Re: Google Chrome
On 2008-09-02, Vlad GURDIGA [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, Sep 3, 2008 at 12:14 AM, Beech Rintoul [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tuesday 02 September 2008, Vlad GURDIGA said: Hello, In Google Chrome System requirements (http://www.google.com/support/chrome/bin/answer.py?answer=95411to pic=14660) they say that a Linux version is going to appear. And in the Download and install help article (http://www.google.com/support/chrome/bin/answer.py?answer=95346qu ery=open-sourcetopic=type=) they say that it is open-source. Does this mean that is hope we'll have a FreeBSD version? If someone steps up and rolls and submits the port. You're welcome to volunteer :-) I'd be glad to, but I'm afraid I do not have the skills for that... :-( Once it runs on Linux it shouldn't be too difficult to port it to FreeBSD. However it doesn't run on Linux ATM according to what I've read. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Frets on Fire from ports (short and sweet)
On 2008-06-19, Gonzalo Nemmi [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: in short: has anybody been able to get it working from ports? in here: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~ # uname -srm FreeBSD 7.0-RELEASE i386 [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~ # cd /usr/ports/games/fretsonfire [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/usr/ports/games/fretsonfire # make install clean === Installing for fretsonfire-1.2.451_2 === fretsonfire-1.2.451_2 depends on file: /usr/local/lib/python2.5/site-packages/Numeric/_numpy.so - found === fretsonfire-1.2.451_2 depends on file: /usr/local/lib/python2.5/site-packages/pygame/__init__.py - found === fretsonfire-1.2.451_2 depends on file: /usr/local/lib/python2.5/site-packages/OpenGL/__init__.py - found === fretsonfire-1.2.451_2 depends on file: /usr/local/lib/python2.5/site-packages/amanith.py - found === fretsonfire-1.2.451_2 depends on file: /usr/local/lib/python2.5/site-packages/PIL/__init__.py - found === fretsonfire-1.2.451_2 depends on file: /usr/local/lib/python2.5/site-packages/glew/__init__.py - not found ===Verifying install for /usr/local/lib/python2.5/site-packages/glew/__init__.py in /usr/ports/graphics/py-glewpy === py25-glewpy-0.7.4_1 is marked as broken: fails to install. *** Error code 1 Stop in /usr/ports/graphics/py-glewpy. *** Error code 1 Stop in /usr/ports/games/fretsonfire. [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/usr/ports/games/fretsonfire # py25-glewpy-0.7.4_1 has been marked as broken since the day I installed FBSD7 (2 two days after its release). Has anyone tried to install it and succeded or shoud I fill a PR on py25-glewpy-0.7.4_1 (or fretsonfire for that matter ...)?? I want to make sure before submitting a PR .. or two =P in the graphics/py-glewpy Makefile you can read: BROKEN= fails to install DEPRECATED= Has been broken for more than 6 months EXPIRATION_DATE=2008-09-19 this means that glewpy is known to be broken and it is scheduled for deletion. If you try to build glewpy it tells you something about pyrex not generating the right code. I don't know if that problem actually comes from pyrex or from glewpy. Anyway filing PR about this will not change anything, except if they come with a patch to make it work ;) As for Frets on Fire, yes it's very unfortunate that it doesn't work on FreeBSD ATM. -- Pond-erosa Puff wouldn't take no guff Water oughta be clean and free So he fought the fight and he set things right With his OpenBSD ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: massive ports update
On 2008-06-06, Tuc at T-B-O-H [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: In UPDATING it says : Given the scope and sheer number of dependent ports, it may be more advisable to simply blow away all existing install ports (after keeping any local configuration changes), and rebuilding from scratch. I'm wondering just how many ports the author of that statement has. I have a few to say the least. Actually a few hundred. Ok, well, 1102 to be a bit more specific Blow away and re-install 1102 ports? For real? That's not uncommon. For example when you go from one major FreeBSD version to another you have to rebuild everything most of the time because of ABI changes. Of course you could also wait for the building cluster to catch up and do a binary upgrade (-P in portupgrade). Jona -- Pond-erosa Puff wouldn't take no guff Water oughta be clean and free So he fought the fight and he set things right With his OpenBSD ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Flashplugin
On 2008-06-07, Dick Hoogendijk [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sat, 7 Jun 2008 15:33:26 -0500 Sam Fourman Jr. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: use Firefox for Windows and use wine, then install the windows Flash 9 plugin People choosing FreeBSD shouldn't be forced to run windowish solution. The OS is not supported. That's a major problem in these modern times, although lots of fbsd people tend to say it is not. That's not everyday's live however. FreeBSD does not make the web. Flash is a big pain IMO. The Flash question has been asked *a lot* of times on this list. The answer usually boils down to use www/nspluginwrapper or use linux-firefox. Both solutions are far from optimal. My solution is to simply ignore Flash content. It makes your online experience much more enjoyable. This is my personal choice of course. I think it is rather reducing when you have to beg unkind vendors to eventually consider that you exist. I don't think proprietary binary formats have their place on the web. The WWW is an information exchange platform, why would you want to diffuse information around the globe when you know that a lot of people will not be able to decipher it? It's a bit arrogant I think. Jona -- Pond-erosa Puff wouldn't take no guff Water oughta be clean and free So he fought the fight and he set things right With his OpenBSD ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
xmodmap not working from xinitrc
Hi! My .xinitrc has an xmodmap tweak to switch the Ctrl and Caps keys. For some reason these changes are not applied when I start X, Ctrl is still Ctrl and Caps is still Caps. However I have to run xmodmap twice when X has started to actually make it work. It seems like the changes were applied but somehow not used by X, when I rerun xmodmap it seems like it switches the keys back to their original states and when I then run it again it finally works. Here's my .xinitrc: # X tweaks xsetroot -cursor_name left_ptr xset -b numlockx on xmodmap ~/.xmodmap # Desktop environment feh --bg-center ~/.themes/FreeBSD.jpg mydzen xmonad # Wait wait $! pkill dzen2 wait and here's my .xmodmap: remove Lock = Caps_Lock remove Control = Control_L keysym Control_L = Caps_Lock keysym Caps_Lock = Control_L add Lock = Caps_Lock add Control = Control_L uname -a: FreeBSD nirvana.my.domain 7.0-PRERELEASE FreeBSD 7.0-PRERELEASE #0: Wed Jan 30 10:06:18 CET 2008 [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/HYPOCENTER i386 Installed versions: xorg-7.3_1 xmodmap-1.0.3 -- :wq Jona pgpxmAl7mel0N.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: xmodmap not working from xinitrc
On Thu, Feb 28, 2008 at 03:42:21PM +0100, Armando Cambra wrote: If I remember correctly (can't test it here... no unixoid system near), startx sources the .xmodmaprc in your home directory, so you swap your keys twice as you start up X. I'd try without xmodmap in your script an see if it works. No it doesn't work if I comment out the line. Also the startx script doesn't mention xmodmap. At least I only have to run xmodmap once if I don't put it inside xinitrc. -- :wq Jona pgptTTk7yARu7.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: CVSup update or upgrade
On 2008-02-01, Chris [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, 31 Jan 2008 18:47:12 -0500 Allen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello, I've been reading over my library of FreeBSD books, which I may add is impressive due to me buying EVERY book available on Freebsdmall and also buying the PowerPak to make sure my Library is complete, and also I've been reading the freebsd.org docs because I'm working on getting an upgrade to work properly. Here is what happened: I did as the website said and changed the cvsup example file which is the one I'm using, to a FreeBSD cvsup server, left most of it alone, because I wanted to use most packages, so I wanted basically every app available, and when rebooting, after doing this: # make buildworld # make buildkernel # make installkernel # reboot Assuming you went from 6.3-RELEASE to 6.3-STABLE and also assuming you do not have customization in /etc - here's what I do... After a cvsup of the src tree (ensuring I want the STABLE branch (*default release=cvs tag=RELENG_6) # cd /usr/src # make buildworld # make buildkernel KERNCONF=GENERIC (Assuming you use GENERIC) # make installkernel KERNCONF=GENERIC (Assuming you use GENERIC) # shutdown -r now (no need for Single-User Mode if YOU are the only user) Sorry but you're giving wrong advice here. *Always* drop to single user mode. You are almost never the only user on your machine when you're in multiuser mode. There will at least be root an your user account and probably others. # cd /usr/src # make installworld # shutdown -r now NOTE: I don't use mergemaster unless I go from say 6.3 to 7.0 *Always* use mergemaster. Default configuration is constantly changing slightly. It never happened to me that mergemaster had nothing to and I upgrade somewhat regularly. Not running mergemaster will sooner or later result in a broken system. It can be argued whether `mergemaster -p` has to be run everytime but just run it, it will never hurt you. I really recommend following the handbook step by step for this task unless you know exactly what you're doing. I booted in single user mode and tried this: # mergemaster -p # make installworld # mergemaster # reboot Now, this wouldn't work for some reason or another, but the system seemed to be doing just fine. I did uname -a and sure enough I had 6.3 Stable going. However, when typing kdm to load up that so I can use a gui, it no longer loads, at all, it pops up for a split second to just stop totally, and then gives me a message about the hostname. See above for your RELENG Tag I thought it was odd, and XDM actually loads, but won't load X itself as it too goes out with errors about hostname. You may need to update your ports tree and your installed packages since you went to STABLE I don't have the exact message which I know is bad form on my part, but I decided to just try updating again as I was kind of wondering what RELEASE is like instead of stable. STABLE is the security fix branch. *snip* Someone else may follow up the rest with you. Best regards, Jona -- I am chaos. I am the substance from which your artists and scientists build rhythms. I am the spirit with which your children and clowns laugh in happy anarchy. I am chaos. I am alive, and tell you that you are free. Eris, Goddess Of Chaos, Discord Confusion ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: pdf edit again.
