rank1see...@gmail.com wrote:
>For example:
># pkg_info -W /usr/local/bin/lynx
>/usr/local/bin/lynx was installed by package lynx-2.8.7.2,1
>
># pkg_deinstall lynx-2.8.7.2,1
>
># pkg_info -W /usr/local/bin/lynx
>pkg_info: /usr/local/bin/lynx: file cannot be found
>
>
>As you can figure it out, I wa
Zach Leslie wrote:
>> http://www.fossil-scm.org/ l
>>
>> I'm not fossil user, but it's BSD licensed in written in C.
>Also, this particular tool bails out on the unix philosophy, with its
>web
>gui, ticket tracker etc. Do one thing. Do it well.
I would argue that git bails on that as well, b
On Fri, 28 Sep 2012 09:19:12 +0200 (CEST)
Wojciech Puchar wrote:
> >> but still not anywhere as readable as bsdlabel.
> > I did specifically say 'machine readable'. The XML is well-formed,
> XML is stupid. everything you can do with XML can be better described
> using "ancient" style text format
Zhihao Yuan wrote:
>As u can see, it's a stand alone app. But the most widely used wifi
>managers are always taskbar applets -- something bound to a specific
>DE. --
There are a number of taskbar applications not bound to a DE (dzen2, mobar,
gkrellm2) which have plugins for managing the kinds
Lorenzo Cogotti wrote:
>Il 17/09/2012 20:32, Garrett Cooper ha scritto:
>> *gathers breath for really tangential/OT rant*
>>
>>
>> Sounds like we have someone volunteering to write a chapter in the
>> handbook and do some X11 development to make Gnome, KDE, XFCE, LXDE,
>> Fluxbox, [...], or etc
On Mon, 17 Sep 2012 11:40:33 -0500
Zhihao Yuan wrote:
> GUI is a concept. People can use WM or DE as their GUIs. X11 is not
> usable from a user's point of view, so it's out of the question. So
> far, your statement "Assume X11 _is_ the graphical environment" is
> already nonsense.
As someone who
On Tue, 17 Jul 2012 14:32:19 -0400
"Dieter BSD" wrote:
> >> Why not create a command wtf(1)?
> > there are really lot of good features that can be made in FreeBSD.
> > actually good, instead of that crap
> While this is certainly not the most important improvement that could
> be made (Fix the PRs
On Sat, 14 Jul 2012 13:29:59 -0700
Doug Barton wrote:
> For the OP, make sure you have the latest BIOS. I had a similar problem
> with vt-x and it was solved by a later BIOS upgrade.
And *that* solved the problem. The performance is much better, now
being a lot like using a poor wireless mouse.
On Sat, 14 Jul 2012 13:13:50 -0600 (MDT)
Warren Block wrote:
> On Sat, 14 Jul 2012, Mike Meyer wrote:
> Can you give a specific Linux version that has problems? I'm willing to
> download and test it on this i5/9-stable/amd64 system. Haven't noticed
> any problems, but I
On Sat, 14 Jul 2012 20:27:11 +0200 (CEST)
Wojciech Puchar wrote:
> > would have asked about that. My problem is sucky virtualbox
> > performance, on any guest that has VT-X emulation enabled (which means
> > all 64 bit guests).
> i would rather bet on linux addon kernel modules you have to install
On Sat, 14 Jul 2012 19:56:22 +0200 (CEST)
Wojciech Puchar wrote:
> CPU: Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU E31220 @ 3.10GHz (3100.03-MHz K8-class CPU)
If that the one normally listed as E3-1220? If so, it's a Sandy Bridge
processor. If not, then I have not idea what it is.
> > Unfortunately, once I got it se
I just set up a system designed to handle lots of VBox VM's: a 6-core
SandyBridge processor with 32GB of ram on a FreeBSD 8.3-STABLE host.
Unfortunately, once I got it set up, I found that VBox guest
performance simply sucks. The *mouse* isn't responsive. Linux guests
see lots of "CPU Locked" erro
On Tue, 10 Jul 2012 00:12:16 -0700
Doug Barton wrote:
> On 07/09/2012 19:46, Peter Jeremy wrote:
> > As I see it, FreeBSD systems fall roughly into 3 categories:
> > 1) Client systems that need to lookup external DNS servers only.
> > 2) SOHO systems that primarily do external lookups but need to
On Thu, 5 Jul 2012 11:08:36 -0700
Eitan Adler wrote:
> The system should be optimized for new users by default. Whether this
> means enabling or disabling a feature is feature-specific.
