Re: cpio command and schg flags

2011-09-05 Thread Polytropon
the source in the destination, creating and deleting files and directories as necessary. UTimes, hardlinks, softlinks, devices, permissions, and flags are mirrored. Flags are explicitely mentioned here. Maybe you can give this program a try? -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany

Re: wheel group & mkdir

2011-09-06 Thread Polytropon
an addition: In regards of what "sudo" does, see "super" (it's in the ports, same category as sudo). It allows a fine control over _what_ commands can be executed. -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD u

Re: get rel 9.0 iso

2011-09-07 Thread Polytropon
current one is 8.2. For details, see: http://www.freebsd.org/relnotes/CURRENT/relnotes/index.html -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ... ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.f

Re: get rel 9.0 iso

2011-09-07 Thread Polytropon
d, the DVD #1 will be a good tool (as a DVD-capable drive should be assumed as common equipment today). -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ... ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http:/

Re: get rel 9.0 iso

2011-09-09 Thread Polytropon
7;t work). You can also go the following road: Install 8.2-RELEASE, do a source upgrade to 9.0-BETA and update your system from source. You'll find details in the FreeBSD Handbook and in /usr/src/Makefile's comment header. -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4

Re: get rel 9.0 iso

2011-09-09 Thread Polytropon
possible, maybe just a bit complicated in special cases (e. g. as the P1 server I mentioned does not even have USB, only a CD-ROM drive), but _POSSIBLE_, which may be fully sufficient in some cases. So "old iron" can still be a valueable citizen of the IT infrastructure. :-

Re: Printing from Firefox broken after update.

2011-09-09 Thread Polytropon
paper A4 test.pdf and check the PS output. See "man pdftops" for details. Maybe it's a dependency problem of pdftops... Note that the "normal" pdftops binary is provided by the xpdf port. Maybe you can try to update this one too? I'm not sure if CUPS's own binary i

Re: Samba question

2011-09-10 Thread Polytropon
ccess the share (with the proper password). See "man nsmb.conf" for details. Parts of those information should then be reflected in /etc/fstab, maybe like this: //user@SERVERNAME/share /smb/share smbfs rw,noauto 0 0 This should allow you to use # mount /s

Re: Free BSD 9.0 Beta question

2011-09-10 Thread Polytropon
ommend this one for beginners: Introduction to FreeBSD. An Absolute Beginners Guide to FreeBSD: http://www.vmunix.com/fbsd-book/book.phtml In your case, refer to 15.1. User Names and Passwords -- Logging In: http://www.vmunix.com/fbsd-book/book.phtml#s1-15-1 -- Polytropon Mag

Re: get rel 9.0 iso

2011-09-10 Thread Polytropon
on > old computers as long as they're in good condition. I completely agree, as I'm following this philosophy myself. -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ... ___ freebsd-questions@freebs

Re: Printing from Firefox broken after update.

2011-09-10 Thread Polytropon
check in setpagedevice > Operand stack: >true --nostri Do you get better results when printing to a file (PS) and then sending it directly to the printer (via lpr)? Maybe this problem is comparable to my Opera printing p

Re: Printing from Firefox broken after update.

2011-09-11 Thread Polytropon
On Sun, 11 Sep 2011 07:21:40 -0400, Jerry wrote: > On Sun, 11 Sep 2011 08:53:42 +0200 > Polytropon articulated: > > > Do you get better results when printing to a file (PS) and > > then sending it directly to the printer (via lpr)? Maybe > > this problem is comparable t

Re: KVM switch with FreeBSD-8.2

2011-09-11 Thread Polytropon
traditionally handled by the OS or by X. A LED indicator next to the buttons on the device's front indicated which system the console was connected to and if the system was online. -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ... ___

Re: KVM switch with FreeBSD-8.2

2011-09-11 Thread Polytropon
rough" the card), can easily be dealt with by putting the proper settings into xorg.conf. This will make X start even if no monitor is attached to the card. > Also, going through the KVM can reduce video quality with VGA > and high resolutions. I've seen that with some cheap ca

