Re: if_alc trouble

2010-08-14 Thread Warren Block
On Sat, 14 Aug 2010, Ian FREISLICH wrote: Pyun YongHyeon wrote: I'm working on it but I was not able to reproduce the issue on my AR8131/AR8132/AR8151/AR8152 sample boards. However it seems AR8132 is the only controller that shows this issue and I vaguely remember a couple of users reported the

Re: Cannot switch tty's after install xorg, gnome and gdm

2011-01-23 Thread Warren Block
On Sun, 23 Jan 2011, Rob Farmer wrote: On Sun, Jan 23, 2011 at 07:32, LOL wrote: Hi guys. On every release of freebsd that i tried (-CURRENT, -STABLE, -RELEASE) everything goes fine until I install xorg, gdm and gnome by packages or not it does not make any difference. When I boot with gnome_e

Re: msk(4) cannot receive packets on Marvell Yukon 88E8057

2010-07-10 Thread Warren Block
On Sat, 10 Jul 2010, Ryan Stone wrote: I just got a new laptop that has a Marvell Yukon 88E8057 ethernet adapter. The msk driver attaches to the hardware on the 8.1 release candidate, and I seem to be able to transmit packets just fine, but I can't receive packets reliably. The first time I tr

Re: x11/nvidia-driver (340.24/340.32/343.13): nvidia BLOB doesn't recognize any display socket on Lenovo E540/UEFI and FBSD CURRENT

2014-09-20 Thread Warren Block
On Fri, 19 Sep 2014, O. Hartmann wrote: nVidia's BLOB from port x11/nvidia-driver seems to have problems in FreeBSD 11.0-CURRENT #2 r271869: Fri Sep 19 13:28:03 CEST 2014 amd64, on Lenovo ThinkPad Edge E540 laptop with CPU i5-4200M (Haswell) with integrated HD4600 Intel iGPU and dedicated nVid

Re: x11/nvidia-driver (340.24/340.32/343.13): nvidia BLOB doesn't recognize any display socket on Lenovo E540/UEFI and FBSD CURRENT

2014-09-20 Thread Warren Block
On Sat, 20 Sep 2014, O. Hartmann wrote: Am Sat, 20 Sep 2014 07:36:21 -0600 (MDT) Warren Block schrieb: On Fri, 19 Sep 2014, O. Hartmann wrote: nVidia's BLOB from port x11/nvidia-driver seems to have problems in FreeBSD 11.0-CURRENT #2 r271869: Fri Sep 19 13:28:03 CEST 2014 amd64, on L

Re: x11/nvidia-driver (340.24/340.32/343.13): nvidia BLOB doesn't recognize any display socket on Lenovo E540/UEFI and FBSD CURRENT

2014-09-20 Thread Warren Block
On Sat, 20 Sep 2014, O. Hartmann wrote: The very same CURRENT (most recent as I built world on all system today) doesn't recognize the Haswell's HD4600 iGPU (i5-4200M). So, it seems impossible to me that people can report having this GPU working if even the most recent FreeBSD CURRENT doesn't

Re: WiFi 802.11/ac PCIe supported adaptor

2014-09-27 Thread Warren Block
On Sat, 27 Sep 2014, O. Hartmann wrote: I'm looking for a replacemnt for my 802.11g WiFi PCIe adaptor card and want to replace it with an 802.11ac adaptor. Since I made very bad experiences with CURRENT and support of modest modern hardware (Haswell CPU/Intel 7260 DualBand WiFi NIC), I'd li

Re: WiFi 802.11/ac PCIe supported adaptor

2014-09-28 Thread Warren Block
On Sun, 28 Sep 2014, Gavin Atkinson wrote: On Sun, 28 Sep 2014, O. Hartmann wrote: Networking wasn't an issue for me for years, but now, sitting on a pile of neat new hardware of which FreeBSD can not make any serious use, let me rethink. Luckily, The Lenovo laptops have a mini PCIe WiFi NIC -

Re: WiFi 802.11/ac PCIe supported adaptor

2014-10-19 Thread Warren Block
On Sun, 19 Oct 2014, O. Hartmann wrote: Am Sun, 28 Sep 2014 14:50:02 -0600 (MDT) Warren Block schrieb: On Sun, 28 Sep 2014, Gavin Atkinson wrote: On Sun, 28 Sep 2014, O. Hartmann wrote: Networking wasn't an issue for me for years, but now, sitting on a pile of neat new hardware of

Re: HEADS UP: Enabling vt(4) by default

2014-11-05 Thread Warren Block
On Wed, 5 Nov 2014, Chris H wrote: On Wed, 5 Nov 2014 10:19:51 +0100 Gary Jennejohn wrote No, video mode won't work with the nVidia blob. That requires a KMS (in-kernel) driver. Thank you for the reply, Gary. Ahh. I see. So unless I have ATI hardware, I'm pretty much out of luck? Or Inte

Re: HEADS UP: Enabling vt(4) by default

2014-11-05 Thread Warren Block
On Wed, 5 Nov 2014, Chris H wrote: On Wed, 5 Nov 2014 08:15:04 -0700 (MST) Warren Block wrote On Wed, 5 Nov 2014, Chris H wrote: On Wed, 5 Nov 2014 10:19:51 +0100 Gary Jennejohn wrote >> No, video mode won't work with the nVidia blob. That requires a KMS (in-kernel) driver.

