Re: why no Oracle on FreeBSD ?

2009-09-25 Thread Saifi Khan
On Thu, 24 Sep 2009, Julian H. Stacey wrote: > > > > i noticed that there is no Oracle available for FreeBSD > > > > http://www.oracle.com/technology/software/products/database/index.html > > > > > > > > What could be the reason for that ? > > > > > > Best ask direct of commercial application ve

Re: Whic mail server?

2009-09-28 Thread Saifi Khan
On Sun, 27 Sep 2009, Aflatoon Aflatooni wrote: > Hi, > I am running a server that is acting as the mail server for only internal > users (about 50 users). Currently we are running Sendmail, but reading on > other discussions I noticed that qmail and other programs are suggested. > I am wondering

IUP port

2009-10-12 Thread Saifi Khan
Hi: Does anybody know if there is a IUP port in FreeBSD ? IUP is a portable toolkit for building graphical user interfaces http://www.tecgraf.puc-rio.br/iup/ thanks Saifi. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailma

__sys_fcntl() definition ?

2007-07-31 Thread Saifi Khan
Hi: While working through the FreeBSD 6.2 codebase, I saw the following functions referred at multiple places. __sys_fcntl() __sys_open() __sys_write() ... Can somebody point out the file which contains the implementation of the __sys_* functions ? Thanks in advance. thanks Saifi. ___

Re: __sys_fcntl() definition ?

2007-07-31 Thread Saifi Khan
On Tue, 31 Jul 2007, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Date: Tue, 31 Jul 2007 14:00:06 -0700 (PDT) > From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: Saifi Khan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Cc: > Subject: Re: __sys_fcntl() definition ? > > On Wed, 1 Aug 2007, Saifi Khan wrote: > >

Ethereal version for FreeBSD 6.2 RC1

2006-11-30 Thread Saifi Khan
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Ethereal version for FreeBSD 6.2 RC1

2006-11-30 Thread Saifi Khan
Hi all: Is there a recommended version of Ethereal for FreeBSD 6.2 RC1 ? I tried searching in the ports and there don't seems to be any. Searching on ethereal for FreeBSD throws up a few Security Advisories. Thanks in advance. -- thanks Saifi. ___ f

Re: Ethereal version for FreeBSD 6.2 RC1

2006-12-01 Thread Saifi Khan
On 11/30/06, Jon Krause <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: From: "Saifi Khan" Subject: Ethereal version for FreeBSD 6.2 RC1 : Hi all: : : Is there a recommended version of Ethereal for FreeBSD 6.2 RC1 ? : : I tried searching in the ports and there don't seems to be any. : : Sear

Re: Problems with pkg_delete *

2009-08-12 Thread Saifi Khan
On Wed, 12 Aug 2009, Sd?vtaker wrote: > Hi, > I want to clean up and start again the installation of pkg since i did a > broken update in python and qt and pretty much everything is broken > portupgrade never ends, doing make in ports crash pretty much all the time > ><. > I tried > # pkg_delete '

Re: Samba and busy network

2009-08-29 Thread Saifi Khan
On Fri, 28 Aug 2009, stan wrote: > I have a FreeBSD machine serving as (among other things) a Samba server > for an XP instance running under VirtualBox. The XP application is a data > gathering one that polls continuously. I have set up things so that XP > mounts the Samba share, and logs it's d

Re: java config problem

2009-08-29 Thread Saifi Khan
On Fri, 28 Aug 2009, AN wrote: > I'm trying to configure java on FreeBSD 7-stable and Gnome 2.26.3, with > Firefox35. I tried the following commands, but still no ability to view java > applets. > > ln -s libjavaplugin_oji.so /usr/local/lib/firefox/plugins > ln -s libjavaplugin_oji.so /usr/local

Re: IBM Stinkpad and Wifi

2009-08-30 Thread Saifi Khan
On Tue, 25 Aug 2009, herbert langhans wrote: > Hi Daemons, > I have some troubles to get connected to an open Wifi-Net. > > Its an older IBM Stinkpad 600 and I bought a new PCMCIA-card for it. > Chipset of the card is from Atheros, this is recommended by the FreeBSD > Handbook. > > I boot the La

Re: howto alias a stty erase?

