CEO Workstation Nakatomi Socrates in beastie.4th

2013-08-25 Thread Joe Altman
Seriously, don't scare me like that. But JIC: I don't need to worry? Right? Joe ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to

Re: graphics/shotwell port don't compile right

2013-05-20 Thread Joe Altman
On Mon, May 20, 2013 at 04:46:42PM +0200, Xavier wrote: Hi to all, First, I have ports tree all update: snip If I try to compile graphics/shotwell don't right: There are bug reports open on shotwell's issues: http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=ports/177913

Re: Why is pkg_glob no longer working for me?

2013-04-27 Thread Joe Altman
On Fri, Apr 26, 2013 at 02:54:59PM -0600, Tom Russo wrote: Anyone else have this issue? Or am I the only one left still using portupgrade and its associated tools? I use portupgrade and have noticed no failures. I have never used pkg_glob so I cannot address that. I have used portupgrade as

shotwell fails to build

2013-03-31 Thread Joe Altman
Greetings... I checked at http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr-summary.cgi and found no open bug-reports; and nothing on -questions for March. Maybe it's confined to my system, or I missed an UPDATING notice; if not, I'll go to the maintainer and/or file a bug report. Before I do that are there

Re: snd_hda and front headphones jack

2013-03-12 Thread Joe Altman
On Tue, Mar 12, 2013 at 08:55:49AM -0500, Mark Felder wrote: Hi guys, I seem to be having problems getting my front headphones jack to work. snip If I am looking at this right I believe I need to set nid25 to as=1 which matches the nid31 Speaker and probably also set seq=15. However,

Re: who am i logged in as

2013-01-27 Thread Joe Altman
On Sun, Jan 27, 2013 at 11:01:46AM -0500, Fbsd8 wrote: I know there is a command that will give me the name of the account I am logged in on. But I can not recall the name of this command. What is the name of this command? whoami ___

Re: Upgrading 8.2 to 9.1, Gnome issue

2013-01-21 Thread Joe Altman
On Mon, Jan 21, 2013 at 01:02:17PM +0530, Hrisikesh sahu wrote: # portupgrade -fr gnome-session But I am facing a problem shared object libz.so.5 not found freebsd I see libz.so.6 in my /usr/lib on: 9.1-RELEASE FreeBSD 9.1-RELEASE #0 r245243: Wed Jan 9 18:25:14 EST 2013

Re: FreeBSD 9.1-RELEASE w/ SanDisk ImageMate S11202

2013-01-19 Thread Joe Altman
On Fri, Jan 18, 2013 at 10:19:25PM -0800, Waitman Gobble wrote: On Fri, Jan 18, 2013 at 12:10 AM, Waitman Gobble gobble...@gmail.comwrote: Hi, I have a PCI Express card with VIA VL800 chipset which seems to work OK with a Seagate drive, so I presume the interface is working. I think my

Re: tar compression

2013-01-17 Thread Joe Altman
On Thu, Jan 17, 2013 at 09:29:55PM -0500, Fbsd8 wrote: The man page for tar command says there a 4 different compress types you can use, xz, bzip, bzip2 and gzip. xz uses Lempel-Ziv-Markov chain algorithm. bzip2 uses Burrows-Wheeler transform. Which one is the fastest and compresses the

Re: tar compression

2013-01-17 Thread Joe Altman
On Fri, Jan 18, 2013 at 03:59:39AM +0100, Ralf Mardorf wrote: It doesn't archive permissions. Which is why, if it is used, one *must* (or *should*) use tar. Best, Joe ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list

Re: Regarding: Script configure failed unexpectedly.

2013-01-13 Thread Joe Altman
On Sun, Jan 13, 2013 at 10:34:30AM -0800, Waitman Gobble wrote: Hi, Yeah i think it just sends through sendmail on the local machine. You may find it convenient to use the web interface. Your config.log says you are running FreeBSD 9.1-PRERELEASE #0: Mon Oct 22 00:16:27 EDT 2012, you

Regarding: Script configure failed unexpectedly.

2013-01-12 Thread Joe Altman
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Re: Regarding: Script configure failed unexpectedly.

2013-01-12 Thread Joe Altman
On Sat, Jan 12, 2013 at 06:21:28PM -0800, Waitman Gobble wrote: Hi, If the email contact is as listed it seems there is not a specific person who has taken the port. I found your email to the ports list with the attached config.log. I will take a look at the problem and probably find a

Re: freebsd-update: fale?

2013-01-04 Thread Joe Altman
On Thu, Jan 03, 2013 at 03:50:44PM +0100, Martin Laabs wrote: Hi, On 01/02/13 01:21, Joe Altman wrote: Greetings, list. I have the following error; though I can load update5.FreeBSD.org in a browser: [...] maybe you use a release that is not supported by freebsd-update. Run uname -r

Re: is csup broken?

