[Announcement] TeX Live 2011: Extended FreeBSD support
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: RIPEMD160 Dear FreeBSD community, Yesterday, Karl Berry announced the release of TeX Live 2011: http://tug.org/pipermail/tex-live/2011-July/029711.html For those of you who use the official distribution, we arranged everything so that TeX Live 2011 should work on FreeBSD 7, 8 and 9 (i386 and amd64) out of the box. However, there are some special cases; like the previous year I prepared the Extended FreeBSD support page: http://anthesphoria.net/FreeBSD/TeXLive-2011/bin/ These special cases include FreeBSD 8 and 9 users who need applications such as asy and xindy, and users of older FreeBSD releases (5 and 6). Please refer to README.txt for the detailed info. A special note for users of biblatex: FreeBSD binaries of the next-generation biblatex backend, biber, are included in TeX Live 2011. An additional support for biblatex-biber users on older FreeBSD releases is available as well: http://anthesphoria.net/FreeBSD/Biber/ Since biber is a Perl script that relies on many newer-than-ported and not-yet-ported Perl modules, this is currently the only easy way to run biber on FreeBSD. - -- Nikola Lečić = Никола Лечић fingerprint : FEF3 66AF C90E EDC3 D878 7CDC 956D F4AB A377 1C9B -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v2.0.17 (FreeBSD) iJwEAQEDAAYFAk4pwnsACgkQ/MM/0rYIoZiTFgP+Oq6Eonjesoi26pBjmLu4Lg3a E8HSUcOsVtmnBTIb/UBCAujC3P6vUGaaUQM28UCZ1cmZbl/1k54V3wiGCr4YdFc7 r9kdFPWmCgOWLX0PWcPhuOilmdhz3/h9D0fQYct4r80y2kjg/7TpOd+Tdqnd48z+ rxeY/A8QK1wjD31I3Co= =Myto -END PGP SIGNATURE- ___ 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: TexLive on FreeBSD 8.1
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: RIPEMD160 On Mon, 2 Aug 2010 18:54:43 + Antonio Olivares olivares14...@gmail.com wrote: Sorry to ask, but you mention that the new TeXLive 2010 will be released this summer. Do you know *when exactly* it will be released? TeX Live and FreeBSD share the same principle: a release will be out when it is ready. No deadlines: http://tug.org/pipermail/tex-live/2010-July/026779.html TL2010 pretest is currently at the stage of final testings. I am also hoping that if use either the pretest one, or the official release, that *it*(The install procedure) also setup the paths, otherwise one has to do this manually :( [...] Ok, so you would like an installation procedure without need to change PATH and other env vars and without installing binaries manually? The following comes to mind (unfortunately, you must deinstall all traces of teTeX from FreeBSD ports first, but I think you can easily maintain a teTeX-free installation): (1) download TL2010 pretest tree: rsync -a --delete --exclude=mactex* rsync://ftp.cstug.cz/pub/tex/local/tlpretest . (don't forget the final dot) (2) run ./install-tl -gui (you'll need x11-toolkits/p5-Tk for GUI) (3) find the last option, Create symlinks in system directories (which is no by default) and click Change; in the small window, check create symlinks in standard directories. (4) Click Install TeX Live. That's all. You'll have FreeBSD binaries; no need to change PATH since all TL binaries, manpages, etc. will be linked from /usr/local/bin/ etc. Hope this helps, - -- Nikola Lečić = Никола Лечић fingerprint : FEF3 66AF C90E EDC3 D878 7CDC 956D F4AB A377 1C9B -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v2.0.11 (FreeBSD) iJwEAQEDAAYFAkxXGiIACgkQ/MM/0rYIoZjMAwQAgxBnnjY7FFSwBnClOf8Ktn1C KF2Jx4Q8osgXJ9Z7GyudXqGDC3y3LvmnYDTpGilm39kUuIuxNohidkD46iyz79QO n0LM6ewrDW4pd76JikKH5v1cDmUq/6dnOxaGe/H/95Br79vsQQbXErkHO9s+mHAt YY0nCAaS2tT/3s740WA= =JoRc -END PGP SIGNATURE- ___ 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: TexLive on FreeBSD 8.1
On Sat, 24 Jul 2010 19:51:55 + Antonio Olivares olivares14...@gmail.com wrote: [...] Don't want to add insult to injury or offend anyone, I just want to see how installing texlive on FreeBSD can be made easier? TeX Live 2010 will support FreeBSD (i386 and amd64). It will work out of the box for FreeBSD 7 and 8. The TL development tree is frozen now and the release will be out during summer. If you can't wait, you can use TeX Live 2010 pretest, it's pretty stable and most likely identical to the release: http://tug.org/texlive/pretest.html If you need binaries for FreeBSD=6, please visit these pages: http://anthesphoria.net/FreeBSD/TeXLive-Devel/bin-r19416/ (r19416 is TL2010 build). A reply to all people that wrote about how big TL is: TeX Live is a _distribution_, not a single piece of software. It has its own package manager, tlpkg. You can use it to remove anything you don't need after install. The TL installer supports installing various schemes. If you need a minimal TeX, you can choose scheme minimal, it's actually much smaller than teTeX. Please read TL Guide, it's very useful and can answer all your questions: http://www.tug.org/texlive/doc/texlive-en/ Best wishes, -- Nikola Lečić = Никола Лечић fingerprint : FEF3 66AF C90E EDC3 D878 7CDC 956D F4AB A377 1C9B signature.asc Description: PGP signature
Re: Secondary DNS or BSD Server space
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: RIPEMD160 On Fri, 19 Dec 2008 10:15:33 -0800 pete wright nomadlo...@gmail.com wrote: [...] There was a thread on this just the other day here. Not sure if they are BSD-based, but both dyndns.org and zoneedit.com offser secondary service for practically nothing. I'm %99 sure that dyndns.org is FBSD based. I've been using them for a while now and am quite happy with them too. if you check out their jobs board there are openings for FreeBSD engineers: DynDNS is FreeBSD based, ZoneEdit is not: http://searchdns.netcraft.com/?position=limitedhost=dyndns.com http://uptime.netcraft.com/up/graph?site=dyndns.com http://searchdns.netcraft.com/?position=limitedhost=zoneedit.com http://uptime.netcraft.com/up/graph?site=zoneedit.com - -- Nikola Lečić = Никола Лечић fingerprint : FEF3 66AF C90E EDC3 D878 7CDC 956D F4AB A377 1C9B -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v2.0.9 (FreeBSD) iJwEAQEDAAYFAklL72wACgkQ/MM/0rYIoZiqnAP/SFi5UwDec1/EZ1u4BGVAthyF E33tebKZ9nkngU0GWtbWeSFCc21hG+MRySE9sY+h+8yEVjuxganeEnqJZH8QLRfF NTkEJ1bZijK2bbaxU/E6wi/N7M0KtF8FWSzWGyOAvf7SJvY5xFfbahQLc1iLjUNO HRnbtUrRPoIxWYp/izU= =9VkX -END PGP SIGNATURE- ___ 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: listserver problems?
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: RIPEMD160 On Thu, 18 Dec 2008 06:47:01 -0500 Michael Scheidell scheid...@secnap.net wrote: might be generic listserver issues, but I noticed that at least on freebsd-jail list, it does NOT strip out dkim/domainkeys signatures. that might not be to bad, but it does 'mung' the headers, so dkim signed email passed through freebsd mailing list server comes back as a forged signature. Three objections to your DKIM signature: (1) Your canonicalization is relaxed/simple, i.e. the mail is signed with simple bodycanon: DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/simple; d=secnap.net; h= That's why you have Authentication-Results: [...] dkim=neutral (body hash did not verify) header...@secnap.net - -- the list software appends some lines at the end of mail. You should use Canonicalization relaxed/relaxed in dkim-filter.conf or milterdkim_flags=-c relaxed/relaxed in rc.conf if you use Sendmail. (See headers of my mail.) (2) You have Received header field included in the signature, while RFC4871 states that it SHOULD NOT be the case: http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc4871#section-5.5 (3) You do not specify body length (l= in DKIM header). According to http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc4871#section-3.4.5 it could be a good idea to use it, especially when mailing lists are in question. In total, mailing list owners don't have an obligation to strip DKIM signatures. Instead, other methods can be used on both sides, see section 4.1. HTH - -- Nikola Lečić = Никола Лечић fingerprint : FEF3 66AF C90E EDC3 D878 7CDC 956D F4AB A377 1C9B -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v2.0.9 (FreeBSD) iJwEAQEDAAYFAklKV2MACgkQ/MM/0rYIoZhsnwQAowQy2nwd3IVYMtv9p7PVaoGZ FQPpZZse/6PFi3KeegZcbOBFhOcNV3DzATt3z+VXdVYybajRXArj7WJtyEI2shGn ssBmBdkD1bpoRzgf7jNYj6a9w8cVS/BC7gl07GBIhILEGLnpG8bjj7MtWhynj9SB vn8jT/XF4QEKmDJSUwk= =1fpm -END PGP SIGNATURE- ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: Video driver
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: RIPEMD160 On Thu, 18 Dec 2008 09:39:17 +0100 Alain BATARD a.bat...@forteam.fr wrote: I am M. Alain BATARD and i work in a formation center. For my Unix course i use Freebsd (V 7), we recently change our computers for laptops (Compaq 6820s) these computers are equipped with integrated video : ATI Mobility Radeon X1350, after looking for drivers to launch Xorg, i can only use the very poor video in VGA mode, is there any possibilities to find the good driver even by using xorgconfig or manually ? With Mobility Radeon X1350 on FreeBSD you will get the best results using x11-drivers/xf86-video-radeonhd (Driver radeonhd in xorg.conf): http://cgit.freedesktop.org/xorg/driver/xf86-video-radeonhd/plain/README http://www.x.org/wiki/radeonhd (The closed-source fglrx driver is provided for Linux only.) The instructions on how to configure X: http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en/books/handbook/x-config.html HTH - -- Nikola Lečić = Никола Лечић fingerprint : FEF3 66AF C90E EDC3 D878 7CDC 956D F4AB A377 1C9B -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v2.0.9 (FreeBSD) iJwEAQEDAAYFAklKncIACgkQ/MM/0rYIoZihywP+JPYa6B0NSGLL6MdV92vAaMjs cNhNMqNrSQ7gTkFDr65sE4quyczuV4eL8RfX11WnmlWPl80hP3SHxfKLwrHgJDbd N0RUx/xDLWmjkSbuBhS1y2WgK7SrM4+kSZ3/97uFj8VMcN3/fHA5udSOuRwp/P3x YaHbZS03x0KRIvA+g9Q= =nw9Y -END PGP SIGNATURE- ___ 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: imagemagick convert: japanese text broken in freebsd
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cuongvt free...@vuhanhnhu.com wrote:
Hi,
I know that IM support japanese text.