This is *not* what Unix has historically been. Historically, Unix has
a history of being "expert-friendly" - be
On Thu, 5 Jul 2012 18:18:10 +0100
Chris Rees wrote:
> You'd fall into the category of 'I would disable that feature' then.
>
> Since that is the case, you should stop commenting, now, and simply disable
> it if/when it comes out.
The claim is that it needs to be on for new users if it's going to
On Thu, 5 Jul 2012 15:57:09 +0100
Jonathan Anderson wrote:
> They do, and it's actually very useful in two cases:
> 1. new users — "my friend told me to try out latex, but when I type 'latex'
> nothing happens! oh wait, that's how I make it work"
> 2. confusingly-named packages. on FreeBSD:
>
>
On Thu, 5 Jul 2012 13:09:44 -0400
Jason Hellenthal wrote:
> On Thu, Jul 05, 2012 at 06:19:31PM +0200, Damien Fleuriot wrote:
> > As long as it can be toggled off system-wide, persistently (sysctl?), I
> > can't see the harm in bringing that in.
> Haha sysctl... thats going quite a bit too far into
On Wed, 4 Jul 2012 19:02:11 -0700
Tim Kientzle wrote:
> On Jul 4, 2012, at 6:42 PM, Mike Meyer wrote:
> > bash and zsh already have command_not_found handlers. I don't really
> > object to that functionality to sh and tcsh. Just *don't turn it on by
> > default*. I
On Wed, 4 Jul 2012 18:03:05 -0700
Tim Kientzle wrote:
> I'm curious whether the earlier objections were due to
> misunderstandings about auto-install. Auto-install would
> be problematic, but the feature being discussed here does not
> require installation. Just better error messages.
My object
On Wed, 04 Jul 2012 17:34:13 -0700
Doug Barton wrote:
> > As a first prototype, the database could just be a text file
> > and the look up program could be a shell script that uses
> > grep and sed.
> Right-O. The db should almost certainly be updated and distributed as
> part of the (already auto
On Wed, 04 Jul 2012 16:01:40 -0700
Doug Barton wrote:
> On 07/04/2012 15:57, Yuri wrote:
> > On 07/04/2012 15:08, Doug Barton wrote:
> >> First, I agree that being able to turn it off should be possible. But I
> >> can't help being curious ... why would you *not* want a feature that
> >> tells yo
On Wed, 04 Jul 2012 14:19:38 -0700
Doug Barton wrote:
> On 07/04/2012 11:51, Jason Hellenthal wrote:
> > What would be really nice here is a command wrapper hooked into the
> > shell so that when you type a command and it does not exist it presents
> > you with a question for suggestions to instal
On Thu, 21 Jun 2012 20:01:41 +0200 (CEST)
Wojciech Puchar wrote:
> >> 1) "runlevels" with arbitrary names. runlevel change would start and stop
> >> right services.
> >
> > With a couple of additions:
> > - it should be easy to see which services are on at a given runlevel.
>
> already propo
On Thu, 21 Jun 2012 12:22:08 +0200 (CEST)
Wojciech Puchar wrote:
> Lets make a summary.
>
> What functionality would be good to have in FreeBSD that doesn't exist:
>
> 1) "runlevels" with arbitrary names. runlevel change would start and stop
> right services.
With a couple of additions:
On Mon, 18 Jun 2012 13:42:27 -0500
Nathan Whitehorn wrote:
> On 06/17/12 19:43, Mike Meyer wrote:
> > Eric McCorkle wrote:
> >> The -m32 flag seems to be the culprit; removing it fixes the problem.
> >> This is why I was having problems, as the offsets in EFI_S
Eric McCorkle wrote:
>The -m32 flag seems to be the culprit; removing it fixes the problem.
>
>This is why I was having problems, as the offsets in EFI_SYSTEM_TABLE
>were wrong.
>
>In any case, this is a pretty serious error, and someone should try to
>reproduce it and take a look at it.
This
On Sat, 16 Jun 2012 21:04:26 +0100
Chris Rees wrote:
> On Jun 16, 2012 8:37 PM, "Xin LI" wrote:
> >
> > On Sat, Jun 16, 2012 at 12:01 PM, Chris Rees wrote:
> > > On Jun 14, 2012 5:49 AM, "Wojciech Puchar" <
> woj...@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl>
> > > wrote:
> >
> > file to take 900MB or..
