Using gamepad with usb2

2009-04-09 Thread Alexander Best
hi everybody, i wrote the following mail to the freebsd-x11 mailinglist and was told that the x joystick driver doesn't work with the usb2 stack. is there any possibility at all for me to use my gamepad? cheers. Alex here's the original mail: hi there, i'm running FreeBSD moshnroll

mkisofs and directories

2009-04-14 Thread Alexander Best
hi there, this is a question that's always been bugging me: when i give mkisofs a directory as argument it always ads the contents of that directory to the iso. how can i tell mkisofs that i want the actual directory (including all it's contents) to be added to the iso? cheers. alex

hard drive performance

2009-04-15 Thread Alexander Best
hi there, i have 2 hard drives running. the first one is SATA300 and the other one UDMA100. here are the dmesg entries: ad0: 238474MB SAMSUNG SP2504C VT100-50 at ata0-master SATA300 ad1: 157066MB Hitachi HDS722516VLAT80 V34OA63A at ata4-master UDMA100 i've tried to test the drives' performances

Re: hard drive performance

2009-04-16 Thread Alexander Best
thanks guys. sorry for the newbie question. ;) Chris Rees schrieb am 2009-04-15: 2009/4/15 Bruce Cran br...@cran.org.uk: On Wed, 15 Apr 2009 13:54:13 +0200 (CEST) Alexander Best alexbes...@math.uni-muenster.de wrote: hi there, i have 2 hard drives running. the first one is SATA300

mkisofs strangeness

2010-02-02 Thread Alexander Best
hi there. i'm using mkisofs 2.01.01a72 (from the ports dir) with the following switches to produce an iso image: mkisofs -iso-level 3 -r -J -input-charset ISO-8859-15 -joliet-long -V XYZ -o ~/image.iso filename i've been using mkisofs this way for years. however suddenly instead of creating an

problem with `find -delete`

2010-02-09 Thread Alexander Best
hi there, i've been trying to delete all the works directories in my ports dir. this is the command i'm trying to use: sudo /usr/bin/find /usr/ports -name work -depth 3 -type d -delete after i issue the command however sudo /usr/bin/find /usr/ports -name work -depth 3 -type d tells me that

Re: problem with `find -delete`

2010-02-10 Thread Alexander Best
schrieb am 2010-02-10: On Wed, Feb 10, 2010 at 02:51:52AM +0100, Alexander Best thus spake: hi there, i've been trying to delete all the works directories in my ports dir. this is the command i'm trying to use: sudo /usr/bin/find /usr/ports -name work -depth 3 -type d -delete after i issue

Re: problem with `find -delete`

2010-02-10 Thread Alexander Best
, Alexander Best thus spake: hi there, i've been trying to delete all the works directories in my ports dir. this is the command i'm trying to use: sudo /usr/bin/find /usr/ports -name work -depth 3 -type d -delete after i issue the command however sudo /usr/bin/find /usr/ports -name work

Re: problem with `find -delete`

2010-02-10 Thread Alexander Best
*hehehe* right. that would have been the easiest solution. thanks a bunch. alex andrew clarke schrieb am 2010-02-10: On Wed 2010-02-10 14:24:34 UTC+0100, Alexander Best (alexbes...@wwu.de) wrote: thanks goes to jilles on #freebsd-bugbuster. he told me that -delete doesn't delete

reverse scsi emulation possible (camatapi)?

2010-03-02 Thread Alexander Best
hi there, people with atapi devices have been used to having the atapicam(4) option enabled in their kernel conf so applications relying on the scsi(4) subsystem (such as cdrecord or growsisofs) work with those atapi devices. since the whole ata(4) infrastructure will eventually die: is there a

mailing list archive as mbox

2010-03-06 Thread Alexander Best
hi there, what are the steps i need to perform to get a copy of the entire mailingslist archive of lets say freebsd-current@ in mbox format? cheers. alex ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list

Re: mailing list archive as mbox

2010-03-07 Thread Alexander Best
Dan Nelson schrieb am 2010-03-07: In the last episode (Mar 07), Alexander Best said: hi there, what are the steps i need to perform to get a copy of the entire mailingslist archive of lets say freebsd-current@ in mbox format? Go to ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/doc/mailing-lists

Re: HTML5 under FreeBSD Desktop

2010-03-07 Thread Alexander Best
recent chromium builds on http://chromium.jaggeri.com/ and http://code.google.com/p/chromium-freebsd8/ support html5. don't know if the firefox and opera ports support html5 yet. alex ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list

