Kernel panic; fatal trap 12; on task 22, USB0: was Re: Moused issues?

2007-10-06 Thread Joe Altman
NB: I've copied -usb because it looks to me like it's definitely USB that's implicated; but I still need a clue for getting a crash dump; -questions seems the place to ask for that. On Sun, Sep 23, 2007 at 07:57:41PM -0400, Joe Altman wrote: > > uname for the machine on whi

Re: Kernel panic; fatal trap 12; on task 22, USB0: was Re: Moused issues?

2007-10-07 Thread Joe Altman
On Sun, Oct 07, 2007 at 11:01:41AM +0200, Hans Petter Selasky wrote: > On Saturday 06 October 2007, Joe Altman wrote: > > chthonic.com/crash-crash-crash > > Hi, > > Do you have "options KDB" in your kernel config file ? Following your suggestion, I did try thi

Re: [FAQ pointer] Re: Non-root access to peripheral file devices

2003-11-18 Thread Joe Altman
[copying the original poster in my somewhat related followup] On Tue, Nov 18, 2003 at 01:01:06PM -0500, Lowell Gilbert wrote: > Dr Lyman Hazelton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > Perhaps this is discussed somewhere, but so far I haven't found > > anything that helps. > > "How do I let ordinary

I want to install a game...Unreal Tournament GOTY

2003-12-15 Thread Joe Altman
This is a long query; I apologize for the verbosity. I've tried to do the relevant research. My first attempt to install results in this error: +ERROR+ sh ut-install-436-GOTY.run Verifying archive integrity...OK Uncompressing Unreal Tournament version 436-GOTY Linux install.

Re: I want to install a game...Unreal Tournament GOTY

2003-12-15 Thread Joe Altman
On Tue, Dec 16, 2003 at 01:52:33PM +1030, George Patterson wrote: > Joe, > > Do you have the Linux compatibility kernel module loaded?? No, I don't...but I looked around my file tree for glibc, and didnt' find it...it was in the back of my mind that the linux kernel module might be dynamic and

Wterm and FreeBSD 9

2012-05-07 Thread Joe Altman
Greetings... For FreeBSD 8, we see this for wterm: BROKEN= does not compile .if ${OSVERSION} > 97 BROKEN= fails to build with new utmpx .endif I'd like to confirm that wterm will build and run on 9. I'm currently running 8.3-RELEASE-p1 FreeBSD 8.3-RELEASE-p1 #0. Does anyone

Building misc/freebsd-doc-en fails

2011-05-28 Thread Joe Altman
Greetings... uname -a FreeBSD whisperer.chthonixia.net 8.1-RELEASE-p4 FreeBSD 8.1-RELEASE-p4 #0: Sat May 28 21:25:00 EDT 2011 r...@whisperer.chthonixia.net:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/WHISPERER amd64 Sources, including ports, updated on May 28 after the bind security notice. Here is the tail of the

Re: Building misc/freebsd-doc-en fails

2011-05-29 Thread Joe Altman
> On Sun, May 29, 2011 at 1:05 AM, Adam Vande More wrote: > > > > Seems like there should be more detail. Try > > > > make clean && make -j1 Interesting: ===> Building for en-freebsd-doc-20110521 /bin/cat /usr/ports/misc/freebsd-doc-en/pkg-plist.html-split /usr/ports/misc/freebsd-doc-en/pkg-pli

Re: Building misc/freebsd-doc-en fails

2011-05-29 Thread Joe Altman
On Sun, May 29, 2011 at 02:32:37PM +, Joe Altman wrote: > > There is this thread from 2009, and it looks like the same issue as > the one in this message: > > http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-questions/2009-December/209892.html > > It looks like I'll need

Upgrading libxul, dependency on Firefox 3

2011-10-21 Thread Joe Altman
Greetings... I was running portupgrade on libxul and noticed it depends on Firefox 3.x. I cancelled the upgrade, because I thought FF3.x was insecure and therefore deprecated while FF7 was recommended and secure. My questions: 1) is the dependency libxul has for FF3 a security problem? 2) is th

Re: Upgrading libxul, dependency on Firefox 3

2011-10-22 Thread Joe Altman
On Sat, Oct 22, 2011 at 09:28:40PM +0200, Beat G?tzi wrote: > On Oct 22, 2011, at 2:54 AM, Joe Altman wrote: > > Greetings... > > > > I was running portupgrade on libxul and noticed it depends on Firefox > > 3.x. I cancelled the upgrade, because I thought FF3.x was

Error in building documentation from source

2012-01-08 Thread Joe Altman
Greetings... I've some sort of image error in building the docs from source. I've copied it below, and wonder how it might be fixed? Sometimes, the issue causes many runs of make in the directory /usr/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1 before all errors are exhausted and other times (like the most recent) only

Re: Error in building documentation from source

2012-01-09 Thread Joe Altman
On Mon, Jan 09, 2012 at 07:15:21PM +0100, Patrick Lamaiziere wrote: > Le Sun, 8 Jan 2012 19:58:18 -0500, > > Hello, > > > I've just tried without problem. Well, have you the port > textproc/docproj installed (of course)? The equivalent, AIUI: docproj-nojadetex. > Be sure that the source are up

