Re: 9.1-RELEASE slow boot
On Fri, 7 Jun 2013 19:38:34 +0200, Fernando Apesteguía wrote: Since I updated to 9.1-RELEASE my boot process seems to stall for a while. Booting in verbose mode shows messages like these ones: Opening device da0 - 6 (repeated like 30 times or so) Opening device da1 - 6 (repeated like 30 times or so) Opening device da2 - 6 (repeated like 30 times or so) Opening device da3 - 6 (repeated like 30 times or so) Those devices correspond to my internal SD card reader that doesn't work on FreeBSD anyway. This seems some kind of probing right? I don't want to wait for those devices. What can I do to speed up booting? I didn't change my system settings either. Did anything related change in the kernel about probing these type of devices? Since you are not using the device could you not just disable it in the BIOS? Chris ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: Linksys WPC54g NDIS compiles but doesn't work?
On 02/05/2013 16:02, Steven wrote: Hello, I posted this once already, but I wasn't subscribed at the time and I don't think it got posted to the list. Hopefully this isn't a dupe. I've installed FreeBSD 9.1 RELEASE on a family member's laptop, a Toshiba Satellite 5100. Said member was using a Linksys WPC54g v.4 pcicard for wireless. I downloaded the v.4 drivers for the card from the Cisco website and was able to use ndisgen to build a wrapper for the driver. Hi, I have a PCMCIA WPC54g V5 which works with malo(4). It might work with your V4. You need to download some firmware - see the man page. Chris There were no errors during the build and I'm able to load the resultant ndis, but aside from some initial static when the ndis is loaded the card is not being configured. ndis0 doesn't show in the dmesg and doesn't appear in the ifconfig output. Before I built the wrapper I had updated my source, base and userland so all of that should have been up to date for the system I was building it against. I'm getting to the point where I'd rather spend the cash on something compatible from Free's hardware list, but I'd like to give this ndis thing one more go before I tell this family member to chuck the card. kldstat Id Refs Address Size Name 1 18 0xc040 fd35e8 kernel 2 1 0xc13d4000 4bdd4 bcmwl5_sys.ko 3 3 0xc142 1fa58 ndis.ko 4 2 0xc144 f1e4 if_ndis.ko ifconfig fwe0: flags=8802BROADCAST,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST metric 0 mtu 1500 options=8VLAN_MTU ether 02:00:39:16:49:4e nd6 options=29PERFORMNUD,IFDISABLED,AUTO_LINKLOCAL ch 1 dma -1 fwip0: flags=8802BROADCAST,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST metric 0 mtu 1500 lladdr 0.0.39.0.0.16.49.4e.a.2.ff.fe.0.0.0.0 nd6 options=29PERFORMNUD,IFDISABLED,AUTO_LINKLOCAL fxp0: flags=8843UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST metric 0 mtu 1500 options=2009RXCSUM,VLAN_MTU,WOL_MAGIC ether 00:00:39:f4:73:9f inet 10.0.1.19 netmask 0xff00 broadcast 10.0.1.255 nd6 options=29PERFORMNUD,IFDISABLED,AUTO_LINKLOCAL media: Ethernet autoselect (100baseTX full-duplex) status: active lo0: flags=8049UP,LOOPBACK,RUNNING,MULTICAST metric 0 mtu 16384 options=63RXCSUM,TXCSUM,RXCSUM_IPV6,TXCSUM_IPV6 inet6 ::1 prefixlen 128 inet6 fe80::1%lo0 prefixlen 64 scopeid 0x7 inet 127.0.0.1 netmask 0xff00 nd6 options=21PERFORMNUD,AUTO_LINKLOCAL dmesg Copyright (c) 1992-2012 The FreeBSD Project. Copyright (c) 1979, 1980, 1983, 1986, 1988, 1989, 1991, 1992, 1993, 1994 The Regents of the University of California. All rights reserved. FreeBSD is a registered trademark of The FreeBSD Foundation. FreeBSD 9.1-RELEASE-p3 #0: Mon Apr 29 18:11:52 UTC 2013 r...@amd64-builder.daemonology.net:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GENERIC i386 CPU: Intel(R) Pentium(R) 4 Mobile CPU 1.70GHz (1694.54-MHz 686-class CPU) Origin = GenuineIntel Id = 0xf24 Family = f Model = 2 Stepping = 4 Features=0x3febf9ffFPU,VME,DE,PSE,TSC,MSR,PAE,MCE,CX8,SEP,MTRR,PGE,MCA,CMOV,PAT,PSE36,CLFLUSH,DTS,ACPI,MMX,FXSR,SSE,SSE2,SS,HTT,TM real memory = 536870912 (512 MB) avail memory = 501706752 (478 MB) kbd1 at kbdmux0 ctl: CAM Target Layer loaded acpi0: TOSHIB 5100 on motherboard acpi0: Power Button (fixed) acpi0: reservation of 0, a (3) failed acpi0: reservation of 10, 1fed (3) failed cpu0: ACPI CPU on acpi0 attimer0: AT timer port 0x40-0x43 irq 0 on acpi0 Timecounter i8254 frequency 1193182 Hz quality 0 Event timer i8254 frequency 1193182 Hz quality 100 atrtc0: AT realtime clock port 0x70-0x71 irq 8 on acpi0 Event timer RTC frequency 32768 Hz quality 0 Timecounter ACPI-fast frequency 3579545 Hz quality 900 acpi_timer0: 24-bit timer at 3.579545MHz port 0xee08-0xee0b on acpi0 pcib0: ACPI Host-PCI bridge port 0xcf8-0xcff on acpi0 pci0: ACPI PCI bus on pcib0 agp0: Intel 82845 host to AGP bridge on hostb0 pcib1: ACPI PCI-PCI bridge at device 1.0 on pci0 pci1: ACPI PCI bus on pcib1 vgapci0: VGA-compatible display mem 0xfd00-0xfdff,0xd800-0xdfff,0xd7f8-0xd7ff irq 5 at device 0.0 on pci1 uhci0: Intel 82801CA/CAM (ICH3) USB controller USB-A port 0xefe0-0xefff irq 11 at device 29.0 on pci0 usbus0 on uhci0 uhci1: Intel 82801CA/CAM (ICH3) USB controller USB-B port 0xef80-0xef9f irq 7 at device 29.1 on pci0 usbus1 on uhci1 uhci2: Intel 82801CA/CAM (ICH3) USB controller USB-C port 0x1000-0x101f at device 29.2 on pci0 usbus2 on uhci2 pcib2: ACPI PCI-PCI bridge at device 30.0 on pci0 pci2: ACPI PCI bus on pcib2 fwohci0: Texas Instruments TSB43AB22/A at device 7.0 on pci2 fwohci0: OHCI version 1.10 (ROM=1) fwohci0: No. of Isochronous channels is 4. fwohci0: EUI64 00:00:39:00:00:16:49:4e fwohci0: Phy 1394a available S400, 2 ports. fwohci0: Link S400, max_rec 2048 bytes. firewire0: IEEE1394(FireWire) bus on fwohci0 fwe0: Ethernet over FireWire on firewire0 if_fwe0: Fake Ethernet address: 02:00:39:16:49:4e fwe0: Ethernet address: 02:00:39:16:49:4e fwip0: IP over FireWire on firewire0 fwip0: Firewire address: 00:00:39:00:00:16:49:4e @ 0xfffe, S400, maxrec 2048 dcons_crom0: dcons configuration ROM on firewire0 dcons_crom0:
Re: kernel config file
On 21/03/2013 19:54, Fbsd8 wrote: Back around 4.x there was a File that had all the available kernel compile options with their meanings as comments. On 9.1 I don't see that file any more. Where can I find that file that lists all the kernel compile options? The 9.1 NOTES file is not that file. I have makeoptions NO_MODULES=yes statement in my kernel config file and the blanktime and warp_saver load modules don't get created. I need the options statements for those items so I can compile then into the kernel. Would it be /usr/src/sys/conf/NOTES ? %grep warp_saver /usr/src/sys/conf/NOTES device warp_saver And isn't blanktime set in rc.conf? %grep blank /etc/defaults/rc.conf blanktime=300 # blank time (in seconds) or NO to turn it off. Chris Thanks ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: Upgrade causes loss of all firefox settings (?)
On 12/02/2013 21:38, Ronald F. Guilmette wrote: In general, I don't upgrade my ports very often, so up until recently I was running a fairly old version of firefox (firefox-15.0.1,1). But over the weekend, I moved everything over to a new drive containing the latest 9.1-RELEASE FreeBSD, and with a complete set of freshly rebuilt ports, including the latest firefox 18.0.1. (As part of this process, I copied my entire /home directory over to the new drive.) So anway, mostly everything is still working ok, however at some time during this process, firefox apparently lost track of all of my personal settings... my start page, all of my bookmarks, and all of my saved web site user IDs an passwords. I looked in the /usr/ports/UPDATING file for some clue as to why this might have happened and found none. Looking into this issue a bit deeper, I've now learned that all of one's personal settings are stored in a directory having a name which has the following general form: ~/.mozilla/firefox/.default where the part is some eight character apparently random combination of lower case letters and digits. The odd thing is that it appears that all of my old firefox setting are still alive and well and living under a subdirectory of the ~/.mozilla/firefox directory called 4up9dkb1.default. However it does also appear that my execution of firefox, for the first time, on this new system I've been putting together has resulted in the creation of a brand new parallel subdirectory, located in the same directory as my original personal settings .default directory, but this new one is named nh2ykiym.default. And now, firefox is apparently saving and retrieving my (new set of) personal settings out of that new directory. So, um, what gives? Why did this happen? And more to the point, can I get back all of my personal settings just via the following seemingly intutive commands: rm -fr nh2ykiym.default mv 4up9dkb1.default nh2ykiym.default or will that break something else in some obscure but annoying way? Is there a file .mozilla/firefox/profiles.ini? If so it should list which profile to use. Just change it to the one you want and it should just work. I'm using an older version so don't know how the latest works Chris Regards, rfg ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: Sharing a mail folder between Linux and FreeBSD
On 22/01/2013 05:32, Polytropon wrote: On Tue, 22 Jan 2013 02:31:11 +0100, Ralf Mardorf wrote: On Tue, 2013-01-22 at 08:18 +0700, Erich Dollansky wrote: I guess it would be possible to change the id for the existing FreeBSD user and then to chown /home/user_name to fit to 1000? Of course, this would work. But then all existing files of the existing FreeBSD would be without owner. The current user is: rocketmouse The uid is : 1001 Isn't it possible to change the uid to 1000? This would cause that the owner wouldn't be rocketmouse anymore, but still 1001. I then could run chown -R for /home/rocketmouse to switch from 1001 to back to rocketmouse = new uid 1000. You would need to do two changes: First in the password database, with chsh (tidy way) or by editing the /etc/passwd, /etc/master.passwd and /etc/group files plus rebuilding the database with pwd_mkdb (untidy way) to assign rocketmouse = 1000 on FreeBSD. Could you do this with pw(8)? # pw usermod rocketmouse -u 1000 checking first there isn't a uid 1000 already. Then chown -R Chris Then you would also have to promote this change to the file system, as all the files still belong to a user with UID 1001. Use chown -R with the new numerical value of 1000. Result: Your user would have the UID 1000 on all systems, so all the low level functions would behave similarly. Or another idea would be to create a new user with the uid 1000 and then to add rocketmouse to the group of this user. I guess this is what you already recommended. Yes, that would also work. You only have to make sure that group permissions are valid, and the access permission is provided in /etc/group properly. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: Stickers
On 10/12/2012 00:17, Julian H. Stacey wrote: CONNOR KELLY (RIT Student) wrote: I am a student at Rochester Institute of Technology. I was wondering if you could send any stickers or swag with the freebsd logo or something similar to me. I would probably keep some for myself and pass the rest out to my friends at my university. This is in no way an official communication from my school. If need be I'll be able to pay for postage. You could try freebsdmall.com. Chris ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: Advanced Format Drive ?