2013-01-02 Thread Joe Altman
On Wed, Jan 02, 2013 at 04:20:25PM +0100, Polytropon wrote: Have you tried checking out via SVN which now is the desired default method (even though it's not integrated in the base install and the make scripting mechanism)? ISTM that SVN is not the default method for users; but portsnap is

freebsd-update: fale?

2013-01-01 Thread Joe Altman
Greetings, list. I have the following error; though I can load update5.FreeBSD.org in a browser: root-is-on-fire # freebsd-update fetch Looking up update.FreeBSD.org mirrors... 3 mirrors found. Fetching public key from update4.FreeBSD.org... failed. Fetching public key from update5.FreeBSD.org...

Upgrading emacs; Glib-warning, SIGCHLD, SIG_IGN and ECHILD

2012-08-08 Thread Joe Altman
Greetings FYI: On or about August 1 I upgraded emacs to V. 24.x and when running it, I found this error in a terminal: GLib-WARNING **: In call to g_spawn_sync(), exit status of a child process was requested but SIGCHLD action was set to SIG_IGN and ECHILD was received by waitpid(), so

Wterm and FreeBSD 9

2012-05-07 Thread Joe Altman
Greetings... For FreeBSD 8, we see this for wterm: BROKEN= does not compile .if ${OSVERSION} 97 BROKEN= fails to build with new utmpx .endif I'd like to confirm that wterm will build and run on 9. I'm currently running 8.3-RELEASE-p1 FreeBSD 8.3-RELEASE-p1 #0. Does anyone

Re: Error in building documentation from source

2012-01-09 Thread Joe Altman
On Mon, Jan 09, 2012 at 07:15:21PM +0100, Patrick Lamaiziere wrote: Le Sun, 8 Jan 2012 19:58:18 -0500, Hello, I've just tried without problem. Well, have you the port textproc/docproj installed (of course)? The equivalent, AIUI: docproj-nojadetex. Be sure that the source are up to

Re: Upgrading libxul, dependency on Firefox 3

2011-10-22 Thread Joe Altman
On Sat, Oct 22, 2011 at 09:28:40PM +0200, Beat G?tzi wrote: On Oct 22, 2011, at 2:54 AM, Joe Altman wrote: Greetings... I was running portupgrade on libxul and noticed it depends on Firefox 3.x. I cancelled the upgrade, because I thought FF3.x was insecure and therefore deprecated

Upgrading libxul, dependency on Firefox 3

2011-10-21 Thread Joe Altman
Greetings... I was running portupgrade on libxul and noticed it depends on Firefox 3.x. I cancelled the upgrade, because I thought FF3.x was insecure and therefore deprecated while FF7 was recommended and secure. My questions: 1) is the dependency libxul has for FF3 a security problem? 2) is

Re: Building misc/freebsd-doc-en fails

2011-05-29 Thread Joe Altman
On Sun, May 29, 2011 at 1:05 AM, Adam Vande More amvandem...@gmail.comwrote: Seems like there should be more detail. Try make clean make -j1 Interesting: === Building for en-freebsd-doc-20110521 /bin/cat /usr/ports/misc/freebsd-doc-en/pkg-plist.html-split

Re: Building misc/freebsd-doc-en fails

2011-05-29 Thread Joe Altman
On Sun, May 29, 2011 at 02:32:37PM +, Joe Altman wrote: There is this thread from 2009, and it looks like the same issue as the one in this message: http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-questions/2009-December/209892.html It looks like I'll need to open a bug report with the Doc

Building misc/freebsd-doc-en fails

2011-05-28 Thread Joe Altman
Greetings... uname -a FreeBSD whisperer.chthonixia.net 8.1-RELEASE-p4 FreeBSD 8.1-RELEASE-p4 #0: Sat May 28 21:25:00 EDT 2011 r...@whisperer.chthonixia.net:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/WHISPERER amd64 Sources, including ports, updated on May 28 after the bind security notice. Here is the tail of the

Re: Kernel panic; fatal trap 12; on task 22, USB0: was Re: Moused issues?

2007-10-07 Thread Joe Altman
On Sun, Oct 07, 2007 at 11:01:41AM +0200, Hans Petter Selasky wrote: On Saturday 06 October 2007, Joe Altman wrote: chthonic.com/crash-crash-crash Hi, Do you have options KDB in your kernel config file ? Following your suggestion, I did try this; and there was no change from kernel panic

Kernel panic; fatal trap 12; on task 22, USB0: was Re: Moused issues?

2007-10-06 Thread Joe Altman
NB: I've copied -usb because it looks to me like it's definitely USB that's implicated; but I still need a clue for getting a crash dump; -questions seems the place to ask for that. On Sun, Sep 23, 2007 at 07:57:41PM -0400, Joe Altman wrote: uname for the machine on which it fails: 6.2

Re: Moused issues?

2007-09-23 Thread Joe Altman
On Sat, Sep 22, 2007 at 05:12:45PM -0400, Nick Evans wrote: Try using version 1.94 of ums.c in /sys/dev/usb/. This fixes my Razor. Newer versions don't crash on me, but the mouse attaches then does nothing. Thank you for the suggestion, Nick; but no joy: the kernel compile fails:

Moused issues?

