thread John Wilson
On Fri, 25 Feb 2005 15:07:36 -0600
"J.D. Bronson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

[...]
> and I want to update this...I am presuming to 5.3-STABLE ?
[...]
> *default release=cvs tag=RELENG_5_3

If you want -stable, change this to read:

*default release=cvs tag=RELENG_5

- John.
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Re: correct cvsup for 5.3 snapshot

2005-02-25 Thread John Wilson
On Fri, 25 Feb 2005 15:07:36 -0600
"J.D. Bronson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> I am currently running a snapshot "FreeBSD 5.3-STABLE-SNAP001"
> and I want to update this...I am presuming to 5.3-STABLE ?
[...]

My apologies, I meant to include this link in the previous e-mail:

http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/cvs-tags.html

- John.
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4.10 / USB 1.1 / New Machine.

2004-06-04 Thread John Wilson
Hello all.

I am currently running an older P3/500 with 4.9 and am looking into purchasing
an external USB CD-R/RW unit to add to this machine.  Unfortunately, the
mainboard only supports USB 1.1.  I understand that this would not be the
most ideal for an external CD-R/RW and that I'd most likely have to drop
the write speeds down until I can afford a new machine with USB 2.0.

My first question is this: could anyone recommend a decent external USB
CD-R/RW that is known working with USB 1.1 and FBSD 4.9 and is a good,
quality unit?

In a few months, I am also hoping to be able to afford a new machine.  As
of now, I'm looking into an Intel D865PERL mainboard.  My understanding is
that this board would allow booting off of USB devices, and my hopes are
that I could use this same USB CD-R/RW with the new machine as my only CD drive.

My second question is this: are there any known issues in regard to booting
off of external USB CD devices and the subsequent installation of FreeBSD
from an external USB unit?

Thank you very much for your time,
John.
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Re: Fwd: Fwd: problems with cd/dvd-device

2005-10-25 Thread John Wilson
On Tue, 25 Oct 2005 17:50:49 +0200
Linnea Forslund <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
[...]
> Ah! Thats it..
> 
> It still won't play though.
> 
> supermoccine# mplayer "Hipp Hipp - Extra Material.avi"
[...]

Pass the full path:

mplayer "/cdrom/Hipp Hipp - Extra Material.avi"
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Re: Wifi card shopping (stupid question)

2005-11-17 Thread John Wilson
On Thu, 17 Nov 2005 17:50:45 -0800
Remington <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> I am planning no making a new 6.0 tower machine. I have some serious
> concerns in regards to PCI wifi card support and FreeBSD. Can anyone
> recommend a good PCI 802.11/g card that works with FreeBSD 6.0-R?
> Preferably one that is easily found(i.e. i can go to Best Buy tomorrow
> and buy one).
[...]

I just picked up a pair of NetGear WG311T PCI cards for two old
machines yesterday - they appear to be working flawlessly.  I've them
running with wpa_supplicant, as well, without issue under 6.0-STABLE.

Supported out of the box with ath.

ath_hal: 0.9.14.9 (AR5210, AR5211, AR5212, RF5111, RF5112, RF2413)
ath0:  mem 0xfe00-0xfe00 irq 17 at device 2.0 on pci2

Got 'em at CompUSA... was too eager to wait for shipping from NewEgg. :D

- John.
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Samba and XP?

2003-01-31 Thread John Wilson
Good Day,

I am currently seeking advice in regard to allowing an XP Home Edition
machine to have access to a FreeBSD mount.  I've looked over Samba, and not
only have I seen references to XP's inability to join a 'domain
based-network', but also don't really like the idea of installing Samba as
it's a rather large package (relatively speaking) for what it simply does.

My only other alternative, if I am correct, is trying to obtain an NFS
client for the XP machine and simply serve NFS mounts on the FBSD host.  The
downside to this is the cost of the NFS clients for the XP machine. :)

Are there any other alternatives available here?  If not, which of the above
two 'solutions' would be best?  I only have one BSD machine and one XP
machine, and I'd like to allow read/write access to a FBSD mount from the XP
machine.

