Re: Windows Media (blech!)
On Monday 13 October 2003 09:52 pm, Evan Dower wrote: Is there a way to watch Windows Media files on FreeBSD? I noticed NetShow, but it seems to be defunct/missing. Many thanks, Mplayer supports a wide range of codecs, including MS codecs. They seem to be a little outdated though. I haven't had much luck playing anything other than mpeg with Mplayer. YMMV. -- Todd Stephens Good people do not need laws to tell them to act responsibly, while bad people will find a way around the laws. - Plato ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: FreeBSD Internals e-book
On Saturday 11 October 2003 06:47 am, Rouan van Dalen wrote: On completion of each chapter I will mail it to you (or any e-mail address that you supply). I need very indepth information on how the internals of FreeBSD works. Information that is non-existent. I was wondering if you could help me in my quest for knowledge about FreeBSD. In exchange for the knowledge, I will publish the e-book for free. Take a look at http://www.freebsd.org/docproj/submitting.html You may also want to have a read of this one to make sure you are not duplicating any effort: http://www.freebsd.org/docproj/current.html To get a feel for what you are getting yourself in to g you could read The Design and Implementation of the 4.4 BSD Operating System. One chapter is availabe for reading online at: http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/design-44bsd/ -- Todd Stephens Good people do not need laws to tell them to act responsibly, while bad people will find a way around the laws. - Plato ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
What is up with this list's postfix program?
I keep getting Undeliverable notifications of things I submit even though they make it to the list just fine. Anyone else getting this? -- Todd Stephens Good people do not need laws to tell them to act responsibly, while bad people will find a way around the laws. - Plato ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: What is up with this list's postfix program?
On Saturday 11 October 2003 06:17 pm, Kris Kennaway wrote: Are you sure they're actually from freebsd.org and not some random third-party mail server out there on the internet? It's very common for someone with a broken smtp server to subscribe to the list and then deliver bounces to everyone who sends mails to the list. OK, that appears to be the case at least for this latest one. I know I received a strange one earlier in the week from a submission I had made several weeks ago, and I am pretty sure that was from this list's server. Anyway, this latest is from some server @ bicer.org. -- Todd Stephens Good people do not need laws to tell them to act responsibly, while bad people will find a way around the laws. - Plato ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Latest stable fixes are unstable
On Thursday 09 October 2003 03:36 pm, Jeffrey Wheat wrote: After applying the last set of patches via a cvs run of RELENG_4, I have servers crashing and rebooting that had run for months on end prior to the fixes. A good way to avoid the possibility of that and still get all the security patches is to update to RELENG_4_8. -- Todd Stephens Good people do not need laws to tell them to act responsibly, while bad people will find a way around the laws. - Plato ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: low-scale presenter for FreeBSD?
On Sunday 05 October 2003 02:56 am, Greg 'groggy' Lehey wrote: I'd be very interested to hear from people who are picky, who have actually used any of these packages, and who can tell me how to use them well. (Amongst other things, this is a roundabout way of saying that I don't know anything good myself). Out of the applications I mentioned the only one I have done any real work on was KPresenter. It could certainly be more... (better?) ... but it was sufficient for my needs. It lacks animation and is probably every bit the PowerPoint clone that OpenOffice is. I stay away from OpenOffice as much as possible because it is such a resource pig. I haven't tried the others. I need something that will interface with UNIX text files, and I suspect that MagicPoint's the only choice there. Slideshow seems like an impressive application to me from looking at the web site http://www.alobbs.com/slideshow. It has an option to create ASCII Slides, so I don't know if that means it can read from a text file or not. I might try it out just to see, but I am trying to cut back on what I am installing these days. The ports system almost makes it *too* easy to install things and I've gone a little crazy with it lately. -- Todd Stephens Good people do not need laws to tell them to act responsibly, while bad people will find a way around the laws. - Plato ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: low-scale presenter for FreeBSD?