Re: mailing list archive as mbox

2010-03-07 Thread Alexander Best
Giorgos Keramidas schrieb am 2010-03-07: On Sun, 07 Mar 2010 12:08:32 +0100 (CET), Alexander Best alexbes...@wwu.de wrote: Dan Nelson schrieb am 2010-03-07: In the last episode (Mar 07), Alexander Best said: hi there, what are the steps i need to perform to get a copy of the entire

Re: cdrecord errors messages

2010-03-16 Thread Alexander Best
have you tried both commands with the -tao switch? i was also getting errors with cdrecord until i started using that switch. cheers. alex ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To

Re: kldload vs Statically compiled in kernel

2010-03-16 Thread Alexander Best
load the modules before attaching the device and unload them after detaching the device (although i guess this could be done automatically using devd.conf) -- Alexander Best ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman

chrome os scrubbed my secondary GPT table :(

2010-04-22 Thread Alexander Best
gpt(8) had). -- Alexander Best ___ 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: nvidia module startup

2010-04-28 Thread Alexander Best
/forumdisplay.php?f=47 -- Alexander Best ___ 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

booting a kernel directly from stage 1/2

2011-02-18 Thread Alexander Best
hi there, is it still possible to boot a kernel directly from stage 1 and 2 and thus bypass loader(8)? this is my disk layout: = 34 488394988 ada0 GPT (233G) [CORRUPT] 34128 1 freebsd-boot (64K) 162 16777216 2 freebsd-swap (8.0G) 16777378

Re: booting a kernel directly from stage 1/2

2011-02-19 Thread Alexander Best
On Sat Feb 19 11, Matthew Seaman wrote: On 19/02/2011 02:47, Alexander Best wrote: but that won't work. i get some numbers and then it says: btx halted or something like that. Can't you boot into fixit mode from installation media? That should allow you to repair the boot blocks and make

Re: FreeBSD kernel init slower than linux

2011-03-05 Thread Alexander Best
On Fri Mar 4 11, ill...@gmail.com wrote: On 4 March 2011 17:10, David Demelier demelier.da...@gmail.com wrote: Hello, I know this is a awful subject, but I recently tried a Gentoo on my laptop and I was surprised to see Linux booting about 2-3 times faster than FreeBSD. I don't

post-installation of CDDL files

2011-03-12 Thread Alexander Best
hi there, my current world does not include any CDDL files, because i had WITHOUT_CDDL in my src.conf. now i'd like to build world with CDDL files (in order to use dtrace). what are the necessary steps for doing so? i've removed the WITHOUT_CDDL part from my src.conf, but targets buildworld and

Re: post-installation of CDDL files

2011-03-13 Thread Alexander Best
On Sat Mar 12 11, Rob Farmer wrote: On Sat, Mar 12, 2011 at 4:05 PM, Alexander Best arun...@freebsd.org wrote: hi there, my current world does not include any CDDL files, because i had WITHOUT_CDDL in my src.conf. now i'd like to build world with CDDL files (in order to use dtrace

Re: fstat bug?

2011-03-22 Thread Alexander Best
On Mon Mar 21 11, Laszlo Nagy wrote: Hi All, I have a Python program that goes up to 100% CPU. Just like this (top): you might want to re-post this message to freebsd-hackers@. in my experience freebsd-questions@ is suited for user-related questions and not that much for developers who

Re: [UPDATE] host-setup(1): a dialog(1)-based utility for configuring FreeBSD

2011-04-22 Thread Alexander Best
On Thu Apr 21 11, Devin Teske wrote: Hi List Members! I'm proud to announce the first update to my host-setup utility (a dialog(1)-based host configurator for FreeBSD). The following changes have been made: - fixed bug where /etc/resolv.conf would be created with 0600

Re: [UPDATE] host-setup(1): a dialog(1)-based utility for configuring FreeBSD

2011-04-22 Thread Alexander Best
On Fri Apr 22 11, Devin Teske wrote: -Original Message- From: Alexander Best [mailto:arun...@freebsd.org] Sent: Friday, April 22, 2011 7:55 AM To: Devin Teske Cc: freebsd-hack...@freebsd.org; freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Teske, Devin Subject: Re: [UPDATE] host-setup(1

Re: dialog(1) changed in RELENG_9 (was RE: [UPDATE] host-setup(1): a dialog(1)-based utility for configuring FreeBSD)

2011-04-22 Thread Alexander Best
On Fri Apr 22 11, Devin Teske wrote: -Original Message- From: Alexander Best [mailto:arun...@freebsd.org] Sent: Friday, April 22, 2011 8:42 AM To: Devin Teske Cc: freebsd-hack...@freebsd.org; freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; 'Teske, Devin' Subject: Re: [UPDATE] host-setup(1

