[SOLVED] Re: www/179397: I used mouse focus in open-motif and shift-click3 to iconify xterms, doing so causes cursor to disappear and mouse is unusable!

as the cause of my problems with mwm (part of the x11-toolkits/open-motif port) but it did not impact other window managers such as FVWM which may be why this patch was overlooked. Regards, web... -- William

9.1-STABLE with xterm-292 oddity

this issue would be greatly appreciated. Thanks in advance. Regards, web... -- William Bulley Email: w...@umich.edu 72 characters width template ->| ___ freebsd-questions@freebs

Re: failure building www/webkit-gtk2 on 8.2-STABLE

and for my own sanity, how would I have been able to avoid this problem? Thanks. :-) Regards, web... -- William Bulley Email: w...@umich.edu 72 characters width template ->| ___

Re: failure building www/webkit-gtk2 on 8.2-STABLE

According to Robert Bonomi on Wed, 11/30/11 at 16:12: > > From owner-freebsd-questi...@freebsd.org Wed Nov 30 09:14:56 2011 > > Date: Wed, 30 Nov 2011 10:12:23 -0500 > > From: William Bulley > > To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org > > Cc: gn...@freebsd.org > >

failure building www/webkit-gtk2 on 8.2-STABLE

#x27;, '-lcairo', '-lX11', '-lpango-1.0', '-lm', '-lfreetype', '-lfontconfig', '-lsoup-2.4', '-lgio-2.0', '-lgobject-2.0', '-lgmodu

Re: freebsd-questions Digest, Vol 390, Issue 3

st for me, but had trouble in the attempt to upgrade to a 9.x variant before it was ready for prime time. I would not normally have done this, but there were extenuating circumstances that required the attempt. Thanks again. :-) Regards, web... -- Wil

Re: where to ask about problems with bsdinstall in 9.0RC2?

cause the csup/buildworld/installworld method worked like a charm and I am now happily running 9.0-PRERELEASE. Thanks for all the replies and suggestions. I am going to try to avoid using bsdinstall like the plague and I advise others to do likewise, at least until it becomes more mature. It seems t

Re: where to ask about problems with bsdinstall in 9.0RC2?

installworld process. I hope this works this time. Regards, web... -- William Bulley Email: w...@umich.edu 72 characters width template ->| ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing l

Re: where to ask about problems with bsdinstall in 9.0RC2?

r the record, how do I upgrade to 9.0RC2 (or any 9.0 variant) from a system already running 8.2-STABLE? Had this attempt been using the sysinstall method, I would have long since been up and running FreeBSD 9.x on this laptop. Please advise. Thanks in advance. Regards, web... -- William Bull

Re: where to ask about problems with bsdinstall in 9.0RC2?

see? That just goes to show you... ;^) The above section is missing from my 8.2-STABLE platform tar(1) man page. The whole problem is my trying to "get there from here" - which was what started this thread... :-) Regards, web... -- William Bulley Email: w

Re: where to ask about problems with bsdinstall in 9.0RC2?

7 Everything is there and listed. Amazing! You learn something every day. :-) Regards, web... -- William Bulley Email: w...@umich.edu 72 characters width template ->| ___ freebsd-qu

Re: where to ask about problems with bsdinstall in 9.0RC2?

will try using manual and see what happens I did not try guided. Regards, web... -- William Bulley Email: w...@umich.edu 72 characters width template ->| ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org

Re: where to ask about problems with bsdinstall in 9.0RC2?

al -- your hard > drive is mounted at something like /mnt while the system is installed > onto it. The installer is just using paths relative to that mountpoint. Well, now that is interesting! I hadn't thought of that possibilit

Re: where to ask about problems with bsdinstall in 9.0RC2?

x27;s a definite win. > > But for files that will be compressed and uncompressed regularly, or > compressed and usually never touched again, it's worth thinking about > what's the best balance of resources. Thanks for that explanation! :-) Regards, web...