2007-09-22 Thread Joe Altman
Or maybe USB; I can't tell. Background: Beginning around 5 PM EDT Sept. 21 I upgraded world and rebuilt my kernel; after rebooting to install the new kernel at about 9 PM, the system panicked and tossed something like this on the console (I'm working from memory; it was late and I was tired):

Re: acd0: FAILURE - INQUIRY ILLEGAL REQUEST asc=0x24 ascq=0x00

2007-05-19 Thread Joe Altman
On Fri, May 18, 2007 at 11:14:50AM +0300, Simon Phoenix wrote: I have the same error message since version 1.42.2.3 of the atapi-cam.c. Hangs while writing media was fixed in 1.42.2.4, but this error message not disappear. acd0: DMA limited to UDMA33, controller found non-ATA66 cable

Re: acd0: FAILURE - INQUIRY ILLEGAL REQUEST asc=0x24 ascq=0x00

2007-05-19 Thread Joe Altman
[NB: I'm using the archive for -questions to reply to Norbert Papke] Norbert, you do not have the same file that I have. You have: grep FBSDID /usr/src/sys/dev/ata/atapi-cam.c __FBSDID($FreeBSD: src/sys/dev/ata/atapi-cam.c,v 1.42.2.4 2007/05/03 09:38:54 thomas Exp $); I have: grep -i FBSDID

Re: acd0: FAILURE - INQUIRY ILLEGAL REQUEST asc=0x24 ascq=0x00

2007-05-19 Thread Joe Altman
On Sat, May 19, 2007 at 05:03:31PM -0700, Norbert Papke wrote: Apologies. I joined the thread late and didn't pick on the specific version you were having problems with. That's okay; I just wanted to point out that perhaps you should not update source... Living on the edge :), I updated

Re: acd0: FAILURE - INQUIRY ILLEGAL REQUEST asc=0x24 ascq=0x00

2007-05-19 Thread Joe Altman
: FAILURE - READ_BUFFER ILLEGAL REQUEST asc=0x24 ascq=0x00 acd0: FAILURE - READ_TOC ILLEGAL REQUEST asc=0x24 ascq=0x00 acd0: FAILURE - MODE_SELECT_BIG ILLEGAL REQUEST asc=0x24 ascq=0x00 Not sure if these are significant. I wrote to the maintainer for atapi-cam.c; here is his reply: * Joe Altman

Re: acd0: FAILURE - INQUIRY ILLEGAL REQUEST asc=0x24 ascq=0x00

2007-05-19 Thread Joe Altman
On Sat, May 19, 2007 at 05:03:31PM -0700, Norbert Papke wrote: Living on the edge :), I updated atapi-cam.c to 1.42.2.5 anyway. Other than the ILLEGAL REQUEST error on boot, I am not experiencing any problems. I have successfully copied a data CD using K3B. But then, I may not be testing

acd0: FAILURE - INQUIRY ILLEGAL REQUEST asc=0x24 ascq=0x00

2007-05-17 Thread Joe Altman
The subject line contains the dmesg that indicates...something; the symptom is that CDs aren't seen by the drive: acd0: CDRW PLEXTOR CD-R PX-W1610A/1.04 at ata1-master PIO4 uname -a FreeBSD chthonic.chthonixia.net 6.2-STABLE FreeBSD 6.2-STABLE #0: Wed May 16 00:16:21 EDT 2007 [EMAIL

DND in Seamonkey; GTK again?

2007-02-17 Thread Joe Altman
In January, this was widely reported: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=367203 https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=355248 In a nutshell: Drag and drop of messages to folders broken in trunk around 2006/10/01 and gtk2 dnd implementation broken A sample error:

Re: DND in Seamonkey; GTK again?

2007-02-17 Thread Joe Altman
On Sat, Feb 17, 2007 at 08:34:30PM -0500, Joe Altman wrote: snip DND works in Mozilla 1.7.13 Gecko/20070121. So far, I cannot figure out who maintains GTK bits, or even if that is who should hear about it. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org

Re: freebsd-questions Digest, Vol 130, Issue 18

2006-04-07 Thread Joe Altman
On Fri, Apr 07, 2006 at 05:02:17PM +, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 29. Wine installation/configuration question (John Hoover) -- Message: 29 Date: Fri, 7 Apr 2006 11:12:25 -0500 From: John Hoover [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Wine installation/configuration

Trivial query: the GUI for wpa_supplicant

2006-03-03 Thread Joe Altman
Greetings... I've started to configure my Atheros card, and during that process visited the hostap site http://hostap.epitest.fi/wpa_supplicant/ after installing the wpa_supplicant port. During my reading, I noticed that there exists a GUI for hostap, wpa_gui; and I also noticed that the code