Re: [UPDATE] host-setup(1): a dialog(1)-based utility for configuring FreeBSD

2011-04-28 Thread Alexander Best
On Fri Apr 22 11, Devin Teske wrote: -Original Message- From: Bruce Cran [mailto:br...@cran.org.uk] Sent: Friday, April 22, 2011 9:35 AM To: Alexander Best Cc: Devin Teske; freebsd-hack...@freebsd.org; freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; 'Teske, Devin' Subject: Re: [UPDATE] host

Re: UDF and DVD's

2011-05-19 Thread Alexander Best
On Thu May 19 11, Jeremy Chadwick wrote: On Thu, May 19, 2011 at 12:36:02AM -0400, grarpamp wrote: Greetings... :) The first filesystem DVD... other than a movie DVD (DVD-VIDEO?), and the FreeBSD make release DVD's (iso9660)... that I've ever tried to mount, well... don't. It is:

problem with german umlauts and gtk apps (maybe unicode issue)

2011-06-08 Thread Alexander Best
hi there, for me the output of `locale -a` looks like this: LANG=en_GB.ISO8859-15 LC_CTYPE=de_DE.ISO8859-15 LC_COLLATE=en_GB.ISO8859-15 LC_TIME=de_DE.ISO8859-15 LC_NUMERIC=de_DE.ISO8859-15 LC_MONETARY=de_DE.ISO8859-15 LC_MESSAGES=en_GB.ISO8859-15 LC_ALL= when i do `touch ÄÖÜäöüß` this works

shmget failed: error 28 (No space left on device)

2011-06-09 Thread Alexander Best
hi there, i'm running HEAD on amd64. when executing certain linux apps, as well as native freebsd gimp i get the following warnings: (gimp:56100): Gdk-WARNING **: shmget failed: error 28 (No space left on device) shmget() failed: No space left on device Disabling shared memory tile transport

Re: problem with german umlauts and gtk apps (maybe unicode issue)

2011-06-09 Thread Alexander Best
On Thu Jun 9 11, Polytropon wrote: On Wed, 8 Jun 2011 19:57:05 +, Alexander Best arun...@freebsd.org wrote: otaku% ls|grep html|hd c3 84 c3 96 c3 9c c3 a4 c3 b6 c3 bc c3 9f 2e 68 |Ã.Ã.Ã.ÀöÌÃ..h| 0010 74 6d 6c 0a |tml

gpu support for modern systems

2011-06-22 Thread Alexander Best
hi there, modern systems with their suffisticated gpus provide quite a potential for moving some of the workload from cpu to gpu. for certain stuff gpus are much faster than cpus, like number crunching or encoding/decoding multimedia contents. anybody who is using mplayer(1) in combination with

Re: gpu support for modern systems

2011-06-25 Thread Alexander Best
On Thu Jun 23 11, Christopher Bergström wrote: On Thu, Jun 23, 2011 at 6:43 AM, Alexander Best arun...@freebsd.org wrote: hi there, modern systems with their suffisticated gpus provide quite a potential for moving some of the workload from cpu to gpu. for certain stuff gpus are much

Re: gpu support for modern systems

2011-06-25 Thread Alexander Best
On Sat Jun 25 11, C. Bergström wrote: On 06/25/11 05:45 PM, Alexander Best wrote: On Thu Jun 23 11, Christopher Bergström wrote: On Thu, Jun 23, 2011 at 6:43 AM, Alexander Bestarun...@freebsd.org wrote: hi there, modern systems with their suffisticated gpus provide quite a potential

Re: Heavy I/O blocks FreeBSD box for several seconds

2011-07-06 Thread Alexander Best
On Wed Jul 6 11, arrowdodger wrote: 2011/7/6 O. Hartmann ohart...@zedat.fu-berlin.de When performing an update on the ports tree via portsnap fetch update or when checking out (or) large Subversion repositories or when copying large data files (~ 50 to 250 GB in size, results from

Re: ncal(1) prints control sequences on stdout if stdout is not a tty

2011-07-08 Thread Alexander Best
On Thu Jul 7 11, Tobias Rehbein wrote: Hi list, being the maintainer of www/nanoblogger, which uses cal(1) to generate the blog calendar, I noticed that ncal(1), and therefore cal(1), prints control sequences to stdout in order to highlight the current date. This scrambles the calendar

Re: How to sync a file on FreeBSD?

2011-07-22 Thread Alexander Best
On Fri Jul 22 11, C. P. Ghost wrote: On Fri, Jul 22, 2011 at 8:44 AM, Unga unga...@yahoo.com wrote: Hi all How to sync a file on FreeBSD (esp. on 8.1) to disk? I used fsync(2), but does not immediately flush to disk. I want my writing to a file (a log file) immediately available to

Re: files/dd7c394c9c9ddf4b97f1b14c676f370adc259b2c7a4b8346eba0788a431db398.gz not found -- snapshot corrupt.