2009-08-30 Thread Saifi Khan
On Tue, 25 Aug 2009, Gary Kline wrote: > > is there a way of setty'ing "stty erase" to [backspace key"? > pretty sure that is the delete key. i'm tired of having to hand > set it every time when i use the Konsole term. > > thanks, > gary > to set this you need to

Re: netbooks and sdhci

2009-09-02 Thread Saifi Khan
On Tue, 1 Sep 2009, David Horwitt wrote: > > So my question is: does anybody know _for sure_ of a hard-disk netbook with a > media reader that uses the sdhci interface > and is supported by FBSD 7.2 (supported = wireless,X,USB). $USD300 (like the > AA1-D250) is the desired price point, but > up t

Re: Embedded scripting language advice sought

2009-01-18 Thread Saifi Khan
On Sun, Jan 18, 2009 at 11:41 PM, Linda Messerschmidt wrote: > For a project I'm working on, I need to find an scripting language, and I > have a long wishlist: > > > - able to be "easily" embedded in a C++ application > > - "real" object-oriented with inheritance (preferably multiple inheritance)

ASL 2.0 based software contribution to FreeBSD code base

2009-01-20 Thread Saifi Khan
Hi: Is Apache Software License (ASL) 2.0 based software contributions accepted in FreeBSD code base ? Specific case to consider would be: a. device driver code released under ASL 2.0 b. code contributed to kernel (eg. scheduler implementation) under ASL 2.0 c. code contributed to userland (eg.

Re: ASL 2.0 based software contribution to FreeBSD code base

2009-01-22 Thread Saifi Khan
On Wed, Jan 21, 2009 at 10:16 AM, Vincent Hoffman wrote: > Saifi Khan wrote: >> Hi: >> >> Is Apache Software License (ASL) 2.0 based software contributions >> accepted in FreeBSD code base ? >> >> Specific case to consider would be: >> a. device d

opera 9.63 installation and Qt version

2009-01-23 Thread Saifi Khan
Hi: Qt 4.4.3 is installed on my FreeBSD 7.1 i386 system. Now, when i attempt to install Opera 9.63 from the ports, it tries to download Qt 3.3.8 Is there a way to modify the installation script so that Opera can use the installed qt 4.4.3 version ? -- thanks Saifi. _

how to scrollback in terminal

2009-01-23 Thread Saifi Khan
Hi: i'd like to scrollback on the multi page output on the terminal in FreeBSD 7.1 SHIFT key + Pg Up doesn't seem to work. Can somebody post how to scrollback in terminal ? -- thanks Saifi. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.

PHP 5.2.8 crash (segmentation fault 11)

2009-01-24 Thread Saifi Khan
Hi all: Freshly compiled PHP 5.2.8 with PECL and PHP5-extensions support on FreeBSD 7.1 (i386) seems to be crashing in #0 0x28e3e006 in hash_lookup (hashtab=0x29ea2f70, key=0xbfbfea30 "\221??\222)??{\206)p/??)??\r\226)`Qp(") at misc.c:349 349 for (ret = hashtab->table[hash_index (has

Re: how to scrollback in terminal

2009-01-24 Thread Saifi Khan
On Sat, Jan 24, 2009 at 8:07 AM, Dan Nelson wrote: > In the last episode (Jan 24), Tim Judd said: >> Saifi Khan wrote: >> > >> > i'd like to scrollback on the multi page output on the terminal in >> > FreeBSD 7.1 >> > >> > SHIFT key + Pg

default CFLAGS

2009-01-24 Thread Saifi Khan
Hi all: What is the default CFLAGS if *no* CFLAGS has been specified in /etc/make.conf ? As an example, let us consider a FreeBSD 7.1 system running on a Intel Celeron M. thanks Saifi. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd

