Re: fsck on a read only partition?

In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Alfred Perlstein writes: >Hello, how do I fsck my disk if it's mounted? > >I have downgraded the mount to read-only, but still geom seems >to disallow fsck access to it. > >Is there a way to tell the system to allow fsck to open it >read/write? Not apart from the d

Re: The worst error message in history belongs to... BIND9!

On Wed, Jul 04, 2007 at 08:14:44PM -0700, Garrett Cooper wrote: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > >>Except that bash requires all the icky GNU utilities to build so you > >>have to GNUify your system. > > > >And perl doesn't? It was GPL last I knew. > > The entirety of Perl falls under the GPL and Art

Ghostscript and options window

When I build print/ghostscript-gpl on my 6.2-STABLE I have to choose which driver to build through the "GPL Ghostscript driver configuration" window. These settings aren't saved anywhere so, each time I upgrade ghostscript, I have to choose which drivers to install How can I set these options onl

RE: Re[2]: The worst error message in history belongs to... BIND9!

> -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Gerard > Sent: Wednesday, July 04, 2007 9:30 AM > To: User Questions > Subject: Re[2]: The worst error message in history belongs to... BIND9! > > > On July 04, 2007 at 09:53AM Ted Mittelstaedt wrote: >

Re: Ghostscript and options window

On Thu, Jul 05, 2007 at 10:11:21AM +0200, Alberto Rizzi wrote: > When I build print/ghostscript-gpl on my 6.2-STABLE I have to choose > which driver to build through the "GPL Ghostscript driver configuration" > window. > > These settings aren't saved anywhere so, each time I upgrade > ghostscript,

RE: OT: Re: The worst error message in history belongs to... BIND9!

Anything you have actually seen is fair game. Ted > -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of doug > Sent: Wednesday, July 04, 2007 12:19 PM > To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org > Subject: Re: OT: Re: The worst error message in history belongs to..

skype question

hi all.. got skype installed. can't get sound of off it. when i talk people hear me but i can;t hear rings. sound works fine otherwise - i can listen stuff with xmms. in the skype options for hand/headsets the Ringing points to /dev/dsp same as Calls one but the one for ringing is dimmed and i ca

Re: mod_perl port

On Wed, 4 Jul 2007 14:37:59 -0600 "Andrew Falanga" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I installed Apache 2.2 and the appropriate mod_perl port for this > version of apache. However, it is not referenced in > /usr/local/etc/apache/httpd.conf. How do I get it there? Hi Andrew, Apache 1.x -> /usr/local/

Re: skype question

On Thu, 5 Jul 2007 12:33:09 +0300 "Vladimir Tsvetkov" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Try stopping all sound reproducing programs and start your skype session > when the sound device is not busy and gets free. or simply increase the number of apps that can access your sound card simultaneously : a

Lost SSH X1 Forwarding with Xorg 7.2

Hi, A nice *feature* that I just noticed, I apologize if it has been mentionned earlier. xorg 7.2 tends to install all the components in /usr/loca insteal of the traditional /usr/X11R6. But sshd is still expecting xauth to be in /usr/X11R6/bin/xauth; so sshd_config has to be modified to reflect

Re: m4p conversion to mp4?

On July 04, 2007 at 06:11PM SMITH Dennis \(SPARQ\) wrote: > Warning to potential uses of the AllMusicConverter ( > www.allmusicconverter.com ). If you > are a software developer beware of this application as it disables the > debug environment, probably to prev

Re: Fwd: Samba NetBios

Dear all, The idea is to share it over a local area network. This LAN has a wins server. my server has a jail in which samba resides. In order for the LAN to be serviced by my jailed samba I have NATED and RDRed the required packets In order for the LAN to browse the network NETBIOS seems to be a

RE: How does one start mysql after installing from ports

>To autostart mysql at boot add this to /etc/rc.conf >mysql_enable="YES" >Add this to /etc/rc.conf to direct to use location where there is a large >enough free disk space >to hold your databases >mysql_dbdir="/usr/local/mysql" >To start or stop mysql server do this >/usr/local/share/mysql/mysq

/boot/device.hints only work for some devices in FreeBSD 6.2?

Dear list I followed documents I found on the Internet which says by editing /boot/device.hints I can assign IRQ or disable devices, and I tried to do so, modification in /boot/device.hint do have effect over some device, for example: hint.fdc.0.disable="1" but some seetings do not have effect,

Re: fetch hangs during Make, portupgrade -a, or portmanager -u..

