Re: printing outside browser cuts off top and bottom of page

2010-08-25 Thread Polytropon
On Tue, 24 Aug 2010 18:12:40 -0600 (MDT), Warren Block wrote: > On Tue, 24 Aug 2010, Chad Perrin wrote: > > > On Tue, Aug 24, 2010 at 03:49:24PM -0600, Warren Block wrote: > >> > >> The LJ4050 is a great printer, but it doesn't print PDFs natively. > >> > >> So you need to find what CUPS is usin

Re: Lingua franca file system Linux-NetBSD-FreeBSD?

2010-08-25 Thread Polytropon
On Wed, 25 Aug 2010 10:55:21 +, "Thomas Mueller" wrote: > From "Polytropon" : > > > There is a way around this: Put the files to be transferred into > > a tar archive. In this way, only the archives name will have to > > obey 8.3, and its content will keep intact (case sensitive long > > fil

for the information

2010-08-25 Thread tejas oza
Dear sir/madam, Myself Tejas Oza a student of post-graduation. I want to use Unix Operating system to run some of tools that are useful in my study. Please provide me information from where can i get it. and whether it is free or not? and if its free then please provide me the link for the same, t

Re: Lingua franca file system Linux-NetBSD-FreeBSD?

2010-08-25 Thread Thomas Mueller
>From "Samuel Martín Moro" : > the problem is not which version of mkfs (ext2fs) you use. > the problem is that BSD only handle ext2fs partitions with 128b inodes, while > default value is 256. > when running mkfs/newfs, be sure to specify -I 128 > also, I won't recommand ntfs. > but, ntfs "work

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

2010-08-25 Thread William Bulley
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 has worked fine for the past year. This week I upgraded from 8.0-STABLE circa January 2010 to 8.1-STABLE. I do this by doing a buildworld/

Re: Lingua franca file system Linux-NetBSD-FreeBSD?

2010-08-25 Thread Jerry
On Wed, 25 Aug 2010 10:55:21 + Thomas Mueller articulated: > > If there are no Windows clients involved, I'd use NFS or AFS; with > > Windows in the mix, CIFS/Samba may be a better choice as Windows NFS > > clients are dodgy at best. That is not necessarily true anymore. I found this link:

Re: Lingua franca file system Linux-NetBSD-FreeBSD?

2010-08-25 Thread Andy Ruhl
2010/8/25 Thomas Mueller : > From "Andy Ruhl" : > >> I thought UDF was supposed to be the solution to all of this. A friend >> of mine had a USB external hard disk formatted with UDF and it worked >> fine with both Linux and Windows. I think it's not as common for >> formatting magnetic disk based

Re: for the information

2010-08-25 Thread jhell
On 08/25/2010 05:26, tejas oza wrote: > Dear sir/madam, > > Myself Tejas Oza a student of post-graduation. I want to use Unix Operating > system to run some of tools that are useful in my study. Please provide me > information from where can i get it. and whether it is free or not? and if > its fr

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

2010-08-25 Thread jhell
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 has worked fine for the past year. > > This week I upgraded from 8.0-STABLE circa Janua

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

2010-08-25 Thread William Bulley
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 has worked fine for the past ye

Net

2010-08-25 Thread Mikhail Zatsepin
I could not find out from the site and the release which proxy server is used in FreeBSD as a standard one. Where we can look for it? --- MZ ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To u

Re: Net

2010-08-25 Thread Diego Arias
2010/8/25 Mikhail Zatsepin > I could not find out from the site and the release which proxy server is > used in FreeBSD as a standard one. > Where we can look for it? > > --- > MZ > ___ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd

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

2010-08-25 Thread Warren Block
On Wed, 25 Aug 2010, William Bulley wrote: After building Xorg, as root, I ran the "Xorg -configure" command to generate my xorg.conf.new file. Since a working /etc/X11/xorg.conf file was still around after the upgrade from 8.0-STABLE/Xorg 7.3, I felt no need to change anything in that file (la

Re: printing outside browser cuts off top and bottom of page

2010-08-25 Thread Warren Block
On Wed, 25 Aug 2010, Chad Perrin wrote: On Tue, Aug 24, 2010 at 08:33:34PM -0700, Chip Camden wrote: Quoth Warren Block on Tuesday, 24 August 2010: It appears that PPDs are stored in the reasonably-named /usr/local/etc/cups/ppd. There's a PPD for the LJ4050 in print/foomatic-db... And it ha

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

2010-08-25 Thread William Bulley
According to Warren Block on Wed, 08/25/10 at 09:49: > > If you are running hald, why not use it? And the DontZap default is > back to where it used to be (off), so you could remove or comment that > entire ServerFlags section. Not sure what you mean by using hald. Assuming I knew how to use

