Re: Weird NFS problems

2005-05-27 Thread Don Lewis
On 26 May, Skylar Thompson wrote: > I'm having some problems with NFS serving on a FreeBSD 5.4-RELEASE > machine. The FreeBSD machine is the NFS/NIS server for a group of four > Linux clusters. The network archictecture looks like this: > > 234/24

Re: about scroll mouse configuration

2005-05-27 Thread Dmitry Mityugov
Roldan, I believe you also need Option "Buttons" "5" Dmitry On 5/27/05, Roldán <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > --- Roldán <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> escribió: > > i have a logitech scroll mouse and in the > > /etc/X11/xorg.conf file is seted in this way: > > Section "InputDevice" > > > > Identif

Is logo-constest still up?

2005-05-27 Thread Laurent Debacker
Hi, Has anyone heard of the guys behind the logo contest recently? I submitted my logos and got no reply. I sent a second email just to confirm they got my logos. Nothing. Then I submitted my logos using another email address. Still nothing. Are they in holiday or so? I don't want make their inb

jdk 1.3.1 in FreeBSD

2005-05-27 Thread Xu Qiang
Hi, all: I have downloaded diablo-jdk-1.3.1.0.tgz, and extracted it into /usr/local, but when i test it by running "/usr/local/diablo-jdk1.3.1/bin/java -version", it told me: --- /usr/libexec/ld-elf.so.1: Shared object "libc.so.4" not

Re: ctime date

2005-05-27 Thread Sergey S. Ropchan
On Thu, 2005-05-26 at 22:50 -0700, Evan Sayer wrote: > Hello- > Does anyone know how to get the ctime(3) format of the date in a script > (i.e without actually writing a C program to return it). > -Thanks. #!/bin/sh #get current date DATE=`date "+%d%m%y"` echo $DATE; you can play with specs: %D

DVD burners and the Adaptec 2200S RAID controller...

2005-05-27 Thread Olaf Greve
Hi Roland, First off: tnx for your reply! I haven't tried burning DVDs with the ATA driver. The manual page for growisofs says that you should use SCSI devices on OpenBSD and NetBSD, but it doesn't mention FreeBSD. Hmmm, one would guess FreeBSD not to be very different in that respect. Speed

Re: Weird NFS problems

2005-05-27 Thread Jon Dama
Try switching to TCP NFS. a 100MBit interface cannot keep up with a 1GBit interface in a bridge configuration. Therefore, in the long run, at full-bore you'd expect to drop 9 out of every 10 ethernet frames. MTU is 1500 therefore 1K works (it fits in one frame), 2K doesn't (your NFS transactions

Trouble installing 5.4-release

2005-05-27 Thread Andrey
Hello, freebsd-questions. I have downloaded 2 iso images of 5.4-release from official ftp. md5 checksums are identical with those on ftp. I'm trying to install it on my home machine and installation fails with errors. When I'm loading sysinstall with [default] configuration, I got ufs_baddir erro

RE: DVD burners and the Adaptec 2200S RAID controller...

2005-05-27 Thread Ted Mittelstaedt
> -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Olaf Greve > Sent: Friday, May 27, 2005 1:49 AM > To: Roland Smith; freebsd-questions@freebsd.org > Subject: DVD burners and the Adaptec 2200S RAID controller... > > > Hi Roland, > > First off: tnx for yo

trouble booting 5.4 installation media (repost)

2005-05-27 Thread dave
Hello, Didn't get a response so i'm going to try this again. I'm trying to do a fresh install of 5.4 on a test machine, which previously ran 5.3 just fine. I'm doing the install via a serial terminal as this box is headless and off of an nfs server which i've also prepared identically to 5.3. I

Re: FreeBSD and Asus A7N8X

2005-05-27 Thread Lee Harr
I'm trying to install FreeBSD on my pc, but both 4.10 and 5.3, after installation , block at first boot. I know there is a problem whit my motherboard, ASUS A7N8X deluxe that it is not supported by FreeBSD. Can you tell me if 5.4 works on my motherboard? Or a site where I can download 4.9 that may

Re: vinum: Inappropriate ioctl for device

2005-05-27 Thread FreeBSD questions mailing list
On 26 mei 2005, at 23:10, jd wrote: I am trying to set up Vinum on a new system, and I get the error message: "vinum: Inappropriate ioctl for device". Here are the details: ... Vinum used to work beautiful under 4.11; I'm wondering what do I need to change to make it work under 5.4?