On Sat, 03 Nov 2007 17:42:03 -0800, Gary Kline wrote: On Sat, Nov 03, 2007 at 09:03:17PM -0400, Mike Jeays wrote: On November 3, 2007 08:38:55 pm Gary Kline wrote: A couple weeks ago I skimmed thru the postings on editing PDF files. Wasn't entirely clear what the answer it because I never thought I would need to edit a GUI file. I just found a book from 1883 in pdf format. I would like a text/ASCII/ISO_8859-1 version. Tried pfdtotext, but it doesn't work. Nutshell: is there something I can use to edit/look-at this book and get rid of whateveriit is that's causing pdftotext to fail. (sorry for the grammar ) gary Try gv and xpdf. You might get lucky. Otherwise - try od :-) Welll, yeah, I can view ths file with xpdf or any other viewer, but can't figure out what's blocking it from being converted to ASCII. I've seen pdfedit for linux, but haven't found it thanks, gary PS: can't figure out whyanybody would take a pub domain book 125 years old any say copyright.. *mumble* The guy who scanned the book did actually invest a considerable amount of work into scanning it and he can claim copyright for that work. The text itself may be in the public domain but the pdf file is subject to copyright. Best regards, Jona ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Atheros wireless
On Sun, 28 Oct 2007 21:51:19 +0200 Necati Demir [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [.] If you are running FreeBSD 6.2-RELEASE, you could try updating to either the latest 6-STABLE, or the upcoming 7.0, both of which have a newer HAL. If that doesn't help either I don't think there is much you can do. I am running 6.2-RELEASE. How to update to 6-STABLE ? http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/current-stable.html 23.2.2 Staying Stable with FreeBSD ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Portupgrade used to be fun!!!
On Sat, 27 Oct 2007 00:12:49 -0400 E. J. Cerejo [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Not anymore! Every time I cvsup my ports tree and I see all of those ports that need to be updated my belly aches and that's because portupgrade doesn't work the way it used to work. It is not fun any more! Always an issue, either a port conflicts with another port or it fails all together. I have forgotten the last time I updated my ports without any issues. Today scrollkeeper is conflicting with rarian, they install files on the same directory. Go figure. Those were the days when it used to work. From /usr/ports/UPDATING: Portupgrade users: # pkgdb -Ff # portupgrade -f -o textproc/rarian textproc/scrollkeeper # portupgrade -a Seems like a PEBKAC. From http://code.google.com/p/rarian/ : Rarian (formerly Spoon) is a documentation meta-data library, designed as a replacement for Scrollkeeper. Not a portupgrade issue. Best regards, Jona -- I am chaos. I am the substance from which your artists and scientists build rhythms. I am the spirit with which your children and clowns laugh in happy anarchy. I am chaos. I am alive, and tell you that you are free. Eris, Goddess Of Chaos, Discord Confusion ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Why is sendmail in the core of FreeBSD?
On Sat, 22 Sep 2007 19:30:59 +0300 Abdullah Ibn Hamad Al-Marri [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 9/22/07, Wojciech Puchar [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: i personally use only sendmail. Yep... if it works, don't 'fix' it. same with any other things :) I would prefer to have postfix vs sendmail since it built with security in mind spaceman% telnet mx1.freebsd.org 25 Trying 2001:4f8:fff6::34... telnet: connect to address 2001:4f8:fff6::34: No route to host Trying 69.147.83.52... Connected to mx1.freebsd.org. Escape character is '^]'. 220 mx1.freebsd.org ESMTP Postfix (Postfix Rules!) ;) I prefer Postfix over Sendmail anytime but there are good reasons why Sendmail is in the base system and Postfix isn't. Postfix depends on PCRE which is not part of the base system. So you would have to include that one, too. Perhaps you can build Postfix without PCRE but I'm not sure. The Sendmail source code is around 1.5MB whereas Postfix is around 2.8MB. That's not a big difference but still, the size of a CD is limited. The release engineering team would have to figure out if that could be a problem. Then there are a lot of sysadmins which have been using Sendmail for years and don't want to switch. After all Sendmail is one of the most common MTAs on the Internet. Furthermore Sendmail was initially developed at UC Berkeley. It's not very common to kick BSD software from a BSD tree to replace it with non-BSD software. Finally, if you want Postfix it's very easy to install it from ports and replace Sendmail. Best regards, Jona ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: nvidia-driver rebooting machine on X startup
On Thu, 6 Sep 2007 13:10:42 -0700 Darren Spruell [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Wondering if this is a known issue, or if anyone has suggestions to get it working...? Running FreeBSD 6.2-RELEASE-p4 SMP i386. I installed nvidia-driver-100.14.11 from ports (Sep. 5 snapshot), Linux compatibility enabled. After loading modules 'linux' and 'nvidia', I do: # X -configure # X -config /root/xorg.conf.new At this point the system spontaneously reboots. 'X -configure' runs fine and produces a configuration without issue, but the reboot occcurs when launching X. Nothing is output to screen (it flickers as if starting X), and nothing is written to /var/log/Xorg.0.log. I do get the same behavior if running 'xorgcfg'. Did you reinstall/upgrade X after having installed nvidia-driver? X actually overwrites libraries that nvidia-driver installs so you have to reinstall nvidia-driver every time you upgrade X. I remember having had some bad crashes some time ago because X overwrote nvidia GLX libraries. Best regards, Jona ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Meaning of: kill -USR2
On Fri, 31 Aug 2007 10:24:47 -0700 (PDT) White Hat [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have seen 'kill -USR2' used in some scripts; however, I am unable to find out exactly what it is referring to. The man page for 'kill' does not list any 'USR2' flag or signal, unless I am reading it incorrectly. Perhaps, someone can tell me exactly what this signal means. SIGUSR1 and SIGUSR2 are signals that don't have any predefined meaning. You can use them for based inter-process communication. See: man 3 signal http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SIGUSR1_and_SIGUSR2 Jona -- I am chaos. I am the substance from which your artists and scientists build rhythms. I am the spirit with which your children and clowns laugh in happy anarchy. I am chaos. I am alive, and tell you that you are free. Eris, Goddess Of Chaos, Discord Confusion ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Flash
On Fri, 17 Aug 2007 19:45:29 -0400 Robert Huff [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Jona Joachim writes: The only native solution I know of is gnash but last time I tried it it was very unstable and very slow. gnash 0.8 is not in the ports yet. Is there an estimated date of arrival? Sorry but I couldn't tell you, I'm not the maintainer of the port. Jona ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Flash
On Fri, 17 Aug 2007 18:38:12 +0200 Laszlo Nagy [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Zbigniew Komarnicki wrote: Hello, can I ask you for help, how to set up flash in Firefox natively, step by step? The only native solution I know of is gnash but last time I tried it it was very unstable and very slow. gnash 0.8 is not in the ports yet. It features some great improvements. It can for example play YouTube videos without too many problems. I heard very promising things about gnash last week. gnash has already a lot of advantages compared to the 'real thing' from Adobe. For example it runs on many platforms where Adobe's Flash doesn't run. It will also perhaps soon hit the iPhone. Useless to say Adobe are not so happy about it ;) Best regards, Jona ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Help....How to set FreeBSD to handle UTF8 characters?
