Re: Strange makefile errors in multiple ports

2007-04-15 Thread Oliver Iberien
On Sunday 08 April 2007 21:24, Kris Kennaway wrote: On Sun, Apr 08, 2007 at 09:30:14AM -0700, Oliver Iberien wrote: I seem to have messed something up somewhere, and peculiar instructions seem to have found their way in. An example is below: --- Checking for the latest package of 'devel

Grep and --exclude? or, finding a text string that might be anywhere

2007-04-15 Thread Oliver Iberien
at 09:30:14AM -0700, Oliver Iberien wrote: I seem to have messed something up somewhere, and peculiar instructions seem to have found their way in. An example is below: --- Checking for the latest package of 'devel/gettext' --- Fetching the package(s) for 'gettext-0.16.1' (devel/gettext

Re: Two firefoxes, 1.5 and 2.0, script keeps running 1.5 instead of 2.0

2007-04-12 Thread Oliver Iberien
On Thursday 12 April 2007 02:48, Gerard wrote: On Wednesday April 11, 2007 at 11:54:53 (PM) Oliver Iberien wrote: I seem to have messed up with pkgdb -F when firefox 1.5 got deprecated, and now have 1.5 installed without any clear way to get rid of it. bsd# cd /usr/ports/www/firefox15

Two firefoxes, 1.5 and 2.0, script keeps running 1.5 instead of 2.0

2007-04-11 Thread Oliver Iberien
I seem to have messed up with pkgdb -F when firefox 1.5 got deprecated, and now have 1.5 installed without any clear way to get rid of it. bsd# cd /usr/ports/www/firefox15/ bsd# make deinstall === Deinstalling for www/firefox15 === firefox not installed, skipping Deinstalling any other way

Strange makefile errors in multiple ports

2007-04-08 Thread Oliver Iberien
I seem to have messed something up somewhere, and peculiar instructions seem to have found their way in. An example is below: --- Checking for the latest package of 'devel/gettext' --- Fetching the package(s) for 'gettext-0.16.1' (devel/gettext) --- Fetching gettext-0.16.1

snd_envy24 driver -- sound vanishes after first use

2007-03-04 Thread Oliver Iberien
On Tuesday 20 February 2007 09:05, you wrote: On Tue, 20 Feb 2007 08:44:15 -0800 Oliver Iberien [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [...] I'm finding that sound seems to vanish after having been used by one application once. For instance, if I try to play a RealAudio stream, it works, but if I try

Re: snd_envy24 driver -- sound vanishes after first use

2007-03-04 Thread Oliver Iberien
On Sunday 04 March 2007 18:17, you wrote: On Sun, 4 Mar 2007 12:57:02 -0800 Oliver Iberien [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tuesday 20 February 2007 09:05, you wrote: On Tue, 20 Feb 2007 08:44:15 -0800 Oliver Iberien [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [...] I'm finding that sound seems

Re: snd_envy24 driver -- sound vanishes after first use

2007-03-04 Thread Oliver Iberien
On Sunday 04 March 2007 18:54, you wrote: On Sun, 4 Mar 2007 18:38:33 -0800 Oliver Iberien [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Unfortunately, it fails with: pcm0: chn_init(pcm0:record:0) failed: err = 19 pcm0: pcm_chn_create(envy24chan, -1, 0xc3a07400) failed Fetch snd_envy24.ko and try again

RAID failure with READ_DMA status=51 - how to avoid again?

2007-02-28 Thread Oliver Iberien
I would like to RAID my system but am wondering if I am asking for trouble, given that I got some kind of read failure error followed by file system corruption the first time I did it. Would it be reasonable for me to try RAIDing again, and if so, under what conditions? Details are as follows:

Entering stock sales on 1.8.12 (FreeBSD)

2007-02-20 Thread Oliver Iberien
Hi, I am trying to follow the instructions for recording sales of shares at http://svn.gnucash.org/docs/guide/invest-sell1.html but it must refer to some newer version of GnuCash that is not in the ports tree yet. I'm trying to guess the order in which it wants items entered (apparently not

Re: snd_envy24 driver for MAudio 2496 sound card in 6.x?

