Re: Google Chrome

2008-09-02 Thread Jona Joachim
On 2008-09-02, Vlad GURDIGA [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, Sep 3, 2008 at 12:14 AM, Beech Rintoul [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tuesday 02 September 2008, Vlad GURDIGA said: Hello, In Google Chrome System requirements (http://www.google.com/support/chrome/bin/answer.py?answer=95411to

Re: Frets on Fire from ports (short and sweet)

2008-06-19 Thread Jona Joachim
On 2008-06-19, Gonzalo Nemmi [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: in short: has anybody been able to get it working from ports? in here: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~ # uname -srm FreeBSD 7.0-RELEASE i386 [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~ # cd /usr/ports/games/fretsonfire [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/usr/ports/games/fretsonfire # make

Re: massive ports update

2008-06-07 Thread Jona Joachim
On 2008-06-06, Tuc at T-B-O-H [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: In UPDATING it says : Given the scope and sheer number of dependent ports, it may be more advisable to simply blow away all existing install ports (after keeping any local configuration changes), and rebuilding from scratch.

Re: Flashplugin

2008-06-07 Thread Jona Joachim
On 2008-06-07, Dick Hoogendijk [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sat, 7 Jun 2008 15:33:26 -0500 Sam Fourman Jr. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: use Firefox for Windows and use wine, then install the windows Flash 9 plugin People choosing FreeBSD shouldn't be forced to run windowish solution. The OS is

xmodmap not working from xinitrc

2008-02-28 Thread Jona Joachim
Hi! My .xinitrc has an xmodmap tweak to switch the Ctrl and Caps keys. For some reason these changes are not applied when I start X, Ctrl is still Ctrl and Caps is still Caps. However I have to run xmodmap twice when X has started to actually make it work. It seems like the changes were applied

Re: xmodmap not working from xinitrc

2008-02-28 Thread Jona Joachim
On Thu, Feb 28, 2008 at 03:42:21PM +0100, Armando Cambra wrote: If I remember correctly (can't test it here... no unixoid system near), startx sources the .xmodmaprc in your home directory, so you swap your keys twice as you start up X. I'd try without xmodmap in your script an see if it

Re: CVSup update or upgrade

2008-01-31 Thread Jona Joachim
On 2008-02-01, Chris [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, 31 Jan 2008 18:47:12 -0500 Allen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello, I've been reading over my library of FreeBSD books, which I may add is impressive due to me buying EVERY book available on Freebsdmall and also buying the PowerPak to

Re: pdf edit again.

2007-11-03 Thread Jona Joachim
On Sat, 03 Nov 2007 17:42:03 -0800, Gary Kline wrote: On Sat, Nov 03, 2007 at 09:03:17PM -0400, Mike Jeays wrote: On November 3, 2007 08:38:55 pm Gary Kline wrote: A couple weeks ago I skimmed thru the postings on editing PDF files. Wasn't entirely clear what the answer it because I

Re: Atheros wireless

2007-10-28 Thread Jona Joachim
On Sun, 28 Oct 2007 21:51:19 +0200 Necati Demir [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [.] If you are running FreeBSD 6.2-RELEASE, you could try updating to either the latest 6-STABLE, or the upcoming 7.0, both of which have a newer HAL. If that doesn't help either I don't think there is much

Re: Portupgrade used to be fun!!!

2007-10-27 Thread Jona Joachim
On Sat, 27 Oct 2007 00:12:49 -0400 E. J. Cerejo [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Not anymore! Every time I cvsup my ports tree and I see all of those ports that need to be updated my belly aches and that's because portupgrade doesn't work the way it used to work. It is not fun any more! Always

Re: Why is sendmail in the core of FreeBSD?

2007-09-24 Thread Jona Joachim
On Sat, 22 Sep 2007 19:30:59 +0300 Abdullah Ibn Hamad Al-Marri [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 9/22/07, Wojciech Puchar [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: i personally use only sendmail. Yep... if it works, don't 'fix' it. same with any other things :) I would prefer to have postfix vs

Re: nvidia-driver rebooting machine on X startup

2007-09-06 Thread Jona Joachim
On Thu, 6 Sep 2007 13:10:42 -0700 Darren Spruell [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Wondering if this is a known issue, or if anyone has suggestions to get it working...? Running FreeBSD 6.2-RELEASE-p4 SMP i386. I installed nvidia-driver-100.14.11 from ports (Sep. 5 snapshot), Linux compatibility

Re: Meaning of: kill -USR2

2007-08-31 Thread Jona Joachim
On Fri, 31 Aug 2007 10:24:47 -0700 (PDT) White Hat [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have seen 'kill -USR2' used in some scripts; however, I am unable to find out exactly what it is referring to. The man page for 'kill' does not list any 'USR2' flag or signal, unless I am reading it incorrectly.

