Re: Typo in portmaster man page?

2013-05-09 Thread Masoom Shaikh
- Original Message - > From: Jerry > To: FreeBSD > Cc: > Sent: Thursday, 9 May 2013 5:15 PM > Subject: Re: Typo in portmaster man page? > > On Thu, 09 May 2013 06:06:42 -0500 > Bryan Drewery articulated: > >> (I'm not the original author on portmaster). Personally the manpage >>

Re: pkgng repositories

2013-05-01 Thread Masoom Shaikh
yes, it does, bit dated though. - Original Message - > From: Eric S Pulley > To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org > Cc: > Sent: Wednesday, 1 May 2013 8:24 PM > Subject: Re: pkgng repositories > > >> On Wed, 01 May 2013 08:54:33 -0500, Quark > >> wrote: >> >>> Does some noble soul m

Re: Need bsd make for AIX

2010-09-16 Thread Masoom Shaikh
On Thu, Sep 16, 2010 at 8:58 AM, wrote: > Hi >    Is there any BSD make versions available for AIX platform? > We require the make utility of BSD to compile few source programs. > > Is there any make utility compatible with AIX?  Could you please give us > the URL where we can get the same? > > >

Re: ICC users compiling FreeBSD

2010-08-02 Thread Masoom Shaikh
On Sun, Aug 1, 2010 at 5:56 PM, Rui Paulo wrote: > > Hi, > I'm looking for people who are using the Intel Compiler to build FreeBSD. > Please contact me off list, so I can get a rough estimate on how many people > are using it. > > Regards, > -- > Rui Paulo > > >

Re: random FreeBSD panics

2010-04-08 Thread Masoom Shaikh
On Thu, Apr 8, 2010 at 4:45 PM, Anoop Kumar Narayanan wrote: > On Sat, Apr 3, 2010 at 6:21 PM, Masoom Shaikh wrote: >> On Sun, Mar 28, 2010 at 5:38 PM, Ivan Voras wrote: >>> On 28 March 2010 16:42, Masoom Shaikh wrote: >>> >>>> lets assume if this

why use diablo JDK/JRE ?

2010-04-05 Thread Masoom Shaikh
what is the need for FreeBSD Foundation to maintain dialbo JDK/JRE binaries when packages for openjdk are available on ftp servers ? ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/ports/amd64/packages-8-stable/java/openjdk-7.0.86.tbz stupid me, never realized, just assumed that openjdk binaries cannot be dist

Re: FreeBSD-8 Dual Booting With Pre-Installed Windows 7?

2010-04-05 Thread Masoom Shaikh
On Mon, Apr 5, 2010 at 7:13 PM, S Roberts wrote: > Hello Masoom, > > On Mon, 5 Apr 2010 18:54:12 +0530 > Masoom Shaikh wrote: > >> On Mon, Apr 5, 2010 at 6:45 PM, S Roberts >> wrote: >> > Hi Masoom, >> >   Good to hear from you.., >> > >

Re: FreeBSD-8 Dual Booting With Pre-Installed Windows 7?

2010-04-05 Thread Masoom Shaikh
On Mon, Apr 5, 2010 at 6:45 PM, S Roberts wrote: > Hi Masoom, >   Good to hear from you.., > > On Mon, 5 Apr 2010 18:32:57 +0530 > Masoom Shaikh wrote: > >> On Sun, Apr 4, 2010 at 2:52 PM, Stacey Roberts >> wrote: >> > Hello Leslie, >> >      G

Re: FreeBSD-8 Dual Booting With Pre-Installed Windows 7?

2010-04-05 Thread Masoom Shaikh
On Sun, Apr 4, 2010 at 2:52 PM, Stacey Roberts wrote: > Hello Leslie, >      Good to hear from you.., > > On Sun, 04 Apr 2010, Leslie Jensen wrote: >> >> http://www.mail-archive.com/freebsd-questions@freebsd.org/msg229158.html >> >> /Leslie >> > > I had a look at the thread - thanks.., > > The doc

Re: under X, frozen keys, no mouse

2010-04-05 Thread Masoom Shaikh
; > Option "AutoAddDevice" Off > > Option "IgnoreEmptyInput" Off > > in the xorg.conf file > > > > > > > > > > > > On Mon, Apr 5, 2010 at 2:41 AM, Masoom Shaikh > wrote: >> >> On Mon, Apr 5, 2010 at 8:24