On Wed, 4 Jul 2007 22:42:44 +0100 RW <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Thu, 5 Jul 2007 02:34:16 +0800 > "Dinesh Pandian" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Good day all! > > > > Please help me out with a really annoying little problem that bugs > > me everytime I try to install applications from por

unknown: can't assign resources (irq)

Dear list I have seen strange message in my dmesg which says it cannot assign resources to PNP device: [snip] sc0: VGA <16 virtual consoles, flags=0x300> vga0: at port 0x3c0-0x3df iomem 0xa-0xb on isa0 unknown: can't assign resources (port) unknown: can't assign resources (irq) unknown

Re: Lost SSH X1 Forwarding with Xorg 7.2

On Thu, 5 Jul 2007 17:00:32 +0700 (ICT) Olivier Nicole <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > > A nice *feature* that I just noticed, I apologize if it has been > mentionned earlier. > > xorg 7.2 tends to install all the components in /usr/loca insteal of > the traditional /usr/X11R6. > > But sshd

Re: Fwd: Samba NetBios

On Thu, 5 Jul 2007 13:40:07 +0200 "Gabor Tjong A Hung" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Dear all, > > The idea is to share it over a local area network. > This LAN has a wins server. > my server has a jail in which samba resides. > In order for the LAN to be serviced by my jailed samba I have NATED a

Re: unknown: can't assign resources (irq)

On Thu, 05 Jul 2007 20:21:42 +0800 Zhang Weiwu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Dear list > > I have seen strange message in my dmesg which says it cannot assign > resources to PNP device: > > [snip] > sc0: VGA <16 virtual consoles, flags=0x300> > vga0: at port 0x3c0-0x3df iomem 0xa-0xb on

Re: /boot/device.hints only work for some devices in FreeBSD 6.2?

Zhang Weiwu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Where can I get knowledge of how device.hints works? e.g. maybe it can > only work with device that is not managed by a PNP BIOS or maybe it only > manage ISA devices but not PCI devices? It sounds like you haven't read "man device.hints". That is a good

Re: fetch hangs during Make, portupgrade -a, or portmanager -u..

"Dinesh Pandian" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Please help me out with a really annoying little problem that bugs me > everytime I try to install applications from ports. > > When I try to run portupgrade -a or portmanager -u, > when Make fetches the files from the servers, fetch > normally hang

Fwd: grep question

-- Forwarded message -- From: Agus <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: 05-jul-2007 10:09 Subject: Re: grep question To: Paul procacci <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 2007/7/4, Paul procacci <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: ann kok wrote: > Hi all > > how can I use grep to have the output as 60.40.2.x > > eg: > 6

Re: Does anyone on this list use WebGUI on FreeBSD

On 7/4/07, Pieter de Goeje <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/usr/ports> make quicksearch name=apreq2 Port: libapreq2-2.08 Path: /usr/ports/www/libapreq2 Info: Generic Apache2 Request Library Port: p5-libapreq2-2.08 Path: /usr/ports/www/p5-libapreq2 Info: Generic Apache2 R

Re: flash

Written by Anton Galitch on 07/02/07 18:07>> and no, with flash7 It doesnt even load the application, just the grey square, thats the log from the console: %firefox *** NSPlugin Wrapper *** WARNING: unhandled variable 11 in NPP_GetValue() The program 'npviewer.bin' received an X Window System

Re: unknown: can't assign resources (irq)

On Thu, 05 Jul 2007 20:21:42 +0800 Zhang Weiwu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Others on the forums suggested (in 2003) that I should disable > PNP feature in BIOS, which is impossible for me because my old IBM > Thinkpad don't offer such config option (the only config option had been > change syste

bge NIC not supporting 1000baseTX

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi all, I have a problem with my bge0 (BCM5750A1 NetXtreme) NIC card which is integrated in my Dell 600SC machine. This machine is running on FreeBSD-6.2 (i386). For some reasons, the bge0 NIC interface does not seem to support 1000baseTX settin

Re: unknown: can't assign resources (irq)

On Thu, 05 Jul 2007 20:21:42 +0800 Zhang Weiwu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Even if it doesn't affect the use of the system I'd like to know a > bit about the background knowledge. [...] Actually this is FAQ: http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/faq/admin.html#PNP-RESOURCES > I ha

Skype - problem with sound device

Hello, I have also problem with skype. When I try call to friend then I obtain following message: "Problem with sound device". When I run skype from console I get the following message (when I call): "/dev/dsp: Device or resource busy" On my Debian I haven't such problem. I also change, sys

Re: unknown: can't assign resources (irq)

在 2007-07-05四的 23:55 +1000，Norberto Meijome写道： > On Thu, 05 Jul 2007 20:21:42 +0800 > Zhang Weiwu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Others on the forums suggested (in 2003) that I should disable > > PNP feature in BIOS, which is impossible for me because my old IBM > > Thinkpad don't offer such co

Re: /boot/device.hints only work for some devices in FreeBSD 6.2?

