Re: initialize msdosfs on memory stick?

2013-09-12 Thread Polytropon
On Thu, 12 Sep 2013 16:13:11 -0600, Gary Aitken wrote: > On 09/12/13 15:51, Polytropon wrote: > > On Thu, 12 Sep 2013 15:39:26 -0600, Gary Aitken wrote: > >> I can't seem to find how to do this in the handbook or man pages. > >> I need to initialize a usb memory

Re: initialize msdosfs on memory stick?

2013-09-12 Thread Polytropon
he newfs_msdos tool. There is no need to deal with "Windows" for this task. -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ... ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/

Re: mount: /dev/ada0p1: Device busy Busy with what?

2013-09-12 Thread Polytropon
se help to sort this please? Maybe a fsck is running on the disk device? Also check "mount -v" if the disk is really unmounted. Make sure any running fsck has been finished and try again. In worst case, manually initiate a file system check. Then try mounting the disk again. -- Po

Re: howto kill x if x is running?

2013-09-14 Thread Polytropon
(as expected). I'm sure someone will present a much better, less dirtier approach to accomplish the requested task. :-) -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ... ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org m

Re: Migration TeX/LaTeX: from teTeX --> TeXlive

2013-09-15 Thread Polytropon
s intact. :-) > To see which ports require (parts of) teTeX, use `pkg_info -Rx tetex` Plus `pkg_info -Rx teTeX` because of the way it is spelled. :-) -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ... ___ freebs

Re: test if script called by cron

2013-09-16 Thread Polytropon
ed: #!/bin/sh /bin/date "+%Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S" > /tmp/scriptrun # ... your script content here ... Of course you would have to manually remove that file after you have verified its existence and content. -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD use

Re: persistence in freeBSD

2013-09-16 Thread Polytropon
fied in the argument to -o and finally applying the -r or -w option. The -u flag is referenced in other sections of the manpage. -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ... ___ freebsd-question

Re: Migration TeX/LaTeX: from teTeX --> TeXlive

2013-09-16 Thread Polytropon
On Mon, 16 Sep 2013 20:33:15 +0200, Roland Smith wrote: > On Mon, Sep 16, 2013 at 01:57:51AM +0200, Polytropon wrote: > > On Sun, 15 Sep 2013 21:00:22 +0200, Roland Smith wrote: > > > Personally I don't think TeX is a good fit for the ports tree (because of > > >

Re: test if script called by cron

2013-09-16 Thread Polytropon
On Mon, 16 Sep 2013 23:28:17 -0400, kpn...@pobox.com wrote: > On Mon, Sep 16, 2013 at 02:05:04PM +0200, Polytropon wrote: > > On Mon, 16 Sep 2013 12:26:59 +0100, Paul Macdonald wrote: > > > Is there a simple way of testing whether a given script was called via > > > cr

Re: FreeBSD stuck during the boot process.

2013-09-17 Thread Polytropon
remember correctly, "safe mode" refers to the mode with ACPI disabled, right? In this case, it _could_ be an ACPI problem (a really wild guess, as you have provided no information about the system you are trying to boot FreeBSD on). -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBS

Re: history

2013-09-19 Thread Polytropon
similarly. Bash uses .profile as well as .bash_profile and .bash_login in a comparable manner. -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ... ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/

Re: dangerously dedicated physical disks.

2013-09-23 Thread Polytropon
oting it. The old MBR approach (as well as dedicated) will probably only be needed in niche applications and exceptions. You can have all the advantages of "being easy stuff" known from dedicated layout by using the GPT tools, plus you gai

Re: minor vi/vim qstn

2013-09-25 Thread Polytropon
. Is this what you're searching for? Or do you refer to command lines where "@:" would repeat the last command (started with ":")? -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ... ___ f

Re: minor vi/vim qstn

2013-09-25 Thread Polytropon
On Wed, 25 Sep 2013 17:21:04 -0700, Gary Kline wrote: > Organization: Thought Unlimited. Public service Unix since 1986. > Of_Interest: With 27 years of service to the Unix community. > > On Thu, Sep 26, 2013 at 12:23:27AM +0200, Polytropon wrote: > > On Wed, 25 Sep 2013 14

