Re: Unable to build DOC ports
On Mon, Jul 22, 2013 at 08:47:47AM -0400, Carmel wrote: I am having a problem updating some ports since installing the print/texlive-full port a few days ago. I have: TEX_DEFAULT=texlive sans quotes at the top of my /etc/make.conf file. [...] I think you have the reason just above. For the moment the docproj port relies on print/teTeX-base and not print/texlive-full. -- Marc ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: help setup an HP 3300C scanner
On Thu, Aug 04, 2011 at 12:26:55AM -0500, Antonio Olivares wrote: [...] I added scanbuttond from ports to be safe :), I just copied your example (not looking that it was customized for epson :( libscanbtnd-backend_epson.so, but I have removed that and left it as you have suggested :) I was glad that it worked and I did not notice that. The good thing is that it* scanner is working and thanks to your kind example/suggestion. I'm curious, what is the output of the id(1) command as olivares? -- Marc ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: help setup an HP 3300C scanner
On Thu, Aug 04, 2011 at 10:38:27AM -0500, Antonio Olivares wrote: On Thu, Aug 4, 2011 at 9:54 AM, Marc Fonvieille black...@freebsd.org wrote: I'm curious, what is the output of the id(1) command as olivares? -- Marc [olivares@quadcore ~]$ whoami olivares [olivares@quadcore ~]$ id uid=1001(olivares) gid=1001(olivares) groups=1001(olivares),0(wheel),5(operator),194(saned) Ok, thanks. I'm a bit puzzled about the reasons why the scanner wasn't seen. Hmm in devfs.rules: [Removable Media] should be [Removable_Media=10], I think, to match your rc.conf -- Marc ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: Unable to extract audio cd tracks
On Mon, Dec 13, 2010 at 06:54:40PM +0100, David Demelier wrote: Hi, Reading this http://www.freebsd.org/doc/handbook/creating-cds.html I would try to extract my files from my optical drive. (I don't have atapicam but if I understand well it's only needed for cdda2wav) mark...@abricot ~ $ sudo dd if=/dev/acd0t01 of=track1.cdr dd: /dev/acd0t01: Invalid argument 0+0 records in 0+0 records out 0 bytes transferred in 0.026221 secs (0 bytes/sec) do I really need atapicam even if I directly read from the device? cdda2wav should work even without atapicam. The doc has to be updated on this point. However the dd thing should work maybe the disc was not correctly tasted by the drive. Try: dd if=/dev/acd0 of=/dev/null count=1 -- Marc ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: Xorg Problems
On Thu, Aug 26, 2010 at 04:11:27PM -0400, Eitan Adler wrote: I used make install as I had no way of knowing that additional drivers could be selected. Perhaps that should be an option to the sysinstall program when FBSD is initially being installed. Yes, people can't guess what are the names of the drivers, it's in my opinion a problem for this port. I Cced the maintainer. I have a lot on my plate right now so I can't guarantee that I'll solve this soon. Would depending on x11-driver/xorg-drivers instead of requiring VIDEO_DRIVER being set help at all? I intended this port to be used when you require X11 to up and running fast without any overhead. That is why things like xset aren't installed. It is possible to run X11 with the vesa driver even if you can get better performance with a different driver. Having a config menu to select the drivers to be installed (via OPTIONS) is what is missing. -- Marc ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: Xorg Problems
On Sun, Aug 22, 2010 at 07:17:48AM -0700, Fred Boatwright wrote: For x11/xorg-minimal installation you issued the command: make install or make install VIDEO_DRIVER=your_video_driver ? Without the mention of the driver it installs the vesa driver only. This is sub-optimal, an options screen with all existing drivers should be proposed. -- Marc I used make install as I had no way of knowing that additional drivers could be selected. Perhaps that should be an option to the sysinstall program when FBSD is initially being installed. Yes, people can't guess what are the names of the drivers, it's in my opinion a problem for this port. I Cced the maintainer. -- Marc ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: Xorg Problems
On Sat, Aug 21, 2010 at 07:41:49PM -0700, Fred Boatwright wrote: Warren Block wrote: On Sat, 21 Aug 2010, Warren Block wrote: Log file is at http://wonkity.com/~wblock/tmp/Xorg.0.log First notes: You're running the old version of X, 1.6.1. Something odd is going on with some of the fonts. I installed ports/x11/xorg-minimal as the full Monty appeared to be a huge amount of software that will never get used. I don't want all the stuff for gnome and kde as I will never use them. It appeared to me that the fonts could be straightened out when everything else is working. I think the Handbook has a section on adding fonts. While looking for the xorg-minimal that I installed I found a bunch of nVidea drivers in the same directory. Do you think I should install them now or wait. For x11/xorg-minimal installation you issued the command: make install or make install VIDEO_DRIVER=your_video_driver ? Without the mention of the driver it installs the vesa driver only. This is sub-optimal, an options screen with all existing drivers should be proposed. -- Marc ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: Problem syncing Palm TX with jpilot on FreeBSD 8.0-BETA3
On Wed, Aug 26, 2009 at 06:54:25PM +0100, Tony McC wrote: Hello, I am running FreeBSD 8.0-BETA3 amd64 and am having trouble syncing my Palm TX with jpilot. This used to work with 7.2-STABLE amd64 and I suspect I'm just not using the usb: connection correctly but have not been able to find a solution by searching the archives. I am running a custom kernel with device uvisor commented out, though the same problem occurs if I recompile with uvisor included. [...] First you need to have uvisor(4) loaded (compiled in the kernel or via the loaded module). Last uvisor(4) revision was not merged in BETA3 so you will have to wait for the merge or directly grab it from http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/cvsweb.cgi/~checkout~/src/sys/dev/usb/serial/uvisor.c?rev=1.12;content-type=text%2Fplain;only_with_tag=HEAD replace you src/sys/dev/usb/serial/uvisor.c with that one and rebuild your module/kernel Then if you plug your device and launch Hotsync on the Palm a /dev/cuaU0 device should appear. You should check that. If you have jpilot installed, palm/pilot-link tools are installed (be sure it was compiled with USB support), so once the /dev/cuaU0 device node is created you can type: # pilot-xfer -p /dev/cuaU0 -l this should list the installed files on your device, # pilot-xfer -p /dev/cuaU0 -b your_backup_dir to backup your palm on your PC. If these commands worked, then jpilot should work as well. -- Marc ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: Problem syncing Palm TX with jpilot on FreeBSD 8.0-BETA3
On Thu, Aug 27, 2009 at 04:04:09PM +0100, Tony McC wrote: Marc, many thanks, that was a great help. I uncommented uvisor in the kernel config file, installed the newer uvisor.c, rebuilt and installed the new kernel. Pressing the hotsync button did indeed create a /dev/cuaU0 but I had to add myself to the 'dialer' group to use it. Palm syncing now works again with jpilot! Great! BTW, when might that newer uvisor.c be merged into the RELENG_8 sources? Hopefully, It should be available in 8.0-RELEASE. Thanks also to Roland. I already had add path 'usb/*' in my /etc/devfs.rules. Best wishes, Tony ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org -- Marc ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: Flash10 with 8.0-BETA2 and Firefox 3.5.2
On Thu, Aug 20, 2009 at 07:02:28AM -0600, Warren Block wrote: So you should not run it as root. Let me clarify: I did not run it as root until after it didn't work as a normal user. Or at least I thought I didn't. Now, having removed the link in /usr/local/lib/firefox3/plugins and making sure that npwrapper.libflashplayer.so was not present in /usr/local/lib/browser_plugins, nspluginwrapper and Flash as a normal user works. All these Firefox plugins are a big nightmare cause so many parameters can prevent them to work. It's a pain :( But if you find a reliable reason, something that we can repeat, that prevented the detection of the plugin, please mail me. I'm interested in updating the docs on this point. -- Marc ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: Flash10 with 8.0-BETA2 and Firefox 3.5.2
On Thu, Aug 20, 2009 at 06:12:23AM -0600, Warren Block wrote: On Thu, 20 Aug 2009, Tijl Coosemans wrote: On Thursday 20 August 2009 03:41:05 Warren Block wrote: On 8.0-BETA2 with www/linux-f10-flashplugin10 and www/firefox35 installed. As per the Handbook, a soft link in /usr/local/lib/browser_plugins to /usr/local/lib/npapi/linux-f10-flashplugin/libflashplayer.so. nspluginwrapper -a -i runs normally. linprocfs mounted, and nspluginwrapper -l shows /usr/local/lib/browser_plugins/libflashplayer.so. But about:plugins shows nothing but the default plugin. Is something else necessary? I think you ran nspluginwrapper as root. If you run it as a normal user it puts the wrapped plugin in ~/.mozilla/plugins where Firefox picks it up. If you run it as root it puts it in /usr/local/lib/browser_plugins. Firefox 2.x and some other browsers scan this directory, but newer versions don't for some reason. You have to create a symlink in /usr/local/lib/firefox3/plugins/ to the npwrapper plugin in /usr/local/lib/browser_plugins/ That works! I had first run nspluginwrapper -a -i as normal user, then as root. The Handbook says: -- Once the right Flash port, according to the FreeBSD version you run, is installed, the plugin must be installed by each user with nspluginwrapper: % nspluginwrapper -v -a -i -- So you should not run it as root. There is no ~/.mozilla directory for either root or normal user. But this is the first machine I've set up where Firefox3.5 was a fresh install, not an update to a previous version. Here what I did: % rm -rf .mozilla % nspluginwrapper -l % nspluginwrapper -a -i % nspluginwrapper -l /home/marc/.mozilla/plugins/npwrapper.libflashplayer.so Original plugin: /usr/local/lib/browser_plugins/libflashplayer.so Wrapper version string: 1.2.2 So even if a $HOME/.mozilla does not exist, it'll be created by nspluginwrapper. Should the Handbook instructions be updated? I don't think it's needed here. -- Marc ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: Flash10 with 8.0-BETA2 and Firefox 3.5.2
On Thu, Aug 20, 2009 at 02:30:41PM +0200, Marc Fonvieille wrote: On Thu, Aug 20, 2009 at 06:12:23AM -0600, Warren Block wrote: On Thu, 20 Aug 2009, Tijl Coosemans wrote: On Thursday 20 August 2009 03:41:05 Warren Block wrote: On 8.0-BETA2 with www/linux-f10-flashplugin10 and www/firefox35 installed. As per the Handbook, a soft link in /usr/local/lib/browser_plugins to /usr/local/lib/npapi/linux-f10-flashplugin/libflashplayer.so. nspluginwrapper -a -i runs normally. linprocfs mounted, and nspluginwrapper -l shows /usr/local/lib/browser_plugins/libflashplayer.so. But about:plugins shows nothing but the default plugin. Is something else necessary? I think you ran nspluginwrapper as root. If you run it as a normal user it puts the wrapped plugin in ~/.mozilla/plugins where Firefox picks it up. If you run it as root it puts it in /usr/local/lib/browser_plugins. Firefox 2.x and some other browsers scan this directory, but newer versions don't for some reason. You have to create a symlink in /usr/local/lib/firefox3/plugins/ to the npwrapper plugin in /usr/local/lib/browser_plugins/ That works! I had first run nspluginwrapper -a -i as normal user, then as root. The Handbook says: -- Once the right Flash port, according to the FreeBSD version you run, is installed, the plugin must be installed by each user with nspluginwrapper: % nspluginwrapper -v -a -i -- So you should not run it as root. There is no ~/.mozilla directory for either root or normal user. But this is the first machine I've set up where Firefox3.5 was a fresh install, not an update to a previous version. Here what I did: % rm -rf .mozilla % nspluginwrapper -l % nspluginwrapper -a -i % nspluginwrapper -l /home/marc/.mozilla/plugins/npwrapper.libflashplayer.so Original plugin: /usr/local/lib/browser_plugins/libflashplayer.so Wrapper version string: 1.2.2 So even if a $HOME/.mozilla does not exist, it'll be created by nspluginwrapper. I forgot to say that /usr/local/lib/firefox3/plugins/ just contains libnullplugin.so here. Should the Handbook instructions be updated? I don't think it's needed here. -- Marc -- Marc ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: wlan_scan_ap and wlan_scan_sta
On Fri, Feb 27, 2009 at 08:52:30AM +0300, Remorque wrote: On Thu, Feb 26, 2009 at 9:57 PM, Janos Dohanics w...@3dresearch.com wrote: According to the Handbook, I can compile into the kernel device wlan_scan_ap # 802.11 AP mode scanning device wlan_scan_sta # 802.11 STA mode scanning But when I do, I get: config: Error: device wlan_scan_ap is unknown config: Error: device wlan_scan_sta is unknown config: 2 errors *** Error code 1 1 error *** Error code 2 1 error I'm wondering why? 6.4-PRERELEASE, amd64 6.4-R does not need these, you can remove them safely. I'll add a note to the Handbook. Does the handbook say the version of FreeBSD with which you can compile these in the kernel? I know they also refused to play with 8.0-CURRENT for me recently. They have been removed from -CURRENT since Apr 20 2008, the Handbook cannot follow the changes on -CURRENT, it's a fast moving target :) -- Marc ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: flashplugin9?
