Cannot load library /usr/local/kde4/lib/kde4/konq_aboutpage.so:

2010-03-29 Thread Antonio Olivares
Dear fellow FreeBSD users, I have installed FreeBSD 8.0 and updated it to current p2 I try to use konqueror and I get There was an error loading the module About-Page for Konqueror. The diagnostics is: Cannot load library /usr/local/kde4/lib/kde4/konq_aboutpage.so: (Shared object libjpeg.so.10

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

2010-04-05 Thread Antonio Olivares
Ion-Mihai, Does this fix the following issue? I have installed FreeBSD 8.0 and updated it to current p2 I try to use konqueror and I get There was an error loading the module About-Page for Konqueror. The diagnostics is: Cannot load library /usr/local/kde4/lib/kde4/konq_aboutpage.so:

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

2010-04-07 Thread Antonio Olivares
Terminated What should I do in this case? Thanks, Antonio On Mon, Apr 5, 2010 at 2:31 PM, Garrett Cooper yanef...@gmail.com wrote: On Mon, Apr 5, 2010 at 12:05 PM, Antonio Olivares olivares14...@gmail.com wrote: Ion-Mihai, Does this fix the following issue? I have installed FreeBSD 8.0

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

2010-04-08 Thread Antonio Olivares
On Wed, Apr 7, 2010 at 7:36 AM, Ion-Mihai Tetcu ite...@freebsd.org wrote: On Wed, 7 Apr 2010 07:20:47 -0500 Antonio Olivares olivares14...@gmail.com wrote:  [ .. ] === Port directory: /usr/ports/sysutils/fusefs-kmod         === This port is marked IGNORE         === requires the userland

Re: USB Powered Speakers

2010-04-08 Thread Antonio Olivares
On 4/8/10, Programmer In Training p...@joseph-a-nagy-jr.us wrote: I have acquired a pair of Compaq USB /powered/ speakers. On my parents XP machine they don't seem to cause any problems, but when I hook it up to listen on my FreeBSD box I have absolutely nothing but problems with the speakers

Re: Does small bsd cd exsit?

2010-04-12 Thread Antonio Olivares
There are several you may try: http://www.ghostbsd.org/ http://frenzy.org.ua/en/ http://distrowatch.com/search.php?category=BSDorigin=Allbasedon=FreeBSDdesktop=Allarchitecture=Allstatus=Active Hope this helps, Antonio On 4/12/10, 丁少衡 dshbusin...@gmail.com wrote: Hello, everyone, I want

libexec/ld-elf.so.1: Shared object libpng.so.5 not found, required by gnome-session

2010-04-15 Thread Antonio Olivares
Dear folks, As I was trying to get out of the other mess that I got into. See thread: Attachment Re: [ HEADS UP ] Ports unstable for the next 10 day I have encountered thread subject. i had kde, and kde could not find it, so I removed KDE and then have added gnome both ways: pkg_add

Re: libexec/ld-elf.so.1: Shared object libpng.so.5 not found, required by gnome-session

2010-04-15 Thread Antonio Olivares
worked apparently except KDE and/or GNOME :( Thanks, Antonio On 4/15/10, Anton Shterenlikht me...@bristol.ac.uk wrote: On Thu, Apr 15, 2010 at 06:49:31PM -0500, Antonio Olivares wrote: Dear folks, As I was trying to get out of the other mess that I got into. See thread: Attachment Re

Re: libexec/ld-elf.so.1: Shared object libpng.so.5 not found, required by gnome-session

2010-04-15 Thread Antonio Olivares
-2.26.2_1 The ports system report gnome 2.28 while this points to 2.26, is there anything I can try? Regards, Antonio On 4/15/10, Anton Shterenlikht me...@bristol.ac.uk wrote: On Thu, Apr 15, 2010 at 07:11:24PM -0500, Antonio Olivares wrote: I have rebuilt everything from scratch ran

Character shortcuts

2011-03-12 Thread Antonio Olivares
Dear FreeBSD experts, There has been something that I find hard to do, I would like to find a CTRL + KEY combination, or ALT + KEY combination to input special characters like (ñ) [ALT + 164 or ALT + 0241 in Mr. Gates OS]. http://www.forlang.wsu.edu/help/keyboards.asp accents other symbols

Re: Character shortcuts

2011-03-12 Thread Antonio Olivares
On Sat, Mar 12, 2011 at 3:43 PM, Polytropon free...@edvax.de wrote: On Sat, 12 Mar 2011 14:07:59 -0600, Antonio Olivares olivares14...@gmail.com wrote: Dear FreeBSD experts, There has been something that I find hard to do, I would like to find a CTRL + KEY combination, or ALT + KEY

Re: Character shortcuts

2011-03-12 Thread Antonio Olivares
Chad all, On Sat, Mar 12, 2011 at 5:24 PM, Chad Perrin per...@apotheon.com wrote: On Sat, Mar 12, 2011 at 02:07:59PM -0600, Antonio Olivares wrote: Dear FreeBSD experts, There has been something that I find hard to do, I would like to find a CTRL + KEY combination, or ALT + KEY combination

Custom 64bit FreeBSD 8.2-RELEASEs?