Re: KVM switch with FreeBSD-8.2

2011-09-12 Thread Polytropon
On Mon, 12 Sep 2011 10:45:59 -0700, David Brodbeck wrote: > On Sun, Sep 11, 2011 at 4:43 PM, Polytropon wrote: > > On Sun, 11 Sep 2011 15:10:48 -0600 (MDT), Warren Block wrote: > >> On Sun, 11 Sep 2011, Daniel Feenberg wrote: > >> > >> > If you are asking, &

Re: Crash when copying large files

2011-09-12 Thread Polytropon
asis. In case that causes a problem, try to leave this route and use the "old- fashioned" tools dump and restore. Make sure the file system isn't mounted, then use: # cd /your/target/directory # dump -0 -f - /dev/ | restore -r -f - wheree refers to the device you&#

Re: how to make devfs show fdisk updates?

2011-09-12 Thread Polytropon
, /dev/da0s1d, /dev/da0s1e, /dev/da0s1f...) should appear in the device file system. -- 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: Please secure your FTP access

2011-09-17 Thread Polytropon
solution described may be sufficient if your system is the only (or at least primary) one you deal with mail on. PS. This message illustrates the proper use of top-posting. appending replies to quotes, and trimming. :-) -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra mo

Re: FreeBSD 8.2 Partition Sizing question

2011-09-17 Thread Polytropon
some very big files), as well as mount options (e. g. noexec) which may be requirements for performance or security. But this depends on your specific setting. -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ... _

Re: command to eject cd

2011-09-22 Thread Polytropon
, I remember there is also a port called "eject", not sure what it interacts with. -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ... ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebs

Re: autologin on default shell /bin/sh

2011-09-27 Thread Polytropon
_have_ those settings, no idea where they came from and why they are still here). But it works, so I don't question it. :-) Step 5: Profit. :-) > In the beta 2 machine, the /dev/ttys has xterm instead of original > cons25. Other than th

Re: Execute at login

2011-09-27 Thread Polytropon
your script concept) 3. determine user's dialog shell read /etc/passwd and start the user's dialog shell by exec You can write this in _any_ (shell) script language you want. I would suggest plain #!/bin/sh syntax. -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Ger

Volume control in mplayer resetting 50% when starting / stopping video clips

2011-09-28 Thread Polytropon
t;vol" is known to me. I _intendedly_ use different setting mechanisms, i. e. "vol" defines the maximum output level transmitted to the amplifier, and "pcm" can be used to change the volume within the range from zero up that "preset master value". I know that it's

Re: Volume control in mplayer resetting 50% when starting / stopping video clips

2011-09-29 Thread Polytropon
On Thu, 29 Sep 2011 17:27:49 +, Alexander Best wrote: > On Thu Sep 29 11, Polytropon wrote: > > This is ANNOYING. > > > > Does anyone know a solution for this? > > try 'sysctl hw.snd.vpc_autoreset=0'. Many thanks! This restored the default behaviour!

Re: Volume control in mplayer resetting 50% when starting / stopping video clips

2011-09-29 Thread Polytropon
On Thu, 29 Sep 2011 18:17:50 -0400, Jerry wrote: > On Thu, 29 Sep 2011 23:58:29 +0200 > Polytropon articulated: > > > On Thu, 29 Sep 2011 17:27:49 +, Alexander Best wrote: > > > On Thu Sep 29 11, Polytropon wrote: > > > > This is ANNOYING. > > > &g

Re: Volume control in mplayer resetting 50% when starting / stopping video clips

2011-09-29 Thread Polytropon
, at least from my few testing. > If it does, do I add it to /boot/device.hints? and it is a done deal! > or no deal! :( I've added it to /etc/sysctl.conf. > I have always wanted to ask but was not sure it it was freebsd or > mplayer's configuration. In ultraworst case,

Re: Fwd: FreeBSD 8.2, sec.update -p3, switching between X and console prompt, /var full

2011-10-03 Thread Polytropon
Additionally to using rm, you can also use fsdb to "forcedly delete files" under worst circumstances. Removing files should be done after booting the system in single user mode. This way you can make _sure_ nothing is writing to those files. Before a removal attempt, you should run fsck so th

Re: snd_hda: how to configure line-in passthrough to line-out?

2011-10-04 Thread Polytropon
e to _record_ from is handled independently. Refer to "man mixer" on how to set the levels as you require. -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ... ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailin

Re: OT: how to tell when i've hit a Fn key?