Re: [HEADSUP] man(1) now uses mandoc

2014-11-23 Thread Warren Block
On Sun, 23 Nov 2014, Baptiste Daroussin wrote: The default renderer on HEAD has been switched to mandoc(1) by default The man(1) command has been instrumented to first test the manpage and fallback on groff if the man page cannot be rendered with mandoc(1). If base is built without groff then m

Re: [RFC] Moving troff only documentation to the doc repository

2014-11-23 Thread Warren Block
On Sun, 23 Nov 2014, Remko Lodder wrote: On 23 Nov 2014, at 20:10, Baptiste Daroussin wrote: Hi all, I would like to move the troff documentation which is not very useful anymore on a recent FreeBSD system but still part of history into the doc repository, a dedicated branch will probably fit

Re: Acer C720 Chromebook (was: Re: looking for new netbook)

2015-01-07 Thread Warren Block
On Wed, 7 Jan 2015, Matthias Apitz wrote: The keyboard of the C720, in principle a normal PC105, mine with German layout QWERTZ, is a bit tricky: it has - only F-keys from F1 to F10 and they are labeled with symbols for the ChromeOS applications; - no hardware power-off (only by an ACPI key wh

Re: default pager (csh)

2015-02-19 Thread Warren Block
On Thu, 19 Feb 2015, Julian Elischer wrote: On 2/18/15 3:41 PM, Xin Li wrote: The _only_ reason that I can think of is that more(1) does not clear screen for certain terminals (done with 'ti' and 'te' sequences), while less(1) when running as less does. The less(1) behavior can be annoying to

Re: default pager (csh)

2015-02-20 Thread Warren Block
On Thu, 19 Feb 2015, Kevin Oberman wrote: On Thu, Feb 19, 2015 at 5:10 PM, Warren Block wrote: On Thu, 19 Feb 2015, Julian Elischer wrote: On 2/18/15 3:41 PM, Xin Li wrote: The _only_ reason that I can think of is that more(1) does not clear

Re: Newer yacc needed for building world

2015-04-22 Thread Warren Block
On Wed, 22 Apr 2015, Willem Jan Withagen wrote: Hi, [I thought that I've seen talk about this before.] On a customers system I'm trying to build a new world, with a fresh tree. I've deleted lines from other tracks in parallel compilation. --- aslcompilerparse.c --- yacc -d -pAslCompiler -oasl

Re: Lenovo BIOS boot fix

2015-07-13 Thread Warren Block
Needing the active flag set is indeed a different problem. I am working on a patch for bsdinstall that will allow the user to request the active bit be set as well. For GPT, that should be the default, because it matches the standard. I would like to see an effort to get Lenovo to fix their br

Re: Lenovo BIOS boot fix

2015-07-13 Thread Warren Block
On Mon, 13 Jul 2015, Allan Jude wrote: On 2015-07-13 11:19, Warren Block wrote: Needing the active flag set is indeed a different problem. I am working on a patch for bsdinstall that will allow the user to request the active bit be set as well. For GPT, that should be the default, because

Re: Lenovo BIOS boot fix

2015-07-13 Thread Warren Block
On Mon, 13 Jul 2015, Allan Jude wrote: On 2015-07-13 14:08, Warren Block wrote: On Mon, 13 Jul 2015, Allan Jude wrote: On 2015-07-13 11:19, Warren Block wrote: Needing the active flag set is indeed a different problem. I am working on a patch for bsdinstall that will allow the user to

Re: Lenovo BIOS boot fix

2015-07-13 Thread Warren Block
On Mon, 13 Jul 2015, Kevin Oberman wrote: This is possibly orthogonal and possibly not of use on X2nn systems, but I boot my T520 with a GPT formatted disk as the secondary drive by having the MBR disk0 configured with booteasy and telling it to boot disk1. While this is of no use on single sp

Re: Lenovo BIOS boot fix

2015-07-13 Thread Warren Block
On Mon, 13 Jul 2015, Adrian Chadd wrote: I'm really confused. Why is the active flag not set again? I thought that was the whole point of the active flag in the partition table. At one point, smart people explained this to me. My fault if I do not remember it correctly (not that it will sto

Re: Lenovo BIOS boot fix

2015-07-13 Thread Warren Block
On Mon, 13 Jul 2015, Adrian Chadd wrote: But the problem here is that we're using GPT but /not/ UEFI, right? That's why that's all a mess? If you have a GPT layout, but it boots on a BIOS machine, the missing active flag on a standards-correct PMBR partition usually does not keep it from boo

Re: Call for FreeBSD 2015Q2 (April-June) Status Reports

2015-07-13 Thread Warren Block
Have you submitted your quarterly report yet? People need to know about the cool things being done with, or to, or by FreeBSD. In an effort that will surely never come back to haunt us all, I have committed all the reports I saw in monthly@ to the upcoming status report. However, I am also e