On Freebsd 7.0 with latest imagemagick built from port (6.4.7) and
msgothic.ttc copied from windows partition,
imagick extension of PHP installed by pecl.
in terminal (zsh) I type:
convert origin.jpg -fill white -font
/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/TrueType/msgothic.ttc -pointsize 125 -stroke
blue -strokewidth 1 -draw text 20,130 'がくせい' straight.jpg
IM did not informed any error, but the result is japanese text broken
(question marks).
Hello,
It works for me with ImageMagick-6.4.5.5 and ImageMagick-6.4.7.5.
First, please make sure that the cause of the problem is not something
simple, i.e. make sure that
a) you don't have a wrong /non-UTF-8/ locale (not very likely since
you wouldn't get question marks);
b) you compiled ImageMagick with IMAGEMAGICK_TTF and
IMAGEMAGICK_FONTCONFIG.
If these are the case, then it's almost certain that fontconfig is
somehow confused with that Microsoft font. For example, see this
thread on XeTeX mailing list about Microsoft YaHei font:
http://www.tug.org/pipermail/xetex/2007-May/006539.html
If you use -text directive without -font specified, ImageMagick will
use the fonts from
/usr/local/lib/ImageMagick-6.4.7/config/type-ghostscript.xml
and this will produce question marks with Japanese UTF-8 string, which
seems to be the case. So, if you don't want to use some free
non-Microsoft font, you can try to do this:
1) Regenerate fontconfig cache ('fc-cache -f -v' as root).
2) Check if MS Gothic is visible to ImageMagick, i.e. try
%convert -list font
The output should contain
Font: ＭＳ-ゴシック-標準
family: ＭＳ ゴシック
style: Normal
stretch: Normal
weight: 400
glyphs: /path/to/msgothic.ttc
in ja_JP.UTF-8, or
Font: MS-Gothic-Regular
family: MS Gothic
in en_US.UTF-8 locale.
3) Then try
%convert orig.jpg -font ＭＳ-ゴシック-標準 -verbose -fill white \
-pointsize 125 -stroke blue -strokewidth 1 \
-draw text 20,130 'がくせい' straight.jpg
if you use ja_JP.* locale (-font MS-Gothic-Regular if you use
en_US.UTF-8 -- note that the command is locale-sensitive) and see
if this makes any difference.
Best regards.
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Re: imagemagick convert: japanese text broken in freebsd
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: RIPEMD160 On Sun, 14 Dec 2008 10:03:18 +0100 (CET) Wojciech Puchar woj...@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl wrote: NTG please do ask on imagemagick support! Interestingly, he did (and, as it appears, before you replied): http://www.imagemagick.org/discourse-server/viewtopic.php?f=1t=12713 There are some of us here who are interested in all things related to Unicode and complex scripts questions; we are interested to have such things working on FreeBSD. The OP's question was very interesting to me _as a FreeBSD user_. You are of course not obliged to reply at all. The fact that people often get better replies about application X running on FreeBSD on FreeBSD list than on a native list/forum reveals something good about FreeBSD community IMHO. Best regards. - -- Nikola Lečić = Никола Лечић fingerprint : FEF3 66AF C90E EDC3 D878 7CDC 956D F4AB A377 1C9B -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v2.0.9 (FreeBSD) iJwEAQEDAAYFAklFW9AACgkQ/MM/0rYIoZhMNQQAn9qEQwOEw3aNwTG7quq+KbnX z7tp0dDevcooHbEkWTLqf24D8OiFrjl1dyC7zuE9Wwe3fAGKjVWbYBtshTW0Yusk CbARjQCq85JKAz0LUmTJChJWCmbwy0M4SSNYJ20F/aX2lbFcEUGKL3pZudMWu+tj npo9qKOF+jvjS0P3Vr0= =0IHu -END PGP SIGNATURE- ___ 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: Localized menus in firefox3 ?
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: RIPEMD160 On Sun, 23 Nov 2008 15:46:19 +0100 Peter Ulrich Kruppa [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I would like my firefox3 menus in german. With firefox2 I could install the firefox-i18n port and select german in the Quick Locale Switcher. What would I have to do with firefox3? - I tried firefox3-i18n but menus will always stay english. Hi Peter, You can install language packs directly from http://releases.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/firefox/releases/3.0.4/linux-i686/xpi/ (change the version number in the URL if needed). The additional languages should be accessible through Tools - Languages. HTH - -- Nikola Lečić = Никола Лечић fingerprint : FEF3 66AF C90E EDC3 D878 7CDC 956D F4AB A377 1C9B -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v2.0.9 (FreeBSD) iJwEAQEDAAYFAkkpd6AACgkQ/MM/0rYIoZju8AQArnUB3FtGIlqDedQVPopc4VDF mryCX0ZwYq8DObJuU+UOT5kyI0FRTYgSXNadjUerzsnfdLrfodtkhkuIfmzc4RBx 32sp4jlUjqLf+POfVfBtsYFW/0u6qYdY8g4VPxzJlYWoPE6aAwBVILcxvdWWdL/i dMoP0ojYls4tqLWhvWQ= =DR/0 -END PGP SIGNATURE- ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Problems with Xfce console
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: RIPEMD160 On Sun, 16 Nov 2008 07:35:32 +0100 Bernt Hansson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Nikola Lečić said the following on 2008-11-15 17:13: On Sat, 15 Nov 2008 16:43:06 +0100 Bernt Hansson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: For me it's just xfce with option Virtual. if I omit Virtual xfce works fine but not any other WM. Strange. Can you try x11-drivers/xf86-video-radeonhd (Driver radeonhd)? Yes I was thinking about that one but was not sure if it was another driver or just a rename. I test it when I get back to work. They are not the same driver, radeon is a pretty basic thing while RadeonHD is a driver based on the specifications revealed by AMD. They constantly continue to open new data so the driver is improving pretty fast. For now it has even a basic 3D functionality and it could replace close-source fglrx driver in the future. http://www.x.org/wiki/radeonhd http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=articleitem=842num=1 In my experience either fglrx (on Linux) or radeonhd always improved things. - -- Nikola Lečić = Никола Лечић fingerprint : FEF3 66AF C90E EDC3 D878 7CDC 956D F4AB A377 1C9B -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v2.0.9 (FreeBSD) iJwEAQEDAAYFAkkgG7IACgkQ/MM/0rYIoZhthgQAwCJUzVdV+AhCobB4Z9lh5CSw czAF7nqZyyRwyHh9qVXH0URn6N2C2TNl7/xXor6xzuht64cyfMRWBNTgPSacG1mh 2OURrCyspk8T3k9CQTDYuf4LK4zgZuFH9r4XdwgDQow0SU/6M71tLUpNHccXougl NZjGaNHVuIr5iyaABOY= =yGxo -END PGP SIGNATURE- ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: High Noonn DVD??
