,--- Dave Hayes (Fri, 01 Jun 2012 17:12:14 -0700) *
| 2) I don't use FreeBSD for a 'modern' desktop. By 'modern' I mean
| areas which most rank and file users would need: day-to-day non
| technical browsing with flash, applications like skype, syncing to
| mobile devices, etc.
First, two state
On one of my FreeBSD 9 machines, 'cdcontrol eject' works fine but
'cdcontrol close' fails. Any ideas on the cause? (I have never seen
anything like this on other machines, in any FreeBSD release.)
Starting from the closed tray and seeing a successful physical eject:
-
,--- Michal (Tue, 29 Mar 2011 20:20:04 +0200) *
| There is also no Microsoft Windows Management Console for FreeBSD, does
| it make FreeBSD lacking, insufficient, or broken in some specific server
| area?
It's time to switch this char elsewhere, to -help, perhaps, no?
-- Alex -- alex-goncha..
[ Suggest not to cc: freebsd-stable@ from this point on; freebsd-ports@
is added ]
,--- You/ben (Tue, 04 Jan 2011 15:16:26 +) *
| I've followed the steps at
| http://www.freebsd.org/doc/handbook/desktop-browsers.html without any
| errors, except that neither Firefox nor any other browser
,--- Ronald Klop (Tue, 19 Oct 2010 09:15:46 +0200) *
| Alex,
|
| What does pkg_info -W /compat/linux/usr/bin/xmlwf say? Maybe
| linux-f10-expat misses a dependency which you have installed already.
|
`--*
--
pkg_info -W /compat/lin
,--- You/Harald (Mon, 18 Oct 2010 14:02:27 +0200) *
| What else could I possibly do?
| - portmaster www/opera-linuxplugins # installing linux_base-f10-10_3,
| then stopping as follows:
| ===> Installing for linux-f10-expat-2.0.1
| ===> Generating temporary packing list
| brandelf: error
,--- You/Harald (Tue, 12 Oct 2010 21:56:29 +0200) *
| www/opera built and installed quickly. I really like it, except for the
| crash on exit. The workaround does apply for me as well.
|
| www/opera-linuxplugins stopped with
|
| ===> Installing for linux-f10-expat-2.0.1
| ===> Generating t
,--- Artem Belevich (Sun, 10 Oct 2010 23:21:19 -0700) *
|
| I think I've accidentally stumbled on a workaround for this crash on
| exit issue.
|
| Once you've started opera and opened a page (any page), turn on print
| preview on and off (Menu->Print->Print preview). Once it's done, opera
| wi
,--- You/Emil (Sun, 10 Oct 2010 16:41:39 +0200) *
| www/opera and www/nspluginwrapper can coexist, but Opera should not use
| nspluginwrapper-generated plugins.
|
| opera-10.61.6430
| opera-linuxplugins-10.61.6430
| linux-f10-flashplugin-10.1r85
,--- Torfinn Ingolfsen (Sun, 10 Oct 2010 19:56:
,--- You/Emil (Sun, 10 Oct 2010 04:42:17 +0200) *
| > www/opera won't work with flash (it seems first).
|
| It works for me for years. Just install www/opera,
| www/opera-linuxplugins, www/linux-f10-flashplugin10. Don't install any
| www/nspluginwrapper* ports.
Do you mean that in order
,--- You/Harald (Sat, 9 Oct 2010 22:36:30 +0200) *
| On Fri, Oct 08, 2010 at 02:34:11PM -0400, Alex Goncharov wrote:
| > | I guess that FreeBSD will never be supported by Adobe.
| >
| > Flash works beautifully for me on FreeBSD 8.1 in both Firefox 3.6...
| > and in Opera (linu
,--- You/Harald (Fri, 8 Oct 2010 20:00:46 +0200) *
| My hope to find an interim solution for the flashplayer nightmare
| (while waiting for gnash) can be measured by the amount of hours
| I've spent to get flash - easily and long-term-wise - playing on FreeBSD,
| Ubuntu, PCBSD...
