ethtool for FreeBSD

2007-07-23 Thread Elan marikit
Hello list, Do we have already a tool equivalent to libux's ethtool? Or does anybody here tried the linux's ethtool? Thanks, Elan ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To

Re: ethtool for FreeBSD

2007-07-23 Thread Tuc at T-B-O-H
Hello list, Do we have already a tool equivalent to libux's ethtool? Or does anybody here tried the linux's ethtool? Thanks, Elan What specifically are you trying to accomplish? Tuc ___

Re: Problems for running Xorg 7.2 from scratch

2007-07-23 Thread Norberto Meijome
On Mon, 23 Jul 2007 04:54:36 +0200 Antonio Évora [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Basically it seems that it cant found /usr/local/bin/X because in fact it doesnt exist. I would like to know which port/s do I have to install for avoiding the meta port of xorg 7.2 which would install a lot of things

xfce4 enable shutdown

2007-07-23 Thread Andriy Babiy
Hi everybody, I'm experiencing a minor problem with xfce4 - can't enable reboot/shutdown options in the menu. I had the following lines in my sudoers file (I used the second one): 1) %groupnameALL = NOPASSWD:/usr/local/libexec/xfsm-shutdown-helper 2) ALIAS_NAME ALL = (ALL) NOPASSWD:

conftest, uid 0: exited on signal 11 - Normal?

2007-07-23 Thread David N
Hi, pid 96087 (conftest), uid 0: exited on signal 11 (core dumped) I've been googling around and people say its usually a hardware problem or memory. I've done memtest86+ on all of them and it returned fine. (I know it doesn't mean there isn't a problem), HDD SMART is all good. But I've been

Re: xfce4 enable shutdown

2007-07-23 Thread Garrett Cooper
Andriy Babiy wrote: Hi everybody, I'm experiencing a minor problem with xfce4 - can't enable reboot/shutdown options in the menu. I had the following lines in my sudoers file (I used the second one): 1) %groupnameALL = NOPASSWD:/usr/local/libexec/xfsm-shutdown-helper 2) ALIAS_NAME ALL =

Re: ethtool for FreeBSD

2007-07-23 Thread Matthew Seaman
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 Elan marikit wrote: Do we have already a tool equivalent to libux's ethtool? ifconfig(8). In FreeBSD it's a lot more capable than in Linux. Cheers, Matthew - -- Dr Matthew J Seaman MA, D.Phil. 7 Priory

Re: conftest, uid 0: exited on signal 11 - Normal?

2007-07-23 Thread Matthew Seaman
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 David N wrote: pid 96087 (conftest), uid 0: exited on signal 11 (core dumped) Are the conftest core dumps anything to worry about? Actually, these are deliberate. GNU autoconf will engineer a SEGV in a piece of test code in order to test

link exchange request

2007-07-23 Thread Chris McDonald Chris
Hello my name is Chris McDonald I am seeking out possible link partners that our visitors would be interesting in visiting. I've found your website (http://www.pl.freebsd.org/) to be a very good fit for our visitors. I would like to go ahead and add your link to our website, but before I do, I

installing manual pages

2007-07-23 Thread Zbigniew Szalbot
Hello, When I went for FreeBSD, I chose the minimal distribution and as a result do not have man pages. I would like to install them but when I specify an fpt server (via sysinstall) I get: Unable to transfer the manpages distribution from ftp://ftp.freebsd.org. This is 6.2-RELEASE-p6 #4. I

Re: installing manual pages

2007-07-23 Thread Giorgos Keramidas
On 2007-07-23 11:12, Zbigniew Szalbot [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello, When I went for FreeBSD, I chose the minimal distribution and as a result do not have man pages. I would like to install them but when I specify an fpt server (via sysinstall) I get: Unable to transfer the manpages

Re: installing manual pages

2007-07-23 Thread Zbigniew Szalbot
Hi, When I went for FreeBSD, I chose the minimal distribution and as a result do not have man pages. I would like to install them but when I specify an fpt server (via sysinstall) I get: Unable to transfer the manpages distribution from ftp://ftp.freebsd.org. This is 6.2-RELEASE-p6 #4.