On Sun, Feb 22, 2009 at 03:54:03PM -0800, Gary Kline wrote: On Mon, Feb 23, 2009 at 12:02:57AM +0200, Manolis Kiagias wrote: Gary Kline wrote: Guys, If I stick with FreeBSD as my main desktop, I want firefox and flashplugin-9. So far, no joy. I have firefox2, and when I try to pkg_delete, I find gnome2 is just one of the dependicies. linux-flashplugin-9 is installed as well as the pluginwrapper ports, but still YouTube won't work. Is there an all-linix port or set of ports to use? Or is there another way of getting both audio+video? gary Don't pkg_delete firefox2, just install www/firefox3 alongside it. Okay; i wasn't clear on that... . graphics/gnash-devel works mostly ok for youtube. Maybe I need up portupgrade. I use mostly konqueror for the web; things like youtube used to work, but just sometimes. Should I pkg_delete the flashplugins and the wrappers? Just a quick note, firefox3 uses /usr/local/lib/firefox3/plugins as the plugins directory, while firefox2 uses /usr/local/browser_plugins. You will probably have to symlink files from this directory to the new one for the plugins to work. Sorry, you lost me. Which is the ``new one''? The only mozilla plugins dir in ~kline I find is ~/.mozilla/plugins/ . There are data files (*.dat) with mozilla and firefox in my home tree. In fact all that should be automatic even with Firefox3 (at least for plugins handled by nspluginwrapper). The best solution is just to rm the files located in the ~/.mozilla/plugins/ directory then: % nspluginwrapper -v -a -i and don't forget to mount /usr/compat/linux/proc (well read http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/desktop-browsers.html for more details). Launch Firefox3 and type about:plugins in the URL bar, something like: Shockwave Flash File name: /home/kline/.mozilla/plugins/npwrapper.libflashplayer.so Shockwave Flash 9.0 r152 etc. should appear. -- Marc ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: Permissions and SANE/scanimage
On Sat, Jun 21, 2008 at 12:36:24PM +0200, Bertram Scharpf wrote: Hi, my scanner works perfectly when I log in in as root. As an unprivileged user, I just get this error message: $ scanimage -L No scanners were identified. If you were expecting something different, check that the scanner is plugged in, turned on and detected by the sane-find-scanner tool (if appropriate). Please read the documentation which came with this software (README, FAQ, manpages). I ended up in a brute force attempt saying in /etc/devfs.conf: perm * 0666 See 7.6.4 Giving Other Users Access to the Scanner in http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/scanners.html -- Marc ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Serial Converter
On Sun, Apr 29, 2007 at 08:31:54PM +1200, Mark Mumby wrote: Hello, I am currently running 5.4 release and i have problems with a usb serial converter (a FDTI version). When i do a usbdev -v i get - Controller /dev/usb2: addr 1: full speed, self powered, config 1, OHCI root hub(0x), SiS(0x), rev 1.00 port 1 addr 2: full speed, self powered, config 1, Standard USB Hub(0x3301), Atmel(0x03eb), rev 3.00 port 1 powered port 2 powered port 3 addr 3: full speed, power 44 mA, config 1, USB to Serial Converter(0x0421), Generic(0x0b39), rev 2.00 port 4 powered In usbdev there is - -- vendor part -- vendor SIIG20x0b39 SIIG -- known products part -- product SIIG2 US23080x0421 USB to Serial uftdi.c also seems to be aware of it - if (uaa-vendor == USB_VENDOR_SIIG2 (uaa-product == USB_PRODUCT_SIIG2_US2308)) Everything seems to be there but for some reason i get the ugen driver which does not work. Is uftdi.ko loaded? The command: kldstat -v | uftdi should gives something. If it's not the case you'll have to load uftdi(4) by hand or via /boot/loader.conf facility. -- Marc ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: insufficient resources for HD video
On Thu, Feb 22, 2007 at 12:09:18PM +0100, Marc Fonvieille wrote: Starting playback... VDec: vo config request - 1440 x 1080 (preferred colorspace: Planar YV12) VDec: using Planar YV12 as output csp (no 0) Movie-Aspect is 1.78:1 - prescaling to correct movie aspect. VO: [sdl] 1440x1080 = 1920x1080 Planar YV12 [...] hmmm should be VO: [xv] ... try mplayer -vo xv ... I tried with whitedogpassingby.m2t, no problem with both mplayer and vlc. Here, xvinfo | grep XvImage gives me maximum XvImage size: 2046 x 2046 Your problem sounds like a X11 config issue (card using shared memory?), try to add Option LinearAlloc 8192 (or more instead of 8192) in your xorg.conf device section and restart X. Well it concerns i915 and i810 chipsets, for other chipsets you have to play with Videoram parameter (I'm not sure of the result in that case...). Increading kern.ipc.shmmax may also help. Any news? -- Marc pgpCb6V3bEwv7.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: insufficient resources for HD video
On Wed, Feb 21, 2007 at 09:02:43PM +0100, Erik Norgaard wrote: Hi: I recently posted asking about mpeg2-ts, I got a reference to a mpeg2-ts that plays fine. It appears that the problem is not playing ts but rather resolution, or something: With mplayer I get an error X Error of failed request: BadAlloc (insufficient resources for operation) Major opcode of failed request: 140 (XVideo) Minor opcode of failed request: 19 () Serial number of failed request: 23 Current serial number in output stream: 24 (Full output below) How do I process HDV streams? I can't see if the problem is the screen is too small or there is not enough memory. One thing is to play, but I am thinking of buying a HDV cam so I also need to process/edit the stream. Thanks, Erik Some HDV clips I have tried are here: http://dvinfo.net/conf/archive/index.php/t-52060.html Which should be mpeg2-ts but in 1440x1080 - 1920x1080. mplayer produces the following output: photon$ mplayer XLH1bikeseq24.m2t MPlayer 1.0rc1-3.4.6 (C) 2000-2006 MPlayer Team CPU: Intel(R) Pentium(R) M processor 1.73GHz (Family: 6, Model: 13, Stepping: 8) CPUflags: MMX: 1 MMX2: 1 3DNow: 0 3DNow2: 0 SSE: 1 SSE2: 1 Compiled with runtime CPU detection. Playing XLH1bikeseq24.m2t. TS file format detected. VIDEO MPEG2(pid=2064) AUDIO MPA(pid=2068) NO SUBS (yet)! PROGRAM N. 100 VIDEO: MPEG2 1440x1080 (aspect 3) 29.970 fps 25000.0 kbps (3125.0 kbyte/s) [VO_SDL] Using driver: x11. == Opening video decoder: [mpegpes] MPEG 1/2 Video passthrough VDec: vo config request - 1440 x 1080 (preferred colorspace: Mpeg PES) Could not find matching colorspace - retrying with -vf scale... Opening video filter: [scale] The selected video_out device is incompatible with this codec. Try adding the scale filter, e.g. -vf spp,scale instead of -vf spp. VDecoder init failed :( Opening video decoder: [libmpeg2] MPEG 1/2 Video decoder libmpeg2-v0.4.0b Selected video codec: [mpeg12] vfm: libmpeg2 (MPEG-1 or 2 (libmpeg2)) == == Opening audio decoder: [mp3lib] MPEG layer-2, layer-3 AUDIO: 48000 Hz, 2 ch, s16le, 384.0 kbit/25.00% (ratio: 48000-192000) Selected audio codec: [mp3] afm: mp3lib (mp3lib MPEG layer-2, layer-3) == AO: [oss] 48000Hz 2ch s16le (2 bytes per sample) Starting playback... VDec: vo config request - 1440 x 1080 (preferred colorspace: Planar YV12) VDec: using Planar YV12 as output csp (no 0) Movie-Aspect is 1.78:1 - prescaling to correct movie aspect. VO: [sdl] 1440x1080 = 1920x1080 Planar YV12 [...] hmmm should be VO: [xv] ... try mplayer -vo xv ... I tried with whitedogpassingby.m2t, no problem with both mplayer and vlc. Here, xvinfo | grep XvImage gives me maximum XvImage size: 2046 x 2046 Your problem sounds like a X11 config issue (card using shared memory?), try to add Option LinearAlloc 8192 (or more instead of 8192) in your xorg.conf device section and restart X. Well it concerns i915 and i810 chipsets, for other chipsets you have to play with Videoram parameter (I'm not sure of the result in that case...). Increading kern.ipc.shmmax may also help. -- Marc pgp6ajzNBugir.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: How to play MPEG2-TS
On Sun, Feb 18, 2007 at 11:14:26AM +0100, Erik Norgaard wrote: Hi: How do I play mpeg2 transport stream video? I have tried with vlc, ffplay and mplayer and all dumps. The video shows fine on Windows with mplayer, what libraries or options do I need to set to enable mpeg2-ts on FreeBSD? Weird cause the default vlc plays fine all TS, as example it's used in France to play TS streams from ADSL TVs. But vlc crashed, for me, when I treid to play files with a filename using non-iso8859-1 chars and spaces. For mplayer with the following config it works fine: % make showconfig === The following configuration options are available for mplayer-0.99.10_3: DEBUG=off Include debug symbols in mplayer's binary files RTCPU=on Let mplayer dynamically check for CPU features OCFLAGS=on Use optimized compiler flags MENCODER=on Support encoding of multimedia files IPV6=on Include inet6 network support X11=on Enable X11 support for mplayer's video output GUI=on Enable GTK2 graphical user interface with X11 SDL=off Enable SDL video output VIDIX=on Enable VIDIX video output on supported archs NVIDIA=off Enable experimental nvidia xvmc driver SKINS=on Force dependency on mplayer-skins FREETYPE=on Use freetype for OSD fonts (TrueType!) RTC=off Add support for kernel real time clock timing ARTS=off Enable KDE sound system support ESOUND=off Enable GNOME esound support JACK=off Enable JackIt audio server support POLYP=off Enable polyp sound server support NAS=off (default) Enable NAS sound server support OPENAL=off Enable OpenAL sound support LIBUNGIF=on Enable gif support AALIB=off Enable aalib support LIBCACA=off Enable libcaca support SVGALIB=off Enable svgalib support LIBDV=off Enable libdv support MAD=on Enable mad MPEG audio engine support TWOLAME=on Enable twolame MPEG audio codec support DTS=on Enable DTS audio codec support LIBMPCDEC=off Enable libmpcdec support FAAC=on Enable FAAC audio codec support LADSPA=off Enable LADSPA plugin support SPEEX=on Enable speex audio codec support TREMOR=off Use built-in tremor instead of libvorbis XMMS=off Enable XMMS plugin support THEORA=on Enable ogg theora video support WIN32=on Enable win32 codec set on the IA32 arch X264=on Enable x264 (H.264) video codec support XANIM=off Enable xanim DLL support XVID=on Enable XVID video codec support REALPLAYER=on Enable real player plugin LIVEMEDIA=on Enable LIVE555 streaming support SMB=off (default) Enable Samba input support FRIBIDI=off Enable FriBiDi support LIRC=off Enable lirc support LIBCDIO=off Enable libcdio support CDPARANOIA=off Enable cdparanoia support LIBLZO=off Enable external liblzo library === Use 'make config' to modify these settings -- Marc pgpP9y4tTfpVN.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: how to enable linux flash player in firefox