On Sunday 05 October 2003 09:22 am, Todd Stephens wrote: Slideshow seems like an impressive application to me from looking at the web site http://www.alobbs.com/slideshow. It has an option to create ASCII Slides, so I don't know if that means it can read from a text file or not. I might try it out just to see, but I am trying to cut back on what I am installing these days. The ports system almost makes it *too* easy to install things and I've gone a little crazy with it lately. Follow up to this. Slideshow is indeed a very powerful presentation program. The problem lies in figuring out how to use it. It appears to me that you have to write the slides in XML, then program the actual slideshow in Python, since slideshow is apparently a Python module. The 'example' slideshow that is installed doesn't really tell me much, and the docs installed simply refer you to the sample slideshow. -- Todd Stephens Good people do not need laws to tell them to act responsibly, while bad people will find a way around the laws. - Plato ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: low-scale presenter for FreeBSD?
On Sunday 05 October 2003 07:26 am, Michal F. Hanula wrote: On Sun, Oct 05, 2003 at 02:24:33AM +0200, Gabriel Striewe wrote: Hello! Can anybody recommend a low-scale presentation programm in OpenOfficeImpress or PowerPoint style, but which does not use as much resources. Thanks for any hints What about OperaShow? http://www.opera.com/support/tutorials/operashow/ mf Assuming one knows how to author an html document. Is this part of the Opera port? On the web page is says it is part of Opera for Windows, but does not mention it being part of Opera for Linux or otherwise. It is an interesting idea though. -- Todd Stephens Good people do not need laws to tell them to act responsibly, while bad people will find a way around the laws. - Plato ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: low-scale presenter for FreeBSD?
On Saturday 04 October 2003 08:23 pm, Rus Foster wrote: How about saving it as HTML then using netscape? I think he wanted something that /wasn't/ a resource hog :-) Seriously, if you have KDE installed (which you probably don't if you are worried about system resources) there is KPresenter. The HTML suggestion is a very valid one though, and there is a port for converting PowerPoint to html in /usr/ports/textproc/xlhtml but I've never tried it. There are a few in the 'misc' ports. Look for MagicPoint or Pointless. I think Pointless uses OpenGL, so you might not want that one either. There is another in /usr/ports/multimedia/slideshow that is supposedly very powerful. I have only glanced at it. -- Todd Stephens Good people do not need laws to tell them to act responsibly, while bad people will find a way around the laws. - Plato ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: FreeBSD vs. RedHat
On Thursday 02 October 2003 03:13 am, Erik Steffl wrote: I just don't think that your fairly general statement about linux distros pushing kitchen sink on you while freeBSD being more traditional unix is true... I have tried RH, Mandrake, SuSE and Slackware Linux distros. Sure, you can uninstall things later, but the only one that really gave me a choice of specific packages to install from the get-go was Slackware. -- Todd Stephens Good people do not need laws to tell them to act responsibly, while bad people will find a way around the laws. - Plato ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Getting cups web interface to work
On Wednesday 01 October 2003 08:33 pm, Gary K Stinnett Jr wrote: I have cups and samba installed on my FreeBSD 4.8 box. Samba is working fine. I have access to my box from my windows machines for my users home dir and a public dir. I have not been able to set up my printer on cups using the web interface www.mydomain.com:631/admin/ Use http://localhost:631/admin -- Todd Stephens Good people do not need laws to tell them to act responsibly, while bad people will find a way around the laws. - Plato ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Getting cups web interface to work
On Wednesday 01 October 2003 08:33 pm, Gary K Stinnett Jr wrote: When I access cups admin from a machine on my local network I get prompted for a user name and password. I enter root and my root password and it brings up the cups admin page. This is where it gets strange. The page comes up but all the images link buttons and such show as broken links. When I click on any of the links to do things like set up a printer or manage groups, my browser comes up with the dreaded The page cannot be displayed page. OK, I see you are trying to access from another machine. I knew I should have reread my post before hitting send. Never mind. -- Todd Stephens Good people do not need laws to tell them to act responsibly, while bad people will find a way around the laws. - Plato ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: FreeBSD vs. RedHat
On Wednesday 01 October 2003 10:42 pm, SoloCDM wrote: Why do the ISOs seem to be three CDs of 600Mb each for RedHat compared to 1.5 CDs for FreeBSD? I thought the files were larger with FreeBSD and its tarballs. Not sure what you mean by that its tarballs. Linux distributions come with an immense amount of software that generally gets installed with the OS. FreeBSD comes with quite a bit as well (enough to get your system up and running for just about any purpose you desire), but one of the intents of FreeBSD is to give the user a little more choice in what is installed. Read about the ports collection at www.freebsd.org. Does FreeBSD offer all the packages from A to Z in their CDs? Not that I am aware of. All the packages available to FreeBSD amount to some 9000+ programs. Does FreeBSD come with an installation package? It comes with a very good installation utility. Is FreeBSD Linux or UNIX? FreeBSD is not Linux, it is based on the 4.4 BSD Lite developed by UC Berkeley. Due to copyright restrictions, one can not really call it Unix either, though (IMO) the BSD family is as close as you will come in a modern OS to the original ATT 'Unix'. Flame retardant suit now on -- Todd Stephens Good people do not need laws to tell them to act responsibly, while bad people will find a way around the laws. - Plato ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: FreeBSD vs. RedHat
