Open Office Install
While trying in install Open Office the install choked at one point and I received this error message: snip Entering /usr/tmp/usr/ports/editors/openoffice.org-3/work/OOO330_m20/sw/uiconfig/layout Entering /usr/tmp/usr/ports/editors/openoffice.org-3/work/OOO330_m20/sw/qa/unoapi Entering /usr/tmp/usr/ports/editors/openoffice.org-3/work/OOO330_m20/sw/util sw deliver 1 module(s): sc need(s) to be rebuilt Reason(s): ERROR: error 65280 occurred while making /usr/tmp/usr/ports/editors/openoffice.org-3/work/OOO330_m20/sc/source/filter/xml Attention: if you fix the errors in above module(s) you may prolongue your the build issuing command: build --from sc *** Error code 1 Stop in /usr/ports/editors/openoffice.org-3. snip Apparently I can pick up the build by using build --from sc, but I'm not sure how to incorporate that into a command, and would appreciate a heads up on that. Thanks... Rem ___ 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
Printer Offline
I have a printer, which was installed and is working under CUPS, that seems to go offline of its own accord. And when that happens I have found no other option than to reboot. I know, I know...you should never have to reboot, but that's the only thing that seems to work. When I check out localhost:631 everything looks good, and all the uncompleted jobs are there patiently waiting to get processed. But, as I said, the jobs can't get done without a reboot. When I do reboot, just before the login prompt shows up, the printer jumps into action and all of the uncompleted jobs get processed. I should also point out that immediately after reboot the printer works flawlessly, printing on demand. It is only after being idle for a while that it just seems to go offline, without any warning. Rem ___ 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: Printer Offline
On 2011.03.05 14:40:56 +, Warren Block wrote: On Sat, 5 Mar 2011, Rem P Roberti wrote: I have a printer, which was installed and is working under CUPS, that seems to go offline of its own accord. And when that happens I have found no other option than to reboot. I know, I know...you should never have to reboot, but that's the only thing that seems to work. When I check out localhost:631 everything looks good, and all the uncompleted jobs are there patiently waiting to get processed. But, as I said, the jobs can't get done without a reboot. When I do reboot, just before the login prompt shows up, the printer jumps into action and all of the uncompleted jobs get processed. I should also point out that immediately after reboot the printer works flawlessly, printing on demand. It is only after being idle for a while that it just seems to go offline, without any warning. The model of printer and how it is connected are likely important. First guess would be power-save shuts down the printer and it's not being woken up again. CUPS has an lpstat program which may be able to tell you something useful about the state of the printer. Thanks for the reply. The printer is an HP Photosmart 9180, connected to ulpt0, which cannot be toggled online/offline. The printer is designed to remain on full time, and has maintenance routines that it goes through every 24 hrs. If you turn it off and then turn it back on again it goes through a long set of diagnostic routines. I'm not sure how to avail myself of the lpstat program, but I shall read the man pages and see what I can come up with. Rem ___ 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
Webkit-gtk2 upgrade
When I attempt to upgrade Webkit-gtk2 the upgrade chokes with this message: CC WebKit/gtk/tests/Programs_unittests_testwebview-test_utils.o CCLD Programs/unittests/testwebview CC WebKit/gtk/tests/Programs_unittests_testkeyevents-testkeyevents.o CCLD Programs/unittests/testkeyevents cp ./WebKit/gtk/JSCore-1.0.gir ./ GENWebKit-1.0.gir /usr/local/share/gir-1.0/Soup-2.4.gir: Incompatible version 1.0 (supported: 1.2) gmake[1]: *** [WebKit-1.0.gir] Error 1 gmake[1]: Leaving directory `/usr/tmp/usr/ports/www/webkit-gtk2/work/webkit-1.2.7' gmake: *** [all] Error 2 *** Error code 1 Stop in /usr/ports/www/webkit-gtk2. The problem seem to be this incompatible version of /usr/local/share/gir-1.0. I'd like a heads up on how I can bring this up to the supported 1.2 version. Thanks... Rem ___ 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
Cups upgrade failure
Can someone give me a heads up on why this portupgrade failed. Here is the error message I received: tor -o rastertoescpx rastertoescpx.o -L. -lcupsdriver \ -lcupsimage -lcups -pthread -lm -lcrypt cc: Internal error: Segmentation fault: 11 (program ld) Please submit a full bug report. See URL:http://gcc.gnu.org/bugs.html for instructions. gmake[1]: *** [rastertoescpx] Error 1 gmake[1]: Leaving directory `/usr/tmp/usr/ports/print/cups-base/work/cups-1.4.6/ river' gmake: *** [all] Error 1 *** Error code 1 Stop in /usr/ports/print/cups-base. ** Command failed [exit code 1]: /usr/bin/script -qa /tmp/portupgrade20110221-61 1-11s32sw-0 env UPGRADE_TOOL=portupgrade UPGRADE_PORT=cups-base-1.4.6_1 UPGRADE_ ORT_VER=1.4.6_1 make ** Fix the problem and try again. ** Listing the failed packages (-:ignored / *:skipped / !:failed) ! print/cups-base (cups-base-1.4.6_1) (segmentation fault) Thanks... Rem ___ 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: Cups upgrade failure
Can someone give me a heads up on why this portupgrade failed. Here is the error message I received: tor -o rastertoescpx rastertoescpx.o -L. -lcupsdriver \ -lcupsimage -lcups -pthread -lm -lcrypt cc: Internal error: Segmentation fault: 11 (program ld) ld crashed. If it is not reproducible, you likely have a hardware issue like overheating. If it is reproducible, include the full command (you've truncated too much output) and retry running ld under gdb to see why it is crashing. Smooth sailing the second time I tried the portupgrade. Could very well be a hardware issue. Rem ___ 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: Stuck
NOTE: Slightly OT, but figured it was worth the post. As a side-note, the config-file will be cleaned up before being embedded into the kernel. Meaning config -x `sysctl -n kern.bootfile` will rarely ever match the config that was used to generate the kernel in the first place. Specifically, comments are removed, and if you've nested configs using the include statement, redundant and/or conflicting directives will be consolidated. If you instead wish to embed the kernel config AS-IS, comments and structure remaining in-tact, you should instead: cd /sys/ARCH/conf config -C -g CONFIG NOTE: `/sys' ought to be a symbolic link to `/usr/src/sys' NOTE: ARCH is to be replaced with something like i386, amd64, etc. NOTE: CONFIG is to be replaced with something like GENERIC, PAE, MYCUSTOMKERNELCONFIG, etc. Then one simply does the following to compile the kernel: cd ../../compile/CONFIG make depend make BUT... then again not everybody: a. compiles their own custom kernels b. uses a custom config c. needs to be able to extract the config verbatim from the compiled kernel YNMV (Your Needs May Vary). -- Devin Not off topic at all, and much appreciated. A lot of what has been offered as a result of my OP is a bit over my head at this stage of the game, but much isn't. I'm gaining on it! Cheers... Rem ___ 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
Redux
I need to ask this question again in the hopes that something will come of it. In the process of going through an update (I finally got that sorted out) all of my partitions were renamed. Here they are: Filesystem 1K-blocks Used Avail Capacity Mounted on /dev/label/rootfs0507630 326734 140286 70% / devfs 1 1 0 100%/dev /dev/label/var0 1012974 170386 761552 18% /var /dev/label/usr0 33292236 9358560 21270298 31% /usr linprocfs 4 4 0 100%/usr/compat/linux/proc /dev/md0789518 16 726342 0% /tmp As you can see, root, which was once /dev/ad0s1a, is now /dev/label/rootfs0, and /var, which was once /dev/ad0s1d, is now /dev/label/var0. Along with these changes the /etc/fstab was automatically modified to allow the boot process to take place. Can someone give me a heads up as to what is going on here. Rem ___ 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: Redux
On Mon, 14 Feb 2011 15:38:28 -0800, Rem P Robertir...@remdog.net wrote: I need to ask this question again in the hopes that something will come of it. In the process of going through an update (I finally got that sorted out) all of my partitions were renamed. Here they are: Filesystem 1K-blocks Used Avail Capacity Mounted on /dev/label/rootfs0507630 326734 140286 70% / devfs 1 1 0 100%/dev /dev/label/var0 1012974 170386 761552 18% /var /dev/label/usr0 33292236 9358560 21270298 31% /usr linprocfs 4 4 0 100%/usr/compat/linux/proc /dev/md0789518 16 726342 0% /tmp As you can see, root, which was once /dev/ad0s1a, is now /dev/label/rootfs0, and /var, which was once /dev/ad0s1d, is now /dev/label/var0. Along with these changes the /etc/fstab was automatically modified to allow the boot process to take place. Can someone give me a heads up as to what is going on here. Seems that you - or something - did make the switch from device names to labels. Maybe your kernel now includes GEOM functionality for work with labels? But I don't know of a process that changes /etc/fstab automatically... You can still use the device names for the /etc/fstab entries, you just need to make sure that you select the correct names (as you described above). Then there should be no problem as labels are optional. Honestly, I certainly didn't make the change from device names to labels. I wouldn't know how to do that, although I gather from what you've said that the kernel config file contains that information. I'm not sure, however, what you mean when you say that I can still use the device names, as the system will not boot unless fstab has in it the entries shown above. Rem ___ 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: Redux
I need to ask this question again in the hopes that something will come of it. In the process of going through an update (I finally got that sorted out) all of my partitions were renamed. Here they are: Filesystem 1K-blocks Used Avail Capacity Mounted on /dev/label/rootfs0507630 326734 140286 70% / devfs 1 1 0 100%/dev /dev/label/var0 1012974 170386 761552 18% /var /dev/label/usr0 33292236 9358560 21270298 31% /usr linprocfs 4 4 0 100%/usr/compat/linux/proc /dev/md0789518 16 726342 0% /tmp As you can see, root, which was once /dev/ad0s1a, is now /dev/label/rootfs0, and /var, which was once /dev/ad0s1d, is now /dev/label/var0. Along with these changes the /etc/fstab was automatically modified to allow the boot process to take place. Can someone give me a heads up as to what is going on here. Seems that you - or something - did make the switch from device names to labels. Maybe your kernel now includes GEOM functionality for work with labels? But I don't know of a process that changes /etc/fstab automatically... You can still use the device names for the /etc/fstab entries, you just need to make sure that you select the correct names (as you described above). Then there should be no problem as labels are optional. Honestly, I certainly didn't make the change from device names to labels. I wouldn't know how to do that, although I gather from what you've said that the kernel config file contains that information. I'm not sure, however, what you mean when you say that I can still use the device names, as the system will not boot unless fstab has in it the entries shown above. FreeBSD is wonderful, don't get me wrong, but it is not magical. Partitions don't just accrue labels and /etc/fstab doesn't edit itself. Are you running PCBSD? LOL! No, I'm running FreeBSD 8.1. I know that this all sounds too odd, but I swear that I never messed with renaming the partitions with labels. If you check back a few days you will see that I was having trouble with an update, and that's where all of this happened. Anyway, if you want to go back to device names in the /dev/ad0s1[a-g] scheme you can extract the correct names with: geom label list (you might want to pipe it into a pager) then edit your /etc/fstab accordingly and reboot. Although, why bother really? The label names may come in handy if you have to move the hdd to another machine to extract the information, or for various other reasons. To tell the truth, I'm content to leave things as they are, but unfortunately one of the side effects of all this is that I can't figure out how create and entry in the fstab which will again allow me to mount my other hard drive. The former fstab entry for that was: /dev/ad1s1 /c ntfsrw 1 0 But now with labels active I really don't know how to proceed. Rem ___ 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: Stuck