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

2010-08-25 Thread Polytropon
On Wed, 25 Aug 2010 09:29:21 -0400, William Bulley wrote: > Interestingly enough, I do have this line in my /etc/X11/xorg.conf file: > >Section "InputDevice" > Option "XkbOptions" "terminate:ctrl_alt_bksp" >EndSection > > But that never has seemed to work. :-( In case you're

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

2010-08-25 Thread Warren Block
On Wed, 25 Aug 2010, William Bulley wrote: According to Warren Block on Wed, 08/25/10 at 09:49: If you are running hald, why not use it? And the DontZap default is back to where it used to be (off), so you could remove or comment that entire ServerFlags section. Not sure what you mean by u

Re: ghostscript-8.71 update

2010-08-25 Thread Lowell Gilbert
"Alain G. Fabry" writes: > Trying to update ghostscript, but seems to fail. Can somebody provide me with > info on how to solve this? It seems to build fine on the build cluster. Make sure you clean the work directories and update any dependencies before trying again. ___

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

2010-08-25 Thread Dima Panov
On Thursday 26 August 2010 01:03:10 Polytropon wrote: > On Wed, 25 Aug 2010 09:29:21 -0400, William Bulley wrote: > > Interestingly enough, I do have this line in my /etc/X11/xorg.conf file: > > > >Section "InputDevice" > > Option "XkbOptions" "terminate:ctrl_alt_bksp" > >EndSe

Re: printing outside browser cuts off top and bottom of page

2010-08-25 Thread Chad Perrin
On Wed, Aug 25, 2010 at 07:57:29AM -0600, Warren Block wrote: > > For another test, use pdf2ps and feed the PS output directly to the > printer, bypassing CUPS. If the LJ4050N Ethernet is connected (and it > really should be), you can use nc something like this (untested): > > # pdf2ps test.

Re: printing outside browser cuts off top and bottom of page

2010-08-25 Thread Chad Perrin
On Wed, Aug 25, 2010 at 11:38:52AM +0200, Polytropon wrote: > > If your printer can do PS, you don't need CUPS; lpd does everything. > > If you just need to convert printing output (which traditionally *is* > PS) to PCL, you might be interested in using apsfilter. It's a lot > more lightweight th

Re: printing outside browser cuts off top and bottom of page

2010-08-25 Thread Chip Camden
Quoth Chad Perrin on Wednesday, 25 August 2010: > On Wed, Aug 25, 2010 at 07:57:29AM -0600, Warren Block wrote: > > > > For another test, use pdf2ps and feed the PS output directly to the > > printer, bypassing CUPS. If the LJ4050N Ethernet is connected (and it > > really should be), you can us

openldap-sasl fails after 8.1 upgrade

2010-08-25 Thread Leon Meßner
Hi, after binary upgrading to freebsd8.1 from 7.2 i encounter an error with openldap24, cyrus-sasl2 and kerberos: # ldapsearch uid=whatever SASL/GSSAPI authentication started ldap_sasl_interactive_bind_s: Other (e.g., implementation specific) error (80) additional info: SASL(-1): generic

Python cdll.LoadLibrary() Segfault

2010-08-25 Thread Jeff Aigner
Hello, I am trying to use ctypes in python to load some external libs, and python segfaults when I try to load libc.so.6. This error occurs with both python 2.5.5 and python 2.6.5. Here's what happens: jeffdev# python Python 2.5.5 (r255:77872, Aug 25 2010, 12:17:48) [GCC 4.2.1 20070719 [FreeBSD]

chunk 'ad1s4 ;ad1s2 ,ad1s3 does not start on a track boundary : install issue

2010-08-25 Thread Mubeesh ali
Hi , I am trying to install freebsd on a acer 5745. I have allocated 50 gb of free space and i select it for free bsd slice . but in the next screen i get these error chunk 'ad1s4 ;ad1s2 ,ad1s3 does not start on a track boundary and free bsd defaults to using entire hardisk. the problem is there

Re: chunk 'ad1s4 ; ad1s2 ,ad1s3 does not start on a track boundary : install issue

2010-08-25 Thread Ryan Coleman
That would be your recovery partition from Acer, I would presume. On Aug 25, 2010, at 12:04 PM, Mubeesh ali wrote: > Hi , > > I am trying to install freebsd on a acer 5745. I have allocated 50 gb > of free space and i select it for free bsd slice . but in the next > screen i get these error > >

Re: chunk 'ad1s4 ; ad1s2 ,ad1s3 does not start on a track boundary : install issue

2010-08-25 Thread claudiu vasadi
you can make a hdd image and then play safely with the hdd. if things go bag, you can just restore the image ;) ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "fr

Re: printing outside browser cuts off top and bottom of page

2010-08-25 Thread Polytropon
On Wed, 25 Aug 2010 09:27:20 -0600, Chad Perrin wrote: > Is there much I'd need to know about apsfilter to use it with lpd? No, just make sure to compile it with options PAGE=A4 PAPERSIZE=a4 A4=yes in /etc/make.conf if you need ISO A4 support. It is basically dialog-dri

Re: chunk 'ad1s4 ; ad1s2 ,ad1s3 does not start on a track boundary : install issue

2010-08-25 Thread Mubeesh ali
yes you are right :-) . it is a 100 mb recovery partition created by windows 7 which can be safely formatted. however is there a way we can we have bsd not to format all partitions ; i have ubuntu on a partition (in which 3g usb modem (my only internet connection) works after some tweaking ) .