On Wed, 15 Aug 2007 09:04:58 +0200 VeeJay [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: FreeBSD 6.2 Please help! Perhaps this can help you: http://opal.com/freebsd/unicode.html Regards, Jona -- I am chaos. I am the substance from which your artists and scientists build rhythms. I am the spirit with which your children and clowns laugh in happy anarchy. I am chaos. I am alive, and tell you that you are free. Eris, Goddess Of Chaos, Discord Confusion ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: ndis wrapped Intel wireless driver causes panic
On Mon, 13 Aug 2007 20:43:45 -0500 Doug Poland [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello, I've got an HP/Compaq nx7400 and am having trouble with kernel loadable object generated by ndisgen. (6.2-STABLE, i386). Following the man page for ndisgen(4), I have the following files: -rwx-- 1 dpoland wheel27546 May 4 14:14:52 2007 NETw4x32.CAT* -rwx-- 1 dpoland wheel 180005 May 4 14:14:52 2007 NETw4x32.INF* -rwx-- 1 dpoland wheel 2206976 May 4 14:14:52 2007 NETw4x32.SYS* -rwxr-xr-x 1 root wheel 4185539 Aug 13 16:42:25 2007 NETw4x32_SYS.ko* I've copied the .ko file to /boot/kernel and when I type: root# kldload NETw4x32_SYS the system panics. snip I can confirm this. The FreeBSD ndis layer doesn't support the whole set of ndis features and is slippery when wet. Damien Bergamini wrote an OpenBSD driver for the 3945ABG chipset and he ported it to FreeBSD at some point. It works on fbsd 6.2 i386 only. Damien stopped developing the FreeBSD version for some reason so it may be a bit outdated but it works for many people. You should be able to find the sources for the driver by googling a bit. Good luck! Jona ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: xf86 madness - stop installing drivers
On Tue, 31 Jul 2007 11:37:36 -0700 Noah [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I am wondering if there is an easy way to stop installing all of the xf86 input an video drivers listed below. snip I asked this some time ago on the X11 mailing list: http://docs.freebsd.org/cgi/mid.cgi?f2v3qg$vfl$1 The answer was that this will be changed in the future. Regards, Jona -- I am chaos. I am the substance from which your artists and scientists build rhythms. I am the spirit with which your children and clowns laugh in happy anarchy. I am chaos. I am alive, and tell you that you are free. Eris, Goddess Of Chaos, Discord Confusion ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: firefox 3.0
On Mon, 23 Jul 2007 19:41:08 -0400 Tsu-Fan Cheng [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: sorry, i didnt notice that its the devel version. I just saw it in the freebsd.org/ports page. anyhow, I initial attempt was to find a alternative browser to firefox. On windows, there are avant, k-meleon and such, they are pretty good and fast compared to ff/IE. I wonder if there is any such client on fbsd. thanks!! dillo ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: installer freebsd
On Mon, 23 Jul 2007 00:27:06 +0200 Boudjema [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Bonjour, Please excuses, my english is bad, so i will explain in french my problem if this is not understood; i have a problem to install x window. my hope is to install kde. but without x, i am stopped; when i do pkg_add -r xorg, the response is: xorg 6.9is already installed or it's old version. when i do with cd /usr/ports/X11/xorg make install clean: i have this reponse: error code 1, /usr/local/libdata/xorg/libraries not found in /usr/ports/xorg-libraries. other big problem because i have had this response at lot off attemptings: /usr/X11R6/ exists but is not a symlink. I have understoot in bad english that in the new versions , this file /usr/X11R6 must be only a symlink. what i must do to updtate and make all the corrections for all the ports? i think that there is a problem with a few of my ports, i can delete all the ports and install them in new ? like this i will have a system clean. thin you. what is error code 1? can i install all x window systeme? with sysinstall lot of packages are not installed: errors and failed are returned. I have read the manual in french in first. My version is 6.2 Areski Boudjema Nanterre France Hi! It seems to me like your ports tree is not up to date. The first thing you want to do is update it. The easiest method is portsnap. This is explained in the handbook. Then there are 2 possibilities: Either you have an old version of X installed (which seems to be the case). You will then have to update X by following the steps described in /usr/ports/UPDATING. Or you don't have X installed. In this case you should build it with cd /usr/ports/x11/xorg make install clean Anyway it would be of great help if you could provide a more exhaustive error log and the output of pkg_info to see what you have installed. If some things seem unclear and you have difficulties with English I can reply in French. Bien le bonjour de Nancy! Jona ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: GUI Mail Reader for FreeBSD ...
On Sat, 14 Jul 2007 19:34:04 -0300 Marc G. Fournier [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Does anyone know of a good mail reader that does: PGP, unicode *and* shows inline html I use claws-mail and I love it. It can display inline html with the dillo plugin. Jona ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Email Sending Problem to YAHOO
On Tue, 12 Jun 2007 04:39:09 -0700 DeadMan Xia [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi everybody! hope all doing fine well i have configured my Email Server on FreeBSD 6.2 with Qmail, i have send email to yahoo, hotmail gmail. On gmail hotmail, its works quick, bt at yahoo ,,, its delaying nd mail recieved at yahoo with huge delays. wen i send email to yahoo, it gives following defferal error, @4000466e85af2e894abc delivery 12: deferral: Connected_to_216.39.53.1_but_greeting_failed./Remote_host_said:_421_Message_from_( 58.65.151.33 )_temporarily_deferred_-_4.16.50._Please_refer_to_http://help.yahoo.com/help/us/mail/defer/defer- 06.html/ @4000466e85af2e8bb3ec status: local 0/10 remote 1/255 @4000466e85b000c37904 delivery 13: deferral: Connected_to_66.196.97.250_but_greeting_failed./Remote_host_said:_421_Message_from_( 58.65.151.33 )_temporarily_deferred_-_4.16.50._Please_refer_to_http://help.yahoo.com/help/us/mail/defer/defer- 06.html/ @4000466e85b000c57ca4 status: local 0/10 remote 0/255 Kindly Help me out in fixing such probelm , The error message mentions a url. Perhaps you can find more information there. Perhaps this is interesting to you: http://help.yahoo.com/l/us/yahoo/mail/original/abuse/abuse-60.html Jona -- I am chaos. I am the substance from which your artists and scientists build rhythms. I am the spirit with which your children and clowns laugh in happy anarchy. I am chaos. I am alive, and tell you that you are free. Eris, Goddess Of Chaos, Discord Confusion ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: BSD derivatives
On Sat, 02 Jun 2007 18:10:27 -0700 Colin Percival [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Bill Moran wrote: OpenBSD puts security higher on its list of project goals and motivating factors than any other OS I know. I disagree. I'd say that OpenBSD and FreeBSD put security in exactly the same place -- at the top of the list. Sorry but I have to disagree here. FreeBSD ships with closed source software including following drivers: ath, nve, oltr, rr232x, hptmv. Closed source software implies potential insecurity. If security is at the top of the list then I see a clear contradiction here. Jona -- I am chaos. I am the substance from which your artists and scientists build rhythms. I am the spirit with which your children and clowns laugh in happy anarchy. I am chaos. I am alive, and tell you that you are free. Eris, Goddess Of Chaos, Discord Confusion ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: music-generator for FreeBSD?