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: RIPEMD160 On Sun, 16 Nov 2008 16:08:27 +0100 Fabian Keil [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Nikola Lečić [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sat, 15 Nov 2008 14:46:00 +0100 Roland Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: OK, that's nice to know. All the DVDs that I have play fine with mplayer, but they're probably all region 2 disks. So I should be able to play region 1 disks with mplayer? That's exactly what I am trying to do at this moment, with no success. I'm in the region 2 and I set my DVD drive accordingly (with a small C programme). Now I got some region 1 DVDs and libdvdcss is not sufficient as such. Which programs did you try? Do you get an error message? I tried mplayer, vlc and ogle and experienced the same symptoms like when this DVD drive was in virgin state (with no region-code set) and when I tried to play normal region 2 DVD, which means: * vlc - no output at all * mplayer - sound ok, video scrambled in colourful squares, producing a lot of errors like this: a52: CRC check failed! 0.046 ct: -0.029 21/ 18 11% 1% 23.4% 0 0 a52: error at resampling A: 1.5 V: 1.7 A-V: -0.197 ct: -0.036 23/ 20 11% 0% 22.8% 0 0 demux_mpg: 24000/1001fps progressive NTSC content detected, switching framerate. a52: CRC check failed! 0.045 ct: 0.100 34/30 ??% ??% ??,?% 0 0 a52: error at resampling * ogle - the flood of these kernel messages with syslogd eating a lot of CPU: Nov 16 22:21:58 black kernel: acd0: setting up DMA failed Nov 16 22:21:58 black kernel: ata2: FAILURE - non aligned DMA transfer attempted After setting the region of my DVD drive to 2, I never experienced such errors (after uncountable number of local DVDs) until I got there region 1 ones. That's why I was so confident that libdvdcss is a problem. Can you rip the disc with vobcopy? No, the same as with ogle. Did you try playing or ripping the discs on a GNU/Linux system? Hmm, my home is currently FreeBSD-only. :-) But I managed to try it and - -- yes, it works. Strange. In the light of your post about LITE-ON DVDRW LH-20A1S 9L08, is it possible that DVD drive causes all these problems? - -- Nikola Lečić = Никола Лечић fingerprint : FEF3 66AF C90E EDC3 D878 7CDC 956D F4AB A377 1C9B -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v2.0.9 (FreeBSD) iJwEAQEDAAYFAkkgoGAACgkQ/MM/0rYIoZgWgAP/W6bb0u0RgxOL2FfMME3PVdQN 71hTZ7UbVWmfmNlQsySPZUHGUBe8QhJ94k8Ug2Bu383ikUNLuPGMXXRF3YCazcMD pHT2XL+uyDdpOkbJCcKYGUplkf74dEPmVsBuXT7qnRQ5LKcn9UxvZvMktm1d+b5F SgCSjx6+6waNnm3CiFI= =lK2s -END PGP SIGNATURE- ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Problems with Xfce console
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: RIPEMD160 On Sat, 15 Nov 2008 16:43:06 +0100 Bernt Hansson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: For me it's just xfce with option Virtual. if I omit Virtual xfce works fine but not any other WM. Strange. Can you try x11-drivers/xf86-video-radeonhd (Driver radeonhd)? - -- Nikola Lečić = Никола Лечић fingerprint : FEF3 66AF C90E EDC3 D878 7CDC 956D F4AB A377 1C9B -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v2.0.9 (FreeBSD) iJwEAQEDAAYFAkke9UoACgkQ/MM/0rYIoZgqEgP/Yci3kiuxqChwxX0EwMQHt2HN ReAVFCAaE+TcKdwqUh195V56Kj33TCEK1ut/AnOt8/8hjt5OYrPvynJ5gY/PtLbX 3e2i7bG3B7zeRhUM3MoblhWn4vaDQh7GN2fi5PWbNanHZCzB369wyoHc4zjoiHGb FkuXYSYCs93EbFJP4l8= =9DE8 -END PGP SIGNATURE- ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: High Noonn DVD??
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: RIPEMD160 On Sat, 15 Nov 2008 14:46:00 +0100 Roland Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: OK, that's nice to know. All the DVDs that I have play fine with mplayer, but they're probably all region 2 disks. So I should be able to play region 1 disks with mplayer? That's exactly what I am trying to do at this moment, with no success. I'm in the region 2 and I set my DVD drive accordingly (with a small C programme). Now I got some region 1 DVDs and libdvdcss is not sufficient as such. Of course, I can change DVD drive region setting temporarily, but the drive allows just 4 or 5 such changes. Does anyone know how to avoid this counting? - -- Nikola Lečić = Никола Лечић fingerprint : FEF3 66AF C90E EDC3 D878 7CDC 956D F4AB A377 1C9B -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v2.0.9 (FreeBSD) iJwEAQEDAAYFAkke938ACgkQ/MM/0rYIoZgQeQQAly3K3sfJ2/bI3GgaMA7Hpm0x jPggeF/HTJ+ayrF6Sb7ishEk2I10W2Kt/+N7vYLHXRrddTz8ITrYH/pfNqIAsOjP cLhIFlH0yHo8fVOa+RF12FaBA6cFbr1HvY/bvwW1WxCFu5Q4LEVlUjuZkcvakawM FGByZjnfZCHiJkNGBhM= =rCQe -END PGP SIGNATURE- ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: High Noonn DVD??
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: RIPEMD160 On Sat, 15 Nov 2008 18:23:05 +0100 cpghost [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sat, Nov 15, 2008 at 08:41:21AM -0800, Jeremy Chadwick wrote: On Sat, Nov 15, 2008 at 05:23:23PM +0100, Nikola Le??i?? wrote: On Sat, 15 Nov 2008 14:46:00 +0100 Roland Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: OK, that's nice to know. All the DVDs that I have play fine with mplayer, but they're probably all region 2 disks. So I should be able to play region 1 disks with mplayer? That's exactly what I am trying to do at this moment, with no success. I'm in the region 2 and I set my DVD drive accordingly (with a small C programme). Now I got some region 1 DVDs and libdvdcss is not sufficient as such. Of course, I can change DVD drive region setting temporarily, but the drive allows just 4 or 5 such changes. Does anyone know how to avoid this counting? Changing the region encoding setting on your DVD drive involves setting a bit or code somewhere in the flash/EEPROM inside of the DVD drive. The limit of 4-5 changes is purely a DVD drive firmware thing; there's no technical limit, instead it's a limit imposed by the firmware. There are websites nowadays which offer hacked firmwares which remove region encoding altogether (or remove the 4-5 set limit). However, they're only available for very specific models of DVD drives. If this is important to you, you should considering purchasing a drive that can be flashed with a hacked firmware. Check out for RPC1 modded firmwares. http://forum.rpc1.org/portal.php Thanks! The DVD drive is cd0: LITE-ON DVDRW LH-20A1S 9L08 Removable CD-ROM SCSI-0 device and it seems to be there: http://forum.rpc1.org/viewtopic.php?f=26t=42777p=205896hilit=LH+20A1S#p205896 ... so it means I can do something, I think. Btw, what, in the light of all this, means the following statement from libdvdcss/pkg-descr? - Just better. Unlike most similar projects, libdvdcss doesn't require the region of your drive to be set. - -- Nikola Lečić = Никола Лечић fingerprint : FEF3 66AF C90E EDC3 D878 7CDC 956D F4AB A377 1C9B -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v2.0.9 (FreeBSD) iJwEAQEDAAYFAkkfYQ0ACgkQ/MM/0rYIoZhWRwP/dn8a7Kt2EyM9+D28+DWV+pHa amPqGkzh17f2WRzgugiGI/KF+8gDmOUfGYl6LABqYjHk6341BvvQ5pYLw5RVa7ZV 9eDjO+P8vMyCn9AcYwiagNF8kuCBut73F5E2YZjt4wEwKciqe24YTpqiAGXy+e5A C58UVE97XgQcZUm/N9Y= =QsfQ -END PGP SIGNATURE- ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Openoffice 3.0.0 - spellchecker not functioning
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: RIPEMD160 On Fri, 07 Nov 2008 14:17:25 + Craig Butler [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, 2008-11-06 at 18:13 +, Mike Clarke wrote: I've installed en-openoffice.org-GB-3.0.0 from ports on my 6.4-RC1 system. The install, using the command portinstall -m LOCALIZED_LANG=en-GB -DWITH_KDE editors/openoffice.org-3, appeared to complete OK and I can run /usr/local/bin/openoffice.org-3.0.0-swriter but attempts to check spelling in a document with known spelling errors always fail to find any errors. The Available language modules section in Tools - Options - Language Settings - Writing Aids is empty, unlike my copy of Openoffice 2.3 which has 3 entries in this section. Should the language modules have been installed or have I missed anything when installing the port? Hi Mike, Don't think ya missed anything, I am in the same boat... I also compiled with the LOCALIZED_LANG=en-GB flag. Anybody with a solution ? my spelling isn't that good so would need to spell check my documents. I have sr-openoffice.org-3.1.20081009/, i.e. openoffice.org-3-devel compiled with 'editors/openoffice*' = [ 'LOCALIZED_LANG=sr', 'WITHOUT_CUPS=yes', 'WITH_SYSTEM_FREETYPE=yes', 'WITH_SYSTEM_ICU=yes', ] on FreeBSD 7.1-PRERELEASE #0: Sun Oct 12 (i386) and I have all 3 sections in Tools - Options - Language Settings - Writing Aids. The OpenOffice.org dictionaries page says: IMPORTANT NOTE: From OpenOffice.org 3.0 on the dictionary wizard is not longer available -- Dictionaries are now available via the extensions repository. [http://wiki.services.openoffice.org/wiki/Dictionaries] So, the OpenOffice.org-3 users are supposed to download .oxt files and run them. However, I experienced the 'bad transfer url' problem with all extension files; this was reported on FreeBSD mailing lists in the past with no available solution. Happily, the instruction from the same page (DictOOo-Wizard, intended for OpenOffice.org-2) worked just fine in my OpenOffice-3. I downloaded http://ftp.services.openoffice.org/pub/OpenOffice.org/contrib/dictionaries/dicooo/DicOOo.sxw and it worked like a charm, installing Hunspell Spellchecker module and dictionary files. Hope this helps. - -- Nikola Lečić = Никола Лечић fingerprint : FEF3 66AF C90E EDC3 D878 7CDC 956D F4AB A377 1C9B -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v2.0.9 (FreeBSD) iJwEAQEDAAYFAkkUrO0ACgkQ/MM/0rYIoZigygQAoaoye0FYqsGtJzCBTZyXRC3M M9WnvgbNKM5rtN8C4MCtdrtUf0yh9hckFdCd1HsQg6IiqCu0qw2iY8VpYp3++D6H xeTYLqMV6Rs5WdsdUpZZUSvA4YfeGhkKK0J4nHNG884XKzx3moqDc3OZISN08zX3 +byFpVnii7CIFxdmFeU= =RK8z -END PGP SIGNATURE- ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: fastest raw device copy?