On Fri, 04 May 2012 15:11:10 -0400
"Dieter BSD" wrote:
> *WHY* is Linux so much more popular than the BSDs?
My "newsbyte" answer is:
BSD is Unix for people who love quality software.
Linux is Unix for people who hate Microsoft.
There are a lot more of the latter than the former.
Expanded, most
On Tue, 10 Apr 2012 16:50:39 -0400
Arnaud Lacombe wrote:
> On Tue, Apr 10, 2012 at 4:05 PM, Mike Meyer wrote:
> > On Tue, 10 Apr 2012 12:58:00 -0400
> > Arnaud Lacombe wrote:
> >> Let me disagree on your conclusion. If OS A does a task in X seconds,
> >> and OS
On Tue, 10 Apr 2012 12:58:00 -0400
Arnaud Lacombe wrote:
> Let me disagree on your conclusion. If OS A does a task in X seconds,
> and OS B does the same task in Y seconds, if Y > X, then OS B is just
> not performing good enough.
Others have pointed out one problem with this statement. Let me po
On Mon, 5 Mar 2012 23:39:57 -0500
Brandon Falk wrote:
> I've been thinking for a while about possibly making an extremely
> lightweight environment that supports full monitor resolution, custom
> fonts, and terminals... that's about it.
>
> Essentially, an x11 that only supports tiling xterms al
On Wed, 25 Jan 2012 00:05:55 +0100
vermaden wrote:
> > > I have now filled these PR's here:
> > > http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=164432
> > Thanks. This makes these issues visible.
> One of them is already closed ... with ZERO changes,
> the reason from the person that closed it:
>
On Tue, 24 Jan 2012 15:23:47 -0600
Mark Linimon wrote:
> On Tue, Jan 24, 2012 at 12:24:22PM +0100, vermaden wrote:
> > It would be also good to have a wiki.freebsd.org page describing
> > what is needed and in what format a user should send the
> > documentation changes
>
> Perhaps there should b
On Thu, 19 Jan 2012 08:07:43 +0100
vermaden wrote:
> I got these maintainers email addresses from http://freshports.org
> page, are they up-to-date there? Maybe that is the problem and
> that my mails jest went to /dev/null ... Just checking for sure.
I dunno. If you want the maintainer as of you
On Wed, 18 Jan 2012 17:39:31 -0600
"Matthew D. Fuller" wrote:
> Or there's another option, a variant of (1), where we extend the
> lifetime of some major release trains, but not all. Every second, or
> every third. Then we can have a longer life, without ballooning out
> the number of trains bei
On Wed, 18 Jan 2012 09:49:23 -0800
Julian Elischer wrote:
> On 1/18/12 3:32 AM, Robert Watson wrote:
> >
> > Another possibility is to get some combination of {The FreeBSD
> > Foundation, iX Systems, ...} to trawl the bug report database in a
> > more official capacity. The problem there is tha
On Wed, 18 Jan 2012 13:11:02 +0200
Andriy Gapon wrote:
> on 18/01/2012 12:47 Poul-Henning Kamp said the following:
> > FreeBSD has _always_ been a project by the community, for the
> > community and there is no way it can be any other way.
> Well, reading this http://wiki.freebsd.org/FreeBSD-ng it
On Tue, 17 Jan 2012 21:27:24 +
Mark Blackman wrote:
> I'd have thought PC-BSD and iXsystems are the natural people to to
> take over that role in any case. The FreeBSD foundation seems less
> interested in the "for end-users" angle as well.
If that's the case, is there any reason for cutti
On Wed, 7 Dec 2011 12:17:57 +
Tom Evans wrote:
> The way I understand it is that they use compiler/assembler features
> that did not exist in the version of binutils that is in base.
Which begs the question - why isn't the new version of the tools
(provided by ports) listed in BUILDDEPENDS in
On Fri, 29 Apr 2011 12:02:03 -0700
"Devin Teske" wrote:
> > -Original Message-
> > From: Mike Meyer [mailto:m...@mired.org]
> > I'd like to revisit the numbers vs. letters for menu options. IIRC (and I
> > may
> not),
> > an earlier versi
On Sun, 24 Apr 2011 18:53:11 -0700
Devin Teske wrote:
> Hello fellow hackers,
>
> I'd love to finally release (under the BSD license) my code for the revamped
> FreeBSD boot loader menu.