In messagealpine.bsf.2.00.1211142250370.58...@wonkity.com, In general, you create a partition scheme first. This can be MBR, GPT, or others. (But use GPT.) Unless you want to dual boot with WinXP in which case use MBR still? Chris ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: asking for help about acpi_tz0: _CRT value is absurd, ignored (256.0C)
On 04/09/2012 08:58, chiehhan wrote: To whom may concern, I am a greenhorn in the field of freebsd.And when I install Freebsd9.0 on my laptop HP NX6330,a control spam acpi_tz0: _CRT value is absurd, ignored (256.0C)occurs. I created a custom ASL as a workaround. http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-acpi/2009-March/005558.html You can see that I changed the line that says Return (C316 (0x04, 0x00)) to say Return (C316 (0x00, 0x02)) which on my laptop gives a temperature of 95C I learned some reference about sysctl and revised the configure file sysctl.conf,adding two lines below into sysctl.conf: hw.acpi.thermal.user_override=1 hw.acpi.thermal.tz0._CRT=110.0C but the control spam remains. Good try but hw.acpi.thermal.tz0._CRT gets set back to -1 http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-acpi/2009-March/005549.html I read the source code about acpi_thermal.c,but still have no idea about how to solve this problem.I am a little desperated and turn freebsd-questions@freebsd.org for help.Would you please send me a solution? I think the steps are 1) dump your ASL as per http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/acpi-debug.html starting at section 12.17.4 ASL, acpidump, and IASL 2) open your dumped ASL in a plain text editor (vi, joe, ...) and modify the value of Method (_CRT, 0, Serialized). http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-acpi/2009-March/005562.html shows you some values you can use. Others may work as your ASL is almost certainly different from mine. 3) recompile your modified ASL and load it, following section 12.17.4 ASL, acpidump, and IASL in the handbook. 4) restart your computer and check the value of hw.acpi.thermal.tz0._CRT If it doesn't work go back to step 2. YMMV (that means my laptop is running fine several years later but don't blame me if yours blows up :) ) Chris ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: help about free bsp version netcat to work it on ubuntu
On 24/07/2012 14:36, kpn...@pobox.com wrote: On Tue, Jul 24, 2012 at 07:13:00PM +0800, lei yang wrote: On Tue, Jul 24, 2012 at 12:47 AM, Polytroponfree...@edvax.de wrote: On Mon, 23 Jul 2012 23:29:38 +0800, lei yang wrote: Yes, the second version I post is using the source from you supplied, then I compiled it, but it has no -U flag like what I post, it seems a version different casued this. Yes. The version distributed by the ports collection is different from that one supplied with the base system of FreeBSD. To try _that_ version, you can download the source tarball and extract it; in the directory # wget ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/releases/i386/9.0-RELEASE/src.txz # tar xvf src.txz Thanks for the help, tar xvf src.txz tar: This does not look like a tar archive tar: Skipping to next header tar: Archive contains obsolescent base-64 headers tar: Read 4896 bytes from src.txz tar: Error exit delayed from previous errors [lyang0@ala-lpggp2 lyang0]$ tar xvf src.txz tar: This does not look like a tar archive tar: Skipping to next header tar: Archive contains obsolescent base-64 headers tar: Read 4896 bytes from src.txz tar: Error exit delayed from previous errors Maybe a bad/incomplete download? %fetch ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/releases/i386/9.0-RELEASE/src.txz src.txz 100% of 89 MB 216 kBps 00m00s %md5 src.txz MD5 (src.txz) = 7cce6b045f771cef2136df277d16331f %tar xvf src.txz x usr/src/ x usr/src/usr.bin/ x usr/src/release/ x usr/src/crypto/ x usr/src/include/ x usr/src/secure/ x usr/src/rescue/ x usr/src/gnu/ x usr/src/sbin/ x usr/src/games/ x usr/src/tools/ x usr/src/contrib/ x usr/src/kerberos5/ x usr/src/share/ ... ... ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: note
On 12/06/2012 04:53, Polytropon wrote: On Mon, 11 Jun 2012 21:36:00 -0600, Arlen McIntyre wrote: How can I get FreeBSD on my other partition and have a dual OS system without the boot installation? Qustion part one: Prepare a USB stick with the FreeBSD memstick edition. You'll find instructions on how to do that on the FreeBSD website, as well as the installation media. Preparation: Make sure you have _free_ disk space. This means: Do not create any DOS partitions, just leave it empty and let the installer perform the required tasks of partitioning and formatting. If you have XP on the other partition you will need to install FreeBSD using the old style MBR partitioning scheme. See http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/bsdinstall-pre.html You might want to consider sticking with FreeBSD 8.3 which I think only supports MPR partitioning. FreeBSD 9.0 supports both MBR and the newer GPT scheme so you would have to work out how to choose during the installation. http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/install-pre.html Chris ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
freebsd-update no mirrors?
c400# uname -a FreeBSD c400 9.0-RELEASE FreeBSD 9.0-RELEASE #0: Tue Jan 3 07:15:25 UTC 2012 r...@obrian.cse.buffalo.edu:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GENERIC i386 Following the handbook: c400# freebsd-update -r 9-STABLE upgrade Looking up update.FreeBSD.org mirrors... 4 mirrors found. Fetching metadata signature for 9.0-RELEASE from update4.FreeBSD.org... done. Fetching metadata index... done. Inspecting system... done. The following components of FreeBSD seem to be installed: kernel/generic src/src world/base world/doc world/games The following components of FreeBSD do not seem to be installed: Does this look reasonable (y/n)? y Fetching metadata signature for 9-STABLE from update4.FreeBSD.org... failed. Fetching metadata signature for 9-STABLE from update2.FreeBSD.org... failed. Fetching metadata signature for 9-STABLE from update5.FreeBSD.org... failed. Fetching metadata signature for 9-STABLE from update3.FreeBSD.org... failed. No mirrors remaining, giving up. In case I had got the CVS tag wrong I also tried 9.0-STABLE with the same results. I haven't changed freebsd-update.conf Am I doing something wrong? This is the first time I've used freebsd-update, except that just now I apparently successfully did freebsd-update fetch and freebsd-update install on this machine. Thanks Chris ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: freebsd-update no mirrors?
On 03/06/2012 13:00, RW wrote: On Sun, 03 Jun 2012 12:47:47 +0100 Chris Whitehouse wrote: c400# uname -a FreeBSD c400 9.0-RELEASE FreeBSD 9.0-RELEASE #0: Tue Jan 3 07:15:25 UTC 2012 r...@obrian.cse.buffalo.edu:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GENERIC i386 Following the handbook: c400# freebsd-update -r 9-STABLE upgrade ... Am I doing something wrong? freebsd-update only works on release security branches - not development branches. Ah my mistake, thanks. It's a rather old slow laptop and I don't want to stress it by building world/kernel, I guess that means it stays on RELEASE. thanks Chris ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: ACPI temprature settings [WAS: Re: laptop very hot and noisy]
On 08/05/2012 15:06, Anton Shterenlikht wrote: Anyway, this was easier than I expected. I removed a lot of dust from the fan and the heat sink gills. I also replaced the thermal material. I prop my mine up off the desk to get better airflow to the fan intake which is on the underside. The fan slows down when I lift it up indicating it is moving more air. I rebuilt gcc47 and saw the highest temperature of 75. This is on the southern side, so not too bad. The noise reduced too. Now, I'd just like to understand better the meaning of these console messages: May 8 15:00:08 mech-aslap239 kernel: acpi_tz0: _AC3: temperature 64.0= setpoint 40.0 May 8 15:00:08 mech-aslap239 kernel: acpi_tz0: _AC2: temperature 64.0= setpoint 50.0 May 8 15:00:18 mech-aslap239 kernel: acpi_tz0: _AC3: temperature 64.0= setpoint 40.0 May 8 15:00:18 mech-aslap239 kernel: acpi_tz0: _AC2: temperature 64.0= setpoint 50.0 May 8 15:00:28 mech-aslap239 kernel: acpi_tz0: _AC3: temperature 64.0= setpoint 40.0 May 8 15:00:28 mech-aslap239 kernel: acpi_tz0: _AC2: temperature 64.0= setpoint 50.0 May 8 15:00:38 mech-aslap239 kernel: acpi_tz0: _AC3: temperature 64.0= setpoint 40.0 May 8 15:00:38 mech-aslap239 kernel: acpi_tz0: _AC2: temperature 64.0= setpoint 50.0 May 8 15:00:48 mech-aslap239 kernel: acpi_tz0: _AC3: temperature 65.0= setpoint 40.0 May 8 15:00:48 mech-aslap239 kernel: acpi_tz0: _AC2: temperature 65.0= setpoint 50.0 Where are setpoints defined? What's acpi_tz? What are AC1, AC2, AC3? Which kernel tunables are involved in the switching from one fan speed to another (assuming AC1, AC2, AC3 are related to fan speed in some way)? I had a quick look at ⌡aacpi(4), but none of the above are mentioned. Many thanks for all your help. Google for acpi_tz0: _CRT value is absurd, ignored and you will find a long thread with some hopefully useful pointers. You may need to bone up on the ACPI reference and custom ASL's for FreeBSD. I've forgotten most of it now but I think you will find references for both of them in that thread. Chris ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: Video not view-able
On 08/05/2012 20:09, Carmel wrote: I have been visiting several sites lately in which the video content was not view-able. Example: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/05/05/republicans-get-in-my-vagina-kate-beckinsale_n_1484918.html?ref=fbsrc=spcomm_ref=false There is a video there that displays perfectly in MS Windows in either IE8 or 9 and Firefox. However, under FreeBSD-8.3 with the latest version of Firefox all I get is a black box. No controls to click, etcetera. This sort of thing happens way to frequently on way to many sites. It cannot be a simple blame Microsoft thing since these sites work under Firefox when used in MS Windows. Does anyone have a possible solution? Do you have adblock plus installed and enabled? Try disabling it for that page and reloading. Chris ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: help debug bwn(4) wireless
On 06/05/2012 17:31, Ian Smith wrote: Anton, I'm not sure what the state of the art is for multiple network profiles for such as wireless vs wired, home and work etc, but look around. I recall one called just 'profile' from years ago, and more recently talk of 'failover' setups for wired/wireless nets (probably in n...@freebsd.org), but I've no time for hunting tonight. Anyone? Would that be lagg? http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/network-aggregation.html Chris cheers, Ian ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: domain required for FreeBSD install and isc dhcp
On 20/04/2012 20:56, Chuck Swiger wrote: On Apr 20, 2012, at 12:40 PM, Chris Whitehouse wrote: I've wondered this for ages. When you set up networking as part of installing FreeBSD one of the pieces of information requested is a domain name. Also setting up dhcp.conf one of the fields is domain name. What do you do if you don't have your own domain? There have been a few domains which are permanently reserved and will never be assigned elsewhere: http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc2606.txt You can reasonably claim to be part of your ISP's domain, if you prefer. .lan might be reasonable, or .local, although the latter might conflict with Bonjour/Zeroconf. I've never supplied a domain name when installing FreeBSD and it doesn't seem to have been a problem. I'm just setting up dhcp for the first time and I don't know if it matters here. It's mainly used to setup the default search domain which clients use to find local unqualified hosts. Regards, Thanks Chuck, I went with .lan. cheers Chris ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
domain required for FreeBSD install and isc dhcp
hi, I've wondered this for ages. When you set up networking as part of installing FreeBSD one of the pieces of information requested is a domain name. Also setting up dhcp.conf one of the fields is domain name. What do you do if you don't have your own domain? I've never supplied a domain name when installing FreeBSD and it doesn't seem to have been a problem. I'm just setting up dhcp for the first time and I don't know if it matters here. thanks Chris ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: pcmcia wifi adapter that can be purchased?
On 10/04/2012 18:37, Kendall Shaw wrote: Do you happen to know of a PCMCIA Type II wireless adapter that is currently being sold online that supports WPA under freebsd 9.0? Alternately, a USB 1.0 adapter? I would rather keep the USB ports free for other uses. Linksys WPC54G works with malo driver (check the man page if you get one) and is available on ebay. I haven't had one in regular use but I just did a flood ping on 9.0R i386 and it showed less than 1% packet loss. Chris Kendall ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: Can't install WindowMaker
On 20/03/2012 04:58, ill...@gmail.com wrote: On 11 March 2012 04:17, Sabine Baerbae...@t-online.de wrote: 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 updating gcc46 and others this |morning) #portmaster /x11-wm/windomaker |[...] |handlers.c:542: warning: implicit declaration of function 'FD_ISSET' |*** Error code 1 I know I'm going back a ways here but: Unless you have WERROR set, I don't think that warning is the thing giving you *** Error code 1. Look up a bit (or a lot) higher. Hi, There is a thread on the ports mailing list which may be relevant. Subject [PATCH] proposal for x11-wm/windowmaker. See below for a bit of it. On 3/19/2012 4:54 PM, Ade Lovett wrote: On 3/19/2012 16:15, Doug Barton wrote: On 3/19/2012 12:59 AM, Arrigo Marchiori wrote: Hello, I am attaching a quick-and-dirty patch that should reallow compilation of x11-wm/windowmaker under 7-STABLE. The problem seems to be the missing macro HAVE_SYS_SELECT_H; the patch just forces it in the configure script if a FreeBSD system is detected. I'm not opposed to adding that if someone can confirm that it allows WindowMaker to compile on 7-stable. Since it's for 7-stable only (apparently), it would be better off wrapped in an OSVERSION check to make things abundantly clear as to why it's being done. Yes, I was planning to do that, but thanks for the suggestion in any case. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: port to package amd64 to i386
