compile ports and base using both cores
Hi, Installing ports or upgrading the base system only uses around 50% cpu utilization (measured with the top utility) on my dual core machine. Is there some way I can get higher cpu usage? /usr/src/UPDATING says don't use make -j. I tried installing openoffice.org-2 with make -j 2 but it failed at some stage saying it couldn't find a directory. It works not using -j. I'm using 7.0-BETA1.5 i386 on an AMD 64 system. Thanks Chris ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
Re: portupgrade questions
Warren Block wrote: On Mon, 5 Nov 2007, Donovan R. Palmer wrote: A total noob here with FreeBSD, but am liking it so far. I went to run portupgrade for the first time and encountered quite a few problems. I have googled around and found some of my answers, but it's been slow going. For example: cairo# portupgrade -aF The thing you should be doing first is checking /usr/ports/UPDATING. Major things can change, and portupgrade may not be able to handle them without help. You could try portmanager, it seems to handle most things so it's great for lazy people (like me :) Port: portmanager-0.4.1_9 Path: /usr/ports/ports-mgmt/portmanager Chris ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
Re: compile ports and base using both cores
Chris Whitehouse wrote: Hi, Installing ports or upgrading the base system only uses around 50% cpu utilization (measured with the top utility) on my dual core machine. Is there some way I can get higher cpu usage? /usr/src/UPDATING says don't use make -j. I tried installing openoffice.org-2 with make -j 2 but it failed at some stage saying it couldn't find a directory. It works not using -j. I'm using 7.0-BETA1.5 i386 on an AMD 64 system. Thanks Chris Hi again, I was wondering if anyone could give me some ideas about this. Btw I confess the subject line is not quite right, I think both cores are being used but cpu is only around 50% - or it is being measured so that it looks like 50% but is really more. If I make buildworld and compile a port at the same time then cpu usage really does go up to 100% While building world, repeatedly doing top -d 1 | grep -e make -e cc; echo # to make a blank line between outputs: 18067 root 1 80 4960K 3792K wait 1 0:00 5.64% make 18100 root 1 970 14628K 12780K CPU1 0 0:00 0.00% cc1 1318 root 1 80 1888K 816K wait 0 0:00 0.00% make 18067 root 1 80 4960K 3792K wait 1 0:00 5.64% make 18100 root 1 1000 21820K 20172K CPU1 0 0:00 0.00% cc1 1318 root 1 80 1888K 816K wait 0 0:00 0.00% make 18067 root 1 80 4960K 3792K wait 1 0:00 5.13% make 18100 root 1 1000 24916K 23220K CPU1 0 0:01 0.00% cc1 1318 root 1 80 1888K 816K wait 0 0:00 0.00% make 18100 root 1 1030 26972K 24880K CPU1 0 0:01 82.00% cc1 18067 root 1 80 4960K 3792K wait 1 0:00 3.50% make 1318 root 1 80 1888K 816K wait 0 0:00 0.00% make 18100 root 1 1070 29036K 26944K CPU1 0 0:02 82.00% cc1 18067 root 1 80 4960K 3792K wait 1 0:00 3.50% make 1318 root 1 80 1888K 816K wait 0 0:00 0.00% make 18100 root 1 1050 32156K 29996K CPU1 0 0:02 177.00% cc1 18067 root 1 80 4960K 3792K wait 1 0:00 2.42% make 1318 root 1 80 1888K 816K wait 0 0:00 0.00% make 18067 root 1 80 4960K 3816K wait 0 0:00 2.42% make 18116 root 1 980 20796K 19084K CPU1 0 0:00 0.00% cc1 1318 root 1 80 1888K 816K wait 0 0:00 0.00% make 18067 root 1 80 4960K 3816K wait 0 0:00 2.42% make 18116 root 1 1010 22852K 21388K CPU1 0 0:01 0.00% cc1 1318 root 1 80 1888K 816K wait 0 0:00 0.00% make 18116 root 1 1020 25924K 24224K CPU0 1 0:01 80.00% cc1 18067 root 1 80 4960K 3816K wait 0 0:00 1.76% make 1318 root 1 80 1888K 816K wait 0 0:00 0.00% make 18116 root 1 1050 29028K 27096K CPU1 1 0:01 80.00% cc1 18067 root 1 80 4960K 3816K wait 0 0:00 1.76% make 1318 root 1 80 1888K 816K wait 0 0:00 0.00% make 18116 root 1 1080 31076K 29740K CPU1 0 0:02 80.00% cc1 18067 root 1 80 4960K 3816K wait 0 0:00 1.76% make 1318 root 1 80 1888K 816K wait 0 0:00 0.00% make 18116 root 1 1070 34172K 33204K CPU0 1 0:02 91.74% cc1 18067 root 1 80 4960K 3816K wait 0 0:00 1.32% make 1318 root 1 80 1888K 816K wait 0 0:00 0.00% make 18116 root 1 1100 37308K 36064K CPU1 0 0:02 91.74% cc1 18067 root 1 80 4960K 3816K wait 0 0:00 1.32% make 1318 root 1 80 1888K 816K wait 0 0:00 0.00% make 18067 root 1 80 4960K 3832K wait 0 0:00 0.99% make 18134 root 1 960 14644K 12904K CPU0 1 0:00 0.00% cc1 1318 root 1 80 1888K 816K wait 0 0:00 0.00% make 18067 root 1 80 4960K 3832K wait 0 0:00 0.99% make 18134 root 1 990 19772K 18476K CPU1 1 0:00 0.00% cc1 1318 root 1 80 1888K 816K wait 0 0:00 0.00% make 18067 root 1 80 4960K 3852K wait 1 0:00 0.99% make 1318 root 1 80 1888K 816K wait 0 0:00 0.00% make 14892 root 1 80 1888K 832K wait 0 0:00 0.00% make 18067 root 1 80 4960K 3852K wait 1 0:00 0.74% make 18142 root 1 980 18740K 16796K CPU1 1 0:00 0.00% cc1 1318 root 1 80 1888K 816K wait 0 0:00 0.00% make 18067 root 1 80 4960K 3852K wait 1 0:00 0.74% make 18142 root 1 1010 20796K 19624K CPU1 1 0:01 0.00% cc1 1318 root 1 80 1888K 816K wait 0 0:00 0.00% make thanks Chris ___ freebsd-questions@free
Re: copying DVD material :: somewhat OT.
Predrag Punosevac wrote: My Dear Friend, You will have to wait for a very long time then since all of the above except Flash (which Adobe does release for Linux but not for FreeBSD) works flawlessly on FreeBSD including watching YouTube (just use youtube-dl to snap the video and play with VLC). There are even alternative solutions for the Flash unless you want to play video games full of Flash! I tried youtube-dl but every url I tried gave youtube-dl: No match. eg %youtube-dl http://youtube.com/watch?v=gpIM3nBR2ZA youtube-dl: No match. I even installed the latest version. Do only certain videos work? Do you have an example that works? Thanks and apologies for hijacking your thread. Chris ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
Re: copying DVD material :: somewhat OT.
Chris Whitehouse wrote: Predrag Punosevac wrote: My Dear Friend, You will have to wait for a very long time then since all of the above except Flash (which Adobe does release for Linux but not for FreeBSD) works flawlessly on FreeBSD including watching YouTube (just use youtube-dl to snap the video and play with VLC). There are even alternative solutions for the Flash unless you want to play video games full of Flash! I tried youtube-dl but every url I tried gave youtube-dl: No match. eg %youtube-dl http://youtube.com/watch?v=gpIM3nBR2ZA youtube-dl: No match. I even installed the latest version. Do only certain videos work? Do you have an example that works? Thanks and apologies for hijacking your thread. Chris ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" %youtube-dl "http://youtube.com/watch?v=gpIM3nBR2ZA"; Retrieving video webpage... done. needs quotes... Chris ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
Re: copying DVD material :: somewhat OT.
Erik Trulsson wrote: On Sun, Dec 09, 2007 at 11:57:18PM +, Chris Whitehouse wrote: Predrag Punosevac wrote: My Dear Friend, You will have to wait for a very long time then since all of the above except Flash (which Adobe does release for Linux but not for FreeBSD) works flawlessly on FreeBSD including watching YouTube (just use youtube-dl to snap the video and play with VLC). There are even alternative solutions for the Flash unless you want to play video games full of Flash! I tried youtube-dl but every url I tried gave youtube-dl: No match. eg %youtube-dl http://youtube.com/watch?v=gpIM3nBR2ZA youtube-dl: No match. To get that example to work try: youtube-dl 'http://youtube.com/watch?v=gpIM3nBR2ZA' instead. The quote marks are important, because otherwise the shell will try to interpret the "?" in the URL as a wildcard and try to do wildcard expansion as if it was a filename. It is the shell (not youtube-dl) which gives the error message, when it cannot find any file that matches. This is nothing specific to youtube-dl. It is just the way most shells under Unix work. If you do not want the shell to try to interpret any 'funny' characters in an argument to the command you need to enclose the argument in quote marks. Yes that works, thanks everyone Chris ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
Re: copying DVD material :: somewhat OT.
Predrag Punosevac wrote: Any video posted on Youtube will work for youtube-dl . It will snap the file in .flv format which can be player only with VLC and MPlayer. Nothing else. Clive is capable of snapping videos from Google video as well and has an additional capabilities to converting .flv files to more friendly video formats like .MPG So what do you think? That I can not watch YouTube because I use FreeBSD? Funny... /me laughs But seriously yes I have to confess that in certain respects I do have that expectation of FreeBSD. It's not about what it can do it's about what people want to make it do. If I don't have ability/time/impetus to make it do something I accept it and I am very grateful for the solutions posted here. Sorry, really OT. Chris ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
Re: Mounting Western Digital USB drive?
Patrick Baldwin wrote: Trix Farrar wrote: On Tue, Dec 11, 2007 at 06:03:03PM -0500, Patrick Baldwin wrote: Hi, I'm trying to mount a 160 GB Western Digital USB 2.0 drive on a FreeBSD 6.2 system. This seemed like it should be relatively simple, but: mountmsdosfs(): disk too big, sorry mountmsdosfs(): disk too big, sorry I don't know how it is now but there used to be an upper limit on FAT32 filesystem size in FreeBSD, 128gb I believe. You could get round it by recompiling your kernel with MSDOSFS_LARGE but there were some limitations on it's use. I'm sure google would find further info. Chris ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
Re: Mounting Western Digital USB drive?
Patrick Baldwin wrote: Tsetsbold Narantungalag wrote: Hi, have you tried this before: #mount_msdosfs /dev/da0s1 /mnt/usb I hadn't initially, but I have now: # mount_msdosfs /dev/da0s1 /mnt/usbdrive mount_msdosfs: /dev/da0s1: Invalid argument And dmesg: umass0: Western Digital External HDD, rev 2.00/1.04, addr 2 da0 at umass-sim0 bus 0 target 0 lun 0 da0: Fixed Direct Access SCSI-4 device da0: 40.000MB/s transfers da0: 152627MB (312581808 512 byte sectors: 255H 63S/T 19457C) mountmsdosfs(): disk too big, sorry mountmsdosfs(): disk too big, sorry mountmsdosfs(): disk too big, sorry ...which seems to suggest the drive is to big for mount_msdosfs to work. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" Did you see my reply the other day? I don't know how it is now but there used to be an upper limit on FAT32 filesystem size in FreeBSD, 128gb I believe. You could get round it by recompiling your kernel with MSDOSFS_LARGE but there were some limitations on it's use. I'm sure google would find further info. Chris ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
cdrtools versions and hal
Hi, I recently removed sysutils/cdrtools and installed cdrtools-devel instead because cdrecord in cdrtools doesn't have prodvd included and cdrtools-devel does (helped by a recent post from the author pointing out that cdrecord from cdrtools is quite old). Anyway, I just csupped my ports and ran portmanager -s which told me that cdrtools-2.01_6 is missing and hal-0.5.8.20070909 is built with OLD dependency: cdrtools-2.01_6. Can I make cdrtools-devel to be the dependency of hal so that it will get rebuilt with it and make the cdrtools missing message disappear? Will I break things if I do? I realise that I can tell portmanager to ignore cdrtools but that doesn't seem like the proper solution. Thanks Chris ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
Re: "Invalid address" running apps using wine-1.1.8,1
Eduardo Cerejo wrote: Hi, I'm getting an "Invalid address" error trying to run Windows apps under WINE. "wineconsole cmd" works OK though, and so does winefile. The error seems to only occur with apps that aren't supplied with WINE, eg. C:\Program Files\Winamp>winamp.exe wine: could not load L"C:\\Program Files\\Winamp\\winamp.exe": Invalid address $ uname -a FreeBSD blizzard.phoenix 6.3-RELEASE-p5 FreeBSD 6.3-RELEASE-p5 #0: Wed Oct 1 05:34:19 UTC 2008 [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GENERIC i386 $ pkg_info | grep wine wine-1.1.8,1Microsoft Windows compatibility layer for Unix-like systems Any ideas? Regards Andrew I'm getting the same error after portupgrading wine. I haven't found anything on it yet! ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" Same. I reverted to wine-1.1.2,1 and firefox 2 works again. Chris ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
Re: Date/time installed ports have been updated on a system?
Robert Huff wrote: RW writes: > Is there any way to determine when upgrades to installed ports have > been done on a system? I did a "portupgrade -arR" recently and want to > know which ports have been upgraded in that process (and no I didn't > run that portupgrade under "script"...) pkg_glob(1) can show package installed before or after either a time or a particular port. One can also send the output to a file, and grep your chosen ports or use "tail -f". I do not recommend doing this with "portupgrade -a" unless you know the list will be fairly short. (Imagine rebuilding OpenOffice, KDE, Java, FireFox, ) For future upgrades, portmanager (ports-mgmt/portmanager) will log if you tell it to, alternatively you can make it tell you what ports need updating and why, without actually upgrading anything. chris ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
Re: configuring X on the Presario with the 8200M driver
Jules Gilbert wrote: now i got up (by doing the startx as root,) but i dont' have a working mouse. when I am in screen mode (normal, -- with no X.) when I move the mouse, I can see the 'arrow' pointer move just fine. So... If you are running hald you probably need option "AutoAddDevices""off" option "AllowEmptyInput" "off" in the ServerFlags section in xorg.conf Or you can configure hal to recognise them - there are various threads in the archives i believe. Chris ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
lacie external hard drive supported?