2011-10-07 Thread Polytropon
macros assigned. You can find them in the header file /usr/local/include/ncurses/ncurses.h around line 1400. -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ... ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list

Re: OT: how to tell when i've hit a Fn key?

2011-10-07 Thread Polytropon
this (except this is nonsense): int c; c = getch(); if(c == KEY_F(1)) /* PF1 */ do_stuff(); if(c == KEY_UP) /* Cursor up */ do_more_stuff(); if(c == 27)

Re: OT: how to tell when i've hit a Fn key?

2011-10-07 Thread Polytropon
On Fri, 7 Oct 2011 02:36:49 -0500 (CDT), Robert Bonomi wrote: > > > Date: Fri, 7 Oct 2011 09:18:57 +0200 > > From: Polytropon > > Cc: FreeBSD Mailing List > > Subject: Re: OT: how to tell when i've hit a Fn key? > > > > On Thu, 6 Oct 2011 15:41:17 -0

Re: OT: how to tell when i've hit a Fn key?

2011-10-08 Thread Polytropon
e GUI editors do not seem to cater the kind of users who _want_ those features, they are not the primary target group. The result: Some GUI editors even have limited keyboard support, expecting a continuous "click & wait" flow. Summary: Depends. -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy

User tasks in ~/.logout

2011-10-11 Thread Polytropon
just in case a user does not properly log out (e. g. closes PuTTY right from the open session, maybe from within the program or shell he currently runs), will this cause ~/.logout to be processed, or will it be a "stale connection"? -- Polytro

Turning system accounting data into money

2011-10-11 Thread Polytropon
ransfers 10 GB data in, and 10 GB data out, he will be charged for that traffic, as well as for the I/O. The sessions in questions will be SSH sessions (text mode) as well as SSH/X sessions (remote desktops). Maybe someone already uses someth

Re: User tasks in ~/.logout

2011-10-11 Thread Polytropon
On Tue, 11 Oct 2011 10:27:13 -0400 (EDT), Daniel Feenberg wrote: > > > On Tue, 11 Oct 2011, Polytropon wrote: > > > I have some users who I want to "schedule" a specific job > > for which gets executed on their user account. For some > > of them, it wil

Re: Turning system accounting data into money

2011-10-11 Thread Polytropon
ent a software", "rent infrastructures", "guided dialogs" and so on -- nothing new per se. It's just that some customers re-"explore" those things and the payment models related to them. And as it's my only wish to pleas

Re: Can't access a music CD

2011-10-12 Thread Polytropon
r speaker is currently set to 75:75 > Mixer rec is currently set to 75:75 > Recording source: monitor > > no sound and no drive activity. Hmmm... I'm missing the CD in that listing. Which mixer is your default mixer? Try -f /dev/mixer0 to make sure the correct one is selected.

Re: Can't access a music CD

2011-10-12 Thread Polytropon
"CD audio" wire inside the machine. This feature is obsolete, but still works. It's typically not part of laptop designs. -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ... ___ freeb

Re: Can't access a music CD

2011-10-13 Thread Polytropon
"mixer" command to check all the possible audio settings to find the next thin in the signal chain that could be wrong. -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ... ___ freebsd-questions@free

Re: Can't access a music CD

2011-10-13 Thread Polytropon
s? What about /dev/acd0t[01,02,03,...] - aren't those supposed to represent the individual audio tracks that could then be interpreted as what they basically are, raw pcm (of cd-audio specification)? -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0

Re: Can't access a music CD

2011-10-13 Thread Polytropon
On Thu, 13 Oct 2011 22:03:29 +, Alexander Best wrote: > On Thu Oct 13 11, Polytropon wrote: > > On Thu, 13 Oct 2011 16:25:24 +, Alexander Best wrote: > > > ano ther thought might be to implement an audio cd filesystem, so one > > > could do > > > &#

Re: Can't access a music CD

2011-10-13 Thread Polytropon
On Thu, 13 Oct 2011 22:38:45 +, Alexander Best wrote: > On Fri Oct 14 11, Polytropon wrote: > > % ls /dev/acd0* > > /dev/acd0 /dev/acd0t04 /dev/acd0t08 /dev/acd0t12 /dev/acd0t16 > > /dev/acd0t01 /dev/acd0t05 /dev/acd0t09 /dev/acd0t13 /dev/acd0t17 > > /dev/