On Mon, 30 Apr 2007 08:47:51 -0700 Gary Kline [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Guys, This is a bit off-topic, but maybe somebody out there can give me someclues. Bearing in mind that I know zip about music composition, is there a MIDI (or mp3 or other) toolkit that would generate short background slices of music? Say that I wanted some jazzy melody for several seconds. This application would generate it. Or a classical tune. Last night I found a possibly MIDI app for Windows; there were several that Google found that mentioned Linux but nothing panned out. Anybod know? Take a look at Pure Data (audio/pd in the ports). I just found out about it. It doesn't really create jazz melodies but it such a great synthesizer. It allows you to arrange objects graphically, like oscillators and analog/digital converters and combine them to create sounds. It's a real graphical programming language. Regards, Jona -- Und das Schönste daran ist, dass die Mehrzahl der Amerikaner durch die von Illuminaten gedeckten Terroranschläge so weit in Angst versetzt sein werden, dass sie darum betteln werden, kontrolliert zu werden, wie der Masochist nach der Peitsche wimmert. Hagbard Celine ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Mounting an FTP space ?
On Fri, 2 Mar 2007 12:26:33 +1100
Malcolm Fitzgerald [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
What do I need to do to wipe the slate clean?
On 02/03/2007, at 11:53 AM, Chris Slothouber wrote:
make config
Yes. I don't know what arguments to pass to it. Where are the current
arguments being stored, surely I can edit that file?
If you run make config it pops up the dialog where you can choose
your options. Alternatively you can run make rmconfig to remove your
saved options so you will be asked again next time you run make.
The options are saved in /var/db/ports/${PORTNAME}/options
Although you could edit that file manually there is no point to it and
you could make errors.
I must say that when I tried curlftpfs is was not very stable but
perhaps you have better luck.
Regards,
Jona
Never you mind wrote:
On 02/03/2007, at 2:58 AM, John Nielsen wrote:
On Thursday 01 March 2007 01:37, Never you mind wrote:
On my Mac from the Finder I can select Connect to server, give
it the
details of an ftp location and it will connect and display the
ftp space as a drive on the desktop.
Can I obtain the same sort of functionality using freeBSD and
xfce desktop manager?
I haven't used it, but the sysutils/fusefs-curlftpfs should allow
you to mount
an ftp location as a virtual filesystem. The desktop icon thing
you'll have
to work out on your own, but it shouldn't be too difficult (a
shortcut to
your chosen mountpoint should suffice).
I've just made an error during installation. At the dialog I
selected BOTH c-ares and IPV6.
That caused an error:
curl-7.16.0_1 does not support both c-ares and IPv6 - disable one
of them.
OK. I thought I'd simply run make install clean again and at the
dialog I would make my selection. However, I do not get to the
dialog. My choices have been saved somewhere and are being
re-used. I need to clean up from my first effort. What do I need
to do to wipe the slate clean?
malcolm
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Re: COPYING DATA TO NTFS
On Fri, 2 Mar 2007 15:39:30 -0800 Parker Brown [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Using the FreeBSD booter to manage both Windoz XP and FreeBSD 6.1 on the same SCSI drive. Under FreeBSD I've got XP mounted, and I've been able to examine the XP directories, but when I try to copy data or the contents of directories from FreeBSD to XP. Usingcp -R format, nothing copies, and I get error messages that the target files don't exist. Is FreeBSD not capable of copying to NTFS? No. Or at least writing support is very experimental and might break your NTFS partition. However there is ntfs-3g in the ports (sysutils/fusefs-ntfs). This driver has read/write support. I've never used it so I can't tell you more. More info: http://www.ntfs-3g.org/ Regards, Jona -- Hi, I'm a .signature virus! Copy me to your .signature file and help me propagate, thanks! ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: FreeBSD Torrent Server
On Thu, 1 Feb 2007 05:02:02 -0800 Ted Mittelstaedt [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: - Original Message - From: Jeremy Faulkner [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Ted Mittelstaedt [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: Eric Hildebrandt [EMAIL PROTECTED]; freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Sent: Wednesday, January 31, 2007 1:34 PM Subject: Re: FreeBSD Torrent Server On 1/31/07, Ted Mittelstaedt [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Why? FreeBSD isn't commercial software, there's no need to go through all the hocus pocus to conceal the uploader so the RIAA doesen't sue him. Standard FTP works perfectly fine at any of the mirror sites, and you will get your ISO no slower. Ted Bittorrent does nothing to conceal the uploader's identity. The RIAA (Recording Industry Association of Amarica) doesn't give a damn about the piracy of commercial software, the RIAA cares about the piracy of music distributed by their member companies. opinionThe RIAA exists to be the bully for their member companies and to draw the negative public relations away from those member companies./opinion Which is exactly why I cannot understand why anyone would want to use bittorrent to legitimately distribute anything. Why use a service that the RIAA is actively attacking, because such service is being used to illegally distribute pirated music? It's called guilt by association. For the same reason I would be very dismayed if a large porno site like playboy.com, hustler.com, etc. put a bunch of banners on their website offering free downloads of FreeBSD. Those porno sites are being used for the perfectly legal distribution of images legally obtained, by willing participants, all above board, monitored, and such. From a technical perspecitve, the porno sites have some of the best bandwidth available. You could make a dozen freedom of speech, etc. arguments about how it would be a great thing if those sites started distributing FreeBSD. But, it would be nothing more than a public relations disaster. Sure, bittorrent can be used to legally distribute software. So can porno sites. But, with all the number of willing FTP mirrors out there, who are engaged in noncontroversial businesses, is it really necessary to deal with bittorrent? snip Illegal music and software was downloaded from FTP servers long before BitTorrent existed. I don't think anybody here cares about what the RIAA is saying. BitTorrent is used to reduce the traffic on FreeBSD mirrors. You have the right to stop trolling until the Analogy Police comes for you. Jona -- Hi, I'm a .signature virus! Copy me to your .signature file and help me propagate, thanks! ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: mount USB-Device
On Tue, 12 Dec 2006 00:29:14 +0100 (MET) Karl Sinn [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I would like to use one of my USB-MP3-Players. I plug it in and I can see with dmesg that the device is recognised by the kernel. mount /dev/da0 /mnt gives an error message: incorrect superblock. mount -t fat /dev/da0 /mnt gives an error message that mount_fat is not found try with msdosfs instead of fat. Jona ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: access wikipedia (walk through the great firewall of China)
On Fri, 08 Dec 2006 14:25:59 +0800 张韡武 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello. My office use this method to access wikipedia behind the great firewall of China: 1) we have a server in europ, let's call it server; 2) I run this command on my desktop: $ ssh -L 80:en.wikipedia.org:80 server; 3) everybody in the office edit /etc/hosts, add this line: [my_ip_addr] en.wikipedia.org So my computer become a 'proxy'. The trouble is I have to keep the ssh running there. The 'proxy' will not automatically set up next time I reboot my computer. You can put the command into /etc/rc.local for it to be executed at boot time. Jona ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: How does my computer work with an empty arp table?
