Re: time problems

2007-03-31 Thread Lowell Gilbert
bram <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Hi all, > > I am running 6.1-RELEASE-p2-AMD64 on a dual AMD opteron system. > Lately (after installing a twa-3ware raid controller I think) time > just stops. > We leave at work one evening and the clock is set ok. > The next morning the clock is set at 3 o'clock

Re: New to FreeBSD

2007-03-28 Thread Lowell Gilbert
"Ivan Zenzerović" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Thanks, i managed to fix this by running the post install configuration with > sysinstall. But I have another problem. Every time i start the system my > soundcard won't work. I must tipe kldload snd_driver and then logoff and > again logon in kde to

Re: Time changed back to old daylight savings

2007-03-28 Thread Lowell Gilbert
"Don O'Neil" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Ok, Thanks to Paul who sent me the previous tzdata file I was able to > download the port and install it... However that didn't solve the problem! > > Here's my output from the make/make install: > > make install > ===> Installing for zoneinfo-2007.c >

Re: Sound on an amilo pro notebook

2007-03-28 Thread Lowell Gilbert
Ghirai <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I'm trying to get the sound working on a Fujitsu Siemens > Amilo Pro v3205 notebook. > The datasheet says i have a Conexant AMOM soundcard. > > I've tried all drivers, but /dev/sndstat doesn't > report anything being installed. > > I'm running 6.2 x86. How do

Re: Problems with SMP on 6.1-STABLE-200608

2007-03-28 Thread Lowell Gilbert
"Don O'Neil" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I've been having problems with my server freezing up, having the #2 CPU > 'shut down', kernel panics, and all sorts of nastyness > > Originally I thought it was exim, or possibly bind, or bad hardware (mb, cpu > or memory)... I've swapped out the moth

Re: /tmp write failed, filesystem is full

2007-03-27 Thread Lowell Gilbert
David J Brooks <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Tuesday 27 March 2007 09:17:07 am Michele Endrici wrote: >> Hi, can anyone help me find a solution to a make problem?? I'm trying >> to build a kernel for FreeBSD 6.2 with a new driver but the make >> fails. I tryed in both the old and new school way

Re: Copy/move files between Windows and FreeBSD

2007-03-26 Thread Lowell Gilbert
Laszlo Nagy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Ivan Voras írta: >> Nagy László Zsolt wrote: >>> >>> Hi, >>> >>> I need to copy,move and delete files across two machines. They are >>> located far away from each other. I have other FreeBSD machines and >>> we were using SSH2 for this kind of task. Under

Re: two mounted directories with the same name ?

2007-03-26 Thread Lowell Gilbert
Frank Bonnet <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Hello > > A strange thing happened to my 6.2-R amd64 machine > > it has the following disk partitionning configuration > > > Filesystem1K-blocksUsed Avail Capacity Mounted on > /dev/aacd0s1a 5077038 66764 4604112 1%/ > devfs

Re: Oops... {upgrading, using a script and pkg_version}

2007-03-26 Thread Lowell Gilbert
Gary Kline <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I've got ~770 ports install--many|most depencencies. Doesn't > "-a" rebuilt *everything*? If not, I've been sadly > mis-understanding the man page. "-a" makes sure that everything is up-to-date, but it doesn't rebuild ports that are a

Re: Oops... {upgrading, using a script and pkg_version}

2007-03-25 Thread Lowell Gilbert
Gary Kline <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Hi people, > > A day or three ago somebody posted a neat upgrade script > (or snippet of) using a shell for loop and pkg_version. > I was going to save, thought I saved it to ~/Mail/freebsd. > Can't find it. Anybody knw which

Re: portupgrade -rf gettext problems

2007-03-25 Thread Lowell Gilbert
Dino Vliet <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > So, what to do next? Should I continue this command until all packages are > processed and none of them skipped and failed? Or can I continue upgrading > all my ports as from now? Well, it depends on what failed. If those ports work, you're probably oka

Re: Kernel error

2007-03-22 Thread Lowell Gilbert
r behaviour that I would assume deals with signal propagation on short ethernet cables. I haven't read the 83815 spec; if you want more details, you will need to do so. -- Lowell Gilbert, embedded/networking software engineer, Boston area

