Re: virtualbox

2010-08-07 Thread Chip Camden
Quoth Chip Camden on Thursday, 05 August 2010: Quoth Brandon Gooch on Thursday, 05 August 2010: On Thu, Aug 5, 2010 at 10:53 PM, kalin m ka...@el.net wrote: hi all.. just wondering how mature is virtualbox to be used with freebsd - either as host or as guest. is viable

Re: virtualbox

2010-08-06 Thread Chip Camden
. A CLI for Vbox? You just made my day. -- Sterling (Chip) Camden| sterl...@camdensoftware.com | 2048D/3A978E4F http://camdensoftware.com | http://chipstips.com| http://chipsquips.com pgp0YdniwSljp.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: Good Terminal for X?

2010-08-06 Thread Chip Camden
? -- Sterling (Chip) Camden| sterl...@camdensoftware.com | 2048D/3A978E4F http://camdensoftware.com | http://chipstips.com| http://chipsquips.com pgpYLkCgP4fns.pgp Description: PGP signature

mercurial port broken?

2010-08-06 Thread Chip Camden
/work/mercurial-1.6.2/contrib/hgdiff -- Sterling (Chip) Camden| sterl...@camdensoftware.com | 2048D/3A978E4F http://camdensoftware.com | http://chipstips.com| http://chipsquips.com pgpzZ0vkGTyVI.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: looking for a buildable version of OpenOffice.org

2010-08-05 Thread Chip Camden
-unsubscr...@freebsd.org -- Sterling (Chip) Camden| sterl...@camdensoftware.com | 2048D/3A978E4F http://camdensoftware.com | http://chipstips.com| http://chipsquips.com pgpKeFY6fV2KM.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: copyright for man pages

2010-08-05 Thread Chip Camden
reason to question what I've said. -- Chad Perrin [ original content licensed OWL: http://owl.apotheon.org ] Man pages for ports might have their own licensing -- perhaps (though not necessarily) under the same license as their corresponding ports. -- Sterling (Chip) Camden| sterl

Re: virtualbox

2010-08-05 Thread Chip Camden
second that. I haven't used FreeBSD as a guest yet, but as a host VirtualBox performs very nicely, and (touch wood) I haven't had any problems with using Windows 7 and Windows XP as guests. I'm on amd64 FreeBSD, and I've run both 64-bit and 32-bit Windows guests. -- Sterling (Chip) Camden

Re: how to parse output of application?

2010-08-03 Thread Chip Camden
://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org Well, I'd use Ruby. Read the whole file into a string and find the relevant bits with Regexp. -- Sterling (Chip) Camden| sterl...@camdensoftware.com | 2048D

[sterl...@camdensoftware.com: Re: Firefox printing]

2010-08-02 Thread Chip Camden
8.1-STABLE #23: Sun Aug 1 10:41:36 PDT 2010 sterl...@libertas.local.camdensoftware.com:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/LIBERTAS amd64 firefox-3.6.8,1 =3D up-to-date with port=20 -- Sterling (Chip) Camden| sterl...@camdensoftware.com | 2048D/3A978E4F http://camdensoftware.com | http

Re: ok, i give up...

2010-07-31 Thread Chip Camden
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Re: BSD logo

2010-07-29 Thread Chip Camden
conversion) that I saw the light, after 20 years of serving the *real* devil: http://egomania.nu/gates.html -- Sterling (Chip) Camden| sterl...@camdensoftware.com | 2048D/3A978E4F http://camdensoftware.com | http://chipstips.com| http://chipsquips.com pgpC4tyF9nabm.pgp Description: PGP

Re: BSD logo (a moderate opinion)

2010-07-29 Thread Chip Camden
forget that sado-masochists would find tons of usages for the pitchfork, maybe even beastie's horns along with it :) ... and what about that long tail with the potentially useful tip? -- Sterling (Chip) Camden| sterl...@camdensoftware.com | 2048D/3A978E4F http://camdensoftware.com | http

Re: BSD logo

2010-07-28 Thread Chip Camden
Quoth David Brodbeck on Wednesday, 28 July 2010: On Tue, July 27, 2010 3:09 pm, Chip Camden wrote: Quoth Paul Schmehl on Tuesday, 27 July 2010: --On Tuesday, July 27, 2010 15:49:47 -0500 Reid Linnemann lr...@cs.okstate.edu wrote: On final analysis, I think the OP should abandon any

Re: ok, i give up...

