Re: Why no ls on DVD or livefs.iso?

2013-10-10 Thread W. D.
At 01:58 10/6/2013, Polytropon wrote: On Sun, 06 Oct 2013 01:29:19 -0500, W. D. wrote: Booted with both. Alt-F4 to get to command line. Very limited commands: ls: not found. Try /rescue/ls explicitely instead. Why? What good are these disks if they don't have the most basic of commands

Re: Why no ls on DVD or livefs.iso?

2013-10-10 Thread W. D.
At 08:47 10/6/2013, Warren Block wrote: On Sun, 6 Oct 2013, W. D. wrote: Booted with both. Alt-F4 to get to command line. Very limited commands: ls: not found. Why? What good are these disks if they don't have the most basic of commands? The emergency holographic shell was always very

Why no ls on DVD or livefs.iso?

2013-10-06 Thread W. D.
Booted with both. Alt-F4 to get to command line. Very limited commands: ls: not found. Why? What good are these disks if they don't have the most basic of commands? Trying to clone a hard disk that has an number of bad sectors. Trying to save most of my data. Want to use recoverdisk, but

Re: Problems with stable/9 and LSI controlers?

2013-09-10 Thread Kenneth D. Merry
On Tue, Sep 10, 2013 at 12:35:02 -0700, Dennis Glatting wrote: On Tue, 10 Sep 2013, Kenneth D. Merry wrote: On Tue, Sep 10, 2013 at 12:11:38 -0700, Dennis Glatting wrote: On Tue, 10 Sep 2013, Kenneth D. Merry wrote: On Tue, Sep 10, 2013 at 11:21:02 -0700, Dennis Glatting wrote: Today I

Re: Problems with stable/9 and LSI controlers?

2013-09-10 Thread Kenneth D. Merry
On Tue, Sep 10, 2013 at 12:11:38 -0700, Dennis Glatting wrote: On Tue, 10 Sep 2013, Kenneth D. Merry wrote: On Tue, Sep 10, 2013 at 11:21:02 -0700, Dennis Glatting wrote: Today I updated several systems against stable/9 that had not bee updated in ~five months. Two of the systems

Re: Problems with stable/9 and LSI controlers?

2013-09-10 Thread Kenneth D. Merry
On Tue, Sep 10, 2013 at 11:21:02 -0700, Dennis Glatting wrote: Today I updated several systems against stable/9 that had not bee updated in ~five months. Two of the systems are serviced by LSI 2008 controllers with a RAID1 array housing the operating system. These systems no longer

Re:

2013-03-28 Thread James D. Parra
I have a new computer with windows 8, which I hate with a passion. I don't play music and I don't do a lot of pictures. Basically I only search, some EBay and games. Can I replace win8 with BSD? [pc/free]bsd *can* be used as a desktop system, but it's really aimed more at servers... a lot of

Cronjob Cvsup - What?

2013-01-26 Thread W. D.
According to: http://www.freebsd.org/news/2012-compromise.html Cvsup is deprecated. If I have a Cron entry like: #- #Min HrDOM Mnth DOW Command # At 3:46 in the morning, everyday, as root, update the ports tree: 46

Tried to install 9.1 from bootonly - won't boot

2013-01-26 Thread W. D.
I get to the logo screen where it says: 1. Boot [Enter] 2. etc. 3. etc. Won't accept any keyboard input, not even Ctrl-C, or Ctrl-Alt-Del. Am using PS/2 Keyboard and mouse through my trusty PS/2 KVM switches. Any ideas or do I just stick with 8.3? Start Here to Find It Fast!™ -

Re: time_t definition

2013-01-17 Thread Thomas D. Dean
On 01/17/13 06:24, Lowell Gilbert wrote: A lot of discussion about what I can do other than understand why gcc does not keep track of the basic typedef. Mayhe the question is beyond this list. Thanks for the replies. Tom Dean ___

Re: time_t definition

2013-01-16 Thread Thomas D. Dean
zzz yyy; typedef yyy xxx; int main() { xxx idx; for (idx=0; idx10; idx++) printf(%d\n,idx); return 0; } does not produce the error (I did this on the 'other' system) gcc --version gcc (Ubuntu/Linaro 4.6.3-1ubuntu5) 4.6.3 ... gcc -O2 -pipe -I../../include -std=gnu99 -fstack-protector

Re: time_t definition

2013-01-16 Thread Thomas D. Dean
On 01/16/13 10:41, Robert Bonomi wrote: *precisely* and the format string had %ld. this IS a type mismatch, if a 'long' is a 64-bit value. The original code was compiled on a 32-bit machine for a 32-bit target. I tried %d, %ld, and %lld with the same result. FALSE. Calculation is OK

time_t definition

2013-01-15 Thread Thomas D. Dean
() */ ... gettimeofday(spi_stop, tz); / * line 211 */ printf(Loop %d, SPI %ld %ld\n, loop, spi_stop.tv_sec, spi_stop.tv_usec); ... gettimeofday(disk_stop, tz);/* line 231 */ printf(Loop %d, Disk %ld %ld\n, loop

