Re: Quick question about sound drivers (esp. snd_hda)

2011-03-12 Thread Bruce Cran
On Fri, 11 Mar 2011 15:29:44 -0500 Brian Waters brianmwat...@gmail.com wrote: It seems to me that under /dev, you can have the following sound-related device files: dspX dspX.Y (among others) I'm having some trouble getting my sound to work (Dell Inspiron E1705/Inspiron 9400 with

Re: Quick question about sound drivers (esp. snd_hda)

2011-03-12 Thread Chris Rees
On 12 March 2011 08:34, Bruce Cran br...@cran.org.uk wrote: On Fri, 11 Mar 2011 15:29:44 -0500 Brian Waters brianmwat...@gmail.com wrote: It seems to me that under /dev, you can have the following sound-related device files: dspX dspX.Y (among others) I'm having some trouble getting my

Buildworld on flacky hardware

2011-03-12 Thread Erik Norgaard
Hi: I previously wrote about buildworld failure, it turns out to be flacky hardware. Since then I have tried to reboot on every failure and start building againg. It compiles fine for a 3-5 hours, then fails at different places. It seems that a new make buildworld does not pickup from where

Unable to umount

2011-03-12 Thread Robert
Greetings On two separate systems running 8.2 Stable updated yesterday, I am unable to umount any USB thumb drives after mounting. I have tried both Fat32 and UFS formatted drives. I have tried with and without HAL enabled. I am running with all ports up to date and the latest XFCE4. This

Re: Unable to umount

2011-03-12 Thread Chris Brennan
On Sat, Mar 12, 2011 at 11:07 AM, Robert travelin...@cox.net wrote: Greetings On two separate systems running 8.2 Stable updated yesterday, I am unable to umount any USB thumb drives after mounting. I have tried both Fat32 and UFS formatted drives. I have tried with and without HAL enabled.

Re: Unable to umount

2011-03-12 Thread Robert
On Sat, 12 Mar 2011 11:26:00 -0500 Chris Brennan xa...@xaerolimit.net wrote: On Sat, Mar 12, 2011 at 11:07 AM, Robert travelin...@cox.net wrote: Greetings On two separate systems running 8.2 Stable updated yesterday, I am unable to umount any USB thumb drives after mounting. I have

Re: Unable to umount

2011-03-12 Thread Chris Brennan
On Sat, Mar 12, 2011 at 11:33 AM, Robert travelin...@cox.net wrote: Thank you for the reply. As shown above, I mounted the drive and then tried to umount the drive. I did not access it other than the ls command. [robert@dell64] ~ lsof Flash [robert@dell64] ~ lsof /dev/da6s1 [robert@dell64]

Re: Unable to umount

2011-03-12 Thread Robert
On Sat, 12 Mar 2011 11:35:25 -0500 Chris Brennan xa...@xaerolimit.net wrote: On Sat, Mar 12, 2011 at 11:33 AM, Robert travelin...@cox.net wrote: Thank you for the reply. As shown above, I mounted the drive and then tried to umount the drive. I did not access it other than the ls command.

Re: Unable to umount

2011-03-12 Thread Robert
On Sat, 12 Mar 2011 08:48:40 -0800 Robert travelin...@cox.net wrote: On Sat, 12 Mar 2011 11:35:25 -0500 Chris Brennan xa...@xaerolimit.net wrote: On Sat, Mar 12, 2011 at 11:33 AM, Robert travelin...@cox.net wrote: Thank you for the reply. As shown above, I mounted the drive and

Re: Unable to umount

2011-03-12 Thread Robert
On 12 Mar 2011 17:29:59 - John Levine jo...@iecc.com wrote: [robert@dell64] ~ umount Flash umount: unmount of /home/robert/Flash failed: Device busy Try umount -f The problem is likely that HAL or one of its friends helpfully has the device open just in case you might want to ask

Re: Unable to umount

2011-03-12 Thread Chris Brennan
On Sat, Mar 12, 2011 at 12:34 PM, Robert travelin...@cox.net wrote: On 12 Mar 2011 17:29:59 - John Levine jo...@iecc.com wrote: [robert@dell64] ~ umount Flash umount: unmount of /home/robert/Flash failed: Device busy Try umount -f The problem is likely that HAL or one of its

