No /dev/da0

2009-11-15 Thread Sabine Baer
Hello, I am writing to this list because I haven't found anything that helps me in the 'web' nor in usenet. First I have to apologize for my bad english and mey bad knowing of what I'm doing with FreeBSD, I am not a 'hacker' but just a user. Well my problem is mounting my digital camera. If I rem

Re: No /dev/da0

2009-11-16 Thread Sabine Baer
On Mon, Nov 16, 2009 at 01:56:59AM +, Frank Shute wrote: [...] > Have you tried playing around with camcontrol(8)? Yes, but the only effect was a freezing controlling terminal. Only # camcontrol devlist at scbus0 target 0 lun 0 (da0,pass0) # Shutting down the system I can read "

Re: No /dev/da0

2009-11-16 Thread Sabine Baer
On Mon, Nov 16, 2009 at 07:39:12PM +0100, Roland Smith wrote: [...] > The USB stack in 7.2 doesn't always handle quirky hardware well. > There could be a regression on your hardware going from 6.x to 7.2. > The USB stack has been rewritten for 8.0. In my limited testing it > works better. I've go

Re: xclip

2010-01-01 Thread Sabine Baer
On Fri, Jan 01, 2010 at 09:15:21AM -0600, Charles Howse wrote: > Hi, Hi and a Happy New Year, > I have need for a command-line tool to copy to the clipboard in > FreeBSD 6.4. As in: command | xclip > Looked at xclip and xclipboard - > http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/ports.cgi?query=xclip&stype=all >

Can't install WindowMaker

2012-03-11 Thread Sabine Baer
Sorry if I'm totally wrong here but I don't know where to ask. I'm using WindowMaker as my window manager for some years. I do not remember why, but some days ago, I deinstalled ist. Now, I can't install it. $uname -rp |7.4-STABLE amd64 #portmaster -aD |all up to date (had a long run of updatin

Re: Can't install WindowMaker

2012-03-11 Thread Sabine Baer
On Sun, Mar 11, 2012 at 05:41:41PM +0100, Roland Smith wrote: [...] > FD_ISSET is a macro in /usr/include/sys/select.h, at least on 9.0. Check if > that file exists and is readable. > > Check if the file config.h[1] in the windowmaker source tree (generated by > configure) contains the line '#

Re: Can't install WindowMaker

2012-03-11 Thread Sabine Baer
On Sun, Mar 11, 2012 at 10:29:18AM +, jb wrote: [...] > Why not try: > # pkg_add -r windowmaker I never used this method, I prefer compiling (don't know why, it's only feeling). > You should check any refs to windowmaker in: > /usr/ports/UPDATING > before compiling its port. I have done

Re: Can't install WindowMaker

2012-03-12 Thread Sabine Baer
On Sun, Mar 11, 2012 at 05:27:14PM +, jb wrote: > Sabine Baer t-online.de> writes: > > > ... > > After your ports updates, do not forget to test integrity of ports: > # portmaster --check-depends > # portmaster --check-port-dbdir Wow, lots of garbage. > a

Re: Can't install WindowMaker

2012-03-12 Thread Sabine Baer
On Sun, Mar 11, 2012 at 05:41:41PM +0100, Roland Smith wrote: > As a workaround, try removing the '#ifdef' and '#endif' lines around > the '# include ' line in the file handlers.c[2], then > re-start the compilation process (by running 'make' from the port's > directory). Don't re-start the portm

Re: Can't install WindowMaker

2012-03-15 Thread Sabine Baer
On Mon, Mar 12, 2012 at 10:57:47PM +0100, Polytropon wrote: [...] > Did you have the chance to try to compile it using > "only ports" infrastructure? E. g. making sure the > ports tree is up to date, and then > > # cd /usr/ports/x11-wm/windowmaker/ > # make install I did this seve

