Re: [kde-freebsd] After upgrading to kde-4.4.3 screen goes black after the kde4 splash screen

2010-05-24 Thread Dwayne MacKinnon 
Hi Yuri,

This won't be of much help, I know, but KDE 4.4.3 is working perfectly for me. 
It scrambled my desktop panel settings a bit, but that was easily remedied.

Cheers,
DMK

On May 24, 2010 04:54:00 am Yuri wrote:
 I found that renaming ~/.kde4 makes things better and kde4 boots like
 for the first time. But how do I get my previous settings back?
 Still even with the fresh ~/.kde4 screen looks funny: Desktop Folder
 doesn't have any color so only text is visible, same with the task panel.
 After I added yaWP weather plasmoid desktop turned black.
 
 Do you have kde-4.4.3 working?
 
 Yuri
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PCI-X on FreeBSD vs. PCI-X on Linux

2005-05-18 Thread Dwayne MacKinnon 
Hello,

My company is currently comparing FreeBSD to Linux: specifically FreeBSD 
4.11-RELEASE to Fedora Core 3.

We're having a difficult time determining whether or not FreeBSD is utilizing 
the higher speeds of the PCI-X bus. 

Can anyone specifically state the status of PCI-X support in FreeBSD? The 
state of support in 5.X is fine too. This is a major issue as we determine 
which platform to move forward on.

Note that I do mean PCI-X. I'm aware that PCI-Express is on Scott Long's 
wish-list of things to get implemented.

Cheers,
DMK

P.S. - Please cc me on all replies.
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Re: Problems with flash and native mozilla

2004-10-19 Thread Dwayne MacKinnon 
Martes Wigglesworth wrote:
Greetings.
I have an issue with my mozilla install.  I am unable to figure out how,
or what people get flash7 to work with mozilla.  And I also have trouble
getting anything to work that I need, while maintaining a working
desktop.  Hence, if I want to install mplayer, I have to upgrade
everthing that also makes my desktop, KDE 3.1.4, work with the initial
install.  Also, the only reliable desktop/production applications seem
to be the few that come on the iso install cd.  Anyone have any advice
on this?
Respectfully,
Martes 
Martes,
Your question is better suited to the freebsd-questions mailing list, 
rather than the freebsd-hackers mailing list, so I've cc'ed the response 
to your letter to the former list rather then the latter.

The port that enables mozilla on FreeBSD to use flash is 
www/linuxpluginwrapper. Since you're using KDE 3.1.4 I'm going to assume 
that you're running FreeBSD 4.9-RELEASE. That's fine; the functionality 
that linuxpluginwrapper needs is present in 4.9.

However, support for Flash 7 has only just been added to 
linuxpluginwrapper, and is listed as alpha quality only. In other words, 
it's more likely to not work than work.

As far as upgrading goes: have you upgraded your ports collection using 
cvsup? This is the best  safest way to keep things up to date on your 
system. The Handbook has information on using cvsup in Appendice A.5 
(http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/cvsup.html). 
A sample supfile for ports is  /usr/share/examples/cvsup/ports-supfile.

For managing your ports, I strongly recommend the sysutils/portupgrade 
port. Simply log in as root, cd to /usr/ports/sysutils/portupgrade and do
make
make install clean

Then do a man portupgrade. It's a great tool.
If you haven't been upgrading your utilities, you should be aware that 
mozilla has come out with several new releases of its browser since 
4.9-RELEASE, including some security releases to block exploits in the 
browser.

You should strongly consider updating your desktop. The advantages of 
KDE 3.3 over 3.1.4 are too numerous for me to go into here. If you don't 
want to use the ports system to compile a new KDE, KDE packages are 
available for installation using pkg_add (or portinstall -PP if you've 
installed portupgrade.) Directions for installing and upgrading KDE can 
be found at http://www.freebsd.kde.org.

Good luck!
DMK
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Hyperthreading question

2004-06-08 Thread Dwayne MacKinnon 
Hi all,
I'm upgrading some machines from 4.8-RELEASE to 4.10-RELEASE. The 
machines in question are dual-processor xeon boxes. Now, my boss is 
adamant in that he doesn't want hyperthreading enabled on the machines.

In 4.8-RELEASE things were simple... I just didn't add the options HTT 
line to my kernel config file. In 4.10-RELEASE though, HTT is enabled by
default.

So, is there any way to shut off the hyperthreading? I've tried 
disabling it in the BIOS, and had no luck whatsoever.

