Re: "Unprintable" 8-bit characters

2011-11-10 Thread Conrad J. Sabatier
On Tue, 8 Nov 2011 23:04:25 -0600 (CST) Robert Bonomi wrote: > > "Conrad J. Sabatier" wrote: > > > > > > > > Yes, and this is one area where the labels are more than a little > > misleading as well. My natural inclination is think of UTF-8 as > > being a single-byte representation for each ch

Re: X server and xinit works excellent....almost.

2011-11-10 Thread Chuck Swiger
On Nov 10, 2011, at 3:57 PM, David Brodbeck wrote: > On Thu, Nov 10, 2011 at 11:12 AM, Chuck Swiger wrote: >> FreeBSD's users generally are more technically inclined and might be willing >> to deal with this, but even so, I suspect that most folks would appreciate >> the system trying to figure

Still stalls on xpt_config

2011-11-10 Thread Chuck Bacon
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? Very thankful

Re: DBUS + kvm breaks X server (was: X server and xinit works excellent....almost.)

2011-11-10 Thread David Brodbeck
On Wed, Nov 9, 2011 at 11:56 AM, Warren Block wrote: > Are the keyboard and mouse USB devices?  A KVM should not disconnect them on > switching, but maybe it does. In my experience, most inexpensive USB KVMs work by disconnecting the keyboard/mouse from one system and reconnecting them to the oth

Re: X server and xinit works excellent....almost.

2011-11-10 Thread David Brodbeck
On Thu, Nov 10, 2011 at 11:12 AM, Chuck Swiger wrote: > FreeBSD's users generally are more technically inclined and might be willing > to deal with this, but even so, I suspect that most folks would appreciate > the system trying to figure out that an AZERTY keyboard layout means French, > that

Re: 7.2 to 8.2 buildkernel fails (Suspect ignorance...)

2011-11-10 Thread Gene
On Thu, 10 Nov 2011 13:36:54 -0600, Reid Linnemann wrote > On Thu, Nov 10, 2011 at 1:02 PM, Gene > wrote: > > Hi All: > > I attempting to build an 8.2 kernel on a 7.2 machine. I suspect that > > something need to be ipdated first, but don't no exactly what. It says > > "inline functions are not s

Re: changing baud rate without recompiling

2011-11-10 Thread Manolis Kiagias
On 9/11/2011 11:11 πμ, saeedeh motlagh wrote: i know adding the "COM_CONSOLE_SPEED=115200" to make.conf and recompile it, change the baud rate but i want to know if there is a way to change it without recompiling. please let me know if there is any way to do that. my FreeBSD is 8.0 thanks. I a

Re: 7.2 to 8.2 buildkernel fails (Suspect ignorance...)

2011-11-10 Thread Reid Linnemann
On Thu, Nov 10, 2011 at 1:02 PM, Gene wrote: > Hi All: > I attempting to build an 8.2 kernel on a 7.2 machine. I suspect that > something need to be ipdated first, but don't no exactly what. It says > "inline functions are not supported; using GNU89". I get the following: > > =

Re: FreeBSD make buildworld fail: cc: Internal error: Killed: 9 (program cc1)

2011-11-10 Thread Frank Shute
On Thu, Nov 10, 2011 at 10:05:27AM +, Traiano Welcome wrote: > [snip] > > cc -O2 -pipe -DIN_GCC -DHAVE_CONFIG_H > -DPREFIX=\"/usr/obj/usr/src/tmp/usr\" > -I/usr/obj/usr/src/tmp/usr/src/gnu/usr.bin/cc/cc_int/../cc_tools > -I/usr/src/gnu/usr.bin/cc/cc_int/../cc_tools > -I/usr/src/gnu/usr.bin/cc/

7.2 to 8.2 buildkernel fails (Suspect ignorance...)

2011-11-10 Thread Gene
Hi All: I attempting to build an 8.2 kernel on a 7.2 machine. I suspect that something need to be ipdated first, but don't no exactly what. It says "inline functions are not supported; using GNU89". I get the following: = cc -c -O -pipe

Re: X server and xinit works excellent....almost.

2011-11-10 Thread Michael Cardell Widerkrantz
Chuck Swiger , 2011-11-10 20:12 (+0100): > Different keycaps means a different product SKU, at least. If they use > the same USB product ID Yes. I think this is a quite common scenario. > FreeBSD's users generally are more technically inclined and might be > willing to deal with this, but even s

Re: X server and xinit works excellent....almost.