BWN WLAN wpa_supplicant ssid mismatch no carrier

2013-01-12 Thread Thomas D. Dean
FreeBSD 9.0 as of June 1, 2012. I have an older laptop with a PC Card Linksys WiFi adapter. I cannot connect to a close-by (2 ft) wireless router. cat rc.conf ... ifconfig_wlan0=WPA SYNCDHCP wlans_bwn0=wlan0 ... cat /etc/wpa_supplicant.conf network={ ssid=tddhome psk= } #

Re: BWN WLAN wpa_supplicant ssid mismatch no carrier

2013-01-12 Thread Thomas D. Dean
On 01/12/13 17:39, Waitman Gobble wrote: # kldload wlan_ccmp # kldload wlan_ccmp kldload: can't load wlan_ccmp: File exists Tom Dean ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To

Re: BWN WLAN wpa_supplicant ssid mismatch no carrier

2013-01-12 Thread Thomas D. Dean
On 01/12/13 17:59, Thomas D. Dean wrote: cat /etc/rc.conf ... ifconfig_wlan0=SYNCDHCP WPA ssid tddhome mode 11b wlan0_bwn0=wlan0 ... I found another email that said the device did not support mode 11n. But, this does not seem to have changed anything. Tom Dean

remote connections to xdm

2012-10-18 Thread James D. Parra
Hello, I set up xdm on a server (FreeBSD 9)and I can connect to it from any machine on the same local network as the server, but not from computers on different network, for example networks connected via a tunnel. Is there something to be added in /etc/hosts.allow or in the xdm config files

Hi

2012-09-17 Thread D Dalal
with you.   I look forward to your positive reply!!!   Regards,  D Dalal ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org

Re: Building a FreeBSD desktop.

2012-08-20 Thread James D. Parra
I was looking to build a desktop to learn FreeBSD and was wondering if there is a list of parts to build one or to just look at the hardware comparability list? I just don't want to order wrong parts. If don't want to make the full commitment to building a desktop, a

Re: can't build Samba 35 on FreeBSD 9.0

2012-08-16 Thread James D. Parra
On Wed, Aug 15, 2012 at 8:59 PM, James D. Parra jam...@musicreports.com wrote: Hello, I am trying to install Samba35 on FreeBSD 9.0 but I keep getting a build error. The text you gave us gives me the thought you are flailing in the dark. First off, use a port management tool eg

can't build Samba 35 on FreeBSD 9.0

2012-08-15 Thread James D. Parra
Hello, I am trying to install Samba35 on FreeBSD 9.0 but I keep getting a build error. portsnap extract portsnap fetch update cd /usr/ports/devel/libtool make deinstall make install clean cd /usr/ports/security/krb5 make deinstall make KRB5_HOME=/usr/local install clean and finally; cd

building Samba on 8.2 fails

2012-07-24 Thread James D. Parra
Hello, I had installed Samba35 and had it working with PAM and SSH, however after a reboot PAM broke. Kept getting the error; in openpam_load_module(): no /usr/local/lib/pam_winbind.so found The file was actually in that path. Never the less, I tried re-installing; portsnap extract portsnap

Re: FreeBSD on the ASUS P8H67-M LGA1155 H67 motherboard

2012-06-02 Thread Thomas D. Dean
On 06/02/12 12:07, Peter Vereshagin wrote: I am using a MSI N210 w/ FreeBSD 9-Stable. Seems to work Ok. Tom Dean ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail

Re: MK_CLANG_IS_CC mis-formed when compiling ports

2012-06-01 Thread Thomas D. Dean
On 06/01/12 00:00, Anton Shterenlikht wrote: On Thu, May 31, 2012 at 07:13:11PM -0700, Thomas D. Dean wrote: I built FrfeeBSD 9 with WITHOUT_CLANG=Yes When I try to build the net/bwn-firmware-kmod/ I get an error that MK_CLANG_IS_CC is mis-formed. If I define this in make.conf, I get

MK_CLANG_IS_CC mis-formed when compiling ports

2012-05-31 Thread Thomas D. Dean
I built FrfeeBSD 9 with WITHOUT_CLANG=Yes When I try to build the net/bwn-firmware-kmod/ I get an error that MK_CLANG_IS_CC is mis-formed. If I define this in make.conf, I get an error that the user may not set this. If I use 'make MK_CLANG_IS_CC=no' the port compiles. How do I fix this?