On 02/13/11 09:01, Robert Huff wrote: Rem Roberti writes: This is a new one for me. I decided to do a manual update on my 8.1 box, starting with csup. Buildworld went fine, as did buildkernel. However, when I tried to install the new kernel installkernel choked with an error message telling me that it could not proceed because the root partition was full. What! I did a df and sure enough the root partition was overloaded. When I installed the system I used sysinstalls recommended sizes for the root partion, which is around 10G. Anyway, when I rebooted, the system rebooted into single user mode, and that is presently where I stand. I have no idea how to proceed at this point, and would appreciate any help in fixing this. Of course, I smell a newbie type error in all of this, but haven't quite figured out where I went wrong. Start with this: du -x / | sort -nr | head -n 30 This will give you the largest directories; if any of them don't look right - investigate further. (For comparison: the root directory on this machine is 2 gbytes, of which I use 1.1. 10 gbytes is a lot of space I completely misspoke, having confused the hard drive in question with another box. This drive is a 40G drive, of which 500MB was allotted for root. When I ran your command I noticed the /boot/kernel.old was very large, so I moved the whole thing over to my home directory, which finally allowed me to boot the computer normally. This was an intuitive move, and probably not that kosher, but it worked. But where do we go from here? Rem ___ 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: Stuck
Rem Roberti writes: This is a new one for me. I decided to do a manual update on my 8.1 box, starting with csup. Buildworld went fine, as did buildkernel. However, when I tried to install the new kernel installkernel choked with an error message telling me that it could not proceed because the root partition was full. What! I did a df and sure enough the root partition was overloaded. When I installed the system I used sysinstalls recommended sizes for the root partion, which is around 10G. Anyway, when I rebooted, the system rebooted into single user mode, and that is presently where I stand. I have no idea how to proceed at this point, and would appreciate any help in fixing this. Of course, I smell a newbie type error in all of this, but haven't quite figured out where I went wrong. Start with this: du -x / | sort -nr | head -n 30 This will give you the largest directories; if any of them don't look right - investigate further. (For comparison: the root directory on this machine is 2 gbytes, of which I use 1.1. 10 gbytes is a lot of space I completely misspoke, having confused the hard drive in question with another box. This drive is a 40G drive, of which 500MB was allotted for root. When I ran your command I noticed the /boot/kernel.old was very large, so I moved the whole thing over to my home directory, which finally allowed me to boot the computer normally. This was an intuitive move, and probably not that kosher, but it worked. But where do we go from here? Remove all the *.symbols files (if you're not going to be debugging). Build with makeoptions DEBUG=-g commented out of your kernel config. (my root filesystem has 70M used. On amd64, no less) Getting rid of all those .symbols files made a big difference. Where do I locate the kernel config file? Rem ___ 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: Stuck
Remove all the *.symbols files (if you're not going to be debugging). Build with makeoptions DEBUG=-g commented out of your kernel config. (my root filesystem has 70M used. On amd64, no less) I knew that I asked a dumb question when I asked where to find the kernel config. OK...I commented out the section in question, and we'll see how it goes. Rem ___ 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: Stuck
I'm back in business, and the update finished without any more problems. However...the output of df is now really strange: root@ /etc: df Filesystem 1K-blocks Used Avail Capacity Mounted on /dev/label/rootfs0 507630326732 140288 70% / devfs 1 1 0 100%/dev /dev/label/var0 1012974 173368 758570 19% /var /dev/label/usr0 33292236 9351168 21277690 31% /usr linprocfs 4 4 100%/usr/compat/linux/proc /dev/md0 789518 20 726338 0%/tmp What happened to the Filesystem labels? Rem ___ 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: Stuck
On 02/13/11 10:44, Polytropon wrote: On Sun, 13 Feb 2011 10:31:24 -0800, Rem P Robertiremeg...@comcast.net wrote: Getting rid of all those .symbols files made a big difference. Where do I locate the kernel config file? It is /usr/src/sys/i386/conf/NAME or /usr/src/sys/amd64/conf/NAME depending on your architecture; GENERIC is the name of the default kernel (which doesn't require KERNCONF=NAME in the make commands). Yes...I realized that I had asked a rather dumb question. I made the changes and all worked fine. I still can't figure out why the output of df looks the way it does. Re, ___ 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: Why can't I install icu?
Le Thu, 03 Feb 2011 22:15:09 -0800,
Rem P Robertiremeg...@comcast.net a écrit :
Icu is a necessary dependency for Gimp, but I can't get it to
install. I checked UPDATING and it states that icu4 is now
deprecated, and one should install /devel/icu. But when I try to do
that the file that is downloaded is icu4c, and the install goes along
until it chokes with this error message:
SUMMARY:
*** [Total error count: 1]
Errors in
[/tsformat/ccaltst/TestCalendar]
Elapsed Time: 00:00:48.205
*** Error code 1
Stop in /usr/ports/devel/icu.
Very frustrating. I need to get Gimp onto my computer, and I can
install it as a package, but if I try to upgrade the program the
upgrade always chokes on icu at the same place, and with the same
error message.
Are you using a locale? I've been hit in the past with bugs in the
ICU tests suite when using fr_FR.
It is just an idea... Regards.
Interesting. When I installed 8.1 I naturally set my local area (west
coast US) for the time zone. Is that what you refer to? I also
scrolled further up the test list and found this, which is apparently
where the test is failing:
tsformat {
ccaltst {
TestCalendar {
!!FAIL: ucal_getDefaultTimeZone() = U_BUFFER_OVERFLOW_ERROR
} ---[1 ERRORS in /tsformat/ccaltst/TestCalendar] (13ms)
Cheers...
Rem
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Re: Scanner recommendation
Now that I understand how to get a scanner working, if there are any photographers out there who are using scanners with FreeBSD for negatives or slides I would love to hear a recommendation. I have an Epson V500, but it is unsupported, and the only scanner that I have that is supported is an old HP Scanjet 3970, which is a poor scanner for doing negatives or slides. On Linux I'm very satisfied with VueScan (having Epson V700) which is, imho, much better than all the free-source tools, but wonder whether it works via Linux emulation? I use Vuescan with Windoze, and you are right, it is infinitely better than any free source software. However, it is not available for use with FreeBSD. Rem ___ 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: Why can't I install icu?
*NO* he's refering to the _locale_, not the timezone. They're totally separate and unrelated concepts. Locale is a means for specifying a bunch of national/regional things. like what the currency symbol (dollar-, pound-, euro-, yen-, whatever-sign) is, whether one uses ',' or '.' for marking off thousands multiples in large numbers, whether one uses ',' or '.' for the 'decimal point', etc., etc. The way the U.S. does things is the default, so you'd probably never need to set the locale. do an 'apropos locale', and read the manpages for the 'non-X' and 'non-perl' items and you'll have the basis for an understanding of locale referenes. Got it. Another new learn. Still no luck installing /devel/icu. Rem ___ 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: Why can't I install icu?
Try again, with a clean build, after having made sure that you've removed all remnants of the earlier icu versions; and make a transcript of the build: pkg_delete -fv icu2-* icu-* script /tmp/icu.log make -C /usr/ports/devel/icu deinstall clean install exit If the problem still occurs, then you should file a problem report: http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/articles/problem-reports/article.html Make sure you attach the config.log from the failed build (look for it in the work directory of the port before cleaning up), as well as the transcript (/tmp/icu.log) of the failed build. If there aren't any pre-built binary packages of the latest versions of icu and gimp available, and you don't want to wait for them to be produced, or for the problem to be fixed; and (as apparently is the case) the build is working, but only the post-build tests are failing; then first disable the tests and then try to build and install icu. You can do that by editing the port Makefile and commenting-out the following line: post-build test regression-test: iotest cintltst intltest (Of course, this change will probably be wiped out each time you update your ports tree.) b. Thank you for your excellent, detailed instructions. I have followed them to the letter. The build did not make after doing a pkg_delete and deinstall, so I sent a pr-send with a copy of the icu.log and config.log. BTW, the build failed at the same place it always has---during the test. I went ahead and commented out the suggested line in the Makefile and the install took place as expected. I realize that during subsequent upgrades I will have to do the same drill. Thanks again for your help. Cheers... Rem ___ 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
Running Xsane as user
Boy, this kind of problem has been following around lately. When I attempt to start Xsane as user I get an error message telling me No device available. One of the help options states that the permissions for the device file may not allow its use---try as root. Naturally, when I start the program as root it recognizes the scanner and works perfectly. But I sure don't want to run this program as root. I thought that I had all of my permissions taken care of in /etc/devfs.conf, but apparently I don't. Either that or it really isn't a permissions problem to begin with, in which case I'm not sure where to start looking for a solution. Rem ___ 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: Running Xsane as user
Boy, this kind of problem has been following around lately. When I attempt to start Xsane as user I get an error message telling me No device available. One of the help options states that the permissions for the device file may not allow its use---try as root. Naturally, when I start the program as root it recognizes the scanner and works perfectly. But I sure don't want to run this program as root. I thought that I had all of my permissions taken care of in /etc/devfs.conf, but apparently I don't. Either that or it really isn't a permissions problem to begin with, in which case I'm not sure where to start looking for a solution. The file devfs.conf is only for devices that are connected at boot. For devices like USB that are plugged in after booting, you should use devfs.rules. Read the manpages for devfs.conf and devfs.rules. I've got the following in my /etc/devfs.rules for USB devices; add path 'usb/*' mode 0660 group usb add path 'ugen*' mode 0660 group usb Of course my user-id is in the usb group. If you trust all users of the system then 'mode 0666' would suffice, and you don't need to use a special group. Roland Yep...I was a bit quick on the trigger. Object lesson: IT PAYS TO READ THE HANDBOOK!:-) But thank you for responding. Once I created the usb group and put the appropriate entries in /etc/devfs.rules all was well. This was a good learn for me, however, since I now understand the difference between devfs.conf and devfs.rules. Cheers... Rem ___ 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
Scanner recommendation
Now that I understand how to get a scanner working, if there are any photographers out there who are using scanners with FreeBSD for negatives or slides I would love to hear a recommendation. I have an Epson V500, but it is unsupported, and the only scanner that I have that is supported is an old HP Scanjet 3970, which is a poor scanner for doing negatives or slides. Cheers... Rem ___ 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
Why can't I install icu?