2011-08-14 Thread Alexander Best
On Sun Aug 14 11, Niclas Zeising wrote: On 2011-08-13 12:08, Roland Smith wrote: On Sat, Aug 13, 2011 at 09:51:41AM +0200, Hartmann, O. wrote: On 08/13/11 09:26, Roland Smith wrote: On Sat, Aug 13, 2011 at 12:43:52AM +0200, Hartmann, O. wrote: On 08/12/11 22:54, Roland Smith wrote: On

Re: files/dd7c394c9c9ddf4b97f1b14c676f370adc259b2c7a4b8346eba0788a431db398.gz not found -- snapshot corrupt.

2011-08-14 Thread Alexander Best
On Sun Aug 14 11, Olivier Smedts wrote: 2011/8/14 Alexander Best arun...@freebsd.org: On Sun Aug 14 11, Niclas Zeising wrote: On 2011-08-13 12:08, Roland Smith wrote: On Sat, Aug 13, 2011 at 09:51:41AM +0200, Hartmann, O. wrote: On 08/13/11 09:26, Roland Smith wrote: On Sat, Aug 13

`gpart show` and secondary GPT header

2009-06-12 Thread Alexander Best
i have a question about gpart. when id do `gpart show ad0` i get the following output: = 34 488394988 ad0 GPT (233G) 34 209714861 freebsd-swap (10G) 20971520 4674235022 freebsd-ufs (223G) which is just what i want. however i'm a bit curious about the GPT

Re: Problem with burncd

2009-06-12 Thread Alexander Best
the burncd: ioctl(CDRIOCFIXATE); Input/output error. is being caused by a bug in ata-queue.c. the fix is in HEAD. here's the PR: http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=95979 with a patch. cheers. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list

Google groups

2009-06-13 Thread Alexander Best
hi there, i've been using the mailman interface for a long time now to read the various freebsd mailinglists. recently i found out about Google groups which are great and a lot better than the mailman interface imo. (no broken search, etc.) however a lot of mailinglists seem to be missing on

Problem with certain fonts when printing from firefox

2009-06-15 Thread Alexander Best
hi there, when i try printing certain website the font looks very pixelated and i can't read anything. the same happens if i tell firefox to redirect the print output to a pdf or ps file so it's probably not a printer issue. the website that causes problems has this in css: font-size: 20px;

Re: Problem with certain fonts when printing from firefox

2009-06-15 Thread Alexander Best
thx a bunch. installing webfonts completely solved the issue. :-) Mel Flynn schrieb am 2009-06-15: On Monday 15 June 2009 11:18:42 Jerry McAllister wrote: On Mon, Jun 15, 2009 at 09:07:05PM +0200, Alexander Best wrote: hi there, when i try printing certain website the font looks very

Re: Google groups

2009-06-15 Thread Alexander Best
i've changed the mailinglist settings from the mailman interface so i don't receive and mails. i'd rather read the mails in my browser. well i'm no huge fan of google. but their usenet interface is so much nicer than the mailman interface (which looks so 1995). ;-) unfortunately google seems to

www/firefox-devel

2009-06-28 Thread Alexander Best
is anybody out there still using this port? shouldn't it be retired? it's even older than the regular www/firefox port. people who want to run the latest unstable firefox version should use www/firefox3-devel. cheers. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org

strange ee behaviour

2009-06-30 Thread Alexander Best
hi there, i'm experiencing this strange `ee` behaviour lately. when i open `ee` in an xterm and open another xterm `ee` simply exits. if i try to enter commands which output to sdtout/stderr like `ls` on the xterm window ee was running on the output is a mess. i'm running r195173 (HEAD).

Re: strange ee behaviour

2009-06-30 Thread Alexander Best
i'm running xorg-7.4.2 and x11-wm/awesome on HEAD (r195173). when i run ee in the debugger and open another xterm the debugger says Program exited normally.. so it's not a program crash i guess. Paul B. Mahol schrieb am 2009-07-01: On 6/30/09, Alexander Best alexbes...@math.uni-muenster.de wrote

Re: strange ee behaviour

2009-07-01 Thread Alexander Best
, Alexander Best alexbes...@math.uni-muenster.de wrote: i'm running xorg-7.4.2 and x11-wm/awesome on HEAD (r195173). when i run ee in the debugger and open another xterm the debugger says Program exited normally.. so it's not a program crash i guess. Paul B. Mahol schrieb am 2009-07-01