Re: where to ask about problems with bsdinstall in 9.0RC2?

iled upgrade attempt, the RC1 ISOs and so forth were missing from ftp.freebsd.org which I thought was odd. Shortly thereafter RC2 was being seen around *.freebsd.org in various places, so I must have been making this attempt during the transition from RC1 to RC2 in all the distribution places. This convince

Re: where to ask about problems with bsdinstall in 9.0RC2?

x27;t handle GPT > partitioning, should still be useful for partitioning and maintaining > many existing systems. I've yet to install RC1, and here's RC2, but I'm > encouraged to see the memstick.img has dropped GPT partitioning for MBR > with a sin

Re: where to ask about problems with bsdinstall in 9.0RC2?

. Or, perhaps you are saying 4 GB is insufficient for /var? Since it seems to be complaining about not being able to write to "var/xxxx". Regards, web... -- William Bulley Emai

Re: where to ask about problems with bsdinstall in 9.0RC2?

(base.txz) chunk that the popup appeared giving me the "unable to write" or "unable to uncompress" message. Can't recall the exact error now some hours later... :-( So the extraction step failed the first file, and I never made it to the Post-Installation phase, sigh..

Re: where to ask about problems with bsdinstall in 9.0RC2?

According to Matthew Seaman on Fri, 11/18/11 at 17:41: > On 18/11/2011 21:27, William Bulley wrote: > > I tried to install 9.0RC2 from the DVD ISO today. This defaults > > to using bsdinstall instead of the 8.x sysinstall. > > > > This process gave me an error, but

where to ask about problems with bsdinstall in 9.0RC2?

I tried to install 9.0RC2 from the DVD ISO today. This defaults to using bsdinstall instead of the 8.x sysinstall. This process gave me an error, but I'm not sure in which forum to discuss this problem/error. Thanks in advance. Regards, web... -- William Bulley Ema

Re: Thinkpad audio question

S. I suspected that If by chance my device.hints > will "just work", the "pedantic engineer" in > you would be silenced somehow :P Well, then you don't know me very well then, do you?? ;^) Regards, web... -- William Bulley Email: w...@u

Re: Thinkpad audio question

gain later. > Helping others is a side benefit. It isn't for me that I am doing this. It is to help others - really. :-) Regards, web... -- William Bulley Email: w...@um

Re: Thinkpad audio question

d luck, Thanks! But no thanks -- because I got it to work with your T400 hints! :-) You have been most helpful and I really appreciate it. I wonder just who came up with those in the first place? :-) Regards, web... -- William Bulley Email: w...@umich.e

Re: Thinkpad audio question

what are the chances it will "just work" for me? I do hate just copying something without knowing what the heck it means -- just the pedantic engineer in me, I reckon... :-) The snd_hda(4) man page is not very helpful in explaining what your four hints would do for my T500 problem, but

Re: Thinkpad audio question

GPIUnsol=1 GPIO: data=0x enable=0x direction=0x wake=0x unsol=0xsticky=0x Now, re-reading the snd_hda man page with the above in hand, I just may be able to make changes similar to what you have shown above provided I can make sense of

Re: Thinkpad audio question

n. :-) Regards, web... -- William Bulley Email: w...@umich.edu 72 characters width template ->| ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/f

Thinkpad audio question

This situation sucks, but we have not been able to suss out what the problem is. He and I have been running FreeBSD for over a decade, so we are not clueless, but this laptop audio weirdness has us stumped. Regards, web... -- William Bulley Email: w...@umich.edu 72 characters

can't build graphics/xfig-3.2.5b on 8.2-STABLE nor databases/p5-DBD-Oracle with lang/perl5.14

5.14 were observed trying to launch apache2 (2.2.19) with mod_perl2 (2.0.5). Those problems also went away once I rebuilt my ports starting with Perl 5.12.3 version. This makes me suspect Perl 5.14 changes or the effect those changes have had on other ports in the ports tree.

