Re: Scanner recommendation

2011-02-04 Thread Gour
On Fri, 4 Feb 2011 17:03:35 -0600 (CST) Robert Bonomi wrote: > Money *IS* a poweful incentive. > > Somebody saying "I'll buy it, if it supports _this_ scanner" is > motivation. Well, I'm not astonished that he does it, but amazed that the whole open-source community behind SANE is so much beh

Re: manual page formatting issues

2011-02-04 Thread Yuri Pankov
On Sat, Feb 05, 2011 at 02:24:31PM +1000, Rob wrote: > Hi, > > I'm running FreeBSD 8.1-RELEASE (running on VMWare Server 2.0.2) and am > having some odd issues the formatting of man pages. > > If I view a man page (as root) in the console it displays correctly. If I > view the man page (again, as

manual page formatting issues

2011-02-04 Thread Rob
Hi, I'm running FreeBSD 8.1-RELEASE (running on VMWare Server 2.0.2) and am having some odd issues the formatting of man pages. If I view a man page (as root) in the console it displays correctly. If I view the man page (again, as root) in a (PuTTY) terminal session, the bold formatting of the co

Re: Why does my 8.2-RC3 dvd1 boot DOS?

2011-02-04 Thread Mehmet Erol Sanliturk
On Fri, Feb 4, 2011 at 4:53 PM, Chuck Bacon wrote: > I downloaded it yesterday. Here's the facts: > > 1. md5 matches CHECKSUM.MD5 > > 2. When I boot off the BIOS, it takes a half minute or so, and > then: voila! PC-DOS boots, and for all the world look as > though it will boot a larger syst

Re: Why can't I install icu?

2011-02-04 Thread Rem P Roberti
Try again, with a clean build, after having made sure that you've removed all remnants of the earlier icu versions; and make a transcript of the build: pkg_delete -fv "icu2-*" "icu-*" script /tmp/icu.log make -C /usr/ports/devel/icu deinstall clean install exit If the problem still occurs, the

Re: Why does my 8.2-RC3 dvd1 boot DOS?

2011-02-04 Thread Polytropon
On Sat, 5 Feb 2011 01:05:14 +, Frank Shute wrote: > Sometimes manufacturers ship PC-DOS on the HDD if the machine comes > with "no OS"; maybe that's what you are seeing. Or it could be part of a "service partition", a modern means to get rid of installation media to be shipped with PCs that c

Re: Why does my 8.2-RC3 dvd1 boot DOS?

2011-02-04 Thread Frank Shute
On Fri, Feb 04, 2011 at 04:53:15PM -0500, Chuck Bacon wrote: > > I downloaded it yesterday. Here's the facts: > > 1. md5 matches CHECKSUM.MD5 > > 2. When I boot off the BIOS, it takes a half minute or so, and >then: voila! PC-DOS boots, and for all the world look as >though it will boot

Re: Why can't I install icu?

2011-02-04 Thread b. f.
> Icu is a necessary dependency for Gimp, but I can't get it to install. > I checked UPDATING and it states that icu4 is now deprecated, and one > should install /devel/icu. But when I try to do that the file that is > downloaded is icu4c, and the install goes along until it chokes with > this err

Re: Scanner recommendation

2011-02-04 Thread Warren Block
On Fri, 4 Feb 2011, Rem P Roberti wrote: On Linux I'm very satisfied with VueScan (having Epson V700) which is, imho, much better than all the free-source tools, but wonder whether it works via Linux emulation? I use Vuescan with Windoze, and you are right, it is infinitely better than any f

Re: Why can't I install icu?

2011-02-04 Thread Rem P Roberti
*NO* he's refering to the _locale_, not the timezone. They're totally separate and unrelated concepts. "Locale" is a means for specifying a bunch of national/regional things. like what the currency symbol (dollar-, pound-, euro-, yen-, whatever-sign) is, whether one uses ',' or '.' for markin

Re: Scanner recommendation

2011-02-04 Thread Robert Bonomi
> From owner-freebsd-questi...@freebsd.org Fri Feb 4 11:26:25 2011 > To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org > From: Gour > Date: Fri, 4 Feb 2011 18:24:10 +0100 > Subject: Re: Scanner recommendation > > --Sig_/7ESsfH/1RtQF54bxqA=NpSI > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encodi

Why does my 8.2-RC3 dvd1 boot DOS?