>
> Here's a detailed discussion of the release complete with pictures:
> http://devinteske.com/new-freebsd
On Sun, 17 Apr 2011 15:11:03 +0300
Daniel Braniss wrote:
> when something gets too complicated, it's usualy helpful to look for other
> ways
> out:
> the /(root) + /usr + kernel-debuging + src is less than 1GB, so what I
> do (when diskless is not an option), I have a 2 partitions, both bootable,
On Fri, 25 Mar 2011 15:14:52 +0100
Baptiste Daroussin wrote:
> 2011/3/25 Alexander Leidinger :
> >> - the register command can analyse elf files when registering a new port
> >> to
> >> discover forgotten dependencies if necessary. (done in alpha using libelf)
> > This will probably fail if LD_LIB
On Mon, 14 Feb 2011 14:39:28 +0530
Ashish Mahamuni wrote:
> Thanks for the reply !!
>
> Garrett,
> Its a command available in Linux distros.
Yup. The linux folks seem to have gone on a campaign to make many
syscalls available as shell commands - this being one of them.
> Peter,
> I am not able
Catching up on mail after a couple of weeks with the flue.
On Mon, 24 Jan 2011 00:13:46 -0800
Garrett Cooper wrote:
> - The one caveat to cvsup/csup that's awesome is its componentization
> capability, i.e. being able to selectively download components in src
> / ports; I'm not 100% sure but
On Mon, 1 Jun 2009 00:59:43 +0100
xorquew...@googlemail.com wrote:
> There is one last thing I'd like clarified. From the zpool
> manpage:
>
> In order to take advantage of these features, a pool must make use of
> some form of redundancy, using either mirrored or raidz groups. While
> Z
On Sun, 31 May 2009 13:13:24 +0100
krad wrote:
> Please don't whack gstripe and zfs together. It should work but is ugly and
> you might run into issues. Getting out of them will be harder than a pure
> zfs solution
Yeah, I sorta suspected that might be the case.
> ZFS does support striping by
On Sat, 30 May 2009 20:18:40 +0100
xorquew...@googlemail.com wrote:
> > If you're running a 7.X 64-bit system with a couple of GIG of ram,
> > expect it to be in service for years without having to reformat the
> > disks, and can afford another drive, I'd recommend going to raidz on a
> > three-dri
On Sat, 30 May 2009 18:52:39 +0100
xorquew...@googlemail.com wrote:
> Simple question then as the handbook describes both ccd and gvinum -
> which should I pick?
My first reaction was "neither", then I realized - you didn't say what
version of FreeBSD you're running. But if you're running a suppor
On May 14, 2009, at 1:42, Adrian Chadd wrote:
2009/5/14 Josef Grosch :
I don't need 2d & 3d acceleration. I just need a card that will
handle
WindowMaker on a 24 inch Dell monitor at 1920x1200 and as long as
the flesh
tones on my JPGs don't suck I'm happy.
Thanks for the advice. I guess
On Wed, 13 May 2009 20:06:34 -0700
Josef Grosch wrote:
>
> I'm in search for a decent video card. I currently have an Nvidia GeForce
> 8400 GS. It worked pretty well i386 FreeBSD 6.2. I have upgraded my home
> machine and I am running amd64 FreeBSD 7.2 and it just refuses to go into
> X. It just
On Thu, 26 Mar 2009 20:58:02 +1100
Peter Jeremy wrote:
> On 2009-Mar-25 05:31:52 -0400, David Schultz wrote:
> >In the US, the rule that applies most of the time is that
> >Copyright expires 70 years after the author dies, although there
> >are many special cases where the term differs.
>
> And
I'm curious - is there a reason that the numbers from the old screen
have turned into function keys on this one?
http://www.mired.org/consulting.html
Independent Network/Unix/Perforce consultant, email for more information.
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On Wed, 7 Jan 2009 09:27:24 -0800 "Sheldon Givens" wrote:
> And I guess I just feel like running a second command to do what should be
> possible to do with the first command (and is, on many platforms. ps
> --no-headers on linux for example) is a problem and presents opportunity for
> continued r
On Sat, 6 Dec 2008 01:14:58 +0200
Kostik Belousov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Fri, Dec 05, 2008 at 03:10:56PM -0800, Sheldon Givens wrote:
> > What's the problem having it? The total code is mere bytes and it eases the
> > transition for others who are migrating from Linux.