system upgrade introduced oddball apache error...

og since I rebooted and shut down apache2 on June 9th as part of the upgrade. Any and all ideas welcome. Regards, web... -- William Bulley Email: w...@umich.edu 72 characters width template ->| _

Re: Problem building GIMP 2.6.11 on 8.2-PRERELEASE

ics/gimp. *** Error code 1 Stop in /usr/ports/graphics/gimp. Investigating this I found poppler.h in this directory: /usr/local/include/poppler/glib/ on another system recently upgraded where the Gimp had built successfully. This directory did not exist here! That directory was the one I ha

Re: Problem building GIMP 2.6.11 on 8.2-PRERELEASE

ave re-built/installed graphics/poppler and also graphics/gimp (using "make install") but I still get the same error. :-( Regards, web... -- William Bulley Email: w...@umich.edu 72 characters width template ->|

Re: Problem building GIMP 2.6.11 on 8.2-PRERELEASE

d that not imply that -I/usr/local/include/poppler is wrong and instead should be: -I/usr/local/include/poppler/glib ?? Thanks for all the suggestions, but I am still in a pickle... :-( Regards, web... -- William Bulley

Re: Problem building GIMP 2.6.11 on 8.2-PRERELEASE

According to Lowell Gilbert on Thu, 01/27/11 at 11:04: > William Bulley writes: > > > Everything up to this point builds okay. Then this happens: > > > > Making all in common > > gmake[3]: Entering directory > > `/usr/ports/graphics/gimp-app/work

Problem building GIMP 2.6.11 on 8.2-PRERELEASE

rts/graphics/gimp-app/work/gimp-2.6.11' gmake: *** [all] Error 2 *** Error code 1 Stop in /usr/ports/graphics/gimp-app. *** Error code 1 Stop in /usr/ports/graphics/gimp-app. *** Error code 1 Stop in /usr/ports/graphics/gimp. *** Error code 1 Stop in /usr/ports/graphics/gimp. A

Re: Xorg 7.5 and OpenMotif: mouse stuck in box

k" directory, found the dit/events.c file, and made those above mentioned (about six or so) small source code patches. I then re-made the port and re-installed the port. After it tested successfully, I reported my results to the -questions list in case it would help others. YMMV. And good luc

Re: Xorg 7.5 and OpenMotif: mouse stuck in box

>>>>> This is what I found recently. Hope this helps you. - Forwarded message from William Bulley - To: FreeBSD Questions From: William Bulley Date: Thu, 2 Sep 2010 11:31:15 -0400 Subject: SOLVED: serious (for me) Xorg 7.5 mouse/kbd problem in 8.1-STABLE Cc: x..

SOLVED: serious (for me) Xorg 7.5 mouse/kbd problem in 8.1-STABLE

See below for details of solution. - Forwarded message from William Bulley - To: FreeBSD Questions From: William Bulley Date: Wed, 25 Aug 2010 07:38:34 -0400 Subject: serious (for me) Xorg 7.5 mouse/kbd problem in 8.1-STABLE For years I have run Open-Motif on FreeBSD without issue

Re: serious (for me) Xorg 7.5 mouse/kbd problem in 8.1-STABLE

p" "false" > > EndSection > > And the other option is already a default. So removing or commenting > that section would let xorg-server use hald. > > I don't know if this will affect your window manager. Probably not, but > worth testing. D

Re: serious (for me) Xorg 7.5 mouse/kbd problem in 8.1-STABLE

I was hoping someone in FreeBSD-land would have some suggestions. I have heard that contacting the Xorg developers may not result in a timely resolution. I greatly appreciate the comments on -questions to date. Thanks guys. Regards, web... -- William Bulley Email: w...@um

Re: serious (for me) Xorg 7.5 mouse/kbd problem in 8.1-STABLE

knew how to use hald, how would that solve my problem of the disappearing mouse pointer and consequent loss of functionality of my window manager? Regards, web... -- William Bulley Email: w...@umich.edu 72 characters wi