Re: RELENG_6 and a Razer Copperhead mouse don't work

2006-02-15 Thread Joe Altman
On Tue, Feb 14, 2006 at 07:57:09PM +, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 19. RELENG_6 and a Razer Copperhead mouse don't work (lars) -- Message: 19 Date: Tue, 14 Feb 2006 19:26:53 +0100 From: lars [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RELENG_6 and a Razer Copperhead mouse

USB0 host controller crash

2006-02-10 Thread Joe Altman
Last night, I fired up Grip and shortly after it was invoked, my mouse (ums0: Razer Razer Diamondback Optical Mouse, rev 2.00/1.00, addr 3, iclass 3/1 ums0: 7 buttons and Z dir) went dark. It's transparent, so it was obvious when it died. Right about that time, the USB keyboard followed (ukbd0:

New Canon LiDE60; and it seems to need a reference(?) in source

2006-01-24 Thread Joe Altman
I have this device: # usbdevs -v port 3 addr 2: high speed, power 500 mA, config 1, CanoScan(0x221c), Canon(0x04a9), rev 3.06 #sane-find-scanner found USB scanner (vendor=0x04a9 [Canon], product=0x221c [CanoScan], chip=GL841) at libusb:/dev/usb4:/dev/ugen0 #scanimage -L device

Scanning: Sane-Backends: from 1.0.16 to 1.0.17 or Xsane: 0.97 to 0.98

2006-01-02 Thread Joe Altman
One of the two recent portupgrades seems to have broken scanning for an HP 2200C using the Plustek backend. One of the issues I face is that I don't recall if the upgrade for Xsane occurred before or after I last used the scanner successfully. 0.98a was released twice, in late November; followed

Re: Mach kernel and Unix over 68k

2005-11-19 Thread Joe Altman
On Sat, Nov 19, 2005 at 07:55:48PM +, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 28. [OT] Re: Mach kernel and Unix over 68k : well before OS X (Roland Smith) Date: Sat, 19 Nov 2005 19:47:13 +0100 From: Roland Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [OT] Re: Mach kernel and Unix over 68k : well before OS

Re: USB Problems with Scanjet 3400c

2005-11-16 Thread Joe Altman
On Wed, Nov 16, 2005 at 11:05:56AM +0100, Blue Raccoon wrote: Roland, Joe, According to the SANE site their backend should provide 'complete' support. NIASH is required, but since 'niash' is an entry in the SANE config file I assume it is incorporated. My apologies; but I'll have to

Re: USB Problems with Scanjet 3400c, from: freebsd-questions Digest, Vol 113, Issue 7

2005-11-15 Thread Joe Altman
On Tue, Nov 15, 2005 at 04:46:10PM +, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 20. USB Problems with Scanjet 3400c (Blue Raccoon) -- Message: 20 Date: Tue, 15 Nov 2005 15:35:53 +0100 From: Blue Raccoon [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: USB Problems with Scanjet 3400c To:

Re: USB Problems with Scanjet 3400c

2005-11-15 Thread Joe Altman
On Tue, Nov 15, 2005 at 09:25:12PM +0100, Roland Smith wrote: You should verify that /usr/local/etc/sane.d/dll.conf has the line niash in it. It did exist on my 5.4 machinebut then: You cut put a line like usb /dev/uscanner0 in /usr/local/etc/sane.d/niash.conf Roland, do

Re: Wireless Card Suggestion from freebsd-questions Digest, Vol 112, Issue 63

2005-11-11 Thread Joe Altman
On Fri, Nov 11, 2005 at 12:00:49PM +, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Today's Topics: 4. Wireless Card Suggestion (Tim Holmes) 5. Re: Wireless Card Suggestion (Peter Clutton) -- Message: 4 Date: Fri, 11 Nov 2005 00:07:12 -0500 From: Tim Holmes [EMAIL

USB Double Bulk Pipe devices

2005-10-22 Thread Joe Altman
Please, would someone give me an example of such a device? I've looked via google, yahoo, etcetera; and find no obvious examples. Thank you. -- .sig is .tired. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list

Re: removable usb media don't present devices to mount

2005-10-21 Thread Joe Altman
On Fri, Oct 21, 2005 at 12:01:00PM +, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 4. Re: removable usb media don't present devices to mount (Ryan Zeigler) -- On Thursday 20 October 2005 04:29 pm, you wrote: Ryan Zeigler wrote: I'm using FreeBSD 6.0-rc1, and I'm

Re: Updating exim failed

2005-09-29 Thread Joe Altman
I upgraded without issue on September 28th, at about 4 PM EDT to exim-4.53-0; it's mostly a default localhost delivery agent, so there are no special tweaks in any config files. 4. Updating exim failed (Hamza Eraldi) -- Message: 4 Date: Thu, 29 Sep 2005

Upgraded Perl; and lo, errors cause exim to fail

2005-06-28 Thread Joe Altman
Is anyone else seeing errorors like this: /libexec/ld-elf.so.1: Shared object libperl.so not found, required by exim after upgrading Perl when prompted by portversion? I notice that ld-elf.so.1 has two versions: 55 -r-xr-xr-x 1 root wheel 153244 Jun 3 14:05 ld-elf.so.1 54 -r-xr-xr-x 1

Re: Upgraded Perl; and lo, errors cause exim to fail

2005-06-28 Thread Joe Altman
On Tue, Jun 28, 2005 at 01:08:58PM -0400, Louis LeBlanc wrote: Did you remember to update the ports that have Perl as a dependency with the perl-after-upgrade script? You can find it in lang/perl5.8/work/ after the build (it is kept in lang/perl/files/). Make sure you read the script

Re: Upgraded Perl; and lo, errors cause exim to fail

2005-06-28 Thread Joe Altman
On Tue, Jun 28, 2005 at 05:52:58PM -0400, Trey Sizemore wrote: When you say embedded, what do you mean? How do I go about reading the documentation so that I can find the correct syntax for the command? You can look at the man page. There are two basic commands, outlined in the man page:

Re: The perennial vfs.usermount query

2005-06-16 Thread Joe Altman
On Thu, Jun 16, 2005 at 12:00:08PM +0200, Emanuel Strobl wrote: Nothing. But if you want it persistant you have to put it in loader.conf or sysctl.conf, depending on the kind of sysctl (loader tunable or runtime tunable). Sorry; I wasn't clear. vfs.usermount=1 is set in /etc/sysctl.conf...

The perennial vfs.usermount query

2005-06-15 Thread Joe Altman
1)If this: $: more /etc/sysctl.conf # $FreeBSD: src/etc/sysctl.conf,v 1.8 2003/03/13 18:43:50 mux Exp $ # # This file is read when going to multi-user and its contents piped # thru ``sysctl'' to adjust kernel values. ``man 5 sysctl.conf'' for # details. # # Uncomment this to prevent

The documents tree(s)...

2005-06-14 Thread Joe Altman
uname -a: FreeBSD vox.chthonixia.net 5.4-STABLE FreeBSD 5.4-STABLE #0: Thu Jun 9 13:59:19 EDT 2005 [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/VOX i386 Today, I was thinking of upgrading my sources, to see if the new Hi-Res console modes were available yet. I didn't see them in the update, but I did

Re: USB 2.0 (ehci) and Intel ICH5 in 5.4?

2005-05-25 Thread Joe Altman
31. USB 2.0 (ehci) and Intel ICH5 in 5.4? (Louis LeBlanc) -- Message: 31 Date: Wed, 25 May 2005 12:24:20 -0400 From: Louis LeBlanc [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: USB 2.0 (ehci) and Intel ICH5 in 5.4? To: FreeBSD Questions freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.org

Re:

2005-05-20 Thread Joe Altman
25. FreeBSD and Exim (Joe Wood) Message: 25 Date: Thu, 19 May 2005 22:03:32 -0400 From: Joe Wood [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: FreeBSD and Exim Can someone point me to a good how-to on setting up Exim on FreeBSD 5.4? I've looked in a few places but haven't seen anything informative yet.

Re: ATi and Xorg Troubles in FreeBSD 5.3

2005-01-07 Thread Joe Altman
Doug, Ronny... I'm running 4.11 with xorg 6.8.1, built from source on December 28, 2004 using a Rage Mobility P/M AGP 2x on an IBM ThinkPad A20m. I have a default depth of 24 bits, and a resolution of 1024x768. I am using the ati driver. Ronny: I see that the query is for 5.3, but I thought that

Re: FreeBSD's Visual Identity: Outdated?

2004-12-24 Thread Joe Altman
On Fri, Dec 24, 2004 at 04:27:51PM -0500, Brian Astill wrote: Could this conversation please be moved to -advocacy and ONLY to -advocacy? Seconded. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list

Re: Using Exim with FBSD 5.3

2004-12-24 Thread Joe Altman
On Fri, Dec 24, 2004 at 10:31:40AM -0600, Joshua Lokken wrote: comm/JT [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Just a quick question, I was wondering if anyone had some documentation to fully move from sendmail to exim on a 5.3 machine. I have tried this and seemed to have failed, just wondering

Re: Using Exim with FBSD 5.3

2004-12-24 Thread Joe Altman
On Fri, Dec 24, 2004 at 12:31:37PM -0600, Joshua Lokken wrote: On Fri, 24 Dec 2004 13:17:57 -0500, Joe Altman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Fri, Dec 24, 2004 at 10:31:40AM -0600, Joshua Lokken wrote: comm/JT [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Just a quick question, I was wondering if anyone

FAQ: What constitutes an inappropriate posting? Was: Re: Using Exim with FBSD 5.3

2004-12-24 Thread Joe Altman
On Fri, Dec 24, 2004 at 01:11:31PM -0600, Joshua Lokken wrote: I guess I'm really not sure what your malfunction is, Joe. What do you not understand about 'deprecated' and 'will be removed in a future release'? BTW, I really don't care to discuss it any further; if you have any

Re: 5.3 Xorg jerky

2004-12-24 Thread Joe Altman
On Thu, Dec 23, 2004 at 08:20:30PM -0600, Adrian Patino II wrote: Hello, Fairly new to FreeBSD. Recently did a fresh install from 4.10 to 5.3, and noticed that when in X, things are a bit jerky, enough for me to notice at least. Anything scrolling jerks and SDL video programs are very

Re: complete system backup recommendations

2004-12-23 Thread Joe Altman
On Thu, Dec 23, 2004 at 09:21:52AM -0800, Kevin Smith wrote: Hello, I'm asking for current recommendations on how to backup my complete system (OS and all installed ports and user directories) now that i've spent quite a bit of time getting it right. i'd hate to have to reinstall

Re: Supported CDRW listing for 5.3

2004-12-23 Thread Joe Altman
On Thu, Dec 23, 2004 at 08:11:04PM -0600, Chris wrote: I'm going to be in the market for a new CDRW soon - I thought there was a list of supported devices. There certainly isnt a mention in the 5.3 Hardware Notes. I've not used it w/ 5.3; but I have a hard time believing that Plextor models

Re: installing bsd on a laptop

2004-12-20 Thread Joe Altman
On Mon, Dec 20, 2004 at 04:54:09AM -0600, Andrew L. Gould wrote: On Monday 20 December 2004 12:53 am, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: hello, do you know of any laptop brands that can run freebsd or openbsd that is available to purchase??? I was unable to get a Compaq's pccard working under

Re: Screen usage... was: Xorg/laptop

2004-12-17 Thread Joe Altman
On Mon, Dec 13, 2004 at 03:21:28PM -0500, Joe Altman wrote: snip I mentioned my laptop config, and here it is (or was): #font8x8=iso-8x8 #font8x14=iso-8x14 #font8x16=iso-8x16 #font8x8=iso02-8x8.fnt #allscreens_flags=80x60 And here is why it is likely to be useless for me: with things set

Re: ld-elf.so.1: Shared objectlibintl.so.6 not found

2004-12-16 Thread Joe Altman
On Wed, Dec 15, 2004 at 04:13:29PM -0800, Kris Kennaway wrote: Aha! snip What I recommend is that you open a doc PR requesting that this be documented somewhere, so that future generations don't run into this problem as well. Once, I somehow or another stumbled over a little rhyming that

Re: Trouble with 'portsdb -uU' and ld-elf.so...

2004-12-16 Thread Joe Altman
On Thu, Dec 16, 2004 at 10:07:19AM -0600, Eric Schuele wrote: Hello, I'm having trouble with 'portsdb -uU' It worked exactly twice on my machine. I was using the following commands to upgrade all my ports: # cvsup -g -L 2 /root/ports-supfile # portsdb -uU # pkgdb -F # portupupgrade

Xorg log message: Radeon, DRM, re-init

2004-12-16 Thread Joe Altman
Dec. 16th log: joe on anna ~ $: ll /var/log/Xorg.0.log root wheel 46031 Dec 16 21:06 /var/log/Xorg.0.log Old log: root wheel 43990 Dec 9 01:20 Xorg.0.log.old This message is from the new log, dated Dec 16, and appears at least five times, with the last one being approximately at 21:06 p.m.

Re: Trouble with 'portsdb -uU' and ld-elf.so...

2004-12-16 Thread Joe Altman
On Thu, Dec 16, 2004 at 09:30:43PM -0500, Jonathan Franks wrote: Joe Altman wrote: On Thu, Dec 16, 2004 at 10:07:19AM -0600, Eric Schuele wrote: K_1_2 Segmentation fault (core dumped) JAVA_PORT_LINUX_IBM_JDK_1_3 | /usr/bin/awk '{ print $1 }' returned non-zero status === java/javamail

Re: linux-XFree86-libs-4.3.0_2/linux_base-7.1_7 conflict when upgrading linux-realplayer

2004-12-16 Thread Joe Altman
On Fri, Dec 17, 2004 at 12:57:09PM +1030, Ian Moore wrote: snip === Installing for linux-XFree86-libs-4.3.0_2 === linux-XFree86-libs-4.3.0_2 conflicts with installed package(s): linux_base-7.1_7 They install files into the same place. Please remove them first with

Re: linux-XFree86-libs-4.3.0_2/linux_base-7.1_7 conflict when upgrading linux-realplayer

2004-12-16 Thread Joe Altman
On Fri, Dec 17, 2004 at 01:57:41PM +1030, Ian Moore wrote: I'm still have trouble understanding what to do when portupgrade asks me this sort thing - well sometimes it's obvious, but often not. Should I just use -O or should I fix the dependency? I usually fix the dependency, myself.

Re: Screen usage... was: Xorg/laptop

2004-12-13 Thread Joe Altman
On Mon, Dec 13, 2004 at 02:05:00PM -0500, Dan Kilbourne wrote: Bomgardner,Jon extolled: Other than that I've just been learning a lot of nifty features like changing the number of rows on the display, changing colors, how to set up a splash screen, etc... Fun times! Thanks, Jon

Re: Screen usage... was: Xorg/laptop

2004-12-13 Thread Joe Altman
On Mon, Dec 13, 2004 at 03:16:10PM -0500, Joe Altman wrote: Here, the contents of my /etc/rc.conf font8x8=iso-8x8 font8x14=iso-8x14 font8x16=iso-8x16 allscreens_flags=80x60 The relevant lines from my kernel config: options VESA These are for my desktop. Some

Re: Totally lost

2004-12-10 Thread Joe Altman
On Fri, Dec 10, 2004 at 08:23:40PM +, Mário Gamito wrote: Hi, When i install FreeBSD 5.3, libtool, automake and autoconf don't get installed. I upgrade the ports. After that is the total confusion. One program wants libtools version x, another, y ando so on. Some thing to

Re: Free BSD documentation required

2004-12-08 Thread Joe Altman
On Wed, Dec 08, 2004 at 03:55:11PM +0530, Milind Nanal wrote: List, I am new to FreeBSD finding is little difficult with administrative commands. I have worked on RedHat Suse. Service startup, boot scripts, pstree command everything seems to be different in FreeBsd compare to RedHat

Exim and FBSD 5.3

2004-12-01 Thread Joe Altman
I know it's an FAQ, and I know that strictly, it's likely to be a DB/Exim issue, but I've tried the proposed solution[1] to no avail. So: I have a toy; it runs FBSD 5.3 and I would like to use Exim for local and remote delivery. In my system mail, I am seeing this error: Tidying Exim hints

Re: Exim and FBSD 5.3

2004-12-01 Thread Joe Altman
On Wed, Dec 01, 2004 at 08:17:48PM +0100, Kees Plonsz wrote: You guessed right, of course I am running exim without those errors: #exim d Exim version 4.42 uid=1001 gid=1001 pid=4084 D=fbb95cfd Probably Berkeley DB version 1.8x (native mode) I notice that the FBSD version is not displayed

Re: Exim and FBSD 5.3

2004-12-01 Thread Joe Altman
On Wed, Dec 01, 2004 at 09:19:19PM +0100, Kees Plonsz wrote: Did your initial installation come from source, or from the CD package? I am running freebsd 5.3 release I compiled it from the original source, not from the ports tree. It gives me a lot of extra compiling options wich was not

Re: xorg/xfree86

2004-11-16 Thread Joe Altman
On Tue, Nov 16, 2004 at 09:46:01PM +0100, Erik Trulsson wrote: For FreeBSD 4.10 XFree86 is still the default. (Xorg is the default on FreeBSD 5.x) Are you sure about this? I was under the impression that XFree86 was deprecated, and Xorg preferred; further, that this translates into Xorg

Re: /etc/X11/XF86Config

2004-11-15 Thread Joe Altman
My reply is inline. On Fri, Nov 12, 2004 at 09:05:34PM +0300, Susumu Tanabe wrote: Hello, I want to install XF86 on my notebook Toshiba Satellite A60. Whioch kind of configuration file is necessary? The following trials gave no results. yours, Susumu Tanabe

Re: Strange netstat output

2004-11-09 Thread Joe Altman
On Mon, Nov 08, 2004 at 11:20:03AM +0100, Jorn Argelo wrote: Hi folks, Recently I took notice about a strange netstat output within my LAN: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~ netstat -ra Routing tables Internet: DestinationGatewayFlagsRefs Use Netif Expire default

Re: Mouse wheel on XOrg 6.7.0 (FreeBSD 5.3-beta5)

2004-09-25 Thread Joe Altman
On Sat, Sep 25, 2004 at 12:44:46PM +0100, David Gerard wrote: I've just installed the latest 5.3 beta with XOrg 6.7.0. The mouse works, except I can't get the mouse wheel to work. The mouse section of xorg.conf is as follows: Section InputDevice Identifier Mouse0 Driver

Re: Xorg and ATI Rage-Mobility

2004-09-24 Thread Joe Altman
On Thu, Sep 23, 2004 at 02:22:53PM -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have tried the default xorg.conf (from Xorg -configure), one that I edited, snip All do the same thing - give a black screen, Me, too. Xorg.0.log has no error messages. Me, too. vendor = 'ATI Technologies'

Re: Post Install Configuration Issues (ruby18 error)

2004-09-13 Thread Joe Altman
On Sun, Sep 12, 2004 at 11:16:51PM -0700, Joshua Tinnin wrote: On Monday 06 September 2004 11:11 am, Chris [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Another way: - this changes the default database (btriev) to hash setenv PORTS_DBDRIVER bdb1_hash then run your portdb -u In fact, I opted for this