Any help or suggestions would be appreciated.

- John


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5.0 hang - NMI ISA 30, EISA ff

2003-03-02 Thread John Wilson
Good day,

First off, I apologize for not using my @charter.net
address to write the list; my mail bounces due to the
mail list host not being able to resolve my ISP's
host, thus preventing the list from accepting my mail.
 Naturally, my ISP denies any problems on their part,
buy anyway...

I recently attempted to install 5.0-RELEASE on a Dell
Poweredge 600SC, and have had problems.  When the
kernel probes the hardware, I get a line stating "NMI
ISA 30, EISA ff" and a hard hang.  The only way to
recover is to reset the machine.  I am unable to
provide any further diagnostic information as I cannot
even get past the initial install.

The machine is configured as follows:
Dell 600SC
BIOS revision A04
512mb RAM
LSI Megaraid PERC3/SC SCSI host adapter
Fujitsu 36gb SCSI disc
PlexWriter 40x IDE CD-RW (Master on secondary IDE)
Lite-On DVD-ROM (Slave on secondary IDE)
ATI All In Wonder VE PCI video adapter
Sound Blaster Audigy 2 PCI sound card

Within the BIOS, the COM port, LPT port, primary and
tertiary IDE ports have been disabled as they are not
used.

This configuration had performed perfectly while
running 4.7-RELEASE and up to the most recent -STABLE.

Any pointers would be appreciated.

Thank you,
John Wilson
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Re: A few 5.0-Release questions...

2003-03-04 Thread John Wilson
--- Scott Long <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
[Dell PowerEdge]
> What model?  There are quite a few PowerEdges out

It's a 600SC - P4 1.8 - Perc3/SC

Since new, I've added a Plextor CD-RW (IDE), Lite-On
DVD-ROM (IDE), and an ATI All-In-Wonder VE (7500,
PCI).

> > These machines come with integrated video, an ATI
[Complications with integrated RageXL and PCI version
of the ATI AIW VE...  NMI halts]

> As a wild guess, what happens when you remove the
> EISA device from the kernel?

I tried this as well.  Unfortunately, removing the
EISA device did nothing to relieve the problem with
the NMI.  The only thing that cleared it up was adding
'hw.pci.enable_io_modes=0' in /boot/device.hints.

This was the case, at least, with 5.0-RELEASE.  I've
yet to see what happens with -CURRENT.  Perhaps I'll
try and cvsup -CURRENT, remove
'hw.pci.enable_io_modes=0', and see what happens.

> There have been problems in the past with ATAPI/IDE
> drives that claim DMA capabilities but instead
corrupt data
> and/or cause panics.  Forcing everything to PIO is
the
> easiest way to achieve maximum compatibility.  The
ata manual
> page describes what to put into /boot/loader.conf to
> force them back using DMA.

I pulled these two drives from a WinXP machine, and
based on the transfer method reported in XP, it was
using DMA.  No stability issues were noted, at least
in regard to XP.  I've been running them under 5.0 now
for a few days, burned a few CD's and played a few
DVD's without stability issues either -- thankfully.

I'll check out the above referenced manual page and
make the suggested changes.  Thank you for the tip.

[About permanently disabling the integrated video]
> Does the motherboard have a jumper that will disable
> it?

Unfortunately, no.  I've even contacted Dell regarding
this as I could find no information in the
documentation provided with the system.  They simply
stated that when another video card is installed, the
integrated video is disabled.  They also mentioned
that this type of configuration "is not supported." 
I've looked for jumpers on the motherboard itself and
only found jumpers for clearing the BIOS password...
nothing else.
 
Thank you once again, Scott, for your help.  It was
very much appreciated.

- John Wilson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

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A few 5.0-Release questions...

2003-03-04 Thread John Wilson
Good day,

After spending quite some time trying to get
5.0-RELEASE installed on a Dell PowerEdge machine, it
seems that all is now working quite well.  Being that
these machines are somewhat common, I'll share what
was halting my installation.