Re: snd_hda and front headphones jack

2013-03-12 Thread Joe Altman
On Tue, Mar 12, 2013 at 08:55:49AM -0500, Mark Felder wrote: > Hi guys, > > I seem to be having problems getting my front headphones jack to work. > > > If I am looking at this right I believe I need to set nid25 to as=1 which > matches the nid31 Speaker and probably also set seq=15. However,

shotwell fails to build

2013-03-31 Thread Joe Altman
Greetings... I checked at http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr-summary.cgi and found no open bug-reports; and nothing on -questions for March. Maybe it's confined to my system, or I missed an UPDATING notice; if not, I'll go to the maintainer and/or file a bug report. Before I do that are there any

Re: Why is "pkg_glob" no longer working for me?

2013-04-27 Thread Joe Altman
On Fri, Apr 26, 2013 at 02:54:59PM -0600, Tom Russo wrote: > > Anyone else have this issue? Or am I the only one left still using > portupgrade and its associated tools? I use portupgrade and have noticed no failures. I have never used pkg_glob so I cannot address that. I have used portupgrade a

Re: graphics/shotwell port don't compile right

2013-05-20 Thread Joe Altman
On Mon, May 20, 2013 at 04:46:42PM +0200, Xavier wrote: > Hi to all, > > First, I have ports tree all update: > > > If I try to compile graphics/shotwell don't right: There are bug reports open on shotwell's issues: http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=ports/177913 http://www.freebsd.or

CEO Workstation Nakatomi Socrates in beastie.4th

2013-08-25 Thread Joe Altman
Seriously, don't scare me like that. But JIC: I don't need to worry? Right? Joe ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@fr

Scanning: Sane-Backends: from 1.0.16 to 1.0.17 or Xsane: 0.97 to 0.98

2006-01-02 Thread Joe Altman
One of the two recent portupgrades seems to have broken scanning for an HP 2200C using the Plustek backend. One of the issues I face is that I don't recall if the upgrade for Xsane occurred before or after I last used the scanner successfully. 0.98a was released twice, in late November; followed c

New Canon LiDE60; and it seems to need a reference(?) in source

2006-01-24 Thread Joe Altman
I have this device: # usbdevs -v port 3 addr 2: high speed, power 500 mA, config 1, CanoScan(0x221c), Canon(0x04a9), rev 3.06 #sane-find-scanner found USB scanner (vendor=0x04a9 [Canon], product=0x221c [CanoScan], chip=GL841) at libusb:/dev/usb4:/dev/ugen0 #scanimage -L device `genesys:libusb:/d

USB0 host controller crash

2006-02-10 Thread Joe Altman
Last night, I fired up Grip and shortly after it was invoked, my mouse (ums0: Razer Razer Diamondback Optical Mouse, rev 2.00/1.00, addr 3, iclass 3/1 ums0: 7 buttons and Z dir) went dark. It's transparent, so it was obvious when it died. Right about that time, the USB keyboard followed (ukbd0: ven

Re: RELENG_6 and a Razer Copperhead mouse don't work

2006-02-15 Thread Joe Altman
On Tue, Feb 14, 2006 at 07:57:09PM +, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > 19. RELENG_6 and a Razer Copperhead mouse don't work (lars) > > -- > > Message: 19 > Date: Tue, 14 Feb 2006 19:26:53 +0100 > From: lars <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Subject: RELENG_6 and a Razer Copperhe

Trivial query: the GUI for wpa_supplicant

2006-03-03 Thread Joe Altman
Greetings... I've started to configure my Atheros card, and during that process visited the hostap site after installing the wpa_supplicant port. During my reading, I noticed that there exists a GUI for hostap, wpa_gui; and I also noticed that the code f

Re: freebsd-questions Digest, Vol 130, Issue 18

2006-04-07 Thread Joe Altman
On Fri, Apr 07, 2006 at 05:02:17PM +, > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > 29. Wine installation/configuration question (John Hoover) > > -- > > Message: 29 > Date: Fri, 7 Apr 2006 11:12:25 -0500 > From: "John Hoover" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Subject: Wine installation/conf

Re: make clean all installed ports

2004-06-30 Thread Joe Altman
On Wed, Jun 30, 2004 at 09:10:15AM +0100, Peter Risdon wrote: > I'm sure I saw recently on this list that it's possible to: > > #cd /usr/ports > #make clean somethingorother > > and clean just installed ports. A straight make clean in the root of the > ports tree takes rather a long time. > > B

Re: Free BSD documentation required

2004-12-08 Thread Joe Altman
On Wed, Dec 08, 2004 at 03:55:11PM +0530, Milind Nanal wrote: > > > List, > > I am new to FreeBSD & finding is little difficult with administrative > commands. I have worked on RedHat & Suse. Service startup, boot scripts, > pstree command everything seems to be different in FreeBsd compare to