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: RIPEMD160 On Fri, 31 Oct 2008 14:16:38 +0100 Ivan Voras [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Jeremy Chadwick wrote: On Fri, Oct 31, 2008 at 09:48:16AM +0100, Christoph Kukulies wrote: What would be the fastest way to do that sector by sector copy? I'm using dd right now, dd if=/dev/ad0 of=/dev/da0 bs=1000 On the flip side, your blocksize (bs) there is quite high for no good reason. I'd pick something more like bs=64k or bs=128k. The default (512) is too small for what you want, but 10MBytes is silly. Not only that, but 1000 isn't even correct - it needs to be a multiple of sector size. Generally, using suffixes will do the right thing: dd if=/dev/ad0 of=/dev/da0 bs=1m Would there be anything wrong in cat /dev/ad0 /dev/da0 ? - -- Nikola Lečić = Никола Лечић fingerprint : FEF3 66AF C90E EDC3 D878 7CDC 956D F4AB A377 1C9B -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v2.0.9 (FreeBSD) iJwEAQEDAAYFAkkOQCsACgkQ/MM/0rYIoZjjHQQAhXi6gu5JhJjzZmE97buiZ15u Q6AT+qvAja6cALfGAGVrzJEzljfcbe3PnBdOnn1CTYbS62EHaVWLnvOKRGrpvzFE q/WxQ9qCRfcsSx3o6eKxfTM6d4b92ZP+d1iPotmzutQl8TbxlJxNTP9i2b6cDw6a au6zdoApH5A6UxyaJA8= =oFoQ -END PGP SIGNATURE- ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: OpenOffice 2.3
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: RIPEMD160 On Thu, 27 Mar 2008 09:34:05 +0300 Mike Barnard [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: errors on starting up scalc javaldx: Could not find a Java Runtime Environment! Do you have one? I18N: Operating system doesn't support locale en_US There is no such locale en_US, but e.g. en_US.UTF-8; can you check it? [ ... ] errors on opening up a document in scalc after which it hangs (process:2086): GLib-GObject-CRITICAL **: gtype.c:2242: initialization assertion failed, use IA__g_type_init() prior to this function (process:2086): GLib-CRITICAL **: g_once_init_leave: assertion `initialization_value != 0' failed (process:2086): GLib-GObject-CRITICAL **: g_object_new: assertion `G_TYPE_IS_OBJECT (object_type)' failed Exactly the same error messages (and some solutions) were reported in November 2007 here: http://www.nabble.com/Re:-GLib-GObject-CRITICAL-td13904374.html Of course, if you have an up-to-date ports tree, you should probably report this to [EMAIL PROTECTED] (BTW, there are pre-built packages for all OpenOffice versions: ftp://ftp.FreeBSD.org/pub/FreeBSD/ports/i386/packages-7-stable/editors/ -- have you considered trying them?) Best regards. - -- Nikola Lečić = Никола Лечић fingerprint : FEF3 66AF C90E EDC3 D878 7CDC 956D F4AB A377 1C9B -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v2.0.8 (FreeBSD) iJwEAQEDAAYFAkfrp3IACgkQ/MM/0rYIoZgfZAP+Lz7x4XsrBKqSVUbvpZhpBYem JuHH5UXWpmhdUQHfemxiimvqnnAU6lqkaOcpechoklqRj5PGn1v63K5coH/ecDs8 AiFH0+DU399QVS3m/XKV+n0+oKoMW5qSGIBuYMW2UowT1sZNWzqg5ncP8LhWparE c212nsXGFJhJjRvdVu0= =a2Z2 -END PGP SIGNATURE- ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: OpenOffice 2.3
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: RIPEMD160 On Thu, 27 Mar 2008 18:18:57 + Mike Clarke [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thursday 27 March 2008, Nikola Lečić wrote: (BTW, there are pre-built packages for all OpenOffice versions: ftp://ftp.FreeBSD.org/pub/FreeBSD/ports/i386/packages-7-stable/editor s/ -- have you considered trying them?) I tried this about a week ago without much success. I could get openoffice.org-2.3.1_1 to run but when I tried to open an .odt with writer it hung with the following errors: (process:2307): GLib-GObject-CRITICAL **: gtype.c:2242: initialization assertion failed, use IA__g_type_init() prior to this function (process:2307): GLib-CRITICAL **: g_once_init_leave: assertion `initialization_value != 0' failed (process:2307): GLib-GObject-CRITICAL **: g_object_new: assertion `G_TYPE_IS_OBJECT (object_type)' failed I also tried openoffice.org-2.4.20080308 from the same directory. That sort of worked - I could open files but the formatting was wrong with lots of spaces missing. But 2.4 is still in development (I think) so things like that might be to be expected. According to what can be read on the page I sent with my previous mail, it seems to be a GTK-related issue. I confirm that all 7-stable OpenOffice packages (including 2.3.1_1) work perfectly on my plain 7.0-RELEASE/i386 install, but with *up-to-date* ports, not with precompiled packages shipped as a part of the release. So, 1) Update your ports, and don't forget ports/UPDATING; 2) Try OOO_FORCE_DESKTOP=gnome if you're using KDE. - -- Nikola Lečić = Никола Лечић fingerprint : FEF3 66AF C90E EDC3 D878 7CDC 956D F4AB A377 1C9B -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v2.0.8 (FreeBSD) iJwEAQEDAAYFAkfr6XgACgkQ/MM/0rYIoZh7ewP8CyNUX0MYsVYkxv1W8Zxn3ztz B6ZpRp4m92/hmXVqSZXH1KEiorfW/eyMHrJcDK5nFznoNKxwtecNf07xDUeb2ehv orZdcOMA8vX+mXNLld2jBtjAWDQe2JUuxZtcIORDi2SQOBYihFUsZ5xntYmozxyT o8RLgqLCJJ7XL62EFh4= =feff -END PGP SIGNATURE- ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: mplayer-problems
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: RIPEMD160 On Sat, 22 Mar 2008 15:06:22 +0100 Niels Kobschaetzki [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Now the video plays but the output looks scrambled and mplayer tells me that my machine is too slow. But even on a P3 1 GHz DVDs should run…especially when DivX and co can be decoded w/out any problems. Any ideas? If the DVD output is scrambled you most likely need multimedia/libdvdcss. However, don't forget that (from ports/LEGAL): multimedia/libdvdcss CSS code may violate the DMCA The best way to play DVDs in mplayer is to access them through mplayer dvdnav:// This way you will have a full control over DVD menus. Lastly, you can try multimedia/ogle, which is a DVD-only player and probably handles DVD menus better than mplayer. Ogle also needs libdvdcss. Best regards. - -- Nikola Lečić = Никола Лечић fingerprint : FEF3 66AF C90E EDC3 D878 7CDC 956D F4AB A377 1C9B -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v2.0.8 (FreeBSD) iJwEAQEDAAYFAkfltMkACgkQ/MM/0rYIoZg27gQAtFS3aFuFllR5os3elU3KYndw W0rF0Ulzf146NpvSGZ1WABTBEbuBbrRomQVZ9dXSPd1OWh7x58TP+b0ovPoeLD84 skp9OjGZjKDoTXxrngyPkyyyrdr6jOoAvfa/R4HXftTmjWQbfXOvz9y0KgHtMppa 6VGnCzhhI57u7sUiiJ4= =/nqM -END PGP SIGNATURE- ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: python ports
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: RIPEMD160 On Thu, 20 Mar 2008 16:40:26 +0100 Andreas Pettersson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi. # portversion -vL= py24-tkinter-2.4.4_2 needs updating (port has 2.5.2_2) python24-2.4.4_2 needs updating (port has 2.4.5) python25-2.5.1_1 needs updating (port has 2.5.2_1) If I upgrade py24-tkinter, will there be a new port installed instead, py25-tkinter? Will all dependencies work? No, it will remain py24 unless you want otherwise. As for real moving to python25 and/or keeping py24 versions around, you should read /usr/ports/UPDATING (entry 20070730) and set PYTHON_DEFAULT_VERSION. Can I safely deinstall python24 or will it automatically get installed again when I decide to upgrade zope for example? Yes, you can: the same as above. Best regards. - -- Nikola Lečić = Никола Лечић fingerprint : FEF3 66AF C90E EDC3 D878 7CDC 956D F4AB A377 1C9B -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v2.0.8 (FreeBSD) iJwEAQEDAAYFAkfjOGYACgkQ/MM/0rYIoZhHqAP+IB1x7uiwZ2/szOghfUWlCmOJ EnyGWN0teJbwudb++5h9OyToCdxjobigw4c7THIS9tSMSNq8oQwxhWTBsDTmmxOz mu89gce/YHWqt+zIyZ9wAz+cDh2hRhu/OKifX+9ayklPpG5/sYm0UPkiQpOVxjfy hvaJ0/gtLhL8yPqryEo= =6EfC -END PGP SIGNATURE- ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: OpenOffice 2.3
