On Fri, 18 May 2012, tess lamont wrote:
I created a RAID 1 drive in a Dell Optiplex 755, using the internal RAID
controller and two 160GB drives, naming the logical drive "freebsd90". Within
the system setup menu, the boot menu shows that "freebsd90" is the first (and
only) bootable hard drive
On Fri, 18 May 2012, Gary Aitken wrote:
Trying to set up a new box 9.0-RELEASE w/ X; has ATI Radeon HD5500 card.
X.org -config says:
Missing output drivers. Configuration failed.
From X.org I see one is supposed to get linux drivers from ati/amd,
but this info is over 2 years old and
http:/
On Sat, 19 May 2012, Matthew Seaman wrote:
That's a bit drastic and pretty much something you'ld never actually
want to do in normal usage. However, for completeness' sake:
# pkg_delete -af
will remove all installed ports. After doing that there should be
hardly anything left under /usr/lo
On Sat, 19 May 2012, Polytropon wrote:
3. The Xorg man page notes that should cause it to
exit. However, it doesn't, and I had to use kill -TERM. Any hints on
why doesn't cause it to exit?
This is also a new default to _not_ work anymore. You have more
than two (if I remember correctly) o
On Sun, 20 May 2012, Polytropon wrote:
Regarding the use of "sed": I'm not sure if it's possible
to do something like
% sed -i '.bak' 's/\r//g' config.php
because I assume (not tested!) that it's not possible to
put in escape sequences like that. But try for yourself
and surprise me. :
On Wed, 23 May 2012, Lars Eighner wrote:
Whoops! By imaginary, I meant not really on the internet, but in
198.168.x.x block reserved for private netting.
This combination of things seems to work in rc.conf:
network_interfaces="lo0 re0"
That is normally not needed.
ifconfig="DCHP"
ifconfig
On Thu, 24 May 2012, Lars Eighner wrote:
On Wed, 23 May 2012, Warren Block wrote:
On Wed, 23 May 2012, Lars Eighner wrote:
Whoops! By imaginary, I meant not really on the internet, but in
198.168.x.x block reserved for private netting.
This combination of things seems to work in rc.conf
On Wed, 23 May 2012, Jerry McAllister wrote:
On Wed, May 23, 2012 at 07:32:06PM -0300, Mario Lobo wrote:
On Wednesday 23 May 2012 18:49:06 Jerry McAllister wrote:
Hi,
I have been searching through questions and forums for information
on dual booting FreeBSD 8.3 on a machine with Windows 7 al
On Thu, 24 May 2012, d...@safeport.com wrote:
On Thu, 24 May 2012, Polytropon wrote:
On Thu, 24 May 2012 20:11:32 +0200, Polytropon wrote:
On Thu, 24 May 2012 06:45:06 -0500 (CDT), Lars Eighner wrote:
And in worst case, use "portdowngrade" to get an older version
of the port (may require r
On Thu, 24 May 2012, d...@safeport.com wrote:
The latest xorg switches to and from console with my Radeon 4650. It might
be a problem specific to the newer version of the Intel video driver.
Thanks for the reply Warren, but nope:
Driver "radeon"
Vendor
On Thu, 24 May 2012, Gary Aitken wrote:
1. When building a port, the system uses sysinstall to set options for the
build.
ncurses, not systinstall, but yes.
How does one configure those options so make can be run unattended?
I didn't see anything in the ports documentation, but maybe I'm bli
On Fri, 25 May 2012, Frank Bonnet wrote:
Well ... in short I need to let our users ( students + profs ) access and
share their data ( living in their UNIX home directories )
The access must be easy and possible from as much devices as possible.
Am I clear enough ? ( sorry English is not my nat
There can be a tremendous investment of time in using software, whether
"free" or not. Money too, often.
Those who work to write, port, and support free software also spend a
tremendous amount of time in doing that. Money too, often.
So both parties have a large investment, and it's easy bu
On Sun, 27 May 2012, Antonio Olivares wrote:
I believe that I have found a way to fix the issue.
The problem was the DPI, the fonts are the same size. Now everything
seems to be normal :)
When Settings/Appearance/Custom DPI is unchecked, it should get the
actual monitor DPI value from X, wh
On Sun, 27 May 2012, Waitman Gobble wrote:
Hi,
I've been running FreeBSD 10.0-CURRENT for some months, last time i rebuilt
the system was April 20th. I've rebooted my machine many times and started
X and Xfce4 without any trouble, however today I'm out of town on the road
and when I startx my m
Recently I rearranged partitions on an SSD. The swap partition was
eliminated in favor of a swap file on /usr. This works, allows TRIM
support on the swap space, and is easier to resize than a partition.
