Re: FreeBSD9 - I can't get my mouse to work

2012-06-05 Thread Erich Dollansky
Hi, On 05 June 2012 19:59:48 Waitman Gobble wrote: > On Tue, Jun 5, 2012 at 7:05 PM, Scott Ballantyne wrote: > > i'll give that a try. After updating a couple of days ago the mouse is > glued to the center of the screen after starting X. I noticed if i first > kill moused before startx it works

Re: FreeBSD9 - I can't get my mouse to work

2012-06-05 Thread Waitman Gobble
On Tue, Jun 5, 2012 at 7:05 PM, Scott Ballantyne wrote: > Walter Hurry writes: > > > > > Firstly, sorry if this is a bit of a newbie question. I am quite new to > > FreeBSD (though fairly experienced at Linux). Almost everything in > FreeBSD > > is fine, except that no matter what I try I canno

Re: FreeBSD9 - I can't get my mouse to work

2012-06-05 Thread Erich
Hi I have had success on my hardware with this setting: # The working configuration. The mouse daemon in /etc/rc.conf # was dsabled. # # Section "ServerLayout" # Identifier "X.org Configured" # Screen 0

Re: FreeBSD9 - I can't get my mouse to work

2012-06-05 Thread Scott Ballantyne
Walter Hurry writes: > > Firstly, sorry if this is a bit of a newbie question. I am quite new to > FreeBSD (though fairly experienced at Linux). Almost everything in FreeBSD > is fine, except that no matter what I try I cannot get the (USB) mouse to > work. > > I have scoured the handbook,

Re: FreeBSD9 - I can't get my mouse to work

2012-06-05 Thread Walter Hurry
On Wed, 06 Jun 2012 01:22:51 +0200, Bernt Hansson wrote: >> Option "AutoAddDevices" "On" > > Set this to off. > Thanks for the reply. Yes, I've tried setting it to "Off", but there is no apparent difference; only a new set of messages in Xorg.0.log: (EE) config/hal: couldn't initialise

Re: Is this something we (as consumers of FreeBSD) need to be aware of?

2012-06-05 Thread Waitman Gobble
On Jun 5, 2012 6:35 PM, "Mike Jeays" wrote: > > On Tue, 5 Jun 2012 19:57:30 -0400 (EDT) > Chris Hill wrote: > > > On Tue, 5 Jun 2012, G?k?in Akdeniz wrote: > > > > > For the time being only ARM platform is restricted. > > > > True, but I would be astonished if this restriction were not expanded b

Re: Is this something we (as consumers of FreeBSD) need to be aware of?

2012-06-05 Thread Mike Jeays
On Tue, 5 Jun 2012 19:57:30 -0400 (EDT) Chris Hill wrote: > On Tue, 5 Jun 2012, G?k?in Akdeniz wrote: > > > For the time being only ARM platform is restricted. > > True, but I would be astonished if this restriction were not expanded by > MS in the future. Just my opinion, but I believe their

Re: Is this something we (as consumers of FreeBSD) need to be aware of?

2012-06-05 Thread Chris Hill
On Tue, 5 Jun 2012, G?k?in Akdeniz wrote: For the time being only ARM platform is restricted. True, but I would be astonished if this restriction were not expanded by MS in the future. Just my opinion, but I believe their ultimate goal is to add platforms until the "secure boot" restriction

Re: FreeBSD9 - I can't get my mouse to work

2012-06-05 Thread Warren Block
On Tue, 5 Jun 2012, Walter Hurry wrote: Firstly, sorry if this is a bit of a newbie question. I am quite new to FreeBSD (though fairly experienced at Linux). Almost everything in FreeBSD is fine, except that no matter what I try I cannot get the (USB) mouse to work. I have scoured the handbook,

Re: FreeBSD9 - I can't get my mouse to work

2012-06-05 Thread Walter Hurry
On Tue, 05 Jun 2012 23:14:35 +, Walter Hurry wrote: > Firstly, sorry if this is a bit of a newbie question. I am quite new to > FreeBSD (though fairly experienced at Linux). Almost everything in > FreeBSD is fine, except that no matter what I try I cannot get the (USB) > mouse to work. > > Ca

Re: FreeBSD9 - I can't get my mouse to work

2012-06-05 Thread Bernt Hansson
2012-06-06 01:14, Walter Hurry skrev: Firstly, sorry if this is a bit of a newbie question. I am quite new to FreeBSD (though fairly experienced at Linux). Almost everything in FreeBSD is fine, except that no matter what I try I cannot get the (USB) mouse to work. I have scoured the handbook, an