How Do I Remove Clang

2012-05-29 Thread Thomas D. Dean
uname -a FreeBSD P9X79.tddhome 9.0-STABLE FreeBSD 9.0-STABLE #2: Fri May 11 20:41:54 PDT 2012 tomdean@P9X79.tddhome:/usr/src/sys/GENERIC amd64 I want to remove clang from my system and stick with gcc. I do not want any code I produce to have a non-GPL license. Do I need to regress to

Re: How Do I Remove Clang

2012-05-29 Thread Thomas D. Dean
On 05/29/12 00:49, Matthew Seaman wrote: Set WITHOUT_CLANG=yes in /etc/src.conf and do a normal buildworld cycle plus 'make delete-old' See src.conf(5) for more details. This breaks normal make: cat /etc/src.conf WITHOUT_CLANG=Yes cat Makefile # Makefile for nanoBSD kld driver CC=gcc

Re: How Do I Remove Clang

2012-05-29 Thread Thomas D. Dean
On 05/29/12 00:27, Thomas D. Dean wrote: Oops, too fast. cat /etc/make.conf PERL_VERSION=5.12.4 MK_CLANG_IS_CC=no Tom Dean ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe

nanoBSD Driver Build

2012-05-28 Thread Thomas D. Dean
I need to build a (for me) complicated driver for nanoBSD running on an Elan SC520, an i386 system. I have nanoBSD running, just need the driver. I mount a disk from an i386 system and can build userland applications OK. I installed usr/share/mk. To build the driver, I need the source tree.

nanoBSD Missing libgcc.a

2012-05-24 Thread Thomas D. Dean
I have nanoBSD uname -a FreeBSD embeddedx86.tddhome 9.0-STABLE FreeBSD 9.0-STABLE #1: Tue May 22 11:04:12 PDT 2012 root@P9X79.tddhome:/usr/obj/nanobsd.TS5700 /i386.i386/usr/src/sys/TS5700 i386 gcc 4.2.1 is installed, but, missing libgcc.a. libcompiler_rt.a is present. gcc

Re: nanoBSD Missing libgcc.a

2012-05-24 Thread Thomas D. Dean
On 05/23/12 23:09, Thomas D. Dean wrote: Sorry to reply to my own post. I had some old obj files in the directory. cleaning out the directories removed the problem. Tom Dean ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org

Re: nanoBSD Missing libgcc.a

2012-05-24 Thread Thomas D. Dean
On 05/23/12 23:09, Thomas D. Dean wrote: I have nanoBSD Please ignore my post about cleaning directories. The problem still exists. I need to compile on the nanoBSD system - it is the only 32-bit system, now. How do I get either 1. gcc to use libcompiler_rt.a -or- 2. the nanoBSD build

Re: Dual Boot Windows 7 FreeBSd 8.3

2012-05-23 Thread Thomas D. Dean
On 05/23/12 14:49, Jerry McAllister wrote: Hi, I have a dual boot system, windows 7 (ad0) and FreeBSD 9-stable (ad1). I moved back to BIOS boot after (I think) windows upgrade stabbed ad0. I found the system with a blank screen in the AM. Using BIOS boot, The first windows screen had an

Nfscl

2012-05-22 Thread Thomas D. Dean
I built nanoBSD on uname -a FreeBSD P9X79.tddhome 9.0-STABLE FreeBSD 9.0-STABLE #2: Fri May 11 20:41:54 PDT 2012 tomdean@P9X79.tddhome:/usr/src/sys/GENERIC amd64 for a TS5700 with a ELAN SC520. The trick was to override some variables in the .cfg file. The image will boot and all seems

Using inb() and outb()

2012-05-22 Thread Thomas D. Dean
I have nanoBSD running a hardware control application. To do this, I need inb() and outb() functions. I an do this as root. However, it is better if none of the control system is run as root. How do I allow these functions to one specific user? Tom Dean

Re: Nfscl

2012-05-22 Thread Thomas D. Dean
On 05/22/12 10:46, Thomas D. Dean wrote: I rebuilt the kernel with the new NFS options and it works. Tom Dean ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail

Re: Using inb() and outb()

2012-05-22 Thread Thomas D. Dean
On 05/22/12 14:08, Robert Bonomi wrote: That is what I thought. The entire operation will have to run as root. Nothing will be non-root. Don't like that, but, it is nanoBSD and hardware control Tom Dean ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing

Make and sys.mk

2012-05-22 Thread Thomas D. Dean
I need to get away from sys.mk - no usr/share/mk. This is normally done with 'make -r' Is there a way to do it from within a Makefile? Tom Dean ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions

Re: Using inb() and outb()

2012-05-22 Thread Thomas D. Dean
On 05/22/12 17:09, Eitan Adler wrote: On 22 May 2012 14:25, Thomas D. Deantomd...@speakeasy.org wrote: On 05/22/12 14:08, Robert Bonomi wrote: That is what I thought. The entire operation will have to run as root. Nothing will be non-root. Can you make a SUID helper which only does

Re: Using inb() and outb()