2007-02-20 Thread Oliver Iberien
On Tuesday 20 February 2007 06:52, Ariff Abdullah wrote: On Mon, 19 Feb 2007 23:45:15 -0800 Oliver Iberien [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello -- Is there some way to get the snd_envy24 driver for this card without using 7.0? Here: http://people.freebsd.org/~ariff/BINARY_MODULES/ Thanks

Re: how to enable linux flash player [9] in firefox

2007-01-27 Thread Oliver Iberien
On Thursday 25 January 2007 23:33, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Message: 2 Date: Thu, 25 Jan 2007 20:41:37 +0100 From: Erik Norgaard [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: how to enable linux flash player in firefox To: FreeBSD Questions [EMAIL PROTECTED] Message-ID: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Content-Type:

Re: How to upgrade an exist freebsd to freebsd6.2 ?

2007-01-27 Thread Oliver Iberien
On Saturday 27 January 2007 11:37, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Message: 16 Date: Sat, 27 Jan 2007 15:59:18 +0100 (CET) From: Zbigniew Szalbot [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: How to upgrade an exist freebsd to freebsd6.2 ? To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Message-ID: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: how to enable linux flash player in firefox

2007-01-27 Thread Oliver Iberien
On Saturday 27 January 2007 16:06, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Subject: Re: how to enable linux flash player in firefox To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Cc: Andreas Davour [EMAIL PROTECTED] Message-ID: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Content-Type: text/plain;  charset=iso-8859-1 On Saturday 27 January

Re: how to enable linux flash player in firefox

2007-01-27 Thread Oliver Iberien
On Saturday 27 January 2007 16:06, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Subject: Re: how to enable linux flash player in firefox To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Cc: Andreas Davour [EMAIL PROTECTED] Message-ID: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Content-Type: text/plain;  charset=iso-8859-1 On Saturday 27 January

Moving to new disk - just new install + moving user data?

2007-01-26 Thread Oliver Iberien
In the FAQ, under 9.2, How to I move my system over to my huge new disk?, it says: The best way is to reinstall the OS on the new disk, then move the user data over. By user data, does that mean /usr as a whole? It sounds like this would mean (for me, running 6.0/KDE at the moment), putting a

win32-codecs still marked forbidden in error?

2007-01-25 Thread Oliver Iberien
Hi, Last ports database update yesterday, and trying to update mplayer... === mplayer-0.99.10_3 depends on file: /usr/local/lib/win32/win32-codecs-3.1.0.r1,1 - not found ===Verifying install for /usr/local/lib/win32/win32-codecs-3.1.0.r1,1 in /usr/ports/multimedia/win32-codecs ===

newbie permissions problems... what's wrong?

2007-01-17 Thread Oliver Iberien
I am logged in as oliver. I have two extra partitions mounted. Below is the section of devfs.conf that has to do with them: #Allow access to the second disk own /dev/ad1s2c oliver:wheel perm/dev/ad1s2c 0666 own /disk2 oliver:wheel perm/disk2 0666 #Allow

Re: is THIS why the 6.2 release seems stalled ?

2007-01-10 Thread Oliver Iberien
At least this thread got me (desktop user, not especially technically sophisticated) to go make a little donation to the FreeBSD Foundation, as it is the one way I can help out, and show that I'm grateful for FreeBSD. On Wednesday 10 January 2007 08:17, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: So, if you

What is involved in switching from i386 to AMD64?

2006-12-31 Thread Oliver Iberien
Hi, What actually needs to be done when switching machine architectures? I am facing a motherboard/CPU upgrade following the demise of an Athlon+ setup. (I am running my FreeBSD drive in a P3 while trying to figure this out.) Replacing it with an oldish P4 would be easiest but they are rapidly

Re: What is involved in switching from i386 to AMD64?

2006-12-31 Thread Oliver Iberien
Thank you very much! On Sunday 31 December 2006 11:05, Erik Trulsson wrote: On Sun, Dec 31, 2006 at 10:40:37AM -0800, Oliver Iberien wrote: Hi, What actually needs to be done when switching machine architectures? I am facing a motherboard/CPU upgrade following the demise of an Athlon

Re: What is involved in switching from i386 to AMD64?

2006-12-31 Thread Oliver Iberien
On Sunday 31 December 2006 11:05, Erik Trulsson wrote: On Sun, Dec 31, 2006 at 10:40:37AM -0800, Oliver Iberien wrote: Hi, What actually needs to be done when switching machine architectures? I am facing a motherboard/CPU upgrade following the demise of an Athlon+ setup. (I am running

Any documentation for the FreeBSD port of mplex?

2006-12-31 Thread Oliver Iberien
The mplex multiplexer port doesn't seem to support the same options that the linux version does. (At least, -f is illegal.) The man page is very brief and the pkg-descr file has almost nothing as well. I'm trying to get the http://inferno.slug.org/cgi-bin/wiki?AviToVob script to work, but

The moving-your-system FAQ: Anything else I should know?