On 05/03/2012 16:53, Matthew Seaman wrote: On 05/03/2012 16:42, Bernt Hansson wrote: Thank you for the pointer. I do find it a bit overkill to setup jails and such, just to build a few ports. I was thinking more along the line of; cd /usr/ports/random port make it for i386 even if we are building it on amd64, ooh by the way build it as a package, and all dependencies as packages as well About the only way to cross-build ports is to set up a 32-bit jail on a 64-bit host. I believe that is do-able, but I could be delusional. Could you do it in a tinderbox? This thread http://www.marcuscom.com/pipermail/tinderbox-list/2011-June/002177.html discusses it a bit with a possible solution. Things have probably moved on since then which may or may not help. Chris ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
where is plig.net
About the first thing I ever learned about FreeBSD was the uk mirror ftp.plig.net and cvsup.plig.net which I think used to be ftp2.uk.freebsd.org. Since then I have always used them as a file source for broadband speed tests. They seem to have disappeared very recently. Does anyone know what happened to them, have they stopped being a mirror? thanks Chris ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: where is plig.net
On 06/02/2012 22:33, Mark Blackman wrote: On 6 Feb 2012, at 21:51, Chris Whitehouse wrote: About the first thing I ever learned about FreeBSD was the uk mirror ftp.plig.net and cvsup.plig.net which I think used to be ftp2.uk.freebsd.org. Since then I have always used them as a file source for broadband speed tests. They seem to have disappeared very recently. Does anyone know what happened to them, have they stopped being a mirror? http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-hubs/2012-January/002442.html Ah thanks for the info. That makes me sad, they've been like a constant companion all those years. They used to call themselves Internet Sunshine :) Chris ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: ath and how to control wireless light
On 04/02/2012 16:49, Waitman Gobble wrote: On Sat, Feb 4, 2012 at 3:52 AM, Chris Whitehousecwhi...@onetel.com wrote: On 04/02/2012 08:37, Waitman Gobble wrote: On Thu, Feb 2, 2012 at 6:52 AM, Chris Whitehousecwhi...@onetel.com wrote: Hello I have FreeBSD 9R amd64 installed on a HP G60 laptop. This machine has a combined wireless switch and led. The switch turns the wifi on and off but the light stays red. The light is supposed to show red for wireless off and blue for wireless on. I found some sysctls that control it: dev.ath.0.softled: 0 dev.ath.0.ledpin: 3 dev.ath.0.ledon: 1 dev.ath.0.ledidle: 2700 softled, ledpin and ledon are all set to 0 on boot. I set ledpin to 3, then to change the colour of the light I turn on softled 0-1, toggle ledon and turn off softled again. Can I make that sequence occur, or do something else, to make the led change when the button is pressed _and_ keep in sync with whether the wireless is on or off? With softled=1 the light is blue with a short red flash or red with a short blue flash depending on the value of ledon. Also when softled=1 the light flashes in it's opposite colour when there is network traffic. So it would probably be ok just to leave softled=1 and toggle ledon. The wireless device is dev.ath.0.%desc: Atheros 5424/2424. I think there is a slight glitch with the on/off button, that under some circumstances it doesn't turn the wifi on again, which would be much easier to test if the light worked. Also what is ledidle and what do different settings do? Thanks Chris ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questionshttp://lists.freebsd.org/**mailman/listinfo/freebsd-**questions http://lists.**freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/**freebsd-questionshttp://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-** unsubscr...@freebsd.orgfreebs**d-questions-unsubscribe@**freebsd.orgfreebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org Hi Chris, I have an Acer Aspire D150 and the LED hasn't been lit with FreeBSD, 9-rc3, 9-release or 10-current (with BroadCom and 2 Atheros cards). it did work with Fedora GNU/Linux 11. I did try setting in loader.conf as recommended to me to no avail. On one hand it was easy to get the attitude who cares about the LED anyway but on the other I'm thinking it's a simple little thing that's important,I guess like maybe buying a new car and it's missing a knob on the stereo. (?) :) I suppose it probably should work. Waitman Gobble San Jose California USA I have another HP laptop with a Broadcomm card which has a button_with_light and it just works. None of the sysctl oids above occur though. Maybe I'll swap wireless cards between the two and see what happens. What is the output of sysctl -a |grep led ? You'll get lots of enabled's but there might be something that relates to led's. I had to change ledpin from default of 0 to 3 before any of the other ones had any effect. Thanks for the reply anyway. Chris Oh thats a good idea :) Thanks here's what someone recommended : dev.ath.0.ledpin=3 dev.ath.0.softled=1 but here are some extras i found from sysctl -a that i will check out: dev.ath.0.ledon: 0 dev.ath.0.ledidle: 2700 dev.ath.0.hardled: 0 dev.ath.0.led_net_pin: -1 dev.ath.0.led_pwr_pin: -1 Waitman Gobble San Jose California USA I would give them a try. Set dev.ath.0.ledpin=3 then experiment. If you can't get any response try different values for ledpin or one of the other led*pin. I can't read source code :( but maybe you can get more info out of the code you posted. Chris ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: ath and how to control wireless light
On 04/02/2012 08:37, Waitman Gobble wrote: On Thu, Feb 2, 2012 at 6:52 AM, Chris Whitehousecwhi...@onetel.com wrote: Hello I have FreeBSD 9R amd64 installed on a HP G60 laptop. This machine has a combined wireless switch and led. The switch turns the wifi on and off but the light stays red. The light is supposed to show red for wireless off and blue for wireless on. I found some sysctls that control it: dev.ath.0.softled: 0 dev.ath.0.ledpin: 3 dev.ath.0.ledon: 1 dev.ath.0.ledidle: 2700 softled, ledpin and ledon are all set to 0 on boot. I set ledpin to 3, then to change the colour of the light I turn on softled 0-1, toggle ledon and turn off softled again. Can I make that sequence occur, or do something else, to make the led change when the button is pressed _and_ keep in sync with whether the wireless is on or off? With softled=1 the light is blue with a short red flash or red with a short blue flash depending on the value of ledon. Also when softled=1 the light flashes in it's opposite colour when there is network traffic. So it would probably be ok just to leave softled=1 and toggle ledon. The wireless device is dev.ath.0.%desc: Atheros 5424/2424. I think there is a slight glitch with the on/off button, that under some circumstances it doesn't turn the wifi on again, which would be much easier to test if the light worked. Also what is ledidle and what do different settings do? Thanks Chris __**_ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/**mailman/listinfo/freebsd-**questionshttp://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-** unsubscr...@freebsd.orgfreebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org Hi Chris, I have an Acer Aspire D150 and the LED hasn't been lit with FreeBSD, 9-rc3, 9-release or 10-current (with BroadCom and 2 Atheros cards). it did work with Fedora GNU/Linux 11. I did try setting in loader.conf as recommended to me to no avail. On one hand it was easy to get the attitude who cares about the LED anyway but on the other I'm thinking it's a simple little thing that's important,I guess like maybe buying a new car and it's missing a knob on the stereo. (?) :) I suppose it probably should work. Waitman Gobble San Jose California USA I have another HP laptop with a Broadcomm card which has a button_with_light and it just works. None of the sysctl oids above occur though. Maybe I'll swap wireless cards between the two and see what happens. What is the output of sysctl -a |grep led ? You'll get lots of enabled's but there might be something that relates to led's. I had to change ledpin from default of 0 to 3 before any of the other ones had any effect. Thanks for the reply anyway. Chris ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: still waiting after 60 seconds for xpt_config
On 30/01/2012 17:41, Mike. wrote: I installed 9.0 on my test ThinkPad. During the boot-up process, I see the following message after a pause in the boot-up process: run_interrupt_driven_hooks: still waiting after 60 seconds for xpt_config A quick spin through google showed the message occurred in older versions of FreeBSD, though I did not see it when I installed 7.x and 8.x on the Thinkpad. I didn't see any resolutions to the problem. Is the message FreeBSD's way of telling me there is something wrong with the ThinkPad? Or is it a problem with FreeBSD? I don't know where to start looking for the cause of the message, as I do not know what the message is trying to tell me. http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=136327 includes a workaround, hopefully it will work for you: disable firewire (IEEE 1394) in BIOS. rebuild kernel with device sbp disabled and install it. reboot if it works re-enable firewire in BIOS. The reason you didn't see it in some versions is because GENERIC was shipped with sbp disabled (I think). Someone is/was working on a fix. Chris ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: Realtek RTL8191SEvB Linux driver?
On 04/01/2012 00:57, Jeffrey McFadden wrote: um, well, yeah, but it's a laptop. :/ And I bought it before FreeBSD ever crossed my mind.sigh Replacing the Realtek with a supported wireless card may be as easy as undoing a plate on the bottom of the machine, unclipping the old one and clipping in the new one. They are pretty cheap to buy on ebay. Your wireless card is probably mini pci-e: http://www.ebay.co.uk/sch/i.html?_from=R40_trksid=p5197.m570.l1313_nkw=mini+pci-e+wireless+card_sacat=See-All-Categories An older style is mini pci. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:MiniPCI_and_MiniPCI_Express_cards.jpg It may require removing the keyboard which is a bit harder but quite doable. Generally you get into a laptop by carefully levering off the cover at the back of the keyboard. A service manual is a big help and can often be found with some googling. Chris ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: Realtek RTL8191SEvB Linux driver?
On 04/01/2012 16:21, Chad Perrin wrote: As someone who has actually done laptop technician work, professionally, You don't by any chance know where there is a service manual for OP's laptop in pdf format (or html)? I did a bit of googling but didn't find it. It's a Toshiba U505-S2950. Or maybe you could advise how to replace the wireless card in this particular machine... cheers Chris ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: I am FreeBSD user.
On 05/12/2011 13:35, Matthew Seaman wrote: On 05/12/2011 12:39, Chris Whitehouse wrote: I thought the odd bit was ssuuddoo --VV | --hh | --ll | --LL | --vv | --kk | --KK | --ss | [ --HH ] [--PP ] [--SS ] [ --bb ] | [ --pp prompt ] [ --cc class|- ] [ --aa auth_type ] [ --uu username|#uid ] from the first link. Does anyone else see that or is it my browser? firefox-3.6.10,1 No -- your eyes are perfectly fine. It's a failure to render that text properly as bold. On an ancient teletype that would have been done by retyping the same character on top of the first one, which is ultimately where all those doubled characters come from. Cheers, Matthew I know it's trivial but I sent a PR (163149) with a patch (of sorts). Chris ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: I am FreeBSD user.
On 05/12/2011 01:42, Warren Block wrote: On Sun, 4 Dec 2011, masayoshi wrote: When I was looking for sudo, I noticed a weired thing. http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=sudoapropos=0sektion=0manpath=Red+Hat+Linux%2Fi386+9arch=defaultformat=html http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=sudoapropos=0sektion=0manpath=SuSE+Linux%2Fi386+ES+10+SP1arch=defaultformat=html I am FreeBSD user. 3 I hate Linux. lol Why can I select other operation's man page on our FreeBSD webisite? Is it for Linux emulator? Could be. It's also really useful to see what the options to Linux commands do when trying to adapt or convert something. I thought the odd bit was ssuuddoo --VV | --hh | --ll | --LL | --vv | --kk | --KK | --ss | [ --HH ] [--PP ] [--SS ] [ --bb ] | [ --pp prompt ] [ --cc class|- ] [ --aa auth_type ] [ --uu username|#uid ] from the first link. Does anyone else see that or is it my browser? firefox-3.6.10,1 Chris ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: Still stalls on xpt_config
On 11/11/2011 16:39, Chuck Bacon wrote:
Magnificent! Quick and easy; not using FW anyhow ( the BIOS calls it
1394 )-: Furthermore, we've reversed the order of disks and given them
new names. Ugh. I'll get used to it.
Many Thanks,
Chuck Bacon -- c...@cape.com
ABHOR SECRECY -- DEFEND PRIVACY
Glad to hear it. I hope you won't mind that I've cc'd the list.
cheers
Chris
On Fri, 11 Nov 2011, Chris Whitehouse wrote:
On 11/11/2011 00:21, Chuck Bacon wrote:
Every 9.0 version I've tried has failed to boot, ending up with:
Still waiting after {60,..,300} seconds for xpt_config.
What's a body to do? I've tried disabling ACPI, going single,
safe mode. All on my ASUS M4A785TD-EVO mobo with some amd64 x4.
Any additional info I can provide?
Try disabling firewire in your BIOS. If that lets you boot then
rebuild your kernel without device sbp and re-enable firewire.
Chris
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Re: Still stalls on xpt_config
On 11/11/2011 00:21, Chuck Bacon wrote:
Every 9.0 version I've tried has failed to boot, ending up with:
Still waiting after {60,..,300} seconds for xpt_config.
What's a body to do? I've tried disabling ACPI, going single,
safe mode. All on my ASUS M4A785TD-EVO mobo with some amd64 x4.
Any additional info I can provide?
Try disabling firewire in your BIOS. If that lets you boot then rebuild
your kernel without device sbp and re-enable firewire.
