Re: Screen Shots
On Thu, 6 Mar 2003, Gerard Samuel wrote: Subject: Screen Shots For the life of me, I cannot remember the command line program to take screen shots. Its been a while. If someone could remind me with a man page would be great. Thanks Try 'import' from the ImageMagick port: $ import -window root screenshot.jpg HTH - JB ___ John Bleichert [EMAIL PROTECTED] To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-questions in the body of the message
Re: Suggested Laptop system
On Wed, 5 Mar 2003, Tak Pui LOU wrote: Subject: Suggested Laptop system Hi All, Could anyone suggest a laptop model which has all the device support by FBSD? I don't want something too old but I want to have sound card, network card, etc. working under FreeBSD. Thanks, --- Lou Pick a few based on price and performace, and use google to see how well the individual chipsets are supported. I've installed FBSD on several Thinkpads, and they've all behaved well. The only problems with a modern laptop and FBSD is winmodem support (if you need it, and it may work) and power management. The battery may not last as long as you think. A good place to see how well a particular model is supported is here: http://www.linux-on-laptops.com/ There are some similar sites for FBSD too. HTH - JB ___ John Bleichert [EMAIL PROTECTED] To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-questions in the body of the message
Re: need database suggestion for *.mdb files
On Tue, 4 Mar 2003, Clement Laforet wrote: Subject: Re: need database suggestion for *.mdb files On 04 Mar 2003 09:30:16 -0600 Kirk R. Wythers [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I just received an attachment that was saved as an Access db. Can anyone suggest an application to deal with this file. I'm not familiar enough with freebsd's database options to know if any of them read .mdb files. /usr/ports/databases/mdbtools/ clem Last time I had to deal with this issue, I opened them in Access and exported the mdb files as flat comma-delimited text, then massaged them into appropriate SQL (for Postgres) with Perl. Of course, that was back when I had access to a Windows box on co-op :) Now I'd have to seek other means... Just a thought. JB # John Bleichert # http://vonbek.dhs.org/latest.jpg To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-questions in the body of the message
Re: scroll mouse
On Wed, 26 Feb 2003, Bill Moran wrote: Brian Henning wrote: Since my mouse is a logitech 2 button mouse with a scroll wheel i was thinking this should be my config in my XF86Config. i will comment all the entries for moused in my rc.conf. Section InputDevice Identifier Mouse0 Driver mouse Option Protocol auto Option Device /dev/psm0 Option Buttons 4 Option ZAxisMapping 3 4 EndSection does this seem correct? Looks good. I can't verify the ZAxisMapping setting for your particular mouse, but if it's wrong, you'll find that the wrong buttons cause scrolling, and you should be able to logically determine what the values should be with a few guesses. For my Logitech 2-button/wheel mouse it's Option ZAxisMapping 4 5 JB # John Bleichert # http://vonbek.dhs.org/latest.jpg To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-questions in the body of the message
Re: tcsh redirect
On Tue, 25 Feb 2003, Brian Henning wrote: hello- can anyone tell me how to redirect just the stderr in tcsh? command /dev/null #suppress stdout command /dev/null #suppress stderr and stdout what can i run to suppress just the stderr? thanks, brian From UNIX in a Nutshell, 3rd ed.: (command file1) file2 sends standard output to file1 and standard error to file2. I don't think that's exactly what you were looking for, but hope it helps. Note that in bash or ksh: command 2file1 sends *only* stderr to file1. JB # John Bleichert # http://vonbek.dhs.org/latest.jpg To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-questions in the body of the message
Re: scroll mouse
On Tue, 25 Feb 2003, Brian Henning wrote: On Tue, 25 Feb 2003 13:05:11 Brian Henning wrote: Hello- i have a logitech 2 button mouse with a wheel in the middle. i would like to get the wheel to work in x-windows, but i can't get the scrolling to work. here is what i have done so far. rc.conf moused_type=ps/2 moused_port=/dev/psm0 moused_enable=YES moused_flags=-z 4 /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/XF86Config ... Section InputDevice Identifier Mouse0 Driver mouse Option Protocol MouseSystems Option Device /dev/sysmouse Option Buttons 5 Option ZAxisMapping 4 5 EndSection ... snip You can try using the Auto protocol, that's always worked for me. I don't spot any [obvious] problems... Joshua Need a new email address that people can remember Check out the new EudoraMail at http://www.eudoramail.com i have tried 'auto' in the past, but without success. thanks, brian For what it's worth, I have a couple Logitech mice like yours and the wheel only works with the Auto protocol and with moused *disabled*. I could never get it to work with moused enabled, apparently X must have direct access to it. Which of course never bothered me, as I hate a mouse pointer in terminal mode... HTH - JB # John Bleichert # http://vonbek.dhs.org/latest.jpg To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-questions in the body of the message
Re: Logitech USB Keyboard
On Fri, 21 Feb 2003, Pierrick Brossin wrote: Subject: Re: Logitech USB Keyboard Quoting John Bleichert [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Can't speak to 5.0 (Ive only CVSup'd to it, never installed) but for 4.7 you'll probably need to build a boot floppy with a custom kernel on it that includes support for USB kerboards and mice. There's a script in the handbook for building a custom boot floppy. OK Thanx didn't think about making a boot floppy ! Do you have a USB keyboard ? Because I compiled the 4.7 kernel with all the USB stuff I guess and it wasn't working either! Thanx No USB keyboard, but I do use USB mice. I was thinking it should be as easy as adding support to the kernel for a USB keyboard, unless the keyboard is just waaay too non-standard. Dunno, somebody on the list can probably help. # John Bleichert # http://vonbek.dhs.org/latest.jpg To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-questions in the body of the message
Re: lightweight wm
On Thu, 20 Feb 2003, Jud wrote: Subject: Re: lightweight wm On Thu, 20 Feb 2003 20:38:28 -0500 (EST), John Bleichert [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, 20 Feb 2003 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] im on a pI 233mhz mmx with 64mb of ram what do u recommend me to install GNOME or KDE I use Blackbox on a 166 and it runs great (Fluxbox as suggested by somebody else is based on Blackbox I believe) - it's a great window manager. Controlled by a simple text file, multiple desktops, nice graphical styles, etc. mwm is nice too (very unix) but openmotif takes a long time to build. Though I have the hardware and disk space to run GNOME, KDE, or both if I wish, I gravitate to a lightweight ethic, so like John, I run Blackbox (as well as bbrun for extra convenience). Very occasionally I also use Windowmaker for a bit of variety. With a fairly lightweight GUI file manager, Rox-filer (not lightweight if built from ports, because the FreeBSD port has a bunch of GNOME dependencies; I just download it from its home page and install it, and it works fine for me - note, I do have Linux emulation installed), browser (Opera), mailer (Sylpheed), editor (nedit, though I also play with Xemacs and a couple of TeX editors), cd player (ascd or wmcdplay) and system monitor (GKrellM2), I feel pretty well set. These are all GUI applications, because you asked about GNOME and KDE, which are big GUI desktop environments. The FreeBSD base system comes with command line utilities which will take the places of several of these applications quite nicely. Jud Actually, just to be clear, I'm a KDE fan. KDE 3.1 is great, and on a multi-GHz box with 6 cubic yards of RAM who cares about resources? But on some of the lower-watt boxes I have (at work and at home) I need a lighterweight WM. Blackbox is great, very clean. Also, the code is very clean and makes an excellent X/WM tutorial. That said, I do run Blackbox for a while every now and again for a break ;) # John Bleichert # http://vonbek.dhs.org/latest.jpg To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-questions in the body of the message
Re: kde3 install
On Thu, 20 Feb 2003, Brian Henning wrote: Subject: kde3 install Can someone explain to me what Qt is for here and why it has to be threaded? thanks, Brian checking for Qt... configure: error: Qt (= Qt 3.1 (20021021)) (library qt-mt) not found. Please check your installation! For more details about this problem, look at the end of config.log. Make sure that you have compiled Qt with thread support! === Script configure failed unexpectedly. Please report the problem to [EMAIL PROTECTED] [maintainer] and attach the /usr/ports/games/kdegames3/work/kdegames-3.1/config.log including the output of the failure of your make command. Also, it might be a good idea to provide an overview of all packages installed on your system (e.g. an `ls /var/db/pkg`). *** Error code 1 Qt is the C++ toolkit (www.trolltech.com) which KDE and it's aps are written with. Threading support in the libraries is required to build KDE. I'm not sure why, but it is explicitly required by the source build instructions on kde.org HTH - JB PS: I had problems building kdegames from CVS on a linux box too. # John Bleichert # http://vonbek.dhs.org/latest.jpg To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-questions in the body of the message
Re: PosgreSQL from ports
On Thu, 20 Feb 2003, Jonathan Chen wrote: On Wed, Feb 19, 2003 at 09:14:27PM -0800, Syborg wrote: Greetings! I have installed PostgreSQL 7.3.2 from the ports tree. The server runs fine, I can create tables and issues queries and whatnot. I can not, however, compile C applications as the linker doesnt seem to find the C libraries. Show us the commands you're using to link with, as well as the error messages, and we can probably tell you what you're doing wrong. -- (This was originally from me - my mail box was down for a bit so I jumped on yahoo) I'm trying to compile a very simple postgres app, from the samples, using this simple Makefile: ~~ CFLAGS=-Wall -I/usr/local/include -L/usr/local/lib pgtest: pgtest.c gcc -o pgtest pgtest.c $(CFLAGS) ~~ I use this setup to test the rig on my Linux box too. I get lots of linker errors, the linker cannot find /usr/local/lib/libpq.so it looks like: ... /tmp/ccNOWnok.o(.text+0x2b8): undefined reference to `PQntuples' ... Normally when I install a dev environment from ports, I dont need to fiddle with ldconfig. Do I need to do that here? Or am I missing something? Thanks - JB # John Bleichert # http://vonbek.dhs.org/latest.jpg To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-questions in the body of the message
Re: PosgreSQL from ports
On Thu, 20 Feb 2003, Mike Meyer wrote: Subject: Re: PosgreSQL from ports On Thu, 20 Feb 2003, Jonathan Chen wrote: I'm trying to compile a very simple postgres app, from the samples, using this simple Makefile: ~~ CFLAGS=-Wall -I/usr/local/include -L/usr/local/lib pgtest: pgtest.c gcc -o pgtest pgtest.c $(CFLAGS) ~~ I use this setup to test the rig on my Linux box too. I get lots of linker errors, the linker cannot find /usr/local/lib/libpq.so it looks like: ... /tmp/ccNOWnok.o(.text+0x2b8): undefined reference to `PQntuples' ... You need to add -lpq to the CFLAGS so you actually use the postgres library. mike Doh! I had tried that, but without the '-L' line provided above. Both are required for the build. Hmm. Thanks for the whack with the reason stick ;) JB # John Bleichert # http://vonbek.dhs.org/latest.jpg To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-questions in the body of the message
Re: ODBC on FreeBSD
On Thu, 20 Feb 2003, Mike Meyer wrote: Subject: Re: ODBC on FreeBSD Been off-list for a while. I have a functional PostgreSQL install. I've written native apps to access it on Linux and BSD. WHat do I need to do on the FBSD Postgres server to allow other hosts on the LAN to access it via ODBC? I know I need to install the appropriate ODBC drivers on the clients. snip Ok - it seems like as long as Postgres is listening on an appropriate TCP port, all the ODBC work is on the client side. I'm going to try this out on OSX. I can build the Postgres libraries native on OSX, but for yucks I'm going to try out ODBC (I'll need to build the driver on OSX, that's next). Thanks for all the database help today! JB # John Bleichert # http://vonbek.dhs.org/latest.jpg To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-questions in the body of the message
Re: Logitech USB Keyboard
On Thu, 20 Feb 2003, Pierrick Brossin wrote: Subject: Logitech USB Keyboard Hey! I wanted to install 5.0 on my workstation but the Logitech USB Keyboard doesn't work. It was the same thing on 4.7 and never figured out how to make it work. It's a black Logitech Elite Keyboard with special things on it like a scroll or special buttons. Anyone have one working ? Thanx Can't speak to 5.0 (Ive only CVSup'd to it, never installed) but for 4.7 you'll probably need to build a boot floppy with a custom kernel on it that includes support for USB kerboards and mice. There's a script in the handbook for building a custom boot floppy. HTH - JB # John Bleichert # http://vonbek.dhs.org/latest.jpg To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-questions in the body of the message
Re: Some question
On Thu, 20 Feb 2003, Kostya Odnoralov wrote: Subject: Some question Hi All! Please help me. 1) Advise to me good console-based mp3 player from ports collections. snip Check out mpg123 (and cmp3 which is an ncurses front-end for mpg123, if you should need it). HTH - JB # John Bleichert # http://vonbek.dhs.org/latest.jpg To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-questions in the body of the message
re: lightweight wm
