Joshua Lokken wrote:
On Fri, 24 Dec 2004 19:38:51 +0300, alexei kozlov [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hello, Gurus.
I have EPOX 8rda3 motherboard based on nvidia2 chipset with 2 ethernet
interfaces.
One is well known -- rtl8139. It works (great).
The other is based on nvidia chipset. And I do not know
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Jay O'Brien wrote:
changing the links to add a trailing / fixed the
problem, and if I didn't want to use existing web pages with shortened
relative links without the trailing / character, it wouldn't be a
problem.
I would like to understand what is causing this to work the way it is.
I have a couple of ports where I am using a Makefile.local to provide some
customizations for the local environment (I think they are for postfix+SASL,
and apache2+the experimental modules, but I could be mistaken) where
stock prebuilt packages are available.
When I update the installed packages
FreeBSD 5.3, Imation USB floppy drive (a rebadged Mitsumi).
Works OK, but the probe messages are annoying (and fill my log):
Dec 26 22:23:05 stinky kernel: umass0: MITSUMI MITSUMI USB FDD, rev 1.10/1.00,
addr 3
Dec 26 22:23:07 stinky kernel: da0 at umass-sim0 bus 0 target 0 lun 0
Dec 26
I have some incomplete doco on installing a driver, and I was wondering if
someone could help me bridge the gap.
The drive makefile copies a vpd.c and a lib file into the /sys/ structure.
The doco then says to create a custom kernel config (e.g. MYKERNEL), put in
a device line for the driver
I am Vincent kihumba a 3rd year university student.I have a project that I am
supposed to complete.The project is about the TV REMOTE CONTROL BLOKER.I am
making a tv remote control bloker that will help parents decide and even block
some channels that they do not want their children to view but
Jay O'Brien wrote:
The only catch appears to be that the credit card billing address must
be in the USA, but I believe you are in PA.
It's not limited to the USA, but I'm not in the list of available
countries. What a shame.
Andrew P.
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On Sunday 26 December 2004 09:04, Harlan Stenn wrote:
I have a couple of ports where I am using a Makefile.local to provide some
customizations for the local environment (I think they are for
postfix+SASL, and apache2+the experimental modules, but I could be
mistaken) where stock prebuilt
Nikolas Britton wrote:
Andrew P. wrote:
Popularity is a big deal. I could never understand why this
organization (not community) was not aiming at getting more users and
supporters. I mean, this is the best OS I've ever seen. And while I
don't even remember how or when I first heard about it,
On Sunday 26 December 2004 04:17 am, Jay O'Brien wrote:
Bill Moran wrote:
Unfortunatley, PayPal (who I don't have an account with) insists that I
have an account and refuses to process my transaction unless I log in
(to the account that doesn't exist).
Am I the only one they're doing
On Dec 25, Nikolas Britton responded thusly:
Colin J. Raven wrote:
On Dec 25, Dag-Erling Smørgrav launched this into the bitstream:
Chris [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
One does not need to know how to rebuild an engine to know how to
drive the car.
One should not criticize the design of an engine
On Sun, Dec 26, 2004 at 12:21:11AM -0500, Steve Lake wrote:
Any word on when this might be fixed? It at least makes me feel
better knowing it wasn't something *I* broke in the process of upgrading,
but it does kinda leave me out on a limb. ^_^;;
No, but keep an eye on cvs-ports or
On Sun, Dec 26, 2004 at 01:04:51AM -0800, Harlan Stenn wrote:
Is there a way to tell portupgrade that it should not *fetch* prebuilt ports
for these two packages? If the packages are already there I'm fine having
them installed (as it means they were built using the Makefile.local values
and
Colin J. Raven wrote:
On Dec 25, Nikolas Britton responded thusly:
Colin J. Raven wrote:
On Dec 25, Dag-Erling Smørgrav launched this into the bitstream:
Chris [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
One does not need to know how to rebuild an engine to know how to
drive the car.