Re: opera 9.63 installation and Qt version

2009-01-24 Thread Saifi Khan
On Sat, 24 Jan 2009, Paul B. Mahol wrote: > On 1/24/09, Saifi Khan wrote: > > Hi: > > > > Qt 4.4.3 is installed on my FreeBSD 7.1 i386 system. > > > > Now, when i attempt to install Opera 9.63 from the ports, it tries to > > download Qt 3.3.8 > > Is

Re: default CFLAGS

2009-01-24 Thread Saifi Khan
On Sat, Jan 24, 2009 at 5:57 PM, Pojken Purken wrote: > RW wrote: >> On Sat, 24 Jan 2009 15:27:02 +0100 >> Morgan Wesström wrote: >> >> >>> The section "options enabled" will list them all. I usually only add >>> "-march=native" to my CFLAGS to enable a few more CPU specific >>> optimizations. >>

Re: Embedded scripting language advice sought

2009-01-24 Thread Saifi Khan
On Sun, Jan 25, 2009 at 3:34 AM, Linda Messerschmidt wrote: > On Mon, Jan 19, 2009 at 2:46 PM, George Hartzell wrote: >> I don't have any useful advice to offer, but I would love it if you >> would summarize anything interesting that you get. >> >> I do a lot of computational biology work and am

Pine4.64 installation on FreeBSD 7.1 (i386)

2009-01-25 Thread Saifi Khan
Hi: [note: i'm aware about Alpine in ports and am keen to install and use only Pine]. i'm trying to build Pine 4.64 from the sources downloaded from Univ of Wash site. For SSL support, i have installed OpenSSL 0.9.8j from ports. Here is the standard command run at the top of the pine source tree

how to install all p5-* one shot

2009-01-26 Thread Saifi Khan
Hi all: There are many PERL packages in ports whose names are prefixed with p5-* . How does one install all the p5-* packages one shot ? Is there a way one can do it with the options available in ports or does one need to write a script to locate all the dir names starting with p5-* ? Any point

Re: how to install all p5-* one shot

2009-01-26 Thread Saifi Khan
On Mon, Jan 26, 2009 at 12:58 PM, Herbert J. Skuhra wrote: > 2009/1/26 Saifi Khan : >> Hi all: >> >> There are many PERL packages in ports whose names are prefixed with p5-* . >> >> How does one install all the p5-* packages one shot ? >> >> Is there a

ELF format alternative ?

2009-01-26 Thread Saifi Khan
Hi all: Curious to know if there are "under research" or known format other than ELF format ? Pls note i'm aware of a.out and COFF, ELF format was developed by wonderful USL. -- thanks Saifi. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists

Re: hi

2009-02-22 Thread Saifi Khan
On Sun, Feb 22, 2009 at 9:54 AM, GrimJow Espada wrote: > what will happen to FreeBSD if Gentoo/BSD is already out, does it affect > freebsd popularity? i dont like gentoo or gentoo/bsd > FreeBSD popularity will be affected if the big cats (ie. networking companies) continue to ""not contribute""

Re: hi

2009-02-22 Thread Saifi Khan
On Sun, Feb 22, 2009 at 3:50 PM, Wojciech Puchar wrote: >> FreeBSD popularity will be affected if the big cats (ie. networking >> companies) continue to ""not contribute"" back the > > this will affect their sales - FreeBSD user will simply buy network card > from another manufacturer. > How a "n

Re: hi

2009-02-22 Thread Saifi Khan
On Sun, Feb 22, 2009 at 4:24 PM, cpghost wrote: > On Sun, Feb 22, 2009 at 04:07:44PM +0000, Saifi Khan wrote: >> The existing users provide continuity not growth. To be popular >> FreeBSD needs growth. >> Growth comes from new users ! > > The main driving force is to