On Thu, 20 Feb 2003 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] im on a pI 233mhz mmx with 64mb of ram what do u recommend me to install GNOME or KDE I use Blackbox on a 166 and it runs great (Fluxbox as suggested by somebody else is based on Blackbox I believe) - it's a great window manager. Controlled by a simple text file, multiple desktops, nice graphical styles, etc. mwm is nice too (very unix) but openmotif takes a long time to build. HTH - JB # John Bleichert # http://vonbek.dhs.org/latest.jpg To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-questions in the body of the message
ODBC on FreeBSD
Hello All Been off-list for a while. I have a functional PostgreSQL install. I've written native apps to access it on Linux and BSD. WHat do I need to do on the FBSD Postgres server to allow other hosts on the LAN to access it via ODBC? I know I need to install the appropriate ODBC drivers on the clients. New to ODBC, figured FBSD is a good place to learn it. Any help or pointers appreciated. Thanks - JB # John Bleichert # http://vonbek.dhs.org/latest.jpg To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-questions in the body of the message
Re: odd lack of fonts in Mozilla 1.2.1
On Wed, 29 Jan 2003, Robin Damm wrote: Subject: Re: odd lack of fonts in Mozilla 1.2.1 John Bleichert [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Hello All I've just installed a minimal 4.7 box with X, mwm and Mozilla 1.2.1 (which is just plain mozilla in the ports, cvsup'd tongight). For some reason there are very few fonts available in the preferences in Mozilla, and the ones that are there look *awful*. I installed Netscape 4.8 and Opera and the fonts are fine with them. Is something busted with native mozilla 1.2.1? Or am I missing something? It takes a long time to build Mozilla on this box... I'm just speculating, but the awful font appearance could be related to Xft. I build mozilla with the following option: # make WITHOUT_XFT=yes This greatly improves font appearance in mozilla (IMHO). There may be a way to fix this by tuning X, but then you have two problems :) Do post if you find a workaround other than recompiling with the above option. -- Robin Damm [EMAIL PROTECTED] ok - thanks for the suggestion. I'm building world on that box right now. It's an old one, it will be done this afternoon. Then I'll try and rebuild Mozilla and try your suggestion. JB # John Bleichert # http://vonbek.dhs.org/latest.jpg To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-questions in the body of the message
xfree86 error - 5.0 (fwd)
Hello All Several people emailed me asking if I had solved this problem with X after cvsup'ing from 4.7 - 5.0. I haven't but someone else has, and here's the solution: hi again, i've solved the problem recompiling XFree86-4-Server with -fno-merge-constants i've added this in the port Makefile in variable CFLAGS. i found it in google. best regards, aleix The original post is below. Just an FYI. Thanks - JB # John Bleichert # http://vonbek.dhs.org/latest.jpg -- Forwarded message -- Date: Tue, 21 Jan 2003 00:01:09 -0500 (EST) From: John Bleichert [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: xfree86 error - 5.0 Hello All Just upgraded to 5.0 and cvsup'd my ports. When I attempt to load X, I get this error (a lot of times) and X doesn't load: Symbol from module /usr/X11R6/lib/modules/fonts/libbitmap.a is unresolved! I've tried to install all the parts of XFree86 individually (from the ports collection), and the list of installed ports is at the end of this email. Any ideas why this is happening? Thanks - JB johnnyb:~ pkg_info | grep XFree XFree86-4.2.0_1,1 X11/XFree86 core distribution (complete, using mini/meta-po XFree86-FontServer-4.2.0_1 XFree86-4 Font Server XFree86-Server-4.2.1_6 XFree86-4 X server and related programs XFree86-clients-4.2.1_2 XFree86-4 Client environments XFree86-documents-4.2.0 XFree86-4 Document Files XFree86-font100dpi-4.2.0 XFree86-4 bitmap 100 dpi fonts XFree86-font75dpi-4.2.0 XFree86-4 bitmap 75 dpi fonts XFree86-fontCyrillic-4.2.0_4 XFree86-4 Cyrillic Fonts XFree86-fontDefaultBitmaps-4.2.0 XFree86-4 default bitmap fonts XFree86-fontEncodings-4.2.0 XFree86-4 font encoding files XFree86-fontScalable-4.2.0 XFree86-4 Scalable font files XFree86-libraries-4.2.1_5 XFree86-4 include/(shared) library kit imake-4.2.0_1 Imake and other utilities from XFree86 wrapper-1.0_2 Wrapper for XFree86-4 server johnnyb:~ pkg_info | grep -i font XFree86-FontServer-4.2.0_1 XFree86-4 Font Server XFree86-font100dpi-4.2.0 XFree86-4 bitmap 100 dpi fonts XFree86-font75dpi-4.2.0 XFree86-4 bitmap 75 dpi fonts XFree86-fontCyrillic-4.2.0_4 XFree86-4 Cyrillic Fonts XFree86-fontDefaultBitmaps-4.2.0 XFree86-4 default bitmap fonts XFree86-fontEncodings-4.2.0 XFree86-4 font encoding files XFree86-fontScalable-4.2.0 XFree86-4 Scalable font files bitmap-fonts-1.0Bitmap font, (6x12, 7x14, 8x16, 12x24) dots bitmap font freetype2-2.1.2 A free and portable TrueType font rendering engine johnnyb:~ uname -a FreeBSD tasha.vonbek.dhs.org 5.0-RELEASE FreeBSD 5.0-RELEASE #0: Mon Jan 20 20:01:42 EST 2003 [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GENERIC i386 johnnyb:~ To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-questions in the body of the message To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-questions in the body of the message
Re: odd lack of fonts in Mozilla 1.2.1
On Wed, 29 Jan 2003, Robin Damm wrote: John Bleichert [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Hello All I've just installed a minimal 4.7 box with X, mwm and Mozilla 1.2.1 (which is just plain mozilla in the ports, cvsup'd tongight). For some reason there are very few fonts available in the preferences in Mozilla, and the ones that are there look *awful*. I installed Netscape 4.8 and Opera and the fonts are fine with them. Is something busted with native mozilla 1.2.1? Or am I missing something? It takes a long time to build Mozilla on this box... I'm just speculating, but the awful font appearance could be related to Xft. I build mozilla with the following option: # make WITHOUT_XFT=yes This greatly improves font appearance in mozilla (IMHO). There may be a way to fix this by tuning X, but then you have two problems :) Do post if you find a workaround other than recompiling with the above option. I was unable to find a solution - however, your method above worked like a charm. Thanks for the hint! Normally I've never had to do this. Perhaps it changed with the new mozilla build? JB # John Bleichert # http://vonbek.dhs.org/latest.jpg To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-questions in the body of the message
Re: bsd
On Mon, 27 Jan 2003, Justin Carrera wrote: Subject: bsd what is the difference between Freebsd and Openbsd? thank you This is kinda hard to answer in a mailing list. OpenBSD is primarily concerned with code review and producing an uber-secure operating system. A lot of this work filters directly into the other BSDs. See the mission statements on each opsys' website and also the archives of this list for more info. # John Bleichert # http://vonbek.dhs.org/latest.jpg To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-questions in the body of the message
Re: sound on motherboard GA-7VR
On Thu, 23 Jan 2003, Martin Tsanov wrote: hello, I have a GA-7VR motherboard with VIA KT333 / 8233A(CE) chipset and installed 5.0 Release on it. everything works ok except for the sound. the onboard chip is AC97 codec with 6 channel (Realtek ALC650). when booting with the generic kernel, the kernel sees this device as: Multimedia device found, no driver attached. Is this device supported, as there is no refference for it in the hardware list and if it can be made to work with FreeBSD 5.0, what should i do? Thanks in advance The AC97 should be supported, however GENERIC does not contain support for sound. This page will help you (you'll need to roll your own kernel): http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/sound-setup.html HTH - JB # John Bleichert # http://vonbek.dhs.org/latest.jpg To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-questions in the body of the message
Re: a question
On Thu, 23 Jan 2003, Andrew Y Ng wrote: Subject: Re: a question I setup FreeBSD dual-boot on my dad's machine with a Samsung 170 flat panel and it worked just fine. Just make sure you specify the right sync frequencies in your XFree86 config file. and KDE looked *NICE* on the 17 flat panel. i think 5.0 has nv driver. I think just used the nv driver for his nv pci card and it worked quite well. /ayn On 0, peter andrus [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: hi, i just bought a brand new system. I want to set it up as a dual boot system with XP and FreeBSD. I would like to know where I can get an updated list of supported hardware,especially flat panel monitors. I have a samsung syncmaster 170MP, and I want to know if it is supported. also, i am curious about my nvidia video card. thanks peter Also, you can get 'official' FreeBSD drivers from www.nvidia.com, depending on the model/age of your nVidia card. They work quite well :) # John Bleichert # http://vonbek.dhs.org/latest.jpg To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-questions in the body of the message
Re: Reboot...
On Wed, 22 Jan 2003, Wuzhen Zhang wrote: Subject: Reboot... Dear Sir, My computer came with win98. I intalled FreeBSD on the whole hard disk. I accidentally deleted my partition table because I want to re-install FreeBSD and with win98. I did sucessfully install FreeBSD in the second part of the Hard Disk, yet when I tried to install win98, My computer did not allow me to reboot with win98 startup disk? Can you help me out? Sincerely, Wuzhen Zhang Exactly what error are you getting while trying to boot from the Win98 disk? # John Bleichert # http://vonbek.dhs.org/latest.jpg To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-questions in the body of the message
Re: Reboot...
On Wed, 22 Jan 2003, Wuzhen Zhang wrote: Date: Wed, 22 Jan 2003 14:29:23 -0800 (PST) From: Wuzhen Zhang [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: John Bleichert [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Reboot... The screen freezes (Actually no screen, only the prompt blinks). I did try the diagonistic disk from compaq, but the disk did not boot either. The screen freezes after the first sentence: Starting MS Dos... Hmm. Dunno, I've never owned a Compaq. I take it you're not booting straight from the CD but from some Compaq-supplied boot disk? I can't help you there, sorry. And please always cc: the mailing list :) Good luck - JB --- John Bleichert [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, 22 Jan 2003, Wuzhen Zhang wrote: Subject: Reboot... Dear Sir, My computer came with win98. I intalled FreeBSD on the whole hard disk. I accidentally deleted my partition table because I want to re-install FreeBSD and with win98. I did sucessfully install FreeBSD in the second part of the Hard Disk, yet when I tried to install win98, My computer did not allow me to reboot with win98 startup disk? Can you help me out? Sincerely, Wuzhen Zhang Exactly what error are you getting while trying to boot from the Win98 disk? # John Bleichert # http://vonbek.dhs.org/latest.jpg __ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Mail Plus - Powerful. Affordable. Sign up now. http://mailplus.yahoo.com # John Bleichert # http://vonbek.dhs.org/latest.jpg To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-questions in the body of the message
Re: newbie mail help
On Wed, 22 Jan 2003, Gary Schenk wrote: major snippage Mike has suggested that Pine does not need fetchmail. That makes sense. In the Pine man pages it says c-client is used to access mail severs. I cannot find help for c-client. Nor do I find a place to tell Pine about my ISP's pop3 server. In chapter 25 of FreeBSD Unleashed it states that fetchmail is needed for mutt and Pine. I chose to install Pine because I believed it to be a beginner's program. I tried to setup Balsa, and no matter what I place in the settings preferences I can't get it to work either. It seems a simple problem. I have mail on my ISP's pop3 server. I want to retrieve it and read it. Get this there and bring it here. It seems simple, but how do I tell FreeBSD to do this? This is incredibly frustrating. Not just for me, I've gotten email from another beginner who can't get his mail to work either. Perhaps this is a question for the documentation project? Gary I've used lots of email clients and Pine is my favorite. However, I had the same problem you are. First I solved it by setting up postfix to do it for me (fix the return address). Then I found I could specify the headers in the pine configuration. Go to the setup section of pine (while it's running) and setup up headers as I did: customized-hdrs = Reply-To: John Bleichert [EMAIL PROTECTED] From: John Bleichert [EMAIL PROTECTED] That should clear it up. As I said earlier in this email chain, to just plain old 'get going' with email in Unix it's best to use e.g. Netscape or Mozilla mail or kmail as they work like the usual email clients. Most other Unix clients rely on the system mail to function properly which can make them tuff to set up if say your username on the box doesnt match that at your ISP. Hope that helps. I don't know balsa, never used it, but in my first several years in Linux/BSD I clung to my Netscape email like a liferaft :) JB # John Bleichert # http://vonbek.dhs.org/latest.jpg To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-questions in the body of the message
Re: Problem with FreeBSD 4.7-RELEASE after installation