Re: minor vi/vim qstn

2013-09-26 Thread Polytropon
sh is sort of a ksh clone; I remember porting the zsh onto > my 286 in 1989. got a lot of csh-isms :) The Z shell combines nice interactive features of the C shell (to be correct: the tcsh) and the scripting features of sh and bash. It's considered one of the most powerful shells. S

Re: Voice Mail required QuickTime

2013-09-26 Thread Polytropon
if it's just a "stupid MP3 download" or something comparable. Everyone else on the planet can already play audio data via web pages without QT for decades. :-) -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ... ___

Re: minor vi/vim qstn

2013-09-26 Thread Polytropon
d not be trivial, at least regarding the C shell, because lots of quoting and escaping would be needed; maybe zsh does not behave like a madman in this regards ("unmatched this, unmatched that, sytax error, cannot expand, missing argument, blah ..."). :-) -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Ge

Re: minor vi/vim qstn

2013-09-26 Thread Polytropon
On Thu, 26 Sep 2013 13:58:19 -0700, Gary Kline wrote: > Organization: Thought Unlimited. Public service Unix since 1986. > Of_Interest: With 27 years of service to the Unix community. > > On Thu, Sep 26, 2013 at 10:05:06PM +0200, Polytropon wrote: > > I also assume the zsh

Re: cause of reboot

2013-09-30 Thread Polytropon
before reboot, when the connection drops. > I once had a box where the RAM chips > would "sing" with a high-pitched whistle only during the 0300 periodic run. > It sounded just like the horizontal output on a television right before > destruction. :-) I have heared some

Re: gptid's in fstab while installing FreeBSD using ISO

2013-10-04 Thread Polytropon
only). PS. I've trimmed the CC list to the freebsd-questions@ list for my reply, hope that's okay. -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ... ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list

Re: 9.1 - 9.2 upgrade

2013-10-04 Thread Polytropon
7; 7. `make installworld' 8. `make delete-old' 9. `mergemaster'(you may wish to use -i, along with -U or -F). 10. `reboot' 11. `make delete-old-libs' (in case no 3rd party program uses them anymore) -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy

Re: 9.1 - 9.2 upgrade

2013-10-04 Thread Polytropon
On Fri, 4 Oct 2013 19:42:15 -0700, Doug Hardie wrote: > > On 4 October 2013, at 19:08, Polytropon wrote: > > > On Fri, 4 Oct 2013 18:58:52 -0700, Doug Hardie wrote: > >> The exact sequence was: > >> > >> Step 1: freebsd-update from 9.1 to 9.2

Re: 9.1 - 9.2 upgrade

2013-10-04 Thread Polytropon
On Fri, 4 Oct 2013 21:49:18 -0700, Doug Hardie wrote: > > On 4 October 2013, at 20:03, Polytropon wrote: > > > On Fri, 4 Oct 2013 19:42:15 -0700, Doug Hardie wrote: > >> > >> On 4 October 2013, at 19:08, Polytropon wrote: > >> > >>>

Re: Failure to build FreeBSD 9.2

2013-10-04 Thread Polytropon
le. In addition, there's the suggestion to add the line debug.acpi.disabled="hostres" to /boot/loader.conf and reboot. Source: http://www.freebsd.org/releases/9.0R/errata.html -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ... __

Re: Problem completing a 9.1 release to 9.2 release upgrade

2013-10-05 Thread Polytropon
do. When kernel and world sources are in sync, a new kernel can always be installed in multi-user mode. To install world, you should drop to single-user mode to avoid interferences with a full-featured system running in the "background". This procedure (or parts of it) will also work when

Re: Why no "ls" on DVD or livefs.iso?