Chris
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Re: recursive copy with spaces in descendants
On 05/11/2011 19:47, Chris wrote: I'm having difficulty copying a directory tree from my FreeBSD server to USB storage. The problem is that the tree contains file and folder names which have spaces, similar to the following: ./foo bar/some name.tar.gz ./foo bar/child dir/some other name.tar.gz I've tried various combinations of cp with enclosing the top level directory in quotations, along with other commands like tar or xargs to no avail. The problem seems to be with creating the destination directories and folders, where mkdir/cp terminates with an invalid argument response. Cleaning up the source filenames using something like detox isn't viable, as the files are being served by transmission-daemon, and as such the names must be preserved. Permissions are not an issue either, as the same responses occur whether I use a standard or root account. Any ideas would be greatly appreciated, since I'm pretty much out of them at this point. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org %mount_msdosfs /dev/da0s1 mnt #USB external HD %ls mnt %cd ~/temp2 %find . . ./dir with spaces ./dir with spaces/file1 with spaces ./dir with spaces/file2 with spaces %find . -depth |cpio -pdmv ~/mnt /home/chrisw/mnt/./dir with spaces/file1 with spaces /home/chrisw/mnt/./dir with spaces/file2 with spaces /home/chrisw/mnt/./dir with spaces /home/chrisw/mnt/. 0 blocks %find ~/mnt /home/chrisw/mnt /home/chrisw/mnt/dir with spaces /home/chrisw/mnt/dir with spaces/file1 with spaces /home/chrisw/mnt/dir with spaces/file2 with spaces or have I missed something? Chris ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: [OFFTOPIC] Solution for school lab
On 30/10/2011 10:01, Peter wrote: Hi, I am about to setup a small PC lab for teaching operating systems. Since computers will need to be used for teaching Windows/Unix(FreeBsd)/Linux(Novell) I need to find a way: 1. Systems to coexists on the same hardware 2. Easily restore system images to the initial state. 1) A very robust if slightly more expensive way is a separate disk for each OS. Many more recent (last 3 or 4 years?) motherboards have an option during POST to choose a boot device so you don't need to go into the BIOS setup screens. This system has the advantage that OS's are completely separate from each other. 2) Clonezilla. (Not very relevant aside... Back in the day of pentium 1's and 2 dual channel IDE controllers I solved this same problem with 3 hard disks, each set to be master, on a home made IDE cable with an extra connector so the three disks were plugged into the primary controller, and a 3 position rotary switch so only one disk would power up at a time. It took a bit of experimentation to find three disks that could coexist but it worked really well as long as one didn't switch over while the machine was on. I think I had FreeBSD, Windows and Netware). Chris ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: Firefox clean installation but does not execute
On 20/09/2011 15:04, Anton Shterenlikht wrote: On Tue, Sep 20, 2011 at 03:44:31PM +0200, Alain G. Fabry wrote: On Tue, Sep 20, 2011 at 02:40:42PM +0100, Anton Shterenlikht wrote: On Tue, Sep 20, 2011 at 03:26:29PM +0200, Alain G. Fabry wrote: On Tue, Sep 20, 2011 at 01:40:56PM +0100, Anton Shterenlikht wrote: On Tue, Sep 20, 2011 at 02:16:35PM +0200, Alain G. Fabry wrote: On Tue, Sep 20, 2011 at 05:53:06AM -0600, Warren Block wrote: On Tue, 20 Sep 2011, Alain G. Fabry wrote: I've installed both firefox and firefox36. Neither of them can be found on the system while the installation build and installed without errors afabry@desmo 13:40 % pkg_info | grep firefox firefox-3.6.22,1Web browser based on the browser portion of Mozilla firefox-6.0.2,1 Web browser based on the browser portion of Mozilla afabry@desmo 13:41 % which firefox firefox: Command not found. afabry@desmo 13:41 % which firefox3 firefox3: Command not found. See 'man csh | less -p rehash'. But also these should run with a full path: % /usr/local/bin/firefox3 % /usr/local/bin/firefox ___ Files are just not found on the system... :-( afabry@desmo 14:10 % pkg_info | grep firefox firefox-3.6.22,1Web browser based on the browser portion of Mozilla firefox-6.0.2,1 Web browser based on the browser portion of Mozilla afabry@desmo 14:10 % rehash afabry@desmo 14:14 % /usr/local/bin/firefox /usr/local/bin/firefox: Command not found. afabry@desmo 14:12 % ls -l /usr/local/bin/ | grep fire -r-xr-xr-x 1 root wheel10108 Sep 7 07:29 aafire afabry@desmo 14:12 % what about pkg_info -Lx firefox-3 pkg_info -Lx firefox-6 On my system: TZAV pkg_info -Lx firefox-3 | grep bin /usr/local/bin/firefox3 /usr/local/include/firefox3/gtk2xtbin.h /usr/local/lib/firefox3/bin /usr/local/lib/firefox3/firefox-bin TZAV Seems to be ok here ?? afabry@desmo 15:22 % pkg_info -Lx firefox-3 | grep bin /usr/local/bin/firefox3 /usr/local/include/firefox3/gtk2xtbin.h /usr/local/lib/firefox3/bin /usr/local/lib/firefox3/firefox-bin afabry@desmo 15:23 % pkg_info -Lx firefox-6 | grep bin /usr/local/bin/firefox /usr/local/include/firefox/gtk2xtbin.h /usr/local/lib/firefox/bin /usr/local/lib/firefox/firefox-bin /usr/local/lib/firefox/searchplugins/bing.xml So, what do you get if you now type: /usr/local/bin/firefox3 or /usr/local/bin/firefox -- What I mentioned before ;-) 'command not found' afabry@desmo 15:40 % /usr/local/bin/firefox3 /usr/local/bin/firefox3: Command not found. afabry@desmo 15:40 % /usr/local/bin/firefox /usr/local/bin/firefox: Command not found. afabry@desmo 15:41 % files don't exist, and must have deinstalled/installed already 3 times... so, pkg_info thinks it installed the executable, yet, you can't find it. I don't know what to check next. # /usr/libexec/locate.updatedb # locate firefox ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
editors/zim
Hi, I have a problem with Zim which I wrote to the author about he replied and said; I'm afraid version 0.29 is no longer supported. This was the last version in the Perl branch, since we moved to Python there have been already 10 more releases. So please try the latest version (0.52). Are there any plans to bump it to Python and a recent release? I emailed the maintainer a while back but got no response. thanks Chris ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: printing to Kyocera FS-1030D
On 05/08/2011 01:58, Warren Block wrote: On Thu, 4 Aug 2011, Roland Smith wrote: There are several possible drivers you could use; pcl3 pxlmono pxlcolor. The gutenprint (a.k.a. gimp-print) driver also supports your printer directly. ljet4 is the PCL5 driver, and anything with PCL6 is supposed to also support PCL5. I'd suggest trying both ljet4 and pxlmono or pxlcolor and going with whichever is faster. However, I'd recommend that you take the time and install and configure CUPS. If CUPS is desired, sure. For just plain printing, lpr/lpd is often easier to set up. http://www.wonkity.com/~wblock/docs/html/lpdprinting.html ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org Thanks everyone for your suggestions and sorry not to reply before, I have limited access to this printer. Replying here to everyone who responded with ideas... I tried pxlmono, ljet4 and pcl3 with this /etc/printcap lp|local line printer|Kyocera:\ :sh:\ :lp=/dev/lpt0:sd=/var/spool/output/lpd:lf=/var/log/lpd-errs:\ :if=/usr/local/libexec/if-simpleps: this filter #!/bin/sh #printf \033k2G || exit 2 /usr/local/bin/gs -dSAFER -dNOPAUSE -q -sDEVICE=pxlmono\ -sOutputFile=- - exit 0 exit 2 and this command # lpr postscripttest.txt postscripttest.txt contains %!PS %100 100 moveto 300 300 lineto stroke %310 310 moveto /Helvetica findfont 12 scalefont setfont %( Is this thing working? ) show %showpage With all three drivers I got nothing out of the printer and nothing in lpd-errs. I installed some Kyocera software on a Windows computer and tried to change the emulation with it. I succeeded in setting it to have no default emulation but not to be set it to KPDL (the Kyocera version of PostScript). I rang Kyocera UK help line and they were very approachable (refreshing these days). They suggested I email and ask how to set the default emulation which I have done. It seems the printer normally receives some code as part of the print job which sets it to PS or whatever just for this job. If I could find out this code maybe I could write it into a filter. The printer is normally plugged into a Mac and I've found a utility which is supposed to change the default emulation. I hope to ask the printer owner to try it. I'm going to leave this now (I'm away for a few days) till I hear back from Kyocera and/or manage to get the default emulation set to KPDL. I did also try ijs and hpijs and that might still be worth pursuing but I will reply separately to Polytropons post. Chris ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
printing to Kyocera FS-1030D
Hi, before I use up too many trees experimenting, could some kind soul tell me how I can get OpenOffice to print to this printer. This is the first time I have tried to get anything printed from FreeBSD. I'm following the handbook. I think the basic setup is ok, I can get text printed using eg # lptest 20 5 | lpr -Plp If I try to print the postscript program given in the handbook %!PS 100 100 moveto 300 300 lineto stroke 310 310 moveto /Helvetica findfont 12 scalefont setfont (Is this thing working?) show showpage # cat ps-file |lpr -Plp I get the whole text of the file not just Is this thing working?. The printer has various emulations, it is set to PCL 6 and I can't change it (not my printer) Printing from OpenOffice just produces screeds of garbage, starting with %!PS so I presume the text of the postscript that OO has produced. The bit I'm stuck on is in section 9.4.1.3 Simulating PostScript on Non PostScript Printers (which I presume is what I need), specifically setting the device. gs -h doesn't show this printer or any Kyocera printer. So either what should I set Device to, or how do I get ghostscript to know about this printer? I'm using 8.1-RELEASE, openoffice.org-3.2.1, ghostscript8-8.71_6 thanks Chris ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: printing to Kyocera FS-1030D
On 03/08/2011 18:58, Gour-Gadadhara Dasa wrote: On Wed, 03 Aug 2011 17:41:44 +0100 Chris Whitehousecwhi...@onetel.com wrote: Hi, before I use up too many trees experimenting, could some kind soul tell me how I can get OpenOffice to print to this printer. This is the first time I have tried to get anything printed from FreeBSD. I've Kyocera FS-920 and recommend printing via CUPS by using *.PPD driver. Sincerely, Gour I thought about CUPS but it's just one computer and one printer so CUPS seems a bit overkill. Besides since I've never set up UNIX printing before I think it's a good idea to try and do it from the basics first. Chris ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: printing to Kyocera FS-1030D
On 03/08/2011 18:59, Robert Bonomi wrote: So either what should I set Device to, or how do I get ghostscript to know about this printer? I don't think there is a 'generic' PCL driver, but one of the 'HP laserjet' drivers _should_ do the job. Pick one thqt corresponds to a 'more-or-less recent' model. I can't give specific advice, as I don't have ghostscript installed on my FreeBSD server. (it's remote and I never actually print from it.) Rechecking gs -h there is a pcl3 driver so I'll give it a try as well as actual printer drivers as you suggest. Thanks Chris ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: printing to Kyocera FS-1030D
On 03/08/2011 19:18, Matthias Apitz wrote: # catps-file |lpr -Plp To the OP: You won the todays Useless Use of Cat Award :-) The same would do: lpr -Plp ps-file or lpr -Plp ps-file :-) matthias Well I'm not a guru so perhaps I can be excused :-) Still thanks for the pointer about lpr, I should have read the man page. Chris ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: Portupgrade Package Question
On 10/07/2011 14:02, Jerry wrote: On Sun, 10 Jul 2011 00:35:28 -0400 b. f. articulated: This is the tag that you would use on src collections to update your base system sources (usually in /usr/src) to 8-STABLE. You would use RELENG_8_2 for the 8.2-STABLE security branch, RELENG_8_2_RELEASE for 8.2-RELEASE, and so on. Reading through the archives, several years worth, it appears that this is one of the most frequently asked questions. Many users, both new (obviously) and some not so new get confused as to what is the proper tag to use for each branch; ie Stable Current, etc.Maybe there should be some way to make it easier to understand. For example: I was one of them until I discovered that googling FreeBSD tags leads straight to http://www.freebsd.org/doc/handbook/cvs-tags.html Eg RELENG_8 The line of development for FreeBSD-8.X, also known as FreeBSD 8-STABLE RELENG_8_2 The release branch for FreeBSD-8.2, used only for security advisories and other critical fixes. ... RELENG_8_2_0_RELEASE FreeBSD 8.2 Release Chris 8.2-RELEASE: original release of code sans any updates, etc. 8.2-STABLE: released version plus security updates 8.2-CURRENT: All updates, security otherwise to the original version ?-CURRENT: The absolute latest release of FreeBSD irregardless of what version it is. Anyway, it is just a suggestion. In any case I think it might be easier for some to comprehend. Anything that eliminates confusion is a plus. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: What is xz ?
On 02/07/2011 07:38, Polytropon wrote: On Sat, 02 Jul 2011 11:53:17 +0530, Manish Jain wrote: Hi all, I just downloaded FreeBSD-8.2-RELEASE-i386-dvd1.iso.xz and the md5 checksum is correct. Can someone please tell me what does that xz at the end stand for ? It looks like it stands for some kind of compression (gzip/bzip2/some new format), but I can't figure out exactly which one. It's xz compression, archivers/xz from ports, which is ...but before you install it you may find it is part of the base system. %pkg_info -Ix xz pkg_info: no packages match pattern(s) %which xz /usr/bin/xz I'm on 8.1-R Chris ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: CRUX and FREE BSD
On 25/05/2011 18:45, Julian H. Stacey wrote: Hi Ramu cc questions@ I have to make CRUX and FREE BSD dual boot. Is that possible? how can i do that?? I have CRUX installed before. I wrote some notes here: http://berklix.com/~jhs/txt/install_bsd.html Hope it may help you or similar enquirers. I dont see anything about this in the handbook, (that is, shrinking the other OS before installing BSD) although the topic doesnt strictly belong to FreeBSD, it would help converts if we had something added I think. Corrections/ Additions etc welcome. Cheers, Julian Worth adding a note about gparted? http://gparted.sourceforge.net/ In fact it's mentioned in the handbook http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/install-pre.html Chris ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
GL811e usb chipset
Hi, does anyone know if the GL811e chipset is supported in 8.2R? It's supposed to be common in external usb hard disk and optical disk drives. It's not mentioned in the hardware notes and google didn't turn up much. thanks Chris ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: A possibly odd upgrade question
On 04/05/2011 20:53, Chris Brennan wrote: On Wed, May 4, 2011 at 2:26 PM, Jerryje...@seibercom.net wrote: Chris, when I have had to do major rebuilds, I have found portmanager to be the best tool. It just seems to work. In any case, if it were me, I would clean out the /usr/ports/distfiles directory, update your ports tree, and then update you OS. When you are finished with that fun chore, run; portmanager -u -l -y -f. Depending on the number of ports installed, it might take some time though. Obviously, you need portmanager installed first. By the way, if you know you need a distfile installed first, something like diablo-jdk or diablo-jre that require you to have the distfile all ready in the /usr/ports/distfiles directory prior to attempting to build the port, then do that prior to updating your system and running portmanager. The problem here (as I have previously mentioned and further discussed in my reply to Andrew Clarke) is that the most of the ports won't rebuild for various reasons. I'm pretty handy, but not brilliant. So instead of asking for my hand to be held by the mailing list, I thought nuking everything I installed from ports after moving to 8.x would be the smartest move, then from there reinstall (from a fresh ports tree) only what I need for the retasked purpose. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org I second Jerry, portmanager is indeed a very effective tool, it's simple and thorough and probably has as good a chance of fixing ports issues as anything. Or used to, I've been trying out tinderbox so haven't used it for a year or so. If you do use portmanager there are a few tricks you can do to make it effectively unattended. However, doesn't -u -f mean rebuild all dependencies of all ports? In which case wouldn't it be just as effective and cleaner for the OP to nuke the lot and rebuild, particularly in view of the retasked purpose. Chris ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: Hardware suggestions
On 26/04/2011 18:45, Jaime Kikpole wrote: On Tue, Apr 26, 2011 at 12:34 PM, Chris Brennanxa...@xaerolimit.net wrote: Just out of curiosity, why not rack-mounted boxed? Space issues. They'll have to either fit on a shelf in one of two rooms, depending on the outcome of some other things. Any thoughts on brand or model? Thanks, Jaime hi If you google for low power pc you'll find some interesting machines mostly mini-itx with atom processors. EG you could have a look at http://www.fit-pc.com/web/fit-pc2/fit-pc2i-specifications/ and http://www.lowpowerpcs.co.uk/ I think some of these have been discussed on this list, certainly mini-itx boards have. chris ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: how to protect my system from third party apps crashes