2011-03-12 Thread Antonio Olivares
Dear Manolis, Sorry to ask but are there any releases for 8.2 in the works? http://freebsd-custom.wikidot.com/ I have checked here: http://freebsd-custom.wikidot.com/downloads-page but it stil points to 8.1 release. I have an 8.1 version running beautifully thanks to you and all the members

Re: installing freebsd on a thinkpad x300

2011-03-18 Thread Antonio Olivares
Alokat, On Fri, Mar 18, 2011 at 2:04 PM, Alokat mail...@alokat.org wrote: Hi, I have successfully installed FreeBSD on my x300 but I have some driver problems. Does someone know how to figure out which driver I need for the sound and the wlan card? For the sound^{1}, try loading the $ su -

gkrellm2 GnuTLS and OpenSSL, conky doesn't work :(

2011-03-21 Thread Antonio Olivares
Dear FreeBSD experts, I wanted to install gkrellm2 and I get the following error. grullahighschool# cd /usr/ports/sysutils/ grullahighschool# cd gkrellm2 grullahighschool# pwd /usr/ports/sysutils/gkrellm2 grullahighschool# make install clean === gkrellm-2.3.4_3 is marked as broken: GnuTLS and

Re: Character shortcuts

2011-03-21 Thread Antonio Olivares
On Sat, Mar 12, 2011 at 5:24 PM, Chad Perrin per...@apotheon.com wrote: On Sat, Mar 12, 2011 at 02:07:59PM -0600, Antonio Olivares wrote: Dear FreeBSD experts, There has been something that I find hard to do, I would like to find a CTRL + KEY combination, or ALT + KEY combination to input

Re: gkrellm2 GnuTLS and OpenSSL, conky doesn't work :(

2011-03-21 Thread Antonio Olivares
On Mon, Mar 21, 2011 at 12:27 PM, David Demelier demelier.da...@gmail.com wrote: On 21/03/2011 16:57, Antonio Olivares wrote: Dear FreeBSD experts, I wanted to install gkrellm2 and I get the following error. grullahighschool# cd /usr/ports/sysutils/ grullahighschool# cd gkrellm2

Re: gkrellm2 GnuTLS and OpenSSL, conky doesn't work :(

2011-03-21 Thread Antonio Olivares
On Mon, Mar 21, 2011 at 2:08 PM, Daniel C. Dowse dcdo...@gmx.net wrote: On  Mon, 21 Mar 2011 12:45:40 -0500, Antonio Olivares olivares14...@gmail.com wrote: [snip] On the other hand with conky, I get error [olivares@grullahighschool ~]$ conky -C ~/.conkyrc [olivares@grullahighschool

Re: Easiest desktop BSD distro

2011-03-29 Thread Antonio Olivares
It's the same with computers. No matter what you want to do with it, there IS something you need to learn, either BEFORE you use it, or WHILE you're using it. With some simple means, i. e. using the brain, reading, concluding, understanding, THINKING, you're fine in this regards - because

Re: gcc

2011-03-31 Thread Antonio Olivares
On Thu, Mar 31, 2011 at 1:19 PM, Gary Dunn knowt...@aloha.com wrote: Adam Vande More amvandem...@gmail.com wrote: On Wed, Mar 30, 2011 at 9:06 PM, Gary Dunn knowt...@aloha.com wrote: When will we bump the version of gcc? On my fresh 8.2 build it is 4.2.1. The ports tree has newer, up to 4.7.0

can't determine sound card driver to use in /etc/rc.conf

2011-04-18 Thread Antonio Olivares
Dear folks, On a new machine running AMD-64 XFCE custom by Manolis, I can't determine which sound driver to use for the sound card: grulla# kldload snd_driver grulla# cat /dev/sndstat FreeBSD Audio Driver (newpcm: 64bit 2009061500/amd64) Installed devices: pcm0: HDA VIA VT1708B_1 PCM #0 Analog

Re: can't determine sound card driver to use in /etc/rc.conf

2011-04-18 Thread Antonio Olivares
On Mon, Apr 18, 2011 at 9:32 AM, Craig Butler craig...@lerwick.hopto.org wrote: On Mon, 2011-04-18 at 08:40 -0500, Antonio Olivares wrote: Dear folks, On a new machine running AMD-64 XFCE custom by Manolis, I can't determine which sound driver to use for the sound card: grulla# kldload

Re: can't determine sound card driver to use in /etc/rc.conf

2011-04-19 Thread Antonio Olivares
On Mon, Apr 18, 2011 at 9:32 PM, Polytropon free...@edvax.de wrote: On Mon, 18 Apr 2011 20:53:41 -0500, Antonio Olivares olivares14...@gmail.com wrote: Apparently it works, but I put in some small speakers, but could not get music to play. On some machines, speakers do not activate

Re: can't determine sound card driver to use in /etc/rc.conf

2011-04-20 Thread Antonio Olivares
This MAY be a codec problem. You can try the following: First mount the DVD (cd_9660), then use mplayer on one of the VOB files directly. Choose one of the bigger files for this test, and maybe use mplayer's -v option to get an idea what may be wrong - the program should tell you about this.