Re: Building a custom FreeBSD ISO install image

2007-03-22 Thread Lowell Gilbert
ys/conf && mv newvers.sh foo && sed > "s/^RELEASE=6.2-RELEASE-p3/" foo > newvers.sh && rm foo; fi > cd: can't cd to /ncvs/FreeBSD/release/usr/src/sys/conf > *** Error code 2 Is the CHROOTDIR correct? Do you think the CVS tree is complete? -- Lowell Gi

Re: Using TSC without disabling ACPI

2007-03-22 Thread Lowell Gilbert
"Vlad GALU" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Hello list, I've been trying to use TSC without disabling ACPI > and I failed. Is there a way I can achieve that? As long as ACPI was > in use, the system always chose ACPI-fast. It varies a bit with the FreeBSD version, but did you try setting the ke

Re: safe0 and kernel panic

2007-03-22 Thread Lowell Gilbert
"Rajkumar S" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Further to my previous mail. > > On 3/20/07, Rajkumar S <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> safe0 mem 0xf612-0xf6121fff irq 22 at device 10.0 on pci0 >> safe0: cannot allocate DMA tag >> device_attach: safe0 attach returned 6 > > While running cryptokeytest

Re: safe0 and kernel panic

2007-03-19 Thread Lowell Gilbert
"Rajkumar S" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I am trying to install SafeNet 1141 support in one of the freebsd > boxes here. according to safe(4), I have to add "device safe" into my > kernel config and compile to enable hardware crypto acceleration. But > after I boot with safe module enabled I get

Re: Problems with SSH and Realtek driver

2007-03-14 Thread Lowell Gilbert
"Alexander Schlichting" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > I had a problem with the sshd disconnecting incoming connections after a few > seconds of inactivity. I tried a lot and found no solution for this so I > ended up with trying the latest driver from here : > http://www.realtek.com.tw/downl

Re: Freebsd-Update & Stable Dist's

2007-03-14 Thread Lowell Gilbert
"Don O'Neil" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > When I built my latest server I used a FreeBSD 6.1-STABLE-200608 ISO image > that was produced on one of the serveral 'snapshot' sites > > However, I was going to run freebsd-update to check for any patches, etc.. > That may need to be applied and it

Re: Fixing DST manually on rel4 & rel5

2007-03-14 Thread Lowell Gilbert
Ken Cochran <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Hello -questions: > > This is most certanly a FAQ but I'm not yet finding the kind of > answer I need... > > I have a couple of old FreeBSD systems that I can't (yet) update > to the new Daylight Saving Time rules (based on the email message > that came ou

Re: Slim Server

2007-03-14 Thread Lowell Gilbert
"Jason Gretz" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Hey guys, I tried installing Slim Server from /usr/ports/audio/slimserver and > I am getting this error: > > > > Makefile out-of-date with respect to > /usr/local/lib/perl5/5.8.8/mach/Config.pm / >

Re: Running script from rc.d as local user

2007-03-09 Thread Lowell Gilbert
Lowell Gilbert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Gerard Seibert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > >> On Thu, 08 Mar 2007 08:52:20 -0600 >> Derek Ragona <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >>> You should add a line: >>> /usr/bin/su [to your username] >

Re: Running script from rc.d as local user

2007-03-09 Thread Lowell Gilbert
Gerard Seibert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Thu, 08 Mar 2007 08:52:20 -0600 > Derek Ragona <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> You should add a line: >> /usr/bin/su [to your username] > > OK, I'll try that. A way to do this without needing special permissions to touch system files is to use cron;

Re: Where can I get a nVidia driver for FBSD amd64

2007-03-04 Thread Lowell Gilbert
Stephen Liu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Hi folks, > > FreeBSD 6.2-amd64 > > I have been searching around for nVidia drvier without result. X > window can't work properly on this box. However I'm not alone. Please > visit following sites > > http://www.nvnews.net/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=415

Re: defrag

2007-03-01 Thread Lowell Gilbert
n is a way of avoiding internal fragmentation from wasting too much space. MS-DOS-FS fragmentation is an example of external fragmentation in the storage space. They don't really have anything to do with each other. -- Lowell Gilbert, embedded/networking software engineer, Boston area