FreeBSD9 - I can't get my mouse to work

2012-06-05 Thread Walter Hurry
Firstly, sorry if this is a bit of a newbie question. I am quite new to FreeBSD (though fairly experienced at Linux). Almost everything in FreeBSD is fine, except that no matter what I try I cannot get the (USB) mouse to work. I have scoured the handbook, and Googled, but to no avail. This is

Re: /usr/bin/find - binary operands howto

2012-06-05 Thread grarpamp
A single find already had the needed selection and execution ops. So I was trying it first, before writing an external parser, etc. It's still not clear to me how find is compiling the arguments internally, but using -vv on the utils helped a lot. After adding -false after all the -exec's, it now

Re: Is this something we (as consumers of FreeBSD) need to be aware of?

2012-06-05 Thread Daniel Feenberg
On Tue, 5 Jun 2012, Jerry wrote: On Tue, 5 Jun 2012 17:00:14 -0400 (EDT) Daniel Feenberg articulated: On Tue, 5 Jun 2012, Polytropon wrote: On Tue, 5 Jun 2012 11:19:26 -0700, Kurt Buff wrote: UEFI considerations drive Fedora to pay MSFT to sign their kernel binaries http://cwonline.comput

Curiousity ?

2012-06-05 Thread Geir Svalland
Hello friends ( old ) I've moved over ( tried other, but not so further paths ) No, not all , but my butter and bread : my gateway Also servers as my mail and DNS among others >From FreeBSD to OpenBSD Fckg gays, you want so much, but do we want it ? All this going from bsd to clang and wh

Re: how do I fix this?

2012-06-05 Thread Gary Kline
On Tue, Jun 05, 2012 at 08:04:35AM +0200, Roland Smith wrote: > Date: Tue, 5 Jun 2012 08:04:35 +0200 > From: Roland Smith > Subject: Re: how do I fix this? > To: Gary Kline > Cc: FreeBSD > > On Mon, Jun 04, 2012 at 09:53:11PM -0700, Gary Kline wrote: > > no joy. I did another full upgrade

implementing ipv6 into my ipfw ruleset...

2012-06-05 Thread Jason Usher
I have a fairly simple ipfw ruleset, which looks like: 100 allow tcp from any to any established 110 allow icmp from any to any icmptypes 0,3,8,11 120 deny icmp from any to any 130 allow ip from any to any via lo0 200 allow udp from me to any 53 210 allow udp from any 53 to me 220 allow udp from

Re: Is this something we (as consumers of FreeBSD) need to be aware of?

2012-06-05 Thread Jerry
On Tue, 5 Jun 2012 17:00:14 -0400 (EDT) Daniel Feenberg articulated: >On Tue, 5 Jun 2012, Polytropon wrote: > >> On Tue, 5 Jun 2012 11:19:26 -0700, Kurt Buff wrote: >>> UEFI considerations drive Fedora to pay MSFT to sign their kernel >>> binaries >>> http://cwonline.computerworld.com/t/8035515/12

Re: Is this something we (as consumers of FreeBSD) need to be aware of?]

2012-06-05 Thread Jerry
On Tue, 5 Jun 2012 13:19:00 -0700 Colin Barnabas articulated: >History show us that _everything_ will eventually run *nix. Perhaps, but *nix will not run everything. >Take a look at the Sony PS3 debacle. After Sony yanked support for >installing other OS's, the community ripped apart their >hype

Re: Is this something we (as consumers of FreeBSD) need to be aware of?

2012-06-05 Thread Daniel Feenberg
On Tue, 5 Jun 2012, Polytropon wrote: On Tue, 5 Jun 2012 11:19:26 -0700, Kurt Buff wrote: UEFI considerations drive Fedora to pay MSFT to sign their kernel binaries http://cwonline.computerworld.com/t/8035515/1292406/565573/0/ I may reply with another link: http://mjg59.dreamwidth.org/12368

Re: font sizes in xfce 4.10

2012-06-05 Thread Leslie Jensen
2012-06-04 14:07, Antonio Olivares skrev: I now have a similar problem. The icons in the program menu is not displayed, only a white icon with a red cross. Uninstalled the complete xfce4 and reinstalled it. I also nuked the .config directory but icons are gone even so. I have the 96 DPI s

Re: Is this something we (as consumers of FreeBSD) need to be aware of?]