|
| I guess
,--- You/Matthew (Sun, 1 Feb 2009 14:48:15 -0600) *
| On Sat, Jan 31, 2009 at 04:25:21PM -0500 I heard the voice of
| Alex Goncharov, and lo! it spake thus:
| > Csup can only go forward -- or can it go back?)
|
| You can specify a date in a supfile since, like, e
,--- Alexandre \ (Sun, 01 Feb 2009 12:03:06 -0500) *
| > When I install the old packages, I can no longer rebuild and install
| > new (say `csup'ed on 2009-03-01) port components, as one whole -- I
| > can only do it selectively, excluding from the upgrade most
| > X-dependent things. That suc
,--- I/Alex (Sun, 01 Feb 2009 08:11:21 -0500) *
| Knowing about specific things now fixed for specific users is very
| encouraging.
|
| Thanks a lot!
`-*
,--- You/Matt (Sun, 1 Feb 2009 14:17:16 +) *
| I had better post to the lists exactl
,--- You/vehemens (Sat, 31 Jan 2009 13:54:42 -0800) *
| On Saturday 31 January 2009 01:25:21 pm Alex Goncharov wrote:
| > So, a *fundamental* (practically an OS component) port is brought in
| > -- and it disables my system. What is my way of action? Right --
| > install the old
,--- You/vehemens (Sat, 31 Jan 2009 11:53:58 -0800) *
| In general when upgrading, you take your chances. If a port upgrade
| fails, you should fall back to what worked.
So, a *fundamental* (practically an OS component) port is brought in
-- and it disables my system. What is my way of actio
,--- You/Peter (Sat, 31 Jan 2009 06:53:11 +1100) *
| X11 is a critical component for anyone who is using FreeBSD as a
| desktop and having upgrades fail or come with significant POLA
| violations and regressions for significant numbers of people is not
| acceptable.
Fully agree with this.
| I
,--- You/Robert (Thu, 29 Jan 2009 09:12:47 -0500) *
| Problem is, it isn't just the Xserver... All of the pieces are
| intertwined and so in many cases to update Xserver you also need to
| update some/several libraries as well as all of your drivers. Xorg is
| about 60 or 70 ports now.
That c
,--- You/Robert (Thu, 29 Jan 2009 08:40:11 -0500) *
| I've had patches available for probably a couple of months now posted to
| freebsd-...@. For the few people who tested it, I had no real issues
| reported. We were stalled for a long time, While X kept moving, so the
| amount of change was
,--- You/Bruce (Thu, 29 Jan 2009 12:06:45 +) *
| One theory is that somehow the mouse driver ioctls which are passed
| to ums, are somehow hosing USB, although why that would be, I don't
| understand. ums currently doesn't have driver instrumentation in that path.
|
| I pulled a
,--- You/Robert (Wed, 28 Jan 2009 23:16:11 -0500) *
| > Now I can use X again BUT... Firefox 3.0.5 is still broken. It has =20
| > worked fine until this new Xorg.
|
| Firefox not working is one of the symptoms of a botched upgrade. If you
| ldd firefox-bin you will likely find that it is li
,--- You/Dan (Wed, 28 Jan 2009 20:39:10 -0700) *
| > While this enabled the mouse (without HAL), it did nothing good about:
| >
| >a. The bogus keyboard scans.
You are quoting me and I need to clarify...
| Everyone is talking about an xorg.conf
| The new X.org 7.4 upgrade hit me too: no k
,--- You/Harald (Thu, 8 Jan 2009 12:11:27 +0100) *
| > Try to install the cupsys, cupsys-bsd, cupsomatic-ppd and foomatic-db
| > ports and take a look at this link:
|
| None of these exist in the FreeBSD port index (/usr/ports/INDEX-7)
So, you've now looked :-)
I've had good experience with
On Mon, Jan 05, 2009 at 11:26:23PM +0100, Roland Smith wrote:
> On Mon, Jan 05, 2009 at 05:44:03PM +0100, Erwan David wrote:
> > On Mon, Jan 05, 2009 at 05:36:35PM CET, Torfinn Ingolfsen
> > said:
> > > On Sun, 04 Jan 2009 23:14:22 +0100
> > > Harald Weis wrote:
> > >
> > > > Is there a way to
,--- You/John (Sun, 31 Aug 2008 23:35:38 +) *
| It's supposed to, but I don't trust it. There is no substitute for
| a rm -rf of the obj tree. That's also quicker.