2013-10-05 Thread Polytropon
t of my data. A good approach. If possible, try to obtain a 1:1 copy of the disk (or partition) and work with that. Check the mailing list archives for further inspiration. -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ... __

Re: Problem completing a 9.1 release to 9.2 release upgrade

2013-10-06 Thread Polytropon
On Sun, 06 Oct 2013 08:08:42 +0100, Matthew Seaman wrote: > On 05/10/2013 21:41, Polytropon wrote: > > On Sat, 5 Oct 2013 16:00:25 -0400, Eric Feldhusen wrote: > >> I see my /usr/src/sys/amd64/conf/GENERIC is a 9.2 kernel, so I should just > >> be able to do a >

Re: How do I ring a bell?

2013-10-07 Thread Polytropon
it removed along with floppy drive connector, parallel port or power switch. > P.S. "cdcontrol -f /dev/mycdrom eject" is the best I've come up with so > far for getting attention. That's a really clever idea, never heared of that. It has the advantage of being perma

Re: How do I ring a bell?

2013-10-07 Thread Polytropon
On Mon, 07 Oct 2013 21:09:44 +0100, Frank Leonhardt wrote: > On 07/10/2013 13:36, Polytropon wrote: > > > Is there any way to make a noise through the built in "bell" speaker > > > found on an IBM PC compatible server box? Writing 007 to the BIOS cout > > >

Re: 9.1 - 9.2 upgrade

2013-10-08 Thread Polytropon
t;src" distribution: ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/releases/i386/9.2-RELEASE/src.txz -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ... ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd

Re: mounting a .iso image? ... missing man page

2013-10-09 Thread Polytropon
s from the image, change whatever you want, and use mkisofs afterwards to rebuild the (new) image, in case you want to modify its content. -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ... ___ freebsd-questions@fre

Re: mounting a .iso image? ... missing man page

2013-10-09 Thread Polytropon
ectly, it actually matters, as you said. By the way, the manpage mentions mount -t cd9660 /dev/`mdconfig -f cdimage.iso` /mnt as an interesting construction in the EXAMPLES section. :-) -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ...

Re: Why no "ls" on DVD or livefs.iso?

2013-10-10 Thread Polytropon
On Thu, 10 Oct 2013 21:45:58 -0500, W. D. wrote: > Thanks, Polytropon. I couldn't get FrieSBIE to work. It's a rather old project, and as far as I know, it isn't being continued anymore. It should still support at least the CLI mode for most computers... (I have to admit that

Re: Do I really have to install 80 packages?

2013-10-11 Thread Polytropon
ander, go to /usr/ports, Meta-?, seach in "pkg-plist", search for text "librsvg" and examine the results with PF3. This method relies on approaches that might be wrong... :-) Note that my (locally installed) ports tree is not up to date anymore so you should consider performing

Re: what kind of freeBSD to download for my pc?

2013-10-12 Thread Polytropon
ding on what non-OS software you're going to run on that machine). -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ... ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo

Re: what kind of freeBSD to download for my pc?

2013-10-12 Thread Polytropon
://www.freebsd.org/ and you _might_ also want to check out PC-BSD (might be perfect for what you want) and VirtualBSD (easy way to try it out without installing it). -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ... ___

Re: Do I really have to install 80 packages?

2013-10-12 Thread Polytropon
s an improving understanding of what DRM does to their freedom). It will take some time to show significant effect. Let's hope people are going to get smarter than I assume. :-) > So what are we left with? Free software to replicate what Flash > does (at least) that does not have th

Re: what kind of freeBSD to download for my pc?

2013-10-12 Thread Polytropon
Typo warning! On Sun, 13 Oct 2013 03:26:45 +0200, Polytropon wrote: > On Sat, 12 Oct 2013 16:50:32 -0700 (PDT), cikitaluzza wrote: > > can i run exe files on freeBSD? > > Depends. VMX EXE files may work via the SimH emulator. For ^^^ > DOS EXE and "Windows"

Re: Reinstall without reformat

2013-10-13 Thread Polytropon
talls with > the shell and mounting the zpool to /mnt, would that work here too? Probably yes (never tried that myself). -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ... ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.or