Re: Flash

2007-08-18 Thread Jona Joachim
On Fri, 17 Aug 2007 19:45:29 -0400 Robert Huff [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Jona Joachim writes: The only native solution I know of is gnash but last time I tried it it was very unstable and very slow. gnash 0.8 is not in the ports yet. Is there an estimated date

Re: Flash

2007-08-17 Thread Jona Joachim
On Fri, 17 Aug 2007 18:38:12 +0200 Laszlo Nagy [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Zbigniew Komarnicki wrote: Hello, can I ask you for help, how to set up flash in Firefox natively, step by step? The only native solution I know of is gnash but last time I tried it it was very unstable and very

Re: Help....How to set FreeBSD to handle UTF8 characters?

2007-08-15 Thread Jona Joachim
On Wed, 15 Aug 2007 09:04:58 +0200 VeeJay [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: FreeBSD 6.2 Please help! Perhaps this can help you: http://opal.com/freebsd/unicode.html Regards, Jona -- I am chaos. I am the substance from which your artists and scientists build rhythms. I am the spirit with which your

Re: ndis wrapped Intel wireless driver causes panic

2007-08-14 Thread Jona Joachim
On Mon, 13 Aug 2007 20:43:45 -0500 Doug Poland [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello, I've got an HP/Compaq nx7400 and am having trouble with kernel loadable object generated by ndisgen. (6.2-STABLE, i386). Following the man page for ndisgen(4), I have the following files: -rwx-- 1

Re: xf86 madness - stop installing drivers

2007-07-31 Thread Jona Joachim
On Tue, 31 Jul 2007 11:37:36 -0700 Noah [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I am wondering if there is an easy way to stop installing all of the xf86 input an video drivers listed below. snip I asked this some time ago on the X11 mailing list: http://docs.freebsd.org/cgi/mid.cgi?f2v3qg$vfl$1

Re: firefox 3.0

2007-07-24 Thread Jona Joachim
On Mon, 23 Jul 2007 19:41:08 -0400 Tsu-Fan Cheng [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: sorry, i didnt notice that its the devel version. I just saw it in the freebsd.org/ports page. anyhow, I initial attempt was to find a alternative browser to firefox. On windows, there are avant, k-meleon and such, they

Re: installer freebsd

2007-07-22 Thread Jona Joachim
On Mon, 23 Jul 2007 00:27:06 +0200 Boudjema [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Bonjour, Please excuses, my english is bad, so i will explain in french my problem if this is not understood; i have a problem to install x window. my hope is to install kde. but without x, i am stopped; when i do

Re: GUI Mail Reader for FreeBSD ...

2007-07-14 Thread Jona Joachim
On Sat, 14 Jul 2007 19:34:04 -0300 Marc G. Fournier [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Does anyone know of a good mail reader that does: PGP, unicode *and* shows inline html I use claws-mail and I love it. It can display inline html with the dillo

Re: Email Sending Problem to YAHOO

2007-06-12 Thread Jona Joachim
On Tue, 12 Jun 2007 04:39:09 -0700 DeadMan Xia [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi everybody! hope all doing fine well i have configured my Email Server on FreeBSD 6.2 with Qmail, i have send email to yahoo, hotmail gmail. On gmail hotmail, its works quick, bt at yahoo ,,, its

Re: BSD derivatives

2007-06-02 Thread Jona Joachim
On Sat, 02 Jun 2007 18:10:27 -0700 Colin Percival [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Bill Moran wrote: OpenBSD puts security higher on its list of project goals and motivating factors than any other OS I know. I disagree. I'd say that OpenBSD and FreeBSD put security in exactly the same place --

Re: music-generator for FreeBSD?

2007-04-30 Thread Jona Joachim
On Mon, 30 Apr 2007 08:47:51 -0700 Gary Kline [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Guys, This is a bit off-topic, but maybe somebody out there can give me someclues. Bearing in mind that I know zip about music composition, is there a MIDI (or mp3 or other) toolkit that would

Re: Mounting an FTP space ?

