Re: How to dual-boot FreeBSD 9 with Linux?

2011-10-28 Thread Unga
- Original Message - > From: Thomas Mueller > To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.org > Cc: > Sent: Saturday, October 29, 2011 4:47 AM > Subject: Re: How to dual-boot FreeBSD 9 with Linux? > >> Is any one by now successfully dual-booting FreeBSD 9 with Linux? > >> I have tried with OpenSus

Re: How to dual-boot FreeBSD 9 with Linux? [ SOLVED]

2011-10-28 Thread Unga
- Original Message - > From: Carl Johnson > To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org > Cc: > Sent: Saturday, October 29, 2011 4:12 AM > Subject: Re: How to dual-boot FreeBSD 9 with Linux? > > Unga writes: > >> Hi all >> >> Is any one by now successfully dual-booting FreeBSD 9 with Linux?

Re: How to dual-boot FreeBSD 9 with Linux?

2011-10-28 Thread Thomas Mueller
> Is any one by now successfully dual-booting FreeBSD 9 with Linux? > I have tried with OpenSuse 11.4 with FreeBSD 9. OpenSuse installs Grub1 to > mbr. Grub1 doesn't seem to support FreeBSD 9. It cannot recognise the file > system +type. > Any help in this regard is very much appreciated. > Ma

Re: How to dual-boot FreeBSD 9 with Linux?

2011-10-28 Thread Carl Johnson
Unga writes: > Hi all > > Is any one by now successfully dual-booting FreeBSD 9 with Linux? > > I have tried with OpenSuse 11.4 with FreeBSD 9. OpenSuse installs > Grub1 to mbr. Grub1 doesn't seem to support FreeBSD 9. It cannot > recognise the file system type. > > Any help in this regard is ver

Re: Fast personal printing _without_ CUPS

2011-10-28 Thread Randy Pratt
On Thu, 27 Oct 2011 01:28:30 -0700 "Ronald F. Guilmette" wrote: > > > This isn't really a question. It's more of a semi-rant, combined with some > information that I wanted to put on the record (so that it can be googled) > because it may benefit some folks, other than just me. > > I'm impati

Re: Fast personal printing _without_ CUPS

2011-10-28 Thread Robert Bonomi
On Sat, 29 Oct 2011 00:44:59 +0200, Polytropon wrote > > On Fri, 28 Oct 2011 17:27:03 -0500 (CDT), Robert Bonomi wrote: > > Your insistance on trying to impose -your- standards on the world, and > > denying them the 'freedom of choice' to make their own decisions on the > > matter -- e.g. "anyon

Re: Fast personal printing _without_ CUPS

2011-10-28 Thread perryh
Warren Block wrote: > A better example would be a web browser or word processor. The > program stops responding to further input until the printer has > received the entire print job. This bothered people enough that > they came up with lpd/lpr ... Back when lpr/lpd were first written, it was

Re: Fast personal printing _without_ CUPS

2011-10-28 Thread Polytropon
On Fri, 28 Oct 2011 17:27:03 -0500 (CDT), Robert Bonomi wrote: > Your insistance on trying to impose -your- standards on the world, and > denying them the 'freedom of choice' to make their own decisions on the > matter -- e.g. "anyone offering such products should be to some degree > held legally

Re: header files?:: where?

2011-10-28 Thread Robert Bonomi
> Date: Fri, 28 Oct 2011 15:24:13 -0700 > From: Gary Kline > To: FreeBSD Mailing List > Subject: header files?:: where? > > > yes, i'm still messing with my curses pgm and have made some > discoveries---among them, that xmodmap might be interferring with my > configuration. > > anyway, anybody k

Re: header files?:: where?

2011-10-28 Thread Devin Teske
On Oct 28, 2011, at 3:24 PM, Gary Kline wrote: > > yes, i'm still messing with my curses pgm and have made some > discoveries---among them, that xmodmap might be interferring with my > configuration. > > anyway, anybody know where the following headers might be found/ > > > > #include "g

Re: Fast personal printing _without_ CUPS

2011-10-28 Thread Christopher J. Ruwe
On Fri, 28 Oct 2011 17:54:01 -0400 Jerry wrote: > On Fri, 28 Oct 2011 16:35:20 -0500 (CDT) > Robert Bonomi articulated: > > > > > On Fri, 28 Oct 2011 16:04:19 -0400, Jerry > > pontificated: > > > > > > I buy my cars from known corporations and not the local chop-shop. > > > My drugs come form

Re: Fast personal printing _without_ CUPS

2011-10-28 Thread Robert Bonomi
On Fri, 28 Oct 2011 17:54:01 -0400 Jerry supersciliously ponftificated: > > On Fri, 28 Oct 2011 16:35:20 -0500 (CDT) > Robert Bonomi articulated: > > > > > On Fri, 28 Oct 2011 16:04:19 -0400, Jerry > > pontificated: > > > > > > I buy my cars from known corporations and not the local chop-shop.