Hi all Does anyone have experience of a LaCie Hard Disk, Design by Neil Poulton eSATA, FireWire 400 & Hi-Speed USB 2.0 1TB ? http://www.lacie.com/uk/products/product.htm?pid=11064 Are all the interfaces supported? The data sheet says it is supported under Linux. Does that mean it is safe to assume it is under FreeBSD? Thanks Chris ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
Re: lacie external hard drive supported?
Bill Campbell wrote: On Sun, Sep 27, 2009, Dan Nelson wrote: In the last episode (Sep 26), Chris Whitehouse said: Hi all Does anyone have experience of a LaCie Hard Disk, Design by Neil Poulton eSATA, FireWire 400 & Hi-Speed USB 2.0 1TB ? http://www.lacie.com/uk/products/product.htm?pid=11064 Are all the interfaces supported? The data sheet says it is supported under Linux. Does that mean it is safe to assume it is under FreeBSD? In general, you can assume that any SATA/SAS/firewire/usb hard drive will be supported. The only thing that might not be supported is RAID array management for the more expensive external units (you'll still be able to acess the data though). The LaCie drives typically come with utilities to make them painless to use in a Mac OS X environment, but these can be removed easily of one doesn't want to use them on OS X. We are using a 1TB LaCie quadra on Macs, and use the commercial iPartition software which allows one to manipulate the boot information to switch between PPC Mac and Intel as well as to make a wide variety of partitions (even including Xenix if I remember correctly :-). I haven't tried these with FreeBSD, but it appears that it would allow moving the drive between Macs and FreeBSD machines. I must say that I was impressed with the ability of iPartition and the commercial Mac SuperDuper backup program which allowed me to change the boot on the 1TB drive from booting on a PPC Mac to boot on an Intel without losing any data, and to resize existing partitions pretty painlessly as well. I use the word partition above in the Linux sense, which are generally referred to as slices in FreeBSD-land. Bill Thanks very much for replies guys, sounds like it is safe to buy Chris ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
Re: dump_snapshot file
Warren Block wrote: On Wed, 7 Oct 2009, Philip Jocks wrote: BTW: is everyone else getting messages from the list twice, once with the list's signature, once without? Normal procedure on the FreeBSD mailing lists is to respond to the message and CC the list (or vice versa) so replies are visible to everyone. If your mail setup allows it, mail/procmail can weed out duplicates and sort mail into folders. -Warren Block * Rapid City, South Dakota USA There is a setting in your mailing list config eg http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/options/freebsd-questions/y...@email.address which I think sets this. It's called Avoid duplicate copies of messages: When you are listed explicitly in the To: or Cc: headers of a list message, you can opt to not receive another copy from the mailing list. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
incorrect info in mysql docs
hi, I just noticed this at http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.1/en/automatic-start.html On FreeBSD, startup scripts generally should go in /usr/local/etc/rc.d/. The rc(8) manual page states that scripts in this directory are executed only if their basename matches the *.sh shell file name pattern. Any other files or directories present within the directory are silently ignored. In other words, on FreeBSD, you should install the mysql.server script as /usr/local/etc/rc.d/mysql.server.sh to enable automatic startup. That's not actually right is it? My mysql is started by /usr/local/etc/rc.d/mysql-server. rc(8) says *.sh is for older style startup scripts or for scripts that are to be read into the current shell. Chris ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
Re: configuring X on the Presario with the 8200M driver
Henry Olyer wrote: I need more information to make this work. help, please. And thank you! On Sat, Sep 26, 2009 at 8:27 AM, Chris Whitehouse wrote: Jules Gilbert wrote: now i got up (by doing the startx as root,) but i dont' have a working mouse. when I am in screen mode (normal, -- with no X.) when I move the mouse, I can see the 'arrow' pointer move just fine. So... If you are running hald you probably need option "AutoAddDevices""off" option "AllowEmptyInput" "off" in the ServerFlags section in xorg.conf Or you can configure hal to recognise them - there are various threads in the archives i believe. Chris ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to " freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org" I got it all from the handbook and the mailing list archives. http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/getmsg.cgi?fetch=106398+109934+/usr/local/www/db/text/2009/freebsd-questions/20091011.freebsd-questions http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/x-config.html Chris ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
Re: can't make www/linux-f10-flashplugin10
Jamie Griffin wrote: On Mon 26.Oct'09 at 13:17:56 +0300, Boris Samorodov wrote: The port www/linux-f10-flashplugin needs linux -f10- ports. The latter are defaults for FreeBSD-8.x and later. You can use them at 7.2 (7.2-STABLE is preferred). For more unformation take a look at /usr/ports/UPDATING "20090401: AFFECTS: users of linux Fedora 8 infrastructure ports" (it deals with non default f8 ports, f10 are the same with "f10" value). HTH Please, keep in mind that those ports are not defaults for 7.x. Hi, thanks for the reply. I worked out what was causing the problem in the end. (incidentally, i already had made sure the linux-f10-base was installed.) I had stupidly left whitespace after the = sign in the file: /etc/sysctl.conf: OVERRIDE_LINUX_BASE_PORT =f10 OVERRIDE_LINUX_NONBASE_PORT =f10 correcting that did the trick and its all working great. Thanks again, though. Jamie Just in case someone looks here and not in UPDATING referred above, they go in /etc/make.conf but you probably meant that :) Chris ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org" ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
[freebsd-questions] in subject line
Hi Some mailing lists I am on automatically insert the mailing list name in square brackets into the subject line. I find this quite useful for setting up filters in thunderbird to drop different lists into different 'folders' I couldn't see anything in my freebsd questions list account settings to add that behaviour. Is it possible somehow? Or is it seen as undesirable? Thanks Chris ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
Re: [freebsd-questions] in subject line
Chuck Swiger wrote: Hi, Chris-- On Oct 26, 2009, at 3:43 PM, Chris Whitehouse wrote: Some mailing lists I am on automatically insert the mailing list name in square brackets into the subject line. I find this quite useful for setting up filters in thunderbird to drop different lists into different 'folders' I couldn't see anything in my freebsd questions list account settings to add that behaviour. Is it possible somehow? Or is it seen as undesirable? It's a per-list option in Mailman, not a per-user option. In order to filter list mail, you can key off of the List-Id: header instead Regards, Thanks, List-Id sounds good. Chris ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
x11/lxpanel build fails - wrong linux base?
Hi I am trying to build x11/lxde-meta in a 8.0RC2 tinderbox. lxpanel fails because it depends on linux-alsa-lib. linux-alsa-lib fails because eco# make ===> linux-alsa-lib-1.0.10.3_2 bsd.linux-rpm.mk test failed: default package building at OSVERSION>=800076 was changed to linux-f10 ports, please define OVERRIDE_LINUX_NONBASE_PORTS to build other linux infrastructure ports. *** Error code 1 [the above is make in /usr/ports/audio/linux-alsa-lib. Ports and source for the host are exactly the same as the tinderbox.] I have WITHOUT_ALSA=true in lxpanel's options and I have even changed the line in lxpanel/Makefile: eco# diff Makefile Makefile.original 31c31 < WITH_ALSA=off --- WITH_ALSA=yes so how do I stop lxpanel calling linux-alsa-lib? Alternatively can I make it use linux-f10-alsa-lib by changing the Makefile to point to linux-f10-alsa-lib? thanks Chris ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
Re: x11/lxpanel build fails - wrong linux base?
Polytropon wrote: On Sun, 08 Nov 2009 22:41:19 +, Chris Whitehouse wrote: I have WITHOUT_ALSA=true in lxpanel's options and I have even changed the line in lxpanel/Makefile: eco# diff Makefile Makefile.original 31c31 < WITH_ALSA=off --- WITH_ALSA=yes Maybe that's the reason. The symbol WITH_ALSA is defined. It does not matter with which value it is defined, so even WITH_ALSA=I_DONT_WANT_ALSA would be equivalent to WITH_ALSA=yes; try removing the whole line in order to not define the symbol. You're right of course and I should have known, thanks for the memory jogger. In fact I changed the line to WITHOUT_ALSA=true as per the lxpanel options file (I guess the 'true' can be any value :) Chris ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
Re: Default cannot install 8.0 rc2 in mobo P5QL-EM Hello, I am trying to install FreeBSD 8.0 rc2 on mobo ASUS P5QL-EM, but under the boot of the install dvd I get this run_interrupt_driven_hooks: sti
vuthecuong wrote: Hello, I am trying to install FreeBSD 8.0 rc2 on mobo ASUS P5QL-EM, but under the boot of the install dvd I get this run_interrupt_driven_hooks: still waiting after 60 seconds for xpt_config and then 120, 180 etc. Anyone know whats wrong? thanks http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=136327 Chris ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
Re: device hint -> disable firewire or sbp driver
Tim Judd wrote: Any way via tunables, environment, sysctl or device hints that one can disable firewire on the install medium of recent (7.2 and newer) Install CD/DVDs? more than one person is having problems with kernel panics on startup due to firewire, and I can't google my way out of this one. Any advice from the pros? ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org" Tim, I've got one of the affected motherboards if this is the problem you mean: http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=136327 The things that have worked for me are disabling firewire in the BIOS and using a GENERIC kernel or building a kernel with device sbp disabled and having firewire enabled in the BIOS. hint.sbp.0.disabled="1" in /boot/device.hints with GENERIC kernel - still get a panic sbp_load="YES" in /boot/loader.conf with sbp disabled in the kernel - get panic. It seems ok to kldload sbp after the system is up, ie the machine doesn't panic, but I don't have anything firewire to test with. Would it be an option to have sbp disabled by default in the install CD's? Those without the problem can put sbp_load in loader.conf, those with the problem will have to kldload it later but at least they will be able to install. FreeBSD eco.config 8.0-RC2 FreeBSD 8.0-RC2 #1: Thu Oct 29 14:04:02 GMT 2009 r...@eco.config:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GENERIC_NO_SBP i386 Chris ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
Re: device hint -> disable firewire or sbp driver
David Horn wrote: Would it be an option to have sbp disabled by default in the install CD's? Those without the problem can put sbp_load in loader.conf, those with the problem will have to kldload it later but at least they will be able to install. As per svn and cvs: r199112 | kensmith | 2009-11-09 16:39:42 -0500 (Mon, 09 Nov 2009) | 11 lines Changed paths: M /stable/8/sys/amd64/conf/GENERIC M /stable/8/sys/i386/conf/GENERIC M /stable/8/sys/ia64/conf/GENERIC M /stable/8/sys/powerpc/conf/GENERIC M /stable/8/sys/sparc64/conf/GENERIC Comment out the sbp(4) entry for GENERIC config files that contain it. There are known issues with this driver that are beyond what can be fixed for 8.0-RELEASE and the bugs can cause boot failure on some systems. It's not clear if it impacts all systems and there is interest in getting the problem fixed so for now just comment it out instead of remove it. Commit straight to stable/8, this is an 8.0-RELEASE issue. Head was left alone so work on it can continue there. Reviewed by:Primary misc. architecture maintainers (marcel, marius) Looks like sbp(4) is disabled on the 8.0 branch already. --Dave That's good to hear, thanks for the info Chris ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
Re: ifconfig - GUI interface available?
Warren Block wrote: As far as GUI goes, there's good news and bad news. The good news is that a couple GUI network managers are around: sysutils/desktopbsd-tools includes a wireless network configurator according to its pkg-descr, haven't used myself though. Chris ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
Re: Gnome desktop for 5 y/o
Polytropon wrote: On Tue, 08 Dec 2009 20:24:36 +0100, ocean wrote: also for the old computer i would recommend xfce or, since you say they only need a few programs, you could go with just Xorg + feh for the background + xfwm or openbox + a light taskbar and a nice dock-bar (wbar or simdock) were you will only put the applications they need to run. An alternative would be IcecWM: Easily configurable menu, good window managing, no bloat. But I can second XFCE, too. Maybe you want to run XFCE 3 which has some look & feel of CDE, is easily configurable and very fast. (I use it on a 300 MHz P2 with similar requirements as you mentioned, but without any "Flash"). There's a nice dock-like application for X which is used by the FreeSBIE live system CD. I've got no FreeSBIE at hand, nor can I remember the application's name, but I think this would be interesting to you, too. icewm is a nice lightweight wm (which I use) but with your hardware you might want to look at http://freebsd-custom.wikidot.com/ it's an xfce4 based installation dvd which includes many precompiled package. There are notes for installing flash. Chris ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
Re: 8.0 installation doesn't contain X distributions
Manolis Kiagias wrote:
Polytropon wrote:
On Thu, 10 Dec 2009 19:47:08 +1100 (EST), Ian Smith
wrote:
But the naive or new installer knows of no such thing, and
could beat around in the huge lists of X software for ages, wondering
what's required and what's not to get a desktop going.
Therefore, I always liked the choice for X in sysinstall: It
basically installed all the components to get X up and running.
No big trouble getting the correct xorg-driver-* packages,
installing and removing them, the xorg-input-* packages with
the same story...
There is an X.org meta-package that installs everything though. It is
just a problem with the beginner not knowing what to select. This can be
tackled in two ways IMO, first is by creating a "First time FreeBSD
desktop installer" type article, second would be adding a menu choice in
sysinstall "Install a standard X desktop {GNOME,KDE}". I must admit I
much prefer the first solution.
Agree with most of the above except I think an X option and a separate
desktop option in sysinstall is better - not everyone who wants X also
wants gnome or kde. Oh wait that's how it used to be :)
The problem with an article is how to view it during an install and how
to know it is even there.