Sorry sent to OP only... On 21/04/2011 11:21, Michael wrote: Hello. I'm having stability issues on my desktop system running FreeBSD 8.2-R on amd64. It happens quite often that some application (say web browser) goes nuts and totally locks-up my system. When it happens it looks like the application is frozen but I can't kill it. WCPU usage goes up rapidly and after a while system doesn't respond to anything than brutal hard reset. I guess it's not the system itself to blame, but it would be good if it could handle misbehaving programs. What I'm looking for is some kind of protection from system lock ups. I don't mind when the browser hangs, but I don't want it to kill my whole system. Any suggestions, hints, ideas please? I am aware that it's a workaround to the problem instead of a real solution, but that's what is needed. Michael ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org I find sometimes viewing flash video with firefox causes the machine to appear to hang. In fact killing all instances of npviewer.bin frees everything up again. I usually have an xterm open just in case. Don't have a problem with other apps so this might not be the solution for you. My firefox is 3.6.10, flashplayer is linux-f10-flashplugin-10.1r85 and I'm on 8.1R x86 Chris ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: AMD Athlon64 Mainboard - NOT SPAM: please check it out :)
On 12/23/10 13:57, Da Rock wrote: I've got wholesale contacts, but I was hoping to make use of this spare chip and RAM floating about. Diff would be around $100, so only kinda worth it. It might be worth looking at Intel Atom processor boards or similar, there are plenty of very low power boards around now. If you can find something that suits you will recoup the cost of the new processor and RAM with much reduced electricity consumption, I believe around 10 times less. There's been a few threads recently about low power boards. eg this thread http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/getmsg.cgi?fetch=411819+0+/usr/local/www/db/text/2010/freebsd-questions/20101128.freebsd-questions suggests this board http://www.supermicro.com/products/motherboard/ATOM/ICH9/X7SPE.cfm?typ=HIPMI=Y which looks like it covers what you want. Chris ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Thinkpad R51 + xf86-video-intel-2.7.1_3 = lockup
Hello I aquired an R51 model 2887 recently. It has the latest BIOS and the video chipset is 855GM. I am getting the same problem as mentioned here http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/getmsg.cgi?fetch=991679+1008170+/usr/local/www/db/text/2010/freebsd-questions/20100829.freebsd-questions and here http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/getmsg.cgi?fetch=453703+0+/usr/local/www/db/text/2010/freebsd-questions/20100829.freebsd-questions Loading X (with/without -retro) causes the machine to lock up with a black screen. I have to press and hold the power button to turn the machine off and Xorg.0.log is empty on reboot. This occurs with xorg-7.5 and xf86-video-intel-2.7.1_3. With xorg_7.4_3 and xf86-video-intel-2.7.1_1 it works. Replacing the intel driver with vesa also works. Other things I have tried are: replace xf86-video-intel-2.7.1_3 in the xorg-7.5 setup with xf86-video-intel-2.7.1_1 from a package compiled with xorg_7.4_3 - works but lots of warnings of version mismatches when installing. compile xf86-video-intel-2.7.1_1 with xorg-7.5 - failed to compile. add Option AccelMethod EXA to xorg.conf (because xf86-video-intel-2.7.1_1 failed to compile with errors about uxa) - no effect. remove a second instance of screen, device etc in xorg.conf which gets set up by X -configure - no effect. One thing I haven't done is add Option UseSIGIO and Option NoTrapSignals to xorg.conf as they both have warnings which I didn't feel competent to deal with. I haven't included xorg.conf and dmesg as they are both virtually identical to the ones in the links above, but of course I can if required. OS is 8.1-R Any suggestions welcome. thanks Chris ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: Thinkpad R51 + xf86-video-intel-2.7.1_3 = lockup
On 11/06/10 23:12, Chris Brennan wrote: On Sat, Nov 6, 2010 at 7:06 PM, Chris Whitehousecwhi...@onetel.com wrote: Hello I aquired an R51 model 2887 recently. It has the latest BIOS and the video chipset is 855GM. I am getting the same problem as mentioned here http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/getmsg.cgi?fetch=991679+1008170+/usr/local/www/db/text/2010/freebsd-questions/20100829.freebsd-questions and here http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/getmsg.cgi?fetch=453703+0+/usr/local/www/db/text/2010/freebsd-questions/20100829.freebsd-questions Loading X (with/without -retro) causes the machine to lock up with a black screen. I have to press and hold the power button to turn the machine off and Xorg.0.log is empty on reboot. This occurs with xorg-7.5 and xf86-video-intel-2.7.1_3. With xorg_7.4_3 and xf86-video-intel-2.7.1_1 it works. Replacing the intel driver with vesa also works. Other things I have tried are: replace xf86-video-intel-2.7.1_3 in the xorg-7.5 setup with xf86-video-intel-2.7.1_1 from a package compiled with xorg_7.4_3 - works but lots of warnings of version mismatches when installing. compile xf86-video-intel-2.7.1_1 with xorg-7.5 - failed to compile. add Option AccelMethod EXA to xorg.conf (because xf86-video-intel-2.7.1_1 failed to compile with errors about uxa) - no effect. remove a second instance of screen, device etc in xorg.conf which gets set up by X -configure - no effect. One thing I haven't done is add Option UseSIGIO and Option NoTrapSignals to xorg.conf as they both have warnings which I didn't feel competent to deal with. I haven't included xorg.conf and dmesg as they are both virtually identical to the ones in the links above, but of course I can if required. OS is 8.1-R Any suggestions welcome. thanks Chris ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org Installed from packages or Ports? Are you mixing the two? (I would hope All installed from packages. The packages are from two different builds in a tinderbox with two different sets of ports. Chris ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: Which OS for notebook
On 10/04/10 17:55, Erich Dollansky wrote: Hi, On Monday 04 October 2010 12:11:30 Leandro F Silva wrote: Which OS are you using on your notebook, FreeBSD / Linux or MAC ? Also, can you tell us the hardware, Sony / HP etc.. there is no general answer. You must select an individual model first and see then if the hardware is supported. I use normally FreeBSD 7 or 8 but I installed Fedora on a single machine as there is no driver for the LAN available in FreeBSD. If I remember right, wireless was not a problem there. So, choose a model and ask then again. Ok, I have FreeBSD 7 running on an older Fujitsu Lifebook. 8.0 gave me problems with USB. Erich ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org I would rather find a machine which will run FreeBSD if possible. If possible go to a laptop shop with a bootable USB stick (memstick.img) and try booting different machines. Collect dmesg and pciconf output to study at your leisure. I have a HP nc6320 which runs 8.* fine except for the card reader and sleep/resume functions. chris ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: Massive portupgrade without being interrupted by configuration screens?
On 10/03/10 12:09, Jerry wrote:
On Sun, 03 Oct 2010 09:59:19 +
Thomas Muellermueller6...@bellsouth.net articulated:
From Elias Chrysocheriselias...@cha.forthnet.gr:
If you are sure that the default configuration settings are OK for
you, then one way is to perform a portupgrade with the switches
--batch --yes, like portupgrade --batch --yes -a
This will assume that the default settings are those you like and
will not ask you anything about configuration screens e.t.c.
Elias
Idea is that I might want to configure some of the options, so I
can't use --batch=YES unless I configure all options beforehand,
meaning I have to find what ports are to be upgraded and which of
those have user-selectable options.
Are there any adverse side effects if I use portupgrade some of the
time, and postmaster other times?
Reason for wanting to do all make configs beforehand is not only
efficiency and ability to run unattended, but the ability to recover
from a typo at the config dialog interface, which can be confusing,
on when to press spacebar, tab, enter, up- and down-arrows.
Now I see in UPDATING file, date 20100915, that lang/perl5.12 has
been updated to 5.12.2.
20100915:
AFFECTS: users of lang/perl5.12
AUTHOR: s...@freebsd.org
lang/perl5.12 has been updated to 5.12.2. You should update
everything that depends on perl. The easiest way to do that is to use
perl-after-upgrade script supplied with lang/perl5.12.
Please see its manual page for details.
If you want to switch to lang/perl5.12 from lang/perl5.{8,10} please
follow instructions in the entry 20100715 in this file.
I only saw this via FreeBSD web site Oct 3 (20101003), after my
original inquiry. Does this mean I have to go through all the
troubles again?
I already successfully portupgraded Perl to 5.12.2. But I guess I
need to read perl-after-upgrade script before doing anything
(including panicking?).
If you were to use 'portmanager' with its '-p' option, it would rebuild
all ports that depend on the new version of Perl as well as any ports
that depended on those ports as well. It would insure that the
dependency links were fully updated. There is then no need to run the
superfluous perl-after-upgrade' script; although, you are free to do
so if you so desire.
I use portmanager -s to get a list of ports to be upgraded which I then
feed into a foreach (csh) or for (sh) loop which runs make config in
each port directory. It's quick and easy and I can then run portmanager
with no further intervention and I have all the configs as I want them.
chris
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Re: Location of sensors
David Demelier wrote: Hello, I just wonder how to know the location of the sensors, I got a lot of them on my HP Probook laptop : I looked at something related to this last year. http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-acpi/2009-March/00.html has a set of sysctl commands to track the various thermal zones on my HP nc6320. You could try running them while doing various things to try to affect different areas, eg running sysutils/cpuburn. I didn't try to define all the sensors because my problem was different and I solved it. Chris ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: Free BSD 8.1
per...@pluto.rain.com wrote: I'm advocating starting from a stable and self-consistent baseline, consisting of a release _and_ its corresponding port/package collection, and then considering whether any updates are needed. You might be interested to follow Manolis' custom DVD which is based on exactly that principle: http://freebsd-custom.wikidot.com Chris Isn't that orthogonal to the question of whether or not to follow ports updates, once the baseline has been established? ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: which perl?
Alejandro Imass wrote: On Thu, Sep 23, 2010 at 12:42 PM, Chris Whitehouse cwhi...@onetel.com wrote: Hi, Todays ports tree has lang/perl5.10 and lang/perl5.12. A new 8.1-RELEASE jail in tinderbox using this ports tree is using perl5.10 by default. Should I leave this as is or should I be using 5.12? IMHO 5.10 is new enough! But the great thing about the Perl community is that it usually respects previous versions not like some other crazy, irresponsible communities such as PHP who can break your code from 5.2 to 5.3. Doesn't sound like there are strong reasons for going for 5.12 so I'll stick with the default. thanks Chris ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
which perl?
Hi, Todays ports tree has lang/perl5.10 and lang/perl5.12. A new 8.1-RELEASE jail in tinderbox using this ports tree is using perl5.10 by default. Should I leave this as is or should I be using 5.12? This is for a home desktop. eco# uname -a FreeBSD eco.config 8.1-RELEASE FreeBSD 8.1-RELEASE #0: Mon Jul 19 02:55:53 UTC 2010 r...@almeida.cse.buffalo.edu:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GENERIC i386 thanks Chris ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: Page fault in kernel when using CD, BSD 7.2
Mark Terribile wrote: AMI BIOS. The NB heatsink is barely warm (fan cooled), the not necessarily a good sign, you would get this if the heat from the cpu is not getting transferred to the heatsink. Remove, clean, apply new heat transfer compound, make sure the heatsink is actually seating properly, not getting lodged on something. Chris ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: looking for a buildable version of OpenOffice.org
Scott Bennett wrote: On Wed, 04 Aug 2010 05:27:49 -0400 Michael Powell nightre...@hotmail.com wrote: Scott Bennett wrote: I have tried all of the versions of OpenOffice.org that are currently in the ports tree on a 7.3-STABLE system, and all of them fail to build to completion. Is there somewhere that I can find one that actually works? Or at least some alternative package that will build and work on a FreeBSD 7.3-STABLE system? No packages appear to be available for these ports. (Transcripts of the failed builds are available on request.) And what would be available if I were to upgrade my system to 8.1-STABLE? Thanks in advance for any help! Might try pre-built packages and see if they might work for you. No As I noted previously, there do not appear to be any packages available for 7.3, or at least portmaster doesn't find any. You could try asking here: http://freebsd-custom.wikidot.com/ or check the downloads-page Chris ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: 8.1 is available
Aiza wrote: Since the release team never makes a announcement on this list when a new RELEASE is published. I will let you all know that RELEASE 8.1 has been published and is available for download. Has it been announced anywhere? Downloads have been available for some days. Generally advice from those who know is not to assume it's available until the announcement because changes could still be made. Chris ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: 8.1 is available
Ansar Mohammed wrote: I think it's been announced on the front page of freebsd.org http://freebsd.org. You think I should wait for somthing more formal? You're right it's on the website but didn't come through in my RSS feed for some reason (which I set up to watch for the announcement :p). Chris On Sat, Jul 24, 2010 at 11:05 AM, Chris Whitehouse cwhi...@onetel.com mailto:cwhi...@onetel.com wrote: Aiza wrote: Since the release team never makes a announcement on this list when a new RELEASE is published. I will let you all know that RELEASE 8.1 has been published and is available for download. Has it been announced anywhere? Downloads have been available for some days. Generally advice from those who know is not to assume it's available until the announcement because changes could still be made. Chris ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailto:freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org mailto:freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: FreeBSD vs YouTube
Warren Block wrote: On Wed, 14 Jul 2010, paul wrote: Is it possible to watch youtube on a FreeBSD system ? And if it is, someone would be so kind to guide me to a FAQ / Article / wiki / or tell me how to do it ? Yes: http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/desktop-browsers.html#MOZ-FLASH-PLUGIN Running fine here on 8.0-RELEASE. I would recommend installing flashblock http://flashblock.mozdev.org/ once you have got it working. Chris ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: bsdstats problem?
Fbsd8 wrote: Anh Ky Huynh wrote: On Tue, 29 Jun 2010 23:28:52 +0100 Chris Whitehouse cwhi...@onetel.com wrote: Anyone else having problems with bsdstats? I have the same problems here. muji2# /usr/local/etc/rc.d/bsdstats.sh start Starting bsdstats. fetch: http://rpt.bsdstats.org/scripts/enable_token.php?key=... No address record fetch: http://rpt.bsdstats.org/scripts/report_system.php?token... No address record Posting monthly OS statistics to rpt.bsdstats.org fetch: http://rpt.bsdstats.org/scripts/disable_token.php?key=... No address record ... The bsdstats server is off line. Maybe it's nolonger supported. Probably is, there was a push to get some things sorted out recently. I have cc'd the illustrious leader. Chris ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: bsdstats problem?
yep working now thanks Chris Marc G. Fournier wrote: Please try now, tested from here and works fine: # /usr/local/etc/rc.d/bsdstats.sh start Starting bsdstats. Posting monthly OS statistics to rpt.bsdstats.org # On Wed, 30 Jun 2010, Chris Whitehouse wrote: Fbsd8 wrote: Anh Ky Huynh wrote: On Tue, 29 Jun 2010 23:28:52 +0100 Chris Whitehouse cwhi...@onetel.com wrote: Anyone else having problems with bsdstats? I have the same problems here. muji2# /usr/local/etc/rc.d/bsdstats.sh start Starting bsdstats. fetch: http://rpt.bsdstats.org/scripts/enable_token.php?key=... No address record fetch: http://rpt.bsdstats.org/scripts/report_system.php?token... No address record Posting monthly OS statistics to rpt.bsdstats.org fetch: http://rpt.bsdstats.org/scripts/disable_token.php?key=... No address record ... The bsdstats server is off line. Maybe it's nolonger supported. Probably is, there was a push to get some things sorted out recently. I have cc'd the illustrious leader. Chris Marc G. FournierHub.Org Hosting Solutions S.A. scra...@hub.org http://www.hub.org Yahoo:yscrappySkype: hub.orgICQ:7615664MSN:scra...@hub.org ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
bsdstats problem?