Re: serious (for me) Xorg 7.5 mouse/kbd problem in 8.1-STABLE

According to jhell on Wed, 08/25/10 at 09:24: > On 08/25/2010 07:38, William Bulley wrote: > > For years I have run Open-Motif on FreeBSD without issue. > > > > I use a USB keyboard and a USB three button mouse attached to a Dell > > Optiplex 960. This combination h

serious (for me) Xorg 7.5 mouse/kbd problem in 8.1-STABLE

xt. I suspect Xorg, or the keyboard and mouse driver, not the video driver, that came with. It might be a problem with hald(8), but again, I don't know how to debug this. Any help with this very odd bug would be greatly appreciated. Regards, web... -- Willia

CUPS between systems

is gap. FWIW, using CUPS 1.3.10 in the Fall of 2009, I did have Kerberos support (via GSSAPI) and I was able to talk directly to the network printer. Does anyone have any suggestions for me to consider trying? Regards, web... -- William Bulley Email: w...@umich.edu 72

CUPS in ports (e.g., v1.4.3) --disable-gssapi WHY??

get a ticket granting ticket for printing). Why is this the case? Can someone elaborate on this, or point me to the correct forum to get an answer? Thanks in advance. Regards, web... -- William Bulley Email: w...@umich.edu 72 characters width template

Re: Suitable laptop for FreeBSD?

crete video cards? > Lenovo's web site doesn't seem very oriented to telling potential > customers details about their newer computers. I think yes. At least in my case. I have a T500 and it came with both integrated Intel video plus an additional ATI mini-card. I d

Re: vi question

nter this sequence: 2dw (the line will disappear) Enter this sequence: 100P (voila!) Regards, web... -- William Bulley Email: w...@umich.edu 72 characters width template ->| ___ freeb

Re: cannot build GIMP 2.6.8-1 on 8.0-STABLE

e help was very outdated anyway. > > Don't know why the webkit-gtk2 build dies, though. Thanks. That suggestion allowed me to build the GIMP successfully. Although I still don't know why the GIMP depends on gnome-keyring... :-( Regards, web... -- William Bulley

cannot build GIMP 2.6.8-1 on 8.0-STABLE

orts/graphics/gimp. *** Error code 1 Stop in /usr/ports/graphics/gimp. Regards, web... -- William Bulley Email: w...@umich.edu 72 characters width template ->| ___ freebsd-qu

confounding finding in print/cups-base (CUPS 1.4.2)

N in CUPS 1.3.9 last Fall? What should I do if I desire Kerberos support in CUPS 1.4.2 ?? Regards, web... -- William Bulley Email: w...@umich.edu 72 characters width template ->| ___

Re: dbus/hal in freebsd 7.2 hangs X11

things in xorg-7.4_2 and open-motif-2.2.3_6 and 7.2-STABLE FreeBSD 7.2-STABLE #0: Tue Sep 15 14:33:54 EDT 2009 work for me. Regards, web... -- William Bulley Email: w...@umich.edu 72 characters width template ->| __

Re: Repeatable X lockups

following a csup(1) of complete ports tree on either 24 Apr or 25 Apr - so approximately the same timeframe as you. Regards, web... -- William Bulley Email: w...@umich.edu The information contained in this message may be CONFIDENTIAL and is for the intended addres

fatal error from /usr/ports/Mk/bsd.linux-apps.mk

equired, let me know. The next thing I will try is changing /etc/make.conf to override "f8" instead of "f9" Regards, web... -- William Bulley Email: w...@umich.edu The information contained in this message may be CONFIDENTIAL and is for the intended addres

Re: short-changed on SD card?

sure you write on the right device! So you don't think the "bad card reader" suggestion is relevant? I will also try this approach. Thanks for all the feedback. Now, I've got some avenues of testing to work through. Later... Regards, web... -- William Bulley

Re: short-changed on SD card?

n the purchase. Thanks again. Regards, web... -- William Bulley Email: w...@umich.edu ___ 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: short-changed on SD card?

reeBSD system and plop it onto another. > Finally, there are more than a few reports of SD cards with false > capacities bought on ebay. This SD card was purchased from a reputable firm in New York whose name you would recognize were I to mention it. I have had nothing but good e

Re: short-changed on SD card?