Re: defrag

2007-03-01 Thread Lowell Gilbert
Norberto Meijome <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Thu, 1 Mar 2007 19:22:32 +0100 (CET) > Wojciech Puchar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> backup+restore will be defrag > > you mean : backup, format, (reinstall if needed, depending on method of > backup) > and restore - or simply restore on top (if

Re: compiling ports with more than one job

2007-02-28 Thread Lowell Gilbert
Josh Paetzel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Wednesday 28 February 2007 04:32, Christian Baer wrote: >> Good morning[1], folks! >> >> I am currently setting up a Sun U60 with FreeBSD. A few amount of >> apps will be installed on it, when I'm through with it. And that is >> where it gets a little

Re: kernel panic at boot on any 6.x OS *SOLVED!*

2007-02-27 Thread Lowell Gilbert
Joe Auty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I guess the trick here was not considering that user space apps would > be trying to do a kldload, and that calling upon a module that is > either missing in /boot/kernel or /boot/modules or resides outside > of /boot can trigger these panics. That is

Re: services file question

2007-02-26 Thread Lowell Gilbert
Steel City Phantom <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I have been trying to figure out an issue with my newest bsd server. > i am trying to get jboss to run but nothing outside of the local > machine can access it. i have been working on this for a while and > am completely out of ideas except for one

Re: ffmpeg build fails

2007-02-26 Thread Lowell Gilbert
Andriy Babiy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I found the header file in /usr/src/sys/sys directory. Actually, the > content of the folders looks the same. I'm not sure why the file was > missing in the /usr/include/sys. Note that this means your system is installed improperly; soundcard.h should

Re: replacing port in outgoing packets to any host

2007-02-25 Thread Lowell Gilbert
ck <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Hello, participants! > > In constant effort to prevent trojans to send spam following question > came to my mind. > > Is there any way to replace port number for all outgoing packets? > > Long version: > > I want to block outgoing port 25 completely for network beh

Re: Reg. Third party Software installation

2007-02-25 Thread Lowell Gilbert
"subbu ramanN" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I am subburaman from bangalore.I am having FreeBsd OS.Now i > want to install the google earth software.I have downloaded googleearth.bin > file.How can i install ? Kindly give me the guidlines. Installing third-party software is best d

Re: Backup using dump and restore from dvd - restore cd loaded to ram ?drive?

2007-02-21 Thread Lowell Gilbert
rom Oliver Fromme, except that instead of booting to a minimal installation on the hard disk, booting the fixit disk (to get the tools without having the hard disk mounted at all). -- Lowell Gilbert, embedded/networking software engineer, Boston area http://be-well.ilk.org

Re: Best partitioning scheme for my HDD? Please advise.

2007-02-20 Thread Lowell Gilbert
th legitimate data and needing to play games to keep everything installed. Greg Lehey has been recommending this approach in his books for at least a couple of editions now. -- Lowell Gilbert, embedded/networking software engineer, Boston area

Re: xDSL n Dial up connection ??? help

2007-02-20 Thread Lowell Gilbert
niques available depend on how you interface to the DSL line. You may need some kind of heartbeat -- in the worst case, you might need to set one up yourself using a ping of some upstream router. Good luck. -- Lowell Gilbert, embedded/networking so

Re: Update and install new packages immediate after installation

2007-02-19 Thread Lowell Gilbert
satimis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Please advise after installation completed how to read on CVS on the website > to fetch fresh ports and src tree that I need installing further packages > and updating the system. Also how to read about its package management and > how to startup. I expect f

Re: Release 6.2

2007-02-16 Thread Lowell Gilbert
York Rapp <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I am looking for a DVD Image of Release 6.2 to download, but > unfortunately (stupid as I am ;-)) I cannot find it. > > Can you give me an information or a link of a mirror. The FreeBSD Project does not release official ISOs larger than CD size. The extra

Re: local ports FTP

2007-02-16 Thread Lowell Gilbert
"Svetoslav" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Hi I'm from Bulgaria I work in www.nra.bg > administrator I want to make feebsd local ftp ports site PLS help me how I > do this ?? For mirroring the ports tree, the way to do it is explained in a document on the subject: http://www.