However, sometimes the system panics on shutdown. It happens after
"syncing disks", so
On Tue, 29 May 2012, Roland Smith wrote:
What I would certainly recommend is that you make a daily automated backup
(may I suggest calling rsync from cron at night?) of the SSD's filesystem to
an actual HDD, just to be sure.
sysutils/rsnapshot is convenient. I used it to rsync the new SSD ont
On Thu, 31 May 2012, Victor Sudakov wrote:
Colleagues,
I have installed 9.0-RELEASE on a SSD drive with the following
tweaking so far:
1. tmpmfs="YES" (WRKDIRPREFIX etc will go there too).
2. mount -o noatime
3. tunefs -t enable
I have not done any tricky partition alignment, do I really ne
On Thu, 31 May 2012, Polytropon wrote:
On Thu, 31 May 2012 14:19:33 +0400, dmi...@zhigulinet.ru wrote:
Good afternoon.
Could not tell whether you can run fsck on checking mounted
file system as read-only, if prior to that with which the parameters
ftp # mount
...
/ dev/aacd0 on / var / ftp (u
On Fri, 1 Jun 2012, Victor Sudakov wrote:
Warren Block wrote:
I have installed 9.0-RELEASE on a SSD drive with the following
tweaking so far:
1. tmpmfs="YES" (WRKDIRPREFIX etc will go there too).
2. mount -o noatime
3. tunefs -t enable
I have not done any tricky partition align
On Thu, 31 May 2012, Jens Schweikhardt wrote:
so I decided to try two HW technology advancements in one go.
I have a brand new shiny 1TB USB3.0 external disk, that when plugged
to an USB2(two!) reports
da5 at umass-sim2 bus 2 scbus6 target 0 lun 0
da5: Fixed Direct Access SCSI-2 device
On Sat, 2 Jun 2012, Victor Sudakov wrote:
Warren Block wrote:
Thank you very much for the useful tips. One more question regarding
SSD. The FreeBSD installer enabled journaled soft-updates on the
filesystem which resides on the SSD. Is it good, bad or irrelevant for
the SSD ?
Mostly
On Sat, 2 Jun 2012, Polytropon wrote:
On Sat, 2 Jun 2012 23:07:45 +0400, Peter Vereshagin wrote:
Hello.
2012/06/02 23:40:25 +0700 Victor Sudakov => To
freebsd-questions@freebsd.org :
VS> What video card would the collective mind of FreeBSD users recommend?
VS> I'm not a gamer, this box runs
On Sun, 3 Jun 2012, Leslie Jensen wrote:
2012-06-02 19:18, Doug Barton skrev:
On 6/2/2012 8:09 AM, Leslie Jensen wrote:
I'm thinking about some kind of information on the build progress
Portmaster already has that if you're building in a terminal window,
look in the titlebar. I can take a
On Sun, 3 Jun 2012, Polytropon wrote:
By the way, have you tried using your filter directly for testing?
As mentioned before, prepare a printable PS file, then do:
# cat test.ps | /var/spool/lpd/hp8500/diff.2 | nc 123.45.67.890
Note: nc is from port "nc" (netcat). It will send it direc
On Sun, 3 Jun 2012, Warren Block wrote:
On Sun, 3 Jun 2012, Leslie Jensen wrote:
2012-06-02 19:18, Doug Barton skrev:
On 6/2/2012 8:09 AM, Leslie Jensen wrote:
I'm thinking about some kind of information on the build progress
Portmaster already has that if you're building in
On Sun, 3 Jun 2012, Gary Aitken wrote:
6. And finally, any idea why umount says the device is busy?
xfce uses gamin to scan for new files and directories, but it causes
just this problem. Edit /usr/local/etc/gamin/gaminrc and set it to poll
the device directory:
poll /mnt/*
_
On Mon, 4 Jun 2012, Leslie Jensen wrote:
2012-06-04 09:41, Doug Barton skrev:
On 06/04/2012 00:35, Leslie Jensen wrote:
I found that setting and changed it.
That should do it then. Thanks to Warren for suggesting it.
