usb mouse & problem reports (newbie)

2008-11-05 Thread t-u-t
hello anyone, i have been playing with fbsd the past few months and have come across a minor problem and don't know if a problem report is in order, reported elsewhere then where i looked, or known issue, but i have noticed it in latest stable versions of both 7.1 and 6.4 (amd64 at least) and not s

Re: FreeBSD 6.4-RC2 available...

2008-11-05 Thread Jo Rhett
On Nov 5, 2008, at 3:29 PM, Jo Rhett wrote: On Nov 3, 2008, at 8:57 AM, Ken Smith wrote: The second Release Candidate for FreeBSD 6.4 is now available. FreeBSD 6.4-RC2 should be the last of the public test builds for the FreeBSD 6.4 release cycle. Unless a big show-stopper is found from t

Re: 6.4 RC1 locks up solid on first reboot

2008-11-05 Thread Jo Rhett
On Oct 27, 2008, at 8:51 AM, John Baldwin wrote: On Friday 24 October 2008 02:48:13 pm Jo Rhett wrote: So I booted up by CD and used Fixit mode to switch the system to boot via serial (keyboard detached), but this gathered me even less. /boot.config: -Dh Consoles: internal video/keyboard seria

Re: FreeBSD 6.4-RC2 available...

2008-11-05 Thread Jo Rhett
On Nov 3, 2008, at 8:57 AM, Ken Smith wrote: The second Release Candidate for FreeBSD 6.4 is now available. FreeBSD 6.4-RC2 should be the last of the public test builds for the FreeBSD 6.4 release cycle. Unless a big show-stopper is found from this round of testing we should begin the 6.4-R

Re: ukbd attachment and root mount

2008-11-05 Thread Andriy Gapon
on 05/11/2008 18:01 Jeremy Chadwick said the following: > On Wed, Nov 05, 2008 at 05:24:03PM +0200, Andriy Gapon wrote: [snip] >> Another (with custom kernel, zfs root): >> Nov 4 17:54:03 odyssey kernel: Trying to mount root from zfs:tank/root >> Nov 4 17:54:03 odyssey kernel: ukbd0: > rev 1.10

Re: Atheros AR5141

2008-11-05 Thread Reinhold
Hi Thanks for showing me that page, I've downloaded the latest drivers and had a look at the devid.h file and pretty much all the other files as well but I can't find any reference to the AR5414 chipset. The closest I've seen was AR5413 and AR5416 but not AR5414. Is there someone that is using th

Re: ukbd attachment and root mount

2008-11-05 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
On Wed, Nov 05, 2008 at 05:24:03PM +0200, Andriy Gapon wrote: > System is FreeBSD 7.1-BETA2 amd64. > > Looking through my dmesg I see that relative order of ukbd attachment > and root mounting is not deterministic. Sometime keyboard is attached > first, sometimes root filesystem is mounted first.

Using r/o root with amd(8)-mounted file systems

2008-11-05 Thread David Wolfskill
In networks that I control and which are "sufficiently small" while having enough resources to make it practical -- such as at home -- I like to do a few things to split up the workload and make the "common case" (of merely quietly doing their jobs) easier for the bulk of the machines ... at the ex

ukbd attachment and root mount

2008-11-05 Thread Andriy Gapon
System is FreeBSD 7.1-BETA2 amd64. Looking through my dmesg I see that relative order of ukbd attachment and root mounting is not deterministic. Sometime keyboard is attached first, sometimes root filesystem is mounted first. Quite more often root is mounted first, though. Example (with GENERIC k

ukbd in kernel and in loader.conf: lockup?

2008-11-05 Thread Andriy Gapon
I observe the symptoms that are the same as described here only with 7-BETA2 (amd64): http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-hackers/2006-March/015736.html If ukbd is both in kernel and is loaded via module then kernel boot locks up. I have a custom kernel without USB in it (everything