One should not criticize the
On Sunday 26 December 2004 03:04 am, Harlan Stenn wrote:
I have a couple of ports where I am using a Makefile.local to
provide some customizations for the local environment (I think
they are for postfix+SASL, and apache2+the experimental modules,
but I could be mistaken) where stock prebuilt
Hi,
I wanted to mail the link of the pictures of the conference that we have
done at Middle East Technical University on December,10. More than 100
people has joined to the conference and we have delivered FreeBSD 5.3 and
FreeSBIE 1.1 CDs to attendees. We have also recorded the conference and
Jay O'Brien [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Bill Moran wrote:
Unfortunatley, PayPal (who I don't have an account with) insists that I
have an account and refuses to process my transaction unless I log in
(to the account that doesn't exist).
Am I the only one they're doing this to? Doesn't
Bill Moran wrote:
Again. I understand, and it _should_ work. But it doesn't for me.
I've been having this problem with Paypal for several months. I once
had a paypal account, then they changed the TOS in a way I didn't like
and I refused to agree to, so I requested that they terminate my
Yes, but that means I have to remember to build and package the ports
first, before I do anything else, and that implies I have to handle any
changed prerequisite packages as well.
If a way can be found to say Do not fetch these packages then this will
become a much easier process.
H
--
Is
My scanner (EPSON PERFECTION 1650) is working alright if it is connected before
system startup.
But when connected to the running system it doesn't get attached by usbd. I
can't find out from Handbook, manpages or mailing lists what could be the
reason.
Many thanks in advance for any help.
--
Jay O'Brien [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Jay O'Brien wrote:
changing the links to add a trailing / fixed the
problem, and if I didn't want to use existing web pages with shortened
relative links without the trailing / character, it wouldn't be a
problem.
I would like to understand
Jay O'Brien [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Bill Moran wrote:
Again. I understand, and it _should_ work. But it doesn't for me.
I've been having this problem with Paypal for several months. I once
had a paypal account, then they changed the TOS in a way I didn't like
and I refused to
I'm currently running Release 5.2.1. which has just reciently been
updated to the security branch.
I was upgrading xorg to version 6.8.1. with portupgrade when it crashed
with an Error Code 1. I traced the crash to failure to upgrade
dri-5.0.2,2 to dri-6.2_1,2. I've attempted to build
Shahar Yuval wrote:
Wonderful... is there any alternative?
Is it possible to borrow OpenBSD's wi module?
No, I was only talking about getting it to work on windows, god forbid
you even attempt to try it with BSD =-O , Maybe I just had a lemon, but
I can tell you that I will never buy any
Bill Moran wrote:
Is IE involved in this anywhere?
I've noticed that IE tends to have problems with certian URLs.
The trailing slash issue sounds familiar as an IE problem (although
I'm not sure).
Have you tried other browsers from the location that doesn't work?
Interesting! I
If you have the time or inclination I have a failed buildkernel
stewart at [EMAIL PROTECTED]
thanks.
From buildkernel print out
In file included from /usr/src/sys/modules/ipfilter/../../contrib/ipfilter/
netinet/ip_fil.c:109:
Hi, my name is Andrei and I have recently purchased FreeBSD from BSDMall and
I ran into few problems. I am a windows user but i have some experince in
Linux BUT, I got rid of my windows machine and installed FreeBDS. After the
install for some reason i log into root and i use the startx command
Thanks for any help
stewart at [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Errors at end of make buildworld
xml.o(.text+0x1764): more undefined references to `xmalloc' follow
*** Error code 1
Stop in /usr/src/gnu/usr.bin/texinfo/makeinfo.
*** Error code 1
Stop in /usr/src/gnu/usr.bin/texinfo.
*** Error code 1
Stop in
I inadvertently invoked make deinstall from /usr/ports, thinking I was
in the directory of the port I wanted to 'make deinstall make reinstall'
I wasn't.
Oops.