I forgot to tell you that I'm working through an SSH connectio
On Mon, 4 Jun 2012, Gary Aitken wrote:
On 06/03/12 21:05, Polytropon wrote:
Maybe the ganim "lock" is regarding a device file? Not sure
about that, I'm not using it here.
I'm not sure what the deal is here, but exiting X does solve the
problem. I didn't try just killing the environment by
On Mon, 4 Jun 2012, Gary Aitken wrote:
On 06/04/12 08:15, Warren Block wrote:
gamin opens the directory (of the newly-mounted device) so it can check for new
files being created or files being renamed, and then notify the window manager,
which updates the user's desktop. The open make
On Mon, 4 Jun 2012, Gary Aitken wrote:
According the the handbook, one should do the following to set up a new disk:
1 dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/da1 bs=1k count=1
2 fdisk -BI da1 #Initialize your new disk
3 bsdlabel -B -w da1s1 auto #Label it.
4 bsdlabel -e da1s1 # Edit the bsdlabel just created
On Mon, 4 Jun 2012, Gary Aitken wrote:
What part of the Handbook? I would suggest using gpart(8), it makes GPT
partitions easy, and nasty old MBR partitions aren't any worse than with
fdisk/bsdlabel.
19.3.2
That's the Storage chapter, section "Command Line Utilities". That is
yet another
On Tue, 5 Jun 2012, Walter Hurry wrote:
Firstly, sorry if this is a bit of a newbie question. I am quite new to
FreeBSD (though fairly experienced at Linux). Almost everything in FreeBSD
is fine, except that no matter what I try I cannot get the (USB) mouse to
work.
I have scoured the handbook,
On Wed, 6 Jun 2012, Erich wrote:
Hi
I have had success on my hardware with this setting:
# The working configuration. The mouse daemon in /etc/rc.conf
# was dsabled.
#
# Section "ServerLayout"
# Identifier "X.org Configured"
#
On Wed, 6 Jun 2012, Erich wrote:
Hi,
On 06 June 2012 6:37:43 Warren Block wrote:
On Wed, 6 Jun 2012, Erich wrote:
Hi
I have had success on my hardware with this setting:
# The working configuration. The mouse daemon in /etc/rc.conf
# was dsabled
On Wed, 6 Jun 2012, Leslie Jensen wrote:
Can the reason for me not getting the title to change be that I very often
use screen when updating ports?
Sure, the escape codes are interpreted by screen, not Terminal. There
may be a way to pass them through. tmux has some options for that, but
I
On Wed, 6 Jun 2012, Gary Aitken wrote:
Running under X with xfce, just did this:
gpart show -l da0
gpart delete -i 1 da0
gpart destroy da0
gpart create -s GPT da0
gpart bootcode -b /boot/pmbr da0
gpart add -t freebsd-boot -i 1 -s 512K -l gptboot da0
gpart bootcode -b /boot/gptboot -i 1
On Thu, 7 Jun 2012, Gary Aitken wrote:
When I originally set up my SSD, the stuff I was following indicated
there was no need to put anythng on a separate filesystem. I'm now
trying to build a backup system on a usb drive and I want a separate
/var and /tmp.
I had originally set the nodump
On Fri, 8 Jun 2012, Robert Huff wrote:
Ronald F. Guilmette writes:
I got a lot of disks here, so that part is not a problem. I just
need to make sure that I'm gonna do this the Right Way[tm].
(I've already been making my own ham-fisted disk-to-disk backups
in the past, but I'm sure that
On Fri, 8 Jun 2012, Albert Shih wrote:
After some time, and read new messages ont this mailing list, I find a
solution.
Deactivate hald
deactivate dbus
Option "AutoAddDevices" "Off"
put moused_enable="On" in /etc/rc.conf
and
rebo
On Sat, 9 Jun 2012, Ronald F. Guilmette wrote:
Also, I don't like backups taking longer than absolutely necessary, and
this is why I am specifically _not_ attracted to either the dd solution
or to dump/restore, because as I understand it, with either of these methods
you end up copying perhaps
On Sun, 10 Jun 2012, Ronald F. Guilmette wrote:
(I got the Wrong Impression, I think, because I have read assertions like
"...dump backs up at the filesystem block level...". What does that mean
exactly? Use of the term "block level" in this context makes me think of
something operating along
On Sun, 10 Jun 2012, Gary Aitken wrote:
On 06/10/12 10:47, Gary Aitken wrote:
What's the trick to allow fn to still be used to switch vtys when running
X?