2011-02-04 Thread Chuck Bacon
I downloaded it yesterday. Here's the facts: 1. md5 matches CHECKSUM.MD5 2. When I boot off the BIOS, it takes a half minute or so, and then: voila! PC-DOS boots, and for all the world look as though it will boot a larger system; except it doesn't have a clue. Here's the hypothesis:

Re: KDE on FreeBSD 8.1 - Akonadi Control Process Not Registered at D-Bus

2011-02-04 Thread Jerry
On Sat, 5 Feb 2011 00:23:31 +0600 Alexey Serebryakoff articulated: > This is my /etc/rc.conf > > ... > hald_enable="YES" > > > polk

Re: editors/openoffice-org-3.3.0: serious issue with X11

2011-02-04 Thread O. Hartmann
On 02/03/11 14:12, Robert Huff wrote: Alexandre writes: On Thu, Feb 3, 2011 at 10:14 AM, Pavlo Greenbergwrote: > [SNIP] > But I'm agree with you, OOo's behavior after the last update is abnormal. Why not give a try to LibreOffice, that is in ports : http://www.freshports.org/edito

Re: KDE on FreeBSD 8.1 - Akonadi Control Process Not Registered at D-Bus

2011-02-04 Thread Alexey Serebryakoff
This is my /etc/rc.conf ... hald_enable="YES" polkitd_enable="YES"

Re: Scanner recommendation

2011-02-04 Thread Bill Campbell
On Fri, Feb 04, 2011, Gour wrote: >On Fri, 04 Feb 2011 08:53:05 -0800 >Rem P Roberti wrote: > >> I use Vuescan with Windoze, and you are right, it is infinitely >> better than any free source software. > >It's really puzzling how one-man shop can support write software which >is so much better t

KDE on FreeBSD 8.1 - Akonadi Control Process Not Registered at D-Bus

2011-02-04 Thread Bahman Kahinpour
Hello, I have installed X.org and KDE on my FreeBSD 8.1-RELEASE (directly from the packages collection on the Installation DVD-ROM) and I have taken these steps: +/etc/rc.conf: dbus_enable="YES" +/etc/rc.conf: hald_enable="YES" and also: I have added startkde4 to .xinitrc While using KDE, I conti

Re: Scanner recommendation

2011-02-04 Thread Gour
On Fri, 04 Feb 2011 08:53:05 -0800 Rem P Roberti wrote: > I use Vuescan with Windoze, and you are right, it is infinitely > better than any free source software. It's really puzzling how one-man shop can support write software which is so much better than any free software with support for so

Re: Scanner recommendation

2011-02-04 Thread Rem P Roberti
Now that I understand how to get a scanner working, if there are any photographers out there who are using scanners with FreeBSD for negatives or slides I would love to hear a recommendation. I have an Epson V500, but it is unsupported, and the only scanner that I have that is supported is an o

Re: Why can't I install icu?

2011-02-04 Thread Rem P Roberti
Le Thu, 03 Feb 2011 22:15:09 -0800, Rem P Roberti a écrit : Icu is a necessary dependency for Gimp, but I can't get it to install. I checked UPDATING and it states that icu4 is now deprecated, and one should install /devel/icu. But when I try to do that the file that is downloaded is icu4c,

Re: Why can't I install icu?

2011-02-04 Thread Patrick Lamaiziere
Le Thu, 03 Feb 2011 22:15:09 -0800, Rem P Roberti a écrit : > Icu is a necessary dependency for Gimp, but I can't get it to > install. I checked UPDATING and it states that icu4 is now > deprecated, and one should install /devel/icu. But when I try to do > that the file that is downloaded is icu

Re: Scanner recommendation

2011-02-04 Thread Gour
On Thu, 03 Feb 2011 18:02:09 -0800 Rem P Roberti wrote: > Now that I understand how to get a scanner working, if there are any > photographers out there who are using scanners with FreeBSD for > negatives or slides I would love to hear a recommendation. I have an > Epson V500, but it is unsup