Re: hi

2009-02-22 Thread Saifi Khan
On Sun, Feb 22, 2009 at 7:24 PM, Kevin Kinsey wrote: > Wojciech Puchar wrote: >>> >>> On Sun, Feb 22, 2009 at 04:07:44PM +, Saifi Khan wrote: >>>> >>>> The existing users provide continuity not growth. To be popular >>>> FreeB

Re: hi

2009-02-22 Thread Saifi Khan
Hi Wojciech: You haven't still explained, (as suggested by your kindself ) why the new user must keep buying new network interface cards just to make FreeBSD run (when most of those cards will work fine with Linux). -- thanks Saifi. ___ freebsd-questio

Re: a "strange" question about OSs

2009-02-23 Thread Saifi Khan
On Mon, Feb 23, 2009 at 8:06 AM, Valentin Bud wrote: > Hello Community, > > The following question may sound very ackward but was OS is suitable from > the following list > to replace FBSD: > > - OpenSUSE 10.3 > - Debian 4.0 > - CentOS 5 > > The company i work for wants to change the provid

Re: a "strange" question about OSs

2009-02-23 Thread Saifi Khan
On Mon, Feb 23, 2009 at 2:30 PM, Valentin Bud wrote: > > > On Mon, Feb 23, 2009 at 3:12 PM, Saifi Khan wrote: >> >> On Mon, Feb 23, 2009 at 8:06 AM, Valentin Bud >> wrote: >> > Hello Community, >> > >> > The following question may sound

broadcom wireless card BCM94311MCG on FreeBSD 7.1

2009-02-23 Thread Saifi Khan
Hi all: Compaq C301TU laptop has a Broadcom chipset based wireless card and i'm unable to make it work on FreeBSD 7.1 Using the ndisgen approach with bcm5wls.sys and bcm5wls.inf files creates a driver file which on kldload causes a kernel panic. Interestingly on the same laptop, there is a ether

is there a laptop ?

2009-03-09 Thread Saifi Khan
Hi all: i've looked at tuxmobil, bsdgroup.de etc and i don't want to use ndiswrapper, or broadcom or additional PCMCIA card at all. Is there a laptop model (available in market) that experienced members would like to recommend wherein . the WiFi 802.11 a/g (PCI based) . Ethernet port . and A

Re: is there a laptop ?

2009-03-10 Thread Saifi Khan
On Tue, 10 Mar 2009, Takashi Inoue wrote: > Hi, > > > i've looked at tuxmobil, bsdgroup.de etc and i don't want to use > > ndiswrapper, or broadcom or additional PCMCIA card at all. > > > > Is there a laptop model (available in market) that experienced > > members would like to recommend wherein

Is there a roadmap for FreeBSD ?

2009-03-10 Thread Saifi Khan
Hi all: Is there a roadmap for FreeBSD ? i spent sometime reading up the website, but couldn't find any information regarding the roadmap. What exactly is 8.x trying to accomplish ? thanks Saifi. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://l

Re: Is there a roadmap for FreeBSD ?

2009-03-10 Thread Saifi Khan
On Tue, 10 Mar 2009, Roland Smith wrote: > > Personally I don't think roadmaps are all that usefull for open source > projects that depend on volunteer work. Volunteers tend to work on an > area that either scratches an itch for them or that interests them. > Fine, may i have the list of 'itc

Re: Is there a roadmap for FreeBSD ?

2009-03-11 Thread Saifi Khan
On Wed, 11 Mar 2009, Patrick Lamaizi?re wrote: > Le Wed, 11 Mar 2009 08:25:12 + (GMT), > Saifi Khan : > > > > Personally I don't think roadmaps are all that usefull for open > > > source projects that depend on volunteer work. Volunteers tend to > > >

Re: bsd vs gpl

2009-03-11 Thread Saifi Khan
On Wed, Mar 11, 2009 at 8:20 AM, prad wrote: > > however, recently i've become aware of there being a chasm within the > goodguys in that the bsd attitude is do what you want as long as you > give credit to the creator, whereas the gpl folks say do what you want > as long as you keep it free. > >

Re: is there a laptop ?

