Broken pkgdb and ruby core dump...

2004-08-12 Thread ogautherot
Hi! I'm running FreeBSD 5.2.1 with a number of updates (thanks in advance for copying me on answers as I had to unsusbscribe to this list due to high traffic). After installing a package (I'm updating KDE and GNOME), I suddenly got the error message: [Updating the pkgdb format:bdb1_tree in

Re: Broken pkgdb and ruby core dump...

2004-08-12 Thread ogautherot
Thanks Karel! You saved my vacation! It did the job. For some reason, pkgdb hanged at some point while another install was going on. After that, pkgdb was broken. I don't know why it hanged in the first place. Olivier On Thu, Aug 12, 2004 at 11:13:40AM +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi!

Re: Sound latency

2004-01-19 Thread ogautherot
Hi Matthew! Matthew Faircliff écrit: Hello folks, I'm running FreeBSD 5.1 on a Asus M2E laptop with AC97 sound. Runs like a charm but for one thing: when playing mp3s through xmms or mpg123 the songs seem to be about 5-10% slower than normal. I would suspect that the MP3 file has been

Re: Real Time FreeBSD?!!!

2004-01-19 Thread ogautherot
Hi Anubis and Den! Anubis, I've translated the questions into what I understood. Den, do not hesitate to complain if I had it wrong. I would guess the original message was: - what is the roadmap of FreeBSD (new features)? - (I let this one to authorized people :-) ) - How can a real-time

Re: KDE and US International keyboard

2003-11-25 Thread ogautherot
Kent Stewart écrit: I tried to use the keymap us_intl under OpenOffice but it won't work; actually, I can't even type a single quote. snip You have never apparently tried to type ü, ñ, á and all of the other special characters that English keyboards don't produce easily. Yes, the

KDE and US International keyboard

2003-11-24 Thread ogautherot
Hi! I am running FreeBSD 5.1 RELEASE. My X environment is KDE (the one coming with the install). I tried to configure the keyboard as US International in the KDE config panel but, for some reason, it won't work. The ISO alternative (using Alt-Graph for accent composition) is fine but I would

Re: FreeBSD beside WinXP

2003-11-21 Thread ogautherot
Kent Stewart écrit: If you want to pass large files, you need something you can write to from FreeBSD. You can read but not write to NTFS. I have a number of multi-boot machines and I almost always have that much in one partition that is FAT32. To solve the problem, I loaded WinXP in a

Re: No sound when playing a CD in FreeBSD 4.9

2003-11-21 Thread ogautherot
Trying to simplify the difference: the sound from a mpg/divx/xvid movie is read as data over the IDE cable. then this data is processed by the playersoftware and send to the the right audio codec (e.g mp3), which sends its output to the soundcard driver, which instructs the soundcard

Re: FreeBSD beside WinXP

2003-11-20 Thread ogautherot
As far as I am concerned, I tend to have 1 partition for the system and a separate one for user data - this way, you don't wipe everything out if your system crashes. This saved my life a couple of times. What do you need the 10GB FAT32 partition for? (I suspect the same purpose but with respect

Re: Sound card

2003-11-14 Thread ogautherot
Hi List! In essence, it should work - it works on my machine. Could you please give us more details about: 1) your hardware (soundcard type - is it supported?) 2) if it is supported, did you compile the module in the kernel? 3) if it is not not compiled in the kernel, did you load the module?

Re: Migrating from Linux: mounting ext2fs

2003-10-23 Thread ogautherot
Hi Miguel! Miguel_Gonçalves écrit: Dear BSDers, I am about to move a workgroup server from Linux to FreeBSD. How stable is the FreeBSD support for ext2fs? I am currently using it happily (for the same purpose as yours). Beware that the fsck_ext2fs needs to be re-linked if you want to

Re: How to get out of Africa?

2003-10-21 Thread ogautherot
Hi Wayne! Dear FreeBSD, During installation, I accidentally hit Africa for my timezone. I have looked all over the documentation, and I cannot find out to reset my time zone. Does anybody else know? I installed 5.1 from the CD. Did you try running sysinstall and redefine

Re: setend + xracer

2003-10-17 Thread ogautherot
Hi Bryan! Which shell are you using? The 'setenv' syntax works like a charm for csh but you might want to try 'export VAR=VALUE' under bash. BTW, the subject line states 'setend' - I guess you really meant 'setenv'. Does it help? Olivier Bryan Cassidy écrit: I'm trying to set the