Re: Xorg totally unusable with KMS and new Xorg on Sandy Bridge system: how to undo

2013-02-08 Thread Thomas Mueller
Thomas Mueller writes: > I built the newer Xorg and it falls flat: goes to a nongraphic > screen that is blank except for a rectangular cursor in the upper > left corner, and now I want to get back to the earlier Xorg. > > System is Intel Sandy Bridge with i7 CPU. Rober

Re: Xorg totally unusable with KMS and new Xorg on Sandy Bridge system: how to undo

2013-02-08 Thread Thomas Mueller
>From Warren Block : > After adding those, graphics/libdrm must be rebuilt, and > x11-drivers/xf86-video-intel must have the KMS option enabled and be > rebuilt. If you just added WITH_NEW_XORG, there will be other xorg > components that need to be updated. O no, I'm getting rid of KMS and WITH_

Re: -ffast-math in Ports and wrong generated code

2012-04-03 Thread Thomas Mueller
Compiling your code with "-ffast-math -fno-finite-math-only" should restore the call to finite(). -- Thomas Mueller ___ freebsd-current@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-current To unsubscribe, send

Re: FreeBSD 10 prognostication...

2012-05-16 Thread Thomas Mueller
Umm, it's about as factual as The Onion, except not as funny. FreeBSD never had to "jettison two thirds of its code base and start from scratch". Apple is not involved in FreeBSD development. No Mac OS X or Darwin version "includes" FreeBSD. FreeBSD and Mac OS X will never merge. FreeBSD was n

Re: Upgrade from source to RC1: problems with /etc : lost users and dbus

2012-05-18 Thread Thomas Mueller
> pwd_mkdb -p /etc/master.passwd Cheers, Matthew > Dr Matthew J Seaman MA, D.Phil. That did it! Now I can login as nonroot and startx. I found pwd_mkdb in my searching, but would not have known to use '-p'. I might have done pwd_mkdb /etc/master.passwd from Do

Re: Upgrade from source to RC1: problems with /etc : lost users and dbus: resent by mistake

2012-05-18 Thread Thomas Mueller
> > pwd_mkdb -p /etc/master.passwd >Cheers, >Matthew > > Dr Matthew J Seaman MA, D.Phil. > That did it! Now I can login as nonroot and startx. (snip) Sorry, I didn't mean to send this old message again! I changed this message to send to freebsd-stable list, save

Re: MPSAFE VFS -- List of upcoming actions

2012-06-29 Thread Thomas Mueller
On 06/29/12 16:32, Attilio Rao wrote: > As already published several times, according to the following plan: > http://wiki.freebsd.org/NONMPSAFE_DEORBIT_VFS > in 2 months the code dealing with non-MPSAFE filesystem will be > removed and filesystems not yet MPSAFE will be disconnected from the > tr

Re: MPSAFE VFS -- List of upcoming actions

2012-06-30 Thread Thomas Mueller
> You can not only run Linux on XFS (which I do) but it is still likely > the most reliable and consistently performant of the filesystems > available in Linux because of its origin and its maturity. XFS did > not originate in Linux (it originated in SGI's Irix) so it should not > surprise that Li

Re: MPSAFE VFS -- List of upcoming actions

2012-07-19 Thread Thomas Mueller
On 07/17/2012 22:54, Gustau Pérez i Querol wrote: > In fact filesystems not particulary specific and not tied our kernel > would go to userspace; thinks like smbfs, nwfs, ntfs, ext2 o ext4 for > example should be in userspace Doug Barton responded: > A big -1 here. > The more native FS support w

Re: 10-alpha1 iso does not boot

2013-09-14 Thread Thomas Mueller
> FreeBSD-10.0-ALPHA1-i386-disc1.iso > Verified checksum. > I can not boot from CD-RW at all - it does not seem to be recognized. > Anybody else has similar experience ? > jb Is your CD-RW not recognized even before it tries to boot? Is your disc1.iso burned to CD or DVD? Is the drive CD or DVD?