;t have to touch Windows XP at all, grrr... :-( Regards, web... -- William Bulley Email: w...@umich.edu ___ 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: short-changed on SD card?

ard advertised (and sold) as a 2.0 GB card actually hold (approximately) 2.0 GB? That is what bugs me... I believe that FAT16 is capable of addressing a 2.0 GB disk drive, yes? Regards, web... -- William Bulley Email: w...@umich.edu

Re: short-changed on SD card?

According to Mel on Mon, 02/02/09 at 12:46: > > On Monday 02 February 2009 07:52:44 William Bulley wrote: > > Recently purchased a brand new 2.0 GB secure digital (SD) card. > > > > When I plugged this into a USB dongle and plugged the USB dongle > > into an avai

short-changed on SD card?

gards, web... -- William Bulley Email: w...@umich.edu ___ 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"

help for a wounded disk drive...

he disk drive any further. I hope I don't have to resort to using dd(1) on the raw device! Thanks in advance for any pointers. Regards, web... -- William Bulley Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing

Re: where are base, info, kernels, dict, doc, games, manpages, ports, src, etc. for 7.0-REL?

ion 18.6.2 of the Handbook. Regards, web... -- William Bulley Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"

where are base, info, kernels, dict, doc, games, manpages, ports, src, etc. for 7.0-REL?

really had a negative impact on my install today, sigh... :-( Regards, web... -- William Bulley Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"

Re: thankee, thankee!

gram comes together. Might the same not be said for Perl? Regards, web... -- William Bulley Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"

WPA and EAP-TTLS oddity

ient UNKNOWN-CLIENT port 261 cli 00-xx-xx-xx-xx-xx) TTLS: Got tunneled Access-Reject rlm_eap: Handler failed in EAP/ttls TTLS: Freeing handler for user foo rlm_eap: Failed in EAP select modcall[authenticate]: module "eap" returns invalid for request 5 modcall: leaving group au

boot manager oddity (two IDE drives, two o/s)

ot; slice above is the Windows recovery (or diagnostic?) slice, I believe. I have looked in the Handbook to no avail. Any ideas? Help! Regards, web... -- William Bulley Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ freebsd-questions

Re: odd HP 1320 printer behaviour...

and the FreeBSD port "print/enscript-letter" does the rest for me (plain text or ASCII files). > Depending on what processing you do to the source file, you may find > utilities like /usr/ports/print/enscript useful. I have been using enscript for about twenty years now... :-

Re: odd HP 1320 printer behaviour...

port 2 (addr 5) disconnected ulpt0: detached ulpt0: Hewlett-Packard hp LaserJet 1320 series, rev 1.10/1.00, addr 5, iclass 7/1 ulpt0: using bi-directional mode ulpt0: offline ulpt0: at uhub0 port 2 (addr 5) disconnected ulpt0: detached ulpt0: Hewlett-Packard hp LaserJet 1320 series, re

odd HP 1320 printer behaviour...

will be gladly accepted. I can live with this behaviour, but it seems very odd. Regards, web... -- William Bulley Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/fre

problems with libglade2...

Platform: i386, Athlon, i686 What am I missing? What steps (short of tossing the whole idea out) should I take to successfully run the Linux binary "foobah"? Thanks. Regards, web... -- William Bulley Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___

Re: In search of the ultimate .muttrc

According to Roman Neuhauser <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > here's mine. i'm not sure it will be of any use for you, stuff like > this is purely matter of taste and habit. > > parts were stripped for privacy reasons. How about dotfiles.com ?? Regar