I'm in the process of re-installing those ports I installed and depend
on (firefox, thunderbird, etc).
But ... since I control-c'ed
Hi,
I'm trying to create device by using command MAKEDEV
But it does not work.
What command can I use?
Thanks,
Leon.
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On Sun, Dec 26, 2004 at 01:36:12PM -0800, Harlan Stenn wrote:
Yes, but that means I have to remember to build and package the ports
first, before I do anything else, and that implies I have to handle any
changed prerequisite packages as well.
I thought that's what you were asking for.
If a
On Sun, Dec 26, 2004 at 05:46:04PM -0600, shawley wrote:
If you have the time or inclination I have a failed buildkernel
stewart at [EMAIL PROTECTED]
thanks.
From buildkernel print out
In file included from /usr/src/sys/modules/ipfilter/../../contrib/ipfilter/
netinet/ip_fil.c:109:
On Sun, Dec 26, 2004 at 07:43:29PM -0500, andrei wrote:
Hi, my name is Andrei and I have recently purchased FreeBSD from BSDMall and
I ran into few problems. I am a windows user but i have some experince in
Linux BUT, I got rid of my windows machine and installed FreeBDS. After the
install
andrei [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hi, my name is Andrei and I have recently purchased FreeBSD from BSDMall and
I ran into few problems. I am a windows user but i have some experince in
Linux BUT, I got rid of my windows machine and installed FreeBDS. After the
install for some reason i log
Andrei, it sounds to me like you have fvwm installed as your window
manager / desktop.
Install KDE or GNOME or WindowMaker or something useful, and you will
have a bit more luck.
As root (before you bother with startx), try this:
pkg_add -r windowmaker
Then, edit your .xinitrc file (in your
On Sunday 26 December 2004 18:43, andrei wrote:
Hi, my name is Andrei and I have recently purchased FreeBSD from BSDMall
and I ran into few problems. I am a windows user but i have some experince
in Linux BUT, I got rid of my windows machine and installed FreeBDS. After
the install for some
Lane wrote:
welcome!
There is nothing wrong, I think. It sounds as if you have properly installed
X. But X isn't the friendliest desktop around, as you've seen.
You should be able to get a full-featured desktop by issuing the following
commands:
cd /usr/ports/x11/kde3
make all install clean
andrei wrote:
Hi, my name is Andrei and I have recently purchased FreeBSD from BSDMall and
I ran into few problems. I am a windows user but i have some experince in
Linux BUT, I got rid of my windows machine and installed FreeBDS. After the
install for some reason i log into root and i use the
According to http://www.freebsdfoundation.org the goal of $32,000 has
been reached (and passed) at 123% !!
Great job for all those who contributed, and all those who thought about
contributed, but were unable to. Please remember that just because the
quota for this year has been met, doesnt
I have been told it does have both already, but I can't find it in any of
documentations. I'm specifically talking about freebsd on emulab.net.
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Tom Vilot wrote:
Is there an easy way to say, either with portupgrade or make or any
other tool, the equivalent of:
what ports are installed? Are they *really* installed?
What do they depend on? Are those installed? Are they *really* installed?
pkg_info, pkg_info -ag, pkg_info -ar (or pkg_info
Chuck Swiger wrote:
pkg_info, pkg_info -ag, pkg_info -ar (or pkg_info -aR, depending on
which way you want to see the dependencies).
Those are very handy
I guess, tho ... since make deinstall will force remove a package even
if another package uses it, what I really want to do is something
On Sunday 26 December 2004 04:51 pm, Tom Vilot wrote:
I inadvertently invoked make deinstall from /usr/ports, thinking I
was in the directory of the port I wanted to 'make deinstall make
reinstall'
I wasn't.
Oops.
