supported cdrom not found by 8.4 setup
i'm trying to install 8.4 on a thinkpad x230, which uses a usb cdrom. according to the hardward docs, 8.4 supports teac cd-210pu. that is what i am using. the box boots up fine from the installation cd. but when it comes to choosing an installation medium, the system doesn't find the device. idea, anyone? thx. david coder ___ 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
mini express cards supported by freebsd
i need a mini express wifi card for a thinkpad laptop. does anybody know of one that is supported by freebsd? the aironet card i have is too fat. thx, david coder ___ 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
chromium freezes 8.3 system
chromium often freezes my 8.4-stable, necessitating a powercycle. is this a configuration issue? here's what i get w/make showconfig: === The following configuration options are available for chromium-27.0.1453.81: CLANG=on: Build Chromium with Clang instead of GCC 4.6+ CODECS=on: Compile and enable patented codecs like H.264 DEBUG=off: Install debug symbols GCONF=on: GConf configuration backend support PULSEAUDIO=off: PulseAudio sound server support thx for any help you can give me. david coder ___ 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
chromium freezes system 8.3
chromium often freezes my 8.3 os, necessitating a powercycle. is this a configuration issue? here's what i get w/make showconfig: === The following configuration options are available for chromium-27.0.1453.81: CLANG=on: Build Chromium with Clang instead of GCC 4.6+ CODECS=on: Compile and enable patented codecs like H.264 DEBUG=off: Install debug symbols GCONF=on: GConf configuration backend support PULSEAUDIO=off: PulseAudio sound server support thx for any help you can give me. david coder ___ 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: chromium freezes 8.3 system
correction: subject line should have read 8.4-stable system. here's the output of uname -a: FreeBSD anon 8.4-STABLE FreeBSD 8.4-STABLE #0: Mon Jun 3 03:15:35 UTC 2013 root@anon:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/anon i386 +++ david coder [03/06/13 23:29 -0400]: chromium often freezes my 8.4-stable, necessitating a powercycle. is this a configuration issue? here's what i get w/make showconfig: === The following configuration options are available for chromium-27.0.1453.81: CLANG=on: Build Chromium with Clang instead of GCC 4.6+ CODECS=on: Compile and enable patented codecs like H.264 DEBUG=off: Install debug symbols GCONF=on: GConf configuration backend support PULSEAUDIO=off: PulseAudio sound server support thx for any help you can give me. david coder ___ 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 ___ 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: firefox png
+++ Jamie Paul Griffin [23/08/12 07:54 +0100]: [ Polytropon wrote on Thu 23.Aug'12 at 2:00:15 +0200 ] On Wed, 22 Aug 2012 19:43:55 -0400, david coder wrote: thx, i hadn't seen the reply to my earlier message. unfortunately, though i've got the png port installed w/ OPTIONS=APNG Animated PNG support On That should be the default. Anyway, you can always check which options had been in use when building and installing a port: % cat /var/db/ports/png/options # This file is auto-generated by 'make config'. # No user-servicable parts inside! # Options for png-1.4.8 _OPTIONS_READ=png-1.4.8 WITH_APNG=true In this example you can see that it has been properly installed. the install of freebsd fails w/ the error message given below. Sadly the Firefox build error message is not included. is there something else required in the png makefile or elsewhere that i'm missing? I'm sure this entry of /usr/ports/UPDATING applies: 20120531: AFFECTS: users of graphics/png AUTHOR: din...@freebsd.org The PNG library has been updated to version 1.5.10. Please rebuild all ports that depend on it. I built Firefox 14 a couple of days ago and png installed is now version 1.5.12. So an updated ports tree should incorporate that change now shouldn't it. true, but from what i have been able to sniff out on my own, ports configuration data are stored in /usr/local/include, not anywhere in the ports tree, so that if png has been installed already you do a make showconfig in /usr/ports/graphics/png, the data are read from files in /usr/local/include, if you run make config in /usr/ports/graphics/png, the files affected by any change are in /usr/local/include, not anywhere in the ports tree. this has been a learning experience for me prolly will continue to be as others here correct me. david coder ___ 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
port configuration data [was re: firefox png]
+++ david coder [23/08/12 12:26 -0400]: +++ Jamie Paul Griffin [23/08/12 07:54 +0100]: [ Polytropon wrote on Thu 23.Aug'12 at 2:00:15 +0200 ] On Wed, 22 Aug 2012 19:43:55 -0400, david coder wrote: thx, i hadn't seen the reply to my earlier message. unfortunately, though i've got the png port installed w/ OPTIONS=APNG Animated PNG support On That should be the default. Anyway, you can always check which options had been in use when building and installing a port: % cat /var/db/ports/png/options # This file is auto-generated by 'make config'. # No user-servicable parts inside! # Options for png-1.4.8 _OPTIONS_READ=png-1.4.8 WITH_APNG=true In this example you can see that it has been properly installed. the install of freebsd fails w/ the error message given below. Sadly the Firefox build error message is not included. is there something else required in the png makefile or elsewhere that i'm missing? I'm sure this entry of /usr/ports/UPDATING applies: 20120531: AFFECTS: users of graphics/png AUTHOR: din...