2006-12-17 Thread Oliver Iberien
I'm about to move my system, I've read the FAQ, I don't want to rearrange anything. I want to make sure I have the process down correctly before I try, so I am asking here. I am using 6.0 #2. First, I hook up both drives. I partition the new hard drive and label it the same way as the

cleaning out log files?

2006-11-26 Thread Oliver Iberien
I've noticed that my /var partition, on a machine being used as a desktop, is about 80% full and would like to know what in it can safely be deleted, or if there is some accepted way to trim log files down with a cron job, etc. Thanks! Oliver ___

Re: cleaning out log files?

2006-11-26 Thread Oliver Iberien
Thank you! I knew something like that had to exist. It turns out there was a core dump I had not noticed. I had the idea of running ls -SlhR /var/ /.../var_contents.txt and looking for anything huge. Oliver On Sunday 26 November 2006 10:54, you wrote: Check /etc/newsyslog.conf All

Re: cleaning out log files? [top-posting corrected]

2006-11-26 Thread Oliver Iberien
On Sunday 26 November 2006 10:54, you wrote: Check /etc/newsyslog.conf All log-files you like to have rotated, should be mentioned there. System owned logs are in there per default. du -k /var will tell you where your space is being consumed. Maybe your /var/mail/root is growing... How

Re: freebsd-questions Digest, Vol 154, Issue 18

2006-11-05 Thread Oliver Iberien
On Sunday 05 November 2006 14:25, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sun, 5 Nov 2006 12:55:00 +0200 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: after this commit (October 26) linux-realplayer depends on linux-gtk2 and linux-gdk-pixbuf which _seem_ to conflict with each other. What should I do?  I very much

newbie question: gdk2/gtkpixbuff install fails

2006-11-01 Thread Oliver Iberien
I'm trying to repair the damage after some portupgrading. The linux emulation is all messed up. linux-realplayer won't run because it wants to reinstall gtk-pixbuff, which is already in there but now conflicts with gdk2, which in turn seems to have a broken port:

Re: KDE and libflashplayer - help?

2006-09-27 Thread Oliver Iberien
On Wednesday 27 September 2006 08:30, you wrote: Hello, On 9/26/06, Oliver Iberien [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I've followed the instructions at http://freebsd.kde.org/howtos/konqueror-flash.php. libmap.conf contains: [/usr/X11R6/lib/linux-flashplugin7/libflashplayer.so] libpthread.so.0

KDE and libflashplayer - help?

2006-09-26 Thread Oliver Iberien
I've followed the instructions at http://freebsd.kde.org/howtos/konqueror-flash.php. libmap.conf contains: [/usr/X11R6/lib/linux-flashplugin7/libflashplayer.so] libpthread.so.0 libpthread.so.2 libdl.so.2 pluginwrapper/flash7.so libz.so.1

Newbie question - vidcontrol (?) and video mode at startup

2006-09-04 Thread Oliver Iberien
Hi, With my new widescreen monitor, the console starts up with text bleeding off the edge of the display. What is the best console video mode for a console on a 1680x1050 display, and how do I get it to start up with it? Thanks, Oliver ___

Re: New widescreen monitor, old radeon card - will this not work?

2006-09-04 Thread Oliver Iberien
On Monday 04 September 2006 08:18, Atom Powers wrote: It wouldn't, because it doesn't know what kind of monitor you have. Take a look at the modline in this post to see what I'm talking about. http://www.nvnews.net/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=69920 I don't remember what that all means, but

Re: New widescreen monitor, old radeon card - will this not work?

2006-09-03 Thread Oliver Iberien
As usual, as soon as I post, I discover the correct search string to get me to the answer: http://www.mail-archive.com/freebsd-questions%40freebsd.org/msg147148.html This poster even bought the same monitor I did. Does anyone know: Will newer nvidia cards generally work at this resolution? It

Re: New widescreen monitor, old radeon card - will this not work?