Chris
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Re: question about xorg 7.4
d...@safeport.com wrote: On Thu, 17 Dec 2009, Pieter de Goeje wrote: Xorg defaults to a black screen instead of a checkerboard pattern these days. You can revert to the old style with -retro flag to X .If things are working you should see the old style screen with an X mouse pointer (if enabled) Not trying to rtfm but http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en/books/handbook/x-config.html Chris ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
graphics card/monitor question
Hi all, My motherboard has onboard nvidia GeForce 8300 graphics rated up to 1920x1080 (1080p). It has VGA, DVI and HDMI outputs. Are there any issues using a 1920x1080 monitor with HDMI like LG electronics W2361V? Eg would this mode need special drivers? Or should it all just work? http://uk.asus.com/product.aspx?P_ID=amYCbidk7vhOQLWp http://www.lge.com/uk/it-products/monitors/LG-lcd-monitor-W2361V.jsp I'm using FreeBSD 8 i386 with x11/nvidia-driver Thanks very much for any comments and I hope you all had an enjoyable christmas. Chris ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
Re: clicky driver
Gary Kline wrote: On Fri, 25 Dec 2009 13:37:13 -0800, Gary Kline wrote: at first I'm lookings for a "cots" (commericial, off-the-shelf) solution. The XO has stereo speakers and so do the notebooks. I am thinking of the 'PC speaker'; something that would sound for around a 25th/second, very low and with at least some loudness control. Hi Gary, someone posted recently about the play-string language for /dev/speaker, see speaker(4). Could you do something with that? btw thanks to whoever posted the play-string code for frere jaques - cracked me up :) Chris ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
Re: Boot from FD and DR-DOS prompt comes up while installing FreeBSD?
Warren Block wrote: On Sat, 2 Jan 2010, Paul Shi wrote: I am working my way t setup a FTP server on FreeBSD however I got stuck at the very first stage - installation of FreeBSD 8.0. I downloaded FreeBSD 8.0-RELEASE-i386-dvd1.iso from FreeBSD.org and burned it with NERO to a DVD-RW disc. After that, I insert the DVD disc and boot from CDROM as I have chose the CDROM to be first one in boot order. However, system starts booting from FD, invokes some Caldera DR-DOS and goes to command prompt [DR-DOS] A:\> I am totally confused and cannot find any answer in FreeBSD handbook. I will greatly appreciate your help if anyone of you has experience with this weird problem. Thank you very much and Happy New Year! Nero seems to have "helped" you by making a bootable CD with a copy of the FreeBSD ISO file on it. The A: disk is actually a simulated floppy on the CD. That's not going to work. Make a new CD. Back in Windows, you might be able to right-click the original ISO file and get a "Burn a CD" option. Otherwise, you'll have to run the program and tell it to make the ISO into a CD, not make a CD with the ISO on it as a file. -Warren Block * Rapid City, South Dakota USA In Nero version 6 it's Recorder / Burn Image and just before you click Burn you have to select whether you are writing a CD or a DVD. Chris ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
Re: Support for Asus MicroATX Boards
Uwe Laverenz wrote: Am 08.01.2010 16:43, schrieb Anselm Strauss: chips. I can't find real evidence on the supported hardware list whether the following chipsets are really working with FreeBSD 8.0 or not. Maybe I have an Asus "M4A785TD-M EVO" running with RELENG_8 and it works fine. There is/was a race condition in FreeBSD 7.2/8.0 that forces you to switch off the firewire device in the BIOS: http://www.mail-archive.com/freebsd-questions@freebsd.org/msg221493.html Uwe 8.0 generic kernel now has the offending driver sbp commented out so you can install without disabling firewire in the BIOS. You can manually kldload sbp once the system is up but not in loader.conf (at least for me). Chris ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
Re: How to uninstall a flash port.
Al Plant wrote: Eduardo Cerejo wrote: I installed the Linux flash9 port on a new 7.0 box to work with SeaMonkey and it dies when it reaches flash using sites. How can I de-install this port with out causing problems to other programs? I cant find it in the handbook how to's. Im I missing something? Thanks... by the way you can use linux-flash7 instead and if you are using the native FreeBSD firefox and not linux-firefox you have to install and use nspluginwrapper or else it will not work, your second alternative is gnash which works natively with firefox. To use nspluginwrapper you would have to run this after the install. nspluginwrapper -i /usr/local/lib/npapi/linux-flashplugin/libflashplayer.so remember for the linux plugins to embed on the native firefox they need some kind of wrapper. Flashplugin9 will not work with native firefox or linux-firefox and I think it's because the linux emulator uses an old version of linux so we have to wait until it changes to a more current version. Sorry not a response to the OP but hopefully useful correction: %uname -sr FreeBSD 7.0-STABLE %pkg_info -Ix firefox firefox-2.0.0.12_1,1 Web browser based on the browser portion of Mozilla %pkg_info -Ix plugin linux-flashplugin-9.0r115 Adobe Flash Player NPAPI Plugin nspluginwrapper-0.9.91.5 A compatibility plugin for Netscape 4 (NPAPI) plugins ... I don't actually see a lot of flash as I have flashblock installed but I can't recall having probs when I have chosen to view it, except it still doesn't work with youtube. I've just installed wine and win32 firefox+flashplugin for youtube and bbc iplayer and that works fine. Chris ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
Re: How to uninstall a flash port.
Eduardo Cerejo wrote: On Sat, 22 Mar 2008 21:03:18 + Chris Whitehouse <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Al Plant wrote: Eduardo Cerejo wrote: I installed the Linux flash9 port on a new 7.0 box to work with SeaMonkey and it dies when it reaches flash using sites. How can I de-install this port with out causing problems to other programs? I cant find it in the handbook how to's. Im I missing something? Thanks... by the way you can use linux-flash7 instead and if you are using the native FreeBSD firefox and not linux-firefox you have to install and use nspluginwrapper or else it will not work, your second alternative is gnash which works natively with firefox. To use nspluginwrapper you would have to run this after the install. nspluginwrapper -i /usr/local/lib/npapi/linux-flashplugin/libflashplayer.so remember for the linux plugins to embed on the native firefox they need some kind of wrapper. Flashplugin9 will not work with native firefox or linux-firefox and I think it's because the linux emulator uses an old version of linux so we have to wait until it changes to a more current version. Sorry not a response to the OP but hopefully useful correction: %uname -sr FreeBSD 7.0-STABLE %pkg_info -Ix firefox firefox-2.0.0.12_1,1 Web browser based on the browser portion of Mozilla %pkg_info -Ix plugin linux-flashplugin-9.0r115 Adobe Flash Player NPAPI Plugin nspluginwrapper-0.9.91.5 A compatibility plugin for Netscape 4 (NPAPI) plugins ... I don't actually see a lot of flash as I have flashblock installed but I can't recall having probs when I have chosen to view it, except it still doesn't work with youtube. I've just installed wine and win32 firefox+flashplugin for youtube and bbc iplayer and that works fine. Are you trying to tell me that you got flash 9 working? I sure would like to know how to get it working without crashing. Yes though like I say I also use flashblock so I only see the flash I want to. I'm moving house at the moment so I can't try and recreate my steps to install it but it was something like: install firefox, linux-flashplugin9, nspluginwrapper from ports locate libflashplayer.so run nspluginwrapper I'll try running without flashblock for a while and see what happens. Chris ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
Re: How to uninstall a flash port.
Eduardo Cerejo wrote: I installed the Linux flash9 port on a new 7.0 box to work with SeaMonkey and it dies when it reaches flash using sites. How can I de-install this port with out causing problems to other programs? I cant find it in the handbook how to's. Im I missing something? Thanks... by the way you can use linux-flash7 instead and if you are using the native FreeBSD firefox and not linux-firefox you have to install and use nspluginwrapper or else it will not work, your second alternative is gnash which works natively with firefox. To use nspluginwrapper you would have to run this after the install. nspluginwrapper -i /usr/local/lib/npapi/linux-flashplugin/libflashplayer.so remember for the linux plugins to embed on the native firefox they need some kind of wrapper. Flashplugin9 will not work with native firefox or linux-firefox and I think it's because the linux emulator uses an old version of linux so we have to wait until it changes to a more current version. Sorry not a response to the OP but hopefully useful correction: %uname -sr FreeBSD 7.0-STABLE %pkg_info -Ix firefox firefox-2.0.0.12_1,1 Web browser based on the browser portion of Mozilla %pkg_info -Ix plugin linux-flashplugin-9.0r115 Adobe Flash Player NPAPI Plugin nspluginwrapper-0.9.91.5 A compatibility plugin for Netscape 4 (NPAPI) plugins ... I don't actually see a lot of flash as I have flashblock installed but I can't recall having probs when I have chosen to view it, except it still doesn't work with youtube. I've just installed wine and win32 firefox+flashplugin for youtube and bbc iplayer and that works fine. Are you trying to tell me that you got flash 9 working? I sure would like to know how to get it working without crashing. Yes though like I say I also use flashblock so I only see the flash I want to. I'm moving house at the moment so I can't try and recreate my steps to install it but it was something like: install firefox, linux-flashplugin9, nspluginwrapper from ports locate libflashplayer.so run nspluginwrapper I'll try running without flashblock for a while and see what happens. Chris What linux emulator are you running? Sorry i've packed my computer :( but it is whatever comes as standard in 7.0R or ports upgraded very soon afterwards. Chris ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
Re: pkg_cutleaves - a bit too efficient
Nikolaj Thygesen wrote: Hi list, In order to tighten up my fbsd installation I decided to try out pkg_cutleaves. I wasn't really too worried, as I figured I could always run portupgrade if I removed one package too many - and so I did it appears. Portupgrade doesn't bring anything back though. I've tried running pkgdb with a number of different parameters including -L and -F, but nothing really does me any good. What can I do to make ports/packages realize I'm in need of a few more packages?? The particular symptom isn't too bad though. The background of my Gnome desktop doesn't respond to mouse clicks, and my wallpaper is gone, but still... Try portmanager. Install portmanager from ports and run portmanager -s > somefile to see what is missing, portmanager -u to repair it. There are some other switches in the man page. Of course if you removed something that nothing else depends on then even portmanager won't repair it :) Chris br - Nikolaj ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
Re: overnight upgrade interrupted by questions
Mel wrote:
On Tuesday 15 April 2008 15:26:42 Edward Ruggeri wrote:
A lot of people would reply that they'd like to configure the ports
themselves before launching the installation, leading people to
suggest scripts such as:
#!/bin/sh
plist=`pkg_version -ovl'<' |awk '{ print $1 }'`
for porg in $plist ; do
cd /usr/ports/${porg} && make config-recursive
done
Sorry to disappoint you, but that wont work for two reasons:
1) make config-recursive is flawed by design, because it makes a dependency
list based on current settings and if you alter dependencies during your
recursive configuring, it will not update the list.
2) If you hit an interactive configure (not config, configure) target, then
you will still end up with a dialog. Prime example: print/ghostscript-gpl.
If you wanted to script the first case, you'd do the following in every origin
that needs updating:
#!/bin/sh
VISITED=
config_port() {
local ldeps rdeps bdeps
ldeps=`make -V LIB_DEPENDS`
rdeps=`make -V RUN_DEPENDS`
bdeps=`make -V BUILD_DEPENDS`
make config-conditional
for dep in ${ldeps} ${rdeps} ${bdeps}; do
dir=${dep##*:}
case ${VISITED} in
*" ${dir}"*)
;;
*)
echo "---> $dir"
VISITED="${VISITED} ${dir}"
cd ${dir}
config_port
esac
done
}
config_port
This process has always worked for me upgrading a fairly standard
desktop machine:
Get a list of status of installed ports
portmanager -s > somelist
Extract list of category/port needing updating, with vi, whatever
Do something like [sorry not exact syntax as I don't have access to a
freebsd machine]:
foreach i (`cat portlist`)
foreach? cd /usr/ports/$i && make config
foreach? end
I've never installed print/ghostscript-gpl so I don't know if my method
would break with it, but I do have to obviously treat java/jdk15 specially.
Chris
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Re: overnight upgrade interrupted by questions
Mel wrote:
On Tuesday 15 April 2008 22:10:41 Chris Whitehouse wrote:
Do something like [sorry not exact syntax as I don't have access to a
freebsd machine]:
foreach i (`cat portlist`)
foreach? cd /usr/ports/$i && make config
You should 'make config-conditional' to save yourself some work. make config
always shows you the dialogue, while config-conditional checks to see if the
variablenames have changed and if not, just moves on using what you already
have in /var/db/ports.
That's very useful thank you
Chris
These are the ports that will bite you:
# find /usr/ports -name 'configure' -path '*/scripts/*' \
-exec grep -l '/usr/bin/dialog' {} +
/usr/ports/emulators/vmware3/scripts/configure
/usr/ports/japanese/typist/scripts/configure
/usr/ports/misc/sonytv/scripts/configure
/usr/ports/print/apsfilter/scripts/configure
/usr/ports/print/ghostscript-gnu/scripts/configure
/usr/ports/print/ghostscript-gpl/scripts/configure
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where is FreeBSD on ftp.uk.freebsd.org?
I normally use this server (aka ftp.plig.net) but it doesn't seem to be mirroring FreeBSD anymore. Is it coming back? Also UK is not in the list of countries at http://mirrorlist.freebsd.org/FBSDsites.php. thanks Chris ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
Re: Unix command-line tools to edit SharePoint site?
Kelly Jones wrote: I begrudgingly use a Windows SharePoint server at a customer's request. I'd like to automate (command-line) updating and creating documents, lists, etc. Is there a Unix tool that does this? I know SharePoint has an "API", which basically spoofs the GET/POST calls that your browser would make(?). Has anyone written a Unix command-line tool (or Perl module, etc) that abstracts this? No virus found in this incoming message. Checked by AVG. Version: 8.0.100 / Virus Database: 269.24.1/1463 - Release Date: 5/23/2008 3:36 PM Is this what you want? http://unxutils.sourceforge.net/ Chris ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
Re: Unix command-line tools to edit SharePoint site?
