Re: Soundcards on 6-current

2004-09-12 Thread Mikko Heiskanen
kstewart > > On Saturday 11 September 2004 11:56 am, Lucas Holt wrote: > > BEGIN RANT > > Why is everyone running 6 current and expecting it to work? They > > just created that branch recently and I seriously doubt that its even > > close to usable. We could run 5-Current because it wa

The FreeBSD Diary: 2004-08-22 - 2004-09-11

2004-09-12 Thread Dan Langille
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Re: booting beta3 on A7N8X

2004-09-12 Thread Joshua Tinnin
On Saturday 11 September 2004 04:06 pm, "Lee Harr" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I have one of those goofy asus A7N8X motherboards. I have an A7N8X-E Deluxe, and have used it with 5.2.1-RELEASE-p9 and now 5.3 beta3. The issues I've read about with Asus mobos have been with the VIA chipset, which

Re: booting beta3 on A7N8X

2004-09-12 Thread Joshua Tinnin
On Sunday 12 September 2004 12:10 am, Joshua Tinnin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Saturday 11 September 2004 04:06 pm, "Lee Harr" > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > Can I create a 5.3 cd myself from my 4.10 system? > > (one without firewire, for instance...) > > Er ... no, but you can download ISOs

Re: Proxy/Firewall Question

2004-09-12 Thread JP
Thank you, I am using the standard firewall and firewall script that came with FreeBSD. By default, everything on the firewall is set to open. I attempting what you suggested (disabling nat) and I could no longer get ou to see the net. I could ping the FreeBSD box just fine, but nothing beyond t

Re: moving to larger drive

2004-09-12 Thread Wojciech Puchar
> > manually > > ? > > There is nothing wrong with running sysinstall(8) on a live system. Can > even be run remotely via ssh. Suggest you skip down to the (C)onfigure > menu. Use (F)disk and (L)abel. Put your new partitions under /mnt/ or > someplace separate from your running system filespace. Us

Re: moving to larger drive

2004-09-12 Thread Wojciech Puchar
> > Use fdisk to slice and do the mbr. > In 4.xxx use disklabel to do disk labeling (partitioning) and boot block. > In 5.xxx use bsdlabel to do disk labeling and boot block. > > Then use newfs to create filesystems in the partitions created > with disklabel/bsdlabel. > > > > > manually > > ? > > >

Re: Playing .au sound files

2004-09-12 Thread Malcolm Kay
On Sun, 12 Sep 2004 02:15 pm, Peter Ulrich Kruppa wrote: > On Sun, 12 Sep 2004, Malcolm Kay wrote: > > On Sun, 12 Sep 2004 01:37 pm, Peter Ulrich Kruppa wrote: > >> On Sun, 12 Sep 2004, Malcolm Kay wrote: > >>> I'm looking for a command line utility to play .au > >>> sound files. > >> > >> It's jus

Re: Playing .au sound files

2004-09-12 Thread Neo-Vortex
On Sun, 12 Sep 2004, Malcolm Kay wrote: > On Sun, 12 Sep 2004 02:15 pm, Peter Ulrich Kruppa wrote: > > On Sun, 12 Sep 2004, Malcolm Kay wrote: > > > On Sun, 12 Sep 2004 01:37 pm, Peter Ulrich Kruppa wrote: > > >> On Sun, 12 Sep 2004, Malcolm Kay wrote: > > >>> I'm looking for a command line util

Re: pf_freebsd_2.03

2004-09-12 Thread dvv
messmate writes: Ok, i'll setup that release. But pf_freebsd shoudn't in the 4.10 release, isn't ? mess-mate It's not.If you want PF go to FreeBSD 5.2+. It's a decision of the FreeBSD developers not to introduce pf in the 4.x releases due to library and backport conflicts. If you want pf in 4.