Re: can't determine sound card driver to use in /etc/rc.conf

2011-04-21 Thread Antonio Olivares
So you can exclude media error. Maybe this diagnostic script from my outbox can help you to track down the error. It has been made on 7-STABLE i386 with mplayer-0.99.11_3 - a quite old system. See if the steps described here can be reproduced on your system in a similar way. ***

Can't play dvd

2011-04-21 Thread Antonio Olivares
Dear folks, Can't play a dvd :( I have installed vlc from ports, it gives: Your input can't be opened: VLC is unable to open the MRL 'dvd:///dev/acd0'. Check the log for details. [olivares@grulla ~]$ mplayer dvd:// MPlayer SVN-r32577-snapshot-4.2.1 (C) 2000-2010 MPlayer Team Playing dvd://.

Re: can't determine sound card driver to use in /etc/rc.conf

2011-04-21 Thread Antonio Olivares
On Thu, Apr 21, 2011 at 9:55 PM, Polytropon free...@edvax.de wrote: On Thu, 21 Apr 2011 07:38:57 -0500, Antonio Olivares olivares14...@gmail.com wrote: Tried to mount the dvd, but sadly the system rebooted and I had to fsck three to 4 times to get the system back :(, I will try

easy Firewall setup

2011-04-25 Thread Antonio Olivares
Dear kind folks, Is there an easy firewall setup available somewhere(like the one referenced below but for FreeBSD)? i.e, like I saw reading in Distrowatch an easy way(using a page on the net: http://connie.slackware.com/~alien/efg/) I have read that there is pf and there is an implementation

Re: easy Firewall setup

2011-04-25 Thread Antonio Olivares
On Mon, Apr 25, 2011 at 9:06 PM, Daniel Staal dst...@usa.net wrote: --As of April 25, 2011 7:43:33 PM -0500, Antonio Olivares is alleged to have said: I don't know which one to use, is there a page, howto (build a firewall or convert an existing one) to use here?  All I want is to be allowed

Re: easy Firewall setup

2011-04-27 Thread Antonio Olivares
at 1:48 PM, Karl Vogel vogelke+u...@pobox.com wrote: On Mon, 25 Apr 2011 19:43:33 -0500, Antonio Olivares olivares14...@gmail.com said: A Is there an easy firewall setup available somewhere (like the one A referenced below but for FreeBSD)?   Here's a script you can use to generate a rules file

Re: how to concatenate 2 pdf files to 1?

2011-04-29 Thread Antonio Olivares
On Fri, Apr 29, 2011 at 1:57 AM, Dino Vliet dino_vl...@yahoo.com wrote: Dear freebsd userlist, here an application type of question. I have two pdf files and want to make 1 out of them by concatenating them. Does anyone have an idea how to do that on unix/linux as I don't have the pdf editor

Re: How to remove KDE and How to install Gnome

2011-05-02 Thread Antonio Olivares
On Mon, May 2, 2011 at 6:25 PM, Riack Raacvöejaמיכלאנג'לו saacnor...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, I installed PC-BSD 8.2 (FreeBSD 8.2)  in my laptop, I would like to know, How to remove KDE and How to install Gnome from shell. http://www.freebsd.org/gnome/docs/faq2.html But since you are using

Does running ``# portupgrade -arRp '' prompt for options or updates everything without prompts?

2011-05-05 Thread Antonio Olivares
Dear all, I was running FreeBSD 8.1 and am in the process of updating it following advice in handbook: http://www.freebsd.org/doc/handbook/updating-upgrading-freebsdupdate.html ran # freebsd-update fetch # freebsd-update install # portupgrade -af # freebsd-update -r 8.2-RELEASE upgrade then

Re: Does running ``# portupgrade -arRp '' prompt for options or updates everything without prompts?

2011-05-05 Thread Antonio Olivares
On Thu, May 5, 2011 at 6:33 PM, Polytropon free...@edvax.de wrote: On Thu, 5 May 2011 17:50:28 -0500, Antonio Olivares olivares14...@gmail.com wrote: Tried to do this: # portupgrade -f ruby # rm /var/db/pkg/pkgdb.db # portupgrade -f ruby18-bdb # rm /var/db/pkg/pkgdb.db /usr/ports/INDEX

Re: Does running ``# portupgrade -arRp '' prompt for options or updates everything without prompts?

2011-05-05 Thread Antonio Olivares
something to keep in mind portmaster does the same thing and all of portupgrades switches work with portmaster, the only significant difference is that portmaster will run through and prompt you for all of the 'make config' options first and then go about it's business unattended from

Re: Does running ``# portupgrade -arRp '' prompt for options or updates everything without prompts?

2011-05-06 Thread Antonio Olivares
On Thu, May 5, 2011 at 8:04 PM, Frank Shute fr...@shute.org.uk wrote: On Thu, May 05, 2011 at 05:50:28PM -0500, Antonio Olivares wrote: Dear all, I was running FreeBSD 8.1 and am in the process of updating it following advice in handbook: http://www.freebsd.org/doc/handbook/updating

Re: Does running ``# portupgrade -arRp '' prompt for options or updates everything without prompts?

2011-05-06 Thread Antonio Olivares
On Thu, May 5, 2011 at 8:04 PM, Frank Shute fr...@shute.org.uk wrote: On Thu, May 05, 2011 at 05:50:28PM -0500, Antonio Olivares wrote: Dear all, I was running FreeBSD 8.1 and am in the process of updating it following advice in handbook: http://www.freebsd.org/doc/handbook/updating

Re: Does running ``# portupgrade -arRp '' prompt for options or updates everything without prompts?