2010-07-28 Thread Chip Camden
/deskutils/when my favorite. I've written a lot of scripts to supplement it, too: http://chipstips.com/?tag=rbremindwhen -- Sterling (Chip) Camden| sterl...@camdensoftware.com | 2048D/3A978E4F http://camdensoftware.com | http://chipstips.com| http://chipsquips.com pgpLDUmG473De.pgp

Re: apps update from ports

2010-07-27 Thread Chip Camden
!) -- Sterling (Chip) Camden| sterl...@camdensoftware.com | 2048D/3A978E4F http://camdensoftware.com | http://chipstips.com| http://chipsquips.com pgpV0Sw5iSXlZ.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: BSD logo

2010-07-27 Thread Chip Camden
. Not quite. Someone needs to come out with an OS named Atheix, and another called Agnostix. Then we'll be complete. -- Sterling (Chip) Camden| sterl...@camdensoftware.com | 2048D/3A978E4F http://camdensoftware.com | http://chipstips.com| http://chipsquips.com pgpGPGBXG6m9V.pgp

Re: BSD logo

2010-07-27 Thread Chip Camden
Quoth Terrence Koeman on Wednesday, 28 July 2010: -Original Message- From: owner-freebsd-questi...@freebsd.org [mailto:owner-freebsd- questi...@freebsd.org] On Behalf Of Chip Camden Sent: Wednesday, July 28, 2010 12:10 AM To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: BSD logo

Re: OpenOffice 3.2.1 in FreeBSD 8.1

2010-07-26 Thread Chip Camden
://ooopackages.good-day.net/pub/OpenOffice.org/FreeBSD/3.2.1/i386/ is working for me. (I now most of you already knew this, but I didn't!, I'm a FreeBSD newbie!) Cheers, Antonio Umm... what's wrong with the port? Works okay here (well, as OK as OpenOffice.org ever is). -- Sterling (Chip) Camden

Re: BSD logo

2010-07-25 Thread Chip Camden
an enemy. Actually, the deeper, unspoken threat is that it won't be taken seriously -- providing a precedent for the demotion of all mythical symbols. -- Sterling (Chip) Camden| sterl...@camdensoftware.com | 2048D/3A978E4F http://camdensoftware.com | http://chipstips.com| http

Re: BSD logo

2010-07-25 Thread Chip Camden
Quoth Chad Perrin on Sunday, 25 July 2010: On Sun, Jul 25, 2010 at 12:57:14AM -0700, per...@pluto.rain.com wrote: Chip Camden sterl...@camdensoftware.com wrote: Personally, I like the devilish association, however indirect it may be. FreeBSD is somewhat counter-cultural and anti

Re: BSD logo

2010-07-24 Thread Chip Camden
cross buns or Christmas trees. Then again, some Christians do. -- Sterling (Chip) Camden| sterl...@camdensoftware.com | 2048D/3A978E4F http://camdensoftware.com | http://chipstips.com| http://chipsquips.com pgpm1PvYsp0Pn.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: BSD logo

2010-07-24 Thread Chip Camden
, and they'll like it. Give me my daemons, my lake of fire, and some people who aren't too good to know what they want and don't want-- we'll have a party. -- Sterling (Chip) Camden| sterl...@camdensoftware.com | 2048D/3A978E4F http://camdensoftware.com | http://chipstips.com| http

Re: BSD logo

2010-07-24 Thread Chip Camden
.) You stick to your holy water, I'll stick to defenestrating virgins, sacrificing goats and chanting the Lord's prayer backwards whilst dancing naked in a pentagram. s/enestrat/lower/ -- Sterling (Chip) Camden| sterl...@camdensoftware.com | 2048D/3A978E4F http://camdensoftware.com

