Re: flash

2007-07-01 Thread Norberto Meijome
On Sun, 1 Jul 2007 22:21:14 -0400 (EDT) "kalin mintchev" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > can you use that flash7 to watch videos on the new cnn site and youtube? Sorry, forgot to answer this. Yes, with linux-firefox, linux-flashplugin7 and linux-pluginwrapper (and possibly other dependencies?), you

Re: flash ( With details and user test results)

2007-07-01 Thread Norberto Meijome
On Sun, 1 Jul 2007 22:21:14 -0400 (EDT) "kalin mintchev" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Sun, 1 Jul 2007 18:42:13 -0400 > > Robert Huff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > >> > >> RW writes: > >> > >> > If you install www/nspluginwrapper, and follow the instructions, > >> > the flash plugin will w

yet another question borne of ignorance....

2007-07-01 Thread Gary Kline
Guys, One of the last tricks is to get lpr working from oldtao to newtao--(once I'm done with my paper, I'll try to puzzle out CUPS; for now I need too be able to print OOo files on my printserver). It/printing finallly Does work across the wire, but this

Re: Xorg build problem - font-misc-misc

2007-07-01 Thread Joel Hatton
Hi, I have solved this issue. Turned out that font-util wasn't properly installed. Although I followed the steps in UPDATING, it appears that a lot of my ports didn't cleanly/properly upgrade - what I found I had to do was to repeatedly portupgrade -a, identify which ports stopped on 'you should m

Re: freebsd / gateway / parental control

2007-07-01 Thread Norberto Meijome
On Mon, 2 Jul 2007 04:16:13 +0200 Momchil Ivanov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Monday 02 July 2007 03:45:39 Norberto Meijome wrote: > > On Fri, 29 Jun 2007 22:46:10 +0200 > > > > Momchil Ivanov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > 4) Forget about the DSL router. Box with wireless NIC, 1 NIC for home

Re: mDNSResponder and avahi conflict when updade

2007-07-01 Thread Norberto Meijome
On Sun, 01 Jul 2007 16:35:44 +0200 Gaye Abdoulaye <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I have a problem when I try to update my "FreeBSD-6.2-STABLE i386 > xorg-7.2 kde-3.5.6" with: > pkgdb -F > portupgrade -aPP > It seems that fr-kde-i18n-3.5.6_1 require net/mDNSResponder. > But net/mDNSResponder conflic

Re: flash

2007-07-01 Thread Norberto Meijome
On Sun, 1 Jul 2007 21:54:51 -0300 "Anton Galitch" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I tried flash9 and flash7, the flash9 just crashes, and flash7 shows a grey > square in the place where the flash application should be showed. I tried > both, linux-firefox, and nspluginwrapper methods, it shows the sa

Re: ports mbone/udpcast (PR# 114061) outdated

2007-07-01 Thread Beech Rintoul
On Sunday 01 July 2007, Tim Judd said: > I noticed not too long ago that mbone/udpcast was outdated (as in > more than 3 years old). Not knowing what or how to proceed with > such an outdated port, I decided to file a bug report. It seemed > the sensible thing to do. > > As you can see below, Edw

ports mbone/udpcast (PR# 114061) outdated

2007-07-01 Thread Tim Judd
I noticed not too long ago that mbone/udpcast was outdated (as in more than 3 years old). Not knowing what or how to proceed with such an outdated port, I decided to file a bug report. It seemed the sensible thing to do. As you can see below, Edwin (edwin .at. FreeBSD.org) made the change to clo

Re: running portupgrade -a

2007-07-01 Thread Jonathan Horne
On Sunday 01 July 2007 17:19:22 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > On 29/06/07, Michael P. Soulier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hi, > > > > It seems like a lot of people keep their ports regularly up to date by > > just running portupgrade -a. I've seen it online, and in books. > > > > As /usr/ports/UPDA

Re: flash

2007-07-01 Thread kalin mintchev
> On Sun, 1 Jul 2007 18:42:13 -0400 > Robert Huff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> >> RW writes: >> >> > If you install www/nspluginwrapper, and follow the instructions, >> > the flash plugin will work with native firefox and opera browsers. >> >> This is flash-9, and not flash-7? >> > > Yes

Re: freebsd / gateway / parental control

2007-07-01 Thread Momchil Ivanov
On Monday 02 July 2007 03:45:39 Norberto Meijome wrote: > On Fri, 29 Jun 2007 22:46:10 +0200 > > Momchil Ivanov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > 4) Forget about the DSL router. Box with wireless NIC, 1 NIC for home > > net, 1 NIC for the DSL ^^ > > - same as above, just ha