On Tue, 21 Jan 2003, Curtis, Brian A.--ORISE wrote: Subject: Problem with FreeBSD 4.7-RELEASE after installation I've attempted to install FreeBSD 4.7 on an a new HP computer (734n) with an AMD Athlon XP 2400. In doing so, I ran across a few problems. They are detailed below: FYI: I installed using the ALL option. 1. On execution of startx: Error Message: Could not lookup internet address for . This will prevent GNOME from operating correctly. It may be possible to correct the problem by adding to the file /etc/hosts. Note: I do not have the computer in question setup on a network. You can probably get around tihs by giving the box a bogus name in /etc/hosts, like the error says. 2. Once GNOME is running: Error Message: Nautilus can't be used now, due to an unexpected error. snip can't help with the GNOME issues, I don't use it. 3. Sound card not detected: VT8233 (also not detected under Red Hat 8.0) I tried adding [ snd_via8233=YES ] to /boot/loader.conf as suggested in a FAQ. That did not fix the problem. The older versions of the VT8233 are supported on Linux. Don't know about FreeBSD. The GENERIC kernel doesn't contain sound card support. I don't know if that card is supported (check out the file HARDWARE.txt on your install CD) but you will need to add sound support to your kernel to try it out. The Handbook covers this step in detail (search the table of contents for sound): http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/sound-setup.html 4. Is there a graphical login option available for FreeBSD? Also, how can I set up FreeBSD to load GNOME at start/login? There are a number off apps to provide graphical login, notably xdm, gdm, kdm and wdm. See the basic xdm HOWTO in the handbook: http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/x-xdm.html Dunno about automagically loading a windowmanager at boot. That might be a little odd on a multi-user opsys ;) HTH - JB # John Bleichert # http://vonbek.dhs.org/latest.jpg To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-questions in the body of the message
Re: Compilation Error for Nvidia Geforce4 Drivers
On Sun, 19 Jan 2003, Dilshod wrote: Subject: Compilation Error for Nvidia Geforce4 Drivers Hello, I've just successfully installed the latest FreeBSD 5.0 but I'm having problems configuring my Nvidia Geforce4 video card. I've downloaded the drivers from nvidia's web site but having trouble compiling it, though minimal requrements are satisfied. Here is the error message I get: snip reeBSD 5.0/-CURRENT! *** Error code 1 snip The drivers only support 4.x-STABLE at the moment. 5.0 will probably be a while yet. For what it's worth the drivers work great in 4.7. JB # John Bleichert # http://vonbek.dhs.org/latest.jpg To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-questions in the body of the message
Re: compile errors
? port IO_NPX irq 13 # Power management support (see LINT for more options) deviceapm0at nexus? disable flags 0x20 # Advanced Power Management # Serial (COM) ports devicesio0at isa? port IO_COM1 flags 0x10 irq 4 devicesio1at isa? port IO_COM2 irq 3 devicesio2at isa? disable port IO_COM3 irq 5 devicesio3at isa? disable port IO_COM4 irq 9 # Parallel port deviceppc0at isa? irq 7 deviceppbus # Parallel port bus (required) devicelpt # Printer deviceplip# TCP/IP over parallel deviceppi # Parallel port interface device #device vpo # Requires scbus and da # PCI Ethernet NICs. devicede # DEC/Intel DC21x4x (``Tulip'') # PCI Ethernet NICs that use the common MII bus controller code. # NOTE: Be sure to keep the 'device miibus' line in order to use these NICs! devicemiibus # MII bus support devicedc # DEC/Intel 21143 and various workalikes # Pseudo devices - the number indicates how many units to allocate. pseudo-device loop# Network loopback pseudo-device ether # Ethernet support pseudo-device sl 1 # Kernel SLIP pseudo-device ppp 1 # Kernel PPP pseudo-device tun # Packet tunnel. pseudo-device pty # Pseudo-ttys (telnet etc) pseudo-device md # Memory disks pseudo-device gif # IPv6 and IPv4 tunneling pseudo-device faith 1 # IPv6-to-IPv4 relaying (translation) # The `bpf' pseudo-device enables the Berkeley Packet Filter. # Be aware of the administrative consequences of enabling this! pseudo-device bpf #Berkeley packet filter # USB support deviceuhci# UHCI PCI-USB interface deviceohci# OHCI PCI-USB interface deviceusb # USB Bus (required) deviceugen# Generic deviceuhid# Human Interface Devices deviceukbd# Keyboard deviceulpt# Printer deviceumass # Disks/Mass storage - Requires scbus and da deviceums # Mouse deviceuscanner# Scanners deviceurio# Diamond Rio MP3 Player # my soundcard devicepcm devicesbc Greetz Dennis To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-questions in the body of the message # John Bleichert # http://vonbek.dhs.org/latest.jpg To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-questions in the body of the message
Re: VHDL / Verilog
On 20 Jan 2003, Matt Smith wrote: Subject: VHDL / Verilog Does anyone out there do any VLSI design on FreeBSD, using VHDL or Verilog, or some other tools? At the moment, I own a Xilinx chip + XESS protoboard, and am looking for a complete solution to design and implementation. The Windows tools provided by Xilinx are great, except that they only run on Windows. Any suggestions are greatly appreciated! Thanks, -Matt -- Matt Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] When trying to design from home I had some luck with iverilog (Icarus) and gEda. Not fully functional (lacked certain chip-sepcific parts) but maybe enough to work well by now. I'm not sure it's been a while. cad/geda cad/iverilog HTH - JB # John Bleichert # http://vonbek.dhs.org/latest.jpg To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-questions in the body of the message
Re: Need help with Sound Card
On Mon, 20 Jan 2003, aydun wrote: Subject: Need help with Sound Card Hi, I've got a Rockwell WaveArtist card (RWA010, R6711-31) but I can't configure FreeBSD 4.7 to see it correctly. Bios sees it ok at 0x220 it works under Windows (IRQ 5) It's supposed to be ISA PnP and Sound Blaster Pro compatible. I've tried various combinations of 'device pcm', 'device sb'; 'device sbc', 'device snd' but it when it boots the best it gets is: sb_reset_dsp failed unknown: WaveArtist can't assign resources snip can't assign resources could be due to your BIOS settings - try disabling PnP OpSys Installed and then bring up your system. If you disable PnP support in your BIOS, you *may* be able to get around this. Good luck! JB To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-questions in the body of the message
Re: CD-ROM installtion problems.
On Mon, 20 Jan 2003, Mike Loiterman wrote: Date: Mon, 20 Jan 2003 21:42:23 -0600 From: Mike Loiterman [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: CD-ROM installtion problems. -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Just downloaded 5.0 and successfully burnt the discs. Unfortunately I have been unable to get my system to boot with the discs. Disc 1 works fine with others systems, however. I can boot the system with a windows disk without problems, so the CD-ROM drive appears to work. I can boot the system with the floppies, but when I try to install from the CD-ROM drive it says it there was an error mount /dev/adc0. I'm using a promise Ultar133TX2 ata adapter which is supported by FreeBSD according to the documentation. The card sees both the HD and the CD-ROM. I used Nero Burning ROM to burn the disc. I created an Image from the ISO. Did I burn the disc incorrectly? The ISO already *is* an image. If you get a directory listing of the CD in e.g. win32 do you see 1 enormous file or the BSD CD structure? If the disk was burned improperly, you'll see just 1 large file on the CD and not the correct file structure. HTH - JB # John Bleichert # http://vonbek.dhs.org/latest.jpg To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-questions in the body of the message
xfree86 error - 5.0
Hello All Just upgraded to 5.0 and cvsup'd my ports. When I attempt to load X, I get this error (a lot of times) and X doesn't load: Symbol from module /usr/X11R6/lib/modules/fonts/libbitmap.a is unresolved! I've tried to install all the parts of XFree86 individually (from the ports collection), and the list of installed ports is at the end of this email. Any ideas why this is happening? Thanks - JB johnnyb:~ pkg_info | grep XFree XFree86-4.2.0_1,1 X11/XFree86 core distribution (complete, using mini/meta-po XFree86-FontServer-4.2.0_1 XFree86-4 Font Server XFree86-Server-4.2.1_6 XFree86-4 X server and related programs XFree86-clients-4.2.1_2 XFree86-4 Client environments XFree86-documents-4.2.0 XFree86-4 Document Files XFree86-font100dpi-4.2.0 XFree86-4 bitmap 100 dpi fonts XFree86-font75dpi-4.2.0 XFree86-4 bitmap 75 dpi fonts XFree86-fontCyrillic-4.2.0_4 XFree86-4 Cyrillic Fonts XFree86-fontDefaultBitmaps-4.2.0 XFree86-4 default bitmap fonts XFree86-fontEncodings-4.2.0 XFree86-4 font encoding files XFree86-fontScalable-4.2.0 XFree86-4 Scalable font files XFree86-libraries-4.2.1_5 XFree86-4 include/(shared) library kit imake-4.2.0_1 Imake and other utilities from XFree86 wrapper-1.0_2 Wrapper for XFree86-4 server johnnyb:~ pkg_info | grep -i font XFree86-FontServer-4.2.0_1 XFree86-4 Font Server XFree86-font100dpi-4.2.0 XFree86-4 bitmap 100 dpi fonts XFree86-font75dpi-4.2.0 XFree86-4 bitmap 75 dpi fonts XFree86-fontCyrillic-4.2.0_4 XFree86-4 Cyrillic Fonts XFree86-fontDefaultBitmaps-4.2.0 XFree86-4 default bitmap fonts XFree86-fontEncodings-4.2.0 XFree86-4 font encoding files XFree86-fontScalable-4.2.0 XFree86-4 Scalable font files bitmap-fonts-1.0Bitmap font, (6x12, 7x14, 8x16, 12x24) dots bitmap font freetype2-2.1.2 A free and portable TrueType font rendering engine johnnyb:~ uname -a FreeBSD tasha.vonbek.dhs.org 5.0-RELEASE FreeBSD 5.0-RELEASE #0: Mon Jan 20 20:01:42 EST 2003 [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GENERIC i386 johnnyb:~ To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-questions in the body of the message
Re: newbie mail help
On Sun, 19 Jan 2003, Shantanu Mahajan wrote: Subject: Re: newbie mail help +++ Gary Schenk [freebsd] [17-01-03 22:28 -0800]: | I've been installing FreeBSD on my home desktop. A little each day I spend | configuring. I've worked out most things with books and man pages. I am | connected to the internet by cable modem. Links worked perfectly right away. | Where I am failing is setting up my email. I am not trying to be a mail | server, just get and send mail through my ISP. The documentation seems to be | geared to mail servers. This is really confusing me. Can someone point me in | the right direction for help on email? Just a nudge in the right direction | would be most helpful. | | I apologize for posting with OE. | | Thanks! | # cd /etc/mail # make # vi `hostname`.mc now change the line dnl define(`SMART_HOST', `your.isp.mail.server') to define(`SMART_HOST', `your.isp.mail.server') (don't fotget to _replace_ *your.isp.mail.server*) then # make # killall -HUP sendmail That's all. :-) Regards, Shantanu Is all this required? Couldn't POP mail just be gotten in the normal way with e.g. kmail or netscape or mozilla? The above will allow you to use all manner of *nix email clients, but have you tried just setting up (say) mozilla mail or kmail in the normal fashion? Just a thought - JB # John Bleichert # http://vonbek.dhs.org/latest.jpg To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-questions in the body of the message
Re: newbie mail help
On Sun, 19 Jan 2003, Gary Schenk wrote: On Sun, 19 Jan 2003, Shantanu Mahajan wrote: Subject: Re: newbie mail help major snippage # cd /etc/mail # make # vi `hostname`.mc now change the line dnl define(`SMART_HOST', `your.isp.mail.server') to define(`SMART_HOST', `your.isp.mail.server') (don't fotget to _replace_ *your.isp.mail.server*) then # make # killall -HUP sendmail That's all. :-) Regards, Shantanu Is all this required? Couldn't POP mail just be gotten in the normal way with e.g. kmail or netscape or mozilla? The above will allow you to use all manner of *nix email clients, but have you tried just setting up (say) mozilla mail or kmail in the normal fashion? Just a thought - JB I've been trying to use the command line as much as possible in seting up FreeBSD. I hope that this will give me a better understanding of the OS, however this is quite a task. So I have not tried to setup one of the desktop mail clients. I do need my email functioning however, and I am going to try to setup Balsa now. Whatever I read about sendmail just makes my poor head spin. It is like reading a foreign language. Thanks to all who have responded to my plea for help. Gary Yep - email servers are pernicious, complex beasties, some worse than others. Fortunately, most of Unix is not nearly so complex. Good luck - JB # John Bleichert # http://vonbek.dhs.org/latest.jpg To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-questions in the body of the message
4.7 -- 5.0 via CVSup
Hello All Just for yucks I tried to upgrade a 4.7 box to 5.0 via cvsup/buildworld. It's been, erm, less than successful. Is this possible? Is it documented? I'm sure it is, but I can't find it. Can someone give me a pointer? The Handbook still has the 4.7 build instructions. My (new) kernel is now appearing in /boot, seems to be much smaller, and isn't seen at boot time. Figured I'd ask for help before hacking it into submission :) Is the 'old' build method no longer valid? Pointers to docs appreciated. I can grab the ISOs and do it if I need to, this is just a test box. Thanks - JB # John Bleichert # http://vonbek.dhs.org/latest.jpg To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-questions in the body of the message
Re: 4.7 -- 5.0 via CVSup (never mind)
/me read /usr/src/UPDATING. Sorry to clutter your INBOXes. On Sun, 19 Jan 2003, John Bleichert wrote: Date: Sun, 19 Jan 2003 19:45:28 -0500 (EST) From: John Bleichert [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: 4.7 -- 5.0 via CVSup Hello All Just for yucks I tried to upgrade a 4.7 box to 5.0 via cvsup/buildworld. It's been, erm, less than successful. Is this possible? Is it documented? I'm sure it is, but I can't find it. Can someone give me a pointer? The Handbook still has the 4.7 build instructions. My (new) kernel is now appearing in /boot, seems to be much smaller, and isn't seen at boot time. Figured I'd ask for help before hacking it into submission :) Is the 'old' build method no longer valid? Pointers to docs appreciated. I can grab the ISOs and do it if I need to, this is just a test box. Thanks - JB # John Bleichert # http://vonbek.dhs.org/latest.jpg To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-questions in the body of the message # John Bleichert # http://vonbek.dhs.org/latest.jpg To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-questions in the body of the message
Re: Customizing the consol - Changing the resolution