> > You're absolute
On Wed, 26 Nov 2008 14:46:44 -0800
"Peter Steele" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >The phrase "and copy the file systems over to the mirror" worries
> >me. Do you actually copy the file systems, or do you let the mirror
> >system do it for you? In particular, are you mirroring file systems or
> >the
On Wed, 26 Nov 2008 10:46:29 -0800
"Peter Steele" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I have a procedure for converting a FreeBSD box to use a mirrored slice
> for the OS. Everything working fine except that after I've made the
> conversion I am no longer getting the normal boot menu, the one that
> coun
On Sun, 23 Nov 2008 19:15:54 -0600 (CST)
Braulio José Solano Rojas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I have an innocent question. I have read on the handbook and the thesis
> about the Linux ABI technical explanations that lead me to think that it
> could be possible to run Mac OS binaries on FreeBSD.
On Sat, 11 Oct 2008 20:37:10 +
"Freddie Cash" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > Most linux dists don't bother with multiple partitions any more.
> > They just have '/' and maybe a small boot partition, and that's it.
>
> Heh, that's more proof of the difficulties inherent with old-school
On Sat, 11 Oct 2008 04:24:31 -0700
Jeremy Chadwick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > I'm asking, because I want to deploy some zfs fileservers soon, and so
> > far the solution is either PXE boot, or keep one disk UFS (or boot off a
> > USB)
> > Today's /(root+usr) is somewhere between .5 to 1Gb(kern
On Fri, 10 Oct 2008 08:42:49 -0700
Jeremy Chadwick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Fri, Oct 10, 2008 at 11:29:52AM -0400, Mike Meyer wrote:
> > On Fri, 10 Oct 2008 07:41:11 -0700
> > Jeremy Chadwick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >
> > > On Fri, Oct 10
On Fri, 10 Oct 2008 18:51:26 +0300
Evren Yurtesen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> The original question (which was lost) was if somebody who has technical
> knowledge and coding skills who can put r1soft into the right track so
> their software can support FreeBSD. Because r1soft is interested in
>
On Fri, 10 Oct 2008 07:41:11 -0700
Jeremy Chadwick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Fri, Oct 10, 2008 at 03:53:38PM +0300, Evren Yurtesen wrote:
> > Mike Meyer wrote:
> >> On Fri, 10 Oct 2008 02:34:28 +0300
> >> [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> >>
>
On Fri, 10 Oct 2008 02:34:28 +0300
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> Quoting "Oliver Fromme" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
>
> > These features are readily available right now on FreeBSD.
> > You don't have to code anything.
>
> Well with 2 downsides,
Once you actually try and implement these solutions, you'll
On Mon, 6 Oct 2008 14:24:32 -0700
George Hartzell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> There were a couple of threads about using kqueue or other FreeBSD
> tools to build something like Mac OS X's Time Machine. R1soft's
> software sounds very similar.
Time machine doesn't do continuous backups, it does t
On Thu, 25 Sep 2008 23:25:46 +0200
Jordi Espasa Clofent <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I suppose it's a dumb (and crazy) question, but as post subject says:
> ¿Is it possible to regenerate the /usr/ports tree _from_ the installed
> ports?
Possibly. If the installed ports were built fr
On Thu, 14 Aug 2008 09:19:05 +0100 Tom Evans <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> On Wed, 2008-08-13 at 13:06 -0400, Mike Meyer wrote:
> > On Wed, 13 Aug 2008 17:58:39 +0100 Tom Evans <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >
> > > On Wed, 2008
On Wed, 13 Aug 2008 17:58:39 +0100 Tom Evans <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Wed, 2008-08-13 at 08:00 -0400, Mike Meyer wrote:
> >
> >stop If the service is to be started as specified by
> > rc.conf(5), stop the service. This
On Wed, 13 Aug 2008 12:27:30 +0200
Jonathan McKeown <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Wednesday 13 August 2008 10:40:53 Vincent Hoffman wrote:
> > Jonathan McKeown wrote:
> > > People keep talking about forcestart.
> > >
> > > Unless I'm misunderstanding things horribly, forcestart does exactly that
On Tue, 12 Aug 2008 17:10:22 +0200 "Adrian Penisoara" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> While we're at it, I wish we could leverage the posibility for the
> admin to manually start the service at the CLI, no matter whether the
> service has been enabled or not -- that is the "_enable" ke
On Wed, 06 Aug 2008 23:16:36 -0700 Tim Kientzle <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > The Solaris smf tools provide some nice facilities: one is single
> > interface to start, stop, check and restart all the services on a
> > system. We pretty much have that ...
