Re: questions on the use of moused for Xorg

2012-08-06 Thread Martin Alejandro Paredes Sanchez
On Sunday 05 August 2012 19:46:30 Martin Alejandro Paredes Sanchez wrote: > > The driver UMS detects the Z Axis and the Wheel [XYZW] > > ums0: addr 4> on usbus1 ums0: 4 buttons and [XYZW] coordinates ID=0 > Enabling debug for ums, I confirm that ums is detecting moves in Z an W Why is moused ign

Re: Why can't I set my cpu type in kernel config ?

2012-08-06 Thread Chris Hill
On Tue, 7 Aug 2012, RW wrote: On Mon, 6 Aug 2012 16:53:04 -0700 (PDT) Jason Usher wrote: I am installing 8.3-RELEASE on an old 900mhz pentium laptop ... it's an i686 CPU. By default, GENERIC has "HAMMER" as the cpu, and that isn't working. So I tried both: That's the amd64 (64-bit) GENERIC

Re: Why can't I set my cpu type in kernel config ?

2012-08-06 Thread RW
On Mon, 6 Aug 2012 16:53:04 -0700 (PDT) Jason Usher wrote: > I am installing 8.3-RELEASE on an old 900mhz pentium laptop ... it's > an i686 CPU. > > By default, GENERIC has "HAMMER" as the cpu, and that isn't working. > So I tried both: That's the amd64 (64-bit) GENERIC

Re: Why can't I set my cpu type in kernel config ?

2012-08-06 Thread Michael Sierchio
make LINT vi LINT On Mon, Aug 6, 2012 at 4:53 PM, Jason Usher wrote: > I am installing 8.3-RELEASE on an old 900mhz pentium laptop ... it's an > i686 CPU. > > By default, GENERIC has "HAMMER" as the cpu, and that isn't working. So I > tried both: > > cpu I586_CPU > > and: > > cpu I686

Why can't I set my cpu type in kernel config ?

2012-08-06 Thread Jason Usher
I am installing 8.3-RELEASE on an old 900mhz pentium laptop ... it's an i686 CPU. By default, GENERIC has "HAMMER" as the cpu, and that isn't working. So I tried both: cpu I586_CPU and: cpu I686_CPU (I also tried them both lowercase, like i686_cpu) But all of these fail: GENERIC:

Re: Patent hit - MS goes after Linux - FreeBSD ?

2012-08-06 Thread David Brodbeck
On Mon, Aug 6, 2012 at 7:48 PM, Polytropon wrote: > It's also debatable if one of today's most prominent use > of patents is fair: "I tell you! I have patents! You are > infringing! I'm not gonna tell you which patents about > what, but I'll sue all your users!" Of course, if such > a claim enters

Problem with cvsup since 9.0-STABLE FreeBSD 9.0-STABLE #225 r229960M

2012-08-06 Thread Edwin L. Culp W.
TreeList failed: Error in "/usr/local/etc/cvsup/sup/cvsroot-all/checkouts.cvs:RELENG_9": Bad header line. Delete it and try again. I deleted that above mentioned file before running cvsup. I've been using the configuration file for many years with no changes and don't normally check because it h

Re: Patent hit - MS goes after Linux - FreeBSD ?

2012-08-06 Thread Jerry
On Mon, 6 Aug 2012 21:48:30 +0200 Polytropon articulated: > On Mon, 6 Aug 2012 19:08:19 +, David Brodbeck wrote: > > Now, it's reasonable to argue that in some fields the duration of > > that limited monopoly is too long, given how quickly technology > > advances, but that doesn't mean the con

Re: Patent hit - MS goes after Linux - FreeBSD ?

2012-08-06 Thread Chad Perrin
On Sun, Aug 05, 2012 at 09:33:20AM -0400, Jerry wrote: > On Sun, 5 Aug 2012 08:48:56 -0400 > Robert Huff articulated: > > > > Patents are - or should be - the means, not the end. The end > > is encourage people to create new stuff; the means of encouragement > > is to give them exclusive righ

Re: Patent hit - MS goes after Linux - FreeBSD ?