Kurt Buff wrote: On Sat, May 24, 2008 at 3:35 PM, Chris Whitehouse <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Kelly Jones wrote: I begrudgingly use a Windows SharePoint server at a customer's request. I'd like to automate (command-line) updating and creating documents, lists, etc. Is there a Unix tool that does this? I know SharePoint has an "API", which basically spoofs the GET/POST calls that your browser would make(?). Has anyone written a Unix command-line tool (or Perl module, etc) that abstracts this? Is this what you want? http://unxutils.sourceforge.net/ Chris If you want to use some/many/most of the core utils on Windows, you'll be much better off with http://gnuwin32.sourceforge.net unxutils seems pretty moribund, and I have not been successful downloading the updates from that site for a while. Kurt I'll have a look at these, thanks for the suggestion. I have to say though the unxutils commands that I have used work perfectly well despite their age, don't require cygwin and don't do silly registry things on windows. I need this as I'm using them on a work computer which I am not allowed to install software on :P Chris No virus found in this incoming message. Checked by AVG. Version: 8.0.100 / Virus Database: 269.24.1/1469 - Release Date: 5/27/2008 1:25 PM ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
pkg_create v make package
Hi What's the difference between packages made by these two methods? Eg I have youtube_dl installed. From within the youtube_dl port directory # make package-recursive resulted in -rw-r--r-- 1 root wheel 8389 29 May 21:14 /usr/ports/packages/All/youtube_dl-2008.04.20.tbz whereas from within my home directory % pkg_create -Rb youtube_dl-2008.04.20 resulted in -rw-r--r-- 1 chrisw chrisw 8281 29 May 21:22 youtube_dl-2008.04.20.tbz similarly there is a size difference for the one or two dependency packages I checked that were created at the same time. make package in the ports directory insists on compiling and installing the port and seems to do a lot of other things like registering dependencies and creating symlinks in /usr/ports/packages/ whereas pkg_create just creates the package tarball (and dependencies). I would prefer to use pkg_create to avoid recompiling everything but I would like to know that installing a pkg_create package with pkg_add will properly install all the dependencies as well. Thanks Chris ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
Re: Unix command-line tools to edit SharePoint site?
Kurt Buff wrote: On Wed, May 28, 2008 at 4:01 PM, Chris Whitehouse <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Kurt Buff wrote: On Sat, May 24, 2008 at 3:35 PM, Chris Whitehouse <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: http://unxutils.sourceforge.net/ Chris If you want to use some/many/most of the core utils on Windows, you'll be much better off with http://gnuwin32.sourceforge.net unxutils seems pretty moribund, and I have not been successful downloading the updates from that site for a while. Kurt I'll have a look at these, thanks for the suggestion. I have to say though the unxutils commands that I have used work perfectly well despite their age, don't require cygwin and don't do silly registry things on windows. I need this as I'm using them on a work computer which I am not allowed to install software on :P Chris The unxutils work well, but the gnuwin32 stuff is a bit more current, and more complete. They don't require any registry fiddling nor extra DLLs, either, just like the unxutils stuff. I stick them in a directory, and set my path up with that. Works well for me, anyway. HTH, Kurt Cool! I will definitely check these out, thanks. (Sorry list, OT) Chris ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
Re: Best solution - mobile wifi hotspot
Jim Stapleton wrote: My dad makes instruments and goes to a lot of festivals. They are typically in the middle of nowhere, without internet. Many vendors still bring notebooks as they provide quick & easy access to many things, but there is no internet. For credit cards, many use their cell phones to make the transaction. My dad wants to get a satellite connection (pure sattelite, no phone), and set up something to offer a wireless hotspot. - Some shows will just pay a flat fee, and have the hotspot open. - Some shows won't pay a fee, and so he'll want to charge to recover some of the cost. For the open hotspots, a simple wireless router will do. For the charge hotspots, we'd want something a little more flexible. My first thought was 'FreeBSD can do that!'. The trick is that we will be using battery power most of the time. Low power is the key. I'm thinknig sub-20W max power drain worst case, SUB 10-15W is ideal. With that background info, my questions are: 1) Is building a low power computer based on FreeBSD the right way to go? Or would you all recommend something else? What? 2) Does anyone have experience with the GeodeNX or VIA C7 boards available on NewEgg? Heads ups and pointers? 3) Does anyone have experiences with these and a given wireless adaptor, How good/bad is/was it? Thanks, -Jim Stapleton ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" This particular wheel has already been invented several ways :) http://psand.net/ https://en.wiki.aktivix.org/SquatTelecoms To keep power down you probably want to opt for a dedicated wireless router box not a computer (unless you are also saving bandwidth with squid etc). And to generate electricity use wind or solar. Chris ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
Re: pkg_create v make package
Giorgos Keramidas wrote: On Thu, 29 May 2008 22:06:22 +0100, Chris Whitehouse <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hi What's the difference between packages made by these two methods? Eg I have youtube_dl installed. From within the youtube_dl port directory # make package-recursive resulted in -rw-r--r-- 1 root wheel 8389 29 May 21:14 /usr/ports/packages/All/youtube_dl-2008.04.20.tbz whereas from within my home directory % pkg_create -Rb youtube_dl-2008.04.20 resulted in -rw-r--r-- 1 chrisw chrisw 8281 29 May 21:22 youtube_dl-2008.04.20.tbz Packages are just 'tarballs with extra stuff'. You can extract the two tarballs and use `diff -r' to see where they differ :) Of course you can, thank you. Sometimes fear of magic stops me seeing obvious things. Chris ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
Re: logo
Well I think it's a space hopper http://images.google.co.uk/images?q=space%20hopper&ie=UTF-8&oe=utf-8&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official&client=firefox-a&um=1&sa=N&tab=wi (and Mary is not my aunt) Chris Beastie fan Camilo Reyes wrote: It was started by a question posted about wanting help for a certain project. See below. Camilo "Bono Vince Malum" Message: 4 Date: Mon, 2 Jun 2008 19:44:35 -0300 From: Gonzalo Nemmi Subject: Re: logo To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" On Monday 02 June 2008 18:48:56 Frank Shute wrote: On Mon, Jun 02, 2008 at 06:57:00PM +, Pollywog wrote: On Monday 02 June 2008 15:58:55 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I agree completely, it's what got me over to BSD ! I am a little confused. I just see a sphere with "horns" on it that reminds me of the BSD daemon's head, only made to look less "demonic". Is it supposed to be something else? It's the FreeBSD equivalent of the Rorschach inkblot test. Some people see a daemon's head and other's see a sex toy. If it is one of those "toys" is that what FreeBSD folks really want to project as an image? The image is only in the beholder's eye. It would likely have sent Mary Whitehouse* apoplectic if she'd seen it ;) * http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mary_Whitehouse Regards, May I ask where was it that this thread started? I'd pretty much like to get the whole picture of what is being discussed .. I did dig the list archives but couldn't find the first mail of this thread .. So .. any pointers will be greatly appreciated Thanks =) -- Blessings Gonzalo Nemmi Message: 30 Date: Tue, 3 Jun 2008 01:03:40 -0700 From: "Ted Mittelstaedt" Subject: RE: Looking for gurus willing to help write Freebsd tutorials To: "Pollywog" , Message-ID: Content-Type: text/plain;charset="iso-8859-1" -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Pollywog Sent: Monday, June 02, 2008 11:57 AM To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Looking for gurus willing to help write Freebsd tutorials On Monday 02 June 2008 15:58:55 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I agree completely, it's what got me over to BSD ! I am a little confused. I just see a sphere with "horns" on it that reminds me of the BSD daemon's head, only made to look less "demonic". Is it supposed to be something else? No, that is what it's supposed to be. The sex toy issue is that you saw the sphere with horns AFTER you saw Beastie. So you had a frame of reference, and naturally assume it's Beastie's head. The problem is, think about people who have NEVER seen Beastie before seeing the sex toy logo for the first time. Since they have no frame of reference they can easily assume that it means anything at all. Such as the business end of a French tickler, which it kind of resembles. When those of us in the know call it a sex toy, we are making a little inside joke, as we are basically saying the logo design is terrible because it does not indicate to anyone looking at it what it is supposed to represent. The Linux penguin is no different - someone seeing a Penguin isn't going to know it has to do with an operating system, either. Many corporate logos also suffer from the same problem. The difference between the corporate logos and Linux and us, is that those organizations have the marketing muscle to take their rediculous logo designs and pound them into the public conciousness through endless advertising. See a blue oval? Most people think "Ford" Not because a blue oval has anything to do with cars. It's because Ford has dumped trillions of dollars in advertising over the years pounding that association into the public mind. The designer of the FreeBSD logo approached it from the usual corporate arrogance of we can create anything we want, then just pay money for the association. The only problem is that the FreeBSD project has no money to spend to create this association. As a result the logo completely fails in it's job. Arguably, there is also no public association between Beastie and the FreeBSD operating system either, so in the long run we aren't any worse off than we were. (aside from the arrogant setting aside of 20 some years of BSD Unix history) Ted -- ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" End of freebsd-questions Digest, Vol 218, Issue 5 * ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/fr
Re: Best solution - mobile wifi hotspot
Jim Stapleton wrote: On Fri, May 30, 2008 at 1:52 PM, Chris Whitehouse <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Jim Stapleton wrote: My dad makes instruments and goes to a lot of festivals. They are typically in the middle of nowhere, without internet. Many vendors still bring notebooks as they provide quick & easy access to many things, but there is no internet. For credit cards, many use their cell phones to make the transaction. My dad wants to get a satellite connection (pure sattelite, no phone), and set up something to offer a wireless hotspot. - Some shows will just pay a flat fee, and have the hotspot open. - Some shows won't pay a fee, and so he'll want to charge to recover some of the cost. For the open hotspots, a simple wireless router will do. For the charge hotspots, we'd want something a little more flexible. My first thought was 'FreeBSD can do that!'. The trick is that we will be using battery power most of the time. Low power is the key. I'm thinknig sub-20W max power drain worst case, SUB 10-15W is ideal. With that background info, my questions are: 1) Is building a low power computer based on FreeBSD the right way to go? Or would you all recommend something else? What? 2) Does anyone have experience with the GeodeNX or VIA C7 boards available on NewEgg? Heads ups and pointers? 3) Does anyone have experiences with these and a given wireless adaptor, How good/bad is/was it? Thanks, -Jim Stapleton ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" This particular wheel has already been invented several ways :) http://psand.net/ https://en.wiki.aktivix.org/SquatTelecoms Well, my dad wants to provide something for cheaper than hiring a third-party vendor to come out into the middle of nowhere and do this (amongst other things, since he's out there, he doesn't have to use hundreds of miles of gas + extra man hours). I think it is worth contacting psands to see if they will help with info, or you could go to a festival they are at and talk to them. As for the second, that seems to be 'how to get an ISP', which he already has researched, he is more looking to /be/ the ISP. plus a bunch more about technology... To keep power down you probably want to opt for a dedicated wireless router box not a computer (unless you are also saving bandwidth with squid etc). And to generate electricity use wind or solar. Do you know of a wireless router that can provide individual user authentication, without requiring a complex setup? Some places may not want to pay for the internet connection, so he'll need to 'rent out' connection bandwidth to other vendors. Sorry I don't know a specific model. I'm sure you already know it just means search engines and reading detailed specs. Out of curiosity what country are you in and what sort of festivals will you be providing the service at? I believe psands support events where they like what they are doing in addition to their commercial services. This is getting a bit OT so email me off list if you like. Chris Thanks, -Jim Stapleton ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
losing directory entries?
Hi, does anyone know what is going on here? this is an external usb 250gb hard disk mounted on /mnt using ntfs-3g. The hard disk is less than a year old and not heavily used. I've only just started using it as an external drive, it was installed in a computer until then. %mount /dev/ad4s1a on / (ufs, local) devfs on /dev (devfs, local) /dev/ad4s1e on /tmp (ufs, local, soft-updates) /dev/ad4s1f on /usr (ufs, local, soft-updates) /dev/ad4s1d on /var (ufs, local, soft-updates) /dev/fuse1 on /mnt (fusefs, local, synchronous) %pwd /mnt/Documents and Settings/Administrator %ls Application dataLocal Settings My Documents %ls .. Administrator %ls . Application dataLocal Settings My Documents %pwd /mnt/Documents and Settings/Administrator %du -sh . 5.2G. %pwd /mnt/Documents and Settings/Administrator %find . > ~/anyold.textfile find: .: No such file or directory %pwd pwd: .: No such file or directory %ls ls: .: No such file or directory The actions leading up to this are quite random, usually using find and du do the trick immediately but not always, and one time just doing pwd and ls a couple of times did it. If I cd to /mnt then everything appears again. %uname -a FreeBSD eco 7.0-STABLE FreeBSD 7.0-STABLE #4: Tue May 27 14:44:58 BST 2008 [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GENERIC i386 %kldstat Id Refs AddressSize Name 1 16 0xc040 94181c kernel 21 0xc0d42000 14324snd_hda.ko 32 0xc0d57000 4a5ccsound.ko 41 0xc0da2000 80dc6c nvidia.ko 52 0xc15b 28678linux.ko 61 0xc15d9000 4d20 atapicam.ko 71 0xc15de000 6a2c4acpi.ko 81 0xc4bb e000 fuse.ko %pkg_info -Ix ntfs fusefs-ntfs-1.2506 Mount NTFS partitions (read/write) and disk images ntfsprogs-1.13.1_5 Utilities and library to manipulate NTFS partitions % I did a recent chkdsk in windows on the disk and it did some repairs - cross-linked files I think. I have a log of what it found. Thanks Chris ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
Re: Flashplugin
Jerry McAllister wrote: On Sun, Jun 08, 2008 at 03:01:36AM -0300, sergio lenzi wrote: Well... Here I am in a project of notebooks for schools machines with 13" 120gb of disk turion 64... All of them running FreeBSD 7.0 it is about 7000 notebooks in the first year... With a total of 35000 notebooks in 3 years... and counting... may be a total of 100,000 notebooks in 5 years... Sounds like you should also install the BSD Stats utility on those machines so they will report their existence to the stats. It would significantly update the numbers. jerry What is the project? An article about it would be great for FreeBSD news... Chris Because of special taxes applied in the notebooks, the user must use FreeBSD or Linux. If the user formats the computer and install other non open source OS, the user must pay the taxes difference to the project... a value of about US$200. and will not be able to access the university data. Well.. about the flashplugin... it is a problem... for sure... they work with flashplugin 7 The wireless is a problem too, for that we choose intel or atheros chip... Tell the flashplugin team about... please Sergio ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
where is plig.net
About the first thing I ever learned about FreeBSD was the uk mirror ftp.plig.net and cvsup.plig.net which I think used to be ftp2.uk.freebsd.org. Since then I have always used them as a file source for broadband speed tests. They seem to have disappeared very recently. Does anyone know what happened to them, have they stopped being a mirror? thanks Chris ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
Re: where is plig.net
On 06/02/2012 22:33, Mark Blackman wrote: On 6 Feb 2012, at 21:51, Chris Whitehouse wrote: About the first thing I ever learned about FreeBSD was the uk mirror ftp.plig.net and cvsup.plig.net which I think used to be ftp2.uk.freebsd.org. Since then I have always used them as a file source for broadband speed tests. They seem to have disappeared very recently. Does anyone know what happened to them, have they stopped being a mirror? http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-hubs/2012-January/002442.html Ah thanks for the info. That makes me sad, they've been like a constant companion all those years. They used to call themselves Internet Sunshine :) Chris ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
Re: port to package amd64 to i386
On 05/03/2012 16:53, Matthew Seaman wrote: On 05/03/2012 16:42, Bernt Hansson wrote: Thank you for the pointer. I do find it a bit overkill to setup jails and such, just to build a few ports. I was thinking more along the line of; cd /usr/ports/"random port" make "it for i386 even if we are building it on amd64, ooh by the way build it as a package, and all dependencies as packages as well" About the only way to cross-build ports is to set up a 32-bit jail on a 64-bit host. I believe that is do-able, but I could be delusional. Could you do it in a tinderbox? This thread http://www.marcuscom.com/pipermail/tinderbox-list/2011-June/002177.html discusses it a bit with a possible solution. Things have probably moved on since then which may or may not help. Chris ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
Re: Can't install WindowMaker
On 20/03/2012 04:58, ill...@gmail.com wrote: On 11 March 2012 04:17, Sabine Baer wrote: Sorry if I'm totally wrong here but I don't know where to ask. I'm using WindowMaker as my window manager for some years. I do not remember why, but some days ago, I deinstalled ist. Now, I can't install it. $uname -rp |7.4-STABLE amd64 #portmaster -aD |all up to date (had a long run of updating gcc46 and others this |morning) #portmaster /x11-wm/windomaker |[...] |handlers.c:542: warning: implicit declaration of function 'FD_ISSET' |*** Error code 1 I know I'm going back a ways here but: Unless you have WERROR set, I don't think that warning is the thing giving you "*** Error code 1". Look up a bit (or a lot) higher. Hi, There is a thread on the ports mailing list which may be relevant. Subject "[PATCH] proposal for x11-wm/windowmaker". See below for a bit of it. On 3/19/2012 4:54 PM, Ade Lovett wrote: > > On 3/19/2012 16:15, Doug Barton wrote: >> >> On 3/19/2012 12:59 AM, Arrigo Marchiori wrote: >>> >>> Hello, >>> >>> >>> >>> I am attaching a "quick-and-dirty" patch that should reallow >>> >>> compilation of x11-wm/windowmaker under 7-STABLE. >>> >>> >>> >>> The problem seems to be the missing macro HAVE_SYS_SELECT_H; the patch >>> >>> just forces it in the configure script if a FreeBSD system is >>> >>> detected. >> >> >> >> I'm not opposed to adding that if someone can confirm that it allows >> >> WindowMaker to compile on 7-stable. > > > > Since it's for 7-stable only (apparently), it would be better off > > wrapped in an OSVERSION check to make things abundantly clear as to why > > it's being done. Yes, I was planning to do that, but thanks for the suggestion in any case. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
Re: pcmcia wifi adapter that can be purchased?