2012-06-05 Thread Colin Barnabas
On Tue, Jun 05, 2012 at 11:19:26AM -0700, Kurt Buff wrote: > UEFI considerations drive Fedora to pay MSFT to sign their kernel binaries > http://cwonline.computerworld.com/t/8035515/1292406/565573/0/ > > This would seem to make compiling from source difficult. > > Kurt > _

Re: Is this something we (as consumers of FreeBSD) need to be aware of?

2012-06-05 Thread Gökşin Akdeniz
> > Not quite. As I understand it, on ARM secure boot will be enabled by > default and users won't have any option of disabling it or adding > their own keys. That is correct. ARM based tablets which have Windows 8 preinstalled will only boot Windows 8. There is no chance of disabling secure bo

Re: Is this something we (as consumers of FreeBSD) need to be aware of?

2012-06-05 Thread Bruce Cran
On 05/06/2012 20:12, Gökşin Akdeniz wrote: That's restriction is only for ARM devices which have a label that says "Desgined for Windows8". In other words those devices can not boot another os except Windows 8 due to secure boot option enabled by default. Not quite. As I understand it, on ARM s

Re: Is this something we (as consumers of FreeBSD) need to be aware of?

2012-06-05 Thread jerrymc
Quoting Kurt Buff : > UEFI considerations drive Fedora to pay MSFT to sign their kernel binaries > http://cwonline.computerworld.com/t/8035515/1292406/565573/0/ > > This would seem to make compiling from source difficult. > I don't see how this MS scam is even at all legal. It is clearly restrain

Re: Is this something we (as consumers of FreeBSD) need to be aware of?

2012-06-05 Thread Gökşin Akdeniz
> > UEFI considerations drive Fedora to pay MSFT to sign their kernel > binaries http://cwonline.computerworld.com/t/8035515/1292406/565573/0/ > That's restriction is only for ARM devices which have a label that says "Desgined for Windows8". In other words those devices can not boot another os ex

Re: Is this something we (as consumers of FreeBSD) need to be aware of?

2012-06-05 Thread Bruce Cran
On 05/06/2012 19:27, Antonio Olivares wrote: I believe that should be unnecessary. It would only be a matter of time before someone breaks the M$ layer of poop that is supposed to prevent folks from booting other OSes other than Window$. They hit the panic button too soon IMHO. Press Delete/F

Re: Clock lagging behind on FreeBSD 9.0-RELEASE under KVM

2012-06-05 Thread Martin Dimitrov
Thanks, but it's not working: # sysctl machdep.independent_wallclock=1 sysctl: unknown oid 'machdep.independent_wallclock' I grep under /usr/src/sys for independent_wallclock and it appeared only in ./i386/xen/clock.c, my architecture is amd64 if it matters. On 06/05/2012 07:59 PM, Michael Sierc

Re: Is this something we (as consumers of FreeBSD) need to be aware of?

2012-06-05 Thread Polytropon
On Tue, 5 Jun 2012 11:19:26 -0700, Kurt Buff wrote: > UEFI considerations drive Fedora to pay MSFT to sign their kernel binaries > http://cwonline.computerworld.com/t/8035515/1292406/565573/0/ I may reply with another link: http://mjg59.dreamwidth.org/12368.html > This would seem to make compil

Re: Is this something we (as consumers of FreeBSD) need to be aware of?

2012-06-05 Thread Antonio Olivares
On Tue, Jun 5, 2012 at 1:19 PM, Kurt Buff wrote: > UEFI considerations drive Fedora to pay MSFT to sign their kernel binaries > http://cwonline.computerworld.com/t/8035515/1292406/565573/0/ > > This would seem to make compiling from source difficult. > Red Hat is the one that is apparently paying

Is this something we (as consumers of FreeBSD) need to be aware of?

2012-06-05 Thread Kurt Buff
UEFI considerations drive Fedora to pay MSFT to sign their kernel binaries http://cwonline.computerworld.com/t/8035515/1292406/565573/0/ This would seem to make compiling from source difficult. Kurt ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://

Re: Possible /bin/sh Bug?

2012-06-05 Thread Robert Bonomi
> From: Tim Daneliuk > > Given this script: > #!/bin/sh > > foo="" > while read line > do >foo="$foo -e" > done > echo $foo > > Say I respond 3 times, I'd expect to see: > > -e -e -e > > Instead, I get: > > -e -e > > Linux appears to do the right thing here, so this seems like it > is a bug .

Re: Possible /bin/sh Bug?