> >
> > The other is a single interface t
On Thu, 7 Aug 2008 09:15:00 +0300 Alex Kozlov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> [1]:
> $cat /usr/local/bin/service
Basically what I had in mind, but it can be made more portable across
FreeBSD configurations.
> #!/bin/sh
>
> name=$1
> cmd=$2
>
> . /etc/rc.subr
> if [ -z "${name}" -o -z "${cmd}" ]
>
On Wed, 6 Aug 2008 22:34:51 -0400
"Michael B Allen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Wed, Aug 6, 2008 at 7:14 PM, <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > To who it may concern,
> >
> > I am A FreeBSD administrator as well as a Solaris Administrator. I use
> > BSD at home but Solaris at work. I love both
On Thu, 31 Jul 2008 11:17:54 +0200 Achim Patzner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Getting X to run on the *censored* *even more censorship*? No problem,
Like you say, it depends on what you want from X. Leopard's X was
tolerable. Tiger broke full screen mode, and Apple doesn't have the
resources to fi
On Tue, 15 Jul 2008 01:40:24 +0530
"Tapan Chaudhari" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hi,
>Thanks a lot Mike. But the problem is the device I am talking about is
> not the physical device. I am writing a driver which will create a virtual
> device and all the i/os done on this virtual device will
On Tue, 15 Jul 2008 00:48:42 +0530
"Tapan Chaudhari" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> This is not exactly what I wanted. I will try to elaborate myself.
> I am creating my own device which will act as a new boot slice which must be
> mounted as '/'. New device will process i/o calls and then redirect
On Sun, 13 Jul 2008 09:09:09 +0300
"Aggelidis Nikos" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hi to all the list, i 've been using FreeBSD for almost a month ,and i
> have this weird problem. Sometimes when i try to compile a program the
> computer will hard-reset itself, like someone pulled of the plug...
>
On Wed, 9 Jul 2008 13:50:17 -0400 "Zaphod Beeblebrox" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I did mention in my introduction that I was aware of this history (including
> that web page). I brought this up again because it hadn't seen daylight in
> quite some time. The Wiki page seems to say that it was up
On Tue, 8 Jul 2008 18:21:27 -0400
"Zaphod Beeblebrox" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I was just following up to a post in the forms nvidia supports regarding the
> graphics cards and FreeBSD when it struck me...
Rather late
> Possibly one of the most important glaring omissions to the current
On Fri, 4 Jul 2008 22:38:04 -0400
"Alexander Sack" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Fri, Jul 4, 2008 at 8:27 PM, Mike Meyer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > On Fri, 4 Jul 2008 20:12:58 -0400
> > "Alexander Sack" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote
On Fri, 4 Jul 2008 20:12:58 -0400
"Alexander Sack" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Fri, Jul 4, 2008 at 4:40 PM, Mike Meyer
> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > On Fri, 4 Jul 2008 14:42:27 +0200
> > Matthias Apitz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >>
On Fri, 4 Jul 2008 14:42:27 +0200
Matthias Apitz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I'm running a RELENG_7 kernel and a userland as 7.0-REL on one of my
> laptops; I've been asked to check if a given driver problem in RELENG_7 is as
> well with HEAD... can I update the kernel to HEAD and let the userland
On Thu, 3 Jul 2008 23:21:00 +0200
Michel Talon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> evolve easily. The argument that there sould be no external dependency
> seems to me inspired by the NIH syndrom.
I think your seeming is wrong. I believe it's inspired by the belief
that the base system should be self-rep
On Wed, 02 Jul 2008 15:16:27 -0700
Curtis Penner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> BSD has a better overall core OS then the other UNIX flavors.
I disagree, but that's another debate. BSD is still my desktop OS of
choice.
> So what is wrong?