Re: Fast personal printing _without_ CUPS

2011-10-28 Thread Polytropon
On Fri, 28 Oct 2011 17:54:01 -0400, Jerry wrote: > Remember the adage: "You get what you pay for." That's often true - especially in the home consumer market you mostly get crap, this is what you pay for. But in some cases, you can't control _what_ you get just per payment, means: Just because it

header files?:: where?

2011-10-28 Thread Gary Kline
yes, i'm still messing with my curses pgm and have made some discoveries---among them, that xmodmap might be interferring with my configuration. anyway, anybody know where the following headers might be found/ #include "gen_defs.h" #include "ciolib.h" #include "curs_cio.h" #include "key

Re: Fast personal printing _without_ CUPS

2011-10-28 Thread Jerry
On Fri, 28 Oct 2011 16:17:46 -0500 (CDT) Robert Bonomi articulated: > P.S. If _anybody_ wants to accuse me of 'name-calling', note well > that Jerry started it, and without any provocation. "Mommy.mommy, come quick. The boy next door is picking on me." -- Jerry ✌ jerry+f...@seibercom.net Discl

Re: Fast personal printing _without_ CUPS

2011-10-28 Thread Jerry
On Fri, 28 Oct 2011 16:35:20 -0500 (CDT) Robert Bonomi articulated: > > On Fri, 28 Oct 2011 16:04:19 -0400, Jerry > pontificated: > > > > I buy my cars from known corporations and not the local chop-shop. > > My drugs come form known pharmaceutical corporations and not the > > local pusher. I li

Re: Fast personal printing _without_ CUPS

2011-10-28 Thread Robert Bonomi
On Fri, 28 Oct 2011 16:04:19 -0400, Jerry pontificated: > > I buy my cars from known corporations and not the local chop-shop. My > drugs come form known pharmaceutical corporations and not the local > pusher. I like my device specific codes to come from those best able to > supply them, the OEM.

Re: Fast personal printing _without_ CUPS

2011-10-28 Thread Polytropon
On Fri, 28 Oct 2011 16:04:19 -0400, Jerry wrote: > On Fri, 28 Oct 2011 21:12:54 +0200 > Polytropon articulated: > > > So let me make this more clear: IF the hardware manufacturer > > wants to allow developers to write drivers for their hardware > > for free, THEN everything they'd have to do is to

Re: Fast personal printing _without_ CUPS

2011-10-28 Thread Jerry
On Fri, 28 Oct 2011 13:14:26 -0700 Chuck Swiger articulated: > On Oct 28, 2011, at 1:04 PM, Jerry wrote: > > Check out "MOVED" in the ports. There are numerous applications that > > are just abandoned or discontinued. If something breaks I want > > someone to contact. I realize that is not the Ope

Re: Fast personal printing _without_ CUPS

2011-10-28 Thread Chuck Swiger
On Oct 28, 2011, at 1:04 PM, Jerry wrote: > Check out "MOVED" in the ports. There are numerous applications that > are just abandoned or discontinued. If something breaks I want someone > to contact. I realize that is not the Open Source way however. The > thought of someone actually being responsi

Re: Fast personal printing _without_ CUPS

2011-10-28 Thread Jerry
On Fri, 28 Oct 2011 21:12:54 +0200 Polytropon articulated: > So let me make this more clear: IF the hardware manufacturer > wants to allow developers to write drivers for their hardware > for free, THEN everything they'd have to do is to publish the > control codes for the sheet feeder and the ink

Re: Fast personal printing _without_ CUPS

2011-10-28 Thread Polytropon
On Fri, 28 Oct 2011 06:36:20 -0400, Jerry wrote: > Welcome to the wonderful world of printing on FreeBSD. By the way, is > the time you are investing in this venture considered billable hours or > just self-flagellation? Maybe you can also ask the other way round: BEFORE I buy a product, I ask: D