Anyone else having problems with bsdstats? muji2# /usr/local/etc/rc.d/bsdstats.sh start Starting bsdstats. fetch: http://rpt.bsdstats.org/scripts/enable_token.php?key=... No address record fetch: http://rpt.bsdstats.org/scripts/report_system.php?token... No address record Posting monthly OS statistics to rpt.bsdstats.org fetch: http://rpt.bsdstats.org/scripts/disable_token.php?key=... No address record muji2# nslookup bsdstats.org Server: 192.168.1.254 Address:192.168.1.254#53 Non-authoritative answer: Name: bsdstats.org Address: 200.46.204.227 rpt.bsdstats.org Server: 192.168.1.254 Address:192.168.1.254#53 ** server can't find rpt.bsdstats.org: NXDOMAIN www.freebsd.org Server: 192.168.1.254 Address:192.168.1.254#53 Non-authoritative answer: Name: www.freebsd.org Address: 69.147.83.33 exit Chris ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: concerning flash under freebsd
Programmer in Training wrote: Quoting Polytropon free...@edvax.de: On Tue, 15 Jun 2010 15:49:56 -0600, Programmer in Training p...@joseph-a-nagy-jr.us wrote: Almost all Internet video has moved to flash as well (such as all the sermons on sermons.net which my church uses). That's all within transition. Currently, big video portals are moving to HTML5, often including the wish to also use free and open standards for their videos so they can access a bigger That's a no-go, I have it on good authority that h.264 was chosen over Theora. That along with mpeg-la having put out a press release saying it won't charge royalties for free uses of some of it's patents several months ago[0], while I would love for Theora to have won out as the standard, once again corporate interest (this time a big push from Apple, from what I understand) has won out. And Mozilla won't use H264. Also add into the mix that Google has just bought VP8 and open sourced it. Mozilla supports VP8 but Apple is already dissing it: http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/blog/2010/may/20/apple-steve-jobs-vp8-patent So I think we have a very long way to go before we can stop using flash for web based video. (According to wikipedia Theora is a fork of VP3 which the developer On2 released some time ago. VP6 made into macromedia flash codec. So On2's codecs have a long history of video on the web.) won't support it. But that's all irregardless to the OPs question of bugginess on FreeBSD. If the Linux emulation isn't enough and there is no option but to switch to an entirely different platform, why even provide such an option? Linux emulation takes up a lot of resources (space wise on the drive). Flash video works absolutely fine here and there is a lot of great content and interesting and entertaining material out there. I'm really grateful to the FreeBSD developers for getting it working so well :) FreeBSD muji2.config 8.0-RELEASE-p2 FreeBSD 8.0-RELEASE-p2 #0: Wed Mar 24 11:51:43 GMT 2010 r...@muji2.config:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GENERIC i386 firefox-3.5.8,1 linux-f10-flashplugin-10.0r42 flashblock 1.5.13 # This may be a critical feature of a successful flash intallation. Chris ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: What's the difference between portupgrade and portmaster ?
Jerry wrote: On Tue, 1 Jun 2010 10:26:18 +0300 Eitan Adler li...@eitanadler.com articulated: On Tue, Jun 1, 2010 at 3:37 AM, zaxis z_a...@163.com wrote: Why do we need two tools ? Its three. Add portmanager. The answer is personal choice and we number of bikesheds. Also portmaster used to not be able to work with packages when portupgrade could. I use portmanager with the '-p' flag for when I absolutely, positively have to insure that all dependencies are updated correctly. Neither of the other two utilities seem to get it correct 100% of the time. Plus, portmanmager is written in 'C' and IMHO is quicker than the other two. Just my 2¢. +1 for including portmanager in any list of port management tools, just doesn't get 'official' sanction for some reason. Chris ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: Sound mixer
Anselm Strauss wrote: Hi, the same volume for all values. Second, is it possible to mute the sound with the mixer command and later unmute it restoring the values I had before muting? I'm embarrassed to admit I'm on a Windows machine so can't check but I think the second is something like mixer -s mixer.settings #back up mixer settings mixer mixer.settings #restore mixer settings Chris Thanks for any help, Anselm ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: USB1.1 WIFI adapted recommendation
mikel king wrote: I am refurbishing a laptop that only has USB1.1 and now built-in WIFI. Anyone with experience in these devices able to make a recommendation for a reliable device? I have an old Belkin F5D7050 USB wifi adapter - you can still buy them. May 14 20:45:17 muji2 kernel: ugen4.4: Belkin at usbus4 May 14 20:45:17 muji2 kernel: ural0: Belkin Belkin 54g USB Network Adapter, class 0/0, rev 2.00/0.01, addr 4 on usbus4 May 14 20:45:17 muji2 kernel: ural0: MAC/BBP RT2570 (rev 0x03), RF RT2526 Seems to work ok in a USB 1.1 port, never done benchmarks but it seems reliable enough for internet. Chris Cheers, m! ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: Small computer to run a GUI?
Sean Cavanaugh wrote: . Date: Sun, 9 May 2010 16:07:26 +0100 From: cwhi...@onetel.com To: millenia2...@hotmail.com CC: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Small computer to run a GUI? Nice but doesn't have a VGA port (but does have HDMI) http://www.fit-pc.com/web/fit-pc2/fit-pc2-specifications/ you mean like the adapter they sell? http://www.fit-pc.com/web/fit-pc2/accessories/ Ah ha didn't see that, in fact several useful looking items on the same page. Oh, available soon for the vga adapter... :) Chris If i read the site correctly, the HDMI port is used as a DVI port. not sure if it means they have a DVI adapter too or you need to acquire your own HDMI-to-DVI cable. Yes looks like you are right: DVI Digital output up to 1920 x 1200 through HDMI connector Check the video fit-PC2 on ComputerTV at http://www.fit-pc.com/web/fit-pc2/gallery/ It is a review of it and says it comes with a power supply and a HDMI to DVI cable. Chris Otherwise these look pretty nice. I would not have known there was a PC smaller than an ALIX style. -Sean ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: Small computer to run a GUI?
Andrew Gould wrote: On Fri, May 7, 2010 at 11:37 PM, Liontaur liont...@gmail.com wrote: On Fri, May 7, 2010 at 6:47 PM, Adam Vande More amvandem...@gmail.comwrote: Sounds like you want a netbook. -- Adam Vande More I was more thinking of something without a monitor, keyboard or mouse. I want to put it in a cupboard and not worry about it. With a netbook i'd probably have to leave it open (or else it would go into suspend mode or heat up or...). I was just hoping for something Soekris size but with a VGA output. Mark Have you taken a look at the fit-PC2? Since it can run Linux, the odds are it can run FreeBSD as well. You might want to ask the creators. http://www.fit-pc.com/web/ Andrew Nice but doesn't have a VGA port (but does have HDMI) http://www.fit-pc.com/web/fit-pc2/fit-pc2-specifications/ ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: Small computer to run a GUI?
Liontaur wrote: Hi folks, I'm looking for a small (and relatively inexpensive) computer to run a GUI, I don't much care if it's KDE or Gnome or one of the others. Just so that I can browse the Internet using Firefox (unfortunately I may need to look at some flash). So they need to be able to run FreeBSD (obviously), a GUI, have a Cat5 port (10/100 is fine), and PS/2s for mouse and keyboard. USB is a bonus but not necessary. I remember seeing some kind of small terminals at the local library but I can't remember now who made them I think it was Weis or Weir or something like that but a google brings up nothing. I was hoping to either boot them over a network or using a CF card or something with a small footprint as well. I went checking out Soekris but couldn't really see if they offer a GUI, the models I looked at didn't have a VGA port though. I was hoping for something about 9 inches square and three inches thick, or smaller. Thanks folks! Mark ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org http://www.very-pc.co.uk/?section=home-pcs look nice but maybe not cheap enough. I haven't tried one myself. Chris ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: Small computer to run a GUI?
Sean Cavanaugh wrote: -- From: Chris Whitehouse cwhi...@onetel.com Sent: Sunday, May 09, 2010 8:03 AM To: Andrew Gould andrewlylego...@gmail.com Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Small computer to run a GUI? Andrew Gould wrote: On Fri, May 7, 2010 at 11:37 PM, Liontaur liont...@gmail.com wrote: On Fri, May 7, 2010 at 6:47 PM, Adam Vande More amvandem...@gmail.comwrote: Sounds like you want a netbook. -- Adam Vande More I was more thinking of something without a monitor, keyboard or mouse. I want to put it in a cupboard and not worry about it. With a netbook i'd probably have to leave it open (or else it would go into suspend mode or heat up or...). I was just hoping for something Soekris size but with a VGA output. Mark Have you taken a look at the fit-PC2? Since it can run Linux, the odds are it can run FreeBSD as well. You might want to ask the creators. http://www.fit-pc.com/web/ Andrew Nice but doesn't have a VGA port (but does have HDMI) http://www.fit-pc.com/web/fit-pc2/fit-pc2-specifications/ you mean like the adapter they sell? http://www.fit-pc.com/web/fit-pc2/accessories/ Ah ha didn't see that, in fact several useful looking items on the same page. Oh, available soon for the vga adapter... :) Chris ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: [#24488139] Re: Small computer to run a GUI?
Is anyone else getting these automated replies? I have been getting them while including Sean Cavanagh, Andrew Gould and liontaur in replies on the above subject. If the person who is responsible for these automated replies is reading this please could you adjust your list subscription address to prevent them, they are really annoying. Thanks Chris Sean Cavanaugh wrote: Hello, This is an automated response to inform you that your question has been entered into our system, and will be reviewed shortly. Your ticket has been submitted into the General Support department. We will respond to you as soon as possible. == Please keep this information, and use it when refering to your ticket: Ticket subject: Re: Small computer to run a GUI? Ticket number: 24488139 Ticket link: https://secure.mpcustomer.com/ticket.php?ticket=24488139 Ticket body: Sean Cavanaugh wrote: -- From: Chris Whitehouse cwhi...@onetel.com Sent: Sunday, May 09, 2010 8:03 AM To: Andrew Gould andrewlylego...@gmail.com Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Small computer to run a GUI? Andrew Gould wrote: On Fri, May 7, 2010 at 11:37 PM, Liontaur liont...@gmail.com wrote: On Fri, May 7, 2010 at 6:47 PM, Adam Vande More amvandem...@gmail.comwrote: Sounds like you want a netbook. -- Adam Vande More I was more thinking of something without a monitor, keyboard or mouse. I want to put it in a cupboard and not worry about it. With a netbook i'd probably have to leave it open (or else it would go into suspend mode or heat up or...). I was just hoping for something Soekris size but with a VGA output. Mark Have you taken a look at the fit-PC2? Since it can run Linux, the odds are it can run FreeBSD as well. You might want to ask the creators. http://www.fit-pc.com/web/ Andrew Nice but doesn't have a VGA port (but does have HDMI) http://www.fit-pc.com/web/fit-pc2/fit-pc2-specifications/ you mean like the adapter they sell? http://www.fit-pc.com/web/fit-pc2/accessories/ Ah ha didn't see that, in fact several useful looking items on the same page. Oh, available soon for the vga adapter... :) Chris ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org == ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: Accessing file from windows or to windows-CORRECTION
Jean-Paul Natola wrote: I'd be curious to know if it is still the case that ntfs writes are not reliable in that situation. There are times when doing this can be handy on a dual-boot laptop, for example. 'Anyone out there care to comment on the state of ntfs rw access? Sorry I was reading so much I go the commands mixed up, it's the mount_ntfs command I was quoting The windows NT/2000/XP standard filesystem, NTFS, is tightly integrated with Microsoft's kernel. To write to an NTFS partition, you must have extensive knowledge of how the filesystem works. Unfortunately, since that information is not available from Microsoft, you can read NTFS partitions but writing may corrupt the partition. The mount command is mount_ntfs(8). Note: Since Microsoft holds its filesystem interface so dear, and changes it regularly, don't count on this for frequent use. Using mount_ntfs can damage the filesystem sysutils/fusefs-ntfs is supposed to have read/write for ntfs file systems. I used it a few times probably more than a year ago. It was mostly ok but I got some file corruption on big copies. The command to mount something is ntfs-3g if I remember rightly. To the OP the windows SSH client PuTTY (first result in google) includes a command line utility pscp.exe which works like scp. Good for grabbing files from your BSD box to your Windows box. Chris ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: Addition to BSDstats
Marc G. Fournier wrote: On Wed, 5 May 2010, Randi Harper wrote: I wouldn't want to add an option to sysinstall for this unless bsdstats was part of base. nobody would appreciate (and outcry would be heavy) if someone were to add an 'opt-out phone home script' that they didn't consciously enable ... The problem with not including bsdstats in sysinstall or some other means of bringing it to peoples attention is that it gets forgotten and loses its effectiveness. What about a monthly (3 monthly, whatever) reminder saying what bsdstats is about and the reasons for installing it. Maybe it could go in the monthly list subscription reminder. (And 0T I would also include a reminder about Manolis XFCE DVD project) Chris Marc G. FournierHub.Org Hosting Solutions S.A. scra...@hub.org http://www.hub.org Yahoo:yscrappySkype: hub.orgICQ:7615664MSN:scra...@hub.org ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: Addition to BSDstats
Marc G. Fournier wrote: can you tell me two things: nslookup rpt.bsdstats.org and the contents of /var/db/bsdstats I seem to have probs with mine too. I was under the impression that bsdstats was installed by default (in the base system?) so for a very long time I haven't installed it. Obviously I was wrong. So I've just installed from ports then run: muji2# /usr/local/etc/periodic/monthly/300.statistics -nodelay fetch: http://rpt.bsdstats.org/scripts/getid.php?key=: Connection refused Posting monthly OS statistics to rpt.bsdstats.org (Not sure if publishing the key is a security risk so replacing it with x's) A bit later muji2# /usr/local/etc/periodic/monthly/300.statistics -nodelay Posting monthly OS statistics to rpt.bsdstats.org But www.bsdstats.org/bt/countries.html is still showing only 3 FreeBSD in UK. Will it right itself later? BTW, I can't get the Ports Stats page on the website. Chris ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: 2 qstns re pc-bsd...