Re: Totally lost

2004-12-10 Thread Joe Altman
On Fri, Dec 10, 2004 at 08:23:40PM +, Mário Gamito wrote: > Hi, > > When i install FreeBSD 5.3, libtool, automake and autoconf don't get > installed. > > I upgrade the ports. > After that is the total confusion. > > One program wants libtools version x, another, y ando so on. > Some thing t

Re: Screen usage... was: Xorg/laptop

2004-12-13 Thread Joe Altman
On Mon, Dec 13, 2004 at 02:05:00PM -0500, Dan Kilbourne wrote: > Bomgardner,Jon extolled: > > > > Other than that I've just been learning a lot of nifty features like > > changing the number of rows on the display, changing colors, how to set > > up a splash screen, etc... Fun times! > > > > Th

Re: Screen usage... was: Xorg/laptop

2004-12-13 Thread Joe Altman
On Mon, Dec 13, 2004 at 03:16:10PM -0500, Joe Altman wrote: > > Here, the contents of my /etc/rc.conf > > font8x8="iso-8x8" > font8x14="iso-8x14" > font8x16="iso-8x16" > allscreens_flags="80x60" > > The relevant lines fro

Re: ld-elf.so.1: Shared object"libintl.so.6" not found

2004-12-16 Thread Joe Altman
On Wed, Dec 15, 2004 at 04:13:29PM -0800, Kris Kennaway wrote: > > Aha! > > What I recommend is that you open a doc PR requesting that this be > documented somewhere, so that future generations don't run into this > problem as well. Once, I somehow or another stumbled over a little rhyming tha

Re: Trouble with 'portsdb -uU' and ld-elf.so...

2004-12-16 Thread Joe Altman
On Thu, Dec 16, 2004 at 10:07:19AM -0600, Eric Schuele wrote: > Hello, > > I'm having trouble with 'portsdb -uU' > > It worked exactly twice on my machine. I was using the following > commands to upgrade all my ports: > > # cvsup -g -L 2 /root/ports-supfile > # portsdb -uU > # pkgdb -F > # por

Xorg log message: Radeon, DRM, re-init

2004-12-16 Thread Joe Altman
Dec. 16th log: joe on anna ~ $: ll /var/log/Xorg.0.log root wheel 46031 Dec 16 21:06 /var/log/Xorg.0.log Old log: root wheel 43990 Dec 9 01:20 Xorg.0.log.old This message is from the new log, dated Dec 16, and appears at least five times, with the last one being approximately at 21:06 p.m. EST:

Re: Trouble with 'portsdb -uU' and ld-elf.so...

2004-12-16 Thread Joe Altman
On Thu, Dec 16, 2004 at 09:30:43PM -0500, Jonathan Franks wrote: > Joe Altman wrote: > > >On Thu, Dec 16, 2004 at 10:07:19AM -0600, Eric Schuele wrote: > > >>K_1_2 Segmentation fault (core dumped) JAVA_PORT_LINUX_IBM_JDK_1_3 | > >>/usr/bin/awk '{

Re: linux-XFree86-libs-4.3.0_2/linux_base-7.1_7 conflict when upgrading linux-realplayer

2004-12-16 Thread Joe Altman
On Fri, Dec 17, 2004 at 12:57:09PM +1030, Ian Moore wrote: > > > ===> Installing for linux-XFree86-libs-4.3.0_2 > > ===> linux-XFree86-libs-4.3.0_2 conflicts with installed package(s): > linux_base-7.1_7 > > They install files into the same place. > Please remove them first w

Re: linux-XFree86-libs-4.3.0_2/linux_base-7.1_7 conflict when upgrading linux-realplayer

2004-12-16 Thread Joe Altman
On Fri, Dec 17, 2004 at 01:57:41PM +1030, Ian Moore wrote: > > I'm still have trouble understanding what to do when portupgrade asks me this > sort thing - well sometimes it's obvious, but often not. Should I just use -O > or should I fix the dependency? I usually fix the dependency, myself. __

Re: Screen usage... was: Xorg/laptop

2004-12-17 Thread Joe Altman
On Mon, Dec 13, 2004 at 03:21:28PM -0500, Joe Altman wrote: > I mentioned my laptop config, and here it is (or was): #font8x8="iso-8x8" #font8x14="iso-8x14" #font8x16="iso-8x16" #font8x8="iso02-8x8.fnt" #allscreens_flags="80x60" And here

Re: installing bsd on a laptop

2004-12-20 Thread Joe Altman
On Mon, Dec 20, 2004 at 04:54:09AM -0600, Andrew L. Gould wrote: > On Monday 20 December 2004 12:53 am, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > hello, do you know of any laptop brands that can run freebsd or > > openbsd that is available to purchase??? > > I was unable to get a Compaq's pccard working under

Re: complete system backup recommendations

2004-12-23 Thread Joe Altman
On Thu, Dec 23, 2004 at 09:21:52AM -0800, Kevin Smith wrote: > Hello, I'm asking for current recommendations on how to backup my > complete system (OS and all installed ports and user directories) now > that i've spent quite a bit of time getting it right. i'd hate to have > to reinstall ever

Re: Supported CDRW listing for 5.3

2004-12-23 Thread Joe Altman
On Thu, Dec 23, 2004 at 08:11:04PM -0600, Chris wrote: > I'm going to be in the market for a new CDRW soon - I thought there was > a list of supported devices. There certainly isnt a mention in the 5.3 > Hardware Notes. I've not used it w/ 5.3; but I have a hard time believing that Plextor model

Re: FreeBSD's Visual Identity: Outdated?