2012-05-22 Thread Thomas D. Dean
On 05/22/12 19:53, Robert Bonomi wrote: I implemented a RPC system at SLAC - actually got RPC numbers from Sun! But, it is slow. Unless it is located far away (two miles at SLAC), it is much faster to do it with a driver, etc. Tom Dean ___

Re: NanoBSD Build Failure

2012-05-21 Thread Thomas D. Dean
On 05/20/12 23:23, Robert Bonomi wrote: Just realized that. I have a spare disk and the 8.2 i386 distribution dvd from my subscription. Install that for use with nanoBSD will make it much better. Thanks, Tom Dean ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org

NanoBSD Build Failure

2012-05-20 Thread Thomas D. Dean
//usr/src/tmp/usr/bin:/usr/obj/nanobsd.TS5700//usr/src/tmp/usr/games:/sbin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin config -d /usr/obj/nanobsd.TS5700//usr/src/sys/MYKERNEL /usr/home/tomdean/nanoBSD/MYKERNEL /usr/home/tomdean/nanoBSD/MYKERNEL: unknown option I486_CPU *** Error code 1 1 error *** Error code 2 1

Re: NanoBSD Build Failure

2012-05-20 Thread Thomas D. Dean
On 05/20/12 20:39, Polytropon wrote: On Sun, 20 May 2012 19:49:49 -0700, Thomas D. Dean wrote: I am attempting to rebuild nanoBSD on an AMD64 system, using the same config file I used a couple years ago on a 32-bit system. [...] /usr/home/tomdean/nanoBSD/MYKERNEL: unknown option I486_CPU

Re: Can't access a music CD (or any other media now)

2011-10-23 Thread Michael D. Norwick
SVGA controller on vgapci0 agp0: aperture size is 256M, detected 7676k stolen memory vgapci1: VGA-compatible display mem 0xfeb0-0xfebf at device 2.1 on pci--More--(byte 2278) uhci0: Intel 82801H (ICH8) USB controller USB-D port 0x6f20-0x6f3f irq 20 at device 26.0 on pci0 uhci0: LegSup

Re: Help needed: sound/audio only semi-working

2011-10-21 Thread Michael D. Norwick
On 10/21/11 20:29, Ronald F. Guilmette wrote: I've been bringing up a new amd64 box with 8.2-RELEASE. So far I've managed to get everything installed OK, including a boatload of freshly-built ports. I've even gotten flash10 working with firefox... well... Unfortunately, this is only MOSTLY

Re: Can't access a music CD (or any other media now)

2011-10-19 Thread Michael D. Norwick
On 10/18/11 14:57, Alexander Best wrote: On Thu Oct 13 11, Lowell Gilbert wrote: Alexander Bestarun...@freebsd.org writes: snip Good Day; It seems that I still cannot figure this out. No amount of searching the docs or mailing lists has gotten me closer to a solution. I csup'd the

Re: Can't access a music CD

2011-10-12 Thread Michael D. Norwick
On 10/10/11 05:44, Frank Shute wrote: On Mon, Oct 10, 2011 at 04:47:40AM -0500, Michael D. Norwick wrote: On 10/10/11 01:37, Frank Shute wrote: On Sun, Oct 09, 2011 at 08:33:01PM -0500, Michael D. Norwick wrote: snip This looks like it's playing. Is the CD/DVD drive active? snip Still

Re: Can't access a music CD

2011-10-12 Thread Michael D. Norwick
On 10/12/11 18:33, Lowell Gilbert wrote: Michael D. Norwickmnorw...@centurytel.net writes: A dialog box dislplaying the following, Unable to mount Audio Disc You're not supposed to mount an audio disk. There's even a FAQ entry titled Why can I not mount an audio CD? http://be-well.ilk.org

Re: Can't access a music CD

2011-10-10 Thread Michael D. Norwick
On 10/10/11 01:37, Frank Shute wrote: On Sun, Oct 09, 2011 at 08:33:01PM -0500, Michael D. Norwick wrote: Good Day; Since installing FreeBSD 9-beta2 (now 9-beta3) I have not been able to play a music cd with the dvd writer on this laptop. It is a Dell Latitude D630. I have built several new

Can't access a music CD

2011-10-09 Thread Michael D. Norwick
Good Day; Since installing FreeBSD 9-beta2 (now 9-beta3) I have not been able to play a music cd with the dvd writer on this laptop. It is a Dell Latitude D630. I have built several new worlds and kernels with the following devices enabled in the kernel config.; devicescbus

Re: Trying to build Nessus 4 from ports

2011-09-26 Thread Michael D. Norwick
On 09/25/11 10:08, Trond Endrestøl wrote: On Sat, 24 Sep 2011 23:24+0200, Andrei Brezan wrote: On 23/09/2011 23:31, Michael D. Norwick wrote: Good Day Trying to build /usr/ports/security/nessus on FreeBSD 9-beta2 with ports updated via - portsnap fetch update - completed 09/22/2011