Re: ramblings.. or not

2015-08-28 Thread Warren Block
On Fri, 28 Aug 2015, Lars Engels wrote: On Thu, Aug 27, 2015 at 02:31:21PM -0700, Craig Rodrigues wrote: On Wed, Aug 26, 2015 at 8:44 PM, Julian Elischer wrote: We should also do a better job of productising and incorporating GSOC work.. Definitely! It's sad to see people put a lot of wo

Re: em broken on current amd64

2015-09-13 Thread Warren Block
On Sat, 12 Sep 2015, Mark R V Murray wrote: I just caught this, on today’s build: em0: Watchdog timeout Queue[0]-- resetting Interface is RUNNING and ACTIVE em0: TX Queue 0 -- em0: hw tdh = 127, hw tdt = 139 em0: Tx Queue Status = -2147483648 em0: TX descriptors avail = 1012 em0: Tx Descrip

Re: [CFT] Buildworld ccache support

2015-10-15 Thread Warren Block
On Thu, 15 Oct 2015, Bryan Drewery wrote: Hi, If you are interested in using ccache in buildworld please consider using this patch locally and giving me some feedback. The current advice for ccache+buildworld (the CC:= trick in make.conf) actually results in the build thinking you are using a

Re: Depreciate and remove gbde

2015-10-19 Thread Warren Block
On Mon, 19 Oct 2015, John-Mark Gurney wrote: Ed Maste wrote this message on Mon, Oct 19, 2015 at 17:13 -0400: On 19 October 2015 at 16:50, John-Mark Gurney wrote: O. Hartmann wrote this message on Mon, Oct 19, 2015 at 06:19 +0200: For me, I'd like to know what is the benefit/performance of e

Re: Aw: Re: No X on Dell E6540

2015-12-21 Thread Warren Block
On Tue, 15 Dec 2015, Carsten Kunze wrote: Hello Michael, It looks like that is a machine with Haswell integrated graphics. Haswell graphics has not yet landed in CURRENT but there is a development branch availible for testing. https://wiki.freebsd.org/Graphics/Update%20i915%20GPU%20driver%20t

Re: CVE-2015-7547: critical bug in libc

2016-02-17 Thread Warren Block
On Wed, 17 Feb 2016, Kurt Jaeger wrote: Hi! The project that's vulnerable is called "glibc", not "libc". The BSDs don't use glibc, so the phrase "nothing to see here" applies. glibc isn't even available in FreeBSD's ports tree. TL;DR: FreeBSD is not affected by CVE-2015-7547. What about sof

Re: CVE-2015-7547: critical bug in libc

2016-02-17 Thread Warren Block
On Wed, 17 Feb 2016, Eric van Gyzen wrote: On 02/17/2016 08:19, Warren Block wrote: On Wed, 17 Feb 2016, Kurt Jaeger wrote: A short note on the www.freebsd.org website would probably be helpful, as this case will produce a lot of noise. Maybe a short article like we did for leap seconds

Re: CVE-2015-7547: critical bug in libc

2016-02-17 Thread Warren Block
On Thu, 18 Feb 2016, Kubilay Kocak wrote: On 18/02/2016 3:51 AM, Warren Block wrote: On Wed, 17 Feb 2016, Eric van Gyzen wrote: On 02/17/2016 08:19, Warren Block wrote: On Wed, 17 Feb 2016, Kurt Jaeger wrote: A short note on the www.freebsd.org website would probably be helpful, as this

Re: [CFT] packaging the base system with pkg(8)

2016-03-06 Thread Warren Block
On Sun, 6 Mar 2016, Glen Barber wrote: On Sun, Mar 06, 2016 at 12:39:57PM +0100, Baptiste Daroussin wrote: On Thu, Mar 03, 2016 at 10:27:00AM +, Matthew Seaman wrote: On 03/02/16 23:54, Glen Barber wrote: Also note (as repeated below), running 'pkg delete -a' will implicitly remove base s

Re: boot loaders got fatter in the last few days

2016-03-19 Thread Warren Block
On Fri, 18 Mar 2016, Guido Falsi wrote: On 03/18/16 17:54, José Pérez wrote: Hi Guido, maybe it's because of this: https://svnweb.freebsd.org/base?view=revision&revision=296963 I see. There is a problem with this though, we have howtos suggesting 64K for the size of the freebsd-boot gpt par

Re: question on support processor Intel Atom Z3735F

2016-03-25 Thread Warren Block
On Fri, 25 Mar 2016, Lundberg, Johannes wrote: One problem is that most of these devices have only 32 bit UEFI which FreeBSD does not support (except Intel Compute Stick which has 64 bit UEFI). The MinnowBoard has both 32-bit and 64-bit UEFI. My Turbot came with 64-bit UEFI, and the FreeBSD

Re: Need some help with ports and rebuilding the world

2016-03-29 Thread Warren Block
On Mon, 28 Mar 2016, Aleksander Alekseev wrote: I think I realized what's going on. I probably rebuilded the world on two different machines but forgot to do it on this one. I will re-check this and report results a bit later. OK, here is a problem. I can't upgrade the world because of compile

Re: Need some help with ports and rebuilding the world

2016-03-29 Thread Warren Block
On Tue, 29 Mar 2016, Aleksander Alekseev wrote: Do you still have your old make.conf for comparison? Sure. Current make.conf: ``` CPUTYPE?=native CFLAGS+=-O2 -pipe CXXFLAGS+=-O2 -pipe These will bite with no provocation, and prevent ports that want to set their own flags from using them.