On Tue, Jan 30, 2007 at 06:31:33AM -0800, David Benfell wrote: On Tue, 30 Jan 2007 07:50:30 +0100, Marc Fonvieille wrote: On Tue, Jan 30, 2007 at 12:43:21PM +0800, peter wrote: 6.Check the libexec directory exists in /usr/src, if no, #sysinstall- custom-deistributions-src-libexec, then # cd /usr/src/libexec # fetch http://people.FreeBSD.org/~nork/rtld_dlsym_hack.diff # patch rtld_dlsym_hack.diff # cd rtld-elf # make clean # make obj # make depend # make make install That last part is useless now and will not work with 6.2-RELEASE. The current working way, is using a freash port tree and following the Handbook instructions. This is for Flash 7 (with or without soound according to the site you visit), for Flash 9 it's another story... For what value, do you mean useless now and will not work? [...] I mean the www/linuxpluginwrapper has been updated (v 1.58 2007/01/28) to avoid the use of any hack, and the rtld_dlsym_hack.diff diff cannot be applied to a 6.2-RELEASE/6-STABLE source tree. -- Marc pgpQb2fxib10s.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: how to enable linux flash player in firefox
On Tue, Jan 30, 2007 at 12:43:21PM +0800, peter wrote: Andreas Davour wrote: Sorry for being so lost. I'm totally lost in the native/emulated mess and which of the ports work with which. It's terribly sad that nobody can make it work, as of now. I really hope FreeBSD 7 can make a change. I'm now using 6.2-PRERELEASE as the desktop with firefox 2,linux-flashplugin7. All work well. That confused me for few days, now I write the detail steps for you. 1.Use portsnap update the ports tree.You can read the info from the freebsd handbook, Appendix A. Obtaining FreeBSD 2.Install linux_base from /usr/ports/emulators/linux_base-fc4, In /etc/rc.onf, add the line: linux_enable=YES 3.Install firefox2 from /usr/ports/www/firefox. 4.Install linuxpluginwrapper in /usr/ports/www/linuxpluginwrapper. cp /usr/local/share/examples/linuxpluginwrapper/libmap.conf-FreeBSD6 /etc/libmap.conf 5.Install linux-flashplugin7 in /usr/ports/www/linux-flashplugin7. In handbook : # ln -s /usr/local/lib/npapi/linux-flashplugin/libflashplayer.so \ /usr/X11R6/lib/browser_plugins/ # ln -s /usr/local/lib/npapi/linux-flashplugin/flashplayer.xpt \ /usr/X11R6/lib/browser_plugins/ but firefox plugin directory is /usr/local/lib/browser_plugins/, so you must change above line /usr/X11R6/lib/browser_plugins/ to /usr/local/lib/browser_plugins/ 6.Check the libexec directory exists in /usr/src, if no, #sysinstall- custom-deistributions-src-libexec, then # cd /usr/src/libexec # fetch http://people.FreeBSD.org/~nork/rtld_dlsym_hack.diff # patch rtld_dlsym_hack.diff # cd rtld-elf # make clean # make obj # make depend # make make install That last part is useless now and will not work with 6.2-RELEASE. The current working way, is using a freash port tree and following the Handbook instructions. This is for Flash 7 (with or without soound according to the site you visit), for Flash 9 it's another story... -- Marc ___ 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
On Sat, Sep 02, 2006 at 07:10:57PM +0200, Jordi Carrillo wrote: Well, I suppose you are talking about the kernel sources, right? Because saying the sources of the base system is very generic. I'll investigate, thanks 2006/9/2, Jona Joachim [EMAIL PROTECTED]: 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 Well, in the Handbook there's a section called: 6.2.4 Firefox, Mozilla and Macromedia Flash Plugin Marc ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: dvdrecord?
On Thu, Dec 15, 2005 at 05:24:46PM +0100, Wojciech Puchar wrote: or maybe other tool? (but not growisofs that works good with DVD+R only) ___ I use growisofs to burn database backup files to DVD-R on a regular basis. The port name, dvd+rw-tools, is a little misleading in this regard. i'n now writing DVD-R from image with it, now 800MB and still going. anyway it can't record DVD-R from pipe, and can't have extra RAM buffer. dvdrecord CAN write from pipe in -dao mode if size is entered in options i were using that script: mkisofs -rq -jcharset iso8859-2 . 2/dev/null| \ dvdrecord $* -v tsize=`mkisofs -rq -jcharset iso8859-2 --print-size .`x2k \ -delay=5 driveropts=burnfree -dao - [...] Well, does it really beat a growisofs -dvd-compat -Z /dev/cd0 -J -R /path/to/yourdata (which works fine with -/+R)? Marc pgpqmCQT8PszD.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: dvdrecord?
On Thu, Dec 15, 2005 at 06:09:40PM +0100, Wojciech Puchar wrote: -delay=5 driveropts=burnfree -dao - [...] Well, does it really beat a growisofs -dvd-compat -Z /dev/cd0 -J -R /path/to/yourdata (which works fine with -/+R)? are you sure it works with -R? I'm sure of it. manual says that only images can be recorded with DVD-R where? The only problems I'm aware are documented at http://fy.chalmers.se/~appro/linux/DVD+RW/hcn.html Marc pgpv3t08wcLPh.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: How the heck do you burn a VCD?
On Thu, Nov 24, 2005 at 12:20:22AM -0500, Louis LeBlanc wrote: Hey folks. This may be slightly OT, but I just downloaded the StarWreck spoof (http://www.starwreck.com), and I'd like to get it burned to a VCD. It's in xvid/avi format, and I'm not sure what's the best way to burn this. with the following: burncd -f /dev/acd1 -d vcd star_wreck_in_the_pirkinning_subtitled_xvid.avi but it doesn't seem to play anywhere - not even my FreeBSD box - which is the only machine I can get the avi file to play in the first place (MacOs X Windoze won't play it). How's that for FreeBSD being a better multimedia box? I have checked the disk, and it *does* appear to have been burned - so this is a coaster now. I'm guessing I just didn't understand the burncd manpage in regards to vcd burning. I also couldn't find anything but 'doze and MacOs X commercial software ads on google, even though I required either FreeBSD or Linux in my search. Anyway, I'm really a newbie with this vcd stuff, so a little leg up would be appreciated. http://www.bsdnews.org/01/vcd.php Marc pgpNdArAlqxhw.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: nvi for serious hacking
On Mon, Oct 17, 2005 at 02:46:56AM +0400, Oleg Petrov wrote: Hello, FreeBSD people. First thing to mention is that I'm very experienced Emacs user. I was using it for 4-5 years or so. But sometime ago i began to feel myself so uncomfortable with it for some reasons: first, i use many different systems and emacs isn't default application for FreeBSD or any other *BSD\Linux distribution. Second, remote machines aren't powerful enough to start Emacs fast. I tried many small Emacs clones like jed, joe, uemacs and several others i just can't remember. But for different reasons i disliked all of them. Later I noticed default `nvi' editor, that has some nice features: it comes with FreeBSD by default and according to documentation it has powerful editing mechanism. So, my question goes to all FreeBSD hackers who uses `nvi' as their general editor. Is it possible to do serious hacking with it? More accurate: I'd say s/nvi/vim (see http://www.vim.org/) if you want to really do everything with your Vi. Marc ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Problem with locale settings
On Tue, Aug 23, 2005 at 07:58:05PM +0200, Gregory Nou wrote: Hi list, I'm trying to understand a problem of locale, but I definitely can't solve it on my own. I use zsh. I've set LC_ALL and LANG to fr_FR. 19:39 [EMAIL PROTECTED] /etc% export | grep fr_FR LANG=fr_FR LC_ALL=fr_FR [...] cause, as described in the Handbook, locale names are following the LanguageCode_CountryCode.Encoding scheme. Please read http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/using-localization.html or http://www.freebsd.org/doc/fr_FR.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/using-localization.html Marc ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: blanking DVD+RW
On Thu, Aug 18, 2005 at 10:40:46AM -0400, Claudio Discepola wrote: Hi, I have a quick question about blanking a DVD+RW. It seems that even after I run the growisofs -Z /dev/cd0=/dev/zero command the Disc status is still seen as complete instead of blank. I assume blank is for a never written-on disk, since your DVD+RW has been used at least 1 time, growisofs formatted it, so it's not blank. Marc ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: blanking DVD+RW
On Thu, Aug 18, 2005 at 11:24:15AM -0400, Claudio Discepola wrote: Hi Marc, Thanks for the quick reply. I notice for DVD-RW it is possible to return its Disc status to blank by running: cdrecord -v dev=0,0,0 blank=all This command doesn't work for DVD+RW however. So I guess it is never possible to return a +RW to its original 'blank' status? It seems to be the case, even if you try to force a formatting operation (which should be avoided). Marc ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: DVD burning..