On Wednesday 01 October 2003 11:26 pm, Kevin D. Kinsey, DaleCo, S.P. wrote: I imagine you'll correct me if I'm wrong, but when you install RH you get KDE and Apache, automagically, right? This makes it a complete OS, but it's a little more structured in that some choices are made for you in terms of pre-installed software. Actually, with RH you get GNOME automagically as RH has just about ceased any official support of KDE. Just for trivia's sake :) -- Todd Stephens Good people do not need laws to tell them to act responsibly, while bad people will find a way around the laws. - Plato ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: FreeBSD vs. RedHat
On Wednesday 01 October 2003 11:09 pm, Daniel Hawton wrote: 4.4BSD Lite 2 is BSD.. which is from SysV.. heh That's what I said. Let me give acknowledgment to Greg Lehey ahead of time for this as this bit that follows comes from _The Complete FreeBSD_. .. by the mid-80s, there were four different versions of UNIX: the Research Version ... the Berkeley Software Distribution ... System V ... and XENIX, Sorry for omitting parts, but the overall idea of the passage remains intact. I believe, and someone correct me here, that BSD was a modification of the /original/ UNIX code which existed prior to Sys V in 1983, indicating that BSD and Sys V are different branches from the same trunk. The history is rather confusing though, so I expect to be wrong on this. -- Todd Stephens Good people do not need laws to tell them to act responsibly, while bad people will find a way around the laws. - Plato ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: vmware
On Monday 29 September 2003 05:33 pm, Ralph wrote: I installed vmware 3 and it say's i need to mount linprocfs to run vmware can someone tell me how to do this plz. man linprocfs SYNOPSIS linproc /compat/linux/proc linprocfs rw 0 0 -- Todd Stephens Good people do not need laws to tell them to act responsibly, while bad people will find a way around the laws. - Plato ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re:
On Monday 29 September 2003 09:02 pm, Piet Slaghekke wrote: Hello, When downloading freebsd I am asked what architecture. What does this mean and how do I determine this? You have either an i386 compatible (intel, amd, cyrix, etc) or an Alpha chip (Compaq/DEC). If you have a Mac (PPC chip) you can't use FreeBSD at this time. -- Todd Stephens Good people do not need laws to tell them to act responsibly, while bad people will find a way around the laws. - Plato ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Problem with cups
On Saturday 27 September 2003 12:38 pm, Khairil Yusof wrote: The steps I did to get cups working well with my HP PSC 2110 are: 1. install cups, foomatic-rip, hpijs from ports When you say foomatic-rip from ports, is this the foomatic-db port? I cannot find a port for foomatic-rip (which I thought was just a Perl script anyway). I eventually gave up on foomatic with my Epson C82 and used the straight Epson C82 driver from the gimp-print collection. -- Todd Stephens A witty saying proves nothing. -Voltaire ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Problem with cups
On Saturday 27 September 2003 01:29 pm, Khairil Yusof wrote: For Epson printers.. gimp-print already gives you the best results and it's already configured automatically by the port install of gimp-print if you already have cups. For hpijs though, it isn't. I see. I have noticed that my results without foomatic were just as good as they were with foomatic under Linux. Thank you for the clarification. -- Todd Stephens Good people do not need laws to tell them to act responsibly, while bad people will find a way around the laws. - Plato ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Burn an ISO image
On Saturday 27 September 2003 02:00 pm, Darryl Hoar wrote: I downloaded the mini.iso (as per the instructions), but I am still on windows (with the Roxio burner software - yeah crap). How do I burn the iso image to CD such that I can boot up the install ? Does Windows associate the .iso extension with your burning software? I did it with Nero and Adaptec both by just right-clicking the .iso file and selecting burn new cd from image or something similar to that wording. -- Todd Stephens Good people do not need laws to tell them to act responsibly, while bad people will find a way around the laws. - Plato ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Port installation methods
Is there any benefit to using the standard 'make' method of installing ports over the 'portinstall' command (or portupgrade -N), or vice-versa? -- Todd Stephens Good people do not need laws to tell them to act responsibly, while bad people will find a way around the laws. - Plato ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: questions about x server
On Thursday 25 September 2003 01:37 am, ALIAS wrote: i just installed kde3 and when i enter startkde it says kpersonalizer can't connect to x server or something how do i fix that? Did that for me too. You have to use startx instead, and make sure that exec startkde is in your .xinitrc file in your home directory. -- Todd Stephens Please refrain from double negatives in my email A witty saying proves nothing. -Voltaire ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: FreeBSD,Linux and any other os besides Microsoft.