On Mon, 4 Dec 2006 08:14:44 +0200 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sun, Dec 03, 2006 at 02:53:44PM -0800, Atom Powers wrote: On 12/3/06, [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: My computer is connected to ISP via ADSL and works properly. I typed arp -a and saw an empty table, although I pinged successfully an Internet host one second ago. The ARP table is a cache of known ARP-IP addresses. If there are no addresses in the ARP table then the system will send out an ARP broadcast to discover the ARP address that belongs to the IP address. Of course only the Ethernet hosts on your local network will be in your ARP table. -- -- Perfection is just a word I use occasionally with mustard. --Atom Ray Powers-- Thank you for response. But why there is no MAC address of my ADSL modem connected via Ethernet? Does my host send broadcast frames to communicate with modem everytime? Furthermore, when I ping the modem, a proper entry appears in table: $arp -a $ping -c 1 rt # It is my modem PING rt.my.domain (192.168.1.1): 56 data bytes 64 bytes from 192.168.1.1: icmp_seq=0 ttl=254 time=1.298 ms --- rt.my.domain ping statistics --- 1 packets transmitted, 1 packets received, 0% packet loss round-trip min/avg/max/stddev = 1.298/1.298/1.298/0.000 ms $arp -a rt.my.domain (192.168.1.1) at 00:13:49:61:f9:b2 on rl0 [ethernet] But no entry appears when I communicate trough the modem. Perhaps your modem works as a transparent bridge. Jona ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: DVD Movies
On Sat, 2 Dec 2006 11:09:24 -0500 John Nielsen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Saturday 02 December 2006 08:49, Andrew Pantyukhin wrote: On 12/2/06, Graham Bentley [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Is it possible to play a DVD without loading X ? Apparently, yes http://gentoo-wiki.com/HOWTO_MPlayer_on_Framebuffer I think most of those framebuffer options are Linux-specific, but svgalib is certainly available on FreeBSD. The only trick is getting it configured properly.. It works with ncurses, too. Perhaps this will be helpful: http://www.oreilly.com/pub/h/4441 Jona ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: freebsd desktop
On Sun, 26 Nov 2006 11:15:38 -0800 (PST) probsd org [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Regarding my earlier email Do not install FreeBSD as a desktop I don't care how long I have been using FreeBSD, or yadda yadda or yadda when I cvsup ports, update the databse, and install www/firefox and go to a website I expect firefox's javascript or whatever to work. Perhaps you enjoy perusing the internet looking for different switches and knobs to make it work, I don't. Don't be silly. I never had a problem with JavaScript in Firefox and I never read that anybody had one. If the JavaScript on the site doesn't work this usually means that the script is broken. Furthermore, as already said, I can't see why it would be the fault of FreeBSD developers/contributors when Mozilla software doesn't work. If you want to get help you should perhaps give more detail about what problem(s) is (are). After all, if you don't like FreeBSD you don't have to use it. Jona ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Lacky Doc @ 5.6.2 Using XDM
On Sun, 26 Nov 2006 22:09:58 +0100 Ralf Schreijer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi there! Today I just installed FreeBSD(6.1) for the first time in my life. After several tries on my own I decided to go through the installation by following the instructions in the handbook. I successfully installed and configured Xorg. Everything went well, until I reached the section 5.6.2, Using XDM. I just tried to follow the instructions and enabled xdm to start running on the 9th virtual terminal by replacing the off by on in /etc/ttys: ttyv8 /usr/X11R6/bin/xdm -nodaemon xterm off secure in ttyv8 /usr/X11R6/bin/xdm -nodaemon xterm on secure Now I can't do anything. The system directly boots into the xdm, prompts a loginscreen and if I login as root (or as a user) there is nothing I can do. As I know now there isn't even a chance to leave the xdm. If I hit Ctrl+Alt+Backspace, it flips into the shell an returns immediately to xdm and prompts the login again. I tried fixing this through booting in Single User Mode, but I wasn't successful because I have no write permission in /etc/ttys during this mode. You have just about any right in single user mode. Type chmod 644 /etc/ttys If you edit the file using vi and it isn't writable you can force to write to it by typing :w! Try to hit Ctrl+Alt+F2 This should get you to a shell. Jona ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: freebsd desktop
On Sun, 26 Nov 2006 17:51:46 -0600 Donald J. O'Neill [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sunday 26 November 2006 13:15, probsd org wrote: Regarding my earlier email Do not install FreeBSD as a desktop I don't care how long I have been using FreeBSD, or yadda yadda or yadda when I cvsup ports, update the databse, and install www/firefox and go to a website I expect firefox's javascript or whatever to work. Perhaps you enjoy perusing the internet looking for different switches and knobs to make it work, I don't. Maybe it would be good if you install java. It just might work then. If you don't, you can't expect it too work. JavaScript is included in the Gecko engine used by Firefox. This has nothing to do with Java(TM). Jona ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Lacky Doc @ 5.6.2 Using XDM
On Sun, 26 Nov 2006 21:06:20 -0800 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: You have just about any right in single user mode. Type chmod 644 /etc/ttys If you edit the file using vi and it isn't writable you can force to write to it by typing :w! Not if his FS is mounted read-only. Yes, I forgot that / is mounted read-only when you enter single user mode, sorry. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: downloading Free BSD
Ryan and Sabrina Tardi wrote: What do I do with the ISO files once they are downloaded? Do I burn them directly to a CD then use the CD to install? Hi and welcome to FreeBSD! Yes, you use your favorite CD burning software like Nero or CloneCD and tell it to burn the ISO to the CD. This is a very common procedure and should be well documented in the software manual. After having done this you should read the FreeBSD Handbook: http://www.freebsd.org/doc/handbook/ It should answer most of your questions. --jona ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: NDIS/KLDload
Bill Moran wrote: Joel Adamson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Dear List, I need to get the internet up and running on my new FreeBSD6.1 install. I'm using a Belkin F5D7050 wireless adapter that is not recognized as a network interface in install. This thing works perfectly with ndiswrapper under linux, which is how I'm writing this message. I tried using NDISulator (ndis), following the handbook instructions to the keystroke and when I submit the last step kldload if_ndis I get cannot load if_ndis: file exists What does this mean and how do I get it to actually work? It generally means that the indicated kld is already in the kernel. The easiest is to unload it and load it again. kldunload if_ndis kldload if_ndis --jona ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Firefox and flash revisited. Don't shoot me for this post.