2007-03-02 Thread Jona Joachim
On Fri, 2 Mar 2007 12:26:33 +1100 Malcolm Fitzgerald [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: What do I need to do to wipe the slate clean? On 02/03/2007, at 11:53 AM, Chris Slothouber wrote: make config Yes. I don't know what arguments to pass to it. Where are the current arguments being stored,

Re: COPYING DATA TO NTFS

2007-03-02 Thread Jona Joachim
On Fri, 2 Mar 2007 15:39:30 -0800 Parker Brown [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Using the FreeBSD booter to manage both Windoz XP and FreeBSD 6.1 on the same SCSI drive. Under FreeBSD I've got XP mounted, and I've been able to examine the XP directories, but when I try to copy data or the contents

Re: FreeBSD Torrent Server

2007-02-01 Thread Jona Joachim
On Thu, 1 Feb 2007 05:02:02 -0800 Ted Mittelstaedt [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: - Original Message - From: Jeremy Faulkner [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Ted Mittelstaedt [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: Eric Hildebrandt [EMAIL PROTECTED]; freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Sent: Wednesday, January 31, 2007

Re: mount USB-Device

2006-12-11 Thread Jona Joachim
On Tue, 12 Dec 2006 00:29:14 +0100 (MET) Karl Sinn [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I would like to use one of my USB-MP3-Players. I plug it in and I can see with dmesg that the device is recognised by the kernel. mount /dev/da0 /mnt gives an error message: incorrect superblock. mount -t

Re: access wikipedia (walk through the great firewall of China)

2006-12-08 Thread Jona Joachim
On Fri, 08 Dec 2006 14:25:59 +0800 张韡武 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello. My office use this method to access wikipedia behind the great firewall of China: 1) we have a server in europ, let's call it server; 2) I run this command on my desktop: $ ssh -L 80:en.wikipedia.org:80 server; 3)

Re: How does my computer work with an empty arp table?

2006-12-04 Thread Jona Joachim
On Mon, 4 Dec 2006 08:14:44 +0200 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sun, Dec 03, 2006 at 02:53:44PM -0800, Atom Powers wrote: On 12/3/06, [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: My computer is connected to ISP via ADSL and works properly. I typed arp -a and saw an empty table,

Re: DVD Movies

2006-12-04 Thread Jona Joachim
On Sat, 2 Dec 2006 11:09:24 -0500 John Nielsen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Saturday 02 December 2006 08:49, Andrew Pantyukhin wrote: On 12/2/06, Graham Bentley [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Is it possible to play a DVD without loading X ? Apparently, yes

Re: freebsd desktop

2006-11-26 Thread Jona Joachim
On Sun, 26 Nov 2006 11:15:38 -0800 (PST) probsd org [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Regarding my earlier email Do not install FreeBSD as a desktop I don't care how long I have been using FreeBSD, or yadda yadda or yadda when I cvsup ports, update the databse, and install www/firefox and

Re: Lacky Doc @ 5.6.2 Using XDM

2006-11-26 Thread Jona Joachim
On Sun, 26 Nov 2006 22:09:58 +0100 Ralf Schreijer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi there! Today I just installed FreeBSD(6.1) for the first time in my life. After several tries on my own I decided to go through the installation by following the instructions in the handbook. I successfully

Re: freebsd desktop

2006-11-26 Thread Jona Joachim
On Sun, 26 Nov 2006 17:51:46 -0600 Donald J. O'Neill [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sunday 26 November 2006 13:15, probsd org wrote: Regarding my earlier email Do not install FreeBSD as a desktop I don't care how long I have been using FreeBSD, or yadda yadda or yadda when I cvsup

Re: Lacky Doc @ 5.6.2 Using XDM

2006-11-26 Thread Jona Joachim
On Sun, 26 Nov 2006 21:06:20 -0800 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: You have just about any right in single user mode. Type chmod 644 /etc/ttys If you edit the file using vi and it isn't writable you can force to write to it by typing :w! Not if his FS is mounted read-only. Yes, I forgot that

Re: downloading Free BSD

2006-09-21 Thread Jona Joachim
Ryan and Sabrina Tardi wrote: What do I do with the ISO files once they are downloaded? Do I burn them directly to a CD then use the CD to install? Hi and welcome to FreeBSD! Yes, you use your favorite CD burning software like Nero or CloneCD and tell it to burn the ISO to the CD. This is a

Re: NDIS/KLDload

2006-09-17 Thread Jona Joachim
Bill Moran wrote: Joel Adamson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Dear List, I need to get the internet up and running on my new FreeBSD6.1 install. I'm using a Belkin F5D7050 wireless adapter that is not recognized as a network interface in install. This thing works perfectly with ndiswrapper

Re: Firefox and flash revisited. Don't shoot me for this post.