On 10/04/2012 18:37, Kendall Shaw wrote: Do you happen to know of a PCMCIA Type II wireless adapter that is currently being sold online that supports WPA under freebsd 9.0? Alternately, a USB 1.0 adapter? I would rather keep the USB ports free for other uses. Linksys WPC54G works with malo driver (check the man page if you get one) and is available on ebay. I haven't had one in regular use but I just did a flood ping on 9.0R i386 and it showed less than 1% packet loss. Chris Kendall ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
Re: pcmcia wifi adapter that can be purchased?
On 10/04/2012 23:47, Kendall Shaw wrote: Chris Whitehouse writes: On 10/04/2012 18:37, Kendall Shaw wrote: Do you happen to know of a PCMCIA Type II wireless adapter that is currently being sold online that supports WPA under freebsd 9.0? Alternately, a USB 1.0 adapter? I would rather keep the USB ports free for other uses. Linksys WPC54G works with malo driver (check the man page if you get one) and is available on ebay. I haven't had one in regular use but I just did a flood ping on 9.0R i386 and it showed less than 1% packet loss. Chris Thanks. Oops... I clicked too soon and bought from Amazon. The bwi/bwn Yes looks a bit more expensive there than ebay. man pages say the version 3 of the adapter is supported. Amazon doesn't say what version. Is the malo driver for newer versions of the adapter? My card is v5 with Marvell Libertas 88W8335 chip. Chris ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
domain required for FreeBSD install and isc dhcp
hi, I've wondered this for ages. When you set up networking as part of installing FreeBSD one of the pieces of information requested is a domain name. Also setting up dhcp.conf one of the fields is domain name. What do you do if you don't have your own domain? I've never supplied a domain name when installing FreeBSD and it doesn't seem to have been a problem. I'm just setting up dhcp for the first time and I don't know if it matters here. thanks Chris ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
Re: domain required for FreeBSD install and isc dhcp
On 20/04/2012 20:56, Chuck Swiger wrote: On Apr 20, 2012, at 12:40 PM, Chris Whitehouse wrote: I've wondered this for ages. When you set up networking as part of installing FreeBSD one of the pieces of information requested is a domain name. Also setting up dhcp.conf one of the fields is domain name. What do you do if you don't have your own domain? There have been a few domains which are permanently reserved and will never be assigned elsewhere: http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc2606.txt You can reasonably claim to be part of your ISP's domain, if you prefer. .lan might be reasonable, or .local, although the latter might conflict with Bonjour/Zeroconf. I've never supplied a domain name when installing FreeBSD and it doesn't seem to have been a problem. I'm just setting up dhcp for the first time and I don't know if it matters here. It's mainly used to setup the default search domain which clients use to find local unqualified hosts. Regards, Thanks Chuck, I went with .lan. cheers Chris ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
Re: help debug bwn(4) wireless
On 06/05/2012 17:31, Ian Smith wrote: Anton, I'm not sure what the state of the art is for multiple network profiles for such as wireless vs wired, home and work etc, but look around. I recall one called just 'profile' from years ago, and more recently talk of 'failover' setups for wired/wireless nets (probably in n...@freebsd.org), but I've no time for hunting tonight. Anyone? Would that be lagg? http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/network-aggregation.html Chris cheers, Ian ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org" ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
Re: Video not view-able
On 08/05/2012 20:09, Carmel wrote: I have been visiting several sites lately in which the video content was not view-able. Example: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/05/05/republicans-get-in-my-vagina-kate-beckinsale_n_1484918.html?ref=fb&src=sp&comm_ref=false There is a video there that displays perfectly in MS Windows in either IE8 or 9 and Firefox. However, under FreeBSD-8.3 with the latest version of Firefox all I get is a black box. No controls to click, etcetera. This sort of thing happens way to frequently on way to many sites. It cannot be a simple "blame Microsoft" thing since these sites work under Firefox when used in MS Windows. Does anyone have a possible solution? Do you have adblock plus installed and enabled? Try disabling it for that page and reloading. Chris ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
Re: ACPI temprature settings [WAS: Re: laptop very hot and noisy]
On 08/05/2012 15:06, Anton Shterenlikht wrote: Anyway, this was easier than I expected. I removed a lot of dust from the fan and the heat sink gills. I also replaced the "thermal material". I prop my mine up off the desk to get better airflow to the fan intake which is on the underside. The fan slows down when I lift it up indicating it is moving more air. I rebuilt gcc47 and saw the highest temperature of 75. This is on the southern side, so not too bad. The noise reduced too. Now, I'd just like to understand better the meaning of these console messages: May 8 15:00:08 mech-aslap239 kernel: acpi_tz0: _AC3: temperature 64.0>= setpoint 40.0 May 8 15:00:08 mech-aslap239 kernel: acpi_tz0: _AC2: temperature 64.0>= setpoint 50.0 May 8 15:00:18 mech-aslap239 kernel: acpi_tz0: _AC3: temperature 64.0>= setpoint 40.0 May 8 15:00:18 mech-aslap239 kernel: acpi_tz0: _AC2: temperature 64.0>= setpoint 50.0 May 8 15:00:28 mech-aslap239 kernel: acpi_tz0: _AC3: temperature 64.0>= setpoint 40.0 May 8 15:00:28 mech-aslap239 kernel: acpi_tz0: _AC2: temperature 64.0>= setpoint 50.0 May 8 15:00:38 mech-aslap239 kernel: acpi_tz0: _AC3: temperature 64.0>= setpoint 40.0 May 8 15:00:38 mech-aslap239 kernel: acpi_tz0: _AC2: temperature 64.0>= setpoint 50.0 May 8 15:00:48 mech-aslap239 kernel: acpi_tz0: _AC3: temperature 65.0>= setpoint 40.0 May 8 15:00:48 mech-aslap239 kernel: acpi_tz0: _AC2: temperature 65.0>= setpoint 50.0 Where are setpoints defined? What's acpi_tz? What are AC1, AC2, AC3? Which kernel tunables are involved in the switching from one fan speed to another (assuming AC1, AC2, AC3 are related to fan speed in some way)? I had a quick look at ⌡aacpi(4), but none of the above are mentioned. Many thanks for all your help. Google for "acpi_tz0: _CRT value is absurd, ignored" and you will find a long thread with some hopefully useful pointers. You may need to bone up on the ACPI reference and custom ASL's for FreeBSD. I've forgotten most of it now but I think you will find references for both of them in that thread. Chris ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
freebsd-update no mirrors?
c400# uname -a FreeBSD c400 9.0-RELEASE FreeBSD 9.0-RELEASE #0: Tue Jan 3 07:15:25 UTC 2012 r...@obrian.cse.buffalo.edu:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GENERIC i386 Following the handbook: c400# freebsd-update -r 9-STABLE upgrade Looking up update.FreeBSD.org mirrors... 4 mirrors found. Fetching metadata signature for 9.0-RELEASE from update4.FreeBSD.org... done. Fetching metadata index... done. Inspecting system... done. The following components of FreeBSD seem to be installed: kernel/generic src/src world/base world/doc world/games The following components of FreeBSD do not seem to be installed: Does this look reasonable (y/n)? y Fetching metadata signature for 9-STABLE from update4.FreeBSD.org... failed. Fetching metadata signature for 9-STABLE from update2.FreeBSD.org... failed. Fetching metadata signature for 9-STABLE from update5.FreeBSD.org... failed. Fetching metadata signature for 9-STABLE from update3.FreeBSD.org... failed. No mirrors remaining, giving up. In case I had got the CVS tag wrong I also tried 9.0-STABLE with the same results. I haven't changed freebsd-update.conf Am I doing something wrong? This is the first time I've used freebsd-update, except that just now I apparently successfully did freebsd-update fetch and freebsd-update install on this machine. Thanks Chris ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
Re: freebsd-update no mirrors?
On 03/06/2012 13:00, RW wrote: On Sun, 03 Jun 2012 12:47:47 +0100 Chris Whitehouse wrote: c400# uname -a FreeBSD c400 9.0-RELEASE FreeBSD 9.0-RELEASE #0: Tue Jan 3 07:15:25 UTC 2012 r...@obrian.cse.buffalo.edu:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GENERIC i386 Following the handbook: c400# freebsd-update -r 9-STABLE upgrade ... Am I doing something wrong? freebsd-update only works on release security branches - not development branches. Ah my mistake, thanks. It's a rather old slow laptop and I don't want to stress it by building world/kernel, I guess that means it stays on RELEASE. thanks Chris ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
Re: note
On 12/06/2012 04:53, Polytropon wrote: On Mon, 11 Jun 2012 21:36:00 -0600, Arlen McIntyre wrote: How can I get FreeBSD on my other partition and have a dual OS system without the boot installation? Qustion part one: Prepare a USB stick with the FreeBSD "memstick edition". You'll find instructions on how to do that on the FreeBSD website, as well as the installation media. Preparation: Make sure you have _free_ disk space. This means: Do not create any DOS partitions, just leave it "empty" and let the installer perform the required tasks of partitioning and formatting. If you have XP on the other partition you will need to install FreeBSD using the "old style" MBR partitioning scheme. See http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/bsdinstall-pre.html You might want to consider sticking with FreeBSD 8.3 which I think only supports MPR partitioning. FreeBSD 9.0 supports both MBR and the newer GPT scheme so you would have to work out how to choose during the installation. http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/install-pre.html Chris ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
Re: how to protect my system from third party apps crashes
Sorry sent to OP only... On 21/04/2011 11:21, Michael wrote: Hello. I'm having stability issues on my desktop system running FreeBSD 8.2-R on amd64. It happens quite often that some application (say web browser) goes nuts and totally locks-up my system. When it happens it looks like the application is frozen but I can't kill it. WCPU usage goes up rapidly and after a while system doesn't respond to anything than brutal hard reset. I guess it's not the system itself to blame, but it would be good if it could handle misbehaving programs. What I'm looking for is some kind of protection from system lock ups. I don't mind when the browser hangs, but I don't want it to kill my whole system. Any suggestions, hints, ideas please? I am aware that it's a workaround to the problem instead of a real solution, but that's what is needed. Michael ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org" I find sometimes viewing flash video with firefox causes the machine to appear to hang. In fact killing all instances of npviewer.bin frees everything up again. I usually have an xterm open just in case. Don't have a problem with other apps so this might not be the solution for you. My firefox is 3.6.10, flashplayer is linux-f10-flashplugin-10.1r85 and I'm on 8.1R x86 Chris ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
Re: Hardware suggestions
On 26/04/2011 18:45, Jaime Kikpole wrote: On Tue, Apr 26, 2011 at 12:34 PM, Chris Brennan wrote: Just out of curiosity, why not rack-mounted boxed? Space issues. They'll have to either fit on a shelf in one of two rooms, depending on the outcome of some other things. Any thoughts on brand or model? Thanks, Jaime hi If you google for "low power pc" you'll find some interesting machines mostly mini-itx with atom processors. EG you could have a look at http://www.fit-pc.com/web/fit-pc2/fit-pc2i-specifications/ and http://www.lowpowerpcs.co.uk/ I think some of these have been discussed on this list, certainly mini-itx boards have. chris ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
Re: A possibly odd upgrade question
On 04/05/2011 20:53, Chris Brennan wrote: On Wed, May 4, 2011 at 2:26 PM, Jerry wrote: Chris, when I have had to do major rebuilds, I have found "portmanager" to be the best tool. It just seems to work. In any case, if it were me, I would clean out the /usr/ports/distfiles directory, update your ports tree, and then update you OS. When you are finished with that fun chore, run; "portmanager -u -l -y -f". Depending on the number of ports installed, it might take some time though. Obviously, you need portmanager installed first. By the way, if you know you need a distfile installed first, something like diablo-jdk or diablo-jre that require you to have the distfile all ready in the /usr/ports/distfiles directory prior to attempting to build the port, then do that prior to updating your system and running portmanager. The problem here (as I have previously mentioned and further discussed in my reply to Andrew Clarke) is that the most of the ports won't rebuild for various reasons. I'm pretty handy, but not brilliant. So instead of asking for my hand to be held by the mailing list, I thought nuking everything I installed from ports after moving to 8.x would be the smartest move, then from there reinstall (from a fresh ports tree) only what I need for the retasked purpose. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org" I second Jerry, portmanager is indeed a very effective tool, it's simple and thorough and probably has as good a chance of fixing ports issues as anything. Or used to, I've been trying out tinderbox so haven't used it for a year or so. If you do use portmanager there are a few tricks you can do to make it effectively unattended. However, doesn't -u -f mean rebuild all dependencies of all ports? In which case wouldn't it be just as effective and cleaner for the OP to nuke the lot and rebuild, particularly in view of the retasked purpose. Chris ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
GL811e usb chipset
Hi, does anyone know if the GL811e chipset is supported in 8.2R? It's supposed to be common in external usb hard disk and optical disk drives. It's not mentioned in the hardware notes and google didn't turn up much. thanks Chris ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
Re: CRUX and FREE BSD
On 25/05/2011 18:45, Julian H. Stacey wrote: Hi Ramu cc questions@ I have to make CRUX and FREE BSD dual boot. Is that possible? how can i do that?? I have CRUX installed before. I wrote some notes here: http://berklix.com/~jhs/txt/install_bsd.html Hope it may help you& or similar enquirers. I dont see anything about this in the handbook, (that is, shrinking the other OS before installing BSD) although the topic doesnt strictly belong to FreeBSD, it would help converts if we had something added I think. Corrections/ Additions etc welcome. Cheers, Julian Worth adding a note about gparted? http://gparted.sourceforge.net/ In fact it's mentioned in the handbook http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/install-pre.html Chris ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
Re: Build failure /usr/ports/editors/openoffice.org-3 on amd64
Michael D. Norwick wrote: Good Day; It appears that I cannot build openoffice.org-3 from ports due to an error similar to this; http://freebsd.1045724.n5.nabble.com/OpenOffice-3-2-fails-to-build-on-FreeBSD-8-0-STABLE-amd64-td3873768.html 1 module(s): nss need(s) *to* be rebuilt Reason(s): ERROR: error 65280 occurred while making /usr/*ports*/editors/openoffice.org-3/work/OOO320_m12/nss/ Attention: if you *build* and deliver *the* above module(s) you may prolongue your *the* *build* issuing command "*build* --*from* nss" and ... http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.os.freebsd.devel.openoffice/2805 1 module(s): instsetoo_native need(s) to be rebuilt Reason(s): ERROR: error 65280 occurred while making /usr/ports/editors/openoffice.org-3/work /OOO330_m20/instsetoo_native/util Attention: if you fix the errors in above module(s) you may prolongue your the build issuing command: build --from instsetoo_native * Error code 1 I am sorry that I cannot give you the exact error message because I did 'make clean' in /usr/ports/editors/openoffice.org-3 during my troubleshooting. Google produced the above hits and they are the same type of module build error I am seeing. My build error is in module moz. Try building it with WITHOUT_MOZILLA see http://docs.freebsd.org/cgi/getmsg.cgi?fetch=208692+0+current/freebsd-questions Chris ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
Re: What is xz ?