Re: Question about syscon

2007-02-16 Thread Lowell Gilbert
ronggui <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Whenever I start the FreeBSD, it takes about one minutes to get the > "syscon" service ready. Is there any way to speed up the process of > start-up? Do you mean sc0? ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list h

Re: Using newer version of pgp by default

2007-02-15 Thread Lowell Gilbert
Gerard Seibert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Freebsd-6.2 > > I have both GnuPG v1.4.6 (FreeBSD) and versions 2.0.2 installed. I > wanted to remove the older version; however, it seems that some > programs depend on it. > > Both 'sylpheed', 'pine' and KMail insist on using the older version > fo

Re: serious performance problems with 6.2 Release

2007-02-15 Thread Lowell Gilbert
"Steven H. Baeighkley" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Greetings, > > We are having some bizarre performance problems on a freshly installed > 6.2 Release server. This is a supermicro superserver 6022c dual 2.0 > Xeon with 2GB RAM. These CPUs do support hyperthreading. We have done > significant tes

Re: How to mount the squashfs file?

2007-02-13 Thread Lowell Gilbert
ronggui <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Can FreeBSD 6.2 support this file? Thanks. No. Nothing but Linux supports it. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail

Re: Connection timed out

2007-02-12 Thread Lowell Gilbert
Matthew Pope <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I am trying to resolve a connection timed out problem. The problem > occurs when I attempt to ssh, or http to my freebsd host from my > windows (2K) box. About 3/4 of the time I get a "Connection timed > out" when I attempt to ssh into the freebsd host.

Re: Tuning Question

2007-02-12 Thread Lowell Gilbert
Cy Schubert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Top's output, as is free memory on all O/S's these days, is bogus. It's the > size of the free memory pool which is available for immediate allocation. > Used memory is just as useless. It doesn't matter how much is swapped out, > what matters is how m

Re: CD/DVD Catalog

2007-02-12 Thread Lowell Gilbert
Rico Secada <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Anyone who can recommend a good CD/DVD catalog program? Kind of depends on what you're looking for. I can't find any at the moment, but I know I've looked at a few in the past. They seem to be focused on indexing for feeding into music players (e.g., XM

Re: spamd permission problem

2007-02-12 Thread Lowell Gilbert
ix the permissions? Perhaps you have a stale script for starting it? I believe it's supposed to start as root and only drop to the spamd user after it has opened its sockets. Or maybe it's starting twice? You could check whether the port is already held... (using sockstat). Be wel

Re: Tuning Question

2007-02-12 Thread Lowell Gilbert
ptimizing memory behaviour further. I believe that when top(1) gives memory sizes, they are in bytes rather than pages as the manual indicates. -- Lowell Gilbert, embedded/networking software engineer, Boston area http://be-well.ilk.org/~lowell/ _

Re: Renaming log files while archiving - newsyslog?

2007-02-12 Thread Lowell Gilbert
Ewald Jenisch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I want to set up automatic archiving of logfiles and thought about > using the standard "newsyslog" for it. > > My problem though is that during archiving the logs should be renamed > to something like "." so the archived > files should contain the date/

Re: Error compiling/upgrading Azureus

2007-02-11 Thread Lowell Gilbert
Warren Liddell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Running FreeBSD 6.2-STABLE .. ran CVSUP Today so all my ports/src is all up > to > date. > > No matter what i try i cant get the new version of Azureus to compile .. any > ideas/suggestions would be appreciated. > == > > [javac] symbo

Re: eterm/port

2007-02-08 Thread Lowell Gilbert
Lowell Gilbert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I don't use eterm, but I'm seeing it too when I looked into it. > Strangely, neither eterm nor imlib2 have changed in a couple of > months, and the sandbox built them properly since then. Hmm. imlib2 isn't deleting prope

Re: eterm/port

2007-02-08 Thread Lowell Gilbert
nd.o .libs/draw.o > .libs/e.o .libs/events.o .libs/font.o .libs/grkelot.o .libs/menus.o > .libs/misc.o .libs/options.o .libs/pixmap.o .libs/screen.o .libs/script.o > .libs/scrollbar.o .libs/startup.o .libs/system.o .libs/term.o .libs/timer.o > .