Re: Can't install WindowMaker

2012-03-18 Thread Sabine Baer
On Sat, Mar 17, 2012 at 07:07:33PM +0100, lokada...@gmx.de wrote: [...] > I see that you have a german mailadress, so i will write in germany. Dann kann ich ja auch mal auf Deutsch antworten, ich hoffe, man sieht uns das nach. > Guck mal nach, ob du unter /etc/ eine Datei mit dem Namen > portsna

Re: Can't install WindowMaker

2012-03-19 Thread Sabine Baer
On Mon, Mar 19, 2012 at 11:49:20AM +, Frank Shute wrote: [...] > You're not by any chance using gcc46 to compile Windowmaker? $gcc --version gcc (GCC) 4.2.2 20070831 prerelease [FreeBSD] [...] $ > If so, don't. Use the base compiler. It might be that I had installed some newer versions,

Re: Can't install WindowMaker

2012-04-06 Thread Sabine Baer
On Mon, Mar 19, 2012 at 08:35:53AM +0100, Polytropon wrote: [...] Sorry for not having answered long time, but I t'was a little difficult to understand 'portdowngrade'. I had to search for the right server. But now it did the Job. > Im Zweifelsfall installier Dir mal "portdowngrade" und zieh >

Usenet Server (was: freebsd list admins?)

2011-06-22 Thread Sabine Baer
On 22.06.2011, at 09:00, Frank Bonnet wrote: If anyone knows some free USENET servers I would be happy to know it in France it becomes VERY hard to find one and I would like to setup one BUT I need some feeders ! I don't care about alt.* but we need the big 8 [...] Not absolutely 'free',

man mailcap

2013-03-12 Thread Sabine Baer
Hello, some time ago I upgraded from 7.6 to 8.3. Now I see that there's no manpage for mailcap anymore. I've got a backup of the old manpage, but why does it lack on 8.n? My .mailcap files do work but I would add something and was in need of a little help from the manpage. $apropos mailcap gives

Re: OT: The future of USENET?

2013-03-31 Thread Sabine Baer
On Wed, Mar 27, 2013 at 10:20:05PM +0100, Matthias Apitz wrote: [...] > I'm using since some years http://www.aioe.org/ which has no binary > groups (i.e. no porn or warez) and a cache of 25 days. Just works. The remaining users of de.* often say they filter postings injected over this server

Re: OT: The future of USENET?

2013-03-31 Thread Sabine Baer
On Wed, Mar 27, 2013 at 02:12:06PM -0400, grarpamp wrote: [...] > Back then you had to have brains to be on the net, now everyone is > web 2.0, and they're satisfied with ridiculous web forums. Any > brains today are all but forced to use them because the population > is so slim anywhere else. Us

Re: hostname

2010-10-30 Thread Sabine Baer
On Sat, Oct 30, 2010 at 04:00:39PM -0400, Tim Dunphy wrote: > how can I set the hostname so that it persists through reboots? I have > set the hostname I want in /etc/hosts but rebooting the change does > not show up. In CentOS you have /etc/hostname which serves this > purpose but in FreeBSD I don

FreeBSD on ARM (was: WPA Supplicant issue (maybe))

2011-01-10 Thread Sabine Baer
On Mon, Jan 10, 2011 at 03:07:18AM +0100, Polytropon wrote: > THIS! IS! FREEBSD!!! :-) > > On FreeBSD, in difference to many "modern" Linusi, [...] Fine. Is there a FreeBSD for an netbook with an ARM-processor (wm8505)? I asked the freebsd-arm-Mailing List, but as I am an very stupid User only,

serendipity Web Site s9y.org

2012-11-08 Thread Sabine Baer
Hallo, is someone out there using www/serendipity? I installed it and it works fine (I think), but I can't access their website http://s9y.org, I get a site with "mixed" advertisement. Heve they moved, faded away or been hacked? Sorry offtopic but in the hope thet some FreeBDS-Users may use serend

Re: serendipity Web Site s9y.org

2012-11-10 Thread Sabine Baer
On Fri, Nov 09, 2012 at 10:39:25AM -0500, T K wrote: [...] > I run an instance of serendipity software at: www.serendipity35.net. > I'm not having any trouble getting to http://s9y.org/ Thank You. Now I can get s9y.org without any trouble. I haven't any clue what the reason of the phenomenon