On Thu, 16 Jan 2003, Dilshod wrote: Subject: Customizing the consol - Changing the resolution Hello there, I'm kind of new to FreeBSD, in terms of the structure the OS. I've installed FreeBSD 5.0 RC 3 before I had version 4.7. I install the OS to explore and learn about it, so far I love it. Here is my question: How can I change the resolution of the consol ? By default it's set to 640x480. I've read there is a way to display a splash image at higher resolution, but I'm not sure if it will stay afterwards. Basically I want to set the consol resolution at 1024 or higher, like I once had done in a Slackware Linux installation. Thanks, DT. I believe you can fiddle with your console settings using vidcontrol(1). I've never tried it, but that's the tool. Note that in Unix if you're looking for help on a specific topic, try the 'apropos' command. Try: $ apropos console HTH - JB # John Bleichert # http://vonbek.dhs.org/latest.jpg To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-questions in the body of the message
/dev/ums0 busy, moused disabled
Hello All I'm using a USB mouse on my 4.7-RELEASE box and I'm seeing strange behavior. In short, when I boot the system, I need to immediately 'shutdown now' to single-user mode and then 'exit' back to multiuser mode to get the mouse to work. When the machine first boots, X will not load as /dev/ums0 is busy. lsof and cat return: # cat /dev/ums0 cat: /dev/ums0: Device busy # lsof | grep ums moused 97root3u VCHR 111,00t0 40 /dev/ums0 Now, the only moused line I have in /etc/rc.conf is: moused_enable=NO and yet it's still running after system boot. Somehow bouncing to singleuser mode and then back clears it up. How can I debug this? Where is moused getting started? Note that once I come back to multi-user lsof shows no processes using /dev/ums0 and X starts just fine. Thanks - JB PS: The 'cat /dev/ums0' trick I got from the Internet. When it's working, if you cat the device and move the mouse around you get a lot of gibberish in the terminal, it's a quick device test. # John Bleichert # http://vonbek.dhs.org/latest.jpg To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-questions in the body of the message
Re: making avatars from digital camera images? (scripting shrinking)
On Tue, 14 Jan 2003, Dr. Richard E. Hawkins wrote: Subject: making avatars from digital camera images? (scripting shrinking) I need to use a digital camera to take pictures of 65 students to turn in to avatars for discussion boards. They need to be limited to 80x80, and 6144 bytes. I'm sure *something* in the graphics ports must be scriptable to do this, but I'm not finding it. Could someone spot me a hint? thanks hawk Sounds like a job for 'convert' from the ImageMagick port. Check out the info on it and some online man pages at: http://www.imagemagick.org/ and it's also in the ports tree. HTH - JB # John Bleichert # http://vonbek.dhs.org/latest.jpg To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-questions in the body of the message
/dev/apm: device not configured
Hello All I'm trying to use apmd on my Thinkpad but I can't seem to figure it out. I have the support in my kernel: root:/home/johnnyb dmesg | grep pm intpm0: Intel 82371AB Power management controller port 0xefa0-0xefaf irq 9 at device 7.3 on pci0 intpm0: I/O mapped efa0 intpm0: intr IRQ 9 enabled revision 0 intpm0: PM I/O mapped ef00 but as you can see, no /dev/apm0 (which I'm expecting to be in dmesg). If I try to use it, it fails: johnnyb:~ apm -l apm: can't open /dev/apm: Device not configured Any hints on where I'm going wrong? I have apmd_enable=YES in rc.conf and it doesn't seem to error out at boot time, but it doesn't work and I can't load it from the command line (same error about the unconfigured device). Any hints on how to get this working appreciated! Thanks - JB # John Bleichert # http://vonbek.dhs.org/latest.jpg To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-questions in the body of the message
Re: /dev/apm: device not configured
On Fri, 10 Jan 2003, Matthew Seaman wrote: Subject: Re: /dev/apm: device not configured On Fri, Jan 10, 2003 at 10:35:40AM -0500, John Bleichert wrote: I'm trying to use apmd on my Thinkpad but I can't seem to figure it out. I have the support in my kernel: root:/home/johnnyb dmesg | grep pm intpm0: Intel 82371AB Power management controller port 0xefa0-0xefaf irq 9 at device 7.3 on pci0 intpm0: I/O mapped efa0 intpm0: intr IRQ 9 enabled revision 0 intpm0: PM I/O mapped ef00 but as you can see, no /dev/apm0 (which I'm expecting to be in dmesg). If I try to use it, it fails: johnnyb:~ apm -l apm: can't open /dev/apm: Device not configured snip You need the apm0 device in your kernel, as well as the specific device for the particular Power management bus chipset you have: % grep pm /var/run/dmesg.boot apm0: APM BIOS on motherboard apm0: found APM BIOS v1.2, connected at v1.2 viapropm0: SMBus I/O base at 0xe800 viapropm0: VIA VT8233 Power Management Unit port 0xe800-0xe80f at device 17.0 on pci0 viapropm0: SMBus revision code 0x0 ie. edit the Kernel config to add a 'device apm0' line as follows: device apm0at nexus? flags 0x20 # Advanced Power Management snip Whoops! I had forgotten to remove 'disable' from that line. Works like a charm now (although my battery is shot ...). Thanks for the pointer - JB # John Bleichert # http://vonbek.dhs.org/latest.jpg To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-questions in the body of the message
Re: tweaking the wheel on a cordless logitech mouse
On Thu, 9 Jan 2003, Dr. Richard E. Hawkins wrote: snip Section InputDevice Identifier Mouse0 Driver mouse Option Protocol auto Option Device /dev/sysmouse Option Buttons 6 #Option Emulate3Buttons #Option Emulate3Timeout 50 Option ZAxisMapping5 6 EndSection I've also installed imwheel, which is running. But still no wheel. snip For what it's worth, I was never able to get my wheel working with /dev/sysmouse. I use: /dev/ums0 (USB mouse), or /dev/psm0 (PS/2 mouse) and it works fine with protocoal 'auto'. Note that I don't use moused or imwheel at all. HTH - JB # John Bleichert # http://vonbek.dhs.org/latest.jpg To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-questions in the body of the message
Re: kernel won't compile
On Thu, 9 Jan 2003, Darren wrote: I have successfully compiled a new kernel once already on a new install of FreeBSD 4.7-RELEASE. Since then, I have run cvsup and portupgrade. Now, I need to recompile the kernel again. But, I'm running into errors. I have been following the handbook. But, apparently, I'm missing something. The way I understand the manual, you use the first method of config CUSTOM_KERNEL and if you have updated the kernel sources, you have to use the second method of make buildkernel KERNCONF=MYKERNEL. I used the first method before running cvsup and it worked. I looked at /usr/src/UPDATING. For recompiling, it basically looks like the second method in the FreeBSD handbook. So, I tried compiling both ways. I tried deleting my CUSTOM sources and copying GENERIC back to CUSTOM and starting over. But, it still craps out. Could someone tell me what I'm doing wrong?? Thanks, Darren snip Did you make installworld and buildworld before trying to build a kernel agains the new source? # John Bleichert # http://vonbek.dhs.org/latest.jpg To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-questions in the body of the message
Re: getting sound working :(
On Thu, 9 Jan 2003, Hugo Saro wrote: Subject: getting sound working :( Hey everyone. I've tried everything i've remembered to put sound working on my fbsd box, but without success yet. I read the handbook section on sound and followed every step. more /var/log/messages | grep pcm - Jan 8 18:39:38 toaster /kernel: pcm0: Yamaha OPL-SAx at port 0x220-0x22f,0x530-0x537,0x388-0x38b,0x330-0x331,0x370-0x371 irq 5 drq 0,1 on isa0 Its FreeBSD 4.7-STABLE w/ a kde desktop. Could anyone point me something to make this work? i really need sound on that box as i'm using it as a multimedia workstation.. thanks in advance. Is that *really* an ISA card? Did you follow this from the Handbook: quote For a non-PnP ISA card, add: device pcm device sbc0 at isa? port 0x220 irq 5 drq 1 flags 0x15 to your kernel configuration file. The settings shown above are the defaults. You may need to change the IRQ or the other settings to match your card. See the sbc(4) manual page for more information. /quote Does the sbc device show up in dmesg? PCI Soundblasters are about $20 right now ... Good luck! JB # John Bleichert # http://vonbek.dhs.org/latest.jpg To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-questions in the body of the message
Re: kernel won't compile
On Thu, 9 Jan 2003, Giorgos Keramidas wrote: Subject: Re: kernel won't compile On 2003-01-09 12:54, John Bleichert [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, 9 Jan 2003, Darren wrote: I have successfully compiled a new kernel once already on a new install of FreeBSD 4.7-RELEASE. Since then, I have run cvsup and portupgrade. Now, I need to recompile the kernel again. But, I'm running into errors. Did you make installworld and buildworld before trying to build a kernel agains the new source? Please don't run installworld *before* building a new kernel. The instructions of /usr/src/UPDATING are very clear on this part! Hmm. Next time I cvsup I'll check that out again. Last time I did my Athlon I had to do the reverse, or it didn't work. Thanks - JB # John Bleichert # http://vonbek.dhs.org/latest.jpg To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-questions in the body of the message
Re: with respect to the installing FreeBSD
On Mon, 6 Jan 2003, root wrote: Date: Mon, 06 Jan 2003 15:24:40 + From: root [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: with respect to the installing FreeBSD This is a request for help made after extensive efforts to install freebsd on my computer, and only after having tried almost everything, i was wondering if you have any suggestions. Firstly, may I say what my system is., below: maxtor 6Y120LO hardrive sis 5513 chipset sis 5513 ide controller hda maxtor 6y120l0 ata disk drive bus pci sis648 ATA 133 controller I also get the message in the boot messages, (not 100% native, will probe later) if this is of any moment snip That message is nothing to worry about. Could you please provide some details on exactly *how* the installation is failing? JB # John Bleichert # http://vonbek.dhs.org/latest.jpg To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-questions in the body of the message
Re: bootmgr labels
On Mon, 6 Jan 2003, Gustaf Sjoberg wrote: Date: Mon, 6 Jan 2003 04:21:28 +0100 From: Gustaf Sjoberg [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: bootmgr labels hi, i'm currently dual booting freebsd 4.7 and windows xp pro on my laptop and everything works like a charm except one msall detail. when the boot selector shopws it displays the windows partition as ??. F1 -- ?? F2 -- FreeBSD does anyone know how i change them labels? thanks in anticipation, Gustaf You can't change them with the standard BSD bootloader, but you *can* use another bootloader (e.g. grub). See the list archives for all the gory details. JB # John Bleichert # http://vonbek.dhs.org/latest.jpg To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-questions in the body of the message
Re: Error message trying to set up sound card
On Sun, 5 Jan 2003, Tom Parquette wrote: Date: Sun, 05 Jan 2003 20:47:11 -0500 From: Tom Parquette [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: FreeBSD Questions [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Error message trying to set up sound card Stacey Roberts wrote: Hello, On Sun, 2003-01-05 at 21:22, Tom Parquette wrote: I'm following the Handbook instructions trying to set up a sound card. At boot, I get the following messages. pcm0: Creative CT5880-C irq 10 at device 6.0 on pci2 pcm0: unable to map register space devide_probe_and_attach: pcm0 attach returned 6 I've always beat this error by disabling 'PnP OS Installed' or it's equivalent in my BIOS. Check your BIOS, disable the 'PnP OS' support and you should be all set. Good luck. JB # John Bleichert # http://vonbek.dhs.org/latest.jpg To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-questions in the body of the message
Re: recording audio with SoundBlaster Live/pcm cards: has anyonetried this?
On Wed, 1 Jan 2003, paul beard wrote: Date: Wed, 01 Jan 2003 21:49:04 -0800 From: paul beard [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: recording audio with SoundBlaster Live/pcm cards: has anyone tried this? I have been working on recording vinyl LPs to digital files but have run into a problem. It turns out I misread the cryptic runes on the back of the sound card and was actually recording through the mic jack. It worked as far as I could tell -- I got sound -- but I now have audio that sounds suspiciously like mono. So after tracking down the manual for the card (an SB Live! Gamer or Platinum w/o the Live drive), I am now using the line in and running the audio through an stereo receiver. But now nothing registers on the level indicators in gramofile. According to Creative's open source site, audio in and out is supported, but there's supported and proven to work. Anyone have any experience with this or troubleshooting ideas I should be aware of? -- Paul Beard: seeking UNIX/internet engineering work http://paulbeard.no-ip.org/paulbeard.html 8040 27th Ave NE Seattle WA 98115 / 206 529 8400 I do a *lot* of recording with my SBLive! card and FreeBSD. It's all guitar and drum machine through a 4-track, plugged into my sound card. The trick with the line-in (at least on my rig) was that the input volume on that channel was zero by default. I use the 4-track to do a little pre-mix before recording. I found that if I pull up an audio mixer (kmix, since I use KDE) I can bring the level up on line-in just fine. However, I have found that for certain tracks the mic input is better, although I have to bring the input gain down with kmix. Also, if you need to 'clean up' your recordings to get the 'eggs-frying' noise out of the mix (all my vinyl has it :), Audacity has great noise filters and it's in the ports collection. HTH - JB PS: If you want to carry on this discussion and feel it too off-topic, feel free to contact me off-list. # John Bleichert # http://vonbek.dhs.org/latest.jpg To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-questions in the body of the message
Re: XFree86 lockfile?