2011-05-06 Thread Antonio Olivares
Any suggestions to start over and get this done in a more efficient manner.  Thinking of nuking OpenOffice Done:) grullahighschool# cd openoffice.org-3 grullahighschool# ls Makefiledistinfofiles pkg-descr pkg-plist grullahighschool# make deinstall ===

Re: Does running ``# portupgrade -arRp '' prompt for options or updates everything without prompts?

2011-05-06 Thread Antonio Olivares
On Thu, May 5, 2011 at 8:37 PM, Warren Block wbl...@wonkity.com wrote: On Thu, 5 May 2011, Antonio Olivares wrote: Dear all, I was running FreeBSD 8.1 and am in the process of updating it following advice in handbook: http://www.freebsd.org/doc/handbook/updating-upgrading

Re: Does running ``# portupgrade -arRp '' prompt for options or updates everything without prompts?

2011-05-06 Thread Antonio Olivares
On Fri, May 6, 2011 at 12:14 PM, Warren Block wbl...@wonkity.com wrote: On Fri, 6 May 2011, Antonio Olivares wrote: This is what I am running now ATM # cd /usr/ports/ # make clean build deinstall install Will it install all the ports?   or only the ones that are installed? It's going

Re: Does running ``# portupgrade -arRp '' prompt for options or updates everything without prompts?

2011-05-06 Thread Antonio Olivares
On Fri, May 6, 2011 at 12:09 PM, Polytropon free...@edvax.de wrote: On Fri, 6 May 2011 11:36:07 -0500, Antonio Olivares olivares14...@gmail.com wrote: This is what I am running now ATM # cd /usr/ports/ # make clean build deinstall install Will it install all the ports?   or only the ones

Re: Does running ``# portupgrade -arRp '' prompt for options or updates everything without prompts?

2011-05-06 Thread Antonio Olivares
Warren, Sorry to ask, but what does one run after we run # portmaster -na I have cleared all questions and am ready to update, what magical command will do it? Thanks, Antonio On Fri, May 6, 2011 at 12:54 PM, Warren Block wbl...@wonkity.com wrote: On Fri, 6 May 2011, Polytropon wrote:

Re: Does running ``# portupgrade -arRp '' prompt for options or updates everything without prompts?

2011-05-06 Thread Antonio Olivares
On Fri, May 6, 2011 at 1:52 PM, Antonio Olivares olivares14...@gmail.com wrote: Warren, Sorry to ask, but what does one run after we run # portmaster -na I have cleared all questions and am ready to update, what magical command will do it? Thanks, Antonio On Fri, May 6, 2011 at 12:54

Re: Does running ``# portupgrade -arRp '' prompt for options or updates everything without prompts?

2011-05-06 Thread Antonio Olivares
On Fri, May 6, 2011 at 8:43 PM, Warren Block wbl...@wonkity.com wrote: On Fri, 6 May 2011, Antonio Olivares wrote: On Fri, May 6, 2011 at 1:52 PM, Antonio Olivares Sorry for TOP POSTING :(, but do I run # portmaster -a -f -D and do an in place update of all ports? is this the recommended

Re: Does running ``# portupgrade -arRp '' prompt for options or updates everything without prompts?

2011-05-06 Thread Antonio Olivares
On Fri, May 6, 2011 at 9:59 PM, Antonio Olivares olivares14...@gmail.com wrote: On Fri, May 6, 2011 at 8:43 PM, Warren Block wbl...@wonkity.com wrote: On Fri, 6 May 2011, Antonio Olivares wrote: On Fri, May 6, 2011 at 1:52 PM, Antonio Olivares Sorry for TOP POSTING :(, but do I run

fix an audio conversion script to work through multiple directories and convert mp3s to ogg vorbis

2011-05-07 Thread Antonio Olivares
Dear kind FreeBSD users, I have a dilemma, I have a collection of songs in mp3 form from old cd's that I ripped. Sadly, the mp3s can play but with a screeching sound :(. I have confirmed that by converting the mp3's to ogg vorbis format, the screeching sound is lost. So I have decided to

Re: Sending a Fax

2011-05-07 Thread Antonio Olivares
I'd like to add to this that, in my opinion, the real issue these days is the emailing of unencrypted business papers. I take the position that *nothing* is ever deleted from an email server these days; or from those servers that are just relaying, no matter what the RFC says. I shake my head

Re: fix an audio conversion script to work through multiple directories and convert mp3s to ogg vorbis

2011-05-08 Thread Antonio Olivares
On Sat, May 7, 2011 at 4:03 PM, Chris Hill ch...@monochrome.org wrote: On Sat, 7 May 2011, Antonio Olivares wrote: My question is the following: How can I run the script to recursively find all mp3's and convert them to ogg vorbis(with ogg extension already in place/or rename them in one

firefox 4 pkg_add -r and port error ``TEST-UNEXPECTED-FAIL | automation.py | Exited with code 1 during test run''