Re: freebsd / gateway / parental control

2007-07-01 Thread Norberto Meijome
On Fri, 29 Jun 2007 22:46:10 +0200 Momchil Ivanov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 4) Forget about the DSL router. Box with wireless NIC, 1 NIC for home net, 1 > NIC for the DSL > - same as above, just have to tell your box how to connect to your ISP ok, this is interesting. You mean, plug the

Re: large pages

2007-07-01 Thread Chuck Swiger
Wojciech Puchar wrote: does FreeBSD {can,will,patch exist} supports using huge pages? i mean 2M pages on AMD64 and 2/4M pages on i386 I believe so, yes-- isn't this what the PAE kernel option does? i need freebsd just for running one program needing about 1280 megs of data space (+1-2 meg of

Re: flash

2007-07-01 Thread Anton Galitch
Hi. I tried flash9 and flash7, the flash9 just crashes, and flash7 shows a grey square in the place where the flash application should be showed. I tried both, linux-firefox, and nspluginwrapper methods, it shows the same grey square. Any idea of what could it be?? ___

Re: flash

2007-07-01 Thread Jonathan Horne
On Sunday 01 July 2007 19:17:17 RW wrote: > On Sun, 1 Jul 2007 18:42:13 -0400 > > Robert Huff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > RW writes: > > > If you install www/nspluginwrapper, and follow the instructions, > > > the flash plugin will work with native firefox and opera browsers. > > > > This i

Re: flash

2007-07-01 Thread RW
On Sun, 1 Jul 2007 18:42:13 -0400 Robert Huff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > RW writes: > > > If you install www/nspluginwrapper, and follow the instructions, > > the flash plugin will work with native firefox and opera browsers. > > This is flash-9, and not flash-7? > Yes

Re: dv1394

2007-07-01 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On 01/07/07, kalin mintchev <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: hi all... what wold be the the device that is equivalent of /dev/dv1394/0? it's for kino's install... Not having any firewire myself, a quick googodge leads me to believe that you should look at your dmesg for things under fwohci* and fir

Re: flash

2007-07-01 Thread Robert Huff
RW writes: > If you install www/nspluginwrapper, and follow the instructions, the > flash plugin will work with native firefox and opera browsers. This is flash-9, and not flash-7? Robert Huff ___ freebsd-que

Re: flash

2007-07-01 Thread kalin mintchev
> > If you install www/nspluginwrapper, and follow the instructions, the > flash plugin will work with native firefox and opera browsers. thanks... i'll try that. see what happens > ___ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.

Re: flash

2007-07-01 Thread kalin mintchev
>> >> ___ > > I installed linux-firefox and linux-flashplugin9, from the ports. > > They compiled flawlessly and work fine. thanks... but i'm running freebsd. already stuffed this machine with a lot of linux 'extra'-ware when installing java. i was loo

Re: UFS2 optimization for many small files

2007-07-01 Thread Nguyen Tam Chinh
On 7/2/07, Nikolay Pavlov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Wednesday, 27 June 2007 at 14:11:19 +0400, Nguyen Tam Chinh wrote: > Greetings, > > We're going to build a server with some 1Tb of over 500 million small > files with size from 0,5k to 4k. I'm wonder if the ufs2 can handle > this kind of sy

Re: running portupgrade -a

2007-07-01 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On 29/06/07, Michael P. Soulier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hi, It seems like a lot of people keep their ports regularly up to date by just running portupgrade -a. I've seen it online, and in books. As /usr/ports/UPDATING is rather large, it seems impossible to look for potential issues with eve

Re: UFS2 optimization for many small files

2007-07-01 Thread Nikolay Pavlov
On Wednesday, 27 June 2007 at 14:11:19 +0400, Nguyen Tam Chinh wrote: > Greetings, > > We're going to build a server with some 1Tb of over 500 million small > files with size from 0,5k to 4k. I'm wonder if the ufs2 can handle > this kind of system well. From newfs(8) the min block size is 4k. Thi

Re: Making docs

2007-07-01 Thread Giorgos Keramidas
On 2007-07-01 15:27, Zbigniew Komarnicki <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hello! > > I want to create documentation in FreeBSD. I read this article: > http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2001/02/08/Big_Scary_Daemons.html > then I compile and I obtain the following error: You know we regularly re-build the