On Thu, 2 Jan 2003, Marcel Stangenberger wrote: Date: Thu, 2 Jan 2003 15:29:58 +0100 (CET) From: Marcel Stangenberger [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Brent J. Ermlick [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: Scott Mitchell [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: XFree86 lockfile? On Thu, 2 Jan 2003, Brent J. Ermlick wrote: On Thu, Jan 02, 2003 at 02:52:22PM +0100, Marcel Stangenberger wrote: . . . i don't see what is wrong, a friend of mine just said the only solution is to reinstall the entire machine, but i don't really consider that to be an option. That doesn't make sense. What errors do you see in /var/log/XFree86.0.log? -- XFree86 Version 4.2.1 / X Window System (protocol Version 11, revision 0, vendor release 6600) Release Date: 3 September 2002 If the server is older than 6-12 months, or if your card is newer than the above date, look for a newer version before reporting problems. (See http://www.XFree86.Org/) Build Operating System: FreeBSD 4.7-RELEASE-p2 i386 [ELF] Module Loader present Markers: (--) probed, (**) from config file, (==) default setting, (++) from command line, (!!) notice, (II) informational, (WW) warning, (EE) error, (NI) not implemented, (??) unknown. (==) Log file: /var/log/XFree86.0.log, Time: Wed Jan 1 10:02:54 2003 (EE) Unable to locate/open config file (EE) Error from xf86HandleConfigFile() Looks to me like XFree86 can't find its configuration file, which by default is in /etc/X11/XF86Config. This file needs to be generated by a configuration program. You can either do this in /stand/sysinstall or by running 'xf86config' manually, which is my preferred method. Re-installing the box is certainly not necessary. I mean, this isn't Windows ;) # John Bleichert # http://vonbek.dhs.org/latest.jpg To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-questions in the body of the message
Re: port question
On Thu, 2 Jan 2003, bryan cassidy wrote: Date: Thu, 2 Jan 2003 09:06:16 -0800 (PST) From: bryan cassidy [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: port question is there a command i can use to see what packages will be installed before I install something from the ports? using freebsd 4.6.2 make all-depends-list In the ports dir in question. HTH - JB # John Bleichert # http://vonbek.dhs.org/latest.jpg To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-questions in the body of the message
Re: OT: multitrack recording [was: recording audio with SoundBlasterLive...]
On Thu, 2 Jan 2003, Nathan Kinkade wrote: snip This is off-topic from the original post, but since you mention that you do a lot recording to your SBLive I though I would ask. Is there any good multitrack recording software for FreeBSD. I recently made a little preamp so that I could plug my guitar into the sound card and am looking for multitrack recording software. I have waded through the ports and come across a few possibilities, but each leaves something to be desired. I found ecasound, audacity, and snd. Audacity is just what I am looking for, but v1 doesn't support full duplex on *nix. Apparently v1.1 does, but it is not released as stable yet. ecasound looks powerful, but it would be nice if it had a graphical interface - well, there is one, but it's not very intuitive and the documentation is nonexistent, apparently. snd had an interesting interface, but I can't seem to tell if it was meant to do what I want, or at least I can't coax it to. I just want to make multitrack guitar recordings i.e. record one track and record the next while listening to the first, etc, etcany ideas? Thanks, Nathan I use Audacity for all of my mixing. I do a lot of the individual track recording to my 4-track, and do the mixing afterwards in Audacity. The lack of full-duplex support in *nix is in the OSS drivers, not Audacity, and it really stinks. I've been thinking of getting a better card (like an RME Hammerfalle) which has full-duplex support with the ALSA drivers, but until my employment situation levels out, that's not gonna happen. In FreeBSD Audacity is the best IMHO. Another great one (much more full-featured) is Ardour, but it seems to be Linux-only and I have no idea what would be required to re-compile it for FreeBSD. # John Bleichert # http://vonbek.dhs.org/latest.jpg To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-questions in the body of the message
Re: OT: [was: recording audio with SoundBlaster Live...]
On Thu, 2 Jan 2003, joe wrote: In FreeBSD Audacity is the best IMHO. Another great one (much more The one missing piece of my knowledge and understanding is to actually do the recording. I've hooked up the tape card to the line-in of the sound but I can't get the sound to be recorded. I am getting sound as I can listen to the tapes on the computer. What device do I specify for the recording in from the line-in of the sound card using audacity? When I use the default /dev/dsp nothing is captured. In Audacity, I use /dev/dsp. Works with my SBLive - which card are you using? # John Bleichert # http://vonbek.dhs.org/latest.jpg To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-questions in the body of the message
Re: Using multiple window managers
On Wed, 1 Jan 2003, Bob Bomar wrote: Subject: Re: Using multiple window managers On Wed, Jan 01, 2003 at 01:40:11AM -0500, Scott Robbins wrote: On Wed, Jan 01, 2003 at 01:20:40AM -0500, Bob Bomar wrote: I want to set up a demo box that shows diffrent Window Managers. What is a good way to swith between window managers? A simple shell script would do it--it's 1:30 am here, but quick hack Yeah, I just got it: snip You could also setup xdm|kdm|gdm|wdm (or whatever X login manager you like) to start the window manager of your choice from the drop-down menu. Just a thought in case you want to keep it fully graphical. # John Bleichert # http://vonbek.dhs.org/latest.jpg To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-questions in the body of the message
Re: (OT) non-keyboard ascii characters
On Wed, 1 Jan 2003, Giorgos Keramidas wrote: Subject: Re: (OT) non-keyboard ascii characters On 2003-01-01 00:34, Danny Horne [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I find holding down 'Alt' typing in the number of the character works for me (though I don't use Pine or Mutt). Didn't wok for me in pine or nedit, although this may be charset dependent. Which apps does this work for you in? xterm? I don't use any Unix / Linux MUA's, it works for me in Squirrelmail (webmail app) Outlook Express. Just tried it in the Joe text editor it works fine on standard ASCII characters, but produces unpredictable results trying to use extended ones. That's probably because joe(1) shows ASCII characters 128-255 in its own special way when you don't fire it up with the -asis option. Running it with `joe -asis' or enabling the same option in your .joerc file should work fine. Thanks for all the suggestions. One thing I've learned from it is that it varies from app to app and also with font/charset. Oh well, I expected it to be non-trivial. Taking a hint from XChat, I wrote a little C app that spits out the ASCII character I want, then I just copy/paste it into the app I'm using. Doesn't work everywhere, but it's somewhat consistent while running X. JB # John Bleichert # http://vonbek.dhs.org/latest.jpg To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-questions in the body of the message
Re: sitecom
On Wed, 1 Jan 2003, hotmail . wrote: Date: Wed, 01 Jan 2003 21:39:21 +0100 From: hotmail . [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: sitecom i bought a sitecom CARDBUS PC CARD Fast Ethernet card i've seen on the disk that the chip a Realtech card is but it seems that the card is not support with my freebsd 4.7 i tried almost every thing that i could know off but still dont work he regonize it into the kernel that a pccard is insert but the drivers dont work i hope you have some awnsers for me to support my card yours sincerely neel I couldn't get any 32-bit cardbus cards working in FreeBSD 4.[5|6|7] - I think cardbus support is coming in 5.0. I've had a variety of 16-bit pc-cards working, though. The workhorse in my Thinkpad is a 3Com 3ccfe574bt. Sorry, bad luck :( JB # John Bleichert # http://vonbek.dhs.org/latest.jpg To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-questions in the body of the message
Re: Voodoo 3500 AGP under FreeBSD
On Wed, 1 Jan 2003, Steve Hodgson wrote: Date: Wed, 01 Jan 2003 21:58:43 GMT From: Steve Hodgson [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Voodoo 3500 AGP under FreeBSD Sorry to be still hammering on about this problem - I am starting to feel a bit dense. I've tried a few times now to get FreeBSD running a GUI with my Voodoo 3500 AGP card. Thanks to some helpful advice from [EMAIL PROTECTED] I reckon that I should be able to get things running using the tdfx X-server. Other advice is that if my card ain't listed explicitly, it won't work. Longer term, a carefully-chosen card will be a great solution - at this point though I just want to try things out and the number of cards that will run BeOS, Linux, FreeBSD and/or Windows (this last reluctantly) seems a little limited. As an aside one of the problems here is that BeOS now seems happier with *old* graphics cards (one of the problems that got me looking for the ONE OS in the first place). When I try to run the tdfx driver I am still unable to complete X Windows installation successfully so I suspect that it really may be a case of having to specify a specific card for a trouble free GUI. Just as an experiment I stuck on the latest Mandrake 9.0; in half an hour and I was up and running Gnome 2.0 with no problems whatsoever using a generic Voodoo driver. Am I being stupid in thinking that this is the same XFree86? I really don't want to go down a Linux route, I've been burned too many times there in the past. Any expertise greatly welcome at this point. cheers, Steve Hodgson As fars as a card that works widely, nVidia provides binary drivers with 3d accelleration for Win32, Linux and BSD for their current cards. My Geforce2 AGP works great in Linux and BSD. Just a thought. That Voodoo3 should work fine, though no acdeleration tihs side of Mesa (software). JB # John Bleichert # http://vonbek.dhs.org/latest.jpg To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-questions in the body of the message
Re[2]: Voodoo 3500 AGP under FreeBSD
On Thu, 2 Jan 2003, Alex wrote: To: John Bleichert [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: Steve Hodgson [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re[2]: Voodoo 3500 AGP under FreeBSD Dear/Beste John, Wednesday, January 1, 2003, 11:27:08 PM, you wrote: Subsection Display Depth 8 Modes 640x480 800x600 1024x768 1280x1024 ViewPort0 0 EndSubsection Subsection Display Depth 16 Modes 640x480 800x600 1024x768 1280x1024 ViewPort0 0 EndSubsection Subsection Display Depth 24 Modes 1152x864 1024x768 800x600 640x480 ViewPort0 0 Why did you switch the last modes? -- Best regards/Met vriendelijke groet, Alex Whoops! Forgot about that. I have that box propped up on an amplifier in my living room and I've been sitting wy back from it on the sofa with the keyboard and cordless mouse. 1152x768 is easier to read at that distance, so I modified the config file. Nice catch. # John Bleichert # http://vonbek.dhs.org/latest.jpg To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-questions in the body of the message
Re: Sound card question
On Wed, 1 Jan 2003, Tom Parquette wrote: Date: Wed, 01 Jan 2003 18:36:05 -0500 From: Tom Parquette [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Sound card question I'm starting to look at adding a basic sound card to my machine. I'm looking at Sound Blaster since it seems to be the least common denominator. The motherboard does not have any ISA slots. (PCI only). The man page on the web site indicates the sound blaster support is for ISA. The hardware support web page for 4.7-RELEASE really does not say much of anything about ISA vs. PCI. Is a PCI sound blaster card supported? TIA... PCI Soundblasters seem to work great. I have 3 SBLive! cards installed here. The Handbook has a page about adding sound support to your kernel (you'll need 'device pcm'): http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/sound-setup.html JB # John Bleichert # http://vonbek.dhs.org/latest.jpg To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-questions in the body of the message
Re: How to see bootloader menu name correct?