@freebsd.org The PNG library has been updated to version 1.5.10. Please rebuild all ports that depend on it. I built Firefox 14 a couple of days ago and png installed is now version 1.5.12. So an updated ports tree should incorporate that change now shouldn't it. true, but from what i have been able to sniff out on my own, ports configuration data are stored in /usr/local/include, not anywhere in the ports tree, so that if png has been installed already you do a make showconfig in /usr/ports/graphics/png, the data are read from files in /usr/local/include, if you run make config in /usr/ports/graphics/png, the files affected by any change are in /usr/local/include, not anywhere in the ports tree. this has been a learning experience for me prolly will continue to be as others here correct me. david coder ___ it's happened already: in another post here, polytropon gives a more central role to /var/db/ports/png/options. if i understand him correctly, make showconfig executed in /usr/ports/graphics/png reads from that file. changes made through make config change both that file files in /usr/local/include subdirectories thereof. please correct me if i'm wrong. david coder ___ 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: port configuration data [was re: firefox png]
+++ Polytropon [23/08/12 19:17 +0200]: On Thu, 23 Aug 2012 12:41:41 -0400, david coder wrote: it's happened already: in another post here, polytropon gives a more central role to /var/db/ports/png/options. if i understand him correctly, make showconfig executed in /usr/ports/graphics/png reads from that file. changes made through make config change both that file files in /usr/local/include subdirectories thereof. Nothing in /usr/local is going to be changed until make install (or make deinstall respectively) is executed. In /usr/local/include header files are _installed_ for accessing library functions, mostly a means for programmers to interface with software. But it's correct that you mention /usr/local/include/libpng/pngconf.h here. It's not to be changed by make configure, but it will be created by make install, reflecting the properties libpng has been installed with; it's a machine configurable file for libpng by its own declaration. It belongs to the png port, _not_ to the port configuration subsystem (which is _independent_ from the ports theirselves. -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ... thx for the correction further education, polytropon. much obliged. david coder ___ 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
firefox png
is there a system png that comes w/ 8.3 that is distinct from the ports png? if not, how explain that install of firefox-14.0.1 fails w/ the error message that the system png does not support APNG even though the makefile for the png port contains the line OPTIONS=APNG Animated PNG support On ? i am puzzled. thx. david coder ___ 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: firefox png
thx, i hadn't seen the reply to my earlier message. unfortunately, though i've got the png port installed w/ OPTIONS=APNG Animated PNG support On the install of freebsd fails w/ the error message given below. is there something else required in the png makefile or elsewhere that i'm missing? some writers have insisted that a recent install of the os is also needed, but that is also a non-issue for my boxes: they're up to date. installing firefox is not as urgent for me since chrome is adequate for most purposes, but still... thx for your reply. any further thoughts would be appreciated. david +++ Polytropon [23/08/12 01:17 +0200]: On Wed, 22 Aug 2012 19:01:50 -0400, david coder wrote: is there a system png that comes w/ 8.3 that is distinct from the ports png? if not, how explain that install of firefox-14.0.1 fails w/ the error message that the system png does not support APNG even though the makefile for the png port contains the line OPTIONS=APNG Animated PNG support On ? i am puzzled. The question has already been answered on 2012-08-02. http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-questions/2012-August/243984.html You need to recompile the PNG library (from ports, does _not_ belong to the system - it's /usr/ports/graphics/png that will install libpng to your system) with the Animated PNG support (APNG) option [x] set. After doing so, you will be able to resume your Firefox build. See man ports or the manual of your port management tool (e. g. portmaster) on how to do that. Make sure you do make clean prior to that attempt. From the error message which you _have not shown_ (so I'm just guessing) it seems that libpng has been installed without the animation support. If you can make sure it's properly installed and you still get the error, please _show_ the error here so a better diagnostics step can be done. -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ... ___ 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: firefox png
+++ Dan Nelson [22/08/12 19:01 -0500]: In the last episode (Aug 22), david coder said: thx, i hadn't seen the reply to my earlier message. unfortunately, though i've got the png port installed w/ OPTIONS=APNG Animated PNG support On This line just tells you what the default is on a system that hasn't built the png port yet. Before 2011-07-08, the default was Off. the install of freebsd fails w/ the error message given below. What does make showconfig in the ports/graphics/png directory print? I bet you first installed the png port over a year ago, so you have inherited the Off value from then. -- Dan Nelson dnel...@allantgroup.com ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions right on! thank you. david coder dcodernet To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org ___ 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