Thanks,
DMK
PS: A direct reply would be welcome. I'm not subscribed to the mailing list.
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PCI-X support in FreeBSD

2004-04-14 Thread Dwayne MacKinnon 
Hello,

	I was wondering if there were any plans to support the PCI-X bus in 
FreeBSD. The hardware release notes for both 4.9 and 5.2.1 only mention 
PCI. I know that all PCI-X slots support standard PCI cards, but I'm 
interested in the performance boost that PCI-X gives.

Cheers,
DMK
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Odd cvsup behaviour

2004-04-04 Thread Dwayne MacKinnon 
Hi all,

Lately, when I cvsup my ports tree, using ports-all, I've noticed something 
rather odd. The editors/AbiWord2 port always gets completely deleted. Always. 
If I cvsup again immediately after completion, the editors/AbiWord2 port 
always gets completely checked out again. Any idea why this would be 
happening?

I noticed the behaviour because when I would portsdb -Uu after the cvsup, the 
index would always break. So these days I cvsup -L2 ports-supfile (which uses 
ports-all) immediately followed by cvsup -L2 editors-supfile (which I've 
edited to only use ports-editors, for speed's sake.) After that, portsdb -Uu 
works like a charm.

I've attached the output from cvsup in case anyone's interested. I'm using 
cvsup12, since I'm sure that'd be one of the first questions. :) Regrettably, 
I managed to lose the output from the second cvsup but trust me, it's always 
just the AbiWord2 port getting checked out again.

Cheers,
DMK
-- 
I can't afford to make exceptions. I mean, once word leaks out that a pirate 
has gone soft, people begin to disobey you and then it's nothing but work, 
work, work all the time. -The Dread Pirate Roberts, from The Princess Bride
-su-2.05b# cvsup -L2 ports-supfile; cvsup -L2 editors-supfile; portsdb -Uu
Parsing supfile ports-supfile
Connecting to cvsup12.FreeBSD.org
Connected to cvsup12.FreeBSD.org
Server software version: SNAP_16_1g
Negotiating file attribute support
Exchanging collection information
Establishing multiplexed-mode data connection
Running
Updating collection ports-all/cvs
 Edit ports/CHANGES
  Add delta 1.12 2004.04.03.16.28.33 glewis
 Edit ports/INDEX
  Add delta 1.385 2004.04.03.12.26.40 kris
 Edit ports/LEGAL
  Add delta 1.344 2004.04.04.15.09.17 thierry
 Edit ports/Mk/bsd.java.mk
  Add delta 1.39 2004.04.03.03.37.05 glewis
 Edit ports/Mk/bsd.port.mk
  Add delta 1.486 2004.04.03.23.59.50 kris
 Edit ports/Mk/bsd.sites.mk
  Add delta 1.232 2004.04.04.06.11.04 dougb
 Edit ports/audio/libtremor/Makefile
  Add delta 1.2 2004.04.03.08.48.20 ade
 Edit ports/audio/mpio-driver/Makefile
  Add delta 1.2 2004.04.04.10.05.47 kris
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  Add delta 1.14 2004.04.04.12.18.39 pav
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 Edit ports/cad/xcircuit/files/patch-Makefile.in
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  Add delta 1.326 2004.04.04.18.00.58 erwin
 Edit ports/databases/dbf/files/patch-dbf.c
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 Edit ports/databases/memcached/Makefile
  Add delta 1.9 2004.04.03.08.27.07 ade
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 Checkout ports/databases/p5-Class-DBI-Plugin-RetrieveAll/distinfo
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Disabling uhci at boot-time

2003-02-20 Thread Dwayne MacKinnon 
Hello,

	I've been tasked with putting FreeBSD on a laptop at work. The problem 
I'm having is this: The USB controller is setting up as IRQ 10, while 
another piece of hardware is hard-coded to that IRQ. Hence, the kernel 
panics on a page-fault at boot time, meaning I can't even start the install.

	The laptop is a Eurocom 3100b and its BIOS doesn't have a setting to 
shut off the USB stuff. (I upgraded the BIOS just to see if that would 
help. It didn't.) I tried to disable USB in the kernel config utility, 
only to discover that to the kernel config utility uhci doesn't exist.

	So what I'm asking is this: is there any way around this problem, or do 
I inform my boss that he's asking the impossible?

	Please cc me on any replies.

Thanks in advance,
Dwayne MacKinnon


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