Disklabel, partition d is usable or not ?

Hi, This may sound as a dumb question, but during my 6.2-RELEASE (i386) setup I notice the following in the handbook : > Remember [...] that partitions b, c, and d have conventional meanings that you should adhere to. But the partition d is used by sysinstall (with both automatic defaults an

Swap size

Hi, I plan to setup FreeBSD 6.2-RELEASE on my Core Duo laptop with 1GB of RAM. The handbook says "ideal swap size is 2xRAM", so should I use 2GB of swap ? This seems a bit huge to me, I never used more than 400MB on Linux. If so, is there a limit of swap partition size (or number) on i386 (for

Re: Swap size

[LoN]Kamikaze wrote: Derek Ragona wrote: At 03:03 AM 7/19/2007, Gabriel Linder wrote: Hi, I plan to setup FreeBSD 6.2-RELEASE on my Core Duo laptop with 1GB of RAM. The handbook says "ideal swap size is 2xRAM", so should I use 2GB of swap ? Yes unless you know how many applica

powerd on dual core

Hi, I use a T2300 Core Duo laptop with SMP kernel and powerd enabled on FreeBSD 6.2. When I try to check my CPU settings with "sysctl dev.cpu" I get a value only for dev.cpu.0.freq (no dev.cpu.1.freq, but there are some fields for dev.cpu.1), so I wonder if powerd manage only one core or if

Re: FreeBSD 6.2. Can I get 128x48 (or similar) console screens?

On Thu, 2 Aug 2007 12:20:29 + Alan Mackenzie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, FreeBSD! > > I'm a long time GNU/Linux user, and I'm considering changing over to > FreeBSD. Why? To escape the upgrade tread-mill. Every time a new > Debian release comes out, I say "Oh no, not again!", scarcely

Re: Resolution problem with i810 and Xorg 7.2

On Mon, 13 Aug 2007 18:26:10 +0300 Ghirai <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > (EE) I810(0): Failed to allocate framebuffer. Is your VideoRAM set > too low ?? I had this error on my laptop, and solved it by running 6-STABLE. It seems to be related to the agp module which refuses to load on 6.2-RELEASE (h

Ports build parameters (knobs)

Hello, During the build of the graphical portion of my new FreeBSD-powered laptop I noticed that some knobs are not listed in /usr/ports/KNOBS and so, I can't add them to make.conf before building the packages. When I run "make fetch-recursive" for fluxbox, I get : WITH_DEBUG=yes Build

Re: Ports build parameters (knobs)

On Wed, 22 Aug 2007 13:17:17 +0200 Roland Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Wed, Aug 22, 2007 at 09:54:08AM +0200, Gabriel Linder wrote: > > Hello, > > > > During the build of the graphical portion of my new FreeBSD-powered > > laptop I noticed that some k

Re: Ports build parameters (knobs)

On Wed, 22 Aug 2007 09:32:34 -0400 "Maxim Khitrov" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 8/22/07, Gabriel Linder <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hello, > > > > During the build of the graphical portion of my new FreeBSD-powered > > laptop I noticed t

Script to list ports knobs and options

Hi list, First forgive me if this is not the ideal list for this thread, and please redirect me to the good one. After this discussion[1] I did spend some time in order to improve the script provided by Maxim Khitrov, and here is the result : - show all knobs supported by ports not yet installed