Re: installing manual pages

2007-07-23 Thread Giorgos Keramidas
On 2007-07-23 11:31, Zbigniew Szalbot [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: When I went for FreeBSD, I chose the minimal distribution and as a result do not have man pages. I would like to install them but when I specify an fpt server (via sysinstall) I get: Unable to transfer the manpages distribution

Re: installing manual pages

2007-07-23 Thread Zbigniew Szalbot
Dear Giorgos, Thanks for your answer. You probably did not read my post. I do this via sysinstall and it fails. Ah, I apologize for that. You are right, of course; I misread at least part of the original post. I obviously need more coffee before I am fully aware of the reality around me

Re: installing manual pages

2007-07-23 Thread Giorgos Keramidas
On 2007-07-23 12:26, Zbigniew Szalbot [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/releases/i386/6.2-RELEASE/manpages/ [4] Run the 'install.sh' script as root: Need to chmod it to have appropriate permissions but thank you! I now enjoy man pages for all the default tools

MPlayer Makefile Question

2007-07-23 Thread custompc
In Mplayers makefile it says 'Wants Gnome' - does this mean that making it would drag in all the gnome libs etc ? I was hoping for a text / cli mode dvd player would work under X ? Also, does anyone know of a FreeBSd version of MyBashBurn ? Thanks !

Re: Problems for running Xorg 7.2 from scratch

2007-07-23 Thread RW
On Mon, 23 Jul 2007 04:54:36 +0200 Antonio Évora [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: But I also ask you... when I installed XFCE and GDM, Shouldnt have their dependencies already installed the basics of xorg so I could run the X? I'm not sure that they should, you might be building an application server,

Re: MPlayer Makefile Question

2007-07-23 Thread RW
On Mon, 23 Jul 2007 12:09:51 +0100 (BST) [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: In Mplayers makefile it says 'Wants Gnome' - does this mean that making it would drag in all the gnome libs etc ? No it doesn't. It's more a matter co-ordinating with gnome. ___

Re: [kde-freebsd] BEL (primarily for vi).

2007-07-23 Thread Michael Nottebrock
Gary Kline schrieb: Apologies for the triple postings, but this is general enough for the -questions list and aimed at the gnome list. It includes a query for the KDE list. I just opened a konsole, the KDE-hacked xterm, IIRC. I had the BEL set to system bell

Re: conftest, uid 0: exited on signal 11 - Normal?

2007-07-23 Thread David N
On 23/07/07, Matthew Seaman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 David N wrote: pid 96087 (conftest), uid 0: exited on signal 11 (core dumped) Are the conftest core dumps anything to worry about? Actually, these are deliberate. GNU autoconf will

Re: HOW TO: Setting up rails for shared hosting on a dedicated box. . .?

2007-07-23 Thread Norberto Meijome
On Sun, 22 Jul 2007 22:07:43 -0400 Michael Williams [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi All, A partner and I recently purchased a dedicated FreeBSD box. We're currently using Plesk (blech!) to manage client domains and such. I'm curious though as to what the best (most manageable) setup/

Re: max resolution with vesa driver on amd64 system running FreeBSD 6.2

2007-07-23 Thread Dino Vliet
Florent Thoumie [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Yuri Pankov wrote: On Sat, Jul 14, 2007 at 02:21:09AM -0700, Dino Vliet wrote: Hi folks, I'm having problems with my monitor on freebsd. The vesa driver uses 1024X768 while the monitor is capable of doing 1680x1050. Observed here as well:

quickie: howto? window manager xterms, but no kde/gnome/xfce

2007-07-23 Thread Steve Franks
I'm not totally opposed to what comes up in X if you start with no .xinitrc, but it's a tad ugly. I'd ideally like to have a nifty window manager, like one of those new 3d ones, but I find no point in running kde/gnome/xfce - I launch everything (firefox, etc.) from a prompt anyway. So howto? I

Re: [kde-freebsd] BEL (primarily for vi).

2007-07-23 Thread Gary Kline
On Mon, Jul 23, 2007 at 11:49:40AM +0200, Michael Nottebrock wrote: Gary Kline schrieb: Apologies for the triple postings, but this is general enough for the -questions list and aimed at the gnome list. It includes a query for the KDE list. I just opened a konsole, the

Xorg upgrade (wrong library) issue

2007-07-23 Thread Tuc at T-B-O-H.NET
Hi, I'm following the directions to upgrade Xorg (REALLY I AM, PROMISE!) and I'm seeing this fly by my screen : /usr/local/bin/bdftopcf -t lubR12-ISO8859-13.bdf | gzip lubR12-ISO8859-13.pcf.gz /libexec/ld-elf.so.1: /usr/X11R6/lib/libXfont.so.1: Undefined symbol serverClient

Re: is is able to setting up DNS server reverse lookup with DynamicIP?

