moving FreeBSD installation disk1 to an USB stick

2008-06-19 Thread Matthias Apitz
Hello, I'm preparing the installation of FreeBSD 7.0 on an Asus eeePC which has no CD/DVD drive for the installation (and I have no external CD driver with USB): http://www.laptoppen.nl/product-260-Asus-EEE-PC-900-Zwart.html My idea is to 'copy' somehow the FreeBSD 7.0 installation disk1 to an U

Re: adding sysctls

2008-06-19 Thread Pietro Cerutti
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 Zane C.B. wrote: | Any one know of any recent documentation for adding a sysctl to a | kernel module for FreeBSD 6 and 7? In addition to the what pointed out by others, I would recommend to look into /usr/share/examples/kld/dyn_sysctl for an exampl

Re: moving FreeBSD installation disk1 to an USB stick

2008-06-19 Thread Ed Schouten
Hello Matthias, * Matthias Apitz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hello, > > I'm preparing the installation of FreeBSD 7.0 on an Asus eeePC which has > no CD/DVD drive for the installation (and I have no external CD driver > with USB): > http://www.laptoppen.nl/product-260-Asus-EEE-PC-900-Zwart.ht

Re: moving FreeBSD installation disk1 to an USB stick

2008-06-19 Thread Matthias Apitz
El día Thursday, June 19, 2008 a las 11:14:32AM +0200, Ed Schouten escribió: > You could consider installing FreeBSD by hand. Just make sure you > get a bootable FreeBSD system on that USB stick and do this: > > bsdlabel -w -B /dev/ad0 # assuming ad0 is the eeepc flash > # just do bsd

Re: CFT: BSD-licensed grep [Fwd: cvs commit: ports/textproc/bsdgrep Makefile distinfo]

2008-06-19 Thread Konrad Jankowski
Maxim Sobolev wrote: Good regression test suite which would include cases in different single and multi-byte locates for grep/sort/etc could also be a big help. I will implement test cases for sort in UTF-8 as part of my project. ___ freebsd-hackers@fr

Re: CFT: BSD-licensed grep [Fwd: cvs commit: ports/textproc/bsdgrep Makefile distinfo]

2008-06-19 Thread Dag-Erling Smørgrav
Konrad Jankowski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > BOM's should be handled at the program level. Yeah, that makes sense; libc has no way of knowing whether the start of the string you're processing is actually the start of the file. DES -- Dag-Erling Smørgrav - [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: moving FreeBSD installation disk1 to an USB stick

2008-06-19 Thread Oliver Fromme
Matthias Apitz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I'm preparing the installation of FreeBSD 7.0 on an Asus eeePC which has > no CD/DVD drive for the installation (and I have no external CD driver > with USB): > http://www.laptoppen.nl/product-260-Asus-EEE-PC-900-Zwart.html > > My idea is to 'copy'

Cross platform building best practices (building 6 on 7)

2008-06-19 Thread Alexander Sack
Hello Folks: I've done a lot of Googling and scouring the lists about this particular subject so I apologize for rehashing it. However, I'm still confused on what's the best way to perform BSD cross platform builds. Ideally what I want to have is an environment whereby I can build a 6.1-RELEASE

FreeBSD 7.0 own installation

2008-06-19 Thread Sebastian Tymków
Hi, I need to create my own installation disk. Is there any solution to create own release without in example sendmail. I made some scripts and included them in /usr/src/release/Makefile to install some ports to iso ( I know I can do post-install but for some reasons I'd like to do it). Maybe ther

Re: FreeBSD 7.0 own installation

2008-06-19 Thread Garrett Cooper
On Thu, Jun 19, 2008 at 6:27 AM, Sebastian Tymków <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > > I need to create my own installation disk. > Is there any solution to create own release without in example sendmail. > I made some scripts and included them in /usr/src/release/Makefile > to install some ports t

Re: Cross platform building best practices (building 6 on 7)

2008-06-19 Thread Garrett Cooper
On Thu, Jun 19, 2008 at 6:29 AM, Alexander Sack <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hello Folks: > > I've done a lot of Googling and scouring the lists about this > particular subject so I apologize for rehashing it. However, I'm > still confused on what's the best way to perform BSD cross platform > bui

Re: Integration of ProPolice in FreeBSD

2008-06-19 Thread Jeremie Le Hen
Hi Robert, hi all, On Sat, Jun 14, 2008 at 06:27:30PM +0100, Robert Watson wrote: > > On Thu, 12 Jun 2008, Jeremie Le Hen wrote: > > > (This mail has already been sent to [EMAIL PROTECTED] I'm sending it here > > now for a > > wider audience because I really need testers.) > > Dear Jeremie

Re: FreeBSD 6.3 deadlock (vm_map?) with DDB output

2008-06-19 Thread James Gritton
John Baldwin wrote: On Sunday 15 June 2008 07:23:19 am Stef Walter wrote: I've been trying to track down a deadlock on some newish production servers running FreeBSD 6.3-RELEASE-p2. The deadlock occurs on a specific (although mundane) hardware configuration, and each of several servers runnin

Accessing char device from inside the kernel

2008-06-19 Thread Lukasz Jaroszewski
Hi, as described in topic. How one should access cdev for writing from kernel-level. What is the proper way to do that ? I will be thankful for any tips and few lines of example code would be just great. Best regards LVJ ___ freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org m

Re: Decent 3D acceleration in 64bit mode?