Re: rmconfig from all ports tree

2010-07-21 Thread Chip Camden
-type directory -print | while read dr1 do cd $dr1;make rmconfig done -- Sterling (Chip) Camden| sterl...@camdensoftware.com | 2048D/3A978E4F http://camdensoftware.com | http://chipstips.com| http://chipsquips.com pgpRU5W8vo11k.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: Wacom tablet driver port doesn't seem to work

2010-07-13 Thread Chip Camden
Quoth Chad Perrin on Tuesday, 13 July 2010: On Mon, Jul 12, 2010 at 09:04:10AM -0700, Chip Camden wrote: Looks like this may be it: /usr/local/lib/xorg/modules/input/wacom_drv.so Alas, I do not have that file either. There are, in fact, no files with wacom anywhere in the path

Re: .sh check for sufix g or m on size field

2010-07-12 Thread Chip Camden
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Re: Wacom tablet driver port doesn't seem to work

2010-07-12 Thread Chip Camden
be it: /usr/local/lib/xorg/modules/input/wacom_drv.so -- Sterling (Chip) Camden| sterl...@camdensoftware.com | 2048D/3A978E4F http://camdensoftware.com | http://chipstips.com| http://chipsquips.com pgp4euqj6eHQH.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: Get server's internal temperature from ACPI ?

2010-07-07 Thread Chip Camden
.$i.temperature -- Sterling (Chip) Camden| sterl...@camdensoftware.com | 2048D/3A978E4F http://camdensoftware.com | http://chipstips.com| http://chipsquips.com pgpsIIJEqpJbw.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: Bourne .sh ?

2010-07-02 Thread Chip Camden
On Jul 02 11:39, Aiza wrote: Chip Camden wrote: On Jul 02 07:43, Aiza wrote: I have a file containing this drwxrwxr-x 14 89987 546 512 Jun 6 2009 7.2-RELEASE drwxrwxr-x 14 89987 546 512 Mar 23 04:59 7.3-RELEASE drwxrwxr-x 13 89987 546 512 Nov 23 2009 8.0-RELEASE drwxrwxr-x 13

Re: /boot is full after running make installkernel on FreeBSD 8.0

2010-07-01 Thread Chip Camden
going to the trouble of correcting it, I just 'rm -r /boot/kernel.old' when it fails and then redo 'make installkernel', and all seems OK. -- Sterling (Chip) Camden http://camdensoftware.com | http://chipstips.com | http://chipsquips.com pgpj8YPHIDDdA.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: /boot is full after running make installkernel on FreeBSD 8.0

2010-07-01 Thread Chip Camden
On Jul 01 15:10, Lowell Gilbert wrote: Chip Camden sterl...@camdensoftware.com writes: I've experienced the same thing on amd64 -- the default partition size for root is too small. Rather than going to the trouble of correcting it, I just 'rm -r /boot/kernel.old' when it fails

Re: /boot is full after running make installkernel on FreeBSD 8.0

2010-07-01 Thread Chip Camden
___ 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 I know *I* will. -- Sterling (Chip) Camden http://camdensoftware.com | http://chipstips.com | http

Re: /boot is full after running make installkernel on FreeBSD 8.0

2010-07-01 Thread Chip Camden
On Jul 01 12:29, Chip Camden wrote: On Jul 01 12:07, Ed Flecko wrote: Thanks guys. :-) Doesn't that seem odd that the default partition size for root (512M) isn't quite big enough? Should I make the partition size slightly larger (on future installs) to eliminate this problem

ports issue with gegl

2010-06-25 Thread Chip Camden
=== gegl-0.1.2_1 is marked as broken: ffmpeg support is currently broken. gimp depends on gegl, so the latest update to gimp will not build. Known problem? -- Sterling (Chip) Camden http://camdensoftware.com | http://chipstips.com | http://chipsquips.com

Re: ports issue with gegl

2010-06-25 Thread Chip Camden
On Jun 25 20:21, Ivan Klymenko wrote: ?? Fri, 25 Jun 2010 10:06:21 -0700 Chip Camden sterl...@camdensoftware.com ??: Greetings. uname -a: FreeBSD libertas.local.camdensoftware.com 8.1-PRERELEASE FreeBSD 8.1-PRERELEASE #1: Thu Jun 24 13:38:09 PDT 2010 sterl

Re: Virtualization with USB on Freebsd 8

2010-06-24 Thread Chip Camden
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Re: .sh check for numeric content

2010-06-24 Thread Chip Camden
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Re: check for numeric content in a shell script (FreeBSD sh)

2010-06-24 Thread Chip Camden
-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org -- Sterling (Chip) Camden http://camdensoftware.com | http://chipstips.com | http://chipsquips.com ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org

Re: since when did alt-shift-tab quit working?