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: RIPEMD160 On Thu, 20 Mar 2008 10:55:56 +0300 Mike Barnard [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I am running FreeBSD 7.0 Pre-Release on an HP 6720s Laptop. I am experiencing a strange problem with OpenOffice. Every time i open a document/spreadsheet or try to save a document/spreadsheet, OpenOffice hangs. When i open a spreadsheet, i get a warning message about macros, when i click on OK, it hangs at that point. Has any one experienced this? Any one know to resolve this. Which gcc version do you use? I recall that someone described similar symptoms on FreeBSD/amd64 with OpenOffice.org compiled using gcc-4.1. It was a bug in gcc-4.1; recompiling with gcc-4.2 resolved all problems. Best regards. - -- Nikola Lečić = Никола Лечић fingerprint : FEF3 66AF C90E EDC3 D878 7CDC 956D F4AB A377 1C9B -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v2.0.8 (FreeBSD) iJwEAQEDAAYFAkfjOlIACgkQ/MM/0rYIoZiHPwQAtOpouW/lPeI3qcdt5zoSqU7U rtBOPkbhgLUgAf1u+ZkQEBDQ5ofPzkWonU39yRRsCtQbltnOHdHJfNw/VeCs5pQJ CmxyJi3/9dhVZa0kpa4T+Ge1NsdZZWwk676jcYg5/leGLEJA4gWk6rkwY4SczDDA zCJgsTHj1AFskL0a26k= =ZQ+t -END PGP SIGNATURE- ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: System can not boot, seems can not find right partition after add new label
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: RIPEMD160 On Sat, 15 Mar 2008 11:26:52 + Kemian Dang [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [...] I can not remember whether I do something stupid, I just dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/ad4s2 to write zero, then when I want to use bsdlabel to create new slice, but the new slice did not show up. So I tried sysinstall, still did not work. What exactly did not work? You should use sysinstall (you can use FreeBSD installation CD or liveCD), go to Configure - Fdisk, then change slice ad4s2 type to 165 and write the changes. I should work. Best regards. - -- Nikola Lečić = Никола Лечић fingerprint : FEF3 66AF C90E EDC3 D878 7CDC 956D F4AB A377 1C9B -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v2.0.8 (FreeBSD) iJwEAQEDAAYFAkfb9KAACgkQ/MM/0rYIoZiZAgQAmEk5apDER6fA5RP2Ja3Ia73m yAQZeuaqgOaFekLnX5YbB47Hkn6EFzezIhGL22O5vsKTQjWrYpjeMZnvqfqCTloT eLf9T8jXH4qt9yO3FNsT9RKPJWxxuzexn2f6TI6lbjTlzCzD5e5R6k2LGg7+xwZO z8v7c9gauY7UkMsHj6Y= =cOlO -END PGP SIGNATURE- ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: System can not boot, seems can not find right partition after add new label
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: RIPEMD160 On Sat, 15 Mar 2008 22:16:58 + Kemian Dang [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Problem is the boot partition can not be found. I burned a install cdm using it I find I have set ad4s2 to be bootable, so I changed it back. But this time, the system said I have missing something on boot... If you now see ad4s2a but cannot boot, you most probably need 'bsdlabel -B /dev/ad4a2' to install the proper bootstrap code there (see bsdlabel manpage). - -- Nikola Lečić = Никола Лечић fingerprint : FEF3 66AF C90E EDC3 D878 7CDC 956D F4AB A377 1C9B -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v2.0.8 (FreeBSD) iJwEAQEDAAYFAkfcT9kACgkQ/MM/0rYIoZh6VAP/UtaQaQ97nfOC7HzHgTIvr8zQ ySi82qffZsqBqQtkZdSsBcfaUeMlC7Oxl5MmHYXY47DJVNzLUXDQhbgyGhWrfBBo 62bpZgaLu63lf1lgKV+er3OGIZe+i3b1jAFpYTAjYzt/CMiPHzAoByXoXIA9PFBV 6o+fKdD4F43emgpNRO4= =VmTq -END PGP SIGNATURE- ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: what is the meaning of optimization changed from TIME to SPACE
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: RIPEMD160 On Tue, 19 Feb 2008 10:21:18 -0500 Bill Moran [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [...] ivan dimitrov wrote: After upgrading from freebsd-5.5-R to 6.3-R, I get the following message in dmesg: /storage/pub/www/ram: optimization changed from TIME to SPACE [...] UFS normally optimizes file placement for performance. Unfortunately, in order to do this it has to write files in such a way that it sometimes wastes some space. When the partition gets close to full, FreeBSD automatically switches to space optimization which doesn't waste any space, but doesn't perform as well. The short answer is, This is happening because your partition is too close to full. It's not an error, but you should clean up some files or add space. It also has nothing to do with the difference between 5.5 and 6.3. It seems that man pages (such as newfs(8) and tunefs(8)) don't have a lot of details about this matter. OP can also read this very informative post regarding disk fragmentation and time/space optimisation: http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-stable/2007-April/034711.html Regards. - -- Nikola Lečić = Никола Лечић fingerprint : FEF3 66AF C90E EDC3 D878 7CDC 956D F4AB A377 1C9B -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v2.0.4 (FreeBSD) iQCVAwUBR7s+0fzDP9K2CKGYAQP7FQQAyrGPKIlbUCNPlasIpQJNAiJXYG7soOlG aj7ZpeL+Cnq/5EKT50TF9kc7tXvAOv9IrNsu6xg8QBe6gQVJJ/b56cKcZ48eC77y Pd+RXi/d1lweNZ9PSPqNpcsLvTrl/xnx4KOW7/E1jwFvufD01mgAsYDdVwa7KGrz Ky3Lv5ZlOLA= =5Thf -END PGP SIGNATURE- ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: what happened to linuxflashplugin?
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: RIPEMD160 On Mon, 11 Feb 2008 15:40:34 +0100 Heiko Wundram (Beenic) [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Read this (in the license agreement): ... For the avoidance of doubt, no embedded or device versions of the above operating systems, or any other operating systems, are included as Authorized Operating Systems. ... 2.1You may install and use the Software on a single desktop or laptop computer that runs an Authorized Operating System. A license for the Software may not be shared, installed or used concurrently on different computers. Actually, flash used to run on FreeBSD's Linux compatibility layer; does that count as embedded or device version of Linux? If yes, does the same go for Wine on FreeBSD? If yes again, what about Wine on Linux? Even on Linux, win32-firefox with win32-flash (within Wine) run much better than Linux-flash itself. This is another reason why Flash is bad, bad, bad. Am I repeating myself? Agree here, but open-source friendly companies that promote the use of flash are much worse. As it seems to be, the reason why people want to use flash on FreeBSD is youtube in most of cases. Best regards - -- Nikola Lečić = Никола Лечић fingerprint : FEF3 66AF C90E EDC3 D878 7CDC 956D F4AB A377 1C9B -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v2.0.4 (FreeBSD) iQCVAwUBR7BmnPzDP9K2CKGYAQNTvwQA08QlX32hlymb/p9L41STWZyh+c5e6f53 64RrvfB8ir7bu7WKHwFxTS8JNAkgTCD3GFw2fk4Gz1f/KcBAe2MT3bcLyiL8wVOw +nmMaHzusM/z6HR3WIcA4W1cwIpS4yXypBQiy6E+RLPOZBQHqMPddcBfcdEa2lpj 77VQrzBriJE= =Fnra -END PGP SIGNATURE- ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: what happened to linuxflashplugin?
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: RIPEMD160 On Mon, 11 Feb 2008 23:31:05 +0800 Erich Dollansky [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Nikola Lečić wrote: [...] Agree here, but open-source friendly companies that promote the use of flash are much worse. As it seems to be, the reason why people want to use flash on FreeBSD is youtube in most of cases. YouTube? Isn't the right spelling YouPorn? No, it isn't. If you find nothing worth watching on *You*Tube, it doesn't mean that others can't find interesting things. For example, I find there a lot of good and difficult-to-find material from some fields of art. (Can anybody comment on my questions regarding Wine and Linux compatibility layer...?) - -- Nikola Lečić = Никола Лечић fingerprint : FEF3 66AF C90E EDC3 D878 7CDC 956D F4AB A377 1C9B -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v2.0.4 (FreeBSD) iQCVAwUBR7CrUPzDP9K2CKGYAQPcigP/eQxtAKsCPdoQxnNxbj7ho5XZFbpzgkcJ B0jov5NBs7EPzaxWA7W5qM60MM7K6uPTkil1TbRnkaanH5JTiir04RbwaqNo1NBl 8ZtVaKp50UgBzDhKctYk5PRhDAP4+CTtGzCyzQ7z5H3R2dHVzh3ZiC/vTFGvL6w1 qq4yzpqbAe8= =OitZ -END PGP SIGNATURE- ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: is there a 2.3.x package for OO?