Re: Need some help with ports and rebuilding the world

2016-03-30 Thread Warren Block
On Wed, 30 Mar 2016, Aleksander Alekseev wrote: CPUTYPE?=native CFLAGS+=-O2 -pipe CXXFLAGS+=-O2 -pipe These will bite with no provocation, and prevent ports that want to set their own flags from using them. Frankly as a rule of thumb I prefer binary packages. But how would you recommend to

D3702: add support for Bluetooth Magic Mouse

2016-04-04 Thread Warren Block
Is anyone working on Bluetooth stuff? https://reviews.freebsd.org/D3702 adds support for the Apple Magic Mouse, and has been tested and reported working: https://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-bluetooth/2016-April/002053.html Could someone please review and commit this? Thanks!

Re: Heads up

2016-04-14 Thread Warren Block
On Thu, 14 Apr 2016, Warner Losh wrote: The CAM I/O scheduler has been committed to current. This work is described in https://people.freebsd.org/~imp/bsdcan2015/iosched-v3.pdf though the default scheduler doesn't change the default (old) behavior. One possible issue, however, is that it also e

Re: Heads up

2016-04-14 Thread Warren Block
On Thu, 14 Apr 2016, Warner Losh wrote: On Thu, Apr 14, 2016 at 9:56 PM, Warren Block wrote: On Thu, 14 Apr 2016, Warner Losh wrote: The CAM I/O scheduler has been committed to current. This work is described in https://people.freebsd.org/~imp/bsdcan2015

Re: qsort() documentation

2016-04-18 Thread Warren Block
On Mon, 18 Apr 2016, Hans Petter Selasky wrote: Hi, Are there any objections adding the following as part of documenting our kernel's qsort function? Index: sys/libkern/qsort.c === --- sys/libkern/qsort.c (revision 298202) +++ s

Re: qsort() documentation

2016-04-19 Thread Warren Block
On Tue, 19 Apr 2016, Aleksander Alekseev wrote: Why Wikipedia, specifically? There are a lot of places that describe quicksort. How about just Note: This implementation of qsort() is designed to avoid the worst-case complexity of N**2 that is often seen with standard versions. I wo

FreeBSD Quarterly Status Report - First Quarter 2016 (fwd)

2016-05-01 Thread Warren Block
fixed. In all, a discomfiture of abundance. View the rubrics below, and marvel at their profusion and magnitude! Marvel! --Warren Block __ Please submit status reports for the second quarter of 2016 by July 7. A

CAM I/O Scheduler (was Re: FreeBSD Quarterly Status Report - First Quarter 2016 (fwd))

2016-05-03 Thread Warren Block
On Tue, 3 May 2016, Johan Hendriks wrote: Op 02/05/16 om 02:49 schreef Warren Block: CAM I/O Scheduler    Links    I/O Scheduling in FreeBSD's CAM Subsystem (PDF) URL:    https://people.freebsd.org/~imp/bsdcan2015/iosched-v3.pdf    The BSDCan 2015 Talk URL:

Re: UEFI dual boot zfs root

2016-05-17 Thread Warren Block
On Sun, 15 May 2016, Andreas Nilsson wrote: Hello, I'm trying to install current on my lenovo x1 yoga ( and keeping it dual boot for now). I have a fair amount of disk free after resizing. I can't seem to workout how to do the partitioning. Do I only need the freebsd-zfs partition ( assuming n

Re: r300951: mountroot: waiting for device /dev/ad4s1a...

2016-06-04 Thread Warren Block
On Sat, 4 Jun 2016, Matthias Apitz wrote: El día Saturday, June 04, 2016 a las 02:41:48PM +0200, Michael Gmelin escribió: It's also covered in UPDATING: 20151011: Compatibility shims for legacy ATA device names have been removed. It includes ATA_STATIC_ID kernel option,

Re: Destroy GPT partition scheme absolutely, how?