I'm in the process of re-installing those ports I installed and
depend on
Hello,
I'm sorry if this sounds dumb, but I'm looking for a kind of bg flag
(from mount_nfs) for my local file-systems. The problem is that I
frequently pull hard drives out of my headless file-server, but forget
to edit fstab _before_ it. So the system won't boot until I connect a
monitor, a
See what just a little bit of marketing and PR can do, It took 5 days to
get to 80%, after it was posted here it went from 80% to 120% in one
day. Heck there was one guy that posted saying he had been using FreeBSD
since 3.4 and didn't even know the foundation existed!
From the FreeBSD
On Sunday 26 December 2004 18:45, sdhawley wrote:
Thanks for any help
stewart at [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Errors at end of make buildworld
xml.o(.text+0x1764): more undefined references to `xmalloc' follow
*** Error code 1
Stop in /usr/src/gnu/usr.bin/texinfo/makeinfo.
*** Error code 1
Stop in
On Sun, Dec 26, 2004 at 08:26:29PM -0600, Nikolas Britton wrote:
From the FreeBSD Foundation's charter: What can I expect from the
FreeBSD Foundation? one of the sub point says:
Cultivating press coverage and advertising the utility and availability
of FreeBSD.
Since your incorporation
Neither -x nor HOLD_PKGS is what I want.
I *want* to upgrade the software, I just do not want to FETCH prebuilt
packages for any package that has a Makefile.local file in the tree, as
a Makefile.local file means I want to build that package with local changes.
H
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On Sun, Dec 26, 2004 at
Kris Kennaway wrote:
On Sun, Dec 26, 2004 at 08:26:29PM -0600, Nikolas Britton wrote:
From the FreeBSD Foundation's charter: What can I expect from the
FreeBSD Foundation? one of the sub point says:
Cultivating press coverage and advertising the utility and availability
of FreeBSD.
Since
Nikolas Britton wrote:
Kris Kennaway wrote:
On Sun, Dec 26, 2004 at 08:26:29PM -0600, Nikolas Britton wrote:
From the FreeBSD Foundation's charter: What can I expect from the
FreeBSD Foundation? one of the sub point says:
Cultivating press coverage and advertising the utility and
availability
On Sun, Dec 26, 2004 at 06:53:09PM -0800, Harlan Stenn wrote:
Neither -x nor HOLD_PKGS is what I want.
I *want* to upgrade the software, I just do not want to FETCH prebuilt
packages for any package that has a Makefile.local file in the tree, as
a Makefile.local file means I want to build
Kris Kennaway wrote:
On Sun, Dec 26, 2004 at 06:53:09PM -0800, Harlan Stenn wrote:
Neither -x nor HOLD_PKGS is what I want.
I *want* to upgrade the software, I just do not want to FETCH prebuilt
packages for any package that has a Makefile.local file in the tree, as
a Makefile.local file means I
And thanks to Troy Mills, who posted the alert here Wednesday
morning. I was not aware of the foundation, and I appreciate
the opportunity to provide some small measure of support.
$30,400 was needed, and 839 people contributed 123% of that
amount, or an average of $47USD each, in FOUR DAYS.
On Sun, Dec 26, 2004 at 09:02:02PM -0600, Nikolas Britton wrote:
Anyone who will listen, being that this mailing list has the most
readership of all the FreeBSD lists and It says -questions It is only
common sense to post questions here.
Also the fact that the FreeBSD Foundation's board
On Sun, Dec 26, 2004 at 09:22:04PM -0600, Chris wrote:
Kris Kennaway wrote:
On Sun, Dec 26, 2004 at 06:53:09PM -0800, Harlan Stenn wrote:
Neither -x nor HOLD_PKGS is what I want.
I *want* to upgrade the software, I just do not want to FETCH prebuilt
packages for any package that has a
Kris Kennaway wrote:
On Sun, Dec 26, 2004 at 09:22:04PM -0600, Chris wrote:
Kris Kennaway wrote:
On Sun, Dec 26, 2004 at 06:53:09PM -0800, Harlan Stenn wrote:
Neither -x nor HOLD_PKGS is what I want.