On 02/07/2011 07:38, Polytropon wrote: On Sat, 02 Jul 2011 11:53:17 +0530, Manish Jain wrote: Hi all, I just downloaded FreeBSD-8.2-RELEASE-i386-dvd1.iso.xz and the md5 checksum is correct. Can someone please tell me what does that xz at the end stand for ? It looks like it stands for some kind of compression (gzip/bzip2/some new format), but I can't figure out exactly which one. It's xz compression, archivers/xz from ports, which is ...but before you install it you may find it is part of the base system. %pkg_info -Ix xz pkg_info: no packages match pattern(s) %which xz /usr/bin/xz I'm on 8.1-R Chris ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
Re: Portupgrade Package Question
On 10/07/2011 14:02, Jerry wrote: On Sun, 10 Jul 2011 00:35:28 -0400 b. f. articulated: This is the tag that you would use on src collections to update your base system sources (usually in /usr/src) to 8-STABLE. You would use RELENG_8_2 for the 8.2-STABLE security branch, RELENG_8_2_RELEASE for 8.2-RELEASE, and so on. Reading through the archives, several years worth, it appears that this is one of the most frequently asked questions. Many users, both new (obviously) and some not so new get confused as to what is the proper tag to use for each branch; ie "Stable" "Current", etc.Maybe there should be some way to make it easier to understand. For example: I was one of them until I discovered that googling "FreeBSD tags" leads straight to http://www.freebsd.org/doc/handbook/cvs-tags.html Eg RELENG_8 The line of development for FreeBSD-8.X, also known as FreeBSD 8-STABLE RELENG_8_2 The release branch for FreeBSD-8.2, used only for security advisories and other critical fixes. ... RELENG_8_2_0_RELEASE FreeBSD 8.2 Release Chris 8.2-RELEASE: original release of code sans any updates, etc. 8.2-STABLE: released version plus security updates 8.2-CURRENT: All updates, security& otherwise to the original version ?-CURRENT: The absolute latest release of FreeBSD irregardless of what version it is. Anyway, it is just a suggestion. In any case I think it might be easier for some to comprehend. Anything that eliminates confusion is a plus. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
printing to Kyocera FS-1030D
Hi, before I use up too many trees experimenting, could some kind soul tell me how I can get OpenOffice to print to this printer. This is the first time I have tried to get anything printed from FreeBSD. I'm following the handbook. I think the basic setup is ok, I can get text printed using eg # lptest 20 5 | lpr -Plp If I try to print the postscript program given in the handbook %!PS 100 100 moveto 300 300 lineto stroke 310 310 moveto /Helvetica findfont 12 scalefont setfont (Is this thing working?) show showpage # cat |lpr -Plp I get the whole text of the file not just "Is this thing working?". The printer has various emulations, it is set to PCL 6 and I can't change it (not my printer) Printing from OpenOffice just produces screeds of garbage, starting with %!PS so I presume the text of the postscript that OO has produced. The bit I'm stuck on is in section 9.4.1.3 Simulating PostScript on Non PostScript Printers (which I presume is what I need), specifically setting the device. gs -h doesn't show this printer or any Kyocera printer. So either what should I set Device to, or how do I get ghostscript to know about this printer? I'm using 8.1-RELEASE, openoffice.org-3.2.1, ghostscript8-8.71_6 thanks Chris ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
Re: printing to Kyocera FS-1030D
On 03/08/2011 18:58, Gour-Gadadhara Dasa wrote: On Wed, 03 Aug 2011 17:41:44 +0100 Chris Whitehouse wrote: Hi, before I use up too many trees experimenting, could some kind soul tell me how I can get OpenOffice to print to this printer. This is the first time I have tried to get anything printed from FreeBSD. I've Kyocera FS-920 and recommend printing via CUPS by using *.PPD driver. Sincerely, Gour I thought about CUPS but it's just one computer and one printer so CUPS seems a bit overkill. Besides since I've never set up UNIX printing before I think it's a good idea to try and do it from the basics first. Chris ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
Re: printing to Kyocera FS-1030D
On 03/08/2011 18:59, Robert Bonomi wrote: So either what should I set Device to, or how do I get ghostscript to know about this printer? I don't think there is a 'generic' "PCL" driver, but one of the 'HP laserjet' drivers _should_ do the job. Pick one thqt corresponds to a 'more-or-less recent' model. I can't give specific advice, as I don't have ghostscript installed on my FreeBSD server. (it's remote and I never actually print from it.) Rechecking gs -h there is a pcl3 driver so I'll give it a try as well as actual printer drivers as you suggest. Thanks Chris ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
Re: printing to Kyocera FS-1030D
On 03/08/2011 19:18, Matthias Apitz wrote: # cat |lpr -Plp To the OP: You won the todays "Useless Use of Cat Award" :-) The same would do: lpr -Plp< ps-file or lpr -Plp ps-file :-) matthias Well I'm not a guru so perhaps I can be excused :-) Still thanks for the pointer about lpr, I should have read the man page. Chris ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
Re: printing to Kyocera FS-1030D
On 05/08/2011 01:58, Warren Block wrote: On Thu, 4 Aug 2011, Roland Smith wrote: There are several possible drivers you could use; pcl3 pxlmono pxlcolor. The gutenprint (a.k.a. gimp-print) driver also supports your printer directly. ljet4 is the PCL5 driver, and anything with PCL6 is supposed to also support PCL5. I'd suggest trying both ljet4 and pxlmono or pxlcolor and going with whichever is faster. However, I'd recommend that you take the time and install and configure CUPS. If CUPS is desired, sure. For just plain printing, lpr/lpd is often easier to set up. http://www.wonkity.com/~wblock/docs/html/lpdprinting.html ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org" Thanks everyone for your suggestions and sorry not to reply before, I have limited access to this printer. Replying here to everyone who responded with ideas... I tried pxlmono, ljet4 and pcl3 with this /etc/printcap lp|local line printer|Kyocera:\ :sh:\ :lp=/dev/lpt0:sd=/var/spool/output/lpd:lf=/var/log/lpd-errs:\ :if=/usr/local/libexec/if-simpleps: this filter #!/bin/sh #printf "\033&k2G" || exit 2 /usr/local/bin/gs -dSAFER -dNOPAUSE -q -sDEVICE=pxlmono\ -sOutputFile=- - && exit 0 exit 2 and this command # lpr postscripttest.txt postscripttest.txt contains %!PS %100 100 moveto 300 300 lineto stroke %310 310 moveto /Helvetica findfont 12 scalefont setfont %( Is this thing working? ) show %showpage With all three drivers I got nothing out of the printer and nothing in lpd-errs. I installed some Kyocera software on a Windows computer and tried to change the emulation with it. I succeeded in setting it to have no default emulation but not to be set it to KPDL (the Kyocera version of PostScript). I rang Kyocera UK help line and they were very approachable (refreshing these days). They suggested I email and ask how to set the default emulation which I have done. It seems the printer normally receives some code as part of the print job which sets it to PS or whatever just for this job. If I could find out this code maybe I could write it into a filter. The printer is normally plugged into a Mac and I've found a utility which is supposed to change the default emulation. I hope to ask the printer owner to try it. I'm going to leave this now (I'm away for a few days) till I hear back from Kyocera and/or manage to get the default emulation set to KPDL. I did also try ijs and hpijs and that might still be worth pursuing but I will reply separately to Polytropons post. Chris ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
editors/zim
Hi, I have a problem with Zim which I wrote to the author about he replied and said; "I'm afraid version 0.29 is no longer supported. This was the last version in the Perl branch, since we moved to Python there have been already 10 more releases. So please try the latest version (0.52)." Are there any plans to bump it to Python and a recent release? I emailed the maintainer a while back but got no response. thanks Chris ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
Re: Firefox clean installation but does not execute
On 20/09/2011 15:04, Anton Shterenlikht wrote: On Tue, Sep 20, 2011 at 03:44:31PM +0200, Alain G. Fabry wrote: On Tue, Sep 20, 2011 at 02:40:42PM +0100, Anton Shterenlikht wrote: On Tue, Sep 20, 2011 at 03:26:29PM +0200, Alain G. Fabry wrote: On Tue, Sep 20, 2011 at 01:40:56PM +0100, Anton Shterenlikht wrote: On Tue, Sep 20, 2011 at 02:16:35PM +0200, Alain G. Fabry wrote: On Tue, Sep 20, 2011 at 05:53:06AM -0600, Warren Block wrote: On Tue, 20 Sep 2011, Alain G. Fabry wrote: I've installed both firefox and firefox36. Neither of them can be found on the system while the installation build and installed without errors afabry@desmo 13:40 % pkg_info | grep firefox firefox-3.6.22,1Web browser based on the browser portion of Mozilla firefox-6.0.2,1 Web browser based on the browser portion of Mozilla afabry@desmo 13:41 % which firefox firefox: Command not found. afabry@desmo 13:41 % which firefox3 firefox3: Command not found. See 'man csh | less -p rehash'. But also these should run with a full path: % /usr/local/bin/firefox3 % /usr/local/bin/firefox ___ Files are just not found on the system... :-( afabry@desmo 14:10 % pkg_info | grep firefox firefox-3.6.22,1Web browser based on the browser portion of Mozilla firefox-6.0.2,1 Web browser based on the browser portion of Mozilla afabry@desmo 14:10 % rehash afabry@desmo 14:14 % /usr/local/bin/firefox /usr/local/bin/firefox: Command not found. afabry@desmo 14:12 % ls -l /usr/local/bin/ | grep fire -r-xr-xr-x 1 root wheel10108 Sep 7 07:29 aafire afabry@desmo 14:12 % what about pkg_info -Lx firefox-3 pkg_info -Lx firefox-6 On my system: TZAV> pkg_info -Lx firefox-3 | grep bin /usr/local/bin/firefox3 /usr/local/include/firefox3/gtk2xtbin.h /usr/local/lib/firefox3/bin /usr/local/lib/firefox3/firefox-bin TZAV> Seems to be ok here ?? afabry@desmo 15:22 % pkg_info -Lx firefox-3 | grep bin /usr/local/bin/firefox3 /usr/local/include/firefox3/gtk2xtbin.h /usr/local/lib/firefox3/bin /usr/local/lib/firefox3/firefox-bin afabry@desmo 15:23 % pkg_info -Lx firefox-6 | grep bin /usr/local/bin/firefox /usr/local/include/firefox/gtk2xtbin.h /usr/local/lib/firefox/bin /usr/local/lib/firefox/firefox-bin /usr/local/lib/firefox/searchplugins/bing.xml So, what do you get if you now type: /usr/local/bin/firefox3 or /usr/local/bin/firefox -- What I mentioned before ;-) 'command not found' afabry@desmo 15:40 % /usr/local/bin/firefox3 /usr/local/bin/firefox3: Command not found. afabry@desmo 15:40 % /usr/local/bin/firefox /usr/local/bin/firefox: Command not found. afabry@desmo 15:41 % files don't exist, and must have deinstalled/installed already 3 times... so, pkg_info thinks it installed the executable, yet, you can't find it. I don't know what to check next. # /usr/libexec/locate.updatedb # locate firefox ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
Re: [OFFTOPIC] Solution for school lab
On 30/10/2011 10:01, Peter wrote: Hi, I am about to setup a small PC lab for teaching operating systems. Since computers will need to be used for teaching Windows/Unix(FreeBsd)/Linux(Novell) I need to find a way: 1. Systems to coexists on the same hardware 2. Easily restore system images to the initial state. 1) A very robust if slightly more expensive way is a separate disk for each OS. Many more recent (last 3 or 4 years?) motherboards have an option during POST to choose a boot device so you don't need to go into the BIOS setup screens. This system has the advantage that OS's are completely separate from each other. 2) Clonezilla. (Not very relevant aside... Back in the day of pentium 1's and 2 dual channel IDE controllers I solved this same problem with 3 hard disks, each set to be master, on a home made IDE cable with an extra connector so the three disks were plugged into the primary controller, and a 3 position rotary switch so only one disk would power up at a time. It took a bit of experimentation to find three disks that could coexist but it worked really well as long as one didn't switch over while the machine was on. I think I had FreeBSD, Windows and Netware). Chris ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
Re: recursive copy with spaces in descendants
On 05/11/2011 19:47, Chris wrote: I'm having difficulty copying a directory tree from my FreeBSD server to USB storage. The problem is that the tree contains file and folder names which have spaces, similar to the following: ./foo bar/some name.tar.gz ./foo bar/child dir/some other name.tar.gz I've tried various combinations of cp with enclosing the top level directory in quotations, along with other commands like tar or xargs to no avail. The problem seems to be with creating the destination directories and folders, where mkdir/cp terminates with an invalid argument response. Cleaning up the source filenames using something like detox isn't viable, as the files are being served by transmission-daemon, and as such the names must be preserved. Permissions are not an issue either, as the same responses occur whether I use a standard or root account. Any ideas would be greatly appreciated, since I'm pretty much out of them at this point. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org" %mount_msdosfs /dev/da0s1 mnt #USB external HD %ls mnt %cd ~/temp2 %find . . ./dir with spaces ./dir with spaces/file1 with spaces ./dir with spaces/file2 with spaces %find . -depth |cpio -pdmv ~/mnt /home/chrisw/mnt/./dir with spaces/file1 with spaces /home/chrisw/mnt/./dir with spaces/file2 with spaces /home/chrisw/mnt/./dir with spaces /home/chrisw/mnt/. 0 blocks %find ~/mnt /home/chrisw/mnt /home/chrisw/mnt/dir with spaces /home/chrisw/mnt/dir with spaces/file1 with spaces /home/chrisw/mnt/dir with spaces/file2 with spaces or have I missed something? Chris ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
Re: Still stalls on xpt_config
On 11/11/2011 00:21, Chuck Bacon wrote:
Every 9.0 version I've tried has failed to boot, ending up with:
Still waiting after {60,..,300} seconds for xpt_config.