On Tue, Aug 02, 2005 at 11:24:59AM -0400, Jeff Mitchell wrote: On Mon, 1 Aug 2005, Chuck Swiger wrote: # Is sysctl hw.ata.atapi_dma set to 1? It looks like your system isn't # able Aha, that seems to be it; I had slapped that into my rc.local with some other sysctl's (before I found out about /etc/sysctl.conf), and that one is read-only by that stage of loading. Had to be in /boot/loader.conf to 'take'. [...] This and many other things are documented in the Handbook. Marc ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: growisofs: no mkisofs options are permitted with =, aborting
On Tue, Aug 02, 2005 at 10:50:01AM -0400, Chuck Swiger wrote: Carl Delsey wrote: [ ... ] You're right. My mistake. That's what I get for using my eyes to search a document instead of using the search feature. :-) No worry: growisofs' manpage and the way it uses command line arguments is not entirely consistent :-) To some extent, Andy doesn't want to fully document everything to encourage people to either use the source, luke, or to create more user-friendly (but seperate) frontends like k3b. I don't fully understand the mindset of not making a program fully documented or oriented towards its users, but Andy has been reasonably responsive to integrating FreeBSD changes for the port, so I'm not going to complain... I do not agree with that statement, Andy helped us to clearly document growisofs in the Handbook, it's just a shame people hardly read the DVD section. Regarding the complex or invisible options, they should not be used/exist if DVD burners firmware or DVD media were without bugs :( Marc ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: growisofs: no mkisofs options are permitted with =, aborting
On Tue, Aug 02, 2005 at 12:31:17PM -0400, Chuck Swiger wrote: The Handbook has good documentation on using dvd+rw-tools as well as other software, and I would second the recomendation that people take a look at it if they want to burn CD's or DVD's. You are welcome to hold the opinion that the documentation is complete, but: 13-sec% cd /usr/ports/sysutils/dvd+rw-tools make extract /dev/null 14-sec% grep luke work/dvd+rw-tools-5.21.4.10.8/growisofs.c * - undocumented -use-the-force-luke flag to overwrite the media * - extended syntax for -use-the-force-luke option, it's now possible * to engage DVD-R[W] dummy mode by -use-the-force-luke=[tty,]dummy * - complement -use-the-force-luke=dao[:size] to arrange for piping * - implement -use-the-force-luke=seek:N -Z /dev/dvd=image to arrange * -use-the-force-luke=seek:N it's easier to maintain tar-formatted * - -use-the-force-luke=tracksize:size option by suggestion from K3b; * - -use-the-force-luke=wrvfy for WRITE AND VERIFY(10); * - -use-the-force-luke=4gms to allow ISO9660 directory structures * - more sane sanity check for -use-the-force-luke=tracksize:N; * - -use-the-force-luke=break:size to set Layer Break position for * - -use-the-force-luke=noload to leave tray ejected at the end; else if (!strncmp(opt,-use-the-force-luke,19)) ...or consult the manpage, again: There're several undocumented options commonly denoted with -use-the-force-luke prefix. Some of them serve debugging purposes. Some require certain knowledge about recording process or even OS kernel internals and as being such can induce confusing behaviour. Some are to be used in very specific situations better recognized by front-ends or automated scripts. Rationale behind leaving these options undocumented is that those few users who would actually need to use them directly can as well consult the source code or obtain specific instructions elsewhere. I don't see the problem, the text above clearly explain the reason. And according to questions on freebsd-questions@,, the main problem is the fact no one read the existing documentation; For example, a recent thread about DVD burning speed/DMA issue... with the solution documented in many places... However I can understand your point of view regarding the fact the manual page do not even mention briefly the invisible options. A volunteer should write a patch against the manual page and send it to Andy. Marc ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: DVD burning..
On Tue, Aug 02, 2005 at 06:25:06PM +0200, Dick Hoogendijk wrote: On 02 Aug Marc Fonvieille wrote: On Tue, Aug 02, 2005 at 11:24:59AM -0400, Jeff Mitchell wrote: On Mon, 1 Aug 2005, Chuck Swiger wrote: # Is sysctl hw.ata.atapi_dma set to 1? It looks like your system isn't # able Aha, that seems to be it; I had slapped that into my rc.local with some other sysctl's (before I found out about /etc/sysctl.conf), and that one is read-only by that stage of loading. Had to be in /boot/loader.conf to 'take'. [...] This and many other things are documented in the Handbook. True. The handbook states hw.ata.atapi_dma=1 should be in /boot/loader.conf, however, what about hw.ata.ata_dma? It is set to 1 on my fbsd-4.11-stable box but I can not find where is is set. man ata it's set to 1 by default. Marc ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: scanimage -L doesn't work as normal user
On Sat, Jul 30, 2005 at 12:14:25PM +0200, Erik Nørgaard wrote: On Sat, 30 Jul 2005, cpghost wrote: Then as ordinary user: $ sane-find-scanner -q found USB scanner (vendor=0x04b8 [EPSON], product=0x0121 [EPSON Scanner]) at libusb:/dev/usb0:/dev/ugen0 $ scanimage -L No scanners were identified. This is normally a problem with permissions. You could set them to 0666 in /etc/devfs.conf, and [re]start devfs with # /etc/rc.d/devfs start This was also what I thought, but I can't seem to get it right: In my devfs.conf I have: # Allow all users to use the scanner permugen0 0666 permusb0666 permusb0 0666 permusb1 0666 But when I plugin the scanner, ugen0 and ugen0.* has permissions crw-r--r-- [...] You have to use uscanner not ugenX You should read the Handbook section related to the image scanners: http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/scanners.html Marc ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: scanimage -L doesn't work as normal user
On Sat, Jul 30, 2005 at 01:41:20PM +0200, Erik Nørgaard wrote: Thanks, I did read it. But if that is the problem, then please explain why I can scan as root but not as ordinary user? Wrong perms on ugen0, read carefully: 7.6.4 Allowing Scanner Access to Other Users if you want ugen0 appears with the right permissions once you plug your scanner. The current devfs scheme you use (Cf. your previous mail) should work if you boot directly with your scanner plugged and not if you plug it later. When I create a link uscanner0 - ugen0 that link gets permissions lrwxr-xr-x and I can't change those. I then run as normal user $ sane-find-scanner -q found USB scanner (UNKNOWN vendor and product) at device /dev/uscanner0 found USB scanner (vendor=0x04b8 [EPSON], product=0x0121 [EPSON Scanner]) at libusb:/dev/usb0:/dev/ugen0 [...] This is a problem, a USB scanner under FreeBSD should use uscanner(8) driver nothing else. I assume your scanner is not seen by uscanner(8), i.e. not supported or just not defined in uscanner.c Try to add an entry for your scanner in uscanner.c, rebuild uscanner.ko, etc. and retry. Marc ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: scanimage -L doesn't work as normal user
On Sat, Jul 30, 2005 at 03:42:54PM +0200, Erik Nørgaard wrote: On Sat, 30 Jul 2005, Marc Fonvieille wrote: On Sat, Jul 30, 2005 at 01:41:20PM +0200, Erik Nørgaard wrote: Wrong perms on ugen0, read carefully: 7.6.4 Allowing Scanner Access to Other Users if you want ugen0 appears with the right permissions once you plug your scanner. The current devfs scheme you use (Cf. your previous mail) should work if you boot directly with your scanner plugged and not if you plug it later. According to the man-pages, this should be solved by adding the folowing rules to /etc/devfs.rules: # Allow any user to access uscanner and ugen devices rw add path 'usb0' mode 0666 add path 'ugen*' mode 0666 add path 'uscanner*' mode 0666 you should add a ruleset line before your lines. I restarted devfs but the devices were created with the wrong permissions when I plugged in the scanner? I don't understand the ? If I restart devfs after plugging in the scanner permissions are corrected. But I think this is rather annoying - is this intended? no problem report has been filed on this issue... [...] I think it's a ruleset issue as I said above. Another thing devfs.rules is for pluggable devices, devfs.conf for devices present at boot time. Marc ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: SOLVED: scanimage -L doesn't work as normal user
On Sat, Jul 30, 2005 at 07:54:36PM +0200, Erik Nørgaard wrote:
Hi,
OK, I have solved the problem, as was originally assumed it boils
down to getting the permissions right.
To make Epson 2480 work, there is no need to patch the uscanner.c
or usbdevs files and rebuild that module. I did make that work
though - sort of, now, sane-find-scanner finds an unidentified
device on uscanner0, but scanimage correctly idenfies the scanner.
This is what to do: In /usr/src/sys/dev/usb edit the files usbdevs
and uscanner.c, in usbdevs add a line:
product EPSON 2480 0x0121 Perfection 2480 scanner
and in uscanner.c add the line
{{ USB_VENDOR_EPSON, USB_PRODUCT_EPSON_2480 }, 0 },
after the last EPSON scanner.
Please submit a PR with these both lines.
I don't know if there is any benefit from using the uscanner
device other than the ability to set permissions for the scanner
only.
Using uscanner(4) is the FreeBSD way, ugen(4) is for USB devices
without specific driver.
For example you can remove device ugen from your kernel config and
your scanner will continue to run...
