poor sound quality in 5.3 stable

2005-01-18 Thread Tejas Kokje
Hi folks, I recently installed FreeBSD 5.3 stable. I got my sound blaster live 5.1 sound card working with FreeBSD by adding device sound device emu10k1 in the kernel configuration file. However the quality of sound produced is of poor quality (not very clear) as compared to that produced under Lin

Re: poor sound quality in 5.3 stable

2005-01-18 Thread Mark Kirkwood
Tejas Kokje wrote: Hi folks, I recently installed FreeBSD 5.3 stable. I got my sound blaster live 5.1 sound card working with FreeBSD by adding device sound device emu10k1 hmmm... the 5.3 handbook has : device "snd_emu10k1" or /boot/loader.conf : snd_emu10k1_load="YES" regards Mark __

Re: 5.3-RELEASE crashes during make buildworld (and other problems)

2005-01-18 Thread Robert Watson
On Mon, 17 Jan 2005, Vivek Khera wrote: > On Jan 13, 2005, at 4:46 AM, Peter Jeremy wrote: > > > That doesn't totally rule out hardware. Pattern-sensitive memory > > problems may not show up on different operating systems (or even > > different kernels). That said, based on the trap informatio

Purpose of CD9660_ROOT

2005-01-18 Thread Peter Jeremy
RELENG_4 documents a config option: options CD9660_ROOT #ISO 9660 Filesystem usable as root but I am unable to find any other reference to this option. I can confirm that CD9660_ROOT is _not_ necessary for 4.10 (at least) boot off a CD-ROM and use it as root. The last referenc

Vinum Raid5 Init question

2005-01-18 Thread David Elsing
I've installed Vinum RAID5 on a 4-disk setup. Since I don't have much experience I installed my plex through the example in the Vinum manual. I used 'setupstate' to put the disks into 'up'-status. Quote from the manual of the 4th example of the chapter "HOW TO SET UP VINUM": "In addition, the volu

Re: remaining FreeBSD 4.11-RC3 bugs

2005-01-18 Thread Matthias Andree
Ken Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Mon, Jan 17, 2005 at 10:28:53AM +0100, Matthias Andree wrote: > >> critical: >> kern/60313 (silent data corruption on block devices) >>still open, may be FreeBSD 4 specific after the GEOM flurry >>in FreeBSD 5 and 6. > > I took a l

strange ucom (uplcom) error

2005-01-18 Thread Emanuel Strobl
Dear experts, I have two USB-RS232 Adaptors, both with PL2303 chipset. One is working the other one not (I hate to say it but both are working under win). The not working (more expensive) one gets recognized as ucom0 and I have ucom0, also I can receive signal but not transmit. When I connect

ruby and portupgrade

2005-01-18 Thread whitevamp
i am trying to do a portupgrade and after it running for 7 hrs and not doing anything it quits with this error message. black-buity# portupgrade -aRrcCv ---> Reading default options: -v -D

Re: ruby and portupgrade

2005-01-18 Thread Kirill Ponomarew
On Tue, Jan 18, 2005 at 03:01:46AM -0800, whitevamp wrote: > i am trying to do a portupgrade and after it running for 7 hrs and not doing > anything it quits with this error message. > > black-buity# portupgrade -aRrcCv >

Re: Vinum Raid5 Init question

2005-01-18 Thread Craig Boston
On Tue, Jan 18, 2005 at 12:21:59PM +0100, David Elsing wrote: > Quote from the manual of the 4th example of the chapter "HOW TO SET UP VINUM": > "In addition, the volume specification includes the keyword > setupstate, which ensures that all plexes are up after creation." > > But a couple of weeks

Re: ruby and portupgrade

2005-01-18 Thread Mark Andrews
> i am trying to do a portupgrade and after it running for 7 hrs and not doing > anything it quits with this error message. > > black-buity# portupgrade -aRrcCv > > ---> Reading default op

Re: strange ucom (uplcom) error

2005-01-18 Thread Andrew L. Neporada
On Tue, Jan 18, 2005 at 01:06:43PM +0100, Emanuel Strobl wrote: > Dear experts, > > I have two USB-RS232 Adaptors, both with PL2303 chipset. One is working the > other one not (I hate to say it but both are working under win). > > The not working (more expensive) one gets recognized as ucom0 and

Building your own FreeBSD installation CD-ROM

2005-01-18 Thread David Landgren
List, (I asked this question last week on -questions but received zero answers. My apologies if this is the second time you are seeing this question). how does one go about creating a FreeBSD install CD-ROM? I'd like to be able to build my own CD-ROM with as much as possible of the install pro