2009-03-11 Thread Saifi Khan
On Wed, 11 Mar 2009, Chris Whitehouse wrote: > > > HP nc6320 (google RH383ET) - most things work, including wifi and ethernet, > except for the following: > >From HP site, Network Integrated Broadcom NetLink Gigabit Ethernet PCI Controller (10/100/1000 NIC) Wireless Broadcom 802.1

Re: bsd vs gpl

2009-03-11 Thread Saifi Khan
On Wed, 11 Mar 2009, prad wrote: > On Wed, 11 Mar 2009 01:20:18 -0700 > prad wrote: > > > do people here have any thoughts on the two different licenses? > > > thank you everyone for your comments on this topic. > > the links some of you provided were very interesting and helpful. > i had no id

dual boot FreeBSD and openBSD

2009-03-12 Thread Saifi Khan
Hi all: My apologies if this is a newbie question, however, i'm trying to look beyond GRUB fixation. i'd like to do a dual boot installation of FreeBSD and openBSD, without using GRUB or LILO. Any suggestions on the bootloader to use ? What would your suggestion be, if i'm trying to dual boot

Re: is there a laptop ?

2009-03-12 Thread Saifi Khan
On Thu, 12 Mar 2009, Ashish SHUKLA wrote: > Saifi Khan writes: > > [...] > > > Do Atheros, Ralink, Realtek, Intel PRO/Wireless chipset work > > with FreeBSD ? > > Atheros chipsets work great with FreeBSD 8-CURRENT at least. And the > driver is FOSS and blob fr

Re: is there a laptop ?

2009-03-12 Thread Saifi Khan
On Thu, 12 Mar 2009, Maciej Suszko wrote: > Saifi Khan wrote: > > Hi all: > > > > i've looked at tuxmobil, bsdgroup.de etc and i don't want to use > > ndiswrapper, or broadcom or additional PCMCIA card at all. > > > > Is there a laptop model (

Re: is there a laptop ?

2009-03-12 Thread Saifi Khan
On Thu, 12 Mar 2009, Paul B. Mahol wrote: > On 3/13/09, Saifi Khan wrote: > > On Thu, 12 Mar 2009, Maciej Suszko wrote: > > > >> Saifi Khan wrote: > >> > Hi all: > >> > > >> > i've looked at tuxmobil, bsdgroup.de etc and i don&#

Re: bsd vs gpl

2009-03-12 Thread Saifi Khan
On Thu, 12 Mar 2009, Wojciech Puchar wrote: > > The ACM Queue (1 May 2004) article by Jay Michaelson of Wasabi > > Systems is very insightful. > > > > "There is no such thing as Free (Software) lunch" > > > > Please take a look at > > http://queue.acm.org/detail.cfm?id=1005066 > > > > In 2009, you

FreeBSD can't see OpenBSD slice

2009-03-25 Thread Saifi Khan
Hi: I installed OpenBSD 3.5 in a 25GB slice on a 160GB SATA HDD. Now when i power up the system and boot into a FreeBSD instalation CD (8.x 200902 snapshot), the Fdisk partition editor shows the entire disk as unused. Are slices created with OpenBSD tools not seen in FreeBSD ? thanks Saifi. ___

Too many active children of 'whole'

2009-03-28 Thread Saifi Khan
Hi: Using FreeBSD 8.x snapshot 200902, On a 160GB SATA HDD, i tried creating a 25GB slice and then selected 'install a standard MBR (no boot manager)', the installer gave a warning as: "Disk Slicing warning: Too many active children of 'whole'" What exactly does this mean ? thanks Saifi. _