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: RIPEMD160 On Wed, 6 Feb 2008 18:44:29 -0800 Gary Kline [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wednesday 06 February 2008 15:37:18 Nikola Lečić wrote: On Wed, 6 Feb 2008 15:20:53 -0800 Gary Kline [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: To cut down my email I unsub'd to the OOo mailing list, so I'll ask here if there is a new package of the latest or near-latest that I can set off at night and have it installed by morning. Any exact URL's would be a great help. Hi Gary, The best place for the most recent information: http://porting.openoffice.org/freebsd/ A note: if you plan to install OOo-2.3.X packages from good-day.net on 6.X, you'll probably have to install gcc = 4.2 yourself. Best regards. Thanks Nikola. I just checked and found the latest is 2.3.0 -- and for 6.x, while I'm running 7.0-rcx. (*sigh*) Oops, it seems that FreeBSD porters forgot to announce new builds. It's obviously better to look directly on good-day.org... There are OOo-2.3.1 packages for FreeBSD-7.0/amd64: ftp://ooopackages.good-day.net/pub/OpenOffice.org/FreeBSD/ - -- Nikola Lečić = Никола Лечић fingerprint : FEF3 66AF C90E EDC3 D878 7CDC 956D F4AB A377 1C9B -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v2.0.4 (FreeBSD) iQCVAwUBR6tbVfzDP9K2CKGYAQOYtgQAoZHxkAbg6kMYSQLrThX7dIuH9koG4cJW wmpEpULWsYxiR+5CEtFKh9lbZGh7VWNzHL6lfTWxXTD0L72DAPKSpv+tv1gUBdYZ 8ah8ahrDuvGSRD4Ch6ThJ31xqiA6F11CQ/+7oeSLpXSy4JthzXw7NCFKY9ZsExJc IpHdIM9s3jc= =w+Ki -END PGP SIGNATURE- ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: is there a 2.3.x package for OO?
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: RIPEMD160 On Wed, 6 Feb 2008 15:20:53 -0800 Gary Kline [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: To cut down my email I unsub'd to the OOo mailing list, so I'll ask here if there is a new package of the latest or near-latest that I can set off at night and have it installed by morning. Any exact URL's would be a great help. Hi Gary, The best place for the most recent information: http://porting.openoffice.org/freebsd/ A note: if you plan to install OOo-2.3.X packages from good-day.net on 6.X, you'll probably have to install gcc = 4.2 yourself. Best regards. - -- Nikola Lečić = Никола Лечић fingerprint : FEF3 66AF C90E EDC3 D878 7CDC 956D F4AB A377 1C9B -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v2.0.4 (FreeBSD) iQCVAwUBR6pEy/zDP9K2CKGYAQMwhQQAgvyMbqCTqs/ZUhD75axajMqrLiyIksEN o4DA72Xhz4WzEXPB/mbz/MDRmiPQ8Obu6zHmyN5MthcAQbur8VrcqlxrVPq1sgq0 ZVgawDi60YZKkaqEcBsdm419PmGi//xuiBJ8rx1OkwJSgDFqgZBx9zNS36tUVWiV VFeUTZm5EnA= =2Y3z -END PGP SIGNATURE- ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: sysinstall and bsdlabel/boot
On Mon, 14 Jan 2008 21:57:49 -0800 Nerius Landys [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I was trying to install 7.0RC1 (hope it's OK to post this here, because I believe that older versions of FreeBSD have this same limitation) and came across a gotcha. I had an MBR on disk that I wanted to keep. It was Lilo and all it did was boot a selected slice, it was configured to function the same as FreeBSD's `boot0'. So, the install of FreeBSD came to the area where it asks what to do with the MBR. There are three choices: 1) boot manager, 2) simple MBR, and 3) do nothing. I chose to do nothing because I wanted to keep Lilo in the MBR. But, by choosing this option, I expected sysinstall to install the /boot/boot code to the beginning of the FreeBSD slice. Well, no such boot code was installed, apparently, unless I totally missed something. Basically, after the install, when I delegated Lilo to boot the chosen [FreeBSD] slice, it did not find any boot code on that slice. Have you configured lilo properly? In the past, I used to use something like this: other=/dev/hda2 table=/dev/hda loader=/boot/chain.b label=FreeBSD (Actually, you can delete loader=/boot/chain.b since FreeBSD and Linux share the same disk in your case -- and I assume you use lilo to dual-boot Linux and FreeBSD.) My workaround for this was to choose option 1) boot manager. I ended up using boot0 (the boot manager) which I feel is superior to Lilo because it is more modular, simpler. However, some users may not want this. I didn't find any option in sysinstall to install just the /boot/boot code to the beginning of the FreeBSD slice. Am I missing something? You don't have to go through sysinstall. Just for the case, reinstall bootstrap code of your FreeBSD slice (say, ad0s1): # bsdlabel -B /dev/ad0s1 (the code will come from /boot/boot by default), and then reinstall lilo from Linux, with the aforementioned configuration. Best regards. -- Nikola Lečić :: Никола Лечић ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: No spam???
On Tue, 15 Jan 2008 08:48:32 -0500 John Almberg [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The smtp log file has lots of entries like: 2008-01-14 09:30:37.074087500 rblsmtpd: 123.20.89.67 pid 72121: 451 http://www.spamhaus.org/query/bl?ip=123.20.89.67 2008-01-14 09:31:05.271514500 rblsmtpd: 58.227.241.97 pid 72122: 451 Dynamic IP Addresses See: http://www.sorbs.net/lookup.shtml? 58.227.241.97 2008-01-14 09:31:17.404943500 rblsmtpd: 41.196.155.56 pid 72123: 451 http://www.spamhaus.org/query/bl?ip=41.196.155.56 2008-01-14 09:31:18.304682500 rblsmtpd: 123.20.89.67 pid 72124: 451 http://www.spamhaus.org/query/bl?ip=123.20.89.67 So raises the same point that Oliver makes: how trustworthy are these blacklists? Search this lists' archives, you'll find that FreeBSD mail servers used to be blacklisted by Sorbs on several occasions in the past... In May 2007, after intervention, Sorbs man eventually admitted that they blacklisted FreeBSD server by accident: http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-ports/2007-May/041520.html Very trustworthy. :-) -- Nikola Lečić :: Никола Лечић ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: sysinstall and bsdlabel/boot
On Tue, 15 Jan 2008 08:52:26 -0800 Nerius Landys [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have Grub installed at the beginning of /dev/hda1, and Lilo [when I had it installed before changing it to `boot0'] passed control to Grub just fine when booting ``Ubuntu''. You can see that the logic for ``FreeBSD'' is identical except for the slice it uses. When choosing ``FreeBSD'' from the boot menu, nothing happened. This led me to conclude that /boot/boot as not installed at the beginning of /dev/hda2. I'd try adding loader=/boot/chain.b as well, just for the case... Yes, I figured using `bsdlabel' would install /boot/boot to the beginning of the slice. However, I cannot [easily] run `bsdlabel' without being booted into the FreeBSD OS. I can't run the OS without /boot/boot being installed to the beginning of the FreeBSD slice. Chicken and egg problem. Actually, I could probably run `bsdlabel' from the live disc, but a newbie [like myself] would probably have a hard time figuring this out. Yes, you can run in from live CD... P.S. I hope I'm doing the quoting thing ``properly'', not incorrectly. IMHO there is neither FreeBSD- nor Linux-specific mails, and there shouldn't be such thing. These mails are written in English, so it seems that neither of us is right: quotes should be “like this”, not like this or ``like this''. Best regards. -- Nikola Lečić :: Никола Лечић ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: mount vs mount_msdosfs - invalid file mode
On Fri, 04 Jan 2008 17:52:14 +1030 Ben Williams [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [...] The one I want to mount is drive. I can mount it properly with mount_msdosfs: [EMAIL PROTECTED] /mnt]# mount_msdosfs -m 666 -M 777 /dev/ad3s1 /mnt/drive But I'm not sure how to get mount to call mount_msdosfs with the right params: [EMAIL PROTECTED] /mnt]# mount -t msdosfs -v -o '-m 666 -M 777' /dev/ad3s1 /mnt/drive mount_msdosfs: invalid file mode: 666 -M 777 [...] Hello Ben, The right command would be: # mount -t msdosfs -v -o -m=666,-M=777 /dev/ad3s1 /mnt/drive According to mount(8) manpage: Any additional options specific to a file system type that is not one of the internally known types (see the -t option) may be passed as a comma separated list; these options are distinguished by a leading ``-'' (dash). Options that take a value are speci- fied using the syntax -option=value. This is on FreeBSD 6.2-RELEASE. I'm a bit of a newbie - this is my first FreeBSD install :) Welcome! :-) -- Nikola Lečić :: Никола Лечић ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Boot Menu Damaged
On Mon, 31 Dec 2007 01:17:51 -0500 E. J. Cerejo [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm running FreeBSD 6 stable and I lost my boot menu after reinstalling xp and tried to fix it by booting with instalation cd and run fdisk -B -b /boot/boot0 /dev/ad0 it restored it but when I boot I get the mountroot prompt, it fails to mount ad0s2a, b, c, d. Is it possible to fix this or do I have to reinstall freebsd? What does 'bsdlabel /dev/ad0s2' say? -- Nikola Lečić :: Никола Лечић ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Is it possible to mount OpenBSD FFS partitions in FreeBSD?