Re: Reinstall without reformat

2013-10-13 Thread Polytropon
On Sun, 13 Oct 2013 23:01:02 -0600 (MDT), Warren Block wrote: > On Mon, 14 Oct 2013, Polytropon wrote: > > > On Sun, 13 Oct 2013 13:24:30 -0400, Kenta Suzumoto wrote: > >> Hi all. Is it possible to install FreeBSD without formatting the disk? > > > > Yes. The

Re: Reinstall without reformat

2013-10-14 Thread Polytropon
fully verify this logic, even though it would be a reasonable approach. -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ... ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/fr

Re: 5.25" floppy drive

2010-10-01 Thread Polytropon
access the drive using mount or the mtools (from ports)? If you encounter further problems, I can get a working drive and check here. I'm in a kind of working museum. :-) -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ...

Re: OT: fdisk

2010-10-03 Thread Polytropon
n a mounted file system, such > as /mnt/my_disk_image.img A good advice. Also: You should, when in doubt, never, NEVER operate on the disk you want to restore data from. Dump the whole disk into a file and operate on THAT file. Use mdconfig to make it a block device if needed. -- Polytropon Magdeburg,

Re: OT: fdisk

2010-10-03 Thread Polytropon
locks) and contain algorithms to determine files (begin, end, kind, magic). Allthough this work often results in the loss of file names and directory structures, the files theirselves come back. I've experienced a similar kind of data loss in the past, so I wish you good luck with recovery.

Re: OT: fdisk

2010-10-03 Thread Polytropon
Sleuth Kit"; after installing it, read /usr/local/share/doc/sleuthkit/skins_ntfs.txt for more information. -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ... ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list htt

Re: Cleaning /var/db/portsnap/files/, how?

2010-10-04 Thread Polytropon
little sidenote regarding the proper terminology. FreeBSD, as every UNIX OS, has *directories*, not "folders". You do also use the name "files", not "sheets of paper", don't you? :-) -- Polytropon Magdebu

Re: OT: fdisk

2010-10-04 Thread Polytropon
On Sun, 3 Oct 2010 22:27:02 -0600 (MDT), Warren Block wrote: > On Sun, 3 Oct 2010, Polytropon wrote: > > > On Sun, 3 Oct 2010 10:00:51 -0700, Robert wrote: > >> I have a spare 250G hard drive. Can I use "dd" to capture 250 gigs > >> from the old drive?

Re: OT: fdisk

2010-10-04 Thread Polytropon
s dense. I have not used "dd" > before as I have always used dump for backups. Correct: dump + restore are used for UFS backups, but in this case, you need to deal with "Windows" stuff that does not support such standard means. That's why you need

Re: Cleaning /var/db/portsnap/files/, how?

2010-10-04 Thread Polytropon
did post a valid (non-stupid) question to this list, I am SURE that he knows the difference, so he definitely knows what he's talking about. Using "folder" instead of "directory" is therefore considered a simple fauxpas by me. It's possible that the OP has a

Re: OT: fdisk

2010-10-04 Thread Polytropon
the /dev/md10 file which will extract known file types. The tool magicrescue also could work: % magicrescue -r /usr/local/share/magicrescue/recipes -d mr_output /dev/md10 -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ... _

Re: OT: fdisk

2010-10-04 Thread Polytropon
On Mon, 4 Oct 2010 07:52:21 -0700, Robert wrote: > On Mon, 4 Oct 2010 16:32:25 +0200 > Polytropon wrote: > [r...@asus64] ~# fdisk /dev/md10 > *** Working on device /dev/md10 *** > parameters extracted from in-core disklabel are: > cylinders=7648 heads=255 sectors/track=

Re: OT: fdisk

2010-10-05 Thread Polytropon
=/dev/da1 of=/dev/ad6 bs=1m > I will then try windows chkdsk on the 1TB drive. Maybe you need - after this transfer - to write the 512 byte blocks at the beginning separately (dd if=/dev/da1 of=/dev/ad6 bs=512 count=1)? Because of MBR and such? > Thanks to everyone who has added input. I

Re: KDE

2010-10-06 Thread Polytropon
box" experience is needed, PC-BSD is fine, as it brings all possible stuff preinstalled and preconfigured. Still it's a real FreBSD under the hood, so no big "loss". -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ...