2004-12-24 Thread Joe Altman
On Fri, Dec 24, 2004 at 04:27:51PM -0500, Brian Astill wrote: > > Could this conversation please be moved to -advocacy and ONLY to > -advocacy? Seconded. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-qu

Re: Using Exim with FBSD 5.3

2004-12-24 Thread Joe Altman
On Fri, Dec 24, 2004 at 10:31:40AM -0600, Joshua Lokken wrote: > > "comm/JT" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > > > Just a quick question, I was wondering if anyone had some documentation to > > > fully move from sendmail to exim on a 5.3 machine. I have tried this and > > > seemed to have failed,

Re: Using Exim with FBSD 5.3

2004-12-24 Thread Joe Altman
On Fri, Dec 24, 2004 at 12:31:37PM -0600, Joshua Lokken wrote: > On Fri, 24 Dec 2004 13:17:57 -0500, Joe Altman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Fri, Dec 24, 2004 at 10:31:40AM -0600, Joshua Lokken wrote: > > > > "comm/JT" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >

FAQ: What constitutes an inappropriate posting? Was: Re: Using Exim with FBSD 5.3

2004-12-24 Thread Joe Altman
On Fri, Dec 24, 2004 at 01:11:31PM -0600, Joshua Lokken wrote: > > I guess I'm really not sure what your > malfunction is, Joe. What do you not understand about > 'deprecated' and 'will be removed in a future release'? BTW, I > really don't care to discuss it any further; if you have any > addi

Re: 5.3 Xorg jerky

2004-12-24 Thread Joe Altman
On Thu, Dec 23, 2004 at 08:20:30PM -0600, Adrian Patino II wrote: > Hello, > > Fairly new to FreeBSD. Recently did a fresh install from 4.10 to 5.3, > and noticed that when in X, things are a bit jerky, enough for me to > notice at least. Anything scrolling jerks and SDL video programs are > ver

Re: ATi and Xorg Troubles in FreeBSD 5.3

2005-01-07 Thread Joe Altman
Doug, Ronny... I'm running 4.11 with xorg 6.8.1, built from source on December 28, 2004 using a Rage Mobility P/M AGP 2x on an IBM ThinkPad A20m. I have a default depth of 24 bits, and a resolution of 1024x768. I am using the ati driver. Ronny: I see that the query is for 5.3, but I thought that

Xsane, HP ScanJet 2200C, and a grinding noise...

2004-01-05 Thread Joe Altman
Has anyone seen any issues with XSane and a scanner using the Plustek bits? The scanner I use has an LM9832 National SemiConductor/Plustek chip; the scanner is USB, and prior to an upgrade to Sane it never made a grinding noise. It never core dumped, either. A recent update to the ports tree and w

Re: Xsane, HP ScanJet 2200C, and a grinding noise...

2004-01-14 Thread Joe Altman
On Mon, Jan 05, 2004 at 06:59:48PM -0500, Joe Altman wrote: > Has anyone seen any issues with XSane and a scanner using the Plustek > bits? The scanner I use has an LM9832 National SemiConductor/Plustek > chip; the scanner is USB, and prior to an upgrade to Sane it never > made a gr

Re: Alcatel Speedtouch 330 using PPPOE, how can I do it on FreeBSD 4.9?

2004-02-19 Thread Joe Altman
On Thu, Feb 19, 2004 at 12:01:29PM -, Godinho, Carla wrote: > Hi, > Is there anyone who has run with success the Modem Alcatel Speedtouch > 330 (USB) using the PPPOE, for FreeBSD 4.9? > Where can I find Alcatel Speedtouch 330 drivers or (ports) for FreeBSD > 4.9 using the PPPOE? > I'm trying to

Re: Alcatel Speedtouch 330 using PPPOE, how can I do it on FreeBSD 4.9?

2004-02-19 Thread Joe Altman
On Thu, Feb 19, 2004 at 03:53:13PM +, Wayne Pascoe wrote: > On Thu, Feb 19, 2004 at 12:01:29PM -, Godinho, Carla wrote: > > Hi, > > Is there anyone who has run with success the Modem Alcatel Speedtouch > > 330 (USB) using the PPPOE, for FreeBSD 4.9? > > Where can I find Alcatel Speedtouch 3

Re: Alcatel Speedtouch 330 using PPPOE, how can I do it on FreeBSD 4.9?