2010-06-24 Thread Chip Camden
To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org What window manager are you using? With xmonad, you have complete control over those keystrokes. -- Sterling (Chip) Camden http://camdensoftware.com | http://chipstips.com | http://chipsquips.com

Re: thunderbird replacement

2010-06-21 Thread Chip Camden
all of the above with mutt. -- Sterling (Chip) Camden http://camdensoftware.com | http://chipstips.com | http://chipsquips.com ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send

Re: terrible mplayer performance

2010-06-15 Thread Chip Camden
On Jun 14 2010 21:06, Neil Short wrote: --- On Mon, 6/14/10, Polytropon free...@edvax.de wrote: Check the output of pciconf -lv to see what identification of your graphics hardware is output. result: ... vgap...@pci0:0:2:0: class=0x03 card=0x140a103c chip

Re: * wildcard in.sh script

2010-06-15 Thread Chip Camden
. As others have mentioned, you need to quote or escape the * in the command line: admin cell* You've also botched your regex (/*.*$/) -- it can't begin with a *. What exactly are you trying to match? -- Sterling (Chip) Camden http://camdensoftware.com | http://chipstips.com | http

Re: concerning flash under freebsd

2010-06-15 Thread Chip Camden
. alex My alias for killflash is Don't install it. Flash is buggy software on any platform. -- Sterling (Chip) Camden http://camdensoftware.com | http://chipstips.com | http://chipsquips.com ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http

Re: terrible mplayer performance

2010-06-14 Thread Chip Camden
-- the intel drivers do not yet work for this chipset. It's the Intel HM55, probably. To verify, give us the output of pciconf -vl | grep vgapci0 The chip= portion of that has the PCI ID. Mine's 00468086. For now at least, I'm stuck on vesa. But mplayer seems to run fine for me. -- Sterling (Chip

Re: freebsd - for the win

2010-06-13 Thread Chip Camden
is being done and why. That opens a larger world for future exploration. -- Sterling (Chip) Camden http://camdensoftware.com | http://chipstips.com | http://chipsquips.com ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman

[sterl...@camdensoftware.com: Re: freebsd - for the win]

2010-06-13 Thread Chip Camden
- Forwarded message from Chip Camden sterl...@camdensoftware.com - On Jun 12 2010 18:39, Chad Perrin wrote: On Sat, Jun 12, 2010 at 01:12:55PM -0700, Chip Camden wrote: Call me fatalistic, but I think there is a direct relationship between FreeBSD's high quality and it's lack

Re: freebsd - for the win

2010-06-12 Thread Chip Camden
. If it catered to the common herd, its compromises would be many. -- Sterling (Chip) Camden http://camdensoftware.com | http://chipstips.com | http://chipsquips.com ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo

Re: Fixing the spam from MPCUSTOMER.com

2010-06-10 Thread Chip Camden
...@r-bonomi.com') block) if field Reply-To,/\bmpcustomer\.com\b/i -- Sterling (Chip) Camden | camdensoftware.com | chipstips.com | chipsquips.com ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions

Re: TeX qurestions, for anybody who cares to reply... .

2010-06-09 Thread Chip Camden
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Re: office apps

2010-06-08 Thread Chip Camden
On Jun 07 2010 22:12, Chris Hill wrote: On Mon, 7 Jun 2010, Chip Camden wrote: [...] I do have clients who send me Word docs, and one who requires that I send them specs in Word format. For that, I guess I'm stuck using some behemoth office tool, if only for converting from a different

Colors, mutt, termcap/terminfo

2010-06-08 Thread Chip Camden
MUTT_COLORS to the name of a file that includes my mutt color settings (either .mutt-color256 or .mutt-color8). Then, in .muttrc: source ~/$MUTT_COLORS -- Sterling (Chip) Camden | camdensoftware.com | chipstips.com | chipsquips.com ___ freebsd-questions

Re: which is the basic differences between the shells?