Re: under X, frozen keys, no mouse

2010-04-04 Thread Masoom Shaikh
On Mon, Apr 5, 2010 at 8:24 AM, Henry Olyer wrote: > I installed FBSD 7.3 on an older Compaq box.  It has a built-in video card, > this isn't a top of the line superfast machine. > > But it is important for me to press it into service. > > I tried using a couple of Option lines in xorg.conf, but n

Re: random FreeBSD panics

2010-04-03 Thread Masoom Shaikh
On Sun, Mar 28, 2010 at 5:38 PM, Ivan Voras wrote: > On 28 March 2010 16:42, Masoom Shaikh wrote: > >> lets assume if this is h/w problem, then how can other OSes overcome >> this ? is there a way to make FreeBSD ignore this as well, let it >> result in reasonable perfo

Re: random FreeBSD panics

2010-03-29 Thread Masoom Shaikh
On Sun, Mar 28, 2010 at 5:38 PM, Ivan Voras wrote: > On 28 March 2010 16:42, Masoom Shaikh wrote: > >> lets assume if this is h/w problem, then how can other OSes overcome >> this ? is there a way to make FreeBSD ignore this as well, let it >> result in reasonable perfo

Re: random FreeBSD panics

2010-03-28 Thread Masoom Shaikh
On Sun, Mar 28, 2010 at 12:03 PM, Ivan Voras wrote: > On 28 March 2010 13:18, Masoom Shaikh wrote: >> On Sun, Mar 28, 2010 at 10:32 AM, Ivan Voras wrote: >>> Masoom Shaikh wrote: >>>> >>>> Hello List, >>>> >>>> I was a happy Fre

Re: random FreeBSD panics

2010-03-28 Thread Masoom Shaikh
On Sun, Mar 28, 2010 at 10:32 AM, Ivan Voras wrote: > Masoom Shaikh wrote: >> >> Hello List, >> >> I was a happy FreeBSD user, just before I installed FreeBSD8.0-RC1. Since >> then, system randomly just freezes, and there is no option other than hard >> boot

random FreeBSD panics

2010-03-28 Thread Masoom Shaikh
ify I also executed Windows Memory Diagnostic test for four times. None of them reported errors. Can anyone here suggest any solution. Masoom Shaikh vmcore0.log Description: Binary data vmcore1.log Description: Binary data ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.o

Re: KDE firefox integration

2010-03-07 Thread Masoom Shaikh
On Sun, Mar 7, 2010 at 1:56 PM, Anselm Strauss wrote: > Hi, > > I noticed that in PC-BSD 8 firefox is nicely integrated into KDE. Anybody > knows how to achieve this on FreeBSD 8? > > Anselm > ___ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lis

Re: NetBSD 5.0 looks cool

2010-02-18 Thread Masoom Shaikh
On Fri, Feb 19, 2010 at 4:00 AM, Mark Shroyer wrote: > > On 2/18/2010 10:32 AM, Abdullah Ibn Hamad Al-Marri wrote: > > How about these bench vs FreeBSD?! > > > > http://www.netbsd.org/~ad/50/img11.html > > > > http://www.netbsd.org/~ad/50/img13.html > > > > http://www.netbsd.org/~ad/50/img15.html

NetBSD 5.0 looks cool

2010-02-18 Thread Masoom Shaikh
here is excellant intoduction to NetBSD-5.0 http://www.netbsd.org/~ad/50/img0.html certain statements are very impressive in those slides like "Build any NetBSD platform from any POSIX environment" $ uname -s -m Linux i686 $ cd netbsd-src $ ./build.sh -m sparc64 release develop and test 32 bits

FreeBSD sources from svn repos

2010-01-25 Thread Masoom Shaikh
Hi List, I am confused about FreeBSD versions maintained in svn repos 1. http://svn.freebsd.org/base/releng/8.0/ 2. http://svn.freebsd.org/base/release/8.0.0/ 3. http://svn.freebsd.org/base/stable/8/ (2) is easy, most probably it means stable how about (1) and (2) __

COMPAT_LINUX instead if COMPAT_LINUX32 in man page

2009-12-31 Thread Masoom Shaikh
n COMPAT_LINUX. With little poking around I figured out the options is COMPAT_LINUX32 and this did make sense as only i386 Linux binaries are supported. I guess man page is in error and needs some love. Masoom Shaikh ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.o

Re: FreeBSD-8.0-RC2 problems

2009-11-13 Thread Masoom Shaikh
On Mon, Nov 9, 2009 at 4:41 PM, Norbert Papke wrote: > On November 6, 2009, Masoom Shaikh wrote: > > > problem # 1 > > The problem is KDE4 is not able to display anti aliased fonts. I have > made > > the required changes to make it work, of course, in System Settings

Re: where's my konqueror?