2004-02-19 Thread Joe Altman
On Thu, Feb 19, 2004 at 07:34:37PM -, Godinho, Carla wrote: > Yes did tried that link when installing de modem, but I get a protocol > error when connecting to ADSL. See the details bellow: > > I'm having problems when trying to use the Modem Alcatel SpeedTouch 330 > with the FreeBSD 4.9. Ev

On 5.1, what is the process named "idle"?

2003-09-11 Thread Joe Altman
Greetings, list subsribers... I've installed 5.1 and a variety of apps on a machine, in preparation for a move to 5.1 in the near future, and in the course of playing around on it, I've noticed a process called idle: ~games: top -SU root PID USERNAME PRI NICE SIZE RES STATE TIME WCPU CPU C

Re: On 5.1, what is the process named "idle"?

2003-09-11 Thread Joe Altman
On Thu, Sep 11, 2003 at 05:50:01PM -0700, Kris Kennaway wrote: > On Fri, Sep 12, 2003 at 09:39:51AM +0900, Till Plewe wrote: > > On Thu, Sep 11, 2003 at 08:04:05PM -0400, Joe Altman wrote: > > > Greetings, list subsribers... > > > > > > I've installed 5

Setting the sticky bit on /var/mail...

2003-10-07 Thread Joe Altman
I am using Exim as a local mail agent on 5.1-RELEASE-p10. Suddenly, I can no longer set the sticky bit on /var/mail...not even as root. The error is "operation not permitted" when I run 'chmod 1777 mail'...this error doesn't occur on 4.9-RC. What could cause this type of behavior, the sudden inabi

Re: Setting the sticky bit on /var/mail...

2003-10-07 Thread Joe Altman
On Tue, Oct 07, 2003 at 08:26:40PM -0700, Mike Maltese wrote: > This may not be correct, but my first instinct would be to check for a flag > on the directory, i.e., 'ls -lo /var | grep mail'. Absolutely you are correct, and the crowd goes wild with applause...thank you. I suppose it would be nic

Re: Setting the sticky bit on /var/mail...

2003-10-08 Thread Joe Altman
On Tue, Oct 07, 2003 at 09:13:36PM -0700, Mike Maltese wrote: > > Absolutely you are correct, and the crowd goes wild with > > applause...thank you. > > > > Glad it helped. =) > > > I suppose it would be nice to know what set all of the following on > > /var/mail: > > > > opaque nodump uappnd uch

Open SSH, sshd_config on FreeBSD vs. NetBSD re: X11

2003-10-23 Thread Joe Altman
>From the FreeBSD man page: X11Forwarding Specifies whether X11 forwarding is permitted. The argument must be ``yes'' or ``no''. The default is ``yes''. >From the NetBSD page: X11Forwarding Specifies whether X11 forwarding is permitted. The

Speaking of this mailing list...

2004-04-07 Thread Joe Altman
I just noticed Joshua's issue with not receiving email; for some reason it prompted me to check my subscriptions. I noticed that I have a bounce score of 1, out of a possible 5. Does anyone know if it is possible for me to see these bounces? I surmise that it is not an actual bounce from my [EMAIL

Re: lament about freebsd sacrifices

2004-04-14 Thread Joe Altman
On Wed, Apr 14, 2004 at 11:36:05AM -0700, Peter Leftwich wrote: > I thought I would post this as something of a warning. Using > FreeBSD as a primary, non-dual-boot OS means sacrificing. Here is a > partial list of sacrifices, as compared to Microsoft Windows XP: > > * flatbed scanner joe on ann

Re: CUPS

2004-04-15 Thread Joe Altman
On Thu, Apr 15, 2004 at 05:21:22PM +0800, Robert Storey wrote: > Dear all, > > Having looked at the mind-boggling amount of configuration information > that is in the Handbook, I decided to just install CUPS. I'm very familiar > with CUPS, having configured it many times in Linux. > > So I instal

Re: Cups printing problem

2004-04-17 Thread Joe Altman
On Sat, Apr 17, 2004 at 04:30:20PM -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I am trying to print from a FBSD client to an FBSD print server running > the latest version of Cups. I can print from the printserver, but not > across the local network. I receive this error from the Cups browser > admin page:

Re: CUPS

2004-04-20 Thread Joe Altman
On Sat, Apr 17, 2004 at 11:30:46PM +0900, Rob wrote: > Robert Storey wrote: > >On Thu, 15 Apr 2004 10:51:30 -0700 > >"Derrick Ryalls" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > >First off, I discovered that installing CUPS doesn't create /var/log/cups > >- you > >have to make that directory manually. OK, I

Re: Cups printing problem

2004-04-20 Thread Joe Altman
On Tue, Apr 20, 2004 at 04:33:29PM -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Joe: > > Below, please find a copy of my cupsd.conf file. I'd appreciate it > if you could look at it and help me get network printing working. I just > need something real simple. 10.0.0.175 is the print server, and I want to

Re: newbie question: Gnome 2.6 upgrade

2004-04-23 Thread Joe Altman
On Fri, Apr 23, 2004 at 01:03:16AM -0700, Joshua Lokken wrote: > * Lucas Holt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2004-04-22 11:32]: > > > > The problem only seems to be with X11. I tried running several commands in > > console mode that I can normally run from any location and they all worked > > fine. so far

Re: Freebsd machine as a wireless access point ?