Gary Kline wrote: i ask here? [i'm trying to add my beloved zsh [[heart-throbs]], and ff3, and others. i thought i had installed the ports stuff. nope. When I looked at PCBSD some while ago it had 3 ways of doing ports. #1 is standard (make install) FreeBSD ports, #2 is also standard FreeBSD ports but installed to a different location, #3 is PBI which is statically compiled (or at least is completely self contained in some way) and is a very quick binary install. zsh is available here http://www.pbidir.com/bt/pbi/96. The PBI system is a bit of a flagship aspect of PCBSD so probably works pretty well. Method 2, which is the default when you build your own, is designed to keep 'your' ports separate from 'system' ports. Because PCBSD is a desktop system some ports eg kde are ready installed and are upgraded as part of a PCBSD system upgrade. 'Your' ports are installed in a separate place to allow PCBSD upgrades to occur without interfering with yours. That's written from memory of a year ago - please check for yourself in case things have changed. I think you mentioned in a previous post that you wanted PCBSD for some server stuff. I'm just curious because PCBSD is clearly aimed at desktop use, whereas one might think FreeBSD is a more appropriate choice for the server stuff. Not that either couldn't do either job... Chris gary ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: anybody know if there is a 32-bit distro of pcbsd?
Gary Kline wrote: last night i started an upgrade on my ubuntu linux via the net. finished this morning, and after thoroughly checking stuff, i can't reboot. (i have multiple copies of stuff everywhere so did not lose much if anything.) this may be the time to give pc-bsd a try. before i surf over, does anybody know if there is a version for older computers. my thinkpad is a 2005, 3.0ghz, a gig of ram, lots of diskspace tx, gary yes there is a 32bit version. Chris ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: ziz a dumb question?
Polytropon wrote: On Sat, 01 May 2010 11:59:52 +0100, Chris Whitehouse cwhi...@onetel.com wrote: Seriously? Or joking? How did you measure it? Well... erm... in fact... I didn't measure anything, I just utilized the numbers. :-) Modern PCs come with a 700 W power supply (and more), and the specs for my AS/400e 9406-170 say 654 W with expansion unit (326 W without), measured kVA values (according to manual) are similar. Weight is 70.5 kg, and size is two big towers side by side. Well plenty of people have replied since so no more to add , except you may well win on watts per kilogram :) My 2 year old desktop uses 60-100 watts depending on how hard it's working. Sounds like a notebook / laptop class computer. No it really is a desktop, AMD 3500+ dual core, onboard graphics, but not including the screen. 10 disks and lots of noise must use a few watts, though size and weight wouldn't have that much influence per se :) But it's more than 10 years old, too old to seriously measure something! :-) but seriously its worth measuring if you want to control your energy use. I measured electricity use of my work computer, a standard dell machine. Consumption while in (Windows) shutdown mode is one third of 'in use' consumption and it is in use for about one quarter of the time. So if I don't turn it off at the mains (wall) socket it uses as much electricity while not in use as while in use. Getting anyone to take notice in a corporate environment is impossible but that's another story sigh! Chris ps sorry OP, getting a bit OT ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: ziz a dumb question?
Polytropon wrote: On Fri, 30 Apr 2010 20:03:50 -0700, Gary Kline kl...@thought.org wrote: On Sat, May 01, 2010 at 04:19:13AM +0200, Polytropon wrote: On Fri, 30 Apr 2010 18:57:08 -0700, Gary Kline kl...@thought.org wrote: i've never been anything near the extreme-green movement. i figured that newer computers/cpus/etc would be more efficient than what came before. Oh, you mean that a modern desktop PC consumes as much power as my old AS/400e with 10 hard disk drives - as loud a a common PC, 2 times as big and 4 times as heavy? :-) Yeah, gee-whiz :) Incorrect values: 4 times as big and 8 times as heavy - but the same power consumption. :-) Seriously? Or joking? How did you measure it? My 2 year old desktop uses 60-100 watts depending on how hard it's working. 10 disks and lots of noise must use a few watts, though size and weight wouldn't have that much influence per se :) Chris ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
setting ccache path
Hi I have just installed devel/ccache. I set up /etc/make.conf , /etc/csh.cshrc and /etc/profile according to /usr/local/share/doc/ccache/ccache-howto-freebsd.txt to include /usr/local/libexec/ccache in roots path but ccache doesn't get used. I think it is because roots path is set absolutely in .cshrc so the setting is /etc/csh.cshrc gets overridden. In a terminal if I set roots path to include /usr/local/libexec/ccache ccache works. I tested by timing make(1) in a port but I can see it is working anyway because /root/.ccache gets created and populated. Am I failing to follow ccache-howto-freebsd.txt or is it telling me something wrong and I should be adding /usr/local/libexec/ccache to roots path in .cshrc and .profile.? Actually I think a better solution would be to set CCACHE_PATH to /usr/local/libexec/ccache to avoid the shell looking there first for _every_ command invocation, but I'm not sure where is the best place to set it. .cshrc and/or .profile? thanks Chris ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: acpi_tz0: _TMP value is absurd Message
B J wrote: I have a Compaq Presario SR2180NX, which uses a P5LP-LE motherboard. When I bought the machine second hand three years ago, I originally installed and ran FreeBSD 5.5 without the error message. I recall that it began appearing after I installed and ran 6.3, though I don't think it did under 6.2. I still receive the message now that I'm running FreeBSD 8.0. I've looked at some of the ACPI code file and didn't notice anything obvious which might be responsible for the error message. A quick solution I've used is running a file with: hw.acpi.thermal.user_override: 0 - 1 hw.acpi.thermal.polling_rate: 10 - 1800 hw.acpi.thermal.user_override: 1 - 0 shortly after logging in as root. The message still appears but not as often, though it doesn't fix the whatever causes the error. I've installed FreeBSD on two different models of IBM ThinkPad without the error, leading me to believe that the ACPI code might not be completely compatible with the P5LP-LE motherboard. My question is what to do next. Is there a permanent solution to this or do I have to keep using the quick fix? Any advice would be appreciated. Thank you. BMJ ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org Hi BJ I made a similar problem go away on my Compaq nc6320 by installing a custom ASL, see http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en/books/handbook/acpi-debug.html and http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-acpi/2009-March/005562.html My issue was with _CRT not _TMP. The whole thread is long but it's got some useful background. Basically you create an ASL (see handbook), figure out exactly where _TMP is set, figure out what alternative values set it to a non-absurd value. Testing the alternative values is trial and error and involves installing a modified AML (see handbook) and rebooting. best of luck and when you get a working modified AML keep it somewhere for when you reinstall... Chris ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: acpi_tz0: _TMP value is absurd Message
B J wrote: snip I created an ASL file and located what appeared to be the code block where that value was set. I followed the statements and nothing appeared to be unusual. (Of course, I might have missed something because I don't have much experience with ACPI programming.) I was able to set the temperature of hw.acpi.thermal.tz0._CRT by changing hex values in my ASL, but _CRT is hard coded whereas _TMP is set dynamically (in my ASL). There is also a problem that the value of _CRT is output by sysctl so I could watch the results of my changes, whereas _TMP is not. Which is not much help to you sorry. One thing I did notice, however, is when I compiled that file and got two errors arising from: Store (Local0, Local0) where Local0 hadn't been defined in that part of the code. I have no idea how that came about, but it successfully compiled after I commented out that statement. (A bug in the original code, perhaps?) What happens if you recompile an unmodified ASL? I believe there is an issue that there are 2 compilers, one by microsoft, one by intel and the intel one sticks to the acpi standard whereas the MS one allows bugs. If a manufacturer only tests their acpi tables with the MS one they can have bugs. You could always write to HP and tell them it is broken and ask them to fix it haha. Chris ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: acpi_tz0: _TMP value is absurd Message
B J wrote: snip One thing I did notice, however, is when I compiled that file and got two errors arising from: Store (Local0, Local0) where Local0 hadn't been defined in that part of the code. I have no idea how that came about, but it successfully compiled after I commented out that statement. (A bug in the original code, perhaps?) What happens if you recompile an unmodified ASL? I got those 2 errors plus a warning. By errors do you mean that you can't recompile unless you comment out the statement? Ie are the errors fatal? I bought the machine second-hand from a dealer that was going out of business. It came with Vista installed so, presumably, the motherboard might have been set accordingly. Updating the BIOS might help, but I removed Vista when I started tinkering with FreeBSD, which might make that operation a touch difficult. Updating the BIOS might help, didn't for me though. If you want to try it, google for a MS-DOS boot disk image to download, either for floppy disk or CDROM depending on what hardware you have. The main reason I'm concerned about this bug is that I'm planning on building my own machine and possibly running FreeBSD on it for my research. I'd hate to put something together, install FreeBSD, and have nothing but bugs like this to contend with. This is a bug introduced by the crappy manufacturer not FreeBSD. The acpidump/iasl combo is FreeBSD's way of working round it. You might want to try on the acpi mailing list if you want to investigate further. I think the acpi section in the handbook says they like to know about such problems. I don't think it is a common problem. If you are buying a new motherboard you should be able to find something without this problem. Check the hardware notes http://www.freebsd.org/releases/8.0R/hardware.html Chris ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: Does small bsd cd exsit?