2012-06-05 Thread Randy Pratt
On Tue, 05 Jun 2012 10:40:45 -0500 Tim Daneliuk wrote: > Given this script: > #!/bin/sh > > foo="" > while read line > do >foo="$foo -e" > done > echo $foo > > Say I respond 3 times, I'd expect to see: > > -e -e -e > > Instead, I get: > > -e -e The last line "echo $foo" is what is getti

Re: Possible /bin/sh Bug?

2012-06-05 Thread Tim Daneliuk
On 06/05/2012 11:35 AM, Dan Nelson wrote: In the last episode (Jun 05), Tim Daneliuk said: Given this script: #!/bin/sh foo="" while read line do foo="$foo -e" done echo $foo Say I respond 3 times, I'd expect to see: -e -e -e Instead, I get: -e -e Linux appears to do the right thing he

Re: Clock lagging behind on FreeBSD 9.0-RELEASE under KVM

2012-06-05 Thread Michael Sierchio
Try machdep.independent_wallclock=1 On Tue, Jun 5, 2012 at 8:08 AM, Martin Dimitrov wrote: > Hi, > > I am new to FreeBSD, decided to migrate a web server to FreeBSD. I > recently both a VPS that claim to use KVM as a virtualization service, I > don't know the details of the real hardware running

Re: Possible /bin/sh Bug?

2012-06-05 Thread Dan Nelson
In the last episode (Jun 05), Tim Daneliuk said: > Given this script: > #!/bin/sh > > foo="" > while read line > do >foo="$foo -e" > done > echo $foo > > Say I respond 3 times, I'd expect to see: > > -e -e -e > > Instead, I get: > > -e -e > > Linux appears to do the right thing here, so t

Re: Roster DNS Management

2012-06-05 Thread Mark Felder
On Tue, 05 Jun 2012 10:58:39 -0500, Odhiambo Washington wrote: What does this "linking" look like? Do you mean like symlinking zone files, so that domainA is exactly a replica of domainB - as in "conjoined"?:) precisely -- foo.com foo.net -> foo.com foo.org -> foo.com foobar.net -> foo.co

Possible /bin/sh Bug?

2012-06-05 Thread Tim Daneliuk
Given this script: #!/bin/sh foo="" while read line do foo="$foo -e" done echo $foo Say I respond 3 times, I'd expect to see: -e -e -e Instead, I get: -e -e Linux appears to do the right thing here, so this seems like it is a bug ... or am I missing something? -- ---

Clock lagging behind on FreeBSD 9.0-RELEASE under KVM

2012-06-05 Thread Martin Dimitrov
Hi, I am new to FreeBSD, decided to migrate a web server to FreeBSD. I recently both a VPS that claim to use KVM as a virtualization service, I don't know the details of the real hardware running behind nor what is KVM running on. Anyway I have an issue with clock on my FreeBSD installation that I

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Re: bsdlabel geometry params

2012-06-05 Thread Julien Cigar
On 06/05/2012 10:45, Wojciech Puchar wrote: whats wrong in juz using bsdlabel ? from the 9.0R release notes: 3.2.6 Disk Partition Management Utilities In earlier releases various utilities were available to manage disk partition information. They are deprecated in favor of the gpar

Re: bsdlabel geometry params

2012-06-05 Thread Wojciech Puchar
whats wrong in juz using bsdlabel ? On Tue, 5 Jun 2012, Gary Aitken wrote: On 06/04/12 15:25, Warren Block wrote: On Mon, 4 Jun 2012, Gary Aitken wrote: What part of the Handbook? I would suggest using gpart(8), it makes GPT partitions easy, and nasty old MBR partitions aren't any worse tha

Re: Dependencies for dns/unbound

2012-06-05 Thread Matthew Seaman
On 04/06/2012 20:37, Matthew Seaman wrote: > On 04/06/2012 14:47, Rada alive wrote: >> [root@pladaks /usr/ports/dns/unbound]# make all-depends-list >> /usr/ports/devel/gmake >> /usr/ports/textproc/expat2 >> /usr/ports/dns/ldns >> /usr/ports/devel/gettext >> /usr/ports/devel/doxygen >> /usr/ports/de

Re: Dependencies for dns/unbound

2012-06-05 Thread Rada alive
On Mon, Jun 4, 2012 at 9:37 PM, Matthew Seaman wrote: > On 04/06/2012 14:47, Rada alive wrote: > > [root@pladaks /usr/ports/dns/unbound]# make all-depends-list > > /usr/ports/devel/gmake > > /usr/ports/textproc/expat2 > > /usr/ports/dns/ldns > > /usr/ports/devel/gettext > > /usr/ports/devel/doxyg