2006-09-03 Thread Oliver Iberien
in the config line though. I have recently tested 1680x1050,32bit color with Nvidia 6600, 6800, 7900 cards. (On MS Win, linux though. ) On 9/3/06, Oliver Iberien [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: As usual, as soon as I post, I discover the correct search string to get me to the answer: http

gstreamer-plugins80 compile fails

2006-08-19 Thread Oliver Iberien
I was trying to compile audacity, when this happened. gstreamer was already installed. Does anyone know a way around this? Thanks! bsd# cd /usr/ports/multimedia/gstreamer-plugins80/ bsd# make install clean

Re: gstreamer-plugins80 compile fails

2006-08-19 Thread Oliver Iberien
Absolutely right. I should have thought of this myself but obviously didn't. Thanks very much! On Saturday 19 August 2006 07:39, Alexey Mikhailov wrote: Hello! Oliver Iberien wrote: I was trying to compile audacity, when this happened. gstreamer was already installed. Does anyone know

/ports/multimedia/gstreamer-plugins80/ fails

2006-08-17 Thread Oliver Iberien
I was trying to compile audacity, when this happened. gstreamer was already installed. Does anyone know a way around this? Thanks! bsd# cd /usr/ports/multimedia/gstreamer-plugins80/ bsd# make install clean

Newbie question: Is this something I should send to buglist?

2006-07-30 Thread Oliver Iberien
After running portsnap this morning: bsd# pkg_version -v /home/oliver/version.txt Makefile, line 54: Could not find /usr/ports/print/cups-lpr/../../print/cups/Makefile.common make: fatal errors encountered -- cannot continue pkg_version: Failed to get PKGNAME from

kde applications start segfaulting following kppp use

2006-05-27 Thread Oliver Iberien
I had kppd running for a while when broadband was down, and for the first time on my FreeBSD box, the whole system locked up, on occasion. I don't know why it was doing this, but usually when Konqueror was trying to load a website (once something as innocuous as a Google search). Now

Given this chunk of makefile, how do I set this to build the plugin?

2006-05-13 Thread Oliver Iberien
This is from the latest port of gnash. I can't coax it into building the plugin. What is the option I pass to make to get it to build? Thanks! Oliver +OPTIONS= PLUGIN Enable firefox plugin off + +.include bsd.port.pre.mk + +.if !defined(WITH_PLUGIN) +CONFIGURE_ARGS+=

Re: SOLVED - gnash, FreeBSD and OpenGL -- usable?

2006-04-27 Thread Oliver Iberien
On Thursday 27 April 2006 11:55, RW [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Is it any good as a plugin? Personally I'm not bothered much by flash movies or eye-candy. The real problem as far as I'm concerned is those site that use it for navigation, or wont even let you in without a plugin. Sort of. The

gnash, FreeBSD and OpenGL -- usable?

2006-04-26 Thread Oliver Iberien
I've just installed the latest port (0.7_1) of gnash. Trying to run it, I get this: $ gnash (gnash:69101): GdkGLExt-WARNING **: Window system doesn't support OpenGL. $ Is there a fix for this? (And if there is, are there more issues to face after this one is dealt with?) I know it is still

SOLVED - gnash, FreeBSD and OpenGL -- usable?

2006-04-26 Thread Oliver Iberien
It turns out that this is an xorg module. To load it, uncomment the line Load glx in xorg.conf. So now we do have some Flash for FreeBSD. I got gnash to run a .swf movie (no sound though) and Firefox can use the plugin to some extent. Oliver On Wednesday 26 April 2006 17:45, Oliver

Re: Newbie question - cannot add new disk

2006-04-22 Thread Oliver Iberien
. However, I am not exactly a reliable observer, being, as stated, very new to BSD. Oliver On Monday 17 April 2006 09:14, Alex de Kruijff wrote: On Sun, Apr 16, 2006 at 01:40:09PM -0700, Oliver Iberien wrote: Hi, I have been trying to add a second IDE hard drive. I can't seem to get

Putting /tmp on a separate volume?

2006-04-22 Thread Oliver Iberien
I followed the automatic suggestions for slices at install time and now have a /tmp folder of 500M. This fills up at odd times and I was hoping to install a second drive and mount a section of it as /tmp. So far I managed to get a second drive partitioned. I replaced the slice in /etc/fstab

Re: Putting /tmp on a separate volume?

2006-04-22 Thread Oliver Iberien
On Saturday 22 April 2006 05:00, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: But before you do that try setting     clear_tmp_enable=YES  in /etc/rc.conf and    daily_clean_tmps_enable=YES in /etc/periodic.conf Thanks -- I am certainly going to try this. I didn't have an /etc/periodic.conf file, so I

Newbie question -- which files to back up?