On Monday 22 September 2003 10:52 pm, Ajax Munroe wrote: I dont have a question but I would like to make a statement. I downloaded Freebsd version 5.0 release and unpacked it in great anticipation. I made a bootable CD (the best I could, It's not as easy as making a bootable windows CD) put the cd in my rom and found that BSD is not for me. Well, you said it yourself; BSD is not for you. Being computer literate and being computer passionate are two different things. If I did not have so much fun in hacking through the system and getting everything set up the way I want, I would have stuck with Windows as well. Windows functions perfectly well as a home desktop; I just wanted more. BTW, how is copying an ISO image of FreeBSD to a CD harder than copying any other ISO to a CD? -- Todd Stephens ICQ# 3150790 A witty saying proves nothing. -Voltaire ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re:
On Monday 22 September 2003 10:57 pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: FreeBSD- I have a question about Miny ITX processors (http://www.mini-itx.com for more info) EPIA processors. The release for it isn't at the FTP site, unless it is compadible with some other processor type. Thanks. I see on the mini-itx site it lists Linux and FreeBSD as being Linux based operating systems. This is not correct (at least in FreeBSD's case :-)). Unless this EPIA architecture is a clone of the i386 or Alpha, I don't see it working on FreeBSD. In fact, I don't even see it on NetBSD's site (http://www.netbsd.org/Ports/). -- Todd Stephens ICQ# 3150790 A witty saying proves nothing. -Voltaire ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: atacontrol
On Sunday 21 September 2003 11:56 am, Micheal Patterson wrote: Has anyone ever run across this error when trying to run atacontrol? $: atacontrol list atacontrol: control device not found: No such file or directory atacontrol has to be run as root. -- Todd Stephens ICQ# 3150790 A witty saying proves nothing. -Voltaire ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: atacontrol
On Sunday 21 September 2003 01:39 pm, Lowell Gilbert wrote: Wrong error for that to be the problem. Maybe /dev/ata is missing? Well, if run as a non-root user, I get the same error with permission denied appended on the very end of it. I assumed he merely did not copy the entire line. The OP has since said he was running as root, but the $ prompt he used in the example made me think he was not doing so. -- Todd Stephens ICQ# 3150790 A witty saying proves nothing. -Voltaire ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Question on which port is better for COBOL
I have a need to do some COBOL programming at home where I run FreeBSD 4.8. I see the ports collection has two options for COBOL compilers: tinyCobol and openCobol. The tinyCobol port has a higher version number than openCobol, leading me to believe it is more mature, but this is not always the case. Has anyone any experience with either (or preferably both)? Which one is preferred by users out there? Thank you for any assistance. -- Todd Stephens ICQ# 3150790 A witty saying proves nothing. -Voltaire ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: KDE - icons and fonts not anti-aliased
On Saturday 20 September 2003 03:25 pm, Alexander Farber wrote: Hi, does anyone else has this problem as well? I've installed 4.8 a week a go, then upgraded it to -stable, then installed mplayer from ports which has also pulled qt. Then I've installed KDE 3.1.3 from ports and the icons and fonts look jagged there. Also I can't enable anti-aliased fonts in KDE's menu Appearance - Fonts: I set the checkbox in the dialog, but the next time I look at it - it is unchecked again. Do you have an exclude range established? I think the default is to exclude fonts between 8 and 15 point sizes. There is a checkbox to uncheck if you don't want any font sizes excluded from anti-aliasing. -- Todd Stephens ICQ# 3150790 A witty saying proves nothing. -Voltaire ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: OpenOffice
On Monday 15 September 2003 04:15 am, Nathan Kinkade wrote: You could get a package for OpenOffice at: http://projects.imp.ch/openoffice/ This worked for me and of course only took a short while to install. I should have gone that route, but with an app so big and complex I felt I was better off using ports. Of course, I'm going on about 30 hours now of compile time. Mitigating that is the fact that it had to compile and install gcc 3.2.3 before it even got to the OpenOffice build. -- Todd Stephens ICQ# 3150790 A witty saying proves nothing. -Voltaire ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