2009-11-12 Thread Masoom Shaikh
On Thu, Nov 12, 2009 at 7:50 PM, wrote: > On Thu, Nov 12, 2009 at 3:17 PM, Herbert J. Skuhra >wrote: > > > On Thu, Nov 12, 2009 at 2:47 PM, Anton Shterenlikht > > > wrote: > > > I installed kdebase-4.3.1_1, but cannot find konqueror. > > > It's supposed be a part of kdebase, isn't it? > > > >

Re: [kde-freebsd] FreeBSD-8.0-RC2 problems

2009-11-09 Thread Masoom Shaikh
On Fri, Nov 6, 2009 at 2:41 PM, Rusty Nejdl wrote: > On Fri, 6 Nov 2009 17:33:00 +0530, Masoom Shaikh > wrote: > > Hello, > > Last Saturday I installed 8.0-RC2 from source by compiling on 7.1 > installation. building and installing was smooth as always has been. Then I

Re: FreeBSD-8.0-RC2 problems

2009-11-09 Thread Masoom Shaikh
> > my wlan0 is created for wpi0 (I start the wifi with > /etc/rc.d/wpa_supplicant onestart wlan0): > > wlans_wpi0=wlan0 > ifconfig_wlan0="NOAUTO DHCP WPA" > > what's in your rc.conf? > wlans_wpi0="wlan0" ifconfig_wlan0="DHCP WPA" do I really need to put wlan0 in quotes ? cud that be the problem ?

KDE4 + FreeBSD-8.0-RC2, no anti aliasing

2009-11-07 Thread Masoom Shaikh
here is my ~/.fonts.conf rgb true hintfull true fonts look good, just little blurry ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To uns

bluetooth.h, c++ include error

2009-10-01 Thread Masoom Shaikh
his is not intentional, c++ programmers will have to perform some acrobats to get past this thanks, Masoom Shaikh ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail t

Re: openoffice.org-3.01 packages available (i386)

2009-06-01 Thread Masoom Shaikh
On Tue, Jun 2, 2009 at 6:36 AM, Sergio de Almeida Lenzi wrote: > > Hello, > > I have the package for openoffice 3.2m49 for the FreeBSD 7.2/amd64 > available for the languages EN and pt_BR in UTF-8, with > full support for cups. > > If you are interested, I can upload the package (120Mb) in the > t

Re: First time user problems

2009-03-19 Thread Masoom Shaikh
On Fri, Mar 20, 2009 at 1:00 AM, Alhaji Barrie wrote: > I am a new user of Free BSD. I just completed the install of Free BSD on a > Dell PC but I cannot get past the initial login prompt. I typed the user > name I supplied during the installation process to no avail. In the last > two > days, I

Re: hardware list in a machine

2009-03-11 Thread Masoom Shaikh
devinfo -v On Tue, Mar 10, 2009 at 12:29 AM, gahn wrote: > > Hi all: > > How could I find out the list of hardware in my machine? I used "dmesg" and > "var/run/dmesg.boot", it didn't seem to help that much as I expected. > > which file lists all of hardware in the machine? > > Thanks. > > > > >

Re: local copy of handbook

2009-01-01 Thread Masoom Shaikh
On Thu, Jan 1, 2009 at 10:17 PM, Frank Shute wrote: > On Thu, Jan 01, 2009 at 09:27:31AM +0530, Masoom Shaikh wrote: > > > > > > > wow, am waiting eagerlyHTML is complex, what is SGML :) > > > > The fdp primer introduces it: > > http://www.freebs

Re: local copy of handbook

2008-12-31 Thread Masoom Shaikh
On Tue, Dec 30, 2008 at 9:19 PM, Giorgos Keramidas wrote: > On Tue, 30 Dec 2008 13:33:45 +, Frank Shute > wrote: > >On Mon, Dec 29, 2008 at 11:52:57PM +0200, Giorgos Keramidas wrote: > >>On Mon, 29 Dec 2008 20:27:17 +, Frank Shute > wrote: > >>> You can keep a local copy of the docs & u