Re: Problems with the ports collection

2004-09-12 Thread Travis Troyer
From: kstewart <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] CC: Travis Troyer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: Problems with the ports collection Date: Sat, 11 Sep 2004 04:59:25 -0700 On Saturday 11 September 2004 04:04 am, Travis Troyer wrote: > I just installed FreeBSD from the 5.2.1 ISO. After ins

Re: Playing .au sound files

2004-09-12 Thread Malcolm Kay
On Sun, 12 Sep 2004 05:59 pm, Neo-Vortex wrote: > On Sun, 12 Sep 2004, Malcolm Kay wrote: > > On Sun, 12 Sep 2004 02:15 pm, Peter Ulrich Kruppa wrote: > > > On Sun, 12 Sep 2004, Malcolm Kay wrote: > > > > On Sun, 12 Sep 2004 01:37 pm, Peter Ulrich Kruppa wrote: > > > >> On Sun, 12 Sep 2004, Malcolm

Re: Playing .au sound files

2004-09-12 Thread Malcolm Kay
On Sun, 12 Sep 2004 03:45 pm, Mike Hauber wrote: > On Sunday 12 September 2004 01:38 am, Malcolm Kay > > proclaimed: > > > > > > I'm looking for a command line utility to play > > > > > > .au sound files. > > > > > > > > > > > > Malcolm > > > > > > > > > > try the cat command... > > > > > > > > > >

Re: Playing .au sound files

2004-09-12 Thread Neo-Vortex
On Sun, 12 Sep 2004, Malcolm Kay wrote: > Yes, I find 'amp' is OK for .mp3. (at least when no kde application has > locked up the sound devices) And 'waveplay' manages .wav files. > > But the object is to find something that will play .au files successfully. > Or even something that will convert

Re: Playing .au sound files

2004-09-12 Thread Neo-Vortex
On Sun, 12 Sep 2004, Malcolm Kay wrote: > Yes, I find 'amp' is OK for .mp3. (at least when no kde application has > locked up the sound devices) And 'waveplay' manages .wav files. > > But the object is to find something that will play .au files successfully. > Or even something that will convert

Login to something before mounting of NFS allowed

2004-09-12 Thread Jens Holmqvist
hi, is there anyway to have users login to something vefore they can be able to mount NFS shares on the NFS server like samba if something is hard to understand just ask :) ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/free

Re: Problems with the ports collection

2004-09-12 Thread Simon Barner
Travis Troyer wrote: > ===> Configuring for libltdl-1.5.8 > cp: /usr/ports/devel/libltdl15/work/libtool-1.5.8 > /usr/ports/devel/libltdl15/work/libtool-1.5.8 > /usr/ports/devel/libltdl15/work/libtool-1.5.8/libltdl > /usr/ports/devel/libltdl15/work/libtool-1.5.8/libltdl/config.guess: No such > fil

Re: Install errors on old HP machine

2004-09-12 Thread Subhro
Boot it off a cd? Regards S. On Sat, 11 Sep 2004 10:55:23 +0200, Jouke Witteveen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > about > http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-questions/2004-July/051498.html > > Hello, > > I happen to have the same problem with different (all NEW) floppies and > different ke

Re: Interface Bonding & Bridging problem

2004-09-12 Thread Subhro
I am not 100% sure of what I speak about. Bridge works in layer 2 i.e. the data link layer. The virtual interface does not have a data link layer so it is not possible to get the bridging done as the way you are saying Regards S. On Sat, 11 Sep 2004 17:42:09 +0300, SharkTECH Maillists <[EMAIL PR

Re: Install errors on old HP machine

2004-09-12 Thread BSDjunkie
Jouke, Does the old pc already have an operating system on it? If not, you could try installing DOS on it and then copying rawrite.exe (I think it's called under 'dostools' folder from cd) to the hard drive and creating the boot discs on the machine that will be using them. Sometimes floppy dri

Re: Proxy/Firewall Question

2004-09-12 Thread Subhro
That is expected. After all that is all about proxy. When NAT is enabled then you can ping outside world, that is fine. If you want to provide transparent access to the clients, then you need to enable NAT. You can control the type of access provided (browsing, IRC, IMs, etc) by blocking(opening) t