At first I thought it was the wm grabbing it, but I've disabled that and now it
goes to whatever app has the focus. Seems like something
On Sun, 10 Jun 2012, Ronald F. Guilmette wrote:
In message ,
Warren Block wrote:
On Sun, 10 Jun 2012, Ronald F. Guilmette wrote:
1) In your example under the heading "Copying Filesystems", the second
shell command line shown is:
dump -C16 -b64 -0uanL -h0 -f - /usr | (cd /mnt
On Sun, 10 Jun 2012, jb wrote:
Hi,
after portmaster update:
- there are missing icons in main menu and that of Terminal
- startx fails when moused enabled
(EE) xf86OpenSerial: Cannot open device /dev/psm0
Device busy.
(EE) PS/2 Mouse: cannot open input device
(EE) PreInit returned NULL f
On Sun, 10 Jun 2012, Robert Huff wrote:
Ronald F. Guilmette writes:
Warren? Just a couple more quick questions. You recommend:
>> dump -C16 -b64 -0uanL -h0 -f - /usr | (cd /mnt && restore -ruf -)
I'm real curious about you suggestions for the -C and -b values.
On Mon, 11 Jun 2012, Robert Huff wrote:
Another thread, which I seem to have lost, was talking about
dump and sizing its cache.
Per my promise, appended is the log of this morning's level 0 dump,
using C=32. THe system is -CURRENT from March, using AMD Phemon II
x4/3ghz and SAT
On Mon, 11 Jun 2012, jb wrote:
Warren Block wonkity.com> writes:
...
- startx fails when moused enabled
(EE) xf86OpenSerial: Cannot open device /dev/psm0
Device busy.
(EE) PS/2 Mouse: cannot open input device
(EE) PreInit returned NULL for "PS/2 Mouse"
(E
On Wed, 13 Jun 2012, Eitan Adler wrote:
On 12 June 2012 18:03, William Orr wrote:
Hello,
I had a hard disk failure some time ago, and I ended up losing
/var/db/pkg/ and everything under it (before you say I should've been
backing it up, I know, I was actually doing an initial full when this
h
On Mon, 18 Jun 2012, Antonio Olivares wrote:
But I get error in line 16:
$ ./mpost-eps webfig
./mpost-eps: 16: Syntax error: word unexpected
for file in file.* do
Either put the "do" on the next line, or put a ; before it:
for file in file.* ; do
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On Wed, 20 Jun 2012, Stephen Cook wrote:
I'm a relative newcomer. Are the FreeBSD mailing lists always this flame-y? I
realize that this particular post might be trolling / satire, but others in
the thread (and other unrelated threads recently) are a FAR CRY from the
technical support and disc
On Tue, 19 Jun 2012, Chad Perrin wrote:
On Tue, Jun 19, 2012 at 08:52:58PM -0400, David Tilbrook wrote:
I have a thinkpad t61p running freebsd9.0. The window size is 1680x1050
-- a reasonable size -- but the screen itself is 38cm. (15") which is
irritatingly
small for my old eyes.
So I want t
On Wed, 20 Jun 2012, David Tilbrook wrote:
I have searched for ppmtoxpm in ports and in FreeBSD Search Services to
no avail.
ppmtoxpm converts a portable pixmap into an X11 pixmap.
Is there a freebsd equivalent or alternative?
In the ports, graphics/netpbm.
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On Thu, 21 Jun 2012, David Tilbrook wrote:
Preamble:
% cvt 1600 1280
# 1600x1280 59.92 Hz (CVT 2.05M4) hsync: 79.51 kHz; pclk: 171.75 MHz
Modeline "1600x1280_60.00" 171.75 1600 1712 1880 2160 1280 1283
1290 1327 -hsync +vsync
Running the following:
xrandr --auto
xrandr --newmode "1600x1280
On Fri, 22 Jun 2012, Ian Smith wrote:
I thought I saw something somewhere (maybe just wishful thinking) about
FreeBSD on the Arduino, which normally runs a sort of embedded Linux,
that could be very interesting; the hardware is cheap (kits at Jaycar
stores in Australia anyway), very modular desi
On Sat, 23 Jun 2012, Eduardo Morras wrote:
At 02:37 23/06/2012, Chad Perrin wrote:
On Fri, Jun 22, 2012 at 08:47:40PM +0200, Roland Smith wrote:
> On Fri, Jun 22, 2012 at 10:09:03AM -0600, Chad Perrin wrote:
> > I'm setting up a "new" backup server using FreeBSD. It will be used
for
> > back
On Mon, 25 Jun 2012, Ian Smith wrote:
On Fri, 22 Jun 2012 06:47:48 -0600 (MDT), Warren Block wrote:
> On Fri, 22 Jun 2012, Ian Smith wrote:
>
> Well, there is devel/arduino. It's not emdedded Linux, but an IDE for
> writing and downloading code. The Arduino is a small em
On Fri, 6 Jul 2012, Polytropon wrote:
For maximum security, you can use the "old" approach of
using fdisk + disklabel (creating slice, creating partitions
within slice). This also delivers most compatibility for
other systems, if it should be needed, e. g. in a multiboot
environment.