I *want* to upgrade the software, I just do not want to FETCH prebuilt
packages for any package
I think a fair number of people would like to see it.
It would make it Lots Easier for people to upgrade their systems.
There are packages where it makes lots of sense to use the prebuilt ones.
Now that I think the only feature I want is for it to don't fetch if
there is a Makefile.local I'll
Chris wrote:
Kris Kennaway wrote:
On Sun, Dec 26, 2004 at 09:22:04PM -0600, Chris wrote:
Kris Kennaway wrote:
On Sun, Dec 26, 2004 at 06:53:09PM -0800, Harlan Stenn wrote:
Neither -x nor HOLD_PKGS is what I want.
I *want* to upgrade the software, I just do not want to FETCH prebuilt
packages for
I started setting securelevel=3 at boot, and I notice that healthd
refuses to run, giving the message InitMBInfo: Operation not permitted
even from root. I assume this is because of the higher securelevel.
Is there a way to make healthd work with this higher level (assuming
that's the problem)?
On Sun, Dec 26, 2004 at 09:41:04PM -0600, Chris wrote:
Neither -x nor HOLD_PKGS is what I want.
Er..the thread started with a question from a user who *knows about -P
and uses it*, but doesn't want portupgrade to fetch packages in a
specific situation.
Kris
Again, from the manpage
On Sun, Dec 26, 2004 at 07:38:10PM -0800, Harlan Stenn wrote:
I think a fair number of people would like to see it.
It would make it Lots Easier for people to upgrade their systems.
There are packages where it makes lots of sense to use the prebuilt ones.
Now that I think the only
Kris Kennaway wrote:
On Sun, Dec 26, 2004 at 09:41:04PM -0600, Chris wrote:
Neither -x nor HOLD_PKGS is what I want.
Er..the thread started with a question from a user who *knows about -P
and uses it*, but doesn't want portupgrade to fetch packages in a
specific situation.
Kris
Again, from the
On Sun, 26 Dec 2004, Leon wrote:
I'm trying to create device by using command MAKEDEV
But it does not work.
What command can I use?
On 4.x MAKEDEV is a shell script, so you should type
sh MAKEDEV
...followed by your arguments. For example, 'sh MAKEDEV acd0t99'. And I
think you have to be in the
On Sunday 26 December 2004 21:25, Kris Kennaway wrote:
On Sun, Dec 26, 2004 at 09:02:02PM -0600, Nikolas Britton wrote:
Anyone who will listen, being that this mailing list has the most
readership of all the FreeBSD lists and It says -questions It is only
common sense to post questions
Kris Kennaway wrote:
On Sun, Dec 26, 2004 at 09:02:02PM -0600, Nikolas Britton wrote:
Anyone who will listen, being that this mailing list has the most
readership of all the FreeBSD lists and It says -questions It is only
common sense to post questions here.
Also the fact that the
I am running FreeBSD 5.3-RELEASE, Xorg 6.8.1 (portupgraded today), and
KDE 3.3.3 (portupgraded today). My ports tree was updated yesterday.
I am trying to run Wine, and I have the 20041201 port. The release
notes say that it now runs under FreeBSD 5.3. While Wine's doc
suggests that a kernel
On Sun, 26 Dec 2004, Chris Hill wrote:
MAKEDEV doesn't exist on 5.x, so if you're running 5.x that might also
explain it not working.
That's because on 5.x you don't need it; devices live in their own special
filesystem, and are created on the fly:
stinky% df /dev
Filesystem 1K-blocks Used
Nikolas Britton wrote:
Uwe Laverenz wrote:
On Tue, Dec 21, 2004 at 06:25:05AM -0600, Nikolas Britton wrote:
Any help would be appreciated on ether fixing this problem or a way
to use ACPI but disable the thermal monitoring so the system can
control the fan?