Re: Trying to build Nessus 4 from ports

2011-09-26 Thread Michael D. Norwick
On 09/26/11 06:43, Mike Clarke wrote: On Monday 26 September 2011, Michael D. Norwick wrote: Still no joy trying to build from source via ports or installing the binary from tenable.com on FreeBSD 9. nessusd is installed but errors out with 'libz.so.5 not found. I have; $ ls -l /lib/libz

Trying to build Nessus 4 from ports

2011-09-23 Thread Michael D. Norwick
Good Day Trying to build /usr/ports/security/nessus on FreeBSD 9-beta2 with ports updated via - portsnap fetch update - completed 09/22/2011. The result from #make; === Applying FreeBSD patches for nessus-libraries-2.2.9_1 === nessus-libraries-2.2.9_1 depends on executable: bison - found

FreeBSD 9-BETA2 on a Dell Latitude D630

2011-09-21 Thread Michael D. Norwick
vgapci1: VGA-compatible display mem 0xfeb0-0xfebf at device 2.1 on pci0 uhci0: Intel 82801H (ICH8) USB controller USB-D port 0x6f20-0x6f3f irq 20 at device 26.0 on pci0 uhci0: LegSup = 0x2f00 usbus0: Intel 82801H (ICH8) USB controller USB-D on uhci0 uhci1: Intel 82801H (ICH8) USB controller USB

Re: TIOCGSERIAL?

2011-08-19 Thread Thomas D. Dean
On Fri, 2011-08-05 at 22:01 +0200, Paweł Michalicki wrote: I have a certain device which can be hooked to a PC via RS232 connection. Since my PC does not have a true COM port, I am using an USB-COM converter, which contains the FTDI chip. I wrote a program to handle the communications via the

Re: Installing a more recent version of xorg-server?

2011-08-03 Thread Thomas D. Dean
On Wed, 2011-08-03 at 11:46 -0700, Ismael Farfán wrote: This config works on my HP Envy with Intel GUI Section ServerLayout Identifier X.org Configured Screen 0 Screen0 0 0 InputDeviceMouse0 CorePointer InputDeviceKeyboard0 CoreKeyboard EndSection

Re: Installing a more recent version of xorg-server?

2011-08-03 Thread Thomas D. Dean
On Wed, 2011-08-03 at 19:43 -0700, Ismael Farfán wrote: Look at the keyboard section of 'man Xorg' Does ctrl-alt-keypad-plus change the display? tomdean ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list

Re: password hash weaknesses in FreeBSD ?

2011-08-02 Thread Thomas D. Dean
On Tue, 2011-08-02 at 17:36 +0100, マンロークリストファ wrote: The crypt program to hash passwords uses md5 /DES/blowfish for password hashing as I have read in the handbook. DES and md5 are widely regarded to be broken (certainly DES). I would prefer password hashing to be done using salted SHA1 /

Re: Phenom II 975 BE shows 0 celsius

2011-08-01 Thread Matthew D. Fuller
On Sun, Jul 31, 2011 at 09:28:29PM -0300 I heard the voice of Mario Lobo, and lo! it spake thus: Unfortunately this Mobo died and only found AM3 boards for which my phenom 955 doesn't fit. Not that it helps you now, but the 955 _is_ perfectly compatible with AM3. It's only the initial 920

Re: Problems with the Asus P8h61 -m pro motherboard

2011-07-20 Thread Thomas D. Dean
On Wed, 2011-07-20 at 08:24 +0200, Matevž Markovič wrote: Asus P8h61 -m pro motherboard Did you try the re driver? The chipset is Realtek 8111e. This is supported by 8-stable, I think. Did you look at: http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-stable/2011-June/062886.html tomdean

Install 8.2-Release AMD64 on Laptop with Raid0

2011-07-19 Thread Thomas D. Dean
I have not used RAID before. I have a laptop (new to me) with windows 7 and RAID0. I want to install 8.2-Release and retain the Raid0. I booted the 8.2-Release AMD64 DVD and exited to Fixit. pciconf -lv shows atapci0@pci0:0:31:2: class=0x010400 card=0x159b103c chip=0x282a8086 rev=0x05

Re: Install 8.2-Release AMD64 on Laptop with Raid0

2011-07-19 Thread Thomas D. Dean
On Tue, 2011-07-19 at 11:26 -0700, Chuck Swiger wrote: Hi-- On Jul 19, 2011, at 11:20 AM, Thomas D. Dean wrote: sysinstall shows 3 choices for disk drives. ad4(600G), ad6(600G), ar0(RAID0) I want to use RAID0 and use the entire disk, partitioned by 'A'. Which disk do I select

Re: Fwd: Install 8.2-Release AMD64 on Laptop with Raid0

2011-07-19 Thread Thomas D. Dean
On Tue, 2011-07-19 at 11:31 -0700, Chuck Swiger wrote: Umm, please don't inflict autoresponders upon people who answer your questions... I don't know where this came from... tomdean ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list