在 2007-07-05四的 09:19 -0400，Lowell Gilbert写道： > Zhang Weiwu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > Where can I get knowledge of how device.hints works? e.g. maybe it can > > only work with device that is not managed by a PNP BIOS or maybe it only > > manage ISA devices but not PCI devices? > > It sound

ich9, ahci

Good morning, I'd like to whether the ICH9 SATA chipset and the AHCI mode/or-whatever is supported under FreeBSD 6.2 or 6-STABLE. I've just got a new motherboard with this new intel P35 chipset, and it has some brand new hardware. I'm looking for the perspectives, how could i use this board with

Re: fetch hangs during Make, portupgrade -a, or portmanager -u..

No firewall/NAT along the path. It's a direct connection. I'm pretty new to freebsd so I'm guessing that I did something wrong with network config or something. :) -- Dinesh On 7/5/07, Lowell Gilbert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: "Dinesh Pandian" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Please help me out

Verizon VZAccess and FreeBSD

Hi all, I have a blackberry with Tethering support. The only thing keeping me from switching fully over to FreeBSD from Windows is that I use VZAccess Manager with my Blackberry to connect to the net from wherever I am. I'm just wondering if this is supported in FreeBSD at all (and if so, is

Re: Ghostscript and options window

Yuri Pankov ha scritto: > On Thu, Jul 05, 2007 at 10:11:21AM +0200, Alberto Rizzi wrote: >> When I build print/ghostscript-gpl on my 6.2-STABLE I have to choose >> which driver to build through the "GPL Ghostscript driver configuration" >> window. >> >> These settings aren't saved anywhere so, each

Re: OT: Re: The worst error message in history belongs to... BIND9!

Wasn't there, once upon a time, an error message in FreeBSD which reported 'This doesn't look like Kansas, Toto'? Seem to recall it occurring when I deleted the directory I was 'in'. I may have imagined it though! -- John. ___ freebsd-questions@freebs

Re: Verizon VZAccess and FreeBSD

On Thursday 05 July 2007 11:20:52 am Matt Juszczak wrote: > Hi all, > > I have a blackberry with Tethering support. The only thing keeping me > from switching fully over to FreeBSD from Windows is that I use VZAccess > Manager with my Blackberry to connect to the net from wherever I am. > > I'm ju

Re: can't build /graphics/poppler-qt after recent cvsup [FIXED]

On Tuesday 03 July 2007 04:09:37 pm John Nielsen wrote: > [cc-ing gnome@ as port maintainer] > > On Tuesday 03 July 2007 03:52:22 pm Dan Nelson wrote: > > In the last episode (Jul 03), [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: > > > I'm having an odd proble getting poppler-qt to build after my latest > > > cvsup. >

RE: The worst error message in history belongs to... BIND9!

> -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Chad Perrin > Sent: Thursday, July 05, 2007 12:39 AM > To: FreeBSD Questions > Subject: Re: The worst error message in history belongs to... BIND9! > > > On Wed, Jul 04, 2007 at 08:14:44PM -0700, Garret

Re: bge NIC not supporting 1000baseTX

HI is the other end auto-negotiating properly? What happens if you force 1000 full at BOTH ends? -- martin On 7/5/07, Tek Bahadur Limbu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi all, I have a problem with my bge0 (BCM5750A1 NetXtreme) NIC card which is inte

OSS in 6.2

Has anyone successfully used the OSS in 6.2? I have an Intel HDA card that I would like to be able to record on but when I use the OSS program and modules I get nothing but garbled tones coming from the speakers. The osstest utility also reports errors of timeouts. -Tom _

Re: The worst error message in history belongs to... BIND9!

On Thu, Jul 05, 2007 at 09:19:00AM -0700, Ted Mittelstaedt wrote: > > -Original Message- > > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Chad Perrin > > Sent: Thursday, July 05, 2007 12:39 AM > > To: FreeBSD Questions > > Subject: Re: The worst error message in history b

anoncvs server dead?

It seems [EMAIL PROTECTED] has died. Who do I need to contact to restart/fix the problem? $ cvs update cvs server: cannot read /home/ncvs/CVSROOT/config: Device not configured cvs update: cannot read /home/ncvs/CVSROOT/cvswrappers: Device not configured cvs update: Updating . cvs update: cannot op

Upgrade Failure-

Hi all, I'm once again trying to upgrade from 5.5 to 6.2 So in sysinstall I went to options - changed the release to 6.2-RELEASE Started the upgrade and I keep getting this error │Write failure on transfer! (wrote -1 bytes of 1425408 bytes) │ ├

Re: Upgrade Failure-

Jean-Paul Natola wrote: Hi all, I'm once again trying to upgrade from 5.5 to 6.2 So in sysinstall I went to options - changed the release to 6.2-RELEASE Started the upgrade and I keep getting this error │Write failure on transfer! (wrote -1 bytes of 1425408 bytes) │ ├─