These machines come with integrated video, an ATI
RageXL, which is rather useless for anything other
than console mode. I installed an ATI All- In-Wonder
VE so that I could get somewhat decent performance out
of X. The problem manifested when the kernel probed
the machines hardware, causing an "NMI ISA 30, EISA
ff", and locking up the machine solid. After I began
pulling memory and expansion cards from the system,
the error went away when I removed the ATI AIW card. I
reinstalled the card and attempted to find how to
correct this. My only solution to this issue was to
interrupt the boot process and use the following
command:

set hw.pci.enable_io_modes = 0

This prevented any further halts.

My first question is as follows: is /boot/device.hints
the most proper place to stick this? Also, are there
any other possible solutions to this issue?

My main drives are SCSI, and I have one CD-RW and one
DVD-R on the secondary IDE controller. The kernel
detects the drives just fine, but defaults them both
down to PIO4. The drives are fully UDMA2 capable. I am
able to set the drives to use UDMA2 via atacontrol
without issue.  However, how would one make this more
permanent, such that I wouldn't have to use atacontrol
everytime I boot the machine?

Back to the topic of video; is there _any_ way to
permanently disable, or at least prevent FreeBSD from
detecting the integrated video on the motherboard?
There is nothing in the machines BIOS that would allow
this. This would just be "nice" to do, as X works just
fine, but it still sticks an entry into the
XFree86Config file for the integrated chip.

And finally...

Where can one obtain a complete list of allowed hints
for use in /boot/device.hints? I tried searching
around the FBSD site as well as the handbook and found
no listing, other than a line here and a line there.

Thank you all very much for your help, and have a
wonderful day.

- John Wilson [EMAIL PROTECTED]

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Re: A few 5.0-Release questions...

2003-03-05 Thread John Wilson
--- Chris Shenton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> FWIW, I had absolutely no trouble booting and
> installing 5.0-R on my 600SC, with the DELL-supplied
CERC
> RAID card (amr device recognized it, but it drives
4x
> ATA disks rather than SCSI), and an Intel gigabit
> ether card.  Got X11 working on it rather easily
> too.  I don't have any other drives (than the
supplied IDE
> CD) in the box.

The only trouble that I've experienced was with adding
a new video card, an ATI All-In-Wonder VE (Radeon
7500, PCI version).  When the card is not installed,
and I'm using the integrated RageXL video, all works
just great.  However, once a new PCI video card is
installed, I get NMI errors on boot, with a system
hang.

I've tried a few different things to try and resolve
the issue; removing 'options EISA' from the kernel,
and removing 'device agp' from the kernel.  I've
checked the mainboard for jumpers to fully disable the
integrated video; there are none.

Thus far, the only way I can get FreeBSD-5.0 to boot
without incident was to add,
'hw.pci.enable_io_modes=0' to /boot/device.hints. 
Once I do that, no more NMI errors.

I just hope and pray this option remains with FreeBSD
for a long time to come so I can continue to use this
ATI AIW card.  X with the integrated RageXL sucks. :p

- John Wilson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

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In regard to SATA controllers.

2007-05-16 Thread John Wilson


Hello, folks.

I am currently running 6.2-stable on an Intel D965OT mainboard.  I've 4 
320gb drives, the first being the boot and system drive, the other 3 are 
running in a raid 3 setup via geom_raid3.  All is running well enough.


However, I would like to expand my capacity, but this will then saturate 
the available SATA ports on the mainboard, which means I now have to look 
for a new controller.


On the "high end" of things (at least for me and my intended application), 
I've been looking at the HighPoint 2320 PCI Express card.  True hardware 
RAID and native support via. the rr232x driver seems like a nice match. 
However, in the event of a controller failure, I'm pretty much screwed 
unless I have a spare controller on hand.  Not to mention that if this 
controller is not made any longer at the time of failure, well, I don't 
really know what my options would be at that point.  Perhaps this is the 
bane of RAID controllers in general.  Then again, my experience level in 
this sort of application is about nil.


