Re: problems with Ghostscript5/55/6

2000-05-02 Thread Rahul Siddharthan
> Ghostscript55: > > It will build and install. When I run "gs", I get: > > bash-2.03# gs /usr/local/share/ghostscript/5.50/examples/tiger.ps > Aladdin Ghostscript 5.50 (1998-9-16) > Copyright (C) 1998 Aladdin Enterprises, Menlo Park, CA. All rights reserved. > This software comes with NO

Unable to mount ext2fs partition

2003-01-04 Thread Rahul Siddharthan
I decided to bump my laptop up to 5.0-CURRENT today. All seems to have gone well and all my old binaries work fine, it looks very nice. However, I can no longer mount my linux partition: when I try, I get # mount -t ext2fs /dev/ad0s2 /mnt ext2fs: /dev/ad0s2: No such file or directory Did somethi

Re: Unable to mount ext2fs partition

2003-01-04 Thread Rahul Siddharthan
> However, I can no longer mount my linux partition: when I try, I get > # mount -t ext2fs /dev/ad0s2 /mnt > ext2fs: /dev/ad0s2: No such file or directory Here's the ata/geom related parts of the dmesg output: - Rahul atapci0: port 0x1420-0x142f at device 7.1 on pci0 ata0: iobase=0x01f0 altioba

Re: Unable to mount ext2fs partition

2003-01-04 Thread Rahul Siddharthan
Craig Rodrigues said on Jan 4, 2003 at 22:41:50: > > You truncated too much stuff, can you repost the whole dmesg output, > not just the parts you think are relevant. OK, here it is at the bottom. > Also, what do you get when you do the following: > > file - < /dev/ad0s1a standard input:

Re: Unable to mount ext2fs partition

2003-01-05 Thread Rahul Siddharthan
Paul A. Mayer wrote: > I had to install the e2fstools port before I could access my e2fs > partitions after installing -current. Thereafter everything has been > fine. No problems with the disk, etc. Hm, didn't know about this port.. but it still doesn't include a mount program, and I still can'

Re: Unable to mount ext2fs partition

2003-01-05 Thread Rahul Siddharthan
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > ># e2fsck -n /dev/ad0s2 > >e2fsck 1.27 (8-Mar-2002) > >The filesystem size (according to the superblock) is 714892 blocks > >The physical size of the device is 0 blocks > >Either the superblock or the partition table is likely to be corrupt! > >Abort? no > > > >/dev/ad0s2

Re: Unable to mount ext2fs partition

2003-01-05 Thread Rahul Siddharthan
[EMAIL PROTECTED] said on Jan 6, 2003 at 00:14:15: > I'm not an EXT2 specialist, and I don't really intend to become one, > so I hope somebody else can help you out... As posted earlier, there seems to be "funny stuff" on my ufs disklabel too: # disklabel -r /dev/ad0s1 8 partitions: #siz

Re: BitTorrent Mirror of 5.0

2003-01-21 Thread Rahul Siddharthan
Hunter Peress wrote: > We're in debian (and hence knoppix), and gentoo. Both of these > packages have come from users of BitTorrent. Other packages like a > ports style one will currently also have to come from users. I tried porting it some days ago, I got stuck because the wxpython port wouldn't

Re: Performance problems with 5.0-RELEASE

2003-01-23 Thread Rahul Siddharthan
Kenneth Culver wrote: > > I hope someone could bring light to what's going on. Alltho I'm not > > whining, I knew what I was getting myself into when I installed 5.0, it > > would be nice get things solved, for FreeBSD's sake already. > > Did you by any chance build your own kernel? If so did you

malloc.conf (was Re: Performance problems with 5.0-RELEASE)

2003-01-23 Thread Rahul Siddharthan
Dan Nelson wrote: > > # ls -l /etc/malloc.conf > > lrwxr-xr-x 1 root wheel 4 Jan 23 11:52 /etc/malloc.conf -> HR< > > H and < should only make a difference if you are low on memory. Yes. > R is on > by default in 5.0 anyway, due to A and J being on by default. That's not what the malloc(3

Losing time on apm -Z (despite pmtimer)

2003-01-25 Thread Rahul Siddharthan
I have acpi disabled and apm enabled in /boot/device.hints because acpi didn't do standby properly: apm -Z wouldn't turn off the screen backlight, and on reawakening the screen would be messed up. (acpiconf -s {2,3} didn't work either.) With acpi, the following problem doesn't exist. It also did