Re: strange ee behaviour

2009-07-01 Thread Alexander Best
oh. i see. is this hard to fix? maybe a problem report would be useful? cheers. Paul B. Mahol schrieb am 2009-07-01: On 7/1/09, Paul B. Mahol one...@gmail.com wrote: On 7/1/09, Alexander Best alexbes...@math.uni-muenster.de wrote: i'm running xorg-7.4.2 and x11-wm/awesome on HEAD (r195173

Re: strange ee behaviour

2009-07-01 Thread Alexander Best
thanks for the help. i submitted a PR (http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=136223). cheers. alex Paul B. Mahol schrieb am 2009-07-01: On 7/1/09, Alexander Best alexbes...@math.uni-muenster.de wrote: oh. i see. is this hard to fix? maybe a problem report would be useful? Not hard

Gtk-WARNING **: Locale not supported by C library.

2009-07-01 Thread Alexander Best
hi there, i've been getting this warning for ages now: (process:7757): Gtk-WARNING **: Locale not supported by C library. Using the fallback 'C' locale. and really like to get rid of it. i searched google but couldn't find a real solution. my locale settings are: LANG=C

Problem with audio apps and mixer

2009-07-03 Thread Alexander Best
hi there, i've never had a problem to adjust the volume with audio apps like mplayer or mpd. recently however i'm experiencing this strange behaviour. the app's volume doesn't match the volume that `mixer` reports. here's an example: `mpc`: J.R.R. Tolkien - [playing] #2/19 1:54/3:06 (61%)

Re: Problem with audio apps and mixer

2009-07-03 Thread Alexander Best
AND preserves it. just what i wanted. even better because i didn't know this cool new feature existed. :) thanks again for the hint. cheers. alex Paul B. Mahol schrieb am 2009-07-03: On 7/3/09, Alexander Best alexbes...@math.uni-muenster.de wrote: hi there, i've never had a problem to adjust

Re: Problem with audio apps and mixer

2009-07-08 Thread Alexander Best
thanks a bunch for all the great info. alex Paul B. Mahol schrieb am 2009-07-03: On 7/3/09, Alexander Best alexbes...@math.uni-muenster.de wrote: wow. thanks a bunch. this new feature of having each app use it's own volume setting is pretty cool. however i think i'd like to preserve

replacing GNATS?

2009-07-27 Thread Alexander Best
i remember reading an interview with a fbsd maintainer where he stated that nobody's happy with the old GNATS bug tracking system, but since it works they're keeping it. why not move to bugzilla or another bug tracking system? most of them come with GNATS_2_* scripts. switching from cvs to svn

Re: replacing GNATS?

2009-07-28 Thread Alexander Best
thanks for the link. although this wasn't the interview i was referring to the announcement is great news. i don't quite understand though why there's the need to create a completely new bug tracking system. is this due to technical issues or rather a matter of not wanting to use what all the

Re: strange ee behaviour

2009-08-02 Thread Alexander Best
this issue still exists in BETA-2. imo it really needs to be fixed before the release of 8.0. if i were to test a new OS and discover that it comes with an editor which crashes when opening a new term i'd be very frustrated. alex ___

BREAK_TO_DEBUGGER vs. machdep.enable_panic_key=1

2009-08-03 Thread Alexander Best
just wanted to ask what the difference between the following ways of enabling the panic key is: options BREAK_TO_DEBUGGER (kernelconf) machdep.enable_panic_key=1 (sysctl) i first thought having BREAK_TO_DEBUGGER in the kernelconf would change the default setting of machdep.enable_panic_key from

Re: Odd error when doing pkg_version

2011-09-20 Thread Alexander Best
On Tue Sep 20 11, Ron (Lists) wrote: Starting a couple of days ago, when I run pkg_version I get the following error: /libexec/ld-elf.so.1: Shared object libgdbm.so.3 not found, required by httpd Everything seems to run OK except for this message appearing in the middle of the run.

Re: Odd error when doing pkg_version

2011-09-20 Thread Alexander Best
On Tue Sep 20 11, Ron (Lists) wrote: Starting a couple of days ago, when I run pkg_version I get the following error: /libexec/ld-elf.so.1: Shared object libgdbm.so.3 not found, required by httpd Everything seems to run OK except for this message appearing in the middle of the run.