2006-04-16 Thread Oliver Iberien
I'm running FreeBSD 6.0 on a home machine and backing up to a DVD Burner, probably using kdar, the dar archiver that comes with KDE. My question is : which system files to back up, along with my personal stuff? I'm used to using linux distributions that do your system backups for you. The

Re: Newbie question -- which files to back up?

2006-04-16 Thread Oliver Iberien
On Sunday 16 April 2006 09:00, Glenn Dawson wrote: At 09:58 PM 2/22/2006, Andy Reitz wrote: Hi Oliver, At a minimum, you will probably want to back up the following directories: /etc /usr/local/etc /home That will get all of the configuration files for

Newbie question - using sysinstall Upgrade an existing system - easy?

2006-04-16 Thread Oliver Iberien
What actually happens when you use Upgrade an existing system in sysinstall? Do you end up with the X-server, etc., all functioning as before, or is there a lot of cleanup to do afterwards? (In my case, this would be from 6.0 to 6.1, whenever the release version of 6.1 comes out. I am getting

Newbie question - cannot add new disk

2006-04-16 Thread Oliver Iberien
Hi, I have been trying to add a second IDE hard drive. I can't seem to get it mounted, or to get what I put into sysinstall and what comes out when I use the command line to agree. I can use sysinstall and then run newfs: bsd# newfs /dev/ad1s1c /dev/ad1s1c: 39205.5MB (80292804 sectors) block

Re: sysinstall won't write fs to new disk, bad magic number

2006-04-13 Thread Oliver Iberien
On Thursday 13 April 2006 06:40, Lowell Gilbert wrote: Oliver Iberien [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Wednesday 12 April 2006 04:18, Lowell Gilbert wrote: Oliver Iberien [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: There was a thread about this a while ago, but it did not seem to end in a solution

Re: sysinstall won't write fs to new disk, bad magic number

2006-04-12 Thread Oliver Iberien
On Wednesday 12 April 2006 04:18, Lowell Gilbert wrote: Oliver Iberien [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: There was a thread about this a while ago, but it did not seem to end in a solution... In any case, I have a 160GB Seagate drive that I was trying to mount a partition on as /disk2. I went

Setting hw.intr_storm_threshold (WAS printing on firefox...)

2006-04-12 Thread Oliver Iberien
sysctl hw.intr_storm_threshold=20 resets the value just for the session. I am guessing that putting the line hw.intr_storm_threshold=20 into /etc/sysctl.conf will make the change permanent? Oliver On Saturday 08 April 2006 04:22, Fabian Keil wrote: Oliver Iberien [EMAIL PROTECTED

sysinstall won't write fs to new disk, bad magic number

2006-04-10 Thread Oliver Iberien
There was a thread about this a while ago, but it did not seem to end in a solution... In any case, I have a 160GB Seagate drive that I was trying to mount a partition on as /disk2. I went through the instructions in the Handbook under Formatting Media for Use With FreeBSD. No formatting seemed

Re: Setting max interrupts per second (WAS printing on firefox)

2006-04-09 Thread Oliver Iberien
On Saturday 08 April 2006 04:22, Fabian Keil wrote: Oliver Iberien [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [snip] The printer (Xerox N17, local, parallel port) started cycling through waiting-processing-waiting messages. Rebooting, I saw a message about an IRQ storm on the printer port being throttled

printing on firefox results in irq storm on printer port

2006-04-07 Thread Oliver Iberien
I was printing with native Firefox 1.5.0.1 (FreeBSD 6.0) with CUPS, which Firefox sees and recognizes. The printer (Xerox N17, local, parallel port) started cycling through waiting-processing-waiting messages. Rebooting, I saw a message about an IRQ storm on the printer port being throttled.

Re: FIXED Running an X application as root? (getting printer set in openoffice)

2006-04-06 Thread Oliver Iberien
insecure thing for a sysadmin to do, though. I'm just the only user of a home machine. Sorry for using up list space, but perhaps this might help someone else down the line. Oliver On Thursday 06 April 2006 18:08, Oliver Iberien wrote: In order to set the printer setting for openoffice.org-2.0.2 I

Re: Running an X application as root? (getting printer set in openoffice)

2006-04-06 Thread Oliver Iberien
, Duane Whitty wrote: Oliver Iberien wrote: In order to set the printer setting for openoffice.org-2.0.2 I have to, as far as I know, run the program /usr/local/openoffice.org-2.0.2/program/spadmin as root. (The default settings are for lp and I am using cups.) It's a series of dialogs