2011-05-09 Thread Antonio Olivares
Dear folks, On my system that I have updated to 8.2-RELEASE-amd64 I get mistake if I try to # pkg_add -r firefox pkg_add: package 'perl-5.10.1_3.tbz... Done. pkg_add: package 'perl-5.10.1_3.tbz conflicts with perl-5.12.3 pkg_add: please use pkg_delete first to remove conflicting package(s) or

Re: Newbie Needing Help

2011-05-09 Thread Antonio Olivares
There's also ee in the base system, which is good enough for editing configuration files, and is much easier for a casual user. The benefits of vi and emacs are mostly for developers. It's not just for software development.  I use Vim for writing code, but I also use it for writing in

Re: Does running ``# portupgrade -arRp '' prompt for options or updates everything without prompts?(SOLVED)

2011-05-09 Thread Antonio Olivares
startx command not found :(, no bash ran # pkg_add -r bash # pkg_add -r xfce4 did not succeed, now ran to ports # cd /usr/ports/x11-wm/xfce4 # make install clean and am stuck here.  Hopefully this gets me back on my feet. Otherwise, it has been a big exercise :) and definitely I will

Re: bootloader problem

2011-05-10 Thread Antonio Olivares
Roelof, On Tue, May 10, 2011 at 2:44 AM, Roelof Wobben r.wob...@home.nl wrote: Hello, Nobody who can help me. Roelof Op 9-5-2011 9:03, Roelof Wobben schreef: Hello, I have two disks, one of 80G with Win7, and one of 60G with at this moment Opensuse and Minix. Now I want to switch

automounting of usb disks not working how to troubleshoot

2011-05-12 Thread Antonio Olivares
Dear folks, I have recently successfully updated an amd 64 bit machine from 8.1 to 8.2 release and reinstalled most of the previously installed ports. Now, I tried to use my usb disk and it is not automounting :( I like the convenience of automounting and I checked hal and dbus and they are both

Re: automounting of usb disks not working how to troubleshoot

2011-05-13 Thread Antonio Olivares
On Thu, May 12, 2011 at 7:33 PM, Antonio Olivares olivares14...@gmail.com wrote: Dear folks, I have recently successfully updated an amd 64 bit machine from 8.1 to 8.2 release and reinstalled most of the previously installed ports. Now, I tried to use my usb disk and it is not automounting

Re: Not able to install firefox 4 from 8.2 stable packages

2011-05-22 Thread Antonio Olivares
Xn Nooby, On Sun, May 22, 2011 at 5:35 AM, Xn Nooby xno...@gmail.com wrote: I'm a struggling nooby.  I am trying to install firefox 4 on a fresh 8.2 installation. I want to the core system to track the errata branch, and get binary packages from 8-stable (which has firefox 4). I installed

Out of Range ..., troubleshoot xorg

2011-05-28 Thread Antonio Olivares
Dear folks, I have a machine that was working fine with a flat panel monitor at work. I brought the machine home to connect to a TV with PC input and I get Out of Range message. X does not start. This same machine has autologin setup so after I start it up and X fails to load, I switch

Re: Out of Range ..., troubleshoot xorg

2011-05-28 Thread Antonio Olivares
On Sun, May 29, 2011 at 12:56 AM, Warren Block wbl...@wonkity.com wrote: On Sat, 28 May 2011, Antonio Olivares wrote: I have a machine that was working fine with a flat panel monitor at work.  I brought the machine home to connect to a TV with PC input and I get Out of Range message.  X does

Re: Out of Range ..., troubleshoot xorg

2011-05-28 Thread Antonio Olivares
On Sat, May 28, 2011 at 8:50 PM, Warren Block wbl...@wonkity.com wrote: On Sun, 29 May 2011, Antonio Olivares wrote: bash-4.1# xrandr -q Screen 0: minimum 320 x 200, current 1360 x 768, maximum 4096 x 4096 VGA-1 connected 1360x768+0+0 (normal left inverted right x axis y axis) 930mm x 523mm

Re: Out of Range ..., troubleshoot xorg

2011-05-28 Thread Antonio Olivares
On Sat, May 28, 2011 at 9:06 PM, Antonio Olivares olivares14...@gmail.com wrote: On Sat, May 28, 2011 at 8:50 PM, Warren Block wbl...@wonkity.com wrote: On Sun, 29 May 2011, Antonio Olivares wrote: bash-4.1# xrandr -q Screen 0: minimum 320 x 200, current 1360 x 768, maximum 4096 x 4096 VGA-1

Re: Out of Range ..., troubleshoot xorg

2011-05-29 Thread Antonio Olivares
On Sun, May 29, 2011 at 10:16 AM, Warren Block wbl...@wonkity.com wrote: On Sun, 29 May 2011, Antonio Olivares wrote: I appreciate the help, but I could not get it to work.  I put in Modes 1024x768 800x600, etc and changed the VertRefresh several times and it was a no GO :(, still Monitor out

Re: A small script to customize FreeBSD

2011-05-31 Thread Antonio Olivares
You could always have ${1:-theuser} instead to have a default of theuser, but take the value for username as the first argument. Chris That's a good idea.  The user was originally called me, but I wanted something that could be searched and replaced without breaking gnome and home.  Using