Re: Can't Login at the Console on FreeBSD 6.0 Release

2007-02-08 Thread Lowell Gilbert
JP <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > So I'm not quite sure what happened here, someone with root access, > who probably shouldn't have had it managed to make a mess of things. > He claims he was trying to install source files and on reboot he > could no longer login to the system. I am able to boot i

Re: rc.conf ...need help

2007-02-06 Thread Lowell Gilbert
"Don Munyak" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I was tweaking the /etc/rc.conf file and apparently had a typo. Now > the system boots into single user mode. I know what my error is > > syslogd_enable=YES" {left off the first "} > > How can I edit rc.conf while in single user mode. I've tried vi & ee,

Re: port install vim no gettext feature

2007-02-06 Thread Lowell Gilbert
peter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Hi, I install vim from port /usr/ports/editors/vim, > In gvim, use :version command: > > Big version with GTK GUI. Features included (+) or not (-): > +arabic +autocmd +balloon_eval +browse ++builtin_terms +byte_offset > +cindent +clientserver +clipboard > +cmd

Re: ImageMagick and Gallery2

2007-02-06 Thread Lowell Gilbert
Joacim Melin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I tried to install ImageMagick from the ports-distribution for > FreeBSD 6.0 on a sparc32-box but I'm unsure if I did something wrong > or if the ports package is messed up since there are no binaries > installed for ImageMagick? How do you know there ar

Re: error compiling linux-base-fc4

2007-02-06 Thread Lowell Gilbert
Gobbledegeek <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Hi All > > build fails with the following error > > ===> Generating temporary packing list > ** Missing pkg-descr for autoconf-2.13.000227_5. > *** Error code 1 > > The full sequence is copied below: > - >

Re: CVSup question

2007-01-30 Thread Lowell Gilbert
"Charlie McElfresh" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Hi, > > I am running FreeBSD 5.4-RELEASE > > In an effort to update my ports collection, I ran CVSup, with the line > > ports-all > > in my cvs_supfile > > After the update finished, I noticed that some of my ports that were there > before, notably

Re: sshd never restarts

2007-01-30 Thread Lowell Gilbert
Noah <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > FreeBSD 4.9 > openssh-3.6.1_6 > > > so I have a script /usr/local/etc/rc.d/sshd.sh that I use to restart sshd > > but sshd most of the time never comes back. > > there is nothing relevant that makes it to /var/log/messages > > if I start sshd manually with /usr/

Re: network problem

2007-01-29 Thread Lowell Gilbert
"Tsu-Fan Cheng" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I am using bt to download files and i know this is bad for netowrk... Not particularly; just make sure it isn't grabbing all of your bandwidth. > sometimes my firefox returns "the site not found" on some popular sites, > such as yahoo and google, a

Re: ports with -DBATCH

2007-01-25 Thread Lowell Gilbert
"Questions" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I'm writing a script to install a series of ports, and would like to use > the following: > > > cd /usr/ports/foo/bar > make WITH_OPTION1=yes WITH_OPTION2=yes WITHOUT_ANOTHER=yes -DBATCH install > > That works as expected, but I would also like those set

Re: boot0 Bootloader questions

2007-01-22 Thread Lowell Gilbert
the bootloader? See boot0cfg(8). -- Lowell Gilbert, embedded/networking software engineer, Boston area http://be-well.ilk.org/~lowell/ ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-que

Re: Problems with custom kernel fbsd 6.2

2007-01-20 Thread Lowell Gilbert
"James Hein" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Thanks for trying to help, but that didn't seem to be it. It did > the same thing, with the same error. Can you think of anything else > that may be wrong? I'm considering rebuilding it again with > debugging on, and using script to output it to a log.

Re: Kernel Compiling Problem

2007-01-19 Thread Lowell Gilbert
Xu-Long Wang <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Some problem in my kernal file and it suggests that: one code error > devicesbp # SCSI over FireWire (Requires scbus > and da) Note the comment: "Requires scbus and da" ___ free

Re: fsck operation

2007-01-15 Thread Lowell Gilbert
ght make sense, though.] I don't claim to be an authoritative voice on this, however. Also note that the filesystem type might affect the answer; I only checked the code for FFS. Be well. Lowell Gilbert ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing

Re: Strange Emacs autoloaded library

2007-01-11 Thread Lowell Gilbert
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: >> I have removed the files >> menu-bar.el.gz >> menu-bar.elc >> from /usr/local/share/emacs/22.0.50/lisp. >> But load-history variable still shows me >> /usr/local/share/emacs/22.0.50/lisp/menu-bar.elc >> loaded and menu-bar appeared at emacs startup. >> >> What is this