Re: FIXED Realplayer plugin not working after portupgrade

2006-04-05 Thread Oliver Iberien
, portupgrade -f linux-realplayer will install the version you specified. The man page concludes that the next cvsup will set the port back to its head revision! On Wednesday 05 April 2006 00:28, Kris Anderson wrote: --- Oliver Iberien [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Portdowngrade to linux

Reaplayer plugin not working after portupgrade

2006-04-04 Thread Oliver Iberien
Sorry to bring up such as stupid question, but these you do not have the plugin messages are driving me nuts. On FreeBSD 6.0, I just ran portupgrade on everything except KDE. It updated both realplayer (linux-realplayer-10.0.7.785.20060201) and (1.5.0.1). Now although the realplayer plugin is

FIXED Realplayer plugin not working after portupgrade

2006-04-04 Thread Oliver Iberien
Portdowngrade to linux-realplayer-10.0.6.776, and it works again. On Tuesday 04 April 2006 11:11, Oliver Iberien wrote: Sorry to bring up such as stupid question, but these you do not have the plugin messages are driving me nuts. On FreeBSD 6.0, I just ran portupgrade on everything except

Re: Starting privoxy at startup

2006-04-01 Thread Oliver Iberien
privoxy_flags=user privoxy, /usr/local/etc/privoxy/config but I am not sure of the format and couldn't find documentation. Thanks, Oliver On Friday 31 March 2006 11:43, you wrote: Oliver Iberien wrote: Sorry to drag this out, but I still have not got this to work. I've looked at the permissions

Re: Starting privoxy at startup

2006-03-31 Thread Oliver Iberien
Sorry to drag this out, but I still have not got this to work. I've looked at the permissions of the files involved but nothing untoward shows up. I think. There is just the conf file and the stuff in /var/log, right? How should their permissions look? If I wanted to have two flags for privoxy

kde plugins -- getting konqueror to play .wmv files?

2006-03-31 Thread Oliver Iberien
I have installed mplayer, its codecs, and kmplayer from the ports on FreeBSD 6.0, and am trying to get konqueror to play embedded wmv's. I get an error saying that the plugin for application type x-mplayer2 has not been found. I checked the kmplayer port to see where it put the plugin. It's

Re: No shared library support for realplayer?

2006-03-30 Thread Oliver Iberien
have not yet realized I have made. Oliver On Saturday 18 March 2006 14:49, Kevin Kinsey wrote: Oliver Iberien wrote: On Saturday 18 March 2006 11:22 am, Kris Kennaway wrote: On Sat, Mar 18, 2006 at 10:44:56AM -0800, Oliver Iberien wrote: I installed Realplayer by running make clean install

Re: k3b incorrectly identifies scsi r/w drive as read-only -- Mode sense fails

2006-03-26 Thread Oliver Iberien
Sorry, I neglected to remove your name. That was written by Andrea Venturoli, whose name appears after yours. On Saturday 25 March 2006 15:50, Duane Whitty wrote: Oliver Iberien wrote: On Saturday 25 March 2006 11:46, Andrea Venturoli wrote: Duane Whitty wrote: Please forgive me

Starting privoxy at startup

2006-03-26 Thread Oliver Iberien
I can start privoxy manually with /usr/local/sbin/privoxy /usr/local/etc/privoxy/config I added this to /etc/rc.conf: privoxy_enable=YES privoxy_flags=/usr/local/etc/privoxy/config but that does not seem to do it. I tried putting a link in /etc/rc.d/ to the privoxy.sh in /usr/local/etc/rc.d,

Re: Starting privoxy at startup

2006-03-26 Thread Oliver Iberien
Still not working yet... Yes, thank you, I'll take you up on your offer of a configuration file. Oliver On Sunday 26 March 2006 03:16, Pete Slagle wrote: Oliver Iberien wrote: I can start privoxy manually with /usr/local/sbin/privoxy /usr/local/etc/privoxy/config I added this to /etc

Re: k3b incorrectly identifies scsi r/w drive as read-only -- Mode sense fails

2006-03-25 Thread Oliver Iberien
On Saturday 25 March 2006 11:46, Andrea Venturoli wrote: Duane Whitty wrote: Please forgive me for stepping in, but I'm having the same problem, asked sometime ago and did not get any answer. My Yamaha burner is still detected as a read-only device.   bye Thanks av. There is a

Vanishing libraries - libgmodule-2.0.so.600

2006-03-24 Thread Oliver Iberien
I have been using portupgrade with a new tree, initially portupgrade -Pa of which not all succeeded the first time round, largely because although necessary packages were present, necessary libraries had gone missing. This last time, after lengthy recompiling to get gnucash working, konqueror

Vanishing libraries - libgmodule-2.0.so.600

2006-03-24 Thread Oliver Iberien
Sending again from the address registered on this list. My apologies if this gets posted twice. -- I have been using portupgrade with a new tree, initially portupgrade -Pa of which not all succeeded the first time

Will adding ATAPICAM confuse my SCSI R/W CDROM?