2016-10-04 Thread Warren Block
On Mon, 26 Sep 2016, John Baldwin wrote: On Tuesday, September 27, 2016 12:36:22 AM Ngie Cooper wrote: On Sep 26, 2016, at 22:48, Ernie Luzar wrote: ... This little script has been posted before. Maybe it will be what your looking for. Called gpart.nuke #! /bin/sh echo "What disk do yo

Re: Skylake/HD graphics support

2016-11-14 Thread Warren Block
On Sun, 13 Nov 2016, Daniel Campos do Nascimento wrote: Hello, First time posting on a mailing list... I currently have 11.0-STABLE installed on my laptop which has a Core i7-6500U. I can't get Xorg-server to work neither with xf86-driver-intel, nor with i915kms driver; I'm falling back on the

Re: 9.0 beta2 & the new bsdinstaller

2011-09-18 Thread Warren Block
On Sun, 18 Sep 2011, Thomas Mueller Also, I can't see the function of the 64 KB boot partition with no file system, which does not boot for me (Warning: guesswork and supposition ahead. Set your puzzler in low gear for traction.) AFAIK this is space for boot1 and boot2: http://www.freebsd

Improving the FreeBSD-9 boot menu

2011-09-20 Thread Warren Block
The patch in PR 160818 makes some clarifications and improvements to the new boot menu. Obviously this is not for 9.0-RELEASE, just wanting to get it out there so people can look at it. http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=160818 Among other things, the patch removes the word "boot" fro

Re: 9.0 beta2 & the new bsdinstaller

2011-09-21 Thread Warren Block
On Wed, 21 Sep 2011, Thomas Mueller wrote: From "Matthew D. Fuller" : I've been meaning to mention this, but we really should document somewhere that it has a _MAXIMUM_ size. I setup a system a few weeks back with GPT, and figured I'd just make the first 'real' partition start at the 1 meg

Re: 9.0 beta2 & the new bsdinstaller

2011-09-21 Thread Warren Block
Forgot to add this for reference earlier: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dd758814%28v=sql.100%29.aspx "Valid Starting Partition Offsets" has some justification for the 1M offset. ___ freebsd-current@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freeb

Re: 9.0 beta2 & the new bsdinstaller

2011-09-25 Thread Warren Block
On Sun, 25 Sep 2011, Antonio Olivares wrote: More concerns and questions onthe new bsdinstall: There is no upgrade function.  How will a user be able to upgrade to BETA3 (or RC1?) without wiping out BETA2 installation? For instance, user might have built many software applications from ports

Re: FreeBSD 9.0-BETA2 memstick USB image hangs my BIOS

2011-09-25 Thread Warren Block
On Mon, 26 Sep 2011, Adrian Chadd wrote: I've just tried to boot a FreeBSD-9.0 BETA2 (i386) memstick USB image on my BIOS. When inserted into a FreeBSD box (the one that I wrote it from), the partition table has an MBR style partition setup with a single EFI partition on it. Also known as a "

Re: Experiences with FreeBSD 9.0-BETA2

2011-09-26 Thread Warren Block
On Mon, 26 Sep 2011, Gary Palmer wrote: BSD disklabel is limited to a maximum of 8 slices per MBR partition. Careful. disklabel/bsdlabel creates FreeBSD "partitions", up to 8 per MBR partition (FreeBSD "slice"). Instead of three different things that share two names, GPT only has partitio

Re: aliasing (or renaming) kern.geom.debugflags

2011-10-07 Thread Warren Block
On Fri, 7 Oct 2011, Poul-Henning Kamp wrote: In message , Benjamin Kaduk writes: Now, an ordinary user who is doing this for the first time might ask, "why do I need to do something with 'debugflags' in order to make a USB stick? Which is the exactly right question to ask. The procedure doc

Re: aliasing (or renaming) kern.geom.debugflags

2011-10-07 Thread Warren Block
On Fri, 7 Oct 2011, Arnaud Lacombe wrote: Hi, On Fri, Oct 7, 2011 at 2:13 PM, Warren Block wrote: On Fri, 7 Oct 2011, Poul-Henning Kamp wrote: In message , Benjamin Kaduk writes: Now, an ordinary user who is doing this for the first time might ask, "why do I need to do something

Re: aliasing (or renaming) kern.geom.debugflags

2011-10-07 Thread Warren Block
On Fri, 7 Oct 2011, Glen Barber wrote: Hi, On 10/7/11 3:18 PM, Poul-Henning Kamp wrote: My guess is that GEOM isn't letting go of the GPT table and you have multiple partitions in the GPT table and you're not destroying them hierarchically in a proper manner.. but again, that's just a guess ba

Re: aliasing (or renaming) kern.geom.debugflags

2011-10-07 Thread Warren Block
On Fri, 7 Oct 2011, Glen Barber wrote: On 10/7/11 4:27 PM, Warren Block wrote: In my experience, without kern.geom.debugflags=16, the MBR will not be written to the memstick, leaving you with what would effectively be a coaster in the not-so-distant past. Tried it just now with the 9.0-BETA3

Re: aliasing (or renaming) kern.geom.debugflags

2011-10-07 Thread Warren Block
On Fri, 7 Oct 2011, Poul-Henning Kamp wrote: In message , Warren Block writes: Followed by removing the memory stick without unmounting it to avoid overwriting part of the image. No obvious problems, but no, it's not polite. (I'm thinking "automounter" here.) And yo

Re: aliasing (or renaming) kern.geom.debugflags

2011-10-07 Thread Warren Block
On Sat, 8 Oct 2011, Andrey V. Elsukov wrote: On 07.10.2011 23:41, Glen Barber wrote: In my experience, without kern.geom.debugflags=16, the MBR will not be written to the memstick, leaving you with what would effectively be a coaster in the not-so-distant past. The problem is that this bad su