Re: Automatically get nameservers

2007-01-10 Thread Lowell Gilbert
"George Vanev" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I installed isc-dhcpd and it is working fine. > But I don't want to hardcode the nameservers in the dhcpd.conf, > because my ISP is changing them sometimes. > It would be perfect if there is a way dhcpd to read the nameservers > from /etc/resolv.conf N

Re: Natd is not working as expected

2007-01-10 Thread Lowell Gilbert
"Ross Penner" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I've configured my freebsd computer to be the gateway for my home network > using the guidelines in the handbook. All the required kernel options are > enabled and the entries in /etc/rc.conf have been added. I'm unsure what the > problem could be and I'

Re: FreeBSD 3.4 / 4.5 - 2007 DST Changes

2007-01-09 Thread Lowell Gilbert
"Cormany, Adam" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > We have a few older FreeBSD systems running 3.4 and 4.5. Are there > patches for the 2007 daylight savings time US change for these FreeBSD > versions? If so, where can I find them? http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/cvsweb.cgi/src/share/zoneinfo/ ___

Re: Vivitar USB camera support

2007-01-09 Thread Lowell Gilbert
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > Does anyone happen to know where I would find a how-to for downloading > and displaying images from a Vivitar ViviCam 3825? I see several > digital-camera utilities of one sort or another in the ports, but > none whose index entry mentions Vivitar. That camera seems t

Re: How to copy hardlinks as hardlinks

2007-01-04 Thread Lowell Gilbert
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > > I'm doing some backups with rsnapshot, and I want to copy > those backups to a DVD. > Although 'df' and 'du', shows that to total space used for it > is less then the total capacity of the DVD disk (~ 3.5GB), > growisofs/mkisofs are treating hardlinks as f

Re: question

2007-01-04 Thread Lowell Gilbert
Please don't top-post, and please don't override my mail-header directions to post back to the list. Juan Ortega <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Wed, 3 Jan 2007, Lowell Gilbert wrote: > >> Date: Wed, 03 Jan 2007 13:38:00 -0500 >> From: Lowell Gilbert <[

Re: question

2007-01-03 Thread Lowell Gilbert
Juan Ortega <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Hi, I installed freeBSD 6.1-RELEASE on my Compaq ADM4, and when I > input the command, "Xorg -configure", theres some errors: > > dlopen: /usr/X11R6/lib/modules/drivers/newport_drv.so: Undefined > symbol "XAAFall back0ps" > (EE) Failed to load /usr/X11R6/l

Re: termcaps: xdm vs. startx

2007-01-03 Thread Lowell Gilbert
"Steve Franks" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > So if I run xdm on startup, when I log in, my up arrow gives '[[A' instead > of command history, backspace, other keys have similar effects. If I log in > then do startx, everything works as expected. It's really not an issue for > me, I'm just curiou

Re: gdm automatic login

2007-01-03 Thread Lowell Gilbert
"Alla Gofman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Hello Joe! > > > > I followed the suggestion that you gave in following link about gdm > automatic login > > http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-questions/2004-August/054439. > html > > and my portable computer also hangs on login screen after I

Re: Problem with built-in USB memory card reader

2007-01-03 Thread Lowell Gilbert
Alexander Pohoyda <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Everything works perfect if the system is started with a memory card > inserted into the reader. > > The problem arises when the system is started without the memory card > inserted. Since the reader is built-in (permanently attached to the > mother

Re: Making world doesn't change all ownerships?

2007-01-02 Thread Lowell Gilbert
Francisco Reyes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I have a test machine where some users changed a number of directories > to be owned by "www:www" by mistake. The machine was unusable. > > After rebuilding from sources the machine was usable, but I noticed > that a number of files still were owned b

Re: FreeBSD on Mini-ITX has web page latency

2007-01-02 Thread Lowell Gilbert
Don't top-post, please. bobmc <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Well, it seems that the driver and the hardware works so there must be > a problem in the generic part of the software. There are plenty of tools > for networking analysis but I am not a networking adept. So I will > carefully repeat th

Re: gnupg: discarding older version

2007-01-02 Thread Lowell Gilbert
Gerard Seibert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Running: > /usr/sbin/pkg_version -vIL= > produces this output: > > gnupg-1.4.6_2 < needs updating (index has 2.0.1) > > > Running: > pkgdb -Fv > produces this output: > > Checking for origin duplicates > Duplicated or

Re: How to reset /dev/dsp ?