>
> It doesn't have the native 3rd party applications. Why
On Wed, 2 Jul 2008 13:15:45 +0100 Rui Paulo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Sat, Jun 28, 2008 at 07:15:33PM -0400, Mike Meyer wrote:
> > I'm trying to get FreeBSD 7-RELEASE running in a VirtualBox VM to use
> > all of my LCD panel in X. The running X is using the vesa d
I'm trying to get FreeBSD 7-RELEASE running in a VirtualBox VM to use
all of my LCD panel in X. The running X is using the vesa driver,
which should be cool for this, as VirtualBox has provisions for
creating custom vesa modes. And in fact, the Xorg.0.log file shows
that it sees the new mode - but
On Wed, 25 Jun 2008 13:00:09 -0400 "Ben Kaduk" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Tue, Jun 24, 2008 at 6:06 PM, Thierry Herbelot <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >
> > is there any hope for having the newly open-sourced radeon/radeon-hd AMD
> > drivers (and the related 3D acceleration) to work under Free
On Tue, 24 Jun 2008 14:36:42 -0400
Naram Qashat <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Julian Stacey wrote:
> > "Mark Carlson" wrote:
> >> On 6/19/08, John Kozubik <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > . Elided ...
> >>> [1] Since we're all probably already running Linux Binary
> >>> Compat anyway...
> >>
On Thu, 19 Jun 2008 17:41:20 -0400
Chuck Robey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
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> Chuck Robey wrote:
> > Mike Meyer wrote:
> >> On Thu, 19 Jun 2008 14:00:42 -0400 "Zaphod Beeblebrox" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
On Thu, 19 Jun 2008 14:00:42 -0400 "Zaphod Beeblebrox" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
> On Wed, Jun 18, 2008 at 8:13 AM, Stephen Hocking <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> wrote:
> > Given that Nvidia aren't offering a driver for their cards for 64bit
> > FreeBSD, is anyone else having success using another (pref
On Fri, 16 May 2008 16:13:07 +0200 Stefan Farfeleder <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Fri, May 16, 2008 at 10:11:43AM -0400, Mike Meyer wrote:
> > On Fri, 16 May 2008 09:44:33 +0200
> > Stefan Farfeleder <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >
> > > On Sun, Ma
On Sun, 18 May 2008 19:35:44 +0100
Rui Paulo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Mike Meyer wrote:
> > On Sun, 18 May 2008 16:50:28 +0100
> > Rui Paulo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >
> >> Mike Meyer wrote:
> >>> On Sat, 17 May 2008 11:13:52 +0300
&
On Sun, 18 May 2008 19:35:44 +0100
Rui Paulo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Mike Meyer wrote:
> > On Sun, 18 May 2008 16:50:28 +0100
> > Rui Paulo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >
> >> Mike Meyer wrote:
> >>> On Sat, 17 May 2008 11:13:52 +0300
&
On Sun, 18 May 2008 16:50:28 +0100
Rui Paulo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Mike Meyer wrote:
> > On Sat, 17 May 2008 11:13:52 +0300
> > Andriy Gapon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >> It seems that rdmsr instruction can be executed only at the highest
> >&
On Sat, 17 May 2008 18:26:01 +0100
Rui Paulo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Andriy Gapon wrote:
> > on 17/05/2008 18:37 Rui Paulo said the following:
> >> Andriy Gapon wrote:
> >>>
> >>> It seems that rdmsr instruction can be executed only at the highest
> >>> privilege level and thus is not permit
On Sat, 17 May 2008 11:13:52 +0300
Andriy Gapon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> It seems that rdmsr instruction can be executed only at the highest
> privilege level and thus is not permitted from userland. Maybe we should
> provide something like Linux /dev/cpu/msr?
> I don't like interface of that
On Fri, 16 May 2008 12:01:50 -0700
Mark Foster <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Mike Meyer wrote:
> > What makes you think dnsmasq doesn't cache? The documentation says
> > otherwise (second paragraph of the man page):
> >
> >Dnsmasq accepts DNS queri
On Fri, 16 May 2008 09:44:33 +0200
Stefan Farfeleder <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Sun, Mar 09, 2008 at 03:27:12PM -0400, Mike Meyer wrote:
> > I've stumbled on to an obscure problem with autoconf 2.61, and I'm not
> > sure quite what to do with it. I'
On Thu, 15 May 2008 05:45:29 +1000
Peter Jeremy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On 2008-May-14 10:24:10 -0400, Mike Meyer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >Just out of curiosity - there seems to be an unspoken assumption that
> >the ports system can only use tools that are
On Wed, 14 May 2008 17:17:28 +1000 Peter Jeremy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On 2008-May-13 22:06:21 +0100, James Mansion <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >And is the objection to SQL such the sqlite is really out of the running?
>
> There is no specific objection to SQL. There is a general objectio
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