Re: Mozilla core dump on FreeBSD 4.10

2004-09-12 Thread Subhro
On Sun, 12 Sep 2004 09:47:41 +0800 (CST), T.F. Cheng <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > yeah, i forgot to mention which version of mozilla, so > it's: > uname : > FreeBSD 192.168.0.13 4.10-STABLE FreeBSD 4.10-STABLE > #7: Fri Aug 13 07:22:42 EDT 2004 > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/TFCHENG > i38

Mouse problems

2004-09-12 Thread Tomas Snäckerström
Hi My name is Tomas. I've recently installed FreeBSD and this is the first time ever that I install a UNIX system. I use Solaris at work but as said this is the first time for me as root. Everything worked fine and I now have my file/printserver up and running. However a while ago I decided

Re: booting beta3 on A7N8X

2004-09-12 Thread Lee Harr
I have an A7N8X-E Deluxe, and have used it with 5.2.1-RELEASE-p9 and now 5.3 beta3. The issues I've read about with Asus mobos have been with the VIA chipset, which isn't on these boards, and also with ACPI - I have it disabled in BIOS and in the kernel. Yea, that is the exact same board I have. I

Re: Mouse problems

2004-09-12 Thread Simon Barner
Thomas, [ PS/2 mouse woes ] which mouse device are you using? Section "InputDevice" in /etc/X11/XF86Config should look like this (at least it works for me...) Section "InputDevice" Identifier "Mouse1" Driver "mouse" Option "Protocol""SysMouse" Option "Device" "/de

Omni Drivers for a Canon Printer

2004-09-12 Thread Ned Harrison
I dual boot FreeBSD 5.2.1 with Redhat Linux 9. I am trying to set up my printer which is a Canon S520 to print on the FreeBSD side. Running apsfilter SETUP I can get the printer to respond but the quality of the test prints have been poor. On my Linux side, however, the printer runs fine us

which wlan card?

2004-09-12 Thread Florian Hengstberger
Hi! I?m searching for a cheap wlan pci card (below 40 euros), supported by both freebsd and linux. What is the best choice, which cards does freebsd support out of the box (without nasty workarounds)? Is there a hardware database for freebsd or something similar? Thanks in advance Florian __

Re: which wlan card?

2004-09-12 Thread Mike Hauber
On Sunday 12 September 2004 11:04 am, Florian Hengstberger proclaimed: > Hi! > > I?m searching for a cheap wlan pci card (below 40 euros), > supported by both freebsd and linux. > > What is the best choice, which cards does freebsd support > out of the box (without nasty workarounds)? > Is there a

Re: Login to something before mounting of NFS allowed

2004-09-12 Thread Shantanoo
On Sun, 12 Sep 2004 15:03:51 +0200, Jens Holmqvist <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > hi, > is there anyway to have users login to something vefore they can be > able to mount NFS shares on the NFS server like samba samba is not a NFS server. > > if something is hard to understand just ask :) BT

Re: booting beta3 on A7N8X

2004-09-12 Thread freebsd
I missed the first part of this thread, but have you tried disabling firewire in bios? Gary Lee Harr wrote: I tried the "Boot with ACPI disabled" choice from the bootloader, but that one hung during the boot also... I did not try disabling ACPI in the BIOS, but I will give that a try. Recently I fo

4.10 panic: ffs_alloccg: map corrupted

2004-09-12 Thread Anish Mistry
I'm running 4.10 on my main desktop and I've been getting a weird FFS panic, and just finally got a dump of it. IdlePTD at physical address 0x008af000 initial pcb at physical address 0x002eb960 panicstr: lockmgr: locking against myself panic messages: --- panic: ffs_alloccg: map corrupted syncin

Re: 4.10 panic: ffs_alloccg: map corrupted

2004-09-12 Thread Kris Kennaway
On Sun, Sep 12, 2004 at 01:18:02PM -0400, Anish Mistry wrote: > I'm running 4.10 on my main desktop and I've been getting a weird FFS panic, > and just finally got a dump of it. > > IdlePTD at physical address 0x008af000 > initial pcb at physical address 0x002eb960 > panicstr: lockmgr: locking ag