FreeBSD 8.x, Xen 3.3.x Dom0 support

2009-04-11 Thread Saifi Khan
Hi: Does anybody know the extent of Dom0 support for FreeBSD 8.x with Xen 3.3.x ? The discussion threads on -xen and -virtualization are fairly sketchy on this topic. Any pointers or observations ? thanks Saifi. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mai

FreeBSD 8.0 i386 200905 snapshot DVD does not boot

2009-05-10 Thread Saifi Khan
Hi all: The FreeBSD 8.0 i386 200905 snapshot DVD does not boot up. I'm on a normal Celeron 1.6GHz Presario C300TU laptop with 160GB HDD and 2GB DDR2 RAM. The system just whirrs up the DVD drive, the LEDs blink for a few moments and then the installed FreeBSD 7.1 screen is presented. I tested th

geometry does not match label

2009-05-10 Thread Saifi Khan
Hi all: when i try to boot the system using FreeBSD 8.0 i386 200905 bootonly CD, the following line is shown. GEOM: ad4: geometry does not match label (255h,63S != 16h, 63s) i just selected the entire disk and marked it bootable in the fdisk partition editor option. The system has a 160GB SATA

Unable to find device node for /dev/ad4s1b in /dev !

2009-05-10 Thread Saifi Khan
Hi all: Issue faced Installer on 'Commit' step shows Unable to find device node for /dev/ad4s1b in /dev! The creation of filesystems will be aborted. System Intel Celeron M 1.6 GHz Intel 945GM board 2GB DDR2 160GB SATA Seagate HDD i'm using FreeBSD 8.0 200905 i386 DVD to try and instal

howto sidestep sysinstall during installation

2009-05-10 Thread Saifi Khan
Hi all: Is there a way to sidestep the sysinstall during the installation process, beyond selecting the 'location' ? i'm using FreeBSD 8.0 200905 i386 snapshot DVD and looking for an approach to drive the entire installation from the Fixit# command line console. i'm a experienced Gentoo Linux us

fdisk: class not found

2009-05-10 Thread Saifi Khan
Hi all: Trying to write a partition table using fdisk supplied in the installation DVD of FreeBSD 8.0 i386 200905 snapshot. Should we write new partition table ? [n] y fdisk: Class not found When i again run 'fdisk' it should the old partition table. What exactly does 'Class not found' mean ?

Re: Unable to find device node for /dev/ad4s1b in /dev !

2009-05-11 Thread Saifi Khan
On Sun, 10 May 2009, James Phillips wrote: > > --- On Mon, 5/11/09, Saifi Khan wrote: > > > From: Saifi Khan > > Subject: Unable to find device node for /dev/ad4s1b in /dev ! > > To: freebsd-curr...@freebsd.org, "FreeBSD Questions" > > > > R

Re: howto sidestep sysinstall during installation

2009-05-11 Thread Saifi Khan
On Mon, 11 May 2009, Vincent Hoffman wrote: > On 11/5/09 11:48, Saifi Khan wrote: > > Hi all: > > > > Is there a way to sidestep the sysinstall during the > > installation process, beyond selecting the 'location' ? > > > > i'm using FreeB

single SATA disk and yet identified as 'ad4'

2009-05-11 Thread Saifi Khan
Hi all: The system has just one SATA disk and yet bootloader process identified it as 'ad4'. Ideally, it should be ad1. Here is the PCI information 00:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corporation Mobile 945GM/PM/GMS, 943/940GML and 945GT Express Memory Controller Hub (rev 03) 00:02.0 VGA compatible cont