2007-01-02 Thread Lowell Gilbert
Luke Dean <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I'm running FreeBSD 6.1. > > My sound device shows up like this in my dmesg: > pcm0: port 0xd800-0xd8ff,0xdc00-0xdc3f mem > 0xfc001000-0xfc0011ff,0xfc002000-0xfc0020ff irq 17 at device 31.5 on > pci0 > pcm0: primary codec not ready! > pcm0: > > My sound dr

Re: FreeBSD on Mini-ITX has web page latency

2007-01-02 Thread Lowell Gilbert
Bob McIsaac <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Usability studies say that a person won't wait more than 4 seconds for a > web page download. FreeBSD using Konqueor or Lynx takes more than 10 > seconds. This is puzzling since ftp transfers at 400kbs, pings of > freebsd.org take 80ms, and top shows CPU

Re: ghostscript - port - titles

2007-01-01 Thread Lowell Gilbert
Vizion <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I am curious about the retitling of current versions of ghostscript released > under gnu public license. > > In /print/ghostscript version 8.15.x is ghostscript-gpl whereas version 7.07x > is ghostscript-gnu. > > Am I missing something here? > > Does portupgr

Re: glchess port does not work

2007-01-01 Thread Lowell Gilbert
"B. Hansmann" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Has anyone tried the glchess port in 6.2-RC2-amd64? > > When I try to start it, it just prints these error messages and quits: > > Traceback (most recent call last): > File "/usr/local/bin/glchess", line 7, in ? > app = glchess.main.Application() >

Re: SATA disk problem

2007-01-01 Thread Lowell Gilbert
Wojciech Puchar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > i have 2 identical drives in my machine. [snip] > HOW to enable write cache on second drive? According to "man 4 ata", there is a loader tunable "hw.ata.wc" which does this. However, it supposedly defaults to enabled, and applies to all drives. ___

Re: mergemaster and vimdiff

2007-01-01 Thread Lowell Gilbert
Dan Casey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Is there anyway to use vimdiff with mergemaster. Not easily; the diff(1) command is hard-wired into the mergemaster script. However, you could do your own comparison with MM_EXIT_SCRIPT. Also, remember that mergemaster is just a shell script itself, and y

Re: problem with samsung flash

2007-01-01 Thread Lowell Gilbert
"Ivan Frosty" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > hello there, i have freebsd 6.1 pentiumII 355mhz processor and 128mb > of ram. everytime i put my samsung 512mb in tha usb the machine doesnt > boot it halts where the error be at if i pull it out it > boots.then if i put it back in i get an erro

Re: Unable to connect to remote X server using X -query

2007-01-01 Thread Lowell Gilbert
ne when being executed locally, either via startx or via > /etc/ttys using xdm. > > Did I miss something? Hmm. It looks okay so far, but I haven't used this kind of environment in years (so take that with a grain of salt). I would try debugging through the init file (.xinitrc, if

Re: a Q about mixer

2006-12-31 Thread Lowell Gilbert
"Tsu-Fan Cheng" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > one quick question, how can I change the default of mixer?? when I reboot > the system, the mic and rec are always zero, and I have to adjust them so i > can use skype, kinda pain in the butt, thx!! In recent versions of FreeBSD, it should happen aut

Re: problems compiling Maildrop

2006-12-29 Thread Lowell Gilbert
Joe Auty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Is it just me having problems with this port? I'd really appreciate > if somebody could confirm whether or not they are getting this error > so I know whether or not to bug the port maintainer. It seems to build in a clean environment: http://pointyhat.