Re: urtwn driver for Edimax EW-7811U WLAN nano USB Adapter

2013-10-06 Thread Thomas Mueller
I just happened to be browsing man urtwn in NetBSD-current (6.99.23), and Edimax EW-7811Un is listed as supported by this driver. This strongly suggests it should work for FreeBSD-current (barring bugs). Tom ___ freebsd-current@freebsd.org ma

Unable to installworld after successful buildworld and buildkernel

2013-10-07 Thread Thomas Mueller
>From $SRCDIR/UPDATING To cross-install current onto a separate partition -- # In this approach we use a separate partition to hold # current's root, 'usr', and 'var' directories. A partition # holding "/", "/usr" a

Re: Unable to installworld after successful buildworld and buildkernel

2013-10-08 Thread Thomas Mueller
> To cross install FreeBSD on a system without the required users/groups > you must either install them on the base system so that install and > mtree can use them or use the -DDB_FROM_SRC option when running the > installworld/installkernel/distribution targets. -- Brooks That worked for install

Re: Unable to installworld after successful buildworld and buildkernel

2013-10-08 Thread Thomas Mueller
> > But where is DB_FROM_SRC documented? I never saw it anywhere. UPDATING > > file needs to be updated for installing FreeBSD on a partition where there > > is no OS installed. > It's documented in Makefile.inc1 where the less commonly used options > are documented. It should be documented i

Re: Unable to installworld after successful buildworld and buildkernel

2013-10-09 Thread Thomas Mueller
Quoting without "> " so as not to interfere with the patch: How does this look: Index: UPDATING === --- UPDATING(revision 256024) +++ UPDATING(working copy) @@ -1899,7 +1899,7 @@ make buildkernel KERNCONF=YOUR_KERNEL_H

Re: rcs

2013-10-09 Thread Thomas Mueller
from Devin Teske: > That wasn't the rationale. sysinstall was broken and more people wanted a > replacement than wanted to see it fixed. > bsdinstall is simply coming of age still (sysinstall had a 15 year run). Some things I disliked about sysinstall were choosing a type of install from a conf

Re: BE Loader Menu (was Re: rcs)

2013-10-09 Thread Thomas Mueller
from Devin Teske: > I'm late to the party again ;D (didn't realize the rcs thread had turned BE) > Both problems can be solved. > The loading of the kernel *after* choosing your boot device is trivial. > We've been doing it at $work for *years* (almost a decade?) > I can put that in, whenever. P

Re: BE Loader Menu (was Re: rcs)

2013-10-09 Thread Thomas Mueller
from Devin Teske: > I'm late to the party again ;D (didn't realize the rcs thread had turned BE) > Both problems can be solved. > The loading of the kernel *after* choosing your boot device is trivial. > We've been doing it at $work for *years* (almost a decade?) > I can put that in, whenever. P

Re: BE Loader Menu (was Re: rcs)

2013-10-09 Thread Thomas Mueller
Sorry for previous typo in From: line, missing right angle bracket at end. Then, in a finger error, I resent that message just before finding the error and making the needed correction. from Devin Teske: > I'm late to the party again ;D (didn't realize the rcs thread had turned BE) > Both probl

What happened to nslookup?

2013-10-11 Thread Thomas Mueller
I thought I sent this message yesterday, but couldn't find it in the downloaded list messages, so maybe I forgot. Whatever happened to /usr/bin/nslookup in FreeBSD-current, and what is one supposed to use in its place? I see nslookup is in FreeBSD 9.2, but why not in -current? There has been p

Re: What happened to nslookup?

2013-10-11 Thread Thomas Mueller
> On Fri, Oct 11, 2013 at 10:10:26PM +0000, Thomas Mueller wrote: > ... > > Whatever happened to /usr/bin/nslookup in FreeBSD-current, and what is one > > supposed to use in its place? > > Use "host." > nslookup was part of BIND, and has been deprecate

Re: stable-10 or head?

2013-10-13 Thread Thomas Mueller
>From Guido Falsi: > On 10/12/13 15:29, John wrote: > > Hello currents, > > I have a 9.2-R vm and I'd like to bring it up to 10 (i.e what will > > eventually be 10-RELEASE). So, do I svn 10-STABLE or HEAD? > > I think 10-STABLE but I just want to check. > You are correct. > branch stab

Re: BE Loader Menu (was Re: rcs)

2013-10-14 Thread Thomas Mueller
from Juergen Lock: > If you mean it loads the kernel but then crashes instead of booting it > then your grub2 version is missing this fix: > http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=699002 > >I used Super Grub2 Disk image on the System Rescue CD written to USB sti

dhclient failure with Realtek 8111E Etnernet on new MSI motherboard

2013-10-16 Thread Thomas Mueller
for MSI Z77 MPOWER motherboard on FreeBSD 10.0-BETA1, from /var/run/dmesg.boot: re0: Using 1 MSI-X message re0: Chip rev. 0x2c80 re0: MAC rev. 0x miibus0: on re0 rgephy0: PHY 1 on miibus0 rgephy0: none, 10baseT, 10baseT-FDX, 10baseT-FDX-flow, 100baseTX, 100baseTX-FDX, 100baseTX-FDX