Icu is a necessary dependency for Gimp, but I can't get it to install. I checked UPDATING and it states that icu4 is now deprecated, and one should install /devel/icu. But when I try to do that the file that is downloaded is icu4c, and the install goes along until it chokes with this error message: SUMMARY: *** [Total error count: 1] Errors in [/tsformat/ccaltst/TestCalendar] Elapsed Time: 00:00:48.205 *** Error code 1 Stop in /usr/ports/devel/icu. Very frustrating. I need to get Gimp onto my computer, and I can install it as a package, but if I try to upgrade the program the upgrade always chokes on icu at the same place, and with the same error message. Anyone? Rem ___ 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: Opening Opera as user
I installed linux-opera, and I guess I made a mistake by opening it the first time as root, when I should have opened as user. At any rate, I can now only open the browser as root, and when I do I get this message: opera: $HOME set to /root. Use -personaldir if you do not want to use /root/.opera/ Don't focus on this because you shouldn't be running it as root at all. What actually happens when you try to run it as an normal user? Nothing. No error messages. The program will simply not open at all if I try to do so as user. Rem ___ 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: Opening Opera as user
Just wanted to mention that Flash works fine for me with native Opera and the opera-linuxplugins port. So did you install linux-Opera from the port? I haven't run linux-Opera on FreeBSD in a while (I run it in Linux:), so I don't recall - is the binary called opera or linux-opera? Jud I always start x as user. I learned early on not to make the mistake of starting X as root. I use Fluxbox with X, and had a terminal window open there with root invoked for that window. That's when I first tried to open linux-opera. Naturally, it opened fine, but will not open if I try to do the same thing from a terminal window as user. I would like to set up Opera to open from the Fluxbox menu, but in order for that to happen the program needs to be opened as user, which is just what I can't do. I'm not an opera user so maybe there's a reason I'm not aware of, but why are you using linux-opera and not the native version? You can try to run it under truss(1) to see if that gives any clues as where it's failing. The reason that I installed linux-opera, as opposed to the native version, is that all of the linux plugins seem to work quite well with this version. Flash, for example, works beautifully, which is something that I have never had success using with any other browser and FreeBSD. Rem I installed the program from the ports. And, yes, the binary is called linux-opera. If I can't figure out why the program refuses to open as user I will probably do a pkg_delete and start over, especially since you seem to have the plug-ins working fine with the native program. Rem ___ 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: Opening Opera as user
When you run whereis linux-opera as root, what is the result ( other than the port directory)? Jud whereis linux-opera linux-opera: /usr/local/bin/linux-opera /usr/local/man/man1/linux-opera.1.gz /usr/ports/www/linux-opera Rem ___ 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: Opening Opera as user
Right place, so all I can figure is when you initially ran it, the .opera or .linux-opera folder, whichever it is, was put in /root instead of /home/$USER. Looking as root or super-user, got such a folder in /root? Jud Nope...that was the weird thing. There was nothing in /root that referred to either opera or linux-opera. But the problem is now moot. I deleted the linux-opera package and installed the native opera package along with linux-operaplugins and everything seems to be working fine. Rem ___ 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
Opening Opera as user
I installed linux-opera, and I guess I made a mistake by opening it the first time as root, when I should have opened as user. At any rate, I can now only open the browser as root, and when I do I get this message: opera: $HOME set to /root. Use -personaldir if you do not want to use /root/.opera/ Can someone give me a heads up on how to fix this, as the above message is a mystery to me. Thank you! Rem ___ 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: Opening Opera as user
On Tue, Feb 1, 2011 at 6:17 PM, Rem P Robertiremeg...@comcast.net wrote: I installed linux-opera, and I guess I made a mistake by opening it the first time as root, when I should have opened as user. At any rate, I can now only open the browser as root, and when I do I get this message: opera: $HOME set to /root. Use -personaldir if you do not want to use /root/.opera/ Can someone give me a heads up on how to fix this, as the above message is a mystery to me. Most likely, it is trying to use /root/.opera for your profile and is crashing early in the startup because the regular user can't write there. I would save any bookmarks or other useful items and then delete the folder. I haven't run into this in FreeBSD but you can get similar problems in Windows if a global profile is created in C:\Program Files\Opera by an administrator. That's interesting. The problem is that there is no /root/.opera folder. As a matter of fact there doesn't seem to be any folders at all that refer to the linux-opera browser, in my /home/user directory, or anywhere else. So I have no idea where the program is storing the profile info. Rem ___ 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: Opening Opera as user
Could you post your environment variables? btw. how do you login / start x? (eg login in the console and use startx, or using any login manager like xdm, kdm, gdm, slim...) Armin On Tue, Feb 1, 2011 at 6:17 PM, Rem P Robertiremeg...@comcast.net wrote: I installed linux-opera, and I guess I made a mistake by opening it the first time as root, when I should have opened as user. At any rate, I can now only open the browser as root, and when I do I get this message: opera: $HOME set to /root. Use -personaldir if you do not want to use /root/.opera/ Can someone give me a heads up on how to fix this, as the above message is a mystery to me. Most likely, it is trying to use /root/.opera for your profile and is crashing early in the startup because the regular user can't write there. I would save any bookmarks or other useful items and then delete the folder. I haven't run into this in FreeBSD but you can get similar problems in Windows if a global profile is created in C:\Program Files\Opera by an administrator. That's interesting. The problem is that there is no /root/.opera folder. As a matter of fact there doesn't seem to be any folders at all that refer to the linux-opera browser, in my /home/user directory, or anywhere else. So I have no idea where the program is storing the profile info. Rem I log in directly from the console using 'startx'. And I hate to sound really ignorant, but I'm still pretty much a newbie and not sure where the environment variables are found. Rem ___ 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: Opening Opera as user
On Wed, Feb 2, 2011 at 12:14 AM, Rem P Roberti remeg...@comcast.net mailto:remeg...@comcast.net wrote: I log in directly from the console using 'startx'. And I hate to sound really ignorant, but I'm still pretty much a newbie and not sure where the environment variables are found. You should be doing this step as your normal user, not root if that is what you are doing. Otherwise whatever you run from X with start as root. If you see a '#' at the end of your prompt, it's a root prompt. You may find it easier to follow the handbook's guide on desktop environments using the auto startup methods. Some of the DE prevent you from logging in as root so you wouldn't have been able to run into this issue. If you do plan on using this as a desktop system, a desktop environment can make things easier anyway. You can always drop down to a console if needed but most of the time it's a lot more convient to use the DE's terminal or konsole or whatever. I always start x as user. I learned early on not to make the mistake of starting X as root. I use Fluxbox with X, and had a terminal window open there with root invoked for that window. That's when I first tried to open linux-opera. Naturally, it opened fine, but will not open if I try to do the same thing from a terminal window as user. I would like to set up Opera to open from the Fluxbox menu, but in order for that to happen the program needs to be opened as user, which is just what I can't do. Rem ___ 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: Opening Opera as user
I always start x as user. I learned early on not to make the mistake of starting X as root. I use Fluxbox with X, and had a terminal window open there with root invoked for that window. That's when I first tried to open linux-opera. Naturally, it opened fine, but will not open if I try to do the same thing from a terminal window as user. I would like to set up Opera to open from the Fluxbox menu, but in order for that to happen the program needs to be opened as user, which is just what I can't do. I'm not an opera user so maybe there's a reason I'm not aware of, but why are you using linux-opera and not the native version? You can try to run it under truss(1) to see if that gives any clues as where it's failing. The reason that I installed linux-opera, as opposed to the native version, is that all of the linux plugins seem to work quite well with this version. Flash, for example, works beautifully, which is something that I have never had success using with any other browser and FreeBSD. Rem ___ 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: System mail
At this time system mail is being delivered to /var/mail/user, which is the normal way of doing things. Is it possible to have system mail delivered to an email client, such as Thunderbird or Mutt? No. Per definition, a mail client (mail user agent - MUA) can not be the target of mail delivery ... Depending on what the OP had in mind, ports/mail/procmail might turn out to be (at least part of) a solution. Actually, I do have procmail installed for use with Mutt, but I have never been able to create a recipe that works. Cheers... ___ 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: System mail
At this time system mail is being delivered to /var/mail/user, which is the normal way of doing things. Is it possible to have system mail delivered to an email client, such as Thunderbird or Mutt? No. Per definition, a mail client (mail user agent - MUA) can not be the target of mail delivery ... Depending on what the OP had in mind, ports/mail/procmail might turn out to be (at least part of) a solution. Actually Mutt can read directly from a mbox file like in /var/mail/ You are quite right. I was thinking more on the lines of having system mail read by Thunderbird. Cheers.. ___ 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: System mail
However, one *could* bypass the incorporation process and find a way to write the system messages DIRECTLY into Thunderbird's user mail storage, but I think that would be a crazy idea. :-) Agreed! ___ 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
Interactive Port
In attempting to install /usr/ports/print/dvips I got the error message that dvips is an interactive port, and I can't remember how to handle that. Could I please get a heads up there. Thank you. Rem ___ 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: Interactive Port