Re: Volume control in mplayer resetting 50% when starting / stopping video clips

2011-09-29 Thread Alexander Best
On Thu Sep 29 11, Polytropon wrote: Since I've installed OS v8.2 (STABLE of late August), mplayer has developed an annoying habit: It accidentally resets its volume settings. I have the following configuration: The vol (master) channel of the mixer is controlled by the volume keys on the

Re: Volume control in mplayer resetting 50% when starting / stopping video clips

2011-09-30 Thread Alexander Best
On Thu Sep 29 11, Antonio Olivares wrote: try 'sysctl hw.snd.vpc_autoreset=0'. Question, On one of my home machines, I have mixer pcm vol set to 100% : [olivares@tricorehome /usr/home/olivares]$ mixer Mixer vol is currently set to 100:100 Mixer pcm is currently set to

Re: problems with IRQ

2011-10-06 Thread Alexander Best
On Thu Oct 6 11, KES wrote: system work fine, but systat -v show wrong results in compare with vmstat -i seems counter overflow or so.. i'd rather suspect that systat(1) is querying different variables/structures than vmstat(8). their output is different on my system too and after only a few

Re: Can't access a music CD

2011-10-13 Thread Alexander Best
On Wed Oct 12 11, Lowell Gilbert wrote: Michael D. Norwick mnorw...@centurytel.net writes: Thank You for the replies. Got the part about not mounting an audio CD. I wasn't trying to. Inserting the disc in the drive brought up the error message. Mounting a data CD or DVD acts normally

Re: Can't access a music CD

2011-10-13 Thread Alexander Best
On Thu Oct 13 11, Polytropon wrote: On Thu, 13 Oct 2011 16:25:24 +, Alexander Best wrote: ano ther thought might be to implement an audio cd filesystem, so one could do 'mount -o audiocdfs /dev/cd0 /media/cd' and then all tracks appear as RAW pcm audio files. maybe fuse comes

Re: Can't access a music CD

2011-10-13 Thread Alexander Best
On Fri Oct 14 11, Polytropon wrote: On Thu, 13 Oct 2011 22:03:29 +, Alexander Best wrote: On Thu Oct 13 11, Polytropon wrote: On Thu, 13 Oct 2011 16:25:24 +, Alexander Best wrote: ano ther thought might be to implement an audio cd filesystem, so one could do 'mount -o

Re: Can't access a music CD

2011-10-13 Thread Alexander Best
On Fri Oct 14 11, Polytropon wrote: On Thu, 13 Oct 2011 22:38:45 +, Alexander Best wrote: On Fri Oct 14 11, Polytropon wrote: % ls /dev/acd0* /dev/acd0 /dev/acd0t04 /dev/acd0t08 /dev/acd0t12 /dev/acd0t16 /dev/acd0t01 /dev/acd0t05 /dev/acd0t09 /dev/acd0t13 /dev/acd0t17

Re: Can't access a music CD

2011-10-18 Thread Alexander Best
On Thu Oct 13 11, Lowell Gilbert wrote: Alexander Best arun...@freebsd.org writes: ano ther thought might be to implement an audio cd filesystem, so one could do 'mount -o audiocdfs /dev/cd0 /media/cd' and then all tracks appear as RAW pcm audio files. maybe fuse comes

small du(1) question

2011-10-19 Thread Alexander Best
hi there, the du(1) man page states the following: -B blocksize Calculate block counts in blocksize byte blocks. This is differ- ent from the -k, -m options or setting BLOCKSIZE and gives an estimate of how much space the examined file hierarchy

Re: small du(1) question

2011-10-19 Thread Alexander Best
On Wed Oct 19 11, Chuck Swiger wrote: On Oct 19, 2011, at 12:34 PM, Alexander Best wrote: the du(1) man page states the following: -B blocksize Calculate block counts in blocksize byte blocks. This is differ- ent from the -k, -m options or setting

Re: small du(1) question

2011-10-19 Thread Alexander Best
On Wed Oct 19 11, Alexander Best wrote: On Wed Oct 19 11, Chuck Swiger wrote: On Oct 19, 2011, at 12:34 PM, Alexander Best wrote: the du(1) man page states the following: -B blocksize Calculate block counts in blocksize byte blocks. This is differ

question regarding style(9) and field initialisers in structs

2011-10-30 Thread Alexander Best
hi there, i found hundreds of the following cases in the FreeBSD src: [...] struct periph_driver { periph_init_func_t init; char*driver_name; TAILQ_HEAD(,cam_periph) units; u_int generation; u_int

Re: ntpdate on boot problem

2011-11-05 Thread Alexander Best
On Sat Nov 5 11, Robert Simmons wrote: Is there a way to make sure that the interface is UP and working before running ntpdate at boot on a box with a static IP address? After setting ntpdate_enable=YES in rc.conf, I get the following error on boot: Setting date via ntp. Error :