Re: [rfc] removing the NDISulator

2013-10-18 Thread Thomas Mueller
> I'd like to remove the NDISulator. I've had many requests to update it to > the latest NDIS version and support more of the 64 bit wifi drivers. But, > to be perfectly honest, I have no desire to keep hacking at this. The world > has changed quite a bit - we can port/reimplement drivers from Linu

Re: [rfc] removing the NDISulator

2013-10-22 Thread Thomas Mueller
> The NDISulator is a crutch from a time when there wasn't _any_ real > alternative. > There are plenty of alternatives now. What's lacking is desire and > person-power. But the datasheets are there, or the vendor code has been > released, or there's linux/otherbsd drivers. > Leaving it in there

Re: [rfc] removing the NDISulator

2013-10-23 Thread Thomas Mueller
> > On 23 October 2013 13:10, claudiu vasadi wrote: > > Hi, > > Still getting the "Cannot reset interface wlan0 - exit status 1" in > > wifimgr but no crash yet. Will keep trying :D > I have no idea about that. It's likely there's some net80211/iwn bug(s) but > I don't use wifi

Re: [rfc] removing the NDISulator

2013-10-23 Thread Thomas Mueller
> The later driver model isn't supported by ndisulator. We'd have to > implement all the newer NDIS stuff for wifi and ethernet. > In the later NDIS layer the Microsoft Wireless Services implement a bunch > of stuff that used to be up to the driver. Ie, the driver just exposed an > ether

Re: [rfc] removing the NDISulator

2013-10-25 Thread Thomas Mueller
> On 24.10.2013 05:46, Thomas Mueller wrote: > > I have motherboard (MSI Z77 MPOWER) with Realtek 8111E Ethernet that fails > > to > > connect in FreeBSD or OpenBSD, OK with NetBSD-current and Linux, and > > Atheros AR9271 onboard wifi: device athn is included i

Re: Automated submission of kernel panic reports: sysutils/panicmail

2013-11-04 Thread Thomas Mueller
> Hi all, > After considerable review on freebsd-hackers (thanks dt71 and jilles!) I have > now added sysutils/panicmail to the FreeBSD ports tree. If you install this > and add > panicmail_enable="YES" > to your /etc/rc.conf, a panic report will be generated and sent to root@ for

Re: Automated submission of kernel panic reports: sysutils/panicmail

2013-11-05 Thread Thomas Mueller
from Mark Felder: > > Question that arises is how does the system know where to send the email, > > and through what SMTP server, especially if panicmail_autosubmit="YES". > Every computer on the planet has the capability of being able to send > email directly without an SMTP server. The only qu

dhclient failure with Realtek 8111E Ethernet on new MSI motherboard

2013-11-05 Thread Thomas Mueller
from Yonghyeon PYUN: Thomas, would you try attached patch on your system? [-- Attachment #2: re.8168evl.diff --] [-- Type: text/x-diff, Encoding: 7bit, Size: 3.6K --] Content-Type: text/x-diff; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: attachment; filename="re.81

Re: dhclient failure with Realtek 8111E Ethernet on new MSI motherboard

2013-11-06 Thread Thomas Mueller
I tried the patch on 9.2-STABLE, rebuilt the kernel and modules, installed to the correct place on USB stick, /media/zip0/boot/kernelre USB stick was mounted on /media/zip0 when I did this. Then I umounted, took the USB stick to new computer with MSI Z77 MPOWER motherboard. I booted that USB s

Re: dhclient failure with Realtek 8111E Ethernet on new MSI motherboard

2013-11-08 Thread Thomas Mueller
For a future test of any updates to re driver, it might be best if I comment out "device re" in kernel config and test the update by building the module. I never built just a single module before, not sure if I would do it the correct way. Simply "make" in /usr/src/sys/modules/re and then "make

Re: dhclient failure with Realtek 8111E Ethernet on new MSI motherboard

2013-11-08 Thread Thomas Mueller
from Daniel Nebdal: > Ethernet without DHCP is fairly doable. > Assuming that the network is 192.168.0.x , that .100 is free, and your > router has .1 : > ifconfig re0 192.168.0.100/24 > route add default 192.168.0.1 > As for DNS, I'd suggest checking on another machine what servers you get >

Re: 10.0-RELEASE cycle status update

2013-11-19 Thread Thomas Mueller
As some may have noticed, the 10.0-RELEASE cycle has slipped a bit behind schedule. > Here is where we stand at the moment: > - The iconv issues mentioned in a previous status update email[1] are >being looked at extensively. There are a number of iconv(3) fixes >that have been

Re: 10.0-RELEASE cycle status update

2013-11-19 Thread Thomas Mueller
from Glen Barber and my previous message: > Software crashes because of incorrect/missing character encodings are > one symptom in particular. > > Release engineering estimated dates ought to be updated on the website. > Once -BETA4 is out, the remaining dates will be updated accordingly. > I d

Re: VIA Sprinboard: Alternative to Raspberry Pi - working with FBSD CURRENT?