On 2010.08.31 12:34:21 -0700, Rem P Roberti wrote: In attempting to install /usr/ports/print/dvips I got the error message that dvips is an interactive port, and I can't remember how to handle that. Could I please get a heads up there. Thank you. OK...I commented out the 'batch' entry in make.conf. Now I get this error message: === dvips-5.76 conflicts with installed package(s): teTeX-base-3.0_20 teTeX-texmf-3.0_6 The whole problem is that I am trying to get muttprint to work, and my understanding is that it is dependent on teTeX for its operation. But when I tried to print I got an error message telling me that the print operation needs to see dvips. So I'm not exactly sure what is going on here. Rem ___ 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: Interactive Port
On 2010.09.01 01:11:46 +0200, Polytropon wrote: On Tue, 31 Aug 2010 23:54:28 +0100, Frank Shute fr...@shute.org.uk wrote: For printing from mutt, I use the following in ~/.muttrc set print_command=a2ps -1 ~/mail.ps; gv ~/mail.ps Obviously, that views the postcript file first then I print from gv. What about lpr ~/mail.ps instead of gv ~/mail.ps? This would actually send the output PS to the default printer queue, causing the message to be printed. Nothing is working, regardless of whether I try to print from Muttprint, or with Frank's setup. In either case I get this error message: Press any key to continue...cannot remove path when cwd is /tmp/muttprint-GOauzJ for /tmp/muttprint-GOauzJ: at /usr/local/lib/perl5/5.10.1/File/Temp.pm line 902 I'm beginning to wonder if this doesn't have something to do with the fact that my printer is installed via CUPS. There may need to me a special parameter set up in .muttprintrc. But so far I haven't found any info on it. Rem ___ 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: Interactive Port
Brother! Muttprint is now working fine. The problem: the printer was offline! Now, before you go accusing me of being a complete dufus, let me say that I had no way of knowing that that condition existed. The printer itself indicated that it was online---no problem. What happened is that somehow, and I'm not sure what caused this, the printer became disengaged from its usb port. Weird. I noticed that this had happened when I tried to print from another program without success. The only way that I could get it talking again to usb was by doing a reboot. Rem ___ 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
System mail
At this time system mail is being delivered to /var/mail/user, which is the normal way of doing things. Is it possible to have system mail delivered to an email client, such as Thunderbird or Mutt? ___ 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: Panic or deadlock with Intel graphics
On 08/27/10 03:12, Tijl Coosemans wrote: On Thursday 26 August 2010 05:55:42 Rem P Roberti wrote: In an attempt to diagnose why my Thinkpad R51 completely locks up when trying to access X I have done the following. I built a debugging kernel, with KDB, DDB, WITNESS, INVARIANT*, AND DIAGNOSTIC in addition to *BREAK_TO_DEBUGGER. None of these things have yielded any progress in isolating the issue. Note that replacing the 'intel' driver with the 'vesa' driver in /etc/X11/xorg.conf does not cause the computer to hang. The problem appears to be specific to the intel driver. Also, I have been unable to get a crash report (which is what we were hoping to see in /var/crash) regardless of the debugging options built into the kernel. I have attached the output of 'uname -a', 'dmesg', and 'pciconf -lv' to this post. It could be related to DRI, so try to disable it in /etc/X11/xorg.conf: Section Module Disable dri Disable dri2 EndSection Unfortunately, that did not work. Cheers... ___ 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
Panic or deadlock with Intel graphics
In an attempt to diagnose why my Thinkpad R51 completely locks up when trying to access X I have done the following. I built a debugging kernel, with KDB, DDB, WITNESS, INVARIANT*, AND DIAGNOSTIC in addition to *BREAK_TO_DEBUGGER. None of these things have yielded any progress in isolating the issue. Note that replacing the 'intel' driver with the 'vesa' driver in /etc/X11/xorg.conf does not cause the computer to hang. The problem appears to be specific to the intel driver. Also, I have been unable to get a crash report (which is what we were hoping to see in /var/crash) regardless of the debugging options built into the kernel. I have attached the output of 'uname -a', 'dmesg', and 'pciconf -lv' to this post. FreeBSD lappy.bsd 8.1-RELEASE FreeBSD 8.1-RELEASE #3: Tue Aug 24 18:57:40 PDT 2010 r...@lappy.bsd:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/LAPPY i386 Copyright (c) 1992-2010 The FreeBSD Project. Copyright (c) 1979, 1980, 1983, 1986, 1988, 1989, 1991, 1992, 1993, 1994 The Regents of the University of California. All rights reserved. FreeBSD is a registered trademark of The FreeBSD Foundation. FreeBSD 8.1-RELEASE #3: Tue Aug 24 18:57:40 PDT 2010 r...@lappy.bsd:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/LAPPY i386 WARNING: WITNESS option enabled, expect reduced performance. WARNING: DIAGNOSTIC option enabled, expect reduced performance. Timecounter i8254 frequency 1193182 Hz quality 0 CPU: Intel(R) Pentium(R) M processor 1.70GHz (1698.57-MHz 686-class CPU) Origin = GenuineIntel Id = 0x6d6 Family = 6 Model = d Stepping = 6 Features=0xafe9f9bfFPU,VME,DE,PSE,TSC,MSR,MCE,CX8,SEP,MTRR,PGE,MCA,CMOV,PAT,CLFLUSH,DTS,ACPI,MMX,FXSR,SSE,SSE2,SS,TM,PBE Features2=0x180EST,TM2 real memory = 536870912 (512 MB) avail memory = 496918528 (473 MB) kbd1 at kbdmux0 ACPI Warning: 32/64X length mismatch in Gpe1Block: 0/32 (20100331/tbfadt-625) ACPI Warning: Optional field Gpe1Block has zero address or length: 0x 0 102C/0x0 (20100331/tbfadt-655) acpi0: IBM TP-1V on motherboard acpi0: [ITHREAD] acpi_ec0: Embedded Controller: GPE 0x1c, ECDT port 0x62,0x66 on acpi0 acpi0: Power Button (fixed) acpi0: reservation of 0, a (3) failed acpi0: reservation of 10, 1ff0 (3) failed Timecounter ACPI-fast frequency 3579545 Hz quality 1000 acpi_timer0: 24-bit timer at 3.579545MHz port 0x1008-0x100b on acpi0 cpu0: ACPI CPU on acpi0 acpi_lid0: Control Method Lid Switch on acpi0 acpi_button0: Sleep Button on acpi0 pcib0: ACPI Host-PCI bridge port 0xcf8-0xcff on acpi0 pci0: ACPI PCI bus on pcib0 pci0: base peripheral at device 0.1 (no driver attached) pci0: base peripheral at device 0.3 (no driver attached) vgapci0: VGA-compatible display port 0x1800-0x1807 mem 0xe000-0xe7ff,0xd000-0xd007 irq 11 at device 2.0 on pci0 agp0: Intel 82855GME (855GME GMCH) SVGA controller on vgapci0 agp0: detected 8060k stolen memory agp0: aperture size is 128M vgapci1: VGA-compatible display mem 0xe800-0xefff,0xd008-0xd00f at device 2.1 on pci0 uhci0: Intel 82801DB (ICH4) USB controller USB-A port 0x1820-0x183f irq 11 at device 29.0 on pci0 uhci0: [ITHREAD] usbus0: Intel 82801DB (ICH4) USB controller USB-A on uhci0 uhci1: Intel 82801DB (ICH4) USB controller USB-B port 0x1840-0x185f irq 11 at device 29.1 on pci0 uhci1: [ITHREAD] usbus1: Intel 82801DB (ICH4) USB controller USB-B on uhci1 uhci2: Intel 82801DB (ICH4) USB controller USB-C port 0x1860-0x187f irq 11 at device 29.2 on pci0 uhci2: [ITHREAD] usbus2: Intel 82801DB (ICH4) USB controller USB-C on uhci2 ehci0: Intel 82801DB/L/M (ICH4) USB 2.0 controller mem 0xd010-0xd01003ff irq 11 at device 29.7 on pci0 ehci0: [ITHREAD] usbus3: EHCI version 1.0 usbus3: Intel 82801DB/L/M (ICH4) USB 2.0 controller on ehci0 pcib1: ACPI PCI-PCI bridge at device 30.0 on pci0 pci2: ACPI PCI bus on pcib1 cbb0: TI4510 PCI-CardBus Bridge mem 0xb000-0xbfff irq 11 at device 0.0 on pci2 cardbus0: CardBus bus on cbb0 pccard0: 16-bit PCCard bus on cbb0 cbb0: [FILTER] fwohci0: 1394 Open Host Controller Interface mem 0xb100-0xb10007ff,0xd020-0xd0203fff irq 11 at device 0.1 on pci2 fwohci0: [ITHREAD] fwohci0: OHCI version 1.10 (ROM=0) fwohci0: No. of Isochronous channels is 4. fwohci0: EUI64 00:06:1b:03:23:01:55:2b fwohci0: Phy 1394a available S400, 2 ports. fwohci0: Link S400, max_rec 2048 bytes. firewire0: IEEE1394(FireWire) bus on fwohci0 dcons_crom0: dcons configuration ROM on firewire0 dcons_crom0: bus_addr 0x1578000 fwe0: Ethernet over FireWire on firewire0 if_fwe0: Fake Ethernet address: 02:06:1b:01:55:2b fwe0: Ethernet address: 02:06:1b:01:55:2b fwip0: IP over FireWire on firewire0 fwip0: Firewire address: 00:06:1b:03:23:01:55:2b @ 0xfffe, S400, maxrec 2048 fwohci0: Initiate bus reset fwohci0: fwohci_intr_core: BUS reset fwohci0: fwohci_intr_core: node_id=0x, SelfID Count=1, CYCLEMASTER mode em0: Intel(R) PRO/1000 Legacy Network Connection 1.0.1 port 0x7000-0x703f mem 0xd022-0xd023 irq 11 at device 1.0 on pci2 em0: [FILTER]
Re: Panic or deadlock with Intel graphics
In an attempt to diagnose why my Thinkpad R51 completely locks up when trying to access X I have done the following. I built a debugging kernel, with KDB, DDB, WITNESS, INVARIANT*, AND DIAGNOSTIC in addition to *BREAK_TO_DEBUGGER. None of these things have yielded any progress in isolating the issue. Note that replacing the 'intel' driver with the 'vesa' driver in /etc/X11/xorg.conf does not cause the computer to hang. The problem appears to be specific to the intel driver. Also, I have been unable to get a crash report (which is what we were hoping to see in /var/crash) regardless of the debugging options built into the kernel. I have attached the output of 'uname -a', 'dmesg', and 'pciconf -lv' to this post. I forgot to mention the output of pkg_info | grep xf86-video-intel...which is: xf86-video-intel-2.7.1_3 Driver for Intel integrated graphics chipsets ___ 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
Msmtp
Anyone using msmtp as an smtp client? I have Comcast as an ISP and am unable to achieve authentication. The weird thing is that I saved my .msmtprc file from a previous installation where it worked just fine. ___ 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
Xorg Redux
Thanks to the list X11 is now running perfectly on my desktop; not so on my Thinkpad R51. Here's what's happening. I installed xorg on this new 8.1 installation, and have run the xorg configure program, copying the xorg.conf.new file to /etc/X11 as xorg.conf. I have both hald and dbus enabled in /etc/rc.conf. When I try to run the test on xorg.conf, or if I just run startx I momentarily see the initial screen, which is displayed when X11 loads, but then the screen goes blank, and that's all she wrote. No keyboard, no mouse, totally frozen. The only way out is a reboot via the power switch. As usual, help is very appreciated. ---Rem ___ 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 Redux
On 08/23/10 09:21, Warren Block wrote: On Mon, 23 Aug 2010, Rem P Roberti wrote: Thanks to the list X11 is now running perfectly on my desktop; not so on my Thinkpad R51. Here's what's happening. I installed xorg on this new 8.1 installation, and have run the xorg configure program, copying the xorg.conf.new file to /etc/X11 as xorg.conf. I have both hald and dbus enabled in /etc/rc.conf. When I try to run the test on xorg.conf, or if I just run startx I momentarily see the initial screen, which is displayed when X11 loads, but then the screen goes blank, and that's all she wrote. No keyboard, no mouse, totally frozen. The only way out is a reboot via the power switch. The R51 should have Mobility Radeon 7500 or 9000 graphics. Here's the xorg.conf from my T42 with a 7500: http://laptop.bsdgroup.de/freebsd/index.html?action=show_configconfig=xconfiglaptop=12947 Apparently IBM used a number of different graphics cards with this laptop. Pciconf -lv indicates a 855/GM Montara Integrated Graphics Device. I am in the process of copying the xorg.conf and /var/log/Xorg.0.log files over to this computer so that I can post them. ___ 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 Redux