2006-03-24 Thread Oliver Iberien
This may be a silly question, but I wanted to make sure: I have a SCSI R/W CD-ROM drive and an IDE DVD read-only drive. There have been times with linux where enabling SCSI emulation made the actual SCSI drive unavailable to k3b. I just want to make sure that adding ATAPICAM won't somehow get

k3b incorrectly identifies scsi r/w drive as read-only -- how to change?

2006-03-24 Thread Oliver Iberien
I've got my Plextor PX-W4012S SCSI R/W drive recognized by k3b by adding ALL ALL = NOPASSWD: /sbin/camcontrol devlist to sudoers and starting k3b with sudo. Unfortunately, k3b has the idea that this is read-only. In Setup Devices there is no way to remove a device from the readonly

List Etiquette Question - Thank yous

2006-03-24 Thread Oliver Iberien
be archived for all time. Do people generally expect a note of thanks? Oliver On Friday 24 March 2006 11:47, Dan Nelson wrote: In the last episode (Mar 24), Oliver Iberien said: This may be a silly question, but I wanted to make sure: I have a SCSI R/W CD-ROM drive and an IDE DVD read-only drive

Re: k3b incorrectly identifies scsi r/w drive as read-only -- how to change?

2006-03-24 Thread Oliver Iberien
On Friday 24 March 2006 12:12, you wrote: On 3/24/06, Oliver Iberien [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I've got my Plextor PX-W4012S SCSI R/W drive recognized by k3b by adding ALL ALL = NOPASSWD: /sbin/camcontrol devlist to sudoers and starting k3b with sudo. Unfortunately, k3b has

slib + gnucash

2006-03-24 Thread Oliver Iberien
On Thursday 23 March 2006 18:43, Robert Huff wrote: 1) This is fallout of the libtool bump (see /usr/ports/UPDATING). Check the archives for this newsgroup about two or three (??) weeks ago for a long thread on what's up and how to fix it. 2) According to messages here over the

Re: k3b incorrectly identifies scsi r/w drive as read-only -- Mode sense fails

2006-03-24 Thread Oliver Iberien
On Friday 24 March 2006 12:29, you wrote: On 3/24/06, Oliver Iberien [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Friday 24 March 2006 12:12, you wrote: On 3/24/06, Oliver Iberien [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I've got my Plextor PX-W4012S SCSI R/W drive recognized by k3b by adding ALL ALL

Fwd: Re: Gnucash takes 5+ minutes to load

2006-03-24 Thread Oliver Iberien
Here is an answered question from elsewhere which I am posting here, FYI... Oliver -- Forwarded Message -- Subject: Re: Gnucash takes 5+ minutes to load Date: Friday 24 March 2006 15:17 From: Derek Atkins [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Oliver Iberien [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [EMAIL

Re: Fwd: Re: Gnucash takes 5+ minutes to load

2006-03-24 Thread Oliver Iberien
On Friday 24 March 2006 18:22, you wrote: Oliver Iberien wrote: Here is an answered question from elsewhere which I am posting here, FYI... A solution is available here: http://docs.freebsd.org/cgi/getmsg.cgi?fetch=104080+0+current/freebsd-hacke rs In short: Set

Re: Fwd: Re: Gnucash takes 5+ minutes to load

2006-03-24 Thread Oliver Iberien
Thanks very much for this. This is very thorough, leaving me practically no possible means of screwing up. Oliver On Friday 24 March 2006 18:55, Eric Schuele wrote: Oliver Iberien wrote: On Friday 24 March 2006 18:22, you wrote: Oliver Iberien wrote: Here is an answered question from

Re: List Etiquette Question - Thank yous

2006-03-24 Thread Oliver Iberien
I've posted questions to the linux users' groups for SuSE and Mandriva during my years as a linux desktop user. They are largely composed of posts by my fellow amateur enthusiasts, whose knowledge does not go very deep. This list's base seems to be IT professionals who are happy to help