2013-11-22 Thread Thomas Mueller
from O. Hartmann: > Recently, > I stumbled into this board, which looks promising: > http://www.viaspringboard.com/products.html > Does anybody know whether the offered hardware (chipse, CPU, WiFi > chipset) is supported by FreeBSD? I went to that URL and noticed that the WiFi chip was Atheros

Re: request for help: MFC net80211 fixes from -HEAD to -10

2013-12-01 Thread Thomas Mueller
from Adrian Chadd: > hi all, > I'd like a developer or two to organise the MFC of anything that's in > net80211 on -HEAD back to -10 before 10.0-REL. > There's a few critical fixes that need to go in but I just don't have > the time to do it myself. :( > Thanks! There are a couple thin

Re: FreeBSD 10.0-BETA4 now available

2013-12-03 Thread Thomas Mueller
from Glen Barber (excerpt): > Changes between -BETA3 and -BETA4 include: - Add preliminary support for RTL8106E, RTL8168G, RTL8168GU, RTL8411B, and RTL8168EP. - Enable fingerprint checking in pkg(8) for FreeBSD-provided binary packages. - Remove the WITH_LIBICONV_COMPAT bu

Re: svn && ports, or the hen && egg

2013-12-19 Thread Thomas Mueller
I had (still have) svn on a USB-stick installation of FreeBSD 9.2-STABLE. So I tried to use that to checkout the src tree for FreeBSD-HEAD; re(4) recognized my on-motherboard (MSI Z77 MPOWER) Ethernet but couldn't connect. So, after NetBSD 6.1_STABLE hung consistently on boot, NetBSD-current amd

Re: urtwn driver for Edimax EW-7811U WLAN nano USB Adapter

2013-12-19 Thread Thomas Mueller
> On Thu, Dec 19, 2013 at 09:56:31AM +0800, Kevin Lo wrote: > > Your usb wlan dongles use RTL8188EU chip which is currently not > > supported by any of drivers. > I see; I guess I should not have believed when I was told that most likely > all it would take is id-patch urtwn(4). ;-) > Does anyone

Re: RTL8111/8168B not negotiating 1GB

2014-01-02 Thread Thomas Mueller
> but the problem is we need to patch the re driver somehow because > I have many motherboards where this exact nic does not work correctly. > Sam Fourman Jr. Misery loves company! My new MSI Z77 MPOWER motherboard with onboard Realtek 8111E NIC is affected by this re(4) bug. Ethernet is recog

Re: FreeBSD 10-RC4: Got crash in igb driver

2014-01-16 Thread Thomas Mueller
> I work with Jack on FreeBSD network drivers, and we have a patch that we > think might fix this problem. It re-implements the header pull-up code that > was in the driver pre-2.4.0, but with IPv6 support. Alexandre, could you > apply this patch to the igb version in HEAD and try it out on your ne

Re: Freebsd 11 current testing ndis / kldload: bcmwl564_sys.ko PANIC

2014-01-24 Thread Thomas Mueller
To Miguel Clara, you might try a USB wireless adapter. I use Hiro H50191, driver rsu. But you would need to do good research to find what the chip is, and which FreeBSD driver, if any, would it work with, before you buy. NDISulator looks worth trying. FreeBSD users will want to know if it wor

Re: libinit idea

2014-02-24 Thread Thomas Mueller
from Don Lewis: > I've got a Fedora server here that has systemd and I've come to dislike > it. It seems to be one of those "Do not open. No user serviceable > parts inside." sorts of things. > I was never able to get it to start NUT properly. > More often than not, it fails to come up mul

Re: Import of DragonFly Mail Agent

2014-02-24 Thread Thomas Mueller
I never got far enough with DragonFlyBSD or OpenBSD on live USB to see osmpd or opensmtpd (OpenBSD or dma (DragonFly). I couldn't read hard drive from either OpenBSD or DragonFly, could read OpenBSD but not DragonFly live USB stick from FreeBSD and NetBSD, meaning poor interoperability on my sy

Re: Import of DragonFly Mail Agent

2014-02-25 Thread Thomas Mueller
from Julio Merino: > On Mon, Feb 24, 2014 at 6:47 AM, Thomas Mueller > wrote: > > To Julio Merino: How long did NetBSD include both sendmail and postfix in > > base? What NetBSD releases? What was the first release that included both > > sendmail and postfix, and

Re: Import of DragonFly Mail Agent

2014-02-26 Thread Thomas Mueller
from Mark Felder: > Yes, however the Sendmail in base on FreeBSD 8 and 9 is compiled against > OpenSSL < 1.0 which means it's missing support for TLS 1.2, SNI, and > other modern best practice features. That suggests putting sendmail to ports rather than base system, so that updates would not de

Status of llvm/clang 3.4?