Re: rsync and the ports tree

2011-10-28 Thread Peter Kryszkiewicz
Sounds like a well-thought out backup strategy. I've started to use your methods here, and I'm building ports I need at the same time, but the wireless here is not password protected so is incredibly slow as there are lots of leaches on the system. But while I'm plodding along, I have a few more qu

Re: Fast personal printing _without_ CUPS

2011-10-28 Thread Polytropon
On Fri, 28 Oct 2011 00:53:44 -0600 (MDT), Warren Block wrote: > A better example would be a web browser or word processor. The program > stops responding to further input until the printer has received the > entire print job. This bothered people enough that they came up with > lpd/lpr, which

How to dual-boot FreeBSD 9 with Linux?

2011-10-28 Thread Unga
Hi all Is any one by now successfully dual-booting FreeBSD 9 with Linux? I have tried with OpenSuse 11.4 with FreeBSD 9. OpenSuse installs Grub1 to mbr. Grub1 doesn't seem to support FreeBSD 9. It cannot recognise the file system type. Any help in this regard is very much appreciated. Many th

Re: (8.2) share lib and ldconfig problem.

2011-10-28 Thread b. f.
> Hello, > > 8.2 STABLE/i386 > > I'm hit by something strange. > > Basically ldconfig does not take care of some libs > in /usr/local/lib/compat/pkg > > By sample I've updated icu (via portupgrade) and libreoffice does not > start anymore. > > $ libreoffice > /libexec/ld-elf.so.1: Shared object "li

Re: CARP related trivial question

2011-10-28 Thread Snoop
Thanks for replying Dave, that's the problem. There's no module and apparently it's supposed to be there. Ready to be loaded. :-O Mistake in the FreeBSD handbook? On Wed, 2011-10-26 at 14:14 -0700, Robison, Dave wrote: > On 10/26/2011 12:20, Snoop wrote: > > Hi everybody, > > I've got a pretty tri

Re: Fast personal printing _without_ CUPS

2011-10-28 Thread Warren Block
On Fri, 28 Oct 2011, Daniel Feenberg wrote: On Thu, 27 Oct 2011, Mark Felder wrote: You've just made me a happy, happy user. I always wondered what it would take to get rid of CUPS, and today I've done it. Finally my print jobs are instantaneous here at work instead of being a mystery. Can't

Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS on Dell with FreeBSD

2011-10-28 Thread Vincent Hoffman
On 28/10/2011 06:53, Albert Shih wrote: > Le 27/10/2011 à 13:34:50-0400, David Magda a écrit >> On Thu, October 27, 2011 11:32, Albert Shih wrote: >> I also recommend LSI 9200-8E or new 9205-8E with the IT firmware based on past experience >>> Do you known if the LSI-9205-8E HBA or the L

Re: Fast personal printing _without_ CUPS

2011-10-28 Thread Daniel Feenberg
On Thu, 27 Oct 2011, Mark Felder wrote: You've just made me a happy, happy user. I always wondered what it would take to get rid of CUPS, and today I've done it. Finally my print jobs are instantaneous here at work instead of being a mystery. Can't wait to go home and do the same with my per

Re: Fast personal printing _without_ CUPS

2011-10-28 Thread Jerry
On Thu, 27 Oct 2011 19:09:05 -0500 (CDT) Robert Bonomi articulated: > > From owner-freebsd-questi...@freebsd.org Thu Oct 27 16:46:51 2011 > > Date: Thu, 27 Oct 2011 17:46:21 -0400 > > From: Jerry > > To: FreeBSD > > Subject: Re: Fast personal printing _without_ CUPS > > > > On Thu, 27 Oct 2011

Re: Fast personal printing _without_ CUPS

2011-10-28 Thread Jerry
On Fri, 28 Oct 2011 08:08:07 + (GMT) Thomas Mueller articulated: > from Mark Felder : > > > You've just made me a happy, happy user. I always wondered what it > > would take to get rid of CUPS, and today I've done it. Finally my > > print jobs are instantaneous here at work instead of being a

Re: Fast personal printing _without_ CUPS

2011-10-28 Thread Thomas Mueller
from Mark Felder : > You've just made me a happy, happy user. I always wondered what it would > take to get rid of CUPS, and today I've done it. Finally my print jobs are > instantaneous here at work instead of being a mystery. Can't wait to go > home and do the same with my personal laser.