Re: Which OS for notebook

2010-10-06 Thread Polytropon
erwise be considered "totally outdated". With each step in its OS development, FreeBSD usually gets faster and better (on the same hardware), in opposite to many other OSes. -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ... __

Re: Which OS for notebook

2010-10-06 Thread Polytropon
uot;newbies" and "average users" show that Linux holds other kinds of confusion that I don't want to describe here in detail. FreeBSD is a system that always goes the SAFE ROUTE, because that is what its users expect - and often REQUIRE. -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy

Re: KDE

2010-10-08 Thread Polytropon
On Fri, 8 Oct 2010 15:30:51 +0600, Aftab Jahan Subedar wrote: > Dear Polytropon, > > U were too polite to introduced this pcbsd. it looks very lucrative. I > am gonna start download today and experiment. I had good experiences in the past with providing PC-BSD to users with (1

Re: Clean up / filesystem

2010-10-09 Thread Polytropon
important files in there. :-) -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ... ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send an

Re: how now [green] KDE?

2010-10-10 Thread Polytropon
/port would create a default version of whatever you need. The "startkde" command should be fully sufficient, as all other things are to be configured inside KDE. -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ...

Re: Clean up / filesystem

2010-10-10 Thread Polytropon
o survivve a reboot, /var/tmp is usually used. For example, mergemaster's temproot/ tree resides here, as well as LaTeX's texfonts/ or vi's vi.recover/ subtrees. -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ... _

Re: Clean up / filesystem

2010-10-10 Thread Polytropon
ds illogical). There shouldn't be much stuff accumulating in /var/tmp. If you didn't have trouble yet, I don't think it is a big no-go to symlink /var/tmp tp /tmp (tmpfs). -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ... __

Re: mouse problems....

2010-10-11 Thread Polytropon
operly, modify the rc.conf file as shown above. Compiling kernel & world to get a mouse working, bah... :-) -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ... ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list h

Re: mouse problems....

2010-10-11 Thread Polytropon
Do NOT connect anything from or to a PS/2 connector while the system is powered on! PS/2 is NOT hot-pluggable! -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ... ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list h

Re: mouse problems....

2010-10-11 Thread Polytropon
, a cable for the monitor is used. Is that correct? -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ... ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/list

Re: Troubles on SATA drives ZFS

2010-10-11 Thread Polytropon
On Mon, 11 Oct 2010 15:22:41 -0400, Alejandro Imass wrote: > 2) Is there a utility in FBSD to check the physical drive itself and > mark any bad sectors as such? There is smartctl in port smartmontools, and badsect provided by the system. -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBS

Re: mouse problems....

2010-10-11 Thread Polytropon
should be picked up. As far as I understood in regards of X, there is a) X using the mouse provided through moused, or b) X detecting it "itself" by HAL and DBUS. Do you use HAL and DBUS with X? -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi enne

Re: mouse problems....

2010-10-11 Thread Polytropon
nkity.com/~wblock/docs/html/aei.html And maybe http://www.kite.ping.de/xorg-hal-migration.html This should give sufficient information to find out what is the best solution for your setting. -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ... _

Re: does anybody understand why install failed?

2010-10-11 Thread Polytropon
ng the "make install" stage in single user mode as recommended? The btxld binary is /usr/sbin/btxld. If you're not using ZFS on your system, you can easily omit it by setting WITHOUT_ZFS=1 in /etc/src.conf; refer to "man src.conf" for more details about the system

Re: does anybody understand why install failed?

2010-10-11 Thread Polytropon
On Mon, 11 Oct 2010 18:27:50 -0700, Gary Kline wrote: > On Tue, Oct 12, 2010 at 03:02:24AM +0200, Polytropon wrote: > > On Mon, 11 Oct 2010 17:53:11 -0700, Gary Kline wrote: > > > Having netwoking problems... . hope this gets out. > > > > It does. > > >

Re: mouse problems....