Re: Can't access a music CD

2011-10-13 Thread Polytropon
y, that's why my decision to use cdrecord and cdrdao with the "SCSI command set". Still I'm curious how things will develop on application side with the new subsystem once it's established. At least I see abandoning the differentiation "acd0 vs. cd0" as a good th

Re: need to check for hex in C: how/

2011-10-16 Thread Polytropon
ed, no matter if you compare (int) or (char) to a numerical or character value. int i; char c; if(i == 32 || i == ' ') ... if(c == 32 || c == ' ') ... Functions or macros that deal with characters usually do return (int), even though one would expect (char). -- Polytropon

Re: need to check for hex in C: how/

2011-10-16 Thread Polytropon
(in this case: letters) do operate on (int) instead of (char). For example getc() and getchar(), but also getch() from NCurses do so. It's common to simply compare those (int) value to character constants without casting them to (char) before comparison. -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happ

Re: www.clubrunner.ca

2011-10-19 Thread Polytropon
und" in wget, but if you access http://www.clubrunner.ca/, it works and you get index.html, of course in a wrong encoding and with superfluous MS-DOS linebreaks. If you examine index.html's source a bit, you can see a typical desaster of "Cloud Computing". :-) Seems to be a real configu

Re: Help! Can't delete files ...

2011-10-19 Thread Polytropon
D) Learn to avoid non-ASCII characters in filenames (just like whitespaces and "special" characters). I'm following this rule for my entire "IT career" now and I'm very pleased by the results. :-) -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4

Re: Can't access a music CD (or any other media now)

2011-10-19 Thread Polytropon
inherited" that nonsense... What if you use Gnome's CD playing application, or something like XMMS with the CD audio plugin? I think your permissions are okay so you could make the drive play from your (non-root) user account. -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user

Re: Upgrading libxul, dependency on Firefox 3

2011-10-22 Thread Polytropon
this library would have been installed in the end. -- 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

Re: Help needed: sound/audio only semi-working

2011-10-22 Thread Polytropon
-S3G. Here > is what a get when I cat /dev/sndstat: > > FreeBSD Audio Driver (newpcm: 64bit 2009061500/amd64) > Installed devices: > pcm0: (play/rec) default > pcm1: (play/rec) > pcm2: (play/rec) -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi enn

Re: Breakin attempt

2011-10-22 Thread Polytropon
tion, what could be an argument against this decision? -- 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-que

Re: Breakin attempt

2011-10-22 Thread Polytropon
On Sat, 22 Oct 2011 15:37:55 +0100, Bruce Cran wrote: > > On 22 Oct 2011, at 15:12, Polytropon wrote: > > > On Sat, 22 Oct 2011 15:08:50 +0100, Bruce Cran wrote: > >> I suspect that these sorts of attacks are fairly normal if you're > >> running ssh on the

Re: Breakin attempt

2011-10-22 Thread Polytropon
he IntarWebZ in general. Oh, I was _not_ asking about anonymous access, that's what the WebTuberZ'n'Stuff'Load is for. :-) > If access is not anonymous > there must be some admin config done previous to the access. The only valid choice here. > Providing >

Re: SV: Breakin attempt

2011-10-22 Thread Polytropon
selves, or they sell them to others who then use them (e. g. for further exploration, SSH attacks, spamming, illegal data storage and so on). -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ... ___ freebsd-

Re: Help needed: sound/audio only semi-working

2011-10-22 Thread Polytropon
causes the disk to spin up and read, but otherwise produces utter silence? > > > >CD audio subsystem has been "modernized". :-) > > I wouldn't know about that. As far as I could understand, the track files /dev/acdXtYY will be gone in the upcoming 9.0, as well as the

Re: Need to Backup Using Dump

2011-10-23 Thread Polytropon
be "more selective" here. An alternative is to use rsync or cpdup where you can explicitely address a subtree to be copied instead of the whole file system. -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ... ___

Re: Can't access a music CD (or any other media now)

2011-10-24 Thread Polytropon
27;m not sure which device those programs will address. In some cases, it helped to do "cdcontrol info" before launching the program. However, it's possible that some programs rely on the presence of "track device files"