gpart(8)
On Sat, 7 Jul 2012, Carmel wrote:
This is probably a dumb question, but does gpart even work on a USB
flash drive? I have not been able to figure out how to do it. I want to
erase the entire drive and format it for a FreeBSD UFS2 file system.
Yes, gpart will work with pretty much any storage d
/boot/pmbr -p /boot/gptboot -i 1 da0
# gpart add -t freebsd-ufs -b 1M -s 7G da0
# gpart add -t freebsd-swap da0
# newfs -U /dev/da0p2
Thanks Warren, you win the prize for the most detailed answer.
Polytropon gave me the easiest answer if I just want to use the drive
as a simple storage device
On Sun, 8 Jul 2012, Graham Bentley wrote:
Hi I have put together a little experimental FreebSD 9.0
box which comprises of ;
http://www.cartft.com/catalog/il/934
http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=HS-023-ZA
2GB RAM and a Sandisk SDSA3BD-054G 8GB SSD
The idea is a silent system
On Mon, 9 Jul 2012, Wojciech Puchar wrote:
Notes:
1. SSDs don't necessarily use 4k blocks, some use larger ones. Starting the
All use 4K as it is NTFS default block size and most are sold to be used with
windoze.
No. For example, some of the Crucial M4 drives are 4K, some are 8K.
first
On Mon, 9 Jul 2012, Bruce Cran wrote:
On 09/07/2012 11:16, Polytropon wrote:
If you're talking about an MS-DOS disk, then yes, it contains
a DOS partition which is formatted. In FreeBSD, we would call
it a slice (slice == "DOS primary partition"). In this case,
there is no (sub)partitioning, th
On Mon, 9 Jul 2012, dweimer wrote:
I have had a few virtual machine installations come up with "gptboot: invalid
GPT backup header" error message while booting. (some immediately on first
boot after install) They still boot fine, and run without problems, but I
would like to find a way to fix
On Wed, 11 Jul 2012, Kaya Saman wrote:
On Wed, Jul 11, 2012 at 10:18 AM, miles kuo wrote:
Hi all,
I have two SAS disks for the FreeBSD install. I want to install the freeBSD
on one disk and mirror to another disk. Just like the AIX Mirror.
Any changes will sync between the two disks. And if
On Wed, 11 Jul 2012, Pierre-Luc Drouin wrote:
I am looking to build a simple i5 or i7 CPU-based desktop computer that is
compatible with FreeBSD. Could someone suggest me a sub $200 motherboard
whose chipsets and BIOS works well with FreeBSD? I would prefer to stick
with either Intel or Asus if
On Thu, 12 Jul 2012, Wojciech Puchar wrote:
I am no expert at this however a quick Google search comes up with:
http://www.freebsd.org/doc/handbook/geom-mirror.html
The procedure shown there produces a mirror that will not boot on FreeBSD
9.
no idea but my procedure certainly would work i
On Thu, 12 Jul 2012, Wojciech Puchar wrote:
The current Handbook procedure avoids the copy by using the existing disk
as-is and just writing the gmirror metadata to the last block.
Exactly what i do doing instalations manually!
If that last block is already part of an MBR partition, the more
$() apparently isn't quite the same as backticks, although sh(1) doesn't
mention that, or I just missed it. This script is just supposed to
escape special characters* in a path/filename:
#!/bin/sh
DESTDIR="./"
COMPFILE=".cshrc"
PSTR=`echo "${DESTDIR}${COMPFILE}" | sed 's%\([?:.%\\]\)%\\\1%g'
Dropped the last line of the script. Also lined up the seds to show the
regex is the same in both.