Ah, OK...
| Sorry about the problems.
Oh, no problem at all -- I learned a lot as a result. Just wanted to
make sure I unde
,--- You/John (Sun, 31 Aug 2008 22:36:36 +) *
| If you still have the obj tree from the problem build, there are two things
| you can do:
|
| 1. make STRIP= installworld
Thank you -- that's good to know, for the future.
For now, I updated again and using my saved "four cc tools kit"
rebu
Still having problems...
,--- I/Alex (Wed, 27 Aug 2008 20:42:00 -0400) *
| ,--- You/Kostik (Wed, 27 Aug 2008 19:04:32 +0300) *
| | cd into /usr/src/gnu/usr.bin/cc/cc1,
| | make install DEBUG_FLAGS=-g
|
| That simple thing didn't work for me:
| But I've found what may be an extremely
,--- You/Kostik (Wed, 27 Aug 2008 19:04:32 +0300) *
| cd into /usr/src/gnu/usr.bin/cc/cc1,
| and do
| make install DEBUG_FLAGS=-g
That simple thing didn't work for me:
make install DEBUG_FLAGS=-g
install -o root -g wheel -m 555 cc1 /usr/libexec
install: cc1: No such file
The bottom line: the problem is solved -- thank you!
The details below...
,--- You/Yuri (Wed, 27 Aug 2008 08:13:14 +0400) *
| Alex Goncharov wrote:
| > `groff' is still not working for me, and with it `man' doesn't:
| >
| > So, I looked at how things are being
`groff' is still not working for me, and with it `man' doesn't:
$ uname -srv
FreeBSD 7.1-PRERELEASE FreeBSD 7.1-PRERELEASE #34: Tue Aug 26 18:14:46 EDT
2008...
$ man man
/usr/bin/groff: can't find `DESC' file
/usr/bin/groff:fatal error: invalid device `as
Oops, scratch (do not see) this piece in my previous message:
,--- I/Alex (Mon, 18 Aug 2008 11:09:10 -0400) *
| $ truss -mm -t -Tascii tmp.mm 2>&1 | grep DESC
| ++ [ ~/doc1/employ/ab-initio ] ++
`-*
Thanks,
-- Alex -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] --
_
The following happens in 7.0-STABLE built from the source "csup"ed
either yesterday's or this morning:
$ groff -mm -t -Tascii tmp.mm
groff: can't find `DESC' file
groff:fatal error: invalid device `ascii'
$ truss -mm -t -Tascii tmp.mm 2
I am trying to refresh my old groff skills, playing with it for the
first time on FreeBSD -- and getting very confused with understanding
groff's place and organization here. (I am writing this on FreeBSD 7.0
but I could start an 8.0 system if somebody suggested to take a look
there).
Let's start
,--- Doug Barton (Sun, 03 Aug 2008 22:14:54 -0700) *
| It's really not appropriate to hijack the portupgrade thread for this,
| so I'm starting a new subject. Also, please respect followups to
| -ports.
[ Being an inexperienced poster: sorry. Am I using a good cc: list now?
,--- You/Jeremy (Sun, 3 Aug 2008 19:26:18 -0700) *
| I'd start by ceasing use of portupgrade. Try Doug Barton's portmaster,
| which is in ports/ports-mgmt/portmaster. It's an extensive shell
| script, and does not require ruby.
Over the last couple of months, I've made a few shy attempts to
The system is built from source so that:
# uname -sr
FreeBSD 7.0-RELEASE
# cat KERNEL-CONFIG | FILTER-DEBUG
options KDB
options KDB_TRACE
options DDB
options WITNESS
options WITNESS_SKIPSPIN
An NFS client (an appli
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