Re: local copy of handbook

2008-12-31 Thread Masoom Shaikh
On Tue, Dec 30, 2008 at 7:03 PM, Frank Shute wrote: > On Mon, Dec 29, 2008 at 11:52:57PM +0200, Giorgos Keramidas wrote: > > > > On Mon, 29 Dec 2008 20:27:17 +, Frank Shute > wrote: > > > You can keep a local copy of the docs & update the sources for the > > > docs with csup but you have to

Re: local copy of handbook

2008-12-29 Thread Masoom Shaikh
On Monday 29 December 2008 18:15:58 RW wrote: > On Mon, 29 Dec 2008 10:16:42 +0530 > "Masoom Shaikh" wrote: > > lso I cud use tarballs from FTP, but is there easy way to install > > > them ? also csup didn't help here is my csup file > > > &

Re: amarok install failure

2008-12-28 Thread Masoom Shaikh
); > > if( ret == 0 ) > > { > > item->playlist()->setId( metadata->playlist_id ); > > > Mel, > >amaroK is one of my favorites. Any idea if/how soon your >patch will be in ports? ---It's been awhil

local copy of handbook

2008-12-28 Thread Masoom Shaikh
each time, but now i am not sure about doc!! hints and help ? Masoom Shaikh ___ 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: Uninstalling kde3 meta-port

2008-12-02 Thread Masoom Shaikh
can try `pkg_delete -a` On Tue, Dec 2, 2008 at 1:08 PM, Leslie Jensen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi > > How would you guys uninstall a meta-port? > > I'm considering a move to kde4 but I want a clean install, so I want to > remove the kde3 meta-port first. > > Thanks > > /Leslie > > > _

Re: Purchase of FreeBSD

2008-11-28 Thread Masoom Shaikh
On Sat, Nov 29, 2008 at 6:14 AM, Sahil Tandon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Harry Veltman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Where can I buy it on CD, and how do I know if it is compatible with > > my hardware? > > Did you try asking Google? > > http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=where+to+get+freeb

Re: Installing FreeBSD

2008-11-27 Thread Masoom Shaikh
On Thu, Nov 27, 2008 at 3:11 AM, Rommel Tan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Dear Sir/Madam: > Pleasant day! > First of all, sorry if this enquiry shouldn't be directed to you, please > help me direct to the right person. > Few months ago I've purchase a FreeBSD b

Re: large binary, why not strip ?

2008-11-19 Thread Masoom Shaikh
On Wed, Nov 19, 2008 at 5:38 AM, Jeremy Chadwick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sun, Nov 16, 2008 at 08:42:12AM +0000, Masoom Shaikh wrote: > > most of the programs installed from ports have large binary size on disk > > > > stripping em all reduces their size dramat

Re: large binary, why not strip ?

2008-11-17 Thread Masoom Shaikh
On Mon, Nov 17, 2008 at 5:21 PM, Kris Kennaway <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sun, Nov 16, 2008 at 12:56:31PM +0100, Wojciech Puchar wrote: > > > > >most of the programs installed from ports have large binary size on disk > > > > > >stripping em all reduces their size dramatically > > > > > >I ca

large binary, why not strip ?

2008-11-16 Thread Masoom Shaikh
most of the programs installed from ports have large binary size on disk stripping em all reduces their size dramatically I cannot see the reason for not stripping them by default ? do I miss anything ? ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list ht

Re: flash9 checklist

2008-10-29 Thread Masoom Shaikh
will this howto work for amd64 ? On Wed, Oct 29, 2008 at 2:11 PM, Steve Polyack <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Juergen Lock wrote: > >> >> Preliminary checklist for getting flash9 to work in native firefox: >> (flash10 needs more ports work, I shall post about that seperately on >> -emulation...)

Re: FreeBSD-7.1, BETA2 or PRERELEASE

2008-10-24 Thread Masoom Shaikh
just my two cents if they count ;-) Aston On Fri, Oct 24, 2008 at 12:45 PM, mdh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > --- On Fri, 10/24/08, Jeremy Chadwick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > From: Jeremy Chadwick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > Subject: Re: FreeBSD-7.1, BETA2 or

FreeBSD-7.1, BETA2 or PRERELEASE

2008-10-24 Thread Masoom Shaikh
Hi folks, y'day I csuped the src and built installed the kernel from RELENG_7 I was expecting FreeBSD-BETA2 in output of `uname -a` it is still -PRERELEASE, is it by decision or I have to change something ? I greped /usr/src for PRERELEASE but cud not locate it. I guess release engineering team do