Re: chunk 'ad1s4 ; ad1s2 ,ad1s3 does not start on a track boundary : install issue

2010-08-25 Thread Mubeesh ali
yes. there is an un allocated 50 gb space (deleted a partition using win 7 partition tools) and we created a feebsd slice in the unallocated space while running sysinstall However in the next screen; i guess where it should give us an option to partition the freebsd slice into root,home,swap

Re: for the information

2010-08-25 Thread Jerry McAllister
On Wed, Aug 25, 2010 at 02:56:20PM +0530, tejas oza wrote: > Dear sir/madam, > > Myself Tejas Oza a student of post-graduation. I want to use Unix Operating > system to run some of tools that are useful in my study. Please provide me > information from where can i get it. and whether it is free o

Re: openldap-sasl fails after 8.1 upgrade

2010-08-25 Thread Reko Turja
Sadly the GSSAPI/Kerberos has been broken in 8.x for a good while now. You can either install the heimdal or MIT port, although getting that to work in stead of the base can be messy. kern/147454 PR actually has a working fix, although I'm not sure if it applies cleanly as it's pretty big - I

Re: openldap-sasl fails after 8.1 upgrade

2010-08-25 Thread Leon Meßner
On Wed, Aug 25, 2010 at 10:34:27PM +0300, Reko Turja wrote: > Sadly the GSSAPI/Kerberos has been broken in 8.x for a good while now. > You can either install the heimdal or MIT port, although getting that > to work in stead of the base can be messy. > > kern/147454 PR actually has a working fix,

Re: openldap-sasl fails after 8.1 upgrade

2010-08-25 Thread Reko Turja
I'll try that. See also discussion at http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-stable/2010-July/057734.html Following the link in the other thread to http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-stable/2010-February/055017.html i made the changes to /usr/bin/krb5-config: # diff /usr/bin/krb5

Re: printing outside browser cuts off top and bottom of page

2010-08-25 Thread Warren Block
On Wed, 25 Aug 2010, Chip Camden wrote: Quoth Chad Perrin on Wednesday, 25 August 2010: On Wed, Aug 25, 2010 at 07:57:29AM -0600, Warren Block wrote: For another test, use pdf2ps and feed the PS output directly to the printer, bypassing CUPS. If the LJ4050N Ethernet is connected (and it real

IP banned on http://forums.freebsd.org

2010-08-25 Thread rihaz jerrin
Hi, i can't access the forums on http://forums.freebsd.org from this network range inetnum: 117.192.0.0 - 117.255.255.255 netname: BSNLNET it shows a message that my ip is banned when trying to view the pages.Tried mailing the admin, it has been like this about a month by now.Any help

Re: printing outside browser cuts off top and bottom of page

2010-08-25 Thread Warren Block
On Wed, 25 Aug 2010, Chad Perrin wrote: I was not entirely sure before today whether the 4050N could handle straight PostScript instead of PCL, but the test I performed using nc to see if it would print properly involved using pdf2ps and no other file format transformations, so it seems PS is fi

Panic or deadlock with Intel graphics

2010-08-25 Thread Rem P Roberti
In an attempt to diagnose why my Thinkpad R51 completely locks up when trying to access X I have done the following. I built a debugging kernel, with KDB, DDB, WITNESS, INVARIANT*, AND DIAGNOSTIC in addition to *BREAK_TO_DEBUGGER. None of these things have yielded any progress in isolating t

Re: Panic or deadlock with Intel graphics

2010-08-25 Thread Rem P Roberti
In an attempt to diagnose why my Thinkpad R51 completely locks up when trying to access X I have done the following. I built a debugging kernel, with KDB, DDB, WITNESS, INVARIANT*, AND DIAGNOSTIC in addition to *BREAK_TO_DEBUGGER. None of these things have yielded any progress in isolating

Re: printing outside browser cuts off top and bottom of page

2010-08-25 Thread Robert Bonomi
> From owner-freebsd-questi...@freebsd.org Tue Aug 24 16:31:11 2010 > Date: Tue, 24 Aug 2010 14:31:29 -0700 > From: Chip Camden > To: FreeBSD Questions > Subject: Re: printing outside browser cuts off top and bottom of page > > > --ZYOWEO2dMm2Af3e3 > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii >