Observations during upgrade 7.2 - 8.0

2010-07-18 Thread Peter Boosten
Hi all, I recently upgraded several machines from 7.2 to 8.0 and I made a few observations: Two machines run on an ESX vmware server, and while interfaces started counting at 0 (ie le0, le1, etc), now these interfaces start at 1 (le0 - le1, le1 - le2). Is there any reason for 8.0 doing this,

Re: Anybody can use webcam in skype in 8.1?

2010-07-18 Thread Modulok
I had a similar problem under linux the other day, if that helps. I ended up setting the LD_PRELOAD environment variable to modify how skype gets linked at runtime. In bash: LD_PRELOAD=/usr/lib/libv4l/v4l1compat.so skype Again that's on linux, so it's probably not relevant, or even if it is, the

Re: Anybody can use webcam in skype in 8.1?

2010-07-18 Thread Yuri
On 07/18/2010 07:27, Modulok wrote: I had a similar problem under linux the other day, if that helps. I ended up setting the LD_PRELOAD environment variable to modify how skype gets linked at runtime. In bash: LD_PRELOAD=/usr/lib/libv4l/v4l1compat.so skype Again that's on linux, so it's

Digital camera for FreeBSD

2010-07-18 Thread Robert Ames
If such a thing does exist, can someone recommend a simple point and shoot digital camera that you can connect to a FreeBSD machine via a USB cable and have access to the images via a (presumably MS-DOS based) filesystem? Please CC me on responses as I'm not subscribed. Thanks.

Re: Digital camera for FreeBSD

2010-07-18 Thread Polytropon
On Sun, 18 Jul 2010 12:21:42 -0400, Robert Ames roberta...@hotmail.com wrote: If such a thing does exist, can someone recommend a simple point and shoot digital camera that you can connect to a FreeBSD machine via a USB cable and have access to the images via a (presumably MS-DOS based)

Spanish keyboard in X

2010-07-18 Thread Leonardo M . Ramé
Hi,I'm trying to configure spanish keyboard in FreeBsd 8.1-RC2 with no luck, I've read many documents on the web, but they seem to be rather old, or assume that the user has Gnome or KDE installed, I use Awesome WM. Any hint? Leonardo M. Ramé http://leonardorame.blogspot.com

Re: Digital camera for FreeBSD

2010-07-18 Thread andrew clarke
On Sun 2010-07-18 12:21:42 UTC-0400, Robert Ames (roberta...@hotmail.com) wrote: If such a thing does exist, can someone recommend a simple point and shoot digital camera that you can connect to a FreeBSD machine via a USB cable and have access to the images via a (presumably MS-DOS based)

Re: Spanish keyboard in X

2010-07-18 Thread Polytropon
On Sun, 18 Jul 2010 09:49:16 -0700 (PDT), Leonardo M. Ramé martinr...@yahoo.com wrote: Hi,I'm trying to configure spanish keyboard in FreeBsd 8.1-RC2 with no luck, I've read many documents on the web, but they seem to be rather old, or assume that the user has Gnome or KDE installed, I use

Re: Spanish keyboard in X

2010-07-18 Thread Leonardo M . Ramé
Yes,I have modified xorg.conf the same way as you mentioned. Anyway, now the problem is solved by adding setxkbmap es to my .xsession Thanks. Leonardo M. Ramé http://leonardorame.blogspot.com --- On Sun, 7/18/10, Polytropon free...@edvax.de wrote: From: Polytropon free...@edvax.de

utf8 characters in terminal

2010-07-18 Thread Leonardo M . Ramé
Hi, I installed Freebsd 8.1-RC2 in my home server to be used mainly as a file server, it used to have Ubuntu 9.10-Server installed on it, then I backed up (.tar.gz) the /home directory, that contains many spanish accented files and subdirectories in UTF8. Now, when I access this machine using

Emacs splash screen went to textmode only

2010-07-18 Thread Markus Hoenicka
Hi, I've recently updated Emacs to the latest version (23.2_2,2 from 23.1.1) along with all dependencies. Since then, the startup screen when running in an X window shows b/w text only like in the days of yore. Not that the startup screen graphics are that important, but things that don't work as

Re: Samba gives invalid PT_PHDR after upgrading from 7.2-RELEASE to 7.3-RELEASE

2010-07-18 Thread David Brodbeck
On Jul 7, 2010, at 10:12 AM, David Brodbeck wrote: On Wed, July 7, 2010 2:20 am, mcoyles wrote: Today I tried using portupgrade -R -f samba34 to rebuild samba and all of its dependencies, but I'm still getting the same error. I'm a little surprised that a minor version upgrade broke this

Re: Digital camera for FreeBSD

2010-07-18 Thread Rolf G Nielsen
2010-07-18 19:06, Polytropon skrev: On Sun, 18 Jul 2010 12:21:42 -0400, Robert Amesroberta...@hotmail.com wrote: If such a thing does exist, can someone recommend a simple point and shoot digital camera that you can connect to a FreeBSD machine via a USB cable and have access to the images

Radio Shark 2

2010-07-18 Thread Ryan Coleman
Does anyone have an experience getting the Radio Shark 2 set up? I'm hoping to use it for radio streaming in my apartment. I've found shark2.c on the net and gcc is failing to compile it; I'm a PHP developer with a lot of admin time on FreeBSD (8-RELEASE, AMD64 build presently) but can't get

Is there a script to upgrade i386 system to amd64 ?

2010-07-18 Thread Yuri
Since this is something that potentially almost everyone would need at least once this should be made very easy for the end user. Yuri ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To

Re: Is there a script to upgrade i386 system to amd64 ?

2010-07-18 Thread Dan Nelson
In the last episode (Jul 18), Yuri said: Since this is something that potentially almost everyone would need at least once this should be made very easy for the end user. When I did it, I believe I just made copies of /usr/lib and /usr/local/lib to ../lib32 (so 32-bit ports would still work),

Re: Is there a script to upgrade i386 system to amd64 ?

2010-07-18 Thread Olivier Nicole
Hi Since this is something that potentially almost everyone would need at least once this should be made very easy for the end user. I am not sure what you mean. I have penty of machines that are 32 bits and simply cannot run 64 bits. If I ever replace one 32 bits machines with a 64 bits new

samba pam_smbpass passwd seg fault

2010-07-18 Thread Michael McGrew
I'm trying to sync the local unix account passwords to the samba smbpass db using pam. When i run passwd, after it's done it seg faults and produces a core dump. The odd thing is that it works, the users local unix password gets synced to the smbpass db, but it seg faults. Below are my relevant

Has anybody got a *working* example of getpwnam_r() ??

2010-07-18 Thread Robert Bonomi
I've _got_ to be doing something wrong, sine I'm getting heap corruption calling it. But for the life of me, I can't figure out -what- is wrong. What I've got makes a whole lot of no sense -- I get corruption of the _same_ malloc()'d data structure (at *exactly* the same offset into the

Re: Emacs splash screen went to textmode only

2010-07-18 Thread Ashish SHUKLA
Hi Markus, Markus Hoenicka writes: Hi, I've recently updated Emacs to the latest version (23.2_2,2 from 23.1.1) along with all dependencies. Since then, the startup screen when running in an X window shows b/w text only like in the days of yore. Not that the startup screen graphics are that

Re: Is there a script to upgrade i386 system to amd64 ?

2010-07-18 Thread Yuri
On 07/18/2010 19:43, Dan Nelson wrote: When I did it, I believe I just made copies of /usr/lib and /usr/local/lib to ../lib32 (so 32-bit ports would still work), installed the 64-bit kernel and world, rebooted, then upgraded all the ports over a week or so. I was running zfs so I made a

Re: best open source site for Bourne .sh development project?

2010-07-18 Thread Fbsd8
CyberLeo Kitsana wrote: On 07/05/2010 06:37 PM, Fbsd8 wrote: I developing a jailed environment application in Bourne script. Looking for recommends for a open source web site to join and add my code to so others may participate. The site needs to be able to host the code to be used as the

Re: Anybody can use webcam in skype in 8.1?

2010-07-18 Thread Yuri
On 07/18/2010 07:27, Modulok wrote: I had a similar problem under linux the other day, if that helps. I ended up setting the LD_PRELOAD environment variable to modify how skype gets linked at runtime. In bash: LD_PRELOAD=/usr/lib/libv4l/v4l1compat.so skype Again that's on linux, so it's

startkde: Could not start kdeinit4. Check your installation.

2010-07-18 Thread claudiu vasadi
Hello fellas, my system: FreeBSD [xxx] 8.0-RELEASE FreeBSD 8.0-RELEASE #0: Sat Nov 21 15:48:17 UTC 2009 [email]r...@almeida.cse.buffalo.edu[/email]:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GENERIC i386 my problem: - #

Re: Has anybody got a *working* example of getpwnam_r() ??

2010-07-18 Thread Brad Mettee
Robert Bonomi wrote: I've _got_ to be doing something wrong, sine I'm getting heap corruption calling it. But for the life of me, I can't figure out -what- is wrong. What I've got makes a whole lot of no sense -- I get corruption of the _same_ malloc()'d data structure (at *exactly* the same