Re: howto sidestep sysinstall during installation

2009-05-11 Thread Saifi Khan
On Mon, 11 May 2009, Daniel O'Connor wrote: > > > > Putting out a monthly snapshot is nice and if the people are > > going to not find info about 'Fixit#' and commands in the > > legendary handbook, that is not very helpful. > > FreeBSD doesn't work this way, you are trying to fit FreeBSD into yo

boot0 installation not permitted in single slice config

2009-05-11 Thread Saifi Khan
Hi all: Trying to install the 'boot0' boot manager on the MBR, from the Fixit# command prompt as Fixit# boot0cfg -v -B -o noupdate /dev/ad4 the response is: boot0cfg: write_mbr: /dev/ad4: Operation not permitted. i've configured a single slice for the entire disk as Fixit# fdisk -B -I /dev/ad4

Re: fdisk: class not found

2009-05-11 Thread Saifi Khan
On Mon, 11 May 2009, Pietro Cerutti wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA512 > > Saifi Khan wrote: > | Hi all: > Hi Saifi, > > | Trying to write a partition table using fdisk supplied in the > | installation DVD of FreeBSD 8.0 i386 200905 snapshot.

Re: howto sidestep sysinstall during installation

2009-05-13 Thread Saifi Khan
On Mon, 11 May 2009, Vincent Hoffman wrote: > > > > Is there a way to sidestep the sysinstall during the > > > installation process, beyond selecting the 'location' ? > > > > > > > > Since you are using the snapshot DVD you should have the live/fixit > > environment which is very handy for this

RE: Welcome to the "freebsd-questions" mailing list

2009-05-13 Thread Saifi Khan
On Wed, 13 May 2009, Sean Cavanaugh wrote: > > (The true nomenclature is GNU/Linux when refering to a Linux based OS). Not true. "Please give us the credit for userland" is the line of reasoning used for the puported TLA prefix ! silly actually. Please see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GNU/Lin

scrotwm can't find

2009-05-13 Thread Saifi Khan
Hi: Trying to compile scrotwm (from OpenBSD ports) http://www.peereboom.us/scrotwm/html/scrotwm.html on my FreeBSD 8.x 200905 i386 system. and make can't find .include .include The directory /usr/ports/Mk/ has bsd.xorg.mk file but not bsd.prog.mk Is there a work around ? thanks Saifi. _

Opera: X Shared memory extension is not available. ZPixmap not supported

2009-05-13 Thread Saifi Khan
Hi all: Running Opera 9.64 on X.org 7.4 leads to freeze ups in Opera. The error reported is Opera: X Shared memory extension is not available. ZPixmap not supported My system is Intel CeleronM 1.6GHz, Intel 945GM mobo. Some of the blogs seem to suggest that the new driver shipped has fixed the

Re: Welcome to the "freebsd-questions" mailing list

2009-05-13 Thread Saifi Khan
On Wed, 13 May 2009, Sean Cavanaugh wrote: > -- > From: "Saifi Khan" > Sent: Wednesday, May 13, 2009 9:04 PM > To: "Sean Cavanaugh" > Cc: ; ; > Subject: RE: Welcome to the "freebsd-questions&quo

Re: php5 pcre

2009-05-14 Thread Saifi Khan
On Thu, 14 May 2009, gdn wrote: > Hi all! > > I'm using on CURRENT apache22 with php5. > When I install php5-extensions, all packages make fine. > But module "pcre" not work. > -- > >php -m

Re: FreeBSD on Dell Studio 15

2009-05-16 Thread Saifi Khan
On Mon, 27 Apr 2009, Aditya Sarawgi wrote: > I'm getting Dell Studio 15 and Dell Vostro 1510 (same config) in around the > same price. The main > difference being Studio 15 has a ATI radeon HD 4570 and Vostro 1510 has > nvidia 8400 GS. So for which one > should I go for ? How about purchasing

Re: Query regarding "write" system call.