Re: Texlive

2012-11-15 Thread Sabine Baer
On Thu, Nov 15, 2012 at 10:44:54PM +0100, Belgacem Jellali wrote: > Salut > J'aime beaucoup FreeBSD, mais je ne peux pas l'utiliser au quotidien car > j'ai besoin de TexLive2012 et les ports FreeBSD ne le fournissent pas. > Y-a-t'il un moyen pour installer TexLive2012? si oui, je ne supprimerai > j

Re: Reading the handbook from console

2013-01-10 Thread Sabine Baer
On Thu, Jan 10, 2013 at 12:37:06PM -0600, Scott Eberl wrote: > I went ahead and installed the FreeBSD handbook onto my system and I > was able to find it on disk per the motd notes but I'm wondering if > there is a preferred method for reading these since they are in html > format. I tried w3m and

Re: Flash viewer for FBSD

2010-03-04 Thread Sabine Baer
On Fri, Mar 05, 2010 at 12:14:15PM +0700, Pongthep Kulkrisada wrote: [...] > I use opera-10.10 for web browsing. > It looks very bad for browsing web without flash viewer. > I tried installing from ports. > - opera-linuxplugins-10.10. > - linux-f10-flashplugin-10.0 > - f4l-0.2.1.4 (I guess

Re: Flash viewer for FBSD

2010-03-06 Thread Sabine Baer
On Sat, Mar 06, 2010 at 04:49:16AM +0100, Polytropon wrote: [SNAFU] > That's the situation with "Flash". And as I have experienced > it, I can honestly say that I'm fine without "Flash". I may > review my opinion, if given some reason to do so. > > But as it has already been mentioned, that's a

Re: Flash viewer for FBSD

2010-03-06 Thread Sabine Baer
On Sat, Mar 06, 2010 at 09:25:41AM +0100, Polytropon wrote: > On Sat, 6 Mar 2010 09:03:58 +0100, Sabine Baer wrote: > > Well, it is, indeed. Me I am very glad beeing able to do eg > > linux-opera -display :0 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bhmf4l4OxNw > > since I live in a

Re: ttyu0 link down

2010-04-05 Thread Sabine Baer
On Mon, Apr 05, 2010 at 08:59:15PM -0500, Jay Hall wrote: [...] > Using cu -l /dev/ttyu0 I receive a message stating "link down". ^ Shouldn't that be /dev/cua0 instead? $ less /etc/ttys|grep mgetty cuau0 "/usr/local/sbin/mgetty"unknown on insecure Sabine --

Re: ATI Radeon HD3450 on FreeBSD 7.2

2009-08-14 Thread Sabine Baer
On Fri, 14 Aug 2009 21:35:37 +0200, Glen Barber wrote: Hi, On Fri, Aug 14, 2009 at 6:39 AM, Ricky Tompu Breaky wrote: Dear my friends, I just installed FreeBSD 7.2. But its xserver always hung-up (suddenly stop working), only the GUI which suddenly stops working once I execute: " startx "

Re: [OT] Vim mailing list

2009-08-18 Thread Sabine Baer
On Wed, Aug 19, 2009 at 01:59:05AM -0400, Glen Barber wrote: [...] > Google has a Vim group. I'm not sure if you need a Google account > or not. Perhaps it might be better to go to Usenet straight ahead. There's a NG comp.editors, mostly about vim. Sorry for jumping in, but I think Usenet is

Re: Mounting an NFS volume served by Mac OS X

2009-09-01 Thread Sabine Baer
On Tue, Sep 01, 2009 at 03:20:37PM -0700, patrick wrote: > I'm wondering if anyone has had any success in mounting an NFS export > from a Mac OS X machine on FreeBSD 7.2? amd$ ssh b...@ibook Password: Last login: Tue Sep 1 18:36:19 2009 Welcome to Darwin! ibook:~ book$ uname -a Darwin ibook.catf