2008-06-19 Thread Zaphod Beeblebrox
On Wed, Jun 18, 2008 at 8:13 AM, Stephen Hocking <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > > Given that Nvidia aren't offering a driver for their cards for 64bit > FreeBSD, is anyone else having success using another (preferably > PCI-E) card with 3D acceleration? > I'd love to be told I'm wrong, but my

Re: Decent 3D acceleration in 64bit mode?

2008-06-19 Thread Mike Meyer
On Thu, 19 Jun 2008 14:00:42 -0400 "Zaphod Beeblebrox" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Wed, Jun 18, 2008 at 8:13 AM, Stephen Hocking <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: > > Given that Nvidia aren't offering a driver for their cards for 64bit > > FreeBSD, is anyone else having success using another (pref

Re: Decent 3D acceleration in 64bit mode?

2008-06-19 Thread Chuck Robey
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Mike Meyer wrote: > On Thu, 19 Jun 2008 14:00:42 -0400 "Zaphod Beeblebrox" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: > >> On Wed, Jun 18, 2008 at 8:13 AM, Stephen Hocking <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >> wrote: >>> Given that Nvidia aren't offering a driver for their cards

Re: Decent 3D acceleration in 64bit mode?

2008-06-19 Thread Chuck Robey
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Chuck Robey wrote: > Mike Meyer wrote: >> On Thu, 19 Jun 2008 14:00:42 -0400 "Zaphod Beeblebrox" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >> wrote: > >>> On Wed, Jun 18, 2008 at 8:13 AM, Stephen Hocking <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >>> wrote: Given that Nvidia aren't offerin

Lack of Flash support is no longer acceptable. Bounty established...

2008-06-19 Thread John Kozubik
Don't shoot the messenger: FreeBSD is not useful as a desktop environment without the ability to support Flash in a stable, well-performing fashion. Running IE in Wine is not a solution. Running another OS in vmware to simply browse the web is not a solution. Free flash alternatives and fla

Re: Lack of Flash support is no longer acceptable. Bounty established...

2008-06-19 Thread Pietro Cerutti
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 John Kozubik wrote: | | Don't shoot the messenger: | | | FreeBSD is not useful as a desktop environment without the ability to | support Flash in a stable, well-performing fashion. gnash-devel provides flash 9 and works pretty well... | | | Runnin

Re: Decent 3D acceleration in 64bit mode?

2008-06-19 Thread RW
On Thu, 19 Jun 2008 17:36:44 -0400 Chuck Robey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Could I ask, does anyone here know the reason (even in general) that > the Nvidia driver isn't working on the i386? I presume you mean on amd64, since it does work on i386. http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-ha

Re: Decent 3D acceleration in 64bit mode?

2008-06-19 Thread Mike Meyer
On Thu, 19 Jun 2008 17:41:20 -0400 Chuck Robey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > Chuck Robey wrote: > > Mike Meyer wrote: > >> On Thu, 19 Jun 2008 14:00:42 -0400 "Zaphod Beeblebrox" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > >> wrote: > > > >>> On Wed, Jun 18, 2008 at

Re: Decent 3D acceleration in 64bit mode?

2008-06-19 Thread Garrett Cooper
On Thu, Jun 19, 2008 at 3:19 PM, Mike Meyer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Thu, 19 Jun 2008 17:41:20 -0400 > Chuck Robey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- >> Hash: SHA1 >> >> Chuck Robey wrote: >> > Mike Meyer wrote: >> >> On Thu, 19 Jun 2008 14:00:42 -0400 "Zaphod

Re: Lack of Flash support is no longer acceptable. Bounty established...

2008-06-19 Thread David E. Thiel
On Thu, Jun 19, 2008 at 02:37:48PM -0700, John Kozubik wrote: > FreeBSD is not useful as a desktop environment without the ability to > support Flash in a stable, well-performing fashion. Nonsense. This presumes anything "useful" has ever been written in flash. > Free flash alternatives and flash

Re: Accessing char device from inside the kernel

2008-06-19 Thread Ed Schouten
Hello Lukasz, * Lukasz Jaroszewski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, as described in topic. How one should access cdev for writing from > kernel-level. What is the proper way to do that ? > I will be thankful for any tips and few lines of example code would be > just great. I think the code in sys