Re: Install 8.2-Release AMD64 on Laptop with Raid0

2011-07-19 Thread Thomas D. Dean
I booted the DVD to Fixit and used fdisk. The output is below. It looks like, if I want to use ataraid, I install to ad4 and leave ad6 alone. Correct? I think I will try ataraid and see what happens. To use gmirror, I do the same, correct? tomdean Fixit# fdisk ad4 *** Working on device

Re: Install 8.2-Release AMD64 on Laptop with Raid0

2011-07-19 Thread Thomas D. Dean
On Tue, 2011-07-19 at 11:52 -0700, Chuck Swiger wrote: I discovered how to get to BIOS on the laptop. esc very early in the power process brings up a menu. F10 gets in to BIOS. One item, OROM UI enable/disable was disabled. Enabling this flashes a menu for 2 sec on boot that allows ctrl-I to

Re: Install 8.2-Release AMD64 on Laptop with Raid0

2011-07-19 Thread Thomas D. Dean
On Tue, 2011-07-19 at 12:18 -0700, Chuck Swiger wrote: After some more reading and searching, I decided to not use ataraid. I went into BIOS and deleted the RAID volume. I am installing 8.2 on ad4 with a subsequent change to 8-stable. After getting to 8-stable, I will look into setting up a

FreeBSD 8.2 Xorg and Raedon HD 6850

2011-07-18 Thread Thomas D. Dean
I read the information on FreeBSD.org about the 6850 and I think I am confused. I have an HP Envy 3D 17 laptop with this video adapter. First, it appears there may be limited support for this card. The bottom line seems to be Try Radeon Driver then the Vesa Driver. On the Xorg site, there is a

Portupgrade Package Question

2011-07-09 Thread Thomas D. Dean
As root, I attempted to use portupgrade -PPRv m4 which attempted to access ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/ports/i386/packages-8.2-release/All/m4-1.4.16,1.tbz but failed - File unavailable (e.g. file not found, no access) I changed etc/pkgtools.conf OS_PKGBRANCH=8-STABLE and

Re: Portupgrade Package Question

2011-07-09 Thread Thomas D. Dean
On Sat, 2011-07-09 at 14:15 -0400, Chris Brennan wrote: On 7/9/2011 1:14 PM, Thomas D. Dean wrote: As root, I attempted to use portupgrade -PPRv m4 which attempted to access ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/ports/i386/packages-8.2-release/All/m4-1.4.16,1.tbz but failed - File

Re: Portupgrade Package Question

2011-07-09 Thread Thomas D. Dean
On Sat, 2011-07-09 at 20:47 +0200, Polytropon wrote: On Sat, 09 Jul 2011 11:33:00 -0700, Thomas D. Dean wrote: /usr/bin/fetch -v 'ftp://ftp.FreeBSD.org/pub/FreeBSD/ports/i386/packages-8-STABLE/All/m4-1.4.16,1.tbz' looking up ftp.FreeBSD.org connecting to ftp.FreeBSD.org:21 fetch: ftp

Re: Portupgrade Package Question

2011-07-09 Thread Thomas D. Dean
On Sat, 2011-07-09 at 12:05 -0700, Thomas D. Dean wrote: Sorry to answer my own post. The packages that are out-of-date on the system I was updating are in relationship to 8.2-release. A couple days ago, I cvsup'd the port tree with *default release-cvs tag=. ports-all Today, portsnap fetch

Re: Portupgrade Package Question

2011-07-09 Thread Thomas D. Dean
On Sat, 2011-07-09 at 21:45 +0200, Polytropon wrote: If I understood everything correctly, CVS (csup) and portsnap do both follow the one tree which gets frequently updated, and by the tag specified above you'll always get the current version of the tree. Getting older versions (e. g. the

Re: Portupgrade Package Question

2011-07-09 Thread Thomas D. Dean
On Sat, 2011-07-09 at 19:54 -0400, b. f. wrote: occasionally trip over problems that will require intervention. (Note that in the section of the csup file that you reproduced in an earlier message, 'release-cvs' should be 'release=cvs'.) The '-' was a typo on my part. The machine I used for

Re: kernel and buildworld questions

2011-05-10 Thread Michael D. Norwick
On 05/10/11 20:59, Mage wrote: On 05/10/2011 10:34 PM, Lowell Gilbert wrote: You've tried it with an empty make.conf file first, I assume? Actually I don't have make.conf, I renamed it. It doesn't matter for RVM. It doesn't use it. I exported CC, GCC, CFLAGS and so for rvm install.