Re: Memstick image differences between 8.x and 9.x

2011-10-08 Thread Warren Block
On Sat, 8 Oct 2011, Glen Barber wrote: On 10/8/11 2:21 PM, Garrett Cooper wrote: Are there any general structural differences between FreeBSD 8 and 9 memstick images which could be at fault here? The new memstick image uses GPT instead of MBR partitioning. GPT should have no impact on boot

Re: flash for 9-beta3

2011-10-08 Thread Warren Block
On Sat, 8 Oct 2011, Garrett Cooper wrote: On Sat, Oct 8, 2011 at 2:21 PM, Greg Miller wrote: On 10/8/11, Nenhum_de_Nos wrote: as recently had issues in this regard, to install it can I just use http://www.freebsd.org/doc/handbook/desktop-browsers.html or there is another guide ? I've just

Re: Memstick image differences between 8.x and 9.x

2011-10-08 Thread Warren Block
On Sat, 8 Oct 2011, Glen Barber wrote: On 10/8/11 5:40 PM, Warren Block wrote: On Sat, 8 Oct 2011, Glen Barber wrote: On 10/8/11 2:21 PM, Garrett Cooper wrote: Are there any general structural differences between FreeBSD 8 and 9 memstick images which could be at fault here? The new

Re: Memstick image differences between 8.x and 9.x

2011-10-08 Thread Warren Block
On Sun, 9 Oct 2011, Matt Thyer wrote: On Oct 9, 2011 11:04 AM, "Nathan Whitehorn" wrote: > > On 10/08/11 19:25, Matt Thyer wrote: >> > There is also the interesting question of actually installing to GPT on the hard disk, which is the default in 9.0. Does this not work on some systems? If so,

Re: VM images for FreeBSD

2011-10-17 Thread Warren Block
On Mon, 17 Oct 2011, Alexander Yerenkow wrote: Hello all. I'm currently made set of scripts, which builds FreeBSD from svn sources, and packing it in VirtualBox (*.vdi) compatible images. It's working now, and producing something like FreeBSD-9-i386-r226409-2011-10-16.vdi.xz (also .vdi, .vdi.zi

Re: possible mountroot regression

2011-10-19 Thread Warren Block
On Wed, 19 Oct 2011, Oliver Pinter wrote: On 10/19/11, Olivier Smedts wrote: 2011/10/19 Marcel Moolenaar : On Oct 18, 2011, at 9:04 AM, Andriy Gapon wrote: Would you be able to commit a variant of this patch sans the 'x' part? Yes, soonish. If people like the 'x' change I can do that in a

Re: FreeBSD 9.0 RC1 USB Mouse and Keyboard

2011-10-24 Thread Warren Block
On Sun, 23 Oct 2011, Mehmet Erol Sanliturk wrote: I have installed FreeBSD 9.0 RC1 . During installation and boots , and ( as root ) console mode , both USB keyboard and mouse are working . When a graphical desktop ( Fluxbox , Gnome , or KDE ) is started , both of them are becoming frozen . De

Re: FreeBSD 9.0 RC1 USB Mouse and Keyboard

2011-10-25 Thread Warren Block
On Tue, 25 Oct 2011, Mehmet Erol Sanliturk wrote: Also by Benjamin Kaduk : Has this computer successfully run other versions of FreeBSD with X? I seem to recall there can be odd interactions with hald, xorg.conf, and others. Some googling brings up http://www.wonkity.com/~wblock/docs/html/ae

Re: Netgear WNA1000N USB wlan device

2011-11-10 Thread Warren Block
On Thu, 10 Nov 2011, Glen Barber wrote: Netgear has these neat little USB micro wireless network adapters[1] that one could plug in and forget about without fear of, for example, breaking the device. Said devices are really nice for those of us without supported integrated wireless chipsets, su

Re: Is there a FreeBSD 9+ version of this?

2011-12-06 Thread Warren Block
On Tue, 6 Dec 2011, Sean Bruno wrote: http://www.freebsd.org/doc/handbook/geom-mirror.html Not in the Handbook. To make gmirror work with GPT, create GPT partitions and mirror those. I wrote an article on that using multiple partitions: http://www.wonkity.com/~wblock/docs/html/gmirror.html

Re: can a wrong alignment cause a decrease in a hdd's life expectancy?

2011-12-19 Thread Warren Block
On Mon, 19 Dec 2011, Alexander Best wrote: no problem. so will the improper alignment also not cause a life expectancy shortage in case of a hdd (non-flash-based)? and one other question: the hdd also supports usb 3. will the improper alignment have any effect (speed wise) when connected via us

Re: Removal of sysinstall from HEAD and lack of a post-install configuration tool

2011-12-29 Thread Warren Block
On Thu, 29 Dec 2011, John Baldwin wrote: A way to select from available partition types (UFS, boot, swap, ZFS, etc.) rather than requiring the user to remember the 'freebsd-xxx' string would be one improvement. There are PRs for that and several other common suggestions: http://www.freebsd.or

