Re: Excessive bounces
On Mon, Aug 26, 2013 at 06:28:32PM -0400, Robert Huff wrote: Harald Weis writes: My membership to this list has been disabled due to excessive bounces. Could somebody please tell me how to stop these bounces in the future ? You are not the only one with this problem. I am subscribed, from the same address, to about half a dozen Freebsd lists; questions@ is the only one that insists I confirm my subscription (roughly once a month). Attempts to work with the Freebsd mailing-lists admins have been far from satisfactory Robert Huff Thanks to all of you. I'm just happy to know that I am not the only one having this problem with freebsd-questions, and never ever with many other (FreeBSD or other) lists since years. Harald ___ 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
Excessive bounces
Hi All, My membership to this list has been disabled due to excessive bounces. Could somebody please tell me how to stop these bounces in the future ? What is their operating mode ? What can I do if they do not require to break my (inclusive) firewall which seems to work fine and which is in place since ages ? Thank you in advance for any advice. -- Harald Weis ___ 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
midori preferences segmentation fault
midori Edit Preferences results, nearly every time, in: *** NSPlugin Viewer *** ERROR: rpc_end_sync called when not in sync! Segmentation fault (core dumped) This occurs since 9.1-RELEASE. All ports (midori, linux-f10-flashplugin11, nspluginwrapper, etc) are up to date. No problem with chromium. Haven't tried firefox this time. Compile time for chromium is about 6 hours. As far as I remember, firefox compile time takes even longer. What is wrong with midori ? Thank you in advance, Harald ___ 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: Youtube Flash Videos broken?
On Sun, Apr 07, 2013 at 12:09:32AM +0200, Polytropon wrote: If it's just about YouTube video, why not use youtube-dl and mplayer? I haven't tested it for those particular two videos, but it tends to work for everything. :-) Can you please help me how to find the right URLs for youtube-dl ? For example on http://www.youtube.com/user/ConcertosLive/videos When I copy URLs with mouse in opera I always get youtube-dl: No match. (opera and flash work fine for playing and also for downloading the the ogg file) I definitely prefer the command line tool. Getting rid of flash would be a tremendous relief. -- Harald Weis Versailles, France ___ 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: AARGH... give me some idea for ad-blockers
On Sun, Jan 06, 2013 at 07:40:37PM -0800, Gary Kline wrote: itHOught I'd ask the best list which ad-blocking software I should use. firefox is my std browsers; also use ixquick. thanks for some tips, Have a look at midori. -- Harald Weis ___ 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 buffer location
On Fri, Jul 06, 2012 at 05:55:37PM +0200, Harald Weis wrote: On Wed, Jul 04, 2012 at 11:27:44PM +0100, RW wrote: On Wed, 4 Jul 2012 22:34:21 +0200 Actually Opera already has a setting: Enable plug-ins only on demand (under preferences-advanced-content). It disables all plugins by default and you can click on an individual placeholder to enable a plug-in for a specific object, so you can watch a flash movie or turn on a flash navigation menu without having to turn-on any flash adverts on the same page. Trying it out on www.spiegel.de. But I cannot find the individual placeholder. Where is it ? -- Harald Weis ___ 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 Alright, I just found it. On my system the placeholders are here: Tools - Advanced - Plug-ins Thanks again, Harald ___ 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 buffer location
On Wed, Jul 04, 2012 at 11:27:44PM +0100, RW wrote: On Wed, 4 Jul 2012 22:34:21 +0200 Actually Opera already has a setting: Enable plug-ins only on demand (under preferences-advanced-content). It disables all plugins by default and you can click on an individual placeholder to enable a plug-in for a specific object, so you can watch a flash movie or turn on a flash navigation menu without having to turn-on any flash adverts on the same page. Trying it out on www.spiegel.de. But I cannot find the individual placeholder. Where is it ? -- Harald Weis ___ 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 buffer location