2006-09-16 Thread Jona Joachim
Christopher Hobbs wrote: OK, let me preface this by saying flash 7 was marked broken for a reason (a very good one at that). I'm probably going to be stepping on some toes here and I'd like to apologize in advance. I've managed to install the broken port by changing a couple of files and

Re: Firefox+Flash

2006-09-15 Thread Jona Joachim
Jerry McAllister wrote: On Fri, Sep 15, 2006 at 02:46:19AM +0200, Jona Joachim wrote: Chuck Swiger wrote: On Sep 14, 2006, at 3:23 PM, Peter wrote: Yes, the Flash issue is a real bummer. It is best *not* to show your friends that when you introduce them to FBSD. Why? Is there some reason

Re: Firefox+Flash

2006-09-15 Thread Jona Joachim
michael johnson wrote: On 9/14/06, Garrett Cooper [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sep 15, 2006, at 7:54 AM, Chuck Swiger wrote: On Sep 14, 2006, at 3:23 PM, Peter wrote: Yes, the Flash issue is a real bummer. It is best *not* to show your friends that when you introduce them to FBSD.

Re: Firefox+Flash

2006-09-15 Thread Jona Joachim
Gerard Seibert wrote: On Friday 15 September 2006 10:34, Jerry McAllister wrote: I don't normally use it either, but there are sites that do videos programs that are all in flash and others that use it for graphic demonstrations. So, it is a feature that is desired by many. �It pains me to

Re: Firefox+Flash

2006-09-15 Thread Jona Joachim
Gerard Seibert wrote: On Friday 15 September 2006 12:01, Jona Joachim wrote: [...] MPlayer handles wmv streams just fine. You may want to check out www/mplayer-plugin, it works perfectly for mozilla. OK, I all ready have that installed. How am I suppose to configure it so that when I

Re: Firefox+Flash

2006-09-15 Thread Jona Joachim
Jerry McAllister wrote: On Fri, Sep 15, 2006 at 05:52:45PM +0200, Jona Joachim wrote: Jerry McAllister wrote: On Fri, Sep 15, 2006 at 02:46:19AM +0200, Jona Joachim wrote: Chuck Swiger wrote: On Sep 14, 2006, at 3:23 PM, Peter wrote: Yes, the Flash issue is a real bummer. It is best

Re: What do I need in FreeBSD 6.1 OS to be able to read a USB Dane/Electric 256 MB thumb drive?

2006-09-15 Thread Jona Joachim
ograbme wrote: Howdy. I've been going round and round here trying to simply read a USB thumb drive. I've searched many web sites, read the various messages on this list, the Handbook and other sources, but nothing is very clear to me at the moment. I think I have bits and pieces, but

Re: Firefox+Flash

2006-09-14 Thread Jona Joachim
Chuck Swiger wrote: On Sep 14, 2006, at 3:23 PM, Peter wrote: Yes, the Flash issue is a real bummer. It is best *not* to show your friends that when you introduce them to FBSD. Why? Is there some reason that you or they want to watch ads? I can't think of a single site that I use that

Re: Question

2006-09-10 Thread Jona Joachim
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello sir I am new to freeBSD and i am using FreeBSD 5.4-RELEASE for my personal server. i am asking specificly about two questions: What is equal to WGET? fetch(1) comes with the base system. You can install wget, curl and other tools from the ports. And why

Re: cups 1.2.2 and parallel port printers

2006-09-07 Thread Jona Joachim
Robert Huff wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: anybody seen this behavior before? or have a clue? I don't know if this is your problem, but I have seen similar issues. _In my case_, CUPS as ported does not like the permissions on /dev/lpt0*. They default to crw---;

Re: ports/java/jdk15

2006-09-07 Thread Jona Joachim
B. Cook wrote: Hello All, Trying to build java 1.5.0 and it looks like it's needs linux java 1.4.2? is this right? === linux-sun-jdk-1.4.2.12 You must manually fetch the J2SE SDK self-extracting file for the Linux platform (j2sdk-1_4_2_12-linux-i586.bin) from

Re: solaris

2006-09-07 Thread Jona Joachim
White Hat wrote: --- Freminlins [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 06/09/06, White Hat [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have tried Open Office. No matter what anyone says, it is just not as full featured as Word 2003. It is not even close. True, but also compare the cost. Not even close...

Re: ports/java/jdk15

2006-09-07 Thread Jona Joachim
B. Cook wrote: Jona Joachim wrote: B. Cook wrote: Hello All, Trying to build java 1.5.0 and it looks like it's needs linux java 1.4.2? is this right? === linux-sun-jdk-1.4.2.12 You must manually fetch the J2SE SDK self-extracting file for the Linux platform (j2sdk-1_4_2_12-linux-i586

Re: Creating pkg-plist - problems

2006-09-06 Thread Jona Joachim
vittorio wrote: Under 6.1 I'm trying to build a port (R-2.3.1) following the instructions in the porters-handbook and particularly I'm having a go at creating the pkg-plist file as suggested in the point 7.5 of

Re: can i build more than one world on a buildserver?