Christopher Hobbs wrote: OK, let me preface this by saying flash 7 was marked broken for a reason (a very good one at that). I'm probably going to be stepping on some toes here and I'd like to apologize in advance. I've managed to install the broken port by changing a couple of files and using macromedia's own package. It was a no-brainer. I don't recommend doing this by any means. I've carried out this installation for two reasons, one was for development on an internal machine that never touches the net. Second because of the sheer volume of people asking about how to do this, I was curious to see if it could be done. I've detailed the process here: http://altbit.org/?p=207 To get the distinfo file, just run 'make makesum', it's a lot easier. Commenting out 'RESTRICTED' is not required. Let me say again, that this is a VERY bad idea. If it's a bad idea then why do you tell people how to do it? You could perhaps just send in a PR with your changes and the maintainer and the committers will take a look at it. --jona ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Firefox+Flash
Jerry McAllister wrote: On Fri, Sep 15, 2006 at 02:46:19AM +0200, Jona Joachim wrote: Chuck Swiger wrote: On Sep 14, 2006, at 3:23 PM, Peter wrote: Yes, the Flash issue is a real bummer. It is best *not* to show your friends that when you introduce them to FBSD. Why? Is there some reason that you or they want to watch ads? I can't think of a single site that I use that needs Flash; I don't install it even on a Windows or MacOS X box. I don't have the need for Flash either. Youtube and Google Video should provide their videos in a proper way. I still believe in dynamic SVG for clear animations. You can watch one of those on the Opera site about SVG, it's great. Nobody needs proprietary binary formats on the Internet. Nice thought, but the real world is full of flash, much as it annoys me. By the way, I didn't find an SVG animation on the Opera page though it mentioned SVG and hyped it a little. It's there: http://www.opera.com/products/desktop/svg/ Your browser has to support SVG 1.1 Tiny to view it. I know that Firefox (even 2.0) and Konqueror don't support it yet. Opera supports it from version 8 on. --jona ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Firefox+Flash
michael johnson wrote: On 9/14/06, Garrett Cooper [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sep 15, 2006, at 7:54 AM, Chuck Swiger wrote: On Sep 14, 2006, at 3:23 PM, Peter wrote: Yes, the Flash issue is a real bummer. It is best *not* to show your friends that when you introduce them to FBSD. Why? Is there some reason that you or they want to watch ads? I can't think of a single site that I use that needs Flash; I don't install it even on a Windows or MacOS X box. -- -Chuck Unfortunately a lot of consumer sites are starting to use flash as a semi-static and predictable way to deliver content to people; it's incredibly annoying, and becomes very noticeable once you install stuff that blocks SWF files: http://www.noscript.net/whats :). Thus, that is one solution to get rid of your ads (adblock+ is another, but meh), so you can keep Flash functionality and get rid of crappy Flash animations, while surfing the net. Also, FYI: a lot of sites have built animations with (Adobe) Flash 9, so unless you have a Windows or Mac PC nearby you probably won't be able to load up animations on a Unix PC as the latest version available is 7. Go to http://www.adobe.com/cfusion/mmform/index.cfm?name=wishform and ask adobe for a native version of flash for FreeBSD. Great! I bet if everybody fills out this form and asks for a FreeBSD native version they will perhaps pay attention. --jona ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Firefox+Flash
Gerard Seibert wrote: On Friday 15 September 2006 10:34, Jerry McAllister wrote: I don't normally use it either, but there are sites that do videos programs that are all in flash and others that use it for graphic demonstrations. So, it is a feature that is desired by many. �It pains me to have to reboot to Microsloth to see something on those sites. I concure; having to use a different PC just to view a web page is a negative factor. I have also noticed that several sites, one bing CBSNews. is now doing streaming real-time video; however, it is only viewable via MS Media Player. It specifically states on the web page that 'realplayer' is not fully compatible and not used for many of the feeds. It would be nice if a fully compatible player were available for FBSD. I hate switching between PCs. MPlayer handles wmv streams just fine. You may want to check out www/mplayer-plugin, it works perfectly for mozilla. --jona ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Firefox+Flash
Gerard Seibert wrote: On Friday 15 September 2006 12:01, Jona Joachim wrote: [...] MPlayer handles wmv streams just fine. You may want to check out www/mplayer-plugin, it works perfectly for mozilla. OK, I all ready have that installed. How am I suppose to configure it so that when I click on a link that is suppose to require MS Media Player it intercepts it and displays the streaming video? The MPlayer plugin loads the streams on the cbsnews.com front page just fine. What browser are you using? I know that the plugin works fine with Mozilla and Firefox but it doesn't work in Opera (unfortunately). Type about:plugins in the location bar and check for the Windows Media Player Plugin entry. If you can't find it in the list then the browser can't find the plugin, reinstalling may help. --jona ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Firefox+Flash
Jerry McAllister wrote: On Fri, Sep 15, 2006 at 05:52:45PM +0200, Jona Joachim wrote: Jerry McAllister wrote: On Fri, Sep 15, 2006 at 02:46:19AM +0200, Jona Joachim wrote: Chuck Swiger wrote: On Sep 14, 2006, at 3:23 PM, Peter wrote: Yes, the Flash issue is a real bummer. It is best *not* to show your friends that when you introduce them to FBSD. Why? Is there some reason that you or they want to watch ads? I can't think of a single site that I use that needs Flash; I don't install it even on a Windows or MacOS X box. I don't have the need for Flash either. Youtube and Google Video should provide their videos in a proper way. I still believe in dynamic SVG for clear animations. You can watch one of those on the Opera site about SVG, it's great. Nobody needs proprietary binary formats on the Internet. Nice thought, but the real world is full of flash, much as it annoys me. By the way, I didn't find an SVG animation on the Opera page though it mentioned SVG and hyped it a little. It's there: http://www.opera.com/products/desktop/svg/ Your browser has to support SVG 1.1 Tiny to view it. I know that Firefox (even 2.0) and Konqueror don't support it yet. Opera supports it from version 8 on. OK. I see it. But since I am running Firefox, it doesn't do much. Are you proposing to add SVG to Firefox or create a 'plugin' for Firefox? SVG 1.1 Tiny became a W3C recommendation on 14th January 2003 so I believe they will implement it sonner or later --jona ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: What do I need in FreeBSD 6.1 OS to be able to read a USB Dane/Electric 256 MB thumb drive?
ograbme wrote: Howdy. I've been going round and round here trying to simply read a USB thumb drive. I've searched many web sites, read the various messages on this list, the Handbook and other sources, but nothing is very clear to me at the moment. I think I have bits and pieces, but haven't been able to put together the puzzle yet, soo ... So here is a clip of my dmesg text ... Note: I haven't included the whole dmesg output ... if need be, please advise. snip I see no references to umass and/or da0 which I have come across in my readings. In the /dev file there are two devices, usb and usb0, so I tried mounting each one of these devices separately, but had no luck. Obviously I'm missing something here, so any reasonably detailed pointers would be appreciated. At the moment I'm not concerned with USB 2.0. LOL! Thanks in advance. Do you have a custom built kernel? If so, did you include the umass and da drivers? What does 'kldstat -v | grep umass' say? --jona ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Firefox+Flash
Chuck Swiger wrote: On Sep 14, 2006, at 3:23 PM, Peter wrote: Yes, the Flash issue is a real bummer. It is best *not* to show your friends that when you introduce them to FBSD. Why? Is there some reason that you or they want to watch ads? I can't think of a single site that I use that needs Flash; I don't install it even on a Windows or MacOS X box. I don't have the need for Flash either. Youtube and Google Video should provide their videos in a proper way. I still believe in dynamic SVG for clear animations. You can watch one of those on the Opera site about SVG, it's great. Nobody needs proprietary binary formats on the Internet. --jona ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Question
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello sir I am new to freeBSD and i am using FreeBSD 5.4-RELEASE for my personal server. i am asking specificly about two questions: What is equal to WGET? fetch(1) comes with the base system. You can install wget, curl and other tools from the ports. And why GUNZIP isn't working and how do i unzip ZIPs and RARs? Using the archivers/unzip and archivers/unrar ports respectively. If you install archivers/file-roller you have a graphical tool that lets you handle archives in a very intuitive way. --jona ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: cups 1.2.2 and parallel port printers