OpenOffice
I am installing this from ports. Considering everything else that is getting installed along with it (gcc 3.2.3 among others), how long should I expect this to take? Anyone have any experience with this? Running a K6-2 500Mhz (FBSD 4.8) -- Todd Stephens ICQ# 3150790 A witty saying proves nothing. -Voltaire ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: color in Xwindows
On Sunday 14 September 2003 01:23 pm, Gerald S Stoller wrote: I tried it, still the same output, no color. This may be related to my question regarding using xterm-color. Try typing this at your command line: $ TERM=xterm-color Then try ls -G and see if you get color or not. -- Todd Stephens ICQ# 3150790 A witty saying proves nothing. -Voltaire ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: OpenOffice
On Sunday 14 September 2003 02:20 pm, you wrote: I installed it on a 533MHz Celeron and it took about 24 hours. Give or take. Make sure you have lots of disk space for it. Oh, and I think it was 4.7-RELEASE I used, so not gcc3. Wow! Thanks for the speedy response. My original message to the list hasn't even shown up in my inbox yet! I think I need to have a talk with my ISP :) Actually, I was expecting at least a day or so for the install. I guess it is not so bad. My main fear was that someone was going to say 3 days. -- Todd Stephens ICQ# 3150790 A witty saying proves nothing. -Voltaire ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
cdda2wav permissions
I have everything configured (so I thought) to use the cd-rw drive as a normal user. As a normal user, I can mount a data cd just fine, but when I try to run cdda2wav to record an audio cd as a user, I get a permission denied error. I checked the cdda2wav binary and the permissions on it are 555, so I should be able to execute the binary as a user. Permissions on the relative devices (cd0a and cd0c and the rcd* devices) are all 644 root:operator. What else needs to be done here? -- Todd Stephens ICQ# 3150790 A witty saying proves nothing. -Voltaire ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Ogg encoding
I found a port for mp32ogg to convert mp3 to ogg format, but is there a program to convert wav to ogg format? I like the ogg format, but it seems to me that there will be some data loss going from wav to mp3 and then to ogg. -- Todd Stephens ICQ# 3150790 A witty saying proves nothing. -Voltaire ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Xterm-color
Probably a no-brainer, but how can I make my xterm start as xterm-color? If I want color ls, I have to type TERM=xterm-color from the command line every time I start a new terminal window. What file do I need to edit to make X start with xterm-color? -- Todd Stephens ICQ# 3150790 A witty saying proves nothing. -Voltaire ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Software patents
On Friday 12 September 2003 06:05 am, Ruben de Groot wrote: I think he was talking about putting a protest on the freebsd website, like some linux distributions have done (eg http://www.debian.org) This would be free, wouldn't it ? A large part of the reason of why I switched to FreeBSD from Linux was the absence of the patent/license fanaticism you find in the Linux community. If this were a Linux mailing list, 3/4 of the messages would be about the GPL and how MS is evil, while here we have nearly all messages being oriented towards learning how to use and improve FreeBSD. I think the *BSD communities are comfortable enough in their positions that they don't need to direct so much attention to themselves in that way. -- Todd Stephens ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: xmms-arts plugin
On Thursday 11 September 2003 03:11 am, Bjarne Wichmann Petersen wrote: You don't *need* it, but xmms will lock the sound-device while playing and thus hindering kde-apps using it. One solution is to use vchans, but it sound *awfull* with my HW. An arts-plugin to xmms would be really nice, but I never got the plugin working apart from crashing everythin IIRC. I'm not sure. I have KMail set to give a ring when I get new mail, and it works fine while I am using XMMS to listen to an audio cd. Granted, the ring is a bit louder than I normally like, but only because I have the volume turned way up to hear the cd better. -- Todd Stephens ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: xmms-arts plugin