Re: Unable to start KDE4 on freebsd 7.4-RELEASE

2011-06-05 Thread Antonio Olivares
Mathew, On Sun, Jun 5, 2011 at 3:53 PM, Matthew Navarre mnava...@cox.net wrote: I updated my FreeBSD box from 6.4 to 7.4 using freebsd-update, got my installed ports in order and updated and installed/updated kde4-4.6.3 and all its dependancies. Xorg works ( i can run twm successfully), but

Re: Unable to start KDE4 on freebsd 7.4-RELEASE

2011-06-05 Thread Antonio Olivares
I created a new user with an empty $HOME,  added the startkde line to .xinitrc and had the same problem. I did notice that drkonqi is crashing and writing out a .core file, so I'll see if gdb can tell me anything. Thanks, mnavarre Read about something called kchildlock : kchildlock on an

Re: KDE on FreeBSD

2011-07-10 Thread Antonio Olivares
I'd love to help, if someone could help me find a JOB.  In the US, virtualy no one runs FreeBSD, so I am unable to find a job, even with 34 years experience. ___ Virtually, right? Maybe they do run FreeBSD on a virtual machine? There are no stats to

Re: can't build teTeX port in FreeBSD 8.2 amd64

2011-07-13 Thread Antonio Olivares
On Wed, Jul 13, 2011 at 4:53 PM, Jeff Hamann jeff.d.ham...@gmail.com wrote: I've tried to install the teTeX port (for pdflatex, etc.) and keep running into this error. I can't seem to find a solution on the web and I could really use the help. freebsd-82-amd64# uname -a FreeBSD

Re: CUPS and Windows Printers

2011-07-13 Thread Antonio Olivares
On Thu, Jul 14, 2011 at 3:59 AM, Polytropon free...@edvax.de wrote: On Wed, 13 Jul 2011 11:49:59 -0700, James Colannino wrote: Hey everyone, I've been Googling around, trying to figure out how to see Windows printers via CUPS on FreeBSD, but so far, all I've found are links describing how to

Re: can't build teTeX port in FreeBSD 8.2 amd64

2011-07-15 Thread Antonio Olivares
I hoped for a true native port for TeXLive I can't see that it's really necessary. I remember difficulties with the 2009 release when FreeBSD binaries were not included but now they are the installation is headache-free. What exactly is missing from teTeX? Try this, get the source for

Re: can't build teTeX port in FreeBSD 8.2 amd64

2011-07-15 Thread Antonio Olivares
On Fri, Jul 15, 2011 at 3:31 PM, Anton Shterenlikht me...@bristol.ac.uk wrote: On Fri, Jul 15, 2011 at 09:33:45AM -0500, Antonio Olivares wrote: I hoped for a true native port for TeXLive I can't see that it's really necessary. I remember difficulties with the 2009 release when FreeBSD

Re: how to force a hard reboot remotely

2011-07-16 Thread Antonio Olivares
On Sun, Jul 17, 2011 at 2:40 AM, Aryeh Friedman aryeh.fried...@gmail.com wrote: Is there any way to force a complete power down and then reset of a i386 without physically being present? ___ Sure! If I understand your question correctly, reboot yes,

Re: 2020: Will BSD and Linux be relevant anymore?

2011-07-21 Thread Antonio Olivares
Which nicely brings us back to where this thread started: What needs to happen to make sure FreeBSD stays relevant as computing moves to these devices?  ;)  (Or should FreeBSD try to be relevant to the end-user at all?  Part of what makes this an appealing option is increased 'cloud

Re: Book recommendations (slightly OT)

2011-07-26 Thread Antonio Olivares
On Tue, Jul 26, 2011 at 7:57 PM, Mark Moellering m...@msen.com wrote: I want to automate some tasks, creating directories, file editing, etc.  I was going to pick up a book on shell scripting but wanted to ask the list if; A) I am barking up the wrong tree and should use something else. B) If

Command failed [exit code 1]: /usr/local/sbin/portinstall misc/shared-mime-info

2011-07-27 Thread Antonio Olivares
Dear kind folks, I got me a new hard drive on one of my machines and installed FreeBSD 8.2 amd64 on it. I tried to run # portupgrade -R firefox which would update firefox to latest and all the ports that depend on it, but I am encountering a problem with shared-mime-info. quadcore#

Re: Command failed [exit code 1]: /usr/local/sbin/portinstall misc/shared-mime-info

2011-07-27 Thread Antonio Olivares
Any hints/pointers to resolve this issue? Thanks in Advance, Antonio # portupgrade -Nv p5-XML-Parser Regards, -- Frank, Thank you very much, but it still fails: quadcore# portupgrade -Nv p5-XML-Parser --- Session started at: Wed, 27 Jul 2011 09:33:21 -0500 [Updating the pkgdb

Re: Command failed [exit code 1]: /usr/local/sbin/portinstall misc/shared-mime-info

2011-07-27 Thread Antonio Olivares
@ALL On Wed, Jul 27, 2011 at 9:36 AM, Antonio Olivares olivares14...@gmail.com wrote: Any hints/pointers to resolve this issue? Thanks in Advance, Antonio # portupgrade -Nv p5-XML-Parser Regards, -- Frank, Thank you very much, but it still fails: quadcore# portupgrade -Nv p5-XML

printing to a HP Deskjet 812C printer

2011-07-27 Thread Antonio Olivares
Dear folks, I have a working installation 8.2 Release AMD64 and I am trying to follow a printing howto : http://www.wonkity.com/~wblock/docs/html/lpdprinting.html I am copying the settings and I can't print. quadcore# lpq -a lp: Warning: no daemon present Rank Owner Job Files