The R51 should have Mobility Radeon 7500 or 9000 graphics. Here's the xorg.conf from my T42 with a 7500: http://laptop.bsdgroup.de/freebsd/index.html?action=show_configconfig=xconfiglaptop=12947 Here is the xorg.conf that was created by Xorg -configure: Section ServerLayout Identifier X.org Configured Screen 0 Screen0 0 0 Screen 1 Screen1 RightOf Screen0 InputDeviceMouse0 CorePointer InputDeviceKeyboard0 CoreKeyboard EndSection Section Files ModulePath /usr/local/lib/xorg/modules FontPath /usr/local/lib/X11/fonts/misc/ FontPath /usr/local/lib/X11/fonts/TTF/ FontPath /usr/local/lib/X11/fonts/OTF FontPath /usr/local/lib/X11/fonts/Type1/ FontPath /usr/local/lib/X11/fonts/100dpi/ FontPath /usr/local/lib/X11/fonts/75dpi/ EndSection Section Module Load dbe Load dri Load dri2 Load extmod Load glx Load record EndSection Section InputDevice Identifier Keyboard0 Driver kbd EndSection Section InputDevice Identifier Mouse0 Driver mouse Option Protocol auto Option Device /dev/sysmouse Option ZAxisMapping 4 5 6 7 EndSection Section Monitor Identifier Monitor0 VendorName Monitor Vendor ModelNameMonitor Model EndSection Section Monitor Identifier Monitor1 VendorName Monitor Vendor ModelNameMonitor Model EndSection Section Device ### Available Driver options are:- ### Values: i: integer, f: float, bool: True/False, ### string: String, freq: f Hz/kHz/MHz ### [arg]: arg optional #Option NoAccel # [bool] #Option SWcursor # [bool] #Option ColorKey # i #Option CacheLines# i #Option Dac6Bit # [bool] #Option DRI # [bool] #Option NoDDC # [bool] #Option ShowCache # [bool] #Option XvMCSurfaces # i #Option PageFlip # [bool] Identifier Card0 Driver intel VendorName Intel Corporation BoardName 82852/855GM Integrated Graphics Device BusID PCI:0:2:0 EndSection Section Device ### Available Driver options are:- ### Values: i: integer, f: float, bool: True/False, ### string: String, freq: f Hz/kHz/MHz ### [arg]: arg optional #Option NoAccel # [bool] #Option SWcursor # [bool] #Option ColorKey # i #Option CacheLines# i #Option Dac6Bit # [bool] #Option DRI # [bool] #Option NoDDC # [bool] #Option ShowCache # [bool] #Option XvMCSurfaces # i #Option PageFlip # [bool] Identifier Card1 Driver intel VendorName Intel Corporation BoardName 82852/855GM Integrated Graphics Device BusID PCI:0:2:1 EndSection Section Screen Identifier Screen0 Device Card0 MonitorMonitor0 SubSection Display Viewport 0 0 Depth 1 EndSubSection SubSection Display Viewport 0 0 Depth 4 EndSubSection SubSection Display Viewport 0 0 Depth 8 EndSubSection SubSection Display Viewport 0 0 Depth 15 EndSubSection SubSection Display Viewport 0 0 Depth 16 EndSubSection SubSection Display Viewport 0 0 Depth 24 EndSubSection EndSection Section Screen Viewport 0 0 Depth 15 EndSubSection SubSection Display Viewport 0 0 Depth 16 EndSubSection SubSection Display Viewport 0 0 Depth 24 EndSubSection EndSection Section Screen Identifier Screen1 Device Card1 MonitorMonitor1 SubSection Display Viewport 0 0 Depth 1 EndSubSection SubSection Display Viewport 0 0 Depth 4 EndSubSection SubSection Display Viewport 0 0 Depth 8 EndSubSection
Re: Xorg Redux
On 08/23/10 10:51, Glen Barber wrote: On 8/23/10 1:44 PM, Rem P Roberti wrote: The R51 should have Mobility Radeon 7500 or 9000 graphics. Here's the xorg.conf from my T42 with a 7500: http://laptop.bsdgroup.de/freebsd/index.html?action=show_configconfig=xconfiglaptop=12947 Here is the xorg.conf that was created by Xorg -configure: Section ServerLayout Identifier X.org Configured Screen 0 Screen0 0 0 Screen 1 Screen1 RightOf Screen0 Hmmm.. What happens if you disable Screen 1 ? No dice. ___ 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 Redux
On 08/23/10 10:59, Glen Barber wrote: On 8/23/10 1:51 PM, Glen Barber wrote: On 8/23/10 1:44 PM, Rem P Roberti wrote: The R51 should have Mobility Radeon 7500 or 9000 graphics. Here's the xorg.conf from my T42 with a 7500: http://laptop.bsdgroup.de/freebsd/index.html?action=show_configconfig=xconfiglaptop=12947 Here is the xorg.conf that was created by Xorg -configure: Section ServerLayout Identifier X.org Configured Screen 0 Screen0 0 0 Screen 1 Screen1 RightOf Screen0 Hmmm.. What happens if you disable Screen 1 ? I suspect your laptop has an external connector for a second monitor. If so, can you plug a monitor in before trying what I suggested earlier? Too late :-) . I forgot to mention that previous to my installing 8.1 I had PCBSD 8.1 installed just to check it out (no likee), and the PCBSD installer had no problem configuring X. Unfortunately, I don't have a copy of that xorg.conf. ___ 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 Redux
On 08/23/10 12:14, Glen Barber wrote: On 8/23/10 3:08 PM, Warren Block wrote: On Mon, 23 Aug 2010, Rem P Roberti wrote: Section Device Identifier Card0 Driver intel VendorName Intel Corporation BoardName 82852/855GM Integrated Graphics Device BusID PCI:0:2:0 EndSection Section Device Identifier Card1 Driver intel VendorName Intel Corporation BoardName 82852/855GM Integrated Graphics Device BusID PCI:0:2:1 EndSection Interesting, two device sections. Some notebooks actually do have two video cards, although the R51 might not and this might just be misdetected. I wonder what's listed in the BIOS. Rem, can you check if there is more than one display adapter listed there? Interesting. The bios indicates two boot display devices, ThinkPad LCD, and Analog (VGA). There is actually a third choice, both. The bios defaults to ThinkPad LCD. ___ 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 Redux
On 08/23/10 12:11, Warren Block wrote: On Mon, 23 Aug 2010, Rem P Roberti wrote: I forgot to mention that previous to my installing 8.1 I had PCBSD 8.1 installed just to check it out (no likee), and the PCBSD installer had no problem configuring X. Unfortunately, I don't have a copy of that xorg.conf. PCBSD has a live mode to run without installing. Boot into that and copy the xorg.conf to external media. I forgot. The version of PCBSD that I had installed on the Thinkpad was the legacy version. The latest version, PCBSD 8.1, won't install. The screen goes blank and the computer freezes, just as happens when trying to install X11 with FreeBSD 8.1 ___ 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 Redux
On 08/23/10 14:34, Warren Block wrote: On Mon, 23 Aug 2010, Rem P Roberti wrote: I forgot. The version of PCBSD that I had installed on the Thinkpad was the legacy version. The latest version, PCBSD 8.1, won't install. The screen goes blank and the computer freezes, just as happens when trying to install X11 with FreeBSD 8.1 No real idea what to try next, so let's try turning off acceleration in the Device section: Option NoAccel On Nope. BTW, thanks for hanging in here. I've never had trouble like this getting X11 to function. Of course, I've never tried to install 8.1 on a Thinkpad either. ___ 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 Redux
On 08/23/10 15:31, Glen Barber wrote: On 8/23/10 5:51 PM, Rem P Roberti wrote: On 08/23/10 14:34, Warren Block wrote: On Mon, 23 Aug 2010, Rem P Roberti wrote: I forgot. The version of PCBSD that I had installed on the Thinkpad was the legacy version. The latest version, PCBSD 8.1, won't install. The screen goes blank and the computer freezes, just as happens when trying to install X11 with FreeBSD 8.1 No real idea what to try next, so let's try turning off acceleration in the Device section: Option NoAccel On Nope. BTW, thanks for hanging in here. I've never had trouble like this getting X11 to function. Of course, I've never tried to install 8.1 on a Thinkpad either. Ok, one quick question. When your screen goes blank, can you [ctrl][alt][fN] to a different TTY, where N is anything between 2-7? I'm curious about the machine's state when you start X. No, when the screen goes blank the whole computer freezes. No mouse, no keyboard. And I also noticed that the wireless indicator freezes in the on position. Everything stops dead its tracks. ___ 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 Redux
On 08/23/10 16:33, Glen Barber wrote: On 8/23/10 7:01 PM, Rem P Roberti wrote: Ok, one quick question. When your screen goes blank, can you [ctrl][alt][fN] to a different TTY, where N is anything between 2-7? I'm curious about the machine's state when you start X. No, when the screen goes blank the whole computer freezes. No mouse, no keyboard. And I also noticed that the wireless indicator freezes in the on position. Everything stops dead its tracks. In your xorg.conf, switch 'Driver intel' to 'Driver vesa', and see if it hangs with that. In addition, it might be helpful to build debugging options into your GENERIC kernel. If you're willing to go down this path, I'll help you get set up, but the gory details are here: http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en/books/developers-handbook/kerneldebug.html First, let's try the vesa thing. Eureka! I changed Driver to vesa in both of the Device sections and X now loads. I doubt that vesa is the ideal entry in the configuration, but at this point I'm not going to complain. ___ 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 Redux
On 08/23/10 16:59, Glen Barber wrote: On 8/23/10 7:53 PM, Rem P Roberti wrote: First, let's try the vesa thing. Eureka! I changed Driver to vesa in both of the Device sections and X now loads. I doubt that vesa is the ideal entry in the configuration, but at this point I'm not going to complain. Great. It looks like the intel driver is the problem then. vesa will work, but I'd expect it will perform suboptimal, comparatively. Are you interested in helping find out what the real problem is? Definitely! I have time on my hands, and I love learning about this system. ___ 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
msmtp/comcast
Anyone using msmtp with Comcast? I have in the past used this in conjunction with Mutt, but can't get it to work now. Here is my .msmtprc: accountdefault host smtp.comcast.net from my email address authon user user name password my passwrd port587 When I try to send from Mutt I get this error message: msmtp: cannot use a secure authentication method msmtp: could not send mail (account default from /home/rem/.msmtprc As I say, I have in the past used this setup with Comcast and it worked fine. ---Rem ___ 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
Thinkpad Wireless
I just acquired an IBM Thinkpad R51 on which I have installed 8.1 Release. I have scoured the handbook and tried a number of different combinations in /etc/rc.conf and /boot/loader.conf to get the wireless working, but so far with no luck. Can anyone give me a heads up on getting wireless operating on this laptop? Thanks. ___ 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: Thinkpad Wireless
On 8/22/10 8:12 PM, Rem P Roberti wrote: I just acquired an IBM Thinkpad R51 on which I have installed 8.1 Release. I have scoured the handbook and tried a number of different combinations in /etc/rc.conf and /boot/loader.conf to get the wireless working, but so far with no luck. Can anyone give me a heads up on getting wireless operating on this laptop? Hi Rem, First off, do you know what wireless chipset you have? You can find out using: pciconf -lv though without knowing what manufacturer, I can't quite say what to look for. As far as the settings, have a look at this section of the handbook: http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/network-wireless.html particularly where you configure wlan0 as the interface in rc.conf - pre-8.0-RELEASE, the convention was to use: ifconfig_ath0=DHCP where iwn0 was an Atheros-based chipset. The new way is to set the following in rc.conf: wlans_ath0=wlan0 ifconfig_wlan0=DHCP Maybe you can put the output of the pciconf command I referenced earlier on pastebin - I think that might help us get you in the right direction faster. Regards, Thanks for your help so far. Yes, I have looked at the handbook section on wireless, and as a matter of fact I installed 8.1 on an ancient Compaq Presario (6GB HD!) and was able to configure the Atheros wireless pci card so that the computer works quite well. OK...the info I gleaned from pciconf -lv shows: device= 'driverIntel PRO/Wirelss 220BG (MPC13B' Cheers... ___ 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: Thinkpad Wireless
