Re: after youtube .swf, black xterm text = transparent

2012-11-23 Thread Volodymyr Kostyrko
23.11.2012 06:22, Gary Aitken: Do you have a nvidia card ? If yes right click on the youtube image and disable hardware acceleration, it will probably solve it (solved for me) I'm seeing this too. nvidia-driver is installed. I'm using E17 without opengl. While this should work for flash

PF and tables for disabling network

2012-11-23 Thread David Demelier
Hello, I would like to disable the network traffic for specific IPs, for the moment I just add to my pf.conf a rule that will block everything for a specified table like this : table closed [...] others rules [...] block from closed Then I just need to add my IP using pfctl, it will works, no

Re: PF and tables for disabling network

2012-11-23 Thread Fleuriot Damien
On Nov 23, 2012, at 3:46 PM, David Demelier demelier.da...@gmail.com wrote: Hello, I would like to disable the network traffic for specific IPs, for the moment I just add to my pf.conf a rule that will block everything for a specified table like this : table closed [...] others rules

newfs -m for large filesystem

2012-11-23 Thread Ireneusz Pluta
Hello, are the remarks given for the -m option in tunefs(8) and newfs(8) still the same for very large filesystems, or the free-space margin might be safely reduced in these cases? For instance, when I have a 12TB filesystem then the default 8% margin gets close to the value of 1TB, which

Re: using new pkgng system on 9.0 system

2012-11-23 Thread Fbsd8
Matthew Seaman wrote: On 22/11/2012 14:51, Fbsd8 wrote: Since pkg is being replaced by pkgng in Release 10.0 I would like to get head start by playing with it on my 9.0 system. Cool. Where can I find a write up about installing and using pkgng? If you start from

Re: using new pkgng system on 9.0 system

2012-11-23 Thread Amitabh Kant
On Fri, Nov 23, 2012 at 12:33 AM, Matthew Seaman m.sea...@infracaninophile.co.uk wrote: Most people testing pkgng at the moment are building their own package sets -- poudriere is a popular choice for doing that -- and setting up their own private repositories. There should have been

pkgng usage

2012-11-23 Thread Fbsd8
Installed pkgng as port. Converted my old pkg database to new format. Ran pkg delete for virtualbox package using it's full name from pkg info. That worked fine. But it left behind all it's dependences. Command pkg autoremove says there is noting to do. How do I find and remove orphaned

Re: using new pkgng system on 9.0 system

2012-11-23 Thread Matthew Seaman
On 23/11/2012 16:24, Amitabh Kant wrote: Can' we create a new format package using recent version of portmaster? Or am I reading everything incorrectly? Yes, you can certainly do that. portmaster works pretty well with pkgng although it is still missing a few features compared to using it with

Re: newfs -m for large filesystem

2012-11-23 Thread Robert Bonomi
From owner-freebsd-questi...@freebsd.org Fri Nov 23 09:31:00 2012 Date: Fri, 23 Nov 2012 16:27:23 +0100 From: Ireneusz Pluta ipl...@wp.pl To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: newfs -m for large filesystem Hello, are the remarks given for the -m option in tunefs(8) and newfs(8)

Re: pkgng usage

2012-11-23 Thread Matthew Seaman
On 23/11/2012 16:31, Fbsd8 wrote: Installed pkgng as port. Converted my old pkg database to new format. Ran pkg delete for virtualbox package using it's full name from pkg info. That worked fine. But it left behind all it's dependences. Command pkg autoremove says there is noting to do.

Should newfs include -S 4096? was Re: boot problem after freebsd-update from 9.1-RC2 to 9.1-RC3

2012-11-23 Thread freebsd
On 2012-11-20 21:10, Warren Block wrote: On Tue, 20 Nov 2012, free...@johnea.net wrote: On 2012-11-20 14:28, Gary Aitken wrote: On 11/20/12 13:34, free...@johnea.net wrote: freebsd-update upgrade -r 9.1-RC3 ... Not UFS No ada0 No boot Seems like it isn't supposed to work for 9.1-RC2

Odd X11 over SSH issue

2012-11-23 Thread Paul Kraus
I am seeing very poor response time running the VitrualBox GUI via X11 tunneled over SSH via the Internet. The issue _appears_ to be limited to the VBox GUI as Firefox is reasonable. I am well aware of the latency issues tunneling X11 over SSH across the Internet, but that is what we are stuck

OT: has Black Friday ever been tried at FreeBSD ?

2012-11-23 Thread jb
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Re: Odd X11 over SSH issue

2012-11-23 Thread Adam Vande More
On Fri, Nov 23, 2012 at 11:43 AM, Paul Kraus p...@kraus-haus.org wrote: I am seeing very poor response time running the VitrualBox GUI via X11 tunneled over SSH via the Internet. The issue _appears_ to be limited to the VBox GUI as Firefox is reasonable. I am well aware of the latency issues

Re: using new pkgng system on 9.0 system

2012-11-23 Thread Matthew Seaman
On 23/11/2012 15:38, Fbsd8 wrote: Can I browse the beta-test server repositories for the packages I want? Download the repo catalogue by setting up your pkg.conf appropriately then running: pkg update Then you can use tools like 'pkg search' or 'pkg rquery' to investigate the available

Re: Odd X11 over SSH issue

2012-11-23 Thread Paul Kraus
On Fri, Nov 23, 2012 at 1:01 PM, Adam Vande More amvandem...@gmail.com wrote: On Fri, Nov 23, 2012 at 11:43 AM, Paul Kraus p...@kraus-haus.org wrote: I am seeing very poor response time running the VitrualBox GUI via X11 tunneled over SSH via the Internet. The issue _appears_ to be limited to

Re: using new pkgng system on 9.0 system

2012-11-23 Thread Fbsd8
Matthew Seaman wrote: On 23/11/2012 15:38, Fbsd8 wrote: Can I browse the beta-test server repositories for the packages I want? Download the repo catalogue by setting up your pkg.conf appropriately then running: pkg update Then you can use tools like 'pkg search' or 'pkg rquery' to

Re: using new pkgng system on 9.0 system

2012-11-23 Thread Walter Hurry
On Thu, 22 Nov 2012 19:03:50 +, Matthew Seaman wrote: Most people testing pkgng at the moment are building their own package sets -- poudriere is a popular choice for doing that -- and setting up their own private repositories. Yes, I too am building my own package set and creating a

Re: using new pkgng system on 9.0 system

2012-11-23 Thread Matthew Seaman
On 23/11/2012 19:19, Fbsd8 wrote: Where do I find the url for the beta-test server repositories? Can I use ftp or browser to see index content? pkg.conf as supplied in the port-mgmt/pkg port comes with the right URL for the FreeBSD pkg repo[*], which is currently pointing at the beta-test

Compatability for various USB 3.0 / PCIe cards ?

2012-11-23 Thread Ronald F. Guilmette
Well friends, it's that time of year again... yep, it's shop till you drop time! This year it appears that everybody and his brother is having a sale on compact (mostly 2.5 inch) external drives, and most of them nowadays have a USB 3.0 connection. That's swell, and there are some really good

Re: using new pkgng system on 9.0 system

2012-11-23 Thread Matthew Seaman
On 23/11/2012 20:36, Walter Hurry wrote: Poudriere though: I read somewhere that ZFS is a prerequisite. Is that so? Yes. poudriere uses the cloning and snapshotting abilities of ZFS as a fundamental part of the way it works. You can use tinderbox instead if you only have conventional

Re: Odd X11 over SSH issue

2012-11-23 Thread Lowell Gilbert
Paul Kraus p...@kraus-haus.org writes: I am seeing very poor response time running the VitrualBox GUI via X11 tunneled over SSH via the Internet. The issue _appears_ to be limited to the VBox GUI as Firefox is reasonable. I am well aware of the latency issues tunneling X11 over SSH across the

Re: Odd X11 over SSH issue

2012-11-23 Thread Paul Kraus
On Fri, Nov 23, 2012 at 4:31 PM, Lowell Gilbert freebsd-questions-lo...@be-well.ilk.org wrote: Observations: 1. When I first SSH into the box I see a long delay after the SSH tunnel is setup before being prompted for a password, and I do not know if this delay is related to the VBox issue.

Re: FreeBSD on SSD on ASUS P5KPL-C

2012-11-23 Thread Matthias Apitz
El día Wednesday, November 21, 2012 a las 09:19:24PM -0700, Warren Block escribió: On Wed, 21 Nov 2012, Warren Block wrote: The fdisk/bsdlabel section of my disk setup article has been rewritten to use gpart. Feedback welcome. http://www.wonkity.com/~wblock/docs/html/disksetup.html