Re: Quick build of stripped-down kernel

2011-11-25 Thread Alexander Best
On Fri Nov 25 11, Thomas Mueller wrote: from b. f. bf1...@googlemail.com: If you are going to build most of the modules, but only want to exclude a few, then add the directories of the modules to be excluded (relative to /usr/src/sys/modules) to WITHOUT_MODULES, for example in

issue with limiting java's memory usage

2012-01-29 Thread Alexander Best
hi there, maybe i'm missing something obvious, but i don't quite understand the following top(1) output: last pid: 13875; load averages: 0.73, 0.75, 0.68 65 processes: 2 running, 62 sleeping, 1 waiting CPU 0: 19.5% user, 0.0% nice, 13.3% system, 0.0% interrupt, 67.2% idle CPU 1: 20.3%

Re: issue with limiting java's memory usage

2012-01-29 Thread Alexander Best
On Sun Jan 29 12, Patrick Lamaiziere wrote: Le Sun, 29 Jan 2012 19:34:11 +, Alexander Best arun...@freebsd.org a écrit : hi there, Hello, maybe i'm missing something obvious, but i don't quite understand the following top(1) output: last pid: 13875; load averages: 0.73

question regarding geom labels

2012-03-30 Thread Alexander Best
hi there, i have a question regarding a label for a swap partition. when should i do the labeling? after or before creating the partition scheme? when i label before creating the partition scheme, likes this: glabel label -v swap /dev/da0 gpart create -s GPT /dev/da0 i get the following

Re: question regarding geom labels

2012-04-06 Thread Alexander Best
On Fri Mar 30 12, Warren Block wrote: On Fri, 30 Mar 2012, Alexander Best wrote: i have a question regarding a label for a swap partition. when should i do the labeling? after or before creating the partition scheme? when i label before creating the partition scheme, likes

Re: order of source_dirs in cp(1)

2012-04-07 Thread Alexander Best
On Thu Apr 5 12, Matthias Apitz wrote: Hello, I was doing $ cp -Rv 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 2 /mnt/osm and was surprised seeing that source_dir 17 was done before 16; the man page does not specify the order, but I was thinking it just goes through the list in the given order...

Re: make buildkernel pre-build too long

2010-09-20 Thread Alexander Best
On Fri Sep 17 10, David DEMELIER wrote: 2010/9/17 Alexander Best arun...@freebsd.org: On Thu Sep 16 10, David DEMELIER wrote: Hi there, I can't understand why this part of make buildkernel is so long on my amd64 machine (8.1-R) make -V CFILES -V SYSTEM_CFILES -V GEN_CFILES

Re: make buildkernel pre-build too long

2010-09-26 Thread Alexander Best
On Tue Sep 21 10, David DEMELIER wrote: 2010/9/21 Alexander Best arun...@freebsd.org: On Fri Sep 17 10, David DEMELIER wrote: 2010/9/17 Alexander Best arun...@freebsd.org: On Thu Sep 16 10, David DEMELIER wrote: Hi there, I can't understand why this part of make buildkernel is so

Re: potential df issues in 8-stable

2010-10-19 Thread Alexander Best
On Tue Oct 19 10, krad wrote: On 19 October 2010 10:10, krad kra...@gmail.com wrote: On 19 October 2010 10:00, krad kra...@gmail.com wrote: Just updated my system last night to 8-stable. Now im seeing a minor issue with df in that it doesnt output anything. I'm a pure zfs based

Re: acroread9 crashing

2010-10-23 Thread Alexander Best
the freebsd linux emulator is missing support for the inotify_init syscall. you won't be able to use acroread9, until it gets implemented. right now i guess it returns ENOSYS to any linux app making use of it. you might be able to work around this problem by replacing ENOSYS with 0. however since

kldunload(8) returns 0, although it fail

2010-11-03 Thread Alexander Best
hi there, is this a known issue with kldunload(8)? ***beginn*** otaku% kldunload sound otaku% echo $? 0 otaku% kldstat Id Refs AddressSize Name 1 35 0x8010 a2da40 kernel 21 0x80b2e000 295e8snd_hda.ko 31 0x80b58000 85110sound.ko

Re: kldunload(8) returns 0, although it fail

2010-11-04 Thread Alexander Best
On Wed Nov 3 10, Alexander Best wrote: hi there, is this a known issue with kldunload(8)? this is also very interesting: ***beginn*** otaku% kldstat -v|grep netgraph 73 0x80bfa000 15e68netgraph.ko (/boot/kernel/netgraph.ko) 6 netgraph otaku% sudo kldunload

Re: kldunload(8) returns 0, although it fail

2010-11-05 Thread Alexander Best
On Fri Nov 5 10, CyberLeo Kitsana wrote: On 11/03/2010 05:34 PM, Alexander Best wrote: hi there, is this a known issue with kldunload(8)? ***beginn*** otaku% kldunload sound otaku% echo $? 0 otaku% kldstat Id Refs AddressSize Name 1 35

Re: BUG: sysctl net.isr.swi_count negative value

2010-11-13 Thread Alexander Best
On Sat Nov 13 10, ??? ??? wrote: Hi, Freebsd-questions. net.isr.swi_count: -1692211928 as I think count can not be negative. in this case it is. Is this a bug or negative value means some special? what is the output of 'uname -a'? looks like a 32 bit integer is being used for

Re: Mutt Port broken ?