On Thu, 2 Jan 2003, edifice wrote: Subject: How to see bootloader menu name correct? Dear All, I install Win2000 and FreeBSD on my machine. When boot, it display: F1: ?? F3: ?? F4: FreeBSD How to make the F1 correctly display the name Windows 2000? Best Regards, Edifice -- edifice [EMAIL PROTECTED] I believe the FreeBSD bootloader gets it's Fn labels by reading the filesystem type of the partitions, and in your case you get ???s because it doesn't know anything about NTFS. You may be out of luck, unless you want to hack the FreeBSD bootloader and submmit it back to the project :) Seriously though, nobody seems too interested in fixing this issue, understandably. You can still boot ok, correct? Perhaps you could try another bootloader? Be warned that fiddling with your bootloader can have dire consequences for your system... JB # John Bleichert # http://vonbek.dhs.org/latest.jpg To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-questions in the body of the message
Re: Error when trying to mount cd
On Tue, 31 Dec 2002, Kevin Greenidge wrote: Subject: Error when trying to mount cd I get the following error message when trying to mount a cd: sentinel# mount /dev/acd0c cd9660: /dev/acd0c: Input/output error The mount command is used to mount a device at a directory. Above, you're trying to mount a device to nothing. Depending on how you have the mount point for your cd-player described in /etc/fstab, try this: # mount /cdrom HTH - JB # John Bleichert # http://vonbek.dhs.org/latest.jpg To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-questions in the body of the message
RE: Multimedia question
On Mon, 30 Dec 2002, Thomas Connolly wrote: Subject: RE: Multimedia question Appreciate the information. I'll try them. Thanks, Tom snip I use 'mtv' for mpegs and 'xanim' for AVI files. They both work great. (Sorry, got into this thread a little late). JB # John Bleichert # http://vonbek.dhs.org/latest.jpg To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-questions in the body of the message
Re: Error when trying to mount cd
On 31 Dec 2002, Stacey Roberts wrote: Subject: Re: Error when trying to mount cd On Tue, 2002-12-31 at 17:28, Kevin Greenidge wrote: I was trying to mount a Windows XP disk to use as a test. Hi Kevin, To test what? Instead of Error when tryign to mount cd as a subject, don't you think that the fact that the CD is actually WinXP was kinda pertinent to the problem? Try previous suggestions with a *normal* data CD, if you please. Regards, Stacey A Windows install CD of any version I can think of should mount just fine as an iso9660 data cd. This is a valid test, unless M$ is doing something funky to their CDs that I don't know about. Is this CD usuable in other operatings systems and/or on other hardware? I think the original poster is just tripping over mount(8) liek we all do the first time around .. :) If it still doesn't work post your dmesg output so we can see what type of CD player you have. # John Bleichert # http://vonbek.dhs.org/latest.jpg To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-questions in the body of the message
(OT) non-keyboard ascii characters
Hello All Is there anyway to get e.g. a u with an umlaught over it (ASCII 159 I think) in a text emailer like pine or mutt, if your keyboard doesn's have said character? How about text editors like nedit? Hopefully not too, too offtopic. Thanks - JB # John Bleichert # http://vonbek.dhs.org/latest.jpg To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-questions in the body of the message
Re: (OT) non-keyboard ascii characters
On Tue, 31 Dec 2002, Danny Horne wrote: Subject: Re: (OT) non-keyboard ascii characters Hello All Is there anyway to get e.g. a u with an umlaught over it (ASCII 159 I think) in a text emailer like pine or mutt, if your keyboard doesn's have said character? How about text editors like nedit? Not sure what an umlaught is, but you can find a list of ascii codes here - http://www.asciitable.com/ I find holding down 'Alt' typing in the number of the character works for me (though I don't use Pine or Mutt). Didn't wok for me in pine or nedit, although this may be charset dependent. Which apps does this work for you in? xterm? # John Bleichert # http://vonbek.dhs.org/latest.jpg To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-questions in the body of the message
Re: IBM ThinkPad 765
On Sun, 29 Dec 2002, Mike wrote: Date: Sun, 29 Dec 2002 16:05:58 -0700 From: Mike [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: 'FreeBSD Questions' [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: IBM ThinkPad 765 Are there any issues installing FreeBSD on a ThinkPad 765? In my Google searches I have turned up little to no info on this model. Thanks M;) How much memory and disk? This is one of the older 16 MB models isn't it? I think sysinstall requires 32 MB to run. I've installed a few Thinkpads, but these older models can be tough. Pls. provide the specs, and consider searching the freebsd-mobile archives and/or posting there. Good luck - JB # John Bleichert # http://vonbek.dhs.org/latest.jpg To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-questions in the body of the message
Laptops w/ FreeBSD pre-loaded (somewhat OT)
Last year (when I wasn't in the market for a laptop) I found a site/manufacturer which sold Athlon- and Pentium-based laptops with Free/OpenBSD and/or Linux pre-installed. Now that I'm in the market I can't find the site to save my life. Has anybody seen such a site anywhere? I thought I found the site linked from freebsd.org but no luck. Thanks - JB # John Bleichert # http://vonbek.dhs.org/latest.jpg To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-questions in the body of the message
Re: mount problems.
On Mon, 23 Dec 2002, David Nicholas Kayal wrote: Subject: Re: mount problems. Is there an http://www.tuxedo.org/~esr/faqs/smart-replys.html? Here is a copy of my fstab file: more fstab # See the fstab(5) manual page for important information on automatic mounts # of network filesystems before modifying this file. # # DeviceMountpoint FStype Options Dump Pass# /dev/ad0s1b noneswapsw 0 0 /dev/ad0s1a / ufs rw 1 1 proc/proc procfs rw 0 0 The system will boot up once I type in the following at the mountroot prompt. ufs:/dev/ad0s1a snip Did you build this drive in another box and then swap it over to the box it's in now? Sounds like the bootloader doesn't know where your drive is (which is common if you swap in a root drive). Assuming you're using the standard FreeBSD bootloader, have you tried re-initializing the MBR with fdisk? Can't remember the switch, see the fdisk man page. Just a thought - this has happened to me when moving hard drives around. JB # John Bleichert # http://vonbek.dhs.org/latest.jpg To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-questions in the body of the message
Re: List etiquette
On Sun, 22 Dec 2002, Dan Nelson wrote: Date: Sun, 22 Dec 2002 18:38:37 -0600 Subject: Re: List etiquette In the last episode (Dec 22), Mike Jeays said: Many times I have asked questions on this list, and had helpful replies from one or more people. My usual practice is to reply to them directly and thank them, and tell them whether their idea helped. This avoids cluttering up the list with thank-you messages, but may look as though I haven't bothered to even listen. Should one post such replies to the list? It's a good idea, so that people reading the thread later have confirmation that the suggestion actually was the correct solution. Agreed - by having a solution confirmation in the archives of this list, it makes searching the archives a little easier and more believable. Not that I minded the private 'danke' :) Secondly, an occasional question goes unanswered - perhaps because no one thought it was interesting enough to reply. Is it acceptable to post it again after a few days? I'd wait a week before reposting, and then try to ask the question a different way, or provide more info. Ocassionally there will be no response because nobody knows the answer *or* it's been answered ad nauseum in the archives. Re-posting with an update, however, does keep the archives up to date. JB # John Bleichert # http://vonbek.dhs.org/latest.jpg To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-questions in the body of the message
Re: Drawing diagrams a-la-Visio
On Sat, 21 Dec 2002, David Schultz wrote: Subject: Re: Drawing diagrams a-la-Visio Thus spake Cliff Sarginson [EMAIL PROTECTED]: I am looking for an application that will allow diagrams to be drawn (such as network topologies) similar to the Windows program Visio (I think that is what it is called). One that has some pre-defined shapes/lines etc suitable for technical use. Does anyone have any suggestions ... ? I can't think of a direct comparison any closer than xfig, and xfig isn't as featureful as Visio. However, if you just want a nice looking graph of network connections, and you're happy letting the computer arrange the nodes (for the most part), try graphviz. There is also Dia in ports/graphics/dia - works great and has some pre-defined shapes in several categories, including networking. JB # John Bleichert # http://vonbek.dhs.org/latest.jpg To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-questions in the body of the message
Re: Copying a CD
On Sat, 21 Dec 2002, Mike Jeays wrote: Subject: Copying a CD How can I use dd to copy a CD? The command below does not work - I presume I have failed to understand something. I have tried other devices begining acd. 209 ~# dd if=/dev/acd0c of=x1 dd: /dev/acd0c: Invalid argument 0+0 records in 0+0 records out 0 bytes transferred in 0.000219 secs (0 bytes/sec) 210 ~# 211 /dev# ls -l acd* crw-r- 4 root operator 0,13568 Dec 21 2002 19:33 acd0a crw-r- 4 root operator 0,13568 Dec 21 2002 19:33 acd0c 212 /dev# ls -l racd* crw-r- 4 root operator 0,13568 Dec 21 2002 19:33 racd0a crw-r- 4 root operator 0,13568 Dec 21 2002 19:33 racd0c 213 /dev# On my hardware (ASUS board / Plextor CDRW) I need to specify the block size with the 'bs' switch as in $ dd bs=2048 if=/dev/acd0c of=x1 or I get the same results you do above. I'm not sure what happens if you use different block sizes, but the above allows me to e.g. make copies of Linux and BSD ISOs. HTH - JB # John Bleichert # http://vonbek.dhs.org/latest.jpg To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-questions in the body of the message
RE: dos emulators
On Mon, 16 Dec 2002, Asenchi wrote: Date: Mon, 16 Dec 2002 00:01:12 -0500 From: Asenchi [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: John Bleichert [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: dos emulators I wish I could go without using Foxpro. The company I work for uses it exclusively. They are way behind times and I have talked to them about porting data, but they won't budge. So I thought I might see if there was a way to get it on FreeBSD rather than w98 for obvious reasons. thanks for your help, Curt Micol With present simulators (better than they were in 1998) you could probably get it to run on your development box, but I don't think it would ever be stable enough to run a production server that way. Rats! JB # John Bleichert # http://vonbek.dhs.org/latest.jpg To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-questions in the body of the message
Re: Ethernet fast Card
On Mon, 16 Dec 2002, max lizano wrote: Date: Mon, 16 Dec 2002 01:00:40 + From: max lizano [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Ethernet fast Card Hi John, Thanks for answerme. Now I am refering to the ethernet card that appear in the hardware note for 4.7 realse as follow: ADMtek Inc. AL981-based PCI Fast Ethernet NICs ( dc(4) driver) ADMtek Inc. AN985-based PCI Fast Ethernet NICs ( dc(4) driver) LinkSys EtherFast LNE100TX v4.0/4.1 (this is the model of my Nic card) Somebody at Forums told me that I have to buy a new Nic. My situation is this NIC card work perfectly with windows 2000 and Linux. If i buy a new one, I would like that this new card be compatible with the OS system mentioned it.Of course, is my desire to learn and use FreeBSD and that it become my main OS. If I understand you, I have to compile the kernel in order to have working this NIC card? Would you answer me Thanks Max Yep, if you rebuild your kernel and include support for the dc driver, you should be ok.Ny LNE100TX works fine - not spectacular, but fine. See here for how to build your own kernel: http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/kernelconfig.html Good luck! And *please* always cc: the freebsd-questions list. JB From: John Bleichert [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: John Bleichert [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: max lizano [EMAIL PROTECTED] CC: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Ethernet fast Card Date: Sun, 15 Dec 2002 18:16:01 -0500 (EST) On Sun, 15 Dec 2002, max lizano wrote: Date: Sun, 15 Dec 2002 01:41:06 + From: max lizano [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Ethernet fast Card Hi, I trying to install Freebsd 4.7 but my linksys Len 10/100TX Version 4.1 it is not recognized by sysinstall.Do I have to buy another Ethernet Card? Max If you mean an LNE100TX card, it works fine with the dc driver. I don't remember if sysinstall recognized it but I always build a new kernel ASAP anyways, and it works fine. HTH - JB # John Bleichert # http://vonbek.dhs.org/latest.jpg _ MSN 8 helps eliminate e-mail viruses. Get 2 months FREE*. http://join.msn.com/?page=features/virus # John Bleichert # http://vonbek.dhs.org/latest.jpg To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-questions in the body of the message
Re: Ethernet fast Card
On Sun, 15 Dec 2002, max lizano wrote: Date: Sun, 15 Dec 2002 01:41:06 + From: max lizano [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Ethernet fast Card Hi, I trying to install Freebsd 4.7 but my linksys Len 10/100TX Version 4.1 it is not recognized by sysinstall.Do I have to buy another Ethernet Card? Max If you mean an LNE100TX card, it works fine with the dc driver. I don't remember if sysinstall recognized it but I always build a new kernel ASAP anyways, and it works fine. HTH - JB # John Bleichert # http://vonbek.dhs.org/latest.jpg To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-questions in the body of the message
Re: fdisk and HD's larger than 2GB
On 13 Dec 2002, David Gethings wrote: Date: 13 Dec 2002 17:15:17 + From: David Gethings [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: John Bleichert [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: fdisk and HD's larger than 2GB On Fri, 2002-12-13 at 14:41, John Bleichert wrote: This can't be a bug or limitation in FreeBSD's fdisk, it must be a quirk in your hardware (we've all seen them hehe!). Since 4.5, I've had FreeBSD installed on several boxes with enormous hard drives in various partitioning schemes without a glitch. I had issues once with OpenBSD wanting to be on a smaller partition, but never with FreeBSD. Ah! Didn't think of that. I know it's a Maxtor something-or-other, I'll have to have a look to work out the exact model. Once I've done that I'll check the hardware compatability list. Cheers Dg I'd wager it's a quirk in how your motherboard is reporting the setup to the opsys (or bootloader, whatever). Maxtor's are slow and loud, but they seem fairly reliable. Good luck! JB # John Bleichert # http://vonbek.dhs.org/latest.jpg To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-questions in the body of the message
nedit errors after sys/ports CVSup