Re: flash

2007-07-01 Thread RW
On Sun, 1 Jul 2007 16:59:58 -0400 "matt donovan" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > yeah it seems that you need to use linux-firefox and the linux-flash9 > port to do it since I haven't been able to get the linux-plugins to > work with the native browser even with the linux compat enabled > Please don

Re: flash

2007-07-01 Thread matt donovan
yeah it seems that you need to use linux-firefox and the linux-flash9 port to do it since I haven't been able to get the linux-plugins to work with the native browser even with the linux compat enabled On 7/1/07, Roland Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Sun, Jul 01, 2007 at 03:25:14PM -0400,

Re: flash

2007-07-01 Thread Roland Smith
On Sun, Jul 01, 2007 at 03:25:14PM -0400, kalin mintchev wrote: > and which port do i exactly install to be able to whach flash video? > i did the /usr/ports/www/flashplugin-mozilla - didn't work. the other one > is marked as broken... > now that cnn moved to that i can't watch it anymore and i hav

Re: flash

2007-07-01 Thread Eduardo Viruena Silva
On Sun, 1 Jul 2007, kalin mintchev wrote: and which port do i exactly install to be able to whach flash video? i did the /usr/ports/www/flashplugin-mozilla - didn't work. the other one is marked as broken... now that cnn moved to that i can't watch it anymore and i have never been able to see an

ACPI problem

2007-07-01 Thread Alex Kwan
Hello, when I install R6.2 in a USB drive on my laptop, I am using Boot FreeBSD [default], everything is o.k., when I finished the installation and reboot, if I still using Boot FreeBSD [default], I got following error message during ACPI: ACPI-501: *** Error Handler for [EmbeddedControl] returne

flash

2007-07-01 Thread kalin mintchev
and which port do i exactly install to be able to whach flash video? i did the /usr/ports/www/flashplugin-mozilla - didn't work. the other one is marked as broken... now that cnn moved to that i can't watch it anymore and i have never been able to see any of the videos on youtube what do i nee

Re: mplayer on 6.2

2007-07-01 Thread Wojciech Puchar
Hi Kalin. MPlayer is better installed from ports system. I know it by my own experience. I hope this help you. for me it works perfect for any kind of files i have. making sure that XVideo is working and using -vo xv make a good speedup ___ freebsd-q

Re: UFS2 optimization for many small files

2007-07-01 Thread Wojciech Puchar
> snapshot of a partition, in order to perform a background-fsck and > thus our website was down. So ufs2 does not scale well. Reasons not related to the nfs-server itself. FreeBSD itself was rock-solid. It was firmware-related on the storage-side. i always use software mirror concat or both in

Re: UFS2 optimization for many small files

2007-07-01 Thread Claus Guttesen
> Try zfs on amd64 unless your app doesn't work well with zfs or your does zfs have RELIABLE and USABLE software allowing to efficiently backup large filesystems to other media? (DVD's, tapes, other hard discs) Zfs has send/receive where you can do snapshots and send them to a different host. T

dv1394

2007-07-01 Thread kalin mintchev
hi all... what wold be the the device that is equivalent of /dev/dv1394/0? it's for kino's install... thanks ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[E

Re: UFS2 optimization for many small files

2007-07-01 Thread Claus Guttesen
> approx. 15 partitions ranging from 400 GB to 2 TB in size. If the > server for some reason had crashed the webservers were unable to the question is about the reason it crashed... > access the nfs-mounted partitions during the period the server did a > snapshot of a partition, in order to per

large pages

2007-07-01 Thread Wojciech Puchar
does FreeBSD {can,will,patch exist} supports using huge pages? i mean 2M pages on AMD64 and 2/4M pages on i386 i don't mean any automatics, just enough will be to be able to map a big chunk of RAM to an app with such pages, or even more (better) to make FreeBSD use only part of memory for itse

Re: UFS2 optimization for many small files

2007-07-01 Thread Wojciech Puchar
Thank you very much. Try zfs on amd64 unless your app doesn't work well with zfs or your does zfs have RELIABLE and USABLE software allowing to efficiently backup large filesystems to other media? (DVD's, tapes, other hard discs) ___ freebsd-questi

Re: dvd configuration error

2007-07-01 Thread Wojciech Puchar
I've got the device installed, it shows up in dmesg as /dev/acd1. I have an fstab entry for it as: /dev/acd1 /cdrom1 cd9660 ro,noauto 0 0 i've tried commenting this line out with the below and it doesn't matter. In loader.conf i have: hw.ata.atapi_dma="1" it's default in 6.2 anyway you d