2010-10-12 Thread Polytropon
On Tue, 12 Oct 2010 08:43:43 +0100, Arthur Chance wrote: > On 10/11/10 18:31, Polytropon wrote: > [snip] > > The psm device can be configured per /etc/rc.conf using moused. > > While USB mice get configured by the USB subsystem automatically, > > PS/2 and serial mice d

Re: mouse problems....

2010-10-12 Thread Polytropon
doc/handbook/x-config.html http://www.wonkity.com/~wblock/docs/html/aei.html http://www.kite.ping.de/xorg-hal-migration.html -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ... ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mai

Re: mouse problems....

2010-10-12 Thread Polytropon
exercise. Then you might be able to solve the problem when you check the configuration file for X (or its absence, but then, the presence of HAL and DBUS services). -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ... __

Re: mouse problems....

2010-10-12 Thread Polytropon
, so moused can take care of the mouse. The USB system is not involved here. I really think you should concentrate on configuring X's mouse handling, as the system's seems to work in a correct manner. Suggested TODO: 1. Disable HAL and DBUS per rc.conf 2. Create xorg.conf

Re: mouse problems....

2010-10-13 Thread Polytropon
cause moused to be run anyway, but there are differences. If > you want switching between X and console to be fast, enable moused. And this is possible in combination with devd that "remote-contols" moused for USB mice? And does moused ha

Re: mouse problems....

2010-10-13 Thread Polytropon
ged in. Moused # stops automatically (actually it bombs :) when the device disappears. attach 100 { device-name "ums[0-9]+"; action "/etc/rc.d/moused start $device-name"; }; This is from /etc/devd.conf. -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4

Re: Too many binary packages are missing

2010-10-13 Thread Polytropon
ngable components and so on, so THIS would be a good place to use those concepts, like let a program "dynamically" pick up optional components if they are installed, or work without them if not. -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ..

Re: firefox

2010-10-13 Thread Polytropon
ck if it works for you. I have virtually no experience with "Flash" on newer system and browser versions (8.1-R with Firefox 3.4 on your side?), but in the past, this was an instruction that worked - until I removed "Flash", of course. :-) -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany

Re: Netbooks & BSD

2010-10-21 Thread Polytropon
y-up event that gets lost. USB mice suffer from the same problem - the polling. In the past, I never had problems with interrupt-driven (serial and PS/2) equipment, even on lowest-end (!) hardware. Today, some load can render the system nearly inresponsive for several seconds (no keyboard input,

Re: Netbooks & BSD

2010-10-21 Thread Polytropon
moved to FreeBSD 7 (didn't use 6 at home), I just get this - on the SAME system: % dmesg | grep "^u[km]" ums0: on uhub1 ums0: 3 buttons. ukbd0: on uhub1 Still everything works as before. Strange... -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy Free

Re: ZFS and NFS, can't see subvolumes.

2010-10-25 Thread Polytropon
ar. The correct word is -> directory <-, not "folder". Using the correct terminology (especially in this technical context) is always welcoms. :-) -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ... _

Re: Is there any way of transfering my excellent PDF file into plain HTML

2010-10-26 Thread Polytropon
intaining good grey values, hypenation and ligatures. -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ... ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsub

Re: FreeBSD 8.1-RELEASE Installation success

2010-10-26 Thread Polytropon
ill, I can do more, and faster!, than most idiots (sorry) with their new rocket-like PCs full of crapware. FreeBSD does NOT force me to upgrade my system just because I upgrade the OS. -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ... __

Re: Update gone wrong

2010-10-26 Thread Polytropon
When using su, you can use the parameter -m (don't modify environment); see "man su" for details - .login_conf is also mentioned there. -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ... ___ freebsd-q

Re: [OT] writing filters in sh

2010-10-28 Thread Polytropon
you can change the ; into if [ $# -ge 1 ] then exec cat $@ | $0 exit fi which is often seen in scripts. In this case, no ; is required (or even allowed). The same rule applies for the while/do/done iterator. -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germa

Re: [OT] writing filters in sh

2010-10-28 Thread Polytropon
On Thu, 28 Oct 2010 19:28:26 +0200, Polytropon wrote: > On Thu, 28 Oct 2010 09:17:12 -0700, Chip Camden > wrote: > > Perhaps someone with more sh fu can transform the > > 'if' paragraph into a one-liner at least. When I tried to do so, I got an > > unexpected

Re: slightly OT... .