Hello All After CVSup'ing my system and prts tree, I get this mess when I start nedit. Anybody have any idea what it all means? johnnyb:~ nedit translation table syntax error: Unknown keysym name: osfActivate ... found while parsing ':KeyosfActivate: ManagerParentActivate()' String to TranslationTable conversion encountered errors translation table syntax error: Unknown keysym name: osfBeginLine ... found while parsing ':KeyosfBeginLine: ManagerGadgetTraverseHome()' String to TranslationTable conversion encountered errors translation table syntax error: Unknown keysym name: osfActivate ... found while parsing ':KeyosfActivate: ManagerParentActivate()' String to TranslationTable conversion encountered errors translation table syntax error: Unknown keysym name: osfHelp ... found while parsing ':KeyosfHelp: ManagerGadgetHelp()' String to TranslationTable conversion encountered errors translation table syntax error: Unknown keysym name: osfActivate ... found while parsing ':KeyosfActivate: PrimitiveParentActivate()' String to TranslationTable conversion encountered errors translation table syntax error: Unknown keysym name: osfHelp ... found while parsing ':KeyosfHelp: Help()' String to TranslationTable conversion encountered errors translation table syntax error: Unknown keysym name: osfActivate ... found while parsing ':KeyosfActivate: PrimitiveParentActivate()' String to TranslationTable conversion encountered errors translation table syntax error: Unknown keysym name: osfCancel ... found while parsing ':KeyosfCancel: MenuEscape()' String to TranslationTable conversion encountered errors translation table syntax error: Unknown keysym name: osfActivate ... found while parsing ':KeyosfActivate: PrimitiveParentActivate()' String to TranslationTable conversion encountered errors translation table syntax error: Unknown keysym name: osfSelect ... found while parsing ':KeyosfSelect: ArmAndActivate()' String to TranslationTable conversion encountered errors translation table syntax error: Unknown keysym name: osfPrimaryPaste ... found while parsing ':m KeyosfPrimaryPaste:cut-primary()' String to TranslationTable conversion encountered errors translation table syntax error: Unknown keysym name: osfSelect ... found while parsing ':KeyosfSelect: ManagerGadgetSelect()' String to TranslationTable conversion encountered errors translation table syntax error: Unknown keysym name: osfSelect ... found while parsing ':KeyosfSelect: MenuBarGadgetSelect()' String to TranslationTable conversion encountered errors translation table syntax error: Unknown keysym name: osfActivate ... found while parsing ':KeyosfActivate: ManagerParentActivate()' String to TranslationTable conversion encountered errors translation table syntax error: Unknown keysym name: osfHelp ... found while parsing ':KeyosfHelp: MenuHelp()' String to TranslationTable conversion encountered errors translation table syntax error: Unknown keysym name: osfSelect ... found while parsing ':KeyosfSelect: KeySelect()' String to TranslationTable conversion encountered errors translation table syntax error: Unknown keysym name: osfSelect ... found while parsing ':KeyosfSelect: KeySelect()' String to TranslationTable conversion encountered errors translation table syntax error: Unknown keysym name: osfCancel ... found while parsing 'KeyosfCancel: MenuEscape()' String to TranslationTable conversion encountered errors translation table syntax error: Unknown keysym name: osfSelect ... found while parsing ':KeyosfSelect: ArmAndActivate()' String to TranslationTable conversion encountered errors translation table syntax error: Unknown keysym name: osfActivate ... found while parsing ':KeyosfActivate: PrimitiveParentActivate()' String to TranslationTable conversion encountered errors translation table syntax error: Unknown keysym name: osfSelect ... found while parsing ':KeyosfSelect: KActivate()' String to TranslationTable conversion encountered errors translation table syntax error: Unknown keysym name: osfActivate ... found while parsing ':KeyosfActivate: PrimitiveParentActivate()' String to TranslationTable conversion encountered errors translation table syntax error: Unknown keysym name: osfActivate ... found while parsing ':KeyosfActivate: PrimitiveParentActivate()' String to TranslationTable conversion encountered errors translation table syntax error: Unknown keysym name: osfBackSpace ... found while parsing 'CtrlKeyPressosfBackSpace: delete_previous_word()' String to TranslationTable conversion encountered errors # John Bleichert # http://vonbek.dhs.org/latest.jpg To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-questions in the body of the message
Re: dos emulators
On Sat, 14 Dec 2002, Jörg Sonnenberger wrote: Subject: Re: dos emulators On Sat, 14 Dec 2002 13:34:40 -0500 Asenchi [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello, I was wondering if any one new of a good DOS Emulator that will run Foxpro 2.6. Thanks. Running: 4.7-release Curt Micol You can try at least bochs (slow) or dosemu (not sure, how it works under FreeBSD, never tried). Bochs is a PC emulator and really slow (emulates 80x86...) and is in ports, dosemu not. - Joerg Several years ago, while on co-op, I had to port a bunch of aging foxpro data to a more modern rig. I had zero luck getting the DOS version of FoxPro to run reliably in dosemu or Wine (in Linux) at the time, so I viewed the format of the FoxPro data files (they were flat text files) and wrote some Perl to move it all into text and SQL statements to load it into a more modern database. In short, it may take you less time to reformat the data manually than it will to fsck around with FoxPro and get it to run reliably. So if you're porting data to a newer rig, think about it, if you just plain want to run FoxPro, don't ;) Good luck! # John Bleichert # http://vonbek.dhs.org/latest.jpg To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-questions in the body of the message
Re: fdisk and HD's larger than 2GB
On 13 Dec 2002, David Gethings wrote: Subject: Re: fdisk and HD's larger than 2GB On Fri, 2002-12-13 at 12:26, Konrad Heuer wrote: On 13 Dec 2002, David Gethings wrote: If I can't get this to work I'm going to have to use Linux as I know this works. :( If you know Linux fdisk recognizing the disk correctly, you can try to use Linux fdisk to create a FreeBSD partition, can't you? You should than be able to use the partition withis FreeBSD sysinstall. I Know that this is not a real solution, but it may be a workaround. Hi Konrad, That thought did cross my mind after I sent the email out. If I must then I will do this, but I would rather be able to do this from within the FreeBSD install. Regards Dg This can't be a bug or limitation in FreeBSD's fdisk, it must be a quirk in your hardware (we've all seen them hehe!). Since 4.5, I've had FreeBSD installed on several boxes with enormous hard drives in various partitioning schemes without a glitch. I had issues once with OpenBSD wanting to be on a smaller partition, but never with FreeBSD. # John Bleichert # http://vonbek.dhs.org/latest.jpg To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-questions in the body of the message
Re: LinkSys-EtherFast 10/100 PC Card questions
On Fri, 13 Dec 2002, George Jeliazkov wrote: Subject: LinkSys-EtherFast 10/100 PC Card questions Hi all, I've got a brand new LinkSys-EtherFast 10/100 PC Card (PCMPC100 V3) for my laptop.I'm running FreeBSD-4.7 RELEASE.The card is recognized correctly and configured with no trouble. The problem is that the card works only at 10Mbit/s. I've read the man page for ed(4), but didn't find a solution. Here's the output from ifconfig: # ifconfig ed1 ed1: flags=8843UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST mtu 1500 inet 192.168.1.3 netmask 0xff00 broadcast 192.168.1.255 ether 00:04:5a:99:be:d7 # ifconfig ed1 192.168.1.3 media 100baseTX ...(or media autoselect) ifconfig: SIOCGIFMEDIA: Invalid argument does this mean that the ed driver doesn't support 100baseTX on this card? So I've tried another thing: Booted MicroBSD from CD for a test: here's what shows at boot: ne3 at pcmcia1 function 0 Linksys, EtherFast 10/100 PC Card (PCMPC100 V3), V2.0 port 0xa000/32: LAN iobase 0x240 (0xa000) - 0x0 ne3: address 00:04:5a:99:be:d7 bmtphy0 at ne3 phy 1: BCM5221 100baseTX PHY, rev. 4 # ifconfig ne3 ne3: flags=8863UP,BROADCAST,NOTRAILERS,RUNNING,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST mtu 1500 address: 00:04:5a:99:be:d7 media: Ethernet 100baseTX full-duplex status: active inet 192.168.1.3 netmask 0xff00 broadcast 192.168.1.255 inet6 fe80::204:5aff:fe99:bed7%ne3 prefixlen 64 scopeid 0x14 here it shows as 100baseTX full-duplex...but it works at 10Mbit/s again. maybe this card works only at 10Mbit/s ? thanx george Search the archives of this list (and any of the Linux tech lists) for PCMPC100 and you'll see it's just not a very good card in the free *nix space. The only reason mine didn't end up in the trash is because a Windows-using friend wanted it. It's a bad performer for him too (just barely above 10 Mb) but he doesn't care... # John Bleichert # http://vonbek.dhs.org/latest.jpg To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-questions in the body of the message
Re: PRoblem with kernel compilation
On Thu, 12 Dec 2002, Radoslaw Bolforski wrote: Date: Thu, 12 Dec 2002 21:08:07 +0100 (CET) From: Radoslaw Bolforski [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: PRoblem with kernel compilation Hi! I have a very slow machine (p133 and 16mb ram) when I compile the freebsd kernel I have some error when kernel is linking: linking kernel kbd.o: In function `kbd_register': kbd.o(.text+0x35c): undefined reference to `kbddriver_set' kbd.o(.text+0x363): undefined reference to `kbddriver_set' kbd.o: In function `kbd_get_switch': kbd.o(.text+0x49d): undefined reference to `kbddriver_set' kbd.o(.text+0x4a2): undefined reference to `kbddriver_set' kbd.o: In function `kbd_configure': kbd.o(.text+0x77b): undefined reference to `kbddriver_set' kbd.o(.text+0x780): more undefined references to `kbddriver_set' follow *** Error code 1 Stop in /usr/src/sys/compile/HOME. Looks like maybe you've forgotten to include (or more likely erroneosuly deleted) support for a keyboard? Can you post your kernel config here? # John Bleichert # http://vonbek.dhs.org/latest.jpg To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-questions in the body of the message
Re: Screen shots?
On Thu, 12 Dec 2002, Thomas Connolly wrote: Date: Thu, 12 Dec 2002 20:51:06 -0700 From: Thomas Connolly [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: FreeBSD Questions [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Screen shots? Can someone tell me how to take a screen shot using KDE3? If you have ImageMagick installed, alt+f2 in kde to get a run prompt and type: import -window root screenshot.jpg That's how I get the one below. # John Bleichert # http://vonbek.dhs.org/latest.jpg To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-questions in the body of the message
Re: Soundblaster Live troubles
On Wed, 11 Dec 2002, Tyler Eaves wrote: Subject: Soundblaster Live troubles I'm having problems with my SB Live card. The problem is I can't seem to have more than one program play sound at once. So if I'm say, playing some oggs in XMMS, then an alert sound plays, bad stuff happens. So far bad stuff has inclueded: 1. Loud static 2. Loss of sound until reboot 3. Kernel panics For what it's worth, I can 'play' multiple streams on my sblive! with ease, but I can't play *and* record at the same time, which is unfortunate. No kernel panics or bad behavior, it just doesnt work. However I can play lots of audio streams at the same time. Exactly which model sblive! is yours? # John Bleichert # http://vonbek.dhs.org/latest.jpg To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-questions in the body of the message
Re: port upgrade method question
On Wed, 11 Dec 2002, Darren Shepard wrote: Subject: Re: port upgrade method question On Wed, Dec 11, 2002 at 09:07:40AM -0500, John Bleichert [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: | I've CVSup'd my system and my ports tree (ports-all). Now I'm using | | # pkg_version -v | | to see which installed ports have an upgrade available. Working with this | info, I go into each port I wish to upgrade and | | # portupgrade -R port-name | | I can't do a | | # portupgrade -aR | | as I can't leave Thinkpad up and running in one place long enough to build | all of them. | | I'm iteratively using the steps above to upgrade my ports tree. Is there a | better/different way? Am I skipping any steps? Since I'm upgrading one | port at a time, do I need to run portsdb? Also, I see references in the | archives to FWIW, I do something like the following: 1. `portversion -l '' -c /tmp/portup.sh' 2. edit /tmp/portup.sh to taste 3. `/bin/sh /tmp/portup.sh' Thanks for the pointer. I was fiddling with this tactic on my workstation at home which has a great deal more ports installed than my laptop. | # cd /usr/ports | # make index | | Do I need to do this? Everything seems to be working well, I'm just | wondering if my method is proper. | | Thanks - JB I think portsdb(1) answers your INDEX questions: snip Yes, it does. Thanks. I'm slowly putting all the pieces of staying current with a large ports tree together. For now, I'm dealing with past mistakes and their results, such as this: root:~ pkg_info | grep qt qt-3.0.5_3 A C++ X GUI toolkit qt-3.0.5_5 A C++ X GUI toolkit root:~ pkg_info -R qt-3.0.5_3 Information for qt-3.0.5_3: Required by: kdebase-3.0.5 kdelibs-3.0.5_1 root:~ pkg_info -R qt-3.0.5_5 Information for qt-3.0.5_5: Required by: arts-1.0.4,1 kdebase-3.0.5 kdegames-3.0.4 kdegraphics-3.0.4 kdelibs-3.0.5_1 kdemultimedia-3.0.4 kdeutils-3.0.4_1 koffice-1.2,1 kstars-0.9 Odd that kdebase and kdelibs require qt-3.0.5_3 *and* qt-3.0.5_5. I wonder if this is a result of me climbing the learning curve, or an anomaly in the kde dependencies? Does this discussion belong on freebsd-ports? Doesn't seem like it. Thanks for the pointers! JB # John Bleichert # http://vonbek.dhs.org/latest.jpg To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-questions in the body of the message
Re: grip cd ripper - which one
On Tue, 10 Dec 2002, local.freebsd.questions wrote: Date: Tue, 10 Dec 2002 10:59:25 - From: local.freebsd.questions [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: grip cd ripper - which one On Tue, 10 Dec 2002 00:31:01 -, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (John Bleichert) wrote: Whoops!! I never installed cdrtools, burncd has been working well. Thanks for the pointer! Surely it only works for SCSI CDs though? You mean 'burncd'? Nope, I have an IDE Plexwriter and it works like a charm. # John Bleichert # http://vonbek.dhs.org/latest.jpg To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-questions in the body of the message
Re: make instalworld error
On Tue, 10 Dec 2002, Roman Neuhauser wrote: # [EMAIL PROTECTED] / 2002-12-10 12:10:12 -0500: On Tue, 10 Dec 2002, John Bleichert wrote: From: John Bleichert [EMAIL PROTECTED] ... I'm getting an error when running 'make installworld' which I haven't seen before (I normally do this in single user mode, I jumped into mulit-user to grab this output): ... I had to 'make buildworld' and then 'make installworld' before doing the buildkernel and installkernel stuff, contrary to what the handbook says. I got the hint from README in /usr/src. I've never run into this before. what exactly did you do that caused the problem? buildworld, buildkernel, installkernel, installworld? or something else? Yes, I did a buildworld, buildkernel and installkernel as per the handbook, like always, and all went well, and all in single-user mode. Then I tried to do an installworld and I got that error. Bizarre. I guess I needed the new system files installed before building a new kernel based on them. Sort of makes sense, but I've never had it happen before. # John Bleichert # http://vonbek.dhs.org/latest.jpg To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-questions in the body of the message
Re: INDEX file layout
On 9 Dec 2002, Lowell Gilbert wrote: Subject: Re: INDEX file layout John Bleichert [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Mon, 9 Dec 2002, John Bleichert wrote: Date: Mon, 9 Dec 2002 12:20:26 -0500 (EST) From: John Bleichert [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: INDEX file layout Hello All Where is the layout for the /usr/ports/INDEX file documented? Looks like a bunch of '|'-delimited fields and I'd like to know for sure what each field is. From /usr/ports/bsd.port.mk: major snip Thanks for the info! How come I don't have this bsd.port.mk file on my system? I've just CVSup'd my ports tree and I'm running 4.7-RELEASE-p2. Thanks again. # John Bleichert # http://vonbek.dhs.org/latest.jpg To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-questions in the body of the message
Re: ncurses based front-end for ports-collection?