On the flip side, since I've had good luck using the geom architecture for 
RAID 3, my other option would be a regular controller and keeping with the 
software RAID setup.  At least in this instance, if the controller goes 
south, I can just swap it out with another, and continue on without much 
hassle.  However, in this instance, I would need a few suggestions as to 
which controller would be best.


I've been looking at a few of the lower end HighPoint "software" RAID 
controllers as well, such as the HighPoint 2310.  I'm uncertain if there 
is native support for this controller.  I do understand that HighPoint 
does indeed have drivers available for FreeBSD, but if they are binary 
modules, I'd almost want to stay away from it.  I'd much prefer either 
native drivers or manufacturer drivers in source form.  However, failing 
the above cases, would it be possible to just run this card as a simple 
SATA controller and continue using geom_raid3?  This particular card uses 
a Marvell controller, so I would guess that it would be detected by 
FreeBSD without issue.  If someone could confirm this, it would be much 
appreciated.


The function of the machine is simple.  It's a home NAS for 3 other 
machines, but also does other light duties as well, so ultimate 
performance isn't really that much of an issue.  As things are now, 
utilizing geom_raid3, the performance is rather good.


Thanks for your time,
John Wilson.
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Clean install of Xorg 7.2

2007-05-19 Thread John Wilson


Hello.

I've cvsup'd the new ports tree and have read /usr/ports/UPDATING, but 
only noticed upgrade notes in regard to Xorg 7.2.  I attempted to 'make 
install clean' to install the new Xorg, but it failed after building the 
drm package.  Am I missing something really basic here in regard to 
getting Xorg installed in a non-upgrade manner?


Thanks for your help,
John.
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Backport of ServerWorks ATA to 4-Stable?

2003-03-30 Thread John Wilson
Hello all.

I was wondering if there would be a backport of the
ServerWorks GC chipset (CSB6 South bridge) to
4-Stable.  I am only able to obtain "BIOSDMA" support
on my HD's and basic "PIO" support of my CD-RW.

I played around with 5.0-Current on this machine and
by utilizing 'atacontrol', I was able to get DMA mode
transfers on all of the installed media.  There were
also no stability issues running in this mode either
under 5-Current.

Failing any plans by the developers to include this
support into the upcoming 4.8-Release or later -Stable
code, would it be possible to try and hack the
-Current code into -Stable myself?

Thank you for your time,
John Wilson

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Re: Backport of ServerWorks ATA to 4-Stable?

2003-03-30 Thread John Wilson
Hi, Kevin.

I, too, have the Dell PowerEdge 600SC.  Here is my IDE
configuration:

- 120GB Western Digital on primary master.
- Plextor CD-RW on secondary master.
- Lite-On DVD-Rom on secondary slave.

I've been running the 4-Stable series of FBSD for
quite some time now and just relegated the lack of
support of the ServerWorks Southbridge to "should be
here soon."  Just for grins, I installed 5.0 and
cvsup'd -Current.

While running 5.0, I was able to throw the primary HD
into UDMA100 and noticed a fair amount of increased
"visual" performance.  The same went for the CD-RW and
DVD-Rom, under UDMA33.  I burned a number of full CD's
and made a number of full dumps of various DVD's to
the HD without issue.

Also, with the CD-RW and DVD-Rom, while running under
4.x, there is quite a hit on the interrupt activity as
reported by `top` while copying large amounts of data.
 On 5.0-Current, there was virtually none.   This is
about as scientific I've gotten with this thus far. :p

In regard to your machine not being able to recognize
slave devices, I don't really know.  I've both the
CD-RW and DVD-Rom on the secondary controller without
a hitch, and one HD on the primary master.

> What were your atacontrol settings, and how did you
> differentiate the 
> results (dmesg, sysctl)?

If I remember correctly, I used the following under
5.0:

atacontrol mode 0 UDMA100 UDMA100
atacontrol mode 1 UDMA33 UDMA33

Attempting to place the secondary controller into DMA
mode under 4.x, the machine would lock up shortly
after.