freebsd zfs question

2011-05-01 Thread Michael D. Norwick
Good Day; A week or so ago I experienced an error trying to compile openoffice.org from ports. The build failed from an error I was since able to resolve. This machine is at #uname -r rainey 8.2-RELEASE-p1 FreeBSD 8.2-RELEASE-p1 #2: Wed Apr 27 04:37:38 UTC 2011

make all vs buildworld

2011-04-19 Thread Michael D. Norwick
Good Day; Can someone tell me what the difference between using /usr/src#make buildworld vs /usr/src/#make all. I know that FreeBSD uses make buildkernel and make buildworld to routinely build the kernel and userland. Yet, I had an issue with a recent buildworld (after buildkernel). It

Re: Problem with an ATI x2900 video adapter

2011-04-10 Thread Michael D. Norwick
On 04/10/11 06:44, Warren Block wrote: On Sun, 10 Apr 2011, Michael D. Norwick wrote: surprised this afternoon when, while the installation of gnome2 was working, I think it was building GCC 4.4 and friends, the HP 2010i LCD monitor I use on the machine appeared to lose the input to its DVI

Problem with an ATI x2900 video adapter

2011-04-09 Thread Michael D. Norwick
Good Day; I am in the final steps of completing a fresh installation of FreeBSD 8.2 on a workstation with a DFI LanParty motherboard, AMD Athlon 64 processor, 3 GB of ram, an ATI Radeon x2900 graphics card, and root on ZFS filesystem. Using ports.tar.gz downloaded, and src CVSup'd this

Re: mysql missing from my home-page WordPress....

2011-03-03 Thread John D Jones III
of the modules. You may want to double check the path and make sure they're both the same. If not, I recommend copying in the new .default php.ini file and make your custom changes there, as there were recently many settings changed/added in the latest PHP version. -- Thanks, John D Jones III freebsd

xdm-options - non-bsd user needs bsd rc.d advice

2011-03-03 Thread John D. Hendrickson and Sara Darnell
Hi. I'm a BSD idiot I use [Debian] linux. rc.d question I'm trying to release a project (just below) to the widest possible unix audience. I need a line in /etc/inittab and to have a start/stop in /etc/rc.d, nothing unusual I think. I read many freeBSD rc.d materials and it only convinced

Re: Colorized compiler/linker messages

2011-01-23 Thread Michael D. Norwick
On 01/22/2011 22:22, Robert Bonomi wrote: From owner-freebsd-questi...@freebsd.org Sat Jan 22 20:10:21 2011 Date: Sat, 22 Jan 2011 20:00:52 -0600 From: Michael D. Norwickmnorw...@centurytel.net To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Colorized compiler/linker messages Good Day, I have

Re: Colorized compiler/linker messages

2011-01-23 Thread Michael D. Norwick
On 01/23/2011 17:07, Mark Johnston wrote: On Sat, Jan 22, 2011 at 08:00:52PM -0600, Michael D. Norwick wrote: Good Day, I have seen this for some time when building ports and was wondering how it was done. GCC when compiling and linking certain programs, ebook for example, emits messages

Colorized compiler/linker messages

2011-01-22 Thread Michael D. Norwick
Good Day, I have seen this for some time when building ports and was wondering how it was done. GCC when compiling and linking certain programs, ebook for example, emits messages in various colors. How is that done? Where does one find what the various colors are supposed to signify? Or,

Implications of missing this step?

2011-01-20 Thread Michael D. Norwick
Good Day; Running PC-BSD 8.1 with a custom kernel and new world. I just finished another custom kernel and rebuilt world according to the FreeBSD handbook. While reading the docs again to find an answer to a question about how upgraded ports are handled, I came across the following in

Re: Implications of missing this step?

2011-01-20 Thread Michael D. Norwick
On 01/20/2011 22:57, b. f. wrote: Good Day; Running PC-BSD 8.1 with a custom kernel and new world. I just finished another custom kernel and rebuilt world according to the FreeBSD handbook. While reading the docs again to find an answer to a question about how upgraded ports are handled, I

Re: HP 2010i

2011-01-02 Thread Michael D. Norwick
On 01/01/2011 22:46, Warren Block wrote: snipped On 01/02/2011 08:30, Gökşin Akdeniz wrote: snipped Thank you for your responses. I have probably taken up as much bandwidth as I deserve with this subject. I tried the attached xorg.conf with the same results. A right skewed screen

Re: HP 2010i 1600x900 screen sizing issue - PCBSD 8.1

2011-01-01 Thread Michael D. Norwick
On 01/01/2011 10:25, Warren Block wrote: On Fri, 31 Dec 2010, Michael D. Norwick wrote: I bought snip Identifier Monitor0 VendorName HWP ModelNameHP 2010 HorizSync24.0 - 83.0 VertRefresh 50.0 - 76.0 OptionDPMS EndSection For a start, remove or comment