2009-05-16 Thread Saifi Khan
On Sat, 16 May 2009, Abhiman Yashpal Karkera wrote: > Hi all, > I am a newbie to Freebsd OS. I had a query regarding performing writes onto > a disk. > > Generally when we want to write some data we first copy the data from the > processes user space to the kernel buffer and hand this buffer to t

USB-to-serial adapter configuration

2009-05-18 Thread Saifi Khan
Hi all: How does one configure settings for USB-to-serial adapter in FreeBSD ? The one i have purchased is http://www.usbgear.com/computer_cable_details.cfm?sku=CHEAP-SERIAL&cats=199&catid=482%2C1303%2C199%2C461%2C106%2C1009%2C601 On the Gentoo box, 'lsusb' displays it as: Bus 002 Device 003:

Re: USB-to-serial adapter configuration

2009-05-18 Thread Saifi Khan
On Mon, 18 May 2009, Ruben de Groot wrote: > On Mon, May 18, 2009 at 04:07:09PM +0000, Saifi Khan typed: > > Hi all: > > > > How does one configure settings for USB-to-serial adapter in FreeBSD ? > > > > The one i have purchased is > > http://www.usb

Re: kdb and mouse are disabled on HP Pavilion dv5210us by X.org 7.4.1 (7.2-R)

2009-05-18 Thread Saifi Khan
On Sun, 17 May 2009, Jin Guojun[VFF] wrote: > When installed FreeBSD 7.2 release with xorg-7.4.1, the X server does not work > on > HP Pavilion dv5210us laptop due to the key board and mouse are disabled > somehow. > Some Hot keys (Ctrl-Altr-F#) are working but mouse is not movable and cannot > ty

Re: My FreeBSD-current/Xen install notes

2009-05-18 Thread Saifi Khan
On Mon, 18 May 2009, Adrian Chadd wrote: > I've started documenting (mostly for my own memory for now!) my > experiences getting a working FreeBSD-current Xen environment > together. > > http://wiki.freebsd.org/AdrianChadd/XenHackery > > Notable bits: pygrub works. :) > > Adrian Hi: What is t

Re: My FreeBSD-current/Xen install notes

2009-05-18 Thread Saifi Khan
On Tue, 19 May 2009, Adrian Chadd wrote: > I don't think there's any support for Dom0 stuff in FreeBSD. > > http://wiki.freebsd.org/FreeBSD/Xen has further information about what > is and isn't supported at this time. > > Adrian > > 2009/5/19 Saifi Khan

Re: kdb and mouse are disabled on HP Pavilion dv5210us by X.org 7.4.1 (7.2-R)

2009-05-18 Thread Saifi Khan
On Mon, 18 May 2009, Jin Guojun[VFF] wrote: > Hi Saifi, > > Xorg 7.4_1 seems having some issues with dbus and hald. > The --Option "AllowEmptyInput" "false" -- is the must, but dbus and > hald > can cause system useless. > > On this laptop, I only run dbus and hald once. Then I disable

Re: My FreeBSD-current/Xen install notes

2009-05-19 Thread Saifi Khan
On Tue, 19 May 2009, Scott Bennett wrote: > [Nota Bene--Cc: list trimmed! --SB] > On Tue, 19 May 2009 09:56:54 + (GMT) Saifi Khan > wrote: > >On Tue, 19 May 2009, Adrian Chadd wrote: > > > >> I don't think there's any support fo

Re: My FreeBSD-current/Xen install notes

2009-05-19 Thread Saifi Khan
On Tue, 19 May 2009, Scott Bennett wrote: > [Nota Bene--Cc: list trimmed! --SB] > On Tue, 19 May 2009 09:56:54 + (GMT) Saifi Khan > wrote: > >On Tue, 19 May 2009, Adrian Chadd wrote: > > > >> I don't think there's any support fo

Re: My FreeBSD-current/Xen install notes

2009-05-19 Thread Saifi Khan
On Tue, 19 May 2009, Adrian Chadd wrote: > > People seem to think "virtualisation" is "virtualisation". It isn't. > It depends on what kind(s) of problems you're trying to solve. Xen > solves a certain set of virtualisation problems. > Could you please share 'your insight' on the 'set of virtu