Re: Three button mouse emulation

2011-10-26 Thread Polytropon
e regarding the use of moused flags. > This trick is especially useful to laptop users and should be in the > handbook. Fully agree. Maybe an additional hint on how to make X work better on such limited hardware configuration would be nice. -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBS

Re: BSD_10_2011.pdf - typical problem

2011-10-26 Thread Polytropon
; Many thanks - Chuck Bacon Yes, I sometimes see this behaviour with gv too. As I do not want to use heavyweight bloatware like that "Acrobat" reader, I use the xpdf program for the PDF files that don't work with gv. Maybe you try this program? And I also use xpdf -fullscreen

Re: nice man pages?

2011-10-27 Thread Polytropon
baud serial line. > > We have ls with color (and no problem with serial console, there is no > color when using it). Why not a nice manual? The Midnight Commander comes with a file viewer that can display manpages in color: % mcview /usr/share/man/man3/signal.3.gz A very nice m

Re: Fast personal printing _without_ CUPS

2011-10-27 Thread Polytropon
x27;t even need the original OEM CD > to do this. Some network printers even have their own printer spooler included, so you just have to address them per IP and with PS data from any "Windows" PC. > The print jobs come out quickly and in all the years I've > been using it

Re: Fast personal printing _without_ CUPS

2011-10-27 Thread Polytropon
On Thu, 27 Oct 2011 18:17:55 +0200, C. P. Ghost wrote: > On Thu, Oct 27, 2011 at 5:29 PM, Polytropon wrote: > > BUT: CUPS seems to be hardcoded into many applications > > today. They stopped working with the non-CUPS default > > system tools. An example is Opera. Another

Re: Fast personal printing _without_ CUPS

2011-10-27 Thread Polytropon
On Thu, 27 Oct 2011 17:41:38 +0100, Matthew Seaman wrote: > On 27/10/2011 16:29, Polytropon wrote: > > In my opinion, CUPS is the "Windows" way of doing things, > > not the UNIX way. Hate me for having that opinion, but I > > feel to say it. > > Actually you

Re: Fast personal printing _without_ CUPS

2011-10-27 Thread Polytropon
s. But this surely does not apply in home settings where security is traditionally regarded a no-topic. I have a wireless adapter for parallel, USB and networked printing myself, still it's not in use due to security reasons. :-) > However, here

Re: Fast personal printing _without_ CUPS

2011-10-27 Thread Polytropon
On Thu, 27 Oct 2011 17:46:21 -0400, Jerry wrote: > On Thu, 27 Oct 2011 21:11:32 +0200 > Polytropon articulated: > > > On Thu, 27 Oct 2011 13:39:05 -0400, Jerry wrote: > > > Printing under MS Windows is a breeze. > > > > > The *nix community has never

Re: Fast personal printing _without_ CUPS

2011-10-27 Thread Polytropon
On Thu, 27 Oct 2011 19:39:17 -0400, Jerry wrote: > On Fri, 28 Oct 2011 00:52:49 +0200 > Polytropon articulated: > > > There isn't much you can invent on a hammer. :-) > > Absolutely true. However, as Abraham Maslow said in 1966, "It is > tempting, if the only t

Re: Fast personal printing _without_ CUPS

2011-10-28 Thread Polytropon
rectly to the parallel port where a daisywheel printer is attached. It's easy to combine this with the system's tools lpr / lpd / lpq / lprm, in combination with the /etc/printcap file and a shell script. -- Polytropon Magdebu

Re: Fast personal printing _without_ CUPS

2011-10-28 Thread Polytropon
"knowledge"). Also note that many (most?) users of Linux and BSD would keep using those systems if they would have to pay for them. At least *I* would... So don't keep shouting "socialist!" when you don't know what the term means. The word stem is "social", wh

Re: Fast personal printing _without_ CUPS

2011-10-28 Thread Polytropon
On Fri, 28 Oct 2011 16:04:19 -0400, Jerry wrote: > On Fri, 28 Oct 2011 21:12:54 +0200 > Polytropon articulated: > > > So let me make this more clear: IF the hardware manufacturer > > wants to allow developers to write drivers for their hardware > > for free, THEN ever