Re: HP 2010i 1600x900 screen sizing issue - PCBSD 8.1

2011-01-01 Thread Michael D. Norwick
On 01/01/2011 12:51, Polytropon wrote: On Sat, 01 Jan 2011 12:34:39 -0600, Michael D. Norwickmnorw...@centurytel.net wrote: And, where are those commented out option lines in my xorg.conf documented? In the obvious place: man xorg.conf. :-) From 'man xorg.conf

HP 2010i 1600x900 screen sizing issue - PCBSD 8.1

2010-12-31 Thread Michael D. Norwick
Happy New Year! I bought a new HP 2010i LCD monitor that is supposed to give me 1600x900 resolution at 60 Hz to replace a generic 19 C.R.T. monitor that did 1024x768. The machine has an ATI Radeon video card and I am using a V.G.A. cable not H.D.M.I. I reconfigured my /etc/xorg.conf using

Re: HP 2010i 1600x900 screen sizing issue - PCBSD 8.1

2010-12-31 Thread Michael D. Norwick
On 12/31/2010 21:07, Michael D. Norwick wrote: Happy New Year! I bought a new HP 2010i LCD monitor that is supposed to give me 1600x900 resolution at 60 Hz to replace a generic 19 C.R.T. monitor that did 1024x768. The machine has an ATI Radeon video card and I am using a V.G.A. cable

RE: Archiving directories / zip format

2010-12-06 Thread John D McDonnell
was, but the worst that has happened to me is having to force ZipGenius to close and then re-open the archived file. http://www.zipgenius.com/ -- John D. McDonnell gorgar...@xsmail.com http://www.gorgarath.com/ ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http

Re: Can MS Exchange play nice with the mailing lists?

2010-12-03 Thread John D McDonnell
these settings, but I'll do some Googling and see what I can find. Preferably I'd like for it to refer to itself as mail.pcam.org on the inside and outside as we currently get a certificate error in Outlook on the inside due to it not matching mail.pcam.org. -- John D. McDonnell gorgar

Can MS Exchange play nice with the mailing lists?

2010-11-30 Thread John D McDonnell
to play nice with the FreeBSD mailing lists, please also let me know so I can give up on trying to get it to work. Thank you, John McDonnell -- John D. McDonnell gorgar...@xsmail.com http://www.gorgarath.com/ ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing

Re: Can MS Exchange play nice with the mailing lists?

2010-11-30 Thread John D McDonnell
; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable MIME-Version: 1.0 This is obviously a test. ^_^ -- John D McDonnell Penn Cambria School District mcdon...@pcam.org O ASCII Ribbon Campain - http://www.asciiribbon.org/ --_000_ad4cb5ac5ee0456dba74dcc66ea52ac9_-- -- John D. McDonnell

ECCN Number

2010-11-03 Thread Siebenaler, Joshua D
Hello- My name is Joshua Siebenaler, I am a procurement agent with the Boeing Company in Kent, WA. I had a request come across my desk recently inquirying about FreeBsD's V7.3 software. What is the ECCN number associated with this product? Please let me know. Thank you, Joshua D

was FreeBSD 8.1 success, now PC-BSD success

2010-10-29 Thread Michael D. Norwick
Good Day; I just completed a new PC-BSD install on the same machine I last posted a success message for FreeBSD 8.1. I do not have time to fiddle much right now and upgrading FreeBSD 8.1 from ports was giving me fits. But, living on the edge has it's price. I took the advise provided by

Fwd: Re: FreeBSD 8.1-RELEASE Installation success

2010-10-26 Thread Michael D. Norwick
Oops; Originally sent this to the poster and not the list. Sorry. Original Message Subject:Re: FreeBSD 8.1-RELEASE Installation success Date: Tue, 26 Oct 2010 06:27:56 -0500 From: Michael D. Norwick mnorw...@centurytel.net To: Warren Block wbl...@wonkity.com

FreeBSD 8.1-RELEASE Installation success

2010-10-25 Thread Michael D. Norwick
Good Day; It is with some pleasure that I have finally succeeded in building an operative workstation with a custom kernel and world, Xorg 1.7.5, KDE4-4.5.2 from ports, most common network applications as well as Firefox3, and Thunderbird 3.1.5. The machine is an older Dell GX270 P4 2.4

Re: FreeBSD 8.1-RELEASE Installation success

2010-10-25 Thread Michael D. Norwick
it unnecessary to set the horizontal and vertical frequencies ourselves (which we used to have to do.) But not for X, for the sound card, for as much as possible. On Mon, Oct 25, 2010 at 8:25 PM, Michael D. Norwickmnorw...@centurytel.net wrote: Good Day; It is with some pleasure that I have

How to get clipboard working - X

2010-10-15 Thread Michael D. Norwick
Good day; Having a time getting cut and paste to work in a new FreeBSD-8.1-RELEASE-p1 installation I am using a newly rebuilt world and kernel that I cvsup'd yesterday but, I was not able to get it going with GENERIC either. # uname -a # **.**.net 8.1-RELEASE-p1

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