#!/bin/sh
DESTDIR="./"
COMPFILE=".cshrc"
PSTR=`echo "${DESTDIR}${COMPFILE}" | sed 's%\([?:.%\\]\)%\\\1%g'`
echo ${PSTR}
PSTR=$(echo "${DESTDIR}${COMPFILE}" | sed 's%\([?:.%\\]\)%\\\1%g')
echo
On Tue, 22 Feb 2011, Paul Macdonald wrote:
On 22/02/2011 16:40, Alokat wrote:
Hi,
I have changed my shell from csh to bash ...
But after that I have to call "reboot" like /sbin/reboot.
How can I change that without changing the shell. :)
don't change your root shell!
csh is in the base sys
On Thu, 24 Feb 2011, Jerry wrote:
Is FreeBSD now "HAL" free or is it still a requirement? I still have it
activated via "/etc/rc.conf" If it is not needed, I would be happy to
remove the entry.
It's not a requirement. You can build xorg-server without it, and there
are other mechanisms avail
On Thu, 24 Feb 2011, Edwin L. Culp W. wrote:
2011/2/24 Warren Block :
On Thu, 24 Feb 2011, Jerry wrote:
Is FreeBSD now "HAL" free or is it still a requirement? I still have it
activated via "/etc/rc.conf" If it is not needed, I would be happy to
remove the entry.
It
On Thu, 24 Feb 2011, Aleksandr Miroslav wrote:
Recently I noticed that somehow I am on apr-0.9.19.0.9.19. On my old
box, I was on apr-ipv6-devrandom-gdbm-db47-1.4.2.1.3.10.
See the 20100518 entry in /usr/ports/UPDATING. Well, the apr one,
anyway.
On Fri, 25 Feb 2011, Jerry wrote:
GNOME switched over a year ago, KDE and XFCE finished the
transition a couple of months back. Other distros are apparently not
even distributing it. What is preventing FBSD from joining the party?
Lack of a udev specification, for a start:
http://lists.freebs
On Wed, 2 Mar 2011, Damien Fleuriot wrote:
Dropping to single user is not strictly necessary, in fact I never do.
buildworld
buildkernel
installkernel
reboot
mergemaster -p
installworld
mergemaster -F
rebuild your ports
reboot
Some of these steps are best practices. If you're lucky and don't
On Wed, 2 Mar 2011, Ed Flecko wrote:
Hi folks,
I confess I'm more familiar with "Windows" and for years I have
"Ghosted" PCs as a very fast way to get an entire PC back online in
the event of a drive failure. I can easily get a PC back online within
the hour using "ghost" (or some drive imaging
On Thu, 3 Mar 2011, John Levine wrote:
It's not as automated as the Windows approach, but if you know what
you're doing it's mostly limited by the speed of the disks. ...
Unlike "Windows", UNIX gives you the ability to create a fully
programmable automated approach according to your needs, e.
On Sat, 5 Mar 2011, David Demelier wrote:
I've got a brand new radeon hd 5670, when I switch between ttys it takes
about 5 seconds to refresh (to show the next tty)
Do you mean switching between text consoles (ttyv) or between a text
console and X?
Switching between X and a console, or part
On Sat, 5 Mar 2011, Rem P Roberti wrote:
I have a printer, which was installed and is working under CUPS, that seems
to go offline of its own accord. And when that happens I have found no
other option than to reboot. I know, I know...you should never have to
reboot, but that's the only thing t
On Sat, 5 Mar 2011, Rem P Roberti wrote:
Thanks for the reply. The printer is an HP Photosmart 9180, connected
to ulpt0, which cannot be toggled online/offline. The printer is
designed to remain on full time, and has maintenance routines that
it goes through every 24 hrs. If you turn it off an
On Sun, 6 Mar 2011, Lars Eighner wrote:
If my bug report is marked [regression] what does that mean?
Am I a troglodyte or a Luddite or something?
"Regression" is something that used to work but doesn't any more.
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On Sun, 6 Mar 2011, Lars Eighner wrote:
Using the -C switch with portupgrade, I am managing to turn WITH_HAL off in
ports that I install or upgrade. Is there a way to make this a global
default?
Is there a (convenient) way to list ports that might pull in HAL without
having a configuration swi
On Sun, 6 Mar 2011, Robert Huff wrote:
In both cases the output is squished both horozontally and
vertically so that it takes up ~40% on the desired space.