Re: Fast personal printing _without_ CUPS

2011-10-28 Thread Polytropon
ember: it's ALWAYS about a particular job getting done, a requirement or a need that selects _which_ software gets purchased -- for $$$ or for 0. That has NOTHING do do with socialism. Please try to consolidate your terminology. -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0

Re: Fast personal printing _without_ CUPS

2011-10-28 Thread Polytropon
even religion. This concept runs the thing we currently call the "self-controlling market". > BTW, I'd _love_ to see Microsoft "held legally respnsible" for _their_ > product shortcomings. They'd be out of business in a week at the outside. Would benefit

Re: update packages by pkg_add

2011-10-29 Thread Polytropon
e "pkgdb -aF" command will properly store dependency informations. -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ... ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listi

Re: Fast personal printing _without_ CUPS

2011-10-30 Thread Polytropon
. If there's a backup for professional work (i. e. payment), _this_ is what keeps people at work. Only few exceptions have the time and will to code for free. Their revenue is the knowledge they gain, the popularity of their software, and the idea that they actually have improved somethi

Re: The ports are really funcional?

2011-10-30 Thread Polytropon
;t miss to read "man ports", it's very informative! Regarding the ports collection's functionality: It's VERY functional and works nearly flawlessly (until, of course, a port is broken, but this happens only a very few times). Maybe you should search things like working

Re: The ports are really funcional?

2011-10-30 Thread Polytropon
helps to keep an eye on dependencies when using the many possible ways. -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ... ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/li

Re: The ports are really funcional?

2011-10-31 Thread Polytropon
nstallation media. If you encounter problems, please post informative text to this list, i. e. the command you've executed and the relevant error messages, and maybe specific things you've changed, e. g. global CFLAGS and other things one should not do. :-) -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germa

Re: What are the technical differences between Linux and BSD?

2011-10-31 Thread Polytropon
are not part of the default settings (with which the packages are made) can benefit _faster_ operations of ports vs. packages. An example is mplayer, when compiled for older systems: Here flags depending on the CPU actually in use can help. -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user s

Re: Install gnome 3

2011-10-31 Thread Polytropon
you want a smartphone GUI on your desktop... :-) -- 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

Re: The ports are really funcional?

2011-10-31 Thread Polytropon
the package, there pretty much has to be something wrong with > the local installation. And in that case, exchanging a non-compiling port (for whatever reason) with a binary package from the RELEASE set of archives is a possible way to solve the problem.

Re: How to get /dev/smb* ?

2011-11-02 Thread Polytropon
in dmesg listed. But I have those in the kernel configuration: # System management bus device smbus device iicbus device iicsmb device iicbb device iic So I can read temperature values using xmbmon. With the mb

Re: Why some flash sites don't work?

2011-11-02 Thread Polytropon
GPU fault, running FF freezes the machine), but it works totally fine in Opera, as expected. -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ... ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.

Re: Problem with dbus in boot

2011-11-02 Thread Polytropon
, and the corresponding databases have been rebuilt? Obviously you are missing those required settings, so /etc/rc cannot start dbus - to be expected. -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ...

Re: Anything like mkmf for foo linux?

2011-11-02 Thread Polytropon
ibrary makefiles for the make(1) command Maint: po...@freebsd.org Moved: Date: 2011-08-01 Reason: Has expired: Looks like an abandonware, no more public distfile Planned obsolescence in action? :-) -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe,

Re: Burning CDs or DVDs with SATA drive?

2011-11-03 Thread Polytropon
an well in Linux. CD-RW > drive there is ATAPI. I've been using cdrecord and cdrdao now since burncd stopped working for me somewhere in v5. For DVDs, growisofs should work. While cdrecord and cdrdao address th "SCSI device" by n:n:n, growisofs uses /dev/cdN. -- Polytropon Mag

Re: Burning CDs or DVDs with SATA drive?