Re: Building your own FreeBSD installation CD-ROM

2005-01-18 Thread Francois Tigeot
On Tue, Jan 18, 2005 at 06:14:52PM +0100, David Landgren wrote: > > how does one go about creating a FreeBSD install CD-ROM? I'd like to be > able to build my own CD-ROM with as much as possible of the install > process done automatically. For instance, what parts of FreeBSD to > install: X or

Re: Building your own FreeBSD installation CD-ROM

2005-01-18 Thread William Denton
On 18 January 2005, David Landgren wrote: : how does one go about creating a FreeBSD install CD-ROM? I'd like to be : able to build my own CD-ROM with as much as possible of the install : process done automatically. The latter question I can't answer, but I made my own generic install CDs for 4.8

Re: poor sound quality in 5.3 stable

2005-01-18 Thread Igor Pokrovsky
On Tue, Jan 18, 2005 at 12:07:03AM -0800, Tejas Kokje wrote: > Hi folks, > > I recently installed FreeBSD 5.3 stable. I got my sound > blaster live 5.1 sound card working with FreeBSD by adding > > device sound > device emu10k1 > > in the kernel configuration file. However the quality of > sound

Re: strange ucom (uplcom) error

2005-01-18 Thread Dave Horsfall
On Tue, 18 Jan 2005, Andrew L. Neporada wrote: > > The not working (more expensive) one gets recognized as ucom0 and I have > > ucom0, also I can receive signal but not transmit. > > > [skip] > > Take a look at http://gate.intercaf.ru/~lesha/6100/ and try patch > http://gate.intercaf.ru/~lesha/

Re: backporting tail from HEAD to RELENG_5

2005-01-18 Thread Kevin Oberman
> Date: Mon, 17 Jan 2005 21:19:05 +0100 (CET) > From: Oliver Fromme <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Sender: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Xin LI <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Thu, Jan 13, 2005 at 01:01:44PM -0600, Doug Poland wrote: > > > Cool, I currently get this functionality from misc/xtail. xtail was on

Re: strange ucom (uplcom) error

2005-01-18 Thread Emanuel Strobl
Am Dienstag, 18. Januar 2005 16:17 schrieb Andrew L. Neporada: > On Tue, Jan 18, 2005 at 01:06:43PM +0100, Emanuel Strobl wrote: > > Dear experts, > > > > I have two USB-RS232 Adaptors, both with PL2303 chipset. One is working > > the other one not (I hate to say it but both are working under win).

Fatal trap 12 on 5.3-Stable system

2005-01-18 Thread Kevin Oberman
On the command: ping6 -m -s 1460 node I get a panic with the following (hand transcribed): Fatal trap 12: page fault while in kernel mode fault virtual address = 0x4 fault code = supervisor read, page not present inruction pointer = 0x8:0xc052dc52 stack pointer = 0x10

make -jN test

2005-01-18 Thread pete wright
(warning long post) Hi all, A recent thread on a I subscribe to in regard to the usefullness of using the -j flag on a make world led me to run a test over the weekend just to see it's effectiveness. This is the section of the handbook that started it all for me: (from: http://www.freebsd.org

Re: poor sound quality in 5.3 stable

2005-01-18 Thread Olivier Certner
Hi, Do you mean that the sound seems unclear all the time? I've also had some problems with sound on my FreeBSD 5.3-STABLE, but a different kind of. Sometimes I hear crakings while playing mp3 files with XMMS, although my computer's load is very low. I use "snd_emu10k1" sound module as you

Possible Problem w/4.10-stable And SMBFS?

2005-01-18 Thread Tim Daneliuk
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I am seeing a number of intermittent problems with SMBFS-mounted partitions and am wondering if these are know FBSD problems or problems with the Win32 servers: 1) After running for a very long time (weeks), SMBFS-connected directories ~ become very s

Re: poor sound quality in 5.3 stable

2005-01-18 Thread Ronald Klop
On Wed, 19 Jan 2005 00:03:20 +0100, Olivier Certner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hi, Do you mean that the sound seems unclear all the time? I've also had some problems with sound on my FreeBSD 5.3-STABLE, but a different kind of. Sometimes I hear crakings while playing mp3 files with XMMS, alth

Re: Possible Problem w/4.10-stable And SMBFS?