Re: 4.10 panic: ffs_alloccg: map corrupted

2004-09-12 Thread Anish Mistry
On Sunday 12 September 2004 01:26 pm, you wrote: > On Sun, Sep 12, 2004 at 01:18:02PM -0400, Anish Mistry wrote: > > I'm running 4.10 on my main desktop and I've been getting a weird FFS > > panic, and just finally got a dump of it. > > > > IdlePTD at physical address 0x008af000 > > initial pcb at

Re: 4.10 panic: ffs_alloccg: map corrupted

2004-09-12 Thread Subhro
Tell us about your hard drive and the way you have attacked them to the cable. Regards S. On Sun, 12 Sep 2004 13:18:02 -0400, Anish Mistry <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I'm running 4.10 on my main desktop and I've been getting a weird FFS panic, > and just finally got a dump of it. > > IdlePTD a

Re: 4.10 panic: ffs_alloccg: map corrupted

2004-09-12 Thread Anish Mistry
On Sunday 12 September 2004 02:13 pm, Subhro wrote: > Tell us about your hard drive and the way you have attacked them to the > cable. > The dmesg is attached. They are connected using a 80 pin cable. The long end (blue terminator) is connected to the first ide spot on the motherboard. ad0: 38166M

Burning OS X .dmg disk images...

2004-09-12 Thread mailing lists at MacTutor
Does anyone know of how to burn Mac OS X .dmg images under FBSD? I have .dmg files from an OSX system (10.3.x) that I want to convert to ISO images (if necessary) for burning to cd/dvd. I can't find anything in the list archives about this. Thanks, Alex - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -

postfix/mysql/courier-imap configuration

2004-09-12 Thread cell
hello , i tried to configure postfix/mysql/courier-imap but i have a problem with virtual users.I use this main.cf : command_directory = /usr/local/sbin daemon_directory = /usr/local/libexec/postfix smtpd_banner = $myhostname ESMTP $mail_name $mail_version (FreeBSD) setgid_group = maildrop biff

Re: Burning OS X .dmg disk images...

2004-09-12 Thread Chuck Swiger
mailing lists at MacTutor wrote: Does anyone know of how to burn Mac OS X .dmg images under FBSD? Add the .dmg files to an ISO archive using mkisofs from sysutils/cdrtools, and burn them using burncd or sysutils/dvd+rw-tools. I have .dmg files from an OSX system (10.3.x) that I want to convert to

Font Size Question

2004-09-12 Thread phusion
I'm having a problem with my font size. In gnome-control-center, I've set the font preferences to Arial 10, and font rendering to sub-pixel smoothing. When I log into X-Windows, the font size is bigger, so then I go into gnome-control-center, and then single-click on font and the font suddenly shri

Re: booting beta3 on A7N8X

2004-09-12 Thread Joshua Tinnin
On Sunday 12 September 2004 07:26 am, "Lee Harr" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >I have an A7N8X-E Deluxe, and have used it with 5.2.1-RELEASE-p9 and > > now 5.3 beta3. The issues I've read about with Asus mobos have been > > with the VIA chipset, which isn't on these boards, and also with > > ACPI

can't start Apache 1.3 server in freeBSD 4.9 release #0

2004-09-12 Thread Sujit Dey
After installing Apache 1.3, i was configuring in freeBSD following the procedure mentioned in FreeBSD Handbook( section 23.7 Apache HTTP Server). i've tried ServerName (in httpd.conf ) with localhost, 127.0.0.1, but using "/usr/local/sbin/apachectl start", can't start the Apache server. It is

can't start Apache 1.3 server in freeBSD 4.9 release #0

2004-09-12 Thread Sujit Dey
After installing Apache 1.3, i was configuring in freeBSD following the procedure mentioned in FreeBSD Handbook( section 23.7 Apache HTTP Server). i've tried ServerName (in httpd.conf ) with localhost, 127.0.0.1, but using "/usr/local/sbin/apachectl start", can't start the Apache server. It is g