On Thursday 11 September 2003 07:04 am, Alin-Adrian Anton wrote: Probably because KMial's ring is a beep with the internal speaker, not via the soundcard device. Well, no. I have KMail set to play a system sound when new mail arrives. And even with artsdsp , I am unable to play sound simultaneously from a different source than xmms, while xmms is playing via the wrapper. I don't know what I did differently, but mine seems to work fine in that respect. Now, maybe the mail notification sound is delayed a bit, but I really don't know. -- Todd Stephens ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: freeBSD 4.8
On Thursday 11 September 2003 10:50 pm, John Mascardo wrote: I am a very-very new LINUX/UNIX user. After being convinced by friends that it is far better and stablethan windows architechture. So I bought the LINUX Format magazine because it offered a full OS called FREEBSD 4.8 I tried to install it and after a few a attempts I managed to install it atlast but when it started up it asked for a login and password. If it is a full install on a CD included with a magazine, it probably has no passwords set. Just type in a user name (probably root) and hit enter when prompted for a password. BTW, FreeBSD is not Linux. Go to www.freebsd.org to find out more. -- Todd Stephens ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: xmms-arts plugin
On Tuesday 09 September 2003 06:36 pm, Alin-Adrian Anton wrote: Hello, I am having a lot of pain trying to compile the xmms-arts plugin available from xmms.org, since it is not in the ports anymore. If anyone uses the xmms-arts plugin on freebsd I would really appreciate any help. I am running FreeBSD-4.8 STABLE, with the ports cvsuped and upraded today. I do not believe you need it. I am running XMMS under KDE with no arts plugin without any problems at all. -- Todd Stephens ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: USB stick
On Monday 08 September 2003 04:05 am, Christoph Kukulies wrote: # mount -t msdos /dev/da0 /mnt msdosfs: /dev/da0: Invalid argument This is speaking from Linux experience, as I do not have my USB CF card reader working under FBSD yet, but you probably need to mount a slice and/or partition rather than the device itself. Under Linux, my card reader was detected as /dev/hdb0, but to mount it I had to mount /dev/hdb1, being the first partition of device hdb0. You'll probably need to mount /dev/da0s1a or something along those lines. This is just a guess on my part, though. -- Todd Stephens ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
USB controller SiS 5571 chipset
Running 4.8 RELEASE I have a question regarding this hardware. I have googled, found several problems related to it, but no solutions. My dmesg under FreeBSD shows that this is an OHCI chipset, but it absolutely does not work under FreeBSD. I checked my Slackware-Linux dmesg output, and it appears to be recognized as UHCI there (and works under Linux). If I were to disable OHCI in the kernel and leave only UHCI, would this cause any potential lockups of my system since FreeBSD obviously thinks the device is OHCI? I'd very much like to get my USB CF card reader working again. Thank you. -- Todd Stephens ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Playing audio cd while using atapicam (4.8R)
I have an ATAPI CD writer that I have on /dev/cd0c via atapicam. It works fine for regular data use, but I can't seem to play an audio cd with it. I have tried both xmcd and KsCD under KDE. In both, the device used is the raw device /dev/rcd0c which has the same permissions and ownership as the regular /dev/cd0c device. With xmcd, the audio cd is at least recognized as the correct artist and album name is displayed, but it will not play. Under KsCD, the cd information is not displayed, but it will at least let me push play. The only problem is that the counter stays at 00:00 and no audio comes out. Is there some other procedure that I need to do first to enable the playing of audio cd? I thought about maybe adding /dev/rcd0c to the fstab file, but I don't know if that is the way to go about it. Thank you for any assistance. -- Todd Stephens ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Playing audio cd while using atapicam (4.8R)
On Saturday 06 September 2003 06:54 pm, Glenn Johnson wrote: Set the device in your CD playing software to the ATAPI device, most likely, /dev/acd0. As easy as that. How bizarre. I guess I was going under the assumption that it was similar to the linux ide-scsi emulation where the cd drive was viewed as scsi regardless of application. Than you. It works fine now. -- Todd Stephens ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: CUPS, foomatic-rip, 4.8 RELEASE (was: How to get CUPS to work)