2014-03-04 Thread Thomas Mueller
What is the current status of clang, regarding known bugs, on FreeBSD-current? There were reports of www/firefox failing to build because of bug in llvm. Can I currently build ports normally on FreeBSD-current amd64 and i386, or do I need to wait? Or update system and build ports on my FreeBSD

Re: firebox build fails post clang-3.4 merge

2014-03-05 Thread Thomas Mueller
> > Thanks for the fast work! The patched solve the problem for me and I > > was able to install and run firefox on 11.0-CURRENT i386. > I have imported the upstream fix for this bug in r262809, and I will MFC > it after one week. Happy Firefoxing. :-) > -Dimitry Does this mean the bug is fixe

Re: firebox build fails post clang-3.4 merge

2014-03-06 Thread Thomas Mueller
> > Does this mean the bug is fixed in 11-current? > Yes, the bug is fixed in 11-CURRENT, as of Subversion revision r262809. > > MFC? Is that to 10-STABLE? Your message is less than clear. > In FreeBSD, fixes are first applied to head (a.k.a -CURRENT), then > a

Re: gnash broken

2014-03-16 Thread Thomas Mueller
> Hi all, the gnash port is broken from two months ago , because have problem > with the boost ports (link problem) > Have other ports to emulate flash as browser plugins? > Rizzo I have gnash 0.8.10_7 installed on FreeBSD 9.2-STABLE, and it quit working with the last update. Before then, i

Re: gnash broken

2014-03-17 Thread Thomas Mueller
> I'm using the -current -- FreeBSD valfenda 11.0-CURRENT FreeBSD > 11.0-CURRENT #16 r263202: Sat Mar 15 00:23:05 BRT 2014 > root@:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/VALFENDA amd64 >and the gnash don't work to me. I'm not using the flash plugin (from > linux emulator) because I think different about this

Mysterious crash/freeze in X11 with newcons

2014-04-15 Thread Thomas Mueller
I had two crashes, or more accurately, freezes, when web-browsing. First was with Firefox on an easy National Weather Service page, I was scrolling down with down-arrow key, and system suddenly froze, no response to keyboard or mouse, display stayed (until I hit Reset). uname -a shows FreeBSD

Change for the worse in rsu wireless driver

2014-06-01 Thread Thomas Mueller
I sent this message, without this top part, over an hour ago, and notice wlan0 is still up. I intended but forgot to CC to freebsd-current. But I am in newcons, having not started X so far this boot session. Maybe something rotten with Xorg, or interaction between rsu and X, or rsu and Firefo

Change for the worse in rsu wireless driver

2014-06-03 Thread Thomas Mueller
from Idwer Vollering : I have a patch for that: Index: head/sys/dev/usb/wlan/if_rsu.c === --- head/sys/dev/usb/wlan/if_rsu.c (revision 266970) +++ head/sys/dev/usb/wlan/if_rsu.c (working copy) @@ -69,11 +69,13 @@ #include

Re: Change for the worse in rsu wireless driver

2014-06-03 Thread Thomas Mueller
> Yes, please apply by hand. I'll see if I can do some testing myself. I happen > to have one of these adapters too and the link is very unstable :-) > --HPS Sometimes Hiro H50191 USB-stick wireless adapter

Change for the worse in rsu wireless driver

2014-06-04 Thread Thomas Mueller
from Idwer Vollering : > I'm on 10-STABLE r267049, with a local change to > sys/dev/usb/wlan/if_rsu.c that reverts EW7622UMN back to RTL8192SU_3. > > At least my adapter is working a bit more stable now :-) > Mine seems to get stuck in "rsu_calib_task: running calibration task" often. > HTH, >

Re: Change for the worse in rsu wireless driver

2014-06-09 Thread Thomas Mueller
from Adrian Chadd: > please bug freebsd-usb@ about flakey usb devices. > I have a couple that i need to chase up hans about. they used to be less > flakey. Flaky USB devices in FreeBSD, also NetBSD, are not limited to wireless adapters. I get console messages about keyboard and mouse l

Re: Change for the worse in rsu wireless driver

2014-06-10 Thread Thomas Mueller
from Adrian Chadd: > Buy a mini-pcie atheros wifi card. How do I know this would work with FreeBSD and/or NetBSD? I could switch the hard drives between the two computers, or put one hard drive in a Sabrent enclosure: IDE and SATA inside, USB 2.0 and eSATA outside interface. I could also buy

Re: usb issues on OLD USB 1.0 machine...