2011-11-10 Thread Chuck Swiger
On Nov 10, 2011, at 2:25 AM, Michael Cardell Widerkrantz wrote: >> True for PS/2, but not true for USB-- the USB Vendor & Product ID can >> identify different keyboard types and let you infer the country. > > I'm sorry I was unclear. I meant the USB device doesn't say what > physical keyboard la

Re: sed vs gnu sed

2011-11-10 Thread krad
On 10 November 2011 10:33, Vincent Hoffman wrote: > On 10/11/2011 07:00, per...@pluto.rain.com wrote: > >> Vincent Hoffman wrote: >> >> bsd sed (correctly according to SUS at least, I believe[1]) >>> appends a newline when writing to standard out, gnu sed doesnt. >>> >> The wonderful thing abou

Fwd: changing baud rate without recompiling

2011-11-10 Thread saeedeh motlagh
On Thu, Nov 10, 2011 at 11:48 AM, saeedeh motlagh wrote: > hi > thanks for your answer. the output of "ps ax | grep getty" is: > 1357 u0 Is+0:00.00 /usr/libexec/getty std.115200 ttyu0 > i think it's true. isn't it? but the stty -f /dev/ttyu0 shows 9600 and > can't have communication with th

Re: FreeBSD make buildworld fail: cc: Internal error: Killed: 9 (program cc1)

2011-11-10 Thread Frank Shute
On Thu, Nov 10, 2011 at 10:05:27AM +, Traiano Welcome wrote: > > Hi All > > I'm trying to upgrade from FreeBSD 8.0-RELEASE #0 to FreeBSD 8.2 or > better. My upgrade sequence would be as follows: > > 0. cd /usr/src/;make cleanworld (and in extreme cases rm -rf /usr/src/* > and rm -rf /usr/ob

Re: FreeBSD make buildworld fail: cc: Internal error: Killed: 9 (program cc1)

2011-11-10 Thread Denise H. G.
On 2011/11/10 at 20:56, Traiano Welcome wrote: > > Hi > Thanks for the feedback. > > > > I'd be happy to try this sequence, however I don't make it past "make > buildworld". > (of note, the sequence I used above works on all my other boxen though) > > I've just scrutinised /usr/src/UPDAT

Re: FreeBSD make buildworld fail: cc: Internal error: Killed: 9 (program cc1)

2011-11-10 Thread Johan Hendriks
Damien Fleuriot schreef: Here are mine: SUP_UPDATE= yes SUP=/usr/bin/csup SUPFLAGS= -zgL 2 SUPHOST=cvsup1.fr.freebsd.org SUPFILE=/etc/cvsup/stable-supfile PORTSSUPFILE= /etc/cvsup/ports-supfile DOCSUPFILE= /etc/cvsup/doc-supfile There is no -g anymore

Re: FreeBSD make buildworld fail: cc: Internal error: Killed: 9 (program cc1)

2011-11-10 Thread Damien Fleuriot
On 11/10/11 11:05 AM, Traiano Welcome wrote: > Hi All > > I'm trying to upgrade from FreeBSD 8.0-RELEASE #0 to FreeBSD 8.2 or > better. My upgrade sequence would be as follows: > > 0. cd /usr/src/;make cleanworld (and in extreme cases rm -rf /usr/src/* > and rm -rf /usr/obj) > 1. csup -L 2 sta

Re: FreeBSD make buildworld fail: cc: Internal error: Killed: 9 (program cc1)

2011-11-10 Thread Traiano Welcome
Hi Thanks for the feedback. On 2011/11/10 1:28 PM, "Denise H. G." wrote: > >On 2011/11/10 at 18:05, Traiano Welcome > wrote: >> >> Hi All >> I'm trying to upgrade from FreeBSD 8.0-RELEASE #0 to FreeBSD 8.2 or >> better. My upgrade sequence would be as follows: >> >> 0. cd /usr/src/;make c

Re: X server and xinit works excellent....almost.