On 8/22/10 11:00 PM, Rem P Roberti wrote: Thanks for your help so far. Yes, I have looked at the handbook section on wireless, and as a matter of fact I installed 8.1 on an ancient Compaq Presario (6GB HD!) and was able to configure the Atheros wireless pci card so that the computer works quite well. OK...the info I gleaned from pciconf -lv shows: device= 'driverIntel PRO/Wirelss 220BG (MPC13B' Perfect. Is 220BG a typo? I see that iwi(4) supports 2200BG/2225BG and so on. If it _is_ a typo, try this: echo 'legal.intel_iwi.license_ack=1' /boot/loader.conf echo 'if_iwi_load=YES' /boot/loader.conf echo 'iwi_bss_load=YES' /boot/loader.conf echo 'iwi_ibss_load=YES' /boot/loader.conf echo 'iwi_monitor_load=YES' /boot/loader.conf (Note, the differentiation between the single- and double-quotes.) After a reboot, you should see iwi0 in ifconfig(8) output. (I'm not aware of a way to acknowledge the license agreement without a reboot.) Then you should be able to configure your wlan0 device similarly to your Presario. Hope this helps. Regards, Yep, it was a typo. OK...iwi0 is now showing up in the ifconfig output. I shall make the (hopefully) appropriate entries in /etc/rc.conf and see what happens. ---Rem ___ 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: Thinkpad Wireless
On 8/22/10 11:28 PM, Rem P Roberti wrote: Yep, it was a typo. OK...iwi0 is now showing up in the ifconfig output. I shall make the (hopefully) appropriate entries in /etc/rc.conf and see what happens. Good to hear. Good luck! Regards, OK...here's what is happening now. I have put these entries into /etc/rc.conf: wlans_iwi0=wlan0 ifconfig_wlan0=WPA DHCP when I booted up I could see from the wireless beacon indicator that something was happening. But I kept getting this message: iwi0: need multicast update callback And when I tried to do a ping I got the dreaded...ping: cannot resolve yahoo.com: Host name lookup failure...and then all of sudden it started working and I was able to successfully ping, and connect. Is this voodoo :-) ? ---Rem ___ 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: Thinkpad Wireless
In what timeframe from the boot? I suspect WPA was still in the authentication process. My Toshiba's wireless card would take a few seconds (roughly 10) before authenticating. You are no doubt right...WPA was probably still in the authentication process. Clearly, everything is working now, and I am doing a portupgrade as I write. Now, if I can only get msmtp to work with Comcast I'd be done. For a while. One thing at a time. Thank you for your help. Cheers... ___ 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
External HD
I have a 500GB USB HD which I am able mount thus: mount_ntfs /dev/da2s1 /mnt Having done so I can copy from the external drive, but not write to it. What is necessary to implement in order to be able to write to an external hard drive? Rem ___ 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: External HD
On 08/21/10 09:36, Ryan Coleman wrote: Rem, You cannot write to NTFS using the stock driver. Please use Google to search / do research on the drivers out there; writing to NTFS is a VERY dangerous thing. Your best bet is to just do your work over the network instead of directly over USB from a Windows-based node. Also, read the man file for mount_ntfs, it will explain more. -- Ryan On Aug 21, 2010, at 11:31 AM, Rem P Roberti wrote: I have a 500GB USB HD which I am able mount thus: mount_ntfs /dev/da2s1 /mnt Having done so I can copy from the external drive, but not write to it. What is necessary to implement in order to be able to write to an external hard drive? Rem Duly noted. I shall definitely read the man page, but would also appreciate a heads up on the dangers involved in writing to NTFS. rEM ___ 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: External HD
Rem P Robertiremeg...@comcast.net пишет: I have a 500GB USB HD which I am able mount thus: mount_ntfs /dev/da2s1 /mnt Having done so I can copy from the external drive, but not write to it. What is necessary to implement in order to be able to write to an external hard drive? Rem use the port /usr/ports/sysutils/fusefs-ntfs Thanks for the tip. I have installed the port and will give it a try, although I'm a little leery given Ryan's post. Rem ___ 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
Can't remove or move file
This is a new one for me. I converted a YouTube selection using youtube_dl and the file that was created was named -elDeJaPWGg.flv. When I try to rename it, or delete it, I get an error message thus: root@ ~: rm -elDeJaPWGg.flv rm: illegal option -- e usage: rm [-f | -i] [-dIPRrvW] file ... unlink file No switch with either the rm or mv command works. What is actually going on here? Rem ___ 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: Can't remove or move file
On 08/20/10 09:06, Mark Tinguely wrote: Rem P Roberti wrote: This is a new one for me. I converted a YouTube selection using youtube_dl and the file that was created was named -elDeJaPWGg.flv. When I try to rename it, or delete it, I get an error message thus: root@ ~: rm -elDeJaPWGg.flv rm: illegal option -- e usage: rm [-f | -i] [-dIPRrvW] file ... unlink file No switch with either the rm or mv command works. What is actually going on here? Rem ___ 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 This is frequently asked question. For many commands, the -- stops the argument processing: rm -- -elDeJaPWGg.flv Thank you. Still deep into the FreeBSD learning curve, but loving it. I should have recognized that the - would indicated a switch, but even if I had, I would not have known the fix. Thanks again. Rem ___ 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: Can't remove or move file
No switch with either the rm or mv command works. What is actually going on here? From the man page: NOTES The rm command uses getopt(3) to parse its arguments, which allows it to accept the `--' option which will cause it to stop processing flag options at that point. This will allow the removal of file names that begin with a dash (`-'). For example: rm -- -filename -Sean Yep...I just simply missed that one. Thanks. Rem ___ 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
Printing from Thunderbird
I have Thunderbird installed on my new 8.1 box, and although I am able to print from within the program, the only way I can do it is to type the whole print command from within the print window. In my case that means typing: lpr -PPhotoshop7760 I have tried to figure a way of configuring the printer to load automatically by modifying the advanced options, but so far, no luck. The printer is installed via CUPS, and seems to be functioning perfectly. If anyone has been able to modify the options configuration setup to make printing easier I would love to see how you did it. Cheers... Rem ___ 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: Printing from Thunderbird
On Fri, 20 Aug 2010 18:23:46 -0700, Rem P Robertiremeg...@comcast.net wrote: I have Thunderbird installed on my new 8.1 box, and although I am able to print from within the program, the only way I can do it is to type the whole print command from within the print window. In my case that means typing: lpr -PPhotoshop7760 I have tried to figure a way of configuring the printer to load automatically by modifying the advanced options, but so far, no luck. The printer is installed via CUPS, and seems to be functioning perfectly. If anyone has been able to modify the options configuration setup to make printing easier I would love to see how you did it. You can set the environmental variable $PRINTER according to the name of the default printer. In my case, I have setenv PRINTER Laserjet in my /etc/csh.cshrc (for system-wide use). Now all lp* commands will default to that printer, and printing from within applications that use lpr's stdin will also work. PS: I'm not using CUPS, but apsfilter, which is the little brother of CUPS, to translate printing data to PCL and have duplex settings for my HP Laserjet 4000 duplex. Ah-ha! In my case I am using the bash shell, and I believe the syntax that is needed for the .bashrc is different than what is used in your csh.cshrc. Any idea where I can find the appropriate syntax for variables stored within .bashrc? ___ 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: Printing from Thunderbird
On 08/20/10 21:35, CyberLeo Kitsana wrote: On 08/20/2010 11:29 PM, Rem P Roberti wrote: Ah-ha! In my case I am using the bash shell, and I believe the syntax that is needed for the .bashrc is different than what is used in your csh.cshrc. Any idea where I can find the appropriate syntax for variables stored within .bashrc? export PRINTER=Photoshop7760 bash(1) has extensive documentation; as bash is a superset of the bourne shell included in base, sh(1) is likewise useful for reference. Well...I kind of thought that the export variable was the correct one to use, and I entered : export PRINTER=Photosmart7760 into both my .bashrc and .bash_profile, but no dice. The printer neither shows up in Thunderbird or Firefox ___ 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: Printing from Thunderbird
On 08/20/10 22:01, Polytropon wrote:
On Fri, 20 Aug 2010 21:44:37 -0700, Rem P Robertiremeg...@comcast.net wrote:
On 08/20/10 21:35, CyberLeo Kitsana wrote:
On 08/20/2010 11:29 PM, Rem P Roberti wrote:
Ah-ha! In my case I am using the bash shell, and I believe the syntax
that is needed for the .bashrc is different than what is used in your
csh.cshrc. Any idea where I can find the appropriate syntax for
variables stored within .bashrc?
export PRINTER=Photoshop7760
bash(1) has extensive documentation; as bash is a superset of the bourne
shell included in base, sh(1) is likewise useful for reference.
Well...I kind of thought that the export variable was the correct
one to use, and I entered :
export PRINTER=Photosmart7760
into both my .bashrc and .bash_profile, [...]
This is correct, but keep in mind that this setting will be
a per-user only setting, allthough it should be sufficient.
With
$ echo $PRINTER
you can always check for it.
[...] but no dice. The printer
neither shows up in Thunderbird or Firefox
I checked in my Firefox (version 2): The printer's name is just
PostScript/Default, and when I click Properties, the following
print command is listed:
lpr ${MOZ_PRINTER_NAME:+'-P'}${MOZ_PRINTER_NAME}
In my case, this strangely works, as I don't have $MOZ_PRINTER_NAME
defined anywhere. You can try to simplify the setting to just be
lpr
which should then default to $PRINTER. You can also test the
intended behaviour with an example like
lpr /etc/rc.conf
which should then - without any trouble - output /etc/rc.conf to
the printer.
From my understanding: When Firefox prints, it sends the data
to lpr per pipe. Checking the printer queue right after ^P will
lead to something like this:
% lpq
Laserjet is ready and printing
Rank Owner Job Files Total Size
1stpoly 982 (standard input) 484630 bytes
Now as $PRINTER is defined, you don't need -P anymore for all
the lp* tools - only if you want to override the default (e. g.
as I use -PLaserjet-nodup if I intendedly want to force non-duplex
single-sided printing).
My bad. Adding the above variable to .bashrc does indeed result in the
desired effect. For some reason I thought that the printer as named was
actually going to shop up in the print menu. Thunderbird and Firefox
are now printing fine, and I can print any text file simply by using the
lpr command.
Thank you all.
Cheers...