Checkng the mailing list archives back into November shows
nothing that matches this.
firefox-3.6.15,1 prints fine here, b
On Tue, 8 Mar 2011, O. Hartmann wrote:
I've got a weird problem here. Very often I download scientific papers as pdf
from protals and they got opened via firefox3 with the configured propper
utility, in this case xpdf. In such a case, printing is impossible. I hit the
print button, a popup sho
On Fri, 11 Mar 2011, O. Hartmann wrote:
On 03/11/11 01:13, Polytropon wrote:
Maybe you're experiencing a caching problem? I would guess
that as you stated there is a temporary file, this should
not happen (in relation to Firefox) there should at least
be an error message.
Did you try to enter
On Sat, 12 Mar 2011, Robert wrote:
On 12 Mar 2011 17:29:59 -
John Levine wrote:
[robert@dell64] ~> umount Flash
umount: unmount of /home/robert/Flash failed: Device busy
Try umount -f
The problem is likely that HAL or one of its friends helpfully has the
device open just in case you mi
With moused enabled or started by a USB mouse, moving the mouse pointer
on a console screen causes other characters on the screen to flicker.
It's not very visible on a mostly-black screen, but run lptest to get
some text and mouse the mouse around.
This seems new. It's possible it's a memor
On Mon, 14 Mar 2011, Adam Vande More wrote:
On Mon, Mar 14, 2011 at 5:08 PM, Warren Block wrote:
With moused enabled or started by a USB mouse, moving the mouse pointer
on a console screen causes other characters on the screen to flicker.
It's not very visible on a mostly-
On Mon, 14 Mar 2011, Ryan Coleman wrote:
I see usbdevs was part of 7.x but I cannot find it outside of a src directory
in 8.2. Any recommendations?
usbconfig(8)
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On Thu, 17 Mar 2011, Chad Perrin wrote:
In my experience, about one third of the time HAL makes X work great, and
the other two thirds of the time it fails in some way that requires me to
create a complete xorg.conf file just for one or two options.
hal just provides input device hotplug abili
On Wed, 23 Mar 2011, Steven Friedrich wrote:
I know I wasn't clear in my original mail, but after this AutoSense failed, I
get LOTS of g_vfs_done errors. I don't get them if I don't plu in the camera
Mar 22 01:12:21 laptop2 kernel: (da0:umass-sim0:0:0:0): AutoSense failed
Mar 22 01:12:21 lapt
On Wed, 30 Mar 2011, Anton Shterenlikht wrote:
Maybe of no relevance, but I think the
default for "Xorg -config xorg.conf.new" is to show
blank screen. You have to type CTRL+ALT+BACKSPACE to
get back to the terminal.
Depending on key mapping, that may not work. But ctrl-alt-f1 to switch
back
On Fri, 1 Apr 2011, Erik Nørgaard wrote:
I'm looking at the D945GSEJT which has a realtek 8111DL nic. Which driver is
used for this nic?
re(4). Some forum users have had recent problems with certain versions
(maybe newer) of the 8111. My older 8111C onboard versions have always
worked fine
Is it possible to mount a dump(8) dumpfile? restore(8) obviously knows
everything about the file structure, and restore -i is nearly a
read-only mount_dump already.
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On Fri, 1 Apr 2011, Chris Telting wrote:
One of my biggest gripes with the ports system is dependency hell. Ports
link against so my optional components and pull them into the install.
Libraries and components are built based on make file defines. But this
doesn't have to be so. It's possib
On Sat, 2 Apr 2011, Chris Rees wrote:
On 2 Apr 2011 00:08, "Warren Block" wrote:
>
> Is it possible to mount a dump(8) dumpfile? restore(8) obviously knows
everything about the file structure, and restore -i is nearly a read-only
mount_dump already.
Restore -i isn't r
On Thu, 7 Apr 2011, Carmel wrote:
I was wondering if anyone here has had any experience with a
"Linksys-E4200 Wireless N-router"
I know that FreeBSD probably does not support its wireless functions as
it employs 802.11n wireless technology; however, other than that
does anyone have any first ha
Does anyone have a convenient way to merge a list of CIDR netblocks?
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On Thu, 7 Apr 2011, John Levine wrote:
Using Net::CIDR or Net::CIDR::Lite, both of which are in the ports,
this script will do it:
- snip -
use Net::CIDR;
print join(' ',Net::CIDR::cidradd(@ARGV)) . "\n";
- snip -
Perfect! I looked at Net::CIDR, but was put off by the couple
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