Here's the trick:
Create a file /etc/devfs.rules with the following:
[devfsrules=10]
# Allow any user to access usb devices: uscanner and ugen
add path 'usb0' mode 0666
add path 'usb1' mode 0666
add path 'ugen*' mode 0666
These 3 lines are useless since you're using uscanner, sane-find-scanner
or scanimage should only mention uscanner not ugen, etc. now.
add path 'uscanner*' mode 0666
The last line can be omitted if you don't use the uscanner device.
I think it is better to let others access rw the scanner device
than to add users to the operator group.
You have to use uscanner(4), period :)
Marc
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Re: problems burning multi session dvd-rw
On Fri, Jul 29, 2005 at 05:17:15PM +1000, Timothy Smith wrote: Marc Fonvieille wrote: On Thu, Jul 28, 2005 at 03:15:06PM +1000, Timothy Smith wrote: i'm having some troubles burning a multi session dvd-rw. i blanked te dvd to make sure it was in sequential mode %dvd+rw-format /dev/cd0a -blank * DVD\uRW format utility by [EMAIL PROTECTED], version 4.9. * 4.7GB DVD-RW media in Sequential mode detected. * blanking 100.0| [...] Try to upgrade to a more up to date version of dvd+rw-tools and try with -blank=full option. Marc i cvsup'd to the latest and still the same thing, any ideas? Did you use -blank=full or -blank? Did you have the same issue with all DVD-RW brands? Is your DVD burner firmware up to date? Is your DVD burner mentioned on dvd+rw-tools' hardware page? Marc ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: problems burning multi session dvd-rw
On Thu, Jul 28, 2005 at 03:15:06PM +1000, Timothy Smith wrote: i'm having some troubles burning a multi session dvd-rw. i blanked te dvd to make sure it was in sequential mode %dvd+rw-format /dev/cd0a -blank * DVD\uRW format utility by [EMAIL PROTECTED], version 4.9. * 4.7GB DVD-RW media in Sequential mode detected. * blanking 100.0| [...] Try to upgrade to a more up to date version of dvd+rw-tools and try with -blank=full option. Marc ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Epson 2480/2580 scanner support
On Fri, Jul 22, 2005 at 12:39:34PM +0200, Erik Nørgaard wrote: Hi, Sorry if this question is misplaced, but the sane project hosts no user mailing list, and the hardware list brought no luck. Looking at the handbook it seems that ny scanner supported by the sane backend is supported on FBSD. Now, the ports version is 1.0.15, on the sane home page, they list support for version 1.0.13 and the CVS version. I'm interested in the Epson 2480 or 2580, for the stable version 1.0.13, they are listed with basic/minimal support while the CVS version mentions good/basic support. (snapscan backend) Can anyone enlighten me as to how well these devices are supported by the ports-version 1.0.15? Second, on the snapscan web page, they warn: quote 05/22/05: Warning! I've received a report from a user who was left with a broken scanner after using the Epson 2480 in transparency mode in 2400 DPI with xsane. According to the report the scanner power light went red and the scanner smelled hot. After power-cycling the scanner it was not possible to scan anymore... /quote Can anyone confirm this? and know if the problem has been corrected in newer versions? I think you should contact the SANE's mailing list for more information regarding this issue. Marc ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Where is bsdnews.com?
On Thu, Jul 21, 2005 at 02:22:47PM +0300, Odhiambo Washington wrote: Hi, I am trying to access bsdnews.com for this document: http://www.bsdnews.org/02/dummynet.php But the site is down. [...] It works now. Marc pgpdJBdp1ixEE.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: Mailinglist privacy: MY NAME ALL OVER GOOGLE!
On Sat, May 07, 2005 at 02:49:23AM +0200, Alex de Kruijff wrote: Well, the Mailing lists link on http://www.FreeBSD.org/ homepage points on http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/eresources.html#ERESOURCES-MAIL That true and this would be a fine argument if this where the only way to get the list adress. This isn't the case. Now it the warning you get, afther you get before you are realy on the list, would point to this stating it got the conditions then this would be a compelling argument. All, and I said All, mailing list subscribing forms mention their archives (To see the collection of prior postings to the list, visit the freebsd-blahblah Archives.). It is impossible to miss it. Another thing, I do not really see many ways to discover the existence of a FreeBSD mailing list: - from archives via google or the FreeBSD.org search system - from FreeBSD.org docs - from the www.FreeBSD.org front page - from a clairvoyant? and these ways (at least most of them) clearly indicate the existence of archives. Anyway, it's just a false problem, it makes me think about a person going to a TV show then later refusing to have his face recorded and broadcasted... Marc ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: cleaning DVD+RW on Plextor PX-716a
On Sat, May 07, 2005 at 03:18:40PM +0600, Ilia Chipitsine wrote: Dear Sirs, do I need to clean RW disk before writing ? No. You should be able to rewrite on a DVD+RW without any blacking operation. why it says errors to me: design# burncd -f /dev/acd0 format dwd+rw burncd: format media type invalid: Unknown error: 0 I don't know about burncd and DVD+RW but you should try growisofs, see http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/creating-dvds.html and section 16.7.5 Using a DVD+RW Marc ___ 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 permission on SCSI devices?
On Sat, May 07, 2005 at 11:39:16AM +0200, regisr wrote: I am looking for a FAQ about dynamic devices: In 5.3 (and 5.4..) SCSI devices nodes (/dev/pass*) are created when discovered (at boot or when running camcontrol rescan ... ) How to change the permissions on the /dev/pass* ? (not manualy of course ;-) OK, I can wrote a shell for this but if there is a less dirty possibility... You have to use devfs(8) facility (man devfs). Marc ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Mailinglist privacy: MY NAME ALL OVER GOOGLE!
On Fri, May 06, 2005 at 01:06:48PM +0200, Anthony Atkielski wrote: Giorgos Keramidas writes: This is a recurring theme. It's really *NOT* the fault of the postmaster of FreeBSD.org that you posted to public mailing lists. It _is_ the fault of the mailing list manager that posts are being archived without the permission of mailing-list members. Members must be required to explicitly grant permission when they subscribe. The Handbook section about mailing lists[1] says: What the Handbook says is irrelevant, because nobody is required to read it in order to subscribe to a list. Well, the Mailing lists link on http://www.FreeBSD.org/ homepage points on http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/eresources.html#ERESOURCES-MAIL Marc ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Converting mkv to avi ?
On Thu, Apr 28, 2005 at 02:12:47PM +0200, edward wrote: Hi all, I have several mkv files (Matroska video) that I would like to convert to avi. Any idea what software I should use to do that (I'm under KDE) ? mkv and avi are both video container. You should be able to quickly change the container with mencoder (part of MPlayer): mencoder video.mkv -ovc copy -oac copy -o video.avi well MPlayer must be compiled with mastroka support, and the result may be weird if the .mkv use many audio channels etc. It may be a better option to extract both video and audio part and remux them. Look at multimedia/mkvtoolnix, transcode and/or mencoder. Marc ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: getting handbooks via cvsup?
On Sun, Apr 24, 2005 at 02:32:59PM +0300, Ion-Mihai Tetcu wrote: cvsup file: *default host=cvsup.ro.FreeBSD.org *default base=/var/db *default prefix=/usr *default release=cvs tag=. *default delete use-rel-suffix doc-all Run cvsup then: cd /usr/doc/ make FORMATS=html html-split ps pdf install textproc/docproj must be installed if one wants to build the docs. Marc ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Small error in Status Report page
On Fri, Apr 22, 2005 at 09:25:00PM +0300, B.Bonev wrote: In 'Storage driver SMPng locking' section on 'January-April 2005 Status Report' page, link to the Freebsd Systems is wrong. It should be http://www.freebsdsystems.com/, not http://www.freebsdsystmes.com/ :) Fixed, thanks! Marc ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: formatting a DVD+RW
On Sat, Feb 12, 2005 at 10:23:49AM +, Xian wrote: On Friday 11 February 2005 04:31, Chuck Swiger wrote: Xian wrote: I am trying to format a DVD+RW as I gather this kind of DVD needs. I tried growisofs and it told me: * DVD±RW/-RAM format utility by [EMAIL PROTECTED], version 4.10. :-( unable to open(/dev/acd0): Inappropriate ioctl for device Did you rebuild your kernel with the ATAPICAM option enabled? I didn't have. I just added 'device atapicam' and it is still giving me the same errors. Looked on the man page, and found: device ata device atapicam device scbus device cd device pass I guess I need them as well? (Re-compiles _again_). Will I have to use the burner through cd0 or acd0 now? It also recommended against having a SCSI and an ATA representation of each drive. Would it be safe to remove device acd from the kernel and only use cd now? You did not read the URL I pasted in a previous mail :( Marc ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: formatting a DVD+RW
On Thu, Feb 10, 2005 at 11:33:48PM +, Xian wrote: On Thursday 10 February 2005 21:51, Marc Fonvieille wrote: snip Under 5.X or 4.X ? 5.3R You have to read http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/creating-dvds.html Marc ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: formatting a DVD+RW
On Thu, Feb 10, 2005 at 09:47:10PM +, Xian wrote: I am trying to format a DVD+RW as I gather this kind of DVD needs. I tried growisofs and it told me: * DVD±RW/-RAM format utility by [EMAIL PROTECTED], version 4.10. :-( unable to open(/dev/acd0): Inappropriate ioctl for device [...] Under 5.X or 4.X ? Marc ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Pioneer DVR-108 can burn DVDs, can't mount them!
On Fri, Dec 24, 2004 at 01:28:20AM -0500, David Vincelli wrote: Hi, I'm using FreeBSD 5.3-RELEASE with a custom kernel I just compiled a few days ago to have the atapicam device (the only difference with the stock kernel). I added hw.ata.atapi_dma=1 to /boot/loader.conf, and indeed the device is accessed in UltraDMA mode 2. My DVD burner is a Pioneer DVR-108 with the latest firmware at this time (1.18). I can burn DVDs using growisofs but I get a vague input/output error when I try to mount them. (mount failed: input/output error, if I recall correctly). The command I use to mount is: mount -t cd9660 /dev/cd0 /mnt. It seems I cannot mount DVDs at all, even originals. I was wondering if the drive was defective so I tried it under a windows environment and it could read the DVDs fine, even the ones I created under FreeBSD. I'd give you a full listing of the full error that would swamp the (real) console when I tried to mount the DVDs but I don't have access to the box right now. It was a scsi error. asq 8,3 is one of them from what I remember :) Could you paste the command you used to burn your DVDs ? Marc ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Pioneer DVR-108 can burn DVDs, can't mount them!