2012-08-06 Thread Polytropon
On Mon, 6 Aug 2012 19:08:19 +, David Brodbeck wrote: > Now, it's reasonable to argue that in some fields the duration of that > limited monopoly is too long, given how quickly technology advances, > but that doesn't mean the concept isn't sound. It's also debatable if one of today's most promi

Re: Patent hit - MS goes after Linux - FreeBSD ?

2012-08-06 Thread David Brodbeck
On Mon, Aug 6, 2012 at 5:37 PM, Steve O'Hara-Smith wrote: > On Mon, 6 Aug 2012 08:16:38 -0400 > Jerry wrote: > >> Yes you can. You are stating a commonly held incorrect belief. You can >> always request a license from the patient holder. No one, well no one >> interested in monetary compensation

Re: Patent hit - MS goes after Linux - FreeBSD ?

2012-08-06 Thread Jerry
On Mon, 6 Aug 2012 18:37:17 +0100 Steve O'Hara-Smith articulated: > On Mon, 6 Aug 2012 08:16:38 -0400 > Jerry wrote: > > > Yes you can. You are stating a commonly held incorrect belief. You > > can always request a license from the patient holder. No one, well > > no one interested in monetary c

Re: Patent hit - MS goes after Linux - FreeBSD ?

2012-08-06 Thread Chad Perrin
On Sat, Aug 04, 2012 at 07:57:34AM +0200, Wojciech Puchar wrote: > >Do lawyers not use the law to their clients' advatage -- often abusing it > >-- just because they're wrong in the final analysis? > seems you never worked long with lawyers, or you are lucky and have > really fair one. If the word

Re: Patent hit - MS goes after Linux - FreeBSD ?

2012-08-06 Thread Steve O'Hara-Smith
On Mon, 6 Aug 2012 08:16:38 -0400 Jerry wrote: > Yes you can. You are stating a commonly held incorrect belief. You can > always request a license from the patient holder. No one, well no one > interested in monetary compensation would patient anything unless they > were: > > ⁽¹⁾ Intended to use

Re: Patent hit - MS goes after Linux - FreeBSD ?

2012-08-06 Thread Chad Perrin
On Sun, Aug 05, 2012 at 12:25:31PM -0400, Robert Huff wrote: > Jerry writes: > > > > I agree up to the point about financial incentive. For myself, I > > like making money. I don't apologize for that. Most engineers, > > software / hardware designers also enjoy receiving a monetary > > reward f

Re: Patent hit - MS goes after Linux - FreeBSD ?

2012-08-06 Thread Mario Lobo
On Mon, 6 Aug 2012 08:16:38 -0400 Jerry wrote: > On Sun, 5 Aug 2012 21:43:21 -0300 > Mario Lobo articulated: > > > On Sun, 5 Aug 2012 09:33:20 -0400 > > Jerry wrote: > > > > > On Sun, 5 Aug 2012 08:48:56 -0400 > > > Robert Huff articulated: > > > > > [Snip] > > > > > The socialists still fee

Re: Patent hit - MS goes after Linux - FreeBSD ?

2012-08-06 Thread Jerry
On Sun, 5 Aug 2012 21:43:21 -0300 Mario Lobo articulated: > On Sun, 5 Aug 2012 09:33:20 -0400 > Jerry wrote: > > > On Sun, 5 Aug 2012 08:48:56 -0400 > > Robert Huff articulated: > > > [Snip] > > > The socialists still feel they are entitled to something > > for nothing. > > > Jerry; > > Forg

Re: Partnership query

2012-08-06 Thread Yoanna Savova
Hi Mathew, Thank you very much for the explanations and support! We do provide FreeBSD so I have filled in and submitted the form. I will be waiting for an e-mail from your side as stated. Thank you! Regards, Yoanna Savova CloudSigma On 6 August 2012 12:35, Matthew Seaman wrote: > On 06/08/20

Re: boinc_gui missing after portupgrade

2012-08-06 Thread David Whytcross
Thanks for your help Robert it is working again, odd how it has to be started form /var/db/boinc ! also noticed that "boinc_cmd" has changed it name to "boinccmd" and as for "boincmgr", I found that you need to run "boinccmd" from the /var/db/boinc folder as well, to do a manual update regar

Re: Mounting raw disk backup file.