What's a body to do? I've tried disabling ACPI, going single,
safe mode. All on my ASUS M4A785TD-EVO mobo with some amd64 x4.
Any additional info I can provide?
Try disabling firewire in your BIOS. If that lets you boot then rebuild
your kernel without device sbp and re-enable firewire.
Chris
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Re: Still stalls on xpt_config
On 11/11/2011 16:39, Chuck Bacon wrote:
Magnificent! Quick and easy; not using FW anyhow (& the BIOS calls it
1394 )-: Furthermore, we've reversed the order of disks and given them
new names. Ugh. I'll get used to it.
Many Thanks,
Chuck Bacon -- c...@cape.com
ABHOR SECRECY -- DEFEND PRIVACY
Glad to hear it. I hope you won't mind that I've cc'd the list.
cheers
Chris
On Fri, 11 Nov 2011, Chris Whitehouse wrote:
On 11/11/2011 00:21, Chuck Bacon wrote:
Every 9.0 version I've tried has failed to boot, ending up with:
Still waiting after {60,..,300} seconds for xpt_config.
What's a body to do? I've tried disabling ACPI, going single,
safe mode. All on my ASUS M4A785TD-EVO mobo with some amd64 x4.
Any additional info I can provide?
Try disabling firewire in your BIOS. If that lets you boot then
rebuild your kernel without device sbp and re-enable firewire.
Chris
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Re: I am FreeBSD user.
On 05/12/2011 01:42, Warren Block wrote: On Sun, 4 Dec 2011, masayoshi wrote: When I was looking for sudo, I noticed a weired thing. http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=sudo&apropos=0&sektion=0&manpath=Red+Hat+Linux%2Fi386+9&arch=default&format=html http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=sudo&apropos=0&sektion=0&manpath=SuSE+Linux%2Fi386+ES+10+SP1&arch=default&format=html I am FreeBSD user. <3 I hate Linux. lol Why can I select other operation's man page on our FreeBSD webisite? Is it for Linux emulator? Could be. It's also really useful to see what the options to Linux commands do when trying to adapt or convert something. I thought the odd bit was ssuuddoo --VV | --hh | --ll | --LL | --vv | --kk | --KK | --ss | [ --HH ] [--PP ] [--SS ] [ --bb ] | [ --pp prompt ] [ --cc class|- ] [ --aa auth_type ] [ --uu username|#uid ] from the first link. Does anyone else see that or is it my browser? firefox-3.6.10,1 Chris ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
Re: I am FreeBSD user.
On 05/12/2011 13:35, Matthew Seaman wrote: On 05/12/2011 12:39, Chris Whitehouse wrote: I thought the odd bit was ssuuddoo --VV | --hh | --ll | --LL | --vv | --kk | --KK | --ss | [ --HH ] [--PP ] [--SS ] [ --bb ] | [ --pp prompt ] [ --cc class|- ] [ --aa auth_type ] [ --uu username|#uid ] from the first link. Does anyone else see that or is it my browser? firefox-3.6.10,1 No -- your eyes are perfectly fine. It's a failure to render that text properly as bold. On an ancient teletype that would have been done by retyping the same character on top of the first one, which is ultimately where all those doubled characters come from. Cheers, Matthew I know it's trivial but I sent a PR (163149) with a patch (of sorts). Chris ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
Re: Realtek RTL8191SEvB Linux driver?
On 04/01/2012 00:57, Jeffrey McFadden wrote: um, well, yeah, but it's a laptop. :/ And I bought it before FreeBSD ever crossed my mind. Replacing the Realtek with a supported wireless card may be as easy as undoing a plate on the bottom of the machine, unclipping the old one and clipping in the new one. They are pretty cheap to buy on ebay. Your wireless card is probably mini pci-e: http://www.ebay.co.uk/sch/i.html?_from=R40&_trksid=p5197.m570.l1313&_nkw=mini+pci-e+wireless+card&_sacat=See-All-Categories An older style is mini pci. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:MiniPCI_and_MiniPCI_Express_cards.jpg It may require removing the keyboard which is a bit harder but quite doable. Generally you get into a laptop by carefully levering off the cover at the back of the keyboard. A service manual is a big help and can often be found with some googling. Chris ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
Re: Realtek RTL8191SEvB Linux driver?
On 04/01/2012 16:21, Chad Perrin wrote: As someone who has actually done laptop technician work, professionally, You don't by any chance know where there is a service manual for OP's laptop in pdf format (or html)? I did a bit of googling but didn't find it. It's a Toshiba U505-S2950. Or maybe you could advise how to replace the wireless card in this particular machine... cheers Chris ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
Re: still waiting after 60 seconds for xpt_config
On 30/01/2012 17:41, Mike. wrote: I installed 9.0 on my test ThinkPad. During the boot-up process, I see the following message after a pause in the boot-up process: run_interrupt_driven_hooks: still waiting after 60 seconds for xpt_config A quick spin through google showed the message occurred in older versions of FreeBSD, though I did not see it when I installed 7.x and 8.x on the Thinkpad. I didn't see any resolutions to the problem. Is the message FreeBSD's way of telling me there is something wrong with the ThinkPad? Or is it a problem with FreeBSD? I don't know where to start looking for the cause of the message, as I do not know what the message is trying to tell me. http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=136327 includes a workaround, hopefully it will work for you: disable firewire (IEEE 1394) in BIOS. rebuild kernel with device sbp disabled and install it. reboot if it works re-enable firewire in BIOS. The reason you didn't see it in some versions is because GENERIC was shipped with sbp disabled (I think). Someone is/was working on a fix. Chris ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
ath and how to control wireless light
Hello I have FreeBSD 9R amd64 installed on a HP G60 laptop. This machine has a combined wireless switch and led. The switch turns the wifi on and off but the light stays red. The light is supposed to show red for wireless off and blue for wireless on. I found some sysctls that control it: dev.ath.0.softled: 0 dev.ath.0.ledpin: 3 dev.ath.0.ledon: 1 dev.ath.0.ledidle: 2700 softled, ledpin and ledon are all set to 0 on boot. I set ledpin to 3, then to change the colour of the light I turn on softled 0->1, toggle ledon and turn off softled again. Can I make that sequence occur, or do something else, to make the led change when the button is pressed _and_ keep in sync with whether the wireless is on or off? With softled=1 the light is blue with a short red flash or red with a short blue flash depending on the value of ledon. Also when softled=1 the light flashes in it's "opposite" colour when there is network traffic. So it would probably be ok just to leave softled=1 and toggle ledon. The wireless device is dev.ath.0.%desc: Atheros 5424/2424. I think there is a slight glitch with the on/off button, that under some circumstances it doesn't turn the wifi on again, which would be much easier to test if the light worked. Also what is ledidle and what do different settings do? Thanks Chris ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
Re: ath and how to control wireless light
On 04/02/2012 08:37, Waitman Gobble wrote: On Thu, Feb 2, 2012 at 6:52 AM, Chris Whitehouse wrote: Hello I have FreeBSD 9R amd64 installed on a HP G60 laptop. This machine has a combined wireless switch and led. The switch turns the wifi on and off but the light stays red. The light is supposed to show red for wireless off and blue for wireless on. I found some sysctls that control it: dev.ath.0.softled: 0 dev.ath.0.ledpin: 3 dev.ath.0.ledon: 1 dev.ath.0.ledidle: 2700 softled, ledpin and ledon are all set to 0 on boot. I set ledpin to 3, then to change the colour of the light I turn on softled 0->1, toggle ledon and turn off softled again. Can I make that sequence occur, or do something else, to make the led change when the button is pressed _and_ keep in sync with whether the wireless is on or off? With softled=1 the light is blue with a short red flash or red with a short blue flash depending on the value of ledon. Also when softled=1 the light flashes in it's "opposite" colour when there is network traffic. So it would probably be ok just to leave softled=1 and toggle ledon. The wireless device is dev.ath.0.%desc: Atheros 5424/2424. I think there is a slight glitch with the on/off button, that under some circumstances it doesn't turn the wifi on again, which would be much easier to test if the light worked. Also what is ledidle and what do different settings do? Thanks Chris __**_ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/**mailman/listinfo/freebsd-**questions<http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions> To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-** unsubscr...@freebsd.org" Hi Chris, I have an Acer Aspire D150 and the LED hasn't been lit with FreeBSD, 9-rc3, 9-release or 10-current (with BroadCom and 2 Atheros cards). it did work with Fedora GNU/Linux 11. I did try setting in loader.conf as recommended to me to no avail. On one hand it was easy to get the attitude "who cares about the LED anyway" but on the other I'm thinking it's a simple little thing that's important,I guess like maybe buying a new car and it's missing a knob on the stereo. (?) :) I suppose it probably should work. Waitman Gobble San Jose California USA I have another HP laptop with a Broadcomm card which has a button_with_light and it just works. None of the sysctl oids above occur though. Maybe I'll swap wireless cards between the two and see what happens. What is the output of sysctl -a |grep led ? You'll get lots of "enabled's" but there might be something that relates to led's. I had to change ledpin from default of 0 to 3 before any of the other ones had any effect. Thanks for the reply anyway. Chris ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
Re: ath and how to control wireless light
On 04/02/2012 16:49, Waitman Gobble wrote: On Sat, Feb 4, 2012 at 3:52 AM, Chris Whitehouse wrote: On 04/02/2012 08:37, Waitman Gobble wrote: On Thu, Feb 2, 2012 at 6:52 AM, Chris Whitehouse wrote: Hello I have FreeBSD 9R amd64 installed on a HP G60 laptop. This machine has a combined wireless switch and led. The switch turns the wifi on and off but the light stays red. The light is supposed to show red for wireless off and blue for wireless on. I found some sysctls that control it: dev.ath.0.softled: 0 dev.ath.0.ledpin: 3 dev.ath.0.ledon: 1 dev.ath.0.ledidle: 2700 softled, ledpin and ledon are all set to 0 on boot. I set ledpin to 3, then to change the colour of the light I turn on softled 0->1, toggle ledon and turn off softled again. Can I make that sequence occur, or do something else, to make the led change when the button is pressed _and_ keep in sync with whether the wireless is on or off? With softled=1 the light is blue with a short red flash or red with a short blue flash depending on the value of ledon. Also when softled=1 the light flashes in it's "opposite" colour when there is network traffic. So it would probably be ok just to leave softled=1 and toggle ledon. The wireless device is dev.ath.0.%desc: Atheros 5424/2424. I think there is a slight glitch with the on/off button, that under some circumstances it doesn't turn the wifi on again, which would be much easier to test if the light worked. Also what is ledidle and what do different settings do? Thanks Chris ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions<http://lists.freebsd.org/**mailman/listinfo/freebsd-**questions> <http://lists.**freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/**freebsd-questions<http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions> To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-** unsubscr...@freebsd.org " Hi Chris, I have an Acer Aspire D150 and the LED hasn't been lit with FreeBSD, 9-rc3, 9-release or 10-current (with BroadCom and 2 Atheros cards). it did work with Fedora GNU/Linux 11. I did try setting in loader.conf as recommended to me to no avail. On one hand it was easy to get the attitude "who cares about the LED anyway" but on the other I'm thinking it's a simple little thing that's important,I guess like maybe buying a new car and it's missing a knob on the stereo. (?) :) I suppose it probably should work. Waitman Gobble San Jose California USA I have another HP laptop with a Broadcomm card which has a button_with_light and it just works. None of the sysctl oids above occur though. Maybe I'll swap wireless cards between the two and see what happens. What is the output of sysctl -a |grep led ? You'll get lots of "enabled's" but there might be something that relates to led's. I had to change ledpin from default of 0 to 3 before any of the other ones had any effect. Thanks for the reply anyway. Chris Oh thats a good idea :) Thanks here's what someone recommended : dev.ath.0.ledpin=3 dev.ath.0.softled=1 but here are some extras i found from sysctl -a that i will check out: dev.ath.0.ledon: 0 dev.ath.0.ledidle: 2700 dev.ath.0.hardled: 0 dev.ath.0.led_net_pin: -1 dev.ath.0.led_pwr_pin: -1 Waitman Gobble San Jose California USA I would give them a try. Set dev.ath.0.ledpin=3 then experiment. If you can't get any response try different values for ledpin or one of the other led*pin. I can't read source code :( but maybe you can get more info out of the code you posted. Chris ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
Re: Upgrade causes loss of all firefox settings (?)