Robert Huff wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: anybody seen this behavior before? or have a clue? I don't know if this is your problem, but I have seen similar issues. _In my case_, CUPS as ported does not like the permissions on /dev/lpt0*. They default to crw---; setting them to crw-rw-rw- makes the parallel printer appear. There should be a way to tall devfs to change those permissions automatically, but I haven't been able to figure it out. You have to specify perm lpt0 0666 in /etc/devfs.conf --jona ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: ports/java/jdk15
B. Cook wrote: Hello All, Trying to build java 1.5.0 and it looks like it's needs linux java 1.4.2? is this right? === linux-sun-jdk-1.4.2.12 You must manually fetch the J2SE SDK self-extracting file for the Linux platform (j2sdk-1_4_2_12-linux-i586.bin) from http://javashoplm.sun.com/ECom/docs/Welcome.jsp?StoreId=22PartDetailId=j2sdk-1.4.2_12-oth-JPRSiteId=JSCTransactionId=noreg, place it in /usr/ports/distfiles and then run make again. *** Error code 1 Stop in /usr/ports/java/linux-sun-jdk14. *** Error code 1 Stop in /usr/ports/java/jdk15. Yes, that's right. jdk14 is needed to compile jdk15, welcome to the world of Java ;) Because of license issues you have to fetch the linux jdk14 binary as well as some distfiles required by jdk15 manually as indicated above. However you don't have to build jdk15 as there is an official FreeBSD binary available! See: http://docs.freebsd.org/cgi/mid.cgi?44343C8E.2050707 Just install java/diablo-jdk15 and it will install the binary --jona ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: solaris
White Hat wrote: --- Freminlins [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 06/09/06, White Hat [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have tried Open Office. No matter what anyone says, it is just not as full featured as Word 2003. It is not even close. True, but also compare the cost. Not even close... Immaterial. the singularly most important feature is suitability to task. If it is free and it does not work, what good is it? What feature(s) exactly do you need that OpenOffice doesn't have? In what way is MS Office better concerning this (these) feature(s)? --jona ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: ports/java/jdk15
B. Cook wrote: Jona Joachim wrote: B. Cook wrote: Hello All, Trying to build java 1.5.0 and it looks like it's needs linux java 1.4.2? is this right? === linux-sun-jdk-1.4.2.12 You must manually fetch the J2SE SDK self-extracting file for the Linux platform (j2sdk-1_4_2_12-linux-i586.bin) from http://javashoplm.sun.com/ECom/docs/Welcome.jsp?StoreId=22PartDetailId=j2sdk-1.4.2_12-oth-JPRSiteId=JSCTransactionId=noreg, place it in /usr/ports/distfiles and then run make again. *** Error code 1 Stop in /usr/ports/java/linux-sun-jdk14. *** Error code 1 Stop in /usr/ports/java/jdk15. Yes, that's right. jdk14 is needed to compile jdk15, welcome to the world of Java ;) Because of license issues you have to fetch the linux jdk14 binary as well as some distfiles required by jdk15 manually as indicated above. However you don't have to build jdk15 as there is an official FreeBSD binary available! See: http://docs.freebsd.org/cgi/mid.cgi?44343C8E.2050707 Just install java/diablo-jdk15 and it will install the binary --jona So if I just wanted a java binary.. I could also just install the java/diablo-jre15 That depends on what you need. The JRE (Java Runtime Environment) comes with the Java Virtual Machine and standard libraries: everything you need to run Java binaries. However, if you want to want to compile Java applications from source you will need the JDK (Java Development Kit) which comes with the JRE + the javac compiler and everything else you need to create Java bytecode. --jona ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Creating pkg-plist - problems
vittorio wrote: Under 6.1 I'm trying to build a port (R-2.3.1) following the instructions in the porters-handbook and particularly I'm having a go at creating the pkg-plist file as suggested in the point 7.5 of http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/porters-handbook/plist-autoplist.html now,there is said: Next, create a temporary directory tree into which your port can be installed, and install any dependencies. # mkdir /var/tmp/$(make -V PORTNAME) # mtree -U -f $(make -V MTREE_FILE) -d -e -p /var/tmp/$(make -V PORTNAME) # make depends PREFIX=/var/tmp/$(make -V PORTNAME) but, when I try: % make -V PORTNAME R BUT % mkdir /var/tmp/$(make -V PORTNAME) the answer is Nome di variabile non lecito that is variable name not allowed What's wrong with it? This is Bourne shell syntax and you are using tcsh. Either type sh and follow the instructions or replace $(make -V PORTNAME) by `make -V PORTNAME` --jona ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: can i build more than one world on a buildserver?
Jonathan Horne wrote: is it possible to have STABLE and RELENG built on a single build server? or further, is it possible to have 5.5 and 6.1 worlds built from the same machine? just wondering. :) Take a look at misc/tinderbox, it may be just what you need. --jona ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: flash plugin and firefox
Jordi Carrillo wrote: When it says: cd /usr/src patch -p0 /tmp/rtld_dlsym_hack.diff a question arises saying: File to patch: Then what is supposed I have to patch? and there's nothing in /usr/src as well. Thanks You don't have the sources of the base system. You can fetch them using sysinstall or csup. The FreeBSD Handbook is your friend: http://www.freebsd.org/doc/handbook/ The babelfish translation of the page is not so bad: http://babelfish.altavista.com/babelfish/trurl_pagecontent?lp=pt_enurl=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.unixlike.com.br%2F%3Fp%3D%252081 P.S. Please don't top post --jona ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: not adding daemons to rc.conf
Jonathan Horne wrote: ive noticed that apache can be started manually using the apachectl tool, even if it is not enabled in /etc/rc.conf. do many other daemons have this ability? i have a dev server that i would like to not have many things enabled in the rc.conf, but i would like an easy way to just start specific daemons when i need. Take a look at /usr/local/etc/rc.d You will see several scripts belonging to server applications you installed. Each one of these scripts can start or stop the service. For example: /usr/local/etc/rc.d/apache.sh start /usr/local/etc/rc.d/apache.sh stop When you put something into rc.conf it is actually this script that is executed, so every daemon that can be enabled in rc.conf can also be started/stopped using those scripts. Daemons coming with the base system have there scripts in the /etc/rc.d directory. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: FreeBSD from Scratch
Rich Mayo wrote: Is anyone on the list familiar with the Linux from Scratch project? More to the point, is anybody aware if there is anything like a FreeBSD from Scratch project?? You may find this interesting: http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/articles/fbsd-from-scratch/index.html Jona ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: AVI to MPEG conversion
Neil Short wrote: mplayer is very powerful and it's manpage is overwhelming. Once you get started with it mplayer's features become less inaccessible. Or you may try gmencoder which offers a GTK interface to the basic functionality of mencoder. It will be largely sufficient for your needs. Jona ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: NFS Server and MS Windows
DSA - JCR wrote: Hi all I am mounting a NFS server (FreeBSD 6.1 amd64) for a MS Windows Network for a customer and I see that I can not see the NFS server from windows boxes. Must I install Samba for that? or anything in the MS Windows boxes? I thougth that Windows understand NFS but seems to be not. There is a commercial solution called Reflection by WRQ. Reflection is a suite of tools to access Unix services from Windows boxes. http://www.wrq.com/products/reflection/nfs_client/ Best regards Jona ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: how to change roots shell
unixforums 1 wrote: Hi, I did a completely newbie move and changed the root’s shell to something that doesn’t work. So, needless to say now I can’t su to root or even login as root. Is there a way I can fix this without rebuilding the server? Thanks for any help you can provide. Boot in single user mode and change it from there. Jona ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: FreeBSD logo
Adrian Pavone wrote: Albert Shih wrote: Hi all No no it's not a new troll for the new/old freebsd's logo ;-) No my question : Where can I find the FreeBSD logo (new or old) to put on my xdm screen. Regards. -- Albert SHIH Universite de Paris 7 (Denis DIDEROT) U.F.R. de Mathematiques. 7 ième étage, plateau D, bureau 10 Heure local/Local time: Mon May 15 22:44:30 CEST 2006 ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] If you want Beastie, you can find him at either http://www.freebsd.org/ or you can always do a search for beastie in http://images.google.com In relation to the sex toy, I am not sure of any that don't have a background colour/image attached... You can find it here: http://www.freebsd.org/logo.html ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