2005-01-18 Thread Ronald Klop
On Tue, 18 Jan 2005 17:16:57 -0600, Tim Daneliuk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I am seeing a number of intermittent problems with SMBFS-mounted partitions and am wondering if these are know FBSD problems or problems with the Win32 servers: 1) After r

Re: Vinum Raid5 Init question

2005-01-18 Thread Greg 'groggy' Lehey
On Tuesday, 18 January 2005 at 8:33:03 -0600, Craig Boston wrote: > On Tue, Jan 18, 2005 at 12:21:59PM +0100, David Elsing wrote: >> Quote from the manual of the 4th example of the chapter "HOW TO SET UP >> VINUM": >> "In addition, the volume specification includes the keyword >> setupstate, whic

Re: CFLAGS=-O2 -pipe problems in RELENG_5 ?

2005-01-18 Thread Chris
I have been compiling ports using -O2 since I started using FreeBSD back in 2003 and only port that has had issues with this is lang/ezm3 in FreeBSD 5.2.1 it needed -O. Chris On Tue, 18 Jan 2005 08:46:24 +0100, Matthias Buelow <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Mike Tancsa wrote: > > At 05:48 PM 17/01

User's cron job creates zombie process on 5.3

2005-01-18 Thread Rob Lahaye
Hi, As a regular user, I have a cron job; 'crontab -l' says: - SHELL=/bin/sh MAILTO="" # run at bootup and then every 5 minutes @reboot $HOME/bin/ssh_tunnel */5 * * * * $HOME/bin/ssh_tunnel - The ssh_tunnel is an sh

Re: Vinum Raid5 Init question

2005-01-18 Thread Craig Boston
On Wed, Jan 19, 2005 at 09:55:25AM +1030, Greg 'groggy' Lehey wrote: > Yes, it could be clearer. Put in a PR. I'm more than willing to submit a patch if it will help, but will it do any good this late in the release cycle? Especially if there will be no 4.12 release. > > Also, if a good disk ge

Re: CFLAGS=-O2 -pipe problems in RELENG_5 ?

2005-01-18 Thread Kris Kennaway
On Tue, Jan 18, 2005 at 11:30:19PM +, Chris wrote: > I have been compiling ports using -O2 since I started using FreeBSD > back in 2003 and only port that has had issues with this is lang/ezm3 > in FreeBSD 5.2.1 it needed -O. Do yourself a favour and use -O2 -fno-strict-alias instead, because

User's cron job creates zombie process on 5.3

2005-01-18 Thread Rob
Hi, As a regular user, I have a cron job; 'crontab -l' says: - SHELL=/bin/sh MAILTO="" # run at bootup and then every 5 minutes @reboot $HOME/bin/ssh_tunnel */5 * * * * $HOME/bin/ssh_tunnel - The ssh_tunnel is an sh

FreeBSD 5.3-STABLE kernel panic at boot-time

2005-01-18 Thread Admin @ InterCorner
Hi there! I have gladly installed FreeBSD5 on my laptop to be free from M$ !! :D And soon I will install it on my worksation aswell. Here is (In my eyes) an unusual bootup error. When I start my laptop everything is fine untill I have to choose how I want to boot FreeBSD. As a first try I choosed

Re: CFLAGS=-O2 -pipe problems in RELENG_5 ?

2005-01-18 Thread Kirk Strauser
On Tuesday 18 January 2005 01:46 am, Matthias Buelow wrote: > Then I'd leave it at that. The difference between gcc -O2 and -O is > marginal at best. Sometimes. I recently switched to -O2 -fno-strict-alias on my small Alpha machine and got an increase of well over 100% in the OpenSSL benchmark

Re: twa breakage on AMD64 with 9.1.5.23wareversionand2005-01-1103:00:49 UTC RELENG_5 commit

2005-01-18 Thread Michael Meltzer
straight boot, no patches or extra debug. -mjm Copyright (c) 1979, 1980, 1983, 1986, 1988, 1989, 1991, 1992, 1993, 1994 The Regents of the University of California. All rights reserved. FreeBSD 5.3-STABLE #14: Thu Jan 13 23:55:20 EST 2005 [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/usr/src/sys/amd64/compile/web7

Re: twa breakage on AMD64 with 9.1.5.23wareversionand2005-01-1103:00:49 UTC RELENG_5 commit

2005-01-18 Thread Michael Meltzer
boot with twa_r5.diff patch and options TWA_DEBUG=10 -mjm Copyright (c) 1992-2005 The FreeBSD Project. Copyright (c) 1979, 1980, 1983, 1986, 1988, 1989, 1991, 1992, 1993, 1994 The Regents of the University of California. All rights reserved. FreeBSD 5.3-STABLE #15: Tue Jan 18 23:58:45 EST 2

Re: twa breakage on AMD64 with 9.1.5.23wareversionand2005-01-1103:00:49 UTC RELENG_5 commit

2005-01-18 Thread Michael Meltzer
using twa_patch1.diff: needed to add "int error" to twa_alloc_req_pkts -mjm Copyright (c) 1992-2005 The FreeBSD Project. Copyright (c) 1979, 1980, 1983, 1986, 1988, 1989, 1991, 1992, 1993, 1994 The Regents of the University of California. All rights reserved. FreeBSD 5.3-STABLE #16: Wed Jan

Trials and tribulations on mirroring....