Re: DVD burners and the Adaptec 2200S RAID controller...

2005-05-27 Thread Olaf Greve
Hi, [...] 2200S. What I'm wondering about is the following: would it be possible to use the 2200S as a regular controller for a SCSI DVD rewriter, in combination with it running 4 drives in RAID 10 mode? The controller has two U320 channels and allows up to 30 devices to be connected to it. Howe

Proper dual booting

2005-05-27 Thread Fafa Hafiz Krantz
Hello. Here is what I see when I turn on my computer: F1 FreeBSD F5 Disk2 This doesn't look very good. How do I make it like this: F1 FreeBSD F2 Windows XP I heard I had to rewrite code. But that's pathetic! Plus, I'm kinda dumb. -- Fafa Hafiz Krantz Research Designer @ http://www

OT: SCSI DVD burners

2005-05-27 Thread Andrea Venturoli
Olaf Greve wrote: Hmmm, I wonder what good ATA options there are... Otherwise, I guess I'll simply have to add another SCSI controller. Hello. Sorry for the OT, but where do you find SCSI DVD burners? From which manufacturers/resellers? I never managed to find any and I thought they didn't exi

Re: Proper dual booting

2005-05-27 Thread FreeBsdBeni
On Friday 27 May 2005 13:44, Fafa Hafiz Krantz wrote: > Hello. > > Here is what I see when I turn on my computer: > > F1 FreeBSD > F5 Disk2 > > This doesn't look very good. How do I make it like this: > > F1 FreeBSD > F2 Windows XP > > I heard I had to rewrite code. > But that's pathetic! P

Re: jdk 1.3.1 in FreeBSD

2005-05-27 Thread Vizion
On Friday 27 May 2005 01:28, the author Xu Qiang contributed to the dialogue on jdk 1.3.1 in FreeBSD: >Hi, all: > >I have downloaded diablo-jdk-1.3.1.0.tgz, and extracted it into /usr/local, but when i test it by running "/usr/local/diablo-jdk1.3.1/bin/java -version", it told me: >---

Problem with HT support in 5.4

2005-05-27 Thread Jacob S
Hello list, I upgraded a few 5.3 servers to 5.4 yesterday and everything seemed to go well. After booting the new kernel, dmesg correctly showed 2 logical cpus (1 xeon with HT). However, when I look at top's output, it always shows at least 50% cpu idle time - even when the load is above 10. To

Re: Problem with HT support in 5.4

2005-05-27 Thread Dmitry Mityugov
On 5/27/05, Jacob S wrote: > Hello list, > > I upgraded a few 5.3 servers to 5.4 yesterday and everything seemed to > go well. After booting the new kernel, dmesg correctly showed 2 logical > cpus (1 xeon with HT). > > However, when I look at top's output, it always shows at least 50% cpu > idle

Re: Problem with HT support in 5.4

2005-05-27 Thread Dmitry Mityugov
On 5/27/05, Jacob S wrote: > Hello list, > > I upgraded a few 5.3 servers to 5.4 yesterday and everything seemed to > go well. After booting the new kernel, dmesg correctly showed 2 logical > cpus (1 xeon with HT). > > However, when I look at top's output, it always shows at least 50% cpu > idle

Re: DVD burners and the Adaptec 2200S RAID controller...

2005-05-27 Thread Roland Smith
On Fri, May 27, 2005 at 01:38:29PM +0200, Olaf Greve wrote: > > Either way: I personally like that separation as well. I have another > good Adaptec SCSI controller, but I think it's a bit a pity to > 'sacrifice' that just for a DVD burner (it's currently installed in a > machine I have specifi

Re: vinum: Inappropriate ioctl for device

2005-05-27 Thread FreeBSD questions mailing list
On 27 mei 2005, at 16:13, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [...] Go back to 4.11! vinum is a nightmare in 5.4 and gvinum is not nearly mature enough... I do have it running but every update it takes me 2 days to get the RAIDs back up Arno Arno, not very encouraging... Is it a RAID 5 you w

Re: sendmail update

2005-05-27 Thread Tony Shadwick
Just going and taking a cursory glance at the sendmail makefile in ports: .if exists(${DESTDIR}/etc/mail/mailer.conf) && ${PREFIX} == "/usr" pre-everything:: @${ECHO_CMD} "#" @${ECHO_CMD} "# You can't override the base sendmail this way." @${ECHO_CMD} "# your version FreeB