2007-07-23 Thread Chuck Swiger
On Jul 22, 2007, at 9:04 PM, Olivier Nicole wrote: With some delay, several answers together. Very good. :-) For the example I gave, I am of course authoritative. Are you? Depending on which servers I query, I either get an NXDOMAIN, an answer with no authoritative nameservers listed, or

Re: Xorg upgrade (wrong library) issue [more info]

2007-07-23 Thread Tuc at T-B-O-H.NET
Hi, I'm following the directions to upgrade Xorg (REALLY I AM, PROMISE!) and I'm seeing this fly by my screen : /usr/local/bin/bdftopcf -t lubR12-ISO8859-13.bdf | gzip lubR12-ISO8859-13.pcf.gz /libexec/ld-elf.so.1: /usr/X11R6/lib/libXfont.so.1: Undefined symbol serverClient

install freebsd problem x window

2007-07-23 Thread Boudjema
oug wrote: On Mon, 23 Jul 2007, Boudjema wrote: Bonjour, Please excuses, my english is bad, so i will explain in french my problem if this is not understood; i have a problem to install x window. my hope is to install kde. but without x, i am stopped; when i do pkg_add -r xorg, the response

Re: install freebsd problem x window

2007-07-23 Thread Tuc at T-B-O-H
Now i have the version 7.02 of xorg. when i do Xorg -config /root/xorg.config, i have as response: could not read default font fixed. what does it mean? what i must do? I wonder if you might be having part of a problem I'm sure to expect to have... Do this for me please to see if you

Re: quickie: howto? window manager xterms, but no kde/gnome/xfce

2007-07-23 Thread Andy Harrison
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 7/23/07, Steve Franks wrote: I'm not totally opposed to what comes up in X if you start with no .xinitrc, but it's a tad ugly. I'd ideally like to have a nifty window manager, like one of those new 3d ones, but I find no point in running

Re: no /boot/loader - after installation

2007-07-23 Thread John Clement
So I got a copy of boot-only 6.2 onto cd and went back into the bios and changed a few options: LBA mode: off Multi-sector transfers: auto Fast PIO: auto 32 bit transfer mode: on Ultra DMA: auto then ran the 6.2 install using dangerously dedicated which went fine and then on reboot now it comes

gdb error message

2007-07-23 Thread Dino Vliet
Dear folks, whenever I try to attach gdb to my firefox settings because I'm expecting firefox to be the source of my stability problems (I always find a gnash.core and a firefox.core file in my home directory) I get the following error message: gdb --quiet (gdb) attach 11808 Attaching to

apply a patch in Freebsd

2007-07-23 Thread Caio Figueiredo Abecia
I have the Freebsd 6.2 version. I got a problem installing from my DVD ROM drive, and I found a patch in http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=kern/111084 . I wonder if I could try this patch to solve my problem. What may I do to get a FreeBSD with this patch working? I need get the source

Re: Upgrade xorg 6.9 to 72

2007-07-23 Thread Martin Schweizer
Hello RW Am Sun, Jul 22, 2007 at 10:16:50PM +0100 RW schrieb: I read UPDATING and did all the steps described there. No, you didn't because /usr/ports/x11/xorg-libraries/Makefile contains a little test to make sure you have read UPDATING. No, it's not correct. I followed the steps from

Re: Xorg upgrade (wrong library) issue [more info]

2007-07-23 Thread CyberLeo Kitsana
Tuc at T-B-O-H.NET wrote: snip himinbjorg# ldd work/bdftopcf-1.0.1/bdftopcf work/bdftopcf-1.0.1/bdftopcf: libXfont.so.1 = /usr/X11R6/lib/libXfont.so.1 (0x2808) libc.so.5 = /lib/libc.so.5 (0x280e6000) WHY when the cc step is stating -L/usr/local/lib is it bring the