On Sat, 7 Dec 2002, Anselm Garbe wrote: Date: Sat, 7 Dec 2002 14:25:19 +0100 From: Anselm Garbe [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: ncurses based front-end for ports-collection? Hello *, does anyone know, if there's a graphical front-end (ncurses based) for the ports-collection? If not I'm looking forward to develop one. Following requirements should be supplied: - different views for installed/available/upgradeable ports - add/remove/upgrade/search function - cvsup update option - ports generator module - customizable for any option (make, download site, etc.) Cheers, Anselm -- Anselm R. Garbe () ascii ribbon campaign - against html mail www.ebrag.de/\- against microsoft attachments I don't think there's anything similar to this in the ports tree right now. I've been skirmishing with the idea of writing something similar in newt or ncurses. Contact me off-list if you want to discuss it or if you want a tester. JB # John Bleichert # http://vonbek.dhs.org/latest.jpg To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-questions in the body of the message
INDEX file layout
Hello All Where is the layout for the /usr/ports/INDEX file documented? Looks like a bunch of '|'-delimited fields and I'd like to know for sure what each field is. Also, I've noticed that some boxes have a /var/db/pkgdb.db file, and some do not - where does this file come from? Is it generated by the portupgrade tools? Thanks - JB # John Bleichert # http://vonbek.dhs.org/latest.jpg To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-questions in the body of the message
Re: INDEX file layout
On Mon, 9 Dec 2002, John Bleichert wrote: Date: Mon, 9 Dec 2002 12:20:26 -0500 (EST) From: John Bleichert [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: INDEX file layout Hello All Where is the layout for the /usr/ports/INDEX file documented? Looks like a bunch of '|'-delimited fields and I'd like to know for sure what each field is. Also, I've noticed that some boxes have a /var/db/pkgdb.db file, and some do not - where does this file come from? Is it generated by the portupgrade tools? Never mind about this second question, I was looking in the wrong place (it's in /var/db/pkg), but my first question still stands. # John Bleichert # http://vonbek.dhs.org/latest.jpg To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-questions in the body of the message
Re: Creative Labs Dxr3 MPEG decoder and FreeBSD-STABLE
On Wed, 27 Nov 2002, Andy Akins wrote: Date: Wed, 27 Nov 2002 08:20:02 -0600 From: Andy Akins [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Creative Labs Dxr3 MPEG decoder and FreeBSD-STABLE -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Just curious... Has anyone had any luck getting FreeBSD to recognize and use the Dxr3 MPEG decoder card? I'd appreciate any insight anyone might have. Thanks! Andy Sorry, just saw this during Inbox-cleaning day. Check this out: http://www.cs.duke.edu/~gadde/freebsd/em8300/ # John Bleichert # http://vonbek.dhs.org/latest.jpg To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-questions in the body of the message
Re: where did xmms go?
On Mon, 9 Dec 2002, James A. Arnold wrote: Date: Mon, 9 Dec 2002 15:16:17 -0500 From: James A. Arnold [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: where did xmms go? My ports are current but I don't have an xmms port: xmms-a52dec xmms-bonk xmms-crossfade xmms-crystality xmms-fc xmms-kde xmms-ladspa xmms-liveice xmms-mad xmms-mailnotify xmms-midi xmms-musepack xmms-osssurround xmms-pipe xmms-quix3dn xmms-shn xmms-sid xmms-sndfile xmms-sndstretch xmms-speex xmms-tfmx xmms-uade xmms-volnorm I have it in 4.7: johnnyb:~ ls /usr/ports/audio/ | grep xmms | sort py-xmms ruby-xmms xmms xmms-a52dec xmms-bonk xmms-crossfade xmms-crystality xmms-fc xmms-gdancer xmms-kde xmms-ladspa xmms-liveice xmms-mad xmms-musepack xmms-osssurround xmms-pipe xmms-quix3dn xmms-shn xmms-sid xmms-sndfile xmms-sndstretch xmms-speex xmms-tfmx xmms-volnorm johnnyb:~ uname -a FreeBSD zappa.x.x.x 4.7-RELEASE-p1 FreeBSD 4.7-RELEASE-p1 #6: Thu Oct 24 22:51:39 EDT 2002 [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/usr/src/sys/compile/Zappa i386 johnnyb:~ # John Bleichert # http://vonbek.dhs.org/latest.jpg To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-questions in the body of the message
Re: where did xmms go?
On 9 Dec 2002, Joe Marcus Clarke wrote: Subject: Re: where did xmms go? On Mon, 2002-12-09 at 15:15, John Bleichert wrote: On Mon, 9 Dec 2002, James A. Arnold wrote: Subject: where did xmms go? snip I have it in 4.7: johnnyb:~ ls /usr/ports/audio/ | grep xmms | sort Your ports are old. xmms is now located in the multimedia category. If you're not cvsup'ing ports-all, you may miss this as not all the cvsup servers know about this new category. Best bet is to cvsup ports-all, and create a /usr/sup/refuse file listing the modules you don't want. Joe Yep, about 1 minute after I sent this I realized I hadn't sync'd my ports tree in a long time... Thanks - JB # John Bleichert # http://vonbek.dhs.org/latest.jpg To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-questions in the body of the message
grip cd ripper - which one
Hello All I'm looking for a ripping utility to tell grip to use to pull tracks from an audio cd - which one does everybody use? The default is cdda2wav which isn't in the ports collection. I see a few other rippers in the ports collection, but I like grip - which ripping utility should I tell it to use? Thanks - JB # John Bleichert # http://vonbek.dhs.org/latest.jpg To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-questions in the body of the message
Re: grip cd ripper - which one
On Mon, 9 Dec 2002, paul beard wrote: Date: Mon, 09 Dec 2002 16:22:38 -0800 From: paul beard [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: John Bleichert [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: grip cd ripper - which one John Bleichert wrote: Hello All I'm looking for a ripping utility to tell grip to use to pull tracks from an audio cd - which one does everybody use? The default is cdda2wav which isn't in the ports collection. is too . . . . ([EMAIL PROTECTED])-(04:20 PM / Mon Dec 09) [/usr/ports]:: pkg_info -W /usr/local/bin/cdda2wav /usr/local/bin/cdda2wav was installed by package cdrtools-1.11.a39 Whoops!! I never installed cdrtools, burncd has been working well. Thanks for the pointer! JB # John Bleichert # http://vonbek.dhs.org/latest.jpg To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-questions in the body of the message
Re: x question
On Thu, 5 Dec 2002, Eric Humphries wrote: Date: Thu, 5 Dec 2002 20:14:36 -0600 From: Eric Humphries [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: x question What you need to do is run an X server on the windows machine, then set the DISPLAY environment variable on the freebsd box to something like windowsbox:0.0 (or tunnel it through ssh). The only x server for windows I know of is eXcursion, but there may be others. No, there are several. One I use at work is WinaXe. But again it comes down to personal preferance. efk You could also use VNC. We use it extensively at work to share displays between win32, Linux and AIX boxes. /usr/ports/net/vnc # John Bleichert # http://vonbek.dhs.org/latest.jpg To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-questions in the body of the message
Re: Help !!!
On Wed, 4 Dec 2002, David Kerr wrote: Date: Wed, 04 Dec 2002 08:41:58 +0800 From: David Kerr [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Help !!! I have a problem .. hope someone can help ! I am running FreeBSD 4.7 and it seems that if I log in as root I can compile most anything, the problem is that if a normal user logs in they dont seem to be able to compile anything, I fear that the permissions in the / directory were changed ... is there any way to reverse this ? Regards David Kerr Could you provide a little more info? Such as the output from a non-root user trying to 'compile' something? # John Bleichert # http://vonbek.dhs.org/latest.jpg To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-questions in the body of the message
Re: Opera
On Tue, 3 Dec 2002, Peter Milne wrote: Date: Tue, 3 Dec 2002 16:11:29 -0700 From: Peter Milne [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Free BSD Questions [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Opera Opera was working fine. I now try to load a page and it crashes and closes. Every page, every site. I installed it from ports. How do I get rid of it all or how do I fix it? -- Pete Did you try removing your local opera settings? I had something similar happen in Linux a while back and was able to clear it with: $ rm -rf ~/.opera The error was somewhere in how it saved its state locally. Never figured it out, and Phoenix is better anyways :) # John Bleichert # http://vonbek.dhs.org/latest.jpg To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-questions in the body of the message
Re: HELP Mr. Wizard
On Wed, 27 Nov 2002, papajazz wrote: Date: Wed, 27 Nov 2002 12:57:35 -0800 From: papajazz [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: HELP Mr. Wizard I have been with BSD only for a short time now (version 3.X was my first) and now I have version 4.6. Here is my problem. I have installed version 4.2 on a system just like the one I have described below and there is no problems with that unit. I installed version 4.6 and when I get to the X-Server setup and I configure the monitor to the following rates (VF on the monitor is 30khz - 64khz and the HF is 50Hz - 90Hz) and save the configuration the system crashes with asci garbage all over the monitor. Am I doing something wrong here ?Are there patches that I need to install ? If you need more information let me know and I will supply it for you... Thanks In Advance Ray Suter Are you sure the system is crashing? Maybe your terminal is just getting spammed due to an improper X setup? Can you log into the box ok from another machine? # John Bleichert # http://vonbek.dhs.org/latest.jpg To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-questions in the body of the message
Re: Sound panic (was: recording from line input)
On Sun, 24 Nov 2002, Vladimir Kushnir wrote: Subject: Re: Sound panic (was: recording from line input) Hi, I had the same problem under -CURRENT On Fri, 9 Aug 2002, Richard Tobin wrote: Following up my own question: I want to record audio from my sound card's line in. I'm then going to record the output onto a CD. I'm familiar with writing CDs, but what's the easiest way to get the input? I tried the audacity port, and to my surprise pressing on the record button produced a panic. Trying something simpler, I also get a panic with aurecord -rate 44000 -file aiff -data AuFormatLinearSigned16MSB /tmp/rec ~ Here seems to be a problem. Yamaha (at least YMF724) for some reason doesn't like any rate but 48000. With this rate, all the resorders I tried work fine. snip Yep, things get panicky if you try an unsupported sample rate. Find one that works (as above) and Audacity should work fine. # John Bleichert # http://vonbek.dhs.org/latest.jpg To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-questions in the body of the message
Re: nVidia drivers w/ 4.7-RELEASE
On Wed, 20 Nov 2002, Kenneth Culver wrote: Date: Wed, 20 Nov 2002 07:43:39 -0500 (EST) From: Kenneth Culver [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Gautham Ganapathy [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: Questions @ FreeBSD [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: nVidia drivers w/ 4.7-RELEASE It works fine with -RELEASE. Ken On Wed, 20 Nov 2002, Gautham Ganapathy wrote: Hi Will the nvidia drivers work with 4.7-RELEASE? 4.7-STABLE won't have ISOs, right? Regards Gautham Yep - I'm using them on 4.7-RELEASE right now. Myth II runs great :) # John Bleichert # http://vonbek.dhs.org/latest.jpg To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-questions in the body of the message