On Mon, 31 Dec 2007 11:58:17 +0100 Seth Brundle [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [...] # mount /dev/ad8s1a /mnt/ mount: /dev/ad8s1a : No such file or directory (I thought that the first -- and only -- partition on OpenBSD would show up as 'slice 1' on FreeBSD.) (The disk area occupied by OpenBSD is a slice, whilst BSD-style chunk(s) within are partitions.) Is it possible to mount it just with 'mount /dev/ad8s1 /mnt'? -- Nikola Lečić :: Никола Лечић ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Is it possible to mount OpenBSD FFS partitions in FreeBSD?
On Mon, 31 Dec 2007 12:16:50 +0100 Seth Brundle [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 2007/12/31, Nikola Lečić [EMAIL PROTECTED]: On Mon, 31 Dec 2007 11:58:17 +0100 Seth Brundle [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [...] # mount /dev/ad8s1a /mnt/ mount: /dev/ad8s1a : No such file or directory (I thought that the first -- and only -- partition on OpenBSD would show up as 'slice 1' on FreeBSD.) (The disk area occupied by OpenBSD is a slice, whilst BSD-style chunk(s) within are partitions.) Is it possible to mount it just with 'mount /dev/ad8s1 /mnt'? Thanks for your fast reply; # mount /dev/ad8s1 /mnt mount: /dev/ad8s1 : No such file or directory Also tried this before, doesn't work. The main problem for me is that I don't know the way the OpenBSD disc appears to FreeBSD, layout-wise. A ``disklabel ad8'' to have a peek also doesn't work: Ah sorry, I misunderstood you; the ad8 is dedicated to OpenBSD in its entirety? In that case I'm pretty sure that, in standard cases, it should be possible to mounted it as /dev/ad8. (Yes, you wrote that it's seen as wd2a from OpenBSD.) (Btw, what does 'ls /dev/ad*' show?) # disklabel ad8 disklabel: /dev/ad8: no valid label found This is expected, BSD labels are not compatible among BSDs: The various BSDs all use slightly different versions of BSD labels and are not generally compatible. (from bsdlabel(8) manpage). That's why you can't (by default) see BSD labels created by another BSD. However, I know that first partition of a NetBSD slice/disk can be mounted from FreeBSD _without_ partition-letter addition (e.g. ad8 will represent what you would expect to be ad8a -- it the disk is dedicated -- and ad8s1 will represent what you would expect to be ad8s1a -- if the disk is sliced), but maybe OpenBSD does something differently. -- Nikola Lečić :: Никола Лечић ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Is it possible to mount OpenBSD FFS partitions in FreeBSD?
On Mon, 31 Dec 2007 12:44:33 +0100 Seth Brundle [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: # ls /dev/ad* /dev/ad4/dev/ad4s1b /dev/ad4s1e /dev/ad6 /dev/ad4s1 /dev/ad4s1c /dev/ad4s1f /dev/ad6s4 /dev/ad4s1a /dev/ad4s1d /dev/ad4s1g /dev/ad8 Just for the record, 'mount /dev/ad8 /mnt' works? -- Nikola Lečić :: Никола Лечић ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: UTF-8 in Opera/FreeBSD
У среду, 26. децембра 2007. у 02:27:20 +0100 Svein Halvor Halvorsen [EMAIL PROTECTED] је написао(ла): I don't think it's a font issue. I have no trouble viewing æøå even in input fields--I have trouble /entering/ them. Hi Svein Halvor, I can't reproduce the behaviour you described (I'd agree that's not font problem: the fact that you need two deletes to remove æøå really looks like a Unicode handling problem). Four ideas: 1. try mail/linux-opera (it's exactly the same version) and see if the same wrong behaviour occurs in it as well 2. try to change locale (mine is en_US.UTF-8) 3. try a fresh start by removing ~/.opera 4. (less likely) try to remove ~/.qt Regards. -- Nikola Lečić :: Никола Лечић ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Partitions size for 80GB HDD and 2GB RAM
On Wed, 19 Dec 2007 17:17:50 -0800 Alexander Rudyk (Akvelon) [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi all I am planning to install FreeBSD 6.2 on my dell laptop with 80Gb HDD and 2GB RAM. FreeBSD will be the only OS on the laptop. Laptop will be used to web development (RubyOnRails), entertaiment (photo, music, video), web browsing and emailing, so no server side task will be handled. How you suggest to split 80GB between partitions to solve all laptop tasks. Here is partitions: /root /var /usr /home /swap Hi Alexander, You can find the recommendations regarding partition sizes in Allocating Disk Space chapter of the FreeBSD Handbook (http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/): http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/install-steps.html This means that your partition layout should be like this: / 512M swap 4096M (2x RAM) /tmp512M /var 1024M /usrrest /var's size depends, among other things, on how many logs you want to keep there (where they live by default); since your machine will not be a server, 512M should be ok. Please note that /var/db/, the default place for info about ports installed, occupies roughly 200M or more. /usr depends on how many applications you need to run. Please note that /usr is also the default place where applications will be compiled (inside /usr/ports) and where a lot of distfiles (sources) or (precompiled) packages will be stored, so huge upgrades can take a lot of place. [Some applications need ~500M (Firefox), ~1G (gcc42) or several gigabytes (OpenOffice) to compile. Distfiles can use 1-3G, depending on cleaning policy you choose.] Therefore, since you have 80G, it's not a bad idea to use /usr for /home as well (i.e. to have /usr only; home will be /usr/home, symlinked from /home). Otherwise, you can easily encounter too much (wasted) or too little free space on /usr. I've recently configured a laptop with the aforementioned partition sizes (with smaller swap). (Besides this, don't forget to read about the difference between dedicated and sliced disks in the Handbook.) Regards, -- Nikola Lečić :: Никола Лечић ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Partitions size for 80GB HDD and 2GB RAM
Apologies, two corrections: On Thu, 20 Dec 2007 19:56:36 +0100 Nikola Lečić [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [...] /var's size depends, among other things, on how many logs you want to keep there (where they live by default); since your machine will not be a server, 512M should be ok. Please note that /var/db/, the default correction: /var/db/pkg place for info about ports installed, occupies roughly 200M or more. ^ (/var/db) /var/db/pkg alone is smaller, count on up to 100M. -- Nikola Lečić :: Никола Лечић ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Partitions size for 80GB HDD and 2GB RAM
On Thu, 20 Dec 2007 11:26:41 -0800 Alexander Rudyk (Akvelon) [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Nikola, Thank you for your extender answer. I have two more comments. Did you consider /var as your email db partition. I really don’t know how big will be my mail db on freebsd, but after half of year I have about 4GB outlook mail db. So 1GB for /var might be not enough in my case. The hier(7) manpage is very useful to understand the default directory structure: http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=hierapropos=0sektion=0manpath=FreeBSD+6.2-RELEASEformat=html As for mail, it depends on how you plan to receive and handle it; if you just download mail from pop3 account, it will be stored in your home by a mail client (this goes as well for mail you export from Outlook to e.g. Thunderbird). For locally (system) delivered mail, /var/spool is the default place, but unless you want yo use your laptop as a mail server, it's unlikely you will store your mail there. Having /home as part of /usr is the good point. But in case of backup it make sense to have /home as separate partition. What you think about this? Of course it's very useful for backups. I just thought it was useful to warn you about how much space /usr/ports could need because the default installation procedure on FreeBSD is to compile sources (of thirs party applications and of FreeBSD itself). As a useful example on how much space you might need, here are rough sizes on my home desktop computer, used for everyday work. I have ~850 ports installed. /usr/ports~2G (with current distfiles and packages that happen to be there + you will need at least 2-3G for large upgrades, sometimes 10G) /usr/local~5G (third party applications + additions such as TeXLive = ~1G) /usr/home~20G - /usr total used: ~30G (includes FreeBSD itself + some other smaller storages) If you plan to build FreeBSD itself in the future, then /usr must be even bigger. If all this leaves enough room for /home for you, then it's certainly very useful to make it separate partition. -- Nikola Lečić :: Никола Лечић ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Lost FreeBSD slices (labels?) after NetBSD install -- please help!!