Re: Upgrade xorg 6.9 to 72

2007-07-23 Thread RW
On Mon, 23 Jul 2007 21:22:52 +0200 Martin Schweizer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello RW Am Sun, Jul 22, 2007 at 10:16:50PM +0100 RW schrieb: I read UPDATING and did all the steps described there. No, you didn't because /usr/ports/x11/xorg-libraries/Makefile contains a little test to

high resource demand fron mldonkey

2007-07-23 Thread Tsu-Fan Cheng
Hi, I run mldonkey (mlnet+gui) on freebsd 6.2 and found it takes up a lot of CPU resources. Is this a common thing or just me. Also, is there something else, e.g. amule, xmule that runs a little lighters on the system?? thank you!! TFC ___

Re: no /boot/loader - after installation

2007-07-23 Thread Derek Ragona
At 02:06 PM 7/23/2007, John Clement wrote: So I got a copy of boot-only 6.2 onto cd and went back into the bios and changed a few options: LBA mode: off Multi-sector transfers: auto Fast PIO: auto 32 bit transfer mode: on Ultra DMA: auto then ran the 6.2 install using dangerously dedicated

Re: high resource demand fron mldonkey

2007-07-23 Thread RW
On Mon, 23 Jul 2007 16:44:17 -0400 Tsu-Fan Cheng [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I run mldonkey (mlnet+gui) on freebsd 6.2 and found it takes up a lot of CPU resources. What happens if you shut down the gui. The good thing about mldonkey is that most of the time you don't need it.

XML Repository with HTML front end

2007-07-23 Thread Noah
Hi there, might somebody be able to recommend a good XML repository that keeps files in XML format but still viewable, uploadable, downloadable, and searchable via a web front-end? Cheers, Noah ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list

high resource demand fron mldonkey

2007-07-23 Thread Robert Huff
Tsu-Fan Cheng writes: I run mldonkey (mlnet+gui) on freebsd 6.2 and found it takes up a lot of CPU resources. Is this a common thing or just me. Also, is there something else, e.g. amule, xmule that runs a little lighters on the system?? thank you!! From top a

Re: high resource demand fron mldonkey

2007-07-23 Thread Danny Woods
On Mon, Jul 23, 2007 at 04:44:17PM -0400, Tsu-Fan Cheng wrote: Hi, I run mldonkey (mlnet+gui) on freebsd 6.2 and found it takes up a lot of CPU resources. Is this a common thing or just me. I run mlnet 2.8.7 *without* the GUI on 6.2 on a 533MHz VIA C3 (hardly a powerhorse) and it consumes

Re: high resource demand fron mldonkey

2007-07-23 Thread Tsu-Fan Cheng
i see. After running just the mlnet_real itself, the app doesnt consume so much power anymore. So the gui is the real problem here, huh?? any attempt to improve this?? ciao, TFC On 7/23/07, Danny Woods [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, Jul 23, 2007 at 04:44:17PM -0400, Tsu-Fan Cheng wrote:

firefox 3.0

2007-07-23 Thread Tsu-Fan Cheng
Hi, just browser the port directory and discovered that firefox 3.0 is in the system, before i upgrade to that, would like to know if *everything* works fine with this version, especially the flash plugin, thank you !! TFC ___

Re: firefox 3.0

2007-07-23 Thread Anton Galitch
On 7/23/07, Tsu-Fan Cheng [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, just browser the port directory and discovered that firefox 3.0 is in the system, before i upgrade to that, would like to know if *everything* works fine with this version, especially the flash plugin, thank you !! TFC

Re: firefox 3.0

2007-07-23 Thread Yuri Pankov
On Mon, Jul 23, 2007 at 07:53:14PM -0300, Anton Galitch wrote: On 7/23/07, Tsu-Fan Cheng [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, just browser the port directory and discovered that firefox 3.0 is in the system, before i upgrade to that, would like to know if *everything* works fine with this

Re: firefox 3.0

2007-07-23 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On 23/07/07, Tsu-Fan Cheng [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, just browser the port directory and discovered that firefox 3.0 is in the system, before i upgrade to that, would like to know if *everything* works fine with this version, especially the flash plugin, thank you !! It compiles and

Re: Xorg upgrade (wrong library) issue [more info]