2011-11-04 Thread Polytropon
with VCD images, created by mkvcdfs, as far as I remember. By the way, I have symlinked /dev/dvd to /dev/cd0 so I can access this "more easily". :-) > I could also try to build cdrkit and see if that works. Haven't tested this one yet, but it seems to conflict with cdrtools, an

Re: Problem with mergemaster-p

2011-11-04 Thread Polytropon
should be mounted rw. You can check this using the "mount -v" command. (Of course this depends on the partitioning scheme you're using.) -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ... ___ freebsd-

Re: Problem with mergemaster-p

2011-11-04 Thread Polytropon
F). 10. `reboot' 11. `make delete-old-libs' (in case no 3rd party program uses them anymore) Make sure you also do step 1 when calling mergemaster and make: # cd /usr/src # mergemaster -p # make installworld # make delete-old # mergemaster Then re

Re: recursive copy with spaces in descendants

2011-11-06 Thread Polytropon
be greatly appreciated, since I'm pretty much out of them > at this point. The articles should help you to deal with the problem, as they present properly working solutions. Good luck! -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ... __

Re: Urgent!. Problem with / etc / rc.conf

2011-11-06 Thread Polytropon
y called directories. ;-) PS. Please wrap your lines < 72. Some MUAs don't do that automatically. Thanks! -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ... ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list

Re: Problem with X

2011-11-06 Thread Polytropon
ad: http://wiki.freebsd.org/SynapticsTouchpad The (missing) presence of the X authority file has nothing to do with keyboard or mouse problems. -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ... ___ freebsd-questio

Re: Get list of ethernet devices

2011-11-06 Thread Polytropon
But I'm kind of hoping anybody can point me to a readymade solution yet > unknown to me. You could look at how FreeSBIE does it - it contains "autodetect magic" also for graphics and sound. -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, M

Re: Burning CD

2011-11-07 Thread Polytropon
re recorded the CD properly. > Do you have any free software suggestions for burning a CD > in Windows XP if this is the issue? Sorry, I'm not a "Windows" person and I don't use 10 years old software, so I can't give you any suggestion here. :-) -

Re: X server and xinit works excellent....almost.

2011-11-08 Thread Polytropon
drivers (x11/nvidia-driver*) are supposed to work quite > well. I'm using nvidia-driver here which works better than nouveau and nv (the one that comes with X.org); I haven't tested VESA as in most cases, it's _not_ what one wants. -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user

Re: X server and xinit works excellent....almost.

2011-11-08 Thread Polytropon
On Tue, 8 Nov 2011 13:33:55 -0700 (MST), Warren Block wrote: > On Tue, 8 Nov 2011, Warren Block wrote: > > > On Tue, 8 Nov 2011, Polytropon wrote: > > > >> And according to the handbook, this does _not_ remove the > >> need for a X configuration file (usuall

Re: operapluginwraper

2011-11-08 Thread Polytropon
ions COMPAT_LINUX options LINPROCFS options LINSYSFS in your kernel config, or load the corresponding kernel modules. The line linux_enable="YES" in /etc/rc.conf should do that. -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany

Re: "Unprintable" 8-bit characters

2011-11-08 Thread Polytropon
no real consensus about what the different codings should mean. They were meant to unify the representation of a very large set of characters, but basically there are many inter- pretations now, and how they show up to the user depends on the font in use, _if_ it has this mapping or that, or non

Re: "Unprintable" 8-bit characters

2011-11-08 Thread Polytropon
̣ĸ»¢.mp3, but they can cause trouble you can't predict. You _never_ know... -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ... ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/l

Re: "Unprintable" 8-bit characters

2011-11-09 Thread Polytropon
e are only few "sz" that are "real 'sz'", typically in word gaps, e. g. Reiszange. :-) The "funny" things start when diacritic marks and other non-US-ASCII representable elements change the meaning of a word. In such cases, it's often justified to use the p

Re: operapluginwraper

2011-11-09 Thread Polytropon
ollowing set of packages and wrappers: opera-11.50 opera-linuxplugins-11.50 nspluginwrapper-1.4.4 linux-f10-flashplugin-10.3r183.5 This was mainly because of following the handbook. So I think the dependency to the Linux /proc comes from the "Flash"

Re: X server and xinit works excellent....almost.

2011-11-09 Thread Polytropon
entification numbers... This makes me assume the following: It's not possible to determine the localized layout of a keyboard. Just imagine I pop the german keycaps from my IBM model M keyboard and put a set of swedish caps on, would the system notice that change? :-) -- Polytropon Magdeburg

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