On Friday 05 September 2003 02:39 pm, Mark Terribile wrote: ... but here are the ADDITIONAL things I had to do to get the cups port/package working properly under FreeBSD 5.1-RELEASE: (This may not all be necessary under 4.8-RELEASE. YMMV.) Ah, yes. I think I forgot to add that I had to change the lpd_program variable in /etc/rc.conf : /etc/rc.conf:lpd_program=/usr/local/sbin/cupsd # path to lpd, if you want a different one. I did not have to do that on my 4.8 system. I can get my Epson C82 to work with the stock gimp-print driver, but for some reason I can't get it to work with the ppd-o-matic generated foomatic-rip driver combo from linuxprinting.org. From what I understand, foomatic-rip is a perl script, so it should not be platform specific to Linux. While I am somewhat satisfied with the stock gimp-print driver, the foomatic-rip script really cleans up the print much better. I've noticed quite a few kerning problems with TT fonts without it. Does anyone have this specific combination working? If so, where should the foomatic-rip and/or foomatic-gswrapper scripts be placed? Should I set owner to root:daemon? I'll keep trying with it in the meantime. -- Todd Stephens ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: CUPS, foomatic-rip, 4.8 RELEASE (was: How to get CUPS to work)
On Friday 05 September 2003 09:59 am, Jesse Guardiani wrote: I hope the above information is useful to someone. It MAY NOT be 100% complete. I was very tired when I took the above notes. Please write me and let me know if you had to add anything or do anything different from the above. But Note: I do NOT want to know what you had to do to install foomatic-rip, hpijs, or any other printer-specific software properly. I'm only interested in cups configuration and setup info. Ahem. Sorry, I know you don't want to hear this question, but what did you do to get the foomatic part working? I placed it according to linuxprinting.org, but I am thinking that maybe the FreeBSD port of CUPS is looking for it elsewhere. I will go through the process again using the exact steps you outlined. I think there are a few directories that I did not create. I'll let you know how this goes. -- Todd Stephens ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: applications
On Wednesday 03 September 2003 12:01 pm, Doug Love wrote: A friend recommends your OS over Linux for my home system. I've taken a 2 day Linux Admin course, and know just about that much. I don't see a quick answer on your webpages to my questions. Where can I find A Database similar to Access You will not find this yet. The KDE project is working on an application called Kexi, that is similar to Access in that it is a desktop database system (using a very small, lightweight SQL backend). There is a similar commercial application from thekompany.com, but I have no idea if it would run on FreeBSD, even under Linux compat. Spreadsheets Gnumeric. OpenOffice has one as does KOffice. Pkzip There are more compression tools than you can shake a stick at :) -- Todd Stephens ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Newbie - CD Burning Question
On Wednesday 03 September 2003 05:20 pm, Tony Pagliocco wrote: CD Burner is located on /dec/acd0c because it says no such file or directory is located. The command I am using is # burncd -f /dec/acd0c data /home/www/directory fixate Are you typing /dev or /dec? It should be /dev. Also, according to 'man burncd', the files burned to data CD-Rs are assumed to be ISO9660 file systems, so I think you need to take whatever file(s) you want to put on the cd, and use mkisofs to create a ISO image. I've never used burncd though, so I can't be sure on that. -- Todd Stephens ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: CUPS, foomatic-rip, 4.8 RELEASE (was: How to get CUPS to work)
On Monday 01 September 2003 05:43 pm, Todd Stephens wrote: I have been trying to get this setup to work as it does on my Linux box. Has anyone gotten CUPS working using the foomatic-rip/gimp-print method outlined on Linuxprinting.org? I have an Epson Stylus C82 at /dev/lpt0. Everything seems to working properly with CUPS now; I have the CUPS scheduler running, the printer is configured, but when I go to print anything, I get the following message: #lp -d EpsonC82 /etc/motd request id is EpsonC82-4 (1 file(s)) Then nothing ever prints. I think CUPS is configured properly or I would not have gotten that far, but maybe GS or gimp-print is not. Does anyone have any experience with this? Looks like I got it. I guess it was the foomatic-rip that was breaking it. I installed the printer again using a different driver (one that for some reason did not show up the first time I tried) and it works now. -- Todd Stephens ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: libc.so.3 not found