Re: Improving the FreeBSD-9 boot menu

2012-01-20 Thread Warren Block
On Tue, 20 Sep 2011, Warren Block wrote: The patch in PR 160818 makes some clarifications and improvements to the new boot menu. Obviously this is not for 9.0-RELEASE, just wanting to get it out there so people can look at it. http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=160818 Among other

Re: Enhancing the user experience with tcsh

2012-02-09 Thread Warren Block
On Fri, 10 Feb 2012, Gonzalo Nemmi wrote: On Thu, Feb 9, 2012 at 9:52 PM, Eitan Adler wrote: In conf/160689 (http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=160689) there has been some discussion about changing the default cshrc file. In the same line that Wojciech on the PR ".cshrc should be u

Re: Enhancing the user experience with tcsh

2012-02-10 Thread Warren Block
On Fri, 10 Feb 2012, Joel Dahl wrote: [completion examples] How about adding stuff like this to /usr/share/examples/tcsh/complete.tcsh ? Along with a comment in .cshrc pointing to that file (or even a commented line to source it), it would be an improvement. People who can benefit the most

Re: pkgng suggestion: renaming /usr/sbin/pkg to /usr/sbin/pkg-bootstrap

2012-08-23 Thread Warren Block
On Thu, 23 Aug 2012, Eitan Adler wrote: On 23 August 2012 22:55, Steve Wills wrote: As far as I understand it, POLA is about changing existing things: okay, so forget POLA. My point is that a user following a how to or even *our* documentation on how to install something unrelated, like sa

Re: pkgng suggestion: renaming /usr/sbin/pkg to /usr/sbin/pkg-bootstrap

2012-08-26 Thread Warren Block
On Sun, 26 Aug 2012, Ian Lepore wrote: On Sun, 2012-08-26 at 20:58 +0200, Baptiste Daroussin wrote: On Sun, Aug 26, 2012 at 11:39:07AM -0700, Doug Barton wrote: On 08/26/2012 05:58, Baptiste Daroussin wrote: This isn't the security issue I was talking about by having sbin/pkg pass every comman

Re: 9.1-RC3 feels okay :-)

2012-11-07 Thread Warren Block
On Wed, 7 Nov 2012, Julian H. Stacey wrote: Ian Lepore wrote: Before you do that, read this: http://www.wonkity.com/~wblock/docs/html/aei.html The page is bad here: "Summary ... just let xorg-server use hald by default." FreeBSD 8.3-RELEASE & 9.0-RELEASE by default do Not run hald

Re: 9.1-RC3 feels okay :-)

2012-11-07 Thread Warren Block
On Wed, 7 Nov 2012, CeDeROM wrote: Isn't this a Xorg bug then? When I have no configuration file Hal should provide the configuration, so sooner or later the mouse should start moving... but is does not.. Do I get http://www.wonkity.com/~wblock/docs/html/aei.html correct that when I am using xo

Re: 9.1-RC3 feels okay :-)

2012-11-08 Thread Warren Block
On Thu, 8 Nov 2012, CeDeROM wrote: I have tested additional options in xorg runtime :-) With the patched xorg mouse driver 1.7.1 (or driver version >=1.7.2) situation is following: 1. With hald and dbus no xorg.conf file is needed. However it might bo option to pass some additional featutes pa

Re: 9.1-RC3 feels okay :-)

2012-11-08 Thread Warren Block
On Thu, 8 Nov 2012, Ian Lepore wrote: On Thu, 2012-11-08 at 08:45 -0700, Warren Block wrote: On Thu, 8 Nov 2012, CeDeROM wrote: I have tested additional options in xorg runtime :-) With the patched xorg mouse driver 1.7.1 (or driver version >=1.7.2) situation is following: 1. With hald

Re: 9.1-RC3 feels okay :-)

2012-11-08 Thread Warren Block
On Thu, 8 Nov 2012, Tomek CEDRO wrote: WARNING!!! When AllowEmptyInput = False AND Hal is running really really bad things happen to Xorg!! Keys are messed up and screen is refreshed only after mouse move! Things are slow and the end of the word is near :-) AllowEmptyInput seems to be exclusiv

Re: 9.1-RC3 feels okay :-)

2012-11-08 Thread Warren Block
On Thu, 8 Nov 2012, Richard Kuhns wrote: On 11/08/12 10:45, Warren Block wrote: On Thu, 8 Nov 2012, CeDeROM wrote: I have tested additional options in xorg runtime :-) With the patched xorg mouse driver 1.7.1 (or driver version >=1.7.2) situation is following: 1. With hald and dbus

Re: No ATA disks on 9.1-RC3

2012-11-19 Thread Warren Block
On Mon, 19 Nov 2012, Alex Keda wrote: I try update my laptop - Compaq 6715s from 9.0 to 9.1-rc3 it cannot boot, because no HDD found dmesg from 9.0/9.1 and pciconf in attached files If there is an IDE/AHCI mode setting in the BIOS, switch it to the other setting.