2011-11-10 Thread Bernt Hansson
2011-11-09 21:52, Samuel Magnusson skrev: When I first installed Xorg I began by following the handbook, which means that I unwittingly did this to my poor rc.conf: hald_enable="YES" dbus_enable="YES" That meant that I would HAVE to go into the XML-stuff (to get swedish keys) If all you want

Re: FreeBSD make buildworld fail: cc: Internal error: Killed: 9 (program cc1)

2011-11-10 Thread Denise H. G.
On 2011/11/10 at 18:05, Traiano Welcome wrote: > > Hi All > I'm trying to upgrade from FreeBSD 8.0-RELEASE #0 to FreeBSD 8.2 or > better. My upgrade sequence would be as follows: > > 0. cd /usr/src/;make cleanworld (and in extreme cases rm -rf /usr/src/* > and rm -rf /usr/obj) > 1. csup -L

Re: X server and xinit works excellent....almost.

2011-11-10 Thread Michael Cardell Widerkrantz
Polytropon , 2011-11-10 01:30 (+0100): > Now as it (almost?) works on FreeBSD, it's already deprecated by new > Linux concepts such as udev, upower and other us. Maybe > they become available as interfaces on FreeBSD too, but my fear is... > as soon as they are usable, there's already something el

Re: sed vs gnu sed

2011-11-10 Thread Vincent Hoffman
On 10/11/2011 07:00, per...@pluto.rain.com wrote: Vincent Hoffman wrote: bsd sed (correctly according to SUS at least, I believe[1]) appends a newline when writing to standard out, gnu sed doesnt. The wonderful thing about standards is that there are so many to choose from -- Tanenbaum is

Re: X server and xinit works excellent....almost.

2011-11-10 Thread Michael Cardell Widerkrantz
Samuel Magnusson , 2011-11-10 00:49 (+0100): > Michael Cardell Widerkrantz wrote 2011-11-09 21:02: >> What new style XML method? > I'm referring to what Polytropon said about all the "new" stuff > required by X. As I understood him he was talking about the XML-files > to give directions to HAL

Re: X server and xinit works excellent....almost.

2011-11-10 Thread Michael Cardell Widerkrantz
Samuel Magnusson , 2011-11-09 21:52 (+0100): > Because with HAL and DBUS enabled this InputDevice section is bypassed > unless I also specify Option "AutoAddDevices" "false". Which I > understand gives the same result as not enabling HAL and DBUS in the > first place. If you don't enable HAL and

FreeBSD make buildworld fail: cc: Internal error: Killed: 9 (program cc1)

2011-11-10 Thread Traiano Welcome
Hi All I'm trying to upgrade from FreeBSD 8.0-RELEASE #0 to FreeBSD 8.2 or better. My upgrade sequence would be as follows: 0. cd /usr/src/;make cleanworld (and in extreme cases rm -rf /usr/src/* and rm -rf /usr/obj) 1. csup -L 2 stable supfile. 2. cd /usr/src; make buildworld && make buildke

Freebsd 6 and nfsstats counters

2011-11-10 Thread krad
Hi, I have a bunch of old freebsd servers I want to collect nfs stats from. The problem is a lots of the counters have wrapped around. On other Freebsd 7+ machines I take care of this be a weekly cron of "nfsstat -c -z". The z option isnt available in freebsd 6, and I cant see a direct sysctl OID

Re: X server and xinit works excellent....almost.

2011-11-10 Thread Michael Cardell Widerkrantz
Chuck Swiger , 2011-11-09 22:10 (+0100): >> How would HAL know that the keyboard had a Swedish layout? No such >> information is sent through USB or PS/2 when you attach a keyboard. > > True for PS/2, but not true for USB-- the USB Vendor & Product ID can > identify different keyboard types and le

How to persist tape configuration

2011-11-10 Thread Andrea Venturoli
Hello. I need to set my tape with: mt comp off. After a reboot I need to do this again. I could write a script and place it in /usr/local/etc/rc.d, but I'm just wondering if there's already something standard in /etc. bye & Thanks av. ___

Re: X server and xinit works excellent....almost.

2011-11-10 Thread perryh
Chuck Swiger wrote: > > My assumption still is: Not _every_ keyboard manufacturer does > > code the layout into the USB identification. If you tell me I'm > > wrong with this assumption, I'll be happy. :-) > > Folks are supposed to use a different product ID for different > devices, so you can un

Re: php5-pgsql and postgresql 9.1.1

2011-11-10 Thread Robert Simmons
On Thu, Nov 10, 2011 at 2:30 AM, Robert Simmons wrote: > I'm trying to get the php5-pgsql module to work with postgresql 9.1.1, > the current version in ports.  It seems that when I install php5-pgsql > from ports it depends on postgresql 8.4.9.  I don't see anything in > the Makefile that allows