2010-06-07 Thread Chip Camden
On Jun 06 2010 22:00, Chad Perrin wrote: On Sun, Jun 06, 2010 at 11:32:58AM -0700, Chip Camden wrote: I was a tcsh user before switching to zsh. But I was raised on the Bourne Shell, and used Korn shell a lot in the 90s. The C-shell versions of control flow commands always tripped me

Re: office apps

2010-06-07 Thread Chip Camden
On Jun 06 2010 21:56, Chad Perrin wrote: On Sun, Jun 06, 2010 at 01:34:16PM -0700, Chip Camden wrote: Does anyone have a recommendation for a lighter-weight office suite? OOo is such a pig. It takes a good minute to start it up and open a spreadsheet. Short of the full suite, how

Re: office apps

2010-06-07 Thread Chip Camden
On Jun 07 2010 11:21, Anh Ky Huynh wrote: On Sun, 6 Jun 2010 13:34:16 -0700 Chip Camden sterl...@camdensoftware.com wrote: This might not be the right list for this question -- if so, please slap me over to the right one. Does anyone have a recommendation for a lighter-weight office

Re: office apps

2010-06-07 Thread Chip Camden
On Jun 07 2010 12:54, Alejandro Imass wrote: On Mon, Jun 7, 2010 at 12:40 PM, Chip Camden sterl...@camdensoftware.com wrote: On Jun 07 2010 11:21, Anh Ky Huynh wrote: On Sun, 6 Jun 2010 13:34:16 -0700 Chip Camden sterl...@camdensoftware.com wrote: This might not be the right list

Re: office apps

2010-06-07 Thread Chip Camden
On Jun 07 2010 18:16, Matthew Seaman wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 07/06/2010 17:34:56, Chip Camden wrote: For most of what I need to do, it's not an issue. But I do have clients who send me Word docs, and one who requires that I send them specs in Word format

Re: office apps

2010-06-07 Thread Chip Camden
On Jun 07 2010 12:14, Warren Block wrote: On Mon, 7 Jun 2010, Chip Camden wrote: For most of what I need to do, it's not an issue. But I do have clients who send me Word docs, and one who requires that I send them specs in Word format. For that, I guess I'm stuck using some behemoth office

Re: office apps

2010-06-07 Thread Chip Camden
On Jun 06 2010 19:56, Mike Jeays wrote: On June 6, 2010 04:34:16 pm Chip Camden wrote: This might not be the right list for this question -- if so, please slap me over to the right one. Does anyone have a recommendation for a lighter-weight office suite? OOo is such a pig. It takes

Re: which is the basic differences between the shells?

2010-06-06 Thread Chip Camden
On Jun 06 2010 10:31, Chad Perrin wrote: On Sat, Jun 05, 2010 at 04:17:15PM -0700, Chip Camden wrote: I like zsh, because it's sh-compatible, brings in a lot of the good ideas from csh/tcsh, and the license appears to be copyfree rather than copyleft. Do you use that as your interactive

Re: which is the basic differences between the shells?

2010-06-06 Thread Chip Camden
On Jun 06 2010 12:21, Chad Perrin wrote: On Sun, Jun 06, 2010 at 10:50:43AM -0700, Chip Camden wrote: On Jun 06 2010 10:31, Chad Perrin wrote: On Sat, Jun 05, 2010 at 04:17:15PM -0700, Chip Camden wrote: I like zsh, because it's sh-compatible, brings in a lot of the good ideas

office apps

2010-06-06 Thread Chip Camden
a spreadsheet program that supports complex formulas and charting? If it could also be used without X11 when charting isn't needed, that would make my day. -- Sterling (Chip) Camden | camdensoftware.com | chipstips.com | chipsquips.com ___ freebsd-questions

Re: ncurses

2010-06-05 Thread Chip Camden
On Jun 04 2010 19:52, Thomas Dickey wrote: On Fri, Jun 04, 2010 at 08:02:34AM -0700, Chip Camden wrote: Thanks to some help from Joel Dahl on the mutt-users list, I was able to restore correct color support in my mutt installation. But it raises a question about ncurses. It seems

Re: which is the basic differences between the shells?