2004-04-23 Thread Joe Altman
On Fri, Apr 23, 2004 at 07:55:38AM -0500, Darryl Hoar wrote: > I have a spare PC with Freebsd installed on it. Can I configure > this machine to be a wireless access point ? Check out the handbook on your machine, in /usr/share/doc/ for the chapter on advanced networking; specifically the page la

Re: Upgrade gone bad, please help

2004-04-23 Thread Joe Altman
On Fri, Apr 23, 2004 at 09:16:52AM -0500, Joseph Koenig wrote: > I have a system that was running FreeBSD 4.3. At the time I built the > system, I compiled a custom kernel, but at this time, I do not need the > modifications I made to the kernel. Turns out I never really did need them. > So, I went

Re: Upgrade gone bad, please help

2004-04-23 Thread Joe Altman
You should be able to hit the space bar at the appropriate time, drop to a prompt that consists of one word: ok then, type ? you'll see a list of options, among them unload...so type: unload kernel then type: load kernel.GENERIC and you should be able to complete a boot...OTOH, there are (pr

Re: updated ports tree

2004-04-23 Thread Joe Altman
On Wed, Apr 21, 2004 at 10:04:06PM +, Killermink ! wrote: > Hello all, > > I am about to (re)install FreeBSD 5.2.1, and wish to make sure I have the > latest ports afterwards. I do not really wish to install the whole ports > tree from sysinstall as disk space is at a premium, and i will (s

Re: Upgrade gone bad, please help

2004-04-23 Thread Joe Altman
On Fri, Apr 23, 2004 at 01:37:59PM -0500, Joseph Koenig wrote: > At this point, I have upgraded my src as it was out of date before I > upgraded via sysinstall. The system is up and running, although far from > stable. My question is, at this point, have I done enough damage to > everything that us

Re: Items missing from the handbook and/or FAQs.

2004-04-23 Thread Joe Altman
On Fri, Apr 23, 2004 at 12:37:00PM -0700, Joe Rhett wrote: > Sorry, it's been quite a while since I've played with FreeBSD and some > things are taking a while to get used to. The configuration system has > come a long way... but the documentation seems to be lacking a bit. http://www.freebsd.org

Re: updated ports tree

2004-04-23 Thread Joe Altman
tfiles/gnome2 I'm almost sorry I looked. HTH, Killermink; let me know if I've made things clearer or foggier, please. > Original Message Follows > From: Joe Altman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > To: Killermink! <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >

Re: Creating ISO image question

2004-05-17 Thread Joe Altman
On Mon, May 17, 2004 at 11:43:56PM +0800, Stephen Liu wrote: > Hi arden, > > Tks for your advice. > > > im guessing this is what you mean ? > > > > mkisofs -r -J -o cd_image.iso dir/ > > I made following test without result; > > $ mkisofs -r -J -o cd_image.iso > /usr/home/user-A/Storage-04051

Re: Help, GTK and my ports system broke!

2004-05-17 Thread Joe Altman
On Mon, May 17, 2004 at 03:37:00PM -0500, Doug Poland wrote: > > I may just blow away all ports, and start from scratch. Could you not re-cvsup, and then try to build world, before blowing away your ports? Isn't blowing it all away a bit extreme? ___ [EM

Does anyone recognize this name or IP?

2004-05-17 Thread Joe Altman
62.219.120.133 AKA bzq-120-133.red.bezeqint.net AKA: telnet bzq-120-133.red.bezeqint.net 25 Trying 62.219.120.133... Connected to bzq-120-133.red.bezeqint.net. Escape character is '^]'. 220 codedump.dyn.ee ESMTP Postfix ehlo chthonic.com 250-codedump.dyn.ee The machine (or a machine) at that IP h

Re: Creating ISO image question

2004-05-19 Thread Joe Altman
On Wed, May 19, 2004 at 01:29:16PM +0800, Stephen Liu wrote: > Hi Joe, > > Tks for your advice. > > - snip- > > mkisofs -o cd_image.iso > page> dir/ ? > > Applying following command lines > 1) > # mkisofs -o cdimage.raw -R > /usr/home/user-A/document-AAA > > 2) > # mkisofs -R -o cdimage.raw >

Re: CDrom problems

2004-05-25 Thread Joe Altman
On Tue, May 25, 2004 at 09:25:34AM -0500, Donald Szatkowski wrote: > It appears that there are quite a few problems with basic setup and cdrom. What does this mean? Please elaborate: do you mean that setup beginning with sysinstall is problematic, in that you cannot use your cdrom drive during sys