confused about the png/APNG issue
one thing i don't understand about what otherwise seemed to me the best suggestion for dealing with this issue: assuming that the system png refers to the png that comes w/ the freebsd distributions, how would upgrading the png port help? wouldn't the other ports continue to use the system png? there was, i know, a hint or two that upgrading old systems was a necessary part of the fix, but then why would the port matter @ all then, ie, why wouldn't updating the system be sufficient? obviously, i'm confused. will some patient person please explain where i'm going wrong? david coder ___ 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: Firefox 14 build broken due to wrong libpng
same problem. so i rebuilt png w/ OPTIONS=APNG Animated PNG support On firefox build still fails because of complaints about APNG. what am i missing here? i'm running 8.3, btw, less than a month old. david coder +++ Christian Weisgerber [27/07/12 19:19 +]: Dan Allen danalle...@airwired.net wrote: My build from ports of Firefox 14.0.1 dies in the configure script. It says that the system PNG library does not support APNGs. You need to rebuild graphics/png with the APNG option enabled. This is the default now, but it wasn't until a year ago. So if you have a system that has been upgraded for a long time, you probably installed png, hit return for the default options and have been stuck with APNG=off since then. You're not the first one to be bitten by this and you won't be the last one. -- Christian naddy Weisgerber na...@mips.inka.de ___ freebsd-po...@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-ports To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-ports-unsubscr...@freebsd.org ___ 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: double spacing in vim, vi, or cream
+++ Matthias Apitz [17/04/11 06:25 +0200]: El día Saturday, April 16, 2011 a las 09:47:58PM -0400, david coder escribió: interesting suggestions that i hadn't thought of, esp knowing nothing about LaTeX. the 1st, however, results in spaces between characters, whereas what i wanted was double-spacing between lines in a piece to be submitted for publication. At the end of editing the file: :1,$s-$-^M- (the ^M is to be done by holding down CTRL and pressing V and M) HIH matthias -- Matthias Apitz t +49-89-61308 351 - f +49-89-61308 399 - m +49-170-4527211 e g...@unixarea.de - w http://www.unixarea.de/ ¡Ya basta! ¡Imperialistas occidentales, quitad las manos de Libia! There's an end of it! Imperialists occidentals, hands off Libya! Schluss jetzt endlich! Imperialisten des Westens, Haende weg von Libyen! ___ 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 Schoen! Nun brauche ich nur Methoden das wie ich auf der Machine schreibe machen. (Auch wie man Umlauten auf eine Americanische Machine macht.) ;) Besten Dank, David ___ 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
double spacing in vim, vi, or cream
can anybody tell me how to set vi, vim, or cream so that text is double-spaced? thx much. david coder ___ 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: double spacing in vim, vi, or cream
+++ Polytropon [17/04/11 00:28 +0200]:
On Sat, 16 Apr 2011 18:02:36 -0400, david coder daco...@dcoder.net wrote:
can anybody tell me how to set vi, vim, or cream so that text is
double-spaced?
If you're fine with postprocessing, use sed 's/./ /g'. If
you want to use LaTeX, \usepackage{soul} and then \so{The
text you want doublespaced}.
interesting suggestions that i hadn't thought of, esp knowing nothing about
LaTeX. the 1st, however, results in spaces between characters, whereas what
i wanted was double-spacing between lines in a piece to be submitted for
publication.
thx much.
dc
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firefox crashes
$uname -a FreeBSD ns0.dcoder.net 6.3-PRERELEASE FreeBSD 6.3-PRERELEASE #0: Sat Dec 1 14:00:49 EST 2007 [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/NS0 i386 this is on a dual-core i386 machine, X up to date w/ the nvidia driver. firefox DISTVERSION=2.0.0.11,1 crashes w/ the following error output: NewStream WriteReady Write decoding... Not a JPEG file: starts with 0xbf 0x01 WriteReady Write Improper call to JPEG library in state 0 Unable to read JPEG data Segmentation fault (core dumped) any ideas? thx. -- Cheers, David Coder Network Engineer Emeritus, Verio/NTT Telluride, CO Washington, DC ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
xterm functionality
i'm used to being able to use ctrl-right mouse key to enlarge my xterms but since (i think) an upgrade to the 7.2 xorg libraries that combination gives me a choice between fonts font modalities i can't figure out how to get the old functionality back. clues? thx. david ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
cvsup ports
i'm finding that cvsup comes up empty in trying to update the port tree from cvsup2 cvsup3 (haven't tried others). is there something wrong w/ them or have i missed a crucial turn of events? thx. regards, David Coder Network Engineer Emeritus, Verio/NTT Telluride, CO Washington, DC ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Upgrading in the same RELENG without shutdown ?