Re: backing up dvds

2007-07-01 Thread Wojciech Puchar
with hardware DVD players, you'll need to use a DVD authoring software (like multimedia/dvdauthor) and a lot of reading before. not much readings if you don't care much of anything else than movie itself :) ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing l

Re: backing up dvds

2007-07-01 Thread Wojciech Puchar
dd if=/dev/acd0 of=/path/to/filename.iso bs=1024 this is how i make my .iso files of data disks. are you sure about 1024? did you mean 1024k? (or 1m simply) ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/free

Re: backing up dvds

2007-07-01 Thread Wojciech Puchar
Hello, I've got a 6.2 box with a dvd writer in it. I want to back up some dvds to iso files so i can recreate the dvds at a later time should it be needed. I for most if not any DVDs (all DVD-VIDEO i had) use dd if=/dev/cd0 of=file bs=128k bs size is just to make thing faster, it's not cruc

Re: UFS2 optimization for many small files

2007-07-01 Thread Wojciech Puchar
I have tried using a 4K/0.5K UFS1 filesystem in the past and found the performance was very poor. UFS2 was based on 16K/2K and I would expect it to perform even worse with 4K/0.5K. I would suggest you try 8K/1K. not for small files. you are light with large files but it's not THAT bad as you

Re: UFS2 optimization for many small files

2007-07-01 Thread Wojciech Puchar
approx. 15 partitions ranging from 400 GB to 2 TB in size. If the server for some reason had crashed the webservers were unable to the question is about the reason it crashed... access the nfs-mounted partitions during the period the server did a snapshot of a partition, in order to perform a

pppoe and nat problem

2007-07-01 Thread munkhbayar batkhuu
hi all. I'm trying to solve one problem but with no success in 1 week. I'm setting up Gateway server with PPPoE functionality for per LAN users to authenticate and traffic shaping. Incoming Internet connection is Ethernet. This PC have 2 NIC. LAN NIC do not have IP assigned. pppoe listens on LA

Re: UFS2 optimization for many small files

2007-07-01 Thread Wojciech Puchar
We're going to build a server with some 1Tb of over 500 million small files with size from 0,5k to 4k. I'm wonder if the ufs2 can handle this kind of system well. From newfs(8) the min block size is 4k. This is not optimal in our case, a 1k or 0,5k block is more effective IMHO. I'd be happy if a

Problems using STARTTLS and AUTH with sendmail

2007-07-01 Thread Amardeo Sarma
I tried configuring sendmail for auth to allow remote users to use the server as relay with secure authentication using the instructions in: http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/smtp-auth.html The message I used to get with EHLO localhost: 250-STARTTLS stopped (I had it bef

Re: /var/lib disappeared

2007-07-01 Thread Eduardo Viruena Silva
On Sun, 1 Jul 2007, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 01/07/07, Bruno DAMOUR <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hello, I'm begging for help, my /var/lib disappeared. I don't know why, but the most important is to recreate it. What is usually there ? I know i had my postgresql data in there, but anything more

Re: mplayer on 6.2

2007-07-01 Thread Jose Luis Alarcon Sanchez
On Thu, 28 Jun 2007 21:56:57 -0400 (EDT) "kalin mintchev" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > hi all... > > just installed mplayer - pkg_add - and it can not play a simple wmv file > yet. so i got the codecs and apparently the codec for wmv has to be here: > /usr/local/lib/win32/ > > what about the oth

Re: backing up dvds

2007-07-01 Thread Jonathan Horne
On Sunday 01 July 2007 06:19:41 Manolis Kiagias wrote: > Roland Smith wrote: > > On Sat, Jun 30, 2007 at 05:39:29PM -0500, Jonathan Horne wrote: > >> On Saturday 30 June 2007 16:46:36 Dave wrote: > >>> Hello, > >>> I've got a 6.2 box with a dvd writer in it. I want to back up some > >>> dvds to

mDNSResponder and avahi conflict when updade

2007-07-01 Thread Gaye Abdoulaye
Hello list, I have a problem when I try to update my "FreeBSD-6.2-STABLE i386 xorg-7.2 kde-3.5.6" with: pkgdb -F portupgrade -aPP It seems that fr-kde-i18n-3.5.6_1 require net/mDNSResponder. But net/mDNSResponder conflicts with avahi+libdns which is required by firefox-2.0.0.4_1. Thanks a lot