Re: can't start Apache 1.3 server in freeBSD 4.9 release #0

2004-09-12 Thread Josh Paetzel
On Sunday 12 September 2004 04:29, Sujit Dey wrote: > After installing Apache 1.3, i was configuring in freeBSD following > the procedure mentioned in FreeBSD Handbook( section 23.7 Apache > HTTP Server). i've tried ServerName (in httpd.conf ) with > localhost, 127.0.0.1, but using "/usr/local/sbin

Re: booting beta3 on A7N8X

2004-09-12 Thread Lee Harr
Recently I found out that I can make the system boot 4.10-stable by disabling firewire in the kernel. Otherwise it freezes up while booting. ... Well... my thought was [...] On 2004-09-12, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I missed the first part of this thread, but have you tried disabl

alias binding

2004-09-12 Thread Trysch
i was wondering if there was a way to bind an aliased ip address to a specific users account ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"

Re: pdflatex port?

2004-09-12 Thread Murray Taylor
hugelatex changes a number of memory and other size limits Snippings from the Makefile and so on --8<--- root # cd /usr/ports/print/hugelatex root # more Makefile (snip) PORTNAME= hugelatex PORTVERSION=1.0 (snip)

Ports and Gaim

2004-09-12 Thread Craig Perry
Hi all, I upgraded the ports tree and installed a few things, everything went ok untill I installed gaim. As soon as it went in, the menus in gnome went funny, ie the applications menu went to about 2 pixels wide, so I logged out to log back in again hoping that would fix it, unfortunately gdm

Re: moving to larger drive

2004-09-12 Thread Jerry McAllister
> > > > > Use fdisk to slice and do the mbr. > > In 4.xxx use disklabel to do disk labeling (partitioning) and boot block. > > In 5.xxx use bsdlabel to do disk labeling and boot block. > > > > Then use newfs to create filesystems in the partitions created > > with disklabel/bsdlabel. > > > > > > >

failed to start X

2004-09-12 Thread cry stone
after installed apache + mysql + php from port,when i run startx i got "/libexec/ld-elf.so.1: Shared object libexpat.so.4 not found, required by libfontconfig.so.1" i google it find that because the expat was upgrade to expat-1.95.7,and the libexpat.so.4 is instead by libexpat.so.5,so i run portupg

Re: Ports and Gaim

2004-09-12 Thread Joe Marcus Clarke
On Sun, 2004-09-12 at 19:05, Craig Perry wrote: > Hi all, > > I upgraded the ports tree and installed a few things, everything went ok untill I > installed gaim. As soon as it went in, the menus in gnome went funny, ie the > applications menu went to about 2 pixels wide, so I logged out to log b

Re: Burning OS X .dmg disk images...

2004-09-12 Thread David Kelly
On Sep 12, 2004, at 1:49 PM, mailing lists at MacTutor wrote: Does anyone know of how to burn Mac OS X .dmg images under FBSD? I have .dmg files from an OSX system (10.3.x) that I want to convert to ISO images (if necessary) for burning to cd/dvd. I can't find anything in the list archives about

Re: failed to start X

2004-09-12 Thread Parv
in message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, wrote cry stone thusly... > > after installed apache + mysql + php from port,when i run startx i got > "/libexec/ld-elf.so.1: Shared object libexpat.so.4 not found, required > by libfontconfig.so.1" X Windows has nothing to do w/ apache, mysql, or php. How did you

Re: Post Install Configuration Issues (ruby18 error)

2004-09-12 Thread Joshua Tinnin
On Monday 06 September 2004 11:11 am, Chris <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Another way: - this changes the default database (btriev) to hash > > setenv PORTS_DBDRIVER bdb1_hash > > then run your portdb -u > In fact, I opted for this one. I now run my ports tree updating > scripts as I did BEFORE th

Re: booting beta3 on A7N8X

2004-09-12 Thread Joshua Tinnin
On Sunday 12 September 2004 02:56 pm, "Lee Harr" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 2004-09-12, Joshua Tinnin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >Well, I'm not entirely sure, either, but in any event I don't think > >you'll need to go that far. However, I think you'll probably have to > >stick with 5.x so