On Fri, Dec 24, 2004 at 11:09:51AM -0500, David Vincelli wrote: Exactly as from the handbook. I blanked a DVD-RW using: # dvd+rw-format -blank=full /dev/cd0 I burned a DVD-RW, using: # growisofs -Z /dev/cd0 -J -R /usr/backup and I tried a DVD+R, using: # growisofs -Z /dev/cd0 -J -R /usr/backup Note that I can't mount regular DVDs either (the only thing I had on hand was a ms Office 2003 DVD). You mean you cannot mount any DVDs? You use something like: mount -t cd9660 /dev/cd0 /cdrom or mount -t cd9660 /dev/acd0 /cdrom ? Could you try with hw.ata.atapi_dma=0 in /boot/loader.conf Marc ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: USB flash drive support/usage
On Tue, Dec 21, 2004 at 11:22:30AM -0500, Kenneth W Cochran wrote:
Hello:
I have some questions about the little USB flash drives...
Is there a FAQ or some documentation on them? So far I haven't
found much in the Handbook or manpages. Pointers welcome. :)
http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/usb-disks.html
Do I need any driver(s) besides umass(4) its required kernel options?
Any differences between 4.x and 5.x support for them?
Apparently they come setup for a FAT32 filesystem - can I format
them for other filesystems (e.g. linux-ext2, BSD UFS/UFS2, MS
NTFS) expect them to work reliably?
Assuming they work (well) with FreeBSD, how do I properly set
them up for UFS/UFS2? Do I need to fdisk and {disk,bsd}label first?
[...]
http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/disks-adding.html
Marc
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Re: USB flash drive support/usage
On Tue, Dec 21, 2004 at 01:26:49PM -0700, Tom Vilot wrote: Marc Fonvieille wrote: http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/usb-disks.html Since the burner is seen as a SCSI drive, the driver atapicam(4) http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=atapicamsektion=4 should not be used in the kernel configuration. Hmm. What if you need atapicam for other things, such as ATAPI DVDRW drives? It may not work, I had some issues having atapicam enabled with a USB DVD writer. Marc ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: combining 2 ADSL Lines
On Sat, Dec 18, 2004 at 03:19:36PM +0300, Andrew P. wrote: Hexren wrote: I have the following problem, I have 2 ADSl Lines and would like to combine those 2 into 1 big. I have full control of both the gateway from my LAN and another Server in the internet which I coud use as a second gateway. What I am thinking of is something like virtualizing so that in the end I have VirtualInterface1 which is DSL1 and DSL2. p.s. Multilink PPP is unfortunately not an option as the lines are rented from different providers (I think that is prohibiting multilink isn't it ?) :( Sure you can combine two lines for bandwidth boost and redundancy. Ports/net/mpd is probably the best choice considering you have FreeBSD installed on both gateways. Get familiar with this port, its configuration is not so difficult. You could even encrypt and/or compress both links to gain even more speed and security (if the external server is on a fast, secure line and has a fast CPU). You should probably sign up with mpd-users mailing list at http://sourceforge.net/projects/mpd. ng_one2many(4) may be a better solution. Marc ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: dvd burning was can't mount cdrom
On Thu, Dec 16, 2004 at 10:48:04PM +1000, Timothy Smith wrote: ok i disabled hw.ata.atapi_dma=1 in loader.conf and this sovled the problem. how ever, i still can't burn a dvd with growisofs. i run titan# dvd+rw-format -blank=full /dev/cd0a * DVD???RW format utility by [EMAIL PROTECTED], version 4.9. * 4.7GB DVD-RW media in Sequential mode detected. * blanking / that finishes without error titan# growisofs -use-the-force-luke=dao -Z /dev/cd0a=PubWare.exe Executing 'builtin_dd if=PubWare.exe of=/dev/pass1 obs=32k seek=0' [...] PubWare.exe is not an ISO 9660 image, so you could not mount it. Marc ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: dvd burning was can't mount cdrom
On Thu, Dec 16, 2004 at 10:48:04PM +1000, Timothy Smith wrote: ok i disabled hw.ata.atapi_dma=1 in loader.conf and this sovled the problem. how ever, i still can't burn a dvd with growisofs. i run titan# dvd+rw-format -blank=full /dev/cd0a * DVD???RW format utility by [EMAIL PROTECTED], version 4.9. * 4.7GB DVD-RW media in Sequential mode detected. * blanking / that finishes without error titan# growisofs -use-the-force-luke=dao -Z /dev/cd0a=PubWare.exe Executing 'builtin_dd if=PubWare.exe of=/dev/pass1 obs=32k seek=0' /dev/pass1: engaging DVD-RW DAO upon user request... /dev/pass1: reserving 2160 block, warning for short DAO recording /dev/pass1: Current Write Speed is 4.1x1385KBps. 0/4415108 ( 0.0%) @0x, remaining ??:?? 0/4415108 ( 0.0%) @0x, remaining ??:?? 0/4415108 ( 0.0%) @0x, remaining ??:?? 0/4415108 ( 0.0%) @0x, remaining ??:?? 0/4415108 ( 0.0%) @0x, remaining ??:?? 0/4415108 ( 0.0%) @0x, remaining ??:?? :-[ [EMAIL PROTECTED] failed with SK=3h/ASC=73h/ACQ=04h]: Input/output error :-( attempt to re-run with -dvd-compat -dvd-compat to engage DAO or apply full blanking procedure :-( write failed: Input/output error Sorry I was too fast in my previous answer. I see 2 issues in your operation: - PubWare.exe is not an ISO image - PubWare.exe is not large enough, you should not burn something shorter than 1GB cause a lot of DVD-ROM player may have problem to read it. could it be the blanking procedure is the problem? theres a lot of doc's saying upgrade to 5.20 for dvd+rw-tools my question, is why ship such an old crap version. i mean 4.10 isn't THAT old, these docs are bloody old old. The procedure described in the DVD burning section of the Handbook works fine with 4.10 Please double check everything (in reading the mentioned section) and check if your drive has no compatibility issue with growisofs (the URL is given in the Handbook). Marc PS: http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/creating-dvds.html ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: dvd burning was can't mount cdrom
On Thu, Dec 16, 2004 at 11:17:20PM +1000, Timothy Smith wrote: [...] PubWare.exe is not an ISO 9660 image, so you could not mount it. Marc arhh i see. whats with this crappy having to use iso images anyway. isn't there a way under nix to burn data. it's rather limited. Once again, in the Handbook, it says growisofs -Z /dev/cd0 -J -R /path/to/data if you don't want to do the image by yourself Marc ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: who to contact about a change in the handbook?
On Sat, Dec 04, 2004 at 03:03:37PM -0500, robg wrote: who do I go about contacting to let them know of a small mistake in the handbook under a section? [EMAIL PROTECTED] is the right place and/or via a PR What is the error you talk about? Marc ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Burning data DVD's?
On Fri, Nov 12, 2004 at 08:10:40PM -0600, Laurence Sanford wrote: I searched the list archives and couldn't find anything specifically about burning DVD's. I was wondering if the burncd utility will burn data DVD's as well for archiving purposes and such. If not, is there something similar that will do the job? It looks like it would be hard to beat the cost effectiveness of backing up on DVD. http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/creating-dvds.html may help you. dump(8) coming with 5.3-R offers you a useful -P option that allows the use with growisofs for backups on DVDs. Marc ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: cvsup refuse
On Sat, Nov 13, 2004 at 08:37:24PM +0100, Gert Cuykens wrote: i read the read me for the refuse file but i dont know if i understand it right ? Do i put the refuse file into /usr/sup/ if prefix=/usr is there note a cvsup -option where you can specify the refuse file ? Please read: http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/cvsup.html especially: A.5.3.1 The refuse File Marc ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: sane-plustek backend does not work
On Fri, Nov 05, 2004 at 10:45:42AM +0300, Eugene M. Minkovskii wrote: This line allready present in my /usr/src/sys/dev/usb/usbdevs.h, and I was compiled my kernel about a week ago. Do you think I need some patch? Maybe you could try to follow the Handbook: http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/scanners.html since this section was written with a LIDE 30, and some other scanners, under hand. Marc ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: FreeBSD 5.3 and XFree86
On Wed, Nov 03, 2004 at 09:32:07AM -0500, Gerard Samuel wrote: I just upgraded from 5.2.1 to 5.3. When running startx, it ends up with this error - Fatal server error: xf86EnableIO: Failed to open /dev/io for extended I/O [...] device io etc. are not in your kernel config or are not loaded. Marc ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: devfs HOWTO... where?
On Fri, Oct 22, 2004 at 10:57:54AM +0200, Bjarne Wichmann Petersen wrote: I'm looking for a guide that describes the magic of devfs, devfs.conf, devfs.rules? Devfs is all blackbox to me. man devfs is really interesting on this point. Marc ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Xorg or XFree86?
On Wed, Aug 18, 2004 at 09:28:44PM -0500, Eric Crist wrote: Hello list, I've seen a lot of posts over the past couple months regarding installation of X.org. I was wondering, is it that much better than XFree86 that it's worth the hassle? If so, what are those advantages? In day-to-day there is no noticeable difference. I'd deplore one really annoying bug: http://freedesktop.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=474 which prevents me to use MPlayer with XVideo extension when a lot of apps are running; falling back to -vo x11 is not good on slow hardware. So for the moment, if XFree86 4.X works for you, you may want to wait for next Xorg release. Marc ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: FreeBSD scanners
On Thu, Aug 19, 2004 at 10:01:07AM +0930, Greg 'groggy' Lehey wrote: Interesting. I've just had a very bad experience with Canon's scanners. See http://.lemis.com/grog/product-reviews/Canon-breakage.html for the whole sad story. Unfortunately, I'm not surprised. Since USB is the scanners standard interface, I noted more and more bad scanners: bad/weak GUI (for example the GUI coming with some EPSON Perfection scanners is the worst I ever used), bad performance, cheap/buggy hardware. The Canon LIDE 30 is not the best scanner available around, but it's just a decent scanner for 69 Euros... and is supported by SANE. I also own an old Agfa SnapScan 600 SCSI, and it's another world. BTW, as always, your pages are really interesting. Marc pgpkr17nNyo3R.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: FreeBSD scanners
On Thu, Aug 19, 2004 at 09:57:40AM -0500, Marc Wiz wrote: So let me ask this question; what are good scanners now days? I'd say a scanner giving good results with slides. I know there are some high end scanners that do Firewire (about ~$400) and some scanners even have SCSI. Any recommendations and/or horror stories for a particular scanner for use on FreeBSD? The SANE backend is the most important part, it's independant from FreeBSD. The main problem is writting the backend, since hardware specs are often not public... The fact some color corrections, etc. are done by the driver does not help; vendors tend to remove the optic parts (or use less and less parts...), the electronic and the software do the job of these parts nowadays. You can see some similar state of things with (cheap) digital cameras. The expensive scanners you mentioned may be good ones, but nothing is better than a real test. I use scanners for black/white scans at 300dpi, so a lot of scanners fit my need. Anyone have experience with that HP scanner that is clear. No, but is it supported by SANE? Marc ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[indunil@stafford.lk: help !!!!!!]