Re: sluggish X.org/Xfce behavior

2012-11-20 Thread Warren Block
On Tue, 20 Nov 2012, René Ladan wrote: since last weekend (November 17th) I have been noticing a sluggish behavior of X.org/Xfce. Typical symptoms are: - Alt-Tab not reacting all of the time - pulldown/popup menus not allowing selections with mouse (typically in Terminal/pidgin), or moving the m

Re: sluggish X.org/Xfce behavior

2012-11-20 Thread Warren Block
On Tue, 20 Nov 2012, René Ladan wrote: On 20-11-2012 15:34, Warren Block wrote: On Tue, 20 Nov 2012, René Ladan wrote: since last weekend (November 17th) I have been noticing a sluggish behavior of X.org/Xfce. Typical symptoms are: - Alt-Tab not reacting all of the time - pulldown/popup

Re: 9.1-RC3 LiveCD missing features

2012-12-07 Thread Warren Block
On Fri, 7 Dec 2012, Chuck Burns wrote: dd if=/dev/zer of=/dev/ada0 ^^^ There's your "badblocks" program. Any hard drive made in the last decade have been self-remapping.. That should be /dev/zero. And this will be very slow, going one 512-byte block at a time. Using a 64K or 128K buffer

Re: 9.1-RC3 LiveCD missing features

2012-12-08 Thread Warren Block
On Fri, 7 Dec 2012, Garrett Cooper wrote: On Fri, Dec 7, 2012 at 11:06 PM, CeDeROM wrote: Hello Ian :-) This is the problem - / is read only and /etc/resolv.conf already links to nonexistent file. This way I cannot modify its content nor link other file (i.e. /var/resolv.conf) to /etc/resolv.

Re: problem after installkernel going from 9.0 to CURRENT

2013-01-03 Thread Warren Block
On Wed, 2 Jan 2013, Robert Huff wrote: (While this may not be a strictly CURRENT issue, I asked on questions@, but have not found a solution.) Situation: One of my boxes failed, and for various reasons it became easier to just scrub and rebuild it. Like its predecessor it will run C

Re: problem after installkernel going from 9.0 to CURRENT

2013-01-03 Thread Warren Block
On Thu, 3 Jan 2013, Kevin Oberman wrote: One possibility: I believe I labeled each of the partitions during the gpt creation process. Can I use those labels to (hopefully) by-pass this issue? Yes! This is the current recommended way of doing it. cat /etc/fstab # DeviceMountp

Re: gpart resize vs. cache?

2013-02-03 Thread Warren Block
On Sun, 3 Feb 2013, Tim Kientzle wrote: On Feb 3, 2013, at 1:08 PM, Ian Lepore wrote: On Sun, 2013-02-03 at 12:06 -0800, Tim Kientzle wrote: I'm tinkering with a disk image that automatically fills whatever media you put it onto. But I'm having trouble with gpart resize failing. Disk layout

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

2013-02-08 Thread Warren Block
On Fri, 8 Feb 2013, Thomas Mueller wrote: 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

Re: 7+ days of dogfood

2013-02-12 Thread Warren Block
On Mon, 11 Feb 2013, Lars Engels wrote: I also dislike that src build times increased over the years since I run CURRENT on my notebooks (starting 7-CURRENT, now 10-CURRENT). Wouldn't it be possible to add a DO_NOT_BUILD_CLANG_AND_GCC_IF_NOTHING_CHANGED= yes switch to src.conf? Building clang t

Re: gpart, slice starts at 0

2013-02-16 Thread Warren Block
On Sat, 16 Feb 2013, Erich Dollansky wrote: I did this to get a disk partitioned: #!/bin/tcsh Gah! gpart destroy -F da0 diskinfo da0 dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/da0 bs=512 count=34 dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/da0 bs=512 count=34 seek=312581774 Someone here on the lists (I unfortunately forget who

Re: gpart, slice starts at 0

2013-02-17 Thread Warren Block
On Sun, 17 Feb 2013, Erich Dollansky wrote: gpart destroy -F da0 diskinfo da0 dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/da0 bs=512 count=34 dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/da0 bs=512 count=34 seek=312581774 Someone here on the lists (I unfortunately forget who) showed a sneaky easier way to do this: gpart destroy -F d

Re: Using TMPFS for /tmp and /var/run?

2012-04-01 Thread Warren Block
On Mon, 2 Apr 2012, deeptec...@gmail.com wrote: I personally wouldn't use TMPFS, because I have a rather low amount of RAM (512MiB). Depends on what you keep there. I've been trying it lately. For an X desktop running xfce, /tmp is only 332K. ___

Re: [CFT] Xorg 7.7 ready for testing!

2012-06-07 Thread Warren Block
On Thu, 7 Jun 2012, Martin Wilke wrote: The FreeBSD Xorg Team is pleased to announce Xorg 7.7 Release. We are very happy to be able to Call for testing shortly after the Xorg team annouced 7.7 release. Thanks for your work on this! This CFT is also open for discussion on how we should move fo

Re: est man page

2012-06-13 Thread Warren Block
On Wed, 13 Jun 2012, Sean Bruno wrote: se> http://people.freebsd.org/~sbruno/est_man.txt Looks good. Attached a diff for some small fixes. Updated again with feedback that I've gotten. I changed the "Note that est interface is automatically loaded" to "Note that est capabilities are auto

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