2010-10-28 Thread Polytropon
or should work from there, too. Oh the joy of nonstandard file formats. :-) -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ... ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/list

Re: man(1) output error

2010-10-29 Thread Polytropon
ries in the path variable to be recomputed. This is needed if [...] Error executing formatting or display command. system command exited with status 36096 Error executing formatting or display command. system command exited with status 36096 No manual entry for csh % -

Re: hostname

2010-10-30 Thread Polytropon
r other options that may be interesting in this concern. -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ... ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-ques

Re: can't add entries to fsab

2010-10-30 Thread Polytropon
an put it into /etc/fstab with the "noauto" option first and then see if everything works when you do "mount /home" manually. Then, finally, make the change of "noauto" and let the system perform the mount at the proper time. -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy

Re: man(1) output error

2010-10-30 Thread Polytropon
ry for perlfunc Maybe some buffer issue as the length of the man page seems to have an influence? -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ... ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://l

Re: kwik one...

2010-10-30 Thread Polytropon
. I assume the handbook is not "fully complete" in this regards, as http://forums.freebsd.org/showthread.php?t=18449 mentiones some more things to keep an eye on. -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user

Re: man(1) output error

2010-10-30 Thread Polytropon
ystem command exited with status 36096 >Error executing formatting or display command. >system command exited with status 36096 >No manual entry for ifconfig > > Go to the EOF with "G" first, then press "q", and there are no errors. True - and just confirmed

Re: man(1) output error

2010-10-30 Thread Polytropon
be a problem in the way man handles SIGPIPE. Would be understandable. -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ... ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/f

Re: no spaces ....

2010-10-31 Thread Polytropon
as well as the real Meta keys. You can get them for cheap via eBay, for example. Pay attention to get a USB model - you won't be able to use the regular serial ones (with the round plug) on a PC. This is the only USB keyboard I have. All other systems use PS/2 IBM keyboards intendedly. Never

Re: can't add entries to fsab

2010-10-31 Thread Polytropon
ed by the system when the requirements (indicated by keywords) are met. There is no need to exactly define this as a point in time in a given order. -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ... ___

Re: can't start firefox

2010-10-31 Thread Polytropon
nd see how the top output changes (in most cases, the process should disappear). -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ... ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/

Re: installing a window manager

2010-11-03 Thread Polytropon
e WindowMaker to your needs. > Can somebody tell me what to build (with portmaster) to get a minimal X > server station with windowmaker. Any dependencies should be recursively by portmaster (as it does per portmanager, port's make install, and even pkg_add -r). -- Polytropon M

Re: ATTN GARY KLINE

2010-11-03 Thread Polytropon
eq=1 ttl=54 time=107.073 ms 64 bytes from 208.76.62.100: icmp_seq=2 ttl=54 time=107.046 ms --- ns2.everydns.net ping statistics --- 3 packets transmitted, 3 packets received, 0.0% packet loss round-trip min/avg/max/stddev = 107.046/107.268/107.684/0.295 ms Or am I misreading that? -- Polytropon Ma

Re: how to generate pi in c

2010-11-05 Thread Polytropon
7;d it. :-) #define M_PI3.14159265358979323846 -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ... ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To uns

Re: Tips for installing windows and freeBSD both.. anyone??

2010-11-06 Thread Polytropon
On Sat, 6 Nov 2010 02:01:22 -0700 (PDT), Tushar wrote: > I want to use windows and freeBSD, both of them at the same time... > please help... Consider using a virtualization solution to run both operating systems in parallel. -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0

Re: Tips for installing windows and freeBSD both.. anyone??

2010-11-07 Thread Polytropon
On Sat, 6 Nov 2010 15:54:46 -0700, Chip Camden wrote: > What does KDE or GNOME buy you anyway? Besides overhead. Bloat. :-) -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ... ___ freebsd-questi

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