2010-06-05 Thread Chip Camden
appears to be copyfree rather than copyleft. man zsh to see that there are so many features they had to break up the man pages. -- Sterling (Chip) Camden | camdensoftware.com | chipstips.com | chipsquips.com ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list

ncurses

2010-06-04 Thread Chip Camden
rebuild of mutt restores the original problem. Is there any way to sort this out? -- Sterling (Chip) Camden | camdensoftware.com | chipstips.com | chipsquips.com ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo

Re: ncurses

2010-06-04 Thread Chip Camden
sake. -- Sterling (Chip) Camden | camdensoftware.com | chipstips.com | chipsquips.com ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr

[sterl...@camdensoftware.com: Re: ncurses]

2010-06-04 Thread Chip Camden
On Jun 04 2010 19:24, Roland Smith wrote: On Fri, Jun 04, 2010 at 10:12:12AM -0700, Chip Camden wrote: Thanks for all the info, but i get the same results in mutt-devel as I do in mutt. WITH_MUTT_SLANG didn't seem to take either. Is there a way to specify that mutt should use

Re: .sh tar

2010-06-03 Thread Chip Camden
can't help wondering why the 'v' option is being specified, unless /dev/null needs more playing time. -- Sterling (Chip) Camden | camdensoftware.com | chipstips.com | chipsquips.com ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org

Re: text editor

2010-06-03 Thread Chip Camden
/). -- Sterling (Chip) Camden | camdensoftware.com | chipstips.com | chipsquips.com ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr

Re: text editor

2010-06-02 Thread Chip Camden
On Jun 02 2010 11:45, Robert Bonomi wrote: On Tue, Jun 01, 2010 at 09:10:22AM -0700, Chip Camden wrote: I remember writing our own text editor, and it had to fit in 64K. I remember when . . . I got nuthin'. I think my first text editor was edlin, and it *sucked

Re: text editor

2010-06-01 Thread Chip Camden
better old days. -- Chad Perrin [ original content licensed OWL: http://owl.apotheon.org ] -- Sterling (Chip) Camden | camdensoftware.com | chipstips.com | chipsquips.com ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org

What have I done?

2010-05-24 Thread Chip Camden
unmute, turning the volume all the way up, deleting my .mplayer files, still no joy. I even shutdown and powered off and then rebooted. Any other suggestions? -- Sterling (Chip) Camden | camdensoftware.com | chipstips.com | chipsquips.com ___ freebsd

Re: What have I done?

2010-05-24 Thread Chip Camden
sound cards. -- WFV wfvin...@gmail.com On Mon, May 24, 2010 at 12:08 PM, Chip Camden sterl...@camdensoftware.com wrote: This question is going to make me sound pretty stupid, but I haven't been able to figure it out. I had mplayer (the console version) running in one urxvt, and I

HM55

2010-05-21 Thread Chip Camden
estate. Regards, -- Sterling (Chip) Camden | camdensoftware.com | chipstips.com | chipsquips.com ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions

xmobar

2010-05-17 Thread Chip Camden
Today's port upgrade for xmobar broke my .xmobarrc. It no longer accepts commands whose arguments contain escaped quotes. I was able to work around it by changing the command I was spawning to not require quotes, but where should I report this issue? -- Sterling (Chip) Camden

Re: Very simple file sharing between FreeBSD server and windows client ?

2010-05-11 Thread Chip Camden
Thanks for all the replies. FreeNAS looks like the ticket. BTW, sharity-light is marked as broken in the ports -- does not compile. I'm on 8.0-STABLE amd64. On May 11 2010 06:43, Andrew Gould wrote: On Tue, May 11, 2010 at 2:00 AM, per...@pluto.rain.com wrote: Chip Camden sterl

Re: Very simple file sharing between FreeBSD server and windows client ?