Re: can't build teTeX port in FreeBSD 8.2 amd64

2011-07-27 Thread Antonio Olivares
Anton et all, hrs@ has been most speedy and helpful. He added print/latex-chapterfolder print/tex-mfpic With these 2 new ports + teTeX I can build this book fully, no errors. Check it out. If you know of another tex project where teTeX fails, please send me the details. I'm keen to

Re: printing to a HP Deskjet 812C printer

2011-07-27 Thread Antonio Olivares
On Wed, Jul 27, 2011 at 2:51 PM, Antonio Olivares olivares14...@gmail.com wrote: Dear folks, I have a working installation 8.2 Release AMD64 and I am trying to follow a printing howto : http://www.wonkity.com/~wblock/docs/html/lpdprinting.html I am copying the settings and I can't print

Re: Printr?

2011-07-27 Thread Antonio Olivares
On Wed, Jul 27, 2011 at 3:16 PM, Gary Kline kl...@thought.org wrote:  folks,  i sent a couple freebsd questions days ago and did not bcc myself.  i never  saw the post nor got any response.  anyway, new  one:  is there any way of  getting my 'brother HL-3040CN' color laser printr to work.  i

Re: printing to a HP Deskjet 812C printer

2011-07-27 Thread Antonio Olivares
On Wed, Jul 27, 2011 at 4:23 PM, Warren Block wbl...@wonkity.com wrote: On Wed, 27 Jul 2011, Warren Block wrote: A Deskjet 812C should be a parallel printer, with device /dev/lpt0.  Are you using a USB to parallel adapter? Cancel that, an 812C has both parallel and USB.  Make sure only the

Re: printing to a HP Deskjet 812C printer

2011-07-27 Thread Antonio Olivares
On Wed, Jul 27, 2011 at 5:11 PM, Warren Block wbl...@wonkity.com wrote: On Wed, 27 Jul 2011, Antonio Olivares wrote: I changed /etc/printcap, and two blank pages came out but blank :( Okay, it's progress.  And good news, that printer understands plain ASCII and PCL3. Make certain lpd

Re: printing to a HP Deskjet 812C printer

2011-07-27 Thread Antonio Olivares
On Wed, Jul 27, 2011 at 5:43 PM, Ross basarev...@gmail.com wrote: It requires CUPS and replaces system lpr. Here's an example on setting up HPLIP: http://daemon-notes.com/articles/install/hplip On Thu, Jul 28, 2011 at 1:25 AM, Antonio Olivares olivares14...@gmail.com wrote: On Wed, Jul 27

Re: printing to a HP Deskjet 812C printer

2011-07-27 Thread Antonio Olivares
On Wed, Jul 27, 2011 at 6:03 PM, Ross basarev...@gmail.com wrote: On Thu, Jul 28, 2011 at 1:54 AM, Antonio Olivares olivares14...@gmail.com wrote: On Wed, Jul 27, 2011 at 5:43 PM, Ross basarev...@gmail.com wrote: It requires CUPS and replaces system lpr. Here's an example on setting up HPLIP

SOLVED! Re: printing to a HP Deskjet 812C printer

2011-07-27 Thread Antonio Olivares
I will be patient and try some things out then report back.  I appreciate the help and if I can't find a solution, I will take the plunge :) and hopefully not fail. Regards, Antonio If you do decide to take this route, it's not that hard to recompile a kernel. # csup -h

Howto's, Advice, Hints/Gotchas about livecd creation in FreeBSD

2011-07-27 Thread Antonio Olivares
Dear folks, I would like to kindly ask you as the Subject Line tells it all. I believe I have done my homework, and I have tried out some competing LiveCDs from *BSD like Bsdanywhere, jibbed(NetBSD), jggimi(OpenBSD), had used RoFreeSBIE(FreeBSD based but unmaintained), Frenzy, Mahesha, old

Re: Printr?

2011-07-27 Thread Antonio Olivares
       ps:  i did read that the brother only wsorks with lighteight        paper; another comlaint is that it goes thru toner very        fast.  ... -- Try to use DRAFT option if it* exits :) I do this at work so ink lasts more on the average. Regards, Antonio

Re: printing to a HP Deskjet 812C printer

2011-07-27 Thread Antonio Olivares
If you do decide to take this route, it's not that hard to recompile a kernel. # csup -h cvsup.FreeBSD.org -L2 /usr/share/examples/cvsup/standard-supfile Copy your kernconf, say COFFIN, to /usr/src/sys/i386/conf/ if you are on 32bit or to /usr/src/sys/amd64/conf/ if on amd64. The file

Re: printing to a HP Deskjet 812C printer

2011-07-27 Thread Antonio Olivares
@ all, I restarted machine and I can print from command line :) [olivares@quadcore ~/Documents]$ cat Document1.txt | lpr -P Deskjet [olivares@quadcore ~/Documents]$ lpq -a Deskjet: Deskjet is ready and printing Rank Owner Job Files Total Size active