Consoles: Toggling Internal vs. Serial during boot

2004-05-27 Thread Joe Altman
The relevant system specs: FBSD 4.10, one serial port. I've read the docs: http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/serialconsole-setup.html I am pretty sure I understand it all, but for one part. I'm not quite clear on how to grab the internal console once serial bits are set u

Re: Install hangs with Toshiba 2.5" drive

2004-05-27 Thread Joe Altman
On Thu, May 27, 2004 at 05:12:11PM +0100, Robert Downes wrote: > Running FreeBSD 5.0 installer, I see a few messages along the lines of > "configured IRQ 3 is not in bitmap of irqs" and then the following pair > of lines: Sounds familiar. > ad0: READ command timeout tag=0 serv=0 - resetting > a

Re: Epson CX5400 scanner

2004-06-01 Thread Joe Altman
NB: Reply-To: set to -questions. On Tue, Jun 01, 2004 at 09:19:14AM -0700, Shone Earl wrote: > I have just installed 4.10 and i am very happy with > it, all of my hardware works except for the scanner > portion of my epson cx5400 mfp. anyone know how to > get the scanner working? I have to keep

Re: Leaving a server on all day

2004-06-08 Thread Joe Altman
On Tue, Jun 08, 2004 at 01:21:01PM +0100, Jonathon McKitrick wrote: > > I have my desktop configured to run as a server and app server for a thin > client laptop. Will running it all day without suspend mode use a lot of > power? > > Is it true that the heat buildup in a home system (rather than

Re: Leaving a server on all day

2004-06-08 Thread Joe Altman
On Tue, Jun 08, 2004 at 07:51:51PM +0100, Jonathon McKitrick wrote: > On Tue, Jun 08, 2004 at 02:42:16PM -0400, Joe Altman wrote: > : Take the side off of your case, turn the open side toward the wall, > > Why against the wall? So nothing damages it? Yes; spills, flying objects, wh

Re: Scanner HP 5200C: can someone please help me? I'm lost!

2004-06-09 Thread Joe Altman
On Wed, Jun 09, 2004 at 10:50:21PM +0900, Rob Lahaye wrote: > > Hi, > > I have an HP 5200C scanner, attached over USB. > OS is FreeBSD 4-Stable. > > In the kernel configuration file, I have this for usb support: > device scbus # SCSI bus (required) > device da

The documents tree(s)...

2005-06-14 Thread Joe Altman
uname -a: FreeBSD vox.chthonixia.net 5.4-STABLE FreeBSD 5.4-STABLE #0: Thu Jun 9 13:59:19 EDT 2005 [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/VOX i386 Today, I was thinking of upgrading my sources, to see if the new Hi-Res console modes were available yet. I didn't see them in the update, but I did

The perennial vfs.usermount query

2005-06-15 Thread Joe Altman
1)If this: $: more /etc/sysctl.conf # $FreeBSD: src/etc/sysctl.conf,v 1.8 2003/03/13 18:43:50 mux Exp $ # # This file is read when going to multi-user and its contents piped # thru ``sysctl'' to adjust kernel values. ``man 5 sysctl.conf'' for # details. # # Uncomment this to prevent use

Re: The perennial vfs.usermount query

2005-06-16 Thread Joe Altman
On Thu, Jun 16, 2005 at 12:00:08PM +0200, Emanuel Strobl wrote: > > Nothing. But if you want it persistant you have to put it in loader.conf or > sysctl.conf, depending on the kind of sysctl (loader tunable or runtime > tunable). Sorry; I wasn't clear. vfs.usermount=1 is set in /etc/sysctl.conf

Upgraded Perl; and lo, errors cause exim to fail

2005-06-28 Thread Joe Altman
Is anyone else seeing errorors like this: /libexec/ld-elf.so.1: Shared object "libperl.so" not found, required by "exim" after upgrading Perl when prompted by portversion? I notice that ld-elf.so.1 has two versions: 55 -r-xr-xr-x 1 root wheel 153244 Jun 3 14:05 ld-elf.so.1 54 -r-xr-xr-x

Re: Upgraded Perl; and lo, errors cause exim to fail

2005-06-28 Thread Joe Altman
On Tue, Jun 28, 2005 at 01:08:58PM -0400, Louis LeBlanc wrote: > > Did you remember to update the ports that have Perl as a dependency with > the perl-after-upgrade script? You can find it in lang/perl5.8/work/ > after the build (it is kept in lang/perl/files/). Make sure you read > the script d

Re: Upgraded Perl; and lo, errors cause exim to fail

2005-06-28 Thread Joe Altman
On Tue, Jun 28, 2005 at 05:52:58PM -0400, Trey Sizemore wrote: > > When you say embedded, what do you mean? How do I go about reading the > documentation so that I can find the correct syntax for the command? You can look at the man page. There are two basic commands, outlined in the man page:

Re: removable usb media don't present devices to mount

2005-10-21 Thread Joe Altman
On Fri, Oct 21, 2005 at 12:01:00PM +, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > >4. Re: removable usb media don't present devices to mount > (Ryan Zeigler) > > -- > > On Thursday 20 October 2005 04:29 pm, you wrote: > > Ryan Zeigler wrote: > > >I'm using FreeBSD 6.0-rc1