The [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list is the right place to ask this sort of question. You have to add your user to the wheel group to be able to su. pw groupmod wheel -m yourusername should do the trick. Marc ---BeginMessage--- Hi, I installed FREEBSD 5.2.1. I can telnet to Free BSD box from Windows 2000 client. I can telnet to it with my USERNAME and PASSWORD. Then I want to be root. So I issue SU - ( or SU - root). then FreeBSD box asks me the passwrd (root's password ). when I give root's password, FreeBSD box does not accept . Why ? Pls help me ... Thanks Indunil Jayasooriya Healthiness of the System 99.99% ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-doc To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] ---End Message--- ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: FreeBSD scanners
On Tue, Aug 17, 2004 at 02:00:13PM +0300, Anton Alin-Adrian wrote: Thank you all for all of the information. I found this CANON Scanner Canon Lide30 USB available to be bought, nice price, nice performance, donno much about canon's reputation with scanners. It has complete support by the plustek-sane backened. The only problem is it is not listed in uscanner.c. Do you think adding it to uscanner.c is all that takes to make it work? If yes, I am going to buy it (it is the only one with complete sane support, from what i can get my hands on). [...] It is supported under 4.10 and -CURRENT. I use it :) and I used it during the write of the Handbook's scanners section. Marc ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: FreeBSD scanners
On Tue, Aug 17, 2004 at 03:32:37PM +0300, Anton Alin-Adrian wrote: Marc Fonvieille wrote: I found this CANON Scanner Canon Lide30 USB available to be bought It is supported under 4.10 and -CURRENT. I use it :) and I used it during the write of the Handbook's scanners section. Marc Ok can you please confirm to me again that this is the model you are using and that it is working smoothly? Thanks and appologises for this reply, but I am going to buy it right away if you answer me positively. I just pluged it on my -CURRENT laptop and did 2 scans :) I find it noisy like many USB scanners (I prefer my old SCSI Snapscan), but it remains a decent scanner. Here are some logs for this scanner: # dmesg | grep scanner kernel: uscanner0: Canon CanoScan, rev 1.10/1.00, addr # sane-find-scanner -q found USB scanner (vendor=0x04a9, product=0x220e) at /dev/uscanner0 # scanimage -L device `plustek:/dev/uscanner0' is a Canon N1240U/LiDE30 USB flatbed scanner Marc ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: FreeBSD scanners
On Tue, Aug 17, 2004 at 08:17:00AM -0400, Charles Ulrich wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Please, if any of you has confident experience with any of the following scanners under FreeBSD, please let me know. I must find something available for buying and it must work smoothly in FreeBSD (otherwise there's no point of buying a new scanner, as I already have one which is not working in anything else but Windows..) EPSON perfection 1670 EPSON perfection 1670 Photo A little tip: check out Epison's Clearance Center on their website if you're in the market for one of their scanners. I secured a Perfection 1660 Photo for half the price of a brand-new 1670. (Except for the chipset inside, the 1660 and 1670 seem to be identical in every way.) Haven't quite gotten it working with FreeBSD and SANE but that's due more to a lack of time to figure out exactly why SANE can't see the scanner on the bus. A quick read of ttp://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/scanners.html will give you the answer :) Marc ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: USB scanner
On Sat, Aug 14, 2004 at 01:32:17PM +0400, Fractal wrote: Does uscanner driver on FreeBSD 4.8-stable support USB 2.0 interface? It seems that my scanner (EPSON Perfection 2400) does not work at maximum speed. Besides this, it becomes inaccessible via scanimage (sane-find-scanner also cannot find it) in several time interval after system startup if it was not used during this time, and to work with it again it's necessary to completely restart computer. 4.8-STABLE is a bit old, could you try on a 4.10 please? Marc ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: IS freebsd.org working
On Sat, Aug 14, 2004 at 01:38:23PM -0400, JJB wrote: Trying to get to FreeBSD handbook and www.freebsd.org is coming up as not reachable. Any body else having same problem The machine serving www.FreeBSD.org is down. Please use a mirror, for example www.CC.FreeBSD.org where CC is a country code, or http://www2.freebsd.org/, http://www3.freebsd.org/ etc. Marc ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: network card setup?
On Fri, Aug 13, 2004 at 11:13:02AM -0700, Laszlo Antal wrote: Hi, I forgot to setup my network card during installation on my laptop. How can I do that on a running system?? [...] http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/config-network-setup.html Marc ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: firefox + tiff images
On Wed, Aug 11, 2004 at 05:10:50PM -0300, Paulo Fonseca Jr. wrote: I have been visiting some sites that try to shows TIFF images with firefox but it ask me with what application I want to view the images. Somebody knows the best way to plugin in browser a TIFF viewer ? ports/www/plugger/ may be the solution. Marc ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Alternative to get? Trying to download a file via HTTP
On Wed, Aug 11, 2004 at 04:29:11PM -0400, Danny wrote: I am running FreeBSD 4.9R. My goal is to download an .tar.gz file from an HTTP site? I thought get would do that, but it's not installed (unless the command is not get). Any suggestions? fetch is what you want (fetch is in the base system). Marc ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: CD and DVD sets FreeBSD
On Mon, Aug 09, 2004 at 05:44:38PM +0200, Dirk Bajohr wrote: Dear Sirs, We have a new online shop and sell FreeBSD CD sets to (German) customers. Is it possible to get an entry with a hyperlink at your website (http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/ mirrors.html#MIRRORS-CDROM)? I could send you all the shop details (contact information and URL). Are there any requirements to get an entry? We need the same informations you can see on the mentioned page for other retailers. And of course a link to check you really sell FreeBSD CDs sets. Marc ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: A serious Oops moment
On Sat, Aug 07, 2004 at 12:33:27PM -0400, Bryant Eadon wrote: [...] I know it's a 7200 RPM drive, with an 8MB cache and 200G of physical space ( ~ 186GB after formatting in NTFS), the Western Digital Special Edition 200G drive. I want to restore my data, but I am scared to change the disklabel at the thought of losing the 150+G of data that is on the drive. Can anyone PLEASE provide details on how I might be able to restore my data, right now I can't mount it anywhere? Any help is appreciated. Try to mount it in read-only mode, some NTFS disks use to make crash my boxes if I forget to add -o ro option in the mount command. By default any mount operation is done in read/write mode. Marc ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: How do I mount a USB hard drive?
On Sun, Jul 18, 2004 at 08:45:40PM -0400, Michael E. Mercer wrote: That's what I started with... I have everything in my kernel that is mentioned on that page. Nothing is appearing when I connect/disconnect the drive. Is usbd really running? Marc ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: How do I mount a USB hard drive?
On Sun, Jul 18, 2004 at 04:29:03PM -0400, Michael E. Mercer wrote: Hello, I had a hard drive (8 Gig) sitting around and thought I would try the new USB 2.0 hard drive kits. It works just fine in Winblows but I am unable to get it to show up under FreeBSD. 4.10-Stable [...] Read USB Storage Devices section: http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/usb-disks.html Marc ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: cue images
On Sun, Jun 27, 2004 at 06:55:32AM -0700, Paulo Roberto wrote: Hello, Is there any program that runs on fbsd that allows burning cue files? I did not find anything about it on the burncd man page. cdrdao does it. Marc ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Encoding MPEG2 using open source software
On Mon, Jun 21, 2004 at 08:52:45AM +0100, Edd wrote: Hi there, Maybe the question I am asking is how do I burn a dvd using open source. But I know that dvd's ar encoded in MPEG2. Apparently ffmpeg can encode mpeg2, but I havent been able to get mencoder (compiled against ffmpeg) to work for me. Anyone have any tips? If you really want to use ffmpeg, you should install transcode which provides encoding profiles and can use ffmpeg or mpeg2enc for MPEG2 encoding. Marc ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: USB drive questions
On Sat, Jun 19, 2004 at 09:13:22AM -0400, stan wrote: I had a vendor give me a USB memory stick as a promotional giveaway yesterday. Kind of amazing theat they have gotten cheap enough for this. In any case, I pluged it into my laptop with STABLE on it (cvsuped last weekend). It recognized the device, and told me it was a generic USB storage deviec. How can I mount this device? You should read the beginning of this article: http://bsdnews.org/03/cryptusb.php Also, when I unplug it I get a panic. I do have, what I think are, the correct defines in my kernel config. [...] Well the panic is not normal, maybe you could give us more details. Marc ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: help: VCD Player for FreeBSD
On Mon, May 10, 2004 at 11:13:01AM -0700, Mark Jayson Alvarez wrote: Hi, If I already have the video cd, what else do I need to be able to play vcd movies on X windows(im using kde 3.1.4, freebsd4.9). In Windows, I usually locate the .dat file in Mpeg folder inside the vcd itself and open it in Media player. Look at mplayer: mplayer -vcd etc.. Marc ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Items missing from the handbook and/or FAQs.
On Fri, Apr 23, 2004 at 08:10:48PM -0700, Joe Rhett wrote:
On Fri, Apr 23, 2004 at 10:36:46PM +0200, Marc Fonvieille wrote:
get rid of the ppp0 and sl0 interfaces. The answer was to copy related
parameters from /etc/defaults/rc.conf to /etc/rc.conf and change them.
(The handbook actually does say modify rc.conf but it doesn't say what
items should be modified!)
Wrong, read
http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/kernelconfig-config.html
about sl and ppp
Maybe it's just me, but would you look for bathroom cleaning information
in a manual about your oven? Neither would I. If you need to edit the
kernel to disable PPP, then this should be noted in the PPP configuration
documentation.
Hmm be careful with the term you use: to disable PPP having an
interface available does not mean the pppd deamon (aka kernel PPP) is
running. Having the pseudo-device ppp support in your kernel does not
change anything in a day-to-day use. Well it's true no doc, beside the
kernel config ones, mentions the pseudo-device support, I'll fix it.
But I just gave a shot at:
http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/slip.html
the sl page and the information is there for the sl pseudo-device, it
seems you did not read that page.