2014-06-12 Thread Thomas Mueller
> Possibly increase the timing variables under: > sysctl hw.usb.timings > If they are not there, possibly the USB_DEBUG option has been removed from the > kernel config. Can you check that? --HPS What are the units for sysctl.hw.usb.timings? Seconds? Milliseconds? I ran sysctl hw.usb.timing

rsu wireless driver crapshoot

2014-06-26 Thread Thomas Mueller
My Internet connection on this computer is very iffy at best, not running as I type this. Motherboard is MSI Z77 MPOWER. Ethernet is Realtek (re): good with NetBSD, Linux and Haiku, (Free,Open and DragonFly)BSD bug out. Only Internet connection for FreeBSD is Hiro H50191 USB-stick wireless a

Unreadable DVD in FreeBSD and NetBSD

2014-07-25 Thread Thomas Mueller
I have a DVD, a data DVD rather than movie or music, from Seagate Business Storage 2-bay NAS, that is mountable with mount_cd9660 but not readable in FreeBSD and NetBSD, using current amd64 versions of FreeBSD and NetBSD. ls /cdrom showed nothing; ls -al /cdrom showed total 6 dr-xr-xr-x 2 roo

Re: Unreadable DVD in FreeBSD and NetBSD

2014-07-26 Thread Thomas Mueller
> You need to install sysutils/udfclient. Your cd is in UDF format, that isn't > covered by standard mount_udf. -- > Regards, > Ruslan I just tried and failed, got error messages but still got fusefs-libs which could prove useful: cc -O2 -pipe -fno-strict-aliasing -I/usr/local/include -D_FILE

Re: Unreadable DVD in FreeBSD and NetBSD

2014-07-27 Thread Thomas Mueller
> You need to install sysutils/udfclient. Your cd is in UDF format, that isn't > covered by standard mount_udf. -- > Regards, > Ruslan Let me also say, one of the MASTER_SITES listed in the Makefile is no good (NXDOMAIN): http://www.13thmonkey.org/udfclient/releases I just tried and failed, got

Driver-specific debugging in buildkernel?

2014-09-14 Thread Thomas Mueller
I want to build a kernel with debugging for a specific device, rather than for everything. Device of interest is re (Ethernet driver), also rsu (USB wlan adapter). I looked in Makefiles, also NOTES files, found some DEBUG options but nothing really general that could be applied to any desir

Re: xorg-server running on 10-current under VMware?

2013-05-24 Thread Thomas Mueller
Screen(xf86Screens[i]->ScreenInit, argc, argv); indicating failure to add the screen. Building xorg-server with gcc make USE_GCC=any or with clang and -O0 mage CFLAGS=-O0 gives me an X server that appears to work (displays root weave, xterm, and twm). -- Thomas Mueller __

Re: GCC withdraw (was: Re: patch to add AES intrinsics to gcc)

2013-08-23 Thread Thomas Mueller
> As for me I expect something like this: > . 9.x gcc default and clang in base; > . 10.x clang default and gcc in base; > . 11.x gcc withdraw. There is also the concern whether clang in base will reliably build gcc required for some ports, and then there are those CPU architectures for which cl

Re: Why are cardbus drivers cbb(4) and pccard(4) still included in GENERIC?

2013-08-29 Thread Thomas Mueller
> In reference to this FreeBSD forums post: > http://forums.freebsd.org/showpost.php?p=231135&postcount=4 > Would it be a good time to remove those from GENERIC since the > hardware they are for is becoming so seriously outdated? > There's always an option to load those drivers a

Shared libraries version bump?

2011-09-07 Thread Thomas Mueller
When FreeBSD 9.0_BETA1 was announced, the announcement included a notice that shared library version would be updated some time prior to BETA2, which would necessitate rebuilding all ports. Has this happened yet? I don't want to rebuild all ports at the wrong time. I notice BETA2 has been rel

Re: Shared libraries version bump?

2011-09-08 Thread Thomas Mueller
From: Kostik Belousov > The bump was done for BETA2, see r225227, done on 2011-08-28. > The bump has much less scope since we did the ABI analysis and > only bumped the libraries which interfaces changed in incompatible > way and which were not yet bumped. See the referenced commit for > the libr

Re: Shared libraries version bump?