??? wrote: Hello, everyone, I want to try a bsd distribution. However, after downloading the PC-bsd (DVD, over 3GB) from the web through all night, my download tool gave me an error signal... Then I found it may too much big to some extent. Does a small one exsit, with a full GUI destop? I want use it on my laptop. Thanks! ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org Try http://freebsd-custom.wikidot.com/ It doesn't install a fully working GUI desktop like PCBSD, it is more like the tools for you to set up your own system using XFCE. The DVD is about 1.5GB and XCFE is a lot lighter than KDE (used by PCBSD). Chris ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: [RESOLVED, for now] Re: USB Powered Speakers
Programmer In Training wrote: On 04/09/10 21:04, per...@pluto.rain.com wrote: Programmer In Training p...@joseph-a-nagy-jr.us wrote: I'm thinking I'm just going to wait until Tuesday and get a brand new pair of wall-powered speakers. This hassle is NOT worth it ... If speakers on USB 2.0 card, all else on 1.x builtins doesn't snip Despite the steadily degrading nature of the builtins, they are working for the keyboard with speakers on the card and so far (aside from some initial issues) they seem to be working just fine. For now. I'm still getting a new pair of speakers. Now I'm not so keen on getting some of those USB gadgets from ThinkGeek. ): It's probably too late to suggest it now but it did occur to me a very cheap and easy way to get around the original problem might be to replace the keyboard with a PS/2 keyboard :P (if your computer has a PS/2 port). Chris ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: FreeBSD PXE installation howto
Egoitz Aurrekoetxea Aurre wrote: Hi, I'm working on a project for setting up a freebsd installation server with pxe. When I started I see the doc was a bit old-fashioned... so I started looking at some blogs... freebsd doc that could help me understanding the whole process and so on... finally I have ended looking at source code of some involved parts like sysintall, boot stages and so on for understanding all properly for setting up this service. I have written a documentation that if you see it to be ok... (it seems to be working fine) perhaps, would be nice to appear in handbook or in some official documentation site... So if you see something that should be done in another way... or some point wich you consider it's wrong... please make me know and I'll correct it. The url in wich you could fetch the pdf file is : http://postfixquotareject.ramattack.net/freebsdpxehowto.pdf Thank you very much. Bye!!___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org Hi egoitz s/wich/which/g What is this line? mkdir -p /usr/local/freebsd7/boot/defaults Should it be mkdir -p /expert/netboot/freebsd8/boot/defaults/ ? I think the line Let's copy device.hints for booting the kernel loaded by loader in this pxe boot. Let's copy too some routine files for loader (and for forth shell) and a loader defaults config file. should be above the block of mkdir and cp commands above. The phrase but really it's optional you may not specify -u probably should say but really it's optional, you don't have to specify -u. As written it means you are not allowed to :) Could you have used ftpd in the base system instead of tftp in inedt.conf? Chris ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: USB Powered Speakers
Programmer In Training wrote: On 04/09/10 18:31, Chris Whitehouse wrote: snip Unless you insist on an operating system solution what you are really after is a 5 volt supply. What about buying a mains USB charger of the right capacity, or if you are handy with bits of wire have a look I wouldn't know where to look for one. Google mains USB charger :) through all those old power supplies for a 5 volt one? Most households build up a store of old power supplies from defunct or lost equipment. Or even use the 5 volt supply from inside your computer (if it is a desktop not laptop) Chris It is a desktop. There is a 5V supply in there?! http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Power_supply_unit_%28computer%29#Connectors Only go this way if you know what you are doing... Chris ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: Online school for FreeBSD
Roland Smith wrote: On Fri, Apr 09, 2010 at 09:34:59PM -0800, jt wrote: I've been doing searches for online schools that teach FreeBSD. I've been trying to learn on an off for years but when it starts getting complicated, I get stuck. The handbook don't do allot of good. You can download the book The Complete FreeBSD from http://www.lemis.com/grog/Documentation/CFBSD/ There is also Absolute FreeBSD http://www.absolutefreebsd.com/ Only available for purchase though. Chris ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: USB Powered Speakers
Programmer In Training wrote: I really don't know where to look for this. I've never even heard of USB powered speakers until I got these (no, I don't pay much attention to what's available unless I have a great need for it). I'm thinking I'm just going to wait until Tuesday and get a brand new pair of wall-powered speakers. This hassle is NOT worth it (they put out decent sound). Unless you insist on an operating system solution what you are really after is a 5 volt supply. What about buying a mains USB charger of the right capacity, or if you are handy with bits of wire have a look through all those old power supplies for a 5 volt one? Or even use the 5 volt supply from inside your computer (if it is a desktop not laptop) Chris ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: gdm background picture missing
Adam Vande More wrote: On Thu, Apr 8, 2010 at 10:38 AM, Jian Jun Wang wangjian...@gmail.comwrote: Any suggestion on stepsto solve the problem? Follow the steps in /usr/ports/UPDATING when you are updating ports. Another option would be to pkg_delete * and install everything again from ports. There are good instructions for this in the portmaster man page. I've always had good success with ports-mgmt/portmanager #cd /usr/ports/ports-mgmt/portmanager #make install clean #rehash #cd then portmanager -s to tell you what needs upgrading, eg #portmanager -s portmanager.status #portmanager -l -u to actually do it. See the man page for more options. I extract a list of ports that are not CURRENT from portmanager.status then cycle through them doing 'make config' in each ports directory so that portmanager can be left to run unattended, eg (assuming csh) #foreach i ( `cat ports_to_upgrade`) foreach? cd /usr/ports/$i foreach? make config foreach? cd foreach? end # where ports_to_upgrade contains something like converters/libiconv devel/gettext databases/mysql51-client databases/mysql51-server devel/m4 misc/help2man sysutils/tmux databases/p5-DBD-mysql51 audio/mpg123 x11/dri2proto ... Note upgrading ports can take a long time, even days if you have lots of ports and a slow machine. You can quite happily interrupt portmanager though and start it again later (but see the man page for a caveat). I haven't tested on the bump from jpeg7 to jpeg8 but mostly portmanager just works. Chris ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: skype webcam no device found
Alejandro Imass wrote: On Thu, Apr 1, 2010 at 6:53 AM, Matthias Apitz g...@unixarea.de wrote: El día Thursday, April 01, 2010 a las 06:42:20AM -0400, Alejandro Imass escribió: On Wed, Mar 31, 2010 at 6:24 PM, Chris Whitehouse cwhi...@onetel.com wrote: Hi, I have my webcam setup and working and I can see stuff in pwcview. But skype tells me 'no device found' for video. How did you get Skype to run? The current port (in FBSD 8) is pointing to a file no longer provided by Skype and the linux compat stuff was a bit confusing when I tried to do it by hand. I've tried various combinations of with/without webcamd and pwcview running, also as root, _and_ restarting webcamd each time, but no joy. Any suggestions very gratefully received. Skype from the ports runs fine in: $ uname -a FreeBSD current.Sisis.de 8.0-CURRENT FreeBSD 8.0-CURRENT #5: Sun Jan 10 09:55:14 CET 2010 g...@current.sisis.de:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GENERIC i386 $ pkg_info | fgrep skype skype-2.0.0.72,1P2P VoIP software $ including a webCam based on pwc(4) kernel mod; matthias Well not in my system: lucifer# uname -a FreeBSD lucifer.yabarana.com 8.0-RELEASE FreeBSD 8.0-RELEASE #0: Sat Nov 21 15:02:08 UTC 2009 r...@mason.cse.buffalo.edu:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GENERIC amd64 lucifer# make install clean === Vulnerability check disabled, database not found * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * ATTENTION! Skype requires at least linux_base-fc6 I have linux_base-f10-10_2 and skype-2.0.0.72,1 (net/skype) installed from ports and it just worked - but so far without video and sound. FreeBSD 8.0-RELEASE-p2 #0: Wed Mar 24 i386 Chris which is NOT default at this time. If you don't have that version or above installed, hit 'control c' now! Please read /usr/ports/UPDATING 20080318 for update and install instructions. * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * = skype_static-2.0.0.72-oss.tar.bz2 doesn't seem to exist in /usr/ports/distfiles/. = Attempting to fetch from http://download.skype.com/linux/. fetch: http://download.skype.com/linux/skype_static-2.0.0.72-oss.tar.bz2: Not Found = Attempting to fetch from ftp://ftp.FreeBSD.org/pub/FreeBSD/ports/distfiles/. fetch: ftp://ftp.FreeBSD.org/pub/FreeBSD/ports/distfiles/skype_static-2.0.0.72-oss.tar.bz2: File unavailable (e.g., file not found, no access) = Couldn't fetch it - please try to retrieve this = port manually into /usr/ports/distfiles/ and try again. *** Error code 1 Stop in /usr/ports/net/skype. Best, Alejandro Imass -- Matthias Apitz t +49-89-61308 351 - f +49-89-61308 399 - m +49-170-4527211 e g...@unixarea.de - w http://www.unixarea.de/ Solidarity with the imperialistic Israel?Not in my name! ¿Solidaridad con el imperialismo de Israel? ¡No en mi nombre! ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: skype webcam no device found
On Wed, Mar 31, 2010 at 6:24 PM, Chris Whitehousecwhi...@onetel.com wrote: Hi, I have my webcam setup and working and I can see stuff in pwcview. But skype tells me 'no device found' for video. I've tried various combinations of with/without webcamd and pwcview running, also as root, _and_ restarting webcamd each time, but no joy. Any suggestions very gratefully received. [ snip lots of stuff about installing skype ] So, after that slight detour, does anyone have any idea how I can get my webcam recognised in skype? I'm using video4bsd-kmod-0.1.3 libv4l-0.6.4 v4l_compat-1.0.20100113 webcamd-0.1.4 pwcview-1.4.1_2 skype-2.0.0.72,1 linux_base-f10-10_2 FreeBSD 8.0-RELEASE-p2 #1 i386 GENERIC Is skype video working for anyone? thanks very much Chris ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
flash gotcha?
hi I am installing flash on a fairly fresh installation of 8.0 FreeBSD 8.0-RELEASE-p2 #0: Wed Mar 24 GENERIC i386. linux_base-f10-10_2 linux-f10-flashplugin-10.0r42 nspluginwrapper-1.2.2_5 muji2# nspluginwrapper -v -a -i Auto-install plugins from /usr/local/lib/browser_plugins Looking for plugins in /usr/local/lib/browser_plugins Install plugin /usr/local/lib/browser_plugins/libflashplayer.so into /usr/local/lib/browser_plugins/npwrapper.libflashplayer.so Auto-install plugins from /root/.mozilla/plugins Looking for plugins in /root/.mozilla/plugins muji2# %nspluginwrapper -v -a -i Auto-install plugins from /usr/local/lib/browser_plugins Looking for plugins in /usr/local/lib/browser_plugins Install plugin /usr/local/lib/browser_plugins/libflashplayer.so ... already installed system-wide, skipping Auto-install plugins from /home/chrisw/.mozilla/plugins Looking for plugins in /home/chrisw/.mozilla/plugins % about:plugins in firefox3 shows flash is not installed. muji2# nspluginwrapper -v -a -r Auto-remove plugins from /usr/local/lib/browser_plugins Looking for plugins in /usr/local/lib/browser_plugins Remove plugin /usr/local/lib/browser_plugins/npwrapper.libflashplayer.so Auto-remove plugins from /root/.mozilla/plugins Looking for plugins in /root/.mozilla/plugins %nspluginwrapper -v -a -i Auto-install plugins from /usr/local/lib/browser_plugins Looking for plugins in /usr/local/lib/browser_plugins Install plugin /usr/local/lib/browser_plugins/libflashplayer.so into /home/chrisw/.mozilla/plugins/npwrapper.libflashplayer.so Auto-install plugins from /home/chrisw/.mozilla/plugins Looking for plugins in /home/chrisw/.mozilla/plugins Now about:plugins shows flash is installed and stays installed for the non-root user even if root subsequently runs nspluginwrapper again. Chris ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: Using webcam Windows driver
Glen Barber wrote: Hi, Fernando Apestegu?a wrote: On Thu, Feb 25, 2010 at 8:56 AM, Siju George sgeorge...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, I have a logitech quickcam. Will I be able to use it in FreeBSD? Can I use Windows driver? Maybe you want to have a look at pwcbsd[1]. This is to use linux drivers on A more recent project exists in the ports tree. If you're running 8.0-RELEASE or later, you might have a look at: ports/multimedia/video4bsd-kmod ports/multimedia/webcamd Although, I don't know if your particular camera is supported. Regards, Hi, I kept this thread open while I tried some cameras myself and I can say that all three cheapo web cams that I tried work. I've now got FreeBSD 8.0-RELEASE-p2 #0: Wed Mar 24 11:51:43 GMT 2010 GENERIC i386 (note sources were csupped a couple of weeks before) video4bsd-kmod-0.1.3 libv4l-0.6.4 v4l_compat-1.0.20100113 webcamd-0.1.4 pwcview-1.4.1_2 loader.conf has video4bsd_load=YES rc.conf webcamd_enable=YES The webcam user needs write permissions on /dev/video0 - I still need to set this up in devfs.rules. Webcams I have are an ancient Logitech, some sort of Microsoft cam and an ASDA Smart Value cam for £6 :) I have a problem using any of the cameras with Skype which I will post separately. cheers Chris ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
skype webcam no device found
Hi, I have my webcam setup and working and I can see stuff in pwcview. But skype tells me 'no device found' for video. I've tried various combinations of with/without webcamd and pwcview running, also as root, _and_ restarting webcamd each time, but no joy. Any suggestions very gratefully received. thanks Chris ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: OT: dead box
Frank Shute wrote: Sorry if this is a bit off-topic. I came in the other day to find my workstation powered off. Hitting the power on button had no effect as did using another known working outlet. I checked all the cables and they seem attached. I thought my power supply must have died so I got another, screwed it in and again no joy - no sign of life. Anybody got any ideas what the problem may be? I'm thinking possibly the power on switch but that seems a long shot and there seems no easy way to replace it. My hardware: Antec Sonata case. Gigabyte board. Core 2 duo TIA, Regards, When you press the power button does the cpu fan or the power supply fan spin for a moment then stop? That's a sign that something on or plugged in to the motherboard has blown. Unplug things and test again. Chris ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: (No subject header)
doug schmidt wrote: On Mon, Mar 8, 2010 at 7:42 AM, Lars Hartmann l...@chaotika.org wrote: Hi, i have a acer aspire one with no oprating system it has no cd drive would i be possible to download a redy top use version of software so i could boot form a memory stick? (i have no other computer to unlock to iso file) Google is your friend: http://miwi.bsdcrew.de/2009/06/freebsd-80-install-with-a-usb-stick/ next time, do that yourself. http://lmgtfy.com/?q=freebsd+8.0+install+with+usb+stick ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org If you mean a bootable usb image that you can use to install FreeBSD to your machine here are some things that might interest you: You can get a usb stick installation image from ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/ISO-IMAGES-i386/8.0/8.0-RELEASE-i386-memstick.img but you'll probably need to do some reading in the handbook http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/ PCBSD is a ready to go desktop configuration of FreeBSD, you can download a USB complete install from http://www.pcbsd.org/content/view/152/11/ There are also some threads about running FreeBSD on the aspire one, eg http://forums.freebsd.org/showthread.php?t=449 regards Chris ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: Severe instabilities and system lockups
David Jackson wrote: I am still having severe problems with severe system instabilities with FreeBSD and have had these problrms in 7.1 and 8.0. The system randomly locks up, it appears applications lock up when they access the USb disk. Also, when accessing the USB disk, the entire system lockup often for minutes. Performance with accessing USB disks is horrendous,. it took 7 hours to copy a directory that was 200 MB. Any program that accesses the USB disk tend to freeze for minutes, and often the entire system becomes unresponsive for minutes. Overall FreeBSD here is characterized by severe instabilities, ive had better performance from Windows 98 systems. The fact that the entire system freezes up, this should not happen, a well designed system will not lock up the entire OS when accessing disk. Are there any diagnostic tools uch as getting a log of tranmissions on USB and probe it, ,or finmd out what code it is lockilng up on ?Has anyone else seen these problems with USB disks? ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org Don't ask me to fix anything because I have no idea, but I have seen this occasionally on one usb port and/or using a usb extender cable (I haven't tested properly yet) on my home desktop system. So I put it down to a hardware issue. All other ports work as expected. Is it an external hard drive, as opposed to pen drive etc? Have you tested with the supplied cable plugged directly into a usb port (no extender cable) including with the secondary power cable if it has one? Have you tested all your usb ports? Have you tested on other machines running FreeBSD? Finally, given your remark about windows 98, does your motherboard actually have USB 2? FreeBSD 8.0-RELEASE-p1 regards Chris ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: 8.0-RELEASE/amd64 - full ZFS install - low read and write disk performance
Dan Naumov wrote: CPU-performance-wise, I am not really worried. The current system is an Atom 330 and even that is a bit overkill for what I do with it and from what I am seeing, the new Atom D510 used on those boards is a tiny bit faster. What I want and care about for this system are reliability, stability, low power use, quietness and fast disk read/write speeds. I've been hearing some praise of ICH9R and 6 native SATA ports should be enough for my needs. AFAIK, the Intel 82574L network cards included on those are also very well supported? These might be interesting then www.fit-pc.com The Intel US15W SCH chipset or System Controller Hub as it's called is mentioned in hardware notes for 8.0R and 7.2R but only for snd_hda, I don't know if this means other functions are supported or not. This thread says it is supported http://mail-index.netbsd.org/port-i386/2010/01/03/msg001695.html Chris ps I removed some of the recipients from the recipients list as my original post was held for moderation because of Too many recipients to the message - Sincerely, Dan Naumov ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