On Mon, Jul 02, 2012 at 05:46:00PM +0200, Wojciech Puchar wrote: I would recommend you to remove flash at all. It actually improves web browsing experience, removing problems with constant CPU load because you have few tabs with flash crap running, and will teach you good habit of actually OWN all interesting things ON YOUR DISK, not on the internet that happens to disappear in a short time. Great idea. Thank you. The difference is really tremendous. I've added though a tiny script to switch flash off and on with nspluginwrapper. Could be useful on some occasion. ___ 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 buffer location
On Fri, Jun 29, 2012 at 09:54:59PM +0200, Polytropon wrote: For YouTube, check out the port youtube-dl. For most of everything else, see http://github.com/monsieurvideo/get-flash-videos for details. Thank you very much indeed. youtube-dl works fine and is probably all I need because it seems to work for a lot of other sites. I just tested it for Dailymotion. Thanks also for the get-flash-videos link which I am glad to study in detail, including the git port I've now installed. FreeBSD is a wonderful OS! HOWTO find the video buffer location if it is not /tmp ? I would assume there's some temporary storage either in ~/.opera or ~/.macromedia (for the Flash plugin). Yes, it's in ~/.opera, for example: me@pollux:~ % file .opera/cache/g_002C/opr004FM.tmp .opera/cache/g_002C/opr004FM.tmp: Macromedia Flash Video Really happy, -- Harald ___ 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 buffer location
On Sat, Jun 30, 2012 at 10:38:51PM +0200, Wojciech Puchar wrote: For YouTube, check out the port youtube-dl. For most of everything else, see http://github.com/monsieurvideo/get-flash-videos for details. xpi-unplug firefox plugin is useful too. I agree. Firefox gets vulnerable every now and then. And it takes many many hours to upgrade it on my old « Intel(R) Pentium(R) 4 CPU 2.60GHz » system. For now I am happy with w3m and, if text browsing is unsufficient, with opera. -- Harald ___ 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
video buffer location
In contrast to firefox, there is no decent video download helper for opera. HOWTO find the video buffer location if it is not /tmp ? Thank you in advance, -- Harald Weis ___ 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: Performance and mouse problems
On Mon, Apr 30, 2012 at 05:19:35PM +0200, Jerome Herman wrote: Short answer : I am a proud member of the HAL and DBus are evil group. Middle answer : HAL and DBus were made, maintained and tuned with pretty much nothing but Linux in mind. As a result they hardly play well with other OS, and will tend to play worse as the time goes by. In fact general opinion is that HAL never truly worked under Linux either, it is now officially deprecated. I fully agree and propose a slightly longer answer « by example » because I just got rid of hald and dbus, and I am very happy with the following configurations for both my desktop and laptop machines. /boot/loader.conf on both: -- ums_load=YES -- rc.conf on desktop: # Note that moused_enable is set to NO # by /etc/default/rc.conf ! -- keymap=us.iso # Next line required after switching locale from iso-8859-15 to utf-8 scrnmap=us-ascii_to_cp437 # See rc.conf(5) and /etc/default/rc.conf # for default and non-default moused settings. # moused_ums0_flags=-a 0.3# decelerate Labtec mouse -- rc.conf on laptop: -- keymap=fr.iso.acc # Next line required after switching locale from iso-8859-15 to utf-8 scrnmap=us-ascii_to_cp437 # See rc.conf(5) and /etc/default/rc.conf # for default and non-default moused settings. # moused_enable=YES # touchpad on laptops moused_flags=-3 moused_ums0_flags=# non-default moused -- xorg.conf on both: -- Section ServerLayout Identifier X.org Configured Screen 0 Screen0 0 0 InputDeviceMouse0 CorePointer InputDeviceKeyboard0 CoreKeyboard Option AutoAddDevices false EndSection Section InputDevice Identifier Keyboard0 Driver kbd EndSection Section InputDevice Identifier Mouse0 Driver mouse Option Protocol auto Option Device /dev/sysmouse Option ZAxisMapping 4 5 6 7 EndSection -- The following configures the keyboard map under X with the option for typing all sorts of non-ascii characters. .xinitrc on desktop: -- setxkbmap -model pc104 -layout us -option compose:ralt -- .xinitrc on laptop: -- setxkbmap -model pc102 -layout fr -option compose:menu -- That works on 8.2-RELEASE-p3. -- Harald Weis ___ 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