Rem
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Re: Printer Installation
On 08/17/2010 12:05, Rem Roberti wrote: Hi all. I'm having problems installing a printer on a new 8.1 installation. I want to do this sans CUPS and via lpd. lpd is enabled in my /etc/rc.conf. Here is my printcap: lp|photosmart:\ :lp=/dev/ulpt0:\ :af=/usr/local/share/ppd/HP/HP-PhotoSmart_7760-hpijs.ppd.gz:\ :if=/usr/local/bin/foomatic-rip:\ :sd=/var/spool/lpd/photosmart:\ :sh: Whenever I try and print, for example...lpr -Pphotosmart /etc/printcap...I get this error message: lpr: Connection refused Now, although I stated that I want to install the printer using lpd, CUPS is installed on the computer, but not enabled. I seem to recall that there could be a path problem with lpr if CUPS is installed and one tries to use lpd, but I've forgotten how to deal with that, if indeed that is the problem. BTW, I have included ulpt0 as a permission in my /etc/fstab file. Any help much appreciated. Rem I forgot to mention that if I try to test the printer like this...lptest 80 5 | lpr...I get back an error message that says, lpr: Error - scheduler not responding! Rem ___ 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: Printer Installation
On 08/17/2010 12:29, Polytropon wrote: On Tue, 17 Aug 2010 12:05:05 -0700, Rem Robertiremeg...@comcast.net wrote: I seem to recall that there could be a path problem with lpr if CUPS is installed and one tries to use lpd, but I've forgotten how to deal with that, if indeed that is the problem. CUPS installs its binaries into /usr/local/bin, if not compiled with options saying otherwise (in which case it can replace the system's programs). Depending on $PATH, /usr/bin/lpr or CUPS's /usr/local/bin/lpr can be invoked. By explicitely using # /usr/bin/lpr /etc/printcap for example, you can be sure to call the correct program. By the way, using the printer's name as -P parameter for the default printer's name (lp) is not needed. You can also use the environment variable PRINTER to define a standard printer's name instead of lp. BTW, I have included ulpt0 as a permission in my /etc/fstab file. Do you mean /etc/devfs.conf, /etc/devfs.rules or /etc/devd.conf, as the file system table doesn't seem to be involved here? :-) Sorry...I did indeed mean /etc/devfs.conf! And thank you for your reply. I have to run out for a bit, but when I return I will try to get the path thing straightened out. Rem ___ 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
Failed port upgrade
When running portupgrade the process is choking when it comes to consolekit. Here is the error message: gmake[2]: *** [libgirepository_1_0_la-gfield.lo] Error 1 gmake[2]: Leaving directory `/usr/tmp/usr/ports/devel/gobject-introspection/work/gobject-introspection-0.6.7/girepository' gmake[1]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1 gmake[1]: Leaving directory `/usr/tmp/usr/ports/devel/gobject-introspection/work/gobject-introspection-0.6.7' gmake: *** [all] Error 2 *** Error code 1 Stop in /usr/ports/devel/gobject-introspection. *** Error code 1 Stop in /usr/ports/sysutils/polkit. *** Error code 1 Stop in /usr/ports/sysutils/consolekit. ** Command failed [exit code 1]: /usr/bin/script -qa /tmp/portupgrade20091225-42364-180m9y8-0 env UPGRADE_TOOL=portupgrade UPGRADE_PORT=consolekit-0.4.1_1 UPGRADE_PORT_VER=0.4.1_1 make ** Fix the problem and try again. this obviously involves gobject-introspection and polkit, both of which refuse to make. I could find nothing in UPDATING about this. Rem ___ 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: What happened to /home?
I hope you won't see something like % cd mnt/poly mnt/poly: Not a directory. % file mnt/poly mnt/poly: cannot open `mnt/poly' (Bad file descriptor) That is exactly what I saw, and nothing worked to try and fix the problem. So, as I indicated in an earlier post, I ran fsck -y on the /usr partition and was finally able to deep six /home. No real catastrophe because I had all of /home backed up. So, I just did a mkdir of /home and repopulated it. I'm still scratching my head as to what caused the initial problem. There was no power failure or anything like that. I remember that all of a sudden when I booted the laptop I got this message (I forgot to include this in my first post): FreeBSD/.i386 boot Default:0:ad(0,a)/boot/loader boot: Hardly the normal opening screen, and I had to hit enter to proceed. First time I did that that the computer booted OK, the second time it broke. The only thing that changed between the time of the normal boot and the problem is that I installed a USB hub to this old Compaq because it only has one USB port. Who knows. Rem ___ 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
What happened to /home?
Today I booted my laptop and discovered that /home was gone. Well...not exactly..but for all intents and purposes. The system isn't seeing it although I can see it when I cd to /. But if I try and cd to /home from there the system tells me home:Not a directory. What happened, and what can I do about it? Rem ___ 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: What happened to /home?
On 2009.12.24 00:21:47 +, Pieter de Goeje wrote: On Thursday 24 December 2009 00:01:11 Rem P Roberti wrote: Today I booted my laptop and discovered that /home was gone. Well...not exactly..but for all intents and purposes. The system isn't seeing it although I can see it when I cd to /. But if I try and cd to /home from there the system tells me home:Not a directory. What happened, and what can I do about it? Rem Usually /home is a symlink to /usr/home. Perhaps the symlink is busted? What it the output of `ls -ld /home' ? If you can still login as a regular user, what does `pwd -P' say just after you are logged in? I can still login as regular user, and when I run 'pwd -P' the output is / and then it goes back to the prompt. Output of 'ls -ld /home is: lrwxr-xr-x 1 root wheel 8 Dec 18 12:08 /home - usr/home Rem ___ 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: What happened to /home?
On 2009.12.23 17:45:38 +, Warren Block wrote: On Wed, 23 Dec 2009, Rem P Roberti wrote: Today I booted my laptop and discovered that /home was gone. Well...not exactly..but for all intents and purposes. The system isn't seeing it although I can see it when I cd to /. But if I try and cd to /home from there the system tells me home:Not a directory. What happened, and what can I do about it? /home is (usually) a link to /usr/home. If there was some problem that prevented /usr being mounted (power failure or crash with background fsck disabled), or you booted in single user mode, it would act that way. Does df show /usr is mounted? Yep...it was mounted. Something definitely got hosed. I ran fsck on /usr and there were a number of problems. Finally was able to delete the troubled directory and reinstall. Thankfully there was nothing of importance in /home and I had everything backed up so that I could re-populate the newly created /home. Rem ___ 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
.Xdefaults file
On my desktop box I settled on an xterm font and font size by experimenting thus: xterm -fa 'Bitstream Vera Sans Mono' -fs 10 I went through a number of fonts until I settled on the one I liked most. Then I created an .Xdefaults file in my home directory which included: Xterm*faceName Bitstream Vera Sans Mono Xterm*faceSize 10 Everything works fine. However, when I tried to to this on my old Compaq Presario on which I have 7.2 installed it doesn't work. Oddly, I can create an xterm window using the original xterm command that I used when I was experimenting with fonts, and the window opens and is rendered correctly, but I can't get X to read the .Xdefaults file. Any ideas on why .Xdefauts works on the desktop box but not the laptop? Rem ___ 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: .Xdefaults file
On 2009.12.22 18:03:00 +, Jamie Griffin wrote: On Tue, Dec 22, 2009 at 09:38:19AM -0800, Rem P Roberti wrote: rendered correctly, but I can't get X to read the .Xdefaults file. ideas on why .Xdefauts works on the desktop box but not the laptop? Could it be that you need to make sure your xterm is executing a login shell when it starts, such as: xterm*loginShell: true ... in your .Xdefaults file Jamie That was a good idea, but unfortunately it didn't work. Rem ___ 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: .Xdefaults file
On 2009.12.22 22:05:10 +, Yuri Pankov wrote: On Tue, Dec 22, 2009 at 09:38:19AM -0800, Rem P Roberti wrote: On my desktop box I settled on an xterm font and font size by experimenting thus: xterm -fa 'Bitstream Vera Sans Mono' -fs 10 I went through a number of fonts until I settled on the one I liked most. Then I created an .Xdefaults file in my home directory which included: Xterm*faceName Bitstream Vera Sans Mono Xterm*faceSize 10 I think case matters here, i.e. XTerm*, not Xterm or xterm. Exactly the problem. Thank you! Rem ___ 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
Gnome-terminal
Gone back to trying to get gnome-terminal to work. So far...no joy. When I try to load the program I get this error message: ERROR:terminal-app.c:1445:terminal_app_init: assertion failed: (app-system_font_desc != NULL) Abort trap: 6 (core dumped) Can someone give me a heads up on this. Thanks... Rem ___ 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
What's up with gnome-terminal?
Still no joy trying to get gnome-terminal to work. Now when I try to load it I get this error message: ** ERROR:terminal-app.c:1445:terminal_app_init: assertion failed: (app-system_font_desc != NULL) Abort trap: 6 (core dumped) Funny thing is that a year or so ago I used to use gnome-terminal on another installation with no problems. Did something change? Rem ___ 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: What's up with gnome-terminal?
On 2009.12.01 19:16:10 +, Adam Vande More wrote: On Tue, Dec 1, 2009 at 6:16 PM, Rem P Roberti remeg...@comcast.net wrote: Still no joy trying to get gnome-terminal to work. Now when I try to load it I get this error message: ** ERROR:terminal-app.c:1445:terminal_app_init: assertion failed: (app-system_font_desc != NULL) Abort trap: 6 (core dumped) Funny thing is that a year or so ago I used to use gnome-terminal on another installation with no problems. Did something change? Rem Works great here and I doubt it a problem w/ terminal itself. Perhaps your install is borked, try reinstalling, checking for lost/broken depends, etc. I'm sure your're right. I did a reinstall and that didn't change anything. Is there a config file I need to tweak? A daemon I'm not starting? Maybe I'm just not running this thing correctly. Rem ___ 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: What's up with gnome-terminal?
On 2009.12.01 17:43:08 +, Jason wrote: On Tue, Dec 01, 2009 at 05:40:04PM -0800, Rem P Roberti thus spake: On 2009.12.01 19:16:10 +, Adam Vande More wrote: On Tue, Dec 1, 2009 at 6:16 PM, Rem P Roberti remeg...@comcast.net wrote: Still no joy trying to get gnome-terminal to work. Now when I try to load it I get this error message: ** ERROR:terminal-app.c:1445:terminal_app_init: assertion failed: (app-system_font_desc != NULL) Abort trap: 6 (core dumped) Funny thing is that a year or so ago I used to use gnome-terminal on another installation with no problems. Did something change? Rem Works great here and I doubt it a problem w/ terminal itself. Perhaps your install is borked, try reinstalling, checking for lost/broken depends, etc. I'm sure your're right. I did a reinstall and that didn't change anything. Is there a config file I need to tweak? A daemon I'm not starting? Maybe I'm just not running this thing correctly. Did you rebuild all dependent ports on this application? I just did a deinstall/reinstall. Not sufficient? What's the procedure for doing a complete rebuild of the dependents? BTW...thanks. Rem ___ 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: What's up with gnome-terminal?
On 2009.12.01 17:52:24 +, Jason wrote: On Tue, Dec 01, 2009 at 05:50:07PM -0800, Rem P Roberti thus spake: On 2009.12.01 17:43:08 +, Jason wrote: On Tue, Dec 01, 2009 at 05:40:04PM -0800, Rem P Roberti thus spake: On 2009.12.01 19:16:10 +, Adam Vande More wrote: On Tue, Dec 1, 2009 at 6:16 PM, Rem P Roberti remeg...@comcast.net wrote: Still no joy trying to get gnome-terminal to work. Now when I try to load it I get this error message: ** ERROR:terminal-app.c:1445:terminal_app_init: assertion failed: (app-system_font_desc != NULL) Abort trap: 6 (core dumped) Funny thing is that a year or so ago I used to use gnome-terminal on another installation with no problems. Did something change? Rem Works great here and I doubt it a problem w/ terminal itself. Perhaps your install is borked, try reinstalling, checking for lost/broken depends, etc. I'm sure your're right. I did a reinstall and that didn't change anything. Is there a config file I need to tweak? A daemon I'm not starting? Maybe I'm just not running this thing correctly. Did you rebuild all dependent ports on this application? I just did a deinstall/reinstall. Not sufficient? What's the procedure for doing a complete rebuild of the dependents? I use portmaster, but you can use a host of utilities for this. portmaster -r gnome-terminal I would start with that. OK...tried that, but the results the same error message when I try to run gnome-terminal. Frustrating. Rem ___ 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: What's up with gnome-terminal?