/usr/bin/ld: cannot find -lgtk12 - gnome applications will not compile

2006-03-23 Thread Oliver Iberien
I am trying to upgrade to gnucash 1.8.12 on Free BSD 6.0. It fails with a message saying that the gal libraries are not installed. The gal-0.24_1 package is already installed. In attempting to update it through the ports system, I consistently get compile failures with: /usr/bin/ld: cannot

openoffice package install fails on gamin dependency - KDE needs fam

2006-03-20 Thread Oliver Iberien
I'm trying to install the package of OpenOffice 2.0: bsd# pkg_add /home/oliver/OOo_SRC680_m156_FreeBSD60Intel_install_en-US.tbz pkg_add: could not find package gamin-0.1.7_1 ! Unfortunately: === gamin-0.1.7_2 conflicts with installed package(s): fam-2.6.9_6 They install files into

Re: No shared library support for realplayer?

2006-03-20 Thread Oliver Iberien
On Saturday 18 March 2006 14:49, Kevin Kinsey wrote: Oliver Iberien wrote: On Saturday 18 March 2006 11:22 am, Kris Kennaway wrote: On Sat, Mar 18, 2006 at 10:44:56AM -0800, Oliver Iberien wrote: I installed Realplayer by running make clean install in its port directory. It all seemed to go

Re: No shared library support for realplayer?

2006-03-20 Thread Oliver Iberien
On Monday 20 March 2006 17:54, Kris Kennaway wrote: On Mon, Mar 20, 2006 at 05:50:46PM -0800, Oliver Iberien wrote: On Saturday 18 March 2006 14:49, Kevin Kinsey wrote: Oliver Iberien wrote: On Saturday 18 March 2006 11:22 am, Kris Kennaway wrote: On Sat, Mar 18, 2006 at 10:44:56AM

Re: openoffice package install fails on gamin dependency - KDE needs fam

2006-03-20 Thread Oliver Iberien
Thanks very much. I just upgraded to KDE 3.5, which took about two days of compiling, while in complete ignorance of this issue. It now relies on fam. So it looks like fam for me. I am going to go ahead with compiling. Your method sounds reasonable but my scant knowledge of FreeBSD makes me

Re: No shared library support for realplayer?

2006-03-20 Thread Oliver Iberien
On Monday 20 March 2006 18:23, you wrote: On Mon, Mar 20, 2006 at 06:20:00PM -0800, Oliver Iberien wrote: On Monday 20 March 2006 17:54, Kris Kennaway wrote: On Mon, Mar 20, 2006 at 05:50:46PM -0800, Oliver Iberien wrote: On Saturday 18 March 2006 14:49, Kevin Kinsey wrote: Oliver

No shared library support for realplayer?

2006-03-18 Thread Oliver Iberien
I installed Realplayer by running make clean install in its port directory. It all seemed to go fine, but it won't run, and no amount of Googling has yielded anything. Here is the debugging output. Has anyone got any ideas? Oliver (gdb) run Starting program:

cupsd, library paths set on startup?

2006-03-18 Thread Oliver Iberien
I know this information is out there somewhere, but I have not found it yet... -What to I do get get cupsd started on boot? I am currently doing /usr/local/sbin/cupsd as root. -I have to run ldconfig -m /libexec as root before I can use Firefox, or else it complains about missing libraries.

Two different versions for gtk for mplayer, gnucash -- any way to resolve?

2006-03-18 Thread Oliver Iberien
The pkg_add version of gnucash (1.8.11) wants gtk-1.2.10_13, but the mplayer port version (no package?) wants 1.2.10_15. I am very new to FreeBSD and the ports system and would like to have both programs. Is there some way to circumvent this persnicketyness --access to older versions, perhaps?

Two different versions for gtk for mplayer, gnucash -- any way to resolve?

2006-03-18 Thread Oliver Iberien
The pkg_add version of gnucash (1.8.11) wants gtk-1.2.10_13, but the mplayer port version (no package?) wants 1.2.10_15. The port version of gnucash (1.8.12) wants the newer gtk, but the compile fails due to missing libraries which the port system should aready have installed (I thought?). I

Re: No shared library support for realplayer?

2006-03-18 Thread Oliver Iberien
Thanks very much for your reply. It's possible, especially as I don't know how! Could you tell me where I would do that and what it should be set to? Thanks, Oliver On Saturday 18 March 2006 11:22 am, Kris Kennaway wrote: On Sat, Mar 18, 2006 at 10:44:56AM -0800, Oliver Iberien wrote: I