2012-08-06 Thread Matthew Navarre
On Mon, Aug 6, 2012 at 2:55 AM, Wojciech Puchar < woj...@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl> wrote: > I had a drive fail recently, it was working fine until I rebooted. After >> that the partition map was corrupt and I can't mount either partition on >> the disk. So I made a copy of the whole disk using dd t

Wine-fbsd64 updated to 1.5.10 (32bit Wine for 64bit FreeBSD)

2012-08-06 Thread David Naylor
Hi, Packages [1] for wine-fbsd64-1.5.10 have been uploaded to mediafire [2]. The packages for FreeBSD 10 use the pkgng [3] format. There are many reports that wine does not work with a clang compiled world (help in fixing this problem is appreciated as it affects quite a few users). The patc

Re: Mounting raw disk backup file.

2012-08-06 Thread Wojciech Puchar
I had a drive fail recently, it was working fine until I rebooted. After that the partition map was corrupt and I can't mount either partition on the disk. So I made a copy of the whole disk using dd to an old USB drive. There were several IO errors while dd was copying the disk, so I think the di

Re: Partnership query

2012-08-06 Thread Matthew Seaman
On 06/08/2012 09:15, Yoanna Savova wrote: > By way of brief introduction, my name is Yoanna Savova, part of the > CloudSigma team. We are interested in becoming your partners. We see there > are many hardware and software vendors enlisted on your site who offer a > FreeBSD product. > Hence, I am i

Re: Mounting raw disk backup file.

2012-08-06 Thread Matthew Navarre
On Mon, Aug 6, 2012 at 12:08 AM, Polytropon wrote: > On Sun, 5 Aug 2012 23:12:48 -0700, Matthew Navarre wrote: > > I can probably fix the partition table using testdisk, but now that I've > > got this image file I'd rather work with that instead of the physical > disk. > > I've read the Handbook

Re: Introducing new ports - best practises

2012-08-06 Thread Matthew Seaman
On 06/08/2012 08:10, Matthias Petermann wrote: > at the moment I am working on porting the Tryton business solution > and later GNU Health is planned. > > Tryton is made up of small modules (Python Eggs), each of them > providing data models and business logic for a particular business > domain -

Re: Mounting raw disk backup file.

2012-08-06 Thread Matthew Navarre
On Sun, Aug 5, 2012 at 11:28 PM, Michael Sierchio wrote: > > > On Sun, Aug 5, 2012 at 11:12 PM, Matthew Navarre < > navarre.matt...@gmail.com> wrote: > > >> >> >> Here's what file says about the file: >> mnavarre@pcbsd-1810] /# file /mnt/ada1_backup >> /mnt/ada1_backup: x86 boot sector; partition

Introducing new ports - best practises

2012-08-06 Thread Matthias Petermann
Hello, at the moment I am working on porting the Tryton business solution and later GNU Health is planned. Tryton is made up of small modules (Python Eggs), each of them providing data models and business logic for a particular business domain - e.g. product management, invoicing, crm, sales..

Re: Mounting raw disk backup file.

2012-08-06 Thread Polytropon
On Sun, 5 Aug 2012 23:12:48 -0700, Matthew Navarre wrote: > I can probably fix the partition table using testdisk, but now that I've > got this image file I'd rather work with that instead of the physical disk. > I've read the Handbook section on using mdconfig, but that assumes the > image file is