USB Double Bulk Pipe devices

2005-10-22 Thread Joe Altman
Please, would someone give me an example of such a device? I've looked via google, yahoo, etcetera; and find no obvious examples. Thank you. -- .sig is .tired. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/fr

Re: Wireless Card Suggestion from freebsd-questions Digest, Vol 112, Issue 63

2005-11-11 Thread Joe Altman
On Fri, Nov 11, 2005 at 12:00:49PM +, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > Today's Topics: > >4. Wireless Card Suggestion (Tim Holmes) >5. Re: Wireless Card Suggestion (Peter Clutton) > > -- > > Message: 4 > Date: Fri, 11 Nov 2005 00:07:12 -0500 > From: Tim Holmes

Re: USB Problems with Scanjet 3400c, from: freebsd-questions Digest, Vol 113, Issue 7

2005-11-15 Thread Joe Altman
On Tue, Nov 15, 2005 at 04:46:10PM +, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > 20. USB Problems with Scanjet 3400c (Blue Raccoon) > -- > > Message: 20 > Date: Tue, 15 Nov 2005 15:35:53 +0100 > From: Blue Raccoon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Subject: USB Problems with Scanjet 3400c >

Re: USB Problems with Scanjet 3400c

2005-11-15 Thread Joe Altman
On Tue, Nov 15, 2005 at 09:25:12PM +0100, Roland Smith wrote: > > You should verify that /usr/local/etc/sane.d/dll.conf has the line > > niash > > in it. It did exist on my 5.4 machinebut then: > You cut put a line like > > usb /dev/uscanner0 > > in /usr/local/etc/sane.d/niash.conf Rol

Re: USB Problems with Scanjet 3400c

2005-11-16 Thread Joe Altman
On Wed, Nov 16, 2005 at 11:05:56AM +0100, Blue Raccoon wrote: > Roland, Joe, > > According to the SANE site their backend should provide 'complete' support. > NIASH is required, but since 'niash' is an entry in the SANE config file I > assume it is incorporated. My apologies; but I'll have to

Re: Mach kernel and Unix over 68k

2005-11-19 Thread Joe Altman
On Sat, Nov 19, 2005 at 07:55:48PM +, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > 28. [OT] Re: Mach kernel and Unix over 68k : well before OS X > (Roland Smith) > > Date: Sat, 19 Nov 2005 19:47:13 +0100 > From: Roland Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Subject: [OT] Re: Mach kernel and Unix over 68k : well b

MP3 voice recorders and FreeBSD

2004-08-19 Thread Joe Altman
Greetings... Sometime in September, I plan to purchase a voice recorder capable of MP3 recording. The device here: http://www.newegg.com/app/viewproductdesc.asp?description=55-603-406&DEPA=0 Is similar in nature to what I wish to purchase; it may not be this device, but similar. Does anyone ha

Re: portupgrade, portsdb -U failing, ruby dumping core

2004-09-03 Thread Joe Altman
On Fri, Sep 03, 2004 at 10:29:23PM -0500, Jeff Hinrichs wrote: > Dan Finn wrote: > I thought I had seen an email to the list that the bug was found; and a fix committed. I waited a couple of hours, ran make update, etcetera; and this resulted: # portsdb -Uu Updating the ports index ... Generati

Re: [another "me too"] Re: portindex/portindexdb

2004-09-06 Thread Joe Altman
On Mon, Sep 06, 2004 at 09:20:14AM +0200, Nico Meijer wrote: > Hi Donald, > > >Nico - I suggest you try it again tomorrow. I thought I had it fixed > >yesterday. Then I re-cvsup'd today and redid my things. Ruby18 is > >again seg faulting for me. Not going into a loop and continuously > >seg fa

Re: [another "me too"] Re: portindex/portindexdb

2004-09-07 Thread Joe Altman
On Tue, Sep 07, 2004 at 06:32:23AM +0200, Nico Meijer wrote: > Hi Joe, > > >Sigh: > > Lighten up! ;-) Hehthanks, I will. > >/usr/local/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/portsdb.rb:587: > >[BUG] Bus Error > >ruby 1.8.2 (2004-07-29) [i386-freebsd4] > > Have you tried replacing the portsdb-sequence with

Re: [another "me too"] Re: portindex/portindexdb

2004-09-07 Thread Joe Altman
On Tue, Sep 07, 2004 at 07:24:49AM +0100, Matthew Seaman wrote: > > Another workaround is simply to set: > > PORTS_DBDRIVER=bdb1_hash This is the Berkeley, AKA Sleepycat, bdb? I ask because I am also (suddenly) encountering the famous Exim "Failed to open DBM file /var/spool/exim/db/retry fo

Re: Post Install Configuration Issues (ruby18 error)

2004-09-13 Thread Joe Altman
On Sun, Sep 12, 2004 at 11:16:51PM -0700, Joshua Tinnin wrote: > 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

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