2011-09-09 Thread Thomas Mueller
Since I have plenty of disk space on the new computer, I was planning to keep the BETA1 partition and install BETA2 to a separate partition. FreeBSD 9.0 BETA1 is the first hard drive OS on the new computer, not counting the nonworking NetBSD installation; I am not upgrading from 8.x. Since I ha

Re: 9.0 beta2 & the new bsdinstaller

2011-09-11 Thread Thomas Mueller
Actually, I think this kind of question is for the freebsd-current list, so I respond on that list. Problem with the old sysinstall is that sysinstall expects installation sets to be broken into 1392 KB chunks as opposed to a full .tgz, .tbz or .txz, or so I believe: I could be wrong. I though

Screwy behavior in ports framework

2011-09-12 Thread Thomas Mueller
I just installed FreeBSD 9.0-BETA2 last night, now I try to build ports starting with Perl 5.14.1 (successful), then Python 2.7 fails on something dubious, but when I try to build Lynx, ports framework can't find a directory right under its nose. Problem is with dependency libiconv-1.13.1_1. I

Re: Screwy behavior in ports framework

2011-09-13 Thread Thomas Mueller
Sorry about fubar e-mail address, it was a typo, missing > at the end of the line: From: "Thomas Mueller" WKRDIR needs to be an absolute path and will break when it moves up the > tree to install dependencies. The most likely fix is to adjust the > default value ${WRKDIRPRE

Re: Booting native 4K SSD disk from FreeBSD ?

2017-10-04 Thread Thomas Mueller
from Allan Jude: > > Anyone has any recommendations or experience about how to use native 4K > > disks with FreeBSD? > > --HPS > It is not possible in legacy/BIOS mode, because the BIOS calls do not > let you specify a sector size. > However, you SHOULD be able to boot from the 4k devi

Re: iwm not in GENERIC kernel

2017-10-29 Thread Thomas Mueller
from Ngie Cooper: > > On Oct 28, 2017, at 18:09, Gordon Tetlow wrote: > > I have an Intel NUC that uses an Intel 8260 wireless driver. This works > > flawlessly if I load the module if_iwm via the loader or the rc.conf > > kld_list directive. > > Do we know if the iwm driver not being in GENERI

Re: [RFC] Deprecation and removal of the drm2 driver

2018-05-30 Thread Thomas Mueller
> Wow, this blew up quite a lot bigger than I anticipated. I'll try to > summarize the discussion a bit below and then suggest a way forward. > The primary reasons we want to do this is because there are conflicts between > the new drm drivers in ports, and the drm drivers in base, since they con

Re: 13-Current not format efi partition

2020-02-11 Thread Thomas Mueller
from Andrey Fesenko: > bsdinstall script, work in 2019 PARTITIONS="$DISKSLICE GPT { 512K freebsd-boot, 1M efi, auto freebsd-ufs / } #!/bin/sh -x # Make diskname independante gpart modify -l freebsd-boot -i 1 ada0 gpart modify -l efi -i 2 ada0 gpart modify -l root -i 3 ada0 # Make EFI happy

Re: Please check the current beta git conversions

2020-09-01 Thread Thomas Mueller
from Ed Maste: > > Any guidance on amount of diskspace and how long it takes to clone the repo > > ? > I see just over 3GB in my clone, including about 2.5GB in the .git directory. > If you have only one checkout git will require a bit more disk space > than svn. However, if you have two or mor

Re: Please check the current beta git conversions

2020-09-02 Thread Thomas Mueller
from Kevin Oberman: > > So I am abandoning FreeBSD 12.x . > > Hopefully I could update 13-current from within 13-current where I have no > > internet access but could use git from NetBSD, where I also have svn. > > Tom > Not really much different from subversion. .svn in /usr/sys is a

Re: Livelock on recent current

2020-09-09 Thread Thomas Mueller
> I am seeing a problem since I moved to current on my laptop this week. It's > odd as it is linked to the keyboard. As long as the keyboard is active, > everything is fine, but if the keyboard is not used, after a few minutes, > it locks up and gets very hot. The system may be busy or idle. The sy

Re: in -current is svn still canonical?

2020-11-16 Thread Thomas Mueller
from tech-lists: > As subject - is svn still canonical for -current or is it git now? > If it's not git now, when roughly is the intended switch? I recently updated FreeBSD doc, ports, src (current), and src12 (12-stable) using svn (not svnup or svnlite). But I read some time before that, FreeB

Re: in -current is svn still canonical?

2020-11-16 Thread Thomas Mueller
> Subversion is the source of truth for FreeBSD today. > In the near future, likely early next month, we'll move our operations over > to git. Git will be the source of truth after the flag day. All developer > operations will be in git: committing to current, and MFCing will all be > d

Re: in -current is svn still canonical?