Re: Help with a flash memory

2006-12-28 Thread Lowell Gilbert
Robe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I have a flash memory "myflash" with 1Gb. Ubuntu Linux and Fedora detects > and mounts it automatically. But I don't know how to mount it in FreeBSD 6.1 > . > > > > Can somebody tell me how to mount it? > > > > I wanna know how to mount it in console mode. Try

Re: freebsd on i386-type internet appliance and cf card

2006-12-27 Thread Lowell Gilbert
"Steve Franks" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > So, I've installed freebsd on a compact flash card sucessfully in my laptop > (or so it looks - sysinstall completes to /dev/ad4, copies everything, no > errors, etc) with the regular harddisk removed (for safety, of course). > > Only it won't boot on t

Re: nonstandard ports tree location

2006-12-21 Thread Lowell Gilbert
"Z. Wade Hampton" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Hello to all, > Not long ago, I ran cvsup "successfully". > In the example cvs-supfile, the following opening lines exist: > > # base=/var/db > #   This specifies the root where CVSup will store information > #   about the col

Re: .bst files installation

2006-12-20 Thread Lowell Gilbert
"Saifi" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> From: Lowell Gilbert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >> Subject: Re: .bst files installation >> Sent: 19 Dec '06 00:20 >> >> "Saifi" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> >> &g

Re: Dealing with bad blocks on a hard disc

2006-12-18 Thread Lowell Gilbert
Marc van Woerkom <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Hi, > > my notebook's hard drive seems to be damaged: > > Dec 18 15:49:13 hokage kernel: ad0: FAILURE - READ_DMA > status=51 error=40 LBA=9919567 > Dec 18 15:49:13 hokage kernel: > g_vfs_done():ad0s1f[READ(offset=1360723968, length=32768)]error = 5 >

Re: .bst files installation

2006-12-18 Thread Lowell Gilbert
"Saifi" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Which package in ports need to be installed in order to have .bst files > installed ? > > The .bst files are required when specifiying the \bibliographystyle{} in .tex > files. Note that you are using LaTeX, not TeX. Any version of LaTeX should do (if I r

Re: Palm Tx + jpilot

2006-12-15 Thread Lowell Gilbert
Armin Arh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Fri, Dec 15, 2006 at 01:16:46AM -0500, Anish Mistry wrote: >> > In /etc/devfs.conf: >> > perm cuaU0 0666 >> > >> > but then: >> > ## l /dev/cuaU0 >> > crw-rw 1 uucp dialer - 0, 113 Dec 15 05:00 /dev/cuaU0 >> > >> > The /dev/devfs.conf permissi

Re: FreeBSD FAMP on a mini-itx/embedded platform

2006-12-12 Thread Lowell Gilbert
Nicolas Blais <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I'm looking to make a light FreeBSD-Apache-MySQL-PHP system out of a VIA EN > 5000 system. It would replace my home file/web server which currently runs > 24h/7d with a silent and energy-wise bundle. I did something similar ( http://be-well.ilk.org/~

Re: /usr/ports/x11-toolkits/eel linker error

2006-12-05 Thread Lowell Gilbert
Laszlo Nagy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > The strange thing is that after running "portupgrade -rf > pkg-config\*", I tried to run it again and it started to upgrade > everything again. I think this is bad. No, that's exactly what "-f" means to portupgrade. ___

Re: How does my computer work with an empty arp table?

2006-12-04 Thread Lowell Gilbert
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > My computer is connected to ISP via ADSL and works properly. > > I typed > > arp -a > > and saw an empty table, although I pinged successfully an Internet host > one second ago. > > How does it work? > > > > $

Re: Freebsd Fail to boot

2006-12-04 Thread Lowell Gilbert
Thomas Wahyudi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Hi, I have freebsd 6.1 and 6.2 RC1 and i trying to install to my > desktop computer using old motherboard ASUS P4S533 but everytime > install is finish and trying to boot from HD its make my coumputer > reboot and reboot again seems something wrong with

Re: Automount

2006-12-04 Thread Lowell Gilbert
Robert Davison <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > After some kind advice from this mail list, im trying to set up an amd > automount so that my external hard drive doesnt have to be on all the time > for the main server to boot. > > My fstab for the drives (there is two drives contained within a Sun

Re: /usr/ports/x11-toolkits/eel linker error

2006-12-04 Thread Lowell Gilbert
Laszlo Nagy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > What am I going wrong? Please help! > > System: FreeBSD 6.1-RELEASE-p10 #4: Thu Nov 30 13:33:49 CET 2006 > The ports tree was updated yesterday, then I ran > > portupgrade -a > > It was completed today. Then I ran "portinstall gnome2" and got this error: >

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