Also a note to create /etc/start_if.{ifname} to put the wireless options in
would also have saved me reading through the rc scripts. I asusme that's a
general case for all interfaces, but it could bear repeating in the wireless
documentation. (when there is some...)
http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/network-wireless.html
http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/network-bluetooth.html
I'm not certain what you are trying to say here, since both of these
links fail to mention what I stated above. They give you the basic
commands, but leave you with the impression that you'll have to type
these every time you want to configure the interface. Even just a few
links to other relevant documentation would greatly improve these
sections.
Please, please and please: when you quote people do not remove things.
You just removed a revelant part: it was a part of your question in your
original mail. And of course without this part my answer seems weird.
3. Choosing filesystem types
During setup you can create filesystems other than FreeBSD, but you are
supposed to magickally know their filesystem type numbers. The setup
documenation and the fdisk tools only tell you the filesystem numbers for
freebsd, linux and dos. An option to get a list would be nice.
Documentation of the filesystem types would be nice too. (I had to use
fdisk on a linux system to get the filesystem numbers I needed)
http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/install-pre.html
especially 2.2.3.1 Disk Layouts for the i386
Naturally, I can browse the freebsd website while I'm partitioning the
disk... makes sense to me.
Well I think, and I'm sure I'm not alone in this case, an installation
documentation must be read/printed before installation.
Another thing, sysinstall comes with an help, and you can read it from
sysinstall. For example I let you read /stand/help/partition.hlp
Now how about the real question I raised, which is integrated
documentation? An option to see a list of disk types...?
By default you are given the FreeBSD type, well FreeBSD installation
system aims the installation of FreeBSD, I mean people hardly need to
create DOS, or other filesystem slices during FreeBSD installation.
Suggestion: put a gdm configuration script there right next to the xdm
configuration. The people who love twm know what to do to make it happy.
Forcing people who aren't in love with twm and startx to hack at and make
their own gdm startup scripts doesn't make much sense.
(yes, there is an example gdm startup script, but it won't work be default
and you have to search for it, edit it, move it to the proper directory,
etc)
Well XDM and KDM are covered in the Handbook, we can't cover everything.
I'm not talking about documentation, I'm talking about sensible defaults.
It's not a lack of documentation, it's a lack of useful setup scripts.
I can't comment since I don't use GDM, but as I said in my previous
message, but *once again* you removed that part, you can contact the
FreeBSD GNOME team.
Straight up: I'm building this system to set up a test environment for a
client. When I got done with the installation and there was no usable
windows environment and no usable mail client, and no usable network
interface ... I was pretty much ready to tell the client to find a modern
OS.
Well :(( sorry to say that but it sounds like a troll...
I mean, hello, Unix systems came better working out the box in the
mid-80s. Why are we going backwards?
When I install an application, the application is usable, I'm
Re: Items missing from the handbook and/or FAQs.
On Fri, Apr 23, 2004 at 12:37:00PM -0700, Joe Rhett wrote:
Sorry, it's been quite a while since I've played with FreeBSD and some
things are taking a while to get used to. The configuration system has
come a long way... but the documentation seems to be lacking a bit.
This is a quick list of items that I had to struggle through without
references from the documentation. I have figured most of them out from
reading through the rc and init scripts, but that's hardly an easy way to
handle this.
version: 4.9-stable installed from ISO images.
hardware: Sony VAIO PCG-F350
(not relevant, because I have no hardware issues...)
1. How to disable ppp ?
The handbook has lots of information on how to configure it. Apparently I
chose to enable it during install (I don't remember this) and I'm trying to
get rid of the ppp0 and sl0 interfaces. The answer was to copy related
parameters from /etc/defaults/rc.conf to /etc/rc.conf and change them.
(The handbook actually does say modify rc.conf but it doesn't say what
items should be modified!)
Wrong, read
http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/kernelconfig-config.html
about sl and ppp
2. How to configure a wireless card?
If you're coming from any other unixy OS, you're going to be looking for
iwconfig and relatives. Just a note somewhere that all wireless
configuration is handled through ifconfig would have saved me some time.
Also a note to create /etc/start_if.{ifname} to put the wireless options in
would also have saved me reading through the rc scripts. I asusme that's a
general case for all interfaces, but it could bear repeating in the wireless
documentation. (when there is some...)
http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/network-wireless.html
http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/network-bluetooth.html
3. Choosing filesystem types
During setup you can create filesystems other than FreeBSD, but you are
supposed to magickally know their filesystem type numbers. The setup
documenation and the fdisk tools only tell you the filesystem numbers for
freebsd, linux and dos. An option to get a list would be nice.
Documentation of the filesystem types would be nice too. (I had to use
fdisk on a linux system to get the filesystem numbers I needed)
http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/install-pre.html
especially 2.2.3.1 Disk Layouts for the i386
4. Why is xdm still listed as the way to set up X?
Okay, I'm certain that a bunch of people will respond to tell me that gnome
and kde are evil and should be destroyed, but the vast majority of people
are expecting modern graphical interfaces.
Suggestion: put a gdm configuration script there right next to the xdm
configuration. The people who love twm know what to do to make it happy.
Forcing people who aren't in love with twm and startx to hack at and make
their own gdm startup scripts doesn't make much sense.
(yes, there is an example gdm startup script, but it won't work be default
and you have to search for it, edit it, move it to the proper directory,
etc)
Well XDM and KDM are covered in the Handbook, we can't cover everything.
However the FreeBSD GNOME team provide some docs:
http://www.freebsd.org/gnome/
5. Why doesn't the gdm package set up the gdm user?
Running gdm fails because of the lack of a gdm user. Why isn't this
handled by the package installation script?
It's not a doc issue, if it's real, it's a GNOME ports issue.
LEFTOVER:
There's a few things I'm still hacking at and haven't solved yet. I'll
probably figure these out in the next few hours, but anyone who wants to
clue-by-four me would be appreciated.
1. How to put DHCP on the wireless card?
I still haven't figured this out. I run dhclient on the interface by hand
after every reboot and it works fine, but I'm assuming there is some
standard method of telling the system that wi0 should be a dhcp-managed, right?
http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/network-dhcp.html
2. What is interface faith0 ?
It took a ridiculous amount of searching to determine that faith0 was an
ipv4 - ipv6 interface. And I can find nothing about how to disable it.
(and if you say compile a new kernel and make world, excuse me while I puke)
man faith
Marc
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Re: burncd question
On Thu, Apr 22, 2004 at 08:40:50AM +0100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Greetings all, I have used the burncd tool many a time to burn audio cd's from wav's, however recently I have been having problems. I have recorded some wav files using audio/audacity. A nice lil multitrack editor. All I want to do is burn them to cd. So if I do this (as I always have): burncd -s max audio file.wav fixate It does indeed burn a cd. But the audio is much faster than it should be. Why is this? I have tryed this on two machines running freebsd-5.2-release and they both have the same output. My wav is 32 bit at a sample rate of 44100. I have also tryed converting to a 16 bit wav, but the outcome is the same. Is there something I have overlooked? burncd supports raw PCM, the wav header should be a cause of problem. Try the command given at bottom of http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/sound-mp3.html this should normalize your audio file. Marc ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Trouble with atapicam and DVD+RW
On Wed, Mar 24, 2004 at 12:15:33AM -0500, Ed Alley wrote: Thanks for the hints. I'm new to DVDs and didn't realize that one DVD media is not necessarily the same as another; or the fact that the little - or + on the label means something important. (:-) Have a look to http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/creating-dvds.html all you need to know is covered. Marc ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: CVSup checkout mode for FreeBSD doc tree
On Sun, Jan 11, 2004 at 08:33:53AM +, Robert Downes wrote: The quick start instructions for the FreeBSD documentation project say 2. Get a local copy of the FreeBSD doc tree. Either use CVSup in checkout mode to do this, or get a full copy of the CVS repository locally. I have, so far, used CVSup to reconcile sources and ports and docs, but I'm confused now. According to the man page for CVSup, checkout mode is not the default, and will only be used if a tag or a date are specified. If I want to obey the instruction from the documentation project, what do I want to do with my /etc/cvsupfile if mine currently looks like this: *default host=cvsup.uk.FreeBSD.org *default base=/usr *default prefix=/usr *default release=cvs *default tag=RELENG_5_2 *default delete use-rel-suffix src-all *default tag=. ports-all doc-all At the moment, the doc section does not seem to have a tag, so does that mean I'm not using checkout mode to update my doc tree? The right tag for docs is . (period), one could say that doc is -CURRENT. I wrote a quick guide on how to keep your docs up to date, maybe it could help you: http://www.bsdnews.org/02/freebsd_doc.php Marc ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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Re: pkg_add -r XFree86-4 fails - How do I tell pkg_add to look somewhere else for target?
Hi, XFree86 is the name to use to fetch XFree86 4.X Look at this: # pkg_add -rv XFree86 looking up ftp.freebsd.org connecting to ftp.freebsd.org:21 setting passive mode opening data connection initiating transfer Fetching ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/ports/i386/packages-4-stable/Latest/XFree86.tgz...+CONTENTS +COMMENT +DESC +DISPLAY +MTREE_DIRS tar command returns 0 status Done. Package `XFree86-4.2.0_1,1' depends on `freetype2-2.1.1'. setting passive mode opening data connection initiating transfer Fetching ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/ports/i386/packages-4-stable/All/freetype2-2.1.1.tgz...+CONTENTS [snip] Marc To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-questions in the body of the message
Re: pkg_add -r XFree86-4 fails - How do I tell pkg_add to look somewhere else for target?
On Wed, Jul 24, 2002 at 08:33:25PM +0100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: HI Marac, Marc :)) Thanks for that info (and example). It certainly does look as if you've managed to locate the latest version there. I'll give this a go and let the list know if I am successful. Please do. I will add something about it in the http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/x-install.html section of the handbook as pkg_add -r XFree86 can be confusing for many persons cause mostly of them would think about pkg_add -r XFree86-4 instead. Marc To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-questions in the body of the message
Re: pkg_add -r XFree86-4 fails - How do I tell pkg_add to look somewhere else for target?
On Wed, Jul 24, 2002 at 10:50:33PM +0100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi Marc, That did the trick for me, marc. Thanks very much for your time, as well as the information. I should think that your suggestion of updating the Handbook is an excellant idea! Great! I will update the Handbook soon. For a lot of us, this proves to be the first port of call for information and help, and from my own experience, its at times disheartening to come across procedures in there that turn out to be either out of date, or ambiguous in its reading. I'm off installing gnome at the moment. I'm sure to come back to the list seeking confirmation of the procedure for setting gnome as the default desktop to load when entering startx. For GNOME http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/x11-wm.html will be your friend, and also http://www.freebsd.org/gnome/ If you find something wrong or not clear, feel free to contact doc people on freebsd-doc mailing list :) Marc To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe freebsd-questions in the body of the message