Try this in /boot/loader.conf:
Nikolas Britton wrote:
When I try it with Linux it worked, in fact, here is a patch for kernel
2.6.7:
https://kilobyte.dyndns.info/linux/armada_1700_dsdt_linux-2.6.7.diff.bz2
Compaq Armada 1700/1750 ACPI/Sound/PM/i2c kernel patch:
This patch(2.6.7) fixes the DSDT (broken aml) at bootup (Fan
Nate Lawson wrote:
Nikolas Britton wrote:
When I try it with Linux it worked, in fact, here is a patch for
kernel 2.6.7:
https://kilobyte.dyndns.info/linux/armada_1700_dsdt_linux-2.6.7.diff.bz2
Compaq Armada 1700/1750 ACPI/Sound/PM/i2c kernel patch:
This patch(2.6.7) fixes the DSDT (broken aml)
On 12/26/04 23:13:19, Matthew Bluestone wrote:
I am running FreeBSD 5.3-RELEASE, Xorg 6.8.1 (portupgraded today),
and
KDE 3.3.3 (portupgraded today). My ports tree was updated yesterday.
I am trying to run Wine, and I have the 20041201 port. The release
notes say that it now runs under
Finally, start from where you started:
cd /usr/src
make buildworld
make installworld
... etc
Make sure you read /usr/src/UPDATING (all the way through) before you
restart
make buildworld
good luck!
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Maybe he doesn't need to read it all the way
I've had it with Xorg and would like to go back to XFree86.
Unfortunately, when I go to /usr/ports/x11/XFree86-4 and type make, it
doesn't do anything; it just gives me this message...
=== XFree86-4.4.0_1,1 is part of XFree86-4.
and exits.
XFree86 was giving me everything I needed, back
On 12/26/04 16:16:02, Ned Harrison wrote:
I'm currently running Release 5.2.1. which has just reciently been
updated to the security branch.
I was upgrading xorg to version 6.8.1. with portupgrade when it
crashed with an Error Code 1. I traced the crash to failure to
upgrade dri-5.0.2,2
On Sunday 26 December 2004 09:31 pm, Theodore D. Sternberg wrote:
I've had it with Xorg and would like to go back to XFree86.
Unfortunately, when I go to /usr/ports/x11/XFree86-4 and type make,
it doesn't do anything; it just gives me this message...
=== XFree86-4.4.0_1,1 is part of
Lane wrote:
Hey, Kris!
do they gotta freebsd-foundation-questions list? 'Cause I wanna get me a
subscription!
I said yesterday that I had been using FreeBSD since 3.4, but I misspoke.
Actually it has been since 3.1. Turns out I hadda dig out those disks just
today, and lo and behold! It was
Nikolas Britton wrote:
Nate Lawson wrote:
Can you get the author of this patch to send you the raw dsdt.asl,
instead of the compiled version? If so, send it to me so I can diff
against the one I asked you to dump and post.
Thank you for responding, here is a copy of my asl (Compaq Armada
Nikolas Britton wrote:
I can't find his name or email address anywhere BUT I think I can do one
better then that. Here are two ASL's that where uploaded to the
ACPI4Linux project:
http://acpi.sourceforge.net/dsdt/tables/Compaq/Armada_1750/Compaq-Armada_1750-686EM_99.1130_A-custom.asl.gz
Nate Lawson wrote:
Nikolas Britton wrote:
I can't find his name or email address anywhere BUT I think I can do
one better then that. Here are two ASL's that where uploaded to the
ACPI4Linux project:
# [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
[ lots of core dumps ]
Has anybody ever seen perl.core files in a good number of the
directories in FreeBSD? I'm running 5.3.
[...]
Try to identify the script that triggers those coredumps, then
look at the extension modules used by that script.
You might also want to
Hi
I have 1 application develope on FreeBSD 2.2.5 (a long time but still
in use). I need to upgrade OS from 2.25 to 5.3 but Application can not
run of this version.
Message after call application is cannot execute binary file. Please
help/advise me. Thank you.
Best Regards,
TWATCHAI SAELAO
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