Re: Unable to umount

2011-03-12 Thread John Levine
[robert@dell64] ~ umount Flash umount: unmount of /home/robert/Flash failed: Device busy Try umount -f The problem is likely that HAL or one of its friends helpfully has the device open just in case you might want to ask questions about it. Regards, John Levine, jo...@iecc.com, Primary

Re: Unable to umount

2011-03-12 Thread Jason C. Wells
On 03/12/11 09:51, Chris Brennan wrote: 'umount -f' is dangerous, while it worked in your case, truly, make sure you don't have any open files in the future, just to ensure no loss of files or filesytem corruption Run sync before umount -f to flush write caches. Later, Jason

Re: Unable to umount

2011-03-12 Thread Tim Dunphy
[robert@dell64] ~ umount Flash umount: unmount of /home/robert/Flash failed: Device busy [robert@dell64] ~ umount /dev/da6s1 umount: unmount of /home/robert/Flash failed: Device busy have you tried lazy unmount? umount -l /dev/da6s1 if you have root access you should su/sudo to that before

Character shortcuts

2011-03-12 Thread Antonio Olivares
Dear FreeBSD experts, There has been something that I find hard to do, I would like to find a CTRL + KEY combination, or ALT + KEY combination to input special characters like (ñ) [ALT + 164 or ALT + 0241 in Mr. Gates OS]. http://www.forlang.wsu.edu/help/keyboards.asp accents other symbols

Re: Character shortcuts

2011-03-12 Thread Frank Shute
On Sat, Mar 12, 2011 at 02:07:59PM -0600, Antonio Olivares wrote: Dear FreeBSD experts, There has been something that I find hard to do, I would like to find a CTRL + KEY combination, or ALT + KEY combination to input special characters like (ñ) [ALT + 164 or ALT + 0241 in Mr. Gates OS].

Re: syslog-ng logging stopped

2011-03-12 Thread Len Conrad
-- Original Message -- From: Iñigo Ortiz de Urbina inigoortizdeurb...@gmail.com Date: Fri, 11 Mar 2011 23:12:49 +0100 Whats in dmesg and /var/log/? You shared extensive and excellent troubleshooting info but didnt spot none of these. Keep us updated im

Re: Character shortcuts

2011-03-12 Thread Polytropon
On Sat, 12 Mar 2011 14:07:59 -0600, Antonio Olivares olivares14...@gmail.com wrote: Dear FreeBSD experts, There has been something that I find hard to do, I would like to find a CTRL + KEY combination, or ALT + KEY combination to input special characters like (ñ) [ALT + 164 or ALT + 0241

Re: Character shortcuts

2011-03-12 Thread Antonio Olivares
On Sat, Mar 12, 2011 at 3:43 PM, Polytropon free...@edvax.de wrote: On Sat, 12 Mar 2011 14:07:59 -0600, Antonio Olivares olivares14...@gmail.com wrote: Dear FreeBSD experts, There has been something that I find hard to do, I would like to find a CTRL + KEY combination, or ALT + KEY

Re: syslog-ng logging stopped

2011-03-12 Thread Len Conrad
At 03:52 PM 3/12/2011, you wrote: That probably means that it's not syslog-ng causing the problems. right Maybe some firewall rule? I run pf. pfctl -d didn't allow logging to start. trafshow and tshark showed all the traffic hitting port 514, not being blocked. Len

Re: syslog-ng logging stopped

2011-03-12 Thread Peter Boosten
That probably means that it's not syslog-ng causing the problems. Maybe some firewall rule? Peter -- HTTP://www.boosten.org On 12 mrt 2011, at 22:40, Len Conrad lcon...@go2france.com wrote: -- Original Message -- From: Iñigo Ortiz de Urbina

Re: Character shortcuts

2011-03-12 Thread Polytropon
On Sat, 12 Mar 2011 15:57:31 -0600, Antonio Olivares olivares14...@gmail.com wrote: Thanks Frank Polytropon for your input. I have students that bug me with how to put the characters on their responses to their instructors on the web pages via email. I tell them to open OpenOffice and

'Fast' fsck -p coredumps on GPT volume?

2011-03-12 Thread Peter Vereshagin
Hey freebsd-questions don't wanna cause you pain but the big boys feel no sorrow! I have fsck -p -y coredump on every cold reboot. The only unusual things to cause this are: it's a GPT volume and the nullfs is used extensively. I think this is because of the the GPT because I can't geom_label

Re: Character shortcuts

2011-03-12 Thread Lars Eighner
On Sat, 12 Mar 2011, Antonio Olivares wrote: Dear FreeBSD experts, There has been something that I find hard to do, I would like to find a CTRL + KEY combination, or ALT + KEY combination to input special characters like (ñ) [ALT + 164 or ALT + 0241 in Mr. Gates OS].

Re: Character shortcuts

2011-03-12 Thread Chad Perrin
On Sat, Mar 12, 2011 at 02:07:59PM -0600, Antonio Olivares wrote: Dear FreeBSD experts, There has been something that I find hard to do, I would like to find a CTRL + KEY combination, or ALT + KEY combination to input special characters like (ñ) [ALT + 164 or ALT + 0241 in Mr. Gates OS].

Re: Character shortcuts

2011-03-12 Thread Frank Shute
On Sat, Mar 12, 2011 at 03:57:31PM -0600, Antonio Olivares wrote: On Sat, Mar 12, 2011 at 3:43 PM, Polytropon free...@edvax.de wrote: On Sat, 12 Mar 2011 14:07:59 -0600, Antonio Olivares olivares14...@gmail.com wrote: Dear FreeBSD experts, There has been something that I find hard to

android phone -pc-ineternet

2011-03-12 Thread ajtiM
Hi! I have a wire (cable) internet on my home PC with FreeBSD 8.2-RELEASE #0. I have also a new HTC Inspire 4G phone which I like to connet to the Internet through my PC. It has an option Internet Pass-through. I am running also pf firewall. I connecte the phone to the computer (USB port) with

post-installation of CDDL files

2011-03-12 Thread Alexander Best
hi there, my current world does not include any CDDL files, because i had WITHOUT_CDDL in my src.conf. now i'd like to build world with CDDL files (in order to use dtrace). what are the necessary steps for doing so? i've removed the WITHOUT_CDDL part from my src.conf, but targets buildworld and

Re: post-installation of CDDL files

2011-03-12 Thread Rob Farmer
On Sat, Mar 12, 2011 at 4:05 PM, Alexander Best arun...@freebsd.org wrote: hi there, my current world does not include any CDDL files, because i had WITHOUT_CDDL in my src.conf. now i'd like to build world with CDDL files (in order to use dtrace). what are the necessary steps for doing so?

Re: Unable to umount

2011-03-12 Thread perryh
John Levine jo...@iecc.com wrote: [robert@dell64] ~ umount Flash umount: unmount of /home/robert/Flash failed: Device busy ... The problem is likely that HAL or one of its friends helpfully has the device open just in case you might want to ask questions about it. I that case, shouldn't

Re: Unable to umount

2011-03-12 Thread Warren Block
On Sat, 12 Mar 2011, Robert wrote: On 12 Mar 2011 17:29:59 - John Levine jo...@iecc.com wrote: [robert@dell64] ~ umount Flash umount: unmount of /home/robert/Flash failed: Device busy Try umount -f The problem is likely that HAL or one of its friends helpfully has the device open just

Re: Unable to umount

2011-03-12 Thread John R. Levine
... The problem is likely that HAL or one of its friends helpfully has the device open just in case you might want to ask questions about it. I that case, shouldn't lsof(8) have reported something? Yes. It always did for me. Regards, John Levine, jo...@iecc.com, Primary Perpetrator of The

Re: Character shortcuts

2011-03-12 Thread Antonio Olivares
Chad all, On Sat, Mar 12, 2011 at 5:24 PM, Chad Perrin per...@apotheon.com wrote: On Sat, Mar 12, 2011 at 02:07:59PM -0600, Antonio Olivares wrote: Dear FreeBSD experts, There has been something that I find hard to do, I would like to find a CTRL + KEY combination, or ALT + KEY combination

Custom 64bit FreeBSD 8.2-RELEASEs?

2011-03-12 Thread Antonio Olivares
Dear Manolis, Sorry to ask but are there any releases for 8.2 in the works? http://freebsd-custom.wikidot.com/ I have checked here: http://freebsd-custom.wikidot.com/downloads-page but it stil points to 8.1 release. I have an 8.1 version running beautifully thanks to you and all the members

Re: Unable to umount

2011-03-12 Thread perryh
Warren Block wbl...@wonkity.com wrote: lsof reports nothing open on either the mountpoint or the device. fstat blames gam_server: % fstat /home/wblock/Desktop/removable-storage/ USER CMD PID FD MOUNT INUM MODE SZ|DV R/W NAME wblock gam_server 1409 776