Re: bge NIC not supporting 1000baseTX

Martin Hepworth wrote: HI is the other end auto-negotiating properly? What happens if you force 1000 full at BOTH ends? Hi Martin, Actually both the machines are identical. I had connected both NIC cards back to back using a cat6 cross cable. One of the machines is then connected to a RAID

installing 7 - snapshot iso gives "cannot parse info file for XYZ distribution"

I'd like a functional 7.0 on my laptop, mainly since I have no mission-critical data there (all in cvs), and the acpi support for newer laptops in 6.2 is crap (tried. no fun.). I can't seem to get a usable system with the snapsot iso, however. Lots of stuff gives errors. I burned 2 cd's (one cd

Re: if_lagg(4) and rc.conf

On Tue, Jul 03, 2007 at 03:10:05PM -0400, John Nielsen wrote: > On Tuesday 03 July 2007 02:35:16 pm Michael W. Lucas wrote: > > I'm trying to configure a lagg(4) interface out of rc.conf. FreeBSD > > doesn't want to initialize the interface at boot. I'm obviously > > missing some little thing. I

Re: bge NIC not supporting 1000baseTX

Doing a quick google on "BCM5750A1 freebsd" looks like theres a few issues with this driver and certain chipsets.. -- martin On 7/5/07, Tek Bahadur Limbu <[EMAIL PROTECTED] > wrote: Martin Hepworth wrote: > HI > > is the other end auto-negotiating properly? What happens if you force 1000 > ful

tablet pc - anyone tried it?

Anyone have luck? Does the tablet usually show up as a PS/2 mouse, or is that completely wishful thinking? Steve ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to

Re: OSS in 6.2

On Thursday 05 July 2007 14:16:42 Tom Grove wrote: > Has anyone successfully used the OSS in 6.2? I have an Intel > HDA card that I would like to be able to record on but when I > use the OSS program and modules I get nothing but garbled > tones coming from the speakers. The osstest utility also >

Re: Skype - problem with sound device

On Thu, 5 Jul 2007 15:57:21 +0200 Zbigniew Komarnicki <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hello, > > I have also problem with skype. When I try call to friend then I obtain > following message: > "Problem with sound device". > > When I run skype from console I get the following message (when I call):

Re: OSS in 6.2

On Thu, 05 Jul 2007 14:16:42 -0400 Tom Grove <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Has anyone successfully used the OSS in 6.2? I have an Intel HDA card > that I would like to be able to record on but when I use the OSS program > and modules I get nothing but garbled tones coming from the speakers. >

Re: Package Database DOA

On Thursday 05 July 2007 20:23:53 Mark Jacobs wrote: > My machine froze during a portupgrade process and I was forced to > reboot. Now my package database is corrupted. When I issue a pkg_version > I receive hundreds of these type errors; > > pkg_version: the package info for package 'cups-base-1.2

Package Database DOA

My machine froze during a portupgrade process and I was forced to reboot. Now my package database is corrupted. When I issue a pkg_version I receive hundreds of these type errors; pkg_version: the package info for package 'cups-base-1.2.11_2' is corrupt I attempted to delete and rebuild the datab

Re: Skype - problem with sound device

On July 5, 2007, you wrote: > I have also problem with skype. When I try call to friend then I obtain > following message: > "Problem with sound device". > > When I run skype from console I get the following message (when I call): > "/dev/dsp: Device or resource busy" > > On my Debian I haven't suc

game advice

Hi everybody, Could anyone share their gaming experiences? My son is 8 years old. Card games and balls are good, but I think he wants something more dynamic rather than educational :-) On one machine, with recent video card, I plan to install glest for him. Another machine has P-III and Matrox

Re: game advice

> Another machine has P-III and Matrox 8 Mb. Is > there anything "peaceful" but dynamic enough for an older video card? Sport game (soccer, etc.) car race games? Even older fight games were not so bloody. I won't give name because I don't know names much. If you target games that came out aroun

Re: Skype - problem with sound device

On Thu, 05 Jul 2007 19:17:30 -0700 Andriy Babiy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/sound-setup.html yes, of course. In my case, this has always been set and working fine. it showed the problems I described in my previous email ... and now it's f

Re: tablet pc - anyone tried it?

On Thu, 5 Jul 2007 17:02:07 -0700 "Steve Franks" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Anyone have luck? Does the tablet usually show up as a PS/2 mouse, or > is that completely wishful thinking? > Steve, which 'tablet pc'? you may want to ask in [EMAIL PROTECTED] - i've seen several threads on the sub

Re: game advice

in message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, wrote Andriy Babiy thusly... > > Could anyone share their gaming experiences? My son is 8 years > old. Card games and balls are good, but I think he wants something > more dynamic rather than educational :-) On one machine, with > recent video card, I plan to install