Re: [another me too] Re: portindex/portindexdb

2004-09-07 Thread Joe Altman
On Tue, Sep 07, 2004 at 06:32:23AM +0200, Nico Meijer wrote: Hi Joe, Sigh: Lighten up! ;-) Hehthanks, I will. /usr/local/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/portsdb.rb:587: [BUG] Bus Error ruby 1.8.2 (2004-07-29) [i386-freebsd4] Have you tried replacing the portsdb-sequence with `portindex

Re: [another me too] Re: portindex/portindexdb

2004-09-07 Thread Joe Altman
On Tue, Sep 07, 2004 at 07:24:49AM +0100, Matthew Seaman wrote: Another workaround is simply to set: PORTS_DBDRIVER=bdb1_hash This is the Berkeley, AKA Sleepycat, bdb? I ask because I am also (suddenly) encountering the famous Exim Failed to open DBM file /var/spool/exim/db/retry for

Re: [another me too] Re: portindex/portindexdb

2004-09-06 Thread Joe Altman
On Mon, Sep 06, 2004 at 09:20:14AM +0200, Nico Meijer wrote: Hi Donald, Nico - I suggest you try it again tomorrow. I thought I had it fixed yesterday. Then I re-cvsup'd today and redid my things. Ruby18 is again seg faulting for me. Not going into a loop and continuously seg faulting,

Re: portupgrade, portsdb -U failing, ruby dumping core

2004-09-03 Thread Joe Altman
On Fri, Sep 03, 2004 at 10:29:23PM -0500, Jeff Hinrichs wrote: Dan Finn wrote: snip I thought I had seen an email to the list that the bug was found; and a fix committed. I waited a couple of hours, ran make update, etcetera; and this resulted: # portsdb -Uu Updating the ports index ...

MP3 voice recorders and FreeBSD

2004-08-19 Thread Joe Altman
Greetings... Sometime in September, I plan to purchase a voice recorder capable of MP3 recording. The device here: http://www.newegg.com/app/viewproductdesc.asp?description=55-603-406DEPA=0 Is similar in nature to what I wish to purchase; it may not be this device, but similar. Does anyone

Re: make clean all installed ports

2004-06-30 Thread Joe Altman
On Wed, Jun 30, 2004 at 09:10:15AM +0100, Peter Risdon wrote: I'm sure I saw recently on this list that it's possible to: #cd /usr/ports #make clean somethingorother and clean just installed ports. A straight make clean in the root of the ports tree takes rather a long time. But I

Re: Scanner HP 5200C: can someone please help me? I'm lost!

2004-06-09 Thread Joe Altman
On Wed, Jun 09, 2004 at 10:50:21PM +0900, Rob Lahaye wrote: Hi, I have an HP 5200C scanner, attached over USB. OS is FreeBSD 4-Stable. In the kernel configuration file, I have this for usb support: device scbus # SCSI bus (required) device da #

Re: Leaving a server on all day

2004-06-08 Thread Joe Altman
On Tue, Jun 08, 2004 at 01:21:01PM +0100, Jonathon McKitrick wrote: I have my desktop configured to run as a server and app server for a thin client laptop. Will running it all day without suspend mode use a lot of power? Is it true that the heat buildup in a home system (rather than a

Re: Leaving a server on all day

2004-06-08 Thread Joe Altman
On Tue, Jun 08, 2004 at 07:51:51PM +0100, Jonathon McKitrick wrote: On Tue, Jun 08, 2004 at 02:42:16PM -0400, Joe Altman wrote: : Take the side off of your case, turn the open side toward the wall, Why against the wall? So nothing damages it? Yes; spills, flying objects, whatever. Most

Re: Epson CX5400 scanner

2004-06-01 Thread Joe Altman
NB: Reply-To: set to -questions. On Tue, Jun 01, 2004 at 09:19:14AM -0700, Shone Earl wrote: I have just installed 4.10 and i am very happy with it, all of my hardware works except for the scanner portion of my epson cx5400 mfp. anyone know how to get the scanner working? I have to keep

Consoles: Toggling Internal vs. Serial during boot

2004-05-27 Thread Joe Altman
The relevant system specs: FBSD 4.10, one serial port. I've read the docs: http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/serialconsole-setup.html I am pretty sure I understand it all, but for one part. I'm not quite clear on how to grab the internal console once serial bits are set

Re: Install hangs with Toshiba 2.5 drive

2004-05-27 Thread Joe Altman
On Thu, May 27, 2004 at 05:12:11PM +0100, Robert Downes wrote: Running FreeBSD 5.0 installer, I see a few messages along the lines of configured IRQ 3 is not in bitmap of irqs and then the following pair of lines: Sounds familiar. ad0: READ command timeout tag=0 serv=0 - resetting ata0:

Re: CDrom problems

2004-05-25 Thread Joe Altman
On Tue, May 25, 2004 at 09:25:34AM -0500, Donald Szatkowski wrote: It appears that there are quite a few problems with basic setup and cdrom. What does this mean? Please elaborate: do you mean that setup beginning with sysinstall is problematic, in that you cannot use your cdrom drive during

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