2006-09-06 Thread Jona Joachim
Jonathan Horne wrote: is it possible to have STABLE and RELENG built on a single build server? or further, is it possible to have 5.5 and 6.1 worlds built from the same machine? just wondering. :) Take a look at misc/tinderbox, it may be just what you need. --jona

Re: flash plugin and firefox

2006-09-02 Thread Jona Joachim
Jordi Carrillo wrote: When it says: cd /usr/src patch -p0 /tmp/rtld_dlsym_hack.diff a question arises saying: File to patch: Then what is supposed I have to patch? and there's nothing in /usr/src as well. Thanks You don't have the sources of the base system. You can fetch them using

Re: not adding daemons to rc.conf

2006-08-30 Thread Jona Joachim
Jonathan Horne wrote: ive noticed that apache can be started manually using the apachectl tool, even if it is not enabled in /etc/rc.conf. do many other daemons have this ability? i have a dev server that i would like to not have many things enabled in the rc.conf, but i would like an

Re: FreeBSD from Scratch

2006-08-04 Thread Jona Joachim
Rich Mayo wrote: Is anyone on the list familiar with the Linux from Scratch project? More to the point, is anybody aware if there is anything like a FreeBSD from Scratch project?? You may find this interesting: http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/articles/fbsd-from-scratch/index.html

Re: AVI to MPEG conversion

2006-07-15 Thread Jona Joachim
Neil Short wrote: mplayer is very powerful and it's manpage is overwhelming. Once you get started with it mplayer's features become less inaccessible. Or you may try gmencoder which offers a GTK interface to the basic functionality of mencoder. It will be largely sufficient for your needs.

Re: NFS Server and MS Windows

2006-06-19 Thread Jona Joachim
DSA - JCR wrote: Hi all I am mounting a NFS server (FreeBSD 6.1 amd64) for a MS Windows Network for a customer and I see that I can not see the NFS server from windows boxes. Must I install Samba for that? or anything in the MS Windows boxes? I thougth that Windows understand NFS but

Re: how to change roots shell

2006-05-18 Thread Jona Joachim
unixforums 1 wrote: Hi, I did a completely newbie move and changed the root’s shell to something that doesn’t work. So, needless to say now I can’t su to root or even login as root. Is there a way I can fix this without rebuilding the server? Thanks for any help you can provide.

Re: FreeBSD logo

2006-05-16 Thread Jona Joachim
Adrian Pavone wrote: Albert Shih wrote: Hi all No no it's not a new troll for the new/old freebsd's logo ;-) No my question : Where can I find the FreeBSD logo (new or old) to put on my xdm screen. Regards. -- Albert SHIH Universite de Paris 7 (Denis DIDEROT) U.F.R. de

sendmail configuration

2006-05-14 Thread Jona Joachim
Hi! Sendmail drives me mad. The only thing I want it to do is change the sender's E-Mail address to [EMAIL PROTECTED] and forward everything to smtp.web.de whenever I send mail from the command line. It always sends a DNS query to get the MX records of web.de but the servers designated by the MX

Re: user accounts messed up

2006-01-22 Thread Jona Joachim
Jona Joachim wrote: On 21/01/06, Jona Joachim [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: (...) I created a master.passwd file from the backup file in /var/backups and emptied the password field. Then I updated the database with pwd_mkdb but I still can't login. In fact it has nothing to do with the user

user accounts messed up

2006-01-21 Thread Jona Joachim
Hi! I did something quite stupid... I installed postgresql from ports and created an unprivileged user account for it. I wanted to install the database in /var/pgsql and wanted to chown the folder to the unprivileged user. To do this, I entered the following as root: chown -R /var/pgsql/ As this

Re: user accounts messed up

2006-01-21 Thread Jona Joachim
On 21/01/06, Jona Joachim [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: (...) I created a master.passwd file from the backup file in /var/backups and emptied the password field. Then I updated the database with pwd_mkdb but I still can't login. ___ freebsd-questions

Partitioning

2006-01-15 Thread Jona Joachim
Hi! I'm quite new to FreeBSD and I have some concerns about partitioning. I plan to install FreeBSD-6 as a desktop system and I bought a new Western Digital Caviar SE WD800JB hard drive to use it as a second disk for storing music, movies, photos and stuff like that on it. I also want to put the