Re: printing to a HP Deskjet 812C printer

2011-07-27 Thread Antonio Olivares
On Wed, Jul 27, 2011 at 8:05 PM, Antonio Olivares olivares14...@gmail.com wrote: @ all, I restarted machine and I can print from command line :) [olivares@quadcore ~/Documents]$ cat Document1.txt |  lpr -P Deskjet [olivares@quadcore ~/Documents]$ lpq -a Deskjet: Deskjet is ready

Re: printing to a HP Deskjet 812C printer

2011-07-28 Thread Antonio Olivares
On Thu, Jul 28, 2011 at 8:15 AM, Polytropon free...@edvax.de wrote: On Wed, 27 Jul 2011 20:05:12 -0500, Antonio Olivares wrote: @ all, I restarted machine and I can print from command line :) [olivares@quadcore ~/Documents]$ cat Document1.txt |  lpr -P Deskjet [olivares@quadcore ~/Documents

Re: printing to a HP Deskjet 812C printer

2011-07-28 Thread Antonio Olivares
For example, your ~/.bashrc could look like this:        setxkbmap -option compose:ralt        export PRINTER=Deskjet Keep in mind that in _this_ case, $PRINTER is set for _your_ account only (which should be fine on a single- user system). However, if you set it up in /etc/csh.cshrc for

Re: printing to a HP Deskjet 812C printer

2011-07-28 Thread Antonio Olivares
However, if you set it up in /etc/csh.cshrc for system- wide use, user shells like bash should incorporate the setting. -- Polytropon, I have made the changes, but the printer does not print :( from firefox. I might ``try the /etc/csh.cshrc for system- wide use'' option :) and get

Re: printing to a HP Deskjet 812C printer

2011-07-28 Thread Antonio Olivares
On Thu, Jul 28, 2011 at 10:57 AM, Polytropon free...@edvax.de wrote: On Thu, 28 Jul 2011 10:44:52 -0500, Antonio Olivares wrote: Made the changes with global /etc/csh.cshrc and it did not work :( Requires re-login, but reboot should also be fine. :-) Rebooted and firefox did not print

Re: can't build teTeX port in FreeBSD 8.2 amd64

2011-07-28 Thread Antonio Olivares
Anton et all, I have found another book diffyqs that does not compile with default teTeX, but does with TeXLive: Book is found here: http://www.jirka.org/diffyqs/ Source is here: http://www.jirka.org/diffyqs/diffyqs.tar.gz I create build script: /*** build script **/

problems with mplayer teTeX-base after updating ports

2011-07-29 Thread Antonio Olivares
Dear folks, I have successfully updated most ports, but having problems with mplayer: /usr/local/live/BasicUsageEnvironment/libBasicUsageEnvironment.a -L/usr/local/lib -rpath=/usr/lib:/usr/local/lib -liconv -lncurses -lpng -lz -ljpeg -lungif -lcdda_interface

Re: problems with mplayer teTeX-base after updating ports

2011-07-29 Thread Antonio Olivares
On Fri, Jul 29, 2011 at 3:55 PM, Antonio Olivares olivares14...@gmail.com wrote: Dear folks, I have successfully updated most ports, but having problems with mplayer:      /usr/local/live/BasicUsageEnvironment/libBasicUsageEnvironment.a                  -L/usr/local/lib  -rpath=/usr/lib:/usr

Re: problems with mplayer teTeX-base after updating ports

2011-07-29 Thread Antonio Olivares
@all I could not get tlgmr to remove texlive /*** try to removal of texlive */ tricorehome# tlmgr --uninstall Useless use of log in void context at /usr/local/bin/tlmgr line 536. Useless use of log in void context at /usr/local/bin/tlmgr line 636. Useless use of log in void context at

Re: problems with mplayer teTeX-base after updating ports(SOLVED)

2011-07-29 Thread Antonio Olivares
@All I have solved the problem with TeTeX. I had to remove symlinks to files created by texlive manually and reinstall the ports one at a time and I am back. Sorry for the noise. BTW, I figured out that I needed /usr/ports/print/latex-pgf/ for the diffyqs.tar.gz (Differential Equations Book

FULLY SOLVED Re: problems with mplayer teTeX-base after updating ports

2011-07-30 Thread Antonio Olivares
On Fri, Jul 29, 2011 at 10:29 PM, Antonio Olivares olivares14...@gmail.com wrote: @All I have solved the problem with TeTeX.  I had to remove symlinks to files created by texlive manually and reinstall the ports one at a time and I am back.  Sorry for the noise. BTW, I figured out that I

Re: can't build teTeX port in FreeBSD 8.2 amd64

2011-07-30 Thread Antonio Olivares
If you know of another tex project where teTeX fails, please send me the details. I'm keen to patch teTeX as far as possible with no major changes to TDS, i.e. just adding or updating a package. -- Anton et all, The famous lshort by Tobias Oetiker fails to compile with TeTeX freebsd

Re: can't build teTeX port in FreeBSD 8.2 amd64

2011-07-30 Thread Antonio Olivares
On Sat, Jul 30, 2011 at 2:52 PM, Anton Shterenlikht me...@bristol.ac.uk wrote: On Wed, Jul 27, 2011 at 03:22:46PM -0500, Antonio Olivares wrote: Here's another book with source code, and even with full texlive can't get it to compile properly :( http://www.mecmath.net/trig/ This took some

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