On Wed, 19 Dec 2007 03:54:00 +0100 Snow Mountains [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [...] Hello and thanks vry much for this response and because you pointed me to right direction - what to read! It took me some time to run this and to understand always what I am doing, but it seems to work! testdisk gives me sizes that 100% correspond with _partition_ (:)) proportions I remember (and some nonsenses about tiny FAT partition somewhere...). dlfind homepage was incredibly useful for me as newbie in creating BSD partition labels, and I created bsdlabel file, carefully calculated offsets, I am happy that former ad1s4a is mountable so that I can read /etc/fstab! Excellent! Just note that you don't need to calculate offsets; you can use asterisk (*) for all offsets from b: (swap) onward; and you can use * as the size of the last partition, too. However I have several questions just to be 100% sure. a. swap size: by an accident, I have written swapsize (from swapinfo) of 1024 1kb blocks; it is slightly different from what I get when I subtract all partition size from total slice's size (as testdisk reported). What I should trust? Use the value from swapinfo; swap is just that space (unlike sizes that you see in df(1) output: they are not sizes of partitions). The size of slice: you should anyway _first_ run 'bsdlabel-w /dev/ad1s4' -- it will write initial info and the value for c: will be the value you should use. b. Do I need just bsdlabel -R -e? You probably typoed, either '-R' or '-e' (= 'from file' or 'to edit directly'). However, I believe you should use '-B' as well, because bootstrap code was destroyed too, and you won't be able to boot FreeBSD even with recovered partitions. Is it safe to experiment? Yes, it is. If you write wrong data, it will just not work. Once you get mountable partitions, please fsck(8) them. c. What to write as fsize, bsize fsize and bsize are 2048 and 16384 if you used all defaults when installed FreeBSD (read newfs(8)). and bps/cpg? It is completly confusing for me, bps/cpg explanation from bsdlabel man page is unclear to me, I see that some people use all zeros and I can not find a clue in various examples... Hmm, yes... Actually, it seems that they can be calculated by comparing data obtained from 'bsdlabel -A /dev/ad1s4...' (look at the top of the output) and from particular 'newfs -N /dev/ad1s4X' (this command doesn't create new file system but just prints all data about how it would be created) -- but after recovery, of course. Read the entire thread that contains this: http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-questions/2004-January/031603.html However, I've never been able to find any info in the docs that exactly explains what algorithm newfs(8) uses for this field... Therefore I believe (although I'm not 100% sure) that the only way to get old bps/cpg data is to (1) dump(8) partitions once they work; (2) bsdlabel -e bps/cpg of these partitions to zeros; (3) recreate file systems there (this will write new (true) bps/cpg values); (4) restore(8) filesystems. However, if fsck(8) tells you that filesystems are clear once you recover them, I believe you don't have to worry about this. Maybe some filesystem guru can confirm. (According to this reputable source: http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2002/06/27/Big_Scary_Daemons.html last three values are actually ignored...) -- Nikola Lečić :: Никола Лечић ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Lost FreeBSD slices (labels?) after NetBSD install -- please help!!
Hello, On Fri, 14 Dec 2007 05:15:16 + Snow Mountains [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: People, I have FreeBSD install on 80G disk that looked like this: ad1s1 ~ 2.4G ad1s2 ~23.0G ad1s3 ~19.1G ad1s4 ~38.0G, FreeBSD partition, sliced like this: ^ ^^ (a note: the correct terminology is actually the opposite: these a...e are partitions, real BSD partitions. What is called partition in non-BSD world is a slice here; so: FreeBSD slice, (BSD-)partitioned/labelled like this...) ad1s4a / (507630 1K-blocks) ad1s4b swap ad1s4d /var ad1s4e /tmp ad1s4f /usr [...] However, FreeBSD is now unbootable!!! Then I loaded FreeSBIE (FreeBSD 6.2 live CD), tried 'boot0cfg -B /dev/ad1' (also with '-d 0x80'), but no help! Then I realized that ad1s4 slices are lost. This means: A) from FreeSBIE, there is only /dev/ad1s4, no a,b,d,e,f. If I do this: FreeSBIE# mount /dev/ad1s4 /mnt/ufs.4 this is former / (ad1s4a) and is of its size (~507M). This probably means that you unwillingly changed FreeBSD label of ad1s4 and it's most likely that NetBSD wrote its own instead. However, from the bsdlabel(8) manpage: The various BSDs all use slightly different versions of BSD labels and are not generally compatible. So, NetBSD didn't recognise FreeBSD's labels and understood entire ad1s4 as one partition; however, ad1s4's reality is that it begins with small / (lost ad1s4a) and that is what you see; the rest is just ignored. boot0cfg did nothing because NetBSD obviously deleted ad1s4 FreeBSD's bootstrap code as well. I can't reach other slices! However, it gives me hope that NetBSD's slices are also invisible, although working from within itself: FreeSBIE# mount /dev/ad1s1 /mnt/ufs.1 gives also small NetBSD's / (its wd0a), not /usr etc. The same reason as above. [...] Please help me to recover my FreeBSD system. If I lost my data (ok, I understand they are buried, not erased), please tell me that gently. :-( That's why I think that you haven't lost any data. You must however re-create bsdlabel table on ad1s4. Since you didn't mention that you have a backup of bsdlabel (do you? :-)), you must recover it. There are two small utilities designed for this purpose, dlfind and ffsrescue: http://www.42.org/~sec/resources/disklabel.html http://www.leidinger.net/FreeBSD/ffsrescue.tar.gz but they don't recognise UFS2 beginning marks (only UFS1 ones). However, I tested sysutils/testdisk and it recognised UFS2 labels on my healthy slices perfectly, so there is no reason that it can't help you, since it simply analyses slice contents. This utility is not part of FreeSBIE, but I think that you can just download ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/ports/i386/packages-6.2-release/sysutils/testdisk-6.3.tbz Then untar it in ~freesbie and run the binary. Just do this: ./testdisk /dev/ad1s4 and choose non partitioned in the second menu. Please note that testdisk will not recognise your swap. Then please try to compare results (given in 512k-blocks) to what you remember about partition sizes. If it gives you reasonable proportions, then re-creating a bsdlabel shouldn't be a big problem. So please take these actions and if the aforementioned assumptions are correct and you obtain some useful info, we shall continue. :-) -- Nikola Lečić :: Никола Лечић ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: setxkbmap dosn't work (with KDE)
У суботу, 8. децембра 2007. у 16:08:17 -0800 Yuri [EMAIL PROTECTED] је написао(ла): I am trying to enable some key combination to switch between keyboard layouts. Command 'setxkbmap -option grp:alts_toggle' is supposed to enable layout switching by both alts. But alts don't do anything after it. Same with 'setxkbmap -option grp:caps_toggle'. setxkbmap is from setxkbmap-1.0.4. This must be a bug somewhere. Anyone also experiences this problem? Hello Yuri, have you checked it without KDE? And what is the output of % setxkbmap -v 10 and then of % setxkbmap -option '' -v 10 % setxkbmap -option grp:alts_toggle -v 10 ? -- Nikola Lečić :: Никола Лечић ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Finding and installing new locale
У уторак, 28. новембра 2007 у 17:24:47, Westin Shafer [EMAIL PROTECTED] је написао(ла): Thanks for the info. I had not seen that doc. However localedef and makelocale are not valid commands. I also checked out the port tree and these tools are not located there either. Are these Linux specific commands? The command is mklocale(1). id_ID locale(s) are not included in FreeBSD. If you have correct LC_* files, you should talk to FreeBSD team member responsible for l10n, (which is, according to http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/articles/contributors/staff-who.html Andrey) about official inclusion. I also suggest you to use [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list for that purpose. Beside this, please don't forget that, if you just need Indonesian translations of userland applications, you can just install appropriate ports, for example: misc/kde3-i18n-idIndonesian messages and documentation for KDE3 textproc/id-aspell Aspell Indonesian dictionary Finally, you might find this page useful: http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/l10n.html Best regards. -- Nikola Lečić :: Никола Лечић ___ 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 see UNICODE character number?
On Wed, 14 Nov 2007 11:51:06 -0800 Yuri [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: But it's still strange that there's no GUI utility in KDE or just X that would do it. There are at least two very convenient GUI ways do to this: (1) (g)ViM: assuming that you use UTF-8 to interptet Unicode and that your locale is properly set (xx_XX-UTF-8), you can paste the character (i.e.) „來“, point the cursor over it, and then: * key sequence 'ga' will return '來 20358, Hex 4f86, Octal 47606'; * key sequence 'g8' will return 'e4 be 86' (actual bytes used to produce that letter; * key sequence '[Ctrl+v]u4f86' will print „來“ (in Insert mode). (2) deskutils/gucharmap: GTK2 application, doesn't pull many Gnome dependencies, has highly professionally made database. 'View - Find - 來 - Character details' will provide you with the following: U+4F86 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-4F86 General Character Properties Unicode category: Letter, Other Various Useful Representations UTF-8: 0xE4 0xBE 0x86 UTF-16: 0x4F86 C octal escaped UTF-8: \344\276\206 XML decimal entity: #20358; CJK Ideograph Information Definition in English: come, coming; return, returning Mandarin Pronunciation: LAI2 LAI4 Cantonese Pronunciation: lai4 loi4 loi6 Japanese On Pronunciation: RAI Japanese Kun Pronunciation: KURU Tang Pronunciation: *ləi ləi Korean Pronunciation: LAY Greetings. -- Nikola Lečić :: Никола Лечић ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