2010-05-10 Thread Chip Camden
for NAS that works well for both FreeBSD and Windows clients? Regards, -- Sterling (Chip) Camden | camdensoftware.com | chipstips.com | chipsquips.com ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd

Re: Addition to BSDstats

2010-05-07 Thread Chip Camden
, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org -- Sterling (Chip) Camden | camdensoftware.com | chipstips.com | chipsquips.com ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions

Space on root partition

2010-05-07 Thread Chip Camden
273379 / Any help much appreciated. -- Sterling (Chip) Camden | camdensoftware.com | chipstips.com | chipsquips.com ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail

Re: Wireless networking question

2010-04-30 Thread Chip Camden
On Apr 30 2010 13:39, S Roberts wrote: Hello Chip, Good to hear from you.., On Thu, 29 Apr 2010 15:52:13 -0700 Chip Camden sterl...@camdensoftware.com wrote: On Apr 26 2010 22:00, Carl Chave wrote: More info:  I found the following in the output of pciconf -vl

Re: Gaming

2010-04-29 Thread Chip Camden
are in a maze of twisty little passages, all alike. -- Sterling (Chip) Camden | camdensoftware.com | chipstips.com | chipsquips.com ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe

Re: Wireless networking question

2010-04-29 Thread Chip Camden
On Apr 26 2010 22:00, Carl Chave wrote: More info:  I found the following in the output of pciconf -vl: no...@pci0:2:0:0:       class=0x028000 card=0x10891a3b chip=0x002b168c rev=0x01 hdr=0x00    vendor     = 'Atheros Communications Inc.'    class      = network From here: http

Re: Wireless networking question

2010-04-27 Thread Chip Camden
On Apr 26 2010 22:00, Carl Chave wrote: More info:  I found the following in the output of pciconf -vl: no...@pci0:2:0:0:       class=0x028000 card=0x10891a3b chip=0x002b168c rev=0x01 hdr=0x00    vendor     = 'Atheros Communications Inc.'    class      = network From here: http

Re: Wireless networking question

2010-04-26 Thread Chip Camden
even get sam@ 's attention and get help from the writer himself if you're wearing your lucky sneakers. Yes, I've seen that done with video drivers. Perhaps I'll give it a go with the ath or uath driver, neither of which work for me out of the box (so to speak). Thanks again. -- Sterling (Chip

Re: Wireless networking question

2010-04-25 Thread Chip Camden
freebsd.org only shows our conversation. -- Sterling (Chip) Camden | camdensoftware.com | chipstips.com | chipsquips.com ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail

Re: Wireless networking question

2010-04-25 Thread Chip Camden
. It gives very little technical information. On the web site, all I could find is that it's 802.11n capable, which I already knew from the sales pamphlet. -- Sterling (Chip) Camden | camdensoftware.com | chipstips.com | chipsquips.com ___ freebsd

Re: Wireless networking question

2010-04-25 Thread Chip Camden
On Apr 25 2010 16:18, Chip Camden wrote: On Apr 25 2010 21:26, S Roberts wrote: Hmmm.., you sure your ports system is installed / up-to-date there? Do you have any of the docs that would have shipped with the notebook? If not, I searched ASUS, and found a link to the English version

Wireless networking question

2010-04-24 Thread Chip Camden
is supported by iwn on OpenBSD, but not on FreeBSD. But I could be barking up the entirely wrong tree. Can anyone shed some light here? Is there any way to query the hardware, short of opening the box (which will void the warranty)? TIA -- Sterling (Chip) Camden | camdensoftware.com

Re: Wireless networking question

2010-04-24 Thread Chip Camden
On Apr 24 2010 13:39, Chip Camden wrote: A new notebook (ASUS K72F) has integrated wireles networking. The technical specifications are sadly lacking, so I don't know what chipset. The wired ethernet appears to use uath, but that's not working as a wlandev. Since most everything else

Re: Wireless networking question

2010-04-24 Thread Chip Camden
The really sad thing is that notebook this came with Windows on it. Next time, I'll make sure I write down everything in Device Manager *before* I wipe Windows off the hard drive. Thanks for the response. -- Sterling (Chip) Camden | camdensoftware.com | chipstips.com | chipsquips.com