Man page viewing problems

2005-05-27 Thread J. Johnston
After searching the mailing list I couldn't find much regarding this issues (or manpages on groff) %man make.conf Formatting page, please wait.../usr/bin/groff: can't find `DESC' file /usr/bin/groff:fatal error: invalid device `ascii' Failed. /usr/bin/groff: can't find `DESC' file /usr/bin/groff

Re: Problem with HT support in 5.4

2005-05-27 Thread Jacob S
On Fri, 27 May 2005 18:05:48 +0400 Dmitry Mityugov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 5/27/05, Jacob S wrote: > > Hello list, > > > > I upgraded a few 5.3 servers to 5.4 yesterday and everything seemed > > to go well. After booting the new kernel, dmesg correctly showed 2 > > logical cpus (1 xeon wi

Re: vinum: Inappropriate ioctl for device

2005-05-27 Thread Mark Bucciarelli
FreeBSD questions mailing list wrote: i tried Gvinum too but that doesn't have the setstate nor the ruibld parity command and still you can't stop gvinum (gvinum stop doesn't work, nor does kldunload geom_vinum.ko) try gmirror for raid 1. it worked great for me. could gmirror and gstripe

Re: Proper dual booting

2005-05-27 Thread Jerry McAllister
> > > Hello. > > Here is what I see when I turn on my computer: > > F1 FreeBSD > F5 Disk2 > > This doesn't look very good. How do I make it like this: > > F1 FreeBSD > F2 Windows XP > > I heard I had to rewrite code. > But that's pathetic! Plus, I'm kinda dumb. Before you start call

Re: DVD burners and the Adaptec 2200S RAID controller...

2005-05-27 Thread Chad Leigh -- Shire.Net LLC
On May 27, 2005, at 2:49 AM, Olaf Greve wrote: More generally: does anyone have any experiences in using the 2200S under FreeBSD? Typically enough on Adaptec's site FreeBSD is not mentioned in the list of supported OSes (surprise, surprise...). However, on FreeBSD's list(s) of supported har

Is logo-constest still up

2005-05-27 Thread Laurent Debacker
Hi, Has anyone heard of the guys behind the logo contest recently? I submitted my logos and got no reply. I sent a second email just to confirm they got my logos. Nothing. Then I submitted my logos using another email address. Still nothing. Are they in holiday or so? I don't want make their inb

How to get best results from FreeBSD-questions

2005-05-27 Thread Greg Lehey
How to get the best results from FreeBSD questions. === Last update $Date: 2004/09/19 02:40:48 $ This is a regular posting to the FreeBSD questions mailing list. If you got it in answer to a message you sent, it means that the sender thinks that a

"The Complete FreeBSD": errata and addenda

2005-05-27 Thread Greg Lehey
The trouble with books is that you can't update them the way you can a web page or any other online documentation. The result is that most leading edge computer books are out of date almost before they are printed. Unfortunately, The Complete FreeBSD, published by O'Reilly, is no exception. Inev

Broadcom BCM5751 Gigabit Ethernet

2005-05-27 Thread Fafa Hafiz Krantz
Hello! I got this Broadcom BCM5751 network interface that works just great in FreeBSD. I was just wondering though, does anybody know where to find its Windows XP driver? I need it to function in both sceneries. I found an EXE on an Asus.com mirror, but it was some sort of floppy extractor an

Re: Broadcom BCM5751 Gigabit Ethernet

2005-05-27 Thread Jacob S
On Fri, 27 May 2005 12:15:07 -0500 "Fafa Hafiz Krantz" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hello! > > I got this Broadcom BCM5751 network interface that works just great in > FreeBSD. I was just wondering though, does anybody know where to find > its Windows XP driver? > > I need it to function in b

Re: Broadcom BCM5751 Gigabit Ethernet

2005-05-27 Thread Andreas Rudisch
On Fri, 2005-05-27 at 12:15 -0500, Fafa Hafiz Krantz wrote: > Hello! > > I got this Broadcom BCM5751 network interface that works just great in > FreeBSD. > I was just wondering though, does anybody know where to find its Windows XP > driver? > > I need it to function in both sceneries. > > I