i save myself some time by removing files from subdirectories of /etc whose contents i never modify, using the -i option to mergemaster the 2nd time. you might (or might not) find the following scripts useful, edited to meet your needs (the 2nd is obviously intended to be run in single-user): # cat buildsys rm -rf /usr/obj \ cd /usr/src \ make buildworld \ make kernel KERNCONF=KEROUAC # cat installsys mount -u / \ mount -a \ cd /usr/src \ mergemaster -p \ make installworld \ rm -rf /etc/bluetooth/* \ rm -rf /etc/defaults/* \ rm -rf /etc/gnats/* \ rm -rf /etc/isdn/* \ rm -rf /etc/mtree/* \ rm -rf /etc/pam.d/* \ rm -rf /etc/periodic/* \ rm -rf /etc/ppp/* \ rm -rf /etc/rc.d/* \ rm -rf /etc/security/* \ rm -rf /etc/skel/* \ rm -rf /etc/ssl/* \ mergemaster -i \ rm -rf /usr/obj/* i guess it's obvious that the 2nd script is designed to be run in single user that the point of concatenating the commands in each script is to stop the proceedings cold in case there's a failure at any stage. at the very least, i'd reboot after running the 1st script to make sure the kernel works. you might have problems w/ a new system an old kernel. +++ Jonathan Horne [16/10/06 12:40 -0500]: Hello, I have CVS-UP configured to follow RELENG_5_4 I was wondering if there is a way to patch (upgrading from 5.4- RELEASE-p8 to a higher version) my system without going into the classic : # make -j4 buildworld # make -j4 buildkernel # make -j4 installkernel # shutdown now And booting in single user // # fsck -p # mount -u / # mount -a -t ufs # swapon -a # cd /usr/src # mergemaster -p My system is in production and I am not onsite so this is a problem for me to have to boot in single user mode. Is there a way to keep the system in multi-user mode while doing this ? And what are the risks if any ? Sincerly yours. Gregober --- PGP ID -- 0x1BA3C2FD bsd @at@ todoo.biz P Please consider your environmental responsibility before printing this e-mail it can be done, but it is NOT guaranteed safe. i do it, but your might not be the same as mine. my system is a *low* traffic system, and i am the only user. the system is however running apache2, mysql, and some other daemons. again, your mileage may vary, this is what i do: 1) make buildworld, and make buildkernel. 2) make installkernel 3) cd /usr/src, mergemaster -p, make installworld, mergemaster. 4) reboot. hth, jonathan ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- David Coder Network Engineer Emeritus, Verio/NTT Telluride, CO Washington, DC ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
kern.ipc tuning
on 4.11 /etc/sysctl.conf does not appear to be an effective place to put kern.ipc.*=whatever statements. nor does /boot/loader.conf, unless the foregoing is the wrong syntax. is it? or does one need to recompile the kernel? David Coder Network Engineer NTT/Verio ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
libintl.so.6 stpcpy
lots of port installations are failing for me on one system running 5.3 #0 because stpcpy in /usr/local/lib/libintl.so.6 is undefined. where should it be finding the definition? thanks. === David Coder Network Engineer, SME NTT/Verio Springfield/Sterling, VA public pgp key is at https://www.dcoder.net/pgpkey_dcoder ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: libintl.so.6 stpcpy
On Tue, 28 Dec 2004, Dan Nelson wrote: :Date: Tue, 28 Dec 2004 12:35:06 -0600 :From: Dan Nelson [EMAIL PROTECTED] :To: David Coder [EMAIL PROTECTED] :Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] :Subject: Re: libintl.so.6 stpcpy : :In the last episode (Dec 28), David Coder said: : lots of port installations are failing for me on one system running : 5.3 #0 because stpcpy in /usr/local/lib/libintl.so.6 is undefined. : where should it be finding the definition? : :stpcpy is in libc in the base system, not libintl. What error message :are you getting? : kerouac1# cd /usr/ports/x11/startup-notification/ kerouac1# make install === Building for startup-notification-0.8 gmake all-recursive /usr/libexec/ld-elf.so.1: /usr/local/lib/libintl.so.6: Undefined symbol stpcpy /usr/libexec/ld-elf.so.1: /usr/local/lib/libintl.so.6: Undefined symbol stpcpy *** Error code 1 Stop in /usr/ports/x11/startup-notification. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