2007-07-23 Thread Tuc at T-B-O-H.NET
Tuc at T-B-O-H.NET wrote: snip himinbjorg# ldd work/bdftopcf-1.0.1/bdftopcf work/bdftopcf-1.0.1/bdftopcf: libXfont.so.1 = /usr/X11R6/lib/libXfont.so.1 (0x2808) libc.so.5 = /lib/libc.so.5 (0x280e6000) WHY when the cc step is stating -L/usr/local/lib is it bring the

Re: firefox 3.0

2007-07-23 Thread Hakan K
I got Firefox 3.0 Alpha 7 / 2.0.0.5 / 1.5.0.12 No problem so far ... Thanks Troy http://dominor.com * *On 7/23/07, Tsu-Fan Cheng [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, just browser the port directory and discovered that firefox 3.0 is in the system, before i upgrade to that, would like to know if

Re: firefox 3.0

2007-07-23 Thread Hakan K
http://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/firefox/nightly/latest-trunk/ Troy http://primoris.com On 7/23/07, Anton Galitch [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 7/23/07, Tsu-Fan Cheng [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, just browser the port directory and discovered that firefox 3.0 is in the system,

Re: firefox 3.0

2007-07-23 Thread Tsu-Fan Cheng
sorry, i didnt notice that its the devel version. I just saw it in the freebsd.org/ports page. anyhow, I initial attempt was to find a alternative browser to firefox. On windows, there are avant, k-meleon and such, they are pretty good and fast compared to ff/IE. I wonder if there is any such

Re: firefox 3.0

2007-07-23 Thread Hakan K
I better try avant, k-meleon ,, I am not very happy with FF/IE.. They are slow.. They use a lot of resources.. Thanks http://dominor.net On 7/23/07, Tsu-Fan Cheng [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: sorry, i didnt notice that its the devel version. I just saw it in the freebsd.org/ports page.

mount that cant be killed

2007-07-23 Thread Tsu-Fan Cheng
hi, just found out that i have some mount process that cant be killed. I was trying to mount a digital photo frame but failed, I issued mount_msdos /dev/da0 /mnt on console. After seeing it not returned, I login from another console and killed the previous login. Now the mount process is still

Re: Intel G965 chipset?

2007-07-23 Thread Bruce Caruthers
Here's a followup, so anyone checking the archives will know what to do... (and if it helps the group overall, even better) Much thanks to those who tried to help. As I was running a Pentium on an Intel board, it never occurred to me to even look at the amd64 variant, until I realized the one

Re: high resource demand fron mldonkey

2007-07-23 Thread Robert Huff
Tsu-Fan Cheng writes: i see. After running just the mlnet_real itself, the app doesnt consume so much power anymore. So the gui is the real problem here, huh?? any attempt to improve this?? For this, you will probably hace to talk to the developers

Re: quickie: howto? window manager xterms, but no kde/gnome/xfce

2007-07-23 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On 23/07/07, Steve Franks [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm not totally opposed to what comes up in X if you start with no .xinitrc, but it's a tad ugly. I'd ideally like to have a nifty window manager, like one of those new 3d ones, 3d?! My VR goggles, when I jack into the global net, only give

Re: firefox 3.0

2007-07-23 Thread Norberto Meijome
On Mon, 23 Jul 2007 18:11:38 -0500 [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: It compiles and runs here (6.2 7 i386), although almost none of the extensions or plugins want to run on it. you can disable the version check for the extensions - they may still not run (they may even crash ffox!

Re: installing manual pages

2007-07-23 Thread Jonathan Horne
also good to keep in mind, that if you're going to be rebuilding the world and updating that minimal install to -STABLE or RELEASE-p[latest], that you'll be installing the man pages along with the updated world as well. cheers, -- Jonathan Horne http://dfwlpiki.dfwlp.org [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: mount that cant be killed

2007-07-23 Thread Garrett Cooper
Tsu-Fan Cheng wrote: hi, just found out that i have some mount process that cant be killed. I was trying to mount a digital photo frame but failed, I issued mount_msdos /dev/da0 /mnt on console. After seeing it not returned, I login from another console and killed the previous login. Now the

problem while access the kernel file

2007-07-23 Thread Prakash Poudyal
Hello All, I do have problem when I tried to access the file kernel file GENEREIC I did as follows but following error cames so could please any body answer me waht is exactly the problem ns2# /cdrom/5.5-RELEASE/src/install.sh all Extracting sources into /usr/src... Extracting source