On Monday 01 September 2003 07:59 am, Nelis Lamprecht wrote: Hi, Running a program ( Mcafee Viruscan ) and I get the following: pandora# ./uvscan /usr/libexec/ld-elf.so.1: Shared object libc.so.3 not found I'm using 4.8 Stable. Which port will give me this library ? On my 4.8 I have libc.so.4 in /usr/lib. I'm not sure what put it there, but check to see what you have. If it is higher than 3, you could: #cd /usr/lib #ln -s libc.so.4 libc.so.3 See if that works. -- Todd Stephens ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: libc.so.3 not found
On Monday 01 September 2003 08:07 am, Larry Rosenman wrote: set COMPAT3X=yes in /etc/make.conf, and cd /usr/src/lib/compat/compat3x.i386 make make install make clean will do it. I suppose my earlier reply can be disregarded. My suggestion works for some libraries, but I see it may not work for this one. -- Todd Stephens ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
CUPS, foomatic-rip, 4.8 RELEASE (was: How to get CUPS to work)
I have been trying to get this setup to work as it does on my Linux box. Has anyone gotten CUPS working using the foomatic-rip/gimp-print method outlined on Linuxprinting.org? I have an Epson Stylus C82 at /dev/lpt0. Everything seems to working properly with CUPS now; I have the CUPS scheduler running, the printer is configured, but when I go to print anything, I get the following message: #lp -d EpsonC82 /etc/motd request id is EpsonC82-4 (1 file(s)) Then nothing ever prints. I think CUPS is configured properly or I would not have gotten that far, but maybe GS or gimp-print is not. Does anyone have any experience with this? -- Todd Stephens ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
How to get CUPS to work (newbie)
I have CUPS installed on my 4.8 system. I cannot seem to configure it, though. I have tried the web interface at localhost:631, but it seems that the cupsd.conf file was not created. Well, then I tried to create this using the print server configuration in KDE and I keep getting permission denied errors when I try to write the cupsd.conf file (running this as root, btw). Basically I am looking for a tutorial somewhere to get CUPS up and running on FreeBSD. Actually, I do have it running, I just can't configure it or add any printers. Not much use without printers :) I checked on freebsddiary.org, and the CUPS page there doesn't cover the configuration of the server itself it seems. Any help is greatly appreciated. -- Todd Stephens ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: How to get CUPS to work (newbie)
On Sunday 31 August 2003 08:35 am, Alexander Farber wrote:
Is the reason maybe, that you missed to execute these commands:
newhope:alex {646} pkg_info -D cups-base-1.1.18.0_5
Information for cups-base-1.1.18.0_5:
Ahh. It was actually 1.1.19 that I installed, but my fault for not
stating so. I am not sure if it was installed from ports or packages
as I did it via portupgrade -NP cups, and then I walked away for a
while. I did have to create those directories manually (from your
advice), so maybe that had something to do with it. I am going to try
to work on it some more today and will reply to the list if it works.
Thank you for your assistance.
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Re: Why people are not satisfied with FreeBSD?
On Saturday 30 August 2003 08:13 am, Denis Troshin wrote: Are there any common reasons of why people are not satisfied with FreeBSD? Why do they still prefer windows? I think a lot of people use this list to get advice on how to install FreeBSD and how to resolve issues. I know when I moved from Windows to Linux, I could not get a response from my ISP's DHCP server, so my only recourse to was to boot back to Windows to ask my questions. -- Todd Stephens ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: no root login after changing shell
On Wednesday 27 August 2003 10:24 pm, m wrote: What about the toor user? I think it has no shell associated. Hope that helps. bye. Unless he has already changed toor's password (which a lot of people don't even know about) he won't be able to log in as toor. This is my newbie understanding of toor anyway. -- Todd Stephens ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