Wireless PCI card
Hi All, Could someone please tell me whether the following card is supported by 8.2-RELEASE-p3 (a card available in France) ? Carte PCI Wifi-N Essential TEW-643PI, 300 Mbps, TrendNet Thank you in advance. -- Harald Weis ___ 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: Wireless PCI card
On Sat, Mar 17, 2012 at 11:18:05AM -0400, Jerry wrote: On Sat, 17 Mar 2012 08:44:24 -0600 (MDT) Warren Block articulated: On Sat, 17 Mar 2012, Harald Weis wrote: Could someone please tell me whether the following card is supported by 8.2-RELEASE-p3 (a card available in France) ? Carte PCI Wifi-N Essential TEW-643PI, 300 Mbps, TrendNet That's a Realtek 8190 chipset. There is no native driver at present, ndisgen may be an option. I have never had any luck with ndisgen and 64 bit drivers and even less with N protocol devices. -- Jerry ??? Disclaimer: off-list followups get on-list replies or get ignored. Please do not ignore the Reply-To header. __ ___ 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 Is this one supported ? Réseau Carte PCI D-LINK PCI wifi N 300Mbps -- Harald Weis ___ 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: Wireless PCI card
On Sat, Mar 17, 2012 at 11:18:05AM -0400, Jerry wrote: On Sat, 17 Mar 2012 08:44:24 -0600 (MDT) Warren Block articulated: On Sat, 17 Mar 2012, Harald Weis wrote: Could someone please tell me whether the following card is supported by 8.2-RELEASE-p3 (a card available in France) ? Carte PCI Wifi-N Essential TEW-643PI, 300 Mbps, TrendNet That's a Realtek 8190 chipset. There is no native driver at present, ndisgen may be an option. I have never had any luck with ndisgen and 64 bit drivers and even less with N protocol devices. -- Jerry ??? Disclaimer: off-list followups get on-list replies or get ignored. Please do not ignore the Reply-To header. __ ___ 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 Is this one supported ? Réseau Carte PCI D-LINK PCI wifi N 300Mbps I just realize, this is N protocol again. What about this one ? Netgear Wn311B Carte Pci WiFi 300MBPS Rangemax Next Wn311B seems to be N as well ? I can see only 2 cards [http://www.rueducommerce.fr/index/carte%20wifi%20pci] which are not N, but they are rather slow. Carte PCI WiFi AirPlus G - DWL-G510 and TEW-423PI - Carte PCI WiFi 802.11g - 54 Mbps [Oh, TEW again] -- Harald Weis ___ 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
On Wed, Jun 16, 2010 at 03:04:00PM +0200, C. P. Ghost wrote: On Wed, Jun 16, 2010 at 12:11 AM, Programmer in Training p...@joseph-a-nagy-jr.us wrote: I will tell Adobe to provide a FreeBSD-native release, though it would be nice to know I won't be the only one. I'm actually going right now to do so. Good luck with that. Adobe doesn't care about FreeBSD. Never did, and probably never will. They don't even care about 64-bit Linux users... If you absolutely need Flash on FreeBSD, I'd suggest you install VirtualBox, and inside VirtualBox a Flash-supported OS, like OpenSolaris (that's what I do when I absolutely need Flash support). It's not the cleanest solution, but at least, I don't have to clutter my FreeBSD system with A LOT of Linux dependencies just to get a barely working Flash. -cpghost. I followed your advice when I discovered your message. No problem to install the opensolaris guest and the flash player. Video seems okay, but there is no sound and I cannot find out why. Needless to say that audio works fine on the host which is still on 8.0-RELEASE-p4 for the time being. I can't imagine that this could be the reason. Thank you in advance for any help. Harald Weis ___ 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: Flash viewer for FBSD
On Fri, Mar 05, 2010 at 12:14:15PM +0700, Pongthep Kulkrisada wrote: Hi all, I have been using FBSD since 5.4 until now 8.0. Mostly, I use it as a server and coding C (as my hobby). All the time I stay in console without fancy of any GUI. For GUI applications, I mostly use Windows. Now I want to use only FBSD for web browsing and don't want to use Windows. I installed FBSD 7.1 with KDE 3.5 from CD. Then I csup(ed) and buildworld to FBSD 7.2 and then finally FBSD 8.0 while remaining KDE unchanged. I use opera-10.10 for web browsing. The problem is that ``flash viewer'' is not installed. I don't know whether someone has said it already. Whenever you have a problem look first in the Handbook to see whether the issue is addressed there. Concerning the flash viewer: http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/desktop-browsers.html Harald ___ 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