2020-11-17 Thread Thomas Mueller
from Warner Losh and my last message: > > Thanks for the information, but if you feel the need to send me a > > not-quite-CC, please don't send me the multipart/alternative version when > > you send the plain-text version to the list. > > I hate multipart/alternative! > I must apologize.

Re: git tools for building in base?

2020-11-24 Thread Thomas Mueller
from tech-lists: > As subject - what will there be in base to interact with the new git repo? > I mean, right now, for svn there is svnlite. What for git? > Shouldn't it be in base before the move to git? Good question, and I hope the developers and others in charge are reading your post. You

Re: HEADS UP: FreeBSD src repo transitioning to git this weekend

2020-12-17 Thread Thomas Mueller
> > I hope we don't have to start signing all commits. saltstack/salt has > > that policy, and it's extremely annoying. > Have to? Not currently. As with all process changes, there will be > community discussion around the different points. > Warner I hope not! Signatures, at least in email me

Re: git tools for building in base?

2020-12-19 Thread Thomas Mueller
> Yes. I was answering the first question asked about FreeBSD and git... > The clincher for me was that git is better supported by third party tools > and has gotten quite good at 'recovery from oops' which mercurial is still > lacking in both areas. I too have used both, and I had to re clone my

Re: src: continued use of Subversion for getting updates

2020-12-23 Thread Thomas Mueller
> stable/11 as well as the releng branches for as long as the project has > them under support. I wrote the code to replay commits into subversion for > the convenience of our users on those branches. The 12.x releases will be > built out of Subversion to preserve $FreeBSD$ expansion and other obsc

Re: git and the loss of revision numbers

2020-12-24 Thread Thomas Mueller
> Disclaimer: I just started to learn git, never used it before. > If I do understand it correctly, the switch from svn to git comes with a loss > of continuously increasing revision numbers. Correct? If so I wonder how > future security advisories and errata notices will be composed. Will there

RE: Which branch in git is 13.0-current?

2021-01-23 Thread Thomas Mueller
> > Does that mean CURRENT is now 14.0? I must have missed the > > announcement. > That is correct, 13-stable has been branched from 13-current which has now > been bumped to 14-current. > Because it's a major version change going from 13 to 14, pkg is a bit > agitated regarding the ABI. > > > D

Re: Getting /usr/src to match specific git hash?

2021-01-24 Thread Thomas Mueller
> It is in the mini primer I wrote, along with how to bisect and other useful > things. This will migrate into the handbook once the doc tree converts to > asciidoc (happening this weekend). > https://github.com/bsdimp/freebsd-git-docs/blob/main/mini-primer.md > Warner I looked at your mini-p

Re: svnlite behaviour changed?

2021-01-26 Thread Thomas Mueller
Good morning! > I regularly sync my FreeBSD source tree with the central repository using svn > update. I use a one-lis script to synchonize, which sends the output of svn > to a file, and also copies to the console. This list contained - according to > the 'svn help update' - one line

Re: Spam mail being sent via the FreeBSD mailing lists

2021-05-26 Thread Thomas Mueller
from Kurt Jaeger: > Hi! > > > On May 25, 2021, at 8:53 PM, jake h wrote: > > > I have recently received several pieces of spam mail, apparently sent via > > > this mailing list. These pieces of mail are the usual spam formula; Your > > > phone has a virus, Ads, Fake blackmail, so on and s

Updating to FreeBSD-current, can't mount -uw /

2021-06-06 Thread Thomas Mueller
I updated a FreeBSD-current to the newest FreeBSD-current/14, buildworld took 11:15 (hours:minutes), buildkernel was also successful, I even appeared to be successful with "dhclient re0". UPDATING file says to boot single-user after buildkernel and installkernel, but then mount -u / or mount -u

Updating to FreeBSD-current, can't mount -uw / : update: seemingly solved

2021-06-06 Thread Thomas Mueller
I updated a FreeBSD-current to the newest FreeBSD-current/14, buildworld took 11:15 (hours:minutes), buildkernel was also successful, I even appeared to be successful with "dhclient re0". UPDATING file says to boot single-user after buildkernel and installkernel, but then mount -u / or mount -u

Re: Updating to FreeBSD-current, can't mount -uw / : update: seemingly solved

2021-06-07 Thread Thomas Mueller
> In both cases, the entry is INcorrect. Juraj is correct. The swap entry is > missing sw > IOW the line MUST read as: > /dev/gpt/Sea1-18noneswapsw 0 0 > or > /dev/gpt/Sea1-18noneswapsw,trimonce 0 0 > as appropriate for the media referenced.

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