Re: /var/lib disappeared

2007-07-01 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On 01/07/07, Bruno DAMOUR <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hello, I'm begging for help, my /var/lib disappeared. I don't know why, but the most important is to recreate it. What is usually there ? I know i had my postgresql data in there, but anything more ? Please help with whats's in yours... Bruno

Re: kern.hz="100" stops high-pitched whine

2007-07-01 Thread Ian Smith
On Sun, 01 Jul 2007 13:12:28 +0200 cpghost <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I'm using fan-less Soekris (266 MHz) and EPIA (500 MHz) > boards with -STABLE. Those boards have been emitting a > very high pitched annoying whine, similar to a dog > whistle. Not everyone I asked could hear it, but I was

Making docs

2007-07-01 Thread Zbigniew Komarnicki
Hello! I want to create documentation in FreeBSD. I read this article: http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2001/02/08/Big_Scary_Daemons.html then I compile and I obtain the following error: ===> books/pmake (install) /bin/rm -f docbook.css /bin/cat /usr/doc/share/misc/docbook.css > docbook.css Index

Re: kern.hz="100" stops high-pitched whine

2007-07-01 Thread Chuck Swiger
cpghost wrote: Are there any reasons NOT changing kern.hz from the default 1000 back to 100? With my typical mix of desktop apps (EPIA) and networking / server (Soekris), everything seems to be running just as smoothly with 100 Hz than with 1000 Hz (testing now for two weeks without problems). Ev

Re: dvd configuration error

2007-07-01 Thread Dave
Hi, Thanks, atapicam and /dev/cd* devices did it. It fired right up. Thanks. Dave. - Original Message - From: "cpghost" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Dave" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: Sent: Sunday, July 01, 2007 6:49 AM Subject: Re: dvd configuration error Dave wrote: I'm trying to blank

Re: Making docs

2007-07-01 Thread Zbigniew Komarnicki
I will, be forgotten that I install port: textproc/jadetex Thank you, Zbyszek ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"

/var/lib disappeared

2007-07-01 Thread Bruno DAMOUR
Hello, I'm begging for help, my /var/lib disappeared. I don't know why, but the most important is to recreate it. What is usually there ? I know i had my postgresql data in there, but anything more ? Please help with whats's in yours... Bruno PS : it must be not that bad because I didn't yet

Re: backing up dvds

2007-07-01 Thread Manolis Kiagias
Roland Smith wrote: > On Sat, Jun 30, 2007 at 05:39:29PM -0500, Jonathan Horne wrote: > >> On Saturday 30 June 2007 16:46:36 Dave wrote: >> >>> Hello, >>> I've got a 6.2 box with a dvd writer in it. I want to back up some dvds >>> to iso files so i can recreate the dvds at a later tim

kern.hz="100" stops high-pitched whine

2007-07-01 Thread cpghost
I'm using fan-less Soekris (266 MHz) and EPIA (500 MHz) boards with -STABLE. Those boards have been emitting a very high pitched annoying whine, similar to a dog whistle. Not everyone I asked could hear it, but I was, and it was driving me crazy for months. This whine stopped entirely the moment

Re: dvd configuration error

2007-07-01 Thread cpghost
Dave wrote: I'm trying to blank a dvdrw so i can rewrite to it. I'm using dvd+rw-format /dev/acd1 i've also tried dvd+rw-mediainfo /dev/acd1 and in both cases i'm getting the error: /dev/acd1: unable to open: inappropriate ioctl for device Try atapicam: # kldload atapicam will create /dev/

Re: backing up dvds

2007-07-01 Thread Roland Smith
On Sat, Jun 30, 2007 at 05:39:29PM -0500, Jonathan Horne wrote: > On Saturday 30 June 2007 16:46:36 Dave wrote: > > Hello, > > I've got a 6.2 box with a dvd writer in it. I want to back up some dvds > > to iso files so i can recreate the dvds at a later time should it be > > needed. I can use d

Suexec trouble

2007-07-01 Thread Ebony Fly
Hello, I upgraded from Apache 2.0.53 to 2.2.4 however suexec no longer functions as previously configured. It appears that my new installation did not initially compile suexec, so I did. Now I am faced with the following error when I try to start apached ldc494# ./apache2.sh restart Performing sa

Re: UFS2 optimization for many small files

2007-07-01 Thread Claus Guttesen
We're going to build a server with some 1Tb of over 500 million small files with size from 0,5k to 4k. I'm wonder if the ufs2 can handle this kind of system well. From newfs(8) the min block size is 4k. This is not optimal in our case, a 1k or 0,5k block is more effective IMHO. I'd be happy if an