sendmail configuration
Hi! Sendmail drives me mad. The only thing I want it to do is change the sender's E-Mail address to [EMAIL PROTECTED] and forward everything to smtp.web.de whenever I send mail from the command line. It always sends a DNS query to get the MX records of web.de but the servers designated by the MX records don't accept mail from me as I'm on a DSL line with no static IP address. I even tried to specify the IP address of the mailserver directly so that the words web.de don't occur in any configuration file but it still queries for the MX records. When I type: #sendmail [EMAIL PROTECTED] test . sendmail first tries to contact the web.de server that is designated by the MX record. When this server refuses to accept to mail it directly contacts the gmail server. When I receive the mail the sender's address is [EMAIL PROTECTED] although I mapped this address to [EMAIL PROTECTED] in genericstable. I attached /var/log/maillog and a libpcap file (sniffed using ethereal) which describe what happens when I issue the command above. I also attached following configuration files: /etc/mail/nirvana.lan.net.mc /etc/mail/nirvana.lan.submit.mc /etc/mail/genericstable /etc/rc.conf /etc/hosts I created all the .cf and .db files using the Makefile in /etc/mail. I'm sorry to bug you with this, I must be missing something obvious. ethereal Description: Binary data May 14 19:24:52 nirvana sm-mta[11087]: starting daemon (8.13.6): [EMAIL PROTECTED]:30:00 May 14 19:24:52 nirvana sm-msp-queue[11090]: starting daemon (8.13.6): [EMAIL PROTECTED]:30:00 May 14 19:24:52 nirvana sm-mta[11088]: k4BIAfF8000497: to=[EMAIL PROTECTED], delay=2+23:14:09, xdelay=00:00:00, mailer=esmtp, pri=5521614, relay=10.0.0.11. [10.0.0.11], dsn=4.0.0, stat=Deferred: Connection refused by 10.0.0.11. May 14 19:24:54 nirvana sm-mta[11088]: k4AItUc2007774: to=[EMAIL PROTECTED], delay=3+22:29:22, xdelay=00:00:02, mailer=esmtp, pri=5970323, relay=mx-ha02.web.de. [217.72.192.188], dsn=4.0.0, stat=Deferred: Connection reset by mx-ha02.web.de. May 14 19:25:00 nirvana sendmail[11097]: k4EHP0oE011097: from=root, size=256, class=0, nrcpts=1, msgid=[EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] May 14 19:25:00 nirvana sm-mta[11098]: k4EHP0vK011098: from=[EMAIL PROTECTED], size=547, class=0, nrcpts=1, msgid=[EMAIL PROTECTED], proto=ESMTP, daemon=Daemon0, relay=localhost.lan.net [127.0.0.1] May 14 19:25:00 nirvana sendmail[11097]: k4EHP0oE011097: to=root, ctladdr=root (0/0), delay=00:00:00, xdelay=00:00:00, mailer=relay, pri=30256, relay=[127.0.0.1] [127.0.0.1], dsn=2.0.0, stat=Sent (k4EHP0vK011098 Message accepted for delivery) May 14 19:25:00 nirvana sm-mta[11099]: k4EHP0vK011098: to=[EMAIL PROTECTED], ctladdr=[EMAIL PROTECTED] (0/0), delay=00:00:00, xdelay=00:00:00, mailer=local, pri=30810, relay=local, dsn=2.0.0, stat=Sent May 14 19:25:05 nirvana sendmail[11101]: k4EHP38b011101: from=default, size=5, class=0, nrcpts=1, msgid=[EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] May 14 19:25:06 nirvana sm-mta[11102]: k4EHP5VZ011102: from=[EMAIL PROTECTED], size=340, class=0, nrcpts=1, msgid=[EMAIL PROTECTED], proto=ESMTP, daemon=Daemon0, relay=localhost.lan.net [127.0.0.1] May 14 19:25:06 nirvana sendmail[11101]: k4EHP38b011101: [EMAIL PROTECTED], ctladdr=default (1001/0), delay=00:00:03, xdelay=00:00:01, mailer=relay, pri=30005, relay=[127.0.0.1] [127.0.0.1], dsn=2.0.0, stat=Sent (k4EHP5VZ011102 Message accepted for delivery) May 14 19:25:07 nirvana sm-mta[11104]: k4EHP5VZ011102: to=[EMAIL PROTECTED], ctladdr=[EMAIL PROTECTED] (1001/0), delay=00:00:02, xdelay=00:00:01, mailer=esmtp, pri=30340, relay=gmail-smtp-in.l.google.com. [64.233.183.114], dsn=2.0.0, stat=Sent (OK 1147627507 a23si3294417nfc) check_quotas=NO font8x16=iso15-8x16.fnt keymap=swissfrench.iso.acc sshd_enable=NO usbd_enable=YES inetd_enable=NO ntpdate_enable=YES sendmail_enable=NO sendmail_submit_enable=YES sendmail_outbound_enable=NO sendmail_msp_queue_enable=YES linux_enable=YES compat4x_enable=NO compat5x_enable=YES lpd_enable=YES nessusd_enable=NO apache22_enable=NO postgresql_enable=YES postgresql_data=/var/pgsql moused_enable=NO moused_ums0_enable=NO moused_nondefault_enable=NO hostname=nirvana.lan.net ifconfig_sk0=inet 10.0.0.11 netmask 255.0.0.0 defaultrouter=10.0.0.1 127.0.0.1 localhost.lan.net localhost 10.0.0.11 nirvana.lan.net nirvana 10.0.0.12 padres #Brother AP206 Printer 10.0.0.21 RNP6C37EB default [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] root[EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] divert(-1) # # Copyright (c) 1983 Eric P. Allman # Copyright (c) 1988, 1993 # The Regents of the University of California. All rights reserved. # # Redistribution and use in source and binary forms, with or without #
Re: user accounts messed up
Jona Joachim wrote: On 21/01/06, Jona Joachim [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: (...) I created a master.passwd file from the backup file in /var/backups and emptied the password field. Then I updated the database with pwd_mkdb but I still can't login. In fact it has nothing to do with the user database or the passwd file. I reinstalled the base system and I found out the following: If I boot with the newly installed /usr in place I can login. Then I can move the /usr folder and mount my old /usr partition, set the lib paths with ldconfig and then everything works fine. If I boot using the old /usr partition I can't login and I am told my password is wrong. I don't get it. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
user accounts messed up
Hi! I did something quite stupid... I installed postgresql from ports and created an unprivileged user account for it. I wanted to install the database in /var/pgsql and wanted to chown the folder to the unprivileged user. To do this, I entered the following as root: chown -R /var/pgsql/ As this command took more than two seconds I presumed chown had followed .. and so I hit Ctrl-C. After having done this I tried to switch to the unprivileged user account with su and it said something like setuid not running. After having tried to recover from this situation without success I decided to reboot the system. Now I can't login to any user account anymore, not even root. I am told the password is not correct. I tried to boot in single user mode, mount /usr and change the root password with passwd but I am denied permission to change master.passwd. Is it possible that the user database is corrupt? I would be glad if anyone was able to help me. Greetings, Jona ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: user accounts messed up
On 21/01/06, Jona Joachim [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: (...) I created a master.passwd file from the backup file in /var/backups and emptied the password field. Then I updated the database with pwd_mkdb but I still can't login. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Partitioning
Hi! I'm quite new to FreeBSD and I have some concerns about partitioning. I plan to install FreeBSD-6 as a desktop system and I bought a new Western Digital Caviar SE WD800JB hard drive to use it as a second disk for storing music, movies, photos and stuff like that on it. I also want to put the swap partition on it as this drive will be idle most of the time. So basically I want to create 2 partitions on this drive: one 2GB partition for swap and one big UFS partition for data. Fdisk reported that it couldn't clearly identify the disk architecture because it thinks that the architecture is different from what BIOS tells. Here is fdisk's output after having created a slice: *** Working on device /dev/ad1 *** parameters extracted from in-core disklabel are: cylinders=155061 heads=16 sectors/track=63 (1008 blks/cyl) Figures below won't work with BIOS for partitions not in cyl 1 parameters to be used for BIOS calculations are: cylinders=155061 heads=16 sectors/track=63 (1008 blks/cyl) Media sector size is 512 Warning: BIOS sector numbering starts with sector 1 Information from DOS bootblock is: The data for partition 1 is: sysid 165 (0xa5),(FreeBSD/NetBSD/386BSD) start 0, size 156296322 (76316 Meg), flag 80 (active) beg: cyl 0/ head 0/ sector 1; end: cyl 512/ head 253/ sector 63 The data for partition 2 is: UNUSED The data for partition 3 is: UNUSED The data for partition 4 is: UNUSED After creating a slice I created the partitions inside it with disklabel. In every example I saw the swap partition was in the second place. However, I want it to be in the beginning of the disk as this should result in better performance. Are there any concerns about this layout? I basically used the standards mentioned by the manual pages of disklabel: 8 partitions: # size offsetfstype [fsize bsize bps/cpg] a: 2g * swap b: * * 4.2BSD 4096 16384 64 c: * * unused Here is an output of what the layout now actually looks like: # /dev/ad1s1: 8 partitions: #size offsetfstype [fsize bsize bps/cpg] a: 41943040 swap b: 152102018 4194304 4.2BSD 4096 16384 20732 c: 156296322 0 unused 0 0 The number of cylinders in a cylinder group bps/cpg was automatically changed to 20732 which is quite different from 64. Why is that so? I haven't had any problems with the disk until now but I don't want to expose my data to danger by using a broken disk layout. Thanks for your help! ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