On 12/02/2013 21:38, Ronald F. Guilmette wrote: In general, I don't upgrade my ports very often, so up until recently I was running a fairly old version of firefox (firefox-15.0.1,1). But over the weekend, I moved everything over to a new drive containing the latest 9.1-RELEASE FreeBSD, and with a complete set of freshly rebuilt ports, including the latest firefox 18.0.1. (As part of this process, I copied my entire /home directory over to the new drive.) So anway, mostly everything is still working ok, however at some time during this process, firefox apparently lost track of all of my personal settings... my start page, all of my bookmarks, and all of my saved web site user IDs an passwords. I looked in the /usr/ports/UPDATING file for some clue as to why this might have happened and found none. Looking into this issue a bit deeper, I've now learned that all of one's personal settings are stored in a directory having a name which has the following general form: ~/.mozilla/firefox/.default where the "" part is some eight character apparently random combination of lower case letters and digits. The odd thing is that it appears that all of my old firefox setting are still alive and well and living under a subdirectory of the ~/.mozilla/firefox directory called "4up9dkb1.default". However it does also appear that my execution of firefox, for the first time, on this new system I've been putting together has resulted in the creation of a brand new parallel subdirectory, located in the same directory as my original personal settings .default directory, but this new one is named "nh2ykiym.default". And now, firefox is apparently saving and retrieving my (new set of) personal settings out of that new directory. So, um, what gives? Why did this happen? And more to the point, can I get back all of my personal settings just via the following seemingly intutive commands: rm -fr nh2ykiym.default mv 4up9dkb1.default nh2ykiym.default or will that break something else in some obscure but annoying way? Is there a file .mozilla/firefox/profiles.ini? If so it should list which profile to use. Just change it to the one you want and it should just work. I'm using an older version so don't know how the latest works Chris Regards, rfg ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org" ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
Re: kernel config file
On 21/03/2013 19:54, Fbsd8 wrote: Back around 4.x there was a File that had all the available kernel compile options with their meanings as comments. On 9.1 I don't see that file any more. Where can I find that file that lists all the kernel compile options? The 9.1 NOTES file is not that file. I have "makeoptions NO_MODULES=yes" statement in my kernel config file and the "blanktime" and "warp_saver" load modules don't get created. I need the options statements for those items so I can compile then into the kernel. Would it be /usr/src/sys/conf/NOTES ? %grep warp_saver /usr/src/sys/conf/NOTES device warp_saver And isn't blanktime set in rc.conf? %grep blank /etc/defaults/rc.conf blanktime="300" # blank time (in seconds) or "NO" to turn it off. Chris Thanks ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org" ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
Re: Linksys WPC54g NDIS compiles but doesn't work?
On 02/05/2013 16:02, Steven wrote: Hello, I posted this once already, but I wasn't subscribed at the time and I don't think it got posted to the list. Hopefully this isn't a dupe. I've installed FreeBSD 9.1 RELEASE on a family member's laptop, a Toshiba Satellite 5100. Said member was using a Linksys WPC54g v.4 pcicard for wireless. I downloaded the v.4 drivers for the card from the Cisco website and was able to use ndisgen to build a wrapper for the driver. Hi, I have a PCMCIA WPC54g V5 which works with malo(4). It might work with your V4. You need to download some firmware - see the man page. Chris There were no errors during the build and I'm able to load the resultant ndis, but aside from some initial static when the ndis is loaded the card is not being configured. ndis0 doesn't show in the dmesg and doesn't appear in the ifconfig output. Before I built the wrapper I had updated my source, base and userland so all of that should have been up to date for the system I was building it against. I'm getting to the point where I'd rather spend the cash on something compatible from Free's hardware list, but I'd like to give this ndis thing one more go before I tell this family member to chuck the card. kldstat Id Refs Address Size Name 1 18 0xc040 fd35e8 kernel 2 1 0xc13d4000 4bdd4 bcmwl5_sys.ko 3 3 0xc142 1fa58 ndis.ko 4 2 0xc144 f1e4 if_ndis.ko ifconfig fwe0: flags=8802 metric 0 mtu 1500 options=8 ether 02:00:39:16:49:4e nd6 options=29 ch 1 dma -1 fwip0: flags=8802 metric 0 mtu 1500 lladdr 0.0.39.0.0.16.49.4e.a.2.ff.fe.0.0.0.0 nd6 options=29 fxp0: flags=8843 metric 0 mtu 1500 options=2009 ether 00:00:39:f4:73:9f inet 10.0.1.19 netmask 0xff00 broadcast 10.0.1.255 nd6 options=29 media: Ethernet autoselect (100baseTX ) status: active lo0: flags=8049 metric 0 mtu 16384 options=63 inet6 ::1 prefixlen 128 inet6 fe80::1%lo0 prefixlen 64 scopeid 0x7 inet 127.0.0.1 netmask 0xff00 nd6 options=21 dmesg Copyright (c) 1992-2012 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 is a registered trademark of The FreeBSD Foundation. FreeBSD 9.1-RELEASE-p3 #0: Mon Apr 29 18:11:52 UTC 2013 r...@amd64-builder.daemonology.net:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GENERIC i386 CPU: Intel(R) Pentium(R) 4 Mobile CPU 1.70GHz (1694.54-MHz 686-class CPU) Origin = "GenuineIntel" Id = 0xf24 Family = f Model = 2 Stepping = 4 Features=0x3febf9ff real memory = 536870912 (512 MB) avail memory = 501706752 (478 MB) kbd1 at kbdmux0 ctl: CAM Target Layer loaded acpi0: on motherboard acpi0: Power Button (fixed) acpi0: reservation of 0, a (3) failed acpi0: reservation of 10, 1fed (3) failed cpu0: on acpi0 attimer0: port 0x40-0x43 irq 0 on acpi0 Timecounter "i8254" frequency 1193182 Hz quality 0 Event timer "i8254" frequency 1193182 Hz quality 100 atrtc0: port 0x70-0x71 irq 8 on acpi0 Event timer "RTC" frequency 32768 Hz quality 0 Timecounter "ACPI-fast" frequency 3579545 Hz quality 900 acpi_timer0: <24-bit timer at 3.579545MHz> port 0xee08-0xee0b on acpi0 pcib0: port 0xcf8-0xcff on acpi0 pci0: on pcib0 agp0: on hostb0 pcib1: at device 1.0 on pci0 pci1: on pcib1 vgapci0: mem 0xfd00-0xfdff,0xd800-0xdfff,0xd7f8-0xd7ff irq 5 at device 0.0 on pci1 uhci0: port 0xefe0-0xefff irq 11 at device 29.0 on pci0 usbus0 on uhci0 uhci1: port 0xef80-0xef9f irq 7 at device 29.1 on pci0 usbus1 on uhci1 uhci2: port 0x1000-0x101f at device 29.2 on pci0 usbus2 on uhci2 pcib2: at device 30.0 on pci0 pci2: on pcib2 fwohci0: at device 7.0 on pci2 fwohci0: OHCI version 1.10 (ROM=1) fwohci0: No. of Isochronous channels is 4. fwohci0: EUI64 00:00:39:00:00:16:49:4e fwohci0: Phy 1394a available S400, 2 ports. fwohci0: Link S400, max_rec 2048 bytes. firewire0: on fwohci0 fwe0: on firewire0 if_fwe0: Fake Ethernet address: 02:00:39:16:49:4e fwe0: Ethernet address: 02:00:39:16:49:4e fwip0: on firewire0 fwip0: Firewire address: 00:00:39:00:00:16:49:4e @ 0xfffe, S400, maxrec 2048 dcons_crom0: on firewire0 dcons_crom0: bus_addr 0x1f65c000 fwohci0: Initiate bus reset fwohci0: fwohci_intr_core: BUS reset fwohci0: fwohci_intr_core: node_id=0x, SelfID Count=1, CYCLEMASTER mode fxp0: port 0xdf40-0xdf7f mem 0xfceff000-0xfcef irq 4 at device 8.0 on pci2 miibus0: on fxp0 inphy0: PHY 1 on miibus0 inphy0: 10baseT, 10baseT-FDX, 100baseTX, 100baseTX-FDX, auto, auto-flow fxp0: Ethernet address: 00:00:39:f4:73:9f cbb0: at device 11.0 on pci2 cbb0: chip is in D3 power mode -- setting to D0 cardbus0: on cbb0 pccard0: <16-bit PCCard bus> on cbb0 cbb1: at device 11.1 on pci2 cbb1: chip is in D3 power mode -- setting to D0 cardbus1: on cbb1 pccard1: <16-bit PCCard bus> on cbb1 pci2: at device 12.0 (no driver attached) pci2: at device 13.0 (no driver attached) isab0: at device 31.0 on pci0 isa0: on isab0 atapci0: port 0x1f0-0x1f7,0x3f6,0x170-0x177,0x376,0xcfa0-0xcfaf irq
Re: 9.1-RELEASE slow boot
On Fri, 7 Jun 2013 19:38:34 +0200, Fernando ApesteguĂa wrote: Since I updated to 9.1-RELEASE my boot process seems to stall for a while. Booting in verbose mode shows messages like these ones: Opening device da0 -> 6 (repeated like 30 times or so) Opening device da1 -> 6 (repeated like 30 times or so) Opening device da2 -> 6 (repeated like 30 times or so) Opening device da3 -> 6 (repeated like 30 times or so) Those devices correspond to my internal SD card reader that doesn't work on FreeBSD anyway. This seems some kind of probing right? I don't want to wait for those devices. What can I do to speed up booting? I didn't change my system settings either. Did anything related change in the kernel about probing these type of devices? Since you are not using the device could you not just disable it in the BIOS? Chris ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
Re: FreeBSD starter machine
Pietro Cerutti wrote: On 12/13/05, Chris Whitehouse <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: A way to use your current machine for both operating systems without dual booting is to install a second hard disk, install FreeBSD and select which to boot from in the bios. It's a slight faff changing boot disk but works fine and keeps the OS's completely separate. Could you please tell me the problems which could rise using dual boot? I really can't imagine any, since the two (or more) OSes are on different slices, and can't interfere which each other in any way. Decide to redo the play machine when too tired, fdisk the wrong slice... As a newbie not understand which slice to fdisk... It was really in response to OP being 'not keen about running dual OS's' I have to run windows for work and sharing a play machine with a must be working machine doesn't seem as safe on a dual boot setup as two separate disks. You can even unplug the other disk to avoid mistakes. Just my choice. Chris Thanx, -- Pietro Cerutti <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Beansidhe - SwiSS Death / Thrash Metal Windows: "Where do you want to go today?" Linux: "Where do you want to go tomorrow?" FreeBSD: "Are you guys coming or what?" ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
Re: DVD burning GUI
Frank Staals wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi Nicolas, I forget to say that I'm using Gnome, does k3b work with it? On Mon, 26 Dec 2005, Nicolas Blais wrote: |On December 26, 2005 01:05 pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: |> Hi all, |> |> Can you point me to some good GUI to CD/DVD burning tools. |> |> Thank you, |> |> - Marcelo Souza | |See /ports/sysutils/k3b | |Nicolas. |-- |FreeBSD 7.0-CURRENT #7: Mon Dec 26 12:43:20 EST 2005 |[EMAIL PROTECTED]:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/CLK01A |PGP? (updated 16 Nov 05) : http://www.clkroot.net/security/nb_root.asc | ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" Why don't you try it ;) It will work if you install the needed libaries, when installing k3b using the portstree or 'pkg add -r' it will automatically install everything needed for k3b. So the answer is yes, it will work :) Good luck There's also sysutils/nautilus-cd-burner which I think is gnome based so at least some of its dependencies will already be installed. Chris ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
Re: New IDE drive in old PC
On Tue, 2005-12-27 at 22:12, Robert Ames wrote: I have an old (very old) ASUS P5 motherboard running FreeBSD 5.4. The boot disk is a 40MB Western Digital WD400 IDE drive jumpered to only use 32MB so it can be booted from since the BIOS in this PC (the latest and greatest) can't deal with anything larger than 32MB. This PC is working well for me and I don't want to upgrade it. However I would like to add a lot of disk space. So my question is, can I go out and buy a new 300 GB (or whatever) IDE disk and attach it to the secondary IDE controller and hope to use all 300 GB? I will still use the old disk for booting and to hold the OS. The new disk will be just for data. If this will "just work" how do I configure the BIOS so the PC will boot with the large drive installed? I presume you mean GB for size. I just plugged a 250GB drive into a PIII 500 Supermicro board. The bios thinks it is 8GB. I get No Rom Basic if I try to boot. I also tried it as an external USB drive and fdisk'd and bsdlabelled it as 250GB without problem using FBSD6. I think if I could have booted there would have been no problem with the disk on the IDE chain as FBSD sees disks directly not through the BIOS (or so I understand). I can test on a P5AB if you want but it will take a day or two. Chris ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
blueyonder uk mirror?
Hi My ISP Telewest/Blueyonder hosts some FreeBSD stuff at ftp.blueyonder.co.uk but they are usually a few weeks behind releases. Would it be of interest to get them up to speed as a mirror and/or cvsup mirror? If so how to go about it? I would be happy to approach them. Thanks Chris ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