2005-01-18 Thread Karl Denninger
Hi folks; I've been running 4.x quite happily for some time, and am trying to set up a box with 5.3 that hopefully will end up being a viable platform to move over to. Tried on both 5.3-RELEASE and 5.3-STABLE (built this evening) Having some problems here... First, I discovered that vinum isn't

Re: twa breakage on AMD64 with 9.1.5.23wareversionand2005-01-1103:00:49 UTC RELENG_5 commit

2005-01-18 Thread Michael Meltzer
twa_patch2.diff, had to add the "int error; in twa_alloc_req_pkts -mjm Copyright (c) 1992-2005 The FreeBSD Project. Copyright (c) 1979, 1980, 1983, 1986, 1988, 1989, 1991, 1992, 1993, 1994 The Regents of the University of California. All rights reserved. FreeBSD 5.3-STABLE #17: Wed Jan 19 0

Re: Trials and tribulations on mirroring....

2005-01-18 Thread Michael C. Shultz
On Tuesday 18 January 2005 09:46 pm, Karl Denninger wrote: > Hi folks; > > I've been running 4.x quite happily for some time, and am trying to > set up a box with 5.3 that hopefully will end up being a viable > platform to move over to. > > Tried on both 5.3-RELEASE and 5.3-STABLE (built this eveni

Re: Trials and tribulations on mirroring....

2005-01-18 Thread Jon Noack
On 01/18/05 23:46, Karl Denninger wrote: So, my next attempt (with a new, fresh load) was to give gmirror a shot instead, since I only need Raid 1, and this looks like a "better" option from that perspective given gvinum's squirrely and not-all-there status at the moment. We.. the manual p

panic: Assertion besttd != NULL failed at ../../../kern/subr_sleepqueue.c:676

2005-01-18 Thread Dan Nelson
Got this while running a Java proxy server under libthr: FreeBSD dan.emsphone.com 5.3-STABLE FreeBSD 5.3-STABLE #387: Thu Jan 13 14:43:03 CST 2005 [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/usr/src/sys/i386/compile/DANSMP i386 panic: Assertion besttd != NULL failed at ../../../kern/subr_sleepqueue.c:676 cpuid = 1

Re: User's cron job creates zombie process on 5.3

2005-01-18 Thread Peter Jeremy
On Wed, 2005-Jan-19 09:16:59 +0900, Rob Lahaye wrote: > tunnel="-L 55110:localhost:110 pop3.univ.net" > tunnel_up=`pgrep -f -- "${tunnel}"` > [ "${tunnel_up}" = "" ] && /usr/bin/ssh -N -f ${tunnel} >It works beautifully, but why does this also generate one zombie process: > USER PID %CPU %MEM

Re: User's cron job creates zombie process on 5.3

2005-01-18 Thread Rob
Peter Jeremy wrote: On Wed, 2005-Jan-19 09:16:59 +0900, Rob Lahaye wrote: tunnel="-L 55110:localhost:110 pop3.univ.net" tunnel_up=`pgrep -f -- "${tunnel}"` [ "${tunnel_up}" = "" ] && /usr/bin/ssh -N -f ${tunnel} It works beautifully, but why does this also generate one zombie process: USER PID %C

Re: Trials and tribulations on mirroring....

2005-01-18 Thread Karl Denninger
Thanks that should do the trick (and explains why it fails) -- -- Karl Denninger ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) Internet Consultant & Kids Rights Activist http://www.denninger.netMy home on the net - links to everything I do! http://scubaforum.org Your UNCENSORED place to talk abou

Re: User's cron job creates zombie process on 5.3

2005-01-18 Thread Raymond Wiker
Peter Jeremy writes: > On Wed, 2005-Jan-19 09:16:59 +0900, Rob Lahaye wrote: > > tunnel="-L 55110:localhost:110 pop3.univ.net" > > tunnel_up=`pgrep -f -- "${tunnel}"` > > [ "${tunnel_up}" = "" ] && /usr/bin/ssh -N -f ${tunnel} > > >It works beautifully, but why does this also generate one