Broken multimedia/dvdauthor repaired at last
I just found a way to ''repair'' dvdauthor which is broken since several months. It suffices to comment two lines - 1082 and 1083 - in subreader.c like so: //fribidi_set_mirroring (FRIBIDI_TRUE); //fribidi_set_reorder_nsm (FRIBIDI_FALSE); # cd /usr/ports/multimedia/dvdauthor # make This produces the error message. Change subreader.c as said. # vi work/dvdauthor-0.6.14/src/subreader.c # make install It works for me. Don't know what is missing now. But lxdvdrip which requires dvdauthor is working as usual. :) Hope it helps everybody else. -- Harald Weis ___ 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: Broken multimedia/dvdauthor repaired at last
On Sun, Nov 29, 2009 at 07:26:53PM +0100, Julian H. Stacey wrote: Hi, Reference: From: Harald Weis ha...@free.fr Date: Sun, 29 Nov 2009 16:43:14 +0100 Message-id: 20091129154314.ga2...@pollux.local.net Harald Weis wrote: I just found a way to ''repair'' dvdauthor which is broken since several months. It suffices to comment two lines - 1082 and 1083 - in subreader.c like so: //fribidi_set_mirroring (FRIBIDI_TRUE); //fribidi_set_reorder_nsm (FRIBIDI_FALSE); # cd /usr/ports/multimedia/dvdauthor # make This produces the error message. Change subreader.c as said. # vi work/dvdauthor-0.6.14/src/subreader.c # make install It works for me. Don't know what is missing now. But lxdvdrip which requires dvdauthor is working as usual. :) Hope it helps everybody else. Please use send-pr so this will be seen by those who can commit your fix. Okay, done. Harald ___ 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
USB image scanner not attached when connected after system startup
My scanner (EPSON PERFECTION 1650) is working alright if it is connected before system startup. But when connected to the running system it doesn't get attached by usbd. I can't find out from Handbook, manpages or mailing lists what could be the reason. Many thanks in advance for any help. -- Harald Weis FreeBSD 4.9-RELEASE #0: Mon Oct 27 17:51:09 GMT 2003 ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: buggy filtermail-0.7
On Tue, Aug 24, 2004 at 10:12:26PM +0200, Harald Weis wrote:
Has anyone got a working filtermail-0.7 port ?
Building and installing is fine, but the result is useless because of the
following bug:
algol{me} ~ filtermail
filtermail: 0.7 querying [EMAIL PROTECTED] on Tue Aug 24 15:45:24 2004.filtermail:
Examining 1 message(s).
filtermail: Deny: Harald Weis [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Tue 24 3H41, Tue, 24 Aug 2004
15:43:04 +0200 [Return-Path exceeded maxlength].
In fact, filtermail _does_work_ if
MAXLENTH = 998
- Fortunately, nobody read my message :-)
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buggy filtermail-0.7
Has anyone got a working filtermail-0.7 port ?
Building and installing is fine, but the result is useless because of the
following bug:
algol{me} ~ filtermail
filtermail: 0.7 querying [EMAIL PROTECTED] on Tue Aug 24 15:45:24 2004.filtermail:
Examining 1 message(s).
filtermail: Deny: Harald Weis [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Tue 24 3H41, Tue, 24 Aug 2004
15:43:04 +0200 [Return-Path exceeded maxlength].
algol{me} ~
All messages produce the same output in test mode.
And if test is set to NO, all messages are consequently deleted :-(
The timestamp of the tarball fetched by 'portupgrade' is still
14 Feb 2004. I've been told that the bug was fixed on 24 Apr and that
I should 'cvs' the source.
But I can't build the port from the cvs-tree of the mailfilter development
branch because of some incompatibility of the autotools (it does not work
with automake18, according to the mailfilter developer it builds alright
with automake17 on Linux. Trying to install automake17 does fail -
'make check' shows 11 failures, so I guess there is no need to run
'make install'.
Thanks for any help,
Harald
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