Re: Wireless networking question

2010-04-24 Thread Chip Camden
On Apr 24 2010 22:07, S Roberts wrote: Not a whole lot there.., Does scanpci -v tell you any more details about the hardware? Regards, S Roberts I don't seem to have scanpci on my system, nor do I see it in the ports tree -- where would I find it? Thanks -- Sterling (Chip) Camden

Re: [ HEADS UP ] Ports unstable for the next 10 days

2010-04-22 Thread Chip Camden
On Apr 22 2010 10:24, Gabor PALI wrote: On Wed, Apr 21, 2010 at 10:52 PM, Chip Camden sterl...@camdensoftware.com wrote: lang/ghc is still marked IGNORE, unless I'm missing something. Yes, if your system is older than 6.0 on i386 and older then 7.0 on amd64, it is still ignored, since we

Re: [ HEADS UP ] Ports unstable for the next 10 days

2010-04-22 Thread Chip Camden
On Apr 22 2010 18:11, Gabor PALI wrote: On Thu, Apr 22, 2010 at 4:30 PM, Chip Camden sterl...@camdensoftware.com wrote: I'm on 8.0-RELEASE amd64 With a recently updated ports tree? What is the $FreeBSD$ Id in the Makefile? :g # $FreeBSD: ports/lang/ghc/Makefile,v 1.85 2010/04/21 19:53

Re: [ HEADS UP ] Ports unstable for the next 10 days

2010-04-22 Thread Chip Camden
On Apr 22 2010 12:07, Chip Camden wrote: On Apr 22 2010 18:11, Gabor PALI wrote: On Thu, Apr 22, 2010 at 4:30 PM, Chip Camden sterl...@camdensoftware.com wrote: I'm on 8.0-RELEASE amd64 With a recently updated ports tree? What is the $FreeBSD$ Id in the Makefile? :g

Re: [ HEADS UP ] Ports unstable for the next 10 days

2010-04-22 Thread Chip Camden
On Apr 22 2010 16:08, Chuck Swiger wrote: Hi-- On Apr 22, 2010, at 3:57 PM, Chip Camden wrote: I think maybe my package database has become corrupted somehow. Is there a good way to rebuild that from scratch, or fix it? The Handbook didn't seem to say anything on the subject. Try

Re: [ HEADS UP ] Ports unstable for the next 10 days

2010-04-21 Thread Chip Camden
057E9F8B493A297B lang/ghc is still marked IGNORE, unless I'm missing something. -- Sterling (Chip) Camden | camdensoftware.com | chipstips.com | chipsquips.com ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo

Re: intel video driver

2010-04-19 Thread Chip Camden
I just found out that the video chip is HM55, if that helps. On Sun, Apr 18, 2010 at 01:52:17PM -0700, Chip Camden wrote: Salutations, I'm fairly new to this list and have only lurked until now. Please forgive me if this question has been asked before. I've exhausted the man pages, google

intel video driver

2010-04-18 Thread Chip Camden
. Everything's working fine except for the video driver for X11. pciconf -lv yields: vgap...@pci0:0:2:0: class=0x03 card=0x17021043 chip=0x00468086 rev=0x12 hdr=0x00 vendor = 'Intel Corporation' class = display subclass = VGA The intel driver cannot see the device

XFCE Themes don't work

2008-07-01 Thread chip
I am using FreeBSD 7.0 Release and XFCE4. I have downloaded and extracted some themes into /usr/local/share/themes/ and reset the permissions to 777, they do not appear on the themes list in the Settings control panel. I also copied them into ~./themes, reset the permissions and they still do

Re: can't access cdrom as regular user

2008-06-29 Thread chip
Rudy wrote: So as root I set the permissions to 777 on acd0, then after a reboot the permissions were reset back to what they were previously. What do I have to do to get access to my cd drive on my regular account? Edit your /etc/devfs.conf file... Add this line: permacd00666

can't access cdrom as regular user

2008-06-28 Thread chip
I can't access my cd drive on my regular login. I get this message - CD-ROM read or access error (or no audio disc in drive). Please make sure you have access permissions to: /dev/acd0 So as root I set the permissions to 777 on acd0, then after a reboot the permissions were reset back to what

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