Re: I've just had a massive file system crash

2003-01-27 Thread Rahul Siddharthan
David Schultz wrote: > I still can't figure out why the problem would trash your entire > home directory, though. Even if the disk reordered writes and > failed to write some sectors, directory entries that were not > being actively modified shouldn't have become corrupted, as far as >

Synaptics touchpad support

2003-02-09 Thread Rahul Siddharthan
Lest this disappear, like so much else, into the black hole that is GNATS, can some laptop user take a look at this? It works great for me, I can now scroll using the "up" and "down" touchpad buttons which were useless decorations earlier. Thanks to Marcin Dalecki. PR kern/48116 http://www.freebs

Re: HEADS UP: GCC 3.2.2 is coming

2003-02-09 Thread Rahul Siddharthan
Alexander Kabaev wrote: > The import should be complete now. Please let us know if you > see any problems introduced with this GCC version. cc -O -pipe -mcpu=i686 -march=i686 -DIN_GCC -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -DPREFIX=\"/usr/obj/usr/src/i386/usr\" -I/usr/obj/usr/src/i386/usr/src/gnu/usr.bin/cc/cc1plus/../

Re: HEADS UP: GCC 3.2.2 is coming

2003-02-10 Thread Rahul Siddharthan
Alexander Kabaev said on Feb 10, 2003 at 08:31:43: > Apparently, you caught the src tree at the bad moment. See if another > cvsup/buildworld changes anything. Yes, it works now. Thanks and sorry for false alarm. R > On Mon, 10 Feb 2003 02:33:48 -0500 > Rahul Siddharthan <[

Re: Synaptics touchpad support

2003-02-10 Thread Rahul Siddharthan
Paul A. Mayer said on Feb 10, 2003 at 11:01:45: > Hi Rahul, > > Well, it compiles on 5.0-Release-p1. The psm initialization gives some > specs about the device and some of it's features. ... but I don't see > any consequences of this in apps, like mozilla. And under gnome the > pressure sensi

Re: Synaptics touchpad support

2003-02-10 Thread Rahul Siddharthan
Terry Lambert said on Feb 10, 2003 at 04:07:25: > > You actually lose the tap/tap-tap click and doubleclick button > emulation with the new driver, and, as you note, the pressure > sensitivity. > > Both of these issues were noted when the driver was posted for > review. It semed the consensus at

Re: GCC 3.2.2 import -- questions

2003-02-10 Thread Rahul Siddharthan
Craig Rodrigues wrote: > There is a long thread on the GCC mailing list right now complaining > about compile-time speed regressions from 2.95.x, with many complaints > coming from Apple: I don't think the original poster was talking about compile-time speed. The running speed of applications is

Re: ATAPI CDROM drive not found

2003-02-23 Thread Rahul Siddharthan
Fred Souza wrote: > I've just noticed that recent -CURRENT kernels (from at least 2 days > to now, but I suspect it might be a little longer) do not find my > ATAPI CDROM drive. This happened to me today, but it turned out that the drive wasn't recognized after a reboot if there was an audio CD

Re: HEADS UP: /bin and /sbin are now dynamically linked

2003-11-24 Thread Rahul Siddharthan
David O'Brien wrote: > On Sun, Nov 23, 2003 at 06:00:36PM -0800, Tim Kientzle wrote: > > Scenarios that require /rescue are ones in which /bin and /sbin > > are unusable, which is almost always going to imply a trashed file > > in /bin, /sbin, or /lib. Thus, most /rescue scenarios are going to > >

Re: Trouble building XFree86-4-Clients.

2003-03-22 Thread Rahul Siddharthan
[moving to -ports, I'm not sure it's a -current issue] "Alastair G. Hogge" wrote: > On Saturday, 22 March 2003 22:17, Daniel O'Connor wrote: > > On Sat, 2003-03-22 at 20:38, Alastair G. Hogge wrote: > > > I've been able to portupgrade my XFree86-4.2.1 system[1] to 4.3.0 expect > > > the 4.3.0 clien

Re: [Discuss] FreeBSD 5.0 Version of CrossOver Office. (fwd)

2002-11-22 Thread Rahul Siddharthan
eds to be subscribed to the list to post.) I think crossover is useful/important to many users, so a correct and useful answer to the codeweavers people is highly desirable. Thanks, Rahul - Forwarded message from Rahul Siddharthan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> - Date: Fri, 22 Nov 2002