On 2009.12.01 20:57:03 +, Adam Vande More wrote: On Tue, Dec 1, 2009 at 8:06 PM, Rem P Roberti remeg...@comcast.net wrote: I use portmaster, but you can use a host of utilities for this. portmaster -r gnome-terminal I would start with that. OK...tried that, but the results the same error message when I try to run gnome-terminal. Frustrating. Rem You actually probably want to do an upwards recursive recompile. portupgrade -Rf port You may also reference this page which I think details how to completely remove gnome and start fresh. Adam, I'm doing an upward recursive at this time, but I don't see any link in your email to a page such as you describe. Rem ___ 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
Removing installed packages
In trying to upgrade CUPS on a new 7.2 installation (CUPS was installed via sysinstall) the upgrade choked, and then I saw in UPDATING that print/cups has been split into multiple ports, and that in order to upgrade you must first remove the installed version. What is the best way to do that? Should I be using pkg_delete and, if so, with what switch or switches? Thanks. Rem ___ 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: Gnome Terminal
On 2009.11.27 10:42:55 +, Pieter de Goeje wrote: On Friday 27 November 2009 05:11:41 Rem P Roberti wrote: There was a time when I ran gnome-terminal from within Fluxbox. On my new 7.2 installation I have installed gnome-terminal, but can't get it to work. When I try to bring it up from the command line from within Fluxbox I get this error message: Failed to contact the GConf daemon; exiting As usual, all help much appreciated. Rem You can try adding gnome-settings-daemon to .xinitrc / .xsession. It should start the gconf daemon. I believe dbus is also required to work. Dbus daemon is running, and when I run top I see that gconf is present. I'm not sure what is going on here. I've tried a couple of things with .xinitrc with no luck. Either X fails to open, or I still get the Failed to contact the GConf daemon; exiting message when I try to run gnome-terminal. Rem ___ 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
Gnome Terminal
There was a time when I ran gnome-terminal from within Fluxbox. On my new 7.2 installation I have installed gnome-terminal, but can't get it to work. When I try to bring it up from the command line from within Fluxbox I get this error message: Failed to contact the GConf daemon; exiting As usual, all help much appreciated. Rem ___ 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: MUA questions
On 2009.11.26 00:27:15 +, Chad Perrin wrote: On Wed, Nov 25, 2009 at 10:28:05PM -0800, Rem Roberti wrote: Basically, I am using Mutt as my MUA, and I have either getmail or fetchmail configured to receive my POP3 mail from Comcast, which is via mail.comcast.net. I am using msmtp as my smtp client, and have no trouble sending mail from Mutt...just can't receive. Both the .fetchmailrc and getmailrc configurations have worked in the past. Is this possibly a sendmail issue? The fetchmail.log repeatedly indicates Trying to connect to 76.96.54.12/110...connection failed: Operation temed out. Are you sure Mutt is trying to use fetchmail or getmail, and not still trying to use Sendmail instead? Well...I'm embarrassed to admit this, but the problem was with the operator...that would be me. Everything was doing its job correctly, including procmail. I'd forgotten how to call up the list of mailboxes where procmail puts everything, and when I hit the return key I kept getting the no mail message, so I just assumed that the mail was not being received. But no, everything was being put exactly where it was supposed to be, and once I remembered how to access the individual mailboxes guess what I found. This is what happens when you spend a year operating a windoze box. I'm sure glad to be back with FreeBSD. Thanks to all who responded. Cheers... Rem ___ 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: printer hp officejet pro k8600
then i untar it and try ./configure and i get configure: error: cannot find libjpeg support however using make search key=libjpeg (or libjpg) i couldn't find it. even though this post seems to suggest that it exists somewhere i seem to be a bit closer now. according to this post: http://markmail.org/message/4t5uh4ofneagkiuz libjpeg is linux-jpeg in freebsd and is already installed as linux-jpeg-6b.34 now the question is whether i can use the hplip-2.8.12 ball which is really for linux through emulation. or does anyone know how to get freebsd7 to install a sufficiently advanced hplip-2.7.10+ so that it will work with the hp officejet pro k8600? Is there a ppd for this printer? If there is forget about hplip. Download the ppd and plug it in via the cups localhost page. Even if there is no ppd for that specific printer you can probably find a ppd that will work. I have an HP Photosmart Pro9180 for which there are no available ppd's, but I found one that works fine. You do have to make sure that you have all of the foomatic files installed. --Rem ___ 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: printer hp officejet pro k8600
On 2009.02.17 20:22:46 +, prad wrote: On Tue, 17 Feb 2009 19:44:18 -0800 Rem P Roberti remeg...@comcast.net wrote: If there is forget about hplip. Download the ppd and plug it in via the cups localhost page. that's what i did the first time. You do have to make sure that you have all of the foomatic files installed. i had foomatic-filters installed, but it was looking for foomatic-rip. not sure how i make sure all foomatic files are there. These are the four files that I have installed: foomatic-db-20070124_2 Foomatic database foomatic-db-engine-20070124,1 Foomatic database engine foomatic-db-hpijs-1.4 Foomatic data for the HPIJS printer drivers foomatic-filters-3.0.2_4 Foomatic wrapper scripts pkg_info | less will give you a look at what is installed. --Rem ___ 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: printer hp officejet pro k8600
These are the four files that I have installed: foomatic-db-20070124_2 Foomatic database foomatic-db-engine-20070124,1 Foomatic database engine foomatic-db-hpijs-1.4 Foomatic data for the HPIJS printer drivers foomatic-filters-3.0.2_4 Foomatic wrapper scripts thank rem! following your instructions and learning that i had a corrupt ppd file, i downloaded a new one from linuxprinting.org now the rip problem is gone and everything appears as though it should work just fine. unfortunately, cups sees the printer as 'busy' and keeps retrying the test page. i can ping the printer and print to it from both linux and xp machines, but it is showing up as busy even though i shut it off and restarted. i can't seem to print from the console either using lp - the job shows up as processing or pending but nothing prints. Do you have devfs.rules in your /etc directory that has this contained within: [system=10] add path 'unlpt*' mode 0660 group cups add path 'ulpt*' mode 0660 group cups add path 'lpt*' mode 0660 group cups There is a whole permissions thing that has to be correct or cups won't play. --Rem ___ 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: printer hp officejet pro k8600
Do you have devfs.rules in your /etc directory that has this contained within: [system=10] add path 'unlpt*' mode 0660 group cups add path 'ulpt*' mode 0660 group cups add path 'lpt*' mode 0660 group cups There is a whole permissions thing that has to be correct or cups won't play. i don't have a /etc/devfs.rules only a /etc/devfs.conf our lexmark T616 works just fine though through cups. i can put /etc/devfs.rules in, but would i require a reboot afterwards? When I installed cups, right at the end of the installation process, there was a notice instructing that you have to create a devfs.rules file in /etc with the above contained within. Also, there has to be this entry in the rc.conf file: devfs_system_ruleset=system It seems to me that there was another instruction, but I can't remember what it was. I don't want to lead you down the proverbial path here, but I followed those instructions, installed both of my printers with ppd files, and everything went swimmingly. Previous to that I could never get the printers to work. I would try to print a test page and get a permission denied message, or some such thing. I may have saved the instructions from the installation process. I'll look for them, and if I find the whole thing I'll post it here. --Rem ___ 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
Mixer resets
I use a ham radio program (fldigi) that needs to have the sound card tweaked from time to time. I started out just doing it from the command line via mixer. After a while I installed gmixer because having a graphical interface made things go a lot quicker. But I discovered that every time I invoked gmixer it reset the vol to 0:0. It continues to do that, and I'm wondering if anyone else has that experience with gmixer. Could that be a bug? Are there other graphical mixer alternatives? --Rem ___ 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: Mixer resets
line via mixer. After a while I installed gmixer because having a graphical interface made things go a lot quicker. But I discovered that every time I invoked gmixer it reset the vol to 0:0. It continues to do that, and I'm wondering if anyone else has that experience with gmixer. Could that be a bug? Are there other graphical mixer alternatives? You could install the gkrellm and gkrellmvolume2 ports; then you'll always have a slider for each mixer channel available. I may give that a try. It does help, in this case, to have a graphical interface. It's pretty difficult to get things adjusted properly while switching back and forth between fldigi and the command line. --Rem ___ 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: gtkpod permissions problem
I have installed gtkpod for use with my Nano, but I'm having a problem when trying to add files. The Nano is mounted at /mnt/ipod, and when I try to add a file I get a message similar to this: Transfer of 'Petite Fleur' failed. Error opening '/mnt/ipod/iPod_Control/Music/F00/gtkpod795096.mp3' for writing (Permission denied). The file, in this case Petite Fleur, shows up in gtkpod, but it can't be written to the Nano. This obviously looks like a permissions problem, but I can't figure out its cause. Look at the permissions on that file, and the directory containing it, and the mount point. I'm sure at least one of them isn't sufficiently permitted to the user running gtkpod. You were quite right. I was dealing with a Nano that already had files on it installed by iTunes. Nothing that I could do, even as root, would allow me to change the permissions of /mnt/ipod. To make a long story short, I cleared the Nano of all previously installed files, and started from zero with gtkpod and now everything works smoothly. I'm still not sure why I wasn't able to change the permissions of the mounted Nano as su, but I guess that is typical when dealing with mounted devices. Depending on the filesystem of the iPod itself -- for example an MSDOS/FAT format will set a UID/GID on mount, and no chown will hold. umount /mnt/ipod chown root:wheel /mnt/ipod chmod 0777 /mnt/ipod # optionally, set it sticky bit, chmod 1777 /mnt/ipod mount /dev/ipod /mnt/ipod now try to access the files. I am aware the problem was previously fixed, but for the archives among other reasons, I felt compelled to reply. Thanks for the reply, but I am unable to get this to work regardless of the method employed. Every time I try to change the permissions I get an error message telling me that I am using an invalid argument. --Rem ___ 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
gtkpod permissions problem
I have installed gtkpod for use with my Nano, but I'm having a problem when trying to add files. The Nano is mounted at /mnt/ipod, and when I try to add a file I get a message similar to this: Transfer of 'Petite Fleur' failed. Error opening '/mnt/ipod/iPod_Control/Music/F00/gtkpod795096.mp3' for writing (Permission denied). The file, in this case Petite Fleur, shows up in gtkpod, but it can't be written to the Nano. This obviously looks like a permissions problem, but I can't figure out its cause. TIA, ---Rem ___ 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: gtkpod permissions problem
Rem P Roberti remeg...@comcast.net writes: I have installed gtkpod for use with my Nano, but I'm having a problem when trying to add files. The Nano is mounted at /mnt/ipod, and when I try to add a file I get a message similar to this: Transfer of 'Petite Fleur' failed. Error opening '/mnt/ipod/iPod_Control/Music/F00/gtkpod795096.mp3' for writing (Permission denied). The file, in this case Petite Fleur, shows up in gtkpod, but it can't be written to the Nano. This obviously looks like a permissions problem, but I can't figure out its cause. Look at the permissions on that file, and the directory containing it, and the mount point. I'm sure at least one of them isn't sufficiently permitted to the user running gtkpod. You were quite right. I was dealing with a Nano that already had files on it installed by iTunes. Nothing that I could do, even as root, would allow me to change the permissions of /mnt/ipod. To make a long story short, I cleared the Nano of all previously installed files, and started from zero with gtkpod and now everything works smoothly. I'm still not sure why I wasn't able to change the permissions of the mounted Nano as su, but I guess that is typical when dealing with mounted devices. --Rem ___ 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