One other thing, the dmesg for 4.x states the
following:
pcib0:  on motherboard

Where as under 5.0, the dmesg correctly picked up and
displayed actual support for the CSB6 Southbridge.   I
don't have a dmesg handy for this.

- John

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/usr/ports/graphics/tiff build failure

2004-02-28 Thread John Wilson

Hello folks,

I am attempting to build the tiff library, but am continually running into
a problem.  After executing `make install` from /usr/ports/graphics/tiff,
the build fails.  Included is the exact output of the process, as well as
the 'config.log' as requested.

This is a cleanly installed system of 5.2.1-RELEASE, and immediately
upgraded to -CURRENT as of about one hour ago.  The ports were also
cvsup'd and are current as of about 10 minutes ago.

[begin output]

===>  Vulnerability check disabled
===>  Extracting for tiff-3.6.1_1
>> Checksum OK for tiff-v3.6.1.tar.gz.
===>  Patching for tiff-3.6.1_1
===>  Applying FreeBSD patches for tiff-3.6.1_1
===>   tiff-3.6.1_1 depends on shared library: jpeg.9 - found
===>  Configuring for tiff-3.6.1_1

Configuring TIFF Software v3.6.1

If configure does the wrong thing, check the file config.log for
information that may help you understand what went wrong.

Reading site-wide parameters from ./config.site.
Oh no, not another i386-unknown-freebsd5.2 system...
===>  Script "configure" failed unexpectedly.
Please report the problem to [EMAIL PROTECTED] [maintainer] and attach the
"/usr/ports/graphics/tiff/work/tiff-v3.6.1/config.log" including the output
of the failure of your make command. Also, it might be a good idea to provide
an overview of all packages installed on your system (e.g. an `ls
/var/db/pkg`).

[end output]

[begin config.log]

Sat Feb 28 19:04:12 EST 2004
Running ./configure with arguments: --with-ZIP --with-JPEG 
--with-DIR_BIN=/usr/local/bin --with-DIR_LIB=/usr/local/lib 
--with-DIR_INC=/usr/local/include --with-DIR_MAN=/usr/local/man --with-CC=cc 
--with-GCOPTS=-O -pipe  --with-OPTIMIZER= --with-DIRS_LIBINC=/usr/local/include 
--with-DIR_GZLIB=/usr/lib --with-DIR_JPEGLIB=/usr/local/lib --with-LIBGL=no 
--with-LIBIMAGE=no --with-INSTALL=/bin/sh 
/usr/ports/graphics/tiff/work/tiff-v3.6.1/port/install.sh --noninteractive --with-HTML 
--with-DIR_HTML=/usr/local/share/doc/tiff

This file contains information that is captured from running the configure
script.  Lines that begin with a "+" are command lines echoed by the
shell.  Other lines are the output of commands; usually the contents of
test case files or the output from compilers.  If configure does the
wrong thing, you can use the information captured here to aid in debugging.

+ . ./config.site
+ cat dummy.c
main(int argc, char* argv) { exit(0); }
+ cat xgnu.c
#ifdef __GNUC__
yes;
#endif
+ cc -E xgnu.c
+ egrep yes
yes;
+ cc -o dummy dummy.c

[end config.log]
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7.0-stable snapshot

2008-07-30 Thread John Wilson

Good day.

I recently attempted to install the most recent AMD64 7.0-snapshot onto 
another system.  I chose a minimal install with all of the source 
distributions as well as ports.  Unfortunately, the install fails when 
attempting to install the scompat tarball.  Upon looking at the install CD, 
it appears that the scompat tarball is not listed in the src directory.


src/scompat does seem to appear on a 7.0-release CD.  I've attempted to 
reburn the snapshot with the same results.  Naturally, if I omit scompat 
from the src install options, the install proceeds normally and without 
error.


I'm just curious as to where the problem actually resides.  Are the 
7.0-snapshots leaving out scompat for some reason?  Since I've attempted to 
download and burn multiple snaps with the same issue, I can't see that I've 
a corrupt ISO.


Thank you for your time. 


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