2010-11-14 Thread Alexander Best
On Sun Nov 14 10, t...@diogunix.com wrote: Hello everybody, just tried to build /usr/ports/mail/mutt but surprisingly got stuck with an Error 1 though the ports collectionis updated and well maintained: m_err -lcrypto -lasn1 -lroken -lcrypt -lssl -lcrypto -lintl -liconv -liconv

Re: top different output

2010-11-15 Thread Alexander Best
On Sat Nov 13 10, Dan Nelson wrote: In the last episode (Nov 13): Hi, Freebsd-questions. *pls. redirect to right developers thread in 7.2FreeBSD top show as: 32 root -68- 0K16K WAIT72:24 10.25% irq16: rl0 in 9.0FreeBSD top show as: 12 root 28 -28

a question regarding proper printf(3) formating and alignment

2010-11-17 Thread Alexander Best
hi there, i've looked at a lot of utilities in the bsd src tree and most of them seem to be doing something like this: Device 1M-blocks UsedAvail Capacity /dev/label/swapfs 10239010239 0% /dev/label/swap 81910 8191 0% Total

Re: a question regarding proper printf(3) formating and alignment

2010-11-17 Thread Alexander Best
On Wed Nov 17 10, Dan Nelson wrote: In the last episode (Nov 17), Alexander Best said: hi there, i've looked at a lot of utilities in the bsd src tree and most of them seem to be doing something like this: Device 1M-blocks UsedAvail Capacity /dev/label/swapfs

libm alternative in ports

2010-11-23 Thread Alexander Best
hi there, does anybody if there's an alternative for libm in the ports dir? i need it, because the newest snapshots of mplayer require log2() and log2f(), which the base libm doesn't support. cheers. alex -- a13x ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org

Re: libm alternative in ports

2010-11-23 Thread Alexander Best
On Tue Nov 23 10, Chris Brennan wrote: On Tue, Nov 23, 2010 at 4:00 PM, Alexander Best arun...@freebsd.org wrote: hi there, does anybody if there's an alternative for libm in the ports dir? i need it, because the newest snapshots of mplayer require log2() and log2f(), which

Re: libm alternative in ports

2010-11-23 Thread Alexander Best
On Tue Nov 23 10, Tobias wrote: On Tue, Nov 23, 2010 at 4:15 PM, Alexander Best arun...@freebsd.org wrote: On Tue Nov 23 10, Chris Brennan wrote: On Tue, Nov 23, 2010 at 4:00 PM, Alexander Best arun...@freebsd.org wrote: hi there, does anybody if there's an alternative

Re: ssh-agent and ssh-add on FreeBSD

2010-11-29 Thread Alexander Best
On Mon Nov 29 10, Brandon Gooch wrote: On Mon, Nov 29, 2010 at 8:40 AM, bluethundr bluethu...@gmail.com wrote: Hey list  On my CentOS machines I usually keep track of my rsa key with ssh-agent, ssh-add and keychain  I would like to know a) how to install keychain under FreeBSD

Re: Ports: How do dependent ports upgrade when dependency shared lib version is bumped?

2010-12-12 Thread Alexander Best
On Sat Dec 11 10, Yuri wrote: I recently updates the system. libatkmm-1.6.so.1 got bumped to libatkmm-1.6.so.2, now inkscape fails: /libexec/ld-elf.so.1: Shared object libatkmm-1.6.so.1 not found, required by inkscape What is the right behavior in such situation? Should all depending

Re: What is the value of kernel cpu option for Core 2 Duo E8400

2010-12-17 Thread Alexander Best
On Fri Dec 17 10, super super wrote: Hi, Freebsd-questions. What is the value of kernel cpu option for Core 2 Duo E8400 need to specify the architecture to amd64. cpu HAMMER ... and adding CPUTYPE ?= nocona to your /etc/make.conf will make sure world gets optimised for your cpu.

Re: PCI IDE Controller Base Address Register setting

2010-12-27 Thread Alexander Best
On Mon Dec 27 10, Darmawan Salihun wrote: Hi, I'm trying to install FreeBSD 8.0 on AMD Geode LX800 (CS5536 southbridge). However, it cannot detect the IDE controller (in the CS5536) correctly. It says something similar to this: IDE controller not present i don't think freebsd-questions

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